From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.1 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:51:41 -0800 Message-ID: <7vpr54xote.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 21 01:52:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NXlHR-0006AY-Dj for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:52:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752728Ab0AUAvy (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752472Ab0AUAvx (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:53 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:58930 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751181Ab0AUAvw (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:52 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDBA92D2E; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:51 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:subject :from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=sasl; bh=YMvF fbS8JyqguC3zdAALa2HuMIk=; b=X3zd7x9k2hzUCTIP7Cdta9pE9eRilvMOBS2E 6d50Ynb6UATQSUUHohRfGMsm11gKacMLHykdLFTbUb7QOhdJKXB+GOdkYQ0ApzmV T9/hh5Vga71EfP8ZThdT098t/czZWVKg4Y0ix9lH5iuSaeb2i0btctKbpUX/ZUun 8xK5hHk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:subject:from :date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=BL/ 0R1gVpUenc8/P1XQsUnuCFOIxvS7pihnPmnHnNy45Taze0V5SXaNySns70sBWINE wfg0E72n2WFOZcXCog/vWy64eU9FnO/WfZOE+HCn+YDqmSAYeDzHHaAZ9IqPxwSF DJOV2Mhvzisry03dUNisZM8OmPMpL/f/OsR2fk/M= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D2892D2A; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 75E6792D29; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:42 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 271A1C8A-0627-11DF-B146-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The latest maintenance release Git 1.6.6.1 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.6.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.6.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.6.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.6.1-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM) Git v1.6.6.1 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.6 ------------------ * "git blame" did not work well when commit lacked the author name. * "git branch -a name" wasn't diagnosed as an error. * "git count-objects" did not handle packfiles that are bigger than 4G on platforms with 32-bit off_t. * "git checkout -m other" while on a branch that does not have any commit segfaulted, instead of failing. * "git fast-import" choked when fed a tag that do not point at a commit. * "git grep" finding from work tree files could have fed garbage to the underlying regexec(3). * "git grep -L" didn't show empty files (they should never match, and they should always appear in -L output as unmatching). * "git rebase -i" did not abort cleanly if it failed to launch the editor. * "git reset --hard" did not work correctly when GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable is used to point at the root of the true work tree. * http-backend was not listed in the command list in the documentation. * Building on FreeBSD (both 7 and 8) needs OLD_ICONV set in the Makefile * "git checkout -m some-branch" while on an unborn branch crashed. Other minor documentation updates are included.