From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.2 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:41:11 -0800 Message-ID: <7vvde4veug.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 11 00:41:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfMBY-00026W-FT for glk-linux-kernel-3@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:41:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756757Ab0BJXl1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:41:27 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:64829 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756734Ab0BJXlZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:41:25 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2051C98BBF; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:41:22 -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=hYd0 PlSOni3kYOUqdSQW7i0azm4=; b=InCPFhVVVXsiNoHrsDdUJZubwStmkV06V2Gc QfZiefkGo/Mdg0fFvQYoJDj2o6Go6mHNSWIryrppc5zt+q3Nng8Upqkvv8OBi8qT Sjusa6U1TFS3nHdWhWKNS3T3e6mFSqZMkEKe+SGgjrO8cMy3Ej3ZXGhHiFYLJ6Sb gsaXEKo= 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=FNi zhE+UEcWIaAVpw1L0GXEekeMixnJwYDAMmsMLzQ8aua7DC+EyJqqXG13BywzA/o4 Hsp8HAJtSNXdmJPAzjazmgJlOseKrx5hMMKr/CZPpJBDmYM1pgxp8V3DhKYTfbpU JGJZIS8B17MJK/ujKJcoWS719EgNkW/Jun9JqYkE= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBED98BB6; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:41:17 -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 C41BE98BB3; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:41:12 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C8C0FB22-169D-11DF-9E74-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The latest maintenance release Git 1.6.6.2 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.6.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.6.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.6.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.6.2-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM) Git v1.6.6.2 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.6.1 -------------------- * recursive merge didn't correctly diagnose its own programming errors, and instead caused the caller to segfault. * The new "smart http" aware clients probed the web servers to see if they support smart http, but did not fall back to dumb http transport correctly with some servers. * Time based reflog syntax e.g. "@{yesterday}" didn't diagnose a misspelled time specification and instead assumed "@{now}". * "git archive HEAD -- no-such-directory" produced an empty archive without complaining. * "git blame -L start,end -- file" misbehaved when given a start that is larger than the number of lines in the file. * "git checkout -m" didn't correctly call custom merge backend supplied by the end user. * "git config -f " misbehaved when run from a subdirectory. * "git cvsserver" didn't like having regex metacharacters (e.g. '+') in CVSROOT environment. * "git fast-import" did not correctly handle large blobs that may bust the pack size limit. * "git gui" is supposed to work even when launched from inside a .git directory. * "git gui" misbehaved when applying a hunk that ends with deletion. * "git imap-send" did not honor imap.preformattedHTML as documented. * "git log" family incorrectly showed the commit notes unconditionally by mistake, which was especially irritating when running "git log --oneline". * "git status" shouldn't require an write access to the repository. Other minor documentation updates are included.