[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4.4

Junio C Hamano
2008-03-09T10:46:40Z

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.4.4 is available at the
usual places:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

git-1.5.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.5.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.5.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.4.4-1.$arch.rpm (RPM)

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GIT v1.5.4.4 Release Notes
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Fixes since v1.5.4.3
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* Building and installing with an overtight umask such as 077 made
installed templates unreadable by others, while the rest of the install
are done in a way that is friendly to umask 022.

* "git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir" misbehaved when GIT_DIR is set to a
relative directory.

* "git http-push" had an invalid memory access that could lead it to
segfault.

* When "git rebase -i" gave control back to the user for a commit that is
marked to be edited, it just said "modify it with commit --amend",
without saying what to do to continue after modifying it. Give an
explicit instruction to run "rebase --continue" to be more helpful.

* "git send-email" in 1.5.4.3 issued a bogus empty In-Reply-To: header.

* "git bisect" showed mysterious "won't bisect on seeked tree" error message.
This was leftover from Cogito days to prevent "bisect" starting from a
cg-seeked state. We still keep the Cogito safety, but running "git bisect
start" when another bisect was in effect will clean up and start over.

* "git push" with an explicit PATH to receive-pack did not quite work if
receive-pack was not on usual PATH. We earlier fixed the same issue
with "git fetch" and upload-pack, but somehow forgot to do so in the
other direction.

* git-gui's info dialog was not displayed correctly when the user tries
to commit nothing (i.e. without staging anything).

* "git revert" did not properly fail when attempting to run with a
dirty index.

* "git merge --no-commit --no-ff <other>" incorrectly made commits.

* "git merge --squash --no-ff <other>", which is a nonsense combination
of options, was not rejected.

* "git ls-remote" and "git remote show" against an empty repository
failed, instead of just giving an empty result (regression).

* "git fast-import" did not handle a renamed path whose name needs to be
quoted, due to a bug in unquote_c_style() function.

* "git cvsexportcommit" was confused when multiple files with the same
basename needed to be pushed out in the same commit.

* "git daemon" did not send early errors to syslog.

* "git log --merge" did not work well with --left-right option.

* "git svn" promprted for client cert password every time it accessed the
server.

* The reset command in "git fast-import" data stream was documented to
end with an optional LF, but it actually required one.

* "git svn dcommit/rebase" did not honor --rewrite-root option.

Also included are a handful documentation updates.

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Changes since v1.5.4.3 are as follows:

Adeodato Simó (1):
Really make the LF after reset in fast-import optional

Björn Steinbrink (1):
receive-pack: Initialize PATH to include exec-dir.

Brandon Casey (1):
builtin-reflog.c: don't install new reflog on write failure

Bryan Donlan (1):
Documentation/git-am.txt: Pass -r in the example invocation of rm -f .dotest

Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho (1):
filter-branch documentation: non-zero exit status in command abort the filter

Carl Worth (1):
Eliminate confusing "won't bisect on seeked tree" failure

Daniel Barkalow (3):
Use a single implementation and API for copy_file()
Don't use GIT_CONFIG in t5505-remote
Correct name of diff_flush() in API documentation

Gerrit Pape (2):
templates/Makefile: don't depend on local umask setting
git-merge.sh: better handling of combined --squash,--no-ff,--no-commit options

Jay Soffian (2):
rev-parse: fix potential bus error with --parseopt option spec handling
send-email: fix In-Reply-To regression

Jeff King (1):
revert: actually check for a dirty index

Johan Herland (2):
Add testcase for 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' with relative $GIT_DIR
Fix 'git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir ...' when used with relative $GIT_DIR

Johannes Schindelin (4):
http-push: avoid invalid memory accesses
http-push: do not get confused by submodules
http-push: avoid a needless goto
cvsexportcommit: be graceful when "cvs status" reorders the arguments

Johannes Sixt (2):
daemon: send more error messages to the syslog
daemon: ensure that base-path is an existing directory

John Goerzen (1):
Fix dcommit, rebase when rewriteRoot is in use

Jonathan del Strother (1):
Prompt to continue when editing during rebase --interactive

Junio C Hamano (6):
Fix "git log --merge --left-right"
Start preparing for 1.5.4.4
tests: introduce test_must_fail
Update draft release notes for 1.5.4.4
test-lib: fix TERM to dumb for test repeatability
GIT 1.5.4.4

Matthieu Moy (1):
Fix incorrect wording in git-merge.txt.

Mike Hommey (2):
Set proxy override with http_init()
Fix random crashes in http_cleanup()

Mike Ralphson (1):
Documentation cherry-pick: Fix cut-and-paste error

Miklos Vajna (2):
Documentation/git-filter-branch: add a new msg-filter example
Documentation/git svn log: add a note about timezones.

Pierre Habouzit (1):
unquote_c_style: fix off-by-one.

Ping Yin (1):
git-submodule: Fix typo 'url' which should be '$url'

Rémi Vanicat (1):
git.el: find the git-status buffer whatever its name is

Santi Béjar (1):
ident.c: reword error message when the user name cannot be determined

Sebastian Noack (1):
git-svn: Don't prompt for client cert password everytime.

Shawn O. Pearce (6):
Ensure 'make dist' compiles git-archive.exe on Cygwin
Protect peel_ref fallback case from NULL parse_object result
Correct fast-export file mode strings to match fast-import standard
git-gui: Paper bag fix info dialog when no files are staged at commit
Fix 'git remote show' regression on empty repository in 1.5.4
git-gui: Gracefully fall back to po2msg.sh if msgfmt --tcl fails

Steven Drake (1):
timezone_names[]: fixed the tz offset for New Zealand.

Uwe Kleine-König (1):
config.txt: refer to --upload-pack and --receive-pack instead of --exec