Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.3.2
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
Date: 2009-06-04 07:20:17 GMT (35 weeks, 5 days, 21 hours and 25 minutes ago)
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.3.2 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.3.2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM) GIT v1.6.3.2 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.3.1 -------------------- * A few codepaths picked up the first few bytes from an sha1[] by casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this, and aborted compilation. * Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed. * The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base. * The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor gracefully. It should produce the file itself, but instead produced an empty result. * GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases. * OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim". * With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and $(bindir)/git. * command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are in a bare repository. * "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful. We silently make it a no-op now. * "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and both halves are marked to be used. * "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file from a directory with some files in it. * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object created by an ancient git. * "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered configuration was set. * "git grep --color ''" did not terminate. The command also had subtle bugs with its -w option. * http-push had a small use-after-free bug. * "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer, making the transferred data unnecessarily larger. * "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty. Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages and documentation are included as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.6.3.1 are as follows: Alex Riesen (7): Introduce an unlink(2) wrapper which gives warning if unlink failed replace direct calls to unlink(2) with unlink_or_warn print unlink(2) errno in copy_or_link_directory Clarify kind of conflict in merge-one-file helper ls-tree manpage: use "unless" instead of "when ... is not" ls-tree manpage: output of ls-tree is compatible with update-index http-push.c::remove_locks(): fix use after free Charles Bailey (2): t6023: merge-file fails to output anything for a degenerate merge Change xdl_merge to generate output even for null merges Clemens Buchacher (1): fix segfault showing an empty remote Dan McGee (1): Fix type-punning issues Daniel Cordero (1): builtin-checkout: Don't tell user that HEAD has moved before it has Dave Olszewski (1): merge-recursive: never leave index unmerged while recursing Giuseppe Bilotta (1): completion: use git rev-parse to detect bare repos Jeff King (6): fix GIT_TRACE segfault with shell-quoted aliases add: don't complain when adding empty project root for-each-ref: fix segfault in copy_email lock_ref: inform callers of unavailable ref fetch: report ref storage DF errors more accurately fix cat-file usage message and documentation Jim Meyering (2): format-patch let -k override a config-specified format.numbered pre-commit.sample: don't print incidental SHA1 Johannes Schindelin (2): Add NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS support to the Makefile Cope better with a _lot_ of packs Johannes Sixt (1): t3701: ensure correctly set up repository after skipped tests Junio C Hamano (8): Revert "git-add--interactive: remove hunk coalescing" completion: fix PS1 display during a merge on detached HEAD completion: simplify "current branch" in __git_ps1() completion: enhance "current branch" display Prepare for 1.6.3.2 Update draft release notes for 1.6.3.2 blame: correctly handle a path that used to be a directory GIT 1.6.3.2 Linus Torvalds (3): Avoid unnecessary 'lstat()' calls in 'get_stat_data()' Teach 'git checkout' to preload the index contents dir.c: clean up handling of 'path' parameter in read_directory_recursive() Matt Graham (1): Splitting a hunk that adds a line at the top fails in "add -p" Michael J Gruber (1): merge-options.txt: Clarify merge --squash Nanako Shiraishi (1): test: checkout shouldn't say that HEAD has moved if it didn't Nicolas Pitre (1): allow OFS_DELTA objects during a push René Scharfe (4): grep: fix word-regexp colouring grep: fix word-regexp at the beginning of lines grep: fix colouring of matches with zero length grep: fix empty word-regexp matches Stephen Boyd (6): api-parse-options.txt: use 'func' instead of 'funct' tests: Add tests for missing format-patch long options completion: add missing options to show-branch and show show-branch: Fix die message in parse_reflog_param() commit: -F overrides -t apply, fmt-merge-msg: use relative filenames Thomas Rast (2): Documentation: teach stash/pop workflow instead of stash/apply add -i: do not dump patch during application Tony Kemp (1): Turn on USE_ST_TIMESPEC for OpenBSD