Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3.4
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git, gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2007-10-03 21:17:22 GMT (4 years, 18 weeks, 2 days, 23 hours and 58 minutes ago)
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.3.4 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.3.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.3.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.3.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.3.4-1.$arch.rpm (RPM) GIT v1.5.3.4 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.3.3 -------------------- * Change to "git-ls-files" in v1.5.3.3 that was introduced to support partial commit of removal better had a segfaulting bug, which was diagnosed and fixed by Keith and Carl. * Performance improvements for rename detection has been backported from the 'master' branch. * "git-for-each-ref --format='%(numparent)'" was not working correctly at all, and --format='%(parent)' was not working for merge commits. * Sample "post-receive-hook" incorrectly sent out push notification e-mails marked as "From: " the committer of the commit that happened to be at the tip of the branch that was pushed, not from the person who pushed. * "git-remote" did not exit non-zero status upon error. * "git-add -i" did not respond very well to EOF from tty nor bogus input. * "git-rebase -i" squash subcommand incorrectly made the author of later commit the author of resulting commit, instead of taking from the first one in the squashed series. * "git-stash apply --index" was not documented. * autoconfiguration learned that "ar" command is found as "gas" on some systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.5.3.3 are as follows: Andy Parkins (1): post-receive-hook: Remove the From field from the generated email header so that the pusher's name is used Carl Worth (1): Add test case for ls-files --with-tree Federico Mena Quintero (4): Say when --track is useful in the git-checkout docs. Add documentation for --track and --no-track to the git-branch docs. Note that git-branch will not automatically checkout the new branch Make git-pull complain and give advice when there is nothing to merge with Jari Aalto (1): git-remote: exit with non-zero status after detecting errors. Jean-Luc Herren (2): git-add--interactive: Allow Ctrl-D to exit git-add--interactive: Improve behavior on bogus input Jeff King (1): diffcore-rename: cache file deltas Johan Herland (1): Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALL Johannes Schindelin (2): rebase -i: squash should retain the authorship of the _first_ commit Fix typo in config.txt Junio C Hamano (5): Whip post 1.5.3.3 maintenance series into shape. git-commit: initialize TMP_INDEX just to be sure. for-each-ref: fix %(numparent) and %(parent) rename diff_free_filespec_data_large() to diff_free_filespec_blob() GIT 1.5.3.4 Keith Packard (1): Must not modify the_index.cache as it may be passed to realloc at some point. Miklos Vajna (1): git stash: document apply's --index switch Robert Schiele (1): the ar tool is called gar on some systems Steffen Prohaska (1): fixed link in documentation of diff-options