Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3.5
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git, gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2007-10-31 22:40:01 GMT (4 years, 14 weeks, 2 days, 20 hours and 45 minutes ago)
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.3.5 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.3.5.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.3.5.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.3.5.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.3.5-1.$arch.rpm (RPM) There are many fixes including a handful bugs that led to segfaults. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GIT v1.5.3.5 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.3.4 -------------------- * Comes with git-gui 0.8.4. * "git-config" silently ignored options after --list; now it will error out with a usage message. * "git-config --file" failed if the argument used a relative path as it changed directories before opening the file. * "git-config --file" now displays a proper error message if it cannot read the file specified on the command line. * "git-config", "git-diff", "git-apply" failed if run from a subdirectory with relative GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE set. * "git-blame" crashed if run during a merge conflict. * "git-add -i" did not handle single line hunks correctly. * "git-rebase -i" and "git-stash apply" failed if external diff drivers were used for one or more files in a commit. They now avoid calling the external diff drivers. * "git-log --follow" did not work unless diff generation (e.g. -p) was also requested. * "git-log --follow -B" did not work at all. Fixed. * "git-log -M -B" did not correctly handle cases of very large files being renamed and replaced by very small files in the same commit. * "git-log" printed extra newlines between commits when a diff was generated internally (e.g. -S or --follow) but not displayed. * "git-push" error message is more helpful when pushing to a repository with no matching refs and none specified. * "git-push" now respects + (force push) on wildcard refspecs, matching the behavior of git-fetch. * "git-filter-branch" now updates the working directory when it has finished filtering the current branch. * "git-instaweb" no longer fails on Mac OS X. * "git-cvsexportcommit" didn't always create new parent directories before trying to create new child directories. Fixed. * "git-fetch" printed a scary (but bogus) error message while fetching a tag that pointed to a tree or blob. The error did not impact correctness, only user perception. The bogus error is no longer printed. * "git-ls-files --ignored" did not properly descend into non-ignored directories that themselves contained ignored files if d_type was not supported by the filesystem. This bug impacted systems such as AFS. Fixed. * Git segfaulted when reading an invalid .gitattributes file. Fixed. * post-receive-email example hook fixed was fixed for non-fast-forward updates. * Documentation updates for supported (but previously undocumented) options of "git-archive" and "git-reflog". * "make clean" no longer deletes the configure script that ships with the git tarball, making multiple architecture builds easier. * "git-remote show origin" spewed a warning message from Perl when no remote is defined for the current branch via branch.<name>.remote configuration settings. * Building with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER excessively rebuilt contents of perl/ subdirectory by rewriting perl.mak. * http.sslVerify configuration settings were not used in scripted Porcelains. * "git-add" leaked a bit of memory while scanning for files to add. * A few workarounds to squelch false warnings from recent gcc have been added. * "git-send-pack $remote frotz" segfaulted when there is nothing named 'frotz' on the local end. * "git-rebase -interactive" did not handle its "--strategy" option properly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.5.3.4 are as follows: Alex Bennee (1): Ensure we add directories in the correct order Alex Riesen (1): Fix generation of perl/perl.mak Andrew Clausen (1): helpful error message when send-pack finds no refs in common. Aurelien Bompard (1): honor the http.sslVerify option in shell scripts Benoit Sigoure (1): Fix a small memory leak in builtin-add Bjæ—¦rn Steinbrink (3): Fix --strategy parsing in git-rebase--interactive.sh git-rebase--interactive.sh: Don't pass a strategy to git-cherry-pick. git-rebase--interactive.sh: Make 3-way merge strategies work for -p. Brian Gernhardt (1): cvsserver: Use exit 1 instead of die when req_Root fails. Frank Lichtenheld (1): git-config: don't silently ignore options after --list Gerrit Pape (2): git-config: handle --file option with relative pathname properly git-config: print error message if the config file cannot be read Jean-Luc Herren (2): git add -i: Fix parsing of abbreviated hunk headers git add -i: Remove unused variables Jeff King (1): send-pack: respect '+' on wildcard refspecs Joakim Tjernlund (1): Improve receive-pack error message about funny ref creation Johannes Schindelin (5): clear_commit_marks(): avoid deep recursion rebase -i: use diff plumbing instead of porcelain Fix setup_git_directory_gently() with relative GIT_DIR & GIT_WORK_TREE fix filter-branch documentation filter-branch: update current branch when rewritten Julian Phillips (1): fast-import: Fix argument order to die in file_change_m Junio C Hamano (8): git-remote: fix "Use of uninitialized value in string ne" sha1_file.c: avoid gcc signed overflow warnings merge-recursive.c: mrtree in merge() is not used before set RelNotes-1.5.3.5: describe recent fixes Prevent send-pack from segfaulting (backport from 'master') git-merge: document but discourage the historical syntax Update GIT 1.5.3.5 Release Notes GIT 1.5.3.5 Lars Hjemli (1): Make merge-recursive honor diff.renamelimit Linus Torvalds (6): Fix embarrassing "git log --follow" bug Clean up "git log" format with DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT git-blame shouldn't crash if run in an unmerged tree Avoid scary errors about tagged trees/blobs during git-fetch Fix directory scanner to correctly ignore files without d_type Fix diffcore-break total breakage Mathias Megyei (1): Do not remove distributed configure script Michael W. Olson (1): Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt: s/mgs/msg/ in example Michele Ballabio (2): git-reflog: document --verbose git-archive: document --exec Nicolas Pitre (1): cherry-pick/revert: more compact user direction message Patrick Welche (1): Define NI_MAXSERV if not defined by operating system Ralf Wildenhues (1): gitk.txt: Fix markup. Robert Schiele (1): fixing output of non-fast-forward output of post-receive-email Sergei Organov (1): core-tutorial: Use new syntax for git-merge. Shawn O. Pearce (17): git-gui: Display message box when we cannot find git in $PATH git-gui: Handle starting on mapped shares under Cygwin git-gui: Ensure .git/info/exclude is honored in Cygwin workdirs git-gui: Allow gitk to be started on Cygwin with native Tcl/Tk git-gui: Don't crash when starting gitk from a browser session Whip post 1.5.3.4 maintenance series into shape. Correct typos in release notes for 1.5.3.5 Avoid 'expr index' on Mac OS X as it isn't supported Document additional 1.5.3.5 fixes in release notes Yet more 1.5.3.5 fixes mentioned in release notes Avoid invoking diff drivers during git-stash Further 1.5.3.5 fixes described in release notes Paper bag fix diff invocation in 'git stash show' git-gui: Correctly report failures from git-write-tree git-gui: Handle progress bars from newer gits git-gui: Don't display CR within console windows Describe more 1.5.3.5 fixes in release notes Simon Sasburg (1): git-gui: Avoid using bold text in entire gui for some fonts Steffen Prohaska (2): git-gui: accept versions containing text annotations, like 1.5.3.mingw.1 attr: fix segfault in gitattributes parsing code