[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.2

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.2

[Junio C Hamano]

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.6.2 are available at the usual
places:

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

  git-1.5.6.2.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.5.6.2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.5.6.2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also provided as
courtesy.  As the machine I cut them at kernel.org has been updated to FC9
recently, their filenames now have .fc9. in them.

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.6.2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

There still are a handful more fixes queued for 'maint' so we might see
another maintenance release, 1.5.6.3, not too far in the future.

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Changes since v1.5.6.1 are as follows:

Avery Pennarun (1):
      git-svn: avoid filling up the disk with temp files.

Björn Steinbrink (1):
      git cat-file: Fix memory leak in batch mode

Eric Wong (1):
      git-svn: don't sanitize remote names in config

Jeff King (3):
      fetch: report local storage errors in status table
      doc/rev-parse: clarify reflog vs --until for specifying revisions
      fetch: give a hint to the user when local refs fail to update

Jochen Voss (1):
      avoid off-by-one error in run_upload_archive

Joey Hess (1):
      fix git config example syntax

Johannes Schindelin (2):
      clone: respect url.insteadOf setting in global configs
      clone: respect the settings in $HOME/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig

Junio C Hamano (9):
      Allow "git-reset path" when unambiguous
      diff --check: do not discard error status upon seeing a good line
      git-shell: accept "git foo" form
      GIT 1.5.4.6
      GIT 1.5.5.5
      Start draft release notes for 1.5.6.2
      Work around gcc warnings from curl headers
      Fix executable bits in t/ scripts
      GIT 1.5.6.2

Shawn O. Pearce (1):
      Fix describe --tags --long so it does not segfault

Thomas Rast (1):
      Fix 'git show' on signed tag of signed tag of commit

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.2

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2008-07-06 07:34, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Junio C Hamano (9):
>      Allow "git-reset path" when unambiguous
>      diff --check: do not discard error status upon seeing a good line
>      git-shell: accept "git foo" form
>      GIT 1.5.4.6
>      GIT 1.5.5.5
>      Start draft release notes for 1.5.6.2
>      Work around gcc warnings from curl headers
>      Fix executable bits in t/ scripts
>      GIT 1.5.6.2

Three git versions?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.2

[Mikael Magnusson]

2008/7/6 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>:
>
> On Sunday 2008-07-06 07:34, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>Junio C Hamano (9):
>>      Allow "git-reset path" when unambiguous
>>      diff --check: do not discard error status upon seeing a good line
>>      git-shell: accept "git foo" form
>>      GIT 1.5.4.6
>>      GIT 1.5.5.5
>>      Start draft release notes for 1.5.6.2
>>      Work around gcc warnings from curl headers
>>      Fix executable bits in t/ scripts
>>      GIT 1.5.6.2
>
> Three git versions?

I believe this is related to moving to the dash-less form of receive-pack et al.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.3

[Junio C Hamano]

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.6.3 is available at the
usual places:

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

  git-1.5.6.3.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.5.6.3.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.5.6.3.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also provided
as courtesy.  As the machine I cut them at kernel.org has been updated to FC9
recently, their filenames now have "fc9" in them.

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.6.3-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

The changes since the previous maintenance release is getting smaller.
About half the diff is in Documentation/ section.

 Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt     |   52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt        |    6 ++++
 Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt        |    3 ++
 Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt         |    5 ++-
 Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt        |    4 +-
 Documentation/git.txt                  |    3 +-
 Documentation/gitattributes.txt        |   33 ++++++++++----------
 Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt     |    5 +++
 Documentation/pretty-formats.txt       |    8 ++--
 RelNotes                               |    2 +-
 builtin-clone.c                        |    8 +++--
 builtin-commit.c                       |   11 ++----
 builtin-log.c                          |   16 ++-------
 builtin-mailinfo.c                     |    3 +-
 builtin-send-pack.c                    |    3 +-
 builtin-tag.c                          |    2 +-
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |   30 ++++++++++++++++++
 convert.c                              |   25 +++++----------
 diff.c                                 |    8 +----
 git-am.sh                              |    3 +-
 git-submodule.sh                       |    3 +-
 git-svn.perl                           |    2 +
 http.c                                 |   36 +++++++--------------
 path.c                                 |    2 +-
 read-cache.c                           |   16 ++++++++++
 refs.c                                 |    2 +-
 run-command.c                          |    2 +
 t/t0004-unwritable.sh                  |   19 ++++++-----
 t/t1301-shared-repo.sh                 |   23 ++++++++++++++
 t/t5404-tracking-branches.sh           |    7 ++++
 t/t5601-clone.sh                       |   20 +++++++++++-
 transport.c                            |    4 ++-
 32 files changed, 253 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)

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GIT v1.5.6.3 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.5.6.2
--------------------

* Setting core.sharerepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make
  the repository group writable but should not affect permission for others.
  However, since 1.5.6, it was broken to drop permission for others when umask is
  022, making the repository unreadable by others.

* Setting GIT_TRACE will report spawning of external process via run_command().

* Using an object with very deep delta chain pinned memory needed for extracting
  intermediate base objects unnecessarily long, leading to excess memory usage.

* Bash completion script did not notice '--' marker on the command
  line and tried the relatively slow "ref completion" even when
  completing arguments after one.

* Registering a non-empty blob racily and then truncating the working
  tree file for it confused "racy-git avoidance" logic into thinking
  that the path is now unchanged.

* The section that describes attributes related to git-archive were placed
  in a wrong place in the gitattributes(5) manual page.

* "git am" was not helpful to the users when it detected that the committer
  information is not set up properly yet.

* "git clone" had a leftover debugging fprintf().

* "git clone -q" was not quiet enough as it used to and gave object count
  and progress reports.

* "git clone" marked downloaded packfile with .keep; this could be a
  good thing if the remote side is well packed but otherwise not,
  especially for a project that is not really big.

* "git daemon" used to call syslog() from a signal handler, which
  could raise signals of its own but generally is not reentrant.  This
  was fixed by restructuring the code to report syslog() after the handler
  returns.

* When "git push" tries to remove a remote ref, and corresponding
  tracking ref is missing, we used to report error (i.e. failure to
  remove something that does not exist).

* "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") did not handle commit log messages in a
  MIME multipart mail correctly.

Contains other various documentation fixes.