From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933599AbZIPX05 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760398AbZIPX0z (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:55 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:50153 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755281AbZIPX0y (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:subject:from :date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=EfQ n4H9ftCd5ZwrZbN55kgVfZ2Yw8fQXoJT3TcuQkHhQ+MbqmpFfwtnTsp5VXmHg7C5 WOHFBmCnWM7ocBb0U9Lb7AP+1VBdmxd/hNnKewL5ikgshDwlCl4G7eCkwXF0C5Ha CAJHjPy4T3oy8f1ngZE7iF8MoyFqQgqok2m77Zm4= To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.4 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:26:42 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4or2wjwt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6AF82356-A318-11DE-8152-8B19076EA04E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.4.4 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.4.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM) This is primarily to fix a http regression introduced by 1.6.4.3 GIT v1.6.4.4 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.4.4 -------------------- * The workaround for Github server that sometimes gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD requests in 1.6.4.3 introduced a regression that caused re-fetching projects over http to segfault in certain cases due to uninitialized pointer being freed. * "git pull" on an unborn branch used to consider anything in the work tree and the index discardable. * "git diff -b/w" did not work well on the incomplete line at the end of the file, due to an incorrect hashing of lines in the low-level xdiff routines. * "git checkout-index --prefix=$somewhere" used to work when $somewhere is a symbolic link to a directory elsewhere, but v1.6.4.2 broke it. * "git unpack-objects --strict", invoked when receive.fsckobjects configuration is set in the receiving repository of "git push", did not properly check the objects, especially the submodule links, it received. Other minor documentation updates are included.