From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753062Ab0AUAvy (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752294Ab0AUAvx (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:53 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:58930 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751181Ab0AUAvw (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:52 -0500 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=BL/ 0R1gVpUenc8/P1XQsUnuCFOIxvS7pihnPmnHnNy45Taze0V5SXaNySns70sBWINE wfg0E72n2WFOZcXCog/vWy64eU9FnO/WfZOE+HCn+YDqmSAYeDzHHaAZ9IqPxwSF DJOV2Mhvzisry03dUNisZM8OmPMpL/f/OsR2fk/M= To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.1 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:51:41 -0800 Message-ID: <7vpr54xote.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: 271A1C8A-0627-11DF-B146-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The latest maintenance release Git 1.6.6.1 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.6.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.6.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.6.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.6.1-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM) Git v1.6.6.1 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.6 ------------------ * "git blame" did not work well when commit lacked the author name. * "git branch -a name" wasn't diagnosed as an error. * "git count-objects" did not handle packfiles that are bigger than 4G on platforms with 32-bit off_t. * "git checkout -m other" while on a branch that does not have any commit segfaulted, instead of failing. * "git fast-import" choked when fed a tag that do not point at a commit. * "git grep" finding from work tree files could have fed garbage to the underlying regexec(3). * "git grep -L" didn't show empty files (they should never match, and they should always appear in -L output as unmatching). * "git rebase -i" did not abort cleanly if it failed to launch the editor. * "git reset --hard" did not work correctly when GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable is used to point at the root of the true work tree. * http-backend was not listed in the command list in the documentation. * Building on FreeBSD (both 7 and 8) needs OLD_ICONV set in the Makefile * "git checkout -m some-branch" while on an unborn branch crashed. Other minor documentation updates are included.