{"thread":{"id":"14869","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.5","startedAt":"2008-08-07T00:28:05Z","lastAt":"2008-08-07T00:28:05Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"86385","messageId":"7v1w11mzxm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"14869","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.5","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junio@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-08-07T00:28:05Z","receivedAt":"2008-08-07T00:28:05Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.6.5 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.5.6.5.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.5.6.5.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.5.6.5.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also provided\nas courtesy.\n\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.6.5-1.fc9.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nGIT v1.5.6.5 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.5.6.4\n--------------------\n\n* \"git cvsimport\" used to spit out \"UNKNOWN LINE...\" diagnostics to stdout.\n\n* \"git commit -F filename\" and \"git tag -F filename\" run from subdirectories\n  did not read the right file.\n\n* \"git init --template=\" with blank \"template\" parameter linked files\n  under root directories to .git, which was a total nonsense.  Instead, it\n  means \"I do not want to use anything from the template directory\".\n\n* \"git diff-tree\" and other diff plumbing ignored diff.renamelimit configuration\n  variable when the user explicitly asked for rename detection.\n\n* \"git name-rev --name-only\" did not work when \"--stdin\" option was in effect.\n\n* \"git show-branch\" mishandled its 8th branch.\n\n* Addition of \"git update-index --ignore-submodules\" that happened during\n  1.5.6 cycle broke \"git update-index --ignore-missing\".\n\n* \"git send-email\" did not parse charset from an existing Content-type:\n  header properly.\n\nContains other various documentation fixes.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.5.6.4 are as follows:\n\nAnders Melchiorsen (1):\n      Documentation: fix diff.external example\n\nBjörn Steinbrink (1):\n      index-pack.c: correctly initialize appended objects\n\nBrandon Casey (1):\n      t/t4202-log.sh: add newline at end of file\n\nCiaran McCreesh (1):\n      Make git-add -i accept ranges like 7-\n\nJeff King (1):\n      init: handle empty \"template\" parameter\n\nJim Meyering (1):\n      git-cvsimport.perl: Print \"UNKNOWN LINE...\" on stderr, not stdout.\n\nJohannes Schindelin (1):\n      sort_in_topological_order(): avoid setting a commit flag\n\nJonathan Nieder (2):\n      fix usage string for git grep\n      git-diff(1): \"--c\" -> \"--cc\" typo fix\n\nJunio C Hamano (12):\n      refresh-index: fix bitmask assignment\n      tests: propagate $(TAR) down from the toplevel Makefile\n      Makefile: fix shell quoting\n      make sure parsed wildcard refspec ends with slash\n      Documentation: clarify diff --cc\n      Update my e-mail address\n      Start 1.5.6.5 RelNotes to describe accumulated fixes\n      builtin-name-rev.c: split deeply nested part from the main function\n      RelNotes 1.5.6.5 updates\n      fix diff-tree --stdin documentation\n      Files given on the command line are relative to $cwd\n      GIT 1.5.6.5\n\nLinus Torvalds (1):\n      diff.renamelimit is a basic diff configuration\n\nMike Ralphson (1):\n      Documentation: typos / spelling fixes in older RelNotes\n\nPeter Valdemar Mørch (1):\n      send-email: find body-encoding correctly\n\nPierre Habouzit (2):\n      git-checkout: fix command line parsing.\n      git-submodule: move ill placed shift.\n\nPieter de Bie (1):\n      git-name-rev: allow --name-only in combination with --stdin\n\nRené Scharfe (1):\n      git-name-rev: don't use printf without format\n\nStephan Beyer (1):\n      builtin-revert.c: typofix\n\nSteve Haslam (1):\n      Propagate -u/--upload-pack option of \"git clone\" to transport.\n"}]}