{"thread":{"id":"16630","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1-rc2","startedAt":"2008-12-08T02:53:09Z","lastAt":"2008-12-15T10:17:38Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Anders Melchiorsen"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"97323","messageId":"7vbpvnbcoa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"16630","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1-rc2","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-12-08T02:53:09Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-08T02:53:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Another week, another rc.  There are no outstanding features that should\ngraduate from 'next' anymore until final.\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.6.1-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.6.1-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.6.1-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also there.\n\n  testing/git-*-1.6.1-rc2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.6.1-rc1 are as follows:\n\nAlex Riesen (3):\n      Make some of fwrite/fclose/write/close failures visible\n      Make chdir failures visible\n      Report symlink failures in merge-recursive\n\nAlexander Gavrilov (2):\n      gitk: Make line origin search update the busy status\n      gitk: Add a menu option to start git gui\n\nChristian Couder (2):\n      bisect: fix \"git bisect skip <commit>\" and add tests cases\n      Documentation: describe how to \"bisect skip\" a range of commits\n\nChristian Stimming (1):\n      gitk: Update German translation\n\nDavide Libenzi (1):\n      xdiff: give up scanning similar lines early\n\nDeskin Miller (1):\n      git-svn: Make branch use correct svn-remote\n\nGiuseppe Bilotta (2):\n      gitweb: make gitweb_check_feature a boolean wrapper\n      Update comment on gitweb_check/get_feature\n\nJakub Narebski (2):\n      gitweb: Fix handling of non-ASCII characters in inserted HTML files\n      gitweb: Make project specific override for 'grep' feature work\n\nJeff King (2):\n      add stage to gitignore\n      tag: delete TAG_EDITMSG only on successful tag\n\nJohannes Sixt (1):\n      t4030-diff-textconv: Make octal escape sequence more portable\n\nJunio C Hamano (17):\n      builtin-rm.c: explain and clarify the \"local change\" logic\n      git add --intent-to-add: fix removal of cached emptiness\n      git add --intent-to-add: do not let an empty blob be committed by accident\n      gitweb: fix 'ctags' feature check and others\n      gitweb: rename gitweb_check_feature to gitweb_get_feature\n      Makefile: introduce NO_PTHREADS\n      Install git-stage in exec-path\n      git-am --whitespace: do not lose the command line option\n      git-am: propagate -C<n>, -p<n> options as well\n      git-am: propagate --3way options as well\n      Test that git-am does not lose -C/-p/--whitespace options\n      git-am: rename apply_opt_extra file to apply-opt\n      Update draft release notes to 1.6.1\n      GIT 1.6.0.5\n      Update draft release notes for 1.6.1\n      Revert \"git-stash: use git rev-parse -q\"\n      Point \"stale\" 1.6.0.5 documentation from the main git documentation page\n\nLinus Torvalds (1):\n      Add backslash to list of 'crud' characters in real name\n\nMark Burton (1):\n      git-gui: Teach start_push_anywhere_action{} to notice when remote is a mirror.\n\nMatt McCutchen (1):\n      \"git diff <tree>{3,}\": do not reverse order of arguments\n\nMiklos Vajna (8):\n      User's Manual: remove duplicated url at the end of Appendix B\n      git-stash: use git rev-parse -q\n      filter-branch: use git rev-parse -q\n      lost-found: use git rev-parse -q\n      pull: use git rev-parse -q\n      rebase: use git rev-parse -q\n      submodule: use git rev-parse -q\n      http.c: use 'git_config_string' to get 'curl_http_proxy'\n\nNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):\n      Extend index to save more flags\n\nPaul Mackerras (3):\n      gitk: Fix context menu items for generating diffs when in tree mode\n      gitk: Highlight only when search type is \"containing:\".\n      gitk: Fix bug in accessing undefined \"notflag\" variable\n\nScott Chacon (1):\n      Add a built-in alias for 'stage' to the 'add' command\n\nThomas Rast (1):\n      fetch-pack: Avoid memcpy() with src==dst\n\nTor Arvid Lund (1):\n      git-p4: Fix bug in p4Where method.\n"},{"id":"97935","messageId":"7voczdyh23.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"16630","inReplyTo":"7vbpvnbcoa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1-rc3","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-12-15T08:32:36Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-15T08:32:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"I have fixed a few more smallish (old) bugs after I tagged this, which\nwill be in 'master' shortly, but it seems that this cycle is stabilizing\nfairly nicely.  Let's have a successful 1.6.1 tagged on 20th.  Please hunt\nand fix bugs until then.\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.6.1-rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.6.1-rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.6.1-rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also there.\n\n  testing/git-*-1.6.1-rc3-1.fc9.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.6.1-rc2 are as follows:\n\nAlexander Gavrilov (1):\n      Documentation: Describe git-gui Tools menu configuration options.\n\nAlexander Potashev (2):\n      Fix typos in documentation\n      Fix typo in comment in builtin-add.c\n\nAlexey Borzenkov (1):\n      Define linkgit macro in [macros] section\n\nBrandon Casey (1):\n      git-branch: display sha1 on branch deletion\n\nDeskin Miller (1):\n      git-svn: Make following parents atomic\n\nJakub Narebski (1):\n      gitweb: Fix bug in insert_file() subroutine\n\nJeff King (5):\n      reorder ALLOW_TEXTCONV option setting\n      diff: allow turning on textconv explicitly for plumbing\n      diff: fix handling of binary rewrite diffs\n      diff: respect textconv in rewrite diffs\n      rebase: improve error messages about dirty state\n\nJim Meyering (1):\n      git-config.txt: fix a typo\n\nJohannes Schindelin (1):\n      Get rid of the last remnants of GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL\n\nJunio C Hamano (4):\n      builtin-checkout.c: check error return from read_cache()\n      read-cache.c: typofix in comment\n      work around Python warnings from AsciiDoc\n      Fix t4031\n\nLinus Torvalds (1):\n      fsck: reduce stack footprint\n\nMarkus Heidelberg (1):\n      builtin-commit: remove unused message variable\n\nNicolas Pitre (1):\n      make sure packs to be replaced are closed beforehand\n\nRalf Wildenhues (1):\n      Improve language in git-merge.txt and related docs\n\nTor Arvid Lund (1):\n      git-p4: Fix regression in p4Where method.\n\nYONETANI Tomokazu (1):\n      git-fast-import possible memory corruption problem\n"},{"id":"97941","messageId":"34543.bFoQE3daRhY=.1229335460.squirrel@webmail.hotelhot.dk","threadId":"16630","inReplyTo":"7voczdyh23.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1-rc3","fromName":"Anders Melchiorsen","fromEmail":"mail@cup.kalibalik.dk","sentAt":"2008-12-15T10:04:20Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-15T10:04:20Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mail@cup.kalibalik.dk","avatar":null},"body":"Junio C Hamano wrote:\n\n> I have fixed a few more smallish (old) bugs after I tagged this, which\n> will be in 'master' shortly, but it seems that this cycle is stabilizing\n> fairly nicely.  Let's have a successful 1.6.1 tagged on 20th.  Please hunt\n> and fix bugs until then.\n\nEven though it is not a 1.6.1 regression, I wonder about the merge\nconflict issue in\n\n http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/100859/focus=101182\n\n\nThe patch in that post improved things somewhat, by making a correct\ncommit. Of course, the working tree then silently loses a file, which\ncould be seen as being worse than a fatal failure.\n\n\nAnders.\n"},{"id":"97945","messageId":"7vy6yhwxml.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"16630","inReplyTo":"34543.bFoQE3daRhY=.1229335460.squirrel@webmail.hotelhot.dk","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1-rc3","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-12-15T10:17:38Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-15T10:17:38Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\"Anders Melchiorsen\" <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> writes:\n\n> The patch in that post improved things somewhat, by making a correct\n> commit. Of course, the working tree then silently loses a file, which\n> could be seen as being worse than a fatal failure.\n\nThanks for a reminder.  When resending for discussion, please make it\naccompanied with a test case.  In any case, let's leave anything iffy\nafter the final.\n"}]}