{"thread":{"id":"17432","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1.2","startedAt":"2009-01-29T10:16:25Z","lastAt":"2009-01-29T10:16:25Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"102425","messageId":"7vtz7ifmdi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"17432","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1.2","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2009-01-29T10:16:25Z","receivedAt":"2009-01-29T10:16:25Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.1.2 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.6.1.2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.6.1.2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.6.1.2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also provided\nas courtesy.\n\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.1.2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nPeople with 1.6.1 or 1.6.1.1, who push into a repository that borrows\nobjects from other repositories via \"alternates\" mechanism (most of the\nlinux kernel subsystems hosted on k.org, and \"forks\" on various public\nhosting site such as repo.or.cz and github fall into this category), may\nwant to upgrade to this version, as these two versions have a buggy \"git\npush\" that does not like such a repository served by git 1.6.1 or newer.\n\n\nGIT v1.6.1.2 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.6.1.1\n--------------------\n\n* The logic for rename detectin in internal diff used by commands like\n  \"git diff\" and \"git blame\" have been optimized to avoid loading the same\n  blob repeatedly.\n\n* We did not allow writing out a blob that is larger than 2GB for no good\n  reason.\n\n* \"git format-patch -o $dir\", when $dir is a relative directory, used it\n  as relative to the root of the work tree, not relative to the current\n  directory.\n\n* v1.6.1 introduced an optimization for \"git push\" into a repository (A)\n  that borrows its objects from another repository (B) to avoid sending\n  objects that are available in repository B, when they are not yet used\n  by repository A.  However the code on the \"git push\" sender side was\n  buggy and did not work when repository B had new objects that are not\n  known by the sender.  This caused pushing into a \"forked\" repository\n  served by v1.6.1 software using \"git push\" from v1.6.1 sometimes did not\n  work.  The bug was purely on the \"git push\" sender side, and has been\n  corrected.\n\n* \"git status -v\" did not paint its diff output in colour even when\n  color.ui configuration was set.\n\n* \"git ls-tree\" learned --full-tree option to help Porcelain scripts that\n  want to always see the full path regardless of the current working\n  directory.\n\n* \"git grep\" incorrectly searched in work tree paths even when they are\n  marked as assume-unchanged.  It now searches in the index entries.\n\n* \"git gc\" with no grace period needlessly ejected packed but unreachable\n  objects in their loose form, only to delete them right away.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.6.1.1 are as follows:\n\nBjörn Steinbrink (1):\n      Rename detection: Avoid repeated filespec population\n\nJeff King (1):\n      avoid 31-bit truncation in write_loose_object\n\nJohannes Schindelin (2):\n      get_sha1_basic(): fix invalid memory access, found by valgrind\n      test-path-utils: Fix off by one, found by valgrind\n\nJunio C Hamano (4):\n      ls-tree: add --full-tree option\n      Teach format-patch to handle output directory relative to cwd\n      send-pack: do not send unknown object name from \".have\" to pack-objects\n      GIT 1.6.1.2\n\nMarcel M. Cary (1):\n      git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink to a work-dir on OS X\n\nMarkus Heidelberg (2):\n      git-commit: color status output when color.ui is set\n      git-status -v: color diff output when color.ui is set\n\nNanako Shiraishi (1):\n      Document git-ls-tree --full-tree\n\nNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):\n      grep: support --no-ext-grep to test builtin grep\n      grep: grep cache entries if they are \"assume unchanged\"\n\nNicolas Pitre (1):\n      objects to be pruned immediately don't have to be loosened\n"}]}