{"thread":{"id":"1895","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.7a","startedAt":"2005-09-21T09:10:27Z","lastAt":"2005-09-21T09:10:27Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"9026","messageId":"7vr7biyef0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"1895","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.7a","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junkio@cox.net","sentAt":"2005-09-21T09:10:27Z","receivedAt":"2005-09-21T09:10:27Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"With help from various people, 0.99.7a is out to fix\nshowstoppers, brown paper bags, and obviously safe\nimprovements.\n\n - For distributions that do not have Python 2.4 yet, we stop\n   requiring it.  Instead, we ship our own copy of \"subprocess\"\n   module with blessings of Peter Astrand, the author, as a\n   fallback.  Many thanks to HPA for suggesting the directions\n   on this issue.\n\n - A long-standing bug in git-init-db that creates a bogus empty\n   directory while copying templates has been found and fixed,\n   thanks to Pasky and HPA.\n\n - Linus fixed short SHA1 name completion -- this is not a\n   strict showstopper bugfix but deemed safe enough.\n\n - git-show-branch, when run in a corrupt repository, segfaulted\n   instead of complaining.\n\n - 0.99.7 created compatibility symlinks for commands that are\n   not available in that installation/configuration.  Thanks to\n   Patrick Mauritz this is now fixed.\n\n - Platforms that lack strcasestr() could not use mailinfo;\n   Linus wrote 'a stupid replacement', which was further fixed\n   by Joachim B Haga.  This is not a showstopper but even if\n   this replacement were buggy the platforms that could not\n   compile git for the lack of it would not be in worse shape\n   anyway, so this is included here.\n\n - Needlessly insulting error message in git checkout was backed\n   out.  Sorry about that.\n"}]}