{"thread":{"id":"19339","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.3.1","startedAt":"2009-05-13T18:31:51Z","lastAt":"2009-05-13T18:31:51Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"113821","messageId":"7vy6t04zxk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"19339","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.3.1","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2009-05-13T18:31:51Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-13T18:31:51Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.3.1 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.6.3.1.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.6.3.1.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.6.3.1.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.3.1-1.fc9.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nEmbarrasingly 1.6.3 has a rather grave regression when you switch to a new\nbranch while you have some changes added to the index.  A commit you make\nfrom that index will record a wrong tree.  Please consider this a hotfix\nand do not use vanilla 1.6.3.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.6.3 are as follows:\n\nAlex Riesen (1):\n      Clarify kind of conflict in merge-one-file helper\n\nAlexander Potashev (1):\n      Documentation: cloning to empty directory is allowed\n\nFelipe Contreras (1):\n      git config: clarify --add and --get-color\n\nJunio C Hamano (4):\n      Start 1.6.3.1 maintenance series.\n      archive-tar.c: squelch a type mismatch warning\n      Revert \"checkout branch: prime cache-tree fully\"\n      GIT 1.6.3.1\n"}]}