{"thread":{"id":"20982","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.4","startedAt":"2009-09-16T23:26:42Z","lastAt":"2009-09-16T23:26:42Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"123391","messageId":"7v4or2wjwt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"20982","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.4","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2009-09-16T23:26:42Z","receivedAt":"2009-09-16T23:26:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\nThe latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.4.4 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.6.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.6.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.6.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.4.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nThis is primarily to fix a http regression introduced by 1.6.4.3\n\nGIT v1.6.4.4 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.6.4.4\n--------------------\n\n* The workaround for Github server that sometimes gave 500 (Internal server\n  error) response to HEAD requests in 1.6.4.3 introduced a regression that\n  caused re-fetching projects over http to segfault in certain cases due\n  to uninitialized pointer being freed.\n\n* \"git pull\" on an unborn branch used to consider anything in the work\n  tree and the index discardable.\n\n* \"git diff -b/w\" did not work well on the incomplete line at the end of\n  the file, due to an incorrect hashing of lines in the low-level xdiff\n  routines.\n\n* \"git checkout-index --prefix=$somewhere\" used to work when $somewhere is\n  a symbolic link to a directory elsewhere, but v1.6.4.2 broke it.\n\n* \"git unpack-objects --strict\", invoked when receive.fsckobjects\n  configuration is set in the receiving repository of \"git push\", did not\n  properly check the objects, especially the submodule links, it received.\n\nOther minor documentation updates are included.\n"}]}