{"thread":{"id":"21923","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.rc2","startedAt":"2009-12-10T01:44:02Z","lastAt":"2009-12-10T01:44:02Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"129671","messageId":"7vocm7li1p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"21923","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.rc2","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2009-12-10T01:44:02Z","receivedAt":"2009-12-10T01:44:02Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"A release candidate Git 1.6.6.rc2 is available at the usual places\nfor testing:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.6.6.rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.6.6.rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.6.6.rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n  testing/git-*-1.6.6.rc2-1.fc11.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nThe changes since rc1 are mostly updates to the subsystems.\n\nThe regression to \"git pull\" that made the command give annoying warning\nmessage when there is no local commit has been fixed; it appeared in rc1.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.6.6-rc1 are as follows:\n\nAlex Vandiver (3):\n      git-svn: sort svk merge tickets to account for minimal parents\n      git-svn: Set svn.authorsfile to an absolute path when cloning\n      git-svn: set svn.authorsfile earlier when cloning\n\nAlexander Gavrilov (1):\n      git-gui: Increase blame viewer usability on MacOS.\n\nBernt Hansen (1):\n      gitk: Skip translation of \"wrong Tcl version\" message\n\nBrandon Casey (2):\n      t4201: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1\n      t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-'\n\nClemens Buchacher (1):\n      git-gui: search 4 directories to improve statistic of gc hint\n\nEric Wong (1):\n      git svn: log removals of empty directories\n\nGreg Price (1):\n      git svn: Don't create empty directories whose parents were deleted\n\nGuillermo S. Romero (1):\n      gitk: Add configuration for UI colour scheme\n\nHeiko Voigt (1):\n      git gui: make current branch default in \"remote delete branch\" merge check\n\nJakub Narebski (1):\n      gitweb: Describe (possible) gitweb.js minification in gitweb/README\n\nJan Krüger (1):\n      pull: clarify advice for the unconfigured error case\n\nJeff King (3):\n      rerere: don't segfault on failure to open rr-cache\n      reset: improve worktree safety valves\n      add-interactive: fix deletion of non-empty files\n\nJens Lehmann (2):\n      gitk: Fix diffing committed -> staged (typo in diffcmd)\n      gitk: Use the --submodule option for displaying diffs when available\n\nJindrich Makovicka (1):\n      git-gui: suppress RenderBadPicture X error caused by Tk bug\n\nJohan Herland (1):\n      Fix crasher on encountering SHA1-like non-note in notes tree\n\nJunio C Hamano (9):\n      Documentation/Makefile: allow man.base.url.for.relative.link to be set from Make\n      Unconditionally set man.base.url.for.relative.links\n      Git 1.6.5.4\n      Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam\n      Prepare for 1.6.5.5\n      Git 1.6.5.5\n      Revert recent \"git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>...\" deprecation\n      Update draft release notes to 1.6.6 before -rc2\n      Git 1.6.6-rc2\n\nLinus Torvalds (1):\n      Fix diff -B/--dirstat miscounting of newly added contents\n\nMarkus Heidelberg (1):\n      gitk: Fix \"git gui blame\" invocation when called from top-level directory\n\nMizar (2):\n      gitk: Add Japanese translation\n      gitk: Update Japanese translation\n\nPat Thoyts (4):\n      gitk: Use themed tk widgets\n      gitk: Fix errors in the theme patch\n      gitk: Default to the system colours on Windows\n      gitk: Fix selection of tags\n\nPaul Mackerras (5):\n      gitk: Restore scrolling position of diff pane on back/forward in history\n      gitk: Add a user preference to enable/disable use of themed widgets\n      gitk: Show diff of commits at end of compare-commits output\n      gitk: Don't compare fake children when comparing commits\n      gitk: Improve appearance of radiobuttons and checkbuttons\n\nRené Scharfe (1):\n      archive: clarify description of path parameter\n\nSZEDER Gábor (1):\n      bash: update 'git commit' completion\n\nSitaram Chamarty (1):\n      gitk: Disable checkout of remote branches\n\nTodd Zullinger (1):\n      Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam\n"}]}