{"thread":{"id":"22316","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.8","startedAt":"2010-01-21T00:50:17Z","lastAt":"2010-01-21T00:50:17Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"132247","messageId":"7v3a20z3g6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"22316","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.8","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2010-01-21T00:50:17Z","receivedAt":"2010-01-21T00:50:17Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"An maintenance release Git 1.6.5.8 is available at the usual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.6.5.8.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.6.5.8.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.6.5.8.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.5.8-1.fc11.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nGit v1.6.5.8 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.6.5.7\n--------------------\n\n* \"git count-objects\" did not handle packfiles that are bigger than 4G on\n  platforms with 32-bit off_t.\n\n* \"git rebase -i\" did not abort cleanly if it failed to launch the editor.\n\n* \"git blame\" did not work well when commit lacked the author name.\n\n* \"git fast-import\" choked when handling a tag that points at an object\n  that is not a commit.\n\n* \"git reset --hard\" did not work correctly when GIT_WORK_TREE environment\n  variable is used to point at the root of the true work tree.\n\n* \"git grep\" fed a buffer that is not NUL-terminated to underlying\n  regexec().\n\n* \"git checkout -m other\" while on a branch that does not have any commit\n  segfaulted, instead of failing.\n\n* \"git branch -a other\" should have diagnosed the command as an error.\n\nOther minor documentation updates are also included.\n"}]}