{"thread":{"id":"22608","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.2","startedAt":"2010-02-10T23:41:11Z","lastAt":"2010-02-10T23:41:11Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"134200","messageId":"7vvde4veug.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"22608","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.2","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2010-02-10T23:41:11Z","receivedAt":"2010-02-10T23:41:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release Git 1.6.6.2 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.6.6.2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.6.6.2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.6.6.2.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.6.2-1.fc11.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nGit v1.6.6.2 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.6.6.1\n--------------------\n\n * recursive merge didn't correctly diagnose its own programming errors,\n   and instead caused the caller to segfault.\n\n * The new \"smart http\" aware clients probed the web servers to see if\n   they support smart http, but did not fall back to dumb http transport\n   correctly with some servers.\n\n * Time based reflog syntax e.g. \"@{yesterday}\" didn't diagnose a misspelled\n   time specification and instead assumed \"@{now}\".\n\n * \"git archive HEAD -- no-such-directory\" produced an empty archive\n   without complaining.\n\n * \"git blame -L start,end -- file\" misbehaved when given a start that is\n   larger than the number of lines in the file.\n\n * \"git checkout -m\" didn't correctly call custom merge backend supplied\n   by the end user.\n\n * \"git config -f <file>\" misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.\n\n * \"git cvsserver\" didn't like having regex metacharacters (e.g. '+') in\n   CVSROOT environment.\n\n * \"git fast-import\" did not correctly handle large blobs that may\n   bust the pack size limit.\n\n * \"git gui\" is supposed to work even when launched from inside a .git\n   directory.\n\n * \"git gui\" misbehaved when applying a hunk that ends with deletion.\n\n * \"git imap-send\" did not honor imap.preformattedHTML as documented.\n\n * \"git log\" family incorrectly showed the commit notes unconditionally by\n   mistake, which was especially irritating when running \"git log --oneline\".\n\n * \"git status\" shouldn't require an write access to the repository.\n\nOther minor documentation updates are included.\n"}]}