{"thread":{"id":"5943","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.4.2.4","startedAt":"2006-10-17T05:31:56Z","lastAt":"2006-10-17T05:31:56Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"28909","messageId":"7vvemjqzhv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"5943","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.4.2.4","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junkio@cox.net","sentAt":"2006-10-17T05:31:56Z","receivedAt":"2006-10-17T05:31:56Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release GIT 1.4.2.4 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.4.2.4.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.4.2.4.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.4.2.4.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.4.2.4-1.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nWe are close to 1.4.3, so this update coulc become moot very\nsoon, but just in case we have to delay it, I am pushing this\nout for a rather important performance fix.  Without it, \"git\ndiff\" on 64-bit machines can run 100x times slower than it\nshould be on unfortunate input.\n\nMany thanks go to Jim Mayering for giving an easy to reproduce\ninitial problem report, and Linus and Davide Libenzi to quickly\ncome up with a fix.\n\nUnfortunately I do not have access to any RPM capable machine\nother than an x86-64 right now hence there is no RPM for x86-32\nfor this release yet (but 32-bit machines do not need this fix\nto begin with, so it's Ok).\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThere is only one change since v1.4.2.3.\n\nLinus Torvalds:\n      Fix hash function in xdiff library\n"}]}