{"thread":{"id":"8232","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.1.6","startedAt":"2007-05-20T09:08:39Z","lastAt":"2007-05-20T09:45:52Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Thomas Glanzmann"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"42675","messageId":"7vtzu7q2ug.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"8232","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.1.6","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junkio@cox.net","sentAt":"2007-05-20T09:08:39Z","receivedAt":"2007-05-20T09:08:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.1.6 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.5.1.6.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.5.1.6.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.5.1.6.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.1.6-1.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nThe release notes are relative to 1.5.1.4, as 1.5.1.5 was very\nshort-lived.\n\nGIT v1.5.1.6 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.5.1.4\n--------------------\n\n* Bugfixes\n\n  - git-send-email did not understand aliases file for mutt, which\n    allows leading whitespaces.\n\n  - git-format-patch emitted Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding\n    headers for non ASCII contents, but failed to add MIME-Version.\n\n  - git-name-rev had a buffer overrun with a deep history.\n\n  - contributed script import-tars did not get the directory in\n    tar archives interpreted correctly.\n\n  - git-svn was reported to segfault for many people on list and\n    #git; hopefully this has been fixed.\n\n  - git-svn also had a bug to crash svnserve by sending a bad\n    sequence of requests.\n\n  - \"git-svn clone\" does not try to minimize the URL\n    (i.e. connect to higher level hierarchy) by default, as this\n    can prevent clone to fail if only part of the repository\n    (e.g. 'trunk') is open to public.\n\n  - \"git checkout branch^0\" did not detach the head when you are\n    already on 'branch'; backported the fix from the 'master'.\n\n  - \"git-config section.var\" did not correctly work when\n    existing configuration file had both [section] and [section \"name\"]\n    next to each other.\n\n  - \"git clone ../other-directory\" was fooled if the current\n    directory $PWD points at is a symbolic link.\n\n  - (build) tree_entry_extract() function was both static inline\n    and extern, which caused trouble compiling with Forte12\n    compilers on Sun.\n\n  - Many many documentation fixes and updates.\n\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.5.1.4 are as follows:\n\nAlex Riesen (1):\n      Allow fetching references from any namespace\n\nAndy Whitcroft (1):\n      git name-rev writes beyond the end of malloc() with large generations\n\nEric Wong (6):\n      git-svn: don't drop the username from URLs when dcommit is run\n      git-svn: clean up caching of SVN::Ra functions\n      git-svn: fix segfaults due to initial SVN pool being cleared\n      git-svn: don't attempt to minimize URLs by default\n      git-svn: avoid crashing svnserve when creating new directories\n      git-svn: don't minimize-url when doing an init that tracks multiple paths\n\nFrank Lichtenheld (3):\n      builtin-log.c: Fix typo in comment\n      Documentation: format-patch has no --mbox option\n      git-am: Clean up the asciidoc documentation\n\nJ. Bruce Fields (14):\n      user-manual: revise birdseye-view chapter\n      glossary: expand and clarify some definitions, prune cross-references\n      user-manual: move quick-start to an appendix\n      Documentation: remove howto's now incorporated into manual\n      user-manual: move howto/make-dist.txt into user manual\n      user-manual: move howto/using-topic-branches into manual\n      user-manual: add a \"counting commits\" example\n      user-manual: introduce git\n      user-manual: listing commits reachable from some refs not others\n      user-manual: reorganize public git repo discussion\n      tutorials: add user-manual links\n      tutorial: revise index introduction\n      user-manual: discourage shared repository\n      user-manual: finding commits referencing given file content\n\nJakub Narebski (1):\n      gitweb: Add a few comments about %feature hash\n\nJan Hudec (1):\n      Updated documentation of hooks in git-receive-pack.\n\nJari Aalto (1):\n      SPECIFYING RANGES typo fix: it it => it is\n\nJeff King (1):\n      format-patch: add MIME-Version header when we add content-type.\n\nJohan Herland (1):\n      user-manual: Add section on ignoring files\n\nJohannes Schindelin (2):\n      import-tars: Use the \"Link indicator\" to identify directories\n      Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual\n\nJunio C Hamano (8):\n      git-clone: don't get fooled by $PWD\n      .mailmap: add some aliases\n      checkout: allow detaching to HEAD even when switching to the tip of a branch\n      git-config: do not forget seeing \"a.b.var\" means we are out of \"a.var\" section.\n      Fix git-clone buglet for remote case.\n      Prepare for 1.5.1.5 Release Notes\n      GIT v1.5.1.5\n      GIT 1.5.1.6\n\nMarco Costalba (1):\n      Fix an unmatched comment end in arm/sha1_arm.S\n\nMatthias Kestenholz (2):\n      Documentation: Added [verse] to SYNOPSIS where necessary\n      Documentation: Reformatted SYNOPSIS for several commands\n\nMatthieu Castet (1):\n      Remove stale non-static-inline prototype for tree_entry_extract()\n\nMichael Hendricks (2):\n      git-send-email: allow leading white space on mutt aliases\n      Document core.excludesfile for git-add\n\nPetr Baudis (1):\n      Documentation: git-rev-list's \"patterns\"\n\nQuy Tonthat (2):\n      RPM spec: include files in technical/ to package.\n      Documentation/branch: fix small typo in -D example\n\nRichard P. Curnow (2):\n      Fix documentation of tag in git-fast-import.txt\n      Fix documentation of tag in git-fast-import.txt\n\nShawn O. Pearce (1):\n      Properly handle '0' filenames in import-tars\n\nSteffen Prohaska (3):\n      tiny fix in documentation of git-clone\n      git-config: test for 'do not forget \"a.b.var\" ends \"a.var\" section'.\n      Fixed link in user-manual\n"},{"id":"42679","messageId":"20070520094552.GC5015@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de","threadId":"8232","inReplyTo":"7vtzu7q2ug.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.1.6","fromName":"Thomas Glanzmann","fromEmail":"thomas@glanzmann.de","sentAt":"2007-05-20T09:45:52Z","receivedAt":"2007-05-20T09:45:52Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"thomas@glanzmann.de","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\n> The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.1.6 is available\n\njust to give some postive feedback, too. This one builds for me\nperfectly on Solaris 10 and Forte 12 with exactly the same make call.\n\n        Thomas\n"}]}