[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.3
- From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Sep 13, 2009, 10:12 UTC
- Message-ID
- <7v1vmbw3v1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.4.3 is available at the usual places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.6.4.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.4.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.6.4.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.4.3-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)
GIT v1.6.4.3 Release Notes ==========================
Fixes since v1.6.4.2 --------------------
* "git clone" from an empty repository gave unnecessary error message, even though it did everything else correctly.
* "git cvsserver" invoked git commands via "git-foo" style, which has long been deprecated.
* "git fetch" and "git clone" had an extra sanity check to verify the presense of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx file by issuing a HEAD request. Github server however sometimes gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD even if a GET request for *.pack file to the same URL would have succeeded, and broke clone over HTTP from some of their repositories. As a workaround, this verification has been removed (as it is not absolutely necessary).
* "git grep" did not like relative pathname to refer outside the current directory when run from a subdirectory.
* an error message from "git push" was formatted in a very ugly way.
* "git svn" did not quote the subversion user name correctly when running its author-prog helper program.
Other minor documentation updates are included.