[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.2.4

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.2.4 is available at the usual places:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

  git-1.6.2.4.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.2.4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.2.4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.2.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

This contains bunch of fixes that have already been merged to the master branch in preparation for 1.6.3.

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GIT v1.6.2.4 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.6.2.3 --------------------

* The configuration parser had a buffer overflow while parsing an overlong
  value.

* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref
  during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient.

* "git-add -p" lacked a way to say "q"uit to refuse staging any hunks for
  the remaining paths.  You had to say "d" and then ^C.

* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
  the named path; it now does.

* "git-fast-export" choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.

* "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via
  the --template= option.

* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
  deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
  individual paths correctly.  This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
  "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
  and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).

* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
  a criss-cross merge situation.

Many small documentation updates are included as well.

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Changes since v1.6.2.3 are as follows:

Björn Steinbrink (1):
      tree_entry_interesting: a pathspec only matches at directory boundary

Clemens Buchacher (3):
      add tests for merging with submodules
      update cache for conflicting submodule entries
      simplify output of conflicting merge

Erik Faye-Lund (4):
      test-suite: adding a test for fast-export with tag variants
      builtin-fast-export.c: turn error into warning
      builtin-fast-export.c: fix crash on tagged trees
      builtin-fast-export.c: handle nested tags

Frank Lichtenheld (1):
      init: Do not segfault on big GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR environment variable

Jeff King (2):
      doc/gitattributes: clarify location of config text
      add-interactive: refactor mode hunk handling

Johan Herland (1):
      Update docs on behaviour of 'core.sharedRepository' and 'git init --shared'

Johannes Schindelin (1):
      Fix 'git checkout <submodule>' to update the index

Johannes Sixt (1):
      t1301-shared-repo: fix forced modes test

Junio C Hamano (3):
      match_tree_entry(): a pathspec only matches at directory boundaries
      Describe fixes since 1.6.2.3
      GIT 1.6.2.4

Junio Hamano (1):
      Speed up reflog pruning of unreachable commits

Linus Torvalds (1):
      Clean up reflog unreachability pruning decision

Markus Heidelberg (2):
      doc/git-daemon: add missing arguments to options
      doc/git-daemon: add missing arguments to max-connections option

Matthieu Moy (2):
      git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt.
      Update git-add.txt according to the new possibilities of 'git add -p'.

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
      Makefile: remove {fetch,send}-pack from PROGRAMS as they are builtins

Paul Bolle (1):
      imap-send: use correct configuration variable in documentation

Thomas Jarosch (1):
      Fix buffer overflow in config parser

Ulrich Windl (1):
      git-apply: fix option description