[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.3.rc4

A release candidate GIT 1.6.3.rc4 is available at the usual places for testing:

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

  git-1.6.3.rc4.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.3.rc4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.3.rc4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

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

  testing/git-*-1.6.3.rc4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

This is hopefully the final rc before the real thing; it includes the updates to git-gui and gitk.

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Changes since v1.6.3-rc3 are as follows:

Alex Riesen (3):
      git-gui: Update Russian translation
      improve error message in config.c
      gitk: Add Russian translation

Alexander Gavrilov (3):
      git-gui: Fix post-commit status with subject in non-locale encoding
      git-gui: Avoid an infinite rescan loop in handle_empty_diff.
      git-gui: Support more git version notations.

Allan Caffee (2):
      builtin-merge: fix a typo in an error message
      Documentation: fix a grammatical error in api-builtin.txt

Benjamin Kramer (1):
      daemon.c: fix segfault on OS X

Christian Stimming (1):
      gitk: Mark forgotten string for translation

Daniel A. Steffen (2):
      gitk: Fixes for Mac OS X TkAqua
      git-gui: Fixes for Mac OS X TkAqua

Eric Blake (2):
      Makefile: installing git in cygwin 1.7.0
      doc: consistently use ASCIIDOC_EXTRA

Felipe Contreras (2):
      git config: error when editing a repo config and not being in one
      Fix a bunch of pointer declarations (codestyle)

Ferry Huberts (1):
      git-gui: Ensure consistent usage of mergetool.keepBackup

Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
      gitk: Provide a window icon if possible

Jeff King (1):
      Makefile: fix NO_PERL bug with gitweb

Jens Lehmann (4):
      git-gui: Fix merge conflict display error when filename contains spaces
      git-gui: When calling post-commit hook wrong variable was cleared.
      git-gui: run post-checkout hook on checkout
      git-gui: run post-checkout hook after clone

Joerg Bornemann (1):
      git-gui: fix use of undeclared variable diff_empty_count

Johannes Schindelin (2):
      t5701: do not get stuck in empty-push/
      Rename core.unreliableHardlinks to core.createObject

Johannes Sixt (1):
      prune-packed: advanced progress even for non-existing fan-out directories

Junio C Hamano (3):
      diff -c -p: do not die on submodules
      merge-recursive: do not die on a conflicting submodule
      GIT 1.6.3-rc4

Linus Torvalds (1):
      grep: fix segfault when "git grep '('" is given

Mark Drago (1):
      Add semicolon to curly brace group in main Makefile

Markus Heidelberg (5):
      git-gui: don't hide the Browse button when resizing the repo chooser
      git-gui: fix deleting from the context menu with empty selection
      git-gui: use `git --html-path` to get the location of installed HTML docs
      git-gui (Win): make "Explore Working Copy" more robust
      git-gui (Win): make starting via "Git GUI Here" on .git/ possible

Michele Ballabio (2):
      gitk: Mark some more strings for translation
      gitk: Map KP_Divide to focus the search box

Pat Thoyts (4):
      gitk: Handle blobs containing a DOS end-of-file marker
      gitk: Remember and restore the window state with the geometry
      gitk: Handle external diff tool with spaces in the path
      gitk: Avoid crash if closed while reading references

Patrick Welche (1):
      NetBSD compilation fix

Paul Mackerras (4):
      gitk: Add a way to mark a commit, plus a "find descendant" command
      gitk: Add a command to compare two strings of commits
      gitk: Make .gitk a hidden file under windows
      gitk: Fix compare-commits function when we have local changes

Phil Lawrence (1):
      Append ampersand to "Target" of lnk files created by do_cygwin_shortcut

René Scharfe (1):
      ctype.c: fix typo in comment

Sam Hocevar (2):
      git-gui: various French translation fixes
      git-gui: minor spelling fix and string factorisation.

Sam Vilain (1):
      SubmittingPatches: itemize and reflect upon well written changes

Stephen Boyd (1):
      gitk: Provide a 32x32 window icon based on the git logo

Uwe Kleine-König (1):
      parseopt: fix documentation for --keep-dashdash