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[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.4

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 20, 2008, 00:56 UTC
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The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.6.4 is available at the usual places:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
  git-1.5.6.4.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.5.6.4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.5.6.4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also provided as courtesy.

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.6.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

GIT v1.5.6.4 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.5.6.3 --------------------

* Various commands could overflow its internal buffer on a platform
  with small PATH_MAX value in a repository that has contents with
  long pathnames.
* There wasn't a way to make --pretty=format:%<> specifiers to honor
  .mailmap name rewriting for authors and committers.  Now you can with
  %aN and %cN.
* Bash completion wasted too many cycles; this has been optimized to be
  usable again.
* Bash completion lost ref part when completing something like "git show
  pu:Makefile".
* "git-cvsserver" did not clean up its temporary working area after annotate
  request.
* "git-daemon" called syslog() from its signal handler, which was a
  no-no.
* "git-fetch" into an empty repository used to remind that the fetch will
   be huge by saying "no common commits", but this was an unnecessary
   noise; it is already known by the user anyway.
* "git-http-fetch" would have segfaulted when pack idx file retrieved
  from the other side was corrupt.
* "git-index-pack" used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain.
* "git-mailinfo" (hence "git-am") did not correctly handle in-body [PATCH]
  line to override the commit title taken from the mail Subject header.
* "git-rebase -i -p" lost parents that are not involved in the history
  being rewritten.
* "git-rm" lost track of where the index file was when GIT_DIR was
  specified as a relative path.
* "git-rev-list --quiet" was not quiet as advertised.
Contains other various documentation fixes.
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  1. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2008

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