[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.3.4

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.3.4 is available at the usual places:

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

  git-1.6.3.4.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.3.4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.3.4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

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

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.3.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

This is primarily to flush accumulated fixes on the 'maint' branch before going forward with 1.6.4 series.

GIT v1.6.3.4 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.6.3.3 --------------------

 * "git add --no-ignore-errors" did not override configured
   add.ignore-errors configuration.

 * "git apply --whitespace=fix" did not fix trailing whitespace on an
   incomplete line.

 * "git branch" opened too many commit objects unnecessarily.

 * "git checkout -f $commit" with a path that is a file (or a symlink) in
   the work tree to a commit that has a directory at the path issued an
   unnecessary error message.

 * "git diff -c/--cc" was very inefficient in coalescing the removed lines
   shared between parents.

 * "git diff -c/--cc" showed removed lines at the beginning of a file
   incorrectly.

 * "git remote show nickname" did not honor configured
   remote.nickname.uploadpack when inspecting the branches at the remote.

 * "git request-pull" when talking to the terminal for a preview
   showed some of the output in the pager.

 * "git request-pull start nickname [end]" did not honor configured
   remote.nickname.uploadpack when it ran git-ls-remote against the remote
   repository to learn the current tip of branches.

Includes other documentation updates and minor fixes.

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Changes since v1.6.3.3 are as follows:

Brandon Casey (2):
      refs.c: release file descriptor on error return
      sha1_name.c: avoid unnecessary strbuf_release

Chris Frey (1):
      git-remote: fix missing .uploadpack usage for show command

Clemens Buchacher (1):
      fetch: do not create ref from empty name

Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
      gitweb/README: fix AliasMatch in example

Johannes Sixt (2):
      t3700-add: add a POSIXPERM prerequisite to a new test
      Makefile: git.o depends on library headers

Junio C Hamano (9):
      request-pull: really disable pager
      checkout -f: deal with a D/F conflict entry correctly
      combine-diff.c: fix performance problem when folding common deleted lines
      diff --cc: a lost line at the beginning of the file is shown incorrectly
      do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref
      SunOS grep does not understand -C<n> nor -e
      Fix severe breakage in "git-apply --whitespace=fix"
      t8005: Nobody writes Russian in shift_jis
      GIT 1.6.3.4

Linus Torvalds (3):
      git branch: fix performance problem
      git branch: avoid unnecessary object lookups
      git branch: clean up detached branch handling

Matthias Andree (1):
      Fix export_marks() error handling.

Michal Marek (1):
      request-pull: really really disable pager

Miklos Vajna (1):
      git-submodule documentation: fix foreach example

René Scharfe (1):
      attr: plug minor memory leak

Roel Kluin (1):
      fread does not return negative on error

SZEDER Gábor (1):
      Trailing whitespace and no newline fix

Sitaram Chamarty (1):
      Documentation: update description of shell aliases

Stephen Boyd (2):
      add: allow configurations to be overriden by command line
      config.txt: document add.ignore-errors

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1):
      Makes some cleanup/review in gittutorial

Thomas Rast (2):
      Test git archive --remote
      Test grep --and/--or/--not

Tom Grennan (1):
      request-pull: allow ls-remote to notice remote.$nickname.uploadpack