[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1-rc3

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 15, 2008, 08:32 UTC
Message-ID: <7voczdyh23.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpvnbcoa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

I have fixed a few more smallish (old) bugs after I tagged this, which will be in 'master' shortly, but it seems that this cycle is stabilizing fairly nicely. Let's have a successful 1.6.1 tagged on 20th. Please hunt and fix bugs until then.

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

  git-1.6.1-rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.1-rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.1-rc3.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also there.

  testing/git-*-1.6.1-rc3-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

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Changes since v1.6.1-rc2 are as follows:

Alexander Gavrilov (1):
      Documentation: Describe git-gui Tools menu configuration options.

Alexander Potashev (2):
      Fix typos in documentation
      Fix typo in comment in builtin-add.c

Alexey Borzenkov (1):
      Define linkgit macro in [macros] section

Brandon Casey (1):
      git-branch: display sha1 on branch deletion

Deskin Miller (1):
      git-svn: Make following parents atomic

Jakub Narebski (1):
      gitweb: Fix bug in insert_file() subroutine

Jeff King (5):
      reorder ALLOW_TEXTCONV option setting
      diff: allow turning on textconv explicitly for plumbing
      diff: fix handling of binary rewrite diffs
      diff: respect textconv in rewrite diffs
      rebase: improve error messages about dirty state

Jim Meyering (1):
      git-config.txt: fix a typo

Johannes Schindelin (1):
      Get rid of the last remnants of GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL

Junio C Hamano (4):
      builtin-checkout.c: check error return from read_cache()
      read-cache.c: typofix in comment
      work around Python warnings from AsciiDoc
      Fix t4031

Linus Torvalds (1):
      fsck: reduce stack footprint

Markus Heidelberg (1):
      builtin-commit: remove unused message variable

Nicolas Pitre (1):
      make sure packs to be replaced are closed beforehand

Ralf Wildenhues (1):
      Improve language in git-merge.txt and related docs

Tor Arvid Lund (1):
      git-p4: Fix regression in p4Where method.

YONETANI Tomokazu (1):
      git-fast-import possible memory corruption problem