[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3.5

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.3.5 is available at the usual places:

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

  git-1.5.3.5.tar.{gz,bz2}			(tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.5.3.5.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.5.3.5.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.3.5-1.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

There are many fixes including a handful bugs that led to segfaults.

---------------------------------------------------------------- GIT v1.5.3.5 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.5.3.4 --------------------

 * Comes with git-gui 0.8.4.

 * "git-config" silently ignored options after --list; now it will
   error out with a usage message.

 * "git-config --file" failed if the argument used a relative path
   as it changed directories before opening the file.

 * "git-config --file" now displays a proper error message if it
   cannot read the file specified on the command line.

 * "git-config", "git-diff", "git-apply" failed if run from a
   subdirectory with relative GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE set.

 * "git-blame" crashed if run during a merge conflict.

 * "git-add -i" did not handle single line hunks correctly.

 * "git-rebase -i" and "git-stash apply" failed if external diff
   drivers were used for one or more files in a commit.  They now
   avoid calling the external diff drivers.

 * "git-log --follow" did not work unless diff generation (e.g. -p)
   was also requested.

 * "git-log --follow -B" did not work at all.  Fixed.

 * "git-log -M -B" did not correctly handle cases of very large files
   being renamed and replaced by very small files in the same commit.

 * "git-log" printed extra newlines between commits when a diff
   was generated internally (e.g. -S or --follow) but not displayed.

 * "git-push" error message is more helpful when pushing to a
   repository with no matching refs and none specified.

 * "git-push" now respects + (force push) on wildcard refspecs,
   matching the behavior of git-fetch.

 * "git-filter-branch" now updates the working directory when it
   has finished filtering the current branch.

 * "git-instaweb" no longer fails on Mac OS X.

 * "git-cvsexportcommit" didn't always create new parent directories
   before trying to create new child directories.  Fixed.

 * "git-fetch" printed a scary (but bogus) error message while
   fetching a tag that pointed to a tree or blob.  The error did
   not impact correctness, only user perception.  The bogus error
   is no longer printed.

 * "git-ls-files --ignored" did not properly descend into non-ignored
   directories that themselves contained ignored files if d_type
   was not supported by the filesystem.  This bug impacted systems
   such as AFS.  Fixed.

 * Git segfaulted when reading an invalid .gitattributes file.  Fixed.

 * post-receive-email example hook fixed was fixed for
   non-fast-forward updates.

 * Documentation updates for supported (but previously undocumented)
   options of "git-archive" and "git-reflog".

 * "make clean" no longer deletes the configure script that ships
   with the git tarball, making multiple architecture builds easier.

 * "git-remote show origin" spewed a warning message from Perl
   when no remote is defined for the current branch via
   branch.<name>.remote configuration settings.

 * Building with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER excessively rebuilt contents
   of perl/ subdirectory by rewriting perl.mak.

 * http.sslVerify configuration settings were not used in scripted
   Porcelains.

 * "git-add" leaked a bit of memory while scanning for files to add.

 * A few workarounds to squelch false warnings from recent gcc have
   been added.

 * "git-send-pack $remote frotz" segfaulted when there is nothing
   named 'frotz' on the local end.

 * "git-rebase -interactive" did not handle its "--strategy" option
   properly.

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Changes since v1.5.3.4 are as follows:

Alex Bennee (1):
      Ensure we add directories in the correct order

Alex Riesen (1):
      Fix generation of perl/perl.mak

Andrew Clausen (1):
      helpful error message when send-pack finds no refs in common.

Aurelien Bompard (1):
      honor the http.sslVerify option in shell scripts

Benoit Sigoure (1):
      Fix a small memory leak in builtin-add

Bj旦rn Steinbrink (3):
      Fix --strategy parsing in git-rebase--interactive.sh
      git-rebase--interactive.sh: Don't pass a strategy to git-cherry-pick.
      git-rebase--interactive.sh: Make 3-way merge strategies work for -p.

Brian Gernhardt (1):
      cvsserver: Use exit 1 instead of die when req_Root fails.

Frank Lichtenheld (1):
      git-config: don't silently ignore options after --list

Gerrit Pape (2):
      git-config: handle --file option with relative pathname properly
      git-config: print error message if the config file cannot be read

Jean-Luc Herren (2):
      git add -i: Fix parsing of abbreviated hunk headers
      git add -i: Remove unused variables

Jeff King (1):
      send-pack: respect '+' on wildcard refspecs

Joakim Tjernlund (1):
      Improve receive-pack error message about funny ref creation

Johannes Schindelin (5):
      clear_commit_marks(): avoid deep recursion
      rebase -i: use diff plumbing instead of porcelain
      Fix setup_git_directory_gently() with relative GIT_DIR & GIT_WORK_TREE
      fix filter-branch documentation
      filter-branch: update current branch when rewritten

Julian Phillips (1):
      fast-import: Fix argument order to die in file_change_m

Junio C Hamano (8):
      git-remote: fix "Use of uninitialized value in string ne"
      sha1_file.c: avoid gcc signed overflow warnings
      merge-recursive.c: mrtree in merge() is not used before set
      RelNotes-1.5.3.5: describe recent fixes
      Prevent send-pack from segfaulting (backport from 'master')
      git-merge: document but discourage the historical syntax
      Update GIT 1.5.3.5 Release Notes
      GIT 1.5.3.5

Lars Hjemli (1):
      Make merge-recursive honor diff.renamelimit

Linus Torvalds (6):
      Fix embarrassing "git log --follow" bug
      Clean up "git log" format with DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT
      git-blame shouldn't crash if run in an unmerged tree
      Avoid scary errors about tagged trees/blobs during git-fetch
      Fix directory scanner to correctly ignore files without d_type
      Fix diffcore-break total breakage

Mathias Megyei (1):
      Do not remove distributed configure script

Michael W. Olson (1):
      Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt: s/mgs/msg/ in example

Michele Ballabio (2):
      git-reflog: document --verbose
      git-archive: document --exec

Nicolas Pitre (1):
      cherry-pick/revert: more compact user direction message

Patrick Welche (1):
      Define NI_MAXSERV if not defined by operating system

Ralf Wildenhues (1):
      gitk.txt: Fix markup.

Robert Schiele (1):
      fixing output of non-fast-forward output of post-receive-email

Sergei Organov (1):
      core-tutorial: Use new syntax for git-merge.

Shawn O. Pearce (17):
      git-gui: Display message box when we cannot find git in $PATH
      git-gui: Handle starting on mapped shares under Cygwin
      git-gui: Ensure .git/info/exclude is honored in Cygwin workdirs
      git-gui: Allow gitk to be started on Cygwin with native Tcl/Tk
      git-gui: Don't crash when starting gitk from a browser session
      Whip post 1.5.3.4 maintenance series into shape.
      Correct typos in release notes for 1.5.3.5
      Avoid 'expr index' on Mac OS X as it isn't supported
      Document additional 1.5.3.5 fixes in release notes
      Yet more 1.5.3.5 fixes mentioned in release notes
      Avoid invoking diff drivers during git-stash
      Further 1.5.3.5 fixes described in release notes
      Paper bag fix diff invocation in 'git stash show'
      git-gui: Correctly report failures from git-write-tree
      git-gui: Handle progress bars from newer gits
      git-gui: Don't display CR within console windows
      Describe more 1.5.3.5 fixes in release notes

Simon Sasburg (1):
      git-gui: Avoid using bold text in entire gui for some fonts

Steffen Prohaska (2):
      git-gui: accept versions containing text annotations, like 1.5.3.mingw.1
      attr: fix segfault in gitattributes parsing code

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.3.6 is available at the usual places:

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

  git-1.5.3.6.tar.{gz,bz2}			(tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.5.3.6.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.5.3.6.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.3.6-1.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

---------------------------------------------------------------- GIT v1.5.3.6 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.5.3.5 --------------------

 * git-cvsexportcommit handles root commits better.

 * git-svn dcommit used to clobber when sending a series of
   patches.

 * git-svn dcommit failed after attempting to rebase when
   started with a dirty index; now it stops upfront.

 * git-grep sometimes refused to work when your index was
   unmerged.

 * "git-grep -A1 -B2" acted as if it was told to run "git -A1 -B21".

 * git-hash-object did not honor configuration variables, such as
   core.compression.

 * git-index-pack choked on a huge pack on 32-bit machines, even when
   large file offsets are supported.

 * atom feeds from git-web said "10" for the month of November.

 * a memory leak in commit walker was plugged.

 * When git-send-email inserted the original author's From:
   address in body, it did not mark the message with
   Content-type: as needed.

 * git-revert and git-cherry-pick incorrectly refused to start
   when the work tree was dirty.

 * git-clean did not honor core.excludesfile configuration.

 * git-add mishandled ".gitignore" files when applying them to
   subdirectories.

 * While importing a too branchy history, git-fastimport did not
   honor delta depth limit properly.

 * Support for zlib implementations that lack ZLIB_VERNUM and definition
   of deflateBound() has been added.

 * Quite a lot of documentation clarifications.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since v1.5.3.5 are as follows:

Alex Riesen (1):
      stop t1400 hiding errors in tests

Ask Bjørn Hansen (1):
      When exec() fails include the failing command in the error message

Benoit Sigoure (2):
      git-send-email: Change the prompt for the subject of the initial message.
      git-svn: prevent dcommitting if the index is dirty.

Brad King (1):
      cvsexportcommit: fix for commits that do not have parents

Christian Couder (1):
      for-each-ref: fix off by one read.

David D Kilzer (2):
      RelNotes-1.5.3.5: fix typo
      RelNotes-1.5.3.5: fix another typo

David Symonds (1):
      Improve accuracy of check for presence of deflateBound.

Eric Wong (2):
      git-svn: fix dcommit clobbering when committing a series of diffs
      git-svn: t9114: verify merge commit message in test

Gerrit Pape (4):
      git-diff.txt: add section "output format" describing the diff formats
      git-cvsimport: really convert underscores in branch names to dots with -u
      git-daemon: fix remote port number in log entry
      git-mailsplit: with maildirs not only process cur/, but also new/

Jakub Narebski (1):
      gitweb: Update config file example for snapshot feature in gitweb/INSTALL

Jeff King (2):
      git-branch: remove mention of non-existent '-b' option
      git-send-email: add charset header if we add encoded 'From'

Jing Xue (1):
      replace reference to git-rm with git-reset in git-commit doc

Johannes Schindelin (1):
      Add Documentation/CodingGuidelines

Jonas Fonseca (3):
      Remove escaping of '|' in manpage option sections
      instaweb: Minor cleanups and fixes for potential problems
      Documentation: Fix man page breakage with DocBook XSL v1.72

Jonathan del Strother (1):
      Fixing path quoting in git-rebase

Junio C Hamano (12):
      grep with unmerged index
      refresh_index_quietly(): express "optional" nature of index writing better
      Makefile: add missing dependency on wt-status.h
      Start preparing for 1.5.3.6
      t/t3404: fix test for a bogus todo file.
      revert/cherry-pick: allow starting from dirty work tree.
      git-clean: honor core.excludesfile
      core.excludesfile clean-up
      Fix per-directory exclude handing for "git add"
      Update draft release notes for 1.5.3.6
      grep -An -Bm: fix invocation of external grep command
      GIT 1.5.3.6

Kristian Høgsberg (1):
      Remove unecessary hard-coding of EDITOR=':' VISUAL=':' in some test suites.

Marco Costalba (1):
      Remove a couple of duplicated include

Mike Hommey (1):
      Delay pager setup in git blame

Nicolas Pitre (3):
      print warning/error/fatal messages in one shot
      git-hash-object should honor config variables
      fix index-pack with packs >4GB containing deltas on 32-bit machines

Ralf Wildenhues (3):
      git-clone.txt: Improve --depth description.
      Avoid a few unportable, needlessly nested "...`...".
      Fix sed string regex escaping in module_name.

Sergei Organov (6):
      git-filter-branch.txt: fix a typo.
      git-format-patch.txt: fix explanation of an example.
      Documentation: quote commit messages consistently.
      SubmittingPatches: improve the 'Patch:' section of the checklist
      core-tutorial.txt: Fix argument mistake in an example.
      git-remote.txt: fix typo

Shawn O. Pearce (2):
      Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list
      Don't allow fast-import tree delta chains to exceed maximum depth

Vincent Zanotti (1):
      gitweb: correct month in date display for atom feeds

Wincent Colaiuta (2):
      Grammar fixes for gitattributes documentation
      Fix t9101 test failure caused by Subversion "auto-props"

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.3.7 is available at the usual places:

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

  git-1.5.3.7.tar.{gz,bz2}			(tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.5.3.7.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.5.3.7.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.3.7-1.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

What's cooking for upcoming feature release v1.5.4 has been stablizing, and hopefully this will be the last of v1.5.3 maintenance series.

By the way, if you are the package maintainer of git for a distro, or the editor of an OSS oriented publication, and if you would like a copy of release announcements, please let me know, so that I can add your e-mail address to Bcc: on future announcement mails. Sorry, but I cannot handle subscription requests from individuals.

---------------------------------------------------------------- GIT v1.5.3.7 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.5.3.6 --------------------

 * git-send-email added 8-bit contents to the payload without
   marking it as 8-bit in a CTE header.

 * "git-bundle create a.bndl HEAD" dereferenced the symref and
   did not record the ref as 'HEAD'; this prevented a bundle
   from being used as a normal source of git-clone.

 * The code to reject nonsense command line of the form
   "git-commit -a paths..." and "git-commit --interactive
   paths..." were broken.

 * Adding a signature that is not ASCII-only to an original
   commit that is ASCII-only would make the result non-ASCII.
   "git-format-patch -s" did not mark such a message correctly
   with MIME encoding header.

 * git-add sometimes did not mark the resulting index entry
   stat-clean.  This affected only cases when adding the
   contents with the same length as the previously staged
   contents, and the previous staging made the index entry
   "racily clean".

 * git-commit did not honor GIT_INDEX_FILE the user had in the
   environment.

 * When checking out a revision, git-checkout did not report where the
   updated HEAD is if you happened to have a file called HEAD in the
   work tree.

 * "git-rev-list --objects" mishandled a tree that points at a
   submodule.

 * "git cvsimport" was not ready for packed refs that "git gc" can
   produce and gave incorrect results.

 * Many scripted Porcelains were confused when you happened to have a
   file called "HEAD" in your work tree.

Also it contains updates to the user manual and documentation.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since v1.5.3.6 are as follows:

Björn Steinbrink (3):
      git-commit.sh: Fix usage checks regarding paths given when they do not make sense
      t7005-editor.sh: Don't invoke real vi when it is in GIT_EXEC_PATH
      git-commit: Add tests for invalid usage of -a/--interactive with paths

Brian Downing (2):
      config: correct core.loosecompression documentation
      config: clarify compression defaults

J. Bruce Fields (7):
      git-remote.txt: fix example url
      user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
      Documentation: Fix references to deprecated commands
      user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at start
      user-manual: failed push to public repository
      user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commits
      user-manual: recovering from corruption

Jan Hudec (1):
      Improve description of git-branch -d and -D in man page.

Jeff King (5):
      send-email: add transfer encoding header with content-type
      Add basic cvsimport tests
      cvsimport: use rev-parse to support packed refs
      cvsimport: miscellaneous packed-ref fixes
      cvsimport: fix usage of cvsimport.module

Johannes Schindelin (2):
      bundle create: keep symbolic refs' names instead of resolving them
      Replace the word 'update-cache' by 'update-index' everywhere

Johannes Sixt (1):
      t7003-filter-branch: Fix test of a failing --msg-filter.

Junio C Hamano (11):
      format-patch -s: add MIME encoding header if signer's name requires so
      test format-patch -s: make sure MIME content type is shown as needed
      ce_match_stat, run_diff_files: use symbolic constants for readability
      git-add: make the entry stat-clean after re-adding the same contents
      t2200: test more cases of "add -u"
      Make test scripts executable.
      Fix sample pre-commit hook
      git-checkout: describe detached head correctly
      scripts: do not get confused with HEAD in work tree
      Fix typo in t4008 test title
      GIT 1.5.3.7

Linus Torvalds (1):
      Fix rev-list when showing objects involving submodules

Matthieu Moy (1):
      Doc fix for git-reflog: mention @{...} syntax, and <ref> in synopsys.

Rémi Vanicat (1):
      Make GIT_INDEX_FILE apply to git-commit

Steffen Prohaska (1):
      user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."