# GIT v0.99.4

2 messages from 2005-08-10 to 2005-08-12. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1469

## Junio C Hamano, 2005-08-10 23:02

Subject: GIT v0.99.4
Message-ID: <7v64udqtt0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v64udqtt0.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

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Thanks a lot to everybody who sent in usability enhancements and
bugfixes.

Updates since v0.99.3:

- HTTP transport can pull from a packed repository.
- RPM and Debian packages are hopefully usable out of the box.
- Read-only operations on read-only repository should work better.
- Commit and tag takes the message from the command line with -m.
- Shortlog does not show things in reverse anymore.
- Many commands now natively know SHA1 expressions (e.g. HEAD^^2).
- Push can update remote refs that have different names from local.
- Comes with the latest gitk.
- A new command "git revert"
- A bulk e-mailer (not installed by default).
- Hopefully less leaky and less buggy.

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## Junio C Hamano, 2005-08-12 10:28

Subject: [Announce] GIT v0.99.4
Message-ID: <7vzmrn1mau.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vzmrn1mau.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <7v64udqtt0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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In http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/, I have placed
the following binary packages:

   git-core-0.99.4.tar.gz
   git-core-0.99.4-1.i386.rpm
   git-core-0.99.4-1.src.rpm
   git-core-debuginfo-0.99.4-1.i386.rpm
   debian/git-core_0.99.4-2.dsc
   debian/git-core_0.99.4-2.tar.gz
   debian/git-core_0.99.4-2_i386.deb
        
Are people interested in seeing these binary packages?  How
about binary packages for platforms other than i386?

If yes, I would need some help generating them.  Before anybody
asks, no, I am not planning to do binary package every time I
push to the "master" branch --- I am only talking about tagged
releases.

On the other hand, if there are not much demand for them, I
would stop bothering.  I am hoping that I could just stop
generating binary packages once major distributions pick up
git-core themselves, so this is an interim request, but
presumably people who volunteer would be the perfect candidates
for the port maintainers for those distributions.

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