[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.0-rc2

GIT 1.6.0-rc2 is the second (or should we call it the third?) preview of the upcoming release. It is available at the usual places:

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

  git-1.6.0-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.0-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.0-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

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

  testing/RPMS/$arch/*-1.6.0.rc2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

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Changes since v1.6.0-rc1 are as follows:

Abhijit Menon-Sen (7):
      `git submodule add` now requires a <path>
      Make it clear that push can take multiple refspecs
      Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSIS
      Git.pm: localise $? in command_close_bidi_pipe()
      Fix hash slice syntax error
      Fix typo in perl/Git.pm
      Fix typos in INSTALL

Alex Riesen (1):
      Make use of stat.ctime configurable

Alexander Gavrilov (9):
      git-gui: Fix the Remote menu separator.
      git-gui: Preserve scroll position on reshow_diff.
      Support copy and rename detection in fast-export.
      gitk: Kill back-end processes on window close
      gitk: Arrange to kill diff-files & diff-index on quit
      gitk: On Windows, use a Cygwin-specific flag for kill
      gitk: Fixed broken exception handling in diff
      gitk: Fixed automatic row selection during load
      gitk: Fallback to selecting the head commit upon load

Anders Melchiorsen (4):
      Advertise the ability to abort a commit
      Documentation: fix diff.external example
      Flush output in start_async
      Add output flushing before fork()

Avery Pennarun (2):
      Teach "git diff -p" Pascal/Delphi funcname pattern
      git-svn: Abort with an error if 'fetch' parameter is invalid.

Brandon Casey (3):
      t/t4202-log.sh: add newline at end of file
      Teach fsck and prune that tmp_obj_ file names may not be 14 bytes long
      perl/Makefile: handle paths with spaces in the NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER section

Brian Gernhardt (1):
      Documentation: Remove mentions of git-svnimport.

Cesar Eduardo Barros (1):
      Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: update for new git-describe output format

Christian Couder (2):
      merge-base: die with an error message if not passed a commit ref
      documentation: user-manual: update "using-bisect" section

Christian Stimming (2):
      git-gui: Update German translation
      gitk: Updated German translation

Ciaran McCreesh (1):
      Make git-add -i accept ranges like 7-

David D. Kilzer (1):
      Fix race condition in t9119-git-svn-info.sh

Dmitry Potapov (1):
      correct access right for git-svn-dcommit test

Eric Wong (2):
      git-svn: properly set path for "info" command
      t9119: conditionally re-enable test depending on svn(1) version

Giuseppe Bilotta (2):
      diff: add ruby funcname pattern
      diff: chapter and part in funcname for tex

Jeff King (3):
      init: handle empty "template" parameter
      Compact commit template message
      init: handle empty "template" parameter

Jim Meyering (1):
      git-cvsimport.perl: Print "UNKNOWN LINE..." on stderr, not stdout.

Johannes Schindelin (3):
      sort_in_topological_order(): avoid setting a commit flag
      clone: Add an option to set up a mirror
      clone --bare: Add ".git" suffix to the directory name to clone into

Johannes Sixt (1):
      git-gui: Adapt discovery of oguilib to execdir 'libexec/git-core'

Jon Jensen (1):
      Fix reference to Everyday Git, which is an HTML document and not a man page.

Jonathan Nieder (1):
      git-diff(1): "--c" -> "--cc" typo fix

Junio C Hamano (19):
      Allow building without any git installed
      Allow installing in the traditional way
      ls-tree documentation: enhance notes on subdirectory and pathspec behaviour
      Documentation: clarify what is shown in "git-ls-files -s" output
      t7001: fix "git mv" test
      Teach gitlinks to ie_modified() and ce_modified_check_fs()
      Fix merge name generation in "merge in C"
      Fix test-parse-options "integer" test
      Teach --find-copies-harder to "git blame"
      make sure parsed wildcard refspec ends with slash
      Documentation: clarify diff --cc
      Update my e-mail address
      Start 1.5.6.5 RelNotes to describe accumulated fixes
      builtin-name-rev.c: split deeply nested part from the main function
      RelNotes 1.5.6.5 updates
      fix diff-tree --stdin documentation
      Files given on the command line are relative to $cwd
      GIT 1.5.6.5
      GIT 1.6.0-rc2

Kevin Ballard (1):
      format-patch: Produce better output with --inline or --attach

Lee Marlow (11):
      bash completion: remove unused function _git_diff_tree
      bash completion: Add more long options for 'git log'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git grep'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git clone'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git clean'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git init'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git revert'
      bash completion: More completions for 'git stash'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git archive'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git ls-files'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git mv'

Linus Torvalds (1):
      diff.renamelimit is a basic diff configuration

Michele Ballabio (2):
      git-gui: update po/it.po
      git-gui: add a part about format strings in po/README

Mikael Magnusson (2):
      git-gui: Update swedish translation.
      gitk: Update swedish translation.

Mike Ralphson (2):
      Documentation: typos / spelling fixes in older RelNotes
      Documentation: typos / spelling fixes

Nanako Shiraishi (1):
      git-gui: update Japanese translation

Olivier Marin (1):
      builtin-verify-tag: fix -v option parsing

Pierre Habouzit (2):
      Allow "non-option" revision options in parse_option-enabled commands
      git-submodule: move ill placed shift.

Pieter de Bie (1):
      git-name-rev: allow --name-only in combination with --stdin

René Scharfe (2):
      archive: allow --exec and --remote without equal sign
      git-name-rev: don't use printf without format

Shawn O. Pearce (2):
      git-gui: Fix gitk search in $PATH to work on Windows
      git-gui: Update git-gui.pot for 0.11 nearing release

Steffen Prohaska (6):
      Refactor, adding prepare_git_cmd(const char **argv)
      run-command (Windows): Run dashless "git <cmd>"
      git-gui: Correct installation of library to be $prefix/share
      git-gui (Windows): Switch to relative discovery of oguilib
      git-gui (Windows): Change wrapper to execdir 'libexec/git-core'
      Modify mingw_main() workaround to avoid link errors

Stephan Beyer (1):
      builtin-revert.c: typofix

Steve Haslam (1):
      Propagate -u/--upload-pack option of "git clone" to transport.

Steven Grimm (1):
      Optimize sha1_object_info for loose objects, not concurrent repacks

Todd Zullinger (1):
      Replace uses of "git-var" with "git var"

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:31 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Quick question - where does one go to find out the cool new features that make it 1.6 and should convince me to upgrade and try this whicked new release?

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:

Draft release notes for 1.6.0 was posted to the list some time ago already, but as always:

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 03:00 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Thanks!

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:00:25 -0700

Just FYI, I have some issue with 1.6.x git when pulling remotely from it on sparc64. I suspect it is the usual unaligned access issue and I will debug it further soon.

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:26:48 -0700 (PDT)

As a followup this turned out to be the classic "PATH when doing GIT over SSH" problem.

I have to say this is very unfun to debug, and even less fun to "fix" even once you know this is the problem. And what's more I know this is the second time I've had to spend a night debugging this very problem.

I ended up having to make a ~/.ssh/environment file and then restart my SSH server with "PermitUserEnvironment yes" added to sshd_config.

But I can't believe this is what I have to do just to pull from a machine where I have GIT only installed in my home directory. What if I were just a normal user and couldn't change the SSHD config? What hoops would I need to jump through to get my PATH setup correctly? :)

It doesn't even work to put ~/bin into the PATH listed in the system wide /etc/environment, because that does not do tilde expansion, SSHD just takes it as-is.

Wouldn't it make sense to put the bindir into PATH when we try to do execv_git_cmd()? The code has already put the gitexecdir into the PATH at this point.

Thanks!

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 01:33:30 -0700, David Miller wrote:

I don't think it gets to execv_git_cmd(). Git on local side will run
    ssh <host> git upload-pack
and it's ssh that can't find git in ~/bin (or maybe it's still using the
dashed form for backward compatibility; the argument stands either way).

There are two possible solutions (besides the .ssh/environment one):
 1. Without hacking git: Use a separate key pair for git access and configure
    that key on the server with 'command="/home/you/bin/git-shell"' option in
    .ssh/authorized_keys. Git shell should run the command from exec-dir
    properly.
 2. Hack git to support some variable to set the remote command for ssh
    protocol.

From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:12:40 +0200

That's not the case I'm running into. The initial GIT execution works, it's when GIT forks up sub processes and tries to execute other things that problem show up.

I added tracing and on the ssh remote system, and my PATH had the GIT exec dir in my path when the problem triggers.