# [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.2.1

1 messages from 2009-03-16 to 2009-03-16. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18318

## Junio C Hamano, 2009-03-16 04:52

Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.2.1
Message-ID: <7vwsaqysqh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vwsaqysqh.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org

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The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.2.1 is available at the
usual places:

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

  git-1.6.2.1.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.2.1.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.2.1.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

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

  RPMS//git-*-1.6.2.1-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

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GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v1.6.2
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* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for
  comment introduction character "#".

* timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that
  are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months
  ago", and "N years ago".

* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames.

* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the
  correct .git directory.

* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses.

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