# [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.8

1 messages from 2010-01-21 to 2010-01-21. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22316

## Junio C Hamano, 2010-01-21 00:50

Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.8
Message-ID: <7v3a20z3g6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v3a20z3g6.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org

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An maintenance release Git 1.6.5.8 is available at the usual places:

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

  git-1.6.5.8.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.5.8.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.5.8.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

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

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.5.8-1.fc11.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

Git v1.6.5.8 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.5.7
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* "git count-objects" did not handle packfiles that are bigger than 4G on
  platforms with 32-bit off_t.

* "git rebase -i" did not abort cleanly if it failed to launch the editor.

* "git blame" did not work well when commit lacked the author name.

* "git fast-import" choked when handling a tag that points at an object
  that is not a commit.

* "git reset --hard" did not work correctly when GIT_WORK_TREE environment
  variable is used to point at the root of the true work tree.

* "git grep" fed a buffer that is not NUL-terminated to underlying
  regexec().

* "git checkout -m other" while on a branch that does not have any commit
  segfaulted, instead of failing.

* "git branch -a other" should have diagnosed the command as an error.

Other minor documentation updates are also included.

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