# [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.1

2 messages from 2010-01-21 to 2010-01-21. Participants: Junio C Hamano, tytso@mit.edu.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22317

## Junio C Hamano, 2010-01-21 00:51

Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.1
Message-ID: <7vpr54xote.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vpr54xote.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org

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The latest maintenance release Git 1.6.6.1 is available at the
usual places:

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

  git-1.6.6.1.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.6.1.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.6.1.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

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

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.6.1-1.fc11.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

Git v1.6.6.1 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.6
------------------

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

 * "git branch -a name" wasn't diagnosed as an error.

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

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

 * "git fast-import" choked when fed a tag that do not point at a
   commit.

 * "git grep" finding from work tree files could have fed garbage to
   the underlying regexec(3).

 * "git grep -L" didn't show empty files (they should never match, and
   they should always appear in -L output as unmatching).

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

 * "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.

 * http-backend was not listed in the command list in the documentation.

 * Building on FreeBSD (both 7 and 8) needs OLD_ICONV set in the Makefile

 * "git checkout -m some-branch" while on an unborn branch crashed.

Other minor documentation updates are included.

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## tytso@mit.edu, 2010-01-21 01:33

Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.6.1
Message-ID: <20100121013345.GC7657@thunk.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100121013345.GC7657%40thunk.org
In-Reply-To: <7vpr54xote.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:51:41PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The latest maintenance release Git 1.6.6.1 is available at the
> usual places:

Did you perhaps forget to push out the tags corresponding to 1.6.6.1
and 1.6.5.8?

Thanks,

						- Ted

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