[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.3.2
Junio C Hamano
gitster at pobox.com
Wed Aug 31 22:00:34 BST 2011
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.3.2 is available at the
usual places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.6.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.6.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.3.2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)
GIT v1.6.3.2 Release Notes
==========================
Fixes since v1.6.3.1
--------------------
* A few codepaths picked up the first few bytes from an sha1[] by
casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this,
and aborted compilation.
* Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed.
* The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete
conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base.
* The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of
merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor
gracefully. It should produce the file itself, but instead
produced an empty result.
* GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases.
* OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim".
* With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to
create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and
$(bindir)/git.
* command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are
in a bare repository.
* "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not
match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful. We
silently make it a no-op now.
* "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when
the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and
both halves are marked to be used.
* "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file
from a directory with some files in it.
* "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
created by an ancient git.
* "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered
configuration was set.
* "git grep --color ''" did not terminate. The command also had
subtle bugs with its -w option.
* http-push had a small use-after-free bug.
* "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less
efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer,
making the transferred data unnecessarily larger.
* "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty.
Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages
and documentation are included as well.
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Changes since v1.6.3.1 are as follows:
Alex Riesen (7):
Introduce an unlink(2) wrapper which gives warning if unlink failed
replace direct calls to unlink(2) with unlink_or_warn
print unlink(2) errno in copy_or_link_directory
Clarify kind of conflict in merge-one-file helper
ls-tree manpage: use "unless" instead of "when ... is not"
ls-tree manpage: output of ls-tree is compatible with update-index
http-push.c::remove_locks(): fix use after free
Charles Bailey (2):
t6023: merge-file fails to output anything for a degenerate merge
Change xdl_merge to generate output even for null merges
Clemens Buchacher (1):
fix segfault showing an empty remote
Dan McGee (1):
Fix type-punning issues
Daniel Cordero (1):
builtin-checkout: Don't tell user that HEAD has moved before it has
Dave Olszewski (1):
merge-recursive: never leave index unmerged while recursing
Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
completion: use git rev-parse to detect bare repos
Jeff King (6):
fix GIT_TRACE segfault with shell-quoted aliases
add: don't complain when adding empty project root
for-each-ref: fix segfault in copy_email
lock_ref: inform callers of unavailable ref
fetch: report ref storage DF errors more accurately
fix cat-file usage message and documentation
Jim Meyering (2):
format-patch let -k override a config-specified format.numbered
pre-commit.sample: don't print incidental SHA1
Johannes Schindelin (2):
Add NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS support to the Makefile
Cope better with a _lot_ of packs
Johannes Sixt (1):
t3701: ensure correctly set up repository after skipped tests
Junio C Hamano (8):
Revert "git-add--interactive: remove hunk coalescing"
completion: fix PS1 display during a merge on detached HEAD
completion: simplify "current branch" in __git_ps1()
completion: enhance "current branch" display
Prepare for 1.6.3.2
Update draft release notes for 1.6.3.2
blame: correctly handle a path that used to be a directory
GIT 1.6.3.2
Linus Torvalds (3):
Avoid unnecessary 'lstat()' calls in 'get_stat_data()'
Teach 'git checkout' to preload the index contents
dir.c: clean up handling of 'path' parameter in read_directory_recursive()
Matt Graham (1):
Splitting a hunk that adds a line at the top fails in "add -p"
Michael J Gruber (1):
merge-options.txt: Clarify merge --squash
Nanako Shiraishi (1):
test: checkout shouldn't say that HEAD has moved if it didn't
Nicolas Pitre (1):
allow OFS_DELTA objects during a push
René Scharfe (4):
grep: fix word-regexp colouring
grep: fix word-regexp at the beginning of lines
grep: fix colouring of matches with zero length
grep: fix empty word-regexp matches
Stephen Boyd (6):
api-parse-options.txt: use 'func' instead of 'funct'
tests: Add tests for missing format-patch long options
completion: add missing options to show-branch and show
show-branch: Fix die message in parse_reflog_param()
commit: -F overrides -t
apply, fmt-merge-msg: use relative filenames
Thomas Rast (2):
Documentation: teach stash/pop workflow instead of stash/apply
add -i: do not dump patch during application
Tony Kemp (1):
Turn on USE_ST_TIMESPEC for OpenBSD
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