Git 1.6.2.4Edit
Official release announcement
As posted to the Git mailing list:
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.2.4 is available at the
usual places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.6.2.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.2.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.6.2.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.2.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)
This contains bunch of fixes that have already been merged to the master
branch in preparation for 1.6.3.
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GIT v1.6.2.4 Release Notes
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Fixes since v1.6.2.3
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* The configuration parser had a buffer overflow while parsing an overlong
value.
* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref
during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient.
* "git-add -p" lacked a way to say "q"uit to refuse staging any hunks for
the remaining paths. You had to say "d" and then ^C.
* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
the named path; it now does.
* "git-fast-export" choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
* "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via
the --template= option.
* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
"abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).
* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
a criss-cross merge situation.
Many small documentation updates are included as well.
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Changes since v1.6.2.3 are as follows:
Björn Steinbrink (1):
tree_entry_interesting: a pathspec only matches at directory boundary
Clemens Buchacher (3):
add tests for merging with submodules
update cache for conflicting submodule entries
simplify output of conflicting merge
Erik Faye-Lund (4):
test-suite: adding a test for fast-export with tag variants
builtin-fast-export.c: turn error into warning
builtin-fast-export.c: fix crash on tagged trees
builtin-fast-export.c: handle nested tags
Frank Lichtenheld (1):
init: Do not segfault on big GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR environment variable
Jeff King (2):
doc/gitattributes: clarify location of config text
add-interactive: refactor mode hunk handling
Johan Herland (1):
Update docs on behaviour of 'core.sharedRepository' and 'git init --shared'
Johannes Schindelin (1):
Fix 'git checkout <submodule>' to update the index
Johannes Sixt (1):
t1301-shared-repo: fix forced modes test
Junio C Hamano (3):
match_tree_entry(): a pathspec only matches at directory boundaries
Describe fixes since 1.6.2.3
GIT 1.6.2.4
Junio Hamano (1):
Speed up reflog pruning of unreachable commits
Linus Torvalds (1):
Clean up reflog unreachability pruning decision
Markus Heidelberg (2):
doc/git-daemon: add missing arguments to options
doc/git-daemon: add missing arguments to max-connections option
Matthieu Moy (2):
git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt.
Update git-add.txt according to the new possibilities of 'git add -p'.
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
Makefile: remove {fetch,send}-pack from PROGRAMS as they are builtins
Paul Bolle (1):
imap-send: use correct configuration variable in documentation
Thomas Jarosch (1):
Fix buffer overflow in config parser
Ulrich Windl (1):
git-apply: fix option description