Git 1.6.5.4 Edit

Created 12/3/2009, updated 5/18/2017
From the official announcement posted to the Git mailing list:
The latest maintenance release Git 1.6.5.4 is available at the
usual places:

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

 git-1.6.5.4.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
 git-htmldocs-1.6.5.4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
 git-manpages-1.6.5.4.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

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

 RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.5.4-1.fc11.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

Contains some minor fixes that have been accumulated; all of them
appear in the upcoming 1.6.6 release as well.

This should fix the problem that man pages formatted on FC11 boxes are
littered with "man.base.url.for.relative.link" strings reported earlier
today.

Git v1.6.5.4 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.5.3
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* "git help" (without argument) used to check if you are in a directory
  under git control. There was no breakage in behaviour per-se, but this
  was unnecessary.

* "git prune-packed" gave progress output even when its standard error is
  not connected to a terminal; this caused cron jobs that run it to
  produce crufts.

* "git pack-objects --all-progress" is an option to ask progress output
  from write-object phase _if_ progress output were to be produced, and
  shouldn't have forced the progress output.

* "git apply -p<n> --directory=<elsewhere>" did not work well for a
  non-default value of n.

* "git merge foo HEAD" was misparsed as an old-style invocation of the
  command and produced a confusing error message.  As it does not specify
  any other branch to merge, it shouldn't be mistaken as such.  We will
  remove the old style "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>..."  syntax in
  future versions, but not in this release,

* "git merge -m <message> <branch>..." added the standard merge message
  on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overrided the
  standard one.

Other minor documentation updates are included.

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Changes since v1.6.5.3 are as follows:

David Aguilar (1):
     help: Do not unnecessarily look for a repository

David Soria Parra (1):
     Documentation: Document --branch option in git clone synopsis

Greg Price (1):
     Documentation: undocument gc'd function graph_release()

Jeff King (1):
     prune-packed: only show progress when stderr is a tty

Junio C Hamano (7):
     builtin-apply.c: pay attention to -p<n> when determining the name
     Do not misidentify "git merge foo HEAD" as an old-style invocation
     merge: do not add standard message when message is given with -m option
     Prepare for 1.6.5.4
     Documentation/Makefile: allow man.base.url.for.relative.link to be set from Make
     Unconditionally set man.base.url.for.relative.links
     Git 1.6.5.4

Michael J Gruber (1):
     Documentation: Fix a few i.e./e.g. mix-ups

Nicolas Pitre (1):
     pack-objects: split implications of --all-progress from progress activation

Stephen Boyd (1):
     instaweb: restart server if already running
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