A release candidate Git 1.6.6.rc2 is available at the usual places for testing: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.6.rc2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.6.rc2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.6.rc2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: testing/git-*-1.6.6.rc2-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM) The changes since rc1 are mostly updates to the subsystems. The regression to "git pull" that made the command give annoying warning message when there is no local commit has been fixed; it appeared in rc1. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.6.6-rc1 are as follows: Alex Vandiver (3): git-svn: sort svk merge tickets to account for minimal parents git-svn: Set svn.authorsfile to an absolute path when cloning git-svn: set svn.authorsfile earlier when cloning Alexander Gavrilov (1): git-gui: Increase blame viewer usability on MacOS. Bernt Hansen (1): gitk: Skip translation of "wrong Tcl version" message Brandon Casey (2): t4201: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1 t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-' Clemens Buchacher (1): git-gui: search 4 directories to improve statistic of gc hint Eric Wong (1): git svn: log removals of empty directories Greg Price (1): git svn: Don't create empty directories whose parents were deleted Guillermo S. Romero (1): gitk: Add configuration for UI colour scheme Heiko Voigt (1): git gui: make current branch default in "remote delete branch" merge check Jakub Narebski (1): gitweb: Describe (possible) gitweb.js minification in gitweb/README Jan Krüger (1): pull: clarify advice for the unconfigured error case Jeff King (3): rerere: don't segfault on failure to open rr-cache reset: improve worktree safety valves add-interactive: fix deletion of non-empty files Jens Lehmann (2): gitk: Fix diffing committed -> staged (typo in diffcmd) gitk: Use the --submodule option for displaying diffs when available Jindrich Makovicka (1): git-gui: suppress RenderBadPicture X error caused by Tk bug Johan Herland (1): Fix crasher on encountering SHA1-like non-note in notes tree Junio C Hamano (9): 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 Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam Prepare for 1.6.5.5 Git 1.6.5.5 Revert recent "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..." deprecation Update draft release notes to 1.6.6 before -rc2 Git 1.6.6-rc2 Linus Torvalds (1): Fix diff -B/--dirstat miscounting of newly added contents Markus Heidelberg (1): gitk: Fix "git gui blame" invocation when called from top-level directory Mizar (2): gitk: Add Japanese translation gitk: Update Japanese translation Pat Thoyts (4): gitk: Use themed tk widgets gitk: Fix errors in the theme patch gitk: Default to the system colours on Windows gitk: Fix selection of tags Paul Mackerras (5): gitk: Restore scrolling position of diff pane on back/forward in history gitk: Add a user preference to enable/disable use of themed widgets gitk: Show diff of commits at end of compare-commits output gitk: Don't compare fake children when comparing commits gitk: Improve appearance of radiobuttons and checkbuttons René Scharfe (1): archive: clarify description of path parameter SZEDER Gábor (1): bash: update 'git commit' completion Sitaram Chamarty (1): gitk: Disable checkout of remote branches Todd Zullinger (1): Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html