The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.3.6 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.3.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.3.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.3.6.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.3.6-1.$arch.rpm (RPM) ---------------------------------------------------------------- GIT v1.5.3.6 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.5.3.5 -------------------- * git-cvsexportcommit handles root commits better. * git-svn dcommit used to clobber when sending a series of patches. * git-svn dcommit failed after attempting to rebase when started with a dirty index; now it stops upfront. * git-grep sometimes refused to work when your index was unmerged. * "git-grep -A1 -B2" acted as if it was told to run "git -A1 -B21". * git-hash-object did not honor configuration variables, such as core.compression. * git-index-pack choked on a huge pack on 32-bit machines, even when large file offsets are supported. * atom feeds from git-web said "10" for the month of November. * a memory leak in commit walker was plugged. * When git-send-email inserted the original author's From: address in body, it did not mark the message with Content-type: as needed. * git-revert and git-cherry-pick incorrectly refused to start when the work tree was dirty. * git-clean did not honor core.excludesfile configuration. * git-add mishandled ".gitignore" files when applying them to subdirectories. * While importing a too branchy history, git-fastimport did not honor delta depth limit properly. * Support for zlib implementations that lack ZLIB_VERNUM and definition of deflateBound() has been added. * Quite a lot of documentation clarifications. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.5.3.5 are as follows: Alex Riesen (1): stop t1400 hiding errors in tests Ask Bjørn Hansen (1): When exec() fails include the failing command in the error message Benoit Sigoure (2): git-send-email: Change the prompt for the subject of the initial message. git-svn: prevent dcommitting if the index is dirty. Brad King (1): cvsexportcommit: fix for commits that do not have parents Christian Couder (1): for-each-ref: fix off by one read. David D Kilzer (2): RelNotes-1.5.3.5: fix typo RelNotes-1.5.3.5: fix another typo David Symonds (1): Improve accuracy of check for presence of deflateBound. Eric Wong (2): git-svn: fix dcommit clobbering when committing a series of diffs git-svn: t9114: verify merge commit message in test Gerrit Pape (4): git-diff.txt: add section "output format" describing the diff formats git-cvsimport: really convert underscores in branch names to dots with -u git-daemon: fix remote port number in log entry git-mailsplit: with maildirs not only process cur/, but also new/ Jakub Narebski (1): gitweb: Update config file example for snapshot feature in gitweb/INSTALL Jeff King (2): git-branch: remove mention of non-existent '-b' option git-send-email: add charset header if we add encoded 'From' Jing Xue (1): replace reference to git-rm with git-reset in git-commit doc Johannes Schindelin (1): Add Documentation/CodingGuidelines Jonas Fonseca (3): Remove escaping of '|' in manpage option sections instaweb: Minor cleanups and fixes for potential problems Documentation: Fix man page breakage with DocBook XSL v1.72 Jonathan del Strother (1): Fixing path quoting in git-rebase Junio C Hamano (12): grep with unmerged index refresh_index_quietly(): express "optional" nature of index writing better Makefile: add missing dependency on wt-status.h Start preparing for 1.5.3.6 t/t3404: fix test for a bogus todo file. revert/cherry-pick: allow starting from dirty work tree. git-clean: honor core.excludesfile core.excludesfile clean-up Fix per-directory exclude handing for "git add" Update draft release notes for 1.5.3.6 grep -An -Bm: fix invocation of external grep command GIT 1.5.3.6 Kristian Høgsberg (1): Remove unecessary hard-coding of EDITOR=':' VISUAL=':' in some test suites. Marco Costalba (1): Remove a couple of duplicated include Mike Hommey (1): Delay pager setup in git blame Nicolas Pitre (3): print warning/error/fatal messages in one shot git-hash-object should honor config variables fix index-pack with packs >4GB containing deltas on 32-bit machines Ralf Wildenhues (3): git-clone.txt: Improve --depth description. Avoid a few unportable, needlessly nested "...`...". Fix sed string regex escaping in module_name. Sergei Organov (6): git-filter-branch.txt: fix a typo. git-format-patch.txt: fix explanation of an example. Documentation: quote commit messages consistently. SubmittingPatches: improve the 'Patch:' section of the checklist core-tutorial.txt: Fix argument mistake in an example. git-remote.txt: fix typo Shawn O. Pearce (2): Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list Don't allow fast-import tree delta chains to exceed maximum depth Vincent Zanotti (1): gitweb: correct month in date display for atom feeds Wincent Colaiuta (2): Grammar fixes for gitattributes documentation Fix t9101 test failure caused by Subversion "auto-props" - 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
