The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.5.1 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.5.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.5.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.5.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.5.1-1.$arch.rpm (RPM) Fortunately there weren't many brown paper bag breakages we needed to fix immediately after releasing 1.5.5, but there do exist some usability and documentation fixes accumulated on the maintenance branch. This release delibers them. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.5.5 are as follows: Alberto Bertogli (1): builtin-apply: Show a more descriptive error on failure when opening a patch Björn Steinbrink (1): Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs Carlos Rica (2): Fix documentation syntax of optional arguments in short options. core-tutorial.txt: Fix showing the current behaviour. Christian Couder (4): bisect: fix bad rev checking in "git bisect good" bisect: report bad rev better bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message git-bisect: make "start", "good" and "skip" succeed or fail atomically Clifford Caoile (1): Docs gitk: Explicitly mention the files that gitk uses (~/.gitk) Daniel Barkalow (1): Fix config key miscount in url.*.insteadOf Dirk Suesserott (1): Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end") Jakub Narebski (1): gitweb: Fix 'history' view for deleted files with history Jeff King (1): git-fetch: fix status output when not storing tracking ref Johannes Sixt (1): Document option --only of git commit Jon Loeliger (1): Clarify and fix English in "git-rm" documentation Jonas Fonseca (1): git-remote: reject adding remotes with invalid names Junio C Hamano (7): Document -w option to shortlog Documentation/git-submodule: typofix t7401: squelch garbage output rebase: do not munge commit log message git-am: minor cleanup am: POSIX portability fix GIT 1.5.5.1 Linus Torvalds (2): Ignore leading empty lines while summarizing merges git-am: cope better with an empty Subject: line Mark Levedahl (1): git-submodule - possibly use branch name to describe a module Matthieu Moy (1): Document that WebDAV doesn't need git on the server, and works over SSL Michele Ballabio (1): revision.c: make --date-order overriddable Pedro Melo (1): Force the medium pretty format on calls to git log Ping Yin (1): git-submodule: Avoid 'fatal: cannot describe' message René Scharfe (1): git-archive: ignore prefix when checking file attribute Scott Collins (1): Clarify documentation of git-cvsserver, particularly in relation to git-shell Shawn Bohrer (2): git clean: Don't automatically remove directories when run within subdirectory git clean: Add test to verify directories aren't removed with a prefix -- 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
