GIT 1.6.0-rc2 is the second (or should we call it the third?) preview of the upcoming release. It is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.0-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.0-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.0-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also provided as courtesy. testing/RPMS/$arch/*-1.6.0.rc2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.6.0-rc1 are as follows: Abhijit Menon-Sen (7): `git submodule add` now requires a <path> Make it clear that push can take multiple refspecs Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSIS Git.pm: localise $? in command_close_bidi_pipe() Fix hash slice syntax error Fix typo in perl/Git.pm Fix typos in INSTALL Alex Riesen (1): Make use of stat.ctime configurable Alexander Gavrilov (9): git-gui: Fix the Remote menu separator. git-gui: Preserve scroll position on reshow_diff. Support copy and rename detection in fast-export. gitk: Kill back-end processes on window close gitk: Arrange to kill diff-files & diff-index on quit gitk: On Windows, use a Cygwin-specific flag for kill gitk: Fixed broken exception handling in diff gitk: Fixed automatic row selection during load gitk: Fallback to selecting the head commit upon load Anders Melchiorsen (4): Advertise the ability to abort a commit Documentation: fix diff.external example Flush output in start_async Add output flushing before fork() Avery Pennarun (2): Teach "git diff -p" Pascal/Delphi funcname pattern git-svn: Abort with an error if 'fetch' parameter is invalid. Brandon Casey (3): t/t4202-log.sh: add newline at end of file Teach fsck and prune that tmp_obj_ file names may not be 14 bytes long perl/Makefile: handle paths with spaces in the NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER section Brian Gernhardt (1): Documentation: Remove mentions of git-svnimport. Cesar Eduardo Barros (1): Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: update for new git-describe output format Christian Couder (2): merge-base: die with an error message if not passed a commit ref documentation: user-manual: update "using-bisect" section Christian Stimming (2): git-gui: Update German translation gitk: Updated German translation Ciaran McCreesh (1): Make git-add -i accept ranges like 7- David D. Kilzer (1): Fix race condition in t9119-git-svn-info.sh Dmitry Potapov (1): correct access right for git-svn-dcommit test Eric Wong (2): git-svn: properly set path for "info" command t9119: conditionally re-enable test depending on svn(1) version Giuseppe Bilotta (2): diff: add ruby funcname pattern diff: chapter and part in funcname for tex Jeff King (3): init: handle empty "template" parameter Compact commit template message init: handle empty "template" parameter Jim Meyering (1): git-cvsimport.perl: Print "UNKNOWN LINE..." on stderr, not stdout. Johannes Schindelin (3): sort_in_topological_order(): avoid setting a commit flag clone: Add an option to set up a mirror clone --bare: Add ".git" suffix to the directory name to clone into Johannes Sixt (1): git-gui: Adapt discovery of oguilib to execdir 'libexec/git-core' Jon Jensen (1): Fix reference to Everyday Git, which is an HTML document and not a man page. Jonathan Nieder (1): git-diff(1): "--c" -> "--cc" typo fix Junio C Hamano (19): Allow building without any git installed Allow installing in the traditional way ls-tree documentation: enhance notes on subdirectory and pathspec behaviour Documentation: clarify what is shown in "git-ls-files -s" output t7001: fix "git mv" test Teach gitlinks to ie_modified() and ce_modified_check_fs() Fix merge name generation in "merge in C" Fix test-parse-options "integer" test Teach --find-copies-harder to "git blame" make sure parsed wildcard refspec ends with slash Documentation: clarify diff --cc Update my e-mail address Start 1.5.6.5 RelNotes to describe accumulated fixes builtin-name-rev.c: split deeply nested part from the main function RelNotes 1.5.6.5 updates fix diff-tree --stdin documentation Files given on the command line are relative to $cwd GIT 1.5.6.5 GIT 1.6.0-rc2 Kevin Ballard (1): format-patch: Produce better output with --inline or --attach Lee Marlow (11): bash completion: remove unused function _git_diff_tree bash completion: Add more long options for 'git log' bash completion: Add completion for 'git grep' bash completion: Add completion for 'git clone' bash completion: Add completion for 'git clean' bash completion: Add completion for 'git init' bash completion: Add completion for 'git revert' bash completion: More completions for 'git stash' bash completion: Add completion for 'git archive' bash completion: Add completion for 'git ls-files' bash completion: Add completion for 'git mv' Linus Torvalds (1): diff.renamelimit is a basic diff configuration Michele Ballabio (2): git-gui: update po/it.po git-gui: add a part about format strings in po/README Mikael Magnusson (2): git-gui: Update swedish translation. gitk: Update swedish translation. Mike Ralphson (2): Documentation: typos / spelling fixes in older RelNotes Documentation: typos / spelling fixes Nanako Shiraishi (1): git-gui: update Japanese translation Olivier Marin (1): builtin-verify-tag: fix -v option parsing Pierre Habouzit (2): Allow "non-option" revision options in parse_option-enabled commands git-submodule: move ill placed shift. Pieter de Bie (1): git-name-rev: allow --name-only in combination with --stdin René Scharfe (2): archive: allow --exec and --remote without equal sign git-name-rev: don't use printf without format Shawn O. Pearce (2): git-gui: Fix gitk search in $PATH to work on Windows git-gui: Update git-gui.pot for 0.11 nearing release Steffen Prohaska (6): Refactor, adding prepare_git_cmd(const char **argv) run-command (Windows): Run dashless "git <cmd>" git-gui: Correct installation of library to be $prefix/share git-gui (Windows): Switch to relative discovery of oguilib git-gui (Windows): Change wrapper to execdir 'libexec/git-core' Modify mingw_main() workaround to avoid link errors Stephan Beyer (1): builtin-revert.c: typofix Steve Haslam (1): Propagate -u/--upload-pack option of "git clone" to transport. Steven Grimm (1): Optimize sha1_object_info for loose objects, not concurrent repacks Todd Zullinger (1): Replace uses of "git-var" with "git var" -- 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