The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.1.2 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.1.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.1.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.1.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also provided as courtesy. RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.1.2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM) People with 1.6.1 or 1.6.1.1, who push into a repository that borrows objects from other repositories via "alternates" mechanism (most of the linux kernel subsystems hosted on k.org, and "forks" on various public hosting site such as repo.or.cz and github fall into this category), may want to upgrade to this version, as these two versions have a buggy "git push" that does not like such a repository served by git 1.6.1 or newer. GIT v1.6.1.2 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.1.1 -------------------- * The logic for rename detectin in internal diff used by commands like "git diff" and "git blame" have been optimized to avoid loading the same blob repeatedly. * We did not allow writing out a blob that is larger than 2GB for no good reason. * "git format-patch -o $dir", when $dir is a relative directory, used it as relative to the root of the work tree, not relative to the current directory. * v1.6.1 introduced an optimization for "git push" into a repository (A) that borrows its objects from another repository (B) to avoid sending objects that are available in repository B, when they are not yet used by repository A. However the code on the "git push" sender side was buggy and did not work when repository B had new objects that are not known by the sender. This caused pushing into a "forked" repository served by v1.6.1 software using "git push" from v1.6.1 sometimes did not work. The bug was purely on the "git push" sender side, and has been corrected. * "git status -v" did not paint its diff output in colour even when color.ui configuration was set. * "git ls-tree" learned --full-tree option to help Porcelain scripts that want to always see the full path regardless of the current working directory. * "git grep" incorrectly searched in work tree paths even when they are marked as assume-unchanged. It now searches in the index entries. * "git gc" with no grace period needlessly ejected packed but unreachable objects in their loose form, only to delete them right away. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.6.1.1 are as follows: Björn Steinbrink (1): Rename detection: Avoid repeated filespec population Jeff King (1): avoid 31-bit truncation in write_loose_object Johannes Schindelin (2): get_sha1_basic(): fix invalid memory access, found by valgrind test-path-utils: Fix off by one, found by valgrind Junio C Hamano (4): ls-tree: add --full-tree option Teach format-patch to handle output directory relative to cwd send-pack: do not send unknown object name from ".have" to pack-objects GIT 1.6.1.2 Marcel M. Cary (1): git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink to a work-dir on OS X Markus Heidelberg (2): git-commit: color status output when color.ui is set git-status -v: color diff output when color.ui is set Nanako Shiraishi (1): Document git-ls-tree --full-tree Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2): grep: support --no-ext-grep to test builtin grep grep: grep cache entries if they are "assume unchanged" Nicolas Pitre (1): objects to be pruned immediately don't have to be loosened -- 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
