Git 1.6.4.1Edit
From the official release announcement posted to the Git mailing list on 22 August 2009:
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.4.1 is available at the
usual places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.6.4.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.4.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.6.4.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.4.1-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)
GIT v1.6.4.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v1.6.4
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* An unquoted value in the configuration file, when it contains more than
one whitespaces in a row, got them replaced with a single space.
* "git am" used to accept a single piece of e-mail per file (not a mbox)
as its input, but multiple input format support in v1.6.4 broke it.
Apparently many people have been depending on this feature.
* The short help text for "git filter-branch" command was a single long
line, wrapped by terminals, and was hard to read.
* The "recursive" strategy of "git merge" segfaulted when a merge has
more than one merge-bases, and merging of these merge-bases involves
a rename/rename or a rename/add conflict.
* "git pull --rebase" did not use the right fork point when the
repository has already fetched from the upstream that rewinds the
branch it is based on in an earlier fetch.
* Explain the concept of fast-forward more fully in "git push"
documentation, and hint to refer to it from an error message when the
command refuses an update to protect the user.
* The default value for pack.deltacachesize, used by "git repack", is now
256M, instead of unbounded. Otherwise a repack of a moderately sized
repository would needlessly eat into swap.
* Document how "git repack" (hence "git gc") interacts with a repository
that borrows its objects from other repositories (e.g. ones created by
"git clone -s").
* "git show" on an annotated tag lacked a delimiting blank line between
the tag itself and the contents of the object it tags.
* "git verify-pack -v" erroneously reported number of objects with too
deep delta depths as "chain length 0" objects.
* Long names of authors and committers outside US-ASCII were sometimes
incorrectly shown in "gitweb".
Other minor documentation updates are included.
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Changes since v1.6.4 are as follows:
Björn Steinbrink (1):
config: Keep inner whitespace verbatim
Erik Faye-Lund (1):
send-email: remove debug trace
Jakub Narebski (1):
gitweb/README: Document $base_url
Jeff King (3):
show: suppress extra newline when showing annotated tag
show: add space between multiple items
docs: describe impact of repack on "clone -s"
Jens Lehmann (1):
Documentation: git submodule: add missing options to synopsis
Johan Herland (1):
help.c: give correct structure's size to memset()
Johannes Schindelin (1):
filter-branch: add an example how to add ACKs to a range of commits
Junio C Hamano (5):
merge-recursive: don't segfault while handling rename clashes
t5510: harden the way verify-pack is used
verify-pack -v: do not report "chain length 0"
am: allow individual e-mail files as input
GIT 1.6.4.1
Mark A Rada (1):
git-instaweb: fix mod_perl detection for apache2
Matthieu Moy (3):
Better usage string for reflog.
push: point to 'git pull' and 'git push --force' in case of non-fast forward
filter-branch: make the usage string fit on 80 chars terminals.
Miklos Vajna (1):
hg-to-git: don't import the unused popen2 module
Nicolas Pitre (1):
don't let the delta cache grow unbounded in 'git repack'
Nicolas Sebrecht (1):
git-am: print fair error message when format detection fails
Ori Avtalion (1):
Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"
Paul Bolle (2):
Documentation: merge: one <remote> is required
Documentation: add: <filepattern>... is optional
Santi Béjar (2):
t5520-pull: Test for rebased upstream + fetch + pull --rebase
pull: support rebased upstream + fetch + pull --rebase
Zoltán Füzesi (1):
gitweb: parse_commit_text encoding fix
Štěpán Němec (1):
Fix typos in git-remote.txt and git-symbolic-ref.txt