Updating to Git 1.6.4.4Edit

Created 9/18/2009, updated 5/18/2017

Local update

Notes made while updating to Git 1.6.4.4 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard:

# working from a clone of the official upstream Git repo
git fetch
git tag -v v1.6.4.4

# note: "git co" is an alias that I made for "git checkout"
git co v1.6.4.4
make clean
make prefix=/usr/local test
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

# inspect the changes in the Bash completion script
diff -u ~/.git-completion.sh contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
# no changes this time, so no need to update it
[/tags/cp #cp] contrib/completion/git-completion.bash ~/.git-completion.sh

# the pre-built man pages
sudo make prefix=/usr/local quick-install-man

# go back to the master branch rather than hanging around on a detached head
git co master

Remote update

I chose not to update the remote server this time as Git 1.6.4.4 doesn't seem to include any changes that are really relevant to its workload. See "Updating to Git 1.6.4" for an example of the update procedure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Changes in gitweb

There were no changes:

$ git diff v1.6.4.3..v1.6.4.4 -- gitweb

Other changes

Note that git oneline is an alias for log --pretty=format:'%Cgreen%h%Creset %s':

$ git oneline v1.6.4.3..v1.6.4.4
cb57220 GIT 1.6.4.4
af4f640 Merge branch 'jc/maint-unpack-objects-strict' into maint
6674d31 Merge branch 'tf/diff-whitespace-incomplete-line' into maint
bd91890 Merge branch 'jk/maint-1.6.3-checkout-unborn' into maint
bba2875 Merge branch 'jc/maint-checkout-index-to-prefix' into maint
4197ce3 Merge branch 'rc/maint-http-no-head-pack-check' into maint
b202514 http.c: avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer
cc580af checkout: do not imply "-f" on unborn branches
3b5ef0e xutils: Fix xdl_recmatch() on incomplete lines
78ed710 xutils: Fix hashing an incomplete line with whitespaces at the end
da02ca5 check_path(): allow symlinked directories to checkout-index --prefix
9a21739 Fix "unpack-objects --strict"

For more detail, run git log -p v1.6.4.3..v1.6.4.4; the changes are small enough to make reviewing feasible:

$ git diff --stat v1.6.4.3..v1.6.4.4
 Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.4.4.txt |   26 +++++++++++
 Documentation/git.txt              |    3 +-
 GIT-VERSION-GEN                    |    2 +-
 RelNotes                           |    2 +-
 builtin-checkout.c                 |   12 +----
 builtin-unpack-objects.c           |   16 ++++---
 cache.h                            |    2 +-
 entry.c                            |   12 +++--
 http.c                             |    2 +-
 t/t2000-checkout-cache-clash.sh    |    9 ++++
 t/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh         |   40 +++++++++++++++++
 t/t5531-deep-submodule-push.sh     |   35 +++++++++++++++
 xdiff/xutils.c                     |   86 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 13 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)