[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.6.4

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Sat Jul 19 2008 - 21:03:43 EST


The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.6.4 is available at the
usual places:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

git-1.5.6.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.5.6.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.5.6.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are also provided
as courtesy.

RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.6.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)

GIT v1.5.6.4 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.5.6.3
--------------------

* Various commands could overflow its internal buffer on a platform
with small PATH_MAX value in a repository that has contents with
long pathnames.

* There wasn't a way to make --pretty=format:%<> specifiers to honor
.mailmap name rewriting for authors and committers. Now you can with
%aN and %cN.

* Bash completion wasted too many cycles; this has been optimized to be
usable again.

* Bash completion lost ref part when completing something like "git show
pu:Makefile".

* "git-cvsserver" did not clean up its temporary working area after annotate
request.

* "git-daemon" called syslog() from its signal handler, which was a
no-no.

* "git-fetch" into an empty repository used to remind that the fetch will
be huge by saying "no common commits", but this was an unnecessary
noise; it is already known by the user anyway.

* "git-http-fetch" would have segfaulted when pack idx file retrieved
from the other side was corrupt.

* "git-index-pack" used too much memory when dealing with a deep delta chain.

* "git-mailinfo" (hence "git-am") did not correctly handle in-body [PATCH]
line to override the commit title taken from the mail Subject header.

* "git-rebase -i -p" lost parents that are not involved in the history
being rewritten.

* "git-rm" lost track of where the index file was when GIT_DIR was
specified as a relative path.

* "git-rev-list --quiet" was not quiet as advertised.

Contains other various documentation fixes.
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