[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.2.5

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 19:31:01 EST


The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.2.5 is available at the
usual places:

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

git-1.5.2.5.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.5.2.5.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.5.2.5.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.2.5-1.$arch.rpm (RPM)

Although 1.5.3 has been in -rc cycle for quite some time, there
was a rather nasty data corruption bug discovered, so here is
primarily to push that fix out.

When "git add -u $paths" records ONLY removes in a directory,
your next "git write-tree" will write out a bogus tree object
and cause your commit not to match the reality.


GIT v1.5.2.5 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.5.2.4
--------------------

* Bugfixes

- "git add -u" had a serious data corruption problem in one
special case (when the changes to a subdirectory's files
consist only deletion of files).

- "git add -u <path>" did not work from a subdirectory.

- "git apply" left an empty directory after all its files are
renamed away.

- "git $anycmd foo/bar", when there is a file 'foo' in the
working tree, complained that "git $anycmd foo/bar --" form
should be used to disambiguate between revs and files,
which was completely bogus.

- "git checkout-index" and other commands that checks out
files to the work tree tried unlink(2) on directories,
which is a sane thing to do on sane systems, but not on
Solaris when you are root.

* Documentation Fixes and Updates

- A handful documentation fixes.

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Changes since v1.5.2.4 are as follows:

Christian Couder (1):
rev-list --bisect: fix allocation of "int*" instead of "int".

Julian Phillips (1):
Force listingblocks to be monospaced in manpages

Junio C Hamano (4):
Do not expect unlink(2) to fail on a directory.
setup.c:verify_non_filename(): don't die unnecessarily while disambiguating
Fix "git add -u" data corruption.
GIT 1.5.2.5

Linus Torvalds (1):
apply: remove directory that becomes empty by renaming the last file away

Salikh Zakirov (1):
git-add -u paths... now works from subdirectory

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