[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.3

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Sun Sep 13 2009 - 06:12:28 EST


The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.4.3 is available at the
usual places:

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

git-1.6.4.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.4.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.6.4.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.4.3-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)


GIT v1.6.4.3 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.4.2
--------------------

* "git clone" from an empty repository gave unnecessary error message,
even though it did everything else correctly.

* "git cvsserver" invoked git commands via "git-foo" style, which has long
been deprecated.

* "git fetch" and "git clone" had an extra sanity check to verify the
presense of the corresponding *.pack file before downloading *.idx
file by issuing a HEAD request. Github server however sometimes
gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD even if a GET
request for *.pack file to the same URL would have succeeded, and broke
clone over HTTP from some of their repositories. As a workaround, this
verification has been removed (as it is not absolutely necessary).

* "git grep" did not like relative pathname to refer outside the current
directory when run from a subdirectory.

* an error message from "git push" was formatted in a very ugly way.

* "git svn" did not quote the subversion user name correctly when
running its author-prog helper program.

Other minor documentation updates are included.
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