Message-ID: <7vskthll6t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:31:54 -0700
From:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
To:	git@...r.kernel.org
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.0-rc2

GIT 1.6.0-rc2 is the second (or should we call it the third?) preview of
the upcoming release.  It is available at the usual places:

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

  git-1.6.0-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.0-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.0-rc2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

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

  testing/RPMS/$arch/*-1.6.0.rc2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

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Changes since v1.6.0-rc1 are as follows:

Abhijit Menon-Sen (7):
      `git submodule add` now requires a <path>
      Make it clear that push can take multiple refspecs
      Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSIS
      Git.pm: localise $? in command_close_bidi_pipe()
      Fix hash slice syntax error
      Fix typo in perl/Git.pm
      Fix typos in INSTALL

Alex Riesen (1):
      Make use of stat.ctime configurable

Alexander Gavrilov (9):
      git-gui: Fix the Remote menu separator.
      git-gui: Preserve scroll position on reshow_diff.
      Support copy and rename detection in fast-export.
      gitk: Kill back-end processes on window close
      gitk: Arrange to kill diff-files & diff-index on quit
      gitk: On Windows, use a Cygwin-specific flag for kill
      gitk: Fixed broken exception handling in diff
      gitk: Fixed automatic row selection during load
      gitk: Fallback to selecting the head commit upon load

Anders Melchiorsen (4):
      Advertise the ability to abort a commit
      Documentation: fix diff.external example
      Flush output in start_async
      Add output flushing before fork()

Avery Pennarun (2):
      Teach "git diff -p" Pascal/Delphi funcname pattern
      git-svn: Abort with an error if 'fetch' parameter is invalid.

Brandon Casey (3):
      t/t4202-log.sh: add newline at end of file
      Teach fsck and prune that tmp_obj_ file names may not be 14 bytes long
      perl/Makefile: handle paths with spaces in the NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER section

Brian Gernhardt (1):
      Documentation: Remove mentions of git-svnimport.

Cesar Eduardo Barros (1):
      Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: update for new git-describe output format

Christian Couder (2):
      merge-base: die with an error message if not passed a commit ref
      documentation: user-manual: update "using-bisect" section

Christian Stimming (2):
      git-gui: Update German translation
      gitk: Updated German translation

Ciaran McCreesh (1):
      Make git-add -i accept ranges like 7-

David D. Kilzer (1):
      Fix race condition in t9119-git-svn-info.sh

Dmitry Potapov (1):
      correct access right for git-svn-dcommit test

Eric Wong (2):
      git-svn: properly set path for "info" command
      t9119: conditionally re-enable test depending on svn(1) version

Giuseppe Bilotta (2):
      diff: add ruby funcname pattern
      diff: chapter and part in funcname for tex

Jeff King (3):
      init: handle empty "template" parameter
      Compact commit template message
      init: handle empty "template" parameter

Jim Meyering (1):
      git-cvsimport.perl: Print "UNKNOWN LINE..." on stderr, not stdout.

Johannes Schindelin (3):
      sort_in_topological_order(): avoid setting a commit flag
      clone: Add an option to set up a mirror
      clone --bare: Add ".git" suffix to the directory name to clone into

Johannes Sixt (1):
      git-gui: Adapt discovery of oguilib to execdir 'libexec/git-core'

Jon Jensen (1):
      Fix reference to Everyday Git, which is an HTML document and not a man page.

Jonathan Nieder (1):
      git-diff(1): "--c" -> "--cc" typo fix

Junio C Hamano (19):
      Allow building without any git installed
      Allow installing in the traditional way
      ls-tree documentation: enhance notes on subdirectory and pathspec behaviour
      Documentation: clarify what is shown in "git-ls-files -s" output
      t7001: fix "git mv" test
      Teach gitlinks to ie_modified() and ce_modified_check_fs()
      Fix merge name generation in "merge in C"
      Fix test-parse-options "integer" test
      Teach --find-copies-harder to "git blame"
      make sure parsed wildcard refspec ends with slash
      Documentation: clarify diff --cc
      Update my e-mail address
      Start 1.5.6.5 RelNotes to describe accumulated fixes
      builtin-name-rev.c: split deeply nested part from the main function
      RelNotes 1.5.6.5 updates
      fix diff-tree --stdin documentation
      Files given on the command line are relative to $cwd
      GIT 1.5.6.5
      GIT 1.6.0-rc2

Kevin Ballard (1):
      format-patch: Produce better output with --inline or --attach

Lee Marlow (11):
      bash completion: remove unused function _git_diff_tree
      bash completion: Add more long options for 'git log'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git grep'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git clone'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git clean'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git init'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git revert'
      bash completion: More completions for 'git stash'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git archive'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git ls-files'
      bash completion: Add completion for 'git mv'

Linus Torvalds (1):
      diff.renamelimit is a basic diff configuration

Michele Ballabio (2):
      git-gui: update po/it.po
      git-gui: add a part about format strings in po/README

Mikael Magnusson (2):
      git-gui: Update swedish translation.
      gitk: Update swedish translation.

Mike Ralphson (2):
      Documentation: typos / spelling fixes in older RelNotes
      Documentation: typos / spelling fixes

Nanako Shiraishi (1):
      git-gui: update Japanese translation

Olivier Marin (1):
      builtin-verify-tag: fix -v option parsing

Pierre Habouzit (2):
      Allow "non-option" revision options in parse_option-enabled commands
      git-submodule: move ill placed shift.

Pieter de Bie (1):
      git-name-rev: allow --name-only in combination with --stdin

René Scharfe (2):
      archive: allow --exec and --remote without equal sign
      git-name-rev: don't use printf without format

Shawn O. Pearce (2):
      git-gui: Fix gitk search in $PATH to work on Windows
      git-gui: Update git-gui.pot for 0.11 nearing release

Steffen Prohaska (6):
      Refactor, adding prepare_git_cmd(const char **argv)
      run-command (Windows): Run dashless "git <cmd>"
      git-gui: Correct installation of library to be $prefix/share
      git-gui (Windows): Switch to relative discovery of oguilib
      git-gui (Windows): Change wrapper to execdir 'libexec/git-core'
      Modify mingw_main() workaround to avoid link errors

Stephan Beyer (1):
      builtin-revert.c: typofix

Steve Haslam (1):
      Propagate -u/--upload-pack option of "git clone" to transport.

Steven Grimm (1):
      Optimize sha1_object_info for loose objects, not concurrent repacks

Todd Zullinger (1):
      Replace uses of "git-var" with "git var"

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