[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.3.2

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.3.2

[Junio C Hamano]

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.3.2 is available at the
usual places:

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

  git-1.6.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
  git-htmldocs-1.6.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
  git-manpages-1.6.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

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

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.3.2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

GIT v1.6.3.2 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.3.1
--------------------

 * A few codepaths picked up the first few bytes from an sha1[] by
   casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this,
   and aborted compilation.

 * Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed.

 * The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete
   conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base.

 * The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of
   merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor
   gracefully.  It should produce the file itself, but instead
   produced an empty result.

 * GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases.

 * OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim".

 * With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to
   create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and
   $(bindir)/git.

 * command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are
   in a bare repository.

 * "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not
   match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful.  We
   silently make it a no-op now.

 * "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when
   the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and
   both halves are marked to be used.

 * "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file
   from a directory with some files in it.

 * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
   created by an ancient git.

 * "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered
   configuration was set.

 * "git grep --color ''" did not terminate.  The command also had
   subtle bugs with its -w option.

 * http-push had a small use-after-free bug.

 * "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less
   efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer,
   making the transferred data unnecessarily larger.

 * "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty.

Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages
and documentation are included as well.

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Changes since v1.6.3.1 are as follows:

Alex Riesen (7):
      Introduce an unlink(2) wrapper which gives warning if unlink failed
      replace direct calls to unlink(2) with unlink_or_warn
      print unlink(2) errno in copy_or_link_directory
      Clarify kind of conflict in merge-one-file helper
      ls-tree manpage: use "unless" instead of "when ... is not"
      ls-tree manpage: output of ls-tree is compatible with update-index
      http-push.c::remove_locks(): fix use after free

Charles Bailey (2):
      t6023: merge-file fails to output anything for a degenerate merge
      Change xdl_merge to generate output even for null merges

Clemens Buchacher (1):
      fix segfault showing an empty remote

Dan McGee (1):
      Fix type-punning issues

Daniel Cordero (1):
      builtin-checkout: Don't tell user that HEAD has moved before it has

Dave Olszewski (1):
      merge-recursive: never leave index unmerged while recursing

Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
      completion: use git rev-parse to detect bare repos

Jeff King (6):
      fix GIT_TRACE segfault with shell-quoted aliases
      add: don't complain when adding empty project root
      for-each-ref: fix segfault in copy_email
      lock_ref: inform callers of unavailable ref
      fetch: report ref storage DF errors more accurately
      fix cat-file usage message and documentation

Jim Meyering (2):
      format-patch let -k override a config-specified format.numbered
      pre-commit.sample: don't print incidental SHA1

Johannes Schindelin (2):
      Add NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS support to the Makefile
      Cope better with a _lot_ of packs

Johannes Sixt (1):
      t3701: ensure correctly set up repository after skipped tests

Junio C Hamano (8):
      Revert "git-add--interactive: remove hunk coalescing"
      completion: fix PS1 display during a merge on detached HEAD
      completion: simplify "current branch" in __git_ps1()
      completion: enhance "current branch" display
      Prepare for 1.6.3.2
      Update draft release notes for 1.6.3.2
      blame: correctly handle a path that used to be a directory
      GIT 1.6.3.2

Linus Torvalds (3):
      Avoid unnecessary 'lstat()' calls in 'get_stat_data()'
      Teach 'git checkout' to preload the index contents
      dir.c: clean up handling of 'path' parameter in read_directory_recursive()

Matt Graham (1):
      Splitting a hunk that adds a line at the top fails in "add -p"

Michael J Gruber (1):
      merge-options.txt: Clarify merge --squash

Nanako Shiraishi (1):
      test: checkout shouldn't say that HEAD has moved if it didn't

Nicolas Pitre (1):
      allow OFS_DELTA objects during a push

René Scharfe (4):
      grep: fix word-regexp colouring
      grep: fix word-regexp at the beginning of lines
      grep: fix colouring of matches with zero length
      grep: fix empty word-regexp matches

Stephen Boyd (6):
      api-parse-options.txt: use 'func' instead of 'funct'
      tests: Add tests for missing format-patch long options
      completion: add missing options to show-branch and show
      show-branch: Fix die message in parse_reflog_param()
      commit: -F overrides -t
      apply, fmt-merge-msg: use relative filenames

Thomas Rast (2):
      Documentation: teach stash/pop workflow instead of stash/apply
      add -i: do not dump patch during application

Tony Kemp (1):
      Turn on USE_ST_TIMESPEC for OpenBSD