@@ -4,8 +4,16 @@ GIT v1.5.6.3 Release Notes
44Fixes since v1.5.6.2
55--------------------
66
7+ * Setting core.sharerepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make
8+ the repository group writable but should not affect permission for others.
9+ However, since 1.5.6, it was broken to drop permission for others when umask is
10+ 022, making the repository unreadable by others.
11+
712* Setting GIT_TRACE will report spawning of external process via run_command().
813
14+ * Using an object with very deep delta chain pinned memory needed for extracting
15+ intermediate base objects unnecessarily long, leading to excess memory usage.
16+
917* Bash completion script did not notice '--' marker on the command
1018 line and tried the relatively slow "ref completion" even when
1119 completing arguments after one.
@@ -14,6 +22,12 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6.2
1422 tree file for it confused "racy-git avoidance" logic into thinking
1523 that the path is now unchanged.
1624
25+ * The section that describes attributes related to git-archive were placed
26+ in a wrong place in the gitattributes(5) manual page.
27+
28+ * "git am" was not helpful to the users when it detected that the committer
29+ information is not set up properly yet.
30+
1731* "git clone" had a leftover debugging fprintf().
1832
1933* "git clone -q" was not quiet enough as it used to and gave object count
@@ -23,8 +37,10 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6.2
2337 good thing if the remote side is well packed but otherwise not,
2438 especially for a project that is not really big.
2539
26- * The section that describes attributes related to git-archive were placed
27- in a wrong place in the gitattributes(5) manual page.
40+ * "git daemon" used to call syslog() from a signal handler, which
41+ could raise signals of its own but generally is not reentrant. This
42+ was fixed by restructuring the code to report syslog() after the handler
43+ returns.
2844
2945* When "git push" tries to remove a remote ref, and corresponding
3046 tracking ref is missing, we used to report error (i.e. failure to
@@ -34,9 +50,3 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6.2
3450 MIME multipart mail correctly.
3551
3652Contains other various documentation fixes.
37-
38- --
39- exec >/var/tmp/1
40- O=v1.5.6.2-23-ge965647
41- echo O=$(git describe maint)
42- git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
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