1.5.3.4

GIT v1.5.3.4 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.5.3.3 --------------------

• Change to "git-ls-files" in v1.5.3.3 that was introduced to support partial commit of removal better had a segfaulting bug, which was diagnosed and fixed by Keith and Carl.

• Performance improvements for rename detection has been backported from the ’master’ branch.

• "git-for-each-ref --format=’%(numparent)’" was not working correctly at all, and --format=’%(parent)’ was not working for merge commits.

• Sample "post-receive-hook" incorrectly sent out push notification e-mails marked as "From: " the committer of the commit that happened to be at the tip of the branch that was pushed, not from the person who pushed.

• "git-remote" did not exit non-zero status upon error.

• "git-add -i" did not respond very well to EOF from tty nor bogus input.

• "git-rebase -i" squash subcommand incorrectly made the author of later commit the author of resulting commit, instead of taking from the first one in the squashed series.

• "git-stash apply --index" was not documented.

• autoconfiguration learned that "ar" command is found as "gas" on some systems.