# 1.6.4.3

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.

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

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- "git fetch" and "git clone" had an extra sanity check to verify the presence 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).

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

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

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

Other minor documentation updates are included.