1.6.6.2

Git v1.6.6.2 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.6.6.1 --------------------

• recursive merge didn’t correctly diagnose its own programming errors, and instead caused the caller to segfault.

• The new "smart http" aware clients probed the web servers to see if they support smart http, but did not fall back to dumb http transport correctly with some servers.

• Time based reflog syntax e.g. "@{yesterday}" didn’t diagnose a misspelled time specification and instead assumed "@{now}".

• "git archive HEAD — no-such-directory" produced an empty archive without complaining.

• "git blame -L start,end — file" misbehaved when given a start that is larger than the number of lines in the file.

• "git checkout -m" didn’t correctly call custom merge backend supplied by the end user.

• "git config -f <file>" misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.

• "git cvsserver" didn’t like having regex metacharacters (e.g. ’+’) in CVSROOT environment.

• "git fast-import" did not correctly handle large blobs that may bust the pack size limit.

• "git gui" is supposed to work even when launched from inside a .git directory.

• "git gui" misbehaved when applying a hunk that ends with deletion.

• "git imap-send" did not honor imap.preformattedHTML as documented.

• "git log" family incorrectly showed the commit notes unconditionally by mistake, which was especially irritating when running "git log --oneline".

• "git status" shouldn’t require an write access to the repository.

Other minor documentation updates are included.