The latest feature release GIT 1.5.5 is available at the usual
places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.5.5.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.5.5.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.5.5.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.5.5-1.$arch.rpm (RPM)
We kept this cycle just slightly over two months, as the previous 1.5.4
cycle was painfully tooooo long.
GIT v1.5.5 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.5.4
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(subsystems)
* Comes with git-gui 0.10.1
(portability)
* We shouldn't ask for BSD group ownership semantics by setting g+s bit
on directories on older BSD systems that refuses chmod() by non root
users. BSD semantics is the default there anyway.
* Bunch of portability improvement patches coming from an effort to port
to Solaris has been applied.
(performance)
* On platforms with suboptimal qsort(3) implementation, there
is an option to use more reasonable substitute we ship with
our software.
* New configuration variable "pack.packsizelimit" can be used
in place of command line option --max-pack-size.
* "git fetch" over the native git protocol used to make a
connection to find out the set of current remote refs and
another to actually download the pack data. We now use only
one connection for these tasks.
* "git commit" does not run lstat(2) more than necessary
anymore.
(usability, bells and whistles)
* Bash completion script (in contrib) are aware of more commands and
options.
* You can be warned when core.autocrlf conversion is applied in
such a way that results in an irreversible conversion.
* A catch-all "color.ui" configuration variable can be used to
enable coloring of all color-capable commands, instead of
individual ones such as "color.status" and "color.branch".
* The commands refused to take absolute pathnames where they
require pathnames relative to the work tree or th...
