Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1-rc4

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:54:56 -0800

This hopefully will be the last -rc before 1.6.1 becomes your Christmas
present.  

Changes since v1.6.1-rc3 are minor and boring details.

Alexander Gavrilov (2):
      git-gui: Fix handling of relative paths in blame.
      git-gui: Fix commit encoding handling.

Arjen Laarhoven (1):
      Enable threaded delta search on Mac OS X/Darwin

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr (1):
      git-revert documentation: refer to new HOWTO on reverting faulty merges

Christian Stimming (3):
      git-gui: Update German (completed) translation.
      gitk: Mark forgotten strings (header sentence parts in color chooser) for translation
      gitk: Update German translation

David Aguilar (1):
      git-mergetool: properly handle "git mergetool -- filename"

Fredrik Skolmli (1):
      git-gui: Starting translation for Norwegian

Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
      gitk: Map / to focus the search box

Johannes Schindelin (3):
      fast-import: close pack before unlinking it
      git-gui: Get rid of the last remnants of GIT_CONFIG_LOCAL
      fast-export: deal with tag objects that do not have a tagger

Johannes Sixt (3):
      gitk: Use check-buttons' -text property instead of separate labels
      gitk: Ensure that "Reset branch" menu entry is enabled
      gitk: Force the focus to the main window on Windows

Junio C Hamano (12):
      git-show: do not segfault when showing a bad tag
      pager: do not dup2 stderr if it is already redirected
      gitweb: do not run "git diff" that is Porcelain
      GIT 1.5.4.7
      gitweb: do not run "git diff" that is Porcelain
      make_absolute_path(): check bounds when seeing an overlong symlink
      builtin-blame.c: use strbuf_readlink()
      combine-diff.c: use strbuf_readlink()
      fast-import: make tagger information optional
      Make sure lockfiles are unlocked when dying on SIGPIPE
      send-email: futureproof split_addrs() sub
      GIT 1.6.1-rc4

Kevin Ballard (1):
      gitk: Allow unbalanced quotes/braces in commit headers

Kirill A. Korinskiy (1):
      Remove the requirement opaquelocktoken uri scheme

Lee Marlow (2):
      bash completion: Sort config completion variables
      bash completion: Sync config variables with their man pages

Linus Torvalds (5):
      Add generic 'strbuf_readlink()' helper function
      Make 'ce_compare_link()' use the new 'strbuf_readlink()'
      Make 'index_path()' use 'strbuf_readlink()'
      Make 'diff_populate_filespec()' use the new 'strbuf_readlink()'
      Make 'prepare_temp_file()' ignore st_size for symlinks

Marcel M. Cary (1):
      git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink into a git work-dir

Markus Heidelberg (7):
      Documentation: fix description for enabling hooks
      doc/git-reset: add reference to git-stash
      Documentation: sync example output with git output
      Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax
      Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax
      Documentation/git-show-branch: work around "single quote" typesetting glitch
      doc/git-fsck: change the way for getting heads' SHA1s

Michael J Gruber (1):
      test overlapping ignore patterns

Michele Ballabio (1):
      git gui: update Italian translation

Miklos Vajna (4):
      git-gui: Update Hungarian translation for 0.12
      git-daemon documentation: use {tilde}
      githooks documentation: add a note about the +x mode
      SubmittingPatches: mention the usage of real name in Signed-off-by: lines

Nanako Shiraishi (3):
      git-gui: Update Japanese translation for 0.12
      Clarify documentation of "git checkout <tree-ish> paths" syntax
      Add a documentat on how to revert a faulty merge

Paul Mackerras (1):
      gitk: Fix bugs in blaming code

Peter Krefting (2):
      git-gui: Updated Swedish translation (515t0f0u).
      git-gui: Fixed typos in Swedish translation.

René Scharfe (3):
      Fix type-mismatch compiler warning from diff_populate_filespec()
      connect.c: stricter port validation, silence compiler warning
      fast-import.c: stricter strtoul check, silence compiler warning

Richard Hartmann (2):
      Make help entries alphabetical
      Always show which directory is not a git repository

Robin Rosenberg (1):
      git-revert: record the parent against which a revert was made

Shawn O. Pearce (2):
      git-gui: Update po template to include 'Mirroring %s' message
      git-gui 0.12

Wu Fengguang (1):
      git-send-email: handle email address with quoted comma