GIT 1.5.6.3v1.5.6.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt
index dd0559b64..942611299 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt
@@ -4,8 +4,16 @@ GIT v1.5.6.3 Release Notes
 Fixes since v1.5.6.2
 --------------------
 
+* Setting core.sharerepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make
+  the repository group writable but should not affect permission for others.
+  However, since 1.5.6, it was broken to drop permission for others when umask is
+  022, making the repository unreadable by others.
+
 * Setting GIT_TRACE will report spawning of external process via run_command().
 
+* Using an object with very deep delta chain pinned memory needed for extracting
+  intermediate base objects unnecessarily long, leading to excess memory usage.
+
 * Bash completion script did not notice '--' marker on the command
   line and tried the relatively slow "ref completion" even when
   completing arguments after one.
@@ -14,6 +22,12 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6.2
   tree file for it confused "racy-git avoidance" logic into thinking
   that the path is now unchanged.
 
+* The section that describes attributes related to git-archive were placed
+  in a wrong place in the gitattributes(5) manual page.
+
+* "git am" was not helpful to the users when it detected that the committer
+  information is not set up properly yet.
+
 * "git clone" had a leftover debugging fprintf().
 
 * "git clone -q" was not quiet enough as it used to and gave object count
@@ -23,8 +37,10 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6.2
   good thing if the remote side is well packed but otherwise not,
   especially for a project that is not really big.
 
-* The section that describes attributes related to git-archive were placed
-  in a wrong place in the gitattributes(5) manual page.
+* "git daemon" used to call syslog() from a signal handler, which
+  could raise signals of its own but generally is not reentrant.  This
+  was fixed by restructuring the code to report syslog() after the handler
+  returns.
 
 * When "git push" tries to remove a remote ref, and corresponding
   tracking ref is missing, we used to report error (i.e. failure to
@@ -34,9 +50,3 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6.2
   MIME multipart mail correctly.
 
 Contains other various documentation fixes.
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.6.2-23-ge965647
-echo O=$(git describe maint)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 0d6fe9cf7..33ae79b9d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v1.5.6.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.5.6.2]
+* link:v1.5.6.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.5.6.3]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt[1.5.6.3].
   link:RelNotes-1.5.6.2.txt[1.5.6.2].
   link:RelNotes-1.5.6.1.txt[1.5.6.1].
   link:RelNotes-1.5.6.txt[1.5.6].