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GIT v1.5.4.4 Release Notes
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Fixes since v1.5.4.3
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 * Building and installing with an overtight umask such as 077 made
   installed templates unreadable by others, while the rest of the install
   are done in a way that is friendly to umask 022.

 * "git cvsexportcommit -w $cvsdir" misbehaved when GIT_DIR is set to a
   relative directory.

 * "git http-push" had an invalid memory access that could lead it to
   segfault.

 * When "git rebase -i" gave control back to the user for a commit that is
   marked to be edited, it just said "modify it with commit --amend",
   without saying what to do to continue after modifying it.  Give an
   explicit instruction to run "rebase --continue" to be more helpful.

 * "git send-email" in 1.5.4.3 issued a bogus empty In-Reply-To: header.

 * "git bisect" showed mysterious "won't bisect on seeked tree" error message.
   This was leftover from Cogito days to prevent "bisect" starting from a
   cg-seeked state.  We still keep the Cogito safety, but running "git bisect
   start" when another bisect was in effect will clean up and start over.

 * "git push" with an explicit PATH to receive-pack did not quite work if
   receive-pack was not on usual PATH.  We earlier fixed the same issue
   with "git fetch" and upload-pack, but somehow forgot to do so in the
   other direction.

 * git-gui's info dialog was not displayed correctly when the user tries
   to commit nothing (i.e. without staging anything).

 * "git revert" did not properly fail when attempting to run with a
   dirty index.

 * "git merge --no-commit --no-ff <other>" incorrectly made commits.

 * "git merge --squash --no-ff <other>", which is a nonsense combination
   of options, was not rejected.

 * "git ls-remote" and "git remote show" against an empty repository
   failed, instead of just giving an empty result (regression).

 * "git fast-import" did not handle a renamed path whose name needs to be
   quoted, due to a bug in unquote_c_style() function.

 * "git cvsexportcommit" was confused when multiple files with the same
   basename needed to be pushed out in the same commit.

 * "git daemon" did not send early errors to syslog.

 * "git log --merge" did not work well with --left-right option.

 * "git svn" prompted for client cert password every time it accessed the
   server.

 * The reset command in "git fast-import" data stream was documented to
   end with an optional LF, but it actually required one.

 * "git svn dcommit/rebase" did not honor --rewrite-root option.

Also included are a handful documentation updates.

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Title: GIT v1.5.4.4 Release Notes
Summary
This release of GIT fixes various bugs and issues from the previous version, including problems with building and installing, memory access, and command behavior, and also includes documentation updates.