[racket-dev] [git] [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.2.2

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Mon Aug 23 11:25:44 EDT 2010

JFYI (and I'm upgrading the server now to this version):

On Aug 19, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.2.2 is available at the
> usual places:
> 
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
> 
>   git-1.7.2.2.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
>   git-htmldocs-1.7.2.2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
>   git-manpages-1.7.2.2.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
> 
> The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
> 
>   RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.2.2-1.fc11.$arch.rpm	(RPM)
> 
> This is primarily for fixing a hanging bug in the smart http transport,
> but also comes with a lot of documentation udpates.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Git v1.7.2.2 Release Notes
> ==========================
> 
> Fixes since v1.7.2.1
> --------------------
> 
>  * Object transfer over smart http transport deadlocked the client when
>    the remote HTTP server returned a failure, instead of erroring it out.
> 
>  * git-gui honors custom textconv filters when showing diff and blame;
> 
>  * git diff --relative=subdir (without the necessary trailing /) did not
>    work well;
> 
>  * "git diff-files -p --submodule" was recently broken;
> 
>  * "git checkout -b n ':/token'" did not work;
> 
>  * "git index-pack" (hence "git fetch/clone/pull/push") enabled the object
>    replacement machinery by mistake (it never should have);
> 
> And other minor fixes and documentation updates.

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