{"thread":{"id":"23277","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.0.4","startedAt":"2010-04-01T04:50:43Z","lastAt":"2010-04-01T04:50:43Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"138317","messageId":"7vljd7srmk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"23277","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.0.4","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2010-04-01T04:50:43Z","receivedAt":"2010-04-01T04:50:43Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.0.4 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.7.0.4.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.7.0.4.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.7.0.4.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.0.4-1.fc11.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nGit v1.7.0.4 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.7.0.3\n--------------------\n\n * Optimized ntohl/htonl on big-endian machines were broken.\n\n * Color values given to \"color.<cmd>.<slot>\" configuration can now have\n   more than one attributes (e.g. \"bold ul\").\n\n * \"git add -u nonexistent-path\" did not complain.\n\n * \"git apply --whitespace=fix\" didn't work well when an early patch in\n   a patch series adds trailing blank lines and a later one depended on\n   such a block of blank lines at the end.\n\n * \"git fast-export\" didn't check error status and stop when marks file\n   cannot be opened.\n\n * \"git format-patch --ignore-if-in-upstream\" gave unwarranted errors\n   when the range was empty, instead of silently finishing.\n\n * \"git remote prune\" did not detect remote tracking refs that became\n   dangling correctly.\n\nAnd other minor fixes and documentation updates.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.7.0.3 are as follows:\n\nBjörn Gustavsson (5):\n      apply: Don't unnecessarily update line lengths in the preimage\n      apply: Remove the quick rejection test\n      apply: Allow blank context lines to match beyond EOF\n      t4124: Add additional tests of --whitespace=fix\n      t3417: Add test cases for \"rebase --whitespace=fix\"\n\nChris Packham (1):\n      test for add with non-existent pathspec\n\nDavid Aguilar (1):\n      difftool: Fix '--gui' when diff.guitool is unconfigured\n\nGreg Bacon (1):\n      Documentation: Clarify support for smart HTTP backend\n\nHolger Weiß (3):\n      Don't redefine htonl and ntohl on big-endian\n      Link against libiconv on IRIX\n      Documentation: show-ref <pattern>s are optional\n\nJakub Narebski (1):\n      gitweb: git_get_project_config requires only $git_dir, not also $project\n\nJan Stępień (1):\n      Updated the usage string of git reset\n\nJeff King (1):\n      dir: fix COLLECT_IGNORED on excluded prefixes\n\nJohannes Sixt (2):\n      diff: fix textconv error zombies\n      Windows: fix utime() for read-only files\n\nJunio C Hamano (8):\n      git add -u: die on unmatched pathspec\n      color: allow multiple attributes\n      t0050: mark non-working test as such\n      tests for \"git add ignored-dir/file\" without -f\n      refs: ref entry with NULL sha1 is can be a dangling symref\n      t9350: fix careless use of \"cd\"\n      Prepare for 1.7.0.4\n      Git 1.7.0.4\n\nKevin Ballard (1):\n      format-patch: Squelch 'fatal: Not a range.\" error\n\nMarkus Heidelberg (1):\n      Documentation: explain the meaning of \"-g\" in git-describe output\n\nSverre Rabbelier (1):\n      fast-export: don't segfault when marks file cannot be opened\n"}]}