{"thread":{"id":"24562","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.2.1 (also 1.7.1.2 and 1.7.0.7)","startedAt":"2010-07-28T17:41:33Z","lastAt":"2010-07-28T17:41:33Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"146647","messageId":"7vd3u74i7m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"24562","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.2.1 (also 1.7.1.2 and 1.7.0.7)","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2010-07-28T17:41:33Z","receivedAt":"2010-07-28T17:41:33Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.2.1 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.7.2.1.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.7.2.1.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.7.2.1.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.2.1-1.fc11.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nTwo fixes to segfaulting bugs in this release have also been merged to\nproduce maintenance releases for older codebase, 1.7.0.7 and 1.7.1.2,\nprimarily for people who do not want to have .2 in the third digit of the\nversion of git they use for whatever reason ;-)\n\n\nGit v1.7.2.1 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.7.2\n------------------\n\n * \"git instaweb\" wasn't useful when your Apache was installed under a\n   name other than apache2 (e.g. \"httpd\").\n\n * Similarly, \"git web--browse\" (invoked by \"git help -w\") learned that\n   chrome browser is sometimes called google-chrome.\n\n * An overlong line after \".gitdir: \" in a git file caused out of bounds\n   access to an array on the stack.\n\n * \"git config --path conf.var\" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var\n   that uses \"~/\" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable\n   was not set.\n\n * Documentation on Cygwin failed to build.\n\n * The error message from \"git pull blarg\" when 'blarg' is an unknown\n   remote name has been improved.\n\nAnd other minor fixes and documentation updates.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.7.2 are as follows:\n\nBrandon Casey (1):\n      git-rebase--interactive.sh: use printf instead of echo to print commit message\n\nDan McGee (3):\n      git-instaweb: Fix custom apache log placement\n      git-instaweb: Fix Apache environment variable passing\n      git-instaweb: Don't assume Apache executable is named apache2\n\nGreg Brockman (1):\n      Check size of path buffer before writing into it\n\nJohannes Sixt (1):\n      t3700-add: fix dependence on stdout and stderr buffering\n\nJon Seymour (1):\n      INSTALL: configure /etc/xml/catalog to build docs on Cygwin\n\nJonathan Nieder (1):\n      config --get --path: check for unset $HOME\n\nJunio C Hamano (3):\n      Git 1.7.0.7\n      Git 1.7.1.2\n      Git 1.7.2.1\n\nMatthieu Moy (1):\n      Clarify help message when no remote is specified in fetch/pull.\n\nNathan W. Panike (1):\n      Add a google-chrome option for web--browse\n\nNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):\n      git-read-tree.txt: acknowledge the directory matching bug in sparse checkout\n\nStephen Boyd (2):\n      request-pull.txt: Document -p option\n      commit: remove full stop from usage help for -u\n\nThomas Rast (5):\n      Cast execl*() NULL sentinels to (char *)\n      Document receive.denyDeleteCurrent\n      Documentation/git-push: Explain status output in more detail\n      Fix 'git' wrapper usage string\n      Makefile: add check-docs exception for gitrevisions\n"}]}