{"thread":{"id":"27479","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.5.3","startedAt":"2011-05-26T23:35:36Z","lastAt":"2011-05-26T23:35:36Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"168847","messageId":"7vvcwxt4qf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"27479","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.5.3","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-05-26T23:35:36Z","receivedAt":"2011-05-26T23:35:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.5.3 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n  git-1.7.5.3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(source tarball)\n  git-htmldocs-1.7.5.3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n  git-manpages-1.7.5.3.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t(preformatted docs)\n\nThe RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:\n\n  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.5.3-1.fc13.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nGit v1.7.5.3 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.7.5.2\n--------------------\n\n * The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash\n   completion emulation layer now.\n\n * Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig\n   file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of\n   $(MAKE) did.\n\n * The logic to handle \"&\" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field\n   miscounted the length of the name it formatted.\n\n * \"git cherry-pick -s resolve\" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.\n\n * \"git diff --word-diff\" misbehaved when diff.suppress-blank-empty was\n   in effect.\n\n * \"git log --stdin path\" with an input that has additional pathspec\n   used to corrupt memory.\n\n * \"git send-pack\" (hence \"git push\") over smalt-HTTP protocol could\n   deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.\n\n * Compressed tarball gitweb generates used to be made with the timestamp\n   of the tarball generation; this was bad because snapshot from the same\n   tree should result in a same tarball.\n\nAnd other minor fixes and documentation updates.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.7.5.2 are as follows:\n\nFelipe Contreras (1):\n      git-completion: fix regression in zsh support\n\nFraser Tweedale (1):\n      gitweb: supply '-n' to gzip for identical output\n\nJeff King (8):\n      send-pack: unbreak push over stateless rpc\n      cherry-pick: handle root commits with external strategies\n      revert: allow reverting a root commit\n      t3503: test cherry picking and reverting root commits\n      connect: treat generic proxy processes like ssh processes\n      connect: let callers know if connection is a socket\n      send-pack: avoid deadlock on git:// push with failed pack-objects\n      test core.gitproxy configuration\n\nJim Meyering (1):\n      do not read beyond end of malloc'd buffer\n\nJohannes Sixt (3):\n      Documentation/format-patch: suggest Toggle Word Wrap add-on for Thunderbird\n      send-pack: avoid deadlock when pack-object dies early\n      Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT*\n\nJonathan Nieder (5):\n      Revert \"t0081 (line-buffer): add buffering tests\"\n      Documentation: explain how to check for patch corruption\n      Documentation: hints for sending patches inline with Thunderbird\n      Documentation: publicize KMail hints for sending patches inline\n      Documentation: publicize hints for sending patches with GMail\n\nJunio C Hamano (4):\n      Revert \"Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdir\"\n      setup_revisions(): take pathspec from command line and --stdin correctly\n      sideband_demux(): fix decl-after-stmt\n      Git 1.7.5.3\n\nKacper Kornet (1):\n      Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdir\n\nMichael J Gruber (2):\n      config.txt,diff-options.txt: porcelain vs. plumbing for color.diff\n      git-svn: Fix git svn log --show-commit\n\nNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):\n      init/clone: remove short option -L and document --separate-git-dir\n\nRafael Gieschke (1):\n      copy_gecos: fix not adding nlen to len when processing \"&\"\n\nStefan Sperling (1):\n      remove noise and inaccuracies from git-svn docs\n"}]}