{"thread":{"id":"30130","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.9.6","startedAt":"2012-04-02T21:42:07Z","lastAt":"2012-04-02T21:42:07Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"188357","messageId":"7v8viderps.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"30130","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.9.6","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2012-04-02T21:42:07Z","receivedAt":"2012-04-02T21:42:07Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.9.6 is now available at the\nusual places.\n\nThe release tarballs are found at:\n\n    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list\n\nand their SHA-1 checksums are:\n\n71c5a5acdef77cd8d29a4ae5d4fe7f2889f495b5  git-1.7.9.6.tar.gz\ne744796212ac536ac1b9b1d84e750cb02775ac0f  git-htmldocs-1.7.9.6.tar.gz\n43441aaa208b1f948f5a006e818a1a34dcda6740  git-manpages-1.7.9.6.tar.gz\n\nAlso the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.9.6\ntag and the maint branch that the tag points at:\n\n  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git\n  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/\n  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git\n  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core\n  url = https://github.com/gitster/git\n\n\nGit v1.7.9.6 Release Notes\n==========================\n\nFixes since v1.7.9.5\n--------------------\n\n * \"git merge $tag\" to merge an annotated tag always opens the editor\n   during an interactive edit session. v1.7.10 series introduced an\n   environment variable GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT to help older scripts decline\n   this behaviour, but the maintenance track should also support it.\n\nAlso contains minor fixes and documentation updates.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.7.9.5 are as follows:\n\nHeiko Voigt (1):\n      string-list: document that string_list_insert() inserts unique strings\n\nJunio C Hamano (2):\n      merge: backport GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT support\n      Git 1.7.9.6\n"}]}