[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.8.3

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2012, 21:53 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsjjsijke.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.8.3 is available.

The release tarballs are found at:

    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

e5eb8c289b69d69fd08c81b587a06eb5dd2b5c1c git-1.7.8.3.tar.gz 8a65d2425c1b6f646d130cf5846e92e9e0e93736 git-htmldocs-1.7.8.3.tar.gz a6e2b7cff8181ee52a1cc00ebba7b349850d6680 git-manpages-1.7.8.3.tar.gz

Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.8.3 tag and the maint branch that the tag points at:

  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
  url = https://github.com/gitster/git

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Changes since v1.7.8.2 are as follows:

Brian Harring (1):
      fix hang in git fetch if pointed at a 0 length bundle

Clemens Buchacher (2):
      Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees
      t5550: repack everything into one file

Jack Nagel (1):
      Add MYMETA.json to perl/.gitignore

Jakub Narebski (1):
      gitweb: Fix fallback mode of to_utf8 subroutine

Jens Lehmann (1):
      docs: describe behavior of relative submodule URLs

Junio C Hamano (1):
      Git 1.7.8.3

Jürgen Kreileder (3):
      gitweb: Call to_utf8() on input string in chop_and_escape_str()
      gitweb: esc_html() site name for title in OPML
      gitweb: Output valid utf8 in git_blame_common('data')

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
      Catch invalid --depth option passed to clone or fetch

Thomas Rast (1):
      Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere