[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7.2

The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.7.2 is available.

The release tarballs are found at:

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

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

be5be63fbab63517fcccf5c876749c61b0019d14 git-1.7.7.2.tar.gz 8f0eb6f1150ea8c6922343aa4c3ee6cf37e8a091 git-htmldocs-1.7.7.2.tar.gz 07e0887315224ac83c61ed60602c345c32a5d658 git-manpages-1.7.7.2.tar.gz

Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7.2 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

Git v1.7.7.2 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.7.7.1 --------------------

 * We used to drop error messages from libcurl on certain kinds of
   errors.

 * Error report from smart HTTP transport, when the connection was
   broken in the middle of a transfer, showed a useless message on
   a corrupt packet.

 * "git fetch --prune" was unsafe when used with refspecs from the
   command line.

 * The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when
   core.ignorecase was set.

 * "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
   to the next commit to be tested.

 * "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name
   and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true".

 * "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
   against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).

 * "git mergetool" did not use its arguments as pathspec, but as a path to
   the file that may not even have any conflict.

 * "git diff --[num]stat" used to use the number of lines of context
   different from the default, potentially giving different results from
   "git diff | diffstat" and confusing the users.

 * "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is
   set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working
   tree.

 * "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting
   the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on.

 * "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
   of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.

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Changes since v1.7.7.1 are as follows:

Brandon Casey (4):
      attr.c: avoid inappropriate access to strbuf "buf" member
      cleanup: use internal memory allocation wrapper functions everywhere
      builtin/mv.c: plug miniscule memory leak
      attr.c: respect core.ignorecase when matching attribute patterns

Carlos Martín Nieto (6):
      Remove 'working copy' from the documentation and C code
      fetch: free all the additional refspecs
      t5510: add tests for fetch --prune
      remote: separate out the remote_find_tracking logic into query_refspecs
      fetch: honor the user-provided refspecs when pruning refs
      fetch: treat --tags like refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* when pruning

Christian Couder (1):
      bisect: fix exiting when checkout failed in bisect_start()

Haitao Li (1):
      date.c: Support iso8601 timezone formats

Jakub Narebski (1):
      gitweb: Strip non-printable characters from syntax highlighter output

Jeff King (8):
      add sha1_array API docs
      quote.h: fix bogus comment
      refactor argv_array into generic code
      quote: provide sq_dequote_to_argv_array
      bisect: use argv_array API
      checkout: use argv_array API
      run_hook: use argv_array API
      pull,rebase: handle GIT_WORK_TREE better

Jim Meyering (1):
      make the sample pre-commit hook script reject names with newlines, too

Jonathan Nieder (2):
      http: remove extra newline in error message
      http: avoid empty error messages for some curl errors

Jonathon Mah (1):
      mergetool: Use args as pathspec to unmerged files

Junio C Hamano (5):
      refactor run_receive_hook()
      diff: teach --stat/--numstat to honor -U$num
      mergetool: no longer need to save standard input
      attr: read core.attributesfile from git_default_core_config
      Git 1.7.7.2

Martin von Zweigbergk (4):
      remote: write correct fetch spec when renaming remote 'remote'
      remote: "rename o foo" should not rename ref "origin/bar"
      remote rename: warn when refspec was not updated
      remote: only update remote-tracking branch if updating refspec

Matthew Daley (1):
      send-email: Honour SMTP domain when using TLS

Michael Haggerty (1):
      notes_merge_commit(): do not pass temporary buffer to other function

Michael J Gruber (3):
      unpack-trees: print "Aborting" to stderr
      git-read-tree.txt: language and typography fixes
      git-read-tree.txt: correct sparse-checkout and skip-worktree description

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):
      git-read-tree.txt: update sparse checkout examples
      Reindent closing bracket using tab instead of spaces

Pat Thoyts (1):
      t7511: avoid use of reserved filename on Windows.

Peter Stuge (1):
      gitweb: Fix links to lines in blobs when javascript-actions are enabled

Ramsay Allan Jones (1):
      t9159-*.sh: skip for mergeinfo test for svn <= 1.4

René Scharfe (1):
      read-cache.c: fix index memory allocation

Richard Hartmann (1):
      clone: Quote user supplied path in a single quote pair

Shawn O. Pearce (1):
      remote-curl: Fix warning after HTTP failure

Stefan Naewe (1):
      Documentation/git-update-index: refer to 'ls-files'

Thomas Rast (1):
      Documentation: basic configuration of notes.rewriteRef

Hi Junio,

is it possible that you forgot to update the GIT-VERSION-GEN with the release of 1.7.7.2? I stll get version 1.7.7.1 from the tarball on http://git-scm.com/ and when building from the git repository itself.

Regards,
  Stefan

Stefan Roas <sroas@roath.org> writes:

Probably.