[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7.6

An maintenance release Git 1.7.7.6 is available.

The release tarballs are found at:

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

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

483dc95de0e26f0154fb23444589266b59848cfe git-1.7.7.6.tar.gz 8bcbd0a53fd3b937a9991aa096220a1a0eb2f771 git-htmldocs-1.7.7.6.tar.gz 0fd7452c88d0b3ccb08d9b2b91b552680b0209e0 git-manpages-1.7.7.6.tar.gz

Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7.6 tag and the maint-1.7.7 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 v1.7.7.6 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.7.7.5 --------------------

 * The code to look up attributes for paths reused entries from a wrong
   directory when two paths in question are in adjacent directories and
   the name of the one directory is a prefix of the other.

 * A wildcard that matches deeper hierarchy given to the "diff-index" command,
   e.g. "git diff-index HEAD -- '*.txt'", incorrectly reported additions of
   matching files even when there is no change.

 * When producing a "thin pack" (primarily used in bundles and smart
   HTTP transfers) out of a fully packed repository, we unnecessarily
   avoided sending recent objects as a delta against objects we know
   the other side has.

Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.

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Changes since v1.7.7.5 are as follows:

Clemens Buchacher (1):
      Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees

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

Jeff King (4):
      attr: don't confuse prefixes with leading directories
      attr: drop misguided defensive coding
      attr: fix leak in free_attr_elem
      thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base

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

Junio C Hamano (8):
      attr.c: make bootstrap_attr_stack() leave early
      attr.c: clarify the logic to pop attr_stack
      Documentation: rerere's rr-cache auto-creation and rerere.enabled
      Prepare for 1.7.6.6
      Prepare for 1.7.7.6
      Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6
      Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6
      Git 1.7.7.6

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):
      t2203: fix wrong commit command
      diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees

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