[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.10-rc1

A release candidate Git 1.7.10-rc1 is now available for testing at the usual places.

The release tarballs are found at:

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

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

6080456a4410c65d43e79f22b5ea1b1c200b6823 git-1.7.10.rc1.tar.gz 6f5106ee2bfb6d813a8b5a20d9caf069ea0110b4 git-htmldocs-1.7.10.rc1.tar.gz 617a1d178c9736365ef5451d45c6f0a469c071cc git-manpages-1.7.10.rc1.tar.gz

Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.10.rc1 tag and the master 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 v1.7.10-rc0 are as follows:

Alex Zepeda (1):
      verify-tag: Parse GPG configuration options.

Jakub Narebski (1):
      gitweb: Fix fixed string (non-regexp) project search

Jens Lehmann (3):
      submodules: always use a relative path to gitdir
      submodules: always use a relative path from gitdir to work tree
      submodules: refactor computation of relative gitdir path

Jiang Xin (3):
      l10n: Update zh_CN translation for 1.7.9.2
      l10n: Update git.pot (1 new message)
      l10n: Update zh_CN translation for 1.7.10-rc0

Johannes Sixt (1):
      submodules: fix ambiguous absolute paths under Windows

Junio C Hamano (7):
      Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
      t0204: clarify the "observe undefined behaviour" test
      i18n: fix auto detection of gettext scheme for shell scripts
      Git 1.7.9.4
      Update draft release notes to 1.7.10 before -rc1
      am: officially deprecate -b/--binary option
      Git 1.7.10-rc1

Karsten Blees (1):
      fix deletion of .git/objects sub-directories in git-prune/repack

Martin Stenberg (1):
      config: report errors at the EOL with correct line number

Peter Krefting (2):
      po/sv.po: add Swedish translation
      Update Swedish translation (732t0f0u).

Phil Hord (1):
      rerere: Document 'rerere remaining'

Thomas Rast (4):
      perf: load test-lib-functions from the correct directory
      perf: export some important test-lib variables
      p4000: use -3000 when promising -3000
      git-am: error out when seeing -b/--binary

Thynson (7):
      l10n: Improve zh_CN translation for lines insertion and deletion.
      l10n: Improve zh_CN translation for msg about branch deletion deny
      l10n: Improve zh_CN translation for empty cherry-pick msg.
      l10n: Improve zh_CN translation for msg that make empty commit when amend.
      l10n: Improve commit msg for zh_CN translation
      l10n: Improve zh_CN trans for msg that cannot fast-forward
      l10n: Improve zh_CN translation for msg "not something we can merge"

Vincent van Ravesteijn (3):
      Documentation/git-branch: cleanups
      Documentation/git-branch: fix a typo
      Documentation/git-branch: add default for --contains