[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.9.6

The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.9.6 is now available 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:

71c5a5acdef77cd8d29a4ae5d4fe7f2889f495b5 git-1.7.9.6.tar.gz e744796212ac536ac1b9b1d84e750cb02775ac0f git-htmldocs-1.7.9.6.tar.gz 43441aaa208b1f948f5a006e818a1a34dcda6740 git-manpages-1.7.9.6.tar.gz

Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.9.6 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 v1.7.9.6 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.7.9.5 --------------------

 * "git merge $tag" to merge an annotated tag always opens the editor
   during an interactive edit session. v1.7.10 series introduced an
   environment variable GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT to help older scripts decline
   this behaviour, but the maintenance track should also support it.

Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.

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Changes since v1.7.9.5 are as follows:

Heiko Voigt (1):
      string-list: document that string_list_insert() inserts unique strings

Junio C Hamano (2):
      merge: backport GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT support
      Git 1.7.9.6