[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.2.2

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.2.2 is available at the usual places:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

	git-1.2.2.tar.{gz,bz2}			(tarball)
	RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.2.2-1.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

Carl Worth fixed a longstanding annoyance of failed clone leaving a half-built cloned directory. Contributions from people new to the list are much appreciated. Long timers have just leaned to live with these inconveniences, but I expect such rough edges will be rounded out quickly as we gain more wider user base.

The much talked about pack performance enhancement is not in this release. In principle, 1.2.X series are supposed to be bugfix only, so I can justifiably be lazy and keep things that way, but we _could_ argue that the old pack-object had a performance bug ;-).

We will decide what to do after it hits the master branch. I think pack-object is important enough to be conservative about, but at the same time its performance is veriy critical for the public git server, so as it proves stable we probably would want to have it on kernel.org.

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Changes since v1.2.1 are as follows:

Carl Worth:
      Trap exit to clean up created directory if clone fails.
      Abstract test_create_repo out for use in tests.
      Prevent git-upload-pack segfault if object cannot be found

Eric Wong:
      archimport: remove files from the index before adding/updating

Jonas Fonseca:
      git-rev-parse: Fix --short= option parsing
      Document --short and --git-dir in git-rev-parse(1)

Martin Mares:
      Fix retries in git-cvsimport

Shawn Pearce:
      Make git-reset delete empty directories