Git 1.7.2.3Edit

From the official announcement to the Git mailing list:

The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.2.3 is available at the
usual places:

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

 git-1.7.2.3.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
 git-htmldocs-1.7.2.3.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
 git-manpages-1.7.2.3.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

 RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.2.3-1.fc11.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

We will soon be preparing for 1.7.3 feature release but during the
pre-release freeze period for it, I expect one more maintenance updates
to the 1.7.2.X series.

Thanks everybody who contributed to this release to help making git less
suck ;-)


Git v1.7.2.3 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.7.2.2
--------------------

* When people try insane things such as delta-compressing 4GiB files, we
  threw an assertion failure.

* "git archive" gave the full commit ID for "$Format:%h$".

* "git fetch --tags" did not fetch tags when remote.<nick>.tagopt was set
  to --no-tags.  The command line option now overrides the configuration
  setting.

* "git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname:short)'" has been completely
  broken for a long time.

* "git gc" incorrectly pruned a rerere record that was created long
  time ago but still is actively and repeatedly used.

* "git log --follow -M -p" was seriously broken in 1.7.2, reporting
  assertion failure.

* Running "git log" with an incorrect option started pager nevertheless,
  forcing the user to dismiss it.

* "git rebase" did not work well when the user has diff.renames
  configuration variable set.

* An earlier (and rather old) fix to "git rebase" against a rebased
  upstream broke a more normal, non rebased upstream case rather badly,
  attempting to re-apply patches that are already accepted upstream.

* "git submodule sync" forgot to update the superproject's config file
  when submodule URL changed.

* "git pack-refs --all --prune" did not remove a directory that has
  become empty.

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Changes since v1.7.2.2 are as follows:

Brandon Casey (2):
     Makefile: link builtins residing in bin directory to main git binary too
     Makefile: make hard/symbolic links for non-builtins too

Daniel Johnson (1):
     fetch: allow command line --tags to override config

David Aguilar (1):
     submodule sync: Update "submodule.<name>.url"

Elijah Newren (3):
     t5520-pull: Add testcases showing spurious conflicts from git pull --rebase
     pull --rebase: Avoid spurious conflicts and reapplying unnecessary patches
     tree-walk: Correct bitrotted comment about tree_entry()

Greg Price (1):
     pack-refs: remove newly empty directories

Jay Soffian (1):
     for-each-ref: fix objectname:short bug

Jens Lehmann (1):
     t7403: add missing &&'s

Jonathan Nieder (12):
     t4150 (am): style fix
     t4150 (am): futureproof against failing tests
     t3400 (rebase): whitespace cleanup
     archive: abbreviate substituted commit ids again
     checkout, commit: remove confusing assignments to rev.abbrev
     examples/commit: use --abbrev for commit summary
     Documentation: flesh out “git pull” description
     core: Stop leaking ondisk_cache_entrys
     read-tree: stop leaking tree objects
     write-tree: Avoid leak when index refers to an invalid object
     t3302 (notes): Port to Solaris
     parse-options: clarify PARSE_OPT_NOARG description

Junio C Hamano (6):
     Teach "apply --index-info" to handle rename patches
     rebase: protect against diff.renames configuration
     diff --follow: do not waste cycles while recursing
     diff --follow: do call diffcore_std() as necessary
     Prepare for 1.7.2.3
     Git 1.7.2.3

Linus Torvalds (1):
     Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case

Mark Rada (1):
     Tell ignore file about generate files in /gitweb/static

Matthieu Moy (2):
     xmalloc: include size in the failure message
     t0003: add missing && at end of lines

Nicolas Pitre (1):
     fix >4GiB source delta assertion failure

Ralf Wildenhues (1):
     Typos in code comments, an error message, documentation

SZEDER Gábor (2):
     mingw_utime(): handle NULL times parameter
     rerere: fix overeager gc

Thiago Farina (1):
     builtin/merge_recursive.c: Add an usage string and make use of it.

Thomas Rast (5):
     Documentation/git-reset: reorder modes for soft-mixed-hard progression
     Documentation/reset: separate options by mode
     Documentation/reset: promote 'examples' one section up
     Documentation/reset: reorder examples to match description
     Documentation/reset: move "undo permanently" example behind "make topic"

Ville Skyttä (1):
     Documentation: spelling fixes

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (1):
     log: test for regression introduced in v1.7.2-rc0~103^2~2

See also