[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.5.2

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Fri May 20 2011 - 01:59:10 EST


The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.5.2 is available at the
usual places:

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

git-1.7.5.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.7.5.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.7.5.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

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

RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.5.2-1.fc13.$arch.rpm (RPM)

Git v1.7.5.2 Release Notes
==========================

The release notes to 1.7.5.1 forgot to mention:

* "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now
mean the same thing.

* "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a
subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock.

Fixes since v1.7.5.1
--------------------

* "git add -p" did not work correctly when a hunk is split and then
one of them was given to the editor.

* "git add -u" did not resolve a conflict where our history deleted and
their history modified the same file, and the working tree resolved to
keep a file.

* "git cvsimport" did not know that CVSNT stores its password file in a
location different from the traditional CVS.

* "git diff-files" did not show the mode information from the working
tree side of an unmerged path correctly.

* "git diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
source candidate, which made no sense.

* The option name parser in "git fast-import" used prefix matches for
some options where it shouldn't, and accepted non-existent options,
e.g. "--relative-marksmith" or "--forceps".

* "git format-patch" did not quote RFC822 special characters in the
email address (e.g From: Junio C. Hamano <jch@xxxxxxxxxxx>, not
From: "Junio C. Hamano" <jch@xxxxxxxxxxx>).

* "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a
nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output.

* In "git merge", per-branch branch.<name>.mergeoptions configuration
variables did not override the fallback default merge.<option>
configuration variables such as merge.ff, merge.log, etc.

* "git merge-one-file" did not honor GIT_WORK_TREE settings when
handling a "both sides added, differently" conflict.

* "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully.

* "git-p4" (in contrib) used a wrong base image while merge a file that
was added on both branches differently.

* "git rebase -i -p" failed to preserve the history when there is a
redundant merge created with the --no-ff option.

And other minor fixes and documentation updates.
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