[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.5.3

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Thu May 26 2011 - 19:35:50 EST


The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.5.3 is available at the
usual places:

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

git-1.7.5.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.7.5.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.7.5.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

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

RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.5.3-1.fc13.$arch.rpm (RPM)

Git v1.7.5.3 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.7.5.2
--------------------

* The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash
completion emulation layer now.

* Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig
file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of
$(MAKE) did.

* The logic to handle "&" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field
miscounted the length of the name it formatted.

* "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.

* "git diff --word-diff" misbehaved when diff.suppress-blank-empty was
in effect.

* "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
used to corrupt memory.

* "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.

* Compressed tarball gitweb generates used to be made with the timestamp
of the tarball generation; this was bad because snapshot from the same
tree should result in a same tarball.

And other minor fixes and documentation updates.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since v1.7.5.2 are as follows:

Felipe Contreras (1):
git-completion: fix regression in zsh support

Fraser Tweedale (1):
gitweb: supply '-n' to gzip for identical output

Jeff King (8):
send-pack: unbreak push over stateless rpc
cherry-pick: handle root commits with external strategies
revert: allow reverting a root commit
t3503: test cherry picking and reverting root commits
connect: treat generic proxy processes like ssh processes
connect: let callers know if connection is a socket
send-pack: avoid deadlock on git:// push with failed pack-objects
test core.gitproxy configuration

Jim Meyering (1):
do not read beyond end of malloc'd buffer

Johannes Sixt (3):
Documentation/format-patch: suggest Toggle Word Wrap add-on for Thunderbird
send-pack: avoid deadlock when pack-object dies early
Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT*

Jonathan Nieder (5):
Revert "t0081 (line-buffer): add buffering tests"
Documentation: explain how to check for patch corruption
Documentation: hints for sending patches inline with Thunderbird
Documentation: publicize KMail hints for sending patches inline
Documentation: publicize hints for sending patches with GMail

Junio C Hamano (4):
Revert "Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdir"
setup_revisions(): take pathspec from command line and --stdin correctly
sideband_demux(): fix decl-after-stmt
Git 1.7.5.3

Kacper Kornet (1):
Honor $(prefix) set in config.mak* when defining ETC_GIT* and sysconfdir

Michael J Gruber (2):
config.txt,diff-options.txt: porcelain vs. plumbing for color.diff
git-svn: Fix git svn log --show-commit

Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy (1):
init/clone: remove short option -L and document --separate-git-dir

Rafael Gieschke (1):
copy_gecos: fix not adding nlen to len when processing "&"

Stefan Sperling (1):
remove noise and inaccuracies from git-svn docs

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