New Git Maintenance Release 1.7.3.2 Available

On 22nd October 2010 Git v1.7.3.2 was made available for download.

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See Release Note below for details:

The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.3.2 is available at the usual places:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
  • git-1.7.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
  • git-htmldocs-1.7.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
  • git-manpages-1.7.3.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

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

  • RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.3.2-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM)

This is primarily to push out many documentation fixes accumulated since the 1.7.3.1 release.

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Changes since v1.7.3.1 are as follows:

Andreas Gruenbacher (1):

  • Clarify and extend the "git diff" format documentation

Antonio Ospite (1):

  • t/t9001-send-email.sh: fix stderr redirection in 'Invalid In-Reply-To'

Bert Wesarg (1):

  • Documentation: update-index: -z applies also to --index-info

Brandon Casey (1):

  • diffcore-pickaxe.c: remove unnecessary curly braces

Cliff Frey (1):

  • documentation: git-config minor cleanups

Elijah Newren (1):

  • t3020 (ls-files-error-unmatch): remove stray '1' from end of file

Eric Wong (1):

  • Documentation/git-svn: discourage "noMetadata"

Erik Faye-Lund (1):

  • do not depend on signed integer overflow

Johannes Schindelin (2):

  • Make sure that git_getpass() never returns NULL
  • Fix typo in pack-objects' usage

Jon Seymour (1):

  • stash: simplify parsing fixes

Jonathan Nieder (10):

  • t0004 (unwritable files): simplify error handling
  • environment.c: remove unused variable
  • setup: make sure git dir path is in a permanent buffer
  • init: plug tiny one-time memory leak
  • xdiff: cast arguments for ctype functions to unsigned char
  • Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effects
  • Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
  • Documentation: diff can compare blobs
  • Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section
  • Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff"

Junio C Hamano (4):

  • MinGW: avoid collisions between "tags" and "TAGS"
  • CodingGuidelines: reword parameter expansion section
  • shell portability: no "export VAR=VAL"
  • Git 1.7.3.2

Kevin Ballard (1):

  • Update test script annotate-tests.sh to handle missing/extra authors

Kirill Smelkov (1):

  • user-manual: be consistent in illustrations to 'git rebase'

Mathias Lafeldt (1):

  • git-svn: fix processing of decorated commit hashes

Matthieu Moy (1):

  • diff: trivial fix for --output file error message

Michael J Gruber (4):

  • remote-helpers: build in platform independent directory
  • user-manual: fix anchor name Finding-comments-With-given-Content
  • rev-list-options: clarify --parents and --children
  • git-show-ref.txt: clarify the pattern matching

Ramkumar Ramachandra (1):

  • SubmittingPatches: Document some extra tags used in commit messages

René Scharfe (1):

  • work around buggy S_ISxxx(m) implementations

Steven Walter (1):

  • git-svn: check_cherry_pick should exclude commits already in our history

Tony Luck (1):

  • Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development

Uwe Kleine-König (1):

  • Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbosely

Yann Dirson (1):

  • t/t3415: use && where applicable.

Štěpán Němec (6):

  • Use angles for placeholders consistently
  • Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation
  • Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
  • Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation
  • Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string
  • Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings