New Git Maintenance Release 1.7.5.4 Available NOW

On 1st June 2011 Git v1.7.5.4 was made available for download.

A number of improvements and fixes have been incorporated into Git over the last few months and you can get full details via the release notes here:

The next major release is being prepared 1.7.6 and the draft release notes can be viewed as well.

Clearvision provide Git Consulting, Git Training (including Git eLearning), Git Support for both large and small organisations and also Git related products such as our Application Lifecycle Management interface for Git, AgileSCM.

See Release Note below for details:

The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.5.4 is available at the usual places:

git-1.7.5.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)

git-htmldocs-1.7.5.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

git-manpages-1.7.5.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.5.4-1.fc13.$arch.rpm (RPM)

Git v1.7.5.4 Release Notes

Fixes since v1.7.5.3

• The single-key mode of “git add -p” was easily fooled into thinking that it was told to add everthing (a) when up-arrow was pressed by mistake.
• Setting a git command that uses custom configuration via “-c var=val” as an alias caused a crash due to a realloc(3) failure.
• “git diff -C -C” used to disable the rename detection entirely when there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls back to “-C” when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths under the rename detection limit.

• “git rerere” did not diagnose a corrupt MERGE_RR file in some cases.

And other minor fixes and documentation updates.