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A new release of git, 1.7.2.3-1, has been uploaded, and will be 
available for use when your mirror catches up.  This leaves 1.7.1-1 as
previous.

NEWS:
=====
This is a new upstream release, with upstream release notes attached.
See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/git/.

When compiled out of the box, the upstream git maintainers cater to
older cygwin releases, and intentionally disable certain features that
have been reported on their mailing list, even though they work with the
latest cygwin.  Therefore, this build turns those features back on.
However, it means that this version does assume that you are not using
FAT or FAT32 to hold your repositories, since they do not store file
permissions very accurately.

There have been several reports of git over ssh causing problems.  The
root cause of this problem is not yet known but are more likely to lie
in the cygwin dll rather than in git; help in debugging the issue would
be appreciated.  In the meantime, if you have difficulty cloning a
repository over the git protocol, try cloning from an http mirror instead.

DESCRIPTION:
============
Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large
projects with speed and efficiency; it is used mainly for various open
source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.

Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools,
similar to e.g. GNU Arch or Monotone (or BitKeeper in the proprietary
world). Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with
full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or
a central server.

UPDATE:
=======
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'git',
'gitk', 'git-gui', 'git-svn', and/or 'git-completion' from the 'Devel'
category.

DOWNLOAD:
=========
Note that downloads from sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed
due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will need to find a
mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you:
http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

QUESTIONS:
==========
If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is
the appropriate place.

-- 
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin git maintainer

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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.

Git v1.7.2.2 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.7.2.1
--------------------

 * Object transfer over smart http transport deadlocked the client when
   the remote HTTP server returned a failure, instead of erroring it out.

 * git-gui honors custom textconv filters when showing diff and blame;

 * git diff --relative=subdir (without the necessary trailing /) did not
   work well;

 * "git diff-files -p --submodule" was recently broken;

 * "git checkout -b n ':/token'" did not work;

 * "git index-pack" (hence "git fetch/clone/pull/push") enabled the object
   replacement machinery by mistake (it never should have);

And other minor fixes and documentation updates.

Git v1.7.2.1 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.7.2
------------------

 * "git instaweb" wasn't useful when your Apache was installed under a
   name other than apache2 (e.g. "httpd").

 * Similarly, "git web--browse" (invoked by "git help -w") learned that
   chrome browser is sometimes called google-chrome.

 * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds
   access to an array on the stack.

 * "git config --path conf.var" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var
   that uses "~/" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable
   was not set.

 * Documentation on Cygwin failed to build.

 * The error message from "git pull blarg" when 'blarg' is an unknown
   remote name has been improved.

And other minor fixes and documentation updates.

Git v1.7.2 Release Notes
========================

Updates since v1.7.1
--------------------

 * core.eol configuration and text/eol attributes are the new way to control
   the end of line conventions for files in the working tree.

 * core.autocrlf has been made safer - it will now only handle line
   endings for new files and files that are LF-only in the
   repository. To normalize content that has been checked in with
   CRLF, use the new eol/text attributes.

 * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
   gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
   policy to indent only with spaces.

 * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
   metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
   have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
   of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
   directory, and NFS mounts are often slow.  DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
   environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
   filesystem boundary.

 * Usage help messages generated by parse-options library (i.e. most
   of the Porcelain commands) are sent to the standard output now.

 * ':/<string>' notation to look for a commit now takes regular expression
   and it is not anchored at the beginning of the commit log message
   anymore (this is a backward incompatible change).

 * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
   variable from the command line.

 * Improved portability for various platforms including older SunOS,
   HP-UX 10/11, AIX, Tru64, etc. and platforms with Python 2.4.

 * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
   resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.

 * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works
   on, when available.

 * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
   prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
   commit.

 * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
   (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"), so did "git
   revert"; these do not support the nicer sequencing control "rebase
   [-i]" has, though.

 * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" learned --strategy option to specify
   the merge strategy to be used when performing three-way merges.

 * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
   stored outside the repository.

 * The output from the textconv filter used by "git diff" can be cached to
   speed up their reuse.

 * "git diff --word-diff=<mode>" extends the existing "--color-words"
   option, making it more useful in color-challenged environments.

 * The regexp to detect function headers used by "git diff" for PHP has
   been enhanced for visibility modifiers (public, protected, etc.) to
   better support PHP5.

 * "diff.noprefix" configuration variable can be used to implicitly
   ask for "diff --no-prefix" behaviour.

 * "git for-each-ref" learned "%(objectname:short)" that gives the object
   name abbreviated.

 * "git format-patch" learned --signature option and format.signature
   configuration variable to customize the e-mail signature used in the
   output.

 * Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
   with binary files.

 * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in your editor.

 * "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.

 * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours.

 * "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
   renames).  This may make the processing more expensive.

 * "git log --pretty=format:<template>" specifier learned "% <something>"
   magic that inserts a space only when %<something> expands to a
   non-empty string; this is similar to "%+<something>" magic, but is
   useful in a context to generate a single line output.

 * "git notes prune" learned "-n" (dry-run) and "-v" options, similar to
   what "git prune" has.

 * "git patch-id" can be fed a mbox without getting confused by the
   signature line in the format-patch output.

 * "git remote" learned "set-branches" subcommand.

 * "git rev-list A..B" learned --ancestry-path option to further limit
   the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
   B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).

 * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar
   to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history,
   introduced in 1.6.4.

 * "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.

 * "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.

 * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option.

 * Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
   highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
   it as FastCGI script, etc.

 * The test harness has been updated to produce TAP-friendly output.

 * Many documentation improvement patches are also included.


Fixes since v1.7.1
------------------

All of the fixes in v1.7.1.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.

 * We didn't URL decode "file:///path/to/repo" correctly when path/to/repo
   had percent-encoded characters (638794c, 9d2e942, ce83eda, 3c73a1d).

 * "git clone" did not configure remote.origin.url correctly for bare
   clones (df61c889).

 * "git diff --graph" works better with "--color-words" and other options
   (81fa024..4297c0a).

 * "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
   its "index" line (3e5a188).

 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
   a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).

 * "git read-tree -m A B" used to switch to branch B while retaining
   local changes added an incorrect cache-tree information (b1f47514).

Git v1.7.1.2 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.7.1.1
--------------------

 * "git commit" did not honor GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable, resulting
   reflog messages for cherry-pick and revert actions to be recorded as "commit".

 * "git clone/fetch/pull" issued an incorrect error message when a ref and
   a symref that points to the ref were updated at the same time.  This
   obviously would update them to the same value, and should not result in
   an error condition.

 * "git diff" inside a tree with many pathnames that have certain
   characters has become very slow in 1.7.0 by mistake.

 * "git rev-parse --parseopt --stop-at-non-option" did not stop at non option
   when --keep-dashdash was in effect.

 * An overlong line after ".gitdir: " in a git file caused out of bounds
   access to an array on the stack.

 * "git config --path conf.var" to attempt to expand a variable conf.var
   that uses "~/" short-hand segfaulted when $HOME environment variable
   was not set.

And other minor fixes and documentation updates.

Git v1.7.1.1 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.7.1
------------------

 * Authentication over http transport can now be made lazily, in that the
   request can first go to a URL without username, get a 401 response and
   then the client will ask for the username to use.

 * We used to mistakenly think "../work" is a subdirectory of the current
   directory when we are in "../work-xyz".

 * The attribute mechanism now allows an entry that uses an attribute
   macro that set/unset one attribute, immediately followed by an
   overriding setting; this makes attribute macros much easier to use.

 * We didn't recognize timezone "Z" as a synonym for "UTC" (75b37e70).

 * In 1.7.0, read-tree and user commands that use the mechanism such as
   checkout and merge were fixed to handle switching between branches one
   of which has a file while the other has a directory at the same path
   correctly even when there are some "confusing" pathnames in them.  But
   the algorithm used for this fix was suboptimal and had a terrible
   performance degradation especially in larger trees.

 * "git am -3" did not show diagnosis when the patch in the message was corrupt.

 * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
   patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
   on the presence of such blank lines.

 * "git bundle --stdin" segfaulted.

 * "git checkout" and "git rebase" overwrote paths that are marked "assume
   unchanged".

 * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
   lacks the display name didn't work.

 * "git describe" did not tie-break tags that point at the same commit
   correctly; newer ones are preferred by paying attention to the
   tagger date now.

 * "git diff" used to tell underlying xdiff machinery to work very hard to
   minimize the output, but this often was spending too many extra cycles
   for very little gain.

 * "git diff --color" did not paint extended diff headers per line
   (i.e. the coloring escape sequence didn't end at the end of line),
   which confused "less -R".

 * "git fetch" over HTTP verifies the downloaded packfiles more robustly.

 * The memory usage by "git index-pack" (run during "git fetch" and "git
   push") got leaner.

 * "GIT_DIR=foo.git git init --bare bar.git" created foo.git instead of bar.git.

 * "git log --abbrev=$num --format='%h' ignored --abbrev=$num.

 * "git ls-files ../out/side/cwd" refused to work.

 * "git merge --log" used to replace the custom message given by "-m" with
   the shortlog, instead of appending to it.

 * "git notes copy" without any other argument segfaulted.

 * "git pull" accepted "--dry-run", gave it to underlying "git fetch" but
   ignored the option itself, resulting in a bogus attempt to merge
   unrelated commit.

 * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
   is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs.

 * "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
   a nonstandard location is in use got confused.

 * "git send-email" lacked a way to specify the domainname used in the
   EHLO/HELO exchange, causing rejected connection from picky servers.
   It learned --smtp-domain option to solve this issue.

 * "git send-email" did not declare a content-transfer-encoding and
   content-type even when its payload needs to be sent in 8-bit.

 * "git show -C -C" and other corner cases lost diff metainfo output
   in 1.7.0.

 * "git stash" incorrectly lost paths in the working tree that were
   previously removed from the index.

 * "git status" stopped refreshing the index by mistake in 1.7.1.

 * "git status" showed excess "hints" even when advice.statusHints is set to false.

And other minor fixes and documentation updates.


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