1.7.12.3

Git 1.7.12.3 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.7.12.2 ---------------------

• "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not honored correctly.

• It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option.

• A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating the whole point of specifying "only this branch".

• "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the configuration in general, and has been reverted.

• "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on its Accept-Encoding header.

• "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give progress output while processing objects it received to the user when run over the smart-http protocol.

• "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but "git commit" didn’t.

Also contains a handful of documentation updates.