1.7.2.3

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.