1.7.6.1

Git v1.7.6.1 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.7.6 ------------------

• Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected.

• "git unexecutable" reported that "unexecutable" was not found, even though the actual error was that "unexecutable" was found but did not have a proper she-bang line to be executed.

• Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored.

• "git checkout -b <branch>" was confused when attempting to create a branch whose name ends with "-g" followed by hexadecimal digits, and refused to work.

• "git checkout -b <branch>" sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry, causing later "git checkout -" to fail.

• "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files.

• "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and looked in the working tree instead.

• "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters in its output.

• "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the repository was updated between the initial connection and the subsequent object transfer.

• "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories.

• "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree.

• "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the command name in its reflog.

• "git push --quiet" was not really quiet.

• "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches.

• "git reset [<commit>] paths…" did not reset the index entry correctly for unmerged paths.

• "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when the superproject did not have any default remote url.

• "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to the user-supplied command it invoked.

• submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git submodule sync".

• "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet.

• "git tag -l <glob>…" did not take multiple glob patterns from the command line.