# 1.7.9.1

Git v1.7.9.1 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.7.9 ------------------

- The makefile allowed environment variable X seep into it result in command names suffixed with unnecessary strings.

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- The set of included header files in compat/inet-{ntop,pton} wrappers was updated for Windows some time ago, but in a way that broke Solaris build.

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- rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed \*.mo file and failed.

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- Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running to completion even when the top-level process was killed.

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- "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch prepared by for the user to edit.

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- Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.

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- Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made "-l/-L" to miscount the hits.

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- "git log --first-parent \$pathspec" did not stay on the first parent chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the specified paths came.

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- "git merge --no-edit \$tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option.

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- "git merge --ff-only \$tag" failed because it cannot record the required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common operation for branch that is used *only* to follow the upstream, so it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag.

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- "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently" case.

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- "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.

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- When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not report an error correctly to the end user.

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- "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient timestamps near year 1970.

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- When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older clients.

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- "git submodule add \$path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored in .gitmodules when the submodule at \$path was once added to the superproject and already initialized.

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- Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected.

Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.