| Git 1.7.12.3 Release Notes | |
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| Fixes since v1.7.12.2 | |
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| * "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. |