The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.9.6 is now available at the usual places. The release tarballs are found at: http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list and their SHA-1 checksums are: 71c5a5acdef77cd8d29a4ae5d4fe7f2889f495b5 git-1.7.9.6.tar.gz e744796212ac536ac1b9b1d84e750cb02775ac0f git-htmldocs-1.7.9.6.tar.gz 43441aaa208b1f948f5a006e818a1a34dcda6740 git-manpages-1.7.9.6.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.9.6 tag and the maint branch that the tag points at: url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/ url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core url = https://github.com/gitster/git Git v1.7.9.6 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.7.9.5 -------------------- * "git merge $tag" to merge an annotated tag always opens the editor during an interactive edit session. v1.7.10 series introduced an environment variable GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT to help older scripts decline this behaviour, but the maintenance track should also support it. Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.9.5 are as follows: Heiko Voigt (1): string-list: document that string_list_insert() inserts unique strings Junio C Hamano (2): merge: backport GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT support Git 1.7.9.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html