Git 1.7.12.3

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Git is world-wide used to manage and track file and directory content, providing developers with an easy way to develop, follow or track their projects

Besides providing a version control system, the Git project provides a generic low-level toolkit for tree history storage and directory content management.

Aside the user interface coming with Git itself, several other projects (so-called porcelains) offer compatible version control interfaces for Mac, Windows or Linux.

Here are some key features of "Git":

· Distributed development.
· Strong support for non-linear development.
· Efficient handling of large projects.
· Cryptographic authentication of history.
· Toolkit design.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· 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 puser when run over the smart-http protocol.
· "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but "git commit" didn't.

Via: Git 1.7.12.3