The latest feature release Git 1.7.1 is available at the usual
places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.7.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.7.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.7.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:
RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.7.1-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM)
Git v1.7.1 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.7.0
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* Eric Raymond is the maintainer of updated CIAbot scripts, in contrib/.
* gitk updates.
* Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask
for a password can be told to use an external program given via
GIT_ASKPASS.
* Conflict markers that lead the common ancestor in diff3-style output
now have a label, which hopefully would help third-party tools that
expect one.
* Comes with an updated bash-completion script.
* "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are
a mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings.
* "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between
CVS revisions and resulting git commits.
* "git diff --submodule" notices and describes dirty submodules.
* "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag)
tokens.
* "git hash-object --stdin-paths" can take "--no-filters" option now.
* "git init" can be told to look at init.templatedir configuration
variable (obviously that has to come from either /etc/gitconfig or
$HOME/.gitconfig).
* "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that
are not managed by git.
* "git grep" learned --color=auto/always/never.
* "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors.
* "git log -p --first-parent -m" shows one-parent diff for merge
commits, instead of showing combined diff.
* "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also
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