1 Git 1.7.12.3 Release Notes
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7 * "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream
8 (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not
11 * It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is
12 unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option.
14 * A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch
15 refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the
16 subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating
17 the whole point of specifying "only this branch".
19 * "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server
20 misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the
21 configuration in general, and has been reverted.
23 * "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which
24 is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on
25 its Accept-Encoding header.
27 * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give
28 progress output while processing objects it received to the user
29 when run over the smart-http protocol.
31 * "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but
34 Also contains a handful of documentation updates.