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Also, update to 1.5.3.7. Fixes since v1.5.3.6 -------------------- * git-send-email added 8-bit contents to the payload without marking it as 8-bit in a CTE header. * "git-bundle create a.bndl HEAD" dereferenced the symref and did not record the ref as 'HEAD'; this prevented a bundle from being used as a normal source of git-clone. * The code to reject nonsense command line of the form "git-commit -a paths..." and "git-commit --interactive paths..." were broken. * Adding a signature that is not ASCII-only to an original commit that is ASCII-only would make the result non-ASCII. "git-format-patch -s" did not mark such a message correctly with MIME encoding header. * git-add sometimes did not mark the resulting index entry stat-clean. This affected only cases when adding the contents with the same length as the previously staged contents, and the previous staging made the index entry "racily clean". * git-commit did not honor GIT_INDEX_FILE the user had in the environment. * When checking out a revision, git-checkout did not report where the updated HEAD is if you happened to have a file called HEAD in the work tree. * "git-rev-list --objects" mishandled a tree that points at a submodule. * "git cvsimport" was not ready for packed refs that "git gc" can produce and gave incorrect results. * Many scripted Porcelains were confused when you happened to have a file called "HEAD" in your work tree. * Miscellaneous updates to the user manual and documentation.
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GIT is a "directory content manager" designed to handle absolutely massive
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projects with speed and efficiency, and the release of the 2.6.12 (and later)
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versions of the Linux kernel as well as more and more other projects switching
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to it would indicate that it does this task well.
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GIT falls in the category of distributed version control software, similar
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to e.g. GNU Arch or Monotone (or, in the commercial world, BitKeeper). Every
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GIT working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking
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capabilities, not dependent on network access to a central server.
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