Git 1.7.9

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt

@@ -12,19 +12,20 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
 
  * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages
    into the user's language if translations are available and the
-   locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop in new PO files
+   locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files
    in po/ to add new translations.
 
- * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction used in
+ * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions used in
    "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to
    external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with
    platform native keychain mechanisms.
 
- * The prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
-   when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoing
-   back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type.
+ * The input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
+   when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the username without
+   echoing back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as
+   you type.
 
- * The internal of "revert/cherry-pick" has been tweaked to prepare
+ * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare
    building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
    drives them.
 
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
    knows MATLAB.
 
  * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
-   show information from the reflog entries when warlking the reflog
+   show information from the reflog entries when walking the reflog
    (i.e. with "-g").
 
  * "git pull" can be used to fetch and merge an annotated/signed tag,

Documentation/git.txt

@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
+* link:v1.7.9/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9]
+
+* release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.9.txt[1.7.9].
+
 * link:v1.7.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.8.4]
 
 * release notes for

GIT-VERSION-GEN

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.9-rc2
+DEF_VER=v1.7.9
 
 LF='
 '

INSTALL

@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ Issues of note:
 	- "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
 	  features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
 	  interacting with svn repositories with "git svn").  If you can
-	  live without these, use NO_PERL.
+	  live without these, use NO_PERL.  Note that recent releases of
+	  Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some
+	  core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/),
+	  so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl
+	  itself, e.g. Time::HiRes.
 
 	- "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
 	  If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.

contrib/completion/git-completion.bash

@@ -2631,6 +2631,10 @@ _git ()
 		# workaround zsh's bug that leaves 'words' as a special
 		# variable in versions < 4.3.12
 		typeset -h words
+
+		# workaround zsh's bug that quotes spaces in the COMPREPLY
+		# array if IFS doesn't contain spaces.
+		typeset -h IFS
 	fi
 
 	local cur words cword prev
@@ -2687,6 +2691,10 @@ _gitk ()
 		# workaround zsh's bug that leaves 'words' as a special
 		# variable in versions < 4.3.12
 		typeset -h words
+
+		# workaround zsh's bug that quotes spaces in the COMPREPLY
+		# array if IFS doesn't contain spaces.
+		typeset -h IFS
 	fi
 
 	local cur words cword prev