git 1.7.9 was released January 27th. The ebuild for 1.7.9-r2 in portage can be copied and used. It does compile. Here's what was tested here: -Commit -Push -Pull -Branch creation, merge and deletion -Clone (https, ssh, git) Use flags: blksha1 curl gtk iconv perl python subversion threads tk webdav -cgi -cvs -doc -emacs -ppcsha1 -test -xinetd The changelog says: *git-1.7.9_rc2 (20 Jan 2012) Jan 2012; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> +files/git-1.7.8-git-svn-1.7-canonical-path.patch, +git-1.7.9_rc2.ebuild, git-9999.ebuild: Version bump, keywords temporarily removed as git-svn has issues still. Don't know which issue git-svn has though. Couldn't find related bug report. I can use git-svn to clone just fine. Reproducible: Always
05 Feb 2012; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> +git-1.7.9.ebuild: Version bump. Please be careful of git-svn functionality with SVN 1.7 if your SVN repo URL, branch name or tag names contains characters that need URL escaping. Closing bug.
