[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.4-rc4

2013-08-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
A release candidate Git v1.8.4-rc4 is now available for testing at the usual places. The only changes since -rc3 are reversion of two topics that introduced regressions. Hopefully the final at the end of this week and then we will start the next cycle, most likely to be for 1.8.5. This is a bit

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.4-rc4

2013-08-19 Thread Kyle J. McKay
On Aug 19, 2013, at 12:59, Junio C Hamano wrote: Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * On Cygwin, we used to use our own lstat(2) emulation that is allegedly faster than the platform one in codepaths where some of the information it returns did not matter, but it started to bite