Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0

2013-04-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael Haggerty writes: > On 04/27/2013 04:24 AM, shawn wilson wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>> * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from >>>outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while >>>making su

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0

2013-04-26 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 04/27/2013 04:24 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from >>outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while >>making sure such an object exists". A new

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0

2013-04-26 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from >outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while >making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object} >can be used for that

[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0

2013-04-26 Thread Junio C Hamano
A release candidate preview Git v1.8.3-rc0 is now available for testing at the usual places. The release tarballs are found at: http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list and their SHA-1 checksums are: f0b0b415f0c693865895c1918859b12c4a7d5b17 git-1.8.3.rc0.tar.gz 089efc61b3d45504cb53