[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.4

2013-08-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
The latest feature release Git v1.8.4 is now available at the usual places. It contains 870+ changes from ~100 contributors (among which 33 people are new) since v1.8.3. We will have two more releases til the end of this year; the release after that could be Git 2.0. The release tarballs are fou

[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

[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.4-rc3

2013-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
A release candidate Git v1.8.4-rc3 is now available for testing at the usual places. Things have calmed down on the 'master' front; we will still need to revert one commit that killed "git stash" in a large directory with a lot of cruft before the final, but other than that, everything else should

[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.4-rc2

2013-08-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
A release candidate Git v1.8.4-rc2 is now available for testing at the usual places. There are only a handful of small documentation and test updates since -rc1, except one notable change for Cygwin users. We no longer use a custom "fast but cheating" lstat(2) emulation and instead use the platfo

[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.4-rc1

2013-08-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
A release candidate for Git v1.8.4-rc1 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: ab0bb0ed36dd9c0d6425f64021a9c7d7311a2b5c git-1.8.4.rc1.tar.gz 2d3f1f07ed3bde56fac5e823

[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.4-rc0

2013-07-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
A release candidate preview Git v1.8.4-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: 8e0d93653633fcaffc829f607bd8c1077a855c1d git-1.8.4.rc0.tar.gz 1e2b18ea855b3e06ab2e