A release candidate Git 1.7.8.rc1 is available for testing. Since rc0, we killed all known regressions. Because there won't be any more new feature merged until the 1.7.8 final, it is a good time for the coolest kids on the block to start using the upcoming release before others do. The release tarballs are found at: http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list and their SHA-1 checksums are: f35e5c4410b21710434cb591f4c89843e75bb793 git-1.7.8.rc1.tar.gz 72e27cd397f5ae7b3c9d8bb030a76d7c99cdbb50 git-htmldocs-1.7.8.rc1.tar.gz 95429858e879df3f9425cf1279e03cdec7832379 git-manpages-1.7.8.rc1.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.8.rc1 tag and the master branch that the tag points at: url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/ url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core url = https://github.com/gitster/git ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since v1.7.8-rc0 are as follows: Dan McGee (4): pack-objects: mark add_to_write_order() as inline pack-objects: use unsigned int for counter and offset values pack-objects: rewrite add_descendants_to_write_order() iteratively pack-objects: don't traverse objects unnecessarily Erik Faye-Lund (4): mingw: move poll out of sys-folder compat/win32/poll.c: upgrade from upstream upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork mingw: poll.h is no longer in sys/ Johannes Sixt (1): name-hash.c: always initialize dir_next pointer Junio C Hamano (5): (squash) test for previous Git 1.7.7.2 Update draft release notes to 1.7.8 receive-pack: do not expect object 0{40} to exist Git 1.7.8-rc1 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2): pretty.c: free get_header() return value pretty.c: use original commit message if reencoding fails Pat Thoyts (1): t7511: avoid use of reserved filename on Windows. Pete Wyckoff (1): git-p4: ignore apple filetype Sebastian Schuberth (2): blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling, textconv_object() blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling textconv_object(), again Stefan Naewe (2): t3200: add test case for 'branch -m' http: don't always prompt for password Tay Ray Chuan (1): branch -m: handle no arg properly Ted Percival (1): svn: Quote repository root in regex match Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (2): t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh: use test_i18ngrep t/t7508-status.sh: use test_i18ncmp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html