{"thread":{"id":"28882","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.8.rc1","startedAt":"2011-11-08T02:56:28Z","lastAt":"2011-11-08T02:56:28Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"179100","messageId":"7vwrbbz5ib.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"28882","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.8.rc1","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-11-08T02:56:28Z","receivedAt":"2011-11-08T02:56:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"A release candidate Git 1.7.8.rc1 is available for testing. Since rc0, we\nkilled all known regressions. Because there won't be any more new feature\nmerged until the 1.7.8 final, it is a good time for the coolest kids on\nthe block to start using the upcoming release before others do.\n\nThe release tarballs are found at:\n\n    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list\n\nand their SHA-1 checksums are:\n\nf35e5c4410b21710434cb591f4c89843e75bb793  git-1.7.8.rc1.tar.gz\n72e27cd397f5ae7b3c9d8bb030a76d7c99cdbb50  git-htmldocs-1.7.8.rc1.tar.gz\n95429858e879df3f9425cf1279e03cdec7832379  git-manpages-1.7.8.rc1.tar.gz\n\nAlso the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.8.rc1\ntag and the master branch that the tag points at:\n\n  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git\n  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/\n  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git\n  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core\n  url = https://github.com/gitster/git\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.7.8-rc0 are as follows:\n\nDan McGee (4):\n      pack-objects: mark add_to_write_order() as inline\n      pack-objects: use unsigned int for counter and offset values\n      pack-objects: rewrite add_descendants_to_write_order() iteratively\n      pack-objects: don't traverse objects unnecessarily\n\nErik Faye-Lund (4):\n      mingw: move poll out of sys-folder\n      compat/win32/poll.c: upgrade from upstream\n      upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork\n      mingw: poll.h is no longer in sys/\n\nJohannes Sixt (1):\n      name-hash.c: always initialize dir_next pointer\n\nJunio C Hamano (5):\n      (squash) test for previous\n      Git 1.7.7.2\n      Update draft release notes to 1.7.8\n      receive-pack: do not expect object 0{40} to exist\n      Git 1.7.8-rc1\n\nNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):\n      pretty.c: free get_header() return value\n      pretty.c: use original commit message if reencoding fails\n\nPat Thoyts (1):\n      t7511: avoid use of reserved filename on Windows.\n\nPete Wyckoff (1):\n      git-p4: ignore apple filetype\n\nSebastian Schuberth (2):\n      blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling, textconv_object()\n      blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling textconv_object(), again\n\nStefan Naewe (2):\n      t3200: add test case for 'branch -m'\n      http: don't always prompt for password\n\nTay Ray Chuan (1):\n      branch -m: handle no arg properly\n\nTed Percival (1):\n      svn: Quote repository root in regex match\n\nÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (2):\n      t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh: use test_i18ngrep\n      t/t7508-status.sh: use test_i18ncmp\n"}]}