[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.8.rc3

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 17, 2011, 22:10 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbosammcb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

A release candidate Git 1.7.8.rc3 is available for testing. We should hopefully be able to see the final early next week.

The release tarballs are found at:

    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

cc142fe293e289e473cd7259c695bb6a4c520fa8 git-1.7.8.rc3.tar.gz 9261e59da9da8027204bf45d84a0dd15041ba45d git-htmldocs-1.7.8.rc3.tar.gz d01b5cc48ab5e5a3eea7aa8fd575b4943e36a78d git-manpages-1.7.8.rc3.tar.gz

Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.8.rc3 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

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Changes since v1.7.8-rc2 are as follows:

Junio C Hamano (3):
      Revert "upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork"
      refs: loosen over-strict "format" check
      Git 1.7.8-rc3

Ramkumar Ramachandra (1):
      revert: prettify fatal messages