[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.0-rc2

A release candidate Git v1.8.0-rc2 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:

6c8076b3bcf08ffc53a64bbfb0fa69f82096f711 git-1.8.0.rc2.tar.gz 86aca88717928d9d3a38c47a315d2c57402747ca git-htmldocs-1.8.0.rc2.tar.gz f4023824ee6b3ad561dba5dbdfe6e07532904a27 git-manpages-1.8.0.rc2.tar.gz

Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.8.0-rc2 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

Things seem to have calmed down and hopefully we can have the final 1.8.0 without regression soon.

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Changes since v1.8.0-rc1 are as follows:

Ben Walton (1):
      tests: "cp -a" is a GNUism

Jonathan Nieder (2):
      git svn: work around SVN 1.7 mishandling of svn:special changes
      svn test: escape peg revision separator using empty peg rev

Junio C Hamano (2):
      gitcli: parse-options lets you omit tail of long options
      Git 1.8.0-rc2

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):
      gitignore.txt: suggestions how to get literal # or ! at the beginning
      attr: a note about the order of .gitattributes lookup

Ramkumar Ramachandra (1):
      Git url doc: mark ftp/ftps as read-only and deprecate them

Ramsay Allan Jones (1):
      MALLOC_CHECK: Allow checking to be disabled from config.mak

Simon Ruderich (1):
      l10n: de.po: fix a few minor typos

Øyvind A. Holm (1):
      configure.ac: Add missing comma to CC_LD_DYNPATH