From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramsay Jones Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.1-rc0 Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:41:08 +0000 Message-ID: <50BF9544.7060401@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> References: <7vip8iq1vs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 05 19:42:51 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TgJvl-0001oG-25 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:42:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752598Ab2LESmc (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2012 13:42:32 -0500 Received: from mdfmta005.mxout.tbr.inty.net ([91.221.168.46]:57362 "EHLO smtp.demon.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751828Ab2LESmb (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2012 13:42:31 -0500 Received: from mdfmta005.tbr.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta005.tbr.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB3EA6434A; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 18:42:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mdfmta005.tbr.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta005.tbr.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80578A6432E; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 18:42:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [193.237.126.196] (unknown [193.237.126.196]) by mdfmta005.tbr.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 5 Dec 2012 18:42:27 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <7vip8iq1vs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-MDF-HostID: 8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > A release candidate preview, Git v1.8.1-rc0, is now available for > testing at the usual places. > > This cycle has been a bit slow (perhaps because it had a major US > holiday to slow people down) but we seem to have managed to apply > reasonably large number of usability improvement changes, with a > handful of new features. There are several new and large-ish topics > that are cooking in 'next', but I think we would better keep them > cooking there without merging them to 'master' before the upcoming > release to happen before the year end. So as far as features goes, > this preview release is pretty much *it*. > > The release tarballs are found at: > > http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list > > and their SHA-1 checksums are: > > 39faaa15bc71f8eb52048e77ea564cecf78c7adf git-1.8.1.rc0.tar.gz > 2eeba24488337de02b58dc442258d58b79e2b8f4 git-htmldocs-1.8.1.rc0.tar.gz > b28d1f8e8b9268b712b33fbdfb67dd6f14afb499 git-manpages-1.8.1.rc0.tar.gz > > Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.8.1-rc0 > 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 > I fetch git from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git' which has commit ee26a6e2 ("Git 1.8.1-rc0", 03-12-2012), but is missing the v1.8.1-rc0 tag. Is this just an oversight (the above list suggests not), or should I not be using kernel.org? ATB, Ramsay Jones