Git 1.8.4-rc2

This is with mostly minor documentation and test updates, nothing
spectacular except for removal of funky lstat(2) emulation on Cygwin.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
index b4f8737c5a494efeac5d8a901cb1bad46ba8c9f1..b0a59ec23443f2a59b9eedc63d009809ab107271 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
@@ -242,6 +242,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 
+ * On Cygwin, we used to use our own lstat(2) emulation that is
+   allegedly faster than the platform one in codepaths where some of
+   the information it returns did not matter, but it started to bite
+   us in a few codepaths where the trick it uses to cheat does show
+   breakages. This emulation has been removed and we use the native
+   lstat(2) emulation supplied by Cygwin now.
+
  * The function attributes extensions are used to catch mistakes in
    use of our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end
    (i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)).

diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index ede98a8c160d06cfa3068decfa765ae896792ef9..2c49e42fe534fae04ca4311c7cf84ecfae244395 100755 (executable)
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.8.4-rc1
+DEF_VER=v1.8.4-rc2
 
 LF='
 '