Git 1.8.4-rc2v1.8.4-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>

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
index b4f8737c5a..b0a59ec234 100644
--- 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 ede98a8c16..2c49e42fe5 100755
--- 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='
 '