On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

In previous cycles, I often left many topics in 'next' when tagging
this zero-th preview, but eventually merged them before the final.
I decided to do things a bit differently for this cycle: a topic,
once it hits 'next', will not be rewound and only refined and
corrected with incremental updates, so the only effect such a late
merge to 'master' before the final is that some topics are not as
widely tested on 'master' before the final one is tagged.

So this -rc0 is deliberately aggressive in that it includes all
topics that have been cooking in 'next' that I think we can fix bugs
that might still lurking in them before the final (it merges 25
topics since the last batch to 'master').  The topics not merged to
this preview, on the other hand, will not be considered for 2.8
final, even though I might later succumb to the temptation to pick
up ones that are in 'next' as of today ;-)

Beautiful. This allows me to fix up all i18n strings in a single
series instead of spreading them across many topics in 'next'. I'm not
sure if there's enough time for translators before release though. It
depends on how many rc- there are and how long it takes for this
series to graduate.

This series marks many strings for translation. It's a result of
looking for new strings between 1.7.2 and 'master', and sometimes
looking around touched files some more.

Most of these are wrapping _() around strings, except 01/22 (enable
gettext) and 20/22 and 21/22, which convert some more strings (they
have been in my queue for a year)

  [01/22] credential-cache--daemon: enable localized messages
  [02/22] builtin/blame.c: mark strings for translation
  [03/22] builtin/checkout.c: mark strings for translation
  [04/22] builtin/clone.c: mark strings for translation
  [05/22] builtin/config.c: mark strings for translation
  [06/22] builtin/config.c: mark strings for translation
  [07/22] builtin/update-index.c: mark strings for translation
  [08/22] convert.c: mark strings for translation
  [09/22] credential-cache--daemon.c: mark strings for translation
  [10/22] http.c: mark strings for translation
  [11/22] ident.c: mark strings for translation
  [12/22] notes.c: mark strings for translation
  [13/22] ref-filter.c: mark strings for translation
  [14/22] refs/files-backend.c: mark strings for translation
  [15/22] remote-curl.c: mark strings for translation
  [16/22] run-command.c: mark strings for translation
  [17/22] sha1_file.c: mark strings for translation
  [18/22] submodule.c: mark strings for translation
  [19/22] trailer.c: mark strings for translation
  [20/22] transport-helper.c: mark strings for translating
  [21/22] transport.c: mark strings for translating
  [22/22] wrapper.c: mark strings for translation

Total 20 files changed, 385 insertions(+), 372 deletions(-)