{"thread":{"id":"28480","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7.rc3","startedAt":"2011-09-23T23:41:44Z","lastAt":"2011-09-26T17:49:59Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason","Jakub Narebski"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"176112","messageId":"7vhb42su6f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"28480","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7.rc3","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-09-23T23:41:44Z","receivedAt":"2011-09-23T23:41:44Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"A release candidate Git 1.7.7.rc3 is available for testing but not at the\nusual places.\n\nThe tarball is found at:\n\n http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list\n\nand its SHA-1 checksum is:\n\nc6ba05a833cab49dd66dd1e252306e187effbf2b git-1.7.7.rc3.tar.gz\n\nAlso the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7-rc3\ntag and the master branch that the tag points at:\n\n url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git\n url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/\n url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git\n url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core\n url = https://github.com/gitster/git\n\nI had to make a quick fix for a recent regression directly on master, and\nI would like to cook it for a few days, so the final has to wait til mid\nnext week.\n\nUntil then please help testing to find other regressions.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v1.7.7-rc2 are as follows:\n\nAllan Caffee (1):\n describe: Refresh the index when run with --dirty\n\nJay Soffian (1):\n git-mergetool: check return value from read\n\nJeff King (1):\n t4014: clean up format.thread config after each test\n\nJunio C Hamano (3):\n Git 1.7.6.4\n merge-recursive: Do not look at working tree during a virtual ancestor merge\n Git 1.7.7-rc3\n"},{"id":"176201","messageId":"CACBZZX77ZhdS1cyiYpjJcuvSnJsv15FUumPWeZOcwh_b41c2FQ@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"28480","inReplyTo":"7vhb42su6f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7.rc3","fromName":"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason","fromEmail":"avarab@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-09-26T12:47:09Z","receivedAt":"2011-09-26T12:47:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"avarab@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45301?v=4"},"body":"On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:41, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n\n> Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7-rc3\n> tag and the master branch that the tag points at:\n\nThe 1.7.7-rc* series still doesn't compile on older Red Hat machines\nbecause 4c1be38b4a236403a329187acb70591a7fd92150 hasn't been included\nin it.\n\nCould you please include that in the final 1.7.7? It would be a PITA\nto have to work around that.\n"},{"id":"176235","messageId":"m3bou7p542.fsf@localhost.localdomain","threadId":"28480","inReplyTo":"CACBZZX77ZhdS1cyiYpjJcuvSnJsv15FUumPWeZOcwh_b41c2FQ@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7.rc3","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2011-09-26T17:48:56Z","receivedAt":"2011-09-26T17:48:56Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:\n> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:41, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> \n> > Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7-rc3\n> > tag and the master branch that the tag points at:\n> \n> The 1.7.7-rc* series still doesn't compile on older Red Hat machines\n> because 4c1be38b4a236403a329187acb70591a7fd92150 hasn't been included\n> in it.\n> \n> Could you please include that in the final 1.7.7? It would be a PITA\n> to have to work around that.\n\nIt looks like I was too optimistic in\n\n \"Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2011, #06; Wed, 21)\"\n http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181885/focus=181935\n\nJN> Yes, that is what I mean... but that it is only because I use old\nJN> version of asciidoc (7.1.2).\nJN> \nJN> \"make doc\" (which is part of \"make rpm\") fails on my box with\nJN> \nJN> ASCIIDOC gitnamespaces.html\nJN> ERROR: gitnamespaces.txt: line 9: second section must be named SYNOPSIS\nJN> make[1]: *** [gitnamespaces.html] Error 1\nJN> \nJN> > If the reason the documentation fix for \"master\" is needed is because a\nJN> > new feature scheduled for the upcoming release has broken documentation,\nJN> > then wouldn't we need the fix before the release, whether you are working\nJN> > on your patch or not? How can it be not urgent if that is the case?\nJN> > \nJN> > On my boxes with recent Debian, Ubuntu, and F14, I am not suffering from\nJN> > the lack of the workaround, but if distros need the workaround, then the\nJN> > time to apply it is now, not post release.\nJN> \nJN> I don't think _modern_ distributions need this workaround... asciidoc 8.4.5\nJN> which fixed the issue with \"Synopsis\" section was released 2009-05-24:\nJN> \nJN> http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/CHANGELOG.html\nJN> \nJN> Version 8.4.5 (2009-05-24)\nJN> --------------------------\nJN> Additions and changes\nJN> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nJN> \nJN> * Added manpage \"Name\" and \"Synopsis\" section title customization to\nJN> languages configuration files.\nJN> * \"Synopsis\" manpage section no longer mandatory.\nJN> [...]\n\n-- \nJakub Narębski\n"},{"id":"176236","messageId":"7vfwjj42ig.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"28480","inReplyTo":"CACBZZX77ZhdS1cyiYpjJcuvSnJsv15FUumPWeZOcwh_b41c2FQ@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7.rc3","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-09-26T17:49:59Z","receivedAt":"2011-09-26T17:49:59Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:\n\n> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:41, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n>\n>> Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7-rc3\n>> tag and the master branch that the tag points at:\n>\n> The 1.7.7-rc* series still doesn't compile on older Red Hat machines\n> because 4c1be38b4a236403a329187acb70591a7fd92150 hasn't been included\n> in it.\n>\n> Could you please include that in the final 1.7.7? It would be a PITA\n> to have to work around that.\n\nI somehow got an impression from an other earlier thread that this only\naffect ancient and abandoned releases of some distros.\n\nWill merge. Thanks for prodding.\n"}]}