Re: Post 0.99.7 preperation patches

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 12, 2005, 01:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20050912012639.GL15630@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7virxalhqi.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:20:53AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > The "master" branch post 0.99.6 already has the renamed tools
> > with backward compatibility symlinks.  I'll be sending a
> > patch to address an issue raised by some people separately to
> > see what the list thinks, and also will attempt to send out a
> > patch for the Pasky and Catalin heads later this week.
> 
> I've prepared these and will be sending them out separately to
> you two, hoping they would help you prepare for post 0.99.7
> changes.  Note that 0.99.6 does not know about these new names,
> the current "master" branch knows about both new and old names,
> so will 0.99.7, and in 0.99.8 the old names will be removed, if
> things go as planned.
> 
> Here is a small script that I used before auditing what it did
> to your trees by running 'git diff' on its result.

Thanks for the notification. I will do an auxiliary release right after 0.99.7 is released.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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