Re: Bug/problem with 1.6.0 on UnixWare

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 21, 2008, 20:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20080821204522.GA29361@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460808210738y9ca6e3fka113128fb1e6e024@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:38:32PM +0100, Mike Ralphson wrote:

> Great stuff. Though I think it might provoke some patches to improve
> the display of multiple long tag names for the same commit in gitweb!

Heh. Can you pass along the final version of your build script? I want to make sure we are doing the same things.

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> Granted, but Junio seems to do releases at the weekend, and sometimes
> they aren't the same content as the previous rc. Though I build and
> test 7 days a week, I'd rarely look at the test results over the
> weekend. And I was on vacation when the last minute AIX breakage went
> into 1.5.6 - not that I would necessarily have been able to fix that
> one.

Yes, in theory, last minute code changes could cause a portability breakage. However, any changes from the last -rc to the release version tend to be extremely conservative (as judged by Junio), so in practice I don't think it happens. For example, I think this git-shell bug made it into master over a month before release.

-Peff