From: Jeff King <peff@github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:54:30 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2011, #03; Fri, 17)
Message-ID: <20110622015430.GB30733@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7viprz6ja2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 01:07:01PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed with '-' are
> only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next'.
> 
> We have passed v1.7.6-rc2 and it seems things are really in releaseable
> form, so I am tempted to skip -rc3 and tag the final sometime next week.

Yeah, things seem pretty quiet.

> * jk/clone-cmdline-config (2011-06-11) 10 commits
>  - clone: accept config options on the command line
>  - config: make git_config_parse_parameter a public function
>  - remote: use new OPT_STRING_LIST
>  - parse-options: add OPT_STRING_LIST helper
>  - config: use strbuf_split_str instead of a temporary strbuf
>  - strbuf: allow strbuf_split to work on non-strbufs
>  - config: avoid segfault when parsing command-line config
>  - config: die on error in command-line config
>  - fix "git -c" parsing of values with equals signs
>  - strbuf_split: add a max parameter

The bottom 4 are bugfixes that may be maint-worthy. They don't fix
regressions in the 1.7.6 cycle[1], so they are probably not worth
another -rc round, but you may want to consider them for 1.7.6.1.

-Peff

[1] I didn't bisect them, but the relevant feature dates back to 1.7.2,
so they are probably that old.