Re: [PATCH 0/5] git p4: fix branch detection with --use-client-spec

> Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> writes:
> 
> > matthew@korich.net wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:14 -0700:
> >> Using git p4 on git version 1.7.12.rc2 has path issues. Standard
> >> clone/sync ops apparently place detected master and branches on
> >> independent and parallel directory structures instead of git branches.
> >> See http://stackoverflow.com/q/11893688/1588831 for a full demo of the problem.
> >
> > Thank you for the detailed report.  It is a bug in 1.7.12-rc2.
> 
> Do you mean "a feature that was present in 1.7.11 without this bug
> was broken when used with 1.7.12-rc2"?  Or do you mean "this bug
> exists in 1.7.12-rc2 (older versions may or may not have it, but I
> am stressing that it is not fixed)"?
> 
> The description for [PATCH 5/5] blames v1.7.9-rc0~4^2~1, which tells
> me it is the latter.  And if that were the case, and if this were in
> the area of the system I oversee, I wouldn't push it to the upcoming
> release at this late in the cycle, when I do not know what other
> things it might break while fixing this bug (in other words, a fix
> to an old bug is not an execuse to introduce a regression).
> 
> But git-p4 is not in my area, so if you meant this should go in the
> upcoming 1.7.12 release, I'll queue them directly on 'master'.
> 
> Please tell me what your preference is.