Re: proto v2 fixes for maint (was Re: Preparing for a Git 2.26.3 release)

> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Since then we've heard about a few related (non-security) regressions.
> > I'd like to avoid giving people an excuse not to upgrade, so this
> > morning[1] I promised a discussion of what I'd like to see in a 2.26.3
> > release to help with that.  
> 
> Thanks for starting this.  
> 
> I'll have chances to comment on other areas you listed, but since
> I've answered on v2-proto stuff to somebody else already...
> 
> > The protocol version change was painful for users that fetch in the
> > same repo from linux-next and other linux remotes[5].  The problem has
> > been isolated and fixed, so we could either apply the revert or apply
> > the fixes[6].  
> 
> The demote patch hasn't even hit 'master'.  
> 
> My preference is to merge the demotion down to 'master' and 'maint'
> while merging down this fix to 'next' and to 'master'.