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Re: What's in git.git (stable frozen)

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Jan 17, 2008, 12:56 UTC
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Junio C Hamano schrieb:
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> There are a good deal of bugfixes in 'master', the largest of
> which is Brandon Casey's fix to builtin-commit and others'
> misuse of lockfile API.  A tentative fix for the issue was
> pushed out last night but the approach has known issues for our
> Windowsy friends, and this attempts to address them.
> 
> We've been taking pride that the tip of 'master' is always,
> without regression, more stable than any released version, but
> today's one might have uncovered glitches.  Please help testing
> it so that we do not have to leave it broken for a long time if
> it indeed is.

Except for the NO_MMAP issue introduced by c3b0dec509f that kills git-fast-import in t9301* as discussed in a parallel thread, all tests pass on Windows (MinGW port). This is a good sign since most, if not all, issues around the lockfile API have been discovered by the test suite in the past.

-- Hannes
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Message 2 of 8 in “What's in git.git (stable frozen)”
  1. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2008
  2. Johannes SixtJan 17, 2008
  3. fast-import.c: don't try to commit marks file if write failedBrandon Casey, Jan 17, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2008
  5. Shawn O. PearceJan 18, 2008
  6. Brandon CaseyJan 17, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceJan 18, 2008

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