From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:56:16 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable frozen)
Message-ID: <478F5070.2020503@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5m9kvf7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> 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