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Re: Sources for 3.18-rc1 not uploaded

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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
Oct 20, 2014, 18:37 UTC
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On 20/10/14 02:28 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I have to wonder why 10f343ea (archive: honor tar.umask even for pax
> headers, 2014-08-03) is a problem but an earlier change v1.8.1.1~8^2
> (archive-tar: split long paths more carefully, 2013-01-05), which
> also should have broken bit-for-bit compatibility, went unnoticed,
> though.  What I am getting at is that correcting past mistakes in
> the output should not be forbidden unconditionally with a complaint
> like this.

I think Greg actually ran into that one, and uses a separate 1.7 git tree for this reason.

I can update our servers to git 2.1 (which most of them already have), which should help with previous incompatibilities -- but not the future ones obviously. :)

-K
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  1. Linus TorvaldsOct 20, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2014
  3. Konstantin RyabitsevOct 20, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 20, 2014
  5. Greg KHOct 20, 2014
  6. brian m. carlsonOct 20, 2014
  7. Linus TorvaldsOct 20, 2014
  8. Michael J GruberOct 21, 2014
  9. Linus TorvaldsOct 21, 2014
  10. David KastrupOct 21, 2014
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2014
  12. Michael J GruberOct 22, 2014
  13. brian m. carlsonOct 23, 2014
  14. René ScharfeOct 26, 2014
  15. brian m. carlsonOct 26, 2014
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2014
  17. Konstantin RyabitsevOct 20, 2014
  18. Junio C HamanoOct 21, 2014

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