Re: preparing for 2.34.1

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 22, 2021, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID: <6cc0bc51-cc28-989c-d666-75b707f2c080@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr1b8gkhg.fsf@gitster.g>

On 11/22/21 12:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> There are a few topics [*] to fix regressions introduced in the
> previous cycle, which should be in 2.34.1 and I've merged them to
> 'master'. I hope we can merge them to 'maint' (which now point at
> 2.34) and tag 2.34.1 in a few days.
> 
> After that, in yet another few days, we will see most of the stalled
> topics ejected from the tree, the tip of 'next' rewound, and we will
> start the cycle toward 2.35 by starting to take new topics, by the
> beginning of the next week at the latest.

There is a patch deep in a thread [1] that is a regression in 2.34.0 that would be good to include in this release. It fixes a sparse-checkout bug via a simple revert (plus a new test).

Sorry that the patch was buried deep and was easy to miss.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/72fffbff-16f7-fa17-b212-67aae9e1b034@gmail.com/

Thanks, -Stolee