From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:38:03 GMT
Subject: Re: The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7
Message-ID: <7v7h5j2aas.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <33309DB6F935472497D9790A26046452@PhilipOakley>

"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> Would it not be possible for GitHub to provide for those key users such
> a trial version that includes the patches identified to obtain the
> "real-world success reports" that are needed, as mentioned in the "Re:
> What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2011, #07; Wed, 24)"
>
> This should help satisfy the needs from both sides, even if you can
> only push it to a few clients.

That would not help very much, as (1) we know what Jeff included as sample
keystores are more or less cooked and good, but (2) nobody in your style
of trial will come up with different keystore to exercise the API to make
sure that will not paint us into a corner we cannot upgrade without major
pain in the backward compatibility area. The "real-world success reports"
you can generate would only for (1) but at this point we are not worried
about that. We are more (much more) worried about (2).