Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.7.12-rc1

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2012, 19:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk3xfbxe6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120803170336.GA24237@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 12:19:16PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 03:06:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> >  * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
>> >    the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
>> >    distribution of clients.
>> 
>> Hmm. Is this true?
>> 
>> I was just flipping through some old topics of mine, and I noticed that
>> the final patch of jk/version-string never got applied to the topic
>> branch. It was posted here:
>> 
>>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199059
>> 
>> and you picked up the other patches in the series, but not that one. So
>> I think it was just a simple mistake.
>> 
>> I've been running with it locally for 2 months and haven't seen any
>> problem.  Unfortunately it's a bit too non-trivial to be appropriate for
>> 1.7.12 at this point in the cycle, so I guess we will have to let it
>> cook in the next iteration.
>> 
>> Here's a repost for convenience.
>
> And here's an update to the release notes.

Thanks. Both are signed-off (I expect regulars to lead newbies by example, so...).

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>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] RelNotes: drop version-string topic from 1.7.12
>
> The final patch which actually turns this feature on was
> never applied to the topic branch, so it did not make it
> into this cycle.
> ---
>  Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
> index 786a702..cffa0db 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
> @@ -51,10 +51,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
>     read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
>     hints to the user.
>  
> - * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
> -   the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
> -   distribution of clients.
> -
>   * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
>     "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
>     default location where the build procedure installs them locally;