From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:28:06 GMT
Subject: Re: 1.5.3.5 will be out tomorrow
Message-ID: <7vzly0i0vd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710301712240.30120@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> A fix for a segfaulting bug warrants a new maintenance release,
>> so 1.5.3.5 will be out tomorrow.
>
> Is the 
>
> 	"Make merge-recursive honor diff.renamelimit"
>
> commit in the maintenance series?
>
> If not, I'd suggest merging it.
>
> The lack of this fix bit us during the kernel x86 merge, where there was 
> no way for people using stable git versions to make their merges take 
> renames into account, because there were too many of them..

Ah, and that is especially painful now the rename limit is quite
low thanks to 0024a54923a12f8c05ce4290f5ebefab0cce4336 (Fix the
rename detection limit checking)?

Will cherry-pick that one -- thanks.