From: William Chargin <wchargin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:40:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sha1-name.c: for ":/", find detached HEAD commits
Message-ID: <CAFW+GMDtA=u1y4ncLUf25CSTymv-DAM3n5a+JSkT-XxNeH9PBA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180713192441.GA10354@sigill.intra.peff.net>

> Junio typically applies bugfixes as close to the bug-source as possible,
> which allows them to be merged-up into various releases (rather than
> cherry-picked, which would be required if built on top of 'master').
>
> Ideally this is directly on top of the commit that introduced the bug,
> though for an ancient bug like this, it's not worth the effort. It looks
> like he applied it on the 2.16 maint branch, which predates e5e5e0883.
> When it's merged up, the resolution will handle the rename (probably
> even automatically due to Git's rename detection).

That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

> Great. Please come back anytime. :)

Will do!

Best,
WC