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Re: git-last-modified on bare repository

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D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 7, 2026, 17:12 UTC
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2026, at 10:58, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 10:42:55AM +0100, Gusted wrote:
> >>> On 1/5/26 4:17 PM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> >>>>[snip]
> >>>
> >>> Yup, git from source works! Do you by any chance know if 05491b90ce is going
> >>> to be in v2.52.1?
> >>
> >> No idea, point releases are typically done rather ad-hoc. Let me Cc
> >> Junio though so that he's aware that we might want to pick this if we
> >> ever release v2.52.1.
> >
> > `RelNotes` says that this will be merged to `maint` later which points
> > at tag v2.52.0 currently.
> >
> >      * "git last-modified" used to mishandle "--" to mark the beginning of
> >        pathspec, which has been corrected.
> >        (merge 05491b90ce js/last-modified-with-sparse-checkouts later to maint).
>
> These are really "if we will produce a release out of 'maint', the
> topics marked with these can cleanly be merged to be part of it",
> and does not answer "if we ever have 2.52.1?" at all, though ;-)
Good to know; I'd had questions about that as well.
> I am on a bereavement leave now, so expect that my response will be
> leaky and slow.
Sorry to hear that. The only thing I know for sure is it gets easier with time.
-- 
D. Ben Knoble
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  1. GustedJan 5, 2026
  2. Patrick SteinhardtJan 5, 2026
  3. GustedJan 5, 2026
  4. Patrick SteinhardtJan 5, 2026
  5. GustedJan 6, 2026
  6. Patrick SteinhardtJan 6, 2026
  7. Kristoffer HaugsbakkJan 6, 2026
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2026
  9. D. Ben KnobleJan 7, 2026
  10. Kristoffer HaugsbakkJan 5, 2026
  11. Toon ClaesJan 12, 2026

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