Re: [PATCH v2] git-svn: workaround for a bug in svn serf backend

> 2013/12/30 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> Roman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru> writes:
>>> I'd like to note that it's IMO worth including in the 'maint' branch
>>> as it's a crasher.  Especially so since the real fix has been merged
>>> in the subversion upstream and nominated for 1.8 branch, so the
>>> workaround may soon lose its relevance.
>>
>> I do not quite get this part, though.
>>
>> If they refused to fix it for real, it would make it likely that
>> this workaround will stay relevant for a long time, in which case it
>> would be worth cherry-picking to an older maintenance track.  But if
>> this workaround is expected to lose its relevance shortly, I see it
>> as one less reason to cherry-pick it to an older maintenance track.
>>
>> Confused...
>
> I thought it was exactly the other way around.  By the time the next
> feature release reaches users, chances are they'd already have
> subversion with the fix.  OTOH the workaround would benefit those who
> get their maintenance release of git (e.g. through their Linux distro
> update) before they get their maintenance release of subversion.