Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.10.0-rc1

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 23, 2016, 13:39 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608231538160.4924@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7fbcz76b.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

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On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> [...]
>  * A new run-command API function pipe_command() is introduced to
>    sanely feed data to the standard input while capturing data from
>    the standard output and the standard error of an external process,
>    which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking.
> 
>    The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
>    updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for
>    errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status).
>    (merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint).

You probably want a '*' in front of this paragraph, too.

>  * Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.

s/netmalloc/nedmalloc/

Thank you so much for these extensive release notes. They do take time to read, but they really cover everything quite nicely.

Ciao, Dscho