Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7.rc3

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 26, 2011, 17:48 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX77ZhdS1cyiYpjJcuvSnJsv15FUumPWeZOcwh_b41c2FQ@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:41, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7-rc3
> > tag and the master branch that the tag points at:
> 
> The 1.7.7-rc* series still doesn't compile on older Red Hat machines
> because 4c1be38b4a236403a329187acb70591a7fd92150 hasn't been included
> in it.
> 
> Could you please include that in the final 1.7.7? It would be a PITA
> to have to work around that.

It looks like I was too optimistic in

  "Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2011, #06; Wed, 21)"
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181885/focus=181935

JN> Yes, that is what I mean... but that it is only because I use old JN> version of asciidoc (7.1.2). JN> JN> "make doc" (which is part of "make rpm") fails on my box with JN> JN> ASCIIDOC gitnamespaces.html JN> ERROR: gitnamespaces.txt: line 9: second section must be named SYNOPSIS JN> make[1]: *** [gitnamespaces.html] Error 1 JN> JN> > If the reason the documentation fix for "master" is needed is because a JN> > new feature scheduled for the upcoming release has broken documentation, JN> > then wouldn't we need the fix before the release, whether you are working JN> > on your patch or not? How can it be not urgent if that is the case? JN> > JN> > On my boxes with recent Debian, Ubuntu, and F14, I am not suffering from JN> > the lack of the workaround, but if distros need the workaround, then the JN> > time to apply it is now, not post release. JN> JN> I don't think _modern_ distributions need this workaround... asciidoc 8.4.5 JN> which fixed the issue with "Synopsis" section was released 2009-05-24: JN> JN> http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/CHANGELOG.html JN> JN> Version 8.4.5 (2009-05-24) JN> -------------------------- JN> Additions and changes JN> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JN> JN> * Added manpage "Name" and "Synopsis" section title customization to JN> languages configuration files. JN> * "Synopsis" manpage section no longer mandatory. JN> [...]

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Jakub Narębski