Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2016, #07; Fri, 23)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2016, 23:11 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqd1jpkkea.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609242101100.129229@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> In your previous kitchen status ("What's cooking") you hinted at a
> possible v2.10.1 soon. I have a couple of bugfixes lined up for Git for
> Windows and would like to avoid unnecessarily frequent release
> engineering... Any more concrete ideas on a date for this version?

I scanned RelNotes for 2.11 and identified these topics that we'd want to have in 'maint'.

    bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl # 1 (6 days ago) 
    rs/checkout-some-states-are-const # 1 (6 days ago) 
    rs/strbuf-remove-fix # 1 (6 days ago) 
    rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global # 1 (6 days ago) 
    mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong # 1 (6 days ago) 
    sy/git-gui-i18n-ja # 7 (12 days ago) 
    jk/fix-remote-curl-url-wo-proto # 1 (12 days ago) 
    js/git-gui-commit-gpgsign # 2 (12 days ago) 
    jk/patch-ids-no-merges # 2 (6 days ago) 
    ew/http-do-not-forget-to-call-curl-multi-remove-handle # 3 (6 days ago) 
    rs/xdiff-merge-overlapping-hunks-for-W-context # 1 (6 days ago) 
    ks/perf-build-with-autoconf # 1 (6 days ago) 
    jt/format-patch-base-info-above-sig # 1 (6 days ago) 
    jk/rebase-i-drop-ident-check # 1 (6 days ago) 
    jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth # 1 (6 days ago) 
    et/add-chmod-x # 1 (6 days ago) 
    tg/add-chmod+x-fix # 7 (24 hours ago)

Most are internal clean-ups that I do not mind leaving out, but I think we want to have that "add --chmod=+x" fix in. As it hasn't been enough time passed since the topic was merged to 'master', I'd say either

 (1) 2.10.1 with everything other than the last two in a few days
     and 2.10.2 late next week with "add --chmod=+x" fix, or

 (2) just a single 2.10.1 with everything late next week.

I can go either way and welcome suggestions. I'd start merging older topics in the above list to 'maint' soonish, but not today.

Thanks.