Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.5-rc2

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2013, 17:01 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvbzpbq4d.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <5284FE88.8040208@xiplink.com>

Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:

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>> Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
>> 
>>  * "git-svn" used with SVN 1.8.0 when talking over https:// connection
>>    dumped core due to a bug in the serf library that SVN uses.  Work
>>    it around on our side, even though the SVN side is being fixed.
>>  ...
>>  * Subversion 1.8.0 that was recently released breaks older subversion
>>    clients coming over http/https in various ways.
>
> Isn't this the same as the serf fixes ([1],[2])?  If not, what git change is
> it referring to?

The latter, I think, is 8ac251b6 (git-svn: allow git-svn fetching to work using serf, 2013-07-06). Without it we won't even work with newer SVN library.

The former I think refers to 73ffac3b (git-svn: fix termination issues for remote svn connections, 2013-09-03). Even with the serf support, without a work-around, we won't work with serf.

The description can and should be rolled into one, but I am not sure what the best wording would be.

Thanks.