Plans for 2.7.1?

Hi Junio,

at tinyurl.com/gitCal I see a pretty timeline regarding 2.8.0, but I do not see 2.7.1 planned anywhere.

Due to signature problems (I failed to realize that SHA-1 based .exe signatures are no longer considered valid starting from January 1st, 2016), I got a metric ton of private and non-private bug reports regarding "corrupt signatures", and therefore I would like to prevent those reports from taking over my entire working hours by simply issuing a new release of Git for Windows.

Is 2.7.1 around the corner? Otherwise I'll just make a 2.7.0(2).

Thanks, Dscho

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

Yup, because maintenance releases are inherently "not planned" ;-)

Unlike feature releases that are largely time-based, we cut maintenance releases only when we need to push out fixes. We do not even know in advance what breakages we would have in 2.7.0, or what fixes we would apply for them, and when these fixes would happen.

Let me see what are slated for 'maint' in the current draft release notes. This actually lists what could technically be merged to 'maint'; some clean-up patches may not be worth merging down.

    $ Meta/ML <RelNotes
    ps/push-delete-option # 2 (3 weeks ago) 
    nd/stop-setenv-work-tree # 1 (3 weeks ago) 
    nd/dir-exclude-cleanup # 1 (12 days ago) 
    nd/ita-cleanup # 3 (12 days ago) 
    ew/send-email-mutt-alias-fix # 1 (12 days ago) 
    jk/clang-pedantic # 2 (12 days ago) 
    dw/signoff-doc # 1 (12 days ago) 
    dk/reflog-walk-with-non-commit # 1 (12 days ago) 
    nd/exclusion-regression-fix # 1 (12 days ago) 
    js/fopen-harder # 2 (12 days ago) 
    ho/gitweb-squelch-undef-warning # 1 (12 days ago) 
    jk/ok-to-fail-gc-auto-in-rebase # 1 (6 days ago) 
    js/close-packs-before-gc # 4 (6 days ago) 
    jk/filter-branch-no-index # 1 (4 days ago) 
    jk/sanity # 1 (4 days ago) 
    ss/user-manual # 4 (12 days ago) 
    ew/for-each-ref-doc # 1 (12 days ago) 
    sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix # 1 (12 days ago) 
    ss/clone-depth-single-doc # 3 (12 days ago) 

I think we have enough important fixes already in 'master' for some time that we should merge them and tag 2.7.1. Tentatively, among the above, I think the following might be a good set of topics for 2.7.1:

$ cat MAINT nd/stop-setenv-work-tree nd/dir-exclude-cleanup dw/signoff-doc dk/reflog-walk-with-non-commit nd/exclusion-regression-fix js/fopen-harder ho/gitweb-squelch-undef-warning jk/ok-to-fail-gc-auto-in-rebase js/close-packs-before-gc jk/sanity ss/user-manual ew/for-each-ref-doc sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix ss/clone-depth-single-doc

And here would be the shortlog:

$ git shortlog ^maint $(cat MAINT)
David A. Wheeler (1):
      Expand documentation describing --signoff

Dennis Kaarsemaker (1):
      reflog-walk: don't segfault on non-commit sha1's in the reflog

Eric Wong (1):
      for-each-ref: document `creatordate` and `creator` fields

Jeff King (1):
      rebase: ignore failures from "gc --auto"

Johannes Schindelin (6):
      commit: allow editing the commit message even in shared repos
      Handle more file writes correctly in shared repos
      fetch: release pack files before garbage-collecting
      am: release pack files before garbage-collecting
      merge: release pack files before garbage-collecting
      receive-pack: release pack files before garbage-collecting

Junio C Hamano (1):
      test-lib: clarify and tighten SANITY

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (3):
      Revert "setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like $GIT_DIR"
      dir.c: clean the entire struct in clear_exclude_list()
      Revert "dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match"

SZEDER Gábor (1):
      t6050-replace: make failing editor test more robust

Sebastian Schuberth (3):
      docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch
      docs: say "commits" in the --depth option wording for git-clone
      docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos

Stephen P. Smith (4):
      user-manual: remove temporary branch entry from todo list
      glossary: define the term shallow clone
      user-manual: add section documenting shallow clones
      user-manual: add addition gitweb information

Øyvind A. Holm (1):
      gitweb: squelch "uninitialized value" warning

I would want to see jk/list-tag-2.7-regression and ew/ svn-1.9.0-auth topics also in 2.7.x track soonish, but they currently are still in 'next', so perhaps late this week or early next week?

Hi Junio,

On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Of course, I know. Though as you dropped a hint that it might be imminent in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/283579 I thought it might be in that calendar somewhere.

No rush. I'll just do a 2.7.0(2) today.

Thanks for the detailed information! Dscho