From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.7.12-rc1 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 13:03:36 -0400 Message-ID: <20120803170336.GA24237@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <7v8ve0q4yy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120803161916.GA16973@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 19:03:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SxLHs-0000NA-3a for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:03:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752989Ab2HCRDj (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2012 13:03:39 -0400 Received: from 75-15-5-89.uvs.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([75.15.5.89]:50755 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751290Ab2HCRDi (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2012 13:03:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 26456 invoked by uid 107); 3 Aug 2012 17:03:43 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:03:43 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:03:36 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120803161916.GA16973@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 12:19:16PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 03:06:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over > > the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage > > distribution of clients. > > Hmm. Is this true? > > I was just flipping through some old topics of mine, and I noticed that > the final patch of jk/version-string never got applied to the topic > branch. It was posted here: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199059 > > and you picked up the other patches in the series, but not that one. So > I think it was just a simple mistake. > > I've been running with it locally for 2 months and haven't seen any > problem. Unfortunately it's a bit too non-trivial to be appropriate for > 1.7.12 at this point in the cycle, so I guess we will have to let it > cook in the next iteration. > > Here's a repost for convenience. And here's an update to the release notes. -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] RelNotes: drop version-string topic from 1.7.12 The final patch which actually turns this feature on was never applied to the topic branch, so it did not make it into this cycle. --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index 786a702..cffa0db 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -51,10 +51,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. - * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over - the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage - distribution of clients. - * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the default location where the build procedure installs them locally;