From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Branchaud Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.5-rc2 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:47:04 -0500 Message-ID: <5284FE88.8040208@xiplink.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Kyle J. McKay" , Eric Wong To: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 14 17:46:48 2013 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 1Vh047-0001Rf-HC for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:46:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755093Ab3KNQqn (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:46:43 -0500 Received: from smtp138.ord.emailsrvr.com ([173.203.6.138]:41366 "EHLO smtp138.ord.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755700Ab3KNQq3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:46:29 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp18.relay.ord1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id DEA6A305C4; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:46:28 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp18.relay.ord1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: mbranchaud-AT-xiplink.com) with ESMTPSA id 7F4AE30532; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:46:28 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 13-11-13 06:07 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > A release candidate Git v1.8.5-rc2 is now available for testing > at the usual places. [ snip ] > Updates since v1.8.4 > -------------------- > > 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. > > * On MacOS X, we detected if the filesystem needs the "pre-composed > unicode strings" workaround, but did not automatically enable it. > Now we do. > > * remote-hg remote helper misbehaved when interacting with a local Hg > repository relative to the home directory, e.g. "clone hg::~/there". > > * imap-send ported to OS X uses Apple's security framework instead of > OpenSSL one. > > * 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? BTW, $ git log --no-merges --oneline v1.8.4..v1.8.5-rc2 -- git-svn.perl perl/Git/SVN/ shows: f849bb6 git-svn: Warn about changing default for --prefix in Git v2.0 60786bd git-svn: fix signed commit parsing 73ffac3 git-svn: fix termination issues for remote svn connections 8ac251b git-svn: allow git-svn fetching to work using serf The release notes don't seem to mention 60786bd. M. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/229720 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233701