From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Draft release notes for v1.5.3, as of -rc1 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:22:22 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <7vmyzv1acz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vejl0546b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v4plqoyg5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v7iqgtt1j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vk5u7d38h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com> <7vy7idydqa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com> <7v7ipsz7vr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com> <7vk5tj3bj1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vzm20q1l7.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vlkdkq00o.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070713092908.GO1528MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: skimo@liacs.nl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 14 16:22:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I9iWF-0002UN-UG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:22:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757870AbXGNOWf (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:22:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757204AbXGNOWf (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:22:35 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:57840 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752162AbXGNOWe (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:22:34 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Jul 2007 14:22:32 -0000 Received: from R526b.r.pppool.de (EHLO noname) [89.54.82.107] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 14 Jul 2007 16:22:32 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19NOqkRJzBNUg16Dz+v77ZSmEkoaXuvqyOwwaV9pJ +zGnxGUZX+rlr6 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20070713092908.GO1528MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:40:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > - "git-filter-branch" lets you rewrite the revision history of > > the current branch, creating a new branch. You can specify a > > number of filters to modify the commits, files and trees. > > Are you sure you want to announce this so publicly given that > Dscho has basically declared git-filter-branch dead? > (I know, I'm mostly to blame.) It is really unfortunate that rewrite-commits came in so late in the release cycle, and I am quite sure it should not be in 1.5.3. There is just too much new in it, and too many things to flesh out. Junio, if you want to include it in 1.5.3, it should be marked as alpha code, as it has not seen any time in "next", let alone "master". However, no matter if rewrite-commits is included in 1.5.3, I am not sure what to do about filter-branch. Since it saw a lot of testing in its admin-rewritehist form, and has had at least some eye pairs looking over it, I have the feeling that it is stable enough to include. How to tell people that it will soon be obsoleted by rewrite-commits, I have no idea. It would be a much less difficult problem if the syntax of filter-branch and rewrite-commits was identical. Maybe we should make it so, by changing filter-branch? Thoughts? Ciao, Dscho