On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 01:33:03PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > As I thought, I couldn't reproduce the bug with such a sample > repository. > > But I've found that the bug is fixed in the trunk. I could bisect > to search for the fix, and this is the following: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r1795116 | stefan2 | 2017-05-14 22:22:49 +0200 (Sun, 14 May 2017) | 17 lines > > Fix issue #4677.
Great! Thanks for tracking it down. > There is a comment saying: > > "Backport for 1.9.6 is yet to be approved." > > Could it really be backported? It was already queued in the 1.9.x STATUS file and was just waiting for one more vote. I have cast the missing vote in http://svn.apache.org/r1814174 So barring unexpected events, this should be part of the next 1.9.x release (I cannot give you an ETA on that, though).