Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johan Herland writes: > I.e. use Kyle's patch to t9117, plus something like this: > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt > index 5b3c38d..9f579e0 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt > @@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ COMMANDS > NOTE: Before

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-23 Thread Johan Herland
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "brian m. carlson" writes: >> What we could do instead is simply require a newer version of >> Getopt::Long, which would let people continue using their ancient OSes >> and install a newer version from CPAN if necessary. It's also the >>

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
"brian m. carlson" writes: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:11:48PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Another possibility would be to require Perl 5.8.9 or newer. It was >> released in 2008. > > RHEL 5 and CentOS 5 are still shipping with 5.8.8. They are still > security-supported until 2017, and be

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:11:48PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Another possibility would be to require Perl 5.8.9 or newer. It was > released in 2008. RHEL 5 and CentOS 5 are still shipping with 5.8.8. They are still security-supported until 2017, and believe it or not people still develop o

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: >> The documentation says >> >> --prefix= >> >> ... >> >> Before Git 2.0, the default prefix was "" (no prefix). >> This meant that ... >> >> which suggests that I can use --prefix="" to mean no prefix. P

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder writes: > >>> Hm, perhaps we should introduce a 'no-prefix' option to work around >>> this. > [...] >>> That way, normal usage of --prefix would still be consistent with >>> other git commands that prefer the form with argument a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: >> Hm, perhaps we should introduce a 'no-prefix' option to work around >> this. [...] >> That way, normal usage of --prefix would still be consistent with >> other git commands that prefer the form with argument attached >> (--prefix=foo, not --pref

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Hm, perhaps we should introduce a 'no-prefix' option to work around > this. > ... >> |diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl >> |index 7349ffea..284f458a 100755 >> |--- a/git-svn.perl >> |+++ b/git-svn.perl >> |@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ my ($_trunk, @_tags, @_branches, $_std

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Kyle J. McKay" writes: > Alternatively this change can be made in git-svn.perl: > |diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl > |index 7349ffea..284f458a 100755 > |--- a/git-svn.perl > |+++ b/git-svn.perl > |@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ my ($_trunk, @_tags, @_branches, $_stdlayout); > my %icv; > my %in

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Kyle J. McKay wrote: > The problem with --prefix="" is this (from the Getopt::Long CHANGES file): > > Changes in version 2.37 > --- > > * Bugfix: With gnu_compat, --foo= will no longer trigger "Option >requires an argument" but return the empty string. > > The system I ran

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Kyle J. McKay
On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:37, Junio C Hamano wrote: > An early preview release Git v2.0.0-rc0 is now available for > testing at the usual places. I have run into the following test failures with v2.0.0-rc0: Test Summary Report --- t9117-git-svn-init-clone.sh (Wstat: 256

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Felipe Contreras writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> * transport-helper, fast-import and fast-export have been updated to >>allow the ref mapping and ref deletion in a way similar to the >>natively supported transports. > > Have they? Yikes, no. This was me mischaracterizingg the merge

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-20 Thread Felipe Contreras
Junio C Hamano wrote: > * transport-helper, fast-import and fast-export have been updated to >allow the ref mapping and ref deletion in a way similar to the >natively supported transports. Have they? % git --version git version 2.0.0.rc0 % git push origin origin master:foo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johan Herland writes: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> An early preview release Git v2.0.0-rc0 is now available for >> testing at the usual places. > > This is supposed to have _all_ the v2.0 topics, correct? > > I'm unable to find the commit that actually _changes_ th

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-18 Thread Johan Herland
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > An early preview release Git v2.0.0-rc0 is now available for > testing at the usual places. This is supposed to have _all_ the v2.0 topics, correct? I'm unable to find the commit that actually _changes_ the default prefix for "git svn" (as

[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-18 Thread Junio C Hamano
An early preview release Git v2.0.0-rc0 is now available for testing at the usual places. A major version bump between v1.x.x series and the upcoming v2.0.0 means there are a handful of backward incompatible UI improvements, but for most people, all the tricky preparation for the transition would