Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.10.0-rc0

[Torsten Bögershausen]

On 15.08.16 00:47, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Torsten Bögershausen (1):
>   convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF

Should we mention this change in the release notes?

The handling of "*.text = auto" was changed, and now

$ echo "* text=auto eol=crlf" >.gitattributes
has the same effect as
$ git config core.autocrlf true

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.10.0-rc0

[Torsten Bögershausen]

On 15.08.16 00:47, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Torsten Bögershausen (1):
>   convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF

Should we mention this change in the release notes?

The handling of "*.text = auto" was changed, and now

$ echo "* text=auto eol=crlf" >.gitattributes
has the same effect as
$ git config core.autocrlf true

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.7.4 (and updates to older maintenance tracks)

[Torsten Bögershausen]

> Git v2.7.4 Release Notes
> 
> 
> Fixes since v2.7.3
> --
> 
>  * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap
>corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of
>pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API.  Both of
>these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer
>when formulating pathnames while tree traversal.
> 
> 
> 
> Changes since v2.7.3 are as follows:
> 
> Jeff King (7):
>   add helpers for detecting size_t overflow
>   tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
>   http-push: stop using name_path
>   show_object_with_name: simplify by using path_name()
>   list-objects: convert name_path to a strbuf
>   list-objects: drop name_path entirely
>   list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacks
> 
If there is a new 2.7.x release, does it make sense to cherry-pick this one:

commit 7b6daf8d2fee1a9866b1d4eddbfaa5dbc42c5dbb
Author: Torsten Bögershausen 
Date:   Sun Feb 28 21:09:44 2016 +0100

config.mak.uname: use clang for Mac OS X 10.6

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.7.4 (and updates to older maintenance tracks)

[Torsten Bögershausen]

> Git v2.7.4 Release Notes
> 
> 
> Fixes since v2.7.3
> --
> 
>  * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap
>corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of
>pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API.  Both of
>these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer
>when formulating pathnames while tree traversal.
> 
> 
> 
> Changes since v2.7.3 are as follows:
> 
> Jeff King (7):
>   add helpers for detecting size_t overflow
>   tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
>   http-push: stop using name_path
>   show_object_with_name: simplify by using path_name()
>   list-objects: convert name_path to a strbuf
>   list-objects: drop name_path entirely
>   list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacks
> 
If there is a new 2.7.x release, does it make sense to cherry-pick this one:

commit 7b6daf8d2fee1a9866b1d4eddbfaa5dbc42c5dbb
Author: Torsten Bögershausen 
Date:   Sun Feb 28 21:09:44 2016 +0100

config.mak.uname: use clang for Mac OS X 10.6