Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc4

2014-05-21 Thread Martin Erik Werner
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 05:24:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: (...) * git reset learned the -N option, which does not reset the index fully for paths the index knows about but the tree-ish the command resets to does not (these paths are kept as intend-to-add entries). I find it quite

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc4

2014-05-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Martin Erik Werner martinerikwer...@gmail.com writes: * Commands that take pathspecs on the command line misbehaved when the pathspec is given as an absolute pathname (which is a practice not particularly encouraged) that points at a symbolic link in the working tree. (merge

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc4

2014-05-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: Junio C Hamano wrote: * The remote-helper interface to fast-import/fast-export via the transport-helper has been tightened to avoid leaving the import marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out-of- sync with

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc4

2014-05-21 Thread Richard Hansen
On 2014-05-20 20:24, Junio C Hamano wrote: Fixes since v1.9 series --- Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.9 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). [...] * The shell prompt script (in

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc4

2014-05-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Richard Hansen rhan...@bbn.com writes: * The shell prompt script (in contrib/), when using the PROMPT_COMMAND interface, used an unsafe construct when showing the branch name in $PS1. (merge 8976500 rh/prompt-pcmode-avoid-eval-on-refname later to maint). That commit has been

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc4

2014-05-21 Thread Felipe Contreras
Junio C Hamano wrote: Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: Junio C Hamano wrote: * The remote-helper interface to fast-import/fast-export via the transport-helper has been tightened to avoid leaving the import marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file

[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc4

2014-05-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
A release candidate Git v2.0.0-rc4, hopefully the final one before the real thing, is now available for testing at the usual places. The tarballs are found at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/ The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.0.0-rc4' tag and

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc4

2014-05-20 Thread Felipe Contreras
Junio C Hamano wrote: * The remote-helper interface to fast-import/fast-export via the transport-helper has been tightened to avoid leaving the import marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out-of- sync with reality confuses a later invocation of itself.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc4

2014-05-20 Thread David Kastrup
Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: Junio C Hamano wrote: * The remote-helper interface to fast-import/fast-export via the transport-helper has been tightened to avoid leaving the import marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out-of- sync with