Hi, On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > > > > Should we follow Junio's maint branch and release maintenance > > > versions of msysgit? > > > > > > One way would be to have "maint" branches in mingw and 4msysgit. You > > > would merge Junio's maint to your maint branch, which I would then > > > merge to 4msysgit's maint. Afterwards I'd build and release the > > > installer. > > > > I am the other Johannes, but I have some thoughts on this, too ;-) > > > > IMHO it is better to follow "master" for now, since there are quite a > > few features coming along that we _need_. > > Thats true, but maybe we should just wait ... We can always merge them early. Remember, our plan is to eventually just rebase to git.git's master (once MinGW/MSys support has trickled down into git.git). > > For example, your crlf stuff, and the solution for the "git gc" in big > > repositories, as well as the patch to support case-insensitive > > filesystems better (hopefully soon!). > > > > These will not be in "maint" for a long time. > > ... Junio mentioned a few times on the git list that he plans to have a > short 1.5.5 cycle. So hopefully a "long time" will not be that long. Yes, but the more I think about it, the more I am certain that we should already test that stuff. > The question for me is if we want to improve 1.5.4 in the same very > controlled way that official git is improved. Certainly we won't have > the new features; but we would also avoid having uncontrolled > regressions. This is how maintenance releases work, no? > > We do not advertise msysgit for production, but I know that people are > already using git for getting real work done on Windows. I can only stress that we say it is beta quality. So if people are bitten by some bug we introduced, that is unfortunate, but at the same time I think it is inevitable. The issues I mentioned earlier are real issues, and users of msysgit have to be aware that they are on thin ice. Well, not so thin; I use msysgit regularly, so it is not _that_ dangerous. > So maybe we should make the bug fixes from Junio's maint available to > them. Definitely. Ciao, Dscho
