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 gits...@pobox.com wrote: brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net 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

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johan Herland jo...@herland.net 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

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

2014-04-22 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 the tests

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Kyle J. McKay mack...@gmail.com 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;

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com 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,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com 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,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Junio C Hamano wrote: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com 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

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: The documentation says --prefix=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.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0-rc0

2014-04-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net 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

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 jo...@herland.net writes: On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com 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

[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

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 gits...@pobox.com 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