On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 12:19:16PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 03:06:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over > > the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage > > distribution of clients. > > Hmm. Is this true? > > I was just flipping through some old topics of mine, and I noticed that > the final patch of jk/version-string never got applied to the topic > branch. It was posted here: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199059 > > and you picked up the other patches in the series, but not that one. So > I think it was just a simple mistake. > > I've been running with it locally for 2 months and haven't seen any > problem. Unfortunately it's a bit too non-trivial to be appropriate for > 1.7.12 at this point in the cycle, so I guess we will have to let it > cook in the next iteration. > > Here's a repost for convenience. And here's an update to the release notes. -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] RelNotes: drop version-string topic from 1.7.12 The final patch which actually turns this feature on was never applied to the topic branch, so it did not make it into this cycle. --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index 786a702..cffa0db 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -51,10 +51,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features read. The error message in this case was updated to give better hints to the user. - * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over - the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage - distribution of clients. - * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the default location where the build procedure installs them locally; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html