On 13-11-13 06:07 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > A release candidate Git v1.8.5-rc2 is now available for testing > at the usual places. [ snip ] > Updates since v1.8.4 > -------------------- > > Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. > > * "git-svn" used with SVN 1.8.0 when talking over https:// connection > dumped core due to a bug in the serf library that SVN uses. Work > it around on our side, even though the SVN side is being fixed. > > * On MacOS X, we detected if the filesystem needs the "pre-composed > unicode strings" workaround, but did not automatically enable it. > Now we do. > > * remote-hg remote helper misbehaved when interacting with a local Hg > repository relative to the home directory, e.g. "clone hg::~/there". > > * imap-send ported to OS X uses Apple's security framework instead of > OpenSSL one. > > * Subversion 1.8.0 that was recently released breaks older subversion > clients coming over http/https in various ways. Isn't this the same as the serf fixes ([1],[2])? If not, what git change is it referring to? BTW, $ git log --no-merges --oneline v1.8.4..v1.8.5-rc2 -- git-svn.perl perl/Git/SVN/ shows: f849bb6 git-svn: Warn about changing default for --prefix in Git v2.0 60786bd git-svn: fix signed commit parsing 73ffac3 git-svn: fix termination issues for remote svn connections 8ac251b git-svn: allow git-svn fetching to work using serf The release notes don't seem to mention 60786bd. M. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/229720 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233701 -- 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