Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Among the topics merged to 'master' since v2.12 was tagged, 40+ of > them could be also merged to 'maint' (some of these are new features > and by default should not be, though). Among them two are fixes for > regressions found in v2.12: > > * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths > selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p" > directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and > "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been > fixed. > (merge c852bd54bd jk/add-i-patch-do-prompt later to maint). > > * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various > operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when > seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault. > (merge ce83eadd9a js/realpath-pathdup-fix later to maint). > > These two have been merged to 'master' only a few days ago; > additional tests on 'master' to make sure they fix the issues, and > more importantly they do not introduce new regressions, are greatly > appreciated. I am hoping we can merge them (and probably others) > to 'maint' to cut v2.12.1 by early next week. Those who are curious what "probably others" are, a good place to start is this list (refer to RelNotes on the 'master' for what they are about): jk/delta-chain-limit # 2 (2 weeks ago) jk/grep-no-index-fix # 7 (2 weeks ago) jn/remote-helpers-with-git-dir # 2 (2 weeks ago) jk/show-branch-lift-name-len-limit # 3 (2 weeks ago) jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion # 1 (2 weeks ago) rl/remote-allow-missing-branch-name-merge # 1 (2 weeks ago) dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs # 1 (2 weeks ago) jc/config-case-cmdline-take-2 # 2 (4 days ago) jk/ident-empty # 4 (4 days ago) jt/upload-pack-error-report # 1 (4 days ago) rs/sha1-file-plug-fallback-base-leak # 1 (4 days ago) jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect # 1 (4 days ago) jk/add-i-patch-do-prompt # 1 (2 days ago) js/realpath-pathdup-fix # 2 (2 days ago) ss/remote-bzr-hg-placeholder-wo-python # 1 (2 days ago) ax/line-log-range-merge-fix # 1 (2 days ago) vn/line-log-memcpy-size-fix # 1 (2 days ago) jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix # 1 (2 days ago) ab/cond-skip-tests # 3 (75 minutes ago) jk/interpret-branch-name # 9 (75 minutes ago) mm/fetch-show-error-message-on-unadvertised-object # 3 (75 minutes ago) dp/filter-branch-prune-empty # 4 (75 minutes ago) ew/http-alternates-as-redirects-warning # 2 (75 minutes ago) jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix # 6 (75 minutes ago) mm/two-more-xstrfmt # 2 (2 weeks ago) ps/docs-diffcore # 2 (4 days ago) ew/markdown-url-in-readme # 1 (4 days ago) rj/remove-unused-mktemp # 2 (4 days ago) jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof # 1 (2 days ago)