Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi Junio, > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> * js/visual-studio (2019-07-29) 23 commits >> - git: avoid calling aliased builtins via their dashed form >> - bin-wrappers: append `.exe` to target paths if necessary >> - .gitignore: ignore Visual Studio's temporary/generated files >> - .gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio >> - vcxproj: also link-or-copy builtins >> - msvc: add a Makefile target to pre-generate the Visual Studio solution >> - contrib/buildsystems: add a backend for modern Visual Studio versions >> - contrib/buildsystems: handle options starting with a slash >> - contrib/buildsystems: also handle -lexpat >> - contrib/buildsystems: handle libiconv, too >> - contrib/buildsystems: handle the curl library option >> - contrib/buildsystems: error out on unknown option >> - contrib/buildsystems: optionally capture the dry-run in a file >> - contrib/buildsystems: redirect errors of the dry run into a log file >> - contrib/buildsystems: ignore gettext stuff >> - contrib/buildsystems: handle quoted spaces in filenames >> - contrib/buildsystems: fix misleading error message >> - contrib/buildsystems: ignore irrelevant files in Generators/ >> - contrib/buildsystems: ignore invalidcontinue.obj >> - Vcproj.pm: urlencode '<' and '>' when generating VC projects >> - Vcproj.pm: do not configure VCWebServiceProxyGeneratorTool >> - Vcproj.pm: list git.exe first to be startup project >> - Vcproj.pm: auto-generate GUIDs >> >> Support building Git with Visual Studio >> >> The bits about .git/branches/* have been dropped from the series. >> We may want to drop the support for it, but until that happens, the >> tests should rely on the existence of the support to pass. > > As of v2, the tests rely on that existence again. Yup. I think they are now in good shape to be among the first to graduate post release. Building the warning facility necessary to start dropping the $GIT_DIR/branches/ support would be too late for this cycle, but now this topic is independent from that, so it may even be worth considering to have it in the upcoming release.