On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 09:51:08AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 16 2021, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:30:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> * Two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs via > >> environment variables have been introduced, and the way > >> GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS encodes variable/value pairs has been tweaked > >> to make it more robust. > > > > For the record, this is backwards incompatible with git-programs in > > $PATH that were expecting the old format (e.g. git-cinnabar releases > > using an older version of libgit.a). > > What isn't noted there is that we're still parsing the old format in > some cases, see f9dbb64fad (config: parse more robust format in > GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS, 2021-01-12). > > But I suspect you mean that you have your own parser that expects the > old format only, I didn't find which way it was by grepping > git-cinnabar's sources. git-cinnabar is using git's libgit.a, so when using a pre-compiled version built against git < 2.31.0, it fails to parse GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS when used with git 2.31.0. There's not much I can do apart from releasing a new version. Mike
