On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:57:36AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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I've just backported it to 1.7.9.3 (I'm not keen on living on the bleeding
edge with my everyday tools), and it works nicely as expected.

This topic will be backported in later versions of 1.7.9.x track,
but living on the maintenance track does not have much smaller
chance of breakage than living on the tip of 'master' these days,
unless you are using distro packaged version. The usual rule of
thumb if you are compiling from the source is that the tip of
'master' is more stable than any tagged version, including the
maintenance track.  See

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189657/focus=190814

for details.

I know, but you see I was running on 1.7.2.3. Generally if one version
works for me, I don't upgrade it for a year or two. I've been hit a few
times in the past by some quite annoying bugs (as is to be expected from
any software in the development branch), and lost a lot of time on this.
Rest assured that I don't feel comfortable on 1.7.9 either, that's a big
jump for me but I know that most often it works quite well :-)

Willy