Re: [PATCH] git svn: make empty directory creation gc-aware

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

  More pushes hopefully coming as Sam and Andrew work out the mergeinfo
  performance problems and I look into crossing svn-remote boundaries
  for parent lookups.

Thanks.

This particular patch should be in 1.6.6 final, because mkdirs first
appeared in 1.6.6-rc0 at 6111b93 (git svn: attempt to create empty dirs on
clone+rebase, 2009-11-15), and 1.6.5.X series does not have the command,
so this seems like a new feature that never existed in any tagged release,
and if we shipped 1.6.6 without this patch, we will be shipping it with a
know breakage, while if we shipped it with this, even if this patch
somehow had an unintended side effect, at worst we'd be exchanging a bug
with some other bug, so it wouldn't be worse.

I agree completely.

Is mkdirs the only "noteworthy" feature that should be mentioned in the
Release Notes in your area?  It would be really nice if you can give a
patch to Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.6.txt in a few days to turn a single
liner I have there to something more helpful.  The current shortlog since
1.6.5 indicates there weren't that much activity during this release.

Sam's merge handling work is definitely noteworthy, but it's already in
the release notes, hopefully the performance regression there is worked
out.  I'll definitely send you a patch to the release notes after I get
a chance to figure out the other issue with multiple svn-remotes
tonight/tomorrow.

-- 
Eric Wong