Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2017, #06; Tue, 14)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] 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)