Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.48.0-rc0

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:51:28 +0100

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 07:07:25PM -0500, [email-masked] wrote:
> On December 16, 2024 1:15 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >An early preview release Git v2.48.0-rc0 is now available for testing at the usual
> >places.  It is comprised of 446 non-merge commits since v2.47.0, contributed by 66
> >people, 26 of which are new faces [*].
> >
> >The tarballs are found at:
> >
> >    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/
> >
> >The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.48.0-rc0' tag and the
> >'master' branch that the tag points at:
> >
> >  url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
> >  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
> >  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
> >  url = https://github.com/gitster/git
> 
> Did I miss something about GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT=reftable being removed
> from the test suite? That was available under 2.47.0 but if I supply it now, the tests
> crash at git init.

Nothing should've changed here, and a local test run with that
environment variable works alright on my system. Could you please
provide more details?

Patrick