Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2013, #04; Wed, 13)

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:11:55 -0800

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 03:07:54PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> * nd/liteal-pathspecs (2013-10-28) 1 commit
>>   (merged to 'next' on 2013-11-01 at 1a91775)
>>  + pathspec: stop --*-pathspecs impact on internal parse_pathspec() uses
>> 
>>  Will cook in 'next'.
>
> I think we want this to be part of v1.8.5. It is a fix for a regression
> that appeared in master post-1.8.4:
>
>   $ git.v1.8.4 --literal-pathspecs blame Makefile | wc -l
>   2596
>
>   $ git.v1.8.5-rc2 --literal-pathspecs blame Makefile | wc -l
>   fatal: Makefile: pathspec magic not supported by this command: 'literal'
>   0
>
> Sorry to mention it so late into the -rc cycle, but I just noticed that
> the patch hadn't graduated.

Thanks for being careful. Will merge it down to 'master' before
another round of rc, which hopefully be the last.