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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:15:02 +0000 (12:15 -0800) | ||
committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:15:02 +0000 (12:15 -0800) |
Hopefully the last rc before the final one.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GIT-VERSION-GEN | patch | blob | history |
index b9e864238a40c293efef15812713c9143bf78cc5..72df781e7d357598781c0a5e19534a0082905584 100644 (file)
been identified as more problematic to the userbase than keeping them for
the sake of backward compatibility.
-When necessary, transition strategy for existing users has been designed
+When necessary, a transition strategy for existing users has been designed
not to force them running around setting configuration variables and
updating their scripts in order to either keep the traditional behaviour
-or adjust to the new behaviour on the day their sysadmin decides to install
+or adjust to the new behaviour, on the day their sysadmin decides to install
the new version of git. When we switched from "git-foo" to "git foo" in
1.6.0, even though the change had been advertised and the transition
guide had been provided for a very long time, the users procrastinated
repeating that unpleasantness in the 1.7.0 release.
For changes decided to be in 1.7.0, commands that will be affected
-have been much louder to strongly discourage such procrastination. If
-you have been using recent versions of git, you would have seen
-warnings issued when you exercised features whose behaviour will
-change, with a clear instruction on how to keep the existing behaviour
-if you want to. You hopefully are already well prepared.
+have been much louder to strongly discourage such procrastination, and
+they continue to be in this release. If you have been using recent
+versions of git, you would have seen warnings issued when you used
+features whose behaviour will change, with a clear instruction on how
+to keep the existing behaviour if you want to. You hopefully are
+already well prepared.
Of course, we have also been giving "this and that will change in
1.7.0; prepare yourselves" warnings in the release notes and
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 039e8d427c258954a988527095972fadc3cecd34..22f2461636108af097e4fbd8e515be38583a2b96 100755 (executable)
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.6.6-rc3.GIT
+DEF_VER=v1.6.6-rc4.GIT
LF='
'