Re: git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute

2019-05-26 Thread Keegan Carruthers-Smith
On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 10:13, Jeff King wrote: > It's possible Git is doing the wrong thing on the writing side, but > given that newer versions of bsdtar handle it fine, I'd guess that the > old one simply had problems consuming poorly formed symlink filenames. I agree that the reader should be

[RFC/PATCH] refs: tone down the dwimmery in refname_match() for {heads,tags,remotes}/*

2019-05-26 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
When a refspec like HEAD:tags/x is pushed where HEAD is a branch, we'll push a *branch* that'll be located at "refs/heads/tags/x". This is part of the rather straightforward rules I documented in 2219c09e23 ("push doc: document the DWYM behavior pushing to unqualified ", 2018-11-13). However, if t

Re: git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute

2019-05-26 Thread René Scharfe
Am 25.05.19 um 23:07 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: > > On Sat, May 25 2019, René Scharfe wrote: > >> We could truncate symlink targets at the first NUL as well in git >> archive -- but that would be a bit sad, as the archive formats allow >> storing the "real" target from the repo, with NUL and

Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for Linux 5.2-rc2

2019-05-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 10:53 AM Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > The interesting thing is that not only git will treat lightweight tags > like, well, tags: Yeah, that's very much by design - lightweight tags are very comvenient for local temporary stuff where you don't want signing etc (think automated

[PATCH] send-email: remove documented requirement for Net::SMTP::SSL

2019-05-26 Thread Chris Mayo
git-send-email uses the TLS support in the Net::SMTP core module from recent versions of Perl. Documenting the minimum version is complex because of separate numbering for Perl (5.21.5~169), Net:SMTP (2.34) and libnet (3.01). Version numbers from commit: bfbfc9a953 ("send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls

Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] documentation: add tutorial for first contribution

2019-05-26 Thread Christian Couder
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:48 PM Emily Shaffer wrote: > > This tutorial covers how to add a new command to Git and, in the > process, everything from cloning git/git to getting reviewed on the > mailing list. It's meant for new contributors to go through > interactively, learning the techniques ge