Any comment about upcoming Git Rev News edition 115

[chriscool]

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-115.md

Feel free to comment in this issue, suggest topics, suggest persons to interview, or use the edit button (that looks like a pen) to edit and create a pull request with the changes you would like.

Let's try to publish this edition around the end of September 2024!

Thanks!

cc @jnareb @mjaix @sivaraam @gitster @stepnem

[chriscool]

Some things we can talk about:

• results of GSoC 2024
• Git participating in the next Outreachy round
• Git Merge 2024

[jnareb]

My links have landed in 78f48f9 (with little addition in f699ee9).

[chriscool]

@jnareb thanks for the great links!

About your little addition, I think it's a good idea to talk about it, but I left a comment: f699ee9#commitcomment-147419315

[chriscool]

@mjaix thanks for your great fixes in ef17404 and 7047716!

However, about "In summary, the root problem can be understood as a portability one." that you added, I am not sure it's very clear why it's only a portability issue, as I am not sure Git would use the pipefail option even if it was available everywhere. I think that Git shell scripts just use no (or perhaps very few) shell options for a number of reasons, not just portability ones.

(For example, one of the benefits of using very few options is that it's easier for readers to understand what a snippet of code or a patch hunk does without having to look around everywhere for which options might or might not be set in the context of the snippet or hunk.)

It might be a good idea to add links to "the pipefail option" and "named pipes", like perhaps this one https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/options.html#OPTIONSREF (for the pipefail option) let me know if you want me to do it.

[stepnem]

It might be a good idea to add links to "the `pipefail` option" and "named pipes", like perhaps this one https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/options.html#OPTIONSREF (for the `pipefail` option) let me know if you want me to do it.

If talking about portability it might make more sense to link to https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_19_09_02 instead, as 'pipefail' has recently been added to POSIX (issue 8). (The TLDP link seems to be about Bash.)

[chriscool]

@stepnem yeah, nice link, thanks!

[stepnem]

I've submitted #731 with a few nits I've found, but I also don't understand what "xs-related tools" in the Stacked Diffs paragraph refer to. Searching for "xs" in the current draft or the mentioned edition 111 didn't help. Am I missing something?

[jnareb]

I've submitted #731 with a few nits I've found, but I also don't understand what "xs-related tools" in the Stacked Diffs paragraph refer to. Searching for "xs" in the current draft or the mentioned edition 111 didn't help. Am I missing something?

Good find. It was a typo (Ctrl+X Ctrl+S is save file in GNU Emacs, and if Ctrl does not take...). Fixed in fd76e5b

[stepnem]

Good find. It was a typo (Ctrl+X Ctrl+S is save file in GNU Emacs, and if Ctrl does not take...). Fixed in fd76e5b

Thanks, I've fixed up the resulting merge conflict and re-pushed my PR branch.

[chriscool]

Thanks @stepnem , your PR is merged!

I would have hoped to have a reply from @mjaix but I am going to publish the edition in a few hours anyway.

[mjaix]

Sorry, Access from $work I difficult.

[mjaix]

Sorry, Access from $work I difficult, but now established ..
Feel free to leave out my hallucination regarding portability, or even the complete part in brackets.

[steadmon]

The first link for "Host your own Radicle seed node" is actually linking to the previous bullet-point's GitVersion article.

[chriscool]

@mjaix I think portability is a part of the issue but not the only one. I will change the part in brackets a bit. Thanks for your reply!

@steadmon thanks for the report! I will try to change the link.

[chriscool]

@steadmon link changed in 57bdc63

@mjaix changes made in 3516914

[chriscool]

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