[Buildbot-devel] Git checkout failing with git-1.8 and up unless (correct) branch specified?

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Tom Prince <tom.prince at ualberta.net> wrote:
>> This has been fixed in the buildbot-0.8.7 branch.
>
> I see the fix, 3cef8ba0fae3b902bdb28f6a952827cf4f08ccb7
>
> But I'm a bit suprised the fix was made on the branch instead of master.
> http://trac.buildbot.net/wiki/BranchesAndTags does say that X.Y.Z branches can
> have security fixes made after release (and then get a vX.Y.ZpN tag),
> but it didn't suggest that development continued there.
>
> Has the fix also been made on master?  I don't see it there,
> but maybe I'm just not up on the code.

The changes will get merged to master soon -- usually within a couple
of days, when Tom or I get around to it.

Tom, we should probably update the wiki to indicate bugfixes are being
made on release branches now, too.

Dustin