On 2019-07-11 at 15:28:27, Mark T. Ortell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am doing a software tool assessment for functional safety and I am reviewing the use of Git as the SCM. One thing that I need to do is review the list of "known issues" with the Git release being used. I have gone through the release notes and found that it only contains the fixes and enhancements in a particular release of Git, it does not contain a list of known issues/errata in a particular release. The github project also does not include the bug tracking list, so I am not able to figure out a way to review the known issues for a particular release. I considered reviewing the fixes in releases beyond the release used, but that has 2 problems. One, it doesn't contain any issues that are yet to be fixed. Two, only the fixes in the "next" release are truly relevant because fixes after that could have been introduced in a release after the release being used. An additional note is that the Git for Windows project does provide a list of known issues in the install
> 
> Could someone in this mailing list assist me in finding the known issues for a particular version?

It sounds like what you're asking is for a bug tracker that lists all
known issues. Git doesn't have one of those; we instead use the mailing
list for reporting issues. We've considered using a bug tracker in the
past, but the idea hasn't caught on yet.

The GitHub project is a mirror; it isn't the canonical resource, and the
Git project doesn't use it for issues or pull requests. Both of these
are also the same policy as for the Linux kernel[0], which you may or
may not use.

If you're looking for an easy way to check off a compliance box, you may
need to work with your management and/or auditors to see what approach
you use for other software (such as Linux) that has nontraditional bug
reporting practices. If you typically use a Linux distro that addresses
this issue for you, then you'll probably want to use Git from that
source as well.

Alternatively, you can use Git for Windows on a non-Windows system; it
should compile and run just fine on Linux, macOS, and Windows, although
it tends to carry more patches than Git itself.

[0] Yes, kernel.org has a bug tracker, but it is known to be incomplete
and many issues are raised only on the various mailing lists.
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