What's in 2009/05/01 (revised)

index 88e8c0fb2e..131fb69ec4 100644 --- a/whats/cooking/2009/05/01.txt +++ b/whats/cooking/2009/05/01.txt @@ -23,9 +23,21 @@ meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names. * rr/forbid-bs-in-ref (Fri May 8 07:32:37 2009 +0200) 1 commit + Disallow '\' in ref names +This retroactively forbids use of what people could have been using +happily, which, strictly speaking, is a no-no, but makes sense in the +longer term. + * jk/maint-add-empty (Tue Apr 28 23:21:01 2009 -0400) 1 commit - add: don't complain when adding empty project root +When you say "git add ." in an empty directory, you get "No path matches +''", instead of "No path matches '.'", and this "fixes" it by hiding the +error and making the command silently succeed. Strictly speaking it +introduces inconsistency, but I think an empty directory is so +uninteresting special case that not signalling it as an error is Ok. + +Will merge to 'next'. + * lt/maint-diff-reduce-lstat (Sat May 9 15:11:17 2009 -0700) 2 commits + Teach 'git checkout' to preload the index contents + Avoid unnecessary 'lstat()' calls in 'get_stat_data()' @@ -59,6 +71,9 @@ meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names. + parseopt: add OPT_NEGBIT + parseopt: add OPT_NEGBIT +I somehow botched the commit log message of the top one; it is about +fixing "ls-files --no-empty-directory". + * fl/git-pm (Thu May 7 15:41:28 2009 +0200) 2 commits + Git.pm: Always set Repository to absolute path if autodetecting + Git.pm: Set GIT_WORK_TREE if we set GIT_DIR @@ -152,6 +167,8 @@ in binary mode as well. - rev-list: refactor printing bisect vars - rev-list: make "estimate_bisect_steps" non static +Will merge to 'next'. + * mh/show-branch-color (Sat Apr 25 13:46:14 2009 +0200) 2 commits + bash completion: show-branch color support + show-branch: color the commit status signs @@ -162,9 +179,13 @@ in binary mode as well. * ar/merge-one-file-diag (Wed Apr 29 23:40:50 2009 +0200) 1 commit - Clarify kind of conflict in merge-one-file helper +Will merge to 'next'. + * mh/diff-stat-color (Sat Apr 25 00:06:47 2009 +0200) 1 commit - diff: do not color --stat output like patch context +Will merge to 'next'. + * rc/http-push (Sat Apr 25 00:35:57 2009 +0800) 3 commits - http-push: send out fetch requests on queue - t5540-http-push: test fetching of packed objects @@ -179,9 +200,13 @@ in binary mode as well. - Introduce an unlink(2) wrapper which gives warning if unlink failed +Will merge to 'next'. + * ph/submodule-rebase (Fri Apr 24 09:06:38 2009 +1000) 1 commit - git-submodule: add support for --rebase. +Will merge to 'next'. + * mw/send-email (Mon Apr 13 13:23:52 2009 -0500) 6 commits - send-email: Remove superfluous `my $editor = ...' - send-email: 'References:' should only reference what is sent @@ -194,6 +219,8 @@ in binary mode as well. Only partially queued, but this is not 1.6.3 material and we are not in a hurry. +Will merge to 'next'. + * js/add-edit (Mon Apr 27 19:51:42 2009 +0200) 2 commits + t3702: fix reliance on SHELL_PATH being '/bin/sh' + git-add: introduce --edit (to edit the diff vs. the index) @@ -228,4 +255,5 @@ command line would not work very well with this series. push These are for 1.7.0, but the messages when they trigger together may need -to be rethought. +to be rethought. Will start merging them to 'next' shortly. +