What's cooking (2013/09 #08)
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To: git@vger.kernel.org
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Bcc: lwn@lwn.net
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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2013, #07; Mon, 23)
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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2013, #08; Wed, 25)
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-What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2013, #07; Mon, 23)
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+What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2013, #08; Wed, 25)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with
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You can find the changes described here in the integration branches at
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- https://repo.or.cz/r/git/jrn.git
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+ git://repo.or.cz/git/jrn.git
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+ http://repo.or.cz/r/git/jrn.git
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-I am still catching up on patches sent since last week. If I have
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-missed yours, do not despair, but feel free to send me a reminder to
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-look at it.
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+Or view the web interface:
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-For those following along at home, the process used to build this
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-message is described in Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt. Maybe
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-some day someone will tweak the tools so they can be used by other
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-projects and more than a few people will know how to use them (hint,
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-hint). In the meantime the documentation has been serving well as a
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-teacher.
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+ http://repo.or.cz/w/git/jrn.git
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+I'll probably be releasing 1.8.4.1 tomorrow. If you have time to
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+experiment with "maint" or "master" to find any remaining problems
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+until then, that will be very welcome.
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+--------------------------------------------------
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+[Graduated to "master"]
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+* bc/submodule-status-ignored (2013-09-11) 3 commits
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-11 at 9f66712)
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+ + Improve documentation concerning the status.submodulesummary setting
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-10 at a417960)
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+ + submodule: don't print status output with ignore=all
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+ + submodule: fix confusing variable name
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+* bp/mediawiki-infinite-loop-fix (2013-09-23) 1 commit
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+ - git-remote-mediawiki: bugfix for pages w/ >500 revisions
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+
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+ The mediawiki:: remote helper would hang while handling results from
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+ queries with more than 500 results against version 1.21 or newer of
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+ the Mediawiki server.
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+
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+* cc/replace-with-the-same-type (2013-09-09) 8 commits
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-17 at 34b5bb7)
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+ + Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commits
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+ + t6050-replace: use some long option names
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+ + replace: allow long option names
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+ + Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section
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+ + t6050-replace: add test to clean up all the replace refs
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+ + t6050-replace: test that objects are of the same type
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+ + Documentation/replace: state that objects must be of the same type
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+ + replace: forbid replacing an object with one of a different type
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+
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+ Using the replace mechanism to swap an object with another object
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+ of a different type can introduce inconsistency (e.g. a tree
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+ expects an object name to refer to a blob, but the blob object can
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+ be mistakenly or maliciously replaced with an object with a
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+ different type). Attempt to forbid such.
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+* es/contacts-in-subdir (2013-09-17) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-20 at d67164f)
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+ + contacts: fix to work in subdirectories
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+ Allows the contacts (in contrib/) script to run from inside a
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+ subdirectory.
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+* jc/push-cas (2013-09-20) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-20 at 5e1e7cc)
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+ + t5541: mark passing c-a-s test as success
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+ A touch-up to finish off a recently added feature.
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+* jc/strcasecmp-pure-inline (2013-09-12) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-20 at 7142d08)
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+ + mailmap: work around implementations with pure inline strcasecmp
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+ Work around MinGW <string.h> header that does not declare strcasecmp
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+ whose address cannot be taken.
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+* jk/shortlog-tolerate-broken-commit (2013-09-18) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-20 at 9c85c02)
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+ + shortlog: ignore commits with missing authors
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+* kb/msvc-compile (2013-09-11) 5 commits
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-17 at a9bcbb5)
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+ + Windows: do not redefine _WIN32_WINNT
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+ + MinGW: Fix stat definitions to work with MinGW runtime version 4.0
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+ + MSVC: fix stat definition hell
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+ + MSVC: fix compile errors due to macro redefinitions
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+ + MSVC: fix compile errors due to missing libintl.h
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+ Build updates for Windows port.
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+* nd/fetch-pack-error-reporting-fix (2013-09-18) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-20 at fefa04f)
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+ + fetch-pack.c: show correct command name that fails
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+ When "fetch-pack" detected an error from spawned "index-pack" or
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+ "unpack-objects", it did not report the failed program name
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+ correctly when a shallow repository is involved.
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+* nd/unpack-entry-optim-in-pack-objects (2013-09-13) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-17 at 00f7335)
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+ + pack-objects: no crc check when the cached version is used
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+ The codepath to use data from packfiles that is only exercised in
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+ pack-objects unnecessarily checked crc checksum of the pack data,
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+ even when it ends up using in-core copy that it got by reading from
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+ the pack (at which point the checksum was validated).
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+* sg/complete-untracked-filter (2013-09-19) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-20 at 798d0b9)
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+ + completion: improve untracked directory filtering for filename completion
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[New Topics]
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Cleanups and tweaks for credential handling to work with ancient versions
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of the gnome-keyring library that are still in use.
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This is version 1 of the series, to give it more exposure. Waiting for
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the series to stabilize before including in 'next'.
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-* bp/mediawiki-infinite-loop-fix (2013-09-23) 1 commit
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- - git-remote-mediawiki: bugfix for pages w/ >500 revisions
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+* kb/fast-hashmap (2013-09-25) 6 commits
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+ - fixup! diffcore-rename.c: simplify finding exact renames
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+ - diffcore-rename.c: use new hash map implementation
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+ - diffcore-rename.c: simplify finding exact renames
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+ - diffcore-rename.c: move code around to prepare for the next patch
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+ - buitin/describe.c: use new hash map implementation
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+ - add a hashtable implementation that supports O(1) removal
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- The mediawiki:: remote helper would hang while handling results from
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- Will merge to 'maint'.
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+ Improvements to our hash table to get it to meet the needs of the
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+ msysgit fscache project, with some nice performance improvements.
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+ Looks promising. Needs style review and a sanity-check on the
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+ design before including in 'next'. Expecting a reroll once review
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[Stalled]
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Holding until needed.
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-* jc/push-cas (2013-09-20) 1 commit
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- A trivial fix to a test.
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* jk/format-patch-from (2013-09-20) 1 commit
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-* es/contacts-in-subdir (2013-09-17) 1 commit
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* jc/upload-pack-send-symref (2013-09-17) 7 commits
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+ + clone: treat "checking connectivity" like other progress
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-* nd/fetch-pack-error-reporting-fix (2013-09-18) 1 commit
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- When "fetch-pack" detected an error from spawned "index-pack" or
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-* sg/complete-untracked-filter (2013-09-19) 1 commit
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-* jc/strcasecmp-pure-inline (2013-09-12) 1 commit
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- (merged to 'next' on 2013-09-20 at 7142d08)
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- + mailmap: work around implementations with pure inline strcasecmp
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- Work around MinGW <string.h> header that does not declare strcasecmp
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- whose address cannot be taken.
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- Will merge to 'master'.
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-* jk/shortlog-tolerate-broken-commit (2013-09-18) 1 commit
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- The codepath to use data from packfiles that is only exercised in
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- the pack (at which point the checksum was validated).
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* jc/checkout-detach-doc (2013-09-11) 1 commit
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- + Windows: do not redefine _WIN32_WINNT
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- + MinGW: Fix stat definitions to work with MinGW runtime version 4.0
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