What's cooking (2009/07 #01)

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1 To: git@vger.kernel.org
2 -Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2009, #03; Sat, 27)
3 -X-master-at: 4f2b15ce88b70dd9e269517a9903864393ca873b
4 -X-next-at: 98a794b5be3b0696055098d997dc22a127e8cd3d
2 +Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2009, #01; Mon, 06)
3 +X-master-at: f581de1b7b9d17c83b188bf8ffe536fb8a9dd2a4
4 +X-next-at: 8586bb07b181c75e65a39d88128e40a1c3e88e2c
5
6 -What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2009, #03; Sat, 27)
6 +What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2009, #01; Mon, 06)
7 --------------------------------------------------
8
9 Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with '-' are
@@ -14,88 +14,131 @@ holding onto them.
14 The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order. The topics
15 meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.
16
17 +It has been relatively quiet for the past few weeks. The 'next' branch is
18 +getting quite thin, and it would be a good time to declare -rc0. I'll do
19 +so by my Wednesday.
20 +
21 ----------------------------------------------------------------
22 [New Topics]
23
20 -* gb/gitweb-avatar (Tue Jun 23 00:49:59 2009 +0200) 2 commits
21 - - gitweb: gravatar support
22 - - gitweb: refactor author name insertion
23 -
24 -This was from way earlier round and will be replaced.
24 +* ld/push-porcelain-output-format (Mon Jun 22 21:10:01 2009 -0400) 1 commit
25 + + add --porcelain option to git-push
26 +
27 +* js/run-command-updates (Sat Jul 4 21:26:43 2009 +0200) 7 commits
28 + - receive-pack: remove unnecessary run_status report
29 + - run_command: report failure to execute the program, but optionally
30 + don't
31 + - run_command: encode deadly signal number in the return value
32 + - run_command: report system call errors instead of returning error
33 + codes
34 + - run_command: return exit code as positive value
35 + - MinGW: simplify waitpid() emulation macros
36 + - MinGW: truncate exit()'s argument to lowest 8 bits
37 +
38 +A few replacement/squash updates came in before it hit 'pu'; this should
39 +be the latest version.
40 +
41 +* cc/sequencer-rebase-i (Fri Jun 26 23:08:46 2009 +0200) 4 commits
42 + - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --make-patch"
43 + - sequencer: free memory used in "make_patch" function
44 + - sequencer: add "make_patch" function to save a patch
45 + - sequencer: add "builtin-sequencer--helper.c"
46 +
47 +* ae/maint-mailinfo-rm-only-one-patch-marker (Mon Jun 29 11:55:51 2009 +0200) 1 commit
48 + - mailinfo: Remove only one set of square brackets
49 +
50 +The change needed to the test vector shows the extent of the damage this
51 +change may cause in the real world. A handcrafted "Subject: [area] [PATCH] title"
52 +will be turned into "[PATCH] title".
53 +
54 +* rs/grep-p (Thu Jul 2 00:06:34 2009 +0200) 7 commits
55 + + grep: simplify -p output
56 + + grep -p: support user defined regular expressions
57 + + grep: add option -p/--show-function
58 + + grep: handle pre context lines on demand
59 + + grep: print context hunk marks between files
60 + + grep: move context hunk mark handling into show_line()
61 + + userdiff: add xdiff_clear_find_func()
62
26 -* ld/push-porcelain-out (Mon Jun 22 21:10:01 2009 -0400) 1 commit
27 - - add --porcelain option to git-push
63 +----------------------------------------------------------------
64 +[Graduated to "master"]
65
66 * cf/maint-remote-uploadpack-useconfig-fix (Thu Jun 25 17:21:35 2009 -0400) 1 commit
67 + git-remote: fix missing .uploadpack usage for show command
68
32 -* en/fast-export (Thu Jun 25 22:48:33 2009 -0600) 7 commits
33 - - fast-export: Document the fact that git-rev-list arguments are
34 - accepted
35 - - Add new fast-export testcases
36 - - fast-export: Add a --tag-of-filtered-object option for newly
37 - dangling tags
38 - - fast-export: Do parent rewriting to avoid dropping relevant
39 - commits
40 - - fast-export: Make sure we show actual ref names instead of
41 - "(null)"
42 - - fast-export: Omit tags that tag trees
43 - - fast-export: Set revs.topo_order before calling setup_revisions
44 -
45 -* sb/read-tree (Thu Jun 25 22:14:10 2009 -0700) 2 commits
46 - - read-tree: migrate to parse-options
47 - - read-tree: convert unhelpful usage()'s to helpful die()'s
48 -
69 * sb/show-ref-parse-options (Sat Jun 20 21:40:46 2009 -0700) 1 commit
70 + show-ref: migrate to parse-options
71
52 -----------------------------------------------------------------
53 -[Graduated to "master"]
72 +* ne/maint-1.6.0-diff-tree-t-r-show-directory (Sat Jun 13 17:06:09 2009 -0700) 1 commit
73 + + diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed directories in the output
74
55 -* sb/maint-1.6.0-add-config-fix (Thu Jun 18 02:17:54 2009 -0700) 2 commits
56 - + add: allow configurations to be overriden by command line
57 - + use xstrdup, not strdup in ll-merge.c
75 +This changes the output from "diff-tree -r -t"; it brings more consistency
76 +to it, but it is a change and could break scripts.
77
59 -* pb/maint-1.6.2-userdiff-fix (Wed Jun 17 12:11:10 2009 +0200) 2 commits
60 - + upload-archive: fix infinite loop on Cygwin
61 - + avoid exponential regex match for java and objc function names
78 +* uk/rev-parse-parse-opt (Sun Jun 14 01:58:43 2009 +0200) 2 commits
79 + + parse-opt: make PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION available to git rev-
80 + parse
81 + + more tests for git rev-parse --parse-opt
82
63 -* lt/maint-unsigned-left-shift (Wed Jun 17 17:22:27 2009 -0700) 1 commit
64 - + Fix big left-shifts of unsigned char
83 +* js/daemon-log (Sun Jun 21 23:16:09 2009 +0200) 3 commits
84 + + receive-pack: do not send error details to the client
85 + + upload-pack: squelch progress indicator if client cannot see it
86 + + daemon: send stderr of service programs to the syslog
87
66 -* pb/send-email-cccmd-fix (Thu Jun 18 14:31:32 2009 +0200) 1 commit
67 - + Test cccmd in t9001-send-email.sh and fix some bugs
88 +* sb/quiet-porcelains (Wed Jun 17 18:07:37 2009 -0700) 6 commits
89 + + stash: teach quiet option
90 + + am, rebase: teach quiet option
91 + + submodule, repack: migrate to git-sh-setup's say()
92 + + git-sh-setup: introduce say() for quiet options
93 + + am: suppress apply errors when using 3-way
94 + + t4150: test applying with a newline in subject
95 +
96 +* jk/use-our-regexp (Fri Jun 19 10:10:39 2009 -0500) 3 commits
97 + + Makefile: Solaris needs HAVE_ALLOCA_H for alloca()
98 + + Makefile: use compat regex on Solaris
99 + + Makefile: refactor regex compat support
100 +
101 +* cb/maint-fetch-refspec-wo-dst (Wed Jun 17 15:38:36 2009 +0200) 1 commit
102 + - fetch: do not create ref from empty name
103
69 -* ph/submodule-rebase (Wed Jun 3 00:59:12 2009 +0200) 1 commit
70 - + git-submodule: add support for --merge.
104 +* cc/bisect (Sat Jun 13 13:11:02 2009 +0200) 2 commits
105 + + Documentation: remove warning saying that "git bisect skip" may
106 + slow bisection
107 + + bisect: use a PRNG with a bias when skipping away from untestable
108 + commits
109
72 -* jc/cache-tree (Fri May 22 23:14:25 2009 -0700) 5 commits
73 - + Avoid "diff-index --cached" optimization under --find-copies-
74 - harder
75 - + Optimize "diff-index --cached" using cache-tree
76 - + t4007: modernize the style
77 - + cache-tree.c::cache_tree_find(): simplify internal API
78 - + write-tree --ignore-cache-tree
110 +* tr/die_errno (Sat Jun 27 17:58:47 2009 +0200) 4 commits
111 + - Use die_errno() instead of die() when checking syscalls
112 + - Convert existing die(..., strerror(errno)) to die_errno()
113 + - die_errno(): double % in strerror() output just in case
114 + - Introduce die_errno() that appends strerror(errno) to die()
115
80 -* mn/maint-iconv-autoconf (Mon Jun 8 20:46:38 2009 -0700) 1 commit
81 - + fix handling of iconv configuration options
116 +I didn't check the individual conversion from die() to die_errno()
117 +in this latest round; comments?
118
83 -* sb/pull-rebase (Fri Jun 12 00:39:21 2009 +0200) 3 commits
84 - + parse-remote: remove unused functions
85 - + parse-remote: support default reflist in get_remote_merge_branch
86 - + parse-remote: function to get the tracking branch to be merge
119 +* gb/am-foreign (Wed May 27 11:25:19 2009 +0200) 4 commits
120 + - git-am: refactor 'cleaning up and aborting'
121 + - git-am foreign patch support: StGIT support
122 + - git-am foreign patch support: autodetect some patch formats
123 + - git-am foreign patch support: introduce patch_format
124
88 -* mg/pushurl (Sun Jun 14 21:46:10 2009 +0200) 6 commits
89 - + avoid NULL dereference on failed malloc
90 - + builtin-remote: Make "remote -v" display push urls
91 - + builtin-remote: Show push urls as well
92 - + technical/api-remote: Describe new struct remote member pushurl
93 - + t5516: Check pushurl config setting
94 - + Allow push and fetch urls to be different
125 +Will be in 'next' shortly.
126
127 ----------------------------------------------------------------
128 [Stalled and may need help and prodding to go forward]
129
130 +* ml/http (Wed May 27 23:16:03 2009 -0400) 2 commits
131 + - http.c: add http.sslCertPasswordProtected option
132 + - http.c: prompt for SSL client certificate password
133 +
134 +I've rewritten these two to (1) move the #ifdef out of the main codepath,
135 +and (2) use configuration/environment to make the misfeature of always
136 +asking for a passphrase even a key/cert is unencrypted optional. I tried
137 +to be careful but extra sets of eyeballs would be nice to check the result.
138 +
139 +Nobody seems to be jumping up-and-down asking for this or helping to push
140 +this forward. Perhaps it's time to drop it?
141 +
142 * jh/notes (Sat May 16 13:44:17 2009 +0200) 5 commits
143 - Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit"
144 - Add an expensive test for git-notes
@@ -175,72 +218,32 @@ in binary mode as well.
218 ----------------------------------------------------------------
219 [Actively cooking]
220
178 -* ne/maint-1.6.0-diff-tree-t-r-show-directory (Sat Jun 13 17:06:09 2009 -0700) 1 commit
179 - + diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed directories in the output
180 -
181 -This changes the output from "diff-tree -r -t"; it brings more consistency
182 -to it, but it is a change and could break scripts.
183 -
184 -* uk/rev-parse-parse-opt (Sun Jun 14 01:58:43 2009 +0200) 2 commits
185 - + parse-opt: make PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION available to git rev-
186 - parse
187 - + more tests for git rev-parse --parse-opt
188 -
189 -* js/daemon-log (Sun Jun 21 23:16:09 2009 +0200) 3 commits
190 - + receive-pack: do not send error details to the client
191 - + upload-pack: squelch progress indicator if client cannot see it
192 - + daemon: send stderr of service programs to the syslog
193 -
194 -* sb/quiet-porcelains (Wed Jun 17 18:07:37 2009 -0700) 6 commits
195 - + stash: teach quiet option
196 - + am, rebase: teach quiet option
197 - + submodule, repack: migrate to git-sh-setup's say()
198 - + git-sh-setup: introduce say() for quiet options
199 - + am: suppress apply errors when using 3-way
200 - + t4150: test applying with a newline in subject
201 -
202 -* jk/use-our-regexp (Fri Jun 19 10:10:39 2009 -0500) 3 commits
203 - + Makefile: Solaris needs HAVE_ALLOCA_H for alloca()
204 - + Makefile: use compat regex on Solaris
205 - + Makefile: refactor regex compat support
221 +* gb/gitweb-avatar (Tue Jun 30 00:00:54 2009 +0200) 7 commits
222 + - gitweb: add empty alt text to avatar img
223 + - gitweb: picon avatar provider
224 + - gitweb: gravatar url cache
225 + - gitweb: (gr)avatar support
226 + - gitweb: use git_print_authorship_rows in 'tag' view too
227 + - gitweb: uniform author info for commit and commitdiff
228 + - gitweb: refactor author name insertion
229
207 -* cb/maint-fetch-refspec-wo-dst (Wed Jun 17 15:38:36 2009 +0200) 1 commit
208 - - fetch: do not create ref from empty name
230 +This should be the latest one posted to the list, and I think it is
231 +reasonable, and Jakub seemed to concur. Will be in 'next'
232
210 -* cc/bisect (Sat Jun 13 13:11:02 2009 +0200) 2 commits
211 - + Documentation: remove warning saying that "git bisect skip" may
212 - slow bisection
213 - + bisect: use a PRNG with a bias when skipping away from untestable
233 +* en/fast-export (Thu Jun 25 22:48:33 2009 -0600) 7 commits
234 + - fast-export: Document the fact that git-rev-list arguments are
235 + accepted
236 + - Add new fast-export testcases
237 + - fast-export: Add a --tag-of-filtered-object option for newly
238 + dangling tags
239 + - fast-export: Do parent rewriting to avoid dropping relevant
240 commits
241 + - fast-export: Make sure we show actual ref names instead of
242 + "(null)"
243 + - fast-export: Omit tags that tag trees
244 + - fast-export: Set revs.topo_order before calling setup_revisions
245
216 -* tr/die_errno (Sat Jun 27 17:58:47 2009 +0200) 4 commits
217 - - Use die_errno() instead of die() when checking syscalls
218 - - Convert existing die(..., strerror(errno)) to die_errno()
219 - - die_errno(): double % in strerror() output just in case
220 - - Introduce die_errno() that appends strerror(errno) to die()
221 -
222 -I didn't check the individual conversion from die() to die_errno()
223 -in this latest round; comments?
224 -
225 -* ne/futz-upload-pack (Wed Jun 10 01:50:18 2009 +0200) 1 commit
226 - - Shift object enumeration out of upload-pack
227 -
228 -* ml/http (Wed May 27 23:16:03 2009 -0400) 2 commits
229 - - http.c: add http.sslCertPasswordProtected option
230 - - http.c: prompt for SSL client certificate password
231 -
232 -I've rewritten these two to (1) move the #ifdef out of the main codepath,
233 -and (2) use configuration/environment to make the misfeature of always
234 -asking for a passphrase even a key/cert is unencrypted optional. I tried
235 -to be careful but extra sets of eyeballs would be nice to check the result.
236 -
237 -* gb/am-foreign (Wed May 27 11:25:19 2009 +0200) 4 commits
238 - - git-am: refactor 'cleaning up and aborting'
239 - - git-am foreign patch support: StGIT support
240 - - git-am foreign patch support: autodetect some patch formats
241 - - git-am foreign patch support: introduce patch_format
242 -
243 -Will be in 'next' shortly.
246 +Shawn? Dscho?
247
248 * jc/diff-whitespace-only-status (Sat May 23 01:15:35 2009 -0700) 2 commits
249 - diff: Rename QUIET internal option to QUICK
@@ -250,6 +253,16 @@ I am not sure if it should wait for a major version bump but this is a
253 good semantics change. Perhaps merge to 'next' soonish, but I am
254 undecided. Comments?
255
256 +For the following three series, I have not managed to convince myself if
257 +these changes have real-world needs.
258 +
259 +* sb/read-tree (Thu Jun 25 22:14:10 2009 -0700) 2 commits
260 + - read-tree: migrate to parse-options
261 + - read-tree: convert unhelpful usage()'s to helpful die()'s
262 +
263 +* ne/futz-upload-pack (Wed Jun 10 01:50:18 2009 +0200) 1 commit
264 + - Shift object enumeration out of upload-pack
265 +
266 * cc/replace (Wed May 27 07:14:09 2009 +0200) 14 commits
267 - t6050: check pushing something based on a replaced commit
268 - Documentation: add documentation for "git replace"