What's cooking (2009/05 #03)
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To: git@vger.kernel.org
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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (May 2009, #02; Sun, 17)
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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (May 2009, #03; Mon, 25)
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-What's cooking in git.git (May 2009, #02; Sun, 17)
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+What's cooking in git.git (May 2009, #03; Mon, 25)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with '-' are
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[New Topics]
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-* jc/mktree (Thu May 14 15:49:10 2009 -0700) 9 commits
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- - mktree: validate entry type in input
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- - mktree --batch: build more than one tree object
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- - mktree --missing: updated usage message and man page
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- - mktree --missing: allow missing objects
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- - t1010: add mktree test
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- - mktree: do not barf on a submodule commit
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- - builtin-mktree.c: use a helper function to handle one line of
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- input
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- - mktree: use parse-options
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- - build-in git-mktree
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-* ar/maint-1.6.2-merge-recursive-d-f (Mon May 11 21:25:36 2009 +0200) 2 commits
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- - Fix for a merge where a branch has an F->D transition
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- - Add a reminder test case for a merge with F/D transition
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+* sb/opt-filename (Sat May 23 11:53:13 2009 -0700) 5 commits
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+ - parse-opts: add OPT_FILENAME and transition builtins
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+ - parse-opts: prepare for OPT_FILENAME
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+ - Merge branch 'jc/mktree' into sb/opt-filename
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+ - Merge branch 'sb/format-patch-parseopt' into sb/opt-filename
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+ - Merge branch 'sb/show-branch-parse-options' into sb/opt-filename
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+ - Merge branch 'master' into sb/opt-filename
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+ + apply, fmt-merge-msg: use relative filenames
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+ + commit: -F overrides -t
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+
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+There are quite a few new callers to parse_options() in 'next' and 'pu'
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+that are more likely to graduate before this series, so for now I merged a
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+few of them and adjusted the commit "prepare for OPT_FILENAME". I tried
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+to be careful but extra sets of eyeballs would be helpful.
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+* da/araxis-mergetool (Sun May 24 00:24:41 2009 +0000) 1 commit
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+ + mergetool--lib: add support for araxis merge
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+
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+I admit that I feel certain distaste in supporting a closed tool, but we
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+already make things bearable for people on Windows; Araxis is no worse,
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+right?
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+
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+* rs/maint-grep-word-regexp-fix (Sat May 23 13:45:26 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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+ + grep: fix word-regexp at the beginning of lines
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+
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+* mm/apply-double-slash (Thu May 21 14:25:11 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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+ + apply: handle filenames with double slashes better
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+
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+* bc/old-iconv (Fri May 22 18:47:06 2009 -0500) 10 commits
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+ + t8005: convert CP1251 character set to ISO8859-5
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+ + t8005: use more portable character encoding names
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+ + t5100: use ancient encoding syntax for backwards compatibility
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+ + t9301: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1
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+ + t3901: Use ISO8859-1 instead of ISO-8859-1 for backward
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+ compatibility
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+ + t3901: avoid negation on right hand side of '|'
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+ + builtin-mailinfo.c: use "ISO8859-1" instead of "latin1" as
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+ fallback encoding
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+ + builtin-mailinfo.c: compare character encodings case insensitively
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+ + Use 'UTF-8' rather than 'utf-8' everywhere for backward
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+ compatibility
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+ + t3900: use ancient iconv names for backward compatibility
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+
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+* sb/show-branch-parse-options (Thu May 21 00:33:18 2009 -0700) 3 commits
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+ + show-branch: migrate to parse-options API
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+ + Merge branch 'mh/show-branch-color' into sb/show-branch-parse-
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+ options
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+ + parse-options: add PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP for complicated
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+ argh's
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+
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+* sb/maint-1.6.2-opt-filename-fix (Sat May 23 11:53:11 2009 -0700) 2 commits
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+ + apply, fmt-merge-msg: use relative filenames
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+ + commit: -F overrides -t
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+
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+* jc/cache-tree (Fri May 22 23:14:25 2009 -0700) 5 commits
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+ - Avoid "diff-index --cached" optimization under --find-copies-
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+ harder
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+ - Optimize "diff-index --cached" using cache-tree
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+ - t4007: modernize the style
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+ - cache-tree.c::cache_tree_find(): simplify inernal API
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+ - write-tree --ignore-cache-tree
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+* jc/solaris-0811 (Fri May 22 22:55:31 2009 -0700) 2 commits
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+ - OpenSolaris 200811 (SunOS 5.11) does not want OLD_ICONV
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+ - Teach Solaris that _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 really menas XPG6
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+
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+* cb/maint-1.6.0-xdl-merge-fix (Mon May 25 01:21:14 2009 +0100) 2 commits
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+ - Change xdl_merge to generate output even for null merges
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+ - t6023: merge-file fails to output anything for a degenerate merge
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+* jc/diff-whitespace-only-status (Sat May 23 01:15:35 2009 -0700) 2 commits
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+ - diff: Rename QUIET internal option to QUICK
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+ - diff: change semantics of "ignore whitespace" options
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-Although the reported breakage is covered with the patch, Alex feels the
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-solution unsatisfactory. Cleaning up D/F conflict handling in merge-recursive
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-may be long overdue but seems to be a hard problem.
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+[Graduated to "master"]
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-* jc/maint-add-p-coalesce-fix (Sat May 16 10:48:23 2009 -0700) 2 commits
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- + Revert "git-add--interactive: remove hunk coalescing"
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- + Splitting a hunk that adds a line at the top fails in "add -p"
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+* cc/bisect (Sat May 9 17:55:47 2009 +0200) 20 commits
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+ + bisect: make "git bisect" use new "--next-all" bisect-helper
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+ function
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+ + bisect: add "check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad" function
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+ + bisect: implement the "check_merge_bases" function
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+ + bisect: automatically sort sha1_array if needed when looking it up
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+ + bisect: make skipped array functions more generic
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+ + bisect: remove too much function nesting
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+ + bisect: use new "struct argv_array" to prepare argv for
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+ "setup_revisions"
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+ + bisect: store good revisions in a "sha1_array"
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+ + bisect: implement "rev_argv_push" to fill an argv with revs
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+ + bisect: use "sha1_array" to store skipped revisions
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+ + am: simplify "sq" function by using "git rev-parse --sq-quote"
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+ + bisect: use "git rev-parse --sq-quote" instead of a custom "sq"
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+ function
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+ + rev-parse: add --sq-quote to shell quote arguments
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+ + rev-list: remove stringed output flag from "show_bisect_vars"
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+ + bisect--helper: remove "--next-vars" option as it is now useless
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+ + bisect: use "git bisect--helper --next-exit" in "git-bisect.sh"
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+ + bisect--helper: add "--next-exit" to output bisect results
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+ + bisect: move common bisect functionality to "bisect_common"
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+ + rev-list: refactor printing bisect vars
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+ + rev-list: make "estimate_bisect_steps" non static
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-* sb/format-patch-parseopt (Sat May 16 02:24:46 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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- - format-patch: migrate to parse-options API
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+Rewriting major part of "git-bisect" shell script continues. The patches
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+seem to be reasonably clean.
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* fc/decorate-tag (Thu May 14 00:32:53 2009 +0300) 2 commits
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+ Prettify log decorations even more
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* js/maint-no-ln-across-libexec-and-bin (Mon May 11 13:02:18 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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+ Add NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS support to the Makefile
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-* jh/notes (Sat May 16 13:44:17 2009 +0200) 5 commits
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- - Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit"
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- - Add an expensive test for git-notes
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- - Speed up git notes lookup
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- - Add a script to edit/inspect notes
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- - Introduce commit notes
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* tp/send-email-from-config (Tue May 12 15:48:56 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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+ send-email: Add config option for sender address
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-* lt/read-directory (Fri May 15 12:01:29 2009 -0700) 3 commits
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- - Add initial support for pathname conversion to UTF-8
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- - read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname character set
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- conversion
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- - Add 'fill_directory()' helper function for directory traversal
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-[Will merge to "master" soon]
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-* mw/send-email (Mon Apr 13 13:23:52 2009 -0500) 6 commits
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- + send-email: Remove superfluous `my $editor = ...'
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- + send-email: 'References:' should only reference what is sent
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- + send-email: Handle "GIT:" rather than "GIT: " during --compose
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- + Docs: send-email: --smtp-server-port can take symbolic ports
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- + Docs: send-email: Refer to CONFIGURATION section for
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- sendemail.multiedit
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- + Docs: send-email: Put options back into alphabetical order
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* ae/anon-fetch-info (Fri Apr 17 10:20:11 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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+ fetch: Strip usernames from url's before storing them
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* ac/graph-horizontal-line (Tue Apr 21 08:47:01 2009 -0400) 1 commit
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+ graph API: Use horizontal lines for more compact graphs
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-* ph/submodule-rebase (Fri Apr 24 09:06:38 2009 +1000) 1 commit
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- + git-submodule: add support for --rebase.
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* mh/show-branch-color (Sat Apr 25 13:46:14 2009 +0200) 2 commits
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+ bash completion: show-branch color support
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+ show-branch: color the commit status signs
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* jk/maint-add-empty (Tue Apr 28 23:21:01 2009 -0400) 1 commit
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+ add: don't complain when adding empty project root
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-''", instead of "No path matches '.'", and this "fixes" it by hiding the
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-error and making the command silently succeed. Strictly speaking it
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-introduces inconsistency, but I think an empty directory is so
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-uninteresting special case that not signalling it as an error is Ok.
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* ar/unlink-err (Wed Apr 29 23:24:52 2009 +0200) 3 commits
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+ print unlink(2) errno in copy_or_link_directory
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+ replace direct calls to unlink(2) with unlink_or_warn
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+ parseopt: add OPT_NEGBIT
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+ parseopt: add OPT_NEGBIT
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-fixing "ls-files --no-empty-directory".
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* jk/maint-1.6.0-trace-argv (Fri May 8 05:06:15 2009 -0400) 1 commit
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+ fix GIT_TRACE segfault with shell-quoted aliases
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* rr/forbid-bs-in-ref (Fri May 8 07:32:37 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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+ Disallow '\' in ref names
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-This retroactively forbids use of what people could have been using
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-happily, which, strictly speaking, is a no-no, but makes sense in the
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* do/maint-merge-recursive-fix (Sat May 9 14:49:59 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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+ merge-recursive: never leave index unmerged while recursing
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+ Teach 'git checkout' to preload the index contents
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+ Avoid unnecessary 'lstat()' calls in 'get_stat_data()'
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-* cc/bisect (Sat May 9 17:55:47 2009 +0200) 20 commits
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- + bisect: make "git bisect" use new "--next-all" bisect-helper
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- function
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- + bisect: add "check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad" function
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- + bisect: implement the "check_merge_bases" function
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- + bisect: automatically sort sha1_array if needed when looking it up
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- + bisect: make skipped array functions more generic
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- + bisect: remove too much function nesting
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- + bisect: use new "struct argv_array" to prepare argv for
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- "setup_revisions"
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- + bisect: store good revisions in a "sha1_array"
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- + bisect: implement "rev_argv_push" to fill an argv with revs
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- + bisect: use "sha1_array" to store skipped revisions
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- + am: simplify "sq" function by using "git rev-parse --sq-quote"
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- + bisect: use "git rev-parse --sq-quote" instead of a custom "sq"
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- function
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- + rev-parse: add --sq-quote to shell quote arguments
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- + rev-list: remove stringed output flag from "show_bisect_vars"
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- + bisect--helper: remove "--next-vars" option as it is now useless
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- + bisect: use "git bisect--helper --next-exit" in "git-bisect.sh"
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- + bisect--helper: add "--next-exit" to output bisect results
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- + bisect: move common bisect functionality to "bisect_common"
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- + rev-list: refactor printing bisect vars
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- + rev-list: make "estimate_bisect_steps" non static
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+* da/mergetool-lib (Sat May 2 01:57:21 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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+ + mergetool--lib: specialize diff options for emerge and ecmerge
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+[Will merge to "master" soon]
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+* mw/send-email (Mon Apr 13 13:23:52 2009 -0500) 6 commits
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+ + send-email: Remove superfluous `my $editor = ...'
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+ + send-email: 'References:' should only reference what is sent
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+ + send-email: Handle "GIT:" rather than "GIT: " during --compose
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+ + Docs: send-email: --smtp-server-port can take symbolic ports
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+ + Docs: send-email: Refer to CONFIGURATION section for
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+ sendemail.multiedit
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+ + Docs: send-email: Put options back into alphabetical order
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+* ph/submodule-rebase (Fri Apr 24 09:06:38 2009 +1000) 1 commit
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+ + git-submodule: add support for --rebase.
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+* cc/bisect (Sun May 17 17:36:46 2009 +0200) 3 commits
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+ + bisect: check ancestors without forking a "git rev-list" process
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+ + commit: add function to unparse a commit and its parents
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+ + bisect: rework some rev related functions to make them more
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[Stalled and may need help and prodding to go forward]
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+* lt/read-directory (Fri May 15 12:01:29 2009 -0700) 3 commits
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+ - Add initial support for pathname conversion to UTF-8
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+ - read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname character set
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+ conversion
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+ - Add 'fill_directory()' helper function for directory traversal
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+Before adding the real "conversion", this needs a few real fixups, I
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+think. For example there is one hardcoded array that is used without
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+* ar/maint-1.6.2-merge-recursive-d-f (Mon May 11 21:25:36 2009 +0200) 2 commits
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+ - Fix for a merge where a branch has an F->D transition
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+ - Add a reminder test case for a merge with F/D transition
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+Although the reported breakage is covered with the patch, Alex feels the
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+solution unsatisfactory. Cleaning up D/F conflict handling in merge-recursive
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+may be long overdue but seems to be a hard problem.
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* ps/blame (Thu Mar 12 21:30:03 2009 +1100) 1 commit
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-* da/mergetool-lib (Sat May 2 01:57:21 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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+* jc/mktree (Thu May 14 15:49:10 2009 -0700) 9 commits
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+ + mktree: validate entry type in input
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+ + mktree --batch: build more than one tree object
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+ + mktree --missing: updated usage message and man page
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+ + mktree --missing: allow missing objects
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+ + t1010: add mktree test
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+ + mktree: do not barf on a submodule commit
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+ + builtin-mktree.c: use a helper function to handle one line of
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+ input
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+ + mktree: use parse-options
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+ + build-in git-mktree
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+* jc/maint-add-p-coalesce-fix (Sat May 16 10:48:23 2009 -0700) 2 commits
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+ + Revert "git-add--interactive: remove hunk coalescing"
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+ + Splitting a hunk that adds a line at the top fails in "add -p"
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+* sb/format-patch-parseopt (Sat May 16 02:24:46 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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+ + format-patch: migrate to parse-options API
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+* jh/notes (Sat May 16 13:44:17 2009 +0200) 5 commits
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+ - Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit"
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+ - Add an expensive test for git-notes
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+ - Speed up git notes lookup
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+ - Add a script to edit/inspect notes
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+ - Introduce commit notes
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+* rc/http-push (Mon May 18 16:14:24 2009 +0800) 15 commits
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+ - http*: add helper methods for fetching objects/info/packs
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- . git-notes: fix printing of multi-line notes
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- . notes: fix core.notesRef documentation
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- . Add an expensive test for git-notes
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- . Speed up git notes lookup
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