What's cooking (2008/10 #02)
Junio C Hamano committed
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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2008, #01; Mon, 06)
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-X-master-at: 276328ffb87cefdc515bee5f09916aea6e0244ed
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-X-next-at: 395ff9bd88b9cf14617c5e2f461878c4969726f3
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+Subject: What's cooking in git/spearce.git (Oct 2008, #02; Sun, 12)
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+X-master-at: 5c283eb13c94be6ca974aa722159dc9838d10d97
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+X-next-at: 340fcf496c9eb7c8be7f14efdd282666a6b6a1f1
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-What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2008, #01; Mon, 06)
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+What's cooking in git/spearce.git (Oct 2008, #02; Sun, 12)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed
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The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order. The topics
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meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.
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-Topics aren't sorted by name; I have tried to cluster them together
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-to tell the story of how 'next' and 'pu' have evolved this past week.
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+gitster's back and I'm expecting he will take over from here.
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-* sp/describe-docs (Tue Sep 30 11:55:16 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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- . docs: Improve the description of describe --tags
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+* dp/checkattr (Tue Oct 7 04:16:52 2008 +0400) 2 commits
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+ + check-attr: Add --stdin option
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+ + check-attr: add an internal check_attr() function
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-I'm probably going to drop this topic if I can ever get around to
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-formally writing and posting sp/describe-lwtag for review.
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+Batch attr lookup via --stdin, for gitk and git-gui.
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-* sp/describe-lwtag (Tue Sep 30 12:03:41 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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- - [WIP] Change meaning of --tags and --all
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+* mv/clonev (Thu Oct 9 01:40:32 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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+ + Implement git clone -v
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-Modifies "git describe --tags" to allow matching against lightweight
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-tags even when an annotated tag is found in the history. Its not
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-in next because I haven't formally written a commit message and
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-posted the patch for discussion on the list.
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+Does what it says it does. This may be ready for master soon,
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+its a pretty trivial change.
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-This is a fairly significant change in behavior. Its most certainly
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-1.6.1 material, but many argue the change is the _correct_ behavior
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-and the current behavior in 1.6.0 is buggy.
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+* gb/refactor-pathinfo (Fri Oct 10 20:42:26 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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+ + gitweb: refactor input parameters parse/validation
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-* jk/diff-convfilter (Sun Oct 5 17:43:45 2008 -0400) 4 commits
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- - diff: add filter for converting binary to text
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- - diff: introduce diff.<driver>.binary
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- - diff: unify external diff and funcname parsing code
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- - t4012: use test_cmp instead of cmp
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+A major cleanup on the way gitweb parses its input arguments.
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+Future gitweb patches to add more arguments into the PATH_INFO
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+depend upon this initial cleanup work.
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-A general cleanup on how diff drivers are implemented. Its still
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-missing documentation updates and tests but doesn't break anything
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-current as far as I can tell. It needs more review before it can
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-be slated for 'next'.
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+* ml/cygwin-filemode (Sun Oct 12 14:44:46 2008 -0400) 1 commit
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+ - compat/cygwin.c - Use cygwin's stat if core.filemode == true
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-* pb/rename-rowin32 (Fri Oct 3 12:20:43 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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- - Do not rename read-only files during a push
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+I think another version may be coming to reuse the core.filemode
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+parsing so this patch isn't in next yet.
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-Supposedly fixes pack file renames on Windows, but it makes the
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-test suite fail on Linux. I haven't debugged why yet. Its very
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-likely we need a replacement patch before this can move forward.
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+* sh/rebase-i-p (Wed Oct 8 01:41:57 2008 -0500) 7 commits
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+ - rebase-i-p: if todo was reordered use HEAD as the rewritten parent
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+ - rebase-i-p: do not include non-first-parent commits touching
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+ UPSTREAM
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+ - rebase-i-p: only list commits that require rewriting in todo
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+ - rebase-i-p: fix 'no squashing merges' tripping up non-merges
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+ - rebase-i-p: delay saving current-commit to REWRITTEN if squashing
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+ - rebase-i-p: use HEAD for updating the ref instead of mapping
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+ OLDHEAD
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+ - rebase-i-p: test to exclude commits from todo based on its parents
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-* gb/formatpatch-autonbr (Thu Oct 2 16:55:39 2008 -0400) 1 commit
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- - format-patch: autonumber by default
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-Fails the test suite; some of the test vectors need to be updated
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-to account for the new default. Someone who cares about this
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-change should follow through on the test suite update, or this may
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-get dropped.
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+Changes the `rebase -i -p` behavior to behave like git sequencer's
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+rewrite of `rebase -i` would behave. Its parked in pu because I
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+have not had the time to review the series in detail. First glance
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+looked OK to me.
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-* sh/maint-intrebase (Wed Oct 1 01:11:07 2008 -0500) 1 commit
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- + Fix interactive rebase on dropped commits.
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+* js/keephardlinks (Sat Oct 11 13:45:13 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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+ - Introduce core.keepHardLinks
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-This merged to next, then was reverted out this morning, due to
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-the introduction of the sh/maint-rebase3. Its dead and will be
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-dropped from the next "What's cooking" release notes.
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+The value of this change is currently in question, and the commit
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+message doesn't justify it very well.
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-* sh/maint-rebase3 (Sun Oct 5 23:26:52 2008 -0500) 1 commit
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- - rebase--interactive: fix parent rewriting for dropped commits
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+* jn/gitweb-customlinks (Sun Oct 12 00:02:32 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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+ - gitweb: Better processing format string in custom links in navbar
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-A replacement for sh/maint-intrebase. Its in pu because I have
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-gotten 3 different versions of this patch, two of them posted a
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-full 4 days after I merged the first version into next. I felt
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-burned by the patch author for not keeping up with my tree, so I'm
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-not merging the patch to next.
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+Waiting for some sort of response from Pasky.
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-At this point its going to sit in pu until Junio comes back.
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-I think the topic needs a few more days to settle to see if the
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-patch author is going to submit any more revisions.
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+[Graduated to "master"]
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-* ns/rebase-noverify (Mon Oct 6 14:14:29 2008 +0900) 1 commit
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- + rebase --no-verify
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+* mw/sendemail (Sun Sep 28 07:51:21 2008 +0300) 10 commits
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+ + bash completion: Add --[no-]validate to "git send-email"
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+ + send-email: signedoffcc -> signedoffbycc, but handle both
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+ + Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for man text
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+ + Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for --help text
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+ + Docs: send-email: Remove unnecessary config variable description
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+ + Docs: send-email: --chain_reply_to -> --[no-]chain-reply-to
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+ + send-email: change --no-validate to boolean --[no-]validate
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+ + Docs: send-email: Man page option ordering
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+ + Docs: send-email usage text much sexier
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+ + Docs: send-email's usage text and man page mention same options
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-This adds --no-verify to git rebase, to avoid the pre-rebase hook.
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-Lacks documentation but otherwise looks sound.
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+* jc/add-ita (Thu Aug 21 01:44:53 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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+ + git-add --intent-to-add (-N)
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-* mv/merge-noff (Fri Oct 3 14:04:47 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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- + builtin-commit: use reduce_heads() only when appropriate
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+* mg/verboseprune (Mon Sep 29 18:49:52 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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+ + make prune report removed objects on -v
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-Fixes "git merge --no-ff --no-commit".
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+* lt/time-reject-fractional-seconds (Sat Aug 16 21:25:40 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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+ + date/time: do not get confused by fractional seconds
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* dp/cywginstat (Tue Sep 30 17:53:47 2008 +0400) 3 commits
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+ cygwin: Use native Win32 API for stat
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* js/objc-funchdr (Wed Oct 1 00:46:34 2008 +0100) 1 commit
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+ Teach git diff about Objective-C syntax
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-Objective-C so I can't comment on how good/bad the patterns are
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-for the language. Feedback (and improvements if necessary) from
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-Objective-C users would be appreciated.
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+Adds support for Objective-C function headers.
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* dm/svn-branch (Sat Oct 4 19:35:17 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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+ Add git-svn branch to allow branch creation in SVN repositories
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-Might be ready for master, it has an ACK from Eric. Slated into next
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-just because I wasn't sure if Junio merges such things immediately
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-into master or lets them cook for a bit.
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* pb/gitweb (Fri Oct 3 07:41:25 2008 -0700) 7 commits
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+ Merge branch 'pb/gitweb-tagcloud' into pb/gitweb
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+ gitweb: Support for simple project search form
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+ gitweb: Sort the list of forks on the summary page by age
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+ gitweb: Clean-up sorting of project list
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-I may have been a bad interm maintainer here by shoving together
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-two different gitweb series from Pasky. Overall the combined set
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-looks ready to me.
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* ph/parseopt (Thu Oct 2 14:59:20 2008 +0200) 3 commits
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+ parse-opt: migrate builtin-merge-file.
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+ parse-opt: migrate git-merge-base.
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+ xdiff-interface.c: strip newline (and cr) from line before pattern
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matching
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- + rebase: Support preserving merges in non-interactive mode
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+* jk/maint-soliconv (Fri Oct 3 02:39:36 2008 -0400) 1 commit
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+ + Makefile: do not set NEEDS_LIBICONV for Solaris 8
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+* sg/maint-intrebase-msghook (Fri Oct 3 11:33:20 2008 +0200) 2 commits
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+ + rebase -i: remove leftover debugging
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+ + rebase -i: proper prepare-commit-msg hook argument when squashing
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+* bc/maint-stashref (Thu Oct 2 18:52:11 2008 -0500) 1 commit
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+ + git-stash.sh: fix flawed fix of invalid ref handling (commit
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-These last five all look ready for master, but should cook longer
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+The latter three were merged to 'maint' first.
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-* mw/sendemail (Sun Sep 28 07:51:21 2008 +0300) 10 commits
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- + bash completion: Add --[no-]validate to "git send-email"
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- + send-email: signedoffcc -> signedoffbycc, but handle both
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- + Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for man text
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- + Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for --help text
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- + Docs: send-email: Remove unnecessary config variable description
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- + Docs: send-email: --chain_reply_to -> --[no-]chain-reply-to
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- + send-email: change --no-validate to boolean --[no-]validate
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- + Docs: send-email: Man page option ordering
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- + Docs: send-email usage text much sexier
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- + Docs: send-email's usage text and man page mention same options
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+* ns/rebase-noverify (Mon Oct 6 14:14:29 2008 +0900) 1 commit
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+ + rebase --no-verify
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-master on the next "What's cooking" cycle.
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+This adds --no-verify to git rebase, to avoid the pre-rebase hook.
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+Lacks documentation but otherwise looks sound.
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+* mv/merge-noff (Fri Oct 3 14:04:47 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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+ + builtin-commit: use reduce_heads() only when appropriate
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+Fixes "git merge --no-ff --no-commit".
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+* ae/preservemerge (Mon Sep 29 22:28:57 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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+ + rebase: Support preserving merges in non-interactive mode
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+* sh/maint-rebase3 (Sun Oct 5 23:26:52 2008 -0500) 1 commit
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+ - rebase--interactive: fix parent rewriting for dropped commits
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+A prior version of sh/rebase-i-p. This should be dropped.
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+* pb/rename-rowin32 (Fri Oct 3 12:20:43 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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+ - Do not rename read-only files during a push
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+Supposedly fixes pack file renames on Windows, but it makes the
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+test suite fail on Linux. I haven't debugged why yet. Its very
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+likely we need a replacement patch before this can move forward.
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+* sp/describe-lwtag (Tue Sep 30 12:03:41 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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+ - describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight tags more often
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+Based on feedback from the list this needs another spin. I will
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+post a replacement patch soon.
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- + merge: remove deprecated summary and diffstat options and config
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+* gb/formatpatch-autonbr (Thu Oct 2 16:55:39 2008 -0400) 1 commit
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+ - format-patch: autonumber by default
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+Fails the test suite; some of the test vectors need to be updated
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+to account for the new default. Someone who cares about this
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+change should follow through on the test suite update, or this may
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+get dropped.
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+* jc/merge-whitespace (Sun Feb 24 23:29:36 2008 -0800) 1 commit
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+This has a merge conflict with `next` and isn't even in pu right now.
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+ - diff: introduce diff.<driver>.binary
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+ - diff: unify external diff and funcname parsing code
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+A general cleanup on how diff drivers are implemented. Its still
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+missing documentation updates and tests but doesn't break anything
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+current as far as I can tell. It needs more review before it can
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- - gitweb: parse parent..current syntax from pathinfo
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- - gitweb: use_pathinfo filenames start with /
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- - gitweb: generate project/action/hash URLs
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- - gitweb: parse project/action/hash_base:filename PATH_INFO
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+ . gitweb: generate parent..current URLs
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+ . gitweb: parse parent..current syntax from pathinfo
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+ . gitweb: use_pathinfo filenames start with /
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+ . gitweb: generate project/action/hash URLs
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+ . gitweb: refactor input parameters parse/validation
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is heading in the right direction. But the discussion and patch
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-The latter three are ready for 'maint'. I felt burned by a bad
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-I need to look at it to see if there's any obvious reason why Junio
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