What's cooking (2012/07 #08)
Junio C Hamano committed
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To: git@vger.kernel.org
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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2012, #07; Mon, 23)
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-X-master-at: ccc1188fa34cd9519185a22b13599256ccfac7e1
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-X-next-at: ef256fcf12b3e3fdb5f9a5b3185d9727e9415afa
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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2012, #08; Thu, 26)
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+X-master-at: cdd159b2f56c9e69e37bbb8f5af301abd93e5407
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+X-next-at: f358a28daf9cd64a842c5aac31fa79dd40c72ecc
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-What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2012, #07; Mon, 23)
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+What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2012, #08; Thu, 26)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with '-' are
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only in 'pu' (proposed updates) while commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next'.
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-The tip of 'master' has been tagged as 1.7.12-rc0; this deliberately
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-contains a few topics that have been in 'next' only for a few days,
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-so please make sure to spot any possible issues and report soonish
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-to avoid regressions in the upcoming release.
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+Please consider that the tip of 'master' is more or less feature
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+complete. Topics that are not in 'next' by the time I tag -rc1
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+sometime early next week will not likely to be part of upcoming
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+1.7.12 release.
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You can find the changes described here in the integration branches of the
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repositories listed at
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http://git-blame.blogspot.com/p/git-public-repositories.html
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-[Graduated to "master"]
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+[New Topics]
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-* jk/mediawiki-credential (2012-07-18) 4 commits
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-22 at 2cb99b2)
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- + mw-to-git: use git-credential's URL parser
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- + credential: convert "url" attribute into its parsed subparts
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- + mw-to-git: check blank credential attributes via length
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- + docs/credential: minor clarity fixups
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-Mediawiki importer updates.
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-* jn/block-sha1 (2012-07-23) 3 commits
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-23 at a11a08b)
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- + Makefile: BLK_SHA1 does not require fast htonl() and unaligned loads
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- + block-sha1: put expanded macro parameters in parentheses
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- + block-sha1: avoid pointer conversion that violates alignment constraints
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-
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-The code to load a word one-byte-at-a-time was optimized into a
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-word-wide load instruction even when the pointer was not aligned,
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-which caused issues on architectures that do not like unaligned
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-access.
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-* jn/make-assembly-in-right-directory (2012-07-22) 1 commit
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-23 at 3c155cc)
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- + Makefile: fix location of listing produced by "make subdir/foo.s"
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-* jv/maint-no-ext-diff (2012-07-19) 2 commits
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-22 at eefcf45)
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- + diff: test precedence of external diff drivers
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- + diff: correctly disable external_diff with --no-ext-diff
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-"git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange
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-filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect.
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-* kk/maint-1.7.9-commit-tree (2012-07-17) 1 commit
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- + commit-tree: resurrect command line parsing updates
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- (this branch is used by kk/maint-commit-tree.)
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-
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-A more natural-looking "git commit-tree -p <parent> <tree>" syntax
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-was introduced long time ago, but we accidentally broke it in the
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-1.7.9 era.
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-* kk/maint-commit-tree (2012-07-17) 2 commits
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-22 at ab15d56)
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- + Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis"
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- + Merge branch 'kk/maint-1.7.9-commit-tree' into kk/maint-commit-tree
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- (this branch uses kk/maint-1.7.9-commit-tree.)
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-The same as above, for merging to the upcoming release.
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-* mm/mediawiki-usability (2012-07-17) 10 commits
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-22 at fe66a95)
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: allow page names with a ':'
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: fix incorrect test usage in test
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: properly deal with invalid remote revisions
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when getting last remote revision
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: show progress information when listing pages
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: use --force when adding notes
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: get rid of O(N^2) loop
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: make mediafiles export optional
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: actually send empty comment when they're empty
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- + git-remote-mediawiki: don't split namespaces with spaces
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-Mediawiki importer updates.
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-* nk/maint-gitweb-log-by-lines (2012-07-05) 3 commits
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-13 at 780e16a)
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- + gitweb: Add support to Link: tag
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- + gitweb: Handle other types of tag in git_print_log
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- + gitweb: Cleanup git_print_log()
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-Teach gitweb to pay attention to various forms of credits that are
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-similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines.
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-Needs to be eyeballed for the correctness of the esc_html() in the tip one.
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-* sl/autoconf (2012-07-19) 7 commits
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-23 at dc94990)
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- + build: reconfigure automatically if configure.ac changes
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- + build: "make clean" should not remove configure-generated files
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- + autoconf: use AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS instead of ad-hoc 'config.mak.append'
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- + autoconf: remove few redundant semicolons
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- + autoconf: remove some redundant shell indirections
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- + autoconf: GIT_CONF_APPEND_LINE -> GIT_CONF_SUBST
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- + autoconf: GIT_CONF_APPEND_LINE: change signature
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-* sn/doc-typofix (2012-07-14) 1 commit
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-22 at 168bba9)
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- + doc: A few minor copy edits.
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-* tg/ce-namelen-field (2012-07-11) 2 commits
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-22 at 2d85b05)
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- + Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen field
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- + Merge branch 'tg/maint-cache-name-compare' into tg/ce-namelen-field
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-Split lower bits of ce_flags field and creates a new ce_namelen
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-field in the in-core index structure.
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-* th/difftool-diffall (2012-07-19) 1 commit
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-23 at db62371)
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- + difftool: only copy back files modified during directory diff
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- (this branch is used by da/difftool-updates.)
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-Finishing touches to "difftool --dir-diff".
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+* dg/submodule-in-dismembered-working-tree (2012-07-25) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-26 at cfa16c4)
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+ + git-submodule: work with GIT_DIR/GIT_WORK_TREE
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-[New Topics]
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+Will merge to 'master'.
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-* da/difftool-updates (2012-07-23) 5 commits
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- (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-23 at 96528a7)
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- + difftool: Use symlinks when diffing against the worktree
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- + difftool: Call the temp directory "git-difftool"
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- + difftool: Move option values into a hash
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- + difftool: Eliminate global variables
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- + difftool: Simplify print_tool_help()
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+* jk/help-plug-memleak (2012-07-25) 2 commits
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-26 at bd57cb8)
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+ + help.c::exclude_cmds(): plug a leak
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+ + help.c::uniq: plug a leak
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-temporary copy of the working tree when available.
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+Will merge to 'master'.
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+* jk/maint-checkout-orphan-check-fix (2012-07-25) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-26 at a513c5a)
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+ + checkout: don't confuse ref and object flags
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+Will merge to 'master', later down to older maintenance releases.
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+* ms/makefile-pl (2012-07-25) 3 commits
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+ - The Makefile.PL will now find .pm files itself.
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+ - Don't lose Error.pm if $@ gets clobbered.
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+ - Quiet warning if Makefile.PL is run with -w and no --localedir
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+ (this branch is used by ms/git-svn-pm.)
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+Will be part of larger series around git-svn, so I'll most likely
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+drop this copy and wait for Eric to feed it to me later.
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+* ms/git-svn-pm (2012-07-26) 4 commits
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+ - Move initialization of Git::SVN variables into Git::SVN.
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+ - Extract Git::SVN from git-svn into its own .pm file.
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+ - Prepare Git::SVN for extraction into its own file.
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+ - Extract some utilities from git-svn to allow extracting Git::SVN.
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+ (this branch uses ms/makefile-pl.)
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+Will be part of larger series around git-svn, so I'll most likely
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+drop this copy and wait for Eric to feed it to me later.
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+* sz/submodule-force-update (2012-07-25) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-26 at 3bda2be)
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+ + Make 'git submodule update --force' always check out submodules.
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+We may want a documentation update and a few tests on top.
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+Not urgent.
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+* jk/autoident-test (2012-07-26) 6 commits
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-26 at f358a28)
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+ + t7502: test early quit from commit with bad ident
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+ + t7502: handle systems where auto-identity is broken
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+ + t7502: drop confusing test_might_fail call
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+ + t7502: narrow checks for author/committer name in template
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+ + t7502: properly quote GIT_EDITOR
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+ + t7502: clean up fake_editor tests
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Will merge to 'master'.
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+* jc/test-prereq (2012-07-26) 6 commits
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-26 at 0e21c36)
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+ + test-lib: provide UTF8 behaviour as a prerequisite
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+ + t0050: use the SYMLINKS test prereq
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+ + t0050: use the CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS test prereq
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+ + test-lib: provide case insensitivity as a prerequisite
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+ + test: allow prerequisite to be evaluated lazily
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+ + test: rename $satisfied to $satisfied_prereq
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+Teaches the test framework to probe rarely used prerequistes lazily,
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+and make use of it for detecting SYMLINKS, CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS and
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+NKD/NKC MacOS x gotcha.
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+Not urgent.
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+[Graduated to "master"]
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+* cw/rebase-i-root (2012-07-24) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-24 at 01b7c29)
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+ + rebase -i: handle fixup of root commit correctly
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+Finishing touches to the "rebase -i --root" (new feature for
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* jc/mergetool-tool-help (2012-07-23) 1 commit
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"git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
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+* jc/test-lib-source-build-options-early (2012-06-24) 1 commit
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-24 at 97078b5)
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+ + test-lib: reorder and include GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS a lot earlier
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+Reorders t/test-lib.sh so that we dot-source GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS that
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+records the shell and Perl the user told us to use with Git a lot
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+early, so that test-lib.sh script itself can use "$PERL_PATH" in
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+one of its early operations.
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* jk/maint-advise-vaddf (2012-07-23) 1 commit
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* jk/maint-commit-check-committer-early (2012-07-23) 1 commit
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* jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg (2012-07-23) 1 commit
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+* mh/maint-revisions-doc (2012-07-24) 2 commits
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-24 at d5e286e)
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+ + Enumerate revision range specifiers in the documentation
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+ + Make <refname> documentation more consistent.
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+* mm/config-xdg (2012-07-24) 4 commits
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+ (merged to 'next' on 2012-07-24 at 6ab5783)
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+ + t1306: check that XDG_CONFIG_HOME works
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+ + ignore: make sure we have an xdg path before using it
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+ + attr: make sure we have an xdg path before using it
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[Stalled]
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Expecting a reroll.
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-records the shell and Perl the user told us to use with Git a lot
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-early, so that test-lib.sh script itself can use "$PERL_PATH" in
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-Needs to be eyeballed by people who run tests with exotic options
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-like valgrind, --root=/dev/shm/somewhere, etc.
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* mb/remote-default-nn-origin (2012-07-11) 6 commits
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- Teach get_default_remote to respect remote.default.
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that I was asked by somebody at GitTogether'11 privately for an
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advice on how to pay developers (not me) to help adding necessary
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support, I am somewhat dissapointed that the original patch series
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-that was sent almost two months ago still remains here without much
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-comments and updates from the developer community. I even made the
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-interface to the logic that decides where to split chunks easily
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-replaceable, and I deliberately made the logic in the original patch
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-extremely stupid to entice others, especially the "bup" fanboys, to
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-come up with a better logic, thinking that giving people an easy
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-target to shoot for, they may be encouraged to help out. The plan is
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-not working :-(.
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+that was sent long time ago still remains here without much comments
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+and updates from the developer community. I even made the interface
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+to the logic that decides where to split chunks easily replaceable,
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+and I deliberately made the logic in the original patch extremely
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+stupid to entice others, especially the "bup" fanbois, to come up
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+with a better logic, thinking that giving people an easy target to
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+shoot for, they may be encouraged to help out. The plan is not
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-* mh/maint-revisions-doc (2012-07-23) 3 commits
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- - fixup-amend: Enumerate revision range specifiers in the documentation
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- - Document rev^! and rev^@ as revision specifiers
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- - Make <refname> documentation more consistent.
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+* da/difftool-updates (2012-07-26) 10 commits
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+ + difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwin
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+ + difftool: Handle compare() returning -1
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+ + difftool: Wrap long lines for readability
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+ + difftool: Check all return codes from compare()
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+ + difftool: Handle finding mergetools/ in a path with spaces
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+ + difftool: Use symlinks when diffing against the worktree
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+ + difftool: Call the temp directory "git-difftool"
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+ + difftool: Move option values into a hash
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+ + difftool: Eliminate global variables
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+* jx/i18n-1.7.11 (2012-07-26) 7 commits
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- - Remove unused and bad gettext block from git-am
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- i18n: Rewrite gettext messages start with dash
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+Not urgent.
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+* jk/maint-commit-abandoned-message (2012-07-23) 2 commits
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