What's cooking (2008/07 #10)
Junio C Hamano committed
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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2008, issue #09; Sun, 20)
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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2008, #11; Thu, 31)
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-What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2008, issue #09; Sun, 20)
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+What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2008, #11; Thu, 31)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed
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with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are
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Tentative schedule, my wishful thinking:
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- - 1.6.0-rc0 (Jul 20)
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- - 1.6.0-rc1 (Jul 23)
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- - 1.6.0-rc2 (Jul 30)
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- - 1.6.0-rc3 (Aug 6)
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- - 1.6.0 (Aug 10)
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+ - 1.6.0-rc2 (Aug 3)
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+ - 1.6.0-rc3 (Aug 10)
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[New Topics]
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-* pb/sane-mv (Mon Jul 21 02:25:56 2008 +0200) 2 commits
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- - git-mv: Keep moved index entries inact
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- - git-mv: Remove dead code branch
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+* rs/archive-parse-options (Fri Jul 25 12:41:26 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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+ + archive: allow --exec and --remote without equal sign
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-Running "git mv A B" when you have local changes to A automatically staged
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-it while moving it to B, which was a longstanding nonsense. This attempts
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-to fix it. Pasky has other plans to build on a more solidified foundation
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-to enhance the command to work with submodules better on top of this.
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+None of the following is for 1.6.0.
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-[Graduated to "master"]
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-* ns/am-abort (Wed Jul 16 19:39:10 2008 +0900) 1 commit
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- + git am --abort
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-This one is for Ted; builds on top of the recent "am and rebase leaves
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-ORIG_HEAD just like reset, merge and pull does" rather nicely.
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-* jc/rerere-auto-more (Wed Jul 16 20:25:18 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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- + rerere.autoupdate: change the message when autoupdate is in effect
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-This one is for Ingo.
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+* mv/merge-custom (Thu Jul 31 00:38:07 2008 +0200) 5 commits
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+ + builtin-help: always load_command_list() in cmd_help()
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+ + Add a second testcase for handling invalid strategies in git-merge
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+ + Add a new test for using a custom merge strategy
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+ + builtin-merge: allow using a custom strategy
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+ + builtin-help: make some internal functions available to other
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+ builtins
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-This changes the message rerere issues after reusing previous conflict
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-resolution from "Resolved" to "Staged" when autoupdate option is in
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-effect.
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+* cc/merge-base-many (Sun Jul 27 13:47:22 2008 -0700) 4 commits
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+ - git-merge-octopus: use (merge-base A (merge B C D E...)) for
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+ stepwise merge
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+ + merge-base-many: add trivial tests based on the documentation
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+ + documentation: merge-base: explain "git merge-base" with more than
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+ 2 args
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+ + merge-base: teach "git merge-base" to drive underlying
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+ merge_bases_many()
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-It is envisioned that in practice, some auto resolutions are trickier and
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-iffier than others, and we would want to add a feature to mark individual
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-resolutions as "this is ok to autoupdate" or "do not autoupdate the result
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-using this resolution even when rerere.autoupdate is in effect" in the
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-future. When that happens, these messages will make the distinction
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-clearer.
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+* jc/simplify-merges (Thu Jul 31 01:17:41 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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+ . revision traversal: show full history with merge simplification
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-* ap/trackinfo (Wed Jul 16 15:19:27 2008 -0400) 1 commit
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- + Reword "your branch has diverged..." lines to reduce line length
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-* xx/merge-in-c-into-next (Wed Jul 9 13:51:46 2008 -0700) 4 commits
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- + Teach git-merge -X<option> again.
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- + Merge branch 'jc/merge-theirs' into xx/merge-in-c-into-next
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- + builtin-merge.c: use parse_options_step() "incremental parsing"
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- machinery
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- + Merge branch 'ph/parseopt-step-blame' into xx/merge-in-c-into-next
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-* jc/merge-theirs (Fri Jul 18 02:43:00 2008 -0700) 6 commits
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- - Document that merge strategies can now take their own options
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- + Make "subtree" part more orthogonal to the rest of merge-
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- recursive.
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- + Teach git-pull to pass -X<option> to git-merge
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- + Teach git-merge to pass -X<option> to the backend strategy module
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- + git-merge-recursive-{ours,theirs}
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- + git-merge-file --ours, --theirs
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-It appears nobody wants "theirs" nor "ours", so I'll soon apply a
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-wholesale revert for these series to 'next', and then these will be
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-dropped when we rewind 'next' after 1.6.0 final.
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-Please make sure next time somebody asks "ours/theirs" merge on the list
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-and #git s/he is quickly told that it was unanimously rejected so that
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-people do not have to waste time rehashing the topic ever again.
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+"log --full-history" is with too much clutter, "log" itself is too cleverer
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+than some people, and here is the middle level of merge simplification.
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-[Stalled/Needs more work]
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+[On Hold and/or Cooking]
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+None of the following is for 1.6.0.
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* rs/imap (Wed Jul 9 22:29:02 2008 +0100) 5 commits
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- - Documentation: Improve documentation for git-imap-send(1)
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- - imap-send.c: more style fixes
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- - imap-send.c: style fixes
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- - git-imap-send: Support SSL
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- - git-imap-send: Allow the program to be run from subdirectories of
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+ + Documentation: Improve documentation for git-imap-send(1)
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+ + imap-send.c: more style fixes
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+ + imap-send.c: style fixes
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+ + git-imap-send: Support SSL
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+ + git-imap-send: Allow the program to be run from subdirectories of
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a git tree
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-I said: "Some people seem to prefer having this feature available also
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-with gnutls. If such a patch materializes soon, that would be good, but
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-otherwise I'll merge this as-is to 'next'. Such an enhancement can be
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-done in-tree on top of this series." Anybody?
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+Some people seem to prefer having this feature available also with gnutls.
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+Such an enhancement can be done in-tree on top of this series if they are
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-* gi/cherry-cache (Sat Jul 12 20:14:51 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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- . cherry: cache patch-ids to avoid repeating work
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+* cc/bisect (Fri Jul 25 05:36:37 2008 +0200) 2 commits
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+ - bisect: only check merge bases when needed
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+ - bisect: test merge base if good rev is not an ancestor of bad rev
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-The discussion suggested that the value of having the cache itself is
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-iffy, but I should pick up the updated one and look at it.
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+* jc/add-addremove (Tue Jul 22 22:30:40 2008 -0700) 2 commits
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+ + builtin-add.c: optimize -A option and "git add ."
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+ + builtin-add.c: restructure the code for maintainability
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-* lw/gitweb (Fri Jul 11 03:11:48 2008 +0200) 3 commits
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- . gitweb: use new Git::Repo API, and add optional caching
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- . Add new Git::Repo API
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- . gitweb: add test suite with Test::WWW::Mechanize::CGI
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+* jk/pager-swap (Tue Jul 22 03:14:12 2008 -0400) 2 commits
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+ + spawn pager via run_command interface
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-* sb/sequencer (Tue Jul 1 04:38:34 2008 +0200) 4 commits
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- . Migrate git-am to use git-sequencer
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- . Add git-sequencer test suite (t3350)
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- . Add git-sequencer prototype documentation
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- . Add git-sequencer shell prototype
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+This changes the parent-child relationship between the pager and the git
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+process. We used to make pager the parent which meant that the exit
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+status from git is lost from the caller.
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-I haven't looked at the updated series yet. I should, but nobody else
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-seems to be looking at these patches, which is somewhat depressing but
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-understandable. Summer is slower ;-)
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-* jc/grafts (Wed Jul 2 17:14:12 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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- - [BROKEN wrt shallow clones] Ignore graft during object transfer
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-Cloning or fetching from a repository from grafts did not send objects
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-that are hidden by grafts, but the commits in the resulting repository do
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-Another fix is needed to git-prune so that it ignores grafts but treats
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-* xx/merge-in-c-into-next (Wed Jul 9 13:51:46 2008 -0700) 4 commits
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- + Teach git-merge -X<option> again.
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- + Merge branch 'jc/merge-theirs' into xx/merge-in-c-into-next
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- + builtin-merge.c: use parse_options_step() "incremental parsing"
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- machinery
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- + Merge branch 'ph/parseopt-step-blame' into xx/merge-in-c-into-next
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-* jc/merge-theirs (Fri Jul 18 02:43:00 2008 -0700) 6 commits
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- - Document that merge strategies can now take their own options
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- + Make "subtree" part more orthogonal to the rest of merge-
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- recursive.
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- + Teach git-pull to pass -X<option> to git-merge
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- + Teach git-merge to pass -X<option> to the backend strategy module
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- + git-merge-recursive-{ours,theirs}
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- + git-merge-file --ours, --theirs
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-It appears nobody wants "theirs" nor "ours", so I'll soon apply a
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-wholesale revert for these series to 'next', and then these will be
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-dropped when we rewind 'next' after 1.6.0 final.
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-Please make sure next time somebody asks "ours/theirs" merge on the list
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-and #git s/he is quickly told that it was unanimously rejected so that
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-people do not have to waste time rehashing the topic ever again.
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+* ph/enable-threaded (Mon Jul 21 11:23:43 2008 +0200) 1 commit
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