What's cooking (2009/09 #04)

Junio C Hamano committed Sep 16, 2009 at 23:10 UTC aaf301335da634d1ff0e5dd219b48371ad2decb4
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1 To: git@vger.kernel.org
2 -Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2009, #03; Sun, 13)
3 -X-master-at: eaf1c941bbc10f5aa67fcf64e316fb548b910cfe
4 -X-next-at: ad50cbaea8afd009cb843c743b248c53ed6285ee
2 +Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2009, #04; Wed, 16)
3 +X-master-at: 8426f672fc65239135b1f1580bb79ecb16fd05f0
4 +X-next-at: 63b02d52a162438e5262062b3e6768beb3962be8
5
6 -What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2009, #03; Sun, 13)
6 +What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2009, #04; Wed, 16)
7 --------------------------------------------------
8
9 Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with '-' are
@@ -51,75 +51,35 @@ backward compatible. Currently planeed changes are:
51
52 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/119731/focus=119751
53
54 -During 1.6.5 cycle, 'next' will hold topics meant for 1.6.5 and 1.7.0.
54 +We are in pre-release feature freeze. 'next' will hold topics meant for
55 +1.6.6 and 1.7.0.
56
56 -I tagged and pushed out 1.6.5-rc1. As far as I am concered, all the big
57 -topics eligible for 1.6.5 are now in, except for possibly gfi-options
58 -series from Sverre. Updates to subsystems (svn, gitk, gui, and gitweb)
59 -may still need to be merged in.
60 -
61 -I've been hoping to keep this cycle short, and I'm also hoping to tag the
62 -real 1.6.5 before I vanish for about a week and half later in the
63 -month. so it looks like there may have to be a 1.6.6 to include the
64 -leftover topics.
57 +Except for possibly gfi-options series from Sverre, and updates to
58 +subsystems (svn, gitk, gui, and gitweb) may still need to be merged in,
59 +but otherwise 'master' is ready for -rc2. I am still hoping that I can
60 +tag the final before I take a vacation starting on 24th for a week, but we
61 +may have to give the final -rc a week to shake out any possible last
62 +minute regressions and release 1.6.5 at the beginning of next month.
63
64 --------------------------------------------------
65 [Graduated to "master"]
66
69 -* jc/merge-saner-messages (2009-09-07) 1 commit
70 - + merge-recursive: give less scary messages when merge did not start
71 -
72 -* rc/maint-http-no-head-pack-check (2009-09-09) 1 commit.
67 +* rc/maint-http-no-head-pack-check (2009-09-14) 2 commits.
68 + + http.c: avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer
69 + http.c: remove verification of remote packs
70
75 -* db/vcs-helper (2009-09-03) 16 commits
76 - + Use a clearer style to issue commands to remote helpers
77 - + Make the "traditionally-supported" URLs a special case
78 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-07 at f3533ba)
79 - + Makefile: install hardlinks for git-remote-<scheme> supported by libcurl if possible
80 - + Makefile: do not link three copies of git-remote-* programs
81 - + Makefile: git-http-fetch does not need expat
82 - + http-fetch: Fix Makefile dependancies
83 - + Add transport native helper executables to .gitignore
84 - + git-http-fetch: not a builtin
85 - + Use an external program to implement fetching with curl
86 - + Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
87 -
88 -Up to the part that eject -lcurl from the main "git" binary cleanly are
89 -now in 'master', with a few fix-ups from Jim Mayering.
90 -
91 -* cb/maint-1.6.3-grep-relative-up (2009-09-05) 2 commits.
92 - + grep: accept relative paths outside current working directory
93 - + grep: fix exit status if external_grep() punts
94 -
95 -* jk/unwanted-advices (2009-09-09) 2 commits
96 - + status: make "how to stage" messages optional
97 - + push: make non-fast-forward help message configurable
98 -
99 -* jt/pushinsteadof (2009-09-07) 2 commits
100 - + Add url.<base>.pushInsteadOf: URL rewriting for push only
101 - + Wrap rewrite globals in a struct in preparation for adding another set
102 -
103 -* pk/fast-import-tars (2009-09-03) 1 commit
104 - + import-tars: Allow per-tar author and commit message.
105 -
106 -* pk/fast-import-dirs (2009-09-03) 1 commit
107 - + Add script for importing bits-and-pieces to Git.
71 +Graduated to master and maint but then needed a small fixup.
72
73 --------------------------------------------------
74 [New Topics]
75
112 -* db/vcs-helper-rest (2009-09-03) 6 commits
113 - - Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged
114 - - Add support for "import" helper command
115 - - Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs
116 - - Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls
117 - - Allow fetch to modify refs
118 - - Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid
119 - (this branch is used by jh/cvs-helper.)
76 +* jc/maint-blank-at-eof (2009-09-15) 0 commits.
77 + (this branch uses jc/maint-1.6.0-blank-at-eof.)
78
121 -This is not exactly new. It holds the remainder of the db/vcs-helper
122 -topic.
79 +The series does not have a commit of its own but is a preparation for
80 +merging the original jc/1.6.0-maint-blank-at-eof topic to 'maint' and then
81 +'master'. It is a fix for longstanding bug and 1.6.5 will likely to ship
82 +without this topic.
83
84 --------------------------------------------------
85 [Stalled]
@@ -161,6 +121,18 @@ Replaced but I do not think this is ready for 'pu' yet.
121 --------------------------------------------------
122 [Cooking]
123
124 +* db/vcs-helper-rest (2009-09-03) 6 commits
125 + - Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged
126 + - Add support for "import" helper command
127 + - Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs
128 + - Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls
129 + - Allow fetch to modify refs
130 + - Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid
131 + (this branch is used by jh/cvs-helper.)
132 +
133 +This holds the remainder of the db/vcs-helper topic that has already
134 +merged for 1.6.5.
135 +
136 * jh/notes (2009-09-12) 13 commits
137 - Selftests verifying semantics when loading notes trees with various fanouts
138 - Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes
@@ -190,7 +162,16 @@ with ("a" "a-b"), ("a/b" "a-b") and just ("a-b"), but my reading of it is
162 that it is just the first step to demonstrate one-entry lookahead and not
163 a full solution yet.
164
193 -* jc/maint-1.6.0-blank-at-eof (2009-09-05) 10 commits.
165 +I started writing a replacement series but the progress is a bit slower
166 +than I would have liked.
167 +
168 +* jc/maint-1.6.0-blank-at-eof (2009-09-14) 15 commits.
169 + (merged to 'next' on 2009-09-15 at 9cbfa00)
170 + + diff -B: colour whitespace errors
171 + + diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line
172 + + diff.c: split emit_line() from the first char and the rest of the line
173 + + diff.c: shuffling code around
174 + + diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end
175 (merged to 'next' on 2009-09-07 at 165dc3c)
176 + core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof}
177 + diff --color: color blank-at-eof
@@ -202,9 +183,13 @@ a full solution yet.
183 + apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two
184 + apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly
185 + apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
186 + (this branch is used by jc/maint-blank-at-eof.)
187 +
188 +This is a fix for an ancient bug (or inconsistent set of features); the
189 +topic is based on an ancient codebase and is designed to be merged
190 +upwards. jc/maint-blank-at-eof serves that purpose.
191
206 -This started a bit late in the cycle, and I'd rather hold it back during
207 -this feature freeze and push it out after 1.6.5 final.
192 +Will not be in 1.6.5.
193
194 * jn/gitweb-blame (2009-09-01) 5 commits
195 - gitweb: Minify gitweb.js if JSMIN is defined
@@ -226,7 +211,7 @@ Ajax-y blame.
211 + fast-import: put option parsing code in separate functions
212 (this branch is used by jh/notes.)
213
229 -Perhaps 1.6.5 material but I wasn't sure.
214 +Ping?
215
216 * nd/sparse (2009-08-20) 19 commits
217 - sparse checkout: inhibit empty worktree
@@ -314,23 +299,3 @@ Maybe some people care about this. I dunno.
299 . Add initial support for pathname conversion to UTF-8
300 . read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname character set conversion
301 . Add 'fill_directory()' helper function for directory traversal
317 -
318 -* cc/sequencer-rebase-i (2009-08-28) 15 commits
319 - - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --cherry-pick"
320 - - sequencer: add "--cherry-pick" option to "git sequencer--helper"
321 - - sequencer: add "do_commit()" and related functions working on "next_commit"
322 - - pick: libify "pick_help_msg()"
323 - - revert: libify cherry-pick and revert functionnality
324 - - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --fast-forward"
325 - - sequencer: let "git sequencer--helper" callers set "allow_dirty"
326 - - sequencer: add "--fast-forward" option to "git sequencer--helper"
327 - - sequencer: add "do_fast_forward()" to perform a fast forward
328 - - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --reset-hard"
329 - - sequencer: add "--reset-hard" option to "git sequencer--helper"
330 - - sequencer: add "reset_almost_hard()" and related functions
331 - - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --make-patch"
332 - - sequencer: add "make_patch" function to save a patch
333 - - sequencer: add "builtin-sequencer--helper.c"
334 -
335 -This was to be replaced with multiple bite-sized smaller topics. We've
336 -seen one such topic for "git reset" on the list.