What's cooking #3 of Nov 2008

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1 +Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #03; Sun, 09)
2 +X-master-at: a9645b780b698703cd7dee25051d6ce39b0544c6
3 +X-next-at: aca556e49fea7423c223973632ed9b94c03b19eb
4 +
5 +What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #03; Sun, 09)
6 +--------------------------------------------------
7 +
8 +Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed
9 +with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are
10 +in 'next'.
11 +
12 +The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order. The topics
13 +meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.
14 +
15 +----------------------------------------------------------------
16 +[New Topics]
17 +
18 +* jk/deny-push-to-current (Sat Nov 8 20:49:27 2008 -0500) 2 commits
19 + + receive-pack: detect push to current branch of non-bare repo
20 + + t5516: refactor oddball tests
21 +
22 +* dl/xdiff (Fri Nov 7 21:24:33 2008 -0800) 1 commit
23 + + xdiff: give up scanning similar lines early
24 +
25 +This performance fix may eventually need to be cherry-picked to 'maint'.
26 +
27 +----------------------------------------------------------------
28 +[Graduated to "master"]
29 +
30 +* cb/maint-update-ref-fix (Wed Nov 5 21:55:54 2008 +0100) 2 commits
31 + + push: fix local refs update if already up-to-date
32 + + do not force write of packed refs
33 +
34 +* rs/blame (Sat Oct 25 15:31:36 2008 +0200) 5 commits
35 + + blame: use xdi_diff_hunks(), get rid of struct patch
36 + + add xdi_diff_hunks() for callers that only need hunk lengths
37 + + Allow alternate "low-level" emit function from xdl_diff
38 + + Always initialize xpparam_t to 0
39 + + blame: inline get_patch()
40 +
41 +* ds/autoconf (Sun Oct 26 03:52:19 2008 -0800) 1 commit
42 + + autoconf: Add link tests to each AC_CHECK_FUNC() test
43 +
44 +Attempts to help FreeBSD whose compiler does not error out when told to
45 +compile a program that calls unavailable functions.
46 +
47 +----------------------------------------------------------------
48 +[Actively Cooking]
49 +
50 +* gb/gitweb-snapshot-pathinfo (Sun Nov 2 10:21:39 2008 +0100) 3 commits
51 + + gitweb: embed snapshot format parameter in PATH_INFO
52 + + gitweb: retrieve snapshot format from PATH_INFO
53 + + gitweb: make the supported snapshot formats array global
54 +
55 +Got sick of waiting for re-Ack. Merged to 'next'.
56 +
57 +* jn/gitweb-customlinks (Sun Oct 12 00:02:32 2008 +0200) 1 commit
58 + + gitweb: Better processing format string in custom links in navbar
59 +
60 +Got sick of waiting for some sort of response from Pasky. Merged to 'next'.
61 +
62 +* st/tag (Wed Nov 5 00:20:36 2008 +0100) 2 commits
63 + + tag: Add more tests about mixing incompatible modes and options
64 + + tag: Check that options are only allowed in the appropriate mode
65 +
66 +* np/pack-safer (Sun Nov 9 13:11:06 2008 -0800) 11 commits
67 + + t5303: fix printf format string for portability
68 + + t5303: work around printf breakage in dash
69 + + pack-objects: don't leak pack window reference when splitting
70 + packs
71 + + extend test coverage for latest pack corruption resilience
72 + improvements
73 + + pack-objects: allow "fixing" a corrupted pack without a full
74 + repack
75 + + make find_pack_revindex() aware of the nasty world
76 + + make check_object() resilient to pack corruptions
77 + + make packed_object_info() resilient to pack corruptions
78 + + make unpack_object_header() non fatal
79 + + better validation on delta base object offsets
80 + + close another possibility for propagating pack corruption
81 +
82 +* mv/remote-rename (Mon Nov 3 19:26:18 2008 +0100) 1 commit
83 + + Implement git remote rename
84 +
85 +* lt/decorate (Mon Nov 3 11:25:46 2008 -0800) 4 commits
86 + + revision traversal: '--simplify-by-decoration'
87 + + Make '--decorate' set an explicit 'show_decorations' flag
88 + + revision: make tree comparison functions take commits rather than
89 + trees
90 + + Add a 'source' decorator for commits
91 +
92 +* ds/uintmax-config (Mon Nov 3 09:14:28 2008 -0900) 5 commits
93 + - autoconf: Enable threaded delta search when pthreads are supported
94 + + Add autoconf tests for pthreads
95 + + Make Pthread link flags configurable
96 + + Add Makefile check for FreeBSD 4.9-SECURITY
97 + + Build: add NO_UINTMAX_T to support ancient systems
98 +
99 +I split the part that unconditionally enable threaded delta search on any
100 +platform on which Pthread library is detected to be available from the
101 +topmost one.
102 +
103 +* jk/diff-convfilter (Sun Oct 26 00:50:02 2008 -0400) 8 commits
104 + + enable textconv for diff in verbose status/commit
105 + + wt-status: load diff ui config
106 + + only textconv regular files
107 + + userdiff: require explicitly allowing textconv
108 + + refactor userdiff textconv code
109 + + add userdiff textconv tests
110 + + document the diff driver textconv feature
111 + + diff: add missing static declaration
112 +
113 +* jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix (Fri Oct 31 01:09:13 2008 -0400) 4 commits
114 + + Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.
115 + + add userdiff textconv tests
116 + + document the diff driver textconv feature
117 + + diff: add missing static declaration
118 +
119 +An update to the one above.
120 +
121 +* jc/blame (Wed Jun 4 22:58:40 2008 -0700) 2 commits
122 + + blame: show "previous" information in --porcelain/--incremental
123 + format
124 + + git-blame: refactor code to emit "porcelain format" output
125 +
126 +* nd/narrow (Wed Oct 1 11:04:09 2008 +0700) 9 commits
127 + - grep: skip files outside sparse checkout area
128 + - checkout_entry(): CE_NO_CHECKOUT on checked out entries.
129 + - Prevent diff machinery from examining worktree outside sparse
130 + checkout
131 + - ls-files: Add tests for --sparse and friends
132 + - update-index: add --checkout/--no-checkout to update
133 + CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
134 + - update-index: refactor mark_valid() in preparation for new options
135 + - ls-files: add options to support sparse checkout
136 + - Introduce CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
137 + - Extend index to save more flags
138 +
139 +Early parts looked Ok; I am trying to find time to review the whole thing
140 +but fixing bugs in topics from other people here and there took almost all
141 +my time this weekend. Not good.
142 +
143 +----------------------------------------------------------------
144 +[Dropped]
145 +
146 +* bc/maint-keep-pack (Mon Nov 3 14:43:22 2008 -0600) 3 commits
147 + . pack-objects: honor '.keep' files
148 + . packed_git: convert pack_local flag into a bitfield and add
149 + pack_keep
150 + . t7700: demonstrate mishandling of objects in packs with a .keep
151 + file
152 +
153 +It seems this is better rethought from the design level.
154 +
155 +----------------------------------------------------------------
156 +[On Hold]
157 +
158 +* jc/send-pack-tell-me-more (Thu Mar 20 00:44:11 2008 -0700) 1 commit
159 + - "git push": tellme-more protocol extension
160 +
161 +This seems to have a deadlock during communication between the peers.
162 +Someone needs to pick up this topic and resolve the deadlock before it can
163 +continue.
164 +
165 +* jk/renamelimit (Sat May 3 13:58:42 2008 -0700) 1 commit
166 + - diff: enable "too large a rename" warning when -M/-C is explicitly
167 + asked for
168 +
169 +This would be the right thing to do for command line use,
170 +but gitk will be hit due to tcl/tk's limitation, so I am holding
171 +this back for now.