What's cooking (2009/08 #02)
Junio C Hamano committed
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To: git@vger.kernel.org
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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #01; Wed, 05)
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-X-master-at: 3f55e4107f7906134df029f9a5c44864f9258110
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-X-next-at: 2981fa5b8f20e8ff086aceb252c0e693fa2d0c75
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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #02; Wed, 12)
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+X-master-at: 6ffd781226f04629eff63a684b47ad7555143312
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+X-next-at: e5cd0abadfa20eaf7a76784ad5802115c75eff2f
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-What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #01; Wed, 05)
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+What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #02; Wed, 12)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with '-' are
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marked with '.' do not appear in any of the branches, but I am still
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holding onto them.
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-In preparation for rewinding 'next' after a major release, one topic was
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-reverted and kicked back to 'pu' to give it a fresh start.
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After the 1.6.5 cycle, the next release will be 1.7.0, and we will push
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out the planned "push safety" change. 1.7.0 would be a good time to
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introduce "justifiable" changes that are not strictly backward compatible.
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-* gb/apply-ignore-whitespace (Tue Aug 4 13:16:49 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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- - git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences
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-* db/vcs-helper (Wed Aug 5 01:02:25 2009 -0400) 13 commits
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- - Changes for new vcs-helper series
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- - Add simple test cases of git-vcs-cvs functionality
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- - First draft of CVS importer using the foreign-scm machinery
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- - Allow helpers to request marks for fast-import
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- - Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is
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- unchanged
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- - Add support for "import" helper command
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- - Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs
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- - Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls
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- - Allow fetch to modify refs
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- - Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid
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- - git-http-fetch: not a builtin
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- - Use an external program to implement fetching with curl
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- - Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
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-This consolidates various previous rounds from Daniel and Johan.
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+* ld/p4 (Thu Jul 30 00:13:46 2009 +0100) 1 commit
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+ - git-p4: stream from perforce to speed up clones
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+
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+Waiting for Ack/Nack from stakeholders. Probably I should merge this to
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+'next' soon, keep it there for a week and see if anybody screams, aka
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+"Nack now or forever hold your peace" ;-).
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+
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+* mr/gitweb-xz (Thu Aug 6 10:28:25 2009 -0400) 3 commits
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+ - gitweb: add support for XZ compressed snapshots
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+ - gitweb: update INSTALL regarding specific snapshot settings
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+ - gitweb: support to globally disable a snapshot format
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+
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+This should be safe as long as it does not silently enable itself for
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+folks who merely updated gitweb to this version without explicitly asking
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+for the new format (but I do not remember if that is what the patch does).
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+
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+* jh/cvs-helper (Wed Aug 12 02:13:51 2009 +0200) 4 commits
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+ - Add simple selftests of git-remote-cvs functionality
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+ - Third draft of CVS remote helper program
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+ - Add Python support library for CVS remote helper
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+ - Basic build infrastructure for Python scripts
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+
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+Builds on db/vcs-helper. The last round failed its own selftest for me,
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+but this one seems to be Ok. Documentation/git-remote-cvs.txt needs to be
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+fixed to build, though.
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+
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+* bc/maint-am-email (Thu Aug 6 20:08:13 2009 -0500) 2 commits
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+ + git-am: print fair error message when format detection fails
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+ + am: allow individual e-mail files as input
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+
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+It seems that the "not mbox but a single piece of e-mail" format was
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+something many people relied on. I'm cooking this in 'next', and
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+hopefully it can graduate both to 'master' and 'maint'.
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+
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+* js/maint-cover-letter-non-ascii (Mon Aug 10 18:22:22 2009 +0200) 2 commits
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+ + Correctly mark cover letters' encodings if they are not pure ASCII
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+ + Expose the has_non_ascii() function
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+
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+* jc/verify-pack-stat (Fri Aug 7 15:45:30 2009 -0700) 2 commits
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+ + verify-pack --stat-only: show histogram without verifying
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+ + Merge branch 'maint' into jc/verify-pack-stat
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+
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+* lt/block-sha1 (Wed Aug 12 15:47:55 2009 -0400) 15 commits
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+ + block-sha1: support for architectures with memory alignment
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+ restrictions
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+ + block-sha1: split the different "hacks" to be individually
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+ selected
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+ + block-sha1: move code around
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+ + block-sha1: improve code on large-register-set machines
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+ + block-sha1: improved SHA1 hashing
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+ + block-sha1: perform register rotation using cpp
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+ + block-sha1: get rid of redundant 'lenW' context
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+ + block-sha1: Use '(B&C)+(D&(B^C))' instead of '(B&C)|(D&(B|C))' in
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+ round 3
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+ + block-sha1: macroize the rounds a bit further
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+ + block-sha1: re-use the temporary array as we calculate the SHA1
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+ + block-sha1: make the 'ntohl()' part of the first SHA1 loop
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+ + block-sha1: minor fixups
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+ + block-sha1: try to use rol/ror appropriately
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+ + block-sha1: undo ctx->size change
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+ + Add new optimized C 'block-sha1' routines
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+Linus's "written in C, faster than handcrafted asm" SHA-1 implementation
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+with clean-up and ARM support from Nico.
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+* nd/sparse (Tue Aug 11 22:44:06 2009 +0700) 8 commits
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+ . --sparse for porcelains
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+ . Support sparse checkout in unpack_trees() and read-tree
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+ . unpack-trees.c: generalize verify_* functions
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+ . dir.c: export excluded_1() and add_excludes_from_file_1()
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+ . excluded_1(): support exclude "directories" in index
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+ . Read .gitignore from index if it is assume-unchanged
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+ . Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1()
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+ . Prevent diff machinery from examining assume-unchanged entries on
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+ worktree
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+Privately applied but not yet queued to 'pu', expecting a minor reroll
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+near the tip.
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+* jk/maint-merge-msg-fix (Sun Aug 9 06:02:51 2009 -0400) 3 commits
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+ + merge: indicate remote tracking branches in merge message
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+ + merge: fix incorrect merge message for ambiguous tag/branch
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+ + add tests for merge message headings
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-* je/send-email-no-subject (Wed Aug 5 18:49:54 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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- - send-email: confirm on empty mail subjects
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+[Graduated to "master"]
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* zf/maint-gitweb-acname (Sun Aug 2 09:42:24 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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- gitweb: parse_commit_text encoding fix
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-* jc/maint-clean-nested-dir-safety (Tue Jun 30 15:33:45 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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- - clean: require double -f options to nuke nested git repository and
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- work tree
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-* jc/shortstatus (Tue Aug 4 23:55:22 2009 -0700) 5 commits
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- - shortstatus: a new command
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- - status: show worktree status of conflicted paths separately
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- - wt-status.c: rework the way changes to the index and work tree are
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- summarized
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- - diff-index: keep the original index intact
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- - diff-index: report unmerged new entries
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-* bc/mailsplit-cr-at-eol (Tue Aug 4 22:31:59 2009 -0500) 4 commits
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- - Allow mailsplit (and hence git-am) to handle mails with CRLF line-
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- endings
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- - builtin-mailsplit.c: remove read_line_with_nul() since it is no
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- - builtin-mailinfo,builtin-mailsplit: use strbufs
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- - strbuf: add new function strbuf_getwholeline()
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* jc/maint-merge-recursive-fix (Thu Jul 30 17:38:15 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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- merge-recursive: don't segfault while handling rename clashes
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-* ne/futz-upload-pack (Wed Jun 10 01:50:18 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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- + Shift object enumeration out of upload-pack
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-* sb/maint-pull-rebase (Sun Jul 19 09:45:16 2009 +0200) 2 commits
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- + pull: support rebased upstream + fetch + pull --rebase
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- + t5520-pull: Test for rebased upstream + fetch + pull --rebase
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-* sb/read-tree (Thu Jun 25 22:14:10 2009 -0700) 2 commits
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- + read-tree: migrate to parse-options
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- + read-tree: convert unhelpful usage()'s to helpful die()'s
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-* sb/parse-options (Tue Jul 7 22:15:41 2009 -0700) 4 commits
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- + prune-packed: migrate to parse-options
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- + verify-pack: migrate to parse-options
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- + verify-tag: migrate to parse-options
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- + write-tree: migrate to parse-options
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-* ns/init-mkdir (Sat Jul 25 06:59:28 2009 +0900) 1 commit
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- + git init: optionally allow a directory argument
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-Straightforward usability change.
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-* mk/init-db-parse-options (Sun Jul 12 12:24:32 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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- + init-db: migrate to parse-options
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-* jk/maint-show-tag (Sat Jul 18 06:14:37 2009 -0400) 2 commits
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- + show: add space between multiple items
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- + show: suppress extra newline when showing annotated tag
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-* jc/apply-epoch-patch (Fri Jul 10 18:38:08 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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- + apply: notice creation/removal patches produced by GNU diff
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-[In 'next']
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* js/run-command-updates (Tue Aug 4 11:28:40 2009 +0200) 7 commits
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+ run-command.c: squelch a "use before assignment" warning
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+ receive-pack: remove unnecessary run_status report
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+ run_command: return exit code as positive value
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+ MinGW: simplify waitpid() emulation macros
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* mk/grep-max-depth (Wed Jul 22 19:52:15 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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+ grep: Add --max-depth option.
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+* jp/symlink-dirs (Wed Jul 29 20:22:25 2009 -0700) 3 commits
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+ + git-checkout: be careful about untracked symlinks
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+ + lstat_cache: guard against full match of length of 'name'
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+ parameter
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+ + Demonstrate bugs when a directory is replaced with a symlink
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+[In 'next']
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+* bc/mailsplit-cr-at-eol (Tue Aug 4 22:31:59 2009 -0500) 4 commits
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+ + Allow mailsplit (and hence git-am) to handle mails with CRLF line-
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+ endings
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+ + builtin-mailsplit.c: remove read_line_with_nul() since it is no
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+ longer used
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+ + builtin-mailinfo,builtin-mailsplit: use strbufs
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+ + strbuf: add new function strbuf_getwholeline()
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+* gb/apply-ignore-whitespace (Tue Aug 4 13:16:49 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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+ + git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences
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* cc/replace (Wed May 27 07:14:09 2009 +0200) 14 commits
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+ t6050: check pushing something based on a replaced commit
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+ refs: add a "for_each_replace_ref" function
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-tried the replacement myself, though.
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+* jc/1.7.0-diff-whitespace-only-status (Sat May 23 01:15:35 2009 -0700) 2 commits
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+ + diff: Rename QUIET internal option to QUICK
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+ + diff: change semantics of "ignore whitespace" options
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-* jp/symlink-dirs (Wed Jul 29 20:22:25 2009 -0700) 3 commits
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- + git-checkout: be careful about untracked symlinks
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- + lstat_cache: guard against full match of length of 'name'
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- + Demonstrate bugs when a directory is replaced with a symlink
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+This changes exit code from "git diff --ignore-whitespace" and friends
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+when there is no actual output. It is a backward incompatible change, but
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+we could argue that it is a bugfix.
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-switching machinery, and a few fix-ups.
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+* jc/1.7.0-push-safety (Mon Feb 9 00:19:46 2009 -0800) 2 commits
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+ + Refuse deleting the current branch via push
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+ + Refuse updating the current branch in a non-bare repository via
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+ push
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+* jn/gitweb-blame (Thu Aug 6 19:11:52 2009 +0200) 14 commits
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+ - gitweb: Create links leading to 'blame_incremental' using
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+ - gitweb: Incremental blame (proof of concept)
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+ - gitweb: Add optional "time to generate page" info in footer
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+ + Revert the four topmost commits from jn/gitweb-blame topic
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+ gitweb: Create links leading to 'blame_incremental' using
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+ gitweb: Incremental blame (proof of concept)
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+ gitweb: Mark boundary commits in 'blame' view
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+ gitweb: Make .error style generic
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+I haven't picked up Jakub's replacement to the second one from the tip.
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+We probably should merge up to "Use light/dark" (aef3768) to 'master' and
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+start the rest over.
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+* jc/maint-clean-nested-dir-safety (Tue Jun 30 15:33:45 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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+ + clean: require double -f options to nuke nested git repository and
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-when there is no actual output. It is a backward incompatible change, but
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+This probably should go in 'master' soonish.
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+* jc/shortstatus (Tue Aug 4 23:55:22 2009 -0700) 12 commits
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+ - git stat -s: short status output
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+ - git stat: pathspec limits, unlike traditional "git status"
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+ - git stat: the beginning
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+ + wt-status: collect untracked files in a separate "collect" phase
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+ + Make git_status_config() file scope static to builtin-commit.c
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+ + wt-status: move wt_status_colors[] into wt_status structure
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+ + wt-status: move many global settings to wt_status structure
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+ + commit: --dry-run
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+ + status: show worktree status of conflicted paths separately
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+ + wt-status.c: rework the way changes to the index and work tree are
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+ summarized
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+ + diff-index: keep the original index intact
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+ + diff-index: report unmerged new entries
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-* jc/1.7.0-push-safety (Mon Feb 9 00:19:46 2009 -0800) 2 commits
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- + Refuse deleting the current branch via push
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+Slowly progressing. I've addressed issues pointed out by Jeff in his
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+review, and hopefully the whole thing would be ready to go.
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+* db/vcs-helper (Sun Aug 9 15:28:28 2009 -0400) 17 commits
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+ - Allow helpers to request marks for fast-import
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+ - Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is
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+ - Add support for "import" helper command
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+ - transport-helper_init(): fix a memory leak in error path
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+ - Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs
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+ - Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls
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+ - Allow fetch to modify refs
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+ - Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid
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+ - Use a clearer style to issue commands to remote helpers
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+ + Makefile: install hardlinks for git-remote-<scheme> supported by
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+ libcurl if possible
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+ + Makefile: do not link three copies of git-remote-* programs
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+ + Makefile: git-http-fetch does not need expat
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+ + http-fetch: Fix Makefile dependancies
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+ + Add transport native helper executables to .gitignore
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+ + git-http-fetch: not a builtin
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+ + Use an external program to implement fetching with curl
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+ + Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
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+This consolidates various previous rounds from Daniel and Johan. It seems
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+that the use of colon ':' before vcs helper name needs to be corrected
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+before this series can go further.
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+* je/send-email-no-subject (Wed Aug 5 18:49:54 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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+ - send-email: confirm on empty mail subjects
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+This seems to break t9001. Near the tip of 'pu' I have a iffy workaround.
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* jh/notes (Wed Jul 29 04:25:26 2009 +0200) 8 commits
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-* cc/sequencer-rebase-i (Fri Jun 26 23:08:46 2009 +0200) 4 commits
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+* cc/sequencer-rebase-i (Wed Aug 5 22:53:00 2009 +0200) 8 commits
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+ - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --reset-hard"
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+ - sequencer: add "--reset-hard" option to "git sequencer--helper"
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+ - sequencer: add comments about reset_almost_hard()
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+ - sequencer: add "reset_almost_hard()" and related functions
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- rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --make-patch"
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- sequencer: free memory used in "make_patch" function
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- sequencer: add "make_patch" function to save a patch
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+More sequencer updates. I didn't look at the latest round that had a
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+handful "oops, fix that earlier botch" patches, expecting a cleaner
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* jc/mailinfo-remove-brackets (Wed Jul 15 15:31:12 2009 -0700) 1 commit
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* js/stash-dwim (Mon Jul 27 20:37:10 2009 +0200) 1 commit
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+* pb/tracking (Thu Jul 16 16:26:15 2009 -0500) 7 commits
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+ . branch.c: if remote is not config'd for branch, don't try delete
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+ . branch, checkout: introduce autosetuppush
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+ . move deletion of merge configuration to branch.c
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+ . remote: add per-remote autosetupmerge and autosetuprebase
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+ configuration
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+ . introduce a struct tracking_config
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+ . branch: install_branch_config and struct tracking refactoring
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+ . config: allow false and true values for branch.autosetuprebase
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+Has been ejected from 'pu' for some time, expecting a reroll.
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