What's cooking (2009/12 #06)

Junio C Hamano committed Dec 31, 2009 at 15:30 UTC e19f8cbd080430dc736be5448dcb559e838abf99
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1 To: git@vger.kernel.org
2 -Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2009, #05; Mon, 28)
3 -X-master-at: c2ff10c98e22ae64d553273e6d67bb123a1c916f
4 -X-next-at: ba67783643e94c85cfa57edf932dea2abdf68711
2 +Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2009, #06; Thu, 31)
3 +X-master-at: 37bae10e38a66e4f1ddd5350daded00b21735126
4 +X-next-at: 442ff22addab31be84a7a93a389d265fc8a49f93
5
6 -What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2009, #05; Mon, 28)
6 +What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2009, #06; Thu, 31)
7 --------------------------------------------------
8
9 Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with '-' are
@@ -11,97 +11,75 @@ only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next'. The ones
11 marked with '.' do not appear in any of the integration branches, but I am
12 still holding onto them.
13
14 ---------------------------------------------------
15 -[Graduated to "master"]
16 -
17 -* sr/vcs-helper (2009-12-07) 14 commits
18 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-07 at 8f041bc)
19 - + tests: handle NO_PYTHON setting
20 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-03 at e45b562)
21 - + builtin-push: don't access freed transport->url
22 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-11-27 at 83268ab)
23 - + Add Python support library for remote helpers
24 - + Basic build infrastructure for Python scripts
25 - + Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged
26 - + Fix various memory leaks in transport-helper.c
27 - + Allow helper to map private ref names into normal names
28 - + Add support for "import" helper command
29 - + Allow specifying the remote helper in the url
30 - + Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs
31 - + Allow fetch to modify refs
32 - + Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid
33 - + Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls
34 - + Fix memory leak in helper method for disconnect
35 -
36 -* jc/1.7.0-send-email-no-thread-default (2009-08-22) 1 commit
37 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 043acdf)
38 - + send-email: make --no-chain-reply-to the default
39 -
40 -* jc/1.7.0-push-safety (2009-02-09) 2 commits
41 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 81b8128)
42 - + Refuse deleting the current branch via push
43 - + Refuse updating the current branch in a non-bare repository via push
44 -
45 -* jc/1.7.0-diff-whitespace-only-status (2009-08-30) 4 commits
46 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 546c74d)
47 - + diff.c: fix typoes in comments
48 - + Make test case number unique
49 - + diff: Rename QUIET internal option to QUICK
50 - + diff: change semantics of "ignore whitespace" options
51 - (this branch is used by jc/1.7.0-diff-whitespace-prepare and jc/diff-whitespace-prepare.)
52 -
53 -This changes exit code from "git diff --ignore-whitespace" and friends
54 -when there is no actual output.
55 -
56 -* gb/1.7.0-diff-whitespace-only-output (2009-11-19) 1 commit
57 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-11-21 at 3375bf4)
58 - + No diff -b/-w output for all-whitespace changes
59 - (this branch is used by jc/1.7.0-diff-whitespace-prepare and jc/diff-whitespace-prepare.)
60 -
61 -Likewise but for the output of "diff --git" headers.
62 -
63 -* jk/1.7.0-status (2009-12-11) 16 commits
64 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-24 at e9929b3)
65 - + status/commit: do not suggest "reset HEAD <path>" while merging
66 - + commit/status: "git add <path>" is not necessarily how to resolve
67 - + commit/status: check $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD only once
68 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-08 at 9b57d84)
69 - + t7508-status: test all modes with color
70 - + t7508-status: status --porcelain ignores relative paths setting
71 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-07 at 7723acf)
72 - + status: reduce duplicated setup code
73 - + status: disable color for porcelain format
74 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-05 at 44dcefd)
75 - + status -s: obey color.status
76 - + builtin-commit: refactor short-status code into wt-status.c
77 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-11-27 at 91691ec)
78 - + t7508-status.sh: Add tests for status -s
79 - + status -s: respect the status.relativePaths option
80 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-11-21 at 884bb56)
81 - + docs: note that status configuration affects only long format
82 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 65c8513)
83 - + commit: support alternate status formats
84 - + status: add --porcelain output format
85 - + status: refactor format option parsing
86 - + status: refactor short-mode printing to its own function
87 - (this branch uses jc/1.7.0-status.)
88 -
89 -Gives the --short output format to post 1.7.0 "git commit --dry-run" that
90 -is similar to that of post 1.7.0 "git status".
91 -
92 -* jc/1.7.0-status (2009-09-05) 4 commits
93 - (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 9558627)
94 - + status: typo fix in usage
95 - + git status: not "commit --dry-run" anymore
96 - + git stat -s: short status output
97 - + git stat: the beginning of "status that is not a dry-run of commit"
98 - (this branch is used by jk/1.7.0-status.)
99 -
100 -With this, "git status" is no longer "git commit --dry-run".
14 +The tip of 'next' will soon be rebuilt on top of the current 'master'.
15 +
16 +This will be the last "What's cooking" message in year 2009 ;-)
17
18 --------------------------------------------------
19 [New Topics]
20
21 +* cc/reset-more (2009-12-30) 4 commits
22 + - reset: use "unpack_trees()" directly instead of "git read-tree"
23 + - reset: add a few tests for "git reset --merge"
24 + - Documentation: reset: add some tables to describe the different options
25 + - reset: improve mixed reset error message when in a bare repo
26 +
27 +Resurrected from "Ejected" category. Haven't looked at it yet myself,
28 +though...
29 +
30 +* bg/maint-remote-update-default (2009-12-31) 1 commit
31 + - Fix "git remote update" with remotes.defalt set
32 +
33 +* jc/branch-d (2009-12-29) 1 commit
34 + - branch -d: base the "already-merged" safety on the branch it merges with
35 +
36 +* jc/rerere (2009-12-04) 1 commit
37 + - Teach --[no-]rerere-autoupdate option to merge, revert and friends
38 +
39 +* jk/maint-1.6.5-reset-hard (2009-12-30) 1 commit
40 + (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-30 at de97679)
41 + + reset: unbreak hard resets with GIT_WORK_TREE
42 +
43 +* jk/push-to-delete (2009-12-30) 1 commit
44 + - builtin-push: add --delete as syntactic sugar for :foo
45 +
46 +* jk/run-command-use-shell (2009-12-30) 6 commits
47 + - diff: run external diff helper with shell
48 + - textconv: use shell to run helper
49 + - editor: use run_command's shell feature
50 + - run-command: optimize out useless shell calls
51 + - run-command: convert simple callsites to use_shell
52 + - run-command: add "use shell" option
53 +
54 +* mm/config-path (2009-12-30) 1 commit
55 + - builtin-config: add --path option doing ~ and ~user expansion.
56 +
57 +* pm/cvs-environ (2009-12-30) 1 commit
58 + - CVS Server: Support reading base and roots from environment
59 +
60 +* rs/maint-archive-match-pathspec (2009-12-12) 1 commit
61 + - archive: complain about path specs that don't match anything
62 +
63 +* so/cvsserver-update (2009-12-07) 1 commit
64 + - cvsserver: make the output of 'update' more compatible with cvs.
65 +
66 +* tc/clone-v-progress (2009-12-26) 4 commits
67 + - clone: use --progress to force progress reporting
68 + - clone: set transport->verbose when -v/--verbose is used
69 + - git-clone.txt: reword description of progress behaviour
70 + - check stderr with isatty() instead of stdout when deciding to show progress
71 +
72 +* tc/smart-http-restrict (2009-12-30) 3 commits
73 + - Smart-http tests: Test http-backend without curl or a webserver
74 + - Smart-http tests: Break test t5560-http-backend into pieces
75 + - Smart-http: check if repository is OK to export before serving it
76 +
77 +* tr/maint-1.6.5-bash-prompt-show-submodule-changes (2009-12-31) 1 commit
78 + - bash completion: factor submodules into dirty state
79 +
80 +--------------------------------------------------
81 +[Cooking]
82 +
83 * jc/cache-unmerge (2009-12-25) 9 commits
84 - rerere forget path: forget recorded resolution
85 - rerere: refactor rerere logic to make it independent from I/O
@@ -124,13 +102,6 @@ With this, "git status" is no longer "git commit --dry-run".
102 - octopus: reenable fast-forward merges
103 - octopus: make merge process simpler to follow
104
127 -* il/exec-error-report (2009-12-24) 2 commits
128 - - Improve transport helper exec failure reporting
129 - - Report exec errors from run-command
130 -
131 ---------------------------------------------------
132 -[Cooking]
133 -
105 * jh/commit-status (2009-12-07) 1 commit
106 - [test?] Add commit.status, --status, and --no-status
107
@@ -194,9 +165,10 @@ improvement to skip opening the editor if a pick is followed only by
165 - Notes API: init_notes(): Initialize the notes tree from the given notes ref
166 - Notes API: get_commit_notes() -> format_note() + remove the commit restriction
167 - Minor style fixes to notes.c
197 - - Add more testcases to test fast-import of notes
198 - - Rename t9301 to t9350, to make room for more fast-import tests
199 - - fast-import: Proper notes tree manipulation
168 + (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-29 at c89a730)
169 + + Add more testcases to test fast-import of notes
170 + + Rename t9301 to t9350, to make room for more fast-import tests
171 + + fast-import: Proper notes tree manipulation
172
173 * fc/opt-quiet-gc-reset (2009-12-02) 1 commit
174 - General --quiet improvements
@@ -230,13 +202,17 @@ but otherwise seemed good.
202 - run test suite without dashed git-commands in PATH
203 - build dashless "bin-wrappers" directory similar to installed bindir
204
233 -* tr/http-updates (2009-12-01) 3 commits
205 +* tr/http-updates (2009-12-28) 4 commits
206 + (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-30 at e143bc9)
207 + + Remove http.authAny
208 (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-07 at f08d447)
209 + Allow curl to rewind the RPC read buffer
210 + Add an option for using any HTTP authentication scheme, not only basic
211 + http: maintain curl sessions
212
239 -* nd/sparse (2009-12-14) 22 commits
213 +* nd/sparse (2009-12-30) 23 commits
214 + (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-31 at 442ff22)
215 + + grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries
216 (merged to 'next' on 2009-12-24 at 1fa9ff3)
217 + commit: correctly respect skip-worktree bit
218 + ie_match_stat(): do not ignore skip-worktree bit with CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID
@@ -266,6 +242,13 @@ but otherwise seemed good.
242 --------------------------------------------------
243 [Ejected]
244
245 +* il/exec-error-report (2009-12-30) 2 commits
246 + . Improve transport helper exec failure reporting
247 + . Report exec errors from run-command
248 +
249 +Freezes "git log" or anything that uses pager; J6t made quite a many good
250 +suggestions. Expecting more rounds of reroll.
251 +
252 * je/send-email-no-subject (2009-08-05) 1 commit
253 (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 1b99c56)
254 + send-email: confirm on empty mail subjects
@@ -291,17 +274,3 @@ the "temporarily" turned out to be very loooong.
274 The interaction with this option and pathspecs need to be worked out
275 better. I _think_ "grep --full-tree -e pattern -- '*.h'" should find from
276 all the header files in the tree, for example.
294 -
295 -* cc/reset-more (2009-12-08) 6 commits
296 - . Documentation: reset: add some tables to describe the different options
297 - . Documentation: reset: describe new "--keep-local-changes" option
298 - . reset: add test cases for "--keep-local-changes" option
299 - . reset: add option "--keep-local-changes" to "git reset"
300 - . reset: use "unpack_trees()" directly instead of "git read-tree"
301 - . reset: add a few tests for "git reset --merge"
302 -
303 -The documentation is much clearer than the previous round in describing
304 -what it does, but I find it a bit unclear in describing what it is _good_
305 -for (iow, scenarios and use cases).
306 -
307 -Breaks 'pu' and does not pass test on its own yet.