What's cooking (2009/01 #03)
Junio C Hamano committed
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To: git@vger.kernel.org
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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #02; Sun, 11)
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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #03; Wed, 14)
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-What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #02; Sun, 11)
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+What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #03; Wed, 14)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed
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The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order. The topics
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meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.
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-Sorry to have been lagging a bit. There are a few patches I am interested
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-in but haven't studied yet nor mentioned here. I've been swamped outside
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-git lately for the past few days, but hopefully I can get to them shortly.
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[New Topics]
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-* rs/fgrep (Sat Jan 10 00:18:34 2009 +0100) 2 commits
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- + grep: don't call regexec() for fixed strings
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- + grep -w: forward to next possible position after rejected match
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+* kb/am-directory (Sun Jan 11 22:21:48 2009 -0800) 1 commit
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+ + git-am: add --directory=<dir> option
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-* lt/zlib-wrap-xprm (Wed Jan 7 19:54:47 2009 -0800) 1 commit
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- - Wrap inflateInit to retry allocation after releasing pack memory
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+This is "third-time-lucky, perhaps?" resurrection. I do not think I'd be
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+using this very often, but it originated from a real user request.
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-Need to clean up the log message, perhaps rebase it to maint-1.6.0 and
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-start cooking in 'next'.
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+* jk/signal-cleanup (Sun Jan 11 06:36:49 2009 -0500) 3 commits
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+ - pager: do wait_for_pager on signal death
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+ - refactor signal handling for cleanup functions
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+ - chain kill signals for cleanup functions
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-* jc/maint-format-patch (Sat Jan 10 12:41:33 2009 -0800) 1 commit
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- + format-patch: show patch text for the root commit
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+* kb/lstat-cache (Tue Jan 13 13:29:08 2009 +0100) 5 commits
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+ - lstat_cache(): introduce clear_lstat_cache() function
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+ - lstat_cache(): introduce invalidate_lstat_cache() function
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+ - lstat_cache(): introduce has_dirs_only_path() function
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+ - lstat_cache(): introduce has_symlink_or_noent_leading_path()
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+ function
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+ - lstat_cache(): more cache effective symlink/directory detection
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-* tr/maint-no-index-fixes (Wed Jan 7 12:15:30 2009 +0100) 3 commits
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- + diff --no-index -q: fix endless loop
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- + diff --no-index: test for pager after option parsing
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- + diff: accept -- when using --no-index
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+This is the seventh round; although the author asked me not to bother, I
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+couldn't resist. I renamed one helper function while reading the patches
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+and made minor adjustments on styles, but it looked reasonable.
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-* gb/gitweb-opml (Fri Jan 2 13:49:30 2009 +0100) 2 commits
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- - gitweb: suggest name for OPML view
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- - gitweb: don't use pathinfo for global actions
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+* lh/submodule-tree-traversal (Mon Jan 12 00:45:55 2009 +0100) 3 commits
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+ - builtin-ls-tree: enable traversal of submodules
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+ - archive.c: enable traversal of submodules
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+ - tree.c: add support for traversal of submodules
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-* mh/maint-commit-color-status (Thu Jan 8 19:53:05 2009 +0100) 2 commits
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- - git-status -v: color diff output when color.ui is set
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- - git-commit: color status output when color.ui is set
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+* jc/maint-format-patch-o-relative (Mon Jan 12 15:18:02 2009 -0800) 1 commit
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+ - Teach format-patch to handle output directory relative to cwd
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-* ks/maint-mailinfo-folded (Thu Jan 8 01:43:42 2009 +0300) 1 commit
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- - mailinfo: correctly handle multiline 'Subject:' header
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+This was my lunchtime "this may fix it" response to a breakage report. I
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+haven't really thought things through but my gut feeling is this might
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+break things for minorities who are accustomed to the existing behaviour,
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+especially wrt the filenames reported on the standard output.
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-* js/patience-diff (Thu Jan 1 17:39:37 2009 +0100) 3 commits
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- - bash completions: Add the --patience option
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- - Introduce the diff option '--patience'
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- - Implement the patience diff algorithm
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+* lt/maint-wrap-zlib (Wed Jan 7 19:54:47 2009 -0800) 1 commit
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+ + Wrap inflate and other zlib routines for better error reporting
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-All of the above 'pu' topics are ready for 'next'.
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+Needs the "free our memory upon seeing Z_MEM_ERROR and try again" bits
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+extracted from Shawn's patch on top of this one.
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-* ap/clone-into-empty (Fri Jan 9 02:24:23 2009 +0300) 2 commits
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- - Use is_pseudo_dir_name everywhere
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- - Allow cloning to an existing empty directory
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+* js/diff-color-words (Sun Jan 11 21:00:58 2009 +0100) 4 commits
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+ - color-words: take an optional regular expression describing words
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+ - color-words: refactor to allow for 0-character word boundaries
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+ - color-words: refactor word splitting and use ALLOC_GROW()
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+ - Add color_fwrite(), a function coloring each line individually
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-There is an updated patch that only refactors the repeated code to check
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-if a dirent is dot or dot-dot posted, which I should have picked up to
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-replace these but I haven't yet (the "clone into empty" can and should
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-build on top of it).
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+Dscho's series that was done in response to Thomas's original; two agreed
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+to work together on this codebase.
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+* db/foreign-scm (Sun Jan 11 15:12:10 2009 -0500) 3 commits
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+ - Support fetching from foreign VCSes
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+ - Add specification of git-vcs helpers
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+ - Add "vcs" config option in remotes
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[Stalled and may need help and prodding to go forward]
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* ds/uintmax-config (Mon Nov 3 09:14:28 2008 -0900) 1 commit
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- - autoconf: Enable threaded delta search when pthreads are supported
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+ . autoconf: Enable threaded delta search when pthreads are supported
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-This automatically enables threaded delta search code when autoconf
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-detects pthreads are usable. I haven't heard neither positive nor
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-negative comments from minority platforms that might be harmed, but
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-this feels like the right thing to do, so perhaps the best course of
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-action is to merge this down to 'master' and see if anybody screams.
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+I haven't heard neither positive nor negative comments from minority
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+platforms that might be harmed, but this feels like the right thing to do,
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+so perhaps the best course of action is to merge this down to 'master' and
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+see if anybody screams.
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* jc/blame (Wed Jun 4 22:58:40 2008 -0700) 2 commits
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+ blame: show "previous" information in --porcelain/--incremental
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[Actively cooking]
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+* gb/gitweb-opml (Fri Jan 2 13:49:30 2009 +0100) 2 commits
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+ + gitweb: suggest name for OPML view
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+ + gitweb: don't use pathinfo for global actions
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+* ks/maint-mailinfo-folded (Mon Jan 12 15:22:11 2009 -0800) 2 commits
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+ - mailinfo: 'From:' header should be unfold as well
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+ - mailinfo: correctly handle multiline 'Subject:' header
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+The author seems to have more updates, but I couldn't extract them from
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+the e-mail.
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+* js/patience-diff (Thu Jan 1 17:39:37 2009 +0100) 3 commits
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+ + bash completions: Add the --patience option
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+ + Introduce the diff option '--patience'
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+ + Implement the patience diff algorithm
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* mv/apply-parse-opt (Fri Jan 9 22:21:36 2009 -0800) 2 commits
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+ Resurrect "git apply --flags -" to read from the standard input
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+ parse-opt: migrate builtin-apply.
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-* rs/maint-shortlog-foldline (Tue Jan 6 21:41:06 2009 +0100) 1 commit
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- + shortlog: handle multi-line subjects like log --pretty=oneline et.
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- al. do
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* tr/rebase-root (Fri Jan 2 23:28:29 2009 +0100) 4 commits
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- - rebase: update documentation for --root
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- - rebase -i: learn to rebase root commit
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- - rebase: learn to rebase root commit
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- - rebase -i: execute hook only after argument checking
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+ + rebase: update documentation for --root
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+ + rebase -i: learn to rebase root commit
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+ + rebase: learn to rebase root commit
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+ + rebase -i: execute hook only after argument checking
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-I should be able to find time to read this over again and merge to
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-'next' sometime this week.
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+Looked reasonable.
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-* as/autocorrect-alias (Sun Jan 4 18:16:01 2009 +0100) 1 commit
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- + git.c: make autocorrected aliases work
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-* js/notes (Sat Dec 20 13:06:03 2008 +0100) 4 commits
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- - Add an expensive test for git-notes
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- - Speed up git notes lookup
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- - Add a script to edit/inspect notes
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- - Introduce commit notes
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+* js/notes (Tue Jan 13 20:57:16 2009 +0100) 6 commits
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+ + git-notes: fix printing of multi-line notes
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+ + notes: fix core.notesRef documentation
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+ + Add an expensive test for git-notes
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+ + Speed up git notes lookup
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+ + Add a script to edit/inspect notes
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+ + Introduce commit notes
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* sc/gitweb-category (Fri Dec 12 00:45:12 2008 +0100) 3 commits
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- gitweb: Optional grouping of projects by category
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- gitweb: Split git_project_list_body in two functions
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- gitweb: Modularized git_get_project_description to be more generic
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-* gb/gitweb-patch (Thu Dec 18 08:13:19 2008 +0100) 4 commits
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- - gitweb: link to patch(es) view in commit(diff) and (short)log view
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- - gitweb: add patches view
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- - gitweb: change call pattern for git_commitdiff
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- - gitweb: add patch view
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-* mh/maint-sendmail-cc-doc (Mon Dec 29 00:37:25 2008 +0100) 1 commit
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- + doc/git-send-email: mention sendemail.cc config variable
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-* rs/diff-ihc (Sun Dec 28 19:45:32 2008 +0100) 1 commit
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- + diff: add option to show context between close hunks
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-* js/maint-merge-recursive-r-d-conflict (Mon Dec 22 23:10:20 2008 +0100) 1 commit
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- + merge-recursive: mark rename/delete conflict as unmerged
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-* mk/gitweb-feature (Mon Dec 15 22:16:19 2008 -0800) 1 commit
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- + gitweb: unify boolean feature subroutines
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-* cb/merge-recursive-fix (Mon Dec 15 02:41:24 2008 -0800) 3 commits
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- + Merge branch 'cb/maint-merge-recursive-fix' into cb/merge-
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- recursive-fix
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- + merge-recursive: do not clobber untracked working tree garbage
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- + modify/delete conflict resolution overwrites untracked file
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-* cb/maint-merge-recursive-fix (Sun Dec 14 19:40:09 2008 -0800) 2 commits
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-* wp/add-p-goto (Thu Dec 4 10:22:40 2008 +0000) 2 commits
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- + Add 'g' command to go to a hunk
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-* jn/gitweb-blame (Thu Dec 11 01:33:29 2008 +0100) 3 commits
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- + gitweb: cache $parent_commit info in git_blame()
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- + gitweb: A bit of code cleanup in git_blame()
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- + gitweb: Move 'lineno' id from link to row element in git_blame
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-* mv/um-pdf (Wed Dec 10 23:44:50 2008 +0100) 1 commit
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-[Will merge to "master" soon]
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* nd/grep-assume-unchanged (Sat Dec 27 15:21:03 2008 +0700) 2 commits
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+Some of the above will still need to be downmerged to respective
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+* mh/maint-commit-color-status (Thu Jan 8 19:53:05 2009 +0100) 2 commits
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+ + git-status -v: color diff output when color.ui is set
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+ + git-commit: color status output when color.ui is set
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+* rs/maint-shortlog-foldline (Tue Jan 6 21:41:06 2009 +0100) 1 commit
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+ + shortlog: handle multi-line subjects like log --pretty=oneline et.
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+ al. do
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- - [WIP] Add a commit.signoff configuration option to always use --
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- signoff in commit
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+* rs/fgrep (Sat Jan 10 00:18:34 2009 +0100) 2 commits
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+ + grep: don't call regexec() for fixed strings
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+ + grep -w: forward to next possible position after rejected match
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+* as/autocorrect-alias (Sun Jan 4 18:16:01 2009 +0100) 1 commit
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+* tr/maint-no-index-fixes (Wed Jan 7 12:15:30 2009 +0100) 3 commits
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+ + diff --no-index -q: fix endless loop
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+ + diff --no-index: test for pager after option parsing
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+ + diff: accept -- when using --no-index
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+* jc/maint-format-patch (Sat Jan 10 12:41:33 2009 -0800) 1 commit
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+ + format-patch: show patch text for the root commit
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+* ap/clone-into-empty (Sun Jan 11 15:19:12 2009 +0300) 2 commits
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+ + Allow cloning to an existing empty directory
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+* gb/gitweb-patch (Thu Dec 18 08:13:19 2008 +0100) 4 commits
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+ + gitweb: link to patch(es) view in commit(diff) and (short)log view
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+ + gitweb: add patches view
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+ + gitweb: change call pattern for git_commitdiff
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* jk/renamelimit (Sat May 3 13:58:42 2008 -0700) 1 commit
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- - diff: enable "too large a rename" warning when -M/-C is explicitly
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-This would be the right thing to do for command line use,
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- - stripspace: add --log-clean option to clean up signed-off-by:
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+ . git-am --forge: add Signed-off-by: line for the author
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+ . git-am: clean-up Signed-off-by: lines
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- - Add "git am -s" test
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+ . Add "git am -s" test
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+ . git-am: refactor code to add signed-off-by line for the committer