What's cooking (2009/01 #06)

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1 To: git@vger.kernel.org
2 -Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #05; Wed, 21)
3 -X-master-at: 9a01387b9714452ebcae431705a288e1a7e099c3
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2 +Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #06; Sat, 24)
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6 -What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #05; Wed, 21)
6 +What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #06; Sat, 24)
7 --------------------------------------------------
8
9 Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with '-' are
@@ -17,11 +17,37 @@ meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.
17 ----------------------------------------------------------------
18 [New Topics]
19
20 -* js/valgrind (Wed Jan 21 02:36:40 2009 +0100) 2 commits
21 - - valgrind: ignore ldso errors
22 - - Add valgrind support in test scripts
20 +* jg/mergetool (Sat Jan 24 00:12:45 2009 +0100) 1 commit
21 + - [wait for an ack from ted] mergetool: Don't repeat merge tool
22 + candidates
23 +
24 +* cb/mergetool (Wed Jan 21 22:57:48 2009 +0000) 1 commit
25 + - [wait for ack from ted] mergetool: respect autocrlf by using
26 + checkout-index
27 +
28 +* jc/commit-assume-also-during-merge (Thu Jan 22 22:21:49 2009 -0800) 3 commits
29 + - git commit: pathspec without -i/-o implies -i semantics during a
30 + merge
31 + - builtin-commit: shorten eye-sore overlong lines
32 + - Add "partial commit" tests during a conflicted merge
33
24 -Dscho seems to have some updates out of discussion with Peff.
34 +This is only meant as a weatherballoon to help facilitate discussion.
35 +
36 +* sr/clone-empty (Fri Jan 23 01:07:32 2009 +0100) 1 commit
37 + + Allow cloning an empty repository
38 +
39 +At last ;-) This is a reasonable thing to do, and should be fast tracked
40 +to 'master'.
41 +
42 +* cc/replace (Fri Jan 23 10:07:46 2009 +0100) 7 commits
43 + - environment: add global variable to disable replacement
44 + - mktag: call "check_sha1_signature" with the replacement sha1
45 + - replace_object: add a test case
46 + - object: call "check_sha1_signature" with the replacement sha1
47 + - sha1_file: add a "read_sha1_file_repl" function
48 + - replace_object: add mechanism to replace objects found in
49 + "refs/replace/"
50 + - refs: add a "for_each_replace_ref" function
51
52 ----------------------------------------------------------------
53 [Stalled and may need help and prodding to go forward]
@@ -46,9 +72,26 @@ The "spec" did not seem quite well cooked yet, but in the longer term I
72 think something like this to allow interoperating with other SCMs as if
73 the other end is a native git repository is a very worthy goal.
74
75 +----------------------------------------------------------------
76 +[Reverted]
77 +
78 +* mh/unify-color (Fri Jan 23 01:25:23 2009 -0800) 3 commits
79 + ? Revert previous two commits
80 + ? move the color variables to color.c
81 + ? handle color.ui at a central place
82 +
83 +This broke git-format-patch badly.
84 +
85 ----------------------------------------------------------------
86 [Actively cooking]
87
88 +* js/valgrind (Wed Jan 21 02:36:40 2009 +0100) 2 commits
89 + - valgrind: ignore ldso errors
90 + - Add valgrind support in test scripts
91 +
92 +Dscho seems to have some updates out of discussion with Peff, which is not
93 +queued here.
94 +
95 * sp/runtime-prefix (Sun Jan 18 13:00:15 2009 +0100) 7 commits
96 - Windows: Revert to default paths and convert them by
97 RUNTIME_PREFIX
@@ -69,17 +112,16 @@ We should move this to 'next' soon with J6t's blessing.
112 + archive.c: enable traversal of submodules
113 + tree.c: add support for traversal of submodules
114
72 -I think choosing the submodules to descend into by seeing if the commit
73 -happens to be available is a horribly broken semantics; it needs to be
74 -fixed before this can move to 'master'.
115 +There were a few updates posted, which I haven't picked up.
116
76 -* jk/signal-cleanup (Sun Jan 11 06:36:49 2009 -0500) 3 commits
117 +* jk/signal-cleanup (Thu Jan 22 01:03:28 2009 -0500) 5 commits
118 - pager: do wait_for_pager on signal death
119 - refactor signal handling for cleanup functions
120 - chain kill signals for cleanup functions
121 + - diff: refactor tempfile cleanup handling
122 + - Windows: Fix signal numbers
123
81 -I think this can move to 'next', as Peff and J6t agreed on how to fix
82 -things up as needed for Windows.
124 +Ready for 'next', but not tonight (yet).
125
126 * ks/maint-mailinfo-folded (Tue Jan 13 01:21:04 2009 +0300) 5 commits
127 - mailinfo: tests for RFC2047 examples
@@ -101,7 +143,8 @@ As far as I can see, the only remaining thing is a minor fix-up in the
143 + Introduce commit notes
144
145 It would be nice to hear a real world success story using the notes
104 -mechanism before casting this design in stone.
146 +mechanism; Dscho says he also wants to make sure the current choice
147 +of the structure scales well before casting it in stone.
148
149 * sc/gitweb-category (Fri Dec 12 00:45:12 2008 +0100) 3 commits
150 - gitweb: Optional grouping of projects by category
@@ -113,56 +156,10 @@ Design discussion between Jakub and Sebastien continues.
156 ----------------------------------------------------------------
157 [Graduated to "master"]
158
116 -* jk/color-parse (Sat Jan 17 10:38:46 2009 -0500) 2 commits
117 - + expand --pretty=format color options
118 - + color: make it easier for non-config to parse color specs
119 -
120 -* sb/hook-cleanup (Sat Jan 17 04:02:55 2009 +0100) 5 commits
121 - + run_hook(): allow more than 9 hook arguments
122 - + run_hook(): check the executability of the hook before filling
123 - argv
124 - + api-run-command.txt: talk about run_hook()
125 - + Move run_hook() from builtin-commit.c into run-command.c (libgit)
126 - + checkout: don't crash on file checkout before running post-
127 - checkout hook
128 -
129 -* rs/ctype (Sat Jan 17 16:50:37 2009 +0100) 4 commits
130 - + Add is_regex_special()
131 - + Change NUL char handling of isspecial()
132 - + Reformat ctype.c
133 - + Add ctype test
134 -
135 -* jf/am-failure-report (Sun Jan 18 19:34:31 2009 -0800) 2 commits
136 - + git-am: re-fix the diag message printing
137 - + git-am: Make it easier to see which patch failed
138 -
139 -* sg/maint-gitdir-in-subdir (Fri Jan 16 16:37:33 2009 +0100) 1 commit
140 - + Fix gitdir detection when in subdir of gitdir
141 -
142 -This has my "don't do the fullpath if you are directly inside .git"
143 -squashed in, so it should be much safer.
144 -
145 -* am/maint-push-doc (Sun Jan 18 15:36:58 2009 +0100) 4 commits
146 - + Documentation: avoid using undefined parameters
147 - + Documentation: mention branches rather than heads
148 - + Documentation: remove a redundant elaboration
149 - + Documentation: git push repository can also be a remote
150 -
151 -* lt/maint-wrap-zlib (Wed Jan 7 19:54:47 2009 -0800) 1 commit
152 - + Wrap inflate and other zlib routines for better error reporting
153 -
154 -Needs the "free our memory upon seeing Z_MEM_ERROR and try again" bits
155 -extracted from Shawn's patch on top of this one.
156 -
157 -* kb/am-directory (Wed Jan 14 16:29:59 2009 -0800) 2 commits
158 - + git-am: fix shell quoting
159 - + git-am: add --directory=<dir> option
160 -
161 -This is "third-time-lucky, perhaps?" resurrection. I do not think I'd be
162 -using this very often, but it originated from a real user request.
163 -
164 -* jc/maint-format-patch-o-relative (Mon Jan 12 15:18:02 2009 -0800) 1 commit
165 - + Teach format-patch to handle output directory relative to cwd
159 +* js/patience-diff (Thu Jan 1 17:39:37 2009 +0100) 3 commits
160 + + bash completions: Add the --patience option
161 + + Introduce the diff option '--patience'
162 + + Implement the patience diff algorithm
163
164 ----------------------------------------------------------------
165 [Will merge to "master" soon]
@@ -191,15 +188,12 @@ using this very often, but it originated from a real user request.
188 + bundle: allow the same ref to be given more than once
189 + revision walker: include a detached HEAD in --all
190
194 -* mh/unify-color (Sun Jan 18 21:39:12 2009 +0100) 2 commits
195 - + move the color variables to color.c
196 - + handle color.ui at a central place
197 -
191 * cb/add-pathspec (Wed Jan 14 15:54:35 2009 +0100) 2 commits
192 + remove pathspec_match, use match_pathspec instead
193 + clean up pathspec matching
194
202 -* js/diff-color-words (Tue Jan 20 21:46:57 2009 -0600) 8 commits
195 +* js/diff-color-words (Tue Jan 20 22:59:54 2009 -0600) 9 commits
196 + + Change the spelling of "wordregex".
197 + color-words: Support diff.wordregex config option
198 + color-words: make regex configurable via attributes
199 + color-words: expand docs with precise semantics
@@ -211,11 +205,6 @@ using this very often, but it originated from a real user request.
205 + Add color_fwrite_lines(), a function coloring each line
206 individually
207
214 -* js/patience-diff (Thu Jan 1 17:39:37 2009 +0100) 3 commits
215 - + bash completions: Add the --patience option
216 - + Introduce the diff option '--patience'
217 - + Implement the patience diff algorithm
218 -
208 ----------------------------------------------------------------
209 [On Hold]
210
@@ -244,9 +233,3 @@ using this very often, but it originated from a real user request.
233 . In add --patch, Handle K,k,J,j slightly more gracefully.
234 . Add / command in add --patch
235 . git-add -i/-p: Change prompt separater from slash to comma
247 -
248 -* jc/grafts (Wed Jul 2 17:14:12 2008 -0700) 1 commit
249 - . [BROKEN wrt shallow clones] Ignore graft during object transfer
250 -
251 -* jc/replace (Fri Oct 31 09:21:39 2008 -0700) 1 commit
252 - . WIP