What's cooking (2011/06 #02)

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What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2011, #02; Sat, 11)
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Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed with '-' are
only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next'.

Will tag 1.7.6-rc2 sometime next week.

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[New Topics]

* js/i18n-windows (2011-06-06) 3 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-06 at d8c4ba3)
 + Windows: teach getenv to do a case-sensitive search
 + mingw.c: move definition of mingw_getenv down
 + sh-i18n--envsubst: do not crash when no arguments are given

Looked sane but will wait for msysgit folks to take a look.
Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* an/shallow-doc (2011-06-08) 2 commits
 - Document the underlying protocol used by shallow repositories and --depth commands.
 - Fix documentation of fetch-pack that implies that the client can disconnect after sending wants.

Waiting for a review, but looked sensible.

* jc/legacy-loose-object (2011-06-08) 1 commit
 - sha1_file.c: "legacy" is really the current format

* jc/zlib-wrap (2011-06-10) 7 commits
 - zlib: allow feeding more than 4GB in one go
 - zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time
 - zlib: wrap deflateBound() too
 - zlib: wrap deflate side of the API
 - zlib: wrap inflateInit2 used to accept only for gzip format
 - zlib: wrap remaining calls to direct inflate/inflateEnd
 - zlib wrapper: refactor error message formatter

This replaces the earlier attempt to deal with the mismatch between our
expectation and what zlib API actually offers piecemeal.

* jk/clone-cmdline-config (2011-06-11) 10 commits
 - clone: accept config options on the command line
 - config: make git_config_parse_parameter a public function
 - remote: use new OPT_STRING_LIST
 - parse-options: add OPT_STRING_LIST helper
 - config: use strbuf_split_str instead of a temporary strbuf
 - strbuf: allow strbuf_split to work on non-strbufs
 - config: avoid segfault when parsing command-line config
 - config: die on error in command-line config
 - fix "git -c" parsing of values with equals signs
 - strbuf_split: add a max parameter

* jk/tag-contains-ab (2011-06-11) 4 commits
 - Why is "git tag --contains" so slow?
 - default core.clockskew variable to one day
 - limit "contains" traversals based on commit timestamp
 - tag: speed up --contains calculation

* jk/transport-helper-fix (2011-06-07) 8 commits
 - git_remote_helpers: push all refs during a non-local export
 - transport-helper: don't feed bogus refs to export push
 - teach remote-testgit to import multiple refs
 - teach remote-testgit to import non-HEAD refs
 - t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote helpers
 - t5800: factor out some ref tests
 - git-remote-testgit: exit gracefully after push
 - transport-helper: fix minor leak in push_refs_with_export

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[Graduated to "master"]

* bc/maint-status-z-to-use-porcelain (2011-05-29) 2 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-01 at 4f44a91)
 + builtin/commit.c: set status_format _after_ option parsing
 + t7508: demonstrate status's failure to use --porcelain format with -z

* jk/diff-not-so-quick (2011-05-31) 2 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-01 at 5f66784)
 + diff: futureproof "stop feeding the backend early" logic
 + diff_tree: disable QUICK optimization with diff filter
 (this branch is used by jc/diff-index-quick-exit-early.)

* jn/gitweb-docs (2011-06-03) 3 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-05 at 691c7e6)
 + gitweb: Move "Requirements" up in gitweb/INSTALL
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-02 at 56cba41)
 + gitweb: Describe CSSMIN and JSMIN in gitweb/INSTALL
 + gitweb: Move information about installation from README to INSTALL

* jn/mime-type-with-params (2011-06-05) 1 commit
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-05 at 697f9d2)
 + gitweb: Fix usability of $prevent_xss

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[Stalled]

* js/ref-namespaces (2011-06-07) 4 commits
 . ref namespaces: documentation
 . ref namespaces: support remote repositories via upload-pack and receive-pack
 . ref namespaces: infrastructure
 . Fix prefix handling in ref iteration functions

Fairly involved feature enhancement, and breaks tests when merged to 'pu'.
Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jk/maint-merge-rename-create (2011-03-25) 3 commits
 - merge: turn on rewrite detection
 - merge: handle renames with replacement content
 - t3030: fix accidental success in symlink rename

Peff wanted to reroll this. Perhaps will discard to make room for Elijah's
merge-recursive series in the meantime.

* jc/index-pack (2011-06-05) 9 commits
 - verify-pack: use index-pack --verify
 - index-pack: show histogram when emulating "verify-pack -v"
 - index-pack: start learning to emulate "verify-pack -v"
 - index-pack: a miniscule refactor
 - index-pack --verify: read anomalous offsets from v2 idx file
 - write_idx_file: need_large_offset() helper function
 - index-pack: --verify
 - write_idx_file: introduce a struct to hold idx customization options
 - index-pack: group the delta-base array entries also by type

Killed "verify-pack" ;-) The next will be to update fsck, which would be a
bigger task.

Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jh/receive-count-limit (2011-05-23) 10 commits
 - receive-pack: Allow server to refuse pushes with too many objects
 - pack-objects: Estimate pack size; abort early if pack size limit is exceeded
 - send-pack/receive-pack: Allow server to refuse pushing too large packs
 - pack-objects: Allow --max-pack-size to be used together with --stdout
 - send-pack/receive-pack: Allow server to refuse pushes with too many commits
 - pack-objects: Teach new option --max-commit-count, limiting #commits in pack
 - receive-pack: Prepare for addition of the new 'limit-*' family of capabilities
 - Tighten rules for matching server capabilities in server_supports()
 - send-pack: Attempt to retrieve remote status even if pack-objects fails
 - Update technical docs to reflect side-band-64k capability in receive-pack

Would need another round to separate per-pack and per-session limits.
Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

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[Cooking]

* db/http-cookies (2011-06-03) 1 commit
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-06 at 90d736a)
 + http: pass http.cookiefile using CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE

Fairly trivial enhancement.
Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jc/maint-1.7.3-checkout-describe (2011-06-05) 1 commit
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-06 at 6a59bb7)
 + checkout -b <name>: correctly detect existing branch

Fairly trivial bugfix.
Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jk/clone-detached (2011-06-07) 5 commits
 . remote-testgit: short-term fix to allow t5800 pass
 - clone: always fetch remote HEAD
 - make copy_ref globally available
 - consider only branches in guess_remote_head
 - t: add tests for cloning remotes with detached HEAD

Somewhat involved bugfix.
Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jk/maint-1.7.2-status-ignored (2011-06-02) 2 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-02 at 8626cc6)
 + git status --ignored: tests and docs
 + status: fix bug with missing --ignore files

Fairly trivial bugfix.
Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream (2011-06-06) 3 commits
 - submodule add: clean up duplicated code
 - submodule add: allow relative repository path even when no url is set
 - submodule add: test failure when url is not configured in superproject

Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* rs/grep-color (2011-06-05) 3 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-06 at fd6bae1)
 + grep: add --heading
 + grep: add --break
 + grep: fix coloring of hunk marks between files

Fairly straightforward feature enhancement.
Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jc/diff-index-quick-exit-early (2011-05-31) 2 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-01 at 79d868a)
 + diff-index --quiet: learn the "stop feeding the backend early" logic
 + Merge remote-tracking branch 'ko/maint' into jc/diff-index-quick-exit-early

Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* ef/maint-win-verify-path (2011-06-08) 5 commits
 - verify_dotfile(): do not assume '/' is the path seperator
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-07 at b418e05)
 + verify_path(): simplify check at the directory boundary
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-01 at f316f68)
 + verify_path: consider dos drive prefix
 + real_path: do not assume '/' is the path seperator
 + A Windows path starting with a backslash is absolute

Not urgent, but is sane. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jn/gitweb-js-blame (2011-05-27) 3 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-01 at a984a1b)
 + gitweb.js: use setTimeout rather than setInterval in blame_incremental.js
 + gitweb.js: No need for loop in blame_incremental's handleResponse()
 + gitweb.js: No need for inProgress in blame_incremental.js

Will cook a bit longer.

* mg/diff-stat-count (2011-05-27) 4 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-01 at 5cdb776)
 + diff --stat-count: finishing touches
 + diff-options.txt: describe --stat-{width,name-width,count}
 + diff: introduce --stat-lines to limit the stat lines
 + diff.c: omit hidden entries from namelen calculation with --stat

Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* da/git-prefix-everywhere (2011-06-02) 4 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-02 at 2ab66e7)
 + t/t7503-pre-commit-hook.sh: Add GIT_PREFIX tests
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-05-30 at 9480900)
 + git-mergetool--lib: Make vimdiff retain the current directory
 + git: Remove handling for GIT_PREFIX
 + setup: Provide GIT_PREFIX to built-ins

Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jc/streaming-filter (2011-05-26) 8 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-06-06 at 8ed6b3d)
 + t0021: test application of both crlf and ident
 + t0021-conversion.sh: fix NoTerminatingSymbolAtEOF test
 + streaming: filter cascading
 + streaming filter: ident filter
 + Add LF-to-CRLF streaming conversion
 + stream filter: add "no more input" to the filters
 + Add streaming filter API
 + convert.h: move declarations for conversion from cache.h
 (this branch uses jc/streaming.)

Trivial lf-to-crlf and ident conversions can be performed without reading
everything in-core first.
Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jk/combine-diff-binary-etc (2011-05-24) 5 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-05-24 at 07cf180)
 + combine-diff: respect textconv attributes
 + refactor get_textconv to not require diff_filespec
 + combine-diff: handle binary files as binary
 + combine-diff: calculate mode_differs earlier
 + combine-diff: split header printing into its own function

Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jc/advice-about-to-lose-commit (2011-05-24) 1 commit
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-05-30 at 42385cc)
 + checkout: make advice when reattaching the HEAD less loud

Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* jc/streaming (2011-05-26) 14 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-05-26 at 7fdda8d)
 + sha1_file: use the correct type (ssize_t, not size_t) for read-style function
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-05-23 at 7fd0b52)
 + streaming: read loose objects incrementally
 + sha1_file.c: expose helpers to read loose objects
 + streaming: read non-delta incrementally from a pack
 + streaming_write_entry(): support files with holes
 + convert: CRLF_INPUT is a no-op in the output codepath
 + streaming_write_entry(): use streaming API in write_entry()
 + streaming: a new API to read from the object store
 + write_entry(): separate two helper functions out
 + unpack_object_header(): make it public
 + sha1_object_info_extended(): hint about objects in delta-base cache
 + sha1_object_info_extended(): expose a bit more info
 + packed_object_info_detail(): do not return a string
 + Merge branches 'jc/convert', 'jc/bigfile' and 'jc/replacing' into jc/streaming
 (this branch is used by jc/streaming-filter.)

Not urgent. Will not merge before 1.7.6.

* ab/i18n-scripts (2011-05-21) 48 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2011-05-23 at 69164a3)
 + i18n: git-bisect bisect_next_check "You need to" message
 + i18n: git-bisect [Y/n] messages
 + i18n: git-bisect bisect_replay + $1 messages
 + i18n: git-bisect bisect_reset + $1 messages
 + i18n: git-bisect bisect_run + $@ messages
 + i18n: git-bisect die + eval_gettext messages
 + i18n: git-bisect die + gettext messages
 + i18n: git-bisect echo + eval_gettext message
 + i18n: git-bisect echo + gettext messages
 + i18n: git-bisect gettext + echo message
 + i18n: git-bisect add git-sh-i18n
 + i18n: git-stash drop_stash say/die messages
 + i18n: git-stash "unknown option" message
 + i18n: git-stash die + eval_gettext $1 messages
 + i18n: git-stash die + eval_gettext $* messages
 + i18n: git-stash die + eval_gettext messages
 + i18n: git-stash die + gettext messages
 + i18n: git-stash say + gettext messages
 + i18n: git-stash echo + gettext message
 + i18n: git-stash add git-sh-i18n
 + i18n: git-submodule "blob" and "submodule" messages
 + i18n: git-submodule "path not initialized" message
 + i18n: git-submodule "[...] path is ignored" message
 + i18n: git-submodule "Entering [...]" message
 + i18n: git-submodule $errmsg messages
 + i18n: git-submodule "Submodule change[...]" messages
 + i18n: git-submodule "cached cannot be used" message
 + i18n: git-submodule $update_module say + die messages
 + i18n: git-submodule die + eval_gettext messages
 + i18n: git-submodule say + eval_gettext messages
 + i18n: git-submodule echo + eval_gettext messages
 + i18n: git-submodule add git-sh-i18n
 + i18n: git-pull eval_gettext + warning message
 + i18n: git-pull eval_gettext + die message
 + i18n: git-pull die messages
 + i18n: git-pull add git-sh-i18n
 + i18n: git-am printf(1) message to eval_gettext
 + i18n: git-am core say messages
 + i18n: git-am "Falling back" say message
 + i18n: git-am "Apply?" message
 + i18n: git-am clean_abort messages
 + i18n: git-am cannot_fallback messages
 + i18n: git-am die messages
 + i18n: git-am gettext + gettext to stderr message
 + i18n: git-am eval_gettext messages
 + i18n: git-am multi-line getttext $msg; echo
 + i18n: git-am one-line gettext $msg; echo
 + i18n: git-am add git-sh-i18n

Rerolled.
Will cook a bit longer.

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[Discarded]

* jc/apply-nsbp (2011-05-27) 4 commits
 . War on nbsp: teach "git apply" to check and fix nbsp
 . War on nbsp: Add "nbsp" whitespace breakage class
 . War on nbsp: a bit of retreat
 . ws.c: add a helper to format comma separated messages

It was fun to write, though.

* jk/tag-contains (2010-07-05) 4 commits
 . Why is "git tag --contains" so slow?
 . default core.clockskew variable to one day
 . limit "contains" traversals based on commit timestamp
 . tag: speed up --contains calculation

This was re-rolled as jk/tag-contans-ab with help from Ævar.