1 Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2008, #04; Sat, 18)
2 X-master-at: 3041b98a9d40e5eb1aae9698c7e15c85ff37f344
3 X-next-at: 8f0e41f379d486dd27766d84d994eb1da5b8319d
5 What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2008, #04; Sat, 18)
6 --------------------------------------------------
8 Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed
9 with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are
12 The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order. The topics
13 meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.
15 ----------------------------------------------------------------
18 * jc/gitweb-fix-cloud-tag (Tue Oct 14 21:27:12 2008 -0700) 1 commit
19 + Fix reading of cloud tags
21 * rs/alloc-ref (Sat Oct 18 10:44:18 2008 +0200) 3 commits
22 + make alloc_ref_from_str() the new alloc_ref()
23 + use alloc_ref_from_str() everywhere
24 + add alloc_ref_with_prefix()
26 * jc/maint-reset-remove-unmerged-new (Wed Oct 15 16:00:06 2008 -0700) 1 commit
27 - reset --hard/read-tree --reset -u: remove unmerged new paths
29 * jk/fix-ls-files-other (Fri Oct 17 13:03:52 2008 -0700) 2 commits
30 + Merge branch 'jk/maint-ls-files-other' into jk/fix-ls-files-other
31 + refactor handling of "other" files in ls-files and status
33 * jc/maint-co-track (Fri Oct 17 15:44:39 2008 -0700) 4 commits
34 - Fix checkout not to clobber the branch when using symlinked HEAD
36 - Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() API
37 - demonstrate breakage of detached checkout with symbolic link HEAD
38 - Fix "checkout --track -b newbranch" on detached HEAD
40 * jk/maint-ls-files-other (Thu Oct 16 11:07:26 2008 -0400) 1 commit
41 + refactor handling of "other" files in ls-files and status
43 * sg/merge-options (Sun Apr 6 03:23:47 2008 +0200) 1 commit
44 + merge: remove deprecated summary and diffstat options and config
47 * np/index-pack (Fri Oct 17 15:57:58 2008 -0400) 2 commits
48 + index-pack: smarter memory usage during delta resolution
49 + index-pack: rationalize delta resolution code
51 ----------------------------------------------------------------
52 [Graduated to "master"]
54 * pb/commit-where (Fri Oct 3 22:13:49 2008 -0400) 4 commits
55 + tutorial: update output of git commit
56 + reformat informational commit message
57 + git commit: Reformat output somewhat
58 + builtin-commit.c: show on which branch a commit was added
60 ----------------------------------------------------------------
63 * nd/narrow (Wed Oct 1 11:04:09 2008 +0700) 9 commits
64 - grep: skip files outside sparse checkout area
65 - checkout_entry(): CE_NO_CHECKOUT on checked out entries.
66 - Prevent diff machinery from examining worktree outside sparse
68 - ls-files: Add tests for --sparse and friends
69 - update-index: add --checkout/--no-checkout to update
71 - update-index: refactor mark_valid() in preparation for new options
72 - ls-files: add options to support sparse checkout
73 - Introduce CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
74 - Extend index to save more flags
76 ----------------------------------------------------------------
79 * pb/submodule (Fri Sep 12 23:09:19 2008 +0200) 1 commit
80 . t7400: Add short "git submodule add" testsuite
82 Was waiting for a reroll.
84 * kb/am-directory (Fri Aug 29 15:27:50 2008 -0700) 1 commit
85 . git-am: Pass the --directory option through to git-apply
87 I think this is still buggy and drops the option when am stops with
90 ----------------------------------------------------------------
93 * bd/blame (Thu Aug 21 18:22:01 2008 -0500) 5 commits
94 - Use xdiff caching to improve git blame performance
95 - Allow xdiff machinery to cache hash results for a file
96 - Always initialize xpparam_t to 0
97 - Bypass textual patch generation and parsing in git blame
98 - Allow alternate "low-level" emit function from xdl_diff
100 RĂ©ne had good comments on how the callback should be structured.
101 Waiting for a reroll.
103 ----------------------------------------------------------------
104 [Will be merged to 'master' soon]
106 * js/maint-fetch-update-head (Tue Oct 14 15:32:20 2008 -0700) 2 commits
107 + pull: allow "git pull origin $something:$current_branch" into an
109 + Fix fetch/pull when run without --update-head-ok
111 * ns/rebase-noverify (Tue Oct 14 08:17:16 2008 +0900) 2 commits
112 + rebase: Document --no-verify option to bypass pre-rebase hook
115 This adds --no-verify to git rebase, to avoid the pre-rebase hook.
117 * mv/merge-noff (Fri Oct 3 14:04:47 2008 +0200) 1 commit
118 + builtin-commit: use reduce_heads() only when appropriate
120 Fixes "git merge --no-ff --no-commit".
122 * ae/preservemerge (Mon Sep 29 22:28:57 2008 +0200) 1 commit
123 + rebase: Support preserving merges in non-interactive mode
125 * pb/rename-rowin32 (Fri Oct 3 12:20:43 2008 +0200) 1 commit
126 + Do not rename read-only files during a push
128 Fixes pack file renames on Windows.
130 * sp/describe-lwtag (Mon Oct 13 07:39:46 2008 -0700) 1 commit
131 + describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight tags more often
133 When the user gives --tags, the request is asking to treat lightweight and
134 annotated tags at equal weight, and if lightweight ones are closer, they
137 * gb/formatpatch-autonbr (Thu Oct 2 16:55:39 2008 -0400) 1 commit
138 + format-patch: autonumber by default
140 * dp/checkattr (Wed Oct 15 09:11:52 2008 +0200) 3 commits
141 + git-check-attr(1): use 'verse' for multi-line synopsis sections
142 + check-attr: Add --stdin option
143 + check-attr: add an internal check_attr() function
145 Batch attr lookup via --stdin, for gitk and git-gui.
147 * gb/refactor-pathinfo (Fri Oct 10 20:42:26 2008 +0200) 1 commit
148 + gitweb: refactor input parameters parse/validation
150 A major cleanup on the way gitweb parses its input arguments.
151 Future gitweb patches to add more arguments into the PATH_INFO
152 depend upon this initial cleanup work.
154 * ml/cygwin-filemode (Mon Oct 13 00:33:31 2008 -0400) 1 commit
155 + compat/cygwin.c - Use cygwin's stat if core.filemode == true
157 * mv/clonev (Thu Oct 9 01:40:32 2008 +0200) 1 commit
158 + Implement git clone -v
160 Does what it says it does. This may be ready for master soon,
161 its a pretty trivial change.
163 ----------------------------------------------------------------
166 * tr/workflow-doc (Sat Sep 13 18:11:01 2008 +0200) 2 commits
167 + Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewriting
168 + Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebase
172 * sh/maint-rebase3 (Sun Oct 5 23:26:52 2008 -0500) 1 commit
173 + rebase--interactive: fix parent rewriting for dropped commits
175 * sh/rebase-i-p (Wed Oct 15 02:44:40 2008 -0500) 8 commits
176 - rebase-i-p: if todo was reordered use HEAD as the rewritten parent
177 - rebase-i-p: do not include non-first-parent commits touching
179 - rebase-i-p: only list commits that require rewriting in todo
180 - rebase-i-p: fix 'no squashing merges' tripping up non-merges
181 - rebase-i-p: delay saving current-commit to REWRITTEN if squashing
182 - rebase-i-p: use HEAD for updating the ref instead of mapping
184 - rebase-i-p: test to exclude commits from todo based on its parents
185 + rebase--interactive: fix parent rewriting for dropped commits
187 Changes the `rebase -i -p` behavior to behave like git sequencer's
188 rewrite of `rebase -i` would behave.
190 * jk/diff-convfilter (Sun Oct 5 17:43:45 2008 -0400) 4 commits
191 + diff: add filter for converting binary to text
192 + diff: introduce diff.<driver>.binary
193 + diff: unify external diff and funcname parsing code
194 + t4012: use test_cmp instead of cmp
196 A general cleanup on how diff drivers are implemented. Its still
197 missing documentation updates and tests but doesn't break anything
198 current as far as I can tell.
200 * jn/gitweb-customlinks (Sun Oct 12 00:02:32 2008 +0200) 1 commit
201 - gitweb: Better processing format string in custom links in navbar
203 Waiting for some sort of response from Pasky.
205 ----------------------------------------------------------------
208 * jc/post-simplify (Fri Aug 15 01:34:51 2008 -0700) 2 commits
209 - revision --simplify-merges: incremental simplification
210 - revision --simplify-merges: prepare for incremental simplification
212 I started making this incremental but the progress is not
215 * jc/send-pack-tell-me-more (Thu Mar 20 00:44:11 2008 -0700) 1 commit
216 - "git push": tellme-more protocol extension
218 This seems to have a deadlock during communication between the peers.
219 Someone needs to pick up this topic and resolve the deadlock before it can
222 * jc/blame (Wed Jun 4 22:58:40 2008 -0700) 2 commits
223 - blame: show "previous" information in --porcelain/--incremental
225 - git-blame: refactor code to emit "porcelain format" output
227 * jk/renamelimit (Sat May 3 13:58:42 2008 -0700) 1 commit
228 - diff: enable "too large a rename" warning when -M/-C is explicitly
231 This would be the right thing to do for command line use,
232 but gitk will be hit due to tcl/tk's limitation, so I am holding