What's cooking

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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #06; Sun, 30)
+X-master-at: f324cb50be3d88c6fb6123c85da749695a749f60
+X-next-at: 5fc6248250e68c3b723efb9b868d8fc27499065a
+
+What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2009, #06; Sun, 30)
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed with '-' are
+only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next'.  The ones
+marked with '.' do not appear in any of the integration branches, but I am
+still holding onto them.
+
+After the 1.6.5 cycle, the next release will be 1.7.0, and we will push
+out the planned "push safety" change.  1.7.0 would be a good time to
+introduce "justifiable" changes that are not strictly backward compatible.
+
+During 1.6.5 cycle, 'next' will hold topics meant for 1.6.5 and 1.7.0.
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated to "master"]
+
+* wl/insta-mongoose (2009-08-21) 1 commit
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-25 at da1d566)
+ + Add support for the Mongoose web server.
+
+* as/maint-graph-interesting-fix (2009-08-21) 2 commits.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-25 at 9d5e215)
+ + Add tests for rev-list --graph with options that simplify history
+ + graph API: fix bug in graph_is_interesting()
+
+* jc/maint-unpack-objects-strict (2009-08-13) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-23 at 38eb750)
+ + Fix "unpack-objects --strict"
+
+* jh/submodule-foreach (2009-08-20) 9 commits
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-20 at 671bea4)
+ + git clone: Add --recursive to automatically checkout (nested) submodules
+ + t7407: Use 'rev-parse --short' rather than bash's substring expansion notation
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-18 at f4a881d)
+ + git submodule status: Add --recursive to recurse into nested submodules
+ + git submodule update: Introduce --recursive to update nested submodules
+ + git submodule foreach: Add --recursive to recurse into nested submodules
+ + git submodule foreach: test access to submodule name as '$name'
+ + Add selftest for 'git submodule foreach'
+ + git submodule: Cleanup usage string and add option parsing to cmd_foreach()
+ + git submodule foreach: Provide access to submodule name, as '$name'
+
+* lt/block-sha1 (2009-08-17) 4 commits
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-18 at 67a1ce8)
+ + remove ARM and Mozilla SHA1 implementations
+ + block-sha1: guard gcc extensions with __GNUC__
+ + make sure byte swapping is optimal for git
+ + block-sha1: make the size member first in the context struct
+
+* np/maint-1.6.3-deepen (2009-08-24) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-25 at 8e383d4)
+ + fix simple deepening of a repo
+
+* jk/maint-1.6.3-checkout-unborn (2009-08-24) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-25 at 5f29625)
+ + checkout: do not imply "-f" on unborn branches
+
+* mm/reset-report (2009-08-21) 2 commits
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-25 at f2a4424)
+ + reset: make the reminder output consistent with "checkout"
+ + Rename REFRESH_SAY_CHANGED to REFRESH_IN_PORCELAIN.
+
+* jc/shortstatus (2009-08-15) 11 commits
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-15 at 7e40766)
+ + git commit --dry-run -v: show diff in color when asked
+ + Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-run
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-12 at 53bda17)
+ + wt-status: collect untracked files in a separate "collect" phase
+ + Make git_status_config() file scope static to builtin-commit.c
+ + wt-status: move wt_status_colors[] into wt_status structure
+ + wt-status: move many global settings to wt_status structure
+ + commit: --dry-run
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-06 at fe8cb94)
+ + status: show worktree status of conflicted paths separately
+ + wt-status.c: rework the way changes to the index and work tree are summarized
+ + diff-index: keep the original index intact
+ + diff-index: report unmerged new entries
+ (this branch is used by jc/1.7.0-status.)
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[New Topics]
+
+* jc/upload-pack-hook (2009-08-28) 2 commits
+ - upload-pack: feed "kind [clone|fetch]" to post-upload-pack hook
+ - upload-pack: add a trigger for post-upload-pack hook
+
+I do not know if the distinction between fetching some but not all refs
+and fetching full set of refs into an empty repository is something worth
+making, so in that sense the tip commit is somewhat iffy.
+
+One reason this series makes me somewhat uneasy is that Tom, the original
+starter of the discussion went dark after sending a proposed patch.  Maybe
+he has been too busy, but I have been hoping that GitHub as a stakeholder
+has somebody who monitors the list when he is not available.
+
+Does anybody from GitHub have any input?  Is there something that needs to
+be improved to fill GitHub's needs?  Does GitHub want to stick to its own
+fork, and were all these discussions for improvements unwanted?
+
+* jk/clone-b (2009-08-26) 1 commit
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-30 at 10a68d1)
+ + clone: add --branch option to select a different HEAD
+
+* pk/import-dirs (2009-08-24) 1 commit
+ - Add script for importing bits-and-pieces to Git.
+
+This version makes me suspect that the author might regret the choice of
+the import format that does not allow escaping of paths, nor does not
+allow leading blanks for readability without changing semantics, both of
+which make it somewhat limiting and error prone.  These issues will be
+hard to rectify without breaking the backward compatibility, for a tool
+that could otherwise turn out to be useful.
+
+As a contrib/ material, I probably shouldn't be too worried about these
+issues, but I am keeping this out of 'next' for now, just in case the
+author chooses to polish the usability of the tool for general audience.
+
+It is a different story if the submission was just throwing out a one-time
+hack in the open in the hope that some other people might find it useful,
+but without any intention of maintaining it.  But then I do not have a
+strong reason to keep this in my tree, either.  The mailing list archive
+is a more suitable storage media for such a patch.
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[Stalled]
+
+* jh/notes (2009-08-27) 12 commits.
+ - Add '%N'-format for pretty-printing commit notes
+ - Add flags to get_commit_notes() to control the format of the note string
+ - notes.c: Implement simple memory pooling of leaf nodes
+ - Selftests verifying semantics when loading notes trees with various fanouts
+ - Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes
+ - t3302-notes-index-expensive: Speed up create_repo()
+ - fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes
+ - Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit"
+ - Add an expensive test for git-notes
+ - Speed up git notes lookup
+ - Add a script to edit/inspect notes
+ - Introduce commit notes
+
+I heard the cvs-helper series depends on this one.  It seems that the
+fan-out strategy is being rethought?
+
+* js/stash-dwim (2009-07-27) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-16 at 67896c4)
+ + Make 'git stash -k' a short form for 'git stash save --keep-index'
+ (this branch is used by tr/reset-checkout-patch.)
+
+* tr/reset-checkout-patch (2009-08-27) 9 commits.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-27 at d314281)
+ + Make test case number unique
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-18 at e465bb3)
+ + tests: disable interactive hunk selection tests if perl is not available
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-16 at 67896c4)
+ + DWIM 'git stash save -p' for 'git stash -p'
+ + Implement 'git stash save --patch'
+ + Implement 'git checkout --patch'
+ + Implement 'git reset --patch'
+ + builtin-add: refactor the meat of interactive_add()
+ + Add a small patch-mode testing library
+ + git-apply--interactive: Refactor patch mode code
+ (this branch uses js/stash-dwim.)
+
+There was a discussion on better DWIMmery for the above two topics to (1)
+forbid "git stash save --anything-with-dash" and (2) redirect with any
+option "git stash --opt" to "git stash save --opt", to keep it flexible
+and safe at the same time.  I think it is a sane thing to do, but nothing
+has happened lately.
+
+* db/vcs-helper (2009-08-09) 17 commits
+ - Allow helpers to request marks for fast-import
+ - Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged
+ - Add support for "import" helper command
+ - transport-helper_init(): fix a memory leak in error path
+ - Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs
+ - Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls
+ - Allow fetch to modify refs
+ - Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid
+ - Use a clearer style to issue commands to remote helpers
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-07 at f3533ba)
+ + Makefile: install hardlinks for git-remote-<scheme> supported by libcurl if possible
+ + Makefile: do not link three copies of git-remote-* programs
+ + Makefile: git-http-fetch does not need expat
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-06 at 15da79d)
+ + http-fetch: Fix Makefile dependancies
+ + Add transport native helper executables to .gitignore
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-05 at 33d491e)
+ + git-http-fetch: not a builtin
+ + Use an external program to implement fetching with curl
+ + Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
+ (this branch is used by jh/cvs-helper.)
+
+We had a few messages on what the list consensus was with this series.  My
+impression, after going back to the archive, is that there wasn't.
+
+* jn/gitweb-blame (2009-08-06) 3 commits
+ - gitweb: Create links leading to 'blame_incremental' using JavaScript
+ - gitweb: Incremental blame (WIP)
+ - gitweb: Add optional "time to generate page" info in footer
+
+Ajax-y blame WIP
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[Cooking]
+
+* je/send-email-no-subject (2009-08-05) 1 commit
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-30 at b6455c2)
+ + send-email: confirm on empty mail subjects
+
+The existing tests to covers the positive case (i.e. as long as the user
+says "yes" to the "do you really want to send this message that lacks
+subject", the message is sent) of this feature, but the feature itself
+needs its own test to verify the negative case (i.e. does it correctly
+stop if the user says "no"?)
+
+* lt/approxidate (2009-08-30) 6 commits
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-30 at e016e3d)
+ + fix approxidate parsing of relative months and years
+ + tests: add date printing and parsing tests
+ + refactor test-date interface
+ + Add date formatting and parsing functions relative to a given time
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-26 at 62853f9)
+ + Further 'approxidate' improvements
+ + Improve on 'approxidate'
+
+Fixes a few "reasonably formatted but thus-far misparsed" date strings.
+With tests by Peff, this should be ready for -rc0.
+
+* mr/gitweb-snapshot (2009-08-25) 3 commits
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-30 at e4edd0b)
+ + gitweb: add t9501 tests for checking HTTP status codes
+ + gitweb: split test suite into library and tests
+ + gitweb: improve snapshot error handling
+
+* jc/mailinfo-scissors (2009-08-26) 5 commits
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-30 at 5fc6248)
+ + mailinfo.scissors: new configuration
+ + am/mailinfo: Disable scissors processing by default
+ + Documentation: describe the scissors mark support of "git am"
+ + Teach mailinfo to ignore everything before -- >8 -- mark
+ + builtin-mailinfo.c: fix confusing internal API to mailinfo()
+
+I didn't pick up the patch to simplify the definition of scissors. I do
+not have strong opinion on it either way, but the list would hopefully
+decide it before too long.
+
+* tf/diff-whitespace-incomplete-line (2009-08-23) 2 commits.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-26 at 4fc7784)
+ + xutils: Fix xdl_recmatch() on incomplete lines
+ + xutils: Fix hashing an incomplete line with whitespaces at the end
+
+Will merge.
+
+* cc/sequencer-rebase-i (2009-08-28) 15 commits
+ - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --cherry-pick"
+ - sequencer: add "--cherry-pick" option to "git sequencer--helper"
+ - sequencer: add "do_commit()" and related functions working on "next_commit"
+ - pick: libify "pick_help_msg()"
+ - revert: libify cherry-pick and revert functionnality
+ - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --fast-forward"
+ - sequencer: let "git sequencer--helper" callers set "allow_dirty"
+ - sequencer: add "--fast-forward" option to "git sequencer--helper"
+ - sequencer: add "do_fast_forward()" to perform a fast forward
+ - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --reset-hard"
+ - sequencer: add "--reset-hard" option to "git sequencer--helper"
+ - sequencer: add "reset_almost_hard()" and related functions
+ - rebase -i: use "git sequencer--helper --make-patch"
+ - sequencer: add "make_patch" function to save a patch
+ - sequencer: add "builtin-sequencer--helper.c"
+
+Migrating "rebase -i" bit by bit to C.
+
+* jh/cvs-helper (2009-08-18) 7 commits
+ - More fixes to the git-remote-cvs installation procedure
+ - Fix the Makefile-generated path to the git_remote_cvs package in git-remote-cvs
+ - Add simple selftests of git-remote-cvs functionality
+ - git-remote-cvs: Remote helper program for CVS repositories
+ - 2/2: Add Python support library for CVS remote helper
+ - 1/2: Add Python support library for CVS remote helper
+ - Basic build infrastructure for Python scripts
+ (this branch uses db/vcs-helper.)
+
+Builds on db/vcs-helper (which is stalled, so this cannot move further at
+the moment).  There is a re-roll planned, so I did not pick up test fixes
+from Brandon myself.
+
+* sr/gfi-options (2009-08-27) 6 commits
+ - fast-import: test the new option command
+ - fast-import: add option command
+ - fast-import: test the new feature command
+ - fast-import: add feature command
+ - fast-import: put marks reading in it's own function
+ - fast-import: put option parsing code in separate functions
+
+Re-rolled, based on an off-list discussion I was/am not aware of.
+Looked ready for 'next'.
+
+* nd/sparse (2009-08-20) 19 commits
+ - sparse checkout: inhibit empty worktree
+ - Add tests for sparse checkout
+ - read-tree: add --no-sparse-checkout to disable sparse checkout support
+ - unpack-trees(): ignore worktree check outside checkout area
+ - unpack_trees(): apply $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout to the final index
+ - unpack-trees(): "enable" sparse checkout and load $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout
+ - unpack-trees.c: generalize verify_* functions
+ - unpack-trees(): add CE_WT_REMOVE to remove on worktree alone
+ - Introduce "sparse checkout"
+ - dir.c: export excluded_1() and add_excludes_from_file_1()
+ - excluded_1(): support exclude files in index
+ - unpack-trees(): carry skip-worktree bit over in merged_entry()
+ - Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktree
+ - Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1()
+ - Teach Git to respect skip-worktree bit (writing part)
+ - Teach Git to respect skip-worktree bit (reading part)
+ - Introduce "skip-worktree" bit in index, teach Git to get/set this bit
+ - Add test-index-version
+ - update-index: refactor mark_valid() in preparation for new options
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[For 1.7.0]
+
+* jc/1.7.0-status (2009-08-15) 3 commits
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-22 at b3507bb)
+ + git status: not "commit --dry-run" anymore
+ + git stat -s: short status output
+ + git stat: the beginning of "status that is not a dry-run of commit"
+
+With this, "git status" is no longer "git commit --preview".
+
+* jc/1.7.0-send-email-no-thread-default (2009-08-22) 1 commit
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-22 at 5106de8)
+ + send-email: make --no-chain-reply-to the default
+
+* jc/1.7.0-diff-whitespace-only-status (2009-08-30) 4 commits.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-30 at 0623572)
+ + diff.c: fix typoes in comments
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-27 at 81fb2bd)
+ + Make test case number unique
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-02 at 9c08420)
+ + diff: Rename QUIET internal option to QUICK
+ + diff: change semantics of "ignore whitespace" options
+
+This changes exit code from "git diff --ignore-whitespace" and friends
+when there is no actual output.  It is a backward incompatible change, but
+we could argue that it is a bugfix.
+
+* jc/1.7.0-push-safety (2009-02-09) 2 commits
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-08-02 at 38b82fe)
+ + Refuse deleting the current branch via push
+ + Refuse updating the current branch in a non-bare repository via push
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[I have been too busy to purge these]
+
+* jc/log-tz (2009-03-03) 1 commit.
+ - Allow --date=local --date=other-format to work as expected
+
+Maybe some people care about this.  I dunno.
+
+* jc/mailinfo-remove-brackets (2009-07-15) 1 commit.
+ - mailinfo: -b option keeps [bracketed] strings that is not a [PATCH] marker
+
+Maybe some people care about this.  I dunno.
+
+* ar/maint-1.6.2-merge-recursive-d-f (2009-05-11) 2 commits.
+ . Fix for a merge where a branch has an F->D transition
+ . Add a reminder test case for a merge with F/D transition
+
+* jc/merge-convert (2009-01-26) 1 commit.
+ . git-merge-file: allow converting the results for the work tree
+
+* lt/read-directory (2009-05-15) 3 commits.
+ . Add initial support for pathname conversion to UTF-8
+ . read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname character set conversion
+ . Add 'fill_directory()' helper function for directory traversal
+
+* ps/blame (2009-03-12) 1 commit.
+ . blame.c: start libifying the blame infrastructure
+
+* pb/tracking (2009-07-16) 7 commits.
+ . branch.c: if remote is not config'd for branch, don't try delete push config
+ . branch, checkout: introduce autosetuppush
+ . move deletion of merge configuration to branch.c
+ . remote: add per-remote autosetupmerge and autosetuprebase configuration
+ . introduce a struct tracking_config
+ . branch: install_branch_config and struct tracking refactoring
+ . config: allow false and true values for branch.autosetuprebase
+
+Has been ejected from 'pu' for some time, expecting a reroll.
+
+* ne/rev-cache (2009-08-21) 6 commits
+ . support for path name caching in rev-cache
+ . full integration of rev-cache into git, completed test suite
+ . administrative functions for rev-cache, start of integration into git
+ . support for non-commit object caching in rev-cache
+ . basic revision cache system, no integration or features
+ . man page and technical discussion for rev-cache
+
+Updated but seems to break upload-pack tests when merged to 'pu'; given
+what this series touches, breakages in that area are expected.
+May discard if a working reroll comes, to give it a fresh start.