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+To: git@vger.kernel.org
+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2009, #03; Mon, 19)
+X-master-at: e79999b1a285d4dcf1d84bc893c864516a390cfa
+X-next-at: e01f7ce260cd5923cc9a088b74793a58379b5cc0
+
+What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2009, #03; Mon, 19)
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+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.
+
+In 1.7.0, we plan to correct handful of warts in the interfaces everybody
+agrees that they were mistakes.  The resulting system may not be strictly
+backward compatible.  Currently planeed changes are:
+
+ * refuse push to update the checked out branch in a non-bare repo by
+   default
+
+   Make "git push" into a repository to update the branch that is checked
+   out fail by default.  You can countermand this default by setting a
+   configuration variable in the receiving repository.
+
+   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
+
+ * refuse push to delete the current branch by default
+
+   Make "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch that is pointed at
+   by its HEAD fail by default.  You can countermand this default by
+   setting a configuration variable in the receiving repository.
+
+   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/108862/focus=108936
+
+ * git-send-email won't make deep threads by default
+
+   Many people said that by default when sending more than 2 patches the
+   threading git-send-email makes by default is hard to read, and they
+   prefer the default be one cover letter and each patch as a direct
+   follow-up to the cover letter.  You can countermand this by setting a
+   configuration variable.
+
+   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/109790
+
+ * git-status won't be "git-commit --dry-run" anymore
+
+   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/125989/focus=125993
+
+ * "git-diff -w --exit-code" will exit success if only differences it
+   found are whitespace changes that are stripped away from the output.
+
+   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/119731/focus=119751
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated to "master"]
+
+* jp/maint-send-email-fold (2009-10-08) 1 commit.
+ + git-send-email.perl: fold multiple entry "Cc:" and multiple single line "RCPT TO:"s
+
+* pv/maint-add-p-no-exclude (2009-10-10) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 0ff2e96)
+ + git-add--interactive: never skip files included in index
+
+* dk/blame-el (2009-09-29) 1 commit.
+ + git-blame.el: Change how blame information is shown.
+
+* jn/gitweb-patch (2009-10-09) 1 commit.
+ + gitweb: Do not show 'patch' link for merge commits
+
+* mr/instaweb-cgid (2009-09-26) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 99bcfaf)
+ + instaweb: support mod_cgid for apache2
+
+* tf/doc-pt-br (2009-09-23) 1 commit.
+ + Documentation: update pt-BR
+
+The current AsciiDoc may barf on NOME and SINOPSE, as pt_BR language
+definition is not widely distributed yet (it just hit the development
+tree).
+
+* bg/rebase-reword (2009-10-07) 2 commits.
+ + rebase-i: fix reword when using a terminal editor
+ + Teach 'rebase -i' the command "reword"
+
+* jp/fetch-tag-match (2009-09-17) 1 commit.
+ + fetch: Speed up fetch by rewriting find_non_local_tags
+
+* jn/gitweb-show-size (2009-09-07) 1 commit.
+ + gitweb: Add 'show-sizes' feature to show blob sizes in tree view
+
+* jc/maint-1.6.0-blank-at-eof (2009-09-14) 15 commits.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 7f34fb3)
+ + diff -B: colour whitespace errors
+ + diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line
+ + diff.c: split emit_line() from the first char and the rest of the line
+ + diff.c: shuffling code around
+ + diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end
+ + core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof}
+ + diff --color: color blank-at-eof
+ + diff --whitespace=warn/error: fix blank-at-eof check
+ + diff --whitespace=warn/error: obey blank-at-eof
+ + diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison
+ + apply --whitespace: warn blank but not necessarily empty lines at EOF
+ + apply --whitespace=warn/error: diagnose blank at EOF
+ + apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two
+ + apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly
+ + apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
+ (this branch is used by jc/maint-blank-at-eof.)
+
+This is a fix for an ancient bug (or inconsistent set of features); the
+topic is based on an ancient codebase and is designed to be merged
+upwards.  jc/maint-blank-at-eof serves that purpose.
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[New Topics]
+
+* ak/bisect-reset-to-switch (2009-10-13) 1 commit.
+ - bisect reset: Allow resetting to any commit, not just a branch
+
+* fc/doc-fast-forward (2009-10-11) 1 commit.
+ - user-manual: use 'fast-forward'
+
+* gb/maint-gitweb-esc-param (2009-10-13) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-14 at 105f997)
+ + gitweb: fix esc_param
+ (this branch is used by sb/gitweb-link-author.)
+
+* jc/maint-1.6.3-graft-trailing-space (2009-10-14) 1 commit.
+ - info/grafts: allow trailing whitespaces at the end of line
+
+* jc/strbuf-nested-expand (2009-10-18) 5 commits
+ - Teach --wrap to only indent without wrapping
+ - Add %[wrap(width,in1,in2)<<any-string>>%] implementation
+ - strbuf_nested_expand(): allow expansion to interrupt in the middle
+ - Add strbuf_add_wrapped_text() to utf8.[ch]
+ - print_wrapped_text(): allow hard newlines
+ (this branch uses js/log-rewrap.)
+
+* jk/maint-cvsimport-pathname (2009-10-19) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-19 at 77824f2)
+ + cvsimport: fix relative argument filenames
+
+* jn/show-normalized-refs (2009-10-12) 3 commits.
+ - check-ref-format: simplify --print implementation
+ - git check-ref-format --print
+ - Add tests for git check-ref-format
+
+* sb/gitweb-link-author (2009-10-14) 1 commit.
+ - gitweb: linkify author/committer names with search
+ (this branch uses gb/maint-gitweb-esc-param.)
+
+* jc/checkout-auto-track (2009-10-18) 3 commits
+ - git checkout --nodwim
+ - DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
+ - check_filename(): make verify_filename() callable without dying
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[Stalled]
+
+* db/vcs-helper-rest (2009-09-03) 6 commits.
+ - Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged
+ - Add support for "import" helper command
+ - 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
+ (this branch is used by jh/cvs-helper.)
+
+This holds the remainder of the db/vcs-helper topic that has already
+merged in 1.6.5.  If people want to replace this with improvements it
+would be a good time to do so.
+
+* jl/submodule-add-noname (2009-09-22) 1 commit.
+ - git submodule add: make the <path> parameter optional
+
+Dscho started an interesting discussion regarding the larger workflow in
+which the "submodule add" is used.  I think the patch itself makes sense
+but at the same time it probably makes sense to also take the <path> and
+infer the <repository> as Dscho suggested, probably in "git submodule
+add", not in "git add" proper, at least initially.
+
+* sr/gfi-options (2009-09-06) 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
+ (this branch is used by jh/notes.)
+
+Ejected from 'next' as fast-import folks still seem to be discussing with
+how to proceed.
+
+* je/send-email-no-subject (2009-08-05) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 1b99c56)
+ + send-email: confirm on empty mail subjects
+
+The existing tests cover 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"?)
+
+* jh/cvs-helper (2009-08-18) 8 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
+ - Allow helpers to request marks for fast-import
+ (this branch uses db/vcs-helper-rest.)
+
+Builds on db/vcs-helper.
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[Cooking]
+
+* tr/stash-format (2009-10-16) 5 commits
+ . stash list: drop the default limit of 10 stashes
+ . stash list: use new %g formats instead of sed
+ . Introduce new pretty formats %g[sdD] for reflog information
+ . reflog-walk: refactor the branch@{num} formatting
+ . Refactor pretty_print_commit arguments into a struct
+
+Expecting a re-roll.
+
+* ks/precompute-completion (2009-10-05) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-14 at adf722a)
+ + Speedup bash completion loading
+
+* sp/smart-http (2009-10-14) 17 commits
+ - Smart HTTP fetch: gzip requests
+ - Smart fetch over HTTP: client side
+ - Smart push over HTTP: client side
+ - Discover refs via smart HTTP server when available
+ - Smart fetch and push over HTTP: server side
+ - Add stateless RPC options to upload-pack, receive-pack
+ - Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport
+ - Move WebDAV HTTP push under remote-curl
+ - remote-helpers: Support custom transport options
+ - remote-helpers: Fetch more than one ref in a batch
+ - fetch: Allow transport -v -v -v to set verbosity to 3
+ - remote-curl: Refactor walker initialization
+ - Add multi_ack_detailed capability to fetch-pack/upload-pack
+ - Move "get_ack()" back to fetch-pack
+ - fetch-pack: Use a strbuf to compose the want list
+ - pkt-line: Make packet_read_line easier to debug
+ - pkt-line: Add strbuf based functions
+
+* ef/msys-imap (2009-10-13) 8 commits.
+ - MSVC: Enable OpenSSL, and translate -lcrypto
+ - mingw: enable OpenSSL
+ - mingw: wrap SSL_set_(w|r)fd to call _get_osfhandle
+ - imap-send: build imap-send on Windows
+ - imap-send: fix compilation-error on Windows
+ - imap-send: use run-command API for tunneling
+ - imap-send: use separate read and write fds
+ - imap-send: remove useless uid code
+
+Is this good to go yet?
+
+* mr/gitweb-snapshot (2009-09-26) 2 commits.
+ - gitweb: append short hash ids to snapshot files
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 22ba047)
+ + gitweb: check given hash before trying to create snapshot
+
+* jc/pretty-lf (2009-10-04) 1 commit.
+ - Pretty-format: %[+-]x to tweak inter-item newlines
+
+* js/log-rewrap (2008-11-10) 2 commits
+ - Add strbuf_add_wrapped_text() to utf8.[ch]
+ - print_wrapped_text(): allow hard newlines
+ (this branch is used by jc/strbuf-nested-expand.)
+
+* js/diff-verbose-submodule (2009-10-14) 4 commits.
+ - add tests for git diff --submodule-summary
+ - fix output for deleted submodules in git diff --submodule-summary
+ - fix indentation depth for git diff --submodule-summary
+ - Add the --submodule-summary option to the diff option family
+
+There was an attempted re-roll and it looked very promising with a minor
+fix-up, but I ran out of time to pick it up and unilaterally tweaking it.
+Waiting for a response.
+
+* jc/fix-tree-walk (2009-09-14) 10 commits.
+ - read-tree --debug-unpack
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 0b058e2)
+ + unpack-trees.c: look ahead in the index
+ + unpack-trees.c: prepare for looking ahead in the index
+ + Aggressive three-way merge: fix D/F case
+ + traverse_trees(): handle D/F conflict case sanely
+ + more D/F conflict tests
+ + tests: move convenience regexp to match object names to test-lib.sh
+ + unpack_callback(): use unpack_failed() consistently
+ + unpack-trees: typofix
+ + diff-lib.c: fix misleading comments on oneway_diff()
+
+This is my replacement for Linus's lt/maint-traverse-trees-fix patch.  It
+is not so much as a counter-proposal; I originally thought it might make
+sense to walk the index and drive the walker to return the entries from
+trees to match entries from the index, but I ended up doing pretty much
+what Linus outlined --- walk the trees, and have the index walker follow
+it.  It turned out that the index side also needed some hairy look-ahead,
+
+This includes the fix to aggressive mode of three-way merge used by the
+resolve strategy.
+
+* jh/notes (2009-10-09) 22 commits.
+ - fast-import: Proper notes tree manipulation using the notes API
+ - Refactor notes concatenation into a flexible interface for combining notes
+ - Notes API: Allow multiple concurrent notes trees with new struct notes_tree
+ - Notes API: for_each_note(): Traverse the entire notes tree with a callback
+ - Notes API: get_note(): Return the note annotating the given object
+ - Notes API: add_note(): Add note objects to the internal notes tree structure
+ - Notes API: init_notes(): Initialize the notes tree from the given notes ref
+ - Notes API: get_commit_notes() -> format_note() + remove the commit restriction
+ - Add selftests verifying concatenation of multiple notes for the same commit
+ - Refactor notes code to concatenate multiple notes annotating the same object
+ - Add selftests verifying that we can parse notes trees with various fanouts
+ - Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes
+ - Teach notes code to free its internal data structures on request
+ - Add '%N'-format for pretty-printing commit notes
+ - Add flags to get_commit_notes() to control the format of the note string
+ - 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
+ (this branch uses sr/gfi-options.)
+
+Is this good for 'next' now?
+
+* jn/gitweb-blame (2009-09-01) 5 commits.
+ - gitweb: Minify gitweb.js if JSMIN is defined
+ - gitweb: Create links leading to 'blame_incremental' using JavaScript
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 73c4a83)
+ + gitweb: Colorize 'blame_incremental' view during processing
+ + gitweb: Incremental blame (using JavaScript)
+ + gitweb: Add optional "time to generate page" info in footer
+
+Ajax-y blame.
+
+* 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]
+
+* jk/1.7.0-status (2009-09-05) 5 commits.
+ - docs: note that status configuration affects only long format
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 65c8513)
+ + commit: support alternate status formats
+ + status: add --porcelain output format
+ + status: refactor format option parsing
+ + status: refactor short-mode printing to its own function
+ (this branch uses jc/1.7.0-status.)
+
+Gives the --short output format to post 1.7.0 "git commit --dry-run" that
+is similar to that of post 1.7.0 "git status".
+
+* jc/1.7.0-status (2009-09-05) 4 commits.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 9558627)
+ + status: typo fix in usage
+ + 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"
+ (this branch is used by jk/1.7.0-status.)
+
+With this, "git status" is no longer "git commit --dry-run".
+
+* jc/1.7.0-send-email-no-thread-default (2009-08-22) 1 commit.
+  (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-11 at 043acdf)
+ + 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 2009-10-11 at 546c74d)
+ + diff.c: fix typoes in comments
+ + Make test case number unique
+ + 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 2009-10-11 at 81b8128)
+ + 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.
+
+* ne/rev-cache (2009-09-07) 7 commits.
+ . support for commit grafts, slight change to general mechanism
+ . 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
+
+This seems to break at least t6001 when merged to 'pu'.
+
+* jg/log-format-body-indent (2009-09-19) 1 commit.
+ . git-log --format: Add %B tag with %B(x) option
+
+Ejected from 'pu' as this is merely a short-hand for %[wrap(0,x,x)%b%].