diff --git a/whats/cooking/2009/10/05.txt b/whats/cooking/2009/10/05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3218a7e94a --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2009/10/05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,492 @@ +To: git@vger.kernel.org +Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2009, #05; Wed, 28) +X-master-at: cd0f8e6d63d3e2744d7d3b2329238be7d064a8ea +X-next-at: 66178218961cb7484d46bd48df7da7318180b6b7 + +What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2009, #05; Wed, 28) +-------------------------------------------------- + +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"] + +* jc/fsck-default-full (2009-10-20) 1 commit + + fsck: default to "git fsck --full" + +* jc/maint-fix-unpack-zlib-check (2009-10-21) 1 commit. + + Fix incorrect error check while reading deflated pack data + +* jc/receive-pack-auto (2009-10-20) 2 commits. + + receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info" + + gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboase + +* bg/clone-doc (2009-10-20) 1 commit. + + git-clone.txt: Fix grammar and formatting + +* iv/tar-lzma-xz (2009-10-20) 1 commit. + + import-tars: Add support for tarballs compressed with lzma, xz + +* jk/maint-cvsimport-pathname (2009-10-19) 1 commit. + + cvsimport: fix relative argument filenames + +* sb/gitweb-link-author (2009-10-15) 1 commit + + gitweb: linkify author/committer names with search + +-------------------------------------------------- +[New Topics] + +* jp/dirty-describe (2009-10-21) 1 commit. + - Teach "git describe" --dirty option + +Soon in 'next'. + +* jp/fetch-cull-many-refs (2009-10-25) 2 commits + - fetch: Speed up fetch of large numbers of refs + - remote: Make ref_remove_duplicates faster for large numbers of refs + +* bg/format-patch-p-noop (2009-10-25) 3 commits. + - format-patch documentation: Fix formatting + - format-patch documentation: Remove diff options that are not useful + - format-patch: Make implementation and documentation agree + +* jk/gitignore-anchored (2009-10-26) 1 commit + - gitignore: root most patterns at the top-level directory + +* jk/maint-add-p-empty (2009-10-27) 1 commit. + - add-interactive: handle deletion of empty files + +Soon in 'next'. + +* jk/maint-push-config (2009-10-25) 1 commit. + - push: always load default config + +Soon in 'next'. + +* lt/revision-bisect (2009-10-27) 1 commit. + - Add '--bisect' revision machinery argument + +* mh/maint-diff-color-words (2009-10-28) 3 commits + - diff: fix the location of hunk headers for "git diff --color-words -U0" + - diff: move the handling of the hunk header after the changed lines + - t4034-diff-words: add a test for word diff without context + +-------------------------------------------------- +[Stalled] + +* tr/filter-branch (2009-10-21) 2 commits. + - filter-branch: nearest-ancestor rewriting outside subdir filter + - filter-branch: stop special-casing $filter_subdir argument + +J6t already has some comments on this. + +* 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 + +Jakub says the tip one needs updates. + +* ne/rev-cache (2009-10-19) 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 + +The author indicated that there is another round coming. + +* jl/submodule-add-noname (2009-09-22) 1 commit. + - git submodule add: make the 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 and +infer the 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 + +??? + +* 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"?) + +-------------------------------------------------- +[Cooking] + +* db/vcs-helper-rest (2009-10-27) 7 commits. + - Fix memory leak in helper method for disconnect + - 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.) + +Queued a fix-up. + +* 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.) + +This depends on the above. + +* cb/doc-fetch-pull-merge (2009-10-21) 1 commit. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-21 at 1d9190d) + + modernize fetch/merge/pull examples + +Soon in 'master'. + +* ja/fetch-doc (2009-10-22) 3 commits. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-22 at 8868407) + + Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups + + Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-21 at bf09f62) + + Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically + +Soon in 'master'. + +* tr/maint-roff-quote (2009-10-22) 1 commit. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-22 at 14c5631) + + Quote ' as \(aq in manpages + +Soon in 'master'. + +* rs/pretty-wrap (2009-10-17) 1 commit + - Implement wrap format %w() as if it is a mode switch + (this branch uses js/log-rewrap.) + +* jc/pretty-lf (2009-10-04) 1 commit. + - Pretty-format: %[+-]x to tweak inter-item newlines + +* js/log-rewrap (2009-10-18) 3 commits + - Teach --wrap to only indent without wrapping + - Add strbuf_add_wrapped_text() to utf8.[ch] + - print_wrapped_text(): allow hard newlines + (this branch is used by rs/pretty-wrap.) + +Before discarding jc/strbuf-nested-expand, I cherry-picked the tip of it +to this series. + +* sr/blame-incomplete (2009-10-19) 1 commit. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-22 at 133e0ce) + + blame: make sure that the last line ends in an LF + +I think this is _good enough_ as-is; although it would be better if we +added some hint to the output for Porcelain implementations, that can be +done as a follow-up fix. + +* ak/bisect-reset-to-switch (2009-10-13) 1 commit. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-22 at 592fff3) + + bisect reset: Allow resetting to any commit, not just a branch + +Soon in 'master'. + +* fc/doc-fast-forward (2009-10-24) 1 commit. + - Use 'fast-forward' all over the place + +* jc/maint-1.6.3-graft-trailing-space (2009-10-14) 1 commit. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-22 at 90ccac6) + + info/grafts: allow trailing whitespaces at the end of line + +Soon in 'master'. + +* jn/show-normalized-refs (2009-10-12) 3 commits. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-23 at 332aad3) + + check-ref-format: simplify --print implementation + + git check-ref-format --print + + Add tests for git check-ref-format + +Soon in 'master'. + +* jc/checkout-auto-track (2009-10-18) 3 commits + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-23 at ff7e8f3) + + git checkout --no-guess + + DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz" + + check_filename(): make verify_filename() callable without dying + +The final shape of this series ended up to be more or less exactly what +Dscho hinted he wanted to have in one of the discussion. + +Soon in 'master'. + +* tr/stash-format (2009-10-19) 5 commits + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-23 at 6c551c3) + + 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 + +Soon in 'master'. + +* ks/precompute-completion (2009-10-26) 3 commits. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-28 at cd5177f) + + completion: ignore custom merge strategies when pre-generating + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-22 at f46a28a) + + bug: precomputed completion includes scripts sources + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-14 at adf722a) + + Speedup bash completion loading + +* sp/smart-http (2009-10-25) 24 commits + - remote-helpers: return successfully if everything up-to-date + - update http tests according to remote-curl capabilities + - http-backend: more explict LocationMatch + - http-backend: add example for gitweb on same URL + - http-backend: use mod_alias instead of mod_rewrite + - http-backend: reword some documentation + - http-backend: add GIT_PROJECT_ROOT environment var + - 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 + +Shawn plans another round of re-roll. + +* ef/msys-imap (2009-10-22) 9 commits. + - Windows: use BLK_SHA1 again + - 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 + +This is pulled from J6t; I'll merge it to 'next' if Dscho is Ok with it. + +* js/diff-verbose-submodule (2009-10-23) 2 commits. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-23 at e479773) + + add tests for git diff --submodule + + Add the --submodule option to the diff option family + +Soon in 'master'. + +* jc/fix-tree-walk (2009-10-22) 11 commits. + (merged to 'next' on 2009-10-22 at 10c0c8f) + + Revert failed attempt since 353c5ee + + 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 has some stupid bugs and temporarily reverted from 'next' until I can +fix it. + +* 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 " and "-F " 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 think Johan indicated that early parts of it is ready for 'next', so I +may do so up to "Add selftests" one. + +* 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. Probably the first three should go to 'master' by now? + +* 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-no-commit-no-ff-2 (2009-10-22) 1 commit. + - git-merge: forbid fast-forward and up-to-date when --no-commit is given + +This makes "git merge --no-commit" fail when it results in fast-forward or +up-to-date. I haven't described this at the beginning of this message +yet, as it is not clear if this change is even necessary. Opinions? + +* 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". + +The tip one is not in 'next' as I have been hoping that somebody may want +to change the code to make it unnecessary, but it does not seem to be +happening, so probably it should also go to 'next'. + +* 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. + +* jg/log-format-body-indent (2009-09-19) 1 commit. + . git-log --format: Add %B tag with %B(x) option