What's in/cooking updates

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+To: git@vger.kernel.org
 Subject: What's cooking in git.git ($monthname $year, #$issue; $dow, $date)
 X-master-at: $master_at
 X-next-at: $next_at

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 exec >"Meta/$lead/$issue.txt"
 
 cat <<EOF
+To: git@vger.kernel.org
 Subject: What's in git.git ($monthname $year, #$issue; $dow, $date)
 X-maint-at: $maint_at
 X-master-at: $master_at

whats/cooking/2008/12/01.txt

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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2008, #01; Tue, 02)
+X-master-at: 757c7f60a78004fc3d0ea62f44320d54ef430c10
+X-next-at: 44b0c4a7f55234e12cead3e1909c17be7c068dca
+
+What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2008, #01; Tue, 02)
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed
+with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are
+in 'next'.
+
+The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order.  The topics
+meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.
+
+As we have already passed -rc1, things queued in 'next' let alone 'pu' are
+unlikely to be merged to 'master' by the end of year unless otherwise
+noted.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[New Topics]
+
+* gb/gitweb-patch (Sat Nov 29 14:41:11 2008 +0100) 2 commits
+ - [DONTMERGE: wait for signoff] gitweb: links to patch action in
+   commitdiff and shortlog view
+ - gitweb: add patch view
+
+* lt/reset-merge (Mon Dec 1 09:30:31 2008 -0800) 1 commit
+ + Add 'merge' mode to 'git reset'
+
+Unfortunately, I cannot write down a good use case in what circumstances
+this is needed, even though I do recall that I occasionally (perhaps once
+every two months) needed to do "read-tree -m -u" myself in the past, and
+this patch brings that feature close to Porcelain.  On the other hand, the
+existing "reset --mixed" is very easily explained ("after starting to add
+changes to the staging area, you realized that you screwed up, and you
+want to redo it from scratch").  Therefore, I cannot justify what the log
+message of this change claims myself.
+
+* jc/rm-i-t-a (Fri Nov 28 19:56:34 2008 -0800) 5 commits
+ + git add --intent-to-add: do not let an empty blob be committed by
+   accident
+ + git add --intent-to-add: fix removal of cached emptiness
+ + builtin-rm.c: explain and clarify the "local change" logic
+ + Merge branch 'nd/narrow' (early part) into jc/add-i-t-a
+ + Extend index to save more flags
+
+As intent-to-add index entry is a new feature for 1.6.1, it probably is a
+good idea to merge this to 'master'.  Nitpicks and bugfixes are very much
+appreciated.
+
+* wp/add-patch-find (Thu Nov 27 04:08:03 2008 +0000) 3 commits
+ - In add --patch, Handle K,k,J,j slightly more gracefully.
+ - Add / command in add --patch
+ - git-add -i/-p: Change prompt separater from slash to comma
+
+There are some other useful bits and pieces around this area exchanged on
+the list with the author of these patches.  I think it would become a
+useful series after reassembling their pieces.  Waiting for v2.
+
+* jn/gitweb-utf8 (Mon Dec 1 19:01:42 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ - gitweb: Fix handling of non-ASCII characters in inserted HTML
+   files.
+
+Possibly a bugfix worthy to have in 1.6.1.
+
+* jc/clone-symref-2 (Sat Nov 29 23:38:21 2008 -0800) 7 commits
+ - clone: test the new HEAD detection logic
+ - Merge commit 'HEAD@{2}' into HEAD
+ - upload-pack: send the HEAD information
+ - clone: find the current branch more explicitly
+ - connect.c::read_extra_info(): find where HEAD points at
+ - connect.c::read_extra_info(): prepare to receive more than server
+   capabilities
+ - get_remote_heads(): refactor code to read "server capabilities"
+
+This is no way meant for 1.6.1, let alone next, yet.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated to "master"]
+
+* cr/remote-update-v (Tue Nov 18 19:04:02 2008 +0800) 1 commit
+ + git-remote: add verbose mode to git remote update
+
+* rs/strbuf-expand (Sun Nov 23 00:16:59 2008 +0100) 6 commits
+ + remove the unused files interpolate.c and interpolate.h
+ + daemon: deglobalize variable 'directory'
+ + daemon: inline fill_in_extra_table_entries()
+ + daemon: use strbuf_expand() instead of interpolate()
+ + merge-recursive: use strbuf_expand() instead of interpolate()
+ + add strbuf_expand_dict_cb(), a helper for simple cases
+
+* mv/fast-export (Sun Nov 23 12:55:54 2008 +0100) 2 commits
+ + fast-export: use an unsorted string list for extra_refs
+ + Add new testcase to show fast-export does not always exports all
+   tags
+
+* st/levenshtein (Thu Nov 20 14:27:27 2008 +0100) 2 commits
+ + Document levenshtein.c
+ + Fix deletion of last character in levenshtein distance
+
+* js/mingw-rename-fix (Wed Nov 19 17:25:27 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ + compat/mingw.c: Teach mingw_rename() to replace read-only files
+
+* mv/clone-strbuf (Fri Nov 21 01:45:01 2008 +0100) 3 commits
+ + builtin_clone: use strbuf in cmd_clone()
+ + builtin-clone: use strbuf in clone_local() and
+   copy_or_link_directory()
+ + builtin-clone: use strbuf in guess_dir_name()
+
+* pw/maint-p4 (Wed Nov 26 13:52:15 2008 -0500) 1 commit
+ - git-p4: fix keyword-expansion regex
+
+* cc/bisect-skip (Sun Nov 23 22:02:49 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ - bisect: teach "skip" to accept special arguments like "A..B"
+
+Should be in 1.6.1-rc1.
+
+* lt/preload-lstat (Mon Nov 17 09:01:20 2008 -0800) 2 commits
+ + Fix index preloading for racy dirty case
+ + Add cache preload facility
+
+* ta/quiet-pull (Mon Nov 17 23:09:30 2008 +0100) 2 commits
+ + Retain multiple -q/-v occurrences in git pull
+ + Teach/Fix pull/fetch -q/-v options
+
+* ph/send-email (Tue Nov 11 00:54:02 2008 +0100) 4 commits
+ + git send-email: ask less questions when --compose is used.
+ + git send-email: add --annotate option
+ + git send-email: interpret unknown files as revision lists
+ + git send-email: make the message file name more specific.
+
+After merging these to 'master' I found a breakage which I hopefully
+fixed.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Will merge to "master" soon]
+
+What are you looking for?  We are in -rc ;-)
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[On Hold]
+
+* cb/mergetool (Thu Nov 13 12:41:15 2008 +0000) 3 commits
+ - [DONTMERGE] Add -k/--keep-going option to mergetool
+ - Add -y/--no-prompt option to mergetool
+ - Fix some tab/space inconsistencies in git-mergetool.sh
+
+Jeff had good comments on the last one; the discussion needs concluded,
+and also waiting for comments from the original author (Ted).
+
+* jc/blame (Wed Jun 4 22:58:40 2008 -0700) 2 commits
+ + blame: show "previous" information in --porcelain/--incremental
+   format
+ + git-blame: refactor code to emit "porcelain format" output
+
+* ds/uintmax-config (Mon Nov 3 09:14:28 2008 -0900) 1 commit
+ - autoconf: Enable threaded delta search when pthreads are supported
+
+Rebased to 'master', that introduced NO_PTHREADS.
+
+* cc/bisect-replace (Mon Nov 24 22:20:30 2008 +0100) 9 commits
+ - bisect: add "--no-replace" option to bisect without using replace
+   refs
+ - rev-list: make it possible to disable replacing using "--no-
+   bisect-replace"
+ - bisect: use "--bisect-replace" options when checking merge bases
+ - merge-base: add "--bisect-replace" option to use fixed up revs
+ - commit: add "bisect_replace_all" prototype to "commit.h"
+ - rev-list: add "--bisect-replace" to list revisions with fixed up
+   history
+ - Documentation: add "git bisect replace" documentation
+ - bisect: add test cases for "git bisect replace"
+ - bisect: add "git bisect replace" subcommand
+
+I really hate the idea of introducing a potentially much more useful
+replacement of the existing graft mechanism and tie it very tightly to
+bisect, making it unusable from outside.
+
+ (1) I do not think "bisect replace" workflow is a practical and usable
+     one;
+
+ (2) The underlying mechanism to express "this object replaces that other
+     object" is much easier to work with than what the graft does which is
+     "the parents of this commit are these", and idea to use the normal
+     ref to point at them means this can potentially be used for
+     transferring the graft information across repositories, which the
+     current graft mechanism cannot do.
+
+ (3) Because I like the aspect (2) of this series so much, it deeply
+     disappoints and troubles me that this is implemented minimally near
+     the surface, and that it is controlled by the "bisect" Porcelain
+     alone, by explicitly passing command line arguments.
+
+I think a mechanism like this should be added to replace grafts, but it
+should always be enabled for normal revision traversal operation, while
+always disabled for object enumeration and transfer operation (iow, fsck,
+fetch and push should use the real ancestry information recorded in the
+underlying objects, while rev-list, log, etc. should always use the
+replaced objects).  I have a suspicion that even cat-file could honor it.
+
+* nd/narrow (Sun Nov 30 17:54:38 2008 +0700) 18 commits
+ - wt-status: show sparse checkout info
+ - Introduce default sparse patterns (core.defaultsparse)
+ - checkout: add new options to support sparse checkout
+ - clone: support sparse checkout with --sparse-checkout option
+ - unpack_trees(): add support for sparse checkout
+ - unpack_trees(): keep track of unmerged entries
+ - Introduce "sparse patterns"
+ - Merge branch 'master' into nd/narrow
+ + t2104: touch portability fix
+ + grep: skip files outside sparse checkout area
+ + checkout_entry(): CE_NO_CHECKOUT on checked out entries.
+ + Prevent diff machinery from examining worktree outside sparse
+   checkout
+ + ls-files: Add tests for --sparse and friends
+ + update-index: add --checkout/--no-checkout to update
+   CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
+ + update-index: refactor mark_valid() in preparation for new options
+ + ls-files: add options to support sparse checkout
+ + Introduce CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
+ + Extend index to save more flags
+
+Kicked back to 'on hold' until 1.6.1 final by popular(?) demand.
+
+* jc/send-pack-tell-me-more (Thu Mar 20 00:44:11 2008 -0700) 1 commit
+ - "git push": tellme-more protocol extension
+
+This seems to have a deadlock during communication between the peers.
+Someone needs to pick up this topic and resolve the deadlock before it can
+continue.
+
+* jk/renamelimit (Sat May 3 13:58:42 2008 -0700) 1 commit
+ - diff: enable "too large a rename" warning when -M/-C is explicitly
+   asked for
+
+This would be the right thing to do for command line use,
+but gitk will be hit due to tcl/tk's limitation, so I am holding
+this back for now.
+
+* jc/stripspace (Sun Mar 9 00:30:35 2008 -0800) 6 commits
+ - git-am --forge: add Signed-off-by: line for the author
+ - git-am: clean-up Signed-off-by: lines
+ - stripspace: add --log-clean option to clean up signed-off-by:
+   lines
+ - stripspace: use parse_options()
+ - Add "git am -s" test
+ - git-am: refactor code to add signed-off-by line for the committer

whats/in/2008/12/01.txt

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+Subject: What's in git.git (Dec 2008, #01; Tue, 02)
+X-maint-at: 25e30fa08e687d584d9dd87d13acf84bb1e1858c
+X-master-at: 757c7f60a78004fc3d0ea62f44320d54ef430c10
+X-maint-was: 5aa3bdd50d4e4f59c41ee6e70ae1e738a3a28cc0
+X-master-was: aa14a0c3f191ee4df7344eed119be5b4a527a0ff
+
+What's in git.git (Dec 2008, #01; Tue, 02)
+
+  maint 25e30fa (User's Manual: remove duplicated url at the end of Appendix B)
+ master 757c7f6 (git-stash: use git rev-parse -q)
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+We'll probably have 1.6.0.5 by the end of this week.
+
+The tip of the 'master' branch is at 1.6.1-rc1 with a few more fixes.
+Hopefully we will have the final 1.6.1 by the end of the year.
+
+* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since the last announcement.
+
+Joey Hess (1):
+  sha1_file: avoid bogus "file exists" error message
+
+Johannes Schindelin (1):
+  fast-export: use an unsorted string list for extra_refs
+
+Junio C Hamano (1):
+  Update draft release notes to 1.6.0.5
+
+Martin Koegler (1):
+  git push: Interpret $GIT_DIR/branches in a Cogito compatible way
+
+Matt McCutchen (1):
+  git checkout: don't warn about unborn branch if -f is already passed
+
+Miklos Vajna (2):
+  Add new testcase to show fast-export does not always exports all tags
+  User's Manual: remove duplicated url at the end of Appendix B
+
+Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
+  generate-cmdlist.sh: avoid selecting synopsis at wrong place
+
+Pete Wyckoff (1):
+  git-p4: fix keyword-expansion regex
+
+Ralf Wildenhues (1):
+  Fix typos in the documentation.
+
+SZEDER Gábor (2):
+  bash: remove dashed command leftovers
+  bash: offer refs instead of filenames for 'git revert'
+
+Sam Vilain (1):
+  sha1_file.c: resolve confusion EACCES vs EPERM
+
+Samuel Tardieu (2):
+  tag: Check that options are only allowed in the appropriate mode
+  tag: Add more tests about mixing incompatible modes and options
+
+
+* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement
+  in addition to the above.
+
+Alexander Gavrilov (3):
+  gitk: Avoid handling the Return key twice in Add Branch
+  gitk: Make line origin search update the busy status
+  gitk: Add a menu option to start git gui
+
+Cheng Renquan (1):
+  git-remote: add verbose mode to git remote update
+
+Christian Couder (4):
+  git-gui: french translation update
+  bisect: teach "skip" to accept special arguments like "A..B"
+  bisect: fix "git bisect skip <commit>" and add tests cases
+  Documentation: describe how to "bisect skip" a range of commits
+
+Christian Stimming (1):
+  gitk: Update German translation
+
+Giuseppe Bilotta (2):
+  gitweb: make gitweb_check_feature a boolean wrapper
+  Update comment on gitweb_check/get_feature
+
+Johannes Schindelin (1):
+  Document levenshtein.c
+
+Johannes Sixt (2):
+  compat/mingw.c: Teach mingw_rename() to replace read-only files
+  t4030-diff-textconv: Make octal escape sequence more portable
+
+Junio C Hamano (6):
+  gitweb: fix 'ctags' feature check and others
+  gitweb: rename gitweb_check_feature to gitweb_get_feature
+  send-email: do not reverse the command line arguments
+  Include git-gui--askpass in git-gui RPM package
+  GIT 1.6.1-rc1
+  Makefile: introduce NO_PTHREADS
+
+Linus Torvalds (3):
+  Add cache preload facility
+  Fix index preloading for racy dirty case
+  Add backslash to list of 'crud' characters in real name
+
+Mark Burton (1):
+  git-gui: Teach start_push_anywhere_action{} to notice when remote is a
+    mirror.
+
+Michele Ballabio (1):
+  git gui: update Italian translation
+
+Miklos Vajna (5):
+  Update Hungarian translation. 100% completed.
+  builtin-clone: use strbuf in guess_dir_name()
+  builtin-clone: use strbuf in clone_local() and copy_or_link_directory()
+  builtin_clone: use strbuf in cmd_clone()
+  git-stash: use git rev-parse -q
+
+Nanako Shiraishi (1):
+  git-gui: update Japanese translation
+
+Paul Mackerras (6):
+  gitk: Index line[hnd]tag arrays by id rather than row number
+  gitk: Fix switch statement in parseviewargs
+  gitk: Show local changes properly when we have a path limit
+  gitk: Fix context menu items for generating diffs when in tree mode
+  gitk: Highlight only when search type is "containing:".
+  gitk: Fix bug in accessing undefined "notflag" variable
+
+Peter Krefting (1):
+  Updated Swedish translation (514t0f0u).
+
+Pierre Habouzit (4):
+  git send-email: make the message file name more specific.
+  git send-email: interpret unknown files as revision lists
+  git send-email: add --annotate option
+  git send-email: ask less questions when --compose is used.
+
+Ralf Wildenhues (1):
+  Fix typos in the documentation.
+
+René Scharfe (6):
+  add strbuf_expand_dict_cb(), a helper for simple cases
+  merge-recursive: use strbuf_expand() instead of interpolate()
+  daemon: use strbuf_expand() instead of interpolate()
+  daemon: inline fill_in_extra_table_entries()
+  daemon: deglobalize variable 'directory'
+  remove the unused files interpolate.c and interpolate.h
+
+SZEDER Gábor (1):
+  bash: complete full refs
+
+Samuel Tardieu (1):
+  Fix deletion of last character in levenshtein distance
+
+Scott Chacon (1):
+  Add a built-in alias for 'stage' to the 'add' command
+
+Tuncer Ayaz (2):
+  Teach/Fix pull/fetch -q/-v options
+  Retain multiple -q/-v occurrences in git pull
+