What's cooking (2013/05 #05)

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-Subject: What's cooking in git.git (May 2013, #04; Wed, 15)
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-What's cooking in git.git (May 2013, #04; Wed, 15)
+What's cooking in git.git (May 2013, #05; Mon, 20)
 --------------------------------------------------
 
 Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed with
 '-' are only in 'pu' (proposed updates) while commits prefixed with
 '+' are in 'next'.
 
-We are past -rc2 and haven't seen any regression reported since the
-feature freeze started, which may be a good sign (the coming release
-is perfect) or a bad sign (nobody is testing).  We'll see soon when
-we tag the 1.8.3 final sometime next week.  We may see subsystem
-(git-svn? gitk? git-gui?) and l10n updates before that happens.
+The final version of 1.8.3 is expected to be tagged late this week.
+While applying a few regression hot-fix patches, a couple of benign
+doc updates have also been merged to 'master'.
 
 You can find the changes described here in the integration branches
 of the repositories listed at
@@ -23,33 +21,169 @@ of the repositories listed at
     http://git-blame.blogspot.com/p/git-public-repositories.html
 
 --------------------------------------------------
-[New Topics]
+[Graduated to "master"]
 
 * dw/asciidoc-sources-are-dot-txt-files (2013-05-10) 1 commit
  - CodingGuidelines: Documentation/*.txt are the sources
 
 
-* fc/doc-style (2013-05-09) 2 commits
- - SQUASH??? more consistently update docs
+* fc/doc-style (2013-05-09) 1 commit
  - documentation: trivial style cleanups
 
+--------------------------------------------------
+[New Topics]
+
+* fc/remote-bzr (2013-05-16) 6 commits
+ - remote-bzr: trivial cleanups
+ - remote-bzr: change global repo
+ - remote-bzr: delay cloning/pulling
+ - remote-bzr: simplify get_remote_branch()
+ - remote-bzr: fix for files with spaces
+ - remote-bzr: recover from failed clones
+
+ The ones near the tip conflicted with the hotfix for 1.8.3 so I
+ discarded them for now.
+
+
+* jx/clean-interactive (2013-05-20) 15 commits
+ - test: add t7301 for git-clean--interactive
+ - git-clean: add documentation for interactive git-clean
+ - git-clean: add ask each interactive action
+ - git-clean: add select by numbers interactive action
+ - git-clean: add filter by pattern interactive action
+ - git-clean: use a git-add-interactive compatible UI
+ - git-clean: add colors to interactive git-clean
+ - git-clean: show items of del_list in columns
+ - git-clean: add support for -i/--interactive
+ - git-clean: refactor git-clean into two phases
+ - Refactor write_name_quoted_relative, remove unused params
+ - Refactor quote_path_relative, remove unused params
+ - quote.c: remove path_relative, use relative_path instead
+ - path.c: refactor relative_path(), not only strip prefix
+ - test: add test cases for relative_path
+
+
+* tr/test-v-and-v-subtest-only (2013-05-16) 6 commits
+ - test-lib: support running tests under valgrind in parallel
+ - test-lib: allow prefixing a custom string before "ok N" etc.
+ - test-lib: valgrind for only tests matching a pattern
+ - test-lib: verbose mode for only tests matching a pattern
+ - test-lib: refactor $GIT_SKIP_TESTS matching
+ - test-lib: enable MALLOC_* for the actual tests
+
+ Allows N instances of tests run in parallel, each running 1/N parts
+ of the test suite under Valgrind, to speed things up.
+
+ The tip one may be useful in practice but is a tad ugly ;-)
+ 
+
+* rh/merge-options-doc-fix (2013-05-16) 1 commit
+ - Documentation/merge-options.txt: restore `-e` option
+
+ Even though it is not all that urgent, this can be merged to
+ 'master' before the final,
+
+
+* rr/zsh-color-prompt (2013-05-17) 3 commits
+ - prompt: colorize ZSH prompt
+ - prompt: factor out gitstring coloring logic
+ - prompt: introduce GIT_PS1_STATESEPARATOR
+
+
+* an/diff-index-doc (2013-05-20) 1 commit
+ - Documentation/diff-index: mention two modes of operation
+
+
+* fc/contrib-related (2013-05-20) 1 commit
+ - Add new git-related helper to contrib
+
+
+* mc/describe-first-parent (2013-05-20) 1 commit
+ - describe: Add --first-parent option
+
+
+* rs/tar-tests (2013-05-20) 6 commits
+ - t5000: test long filenames
+ - t5000: simplify tar-tree tests
+ - t5000: use check_tar for prefix test
+ - t5000: factor out check_tar
+ - t5000, t5003: create directories for extracted files lazily
+ - t5000: integrate export-subst tests into regular tests
+
+--------------------------------------------------
+[Stalled]
+
+* mh/multimail (2013-04-21) 1 commit
+ - git-multimail: a replacement for post-receive-email
+
+ Waiting for the initial history to pull from.
+ $gmane/223564
+
+
+* jc/format-patch (2013-04-22) 2 commits
+ - format-patch: --inline-single
+ - format-patch: rename "no_inline" field
+
+ A new option to send a single patch to the standard output to be
+ appended at the bottom of a message.  I personally have no need for
+ this, but it was easy enough to cobble together.  Tests, docs and
+ stripping out more MIMEy stuff are left as exercises to interested
+ parties.
+
+ Not ready for inclusion.
+
+
+* jk/gitweb-utf8 (2013-04-08) 4 commits
+ - gitweb: Fix broken blob action parameters on blob/commitdiff pages
+ - gitweb: Don't append ';js=(0|1)' to external links
+ - gitweb: Make feed title valid utf8
+ - gitweb: Fix utf8 encoding for blob_plain, blobdiff_plain, commitdiff_plain, and patch
+
+ Various fixes to gitweb.
+
+ Waiting for a reroll after a review.
+
+
+* jk/commit-info-slab (2013-04-19) 3 commits
+ - commit-slab: introduce a macro to define a slab for new type
+ - commit-slab: avoid large realloc
+ - commit: allow associating auxiliary info on-demand
+ (this branch is used by jc/show-branch.)
+
+ Technology demonstration to show a way we could use unbound number
+ of flag bits on commit objects.
+
+
+* jn/config-ignore-inaccessible (2013-04-15) 1 commit
+  (merged to 'next' on 2013-05-07 at 4f09e24)
+ + config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOME
+
+ When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we
+ used to complain and die. This loosens the check.
 
-* da/darwin (2013-05-15) 3 commits
+--------------------------------------------------
+[Cooking]
+
+* da/darwin (2013-05-20) 4 commits
  - imap-send: eliminate HMAC deprecation warnings on Mac OS X
  - cache.h: eliminate SHA-1 deprecation warnings on Mac OS X
+ - Makefile: add support for Apple CommonCrypto facility
  - Makefile: fix default regex settings on Darwin
 
- Waiting for polishing discussion to finish.
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
 
 
-* fc/macos-x-clipped-write (2013-05-10) 2 commits
- - SQUASH???
+* fc/macos-x-clipped-write (2013-05-17) 1 commit
  - compate/clipped-write.c: large write(2) fails on Mac OS X/XNU
 
- The tip needs to be squashed, as it was reported to have tested OK.
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
 
 
-* fc/remote-hg (2013-05-15) 39 commits
+* fc/remote-hg (2013-05-20) 41 commits
+ - remote-hg: tests: fix hg merge
+ - remote-helpers: tests: use python directly
  - remote-hg: remove files before modifications
  - remote-hg: improve lightweight tag author
  - remote-hg: use remote 'default' not local one
@@ -90,7 +224,8 @@ of the repositories listed at
  - remote-hg: trivial reorganization
  - remote-hg: test: be a little more quiet
 
- Probably will be one of the early topics to graduate post 1.8.3.
+ The tip-two need to be split into its own branch, merged to 'next'
+ and the remainder discarded to be rerolled after 1.8.3.
 
 
 * hv/config-from-blob (2013-05-12) 5 commits
@@ -104,7 +239,8 @@ of the repositories listed at
 * jc/t5551-posix-sed-bre (2013-05-12) 1 commit
  - t5551: do not use unportable sed '\+'
 
- Not a regression fix and not urgent.
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
 
 
 * jk/fetch-always-update-tracking (2013-05-12) 4 commits
@@ -121,6 +257,9 @@ of the repositories listed at
  chance, and we have been updating them when we run "git push" which
  already breaks the original "predictability" anyway.
 
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
+
 
 * nd/clone-connectivity-shortcut (2013-05-11) 4 commits
  - clone: open a shortcut for connectivity check
@@ -139,19 +278,27 @@ of the repositories listed at
  - am: tighten a conditional that checks for $dotest
 
 
-* kb/ancestry-path-threedots (2013-05-13) 1 commit
+* kb/ancestry-path-threedots (2013-05-16) 2 commits
+ - revision.c: treat A...B merge bases as if manually specified
  - t6019: demonstrate --ancestry-path A...B breakage
  (this branch is used by kb/full-history-compute-treesame-carefully-2.)
 
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
 
-* kb/full-history-compute-treesame-carefully-2 (2013-05-13) 11 commits
- - revision.c: treat A...B merge bases as if manually specified
+
+* kb/full-history-compute-treesame-carefully-2 (2013-05-16) 15 commits
+ - revision.c: make default history consider bottom commits
+ - revision.c: don't show all merges for --parents
  - revision.c: discount side branches when computing TREESAME
+ - revision.c: add BOTTOM flag for commits
  - simplify-merges: drop merge from irrelevant side branch
  - simplify-merges: never remove all TREESAME parents
  - t6012: update test for tweaked full-history traversal
  - revision.c: Make --full-history consider more merges
+ - Documentation: avoid "uninteresting"
  - rev-list-options.txt: correct TREESAME for P
+ - t6111: add parents to tests
  - t6111: allow checking the parents as well
  - t6111: new TREESAME test set
  - t6019: test file dropped in -s ours merge
@@ -164,7 +311,7 @@ of the repositories listed at
  Will not be a 1.8.3 material, but is an important topic.
 
 
-* jc/strbuf-branchname-fix (2013-05-15) 1 commit
+* jc/strbuf-branchname-fix (2013-05-16) 1 commit
  - strbuf_branchname(): do not double-expand @{-1}~22
 
  "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22"
@@ -178,6 +325,9 @@ of the repositories listed at
  "git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when
  another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends.
 
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
+
 
 * mm/color-auto-default (2013-05-15) 2 commits
  - make color.ui default to 'auto'
@@ -186,6 +336,10 @@ of the repositories listed at
  Flip the default for color.ui to 'auto', which is what many
  tutorials recommend new users to do.
 
+ I think this is ready for 'next', but we may want to audit
+ tutorials to see if we need to adjust them if they suggest to set
+ color.ui as the first thing to do when they meet Git.
+
 
 * tr/coverage (2013-05-13) 4 commits
  - coverage: build coverage-untested-functions by default
@@ -196,59 +350,9 @@ of the repositories listed at
  Update the test coverage support that was left to bitrot for some
  time.
 
---------------------------------------------------
-[Stalled]
-
-* mh/multimail (2013-04-21) 1 commit
- - git-multimail: a replacement for post-receive-email
-
- Waiting for the initial history to pull from.
- $gmane/223564
-
-
-* jc/format-patch (2013-04-22) 2 commits
- - format-patch: --inline-single
- - format-patch: rename "no_inline" field
-
- A new option to send a single patch to the standard output to be
- appended at the bottom of a message.  I personally have no need for
- this, but it was easy enough to cobble together.  Tests, docs and
- stripping out more MIMEy stuff are left as exercises to interested
- parties.
-
- Not ready for inclusion.
-
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
 
-* jk/gitweb-utf8 (2013-04-08) 4 commits
- - gitweb: Fix broken blob action parameters on blob/commitdiff pages
- - gitweb: Don't append ';js=(0|1)' to external links
- - gitweb: Make feed title valid utf8
- - gitweb: Fix utf8 encoding for blob_plain, blobdiff_plain, commitdiff_plain, and patch
-
- Various fixes to gitweb.
-
- Waiting for a reroll after a review.
-
-
-* jk/commit-info-slab (2013-04-19) 3 commits
- - commit-slab: introduce a macro to define a slab for new type
- - commit-slab: avoid large realloc
- - commit: allow associating auxiliary info on-demand
- (this branch is used by jc/show-branch.)
-
- Technology demonstration to show a way we could use unbound number
- of flag bits on commit objects.
-
-
-* jn/config-ignore-inaccessible (2013-04-15) 1 commit
-  (merged to 'next' on 2013-05-07 at 4f09e24)
- + config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOME
-
- When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we
- used to complain and die. This loosens the check.
-
---------------------------------------------------
-[Cooking]
 
 * mg/more-textconv (2013-05-10) 7 commits
  - grep: honor --textconv for the case rev:path
@@ -259,7 +363,8 @@ of the repositories listed at
  - diff_opt: track whether flags have been set explicitly
  - t4030: demonstrate behavior of show with textconv
 
- Looked reasonable, I think.  Comments?
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
 
 
 * jh/shorten-refname (2013-05-07) 4 commits
@@ -284,6 +389,9 @@ of the repositories listed at
  over git-over-ssh specified in the scp style.  Detect this case and
  clone from a local repository at "foo/bar:baz".
 
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
+
 
 * nd/warn-ambiguous-object-name (2013-05-07) 1 commit
  - get_sha1: improve ambiguity warning regarding SHA-1 and ref names
@@ -303,6 +411,9 @@ of the repositories listed at
  - completion: synchronize zsh wrapper
  - completion: cleanup zsh wrapper
 
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
+
 
 * rs/empty-archive (2013-05-09) 2 commits
  - t5004: resurrect original empty tar archive test
@@ -311,6 +422,9 @@ of the repositories listed at
  Fixes tests added in 1.8.2 era that are broken on BSDs,
  but it is not all that urgent.
 
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
+
 
 * vv/help-unknown-ref (2013-05-08) 2 commits
  - merge: use help_unknown_ref()
@@ -320,6 +434,9 @@ of the repositories listed at
  and give an error message that is more specific than "foo is not
  something we can merge".
 
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
+
 
 * fc/fast-export-persistent-marks (2013-05-07) 3 commits
  - fast-{import,export}: use get_sha1_hex() to read from marks file
@@ -330,6 +447,9 @@ of the repositories listed at
  arbitrary object name and parsing object when only presence and
  type information is necessary, etc.
 
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
+
 
 * jc/core-checkstat-2.0 (2013-05-06) 2 commits
  - core.statinfo: remove as promised in Git 2.0
@@ -392,8 +512,8 @@ of the repositories listed at
  - completion: document tilde expansion failure in tests
  - completion: add file completion tests
 
- I saw this discussed somewhat. Is everybody happy with this
- version?  This is its v2, in the $gmane/222682 thread.
+ I think this is ready for 'next'; not that it matters during the
+ prerelease feature freeze.
 
 
 * jk/test-output (2013-05-06) 3 commits