{"thread":{"id":"10908","subject":"What's not in git.git","startedAt":"2007-11-17T21:12:53Z","lastAt":"2007-11-17T23:27:09Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","J. Bruce Fields"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"60172","messageId":"7vlk8wshii.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"10908","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"What's not in git.git","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2007-11-17T21:12:53Z","receivedAt":"2007-11-17T21:12:53Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"A list of recent issues discussed without any patch landing in\nmy tree.\n\n* git-revert <path>\n\n  As discussed, I am in favor of the above command, only when\n  <path> cannot be interpreted as a valid commit object name and\n  <path> appears in the index, to run \"git-checkout -- <path>\".\n\n  Also, I am in favor of making \"git-revert <commit> -- <path>\"\n  and \"git-cherry-pick <commit> -- <path>\" create a commit that\n  reverts or cherry-picks the effect of named commit but only\n  on named paths, as proposed by Dscho.\n\n  Before the latter materializes, however, I think it is\n  possible to implement the former.\n\n  - \"git-revert [--] <path>\" runs \"git-checkout -- <path>\"\n    without complaining (only when unambiguous if no -- is\n    given);\n\n  - \"git-cherry-pick [--] <path>\" errors out, as it does not\n    make any sense.\n\n  - \"git-(revert|cherry-pick) <commit> [--] <path>\" gives\n    \"unimplemented yet\" error message;\n\n* \"Why a merge is more difficult to bisect\" document.\n\n  I think the last text with rewording suggestion on the list\n  was good.  Should I take that directly, or pull through\n  Bruce?\n\n* \"Batch mode of git-cat-file\" aka git-fast-export.\n\n  I think the idea is sound.\n\n   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/65053/focus=65057\n   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/62295/focus=62441\n\n* Solaris portability improvements and clean-up.\n\n  Test patches sent for git-compat-util.h and Makefile on\n  FLEX_ARRAY and mkdtemp() but they haven't resulted in any\n  appliable patch yet.\n"},{"id":"60183","messageId":"20071117232709.GA19186@fieldses.org","threadId":"10908","inReplyTo":"7vlk8wshii.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: What's not in git.git","fromName":"J. Bruce Fields","fromEmail":"bfields@fieldses.org","sentAt":"2007-11-17T23:27:09Z","receivedAt":"2007-11-17T23:27:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bfields@citi.umich.edu","avatar":null},"body":"On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:12:53PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> * \"Why a merge is more difficult to bisect\" document.\n> \n>   I think the last text with rewording suggestion on the list\n>   was good.  Should I take that directly, or pull through\n>   Bruce?\n\nI can take a look tonight or tommorow (Sunday) morning.  I'll also skim\nback through my inbox for other user-manual and related patches (I know\nI've been neglecting it for a while...), but if people know of anything\nthat's been overlooked they could resend.\n\n--b.\n"}]}