{"thread":{"id":"15366","subject":"Are more and more patches getting lost lately?","startedAt":"2008-09-03T23:33:43Z","lastAt":"2008-09-04T16:58:17Z","messageCount":7,"participants":["Nanako Shiraishi","Junio C Hamano","Imran M Yousuf","Brandon Casey"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"89704","messageId":"20080904083343.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com","threadId":"15366","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Are more and more patches getting lost lately?","fromName":"Nanako Shiraishi","fromEmail":"nanako3@lavabit.com","sentAt":"2008-09-03T23:33:43Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-03T23:33:43Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nanako3@lavabit.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/3777b9e201c5883a62b1a6fdf7c53f2d712d1d80989146063ea861e33aad72a8?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"I noticed that recently there are many patches sent to the list\nthat are left unapplied (and many of them are from you). Many\nof them look useful or at least promising to become useful.\n\nWhat can we, the mailing list readers, do to help these patches\napplied? Ask the authors of individual patches about their\nprogress?\n\n\nFrom: Petr Baudis \nSubject: [PATCH] bash completion: Hide more plumbing commands\nDate: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:11:44 +0200\nMessage-ID: <20080826171144.21328.82727.stgit@localhost>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93772\n\nFrom: Karl Chen \nSubject: [PATCH v4] Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template\nDate: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:29:00 -0700\nMessage-ID: \n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94276\n\nFrom: Paolo Bonzini \nSubject: [PATCH] add a pre-merge hook\nDate: Tue, 27 Aug 2008 14:19:42 +0200\nMessage-ID: \n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93888\n\nFrom: Ramsay Jones \nSubject: [PATCH] t9700-perl-git.sh: Fix a test failure on cygwin\nDate: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:09:15 +0100\nMessage-ID: <48B5984B.4020901@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93912\n\nFrom: Marcus Griep \nSubject: [PATCH] git-commit: '--no-status' Allow suppression of status summary in commit msg\nDate: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:46:55 -0400\nMessage-ID: <1219949215-10189-1-git-send-email-marcus@griep.us>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94111\n\nFrom: Garry Dolley \nSubject: [PATCH/RFC] Clarified how pattern works in documentation to git-show-ref.\nDate: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:37:16 -0700\nMessage-ID: <1219955836-10070-1-git-send-email-gdolley@arpnetworks.com>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94136\n\nFrom: \"Nathan Panike\" \nSubject: [PATCH 0/2] Use %as and %cs as pretty format flags\nDate: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:09:37 -0500\nMessage-ID: \n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94176\n\nFrom: Kevin Ballard \nSubject: [PATCH] git-am: Pass the --directory option through to git-apply\nDate: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:27:50 -0700\nMessage-ID: <1220048870-97641-1-git-send-email-kevin@sb.org>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94335\n\nFrom: Robert Schiele \nSubject: [PATCH] mention required Perl version in INSTALL\nDate: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:13:12 +0200\nMessage-ID: <20080830171312.GE7185@schiele.dyndns.org>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94389\n\nFrom: Heikki Orsila \nSubject: [PATCH] Correct documentation wording for diff options -S and --pickaxe-all\nDate: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:03:04 +0300\nMessage-ID: <20080831230304.GA30480@zakalwe.fi>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94513\n\nFrom: Junio C Hamano \nSubject: Re* [PATCH] Support diff.autorefreshindex=true in `git-diff --quiet'\nDate: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:20:26 -0700\nMessage-ID: <7vy72bnk5x.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94651\n\nFrom: \"Tom G. Christensen\" \nSubject: Git 1.6.0.1 breaks git-svn with perl 5.8.0\nDate: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:27:59 +0200\nMessage-ID: <48BBB59F.9080204@statsbiblioteket.dk>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94548\n\nFrom: Yann Dirson \nSubject: [PATCH] Bust the ghost of long-defunct diffcore-pathspec.\nDate: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:53:54 +0200\nMessage-ID: <20080901215353.30399.33432.stgit@gandelf.nowhere.earth>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94615\n\nFrom: David Aguilar \nSubject: [RFC/PATCH] git-mergetool: allow using merge tools for staging changes\nDate: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 00:25:49 -0700\nMessage-ID: \n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94660\n\nFrom: Junio C Hamano \nSubject: Re: [PATCH] ignore trailing slash when creating leading directories\nDate: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:10:15 -0700\nMessage-ID: <7v1w02jlu0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.org gmane.comp.version-control.git/94715\n\nFrom: Thomas Rast \nSubject: [RFC PATCH] Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebase\nDate: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:18:41 +0200\nMessage-ID: <1220386721-10215-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94701\n\nFrom: Brandon Casey \nSubject: [PATCH] t9301-fast-export: move unset of config variable into its own test function\nDate: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:48:49 -0500\nMessage-ID: \n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93239\n\n-- \nNanako Shiraishi\nhttp://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/\n"},{"id":"89723","messageId":"7vd4jk8r78.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"15366","inReplyTo":"20080904083343.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com","subject":"Re: Are more and more patches getting lost lately?","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-09-04T04:34:19Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-04T04:34:19Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Nanako Shiraishi writes:\n\n> I noticed that recently there are many patches sent to the list\n> that are left unapplied (and many of them are from you). Many\n> of them look useful or at least promising to become useful.\n\nGeez. Well,... thanks.\n\nDo you have particular ones in the list that you really want to see\nin-tree early, do you want all of them, or what?\n\n> What can we, the mailing list readers, do to help these patches\n> applied? Ask the authors of individual patches about their\n> progress?\n\nThat would be the way to go. I try to comment on all patches/topics that\ninterests me, and I refrain from applying what I commented on before I see\nresponses (and the response should not be \"yes sir I'll obey blindly\";\n\"No, the reason I did it that way was because...\" to show that the\nsubmitter has thought things through is much more preferred). If there is\nno progress in the discussion, it is very possible that I forget, even\nwhen it is my turn to respond. \"I defended my position responding to\ncomments from you [or from the list] and I believe my argument was sound.\nDid you forget to apply the patch, or do you want to discuss more?\" from\nthe original submitter is very much appreciated.\n"},{"id":"89736","messageId":"20080904172059.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com","threadId":"15366","inReplyTo":"7vd4jk8r78.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: Are more and more patches getting lost lately?","fromName":"Nanako Shiraishi","fromEmail":"nanako3@lavabit.com","sentAt":"2008-09-04T08:20:59Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-04T08:20:59Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nanako3@lavabit.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/3777b9e201c5883a62b1a6fdf7c53f2d712d1d80989146063ea861e33aad72a8?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Quoting Junio C Hamano :\n\n> Nanako Shiraishi writes:\n>\n>> I noticed that recently there are many patches sent to the list\n>> that are left unapplied (and many of them are from you). Many\n>> of them look useful or at least promising to become useful.\n>\n> Geez. Well,... thanks.\n>\n> Do you have particular ones in the list that you really want to see\n> in-tree early, do you want all of them, or what?\n\nYour \"diff --quiet\" and Petr's bash completion.\n\nAlso there are many patches that are from *you*. Did you forget to apply\nthem, are they buggy, or are they in any way bad?\n\nFrom: Junio C Hamano \nSubject: Re: [PATCH] Enable git rev-list to parse --quiet\nDate: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:10:19 -0700\nMessage-ID: <7vy73zd8ok.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/88994\n\nFrom: Junio C Hamano \nSubject: [PATCH/RFC] feeding Maildir to git-am\nDate: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:57 -0700\nMessage-ID: <7vbpzotfyy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/92963\n\nFrom: Junio C Hamano \nSubject: Re* [PATCH] git-apply - Add --include=PATH\nDate: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:05:31 -0700\nMessage-ID: <7vhc99h644.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93604\n\n-- \nNanako Shiraishi\nhttp://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/\n"},{"id":"89737","messageId":"7bfdc29a0809040130u21d43a22ncf2e481eefd9ff89@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"15366","inReplyTo":"20080904172059.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com","subject":"Re: Are more and more patches getting lost lately?","fromName":"Imran M Yousuf","fromEmail":"imyousuf@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-09-04T08:30:38Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-04T08:30:38Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"imyousuf@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/fda3c870262849d03c7b9c4d288842e128d6d80769fa7bc2d22731b7597928be?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:\n> Quoting Junio C Hamano :\n>\n>> Nanako Shiraishi writes:\n>>\n>>> I noticed that recently there are many patches sent to the list\n>>> that are left unapplied (and many of them are from you). Many\n>>> of them look useful or at least promising to become useful.\n>>\n>> Geez. Well,... thanks.\n>>\n>> Do you have particular ones in the list that you really want to see\n>> in-tree early, do you want all of them, or what?\n>\n> Your \"diff --quiet\" and Petr's bash completion.\n>\n> Also there are many patches that are from *you*. Did you forget to apply\n> them, are they buggy, or are they in any way bad?\n>\n> From: Junio C Hamano \n> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable git rev-list to parse --quiet\n> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:10:19 -0700\n> Message-ID: <7vy73zd8ok.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n>\n> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/88994\n>\n\nI actually liked the following 2 patch and since it was Junio I did\nnot think support was required :-D.\n\nCheers,\n\nImran\n\n> From: Junio C Hamano \n> Subject: [PATCH/RFC] feeding Maildir to git-am\n> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:57 -0700\n> Message-ID: <7vbpzotfyy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n>\n> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/92963\n>\n> From: Junio C Hamano \n> Subject: Re* [PATCH] git-apply - Add --include=PATH\n> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:05:31 -0700\n> Message-ID: <7vhc99h644.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n>\n> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93604\n>\n> --\n> Nanako Shiraishi\n> http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/\n>\n> --\n> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line \"unsubscribe git\" in\n> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org\n> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html\n>\n\n\n\n-- \nImran M Yousuf\nEmail: imran@smartitengineering.com\nBlog: http://imyousuf-tech.blogs.smartitengineering.com/\nMobile: +880-1711402557\n"},{"id":"89740","messageId":"7vhc8w5mfp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"15366","inReplyTo":"7bfdc29a0809040130u21d43a22ncf2e481eefd9ff89@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Are more and more patches getting lost lately?","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-09-04T08:45:30Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-04T08:45:30Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\"Imran M Yousuf\" writes:\n\n> I actually liked the following 2 patch and since it was Junio I did\n> not think support was required :-D.\n> ...\n>> From: Junio C Hamano \n>> Subject: [PATCH/RFC] feeding Maildir to git-am\n>> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:57 -0700\n>> Message-ID: <7vbpzotfyy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n>>\n>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/92963\n>>\n>> From: Junio C Hamano \n>> Subject: Re* [PATCH] git-apply - Add --include=PATH\n>> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:05:31 -0700\n>> Message-ID: <7vhc99h644.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n>>\n>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93604\n\nI think for most of these patches, and other patches from me of the same\nnature, I tried to make it clear that the patches were primarily to\nillustrate possibly better solutions, and I do not consider them finished\nsolutions.\n\nThe quality of these patches from me do not meet my patch acceptance\ncriteria.\n\nMore importantly I wasn't the one with the itch. Onus of testing them,\npolishing them as necessary and providing documentation into the final\napplicable patch lie on the original requestors' shoulders.\n\nEspecially when I am busy.\n"},{"id":"89741","messageId":"7v8wu85lqs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"15366","inReplyTo":"20080904172059.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com","subject":"Re: Are more and more patches getting lost lately?","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-09-04T09:00:27Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-04T09:00:27Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Nanako Shiraishi writes:\n\n> Quoting Junio C Hamano :\n>\n>> Nanako Shiraishi writes:\n>>\n>>> I noticed that recently there are many patches sent to the list\n>>> that are left unapplied (and many of them are from you). Many\n>>> of them look useful or at least promising to become useful.\n>>\n>> Geez. Well,... thanks.\n>>\n>> Do you have particular ones in the list that you really want to see\n>> in-tree early, do you want all of them, or what?\n>\n> Your \"diff --quiet\" and Petr's bash completion.\n\nI do not recall what the status of \"diff --quiet\" thing was when the\ndiscussion petered off. I'll have to dig it up later.\n\nI've queued the bash completion from Pasky.\n\n> Also there are many patches that are from *you*. Did you forget to apply\n> them, are they buggy, or are they in any way bad?\n>\n> From: Junio C Hamano \n> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable git rev-list to parse --quiet\n> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:10:19 -0700\n> Message-ID: <7vy73zd8ok.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n>\n> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/88994\n\nBe reasonable -- that's more than 5 minutes ago.\n\n'rev-list --check-empty $args' would be equivalent to 'test -z \"$(rev-list\n-1 $args)\"'; I am not interested in it myself, and original requestor went\naway. I have been assuming that it is not worth our time to worry about\nit if the change is not even necessary by somebody who brought it up\noriginally.\n\n> From: Junio C Hamano \n> Subject: [PATCH/RFC] feeding Maildir to git-am\n> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:57 -0700\n> Message-ID: <7vbpzotfyy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n>\n> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/92963\n\nI wanted to see more positive feedback or better alternatives from people\nwho do deal with Maildir, especially because I do not use Maildir\nanywhere. Again, the discussion seems to have petered out, so...\n\n> From: Junio C Hamano \n> Subject: Re* [PATCH] git-apply - Add --include=PATH\n> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:05:31 -0700\n> Message-ID: <7vhc99h644.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>\n>\n> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93604\n\nIIRC, the patch was in a good shape but without documentation and tests.\nI suspect reassembling the pieces from the mailing list archive into an\nappliable e-mail submission would have been trivial, if somebody cared\ndeeply enough, but nothing came out of it.\n"},{"id":"89773","messageId":"ObDEE9pHJBkHrQ4N4qnEBC8w3yS7pvHq120vg-lqf6mfgacXT7fRBg@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil","threadId":"15366","inReplyTo":"20080904083343.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com","subject":"Re: Are more and more patches getting lost lately?","fromName":"Brandon Casey","fromEmail":"casey@nrlssc.navy.mil","sentAt":"2008-09-04T16:58:17Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-04T16:58:17Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"drafnel@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/921167?v=4"},"body":"Nanako Shiraishi wrote:\n> I noticed that recently there are many patches sent to the list\n> that are left unapplied (and many of them are from you). Many\n> of them look useful or at least promising to become useful.\n\n> From: Brandon Casey \n> Subject: [PATCH] t9301-fast-export: move unset of config variable into its own test function\n> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:48:49 -0500\n> Message-ID: \n> \n> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93239\n\nFor this one, Junio suggested an alternative for skipping a \"class\" of tests which I\nhave not followed up on. His solution needs to be tested, and the test scripts would\nneed to be marked with class identifiers.\n\n-brandon\n"}]}