{"thread":{"id":"16138","subject":"What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #01; Sun, 02)","startedAt":"2008-11-02T21:34:49Z","lastAt":"2008-11-02T23:13:35Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","David Syzdek"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"94692","messageId":"7vbpwx3j7q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"16138","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #01; Sun, 02)","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-11-02T21:34:49Z","receivedAt":"2008-11-02T21:34:49Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed\nwith '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are\nin 'next'.\n\nThe topics list the commits in reverse chronological order.  The topics\nmeant to be merged to the maintenance series have \"maint-\" in their names.\n\nThere are backlog patches I'm planning to deal with later today; they do\nnot appear in this list.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n[New Topics]\n\n* mv/maint-branch-m-symref (Sat Nov 1 00:25:44 2008 +0100) 5 commits\n + update-ref --no-deref -d: handle the case when the pointed ref is\n   packed\n + git branch -m: forbid renaming of a symref\n + Fix git update-ref --no-deref -d.\n + rename_ref(): handle the case when the reflog of a ref does not\n   exist\n + Fix git branch -m for symrefs.\n\n* rs/blame (Sat Oct 25 15:31:36 2008 +0200) 5 commits\n - blame: use xdi_diff_hunks(), get rid of struct patch\n - add xdi_diff_hunks() for callers that only need hunk lengths\n - Allow alternate \"low-level\" emit function from xdl_diff\n - Always initialize xpparam_t to 0\n - blame: inline get_patch()\n\n* ds/uintmax-config (Sun Oct 26 03:52:47 2008 -0800) 2 commits\n - Add Makefile check for FreeBSD 4.9-SECURITY\n - Build: add NO_UINTMAX_T to support ancient systems\n\nI amended the topmost one to widen the applicability of this new feature\nto all FreeBSD 4.*, not limited to 4.9-SECURITY; testing before this hits\n'next' is appreciated.\n\n* ds/autoconf (Sun Nov 2 01:04:46 2008 -0700) 2 commits\n - DONTMERGE: fixup with a convenience macro\n - autoconf: Add link tests to each AC_CHECK_FUNC() test\n\nThe topmost one is my attempt to simplify the new way of checking; the\nresulting configure.ac produces the identical configure script with or\nwithout it, so I think it is Ok, but testing before this hits 'next' is\nappreciated.  If all goes well, I think the two should be squashed into\none patch.\n\n* jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix (Fri Oct 31 01:09:13 2008 -0400) 4 commits\n + Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.\n + add userdiff textconv tests\n + document the diff driver textconv feature\n + diff: add missing static declaration\n\n* ar/maint-mksnpath (Mon Oct 27 11:22:09 2008 +0100) 7 commits\n + Use git_pathdup instead of xstrdup(git_path(...))\n + git_pathdup: returns xstrdup-ed copy of the formatted path\n + Fix potentially dangerous use of git_path in ref.c\n + Add git_snpath: a .git path formatting routine with output buffer\n + Fix potentially dangerous uses of mkpath and git_path\n + Fix mkpath abuse in dwim_ref and dwim_log of sha1_name.c\n + Add mksnpath which allows you to specify the output buffer\n\n* ar/mksnpath (Thu Oct 30 18:08:58 2008 -0700) 10 commits\n + Merge branch 'ar/maint-mksnpath' into ar/mksnpath\n + Use git_pathdup instead of xstrdup(git_path(...))\n + git_pathdup: returns xstrdup-ed copy of the formatted path\n + Fix potentially dangerous use of git_path in ref.c\n + Add git_snpath: a .git path formatting routine with output buffer\n + Fix potentially dangerous uses of mkpath and git_path\n + Merge branch 'ar/maint-mksnpath' into HEAD\n + Fix potentially dangerous uses of mkpath and git_path\n + Fix mkpath abuse in dwim_ref and dwim_log of sha1_name.c\n + Add mksnpath which allows you to specify the output buffer\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n[Will be merged to 'master' soon]\n\n* cj/maint-gitpm-fix-maybe-self (Sat Oct 18 20:25:12 2008 +0200) 1 commit\n + Git.pm: do not break inheritance\n\nLooked Ok; will be in 'master' soon.\n\n* gb/gitweb-pathinfo (Tue Oct 21 21:34:54 2008 +0200) 5 commits\n + gitweb: generate parent..current URLs\n + gitweb: parse parent..current syntax from PATH_INFO\n + gitweb: use_pathinfo filenames start with /\n + gitweb: generate project/action/hash URLs\n + gitweb: parse project/action/hash_base:filename PATH_INFO\n\nSeventh iteration.\n\n* ag/blame-encoding (Wed Oct 22 00:55:57 2008 +0400) 1 commit\n + builtin-blame: Reencode commit messages according to git-log\n   rules.\n\nLooked Ok; will be in 'master' soon.\n\n* mv/parseopt-checkout-index (Sat Oct 18 03:17:23 2008 +0200) 1 commit\n + parse-opt: migrate builtin-checkout-index.\n\nLooked Ok; will be in 'master' soon.\n\n* sh/rebase-i-p (Wed Oct 22 11:59:30 2008 -0700) 9 commits\n + git-rebase--interactive.sh: comparision with == is bashism\n + rebase-i-p: minimum fix to obvious issues\n + rebase-i-p: if todo was reordered use HEAD as the rewritten parent\n + rebase-i-p: do not include non-first-parent commits touching\n   UPSTREAM\n + rebase-i-p: only list commits that require rewriting in todo\n + rebase-i-p: fix 'no squashing merges' tripping up non-merges\n + rebase-i-p: delay saving current-commit to REWRITTEN if squashing\n + rebase-i-p: use HEAD for updating the ref instead of mapping\n   OLDHEAD\n + rebase-i-p: test to exclude commits from todo based on its parents\n\nChanges the `rebase -i -p` behavior to behave like git sequencer's\nrewrite of `rebase -i` would behave.\n\n* np/index-pack (Thu Oct 23 15:05:59 2008 -0400) 5 commits\n + index-pack: don't leak leaf delta result\n + improve index-pack tests\n + fix multiple issues in index-pack\n + index-pack: smarter memory usage during delta resolution\n + index-pack: rationalize delta resolution code\n\nThe buglets that caused people on 'next' some surprises are quickly\nkilled.  Thanks.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n[Stalled]\n\n* jk/diff-convfilter (Sun Oct 26 00:50:02 2008 -0400) 8 commits\n - enable textconv for diff in verbose status/commit\n - wt-status: load diff ui config\n\n* nd/narrow (Wed Oct 1 11:04:09 2008 +0700) 9 commits\n - grep: skip files outside sparse checkout area\n - checkout_entry(): CE_NO_CHECKOUT on checked out entries.\n - Prevent diff machinery from examining worktree outside sparse\n   checkout\n - ls-files: Add tests for --sparse and friends\n - update-index: add --checkout/--no-checkout to update\n   CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit\n - update-index: refactor mark_valid() in preparation for new options\n - ls-files: add options to support sparse checkout\n - Introduce CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit\n - Extend index to save more flags\n\nNeeds review.\n\n* jn/gitweb-customlinks (Sun Oct 12 00:02:32 2008 +0200) 1 commit\n - gitweb: Better processing format string in custom links in navbar\n\nWaiting for some sort of response from Pasky.\n\n* jc/gitweb-fix-cloud-tag (Tue Oct 14 21:27:12 2008 -0700) 1 commit\n + Fix reading of cloud tags\n\nRequest-for-review-and-ack sent; still waiting for response.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n[Dropped]\n\n* bd/blame (Thu Aug 21 18:22:01 2008 -0500) 5 commits\n . Use xdiff caching to improve git blame performance\n . Allow xdiff machinery to cache hash results for a file\n . Always initialize xpparam_t to 0\n . Bypass textual patch generation and parsing in git blame\n . Allow alternate \"low-level\" emit function from xdl_diff\n\nRéne started code restructuring, which is queued to 'pu'; this series is\ndropped.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n[On Hold]\n\n* jc/send-pack-tell-me-more (Thu Mar 20 00:44:11 2008 -0700) 1 commit\n - \"git push\": tellme-more protocol extension\n\nThis seems to have a deadlock during communication between the peers.\nSomeone needs to pick up this topic and resolve the deadlock before it can\ncontinue.\n\n* jc/blame (Wed Jun 4 22:58:40 2008 -0700) 2 commits\n - blame: show \"previous\" information in --porcelain/--incremental\n   format\n - git-blame: refactor code to emit \"porcelain format\" output\n\n* jk/renamelimit (Sat May 3 13:58:42 2008 -0700) 1 commit\n - diff: enable \"too large a rename\" warning when -M/-C is explicitly\n   asked for\n\nThis would be the right thing to do for command line use,\nbut gitk will be hit due to tcl/tk's limitation, so I am holding\nthis back for now.\n"},{"id":"94701","messageId":"9a0027270811021513h2739c825o8f989a614a11f69@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"16138","inReplyTo":"7vbpwx3j7q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #01; Sun, 02)","fromName":"David Syzdek","fromEmail":"syzdek@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-11-02T23:13:35Z","receivedAt":"2008-11-02T23:13:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"syzdek@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/7f7b4df7a7d9be0b968c23c9fb9281953356e59ddb5d6dd8f02a6ddf3d9d9d22?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:\n> Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed\n> with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are\n> in 'next'.\n>\n> The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order.  The topics\n> meant to be merged to the maintenance series have \"maint-\" in their names.\n>\n> There are backlog patches I'm planning to deal with later today; they do\n> not appear in this list.\n>\n> ----------------------------------------------------------------\n> [New Topics]\n>\n> * mv/maint-branch-m-symref (Sat Nov 1 00:25:44 2008 +0100) 5 commits\n>  + update-ref --no-deref -d: handle the case when the pointed ref is\n>   packed\n>  + git branch -m: forbid renaming of a symref\n>  + Fix git update-ref --no-deref -d.\n>  + rename_ref(): handle the case when the reflog of a ref does not\n>   exist\n>  + Fix git branch -m for symrefs.\n>\n> * rs/blame (Sat Oct 25 15:31:36 2008 +0200) 5 commits\n>  - blame: use xdi_diff_hunks(), get rid of struct patch\n>  - add xdi_diff_hunks() for callers that only need hunk lengths\n>  - Allow alternate \"low-level\" emit function from xdl_diff\n>  - Always initialize xpparam_t to 0\n>  - blame: inline get_patch()\n>\n> * ds/uintmax-config (Sun Oct 26 03:52:47 2008 -0800) 2 commits\n>  - Add Makefile check for FreeBSD 4.9-SECURITY\n>  - Build: add NO_UINTMAX_T to support ancient systems\n>\n> I amended the topmost one to widen the applicability of this new feature\n> to all FreeBSD 4.*, not limited to 4.9-SECURITY; testing before this hits\n> 'next' is appreciated.\n>\n> * ds/autoconf (Sun Nov 2 01:04:46 2008 -0700) 2 commits\n>  - DONTMERGE: fixup with a convenience macro\n>  - autoconf: Add link tests to each AC_CHECK_FUNC() test\n>\n> The topmost one is my attempt to simplify the new way of checking; the\n> resulting configure.ac produces the identical configure script with or\n> without it, so I think it is Ok, but testing before this hits 'next' is\n> appreciated.  If all goes well, I think the two should be squashed into\n> one patch.\n\nI tested the above changes on FreeBSD.  The changes worked on FreeBSD\n4.9 worked.\n\nHowever pthread is linked on FreeBSD 4.x by using `-pthread' instead\nof `-lpthread'.  The current pu branch forces the use of Pthreads and\nlinks using an invalid flag. I am working on a patch now.\n"}]}