{"thread":{"id":"4052","subject":"What's in git.git","startedAt":"2006-05-04T08:14:54Z","lastAt":"2006-05-04T09:06:31Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Petr Baudis"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"19502","messageId":"7vbque5hq9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"4052","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"What's in git.git","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junkio@cox.net","sentAt":"2006-05-04T08:14:54Z","receivedAt":"2006-05-04T08:14:54Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"* Latest maintenance release 1.3.2 is out from the 'maint' branch.\n\n* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement, not\n  counting what is in v1.3.2.\n\n - blame path-pruning fix (Fredrik Kuivinen)\n\n - built-in push (Linus, Johannes Schindelin)\n\n - beginning of \"put remotes/ info in config file\" (Johannes Schindelin)\n\n - repo-config updates and fixes (Johannes Schindelin)\n\n - built-in count-objects and diff\n\n - core.prefersymlinkrefs can be given to use symlink HEAD;\n   this may be needed to bisect kernel history before January\n   2006 whose setlocalversion script depended on HEAD being a\n   symlink.\n\n - \"git-log --parents\" fix (Linus)\n\n - use rev-list instead of log in git-cvsserver (Martin Langhoff)\n\n - sha1_to_hex() usage cleanup (Linus)\n\n - Document update-index --unresolve (Matthias Kestenholz)\n\n\n* The 'next' branch, in addition, has these.\n\n - \"put remotes/ info in config file\" for fetch side (Johannes Schindelin)\n\n - built-in grep\n\n   It now knows all the common grep options I personally use,\n   including -l, -w, -E, -i, -[ABC]<n>, -v; I am planning to\n   push this out perhaps mid next week.\n\n - built-in format-patch WIP\n\n   I really should resume working on this again...\n\n - cache-tree\n\n   Fixed a rather nasty bug; should be safe again to use it now.\n\n - get_sha1(): :path and :[0-3]:path to extract from index.\n\n - diff-delta enhancements (Nicolas Pitre)\n\n\n* The 'pu' branch, in addition, has these.\n\n - partial tree reading/writing with --prefix option.\n\n - Transitively read alternatives (Martin Waitz)\n"},{"id":"19506","messageId":"20060504090631.GV27689@pasky.or.cz","threadId":"4052","inReplyTo":"7vbque5hq9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","subject":"Re: What's in git.git","fromName":"Petr Baudis","fromEmail":"pasky@suse.cz","sentAt":"2006-05-04T09:06:31Z","receivedAt":"2006-05-04T09:06:31Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pasky@ucw.cz","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18439?v=4"},"body":"Dear diary, on Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:14:54AM CEST, I got a letter\nwhere Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...\n>  - core.prefersymlinkrefs can be given to use symlink HEAD;\n>    this may be needed to bisect kernel history before January\n>    2006 whose setlocalversion script depended on HEAD being a\n>    symlink.\n\nOh, I expected this to end up in 1.3.2, actually. :-)\n\nShouldn't this belong to the maint branch? It is \"physically\" a new\nfeature but I would consider \"cannot bisect kernel before January\" a bug\ncertainly worth fixing and the feature is pretty tiny. (It seems to be\nbackwards-incompatible but that only means you should provide some\ntransition path, I think. ;)\n\n-- \n\t\t\t\tPetr \"Pasky\" Baudis\nStuff: http://pasky.or.cz/\nRight now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think\nI have forgotten this before.\n"}]}