topgit: call for help with releasing.

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Feb 12, 2009, 13:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20090212132434.GA32715@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

Dear gits,

Petr and I are both swamped with work, and TopGit 0.6 has been pending for months and it's still not released. A lot of people have sent patches, and it pains me not to be able to honour their work with frequent releases.

I am thus looking for someone who would be willing to take over releases of TopGit, at least until my backlog has cleared and I managed to get my thesis in.

The next release, 0.6 is mostly ready (announcement-in-preparation attached), but one of the things that needs to happen in the near future is a reimplementation of option parsing using git-rev-parse to address some of the current limitations.

I'll be glad to assist anyone taking on the task in any way I can. I will still take care of Debian releases.

Cheers,

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Dear everyone,

It's been a while since life has keeping me busy, but here it is:
TopGit 0.6.

This release features a number of fixes and enhancements, including

  - Uwe's work to improve tg-export
  - Completion updates (still bash-only, any zsh wizards out there?)
  - Pager improvements by Kirill
  - Kirill's work to allow you to use worktree and index to generate
    patches

Please refer to the shortlog below for more information.

If you are interested in TopGit and you work on distro packaging,
you ought to have a look at http://vcs-pkg.org.

TopGit is meant as a fresh start in the steps of StGIT, quilt-in-git
and others, of course in an attempt to Get It Right this time
around. TopGit is a minimal porcelain layer that will manage your
patch queue using topic branches, one patch per branch, never
rewriting the history in order to enable a fully distributed
workflow.

You can get TopGit at

  http://repo.or.cz/w/topgit.git

and read up on its design, usage and implementation at:

  http://repo.or.cz/w/topgit.git?a=blob;f=README

A tarball will become available on the Debian mirrors as
/debian/pool/main/t/topgit/topgit_0.6.orig.tar.gz as soon as I find
time to upload to the Debian archive, hopefully this week. You can
also obtain the tarball from the repo's pristine-tar[0] branch:

  pristine-tar checkout ../topgit_0.6.orig.tar.gz

0. http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/pristine-tar


git shortlog topgit-0.5..topgit-0.6:

Bert Wesarg (1):
      tg-summary: -t and --graphviz are mutual exclusive

Jonas Fonseca (1):
      README: spelling fixes

Kirill Smelkov (5):
      tg-completion: complete options for `tg summary`
      tg-completion: complete options for `tg remote`
      Implement setup_pager just like in git
      tg-patch: fix pagination
      tg-patch: add support for generating patches against worktree and index

Marc Weber (1):
      Pass -- to rev-list for branch/filename disambiguation

Uwe Kleine-König (5):
      tg-export: implement skipping empty patches for quilt mode
      tg export (collapse): implement skipping empty patches
      tg export (quilt): Implement flattening patch paths
      tg export (quilt): Implement numbering the patches
      make tg remote idempotent

martin f. krafft (14):
      ignore tg-depend build files
      remove +x bit from tg-depend
      Make sure gitignore patterns are not recursive
      add ignore patterns for quilt and debian build
      Change tg help exit code to 0
      Check for cmddir earlier
      Print help output when no command is given
      Require an argument to tg -r
      Print help message when command is not proper
      Note that do_help is used when short messages might be wanted
      Add Vim modelines for consistent spacing
      Check for git-send-email and die if not found
      put tg version into a variable at the top
      bump version number to 0.6

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