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What's in git.git (May 2009, #02; Sat, 23)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 23, 2009, 10:02 UTC
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Many topics that have been cooking in 'next' are now in 'master'. Numerous small-ish documentation and fixes have been queued in 'maint', which may warrant 1.6.3.2.

* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since the last announcement.
Alex Riesen (2):
  ls-tree manpage: use "unless" instead of "when ... is not"
  ls-tree manpage: output of ls-tree is compatible with update-index
Dan McGee (1):
  Fix type-punning issues
Daniel Cordero (1):
  builtin-checkout: Don't tell user that HEAD has moved before it has
Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
  completion: use git rev-parse to detect bare repos
Jeff King (1):
  for-each-ref: fix segfault in copy_email
Jim Meyering (1):
  pre-commit.sample: don't print incidental SHA1
Johannes Schindelin (1):
  Cope better with a _lot_ of packs
Junio C Hamano (5):
  Revert "checkout branch: prime cache-tree fully"
  GIT 1.6.3.1
  completion: fix PS1 display during a merge on detached HEAD
  completion: simplify "current branch" in __git_ps1()
  completion: enhance "current branch" display
Linus Torvalds (1):
  dir.c: clean up handling of 'path' parameter in
    read_directory_recursive()
Nanako Shiraishi (1):
  test: checkout shouldn't say that HEAD has moved if it didn't
René Scharfe (1):
  grep: fix word-regexp colouring
Stephen Boyd (4):
  api-parse-options.txt: use 'func' instead of 'funct'
  tests: Add tests for missing format-patch long options
  completion: add missing options to show-branch and show
  show-branch: Fix die message in parse_reflog_param()
Tony Kemp (1):
  Turn on USE_ST_TIMESPEC for OpenBSD
* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement
  in addition to the above.
Alex Riesen (7):
  Introduce an unlink(2) wrapper which gives warning if unlink failed
  replace direct calls to unlink(2) with unlink_or_warn
  print unlink(2) errno in copy_or_link_directory
  Clarify kind of conflict in merge-one-file helper
  Quote LF in urls git fetch saves in FETCH_HEAD
  Use UTF-8 instead of utf8 for backward compatibility
  Improve the naming of guessed target repository for git clone
Alex Vandiver (3):
  git-svn: Fix for svn paths removed > log-window-size revisions ago
  git-svn: Correctly report max revision when following deleted paths
  git-svn: Set svn.authorsfile if it is passed to git svn clone
Allan Caffee (1):
  graph API: Use horizontal lines for more compact graphs
Andreas Ericsson (1):
  fetch: Strip usernames from url's before storing them
Christian Couder (20):
  rev-list: make "estimate_bisect_steps" non static
  rev-list: refactor printing bisect vars
  bisect: move common bisect functionality to "bisect_common"
  bisect--helper: add "--next-exit" to output bisect results
  bisect: use "git bisect--helper --next-exit" in "git-bisect.sh"
  bisect--helper: remove "--next-vars" option as it is now useless
  rev-list: remove stringed output flag from "show_bisect_vars"
  rev-parse: add --sq-quote to shell quote arguments
  bisect: use "git rev-parse --sq-quote" instead of a custom "sq" function
  am: simplify "sq" function by using "git rev-parse --sq-quote"
  bisect: use "sha1_array" to store skipped revisions
  bisect: implement "rev_argv_push" to fill an argv with revs
  bisect: store good revisions in a "sha1_array"
  bisect: use new "struct argv_array" to prepare argv for "setup_revisions"
  bisect: remove too much function nesting
  bisect: make skipped array functions more generic
  bisect: automatically sort sha1_array if needed when looking it up
  bisect: implement the "check_merge_bases" function
  bisect: add "check_good_are_ancestors_of_bad" function
  bisect: make "git bisect" use new "--next-all" bisect-helper function
Dan McGee (1):
  Unify signedness in hashing calls
Dave Olszewski (1):
  merge-recursive: never leave index unmerged while recursing
David Aguilar (1):
  mergetool--lib: specialize diff options for emerge and ecmerge
Eric W. Biederman (1):
  git-send-email: Handle quotes when parsing .mailrc files
Eygene Ryabinkin (1):
  git-svn testsuite: use standard configuration for Subversion tools
Felipe Contreras (2):
  Change prettify_ref to prettify_refname
  Prettify log decorations even more
Frank Lichtenheld (2):
  Git.pm: Set GIT_WORK_TREE if we set GIT_DIR
  Git.pm: Always set Repository to absolute path if autodetecting
Heiko Voigt (2):
  Extend sample update hook, disable modifying of existing tags
  Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii filenames
Jakub Narebski (9):
  gitweb: Do not use bareword filehandles
  gitweb: Always use three argument form of open
  gitweb: Always use three argument form of open
  gitweb: Use block form of map/grep in a few cases more
  gitweb: Replace wrongly added tabs with spaces
  gitweb: Use capturing parentheses only when you intend to capture
  gitweb: Simplify snapshot format detection logic in evaluate_path_info
  gitweb: Remove unused $hash_base parameter from normalize_link_target
  gitweb: Sanitize title attribute in format_subject_html
Jeff King (3):
  parseopt: add OPT_NEGBIT
  fix GIT_TRACE segfault with shell-quoted aliases
  add: don't complain when adding empty project root
Jim Meyering (1):
  format-patch let -k override a config-specified format.numbered
Johannes Schindelin (7):
  git-add: introduce --edit (to edit the diff vs. the index)
  t3702: fix reliance on SHELL_PATH being '/bin/sh'
  Add NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS support to the Makefile
  MinGW: the path separator to split GITPERLLIB is ';' on Win32
  MinGW: use POSIX signature of waitpid()
  MinGW: Add a simple getpass()
  MinGW: Fix compiler warning in merge-recursive
Junio C Hamano (1):
  t3900: ISO-2022-JP has more than one popular variants
Linus Torvalds (2):
  Avoid unnecessary 'lstat()' calls in 'get_stat_data()'
  Teach 'git checkout' to preload the index contents
Mark Lodato (1):
  git-svn: add --authors-prog option
Markus Heidelberg (3):
  show-branch: color the commit status signs
  bash completion: show-branch color support
  diff: do not color --stat output like patch context
Michael J Gruber (3):
  Documentation: clarify / requirement in 'git check-ref-format'
  Test tracking of non-commit upstreams
  Fix behavior with non-commit upstream references
Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
  Add --reference option to git submodule.
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):
  doc/git-rebase.txt: remove mention of multiple strategies
  Terminate argv with NULL before calling setup_revisions()
Nicolas Pitre (1):
  allow OFS_DELTA objects during a push
Peter Harris (1):
  MinGW: Scan for \r in addition to \n when reading shbang lines
René Scharfe (6):
  parseopt: add OPT_NEGBIT
  parseopt: add OPT_NUMBER_CALLBACK
  parseopt: add PARSE_OPT_NODASH
  grep: remove global variable builtin_grep
  grep: use parseopt
  grep: make callback functions static
Robin Rosenberg (1):
  Disallow '\' in ref names
Stephen Boyd (1):
  bash completion: complete variable names for "git config" with options
Trent Piepho (1):
  send-email: Add config option for sender address
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  1. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2009

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