What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2008, #11; Thu, 31)

Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next'.

The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order. The topics meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.

Due to increased activity level from people including GSoC students, I expect 'next' to stay somewhat more active than previous rounds during the 1.6.0-rc cycle. The request for people who usually follow 'next' is the same as usual, though. After -rc1 is tagged, please run 'master' for your daily git use instead, in order to make sure 'master' does what it claims to do without regression.

Tentative schedule, my wishful thinking:

 - 1.6.0-rc2 (Aug  3)
 - 1.6.0-rc3 (Aug 10)

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* rs/archive-parse-options (Fri Jul 25 12:41:26 2008 +0200) 1 commit
 + archive: allow --exec and --remote without equal sign

None of the following is for 1.6.0.

* mv/merge-custom (Thu Jul 31 00:38:07 2008 +0200) 5 commits
 + builtin-help: always load_command_list() in cmd_help()
 + Add a second testcase for handling invalid strategies in git-merge
 + Add a new test for using a custom merge strategy
 + builtin-merge: allow using a custom strategy
 + builtin-help: make some internal functions available to other
   builtins

* cc/merge-base-many (Sun Jul 27 13:47:22 2008 -0700) 4 commits
 - git-merge-octopus: use (merge-base A (merge B C D E...)) for
   stepwise merge
 + merge-base-many: add trivial tests based on the documentation
 + documentation: merge-base: explain "git merge-base" with more than
   2 args
 + merge-base: teach "git merge-base" to drive underlying
   merge_bases_many()

* jc/simplify-merges (Thu Jul 31 01:17:41 2008 -0700) 1 commit
 . revision traversal: show full history with merge simplification

"log --full-history" is with too much clutter, "log" itself is too cleverer than some people, and here is the middle level of merge simplification.

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None of the following is for 1.6.0.

* rs/imap (Wed Jul 9 22:29:02 2008 +0100) 5 commits
 + Documentation: Improve documentation for git-imap-send(1)
 + imap-send.c: more style fixes
 + imap-send.c: style fixes
 + git-imap-send: Support SSL
 + git-imap-send: Allow the program to be run from subdirectories of
   a git tree

Some people seem to prefer having this feature available also with gnutls. Such an enhancement can be done in-tree on top of this series if they are so inclined.

* cc/bisect (Fri Jul 25 05:36:37 2008 +0200) 2 commits
 - bisect: only check merge bases when needed
 - bisect: test merge base if good rev is not an ancestor of bad rev

* jc/add-addremove (Tue Jul 22 22:30:40 2008 -0700) 2 commits
 + builtin-add.c: optimize -A option and "git add ."
 + builtin-add.c: restructure the code for maintainability

* jk/pager-swap (Tue Jul 22 03:14:12 2008 -0400) 2 commits
 + spawn pager via run_command interface
 + run-command: add pre-exec callback

This changes the parent-child relationship between the pager and the git process. We used to make pager the parent which meant that the exit status from git is lost from the caller.

* ph/enable-threaded (Mon Jul 21 11:23:43 2008 +0200) 1 commit
 + Enable threaded delta search on *BSD and Linux.

* sg/merge-options (Sun Apr 6 03:23:47 2008 +0200) 1 commit
 + merge: remove deprecated summary and diffstat options and config
   variables

This was previously in "will be in master soon" category, but it turns out that the synonyms to the ones this one deletes are fairly new invention that happend in 1.5.6 timeframe, and we cannot do this just yet. Perhaps in 1.7.0.

* jc/dashless (Thu Jun 26 16:43:34 2008 -0700) 2 commits
 + Revert "Make clients ask for "git program" over ssh and local
   transport"
 + Make clients ask for "git program" over ssh and local transport

This is the "botched" one. Will be resurrected during 1.7.0 or 1.8.0 timeframe.

* jk/renamelimit (Sat May 3 13:58:42 2008 -0700) 1 commit
 . diff: enable "too large a rename" warning when -M/-C is explicitly
   asked for

This would be the right thing to do for command line use, but gitk will be hit due to tcl/tk's limitation, so I am holding this back for now.