What's cooking in git.git (topics)

Here are the topics that have been kept out of 'master'. Commits prefixed with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next'. Now I am pushing 1.5.4.1 out, mature topics will start moving to 'master'.

The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order.

My wish is to have small but short release cycle for 1.5.5 and leave bigger ones cooking for 1.6.0.

Many topics graduated to "master". As announced, I'll rewind and rebuild "next" with the surviving topics on top of "master" shortly.

---------------------------------------------------------------- [Graduated to "master"]

* ph/describe-match (Mon Dec 24 12:18:22 2007 +0100) 2 commits

* lt/in-core-index (Tue Jan 22 23:01:13 2008 -0800) 9 commits

This is about reducing number of lstat(2) calls during complex operations, and optimizing "do we have this in the index" queries.

* jc/error-message-in-cherry-pick (Thu Jan 10 22:49:35 2008 -0800) 1 commit

Björn Steinbrink reported and then tested this.

* db/send-email-omit-cc (Tue Dec 25 19:56:29 2007 -0800) 1 commit

This came after 1.5.4-rc cycle started and was placed on hold. I do not recall if there was any objection to it.

* mw/send-email (Sun Feb 3 19:53:58 2008 -0500) 3 commits

* db/no-separate-ls-remote-connection (Sun Feb 10 13:45:08 2008 +0000) 1 commit

---------------------------------------------------------------- [Old New Topics]

* br/gitweb (Fri Feb 8 14:38:04 2008 -0200) 1 commit
 - gitweb: Use the config file to set repository owner's name.

Looked Ok.

* lt/revision-walker (Sat Feb 9 14:02:07 2008 -0800) 1 commit
 - Add "--show-all" revision walker flag for debugging

* mc/prefix (Sat Feb 9 15:40:19 2008 +0100) 1 commit
 - Avoid a useless prefix lookup in strbuf_expand()

* db/checkout (Sun Feb 10 01:27:00 2008 -0800) 11 commits
 - Build in checkout
 - Move code to clean up after a branch change to branch.c
 - Library function to check for unmerged index entries
 - Use diff -u instead of diff in t7201
 - Move create_branch into a library file
 - Build-in merge-recursive
 - Add "skip_unmerged" option to unpack_trees.
 - Discard "deleted" cache entries after using them to update the
   working tree
 - Send unpack-trees debugging output to stderr
 - Add flag to make unpack_trees() not print errors.
 - Allow callers of unpack_trees() to handle failure

This is building on top of Linus's change to in-core index structure, which will be in 'master' soon.

---------------------------------------------------------------- [Will merge to 'master' soon]

* jc/submittingpatches (Sun Feb 3 17:02:28 2008 -0800) 3 commits
 + Documentation/SubmittingPatches: What's Acked-by and Tested-by?
 + Documentation/SubmittingPatches: discuss first then submit
 + Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Instruct how to use [PATCH]
   Subject header

* jk/noetcconfig (Wed Feb 6 05:11:53 2008 -0500) 2 commits
 + fix config reading in tests
 + allow suppressing of global and system config

* pb/prepare-commit-msg (Tue Feb 5 08:04:18 2008 +0100) 4 commits
 + git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hook
 + git-commit: Refactor creation of log message.
 + git-commit: set GIT_EDITOR=: if editor will not be launched
 + git-commit: support variable number of hook arguments

* jc/gitignore-ends-with-slash (Thu Jan 31 20:23:25 2008 -0800) 2 commits
 + gitignore: lazily find dtype
 + gitignore(5): Allow "foo/" in ignore list to match directory "foo"

This is redone after we had discussion on the list to properly make "foo/" match only with directories and "foo" with both files and directories without unnecessary lstat(2) calls.

* bd/qsort (Tue Feb 5 15:10:44 2008 -0600) 1 commit
 + compat: Add simplified merge sort implementation from glibc

More reasonable qsort(3) than Microsoft by Brian Downing.

---------------------------------------------------------------- [Actively Cooking]

* cc/browser (Mon Feb 11 10:57:34 2008 -0500) 9 commits
 + git-web--browse: fix misplaced quote in init_browser_path()
 + web--browse: Add a few quotes in 'init_browser_path'.
 + Documentation: instaweb: add 'git-web--browse' information.
 + Adjust .gitignore for 5884f1(Rename 'git-help--browse.sh'...)
 + git-web--browse: do not start the browser with nohup
 + instaweb: use 'git-web--browse' to launch browser.
 + Rename 'git-help--browse.sh' to 'git-web--browse.sh'.
 + help--browse: add '--config' option to check a config option for a
   browser.
 + help: make 'git-help--browse' usable outside 'git-help'.

Christian Couder consolidated the logic to pick user's favorite browser between instaweb and help.

* jc/setup (Sun Feb 3 23:59:17 2008 -0800) 4 commits
 + builtin-mv: minimum fix to avoid losing files
 + git-add: adjust to the get_pathspec() changes.
 + Make blame accept absolute paths
 + setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths in get_pathspec()

* sp/safecrlf (Wed Feb 6 12:25:58 2008 +0100) 1 commit
 + safecrlf: Add mechanism to warn about irreversible crlf
   conversions

* jc/apply-whitespace (Mon Feb 11 15:32:29 2008 -0800) 14 commits
 + apply: do not barf on patch with too large an offset
 + core.whitespace: cr-at-eol
 + git-apply --whitespace=fix: fix whitespace fuzz introduced by
   previous run
 + builtin-apply.c: pass ws_rule down to match_fragment()
 + builtin-apply.c: move copy_wsfix() function a bit higher.
 + builtin-apply.c: do not feed copy_wsfix() leading '+'
 + builtin-apply.c: simplify calling site to apply_line()
 + builtin-apply.c: clean-up apply_one_fragment()
 + builtin-apply.c: mark common context lines in lineinfo structure.
 + builtin-apply.c: optimize match_beginning/end processing a bit.
 + builtin-apply.c: make it more line oriented
 + builtin-apply.c: push match-beginning/end logic down
 + builtin-apply.c: restructure "offset" matching
 + builtin-apply.c: refactor small part that matches context

---------------------------------------------------------------- [On Hold]

* js/reflog-delete (Fri Jan 4 19:11:37 2008 -0600) 2 commits
 + builtin-reflog.c: fix typo that accesses an unset variable
 + Teach "git reflog" a subcommand to delete single entries

There was a patch that uses this to implement "git-stash drop", which I didn't queue, as the command name and the UI was undecided yet. Dscho was in favor of "pop" without "drop".

* nd/dashless (Wed Nov 28 23:21:57 2007 +0700) 1 commit
 - Move all dashed-form commands to libexecdir

Scheduled for 1.6.0. I am not sure if we should merge this to 'next' before 1.5.5. Most active people will be on 'next' and if we have this there, the resulting 1.5.5 release might end up having issues that come from differences this one introduces.

* bf/remote-head (Sun Dec 23 20:52:32 2007 -0500) 1 commit
 - git-remote: make add -f guess HEAD, as clone does

* ab/pserver (Fri Dec 14 04:08:51 2007 +0000) 1 commit
 - Authentication support for pserver

This needs careful security audit and a fix to its password database format. Plaintext in .git/config is not acceptable.

* jc/cherry-pick (Mon Dec 24 00:51:01 2007 -0800) 4 commits
 - PARK: Start using replay-tree merge in cherry-pick
 - revert/cherry-pick: start refactoring call to merge_recursive
 - expose a helper function peel_to_type().
 - merge-recursive: split low-level merge functions out.

Meant to avoid merge_recursive() during cherry-pick and revert, so that D/F conflicts can be redone right, but I got busy and this has unfortunately stalled.

* jc/dashless (Sat Dec 1 22:09:22 2007 -0800) 2 commits
 - Prepare execv_git_cmd() for removal of builtins from the
   filesystem
 - git-shell: accept "git foo" form

We do not plan to remove git-foo form completely from the filesystem at this point, but git-shell may need to be updated.

* jc/diff-relative (Thu Dec 6 09:48:32 2007 -0800) 1 commit
 - diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current
   subdirectory

* jc/git-symref (Tue Dec 11 16:42:46 2007 -0800) 1 commit
 - PARK: show-symref protocol extension.

* jc/sha1-lookup (Sun Dec 30 03:13:27 2007 -0800) 2 commits
 - sha1-lookup: make selection of 'middle' less aggressive
 - sha1-lookup: more memory efficient search in sorted list of SHA-1

Micro-optimization whose real world benefit is not proven.

* jc/rename (Tue Jan 29 20:54:56 2008 -0800) 1 commit
 - Optimize rename detection for a huge diff

Micro-optimization whose real world benefit is not proven.