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What's in git.git (Jul 2008, issue #08; Sat, 26)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 26, 2008, 07:36 UTC
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There are quite a bunch of changes to 'master' but they are mostly fix-ups to the new codepaths introduced recently; iow, exactly the kind of patches we would want to see before and during the -rc period.

* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since the last announcement.
Björn Steinbrink (1):
  index-pack.c: correctly initialize appended objects
Junio C Hamano (2):
  tests: propagate $(TAR) down from the toplevel Makefile
  Makefile: fix shell quoting
Peter Valdemar Mørch (1):
  send-email: find body-encoding correctly
Pierre Habouzit (1):
  git-checkout: fix command line parsing.
* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement
  in addition to the above.
Alex Riesen (1):
  Allow pager of diff command be enabled/disabled
Brad King (1):
  git-svn: teach dcommit about svn auto-props
Brandon Casey (7):
  t/: Replace diff [-u|-U0] with test_cmp to allow compilation with old
    diff
  t4116-apply-reverse.sh: use $TAR rather than tar
  t3200,t7201: replace '!' with test_must_fail
  t7502-commit.sh: rearrange test to make more portable
  t/t4202-log.sh: add newline at end of file
  Teach fsck and prune about the new location of temporary objects
  perl/Makefile: update NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER section
Daniel Barkalow (1):
  In perforce, RCS keywords are case-sensitive
Johannes Schindelin (8):
  Rename .git/rebase to .git/rebase-apply
  Rename path_list to string_list
  Fix two leftovers from path_list->string_list
  Ignore dirty submodule states in "git pull --rebase"
  Add test to show that show-branch misses out the 8th column
  sort_in_topological_order(): avoid setting a commit flag
  builtin-commit: Two trivial style-cleanups
  git daemon: avoid waking up too often
Johannes Sixt (10):
  rebase -i: When an 'edit' stops, mention the commit
  Makefile: Do not install a copy of 'git' in $(gitexecdir)
  Makefile: Normalize $(bindir) and $(gitexecdir) before comparing
  Record the command invocation path early
  Fix relative built-in paths to be relative to the command invocation
  Allow the built-in exec path to be relative to the command invocation
    path
  Allow add_path() to add non-existent directories to the path
  Windows: Make $(gitexecdir) relative
  Windows: Make sure argv[0] has a path
  Windows: Do not compile git-shell
Jonathan Nieder (2):
  git-diff(1): "--c" -> "--cc" typo fix
  document that git-tag can tag more than heads
Junio C Hamano (9):
  Update my e-mail address
  Revert "make git-status use a pager"
  tests: do not rely on external "patch"
  stash save: fix parameter handling
  builtin-branch.c: remove unused code in append_ref() callback function
  builtin-branch.c: optimize --merged and --no-merged
  Documentation: clarify diff --cc
  ignore non-existent refs in dwim_log()
  Documentation: clarify how to disable elements in core.whitespace
Lee Marlow (1):
  bash completion: Add long options for 'git rm'
Miklos Vajna (2):
  builtin-merge: give a proper error message for invalid strategies in
    config
  t7601: extend the 'merge picks up the best result' test
Nikolaj Schumacher (1):
  Don't cut off last character of commit descriptions.
Olivier Marin (4):
  git-am: remove dash from help message
  parse-options: fix segmentation fault when a required value is missing
  git am --skip: clean the index while preserving local changes
  update test case to protect am --skip behaviour
P. Christeas (1):
  svnimport: newer libsvn wants us to ask for the root with "", not "/"
Petr Baudis (2):
  git-filter-branch.sh: Allow running in bare repositories
  Documentation/git-filter-branch: teach "rm" instead of "update-index
    --remove"
Philippe Bruhat (1):
  mailinfo: better parse email adresses containg parentheses
Pierre Habouzit (3):
  builtin-merge: add missing structure initialization
  git-submodule: move ill placed shift.
  git-checkout: improve error messages, detect ambiguities.
René Scharfe (5):
  archive: add write_archive()
  archive: move parameter parsing code to archive.c
  archive: define MAX_ARGS where it's needed
  archive: declare struct archiver where it's needed
  archive: allow --exec and --remote without equal sign
SZEDER Gábor (2):
  checkout: mention '--' in the docs
  bash: offer only paths after '--' for 'git checkout'
Stephan Beyer (7):
  git-am: Add colon before the subject that is printed out as being applied
  am --abort: Add to bash-completion and mention in git-rerere
    documentation
  Make non-static functions, that may be static, static
  Move launch_editor() from builtin-tag.c to editor.c
  editor.c: Libify launch_editor()
  git-am: Mention --abort in usage string part of OPTIONS_SPEC
  git-reset: Let -q hush "locally modified" messages
Steve Haslam (2):
  Propagate -u/--upload-pack option of "git clone" to transport.
  Remove references to git-fetch-pack from "git clone" documentation.
Thomas Rast (1):
  git-completion.bash: provide completion for 'show-branch'
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  1. Junio C HamanoJul 26, 2008

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