Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #01; Sun, 02)

> 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.
>
> There are backlog patches I'm planning to deal with later today; they do
> not appear in this list.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> [New Topics]
>
> * mv/maint-branch-m-symref (Sat Nov 1 00:25:44 2008 +0100) 5 commits
>  + update-ref --no-deref -d: handle the case when the pointed ref is
>   packed
>  + git branch -m: forbid renaming of a symref
>  + Fix git update-ref --no-deref -d.
>  + rename_ref(): handle the case when the reflog of a ref does not
>   exist
>  + Fix git branch -m for symrefs.
>
> * rs/blame (Sat Oct 25 15:31:36 2008 +0200) 5 commits
>  - blame: use xdi_diff_hunks(), get rid of struct patch
>  - add xdi_diff_hunks() for callers that only need hunk lengths
>  - Allow alternate "low-level" emit function from xdl_diff
>  - Always initialize xpparam_t to 0
>  - blame: inline get_patch()
>
> * ds/uintmax-config (Sun Oct 26 03:52:47 2008 -0800) 2 commits
>  - Add Makefile check for FreeBSD 4.9-SECURITY
>  - Build: add NO_UINTMAX_T to support ancient systems
>
> I amended the topmost one to widen the applicability of this new feature
> to all FreeBSD 4.*, not limited to 4.9-SECURITY; testing before this hits
> 'next' is appreciated.
>
> * ds/autoconf (Sun Nov 2 01:04:46 2008 -0700) 2 commits
>  - DONTMERGE: fixup with a convenience macro
>  - autoconf: Add link tests to each AC_CHECK_FUNC() test
>
> The topmost one is my attempt to simplify the new way of checking; the
> resulting configure.ac produces the identical configure script with or
> without it, so I think it is Ok, but testing before this hits 'next' is
> appreciated.  If all goes well, I think the two should be squashed into
> one patch.