Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 4, 2007, 12:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703041321290.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v7itx5mep.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * js/attach (Sun Mar 4 00:12:06 2007 +0100) 1 commit
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> [...]
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> * js/symlink (Sat Mar 3 20:38:00 2007 +0100) 3 commits

The prefix system is showing its limitation... :-)

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> * js/gnucl (Fri Mar 2 15:29:08 2007 +0100) 2 commits
>  - --pretty=gnucl: avoid line wrapping before the comma
>  - Add --pretty=gnucl
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> This is to output logs in the GNU ChangeLog format.

FWIW I am opposed to include that. After letting it sink in, Linus' remarks convinced me that this format is not as useful as our other log formats, and for those people who really want it, there is git2cl.

> * js/revert-cherry (Thu Mar 1 05:26:30 2007 +0100) 1 commit
>  + Make git-revert & git-cherry-pick a builtin
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> Will cook for some time.

Yes. I worked with them a bit, but nowhere enough to say that they are not introducing regressions.

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> * js/diff-ni (Sun Feb 25 23:36:53 2007 +0100) 4 commits
>  + Get rid of the dependency to GNU diff in the tests
>  + diff --no-index: support /dev/null as filename
>  + diff-ni: fix the diff with standard input
>  + diff: support reading a file from stdin via "-"
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> I've fixed up this series since it was posted, and I think it is
> in a testable shape now, so it is in 'next'.

Thank you.

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> * js/fetch-progress (Sun Feb 25 13:13:17 2007 -0800) 3 commits
>  . git-fetch: add --quiet
>  + Fixup no-progress for fetch & clone
>  + fetch & clone: do not output progress when not on a tty
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> The early parts that have been in 'next' should be ready to go to 
> 'master' now.  The last one I am not sure.

BTW I just added this to my fetches in crontab: ' | sed -e "s/^.*\r//g"' This is the workaround Nico proposed, only a little bit more obvious (and removable).

Ciao, Dscho