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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 22, 2008, 11:35 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805221212200.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <7vabijxhk4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * js/config-cb (Wed May 14 18:46:53 2008 +0100) 1 commit
>  - Provide git_config with a callback-data parameter
> 
> This needs to wait until most of the other things graduate for 1.5.6; 
> luckily, unlike the other "path-list" changes, misconversions is much 
> easier to catch for this change and I am not worried about it.

Just let me know when to resubmit, and against what branch(es).

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> * js/mailinfo (Fri May 16 14:03:30 2008 +0100) 1 commit
>  - <<PARK - BASE64 and QP still broken>> mailsplit and mailinfo:
>    gracefully handle NUL characters
> 
> When "am" processes a patch that modifies a line with NUL, we used to
> chomp the patch line there, resulting in rejects.  This patch fixes the
> issue partially, only when the message is not encoded in BASE64 nor
> Quoted-Printable.

Like I said, I would be happy if Tommy took care of that patch.

> * js/ignore-submodule (Wed May 14 18:03:59 2008 +0100) 3 commits
>  + Ignore dirty submodule states during rebase and stash
>  + Teach update-index about --ignore-submodules
>  + diff options: Introduce --ignore-submodules

I haven't heard back from you about renaming that option. I think I suggested --non-gitlinks or something equally discouraging for porcelain users.

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> * as/graph (Mon May 5 00:57:03 2008 -0700) 4 commits
>  + graph API: eliminate unnecessary indentation
>  + log and rev-list: add --graph option
>  + Add history graph API
>  + revision API: split parent rewriting and parent printing options
> 
> Draw "tig 'g'" graph without tig ;-)

I am a big fan of this feature.

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> * db/clone-in-c (Tue May 20 14:15:14 2008 -0400) 11 commits
>  + clone: fall back to copying if hardlinking fails
>  + builtin-clone.c: Need to closedir() in copy_or_link_directory()
>  + builtin-clone: fix initial checkout
>  + Build in clone
>  + Provide API access to init_db()
>  + Add a function to set a non-default work tree
>  + Allow for having for_each_ref() list extra refs
>  + Have a constant extern refspec for "--tags"
>  + Add a library function to add an alternate to the alternates file
>  + Add a lockfile function to append to a file
>  + Mark the list of refs to fetch as const

Fingers crossed.

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> * js/rebase-i-sequencer (Sun Apr 27 02:55:50 2008 -0400) 17 commits
>  + Use perl instead of tac
>  + Fix t3404 assumption that `wc -l` does not use whitespace.
>  + rebase -i: Use : in expr command instead of match.
>  + rebase -i: update the implementation of 'mark' command
>  + Add option --preserve-tags
>  + Teach rebase interactive the tag command
>  + Add option --first-parent
>  + Do rebase with preserve merges with advanced TODO list
>  + Select all lines with fake-editor
>  + Unify the length of $SHORT* and the commits in the TODO list
>  + Teach rebase interactive the merge command
>  + Move redo merge code in a function
>  + Teach rebase interactive the reset command
>  + Teach rebase interactive the mark command
>  + Move cleanup code into it's own function
>  + Don't append default merge message to -m message
>  + fake-editor: output TODO list if unchanged
> 
> This may complement the proposed "sequencer" GSoC project.  Dscho seems 
> to have quite a strong objection to the 'mark' syntax and mechanism 
> being unnecessarily complex.  Let's wait and see if a less complex but 
> equally expressive alternative materializes...

Yeah, I know.  My backlog is growing and growing.

Ciao, Dscho