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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2009, #03; Sun, 15)

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
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Nov 15, 2009, 22:26 UTC
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On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> * sr/vcs-helper (2009-11-06) 12 commits
>  - Add Python support library for remote helpers
>  - Basic build infrastructure for Python scripts
>  - Allow helpers to request the path to the .git directory
>  - Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged
>  - Allow helper to map private ref names into normal names
>  - Add support for "import" helper command
>  - Allow specifying the remote helper in the url
>  - Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs
>  - Allow fetch to modify refs
>  - Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid
>  - Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls
>  - Fix memory leak in helper method for disconnect
> 
> Re-rolled series that contains Daniel's and Johan's.
> Any comments?  Is everybody happy?

My initial cleanup for "Allow helper to map private ref names into normal names" was wrong (and the original was supposed to be RFC, and isn't signed-off); I identified the bug he reported in it, but haven't gotten positive test results from him yet, and the series obviously needs a proper version rolled in before it goes into next.

	-Daniel
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  1. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2009
  2. Daniel BarkalowNov 15, 2009
  3. Sverre RabbelierNov 15, 2009
  4. Daniel BarkalowNov 16, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2009
  6. Peter WeselohNov 15, 2009
  7. James PickensNov 16, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2009

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