# What's in git.git

1 messages from 2006-02-19 to 2006-02-19. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3390

## Junio C Hamano, 2006-02-19 08:56

Subject: What's in git.git
Message-ID: <7vy807k9pv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vy807k9pv.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

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* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement.

Alexandre Julliard:
      Add an Emacs interface in contrib.

Aneesh Kumar:
      Add contrib/gitview from Aneesh.

Aneesh Kumar K.V:
      Add a README for gitview
      gitview: typofix

Carl Worth:
      Trap exit to clean up created directory if clone fails.
      Abstract test_create_repo out for use in tests.
      Prevent git-upload-pack segfault if object cannot be found

Eric Wong:
      Introducing contrib/git-svn.
      git-svn: fix revision order when XML::Simple is not loaded
      git-svn: ensure fetch always works chronologically.
      git-svn: remove files from the index before adding/updating
      archimport: remove files from the index before adding/updating

Fernando J. Pereda:
      Allow building Git in systems without iconv

Jonas Fonseca:
      git-rev-parse: Fix --short= option parsing
      Document --short and --git-dir in git-rev-parse(1)

Junio C Hamano:
      rebase: allow rebasing onto different base.
      Detect misspelled pathspec to git-add
      topo-order: make --date-order optional.
      git-tag: -l to list tags (usability).
      Add contrib/README.
      SubmittingPatches: note on whitespaces

Martin Mares:
      Fix retries in git-cvsimport

Shawn Pearce:
      Make git-reset delete empty directories


* The 'next' branch, in addition, has these.

Johannes Schindelin:
      Fix cpio call
      Optionally support old diffs
      Support Irix
      Optionally work without python

Junio C Hamano:
      pack-objects: reuse data from existing packs.
      pack-objects: finishing touches.
      git-repack: allow passing a couple of flags to pack-objects.
      pack-objects: avoid delta chains that are too long.
      Make "empty ident" error message a bit more helpful.
      Delay "empty ident" errors until they really matter.
      Keep Porcelainish from failing by broken ident after making changes.
      fmt-merge-msg: say which branch things were merged into unless 'master'
      Allow git-mv to accept ./ in paths.

Linus Torvalds:
      Handling large files with GIT
      Handling large files with GIT
      git-merge-tree: generalize the "traverse <n> trees in sync" functionality


* The 'pu' branch, in addition, has these.

Johannes Schindelin:
      Fixes for ancient versions of GNU make

Junio C Hamano:
      read-tree: --prefix=<path>/ option.
      write-tree: --prefix=<path>/ and --exclude=<prefix>/.
      commit-tree: --bind <sha1> <path>/ option.
      rev-list: simplify --object list generation.
      rev-list: understand bound commits.
      fsck-objects, convert-objects: understand bound commits.

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