# What's in git.git

2 messages from 2006-05-04 to 2006-05-04. Participants: Junio C Hamano, Petr Baudis.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4052

## Junio C Hamano, 2006-05-04 08:14

Subject: What's in git.git
Message-ID: <7vbque5hq9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vbque5hq9.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

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* Latest maintenance release 1.3.2 is out from the 'maint' branch.

* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement, not
  counting what is in v1.3.2.

 - blame path-pruning fix (Fredrik Kuivinen)

 - built-in push (Linus, Johannes Schindelin)

 - beginning of "put remotes/ info in config file" (Johannes Schindelin)

 - repo-config updates and fixes (Johannes Schindelin)

 - built-in count-objects and diff

 - core.prefersymlinkrefs can be given to use symlink HEAD;
   this may be needed to bisect kernel history before January
   2006 whose setlocalversion script depended on HEAD being a
   symlink.

 - "git-log --parents" fix (Linus)

 - use rev-list instead of log in git-cvsserver (Martin Langhoff)

 - sha1_to_hex() usage cleanup (Linus)

 - Document update-index --unresolve (Matthias Kestenholz)


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

 - "put remotes/ info in config file" for fetch side (Johannes Schindelin)

 - built-in grep

   It now knows all the common grep options I personally use,
   including -l, -w, -E, -i, -[ABC]<n>, -v; I am planning to
   push this out perhaps mid next week.

 - built-in format-patch WIP

   I really should resume working on this again...

 - cache-tree

   Fixed a rather nasty bug; should be safe again to use it now.

 - get_sha1(): :path and :[0-3]:path to extract from index.

 - diff-delta enhancements (Nicolas Pitre)


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

 - partial tree reading/writing with --prefix option.

 - Transitively read alternatives (Martin Waitz)

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## Petr Baudis, 2006-05-04 09:06

Subject: Re: What's in git.git
Message-ID: <20060504090631.GV27689@pasky.or.cz>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060504090631.GV27689%40pasky.or.cz
In-Reply-To: <7vbque5hq9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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Dear diary, on Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:14:54AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
>  - core.prefersymlinkrefs can be given to use symlink HEAD;
>    this may be needed to bisect kernel history before January
>    2006 whose setlocalversion script depended on HEAD being a
>    symlink.

Oh, I expected this to end up in 1.3.2, actually. :-)

Shouldn't this belong to the maint branch? It is "physically" a new
feature but I would consider "cannot bisect kernel before January" a bug
certainly worth fixing and the feature is pretty tiny. (It seems to be
backwards-incompatible but that only means you should provide some
transition path, I think. ;)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.

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