What's cooking #3 of Nov 2008

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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #03; Sun, 09)
+X-master-at: a9645b780b698703cd7dee25051d6ce39b0544c6
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+What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #03; Sun, 09)
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed
+with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are
+in 'next'.
+
+The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order.  The topics
+meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[New Topics]
+
+* jk/deny-push-to-current (Sat Nov 8 20:49:27 2008 -0500) 2 commits
+ + receive-pack: detect push to current branch of non-bare repo
+ + t5516: refactor oddball tests
+
+* dl/xdiff (Fri Nov 7 21:24:33 2008 -0800) 1 commit
+ + xdiff: give up scanning similar lines early
+
+This performance fix may eventually need to be cherry-picked to 'maint'.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated to "master"]
+
+* cb/maint-update-ref-fix (Wed Nov 5 21:55:54 2008 +0100) 2 commits
+ + push: fix local refs update if already up-to-date
+ + do not force write of packed refs
+
+* rs/blame (Sat Oct 25 15:31:36 2008 +0200) 5 commits
+ + blame: use xdi_diff_hunks(), get rid of struct patch
+ + add xdi_diff_hunks() for callers that only need hunk lengths
+ + Allow alternate "low-level" emit function from xdl_diff
+ + Always initialize xpparam_t to 0
+ + blame: inline get_patch()
+
+* ds/autoconf (Sun Oct 26 03:52:19 2008 -0800) 1 commit
+ + autoconf: Add link tests to each AC_CHECK_FUNC() test
+
+Attempts to help FreeBSD whose compiler does not error out when told to
+compile a program that calls unavailable functions.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Actively Cooking]
+
+* gb/gitweb-snapshot-pathinfo (Sun Nov 2 10:21:39 2008 +0100) 3 commits
+ + gitweb: embed snapshot format parameter in PATH_INFO
+ + gitweb: retrieve snapshot format from PATH_INFO
+ + gitweb: make the supported snapshot formats array global
+
+Got sick of waiting for re-Ack.  Merged to 'next'.
+
+* jn/gitweb-customlinks (Sun Oct 12 00:02:32 2008 +0200) 1 commit
+ + gitweb: Better processing format string in custom links in navbar
+
+Got sick of waiting for some sort of response from Pasky.  Merged to 'next'.
+
+* st/tag (Wed Nov 5 00:20:36 2008 +0100) 2 commits
+ + tag: Add more tests about mixing incompatible modes and options
+ + tag: Check that options are only allowed in the appropriate mode
+
+* np/pack-safer (Sun Nov 9 13:11:06 2008 -0800) 11 commits
+ + t5303: fix printf format string for portability
+ + t5303: work around printf breakage in dash
+ + pack-objects: don't leak pack window reference when splitting
+   packs
+ + extend test coverage for latest pack corruption resilience
+   improvements
+ + pack-objects: allow "fixing" a corrupted pack without a full
+   repack
+ + make find_pack_revindex() aware of the nasty world
+ + make check_object() resilient to pack corruptions
+ + make packed_object_info() resilient to pack corruptions
+ + make unpack_object_header() non fatal
+ + better validation on delta base object offsets
+ + close another possibility for propagating pack corruption
+
+* mv/remote-rename (Mon Nov 3 19:26:18 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ + Implement git remote rename
+
+* lt/decorate (Mon Nov 3 11:25:46 2008 -0800) 4 commits
+ + revision traversal: '--simplify-by-decoration'
+ + Make '--decorate' set an explicit 'show_decorations' flag
+ + revision: make tree comparison functions take commits rather than
+   trees
+ + Add a 'source' decorator for commits
+
+* ds/uintmax-config (Mon Nov 3 09:14:28 2008 -0900) 5 commits
+ - autoconf: Enable threaded delta search when pthreads are supported
+ + Add autoconf tests for pthreads
+ + Make Pthread link flags configurable
+ + Add Makefile check for FreeBSD 4.9-SECURITY
+ + Build: add NO_UINTMAX_T to support ancient systems
+
+I split the part that unconditionally enable threaded delta search on any
+platform on which Pthread library is detected to be available from the
+topmost one.
+
+* jk/diff-convfilter (Sun Oct 26 00:50:02 2008 -0400) 8 commits
+ + enable textconv for diff in verbose status/commit
+ + wt-status: load diff ui config
+ + only textconv regular files
+ + userdiff: require explicitly allowing textconv
+ + refactor userdiff textconv code
+ + add userdiff textconv tests
+ + document the diff driver textconv feature
+ + diff: add missing static declaration
+
+* jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix (Fri Oct 31 01:09:13 2008 -0400) 4 commits
+ + Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.
+ + add userdiff textconv tests
+ + document the diff driver textconv feature
+ + diff: add missing static declaration
+
+An update to the one above.
+
+* jc/blame (Wed Jun 4 22:58:40 2008 -0700) 2 commits
+ + blame: show "previous" information in --porcelain/--incremental
+   format
+ + git-blame: refactor code to emit "porcelain format" output
+
+* nd/narrow (Wed Oct 1 11:04:09 2008 +0700) 9 commits
+ - grep: skip files outside sparse checkout area
+ - checkout_entry(): CE_NO_CHECKOUT on checked out entries.
+ - Prevent diff machinery from examining worktree outside sparse
+   checkout
+ - ls-files: Add tests for --sparse and friends
+ - update-index: add --checkout/--no-checkout to update
+   CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
+ - update-index: refactor mark_valid() in preparation for new options
+ - ls-files: add options to support sparse checkout
+ - Introduce CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
+ - Extend index to save more flags
+
+Early parts looked Ok; I am trying to find time to review the whole thing
+but fixing bugs in topics from other people here and there took almost all
+my time this weekend.  Not good.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Dropped]
+
+* bc/maint-keep-pack (Mon Nov 3 14:43:22 2008 -0600) 3 commits
+ . pack-objects: honor '.keep' files
+ . packed_git: convert pack_local flag into a bitfield and add
+   pack_keep
+ . t7700: demonstrate mishandling of objects in packs with a .keep
+   file
+
+It seems this is better rethought from the design level.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[On Hold]
+
+* jc/send-pack-tell-me-more (Thu Mar 20 00:44:11 2008 -0700) 1 commit
+ - "git push": tellme-more protocol extension
+
+This seems to have a deadlock during communication between the peers.
+Someone needs to pick up this topic and resolve the deadlock before it can
+continue.
+
+* jk/renamelimit (Sat May 3 13:58:42 2008 -0700) 1 commit
+ - diff: enable "too large a rename" warning when -M/-C is explicitly
+   asked for
+
+This would be the right thing to do for command line use,
+but gitk will be hit due to tcl/tk's limitation, so I am holding
+this back for now.