What's cooking issue #2 of Jan'09

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+To: git@vger.kernel.org
+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #02; Sun, 11)
+X-master-at: 7eb5bbdb645e04d746bc0edea102744f50a5e529
+X-next-at: 1b01dafc9b8818adbe83018ebe1c21daf7fbed87
+
+What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #02; Sun, 11)
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed
+with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are
+in 'next'.  The ones marked with '.' do not appear in any of the branches,
+but I am still holding onto them.
+
+The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order.  The topics
+meant to be merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.
+
+Sorry to have been lagging a bit.  There are a few patches I am interested
+in but haven't studied yet nor mentioned here.  I've been swamped outside
+git lately for the past few days, but hopefully I can get to them shortly.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[New Topics]
+
+* rs/fgrep (Sat Jan 10 00:18:34 2009 +0100) 2 commits
+ + grep: don't call regexec() for fixed strings
+ + grep -w: forward to next possible position after rejected match
+
+* lt/zlib-wrap-xprm (Wed Jan 7 19:54:47 2009 -0800) 1 commit
+ - Wrap inflateInit to retry allocation after releasing pack memory
+
+Need to clean up the log message, perhaps rebase it to maint-1.6.0 and
+start cooking in 'next'.
+
+* jc/maint-format-patch (Sat Jan 10 12:41:33 2009 -0800) 1 commit
+ + format-patch: show patch text for the root commit
+
+* tr/maint-no-index-fixes (Wed Jan 7 12:15:30 2009 +0100) 3 commits
+ + diff --no-index -q: fix endless loop
+ + diff --no-index: test for pager after option parsing
+ + diff: accept -- when using --no-index
+
+* gb/gitweb-opml (Fri Jan 2 13:49:30 2009 +0100) 2 commits
+ - gitweb: suggest name for OPML view
+ - gitweb: don't use pathinfo for global actions
+
+* mh/maint-commit-color-status (Thu Jan 8 19:53:05 2009 +0100) 2 commits
+ - git-status -v: color diff output when color.ui is set
+ - git-commit: color status output when color.ui is set
+
+* ks/maint-mailinfo-folded (Thu Jan 8 01:43:42 2009 +0300) 1 commit
+ - mailinfo: correctly handle multiline 'Subject:' header
+
+* js/patience-diff (Thu Jan 1 17:39:37 2009 +0100) 3 commits
+ - bash completions: Add the --patience option
+ - Introduce the diff option '--patience'
+ - Implement the patience diff algorithm
+
+All of the above 'pu' topics are ready for 'next'.
+
+* ap/clone-into-empty (Fri Jan 9 02:24:23 2009 +0300) 2 commits
+ - Use is_pseudo_dir_name everywhere
+ - Allow cloning to an existing empty directory
+
+There is an updated patch that only refactors the repeated code to check
+if a dirent is dot or dot-dot posted, which I should have picked up to
+replace these but I haven't yet (the "clone into empty" can and should
+build on top of it).
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Stalled and may need help and prodding to go forward]
+
+* ds/uintmax-config (Mon Nov 3 09:14:28 2008 -0900) 1 commit
+ - autoconf: Enable threaded delta search when pthreads are supported
+
+This automatically enables threaded delta search code when autoconf
+detects pthreads are usable.  I haven't heard neither positive nor
+negative comments from minority platforms that might be harmed, but
+this feels like the right thing to do, so perhaps the best course of
+action is to merge this down to 'master' and see if anybody screams.
+
+* 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
+
+This gives Porcelains (like gitweb) the information on the commit _before_
+the one that the final blame is laid on, which should save them one
+rev-parse to dig further.  The line number in the "previous" information
+may need refining, and sanity checking code for reference counting may
+need to be resurrected before this can move forward.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Actively cooking]
+
+* mv/apply-parse-opt (Fri Jan 9 22:21:36 2009 -0800) 2 commits
+ + Resurrect "git apply --flags -" to read from the standard input
+ + parse-opt: migrate builtin-apply.
+
+* rs/maint-shortlog-foldline (Tue Jan 6 21:41:06 2009 +0100) 1 commit
+ + shortlog: handle multi-line subjects like log --pretty=oneline et.
+   al. do
+
+* tr/rebase-root (Fri Jan 2 23:28:29 2009 +0100) 4 commits
+ - rebase: update documentation for --root
+ - rebase -i: learn to rebase root commit
+ - rebase: learn to rebase root commit
+ - rebase -i: execute hook only after argument checking
+
+I should be able to find time to read this over again and merge to
+'next' sometime this week.
+
+* as/autocorrect-alias (Sun Jan 4 18:16:01 2009 +0100) 1 commit
+ + git.c: make autocorrected aliases work
+
+* js/notes (Sat Dec 20 13:06:03 2008 +0100) 4 commits
+ - Add an expensive test for git-notes
+ - Speed up git notes lookup
+ - Add a script to edit/inspect notes
+ - Introduce commit notes
+
+* sc/gitweb-category (Fri Dec 12 00:45:12 2008 +0100) 3 commits
+ - gitweb: Optional grouping of projects by category
+ - gitweb: Split git_project_list_body in two functions
+ - gitweb: Modularized git_get_project_description to be more generic
+
+* gb/gitweb-patch (Thu Dec 18 08:13:19 2008 +0100) 4 commits
+ - gitweb: link to patch(es) view in commit(diff) and (short)log view
+ - gitweb: add patches view
+ - gitweb: change call pattern for git_commitdiff
+ - gitweb: add patch view
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated to "master"]
+
+* mh/maint-sendmail-cc-doc (Mon Dec 29 00:37:25 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ + doc/git-send-email: mention sendemail.cc config variable
+
+* rs/diff-ihc (Sun Dec 28 19:45:32 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ + diff: add option to show context between close hunks
+
+* js/maint-merge-recursive-r-d-conflict (Mon Dec 22 23:10:20 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ + merge-recursive: mark rename/delete conflict as unmerged
+
+* mk/gitweb-feature (Mon Dec 15 22:16:19 2008 -0800) 1 commit
+ + gitweb: unify boolean feature subroutines
+
+* cb/merge-recursive-fix (Mon Dec 15 02:41:24 2008 -0800) 3 commits
+ + Merge branch 'cb/maint-merge-recursive-fix' into cb/merge-
+   recursive-fix
+ + merge-recursive: do not clobber untracked working tree garbage
+ + modify/delete conflict resolution overwrites untracked file
+
+* cb/maint-merge-recursive-fix (Sun Dec 14 19:40:09 2008 -0800) 2 commits
+ + merge-recursive: do not clobber untracked working tree garbage
+ + modify/delete conflict resolution overwrites untracked file
+
+* wp/add-p-goto (Thu Dec 4 10:22:40 2008 +0000) 2 commits
+ + Add 'g' command to go to a hunk
+ + Add subroutine to display one-line summary of hunks
+
+* jn/gitweb-blame (Thu Dec 11 01:33:29 2008 +0100) 3 commits
+ + gitweb: cache $parent_commit info in git_blame()
+ + gitweb: A bit of code cleanup in git_blame()
+ + gitweb: Move 'lineno' id from link to row element in git_blame
+
+* mv/um-pdf (Wed Dec 10 23:44:50 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ + Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
+
+* kk/maint-http-push (Tue Dec 23 11:31:15 2008 +0300) 1 commit
+ + http-push: support full URI in handle_remote_ls_ctx()
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Will merge to "master" soon]
+
+* nd/grep-assume-unchanged (Sat Dec 27 15:21:03 2008 +0700) 2 commits
+ + grep: grep cache entries if they are "assume unchanged"
+ + grep: support --no-ext-grep to test builtin grep
+
+* as/maint-shortlog-cleanup (Tue Dec 30 22:01:44 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ + builtin-shortlog.c: use string_list_append(), and don't strdup
+   unnecessarily
+
+* jc/maint-ls-tree (Wed Dec 31 19:00:50 2008 +0900) 2 commits
+ + Document git-ls-tree --full-tree
+ + ls-tree: add --full-tree option
+
+* js/bundle-tags (Fri Jan 2 19:08:46 2009 +0100) 1 commit
+ + bundle: allow rev-list options to exclude annotated tags
+
+* js/add-not-submodule (Fri Jan 2 19:08:40 2009 +0100) 1 commit
+ + git add: do not add files from a submodule
+
+* pb/maint-git-pm-false-dir (Mon Dec 29 01:25:00 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ + Git.pm: correctly handle directory name that evaluates to "false"
+
+* pj/maint-ldflags (Sun Jan 4 21:27:41 2009 -0500) 1 commit
+ + configure clobbers LDFLAGS
+
+* fe/cvsserver (Fri Jan 2 16:40:14 2009 +0100) 2 commits
+ + cvsserver: change generation of CVS author names
+ + cvsserver: add option to configure commit message
+
+* js/maint-bisect-gitk (Fri Jan 2 19:08:00 2009 +0100) 1 commit
+ + bisect view: call gitk if Cygwin's SESSIONNAME variable is set
+
+* np/no-loosen-prune-expire-now (Tue Dec 30 14:45:11 2008 -0500) 1 commit
+ + objects to be pruned immediately don't have to be loosened
+
+* cb/maint-unpack-trees-absense (Thu Jan 1 21:54:33 2009 +0100) 3 commits
+ + unpack-trees: remove redundant path search in verify_absent
+ + unpack-trees: fix path search bug in verify_absent
+ + unpack-trees: handle failure in verify_absent
+
+* mc/cd-p-pwd (Tue Dec 30 07:10:24 2008 -0800) 1 commit
+ + git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink to a work-dir on
+   OS X
+
+* mh/cherry-default (Thu Jan 1 22:56:29 2009 +0100) 2 commits
+ + Documentation: clarify which parameters are optional to git-cherry
+ + git-cherry: make <upstream> parameter optional
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Will drop]
+
+* as/commit-signoff (Mon Dec 29 12:16:45 2008 +0100) 1 commit
+ - [WIP] Add a commit.signoff configuration option to always use --
+   signoff in commit
+
+The semantics when "git commit" was used as a backend for other actions
+such as rebase and cherry-pick was unclear.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[On Hold]
+
+* 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.
+
+* jc/stripspace (Sun Mar 9 00:30:35 2008 -0800) 6 commits
+ - git-am --forge: add Signed-off-by: line for the author
+ - git-am: clean-up Signed-off-by: lines
+ - stripspace: add --log-clean option to clean up signed-off-by:
+   lines
+ - stripspace: use parse_options()
+ - Add "git am -s" test
+ - git-am: refactor code to add signed-off-by line for the committer