What's cooking 2nd issue of Nov 2008

whats/cooking/2008/11/02.txt

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+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #02; Wed, 05)
+X-master-at: 6331adb9c4ec36c70dc3ecc6eb46b7dddb36952d
+X-next-at: f3cb49705482a19c16f6c9f5b6dab6181cc656d2
+
+What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #02; Wed, 05)
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+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]
+
+* 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
+
+Waiting for re-Ack.
+
+* 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
+
+* 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
+
+Still needs fix not to update unchanged refs.
+
+* np/pack-safer (Wed Oct 29 19:02:52 2008 -0400) 9 commits
+ - 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
+
+* 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
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated to "master"]
+
+* mv/maint-branch-m-symref (Sat Nov 1 00:25:44 2008 +0100) 5 commits
+ + update-ref --no-deref -d: handle the case when the pointed ref is
+   packed
+ + git branch -m: forbid renaming of a symref
+ + Fix git update-ref --no-deref -d.
+ + rename_ref(): handle the case when the reflog of a ref does not
+   exist
+ + Fix git branch -m for symrefs.
+
+Will merge down to 'maint' in the next round.
+
+* ar/maint-mksnpath (Mon Oct 27 11:22:09 2008 +0100) 7 commits
+ + Use git_pathdup instead of xstrdup(git_path(...))
+ + git_pathdup: returns xstrdup-ed copy of the formatted path
+ + Fix potentially dangerous use of git_path in ref.c
+ + Add git_snpath: a .git path formatting routine with output buffer
+ + Fix potentially dangerous uses of mkpath and git_path
+ + Fix mkpath abuse in dwim_ref and dwim_log of sha1_name.c
+ + Add mksnpath which allows you to specify the output buffer
+
+Will merge down to 'maint' in the next round.
+
+* cj/maint-gitpm-fix-maybe-self (Sat Oct 18 20:25:12 2008 +0200) 1 commit
+ + Git.pm: do not break inheritance
+
+Will merge down to 'maint' in the next round.
+
+* gb/gitweb-pathinfo (Tue Oct 21 21:34:54 2008 +0200) 5 commits
+ + gitweb: generate parent..current URLs
+ + gitweb: parse parent..current syntax from PATH_INFO
+ + gitweb: use_pathinfo filenames start with /
+ + gitweb: generate project/action/hash URLs
+ + gitweb: parse project/action/hash_base:filename PATH_INFO
+
+Seventh iteration.
+
+* ag/blame-encoding (Wed Oct 22 00:55:57 2008 +0400) 1 commit
+ + builtin-blame: Reencode commit messages according to git-log
+   rules.
+
+* mv/parseopt-checkout-index (Sat Oct 18 03:17:23 2008 +0200) 1 commit
+ + parse-opt: migrate builtin-checkout-index.
+
+* sh/rebase-i-p (Wed Oct 22 11:59:30 2008 -0700) 9 commits
+ + git-rebase--interactive.sh: comparision with == is bashism
+ + rebase-i-p: minimum fix to obvious issues
+ + rebase-i-p: if todo was reordered use HEAD as the rewritten parent
+ + rebase-i-p: do not include non-first-parent commits touching
+   UPSTREAM
+ + rebase-i-p: only list commits that require rewriting in todo
+ + rebase-i-p: fix 'no squashing merges' tripping up non-merges
+ + rebase-i-p: delay saving current-commit to REWRITTEN if squashing
+ + rebase-i-p: use HEAD for updating the ref instead of mapping
+   OLDHEAD
+ + rebase-i-p: test to exclude commits from todo based on its parents
+
+Changes the `rebase -i -p` behavior to behave like git sequencer's
+rewrite of `rebase -i` would behave.
+
+* np/index-pack (Thu Oct 23 15:05:59 2008 -0400) 5 commits
+ + index-pack: don't leak leaf delta result
+ + improve index-pack tests
+ + fix multiple issues in index-pack
+ + index-pack: smarter memory usage during delta resolution
+ + index-pack: rationalize delta resolution code
+
+The buglets that caused people on 'next' some surprises are quickly
+killed.  Thanks.
+
+* jc/gitweb-fix-cloud-tag (Tue Oct 14 21:27:12 2008 -0700) 1 commit
+ + Fix reading of cloud tags
+
+Got tired of waiting for an Ack.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Actively Cooking]
+
+* 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/uintmax-config (Mon Nov 3 09:14:28 2008 -0900) 4 commits
+ . [WaitForResponse] 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
+
+The topmost one unconditionally enables threaded delta search on any
+platform on which Pthread library is detected to be available, which
+may not be what we want.
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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) 1 commit
+ + Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.
+
+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
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Stalled]
+
+* 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
+
+Needs review.
+
+* jn/gitweb-customlinks (Sun Oct 12 00:02:32 2008 +0200) 1 commit
+ - gitweb: Better processing format string in custom links in navbar
+
+Waiting for some sort of response from Pasky.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[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.