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+To: git@vger.kernel.org
+Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #03; Wed, 14)
+X-master-at: 3cf3b838c7b379824c68ee87799aaaa9028b36cd
+X-next-at: 5b4a894b226c0bf6c51c888eeb06524eeb201ab9
+
+What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #03; Wed, 14)
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+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.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[New Topics]
+
+* kb/am-directory (Sun Jan 11 22:21:48 2009 -0800) 1 commit
+ + git-am: add --directory=<dir> option
+
+This is "third-time-lucky, perhaps?" resurrection.  I do not think I'd be
+using this very often, but it originated from a real user request.
+
+* jk/signal-cleanup (Sun Jan 11 06:36:49 2009 -0500) 3 commits
+ - pager: do wait_for_pager on signal death
+ - refactor signal handling for cleanup functions
+ - chain kill signals for cleanup functions
+
+* kb/lstat-cache (Tue Jan 13 13:29:08 2009 +0100) 5 commits
+ - lstat_cache(): introduce clear_lstat_cache() function
+ - lstat_cache(): introduce invalidate_lstat_cache() function
+ - lstat_cache(): introduce has_dirs_only_path() function
+ - lstat_cache(): introduce has_symlink_or_noent_leading_path()
+   function
+ - lstat_cache(): more cache effective symlink/directory detection
+
+This is the seventh round; although the author asked me not to bother, I
+couldn't resist.  I renamed one helper function while reading the patches
+and made minor adjustments on styles, but it looked reasonable.
+
+* lh/submodule-tree-traversal (Mon Jan 12 00:45:55 2009 +0100) 3 commits
+ - builtin-ls-tree: enable traversal of submodules
+ - archive.c: enable traversal of submodules
+ - tree.c: add support for traversal of submodules
+
+* jc/maint-format-patch-o-relative (Mon Jan 12 15:18:02 2009 -0800) 1 commit
+ - Teach format-patch to handle output directory relative to cwd
+
+This was my lunchtime "this may fix it" response to a breakage report.  I
+haven't really thought things through but my gut feeling is this might
+break things for minorities who are accustomed to the existing behaviour,
+especially wrt the filenames reported on the standard output.
+
+* lt/maint-wrap-zlib (Wed Jan 7 19:54:47 2009 -0800) 1 commit
+ + Wrap inflate and other zlib routines for better error reporting
+
+Needs the "free our memory upon seeing Z_MEM_ERROR and try again" bits
+extracted from Shawn's patch on top of this one.
+
+* js/diff-color-words (Sun Jan 11 21:00:58 2009 +0100) 4 commits
+ - color-words: take an optional regular expression describing words
+ - color-words: refactor to allow for 0-character word boundaries
+ - color-words: refactor word splitting and use ALLOC_GROW()
+ - Add color_fwrite(), a function coloring each line individually
+
+Dscho's series that was done in response to Thomas's original; two agreed
+to work together on this codebase.
+
+* db/foreign-scm (Sun Jan 11 15:12:10 2009 -0500) 3 commits
+ - Support fetching from foreign VCSes
+ - Add specification of git-vcs helpers
+ - Add "vcs" config option in remotes
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[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
+
+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]
+
+* 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
+
+* ks/maint-mailinfo-folded (Mon Jan 12 15:22:11 2009 -0800) 2 commits
+ - mailinfo: 'From:' header should be unfold as well
+ - mailinfo: correctly handle multiline 'Subject:' header
+
+The author seems to have more updates, but I couldn't extract them from
+the e-mail.
+
+* 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
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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
+
+Looked reasonable.
+
+* js/notes (Tue Jan 13 20:57:16 2009 +0100) 6 commits
+ + git-notes: fix printing of multi-line notes
+ + notes: fix core.notesRef documentation
+ + 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
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated to "master"]
+
+* 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
+
+Some of the above will still need to be downmerged to respective
+maintenance branches after they are widely used on 'master'.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[Will merge to "master" soon]
+
+* 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
+
+* 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
+
+* 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
+
+* as/autocorrect-alias (Sun Jan 4 18:16:01 2009 +0100) 1 commit
+ + git.c: make autocorrected aliases work
+
+* 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
+
+* jc/maint-format-patch (Sat Jan 10 12:41:33 2009 -0800) 1 commit
+ + format-patch: show patch text for the root commit
+
+* ap/clone-into-empty (Sun Jan 11 15:19:12 2009 +0300) 2 commits
+ + Allow cloning to an existing empty directory
+ + add is_dot_or_dotdot inline function
+
+* 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
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+[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
+
+* 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
diff --git a/whats/in/2009/01/01.txt b/whats/in/2009/01/01.txt
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+To: git@vger.kernel.org
+Subject: What's in git.git (Jan 2009, #01; Wed, 14)
+X-maint-at: 4f8b8992ef0c009822cdca18d32ddf3a124ee284
+X-master-at: 3cf3b838c7b379824c68ee87799aaaa9028b36cd
+X-maint-was: 936b7057e8401665a2d106e8de018561db6333fe
+X-master-was: c32f76f4d220e5d4d6a599d7a12a50b1e3ceceaf
+
+What's in git.git (Jan 2009, #01; Wed, 14)
+
+  maint 4f8b899 (Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint)
+ master 3cf3b83 (Update 1.6.2 draft release notes)
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Many topics graduated to 'master' and I updated the draft release notes
+for 1.6.2.
+
+* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since the last announcement.
+
+Clemens Buchacher (1):
+  modify/delete conflict resolution overwrites untracked file
+
+Felipe Contreras (1):
+  fast-import: Cleanup mode setting.
+
+Henrik Austad (2):
+  Use capitalized names where appropriate
+  Be consistent in switch usage for tar
+
+Jay Soffian (1):
+  Git.pm: call Error::Simple() properly
+
+Joey Hess (1):
+  README: tutorial.txt is now called gittutorial.txt
+
+Johannes Schindelin (1):
+  merge-recursive: mark rename/delete conflict as unmerged
+
+Junio C Hamano (3):
+  merge-recursive: do not clobber untracked working tree garbage
+  builtin-apply: prevent non-explicit permission changes
+  git checkout: do not allow switching to a tree-ish that is not a commit
+
+Kirill A. Korinskiy (1):
+  http-push: support full URI in handle_remote_ls_ctx()
+
+Markus Heidelberg (1):
+  doc/git-send-email: mention sendemail.cc config variable
+
+Miklos Vajna (1):
+  fast-export: print usage when no options specified
+
+Pierre Habouzit (1):
+  Avoid spurious error messages on error mistakes.
+
+jidanni@jidanni.org (3):
+  Documentation/git-tag.txt: minor typo and grammar fix
+  Documentation/git-push.txt: minor: compress one option
+  contrib/examples/README: give an explanation of the status of these files
+
+
+* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement
+  in addition to the above.
+
+Adeodato Simó (2):
+  builtin-shortlog.c: use string_list_append(), and don't strdup
+    unnecessarily
+  t7501-commit.sh: explicitly check that -F prevents invoking the editor
+
+Alexander Potashev (1):
+  remove trailing LF in die() messages
+
+Charles Bailey (4):
+  Fix some tab/space inconsistencies in git-mergetool.sh
+  Add -y/--no-prompt option to mergetool
+  mergetool: Add prompt to continue after failing to merge a file
+  mergetool: Don't keep temporary merge files unless told to
+
+Christian Couder (1):
+  sha1_file: make "read_object" static
+
+Clemens Buchacher (3):
+  unpack-trees: handle failure in verify_absent
+  unpack-trees: fix path search bug in verify_absent
+  unpack-trees: remove redundant path search in verify_absent
+
+Eric Wong (1):
+  git-svn: add --authors-file test
+
+Fabian Emmes (2):
+  cvsserver: add option to configure commit message
+  cvsserver: change generation of CVS author names
+
+Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
+  gitweb: use href() when generating URLs in OPML
+
+Jakub Narebski (3):
+  gitweb: Move 'lineno' id from link to row element in git_blame
+  gitweb: A bit of code cleanup in git_blame()
+  gitweb: cache $parent_commit info in git_blame()
+
+Jeff King (1):
+  Makefile: clean up TEST_PROGRAMS definition
+
+Johannes Schindelin (5):
+  git wrapper: Make while loop more reader-friendly
+  bisect view: call gitk if Cygwin's SESSIONNAME variable is set
+  bundle: allow rev-list options to exclude annotated tags
+  git add: do not add files from a submodule
+  show <tag>: reuse pp_user_info() instead of duplicating code
+
+Jon Loeliger (1):
+  Fix Documentation typos surrounding the word 'handful'.
+
+Junio C Hamano (2):
+  ls-tree: add --full-tree option
+  Update 1.6.2 draft release notes
+
+Kjetil Barvik (1):
+  Cleanup of unused symcache variable inside diff-lib.c
+
+Lee Marlow (2):
+  bash completion: Add '--intent-to-add' long option for 'git add'
+  bash completion: Use 'git add' completions for 'git stage'
+
+Marcel M. Cary (1):
+  git-sh-setup: Fix scripts whose PWD is a symlink to a work-dir on OS X
+
+Markus Heidelberg (3):
+  git-cherry: make <upstream> parameter optional
+  Documentation: clarify which parameters are optional to git-cherry
+  contrib/vim: change URL to point to the latest syntax files
+
+Matt Kraai (1):
+  gitweb: unify boolean feature subroutines
+
+Miklos Vajna (1):
+  Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
+
+Nanako Shiraishi (1):
+  Document git-ls-tree --full-tree
+
+Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):
+  grep: support --no-ext-grep to test builtin grep
+  grep: grep cache entries if they are "assume unchanged"
+
+Nicolas Pitre (1):
+  objects to be pruned immediately don't have to be loosened
+
+Paul Jarc (1):
+  configure clobbers LDFLAGS
+
+Philippe Bruhat (1):
+  Git.pm: correctly handle directory name that evaluates to "false"
+
+Pierre Habouzit (1):
+  filter-branch: add git_commit_non_empty_tree and --prune-empty.
+
+René Scharfe (2):
+  diff: add option to show context between close hunks
+  strbuf: instate cleanup rule in case of non-memory errors
+
+SZEDER Gábor (1):
+  bash: add '--merge' to 'git reset'
+
+William Pursell (2):
+  Add subroutine to display one-line summary of hunks
+  Add 'g' command to go to a hunk
+