What's cooking in git.git (topics)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Here are the topics that have been cooking.  Commits prefixed
with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are
in 'next'.  Others commits may be stashed in 'offcuts'.

The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order.

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[New Topics]

* ab/pserver (Fri Dec 14 04:08:51 2007 +0000) 1 commit
 - Authentication support for pserver

This needs careful security audit and a fix to its password
database format.  Plaintext in .git/config is not acceptable.

* rs/pretty-safety (Thu Dec 20 13:20:15 2007 +0100) 1 commit
 - Serious bug with pretty format strings & empty bodies?

I do not think what this addresses is any "serious" problem in
real life.  But on the other hand I do not think it hurts.  Will
take a look at it again and will merge.

* ar/commit-cleanup (Sat Dec 22 19:46:24 2007 +0100) 4 commits
 + Allow selection of different cleanup modes for commit messages
 + builtin-commit: avoid double-negation in the code.
 + builtin-commit: fix amending of the initial commit
 + t7005: do not exit inside test.

This is cleaned up since the last version Alex posted, and the
first three are fixes and clean-ups, so they will be merged.
The primary purpose of this series by Alex is to allow commits
to be made verbatim without stripping lines that begin with '#'
in the commit log messages, which would be a worthy goal, so I
do not mind merging it in 1.5.4.

* ph/describe-match (Fri Dec 21 22:49:54 2007 +0100) 1 commit
 + git-describe: Add a --match option to limit considered tags.

Even though this is a new feature, the impact to the main
codepath is minimum and I think it is Ok to merge it in 1.5.4,
but still seems to have a funny interaction with --contains.  So
it will be on hold.

* jc/sys-select (Tue Dec 18 01:52:07 2007 -0800) 1 commit
 - Do not include <sys/select.h> on pre- POSIX.1-2001 systems

This was done to help HP-UX port, but it appears that HP-UX
headers do not like to cooperate with usual _POSIX_VERSION rule,
so we probably need to scrap it and instead use manual
configuration instead.

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[Graduated to 'master']

* jc/api-doc (Sat Nov 24 23:48:04 2007 -0800) 1 commit

The primary reason of this series is because I think we made the system
a lot less approachable by losing hackability.  Although we still have
sample scripts in contrib/example for use of plumbing in scripts, they
will not help aspiring git-hacker-wannabees when our primary attention
has already shifted to moving things to C.

This currently consists of mostly stubs, although I wrote about a few
topics as examples.  Nice to have in v1.5.4, but we need more writers.

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[Will cook further in 'next' and then merge to 'master' soon]

Nothing to see.  We are in -rc.  Please test 'master'.

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[Actively cooking]

Nothing to see.  We are in -rc.  Please test 'master'.

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[On hold]

* nd/dashless (Wed Nov 28 23:21:57 2007 +0700) 1 commit
 - Move all dashed-form commands to libexecdir

I think this is a sane thing to do in the longer term.  Will be in
'next' after v1.5.4.  I think "leave porcelain on PATH" might be also a
good thing as a transition measure.

Incidentally, if we do not install dashed form of built-ins anywhere
(which is not this series is about --- this is just moving them out of
user's PATH), "git help -a" will stop showing them.  I am not enthused
about removing the hardlinks to built-ins to begin with, but people who
want such a change need to first modify help.c:list_commands() to pick
up builtins without having git-foo hardlinks in gitexecdir.  This may
need to happen anyway as mingw fallouts.

* js/remote (Wed Dec 5 19:02:15 2007 +0000) 4 commits
 . Make git-remote a builtin
 . Test "git remote show" and "git remote prune"
 . parseopt: add flag to stop on first non option
 . path-list: add functions to work with unsorted lists

This and Kristian's "git-clone in C" are on hold and will need
to be rebased, post 1.5.4.

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[Stalled]

* ns/checkout-push-pop (Wed Dec 5 07:04:06 2007 +0900) 1 commit
 - git-checkout --push/--pop

A reasonably cleanly written cute hack, and I do not see this breaking
the normal codepath.  But I tend to agree with people that 'push' is
too late for forgetful mortals, and just a single "previous" would be
easier to use.

* jc/git-symref (Tue Dec 11 16:42:46 2007 -0800) 1 commit
 - PARK: show-symref protocol extension.

This is a demonstration of a possible component in the future direction
for HEAD discovery done by git-clone.

* js/reflog-delete (Wed Oct 17 02:50:45 2007 +0100) 1 commit
 + Teach "git reflog" a subcommand to delete single entries

* jk/builtin-alias (Fri Nov 30 11:22:58 2007 -0500) 1 commit
 + Support builtin aliases

Even the original author has slight NAK on this and I tend to agree.
May want to eventurally revert from 'next' but we are not in a hurry
even to do that.

* jc/diff-pathspec (Sun Nov 25 10:03:48 2007 -0800) 1 commit
 - Making ce_path_match() more useful by accepting globs

This was to allow "git diff-files -- '*.h'" (currently diff family
knows only the leading directory match and not fileglobs), but was shot
down by Alex.  I tend to agree with him.

* jc/dashless (Sat Dec 1 22:09:22 2007 -0800) 2 commits
 - Prepare execv_git_cmd() for removal of builtins from the
   filesystem
 - git-shell: accept "git foo" form

We do not plan to remove git-foo form completely from the filesystem at
this point, so these are not strictly necessary.

* jc/diff-relative (Thu Dec 6 09:48:32 2007 -0800) 1 commit
 . Make "diff" Porcelain output paths as relative to subdirectory.

* jc/pathspec (Thu Sep 13 13:38:19 2007 -0700) 3 commits
 . pathspec_can_match(): move it from builtin-ls-tree.c to tree.c
 . ls-tree.c: refactor show_recursive() and rename it.
 . tree-diff.c: split out a function to match a single pattern.

* jc/cherry-pick (Sun Dec 16 21:00:03 2007 -0800) 2 commits
 . beginning of use of replay merge in revert
 . revert/cherry-pick: start refactoring call to merge_recursive

* jc/nu (Sun Oct 14 22:07:34 2007 -0700) 3 commits
 . merge-nu: a new merge backend without using unpack_trees()
 . read_tree: take an explicit index structure
 . gcc 4.2.1 -Werror -Wall -ansi -pedantic -std=c99: minimum fix