Subject: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, #02; Thu, 4)

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What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2012, #02; Thu, 4)

The tip of 'master' is a bit past v1.8.0-rc0, and I would expect no

more feature topic merges to 'master' until v1.8.0 final.

* jc/doc-long-options (2012-10-04) 1 commit

- gitcli: parse-options lets you omit tail of long options

The end-user facing documentation claimed to be an "exhaustive"

list of features of parse-options command line parser, but it

didn't mention anything about abbreviating long option names to

their unique prefixes. Mention it, warn against relying too much on

it (as uniqueness may disappear in future versions of Git), and

drop the claim to be exhaustive.

* jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends (2012-10-04) 6 commits

. log --grep: honor grep.patterntype etc. configuration variables

. log: pass rev_info to git_log_config()

. log --grep: accept --basic-regexp and --perl-regexp

- log --grep: use the same helper to set -E/-F options as "git grep"

- grep: move pattern-type bits support to top-level grep.[ch]

- grep: move configuration support to top-level grep.[ch]

"git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere>

pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the

string literally. The early part of this series is a fix for it.

* jc/merge-bases-paint-fix (2012-10-04) 1 commit

- paint_down_to_common(): parse commit before relying on its timestamp

"git fmt-merge-msg" (actually an internal helper reduce_heads() it

uses) had a severe performance regression; an empty "git pull" took

forever to finish as the result.

Need to be merged before 1.8.0 final.

* jk/peel-ref (2012-10-04) 4 commits

- upload-pack: use peel_ref for ref advertisements

- peel_ref: check object type before loading

- peel_ref: do not return a null sha1

- peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify

Speeds up "git upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the

other side of the connection) by reducing the cost to advertise the

branches and tags that are available in the repository.

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[Graduated to "master"]

* lt/mailinfo-handle-attachment-more-sanely (2012-09-30) 1 commit

(merged to 'next' on 2012-10-01 at 2a1cecc)

+ mailinfo: don't require "text" mime type for attachments

A patch attached as application/octet-stream (e.g. not text/*) were

mishandled, not correctly honoring Content-Transfer-Encoding

(e.g. base64).

* nd/grep-reflog (2012-09-29) 4 commits

(merged to 'next' on 2012-10-01 at 57773a6)

+ revision: make --grep search in notes too if shown

+ log --grep-reflog: reject the option without -g

+ revision: add --grep-reflog to filter commits by reflog messages

+ grep: prepare for new header field filter

Teach the commands from the "log" family the "--grep-reflog" option

to limit output by string that appears in the reflog entry when the

"--walk-reflogs" option is in effect.

* tu/gc-auto-quiet (2012-09-27) 1 commit

(merged to 'next' on 2012-10-01 at ad8b91b)

+ silence git gc --auto --quiet output

"gc --auto" notified the user that auto-packing has triggered even

under the "--quiet" option.

Expecting a reroll.

* fa/vcs-svn (2012-09-19) 4 commits

A GSoC project.

Waiting for comments from mentors and stakeholders.

* fa/remote-svn (2012-09-19) 16 commits

- Add a test script for remote-svn

- remote-svn: add marks-file regeneration

- Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing

- remote-svn: add incremental import

- remote-svn: Activate import/export-marks for fast-import

- Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata

- vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notes

- Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls

- remote-svn, vcs-svn: Enable fetching to private refs

- When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of "--quiet"

- Add documentation for the 'bidi-import' capability of remote-helpers

- Connect fast-import to the remote-helper via pipe, adding 'bidi-import' capability

- Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detached

- Add svndump_init_fd to allow reading dumps from arbitrary FDs

- Add git-remote-testsvn to Makefile

- Implement a remote helper for svn in C

Acked-by: David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav.id.au>

* nd/wildmatch (2012-09-27) 5 commits

- Support "**" in .gitignore and .gitattributes patterns using wildmatch()

- Integrate wildmatch to git

- compat/wildmatch: fix case-insensitive matching

- compat/wildmatch: remove static variable force_lower_case

- Import wildmatch from rsync

Allows pathname patterns in .gitignore and .gitattributes files

with double-asterisks "foo/**/bar" to match any number of directory

hiearchies.

It was pointed out that some symbols that do not have to be global

are left global. I think this reroll fixed most of them.

Needs more design consideration.