We have a handful fixes on 'maint'; I will be cutting v1.4.4.3 by the end of the week. On the 'master' front, this round has many topics (most of which have been cooking in the 'next' branch) merged since the last announcement. - Johannes Schindelin's built-in shortlog is in. - Johannes Schindelin's built-in 'RCS merge replacement' is in. Hopefully this would make merge-recursive more portable and faster. - Shawn Pearce and Johannes Schindelin spotted and fixed a few corner cases in merge-recursive. - Updates to gitk from Paul Mackerras to fix longstanding menu issues on Mac OS X. - Eric Wong fixed use of rerere in many places. - Eric also has quite a few fixes to git-svn. - Nico updated 'git-add' to really mean 'add contents', not 'add to the set of tracked paths'. Also updated was the documentation for 'git commit' to make it easier to teach new people after a long discussion. - Lars Hjemli taught 'git-branch' to rename branches. - Andy Parkins taught 'git-branch' to be colorful. - Robin Rosenberg improved cvsexportcommit for unusual pathnames. - 'git push $URL :refs/tags/that' (notice the colon) can be used to delete 'that' tag from the remote repository; this needs the latest git on both ends. - branch."master".{remote,merge} configuration items are set up by 'git-clone', thanks to Andy Parkins. - 'git-commit' gives 'diff --summary' output to remind mode changes and added/deleted files. - 'git-diff --numstat' matches 'git-apply --numstat' when talking about binary changes. - 'git-merge' is now a first class UI, not just a mere driver for strategies. I am hoping that we can start a stabilization cycle for v1.5.0 based on what we have in 'master'. The theme is "usability and teachability". Things that need to be done to complete what have been merged to 'master' are: - 'git-rm' needs to be fixed up as Linus outlined; remove working tree file and index entry but have a sanity check to make sure the working tree file match the index and HEAD. - 'git-branch' may need to be taught about renaming the matching per-branch configuration at the same time. - 'git-merge-file' needs to be documented and linked from git.txt. - 'git-clone' probably should be updated to use wild-card in remote.origin.fetch, instead of listing all the branches it found when the clone was made. - tutorials and other Porcelain documentation pages need to be updated to match the updated 'git-add' and 'git-rm' (to be updated), and their description should be made much less about implementation; they should talk in terms of end-user workflows. I will send a draft for 'git diff' out later, but somebody needs a full sweep on Porcelain-ish documentation. - 'git diff --index' patch should be reverted (already done in 'next'), although we may have to come up with a better wording for --cached. ---------------------------------------------------------------- * The 'maint' branch has these fixes since v1.4.4.2. Alex Riesen (1): Clarify fetch error for missing objects. Brian Gernhardt (1): Move Fink and Ports check to after config file Chris Wright (1): no need to install manpages as executable Eric Wong (2): git-svn: exit with status 1 for test failures git-svn: correctly display fatal() error messages Jim Meyering (1): Don't use memcpy when source and dest. buffers may overlap Martin Langhoff (1): cvsserver: Avoid miscounting bytes in Perl v5.8.x Shawn O. Pearce (1): Make sure the empty tree exists when needed in merge-recursive. * The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement. Alex Riesen (3): git-blame: fix rev parameter handling. Make perl/ build procedure ActiveState friendly. Clarify fetch error for missing objects. Andreas Ericsson (2): ls-files: Give hints when errors happen. git-diff: Introduce --index and deprecate --cached. Andy Parkins (6): Use .git/config for storing "origin" shortcut repository Document git-repo-config --bool/--int options. De-emphasise the symbolic link documentation. Explicitly add the default "git pull" behaviour to .git/config on clone Colourise git-branch output Allow subcommand.color and color.subcommand color configuration Brian Gernhardt (1): Move Fink and Ports check to after config file Chris Wright (1): no need to install manpages as executable David Miller (1): Pass -M to diff in request-pull Eric Wong (21): git-svn: use ~/.subversion config files when using SVN:: libraries git-svn: enable delta transfers during fetches when using SVN:: libs git-svn: update tests for recent changes git-svn: error out when the SVN connection fails during a fetch git-svn: fix output reporting from the delta fetcher git-svn: color support for the log command git-svn: documentation updates git-svn: fix multi-init git-svn: avoid fetching files twice in the same revision git-svn: avoid network timeouts for long-running fetches git-svn: extra error check to ensure we open a file correctly git-svn: use do_switch for --follow-parent if the SVN library supports it rerere: add clear, diff, and status commands rerere: record (or avoid misrecording) resolved, skipped or aborted rebase/am git-svn: enable logging of information not supported by git git-svn: allow dcommit to take an alternate head git-svn: correctly display fatal() error messages git-svn: correctly handle packed-refs in refs/remotes/ git-svn: exit with status 1 for test failures git-svn: correctly display fatal() error messages git-svn: correctly handle "(no author)" when using an authors file Han-Wen Nienhuys (1): ident.c: Trim hint printed when gecos is empty. J. Bruce Fields (4): cvs-migration: improved section titles, better push/commit explanation Documentation: reorganize cvs-migration.txt Documentation: update git-clone man page with new behavior Documentation: simpler shared repository creation Jakub Narebski (4): gitweb: Fix Atom feed <logo>: it is $logo, not $logo_url git-clone: Rename --use-immingled-remote option to --no-separate-remote Document git-diff whitespace flags -b and -w gitweb: Allow PNG, GIF, JPEG images to be displayed in "blob" view Jeff King (1): shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname Jim Meyering (2): Set permissions of each new file before "cvs add"ing it. Don't use memcpy when source and dest. buffers may overlap Johannes Schindelin (18): Build in shortlog shortlog: do not crash on parsing "[PATCH" shortlog: read mailmap from ./.mailmap again shortlog: handle email addresses case-insensitively shortlog: fix "-n" shortlog: use pager sha1_object_info(): be consistent with read_sha1_file() xdiff: add xdl_merge() xdl_merge(): fix an off-by-one bug xdl_merge(): fix thinko git-mv: search more precisely for source directory in index diff -b: ignore whitespace at end of line xdl_merge(): fix and simplify conflict handling cvs-migration document: make the need for "push" more obvious Add builtin merge-file, a minimal replacement for RCS merge merge-file: support -p and -q; fix compile warnings Get rid of the dependency on RCS' merge program merge-recursive: add/add really is modify/modify with an empty base Josef Weidendorfer (1): Add branch.*.merge warning and documentation update Junio C Hamano (45): Store peeled refs in packed-refs file. remove merge-recursive-old git-merge: make it usable as the first class UI merge: allow merging into a yet-to-be-born branch. Store peeled refs in packed-refs (take 2). git-fetch: reuse ls-remote result. git-fetch: fix dumb protocol transport to fetch from pack-pruned ref git-fetch: allow glob pattern in refspec Allow git push to delete remote ref. git-shortlog: fix common repository prefix abbreviation. git-shortlog: make common repository prefix configurable with .mailmap git-commit: show --summary after successful commit. git-fetch: allow forcing glob pattern in refspec fetch-pack: do not barf when duplicate re patterns are given git-merge: tighten error checking. git-merge: do not leak rev-parse output used for checking internally. cvsimport: style fixup. git blame -C: fix output format tweaks when crossing file boundary. tutorial: talk about user.name early and don't start with commit -a git-merge: fix confusion between tag and branch xmerge: make return value from xdl_merge() more usable. merge-recursive: use xdl_merge(). receive-pack: do not insist on fast-forward outside refs/heads/ unpack-trees: make sure "df_conflict_entry.name" is NUL terminated. read-tree: further loosen "working file will be lost" check. Loosen "working file will be lost" check in Porcelain-ish read-tree: document --exclude-per-directory git-reset to remove "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_MSG" git-merge: squelch needless error message. git-merge: fix "fix confusion between tag and branch" for real Fix perl/ build. git-rerere: add 'gc' command. Documentation/git-commit: rewrite to make it more end-user friendly. git-commit: allow --only to lose what was staged earlier. shortlog: remove "[PATCH]" prefix from shortlog output shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname diff --numstat: show binary with '-' to match "apply --numstat" add test case for recursive merge git-push: document removal of remote ref with :<dst> pathspec git merge: reword failure message. spurious .sp in manpages git-push: accept tag <tag> as advertised. send-pack: tighten checks for remote names branch --color: change default color selection. config documentation: group color items together. Lars Hjemli (3): git-branch: add options and tests for branch renaming rename_ref: use lstat(2) when testing for symlink git-branch: let caller specify logmsg Martin Langhoff (1): cvsserver: Avoid miscounting bytes in Perl v5.8.x Michael Loeffler (1): git-fetch: ignore dereferenced tags in expand_refs_wildcard Nicolas Pitre (4): builtin git-shortlog is broken pack-objects: remove redundent status information make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index change the unpack limit treshold to a saner value Paul Mackerras (1): gitk: Fix enabling/disabling of menu items on Mac OS X René Scharfe (1): shortlog: remove range check Robin Rosenberg (1): Make cvsexportcommit work with filenames with spaces and non-ascii characters. Sean Estabrooks (1): Update documentation to remove incorrect GIT_DIFF_OPTS example. Shawn O. Pearce (17): Teach git-completion.bash how to complete git-merge. Hide plumbing/transport commands from bash completion. Teach bash how to complete options for git-name-rev. Add current branch in PS1 support to git-completion.bash. Teach bash how to complete git-format-patch. Teach bash how to complete git-cherry-pick. Teach bash how to complete git-rebase. Teach bash about git log/show/whatchanged options. Support bash completion of refs/remote. Teach bash about git-repo-config. Support --strategy=x completion in addition to --strategy x. Cache the list of merge strategies and available commands during load. Teach bash about git-am/git-apply and their whitespace options. Teach bash how to complete long options for git-commit. Fix broken bash completion of local refs. Make sure the empty tree exists when needed in merge-recursive. Remove uncontested renamed files during merge. 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