2005-12-15 02:36:43

by Junio C Hamano

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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9n aka 1.0rc6

GIT 0.99.9n aka 1.0rc6 is available at the usual places.

RPM
http://kernel.org:/pub/software/scm/git/RPMS/

Debian
http://kernel.org:/pub/software/scm/git/debian/

I hate to do this, but I ended up merging some more that changes user
experience. Two notable non-fixes are:

- big usage string cleanups (Fredrik).

- git-am enhancements that made a lot of sense for non mbox
users (HPA).

So git is still in perpetual state of 1.0rc X-<.

No more big changes from now on will be merged to the "master"
branch, except fixes and documentation enhancements.

Well, patches are always welcome, but non-fixes will have to
stay in the proposed updates branch until Wednesday 2005-12-21,
which is the date I am aiming the final 1.0 for.

Right now, I have two somewhat debatable patch in the proposed
updates branch:

- when merging a branch that renames A->B and another branch
that renames A->C, merge-recursive leaves B and C in stage 2
and stage 3, instead of registering them at stage 0 as the
current "master" branch does.

- diff gets --abbrev option to shorten the blob object names in
diff-raw and commit object names in diff-tree headers.

These will *not* be in 1.0 final, unless somebody really wants
them and jumps up-and-down.

I personally feel the "renaming merge" desirable if it works
correctly, but (1) it is a rare case anyway, (2) I have not
tested it extensively, and (3) having hacked it myself, I do not
think I will be able to spot bugs that involve cases I have not
thought about. So maybe a good test script and an Ack or two
could push me into moving it forward but otherwise it is slated
post 1.0.

The "diff --abbrev" addition is lower impact and I find it
somewhat cute and especially useful while working on an
80-column terminal, but I'd like to make it find unambiguous
prefix, which it does not do currently, before pushing it out.

I am also holding off another one that changes things to use
textual symref for .git/HEAD everywhere, but I think it is well
known that that change is eventually coming sometime after 1.0.

-- >8 -- shortlog -- >8 --
Amos Waterland:
git rebase loses author name/email if given bad email address

Fredrik Kuivinen:
Usage message clean-up, take #2
Trivial usage string clean-up
git-verify-tag: Usage string clean-up, emit usage string at incorrect invocation
git-revert: Usage string clean-up
git-am: Usage string clean-up
git-applypatch: Usage string clean-up, emit usage string at incorrect invocation
git-cherry: Usage string clean-up, use the 'usage' function
git-fetch: Usage string clean-up, emit usage string at unrecognized option
git-lost-found: Usage string clean-up, emit usage string at incorrect invocation
git-prune: Usage string clean-up, use the 'usage' function
git-rebase: Usage string clean-up, emit usage string at incorrect invocation
git-repack: Usage string clean-up, emit usage at incorrect invocation

H. Peter Anvin:
git-am support for naked email messages (take 2)

Junio C Hamano:
diffcore-break.c: check diff_delta() return value.
Add deltifier test.
diff-delta.c: allow delta with empty blob.
Everyday: some examples.
Revert "diff-delta.c: allow delta with empty blob."
Revert "Add deltifier test."
diffcore-break: do not break too small filepair.
Everyday: a bit more example.
Documentation: more examples.
Documentation: fix missing links to git(7)
Documentation: diff examples.
Documentation: not learning core git commands.
git-clone: tell the user a bit more about clone-pack failure.
allow merging any committish
checkout-index: fix checking out specific path.
Everyday: a bit more examples.
t3200: branch --help does not die anymore.
applypatch: no need to do non-portable [[ ... ]]
Documentation: topic branches
rebase: do not get confused in fast-forward situation.
Do not let errors pass by unnoticed when running `make check'.
mailinfo and git-am: allow "John Doe <johndoe>"

Lukas Sandstr?m:
Bugfixes for git-rebase

Martin Atukunda:
define MAXPATHLEN for hosts that don't support it

Petr Baudis:
Make git-send-pack exit with error when some refs couldn't be pushed out



2005-12-21 12:36:09

by Olaf Hering

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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9n aka 1.0rc6

On Wed, Dec 14, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> No more big changes from now on will be merged to the "master"
> branch, except fixes and documentation enhancements.

Can you add a 'git bisect doesnotcompile' at some point? Just marking
one commit as bad will not work, because the next offer may not compile
either.

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