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[ANNOUNCE] GitTogether '09 (Developer/User Summit Oct 26-28)

Posted 4 months ago by Shawn O. Pearce

Google is hosting GitTogether '09, October 26th through 28th, at
its Mountain View, CA headquarters. I had posted before that were
planning for these dates; now it is certain.

Like last year, this GitTogether immediately follows the ... [More] Google
Summer of Code mentor summit, so some of our end-user groups may
already have representatives in the area and might like to attend.
We've timed the GitTogether to follow the summit so we can get some
users to attend while they are still in the area.

Git contributors and users alike are welcome to attend. Admission is
free, as everything is being donated by Google, but you will need
to arrange for your own travel and lodging. If you are looking
at flights try the SJC and SFO airports. SFO usually has cheaper
flights as its a bigger, more active airport.

We are looking to solicit proposals for talks, round-table
discussions, centers of focus for patch hack-a-thons, etc.

A Git Wiki page is being used for planning:

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTogether09

and of course, so is this email thread.

If you would like to attend, please add your name to the Attendees
list on the wiki page, even if you had previously responded to the
survey that was posted a while ago.

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[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.2

Posted 4 months ago by Junio C Hamano

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.4.2 is available at the
usual places:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

git-1.6.4.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.4.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted ... [More] docs)
git-manpages-1.6.4.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.4.2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)

GIT v1.6.4.2 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.4.1
--------------------

* --date=relative output between 1 and 5 years ago rounded the number of
years when saying X years Y months ago, instead of rounding it down.

* "git add -p" did not handle changes in executable bits correctly
(a regression around 1.6.3).

* "git apply" did not honor GNU diff's convention to mark the creation/deletion
event with UNIX epoch timestamp on missing side.

* "git checkout" incorrectly removed files in a directory pointed by a
symbolic link during a branch switch that replaces a directory with
a symbolic link.

* "git clean -d -f" happily descended into a subdirectory that is managed by a
separate git repository. It now requires two -f options for safety.

* "git fetch/push" over http transports had two rather grave bugs.

* "git format-patch --cover-letter" did not prepare the cover letter file
for use with non-ASCII strings when there are the series contributors with
non-ASCII names.

* "git pull origin branch" and "git fetch origin && git merge origin/branch"
left different merge messages in the resulting commit.

Other minor documentation updates are included.
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[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.1

Posted 4 months ago by Junio C Hamano

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.4.1 is available at the
usual places:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

git-1.6.4.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.4.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted ... [More] docs)
git-manpages-1.6.4.1.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.4.1-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)

GIT v1.6.4.1 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.4
------------------

* An unquoted value in the configuration file, when it contains more than
one whitespaces in a row, got them replaced with a single space.

* "git am" used to accept a single piece of e-mail per file (not a mbox)
as its input, but multiple input format support in v1.6.4 broke it.
Apparently many people have been depending on this feature.

* The short help text for "git filter-branch" command was a single long
line, wrapped by terminals, and was hard to read.

* The "recursive" strategy of "git merge" segfaulted when a merge has
more than one merge-bases, and merging of these merge-bases involves
a rename/rename or a rename/add conflict.

* "git pull --rebase" did not use the right fork point when the
repository has already fetched from the upstream that rewinds the
branch it is based on in an earlier fetch.

* Explain the concept of fast-forward more fully in "git push"
documentation, and hint to refer to it from an error message when the
command refuses an update to protect the user.

* The default value for pack.deltacachesize, used by "git repack", is now
256M, instead of unbounded. Otherwise a repack of a moderately sized
repository would needlessly eat into swap.

* Document how "git repack" (hence "git gc") interacts with a repository
that borrows its objects from other repositories (e.g. ones created by
"git clone -s").

* "git show" on an annotated tag lacked a delimiting blank line between
the tag itself and the contents of the object it tags.

* "git verify-pack -v" erroneously reported number of objects with too
deep delta depths as "chain length 0" objects.

* Long names of authors and committers outside US-ASCII were sometimes
incorrectly shown in "gitweb".

Other minor documentation updates are included.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since v1.6.4 are as follows:

Björn Steinbrink (1):
config: Keep inner whitespace verbatim

Erik Faye-Lund (1):
send-email: remove debug trace

Jakub Narebski (1):
gitweb/README: Document $base_url

Jeff King (3):
show: suppress extra newline when showing annotated tag
show: add space between multiple items
docs: describe impact of repack on "clone -s"

Jens Lehmann (1):
Documentation: git submodule: add missing options to synopsis

Johan Herland (1):
help.c: give correct structure's size to memset()

Johannes Schindelin (1):
filter-branch: add an example how to add ACKs to a range of commits

Junio C Hamano (5):
merge-recursive: don't segfault while handling rename clashes
t5510: harden the way verify-pack is used
verify-pack -v: do not report "chain length 0"
am: allow individual e-mail files as input
GIT 1.6.4.1

Mark A Rada (1):
git-instaweb: fix mod_perl detection for apache2

Matthieu Moy (3):
Better usage string for reflog.
push: point to 'git pull' and 'git push --force' in case of non-fast forward
filter-branch: make the usage string fit on 80 chars terminals.

Miklos Vajna (1):
hg-to-git: don't import the unused popen2 module

Nicolas Pitre (1):
don't let the delta cache grow unbounded in 'git repack'

Nicolas Sebrecht (1):
git-am: print fair error message when format detection fails

Ori Avtalion (1):
Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"

Paul Bolle (2):
Documentation: merge: one is required
Documentation: add: ... is optional

Santi Béjar (2):
t5520-pull: Test for rebased upstream + fetch + pull --rebase
pull: support rebased upstream + fetch + pull --rebase

Zoltán Füzesi (1):
gitweb: parse_commit_text encoding fix

Štěpán Němec (1):
Fix typos in git-remote.txt and git-symbolic-ref.txt

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[ANNOUNCE] Stacked Git 0.15-rc2

Posted 4 months ago by Catalin Marinas

The second release candidate for StGit 0.15 is available from the
git://repo.or.cz/stgit.git or http://download.gna.org/stgit/. Bugs can
be reported on the Git mailing list or via the project bugs ... [More] page
(https://gna.org/bugs/?group=stgit).

StGit is a Python application providing similar functionality to Quilt
(i.e. pushing/popping patches to/from a stack) on top of Git. These
operations are performed using Git commands and the patches are stored
as Git commit objects, allowing easy merging of the StGit patches into
other repositories using standard Git functionality.

The main changes since release 0.15-rc1 (I may miss some important
features but they can be found in the log):

- Several Emacs mode improvements
- Two new commands: prev and next
- Bug-fixes

Acknowledgements:

Gustav H [Less]

[ANNOUNCE] Scumd

Posted 4 months ago by Michael Gaffney

Greetings,
This is an initial announcement of SCuMD, a pure java git sshd
daemon. The source is at git://github.com/gaffo/scumd. The impetus
behind SCuMD is to provide a highly configurable git daemon which can
authenticate and ... [More] authorize off of flat files, databases, LDAP, web
services, or any other resource you can think of. SCuMD's other goal is
to remove the need to serve off of normal sshd which some find to be a
security risk on the open Internet. Currently SCuMD supports LDAP as the
authentication module but coding other modules is quite simple.
I would welcome any feedback including a better name. SCuMD stands
for SCM Daemon.

Thanks,
Mike Gaffney

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[ANN] git# (GitSharp) project status

Posted 4 months ago by Meinrad Recheis

Hi,
Thanks to massive contributions from various people the project
GitSharp has progressed very fast.

GitSharp now counts about 17753 lines of code, the jgit.lib snapshot
we are porting from counts 24588 lines. This means that ... [More] roughly 72% of
the porting work are done! About two months ago, when I announced the
project on this list only about 25% had been done.
There is also still much testing work to do [Less]

[ANNOUNCE] tortoisegit 0.9.1.0

Posted 4 months ago by Frank Li

http://tortoisegit.googlecode.com/files/TortoiseGit-0.9.1.0-64bit.msi
http://tortoisegit.googlecode.com/files/TortoiseGit-0.9.1.0-32bit.msi

= Release 0.9.1.0 =
== Features ==

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4

Posted 5 months ago by Junio C Hamano

The latest feature release GIT 1.6.4 is available at the usual
places:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

git-1.6.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted ... [More] docs)
git-manpages-1.6.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)

GIT v1.6.4 Release Notes
========================

With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose
what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.

To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
push running this release will issue a big warning when the
configuration variable is missing. Please refer to:

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007

for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
transition plan.

For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch
$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current
branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.

Updates since v1.6.3
--------------------

(subsystems)

* gitweb Perl style clean-up.

* git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind
'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, documenting
of the useful --minimize-url feature, new "git svn gc" command, etc.

(portability)

* We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use
encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead
of "ISO-8859-1").

* Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of
SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.

* Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.

(performance)

* Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath.

* git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized
to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.

(usability, bells and whistles)

* "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
is added to the index.

* "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input.

* "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope
to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is
already known to be untestable.

* "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion

* "git fast-export" learned to handle history simplification more
gracefully.

* "git fast-export" learned an option --tag-of-filtered-object to handle
dangling tags resulting from history simplification more usefully.

* "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the
same context hunk marker "git diff" uses.

* https transport can optionally be told that the used client
certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the
password only once.

* "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware.

* "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines
when able.

* "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
refs/* prefix.

* "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before
using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching
and pushing can be different.

* "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).

* "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail..from").

* "git show-branch" can color its output.

* "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
option to use local clone with references.

* "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked
out submodules by rebasing the local changes.

* "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.

(developers)

* A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.

* Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported.

Fixes since v1.6.3
------------------

All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.

Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
v1.6.3.X series.

* "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from
the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed
directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked
to backport this fix.

* The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
as an absolute path when autodetected.

* Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its
section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost
that variable definition.

* "git rebase -p --onto" used to always leave side branches of a merge
intact, even when both branches are subject to rewriting.

* "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true
parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit.
After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting
the repository.

* "git send-email" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion.
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[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.3.4

Posted 5 months ago by Junio C Hamano

The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.3.4 is available at the
usual places:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

git-1.6.3.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.3.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted ... [More] docs)
git-manpages-1.6.3.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.3.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)

This is primarily to flush accumulated fixes on the 'maint' branch
before going forward with 1.6.4 series.

GIT v1.6.3.4 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.3.3
--------------------

* "git add --no-ignore-errors" did not override configured
add.ignore-errors configuration.

* "git apply --whitespace=fix" did not fix trailing whitespace on an
incomplete line.

* "git branch" opened too many commit objects unnecessarily.

* "git checkout -f $commit" with a path that is a file (or a symlink) in
the work tree to a commit that has a directory at the path issued an
unnecessary error message.

* "git diff -c/--cc" was very inefficient in coalescing the removed lines
shared between parents.

* "git diff -c/--cc" showed removed lines at the beginning of a file
incorrectly.

* "git remote show nickname" did not honor configured
remote.nickname.uploadpack when inspecting the branches at the remote.

* "git request-pull" when talking to the terminal for a preview
showed some of the output in the pager.

* "git request-pull start nickname [end]" did not honor configured
remote.nickname.uploadpack when it ran git-ls-remote against the remote
repository to learn the current tip of branches.

Includes other documentation updates and minor fixes.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since v1.6.3.3 are as follows:

Brandon Casey (2):
refs.c: release file descriptor on error return
sha1_name.c: avoid unnecessary strbuf_release

Chris Frey (1):
git-remote: fix missing .uploadpack usage for show command

Clemens Buchacher (1):
fetch: do not create ref from empty name

Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
gitweb/README: fix AliasMatch in example

Johannes Sixt (2):
t3700-add: add a POSIXPERM prerequisite to a new test
Makefile: git.o depends on library headers

Junio C Hamano (9):
request-pull: really disable pager
checkout -f: deal with a D/F conflict entry correctly
combine-diff.c: fix performance problem when folding common deleted lines
diff --cc: a lost line at the beginning of the file is shown incorrectly
do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref
SunOS grep does not understand -C nor -e
Fix severe breakage in "git-apply --whitespace=fix"
t8005: Nobody writes Russian in shift_jis
GIT 1.6.3.4

Linus Torvalds (3):
git branch: fix performance problem
git branch: avoid unnecessary object lookups
git branch: clean up detached branch handling

Matthias Andree (1):
Fix export_marks() error handling.

Michal Marek (1):
request-pull: really really disable pager

Miklos Vajna (1):
git-submodule documentation: fix foreach example

René Scharfe (1):
attr: plug minor memory leak

Roel Kluin (1):
fread does not return negative on error

SZEDER Gábor (1):
Trailing whitespace and no newline fix

Sitaram Chamarty (1):
Documentation: update description of shell aliases

Stephen Boyd (2):
add: allow configurations to be overriden by command line
config.txt: document add.ignore-errors

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1):
Makes some cleanup/review in gittutorial

Thomas Rast (2):
Test git archive --remote
Test grep --and/--or/--not

Tom Grennan (1):
request-pull: allow ls-remote to notice remote.$nickname.uploadpack

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[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4-rc3

Posted 5 months ago by Junio C Hamano

A release candidate GIT 1.6.4.rc3 is available at the usual places
for testing:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

git-1.6.4.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.6.4.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted ... [More] docs)
git-manpages-1.6.4.rc3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

testing/git-*-1.6.4.rc3-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM)

An embarrassing and serious bug in "git am/apply" that was in 1.6.4-rc2
has been squashed, and this snapshot should be both safe to use and is
expected to be the last -rc before the real thing. Please give it a good
beating.

GIT v1.6.4 Release Notes (draft)
================================

With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose
what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.

To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
push running this release will issue a big warning when the
configuration variable is missing. Please refer to:

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007

for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
transition plan.

For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch
$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current
branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.

Updates since v1.6.3
--------------------

(subsystems)

* gitweb Perl style clean-up.

* git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
names by invoking an external program, 'git svn reset' to unwind
'git svn fetch', support for more than one branches, documenting
of the useful --minimize-url feature, new "git svn gc" command, etc.

(portability)

* We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
understood more widely. Similarly updated test scripts to use
encoding names more widely understood (e.g. use "ISO8859-1" instead
of "ISO-8859-1").

* Various portability fixes/workarounds for different vintages of
SunOS, IRIX, and Windows.

* Git-over-ssh transport on Windows supports PuTTY plink and TortoisePlink.

(performance)

* Many repeated use of lstat() are optimized out in "checkout" codepath.

* git-status (and underlying git-diff-index --cached) are optimized
to take advantage of cache-tree information in the index.

(usability, bells and whistles)

* "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
is added to the index.

* "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input.

* "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope
to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is
already known to be untestable.

* "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion

* "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the
same context hunk marker "git diff" uses.

* https transport can optionally be told that the used client
certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the
password only once.

* "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware.

* "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines
when able.

* "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
refs/* prefix.

* "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before
using remote.$name.url. In other words, the URL used for fetching
and pushing can be different.

* "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).

* "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail..from").

* "git show-branch" can color its output.

* "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
option to use local clone with references.

* "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked
out submodules by rebasing the local changes.

* "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.

(developers)

* A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.

* Formatting with the new version of AsciiDoc 8.4.1 is now supported.

Fixes since v1.6.3
------------------

All of the fixes in v1.6.3.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.

Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
v1.6.3.X series.

* "git diff-tree -r -t" used to omit new or removed directories from
the output. df533f3 (diff-tree -r -t: include added/removed
directories in the output, 2009-06-13) may need to be cherry-picked
to backport this fix.

* The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
as an absolute path when autodetected.

* Removing a section with "git config --remove-section", when its
section header has a variable definition on the same line, lost
that variable definition.

* "git repack" used to faithfully follow grafts and considered true
parents recorded in the commit object unreachable from the commit.
After such a repacking, you cannot remove grafts without corrupting
the repository.

* "git send-email" did not detect erroneous loops in alias expansion.

---
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master)
O=v1.6.4-rc2-31-g2ceb639
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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