From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=F8gsberg?= Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:09:30 -0400 Message-ID: <1214834970.3382.4.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> References: <7vlk4snpj3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vd4pf7h9y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwsnjl21c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vhcehzdeg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vbq4j748l.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vr6d8apjx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vhcdyfe9u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabjm1a0q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vr6crj0jk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vmyn4hr8f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vmymsjz6x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabijxhk4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwslhg8qe.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vhccfiksy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vod6k6zg4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v4p7xwsfp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v3anb19n7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwskjazql.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk5ggipuw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vej6l3lp7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vod5kd3im.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v3amv1e8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 30 16:13:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KDK7h-0004vJ-3B for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:12:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752080AbYF3OLy (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:11:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752160AbYF3OLy (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:11:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39063 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752064AbYF3OLx (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:11:53 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5UE9k5g013040; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:09:46 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5UE9jht015553; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:09:45 -0400 Received: from [10.16.3.198] (dhcp-100-3-198.bos.redhat.com [10.16.3.198]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m5UE9iEG000985; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:09:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <7v3amv1e8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.0 (2.22.0-4.fc9) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.52.254 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 02:08 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed > with '-' are only in 'pu' while commits prefixed with '+' are > in 'next'. > > The topics list the commits in reverse chronological order. The topics > meant to be applied to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their > names. > > It already is beginning to become clear what 1.6.0 will look like. What's > already in 'next' all are well intentioned (I do not guarantee they are > already bug-free --- that is what cooking them in 'next' is for) and are > good set of feature enhancements. Bigger changes will be: > > * MinGW will be in. > > * With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs will be > installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and > some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical > reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command > line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in > 1.5.4 release notes); use of them from your scripts after adding > output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH will still be supported in > 1.6.0, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their > scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing > "git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases. > > * git-merge will be rewritten in C. > > * default pack and idx versions will be updated as scheduled for some > time ago. A small detail I've suggested scheduling for 1.6 before is removing (or rather, stop creating) the empty .git/branches directory. How does that sound? cheers, Kristian