What's in git.git today.

What's in git.git today.

[Junio C Hamano]

I've been doing some clean-ups, mostly in the documentation
area.  The tutorial reachable from the main gitweb page should
look a lot nicer and use glossary words more consistently then
before.  I think its 'Packing your repository' section should be
replaced with more general 'Feeding and caring for your
repository' section, that talks not just about packing, but the
general repository organization issues like:

 - Public (naked) repository vs working tree repository.
 - What each hook is for.
 - Why pack?  When to pack?
 - Why prune?  When to prune?
 - Should I use objects/info/alternates?
 - Transport specific hints:
   - For dumb transports, update-server-info is a must.
   - For git: transport, 'git-daemon-export-ok' is needed.
   - Git-native transport is inefficient when bootstrapping.

But other than that I consider the tutorial in a pretty good
shape.

... and that can only mean one thing.  I want to really start
1.0pre, but I'd settle for 0.99.6 for now.

By the way.  A couple of people privately asked me what the
extra "branch" `todo` is doing in the git.git repository.

That "branch" does not share any tree namespace with the real
git source.  Its tree has only one blob, TODO, and keeps my
notes on the current progress.  So you should *not* do this:

    $ git clone kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
    $ git pull . todo

You would end up merging completely different things together if
you did so.

There is another mystery branch called "dbrt-test"; I'll blow it
away after we are done with the read-tree change Daniel is
working on.  The changed read-tree code looks much cleaner and I
like the general direction it is going, but there are some
debugging ahead of us.  That mystery branch holds standalone
test suite that is supposed to be extracted in a repository
independent from the main git repository, so please do not merge
from it, either.

What's in git.git today

[Junio C Hamano]

GIT 1.0.6 was silently pushed out.  Again, it has one notable
fix among minor test fixes.

 - Do not mark tags fetched via --tags flag as mergeable.

   This is to fix "git pull --tags"; it tried to merge all of
   the tags by mistake --- it should not merge any of them.

I have verified that the patch by Gerrit to fix merge-order test
is correct, but have not got around to apply it yet.

The master branch has the following enhancements in addition to
what is in 1.0.6.  I intend to have 1.1 release with them early
next year, when I come back from the new year break.

 - "git clone -o branchname" to specify name of the branch used
   to keep track of the upstream (Johannes).
 
 - "core.sharedrepository" and "git init-db --shared" to help
   group writable repositories (Johannes).

 - IPV6 literal address in git networking protocol (Hideaki).

 - "git pack-redundant" is more efficient (Lukas).

 - "git describe" and associated Makefile changes to give GIT
   releases a bit more descriptive names (Linus and me).

 - "git checkout <treeish> <path>..." and "git checkout -- <path>..."
   can be used to restore named paths even from a subdirectory.

 - git-receive-pack propagates hooks' refusal to update back to
   git-send-pack.

I'll be away from the network and will be back on the second
week of January.  I wish everybody a happy new year.