Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

Hi,

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

* bf/remote-head (Sun Dec 23 20:52:32 2007 -0500) 1 commit
 . git-remote: make add -f guess HEAD, as clone does

New feature which could be used in rewriting git-clone as a thin wrapper 
around other commands, but there are conflicting proposals from Kristian 
and Dscho, which are post 1.5.4 item. We'll see how they pan out.

I do not have any objection against using bf/remote-head to introduce this 
feature, and will port it to C when it is deemed good enough.  After all, 
we _use_ shell scripting for prototyping things.

* jc/sha1-lookup (Sun Dec 30 03:13:27 2007 -0800) 2 commits
 - sha1-lookup: make selection of 'middle' less aggressive
 - sha1-lookup: more memory efficient search in sorted list of SHA-1

Micro-optimization whose real world benefit is not proven.
Definitely post 1.5.4.

I did not follow this closely... Would this help the "notes" feature as 
implemented with refs/notes?

* jc/diff-pathspec (Sun Nov 25 10:03:48 2007 -0800) 1 commit
 - Making ce_path_match() more useful by accepting globs

This was to allow "git diff-files -- '*.h'" (currently diff family
knows only the leading directory match and not fileglobs), but was shot
down by Alex.  I tend to agree with him.

I recently needed something like this, and had to script around the lack 
of support for this.

Ciao,
Dscho