Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #01; Sun, 02)

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] 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 merged to the maintenance series have "maint-" in their names.

There are backlog patches I'm planning to deal with later today; they do
not appear in this list.

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[New Topics]

* mv/maint-branch-m-symref (Sat Nov 1 00:25:44 2008 +0100) 5 commits
 + update-ref --no-deref -d: handle the case when the pointed ref is
  packed
 + git branch -m: forbid renaming of a symref
 + Fix git update-ref --no-deref -d.
 + rename_ref(): handle the case when the reflog of a ref does not
  exist
 + Fix git branch -m for symrefs.

* rs/blame (Sat Oct 25 15:31:36 2008 +0200) 5 commits
 - blame: use xdi_diff_hunks(), get rid of struct patch
 - add xdi_diff_hunks() for callers that only need hunk lengths
 - Allow alternate "low-level" emit function from xdl_diff
 - Always initialize xpparam_t to 0
 - blame: inline get_patch()

* ds/uintmax-config (Sun Oct 26 03:52:47 2008 -0800) 2 commits
 - Add Makefile check for FreeBSD 4.9-SECURITY
 - Build: add NO_UINTMAX_T to support ancient systems

I amended the topmost one to widen the applicability of this new feature
to all FreeBSD 4.*, not limited to 4.9-SECURITY; testing before this hits
'next' is appreciated.

* ds/autoconf (Sun Nov 2 01:04:46 2008 -0700) 2 commits
 - DONTMERGE: fixup with a convenience macro
 - autoconf: Add link tests to each AC_CHECK_FUNC() test

The topmost one is my attempt to simplify the new way of checking; the
resulting configure.ac produces the identical configure script with or
without it, so I think it is Ok, but testing before this hits 'next' is
appreciated.  If all goes well, I think the two should be squashed into
one patch.

I tested the above changes on FreeBSD.  The changes worked on FreeBSD
4.9 worked.

However pthread is linked on FreeBSD 4.x by using `-pthread' instead
of `-lpthread'.  The current pu branch forces the use of Pthreads and
links using an invalid flag. I am working on a patch now.