Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2013, #06; Mon, 14)

Adam Spiers [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

* as/check-ignore (2013-01-10) 12 commits
  (merged to 'next' on 2013-01-14 at 9df2afc)
 + t0008: avoid brace expansion
 + add git-check-ignore sub-command
 + setup.c: document get_pathspec()
 + add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
 + add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
 + pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
 + add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
 + add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
 + dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
 + dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
 + dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
 + dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes

 Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
 files.

The above is v4 plus the "t0008: avoid brace expansion" fix.  v4 is
slightly outdated and not quite the right version to merge to 'next'.

Sigh.

The "What's cooking" is a report of what _has_ already happened.  I
would have appreciated if you said the above _before_ this happened.

I'll post a v5 re-roll as per:

Now the series is in 'next', it is too late to _replace_ it X-<.
Could you instead make an incremental updates on top?  That way, we
do not have to re-review the whole thing; we only need to review the
changes relative to the old one, making sure that the fixes in the
updates are better than the v4 version.

Thanks.