Re: What's in git.git

Hi,

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

 - 'pu' has the shallow clone WIP and a half-finished rewrite of
   git branch in C, both by Johannes.  Both needs a bit more
   polishing and confidence building before going into 'next',
   and given the recent discussion of enhancing branch
   management for pulls/pushes, it might be easier to drop the
   latter for now.

OOPS; sorry but the latter half is entirely untrue.  What's
there is half-done git-shortlog.  Scratch everything about
branch management please.

IMHO -shortlog needs support to read .mailmap, and maybe nods to throw out 
the built-in mailmap which is totally specific to the Linux kernel 
development.

As for shallow clone support: I am a bit underwhelmed by the enthusiasm 
to test this thing by the people I thought would be most interested. It 
really could be the case that it is not needed at all.

Just for the record, though: AFAICT the shallow stuff is lacking support 
for at least pushing from/into shallow repos and it should avoid making a 
commit shallow unnecessarily. And quite likely there are a few thinkos in 
it, so it would not hurt having more test cases (notably of things I did 
not think of), and some bad-ass testing with huge amounts of commits and 
files which were added/modified identically in different commits.

Ciao,
Dscho