git/cache.h, branch v0.99.8a

Add git-symbolic-ref

2005-10-02T06:19:33Z

This adds the counterpart of git-update-ref that lets you read and create "symbolic refs". By default it uses a symbolic link to represent ".git/HEAD -> refs/heads/master", but it can be compiled to use the textfile symbolic ref. The places that did 'readlink .git/HEAD' and 'ln -s refs/heads/blah .git/HEAD' have been converted to use new git-symbolic-ref command, so that they can deal with either implementation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Use resolve_ref() to implement read_ref().

2005-10-02T06:19:33Z

Symbolic refs are understood by resolve_ref(), so existing read_ref() users will automatically understand them as well. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

[PATCH] Allow reading "symbolic refs" that point to other refs

2005-10-02T06:19:32Z

This extends the ref reading to understand a "symbolic ref": a ref file that starts with "ref: " and points to another ref file, and thus introduces the notion of ref aliases. This is in preparation of allowing HEAD to eventually not be a symlink, but one of these symbolic refs instead. [jc: Linus originally required the prefix to be "ref: " five bytes and nothing else, but I changed it to allow and strip any number of leading whitespaces to match what update-ref.c does.] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Consolidate null_sha1[].

2005-10-01T05:12:01Z

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

[PATCH] Provide access to git_dir through get_git_dir().

2005-09-27T07:16:39Z

Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Diff clean-up.

2005-09-25T06:50:43Z

This is a long overdue clean-up to the code for parsing and passing diff options. It also tightens some constness issues. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

[PATCH] Return proper error valud from "parse_date()"

2005-09-20T22:07:54Z

Right now we don't return any error value at all from parse_date(), and if we can't parse it, we just silently leave the result buffer unchanged. That's fine for the current user, which will always default to the current date, but it's a crappy interface, and we might well be better off with an error message rather than just the default date. So let's change the thing to return a negative value if an error occurs, and the length of the result otherwise (snprintf behaviour: if the buffer is too small, it returns how big it _would_ have been). [ I started looking at this in case we could support date-based revision names. Looks ugly. Would have to parse relative dates.. ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Show modified files in git-ls-files

2005-09-20T22:07:53Z

Add -m/--modified to show files that have been modified wrt. the index. [jc: The original came from Brian Gerst on Sep 1st but it only checked if the paths were cache dirty without actually checking the files were modified. I also added the usage string and a new test.] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

[PATCH] Add note about IANA confirmation

2005-09-12T20:19:53Z

The git port (9418) is officially listed by IANA now. So document it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Retire support for old environment variables.

2005-09-09T21:48:54Z

We have deprecated the old environment variable names for quite a while and now it's time to remove them. Gone are: SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORIES AUTHOR_DATE AUTHOR_EMAIL AUTHOR_NAME COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano