Commit Briefs
stop relying on commit cache for good performance of got_object_id_by_path()
Instead of internally opening and closing the same commit object over and over again, require callers to pass an open commit object in. Avoids an inherent dependency on the commit object cache for reasonable performance. ok op@
got patch: allow to strip path components
Move some bits from the libexec helper to the main process so we know if the patch was generated by git or not and finally document the automatic stripping of a/ and b/ prefixes added by git-diff(1). ok stsp@
use test(1) -eq and -ne to compare integers, and reduce quoting
This brings the rest of the regression test scripts in line with patch.sh.
CHANGES for 0.68 (tags/0.68)
fix pack progress object counter for loose objects
Move pack progres object accounting to a single place. This makes it easier to account for the case were only loose objects are packed. A wrong amount of objects was reported before when packing loose ones.
got patch: prefer new name if not /dev/null and not a git-style diff
This fixes a common issue when for e.g. generating patches with $ diff -u foo.orig foo where 'got patch' failed because 'foo.orig' has an 'unexpected status'. prodded by naddy, ok stsp