We mention twice that the from_ident field of struct
pretty_print_context is internal.

The first comment was added by 10f2fbf, which prepares the
struct for internal fields, and then the second by a908047,
which actually adds such a field. This was a mistake made
when re-rolling the series on the list; the comment should
have been removed from the latter commit.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

"git format-patch" learned "--from[=whom]" option, which sets the
"From: " header to the specified person (or the person who runs the
command, if "=whom" part is missing) and move the original author
information to an in-body From: header as necessary.

* jk/format-patch-from:
  teach format-patch to place other authors into in-body "From"
  pretty.c: drop const-ness from pretty_print_context

Format-patch generates emails with the "From" address set to the
author of each patch. If you are going to send the emails, however,
you would want to replace the author identity with yours (if they
are not the same), and bump the author identity to an in-body
header.

Normally this is handled by git-send-email, which does the
transformation before sending out the emails. However, some
workflows may not use send-email (e.g., imap-send, or a custom
script which feeds the mbox to a non-git MUA). They could each
implement this feature themselves, but getting it right is
non-trivial (one must canonicalize the identities by reversing any
RFC2047 encoding or RFC822 quoting of the headers, which has caused
many bugs in send-email over the years).

This patch takes a different approach: it teaches format-patch a
"--from" option which handles the ident check and in-body header
while it is writing out the email.  It's much simpler to do at this
level (because we haven't done any quoting yet), and any workflow
based on format-patch can easily turn it on.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

In the current code, callers are expected to fill in the
pretty_print_context, and then the pretty.c functions simply
read from it. This leaves no room for the pretty.c functions
to communicate with each other by manipulating the context
(e.g., data seen while printing the header may impact how we
print the body).

Rather than introduce a new struct to hold modifiable data,
let's just drop the const-ness of the existing context
struct.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This helper function was introduced as a prio_queue
comparator to help topological sorting. However, other users
of prio_queue who want to replace commit_list_insert_by_date
will want to use it, too. So let's make it public.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

"git log" learned the "--author-date-order" option, with which the
output is topologically sorted and commits in parallel histories
are shown intermixed together based on the author timestamp.

* jc/topo-author-date-sort:
  t6003: add --author-date-order test
  topology tests: teach a helper to set author dates as well
  t6003: add --date-order test
  topology tests: teach a helper to take abbreviated timestamps
  t/lib-t6000: style fixes
  log: --author-date-order
  sort-in-topological-order: use prio-queue
  prio-queue: priority queue of pointers to structs
  toposort: rename "lifo" field

Allow adding custom information to commit objects in order to
represent unbound number of flag bits etc.

* jk/commit-info-slab:
  commit-slab: introduce a macro to define a slab for new type
  commit-slab: avoid large realloc
  commit: allow associating auxiliary info on-demand

Sometimes people would want to view the commits in parallel
histories in the order of author dates, not committer dates.

Teach "topo-order" sort machinery to do so, using a commit-info slab
to record the author dates of each commit, and prio-queue to sort
them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The primary invariant of sort_in_topological_order() is that a
parent commit is not emitted until all children of it are.  When
traversing a forked history like this with "git log C E":

    A----B----C
     \
      D----E

we ensure that A is emitted after all of B, C, D, and E are done, B
has to wait until C is done, and D has to wait until E is done.

In some applications, however, we would further want to control how
these child commits B, C, D and E on two parallel ancestry chains
are shown.

Most of the time, we would want to see C and B emitted together, and
then E and D, and finally A (i.e. the --topo-order output).  The
"lifo" parameter of the sort_in_topological_order() function is used
to control this behaviour.  We start the traversal by knowing two
commits, C and E.  While keeping in mind that we also need to
inspect E later, we pick C first to inspect, and we notice and
record that B needs to be inspected.  By structuring the "work to be
done" set as a LIFO stack, we ensure that B is inspected next,
before other in-flight commits we had known that we will need to
inspect, e.g. E.

When showing in --date-order, we would want to see commits ordered
by timestamps, i.e. show C, E, B and D in this order before showing
A, possibly mixing commits from two parallel histories together.
When "lifo" parameter is set to false, the function keeps the "work
to be done" set sorted in the date order to realize this semantics.
After inspecting C, we add B to the "work to be done" set, but the
next commit we inspect from the set is E which is newer than B.

The name "lifo", however, is too strongly tied to the way how the
function implements its behaviour, and does not describe what the
behaviour _means_.

Replace this field with an enum rev_sort_order, with two possible
values: REV_SORT_IN_GRAPH_ORDER and REV_SORT_BY_COMMIT_DATE, and
update the existing code.  The mechanical replacement rule is:

  "lifo == 0" is equivalent to "sort_order == REV_SORT_BY_COMMIT_DATE"
  "lifo == 1" is equivalent to "sort_order == REV_SORT_IN_GRAPH_ORDER"

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

index-pack --strict looks up and follows parent commits. If shallow
information is not ready by the time index-pack is run, index-pack may
be led to non-existent objects. Make fetch-pack save shallow file to
disk before invoking index-pack.

git learns new global option --shallow-file to pass on the alternate
shallow file path. Undocumented (and not even support --shallow-file=
syntax) because it's unlikely to be used again elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>