"git fetch" failed to correctly validate the set of objects it
received when making a shallow history deeper, which has been
corrected.
* jt/connectivity-check-after-unshallow:
fetch-pack: write shallow, then check connectivity
fetch-pack: implement ref-in-want
fetch-pack: put shallow info in output parameter
fetch: refactor to make function args narrower
fetch: refactor fetch_refs into two functions
fetch: refactor the population of peer ref OIDs
upload-pack: test negotiation with changing repository
upload-pack: implement ref-in-want
test-pkt-line: add unpack-sideband subcommand
"git rebase" behaved slightly differently depending on which one of
the three backends gets used; this has been documented and an
effort to make them more uniform has begun.
* en/rebase-consistency:
git-rebase: make --allow-empty-message the default
t3401: add directory rename testcases for rebase and am
git-rebase.txt: document behavioral differences between modes
directory-rename-detection.txt: technical docs on abilities and limitations
git-rebase.txt: address confusion between --no-ff vs --force-rebase
git-rebase: error out when incompatible options passed
t3422: new testcases for checking when incompatible options passed
git-rebase.sh: update help messages a bit
git-rebase.txt: document incompatible options
Clarify that setting core.ignoreCase to deviate from reality would
not turn a case-incapable filesystem into a case-capable one.
* ms/core-icase-doc:
Documentation: declare "core.ignoreCase" as internal variable
The "-l" option in "git branch -l" is an unfortunate short-hand for
"--create-reflog", but many users, both old and new, somehow expect
it to be something else, perhaps "--list". This step warns when "-l"
is used as a short-hand for "--create-reflog" and warns about the
future repurposing of the it when it is used.
* jk/branch-l-0-deprecation:
branch: deprecate "-l" option
t: switch "branch -l" to "branch --create-reflog"
t3200: unset core.logallrefupdates when testing reflog creation
"git grep" learned the "--column" option that gives not just the
line number but the column number of the hit.
* tb/grep-column:
contrib/git-jump/git-jump: jump to exact location
grep.c: add configuration variables to show matched option
builtin/grep.c: add '--column' option to 'git-grep(1)'
grep.c: display column number of first match
grep.[ch]: extend grep_opt to allow showing matched column
grep.c: expose {,inverted} match column in match_line()
Documentation/config.txt: camel-case lineNumber for consistency
The current description of "core.ignoreCase" reads like an option which
is intended to be changed by the user while it's actually expected to
be set by Git on initialization only. Subsequently, Git relies on the
proper configuration of this variable, as noted by Bryan Turner [1]:
Git on a case-insensitive filesystem (APFS, HFS+, FAT32, exFAT,
vFAT, NTFS, etc.) is not designed to be run with anything other
than core.ignoreCase=true.
[1] https://marc.info/?l=git&m=152998665813997&w=2
mid:CAGyf7-GeE8jRGPkME9rHKPtHEQ6P1+ebpMMWAtMh01uO3bfy8w@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-graph feature shipped in Git 2.18 has some inconsistencies in
the constants used by the implementation and specified by the format
document.
The commit data chunk uses the key "CDAT" in the file format, but was
previously documented to say "CGET".
The commit data chunk stores commit parents using two 32-bit fields that
typically store the integer position of the parent in the list of commit
ids within the commit-graph file. When a parent does not exist, we had
documented the value 0xffffffff, but implemented the value 0x70000000.
This swap is easy to correct in the documentation, but unfortunately
reduces the number of commits that we can store in the commit-graph.
Update that estimate, too.
Reported-by: Grant Welch <gwelch925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, while performing packfile negotiation, clients are only
allowed to specify their desired objects using object ids. This causes
a vulnerability to failure when an object turns non-existent during
negotiation, which may happen if, for example, the desired repository is
provided by multiple Git servers in a load-balancing arrangement and
there exists replication delay.
In order to eliminate this vulnerability, implement the ref-in-want
feature for the 'fetch' command in protocol version 2. This feature
enables the 'fetch' command to support requests in the form of ref names
through a new "want-ref <ref>" parameter. At the conclusion of
negotiation, the server will send a list of all of the wanted references
(as provided by "want-ref" lines) in addition to the generated packfile.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default core.excludesfile path is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty or unset,
as described later in the document.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rebase backends currently behave differently with empty commit messages,
largely as a side-effect of the different underlying commands on which
they are based. am-based rebases apply commits with an empty commit
message without stopping or requiring the user to specify an extra flag.
(It is interesting to note that am-based rebases are the default rebase
type, and no one has ever requested a --no-allow-empty-message flag to
change this behavior.) merge-based and interactive-based rebases (which
are ultimately based on git-commit), will currently halt on any such
commits and require the user to manually specify what to do with the
commit and continue.
One possible rationale for the difference in behavior is that the purpose
of an "am" based rebase is solely to transplant an existing history, while
an "interactive" rebase is one whose purpose is to polish a series before
making it publishable. Thus, stopping and asking for confirmation for a
possible problem is more appropriate in the latter case. However, there
are two problems with this rationale:
1) merge-based rebases are also non-interactive and there are multiple
types of rebases that use the interactive machinery but are not
explicitly interactive (e.g. when either --rebase-merges or
--keep-empty are specified without --interactive). These rebases are
also used solely to transplant an existing history, and thus also
should default to --allow-empty-message.
2) this rationale only says that the user is more accepting of stopping
in the case of an explicitly interactive rebase, not that stopping
for this particular reason actually makes sense. Exploring whether
it makes sense, requires backing up and analyzing the underlying
commands...
If git-commit did not error out on empty commits by default, accidental
creation of commits with empty messages would be a very common occurrence
(this check has caught me many times). Further, nearly all such empty
commit messages would be considered an accidental error (as evidenced by a
huge amount of documentation across version control systems and in various
blog posts explaining how important commit messages are). A simple check
for what would otherwise be a common error thus made a lot of sense, and
git-commit gained an --allow-empty-message flag for special case
overrides. This has made commits with empty messages very rare.
There are two sources for commits with empty messages for rebase (and
cherry-pick): (a) commits created in git where the user previously
specified --allow-empty-message to git-commit, and (b) commits imported
into git from other version control systems. In case (a), the user has
already explicitly specified that there is something special about this
commit that makes them not want to specify a commit message; forcing them
to re-specify with every cherry-pick or rebase seems more likely to be
infuriating than helpful. In case (b), the commit is highly unlikely to
have been authored by the person who has imported the history and is doing
the rebase or cherry-pick, and thus the user is unlikely to be the
appropriate person to write a commit message for it. Stopping and
expecting the user to modify the commit before proceeding thus seems
counter-productive.
Further, note that while empty commit messages was a common error case for
git-commit to deal with, it is a rare case for rebase (or cherry-pick).
The fact that it is rare raises the question of why it would be worth
checking and stopping on this particular condition and not others. For
example, why doesn't an interactive rebase automatically stop if the
commit message's first line is 2000 columns long, or is missing a blank
line after the first line, or has every line indented with five spaces, or
any number of other myriad problems?
Finally, note that if a user doing an interactive rebase does have the
necessary knowledge to add a message for any such commit and wants to do
so, it is rather simple for them to change the appropriate line from
'pick' to 'reword'. The fact that the subject is empty in the todo list
that the user edits should even serve as a way to notify them.
As far as I can tell, the fact that merge-based and interactive-based
rebases stop on commits with empty commit messages is solely a by-product
of having been based on git-commit. It went without notice for a long
time precisely because such cases are rare. The rareness of this
situation made it difficult to reason about, so when folks did eventually
notice this behavior, they assumed it was there for a good reason and just
added an --allow-empty-message flag. In my opinion, stopping on such
messages not desirable in any of these cases, even the (explicitly)
interactive case.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a variety of aspects that are common to all rebases regardless
of which backend is in use; however, the behavior for these different
aspects varies in ways that could surprise users. (In fact, it's not
clear -- to me at least -- that these differences were even desirable or
intentional.) Document these differences.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rebase was taught the --force-rebase option in commit b2f82e05de ("Teach
rebase to rebase even if upstream is up to date", 2009-02-13). This flag
worked for the am and merge backends, but wasn't a valid option for the
interactive backend.
rebase was taught the --no-ff option for interactive rebases in commit
b499549401 ("Teach rebase the --no-ff option.", 2010-03-24), to do the
exact same thing as --force-rebase does for non-interactive rebases. This
commit explicitly documented the fact that --force-rebase was incompatible
with --interactive, though it made --no-ff a synonym for --force-rebase
for non-interactive rebases. The choice of a new option was based on the
fact that "force rebase" didn't sound like an appropriate term for the
interactive machinery.
In commit 6bb4e485cf ("rebase: align variable names", 2011-02-06), the
separate parsing of command line options in the different rebase scripts
was removed, and whether on accident or because the author noticed that
these options did the same thing, the options became synonyms and both
were accepted by all three rebase types.
In commit 2d26d533a0 ("Documentation/git-rebase.txt: -f forces a rebase
that would otherwise be a no-op", 2014-08-12), which reworded the
description of the --force-rebase option, the (no-longer correct) sentence
stating that --force-rebase was incompatible with --interactive was
finally removed.
Finally, as explained at
https://public-inbox.org/git/98279912-0f52-969d-44a6-22242039387f@xiplink.com
In the original discussion around this option [1], at one point I
proposed teaching rebase--interactive to respect --force-rebase
instead of adding a new option [2]. Ultimately --no-ff was chosen as
the better user interface design [3], because an interactive rebase
can't be "forced" to run.
We have accepted both --no-ff and --force-rebase as full synonyms for all
three rebase types for over seven years. Documenting them differently
and in ways that suggest they might not be quite synonyms simply leads to
confusion. Adjust the documentation to match reality.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Last sections are squashed into non-formatted block after adding
"REBASING MERGES".
To reproduce the error see bottom of page:
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Parfinenko <vparfinenko@excelsior-usa.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git rebase has many options that only work with one of its three backends.
It also has a few other pairs of incompatible options. Document these.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various
pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the
codebase to report the list of configuration variables
subcommands care about to help complete them.
* nd/complete-config-vars:
completion: complete general config vars in two steps
log-tree: allow to customize 'grafted' color
completion: support case-insensitive config vars
completion: keep other config var completion in camelCase
completion: drop the hard coded list of config vars
am: move advice.amWorkDir parsing back to advice.c
advice: keep config name in camelCase in advice_config[]
fsck: produce camelCase config key names
help: add --config to list all available config
fsck: factor out msg_id_info[] lazy initialization code
grep: keep all colors in an array
Add and use generic name->id mapping code for color slot parsing
"git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths
added with intent-to-add bit, the command shows the full contents
of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new
files. They are now shown as new by default.
"git apply" learned the "--intent-to-add" option so that an
otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new
paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit.
* nd/diff-apply-ita:
apply: add --intent-to-add
t2203: add a test about "diff HEAD" case
diff: turn --ita-invisible-in-index on by default
diff: ignore --ita-[in]visible-in-index when diffing worktree-to-tree
Update to ds/generation-numbers topic.
* ds/commit-graph-lockfile-fix:
commit-graph: fix UX issue when .lock file exists
commit-graph.txt: update design document
merge: check config before loading commits
commit: use generation number in remove_redundant()
commit: add short-circuit to paint_down_to_common()
commit: use generation numbers for in_merge_bases()
ref-filter: use generation number for --contains
commit-graph: always load commit-graph information
commit: use generations in paint_down_to_common()
commit-graph: compute generation numbers
commit: add generation number to struct commit
ref-filter: fix outdated comment on in_commit_list
The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C.
* pc/submodule-helper-foreach:
submodule: port submodule subcommand 'foreach' from shell to C
submodule foreach: document variable '$displaypath'
submodule foreach: document '$sm_path' instead of '$path'
submodule foreach: correct '$path' in nested submodules from a subdirectory
Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-l" option is short for "--create-reflog". This has
caused much confusion over the years. Most people expect it
to work as "--list", because that would match the other
"mode" options like -d/--delete and -m/--move, as well as
the similar -l/--list option of git-tag.
Adding to the confusion, using "-l" _appears_ to work as
"--list" in some cases:
$ git branch -l
* master
because the branch command defaults to listing (so even
trying to specify --list in the command above is redundant).
But that may bite the user later when they add a pattern,
like:
$ git branch -l foo
which does not return an empty list, but in fact creates a
new branch (with a reflog, naturally) called "foo".
It's also probably quite uncommon for people to actually use
"-l" to create a reflog. Since 0bee591869 (Enable reflogs by
default in any repository with a working directory.,
2006-12-14), this is the default in non-bare repositories.
So it's rather unfortunate that the feature squats on the
short-and-sweet "-l" (which was only added in 3a4b3f269c
(Create/delete branch ref logs., 2006-05-19), meaning there
were only 7 months where it was actually useful).
Let's deprecate "-l" in hopes of eventually re-purposing it
to "--list".
Note that we issue the warning only when we're not in list
mode. This means that people for whom it works as a happy
accident, namely:
$ git branch -l
master
won't see the warning at all. And when we eventually switch
to it meaning "--list", that will just continue to work.
We do the issue the warning for these important cases:
- when we are actually creating a branch, in case the user
really did mean it as "--create-reflog"
- when we are in some _other_ mode, like deletion. There
the "-l" is a noop for now, but it will eventually
conflict with any other mode request, and the user
should be told that this is changing.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
HTTP servers return 400 if you send headers before the GET request.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To support git-grep(1)'s new option, '--column', document and teach
grep.c how to interpret relevant configuration options, similar to those
associated with '--line-number'.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach 'git-grep(1)' a new option, '--column', to show the column
number of the first match on a non-context line. This makes it possible
to teach 'contrib/git-jump/git-jump' how to seek to the first matching
position of a grep match in your editor, and allows similar additional
scripting capabilities.
For example:
$ git grep -n --column foo | head -n3
.clang-format:51:14:# myFunction(foo, bar, baz);
.clang-format:64:7:# int foo();
.clang-format:75:8:# void foo()
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a link to gitsubmodules(7) under the `submodule.active` entry in
git-config(1).
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
lineNumber has casing that is inconsistent with surrounding options,
like color.grep.matchContext, and color.grep.matchSelected. Re-case this
documentation in order to be consistent with the text around it, and to
ensure that new entries are consistent, too.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git p4" updates.
* ld/git-p4-updates:
git-p4: auto-size the block
git-p4: narrow the scope of exceptions caught when parsing an int
git-p4: raise exceptions from p4CmdList based on error from p4 server
git-p4: better error reporting when p4 fails
git-p4: add option to disable syncing of p4/master with p4
git-p4: disable-rebase: allow setting this via configuration
git-p4: add options --commit and --disable-rebase
It was not "newer versions of bash" but newer versions of
bash-completion that made commit 085e2ee0e6 (completion: load
completion file for external subcommand, 2018-04-29) both necessary
and possible.
Update the corresponding RelNotes entry accordingly.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The syntax "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>" has been removed. The
order of the syntax should also be updated.
Signed-off-by: Meng-Sung Wu <mengsungwu@fortunewhite.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mention that this feature works with some commands (merge and cherry-pick,
implying that it also works with commands that build on these like rebase
-m and rebase -i). Explicitly mentioning two commands hopefully implies
that it may not always work with other commands (am, and rebase without
flags that imply either -m or -i).
Also, since the directory rename detection from this cycle was
specifically added in merge-recursive and not diffcore-rename, remove the
'in "diff" family" phrase from the note. (Folks have requested in the
past that `git diff` detect directory renames and somehow simplify its
output, so it may be helpful to avoid implying that diff has any new
capability here.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the obvious consensus of hyphenated "remote-tracking branch", and
fix an obvious typo, all in documentation and comments.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
