This removes the misguided attempt to refuse processing a branch
name xyzzy and insist it to be given as either heads/xyzzy or
tags/xyzzy when a tag xyzzy exists. There was no reason to do
so --- the search order was predictable and well defined, so if
the user says xyzzy we should have taken the tag xyzzy in such a
case without complaining.
This incidentally fixes another subtle bug related to this. If
such a duplicate branch/tag name happened to be a unique valid
prefix of an existing commit object name (say, "beef"), we did
not take the tag "beef" but after complaining used the commit
object whose name started with beef.
Another problem this fixes while introducing some confusion is
that there is no longer a reason to forbid a branch name HEAD
anymore. In other words, now "git pull . ref1:HEAD" would work
as expected, once we revert "We do not like HEAD branch" patch.
It creates "HEAD" branch under ${GIT_DIR-.git}/refs/heads (or
fast-forwards if already exists) using the tip of ref1 branch
from the current repository, and merges it into the current
branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-am --skip does not unpack the next patch and ends up reapplying the
old patch, believing that it is the new patch in the sequence.
If the old patch applied successfully it will commit it with the
supposedly skipped log message and ends up dropping the following patch.
If the patch did not apply the user is left with the conflict he tried
to skip and has to unpack the next patch in the sequence by hand to get
git-am back on track.
By clearing the resume variable whenever skips bumps the sequence
counter we correctly unpack the next patch. I also added another
resume= in the case a patch file is missing from the sequence to
avoid the same problem when a file in the sequence was removed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Morten Welinder says examples of resetting is really about
recovering from botched commit/pulls. I agree that pointers
from commands that cause a reset to be needed in the first place
would be very helpful.
Also reset examples did not mention "pull/merge" cases.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes git-check-ref-format fail for "HEAD". Since the check is only
executed when creating refs, the existing symbolic ref is safe.
Otherwise these commands, most likely are pilot errors, would do
pretty funky stuff:
git checkout -b HEAD
git pull . other:HEAD
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"git show-branch bugs/*" shows all branches whose name match the
specified pattern, but in the order readdir() happened to
returned. Sort them to make the output more predictable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch removes unused remnants of the original xdiff source.
No functional change. Possible tiny speed improvement.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When .git/refs/heads/frotz and .git/refs/tags/frotz existed, and
the object name stored in .git/refs/heads/frotz were corrupt, we
ended up picking tags/frotz without complaining. Worse yet, if
the corrupt .git/refs/heads/frotz was more than 40 bytes and
began with hexadecimal characters, it silently overwritten the
initial part of the returned result.
This commit adds a couple of tests to demonstrate these cases,
with a fix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now we detect that the SVN repo does not have new commits for us and exit
cleanly, removing the lockfile. With this, svnimport supports being run
on a cronjob to maintain a SVN2GIT gateway.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
clone-pack had some logic to accept subset of remote refs from
the command line and clone from there. However, it was never
used in practice and its problems were not found out so far.
This commit changes the command to output the object names of
refs to the standard output instead of making a clone of the
remote repository when explicit <head> parameters are given; the
output format is the same as fetch-pack.
The traditional behaviour of cloning the whole repository by
giving no explicit <head> parameters stays the same.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL is of a certain form, `git rebase master' will blow
away the author name and email when fast-forward merging commits. I
have not tracked it down, but here is a testcase that demonstrates the
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix bugs in git-rebase wrt rebasing another branch than
the current HEAD, rebasing with a dirty working dir,
and rebasing a proper decendant of the target branch.
[jc: with a bit of hand-merging]
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
An isolated developer could have a local-only e-mail, which will
be stripped out by mailinfo because it lacks '@'. Define a
fallback parser to accomodate that.
At the same time, reject authorless patch in git-am.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When switching to another branch and rebasing it in a one-go, it
failed to update the variable that holds the branch head, and
did not detect fast-forward situation correctly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Recommend git over ssh direct to master.kernel.org, instead of
going over rsync to public machines, since this is meant to be a
procedure for kernel subsystem maintainers.
Also fix an obvious typo.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
There were some problems with the usage message clean-up patch
series. I hadn't realised that subdirectory aware scripts can't source
git-sh-setup. I propose that we change this and let the scripts which
are subdirectory aware set a variable, SUBDIRECTORY_OK, before they
source git-sh-setup.
The scripts will also set USAGE and possibly LONG_USAGE before they
source git-sh-setup. If LONG_USAGE isn't set it defaults to USAGE.
If we go this way it's easy to catch --help in git-sh-setup, print the
(long) usage message to stdout and exit cleanly. git-sh-setup can
define a 'usage' shell function which can be called by the scripts to
print the short usage string to stderr and exit non-cleanly. It will
also be easy to change $0 to basename $0 or something else, if would
like to do that sometime in the future.
What follows is a patch to convert a couple of the commands to this
style. If it's ok with everyone to do it this way I will convert the
rest of the scripts too.
[jc: thrown in to proposed updates queue for comments.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows git-am to accept single-message files as well as mboxes.
Unlike the previous version, this one doesn't need to be explicitly told
which one it is; rather, it looks to see if the first line is a From
line and uses it to select mbox mode or not.
I moved the logic to do all this into git-mailsplit, which got a new
user interface as result, although the old interface is still available
for backwards compatibility.
[jc: applied with two obvious fixes.]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Talk about the following as well:
* git fetch --tags
* Use of "git push" as a one-man distributed development vehicle.
* Show example of remotes file for pulling and pushing.
* Annotate git-shell setup.
* Using Carl's update hook in a CVS-style shared repository.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In case some refs couldn't be pushed out due to an error (mostly the
not-a-proper-subset error), make git-send-pack exit with non-zero status
after the push is over (that is, it still tries to push out the rest
of the refs).
[jc: I adjusted a test for this change.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Although "git-merge" is advertised as the end-user level command
(instead of being a "git-pull" backend), it was not prepared to
take tag objects that point at commits and barfed when fed one.
Sanitize the input while we validate them, for which we already
have a loop.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When clone-pack has trouble with the remote, it dies unfriendly
"EOF" error message. We cannot tell the reason why it failed
from the local end; it could be that the repository did not
exist, or configured not to serve over git-daemon, or a network
failure. At least, saying clone-pack failed makes it a bit more
meaningful.
I am not convinced yet that removing the newly created directory
is the right thing to do, so this commit leaves the new
directory behind.
Reported by Sam Ravnborg.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The initial section of tutorial was too heavy on internal
workings for the first-time readers, so rewrite the introductory
section of git(7) to start with "not learning core git commands"
section and refer them to README to grasp the basic concepts,
then Everyday to give overview with task/role oriented examples
for minimum set of commands, and finally the tutorial.
Also add to existing note in the tutorial that many too
technical descriptions can be skipped by a casual reader.
I initially started to review the tutorial, with the objective
of ripping out the detailed technical information altogether,
but I found that the level of details in the initial couple of
sections that talk about refs and the object database in a
hands-on fashion was about rigth, and left all of them there. I
feel that reading about fsck-index and repack is too abstract
without being aware of these directories and files.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
