This only changes the behavior of "git show-ref -h" without any
other options and arguments.
"show-ref -h" currently is short for "show-ref --head", which
shows all the refs/* and HEAD, as opposed to "show-ref" that
shows all the refs/* and not HEAD.
Does anybody use "show-ref -h"? It was in Linus's original, most
likely only because "it might be handy", not because "the command
should not show the HEAD by default for such and such reasons".
So I think it is okay if "show-ref -h" (but not "show-ref
--head") gives help and exits.
If a current script uses "git show-ref -h" without any other
arguments, it would have to be adapted by changing "-h" to
"--head".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduced in 492cf3f (More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev', 2009-10-29)
Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ja/fetch-doc:
Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups
Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files
Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
Also adds a note about why the output in the examples might give
different output today.
Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/receive-pack-auto:
receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info"
gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboase
The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'. This does
achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the
apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right
circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages.
Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the
groff_char manpage.
Unfortunately, as Anders Kaseorg kindly pointed out, this is not
portable beyond groff, so we add an extra Makefile variable GNU_ROFF
which you need to enable to get the new quoting.
Thanks also to Miklos Vajna for documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the missing definite article ("the") in several places.
Change "note to..." to "note for...", since "note to" means that
that the note is addressed to someone (source: Google search).
Change "progressbar" to "progress bar" (source: Wikipedia).
Format git commands, options, and file names consistently using
back quotes (i.e. a fixed font in the resulting HTML document).
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce two new configuration variables, receive.autogc (defaults to
true) and receive.updateserverinfo (defaults to false). When these are
set, receive-pack runs "gc --auto --quiet" and "update-server-info"
respectively after it finishes receiving data from "git push" and updating
refs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated
style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and
move the examples to the corresponding manpages.
Furthermore,
- show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a
frequently asked question,
- explain the default fetch refspec.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Linus and other git developers from the early days trained their fingers
to type the command, every once in a while even without thinking, to check
the consistency of the repository back when the lower core part of the git
was still being developed. Developers who wanted to make sure that git
correctly dealt with packfiles could deliberately trigger their creation
and checked them after they were created carefully, but loose objects are
the ones that are written by various commands from random codepaths. It
made some technical sense to have a mode that checked only loose objects
from the debugging point of view for that reason.
Even for git developers, there no longer is any reason to type "git fsck"
every five minutes these days, worried that some newly created objects
might be corrupt due to recent change to git.
The reason we did not make "--full" the default is probably we trust our
filesystems a bit too much. At least, we trusted filesystems more than we
trusted the lower core part of git that was under development.
Once a packfile is created and we always use it read-only, there didn't
seem to be much point in suspecting that the underlying filesystems or
disks may corrupt them in such a way that is not caught by the SHA-1
checksum over the entire packfile and per object checksum. That trust in
the filesystems might have been a good tradeoff between fsck performance
and reliability on platforms git was initially developed on and for, but
it may not be true anymore as we run on many more platforms these days.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you use the option --submodule=log you can see the submodule
summaries inlined in the diff, instead of not-quite-helpful SHA-1 pairs.
The format imitates what "git submodule summary" shows.
To do that, <path>/.git/objects/ is added to the alternate object
databases (if that directory exists).
This option was requested by Jens Lehmann at the GitTogether in Berlin.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git stash list' had an undocumented limit of 10 stashes, unless other
git-log arguments were specified. This surprised at least one user,
but possibly served to cut the output below a screenful without using
a pager.
Since the last commit, 'git stash list' will fire up a pager according
to the same rules as the 'git log' it calls, so we can drop the limit.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add three new --pretty=format escapes:
%gD long reflog descriptor (e.g. refs/stash@{0})
%gd short reflog descriptor (e.g. stash@{0})
%gs reflog message
This is achieved by passing down the reflog info, if any, inside the
pretty_print_context struct.
We use the newly refactored get_reflog_selector(), and give it some
extra functionality to extract a shortened ref. The shortening is
cached inside the commit_reflogs struct; the only allocation of it
happens in read_complete_reflog(), where it is initialised to 0. Also
add another helper get_reflog_message() for the message extraction.
Note that the --format="%h %gD: %gs" tests may not work in real
repositories, as the --pretty formatter doesn't know to leave away the
": " on the last commit in an incomplete (because git-gc removed the
old part) reflog. This equivalence is nevertheless the main goal of
this patch.
Thanks to Jeff King for reviews, the %gd testcase and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
git push: say that --tag can't be used with --all or --mirror in help text
git push: remove incomplete options list from help text
document push's new quiet option
Makefile: clean block-sha1/ directory instead of mozilla-sha1/
* jc/maint-blank-at-eof:
diff -B: colour whitespace errors
diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line
diff.c: split emit_line() from the first char and the rest of the line
diff.c: shuffling code around
diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end
core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof}
diff --color: color blank-at-eof
diff --whitespace=warn/error: fix blank-at-eof check
diff --whitespace=warn/error: obey blank-at-eof
diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison
apply --whitespace: warn blank but not necessarily empty lines at EOF
apply --whitespace=warn/error: diagnose blank at EOF
apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two
apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly
apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
‘git bisect reset’ accepts an optional argument specifying a branch to
check out after cleaning up the bisection state. This lets you
specify an arbitrary commit.
In particular, this provides a way to clean the bisection state
without moving HEAD: ‘git bisect reset HEAD’. This may be useful if
you are not interested in the state before you began a bisect,
especially if checking out the old commit would be expensive and
invalidate most of your compiled tree.
Clarify the ‘git bisect reset’ documentation to explain this optional
argument, which was previously mentioned only in the usage message.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit dae556b (environment: add global variable to disable replacement)
adds a variable to enable/disable replacement, and it is enabled by
default for most commands.
So there is no way to disable it for some commands, which is annoying
when we want to get information about a commit that has been replaced.
For example:
$ git cat-file -p N
would output information about the replacement commit if commit N is
replaced.
With the "--no-replace-objects" option that this patch adds it is
possible to get information about the original commit using:
$ git --no-replace-objects cat-file -p N
While at it, let's add some documentation about this new option in the
"git replace" man page too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tolerating empty path components in ref names means each ref does
not have a unique name. This creates difficulty for porcelains
that want to see if two branches are equal. Add a helper associating
to each ref a canonical name.
If a user asks a porcelain to create a ref "refs/heads//master",
the porcelain can run "git check-ref-format --print refs/heads//master"
and only deal with "refs/heads/master" from then on.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
