Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
* ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions:
git-filter-branch: be more direct in an error message
read-tree -m: make error message for merging 0 trees less smart aleck
usability: don't ask questions if no reply is required
Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take
effect in v2.13, which has been corrected.
* ah/log-decorate-default-to-auto:
builtin/log: honor log.decorate
Update tests to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism to ensure
that output strings that should not be translated are not
translated by mistake), and tell TravisCI to run them.
* ab/fix-poison-tests:
travis-ci: add job to run tests with GETTEXT_POISON
travis-ci: setup "prove cache" in "script" step
tests: fix tests broken under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease
The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though
the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with
ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is
based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier
to migrate away from it if/when necessary.
* ab/doc-replace-gmane-links:
doc: replace more gmane links
doc: replace a couple of broken gmane links
Just the first one of three? new tests that follows up a regression
fix.
* pw/rebase-i-regression-fix:
rebase -i: add missing newline to end of message
rebase -i: silence stash apply
rebase -i: fix reflog message
The message that's printed when auto-stashed changes are successfully
restored was missing '\n' at the end.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The shell version of rebase -i silences the status output from 'git
stash apply' when restoring the autostashed changes. The C version
does not.
Having the output from git stash apply on the screen is
distracting as it makes it difficult to find the message from git
rebase saying that the rebase succeeded. Also the status information
that git stash prints talks about looking in .git/rebase-merge/done to
see which commits have been applied. As .git/rebase-merge is removed
shortly after the message is printed before rebase -i exits this is
confusing.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When rebase -i was converted to C a bug was introduced into the code
that creates the reflog message. Instead of saying
rebase -i (finish): <head-name> onto <onto>
it says
rebase -i (finish): <head-name> onto <orig-head><onto>
as the strbuf is not reset between reading the value of <orig-head>
and <onto>.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recent change that introduced autodecorating of refs accidentally
broke the ability of users to set log.decorate = false to override it.
When the git_log_config was traversed a second time with an option other
than log.decorate, the decoration style would be set to the automatic
style, even if the user had already overridden it. Instead of setting
the option in config parsing, set it in init_log_defaults instead.
Add a test for this case. The actual additional config option doesn't
matter, but it needs to be something not already set in the
configuration file.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Acked-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-filter-branch requires the specification of a branch by one way or
another. If no branch appears to have been specified, we know the user
got the usage wrong but we don't know what they were trying to do ---
e.g. maybe they specified the ref to rewrite but in the wrong place.
In this case, just state that the branch specification is missing.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git read-tree -m" requires a tree argument to name the tree to be
merged in. Git uses a cutesy error message to say so and why:
$ git read-tree -m
warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is
deprecated; use --empty
fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
$ git read-tree -m --empty
fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
When lucky, that could produce an ah-hah moment for the user, but it's
more likely to irritate and distract them.
Instead, tell the user plainly that the tree argument is
required. Also document this requirement in the git-read-tree(1)
manpage where there is room to explain it in a more straightforward way.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There has been a bug report by a corporate user that stated that
"spelling mistake of stash followed by a yes prints character 'y'
infinite times."
This analysis was false. When the spelling of a command contains
errors, the git program tries to help the user by providing candidates
which are close to the unexisting command. E.g Git prints the
following:
git: 'stahs' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
Did you mean this?
stash
and then exits.
The problem with this hint is that it is not formally indicated as an
hint and the user is in fact encouraged to reply to the question,
whereas the Git command is already finished.
The user was unlucky enough that it was the command he was looking
for, and replied "yes" on the command line, effectively launching the
`yes` program.
The initial error is that the Git programs, when launched in
command-line mode (without interaction) must not ask questions,
because these questions would normally require a user input as a reply
that they won't handle indeed. That's a source of confusion on UX
level.
To improve the general usability of the Git suite, the following rule
was applied:
if the sentence
* appears in a non-interactive session
* is printed last before exit
* is a question addressing the user ("you")
the sentence is turned into affirmative and proposes the option.
The basic rewording of the question sentences has been extended to
other spots found in the source.
Requested at https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/999 by rpai1
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a job to run Git tests with GETTEXT_POISON. In this job we don't run
the git-p4, git-svn, and HTTPD tests to save resources/time (those tests
are already executed in other jobs). Since we don't run these tests, we
can also skip the "before_install" step (which would install the
necessary dependencies) with an empty override.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command that made the "prove cache" persistent across builds was
executed in the "before_install" step. Consequently, every job that
wanted to make use of the cache had to run this step.
The "prove cache" is only used in the "script" step for the
"make test" command. Therefore, we should configure the "prove cache"
in this step.
This change is useful for a subsequent patch that adds a job which does
not need the "before_install" step but wants to run the "script" step to
execute the tests.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease compile-time testing option added in my
bb946bba76 ("i18n: add GETTEXT_POISON to simulate unfriendly
translator", 2011-02-22) has been slowly bitrotting as strings have
been marked for translation, and new tests have been added without
running it.
I brought this up on the list ("[BUG] test suite broken with
GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease", [1]) asking whether this mode was useful at
all anymore. At least one person occasionally uses it, and Lars
Schneider offered to change one of the the Travis builds to run in
this mode, so fix up the failing ones.
My test setup runs most of the tests, with the notable exception of
skipping all the p4 tests, so it's possible that there's still some
lurking regressions I haven't fixed.
1. <CACBZZX62+acvi1dpkknadTL827mtCm_QesGSZ=6+UnyeMpg8+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace a couple of broken links to gmane with links to other
archives. See commit 54471fdcc3 ("README: replace gmane link with
public-inbox", 2016-12-15) for prior art.
With this change there's still 4 references left in the code:
$ git grep -E '(article|thread)\.gmane.org' -- |grep -v RelNotes|wc -l
4
I couldn't find alternative links for those.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
