If fast-import is being used to update an existing branch of
a repository, the user may not want to lose commits if another
process updates the same ref at the same time. For example, the
user might be using fast-import to make just one or two commits
against a live branch.
We now perform a fast-forward check during the ref updating process.
If updating a branch would cause commits in that branch to be lost,
we skip over it and display the new SHA1 to standard error.
This new default behavior can be overridden with `--force`, like
git-push and git-fetch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Since some frontends may be working with source material where
the dates are only readily available as RFC 2822 strings, it is
more friendly if fast-import exposes Git's parse_date() function
to handle the conversion. This way the frontend doesn't need
to perform the parsing itself.
The new --date-format option to fast-import can be used by a
frontend to select which format it will supply date strings in.
The default is the standard `raw` Git format, which fast-import
has always supported. Format rfc2822 can be used to activate the
parse_date() function instead.
Because fast-import could also be useful for creating new, current
commits, the format `now` is also supported to generate the current
system timestamp. The implementation of `now` is a trivial call
to datestamp(), but is actually a whole whopping 3 lines so that
fast-import can verify the frontend really meant `now`.
As part of this change I have added validation of the `raw` date
format. Prior to this change fast-import would accept anything
in a `committer` command, even if it was seriously malformed.
Now fast-import requires the '> ' near the end of the string and
verifies the timestamp is formatted properly.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Corrected a couple of header markup lines which were shorter than the
actual header, and made the `data` commands two formats into a named
list, which matches how we document the two formats of the `M` command
within a commit.
Also tried to simplify the language about our decimal integer format;
Linus pointed out I was probably being too specific at the cost of
reduced readability.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
There is no need to check for a NULL pointer before invoking free(),
the runtime library automatically performs this check anyway and
does nothing if a NULL pointer is supplied.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Andy Parkins and Linus Torvalds both noticed that the description
of the timezone was incorrect. Its not expressed in minutes.
Its more like "hhmm", where "hh" is the number of hours and "mm"
is the number of minutes shifted from GMT/UTC.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This allows you to set up mothership-satellite configuration
more symmetrically and naturally by allowing the globbing
wildcard refspec for git-push. On your satellite machine:
[remote "mothership"]
url = mothership:project.git
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/mothership/*
push = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/satellite/*
You would say "git fetch mothership" to update your tracking
branches under mothership/ to keep track of the progress on the
mothership side, and when you are done working on the satellite
machine, you would "git push mothership" to update their
tracking branches under satellite/. Corresponding configuration
on the mothership machine can be used to make "git fetch satellite"
update its tracking branch under satellite/. on the mothership.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio noticed that I was using a different style in fast-import
for returned pointers than the rest of Git. Before merging this
code into the main git.git tree I'd like to make it consistent,
as this style variation was not intentional.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Junio noticed these warnings/errors in fast-import when compiling
with `-Werror -ansi -pedantic`. A few changes are to reduce compiler
warnings, while one (in cmd_merge) is a bug fix.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The --branch-log option and its associated code hasn't been used in
several months, as its not really very useful for debugging fast-import
or a frontend. I don't plan on supporting it in this state long-term,
so I'm killing it now before it gets distributed to a wider audience.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Completing the 3 core subcommands to git-remote, along with the
names of remotes for 'show' and 'prune' (which take only existing
remotes) is handy.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Apparently `git-rebase -m` uses a metadata directory within .git
(.git/.dotest-merge) rather than .dotest used by git-am (and
git-rebase without the -m option). This caused the completion code
to not offer --continue, --skip or --abort when working within a
`git-rebase -m` session.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is a first pass at the manpage for git-fast-import.
I have tried to cover the input format in extreme detail, creating a
reference which is more detailed than the BNF grammar appearing in
the header of fast-import.c. I have also covered some details about
gfi's performance and memory utilization, as well as the average
learning curve required to create a gfi frontend application (as it
is far lower than it might appear on first glance).
The documentation still lacks real example input streams, which may
turn out to be difficult to format in asciidoc due to the blank lines
which carry meaning within the format.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The current implementation of shell-style quoted refnames and
SHA-1 expressions within fast-import contains a bad memory leak.
We leak the unquoted strings used by the `from` and `merge`
commands, maybe others. Its also just muddling up the docs.
Since Git refnames cannot contain LF, and that is our delimiter
for the end of the refname, and we accept any other character
as-is, there is no reason for these strings to support quoting,
except to be nice to frontends. But frontends shouldn't be
expecting to use funny refs in Git, and its just as simple to
never quote them as it is to always pass them through the same
quoting filter as pathnames. So frontends should never quote
refs, or ref expressions.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
It used to be ls-remote on self was the only easy way to grab
the ref information. Now we have show-ref which does not
involve fork and IPC, so use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The gitk gui layout was completely broken on Cygwin. If gitk was started
without previous geometry in ~/.gitk, the user could drag the window sashes
to get a useable layout. However, if ~/.gitk existed, this was not possible
at all.
The fix was to rewrite makewindow, changing the toplevel containers and
the particular geometry information saved between sessions. Numerous bugs
in both the Cygwin and the Linux Tk versions make this a delicate
balancing act: the version here works in both but many subtle variants
are competely broken in one or the other environment.
Three user visible changes result:
1 - The viewer is fully functional under Cygwin.
2 - The search bar moves from the bottom to the top of the lower left
pane. This was necessary to get around a layout problem on Cygwin.
3 - The window size and position is saved and restored between sessions.
Again, this is necessary to get around a layout problem on Cygwin.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
The earlier commit d7b6c3c0 (Aug 15, 2006) introduced this
mismerge when most of the CFLAGS were renamed to BASIC_CFLAGS.
Not that it matters right now, since we do not compile XS
Perl extensions which wanted non GNU subset of ALL_CFLAGS for
compilation, but we should make things consistent.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If you resize the terminal while less is waiting for input, less
will exit entirely without even showing the output. This is very
noticeable if you do something like "git diff" on a big and
cold-cache tree and git takes a few seconds to think, and then
you resize the window while it's preparing. Boom. No output AT
ALL.
The way to reproduce the problem is to do some pager operation
that takes a while in git, and resizing the window while git is
thinking about the output. Try
git diff --stat v2.6.12..
in the kernel tree to do something where it takes a while for git to start
outputting information.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds three options to 'git-remote add'.
* -f (or --fetch) option tells it to also run the initial "git
fetch" using the newly created remote shorthand.
* -t (or --track) option tells it not to use the default
wildcard to track all branches.
* -m (or --master) option tells it to make the
remote/$name/HEAD point at a remote tracking branch other
than master.
For example, with this I can say:
$ git remote add -f -t master -t quick-start -m master \
jbf-um git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git.git/
to
(1) create remote.jbf-um.url;
(2) track master and quick-start branches (and no other); the
two -t options create these two lines:
fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/jbf-um/master
fetch = +refs/heads/quick-start:refs/remotes/jbf-um/quick-start
(3) set up remotes/jbf-um/HEAD to point at jbf-um/master so
that later I can say "git log jbf-um"
Or I could do
$ git remote add -t 'ap/*' andy /home/andy/git.git
to make Andy's topic branches kept track of under refs/remotes/andy/ap/.
Other possible improvements I considered but haven't implemented
(hint, hint) are:
* reject wildcard letters other than a trailing '*' to the -t
parameter;
* make -m optional and when the first -t parameter does not
have the trailing '*' default to that value (so the above
example does not need to say "-m master");
* if -m is not given, and -t parameter ends with '*' (i.e. the
above defaulting did not tell us where to point HEAD at), and
if we did the fetch with -f, check if 'master' was fetched
and make HEAD point at it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-merge-recursive wants an null tree as the fake merge base
while producing the merge result tree. The null tree does not
have to be written out in the object store as it won't be part
of the result, and it is a prime example for using the new
pretend_sha1_file() function.
git-blame needs to register an arbitrary data to in-core index
while annotating a working tree file (or standard input), but
git-blame is a read-only application and the user of it could
even lack the privilege to write into the object store; it is
another good example for pretend_sha1_file().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new interface allows an application to temporarily hash a
small number of objects and pretend that they are available in
the object store without actually writing them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Warning: this changes the semantics.
This makes "git blame" without any positive rev to start digging
from the working tree copy, which is made into a fake commit
whose sole parent is the HEAD.
It also adds --contents <file> option to pretend as if the
working tree copy has the contents of the named file. You can
use '-' to make the command read from the standard input.
If you want the command to start annotating from the HEAD
commit, you need to explicitly give HEAD parameter.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Here's another version of git-blame.el that automatically tries to
create a sensible list of colors to use for both light and dark
backgrounds. Plus a few minor fixes.
To use:
1) Load into emacs: M-x load-file RET git-blame.el RET
2) Open a git-controlled file
3) Blame: M-x git-blame-mode
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This can be used to compress multiple changesets into one, for example
like
git cvsexportcommit -P cvshead mybranch
without having to do so in git first.
Signed-off-by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch helps when you accidentally run something like git-clean
in the git directory instead of the work tree.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
hg-to-git.py is able to convert a Mercurial repository into a git one,
and preserves the branches in the process (unlike tailor)
hg-to-git.py can probably be greatly improved (it's a rather crude
combination of shell and python) but it does already work quite well for
me. Features:
- supports incremental conversion
(for keeping a git repo in sync with a hg one)
- supports hg branches
- converts hg tags
Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Double clicking on the row execs a new blameview with commit hash
as argument.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If the repository directory name is in non-ascii, $project needs to be
converted from perl internal to utf-8 because it will be used as
title, page path, and snapshot filename.
use to_utf8() to do the conversion.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We now offer completion support for git-bisect's subcommands,
as well as ref name completion on the good/bad/reset subcommands.
This should make interacting with git-bisect slightly easier on
the fingers.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We've recently added --add as an argument to git-config, but I
missed putting it into the earlier round of git-config updates
within the bash completion.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Don't offer resolve as a possible subcommand completion. If you
read the top of the script, there is a big warning about how it
will go away soon in the near future. People should not be using it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I'm lazy. I don't want to type out --prune if bash can do it for
me with --<tab>.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Apparently nobody really makes use of git-diff-stages, as nobody
has complained that it is not supported by the git-diff frontend.
Since its likely this will go away in the future, we should not
offer it as a possible subcommand completion.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I just realized I did not support ref name completion for git-cherry.
This tool is just too useful to contributors who submit patches
upstream by email; completion support for it is very handy.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This particular use of git-rebase to remove a single commit or a
range of commits from the history of a branch recently came up on
the mailing list. Documenting the example should help other users
arrive at the same solution on their own.
It also was not obvious to the newcomer that git-rebase is able to
accept any commit for --onto <newbase> and <upstream>. We should
at least minimally document this, as much of the language in
git-rebase's manpage refers to 'branch' rather than 'committish'.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation for git-for-each-ref said that the refname variable
would return "the part after $GIT_DIR/refs/", which isn't true.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We at least know that the test as written has a problem in an
environment where "touch '$p'; ls | fgrep '$p'" fails, and have
a clear understand why it fails.
This tests if the filesystem has that particular issue we know "git
add" has a problem with, and skips the test in such an environment.
This way, we might catch issues "git add" might have in other environments.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some structs are allocated rather frequently, but were using integer
types which were far larger than required to actually store their
full value range.
As packfiles are limited to 4 GiB we don't need more than 32 bits to
store the offset of an object within that packfile, an `unsigned long`
on a 64 bit system is likely a 64 bit unsigned value. Saving 4 bytes
per object on a 64 bit system can add up fast on any sizable import.
As atom strings are strictly single components in a path name these
are probably limited to just 255 bytes by the underlying OS. Going
to that short of a string is probably too restrictive, but certainly
`unsigned int` is far too large for their lengths. `unsigned short`
is a reasonable limit.
Modes within a tree really only need two bytes to store their whole
value; using `unsigned int` here is vast overkill. Saving 4 bytes
per file entry in an active branch can add up quickly on a project
with a large number of files.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This command isn't encouraged (as its slow) but it does exist and
is accepted, so it still should be covered in the BNF.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-archimport should better refuse to start an initial import if the
current directory is not empty.
(http://bugs.debian.org/400508)
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This reverts commit 80c797764a.
Back when I committed this, it seemed to be a good idea. People
who always use remote tracking branches can optionally use the
local name they happen to use to specify what to merge, which meant
that I did not have to teach them why we use the name at the remote
side every time they are confused.
But allowing it seems to break other people's scripts. The real
solution is not to allow more ways to express the same thing, but
to educate people to use the right syntax.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* np/dreflog:
show-branch -g: default to the current branch.
Let git-checkout always drop any detached head
Enable HEAD@{...} and make it independent from the current branch
scan reflogs independently from refs
add reflog when moving HEAD to a new branch
create_symref(): do not assume pathname from git_path() persists long enough
add logref support to git-symbolic-ref
move create_symref() past log_ref_write()
add reflog entries for HEAD when detached
enable separate reflog for HEAD
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remember the original name of a ref when resolving it
make reflog filename independent from struct ref_lock
Mention git-revert as an alternative to git-reset to revert changes.
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When using --reference to borrow objects from a neighbouring
repository while cloning, we copy the entire set of refs under
temporary "refs/reference-tmp/refs" space and set up the object
alternates. However, a textual symref copied this way would not
point at the right place, and causes later steps to emit error
messages (which is harmless but still alarming). This is most
visible when using a clone created with the separate-remote
layout as a reference, because such a repository would have
refs/remotes/origin/HEAD with 'ref: refs/remotes/origin/master'
as its contents.
Although we do not create symbolic-link based refs anymore, they
have the same problem because they are always supposed to be
relative to refs/ hierarchy (we dereference by hand, so it only
is good for HEAD and nothing else).
In either case, the solution is simply to remove them after
copying under refs/reference-tmp; if a symref points at a true
ref, that true ref itself is enough to ensure that objects
reachable from it do not needlessly get fetched.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
