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Shawn O. Pearce
18bdec1118 Limit the size of the new delta_base_cache
The new configuration variable core.deltaBaseCacheLimit allows the
user to control how much memory they are willing to give to Git for
caching base objects of deltas.  This is not normally meant to be
a user tweakable knob; the "out of the box" settings are meant to
be suitable for almost all workloads.

We default to 16 MiB under the assumption that the cache is not
meant to consume all of the user's available memory, and that the
cache's main purpose was to cache trees, for faster path limiters
during revision traversal.  Since trees tend to be relatively small
objects, this relatively small limit should still allow a large
number of objects.

On the other hand we don't want the cache to start storing 200
different versions of a 200 MiB blob, as this could easily blow
the entire address space of a 32 bit process.

We evict OBJ_BLOB from the cache first (credit goes to Junio) as
we want to favor OBJ_TREE within the cache.  These are the objects
that have the highest inflate() startup penalty, as they tend to
be small and thus don't have that much of a chance to ammortize
that penalty over the entire data.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-18 22:43:37 -07:00
James Bowes
9cec65399d mergetool: Add support for vimdiff.
Signed-off-by: James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2007-03-18 22:13:48 -04:00
Paolo Bonzini
9debc3241b git-fetch, git-branch: Support local --track via a special remote '.'
This patch adds support for a dummy remote '.' to avoid having
to declare a fake remote like

        [remote "local"]
                url = .
                fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

Such a builtin remote simplifies the operation of "git-fetch",
which will populate FETCH_HEAD but will not pretend that two
repositories are in use, will not create a thin pack, and will
not perform any useless remapping of names.  The speed
improvement is around 20%, and it should improve more if
"git-fetch" is converted to a builtin.

To this end, git-parse-remote is grown with a new kind of
remote, 'builtin'.  In git-fetch.sh, we treat the builtin remote
specially in that it needs no pack/store operations.  In fact,
doing git-fetch on a builtin remote will simply populate
FETCH_HEAD appropriately.

The patch also improves of the --track/--no-track support,
extending it so that branch.<name>.remote items referring '.'
can be created.  Finally, it fixes a typo in git-checkout.sh.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-16 02:10:12 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
c4b4a5af16 Add git-mergetool to run an appropriate merge conflict resolution program
The git-mergetool program can be used to automatically run an appropriate
merge resolution program to resolve merge conflicts.  It will automatically
run one of kdiff3, tkdiff, meld, xxdiff, or emacs emerge programs.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2007-03-13 20:14:05 -04:00
Junio C Hamano
e6f9511343 Merge branch 'js/symlink'
* js/symlink:
  Tell multi-parent diff about core.symlinks.
  Handle core.symlinks=false case in merge-recursive.
  Add core.symlinks to mark filesystems that do not support symbolic links.
2007-03-04 17:31:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
253e772ede Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Unset NO_C99_FORMAT on Cygwin.
  Fix a "pointer type missmatch" warning.
  Fix some "comparison is always true/false" warnings.
  Fix an "implicit function definition" warning.
  Fix a "label defined but unreferenced" warning.
  Document the config variable format.suffix
  git-merge: fail correctly when we cannot fast forward.
  builtin-archive: use RUN_SETUP
  Fix git-gc usage note
2007-03-03 19:47:46 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
78cb59c8e5 Document the config variable format.suffix
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-03 17:45:48 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
78a8d641c1 Add core.symlinks to mark filesystems that do not support symbolic links.
Some file systems that can host git repositories and their working copies
do not support symbolic links. But then if the repository contains a symbolic
link, it is impossible to check out the working copy.

This patch enables partial support of symbolic links so that it is possible
to check out a working copy on such a file system.  A new flag
core.symlinks (which is true by default) can be set to false to indicate
that the filesystem does not support symbolic links. In this case, symbolic
links that exist in the trees are checked out as small plain files, and
checking in modifications of these files preserve the symlink property in
the database (as long as an entry exists in the index).

Of course, this does not magically make symbolic links work on such defective
file systems; hence, this solution does not help if the working copy relies
on that an entry is a real symbolic link.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-02 16:58:05 -08:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
047f636d90 Documentation: document remote.<name>.tagopt
Update config.txt with info regarding tagopt option

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-26 00:32:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cc58fc0684 Merge branch 'js/etc-config'
* js/etc-config:
  Make tests independent of global config files
  config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig
2007-02-24 01:43:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8a13becc0d Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
  Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
  Limit filename for format-patch
  core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
  git-show-ref --verify: Fail if called without a reference

Conflicts:

	builtin-show-ref.c
	diff.c
2007-02-24 01:42:06 -08:00
Santi Béjar
bdd69c2f64 core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-24 00:25:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e79cbbea9e Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-diff: fix combined diff
  Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository
  Include git-gui credits file in dist.
  Document the new core.bare configuration option.
2007-02-22 21:27:37 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
e4a15f40bc Document the new core.bare configuration option.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-21 16:39:09 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o
1918278ea1 Allow git-remote to update named groups of remotes
In response to a feature request from Shawn Pearce, this patch allows
a user to update a named group of remotes by using "git remote update
<group>", where the group is defined in the config file by
remotes.<group>.  The default if the named group is not specified is
now fetched group remotes.default, instead of remote.fetch, which is
what had been previously used.

In addition, if remotes.default is not defined, all remotes defined in
the config file will be used, as before, but there is now also
possible to request that a particular repository to be skipped by
default by using the boolean configuration parameter
remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-20 23:58:39 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
32043c9f8c config: read system-wide defaults from /etc/gitconfig
The settings in /etc/gitconfig can be overridden in ~/.gitconfig,
which in turn can be overridden in .git/config.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-19 23:05:16 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o
1e592d65b5 Teach git-remote to update existing remotes by fetching from them
This allows users to use the command "git remote update" to update all
remotes that are being tracked in the repository.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-19 18:34:33 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
c2120e5e4b git-gc: run pack-refs by default unless the repo is bare
The config variable gc.packrefs is tristate now: "true", "false"
and "notbare", where "notbare" is the default.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-13 09:19:34 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o
dfd42a3c62 Allow aliases to expand to shell commands
If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, treat
it as a shell command which is run using system(3).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-10 22:46:34 -08:00
Pavel Roskin
3dff5379bf Assorted typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 21:49:54 -08:00
Tom Prince
e0d10e1c63 [PATCH] Rename git-repo-config to git-config.
Signed-off-by: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28 16:16:53 -08:00
Mark Wooding
4f193f20a3 Documentation/config.txt: Fix documentation of colour config tweaks.
* The description of valid colour specifications was rather
    incomplete, so fix it so that it actually describes colour specs as
    accepted by color_parse().

  * The list of colour items allowed in color.diff.BLAH was missing the
    `commit' and `whitespace' entries.

Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28 11:06:59 -08:00
Andy Parkins
d67778eccd Allow the tag signing key to be specified in the config file
I did this:

  $ git tag -s test-sign
  gpg: skipped "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>": secret key not available
  gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
  failed to sign the tag with GPG.

The problem is that I have used the comment field in my key's UID
definition.

  $ gpg --list-keys andy
  pub   1024D/4F712F6D 2003-08-14
  uid                  Andy Parkins (Google) <andyparkins@gmail.com>

So when git-tag looks for "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>";
obviously it's not going to be found.

There shouldn't be a requirement that I use the same form of my name in
my git repository and my gpg key - I might want to be formal (Andrew) in
my gpg key and informal (Andy) in the repository.  Further I might have
multiple keys in my keyring, and might want to use one that doesn't
match up with the address I use in commit messages.

This patch adds a configuration entry "user.signingkey" which, if
present, will be passed to the "-u" switch for gpg, allowing the tag
signing key to be overridden.  If the entry is not present, the fallback
is the original method, which means existing behaviour will continue
untouched.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-27 13:46:59 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
5dee29ac0f make --upload-pack option to git-fetch configurable
This introduces the config item remote.<name>.uploadpack to override the
default value (which is "git-upload-pack").

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-24 23:06:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e28714c527 Consolidate {receive,fetch}.unpackLimit
This allows transfer.unpackLimit to specify what these two
configuration variables want to set.

We would probably want to deprecate the two separate variables,
as I do not see much point in specifying them independently.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-24 18:08:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
af7cf268f0 fetch-pack: remove --keep-auto and make it the default.
This makes git-fetch over git native protocol to automatically
decide to keep the downloaded pack if the fetch results in more
than 100 objects, just like receive-pack invoked by git-push
does.  This logic is disabled when --keep is explicitly given
from the command line, so that a very small clone still keeps
the downloaded pack as before.

The 100 threshold can be adjusted with fetch.unpacklimit
configuration.  We might want to introduce transfer.unpacklimit
to consolidate the two unpacklimit variables, which will be a
topic for the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-24 18:08:02 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
191453f664 Documentation/config.txt: Correct info about subsection name
Contrary to variable values, in subsection names parsing character
escape codes (besides literal escaping of " as \", and \ as \\)
is not performed; subsection name cannot contain newlines.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-24 15:30:37 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
e136f33b5f Documentation/config.txt: Document config file syntax better
Separate part of Documentation/config.txt which deals with git config file
syntax into "Syntax" subsection, and expand it.  Add information about
subsections, boolean values, escaping and escape sequences in string
values, and continuing variable value on the next line.

Add also proxy settings to config file example to show example of
partially enclosed in double quotes string value.

Parts based on comments by Junio C Hamano, Johannes Schindelin,
config.c, and the smb.conf(5) man page.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-22 12:54:02 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
060aafc11f make --exec=... option to git-push configurable
Having to specify git push --exec=... is annoying if you cannot have
git-receivepack in your PATH on the remote side (or don't want to).

This introduces the config item remote.<name>.receivepack to override
the default value (which is "git-receive-pack").

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:54:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5ea5621f89 Document where configuration files are in config.txt
Talking about what the files contain without talking about where
they are does not help new users.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 22:45:35 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
8c3275abca Allow the user to control the verbosity of merge-recursive.
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
> I think the output from merge-recursive can be categorized into 5
> verbosity levels:
>
> 1. "CONFLICT", "Rename", "Adding here instead due to D/F conflict"
> (outermost)
>
> 2. "Auto-merged successfully" (outermost)
>
> 3. The first "Merging X with Y".
>
> 4. outermost "Merging:\ntitle1\ntitle2".
>
> 5. outermost "found N common ancestors\nancestor1\nancestor2\n..."
> and anything from inner merge.
>
> I would prefer the default verbosity level to be 2 (that is, show
> both 1 and 2).

and this change makes it so.  I think level 3 is probably pointless
as its only one line of output above level 2, but I can see how some
users may want to view it but not view the slightly more verbose
output of level 4.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-14 12:20:39 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
5c94f87e6b use 'init' instead of 'init-db' for shipped docs and tools
While 'init-db' still is and probably will always remain a valid git
command for obvious backward compatibility reasons, it would be a good
idea to move shipped tools and docs to using 'init' instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-12 13:36:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cf2999eb4c Merge branch 'sp/mmap'
* sp/mmap: (27 commits)
  Spell default packedgitlimit slightly differently
  Increase packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} on 64 bit systems.
  Update packedGit config option documentation.
  mmap: set FD_CLOEXEC for file descriptors we keep open for mmap()
  pack-objects: fix use of use_pack().
  Fix random segfaults in pack-objects.
  Cleanup read_cache_from error handling.
  Replace mmap with xmmap, better handling MAP_FAILED.
  Release pack windows before reporting out of memory.
  Default core.packdGitWindowSize to 1 MiB if NO_MMAP.
  Test suite for sliding window mmap implementation.
  Create pack_report() as a debugging aid.
  Support unmapping windows on 'temporary' packfiles.
  Improve error message when packfile mmap fails.
  Ensure core.packedGitWindowSize cannot be less than 2 pages.
  Load core configuration in git-verify-pack.
  Fully activate the sliding window pack access.
  Unmap individual windows rather than entire files.
  Document why header parsing won't exceed a window.
  Loop over pack_windows when inflating/accessing data.
  ...

Conflicts:

	cache.h
	pack-check.c
2007-01-07 00:12:47 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
22bac0ea52 Increase packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} on 64 bit systems.
If we have a 64 bit address space we can easily afford to commit
a larger amount of virtual address space to pack file access.
So on these platforms we should increase the default settings of
core.packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} to something that will better
handle very large projects.

Thanks to Andy Whitcroft for pointing out that we can safely
increase these defaults on such systems.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-06 10:34:56 -08:00
Brian Gernhardt
f3673988ec Add documentation for git-branch's color configuration.
Added color.branch and color.branch.<slot> to configuration list.
Style copied from color.status and meanings derived from the code.

Moved the color meanings from color.diff.<slot> to color.branch.<slot>
since the latter comes first alphabetically.

Added --color and --no-color to git-branch's usage and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-03 08:16:02 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
eb92242f19 Update packedGit config option documentation.
Corrected minor typos and documented the new k/m/g suffix for
core.packedGitWindowSize and core.packedGitLimit.

[jc: with a minor markup fix.]

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-30 22:45:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
76d4e079ad Merge branch 'master' into sp/mmap
* master:
  Documentation/config.txt (and repo-config manpage): mark-up fix.
  Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes.
  Use /dev/null for update hook stdin.
  Redirect update hook stdout to stderr.
  Remove unnecessary argc parameter from run_command_v.
  Automatically detect a bare git repository.
  Replace "GIT_DIR" with GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT.
  Use PATH_MAX constant for --bare.
  Force core.filemode to false on Cygwin.
  Fix formatting for urls section of fetch, pull, and push manpages
  Fix yet another subtle xdl_merge() bug
  i18n: drop "encoding" header in the output after re-coding.
  commit-tree: cope with different ways "utf-8" can be spelled.
  Move commit reencoding parameter parsing to revision.c
  Documentation: minor rewording for git-log and git-show pages.
  Documentation: i18n commit log message notes.
  t3900: test log --encoding=none
  commit re-encoding: fix confusion between no and default conversion.
2006-12-30 22:42:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a862f97e98 Documentation/config.txt (and repo-config manpage): mark-up fix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-30 22:39:24 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
60bb8b1453 Fully activate the sliding window pack access.
This finally turns on the sliding window behavior for packfile data
access by mapping limited size windows and chaining them under the
packed_git->windows list.

We consider a given byte offset to be within the window only if there
would be at least 20 bytes (one hash worth of data) accessible after
the requested offset.  This range selection relates to the contract
that use_pack() makes with its callers, allowing them to access
one hash or one object header without needing to call use_pack()
for every byte of data obtained.

In the worst case scenario we will map the same page of data twice
into memory: once at the end of one window and once again at the
start of the next window.  This duplicate page mapping will happen
only when an object header or a delta base reference is spanned
over the end of a window and is always limited to just one page of
duplication, as no sane operating system will ever have a page size
smaller than a hash.

I am assuming that the possible wasted page of virtual address
space is going to perform faster than the alternatives, which
would be to copy the object header or ref delta into a temporary
buffer prior to parsing, or to check the window range on every byte
during header parsing.  We may decide to revisit this decision in
the future since this is just a gut instinct decision and has not
actually been proven out by experimental testing.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-29 11:36:45 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
77ccc5bbd1 Introduce new config option for mmap limit.
Rather than hardcoding the maximum number of bytes which can be
mmapped from pack files we should make this value configurable,
allowing the end user to increase or decrease this limit on a
per-repository basis depending on the size of the repository
and the capabilities of their operating system.

In general users should not need to manually tune such a low-level
setting within the core code, but being able to artifically limit
the number of bytes which we can mmap at once from pack files will
make it easier to craft test cases for the new mmap sliding window
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-29 11:36:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
eff73751bb Merge branch 'jc/utf8'
* jc/utf8:
  t3900: test conversion to non UTF-8 as well
  Rename t3900 test vector file
  UTF-8: introduce i18n.logoutputencoding.
  Teach log family --encoding
  i18n.logToUTF8: convert commit log message to UTF-8
  Move encoding conversion routine out of mailinfo to utf8.c

Conflicts:

	commit.c
2006-12-28 19:03:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d2c11a38c4 UTF-8: introduce i18n.logoutputencoding.
It is plausible for somebody to want to view the commit log in a
different encoding from i18n.commitencoding -- the project's
policy may be UTF-8 and the user may be using a commit message
hook to run iconv to conform to that policy (and either not have
i18n.commitencoding to default to UTF-8 or have it explicitly
set to UTF-8).  Even then, Latin-1 may be more convenient for
the usual pager and the terminal the user uses.

The new variable i18n.logoutputencoding is used in preference to
i18n.commitencoding to decide what encoding to recode the log
output in when git-log and friends formats the commit log message.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-27 16:41:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4aec56d12b git-reflog: gc.* configuration and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-27 01:47:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
48c3242450 rerere gc: honor configuration and document it
Two configuration to control the expiration of rerere records
are introduced and documented.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-27 01:33:24 -08:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
910c00c8ca Add config example with respect to branch
Update config.txt with example with respect to branch
config variable. This give a better idea regarding
how branch names are expected.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-18 16:05:08 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
82dca84871 Align section headers of 'git status' to new 'git add'.
Now that 'git add' is considered a first-class UI for 'update-index'
and that the 'git add' documentation states "Even modified files
must be added to the set of changes about to be committed" we should
make the output of 'git status' align with that documentation and
common usage.

So now we see a status output such as:

  # Added but not yet committed:
  #   (will commit)
  #
  #       new file: x
  #
  # Changed but not added:
  #   (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit)
  #
  #       modified:   x
  #
  # Untracked files:
  #   (use "git add" on files to include for commit)
  #
  #       y

which just reads better in the context of using 'git add' to
manipulate a commit (and not a checkin, whatever the heck that is).

We also now support 'color.status.added' as an alias for the existing
'color.status.updated', as this alias more closely aligns with the
current output and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-15 22:31:01 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
0bee591869 Enable reflogs by default in any repository with a working directory.
New and experienced Git users alike are finding out too late that
they forgot to enable reflogs in the current repository, and cannot
use the information stored within it to recover from an incorrectly
entered command such as `git reset --hard HEAD^^^` when they really
meant HEAD^^ (aka HEAD~2).

So enable reflogs by default in all future versions of Git, unless
the user specifically disables it with:

  [core]
    logAllRefUpdates = false

in their .git/config or ~/.gitconfig.

We only enable reflogs in repositories that have a working directory
associated with them, as shared/bare repositories do not have
an easy means to prune away old log entries, or may fail logging
entirely if the user's gecos information is not valid during a push.
This heuristic was suggested on the mailing list by Junio.

Documentation was also updated to indicate the new default behavior.
We probably should start to teach usuing the reflog to recover
from mistakes in some of the tutorial material, as new users are
likely to make a few along the way and will feel better knowing
they can recover from them quickly and easily, without fsck-objects'
lost+found features.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-15 22:31:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1d77043b00 config documentation: group color items together.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-13 12:11:03 -08:00
Andy Parkins
a159ca0cb7 Allow subcommand.color and color.subcommand color configuration
While adding colour to the branch command it was pointed out that a
config option like "branch.color" conflicts with the pre-existing
"branch.something" namespace used for specifying default merge urls and
branches.  The suggested solution was to flip the order of the
components to "color.branch", which I did for colourising branch.

This patch does the same thing for
  - git-log (color.diff)
  - git-status (color.status)
  - git-diff (color.diff)
  - pager (color.pager)

I haven't removed the old config options; but they should probably be
deprecated and eventually removed to prevent future namespace
collisions.  I've done this deprecation by changing the documentation
for the config file to match the new names; and adding the "color.XXX"
options to contrib/completion/git-completion.bash.

Unfortunately git-svn reads "diff.color" and "pager.color"; which I
don't like to change unilaterally.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-13 01:47:36 -08:00
Josef Weidendorfer
62b339a544 Add branch.*.merge warning and documentation update
This patch clarifies the meaning of the branch.*.merge option.
Previously, if branch.*.merge was specified but did not match any
ref, the message "No changes." was not really helpful regarding
the misconfiguration. This patch adds a warning for this.

Signed-off-by: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-08 18:13:31 -08:00