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>
This introduces a new command-line option: --exit-code. The diff
programs will return 1 for differences, return 0 for equality, and
something else for errors.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previous formulation could make it appear as removing all lines
matching a regexp (at least, I was looking for such a flag, and
confused this flag for what I was looking for).
Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This avoids fetching new revisions remotely, and is usefuly
versus plain "git rebase" because the user does not have to
specify which remote head to rebase against.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Format some lists really as lists. Improves both html and man
output.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
Chain-reply-to is a personal perference, and is unlikely to change from
patchset to patchset. Similarly, bcc is likely to have the same values
every invocation is one likes to bcc oneself.
So, allow both to be set via configuration variables.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Wishing to implement an email aliases file, I found that they were already
implmented. Document them for the next user.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sergey Vlasov, Andy Parkins and Alex Riesen all pointed out that it
is possible for a single invocation of receive-pack to be given more
refs than the OS might allow us to pass as command line parameters
to a single hook invocation.
We don't want to break these up into multiple invocations (like
xargs might do) as that makes it impossible for the pre-receive
hook to verify multiple related ref updates occur at the same time,
and it makes it harder for post-receive to send out a single batch
notification.
Instead we pass the reference data on a pipe connected to the
hook's stdin, supplying one ref per line to the hook. This way a
single hook invocation can obtain an infinite amount of ref data,
without bumping into any operating system limits.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In order to track and build on top of a branch 'topic' you track from
your upstream repository, you often would end up doing this sequence:
git checkout -b mytopic origin/topic
git config --add branch.mytopic.remote origin
git config --add branch.mytopic.merge refs/heads/topic
This would first fork your own 'mytopic' branch from the 'topic'
branch you track from the 'origin' repository; then it would set up two
configuration variables so that 'git pull' without parameters does the
right thing while you are on your own 'mytopic' branch.
This commit adds a --track option to git-branch, so that "git
branch --track mytopic origin/topic" performs the latter two actions
when creating your 'mytopic' branch.
If the configuration variable branch.autosetupmerge is set to true, you
do not have to pass the --track option explicitly; further patches in
this series allow setting the variable with a "git remote add" option.
The configuration variable is off by default, and there is a --no-track
option to countermand it even if the variable is set.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
git.el: Retrieve commit log information from .dotest directory.
git.el: Avoid appending a signoff line that is already present.
setup_git_directory_gently: fix off-by-one error
user-manual: install user manual stylesheet with other web documents
user-manual: fix rendering of history diagrams
user-manual: fix missing colon in git-show example
user-manual: fix inconsistent use of pull and merge
user-manual: fix inconsistent example
glossary: fix overoptimistic automatic linking of defined terms
Documentation: s/seperator/separator/
Adjust reflog filemode in shared repository
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
user-manual: install user manual stylesheet with other web documents
user-manual: fix rendering of history diagrams
user-manual: fix missing colon in git-show example
user-manual: fix inconsistent use of pull and merge
user-manual: fix inconsistent example
glossary: fix overoptimistic automatic linking of defined terms
Asciidoc appears to interpret a backslash at the end of a line as
escaping the end-of-line character, which screws up the display of
history diagrams like
o--o--o
\
o--...
The obvious fix (replacing "\" by "\\") doesn't work. The only
workaround I've found is to include all such diagrams in a LiteralBlock.
Asciidoc claims that should be equivalent to a literal paragraph, so I
don't understand why the difference--perhaps it's an asciidoc bug.
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
There should be a colon in this git-show example.
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
I used "git pull ." instead of "git merge" here without any explanation.
Stick instead to "git merge" for now (the equivalent pull syntax is
still covered in a later chapter).
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The configuration file fragment here is inconsistent with the text
above. Thanks to Ramsay Jones for the correction.
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The script sort_glossary.pl turns each use of "term" into a link to the
definition of "term". To avoid mangling links like
gitlink:git-term[1]
it doesn't replace any occurence of "term" preceded by "link:git-".
This fails for gitlink:git-symbolic-ref[1] when substituting for "ref".
So instead just refuse to replace anything preceded by a "-".
That could result in missing some opportunities, but that's a less
annoying error.
Actually I find the automatic substitution a little distracting; some
day maybe we should just run it once and commit the result, so it can
be hand-tuned.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The --interactive option behaves like "git commit", except that
"git add --interactive" is executed before committing. It is
incompatible with -a and -i.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
Allow fast-import frontends to reload the marks table
Use atomic updates to the fast-import mark file
Preallocate memory earlier in fast-import
I'm giving fast-import a lesson on how to reload the marks table
using the same format it outputs with --export-marks. This way
a frontend can reload the marks table from a prior import, making
incremental imports less painful.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Bill Lear pointed out that it is easy to send out notifications of
changes with the update hook, but successful execution of the update
hook does not necessarily mean that the ref was actually updated.
Lock contention on the ref or being unable to append to the reflog
may prevent the ref from being changed. Sending out notifications
prior to the ref actually changing is very misleading.
To help this situation I am introducing two new hooks to the
receive-pack flow: pre-receive and post-receive. These new hooks
are invoked only once per receive-pack execution and are passed
three arguments per ref (refname, old-sha1, new-sha1).
The new post-receive hook is ideal for sending out notifications,
as it has the complete list of all refnames that were successfully
updated as well as the old and new SHA-1 values. This allows more
interesting notifications to be sent. Multiple ref updates could
be easily summarized into one email, for example.
The new pre-receive hook is ideal for logging update attempts, as it
is run only once for the entire receive-pack operation. It can also
be used to verify multiple updates happen at once, e.g. an update
to the `maint` head must also be accompained by a new annotated tag.
Lots of documentation improvements for receive-pack are included
in this change, as we want to make sure the new hooks are clearly
explained.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch adds support to archimport for remapping the branch
names to match those used in git more closely. This is useful
for projects that migrate to git (as opposed to users that want
to use git on Arch-based projects). For example, one can choose
an Arch branch name and call it "master".
The new command-line syntax works even if there is a colon in
a branch name, since only the part after the last colon is taken
to be the git name (git does not allow colons in branch names).
The new feature is implemented so that archives rotated every
year can also be remapped into a single git archive.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master-for-junio' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
fast-import: Fail if a non-existant commit is used for merge
fast-import: Avoid infinite loop after reset
* maint:
Fix diff-options references in git-diff and git-format-patch
Add definition of <commit-ish> to the main git man page.
Begin SubmittingPatches with a check list
fast-import: Fail if a non-existant commit is used for merge
fast-import: Avoid infinite loop after reset
Most of the git-diff-* documentation used [<common diff options>]
instead of [--diff-options], so make that change in git-diff and
git-format-patch.
In addition, git-format-patch didn't include the meanings of the diff
options.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It seems that some people prefer a short list to a long text. But even for
the latter group, a quick reminder list is useful. So, add a check list to
Documentation/SubmittingPatches of what to do to get your patch accepted.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update the main git.html page to point at 1.5.0.3 documentation.
Update draft 1.5.1 release notes with what we have so far.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The existing --attach option did not create a true "attachment"
but multipart/mixed with Content-Disposition: inline. It should
have been with Content-Disposition: attachment.
Introduce --inline to add multipart/mixed that is inlined, and
make --attach to create an attachement.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'js/fetch-progress' (early part):
Fixup no-progress for fetch & clone
fetch & clone: do not output progress when not on a tty
Conflicts:
git-fetch.sh
* 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.
* maint:
GIT 1.5.0.3
glossary: Add definitions for dangling and unreachable objects
user-manual: more detailed merge discussion
user-manual: how to replace commits older than most recent
user-manual: insert earlier of mention content-addressable architecture
user-manual: ensure generated manual references stylesheet
user-manual: reset to ORIG_HEAD not HEAD to undo merge
Documentation: mention module option to git-cvsimport
Define "dangling" and "unreachable" objects. Modified from original
text proposed by Yasushi Shoji.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add more details on conflict, including brief discussion of file stages.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"Modifying" an old commit by checking it out, --amend'ing it, then
rebasing on top of it, is a slightly cumbersome technique, but I've
found it useful frequently enough to make it seem worth documenting.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The content-addressable design is too important not to be worth at least
a brief mention a little earlier on.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The generated user manual is rather hard to read thanks to the lack of
the css that's supposed to be included from docbook-xsl.css.
I'm totally ignorant of the toolchain; grubbing through xmlto and
related scripts, the easiest way I could find to ensure that the
generated html links to the stylesheet is by calling xsltproc directly.
Maybe there's some better way.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As Linus pointed out recently on the mailing list,
git reset --hard HEAD^
doesn't undo a merge in the case where the merge did a fast-forward. So
the rcommendation here is a little dangerous.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git-cvsimport argument that specifies a cvs module to import should
probably be included in the default example.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch documents the previously undocumented option --rename-section
and adds a new option to zap an entire section.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 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
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>
Add the new --no-abbrev option to the man page for the git-branch command.
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Another memory overrun in http-push.c
fetch.o depends on the headers, too.
Documentation: Correct minor typo in git-add documentation.
Documentation/git-send-email.txt: Fix labeled list formatting
Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt: Fix labeled list formatting
Documentation/build-docdep.perl: Fix dependencies for included asciidoc files
Fix some formatting problems:
- Some list labels were missing their "::" characters.
- Some of continuation paragraphs in labeled lists were incorrectly
formatted as literal paragraphs.
- In one case "[verse]" was missing before the config key list.
- The "Basic Examples" section was incorrectly nested inside the
"Config File-Only Options" section.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mark continuation paragraphs of list entries as such to avoid
getting literal paragraphs instead.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mark the continuation paragraph of a list entry as such to avoid
getting a literal paragraph instead.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Adding dependencies on included files to the generated man pages is
wrong - includes are processed by asciidoc, therefore the intermediate
Docbook XML files really depend on included files. Because of these
wrong dependencies the man pages were not rebuilt properly if the
intermediate XML files were left in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Start preparing Release Notes for 1.5.0.3
Documentation: git-remote add [-t <branch>] [-m <branch>] [-f] name url
Include config.mak in doc/Makefile
git.el: Set the default commit coding system from the repository config.
git-archimport: support empty summaries, put summary on a single line.
http-push.c::lock_remote(): validate all remote refs.
git-cvsexportcommit: don't cleanup .msg if not yet committed to cvs.
config.mak.autogen is already there. Without this change it is not
possible to override mandir in config.mak.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'js/diff-ni' (early part):
diff --no-index: also imitate the exit status of diff(1)
Fix typo: do not show name1 when name2 fails
Teach git-diff-files the new option `--no-index`
run_diff_{files,index}(): update calling convention.
update-index: do not die too early in a read-only repository.
git-status: do not be totally useless in a read-only repository.
* maint:
builtin-fmt-merge-msg: fix bugs in --file option
index-pack: Loop over pread until data loading is complete.
blameview: Fix the browse behavior in blameview
Fix minor typos/grammar in user-manual.txt
Correct ordering in git-cvsimport's option documentation
git-show: Reject native ref
Fix git-show man page formatting in the EXAMPLES section
A pair of commits on January 8th added option documentation (for -a,
-S and -L) in the middle of the documentation for the -A option. This
makes -A's documentation contiguous again.
Signed-off-by: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix asciidoc markup so that the man page is properly formatted in the
EXAMPLES section.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master: (201 commits)
Documentation: link in 1.5.0.2 material to the top documentation page.
Documentation: document remote.<name>.tagopt
GIT 1.5.0.2
git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
merge-index: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
diff --cached: give more sensible error message when HEAD is yet to be created.
Update tests to use test-chmtime
Add test-chmtime: a utility to change mtime on files
Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
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
...
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>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.0.2
git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
* maint:
Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
To name a commit, you can now say
$ git rev-parse ':/Initial revision of "git"'
and it will return the hash of the youngest commit whose
commit message (the oneline) begins with the given prefix.
For future extension, a leading exclamation mark is treated
specially: if you want to match a commit message starting with
a '!', just repeat the exclamation mark. So, to match a commit
which starts with '!Hello World', use
$ git show ':/!!Hello World'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 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
The intent of the commit 'fetch & clone: do not output progress when
not on a tty' was to make fetching and cloning less chatty when
output was not redirected (such as in a cron job).
However, there was a serious thinko in that commit. It assumed that
the client _and_ the server got this update at the same time. But
this is obviously not the case, and therefore upload-pack died on
seeing the option "--no-progress".
This patch fixes that issue by making it a protocol option. So, until
your server is updated, you still see the progress, but once the
server has this patch, it will be quiet.
A minor issue was also fixed: when cloning, the checkout did not
heed no_progress.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
Also, it turns out that SVN::Ra doesn't attempt to deal with
authentication or pass the username to ssh when doing svn+ssh://
URLs
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Since the options that affect the way metadata is handled in
git-svn, should be consistently set/unset throughout history
imported by git-svn; it makes sense to allow the user to set
certain options from the command-line that will write to the
config file when initially creating the repository.
Also, fix some formatting issues while we're updating
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
This documents the 'clone' and 'rebase' commands
of git-svn. Additionaly, examples are updated
to use them instead of the lower-level 'init' and
'fetch' commands.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Force the showing of the --minimize flag as an option in the
'migrate' help.
Also, fix the usage function to correctly filter out
the deprecated aliases.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Make sure we flush our userspace buffers and and fsync(2)
.rev_db information to disk if we use these options because
we really don't want to lose this information.
Also, disallow --use-svm-props and --no-metadata from the
command-line because history will be inconsistent if they're
only used occasionally. If a user wants to use these options,
they must be set in the config so they're always on.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
--no-follow-parent disables and reverts it back to the old
default behavior of not following parents (if you don't care for
full history).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
--svn-remote allows the default remote name to be overridden (useful
for tracking multiple SVN repositories).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Since refs/remotes/* are not automatically cloned, we expect the
user to be capable of copying those references themselves
anyways.
Also removed the documentation for --ignore-nodate while we're
at it; it has also been made automatic.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
It's not really useful anymore now that we have a better
--follow-parent for the valid cases. Any other use
of it is not valid.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Some workflows require use of repositories on machines that cannot be
connected, preventing use of git-fetch / git-push to transport objects and
references between the repositories.
git-bundle provides an alternate transport mechanism, effectively allowing
git-fetch and git-pull to operate using sneakernet transport. `git-bundle
create` allows the user to create a bundle containing one or more branches
or tags, but with specified basis assumed to exist on the target
repository. At the receiving end, git-bundle acts like git-fetch-pack,
allowing the user to invoke git-fetch or git-pull using the bundle file as
the URL. git-fetch and git-ls-remote determine they have a bundle URL by
checking that the URL points to a file, but are otherwise unchanged in
operation with bundles.
The original patch was done by Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>.
It was updated to make git-bundle a builtin, and get rid of the tar
format: now, the first line is supposed to say "# v2 git bundle", the next
lines either contain a prerequisite ("-" followed by the hash of the
needed commit), or a ref (the hash of a commit, followed by the name of
the ref), and finally the pack. As a result, the bundle argument can be
"-" now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>