For deep threading mode, i.e., the mode that gives a thread structured
like
+ [PATCH 0/n] Cover letter
`-+ [PATCH 1/n] First patch
`-+ [PATCH 2/n] Second patch
`-+ ...
we currently have to use 'git send-email --thread' (the default). On
the other hand, format-patch also has a --thread option which gives
shallow mode, i.e.,
+ [PATCH 0/n] Cover letter
|-+ [PATCH 1/n] First patch
|-+ [PATCH 2/n] Second patch
...
To reduce the confusion resulting from having two indentically named
features in different tools giving different results, let format-patch
take an optional argument '--thread=deep' that gives the same output
as 'send-mail --thread'. With no argument, or 'shallow', behave as
before. Also add a configuration variable format.thread with the same
semantics.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ms/mailmap:
Move mailmap documentation into separate file
Change current mailmap usage to do matching on both name and email of author/committer.
Add map_user() and clear_mailmap() to mailmap
Add find_insert_index, insert_at_index and clear_func functions to string_list
Add mailmap.file as configurational option for mailmap location
This allows us to augment the repo mailmap file, and to use
mailmap files elsewhere than the repository root. Meaning
that the entries in mailmap.file will override the entries
in "./.mailmap", should they match.
Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* js/notes:
git-notes: fix printing of multi-line notes
notes: fix core.notesRef documentation
Add an expensive test for git-notes
Speed up git notes lookup
Add a script to edit/inspect notes
Introduce commit notes
Conflicts:
pretty.c
Print interaction error messages in color.interactive.error, which
defaults to the value of color.interactive.help.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use Term::ReadKey, if available and enabled with interactive.singlekey,
to let the user answer add -p's prompts by pressing a single key. We're
not doing the same in the main 'add -i' interface because file selection
etc. may expect several characters.
Two commands take an argument: 'g' can easily cope since it'll just
offer a choice of chunks. '/' now (unconditionally, even without
readkey) offers a chance to enter a regex if none was given.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* js/diff-color-words:
Change the spelling of "wordregex".
color-words: Support diff.wordregex config option
color-words: make regex configurable via attributes
color-words: expand docs with precise semantics
color-words: enable REG_NEWLINE to help user
color-words: take an optional regular expression describing words
color-words: change algorithm to allow for 0-character word boundaries
color-words: refactor word splitting and use ALLOC_GROW()
Add color_fwrite_lines(), a function coloring each line individually
Use "wordRegex" for configuration variable names. Use "word_regex" for C
language tokens.
Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When diff is invoked with --color-words (w/o =regex), use the regular
expression the user has configured as diff.wordregex.
diff drivers configured via attributes take precedence over the
diff.wordregex-words setting. If the user wants to change them, they have
their own configuration variables.
Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All the other config variables use CamelCase. This config variable should
not be an exception.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The path format was inconsistent with the one used in git-notes.sh: it
supposedly split the sha1 in the same 2/38 format that .git/objects
uses, but the code uses the full sha1 without a path separator.
While at it, also fix a grammatical error.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cvsserver annotates each commit message by "via git-CVS emulator". This is
made configurable via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Emmes <fabian.emmes@rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Lars Noschinski <lars@public.noschinski.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cb/mergetool:
mergetool: Don't keep temporary merge files unless told to
mergetool: Add prompt to continue after failing to merge a file
Add -y/--no-prompt option to mergetool
Fix some tab/space inconsistencies in git-mergetool.sh
When there is no grace period before pruning unreferenced objects, it is
pointless to push those objects in their loose form just to delete them
right away.
Also be more explicit about the possibility of using "now" in the
gc.pruneexpire config variable (needed for the above behavior to
happen).
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit notes are blobs which are shown together with the commit
message. These blobs are taken from the notes ref, which you can
configure by the config variable core.notesRef, which in turn can
be overridden by the environment variable GIT_NOTES_REF.
The notes ref is a branch which contains "files" whose names are
the names of the corresponding commits (i.e. the SHA-1).
The rationale for putting this information into a ref is this: we
want to be able to fetch and possibly union-merge the notes,
maybe even look at the date when a note was introduced, and we
want to store them efficiently together with the other objects.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now git gui has a customizable Tools menu, so this adds
information about variables that are used to configure it.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This changes git mergetool to remove the temporary files used to invoke
the merge tool even if it returns non-zero.
This also adds a configuration option (mergetool.keepTemporaries) to
retain the previous behaviour if desired.
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I figured the sections might as well be in some order, so I chose alphabetical
but with "core" at the beginning. This should help people add new variables
in the right places.
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add information on new git-gui and gitk command-line options,
configuration variables, and the encoding attribute.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option lets git mergetool invoke the conflict resolution program
without waiting for a user prompt each time.
Also added a mergetool.prompt (default true) configuration variable
controlling the same behaviour
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This can do the lstat() storm in parallel, giving potentially much
improved performance for cold-cache cases or things like NFS that have
weak metadata caching.
Just use "read_cache_preload()" instead of "read_cache()" to force an
optimistic preload of the index stat data. The function takes a
pathspec as its argument, allowing us to preload only the relevant
portion of the index.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pushing into the currently checked out branch of a non-bare
repository can be dangerous; the HEAD then loses sync with
the index and working tree, and it looks in the receiving
repo as if the pushed changes have been reverted in the
index (since they were never there in the first place).
This patch adds a safety valve that checks for this
condition and either generates a warning or denies the
update. We trigger the check only on a non-bare repository,
since a bare repo does not have a working tree (and in fact,
pushing to the HEAD branch is a common workflow for
publishing repositories).
The behavior is configurable via receive.denyCurrentBranch,
defaulting to "warn" so as not to break existing setups
(though it may, after a deprecation period, switch to
"refuse" by default). For users who know what they are doing
and want to silence the warning (e.g., because they have a
post-receive hook that reconciles the HEAD and working
tree), they can turn off the warning by setting it to false
or "ignore".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Occasionally, it may be useful to prevent branches from getting deleted from
a centralized repository, particularly when no administrative access to the
server is available to undo it via reflog. It also makes
receive.denyNonFastForwards more useful if it is used for access control
since it prevents force-updating by deleting and re-creating a ref.
Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
format-patch is most commonly used for multiple patches at once when
sending a patchset, in which case we want to number the patches; on
the other hand, single patches are not usually expected to be
numbered.
In other words, the typical behavior expected from format-patch is the
one obtained by enabling autonumber, so we set it to be the default.
Users that want to disable numbering for a particular patchset can do
so with the existing -N command-line switch. Users that want to
change the default behavior can use the format.numbering config key.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Test-updates-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cygwin's POSIX emulation allows use of core.filemode true, unlike native
Window's implementation of stat / lstat, and Cygwin/git users who have
configured core.filemode true in various repositories will be very
unpleasantly surprised to find that git is no longer honoring that option.
So, this patch forces use of Cygwin's stat functions if core.filemode is
set true, regardless of any other considerations.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
lstat/stat functions in Cygwin are very slow, because they try to emulate
some *nix things that Git does not actually need. This patch adds Win32
specific implementation of these functions for Cygwin.
This implementation handles most situation directly but in some rare cases
it falls back on the implementation provided for Cygwin. This is necessary
for two reasons:
- Cygwin has its own file hierarchy, so absolute paths used in Cygwin is
not suitable to be used Win32 API. cygwin_conv_to_win32_path can not be
used because it automatically dereference Cygwin symbol links, also it
causes extra syscall. Fortunately Git rarely use absolute paths, so we
always use Cygwin implementation for absolute paths.
- Support of symbol links. Cygwin stores symbol links as ordinary using
one of two possible formats. Therefore, the fast implementation falls
back to Cygwin functions if it detects potential use of symbol links.
The speed of this implementation should be the same as mingw_lstat for
common cases, but it is considerable slower when the specified file name
does not exist.
Despite all efforts to make the fast implementation as robust as possible,
it may not work well for some very rare situations. I am aware only one
situation: use Cygwin mount to bind unrelated paths inside repository
together. Therefore, the core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks configuration option is
provided, which controls whether native or Cygwin version of stat is used.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* jc/better-conflict-resolution:
Fix AsciiDoc errors in merge documentation
git-merge documentation: describe how conflict is presented
checkout --conflict=<style>: recreate merge in a non-default style
checkout -m: recreate merge when checking out of unmerged index
git-merge-recursive: learn to honor merge.conflictstyle
merge.conflictstyle: choose between "merge" and "diff3 -m" styles
rerere: understand "diff3 -m" style conflicts with the original
rerere.c: use symbolic constants to keep track of parsing states
xmerge.c: "diff3 -m" style clips merge reduction level to EAGER or less
xmerge.c: minimum readability fixups
xdiff-merge: optionally show conflicts in "diff3 -m" style
xdl_fill_merge_buffer(): separate out a too deeply nested function
checkout --ours/--theirs: allow checking out one side of a conflicting merge
checkout -f: allow ignoring unmerged paths when checking out of the index
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-checkout.txt
builtin-checkout.c
builtin-merge-recursive.c
t/t7201-co.sh
* maint:
Remove empty directories in recursive merge
Documentation: clarify the details of overriding LESS via core.pager
Conflicts:
builtin-merge-recursive.c
The process of overriding the default LESS options using only
git-specific methods is rather obscure. Show the end user how
to do it in a step-by-step manner.
Signed-off-by: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
It is off(0) by default, to avoid scaring people unless they asked to.
If set to a non-0 value, wait for that amount of deciseconds before
running the corrected command.
Suggested by Junio, so he has a chance to hit Ctrl-C.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitcvs.usecrlfattr --> gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
This fixes an asciidoc markup issue.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With a new configuration "diff.mnemonicprefix", "git diff" shows the
differences between various combinations of preimage and postimage trees
with prefixes different from the standard "a/" and "b/". Hopefully this
will make the distinction stand out for some people.
"git diff" compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
"git diff HEAD" compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
"git diff --cached" compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
"git-diff HEAD:file1 file2" compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
"git diff --no-index a b" compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
Because these mnemonics now have meanings, they are swapped when reverse
diff is in effect and this feature is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches "git merge-file" to honor merge.conflictstyle configuration
variable, whose value can be "merge" (default) or "diff3".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The unwary user may not know how to disable the -FRSX options.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was not obvious from the text that pager.<cmd> is a boolean
setting.
While we're changing the description, make some other
improvements: lest we forget and fret, clarify that -p and
pager.<cmd> do not kick in when stdout is not a tty; point to
related core.pager and GIT_PAGER settings; use renamed --paginate
option.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
GNU diff's --suppress-blank-empty option makes it so that diff no
longer outputs trailing white space unless the input data has it.
With this option, empty context lines are now empty also in diff -u output.
Before, they would have a single trailing space.
* diff.c (diff_suppress_blank_empty): New global.
(git_diff_basic_config): Set it.
(fn_out_consume): Honor it.
* t/t4029-diff-trailing-space.sh: New file.
* Documentation/config.txt: Document it.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was already documented in RelNotes-1.6.0, but not in the git-config
manual page.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new configuration variable 'core.trustctime' is introduced to
allow ignoring st_ctime information when checking if paths
in the working tree has changed, because there are situations where
it produces too much false positives. Like when file system crawlers
keep changing it when scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned
files.
The default is to notice ctime changes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diff.external examples pass a flag to gnu-diff, but GNU diff
does not follow the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Italicize those git subcommand names already in teletype we missed.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.
Using
doit () {
perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
}
for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
do
doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
done
git diff
.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This includes nongit commands like RCS 'merge'. This patch only
italicizes names of commands if they had no formatting before.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a
clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and
the command you type, `git whatever <options>`. So we use a dash
after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter.
I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some
spots.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This removes, from the documentation and the bash completion script, the
two config options that were introduced by the git-whatchanged.sh script
and lost in the C rewrite. Today, we can use aliases as an alternative.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As announced for 1.6.0.
Git older than version 1.5.2 (or any other git version with this option
set to 1) may revert to version 1 of the pack index by manually deleting
all .idx files and recreating them using 'git index-pack'. Communication
over the git native protocol is unaffected since the pack index is never
transferred.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* lt/config-fsync:
Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files
Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines
Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine
Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
As announced for 1.6.0.
Access over the native protocol by old git versions is unaffected as
this capability is negociated by the protocol. Otherwise setting this
config option to "false" and doing a 'git repack -a -d' is enough to
remain compatible with ancient git versions (older than 1.4.4).
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As explained in the documentation[*] this is totally useless on
filesystems that do ordered/journalled data writes, but it can be a
useful safety feature on filesystems like HFS+ that only journal the
metadata, not the actual file contents.
It defaults to off, although we could presumably in theory some day
auto-enable it on a per-filesystem basis.
[*] Yes, I updated the docs for the thing. Hell really _has_ frozen
over, and the four horsemen are probably just beyond the horizon.
EVERYBODY PANIC!
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous documentation didn't make it clear that the
"assume unchanged" was on per file basis, and not a global
flag.
Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mo/cvsserver:
Documentation: Fix skipped section level
git-cvsserver: add ability to guess -kb from contents
implement gitcvs.usecrlfattr
git-cvsserver: add mechanism for managing working tree and current directory
log.date config variable sets the default date-time mode for the log
command. Setting log.date value is similar to using git log's --date
option.
Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This provides additional warning to users when attempting to
commit to a detached HEAD. It is configurable in color.status.nobranch.
Signed-off-by: Chris Parsons <chris@edendevelopment.co.uk>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If "gitcvs.allbinary" is set to "guess", then any file that has
not been explicitly marked as binary or text using the "crlf" attribute
and the "gitcvs.usecrlfattr" config will guess binary based on the contents
of the file.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If gitcvs.usecrlfattr is set to true, git-cvsserver will consult
the "crlf" for each file to determine if it should mark the file
as binary (-kb).
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change cd67e4d4 introduced a new configuration parameter that told
pull to automatically perform a rebase instead of a merge. This
change provides a configuration option to enable this feature
automatically when creating a new branch.
If the variable branch.autosetuprebase applies for a branch that's
being created, that branch will have branch.<name>.rebase set to true.
Signed-off-by: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cc/help:
documentation: web--browse: add a note about konqueror
documentation: help: add info about "man.<tool>.cmd" config var
help: use "man.<tool>.cmd" as custom man viewer command
documentation: help: add "man.<tool>.path" config variable
help: use man viewer path from "man.<tool>.path" config var
The 'git gui' has a number of options that can be specified using the
options dialog. Sometimes it is convenient to be able to specify these
from the command line, therefor document these options.
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <speace@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch also describes the current behavior for "konqueror" and
how to modify it using "man.<tool>.cmd" if needed.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch documents the "man.<tool>.path" configuration
variable.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds a remote.*.mirror configuration option that,
when set, automatically puts git-push in --mirror mode for that
remote.
Furthermore, the option is set automatically by `git remote
add --mirror'.
The code in remote.c to parse remote.*.skipdefaultupdate
had a subtle problem: a comment in the code indicated that
special care was needed for boolean options, but this care was
not used in parsing the option. Since I was touching related
code, I did this fix too.
[jc: and I further fixed up the "ignore boolean" code.]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git init --shared=0xxx, where '0xxx' is an octal number, will create
a repository with file modes set to '0xxx'. Users with a safe umask
value (0077) can use this option to force file modes. For example,
'0640' is a group-readable but not group-writable regardless of
user's umask value. Values compatible with old Git versions are written
as they were before, for compatibility reasons. That is, "1" for
"group" and "2" for "everybody".
"git config core.sharedRepository 0xxx" is also handled.
Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Include the new file from config.txt and git-merge.txt.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mk/unpack-careful:
t5300: add test for "index-pack --strict"
receive-pack: allow using --strict mode for unpacking objects
unpack-objects: fix --strict handling
t5300: add test for "unpack-objects --strict"
unpack-objects: prevent writing of inconsistent objects
Adds a gitcvs.dbtablenameprefix config variable, the contents of which
are prepended to any database tables names used by git-cvsserver. The
same substutions as gitcvs.dbname and gitcvs.dbuser are supported, and
any non-alphabetic characters are replaced with underscores.
A typo found in contrib/completion/git-completion.bash is also fixed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent discussion on the list, with the improvement f7c22cc (always start
looking up objects in the last used pack first, 2007-05-30) brought in,
reached the concensus that the current default 20 is too low.
Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77586
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only reason we did not call "prune" in git-gc was that it is an
inherently dangerous operation: if there is a commit going on, you will
prune loose objects that were just created, and are, in fact, needed by the
commit object just about to be created.
Since it is dangerous, we told users so. That led to many users not even
daring to run it when it was actually safe. Besides, they are users, and
should not have to remember such details as when to call git-gc with
--prune, or to call git-prune directly.
Of course, the consequence was that "git gc --auto" gets triggered much
more often than we would like, since unreferenced loose objects (such as
left-overs from a rebase or a reset --hard) were never pruned.
Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire <minimum-age>, which
makes it a much safer operation. This allows us to call prune from git-gc,
with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose objects (this
value was determined in a discussion on the git list as a safe one).
If you want to override this grace period, just set the config variable
gc.pruneExpire to a different value; an example would be
[gc]
pruneExpire = 6.months.ago
or even "never", if you feel really paranoid.
Note that this new behaviour makes "--prune" be a no-op.
While adding a test to t5304-prune.sh (since it really tests the implicit
call to "prune"), also the original test for "prune --expire" was moved
there from t1410-reflog.sh, where it did not belong.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Also add titles to paragraphs under "CONFIGURATION VARIABLES".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
unquote_c_style: fix off-by-one.
test-lib: fix TERM to dumb for test repeatability
config.txt: refer to --upload-pack and --receive-pack instead of --exec
git-gui: Gracefully fall back to po2msg.sh if msgfmt --tcl fails
