Add a third step `git commit` after adding files for the first time.
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use shorter sentences to describe what actually happens. We describe
what the term "Git symbolic link" actually means.
Also, we separate out the description of the behavioral change upon
reinitialization into its own paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use backticks when we quote something that the user should literally
use.
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add `git_die_config` that dies printing the line number and the file name
of the highest priority value for the configuration variable `key`. A custom
error message is also printed before dying, specified by the caller, which can
be skipped if `err` argument is set to NULL.
It has usage in non-callback based config value retrieval where we can
raise an error and die if there is a semantic error.
For example,
if (!git_config_get_value(key, &value)){
if (!strcmp(value, "foo"))
git_config_die(key, "value: `%s` is illegal", value);
else
/* do work */
}
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It wouldn't make sense for these configuration variables to be
required for Git in general to function. 'Required' in this context
means required for git imap-send to work.
Noticed while trying to figure out what the sentence describing
imap.tunnel meant.
[jn: expanded to also simplify explanation of imap.folder and
imap.host in the same way]
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a config file, you can do:
[foo]
bar
to turn the "foo.bar" boolean flag on, and you can do:
[foo]
bar=
to set "foo.bar" to the empty string. However, git's "-c"
parameter treats both:
git -c foo.bar
and
git -c foo.bar=
as the boolean flag, and there is no way to set a variable
to the empty string. This patch enables the latter form to
do that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explicitly mention that leaving imap.authMethod unset makes
git imap-send use the basic IMAP plaintext LOGIN command.
Signed-off-by: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace TODO introduced in commit 9c3c22 with documentation
explaining Git config API functions for writing configuration
files.
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently `git_config()` uses a callback mechanism and file rereads for
config values. Due to this approach, it is not uncommon for the config
files to be parsed several times during the run of a git program, with
different callbacks picking out different variables useful to themselves.
Add a `config_set`, that can be used to construct an in-memory cache for
config-like files that the caller specifies (i.e., files like `.gitmodules`,
`~/.gitconfig` etc.). Add two external functions `git_configset_get_value`
and `git_configset_get_value_multi` for querying from the config sets.
`git_configset_get_value` follows `last one wins` semantic (i.e. if there
are multiple matches for the queried key in the files of the configset the
value returned will be the last entry in `value_list`).
`git_configset_get_value_multi` returns a list of values sorted in order of
increasing priority (i.e. last match will be at the end of the list). Add
type specific query functions like `git_configset_get_bool` and similar.
Add a default `config_set`, `the_config_set` to cache all key-value pairs
read from usual config files (repo specific .git/config, user wide
~/.gitconfig, XDG config and the global /etc/gitconfig). `the_config_set`
is populated using `git_config()`.
Add two external functions `git_config_get_value` and
`git_config_get_value_multi` for querying in a non-callback manner from
`the_config_set`. Also, add type specific query functions that are
implemented as a thin wrapper around the `config_set` API.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add strbuf_getcwd(), which puts the current working directory into a
strbuf. Because it doesn't use a fixed-size buffer it supports
arbitrarily long paths, provided the platform's getcwd() does as well.
At least on Linux and FreeBSD it handles paths longer than PATH_MAX
just fine.
Suggested-by: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git replace" learned a "--graft" option to rewrite parents of a
commit.
* cc/replace-graft:
replace: add test for --graft with a mergetag
replace: check mergetags when using --graft
replace: add test for --graft with signed commit
replace: remove signature when using --graft
contrib: add convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh
Documentation: replace: add --graft option
replace: add test for --graft
replace: add --graft option
replace: cleanup redirection style in tests
According to http://meta.ohloh.net/2014/07/black-duck-open-hub/
the site name of ohloh changed to openhub.
Change the man page accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* kb/perf-trace:
api-trace.txt: add trace API documentation
progress: simplify performance measurement by using getnanotime()
wt-status: simplify performance measurement by using getnanotime()
git: add performance tracing for git's main() function to debug scripts
trace: add trace_performance facility to debug performance issues
trace: add high resolution timer function to debug performance issues
trace: add 'file:line' to all trace output
trace: move code around, in preparation to file:line output
trace: add current timestamp to all trace output
trace: disable additional trace output for unit tests
trace: add infrastructure to augment trace output with additional info
sha1_file: change GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS logging to use trace API
Documentation/git.txt: improve documentation of 'GIT_TRACE*' variables
trace: improve trace performance
trace: remove redundant printf format attribute
trace: consistently name the format parameter
trace: move trace declarations from cache.h to new trace.h
The caret (^) is used as a markup symbol in AsciiDoc. Due to the
inability of AsciiDoc to parse a line containing an unmatched caret, it
omitted the line from the output, resulting in the man page missing the
end of a sentence. Escape this caret so that the man page ends up with
the complete text.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds into contrib/ an example script to convert
grafts from an existing grafts file into replace refs using
the new --graft option of "git replace".
While at it let's mention this new script in the
"git replace" documentation for the --graft option.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* kb/hashmap-updates:
hashmap: add string interning API
hashmap: add simplified hashmap_get_from_hash() API
hashmap: improve struct hashmap member documentation
hashmap: factor out getting a hash code from a SHA1
The string-list API has STRING_LIST_INIT_* macros to be used
to define variables with initializers, but lacks functions
to initialize an uninitialized piece of memory to be used as
a string-list at the run-time.
Introduce `string_list_init()` function for that.
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for configuring default sort ordering for git tags. Command
line option will override this configured value, using the exact same
syntax.
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach "git replace --edit" mode a "--raw" option to allow
editing the bare-metal representation data of objects.
* jk/replace-edit-raw:
replace: add a --raw mode for --edit
An experiment to use two files (the base file and incremental
changes relative to it) to represent the index to reduce I/O cost
of rewriting a large index when only small part of the working tree
changes.
* nd/split-index: (32 commits)
t1700: new tests for split-index mode
t2104: make sure split index mode is off for the version test
read-cache: force split index mode with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX
read-tree: note about dropping split-index mode or index version
read-tree: force split-index mode off on --index-output
rev-parse: add --shared-index-path to get shared index path
update-index --split-index: do not split if $GIT_DIR is read only
update-index: new options to enable/disable split index mode
split-index: strip pathname of on-disk replaced entries
split-index: do not invalidate cache-tree at read time
split-index: the reading part
split-index: the writing part
read-cache: mark updated entries for split index
read-cache: save deleted entries in split index
read-cache: mark new entries for split index
read-cache: split-index mode
read-cache: save index SHA-1 after reading
entry.c: update cache_changed if refresh_cache is set in checkout_entry()
cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on prime_cache_tree()
cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on cache tree update
...
Use trace_performance to measure and print execution time and command line
arguments of the entire main() function. In constrast to the shell's 'time'
utility, which measures total time of the parent process, this logs all
involved git commands recursively. This is particularly useful to debug
performance issues of scripted commands (i.e. which git commands were
called with which parameters, and how long did they execute).
Due to git's deliberate use of exit(), the implementation uses an atexit
routine rather than just adding trace_performance_since() at the end of
main().
Usage example: > GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE=~/git-trace.log git stash list
Creates a log file like this:
23:57:38.638765 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000310107 s: git command: 'git' 'rev-parse' '--git-dir'
23:57:38.644387 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000261759 s: git command: 'git' 'rev-parse' '--show-toplevel'
23:57:38.646207 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000304468 s: git command: 'git' 'config' '--get-colorbool' 'color.interactive'
23:57:38.648491 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000241667 s: git command: 'git' 'config' '--get-color' 'color.interactive.help' 'red bold'
23:57:38.650465 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000243063 s: git command: 'git' 'config' '--get-color' '' 'reset'
23:57:38.654850 trace.c:405 performance: 0.025126313 s: git command: 'git' 'stash' 'list'
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This changes GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS functionality as follows:
* supports the same options as GIT_TRACE (e.g. printing to stderr)
* no longer supports relative paths
* appends to the trace file rather than overwriting
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Separate GIT_TRACE description into what it prints and how to configure
where trace output is printed to. Change other GIT_TRACE_* descriptions to
refer to GIT_TRACE.
Add descriptions for GIT_TRACE_SETUP and GIT_TRACE_SHALLOW.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify error message puntuation to reduce review workload.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'verify-commit' to be used in a way similar to 'verify-tag' is
used. Further work on verifying the mergetags might be needed.
* mg/verify-commit:
t7510: test verify-commit
t7510: exit for loop with test result
verify-commit: scriptable commit signature verification
gpg-interface: provide access to the payload
gpg-interface: provide clear helper for struct signature_check
Interning short strings with high probability of duplicates can reduce the
memory footprint and speed up comparisons.
Add strintern() and memintern() APIs that use a hashmap to manage the pool
of unique, interned strings.
Note: strintern(getenv()) could be used to sanitize git's use of getenv(),
in case we ever encounter a platform where a call to getenv() invalidates
previous getenv() results (which is allowed by POSIX).
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hashmap entries are typically looked up by just a key. The hashmap_get()
API expects an initialized entry structure instead, to support compound
keys. This flexibility is currently only needed by find_dir_entry() in
name-hash.c (and compat/win32/fscache.c in the msysgit fork). All other
(currently five) call sites of hashmap_get() have to set up a near emtpy
entry structure, resulting in duplicate code like this:
struct hashmap_entry keyentry;
hashmap_entry_init(&keyentry, hash(key));
return hashmap_get(map, &keyentry, key);
Add a hashmap_get_from_hash() API that allows hashmap lookups by just
specifying the key and its hash code, i.e.:
return hashmap_get_from_hash(map, hash(key), key);
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Copying the first bytes of a SHA1 is duplicated in six places,
however, the implications (the actual value would depend on the
endianness of the platform) is documented only once.
Add a properly documented API for this.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the purposes of "git replace --edit" is to help a
user repair objects which are malformed or corrupted.
Usually we pretty-print trees with "ls-tree", which is much
easier to work with than the raw binary data. However, some
forms of corruption break the tree-walker, in which case our
pretty-printing fails, rendering "--edit" useless for the
user.
This patch introduces a "--raw" option, which lets you edit
the binary data in these instances.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git status" (and "git commit") behaved as if changes in a modified
submodule are not there if submodule.*.ignore configuration is set,
which was misleading. The configuration is only to unclutter diff
output during the course of development, and should not to hide
changes in the "status" output to cause the users forget to commit
them.
* jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored:
commit -m: commit staged submodules regardless of ignore config
status/commit: show staged submodules regardless of ignore config
Commit signatures can be verified using "git show -s --show-signature"
or the "%G?" pretty format and parsing the output, which is well suited
for user inspection, but not for scripting.
Provide a command "verify-commit" which is analogous to "verify-tag": It
returns 0 for good signatures and non-zero otherwise, has the gpg output
on stderr and (optionally) the commit object on stdout, sans the
signature, just like "verify-tag" does.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/fetch-pull-refmap:
docs: Explain the purpose of fetch's and pull's <refspec> parameter.
fetch: allow explicit --refmap to override configuration
fetch doc: add a section on configured remote-tracking branches
fetch doc: remove "short-cut" section
fetch doc: update refspec format description
fetch doc: on pulling multiple refspecs
fetch doc: remove notes on outdated "mixed layout"
fetch doc: update note on '+' in front of the refspec
fetch doc: move FETCH_HEAD material lower and add an example
fetch doc: update introductory part for clarity
* mt/send-email-cover-to-cc:
t9001: avoid non-portable '\n' with sed
test/send-email: to-cover, cc-cover tests
git-send-email: two new options: to-cover, cc-cover
Propagate the error messages from the webserver better to the
client coming over the HTTP transport.
* jk/http-errors:
http: default text charset to iso-8859-1
remote-curl: reencode http error messages
strbuf: add strbuf_reencode helper
http: optionally extract charset parameter from content-type
http: extract type/subtype portion of content-type
t5550: test display of remote http error messages
t/lib-httpd: use write_script to copy CGI scripts
test-lib: preserve GIT_CURL_VERBOSE from the environment
Allow remote-helper/fast-import based transport to rename the refs
while transferring the history.
* fc/remote-helper-refmap:
transport-helper: remove unnecessary strbuf resets
transport-helper: add support to delete branches
fast-export: add support to delete refs
fast-import: add support to delete refs
transport-helper: add support to push symbolic refs
transport-helper: add support for old:new refspec
fast-export: add new --refspec option
fast-export: improve argument parsing
submodule.*.ignore and diff.ignoresubmodules are used to ignore all
submodule changes in "diff" output, but it can be confusing to
apply these configuration values to status and commit.
This is a backward-incompatible change, but should be so in a good
way (aka bugfix).
* jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored:
commit -m: commit staged submodules regardless of ignore config
status/commit: show staged submodules regardless of ignore config
* jk/argv-array-for-child-process:
argv-array: drop "detach" code
get_importer: use run-command's internal argv_array
get_exporter: use argv_array
get_helper: use run-command's internal argv_array
git_connect: use argv_array
run_column_filter: use argv_array
run-command: store an optional argv_array
"git replace" learns a new "--edit" option.
* cc/replace-edit:
Documentation: replace: describe new --edit option
replace: add --edit to usage string
replace: add tests for --edit
replace: die early if replace ref already exists
replace: refactor checking ref validity
replace: make sure --edit results in a different object
replace: add --edit option
replace: factor object resolution out of replace_object
replace: use OPT_CMDMODE to handle modes
replace: refactor command-mode determination
* 'mt/patch-id-stable' (early part):
patch-id-test: test stable and unstable behaviour
patch-id: make it stable against hunk reordering
test doc: test_write_lines does not split its arguments
test: add test_write_lines helper
The "git submodule sync" command supports the --recursive flag, but
the documentation does not mention this. That flag is useful, for
example when a remote is changed in a submodule of a submodule.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Chen <charlesmchen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Normally scripts do not have to be aware about split indexes because
all shared indexes are in $GIT_DIR. A simple "mv $tmp_index
$GIT_DIR/somewhere" is enough. Scripts that generate temporary indexes
and move them across repos must be aware about split index and copy
the shared file as well. This option enables that.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you have a large work tree but only make changes in a subset, then
$GIT_DIR/index's size should be stable after a while. If you change
branches that touch something else, $GIT_DIR/index's size may grow
large that it becomes as slow as the unified index. Do --split-index
again occasionally to force all changes back to the shared index and
keep $GIT_DIR/index small.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This split-index mode is designed to keep write cost proportional to
the number of changes the user has made, not the size of the work
tree. (Read cost is another matter, to be dealt separately.)
This mode stores index info in a pair of $GIT_DIR/index and
$GIT_DIR/sharedindex.<SHA-1>. sharedindex is large and unchanged over
time while "index" is smaller and updated often. Format details are in
index-format.txt, although not everything is implemented in this
patch.
Shared indexes are not automatically removed, because it's unclear if
the shared index is needed by any (even temporary) indexes by just
looking at it. After a while you'll collect stale shared indexes. The
good news is one shared index is useable for long, until
$GIT_DIR/index becomes too big and sluggish that the new shared index
must be created.
The safest way to clean shared indexes is to turn off split index
mode, so shared files are all garbage, delete them all, then turn on
split index mode again.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently have pack.writeBitmaps, which originally
operated at the pack-objects level. This should really have
been a repack.* option from day one. Let's give it the more
sensible name, but keep the old version as a deprecated
synonym.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Patch id changes if users reorder file diffs that make up a patch.
As the result is functionally equivalent, a different patch id is
surprising to many users.
In particular, reordering files using diff -O is helpful to make patches
more readable (e.g. API header diff before implementation diff).
Add an option to change patch-id behaviour making it stable against
these kinds of patch change:
calculate SHA1 hash for each hunk separately and sum all hashes
(using a symmetrical sum) to get patch id
We use a 20byte sum and not xor - since xor would give 0 output
for patches that have two identical diffs, which isn't all that
unlikely (e.g. append the same line in two places).
The new behaviour is enabled
- when patchid.stable is true
- when --stable flag is present
Using a new flag --unstable or setting patchid.stable to false force
the historical behaviour.
In the documentation, clarify that patch ID can now be a sum of hashes,
not a hash.
Document how command line and config options affect the
behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fixed some minor typos in api-strbuf.txt: 'A' instead of 'An', 'have'
instead of 'has', a overlong line, and 'another' instead of 'an other'.
Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
STRING_LIST_INIT_{NODUP,DUP} initializers list values only
for earlier structure members, relying on the usual
convention in C that the omitted members are initailized to
0, i.e. the former is expanded to the latter:
struct string_list l = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
struct string_list l = { NULL, 0, 0, 1 };
and the last member that is not mentioned (i.e. 'cmp') is
initialized to NULL.
While there is nothing wrong in this construct, spelling out
all the values where the macros are defined will serve also
as a documentation, so let's do so.
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/coding-guidelines:
CodingGuidelines: avoid "test <cond> -a/-o <cond>"
CodingGuidelines: on splitting a long line
CodingGuidelines: on comparison
CodingGuidelines: do not call the conditional statement "if()"
CodingGuidelines: give an example for shell function preamble
CodingGuidelines: give an example for control statements
CodingGuidelines: give an example for redirection
CodingGuidelines: give an example for case/esac statement
CodingGuidelines: once it is in, it is not worth the code churn
The `core.deltabasecachelimit` used to default to 16 MiB , but this
proved to be too small, and has been bumped to 96 MiB.
* dk/raise-core-deltabasecachelimit:
Bump core.deltaBaseCacheLimit to 96m
Since the very beginning of Git, we gave the LESS environment a
default value "FRSX" when we spawn "less" as the pager. "S" (chop
long lines instead of wrapping) has been removed from this default
set of options, because it is more or less a personal taste thing,
as opposed to others that have good justifications (i.e. "R" is very
much justified because many kinds of output we produce are colored
and "FX" is justified because output we produce is often shorter
than a page).
Existing users who prefer not to see line-wrapped output may want to
set
$ git config core.pager "less -S"
to restore the traditional behaviour. It is expected that people
find output from the most subcommands easier to read with the new
default, except for "blame" which tends to produce really long
lines. To override the new default only for "git blame", you can do
this:
$ git config pager.blame "less -S"
* mm/pager-less-sans-S:
pager: remove 'S' from $LESS by default
Since the introduction of opportunisitic updates of remote-tracking
branches, started at around f2690487 (fetch: opportunistically
update tracking refs, 2013-05-11) with a few updates in v1.8.4 era,
the remote.*.fetch configuration always kicks in even when a refspec
to specify what to fetch is given on the command line, and there is
no way to disable or override it per-invocation.
Teach the command to pay attention to the --refmap=<lhs>:<rhs>
command-line options that can be used to override the use of
configured remote.*.fetch as the refmap.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
To resurrect a misleading mention removed in the previous step,
add a section to explain how the remote-tracking configuration
interacts with the refspecs given as the command-line arguments.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is misleading to mention that <ref> that does not store is to
fetch the ref into FETCH_HEAD, because a refspec that does store is
also to fetch the LHS into FETCH_HEAD. It is doubly misleading to
list it as part of "short-cut". <ref> stands for a refspec that has
it on the LHS with a colon and an empty RHS, and that definition
should be given at the beginning of the entry where the format is
defined.
Tentatively remove this misleading description, which leaves the
`tag <tag>` as the only true short-hand, so move it at the beginning
of the entry.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The text made it sound as if the leading plus is the only thing that
is optional, and forgot that <lhs> is the same as <lhs>:, i.e. fetch
it and do not store anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace desription of old-style "Pull:" lines in remotes/
configuration with modern remote.*.fetch variables.
As this note applies only to "git pull", enable it only
in git-pull manual page.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mergetool.prompt used to default to 'true', always causing a confirmation
"do you really want to run the tool on this path" to be shown.
Among the two purposes the prompt serves, ignore the use case to
confirm that the user wants to view particular path with the named
tool, and make the prompt only to confirm the choice of the tool
made by autodetection and defaulting. For those who configured the
tool explicitly, the prompt shown for the latter purpose is simply
annoying.
Strictly speaking, this is a backward incompatible change and the
users need to explicitly set the variable to 'true' if they want to
resurrect the now-ignored use case.
* fc/mergetool-prompt:
mergetool: document the default for --[no-]prompt
mergetool: run prompt only if guessed tool
"git merge" without argument, even when there is an upstream
defined for the current branch, refused to run until
merge.defaultToUpstream is set to true. Flip the default of that
configuration variable to true.
* fc/merge-default-to-upstream:
merge: enable defaulttoupstream by default
Update "update-ref --stdin [-z]" and then introduce a transactional
support for (multi-)reference updates.
* mh/ref-transaction: (27 commits)
ref_transaction_commit(): work with transaction->updates in place
struct ref_update: add a type field
struct ref_update: add a lock field
ref_transaction_commit(): simplify code using temporary variables
struct ref_update: store refname as a FLEX_ARRAY
struct ref_update: rename field "ref_name" to "refname"
refs: remove API function update_refs()
update-ref --stdin: reimplement using reference transactions
refs: add a concept of a reference transaction
update-ref --stdin: harmonize error messages
update-ref --stdin: improve the error message for unexpected EOF
t1400: test one mistake at a time
update-ref --stdin -z: deprecate interpreting the empty string as zeros
update-ref.c: extract a new function, parse_next_sha1()
t1400: test that stdin -z update treats empty <newvalue> as zeros
update-ref --stdin: simplify error messages for missing oldvalues
update-ref --stdin: make error messages more consistent
update-ref --stdin: improve error messages for invalid values
update-ref.c: extract a new function, parse_refname()
parse_cmd_verify(): copy old_sha1 instead of evaluating <oldvalue> twice
...
Add a configuration variable to force --full-name to be default for
"git grep".
This may cause regressions on scripted users that do not expect
this new behaviour.
* as/grep-fullname-config:
grep: add grep.fullName config variable
Many people are on filesystems with horrible stat latency (not
limited to Windows but also NFS), which core.preloadindex was
designed to help. We discussed enabling it by default early in 2013
but didn't.
Per
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/219273/focus=219322
let's enable the setting by default, with the original choice of max
20 threads / min 500 paths per thread parameters.
Signed-off-by: Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In old days before Git 1.5, it was customery for "git fetch" to use
the same local branch namespace to keep track of the remote-tracking
branches, and it was necessary to tell users not to check them out
and commit on them. Since everybody uses the separate remote layout
these days, there is no need to warn against the practice to check
out the right-hand side of <refspec> and build on it---the RHS is
typically not even a local branch.
Incidentally, this also kills one mention of "Pull:" line of
$GIT_DIR/remotes/* configuration, which is a lot less familiar to
new people than the more modern remote.*.fetch configuration
variable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While it is not *wrong* per-se to say that pulling a rewound/rebased
branch will lead to an unnecessary merge conflict, that is not what
the leading "+" sign to allow non-fast-forward update of remote-tracking
branch is at all.
Helped-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- "Branches" is a more common way to say "heads" in these days.
- Remote-tracking branches are used a lot more these days and it is
worth mentioning that it is one of the primary side effects of
the command to update them.
- Avoid "X. That means Y." If Y is easier to understand to
readers, just say that upfront.
- Use of explicit refspec to fetch tags does not have much to do
with turning "auto following" on or off. It is a way to fetch
tags that otherwise would not be fetched by auto-following.
Helped-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is expected to be the final maintenance release for 1.9 series,
merging the remaining fixes that are relevant and are already in 2.0.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During the mail thread about "Pull is mostly evil" a user asked how
the first parent could become reversed.
This howto explains how the first parent can get reversed when viewed
by the project and then explains a method to keep the history correct.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Re-word the section on "Updating a repository with git fetch" in the
user manual.
Various other minor fixes in the manual and glossary.
Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an option to format-patch for reading a signature from a file.
$ git format-patch -1 --signature-file=$HOME/.signature
The config variable `format.signaturefile` can also be used to make
this the default.
$ git config format.signaturefile $HOME/.signature
$ git format-patch -1
Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a convenience wrapper around `reencode_string_len`
and `strbuf_attach`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a convenience wrapper to call tolower on each
character of the string.
This makes config's lowercase() function obsolete, though
note that because we have a strbuf, we are careful to
operate over the whole strbuf, rather than assuming that a
NUL is the end-of-string.
We could continue to offer a pure-string lowercase, but
there would be no callers (in most pure-string cases, we
actually duplicate and lowercase the duplicate, for which we
have the xstrdup_tolower wrapper).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of showing a warning and working as before, fail and show
the message and force immediate upgrade from their upstream
repositories when these tools are run, per request from their
primary author.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The construct is error-prone; "test" being built-in in most modern
shells, the reason to avoid "test <cond> && test <cond>" spawning
one extra process by using a single "test <cond> -a <cond>" no
longer exists.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit d508e4a8e2,
reversing changes made to e42552135a.
The author of the original topic says he broke the upcoming 2.0
release with something that relates to "synchronization crash
regression" while refusing to give further specifics, so this would
unfortunately be the safest option for the upcoming release.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When core.commentChar is "auto", the comment char starts with '#' as
in default but if it's already in the prepared message, find another
char in a small subset. This should stop surprises because git strips
some lines unexpectedly.
Note that git is not smart enough to recognize '#' as the comment char
in custom templates and convert it if the final comment char is
different. It thinks '#' lines in custom templates as part of the
commit message. So don't use this with custom templates.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The highlighting was pretty, but unfortunately, the failure mode
when source-highlight is not installed was that the entire code
block disappears.
See https://bugs.debian.org/745591,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316810.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The argv_array_detach function (and associated free() function) was
really only useful for transferring ownership of the memory to a "struct
child_process". Now that we have an internal argv_array in that struct,
there are no callers left.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All child_process structs need to point to an argv. For
flexibility, we do not mandate the use of a dynamic
argv_array. However, because the child_process does not own
the memory, this can make memory management with a
separate argv_array difficult.
For example, if a function calls start_command but not
finish_command, the argv memory must persist. The code needs
to arrange to clean up the argv_array separately after
finish_command runs. As a result, some of our code in this
situation just leaks the memory.
To help such cases, this patch adds a built-in argv_array to
the child_process, which gets cleaned up automatically (both
in finish_command and when start_command fails). Callers
may use it if they choose, but can continue to use the raw
argv if they wish.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The earlier documentation made vague references to "is set to build
on". Flesh that out with references to the config settings, so folks
can use git-config(1) to get more detail on what @{upstream} means.
For example, @{upstream} does not care about remote.pushdefault or
branch.<name>.pushremote.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The third maintenance release for Git 1.9; contains all the fixes
that are scheduled to appear in Git 2.0 since 1.9.2.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-shell(1) manpage says
EXAMPLE
To disable interactive logins, displaying a greeting
instead:
+
$ chsh -s /usr/bin/git-shell
$ mkdir $HOME/git-shell-commands
[...]
The stray "+" has been there ever since the example was added in
v1.8.3-rc0~210^2 (shell: new no-interactive-login command to print a
custom message, 2013-03-09). The "+" sign between paragraphs is
needed in asciidoc to attach extra paragraphs to a list item but here
it is not needed and ends up rendered as a literal "+". Remove it.
A quick search with "grep -e '<p>+' /usr/share/doc/git/html/*.html"
doesn't find any other instances of this problem.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe one last minute one-liner fix for regression introduced in
1.9, and fix a grave mischaracterization on a recent remote-hg/bzr
change, pointed out by Felipe.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, Git used to set $LESS to -FRSX if $LESS was not set by
the user. The FRX flags actually make sense for Git (F and X because
sometimes the output Git pipes to less is short, and R because Git
pipes colored output). The S flag (chop long lines), on the other
hand, is not related to Git and is a matter of user preference. Git
should not decide for the user to change LESS's default.
More specifically, the S flag harms users who review untrusted code
within a pager, since a patch looking like:
-old code;
+new good code; [... lots of tabs ...] malicious code;
would appear identical to:
-old code;
+new good code;
Users who prefer the old behavior can still set the $LESS environment
variable to -FRSX explicitly, or set core.pager to 'less -S'.
The documentation in config.txt is made a bit longer to keep both an
example setting the 'S' flag (needed to recover the old behavior)
and an example showing how to unset a flag set by Git.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
API documentation for strbuf does not document strbuf_trim() or
strbuf_ltrim(). Add documentation for these two functions.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gesiak <modocache@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default of 16m causes serious thrashing for large delta chains
combined with large files.
Here are some benchmarks (pu variant of git blame):
time git blame -C src/xdisp.c >/dev/null
for a repository of Emacs repacked with git gc --aggressive (v1.9,
resulting in a window size of 250) located on an SSD drive. The file in
question has about 30000 lines, 1Mb of size, and a history with about
2500 commits.
16m (previous default):
real 3m33.936s
user 2m15.396s
sys 1m17.352s
32m:
real 3m1.319s
user 2m8.660s
sys 0m51.904s
64m:
real 2m20.636s
user 1m55.780s
sys 0m23.964s
96m:
real 2m5.668s
user 1m50.784s
sys 0m14.288s
128m:
real 2m4.337s
user 1m50.764s
sys 0m12.832s
192m:
real 2m3.567s
user 1m49.508s
sys 0m13.312s
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are arguments for writing a conditional as "a < b" rather than
"b > a", or vice versa. Let's give guidance on which we prefer.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3903/focus=4126
for the original discussion.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point immediately before it is about having SP after the control
keyword. Spell it out as 'an "if" statement' instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We only said what happens when we find the Git directory under
RUN_SETUP, without saying what happens otherwise.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow extracting To/Cc addresses from the first patch
(typically the cover letter), and use them as To/Cc addresses of the
remainder of the series.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original motivation of using the prompt was to confirm to run a
tool on this particular (as opposed to another) path, but the user
can also take the prompt as to confirm to run this (as opposed to
some other) tool. The latter of which of course is irritating for
those who told which exact tool to use, which is the reason why we
are flipping the default.
During the review discussion of the patch, many people (including
the maintainer) missed that a user can find the prompt useful way to
skip running the tool on particular paths. Clarify it by adding a
brief half-sentence to the description.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Versions of Perl's Getopt::Long module before 2.37 do not contain
this fix that first appeared in Getopt::Long version 2.37:
* Bugfix: With gnu_compat, --foo= will no longer trigger "Option
requires an argument" but return the empty string.
Instead of using --prefix="" use --prefix "" when testing an
explictly empty prefix string in order to work with older versions
of Perl's Getopt::Long module.
Also add a paragraph on this workaround to the documentation of
git-svn itself.
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no point in this:
% git merge
fatal: No commit specified and merge.defaultToUpstream not set.
We know the most likely scenario is that the user wants to merge the
upstream, and if not, he can set merge.defaultToUpstream to false.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
So that we can convert the exported ref names.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jx/i18n:
i18n: mention "TRANSLATORS:" marker in Documentation/CodingGuidelines
i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:"
i18n: remove obsolete comments for translators in diffstat generation
i18n: fix uncatchable comments for translators in date.c
* ep/shell-command-substitution:
t9362-mw-to-git-utf8.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9360-mw-to-git-clone.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-tag.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-revert.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-resolve.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-repack.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-merge.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-ls-remote.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-fetch.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-commit.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-clone.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-checkout.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
install-webdoc.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
howto-index.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-svn by default puts its Subversion-tracking refs directly in
refs/remotes/*. This runs counter to Git's convention of using
refs/remotes/$remote/* for storing remote-tracking branches.
Furthermore, combining git-svn with regular git remotes run the risk of
clobbering refs under refs/remotes (e.g. if you have a git remote
called "tags" with a "v1" branch, it will overlap with the git-svn's
tracking branch for the "v1" tag from Subversion.
Even though the git-svn refs stored in refs/remotes/* are not "proper"
remote-tracking branches (since they are not covered by a proper git
remote's refspec), they clearly represent a similar concept, and would
benefit from following the same convention.
For example, if git-svn tracks Subversion branch "foo" at
refs/remotes/foo, and you create a local branch refs/heads/foo to add
some commits to be pushed back to Subversion (using "git svn dcommit),
then it is clearly unhelpful of Git to throw
warning: refname 'foo' is ambiguous.
every time you checkout, rebase, or otherwise interact with the branch.
The existing workaround for this is to supply the --prefix=quux/ to
git svn init/clone, so that git-svn's tracking branches end up in
refs/remotes/quux/* instead of refs/remotes/*. However, encouraging
users to specify --prefix to work around a design flaw in git-svn is
suboptimal, and not a long term solution to the problem. Instead,
git-svn should default to use a non-empty prefix that saves
unsuspecting users from the inconveniences described above.
This patch will only affect newly created git-svn setups, as the
--prefix option only applies to git svn init (and git svn clone).
Existing git-svn setups will continue with their existing (lack of)
prefix. Also, if anyone somehow prefers git-svn's old layout, they
can recreate that by explicitly passing an empty prefix (--prefix "")
on the git svn init/clone command line.
The patch changes the default value for --prefix from "" to "origin/",
updates the git-svn manual page, and fixes the fallout in the git-svn
testcases.
(Note that this patch might be easier to review using the --word-diff
and --word-diff-regex=. diff options.)
[ew: squashed description of <= 1.9 behavior into manpage]
Suggested-by: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
These comments have to have "TRANSLATORS: " at the very beginning
and have to deviate from the usual multi-line comment formatting
convention.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
sed -i 's@`\(.*\)`@$(\1)@g' ${_f}
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
sed -i 's@`\(.*\)`@$(\1)@g' ${_f}
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The second maintenance release for Git 1.9; contains all the fixes
that are scheduled to appear in Git 2.0.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jl/nor-or-nand-and:
code and test: fix misuses of "nor"
comments: fix misuses of "nor"
contrib: fix misuses of "nor"
Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
Eradicate mistaken use of "nor" (that is, essentially "nor" used
not in "neither A nor B" ;-)) from in-code comments, command output
strings, and documentations.
* jl/nor-or-nand-and:
code and test: fix misuses of "nor"
comments: fix misuses of "nor"
contrib: fix misuses of "nor"
Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
OPT_SET_PTR() implementation was broken on IL32P64 platforms;
it turns out that the macro is not used by any real user.
* mr/opt-set-ptr:
parse-options: remove unused OPT_SET_PTR
parse-options: add cast to correct pointer type to OPT_SET_PTR
MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crash
Make sure that the help text given to describe the "<param>" part
of the "git cmd --option=<param>" does not contain SP or _,
e.g. "--gpg-sign=<key-id>" option for "git commit" is not spelled
as "--gpg-sign=<key id>".
* jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words:
parse-options: make sure argh string does not have SP or _
update-index: teach --cacheinfo a new syntax "mode,sha1,path"
parse-options: multi-word argh should use dash to separate words
In the original version of this command, for the single case of the
"update" command's <newvalue>, the empty string was interpreted as
being equivalent to 40 "0"s. This shorthand is unnecessary (binary
input will usually be generated programmatically anyway), and it
complicates the parser and the documentation.
So gently deprecate this usage: remove its description from the
documentation and emit a warning if it is found. But for reasons of
backwards compatibility, continue to accept it.
Helped-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently setting submodule.<name>.ignore and/or diff.ignoreSubmodules to
"all" suppresses all output of submodule changes for the diff family,
status and commit. For status and commit this is really confusing, as it
even when the user chooses to record a new commit for an ignored submodule
by adding it manually this change won't show up under the to-be-committed
changes. To add insult to injury, a later "git commit" will error out with
"nothing to commit" when only ignored submodules are staged.
Fix that by making wt_status always print staged submodule changes, no
matter what ignore settings are configured. The only exception is when the
user explicitly uses the "--ignore-submodules=all" command line option, in
that case the submodule output is still suppressed. This also makes "git
commit" work again when only modifications of ignored submodules are
staged, as that command uses the "commitable" member of the wt_status
struct to determine if staged changes are present. But this only happens
when the commit command uses the wt_status* functions to produce status
output for human consumption (when forking an editor or with --dry-run),
in all other cases (e.g. when run in a script with '-m') another code path
is taken which uses index_differs_from() to determine if any changes are
staged which still ignores submodules according to their configuration.
This will be fixed in a follow-up commit.
Change t7508 to reflect this new behavior and add three new tests to show
that a single staged submodule configured to be ignored will be committed
when the status output is generated and won't be if not. Also update the
documentation of the ignore config options accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow tweaking the maximum length of the delta-chain produced by
"gc --aggressive".
* nd/gc-aggressive:
environment.c: fix constness for odb_pack_keep()
gc --aggressive: make --depth configurable
Attempts to show where a single-strand-of-pearls break in "git log"
output.
* nd/log-show-linear-break:
log: add --show-linear-break to help see non-linear history
object.h: centralize object flag allocation
This reverts commit 23d25e48f5, as it is
broken for users who haven't opted into the new feature of checking
out submodule.*.branch with update mode set to checkout.
Teaches the "rev-parse --parseopt" mechanism used by scripted
Porcelains to parse command line options and give help text how to
supply argv-help (the placeholder string for an option parameter,
e.g. "key-id" in "--gpg-sign=<key-id>").
* ib/rev-parse-parseopt-argh:
t1502: protect runs of SPs used in the indentation
rev-parse --parseopt: option argument name hints
When 1c192f3 (gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive - 2007-12-06)
made --depth=250 the default value, it didn't really explain the
reason behind, especially the pros and cons of --depth=250.
An old mail from Linus below explains it at length. Long story short,
--depth=250 is a disk saver and a performance killer. Not everybody
agrees on that aggressiveness. Let the user configure it.
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:19:24 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712060803430.13796@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Gmane-URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94637
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> 7:41:25elapsed 86%CPU
Heh. And this is why you want to do it exactly *once*, and then just
export the end result for others ;)
> -r--r--r-- 1 hharrison hharrison 324094684 2007-12-06 07:26 pack-1d46...pack
But yeah, especially if you allow longer delta chains, the end result can
be much smaller (and what makes the one-time repack more expensive is the
window size, not the delta chain - you could make the delta chains longer
with no cost overhead at packing time)
HOWEVER.
The longer delta chains do make it potentially much more expensive to then
use old history. So there's a trade-off. And quite frankly, a delta depth
of 250 is likely going to cause overflows in the delta cache (which is
only 256 entries in size *and* it's a hash, so it's going to start having
hash conflicts long before hitting the 250 depth limit).
So when I said "--depth=250 --window=250", I chose those numbers more as
an example of extremely aggressive packing, and I'm not at all sure that
the end result is necessarily wonderfully usable. It's going to save disk
space (and network bandwidth - the delta's will be re-used for the network
protocol too!), but there are definitely downsides too, and using long
delta chains may simply not be worth it in practice.
(And some of it might just want to have git tuning, ie if people think
that long deltas are worth it, we could easily just expand on the delta
hash, at the cost of some more memory used!)
That said, the good news is that working with *new* history will not be
affected negatively, and if you want to be _really_ sneaky, there are ways
to say "create a pack that contains the history up to a version one year
ago, and be very aggressive about those old versions that we still want to
have around, but do a separate pack for newer stuff using less aggressive
parameters"
So this is something that can be tweaked, although we don't really have
any really nice interfaces for stuff like that (ie the git delta cache
size is hardcoded in the sources and cannot be set in the config file, and
the "pack old history more aggressively" involves some manual scripting
and knowing how "git pack-objects" works rather than any nice simple
command line switch).
So the thing to take away from this is:
- git is certainly flexible as hell
- .. but to get the full power you may need to tweak things
- .. happily you really only need to have one person to do the tweaking,
and the tweaked end results will be available to others that do not
need to know/care.
And whether the difference between 320MB and 500MB is worth any really
involved tweaking (considering the potential downsides), I really don't
know. Only testing will tell.
Linus
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since 941987a5 (git-submodule: give submodules proper names,
2007-06-11) introduced the ability to move a submodule from one path
to another inside its superproject tree without losing its identity,
we should have consistently used submodule.<name>.* to access
settings related to the named submodule.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since 941987a5 (git-submodule: give submodules proper names,
2007-06-11) introduced the ability to move a submodule from one path
to another inside its superproject tree without losing its identity,
we should have consistently used submodule.<name>.* to access
settings related to the named submodule.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Option explanation is in rev-list-options.txt. The interaction with -z
is left undecided.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit --cleanup=<mode>" learned a new mode, scissors.
* nd/commit-editor-cleanup:
commit: add --cleanup=scissors
wt-status.c: move cut-line print code out to wt_status_add_cut_line
wt-status.c: make cut_line[] const to shrink .data section a bit
The "--cacheinfo" option is unusual in that it takes three option
parameters. An option with an optional parameter is bad enough. An
option with multiple parameters is simply insane.
Introduce a new syntax that takes these three things concatenated
together with a comma, which makes the command line syntax more
uniform across subcommands, while retaining the traditional syntax
for backward compatiblity.
If we were designing the "update-index" subcommand from scratch
today, it may probably have made sense to make this option (and
possibly others) a command mode option that does not take any option
parameter (hence no need for arg-help). But we do not live in such
an ideal world, and as far as I can tell, the command still supports
(and must support) mixed command modes in a single invocation, e.g.
$ git update-index path1 --add path2 \
--cacheinfo 100644 $(git hash-object --stdin -w <path3) path3 \
path4
must make sure path1 is already in the index and update all of these
four paths. So this is probably as far as we can go to fix this issue
without risking to break people's existing scripts.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"When you need to use space, use dash" is a strange way to say that
you must not use a space. Because it is more common for the command
line descriptions to use dashed-multi-words, you do not even want to
use spaces in these places. Rephrase the documentation to avoid
this strangeness.
Fix a few existing multi-word argument help strings, i.e.
- GPG key-ids given to -S/--gpg-sign are "key-id";
- Refs used for storing notes are "notes-ref"; and
- Expiry timestamps given to --expire are "expiry-date".
and update the corresponding documentation pages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Built-in commands can specify names for option arguments when usage text
is generated for a command. sh based commands should be able to do the
same.
Option argument name hint is any text that comes after [*=?!] after the
argument name up to the first whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Discard the accumulated "heuristics" to guess from which branch the
result wants to be pulled from and make sure what the end user
specified is not second-guessed by "git request-pull", to avoid
mistakes.
* lt/request-pull:
request-pull: documentation updates
request-pull: resurrect "pretty refname" feature
request-pull: test updates
request-pull: pick up tag message as before
request-pull: allow "local:remote" to specify names on both ends
request-pull: more strictly match local/remote branches
Serving objects from a shallow repository needs to write a
temporary file to be used, but the serving upload-pack may not have
write access to the repository which is meant to be read-only.
Instead feed these temporary shallow bounds from the standard input
of pack-objects so that we do not have to use a temporary file.
* nd/upload-pack-shallow:
upload-pack: send shallow info over stdin to pack-objects
This hasn't been true since 2556b996 (status: disable display of '#'
comment prefix by default, 2013-09-06).
Signed-off-by: Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This configuration variable sets the default for the --full-name option.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
User config file location complies with the XDG base directory
specification while supporting the traditional $HOME/.gitk as a
fallback.
Signed-off-by: Astril Hayato <astrilhayato@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The version numbering scheme has changed since Git 1.9 and we
dropped the third dewey-decimal from the traditional numbering
(e.g. both 1.8.4 and 1.8.5 were major feature releases). This
release 1.9.1 is the first maintenance relase for Git 1.9.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Attempting to deepen a shallow repository by fetching over smart
HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when no-done
extension was used. The fetching side waited for the list of
shallow boundary commits after the sending end stopped talking to
it.
* nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix:
t5537: move http tests out to t5539
fetch-pack: fix deepen shallow over smart http with no-done cap
protocol-capabilities.txt: document no-done
protocol-capabilities.txt: refer multi_ack_detailed back to pack-protocol.txt
pack-protocol.txt: clarify 'obj-id' in the last ACK after 'done'
test: rename http fetch and push test files
tests: auto-set LIB_HTTPD_PORT from test name
Updates transport-helper, fast-import and fast-export to allow the
ref mapping and ref deletion in a way similar to the natively
supported transports.
* fc/transport-helper-fixes:
remote-bzr: support the new 'force' option
test-hg.sh: tests are now expected to pass
transport-helper.c: do not overwrite forced bit
transport-helper: check for 'forced update' message
transport-helper: add 'force' to 'export' helpers
transport-helper: don't update refs in dry-run
transport-helper: mismerge fix
Replace git-pull and git-merge with the corresponding un-hyphenated
versions. While at it, use ` to mark it up instead of '.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
