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Michael Rappazzo
16cf51c7a2 git-rebase--interactive.sh: add config option for custom instruction format
A config option 'rebase.instructionFormat' can override the
default 'oneline' format of the rebase instruction list.

Since the list is parsed using the left, right or boundary mark plus
the sha1, they are prepended to the instruction format.

Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-15 11:42:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7974889a05 Sync with 2.4.3 2015-06-05 12:23:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
69f9a6e54a Git 2.4.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-05 12:22:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f1673dc474 The first half of the seventh batch for 2.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-05 12:20:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5455ee0573 Merge branch 'bc/object-id'
for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects
not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id".

* bc/object-id: (56 commits)
  struct ref_lock: convert old_sha1 member to object_id
  warn_if_dangling_symref(): convert local variable "junk" to object_id
  each_ref_fn_adapter(): remove adapter
  rev_list_insert_ref(): remove unneeded arguments
  rev_list_insert_ref_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
  mark_complete(): remove unneeded arguments
  mark_complete_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
  clear_marks(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  mark_complete(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  send_ref(): convert local variable "peeled" to object_id
  upload-pack: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
  find_symref(): convert local variable "unused" to object_id
  find_symref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  write_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  write_refs_to_temp_dir(): convert local variable sha1 to object_id
  submodule: rewrite to take an object_id argument
  shallow: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
  handle_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  add_info_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  handle_one_reflog(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  ...
2015-06-05 12:17:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c4a8354bc1 Merge branch 'jk/at-push-sha1'
Introduce <branch>@{push} short-hand to denote the remote-tracking
branch that tracks the branch at the remote the <branch> would be
pushed to.

* jk/at-push-sha1:
  for-each-ref: accept "%(push)" format
  for-each-ref: use skip_prefix instead of starts_with
  sha1_name: implement @{push} shorthand
  sha1_name: refactor interpret_upstream_mark
  sha1_name: refactor upstream_mark
  remote.c: add branch_get_push
  remote.c: return upstream name from stat_tracking_info
  remote.c: untangle error logic in branch_get_upstream
  remote.c: report specific errors from branch_get_upstream
  remote.c: introduce branch_get_upstream helper
  remote.c: hoist read_config into remote_get_1
  remote.c: provide per-branch pushremote name
  remote.c: hoist branch.*.remote lookup out of remote_get_1
  remote.c: drop "remote" pointer from "struct branch"
  remote.c: refactor setup of branch->merge list
  remote.c: drop default_remote_name variable
2015-06-05 12:17:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e41f8d98e3 Merge branch 'ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file' into maint
Doc consistency updates.

* ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file:
  doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
2015-06-05 12:00:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
48feda5873 Merge branch 'fg/document-commit-message-stripping' into maint
* fg/document-commit-message-stripping:
  Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message
2015-06-05 12:00:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7e46f27fa6 Merge branch 'pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff' into maint
The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff
configuration, but it didn't.

* pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff:
  pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string
  pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
2015-06-05 12:00:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7c1ff53d5f Merge branch 'ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix' into maint
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix:
  doc: fix unmatched code fences
2015-06-05 12:00:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
413a715f18 Merge branch 'jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix' into maint
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix:
  doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
2015-06-05 12:00:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
96b7f93ac8 Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix' into maint
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.

* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
  doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
  doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
  doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
  doc: convert \--option to --option
  doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
  doc: fix length of underlined section-title
  doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
  doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
  doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-06-05 12:00:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d9c82fa7a7 Merge branch 'pt/xdg-config-path' into maint
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.

* pt/xdg-config-path:
  path.c: remove home_config_paths()
  git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
  git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
  credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
  dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
  attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
  path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
  t0302: "unreadable" test needs POSIXPERM
  t0302: test credential-store support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
  git-credential-store: support XDG_CONFIG_HOME
  git-credential-store: support multiple credential files
2015-06-05 12:00:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f86f31ab33 Sixth batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-01 12:47:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a9d3493380 Merge branch 'fm/fetch-raw-sha1'
"git upload-pack" that serves "git fetch" can be told to serve
commits that are not at the tip of any ref, as long as they are
reachable from a ref, with uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant
configuration variable.

* fm/fetch-raw-sha1:
  upload-pack: optionally allow fetching reachable sha1
  upload-pack: prepare to extend allow-tip-sha1-in-want
  config.txt: clarify allowTipSHA1InWant with camelCase
2015-06-01 12:45:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6dec263333 Merge branch 'sg/help-group'
Group list of commands shown by "git help" along the workflow
elements to help early learners.

* sg/help-group:
  help: respect new common command grouping
  command-list.txt: drop the "common" tag
  generate-cmdlist: parse common group commands
  command-list.txt: add the common groups block
  command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" section
2015-06-01 12:45:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
abcbafedbf Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc'
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated
concepts.

* mm/log-format-raw-doc:
  Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
  Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-06-01 12:45:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
67f0b6f3b2 Merge branch 'dt/cat-file-follow-symlinks'
"git cat-file --batch(-check)" learned the "--follow-symlinks"
option that follows an in-tree symbolic link when asked about an
object via extended SHA-1 syntax, e.g. HEAD:RelNotes that points at
Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt.  With the new option, the command
behaves as if HEAD:Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt was given as
input instead.

* dt/cat-file-follow-symlinks:
  cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batch
  sha1_name: get_sha1_with_context learns to follow symlinks
  tree-walk: learn get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks
2015-06-01 12:45:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1fd63cac50 Merge branch 'mc/commit-doc-grammofix'
Doc grammar fix.

* mc/commit-doc-grammofix:
  Documentation/git-commit: grammofix
2015-06-01 12:45:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
777e75b605 Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock'
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
request first into core (to a reasonable limit).

* jk/http-backend-deadlock:
  http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
  t5551: factor out tag creation
  http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-06-01 12:45:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fae46aa0ae Sync with 2.4.2 2015-05-26 13:50:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9eabf5b536 Git 2.4.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26 13:49:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1e6c8babf8 Merge branch 'jc/hash-object' into maint
"hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to
take a really long object type name.

* jc/hash-object:
  write_sha1_file(): do not use a separate sha1[] array
  t1007: add hash-object --literally tests
  hash-object --literally: fix buffer overrun with extra-long object type
  git-hash-object.txt: document --literally option
2015-05-26 13:49:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4ebdeb68ba Fifth batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26 13:33:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
38ccaf93bb Merge branch 'nd/untracked-cache'
Teach the index to optionally remember already seen untracked files
to speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft.

* nd/untracked-cache: (24 commits)
  git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cache
  untracked cache: guard and disable on system changes
  mingw32: add uname()
  t7063: tests for untracked cache
  update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cache
  update-index: manually enable or disable untracked cache
  status: enable untracked cache
  untracked-cache: temporarily disable with $GIT_DISABLE_UNTRACKED_CACHE
  untracked cache: mark index dirty if untracked cache is updated
  untracked cache: print stats with $GIT_TRACE_UNTRACKED_STATS
  untracked cache: avoid racy timestamps
  read-cache.c: split racy stat test to a separate function
  untracked cache: invalidate at index addition or removal
  untracked cache: load from UNTR index extension
  untracked cache: save to an index extension
  ewah: add convenient wrapper ewah_serialize_strbuf()
  untracked cache: don't open non-existent .gitignore
  untracked cache: mark what dirs should be recursed/saved
  untracked cache: record/validate dir mtime and reuse cached output
  untracked cache: make a wrapper around {open,read,close}dir()
  ...
2015-05-26 13:24:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
22a1ae6ef2 Merge branch 'pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff'
The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff
configuration, but it didn't.

* pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff:
  pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string
  pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
2015-05-26 13:24:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
636614f337 Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3' into jk/http-backend-deadlock
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3:
  http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
  t5551: factor out tag creation
  http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-05-25 20:44:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7419a03fdb Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2' into jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2:
  http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
  t5551: factor out tag creation
  http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-05-25 20:44:04 -07:00
Jeff King
6bc0cb5176 http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
When http-backend spawns "upload-pack" to do ref
negotiation, it streams the http request body to
upload-pack, who then streams the http response back to the
client as it reads. In theory, git can go full-duplex; the
client can consume our response while it is still sending
the request.  In practice, however, HTTP is a half-duplex
protocol. Even if our client is ready to read and write
simultaneously, we may have other HTTP infrastructure in the
way, including the webserver that spawns our CGI, or any
intermediate proxies.

In at least one documented case[1], this leads to deadlock
when trying a fetch over http. What happens is basically:

  1. Apache proxies the request to the CGI, http-backend.

  2. http-backend gzip-inflates the data and sends
     the result to upload-pack.

  3. upload-pack acts on the data and generates output over
     the pipe back to Apache. Apache isn't reading because
     it's busy writing (step 1).

This works fine most of the time, because the upload-pack
output ends up in a system pipe buffer, and Apache reads
it as soon as it finishes writing. But if both the request
and the response exceed the system pipe buffer size, then we
deadlock (Apache blocks writing to http-backend,
http-backend blocks writing to upload-pack, and upload-pack
blocks writing to Apache).

We need to break the deadlock by spooling either the input
or the output. In this case, it's ideal to spool the input,
because Apache does not start reading either stdout _or_
stderr until we have consumed all of the input. So until we
do so, we cannot even get an error message out to the
client.

The solution is fairly straight-forward: we read the request
body into an in-memory buffer in http-backend, freeing up
Apache, and then feed the data ourselves to upload-pack. But
there are a few important things to note:

  1. We limit the in-memory buffer to prevent an obvious
     denial-of-service attack. This is a new hard limit on
     requests, but it's unlikely to come into play. The
     default value is 10MB, which covers even the ridiculous
     100,000-ref negotation in the included test (that
     actually caps out just over 5MB). But it's configurable
     on the off chance that you don't mind spending some
     extra memory to make even ridiculous requests work.

  2. We must take care only to buffer when we have to. For
     pushes, the incoming packfile may be of arbitrary
     size, and we should connect the input directly to
     receive-pack. There's no deadlock problem here, though,
     because we do not produce any output until the whole
     packfile has been read.

     For upload-pack's initial ref advertisement, we
     similarly do not need to buffer. Even though we may
     generate a lot of output, there is no request body at
     all (i.e., it is a GET, not a POST).

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269020

Test-adapted-from: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25 20:43:18 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
2b2a5be394 each_ref_fn: change to take an object_id parameter
Change typedef each_ref_fn to take a "const struct object_id *oid"
parameter instead of "const unsigned char *sha1".

To aid this transition, implement an adapter that can be used to wrap
old-style functions matching the old typedef, which is now called
"each_ref_sha1_fn"), and make such functions callable via the new
interface. This requires the old function and its cb_data to be
wrapped in a "struct each_ref_fn_sha1_adapter", and that object to be
used as the cb_data for an adapter function, each_ref_fn_adapter().

This is an enormous diff, but most of it consists of simple,
mechanical changes to the sites that call any of the "for_each_ref"
family of functions. Subsequent to this change, the call sites can be
rewritten one by one to use the new interface.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25 12:19:27 -07:00
Fredrik Medley
68ee628932 upload-pack: optionally allow fetching reachable sha1
With uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant configuration option set on the
server side, "git fetch" can make a request with a "want" line that names
an object that has not been advertised (likely to have been obtained out
of band or from a submodule pointer). Only objects reachable from the
branch tips, i.e. the union of advertised branches and branches hidden by
transfer.hideRefs, will be processed. Note that there is an associated
cost of having to walk back the history to check the reachability.

This feature can be used when obtaining the content of a certain commit,
for which the sha1 is known, without the need of cloning the whole
repository, especially if a shallow fetch is used. Useful cases are e.g.
repositories containing large files in the history, fetching only the
needed data for a submodule checkout, when sharing a sha1 without telling
which exact branch it belongs to and in Gerrit, if you think in terms of
commits instead of change numbers. (The Gerrit case has already been
solved through allowTipSHA1InWant as every Gerrit change has a ref.)

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 18:25:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9532ead987 Fourth batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 12:53:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e4b4e7d704 Merge branch 'ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file'
Doc consistency updates.

* ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file:
  doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
2015-05-22 12:42:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fb257bfa17 Merge branch 'mh/lockfile-retry'
Instead of dying immediately upon failing to obtain a lock, retry
after a short while with backoff.

* mh/lockfile-retry:
  lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the packed-refs lock
  lockfile: allow file locking to be retried with a timeout
2015-05-22 12:41:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d1caa58954 Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix'
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.

* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
  doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
  doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
  doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
  doc: convert \--option to --option
  doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
  doc: fix length of underlined section-title
  doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
  doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
  doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-05-22 12:41:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c24e0e7751 Merge branch 'jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix'
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix:
  doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
2015-05-22 12:41:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
236794f1eb Merge branch 'ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix'
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix:
  doc: fix unmatched code fences
2015-05-22 12:41:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
39fa79178f Merge branch 'ls/http-ssl-cipher-list'
Introduce http.<url>.SSLCipherList configuration variable to tweak
the list of cipher suite to be used with libcURL when talking with
https:// sites.

* ls/http-ssl-cipher-list:
  http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher list
2015-05-22 12:41:45 -07:00
Jeff King
29bc88505f for-each-ref: accept "%(push)" format
Just as we have "%(upstream)" to report the "@{upstream}"
for each ref, this patch adds "%(push)" to match "@{push}".
It supports the same tracking format modifiers as upstream
(because you may want to know, for example, which branches
have commits to push).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 09:33:09 -07:00
Jeff King
adfe5d0434 sha1_name: implement @{push} shorthand
In a triangular workflow, each branch may have two distinct
points of interest: the @{upstream} that you normally pull
from, and the destination that you normally push to. There
isn't a shorthand for the latter, but it's useful to have.

For instance, you may want to know which commits you haven't
pushed yet:

  git log @{push}..

Or as a more complicated example, imagine that you normally
pull changes from origin/master (which you set as your
@{upstream}), and push changes to your own personal fork
(e.g., as myfork/topic). You may push to your fork from
multiple machines, requiring you to integrate the changes
from the push destination, rather than upstream. With this
patch, you can just do:

  git rebase @{push}

rather than typing out the full name.

The heavy lifting is all done by branch_get_push; here we
just wire it up to the "@{push}" syntax.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 09:33:08 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
bbf431c9ae doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
Fix remaining instances where "pack-file" is used instead of
"packfile". Some places remain where we still use "pack-file",
This is the case when we explicitly refer to a file with a
".pack" extension as opposed to a data source providing a pack
data stream.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 09:00:17 -07:00
Fredrik Medley
bc0a474149 config.txt: clarify allowTipSHA1InWant with camelCase
Most of the options in config.txt are camelCase. Improve the readability
for allowtipsha1inwant by changing to allowTipSHA1InWant.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 13:40:22 -07:00
Sébastien Guimmara
413f50b901 command-list.txt: add the common groups block
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to display common commands in
groups rather than alphabetically. As a first step, define the
groups in a new block, and then assign a group to each
common command.

Add a block at the beginning of command-list.txt:

    init         start a working area (see also: git help tutorial)
    worktree     work on the current change (see also:[...]
    info         examine the history and state (see also: git [...]
    history      grow, mark and tweak your history
    remote       collaborate (see also: git help workflows)

storing information about common commands group, then map each common
command to a group:

    git-add          mainporcelain        common worktree

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by:  Emma Jane Hogbin Westby <emma.westby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 13:03:37 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
11c6659d85 command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" section
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to classify common commands by
group. Toward this end, a subsequent patch will add a new "common
groups" section to command-list.txt preceding the actual command list.
As preparation, teach existing command-list.txt parsing machinery, which
doesn't care about grouping, to skip over this upcoming "common groups"
section.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 13:03:37 -07:00
Jeff King
9e3751d443 remote.c: drop "remote" pointer from "struct branch"
When we create each branch struct, we fill in the
"remote_name" field from the config, and then fill in the
actual "remote" field (with a "struct remote") based on that
name. However, it turns out that nobody really cares about
the latter field. The only two sites that access it at all
are:

  1. git-merge, which uses it to notice when the branch does
     not have a remote defined. But we can easily replace this
     with looking at remote_name instead.

  2. remote.c itself, when setting up the @{upstream} merge
     config. But we don't need to save the "remote" in the
     "struct branch" for that; we can just look it up for
     the duration of the operation.

So there is no need to have both fields; they are redundant
with each other (the struct remote contains the name, or you
can look up the struct from the name). It would be nice to
simplify this, especially as we are going to add matching
pushremote config in a future patch (and it would be nice to
keep them consistent).

So which one do we keep and which one do we get rid of?

If we had a lot of callers accessing the struct, it would be
more efficient to keep it (since you have to do a lookup to
go from the name to the struct, but not vice versa). But we
don't have a lot of callers; we have exactly one, so
efficiency doesn't matter. We can decide this based on
simplicity and readability.

And the meaning of the struct value is somewhat unclear. Is
it always the remote matching remote_name? If remote_name is
NULL (i.e., no per-branch config), does the struct fall back
to the "origin" remote, or is it also NULL? These questions
will get even more tricky with pushremotes, whose fallback
behavior is more complicated. So let's just store the name,
which pretty clearly represents the branch.*.remote config.
Any lookup or fallback behavior can then be implemented in
helper functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 10:48:10 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
92de92172d Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 15:28:51 -07:00
David Turner
122d53464b cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batch
This wires the in-repo-symlink following code through to the cat-file
builtin.  In the event of an out-of-repo link, cat-file will print
the link in a new format.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:46:21 -07:00
Michael Coleman
5c2a581dc9 Documentation/git-commit: grammofix
Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman <michael.karl.coleman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 21:20:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6c1249c503 Third batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 13:24:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3b7d373ae2 Merge branch 'kn/cat-file-literally'
Add the "--allow-unknown-type" option to "cat-file" to allow
inspecting loose objects of an experimental or a broken type.

* kn/cat-file-literally:
  t1006: add tests for git cat-file --allow-unknown-type
  cat-file: teach cat-file a '--allow-unknown-type' option
  cat-file: make the options mutually exclusive
  sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type
2015-05-19 13:17:58 -07:00