Some instructions on dealing with corruption of the object database.
Most of this text is from an example by Linus, identified by Nicolas
Pitre <nico@cam.org> with a little further editing by me.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
It's important to remember that git doesn't really allowing "editing" or
"modifying" commits, only replacing them by new commits. Redo some of
the language to make this clearer.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
If the worktree happened to have a file called HEAD, "diff-index --cached HEAD"
would complain about the ambiguity between revision and path. Avoid it by
using an explicit "--" for disambiguation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating a bundle, symbolic refs used to be resolved to the
non-symbolic refs they point to before being written to the list
of contained refs. I.e. "git bundle create a1.bundle HEAD master"
would show something like
388afe7881b33102fada216dd07806728773c011 refs/heads/master
388afe7881b33102fada216dd07806728773c011 refs/heads/master
instead of
388afe7881b33102fada216dd07806728773c011 HEAD
388afe7881b33102fada216dd07806728773c011 refs/heads/master
Introduce a special handling so that the symbolic refs are listed
with the names passed on the command line.
Noticed by Santi Béjar.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We add the content-type header only when we have non-7bit
characters from the 'From' header, so we really need to
specify the encoding (in other cases, where the commit text
needed a content-type, git-format-patch will already have
added the encoding header).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The HEAD@{...} syntax was documented in git-rev-parse manpage, which
is hard to find by someone looking for the documentation of porcelain.
git-reflog is probably the place where one expects to find this.
While I'm there, "git revlog show whatever" was also undocumented.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Clarify that core.compression provides a system-wide default to
other compression parameters.
* Explain that the default for pack.compression, -1, is "a default
compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
to level 6)" according to zlib.h.
Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* core.loosecompression stated that the default was "0 (best speed)",
when in fact 0 is "no compression", and the default is Z_BEST_SPEED,
which is 1.
Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
Documentation: Fix references to deprecated commands
user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."
git-remote.txt: fix example url
... by changing git-tar-tree reference to git-archive and removing
seemingly unrelevant footnote about git-ssh-{fetch,upload}.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
We should mention the use of the "..." syntax for git-diff here. The
note about the difference between diff and the combined output of
git-format-patch then no longer fits so well, so remove it. Add a
reference to the git-format-patch[1] manpage.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
This commit adds a discussion of the challenge of bisecting
merge commits to the user manual. The original author is
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, who posted the text to
the mailing list <http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119403257315527&w=2>.
His email was adapted for the manual.
The discussion is added to "Rewriting history and maintainig
patch series". The text added requires good understanding of
merging and rebasing. Therefore it should not be placed too
early in the manual. Right after the section on "Problems with
rewriting history", the discussion of bisect gives another reason
for linearizing as much of the history as possible.
The text includes suggestions and fixes by
Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> and
Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
When building command line to invoke external grep, the
arguments to -A/-B/-C options were placd in randarg[] buffer,
but the code forgot that snprintf() does not count terminating
NUL in its return value. This caused "git grep -A1 -B2" to
invoke external grep with "-B21 -A1".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "dir_struct", each exclusion element in the exclusion stack records a
base string (pointer to the beginning with length) so that we can tell
where it came from, but this pointer is just pointing at the parameter
that is given by the caller to the push_exclude_per_directory()
function.
While read_directory_recursive() runs, calls to excluded() makes use
the data in the exclusion elements, including this base string. The
caller of read_directory_recursive() is not supposed to free the
buffer it gave to push_exclude_per_directory() earlier, until it
returns.
The test case Bruce Stephens gave in the mailing list discussion
was simplified and added to the t3700 test.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are inconsistencies in the way commands currently handle
the core.excludesfile configuration variable. The problem is
the variable is too new to be noticed by anything other than
git-add and git-status.
* git-ls-files does not notice any of the "ignore" files by
default, as it predates the standardized set of ignore files.
The calling scripts established the convention to use
.git/info/exclude, .gitignore, and later core.excludesfile.
* git-add and git-status know about it because they call
add_excludes_from_file() directly with their own notion of
which standard set of ignore files to use. This is just a
stupid duplication of code that need to be updated every time
the definition of the standard set of ignore files is
changed.
* git-read-tree takes --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>,
not because the flexibility was needed. Again, this was
because the option predates the standardization of the ignore
files.
* git-merge-recursive uses hardcoded per-directory .gitignore
and nothing else. git-clean (scripted version) does not
honor core.* because its call to underlying ls-files does not
know about it. git-clean in C (parked in 'pu') doesn't either.
We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set
when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore
processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a
change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle
way. I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change.
On the other hand, I think it makes perfect sense to fix
git-read-tree, git-merge-recursive and git-clean to follow the
same rule as other commands. I do not think of a valid use case
to give an exclude-per-directory that is nonstandard to
read-tree command, outside a "negative" test in the t1004 test
script.
This patch is the first step to untangle this mess.
The next step would be to teach read-tree, merge-recursive and
clean (in C) to use setup_standard_excludes().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a user has an "auto-prop" in his/her ~/.subversion/config file for
automatically setting the svn:keyword Id property on all ".c" files
(a reasonably common configuration in the Subversion world) then one
of the "svn propset" operations in the very first test would become a
no-op, which in turn would make the next commit a no-op.
This then caused the 25th test ('test propget') to fail because it
expects a certain number of commits to have taken place but the actual
number of commits was off by one.
Björn Steinbrink identified the "auto-prop" feature as the cause
of the failure. This patch avoids it by passing the "--no-auto-prop"
flag to "svn import" when setting up the test repository, thus ensuring
that the "svn propset" operation is no longer a no-op, regardless of the
users' settings in their config.
Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We sometimes pick out the original rfc822 'From' header and
include it in the body of the message. If the original
author's name needs encoding, then we should specify that in
the content-type header.
If we already had a content-type header in the mail, then we
may need to re-encode. The logic is there to detect
this case, but it doesn't actually do the re-encoding.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-clean did not honor core.excludesfile configuration
variable, although some other commands such as git-add and
git-status did. Fix this inconsistency.
Original report and patch from Shun'ichi Fuji. Rewritten by me
and bugs and tests are mine.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From version 1.72 it will replace all dots in roff requests with U+2302
("house" character), and add escaping in output for all instances of dot
that are not in roff requests. This caused the ".ft" hack forcing
monospace font in listingblocks to end up as "\&.ft" and being visible
in the resulting man page.
The fix adds a DOCBOOK_XSL_172 build variable that will disable the
hack. To allow this variable to be defined in config.mak it also moves
build variable handling below the inclusion of config.mak.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of examples has wrong output given the arguments provided.
Fix arguments to match the output.
Fix a minor syntax mistake in another place.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The message in git-commit suggesting to use 'git rm --cached'
to unstage is just plain wrong. It really should mention 'git reset'.
Suggested by Jan Hudec.
Signed-off-by: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tweak the "filter" section of the gitattributes documentation to add
some
missing articles and improve some word choices without changing the
semantics of the section.
Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Brian Downing noticed fast-import can produce tree depths of up
to 6,035 objects and even deeper. Long delta chains can create
very small packfiles but cause problems during repacking as git
needs to unpack each tree to count the reachable blobs.
What's happening here is the active branch cache isn't big enough.
We're swapping out the branch and thus recycling the tree information
(struct tree_content) back into the free pool. When we later reload
the tree we set the delta_depth to 0 but we kept the tree we just
reloaded as a delta base.
So if the tree we reloaded was already at the maximum depth we
wouldn't know it and make the new tree a delta. Multiply the
number of times the branch cache has to swap out the tree times
max_depth (10) and you get the maximum delta depth of a tree created
by fast-import. In Brian's case above the active branch cache had
to swap the branch out 603/604 times during this import to produce
a tree with a delta depth of 6035.
Acked-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no reason to forbid a dirty work tree when reverting or
cherry-picking a change, as long as the index is clean.
The scripted version used to allow it:
case "$no_commit" in
t)
# We do not intend to commit immediately. We just want to
# merge the differences in.
head=$(git-write-tree) ||
die "Your index file is unmerged."
;;
*)
head=$(git-rev-parse --verify HEAD) ||
die "You do not have a valid HEAD"
files=$(git-diff-index --cached --name-only $head) || exit
if [ "$files" ]; then
die "Dirty index: cannot $me (dirty: $files)"
fi
;;
esac
but C rewrite tightened the check, probably by mistake.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This looks like a cut and paste error from the git-checkout
explanation of --no-track.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
dcommit uses rebase to sync the history with what has just been pushed to
SVN. Trying to dcommit with a dirty index is troublesome for rebase, so now
the user will get an error message if he attempts to dcommit with a dirty
index.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This probably hasn't been properly tested before. Here's a script to
create a 8GB repo with the necessary characteristics (copy the
test-genrandom executable from the Git build tree to /tmp first):
-----
#!/bin/bash
git init
git config core.compression 0
# create big objects with no deltas
for i in $(seq -w 1 2 63)
do
echo $i
/tmp/test-genrandom $i 268435456 > file_$i
git add file_$i
rm file_$i
echo "file_$i -delta" >> .gitattributes
done
# create "deltifiable" objects in between big objects
for i in $(seq -w 2 2 64)
do
echo "$i $i $i" >> grow
cp grow file_$i
git add file_$i
rm file_$i
done
rm grow
# create a pack with them
git commit -q -m "commit of big objects interlaced with small deltas"
git repack -a -d
-----
Then clone this repo over the Git protocol.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we were listing objects too then the objects were buffered in an
array only reachable from a stack allocated structure. When this
function returns that array would be leaked as nobody would have
a reference to it anymore.
Historically this hasn't been a problem as the primary user of
traverse_commit_list() (the noble git-rev-list) would terminate
as soon as the function was finished, thus allowing the operating
system to cleanup memory. However we have been leaking this data
in git-pack-objects ever since that program learned how to run the
revision listing internally, rather than relying on reading object
names from git-rev-list.
To better facilitate reuse of traverse_commit_list during other
builtin tools (such as git-fetch) we shouldn't leak temporary memory
like this and instead we need to clean up properly after ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Not doing so is likely to create a messed up display when sent over the
sideband protocol.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I never understood what this prompt was asking for until I read the actual
source code. I think this wording is much more understandable.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were 2 items "send patch to..." but having different set of
addresses to send patch to. Merge them together and move the resulting
item to the end of checklist.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix path quoting and test of empty values that some shells do not like.
Remove duplicate check and setting of $browser.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last rm in the test was lacking an "&&" before it,
which caused the errors in the commands be silently hidden.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of the part of the code this patch touches is that if
we modified the active_cache, we try to write it out and make it
the index file for later users to use by calling
"commit_locked_index", but we do not really care about the
failure from this sequence because it is done purely as an
optimization.
The original code called three functions primarily for their
side effects but as condition of an if statement, which is
admittedly a bad style.
Incidentally, it squelches an "empty if body" warning from gcc.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When escaping a string to be used as a sed regex, it is important
to only escape active characters. Escaping other characters is
undefined according to POSIX, and in practice leads to issues with
extensions such as GNU sed's \+.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
