The standard format for referencing other commits within some projects
(such as git.git) is the reference format. This is described in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches as
If you want to reference a previous commit in the history of a stable
branch, use the format "abbreviated hash (subject, date)", like this:
....
Commit f86a374 (pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak, 2015-03-30)
noticed that ...
....
Since this format is so commonly used, standardize it as a pretty
format.
The tests that are implemented essentially show that the format-string
does not change in response to various log options. This is useful
because, for future developers, it shows that we've considered the
limitations of the "canned format-string" approach and we are fine with
them.
Based-on-a-patch-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the placeholders %as and %cs to format author date and committer
date, respectively, without the time part, like --date=short does, i.e.
like YYYY-MM-DD.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Quoting SZEDER Gábor[1],
SubmittingPatches is simply wrong: our de-facto standard format for
referencing other commits does not enclose the subject in a pair of
double-quotes:
$ git log v2.24.0 |grep -E '[0-9a-f]{7} \("' |wc -l
785
$ git log v2.24.0 |grep -E '[0-9a-f]{7} \([^"]' |wc -l
2276
Those double-quotes don't add any value to the references, but they
result in weird looking references for 1083 of our commits whose
subject lines happen to end with double-quotes, e.g.:
f23a465132 ("hashmap_get{,_from_hash} return "struct hashmap_entry *"", 2019-10-06)
and without those unnecessary pair of double-quotes we would have
~3000 more commits whose summary would fit on a single line.
Remove references to the enclosing double-quotes from SubmittingPatches
since our de-facto standard for referencing commits does not actually
use them.
[1]: cf. <20191114011048.GS4348@szeder.dev>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since Git is planning on upgrading from SHA-1 to be more hash-agnostic,
replace specific references to SHA-1 with more generic terminology.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since Git is planning on upgrading from SHA-1 to be more hash-agnostic,
replace specific references to SHA-1 with more generic terminology.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inspired by 21416f0a07 ("restore: fix typo in docs", 2019-08-03), I ran
"git grep -E '(\b[a-zA-Z]+) \1\b' -- Documentation/" to find other cases
where words were duplicated, e.g. "the the", and in most cases removed
one of the repeated words.
There were many false positives by this grep command, including
deliberate repeated words like "really really" or valid uses of "that
that" which I left alone, of course.
I also did not correct any of the legitimate, accidentally repeated
words in old RelNotes.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"Can not" suggests one has the option to not do something, whereas
"cannot" more strongly suggests something is disallowed or impossible.
Noticed "can not", mistakenly used instead of "cannot" in git help
glossary, then ran git grep 'can not' and found many other instances.
Only files in the Documentation folder were modified.
'Can not' also occurs in some source code comments and some test
assertion messages, and there is an error message and translation "can
not move directory into itself" which I may fix and submit separately
from the documentation change.
Also noticed and fixed "is does" in git help fetch, but there are no
other occurrences of that typo according to git grep.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hotfix for making "git log" use the mailmap by default.
* jc/log-mailmap-flip-defaults:
log: really flip the --mailmap default
log: flip the --mailmap default unconditionally
Update the docs, test the interaction between the new default,
configuration and command line option, in addition to actually
flipping the default.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the spelling of the new "--no-show-forced-updates" option that "git
fetch/pull" learned. Similarly, spell "--function-context" correctly and
fix a few typos, grammos and minor mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It turns out that being cautious to warn against upcoming default
change was an unpopular behaviour, and such a care can easily be
defeated by distro packagers to render it ineffective anyway.
Just flip the default, with only a mention in the release notes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
a blanket ban against them.
* jc/post-c89-rules-doc:
CodingGuidelines: spell out post-C89 rules
The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime
may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be
closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to
an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a
new instance to replace it.
* ds/close-object-store:
packfile: rename close_all_packs to close_object_store
packfile: close commit-graph in close_all_packs
commit-graph: use raw_object_store when closing
commit-graph: extract write_commit_graph_file()
commit-graph: extract copy_oids_to_commits()
commit-graph: extract count_distinct_commits()
commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_all_packs()
commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_commit_hex()
commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_packs()
commit-graph: create write_commit_graph_context
commit-graph: remove Future Work section
commit-graph: collapse parameters into flags
commit-graph: return with errors during write
commit-graph: fix the_repository reference
The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
forms to make them more recognisable.
* qn/clone-doc-use-long-form:
docs: git-clone: list short form of options first
docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options
The 'fsck.skipList' and 'fsck.<msg-id>' config variables might be
easier to discover when they are documented in 'git fsck's man page.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
matches directories") has been revamped.
* an/ignore-doc-update:
gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
"git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
when both options are given.
* vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit:
merge: refuse --commit with --squash
We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
a blanket ban against them.
* jc/post-c89-rules-doc:
CodingGuidelines: spell out post-C89 rules
The "git log" command learns to issue a warning when log.mailmap
configuration is not set and --[no-]mailmap option is not used, to
prepare users for future versions of Git that uses the mailmap by
default.
* ac/log-use-mailmap-by-default-transition:
tests: defang pager tests by explicitly disabling the log.mailmap warning
documentation: mention --no-use-mailmap and log.mailmap false setting
log: add warning for unspecified log.mailmap setting
The tips of refs from the alternate object store can be used as
starting point for reachability computation now.
* jk/check-connected-with-alternates:
check_everything_connected: assume alternate ref tips are valid
object-store.h: move for_each_alternate_ref() from transport.h
"git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action.
* ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip:
cherry-pick/revert: advise using --skip
cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option
sequencer: use argv_array in reset_merge
sequencer: rename reset_for_rollback to reset_merge
sequencer: add advice for revert
