Just like tbdiff, we now show the diff between matching patches. This is
a "diff of two diffs", so it can be a bit daunting to read for the
beginner.
An alternative would be to display an interdiff, i.e. the hypothetical
diff which is the result of first reverting the old diff and then
applying the new diff.
Especially when rebasing frequently, an interdiff is often not feasible,
though: if the old diff cannot be applied in reverse (due to a moving
upstream), an interdiff can simply not be inferred.
This commit brings `range-diff` closer to feature parity with regard
to tbdiff.
To make `git range-diff` respect e.g. color.diff.* settings, we have
to adjust git_branch_config() accordingly.
Note: while we now parse diff options such as --color, the effect is not
yet the same as in tbdiff, where also the commit pairs would be colored.
This is left for a later commit.
Note also: while tbdiff accepts the `--no-patches` option to suppress
these diffs between patches, we prefer the `-s` (or `--no-patch`) option
that is automatically supported via our use of diff_opt_parse().
And finally note: to support diff options, we have to call
`parse_options()` such that it keeps unknown options, and then loop over
those and let `diff_opt_parse()` handle them. After that loop, we have
to call `parse_options()` again, to make sure that no unknown options
are left.
Helped-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch lets `git range-diff` use the same order as tbdiff.
The idea is simple: for left-to-right readers, it is natural to assume
that the `git range-diff` is performed between an older vs a newer
version of the branch. As such, the user is probably more interested in
the question "where did this come from?" rather than "where did that one
go?".
To that end, we list the commits in the order of the second commit range
("the newer version"), inserting the unmatched commits of the first
commit range as soon as all their predecessors have been shown.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
At this stage, `git range-diff` can determine corresponding commits
of two related commit ranges. This makes use of the recently introduced
implementation of the linear assignment algorithm.
The core of this patch is a straight port of the ideas of tbdiff, the
apparently dormant project at https://github.com/trast/tbdiff.
The output does not at all match `tbdiff`'s output yet, as this patch
really concentrates on getting the patch matching part right.
Note: due to differences in the diff algorithm (`tbdiff` uses the Python
module `difflib`, Git uses its xdiff fork), the cost matrix calculated
by `range-diff` is different (but very similar) to the one calculated
by `tbdiff`. Therefore, it is possible that they find different matching
commits in corner cases (e.g. when a patch was split into two patches of
roughly equal length).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This command does not do a whole lot so far, apart from showing a usage
that is oddly similar to that of `git tbdiff`. And for a good reason:
the next commits will turn `range-branch` into a full-blown replacement
for `tbdiff`.
At this point, we ignore tbdiff's color options, as they will all be
implemented later using diff_options.
Since f318d73915 (generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to
command-list.h, 2018-05-10), every new command *requires* a man page to
build right away, so let's also add a blank man page, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The problem solved by the code introduced in this commit goes like this:
given two sets of items, and a cost matrix which says how much it
"costs" to assign any given item of the first set to any given item of
the second, assign all items (except when the sets have different size)
in the cheapest way.
We use the Jonker-Volgenant algorithm to solve the assignment problem to
answer questions such as: given two different versions of a topic branch
(or iterations of a patch series), what is the best pairing of
commits/patches between the different versions?
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The t5552 test script uses GIT_TRACE_PACKET to monitor what
git-fetch sends and receives. However, because we're
accessing a local repository, the child upload-pack also
sends trace output to the same file.
On Linux, this works out OK. We open the trace file with
O_APPEND, so all writes are atomically positioned at the end
of the file. No data can be overwritten or omitted. And
since we prepare our small writes in a strbuf and write them
with a single write(), we should see each line as an atomic
unit. The order of lines between the two processes is
undefined, but the test script greps only for "fetch>" or
"fetch<" lines. So under Linux, the test results are
deterministic.
The test fails intermittently on Windows, however,
reportedly even overwriting bits of the output file (i.e.,
O_APPEND does not seem to give us an atomic position+write).
Since the test only cares about the trace output from fetch,
we can just disable the output from upload-pack. That
doesn't solve the greater question of O_APPEND/trace issues
under Windows, but it easily fixes the flakiness from this
test.
Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When gpg-interface API unified support for signature verification
codepaths for signed tags and signed commits in mid 2015 at around
v2.6.0-rc0~114, we accidentally loosened the GPG signature
verification.
Before that change, signed commits were verified by looking for
"G"ood signature from GPG, while ignoring the exit status of "gpg
--verify" process, while signed tags were verified by simply passing
the exit status of "gpg --verify" through. The unified code we
currently have ignores the exit status of "gpg --verify" and returns
successful verification when the signature matches an unexpired key
regardless of the trust placed on the key (i.e. in addition to "G"ood
ones, we accept "U"ntrusted ones).
Make these commands signal failure with their exit status when
underlying "gpg --verify" (or the custom command specified by
"gpg.program" configuration variable) does so. This essentially
changes their behaviour in a backward incompatible way to reject
signatures that have been made with untrusted keys even if they
correctly verify, as that is how "gpg --verify" behaves.
Note that the code still overrides a zero exit status obtained from
"gpg" (or gpg.program) if the output does not say the signature is
good or computes correctly but made with untrusted keys, to catch
a poorly written wrapper around "gpg" the user may give us.
We could exclude "U"ntrusted support from this fallback code, but
that would be making two backward incompatible changes in a single
commit, so let's avoid that for now. A follow-up change could do so
if desired.
Helped-by: Vojtech Myslivec <vojtech.myslivec@nic.cz>
Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, repack does not touch promisor packfiles at all, potentially
causing the performance of repositories that have many such packfiles to
drop. Therefore, repack all promisor objects if invoked with -a or -A.
This is done by an additional invocation of pack-objects on all promisor
objects individually given, which takes care of deduplication and allows
the resulting packfiles to respect flags such as --max-pack-size.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A subsequent patch will teach repack to run pack-objects with some same
and some different arguments if repacking of promisor objects is
required. Refactor the setup of the pack-objects cmd so that setting up
the arguments common to both is done in a function.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The idea of `--exec` is to append an `exec` call after each `pick`.
Since the introduction of fixup!/squash! commits, this idea was extended
to apply to "pick, possibly followed by a fixup/squash chain", i.e. an
exec would not be inserted between a `pick` and any of its corresponding
`fixup` or `squash` lines.
The current implementation uses a dirty trick to achieve that: it
assumes that there are only pick/fixup/squash commands, and then
*inserts* the `exec` lines before any `pick` but the first, and appends
a final one.
With the todo lists generated by `git rebase --rebase-merges`, this
simple implementation shows its problems: it produces the exact wrong
thing when there are `label`, `reset` and `merge` commands.
Let's change the implementation to do exactly what we want: look for
`pick` lines, skip any fixup/squash chains, and then insert the `exec`
line. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Note: we take pains to insert *before* comment lines whenever possible,
as empty commits are represented by commented-out pick lines (and we
want to insert a preceding pick's exec line *before* such a line, not
afterward).
While at it, also add `exec` lines after `merge` commands, because they
are similar in spirit to `pick` commands: they add new commits.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The colorization is controlled with the config setting "color.remote".
Supported keywords are "error", "warning", "hint" and "success". They
are highlighted if they appear at the start of the line, which is
common in error messages, eg.
ERROR: commit is missing Change-Id
The Git push process itself prints lots of non-actionable messages
(eg. bandwidth statistics, object counters for different phases of the
process). This obscures actionable error messages that servers may
send back. Highlighting keywords in the sideband draws more attention
to those messages.
The background for this change is that Gerrit does server-side
processing to create or update code reviews, and actionable error
messages (eg. missing Change-Id) must be communicated back to the user
during the push. User research has shown that new users have trouble
seeing these messages.
The highlighting is done on the client rather than server side, so
servers don't have to grow capabilities to understand terminal escape
codes and terminal state. It also consistent with the current state
where Git is control of the local display (eg. prefixing messages with
"remote: ").
The highlighting can be configured using color.remote.<KEYWORD>
configuration settings. Since the keys are matched case insensitively,
we match the keywords case insensitively too.
Finally, this solution is backwards compatible: many servers already
prefix their messages with "error", and they will benefit from this
change without requiring a server update. By contrast, a server-side
solution would likely require plumbing the TERM variable through the
git protocol, so it would require changes to both server and client.
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back when we removed `git apply --index-info` in 2007, we forgot to
adjust the documentation for update-index that reads its output.
Let's reorder the description of three formats to present the other
two formats that are still generated by git commands before this
format, and stop mentioning `git apply --index-info`.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The following phrase could be interpreted multiple ways:
"To pretend you have a file with mode and sha1 at path"
In particular, I can think of two:
1. Pretend we have some new file, which happens to have a given mode
and sha1
2. Pretend one of the files we are already tracking has a different
mode and sha1 than what it really does
I think people could easily assume either case while reading, but the
example command provided doesn't actually handle the first case, which
caused some minor frustration to at least one user. Modify the example
command so that it correctly handles both cases, and re-order the
wording in a way that makes it more likely folks will assume the first
interpretation. I believe the new example shouldn't pose any obstacles
to those wanting the second interpretation (at worst, they pass an
unnecessary extra flag).
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The bug was noticed when writing the previous patch; a fix for this bug
is not easy though: If we choose to ignore the case of the subsection
(and revert most of the code of the previous patch, just keeping
s/strncasecmp/strcmp/), then we'd introduce new sections using the
new syntax, such that
--------
[section.subsection]
key = value1
--------
git config section.Subsection.key value2
would result in
--------
[section.subsection]
key = value1
[section.Subsection]
key = value2
--------
which is even more confusing. A proper fix would replace the first
occurrence of 'key'. As the syntax is deprecated, let's prefer to not
spend time on fixing the behavior and just document it instead.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A user reported a submodule issue regarding a section mix-up,
but it could be boiled down to the following test case:
$ git init test && cd test
$ git config foo."Bar".key test
$ git config foo."bar".key test
$ tail -n 3 .git/config
[foo "Bar"]
key = test
key = test
Sub sections are case sensitive and we have a test for correctly reading
them. However we do not have a test for writing out config correctly with
case sensitive subsection names, which is why this went unnoticed in
6ae996f2ac (git_config_set: make use of the config parser's event
stream, 2018-04-09)
Unfortunately we have to make a distinction between old style configuration
that looks like
[foo.Bar]
key = test
and the new quoted style as seen above. The old style is documented as
case-agnostic, hence we need to keep 'strncasecmp'; although the
resulting setting for the old style config differs from the configuration.
That will be fixed in a follow up patch.
Reported-by: JP Sugarbroad <jpsugar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test -e, test -s, etc. do not provide nice error messages when we hit
test failures, so use the test_* helper functions from
test-lib-functions.sh.
Also, add test_path_exists() to test-lib-function.sh while at it, so
that we don't need to worry whether submodule/.git is a file or a
directory. It currently is a file with contents of the form
gitdir: ../.git/modules/submodule
but it could be changed in the future to be a directory; this test
only really cares that it exists.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a git command is on the left side of a pipe, the pipe will swallow
its exit status, preventing us from detecting failures in said commands.
Restructure the tests to put the output in a temporary file to avoid
this problem.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We can get rid of some quoted tabs and make a few tests slightly easier
to read and edit by just asking for the names of the files modified,
since that's all these tests were interested in anyway.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A test making use of test_must_fail was failing like this:
fatal: ambiguous argument '|': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
when the intent was to verify that a specific string was not found
in the output of the git diff command, i.e. that grep returned
non-zero. Fix the test to do that.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We should not interrupt. sentences in the middle.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The words "save" and "safe" are both very wonderful words, each with
their own set of meanings. Let's not confuse them with one another save
on occasion of a pun.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The generated apache2 config fails with apache >= 2.4. The error log
states:
AH00136: Server MUST relinquish startup privileges before accepting
connections. Please ensure mod_unixd or other system security
module is loaded.
AH00016: Configuration Failed
Fix this by loading the unixd module. This works with older httpd as
well, so no IfVersion conditional is needed. (Tested with httpd-2.2.15
on CentOS-6.)
Written with assistance of Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Kisela <skisela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Fedora-derived systems, the apache httpd package installs modules
under /usr/lib{,64}/httpd/modules, depending on whether the system is
32- or 64-bit. A symlink from /etc/httpd/modules is created which
points to the proper module path. Use it to support apache on Fedora,
CentOS, and Red Hat systems.
Written with assistance of Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> and
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Kisela <skisela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Single quotes should be escaped as \' not \\'. The bad quoting breaks
the interactive version of 'rebase --root' (which is used when there
is no '--onto' even if the user does not specify --interactive) for
authors that contain "'" as sq_dequote() called by read_author_ident()
errors out on the bad quoting.
For other interactive rebases this only affects external scripts that
read the author script and users whose git is upgraded from the shell
version of rebase -i while rebase was stopped when the author contains
"'". This is because the parsing in read_env_script() expected the
broken quoting.
This patch includes code to handle the broken quoting when
git has been upgraded while rebase was stopped. It does this by
detecting the missing "'" at the end of the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE line to see
if it should dequote \\' as "'". Note this is only implemented for
normal picks, not for creating a new root commit (rebase will stop with
an error complaining out bad quoting in that case).
The fallback code has been manually tested by reverting both the quoting
fixes in write_author_script() and the previous fix for the missing "'"
at the end of the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE line and running
t3404-rebase-interactive.sh.
Ideally rebase and am would share the same code for reading and
writing the author script, but this commit just fixes the immediate
bug.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Check for a NULL return value from read_author_ident() that indicates
an error. Previously the NULL author was passed to commit_tree() which
would then fallback to using the default author when creating the new
commit. This changed the date and potentially the author of the commit
which corrupted the author data compared to its expected value.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From a security perspective, it seems that SHA-256, BLAKE2, SHA3-256,
K12, and so on are all believed to have similar security properties.
All are good options from a security point of view.
SHA-256 has a number of advantages:
* It has been around for a while, is widely used, and is supported by
just about every single crypto library (OpenSSL, mbedTLS, CryptoNG,
SecureTransport, etc).
* When you compare against SHA1DC, most vectorized SHA-256
implementations are indeed faster, even without acceleration.
* If we're doing signatures with OpenPGP (or even, I suppose, CMS),
we're going to be using SHA-2, so it doesn't make sense to have our
security depend on two separate algorithms when either one of them
alone could break the security when we could just depend on one.
So SHA-256 it is. Update the hash-function-transition design doc to
say so.
After this patch, there are no remaining instances of the string
"NewHash", except for an unrelated use from 2008 as a variable name in
t/t9700/test.pl.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Dan Shumow <danshu@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A fair number of tests need to check that the filesystem supports file
names including "funny" characters, like newline, tab, and double-quote.
Jonathan Nieder suggested that this be extracted into a lazy prereq in
the top-level `test-lib.sh`. This patch effects that change.
The FUNNYNAMES prereq now uniformly requires support for newlines, tabs,
and double-quotes in filenames. This very slightly decreases the power
of some tests, which might have run previously on a system that supports
(e.g.) newlines and tabs but not double-quotes, but now will not. This
seems to me like an acceptable tradeoff for consistency.
One test (`t/t9902-completion.sh`) defined FUNNYNAMES to further require
the separators \034 through \037, the test for which was implemented
using the Bash-specific $'\034' syntax. I've elected to leave this one
as is, renaming it to FUNNIERNAMES.
After this patch, `git grep 'test_\(set\|lazy\)_prereq.*FUNNYNAMES'` has
only one result.
Signed-off-by: William Chargin <wchargin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 3ac68a93fd (help: add --config to list all available config -
2018-05-26) makes generate-cmdlist.sh adds a new input source
config.txt but it's not a Makefile dependency. Any changes in
config.txt will not trigger command-list.h regeneration and the config
list in this file becomes outdated. Correct the dependency.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --exec option's implementation is not really well-prepared for
--rebase-merges. Demonstrate this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tests for "git am --[no-]scissors" [1] work in the following way:
1. Create files with commit messages
2. Use these files to create expected commits
3. Generate eml file with patch from expected commits
4. Create commits using git am with these eml files
5. Compare these commits with expected
The test for "git am --scissors" is supposed to take an e-mail with a
scissors line and in-body "Subject:" header and demonstrate that the
subject line from the e-mail itself is overridden by the in-body header
and that only text below the scissors line is included in the commit
message of the commit created by the invocation of "git am --scissors".
However, the setup of the test incorrectly uses a commit without the
scissors line and without the in-body header in the commit message,
producing eml file not suitable for testing of "git am --scissors".
This can be checked by intentionally breaking is_scissors_line function
in mailinfo.c, for example, by changing string ">8", which is used by
the test. With such change the test should fail, but does not.
Fix broken test by generating eml file with scissors line and in-body
header "Subject:". Since the two tests for --scissors and --no-scissors
options are there to test cutting or keeping the commit message, update
both tests to change the test file in the same way, which allows us to
generate only one eml file to be passed to git am. To clarify the
intention of the test, give files and tags more explicit names.
[1]: introduced in bf72ac17d (t4150: tests for am --[no-]scissors,
2015-07-19)
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git for Windows' original 4aa8b8c8283 (Teach 'git pull' to handle
--rebase=interactive, 2011-10-21) had support for the very convenient
abbreviation
git pull --rebase=i
which was later lost when it was ported to the builtin `git pull`, and
it was not introduced before the patch eventually made it into Git as
f5eb87b98d (pull: allow interactive rebase with --rebase=interactive,
2016-01-13).
However, it is *really* a useful short hand for the occasional rebasing
pull on branches that do not usually want to be rebased.
So let's reintroduce this convenience, at long last.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After making a change to the documentation, it's easy to
forget to check the rendered version to make sure it was
formatted as you intended. And simply doing a diff between
the two built versions is less trivial than you might hope:
- diffing the roff or html output isn't particularly
readable; what we really care about is what the end user
will see
- you have to tweak a few build variables to avoid
spurious differences (e.g., version numbers, build
times)
Let's provide a script that builds and installs the manpages
for two commits, renders the results using "man", and diffs
the result. Since this is time-consuming, we'll also do our
best to avoid repeated work, keeping intermediate results
between runs.
Some of this could probably be made a little less ugly if we
built support into Documentation/Makefile. But by relying
only on "make install-man" working, this script should work
for generating a diff between any two versions, whether they
include this script or not.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The color group in config.txt is actually sorted but changes in
sb/blame-color broke this. Reorder color.blame.* and move
blame.coloring back to the rest of blame.* (and reorder that group too
while we're there)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This test description looks like it was written with the originally
observed behavior ("causes segfault") rather than the desired and now
current behavior ("does not cause segfault"). Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
want_color_fd() is designed to work only with standard output and
error file descriptors and stores information about each descriptor in
an array. However, it doesn't verify that the passed-in descriptor
lives within that set, which, with a buggy caller, could lead to
access or assignment outside the array bounds.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Parseopt wraps argument help strings in a pair of angular brackets by
default, to tell users that they need to replace it with an actual
value. This is useful in most cases, because most option arguments
are indeed single values of a certain type. The option
PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP needs to be used in option definitions with
arguments that have multiple parts or are literal strings.
Stop adding these angular brackets if special characters are present,
as they indicate that we don't deal with a simple placeholder. This
simplifies the code a bit and makes defining special options slightly
easier.
Remove the flag PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP in the cases where the new
and more cautious handling suffices.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
