Documentation on "git diff -l<n>" and diff.renameLimit have been
updated, and the defaults for these limits have been raised.
* en/rename-limits-doc:
rename: bump limit defaults yet again
diffcore-rename: treat a rename_limit of 0 as unlimited
doc: clarify documentation for rename/copy limits
diff: correct warning message when renameLimit exceeded
A guideline for gender neutral documentation has been added.
* ds/gender-neutral-doc-guidelines:
CodingGuidelines: recommend gender-neutral description
"git worktree add --lock" learned to record why the worktree is
locked with a custom message.
* sm/worktree-add-lock:
worktree: teach `add` to accept --reason <string> with --lock
worktree: mark lock strings with `_()` for translation
t2400: clean up '"add" worktree with lock' test
"git rev-list" learns to omit the "commit <object-name>" header
lines from the output with the `--no-commit-header` option.
* bc/rev-list-without-commit-line:
rev-list: add option for --pretty=format without header
"git send-email" optimization.
* ab/send-email-optim:
perl: nano-optimize by replacing Cwd::cwd() with Cwd::getcwd()
send-email: move trivial config handling to Perl
perl: lazily load some common Git.pm setup code
send-email: lazily load modules for a big speedup
send-email: get rid of indirect object syntax
send-email: use function syntax instead of barewords
send-email: lazily shell out to "git var"
send-email: lazily load config for a big speedup
send-email: copy "config_regxp" into git-send-email.perl
send-email: refactor sendemail.smtpencryption config parsing
send-email: remove non-working support for "sendemail.smtpssl"
send-email tests: test for boolean variables without a value
send-email tests: support GIT_TEST_PERL_FATAL_WARNINGS=true
Update the documentation not to assume users are of certain gender
and adds to guidelines to do so.
* ds/gender-neutral-doc:
*: fix typos
comments: avoid using the gender of our users
doc: avoid using the gender of other people
Code recently added to support common ancestry negotiation during
"git push" did not sanity check its arguments carefully enough.
* ab/fetch-negotiate-segv-fix:
fetch: fix segfault in --negotiate-only without --negotiation-tip=*
fetch: document the --negotiate-only option
send-pack.c: move "no refs in common" abort earlier
Technical writing seeks to convey information with minimal
friction. One way that a reader can experience friction is if they
encounter a description of "a user" that is later simplified using a
gendered pronoun. If the reader does not consider that pronoun to
apply to them, then they can experience cognitive dissonance that
removes focus from the information.
Give some basic tips to guide us avoid unnecessary uses of gendered
description.
Using a gendered pronoun is appropriate when referring to a specific
person.
There are acceptable existing uses of gendered pronouns within the
Git codebase, such as:
* References to real people (e.g. Linus Torvalds, "the Git maintainer").
Do not misgender real people. If there is any doubt to the gender of a
person, then avoid using pronouns.
* References to fictional people with clear genders (e.g. Alice and
Bob).
* Sample text used in test cases (e.g t3702, t6432).
* The official text of the GPL license contains uses of "he or she",
but using singular "they" (or modifying the text in some other
way) is not within the scope of the Git project.
* Literal email messages in Documentation/howto/ should not be edited
for grammatical concerns such as this, unless we update the entire
document to fit the standard documentation format. If such an effort is
taken on, then the authorship would change and no longer refer to the
exact mail message.
* External projects consumed in contrib/ should not deviate solely for
style reasons. Recommended edits should be contributed to those
projects directly.
Other cases within the Git project were cleaned up by the previous
changes.
Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were last bumped in commit 92c57e5c1d (bump rename limit
defaults (again), 2011-02-19), and were bumped both because processors
had gotten faster, and because people were getting ugly merges that
caused problems and reporting it to the mailing list (suggesting that
folks were willing to spend more time waiting).
Since that time:
* Linus has continued recommending kernel folks to set
diff.renameLimit=0 (maps to 32767, currently)
* Folks with repositories with lots of renames were happy to set
merge.renameLimit above 32767, once the code supported that, to
get correct cherry-picks
* Processors have gotten faster
* It has been discovered that the timing methodology used last time
probably used too large example files.
The last point is probably worth explaining a bit more:
* The "average" file size used appears to have been average blob size
in the linux kernel history at the time (probably v2.6.25 or
something close to it).
* Since bigger files are modified more frequently, such a computation
weights towards larger files.
* Larger files may be more likely to be modified over time, but are
not more likely to be renamed -- the mean and median blob size
within a tree are a bit higher than the mean and median of blob
sizes in the history leading up to that version for the linux
kernel.
* The mean blob size in v2.6.25 was half the average blob size in
history leading to that point
* The median blob size in v2.6.25 was about 40% of the mean blob size
in v2.6.25.
* Since the mean blob size is more than double the median blob size,
any file as big as the mean will not be compared to any files of
median size or less (because they'd be more than 50% dissimilar).
* Since it is the number of files compared that provides the O(n^2)
behavior, median-sized files should matter more than mean-sized
ones.
The combined effect of the above is that the file size used in past
calculations was likely about 5x too large. Combine that with a CPU
performance improvement of ~30%, and we can increase the limits by
a factor of sqrt(5/(1-.3)) = 2.67, while keeping the original stated
time limits.
Keeping the same approximate time limit probably makes sense for
diff.renameLimit (there is no progress feedback in e.g. git log -p),
but the experience above suggests merge.renameLimit could be extended
significantly. In fact, it probably would make sense to have an
unlimited default setting for merge.renameLimit, but that would
likely need to be coupled with changes to how progress is displayed.
(See https://lore.kernel.org/git/YOx+Ok%2FEYvLqRMzJ@coredump.intra.peff.net/
for details in that area.) For now, let's just bump the approximate
time limit from 10s to 1m.
(Note: We do not want to use actual time limits, because getting results
that depend on how loaded your system is that day feels bad, and because
we don't discover that we won't get all the renames until after we've
put in a lot of work rather than just upfront telling the user there are
too many files involved.)
Using the original time limit of 2s for diff.renameLimit, and bumping
merge.renameLimit from 10s to 60s, I found the following timings using
the simple script at the end of this commit message (on an AWS c5.xlarge
which reports as "Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00GHz"):
N Timing
1300 1.995s
7100 59.973s
So let's round down to nice even numbers and bump the limits from
400->1000, and from 1000->7000.
Here is the measure_rename_perf script (adapted from
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20080211113516.GB6344@coredump.intra.peff.net/
in particular to avoid triggering the linear handling from
basename-guided rename detection):
#!/bin/bash
n=$1; shift
rm -rf repo
mkdir repo && cd repo
git init -q -b main
mkdata() {
mkdir $1
for i in `seq 1 $2`; do
(sed "s/^/$i /" <../sample
echo tag: $1
) >$1/$i
done
}
mkdata initial $n
git add .
git commit -q -m initial
mkdata new $n
git add .
cd new
for i in *; do git mv $i $i.renamed; done
cd ..
git rm -q -rf initial
git commit -q -m new
time git diff-tree -M -l0 --summary HEAD^ HEAD
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit 89973554b5 (diffcore-rename: make diff-tree -l0 mean
-l<large>, 2017-11-29), -l0 was given a special magical "large" value,
but one which was not large enough for some uses (as can be seen from
commit 9f7e4bfa3b (diff: remove silent clamp of renameLimit,
2017-11-13). Make 0 (or a negative value) be treated as unlimited
instead and update the documentation to mention this.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few places in the docs implied that rename/copy detection is always
quadratic or that all (unpaired) files were involved in the quadratic
portion of rename/copy detection. The following two commits each
introduced an exception to this:
9027f53cb5 (Do linear-time/space rename logic for exact renames,
2007-10-25)
bd24aa2f97 (diffcore-rename: guide inexact rename detection based
on basenames, 2021-02-14)
(As a side note, for copy detection, the basename guided inexact rename
detection is turned off and the exact renames will only result in
sources (without the dests) being removed from the set of files used in
quadratic detection. So, for copy detection, the documentation was
closer to correct.)
Avoid implying that all files involved in rename/copy detection are
subject to the full quadratic algorithm. While at it, also note the
default values for all these settings.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default reason stored in the lock file, "added with --lock",
is unlikely to be what the user would have given in a separate
`git worktree lock` command. Allowing `--reason` to be specified
along with `--lock` when adding a working tree gives the user control
over the reason for locking without needing a second command.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Manz <smanz@alum.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `git diff --merge-base` was introduced at around Git 2.30, the
documentation included a few errors.
In the example given for `git diff --cached --merge-base`, the
`--cached` flag was omitted for the `--merge-base` example. Add the
missing flag.
In the `git diff <commit>` case, we failed to mention that
`--merge-base` is an available option. Give the usage of `--merge-base`
as an option there.
Finally, there are two errors in the usage of `git diff`. Firstly, we do
not mention `--merge-base` in the `git diff --cached` case. Mention it
so that it's consistent with the documentation. Secondly, we put the
`[--merge-base]` in between `<commit>` and `[<commit>...]`. Move the
`[--merge-base]` so that it's beside `[<options>]` which is a more
logical grouping.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In general, we encourage users to use plumbing commands, like git
rev-list, over porcelain commands, like git log, when scripting.
However, git rev-list has one glaring problem that prevents it from
being used in certain cases: when --pretty is used with a custom format,
it always prints out a line containing "commit" and the object ID. This
makes it unsuitable for many scripting needs, and forces users to use
git log instead.
While we can't change this behavior for backwards compatibility, we can
add an option to suppress this behavior, so let's do so, and call it
"--no-commit-header". Additionally, add the corresponding positive
option to switch it back on.
Note that this option doesn't affect the built-in formats, only custom
formats. This is exactly the same behavior as users already have from
git log and is what most users will be used to.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current documentation reads as if .gitignore files will be parsed in
every parent directory, and not until they reach a repository boundary.
This clarifies the current behaviour.
As well, this corrects 'toplevel' to 'top-level', matching usage for
'top-level domain'.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Berry <andrew@furrypaws.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was no documentation for the --negotiate-only option added in
9c1e657a8f (fetch: teach independent negotiation (no packfile),
2021-05-04), only documentation for the related push.negotiation
option added in the following commit in 477673d6f3 (send-pack:
support push negotiation, 2021-05-04).
Let's document it, and update the cross-linking I'd added between
--negotiation-tip=* and 'fetch.negotiationAlgorithm' in
526608284a (fetch doc: cross-link two new negotiation options,
2018-08-01).
I think it would be better to say "in common with the remote" here
than "...the server", but the documentation for --negotiation-tip=*
above this talks about "the server", so let's continue doing that in
this related option. See 3390e42adb (fetch-pack: support negotiation
tip whitelist, 2018-07-02) for that documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Typofix (chose -> choose) in the documentation of the patch option
under the commit command.
Signed-off-by: Beshr Kayali <me@beshr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As can be seen in files "Documentation/blame-options.txt" and
"builtin/blame.c", the name of this configuration option is
"blame.markUnblamableLines".
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using gendered pronouns for an anonymous person applies a gender where
none is known and further excludes readers who do not use gendered
pronouns. Avoid such examples in the documentation by using "they" or
passive voice to avoid the need for a pronoun.
Inspired-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-m" option in "git log -m" that does not specify which format,
if any, of diff is desired did not have any visible effect; it now
implies some form of diff (by default "--patch") is produced.
* so/log-m-implies-p:
diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"
diff-merges: rename "combined_imply_patch" to "merges_imply_patch"
stash list: stop passing "-m" to "git log"
git-svn: stop passing "-m" to "git rev-list"
diff-merges: move specific diff-index "-m" handling to diff-index
t4013: test "git diff-index -m"
t4013: test "git diff-tree -m"
t4013: test "git log -m --stat"
t4013: test "git log -m --raw"
t4013: test that "-m" alone has no effect in "git log"
Optimize out repeated rename detection in a sequence of mergy
operations.
* en/ort-perf-batch-11:
merge-ort, diffcore-rename: employ cached renames when possible
merge-ort: handle interactions of caching and rename/rename(1to1) cases
merge-ort: add helper functions for using cached renames
merge-ort: preserve cached renames for the appropriate side
merge-ort: avoid accidental API mis-use
merge-ort: add code to check for whether cached renames can be reused
merge-ort: populate caches of rename detection results
merge-ort: add data structures for in-memory caching of rename detection
t6429: testcases for remembering renames
fast-rebase: write conflict state to working tree, index, and HEAD
fast-rebase: change assert() to BUG()
Documentation/technical: describe remembering renames optimization
t6423: rename file within directory that other side renamed
"git send-email" learned the "--sendmail-cmd" command line option
and the "sendemail.sendmailCmd" configuration variable, which is a
more sensible approach than the current way of repurposing the
"smtp-server" that is meant to name the server to instead name the
command to talk to the server.
* ga/send-email-sendmail-cmd:
git-send-email: add option to specify sendmail command
Fix typos in documentation, code comments, and RelNotes which repeat
various words. In trivial cases, just delete the duplicated word and
rewrap text, if needed. Reword the affected sentence in
Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt for it to make sense.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of "fast-forward" in the glossary has been updated.
* ry/clarify-fast-forward-in-glossary:
docs: improve fast-forward in glossary content
