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Junio C Hamano
9dc01bf063 rev-parse: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
Teach "rev-parse" the same "I'm going to glob, but omit the ones
that match these patterns" feature as "rev-list".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-01 13:09:45 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
574d370b06 document --exclude option
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-01 13:09:19 -07:00
Vivien Didelot
61e2e22f60 Documentation: "pack-file" is not literal in unpack-objects
Make it clear that "pack-file" is not to be spelled as is in the
unpack-objects usage.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-01 09:13:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aa2706463f Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-01 08:14:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c9bb7d040a Merge branch 'rs/web-browse-xdg-open'
* rs/web-browse-xdg-open:
  web--browse: Add support for xdg-open
2013-11-01 07:38:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
60e779adaa Merge branch 'jk/pack-corruption-post-mortem'
* jk/pack-corruption-post-mortem:
  howto: add article on recovering a corrupted object
2013-11-01 07:38:46 -07:00
Nicolas Vigier
f8c872127d rev-parse --parseopt: add the --stuck-long mode
Add the --stuck-long option to output the options in their long form
if available, and with their arguments stuck.

Contrary to the default form (non stuck arguments and short options),
this can be parsed unambiguously when using options with optional
arguments :

 - in the non stuck form, when an option is taking an optional argument
   you cannot know if the next argument is its optional argument, or the
   next option.

 - the long options form allows to differentiate between an empty argument
   '--option=' and an unset argument '--option', which is not possible
   with short options.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 15:47:41 -07:00
Nicolas Vigier
b0d12fc9b2 Use the word 'stuck' instead of 'sticked'
The past participle of 'stick' is 'stuck'.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 15:47:38 -07:00
Vivien Didelot
724249862e Documentation: restore a space in unpack-objects usage
The commit 87b7b84 removed a space in the unpack-objects usage, which
makes the synopsis a bit confusing. This patch simply restores it.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 15:11:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5a3fd6afd4 doc/pull: clarify the illustrations
The second illustration that shows the history after "git pull"
spelled the remote-tracking branch with "remotes/" prefix, which
is not necessary.  Drop it.

To match the assumption that a remote-tracking branch is used to
keep track of the advancement of the master at the origin, update
the first illustration that shows the history before "git pull"
to show the distinction between the master currently at origin and
the stale origin/master remote-tracking branch.

Noticed-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 13:45:29 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
37f0dcbdc1 git-fetch.txt: improve description of tag auto-following
Make it clearer that tags are fetched independent of which branches
were fetched from the remote in any particular fetch.  (Tags are even
fetched if they point at objects that are in the current repository
but not reachable, which is probably a bug.)

Put less emphasis on the mechanism and more on the effect of tag
auto-following.  Also mention the options and configuration settings
that can change the tag-fetching behavior.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 14:16:41 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
01ca90c2e5 fetch-options.txt: simplify ifdef/ifndef/endif usage
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 14:16:41 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
0838bf47b3 fetch --prune: prune only based on explicit refspecs
The old behavior of "fetch --prune" was to prune whatever was being
fetched.  In particular, "fetch --prune --tags" caused tags not only
to be fetched, but also to be pruned.  This is inappropriate because
there is only one tags namespace that is shared among the local
repository and all remotes.  Therefore, if the user defines a local
tag and then runs "git fetch --prune --tags", then the local tag is
deleted.  Moreover, "--prune" and "--tags" can also be configured via
fetch.prune / remote.<name>.prune and remote.<name>.tagopt, making it
even less obvious that an invocation of "git fetch" could result in
tag lossage.

Since the command "git remote update" invokes "git fetch", it had the
same problem.

The command "git remote prune", on the other hand, disregarded the
setting of remote.<name>.tagopt, and so its behavior was inconsistent
with that of the other commands.

So the old behavior made it too easy to lose tags.  To fix this
problem, change "fetch --prune" to prune references based only on
refspecs specified explicitly by the user, either on the command line
or via remote.<name>.fetch.  Thus, tags are no longer made subject to
pruning by the --tags option or the remote.<name>.tagopt setting.

However, tags *are* still subject to pruning if they are fetched as
part of a refspec, and that is good.  For example:

* On the command line,

      git fetch --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'

  causes tags, and only tags, to be fetched and pruned, and is
  therefore a simple way for the user to get the equivalent of the old
  behavior of "--prune --tag".

* For a remote that was configured with the "--mirror" option, the
  configuration is set to include

      [remote "name"]
              fetch = +refs/*:refs/*

  , which causes tags to be subject to pruning along with all other
  references.  This is the behavior that will typically be desired for
  a mirror.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 14:16:37 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
c5a84e92a2 fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to* other stuff
Previously, fetch's "--tags" option was considered equivalent to
specifying the refspec "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" on the command line;
in particular, it caused the remote.<name>.refspec configuration to be
ignored.

But it is not very useful to fetch tags without also fetching other
references, whereas it *is* quite useful to be able to fetch tags *in
addition to* other references.  So change the semantics of this option
to do the latter.

If a user wants to fetch *only* tags, then it is still possible to
specifying an explicit refspec:

    git fetch <remote> 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'

Please note that the documentation prior to 1.8.0.3 was ambiguous
about this aspect of "fetch --tags" behavior.  Commit

    f0cb2f137c 2012-12-14 fetch --tags: clarify documentation

made the documentation match the old behavior.  This commit changes
the documentation to match the new behavior.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 14:16:36 -07:00
Rüdiger Sonderfeld
6ca0f80b6c web--browse: Add support for xdg-open
xdg-open is a tool similar to git-web--browse.  It opens a file or URL in the
user's preferred application.  It could probably be made default at least on
Linux with a graphical environment.

Signed-off-by: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 13:54:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
42817b96b1 Git 1.8.5-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 12:17:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0040d6eb23 Merge branch 'tr/gitk-doc-update'
* tr/gitk-doc-update:
  Documentation: revamp gitk(1)
2013-10-30 12:10:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
02882bc834 Merge branch 'sb/git-svn-docs-indent-with-ht'
* sb/git-svn-docs-indent-with-ht:
  git-svn docs: Use tabs consistently within the ascii doc
2013-10-30 12:10:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d96855ff51 merge-base: teach "--fork-point" mode
The "git pull --rebase" command computes the fork point of the
branch being rebased using the reflog entries of the "base" branch
(typically a remote-tracking branch) the branch's work was based on,
in order to cope with the case in which the "base" branch has been
rewound and rebuilt.  For example, if the history looked like this:

                     o---B1
                    /
    ---o---o---B2--o---o---o---Base
            \
             B3
              \
               Derived

where the current tip of the "base" branch is at Base, but earlier
fetch observed that its tip used to be B3 and then B2 and then B1
before getting to the current commit, and the branch being rebased
on top of the latest "base" is based on commit B3, it tries to find
B3 by going through the output of "git rev-list --reflog base" (i.e.
Base, B1, B2, B3) until it finds a commit that is an ancestor of the
current tip "Derived".

Internally, we have get_merge_bases_many() that can compute this
with one-go.  We would want a merge-base between Derived and a
fictitious merge commit that would result by merging all the
historical tips of "base".  When such a commit exist, we should get
a single result, which exactly match one of the reflog entries of
"base".

Teach "git merge-base" a new mode, "--fork-point", to compute
exactly that.

Helped-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Helped-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-29 13:06:08 -07:00
Sitaram Chamarty
6d52bc318b doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too old
Describe when it is still applicable, and tell people where to go
for most normal cases.

Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaram@atc.tcs.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-28 13:24:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0d6cf2471f Almost -rc0 for 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-28 10:53:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cfd10568b0 Sync with v1.8.4.2 2013-10-28 10:51:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f43bc33e44 Merge branch 'sb/repack-in-c'
Finishing touches to update documentation.

* sb/repack-in-c:
  Reword repack documentation to no longer state it's a script
2013-10-28 10:43:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dcb11cca50 Git 1.8.4.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-28 10:21:29 -07:00
Jeff King
41dfbb2dbe howto: add article on recovering a corrupted object
This is an asciidoc-ified version of a corruption post-mortem sent to
the git list. It complements the existing howto article, since it covers
a case where the object couldn't be easily recreated or copied from
elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-25 14:55:30 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
5b2515f400 api-remote.txt: correct section "struct refspec"
* Replace reference to function parse_ref_spec() with references to
  functions parse_fetch_refspec() and parse_push_refspec().

* Correct description of src and dst: they *do* include the '*'
  characters.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-24 13:28:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3d092bfc6f Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-23 13:37:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ea21efc740 Sync with 'maint' 2013-10-23 13:36:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ca462804c6 Almost 1.8.4.2 ;-)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-23 13:34:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
74051fa805 Merge branch 'jh/checkout-auto-tracking' into maint
"git branch --track" had a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later
that made it impossible to base your local work on anything but a
local branch of the upstream repository you are tracking from.

* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
  t3200: fix failure on case-insensitive filesystems
  branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
  t3200: Add test demonstrating minor regression in 41c21f2
  Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
  t3200: Minor fix when preparing for tracking failure
  t2024: Fix &&-chaining and a couple of typos
2013-10-23 13:32:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f92f068e76 Merge branch 'po/dot-url'
Explain how '.' can be used to refer to the "current repository"
in the documentation.

* po/dot-url:
  doc/cli: make "dot repository" an independent bullet point
  config doc: update dot-repository notes
  doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery
2013-10-23 13:21:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4197361e39 Merge branch 'mg/more-textconv'
Make "git grep" and "git show" pay attention to --textconv when
dealing with blob objects.

* mg/more-textconv:
  grep: honor --textconv for the case rev:path
  grep: allow to use textconv filters
  t7008: demonstrate behavior of grep with textconv
  cat-file: do not die on --textconv without textconv filters
  show: honor --textconv for blobs
  diff_opt: track whether flags have been set explicitly
  t4030: demonstrate behavior of show with textconv
2013-10-23 13:21:31 -07:00
Stefan Beller
3c123fb8b8 git-svn docs: Use tabs consistently within the ascii doc
While I can understand 4 or 7 white spaces are fancy, we'd rather want
to use tabs throughout the whole document.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-22 13:27:02 -07:00
Thomas Rast
744db23c2d Documentation: revamp gitk(1)
The gitk manpage suffers from a bit of neglect: there have been only
minor changes, and no changes to the set of options documented, since
a2df1fb (Documentation: New GUI configuration and command-line
options., 2008-11-13).  In the meantime, the set of rev-list options
has been expanded several times by options that are useful in gitk,
e.g., --ancestry-path and the optional globbing for --branches, --tags
and --remotes.

Restructure and expand the manpage.  List more options that the author
perceives as useful, while remaining somewhat terse.  Ideally the user
should not have to look up any of the references, but we dispense with
precise explanations in some places and refer to git-log(1) instead.

Note that the options that have an easy GUI equivalent (e.g.,
--word-diff, -S, --grep) are deliberately not listed even in the cases
where they simply fill in the GUI fields.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-22 11:23:31 -07:00
Stefan Beller
35c141768c Reword repack documentation to no longer state it's a script
This updates the documentation regarding the changes introduced
by a1bbc6c01 (2013-09-15, repack: rewrite the shell script in C).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-22 11:17:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
db9bdfbeb0 Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-18 13:53:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
82c41a9bfc Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-merge: document the -S option
2013-10-18 13:53:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6c2bec96a8 Merge branch 'jc/reflog-doc'
Document rules to use GIT_REFLOG_ACTION variable in the scripted
Porcelain.  git-rebase--interactive locally violates them, but it
is a leaf user that does not call out to or dot-source other
scripts, so it does not urgently need to be fixed.

* jc/reflog-doc:
  setup_reflog_action: document the rules for using GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
2013-10-18 13:50:12 -07:00
Nicolas Vigier
5f737ac91b git-merge: document the -S option
The option to gpg sign a merge commit is available but was not
documented. Use wording from the git-commit(1) manpage.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-18 12:47:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2141c474d0 Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 2013-10-17 15:57:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ff6e1b887f Merge branch 'jc/checkout-detach-doc'
"git checkout [--detach] <commit>" was listed poorly in the
synopsis section of its documentation.

* jc/checkout-detach-doc:
  checkout: update synopsys and documentation on detaching HEAD
2013-10-17 15:55:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
83f18cdd71 Sync with maint
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-17 15:54:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
92ab409055 Start preparing for 1.8.4.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-17 15:50:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9432c6aaa5 Merge branch 'jk/upload-pack-keepalive' into maint
* jk/upload-pack-keepalive:
  upload-pack: bump keepalive default to 5 seconds
  upload-pack: send keepalive packets during pack computation
2013-10-17 15:46:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1d25dd416f Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
List notable topics that graduated during Jonathan's interim
maintainership.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-16 12:27:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1668b7d78f Merge git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn
* git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn:
  git-svn: Warn about changing default for --prefix in Git v2.0
  Documentation/git-svn: Promote the use of --prefix in docs + examples
  git-svn.txt: elaborate on rev_map files
  git-svn.txt: replace .git with $GIT_DIR
  git-svn.txt: reword description of gc command
  git-svn.txt: fix AsciiDoc formatting error
  git-svn: fix signed commit parsing
2013-10-16 10:45:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9768648144 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-prune-packed.txt: fix reference to GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
  clone --branch: refuse to clone if upstream repo is empty
2013-10-15 16:15:00 -07:00
Steffen Prohaska
3991e91063 git-prune-packed.txt: fix reference to GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
git-prune-packed operates on GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, not
GIT_OBJECT_DIR.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-15 16:01:22 -07:00
Steffen Prohaska
6fb02165a3 git.txt: fix asciidoc syntax of --*-pathspecs
Labeled lists require a double colon.

[jc] I eyeballed the output from

        git grep '[^:]:$' Documentation/\*.txt

     and the patch fixes all breakages of this kind.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-15 15:47:05 -07:00
Philip Oakley
08f8d5d0c0 doc/cli: make "dot repository" an independent bullet point
The way to spell the current repository with a '.' dot is
independent from how the pathspec allows globs expanded by Git.

Make them two separate bullet items in the enumeration.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-15 14:58:21 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
f737684d34 format-patch doc: Thunderbird wraps lines unless mailnews.wraplength=0
The Thunderbird section of the 'MUA-specific hints' contains three
different approaches to setting up the mail client to leave patch
emails unmolested. The second approach (configuration) has a step
missing when configuring the composition window not to wrap. In
particular, the "mailnews.wraplength" configuration variable needs
to be set to zero. Update the documentation to add the missing
setting.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 16:20:01 -07:00
brian m. carlson
b75a6ca7f3 CodingGuidelines: style for multi-line comments
The style for multi-line comments is often mentioned and should be documented
for clarity.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 12:48:06 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
110f415ce8 Merge branch 'nv/doc-config-signingkey'
* nv/doc-config-signingkey:
  config doc: user.signingkey is also used for signed commits
2013-10-14 12:45:50 -07:00
Nicolas Vigier
f0551693cc config doc: user.signingkey is also used for signed commits
The description of the user.signingkey option only mentioned its use
when creating a signed tag. Make it clear that is is also used when
creating signed commits.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 12:45:22 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
865156a7cb Merge branch 'rj/doc-formatting-fix'
* rj/doc-formatting-fix:
  howto/revert-a-faulty-merge: fix unescaped '^'s
  howto/setup-git-server-over-http: fix unescaped '^'s
2013-10-14 11:07:50 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
c766e6f429 Merge branch 'po/remote-set-head-usage'
* po/remote-set-head-usage:
  remote set-head -h: add long options to synopsis
  remote doc: document long forms of set-head options
2013-10-14 11:07:29 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
78bef06589 howto/revert-a-faulty-merge: fix unescaped '^'s
Several uses of the '^' operator are being interpreted by asciidoc
as requests to show the following text as a superscript. In order
to fix this problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected git command invocations.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 07:25:42 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
6430692135 howto/setup-git-server-over-http: fix unescaped '^'s
The text contains two 'grep' invocations which include the 'start
of line' regular expression character '^'. Asciidoc mis-interprets
this use of '^' as a superscript request. In order to fix this
formatting problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected 'grep' command invocations.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 07:23:40 -07:00
Johan Herland
f849bb6b3b git-svn: Warn about changing default for --prefix in Git v2.0
In Git v2.0, we will change the default --prefix for init/clone from
none/empty to "origin/" (which causes SVN-tracking branches to be
placed at refs/remotes/origin/* instead of refs/remotes/*).

This patch warns users about the upcoming change, both in the git-svn
manual page, and on stderr when running init/clone in the "multi-mode"
without providing a --prefix.

Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-12 22:30:53 +00:00
Johan Herland
7091a2d0bf Documentation/git-svn: Promote the use of --prefix in docs + examples
Currently, the git-svn defaults to using an empty prefix, which ends
up placing the SVN-tracking refs directly in refs/remotes/*. This
placement runs counter to Git's convention of placing remote-tracking
branches in refs/remotes/$remote/*.

Furthermore, combining git-svn with "regular" Git remotes run the risk
of clobbering refs under refs/remotes (e.g. if you have a git remote
called "tags" with a "v1" branch, it will overlap with the git-svn's
tracking branch for the "v1" tag from Subversion.

Even though the git-svn refs stored in refs/remotes/* are not "proper"
remote-tracking branches (since they are not covered by a proper git
remote's refspec), they clearly represent a similar concept, and would
benefit from following the same convention.

For example, if git-svn tracks Subversion branch "foo" at
refs/remotes/foo, and you create a local branch refs/heads/foo to add
some commits to be pushed back to Subversion (using "git svn dcommit),
then it is clearly unhelpful of Git to throw

  warning: refname 'foo' is ambiguous.

every time you checkout, rebase, or otherwise interact with the branch.

At this time, the user is better off using the --prefix=foo/ (the
trailing slash is important) to git svn init/clone, to cause the
SVN-tracking refs to be placed at refs/remotes/foo/* instead of
refs/remotes/*. This patch updates the documentation to encourage
use of --prefix.

This is also in preparation for changing the default value of --prefix
at some point in the future.

Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-12 22:30:39 +00:00
Keshav Kini
945b9c14ff git-svn.txt: elaborate on rev_map files
The man page for `git svn` describes a situation in which "'git svn'
will not be able to rebuild" your $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files, but
no mention is made of in what circumstances `git svn` *will* be able to
do so, how to get `git svn` to do so, or even what these files are.

This patch adds a FILES section to the man page with a description of
what $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files are and how they are (re)built, and
links to this description from various other parts of the man page.

Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-10 06:56:12 +00:00
Keshav Kini
6fe7a30aec git-svn.txt: replace .git with $GIT_DIR
As $GIT_DIR may not equal '.git', it's usually more generally correct to
refer to files in $GIT_DIR rather than in .git .

This will also allow me to link some of the occurrences of '.git' in
git-svn.txt to a new reference target inside this file in an upcoming
commit, because in AsciiDoc definitions apparently can't start with
a '.' character.

Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-10 06:56:05 +00:00
Keshav Kini
e618c3960a git-svn.txt: reword description of gc command
It's redundant to say that $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log or
$GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index is in .git/svn when $GIT_DIR is '.git', and
is wrong when $GIT_DIR is not '.git'

Also, a '/' was missing from the pathname $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index .

Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-10 06:55:48 +00:00
Keshav Kini
9ebeb3392b git-svn.txt: fix AsciiDoc formatting error
As asterisks are used to indicate bold text in AsciiDoc, shell glob
expressions must be escaped appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-10 06:55:23 +00:00
John Keeping
0079d6ebd7 Documentation/Makefile: make AsciiDoc dblatex dir configurable
On my system this is in /usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex not
/etc/asciidoc/dblatex.  Extract this portion of the path to a variable
so that is can be set in config.mak.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-03 12:21:19 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
9cd755b2fc RelNotes/1.8.5: direct script writers to "git status --porcelain"
[jn: with wording tweak from Keshav Kini]

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-27 17:05:02 -07:00
Philip Oakley
159543e831 remote doc: document long forms of set-head options
"git remote set-head" has always supported --add and --delete
as synonyms for the -a and -d option but forgot to document
them.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-27 16:49:18 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
8de8e40caa Sync with Git 1.8.4.1 2013-09-26 15:36:57 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
02a110ad43 Git 1.8.4.1
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-26 15:01:41 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
5636a20070 Merge branch 'bc/submodule-status-ignored'
* bc/submodule-status-ignored:
  Improve documentation concerning the status.submodulesummary setting
  submodule: don't print status output with ignore=all
  submodule: fix confusing variable name
2013-09-24 23:36:08 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
80f165a58a Merge branch 'cc/replace-with-the-same-type'
* cc/replace-with-the-same-type:
  Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commits
  t6050-replace: use some long option names
  replace: allow long option names
  Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section
  t6050-replace: add test to clean up all the replace refs
  t6050-replace: test that objects are of the same type
  Documentation/replace: state that objects must be of the same type
  replace: forbid replacing an object with one of a different type
2013-09-24 23:35:24 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
ccba805681 doc: don't claim that cherry calls patch-id
The id is already different for binary files.  The hash used is an
implementation detail, so let's just document how diffs are compared.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-24 15:54:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
128a96c984 Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the fifth batch of topics
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-20 12:42:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7b8315bb59 Merge branch 'jk/upload-pack-keepalive'
When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side
computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
dropped connection.  The server side has been taught to send a small
empty messages to keep the connection alive.

* jk/upload-pack-keepalive:
  upload-pack: bump keepalive default to 5 seconds
  upload-pack: send keepalive packets during pack computation
2013-09-20 12:39:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f406140baa Merge branch 'fc/at-head'
Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @".

* fc/at-head:
  Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
  sha1-name: pass len argument to interpret_branch_name()
2013-09-20 12:38:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
005a1de380 Merge branch 'dw/check-ignore-sans-index'
"git check-ignore" follows the same rule as "git add" and "git
status" in that the ignore/exclude mechanism does not take effect
on paths that are already tracked.  With "--no-index" option, it
can be used to diagnose which paths that should have been ignored
have been mistakenly added to the index.

* dw/check-ignore-sans-index:
  check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contents
2013-09-20 12:37:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9a86b89941 Merge branch 'bk/refs-multi-update'
Give "update-refs" a "--stdin" option to read multiple update
requests and perform them in an all-or-none fashion.

* bk/refs-multi-update:
  update-ref: add test cases covering --stdin signature
  update-ref: support multiple simultaneous updates
  refs: add update_refs for multiple simultaneous updates
  refs: add function to repack without multiple refs
  refs: factor delete_ref loose ref step into a helper
  refs: factor update_ref steps into helpers
  refs: report ref type from lock_any_ref_for_update
  reset: rename update_refs to reset_refs
2013-09-20 12:36:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
087350398e Merge branch 'nr/git-cd-to-a-directory'
Just like "make -C <directory>", make "git -C <directory> ..." to
go there before doing anything else.

* nr/git-cd-to-a-directory:
  t0056: "git -C" test updates
  git: run in a directory given with -C option
2013-09-20 12:35:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b05fc49adc Merge branch 'jh/checkout-auto-tracking'
Fix a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later that made it
impossible to base your local work on anything but a local branch
of the upstream repository you are tracking from.

* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
  t3200: fix failure on case-insensitive filesystems
  branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
  t3200: Add test demonstrating minor regression in 41c21f2
  Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
  t3200: Minor fix when preparing for tracking failure
  t2024: Fix &&-chaining and a couple of typos
2013-09-20 12:31:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6d3e1f2e45 Merge branch 'mm/status-without-comment-char'
"git status" now omits the prefix to make its output a comment in a
commit log editor, which is not necessary for human consumption.

We may want to tighten the output to omit unnecessary trailing blank
lines, but that does not have to be in the scope of this series.

* mm/status-without-comment-char:
  t7508: avoid non-portable sed expression
  status: add missing blank line after list of "other" files
  tests: don't set status.displayCommentPrefix file-wide
  status: disable display of '#' comment prefix by default
  submodule summary: ignore --for-status option
  wt-status: use argv_array API
  builtin/stripspace.c: fix broken indentation
2013-09-20 12:29:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
638924fec2 Merge branch 'rh/peeling-tag-to-tag'
Make "foo^{tag}" to peel a tag to itself, i.e. no-op., and fail if
"foo" is not a tag.  "git rev-parse --verify v1.0^{tag}" would be a
more convenient way to say "test $(git cat-file -t v1.0) = tag".

* rh/peeling-tag-to-tag:
  peel_onion: do not assume length of x_type globals
  peel_onion(): add support for <rev>^{tag}
2013-09-20 12:27:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eeaee045c8 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Start preparing for 1.8.4.1
2013-09-18 12:08:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a0d3f1090d Start preparing for 1.8.4.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-18 12:08:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
587e0a164a Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the fourth batch of topics 2013-09-18 11:55:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8d8387116a Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the first half of the fourth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-17 11:43:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
287c0feeab Merge branch 'ss/doclinks'
When we converted many documents that were traditionally text-only
to be formatted to AsciiDoc, we did not update links that point at
them to refer to the formatted HTML files.

* ss/doclinks:
  Documentation: make AsciiDoc links always point to HTML files
2013-09-17 11:42:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
89dde7882f Merge branch 'rh/ishes-doc'
We liberally use "committish" and "commit-ish" (and "treeish" and
"tree-ish"); as these are non-words, let's unify these terms to
their dashed form.  More importantly, clarify the documentation on
object peeling using these terms.

* rh/ishes-doc:
  glossary: fix and clarify the definition of 'ref'
  revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>}
  glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish)
  use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'
  use 'tree-ish' instead of 'treeish'
  glossary: define commit-ish (a.k.a. committish)
  glossary: mention 'treeish' as an alternative to 'tree-ish'
2013-09-17 11:42:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cd8c891b74 Merge branch 'dw/diff-no-index-doc'
When the user types "git diff" outside a working tree, thinking he
is inside one, the current error message that is a single-liner
"usage: git diff --no-index <path> <path>" may not be sufficient to
make him realize the mistake. Add "Not a git repository" to the
error message when we fell into the "--no-index" mode without an
explicit command line option to instruct us to do so.

* dw/diff-no-index-doc:
  diff --no-index: describe in a separate paragraph
  diff --no-index: clarify operation when not inside a repository
2013-09-17 11:42:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8fbb07e3f3 Merge branch 'ta/user-manual'
Update the user's manual to more recent versions of Git.

* ta/user-manual:
  "git prune" is safe
  Remove irrelevant reference from "Tying it all together"
  Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format"
  Improve section "Merging multiple trees"
  Improve section "Manipulating branches"
  Simplify "How to make a commit"
  Fix some typos and improve wording
  Use "git merge" instead of "git pull ."
  Use current output for "git repack"
  Use current "detached HEAD" message
  Call it "Git User Manual" and remove reference to very old Git version
2013-09-17 11:42:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9b4aa47e7d Merge branch 'jx/clean-interactive'
Finishing touches to update the document to adjust to a new option
"git clean" learned recently.

* jx/clean-interactive:
  documentation: clarify notes for clean.requireForce
2013-09-17 11:40:23 -07:00
Philip Oakley
b85ecea625 config doc: update dot-repository notes
branch.<name>.remote can be set to '.' (period) as the repository
path (URL) as part of the remote name dwimmery. Tell the reader.

Such relative paths are not 'special'. Correct the branch.<name>.merge
note.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-13 15:30:01 -07:00
Philip Oakley
431260cc8d doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery
The Git cli will accept dot '.' (period) as the relative path
to the current repository. Explain this action.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-13 15:29:59 -07:00
Dave Williams
8231fa6ae1 check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contents
check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked
paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output.  This prevents
debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is
first removed from the index with `git rm --cached <path>`.

The option --no-index tells the command to bypass the check for the
path being in the index and hence allows tracked paths to be checked
too.

Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of `git add` and
`git status` its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion.

Test scripts are augmented to check this option against the standard
ignores to ensure correct behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Dave Williams <dave@opensourcesolutions.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-12 15:40:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
89b1b47b0a Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the third batch of topics
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-12 14:42:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d5d0a23dbb Merge branch 'jc/pager-configuration-doc'
It was unclear in the documentation how various configurations and
environment variables determine which pager is eventually used.

* jc/pager-configuration-doc:
  config: rewrite core.pager documentation
2013-09-12 14:41:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7b828a0514 Merge branch 'mm/remote-helpers-doc'
* mm/remote-helpers-doc:
  Documentation/remote-helpers: document common use-case for private ref
2013-09-12 14:41:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8ee9a18300 Merge branch 'mn/doc-pack-heu-remove-dead-pastebin'
* mn/doc-pack-heu-remove-dead-pastebin:
  remove dead pastebin link from pack-heuristics document
2013-09-12 14:41:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
07fc8a9944 Merge branch 'mm/fast-import-feature-doc'
* mm/fast-import-feature-doc:
  Documentation/fast-import: clarify summary for `feature` command
2013-09-12 14:41:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
100ce1c543 Merge branch 'mm/mediawiki-dumb-push-fix'
* mm/mediawiki-dumb-push-fix:
  git-remote-mediawiki: no need to update private ref in non-dumb push
  git-remote-mediawiki: use no-private-update capability on dumb push
  transport-helper: add no-private-update capability
  git-remote-mediawiki: add test and check Makefile targets
2013-09-12 14:41:41 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
9ba89f484e Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Typing 'HEAD' is tedious, especially when we can use '@' instead.

The reason for choosing '@' is that it follows naturally from the
ref@op syntax (e.g. HEAD@{u}), except we have no ref, and no
operation, and when we don't have those, it makes sens to assume
'HEAD'.

So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness.

Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so
let's make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-12 14:39:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a194eaddca Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-11 15:05:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6026f68652 Merge branch 'sh/pull-rebase-preserve'
"git pull --rebase" always flattened the history; pull.rebase can
now be set to "preserve" to invoke "rebase --preserve-merges".

* sh/pull-rebase-preserve:
  pull: allow pull to preserve merges when rebasing
2013-09-11 14:57:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
26776c9737 checkout: update synopsys and documentation on detaching HEAD
In the synopsis, the second form to detach HEAD at the named commit
labelled the argument as '<commit>'.  While this is technically more
correct, because the feature to detach is not limited to the tip of
a named branch, it was found confusing and did not express the fact
that you have to give `--detach` if you are naming the commit you
want to detach HEAD at with a branch name.

Separate this case into two syntactical forms, mimicking the way how
the DESCRIPTION section shows this usage.  Also update the text that
explains the syntax to name the commit to detach HEAD at to clarify.

Suggested-by: Benjamin Bergman <ben@benbergman.ca>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-11 12:32:01 -07:00
Jens Lehmann
bb58b696c6 Improve documentation concerning the status.submodulesummary setting
'git status' and 'git commit' can be told to also show the output of "git
submodule summary" by setting the "status.submodulesummary" config option.
But status and commit also honor the "diff.ignoreSubmodules" and the
"submodule.<name>.ignore" settings, which then disable the summary partly
or completely. This - and the fact that the last two settings do not
affect the "git submodule" commands at all - is not well documented.

Extend the documentation in those places where "status.submodulesummary",
"diff.ignoreSubmodules" and "submodule.<name>.ignore" are described to
better explain these dependencies.

Thanks-to: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-11 12:20:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bb80ee0997 Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the second batch of topics
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 14:51:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a0a08d48d0 Merge branch 'jc/url-match'
Allow section.<urlpattern>.var configuration variables to be
treated as a "virtual" section.var given a URL, and use the
mechanism to enhance http.* configuration variables.

This is a reroll of Kyle J. McKay's work.

* jc/url-match:
  builtin/config.c: compilation fix
  config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.key
  builtin/config: refactor collect_config()
  config: parse http.<url>.<variable> using urlmatch
  config: add generic callback wrapper to parse section.<url>.key
  config: add helper to normalize and match URLs
  http.c: fix parsing of http.sslCertPasswordProtected variable
2013-09-09 14:50:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b02f5aeda6 Merge branch 'jl/submodule-mv'
"git mv A B" when moving a submodule A does "the right thing",
inclusing relocating its working tree and adjusting the paths in
the .gitmodules file.

* jl/submodule-mv: (53 commits)
  rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree
  mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules
  submodule.c: add .gitmodules staging helper functions
  mv: move submodules using a gitfile
  mv: move submodules together with their work trees
  rm: do not set a variable twice without intermediate reading.
  t6131 - skip tests if on case-insensitive file system
  parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntax
  pathspec: support :(glob) syntax
  pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magic
  pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspec
  kill limit_pathspec_to_literal() as it's only used by parse_pathspec()
  parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN
  parse_pathspec: make sure the prefix part is wildcard-free
  rename field "raw" to "_raw" in struct pathspec
  tree-diff: remove the use of pathspec's raw[] in follow-rename codepath
  remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth()
  remove init_pathspec() in favor of parse_pathspec()
  remove diff_tree_{setup,release}_paths
  convert common_prefix() to use struct pathspec
  ...
2013-09-09 14:36:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
de9a25354a Merge branch 'es/blame-L-twice'
Teaches "git blame" to take more than one -L ranges.

* es/blame-L-twice:
  line-range: reject -L line numbers less than 1
  t8001/t8002: blame: add tests of -L line numbers less than 1
  line-range: teach -L^:RE to search from start of file
  line-range: teach -L:RE to search from end of previous -L range
  line-range: teach -L^/RE/ to search from start of file
  line-range-format.txt: document -L/RE/ relative search
  log: teach -L/RE/ to search from end of previous -L range
  blame: teach -L/RE/ to search from end of previous -L range
  line-range: teach -L/RE/ to search relative to anchor point
  blame: document multiple -L support
  t8001/t8002: blame: add tests of multiple -L options
  blame: accept multiple -L ranges
  blame: inline one-line function into its lone caller
  range-set: publish API for re-use by git-blame -L
  line-range-format.txt: clarify -L:regex usage form
  git-log.txt: place each -L option variation on its own line
2013-09-09 14:35:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
24703ead4b Merge branch 'jk/cat-file-batch-optim'
Rework the reverted change to `cat-file --batch-check`.

* jk/cat-file-batch-optim:
  cat-file: only split on whitespace when %(rest) is used
2013-09-09 14:33:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4301262640 Merge branch 'db/http-savecookies'
* db/http-savecookies:
  t5551: Remove header from curl cookie file
  http: add http.savecookies option to write out HTTP cookies
2013-09-09 14:32:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2233ad4534 Merge branch 'jc/push-cas'
Allow a safer "rewind of the remote tip" push than blind "--force",
by requiring that the overwritten remote ref to be unchanged since
the new history to replace it was prepared.

The machinery is more or less ready.  The "--force" option is again
the big red button to override any safety, thanks to J6t's sanity
(the original round allowed --lockref to defeat --force).

The logic to choose the default implemented here is fragile
(e.g. "git fetch" after seeing a failure will update the
remote-tracking branch and will make the next "push" pass,
defeating the safety pretty easily).  It is suitable only for the
simplest workflows, and it may hurt users more than it helps them.

* jc/push-cas:
  push: teach --force-with-lease to smart-http transport
  send-pack: fix parsing of --force-with-lease option
  t5540/5541: smart-http does not support "--force-with-lease"
  t5533: test "push --force-with-lease"
  push --force-with-lease: tie it all together
  push --force-with-lease: implement logic to populate old_sha1_expect[]
  remote.c: add command line option parser for "--force-with-lease"
  builtin/push.c: use OPT_BOOL, not OPT_BOOLEAN
  cache.h: move remote/connect API out of it
2013-09-09 14:30:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
711b276974 Merge branch 'nd/clone-connectivity-shortcut'
* nd/clone-connectivity-shortcut:
  smart http: use the same connectivity check on cloning
2013-09-09 14:30:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a5e10f8bc1 Merge branch 'ms/fetch-prune-configuration'
Allow fetch.prune and remote.*.prune configuration variables to be set,
and "git fetch" to behave as if "--prune" is given.

"git fetch" that honors remote.*.prune is fine, but I wonder if we
should somehow make "git push" aware of it as well.  Perhaps
remote.*.prune should not be just a boolean, but a 4-way "none",
"push", "fetch", "both"?

* ms/fetch-prune-configuration:
  fetch: make --prune configurable
2013-09-09 14:27:11 -07:00
Jeff King
115dedd722 upload-pack: bump keepalive default to 5 seconds
There is no reason not to turn on keepalives by default.
They take very little bandwidth, and significantly less than
the progress reporting they are replacing. And in the case
that progress reporting is on, we should never need to send
a keepalive anyway, as we will constantly be showing
progress and resetting the keepalive timer.

We do not necessarily know what the client's idea of a
reasonable timeout is, so let's keep this on the low side of
5 seconds. That is high enough that we will always prefer
our normal 1-second progress reports to sending a keepalive
packet, but low enough that no sane client should consider
the connection hung.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:15:17 -07:00
Jeff King
05e95155a1 upload-pack: send keepalive packets during pack computation
When upload-pack has started pack-objects, there may be a quiet
period while pack-objects prepares the pack (i.e., counting objects
and delta compression). Normally we would see (and send to the
client) progress information, but if "--quiet" is in effect,
pack-objects will produce nothing at all until the pack data is
ready. On a large repository, this can take tens of seconds (or even
minutes if the system is loaded or the repository is badly packed).
Clients or intermediate proxies can sometimes give up in this
situation, assuming that the server or connection has hung.

This patch introduces a "keepalive" option; if upload-pack sees no
data from pack-objects for a certain number of seconds, it will send
an empty sideband data packet to let the other side know that we are
still working on it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:14:37 -07:00
Johan Herland
fef0e991aa Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
Make it easier for readers to find the actual config variables that
implement the "upstream" relationship.

Suggested-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:03:01 -07:00
Brad King
c750ba9519 update-ref: support multiple simultaneous updates
Add a --stdin signature to read update instructions from standard input
and apply multiple ref updates together.  Use an input format that
supports any update that could be specified via the command-line,
including object names like "branch:path with space".

Signed-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 09:54:37 -07:00
Nazri Ramliy
44e1e4d67d git: run in a directory given with -C option
This is similar in spirit to "make -C dir ..." and "tar -C dir ...".

It takes more keypresses to invoke git command in a different
directory without leaving the current directory:

    1. (cd ~/foo && git status)
       git --git-dir=~/foo/.git --work-dir=~/foo status
       GIT_DIR=~/foo/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=~/foo git status
    2. (cd ../..; git grep foo)
    3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do (cd $d && git svn rebase); done

The methods shown above are acceptable for scripting but are too
cumbersome for quick command line invocations.

With this new option, the above can be done with fewer keystrokes:

    1. git -C ~/foo status
    2. git -C ../.. grep foo
    3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do git -C $d svn rebase; done

A new test script is added to verify the behavior of this option with
other path-related options like --git-dir and --work-tree.

Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 09:33:17 -07:00
Philip Oakley
9074925341 Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commits
Merges are often treated as special case objects so tell users that
they are not special here.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 08:16:30 -07:00
Sebastian Schuberth
d5ff3b4be5 Documentation: make AsciiDoc links always point to HTML files
AsciiDoc's "link" is supposed to create hyperlinks for HTML output, so
prefer a "link" to point to an HTML file instead of a text file if an HTML
version of the file is being generated. For RelNotes, keep pointing to
text files as no equivalent HTML files are generated.

If appropriate, also update the link description to not contain the linked
file's extension.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-06 14:49:06 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
2556b9962e status: disable display of '#' comment prefix by default
Historically, "git status" needed to prefix each output line with '#' so
that the output could be added as comment to the commit message. This
prefix comment has no real purpose when "git status" is ran from the
command-line, and this may distract users from the real content.

Disable this prefix comment by default, and make it re-activable for
users needing backward compatibility with status.displayCommentPrefix.

Obviously, "git commit" ignores status.displayCommentPrefix and keeps the
comment unconditionnaly when writing to COMMIT_EDITMSG (but not when
writing to stdout for an error message or with --dry-run).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-06 13:33:18 -07:00
Christian Couder
ed0ff80984 replace: allow long option names
It is now standard practice in Git to have both short and long option
names. So let's give a long option name to the git replace options too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-06 13:32:24 -07:00
Christian Couder
b8fcce1e7f Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section
There were no hints in the documentation about how to create
replacement objects.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-06 13:29:53 -07:00
Christian Couder
160df71ef5 Documentation/replace: state that objects must be of the same type
A previous patch ensures that both the replaced and the replacement
objects passed to git replace must be of the same type, except if
-f option is used.

While at it state that there is no other restriction on both objects.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-06 13:25:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d2dbd399fa Sync with maint
* maint:
  Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix formatting of example block
2013-09-05 14:41:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b5699d17c3 Merge branch 'maint-1.8.3' into maint
* maint-1.8.3:
  Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix formatting of example block
2013-09-05 14:24:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
69490f3459 Merge branch 'maint-1.8.2' into maint-1.8.3
* maint-1.8.2:
  Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix formatting of example block
2013-09-05 14:24:52 -07:00
Andreas Schwab
e45bda876a Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix formatting of example block
You need at least four dashes in a line to have it recognized as listing
block delimiter by asciidoc.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-05 10:50:49 -07:00
Richard Hansen
4b6acde543 glossary: fix and clarify the definition of 'ref'
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 15:04:01 -07:00
Richard Hansen
abdb54a1d2 revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>}
If possible, <rev> will be dereferenced even if it is not a tag type
(e.g., commit dereferenced to a tree).

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 15:03:59 -07:00
Richard Hansen
930f302cdb glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish)
A tree-ish isn't a ref.  Also, mention dereferencing, and that a
commit dereferences to a tree, to support gitrevisions(7) and
rev-parse's error messages.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 15:03:49 -07:00
Richard Hansen
a8a5406ab3 use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'
Replace 'committish' in documentation and comments with 'commit-ish'
to match gitglossary(7) and to be consistent with 'tree-ish'.

The only remaining instances of 'committish' are:
  * variable, function, and macro names
  * "(also committish)" in the definition of commit-ish in
    gitglossary[7]

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 15:03:03 -07:00
Richard Hansen
bb8040f9f9 use 'tree-ish' instead of 'treeish'
Replace 'treeish' in documentation and comments with 'tree-ish' to
match gitglossary(7).

The only remaining instances of 'treeish' are:
  * variable, function, and macro names
  * "(also treeish)" in the definition of tree-ish in gitglossary(7)

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 15:02:56 -07:00
Richard Hansen
406fde17da glossary: define commit-ish (a.k.a. committish)
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 15:02:35 -07:00
Richard Hansen
36a2a54dbf glossary: mention 'treeish' as an alternative to 'tree-ish'
The documentation contains a mix of the two spellings, so include both
in the glossary so that a search for either will lead to the
definition.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 15:02:25 -07:00
Stephen Haberman
66713ef3b0 pull: allow pull to preserve merges when rebasing
If a user is working on master, and has merged in their feature branch, but now
has to "git pull" because master moved, with pull.rebase their feature branch
will be flattened into master.

This is because "git pull" currently does not know about rebase's preserve
merges flag, which would avoid this behavior, as it would instead replay just
the merge commit of the feature branch onto the new master, and not replay each
individual commit in the feature branch.

Add a --rebase=preserve option, which will pass along --preserve-merges to
rebase.

Also add 'preserve' to the allowed values for the pull.rebase config setting.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 12:45:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
57e4c1783f Update draft release notes after merging the first batch of topics 2013-09-04 12:41:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a86a8b9752 Merge branch 'sb/parseopt-boolean-removal'
Convert most uses of OPT_BOOLEAN/OPTION_BOOLEAN that can use
OPT_BOOL/OPTION_BOOLEAN which have much saner semantics, and turn
remaining ones into OPT_SET_INT, OPT_COUNTUP, etc. as necessary.

* sb/parseopt-boolean-removal:
  revert: use the OPT_CMDMODE for parsing, reducing code
  checkout-index: fix negations of even numbers of -n
  config parsing options: allow one flag multiple times
  hash-object: replace stdin parsing OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_COUNTUP
  branch, commit, name-rev: ease up boolean conditions
  checkout: remove superfluous local variable
  log, format-patch: parsing uses OPT__QUIET
  Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOL
  Remove deprecated OPTION_BOOLEAN for parsing arguments
2013-09-04 12:39:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
05584b2a4e Merge branch 'nd/gc-lock-against-each-other'
* nd/gc-lock-against-each-other:
  gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is given
2013-09-04 12:35:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0db320d023 Merge branch 'jc/check-x-z'
"git check-ignore -z" applied the NUL termination to both its input
(with --stdin) and its output, but "git check-attr -z" ignored the
option on the output side.

This is potentially a backward incompatible fix.  Let's see if
anybody screams before deciding if we want to do anything to help
existing users (there may be none).

* jc/check-x-z:
  check-attr -z: a single -z should apply to both input and output
  check-ignore -z: a single -z should apply to both input and output
  check-attr: the name of the character is NUL, not NULL
  check-ignore: the name of the character is NUL, not NULL
2013-09-04 12:23:25 -07:00
Richard Hansen
75aa26d34c peel_onion(): add support for <rev>^{tag}
Complete the <rev>^{<type>} family of object descriptors by having
<rev>^{tag} dereference <rev> until a tag object is found (or fail if
unable).

At first glance this may not seem very useful, as commits, trees, and
blobs cannot be peeled to a tag, and a tag would just peel to itself.
However, this can be used to ensure that <rev> names a tag object:

    $ git rev-parse --verify v1.8.4^{tag}
    04f013dc38d7512eadb915eba22efc414f18b869
    $ git rev-parse --verify master^{tag}
    error: master^{tag}: expected tag type, but the object dereferences to tree type
    fatal: Needed a single revision

Users can already ensure that <rev> is a tag object by checking the
output of 'git cat-file -t <rev>', but:
  * users may expect <rev>^{tag} to exist given that <rev>^{commit},
    <rev>^{tree}, and <rev>^{blob} all exist
  * this syntax is more convenient/natural in some circumstances

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-03 13:09:17 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
597b831afb transport-helper: add no-private-update capability
Since 664059fb (transport-helper: update remote helper namespace,
2013-04-17), a 'push' operation on a remote helper updates the
private ref by default. This is often a good thing, but it can also
be desirable to disable this update to force the next 'pull' to
re-import the pushed revisions.

Allow remote-helpers to disable the automatic update by introducing a new
capability.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-03 11:57:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
992c38644a Start the post-1.8.4 cycle
It is tentatively called 1.8.5, but it should be an easy matter of
renaming the release-notes file and RelNotes symlink to later call
it 1.9 near the end of the cycle if we wanted to.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-30 10:16:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
36d80208c5 Merge branch 'sp/doc-smart-http'
* sp/doc-smart-http:
  Document the HTTP transport protocols
2013-08-30 10:10:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9bb78de519 Merge branch 'mm/war-on-whatchanged'
* mm/war-on-whatchanged:
  whatchanged: document its historical nature
  core-tutorial: trim the section on Inspecting Changes
2013-08-30 10:08:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
482bd22d49 Merge branch 'rt/doc-merge-file-diff3'
* rt/doc-merge-file-diff3:
  Documentation/git-merge-file: document option "--diff3"
2013-08-30 10:08:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
04d0eb89e3 Merge branch 'mb/docs-favor-en-us'
Declare that the official grammar & spelling of the source of this
project is en_US, but strongly discourage patches only to "fix"
existing en_UK strings to avoid unnecessary churns.

* mb/docs-favor-en-us:
  Provide some linguistic guidance for the documentation.
2013-08-30 10:08:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e30db6dbcf Merge branch 'rj/doc-rev-parse'
* rj/doc-rev-parse:
  rev-parse(1): logically group options
  rev-parse: remove restrictions on some options
2013-08-30 10:08:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
97d01f2a88 config: rewrite core.pager documentation
The text mentions core.pager and GIT_PAGER without giving the
overall picture of precedences.  Borrow a better description from
the git-var(1) documentation.

The use of the mechanism to allow system-wide, global and
per-repository configuration files is not limited to this particular
variable.  Remove it to clarify the paragraph.

Rewrite the part that explains how the environment variable LESS is
set to Git's default value, and how to selectively customize it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-29 12:03:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
286bc123cd diff --no-index: describe in a separate paragraph
The documentation for "diff-files" mode of "git diff" primarily
talks about how changes in the files in the working tree are shown
relative to the contents previously added to that index, and tucks
explanation on how "--no-index" mode, which works in a quite
different way, may be implicitly used instead.  Instead, add a
separate paragraph to explain what "--no-index" mode does, and also
mention when "--no-index" can be omitted from the command line
(essentially, when it is obvious from the context).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-28 15:17:18 -07:00
Jiang Xin
f85f7947c3 documentation: clarify notes for clean.requireForce
Add "-i" (interactive clean option) to clarify the documentation for
"clean.requireForce" config variable.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-28 12:51:46 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
ddeb817f25 "git prune" is safe
"git prune" is safe in case of concurrent accesses to a repository
but using it in such a case is not recommended.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:46 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
381183fbc6 Remove irrelevant reference from "Tying it all together"
Sorry Jon, but this might not be of any help to new Git users ;)

Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:45 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
e14c86156c Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:45 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
e8e9964de4 Improve section "Merging multiple trees"
Remove unnecessary quoting.
Simplify description of three-way merge.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:44 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
df47da758e Improve section "Manipulating branches"
Add some missing punctuation.
Simplify description of "git branch -d/-D".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:44 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
d39765b12e Simplify "How to make a commit"
Combine the two cases for "git add" into one.
Add verb "use" to "git rm" case.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:44 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
ddd4ddef78 Fix some typos and improve wording
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:44 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
a7bdee1122 Use "git merge" instead of "git pull ."
"git pull ." works, but "git merge" is the recommended
way for new users to do things. (The old description
also should have read "The former is actually *not* very
commonly used".)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:43 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
3e65ac49e7 Use current output for "git repack"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:43 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
95f9be556d Use current "detached HEAD" message
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:42 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
333d7d37b6 Call it "Git User Manual" and remove reference to very old Git version
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-27 15:14:41 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
3f36eb4305 Documentation/remote-helpers: document common use-case for private ref
The current documentation mentions the private ref namespace, but does
not really explain why it can be useful.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-26 09:31:04 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
87c9a140d2 Documentation/fast-import: clarify summary for feature command
In most cases, "feature <foo>" does not just require that the feature
exists, but also changes the behavior by enabling it.

Cases where the feature is only requested like cat-blob, notes or ls are
clearly documented below.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-25 22:31:07 -07:00
Michal Nazarewicz
4b36374955 remove dead pastebin link from pack-heuristics document
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-23 12:09:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e230c568c4 Git 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-23 11:49:46 -07:00
Dale R. Worley
b214eddfb2 diff --no-index: clarify operation when not inside a repository
Clarify documentation for "diff --no-index".  State that when not
inside a repository, --no-index is implied and two arguments are
mandatory.

Clarify error message from diff-no-index to inform user that CWD is
not inside a repository and thus two arguments are mandatory.

Signed-off-by: Dale Worley <worley@ariadne.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-22 13:55:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0d8beaa5b7 Typofix draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-21 15:30:04 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
4c6fffe2ae Document the HTTP transport protocols
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Revised-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-21 11:37:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4d06473928 Git 1.8.4-rc4
As we had to revert two topics at the last minute, let's have
another (hopefully short) round of rc to make sure the final release
will be sound.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-19 10:34:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2c2b6646c2 Revert "Add new @ shortcut for HEAD"
This reverts commit cdfd94837b, as it
does not just apply to "@" (and forms with modifiers like @{u}
applied to it), but also affects e.g. "refs/heads/@/foo", which it
shouldn't.

The basic idea of giving a short-hand might be good, and the topic
can be retried later, but let's revert to avoid affecting existing
use cases for now for the upcoming release.
2013-08-14 15:04:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c1ebd90c83 Revert "git stash: avoid data loss when "git stash save" kills a directory"
This reverts commit a73653130e, as it
has been reported that "ls-files --killed" is too time-consuming in
a deep directory with too many untracked crufts (e.g. $HOME/.git
tracking only a few files).

We'd need to revisit it later but "ls-files --killed" needs to be
optimized before it happens.
2013-08-14 09:53:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
52f425e1a9 whatchanged: document its historical nature
Encourage new users to use 'log' instead.  These days, these
commands are unified and just have different defaults.

'git log' only allowed you to view the log messages and no diffs
when it was added in early June 2005.  It was only in early April
2006 that the command learned to take diff options.  Because of
this, power users tended to use 'whatchanged' that already existed
since mid May 2005 and supported diff options.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-13 09:01:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
627a8b8dcd core-tutorial: trim the section on Inspecting Changes
Back when the core tutorial was written, `log` and `whatchanged`
were scripted Porcelains.  In the "Inspecting Changes" section that
talks about the plumbing commands in the diff family, it made sense
to use `log` and `whatchanged` as good examples of the use of these
plumbing commands, and because even these scripted Porcelains were
novelty (there wasn't the new end-user tutorial written), it made
some sense to illustrate uses of the `git log` (and `git
whatchanged`) scripted Porcelain commands.

But we no longer have scripted `log` and `whatchanged` to serve as
examples, and this document is not where the end users learn what
`git log` command is about.  Stop at briefly mentioning the
possibility of combining rev-list with diff-tree to build your own
log, and leave the end-user documentation of `log` to the new
tutorial and the user manual.

Also resurrect the last version of `git-log`, `git-whatchanged`, and
`git-show` to serve as examples to contrib/examples/ directory.

While at it, remove 'whatchanged' from a list of sample commands
that are affected by GIT_FLUSH environment variable. This is not
meant to be an exhaustive list but as a list of typical ones, and an
old command that is kept primarily for backward compatibility does
not belong to it.

Helped-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-13 09:01:52 -07:00
Ralf Thielow
67ed84f3e2 Documentation/git-merge-file: document option "--diff3"
The option "--diff3" was added to "git merge-file" in e0af48e
(xdiff-merge: optionally show conflicts in "diff3 -m" style)
but it was never documented in "Documentation/git-merge-file.txt".
Add documentation for this option.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-09 14:19:59 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
64a99eb476 gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is given
This may happen when `git gc --auto` is run automatically, then the
user, to avoid wait time, switches to a new terminal, keeps working
and `git gc --auto` is started again because the first gc instance has
not clean up the repository.

This patch tries to avoid multiple gc running, especially in --auto
mode. In the worst case, gc may be delayed 12 hours if a daemon reuses
the pid stored in gc.pid.

kill(pid, 0) support is added to MinGW port so it should work on
Windows too.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-09 09:10:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
64948ad775 Git 1.8.4-rc2
This is with mostly minor documentation and test updates, nothing
spectacular except for removal of funky lstat(2) emulation on Cygwin.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-08 14:03:21 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
215e76c7ff line-range: teach -L^:RE to search from start of file
The -L:RE option of blame/log searches from the end of the previous -L
range, if any. Add new notation -L^:RE to override this behavior and
search from start of file.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:48:02 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
1ce761a524 line-range: teach -L:RE to search from end of previous -L range
For consistency with -L/RE/, teach -L:RE to search relative to the end
of the previous -L range, if any.

The new behavior invalidates one test in t4211 which assumes that -L:RE
begins searching at start of file. This test will be resurrected in a
follow-up patch which teaches -L:RE how to override the default relative
search behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:47:34 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
a6ac5f9864 line-range: teach -L^/RE/ to search from start of file
The -L/RE/ option of blame/log searches from the end of the previous -L
range, if any. Add new notation -L^/RE/ to override this behavior and
search from start of file.

The new ^/RE/ syntax is valid only as the <start> argument of
-L<start>,<end>. The <end> argument, as usual, is relative to <start>.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:47:04 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
0bc2cdd550 line-range-format.txt: document -L/RE/ relative search
Option -L/RE/ of blame/log now searches relative to the previous -L
range, if any. Document this.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:46:28 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
5bd9b79a20 blame: document multiple -L support
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:34:43 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
0ddd47193c line-range-format.txt: clarify -L:regex usage form
blame/log documentation describes -L option as:

  -L<start>,<end>
  -L:<regex>

  <start> and <end> can take one of these forms:

    * number
    * /regex/
    * +offset or -offset
    * :regex

which is incorrect and confusing since :regex is not one of the valid
forms of <start> or <end>; in fact, it must be -L's lone argument.

Clarify by discussing :<regex> at the same indentation level as "<start>
and <end>...":

  -L<start>,<end>
  -L:<regex>

  <start> and <end> can take one of these forms:

    * number
    * /regex/
    * +offset or -offset

  If :<regex> is given in place of <start> and <end> ...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:26:26 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
1e159833c7 git-log.txt: place each -L option variation on its own line
Standard practice in Git documentation is for each variation of an
option (such as: -p / --porcelain) to be placed on its own line in the
OPTIONS table. The -L option does not follow suit. It cuddles "-L
<start>,<end>:<file>" and "-L :<regex>:<file>", separated by a comma.
This is inconsistent and potentially confusing since the comma
separating them is typeset the same as the comma in "<start>,<end>". Fix
this by placing each variation on its own line.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:25:22 -07:00
Jens Lehmann
95c16418f0 rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree
Currently using "git rm" on a submodule removes the submodule's work tree
from that of the superproject and the gitlink from the index. But the
submodule's section in .gitmodules is left untouched, which is a leftover
of the now removed submodule and might irritate users (as opposed to the
setting in .git/config, this must stay as a reminder that the user showed
interest in this submodule so it will be repopulated later when an older
commit is checked out).

Let "git rm" help the user by not only removing the submodule from the
work tree but by also removing the "submodule.<submodule name>" section
from the .gitmodules file and stage both. This doesn't happen when the
"--cached" option is used, as it would modify the work tree. This also
silently does nothing when no .gitmodules file is found and only issues a
warning when it doesn't have a section for this submodule. This is because
the user might just use plain gitlinks without the .gitmodules file or has
already removed the section by hand before issuing the "git rm" command
(in which case the warning reminds him that rm would have done that for
him). Only when .gitmodules is found and contains merge conflicts the rm
command will fail and tell the user to resolve the conflict before trying
again.

Also extend the man page to inform the user about this new feature. While
at it promote the submodule sub-section to a chapter as it made not much
sense under "REMOVING FILES THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE FILESYSTEM".

In t7610 three uses of "git rm submod" had to be replaced with "git rm
--cached submod" because that test expects .gitmodules and the work tree
to stay untouched. Also in t7400 the tests for the remaining settings in
the .gitmodules file had to be changed to assert that these settings are
missing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:11:00 -07:00
Jens Lehmann
0656781fad mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules
Currently using "git mv" on a submodule moves the submodule's work tree in
that of the superproject. But the submodule's path setting in .gitmodules
is left untouched, which is now inconsistent with the work tree and makes
git commands that rely on the proper path -> name mapping (like status and
diff) behave strangely.

Let "git mv" help here by not only moving the submodule's work tree but
also updating the "submodule.<submodule name>.path" setting from the
.gitmodules file and stage both. This doesn't happen when no .gitmodules
file is found and only issues a warning when it doesn't have a section for
this submodule. This is because the user might just use plain gitlinks
without the .gitmodules file or has already updated the path setting by
hand before issuing the "git mv" command (in which case the warning
reminds him that mv would have done that for him). Only when .gitmodules
is found and contains merge conflicts the mv command will fail and tell
the user to resolve the conflict before trying again.

Also extend the man page to inform the user about this new feature.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:10:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d4770964d5 config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.key
Using the same urlmatch_config_entry() infrastructure, add a new
mode "--get-urlmatch" to the "git config" command, to learn values
for the "virtual" two-level variables customized for the specific
URL.

    git config [--<type>] --get-urlmatch <section>[.<key>] <url>

With <section>.<key> fully specified, the configuration data for
<section>.<urlpattern>.<key> for <urlpattern> that best matches the
given <url> is sought (and if not found, <section>.<key> is used)
and reported.  For example, with this configuration:

    [http]
        sslVerify
    [http "https://weak.example.com"]
        cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
        sslVerify = false

You would get

    $ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://good.example.com
    true
    $ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://weak.example.com
    false

With only <section> specified, you can get a list of all variables
in the section with their values that apply to the given URL.  E.g

    $ git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
    http.cookiefile /tmp/cookie.txt
    http.sslverify false

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 16:02:28 -07:00
Kyle J. McKay
6a56993b2e config: parse http.<url>.<variable> using urlmatch
Use the urlmatch_config_entry() to wrap the underlying
http_options() two-level variable parser in order to set
http.<variable> to the value with the most specific URL in the
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 16:02:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fb56570821 Sync with maint to grab trivial doc fixes
* maint:
  fix typo in documentation of git-svn
  Documentation/rev-list-options: add missing word in --*-parents
  log doc: the argument to --encoding is not optional
2013-08-05 13:00:20 -07:00
Stefan Beller
b7df098c6d log, format-patch: parsing uses OPT__QUIET
This patch allows users to use the short form -q on
log and format-patch, which was non possible before.

Also the documentation of format-patch mentions -q now.

The documentation of log doesn't even talk about --quiet, so I'll leave
that for more experienced git contributors. ;)
It doesn't seem to change the default behavior, but in combination
with --stat for example it suppresses the actual stats.
however the only relevant code in log is
	if (quiet)
		rev->diffopt.output_format |= DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT;

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 11:32:19 -07:00
Felix Gruber
0bf5ce4ef2 fix typo in documentation of git-svn
Signed-off-by: Felix Gruber <felgru@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 09:39:01 -07:00
Jeff King
97be04077f cat-file: only split on whitespace when %(rest) is used
Commit c334b87b (cat-file: split --batch input lines on whitespace,
2013-07-11) taught `cat-file --batch-check` to split input lines on
the first whitespace, and stash everything after the first token
into the %(rest) output format element.  It claimed:

   Object names cannot contain spaces, so any input with
   spaces would have resulted in a "missing" line.

But that is not correct.  Refs, object sha1s, and various peeling
suffixes cannot contain spaces, but some object names can. In
particular:

  1. Tree paths like "[<tree>]:path with whitespace"

  2. Reflog specifications like "@{2 days ago}"

  3. Commit searches like "rev^{/grep me}" or ":/grep me"

To remain backwards compatible, we cannot split on whitespace by
default, hence we will ship 1.8.4 with the commit reverted.

Resurrect its attempt but in a weaker form; only do the splitting
when "%(rest)" is used in the output format. Since that element did
not exist at all before c334b87, old scripts cannot be affected.

The existence of object names with spaces does mean that you
cannot reliably do:

  echo ":path with space and other data" |
  git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectname) %(rest)"

as it would split the path and feed only ":path" to get_sha1. But
that command is nonsensical. If you wanted to see "and other data"
in "%(rest)", git cannot possibly know where the filename ends and
the "rest" begins.

It might be more robust to have something like "-z" to separate the
input elements. But this patch is still a reasonable step before
having that.  It makes the easy cases easy; people who do not care
about %(rest) do not have to consider it, and the %(rest) code
handles the spaces and newlines of "rev-list --objects" correctly.

Hard cases remain hard but possible (if you might get whitespace in
your input, you do not get to use %(rest) and must split and join
the output yourself using more flexible tools). And most
importantly, it does not preclude us from having different splitting
rules later if a "-z" (or similar) option is added.  So we can make
the hard cases easier later, if we choose to.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 09:30:48 -07:00
Torstein Hegge
5104d21fbd Documentation/rev-list-options: add missing word in --*-parents
A commit has "parent commits" or "parents", not "commits".

Signed-off-by: Torstein Hegge <hegge@resisty.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 08:47:06 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
e6604c3537 log doc: the argument to --encoding is not optional
$ git log --encoding
 fatal: Option '--encoding' requires a value
 $ git rev-list --encoding
 fatal: Option '--encoding' requires a value

The argument to --encoding has always been mandatory.  Unfortunately
manpages like git-rev-list(1), git-log(1), and git-show(1) have
described the option's syntax as "--encoding[=<encoding>]" since it
was first documented.  Clarify by removing the extra brackets.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 08:19:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d6cbf2fa7a Merge branch 'rj/cygwin-clarify-use-of-cheating-lstat'
Cygwin port added a "not quite correct but a lot faster and good
enough for many lstat() calls that are only used to see if the
working tree entity matches the index entry" lstat() emulation some
time ago, and it started biting us in places.  This removes it and
uses the standard lstat() that comes with Cygwin.

Recent topic that uses lstat on packed-refs file is broken when
this cheating lstat is used, and this is a simplest fix that is
also the cleanest direction to go in the long run.

* rj/cygwin-clarify-use-of-cheating-lstat:
  cygwin: Remove the Win32 l/stat() implementation
2013-08-02 11:01:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c7eb614c5c Merge branch 'jk/cat-file-batch-optim'
* jk/cat-file-batch-optim:
  Revert "cat-file: split --batch input lines on whitespace"
2013-08-02 09:32:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
062aeee8aa Revert "cat-file: split --batch input lines on whitespace"
This reverts commit c334b87b30c1464a1ab563fe1fb8de5eaf0e5bac; the
update assumed that people only used the command to read from
"rev-list --objects" output, whose lines begin with a 40-hex object
name followed by a whitespace, but it turns out that scripts feed
random extended SHA-1 expressions (e.g. "HEAD:$pathname") in which
a whitespace has to be kept.
2013-08-02 09:29:30 -07:00
Marc Branchaud
42e0fae98e Provide some linguistic guidance for the documentation.
This will hopefully avoid questions over which spelling and grammar should
be used.  Translators are of course free to create localizations for
specific English dialects.

Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-01 13:13:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d50cb7569c Merge branch 'ob/typofixes'
* ob/typofixes:
  many small typofixes
2013-08-01 12:01:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c2980866b7 Merge branch 'jx/clean-interactive'
* jx/clean-interactive:
  git-clean: implement partial matching for selection
  Documentation/git-clean: fix description for range
2013-08-01 11:52:37 -07:00