When a patch inserts a block of lines, whose last lines are the
same as the existing lines that appear before the inserted block,
"git diff" can choose any place between these existing lines as the
boundary between the pre-context and the added lines (adjusting the
end of the inserted block as appropriate) to come up with variants
of the same patch, and some variants are easier to read than others.
We have been trying to improve the choice of this boundary, and Git
2.11 shipped with an experimental "compaction-heuristic". Since
then another attempt to improve the logic further resulted in a new
"indent-heuristic" logic. It is agreed that the latter gives better
result overall, and the former outlived its usefulness.
Retire "compaction", and keep "indent" as an experimental feature.
The latter hopefully will be turned on by default in a future
release, but that should be done as a separate step.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The user always has to say "stash@{$N}" when naming a single
element in the default location of the stash, i.e. reflogs in
refs/stash. The "git stash" command learned to accept "git stash
apply 4" as a short-hand for "git stash apply stash@{4}".
* aw/numbered-stash:
stash: allow stashes to be referenced by index only
Update "interpret-trailers" machinery and teaches it that people in
real world write all sorts of crufts in the "trailer" that was
originally designed to have the neat-o "Mail-Header: like thing"
and nothing else.
* jt/trailer-with-cruft:
trailer: support values folded to multiple lines
trailer: forbid leading whitespace in trailers
trailer: allow non-trailers in trailer block
trailer: clarify failure modes in parse_trailer
trailer: make args have their own struct
trailer: streamline trailer item create and add
trailer: use list.h for doubly-linked list
trailer: improve const correctness
The smudge/clean filter API expect an external process is spawned
to filter the contents for each path that has a filter defined. A
new type of "process" filter API has been added to allow the first
request to run the filter for a path to spawn a single process, and
all filtering need is served by this single process for multiple
paths, reducing the process creation overhead.
* ls/filter-process:
contrib/long-running-filter: add long running filter example
convert: add filter.<driver>.process option
convert: prepare filter.<driver>.process option
convert: make apply_filter() adhere to standard Git error handling
pkt-line: add functions to read/write flush terminated packet streams
pkt-line: add packet_write_gently()
pkt-line: add packet_flush_gently()
pkt-line: add packet_write_fmt_gently()
pkt-line: extract set_packet_header()
pkt-line: rename packet_write() to packet_write_fmt()
run-command: add clean_on_exit_handler
run-command: move check_pipe() from write_or_die to run_command
convert: modernize tests
convert: quote filter names in error messages
The rebase.instructionFormat option is missing its "::" to
tell AsciiDoc that it's a list entry. As a result, the
option name gets lumped into the description in one big
paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with
tabs in it. Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to
work around them.
* po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration:
doc: fix the 'revert a faulty merge' ASCII art tab spacing
doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing
Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token
"." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated
to describe it.
* bw/submodule-branch-dot-doc:
submodules doc: update documentation for "." used for submodule branches
The "submodule.<name>.path" stored in .gitmodules is never copied
to .git/config and such a key in .git/config has no meaning, but
the documentation described it and submodule.<name>.url next to
each other as if both belong to .git/config. This has been fixed.
* sb/submodule-config-doc-drop-path:
documentation: improve submodule.<name>.{url, path} description
Documentation for "git commit" was updated to clarify that "commit
-p <paths>" adds to the current contents of the index to come up
with what to commit.
* nd/commit-p-doc:
git-commit.txt: clarify --patch mode with pathspec
Shorten description of auto-following in "git tag" by removing a
mention of historical remotes layout which is not relevant to the
main topic.
* yk/git-tag-remove-mention-of-old-layout-in-doc:
doc: remove reference to the traditional layout in git-tag.txt
Use at least 4 delimiting dashes that are required for
ListingBlock to get this block rendered as verbatim text.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Christ <contact@stefanchrist.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When new paths were added by "git add -N" to the index, it was
enough to circumvent the check by "git commit" to refrain from
making an empty commit without "--allow-empty". The same logic
prevented "git status" to show such a path as "new file" in the
"Changes not staged for commit" section.
* nd/ita-empty-commit:
commit: don't be fooled by ita entries when creating initial commit
commit: fix empty commit creation when there's no changes but ita entries
diff: add --ita-[in]visible-in-index
diff-lib: allow ita entries treated as "not yet exist in index"
There still are a few topics that need to go in before -rc0 which
would make the shape of the upcoming release clearer, but here is
the final batch before it happens.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with
tabs in it. Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to
work around them.
* po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration:
doc: fix the 'revert a faulty merge' ASCII art tab spacing
doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing
Shorten description of auto-following in "git tag" by removing a
mention of historical remotes layout which is not relevant to the
main topic.
* yk/git-tag-remove-mention-of-old-layout-in-doc:
doc: remove reference to the traditional layout in git-tag.txt
Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token
"." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated
to describe it.
* bw/submodule-branch-dot-doc:
submodules doc: update documentation for "." used for submodule branches
The GPG verification status shown in "%G?" pretty format specifier
was not rich enough to differentiate a signature made by an expired
key, a signature made by a revoked key, etc. New output letters
have been assigned to express them.
* mg/gpg-richer-status:
gpg-interface: use more status letters
"git ls-files" learned "--recurse-submodules" option that can be
used to get a listing of tracked files across submodules (i.e. this
only works with "--cached" option, not for listing untracked or
ignored files). This would be a useful tool to sit on the upstream
side of a pipe that is read with xargs to work on all working tree
files from the top-level superproject.
* bw/ls-files-recurse-submodules:
ls-files: add pathspec matching for submodules
ls-files: pass through safe options for --recurse-submodules
ls-files: optionally recurse into submodules
git: make super-prefix option
"git diff/log --ws-error-highlight=<kind>" lacked the corresponding
configuration variable to set it by default.
* jc/ws-error-highlight:
diff: introduce diff.wsErrorHighlight option
diff.c: move ws-error-highlight parsing helpers up
diff.c: refactor parse_ws_error_highlight()
t4015: split out the "setup" part of ws-error-highlight test
Instead of referencing "stash@{n}" explicitly, make it possible to
simply reference as "n". Most users only reference stashes by their
position in the stash stack (what I refer to as the "index" here).
The syntax for the typical stash (stash@{n}) is slightly annoying and
easy to forget, and sometimes difficult to escape properly in a
script. Because of this the capability to do things with the stash by
simply referencing the index is desirable.
This patch includes the superior implementation provided by Øsse Walle
(thanks for that), with a slight change to fix a broken test in the test
suite. I also merged the test scripts as suggested by Jeff King, and
un-wrapped the documentation as suggested by Junio Hamano.
Signed-off-by: Aaron M Watson <watsona4@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The asciidoctor doc-tool stack does not always respect the 'tab = 8 spaces' rule
expectation, particularly for the Git-for-Windows generated html pages. This
follows on from the 'doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing' fix.
Use just spaces within the block of the ascii art.
All other *.txt ascii art containing three dashes has been checked.
Asciidoctor correctly formats the other art blocks that do contain tabs.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option --ita-invisible-in-index exposes the "ita_invisible_in_index"
diff flag to outside to allow easier experimentation with this new mode.
The "plan" is to make --ita-invisible-in-index default to keep consistent
behavior with 'status' and 'commit', but a bunch other commands like
'apply', 'merge', 'reset'.... need to be taken into consideration as well.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, interpret-trailers requires that a trailer be only on 1 line.
For example:
a: first line
second line
would be interpreted as one trailer line followed by one non-trailer line.
Make interpret-trailers support RFC 822-style folding, treating those
lines as one logical trailer.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, interpret-trailers allows leading whitespace in trailer
lines. This leads to false positives, especially for quoted lines or
bullet lists.
Forbid leading whitespace in trailers.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, interpret-trailers requires all lines of a trailer block to
be trailers (or comments) - if not it would not identify that block as a
trailer block, and thus create its own trailer block, inserting a blank
line. For example:
echo -e "\nSigned-off-by: x\nnot trailer" |
git interpret-trailers --trailer "c: d"
would result in:
Signed-off-by: x
not trailer
c: d
Relax the definition of a trailer block to require that the trailers (i)
are all trailers, or (ii) contain at least one Git-generated trailer and
consists of at least 25% trailers.
Signed-off-by: x
not trailer
c: d
(i) is the existing functionality. (ii) allows arbitrary lines to be
included in trailer blocks, like those in [1], and still allow
interpret-trailers to be used.
[1]
e7d316a02f
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The doc-tool stack does not always respect the 'tab = 8 spaces' rule,
particularly the git-scm doc pages https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge-base
and the Git generated html pages.
Use just spaces within the block of the ascii art.
Noticed when reviewing Junio's suggested update to `git merge-base`
https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqmvi2sj8f.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the only place in the documentation that the traditional layout
is mentioned, and it is confusing. Remove it.
* Documentation/git-tag.txt: Here.
Signed-off-by: Younes Khoudli <younes.khoudli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
4d7bc52b17 ("submodule update: allow '.' for branch value",
2016-08-03) adopted from Gerrit a feature to set "." as a special
value of "submodule.<name>.branch" in .gitmodules file to indicate
that the tracking branch in the submodule should be the same as the
current branch in the superproject.
Update the documentation to describe this.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "submodule.<name>.path" stored in .gitmodules is never copied
to .git/config and such a key in .git/config has no meaning, but
the documentation described it and submodule.<name>.url next to
each other as if both belong to .git/config. This has been fixed.
* sb/submodule-config-doc-drop-path:
documentation: improve submodule.<name>.{url, path} description
"git mergetool" learned to honor "-O<orderfile>" to control the
order of paths to present to the end user.
* da/mergetool-diff-order:
mergetool: honor -O<orderfile>
mergetool: honor diff.orderFile
mergetool: move main program flow into a main() function
mergetool: add copyright
Codepaths involved in interacting alternate object store have
been cleaned up.
* jk/alt-odb-cleanup:
alternates: use fspathcmp to detect duplicates
sha1_file: always allow relative paths to alternates
count-objects: report alternates via verbose mode
fill_sha1_file: write into a strbuf
alternates: store scratch buffer as strbuf
fill_sha1_file: write "boring" characters
alternates: use a separate scratch space
alternates: encapsulate alt->base munging
alternates: provide helper for allocating alternate
alternates: provide helper for adding to alternates list
link_alt_odb_entry: refactor string handling
link_alt_odb_entry: handle normalize_path errors
t5613: clarify "too deep" recursion tests
t5613: do not chdir in main process
t5613: whitespace/style cleanups
t5613: use test_must_fail
t5613: drop test_valid_repo function
t5613: drop reachable_via function
Documentation for "git commit" was updated to clarify that "commit
-p <paths>" adds to the current contents of the index to come up
with what to commit.
* nd/commit-p-doc:
git-commit.txt: clarify --patch mode with pathspec
Add a simple pass-thru filter as example implementation for the Git
filter protocol version 2. See Documentation/gitattributes.txt, section
"Filter Protocol" for more info.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's clean/smudge mechanism invokes an external filter process for
every single blob that is affected by a filter. If Git filters a lot of
blobs then the startup time of the external filter processes can become
a significant part of the overall Git execution time.
In a preliminary performance test this developer used a clean/smudge
filter written in golang to filter 12,000 files. This process took 364s
with the existing filter mechanism and 5s with the new mechanism. See
details here: https://github.com/github/git-lfs/pull/1382
This patch adds the `filter.<driver>.process` string option which, if
used, keeps the external filter process running and processes all blobs
with the packet format (pkt-line) based protocol over standard input and
standard output. The full protocol is explained in detail in
`Documentation/gitattributes.txt`.
A few key decisions:
* The long running filter process is referred to as filter protocol
version 2 because the existing single shot filter invocation is
considered version 1.
* Git sends a welcome message and expects a response right after the
external filter process has started. This ensures that Git will not
hang if a version 1 filter is incorrectly used with the
filter.<driver>.process option for version 2 filters. In addition,
Git can detect this kind of error and warn the user.
* The status of a filter operation (e.g. "success" or "error) is set
before the actual response and (if necessary!) re-set after the
response. The advantage of this two step status response is that if
the filter detects an error early, then the filter can communicate
this and Git does not even need to create structures to read the
response.
* All status responses are pkt-line lists terminated with a flush
packet. This allows us to send other status fields with the same
protocol in the future.
Helped-by: Martin-Louis Bright <mlbright@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to gpg2's doc/DETAILS:
For each signature only one of the codes GOODSIG, BADSIG,
EXPSIG, EXPKEYSIG, REVKEYSIG or ERRSIG will be emitted.
gpg1 ("classic") behaves the same (although doc/DETAILS differs).
Currently, we parse gpg's status output for GOODSIG, BADSIG and
trust information and translate that into status codes G, B, U, N
for the %G? format specifier.
git-verify-* returns success in the GOODSIG case only. This is
somewhat in disagreement with gpg, which considers the first 5 of
the 6 above as VALIDSIG, but we err on the very safe side.
Introduce additional status codes E, X, Y, R for ERRSIG, EXPSIG,
EXPKEYSIG, and REVKEYSIG so that a user of %G? gets more information
about the absence of a 'G' on first glance.
Requested-by: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach mergetool to pass "-O<orderfile>" down to `git diff` when
specified on the command-line.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
