The following part of the description:
git bisect (bad|new) [<rev>]
git bisect (good|old) [<rev>...]
may be a bit confusing, as a reader may wonder if instead it should be:
git bisect (bad|good) [<rev>]
git bisect (old|new) [<rev>...]
Of course the difference between "[<rev>]" and "[<rev>...]" should hint
that there is a good reason for the way it is.
But we can further clarify and complete the description by adding
"<term-new>" and "<term-old>" to the "bad|new" and "good|old"
alternatives.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows a natural user-interface when looking for any change in the
code, not just regression. For example:
git bisect start --term-old fast --term-new slow
git bisect fast
git bisect slow
...
There were several proposed user-interfaces for this feature. This patch
implements it as options to 'git bisect start' for the following reasons:
* By construction, the terms will be valid for one and only one
bisection.
* Unlike positional arguments, using named options avoid having to
remember an order.
* We can combine user-defined terms and passing old/new commits as
argument to "git bisect start".
* The implementation is relatively simple.
See previous discussions:
http://mid.gmane.org/1435337896-20709-3-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When not looking for a regression during a bisect but for a fix or a
change in another given property, it can be confusing to use 'good'
and 'bad'.
This patch introduce `git bisect new` and `git bisect old` as an
alternative to 'bad' and good': the commits which have a certain
property must be marked as `new` and the ones which do not as `old`.
The output will be the first commit after the change in the property.
During a new/old bisect session you cannot use bad/good commands and
vice-versa.
Some commands are still not available for old/new:
* git rev-list --bisect does not treat the revs/bisect/new and
revs/bisect/old-SHA1 files.
Old discussions:
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063
introduced bisect fix unfixed to find fix.
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182398
discussion around bisect yes/no or old/new.
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199758
last discussion and reviews
New discussions:
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/271320
( v2 1/7-4/7 )
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/271343
( v2 5/7-7/7 )
Signed-off-by: Antoine Delaite <antoine.delaite@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Louis Stuber <stuberl@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thoroughly revise the "git bisect" manpage, including:
* Beef up the "Description" section.
* Make the first long example less specific to kernel development.
* De-emphasize implementation details in a couple of places.
* Add "(roughly N steps)" in the places where example output is shown.
* Properly markup code within the prose.
* Lots of wordsmithing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
request first into core (to a reasonable limit).
* jk/http-backend-deadlock:
http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
t5551: factor out tag creation
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated
concepts.
* mm/log-format-raw-doc:
Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
"git send-email" learned the alias file format used by the sendmail
program (in an abbreviated form).
* ah/send-email-sendmail-alias:
t9001: write $HOME/, not ~/, to help shells without tilde expansion
send-email: add sendmail email aliases format
"color.diff.plain" was a misnomer; give it 'color.diff.context' as
a more logical synonym.
* jk/color-diff-plain-is-context:
diff.h: rename DIFF_PLAIN color slot to DIFF_CONTEXT
diff: accept color.diff.context as a synonym for "plain"
Allow whitespace breakages in deleted and context lines to be also
painted in the output.
* jc/diff-ws-error-highlight:
diff.c: --ws-error-highlight=<kind> option
diff.c: add emit_del_line() and emit_context_line()
t4015: separate common setup and per-test expectation
t4015: modernise style
for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects
not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id".
* bc/object-id: (56 commits)
struct ref_lock: convert old_sha1 member to object_id
warn_if_dangling_symref(): convert local variable "junk" to object_id
each_ref_fn_adapter(): remove adapter
rev_list_insert_ref(): remove unneeded arguments
rev_list_insert_ref_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
mark_complete(): remove unneeded arguments
mark_complete_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
clear_marks(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
mark_complete(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
send_ref(): convert local variable "peeled" to object_id
upload-pack: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
find_symref(): convert local variable "unused" to object_id
find_symref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
write_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
write_refs_to_temp_dir(): convert local variable sha1 to object_id
submodule: rewrite to take an object_id argument
shallow: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
handle_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
add_info_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
handle_one_reflog(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
...
Introduce <branch>@{push} short-hand to denote the remote-tracking
branch that tracks the branch at the remote the <branch> would be
pushed to.
* jk/at-push-sha1:
for-each-ref: accept "%(push)" format
for-each-ref: use skip_prefix instead of starts_with
sha1_name: implement @{push} shorthand
sha1_name: refactor interpret_upstream_mark
sha1_name: refactor upstream_mark
remote.c: add branch_get_push
remote.c: return upstream name from stat_tracking_info
remote.c: untangle error logic in branch_get_upstream
remote.c: report specific errors from branch_get_upstream
remote.c: introduce branch_get_upstream helper
remote.c: hoist read_config into remote_get_1
remote.c: provide per-branch pushremote name
remote.c: hoist branch.*.remote lookup out of remote_get_1
remote.c: drop "remote" pointer from "struct branch"
remote.c: refactor setup of branch->merge list
remote.c: drop default_remote_name variable
The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff
configuration, but it didn't.
* pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff:
pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string
pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.
* ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix:
doc: fix unmatched code fences
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.
* jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix:
doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.
* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
doc: convert \--option to --option
doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
doc: fix length of underlined section-title
doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
* pt/xdg-config-path:
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
t0302: "unreadable" test needs POSIXPERM
t0302: test credential-store support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support multiple credential files
"git upload-pack" that serves "git fetch" can be told to serve
commits that are not at the tip of any ref, as long as they are
reachable from a ref, with uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant
configuration variable.
* fm/fetch-raw-sha1:
upload-pack: optionally allow fetching reachable sha1
upload-pack: prepare to extend allow-tip-sha1-in-want
config.txt: clarify allowTipSHA1InWant with camelCase
Group list of commands shown by "git help" along the workflow
elements to help early learners.
* sg/help-group:
help: respect new common command grouping
command-list.txt: drop the "common" tag
generate-cmdlist: parse common group commands
command-list.txt: add the common groups block
command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" section
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated
concepts.
* mm/log-format-raw-doc:
Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
"git cat-file --batch(-check)" learned the "--follow-symlinks"
option that follows an in-tree symbolic link when asked about an
object via extended SHA-1 syntax, e.g. HEAD:RelNotes that points at
Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt. With the new option, the command
behaves as if HEAD:Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt was given as
input instead.
* dt/cat-file-follow-symlinks:
cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batch
sha1_name: get_sha1_with_context learns to follow symlinks
tree-walk: learn get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
request first into core (to a reasonable limit).
* jk/http-backend-deadlock:
http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
t5551: factor out tag creation
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
Noticed-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's better to start the man page with a description of what
submodules actually are, instead of saying what they are not.
Reorder the paragraphs such that
- the first short paragraph introduces the submodule concept,
- the second paragraph highlights the usage of the submodule command,
- the third paragraph giving background information, and finally
- the fourth paragraph discusing alternatives such as subtrees and
remotes, which we don't want to be confused with.
This ordering deepens the knowledge on submodules with each paragraph.
First the basic questions like "How/what" will be answered, while the
underlying concepts will be taught at a later time.
Making sure it is not confused with subtrees and remotes is not really
enhancing knowledge of submodules itself, but rather painting the big
picture of git concepts, so you could also argue to have it as the second
paragraph. Personally I think this may confuse readers, specially
newcomers though.
Additionally to reordering the paragraphs, they have been slightly
reworded.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'merge.branchdesc' is only mentioned in the docs of 'git fmt-merge-msg'.
The description of 'merge.log' is already duplicated between
'merge-config.txt' and 'git-fmt-merge-msg.txt'; instead of duplicating the
description of another config variable, extract the descriptions of both
of these variables from 'git-fmt-merge-msg.txt' into a separate file and
include it there and in 'merge-config.txt'.
Leave 'merge.summary' only in git-fmt-merge-msg.txt, as it is marked
as deprecated.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The term "plain" is a bit ambiguous; let's allow the more
specific "context", but keep "plain" around for
compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach send-email to read aliases in the sendmail aliases format, i.e.
<alias>: <address|alias>[, <address|alias>...]
Examples:
alice: Alice W Land <awol@example.com>
bob: Robert Bobbyton <bob@example.com>
# this is a comment
# this is also a comment
chloe: chloe@example.com
abgroup: alice, bob
bcgrp: bob, chloe, Other <o@example.com>
- Quoted aliases and quoted addresses are not supported.
- Line continuations are not supported.
Warnings are printed for explicitly unsupported constructs, and any
other lines that are not matched by the parser.
Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Traditionally, we only cared about whitespace breakages introduced
in new lines. Some people want to paint whitespace breakages on old
lines, too. When they see a whitespace breakage on a new line, they
can spot the same kind of whitespace breakage on the corresponding
old line and want to say "Ah, those breakages are there but they
were inherited from the original, so let's not touch them for now."
Introduce `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>` option, that lets them pass
a comma separated list of `old`, `new`, and `context` to specify
what lines to highlight whitespace errors on.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
