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Junio C Hamano
badabc06f3 Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal' into maint
By Jeff King
* jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal:
  docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
2012-05-14 11:43:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
07e74b0da2 Merge branch 'ct/advise-push-default' into maint
The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
categories; each case is given a separate advise message.

By Christopher Tiwald (2) and Jeff King (1)
* ct/advise-push-default:
  Fix httpd tests that broke when non-ff push advice changed
  clean up struct ref's nonfastforward field
  push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
2012-05-11 11:18:43 -07:00
Jeff King
4c0a89fcde config: expand tildes in include.path variable
You can already use relative paths in include.path, which
means that including "foo" from your global "~/.gitconfig"
will look in your home directory. However, you might want to
do something clever like putting "~/.gitconfig-foo" in a
specific repository's config file.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-29 17:46:32 -07:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
Christopher Tiwald
f25950f347 push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
Pushing a non-fast-forward update to a remote repository will result in
an error, but the hint text doesn't provide the correct resolution in
every case. Give better resolution advice in three push scenarios:

1) If you push your current branch and it triggers a non-fast-forward
error, you should merge remote changes with 'git pull' before pushing
again.

2) If you push to a shared repository others push to, and your local
tracking branches are not kept up to date, the 'matching refs' default
will generate non-fast-forward errors on outdated branches. If this is
your workflow, the 'matching refs' default is not for you. Consider
setting the 'push.default' configuration variable to 'current' or
'upstream' to ensure only your current branch is pushed.

3) If you explicitly specify a ref that is not your current branch or
push matching branches with ':', you will generate a non-fast-forward
error if any pushed branch tip is out of date. You should checkout the
offending branch and merge remote changes before pushing again.

Teach transport.c to recognize these scenarios and configure push.c
to hint for them. If 'git push's default behavior changes or we
discover more scenarios, extension is easy. Standardize on the
advice API and add three new advice variables, 'pushNonFFCurrent',
'pushNonFFDefault', and 'pushNonFFMatching'. Setting any of these
to 'false' will disable their affiliated advice. Setting
'pushNonFastForward' to false will disable all three, thus preserving the
config option for users who already set it, but guaranteeing new
users won't disable push advice accidentally.

Based-on-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christopher Tiwald <christiwald@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-19 21:42:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
91527e54d5 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.3 for the last time
  http.proxy: also mention https_proxy and all_proxy
  t0300: work around bug in dash 0.5.6
  t5512 (ls-remote): modernize style
  tests: fix spurious error when run directly with Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
2012-03-04 22:21:52 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
b2c8c6d944 http.proxy: also mention https_proxy and all_proxy
The current wording of the http.proxy documentation suggests that
http_proxy is somehow equivalent to http.proxy. However, while
http.proxy (by the means of curl's CURLOPT_PROXY option) overrides the
proxy for both HTTP and HTTPS protocols, the http_proxy environment
variable is used only for HTTP. But since the docs mention only
http_proxy, a user might expect it to apply to all HTTP-like protocols.

Avoid any such misunderstanding by explicitly mentioning https_proxy and
all_proxy as well.

Also replace linkgit:curl[1] with a literal 'curl(1)', because the
former gets translated to a dead link in the HTML pages.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-04 21:11:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
797166cfaf Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation fixes in git-config
2012-03-01 14:45:14 -08:00
Libor Pechacek
e0a4aae865 Documentation fixes in git-config
Variable names must start with an alphabetic character, regexp config key
matching has its limits, sentence grammar.

Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01 08:22:24 -08:00
Jeff King
9b25a0b52e config: add include directive
It can be useful to split your ~/.gitconfig across multiple
files. For example, you might have a "main" file which is
used on many machines, but a small set of per-machine
tweaks. Or you may want to make some of your config public
(e.g., clever aliases) while keeping other data back (e.g.,
your name or other identifying information). Or you may want
to include a number of config options in some subset of your
repos without copying and pasting (e.g., you want to
reference them from the .git/config of participating repos).

This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
It looks like:

  [include]
    path = /path/to/file

This is syntactically backwards-compatible with existing git
config parsers (i.e., they will see it as another config
entry and ignore it unless you are looking up include.path).

The implementation provides a "git_config_include" callback
which wraps regular config callbacks. Callers can pass it to
git_config_from_file, and it will transparently follow any
include directives, passing all of the discovered options to
the real callback.

Include directives are turned on automatically for "regular"
git config parsing. This includes calls to git_config, as
well as calls to the "git config" program that do not
specify a single file (e.g., using "-f", "--global", etc).
They are not turned on in other cases, including:

  1. Parsing of other config-like files, like .gitmodules.
     There isn't a real need, and I'd rather be conservative
     and avoid unnecessary incompatibility or confusion.

  2. Reading single files via "git config". This is for two
     reasons:

       a. backwards compatibility with scripts looking at
          config-like files.

       b. inspection of a specific file probably means you
	  care about just what's in that file, not a general
          lookup for "do we have this value anywhere at
	  all". If that is not the case, the caller can
	  always specify "--includes".

  3. Writing files via "git config"; we want to treat
     include.* variables as literal items to be copied (or
     modified), and not expand them. So "git config
     --unset-all foo.bar" would operate _only_ on
     .git/config, not any of its included files (just as it
     also does not operate on ~/.gitconfig).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:59:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e04dc492ac Sync with maint
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 14:46:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
55dcc2ebad Merge the attributes fix in from maint-1.6.7 branch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 14:24:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6c65b5ea43 Merge the attributes fix in from maint-1.6.6 branch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 14:14:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b6fb7fed6a Documentation: rerere's rr-cache auto-creation and rerere.enabled
The description of rerere.enabled left the user in the dark as to who
might create an rr-cache directory.  Add a note that simply invoking
rerere does this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 12:59:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5de89d3abf Merge branch 'jc/show-sig'
* jc/show-sig:
  log --show-signature: reword the common two-head merge case
  log-tree: show mergetag in log --show-signature output
  log-tree.c: small refactor in show_signature()
  commit --amend -S: strip existing gpgsig headers
  verify_signed_buffer: fix stale comment
  gpg-interface: allow use of a custom GPG binary
  pretty: %G[?GS] placeholders
  test "commit -S" and "log --show-signature"
  log: --show-signature
  commit: teach --gpg-sign option

Conflicts:
	builtin/commit-tree.c
	builtin/commit.c
	builtin/merge.c
	notes-cache.c
	pretty.c
2012-01-06 12:44:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
21c6a18c75 Sync with 1.7.8.3 2012-01-06 12:42:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cfdfc5a3b2 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint
* maint-1.7.7:
  Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere
2012-01-06 12:35:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8769e93327 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7
* maint-1.7.6:
  Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere
2012-01-06 12:35:05 -08:00
Thomas Rast
07b88a00c0 Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere
The wording seems to suggest that creating the directory is needed and the
setting of rerere.enabled is only for disabling the feature by setting it
to 'false'. But the configuration is meant to be the primary control and
setting it to 'true' will enable it; the rr-cache directory will be
created as necessary and the user does not have to create it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-06 12:27:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
184a541fb5 Merge branch 'jc/advice-doc'
* jc/advice-doc:
  advice: Document that they all default to true
2011-12-20 13:25:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
367d20ec6b Merge branch 'jk/credentials'
* jk/credentials:
  t: add test harness for external credential helpers
  credentials: add "store" helper
  strbuf: add strbuf_add*_urlencode
  Makefile: unix sockets may not available on some platforms
  credentials: add "cache" helper
  docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
  credential: make relevance of http path configurable
  credential: add credential.*.username
  credential: apply helper config
  http: use credential API to get passwords
  credential: add function for parsing url components
  introduce credentials API
  t5550: fix typo
  test-lib: add test_config_global variant

Conflicts:
	strbuf.c
2011-12-19 16:05:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
26e94af0ba advice: Document that they all default to true
By definition, the default value of "advice.*" variables must be true and
they all control various additional help messages that are designed to aid
new users. Setting one to false is to tell Git that the user understands
the nature of the error and does not need the additional verbose help
message.

Also fix the asciidoc markup for linkgit:git-checkout[1] in the
description of the detachedHead advice by removing an excess colon.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-18 21:38:55 -08:00
Jeff King
a6fc9fd3f4 docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
The credential API and helper format is already defined in
technical/api-credentials.txt.  This presents the end-user
view.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 23:16:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1ee740e669 Merge branch 'ab/pull-rebase-config'
* ab/pull-rebase-config:
  pull: introduce a pull.rebase option to enable --rebase
2011-12-09 13:37:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0c5e70f041 gpg-interface: allow use of a custom GPG binary
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-29 12:30:02 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
6b37dff17f pull: introduce a pull.rebase option to enable --rebase
Currently we either need to set branch.<name>.rebase for existing
branches if we'd like "git pull" to mean "git pull --rebase", or have
the forethought of setting "branch.autosetuprebase" before we create
the branch.

Introduce a "pull.rebase" option to globally configure "git pull" to
mean "git pull --rebase" for any branch.

This option will be considered at a lower priority than
branch.<name>.rebase, i.e. we could set pull.rebase=true and
branch.<name>.rebase=false and the latter configuration option would
win.

Reviewed-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fernando Vezzosi <buccia@repnz.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Herman <eric@freesa.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 08:43:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a5ad8d1bdd Merge branch 'cn/eradicate-working-copy' into maint
* cn/eradicate-working-copy:
  Remove 'working copy' from the documentation and C code
2011-10-26 16:13:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
411e6cf197 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint
* maint-1.7.6:
  make the sample pre-commit hook script reject names with newlines, too
  git-read-tree.txt: update sparse checkout examples
  git-read-tree.txt: correct sparse-checkout and skip-worktree description
  git-read-tree.txt: language and typography fixes
  unpack-trees: print "Aborting" to stderr
  Documentation/git-update-index: refer to 'ls-files'
  Documentation: basic configuration of notes.rewriteRef
2011-10-26 16:09:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
588150b023 Merge branch 'tr/doc-note-rewrite' into maint-1.7.6
* tr/doc-note-rewrite:
  Documentation: basic configuration of notes.rewriteRef
2011-10-26 16:09:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9ee3d37743 Merge branch 'po/insn-editor'
* po/insn-editor:
  "rebase -i": support special-purpose editor to edit insn sheet
2011-10-21 16:04:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
abe2773019 Merge branch 'cn/doc-config-bare-subsection'
* cn/doc-config-bare-subsection:
  Documentation: update [section.subsection] to reflect what git does
2011-10-21 16:04:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
380f26c29b Merge branch 'jn/gitweb-manpages'
* jn/gitweb-manpages:
  gitweb: Add gitweb manpages to 'gitweb' package in git.spec
  Documentation: Add gitweb config variables to git-config(1)
  Documentation: Link to gitweb(1) and gitweb.conf(5) in other manpages
  gitweb: Add gitweb(1) manpage for gitweb itself
  gitweb: Add gitweb.conf(5) manpage for gitweb configuration files
2011-10-18 21:59:11 -07:00
Peter Oberndorfer
821881d88d "rebase -i": support special-purpose editor to edit insn sheet
The insn sheet used by "rebase -i" is designed to be easily editable by
any text editor, but an editor that is specifically meant for it (but
is otherwise unsuitable for editing regular text files) could be useful
by allowing drag & drop reordering in a GUI environment, for example.

The GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR environment variable and/or the sequence.editor
configuration variable can be used to specify such an editor, while
allowing the usual editor to be used to edit commit log messages. As
usual, the environment variable takes precedence over the configuration
variable.

It is envisioned that other "sequencer" based tools will use the same
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberndorfer <kumbayo84@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-17 14:40:07 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
cd82323fbc Documentation: Add gitweb config variables to git-config(1)
Add a list of gitweb config variables to git-config(1) manpage, just
linking to gitweb(1) or gitweb.conf(5).

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-16 11:09:35 -07:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
f737632938 Documentation: update [section.subsection] to reflect what git does
Using the [section.subsection] syntax, the subsection is transformed
to lower-case and is matched case sensitively. Say so in the
documentation and mention that you shouldn't be using it anyway.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-16 00:22:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9a33b691aa Merge branch 'cn/eradicate-working-copy'
* cn/eradicate-working-copy:
  Remove 'working copy' from the documentation and C code
2011-10-05 12:36:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b5b6521645 Merge branch 'tr/doc-note-rewrite'
* tr/doc-note-rewrite:
  Documentation: basic configuration of notes.rewriteRef
2011-10-05 12:36:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ca0c9764bf Merge branch 'jc/fetch-pack-fsck-objects'
* jc/fetch-pack-fsck-objects:
  test: fetch/receive with fsckobjects
  transfer.fsckobjects: unify fetch/receive.fsckobjects
  fetch.fsckobjects: verify downloaded objects

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	builtin/fetch-pack.c
2011-10-05 12:36:20 -07:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
f7d650c06e Remove 'working copy' from the documentation and C code
The git term is 'working tree', so replace the most public references
to 'working copy'.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-21 14:26:38 -07:00
Thomas Rast
2b4aa89c27 Documentation: basic configuration of notes.rewriteRef
Users had problems finding a working setting for notes.rewriteRef.
Document how to enable rewriting for notes/commits, which should be a
safe setting.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-13 08:35:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7baf32a829 Merge branch 'jn/doc-dashdash' into maint
* jn/doc-dashdash:
  Documentation/i18n: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc
  Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
2011-09-11 21:52:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dab76d3aa6 transfer.fsckobjects: unify fetch/receive.fsckobjects
This single variable can be used to set instead of setting fsckobjects
variable for fetch & receive independently.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-04 12:39:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5e838ea7aa fetch.fsckobjects: verify downloaded objects
This corresponds to receive.fsckobjects configuration variable added (a
lot) earlier in 20dc001 (receive-pack: allow using --strict mode for
unpacking objects, 2008-02-25).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-04 12:27:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
22d9b79370 Merge branch 'bw/log-all-ref-updates-doc' into maint
* bw/log-all-ref-updates-doc:
  Documentation: clearly specify what refs are honored by core.logAllRefUpdates
2011-08-16 11:41:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ef6663b3db Merge branch 'bw/log-all-ref-updates-doc'
* bw/log-all-ref-updates-doc:
  Documentation: clearly specify what refs are honored by core.logAllRefUpdates
2011-07-22 14:43:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
af52e6b06a Merge branch 'jn/doc-dashdash'
* jn/doc-dashdash:
  Documentation/i18n: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc
  Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc
2011-07-13 14:31:37 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
cd8e3711bf Documentation: clearly specify what refs are honored by core.logAllRefUpdates
The documentation for logging updates in git-update-ref, doesn't make it
clear that only a specific subset of refs are honored by this variable.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-12 09:11:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
347231f735 Merge branch 'jn/maint-doc-dashdash' into jn/doc-dashdash
* jn/maint-doc-dashdash:
  Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc
2011-06-29 09:25:51 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
565e135a1e Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc
AsciiDoc versions since 5.0.6 treat a double-dash surrounded by spaces
(outside of verbatim environments) as a request to insert an em dash.
Such versions also treat the three-character sequence "\--", when not
followed by another dash, as a request to insert two literal minus
signs.  Thus from time to time there have been patches to add
backslashes to AsciiDoc markup to escape double-dashes that are meant
to be represent '--' characters used literally on the command line;
see v1.4.0-rc1~174, Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly,
2006-05-05, for example.

AsciiDoc 6.0.3 (2005-04-20) made life harder by also treating
double-dashes without surrounding whitespace as markup for an em dash,
though only when formatting for backends other than the manpages
(e.g., HTML).  Many pages needed to be changed to use a backslash
before the "--" in names of command-line flags like "--add" (see
v0.99.6~37, Update tutorial, 2005-08-30).

AsciiDoc 8.3.0 (2008-11-29) refined the em-dash rule to avoid that
requirement.  Double-dashes without surrounding spaces are not
rendered as em dashes any more unless bordered on both sides by
alphanumeric characters.  The unescaped markup for option names (e.g.,
"--add") works fine, and many instances of this style have leaked into
Documentation/; git's HTML documentation contains many spurious em
dashes when formatted by an older toolchain.  (This patch will not
change that.)

The upshot: "--" as an isolated word and in phrases like "git
web--browse" must be escaped if it is not to be rendered as an em dash
by current asciidoc.  Use "\--" to avoid such misformatting in
sentences in which "--" represents a literal double-minus command line
argument that separates options and revs from pathspecs, and use
"{litdd}" in cases where the double-dash is embedded in the command
name.  The latter is just for consistency with v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work
around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23).

List of lines to fix found by grepping manpages for "(em".

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-29 09:24:26 -07:00
Duncan Brown
bcfb95dde4 http: pass http.cookiefile using CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE
If the config option http.cookiefile is set, pass this file to libCURL using
the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE option. This is similar to calling curl with the -b
option.  This allows git http authorization with authentication mechanisms
that use cookies, such as SAML Enhanced Client or Proxy (ECP) used by
Shibboleth.

To use SAML/ECP, the user needs to request a session cookie with their own ECP
code. See for example:

<https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/ECP>

Once the cookie file has been created, it can be passed to git with, e.g.

git config --global http.cookiefile "/home/dbrown/.curlcookies"

libCURL will then pass the appropriate session cookies to the git http server.

Signed-off-by: Duncan Brown <duncan.brown@ligo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-03 09:29:19 -07:00