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>
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
* 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
"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
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
"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
...
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
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
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
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>
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>
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
"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
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>
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>
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.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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.
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.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
