Often one is interested in the full --stat output only for commits which
change a few files, but not others, because larger restructuring gives a
--stat which fills a few screens.
Introduce a new option --stat-count=<count> which limits the --stat output
to the first <count> lines, followed by a "..." line. It can
also be given as the third parameter in
--stat=<width>,<name-width>,<count>.
Also, the unstuck form is supported analogous to the other two stat
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These diff-index and diff-tree sample outputs date back to
the first month of git's existence. The output format has
changed slightly since then, so let's have it match the
current output.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent versions of asciidoc will treat "->" as a
single-glyph arrow symbol, unless it is inside a literal
code block. This is a problem if we are discussing literal
output and want to show the ASCII characters.
Our usage falls into three categories:
1. Inside a code block. These can be left as-is.
2. Discussing literal output or code, but inside a
paragraph. This patch escapes these as "\->".
3. Using the arrow as a symbolic element, such as "use the
Edit->Account Settings menu". In this case, the
arrow symbol is preferable, so we leave it as-is.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --porcelain format was originally identical to the
--short format, but designed to be stable as the short
format changed. Since this was written, the short format
picked up a few incompatible niceties, but this description
was never changed.
Let's mention the differences. While we're at it, let's add
some sub-section headings to make the "output" section a
little easier to navigate.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jn/format-patch-doc:
Documentation/format-patch: suggest Toggle Word Wrap add-on for Thunderbird
Documentation: publicize hints for sending patches with GMail
Documentation: publicize KMail hints for sending patches inline
Documentation: hints for sending patches inline with Thunderbird
Documentation: explain how to check for patch corruption
The option can be used to check if read-tree with the same set of other
options like "-m" and "-u" would succeed without actually changing either
the index or the working tree.
The relevant tests in the t10?? range were extended to do a read-tree -n
before the real read-tree to make sure neither the index nor any local
files were changed with -n and the same exit code as without -n is
returned. The helper functions added for that purpose reside in the new
t/lib-read-tree.sh file.
The only exception is #13 in t1004 ("unlinking an un-unlink-able
symlink"). As this is an issue of wrong directory permissions it is not
detected with -n.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already talk about how to use each one and how they work,
but it is a reasonable question to wonder why one might use
one over the other.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Somebody tried "git pull" from a random place completely outside the work
tree, while exporting GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE that are set to correct
places, e.g.
GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME/git.git
GIT_DIR=$GIT_WORK_TREE/.git
export GIT_WORK_TREE GIT_DIR
cd /tmp
git pull
At the beginning of git-pull, we check "require-work-tree" and then
"cd-to-toplevel". I _think_ the original intention when I wrote the
command was "we MUST have a work tree, our $(cwd) might not be at the
top-level directory of it", and no stronger than that. That check is a
very sensible thing to do before doing cd-to-toplevel. We check that the
place we would want to go exists, and then go there.
But the implementation of require_work_tree we have today is quite
different. I don't have energy to dig the history, but currently it says:
test "$(git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree 2>/dev/null)" = true ||
die "fatal: $0 cannot be used without a working tree."
Which is completely bogus. Even though we may happen to be just outside
of it right now, we may have a working tree that we can cd_to_toplevel
back to.
Add a function "require_work_tree_exists" that implements the check
this function originally intended (this is so that third-party scripts
that rely on the current behaviour do not have to get broken).
For now, update _no_ in-tree scripts, not even "git pull", as nobody on
the list seems to really care about the above corner case workflow that
triggered this. Scripts can be updated after vetting that they do want the
"we want to make sure the place we are going to go actually exists"
semantics.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/magic-pathspec:
setup.c: Fix some "symbol not declared" sparse warnings
t3703: Skip tests using directory name ":" on Windows
revision.c: leave a note for "a lone :" enhancement
t3703, t4208: add test cases for magic pathspec
rev/path disambiguation: further restrict "misspelled index entry" diag
fix overslow :/no-such-string-ever-existed diagnostics
fix overstrict :<path> diagnosis
grep: use get_pathspec() correctly
pathspec: drop "lone : means no pathspec" from get_pathspec()
Revert "magic pathspec: add ":(icase)path" to match case insensitively"
magic pathspec: add ":(icase)path" to match case insensitively
magic pathspec: futureproof shorthand form
magic pathspec: add tentative ":/path/from/top/level" pathspec support
Instead of barfing, simply ignore bad object names seen in the
input. This is useful when reading from "git notes list" output
that may refer to objects that have already been garbage collected.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the command to read object names to remove from the standard
input, in addition to the object names given from the command line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Depending on the application, it is not necessarily an error for an object
to lack a note, especially if the only thing the caller wants to make sure
is that notes are cleared for an object. By passing this option from the
command line, the "git notes remove" command considers it a success if the
object did not have any note to begin with.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While "xargs -n1 git notes rm" is certainly a possible way to remove notes
from many objects, this would create one notes "commit" per removal, which
is not quite suitable for seasonal housekeeping.
Allow taking more than one on the command line, and record their removal
as a single atomic event if everthing goes well.
Even though the old code insisted that "git notes rm" must be given only
one object (or zero, in which case it would default to HEAD), this
condition was not tested. Add tests to handle the new case where we feed
multiple objects, and also make sure if there is a bad input, no change
is recorded.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git ls-remote" uses its exit status to indicate if it successfully
talked with the remote repository. A new option "--exit-code" makes the
command exit with status "2" when there is no refs to be listed, even when
the command successfully talked with the remote repository.
This way, the caller can tell if we failed to contact the remote, or the
remote did not have what we wanted to see. Of course, you can inspect the
output from the command, which has been and will continue to be a valid
way to check the same thing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add log.abbrevCommit config variable as a convenience for users who
often use --abbrev-commit with git log and friends. Allow the option
to be overridden with --no-abbrev-commit. Per 635530a2fc and 4f62c2bc57,
the config variable is ignored when log is given "--pretty=raw".
(Also, a drive-by spelling correction in git log's short help.)
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The return codes of git_config_set() and friends are magic numbers right
in the source. #define them in cache.h where the functions are declared,
and use the constants in the source.
Also, mention the resulting exit codes of "git config" in its man page
(and complete the list).
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ci/commit--interactive-atomic:
Test atomic git-commit --interactive
Add commit to list of config.singlekey commands
Add support for -p/--patch to git-commit
Allow git commit --interactive with paths
t7501.8: feed a meaningful command
Use a temporary index for git commit --interactive
* mg/merge-ff-config:
tests: check git does not barf on merge.ff values for future versions of git
merge: introduce merge.ff configuration variable
Conflicts:
t/t7600-merge.sh
Add a no-op wrapper library for Git's shell scripts. To split up the
gettext series I'm first submitting patches to gettextize the source
tree before I add any of the Makefile and Shell library changes needed
to actually use them.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a git-sh-i18n--envsubst program which is a stripped-down version
of the GNU envsubst(1) program that comes with GNU gettext for use in
the eval_gettext() fallback.
We need a C helper program because implementing eval_gettext() purely
in shell turned out to be unworkable. Digging through the Git mailing
list archives will reveal two shell implementations of eval_gettext
that are almost good enough, but fail on an edge case which is tested
for in the tests which are part of this patch.
These are the modifications I made to envsubst.c as I turned it into
sh-i18n--envsubst.c:
* Added our git-compat-util.h header for xrealloc() and friends.
* Removed inclusion of gettext-specific headers.
* Removed most of main() and replaced it with my own. The modified
version only does option parsing for --variables. That's all it
needs.
* Modified error() invocations to use our error() instead of
error(3).
* Replaced the gettext XNMALLOC(n, size) macro with just
xmalloc(n). Since XNMALLOC() only allocated char's.
* Removed the string_list_destroy function. It's redundant (also in
the upstream code).
* Replaced the use of stdbool.h (a C99 header) by doing the following
replacements on the code:
* s/bool/unsigned short int/g
* s/true/1/g
* s/false/0/g
Reported-by: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jh/dirstat-lines:
Mark dirstat error messages for translation
Improve error handling when parsing dirstat parameters
New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstat
Allow specifying --dirstat cut-off percentage as a floating point number
Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behavior
Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-file
Make --dirstat=0 output directories that contribute < 0.1% of changes
Add several testcases for --dirstat and friends
* vh/config-interactive-singlekey-doc:
git-reset.txt: better docs for '--patch'
git-checkout.txt: better docs for '--patch'
git-stash.txt: better docs for '--patch'
git-add.txt: document 'interactive.singlekey'
config.txt: 'interactive.singlekey; is used by...
This reverts commit d0546e2d48, which
was only meant to be a Proof-of-concept used during the discussion.
The real implementation of the feature needs to wait until we migrate
all the code to use "struct pathspec", not "char **", to represent
richer semantics given to pathspec.
The --interactive flag is already shared by git add and git commit,
share the -p and --patch flags too.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch teaches git-grep the --perl-regexp/-P options (naming
borrowed from GNU grep) in order to allow specifying PCRE regexes on the
command line.
PCRE has a number of features which make them more handy to use than
POSIX regexes, like consistent escaping rules, extended character
classes, ungreedy matching etc.
git isn't build with PCRE support automatically. USE_LIBPCRE environment
variable must be enabled (like `make USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease`).
Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is just like --porcelain, except that we always output
the commit information for each line, not just the first
time it is referenced. This can make quick and dirty scripts
much easier to write; see the example added to the blame
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the behaviour of git commit --interactive so that when you abort
the commit (by leaving the commit message empty) the index remains
unchanged.
Hitherto an aborted commit --interactive has added the selected hunks to
the index regardless of whether the commit succeeded or not.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This variable gives the default setting for --ff, --no-ff or --ff-only
options of "git merge" command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* js/info-man-path:
Documentation: clarify meaning of --html-path, --man-path, and --info-path
git: add --info-path and --man-path options
Conflicts:
Makefile
Describe '-p' as a short form of '--patch' in synopsis. Also include a better
explanation of this option and additionally refer the reader to the patch mode
description of git-add documentation.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe '-p' as a short form of '--patch' in synopsis and options. Also
refer the reader to the patch mode description of git-add documentation.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe '-p' as a short form of '--patch' in synopsis and options. Also
refer the reader to the patch mode description of git-add documentation.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is documented in the section about the 'Interactive Mode', rather than for
the option '--patch', since this is the section is where people go to learn
about '--patch'.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The config variable 'interactive.singlekey' influences also '--patch' mode of
git-add, git-reset, and git-checkout.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove spurious "=" after --relative-marks.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 7d6cb10b ("grep: Add the option '--line-number'", 2011-03-28)
introduced the --line-number option and added its description to OPTIONS
section, but forgot to update SYNOPSIS.
Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jn/format-patch-doc:
Documentation/format-patch: suggest Toggle Word Wrap add-on for Thunderbird
Documentation: publicize hints for sending patches with GMail
Documentation: publicize KMail hints for sending patches inline
Documentation: hints for sending patches inline with Thunderbird
Documentation: explain how to check for patch corruption
* jh/dirstat:
--dirstat: In case of renames, use target filename instead of source filename
Teach --dirstat not to completely ignore rearranged lines within a file
--dirstat-by-file: Make it faster and more correct
--dirstat: Describe non-obvious differences relative to --stat or regular diff
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Noticed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These options tell UI programs where git put its documentation, so
"Help" actions can show the documentation for *this* version of git
without regard to how MANPATH and INFOPATH are set up. Details:
. Each variable tells where documentation is expected to be. They do
not indicate whether documentation was actually installed.
. The output of "git --html-path" is an absolute path and can be used
in "file://$(git --html-path)/git-add.html" to name the HTML file
documenting a particular command.
. --man-path names a manual page hierarchy (e.g.,
/home/user/share/man). Its output can be passed to "man -M" or put
at the beginning of $MANPATH.
. --info-path names a directory with info files (e.g.,
/home/user/share/info). Its output is suitable as an argument to
"info -d" or for inclusion in $INFOPATH.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to the way the --html-path option lets UI programs learn where git
has its HTML documentation pages, expose the other two paths used to store
the documentation pages of these two types.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds an alternative implementation of show_dirstat(), called
show_dirstat_by_line(), which uses the more expensive diffstat analysis
(as opposed to show_dirstat()'s own (relatively inexpensive) analysis)
to derive the numbers from which the --dirstat output is computed.
The alternative implementation is controlled by the new "lines" parameter
to the --dirstat option (or the diff.dirstat config variable).
For binary files, the diffstat analysis counts bytes instead of lines,
so to prevent binary files from dominating the dirstat results, the
byte counts for binary files are divided by 64 before being compared to
their textual/line-based counterparts. This is a stupid and ugly - but
very cheap - heuristic.
In linux-2.6.git, running the three different --dirstat modes:
time git diff v2.6.20..v2.6.30 --dirstat=changes > /dev/null
vs.
time git diff v2.6.20..v2.6.30 --dirstat=lines > /dev/null
vs.
time git diff v2.6.20..v2.6.30 --dirstat=files > /dev/null
yields the following average runtimes on my machine:
- "changes" (default): ~6.0 s
- "lines": ~9.6 s
- "files": ~0.1 s
So, as expected, there's a considerable performance hit (~60%) by going
through the full diffstat analysis as compared to the default "changes"
analysis (obviously, "files" is much faster than both). As such, the
"lines" mode is probably only useful if you really need the --dirstat
numbers to be consistent with the numbers returned from the other
--*stat options.
The patch also includes documentation and tests for the new dirstat mode.
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new diff.dirstat config variable takes the same arguments as
'--dirstat=<args>', and specifies the default arguments for --dirstat.
The config is obviously overridden by --dirstat arguments passed on the
command line.
When not specified, the --dirstat defaults are 'changes,noncumulative,3'.
The patch also adds several tests verifying the interaction between the
diff.dirstat config variable, and the --dirstat command line option.
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of having multiple interconnected dirstat-related options, teach
the --dirstat option itself to accept all behavior modifiers as parameters.
- Preserve the current --dirstat=<limit> (where <limit> is an integer
specifying a cut-off percentage)
- Add --dirstat=cumulative, replacing --cumulative
- Add --dirstat=files, replacing --dirstat-by-file
- Also add --dirstat=changes and --dirstat=noncumulative for specifying the
current default behavior. These allow the user to reset other --dirstat
parameters (e.g. 'cumulative' and 'files') occuring earlier on the
command line.
The deprecated options (--cumulative and --dirstat-by-file) are still
functional, although they have been removed from the documentation.
Allow multiple parameters to be separated by commas, e.g.:
--dirstat=files,10,cumulative
Update the documentation accordingly, and add testcases verifying the
behavior of the new syntax.
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mz/rebase: (34 commits)
rebase: define options in OPTIONS_SPEC
Makefile: do not install sourced rebase scripts
rebase: use @{upstream} if no upstream specified
rebase -i: remove unnecessary state rebase-root
rebase -i: don't read unused variable preserve_merges
git-rebase--am: remove unnecessary --3way option
rebase -m: don't print exit code 2 when merge fails
rebase -m: remember allow_rerere_autoupdate option
rebase: remember strategy and strategy options
rebase: remember verbose option
rebase: extract code for writing basic state
rebase: factor out sub command handling
rebase: make -v a tiny bit more verbose
rebase -i: align variable names
rebase: show consistent conflict resolution hint
rebase: extract am code to new source file
rebase: extract merge code to new source file
rebase: remove $branch as synonym for $orig_head
rebase -i: support --stat
rebase: factor out call to pre-rebase hook
...
* jh/dirstat:
--dirstat: In case of renames, use target filename instead of source filename
Teach --dirstat not to completely ignore rearranged lines within a file
--dirstat-by-file: Make it faster and more correct
--dirstat: Describe non-obvious differences relative to --stat or regular diff
* rr/doc-content-type:
Documentation: Allow custom diff tools to be specified in 'diff.tool'
Documentation: Add diff.<driver>.* to config
Documentation: Move diff.<driver>.* from config.txt to diff-config.txt
Documentation: Add filter.<driver>.* to config
Reading the diff-family and config man pages one may think that the
color.diff and color.ui settings apply to all diff commands. Make it
clearer that they do not apply to the plumbing variants
diff-{files,index,tree}.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Provide an environment variable GIT_PREFIX which contains the subdirectory
from which a !alias was called (i.e. 'git rev-parse --show-prefix') since
these cd to the to level directory before they are executed.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When --count is used with --cherry-mark, omit the patch equivalent
commits from the count for left and right commits and print the count of
equivalent commits separately.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark subcommand names as 'subcommand' to make them stand out.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The options '---use-log-author' and '--add-author-from' are applicable to other
subcommands except 'fetch' -- therefore move them from the 'fetch' section to
the more general 'options' section.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option '--add-author-from' is used in 'commit-diff', 'set-tree', and
'dcommit' subcommands.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Of the (now) three methods to send unmangled patches using Thunderbird,
this method is listed first because it provides a single-click on-demand
option rather than a permanent change of configuration like the other
two methods.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
6abd933 (git-svn: allow the mergeinfo property to be set, 2010-09-24)
introduced the --mergeinfo option. Document it.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for "cherry-pick -x" could be misread in the way that a
"git notes" object is attached to the new commit, which is not the case.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The hints in SubmittingPatches about stopping GMail from clobbering
patches are widely useful both as examples of "git send-email" and
"git imap-send" usage.
Move the documentation to the appropriate places.
While at it, don't encourage storing passwords in config files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These hints are in git's private SubmittingPatches document but a
wider audience might be interested. Move them to the "git
format-patch" manpage.
I'm not sure what gotchas these hints are meant to work around.
They might be completely false.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The standard reference for this information is the article
"Plain text e-mail - Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email" at
kb.mozillazine.org, but the hints hidden away in git's
SubmittingPatches file are more complete. Move them to the
"git format-patch" manual so they can be installed with git and
read by a wide audience.
While at it, make some tweaks:
- update "Approach #1" so it might work with Thunderbird 3;
- remove ancient version numbers from the descriptions of both
approaches so current readers might have more reason to
complain if they don't work.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SubmittingPatches has some excellent advice about how to check a patch
for corruption before sending it off. Move it to the format-patch
manual so it can be installed with git's documentation for use by
people not necessarily interested in the git project's practices.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a DISCUSSION section to the "git format-patch" manual to encourage
people to send patches in a form that can be applied by "git am"
automatically. There are two such forms:
1. The default form in which most metadata goes in the mail header
and the message body starts with the patch description;
2. The snipsnip form in which a message starts with pertinent
discussion and ends with a patch after a "scissors" mark.
The example requires QP encoding in the "Subject:" header intended for
the mailer to give the reader a chance to reflect on that, rather than
being startled by it later. By contrast, in-body "From:" and
"Subject:" lines should be human-readable and not QP encoded.
Inspired-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Restructure the text of git-merge-base to better explain more clearly
the different modes of operation.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unlike plain merge-base, merge-base --octopus only requires at least one
commit argument; update the synopsis to reflect that.
Add a sentence to the discussion that when --octopus is used, we do expect
'2' (the common ansestor across all) as the result.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The local value of the config variable tar.umask is not passed to the
other side with --remote. We may want to change that, but for now just
document this fact.
Reported-by: Jacek Masiulaniec <jacek.masiulaniec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove a spurious empty line which prevented asciidoc from recognizing a
list continuation mark ('+'), so that it does not get output literally any
more.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I found that some doubled words had snuck back into projects from which
I'd already removed them, so now there's a "syntax-check" makefile rule in
gnulib to help prevent recurrence.
Running the command below spotted a few in git, too:
git ls-files | xargs perl -0777 -n \
-e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt])\s+\1\b/gims)' \
-e '{$n=($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1); ($v=$&)=~s/\n/\\n/g;' \
-e 'print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n"}'
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, the --dirstat analysis ignores when lines within a file are
rearranged, because the "damage" calculated by show_dirstat() is 0.
However, if the object name has changed, we already know that there is
some damage, and it is unintuitive to claim there is _no_ damage.
Teach show_dirstat() to assign a minimum amount of damage (== 1) to
entries for which the analysis otherwise yields zero damage, to still
represent that these files are changed, instead of saying that there
is no change.
Also, skip --dirstat analysis when the object names are the same (e.g. for
a pure file rename).
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also add a testcase documenting the current behavior.
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to the 'remote.<name>.pushurl' config key for git remotes,
'pushurl' is designed to be used in cases where 'url' points to an SVN
repository via a read-only transport, to provide an alternate
read/write transport. It is assumed that both keys point to the same
repository.
The 'pushurl' key is distinct from the 'commiturl' key in that
'commiturl' is a full svn path while 'pushurl' (like 'url') is a base
path. 'commiturl' takes precendece over 'pushurl' in cases where
either might be used.
The 'pushurl' is used by git-svn's dcommit and branch commands.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro R. Sedeño <asedeno@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: James Y Knight <jknight@itasoftware.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Support ":/" magic string that can be prefixed to a pathspec element to
say "this names the path from the top-level of the working tree", when
you are in the subdirectory.
For example, you should be able to say:
$ edit Makefile ;# top-level
$ cd Documentation
$ edit git.txt ;# in the subdirectory
and then do one of three things, still inside the subdirectory:
$ git add -u . ;# add only Documentation/git.txt
$ git add -u :/ ;# add everything, including paths outside Documentation
$ git add -u ;# whatever the default setting is.
To truly support magic pathspec, the API needs to be restructured so that
get_pathspec() and init_pathspec() are unified into one call. Currently,
the former just prefixes the user supplied pathspec with the current
subdirectory path, and the latter takes the output from the former and
pre-parses them into a bit richer structure for easier handling. They
should become a single API function that takes the current subdirectory
path and the remainder of argv[] (after parsing --options and revision
arguments from the command line) and returns an array of parsed pathspec
elements, and "magic" should become attributes of struct pathspec_item.
This patch implements only "top" magic because it can be hacked into the
system without such a refactoring.
The syntax for magic pathspec prefix is designed to be extensible yet
simple to type to invoke a simple magic like "from the top". The parser
for the magic prefix is hooked into get_pathspec() function in this patch,
and it needs to be moved when we refactor the API.
But we have to start from somewhere.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Apart from the list of "valid values", 'diff.tool' can take any value,
provided there is a corresponding 'difftool.<tool>.cmd' option. Also,
describe this option just before the 'difftool.*' options.
Helped-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although the gitattributes page contains comprehensive information
about these configuration options, they should be included in the
config documentation for completeness.
It may be better to rename the "driver" in "diff.<driver>.*" to
something like "content type" or "file type", but for now, let's keep
it consistent across this part of the documentation and the original
description in the gitattributes documentation.
Helped-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
