"git fetch" learned "--set-upstream" option to help those who first
clone from their private fork they intend to push to, add the true
upstream via "git remote add" and then "git fetch" from it.
* cb/fetch-set-upstream:
pull, fetch: add --set-upstream option
We promoted the "indent heuristics" that decides where to split
diff hunks from experimental to the default a few years ago, but
some stale documentation still marked it as experimental, which has
been corrected.
* sg/diff-indent-heuristic-non-experimental:
diff: 'diff.indentHeuristic' is no longer experimental
A mechanism to affect the default setting for a (related) group of
configuration variables is introduced.
* ds/feature-macros:
repo-settings: create feature.experimental setting
repo-settings: create feature.manyFiles setting
repo-settings: parse core.untrackedCache
commit-graph: turn on commit-graph by default
t6501: use 'git gc' in quiet mode
repo-settings: consolidate some config settings
The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the
standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options
first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user
input as non-options, has been to use "--" as the delimiter, but
that would not work for commands that use "--" as a delimiter
between revs and pathspec.
* jk/eoo:
gitcli: document --end-of-options
parse-options: allow --end-of-options as a synonym for "--"
revision: allow --end-of-options to end option parsing
This paragraph uses a lot of +pluses+ to render text as monospace. That
works fine with AsciiDoc (8.6.10), and almost fine with Asciidoctor
(1.5.5), which renders the third of these literally ("+$projname+"). The
reason seems to be that Asciidoctor trips on the lone plus a bit
earlier, even though it is escaped.
Switch +$projname+ to `$projname`, and change the next, similar instance
too (+$projname/+), because otherwise, we'd trip on /that one/ instead.
If we would stop there, we would now start falling over on the escaped
plus ('\+') mentioned earlier, rendering /it/ literally. So change that
too...
In other words, unescape the lone '+' and change all the pluses that
follow it to backticks.
AsciiDoc renders this paragraph identically before and after this
commit, and Asciidoctor now renders this the same as AsciiDoc.
I did try to switch the whole paragraph to using backticks rather than
pluses. That worked great with Asciidoctor, but confused AsciiDoc...
Let's go with this rather surgical change instead.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The example output of `git merge-index` has been enriched by a second
"column" of helpful comments. When Asciidoctor renders this, the cells
in that second column aren't aligned.
Fix this by marking the example shell session as a code listing by
wrapping it in "----". Also drop some of the horizontal space between
the two columns so that we fit into 80 columns. This changes the
rendering with both AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor. They now render this
identically, nicely aligned, and within 80 columns.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The indented lines in the example shell script listing are indented
differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor.
Fix this by marking the example shell script as a code listing by
wrapping it in "----". Because this gives us some extra indentation, we
can remove the one that we have been carrying explicitly. That is, drop
the first tab of indentation on each line. For consistency, make the
same change to the short example shell session further down.
With AsciiDoc, this results in identical rendering before and after this
commit. Asciidoctor now renders this the same as AsciiDoc does.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The second "column" in the output of `git ls-remote` is typeset
differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor, similar to various examples
touched by the last few commits.
Fix this by marking the example shell session as a code listing by
wrapping it in "----". Because this gives us some extra indentation, we
can remove the one that we have been carrying explicitly. That is, drop
the first tab of indentation on each line. With AsciiDoc, this results
in identical rendering before and after this commit. Asciidoctor now
renders this the same as AsciiDoc does.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The indented lines in these example config-file listings are indented
differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor.
Fix this by marking the example config-files as code listings by
wrapping them in "----". Because this gives us some extra indentation,
we can remove the one that we have been carrying explicitly. That is,
drop the first tab of indentation on each line.
With AsciiDoc, this results in identical rendering before and after this
commit. Asciidoctor now renders this the same as AsciiDoc does.
git-config.txt pretty consistently uses twelve dashes rather than the
minimum four to spell "----". Let's stick to the file-local convention
there.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are several graphs in this document. For most of them, we use a
single leading tab to indent the whole graph, and then we use spaces
(possibly eight or more) to align things within the graph.
In the larger graph, we use a different strategy: We use 1-N tabs and
just a small number of spaces (<8). This is how we usually prefer to do
our indenting, but Asciidoctor ends up rendering this differently from
AsciiDoc. Same thing for the if-then-fi examples where the conditional
code is indented by two tabs, which renders differently under AsciiDoc
and Asciidoctor.
Similar to 379805051d ("Documentation: render revisions correctly under
Asciidoctor", 2018-05-06), use an explicit literal block to indicate
that we want to keep the leading whitespace in the tables. Change not
just the ones that render differently, but all of them for consistency.
Because this gives us some extra indentation, we can remove the one that
we have been carrying explicitly. That is, drop the first tab of
indentation on each line. With AsciiDoc, this results in identical
rendering before and after this commit, both for git-merge-base.1 and
git-merge-base.html.
A less intrusive change would be to replace tabs 2-N on each line with
eight spaces. But let's follow the example set by 379805051d, so that we
can use our preferred way of indenting.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for each of these options contains a list. After the
list, AsciiDoc interprets the continuation as a continuation of the
*list*, not as a continution of the larger block. As a result, we get
too much indentation. Wrap the entire blocks in "--" to fix this. With
Asciidoctor, this commit is a no-op, and the two programs now render
these identically.
These two files share the same problem and indeed, they both document
`--untracked-files` in quite similar ways. I haven't checked to what
extent that is intentional or warranted, and to what extent they have
simply drifted apart. I consider such an investigation and possible
cleanup as out of scope for this commit and this patch series.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first consumer of pattern-matching filenames was the
.gitignore feature. In that context, storing a list of patterns
as a 'struct exclude_list' makes sense. However, the
sparse-checkout feature then adopted these structures and methods,
but with the opposite meaning: these patterns match the files
that should be included!
It would be clearer to rename this entire library as a "pattern
matching" library, and the callers apply exclusion/inclusion
logic accordingly based on their needs.
This commit renames several methods defined in dir.h to make
more sense with the renamed 'struct exclude_list' to 'struct
pattern_list' and 'struct exclude' to 'struct path_pattern':
* last_exclude_matching() -> last_matching_pattern()
* parse_exclude() -> parse_path_pattern()
In addition, the word 'exclude' was replaced with 'pattern'
in the methods below:
* add_exclude_list()
* add_excludes_from_file_to_list()
* add_excludes_from_file()
* add_excludes_from_blob_to_list()
* add_exclude()
* clear_exclude_list()
A few methods with the word "exclude" remain. These will
be handled seperately. In particular, the method
"is_excluded()" is concretely about the .gitignore file
relative to a specific directory. This is the important
boundary between library and consumer: is_excluded() cares
about .gitignore, but is_excluded() calls
last_matching_pattern() to make that decision.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
filter-branch suffers from a deluge of disguised dangers that disfigure
history rewrites (i.e. deviate from the deliberate changes). Many of
these problems are unobtrusive and can easily go undiscovered until the
new repository is in use. This can result in problems ranging from an
even messier history than what led folks to filter-branch in the first
place, to data loss or corruption. These issues cannot be backward
compatibly fixed, so add a warning to both filter-branch and its manpage
recommending that another tool (such as filter-repo) be used instead.
Also, update other manpages that referenced filter-branch. Several of
these needed updates even if we could continue recommending
filter-branch, either due to implying that something was unique to
filter-branch when it applied more generally to all history rewriting
tools (e.g. BFG, reposurgeon, fast-import, filter-repo), or because
something about filter-branch was used as an example despite other more
commonly known examples now existing. Reword these sections to fix
these issues and to avoid recommending filter-branch.
Finally, remove the section explaining BFG Repo Cleaner as an
alternative to filter-branch. I feel somewhat bad about this,
especially since I feel like I learned so much from BFG that I put to
good use in filter-repo (which is much more than I can say for
filter-branch), but keeping that section presented a few problems:
* In order to recommend that people quit using filter-branch, we need
to provide them a recomendation for something else to use that
can handle all the same types of rewrites. To my knowledge,
filter-repo is the only such tool. So it needs to be mentioned.
* I don't want to give conflicting recommendations to users
* If we recommend two tools, we shouldn't expect users to learn both
and pick which one to use; we should explain which problems one
can solve that the other can't or when one is much faster than
the other.
* BFG and filter-repo have similar performance
* All filtering types that BFG can do, filter-repo can also do. In
fact, filter-repo comes with a reimplementation of BFG named
bfg-ish which provides the same user-interface as BFG but with
several bugfixes and new features that are hard to implement in
BFG due to its technical underpinnings.
While I could still mention both tools, it seems like I would need to
provide some kind of comparison and I would ultimately just say that
filter-repo can do everything BFG can, so ultimately it seems that it
is just better to remove that section altogether.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-format-patch.txt, we were missing some key user information.
First of all, document the special value of `--base=auto`.
Next, while we're at it, surround option arguments with <> and change
existing names such as "Message-Id" to "message id", which conforms with
how existing documentation is written.
Finally, document the `format.outputDirectory` config and change
`format.coverletter` to use camel case.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-graph feature is now on by default, and is being
written during 'git gc' by default. Typically, Git only writes
a commit-graph when a 'git gc --auto' command passes the gc.auto
setting to actualy do work. This means that a commit-graph will
typically fall behind the commits that are being used every day.
To stay updated with the latest commits, add a step to 'git
fetch' to write a commit-graph after fetching new objects. The
fetch.writeCommitGraph config setting enables writing a split
commit-graph, so on average the cost of writing this file is
very small. Occasionally, the commit-graph chain will collapse
to a single level, and this could be slow for very large repos.
For additional use, adjust the default to be true when
feature.experimental is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As discovered on the mailing list, some of the descriptions of the
ff-related options were unclear. Try to be more precise with what these
options do.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common scenario is if a user is working on a topic branch and they
wish to make some changes to intermediate commits or autosquash, they
would run something such as
git rebase -i --onto master... master
in order to preserve the merge base. This is useful when contributing a
patch series to the Git mailing list, one often starts on top of the
current 'master'. While developing the patches, 'master' is also
developed further and it is sometimes not the best idea to keep rebasing
on top of 'master', but to keep the base commit as-is.
In addition to this, a user wishing to test individual commits in a
topic branch without changing anything may run
git rebase -x ./test.sh master... master
Since rebasing onto the merge base of the branch and the upstream is
such a common case, introduce the --keep-base option as a shortcut.
This allows us to rewrite the above as
git rebase -i --keep-base master
and
git rebase -x ./test.sh --keep-base master
respectively.
Add tests to ensure --keep-base works correctly in the normal case and
fails when there are multiple merge bases, both in regular and
interactive mode. Also, test to make sure conflicting options cause
rebase to fail. While we're adding test cases, add a missing
set_fake_editor call to 'rebase -i --onto master...side'.
While we're documenting the --keep-base option, change an instance of
"merge-base" to "merge base", which is the consistent spelling.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Codepaths to walk tree objects have been audited for integer
overflows and hardened.
* jk/tree-walk-overflow:
tree-walk: harden make_traverse_path() length computations
tree-walk: add a strbuf wrapper for make_traverse_path()
tree-walk: accept a raw length for traverse_path_len()
tree-walk: use size_t consistently
tree-walk: drop oid from traverse_info
setup_traverse_info(): stop copying oid
The Linux kernel receives many patches to the devicetree files each
release. The hunk header for those patches typically show nothing,
making it difficult to figure out what node is being modified without
applying the patch or opening the file and seeking to the context. Let's
add a builtin 'dts' pattern to git so that users can get better diff
output on dts files when they use the diff=dts driver.
The regex has been constructed based on the spec at devicetree.org[1]
and with some help from Johannes Sixt.
[1] https://github.com/devicetree-org/devicetree-specification/releases/latest
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the description of 'objects/pack', 'object' should be
pluralized to match the subject and agree with the
rest of the sentence.
Signed-off-by: Ben Milman <bpmilman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the --set-upstream option to git pull/fetch
which lets the user set the upstream configuration
(branch.<current-branch-name>.merge and
branch.<current-branch-name>.remote) for the current branch.
A typical use-case is:
git clone http://example.com/my-public-fork
git remote add main http://example.com/project-main-repo
git pull --set-upstream main master
or, instead of the last line:
git fetch --set-upstream main master
git merge # or git rebase
This is mostly equivalent to cloning project-main-repo (which sets
upsteam) and then "git remote add" my-public-fork, but may feel more
natural for people using a hosting system which allows forking from
the web UI.
This functionality is analog to "git push --set-upstream".
Signed-off-by: Corentin BOMPARD <corentin.bompard@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Nathan BERBEZIER <nathan.berbezier@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Pablo CHABANNE <pablo.chabanne@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Patch-edited-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The indent heuristic started out as experimental, but it's now our
default diff heuristic since 33de716387 (diff: enable indent heuristic
by default, 2017-05-08). Alas, that commit didn't update the
documentation, and the description of the 'diff.indentHeuristic'
configuration variable still implies that it's experimental and not
the default.
Update the description of 'diff.indentHeuristic' to make it clear that
it's the default diff heuristic.
The description of the related '--indent-heuristic' option has already
been updated in bab76141da (diff: --indent-heuristic is no
longer experimental, 2017-10-29).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'feature.experimental' setting includes config options that are
not committed to become defaults, but could use additional testing.
Update the following config settings to take new defaults, and to
use the repo_settings struct if not already using them:
* 'pack.useSparse=true'
* 'fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping'
In the case of fetch.negotiationAlgorithm, the existing logic
would load the config option only when about to use the setting,
so had a die() statement on an unknown string value. This is
removed as now the config is parsed under prepare_repo_settings().
In general, this die() is probably misplaced and not valuable.
A test was removed that checked this die() statement executed.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The feature.manyFiles setting is suitable for repos with many
files in the working directory. By setting index.version=4 and
core.untrackedCache=true, commands such as 'git status' should
improve.
While adding this setting, modify the index version precedence
tests to check how this setting overrides the default for
index.version is unset.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-graph feature has seen a lot of activity in the past
year or so since it was introduced. The feature is a critical
performance enhancement for medium- to large-sized repos, and
does not significantly hurt small repos.
Change the defaults for core.commitGraph and gc.writeCommitGraph
to true so users benefit from this feature by default.
There are several places in the test suite where the environment
variable GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH is disabled to avoid reading a
commit-graph, if it exists. The config option overrides the
environment, so swap these. Some GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH assignments
remain, and those are to avoid writing a commit-graph when a new
commit is created.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The grammar for commits used a '?' rather than a '*' on the `merge`
directive line, despite the fact that the code allows multiple `merge`
directives in order to support n-way merges. In fact, elsewhere in
git-fast-import.txt there is an explicit declaration that "an unlimited
number of `merge` commands per commit are permitted by fast-import".
Fix the grammar to match the intent and implementation.
Reported-by: Joachim Klein <joachim.klein@automata.tools>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inspired by 21416f0a07 ("restore: fix typo in docs", 2019-08-03), I ran
"git grep -E '(\b[a-zA-Z]+) \1\b' -- Documentation/" to find other cases
where words were duplicated, e.g. "the the", and in most cases removed
one of the repeated words.
There were many false positives by this grep command, including
deliberate repeated words like "really really" or valid uses of "that
that" which I left alone, of course.
I also did not correct any of the legitimate, accidentally repeated
words in old RelNotes.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Analogous to commit, introduce a '--no-verify' option which bypasses the
pre-merge-commit hook. The shorthand '-n' is taken by '--no-stat'
already.
[js: * reworded commit message to reflect current state of --no-stat flag
and new hook name
* fixed flag documentation to reflect new hook name
* cleaned up trailing whitespace
* squashed test changes from the original series' patch 4/4
* modified tests to follow pattern from this series' patch 1/4
* added a test case for --no-verify with non-executable hook
* when testing that the merge hook did not run, make sure we
actually have a merge to perform (by resetting the "side" branch
to its original state).
]
Improved-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-merge does not honor the pre-commit hook when doing automatic merge
commits, and for compatibility reasons this is going to stay.
Introduce a pre-merge-commit hook which is called for an automatic merge
commit just like pre-commit is called for a non-automatic merge commit
(or any other commit).
[js: * renamed hook from "pre-merge" to "pre-merge-commit"
* only discard the index if the hook is actually present
* expanded githooks documentation entry
* clarified that hook should write messages to stderr
* squashed test changes from the original series' patch 4/4
* modified tests to follow new pattern from this series' patch 1/4
* added a test case for non-executable merge hooks
* added a test case for failed merges
* when testing that the merge hook did not run, make sure we
actually have a merge to perform (by resetting the "side" branch
to its original state).
* reworded commit message
]
Improved-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
f8b863598c ("builtin/merge: honor commit-msg hook for merges", 2017-09-07)
introduced the no-verify flag to merge for bypassing the commit-msg
hook, though in a different way from the implementation in commit.c.
Change the implementation in merge.c to be the same as in commit.c so
that both do the same in the same way. This also changes the output of
"git merge --help" to be more clear that the hook return code is
respected by default.
[js: * reworded commit message
* squashed documentation changes from original series' patch 3/4
]
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that --end-of-options is available for any users of
setup_revisions() or parse_options(), which should be effectively
everywhere, we can guide people to use it for all their disambiguating
needs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"Can not" suggests one has the option to not do something, whereas
"cannot" more strongly suggests something is disallowed or impossible.
Noticed "can not", mistakenly used instead of "cannot" in git help
glossary, then ran git grep 'can not' and found many other instances.
Only files in the Documentation folder were modified.
'Can not' also occurs in some source code comments and some test
assertion messages, and there is an error message and translation "can
not move directory into itself" which I may fix and submit separately
from the documentation change.
Also noticed and fixed "is does" in git help fetch, but there are no
other occurrences of that typo according to git grep.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hotfix for making "git log" use the mailmap by default.
* jc/log-mailmap-flip-defaults:
log: really flip the --mailmap default
log: flip the --mailmap default unconditionally
Update the docs, test the interaction between the new default,
configuration and command line option, in addition to actually
flipping the default.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All but one of the callers of make_traverse_path() allocate a new heap
buffer to store the path. Let's give them an easy way to write to a
strbuf, which saves them from computing the length themselves (which is
especially tricky when they want to add to the path). It will also make
it easier for us to change the make_traverse_path() interface in a
future patch to improve its bounds-checking.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the spelling of the new "--no-show-forced-updates" option that "git
fetch/pull" learned. Similarly, spell "--function-context" correctly and
fix a few typos, grammos and minor mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It turns out that being cautious to warn against upcoming default
change was an unpopular behaviour, and such a care can easily be
defeated by distro packagers to render it ineffective anyway.
Just flip the default, with only a mention in the release notes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We assume that if setup_traverse_info() is passed a non-empty "base"
string, that string is pointing into a tree object and we can read the
object oid by skipping past the trailing NUL.
As it turns out, this is not true for either of the two calls, and we
may end up reading garbage bytes:
1. In git-merge-tree, our base string is either empty (in which case
we'd never run this code), or it comes from our traverse_path()
helper. The latter overallocates a buffer by the_hash_algo->rawsz
bytes, but then fills it with only make_traverse_path(), leaving
those extra bytes uninitialized (but part of a legitimate heap
buffer).
2. In unpack_trees(), we pass o->prefix, which is some arbitrary
string from the caller. In "git read-tree --prefix=foo", for
instance, it will point to the command-line parameter, and we'll
read 20 bytes past the end of the string.
Interestingly, tools like ASan do not detect (2) because the process
argv is part of a big pre-allocated buffer. So we're reading trash, but
it's trash that's probably part of the next argument, or the
environment.
You can convince it to fail by putting something like this at the
beginning of common-main.c's main() function:
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
argv[i] = xstrdup_or_null(argv[i]);
}
That puts the arguments into their own heap buffers, so running:
make SANITIZE=address test
will find problems when "read-tree --prefix" is used (e.g., in t3030).
Doubly interesting, even with the hackery above, this does not fail
prior to ea82b2a085 (tree-walk: store object_id in a separate member,
2019-01-15). That commit switched setup_traverse_info() to actually
copying the hash, rather than simply pointing to it. That pointer was
always pointing to garbage memory, but that commit started actually
dereferencing the bytes, which is what triggers ASan.
That also implies that nobody actually cares about reading these oid
bytes anyway (or at least no path covered by our tests). And manual
inspection of the code backs that up (I'll follow this patch with some
cleanups that show definitively this is the case, but they're quite
invasive, so it's worth doing this fix on its own).
So let's drop the bogus hashcpy(), along with the confusing oversizing
in merge-tree.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already support merge strategies in the sequencer, but only for
`pick` commands.
With this commit, we now also support them in `merge` commands. The
approach is simple: if any merge strategy option is specified, or if any
merge strategy other than `recursive` is specified, we simply spawn the
`git merge` command. Otherwise, we handle the merge in-process just as
before.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
a blanket ban against them.
* jc/post-c89-rules-doc:
CodingGuidelines: spell out post-C89 rules
The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime
may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be
closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to
an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a
new instance to replace it.
* ds/close-object-store:
packfile: rename close_all_packs to close_object_store
packfile: close commit-graph in close_all_packs
commit-graph: use raw_object_store when closing
commit-graph: extract write_commit_graph_file()
commit-graph: extract copy_oids_to_commits()
commit-graph: extract count_distinct_commits()
commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_all_packs()
commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_commit_hex()
commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_packs()
commit-graph: create write_commit_graph_context
commit-graph: remove Future Work section
commit-graph: collapse parameters into flags
commit-graph: return with errors during write
commit-graph: fix the_repository reference
The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
forms to make them more recognisable.
* qn/clone-doc-use-long-form:
docs: git-clone: list short form of options first
docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options
The 'fsck.skipList' and 'fsck.<msg-id>' config variables might be
easier to discover when they are documented in 'git fsck's man page.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
matches directories") has been revamped.
* an/ignore-doc-update:
gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
"git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
when both options are given.
* vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit:
merge: refuse --commit with --squash
We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
a blanket ban against them.
* jc/post-c89-rules-doc:
CodingGuidelines: spell out post-C89 rules
The "git log" command learns to issue a warning when log.mailmap
configuration is not set and --[no-]mailmap option is not used, to
prepare users for future versions of Git that uses the mailmap by
default.
* ac/log-use-mailmap-by-default-transition:
tests: defang pager tests by explicitly disabling the log.mailmap warning
documentation: mention --no-use-mailmap and log.mailmap false setting
log: add warning for unspecified log.mailmap setting
The tips of refs from the alternate object store can be used as
starting point for reachability computation now.
* jk/check-connected-with-alternates:
check_everything_connected: assume alternate ref tips are valid
object-store.h: move for_each_alternate_ref() from transport.h
"git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action.
* ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip:
cherry-pick/revert: advise using --skip
cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option
sequencer: use argv_array in reset_merge
sequencer: rename reset_for_rollback to reset_merge
sequencer: add advice for revert
The commits in a repository can be described by multiple
commit-graph files now, which allows the commit-graph files to be
updated incrementally.
* ds/commit-graph-incremental:
commit-graph: test verify across alternates
commit-graph: normalize commit-graph filenames
commit-graph: test --split across alternate without --split
commit-graph: test octopus merges with --split
commit-graph: clean up chains after flattened write
commit-graph: verify chains with --shallow mode
commit-graph: create options for split files
commit-graph: expire commit-graph files
commit-graph: allow cross-alternate chains
commit-graph: merge commit-graph chains
commit-graph: add --split option to builtin
commit-graph: write commit-graph chains
commit-graph: rearrange chunk count logic
commit-graph: add base graphs chunk
commit-graph: load commit-graph chains
commit-graph: rename commit_compare to oid_compare
commit-graph: prepare for commit-graph chains
commit-graph: document commit-graph chains
"git blame" learned to "ignore" commits in the history, whose
effects (as well as their presence) get ignored.
* br/blame-ignore:
t8014: remove unnecessary braces
blame: drop some unused function parameters
blame: add a test to cover blame_coalesce()
blame: use the fingerprint heuristic to match ignored lines
blame: add a fingerprint heuristic to match ignored lines
blame: optionally track line fingerprints during fill_blame_origin()
blame: add config options for the output of ignored or unblamable lines
blame: add the ability to ignore commits and their changes
blame: use a helper function in blame_chunk()
Move oidset_parse_file() to oidset.c
fsck: rename and touch up init_skiplist()
"git multi-pack-index" learned expire and repack subcommands.
* ds/midx-expire-repack:
t5319: use 'test-tool path-utils' instead of 'ls -l'
t5319-multi-pack-index.sh: test batch size zero
midx: add test that 'expire' respects .keep files
multi-pack-index: test expire while adding packs
midx: implement midx_repack()
multi-pack-index: prepare 'repack' subcommand
multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' subcommand
midx: refactor permutation logic and pack sorting
midx: simplify computation of pack name lengths
multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand
Docs: rearrange subcommands for multi-pack-index
repack: refactor pack deletion for future use
Even though we have been sticking to C89, there are a few handy
features we borrow from more recent C language in our codebase after
trying them in weather balloons and saw that nobody screamed.
Spell them out.
While at it, extend the existing variable declaration rule a bit to
read better with the newly spelled out rule for the for loop.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The log.mailmap setting may be explicitly set to false, which disables
the mailmap feature implicity. In practice, doing so is equivalent to
always using the previously undocumented --no-use-mailmap option on the
command line.
Accordingly, we document both the existence of --no-use-mailmap as
well as briefly discuss the equivalence of it to log.mailmap=False.
Signed-off-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The gpg --verify usage example within the 'gpg.program' variable
reference provides an incorrect example of the gpg --verify command
arguments.
The command argument order, when providing both a detached signature
and data, should be signature first and data second:
https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Operational-GPG-Commands.html
Signed-off-by: Robert Morgan <robert.thomas.morgan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
forms to make them more recognisable.
* qn/clone-doc-use-long-form:
docs: git-clone: list short form of options first
docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options
Correct the api-trace2 documentation, which lists "signal" as an
expected field for the signal event type, but which actually outputs
"signo" as the field name.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in
non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation.
The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable
this safety feature.
* ds/fetch-disable-force-notice:
pull: add --[no-]show-forced-updates passthrough
fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing
fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument
"git status" can be told a non-standard default value for the
"--[no-]ahead-behind" option with a new configuration variable
status.aheadBehind.
* jh/status-aheadbehind:
status: ignore status.aheadbehind in porcelain formats
status: warn when a/b calculation takes too long
status: add status.aheadbehind setting
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.
* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
t2027: use test_must_be_empty
Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
doc: promote "git restore"
user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
completion: support restore
t: add tests for restore
restore: support --patch
restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
restore: add --worktree and --staged
checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
restore: disable overlay mode by default
restore: make pathspec mandatory
restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
doc: promote "git switch"
...
"git fetch" that grabs from a group of remotes learned to run the
auto-gc only once at the very end.
* nd/fetch-multi-gc-once:
fetch: only run 'gc' once when fetching multiple remotes
"git rev-list --objects" learned with "--no-object-names" option to
squelch the path to the object that is used as a grouping hint for
pack-objects.
* es/rev-list-no-object-names:
rev-list: teach --no-object-names to enable piping
The conditional inclusion mechanism learned to base the choice on
the branch the HEAD currently is on.
* dl/includeif-onbranch:
config: learn the "onbranch:" includeIf condition
Dev support update to help tracing out tests.
* sg/trace2-rename:
trace2: correct typo in technical documentation
Revert "test-lib: whitelist GIT_TR2_* in the environment"
A new tag.gpgSign configuration variable turns "git tag -a" into
"git tag -s".
* tm/tag-gpgsign-config:
tag: add tag.gpgSign config option to force all tags be GPG-signed
"git branch --list" learned to show branches that are checked out
in other worktrees connected to the same repository prefixed with
'+', similar to the way the currently checked out branch is shown
with '*' in front.
* nb/branch-show-other-worktrees-head:
branch: add worktree info on verbose output
branch: update output to include worktree info
ref-filter: add worktreepath atom
List the short form of options (e.g.: '-l') before the long form (e.g.
'--local').
This is to match the doc of git-add, git-commit, git-clean, git-branch...
Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden <quentin.nerden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To make the doc of git-clone easier to read,
refer to the long form of the options
(it is easier to guess what '--verbose' is doing than '-v').
Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden <quentin.nerden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git am or rebase have a --skip flag to skip the current commit if the
user wishes to do so. During a cherry-pick or revert a user could
likewise skip a commit, but needs to use 'git reset' (or in the case
of conflicts 'git reset --merge'), followed by 'git (cherry-pick |
revert) --continue' to skip the commit. This is more annoying and
sometimes confusing on the users' part. Add a `--skip` option to make
skipping commits easier for the user and to make the commands more
consistent.
In the next commit, we will change the advice messages hence finishing
the process of teaching revert and cherry-pick "how to skip commits".
Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the case of merge conflicts, while performing a revert, we are
currently advised to use `git cherry-pick --<sequencer-options>`.
Introduce a separate advice message for `git revert`. Also change
the signature of `create_seq_dir` to handle which advice to display
selectively.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The behavior of "grep" when patterns contained a NUL-byte has always
been haphazard, and has served the vagaries of the implementation more
than anything else. A pattern containing a NUL-byte can only be
provided via "-f <file>". Since pickaxe (log search) has no such flag
the NUL-byte in patterns has only ever been supported by "grep" (and
not "log --grep").
Since 9eceddeec6 ("Use kwset in grep", 2011-08-21) patterns containing
"\0" were considered fixed. In 966be95549 ("grep: add tests to fix
blind spots with \0 patterns", 2017-05-20) I added tests for this
behavior.
Change the behavior to do the obvious thing, i.e. don't silently
discard a regex pattern and make it implicitly fixed just because they
contain a NUL-byte. Instead die if the backend in question can't
handle them, e.g. --basic-regexp is combined with such a pattern.
This is desired because from a user's point of view it's the obvious
thing to do. Whether we support BRE/ERE/Perl syntax is different from
whether our implementation is limited by C-strings. These patterns are
obscure enough that I think this behavior change is OK, especially
since we never documented the old behavior.
Doing this also makes it easier to replace the kwset backend with
something else, since we'll no longer strictly need it for anything we
can't easily use another fixed-string backend for.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's been behaving so since 6a536e2076 (git: treat "git -C '<path>'"
as a no-op when <path> is empty, 2015-03-06).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we receive a remote ref update to sha1 "X", we want to check that
we have all of the objects needed by "X". We can assume that our
repository is not currently corrupted, and therefore if we have a ref
pointing at "Y", we have all of its objects. So we can stop our
traversal from "X" as soon as we hit "Y".
If we make the same non-corruption assumption about any repositories we
use to store alternates, then we can also use their ref tips to shorten
the traversal.
This is especially useful when cloning with "--reference", as we
otherwise do not have any local refs to check against, and have to
traverse the whole history, even though the other side may have sent us
few or no objects. Here are results for the included perf test (which
shows off more or less the maximal savings, getting one new commit and
sharing the whole history):
Test HEAD^ HEAD
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[on git.git]
5600.3: clone --reference 2.94(2.86+0.08) 0.09(0.08+0.01) -96.9%
[on linux.git]
5600.3: clone --reference 45.74(45.34+0.41) 0.36(0.30+0.08) -99.2%
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow combining of multiple filters by simply repeating the --filter
flag. Before this patch, the user had to combine them in a single flag
somewhat awkwardly (e.g. --filter=combine:FOO+BAR), including
URL-encoding the individual filters.
To make this work, in the --filter flag parsing callback, rather than
error out when we detect that the filter_options struct is already
populated, we modify it in-place to contain the added sub-filter. The
existing sub-filter becomes the lhs of the combined filter, and the
next sub-filter becomes the rhs. We also have to URL-encode the LHS and
RHS sub-filters.
We can simplify the operation if the LHS is already a combine: filter.
In that case, we just append the URL-encoded RHS sub-filter to the LHS
spec to get the new spec.
Helped-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Helped-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
an apparent typo for the environment variable was included with 81567caf87
("trace2: update docs to describe system/global config settings",
2019-04-15), and was missed when renamed variables by e4b75d6a1d
("trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*", 2019-05-19)
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While at it, let's remove a reference to ODB effort as the ODB
effort has been replaced by directly enhancing partial clone
and promisor remote features.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git.kernel.org uses cgit, not gitweb, these days:
$ w3m -dump 'http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=tree;f=gitweb' | grep -w generated
generated by cgit 1.2-0.3.lf.el7 (git 2.18.0) at 2019-06-22 16:14:38 +0000
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We implement a command called git-psuh which accept arguments, so let's
show that it accepts arguments in the doc and the usage string.
While at it, we need to prepare "a NULL-terminated array of usage strings",
not just "a NULL-terminated usage string".
Helped-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
matches directories") has been revamped.
* an/ignore-doc-update:
gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
boundary for Rust has been added.
* ml/userdiff-rust:
userdiff: two simplifications of patterns for rust
userdiff: add built-in pattern for rust
The --[no-]show-forced-updates option in 'git fetch' can be confusing
for some users, especially if it is enabled via config setting and not
by argument. Add advice to warn the user that the (forced update)
messages were not listed.
Additionally, warn users when the forced update check takes longer
than ten seconds, and recommend that they disable the check. These
messages can be disabled by the advice.fetchShowForcedUpdates config
setting.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After updating a set of remove refs during a 'git fetch', we walk the
commits in the new ref value and not in the old ref value to discover
if the update was a forced update. This results in two things happening
during the command:
1. The line including the ref update has an additional "(forced-update)"
marker at the end.
2. The ref log for that remote branch includes a bit saying that update
is a forced update.
For many situations, this forced-update message happens infrequently, or
is a small bit of information among many ref updates. Many users ignore
these messages, but the calculation required here slows down their fetches
significantly. Keep in mind that they do not have the opportunity to
calculate a commit-graph file containing the newly-fetched commits, so
these comparisons can be very slow.
Add a '--[no-]show-forced-updates' option that allows a user to skip this
calculation. The only permanent result is dropping the forced-update bit
in the reflog.
Include a new fetch.showForcedUpdates config setting that allows this
behavior without including the argument in every command. The config
setting is overridden by the command-line arguments.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ahead/behind calculation in 'git status' can be slow in some
cases. Users may not realize that there are ways to avoid this
computation, especially if they are not using the information.
Add a warning that appears if this calculation takes more than
two seconds. The warning can be disabled through the new config
setting advice.statusAheadBehind.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --[no-]ahead-behind option was introduced in fd9b544a
(status: add --[no-]ahead-behind to status and commit for V2
format, 2018-01-09). This is a necessary change of behavior
in repos where the remote tracking branches can move very
quickly ahead of the local branches. However, users need to
remember to provide the command-line argument every time.
Add a new "status.aheadBehind" config setting to change the
default behavior of all git status formats.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow easier parsing by cat-file by giving rev-list an option to print
only the OID of a non-commit object without any additional information.
This is a short-term shim; later on, rev-list should be taught how to
print the types of objects it finds in a format similar to cat-file's.
Before this commit, the output from rev-list needed to be massaged
before being piped to cat-file, like so:
git rev-list --objects HEAD | cut -f 1 -d ' ' |
git cat-file --batch-check
This was especially unexpected when dealing with root trees, as an
invisible whitespace exists at the end of the OID:
git rev-list --objects --filter=tree:1 --max-count=1 HEAD |
xargs -I% echo "AA%AA"
Now, it can be piped directly, as in the added test case:
git rev-list --objects --no-object-names HEAD | git cat-file --batch-check
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Change-Id: I489bdf0a8215532e540175188883ff7541d70e1b
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In multiple remotes mode, git-fetch is launched for n-1 remotes and the
last remote is handled by the current process. Each of these processes
will in turn run 'gc' at the end.
This is not really a problem because even if multiple 'gc --auto' is run
at the same time we still handle it correctly. It does show multiple
"auto packing in the background" messages though. And we may waste some
resources when gc actually runs because we still do some stuff before
checking the lock and moving it to background.
So let's try to avoid that. We should only need one 'gc' run after all
objects and references are added anyway. Add a new option --no-auto-gc
that will be used by those n-1 processes. 'gc --auto' will always run on
the main fetch process (*).
(*) even if we fetch remotes in parallel at some point in future, this
should still be fine because we should "join" all those processes
before this step.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we wrote a commit-graph chain, we only modified the tip file in
the chain. It is valuable to verify what we wrote, but not waste
time checking files we did not write.
Add a '--shallow' option to the 'git commit-graph verify' subcommand
and check that it does not read the base graph in a two-file chain.
Making the verify subcommand read from a chain of commit-graphs takes
some rearranging of the builtin code.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The split commit-graph feature is now fully implemented, but needs
some more run-time configurability. Allow direct callers to 'git
commit-graph write --split' to specify the values used in the
merge strategy and the expire time.
Update the documentation to specify these values.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we merge commit-graph files in a commit-graph chain, we should clean
up the files that are no longer used.
This change introduces an 'expiry_window' value to the context, which is
always zero (for now). We then check the modified time of each
graph-{hash}.graph file in the $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs folder and
unlink the files that are older than the expiry_window.
Since this is always zero, this immediately clears all unused graph
files. We will update the value to match a config setting in a future
change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In an environment like a fork network, it is helpful to have a
commit-graph chain that spans both the base repo and the fork repo. The
fork is usually a small set of data on top of the large repo, but
sometimes the fork is much larger. For example, git-for-windows/git has
almost double the number of commits as git/git because it rebases its
commits on every major version update.
To allow cross-alternate commit-graph chains, we need a few pieces:
1. When looking for a graph-{hash}.graph file, check all alternates.
2. When merging commit-graph chains, do not merge across alternates.
3. When writing a new commit-graph chain based on a commit-graph file
in another object directory, do not allow success if the base file
has of the name "commit-graph" instead of
"commit-graphs/graph-{hash}.graph".
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When searching for a commit in a commit-graph chain of G graphs with N
commits, the search takes O(G log N) time. If we always add a new tip
graph with every write, the linear G term will start to dominate and
slow the lookup process.
To keep lookups fast, but also keep most incremental writes fast, create
a strategy for merging levels of the commit-graph chain. The strategy is
detailed in the commit-graph design document, but is summarized by these
two conditions:
1. If the number of commits we are adding is more than half the number
of commits in the graph below, then merge with that graph.
2. If we are writing more than 64,000 commits into a single graph,
then merge with all lower graphs.
The numeric values in the conditions above are currently constant, but
can become config options in a future update.
As we merge levels of the commit-graph chain, check that the commits
still exist in the repository. A garbage-collection operation may have
removed those commits from the object store and we do not want to
persist them in the commit-graph chain. This is a non-issue if the
'git gc' process wrote a new, single-level commit-graph file.
After we merge levels, the old graph-{hash}.graph files are no longer
referenced by the commit-graph-chain file. We will expire these files in
a future change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To quickly verify a commit-graph chain is valid on load, we will
read from the new "Base Graphs Chunk" of each file in the chain.
This will prevent accidentally loading incorrect data from manually
editing the commit-graph-chain file or renaming graph-{hash}.graph
files.
The commit_graph struct already had an object_id struct "oid", but
it was never initialized or used. Add a line to read the hash from
the end of the commit-graph file and into the oid member.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a basic description of commit-graph chains. More details about the
feature will be added as we add functionality. This introduction gives a
high-level overview to the goals of the feature and the basic layout of
commit-graph chains.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Command mode options that the user can choose one among many are
listed like this in the documentation:
git am (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)
They are listed on a single line and in parenthesis, because they
are not optional.
But documentation pages for some commands deviate from this norm.
Fix the merge and rebase docs to match this style.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some
people).
* po/git-help-on-git-itself:
Doc: git.txt: remove backticks from link and add git-scm.com/docs
git.c: show usage for accessing the git(1) help page
A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core
developers.
* es/first-contrib-tutorial:
doc: add some nit fixes to MyFirstContribution
documentation: add anchors to MyFirstContribution
documentation: add tutorial for first contribution
The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
boundary for Matlab has been extend to cover Octave, which is more
or less equivalent.
* bl/userdiff-octave:
userdiff: fix grammar and style issues
userdiff: add Octave
"git clone --recurse-submodules" learned to set up the submodules
to ignore commit object names recorded in the superproject gitlink
and instead use the commits that happen to be at the tip of the
remote-tracking branches from the get-go, by passing the new
"--remote-submodules" option.
* ba/clone-remote-submodules:
clone: add `--remote-submodules` flag
"git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
when both options are given.
* vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit:
merge: refuse --commit with --squash
