"git am --short-current-patch" is a way to show the piece of e-mail
for the stopped step, which is not suitable to directly feed "git
apply" (it is designed to be a good "git am" input). It learned a
new option to show only the patch part.
* pb/am-show-current-patch:
am: support --show-current-patch=diff to retrieve .git/rebase-apply/patch
am: support --show-current-patch=raw as a synonym for--show-current-patch
am: convert "resume" variable to a struct
parse-options: convert "command mode" to a flag
parse-options: add testcases for OPT_CMDMODE()
Some parts of the workflow described in the document has got a bit
stale with the recent toolchain improvements. Update the procedure
a bit, and also describe the convention used around SQUASH??? fixups.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the stash.useBuiltin setting which was added as an escape hatch
to disable the builtin version of stash first released with Git 2.22.
Carrying the legacy version is a maintenance burden, and has in fact
become out of date failing a test since the 2.23 release, without
anyone noticing until now. So users would be getting a hint to fall
back to a potentially buggy version of the tool.
We used to shell out to git config to get the useBuiltin configuration
to avoid changing any global state before spawning legacy-stash.
However that is no longer necessary, so just use the 'git_config'
function to get the setting instead.
Similar to what we've done in d03ebd411c ("rebase: remove the
rebase.useBuiltin setting", 2019-03-18), where we remove the
corresponding setting for rebase, we leave the documentation in place,
so people can refer back to it when searching for it online, and so we
can refer to it in the commit message.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 4 environment variables that can be used to configure the proxy
cert, proxy ssl key, the proxy cert password protected flag, and the
CA info for the proxy.
Documentation for the options was also updated.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Lopez Silva <jalopezsilva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git supports performing connections to HTTPS proxies, but we don't
support doing mutual authentication with them (through TLS).
Add the necessary options to be able to send a client certificate to
the HTTPS proxy.
A client certificate can provide an alternative way of authentication
instead of using 'ProxyAuthorization' or other more common methods of
authentication. Libcurl supports this functionality already, so changes
are somewhat minimal. The feature is guarded by the first available
libcurl version that supports these options.
4 configuration options are added and documented, cert, key, cert
password protected and CA info. The CA info should be used to specify a
different CA path to validate the HTTPS proxy cert.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Lopez Silva <jalopezsilva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone --recurse-submodules --single-branch" now uses the same
single-branch option when cloning the submodules.
* es/recursive-single-branch-clone:
clone: pass --single-branch during --recurse-submodules
submodule--helper: use C99 named initializer
A configuration element used for credential subsystem can now use
wildcard pattern to specify for which set of URLs the entry
applies.
* bc/wildcard-credential:
credential: allow wildcard patterns when matching config
credential: use the last matching username in the config
t0300: add tests for some additional cases
t1300: add test for urlmatch with multiple wildcards
mailmap: add an additional email address for brian m. carlson
"git sparse-checkout" learned a new "add" subcommand.
* ds/sparse-add:
sparse-checkout: allow one-character directories in cone mode
sparse-checkout: work with Windows paths
sparse-checkout: create 'add' subcommand
sparse-checkout: extract pattern update from 'set' subcommand
sparse-checkout: extract add_patterns_from_input()
"git rebase" has learned to use the merge backend (i.e. the
machinery that drives "rebase -i") by default, while allowing
"--apply" option to use the "apply" backend (e.g. the moral
equivalent of "format-patch piped to am"). The rebase.backend
configuration variable can be set to customize.
* en/rebase-backend:
rebase: rename the two primary rebase backends
rebase: change the default backend from "am" to "merge"
rebase: make the backend configurable via config setting
rebase tests: repeat some tests using the merge backend instead of am
rebase tests: mark tests specific to the am-backend with --am
rebase: drop '-i' from the reflog for interactive-based rebases
git-prompt: change the prompt for interactive-based rebases
rebase: add an --am option
rebase: move incompatibility checks between backend options a bit earlier
git-rebase.txt: add more details about behavioral differences of backends
rebase: allow more types of rebases to fast-forward
t3432: make these tests work with either am or merge backends
rebase: fix handling of restrict_revision
rebase: make sure to pass along the quiet flag to the sequencer
rebase, sequencer: remove the broken GIT_QUIET handling
t3406: simplify an already simple test
rebase (interactive-backend): fix handling of commits that become empty
rebase (interactive-backend): make --keep-empty the default
t3404: directly test the behavior of interest
git-rebase.txt: update description of --allow-empty-message
"git check-ignore" did not work when the given path is explicitly
marked as not ignored with a negative entry in the .gitignore file.
* en/check-ignore:
check-ignore: fix documentation and implementation to match
When converting a repository using submodules from one hash algorithm to
another, it is necessary to rewrite the submodules from the old
algorithm to the new algorithm, since only references to submodules, not
their contents, are written to the fast-export stream. Without rewriting
the submodules, fast-import fails with an "Invalid dataref" error when
encountering a submodule in another algorithm.
Add a pair of options, --rewrite-submodules-from and
--rewrite-submodules-to, that take a list of marks produced by
fast-export and fast-import, respectively, when processing the
submodule. Use these marks to map the submodule commits from the old
algorithm to the new algorithm.
We read marks into two corresponding struct mark_set objects and then
perform a mapping from the old to the new using a hash table. This lets
us reuse the same mark parsing code that is used elsewhere and allows us
to efficiently read and match marks based on their ID, since mark files
need not be sorted.
Note that because we're using a khash table for the object IDs, and this
table copies values of struct object_id instead of taking references to
them, it's necessary to zero the struct object_id values that we use to
insert and look up in the table. Otherwise, we would end up with SHA-1
values that don't match because of whatever stack garbage might be left
in the unused area.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We seem to be getting new users who get confused every 20 months or
so with this "-h consistently wants to give help, but the commands
to which `-h` may feel like a good short-form option want it to mean
something else." compromise.
Let's make sure that the readers know that `git cmd -h` (with no
other arguments) is a way to get usage text, even for commands like
ls-remote and grep.
Also extend the description that is already in gitcli.txt, as it is
clear that users still get confused with the current text.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git remote rename X Y" needs to adjust configuration variables
(e.g. branch.<name>.remote) whose value used to be X to Y.
branch.<name>.pushRemote is now also updated.
* bw/remote-rename-update-config:
remote rename/remove: gently handle remote.pushDefault config
config: provide access to the current line number
remote rename/remove: handle branch.<name>.pushRemote config values
remote: clean-up config callback
remote: clean-up by returning early to avoid one indentation
pull --rebase/remote rename: document and honor single-letter abbreviations rebase types
Previously, performing "git clone --recurse-submodules --single-branch"
resulted in submodules cloning all branches even though the superproject
cloned only one branch. Pipe --single-branch through the submodule
helper framework to make it to 'clone' later on.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For the foreseeable future, SHA-1 will be the default algorithm for Git.
However, when running the testsuite, we want to be able to test an
arbitrary algorithm. It would be quite burdensome and very untidy to
have to specify the algorithm we'd like to test every time we
initialized a new repository somewhere in the testsuite, so add an
environment variable to allow us to specify the default hash algorithm
for Git.
This has the benefit that we can set it once for the entire testsuite
and not have to think about it. In the future, users can also use it to
set the default for their repositories if they would like to do so.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow the user to specify the hash algorithm on the command line by
using the --object-format option to git init. Validate that the user is
not attempting to reinitialize a repository with a different hash
algorithm. Ensure that if we are writing a non-SHA-1 repository that we
set the repository version to 1 and write the objectFormat extension.
Restrict this option to work only when ENABLE_SHA256 is set until the
codebase is in a situation to fully support this.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git am --show-current-patch" was added in commit 984913a210 ("am:
add --show-current-patch", 2018-02-12), "git am" started recommending it
as a replacement for .git/rebase-merge/patch. Unfortunately the suggestion
is somewhat misguided; for example, the output of "git am --show-current-patch"
cannot be passed to "git apply" if it is encoded as quoted-printable
or base64. Add a new mode to "git am --show-current-patch" in order to
straighten the suggestion.
Reported-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git am --show-current-patch" was added in commit 984913a210 ("am:
add --show-current-patch", 2018-02-12), "git am" started recommending it
as a replacement for .git/rebase-merge/patch. Unfortunately the suggestion
is somewhat misguided; for example, the output "git am --show-current-patch"
cannot be passed to "git apply" if it is encoded as quoted-printable or
base64. To simplify worktree operations and to avoid that users poke into
.git, it would be better if "git am" also provided a mode that copies
.git/rebase-merge/patch to stdout.
One possibility could be to have completely separate options, introducing
for example --show-current-message (for .git/rebase-apply/NNNN)
and --show-current-diff (for .git/rebase-apply/patch), while possibly
deprecating --show-current-patch.
That would even remove the need for the first two patches in the series.
However, the long common prefix would have prevented using an abbreviated
option such as "--show". Therefore, I chose instead to add a string
argument to --show-current-patch. The new argument is optional, so that
"git am --show-current-patch"'s behavior remains backwards-compatible.
The next choice to make is how to handle multiple --show-current-patch
options. Right now, something like "git am --abort --show-current-patch"
is rejected, and the previous suggestion would likewise have naturally
rejected a command line like
git am --show-current-message --show-current-diff
Therefore, I decided to also reject for example
git am --show-current-patch=diff --show-current-patch=raw
In other words the whole of --show-current-patch=xxx (including the
optional argument) is treated as the command mode. I found this to be
more consistent and intuitive, even though it differs from the usual
"last one wins" semantics of the git command line.
Add the code to parse submodes based on the above design, where for now
"raw" is the only valid submode. "raw" prints the full e-mail message
just like "git am --show-current-patch".
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some cases, a user will want to use a specific credential helper for
a wildcard pattern, such as https://*.corp.example.com. We have code
that handles this already with the urlmatch code, so let's use that
instead of our custom code.
Since the urlmatch code is a superset of our current matching in terms
of capabilities, there shouldn't be any cases of things that matched
previously that don't match now. However, in addition to wildcard
matching, we now use partial path matching, which can cause slightly
different behavior in the case that a helper applies to the prefix
(considering path components) of the remote URL. While different, this
is probably the behavior people were wanting anyway.
Since we're using the urlmatch code, we need to encode the components
we've gotten into a URL to match, so add a function to percent-encode
data and format the URL with it. We now also no longer need to the
custom code to match URLs, so let's remove it.
Additionally, the urlmatch code always looks for the best match, whereas
we want all matches for credential helpers to preserve existing
behavior. Let's add an optional field, select_fn, that lets us control
which items we want (in this case, all of them) and default it to the
best-match code that already exists for other users.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <bk2204@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Decisions taken for simplicity:
1) For now, `--pathspec-from-file` is declared incompatible with
`--patch`, even when <file> is not `-`. Such use case is not
really expected.
2) It is not allowed to pass pathspec in both args and file.
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch continues the effort that is already applied to
`git commit`, `git reset`, `git checkout` etc.
1) Added reference to 'linkgit:gitglossary[7]'.
2) Fixed mentions of incorrectly plural "pathspecs".
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Together with the previous patch, this brings docs for `git stash` to
the common layout used for most other commands (see for example docs
for `git add`, `git commit`, `git checkout`, `git reset`) where all
options are documented in a separate list.
After some thinking and having a look at docs for `git svn` and
`git `submodule`, I have arrived at following conclusions:
* Options should be described in a list rather then text to
facilitate lookup for user.
* Single list is better then multiple lists because it avoids
copy&pasting descriptions between subcommands (or, without
copy&pasting, user will have to look up missing options in other
subcommands).
* As a consequence, commands section should only give brief info and
list possible options. Since options have good enough names, user
will only need to look up the "interesting" options.
* Every option should list which subcommands support it.
I have decided to use alphabetical sorting in the list of options to
facilitate lookup for user.
There is some text editing done to make old descriptions better fit
into the list-style format.
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch moves blocks of text as-is to make it easier to review the
next patch.
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Decisions taken for simplicity:
1) It is not allowed to pass pathspec in both args and file.
Adjustments were needed for `if (!argc)` block:
This code actually means "pathspec is not present". Previously, pathspec
could only come from commandline arguments, so testing for `argc` was a
valid way of testing for the presence of pathspec. But this is no longer
true with `--pathspec-from-file`.
During the entire `--pathspec-from-file` story, I tried to keep its
behavior very close to giving pathspec on commandline, so that switching
from one to another doesn't involve any surprises.
However, throwing usage at user in the case of empty
`--pathspec-from-file` would puzzle because there's nothing wrong with
"usage" (that is, argc/argv array).
On the other hand, throwing usage in the old case also feels bad to me.
While it's less of a puzzle, I (as user) never liked the experience of
comparing my commandline to "usage", trying to spot a difference. Since
it's already known what the error is, it feels a lot better to give that
specific error to user.
Judging from [1] it doesn't seem that showing usage in this case was
important (the patch was to avoid segfault), and it doesn't fit into how
other commands react to empty pathspec (see for example `git add` with a
custom message).
Therefore, I decided to show new error text in both cases. In order to
continue testing for error early, I moved `parse_pathspec()` higher. Now
it happens before `read_cache()` / `hold_locked_index()` /
`setup_work_tree()`, which shouldn't cause any issues.
[1] Commit 7612a1ef ("git-rm: honor -n flag" 2006-06-09)
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
check-ignore has two different modes, and neither of these modes has an
implementation that matches the documentation. These modes differ in
whether they just print paths or whether they also print the final
pattern matched by the path. The fix is different for both modes, so
I'll discuss both separately.
=== First (default) mode ===
The first mode is documented as:
For each pathname given via the command-line or from a file via
--stdin, check whether the file is excluded by .gitignore (or other
input files to the exclude mechanism) and output the path if it is
excluded.
However, it fails to do this because it did not account for negated
patterns. Commands other than check-ignore verify exclusion rules via
calling
... -> treat_one_path() -> is_excluded() -> last_matching_pattern()
while check-ignore has a call path of the form:
... -> check_ignore() -> last_matching_pattern()
The fact that the latter does not include the call to is_excluded()
means that it is susceptible to to messing up negated patterns (since
that is the only significant thing is_excluded() adds over
last_matching_pattern()). Unfortunately, we can't make it just call
is_excluded(), because the same codepath is used by the verbose mode
which needs to know the matched pattern in question. This brings us
to...
=== Second (verbose) mode ===
The second mode, known as verbose mode, references the first in the
documentation and says:
Also output details about the matching pattern (if any) for each
given pathname. For precedence rules within and between exclude
sources, see gitignore(5).
The "Also" means it will print patterns that match the exclude rules as
noted for the first mode, and also print which pattern matches. Unless
more information is printed than just pathname and pattern (which is not
done), this definition is somewhat ill-defined and perhaps even
self-contradictory for negated patterns: A path which matches a negated
exclude pattern is NOT excluded and thus shouldn't be printed by the
former logic, while it certainly does match one of the explicit patterns
and thus should be printed by the latter logic.
=== Resolution ==
Since the second mode exists to find out which pattern matches given
paths, and showing the user a pattern that begins with a '!' is
sufficient for them to figure out whether the pattern is excluded, the
existing behavior is desirable -- we just need to update the
documentation to match the implementation (i.e. it is about printing
which pattern is matched by paths, not about showing which paths are
excluded).
For the first or default mode, users just want to know whether a pattern
is excluded. As such, the existing documentation is desirable; change
the implementation to match the documented behavior.
Finally, also adjust a few tests in t0008 that were caught up by this
discrepancy in how negated paths were handled.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When rendering the troff manpages to text via "man", we create an ad-hoc
Makefile and feed it to "make". The purpose here is two-fold:
- reuse results from a prior interrupted render of the same tree
- use make's -j option to build in parallel
But the second part doesn't seem to work (at least with my version of
GNU make, 4.2.1). It just runs one render at a time.
We use a double-colon "all" rule for each file, like:
all:: foo
foo:
...actual render recipe...
all:: bar
bar:
...actual render recipe...
...and so on...
And it's this double-colon that seems to inhibit the parallelism. We can
just switch to a regular single-colon rule. Even though we do have
multiple rules for "all" here, we don't have any recipe to execute for
"all" (we only care about triggering its dependencies), so the
distinction is irrelevant.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The example for the push.pushOption config tries to create a
preformatted section, but uses only two dashes in its "--" line. In
AsciiDoc this is an "open block", with no type; the lines end up jumbled
because they're formatted as paragraphs. We need four or more dashes to
make it a "listing block" that will respect the linebreaks.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git config" learned to show in which "scope", in addition to in
which file, each config setting comes from.
* mr/show-config-scope:
config: add '--show-scope' to print the scope of a config value
submodule-config: add subomdule config scope
config: teach git_config_source to remember its scope
config: preserve scope in do_git_config_sequence
config: clarify meaning of command line scoping
config: split repo scope to local and worktree
config: make scope_name non-static and rename it
t1300: create custom config file without special characters
t1300: fix over-indented HERE-DOCs
config: fix typo in variable name
Two related changes, with separate rationale for each:
Rename the 'interactive' backend to 'merge' because:
* 'interactive' as a name caused confusion; this backend has been used
for many kinds of non-interactive rebases, and will probably be used
in the future for more non-interactive rebases than interactive ones
given that we are making it the default.
* 'interactive' is not the underlying strategy; merging is.
* the directory where state is stored is not called
.git/rebase-interactive but .git/rebase-merge.
Rename the 'am' backend to 'apply' because:
* Few users are familiar with git-am as a reference point.
* Related to the above, the name 'am' makes sentences in the
documentation harder for users to read and comprehend (they may read
it as the verb from "I am"); avoiding this difficult places a large
burden on anyone writing documentation about this backend to be very
careful with quoting and sentence structure and often forces
annoying redundancy to try to avoid such problems.
* Users stumble over pronunciation ("am" as in "I am a person not a
backend" or "am" as in "the first and thirteenth letters in the
alphabet in order are "A-M"); this may drive confusion when one user
tries to explain to another what they are doing.
* While "am" is the tool driving this backend, the tool driving git-am
is git-apply, and since we are driving towards lower-level tools
for the naming of the merge backend we may as well do so here too.
* The directory where state is stored has never been called
.git/rebase-am, it was always called .git/rebase-apply.
For all the reasons listed above:
* Modify the documentation to refer to the backends with the new names
* Provide a brief note in the documentation connecting the new names
to the old names in case users run across the old names anywhere
(e.g. in old release notes or older versions of the documentation)
* Change the (new) --am command line flag to --apply
* Rename some enums, variables, and functions to reinforce the new
backend names for us as well.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, this option doesn't do anything except error out if any
options requiring the interactive-backend are also passed. However,
when we make the default backend configurable later in this series, this
flag will provide a way to override the config setting.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As established in the previous commit and commit b00bf1c9a8
(git-rebase: make --allow-empty-message the default, 2018-06-27), the
behavior for rebase with different backends in various edge or corner
cases is often more happenstance than design. This commit addresses
another such corner case: commits which "become empty".
A careful reader may note that there are two types of commits which would
become empty due to a rebase:
* [clean cherry-pick] Commits which are clean cherry-picks of upstream
commits, as determined by `git log --cherry-mark ...`. Re-applying
these commits would result in an empty set of changes and a
duplicative commit message; i.e. these are commits that have
"already been applied" upstream.
* [become empty] Commits which are not empty to start, are not clean
cherry-picks of upstream commits, but which still become empty after
being rebased. This happens e.g. when a commit has changes which
are a strict subset of the changes in an upstream commit, or when
the changes of a commit can be found spread across or among several
upstream commits.
Clearly, in both cases the changes in the commit in question are found
upstream already, but the commit message may not be in the latter case.
When cherry-mark can determine a commit is already upstream, then
because of how cherry-mark works this means the upstream commit message
was about the *exact* same set of changes. Thus, the commit messages
can be assumed to be fully interchangeable (and are in fact likely to be
completely identical). As such, the clean cherry-pick case represents a
case when there is no information to be gained by keeping the extra
commit around. All rebase types have always dropped these commits, and
no one to my knowledge has ever requested that we do otherwise.
For many of the become empty cases (and likely even most), we will also
be able to drop the commit without loss of information -- but this isn't
quite always the case. Since these commits represent cases that were
not clean cherry-picks, there is no upstream commit message explaining
the same set of changes. Projects with good commit message hygiene will
likely have the explanation from our commit message contained within or
spread among the relevant upstream commits, but not all projects run
that way. As such, the commit message of the commit being rebased may
have reasoning that suggests additional changes that should be made to
adapt to the new base, or it may have information that someone wants to
add as a note to another commit, or perhaps someone even wants to create
an empty commit with the commit message as-is.
Junio commented on the "become-empty" types of commits as follows[1]:
WRT a change that ends up being empty (as opposed to a change that
is empty from the beginning), I'd think that the current behaviour
is desireable one. "am" based rebase is solely to transplant an
existing history and want to stop much less than "interactive" one
whose purpose is to polish a series before making it publishable,
and asking for confirmation ("this has become empty--do you want to
drop it?") is more appropriate from the workflow point of view.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqfu1fswdh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
I would simply add that his arguments for "am"-based rebases actually
apply to all non-explicitly-interactive rebases. Also, since we are
stating that different cases should have different defaults, it may be
worth providing a flag to allow users to select which behavior they want
for these commits.
Introduce a new command line flag for selecting the desired behavior:
--empty={drop,keep,ask}
with the definitions:
drop: drop commits which become empty
keep: keep commits which become empty
ask: provide the user a chance to interact and pick what to do with
commits which become empty on a case-by-case basis
In line with Junio's suggestion, if the --empty flag is not specified,
pick defaults as follows:
explicitly interactive: ask
otherwise: drop
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Different rebase backends have different treatment for commits which
start empty (i.e. have no changes relative to their parent), and the
--keep-empty option was added at some point to allow adjusting behavior.
The handling of commits which start empty is actually quite similar to
commit b00bf1c9a8 (git-rebase: make --allow-empty-message the default,
2018-06-27), which pointed out that the behavior for various backends is
often more happenstance than design. The specific change made in that
commit is actually quite relevant as well and much of the logic there
directly applies here.
It makes a lot of sense in 'git commit' to error out on the creation of
empty commits, unless an override flag is provided. However, once
someone determines that there is a rare case that merits using the
manual override to create such a commit, it is somewhere between
annoying and harmful to have to take extra steps to keep such
intentional commits around. Granted, empty commits are quite rare,
which is why handling of them doesn't get considered much and folks tend
to defer to existing (accidental) behavior and assume there was a reason
for it, leading them to just add flags (--keep-empty in this case) that
allow them to override the bad defaults. Fix the interactive backend so
that --keep-empty is the default, much like we did with
--allow-empty-message. The am backend should also be fixed to have
--keep-empty semantics for commits that start empty, but that is not
included in this patch other than a testcase documenting the failure.
Note that there was one test in t3421 which appears to have been written
expecting --keep-empty to not be the default as correct behavior. This
test was introduced in commit 00b8be5a4d ("add tests for rebasing of
empty commits", 2013-06-06), which was part of a series focusing on
rebase topology and which had an interesting original cover letter at
https://lore.kernel.org/git/1347949878-12578-1-git-send-email-martinvonz@gmail.com/
which noted
Your input especially appreciated on whether you agree with the
intent of the test cases.
and then went into a long example about how one of the many tests added
had several questions about whether it was correct. As such, I believe
most the tests in that series were about testing rebase topology with as
many different flags as possible and were not trying to state in general
how those flags should behave otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The details of how credential helpers can be called or implemented were
originally covered in Documentation/technical/. Those are topics that
end users might care about (and we even referenced them in the
credentials manpage), but those docs typically don't ship as part of the
end user documentation, making them less useful.
This situation got slightly worse recently in f3b9055624 (credential:
move doc to credential.h, 2019-11-17), where we moved them into the C
header file, making them even harder to find.
So let's move put this information into the gitcredentials(7)
documentation, which is meant to describe the overall concepts of our
credential handling. This was already pointing to the API docs for these
concepts, so we can just include it inline instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code to compute the commit-graph has been taught to use a more
robust way to tell if two object directories refer to the same
thing.
* tb/commit-graph-object-dir:
commit-graph.h: use odb in 'load_commit_graph_one_fd_st'
commit-graph.c: remove path normalization, comparison
commit-graph.h: store object directory in 'struct commit_graph'
commit-graph.h: store an odb in 'struct write_commit_graph_context'
t5318: don't pass non-object directory to '--object-dir'
Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around
the cone mode, have been cleaned up.
* ds/sparse-checkout-harden:
sparse-checkout: fix cone mode behavior mismatch
sparse-checkout: improve docs around 'set' in cone mode
sparse-checkout: escape all glob characters on write
sparse-checkout: use C-style quotes in 'list' subcommand
sparse-checkout: unquote C-style strings over --stdin
sparse-checkout: write escaped patterns in cone mode
sparse-checkout: properly match escaped characters
sparse-checkout: warn on globs in cone patterns
sparse-checkout: detect short patterns
sparse-checkout: cone mode does not recognize "**"
sparse-checkout: fix documentation typo for core.sparseCheckoutCone
clone: fix --sparse option with URLs
sparse-checkout: create leading directories
t1091: improve here-docs
t1091: use check_files to reduce boilerplate
A new version of fsmonitor-watchman hook has been introduced, to
avoid races.
* kw/fsmonitor-watchman-racefix:
fsmonitor: update documentation for hook version and watchman hooks
fsmonitor: add fsmonitor hook scripts for version 2
fsmonitor: handle version 2 of the hooks that will use opaque token
fsmonitor: change last update timestamp on the index_state to opaque token
Traditionally, we avoided threaded grep while searching in objects
(as opposed to files in the working tree) as accesses to the object
layer is not thread-safe. This limitation is getting lifted.
* mt/threaded-grep-in-object-store:
grep: use no. of cores as the default no. of threads
grep: move driver pre-load out of critical section
grep: re-enable threads in non-worktree case
grep: protect packed_git [re-]initialization
grep: allow submodule functions to run in parallel
submodule-config: add skip_if_read option to repo_read_gitmodules()
grep: replace grep_read_mutex by internal obj read lock
object-store: allow threaded access to object reading
replace-object: make replace operations thread-safe
grep: fix racy calls in grep_objects()
grep: fix race conditions at grep_submodule()
grep: fix race conditions on userdiff calls
The transport protocol version 2 becomes the default one.
* jn/promote-proto2-to-default:
fetch: default to protocol version 2
protocol test: let protocol.version override GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION
test: request GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=0 when appropriate
config doc: protocol.version is not experimental
fetch test: use more robust test for filtered objects
Two help messages given when "git add" notices the user gave it
nothing to add have been updated to use advise() API.
* hw/advice-add-nothing:
add: change advice config variables used by the add API
add: use advise function to display hints
Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
I think this is in a good enough shape.
* ms/doc-bundle-format:
doc: describe Git bundle format
"git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
* pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index:
grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given
Clarify documentation on committer/author identities.
* bc/author-committer-doc:
doc: provide guidance on user.name format
docs: expand on possible and recommended user config options
doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1)
Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over
"git checkout" that was done only half-way.
* hw/tutorial-favor-switch-over-checkout:
doc/gitcore-tutorial: fix prose to match example command
Make an effort not to discourage new users from mailing questions to
git@vger.kernel.org, and explain the purpose of the mentoring list in
contrast to the main list.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
* pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index:
grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given
One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the
environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd"
option) is to disable the repository discovery. This has been
placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often
get confused.
* hw/doc-git-dir:
git: update documentation for --git-dir
These colors are the bright variants of the 3-bit colors. Instead of
30-37 range for the foreground and 40-47 range for the background,
they live in 90-97 and 100-107 range, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Eyal Soha <shawarmakarma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using the sparse-checkout feature, a user may want to incrementally
grow their sparse-checkout pattern set. Allow adding patterns using a
new 'add' subcommand. This is not much different from the 'set'
subcommand, because we still want to allow the '--stdin' option and
interpret inputs as directories when in cone mode and patterns
otherwise.
When in cone mode, we are growing the cone. This may actually reduce the
set of patterns when adding directory A when A/B is already a directory
in the cone. Test the different cases: siblings, parents, ancestors.
When not in cone mode, we can only assume the patterns should be
appended to the sparse-checkout file.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 46af44b07d (pull --rebase=<type>: allow single-letter abbreviations
for the type, 2018-08-04) landed in Git, it had the side effect that
not only 'pull --rebase=<type>' accepted the single-letter abbreviations
but also the 'pull.rebase' and 'branch.<name>.rebase' configurations.
However, 'git remote rename' did not honor these single-letter
abbreviations when reading the 'branch.*.rebase' configurations.
We now document the single-letter abbreviations and both code places
share a common function to parse the values of 'git pull --rebase=*',
'pull.rebase', and 'branches.*.rebase'.
The only functional change is the handling of the `branch_info::rebase`
value. Before it was an unsigned enum, thus the truth value could be
checked with `branch_info::rebase != 0`. But `enum rebase_type` is
signed, thus the truth value must now be checked with
`branch_info::rebase >= REBASE_TRUE`
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a user queries config values with --show-origin, often it's
difficult to determine what the actual "scope" (local, global, etc.) of
a given value is based on just the origin file.
Teach 'git config' the '--show-scope' option to print the scope of all
displayed config values. Note that we should never see anything of
"submodule" scope as that is only ever used by submodule-config.c when
parsing the '.gitmodules' file.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of the multi-pack-index contains a small bug,
if all offsets are < 2^32 then there will be no LOFF chunk,
not only if they're all < 2^31 (since the highest bit is only
needed as the "LOFF-escape" when that's actually needed.)
Correct this, and clarify that in that case only offsets up
to 2^31-1 can be stored in the OOFF chunk.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we exemplify the difference between `-G` and `-S` (using
`--pickaxe-regex`), we do so using an example diff and git-diff
invocation involving "regexec", "regexp", "regmatch", ...
The example is correct, but we can make it easier to untangle by
avoiding writing "regex.*" unless it's really needed to make our point.
Use some made-up, non-regexy words instead.
Reported-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The bundle format was not documented. Describe the format with ABNF and
explain the meaning of each part.
Signed-off-by: Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
advice.addNothing config variable is used to control the visibility of
two advice messages in the add library. This config variable is
replaced by two new variables, whose names are more clear and relevant
to the two cases.
Also add the two new variables to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In this paragraph, we have a few instances of the '^' character, which
we give as "\^". This renders well with AsciiDoc ("^"), but Asciidoctor
renders it literally as "\^". Dropping the backslashes renders fine
with Asciidoctor, but not AsciiDoc...
An earlier version of this patch used "{caret}" instead of "^", which
avoided these escaping problems. The rendering was still so-so, though
-- these expressions end up set as normal text, similarly to when one
provides, e.g., computer code in the middle of running text, without
properly marking it with `backticks` to be monospaced.
As noted by Jeff King, this suggests actually wrapping these
expressions in backticks, setting them in monospace.
The lone "5" could be left as is or wrapped as `5`. Spell it out as
"five" instead -- this generally looks better anyway for small numbers
in the middle of text like this.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are lots of places in 'commit-graph.h' where a function either has
(or almost has) a full 'struct object_directory *', accesses '->path',
and then throws away the rest of the struct.
This can cause headaches when comparing the locations of object
directories across alternates (e.g., in the case of deciding if two
commit-graph layers can be merged). These paths are normalized with
'normalize_path_copy()' which mitigates some comparison issues, but not
all [1].
Replace usage of 'char *object_dir' with 'odb->path' by storing a
'struct object_directory *' in the 'write_commit_graph_context'
structure. This is an intermediate step towards getting rid of all path
normalization in 'commit-graph.c'.
Resolving a user-provided '--object-dir' argument now requires that we
compare it to the known alternates for equality. Prior to this patch,
an unknown '--object-dir' argument would silently exit with status zero.
This can clearly lead to unintended behavior, such as verifying
commit-graphs that aren't in a repository's own object store (or one of
its alternates), or causing a typo to mask a legitimate commit-graph
verification failure. Make this error non-silent by 'die()'-ing when the
given '--object-dir' does not match any known alternate object store.
[1]: In my testing, for example, I can get one side of the commit-graph
code to fill object_dir with "./objects" and the other with just
"objects".
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing documentation does not clarify how the 'set' subcommand
changes when core.sparseCheckoutCone is enabled. Correct this by
changing some language around the "A/B/C" example. Also include a
description of the input format matching the output of 'git ls-tree
--name-only'.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
f0fd0dc5c5 (submodule foreach: document '$sm_path' instead of '$path',
2018-05-08) updated the documentation to advise callers to favor
$sm_path over the deprecated synonym $path. However, the example in
that section still uses $path. Update it to use $sm_path.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify documentation on committer/author identities.
* bc/author-committer-doc:
doc: provide guidance on user.name format
docs: expand on possible and recommended user config options
doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1)
gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to
tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum
trust level.
* hi/gpg-mintrustlevel:
gpg-interface: add minTrustLevel as a configuration option
git --git-dir <path> is a bit confusing and sometimes doesn't work as
the user would expect it to.
For example, if the user runs `git --git-dir=<path> status`, git
will skip the repository discovery algorithm and will assign the
work tree to the user's current work directory unless otherwise
specified. When this assignment is wrong, the output will not match
the user's expectations.
This patch updates the documentation to make it clearer.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since grep learned to recurse into submodules in 0281e487fd
(grep: optionally recurse into submodules, 2016-12-16),
using --recurse-submodules along with --no-index makes Git
die().
This is unfortunate because if submodule.recurse is set in a user's
~/.gitconfig, invoking `git grep --no-index` either inside or outside
a Git repository results in
fatal: option not supported with --recurse-submodules
Let's allow using these options together, so that setting submodule.recurse
globally does not prevent using `git grep --no-index`.
Using `--recurse-submodules` should not have any effect if `--no-index`
is used inside a repository, as Git will recurse into the checked out
submodule directories just like into regular directories.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
