* maint:
git-p4: fix bug in symlink handling
t1450: fix testcases that were wrongly expecting failure
Documentation: Fix indentation problem in git-commit(1)
The current documentation suggests that --local also ignores any
objects in local packs, which is incorrect. Change the language to be
clearer and more parallel to the other options that ignore objects.
While we're at it, fix a trivial error in --incremental's
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since the "See linkgit:git-config[1]..." paragraph was added to the
description for --untracked-files (d6293d1), the paragraphs for the
following options were indented at the same level as the "See
linkgit:git-config[1]" paragraph. This problem showed up in the
manpages, but not in the HTML documentation.
While this does fix the alignment of the options following
--untracked-files in the manpage, the "See linkgit..." portion of the
description does not retain its previous indentation level in the
manpages, or HTML documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make git-branch, git-show-branch, git-grep, and all the diff-based
programs accept an optional argument <when> for --color. The argument
is a colorbool: "always", "never", or "auto". If no argument is given,
"always" is used; --no-color is an alias for --color=never. This makes
the command-line interface consistent with other GNU tools, such as `ls'
and `grep', and with the git-config color options. Note that, without
an argument, --color and --no-color work exactly as before.
To implement this, two internal changes were made:
1. Allow the first argument of git_config_colorbool() to be NULL,
in which case it returns -1 if the argument isn't "always", "never",
or "auto".
2. Add OPT_COLOR_FLAG(), OPT__COLOR(), and parse_opt_color_flag_cb()
to the option parsing library. The callback uses
git_config_colorbool(), so color.h is now a dependency
of parse-options.c.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description for --thin was misleading and downright wrong. Correct
it with some inspiration from the description of index-pack's --fix-thin
and some background information from Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we
may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat
the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be
represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at
worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it
is missing some of the refs they expected to see.
This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just
"refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an
abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note:
- most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where
that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help
indicate that it was a hierarchy. I didn't do the same for longer
paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming
"refs/heads/").
- in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about
unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs).
- In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed
refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* np/fast-import-idx-v2:
fast-import: use the diff_delta() max_delta_size argument
fast-import: honor pack.indexversion and pack.packsizelimit config vars
fast-import: make default pack size unlimited
fast-import: use write_idx_file() instead of custom code
fast-import: use sha1write() for pack data
fast-import: start using struct pack_idx_entry
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a more inoformative section to describe template directory and
refer to it in config.txt and with the '--template' option of git-init
and git-clone commands.
Signed-off-by: Steven Drake <sdrake@xnet.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that fast-import is creating packs with index version 2, there is
no point limiting the pack size by default. A pack split will still
happen if off_t is not sufficiently large to hold large offsets.
While updating the doc, let's remove the "packfiles fit on CDs"
suggestion. Pack files created by fast-import are still suboptimal and
a 'git repack -a -f -d' or even 'git gc --aggressive' would be a pretty
good idea before considering storage on CDs.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
CRAM-MD5 authentication ought to be independent from SSL, but NO_OPENSSL
build will not support this because the base64 and md5 code are used from
the OpenSSL library in this implementation.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The configuration is meant to suppliment --decorate command line option
that can be used as a boolean to turn the feature on, so it is natural
to expect
[log]
decorate
decorate = yes
to work. The original commit would segfault with the first one, and
would not understand the second one.
Once a user has this configuration in ~/.gitconfig, there needs to be a
way to override it from the command line. Add --no-decorate option to
log family and also allow --decorate=no to mean the same thing. Since
we allow setting log.decorate to 'true', the command line also should
accept --decorate=yes and behave accordingly.
New tests in t4202 are designed to exercise the interaction between the
configuration variable and the command line option that overrides it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This alows the 'git-log --decorate' to be enabled by default so that normal
log outout contains ant ref names of commits that are shown.
Signed-off-by: Steven Drake <sdrake@xnet.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify that git-grep(1) searches only tracked files, and that each
<pathspec> is a pathspec, as in any other ordinary git commands.
Add an example to show a simple use case for searching all .c and .h
files in the current directory and below.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Prepare 1.7.0.1 release notes
Fix use of mutex in threaded grep
dwim_ref: fix dangling symref warning
stash pop: remove 'apply' options during 'drop' invocation
diff: make sure --output=/bad/path is caught
Remove hyphen from "git-command" in two error messages
The --paginate option is meant to negate the effect of an explicit or
implicit pager.<cmd> = false setting. Thus it turns the pager on if
output is going to a terminal rather than unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is useful for keeping notes to objects that are being rewritten by e.g.
'git commit --amend', 'git rebase', or 'git cherry-pick'.
"git notes copy <from> <to>" is in practice equivalent to
"git notes add -C $(git notes list <from>) <to>", although it is somewhat
more convenient for regular users.
"git notes copy" takes the same -f option as "git add", to overwrite existing
notes at the target (instead of aborting with an error message).
If the <from>-object has no notes, "git notes copy" will abort with an error
message.
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inspired by the -c/-C options to "git commit", we teach these options to
"git notes add/append" to allow reuse of note objects.
With this patch in place, it is now easy to copy or move notes between
objects. For example, to copy object A's notes to object B:
git notes add [-f] -C $(git notes list A) B
To move instead of copying, you simply remove the notes from the source
object afterwards, e.g.:
git notes remove A
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new functionality.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The semantics for "git notes edit -m/-F" overlap with those for
"git notes add -f", and the behaviour (i.e. overwriting existing
notes with the given message/file) is more intuitively captured
by (and better documented with) "git notes add -f".
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git notes append" is equivalent to "git notes edit" except that instead
of editing existing notes contents, you can only append to it. This is
useful for quickly adding annotations like e.g.:
git notes append -m "Acked-by: A U Thor <author@example.com>"
"git notes append" takes the same -m/-F options as "git notes add".
If there is no existing note to append to, "git notes append" is identical
to "git notes add" (i.e. it adds a new note).
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git notes add" is identical to "git notes edit" except that instead of
editing existing notes for a given object, you can only add notes to an
object that currently has none. If "git notes add" finds existing notes
for the given object, the addition is aborted. However, if the new
-f/--force option is used, "git notes add" will _overwrite_ the existing
notes with the new notes contents.
If there is no existing notes for the given object. "git notes add" is
identical to "git notes edit" (i.e. it adds a new note).
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Suggested-by: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git notes list" will list all note objects in the current notes ref (in the
format "<note object> <annotated object>"). "git notes list <object>" will
list the note object associated with the given <object>, or fail loudly if
the given <object> has no associated notes.
If no arguments are given to "git notes", it defaults to the "list"
subcommand. This is for pseudo-compatibility with "git tag" and "git branch".
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Notes can annotate arbitrary objects (not only commits), but this is not
reflected in the current documentation.
This patch rewrites the git-notes documentation to talk about 'objects'
instead of 'commits'. However, the discussion on commit notes and how
they are displayed by 'git log' is largely preserved.
Finally, I add myself to the Author/Documentation credits, since most of
the lines in the git-notes code and docs are blamed on me.
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git notes prune" will remove all notes that annotate unreachable/non-
existing objects.
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using "git notes remove" is equivalent to specifying an empty note message.
The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The builtin-ification includes some minor behavioural changes to the
command-line interface: It is no longer allowed to mix the -m and -F
arguments, and it is not allowed to use multiple -F options.
As part of the builtin-ification, we add the commit_notes() function
to the builtin API. This function (together with the notes.h API) can
be easily used from other builtins to manipulate the notes tree.
Also includes needed changes to t3301.
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Stephen Boyd: Use die() instead of fprintf(stderr, ...) followed by exit(1)
Cc: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not double-backslash we forbid; backslashes are forbidden since
a4c2e699 (Disallow '\' in ref names, 2009-05-08)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git log -p -m is used to show one merge entry per parent, with an
appropriate diff; this can be useful when examining histories where
full set of changes introduced by a merged branch is interesting, not
only the conflicts.
This patch properly documents the -m switch, which has so far been
mentioned only as a fairly special diff-tree flag.
It also makes the code show full patch entry only for the first parent
when --first-parent is used. Thus:
git log -p -m --first-parent
will show the history from the "main branch perspective", while also
including full diff of changes introduced by other merged in branches.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived.
People however often wonder why their attempts to affect the way how the
command archives their tree by changing .gitattributes in their work tree
fail.
Add a bit of explanatory note to tell them how to achieve what they want
to do.
Noticed-by: Francois Marier
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rebase calls this same function "--continue", which means
users may be trained to type it. There is no reason to
deprecate --resolved (or -r), so we will keep it as a
synonym.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last item in the enumerated refname rule was mistakenly made into
a sub-item of the 7th one. It should be the 8th one in the list on its
own.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The lack of quoting made the entire line disappear.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
blame: prevent a segv when -L given start > EOF
git-push: document all the status flags used in the output
Fix parsing of imap.preformattedHTML and imap.sslverify
git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example
When 921177f (Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch"
examples, 2008-05-07) converted this from enumeration header to displayed
text, it failed to adjust for the AsciiDoc's rule to quote backslashes.
In displayed text, backslash is shown verbatim, while in enumeration
header, we need to double it.
We have a similar construct in git-rm.txt documentation, and need to be
careful when somebody wants to update it to match the style of the "git
add" example.
Noticed by: Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option causes the creation or updating of a file mapping CVS
(filename, revision number) pairs to Git commit IDs. This is expected
to be useful if you have CVS revision numbers stored in commit messages,
bug-tracking systems, email archives, and the like.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Crane <git@aaroncrane.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If there is a quoted path, update-index will correctly
unquote it. However, we must take care to put our new prefix
inside the double-quote.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sp/maint-push-sideband:
receive-pack: Send hook output over side band #2
receive-pack: Wrap status reports inside side-band-64k
receive-pack: Refactor how capabilities are shown to the client
send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with status data
run-command: support custom fd-set in async
run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe
Update git fsck --full short description to mention packs
Conflicts:
run-command.c
This patch adds the possibility to supply a set of non-0 file
descriptors for async process communication instead of the
default-created pipe.
Additionally, we now support bi-directional communiction with the
async procedure, by giving the async function both read and write
file descriptors.
To retain compatiblity and similar "API feel" with start_command,
we require start_async callers to set .out = -1 to get a readable
file descriptor. If either of .in or .out is 0, we supply no file
descriptor to the async process.
[sp: Note: Erik started this patch, and a huge bulk of it is
his work. All bugs were introduced later by Shawn.]
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Like .out, .err may now be set to a file descriptor > 0, which
is a writable pipe/socket/file that the child's stderr will be
redirected into.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems that we have bad interaction with the code related to
GIT_WORK_TREE and "grep --no-index", and broke running grep inside
the .git directory. For now, just revert it and resurrect it after
1.7.0 ships.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar in spirit to 07cf0f2 (make --max-pack-size argument to 'git
pack-object' count in bytes, 2010-02-03) which made the option by the same
name to pack-objects, this counts the pack size limit in bytes.
In order not to cause havoc with people used to the previous megabyte
scale an integer smaller than 8192 is interpreted in megabytes but the
user gets a warning. Also a minimum size of 1 MiB is enforced to avoid an
explosion of pack files.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
This default for repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset has been "true" since
Git v1.6.0.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, when called without -n and -f, git clean issues
fatal: clean.requireForce not set and -n or -f not given; refusing to clean
which leaves the user wondering why force is required when requireForce
is not set. Looking up in git-clean(1) does not help because its
description is wrong.
Change it so that git clean issues
fatal: clean.requireForce defaults to true and -n or -f not given; refusing to clean
in this situation (and "...set to true..." when it is set) which makes
it clearer that an unset config means true here, and adjust the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The value passed to --max-pack-size used to count in MiB which was
inconsistent with the corresponding configuration variable as well as
other command arguments which are defined to count in bytes with an
optional unit suffix. This brings --max-pack-size in line with the
rest of Git.
Also, in order not to cause havoc with people used to the previous
megabyte scale, and because this is a sane thing to do anyway, a
minimum size of 1 MiB is enforced to avoid an explosion of pack files.
Adjust and extend test suite accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sp/maint-fast-import-large-blob:
fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to pack
bash: don't offer remote transport helpers as subcommands
Conflicts:
fast-import.c
If a blob is larger than the configured big-file-threshold, instead
of reading it into a single buffer obtained from malloc, stream it
onto the end of the current pack file. Streaming the larger objects
into the pack avoids the 4+ GiB memory footprint that occurs when
fast-import is processing 2+ GiB blobs.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the release notes "git status" was not mentioned, also shortly explain
the "-dirty" output generated by diff.
Added a paragraph to the "Pitfalls with submodules" section in
user-manual.txt describing new and old behavior of "git status" and "git
diff" for dirty submodules.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* bg/maint-add-all-doc:
git-rm doc: Describe how to sync index & work tree
git-add/rm doc: Consistently back-quote
Documentation: 'git add -A' can remove files
When the first piece of threaded code was introduced in commit 8ecce684, it
came with its own THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Makefile option. Since this time,
more threaded code has come into the codebase and a NO_PTHREADS option has
also been added. Get rid of the original option as the newer, more generic
option covers everything we need.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is already in the "bells and whistles" section, but it also has a
slight chance of breakage, so let's also mention it in the "changed
behaviors" section.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old "advice" message explained how to create a branch after going into
a detached HEAD state but didn't make it clear why the user may want to do
so. Also "moving to ... which isn't a local branch" was unclear if it is
complaining, if it is describing the new state, or if it is explaining why
the HEAD is detached (the true reason is the last one).
Give the established phrase 'detached HEAD' first to make it easy for
users to look up the concept in documentation, and briefly describe what
can be done in the state (i.e. play around without having to clean up)
before telling the user how to keep what was done during the temporary
state.
Allow the long description to be hidden by setting advice.detachedHead
configuration to false.
We might want to customize the advice depending on how the commit to check
out was spelled (e.g. instead of "new-branch-name", we way want to say
"topic" when "git checkout origin/topic" triggered this message) in later
updates, but this encapsulates that into a separate function and it should
be a good first step.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
e9fcd1e (Add push --set-upstream, 2010-01-16) inadvertently patched
the description of --upstream in the middle of that of --repo.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bed575e (commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status,
2009-12-07) forgot to add the :: that sets off an item from the
paragraph that explains it, breaking the layout.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'doc-style/for-next' of git://repo.or.cz/git/trast:
Documentation: merge: use MERGE_HEAD to refer to the remote branch
Documentation: simplify How Merge Works
Documentation: merge: add a section about fast-forward
Documentation: emphasize when git merge terminates early
Documentation: merge: add an overview
Documentation: merge: move merge strategy list to end
Documentation: suggest `reset --merge` in How Merge Works section
Documentation: merge: move configuration section to end
Documentation: emphasise 'git shortlog' in its synopsis
Documentation: show-files is now called git-ls-files
Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks
Documentation: git gc packs refs by default now
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
commit 57bddb11 (Documentation/git-merge: reword references to
"remote" and "pull", 2010-01-07) fixed the manual to drop the
assumption that the other branch being merged is from a remote
repository. Unfortunately, in a few places, to do so it
introduced the antecedentless phrase "their versions". Worse, in
passages like the following, 'they' is playing two roles.
| highlighting changes from both the HEAD and their versions.
|
| * Look at the diffs on their own. 'git log --merge -p <path>'
Using HEAD and MERGE_HEAD nicely assigns terminology to "our" and
"their" sides. It also provides the reader with practice using
names that git will recognize on the command line.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The user most likely does not care about the exact order of
operations because he cannot see it happening anyway. Instead,
try to explain what it means to merge two commits into a single
tree.
While at it:
- Change the heading to TRUE MERGE. The entire manual page is
about how merges work.
- Document MERGE_HEAD. It is a useful feature, since it makes
the parents of the intended merge commit easier to refer to.
- Do not assume commits named on the 'git merge' command line come
from another repository. For simplicity, the discussion of
conflicts still does assume that there is only one and it is a
branch head.
- Do not start list items with `code`. Otherwise, a toolchain bug
produces a line break in the generated nroff, resulting in odd
extra space.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Novices sometimes find the behavior of 'git merge' in the
fast-forward case surprising. Describe it thoroughly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
A merge-based operation in git can fail in two ways: one that
stops before touching anything, or one that goes ahead and
results in conflicts.
As the 'git merge' manual explains:
| A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
| commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
| match the tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit)
| when it starts out.
Unfortunately, the placement of this sentence makes it easy to
skip over, and its formulation leaves the important point, that
any other attempted merge will be gracefully aborted, unspoken.
So give this point its own section and expand upon it.
Probably this could be simplified somewhat: after all, a change
registered in the index is just a special kind of local
uncommited change, so the second added paragraph is only a
special case of the first. It seemed more helpful to be explicit
here.
Inspired by <http://gitster.livejournal.com/25801.html>.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The reader unfamiliar with the concepts of branching and merging
would have been completely lost. Try to help him with a diagram.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
So the section layout changes as follows:
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-MERGE STRATEGIES
HOW MERGE WORKS
HOW CONFLICTS ARE PRESENTED
HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS
EXAMPLES
+MERGE STRATEGIES
CONFIGURATION
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
DOCUMENTATION
GIT
NOTES
The first-time user will care more about conflicts than about
strategies other than 'recursive'.
One of the examples uses -s ours, but I do not think this hinders
readability.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The 'merge' manual suggests 'reset' to cancel a merge at the end
of the Merge Strategies list. It is more logical to explain this
right before explaining how merge conflicts work, so the daunted
reader can have a way out when he or she needs it most.
While at it, make the advice more dependable and self-contained
by providing the --merge option.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Configuration and environment variables belong to the back matter
of a manual page.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
For very large projects it is useful to be able to clone a subset of the
upstream SVN repo's branches. Allow for this by letting the left-side of
the branches and tags glob specs contain a brace-delineated comma-separated
list of names. e.g.:
branches = branches/{red,green}/src:refs/remotes/branches/*
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
In certain situations it may be necessary to manually remap an svn
repostitory UUID. For example:
o--- [git-svn clone]
/
[origin svn repo]
\
o--- [svnsync clone]
Imagine that only "git-svn clone" and "svnsync clone" are made available
to external users. Furthur, "git-svn clone" contains only trunk, and for
reasons unknown, "svnsync clone" is missing the revision properties that
normally provide the origin svn repo's UUID.
A git user who has cloned the "git-svn clone" repo now wishes to use
git-svn to pull in the missing branches from the "synsync clone" repo.
In order for git-svn to get the history correct for those branches,
it needs to know the origin svn repo's UUID. Hence rewriteUUID.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Consolidate the descriptions of --branches, --tags and --remotes a
bit, to make it less repetitive. Improve the grammar a bit, and spell
out the meaning of the 'append /*' rule.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ap/merge-backend-opts:
Document that merge strategies can now take their own options
Extend merge-subtree tests to test -Xsubtree=dir.
Make "subtree" part more orthogonal to the rest of merge-recursive.
pull: Fix parsing of -X<option>
Teach git-pull to pass -X<option> to git-merge
git merge -X<option>
git-merge-file --ours, --theirs
Conflicts:
git-compat-util.h
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
Documentation/git-config.txt
Documentation/git-merge.txt
Giving "Notes" information in the default output format of "log" and
"show" is a sensible progress (the user has asked for it by having the
notes), but for some commands (e.g. "format-patch") spewing notes into the
formatted commit log message without being asked is too aggressive.
Enable notes output only for "log", "show", "whatchanged" by default and
only when the user didn't ask any specific --pretty/--format from the
command line; users can explicitly override this default with --show-notes
and --no-notes option.
Parts of tests are taken from Jeff King's fix.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/grep-lookahead:
grep --no-index: allow use of "git grep" outside a git repository
grep: prepare to run outside of a work tree
grep: rip out pessimization to use fixmatch()
grep: rip out support for external grep
grep: optimize built-in grep by skipping lines that do not hit
Conflicts:
builtin-grep.c
t/t7002-grep.sh
* da/difftool:
difftool: Update copyright notices to list each year separately
difftool: Use eval to expand '--extcmd' expressions
difftool: Add '-x' and as an alias for '--extcmd'
t7800-difftool.sh: Simplify the --extcmd test
git-diff.txt: Link to git-difftool
difftool: Allow specifying unconfigured commands with --extcmd
difftool--helper: Remove use of the GIT_MERGE_TOOL variable
difftool--helper: Update copyright and remove distracting comments
git-difftool: Add '--gui' for selecting a GUI tool
t7800-difftool: Set a bogus tool for use by tests
* 'mh/rebase-fixup' (early part):
rebase-i: Ignore comments and blank lines in peek_next_command
lib-rebase: Allow comments and blank lines to be added to the rebase script
lib-rebase: Provide clearer debugging info about what the editor did
Add a command "fixup" to rebase --interactive
t3404: Use test_commit to set up test repository
* jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit:
user_ident_sufficiently_given(): refactor the logic to be usable from elsewhere
commit.c::print_summary: do not release the format string too early
commit: allow suppression of implicit identity advice
commit: show interesting ident information in summary
strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquote
strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"
Conflicts:
builtin-commit.c
ident.c
* bg/maint-add-all-doc:
git-rm doc: Describe how to sync index & work tree
git-add/rm doc: Consistently back-quote
Documentation: 'git add -A' can remove files
* maint-1.6.5:
Git 1.6.5.8
Fix mis-backport of t7002
bash completion: factor submodules into dirty state
reset: unbreak hard resets with GIT_WORK_TREE
Conflicts:
Documentation/git.txt
GIT-VERSION-GEN
RelNotes
Since local branch, tags and remote tracking branch namespaces are
most often used, add shortcut notations for globbing those in
manner similar to --glob option.
With this, one can express the "what I have but origin doesn't?"
as:
'git log --branches --not --remotes=origin'
Original-idea-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --glob=<glob-pattern> option to rev-parse and everything that
accepts its options. This option matches all refs that match given
shell glob pattern (complete with some DWIM logic).
Example:
'git log --branches --not --glob=remotes/origin'
To show what you have that origin doesn't.
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --set-upstream option to branch that works like --track, except that
when branch exists already, its upstream info is changed without changing
the ref value.
Based-on-patch-from: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'git remote set-url' for changing URL of remote repository with
one "porcelain-level" command.
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also document the recently added -Xtheirs, -Xours and -Xsubtree[=path]
options to the merge-recursive strategy.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jh/commit-status:
t7502: test commit.status, --status and --no-status
commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-commit.txt
builtin-commit.c
* jn/makefile:
Makefile: consolidate .FORCE-* targets
Makefile: learn to generate listings for targets requiring special flags
Makefile: use target-specific variable to pass flags to cc
Makefile: regenerate assembler listings when asked
* tc/clone-v-progress:
clone: use --progress to force progress reporting
clone: set transport->verbose when -v/--verbose is used
git-clone.txt: reword description of progress behaviour
check stderr with isatty() instead of stdout when deciding to show progress
Conflicts:
transport.c
* tc/smart-http-restrict:
Test t5560: Fix test when run with dash
Smart-http tests: Test http-backend without curl or a webserver
Smart-http tests: Break test t5560-http-backend into pieces
Smart-http tests: Improve coverage in test t5560
Smart-http: check if repository is OK to export before serving it
* sr/gfi-options:
fast-import: add (non-)relative-marks feature
fast-import: allow for multiple --import-marks= arguments
fast-import: test the new option command
fast-import: add option command
fast-import: add feature command
fast-import: put marks reading in its own function
fast-import: put option parsing code in separate functions
Back when the git core tutorial was written, porcelain commands were
shell scripts. This patch adds a paragraph explaining this.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Frequent complaint is lack of easy way to set up upstream (tracking)
references for git pull to work as part of push command. So add switch
--set-upstream (-u) to do just that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds '-x' as a shorthand for the '--extcmd' option.
Arguments to '--extcmd' can be specified separately, which
was not originally possible.
This also fixes the brief help text so that it mentions
both '-x' and '--extcmd'.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Lift the explanation of -CCC option in the source to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We now nag the user with a giant warning when their identity
was pulled from the username, hostname, and gecos
information, in case it is not correct. Most users will
suppress this by simply setting up their information
correctly.
However, there may be some users who consciously want to use
that information, because having the value change from host
to host contains useful information. These users can now set
advice.implicitidentity to false to suppress the message.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is handy for creating strings which will be fed to printf() or
strbuf_expand().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only way to safely quote arbitrary text in a pretty-print user
format is to replace instances of "%" with "%x25". This is slightly
unreadable, and many users would expect "%%" to produce a single
"%", as that is what printf format specifiers do.
This patch converts "%%" to "%" for all users of strbuf_expand():
(1) git-daemon interpolated paths
(2) pretty-print user formats
(3) merge driver command lines
Case (1) was already doing the conversion itself outside of
strbuf_expand(). Case (2) is the intended beneficiary of this patch.
Case (3) users probably won't notice, but as this is user-facing
behavior, consistently providing the quoting mechanism makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* il/vcs-helper:
Reset possible helper before reusing remote structure
Remove special casing of http, https and ftp
Support remote archive from all smart transports
Support remote helpers implementing smart transports
Support taking over transports
Refactor git transport options parsing
Pass unknown protocols to external protocol handlers
Support mandatory capabilities
Add remote helper debug mode
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
transport-helper.c
* cc/reset-more:
t7111: check that reset options work as described in the tables
Documentation: reset: add some missing tables
Fix bit assignment for CE_CONFLICTED
"reset --merge": fix unmerged case
reset: use "unpack_trees()" directly instead of "git read-tree"
reset: add a few tests for "git reset --merge"
Documentation: reset: add some tables to describe the different options
reset: improve mixed reset error message when in a bare repo
* nd/sparse: (25 commits)
t7002: test for not using external grep on skip-worktree paths
t7002: set test prerequisite "external-grep" if supported
grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries
commit: correctly respect skip-worktree bit
ie_match_stat(): do not ignore skip-worktree bit with CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID
tests: rename duplicate t1009
sparse checkout: inhibit empty worktree
Add tests for sparse checkout
read-tree: add --no-sparse-checkout to disable sparse checkout support
unpack-trees(): ignore worktree check outside checkout area
unpack_trees(): apply $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout to the final index
unpack-trees(): "enable" sparse checkout and load $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout
unpack-trees.c: generalize verify_* functions
unpack-trees(): add CE_WT_REMOVE to remove on worktree alone
Introduce "sparse checkout"
dir.c: export excluded_1() and add_excludes_from_file_1()
excluded_1(): support exclude files in index
unpack-trees(): carry skip-worktree bit over in merged_entry()
Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktree
Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1()
...
Conflicts:
.gitignore
Documentation/config.txt
Documentation/git-update-index.txt
Makefile
entry.c
t/t7002-grep.sh
A new configuration variable commit.status, and new command line
options --status, and --no-status control whether or not the git
status information is included in the commit message template
when using an editor to prepare the commit message. It does not
affect the effects of a user's commit.template settings.
Signed-off-by: James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new notation '<branch>@{upstream}' refers to the branch <branch> is set
to build on top of. Missing <branch> (i.e. '@{upstream}') defaults to the
current branch.
This allows you to run, for example,
for l in list of local branches
do
git log --oneline --left-right $l...$l@{upstream}
done
to inspect each of the local branches you are interested in for the
divergence from its upstream.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various commands refuse to run in the presence of conflicts (commit,
merge, pull, cherry-pick/revert). They all used to provide rough, and
inconsistant error messages.
A new variable advice.resolveconflict is introduced, and allows more
verbose messages, pointing the user to the appropriate solution.
For commit, the error message used to look like this:
$ git commit
foo.txt: needs merge
foo.txt: unmerged (c34a92682e0394bc0d6f4d4a67a8e2d32395c169)
foo.txt: unmerged (3afcd75de8de0bb5076942fcb17446be50451030)
foo.txt: unmerged (c9785d77b76dfe4fb038bf927ee518f6ae45ede4)
error: Error building trees
The "need merge" line is given by refresh_cache. We add the IN_PORCELAIN
option to make the output more consistant with the other porcelain
commands, and catch the error in return, to stop with a clean error
message. The next lines were displayed by a call to cache_tree_update(),
which is not reached anymore if we noticed the conflict.
The new output looks like:
U foo.txt
fatal: 'commit' is not possible because you have unmerged files.
Please, fix them up in the work tree, and then use 'git add/rm <file>' as
appropriate to mark resolution and make a commit, or use 'git commit -a'.
Pull is slightly modified to abort immediately if $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD
exists instead of waiting for merge to complain.
The behavior of merge and the test-case are slightly modified to reflect
the usual flow: start with conflicts, fix them, and afterwards get rid of
MERGE_HEAD, with different error messages at each stage.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Shows the absolute path of the top-level working directory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Drake <sdrake@xnet.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The accepted style in the SYNOPSIS section is for a command to be
'emphasised'. Do so for the git-shortlog(1) manpage.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
* tr/http-updates:
Remove http.authAny
Allow curl to rewind the RPC read buffer
Add an option for using any HTTP authentication scheme, not only basic
http: maintain curl sessions
Amazingly, a reference to 'show files' survived from the core command
documentation introduced in c64b9b8 (Reference documentation for the
core git commands., 2005-05-05)!
However, the tool is now called git-ls-files.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
As a verb, 'setup' is spelled 'set up'. “diff commands such as
diff-files” scans better without a comma. Clarify that shallow
and deep are special non-boolean values for format.thread rather
than boolean values with some other name.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
In commit 56752391 (Make "git gc" pack all refs by default,
2007-05-24), 'git gc' was changed to run pack-refs by default
Versions before v1.5.1.2 cannot clone repos with packed refs over
http, and versions before v1.4.4 cannot handled packed refs at
all, but more recent git should have no problems. Try to make
this more clear in the git-config manual.
The analagous passage in git-gc.txt was updated already with
commit fe2128a (Change git-gc documentation to reflect
gc.packrefs implementation., 2008-01-09).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.
The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.
Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
Use `code snippet` style instead of 'emphasis' for `git cmd ...`
according to the following rules:
* The SYNOPSIS sections are left untouched.
* If the intent is that the user type the command exactly as given, it
is `code`.
If the user is only loosely referred to a command and/or option, it
remains 'emphasised'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
* maint:
base85: Make the code more obvious instead of explaining the non-obvious
base85: encode_85() does not use the decode table
base85 debug code: Fix length byte calculation
Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks
Documentation: git gc packs refs by default now
checkout -m: do not try to fall back to --merge from an unborn branch
git-difftool requires difftool.<tool>.cmd configuration even when
tools use the standard "$diffcmd $from $to" form. This teaches
git-difftool to run these tools in lieu of configuration by
allowing the command to be specified on the command line.
Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133377
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As a verb, 'setup' is spelled 'set up'. “diff commands such as
diff-files” scans better without a comma. Clarify that shallow
and deep are special non-boolean values for format.thread rather
than boolean values with some other name.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit 56752391 (Make "git gc" pack all refs by default,
2007-05-24), 'git gc' was changed to run pack-refs by default
Versions before v1.5.1.2 cannot clone repos with packed refs over
http, and versions before v1.4.4 cannot handled packed refs at
all, but more recent git should have no problems. Try to make
this more clear in the git-config manual.
The analagous passage in git-gc.txt was updated already with
commit fe2128a (Change git-gc documentation to reflect
gc.packrefs implementation., 2008-01-09).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do this for both git-merge and git-pull, so as to hopefully alert
(over)users of git-pull to the issue.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The git-merge manpage was written in terms of merging a "remote",
which is no longer the case: you merge local or remote-tracking
branches; pull is for actual remotes.
Adjust the manpage accordingly. We refer to the arguments as
"commits", and change instances of "remote" to "other" (where branches
are concerned) or "theirs" (where conflict sides are concerned).
Remove the single reference to "pulling".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
* bg/maint-add-all-doc:
git-rm doc: Describe how to sync index & work tree
git-add/rm doc: Consistently back-quote
Documentation: 'git add -A' can remove files
Newcomers to git that want to remove from the index only the
files that have disappeared from the working tree will probably
look for a way to do that in the documentation for 'git rm'.
Therefore, describe how that can be done (even though it involves
other commands than 'git rm'). Based on a suggestion by Junio,
but re-arranged and rewritten to better fit into the style of
command reference.
While at it, change a single occurrence of "work tree" to "working
tree" for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach a new option, --autosquash, to the interactive rebase.
When the commit log message begins with "!fixup ...", and there
is a commit whose title begins with the same ..., automatically
modify the todo list of rebase -i so that the commit marked for
squashing come right after the commit to be modified, and change
the action of the moved commit from pick to squash.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Providing multiple targets to force a rebuild is unnecessary
complication.
Avoid using a name that could conflict with future special
targets in GNU make (a leading period followed by uppercase
letters).
The corresponding change to the git-gui Makefile is left for
another patch.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to how git-daemon checks whether a repository is OK to be
exported, smart-http should also check. This check can be satisfied
in two different ways: the environmental variable GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL
may be set to export all repositories, or the individual repository
may have the file git-daemon-export-ok.
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
and while at it also explain why --merge option is disallowed in some
cases.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 9e8ecea (Add 'merge' mode to 'git reset', 2008-12-01) disallowed
"git reset --merge" when there was unmerged entries. But it wished if
unmerged entries were reset as if --hard (instead of --merge) has been
used. This makes sense because all "mergy" operations makes sure that
any path involved in the merge does not have local modifications before
starting, so resetting such a path away won't lose any information.
The previous commit changed the behavior of --merge to accept resetting
unmerged entries if they are reset to a different state than HEAD, but it
did not reset the changes in the work tree, leaving the conflict markers
in the resulting file in the work tree.
Fix it by doing three things:
- Update the documentation to match the wish of original "reset --merge"
better, namely, "An unmerged entry is a sign that the path didn't have
any local modification and can be safely resetted to whatever the new
HEAD records";
- Update read_index_unmerged(), which reads the index file into the cache
while dropping any higher-stage entries down to stage #0, not to copy
the object name from the higher stage entry. The code used to take the
object name from the a stage entry ("base" if you happened to have
stage #1, or "ours" if both sides added, etc.), which essentially meant
that you are getting random results depending on what the merge did.
The _only_ reason we want to keep a previously unmerged entry in the
index at stage #0 is so that we don't forget the fact that we have
corresponding file in the work tree in order to be able to remove it
when the tree we are resetting to does not have the path. In order to
differentiate such an entry from ordinary cache entry, the cache entry
added by read_index_unmerged() is marked as CE_CONFLICTED.
- Update merged_entry() and deleted_entry() so that they pay attention to
cache entries marked as CE_CONFLICTED. They are previously unmerged
entries, and the files in the work tree that correspond to them are
resetted away by oneway_merge() to the version from the tree we are
resetting to.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch makes "reset_index_file()" call "unpack_trees()" directly
instead of forking and execing "git read-tree". So the code is more
efficient.
And it's also easier to see which unpack_tree() options will be used,
as we don't need to follow "git read-tree"'s command line parsing
which is quite complex.
As Daniel Barkalow found, there is a difference between this new
version and the old one. The old version gives an error for
"git reset --merge" with unmerged entries, and the new version does
not when we reset the entries to some states that differ from HEAD.
Instead, it resets the index entry and succeeds, while leaving the
conflict markers in the corresponding file in the work tree (which
will be corrected by the next patch).
The code comes from the sequencer GSoC project:
git://repo.or.cz/git/sbeyer.git
(at commit 5a78908b70ceb5a4ea9fd4b82f07ceba1f019079)
Mentored-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users might prefer to have git-difftool use a different
tool when run from a Git GUI.
This teaches git-difftool to honor 'diff.guitool' when
the '--gui' option is specified. This allows users to
configure their preferred command-line diff tool in
'diff.tool' and a GUI diff tool in 'diff.guitool'.
Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133386
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
branch: die explicitly why when calling "git branch [-a|-r] branchname".
fast-import: Document author/committer/tagger name is optional
SubmittingPatches: hints to know the status of a submitted patch.
The fast-import parser does not validate that the author, committer
or tagger name component contains both a name and an email address.
Therefore the name component has always been optional. Correct the
documentation to match the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"What happened to my patch" is pretty much a FAQ on the Git mailing list,
it deserves a few paragraphs in SubmittingPatches...
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
395de250 (Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template)
introduced a C function git_config_pathname, doing ~/ and ~user/
expansion. This patch makes the feature available to scripts with 'git
config --get --path'.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Gitosis single-account Git/ssh hosting system runs git commands
through git-shell after confirming that the connecting user is
authorized to access the requested repository. This works well for
upload-pack and receive-pack, which take a repository argument through
git-shell. This doesn't work so well for `cvs server', which is passed
through literally, with no arguments. Allowing arguments risks
sneaking in `--export-all', so that restriction should be maintained.
Despite that, passing a repository root is necessary for per-user
access control by the hosting software, and passing a base path
improves usability without weakening security. Thus, git-cvsserver
needs to come up with these values at runtime by some other
means. Since git-shell preserves the environment for other purposes,
the environment can carry these arguments as well.
Thus, modify git-cvsserver to read $GIT_CVSSERVER_{BASE_PATH,ROOT} in
the absence of equivalent command line arguments.
Signed-off-by: Phil Miller <mille121@illinois.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refspecs without a source side have been reported as confusing by many.
As an alternative, this adds support for commands like:
git push origin --delete somebranch
git push origin --delete tag sometag
Specifically, --delete will prepend a colon to all colon-less refspecs
given on the command line, and will refuse to accept refspecs with
colons to prevent undue confusion.
Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
textconv: stop leaking file descriptors
commit: --cleanup is a message option
git count-objects: handle packs bigger than 4G
t7102: make the test fail if one of its check fails
Documentation: always respect core.worktree if set
This patch adds a DISCUSSION section that contains some tables to
show how the different "git reset" options work depending on the
states of the files in the working tree, the index, HEAD and the
target commit.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back when the feature to use different HTTP authentication methods was
originally written, it needed an extra HTTP request for everything when
the feature was in effect, because we didn't reuse curl sessions.
However, b8ac923 (Add an option for using any HTTP authentication scheme,
not only basic, 2009-11-27) builds on top of an updated codebase that does
reuse curl sessions; there is no need to manually avoid the extra overhead
by making this configurable anymore.
Acked-by: Martin Storsjo <martin@martin.st>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The value of core.worktree in a ".git/config" is honored even when it
differs from the directory that has the ".git" directory as its
subdirectory. This is likely to be a misconfiguration, so warn users
about it. Also, drop the part of the documentation that incorrectly
claimed that we ignore such a misconfigured value.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Follow the argument convention of git-pack-objects, such that a
separate option (--preogress) is used to force progress reporting
instead of -v/--verbose.
-v/--verbose now does not force progress reporting. Make git-clone.txt
say so.
This should cover all the bases in 21188b1 (Implement git clone -v),
which implemented the option to force progress reporting.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mention progress reporting behaviour in the descriptions for -q/
--quiet and -v/--verbose options, in the style of git-pack-objects.txt.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make transport code (viz. transport.c::fetch_refs_via_pack() and
transport-helper.c::standard_options()) that decides to show progress
check if stderr is a terminal, instead of stdout. After all, progress
reports (via the API in progress.[ch]) are sent to stderr.
Update the documentation for git-clone to say "standard error" as well.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/1.7.0-status:
status/commit: do not suggest "reset HEAD <path>" while merging
commit/status: "git add <path>" is not necessarily how to resolve
commit/status: check $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD only once
t7508-status: test all modes with color
t7508-status: status --porcelain ignores relative paths setting
status: reduce duplicated setup code
status: disable color for porcelain format
status -s: obey color.status
builtin-commit: refactor short-status code into wt-status.c
t7508-status.sh: Add tests for status -s
status -s: respect the status.relativePaths option
docs: note that status configuration affects only long format
commit: support alternate status formats
status: add --porcelain output format
status: refactor format option parsing
status: refactor short-mode printing to its own function
status: typo fix in usage
git status: not "commit --dry-run" anymore
git stat -s: short status output
git stat: the beginning of "status that is not a dry-run of commit"
Conflicts:
t/t4034-diff-words.sh
wt-status.c
* maint:
Makefile: FreeBSD (both 7 and 8) needs OLD_ICONV
Start 1.6.6.X maintenance track
Add git-http-backend to command-list.
t4019 "grep" portability fix
t1200: work around a bug in some implementations of "find"
Conflicts:
RelNotes
* sr/vcs-helper:
tests: handle NO_PYTHON setting
builtin-push: don't access freed transport->url
Add Python support library for remote helpers
Basic build infrastructure for Python scripts
Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged
Fix various memory leaks in transport-helper.c
Allow helper to map private ref names into normal names
Add support for "import" helper command
Allow specifying the remote helper in the url
Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs
Allow fetch to modify refs
Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid
Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls
Fix memory leak in helper method for disconnect
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
Makefile
builtin-ls-remote.c
builtin-push.c
transport-helper.c
* maint:
rebase -i: abort cleanly if the editor fails to launch
technical-docs: document hash API
api-strbuf.txt: fix typos and document launch_editor()
* maint:
Git 1.6.5.7
worktree: don't segfault with an absolute pathspec without a work tree
ignore unknown color configuration
help.autocorrect: do not run a command if the command given is junk
Illustrate "filter" attribute with an example
The example was taken from aa4ed402c9
(Add 'filter' attribute and external filter driver definition).
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This hook runs after "git fetch" in the repository the objects are
fetched from as the user who fetched, and has security implications.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for marking capability as mandatory for hosting git version
to understand. This is useful for helpers which require various types
of assistance from main git binary.
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command is like "squash", except that it discards the commit message
of the corresponding commit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Consistently back-quote commands, options and file names.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current documentation fails to mention that 'git add -A/--all' can
remove files as well as add them, and it also does not say anything about
filepatterns (whether they are allowed, mandatory, or optional). It is
also not clear what the similarities and differences to the -u option are.
Update the intro paragraph (as suggested by Junio, with some minor edits)
to make it clear that 'git add' is able to delete and to also cover the -p
option.
Reword the description of -u to make it clearer (based on Björn
Steinbrink's suggestion).
Simplify the description of -A by saying "Like -u" and then describe the
differences (based on the suggestions by Björn Steinbrink and Junio).
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* master: (334 commits)
bash: update 'git commit' completion
Git 1.6.5.5
Fix diff -B/--dirstat miscounting of newly added contents
reset: improve worktree safety valves
Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam
archive: clarify description of path parameter
rerere: don't segfault on failure to open rr-cache
Prepare for 1.6.5.5
gitweb: Describe (possible) gitweb.js minification in gitweb/README
Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam
Fix crasher on encountering SHA1-like non-note in notes tree
t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-'
t4201: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1
Git 1.6.5.4
Unconditionally set man.base.url.for.relative.links
Documentation/Makefile: allow man.base.url.for.relative.link to be set from Make
Git 1.6.6-rc1
git-pull.sh: Fix call to git-merge for new command format
Prepare for 1.6.5.4
merge: do not add standard message when message is given with -m option
...
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
Makefile
builtin-ls-remote.c
builtin-push.c
transport-helper.c
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After specifying 'feature relative-marks' the paths specified with
'feature import-marks' and 'feature export-marks' are relative to an
internal directory in the current repository.
In git-fast-import this means that the paths are relative to the
'.git/info/fast-import' directory. However, other importers may use a
different location.
Add 'feature non-relative-marks' to disable this behavior, this way
it is possible to, for example, specify the import-marks location as
relative, and the export-marks location as non-relative.
Also add tests to verify this behavior.
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --stringparam option is not available on older xmlto versions.
Instead, set man.base.url.for.relative.links via a .xsl file. Older
docbook versions will ignore this without causing grief to users of
older xmlto versions.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --import-marks= option may be specified multiple times on the
commandline and should result in all marks being read in. Only one
import-marks feature may be specified in the stream, which is
overriden by any --import-marks= commandline options.
If one wishes to specify import-marks files in addition to the one
specified in the stream, it is easy to repeat the stream option as a
--import-marks= commandline option.
Also verify this behavior with tests.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows the frontend to specify any of the supported options as
long as no non-option command has been given. This way the
user does not have to include any frontend-specific options, but
instead she can rely on the frontend to tell fast-import what it
needs.
Also factor out parsing of argv and have it execute when we reach the
first non-option command, or after all commands have been read and
no non-option command has been encountered.
Non-git options are ignored, unrecognised options result in an error.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows the fronted to require a specific feature to be supported
by the backend, or abort.
Also add support for four initial feature, date-format=, force=,
import-marks=, export-marks=.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mention that path parameters are based on the current working directory.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
--
Documentation/git-archive.txt | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a command line option to override rerere.autoupdate configuration
variable to make it more useful.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mm/maint-hint-failed-merge:
user-manual: Document that "git merge" doesn't like uncommited changes.
merge-recursive: point the user to commit when file would be overwritten.
* mm/config-pathname-tilde-expand:
Documentation: avoid xmlto input error
expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.
Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template
This is like --author: allow a user to specify a given date without
using the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Newer DocBook stylesheets want man.base.url.for.relative.links
parameter set when formatting manpages with external references
to turn them into full URLs, and leave a helpful "you should
set this parameter" message in the output. Earlier we added
the MAN_BASE_URL make variable to specify the value for it.
When MAN_BASE_URL is not given, it ought to be safe to set the
parameter to empty; it would result in an empty leading path for
older stylesheets that ignore the parameter, and newer ones
would produce the same "relative URL" without the message.
Unfortunately, older xmlto (at least version 0.0.18 released in
early 2004 that comes with RHEL/CentOS 5) does not understand
the --stringparam command line option, so we cannot add the
parameter definition unconditionally to the command line. Work
it around by passing the parameter only when set.
If you do not have a suitable URL prefix, you can pass a quoted empty
string to it, like so:
$ make MAN_BASE_URL='""'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git reset' is missing --quiet, and 'git gc' is not using OPT__QUIET.
Let's fix that.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even setting it to empty is better than leaving it unset as it
prevents the warning cruft from appearing in the output.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Prepare for 1.6.5.4
merge: do not add standard message when message is given with -m option
Do not misidentify "git merge foo HEAD" as an old-style invocation
Conflicts:
RelNotes
* maint:
help: Do not unnecessarily look for a repository
Documentation: Fix a few i.e./e.g. mix-ups
Documentation: Document --branch option in git clone synopsis
A git bundle can be transported by several means (such as e-mail), not
only by snekaernet, so use e.g. instead of i.e.
The mix-up in git-bundle.txt is obvious.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the --branch option as [-b <name>] in git clones synopsis.
Signed-off-by: David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes people want their conflicting merges autoresolved by
favouring upstream changes. The standard answer they are given is
to run "git diff --name-only | xargs git checkout MERGE_HEAD --" in
such a case. This is to accept automerge results for the paths that
are fully resolved automatically, while taking their version of the
file in full for paths that have conflicts.
This is problematic on two counts.
One is that this is not exactly what these people want. It discards
all changes they did on their branch for any paths that conflicted.
They usually want to salvage as much automerge result as possible in
a conflicted file, and want to take the upstream change only in the
conflicted part.
This patch teaches two new modes of operation to the lowest-lever
merge machinery, xdl_merge(). Instead of leaving the conflicted
lines from both sides enclosed in <<<, ===, and >>> markers, the
conflicts are resolved favouring our side or their side of changes.
A larger problem is that this tends to encourage a bad workflow by
allowing people to record such a mixed up half-merged result as a
full commit without auditing. This commit does not tackle this
issue at all. In git, we usually give long enough rope to users
with strange wishes as long as the risky features are not enabled by
default, and this is such a risky feature.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inspired by the coloring of quilt.
Introduce a separate color and paint the hunk comment part, i.e. the name
of the function, in a separate color "diff.func" (defaults to plain).
Whitespace between hunk header and hunk comment is printed in plain color.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds the option to specify the envelope sender as "auto" which
would pick the 'from' address. This is good because now we can specify
the address only in one place in $HOME/.gitconfig and change it easily.
[jc: added tests]
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds the configuration option http.authAny (overridable with
the environment variable GIT_HTTP_AUTH_ANY), for instructing curl
to allow any HTTP authentication scheme, not only basic (which
sends the password in plaintext).
When this is enabled, curl has to do double requests most of the time,
in order to discover which HTTP authentication method to use, which
lowers the performance slightly. Therefore this isn't enabled by default.
One example of another authentication scheme to use is digest, which
doesn't send the password in plaintext, but uses a challenge-response
mechanism instead. Using digest authentication in practice requires
at least curl 7.18.1, due to bugs in the digest handling in earlier
versions of curl.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow curl sessions to be kept alive (ie. not ended with
curl_easy_cleanup()) even after the request is completed, the number of
which is determined by the configuration setting http.minSessions.
Add a count for curl sessions, and update it, across slots, when
starting and ending curl sessions.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Otherwise, 'status' and 'status -s' in a subdir would produce different
names. This change is all the more important because status.relativePaths
is on by default.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fourth test of show-branch in t1200 test was failing but only
sometimes. It only failed when two commits created in an earlier
test had different timestamps. When they were created within the
same second, the actual output matched the expected output.
Fix this by using test_tick to force reliable timestamps and update
the expected output so it does not to depend on the commits made in
the same sacond.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit ad3f9a7 (Add '--bisect' revision machinery argument) the
'--bisect' option was added to easily pass bisection refs to commands
using the revision machinery.
This patch updates the documentation of the related options to describe
the new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* bg/apply-doc:
Fix over-simplified documentation for 'git log -z'
apply: Use the term "working tree" consistently
apply: Format all options using back-quotes
apply: apply works outside a repository
Clarify and correct -z
* mm/maint-hint-failed-merge:
user-manual: Document that "git merge" doesn't like uncommited changes.
merge-recursive: point the user to commit when file would be overwritten.
* jc/log-stdin:
Add trivial tests for --stdin option to log family
Make --stdin option to "log" family read also pathspecs
setup_revisions(): do not call get_pathspec() too early
Teach --stdin option to "log" family
read_revision_from_stdin(): use strbuf
Conflicts:
revision.c
* cc/replace:
Documentation: talk a little bit about GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS
Documentation: fix typos and spelling in replace documentation
replace: use a GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS env variable
* maint:
pack-objects: split implications of --all-progress from progress activation
instaweb: restart server if already running
prune-packed: only show progress when stderr is a tty
Conflicts:
builtin-pack-objects.c
Currently the --all-progress flag is used to use force progress display
during the writing object phase even if output goes to stdout which is
primarily the case during a push operation. This has the unfortunate
side effect of forcing progress display even if stderr is not a
terminal.
Let's introduce the --all-progress-implied argument which has the same
intent except for actually forcing the activation of any progress
display. With this, progress display will be automatically inhibited
whenever stderr is not a terminal, or full progress display will be
included otherwise. This should let people use 'git push' within a cron
job without filling their logs with useless percentage displays.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Tested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ignore display mode escape sequences (colour codes) for the purpose of
text wrapping because they don't have a visible width.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit 64485b4a, the documentation for 'git log -z' was
simplified too much. The -z option actually changes the behavior
of 'git log' in two ways: commits will be ended with a NUL
instead of a LF (correctly documented) and the --raw and
--numstat will have NUL as field terminators (omitted in
the documentation for 'git log').
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* bg/fetch-multi:
Re-implement 'git remote update' using 'git fetch'
builtin-fetch: add --dry-run option
builtin-fetch: add --prune option
teach warn_dangling_symref to take a FILE argument
remote: refactor some logic into get_stale_heads()
Add missing test for 'git remote update --prune'
Add the configuration option skipFetchAll
Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch'
Teach the --all option to 'git fetch'
Add documentation for core.ignorecase, and mention git-init
in core.filemode and core.symlinks.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A regenerated git-cvsserver database is at risk of having different
CVS revision numbers from an incrementally updated database. Mention
this in the the documentation, and remove an erroneous statement
to the contrary.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mm/config-pathname-tilde-expand:
Documentation: avoid xmlto input error
expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.
Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template
In the Table of Contents, there is a notable inconsistency:
first there is "GIT Glossary", followed by "Git Quick Reference"
on the very next line.
Running "grep -c" on user-manual.txt, I find 780 occurrrences of
"git", 37 occurrences of "Git", and 9 occurrences of "GIT".
In general, "git" is the preferred spelling, except at the
beginning of a sentence.
Therefore, change "GIT Glossary" to "Git Glossary" for consistency
with the rest of the document.
Looking at the other eight occurrences of "GIT" I found one other
occurrence that should be changed:
* The mention of "StGIT". Looking at the web pages for "Stacked Git"
at http://www.procode.org/stgit, I only saw the spelling "StGit",
except in http://wiki.procode.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/StGIT_Tutorial,
but that page was last updated in 2006.
The other seven occurrences should not be changed:
* Three occurrences were in the output of 'git show-branch' run
on the git.git repository.
* One occurrence was in the output of 'git cat-file'.
* One occurrence was as part of the file name "GIT-VERSION-GEN".
* Two occurrences were in comments in scripts quoted in a description
of Tony Luck's workflow.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We explain the user why uncommited changes can be problematic with merge,
and point to "commit" and "stash" for the solution. While talking about
commited Vs uncommited changes, we also make it clear that the result of
a merge is normally commited.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-before-pull is well accepted in the DVCS community, but is
confusing some new users. This should get them back in the right way when
the problem occurs.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for 'git apply' uses both the terms
"work tree" and "working tree". Since the glossary uses
the term "working tree", change all occurrences of
"work tree" to "working tree".
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for 'git apply' talks about applying a
patch/diff to the index and to the working tree, which seems
to imply that it will not work outside a git repository.
Actually 'git patch' works outside a repository (which can
be useful especially for applying binary or rename patches that
the standard "patch" utility cannot handle), so the documentation
should mention it.
Thanks to Junio for suggesting better wording.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description for -z is too vague and general for the
apply, diff*, and log commands.
Change the description of -z for 'git log' to note that
commits will be separated by NULs.
Change the description of -z for 'git diff*' and 'git apply'
to note that it applies to the --numstat option, and for
'git diff*' also for --raw option.
Also correct the description of the "munging" of pathanmes that
takes place in the absence of -z for the 'git diff*' and
'git apply' commands, namely that apart from the characters mentioned,
double quotes will also be escaped and that the pathname will be
enclosed in double quotes if any characters are escaped.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not write literal "~/" or "~user" but use "{tilde}/" and "{tilde}user";
otherwise the text between them gets enclosed in
"<subscript>...</subscript>".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'jh/notes' (early part):
Add selftests verifying concatenation of multiple notes for the same commit
Refactor notes code to concatenate multiple notes annotating the same object
Add selftests verifying that we can parse notes trees with various fanouts
Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes
Teach notes code to free its internal data structures on request
Add '%N'-format for pretty-printing commit notes
Add flags to get_commit_notes() to control the format of the note string
t3302-notes-index-expensive: Speed up create_repo()
fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes
Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit"
Add an expensive test for git-notes
Speed up git notes lookup
Add a script to edit/inspect notes
Introduce commit notes
Conflicts:
.gitignore
Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
pretty.c
* sp/smart-http: (37 commits)
http-backend: Let gcc check the format of more printf-type functions.
http-backend: Fix access beyond end of string.
http-backend: Fix bad treatment of uintmax_t in Content-Length
t5551-http-fetch: Work around broken Accept header in libcurl
t5551-http-fetch: Work around some libcurl versions
http-backend: Protect GIT_PROJECT_ROOT from /../ requests
Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport
http-backend: Test configuration options
http-backend: Use http.getanyfile to disable dumb HTTP serving
test smart http fetch and push
http tests: use /dumb/ URL prefix
set httpd port before sourcing lib-httpd
t5540-http-push: remove redundant fetches
Smart HTTP fetch: gzip requests
Smart fetch over HTTP: client side
Smart push over HTTP: client side
Discover refs via smart HTTP server when available
http-backend: more explict LocationMatch
http-backend: add example for gitweb on same URL
http-backend: use mod_alias instead of mod_rewrite
...
Conflicts:
.gitignore
remote-curl.c
* jn/editor-pager:
Provide a build time default-pager setting
Provide a build time default-editor setting
am -i, git-svn: use "git var GIT_PAGER"
add -i, send-email, svn, p4, etc: use "git var GIT_EDITOR"
Teach git var about GIT_PAGER
Teach git var about GIT_EDITOR
Suppress warnings from "git var -l"
Do not use VISUAL editor on dumb terminals
Handle more shell metacharacters in editor names
* bg/format-patch-doc-update:
format-patch: Add "--no-stat" as a synonym for "-p"
format-patch documentation: Fix formatting
format-patch documentation: Remove diff options that are not useful
format-patch: Always generate a patch
* jn/help-everywhere: (23 commits)
diff --no-index: make the usage string less scary
merge-{recursive,subtree}: use usagef() to print usage
Introduce usagef() that takes a printf-style format
Let 'git <command> -h' show usage without a git dir
Show usage string for 'git http-push -h'
Let 'git http-fetch -h' show usage outside any git repository
Show usage string for 'git stripspace -h'
Show usage string for 'git unpack-file -h'
Show usage string for 'git show-index -h'
Show usage string for 'git rev-parse -h'
Show usage string for 'git merge-one-file -h'
Show usage string for 'git mailsplit -h'
Show usage string for 'git imap-send -h'
Show usage string for 'git get-tar-commit-id -h'
Show usage string for 'git fast-import -h'
Show usage string for 'git check-ref-format -h'
http-fetch: add missing initialization of argv0_path
Show usage string for 'git show-ref -h'
Show usage string for 'git merge-ours -h'
Show usage string for 'git commit-tree -h'
...
Conflicts:
imap-send.c
The current man page does a reasonable job at describing branch management
during the development process, but it does not contain any guidance as to
how the branches are affected by releases.
Add a basic introduction to the branch management undertaken during a
git.git release, so that a reader may gain some insight into how the
integration, maintenance, and topic branches are affected during the
release transition, and is thus able to better design the process for their
own project.
Other release activities such as reviews, testing, and creating
distributions are currently out of scope.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the usage string for a subcommand must be printed,
only print the information relevant to that command.
This commit also removes the complete options list from
the first line of the subcommand usage string. Instead,
individual options are documented in the detailed
description following the general usage line.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch fix a missing "s" at the end of an occurence of
"--no-replace-objects" and, while at it, it also improves spelling
and rendering.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to the command line arguments, after giving zero or more revs, you can
feed a line "--" and then feed pathspecs one at a time.
With this
(
echo ^maint
echo --
echo Documentation
) | git log --stat --oneline --stdin master -- t
lists commits that touch Documentation/ or t/ between maint and master.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the logic to read revs from standard input that rev-list knows about
from it to revision machinery, so that all the users of setup_revisions()
can feed the list of revs from the standard input when "--stdin" is used
on the command line.
Allow some users of the revision machinery that want different semantics
from the "--stdin" option to disable it by setting an option in the
rev_info structure.
This also cleans up the kludge made to bundle.c via cut and paste.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
graph_release() was removed in 064bfbd. Cut it from the API
documentation and a comment.
Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 395de250d (Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template),
we introduced the mechanism. But expanding ~ using getpw is not what
people overriding $HOME would usually expect. In particular, git looks
for the user's .gitconfig using $HOME, so it's better to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sb/tutorial-test:
t1200: prepare for merging with Fast-forward bikeshedding
t1200: further modernize test script style
t1200: Make documentation and test agree
t1200: cleanup and modernize test style
These config variables are parsed to substitute ~ and ~user with getpw
entries.
user_path() refactored into new function expand_user_path(), to allow
dynamically allocating the return buffer.
Original patch by Karl Chen, modified by Matthieu Moy, and further
amended by Junio C Hamano.
Signed-off-by: Karl Chen <quarl@quarl.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helpers may use a line like "? name unchanged" to specify that there
is nothing new at that name, without any git-specific code to
determine the correct response.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows a helper to say that, when it handles "import
refs/heads/topic", the script it outputs will actually write to
refs/svn/origin/branches/topic; therefore, transport-helper should
read it from the latter location after git-fast-import completes.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This command, supported if the "import" capability is advertized,
allows a helper to support fetching by outputting a git-fast-import
stream.
If both "fetch" and "import" are advertized, git itself will use
"fetch" (although other users may use "import" in this case).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If this is set, the url is not required, and the transport always uses
a helper named "git-remote-<value>".
It is a separate configuration option in order to allow a sensible
configuration for foreign systems which either have no meaningful urls
for repositories or which require urls that do not specify the system
used by the repository at that location. However, this only affects
how the name of the helper is determined, not anything about the
interaction with the helper, and the contruction is such that, if the
foreign scm does happen to use a co-named url method, a url with that
method may be used directly.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn:
Document git-svn's first-parent rule
git svn: attempt to create empty dirs on clone+rebase
git svn: add authorsfile test case for ~/.gitconfig
git svn: read global+system config for clone+init
git svn: handle SVN merges from revisions past the tip of the branch
git-svn has the following rule to detect the SVN base for its
operations: find the first git-svn-id line reachable through
first-parent ancestry. IOW,
git log --grep=^git-svn-id: --first-parent -1
Document this, as it is very important when using merges with git-svn.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The description of the configuration variable is obsolete and
wrong (saying only file content is used), not just incomplete.
It has used the attribute mechanism for a long time.
The documentation of gitattributes mentions the core.autocrlf
configuration variable in its description of crlf attribute.
Refer to the gitattributes documentation from here as well.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a paragraph about the swapped sides in a --merge rebase, which was
otherwise only documented in the sources.
Add a paragraph about the effects of the 'ours' strategy to the -s
description. Also remove the mention of the 'octopus' strategy, which
was copied from the git-merge description but is pointless in a
rebase.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/maint-blank-at-eof:
diff -B: colour whitespace errors
diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line
diff.c: split emit_line() from the first char and the rest of the line
diff.c: shuffling code around
diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end
core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof}
diff --color: color blank-at-eof
diff --whitespace=warn/error: fix blank-at-eof check
diff --whitespace=warn/error: obey blank-at-eof
diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison
apply --whitespace: warn blank but not necessarily empty lines at EOF
apply --whitespace=warn/error: diagnose blank at EOF
apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two
apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly
apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
We parse unhandled.log files for empty_dir statements and make a
best effort attempt to recreate empty directories on fresh
clones and rebase. This should cover the majority of cases
where users work off a single branch or for projects where
branches do not differ in empty directories.
Since this cannot affect "normal" git commands like "checkout"
or "reset", so users switching between branches in a single
working directory should use the new "git svn mkdirs" command
after switching branches.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
* ja/fetch-doc:
Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups
Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files
Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
* jc/receive-pack-auto:
receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info"
gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboase
Make it clear in the docs that the merge takes the tree of HEAD and
ignores everything in the other branches. This should hopefully clear
up confusion, usually caused by the user looking for a strategy that
resolves all conflict hunks in favour of HEAD (which is completely
different and currently not supported).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extra paragraphs should be prefixed with a plus sign.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the new "git var GIT_EDITOR" feature to decide what editor to
use, instead of duplicating its logic elsewhere. This should make
the behavior of commands in edge cases (e.g., editor names with
spaces) a little more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expose the command found by setup_pager() for scripts to use.
Scripts can use this to avoid repeating the logic to look for a
proper pager in each command.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expose the command used by launch_editor() for scripts to use.
This should allow one to avoid searching for a proper editor
separately in each command.
git_editor(void) uses the logic to decide which editor to use
that used to live in launch_editor(). The function returns NULL
if there is no suitable editor; the caller is expected to issue
an error message when appropriate.
launch_editor() uses git_editor() and gives the error message the
same way as before when EDITOR is not set.
"git var GIT_EDITOR" gives the editor name, or an error message
when there is no appropriate one.
"git var -l" gives GIT_EDITOR=name only if there is an
appropriate editor.
Originally-submitted-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current technical documentation for the packfile protocol is both
sparse and incorrect. This documents the fetch-pack/upload-pack and
send-pack/ receive-pack protocols much more fully.
Add documentation from Shawn's upcoming http-protocol docs that is
shared by the packfile protocol. protocol-common.txt describes ABNF
notation amendments, refname rules and the packet line format.
Add documentation on the various capabilities supported by the
upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. protocol-capabilities.txt
describes multi-ack, thin-pack, side-band[-64k], shallow, no-progress,
include-tag, ofs-delta, delete-refs and report-status.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since a0e4639 (filter-branch: fix ref rewriting with
--subdirectory-filter, 2008-08-12) git-filter-branch has done
nearest-ancestor rewriting when using a --subdirectory-filter.
However, that rewriting strategy is also a useful building block in
other tasks. For example, if you want to split out a subset of files
from your history, you would typically call
git filter-branch -- <refs> -- <files>
But this fails for all refs that do not point directly to a commit
that affects <files>, because their referenced commit will not be
rewritten and the ref remains untouched.
The code was already there for the --subdirectory-filter case, so just
introduce an option that enables it independently.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"-p" means "generate patch" in 'git log' and 'git diff', so it's
quite surprising that it means "suppress diffstat" in
'git format-patch'.
Keep the "-p" option for backward compatibility, but add
"--no-stat" as a more intuitive synonym. For backward compatibility
with scripts, we must allow combinations of --stat and --no-stat.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Format git commands and options consistently using back quotes
(i.e. a fixed font in the resulting HTML document).
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To simplify reading the documentation for format-patch, remove the
description of common diff options that are not useful for the
purpose of the command (i.e. "Prepare patches for e-mail submission").
Specifically, this removes the description of the following options:
--raw
-z
--color
--no-color
--color-words
--diff-filter
-S
--pickaxe-all
--pickaxe-regex
-R
--relative
--exit-code
--quiet
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King recently reinstated -p to suppress the default diffstat
(as -p used to work before 68daa64, about 14 months ago).
However, -p is also needed in combination with certain options
(e.g. --stat or --numstat) in order to produce any patch at all.
The documentation does not mention this.
Since the purpose of format-patch is to produce a patch that
can be emailed, it does not make sense that certain combination
of options will suppress the generation of the patch itself.
Therefore:
* Update 'git format-patch' to always generate a patch.
* Since the --name-only, --name-status, and --check suppresses
the generation of the patch, disallow those options,
and remove the description of them in the documentation.
* Remove the reference to -p in the description of -U.
* Remove the descriptions of the options that are synonyms for -p
plus another option (--patch-with-raw and --patch-with-stat).
* While at it, slightly tweak the description of -p itself
to say that it generates "plain patches", so that you can
think of -p as "plain patch" as an mnemonic aid.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the description next to --assume-unchanged because this option is only
useful in a special case of using that option.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach fetch --dry-run as users of "git remote prune" switching to "git fetch
--prune" may expect it. Unfortunately OPT__DRY_RUN() cannot be used as fetch
already uses "-n" for something else.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach fetch to cull stale remote tracking branches after fetching via --prune.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement the configuration skipFetchAll option to allow
certain remotes to be skipped when doing 'git fetch --all' and
'git remote update'. The existing skipDefaultUpdate variable
is still honored (by 'git fetch --all' and 'git remote update').
(If both are set in the configuration file with different values,
the value of the last occurrence will be used.)
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the --multiple option to specify that all arguments are either
groups or remotes. The primary reason for adding this option is
to allow us to re-implement 'git remote update' using fetch.
It would have been nice if this option was not needed, but since
the colon in a refspec is optional, it is in general not possible
to know whether a single, colon-less argument is a remote or a
refspec.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git remote' is meant for managing remotes and 'git fetch' is meant
for actually fetching data from remote repositories. Therefore, it is
not logical that you must use 'git remote update' to fetch from
more than one repository at once.
Add the --all option to 'git fetch', to tell it to attempt to fetch
from all remotes. Also, if --all is not given, the <repository>
argument is allowed to be the name of a group, to allow fetching
from all repositories in the group.
Other options except -v and -q are silently ignored.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This only changes the behavior of "git show-ref -h" without any
other options and arguments.
"show-ref -h" currently is short for "show-ref --head", which
shows all the refs/* and HEAD, as opposed to "show-ref" that
shows all the refs/* and not HEAD.
Does anybody use "show-ref -h"? It was in Linus's original, most
likely only because "it might be handy", not because "the command
should not show the HEAD by default for such and such reasons".
So I think it is okay if "show-ref -h" (but not "show-ref
--head") gives help and exits.
If a current script uses "git show-ref -h" without any other
arguments, it would have to be adapted by changing "-h" to
"--head".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds an asciidoc version of the "Fighting regressions with
git bisect" article that the author wrote for the Linux-Kongress
2009 (http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009).
This paper might be interesting to people who want to learn as much as
possible about "git bisect" from a single document.
The slides of the related presentation are available at:
http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/fighting_regressions_with_git_bisect_christian_couder.pdf
But the Linux Kongress people will not publish this paper online because
they print the papers on their UpTimes magazine
(http://www.lob.de/isbn/978-3-86541-358-1). But they don't take away the
rights of the author (which is very nice), so I have the right to publish
it.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were some differences between t1200 and the gitcore-tutorial. Add
missing tests for manually merging two branches, and use the same
commands in both files.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some repository owners may wish to enable smart HTTP, but disallow
dumb content serving. Disallowing dumb serving might be because
the owners want to rely upon reachability to control which objects
clients may access from the repository, or they just want to
encourage clients to use the more bandwidth efficient transport.
If http.getanyfile is set to false the backend CGI will return with
'403 Forbidden' when an object file is accessed by a dumb client.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-remote-curl backend detects if the remote server supports
the git-receive-pack service, and if so, runs git-send-pack in a
pipe to dump the command and pack data as a single POST request.
The advertisements from the server that were obtained during the
discovery are passed into git-send-pack before the POST request
starts. This permits git-send-pack to operate largely unmodified.
For smaller packs (those under 1 MiB) a HTTP/1.0 POST with a
Content-Length is used, permitting interaction with any server.
The 1 MiB limit is arbitrary, but is sufficent to fit most deltas
created by human authors against text sources with the occasional
small binary file (e.g. few KiB icon image). The configuration
option http.postBuffer can be used to increase (or shink) this
buffer if the default is not sufficient.
For larger packs which cannot be spooled entirely into the helper's
memory space (due to http.postBuffer being too small), the POST
request requires HTTP/1.1 and sets "Transfer-Encoding: chunked".
This permits the client to upload an unknown amount of data in one
HTTP transaction without needing to pregenerate the entire pack
file locally.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the git-http-backend examples, only match git-receive-pack within
/git/.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the git-http-backend documentation, add an example of how to set up
gitweb and git-http-backend on the same URL by using a series of
mod_alias commands.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the git-http-backend documentation, use mod_alias exlusively, instead
of using a combination of mod_alias and mod_rewrite. This makes the
example slightly shorted and a bit more clear.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify some of the git-http-backend documentation, particularly:
* In the Description, state that smart/dumb HTTP fetch and smart HTTP
push are supported, state that authenticated clients allow push, and
remove the note that this is only suited for read-only updates.
* At the start of Examples, state explicitly what URL is mapping to what
location on disk.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new environment variable, GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, to override the
method of using PATH_TRANSLATED to find the git repository on disk.
This makes it much easier to configure the web server, especially when
the web server's DocumentRoot does not contain the git repositories,
which is the usual case.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Requests for $GIT_URL/git-receive-pack and $GIT_URL/git-upload-pack
are forwarded to the corresponding backend process by directly
executing it and leaving stdin and stdout connected to the invoking
web server. Prior to starting the backend process the HTTP response
headers are sent, thereby freeing the backend from needing to know
about the HTTP protocol.
Requests that are encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip are
automatically inflated before being streamed into the backend.
This is primarily useful for the git-upload-pack backend, which
receives highly repetitive text data from clients that easily
compresses to 50% of its original size.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-http-backend CGI can be configured into any Apache server
using ScriptAlias, such as with the following configuration:
LoadModule cgi_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule alias_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
Repositories are accessed via the translated PATH_INFO.
The CGI is backwards compatible with the dumb client, allowing all
older HTTP clients to continue to download repositories which are
managed by the CGI.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we use -c, -C, or --amend, we are trying one of two things: using the
source as a template or modifying a commit with corrections.
When these options are used, the authorship and timestamp recorded in the
newly created commit are always taken from the original commit. This is
inconvenient when we just want to borrow the commit log message or when
our change to the code is so significant that we should take over the
authorship (with the blame for bugs we introduce, of course).
The new --reset-author option is meant to solve this need by regenerating
the timestamp and setting the committer as the new author.
Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduced in 492cf3f (More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev', 2009-10-29)
Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ja/fetch-doc:
Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups
Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files
Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
The remote helper interface now supports the push capability,
which can be used to ask the implementation to push one or more
specs to the remote repository. For remote-curl we implement this
by calling the existing WebDAV based git-http-push executable.
Internally the helper interface uses the push_refs transport hook
so that the complexity of the refspec parsing and matching can be
reused between remote implementations. When possible however the
helper protocol uses source ref name rather than the source SHA-1,
thereby allowing the helper to access this name if it is useful.
>From Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>:
update http tests according to remote-curl capabilities
o Pushing packed refs is now fixed.
o The transport helper fails if refs are already up-to-date. Add
a test for that.
o The transport helper will notice if refs are already
up-to-date. We therefore need to update server info in the
unpacked-refs test.
o The transport helper will purge deleted branches automatically.
o Use a variable ($ORIG_HEAD) instead of full SHA-1 name.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
CC: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some transports, like the native pack transport implemented by
fetch-pack, support useful features like depth or include tags.
These should be exposed if the underlying helper knows how to
use them.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some network protocols (e.g. native git://) are able to fetch more
than one ref at a time and reduce the overall transfer cost by
combining the requests into a single exchange. Instead of feeding
each fetch request one at a time to the helper, feed all of them
at once so the helper can decide whether or not it should batch them.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For convenience in scripts and aliases, add the option
--ff-only to only allow fast-forwards (and up-to-date,
despite the name).
Disallow combining --ff-only and --no-ff, since they
flatly contradict each other.
Allow all other options to be combined with --ff-only
(i.e. do not add any code to handle them specially),
including the following options:
* --strategy (one or more): As long as the chosen merge
strategy results in up-to-date or fast-forward, the
command will succeed.
* --squash: I cannot imagine why anyone would want to
squash commits only if fast-forward is possible, but I
also see no reason why it should not be allowed.
* --message: The message will always be ignored, but I see
no need to explicitly disallow providing a redundant message.
Acknowledgements: I did look at Yuval Kogman's earlier
patch (107768 in gmane), mainly as shortcut to find my
way in the code, but I did not copy anything directly.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also adds a note about why the output in the examples might give
different output today.
Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit b5227d8 changed the behavior of "ls-files" with
respect to includes, but accidentally broke the "-i" option
The original behavior was:
1. if no "-i" is given, cull all results according to --exclude*
2. if "-i" is given, show the inverse of (1)
The broken behavior was:
1. if no "-i" is given:
a. for "-o", cull results according to --exclude*
b. for index files, always show all
2. if "-i" is given:
a. for "-o", shows the inverse of (1a)
b. for index files, always show all
The fixed behavior keeps the new (1b) behavior introduced
by b5227d8, but fixes the (2b) behavior to show only ignored
files, not all files.
This patch also tweaks the documentation. The original text
was somewhat obscure in the first place, but it is also now
inaccurate (the relationship between (1b) and (2b) is not
quite a "reverse").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add p4merge to the set of built-in diff/merge tools, and update
bash completion and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the --dirty option, git describe works on HEAD but append s"-dirty"
iff the contents of the work tree differs from HEAD. E.g.
$ git describe --dirty
v1.6.5-15-gc274db7
$ echo >> Makefile
$ git describe --dirty
v1.6.5-15-gc274db7-dirty
The --dirty option can also be used to specify what is appended, instead
of the default string "-dirty".
$ git describe --dirty=.mod
v1.6.5-15-gc274db7.mod
Many build scripts use `git describe` to produce a version number based on
the description of HEAD (on which the work tree is based) + saying that if
the build contains uncommitted changes. This patch helps the writing of
such scripts since `git describe --dirty` does directly the intended thing.
Three possiblities were considered while discussing this new feature:
1. Describe the work tree by default and describe HEAD only if "HEAD" is
explicitly specified
Pro: does the right thing by default (both for users and for scripts)
Pro: other git commands that works on the work tree by default
Con: breaks existing scripts used by the Linux kernel and other projects
2. Use --worktree instead of --dirty
Pro: does what it says: "git describe --worktree" describes the work tree
Con: other commands do not require a --worktree option when working
on the work tree (it often is the default mode for them)
Con: unusable with an optional value: "git describe --worktree=.mod"
is quite unintuitive.
3. Use --dirty as in this patch
Pro: makes sense to specify an optional value (what the dirty mark is)
Pro: does not have any of the big cons of previous alternatives
* does not break scripts
* is not inconsistent with other git commands
This patch takes the third approach.
Signed-off-by: Jean Privat <jean@pryen.org>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/receive-pack-auto:
receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info"
gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboase
The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'. This does
achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the
apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right
circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages.
Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the
groff_char manpage.
Unfortunately, as Anders Kaseorg kindly pointed out, this is not
portable beyond groff, so we add an extra Makefile variable GNU_ROFF
which you need to enable to get the new quoting.
Thanks also to Miklos Vajna for documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the missing definite article ("the") in several places.
Change "note to..." to "note for...", since "note to" means that
that the note is addressed to someone (source: Google search).
Change "progressbar" to "progress bar" (source: Wikipedia).
Format git commands, options, and file names consistently using
back quotes (i.e. a fixed font in the resulting HTML document).
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce two new configuration variables, receive.autogc (defaults to
true) and receive.updateserverinfo (defaults to false). When these are
set, receive-pack runs "gc --auto --quiet" and "update-server-info"
respectively after it finishes receiving data from "git push" and updating
refs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated
style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and
move the examples to the corresponding manpages.
Furthermore,
- show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a
frequently asked question,
- explain the default fetch refspec.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Linus and other git developers from the early days trained their fingers
to type the command, every once in a while even without thinking, to check
the consistency of the repository back when the lower core part of the git
was still being developed. Developers who wanted to make sure that git
correctly dealt with packfiles could deliberately trigger their creation
and checked them after they were created carefully, but loose objects are
the ones that are written by various commands from random codepaths. It
made some technical sense to have a mode that checked only loose objects
from the debugging point of view for that reason.
Even for git developers, there no longer is any reason to type "git fsck"
every five minutes these days, worried that some newly created objects
might be corrupt due to recent change to git.
The reason we did not make "--full" the default is probably we trust our
filesystems a bit too much. At least, we trusted filesystems more than we
trusted the lower core part of git that was under development.
Once a packfile is created and we always use it read-only, there didn't
seem to be much point in suspecting that the underlying filesystems or
disks may corrupt them in such a way that is not caught by the SHA-1
checksum over the entire packfile and per object checksum. That trust in
the filesystems might have been a good tradeoff between fsck performance
and reliability on platforms git was initially developed on and for, but
it may not be true anymore as we run on many more platforms these days.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you use the option --submodule=log you can see the submodule
summaries inlined in the diff, instead of not-quite-helpful SHA-1 pairs.
The format imitates what "git submodule summary" shows.
To do that, <path>/.git/objects/ is added to the alternate object
databases (if that directory exists).
This option was requested by Jens Lehmann at the GitTogether in Berlin.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git stash list' had an undocumented limit of 10 stashes, unless other
git-log arguments were specified. This surprised at least one user,
but possibly served to cut the output below a screenful without using
a pager.
Since the last commit, 'git stash list' will fire up a pager according
to the same rules as the 'git log' it calls, so we can drop the limit.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add three new --pretty=format escapes:
%gD long reflog descriptor (e.g. refs/stash@{0})
%gd short reflog descriptor (e.g. stash@{0})
%gs reflog message
This is achieved by passing down the reflog info, if any, inside the
pretty_print_context struct.
We use the newly refactored get_reflog_selector(), and give it some
extra functionality to extract a shortened ref. The shortening is
cached inside the commit_reflogs struct; the only allocation of it
happens in read_complete_reflog(), where it is initialised to 0. Also
add another helper get_reflog_message() for the message extraction.
Note that the --format="%h %gD: %gs" tests may not work in real
repositories, as the --pretty formatter doesn't know to leave away the
": " on the last commit in an incomplete (because git-gc removed the
old part) reflog. This equivalence is nevertheless the main goal of
this patch.
Thanks to Jeff King for reviews, the %gd testcase and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a 'notemodify' subcommand of the 'commit' command. This subcommand
is similar to 'filemodify', except that no mode is supplied (all notes have
mode 0644), and the path is set to the hex SHA1 of the given "comittish".
This enables fast import of note objects along with their associated commits,
since the notes can now be named using the mark references of their
corresponding commits.
The patch also includes a test case of the added functionality.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-m" and "-F" options are already the established method
(in both git-commit and git-tag) to specify a commit/tag message
without invoking the editor. This patch teaches "git notes edit"
to respect the same options for specifying a notes message without
invoking the editor.
Multiple "-m" and/or "-F" options are concatenated as separate
paragraphs.
The patch also updates the "git notes" documentation and adds
selftests for the new functionality. Unfortunately, the added
selftests include a couple of lines with trailing whitespace
(without these the test will fail). This may cause git to warn
about "whitespace errors".
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Thomas Rast: fix trailing whitespace in t3301
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The script 'git notes' allows you to edit and show commit notes, by
calling either
git notes show <commit>
or
git notes edit <commit>
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Tor Arne Vestbø: fix printing of multi-line notes
- Michael J Gruber: test and handle empty notes gracefully
- Thomas Rast:
- only clean up message file when editing
- use GIT_EDITOR and core.editor over VISUAL/EDITOR
- t3301: fix confusing quoting in test for valid notes ref
- t3301: use test_must_fail instead of !
- refuse to edit notes outside refs/notes/
- Junio C Hamano: tests: fix "export var=val"
- Christian Couder: documentation: fix 'linkgit' macro in "git-notes.txt"
- Johan Herland: minor cleanup and bugfixing in git-notes.sh (v2)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tavestbo@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit notes are blobs which are shown together with the commit
message. These blobs are taken from the notes ref, which you can
configure by the config variable core.notesRef, which in turn can
be overridden by the environment variable GIT_NOTES_REF.
The notes ref is a branch which contains "files" whose names are
the names of the corresponding commits (i.e. the SHA-1).
The rationale for putting this information into a ref is this: we
want to be able to fetch and possibly union-merge the notes,
maybe even look at the date when a note was introduced, and we
want to store them efficiently together with the other objects.
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Thomas Rast: fix core.notesRef documentation
- Tor Arne Vestbø: fix printing of multi-line notes
- Alex Riesen: Using char array instead of char pointer costs less BSS
- Johan Herland: Plug leak when msg is good, but msglen or type causes return
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tavestbo@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
get_commit_notes(): Plug memory leak when 'if' triggers, but not because of read_sha1_file() failure
* maint:
git push: say that --tag can't be used with --all or --mirror in help text
git push: remove incomplete options list from help text
document push's new quiet option
Makefile: clean block-sha1/ directory instead of mozilla-sha1/
* jc/maint-blank-at-eof:
diff -B: colour whitespace errors
diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line
diff.c: split emit_line() from the first char and the rest of the line
diff.c: shuffling code around
diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end
core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof}
diff --color: color blank-at-eof
diff --whitespace=warn/error: fix blank-at-eof check
diff --whitespace=warn/error: obey blank-at-eof
diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison
apply --whitespace: warn blank but not necessarily empty lines at EOF
apply --whitespace=warn/error: diagnose blank at EOF
apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two
apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly
apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
‘git bisect reset’ accepts an optional argument specifying a branch to
check out after cleaning up the bisection state. This lets you
specify an arbitrary commit.
In particular, this provides a way to clean the bisection state
without moving HEAD: ‘git bisect reset HEAD’. This may be useful if
you are not interested in the state before you began a bisect,
especially if checking out the old commit would be expensive and
invalidate most of your compiled tree.
Clarify the ‘git bisect reset’ documentation to explain this optional
argument, which was previously mentioned only in the usage message.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit dae556b (environment: add global variable to disable replacement)
adds a variable to enable/disable replacement, and it is enabled by
default for most commands.
So there is no way to disable it for some commands, which is annoying
when we want to get information about a commit that has been replaced.
For example:
$ git cat-file -p N
would output information about the replacement commit if commit N is
replaced.
With the "--no-replace-objects" option that this patch adds it is
possible to get information about the original commit using:
$ git --no-replace-objects cat-file -p N
While at it, let's add some documentation about this new option in the
"git replace" man page too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tolerating empty path components in ref names means each ref does
not have a unique name. This creates difficulty for porcelains
that want to see if two branches are equal. Add a helper associating
to each ref a canonical name.
If a user asks a porcelain to create a ref "refs/heads//master",
the porcelain can run "git check-ref-format --print refs/heads//master"
and only deal with "refs/heads/master" from then on.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unless one already knew, it was not obvious what sort of shorthand
"git check-ref-format --branch" expands. Explain it.
The --branch argument is not optional.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When saying the initial branch is equal to the currently active
remote branch, it is probably intended that the branch heads
point to the same commit. Maybe it would be more useful to a
new user to emphasize that the tree contents and history are the
same.
More important, probably, is that this new branch is set up so
that "git pull" merges changes from the corresponding remote
branch. The next paragraph addresses that directly. What the
reader needs to know to begin with is that (1) the initial branch
is your own; if you do not pull, it won't get updated, and that
(2) the initial branch starts out at the same commit as the
upstream.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Idealists may want USE_NSEC to be the default on Linux some day.
Point to a patch to better explain the requirements on
filesystem code for that to happen.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not necessarily obvious to a git novice what it means for a
filesystem tree to be equal to the HEAD. Spell it out.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation seems to assume that the starting point for a new
branch is the tip of an existing (ordinary) branch, but that is not
the most common case. More often, "git branch" is used to begin
a branch from a remote-tracking branch, a tag, or an interesting
commit (e.g. origin/pu^2). Clarify the language so it can apply
to these cases. Thanks to Sean Estabrooks for the wording.
Also add a pointer to the user's manual for the bewildered.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the documentation for --merged and --no-merged to explain
the meaning of the optional parameter introduced in commit 049716b
(branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit,
2008-07-08).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sounds better this way, at least to my ears. ("The syntax and
supported options of git merge" is a plural noun. "the same"
instead of "equal" sounds less technical and seems to convey
the meaning better here.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fmt-merge-message builtin can be invoked as "git fmt-merge-msg" rather
than through the hard link in GIT_EXEC_PATH. Although this is unlikely to
confuse most script writers, it should not hurt to make the documentation
a little clearer anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it easier to edit just the commit message for a commit
using 'git rebase -i' by introducing the "reword" command.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches the "pretty" machinery to expand '%+x' to a LF followed by
the expansion of '%x' if and only if '%x' expands to a non-empty string,
and to remove LFs before '%-x' if '%x' expands to an empty string. This
works for any supported expansion placeholder 'x'.
This is expected to be immediately useful to reproduce the commit log
message with "%s%+b%n"; "%s%n%b%n" adds one extra LF if the log message is
a one-liner.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Translate some english words to portuguese and fix some
typos on translation.
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
