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Author SHA1 Message Date
Junio C Hamano
0c47e8ddf5 Merge branch 'po/doc-branch' into maint
Doc update.

* po/doc-branch:
  doc branch: provide examples for listing remote tracking branches
2019-07-29 12:38:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
747201d0c8 Merge branch 'dl/config-alias-doc' into maint
Doc update.

* dl/config-alias-doc:
  config/alias.txt: document alias accepting non-command first word
  config/alias.txt: change " and ' to `
2019-07-29 12:38:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
63d9fa23cf Merge branch 'jw/gitweb-sample-update' into maint
Doc update.

* jw/gitweb-sample-update:
  doc: don't use git.kernel.org as example gitweb URL
2019-07-29 12:38:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bcb30d718a Merge branch 'sg/git-C-empty-doc' into maint
Doc update.

* sg/git-C-empty-doc:
  Document that 'git -C ""' works and doesn't change directory
2019-07-29 12:38:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8926ea6a12 Merge branch 'js/trace2-signo-typofix' into maint
Documentation fix.

* js/trace2-signo-typofix:
  trace2: correct trace2 field name documentation
2019-07-29 12:38:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2b312841a8 Merge branch 'rm/gpg-program-doc-fix' into maint
Docfix.

* rm/gpg-program-doc-fix:
  gpg(docs): use correct --verify syntax
2019-07-29 12:38:12 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
d61e6ce1dd Documentation/git-fsck.txt: include fsck.* config variables
The 'fsck.skipList' and 'fsck.<msg-id>' config variables might be
easier to discover when they are documented in 'git fsck's man page.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-29 10:41:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
98e06ded34 Flush fixes up to the third batch post 2.22.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-25 14:32:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
352253adf0 Merge branch 'ab/hash-object-doc' into maint
Doc update.

* ab/hash-object-doc:
  hash-object doc: stop mentioning git-cvsimport
2019-07-25 14:27:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
409813088a Merge branch 'cm/send-email-document-req-modules' into maint
A doc update.

* cm/send-email-document-req-modules:
  send-email: update documentation of required Perl modules
2019-07-25 14:27:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
24c161ddd6 Merge branch 'es/git-debugger-doc' into maint
Doc update.

* es/git-debugger-doc:
  doc: hint about GIT_DEBUGGER in CodingGuidelines
2019-07-25 14:27:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
167d02aa58 Merge branch 'an/ignore-doc-update' into maint
The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
matches directories") has been revamped.

* an/ignore-doc-update:
  gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
2019-07-25 14:27:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
33f2790eca Merge branch 'vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit' into maint
"git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
when both options are given.

* vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit:
  merge: refuse --commit with --squash
2019-07-25 14:27:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cc0c42975a CodingGuidelines: spell out post-C89 rules
Even though we have been sticking to C89, there are a few handy
features we borrow from more recent C language in our codebase after
trying them in weather balloons and saw that nobody screamed.

Spell them out.

While at it, extend the existing variable declaration rule a bit to
read better with the newly spelled out rule for the for loop.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-18 15:16:04 -07:00
Robert Morgan
f7bf24d4dd gpg(docs): use correct --verify syntax
The gpg --verify usage example within the 'gpg.program' variable
reference provides an incorrect example of the gpg --verify command
arguments.

The command argument order, when providing both a detached signature
and data, should be signature first and data second:
https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Operational-GPG-Commands.html

Signed-off-by: Robert Morgan <robert.thomas.morgan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-12 11:14:22 -07:00
Josh Steadmon
24df0d49c4 trace2: correct trace2 field name documentation
Correct the api-trace2 documentation, which lists "signal" as an
expected field for the signal event type, but which actually outputs
"signo" as the field name.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-09 16:28:40 -07:00
Quentin Nerden
bfc8c84ed5 docs: git-clone: list short form of options first
List the short form of options (e.g.: '-l') before the long form (e.g.
'--local').
This is to match the doc of git-add, git-commit, git-clean, git-branch...

Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden <quentin.nerden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-02 12:11:40 -07:00
Quentin Nerden
3711d1cd89 docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options
To make the doc of git-clone easier to read,
refer to the long form of the options
(it is easier to guess what '--verbose' is doing than '-v').

Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden <quentin.nerden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-02 12:11:38 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
1a64e07d23 Document that 'git -C ""' works and doesn't change directory
It's been behaving so since 6a536e2076 (git: treat "git -C '<path>'"
as a no-op when <path> is empty, 2015-03-06).

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-01 10:42:49 -07:00
Jakub Wilk
dfa880e336 doc: don't use git.kernel.org as example gitweb URL
git.kernel.org uses cgit, not gitweb, these days:

    $ w3m -dump 'http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=tree;f=gitweb' | grep -w generated
    generated by cgit 1.2-0.3.lf.el7 (git 2.18.0) at 2019-06-22 16:14:38 +0000

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-24 12:37:21 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
10bd0be173 commit-graph: remove Future Work section
The commit-graph feature began with a long list of planned
benefits, most of which are now complete. The future work
section has only a few items left.

As for making more algorithms aware of generation numbers,
some are only waiting for generation number v2 to ensure the
performance matches the existing behavior using commit date.

It is unlikely that we will ever send a commit-graph file
as part of the protocol, since we would need to verify the
data, and that is expensive. If we want to start trusting
remote content, then that item can be investigated again.

While there is more work to be done on the feature, having
a section of the docs devoted to a TODO list is wasteful and
hard to keep up-to-date.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-12 11:20:53 -07:00
Denton Liu
459842e1c2 config/alias.txt: document alias accepting non-command first word
One can see that an alias that begins with a non-command first word,
such as `loud-rebase = -c commit.verbose=true rebase`, is permitted.
However, this isn't immediately obvious to users as alias instances
typically begin with a command.

Document the fact that an alias can begin with a non-command first word
so that users will be able to discover that this is a feature.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-06 09:33:42 -07:00
Denton Liu
01991cee86 config/alias.txt: change " and ' to `
Before, the documentation would mix " and ' for code and config
snippets. Change these instances to ` so that they are marked up in
monospace.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-06 09:33:40 -07:00
Dr. Adam Nielsen
1a58bad014 gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
Renew paragraphs relevant for pattern with slash.
Aim to make it more clear and to avoid possible
pitfalls for the reader. Add some examples.

Signed-off-by: Dr. Adam Nielsen <admin@in-ici.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-04 14:19:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
74583d8912 Git 2.22-rc3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-03 11:25:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4a787f72f5 Merge branch 'cc/list-objects-filter-wo-sparse-path'
Disable "--filter=sparse:path=<path>" that would allow reading from
paths on the filesystem.

* cc/list-objects-filter-wo-sparse-path:
  list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters
2019-06-03 11:18:54 -07:00
Todd Zullinger
ee70b40e8d RelNotes: minor typo fixes in 2.22.0 draft
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-03 11:06:18 -07:00
Chris Mayo
9df8f734fd send-email: update documentation of required Perl modules
Improve and complete the list of required email related Perl modules,
clarifying which are core Perl modules and remove Net::SMTP::SSL.

git-send-email uses the TLS support in the Net::SMTP core module from
recent versions of Perl. Documenting the minimum version is complex
because of separate numbering for Perl (5.21.5~169), Net:SMTP (2.34)
and libnet (3.01). Version numbers from commit:
bfbfc9a953 ("send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v2.34",
2017-05-31).

Users of older Perl versions without Net::SMTP::SSL installed will get a
clear error message.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mayo <aklhfex@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-31 14:41:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
874dd410ce Git 2.22-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-30 10:56:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c41b1197ec Merge branch 'es/doc-gitsubmodules-markup'
Doc markup fix.

* es/doc-gitsubmodules-markup:
  gitsubmodules: align html and nroff lists
2019-05-30 10:50:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2656eceae7 Merge branch 'js/rebase-deprecate-preserve-merges'
A bit more leftover clean-up to deprepcate "rebase -p".

* js/rebase-deprecate-preserve-merges:
  rebase docs: recommend `-r` over `-p`
  docs: say that `--rebase=preserve` is deprecated
  tests: mark a couple more test cases as requiring `rebase -p`
2019-05-30 10:50:45 -07:00
Christian Couder
e693237e2b list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters
If someone wants to use as a filter a sparse file that is in the
repository, something like "--filter=sparse:oid=<ref>:<path>"
already works.

So 'sparse:path' is only interesting if the sparse file is not in
the repository. In this case though the current implementation has
a big security issue, as it makes it possible to ask the server to
read any file, like for example /etc/password, and to explore the
filesystem, as well as individual lines of files.

If someone is interested in using a sparse file that is not in the
repository as a filter, then at the minimum a config option, such
as "uploadpack.sparsePathFilter", should be implemented first to
restrict the directory from which the files specified by
'sparse:path' can be read.

For now though, let's just disable 'sparse:path' filters.

Helped-by: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>
Helped-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-29 11:05:34 -07:00
Philip Oakley
1fde99cfc7 doc branch: provide examples for listing remote tracking branches
The availability of these pattern selections is not obvious from
the man pages, as per mail thread <87lfz3vcbt.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>.

Provide examples.

Re-order the `git branch` synopsis to emphasise the `--list <pattern>`
pairing. Also expand and reposition the `all/remotes` options.

Split the over-long description into three parts so that the <pattern>
description can be seen.

Clarify that the `all/remotes` options require the --list if patterns
are to be used.

Add examples of listing remote tracking branches that match a pattern,
including `git for-each-ref` which has more options.

Improve the -a/-r warning message. The message confused this author
as the combined -a and -r options had not been given, though a pattern
had. Specifically guide the user that maybe they needed the --list
option to enable a remote branch pattern selection.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-29 10:36:16 -07:00
Emily Shaffer
f547101b26 doc: hint about GIT_DEBUGGER in CodingGuidelines
We check for a handy environment variable GIT_DEBUGGER when running via
bin-wrappers/, but this feature is undocumented. Add a hint to how to
use it into the CodingGuidelines (which is where other useful
environment settings like DEVELOPER are documented).

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 13:42:33 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
7948b49ac7 rebase docs: recommend -r over -p
The `--preserve-merges` option is now deprecated in favor of
`--rebase-merges`; Let's stop recommending the former.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 13:22:35 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
7401ab92f8 docs: say that --rebase=preserve is deprecated
As of Git v2.22.0, the `--preserve-merges` backend of `git rebase` will
be officially deprecated in favor of the `--rebase-merges` backend.
Consequently, `git pull --rebase=preserve` will also be deprected. State
this explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 13:22:34 -07:00
Vishal Verma
1d14d0c994 merge: refuse --commit with --squash
Convert option_commit to tristate, representing the states of
'default/untouched', 'enabled-by-cli', 'disabled-by-cli'. With this in
place, check whether option_commit was enabled by cli when squashing a
merge. If so, error out, as this is not supported.

Previously, when --squash was supplied, 'option_commit' was silently
dropped. This could have been surprising to a user who tried to override
the no-commit behavior of squash using --commit explicitly.

Add a note to the --squash option for git-merge to clarify the
incompatibility, and add a test case to t7600-merge.sh

Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal@stellar.sh>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 11:53:11 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
afc3bf6eb1 hash-object doc: stop mentioning git-cvsimport
Remove a reference to git-cvsimport in the intro. As can be seen from
the history of this command[1] it was originally intended for use with
git-cvsimport, but how it uses it (and that it uses it at all) is
irrelevant trivia at this point.

1. See 7672db20c2 ("[PATCH] Expose object ID computation functions.",
   2005-07-08) and 8b8840e046 ("[PATCH] cvsgit fixes: spaces in
   filenames and CVS server dialog woes", 2005-08-15).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 10:47:42 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
4e0d3aa18a trace2: document the supported values of GIT_TRACE2* env variables
The descriptions of the GIT_TRACE2* environment variables link to the
technical docs for further details on the supported values.  However,
a link like this only really works if the docs are viewed in a browser
and the full documentation is available.  OTOH, in 'man git' there are
no links to conveniently click on, and distro-shipped git packages
tend to include only the man pages, while the technical docs and the
docs in html format are in a separate 'git-doc' package.

So let's describe the supported values to make the manpage more
self-contained, but still keep the references to the technical docs
because the details of the SID, and the JSON and perf output formats
are definitely beyond the scope of 'man git'.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 10:20:36 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
e4b75d6a1d trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*
For an environment variable that is supposed to be set by users, the
GIT_TR2* env vars are just too unclear, inconsistent, and ugly.

Most of the established GIT_* environment variables don't use
abbreviations, and in case of the few that do (GIT_DIR,
GIT_COMMON_DIR, GIT_DIFF_OPTS) it's quite obvious what the
abbreviations (DIR and OPTS) stand for.  But what does TR stand for?
Track, traditional, trailer, transaction, transfer, transformation,
transition, translation, transplant, transport, traversal, tree,
trigger, truncate, trust, or ...?!

The trace2 facility, as the '2' suffix in its name suggests, is
supposed to eventually supercede Git's original trace facility.  It's
reasonable to expect that the corresponding environment variables
follow suit, and after the original GIT_TRACE variables they are
called GIT_TRACE2; there is no such thing is 'GIT_TR'.

All trace2-specific config variables are, very sensibly, in the
'trace2' section, not in 'tr2'.

OTOH, we don't gain anything at all by omitting the last three
characters of "trace" from the names of these environment variables.

So let's rename all GIT_TR2* environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*,
before they make their way into a stable release.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 10:20:34 -07:00
Emily Shaffer
8e9fe16c87 gitsubmodules: align html and nroff lists
There appears to be a bug in the toolchain generating manpages from
lettered lists. When a list is enumerated with letters, the resulting
nroff shows numbers instead. Mostly this is harmless, but in the case of
gitsubmodules, the paragraph following the list refers back to each
bullet by letter. As a result, reading this documentation via `man
gitsubmodules` is hard to parse - readers must infer that a bug exists
and a refers to 1, b refers to 2, and c refers to 3 in the list above.

The problem specifically was introduced in ad47194; previously rather
than generating numerated lists the bulleted area was entirely
monospaced in HTML and shown in plaintext in nroff.

The bug seems to exist in docbook-xml - I've reported it on May 1 via
the docbook-apps mail list - but for now it may make more sense to just
work around the issue.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28 09:42:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aa25c82427 Git 2.22-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-19 16:46:42 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
4ecaedec04 Merge branch 'js/stash-in-c-use-builtin-doc'
Doc update.

* js/stash-in-c-use-builtin-doc:
  stash: document stash.useBuiltin
2019-05-19 16:45:34 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
bd96a7871a Merge branch 'ds/trace2-document-env-vars'
Doc update.

* ds/trace2-document-env-vars:
  trace2: add variable description to git.txt
2019-05-19 16:45:33 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
85ac27e04f Merge branch 'dl/difftool-mergetool'
Update "git difftool" and "git mergetool" so that the combinations
of {diff,merge}.{tool,guitool} configuration variables serve as
fallback settings of each other in a sensible order.

* dl/difftool-mergetool:
  difftool: fallback on merge.guitool
  difftool: make --gui, --tool and --extcmd mutually exclusive
  mergetool: fallback to tool when guitool unavailable
  mergetool--lib: create gui_mode function
  mergetool: use get_merge_tool function
  t7610: add mergetool --gui tests
  t7610: unsuppress output
2019-05-19 16:45:30 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
4ac8371a1c Merge branch 'dl/branch-from-3dot-merge-base'
"git branch new A...B" and "git checkout -b new A...B" have been
taught that in their contexts, the notation A...B means "the merge
base between these two commits", just like "git checkout A...B"
detaches HEAD at that commit.

* dl/branch-from-3dot-merge-base:
  branch: make create_branch accept a merge base rev
  t2018: cleanup in current test
2019-05-19 16:45:28 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
336ad8424c stash: document stash.useBuiltin
The stash.useBuiltin variable introduced in 90a462725e ("stash:
optionally use the scripted version again", 2019-02-25) was turned on by
default, but had no documentation.

Let's document it so that users who run into any stability issues with
the C rewrite know there's an escape hatch, and spell out that the
user should please report the bug when they have to turn off the
built-in stash.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-15 10:47:20 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
ab15ad1a3b Git 2.22-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-13 23:50:35 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
7a188da354 Merge branch 'dl/rev-tilde-doc-clarify'
Docfix.

* dl/rev-tilde-doc-clarify:
  revisions.txt: remove ambibuity between <rev>:<path> and :<path>
  revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form
  revisions.txt: mark optional rev arguments with []
  revisions.txt: change "rev" to "<rev>"
2019-05-13 23:50:34 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8293ee0554 Merge branch 'jk/ls-files-doc-markup-fix'
Docfix.

* jk/ls-files-doc-markup-fix:
  doc/ls-files: put nested list for "-t" option into block
2019-05-13 23:50:33 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
2bfb182bc5 Merge branch 'ew/repack-with-bitmaps-by-default'
The connectivity bitmaps are created by default in bare
repositories now; also the pathname hash-cache is created by
default to avoid making crappy deltas when repacking.

* ew/repack-with-bitmaps-by-default:
  pack-objects: default to writing bitmap hash-cache
  t5310: correctly remove bitmaps for jgit test
  repack: enable bitmaps by default on bare repos
2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
5b2d1c0c6e Merge branch 'jh/trace2-sid-fix'
Polishing of the new trace2 facility continues.  The system-level
configuration can specify site-wide trace2 settings, which can be
overridden with per-user configuration and environment variables.

* jh/trace2-sid-fix:
  trace2: fixup access problem on /etc/gitconfig in read_very_early_config
  trace2: update docs to describe system/global config settings
  trace2: make SIDs more unique
  trace2: clarify UTC datetime formatting
  trace2: report peak memory usage of the process
  trace2: use system/global config for default trace2 settings
  config: add read_very_early_config()
  trace2: find exec-dir before trace2 initialization
  trace2: add absolute elapsed time to start event
  trace2: refactor setting process starting time
  config: initialize opts structure in repo_read_config()
2019-05-13 23:50:31 +09:00
Denton Liu
6c22d715e7 difftool: fallback on merge.guitool
In git-difftool.txt, it says

	'git difftool' falls back to 'git mergetool' config variables when the
	difftool equivalents have not been defined.

However, when `diff.guitool` is missing, it doesn't fallback to
anything. Make git-difftool fallback to `merge.guitool` when `diff.guitool` is
missing.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-13 23:11:59 +09:00
Denton Liu
60aced3dfa mergetool: fallback to tool when guitool unavailable
In git-difftool, if the tool is called with --gui but `diff.guitool` is
not set, it falls back to `diff.tool`. Make git-mergetool also fallback
from `merge.guitool` to `merge.tool` if the former is undefined.

If git-difftool, when called with `--gui`, were to use
`get_configured_mergetool` in a future patch, it would also get the
fallback behavior in the following precedence:

1. diff.guitool
2. merge.guitool
3. diff.tool
4. merge.tool

The behavior for when difftool or mergetool are called without `--gui`
should be identical with or without this patch.

Note that the search loop could be written as

	sections="merge"
	keys="tool"
	if diff_mode
	then
		sections="diff $sections"
	fi
	if gui_mode
	then
		keys="guitool $keys"
	fi

	merge_tool=$(
		IFS=' '
		for key in $keys
		do
			for section in $sections
			do
				selected=$(git config $section.$key)
				if test -n "$selected"
				then
					echo "$selected"
					return
				fi
			done
		done)

which would make adding a mode in the future much easier. However,
adding a new mode will likely never happen as it is highly discouraged
so, as a result, it is written in its current form so that it is more
readable for future readers.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-13 23:11:59 +09:00
Denton Liu
05fb8726cc mergetool: use get_merge_tool function
In git-mergetool, the logic for getting which merge tool to use is
duplicated in git-mergetool--lib, except for the fact that it needs to
know whether the tool was guessed or not.

Rewrite `get_merge_tool` to return whether or not the tool was guessed
through the return code and make git-mergetool call this function
instead of duplicating the logic. Note that 1 was chosen to be the
return code of when a tool is guessed because it seems like a slightly
more abnormal condition than getting a tool that's explicitly specified
but this is completely arbitrary.

Also, let `$GIT_MERGETOOL_GUI` be set to determine whether or not the
guitool will be selected.

This change is not completely backwards compatible as there may be
external users of git-mergetool--lib. However, only one user,
git-diffall[1], was found from searching GitHub and Google, and this
tool is superseded by `git difftool --dir-diff` anyway. It seems very
unlikely that there exists an external caller that would take into
account the return code of `get_merge_tool` as it would always return 0
before this change so this change probably does not affect any external
users.

[1]: https://github.com/thenigan/git-diffall

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-13 23:11:59 +09:00
Derrick Stolee
04b7e86e48 trace2: add variable description to git.txt
Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt contains the full details
of the trace2 API and the GIT_TR2* environment variables. However,
most environment variables are included in Documentation/git.txt,
including the GIT_TRACE* variables.

Add a brief description of the GIT_TR2* variables with links to
the full technical details. The biggest difference from the
original variables is that we can specify a Unix Domain Socket.
Mention this difference, but leave the details to the technical
documents.

Reported-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-13 22:54:02 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
6a6c0f10a7 The eighth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-09 00:37:54 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
caa227ff45 Merge branch 'js/misc-doc-fixes'
"make check-docs", "git help -a", etc. did not account for cases
where a particular build may deliberately omit some subcommands,
which has been corrected.

* js/misc-doc-fixes:
  Turn `git serve` into a test helper
  test-tool: handle the `-C <directory>` option just like `git`
  check-docs: do not bother checking for legacy scripts' documentation
  docs: exclude documentation for commands that have been excluded
  check-docs: allow command-list.txt to contain excluded commands
  help -a: do not list commands that are excluded from the build
  Makefile: drop the NO_INSTALL variable
  remote-testgit: move it into the support directory for t5801
2019-05-09 00:37:27 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
6d3df8ef01 Merge branch 'jt/clone-server-option'
"git clone" learned a new --server-option option when talking over
the protocol version 2.

* jt/clone-server-option:
  clone: send server options when using protocol v2
  transport: die if server options are unsupported
2019-05-09 00:37:25 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
1b40314661 Merge branch 'js/trace2-to-directory'
The trace2 tracing facility learned to auto-generate a filename
when told to log to a directory.

* js/trace2-to-directory:
  trace2: write to directory targets
2019-05-09 00:37:24 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b877cb4a7e Merge branch 'dl/merge-cleanup-scissors-fix'
The list of conflicted paths shown in the editor while concluding a
conflicted merge was shown above the scissors line when the
clean-up mode is set to "scissors", even though it was commented
out just like the list of updated paths and other information to
help the user explain the merge better.

* dl/merge-cleanup-scissors-fix:
  cherry-pick/revert: add scissors line on merge conflict
  sequencer.c: save and restore cleanup mode
  merge: add scissors line on merge conflict
  merge: cleanup messages like commit
  parse-options.h: extract common --cleanup option
  commit: extract cleanup_mode functions to sequencer
  t7502: clean up style
  t7604: clean up style
  t3507: clean up style
  t7600: clean up style
2019-05-09 00:37:24 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
6e0bef3792 Merge branch 'tz/git-svn-doc-markup-fix'
Doc formatting fix.

* tz/git-svn-doc-markup-fix:
  Documentation/git-svn: improve asciidoctor compatibility
2019-05-09 00:37:23 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
a198562341 Merge branch 'dl/warn-tagging-a-tag'
"git tag" learned to give an advice suggesting it might be a
mistake when creating an annotated or signed tag that points at
another tag.

* dl/warn-tagging-a-tag:
  tag: advise on nested tags
  tag: fix formatting
2019-05-09 00:37:22 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
96379f043f Merge branch 'en/merge-directory-renames'
"git merge-recursive" backend recently learned a new heuristics to
infer file movement based on how other files in the same directory
moved.  As this is inherently less robust heuristics than the one
based on the content similarity of the file itself (rather than
based on what its neighbours are doing), it sometimes gives an
outcome unexpected by the end users.  This has been toned down to
leave the renamed paths in higher/conflicted stages in the index so
that the user can examine and confirm the result.

* en/merge-directory-renames:
  merge-recursive: switch directory rename detection default
  merge-recursive: give callers of handle_content_merge() access to contents
  merge-recursive: track information associated with directory renames
  t6043: fix copied test description to match its purpose
  merge-recursive: switch from (oid,mode) pairs to a diff_filespec
  merge-recursive: cleanup handle_rename_* function signatures
  merge-recursive: track branch where rename occurred in rename struct
  merge-recursive: remove ren[12]_other fields from rename_conflict_info
  merge-recursive: shrink rename_conflict_info
  merge-recursive: move some struct declarations together
  merge-recursive: use 'ci' for rename_conflict_info variable name
  merge-recursive: rename locals 'o' and 'a' to 'obuf' and 'abuf'
  merge-recursive: rename diff_filespec 'one' to 'o'
  merge-recursive: rename merge_options argument from 'o' to 'opt'
  Use 'unsigned short' for mode, like diff_filespec does
2019-05-09 00:37:22 +09:00
Andreas Heiduk
4ad1b2c7a6 revisions.txt: remove ambibuity between <rev>:<path> and :<path>
The revision ':README' is mentioned as an example for '<rev>:<path>'
but the explanation forwards to the ':<n>:<path>' syntax. At the same
time ':<n>:<path>' did not mark the '<n>:' as optional.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-08 00:09:06 +09:00
Denton Liu
6a12e99a52 revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form
In revisions.txt, the '<rev>^' form is mentioned but the '<rev>~' form
is missing. Although both forms are essentially equivalent (they each
get the first parent of the specified revision), we should mention the
latter for completeness. Make this change.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-08 00:09:06 +09:00
Denton Liu
d86d207471 revisions.txt: mark optional rev arguments with []
In revisions.txt, an optional rev argument was not distinguised.
Instead, a user had to continue and read the description in order to
learn that the argument was optional.

Since the [] notation for an optional argument is common-knowledge in
the Git documentation, mark optional arguments with [] so that it's more
obvious for the reader.

Helped-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-08 00:09:06 +09:00
Denton Liu
e277ff43d3 revisions.txt: change "rev" to "<rev>"
In revisions.txt, there were some instances of a rev argument being
written as "rev". However, since they didn't mean the string literal,
write "<rev>", instead.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-08 00:09:06 +09:00
Denton Liu
e3d6539d58 branch: make create_branch accept a merge base rev
When we ran something like

    $ git checkout -b test master...

it would fail with the message

    fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master...'.

This was caused by the call to `create_branch` where `start_name` is
expected to be a valid rev. However, git-checkout allows the branch to
be a valid _merge base_ rev (i.e. with a "...") so it was possible for
an invalid rev to be passed in.

Make `create_branch` accept a merge base rev so that this case does not
error out.

As a side-effect, teach git-branch how to handle merge base revs as
well.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-07 13:23:13 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
83232e3864 The seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-25 16:41:25 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
c42986f41c Merge branch 'tz/doc-apostrophe-no-longer-needed'
Doc formatting fix.

* tz/doc-apostrophe-no-longer-needed:
  Documentation/git-show-branch: avoid literal {apostrophe}
2019-04-25 16:41:21 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
18c3ae0d7a Merge branch 'po/describe-not-necessarily-7'
Docfix.

* po/describe-not-necessarily-7:
  describe doc: remove '7-char' abbreviation reference
2019-04-25 16:41:20 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
98a8fcc82b Merge branch 'po/rerere-doc-fmt'
Docfix.

* po/rerere-doc-fmt:
  rerere doc: quote `rerere.enabled`
2019-04-25 16:41:19 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
ac70c53133 Merge branch 'ab/gc-docs'
Update docs around "gc".

* ab/gc-docs:
  gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0
  gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects
  gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import"
  gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive
  gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth
  gc docs: fix formatting for "gc.writeCommitGraph"
  gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config"
  gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc"
  gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold"
  gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags
  gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc"
2019-04-25 16:41:18 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
01f8d78887 Merge branch 'dl/submodule-set-branch'
"git submodule" learns "set-branch" subcommand that allows the
submodule.*.branch settings to be modified.

* dl/submodule-set-branch:
  submodule: teach set-branch subcommand
  submodule--helper: teach config subcommand --unset
  git-submodule.txt: "--branch <branch>" option defaults to 'master'
2019-04-25 16:41:18 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
dae82ecf14 Merge branch 'en/fast-import-parsing-fix'
"git fast-import" update.

* en/fast-import-parsing-fix:
  fast-import: fix erroneous handling of get-mark with empty orphan commits
  fast-import: only allow cat-blob requests where it makes sense
  fast-import: check most prominent commands first
  git-fast-import.txt: fix wording about where ls command can appear
  t9300: demonstrate bug with get-mark and empty orphan commits
2019-04-25 16:41:16 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
4a3ed2bec6 Merge branch 'nd/checkout-m'
"git checkout -m <other>" was about carrying the differences
between HEAD and the working-tree files forward while checking out
another branch, and ignored the differences between HEAD and the
index.  The command has been taught to abort when the index and the
HEAD are different.

* nd/checkout-m:
  checkout: prevent losing staged changes with --merge
  read-tree: add --quiet
  unpack-trees: rename "gently" flag to "quiet"
  unpack-trees: keep gently check inside add_rejected_path
2019-04-25 16:41:14 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b72e90712e Merge branch 'js/difftool-no-index'
"git difftool" can now run outside a repository.

* js/difftool-no-index:
  difftool: allow running outside Git worktrees with --no-index
  parse-options: make OPT_ARGUMENT() more useful
  difftool: remove obsolete (and misleading) comment
2019-04-25 16:41:14 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
5795a75f9b Merge branch 'bp/post-index-change-hook'
A new hook "post-index-change" is called when the on-disk index
file changes, which can help e.g. a virtualized working tree
implementation.

* bp/post-index-change-hook:
  read-cache: add post-index-change hook
2019-04-25 16:41:11 +09:00
Jeff King
da9ca955a7 doc/ls-files: put nested list for "-t" option into block
The description for the "-t" option contains a sub-list of all of the
possible file status outputs. But because of the newline separating that
list from the description paragraph, asciidoc treats the sub-list
entries as a continuation of the overall options list, rather than as
children of the "-t" description.

We could fix it by adding a "+" before the sub-list to connect it to the
rest of the "-t" text. But using a pair of "--" to delimit the block is
perhaps more readable, and may have better compatibility with
asciidoctor, as in 39a869b2f2 (Documentation/rev-list-options: wrap
--date=<format> block with "--", 2019-03-30).

The extra blank line comes from 5bc0e247c4 (Document ls-files -t as
semi-obsolete., 2010-07-28), but the problem actually seems older than
that. Before then, we did:

  -t:: some text...
    H:: cached
    M:: unmerged
    etc...

but asciidoc also treats that as one big list. So this problem seems to
have been around forever.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-23 10:25:04 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
14c0f8d3ab The sixth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-22 11:15:06 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
87e20f8c4f Merge branch 'nd/read-tree-reset-doc'
The documentation for "git read-tree --reset -u" has been updated.

* nd/read-tree-reset-doc:
  read-tree.txt: clarify --reset and worktree changes
2019-04-22 11:14:47 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8a33ebc551 Merge branch 'nd/interpret-trailers-docfix'
Doc update.

* nd/interpret-trailers-docfix:
  interpret-trailers.txt: start the desc line with a capital letter
2019-04-22 11:14:47 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
bac754eadb Merge branch 'sg/asciidoctor-in-ci'
Update our support to format documentation in the CI environment,
either with AsciiDoc ro Asciidoctor.

* sg/asciidoctor-in-ci:
  ci: fix AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor stderr check in the documentation build job
  ci: stick with Asciidoctor v1.5.8 for now
  ci: install Asciidoctor in 'ci/install-dependencies.sh'
  Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt: fix formatting
  Documentation/technical/api-config.txt: fix formatting
  Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt: fix formatting
2019-04-22 11:14:46 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
ec8fcc780c Merge branch 'tz/asciidoctor-fixes'
Doc updates.

* tz/asciidoctor-fixes:
  Documentation/git-status: fix titles in porcelain v2 section
  Documentation/rev-list-options: wrap --date=<format> block with "--"
2019-04-22 11:14:46 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
27ff787809 Merge branch 'js/check-docs-exe'
Dev support update.

* js/check-docs-exe:
  check-docs: fix for setups where executables have an extension
  check-docs: do not expect guide pages to correspond to commands
  check-docs: really look at the documented commands again
  docs: do not document the `git remote-testgit` command
  docs: move gitremote-helpers into section 7
2019-04-22 11:14:46 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
6b42805445 Merge branch 'cb/doco-mono'
Clean-up markup in the documentation suite.

* cb/doco-mono:
  doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace.
  doc/CodingGuidelines: URLs and paths as monospace
2019-04-22 11:14:45 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
e36adf7122 Merge branch 'ps/stash-in-c'
"git stash" rewritten in C.

* ps/stash-in-c: (28 commits)
  tests: add a special setup where stash.useBuiltin is off
  stash: optionally use the scripted version again
  stash: add back the original, scripted `git stash`
  stash: convert `stash--helper.c` into `stash.c`
  stash: replace all `write-tree` child processes with API calls
  stash: optimize `get_untracked_files()` and `check_changes()`
  stash: convert save to builtin
  stash: make push -q quiet
  stash: convert push to builtin
  stash: convert create to builtin
  stash: convert store to builtin
  stash: convert show to builtin
  stash: convert list to builtin
  stash: convert pop to builtin
  stash: convert branch to builtin
  stash: convert drop and clear to builtin
  stash: convert apply to builtin
  stash: mention options in `show` synopsis
  stash: add tests for `git stash show` config
  stash: rename test cases to be more descriptive
  ...
2019-04-22 11:14:43 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
faa7a096d8 docs: exclude documentation for commands that have been excluded
When building with certain build options, some commands are excluded
from the build. For example, `git-credential-cache` is skipped when
building with `NO_UNIX_SOCKETS`.

Let's not build or package documentation for those excluded commands.

This issue was pointed out rightfully when running `make check-docs` on
Windows, where we do not yet have Unix sockets, and therefore the
`credential-cache` command is excluded (yet its documentation was built
and shipped).

Note: building the documentation via `make -C Documentation` leaves the
build system with no way to determine which commands have been
excluded. If called thusly, we gracefully fail to exclude their
documentation. Only when building the documentation via the top-level
Makefile will it get excluded properly, or after building
`Documentation/GIT-EXCLUDED-PROGRAMS` manually.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-19 14:03:24 +09:00
Denton Liu
1a2b985fb3 cherry-pick/revert: add scissors line on merge conflict
Fix a bug where the scissors line is placed after the Conflicts:
section, in the case where a merge conflict occurs and
commit.cleanup = scissors.

Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-19 12:05:36 +09:00
Denton Liu
1055997e2f merge: add scissors line on merge conflict
This fixes a bug where the scissors line is placed after the Conflicts:
section, in the case where a merge conflict occurs and
commit.cleanup = scissors.

Next, if commit.cleanup = scissors is specified, don't produce a
scissors line in commit if one already exists in the MERGE_MSG file.

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-18 13:49:29 +09:00
Denton Liu
d540b70c85 merge: cleanup messages like commit
This change allows git-merge messages to be cleaned up with the
commit.cleanup configuration or --cleanup option, just like how
git-commit does it.

We also give git-pull the option of --cleanup so that it can also take
advantage of this change.

Finally, add testing to ensure that messages are properly cleaned up.
Note that some newlines that were added to the commit message were
removed so that if a file were read via -F, it would be copied
faithfully.

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-18 13:49:29 +09:00
Jonathan Tan
6e98305985 clone: send server options when using protocol v2
Commit 5e3548ef16 ("fetch: send server options when using protocol v2",
2018-04-24) taught "fetch" the ability to send server options when using
protocol v2, but not "clone". This ability is triggered by "-o" or
"--server-option".

Teach "clone" the same ability, except that because "clone" already
has "-o" for another parameter, teach "clone" only to receive
"--server-option".

Explain in the documentation, both for clone and for fetch, that server
handling of server options are server-specific. This is similar to
receive-pack's handling of push options - currently, they are just sent
to hooks to interpret as they see fit.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-18 10:53:51 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
ffac537e6c The fifth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-16 19:33:35 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
3feaacbaa1 Merge branch 'nd/checkout-m-doc-update'
Doc about the above.

* nd/checkout-m-doc-update:
  checkout.txt: note about losing staged changes with --merge
2019-04-16 19:28:10 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
08c9757a76 Merge branch 'ma/doc-diff-doc-vs-doctor-comparison'
Dev support update to make it easier to compare two formatted
results from our documentation.

* ma/doc-diff-doc-vs-doctor-comparison:
  doc-diff: add `--cut-header-footer`
  doc-diff: support diffing from/to AsciiDoc(tor)
  doc-diff: let `render_tree()` take an explicit directory name
  Doc: auto-detect changed build flags
2019-04-16 19:28:09 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
4f3036cfa1 Merge branch 'ab/drop-scripted-rebase'
Retire scripted "git rebase" implementation.

* ab/drop-scripted-rebase:
  rebase: remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting
2019-04-16 19:28:09 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
04116ecb7b Merge branch 'ab/doc-misc-typofixes'
Typofixes.

* ab/doc-misc-typofixes:
  doc: fix typos in man pages
2019-04-16 19:28:08 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
af1ec93755 Merge branch 'mh/pack-protocol-doc-fix'
Docfix.

* mh/pack-protocol-doc-fix:
  fix pack protocol example client/server communication
2019-04-16 19:28:08 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b024a14876 Merge branch 'tg/glossary-overlay'
Doc update.

* tg/glossary-overlay:
  glossary: add definition for overlay
2019-04-16 19:28:07 +09:00