Build on top of the clean-up done by jk/mergetool and automatically
generate the list of mergetool and difftool backends the build
supports to be included in the documentation.
* da/mergetool-docs:
doc: generate a list of valid merge tools
mergetool--lib: list user configured tools in '--tool-help'
mergetool--lib: add functions for finding available tools
mergetool--lib: improve the help text in guess_merge_tool()
mergetool--lib: simplify command expressions
"git help remote-helpers" did not work; 'remote-helpers' is not
a subcommand name but a concept, so its documentation should have
been in gitremote-helpers, not git-remote-helpers.
* jk/remote-helpers-doc:
Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
Fix various error messages and conditions in "git branch", e.g. we
advertised "branch -d/-D" to remove one or more branches but actually
implemented removal of zero or more branches---request to remove no
branches was not rejected.
* nd/branch-error-cases:
branch: let branch filters imply --list
docs: clarify git-branch --list behavior
branch: mark more strings for translation
branch: give a more helpful message on redundant arguments
branch: reject -D/-d without branch name
Update documentation to change "GIT" which was a poor-man's small
caps to "Git". The latter was the intended spelling.
Also change "git" spelled in all-lowercase to "Git" when it refers
to the system as the whole or the concept it embodies, as opposed to
the command the end users would type.
* ta/doc-no-small-caps:
Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT
Documentation: describe the "repository" in repository-layout
Documentation: add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary
Documentation: do not use undefined terms git-dir and git-file
Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
Forbid "git add -u" and "git add -A" without pathspec run from a
subdirectory, to train people to type "." (or ":/") to make the
choice of default does not matter.
* mm/add-u-A-sans-pathspec:
add: warn when -u or -A is used without pathspec
Improve error and advice messages given locally when "git push"
refuses when it cannot compute fast-forwardness by separating these
cases from the normal "not a fast-forward; merge first and push
again" case.
* jc/push-reject-reasons:
push: finishing touches to explain REJECT_ALREADY_EXISTS better
push: introduce REJECT_FETCH_FIRST and REJECT_NEEDS_FORCE
push: further simplify the logic to assign rejection reason
push: further clean up fields of "struct ref"
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the
character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from
the default '#'.
* jc/custom-comment-char:
Allow custom "comment char"
Use the show_tool_names() function to build lists of all
the built-in tools supported by difftool and mergetool.
This frees us from needing to update the documentation
whenever a new tool is added.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When looking up a topic via "git help <topic>", git-help prepends "git-"
to topics that are the names of commands (either builtin or found on the
path) and "git" (no hyphen) to any other topic name.
"git-remote-helpers" is not the name of a command, so "git help
remote-helpers" looks for "gitremote-helpers" and does not find it.
Fix this by renaming "git-remote-helpers.txt" to
"gitremote-helpers.txt".
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
They refer themselves as such at https://gna.org/projects/stgit/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the introductory part and concisely explain how gitfile is
handled, what it is used for and for what effect.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We will add gitfile to the glossary in a separate commit.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT,
to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small
caps. Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days.
Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation. The name to refer
to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the
command end-users type is "git". And document this in the coding
guideline.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Warn people that other tools are more recommendable over
cvsimport+cvsps2 combo when doing a one-shot import, and cvsimport
will not work with cvsps3.
* jk/cvsimport-does-not-work-with-cvsps3:
git-cvsimport.txt: cvsps-2 is deprecated
"git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The
resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
command, and documentation was misleading.
* nd/fetch-depth-is-broken:
fetch: elaborate --depth action
upload-pack: fix off-by-one depth calculation in shallow clone
fetch: add --unshallow for turning shallow repo into complete one
We keep a list of the various files that end up as man1,
man5, etc. Let's break these single-line lists into sorted
multi-line lists, which makes diffs that touch them much
easier to read.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, a branch filter like `--contains`, `--merged`, or
`--no-merged` is ignored when we are not in listing mode.
For example:
git branch --contains=foo bar
will create the branch "bar" from the current HEAD, ignoring
the `--contains` argument entirely. This is not very
helpful. There are two reasonable behaviors for git here:
1. Flag an error; the arguments do not make sense.
2. Implicitly go into `--list` mode
This patch chooses the latter, as it is more convenient, and
there should not be any ambiguity with attempting to create
a branch; using `--contains` and not wanting to list is
nonsensical.
That leaves the case where an explicit modification option
like `-d` is given. We already catch the case where
`--list` is given alongside `-d` and flag an error. With
this patch, we will also catch the use of `--contains` and
other filter options alongside `-d`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was not clear from the "description" section of git-branch(1)
that using a <pattern> meant that you _had_ to use the --list
option. Let's clarify that, and while we're at it, reword some
clunky and ambiguous sentences.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These are kept short by simply deferring to PEP-8. Most of the Python
code in Git is already very close to this style (some things in contrib/
are not).
Rationale for version suggestions:
- Amongst the noise in [1], there isn't any disagreement about using
2.6 as a base (see also [2]), although Brandon Casey recently added
support for 2.4 and 2.5 to git-p4 [3].
- Restricting ourselves to 2.6+ makes aiming for Python 3 compatibility
significantly easier [4].
- Advocating Python 3 support in all scripts is currently unrealistic
because:
- 'p4 -G' provides output in a format that is very hard to use with
Python 3 (and its documentation claims Python 3 is unsupported).
- Mercurial does not support Python 3.
- Bazaar does not support Python 3.
- But we should try to make new scripts compatible with Python 3
because all new Python development is happening on version 3 and the
Python community will eventually stop supporting Python 2 [5].
- Python 3.1 is required to support the 'surrogateescape' error handler
for encoding/decodng filenames to/from Unicode strings and Python 3.0
is not longer supported.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/210329
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/210429
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/214579
[4] http://docs.python.org/3.3/howto/pyporting.html#try-to-support-python-2-6-and-newer-only
[5] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404/
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some reimplementations of Git does not write all the stat info back
to the index due to their implementation limitations (e.g. jgit
running on Java). A configuration option can tell Git to ignore
changes to most of the stat fields and only pay attention to mtime
and size, which these implementations can reliably update. This
avoids excessive revalidation of contents.
* rr/minimal-stat:
Enable minimal stat checking
An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
* mh/ceiling:
string_list_longest_prefix(): remove function
setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks in ceiling paths
longest_ancestor_length(): require prefix list entries to be normalized
longest_ancestor_length(): take a string_list argument for prefixes
longest_ancestor_length(): use string_list_split()
Introduce new function real_path_if_valid()
real_path_internal(): add comment explaining use of cwd
Introduce new static function real_path_internal()
Most Git commands that can be used with or without pathspec operate
tree-wide by default, the pathspec being used to restrict their
scope. A few exceptions are: 'git grep', 'git clean', 'git add -u'
and 'git add -A'. When run in a subdirectory without pathspec, they
operate only on paths in the current directory.
The inconsistency of 'git add -u' and 'git add -A' is particularly
problematic since other 'git add' subcommands (namely 'git add -p'
and 'git add -e') are tree-wide by default. It also means that "git
add -u && git commit" will record a state that is different from
what is recorded with "git commit -a".
Flipping the default now is unacceptable, so let's start training
users to type 'git add -u|-A :/' or 'git add -u|-A .' explicitly, to
prepare for the next steps:
* forbid 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec (like 'git add' without
option)
* much later, maybe, re-allow 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec, that
will add all tracked and modified files, or all files, tree-wide.
A nice side effect of this patch is that it makes the :/ magic
pathspec easier to discover for users.
When the command is called from the root of the tree, there is no
ambiguity and no need to change the behavior, hence no need to warn.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe tools for automation that were invented since this
document was originally written.
* jc/doc-maintainer:
howto/maintain: document "### match next" convention in jch/pu branch
howto/maintain: mark titles for asciidoc
Documentation: update "howto maintain git"
When we push to update an existing ref, if:
* the object at the tip of the remote is not a commit; or
* the object we are pushing is not a commit,
it won't be correct to suggest to fetch, integrate and push again,
as the old and new objects will not "merge". We should explain that
the push must be forced when there is a non-committish object is
involved in such a case.
If we do not have the current object at the tip of the remote, we do
not even know that object, when fetched, is something that can be
merged. In such a case, suggesting to pull first just like
non-fast-forward case may not be technically correct, but in
practice, most such failures are seen when you try to push your work
to a branch without knowing that somebody else already pushed to
update the same branch since you forked, so "pull first" would work
as a suggestion most of the time. And if the object at the tip is
not a commit, "pull first" will fail, without making any permanent
damage. As a side effect, it also makes the error message the user
will get during the next "push" attempt easier to understand, now
the user is aware that a non-commit object is involved.
In these cases, the current code already rejects such a push on the
client end, but we used the same error and advice messages as the
ones used when rejecting a non-fast-forward push, i.e. pull from
there and integrate before pushing again.
Introduce new rejection reasons and reword the messages
appropriately.
[jc: with help by Peff on message details]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-cvsimport relies on version 2 of cvsps and does not work with the
new version 3. Since cvsps 3.x does not currently work as well as
version 2 for incremental import, document this fact.
Specifically, there is no way to make new git-cvsimport that supports
cvsps 3.x and have a seamless transition for existing users since cvsps
3.x needs a time from which to continue importing and git-cvsimport does
not save the time of the last import or import into a specific namespace
so there is no safe way to calculate the time of the last import.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an extra hook so that "git push" that is run without making
sure what is being pushed is sane can be checked and rejected (as
opposed to the user deciding not pushing).
* as/pre-push-hook:
Add sample pre-push hook script
push: Add support for pre-push hooks
hooks: Add function to check if a hook exists
Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
files.
The variable names may want to get cleaned up but that can be done
in-tree.
* as/check-ignore:
clean.c, ls-files.c: respect encapsulation of exclude_list_groups
t0008: avoid brace expansion
add git-check-ignore sub-command
setup.c: document get_pathspec()
add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes
Conflicts:
builtin/ls-files.c
dir.c
Various git-cvsserver updates.
* mo/cvs-server-updates:
t9402: Use TABs for indentation
t9402: Rename check.cvsCount and check.list
t9402: Simplify git ls-tree
t9402: Add missing &&; Code style
t9402: No space after IO-redirection
t9402: Dont use test_must_fail cvs
t9402: improve check_end_tree() and check_end_full_tree()
t9402: sed -i is not portable
cvsserver Documentation: new cvs ... -r support
cvsserver: add t9402 to test branch and tag refs
cvsserver: support -r and sticky tags for most operations
cvsserver: Add version awareness to argsfromdir
cvsserver: generalize getmeta() to recognize commit refs
cvsserver: implement req_Sticky and related utilities
cvsserver: add misc commit lookup, file meta data, and file listing functions
cvsserver: define a tag name character escape mechanism
cvsserver: cleanup extra slashes in filename arguments
cvsserver: factor out git-log parsing logic
