"fetch.writeCommitGraph" was enabled when "feature.experimental" is
asked for, but it was found to be a bit too risky even for bold
folks in its current shape. The configuration has been ejected, at
least for now, from the "experimental" feature set.
* jn/eject-fetch-write-commit-graph-out-of-experimental:
experimental: default to fetch.writeCommitGraph=false
We don't give a "::" for the list separator, but just a single ":". This
ends up rendering literally, "--apply: Use applying strategies ...". As
a follow-on error, the list continuation, "+", also ends up rendering
literally (because we don't have a list).
This was introduced in 52eb738d6b ("rebase: add an --am option",
2020-02-15) and survived the rename in 10cdb9f38a ("rebase: rename the
two primary rebase backends", 2020-02-15).
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `git log` synopsis mentions `<revision range>`, and the description
of this option links to gitrevisions(7), but a nice explanation of
how a revision range can be constructed from individual commits,
optionnally prefixed with `^`, also exists in `rev-list-description.txt`.
Include this description in the man page for `git log`.
Add Asciidoc 'ifdef's to `rev-list-description.txt` so that either `git
rev-list` or `git log` appears in the respective man pages.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A following commit will reuse the description of the `git rev-list`
command in the `git log` manpage.
Move this description to a separate file.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tweak a sentence to make it a little more readable.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using '{caret}' inside double quotes and immediately following with a
single quoted word does not create the desired output: '<commit1>'
appears verbatim instead of being emphasized.
Use a litteral caret ('^') instead.
Also, remove the leading tabs in shell examples to bring them more in
line with the rest of the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "Specifying ranges" section does not mention explicitly that
several commits can be specified to form a range.
Add a mention to that effect.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add links to the documentation for `git rev-list` and `git diff`
instead of simply mentioning them, to make it easier for readers to reach
these documentation pages. Let's link to `git diff` as this is the
porcelain command, and the rest of the family (`diff-index`, `diff-tree` and
`diff-files`) are mentioned in the "Raw output format" section of the
`git diff` documentation.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fetch.writeCommitGraph feature makes fetches write out a commit
graph file for the newly downloaded pack on fetch. This improves the
performance of various commands that would perform a revision walk and
eventually ought to be the default for everyone. To prepare for that
future, it's enabled by default for users that set
feature.experimental=true to experience such future defaults.
Alas, for --unshallow fetches from a shallow clone it runs into a
snag: by the time Git has fetched the new objects and is writing a
commit graph, it has performed a revision walk and r->parsed_objects
contains information about the shallow boundary from *before* the
fetch. The commit graph writing code is careful to avoid writing a
commit graph file in shallow repositories, but the new state is not
shallow, and the result is that from that point on, commands like "git
log" make use of a newly written commit graph file representing a
fictional history with the old shallow boundary.
We could fix this by making the commit graph writing code more careful
to avoid writing a commit graph that could have used any grafts or
shallow state, but it is possible that there are other pieces of
mutated state that fetch's commit graph writing code may be relying
on. So disable it in the feature.experimental configuration.
Google developers have been running in this configuration (by setting
fetch.writeCommitGraph=false in the system config) to work around this
bug since it was discovered in April. Once the fix lands, we'll
enable fetch.writeCommitGraph=true again to give it some early testing
before rolling out to a wider audience.
In other words:
- this patch only affects behavior with feature.experimental=true
- it makes feature.experimental match the configuration Google has
been using for the last few months, meaning it would leave users in
a better tested state than without it
- this should improve testing for other features guarded by
feature.experimental, by making feature.experimental safer to use
Reported-by: Jay Conrod <jayconrod@google.com>
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fast-export --anonymize" learned to take customized mapping to
allow its users to tweak its output more usable for debugging.
* jk/fast-export-anonym-alt:
fast-export: use local array to store anonymized oid
fast-export: anonymize "master" refname
fast-export: allow seeding the anonymized mapping
fast-export: add a "data" callback parameter to anonymize_str()
fast-export: move global "idents" anonymize hashmap into function
fast-export: use a flex array to store anonymized entries
fast-export: stop storing lengths in anonymized hashmaps
fast-export: tighten anonymize_mem() interface to handle only strings
fast-export: store anonymized oids as hex strings
fast-export: use xmemdupz() for anonymizing oids
t9351: derive anonymized tree checks from original repo
The name of the primary branch in existing repositories, and the
default name used for the first branch in newly created
repositories, is made configurable, so that we can eventually wean
ourselves off of the hardcoded 'master'.
* js/default-branch-name:
contrib: subtree: adjust test to change in fmt-merge-msg
testsvn: respect `init.defaultBranch`
remote: use the configured default branch name when appropriate
clone: use configured default branch name when appropriate
init: allow setting the default for the initial branch name via the config
init: allow specifying the initial branch name for the new repository
docs: add missing diamond brackets
submodule: fall back to remote's HEAD for missing remote.<name>.branch
send-pack/transport-helper: avoid mentioning a particular branch
fmt-merge-msg: stop treating `master` specially
The documentation and some tests have been adjusted for the recent
renaming of "pu" branch to "seen".
* js/pu-to-seen:
tests: reference `seen` wherever `pu` was referenced
docs: adjust the technical overview for the rename `pu` -> `seen`
docs: adjust for the recent rename of `pu` to `seen`
SHA-256 migration work continues.
* bc/sha-256-part-2: (44 commits)
remote-testgit: adapt for object-format
bundle: detect hash algorithm when reading refs
t5300: pass --object-format to git index-pack
t5704: send object-format capability with SHA-256
t5703: use object-format serve option
t5702: offer an object-format capability in the test
t/helper: initialize the repository for test-sha1-array
remote-curl: avoid truncating refs with ls-remote
t1050: pass algorithm to index-pack when outside repo
builtin/index-pack: add option to specify hash algorithm
remote-curl: detect algorithm for dumb HTTP by size
builtin/ls-remote: initialize repository based on fetch
t5500: make hash independent
serve: advertise object-format capability for protocol v2
connect: parse v2 refs with correct hash algorithm
connect: pass full packet reader when parsing v2 refs
Documentation/technical: document object-format for protocol v2
t1302: expect repo format version 1 for SHA-256
builtin/show-index: provide options to determine hash algo
t5302: modernize test formatting
...
When displaying cat-file usage, the fact that a <format> can
be specified is only visible when lookling at the --batch and
--batch-check options which are shown like this:
--batch[=<format>] show info and content of objects fed from the standard input
--batch-check[=<format>]
show info about objects fed from the standard input
It seems more coherent and improves discovery to also show it
on the usage line.
In the documentation the DESCRIPTION tells us that "The output
format can be overridden using the optional <format> argument",
but we can't see the <format> argument in the SYNOPSIS above
the description which is confusing.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The changed-path Bloom filters were released in v2.27.0, but have a
significant drawback. A user can opt-in to writing the changed-path
filters using the "--changed-paths" option to "git commit-graph write"
but the next write will drop the filters unless that option is
specified.
This becomes even more important when considering the interaction with
gc.writeCommitGraph (on by default) or fetch.writeCommitGraph (part of
features.experimental). These config options trigger commit-graph writes
that the user did not signal, and hence there is no --changed-paths
option available.
Allow a user that opts-in to the changed-path filters to persist the
property of "my commit-graph has changed-path filters" automatically. A
user can drop filters using the --no-changed-paths option.
In the process, we need to be extremely careful to match the Bloom
filter settings as specified by the commit-graph. This will allow future
versions of Git to customize these settings, and the version with this
change will persist those settings as commit-graphs are rewritten on
top.
Use the trace2 API to signal the settings used during the write, and
check that output in a test after manually adjusting the correct bytes
in the commit-graph file.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After you anonymize a repository, it can be hard to find which commits
correspond between the original and the result, and thus hard to
reproduce commands that triggered bugs in the original.
Let's make it possible to seed the anonymization map. This lets users
either:
- mark names to be retained as-is, if they don't consider them secret
(in which case their original commands would just work)
- map names to new values, which lets them adapt the reproduction
recipe to the new names without revealing the originals
The implementation is fairly straight-forward. We already store each
anonymized token in a hashmap (so that the same token appearing twice is
converted to the same result). We can just introduce a new "seed"
hashmap which is consulted first.
This does make a few more promises to the user about how we'll anonymize
things (e.g., token-splitting pathnames). But it's unlikely that we'd
want to change those rules, even if the actual anonymization of a single
token changes. And it makes things much easier for the user, who can
unblind only a directory name without having to specify each path within
it.
One alternative to this approach would be to anonymize as we see fit,
and then dump the whole refname and pathname mappings to a file. This
does work, but it's a bit awkward to use (you have to manually dig the
items you care about out of the mapping).
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "fetch/clone" protocol has been updated to allow the server to
instruct the clients to grab pre-packaged packfile(s) in addition
to the packed object data coming over the wire.
* jt/cdn-offload:
upload-pack: fix a sparse '0 as NULL pointer' warning
upload-pack: send part of packfile response as uri
fetch-pack: support more than one pack lockfile
upload-pack: refactor reading of pack-objects out
Documentation: add Packfile URIs design doc
Documentation: order protocol v2 sections
http-fetch: support fetching packfiles by URL
http-fetch: refactor into function
http: refactor finish_http_pack_request()
http: use --stdin when indexing dumb HTTP pack
"git diff" used to take arguments in random and nonsense range
notation, e.g. "git diff A..B C", "git diff A..B C...D", etc.,
which has been cleaned up.
* ct/diff-with-merge-base-clarification:
Documentation: usage for diff combined commits
git diff: improve range handling
t/t3430: avoid undefined git diff behavior
This patch tries to rewrite history a bit: the mail contents that have
been added to Git's source code are actually fixed, we cannot change
them in hindsight.
But as the `pu` branch _was_ renamed, and as the documents were added to
Git's source code not so much as historical record, but to describe the
status quo, let's pretend that we have a time machine and adjust the
provided information accordingly.
Where appropriate, quotes were added for readability.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As of "What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2020, #04; Mon, 22)", there is no
longer any `pu` branch, but a `seen` branch.
While we technically do not even need to update the manual pages, it
makes sense to update them because they clearly talk about branches in
git.git.
Please note that in two instances, this patch not only updates the
branch name, but also the description "(proposed updates)".
Where appropriate, quotes have been added for readability.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cloning a repository without any branches, Git chooses a default
branch name for the as-yet unborn branch.
As part of the implicit initialization of the local repository, Git just
learned to respect `init.defaultBranch` to choose a different initial
branch name. We now really want that branch name to be used as a
fall-back.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We just introduced the command-line option
`--initial-branch=<branch-name>` to allow initializing a new repository
with a different initial branch than the hard-coded one.
To allow users to override the initial branch name more permanently
(i.e. without having to specify the name manually for each and every
`git init` invocation), let's introduce the `init.defaultBranch` config
setting.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Goodman-Wilson <don@goodman-wilson.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is a growing number of projects and companies desiring to change
the main branch name of their repositories (see e.g.
https://twitter.com/mislav/status/1270388510684598272 for background on
this).
To change that branch name for new repositories, currently the only way
to do that automatically is by copying all of Git's template directory,
then hard-coding the desired default branch name into the `.git/HEAD`
file, and then configuring `init.templateDir` to point to those copied
template files.
To make this process much less cumbersome, let's introduce a new option:
`--initial-branch=<branch-name>`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were a couple of instances in our manual pages that had an
opening diamond bracket without a corresponding closing one.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `remote.<name>.branch` is not configured, `git submodule update`
currently falls back to using the branch name `master`. A much better
idea, however, is to use the remote `HEAD`: on all Git servers running
reasonably recent Git versions, the symref `HEAD` points to the main
branch.
Note: t7419 demonstrates that there _might_ be use cases out there that
_expect_ `git submodule update --remote` to update submodules to the
remote `master` branch even if the remote `HEAD` points to another
branch. Arguably, this patch makes the behavior more intuitive, but
there is a slight possibility that this might cause regressions in
obscure setups.
Even so, it should be okay to fix this behavior without anything like a
longer transition period:
- The `git submodule update --remote` command is not really common.
- Current Git's behavior when running this command is outright
confusing, unless the remote repository's current branch _is_ `master`
(in which case the proposed behavior matches the old behavior).
- If a user encounters a regression due to the changed behavior, the fix
is actually trivial: setting `submodule.<name>.branch` to `master`
will reinstate the old behavior.
Helped-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The effect of sparse checkout settings on submodules is documented.
* en/sparse-with-submodule-doc:
git-sparse-checkout: clarify interactions with submodules
The same worktree directory must be registered only once, but
"git worktree move" allowed this invariant to be violated, which
has been corrected.
* es/worktree-duplicate-paths:
worktree: make "move" refuse to move atop missing registered worktree
worktree: generalize candidate worktree path validation
worktree: prune linked worktree referencing main worktree path
worktree: prune duplicate entries referencing same worktree path
worktree: make high-level pruning re-usable
worktree: give "should be pruned?" function more meaningful name
worktree: factor out repeated string literal
The interface to redact sensitive information in the trace output
has been simplified.
* jt/redact-all-cookies:
http: redact all cookies, teach GIT_TRACE_REDACT=0
git index-pack is usually run in a repository, but need not be. Since
packs don't contains information on the algorithm in use, instead
relying on context, add an option to index-pack to tell it which one
we're using in case someone runs it outside of a repository. Since
using --stdin necessarily implies a repository, don't allow specifying
an object format if it's provided to prevent users from passing an
option that won't work. Add documentation for this option.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The low-level reference transactions used to update references are
currently completely opaque to the user. While certainly desirable in
most usecases, there are some which might want to hook into the
transaction to observe all queued reference updates as well as observing
the abortion or commit of a prepared transaction.
One such usecase would be to have a set of replicas of a given Git
repository, where we perform Git operations on all of the repositories
at once and expect the outcome to be the same in all of them. While
there exist hooks already for a certain subset of Git commands that
could be used to implement a voting mechanism for this, many others
currently don't have any mechanism for this.
The above scenario is the motivation for the new "reference-transaction"
hook that reaches directly into Git's reference transaction mechanism.
The hook receives as parameter the current state the transaction was
moved to ("prepared", "committed" or "aborted") and gets via its
standard input all queued reference updates. While the exit code gets
ignored in the "committed" and "aborted" states, a non-zero exit code in
the "prepared" state will cause the transaction to be aborted
prematurely.
Given the usecase described above, a voting mechanism can now be
implemented via this hook: as soon as it gets called, it will take all
of stdin and use it to cast a vote to a central service. When all
replicas of the repository agree, the hook will exit with zero,
otherwise it will abort the transaction by returning non-zero. The most
important upside is that this will catch _all_ commands writing
references at once, allowing to implement strong consistency for
reference updates via a single mechanism.
In order to test the impact on the case where we don't have any
"reference-transaction" hook installed in the repository, this commit
introduce two new performance tests for git-update-refs(1). Run against
an empty repository, it produces the following results:
Test origin/master HEAD
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1400.2: update-ref 2.70(2.10+0.71) 2.71(2.10+0.73) +0.4%
1400.3: update-ref --stdin 0.21(0.09+0.11) 0.21(0.07+0.14) +0.0%
The performance test p1400.2 creates, updates and deletes a branch a
thousand times, thus averaging runtime of git-update-refs over 3000
invocations. p1400.3 instead calls `git-update-refs --stdin` three times
and queues a thousand creations, updates and deletes respectively.
As expected, p1400.3 consistently shows no noticeable impact, as for
each batch of updates there's a single call to access(3P) for the
negative hook lookup. On the other hand, for p1400.2, one can see an
impact caused by this patchset. But doing five runs of the performance
tests where each one was run with GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10, the overhead
ranged from -1.5% to +1.1%. These inconsistent performance numbers can
be explained by the overhead of spawning 3000 processes. This shows that
the overhead of assembling the hook path and executing access(3P) once
to check if it's there is mostly outweighed by the operating system's
overhead.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ignoring the sparse-checkout feature momentarily, if one has a submodule and
creates local branches within it with unpushed changes and maybe adds some
untracked files to it, then we would want to avoid accidentally removing such
a submodule. So, for example with git.git, if you run
git checkout v2.13.0
then the sha1collisiondetection/ submodule is NOT removed even though it
did not exist as a submodule until v2.14.0. Similarly, if you only had
v2.13.0 checked out previously and ran
git checkout v2.14.0
the sha1collisiondetection/ submodule would NOT be automatically
initialized despite being part of v2.14.0. In both cases, git requires
submodules to be initialized or deinitialized separately. Further, we
also have special handling for submodules in other commands such as
clean, which requires two --force flags to delete untracked submodules,
and some commands have a --recurse-submodules flag.
sparse-checkout is very similar to checkout, as evidenced by the similar
name -- it adds and removes files from the working copy. However, for
the same avoid-data-loss reasons we do not want to remove a submodule
from the working copy with checkout, we do not want to do it with
sparse-checkout either. So submodules need to be separately initialized
or deinitialized; changing sparse-checkout rules should not
automatically trigger the removal or vivification of submodules.
I believe the previous wording in git-sparse-checkout.txt about
submodules was only about this particular issue. Unfortunately, the
previous wording could be interpreted to imply that submodules should be
considered active regardless of sparsity patterns. Update the wording
to avoid making such an implication. It may be helpful to consider two
example situations where the differences in wording become important:
In the future, we want users to be able to run commands like
git clone --sparse=moduleA --recurse-submodules $REPO_URL
and have sparsity paths automatically set up and have submodules *within
the sparsity paths* be automatically initialized. We do not want all
submodules in any path to be automatically initialized with that
command.
Similarly, we want to be able to do things like
git -c sparse.restrictCmds grep --recurse-submodules $REV $PATTERN
and search through $REV for $PATTERN within the recorded sparsity
patterns. We want it to recurse into submodules within those sparsity
patterns, but do not want to recurse into directories that do not match
the sparsity patterns in search of a possible submodule.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Preliminary clean-ups around refs API, plus file format
specification documentation for the reftable backend.
* hn/refs-cleanup:
reftable: define version 2 of the spec to accomodate SHA256
reftable: clarify how empty tables should be written
reftable: file format documentation
refs: improve documentation for ref iterator
t: use update-ref and show-ref to reading/writing refs
refs.h: clarify reflog iteration order
Document the usage for producing combined commits with "git diff".
This includes updating the synopsis section.
While here, add the three-dot notation to the synopsis.
Make "git diff -h" print the same usage summary as the manual
page synopsis, minus the "A..B" form, which is now discouraged.
Signed-off-by: Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current C Git implementation expects Git servers to follow a
specific order of sections when transmitting protocol v2 responses, but
this is not explicit in the documentation. Make the order explicit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach http-fetch the ability to download packfiles directly, given a
URL, and to verify them.
The http_pack_request suite has been augmented with a function that
takes a URL directly. With this function, the hash is only used to
determine the name of the temporary file.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git worktree add" takes special care to avoid creating a new worktree
at a location already registered to an existing worktree even if that
worktree is missing (which can happen, for instance, if the worktree
resides on removable media). "git worktree move", however, is not so
careful when validating the destination location and will happily move
the source worktree atop the location of a missing worktree. This leads
to the anomalous situation of multiple worktrees being associated with
the same path, which is expressly forbidden by design. For example:
$ git clone foo.git
$ cd foo
$ git worktree add ../bar
$ git worktree add ../baz
$ rm -rf ../bar
$ git worktree move ../baz ../bar
$ git worktree list
.../foo beefd00f [master]
.../bar beefd00f [bar]
.../bar beefd00f [baz]
$ git worktree remove ../bar
fatal: validation failed, cannot remove working tree:
'.../bar' does not point back to '.git/worktrees/bar'
Fix this shortcoming by enhancing "git worktree move" to perform the
same additional validation of the destination directory as done by "git
worktree add".
While at it, add a test to verify that "git worktree move" won't move a
worktree atop an existing (non-worktree) path -- a restriction which has
always been in place but was never tested.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Version appends a hash ID to the file header, making it slightly larger.
This commit also changes "SHA-1" into "object ID" in many places.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The format allows for some ambiguity, as a lone footer also starts
with a valid file header. However, the current JGit code will barf on
this. This commit codifies this behavior into the standard.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Shawn Pearce explains:
Some repositories contain a lot of references (e.g. android at 866k,
rails at 31k). The reftable format provides:
- Near constant time lookup for any single reference, even when the
repository is cold and not in process or kernel cache.
- Near constant time verification if a SHA-1 is referred to by at least
one reference (for allow-tip-sha1-in-want).
- Efficient lookup of an entire namespace, such as `refs/tags/`.
- Support atomic push `O(size_of_update)` operations.
- Combine reflog storage with ref storage.
This file format spec was originally written in July, 2017 by Shawn
Pearce. Some refinements since then were made by Shawn and by Han-Wen
Nienhuys based on experiences implementing and experimenting with the
format. (All of this was in the context of our work at Google and
Google is happy to contribute the result to the Git project.)
Imported from JGit[1]'s current version (c217d33ff,
"Documentation/technical/reftable: improve repo layout", 2020-02-04)
of Documentation/technical/reftable.md and converted to asciidoc by
running
pandoc -t asciidoc -f markdown reftable.md >reftable.txt
using pandoc 2.2.1. The result required the following additional
minor changes:
- removed the [TOC] directive to add a table of contents, since
asciidoc does not support it
- replaced git-scm.com/docs links with linkgit: directives that link
to other pages within Git's documentation
[1] https://eclipse.googlesource.com/jgit/jgit
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rewrite support for GIT_CURL_VERBOSE in terms of GIT_TRACE_CURL.
Looking good.
* jt/curl-verbose-on-trace-curl:
http, imap-send: stop using CURLOPT_VERBOSE
t5551: test that GIT_TRACE_CURL redacts password
On-the-wire protocol v2 easily falls into a deadlock between the
remote-curl helper and the fetch-pack process when the server side
prematurely throws an error and disconnects. The communication has
been updated to make it more robust.
* dl/remote-curl-deadlock-fix:
stateless-connect: send response end packet
pkt-line: define PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END
remote-curl: error on incomplete packet
pkt-line: extern packet_length()
transport: extract common fetch_pack() call
remote-curl: remove label indentation
remote-curl: fix typo
"git bugreport" learns to report what shell is in use.
* es/bugreport-shell:
bugreport: include user interactive shell
help: add shell-path to --build-options
While the MyFirstContribution guide exists and has received some use and
positive reviews, it is still not as discoverable as it could be. Add a
reference to it from the GitHub pull request template, where many
brand-new contributors may look. Also add a reference to it in
SubmittingPatches, which is the central source of guidance for patch
contribution.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-graph format specifies that "All 4-byte numbers are in
network order", but the commit-graph contains 8-byte integers as well
(file offsets in the Chunk Lookup table), and their byte order is
unspecified.
Clarify that all multi-byte integers are in network byte order.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 0b4396f068 (git-p4: make python2.7 the oldest supported version,
2019-12-13), git-p4 was updated to only support 2.7 and newer. Since
Python 2.6 is pretty much ancient history, update CodingGuidelines to
show that 2.7 is the oldest version supported.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In trace output (when GIT_TRACE_CURL is true), redact the values of all
HTTP cookies by default. Now that auth headers (since the implementation
of GIT_TRACE_CURL in 74c682d3c6 ("http.c: implement the GIT_TRACE_CURL
environment variable", 2016-05-24)) and cookie values (since this
commit) are redacted by default in these traces, also allow the user to
inhibit these redactions through an environment variable.
Since values of all cookies are now redacted by default,
GIT_REDACT_COOKIES (which previously allowed users to select individual
cookies to redact) now has no effect.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some repositories in the wild have commits that record nonsense
committer timezone (e.g. rails.git); "git fast-import" learned an
option to pass these nonsense timestamps intact to allow recreating
existing repositories as-is.
* en/fast-import-looser-date:
fast-import: add new --date-format=raw-permissive format
"feature.experimental" configuration variable is to let volunteers
easily opt into a set of newer features, which use of the v2
transport protocol is now a part of.
* jn/experimental-opts-into-proto-v2:
config: let feature.experimental imply protocol.version=2
There are multiple repositories in the wild with random, invalid
timezones. Most notably is a commit from rails.git with a timezone of
"+051800"[1]. A few searches will find other repos with that same
invalid timezone as well. Further, Peff reports that GitHub relaxed
their fsck checks in August 2011 to accept any timezone value[2], and
there have been multiple reports to filter-repo about fast-import
crashing while trying to import their existing repositories since they
had timezone values such as "-7349423" and "-43455309"[3].
The existing check on timezone values inside fast-import may prove
useful for people who are crafting fast-import input by hand or with a
new script. For them, the check may help them avoid accidentally
recording invalid dates. (Note that this check is rather simplistic and
there are still several forms of invalid dates that fast-import does not
check for: dates in the future, timezone values with minutes that are
not divisible by 15, and timezone values with minutes that are 60 or
greater.) While this simple check may have some value for those users,
other users or tools will want to import existing repositories as-is.
Provide a --date-format=raw-permissive format that will not error out on
these otherwise invalid timezones so that such existing repositories can
be imported.
[1] 4cf94979c9
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200521195513.GA1542632@coredump.intra.peff.net/
[3] https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/issues/88
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the object-format extension for protocol v2.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
show-index is capable of reading any possible index file whether or not
the index is inside a repository. However, because our index files lack
metadata about the hash algorithm in use, it's not possible to
autodetect the algorithm that a particular index file is using.
In order to allow us to read index files of any algorithm, let's set up
the .git directory gently so that we default to the algorithm for the
current repository, and add an --object-format option to allow users to
override this setting and continue to run show-index outside of a
repository altogether. Let's also document this new option so that
people can find it and use it.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the remote helper docs to document the object-format extensions
we will implement in remote-curl and the transport helper code shortly.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To set the default hash algorithm you can set the `GIT_DEFAULT_HASH`
environment variable. In the documentation this variable is named
`GIT_DEFAULT_HASH_ALGORITHM`, which is incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The explanation of the `--show-pulls` option added in commit 8d049e182e
("revision: --show-pulls adds helpful merges", 2020-04-10) consists of
several paragraphs and we use "+" throughout to tie them together in one
long chain of list continuations. Only thing is, we're not in any kind
of list, so these pluses end up being rendered literally.
The preceding few paragraphs describe `--ancestry-path` and there we
*do* have a list, since we've started one with `--ancestry-path::`. In
fact, we have several such lists for all the various history-simplifying
options we're discussing earlier in this file.
Thus, we're missing a list both from a consistency point of view and
from a practical rendering standpoint.
Let's start a list for `--show-pulls` where we start actually discussing
the option, and keep the paragraphs preceding it out of that list. That
is, drop all those pluses before the new list we're adding here.
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When building with asciidoc-8.4.5 (as found on CentOS/Red Hat 6), the
period in the "[[files-in-.gitignore-are-tracked]]" anchor is not
properly parsed as a section:
WARNING: gitfaq.txt: line 245: missing [[files-in-.gitignore-are-tracked]] section
The resulting XML file fails to validate with xmlto:
xmlto: /git/Documentation/gitfaq.xml does not validate (status 3)
xmlto: Fix document syntax or use --skip-validation option
/git/Documentation/gitfaq.xml:3: element refentry: validity error :
Element refentry content does not follow the DTD, expecting
(beginpage? , indexterm* , refentryinfo? , refmeta? , (remark | link
| olink | ulink)* , refnamediv+ , refsynopsisdiv? , (refsect1+ |
refsection+)), got (refmeta refnamediv refsynopsisdiv refsect1
refsect1 refsect1 refsect1 variablelist refsect1 refsect1 )
Document /git/Documentation/gitfaq.xml does not validate
Let's avoid breaking users of platforms which ship an old version of
asciidoc, since the cost to do so is quite low.
Reported-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various doc fixes.
* ma/doc-fixes:
git-sparse-checkout.txt: add missing '
git-credential.txt: use list continuation
git-commit-graph.txt: fix list rendering
git-commit-graph.txt: fix grammo
date-formats.txt: fix list continuation
Currently, remote-curl acts as a proxy and blindly forwards packets
between an HTTP server and fetch-pack. In the case of a stateless RPC
connection where the connection is terminated before the transaction is
complete, remote-curl will blindly forward the packets before waiting on
more input from fetch-pack. Meanwhile, fetch-pack will read the
transaction and continue reading, expecting more input to continue the
transaction. This results in a deadlock between the two processes.
This can be seen in the following command which does not terminate:
$ git -c protocol.version=2 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
Cloning into 'git'...
whereas the v1 version does terminate as expected:
$ git -c protocol.version=1 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
Cloning into 'git'...
fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
Instead of blindly forwarding packets, make remote-curl insert a
response end packet after proxying the responses from the remote server
when using stateless_connect(). On the RPC client side, ensure that each
response ends as described.
A separate control packet is chosen because we need to be able to
differentiate between what the remote server sends and remote-curl's
control packets. By ensuring in the remote-curl code that a server
cannot send response end packets, we prevent a malicious server from
being able to perform a denial of service attack in which they spoof a
response end packet and cause the described deadlock to happen.
Reported-by: Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `diff.relative` boolean option set to `true` shows only changes in
the current directory/value specified by the `path` argument of the
`relative` option and shows pathnames relative to the aforementioned
directory.
Teach `--no-relative` to override earlier `--relative`
Add for git-format-patch(1) options documentation `--relative` and
`--no-relative`
Signed-off-by: Laurent Arnoud <laurent@spkdev.net>
Acked-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first four bytes of the line, the pkt-len, indicates the total
length of the pkt-line in hexadecimal. Fix wrong pkt-len headers of
some pkt-line messages in `http-protocol.txt` and `pack-protocol.txt`.
Reviewed-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiuyang Xie <jiuyang.xjy@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git 2.26 used protocol v2 as its default protocol, but soon after
release, users noticed that the protocol v2 negotiation code was prone
to fail when fetching from some remotes that are far ahead of others
(such as linux-next.git versus Linus's linux.git). That has been
fixed by 0b07eecf6e (Merge branch 'jt/v2-fetch-nego-fix',
2020-05-01), but to be cautious, we are using protocol v0 as the
default in 2.27 to buy some time for any other unanticipated issues to
surface.
To that end, let's ensure that users requesting the bleeding edge
using the feature.experimental flag *do* get protocol v2. This way,
we can gain experience with a wider audience for the new protocol
version and be more confident when it is time to enable it by default
for all users in some future Git version.
Implementation note: this isn't with the rest of the
feature.experimental options in repo-settings.c because those are tied
to a repository object, whereas this code path is used for operations
like "git ls-remote" that do not require a repository.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Where we explain the 'reapply' command, we don't properly wrap it in
single quote marks like we do with the other commands: We omit the
closing mark ("'reapply") and this ends up being rendered literally as
"'reapply". Add the missing "'".
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use list continuation to avoid the second and third paragraphs
rendering with a different indentation from the first one where we
describe the "url" attribute.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first list item follows immediately on the paragraph where we
introduce the list. This makes the "*" render literally as part of one
huge paragraph. (With AsciiDoc, everything is fine after that, but with
Asciidoctor, we get some minor follow-on errors.) Add an empty line --
with a list continuation ("+") -- to make the first list item render ok.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's easy to mix up the possessive "its" and "it's" ("it is"). Correct
an instance of this.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The blank line before the lone "+" means it isn't detected as a list
continuation, but instead renders literally, at least with AsciiDoc.
Drop the empty line and, while at it, add a closing period to the
preceding paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The strftime(3) man page is outside of the Git suite. Refererence it as
we do other external man pages and avoid creating a broken link when
generating the HTML documentation.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 7c5c9b9c57 (commit-graph: error out on invalid commit oids in
'write --stdin-commits', 2019-08-05), the commit-graph builtin dies on
receiving non-commit OIDs as input to '--stdin-commits'.
This behavior can be cumbersome to work around in, say, the case of
piping 'git for-each-ref' to 'git commit-graph write --stdin-commits' if
the caller does not want to cull out non-commits themselves. In this
situation, it would be ideal if 'git commit-graph write' wrote the graph
containing the inputs that did pertain to commits, and silently ignored
the remainder of the input.
Some options have been proposed to the effect of '--[no-]check-oids'
which would allow callers to have the commit-graph builtin do just that.
After some discussion, it is difficult to imagine a caller who wouldn't
want to pass '--no-check-oids', suggesting that we should get rid of the
behavior of complaining about non-commit inputs altogether.
If callers do wish to retain this behavior, they can easily work around
this change by doing the following:
git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(*objecttype)' |
awk '
!/commit/ { print "not-a-commit:"$1 }
/commit/ { print $1 }
' |
git commit-graph write --stdin-commits
To make it so that valid OIDs that refer to non-existent objects are
indeed an error after loosening the error handling, perform an extra
lookup to make sure that object indeed exists before sending it to the
commit-graph internals.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code cleanup and typofixes
* ds/bloom-cleanup:
completion: offer '--(no-)patch' among 'git log' options
bloom: use num_changes not nr for limit detection
bloom: de-duplicate directory entries
Documentation: changed-path Bloom filters use byte words
bloom: parse commit before computing filters
test-bloom: fix usage typo
bloom: fix whitespace around tab length
Document a capability that indicates which hash algorithms are in use by
both sides of a remote connection. Use the term "object-format", since
this is the term used for the repository extension as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Minor in-code comments and documentation updates around credential
API.
* cb/credential-doc-fixes:
credential: document protocol updates
credential: update gitcredentials documentation
credential: correct order of parameters for credential_match
credential: update description for credential_from_url_gently
It's possible a user may complain about the way that Git interacts with
their interactive shell, e.g. autocompletion or shell prompt. In that
case, it's useful for us to know which shell they're using
interactively.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Whenever GIT_CURL_VERBOSE is set, teach Git to behave as if
GIT_TRACE_CURL=1 and GIT_TRACE_CURL_NO_DATA=1 is set, instead of setting
CURLOPT_VERBOSE.
This is to prevent inadvertent revelation of sensitive data. In
particular, GIT_CURL_VERBOSE redacts neither the "Authorization" header
nor any cookies specified by GIT_REDACT_COOKIES.
Unifying the tracing mechanism also has the future benefit that any
improvements to the tracing mechanism will benefit both users of
GIT_CURL_VERBOSE and GIT_TRACE_CURL, and we do not need to remember to
implement any improvement twice.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt, the definition
of the BIDX chunk specifies the length is a number of 8-byte words.
During development we discovered that using 8-byte words in the
Murmur3 hash algorithm causes issues with big-endian versus little-
endian machines. Thus, the hash algorithm was adapted to work on a
byte-by-byte basis. However, this caused a change in the definition
of a "word" in bloom.h. Now, a "word" is a single byte, which allows
filters to be as small as two bytes. These length-two filters are
demonstrated in t0095-bloom.sh, and a larger filter of length 25 is
demonstrated as well.
The original point of using 8-byte words was for alignment reasons.
It also presented opportunities for extremely sparse Bloom filters
when there were a small number of changes at a commit, creating a
very low false-positive rate. However, modifying the format at this
point is unlikely to be a valuable exercise. Also, this use of
single-byte granularity does present opportunities to save space.
It is unclear if 8-byte alignment of the filters would present any
meaningful performance benefits.
Modify the format document to reflect reality.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When selecting a batch of pack-files to repack in the "git
multi-pack-index repack" command, Git should respect the
repack.packKeptObjects config option. When false, this option says that
the pack-files with an associated ".keep" file should not be repacked.
This config value is "false" by default.
There are two cases for selecting a batch of objects. The first is the
case where the input batch-size is zero, which specifies "repack
everything". The second is with a non-zero batch size, which selects
pack-files using a greedy selection criteria. Both of these cases are
updated and tested.
Reported-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git restore --staged --worktree" now defaults to take the contents
out of "HEAD", instead of erring out.
* es/restore-staged-from-head-by-default:
restore: default to HEAD when combining --staged and --worktree
The coding guideline for shell scripts instructed to refer to a
variable with dollar-sign inside arithmetic expansion to work
around a bug in old versions of dash, which is a thing of the past.
Now we are not forbidden from writing $((var+1)).
* jk/arith-expansion-coding-guidelines:
CodingGuidelines: drop arithmetic expansion advice to use "$x"
The samples in the credential documentation has been updated to
make it clear that we depict what would appear in the .git/config
file, by adding appropriate quotes as needed..
* jk/credential-sample-update:
gitcredentials(7): make shell-snippet example more realistic
gitcredentials(7): clarify quoting of helper examples
With the recent tightening of the code that is used to parse
various parts of a URL for use in the credential subsystem, a
hand-edited credential-store file causes the credential helper to
die, which is a bit too harsh to the users. Demote the error
behaviour to just ignore and keep using well-formed lines instead.
* cb/credential-store-ignore-bogus-lines:
credential-store: ignore bogus lines from store file
credential-store: document the file format a bit more
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Occasionally a failure a user is seeing may be related to a specific
hook which is being run, perhaps without the user realizing. While the
contents of hooks can be sensitive - containing user data or process
information specific to the user's organization - simply knowing that a
hook is being run at a certain stage can help us to understand whether
something is going wrong.
Without a definitive list of hook names within the code, we compile our
own list from the documentation. This is likely prone to bitrot, but
designing a single source of truth for acceptable hooks is too much
overhead for this small change to the bugreport tool.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document protocol changes after CVE-2020-11008, including the removal of
references to the override of attributes which is no longer recommended
after CVE-2020-5260 and that might be removed in the future.
While at it do some improvements for clarity and consistency.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify the expected effect of all attributes and how the helpers
are expected to handle them and the context where they operate.
While at it, space the descriptions for clarity, and add a paragraph
mentioning the early termination in the list processing of helpers,
to complement the one about the special "quit" attribute.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an issue in 'Common Issues' section which addresses the confusion
between performing a 'fetch' and a 'pull'.
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitcredentials(7) already mentions several possible invocations that one
can use as the value for credential.helper. However, many people are
not aware that there are other options than a simple credential helper
name, so let's place some explanatory text in the documentation for
credential.helper as well.
We still refer the user to gitcredential(7) for additional explanations
and helpful examples.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add issue in 'Common Issues' section which addresses the problem of
Git tracking files/paths mentioned in '.gitignore'.
Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In documentation pertaining to autostash behavior, we refer to the
"stash reflog". This description is too low-level as the reflog refers
to an implementation detail of how the stash works and, for end-users,
they do not need to be aware of this at all.
Change references of "stash reflog" to "stash list", which should
provide more accessible terminology for end-users.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The approxidate parser learns to parse seconds with fraction.
* dd/iso-8601-updates:
date.c: allow compact version of ISO-8601 datetime
date.c: skip fractional second part of ISO-8601
date.c: validate and set time in a helper function
date.c: s/is_date/set_date/
By default, files are restored from the index for --worktree, and from
HEAD for --staged. When --worktree and --staged are combined, --source
must be specified to disambiguate the restore source[1], thus making it
cumbersome to restore a file in both the worktree and the index.
However, HEAD is also a reasonable default for --worktree when combined
with --staged, so make it the default anytime --staged is used (whether
combined with --worktree or not).
[1]: Due to an oversight, the --source requirement, though documented,
is not actually enforced.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The advice to use "$x" rather than "x" in arithmetric expansion was
working around a dash bug fixed in 0.5.4. Even Debian oldstable has
0.5.8 these days. And in the meantime, we've added almost two dozen
instances of the "x" form which you can find with:
git grep '$(([a-z]'
and nobody seems to have complained. Let's declare this workaround
obsolete and simplify our style guide.
Helped-by: Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's typical to find Markdown documentation alongside source code, and
having better context for documentation changes is useful; see also
commit 69f9c87d4 (userdiff: add support for Fountain documents,
2015-07-21).
The pattern is based on the CommonMark specification 0.29, section 4.2
<https://spec.commonmark.org/> but doesn't match empty headings, as
seeing them in a hunk header is unlikely to be useful.
Only ATX headings are supported, as detecting setext headings would
require printing the line before a pattern matches, or matching a
multiline pattern. The word-diff pattern is the same as the pattern for
HTML, because many Markdown parsers accept inline HTML.
Signed-off-by: Ash Holland <ash@sorrel.sh>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "bugreport" tool.
* es/bugreport:
bugreport: drop extraneous includes
bugreport: add compiler info
bugreport: add uname info
bugreport: gather git version and build info
bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info
help: move list_config_help to builtin/help
Incompatible options "--root" and "--fork-point" of "git rebase"
have been marked and documented as being incompatible.
* en/rebase-root-and-fork-point-are-incompatible:
rebase: display an error if --root and --fork-point are both provided
Introduce an extension to the commit-graph to make it efficient to
check for the paths that were modified at each commit using Bloom
filters.
* gs/commit-graph-path-filter:
bloom: ignore renames when computing changed paths
commit-graph: add GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_CHANGED_PATHS test flag
t4216: add end to end tests for git log with Bloom filters
revision.c: add trace2 stats around Bloom filter usage
revision.c: use Bloom filters to speed up path based revision walks
commit-graph: add --changed-paths option to write subcommand
commit-graph: reuse existing Bloom filters during write
commit-graph: write Bloom filters to commit graph file
commit-graph: examine commits by generation number
commit-graph: examine changed-path objects in pack order
commit-graph: compute Bloom filters for changed paths
diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changes
bloom.c: core Bloom filter implementation for changed paths.
bloom.c: introduce core Bloom filter constructs
bloom.c: add the murmur3 hash implementation
commit-graph: define and use MAX_NUM_CHUNKS
There's an example of using your own bit of shell to act as a credential
helper, but it's not very realistic:
- It's stupid to hand out your secret password to _every_ host. In the
real world you'd use the config-matcher to limit it to a particular
host.
- We never provided a username. We can easily do that in another config
option (you can do it in the helper, too, but this is much more
readable).
- We were sending the secret even for store/erase operations. This
is OK because Git would just ignore it, but a real system would
probably be unlocking a password store, which you wouldn't want to do
more than necessary.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We give several helper config examples, but don't make clear that these
are raw values. It's up to the user to add the appropriate quoting to
put them into a config file (either by running with "git config" and
quoting against the shell, or by adding double-quotes as appropriate
within the git-config file).
Let's flesh them out as full config blocks, which makes the syntax more
clear (and makes it possible for people to just cut-and-paste them as a
starting point). I added double-quotes to any values larger than a
single word. That isn't strictly necessary in all cases, but it
sidesteps explaining the rules about exactly when you need to quote a
value.
The existing quotes can be converted to single-quotes in one instance,
and backslash-esccaped in the other. I also swapped out backticks for
our preferred $().
Reported-by: douglas.fuller@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git update-ref --stdin" learned a handful of new verbs to let the
user control ref update transactions more explicitly, which helps
as an ingredient to implement two-phase commit-style atomic
ref-updates across multiple repositories.
* ps/transactional-update-ref-stdin:
update-ref: implement interactive transaction handling
update-ref: read commands in a line-wise fashion
update-ref: move transaction handling into `update_refs_stdin()`
update-ref: pass end pointer instead of strbuf
update-ref: drop unused argument for `parse_refname`
update-ref: organize commands in an array
strbuf: provide function to append whole lines
git-update-ref.txt: add missing word
refs: fix segfault when aborting empty transaction
"sparse-checkout" UI improvements.
* en/sparse-checkout:
sparse-checkout: provide a new reapply subcommand
unpack-trees: failure to set SKIP_WORKTREE bits always just a warning
unpack-trees: provide warnings on sparse updates for unmerged paths too
unpack-trees: make sparse path messages sound like warnings
unpack-trees: split display_error_msgs() into two
unpack-trees: rename ERROR_* fields meant for warnings to WARNING_*
unpack-trees: move ERROR_WOULD_LOSE_SUBMODULE earlier
sparse-checkout: use improved unpack_trees porcelain messages
sparse-checkout: use new update_sparsity() function
unpack-trees: add a new update_sparsity() function
unpack-trees: pull sparse-checkout pattern reading into a new function
unpack-trees: do not mark a dirty path with SKIP_WORKTREE
unpack-trees: allow check_updates() to work on a different index
t1091: make some tests a little more defensive against failures
unpack-trees: simplify pattern_list freeing
unpack-trees: simplify verify_absent_sparse()
unpack-trees: remove unused error type
unpack-trees: fix minor typo in comment
The stash entry created by "git rebase --autosquash" to keep the
initial dirty state were discarded by mistake upon "git rebase
--quit", which has been corrected.
* dl/merge-autostash-rebase-quit-fix:
rebase: save autostash entry into stash reflog on --quit
Reading a malformed credential URL line and silently ignoring it
does not mean that we support empty lines and/or "# commented" lines
forever. We should document it to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Those fetching over protocol v2 from linux-next and other kernel
repositories are reporting that v2 often fetches way too much than
needed.
* jn/demote-proto2-from-default:
Revert "fetch: default to protocol version 2"
"git grep" did not quote a path with unusual character like other
commands (like "git diff", "git status") do, but did quote when run
from a subdirectory, both of which has been corrected.
* mt/grep-cquote-path:
grep: follow conventions for printing paths w/ unusual chars
The "--decorate-refs" and "--decorate-refs-exclude" options "git
log" takes have learned a companion configuration variable
log.excludeDecoration that sits at the lowest priority in the
family.
* ds/log-exclude-decoration-config:
log: add log.excludeDecoration config option
log-tree: make ref_filter_match() a helper method
Documentation updates around the "--recurse-submodules" option.
* dr/doc-recurse-submodules:
doc: --recurse-submodules mostly applies to active submodules
doc: be more precise on (fetch|push).recurseSubmodules
doc: explain how to deactivate submodule.recurse completely
doc: document --recurse-submodules for reset and restore
doc: list all commands affected by submodule.recurse
"git log" learns "--[no-]mailmap" as a synonym to "--[no-]use-mailmap"
* jc/log-no-mailmap:
log: give --[no-]use-mailmap a more sensible synonym --[no-]mailmap
clone: reorder --recursive/--recurse-submodules
parse-options: teach "git cmd -h" to show alias as alias
Raise the minimum required version of docbook-xsl package to 1.74,
as 1.74.0 was from late 2008, which is more than 10 years old, and
drop compatibility cruft from our documentation suite.
* ma/doc-discard-docbook-xsl-1.73:
user-manual.conf: don't specify [listingblock]
INSTALL: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.74
manpage-normal.xsl: fold in manpage-base.xsl
manpage-bold-literal.xsl: stop using git.docbook.backslash
Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.73.0
Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.72.0
Doc: drop support for docbook-xsl before 1.71.1
"git rebase" happens to call some hooks meant for "checkout" and
"commit" by this was not a designed behaviour than historical
accident. This has been documented.
* en/rebase-doc-hooks-called-by-accident:
git-rebase.txt: add another hook to the hooks section, and explain more
In a03b55530a (merge: teach --autostash option, 2020-04-07), the
--autostash option was introduced for `git merge`. Notably, when
`git merge --quit` is run with an autostash entry present, it is saved
into the stash reflog. This is contrasted with the current behaviour of
`git rebase --quit` where the autostash entry is simply just dropped out
of existence.
Adopt the behaviour of `git merge --quit` in `git rebase --quit` and
save the autostash entry into the stash reflog instead of just deleting
it.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--root implies we want to rebase all commits since the beginning of
history. --fork-point means we want to use the reflog of the specified
upstream to find the best common ancestor between <upstream> and
<branch> and only rebase commits since that common ancestor. These
options are clearly contradictory, so throw an error (instead of
segfaulting on a NULL pointer) if both are specified.
Reported-by: Alexander Berg <alexander.berg@atos.net>
Documentation-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
356aea6 ("doc: move extensions.worktreeConfig to the right place",
2018-11-14) moved the explanation of extension.worktreeConfig from
config.txt to technical/repository-version.txt. However, the former
still contains a reference to the removed paragraph. We could fix it
referencing the gitrepository-layout man page, which contains the moved
explanation. But the git-worktree man page has additional information
and recommendations for the worktree config file, so let's reference it
instead.
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-commit(1) says ISO-8601 is one of our supported date format.
ISO-8601 allows timestamps to have a fractional number of seconds.
We represent time only in terms of whole seconds, so we never bothered
parsing fractional seconds. However, it's better for us to parse and
throw away the fractional part than to refuse to parse the timestamp
at all.
And refusing parsing fractional second part may confuse the parse to
think fractional and timezone as day and month in this example:
2008-02-14 20:30:45.019-04:00
While doing this, make sure that we only interpret the number after the
second and the dot as fractional when and only when the date is known,
since only ISO-8601 allows the fractional part, and we've taught our
users to interpret "12:34:56.7.days.ago" as a way to specify a time
relative to current time.
Reported-by: Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow "git rebase" to reapply all local commits, even if the may be
already in the upstream, without checking first.
* jt/rebase-allow-duplicate:
rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits
"git rebase" (again) learns to honor "--no-keep-empty", which lets
the user to discard commits that are empty from the beginning (as
opposed to the ones that become empty because of rebasing). The
interactive rebase also marks commits that are empty in the todo.
* en/rebase-no-keep-empty:
rebase: fix an incompatible-options error message
rebase: reinstate --no-keep-empty
rebase -i: mark commits that begin empty in todo editor
"git log" learned "--show-pulls" that helps pathspec limited
history views; a merge commit that takes the whole change from a
side branch, which is normally omitted from the output, is shown
in addition to the commits that introduce real changes.
* ds/revision-show-pulls:
revision: --show-pulls adds helpful merges
The output from "git format-patch" uses RFC 2047 encoding for
non-ASCII letters on From: and Subject: headers, so that it can
directly be fed to e-mail programs. A new option has been added
to produce these headers in raw.
* eb/format-patch-no-encode-headers:
format-patch: teach --no-encode-email-headers
The more aggressive updates to remote-tracking branches we had for
the past 7 years or so were not reflected in the documentation,
which has been corrected.
* pb/pull-fetch-doc:
pull doc: correct outdated description of an example
pull doc: refer to a specific section in 'fetch' doc
"git rebase" learned the "--no-gpg-sign" option to countermand
commit.gpgSign the user may have.
* dd/no-gpg-sign:
Documentation: document merge option --no-gpg-sign
Documentation: merge commit-tree --[no-]gpg-sign
Documentation: reword commit --no-gpg-sign
Documentation: document am --no-gpg-sign
cherry-pick/revert: honour --no-gpg-sign in all case
rebase.c: honour --no-gpg-sign
"git pull" shares many options with underlying "git fetch", but
some of them were not documented and some of those that would make
sense to pass down were not passed down.
* rs/pull-options-sync-code-and-doc:
pull: pass documented fetch options on
pull: remove --update-head-ok from documentation
"git p4" learned four new hooks and also "--no-verify" option to
bypass them (and the existing "p4-pre-submit" hook).
* bk/p4-pre-edit-changelist:
git-p4: add RCS keyword status message
git-p4: add p4 submit hooks
git-p4: restructure code in submit
git-p4: add --no-verify option
git-p4: add p4-pre-submit exit text
git-p4: create new function run_git_hook
git-p4: rewrite prompt to be Windows compatible
This reverts commit 684ceae32d.
Users fetching from linux-next and other kernel remotes are reporting
that the limited ref advertisement causes negotiation to reach
MAX_IN_VAIN, resulting in too-large fetches.
Reported-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Reported-by: "Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the example by Jon Loeliger the selector 'A^2' was duplicated. This
might confuse readers.
Signed-off-by: Michael F. Schönitzer <michael@schoenitzer.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
grep does not follow the conventions used by other Git commands when
printing paths that contain unusual characters (as double-quotes or
newlines). Commands such as ls-files, commit, status and diff will:
- Quote and escape unusual pathnames, by default.
- Print names verbatim and unquoted when "-z" is used.
But grep *never* quotes/escapes absolute paths with unusual chars and
*always* quotes/escapes relative ones, even with "-z". Besides being
inconsistent in its own output, the deviation from other Git commands
can be confusing. So let's make it follow the two rules above and add
some tests for this new behavior. Note that, making grep quote/escape
all unusual paths by default, also make it fully compliant with the
core.quotePath configuration, which is currently ignored for absolute
paths.
Reported-by: Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To help pinpoint the source of a regression, it is useful to know some
info about the compiler which the user's Git client was built with. By
adding a generic get_compiler_info() in 'compat/' we can choose which
relevant information to share per compiler; to get started, let's
demonstrate the version of glibc if the user built with 'gcc'.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Helped-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The contents of uname() can give us some insight into what sort of
system the user is running on, and help us replicate their setup if need
be. The domainname field is not guaranteed to be available, so don't
collect it.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Knowing which version of Git a user has and how it was built allows us
to more precisely pin down the circumstances when a certain issue
occurs, so teach bugreport how to tell us the same output as 'git
version --build-options'.
It's not ideal to directly call 'git version --build-options' because
that output goes to stdout. Instead, wrap the version string in a helper
within help.[ch] library, and call that helper from within the bugreport
library.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach Git how to prompt the user for a good bug report: reproduction
steps, expected behavior, and actual behavior. Later, Git can learn how
to collect some diagnostic information from the repository.
If users can send us a well-written bug report which contains diagnostic
information we would otherwise need to ask the user for, we can reduce
the number of question-and-answer round trips between the reporter and
the Git contributor.
Users may also wish to send a report like this to their local "Git
expert" if they have put their repository into a state they are confused
by.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 'git log', the --decorate-refs-exclude option appends a pattern
to a string_list. This list is used to prevent showing some refs
in the decoration output, or even by --simplify-by-decoration.
Users may want to use their refs space to store utility refs that
should not appear in the decoration output. For example, Scalar [1]
runs a background fetch but places the "new" refs inside the
refs/scalar/hidden/<remote>/* refspace instead of refs/<remote>/*
to avoid updating remote refs when the user is not looking. However,
these "hidden" refs appear during regular 'git log' queries.
A similar idea to use "hidden" refs is under consideration for core
Git [2].
Add the 'log.excludeDecoration' config option so users can exclude
some refs from decorations by default instead of needing to use
--decorate-refs-exclude manually. The config value is multi-valued
much like the command-line option. The documentation is careful to
point out that the config value can be overridden by the
--decorate-refs option, even though --decorate-refs-exclude would
always "win" over --decorate-refs.
Since the 'log.excludeDecoration' takes lower precedence to
--decorate-refs, and --decorate-refs-exclude takes higher
precedence, the struct decoration_filter needed another field.
This led also to new logic in load_ref_decorations() and
ref_filter_match().
There are several tests in t4202-log.sh that test the
--decorate-refs-(include|exclude) options, so these are extended.
Since the expected output is already stored as a file, most tests
could simply replace a "--decorate-refs-exclude" option with an
in-line config setting. Other tests involve the precedence of
the config option compared to command-line options and needed more
modification.
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/77b1da5d3063a2404cd750adfe3bb8be9b6c497d.1585946894.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gister@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "mboxrd" pretty format was introduced in 9f23e04061 (pretty: support
"mboxrd" output format, 2016-06-05) but wasn't mentioned in the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When operating on a stream of commit OIDs on stdin, 'git commit-graph
write' checks that each OID refers to an object that is indeed a commit.
This is convenient to make sure that the given input is well-formed, but
can sometimes be undesirable.
For example, server operators may wish to feed the refnames that were
updated during a push to 'git commit-graph write --input=stdin-commits',
and silently discard refs that don't point at commits. This can be done
by combing the output of 'git for-each-ref' with '--format
%(*objecttype)', but this requires opening up a potentially large number
of objects. Instead, it is more convenient to feed the updated refs to
the commit-graph machinery, and let it throw out refs that don't point
to commits.
Introduce '--[no-]check-oids' to make such a behavior possible. With
'--check-oids' (the default behavior to retain backwards compatibility),
'git commit-graph write' will barf on a non-commit line in its input.
With 'no-check-oids', such lines will be silently ignored, making the
above possible by specifying this option.
No matter which is supplied, 'git commit-graph write' retains the
behavior from the previous commit of rejecting non-OID inputs like
"HEAD" and "refs/heads/foo" as before.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using split commit-graphs, it is sometimes useful to completely
replace the commit-graph chain with a new base.
For example, consider a scenario in which a repository builds a new
commit-graph incremental for each push. Occasionally (say, after some
fixed number of pushes), they may wish to rebuild the commit-graph chain
with all reachable commits.
They can do so with
$ git commit-graph write --reachable
but this removes the chain entirely and replaces it with a single
commit-graph in 'objects/info/commit-graph'. Unfortunately, this means
that the next push will have to move this commit-graph into the first
layer of a new chain, and then write its new commits on top.
Avoid such copying entirely by allowing the caller to specify that they
wish to replace the entirety of their commit-graph chain, while also
specifying that the new commit-graph should become the basis of a fresh,
length-one chain.
This addresses the above situation by making it possible for the caller
to instead write:
$ git commit-graph write --reachable --split=replace
which writes a new length-one chain to 'objects/info/commit-graphs',
making the commit-graph incremental generated by the subsequent push
relatively cheap by avoiding the aforementioned copy.
In order to do this, remove an assumption in 'write_commit_graph_file'
that chains are always at least two incrementals long.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the previous commit, we laid the groundwork for supporting different
splitting strategies. In this commit, we introduce the first splitting
strategy: 'no-merge'.
Passing '--split=no-merge' is useful for callers which wish to write a
new incremental commit-graph, but do not want to spend effort condensing
the incremental chain [1]. Previously, this was possible by passing
'--size-multiple=0', but this no longer the case following 63020f175f
(commit-graph: prefer default size_mult when given zero, 2020-01-02).
When '--split=no-merge' is given, the commit-graph machinery will never
condense an existing chain, and it will always write a new incremental.
[1]: This might occur when, for example, a server administrator running
some program after each push may want to ensure that each job runs
proportional in time to the size of the push, and does not "jump" when
the commit-graph machinery decides to trigger a merge.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With '--split', the commit-graph machinery writes new commits in another
incremental commit-graph which is part of the existing chain, and
optionally decides to condense the chain into a single commit-graph.
This is done to ensure that the asymptotic behavior of looking up a
commit in an incremental chain is not dominated by the number of
incrementals in that chain. It can be controlled by the '--max-commits'
and '--size-multiple' options.
In the next two commits, we will introduce additional splitting
strategies that can exert additional control over:
- when a split commit-graph is and isn't written, and
- when the existing commit-graph chain is discarded completely and
replaced with another graph
To prepare for this, make '--split' take an optional strategy (as in
'--split[=<strategy>]'), and add a new enum to describe which strategy
is being used. For now, no strategies are given, and the only enumerated
value is 'COMMIT_GRAPH_SPLIT_UNSPECIFIED', indicating the absence of a
strategy.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When rebasing against an upstream that has had many commits since the
original branch was created:
O -- O -- ... -- O -- O (upstream)
\
-- O (my-dev-branch)
it must read the contents of every novel upstream commit, in addition to
the tip of the upstream and the merge base, because "git rebase"
attempts to exclude commits that are duplicates of upstream ones. This
can be a significant performance hit, especially in a partial clone,
wherein a read of an object may end up being a fetch.
Add a flag to "git rebase" to allow suppression of this feature. This
flag only works when using the "merge" backend.
This flag changes the behavior of sequencer_make_script(), called from
do_interactive_rebase() <- run_rebase_interactive() <-
run_specific_rebase() <- cmd_rebase(). With this flag, limit_list()
(indirectly called from sequencer_make_script() through
prepare_revision_walk()) will no longer call cherry_pick_list(), and
thus PATCHSAME is no longer set. Refraining from setting PATCHSAME both
means that the intermediate commits in upstream are no longer read (as
shown by the test) and means that no PATCHSAME-caused skipping of
commits is done by sequencer_make_script(), either directly or through
make_script_with_merges().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit d48e5e21da ("rebase (interactive-backend): make --keep-empty the
default", 2020-02-15) turned --keep-empty (for keeping commits which
start empty) into the default. The logic underpinning that commit was:
1) 'git commit' errors out on the creation of empty commits without an
override flag
2) Once someone determines that the override is worthwhile, it's
annoying and/or harmful to required them to take extra steps in
order to keep such commits around (and to repeat such steps with
every rebase).
While the logic on which the decision was made is sound, the result was
a bit of an overcorrection. Instead of jumping to having --keep-empty
being the default, it jumped to making --keep-empty the only available
behavior. There was a simple workaround, though, which was thought to
be good enough at the time. People could still drop commits which
started empty the same way the could drop any commits: by firing up an
interactive rebase and picking out the commits they didn't want from the
list. However, there are cases where external tools might create enough
empty commits that picking all of them out is painful. As such, having
a flag to automatically remove start-empty commits may be beneficial.
Provide users a way to drop commits which start empty using a flag that
existed for years: --no-keep-empty. Interpret --keep-empty as
countermanding any previous --no-keep-empty, but otherwise leaving
--keep-empty as the default.
This might lead to some slight weirdness since commands like
git rebase --empty=drop --keep-empty
git rebase --empty=keep --no-keep-empty
look really weird despite making perfect sense (the first will drop
commits which become empty, but keep commits that started empty; the
second will keep commits which become empty, but drop commits which
started empty). However, --no-keep-empty was named years ago and we are
predominantly keeping it for backward compatibility; also we suspect it
will only be used rarely since folks already have a simple way to drop
commits they don't want with an interactive rebase.
Reported-by: Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>
Reported-by: Sami Boukortt <sami@boukortt.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
