Git's configuration system works by reading multiple configuration
files in order, from general to specific:
- first, the system configuration /etc/gitconfig
- then the user's configuration (~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git/config)
- then the repository configuration (.git/config)
For single-valued configuration items, the latest value wins. For
multi-valued configuration items, values accumulate in that order.
For example, this allows setting a credential helper globally in
~/.gitconfig that git will try to use in all repositories, regardless
of whether they additionally provide another helper. This is usually
a nice thing --- e.g. I can install helpers to use my OS keychain and
to cache credentials for a short period of time globally.
Sometimes people want to be able to override an inherited setting.
For the credential.helper setting, this is done by setting the
configuration item to empty before giving it a new value. This is
already documented but the documentation is hard to find ---
git-config(1) says to look at gitcredentials(7) and the config
reference in gitcredentials(7) doesn't mention this issue.
Move the documentation to the config reference to make it easier to
find.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and
took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree
structure. This has been fixed.
* jk/execv-dashed-external:
execv_dashed_external: wait for child on signal death
execv_dashed_external: stop exiting with negative code
execv_dashed_external: use child_process struct
Code cleanup.
* js/exec-path-coverity-workaround:
git_exec_path: do not return the result of getenv()
git_exec_path: avoid Coverity warning about unfree()d result
Tighten a test to avoid mistaking an extended ERE regexp engine as
a PRE regexp engine.
* jk/grep-e-could-be-extended-beyond-posix:
t7810: avoid assumption about invalid regex syntax
"git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has
been corrected to error out with a message.
* km/branch-get-push-while-detached:
branch_get_push: do not segfault when HEAD is detached
"git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect
count when squashing more than 10 commits.
* jk/rebase-i-squash-count-fix:
rebase--interactive: count squash commits above 10 correctly
"git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path>
pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files.
* jk/blame-fixes:
blame: output porcelain "previous" header for each file
blame: handle --no-abbrev
blame: fix alignment with --abbrev=40
"git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and
failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff
driver configuration.
* jk/archive-zip-userdiff-config:
archive-zip: load userdiff config
It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack
everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning
when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap,
leading to disabling further "gc".
* dt/disable-bitmap-in-auto-gc:
repack: die on incremental + write-bitmap-index
auto gc: don't write bitmaps for incremental repacks
Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
* nd/config-misc-fixes:
config.c: handle lock file in error case in git_config_rename_...
config.c: rename label unlock_and_out
config.c: handle error case for fstat() calls
Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
* jc/abbrev-autoscale-config:
config.abbrev: document the new default that auto-scales
"git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes
tree, which has been fixed.
* mh/fast-import-notes-fix-new:
fast-import: properly fanout notes when tree is imported
Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across
three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration.
Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and
pack.compression variables the same way.
* jc/compression-config:
compression: unify pack.compression configuration parsing
Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support.
* jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak:
Makefile: exclude contrib from FIND_SOURCE_FILES
Makefile: match shell scripts in FIND_SOURCE_FILES
Makefile: exclude test cruft from FIND_SOURCE_FILES
Makefile: reformat FIND_SOURCE_FILES
Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in
the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is
more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.
* jc/latin-1:
utf8: accept "latin-1" as ISO-8859-1
utf8: refactor code to decide fallback encoding
The `perforce` and `perforce-server` package were moved from brew [1][2]
to cask [3]. Teach TravisCI the new location.
Perforce updates their binaries without version bumps. That made the
brew install (legitimately!) fail due to checksum mismatches. The
workaround is not necessary anymore as Cask [4] allows to disable the
checksum test for individual formulas.
[1] 1394e42de0
[2] f8da22d6b8
[3] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/pull/29180
[4] https://caskroom.github.io/
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When looking for documentation for a specific function, you may be tempted
to run
git -C Documentation grep index_name_pos
only to find the file technical/api-in-core-index.txt, which doesn't
help for understanding the given function. It would be better to not find
these functions in the documentation, such that people directly dive into
the code instead.
In the previous patches we have documented
* index_name_pos()
* remove_index_entry_at()
* add_[file_]to_index()
in cache.h
We already have documentation for:
* add_index_entry()
* read_index()
Which leaves us with a TODO for:
* cache -> the_index macros
* refresh_index()
* discard_index()
* ie_match_stat() and ie_modified(); how they are different and when to
use which.
* write_index() that was renamed to write_locked_index
* cache_tree_invalidate_path()
* cache_tree_update()
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do this by moving the existing documentation from
read-cache.c to cache.h.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The version of the "replace isatty() hack" that got merged a few
weeks ago did not actually reflect the latest iteration of the patch
series: v3 was sent out with these changes, as requested by the
reviewer Johannes Sixt:
- reworded the comment about "recycling handles"
- moved the reassignment of the `console` variable before the dup2()
call so that it is valid at all times
- removed the "handle = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE" assignment, as the local
variable `handle` is not used afterwards anyway
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code cleanup to avoid using redundant refspecs while fetching with
the --tags option.
* jt/fetch-no-redundant-tag-fetch-map:
fetch: do not redundantly calculate tag refmap
* kh/tutorial-grammofix:
doc: omit needless "for"
doc: make the intent of sentence clearer
doc: add verb in front of command to run
doc: add articles (grammar)
When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http
rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that
will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition
and abort the transfer.
An improvement counterproposal has failed.
cf. <20161114194049.mktpsvgdhex2f4zv@sigill.intra.peff.net>
* dt/smart-http-detect-server-going-away:
upload-pack: optionally allow fetching any sha1
remote-curl: don't hang when a server dies before any output
A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been
fixed.
* mk/mingw-winansi-ttyname-termination-fix:
mingw: consider that UNICODE_STRING::Length counts bytes
"git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist
that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed
by many empty commits. This has been fixed.
* gv/p4-multi-path-commit-fix:
git-p4: fix multi-path changelist empty commits
Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running
"git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This
has been fixed.
* jk/difftool-in-subdir:
difftool: rename variables for consistency
difftool: chdir as early as possible
difftool: sanitize $workdir as early as possible
difftool: fix dir-diff index creation when in a subdirectory
A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully
specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream'
push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors.
* jc/push-default-explicit:
push: test pushing ambiguously named branches
push: do not use potentially ambiguous default refspec
