All but one of the callers of make_traverse_path() allocate a new heap
buffer to store the path. Let's give them an easy way to write to a
strbuf, which saves them from computing the length themselves (which is
especially tricky when they want to add to the path). It will also make
it easier for us to change the make_traverse_path() interface in a
future patch to improve its bounds-checking.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the spelling of the new "--no-show-forced-updates" option that "git
fetch/pull" learned. Similarly, spell "--function-context" correctly and
fix a few typos, grammos and minor mistakes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It turns out that being cautious to warn against upcoming default
change was an unpopular behaviour, and such a care can easily be
defeated by distro packagers to render it ineffective anyway.
Just flip the default, with only a mention in the release notes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We assume that if setup_traverse_info() is passed a non-empty "base"
string, that string is pointing into a tree object and we can read the
object oid by skipping past the trailing NUL.
As it turns out, this is not true for either of the two calls, and we
may end up reading garbage bytes:
1. In git-merge-tree, our base string is either empty (in which case
we'd never run this code), or it comes from our traverse_path()
helper. The latter overallocates a buffer by the_hash_algo->rawsz
bytes, but then fills it with only make_traverse_path(), leaving
those extra bytes uninitialized (but part of a legitimate heap
buffer).
2. In unpack_trees(), we pass o->prefix, which is some arbitrary
string from the caller. In "git read-tree --prefix=foo", for
instance, it will point to the command-line parameter, and we'll
read 20 bytes past the end of the string.
Interestingly, tools like ASan do not detect (2) because the process
argv is part of a big pre-allocated buffer. So we're reading trash, but
it's trash that's probably part of the next argument, or the
environment.
You can convince it to fail by putting something like this at the
beginning of common-main.c's main() function:
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
argv[i] = xstrdup_or_null(argv[i]);
}
That puts the arguments into their own heap buffers, so running:
make SANITIZE=address test
will find problems when "read-tree --prefix" is used (e.g., in t3030).
Doubly interesting, even with the hackery above, this does not fail
prior to ea82b2a085 (tree-walk: store object_id in a separate member,
2019-01-15). That commit switched setup_traverse_info() to actually
copying the hash, rather than simply pointing to it. That pointer was
always pointing to garbage memory, but that commit started actually
dereferencing the bytes, which is what triggers ASan.
That also implies that nobody actually cares about reading these oid
bytes anyway (or at least no path covered by our tests). And manual
inspection of the code backs that up (I'll follow this patch with some
cleanups that show definitively this is the case, but they're quite
invasive, so it's worth doing this fix on its own).
So let's drop the bogus hashcpy(), along with the confusing oversizing
in merge-tree.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already support merge strategies in the sequencer, but only for
`pick` commands.
With this commit, we now also support them in `merge` commands. The
approach is simple: if any merge strategy option is specified, or if any
merge strategy other than `recursive` is specified, we simply spawn the
`git merge` command. Otherwise, we handle the merge in-process just as
before.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
a blanket ban against them.
* jc/post-c89-rules-doc:
CodingGuidelines: spell out post-C89 rules
The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime
may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be
closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to
an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a
new instance to replace it.
* ds/close-object-store:
packfile: rename close_all_packs to close_object_store
packfile: close commit-graph in close_all_packs
commit-graph: use raw_object_store when closing
commit-graph: extract write_commit_graph_file()
commit-graph: extract copy_oids_to_commits()
commit-graph: extract count_distinct_commits()
commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_all_packs()
commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_commit_hex()
commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_packs()
commit-graph: create write_commit_graph_context
commit-graph: remove Future Work section
commit-graph: collapse parameters into flags
commit-graph: return with errors during write
commit-graph: fix the_repository reference
The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
forms to make them more recognisable.
* qn/clone-doc-use-long-form:
docs: git-clone: list short form of options first
docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options
The 'fsck.skipList' and 'fsck.<msg-id>' config variables might be
easier to discover when they are documented in 'git fsck's man page.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
matches directories") has been revamped.
* an/ignore-doc-update:
gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
"git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
when both options are given.
* vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit:
merge: refuse --commit with --squash
We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
a blanket ban against them.
* jc/post-c89-rules-doc:
CodingGuidelines: spell out post-C89 rules
The "git log" command learns to issue a warning when log.mailmap
configuration is not set and --[no-]mailmap option is not used, to
prepare users for future versions of Git that uses the mailmap by
default.
* ac/log-use-mailmap-by-default-transition:
tests: defang pager tests by explicitly disabling the log.mailmap warning
documentation: mention --no-use-mailmap and log.mailmap false setting
log: add warning for unspecified log.mailmap setting
The tips of refs from the alternate object store can be used as
starting point for reachability computation now.
* jk/check-connected-with-alternates:
check_everything_connected: assume alternate ref tips are valid
object-store.h: move for_each_alternate_ref() from transport.h
"git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action.
* ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip:
cherry-pick/revert: advise using --skip
cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option
sequencer: use argv_array in reset_merge
sequencer: rename reset_for_rollback to reset_merge
sequencer: add advice for revert
The commits in a repository can be described by multiple
commit-graph files now, which allows the commit-graph files to be
updated incrementally.
* ds/commit-graph-incremental:
commit-graph: test verify across alternates
commit-graph: normalize commit-graph filenames
commit-graph: test --split across alternate without --split
commit-graph: test octopus merges with --split
commit-graph: clean up chains after flattened write
commit-graph: verify chains with --shallow mode
commit-graph: create options for split files
commit-graph: expire commit-graph files
commit-graph: allow cross-alternate chains
commit-graph: merge commit-graph chains
commit-graph: add --split option to builtin
commit-graph: write commit-graph chains
commit-graph: rearrange chunk count logic
commit-graph: add base graphs chunk
commit-graph: load commit-graph chains
commit-graph: rename commit_compare to oid_compare
commit-graph: prepare for commit-graph chains
commit-graph: document commit-graph chains
"git blame" learned to "ignore" commits in the history, whose
effects (as well as their presence) get ignored.
* br/blame-ignore:
t8014: remove unnecessary braces
blame: drop some unused function parameters
blame: add a test to cover blame_coalesce()
blame: use the fingerprint heuristic to match ignored lines
blame: add a fingerprint heuristic to match ignored lines
blame: optionally track line fingerprints during fill_blame_origin()
blame: add config options for the output of ignored or unblamable lines
blame: add the ability to ignore commits and their changes
blame: use a helper function in blame_chunk()
Move oidset_parse_file() to oidset.c
fsck: rename and touch up init_skiplist()
"git multi-pack-index" learned expire and repack subcommands.
* ds/midx-expire-repack:
t5319: use 'test-tool path-utils' instead of 'ls -l'
t5319-multi-pack-index.sh: test batch size zero
midx: add test that 'expire' respects .keep files
multi-pack-index: test expire while adding packs
midx: implement midx_repack()
multi-pack-index: prepare 'repack' subcommand
multi-pack-index: implement 'expire' subcommand
midx: refactor permutation logic and pack sorting
midx: simplify computation of pack name lengths
multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand
Docs: rearrange subcommands for multi-pack-index
repack: refactor pack deletion for future use
Even though we have been sticking to C89, there are a few handy
features we borrow from more recent C language in our codebase after
trying them in weather balloons and saw that nobody screamed.
Spell them out.
While at it, extend the existing variable declaration rule a bit to
read better with the newly spelled out rule for the for loop.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The log.mailmap setting may be explicitly set to false, which disables
the mailmap feature implicity. In practice, doing so is equivalent to
always using the previously undocumented --no-use-mailmap option on the
command line.
Accordingly, we document both the existence of --no-use-mailmap as
well as briefly discuss the equivalence of it to log.mailmap=False.
Signed-off-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The gpg --verify usage example within the 'gpg.program' variable
reference provides an incorrect example of the gpg --verify command
arguments.
The command argument order, when providing both a detached signature
and data, should be signature first and data second:
https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Operational-GPG-Commands.html
Signed-off-by: Robert Morgan <robert.thomas.morgan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
forms to make them more recognisable.
* qn/clone-doc-use-long-form:
docs: git-clone: list short form of options first
docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options
Correct the api-trace2 documentation, which lists "signal" as an
expected field for the signal event type, but which actually outputs
"signo" as the field name.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in
non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation.
The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable
this safety feature.
* ds/fetch-disable-force-notice:
pull: add --[no-]show-forced-updates passthrough
fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing
fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument
"git status" can be told a non-standard default value for the
"--[no-]ahead-behind" option with a new configuration variable
status.aheadBehind.
* jh/status-aheadbehind:
status: ignore status.aheadbehind in porcelain formats
status: warn when a/b calculation takes too long
status: add status.aheadbehind setting
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.
* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
t2027: use test_must_be_empty
Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
doc: promote "git restore"
user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
completion: support restore
t: add tests for restore
restore: support --patch
restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
restore: add --worktree and --staged
checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
restore: disable overlay mode by default
restore: make pathspec mandatory
restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
doc: promote "git switch"
...
"git fetch" that grabs from a group of remotes learned to run the
auto-gc only once at the very end.
* nd/fetch-multi-gc-once:
fetch: only run 'gc' once when fetching multiple remotes
"git rev-list --objects" learned with "--no-object-names" option to
squelch the path to the object that is used as a grouping hint for
pack-objects.
* es/rev-list-no-object-names:
rev-list: teach --no-object-names to enable piping
The conditional inclusion mechanism learned to base the choice on
the branch the HEAD currently is on.
* dl/includeif-onbranch:
config: learn the "onbranch:" includeIf condition
Dev support update to help tracing out tests.
* sg/trace2-rename:
trace2: correct typo in technical documentation
Revert "test-lib: whitelist GIT_TR2_* in the environment"
A new tag.gpgSign configuration variable turns "git tag -a" into
"git tag -s".
* tm/tag-gpgsign-config:
tag: add tag.gpgSign config option to force all tags be GPG-signed
"git branch --list" learned to show branches that are checked out
in other worktrees connected to the same repository prefixed with
'+', similar to the way the currently checked out branch is shown
with '*' in front.
* nb/branch-show-other-worktrees-head:
branch: add worktree info on verbose output
branch: update output to include worktree info
ref-filter: add worktreepath atom
List the short form of options (e.g.: '-l') before the long form (e.g.
'--local').
This is to match the doc of git-add, git-commit, git-clean, git-branch...
Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden <quentin.nerden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To make the doc of git-clone easier to read,
refer to the long form of the options
(it is easier to guess what '--verbose' is doing than '-v').
Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden <quentin.nerden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git am or rebase have a --skip flag to skip the current commit if the
user wishes to do so. During a cherry-pick or revert a user could
likewise skip a commit, but needs to use 'git reset' (or in the case
of conflicts 'git reset --merge'), followed by 'git (cherry-pick |
revert) --continue' to skip the commit. This is more annoying and
sometimes confusing on the users' part. Add a `--skip` option to make
skipping commits easier for the user and to make the commands more
consistent.
In the next commit, we will change the advice messages hence finishing
the process of teaching revert and cherry-pick "how to skip commits".
Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the case of merge conflicts, while performing a revert, we are
currently advised to use `git cherry-pick --<sequencer-options>`.
Introduce a separate advice message for `git revert`. Also change
the signature of `create_seq_dir` to handle which advice to display
selectively.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The behavior of "grep" when patterns contained a NUL-byte has always
been haphazard, and has served the vagaries of the implementation more
than anything else. A pattern containing a NUL-byte can only be
provided via "-f <file>". Since pickaxe (log search) has no such flag
the NUL-byte in patterns has only ever been supported by "grep" (and
not "log --grep").
Since 9eceddeec6 ("Use kwset in grep", 2011-08-21) patterns containing
"\0" were considered fixed. In 966be95549 ("grep: add tests to fix
blind spots with \0 patterns", 2017-05-20) I added tests for this
behavior.
Change the behavior to do the obvious thing, i.e. don't silently
discard a regex pattern and make it implicitly fixed just because they
contain a NUL-byte. Instead die if the backend in question can't
handle them, e.g. --basic-regexp is combined with such a pattern.
This is desired because from a user's point of view it's the obvious
thing to do. Whether we support BRE/ERE/Perl syntax is different from
whether our implementation is limited by C-strings. These patterns are
obscure enough that I think this behavior change is OK, especially
since we never documented the old behavior.
Doing this also makes it easier to replace the kwset backend with
something else, since we'll no longer strictly need it for anything we
can't easily use another fixed-string backend for.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's been behaving so since 6a536e2076 (git: treat "git -C '<path>'"
as a no-op when <path> is empty, 2015-03-06).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we receive a remote ref update to sha1 "X", we want to check that
we have all of the objects needed by "X". We can assume that our
repository is not currently corrupted, and therefore if we have a ref
pointing at "Y", we have all of its objects. So we can stop our
traversal from "X" as soon as we hit "Y".
If we make the same non-corruption assumption about any repositories we
use to store alternates, then we can also use their ref tips to shorten
the traversal.
This is especially useful when cloning with "--reference", as we
otherwise do not have any local refs to check against, and have to
traverse the whole history, even though the other side may have sent us
few or no objects. Here are results for the included perf test (which
shows off more or less the maximal savings, getting one new commit and
sharing the whole history):
Test HEAD^ HEAD
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[on git.git]
5600.3: clone --reference 2.94(2.86+0.08) 0.09(0.08+0.01) -96.9%
[on linux.git]
5600.3: clone --reference 45.74(45.34+0.41) 0.36(0.30+0.08) -99.2%
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow combining of multiple filters by simply repeating the --filter
flag. Before this patch, the user had to combine them in a single flag
somewhat awkwardly (e.g. --filter=combine:FOO+BAR), including
URL-encoding the individual filters.
To make this work, in the --filter flag parsing callback, rather than
error out when we detect that the filter_options struct is already
populated, we modify it in-place to contain the added sub-filter. The
existing sub-filter becomes the lhs of the combined filter, and the
next sub-filter becomes the rhs. We also have to URL-encode the LHS and
RHS sub-filters.
We can simplify the operation if the LHS is already a combine: filter.
In that case, we just append the URL-encoded RHS sub-filter to the LHS
spec to get the new spec.
Helped-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Helped-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
an apparent typo for the environment variable was included with 81567caf87
("trace2: update docs to describe system/global config settings",
2019-04-15), and was missed when renamed variables by e4b75d6a1d
("trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*", 2019-05-19)
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While at it, let's remove a reference to ODB effort as the ODB
effort has been replaced by directly enhancing partial clone
and promisor remote features.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git.kernel.org uses cgit, not gitweb, these days:
$ w3m -dump 'http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=tree;f=gitweb' | grep -w generated
generated by cgit 1.2-0.3.lf.el7 (git 2.18.0) at 2019-06-22 16:14:38 +0000
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We implement a command called git-psuh which accept arguments, so let's
show that it accepts arguments in the doc and the usage string.
While at it, we need to prepare "a NULL-terminated array of usage strings",
not just "a NULL-terminated usage string".
Helped-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
matches directories") has been revamped.
* an/ignore-doc-update:
gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
boundary for Rust has been added.
* ml/userdiff-rust:
userdiff: two simplifications of patterns for rust
userdiff: add built-in pattern for rust
The --[no-]show-forced-updates option in 'git fetch' can be confusing
for some users, especially if it is enabled via config setting and not
by argument. Add advice to warn the user that the (forced update)
messages were not listed.
Additionally, warn users when the forced update check takes longer
than ten seconds, and recommend that they disable the check. These
messages can be disabled by the advice.fetchShowForcedUpdates config
setting.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After updating a set of remove refs during a 'git fetch', we walk the
commits in the new ref value and not in the old ref value to discover
if the update was a forced update. This results in two things happening
during the command:
1. The line including the ref update has an additional "(forced-update)"
marker at the end.
2. The ref log for that remote branch includes a bit saying that update
is a forced update.
For many situations, this forced-update message happens infrequently, or
is a small bit of information among many ref updates. Many users ignore
these messages, but the calculation required here slows down their fetches
significantly. Keep in mind that they do not have the opportunity to
calculate a commit-graph file containing the newly-fetched commits, so
these comparisons can be very slow.
Add a '--[no-]show-forced-updates' option that allows a user to skip this
calculation. The only permanent result is dropping the forced-update bit
in the reflog.
Include a new fetch.showForcedUpdates config setting that allows this
behavior without including the argument in every command. The config
setting is overridden by the command-line arguments.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ahead/behind calculation in 'git status' can be slow in some
cases. Users may not realize that there are ways to avoid this
computation, especially if they are not using the information.
Add a warning that appears if this calculation takes more than
two seconds. The warning can be disabled through the new config
setting advice.statusAheadBehind.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --[no-]ahead-behind option was introduced in fd9b544a
(status: add --[no-]ahead-behind to status and commit for V2
format, 2018-01-09). This is a necessary change of behavior
in repos where the remote tracking branches can move very
quickly ahead of the local branches. However, users need to
remember to provide the command-line argument every time.
Add a new "status.aheadBehind" config setting to change the
default behavior of all git status formats.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow easier parsing by cat-file by giving rev-list an option to print
only the OID of a non-commit object without any additional information.
This is a short-term shim; later on, rev-list should be taught how to
print the types of objects it finds in a format similar to cat-file's.
Before this commit, the output from rev-list needed to be massaged
before being piped to cat-file, like so:
git rev-list --objects HEAD | cut -f 1 -d ' ' |
git cat-file --batch-check
This was especially unexpected when dealing with root trees, as an
invisible whitespace exists at the end of the OID:
git rev-list --objects --filter=tree:1 --max-count=1 HEAD |
xargs -I% echo "AA%AA"
Now, it can be piped directly, as in the added test case:
git rev-list --objects --no-object-names HEAD | git cat-file --batch-check
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Change-Id: I489bdf0a8215532e540175188883ff7541d70e1b
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In multiple remotes mode, git-fetch is launched for n-1 remotes and the
last remote is handled by the current process. Each of these processes
will in turn run 'gc' at the end.
This is not really a problem because even if multiple 'gc --auto' is run
at the same time we still handle it correctly. It does show multiple
"auto packing in the background" messages though. And we may waste some
resources when gc actually runs because we still do some stuff before
checking the lock and moving it to background.
So let's try to avoid that. We should only need one 'gc' run after all
objects and references are added anyway. Add a new option --no-auto-gc
that will be used by those n-1 processes. 'gc --auto' will always run on
the main fetch process (*).
(*) even if we fetch remotes in parallel at some point in future, this
should still be fine because we should "join" all those processes
before this step.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we wrote a commit-graph chain, we only modified the tip file in
the chain. It is valuable to verify what we wrote, but not waste
time checking files we did not write.
Add a '--shallow' option to the 'git commit-graph verify' subcommand
and check that it does not read the base graph in a two-file chain.
Making the verify subcommand read from a chain of commit-graphs takes
some rearranging of the builtin code.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The split commit-graph feature is now fully implemented, but needs
some more run-time configurability. Allow direct callers to 'git
commit-graph write --split' to specify the values used in the
merge strategy and the expire time.
Update the documentation to specify these values.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we merge commit-graph files in a commit-graph chain, we should clean
up the files that are no longer used.
This change introduces an 'expiry_window' value to the context, which is
always zero (for now). We then check the modified time of each
graph-{hash}.graph file in the $OBJDIR/info/commit-graphs folder and
unlink the files that are older than the expiry_window.
Since this is always zero, this immediately clears all unused graph
files. We will update the value to match a config setting in a future
change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In an environment like a fork network, it is helpful to have a
commit-graph chain that spans both the base repo and the fork repo. The
fork is usually a small set of data on top of the large repo, but
sometimes the fork is much larger. For example, git-for-windows/git has
almost double the number of commits as git/git because it rebases its
commits on every major version update.
To allow cross-alternate commit-graph chains, we need a few pieces:
1. When looking for a graph-{hash}.graph file, check all alternates.
2. When merging commit-graph chains, do not merge across alternates.
3. When writing a new commit-graph chain based on a commit-graph file
in another object directory, do not allow success if the base file
has of the name "commit-graph" instead of
"commit-graphs/graph-{hash}.graph".
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When searching for a commit in a commit-graph chain of G graphs with N
commits, the search takes O(G log N) time. If we always add a new tip
graph with every write, the linear G term will start to dominate and
slow the lookup process.
To keep lookups fast, but also keep most incremental writes fast, create
a strategy for merging levels of the commit-graph chain. The strategy is
detailed in the commit-graph design document, but is summarized by these
two conditions:
1. If the number of commits we are adding is more than half the number
of commits in the graph below, then merge with that graph.
2. If we are writing more than 64,000 commits into a single graph,
then merge with all lower graphs.
The numeric values in the conditions above are currently constant, but
can become config options in a future update.
As we merge levels of the commit-graph chain, check that the commits
still exist in the repository. A garbage-collection operation may have
removed those commits from the object store and we do not want to
persist them in the commit-graph chain. This is a non-issue if the
'git gc' process wrote a new, single-level commit-graph file.
After we merge levels, the old graph-{hash}.graph files are no longer
referenced by the commit-graph-chain file. We will expire these files in
a future change.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To quickly verify a commit-graph chain is valid on load, we will
read from the new "Base Graphs Chunk" of each file in the chain.
This will prevent accidentally loading incorrect data from manually
editing the commit-graph-chain file or renaming graph-{hash}.graph
files.
The commit_graph struct already had an object_id struct "oid", but
it was never initialized or used. Add a line to read the hash from
the end of the commit-graph file and into the oid member.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a basic description of commit-graph chains. More details about the
feature will be added as we add functionality. This introduction gives a
high-level overview to the goals of the feature and the basic layout of
commit-graph chains.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Command mode options that the user can choose one among many are
listed like this in the documentation:
git am (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)
They are listed on a single line and in parenthesis, because they
are not optional.
But documentation pages for some commands deviate from this norm.
Fix the merge and rebase docs to match this style.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some
people).
* po/git-help-on-git-itself:
Doc: git.txt: remove backticks from link and add git-scm.com/docs
git.c: show usage for accessing the git(1) help page
A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core
developers.
* es/first-contrib-tutorial:
doc: add some nit fixes to MyFirstContribution
documentation: add anchors to MyFirstContribution
documentation: add tutorial for first contribution
The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
boundary for Matlab has been extend to cover Octave, which is more
or less equivalent.
* bl/userdiff-octave:
userdiff: fix grammar and style issues
userdiff: add Octave
"git clone --recurse-submodules" learned to set up the submodules
to ignore commit object names recorded in the superproject gitlink
and instead use the commits that happen to be at the tip of the
remote-tracking branches from the get-go, by passing the new
"--remote-submodules" option.
* ba/clone-remote-submodules:
clone: add `--remote-submodules` flag
"git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
when both options are given.
* vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit:
merge: refuse --commit with --squash
"git update-server-info" learned not to rewrite the file with the
same contents.
* ew/update-server-info:
update-server-info: avoid needless overwrites
"git format-patch" learns a configuration to set the default for
its --notes=<ref> option.
* dl/format-patch-notes-config:
format-patch: teach format.notes config option
git-format-patch.txt: document --no-notes option
"git merge" learned "--quit" option that cleans up the in-progress
merge while leaving the working tree and the index still in a mess.
* nd/merge-quit:
merge: add --quit
merge: remove drop_save() in favor of remove_merge_branch_state()
The "git fast-export/import" pair has been taught to handle commits
with log messages in encoding other than UTF-8 better.
* en/fast-export-encoding:
fast-export: do automatic reencoding of commit messages only if requested
fast-export: differentiate between explicitly UTF-8 and implicitly UTF-8
fast-export: avoid stripping encoding header if we cannot reencode
fast-import: support 'encoding' commit header
t9350: fix encoding test to actually test reencoding
Since "git send-email" learned to take 'auto' as the value for the
transfer-encoding, it by mistake stopped honoring the values given
to the configuration variables sendemail.transferencoding and/or
sendemail.<ident>.transferencoding. This has been corrected to
(finally) redoing the order of setting the default, reading the
configuration and command line options.
* ab/send-email-transferencoding-fix:
send-email: fix regression in sendemail.identity parsing
send-email: document --no-[to|cc|bcc]
send-email: fix broken transferEncoding tests
send-email: remove cargo-culted multi-patch pattern in tests
send-email: do defaults -> config -> getopt in that order
send-email: rename the @bcclist variable for consistency
send-email: move the read_config() function above getopts
The commit-graph feature began with a long list of planned
benefits, most of which are now complete. The future work
section has only a few items left.
As for making more algorithms aware of generation numbers,
some are only waiting for generation number v2 to ensure the
performance matches the existing behavior using commit date.
It is unlikely that we will ever send a commit-graph file
as part of the protocol, since we would need to verify the
data, and that is expensive. If we want to start trusting
remote content, then that item can be investigated again.
While there is more work to be done on the feature, having
a section of the docs devoted to a TODO list is wasteful and
hard to keep up-to-date.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In an environment where the multi-pack-index is useful, it is due
to many pack-files and an inability to repack the object store
into a single pack-file. However, it is likely that many of these
pack-files are rather small, and could be repacked into a slightly
larger pack-file without too much effort. It may also be important
to ensure the object store is highly available and the repack
operation does not interrupt concurrent git commands.
Introduce a 'repack' subcommand to 'git multi-pack-index' that
takes a '--batch-size' option. The subcommand will inspect the
multi-pack-index for referenced pack-files whose size is smaller
than the batch size, until collecting a list of pack-files whose
sizes sum to larger than the batch size. Then, a new pack-file
will be created containing the objects from those pack-files that
are referenced by the multi-pack-index. The resulting pack is
likely to actually be smaller than the batch size due to
compression and the fact that there may be objects in the pack-
files that have duplicate copies in other pack-files.
The current change introduces the command-line arguments, and we
add a test that ensures we parse these options properly. Since
we specify a small batch size, we will guarantee that future
implementations do not change the list of pack-files.
In addition, we hard-code the modified times of the packs in
the pack directory to ensure the list of packs sorted by modified
time matches the order if sorted by size (ascending). This will
be important in a future test.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack-index tracks objects in a collection of pack-files.
Only one copy of each object is indexed, using the modified time
of the pack-files to determine tie-breakers. It is possible to
have a pack-file with no referenced objects because all objects
have a duplicate in a newer pack-file.
Introduce a new 'expire' subcommand to the multi-pack-index builtin.
This subcommand will delete these unused pack-files and rewrite the
multi-pack-index to no longer refer to those files. More details
about the specifics will follow as the method is implemented.
Add a test that verifies the 'expire' subcommand is correctly wired,
but will still be valid when the verb is implemented. Specifically,
create a set of packs that should all have referenced objects and
should not be removed during an 'expire' operation. The packs are
created carefully to ensure they have a specific order when sorted
by size. This will be important in a later test.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We will add new subcommands to the multi-pack-index, and that will
make the documentation a bit messier. Clean up the 'verb'
descriptions by renaming the concept to 'subcommand' and removing
the reference to the object directory.
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Helped-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One can see that an alias that begins with a non-command first word,
such as `loud-rebase = -c commit.verbose=true rebase`, is permitted.
However, this isn't immediately obvious to users as alias instances
typically begin with a command.
Document the fact that an alias can begin with a non-command first word
so that users will be able to discover that this is a feature.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before, the documentation would mix " and ' for code and config
snippets. Change these instances to ` so that they are marked up in
monospace.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As many CI/CD tools don't allow to control command line options when
executing `git tag` command, a default value in the configuration file
will allow to enforce tag signing if required.
The new config-file option tag.gpgSign is added to define default behavior
of tag signings. To override default behavior the command line option -s,
--sign and --no-sign can be used:
$ git tag -m "commit message"
will generate a GPG signed tag if tag.gpgSign option is true, while
$ git tag --no-sign -m "commit message"
will skip the signing step.
Signed-off-by: Tigran Mkrtchyan <tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, if a user wishes to have individual settings per branch, they
are required to manually keep track of the settings in their head and
manually set the options on the command-line or change the config at
each branch.
Teach config the "onbranch:" includeIf condition so that it can
conditionally include configuration files if the branch that is checked
out in the current worktree matches the pattern given.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Renew paragraphs relevant for pattern with slash.
Aim to make it more clear and to avoid possible
pitfalls for the reader. Add some examples.
Signed-off-by: Dr. Adam Nielsen <admin@in-ici.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Disable "--filter=sparse:path=<path>" that would allow reading from
paths on the filesystem.
* cc/list-objects-filter-wo-sparse-path:
list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters
Improve and complete the list of required email related Perl modules,
clarifying which are core Perl modules and remove Net::SMTP::SSL.
git-send-email uses the TLS support in the Net::SMTP core module from
recent versions of Perl. Documenting the minimum version is complex
because of separate numbering for Perl (5.21.5~169), Net:SMTP (2.34)
and libnet (3.01). Version numbers from commit:
bfbfc9a953 ("send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v2.34",
2017-05-31).
Users of older Perl versions without Net::SMTP::SSL installed will get a
clear error message.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mayo <aklhfex@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A bit more leftover clean-up to deprepcate "rebase -p".
* js/rebase-deprecate-preserve-merges:
rebase docs: recommend `-r` over `-p`
docs: say that `--rebase=preserve` is deprecated
tests: mark a couple more test cases as requiring `rebase -p`
A trial run-through of the tutorial revealed a few typos and missing
commands in the tutorial itself. This commit fixes typos, clarifies
which lines to keep or modify in some places, and adds a section on
putting the git-psuh binary into the gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If someone wants to use as a filter a sparse file that is in the
repository, something like "--filter=sparse:oid=<ref>:<path>"
already works.
So 'sparse:path' is only interesting if the sparse file is not in
the repository. In this case though the current implementation has
a big security issue, as it makes it possible to ask the server to
read any file, like for example /etc/password, and to explore the
filesystem, as well as individual lines of files.
If someone is interested in using a sparse file that is not in the
repository as a filter, then at the minimum a config option, such
as "uploadpack.sparsePathFilter", should be implemented first to
restrict the directory from which the files specified by
'sparse:path' can be read.
For now though, let's just disable 'sparse:path' filters.
Helped-by: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>
Helped-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The availability of these pattern selections is not obvious from
the man pages, as per mail thread <87lfz3vcbt.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>.
Provide examples.
Re-order the `git branch` synopsis to emphasise the `--list <pattern>`
pairing. Also expand and reposition the `all/remotes` options.
Split the over-long description into three parts so that the <pattern>
description can be seen.
Clarify that the `all/remotes` options require the --list if patterns
are to be used.
Add examples of listing remote tracking branches that match a pattern,
including `git for-each-ref` which has more options.
Improve the -a/-r warning message. The message confused this author
as the combined -a and -r options had not been given, though a pattern
had. Specifically guide the user that maybe they needed the --list
option to enable a remote branch pattern selection.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a regression in my recent 3494dfd3ee ("send-email: do defaults ->
config -> getopt in that order", 2019-05-09). I missed that the
$identity variable needs to be extracted from the command-line before
we do the config reading, as it determines which config variable we
should read first. See [1] for the report.
The sendemail.identity feature was added back in
34cc60ce2b ("send-email: Add support for SSL and SMTP-AUTH",
2007-09-03), there were no tests to assert that it worked properly.
So let's fix both the regression, and add some tests to assert that
this is being parsed properly. While I'm at it I'm adding a
--no-identity option to go with --[to|cc|bcc] variable, since the
semantics are similar. It's like to/cc/bcc except that unlike those we
don't support multiple identities, but we could now easily add it
support for it if anyone cares.
In just fixing the --identity command-line parsing bug I discovered
that a narrow fix to that wouldn't do. In read_config() we had a state
machine that would only set config values if they weren't set already,
and thus by proxy we wouldn't e.g. set "to" based on sendemail.to if
we'd seen sendemail.gmail.to before, with --identity=gmail.
I'd modified some of the relevant code in 3494dfd3ee, but just
reverting to that wouldn't do, since it would bring back the
regression fixed in that commit.
Refactor read_config() do what we actually mean here. We don't want to
set a given sendemail.VAR if a sendemail.$identity.VAR previously set
it. The old code was conflating this desire with the hardcoded
defaults for these variables, and as discussed in 3494dfd3ee that was
never going to work. Instead pass along the state of whether an
identity config set something before, as distinguished from the state
of the default just being false, or the default being a non-bool or
true (e.g. --transferencoding).
I'm still not happy with the test coverage here, e.g. there's nothing
testing sendemail.smtpEncryption, but I only have so much time to fix
this code.
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/5cddeb61.1c69fb81.47ed4.e648@mx.google.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We check for a handy environment variable GIT_DEBUGGER when running via
bin-wrappers/, but this feature is undocumented. Add a hint to how to
use it into the CodingGuidelines (which is where other useful
environment settings like DEVELOPER are documented).
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `--preserve-merges` option is now deprecated in favor of
`--rebase-merges`; Let's stop recommending the former.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As of Git v2.22.0, the `--preserve-merges` backend of `git rebase` will
be officially deprecated in favor of the `--rebase-merges` backend.
Consequently, `git pull --rebase=preserve` will also be deprected. State
this explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert option_commit to tristate, representing the states of
'default/untouched', 'enabled-by-cli', 'disabled-by-cli'. With this in
place, check whether option_commit was enabled by cli when squashing a
merge. If so, error out, as this is not supported.
Previously, when --squash was supplied, 'option_commit' was silently
dropped. This could have been surprising to a user who tried to override
the no-commit behavior of squash using --commit explicitly.
Add a note to the --squash option for git-merge to clarify the
incompatibility, and add a test case to t7600-merge.sh
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal@stellar.sh>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove a reference to git-cvsimport in the intro. As can be seen from
the history of this command[1] it was originally intended for use with
git-cvsimport, but how it uses it (and that it uses it at all) is
irrelevant trivia at this point.
1. See 7672db20c2 ("[PATCH] Expose object ID computation functions.",
2005-07-08) and 8b8840e046 ("[PATCH] cvsgit fixes: spaces in
filenames and CVS server dialog woes", 2005-08-15).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The descriptions of the GIT_TRACE2* environment variables link to the
technical docs for further details on the supported values. However,
a link like this only really works if the docs are viewed in a browser
and the full documentation is available. OTOH, in 'man git' there are
no links to conveniently click on, and distro-shipped git packages
tend to include only the man pages, while the technical docs and the
docs in html format are in a separate 'git-doc' package.
So let's describe the supported values to make the manpage more
self-contained, but still keep the references to the technical docs
because the details of the SID, and the JSON and perf output formats
are definitely beyond the scope of 'man git'.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For an environment variable that is supposed to be set by users, the
GIT_TR2* env vars are just too unclear, inconsistent, and ugly.
Most of the established GIT_* environment variables don't use
abbreviations, and in case of the few that do (GIT_DIR,
GIT_COMMON_DIR, GIT_DIFF_OPTS) it's quite obvious what the
abbreviations (DIR and OPTS) stand for. But what does TR stand for?
Track, traditional, trailer, transaction, transfer, transformation,
transition, translation, transplant, transport, traversal, tree,
trigger, truncate, trust, or ...?!
The trace2 facility, as the '2' suffix in its name suggests, is
supposed to eventually supercede Git's original trace facility. It's
reasonable to expect that the corresponding environment variables
follow suit, and after the original GIT_TRACE variables they are
called GIT_TRACE2; there is no such thing is 'GIT_TR'.
All trace2-specific config variables are, very sensibly, in the
'trace2' section, not in 'tr2'.
OTOH, we don't gain anything at all by omitting the last three
characters of "trace" from the names of these environment variables.
So let's rename all GIT_TR2* environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*,
before they make their way into a stable release.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There appears to be a bug in the toolchain generating manpages from
lettered lists. When a list is enumerated with letters, the resulting
nroff shows numbers instead. Mostly this is harmless, but in the case of
gitsubmodules, the paragraph following the list refers back to each
bullet by letter. As a result, reading this documentation via `man
gitsubmodules` is hard to parse - readers must infer that a bug exists
and a refers to 1, b refers to 2, and c refers to 3 in the list above.
The problem specifically was introduced in ad47194; previously rather
than generating numerated lists the bulleted area was entirely
monospaced in HTML and shown in plaintext in nroff.
The bug seems to exist in docbook-xml - I've reported it on May 1 via
the docbook-apps mail list - but for now it may make more sense to just
work around the issue.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using `git clone --recurse-submodules` there was previously no way to
pass a `--remote` switch to the implicit `git submodule update` command for
any use case where you want the submodules to be checked out on their
remote-tracking branch rather than with the SHA-1 recorded in the superproject.
This patch rectifies this situation. It actually passes `--no-fetch` to
`git submodule update` as well on the grounds they the submodule has only just
been cloned, so fetching from the remote again only serves to slow things down.
Signed-off-by: Ben Avison <bavison@riscosopen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update "git difftool" and "git mergetool" so that the combinations
of {diff,merge}.{tool,guitool} configuration variables serve as
fallback settings of each other in a sensible order.
* dl/difftool-mergetool:
difftool: fallback on merge.guitool
difftool: make --gui, --tool and --extcmd mutually exclusive
mergetool: fallback to tool when guitool unavailable
mergetool--lib: create gui_mode function
mergetool: use get_merge_tool function
t7610: add mergetool --gui tests
t7610: unsuppress output
"git branch new A...B" and "git checkout -b new A...B" have been
taught that in their contexts, the notation A...B means "the merge
base between these two commits", just like "git checkout A...B"
detaches HEAD at that commit.
* dl/branch-from-3dot-merge-base:
branch: make create_branch accept a merge base rev
t2018: cleanup in current test
During the course of review for MyFirstContribution.txt, the suggestion
came up to include anchors to make it easier for veteran contributors to
link specific sections of this documents to newbies. To make life easier
for reviewers, add these anchors in their own commit. See review context
here: https://public-inbox.org/git/20190507195938.GD220818@google.com/
AsciiDoc does not support :sectanchors: and the anchors are not
discoverable, but they are referenceable. So a link to
"foo.com/MyFirstContribution.html#prerequisites" will still work if that
file was generated with AsciiDoc. The inclusion of :sectanchors: does
not create warnings or errors while compiling directly with `asciidoc -b
html5 Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt` or while compiling with
`make doc`.
AsciiDoctor does support :sectanchors: and displays a paragraph link on
mouseover. When the anchor is included above or inline with a section
(as in this change), the link provided points to the custom ID contained
within [[]] instead of to an autogenerated ID. Practically speaking,
this means we have .../MyFirstContribution.html#summary instead of
.../MyFirstContribution.html#_summary. In addition to being prettier,
the custom IDs also enable anchor linking to work with
asciidoc-generated pages. This change compiles with no warnings using
`asciidoctor -b html5 Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt`.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This tutorial covers how to add a new command to Git and, in the
process, everything from cloning git/git to getting reviewed on the
mailing list. It's meant for new contributors to go through
interactively, learning the techniques generally used by the git/git
development community.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows to cancel the current merge without resetting worktree/index,
which is what --abort is for. Like other --quit(s), this is often used
when you forgot that you're in the middle of a merge and already
switched away, doing different things. By the time you've realized, you
can't even continue the merge anymore.
This also makes all in-progress commands, am, merge, rebase, revert and
cherry-pick, take all three --abort, --continue and --quit (bisect has a
different UI).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Octave pattern is almost the same as matlab, except
that '%%%' and '##' can also be used to begin code sections,
in addition to '%%' that is understood by both. Octave
pattern is merged into Matlab pattern. Test cases for
the hunk header patterns of matlab and octave under
t/t4018 are added.
Signed-off-by: Boxuan Li <liboxuan@connect.hku.hk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These options added in f434c083a0 ("send-email: add --no-cc, --no-to,
and --no-bcc", 2010-03-07) were never documented.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds xfuncname and word_regex patterns for Rust, a quite
popular programming language. It also includes test cases for the
xfuncname regex (t4018) and updated documentation.
The word_regex pattern finds identifiers, integers, floats and
operators, according to the Rust Reference Book.
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-format-patch, notes can be appended with the `--notes` option.
However, this must be specified by the user on an
invocation-by-invocation basis. If a user is not careful, it's possible
that they may forget to include it and generate a patch series without
notes.
Teach git-format-patch the `format.notes` config option. Its value is a
notes ref that will be automatically appended. The special value of
"standard" can be used to specify the standard notes. This option is
overridable with the `--no-notes` option in case a user wishes not to
append notes.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When ignoring commits, the commit that is blamed might not be
responsible for the change, due to the inaccuracy of our heuristic.
Users might want to know when a particular line has a potentially
inaccurate blame.
Furthermore, guess_line_blames() may fail to find any parent commit for
a given line touched by an ignored commit. Those 'unblamable' lines
remain blamed on an ignored commit. Users might want to know if a line
is unblamable so that they do not spend time investigating a commit they
know is uninteresting.
This patch adds two config options to mark these two types of lines in
the output of blame.
The first option can identify ignored lines by specifying
blame.markIgnoredLines. When this option is set, each blame line that
was blamed on a commit other than the ignored commit is marked with a
'?'.
For example:
278b6158d6fdb (Barret Rhoden 2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26)
appears as:
?278b6158d6fd (Barret Rhoden 2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26)
where the '?' is placed before the commit, and the hash has one fewer
characters.
Sometimes we are unable to even guess at what ancestor commit touched a
line. These lines are 'unblamable.' The second option,
blame.markUnblamableLines, will mark the line with '*'.
For example, say we ignore e5e8d36d04cbe, yet we are unable to blame
this line on another commit:
e5e8d36d04cbe (Barret Rhoden 2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26)
appears as:
*e5e8d36d04cb (Barret Rhoden 2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26)
When these config options are used together, every line touched by an
ignored commit will be marked with either a '?' or a '*'.
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commits that make formatting changes or function renames are often not
interesting when blaming a file. A user may deem such a commit as 'not
interesting' and want to ignore and its changes it when assigning blame.
For example, say a file has the following git history / rev-list:
---O---A---X---B---C---D---Y---E---F
Commits X and Y both touch a particular line, and the other commits do
not:
X: "Take a third parameter"
-MyFunc(1, 2);
+MyFunc(1, 2, 3);
Y: "Remove camelcase"
-MyFunc(1, 2, 3);
+my_func(1, 2, 3);
git-blame will blame Y for the change. I'd like to be able to ignore Y:
both the existence of the commit as well as any changes it made. This
differs from -S rev-list, which specifies the list of commits to
process for the blame. We would still process Y, but just don't let the
blame 'stick.'
This patch adds the ability for users to ignore a revision with
--ignore-rev=rev, which may be repeated. They can specify a set of
files of full object names of revs, e.g. SHA-1 hashes, one per line. A
single file may be specified with the blame.ignoreRevFile config option
or with --ignore-rev-file=file. Both the config option and the command
line option may be repeated multiple times. An empty file name "" will
clear the list of revs from previously processed files. Config options
are processed before command line options.
For a typical use case, projects will maintain the file containing
revisions for commits that perform mass reformatting, and their users
have the option to ignore all of the commits in that file.
Additionally, a user can use the --ignore-rev option for one-off
investigation. To go back to the example above, X was a substantive
change to the function, but not the change the user is interested in.
The user inspected X, but wanted to find the previous change to that
line - perhaps a commit that introduced that function call.
To make this work, we can't simply remove all ignored commits from the
rev-list. We need to diff the changes introduced by Y so that we can
ignore them. We let the blames get passed to Y, just like when
processing normally. When Y is the target, we make sure that Y does not
*keep* any blames. Any changes that Y is responsible for get passed to
its parent. Note we make one pass through all of the scapegoats
(parents) to attempt to pass blame normally; we don't know if we *need*
to ignore the commit until we've checked all of the parents.
The blame_entry will get passed up the tree until we find a commit that
has a diff chunk that affects those lines.
One issue is that the ignored commit *did* make some change, and there is
no general solution to finding the line in the parent commit that
corresponds to a given line in the ignored commit. That makes it hard
to attribute a particular line within an ignored commit's diff
correctly.
For example, the parent of an ignored commit has this, say at line 11:
commit-a 11) #include "a.h"
commit-b 12) #include "b.h"
Commit X, which we will ignore, swaps these lines:
commit-X 11) #include "b.h"
commit-X 12) #include "a.h"
We can pass that blame entry to the parent, but line 11 will be
attributed to commit A, even though "include b.h" came from commit B.
The blame mechanism will be looking at the parent's view of the file at
line number 11.
ignore_blame_entry() is set up to allow alternative algorithms for
guessing per-line blames. Any line that is not attributed to the parent
will continue to be blamed on the ignored commit as if that commit was
not ignored. Upcoming patches have the ability to detect these lines
and mark them in the blame output.
The existing algorithm is simple: blame each line on the corresponding
line in the parent's diff chunk. Any lines beyond that stay with the
target.
For example, the parent of an ignored commit has this, say at line 11:
commit-a 11) void new_func_1(void *x, void *y);
commit-b 12) void new_func_2(void *x, void *y);
commit-c 13) some_line_c
commit-d 14) some_line_d
After a commit 'X', we have:
commit-X 11) void new_func_1(void *x,
commit-X 12) void *y);
commit-X 13) void new_func_2(void *x,
commit-X 14) void *y);
commit-c 15) some_line_c
commit-d 16) some_line_d
Commit X nets two additionally lines: 13 and 14. The current
guess_line_blames() algorithm will not attribute these to the parent,
whose diff chunk is only two lines - not four.
When we ignore with the current algorithm, we get:
commit-a 11) void new_func_1(void *x,
commit-b 12) void *y);
commit-X 13) void new_func_2(void *x,
commit-X 14) void *y);
commit-c 15) some_line_c
commit-d 16) some_line_d
Note that line 12 was blamed on B, though B was the commit for
new_func_2(), not new_func_1(). Even when guess_line_blames() finds a
line in the parent, it may still be incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While checking the html formatted git(1) manual page, it was noted
that the link to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html was formatted
as code. Remove the backticks.
While at it, add the https://git-scm.com/docs link which one reviewer
noted had linkable section headings.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not change the existing info/refs and objects/info/packs
files if they match the existing content on the filesystem.
This is intended to preserve mtime and make it easier for dumb
HTTP pollers to rely on the If-Modified-Since header.
Combined with stdio and kernel buffering; the kernel should be
able to avoid block layer writes and reduce wear for small files.
As a result, the --force option is no longer needed. So stop
documenting it, but let it remain for compatibility (and
debugging, if necessary).
v3: perform incremental comparison while generating to avoid
OOM with giant files. Remove documentation for --force.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The stash.useBuiltin variable introduced in 90a462725e ("stash:
optionally use the scripted version again", 2019-02-25) was turned on by
default, but had no documentation.
Let's document it so that users who run into any stability issues with
the C rewrite know there's an escape hatch, and spell out that the
user should please report the bug when they have to turn off the
built-in stash.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Automatic re-encoding of commit messages (and dropping of the encoding
header) hurts attempts to do reversible history rewrites (e.g. sha1sum
<-> sha256sum transitions, some subtree rewrites), and seems
inconsistent with the general principle followed elsewhere in
fast-export of requiring explicit user requests to modify the output
(e.g. --signed-tags=strip, --tag-of-filtered-object=rewrite). Add a
--reencode flag that the user can use to specify, and like other
fast-export flags, default it to 'abort'.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since git supports commit messages with an encoding other than UTF-8,
allow fast-import to import such commits. This may be useful for folks
who do not want to reencode commit messages from an external system, and
may also be useful to achieve reversible history rewrites (e.g. sha1sum
<-> sha256sum transitions or subtree work) with git repositories that
have used specialized encodings in their commit history.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Docfix.
* dl/rev-tilde-doc-clarify:
revisions.txt: remove ambibuity between <rev>:<path> and :<path>
revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form
revisions.txt: mark optional rev arguments with []
revisions.txt: change "rev" to "<rev>"
The connectivity bitmaps are created by default in bare
repositories now; also the pathname hash-cache is created by
default to avoid making crappy deltas when repacking.
* ew/repack-with-bitmaps-by-default:
pack-objects: default to writing bitmap hash-cache
t5310: correctly remove bitmaps for jgit test
repack: enable bitmaps by default on bare repos
Polishing of the new trace2 facility continues. The system-level
configuration can specify site-wide trace2 settings, which can be
overridden with per-user configuration and environment variables.
* jh/trace2-sid-fix:
trace2: fixup access problem on /etc/gitconfig in read_very_early_config
trace2: update docs to describe system/global config settings
trace2: make SIDs more unique
trace2: clarify UTC datetime formatting
trace2: report peak memory usage of the process
trace2: use system/global config for default trace2 settings
config: add read_very_early_config()
trace2: find exec-dir before trace2 initialization
trace2: add absolute elapsed time to start event
trace2: refactor setting process starting time
config: initialize opts structure in repo_read_config()
In git-difftool.txt, it says
'git difftool' falls back to 'git mergetool' config variables when the
difftool equivalents have not been defined.
However, when `diff.guitool` is missing, it doesn't fallback to
anything. Make git-difftool fallback to `merge.guitool` when `diff.guitool` is
missing.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-difftool, if the tool is called with --gui but `diff.guitool` is
not set, it falls back to `diff.tool`. Make git-mergetool also fallback
from `merge.guitool` to `merge.tool` if the former is undefined.
If git-difftool, when called with `--gui`, were to use
`get_configured_mergetool` in a future patch, it would also get the
fallback behavior in the following precedence:
1. diff.guitool
2. merge.guitool
3. diff.tool
4. merge.tool
The behavior for when difftool or mergetool are called without `--gui`
should be identical with or without this patch.
Note that the search loop could be written as
sections="merge"
keys="tool"
if diff_mode
then
sections="diff $sections"
fi
if gui_mode
then
keys="guitool $keys"
fi
merge_tool=$(
IFS=' '
for key in $keys
do
for section in $sections
do
selected=$(git config $section.$key)
if test -n "$selected"
then
echo "$selected"
return
fi
done
done)
which would make adding a mode in the future much easier. However,
adding a new mode will likely never happen as it is highly discouraged
so, as a result, it is written in its current form so that it is more
readable for future readers.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-mergetool, the logic for getting which merge tool to use is
duplicated in git-mergetool--lib, except for the fact that it needs to
know whether the tool was guessed or not.
Rewrite `get_merge_tool` to return whether or not the tool was guessed
through the return code and make git-mergetool call this function
instead of duplicating the logic. Note that 1 was chosen to be the
return code of when a tool is guessed because it seems like a slightly
more abnormal condition than getting a tool that's explicitly specified
but this is completely arbitrary.
Also, let `$GIT_MERGETOOL_GUI` be set to determine whether or not the
guitool will be selected.
This change is not completely backwards compatible as there may be
external users of git-mergetool--lib. However, only one user,
git-diffall[1], was found from searching GitHub and Google, and this
tool is superseded by `git difftool --dir-diff` anyway. It seems very
unlikely that there exists an external caller that would take into
account the return code of `get_merge_tool` as it would always return 0
before this change so this change probably does not affect any external
users.
[1]: https://github.com/thenigan/git-diffall
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt contains the full details
of the trace2 API and the GIT_TR2* environment variables. However,
most environment variables are included in Documentation/git.txt,
including the GIT_TRACE* variables.
Add a brief description of the GIT_TR2* variables with links to
the full technical details. The biggest difference from the
original variables is that we can specify a Unix Domain Socket.
Mention this difference, but leave the details to the technical
documents.
Reported-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Internally, git-format-patch uses the `handle_revision_opt` parser. The
parser handles the `--no-notes` option to negate an earlier `--notes`
option, but it isn't documented. Document this option so that users are
aware of it.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"make check-docs", "git help -a", etc. did not account for cases
where a particular build may deliberately omit some subcommands,
which has been corrected.
* js/misc-doc-fixes:
Turn `git serve` into a test helper
test-tool: handle the `-C <directory>` option just like `git`
check-docs: do not bother checking for legacy scripts' documentation
docs: exclude documentation for commands that have been excluded
check-docs: allow command-list.txt to contain excluded commands
help -a: do not list commands that are excluded from the build
Makefile: drop the NO_INSTALL variable
remote-testgit: move it into the support directory for t5801
"git clone" learned a new --server-option option when talking over
the protocol version 2.
* jt/clone-server-option:
clone: send server options when using protocol v2
transport: die if server options are unsupported
The trace2 tracing facility learned to auto-generate a filename
when told to log to a directory.
* js/trace2-to-directory:
trace2: write to directory targets
The list of conflicted paths shown in the editor while concluding a
conflicted merge was shown above the scissors line when the
clean-up mode is set to "scissors", even though it was commented
out just like the list of updated paths and other information to
help the user explain the merge better.
* dl/merge-cleanup-scissors-fix:
cherry-pick/revert: add scissors line on merge conflict
sequencer.c: save and restore cleanup mode
merge: add scissors line on merge conflict
merge: cleanup messages like commit
parse-options.h: extract common --cleanup option
commit: extract cleanup_mode functions to sequencer
t7502: clean up style
t7604: clean up style
t3507: clean up style
t7600: clean up style
"git tag" learned to give an advice suggesting it might be a
mistake when creating an annotated or signed tag that points at
another tag.
* dl/warn-tagging-a-tag:
tag: advise on nested tags
tag: fix formatting
"git merge-recursive" backend recently learned a new heuristics to
infer file movement based on how other files in the same directory
moved. As this is inherently less robust heuristics than the one
based on the content similarity of the file itself (rather than
based on what its neighbours are doing), it sometimes gives an
outcome unexpected by the end users. This has been toned down to
leave the renamed paths in higher/conflicted stages in the index so
that the user can examine and confirm the result.
* en/merge-directory-renames:
merge-recursive: switch directory rename detection default
merge-recursive: give callers of handle_content_merge() access to contents
merge-recursive: track information associated with directory renames
t6043: fix copied test description to match its purpose
merge-recursive: switch from (oid,mode) pairs to a diff_filespec
merge-recursive: cleanup handle_rename_* function signatures
merge-recursive: track branch where rename occurred in rename struct
merge-recursive: remove ren[12]_other fields from rename_conflict_info
merge-recursive: shrink rename_conflict_info
merge-recursive: move some struct declarations together
merge-recursive: use 'ci' for rename_conflict_info variable name
merge-recursive: rename locals 'o' and 'a' to 'obuf' and 'abuf'
merge-recursive: rename diff_filespec 'one' to 'o'
merge-recursive: rename merge_options argument from 'o' to 'opt'
Use 'unsigned short' for mode, like diff_filespec does
The revision ':README' is mentioned as an example for '<rev>:<path>'
but the explanation forwards to the ':<n>:<path>' syntax. At the same
time ':<n>:<path>' did not mark the '<n>:' as optional.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In revisions.txt, the '<rev>^' form is mentioned but the '<rev>~' form
is missing. Although both forms are essentially equivalent (they each
get the first parent of the specified revision), we should mention the
latter for completeness. Make this change.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In revisions.txt, an optional rev argument was not distinguised.
Instead, a user had to continue and read the description in order to
learn that the argument was optional.
Since the [] notation for an optional argument is common-knowledge in
the Git documentation, mark optional arguments with [] so that it's more
obvious for the reader.
Helped-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In revisions.txt, there were some instances of a rev argument being
written as "rev". However, since they didn't mean the string literal,
write "<rev>", instead.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To display worktree path for refs checked out in a linked worktree
Signed-off-by: Nickolai Belakovski <nbelakovski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output of git branch is modified to mark branches checked out in a
linked worktree with a "+" and color them in cyan (in contrast to the
current branch, which will still be denoted with a "*" and colored in green)
This is meant to communicate to the user that the branches that are
marked or colored will behave differently from other branches if the user
attempts to check them out or delete them, since branches checked out in
another worktree cannot be checked out or deleted.
Signed-off-by: Nickolai Belakovski <nbelakovski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an atom providing the path of the linked worktree where this ref is
checked out, if it is checked out in any linked worktrees, and empty
string otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Nickolai Belakovski <nbelakovski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we ran something like
$ git checkout -b test master...
it would fail with the message
fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master...'.
This was caused by the call to `create_branch` where `start_name` is
expected to be a valid rev. However, git-checkout allows the branch to
be a valid _merge base_ rev (i.e. with a "...") so it was possible for
an invalid rev to be passed in.
Make `create_branch` accept a merge base rev so that this case does not
error out.
As a side-effect, teach git-branch how to handle merge base revs as
well.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These two commands are basically redesigned git-checkout. We will not
have that many opportunities to redo (because we run out of verbs, and
that would also increase maintenance cost).
To play it safe, let's declare the two commands experimental in one or
two releases. If there is a serious flaw in the UI, we could still fix
it. If everything goes well and nobody complains loudly, we can remove
the experimental status by reverting this patch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new command "git restore" (together with "git switch") are added
to avoid the confusion of one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new
users. They are also helpful to avoid ambiguous context.
For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands.
One nice thing about git-restore is the ability to restore
"everything", so it can be used in "git status" advice instead of both
"git checkout" and "git reset". The three commands suggested by "git
status" are add, rm and restore.
"git checkout" is also removed from "git help" (i.e. it's no longer
considered a commonly used command)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the operation in progress is merge, stick to the 'git merge'
variant of aborting. 'git reset --hard' does not really tell you about
aborting the merge by just looking, longer to type, and even though I
know by heart what --hard do, I still dislike it when I need to consider
whether --hard, --mixed or --soft.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously the switching branch business of 'git checkout' becomes a
new command 'switch'. This adds the restore command for the checking
out paths path.
Similar to git-switch, a new man page is added to describe what the
command will become. The implementation will be updated shortly to
match the man page.
A couple main differences from 'git checkout <paths>':
- 'restore' by default will only update worktree. This matters more
when --source is specified ('checkout <tree> <paths>' updates both
worktree and index).
- 'restore --staged' can be used to restore the index. This command
overlaps with 'git reset <paths>'.
- both worktree and index could also be restored at the same time
(from a tree) when both --staged and --worktree are specified. This
overlaps with 'git checkout <tree> <paths>'
- default source for restoring worktree and index is the index and
HEAD respectively. A different (tree) source could be specified as
with --source (*).
- when both index and worktree are restored, --source must be
specified since the default source for these two individual targets
are different (**)
- --no-overlay is enabled by default, if an entry is missing in the
source, restoring means deleting the entry
(*) I originally went with --from instead of --source. I still think
--from is a better name. The short option -f however is already
taken by force. And I do think short option is good to have, e.g. to
write -s@ or -s@^ instead of --source=HEAD.
(**) If you sit down and think about it, moving worktree's source from
the index to HEAD makes sense, but nobody is really thinking it
through when they type the commands.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fast-import" update.
* en/fast-import-parsing-fix:
fast-import: fix erroneous handling of get-mark with empty orphan commits
fast-import: only allow cat-blob requests where it makes sense
fast-import: check most prominent commands first
git-fast-import.txt: fix wording about where ls command can appear
t9300: demonstrate bug with get-mark and empty orphan commits
"git checkout -m <other>" was about carrying the differences
between HEAD and the working-tree files forward while checking out
another branch, and ignored the differences between HEAD and the
index. The command has been taught to abort when the index and the
HEAD are different.
* nd/checkout-m:
checkout: prevent losing staged changes with --merge
read-tree: add --quiet
unpack-trees: rename "gently" flag to "quiet"
unpack-trees: keep gently check inside add_rejected_path
"git difftool" can now run outside a repository.
* js/difftool-no-index:
difftool: allow running outside Git worktrees with --no-index
parse-options: make OPT_ARGUMENT() more useful
difftool: remove obsolete (and misleading) comment
A new hook "post-index-change" is called when the on-disk index
file changes, which can help e.g. a virtualized working tree
implementation.
* bp/post-index-change-hook:
read-cache: add post-index-change hook
The description for the "-t" option contains a sub-list of all of the
possible file status outputs. But because of the newline separating that
list from the description paragraph, asciidoc treats the sub-list
entries as a continuation of the overall options list, rather than as
children of the "-t" description.
We could fix it by adding a "+" before the sub-list to connect it to the
rest of the "-t" text. But using a pair of "--" to delimit the block is
perhaps more readable, and may have better compatibility with
asciidoctor, as in 39a869b2f2 (Documentation/rev-list-options: wrap
--date=<format> block with "--", 2019-03-30).
The extra blank line comes from 5bc0e247c4 (Document ls-files -t as
semi-obsolete., 2010-07-28), but the problem actually seems older than
that. Before then, we did:
-t:: some text...
H:: cached
M:: unmerged
etc...
but asciidoc also treats that as one big list. So this problem seems to
have been around forever.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
