The current remote helper documentation is from the perspective of
git, so to speak: it presents a full menu of commands for a person
invoking a remote helper to choose from. In practice, that's less
useful than it could be, since the daunted novice remote-helper author
probably just wanted a list of commands needs to implement to get
started. So preface the command list with an overview of each
capability, its purpose, and what commands it requires.
As a side effect, this makes it a little clearer that git doesn't
choose arbitrary commands to run, even if the remote helper advertises
all capabilities --- instead, there are well defined command sequences
for various tasks.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The negated forms introduced in c426003 (format-patch: add --no-cc,
--no-to, and --no-add-headers, 2010-03-07) were not documented
anywhere. Add them to the descriptions of the positive forms.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current explanation of -e can be misread as allowing the user to say
I know 'git clean -XYZ' (substitute -XYZ with any option and/or
parameter) will remove paths A, B, and C, and I want them all removed
except for paths matching this pattern by adding '-e C' to the same
command line, i.e. 'git clean -e C -XYZ'.
But that is not what this option does. It augments the set of ignore rules
from the command line, just like the same "-e <pattern>" argument does
with the "ls-files" command (the user could probably pass "-e \!C" to tell
the command to clean everything the command would normally remove, except
for C). Also error out when both -x and -e are given with an explanation of
what -e means---it is a symptom of misunderstanding what -e does.
It also fixes small style nit in the parameter to add_exclude() call. The
current code only works because EXC_CMDL happens to be defined as 0.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow pattern arguments for the list mode just like for git tag -l.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, there is no way to invoke the list mode explicitly, without
giving -v to force verbose output.
Introduce a --list option which invokes the list mode. This will be
beneficial for invoking list mode with pattern matching, which otherwise
would be interpreted as branch creation.
Along with --list, test also combinations of existing options.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Long forms are better to memorize and more reliably uniform across
commands.
Names follow precedents, e.g. "git log --remotes".
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Long forms are better to memorize and more reliably uniform across
commands.
Design notes:
-u,--local-user is named following the analogous gnupg option.
-l,--list is not an argument taking option but a mode switch.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* di/fast-import-ident:
fsck: improve committer/author check
fsck: add a few committer name tests
fast-import: check committer name more strictly
fast-import: don't fail on omitted committer name
fast-import: add input format tests
The current description of '-C' together with the analogy to 'git commit
-C' can lead to the wrong conclusion that '-C' copies notes between
objects. Make this clearer by rewording and pointing to 'copy'.
The example for attaching binary notes with 'git hash-object' followed
by 'git notes add -C' immediately raises the question: "Why not use 'git
notes add -F'?". Answer it (the latter is not binary-safe).
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As the use of http-fetch without -a can create an object store that is
invalid to the point where it cannot even be fsck'd, mark it as
deprecated. A future release should change the default and then
remove the option entirely.
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct a few grammar issues in gitrepository-layout.txt and also
rewords a few sections for clarity.
Remove references to using http-fetch without -a to create a broken
repository.
Mark a few areas of the repository structure as legacy.
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cb/maint-quiet-push:
receive-pack: do not overstep command line argument array
propagate --quiet to send-pack/receive-pack
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
When working with submodules it is easy to forget to push a
submodule to the server but pushing a super-project that
contains a commit for that submodule. The result is that the
superproject points at a submodule commit that is not available
on the server.
This adds the option --recurse-submodules=check to push. When
using this option git will check that all submodule commits that
are about to be pushed are present on a remote of the submodule.
To be able to use a combined diff, disabling a diff callback has
been removed from combined-diff.c.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mh/check-attr-relative: (29 commits)
test-path-utils: Add subcommand "prefix_path"
test-path-utils: Add subcommand "absolute_path"
git-check-attr: Normalize paths
git-check-attr: Demonstrate problems with relative paths
git-check-attr: Demonstrate problems with unnormalized paths
git-check-attr: test that no output is written to stderr
Rename git_checkattr() to git_check_attr()
git-check-attr: Fix command-line handling to match docs
git-check-attr: Drive two tests using the same raw data
git-check-attr: Add an --all option to show all attributes
git-check-attr: Error out if no pathnames are specified
git-check-attr: Process command-line args more systematically
git-check-attr: Handle each error separately
git-check-attr: Extract a function error_with_usage()
git-check-attr: Introduce a new variable
git-check-attr: Extract a function output_attr()
Allow querying all attributes on a file
Remove redundant check
Remove redundant call to bootstrap_attr_stack()
Extract a function collect_all_attrs()
...
* js/bisect-no-checkout:
bisect: add support for bisecting bare repositories
bisect: further style nitpicks
bisect: replace "; then" with "\n<tab>*then"
bisect: cleanup whitespace errors in git-bisect.sh.
bisect: add documentation for --no-checkout option.
bisect: add tests for the --no-checkout option.
bisect: introduce --no-checkout support into porcelain.
bisect: introduce support for --no-checkout option.
bisect: add tests to document expected behaviour in presence of broken trees.
bisect: use && to connect statements that are deferred with eval.
bisect: move argument parsing before state modification.
* cb/maint-quiet-push:
receive-pack: do not overstep command line argument array
propagate --quiet to send-pack/receive-pack
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
Documentation/git-send-pack.txt
fast-import command-line option --import-marks-if-exists was introduced
in commit dded4f1 (fast-import: Introduce --import-marks-if-exists, 2011-01-15)
--import-marks option can be set via a "feature" command in a fast-import
stream and --import-marks-if-exists had support for such specification
from the very beginning too due to some shared codebase. Though the
documentation for this feature wasn't written in dded4f1.
Add the documentation for "feature import-marks-if-exists=<file>". Also add
a minimalistic test for it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream:
submodule add: clean up duplicated code
submodule add: allow relative repository path even when no url is set
submodule add: test failure when url is not configured in superproject
Conflicts:
git-submodule.sh
Check if <path> is a valid git-dir or a valid git-file that points
to a valid git-dir.
We want tests to be independent from the fact that a git-dir may
be a git-file. Thus we changed tests to use this feature.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the string-list API how to remove an entry in O(1) runtime by
moving the last entry to the vacated spot. As such, the routine works
only for unsorted lists.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is useful to mark a submodule as unneeded by default. When this
option is set and the user wants to work with such a submodule he
needs to configure 'submodule.<name>.update=checkout' or pass the
--checkout option. Then the submodule can be handled like a normal
submodule.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation declares following identity format:
(<name> SP)? LT <email> GT
where name is any string without LF and LT characters.
But fast-import just accepts any string up to first GT
instead of checking the whole format, and moreover just
writes it as is to the commit object.
git-fsck checks for [^<\n]* <[^<>\n]*> format. Note that the
space is mandatory. And the space quirk is already handled via
extending the string to the left when needed.
Modify fast-import input identity format to a slightly stricter
one - deny LF, LT and GT in both <name> and <email>. And check
for it.
This is stricter then git-fsck as fsck accepts "Name> <email>"
currently, but soon fsck check will be adjusted likewise.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --exclude=<path> option is passed down to apply; document it as such.
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This enhances the support for bisecting history in bare repositories.
The "git bisect" command no longer needs to be run inside a repository
with a working tree; it defaults to --no-checkout when run in a bare
repository.
Two tests are included to demonstrate this behaviour.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
user-manual.pdf is not removed by `make clean'; fix it.
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
user-manual.pdf is generated by the build and therefore
should be ignored by git.
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "git cherry-pick --continue" command which uses the
information in ".git/sequencer" to continue a cherry-pick that stopped
because of a conflict or other error. It works by dropping the first
instruction from .git/sequencer/todo and performing the remaining
cherry-picks listed there, with options (think "-s" and "-X") from the
initial command listed in ".git/sequencer/opts".
So now you can do:
$ git cherry-pick -Xpatience foo..bar
... description conflict in commit moo ...
$ git cherry-pick --continue
error: 'cherry-pick' is not possible because you have unmerged files.
fatal: failed to resume cherry-pick
$ echo resolved >conflictingfile
$ git add conflictingfile && git commit
$ git cherry-pick --continue; # resumes with the commit after "moo"
During the "git commit" stage, CHERRY_PICK_HEAD will aid by providing
the commit message from the conflicting "moo" commit. Note that the
cherry-pick mechanism has no control at this stage, so the user is
free to violate anything that was specified during the first
cherry-pick invocation. For example, if "-x" was specified during the
first cherry-pick invocation, the user is free to edit out the message
during commit time. Note that the "--signoff" option specified at
cherry-pick invocation time is not reflected in the commit message
provided by CHERRY_PICK_HEAD; the user must take care to add
"--signoff" during the "git commit" invocation.
Helped-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Suggested by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to the git-check-attr synopsis, if the '--stdin' option is
used then no pathnames are expected on the command line. Change the
behavior to match this description; namely, if '--stdin' is used but
not '--', then treat all command-line arguments as attribute names.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add new usage patterns
git check-attr [-a | --all] [--] pathname...
git check-attr --stdin [-a | --all] < <list-of-paths>
which display all attributes associated with the specified file(s).
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a function, git_all_attrs(), that reports on all attributes that
are set on a path.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It will be present in any likely future reimplementation, and its
availability simplifies other code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 7fb0eaa2 (2010-01-17) changed git_attr() to take a string
instead of a string and a length. Update the documentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many examples of git command invocation are given in asciidoc listing
blocks, which makes them monospaced and avoids further interpretation of
special characters. Some manpages make a list of examples, like:
git foo::
Run git foo.
git foo -q::
Use the "-q" option.
to quickly show many variants. However, they can sometimes be hard to
read, because they are shown in a proportional-width font (so, for
example, seeing the difference between "-- foo" and "--foo" can be
difficult).
This patch puts all such examples into backticks, which gives the
equivalent formatting to a listing block (i.e., monospaced and without
character interpretation).
As a bonus, this also fixes an example in the git-push manpage, in which
"git push origin :::" was accidentally considered a newly-indented list,
and not a list item with "git push origin :" in it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To explicitly remove the sequencer state for a fresh cherry-pick or
revert invocation, introduce a new subcommand called "--reset" to
remove the sequencer state.
Take the opportunity to publicly expose the sequencer paths, and a
generic function called "remove_sequencer_state" that various git
programs can use to remove the sequencer state in a uniform manner;
"git reset" uses it later in this series. Introducing this public API
is also in line with our long-term goal of eventually factoring out
functions from revert.c into a generic commit sequencer.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
add gitignore entry to description about how to write a builtin
gitattributes: Reword "attribute macro" to "macro attribute"
gitattributes: Clarify discussion of attribute macros
If the author forgets the gitignore entry the built result will show up
as new file in the git working directory.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new wording makes it clearer that such a beast is an attribute in
addition to being a macro (as opposed to being only a macro that is
used for attributes).
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In particular, make it clear that attribute macros are themselves
recorded as attributes in addition to setting other attributes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Take long option names for -A (--after-context), -B (--before-context)
and -C (--context) from GNU grep and add a similar long option name
for -W (--function-context).
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new option, -W, to show the whole surrounding function of a match.
It uses the same regular expressions as -p and diff to find the beginning
of sections.
Currently it will not display comments in front of a function, but those
that are following one. Despite this shortcoming it is already useful,
e.g. to simply see a more complete applicable context or to extract whole
functions.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reference the "git diff" and "git status" commands where they learned
functionality that in earlier git versions was only available through the
'summary' and 'status' subcommands of "git submodule".
The short option '-n' for '--summary-limit' was missing from the synopsis
and the --init option was missing from the "options" section, add those
there. And while at it, quote all options in backticks so they are
decorated properly in the output formats which support that.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sr/transport-helper-fix: (21 commits)
transport-helper: die early on encountering deleted refs
transport-helper: implement marks location as capability
transport-helper: Use capname for refspec capability too
transport-helper: change import semantics
transport-helper: update ref status after push with export
transport-helper: use the new done feature where possible
transport-helper: check status code of finish_command
transport-helper: factor out push_update_refs_status
fast-export: support done feature
fast-import: introduce 'done' command
git-remote-testgit: fix error handling
git-remote-testgit: only push for non-local repositories
remote-curl: accept empty line as terminator
remote-helpers: export GIT_DIR variable to helpers
git_remote_helpers: push all refs during a non-local export
transport-helper: don't feed bogus refs to export push
git-remote-testgit: import non-HEAD refs
t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote helpers
t5800: use skip_all instead of prereq
t5800: factor out some ref tests
...
* nk/ref-doc:
glossary: clarify description of HEAD
glossary: update description of head and ref
glossary: update description of "tag"
git.txt: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
check-ref-format doc: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
git-remote.txt: avoid sounding as if loose refs are the only ones in the world
git-remote.txt: fix wrong remote refspec
* an/shallow-doc:
Document the underlying protocol used by shallow repositories and --depth commands.
Fix documentation of fetch-pack that implies that the client can disconnect after sending wants.
* maint:
Break down no-lstat() condition checks in verify_uptodate()
t7400: fix bogus test failure with symlinked trash
Documentation: clarify the invalidated tree entry format
Currently, git push --quiet produces some non-error output, e.g.:
$ git push --quiet
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Add the --quiet option to send-pack/receive-pack and pass it to
unpack-objects in the receive-pack codepath and to receive-pack in
the push codepath.
This fixes a bug reported for the fedora git package:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725593
Reported-by: Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
Cc: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the entry_count is -1, the tree is invalidated and therefore has
not associated hash (or object name). Explicitly state that the next
entry starts after the newline.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jl/submodule-add-relurl-wo-upstream:
submodule add: clean up duplicated code
submodule add: allow relative repository path even when no url is set
submodule add: test failure when url is not configured in superproject
Conflicts:
git-submodule.sh
* maint:
doc/fast-import: clarify notemodify command
Documentation: minor grammatical fix in rev-list-options.txt
Documentation: git-filter-branch honors replacement refs
remote-curl: Add a format check to parsing of info/refs
git-config: Remove extra whitespaces
The "notemodify" fast-import command was introduced in commit a8dd2e7
(fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes, 2009-10-09)
The commit log has slightly different description than the added
documentation. The latter is somewhat confusing. "notemodify" is a
subcommand of "commit" command used to add a note for some commit.
Does this note annotate the commit produced by the "commit" command
or a commit given by it's committish parameter? Which notes tree
does it write notes to?
The exact meaning could be deduced with old description and some
notes machinery knowledge. But let's make it more obvious. This
command is used in a context like "commit refs/notes/test" to
add or rewrite an annotation for a committish parameter. So the
advised way to add notes in a fast-import stream is:
1) import some commits (optional)
2) prepare a "commit" to the notes tree:
2.1) choose notes ref, committer, log message, etc.
2.2) create annotations with "notemodify", where each can refer to
a commit being annotated via a branch name, import mark reference,
sha1 and other expressions specified in the Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clear that git-filter-branch will honor and make permanent
replacement refs as well as grafts.
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If fast-export is being used to generate a fast-import stream that
will be used afterwards it is desirable to indicate the end of the
stream with the new 'done' command.
Add a flag that causes fast-export to end with 'done'.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a 'done' command that causes fast-import to stop reading from the
stream and exit.
If the new --done command line flag was passed on the command line
(or a "feature done" declaration included at the start of the stream),
make the 'done' command mandatory. So "git fast-import --done"'s
input format will be prefix-free, making errors easier to detect when
they show up as early termination at some convenient time of the
upstream of a pipe writing to fast-import.
Another possible application of the 'done' command would to be allow a
fast-import stream that is only a small part of a larger encapsulating
stream to be easily parsed, leaving the file offset after the "done\n"
so the other application can pick up from there. This patch does not
teach fast-import to do that --- fast-import still uses buffered input
(stdio).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The gitdir capability is recognized by git and can be used to tell
the helper where the .git directory is. But it is not mentioned in
the documentation and considered worse than if gitdir was passed
via GIT_DIR environment variable.
Remove support for the gitdir capability and export GIT_DIR instead.
Teach testgit to use env instead of the now-removed gitdir command.
[sr: fixed up documentation]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/clone-cmdline-config:
clone: accept config options on the command line
config: make git_config_parse_parameter a public function
remote: use new OPT_STRING_LIST
parse-options: add OPT_STRING_LIST helper
The description for 'git rebase --abort' currently says:
Restore the original branch and abort the rebase operation.
The "restore" can be misinterpreted to imply that the original branch
was somehow in a broken state during the rebase operation. It is also
not completely clear what "the original branch" is --- is it the
branch that was checked out before the rebase operation was called or
is the the branch that is being rebased (it is the latter)? Although
both issues are made clear in the DESCRIPTION section, let us also
make the entry in the OPTIONS secion more clear.
Also remove the term "rebasing process" from the usage text, since the
user already knows that the text is about "git rebase".
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nk/ref-doc:
glossary: clarify description of HEAD
glossary: update description of head and ref
glossary: update description of "tag"
git.txt: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
check-ref-format doc: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
git-remote.txt: avoid sounding as if loose refs are the only ones in the world
git-remote.txt: fix wrong remote refspec
* an/shallow-doc:
Document the underlying protocol used by shallow repositories and --depth commands.
Fix documentation of fetch-pack that implies that the client can disconnect after sending wants.
The documentation for logging updates in git-update-ref, doesn't make it
clear that only a specific subset of refs are honored by this variable.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the namespace mechanism in a new gitnamespaces(7) page.
Reference it from receive-pack and upload-pack.
Document the new --namespace option and GIT_NAMESPACE environment
variable in git(1), and reference gitnamespaces(7).
Add a sample Apache configuration to http-backend(1) to support
namespaced repositories, and reference gitnamespaces(7).
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already
use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span
several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse]
does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section
indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that
use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections
for consistency.
Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to
align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which
already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to
the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting
within the document more consistent.
While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with
other commands.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This has been there since textconv existed, but was never
documented. There is some overlap with what's in
gitattributes(5), but it's important to warn in both places
that textconv diffs probably can't be applied.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the value from 'core.abbrev' configuration variable unless user
specifies the length on command line when showing commit object name
in "branch -v" output.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As explained in v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work around em-dash handling in newer
AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23), if double dashes in names of commands are not
escaped, AsciiDoc renders them as em dashes.
While fixing that, spell the command name as "git sh-i18n--envsubst"
(2 words) instead of emphasizing the name of the binary (one
hyphenated name) and format it in italics.
The double-dash in the title should be escaped, too, to avoid spurious
em dashes in the header:
.TH "GIT\-SH\-I18N\(emENVSUB" "1" "06/26/2011" "Git 1\&.7\&.6" "Git Manual"
AsciiDoc 8.6.4 with DocBook XSL 1.76.0-RC1 copes fine and writes
"GIT\-SH\-I18N\-\-ENVSUB" even without this change, which is why it
was missed before.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
AsciiDoc versions since 5.0.6 treat a double-dash surrounded by spaces
(outside of verbatim environments) as a request to insert an em dash.
Such versions also treat the three-character sequence "\--", when not
followed by another dash, as a request to insert two literal minus
signs. Thus from time to time there have been patches to add
backslashes to AsciiDoc markup to escape double-dashes that are meant
to be represent '--' characters used literally on the command line;
see v1.4.0-rc1~174, Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly,
2006-05-05, for example.
AsciiDoc 6.0.3 (2005-04-20) made life harder by also treating
double-dashes without surrounding whitespace as markup for an em dash,
though only when formatting for backends other than the manpages
(e.g., HTML). Many pages needed to be changed to use a backslash
before the "--" in names of command-line flags like "--add" (see
v0.99.6~37, Update tutorial, 2005-08-30).
AsciiDoc 8.3.0 (2008-11-29) refined the em-dash rule to avoid that
requirement. Double-dashes without surrounding spaces are not
rendered as em dashes any more unless bordered on both sides by
alphanumeric characters. The unescaped markup for option names (e.g.,
"--add") works fine, and many instances of this style have leaked into
Documentation/; git's HTML documentation contains many spurious em
dashes when formatted by an older toolchain. (This patch will not
change that.)
The upshot: "--" as an isolated word and in phrases like "git
web--browse" must be escaped if it is not to be rendered as an em dash
by current asciidoc. Use "\--" to avoid such misformatting in
sentences in which "--" represents a literal double-minus command line
argument that separates options and revs from pathspecs, and use
"{litdd}" in cases where the double-dash is embedded in the command
name. The latter is just for consistency with v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work
around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23).
List of lines to fix found by grepping manpages for "(em".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently start/restart does not generate any configuration files for
spawning a new instance. This means that
$ git instaweb --http=<server> --start
might pick up stale 'httpd.conf' file for a different web server
(e.g. for default lighttpd when requesting apache2).
This commit changes that, and makes git-instaweb generate web server
config file and/or gitweb config file if don't exists.
This required naming config files after the name of web server
(alternate solution would be to somehow mark for which web server was
config file generated).
Note that web servers that embed configuration in server script file,
namely webrick and plackup, and which delete "$conf" in their *_conf
function, would have their config (server script) always regenerated.
Note: this commit introduces a bit of code repetition (but only a few
lines).
Reported-by: Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Earlier 33f072f (submodule sync: Update "submodule.<name>.url" for empty
directories, 2010-10-08) attempted to fix a bug where "git submodule sync"
command does not update the URL if the current superproject does not have
a checkout of the submodule.
However, it did so by unconditionally registering submodule.$name.url to
every submodule in the project, even the ones that the user has never
showed interest in at all by running 'git submodule init' command. This
caused subsequent 'git submodule update' to start cloning/updating submodules
that are not interesting to the user at all.
Update the code so that the URL is updated from the .gitmodules file only
for submodules that already have submodule.$name.url entries, i.e. the
ones the user has showed interested in having a checkout.
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --include-untracked option acts like the normal "git stash save" but
also adds all untracked files in the working directory to the stash and then
calls "git clean --force --quiet" to restore the working directory to a
pristine state.
This is useful for projects that need to run release scripts. With this
option, the release scripts can be from the main working directory so one
does not have to maintain a "clean" directory in parallel just for
releasing. Basically the work-flow becomes:
$ git tag release-1.0
$ git stash --include-untracked
$ make release
$ git clean -f
$ git stash pop
"git stash" alone is not enough in this case--it leaves untracked files
lying around that might mess up a release process that expects everything to
be very clean or might let a release succeed that should actually fail (due
to a new source file being created that hasn't been committed yet).
Signed-off-by: David Caldwell <david@porkrind.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
HEAD on a branch does reference a commit via the branch ref it refers to.
The main difference of a detached HEAD is that it _directly_ refers to
a commit. Clarify this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is an unimportant implementation detail that ref namespaces are
implemented as subdirectories of $GIT_DIR/refs. What is more important
is that tags are in refs/tags hierarchy in the ref namespace.
Also note that a tag can point at an object of arbitrary type, not limited
to commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is an unimportant implementation detail that branches and tags are
stored somewhere under $GIT_DIR/refs directory, or the name of the commit
that will become the parent of the next commit is stored in $GIT_DIR/HEAD.
What is more important is that branches live in refs/heads and tags live
in refs/tags hierarchy in the ref namespace, and HEAD means the tip of the
current branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is an unimportant implementation detail that branches and tags are
stored somewhere under $GIT_DIR/refs directory. What is more important
is that branches live in refs/heads and tags live in refs/tags hierarchy
in the ref namespace.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was correct to say "The file $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master stores the
commit object name at the tip of the master branch" in the older days,
but not anymore, as refs can be packed into $GIT_DIR/packed-refs file.
Update the document to talk in terms of a more abstract concept "ref" and
"symbolic ref" where we are not describing the underlying implementation
detail.
This on purpose leaves two instances of $GIT_DIR/ in the git-remote
documentation; they do talk about $GIT_DIR/remotes/ and $GIT_DIR/branches/
file hierarchy that used to be the place to store configuration around
remotes before the configuration mechanism took them over.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
$GIT_DIR/remotes/<name>/<branch> should be
$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/<name>/<branch>.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix documentation on "git diff --check" by adopting the description from
"git apply --whitespace".
Signed-off-by: Christof Krüger <git@christof-krueger.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clone does all of init, "remote add", fetch, and checkout
without giving the user a chance to intervene and set any
configuration. This patch allows you to set config options
in the newly created repository after the clone, but before
we do any other operations.
In many cases, this is a minor convenience over something
like:
git clone git://...
git config core.whatever true
But in some cases, it can bring extra efficiency by changing
how the fetch or checkout work. For example, setting
line-ending config before the checkout avoids having to
re-checkout all of the contents with the correct line
endings.
It also provides a mechanism for passing information to remote
helpers during a clone; the helpers may read the git config
to influence how they operate.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some tar filters may be very expensive to run, so sites do
not want to expose them via upload-archive. This patch lets
users configure tar.<filter>.remote to turn them off.
By default, gzip filters are left on, as they are about as
expensive as creating zip archives.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This works exactly as if the user had configured it via:
[tar "tgz"]
command = gzip -cn
[tar "tar.gz"]
command = gzip -cn
but since it is so common, it's convenient to have it
builtin without the user needing to do anything.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's common to pipe the tar output produce by "git archive"
through gzip or some other compressor. Locally, this can
easily be done by using a shell pipe. When requesting a
remote archive, though, it cannot be done through the
upload-archive interface.
This patch allows configurable tar filters, so that one
could define a "tar.gz" format that automatically pipes tar
output through gzip.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Until now, "git tag -l foo* bar*" would silently ignore the
second argument, showing only refs starting with "foo". It's
not just unfriendly not to take a second pattern; we
actually generated subtly wrong results (from the user's
perspective) because some of the requested tags were
omitted.
This patch allows an arbitrary number of patterns on the
command line; if any of them matches, the ref is shown.
While we're tweaking the documentation, let's also make it
clear that the pattern is fnmatch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explain the exchange that occurs between a client and server when
the client is requesting shallow history and/or is already using
a shallow repository.
Signed-off-by: Alex Neronskiy <zakmagnus@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Specify conditions under which the client can terminate the connection
early. Previously, an unintended behavior was possible which could
confuse servers.
Based-on-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Neronskiy <zakmagnus@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adding a submodule with a relative repository path did only succeed when
the superproject's default remote was set. But when that is unset, the
superproject is its own authoritative upstream, so lets use its working
directory as upstream instead.
This allows users to set up a new superpoject where the submodules urls
are configured relative to the superproject's upstream while its default
remote can be configured later.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With --heading, the filename is printed once before matches from that
file instead of at the start of each line, giving more screen space to
the actual search results.
This option is taken from ack (http://betterthangrep.com/). And now
git grep can dress up like it:
$ git config alias.ack "grep --break --heading --line-number"
$ git ack -e --heading
Documentation/git-grep.txt
154:--heading::
t/t7810-grep.sh
785:test_expect_success 'grep --heading' '
786: git grep --heading -e char -e lo_w hello.c hello_world >actual &&
808: git grep --break --heading -n --color \
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With --break, an empty line is printed between matches from different
files, increasing readability. This option is taken from ack
(http://betterthangrep.com/).
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the config option http.cookiefile is set, pass this file to libCURL using
the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE option. This is similar to calling curl with the -b
option. This allows git http authorization with authentication mechanisms
that use cookies, such as SAML Enhanced Client or Proxy (ECP) used by
Shibboleth.
To use SAML/ECP, the user needs to request a session cookie with their own ECP
code. See for example:
<https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/ECP>
Once the cookie file has been created, it can be passed to git with, e.g.
git config --global http.cookiefile "/home/dbrown/.curlcookies"
libCURL will then pass the appropriate session cookies to the git http server.
Signed-off-by: Duncan Brown <duncan.brown@ligo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/maint-docs:
docs: fix some antique example output
docs: make sure literal "->" isn't converted to arrow
docs: update status --porcelain format
docs: minor grammar fixes to git-status
* jk/maint-docs:
docs: fix some antique example output
docs: make sure literal "->" isn't converted to arrow
docs: update status --porcelain format
docs: minor grammar fixes to git-status
