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Junio C Hamano
4890f62bc0 Avoid using "git-var -l" until it gets fixed.
This is to be nicer to people with unusable GECOS field.

"git-var -l" is currently broken in that when used by a user who
does not have a usable GECOS field and has not corrected it by
exporting GIT_COMMITTER_NAME environment variable it dies when
it tries to output GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT (same thing for AUTHOR).

"git-pull" used "git-var -l" only because it needed to get a
configuration variable before "git-repo-config --get" was
introduced.  Use the latter tool designed exactly for this
purpose.

"git-sh-setup" used "git-var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT" without actually
wanting to use its value.  The only purpose was to cause the
command to check and barf if the repository format version
recorded in the $GIT_DIR/config file is too new for us to deal
with correctly.  Instead, use "repo-config --get" on a random
property and see if it die()s, and check if the exit status is
128 (comes from die -- missing variable is reported with exit
status 1, so we can tell that case apart).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-12 04:59:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bff606b8e9 Merge branch 'jc/nostat'
* jc/nostat:
  "assume unchanged" git: documentation.
  ls-files: split "show-valid-bit" into a different option.
2006-02-12 04:15:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f9666adfea "assume unchanged" git: documentation.
This updates documentation to describe the "assume unchanged"
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-12 01:48:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8bb2e03b9d ls-files: split "show-valid-bit" into a different option.
To preserve compatibility with scripts that expect uppercase
letters to be shown, do not make '-t' to unconditionally show
the valid bit.  Introduce '-v' option for that.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-12 01:47:57 -08:00
Petr Baudis
7162dff3dd Add support for explicit type specifiers when calling git-repo-config
Currently, git-repo-config will just return the raw value of option
as specified in the config file; this makes things difficult for scripts
calling it, especially if the value is supposed to be boolean.

This patch makes it possible to ask git-repo-config to check if the option
is of the given type (int or bool) and write out the value in its
canonical form. If you do not pass --int or --bool, the behaviour stays
unchanged and the raw value is emitted.

This also incidentally fixes the segfault when option with no value is
encountered.

[jc: tweaked the option parsing a bit to make it easier to see
 that the patch does not change anything but the type stuff in
 the diff output.  Also changed to avoid "foo ? : bar" construct. ]

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-12 00:26:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6932c78cb4 diff-tree: do not default to -c
Marco says it breaks qgit.  This makes the flags a bit more
orthogonal.

  $ git-diff-tree -r --abbrev ca18

    No output from this command because you asked to skip merge by
    not having -m there.

  $ git-diff-tree -r -m --abbrev ca18
  ca182053c7
  :100644 100644 538d21d... 59042d1... M	Makefile
  :100644 100644 410b758... 6c47c3a... M	entry.c
  ca182053c7
  :100644 100644 30479b4... 59042d1... M	Makefile

    The same "independent sets of diff" as before without -c.

  $ git-diff-tree -r -m -c --abbrev ca18
  ca182053c7
  ::100644 100644 100644 538d21d... 30479b4... 59042d1... MM	Makefile

    Combined.

  $ git-diff-tree -r -c --abbrev ca18
  ca182053c7
  ::100644 100644 100644 538d21d... 30479b4... 59042d1... MM	Makefile

    Asking for combined without -m does not make sense, so -c
    implies -m.

We need to supply -c as default to whatchanged, which is a
one-liner.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-11 23:18:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
16139f9035 t5500: adjust to change in pack-object reporting behaviour.
Now pack-object is not as chatty when its stderr is not connected
to a terminal, so the test needs to be adjusted for that.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-11 23:08:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1536dd9c61 Only call git-rerere if $GIT_DIR/rr-cache exists.
Johannes noticed that git-rerere depends on Digest.pm, and if
one does not use the command, one can live without it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-11 18:55:43 -08:00
Christian Biesinger
7bbdeaa969 Use a relative path for SVN importing
The absolute path (with the leading slash) breaks SVN importing,
because it then looks for /trunk/... instead of /svn/trunk/...
(in my case, the repository URL was https://servername/svn/)

Signed-off-by: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-11 17:59:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
21fcd1bdea fetch-clone progress: finishing touches.
This makes fetch-pack also report the progress of packing part.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-11 17:54:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
98deeaa82f Fix fetch-clone in the presense of signals
We shouldn't fail a fetch just because a signal might have interrupted
the read.

Normally, we don't install any signal handlers, so EINTR really shouldn't
happen. That said, really old versions of Linux will interrupt an
interruptible system call even for signals that turn out to be ignored
(SIGWINCH is the classic example - resizing your xterm would cause it).
The same might well be true elsewhere too.

Also, since receive_keep_pack() doesn't control the caller, it can't know
that no signal handlers exist.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-11 16:50:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c548cf4ee0 Make "git clone" pack-fetching download statistics better
Average it out over a few events to make the numbers stable, and fix the
silly usec->binary-ms conversion.

Yeah, yeah, it's arguably eye-candy to keep the user calm, but let's do
that right.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-11 16:49:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
5ee2ad654b Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience
It used to be that "git-unpack-objects" would give nice percentages, but
now that we don't unpack the initial clone pack any more, it doesn't. And
I'd love to do that nice percentage view in the pack objects downloader
too, but the thing doesn't even read the pack header, much less know how
much it's going to get, so I was lazy and didn't.

Instead, it at least prints out how much data it's gotten, and what the
packing speed is. Which makes the user realize that it's actually doing
something useful instead of sitting there silently (and if the recipient
knows how large the final result is, he can at least make a guess about
when it migt be done).

So with this patch, I get something like this on my DSL line:

	[torvalds@g5 ~]$ time git clone master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 clone-test
	Packing 188543 objects
	  48.398MB  (154 kB/s)

where even the speed approximation seems to be roughtly correct (even
though my algorithm is a truly stupid one, and only really gives "speed in
the last half second or so").

Anyway, _something_ like this is definitely needed. It could certainly be
better (if it showed the same kind of thing that git-unpack-objects did,
that would be much nicer, but would require parsing the object stream as
it comes in). But this is  big step forward, I think.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-10 22:28:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
69c57a8d87 Merge branch 'master'
* master:
  Define GIT_(AUTHOR|COMMITTER)_(NAME|EMAIL) to known values.
  Merge branch 'lt/diff-tree'
  git-commit -v: have patch at the end.
2006-02-10 19:12:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
29e55cd5ad Define GIT_(AUTHOR|COMMITTER)_(NAME|EMAIL) to known values.
Without these, running tests with an account with empty gecos
field would fail.

We might want to loosen error from "git-var -l" (but not
"git-var GIT_AUTHOR_NAME") later, but that is more or less an
independent issue.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-10 19:11:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3f6726e1f1 Merge branch 'lt/diff-tree'
* lt/diff-tree:
  combine-diff: Record diff status a bit more faithfully
  find_unique_abbrev() simplification.
  combine-diff: move formatting logic to show_combined_diff()
  combined-diff: use diffcore before intersecting paths.
  diff-tree -c raw output
2006-02-10 18:47:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9ae6be8016 git-commit -v: have patch at the end.
It was pointed out that otherwise more important summary
information prefixed with '#' would become prone to be missed.

Also instead of chopping at the first '^---$' line, stop at the
first 'diff --git a/' line.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-10 18:44:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b82b0082db Merge branch 'master'
* master:
  rev-list: default to abbreviate merge parent names under --pretty.
  delta micro optimization
  count-delta.c: comment fixes
  Merge branch 'jc/empty-commit'
2006-02-10 11:57:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9da5c2f0d7 rev-list: default to abbreviate merge parent names under --pretty.
When we prettyprint commit log messages, merge parent names were
often very long and there was no way to abbreviate it.

This changes them to be abbreviated by default, and non-default
abbreviations can be specified with --no-abbrev or --abbrev=<n>
options.

Note that this affects only the prettyprinted parent names.  The
output from --show-parents is meant for machine consumption and
is not affected by this flag.
2006-02-10 11:56:42 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
39556fbdad delta micro optimization
My kernel work habit made me look at the generated assembly for the
delta code, and one obvious albeit small improvement is this patch.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-10 11:42:56 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
e7ad4a9c3c count-delta.c: comment fixes
There was a stale comment that explains why the old code could
undercount when delta data copied things around inside detination
buffer.  We do not use that kind of delta, so the comment does
not apply.
2006-02-10 09:21:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4d44cb195a Merge branch 'jc/empty-commit'
* jc/empty-commit:
  t6000: fix a careless test library add-on.
  Do not allow empty name or email.
2006-02-10 07:14:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f732d0b857 Merge branch 'lt/diff-tree'
* lt/diff-tree:
  combine-diff: Record diff status a bit more faithfully
  find_unique_abbrev() simplification.
2006-02-10 06:51:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d416df8869 combine-diff: Record diff status a bit more faithfully
This shows "new file mode XXXX" and "deleted file mode XXXX"
lines like two-way diff-patch output does, by checking the
status from each parent.

The diff-raw output for combined diff is made a bit uglier by
showing diff status letters with each parent.  While most of the
case you would see "MM" in the output, an Evil Merge that
touches a path that was added by inheriting from one parent is
possible and it would be shown like these:

    $ git-diff-tree --abbrev -c HEAD
    2d7ca89675eb8888b0b88a91102f096d4471f09f
    ::000000 000000 100644 0000000... 0000000... 31dd686... AA	b
    ::000000 100644 100644 0000000... 6c884ae... c6d4fa8... AM	d
    ::100644 100644 100644 4f7cbe7... f8c295c... 19d5d80... RR	e

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-10 02:50:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
297a1aadbe find_unique_abbrev() simplification.
Earlier it did not grok the 0{40} SHA1 very well, but what it
needed to do was to find the shortest 0{N} that is not used as a
valid object name to be consistent with the way names of valid
objects are abbreviated.  This makes some users simpler.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-10 01:51:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
94c6eb3e88 Merge branch 'jc/status'
* jc/status:
  git-status -v
2006-02-10 00:55:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cf7bb589af git-status -v
This revamps the git-status command to take the same set of
parameters as git commit.  It gives a preview of what is being
committed with that command.  With -v flag, it shows the diff
output between the HEAD commit and the index that would be
committed if these flags were given to git-commit command.

git-commit also acquires -v flag (it used to mean "verify" but
that is the default anyway and there is --no-verify to turn it
off, so not much is lost), which uses the updated git-status -v
to seed the commit log buffer.  This is handy for writing a log
message while reviewing the changes one last time.

Now, git-commit and git-status are internally share the same
implementation.

Unlike previous git-commit change, this uses a temporary index
to prepare the index file that would become the real index file
after a successful commit, and moves it to the real index file
once the commit is actually made.  This makes it safer than the
previous scheme, which stashed away the original index file and
restored it after an aborted commit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-10 00:54:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3acfbd7cf8 Merge branch 'master'
* master:
  Merge branch 'jc/ls-files-o'
  count-delta.c: Match the delta data semantics change in version 3.
  remove delta-against-self bit
  stat() for existence in safe_create_leading_directories()
  call git_config() after setup_git_directory()
  Add --diff-filter= documentation paragraph
2006-02-09 22:19:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4dc870d90c Merge branch 'jc/ls-files-o'
* jc/ls-files-o:
  ls-files: honour per-directory ignore file from higher directories.
2006-02-09 22:19:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bd6a9e885a Merge branch 'lt/diff-tree'
* lt/diff-tree:
  combine-diff: move formatting logic to show_combined_diff()
  combined-diff: use diffcore before intersecting paths.
  diff-tree -c raw output
2006-02-09 21:10:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
91c7674371 count-delta.c: Match the delta data semantics change in version 3.
This matches the count_delta() logic to the change previous
commit introduces to patch_delta().

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 21:06:38 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
d60fc1c864 remove delta-against-self bit
After experimenting with code to add the ability to encode a delta
against part of the deltified file, it turns out that resulting packs
are _bigger_ than when this ability is not used.  The raw delta output
might be smaller, but it doesn't compress as well using gzip with a
negative net saving on average.

Said bit would in fact be more useful to allow for encoding the copying
of chunks larger than 64KB providing more savings with large files.
This will correspond to packs version 3.

While the current code still produces packs version 2, it is made future
proof so pack versions 2 and 3 are accepted.  Any pack version 2 are
compatible with version 3 since the redefined bit was never used before.
When enough time has passed, code to use that bit to produce version 3
packs could be added.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 21:06:38 -08:00
Jason Riedy
67d42212ff stat() for existence in safe_create_leading_directories()
Use stat() to explicitly check for existence rather than
relying on the non-portable EEXIST error in sha1_file.c's
safe_create_leading_directories().  There certainly are
optimizations possible, but then the code becomes almost
the same as that in coreutil's lib/mkdir-p.c.

Other uses of EEXIST seem ok.  Tested on Solaris 8, AIX 5.2L,
and a few Linux versions.  AIX has some unrelated (I think)
failures right now; I haven't tried many recent gits there.
Anyone have an old Ultrix box to break everything?  ;)

Also remove extraneous #includes.  Everything's already in
git-compat-util.h, included through cache.h.

Signed-off-by: Jason Riedy <ejr@cs.berkeley.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 18:38:52 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
69d47bdd6c gitk: Make "find" on "Files" work again.
It was broken by the change to supply just the child id to
git-diff-tree rather than both child and parent.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-10 10:29:26 +11:00
Junio C Hamano
0a798076b8 combine-diff: move formatting logic to show_combined_diff()
This way, diff-files can make use of it.  Also implement the
full suite of what diff_flush_raw() supports just for
consistency.  With this, 'diff-tree -c -r --name-status' would
show what is expected.

There is no way to get the historical output (useful for
debugging and low-level Plumbing work) anymore, so tentatively
it makes '-m' to mean "do not combine and show individual diffs
with parents".

diff-files matches diff-tree to produce raw output for -c.  For
textual combined diff, use -p -c.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 15:23:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ce1610ead6 call git_config() after setup_git_directory()
If you call setup_git_directory() to work from a subdirectory,
that should be run first before running git_config().  Otherwise
you would not read the configuration file from the correct place.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 14:41:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5b23683251 combined-diff: use diffcore before intersecting paths.
This is needed to make "diff-tree -c -M" to work semi-sensibly.
Otherwise rename detection, pickaxe and friends would never be
invoked.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 14:35:19 -08:00
Jon Loeliger
147cf31738 Add --diff-filter= documentation paragraph
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 12:06:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ee63802422 diff-tree -c raw output
NOTE! This makes "-c" be the default, which effectively means that merges 
are never ignored any more, and "-m" is a no-op. So it changes semantics.

I would also like to make "--cc" the default if you do patches, but didn't 
actually do that.

The raw output format is not wonderfully pretty, but it's distinguishable 
from a "normal patch" in that a normal patch with just one parent has just 
one colon at the beginning, while a multi-parent raw diff has <n> colons 
for <n> parents.

So now, in the kernel, when you do

	git-diff-tree cce0cac125623f9b68f25dd1350f6d616220a8dd

(to see the manual ARM merge that had a conflict in arch/arm/Kconfig), you 
get

	cce0cac125623f9b68f25dd1350f6d616220a8dd
	::100644 100644 100644 4a63a8e2e45247a11c068c6ed66c6e7aba29ddd9 77eee38762d69d3de95ae45dd9278df9b8225e2c 2f61726d2f4b636f6e66696700dbf71a59dad287       arch/arm/Kconfig

ie you see two colons (two parents), then three modes (parent modes 
followed by result mode), then three sha1s (parent sha1s followed by
result sha1).

Which is pretty close to the normal raw diff output.

Cool/stupid exercise:

	$ git-whatchanged | grep '^::' | cut -f2- | sort |
	  uniq -c | sort -n | less -S

will show which files have needed the most file-level merge conflict
resolution. Useful? Probably not. But kind of interesting.

For the kernel, it's

     ....
     10 arch/ia64/Kconfig
     11 drivers/scsi/Kconfig
     12 drivers/net/Makefile
     17 include/linux/libata.h
     18 include/linux/pci_ids.h
     23 drivers/net/Kconfig
     24 drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c
     28 drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
     43 MAINTAINERS

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 11:46:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0509ef3d21 Merge branch 'jc/nostat'
* jc/nostat:
  "Assume unchanged" git: --really-refresh fix.
2006-02-09 00:55:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b92b2ce94e "Assume unchanged" git: --really-refresh fix.
The earlier round failed to make --really-refresh to mark
up-to-date index entry to valid again due to a trivial thinko.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 00:55:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9a9d58520d Merge branch 'jc/ls-files-o'
* jc/ls-files-o:
  ls-files: honour per-directory ignore file from higher directories.
2006-02-09 00:21:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
701ca744e3 ls-files: honour per-directory ignore file from higher directories.
When git-ls-files -o --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore is run
from a subdirectory, it did not read from .gitignore from its
parent directory.  Reading from them makes output from these two
commands consistent:

    $ git ls-files -o --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore Documentation
    $ cd Documentation &&
      git ls-files -o --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-09 00:08:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3c91b216ab Merge branches 'jc/nostat' and 'jc/empty-commit'
* jc/nostat:
  ls-files: debugging aid for CE_VALID changes.
  "Assume unchanged" git: do not set CE_VALID with --refresh
  "Assume unchanged" git

* jc/empty-commit:
  t6000: fix a careless test library add-on.
  Do not allow empty name or email.
2006-02-08 21:56:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
47e013f920 t6000: fix a careless test library add-on.
It tried to "restore" GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL environment variable but
the variable started out as unset, so ended up setting it to an
empty string.  This is now caught as an error.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-08 21:55:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dfdd309e57 Do not allow empty name or email.
Instead of silently allowing to create a bogus commit that lacks
information by mistake, complain loudly and die.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-08 21:55:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2bcab24080 ls-files: debugging aid for CE_VALID changes.
This is not really part of the proposed updates for CE_VALID,
but with this change, ls-files -t shows CE_VALID paths with
lowercase tag letters instead of the usual uppercase.  Useful
for checking out what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-08 21:54:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8b9b0f3af7 "Assume unchanged" git: do not set CE_VALID with --refresh
When working with automatic assume-unchanged mode using
core.ignorestat, setting CE_VALID after --refresh makes things
more cumbersome to use.  Consider this scenario:

 (1) the working tree is on a filesystem with slow lstat(2).
     The user sets core.ignorestat = true.

 (2) "git checkout" to switch to a different branch (or initial
     checkout) updates all paths and the index starts out with
     "all clean".

 (3) The user knows she wants to edit certain paths.  She uses
     update-index --no-assume-unchanged (we could call it --edit;
     the name is inmaterial) to mark these paths and starts
     editing.

 (4) After editing half of the paths marked to be edited, she
     runs "git status".  This runs "update-index --refresh" to
     reduce the false hits from diff-files.

 (5) Now the other half of the paths, since she has not changed
     them, are found to match the index, and CE_VALID is set on
     them again.

For this reason, this commit makes update-index --refresh not to
set CE_VALID even after the path without CE_VALID are verified
to be up to date.  The user still can run --really-refresh to
force lstat() to match the index entries to the reality.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-08 21:54:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5f73076c1a "Assume unchanged" git
This adds "assume unchanged" logic, started by this message in the list
discussion recently:

	<Pine.LNX.4.64.0601311807470.7301@g5.osdl.org>

This is a workaround for filesystems that do not have lstat()
that is quick enough for the index mechanism to take advantage
of.  On the paths marked as "assumed to be unchanged", the user
needs to explicitly use update-index to register the object name
to be in the next commit.

You can use two new options to update-index to set and reset the
CE_VALID bit:

	git-update-index --assume-unchanged path...
	git-update-index --no-assume-unchanged path...

These forms manipulate only the CE_VALID bit; it does not change
the object name recorded in the index file.  Nor they add a new
entry to the index.

When the configuration variable "core.ignorestat = true" is set,
the index entries are marked with CE_VALID bit automatically
after:

 - update-index to explicitly register the current object name to the
   index file.

 - when update-index --refresh finds the path to be up-to-date.

 - when tools like read-tree -u and apply --index update the working
   tree file and register the current object name to the index file.

The flag is dropped upon read-tree that does not check out the index
entry.  This happens regardless of the core.ignorestat settings.

Index entries marked with CE_VALID bit are assumed to be
unchanged most of the time.  However, there are cases that
CE_VALID bit is ignored for the sake of safety and usability:

 - while "git-read-tree -m" or git-apply need to make sure
   that the paths involved in the merge do not have local
   modifications.  This sacrifices performance for safety.

 - when git-checkout-index -f -q -u -a tries to see if it needs
   to checkout the paths.  Otherwise you can never check
   anything out ;-).

 - when git-update-index --really-refresh (a new flag) tries to
   see if the index entry is up to date.  You can start with
   everything marked as CE_VALID and run this once to drop
   CE_VALID bit for paths that are modified.

Most notably, "update-index --refresh" honours CE_VALID and does
not actively stat, so after you modified a file in the working
tree, update-index --refresh would not notice until you tell the
index about it with "git-update-index path" or "git-update-index
--no-assume-unchanged path".

This version is not expected to be perfect.  I think diff
between index and/or tree and working files may need some
adjustment, and there probably needs other cases we should
automatically unmark paths that are marked to be CE_VALID.

But the basics seem to work, and ready to be tested by people
who asked for this feature.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-08 21:54:42 -08:00
Andreas Ericsson
d19e06fa8f .gitignore git-rerere and config.mak
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-07 13:19:51 -08:00