The current documentation reads as if .gitignore files will be parsed in
every parent directory, and not until they reach a repository boundary.
This clarifies the current behaviour.
As well, this corrects 'toplevel' to 'top-level', matching usage for
'top-level domain'.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Berry <andrew@furrypaws.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was no documentation for the --negotiate-only option added in
9c1e657a8f (fetch: teach independent negotiation (no packfile),
2021-05-04), only documentation for the related push.negotiation
option added in the following commit in 477673d6f3 (send-pack:
support push negotiation, 2021-05-04).
Let's document it, and update the cross-linking I'd added between
--negotiation-tip=* and 'fetch.negotiationAlgorithm' in
526608284a (fetch doc: cross-link two new negotiation options,
2018-08-01).
I think it would be better to say "in common with the remote" here
than "...the server", but the documentation for --negotiation-tip=*
above this talks about "the server", so let's continue doing that in
this related option. See 3390e42adb (fetch-pack: support negotiation
tip whitelist, 2018-07-02) for that documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Typofix (chose -> choose) in the documentation of the patch option
under the commit command.
Signed-off-by: Beshr Kayali <me@beshr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As can be seen in files "Documentation/blame-options.txt" and
"builtin/blame.c", the name of this configuration option is
"blame.markUnblamableLines".
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using gendered pronouns for an anonymous person applies a gender where
none is known and further excludes readers who do not use gendered
pronouns. Avoid such examples in the documentation by using "they" or
passive voice to avoid the need for a pronoun.
Inspired-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-m" option in "git log -m" that does not specify which format,
if any, of diff is desired did not have any visible effect; it now
implies some form of diff (by default "--patch") is produced.
* so/log-m-implies-p:
diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"
diff-merges: rename "combined_imply_patch" to "merges_imply_patch"
stash list: stop passing "-m" to "git log"
git-svn: stop passing "-m" to "git rev-list"
diff-merges: move specific diff-index "-m" handling to diff-index
t4013: test "git diff-index -m"
t4013: test "git diff-tree -m"
t4013: test "git log -m --stat"
t4013: test "git log -m --raw"
t4013: test that "-m" alone has no effect in "git log"
Optimize out repeated rename detection in a sequence of mergy
operations.
* en/ort-perf-batch-11:
merge-ort, diffcore-rename: employ cached renames when possible
merge-ort: handle interactions of caching and rename/rename(1to1) cases
merge-ort: add helper functions for using cached renames
merge-ort: preserve cached renames for the appropriate side
merge-ort: avoid accidental API mis-use
merge-ort: add code to check for whether cached renames can be reused
merge-ort: populate caches of rename detection results
merge-ort: add data structures for in-memory caching of rename detection
t6429: testcases for remembering renames
fast-rebase: write conflict state to working tree, index, and HEAD
fast-rebase: change assert() to BUG()
Documentation/technical: describe remembering renames optimization
t6423: rename file within directory that other side renamed
"git send-email" learned the "--sendmail-cmd" command line option
and the "sendemail.sendmailCmd" configuration variable, which is a
more sensible approach than the current way of repurposing the
"smtp-server" that is meant to name the server to instead name the
command to talk to the server.
* ga/send-email-sendmail-cmd:
git-send-email: add option to specify sendmail command
Fix typos in documentation, code comments, and RelNotes which repeat
various words. In trivial cases, just delete the duplicated word and
rewrap text, if needed. Reword the affected sentence in
Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt for it to make sense.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of "fast-forward" in the glossary has been updated.
* ry/clarify-fast-forward-in-glossary:
docs: improve fast-forward in glossary content
Many of the regulars on #git-devel are now on Libera Chat, to the extent
that the community page now lists it as the IRC Channel[1]. This will
help new contributors find the right place, if they choose to ask
questions on `#git-devel`.
Relevant discussion on the IRC transition:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAJoAoZ=e62sceNpcR5L5zjsj177uczTnXjcAg+BbOoOkeH8vXQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://git-scm.com/community
Signed-off-by: Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option is almost never a good idea, as the resulting repository is
larger and slower (see the new explanations in the docs).
I outlined the potential problems. We could go further and make the
option harder to find (or at least, make the command-line option
descriptions a much more terse "you probably don't want this; see
pack.packsizeLimit for details"). But this seems like a minimal change
that may prevent people from thinking it's more useful than it is.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a01f7f2ba0 (merge: enable defaulttoupstream by default,
2014-04-20) forgot to mention the new default in the configuration
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There're two different default options for log --decorate:
* Should `--decorate` be given without any arguments, it's default to
`short`
* Should neither `--decorate` nor `--no-decorate` be given, it's default
to the `log.decorate` or `auto`.
We documented the former, but not the latter.
Let's document them, too.
Reported-by: Andy AO <zen96285@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 87db61a (trace2: write discard message to sentinel files,
2019-10-04), we added a new "too_many_files" event for when trace2
logging would create too many files in an output directory.
Unfortunately, the api-trace2 doc described a "discard" event instead.
Fix the doc to use the correct event name.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-repack doc clearly states that it *does* operate on promisor
packfiles (in a separate partition), with "-a" specified. Presumably
the statements here are outdated, as they feature from the first doc
in 2017 (and the repack support was added in 2018)
Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that the code has been simplified and it's clear what it's
actually doing, update the documentation to reflect that.
Namely; the simple mode only barfs when working on a centralized
workflow, and there's no configured upstream branch with the same name.
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the already dead code to support "sendemail.smtpssl" by finally
removing the dead code supporting the configuration option.
In f6bebd121a (git-send-email: add support for TLS via
Net::SMTP::SSL, 2008-06-25) the --smtp-ssl command-line option was
documented as deprecated, later in 65180c6618 (List send-email config
options in config.txt., 2009-07-22) the "sendemail.smtpssl"
configuration option was also documented as such.
Then in in 3ff15040e2 (send-email: fix regression in
sendemail.identity parsing, 2019-05-17) I unintentionally removed
support for it by introducing a bug in read_config().
As can be seen from the diff context we've already returned unless
$enc i defined, so it's not possible for us to reach the "elsif"
branch here. This code was therefore already dead since Git v2.23.0.
So let's just remove it. We were already 11 years into a stated
deprecation period of this variable when 3ff15040e2 landed, now it's
around 13. Since it hasn't worked anyway for around 2 years it looks
like we can safely remove it.
The --smtp-ssl option is still deprecated, if someone cares they can
follow-up and remove that too, but unlike the config option that one
could still be in use in the wild. I'm just removing this code that's
provably unused already.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the 'uploadpack.blobPackfileUri' description in packfile-uri.txt
and the correct format also can be seen in t5702.
Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently GNU make already removes files when catching an interruption
signal, however, in order to deal with other kinds of errors a
workaround is in place to store target output to a temporary file, and
only move it to its right place on success.
By enabling the built-in .DELETE_ON_ERROR we let make do this task, so
we don't have to.
This way the rules can be simplified a lot.
Suggested-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commits 50cff52f1a (When generating manpages, delete outdated targets
first., 2007-08-02) and f9286765b2 (Documentation/Makefile: remove
cmd-list.made before redirecting to it., 2007-08-06) created these rm
instances for a very rare corner-case: building as root by mistake.
It's odd to have workarounds here, but nowhere else in the Makefile--
which already fails in this stuation, starting from
Documentation/technical/.
We gain nothing but complexity, so let's remove them.
Comments-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
asciidoc needs asciidoc.conf, asciidoctor asciidoctor-extensions.rb.
Neither needs the other.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Another brown paper bag inconsistency fix for a new feature
introduced during this cycle.
* dl/stash-show-untracked-fixup:
stash show: use stash.showIncludeUntracked even when diff options given
If options pertaining to how the diff is displayed is provided to
`git stash show`, the command will ignore the stash.showIncludeUntracked
configuration variable, defaulting to not showing any untracked files.
This is unintuitive behaviour since the format of the diff output and
whether or not to display untracked files are orthogonal.
Use stash.showIncludeUntracked even when diff options are given. Of
course, this is still overridable via the command-line options.
Update the documentation to explicitly say which configuration variables
will be overridden when a diff options are given.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix long standing inconsistency between -c/--cc that do imply -p on
one side, and -m that did not imply -p on the other side.
Change corresponding test accordingly, as "log -m" output should now
match one from "log -m -p", rather than from just "log".
Change documentation accordingly.
NOTES:
After this patch
git log -m
produces diffs without need to provide -p as well, that improves both
consistency and usability. It gets even more useful if one sets
"log.diffMerges" configuration variable to "first-parent" to force -m
produce usual diff with respect to first parent only.
This patch, however, does not change behavior when specific diff
format is explicitly provided on the command-line, so that commands
like
git log -m --raw
git log -m --stat
are not affected, nor does it change commands where specific diff
format is active by default, such as:
git diff-tree -m
It's also worth to be noticed that exact historical semantics of -m is
still provided by --diff-merges=separate.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Regression fix for a change made during this cycle.
* cs/http-use-basic-after-failed-negotiate:
Revert "remote-curl: fall back to basic auth if Negotiate fails"
t5551: test http interaction with credential helpers
We will soon be adding an optimization that caches (in memory only,
never written to disk) upstream renames during a sequence of merges such
as occurs during a cherry-pick or rebase operation. Add several tests
meant to stress such an implementation to ensure it does the right
thing, and include a test whose outcome we will later change due to this
optimization as well.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remembering renames on the upstream side of history in an early merge of
a rebase or cherry-pick for re-use in a latter merge of the same
operation makes pretty good intuitive sense. However, trying to show
that it doesn't cause some subtle behavioral difference or some funny
edge or corner case is much more involved. And, in fact, it does
introduce a subtle behavioral change.
Document all the assumptions, special cases, and logic involved in such
an optimization, and describe why this optimization is safe under the
current optimizations/features/etc. -- even when the subtle behavioral
change is triggered.
Part of the point of adding this document that goes over the
optimization in such laborious detail, is that it is possible that
significant future changes (optimizations or feature changes) could
interact with this optimization in interesting ways; this document is
here to help folks making big changes sanity check that the assumptions
and arguments underlying this optimization are still valid. (As a side
note, creating this document forced me to review things in sufficient
detail that I found I was not properly caching directory-rename-induced
renames, resulting in the code not being aware of those renames and
causing unnecessary diffcore_rename_extended() calls in subsequent
merges.)
A subsequent commit will add several testcases based on this document
meant to stress-test the implementation and also document the case with
the subtle behavioral change.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current documentation for color.pager is technically correct, but
slightly misleading and doesn't really clarify the purpose of the
variable. As explained in the original thread which added it:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/E1G6zPH-00062L-Je@moooo.ath.cx/
the point is to deal with pagers that don't understand colors. And hence it
being set to "true" is necessary for colorizing output to the pager, but
not sufficient by itself (you must also have enabled one of the other
color options, though note that these are set to "auto" by default these
days).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The text was somewhat confusing between the revision itself and the author.
Signed-off-by: Reuven Yagel <robi@post.jce.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes new people are confused by how a revision "range" works,
in that it is not a random collection of commits but a set of
commits that are all connected to each other, and most Git commands
work on a single such "range".
Give an example to clarify it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify the default length used for the abbreviated form used for
commits in git describe.
The behavior was modified in Git 2.11.0, but the documentation was not
updated to clarify the new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Anders Höckersten <anders@hockersten.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sendemail.smtpServer configuration option and --smtp-server command
line option both support using a sendmail-like program to send emails by
specifying an absolute file path. However, this is not ideal for the
following reasons:
1. It overloads the meaning of smtpServer (now a program is being used
for the server?)
2. It doesn't allow for non-absolute paths, arguments, or arbitrary
scripting
Requiring an absolute path is bad for portability, as the same program
may be in different locations on different systems. If a user wishes to
pass arguments to their program, they have to use the smtpServerOption
option, which is cumbersome (as it must be repeated for each option) and
doesn't adhere to normal git conventions.
Introduce a new configuration option sendemail.sendmailCmd as well as a
command line option --sendmail-cmd that can be used to specify a command
(with or without arguments) or shell expression to run to send email.
The name of this option is consistent with --to-cmd and --cc-cmd. This
invocation honors the user's $PATH so that absolute paths are not
necessary. Arbitrary shell expressions are also supported, allowing
users to do basic scripting.
Give this option a higher precedence over --smtp-server and
sendemail.smtpServer, as the new interface is more flexible. For
backward compatibility, continue to support absolute paths in
--smtp-server and sendemail.smtpServer.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Anders <greg@gpanders.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git mailinfo" (hence "git am") learned the "--quoted-cr" option to
control how lines ending with CRLF wrapped in base64 or qp are
handled.
* dd/mailinfo-quoted-cr:
am: learn to process quoted lines that ends with CRLF
mailinfo: allow stripping quoted CR without warning
mailinfo: allow squelching quoted CRLF warning
mailinfo: warn if CRLF found in decoded base64/QP email
mailinfo: stop parsing options manually
mailinfo: load default metainfo_charset lazily
"git push" learns to discover common ancestor with the receiving
end over protocol v2.
* jt/push-negotiation:
send-pack: support push negotiation
fetch: teach independent negotiation (no packfile)
fetch-pack: refactor command and capability write
fetch-pack: refactor add_haves()
fetch-pack: refactor process_acks()
Over-the-wire protocol learns a new request type to ask for object
sizes given a list of object names.
* ba/object-info:
object-info: support for retrieving object info
The way the command line specified by the trailer.<token>.command
configuration variable receives the end-user supplied value was
both error prone and misleading. An alternative to achieve the
same goal in a safer and more intuitive way has been added, as
the trailer.<token>.cmd configuration variable, to replace it.
* zh/trailer-cmd:
trailer: add new .cmd config option
docs: correct descript of trailer.<token>.command
Various test and documentation updates about .gitsomething paths
that are symlinks.
* jk/symlinked-dotgitx-cleanup:
docs: document symlink restrictions for dot-files
fsck: warn about symlinked dotfiles we'll open with O_NOFOLLOW
t0060: test ntfs/hfs-obscured dotfiles
t7450: test .gitmodules symlink matching against obscured names
t7450: test verify_path() handling of gitmodules
t7415: rename to expand scope
fsck_tree(): wrap some long lines
fsck_tree(): fix shadowed variable
t7415: remove out-dated comment about translation
In previous changes, mailinfo has learnt to process lines that decoded
from base64 or quoted-printable, and ends with CRLF.
Let's teach "am" that new trick, too.
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In previous changes, we've turned on warning for quoted CR in base64 or
quoted-printable email messages. Some projects see those quoted CR a lot,
they know that it happens most of the time, and they find it's desirable
to always strip those CR.
Those projects in question usually fall back to use other tools to handle
patches when receive such patches.
Let's help those projects handle those patches by stripping those
excessive CR.
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In previous change, Git starts to warn for quoted CRLF in decoded
base64/QP email. Despite those warnings are usually helpful,
quoted CRLF could be part of some users' workflow.
Let's give them an option to turn off the warning completely.
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of "%ch" is missing a space after "human style", before
the parenthetical remark. This description was introduced in b722d4560e
("pretty: provide human date format", 2021-04-25). That commit also
added "%ah", which does have the space already.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Drop the ")" at the end of this paragraph. There's a parenthetical
remark in this paragraph, but it's been closed on the line above.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-list" learns the "--filter=object:type=<type>" option,
which can be used to exclude objects of the given kind from the
packfile generated by pack-objects.
* ps/rev-list-object-type-filter:
rev-list: allow filtering of provided items
pack-bitmap: implement combined filter
pack-bitmap: implement object type filter
list-objects: implement object type filter
list-objects: support filtering by tag and commit
list-objects: move tag processing into its own function
revision: mark commit parents as NOT_USER_GIVEN
uploadpack.txt: document implication of `uploadpackfilter.allow`
"git rebase --[no-]reschedule-failed-exec" did not work well with
its configuration variable, which has been corrected.
* ab/rebase-no-reschedule-failed-exec:
rebase: don't override --no-reschedule-failed-exec with config
rebase tests: camel-case rebase.rescheduleFailedExec consistently
Dev support.
* ab/doc-lint:
docs: fix linting issues due to incorrect relative section order
doc lint: lint relative section order
doc lint: lint and fix missing "GIT" end sections
doc lint: fix bugs in, simplify and improve lint script
doc lint: Perl "strict" and "warnings" in lint-gitlink.perl
Documentation/Makefile: make doc.dep dependencies a variable again
Documentation/Makefile: make $(wildcard howto/*.txt) a var
"git add" and "git rm" learned not to touch those paths that are
outside of sparse checkout.
* mt/add-rm-in-sparse-checkout:
rm: honor sparse checkout patterns
add: warn when asked to update SKIP_WORKTREE entries
refresh_index(): add flag to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries
pathspec: allow to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries on index matching
add: make --chmod and --renormalize honor sparse checkouts
t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts
add: include magic part of pathspec on --refresh error
Replace GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM mechanism to decline from reading the
system-wide configuration file with GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM that lets
users specify from which file to read the system-wide configuration
(setting it to an empty file would essentially be the same as
setting NOSYSTEM), and introduce GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL to override the
per-user configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig.
* ps/config-global-override:
t1300: fix unset of GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM leaking into subsequent tests
config: allow overriding of global and system configuration
config: unify code paths to get global config paths
config: rename `git_etc_config()`
"git log --format=..." placeholders learned %ah/%ch placeholders to
request the --date=human output.
* zh/pretty-date-human:
pretty: provide human date format
"git --config-env var=val cmd" weren't accepted (only
--config-env=var=val was).
* ps/config-env-option-with-separate-value:
git: support separate arg for `--config-env`'s value
git.txt: fix synopsis of `--config-env` missing the equals sign
Currently, the packfile negotiation step within a Git fetch cannot be
done independent of sending the packfile, even though there is at least
one application wherein this is useful. Therefore, make it possible for
this negotiation step to be done independently. A subsequent commit will
use this for one such application - push negotiation.
This feature is for protocol v2 only. (An implementation for protocol v0
would require a separate implementation in the fetch, transport, and
transport helper code.)
In the protocol, the main hindrance towards independent negotiation is
that the server can unilaterally decide to send the packfile. This is
solved by a "wait-for-done" argument: the server will then wait for the
client to say "done". In practice, the client will never say it; instead
it will cease requests once it is satisfied.
In the client, the main change lies in the transport and transport
helper code. fetch_refs_via_pack() performs everything needed - protocol
version and capability checks, and the negotiation itself.
There are 2 code paths that do not go through fetch_refs_via_pack() that
needed to be individually excluded: the bundle transport (excluded
through requiring smart_options, which the bundle transport doesn't
support) and transport helpers that do not support takeover. If or when
we support independent negotiation for protocol v0, we will need to
modify these 2 code paths to support it. But for now, report failure if
independent negotiation is requested in these cases.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `trailer.<token>.command` configuration variable
specifies a command (run via the shell, so it does not have
to be a single name or path to the command, but can be a
shell script), and the first occurrence of substring $ARG is
replaced with the value given to the `interpret-trailer`
command for the token in a '--trailer <token>=<value>' argument.
This has three downsides:
* The use of $ARG in the mechanism misleads the users that
the value is passed in the shell variable, and tempt them
to use $ARG more than once, but that would not work, as
the second and subsequent $ARG are not replaced.
* Because $ARG is textually replaced without regard to the
shell language syntax, even '$ARG' (inside a single-quote
pair), which a user would expect to stay intact, would be
replaced, and worse, if the value had an unmatched single
quote (imagine a name like "O'Connor", substituted into
NAME='$ARG' to make it NAME='O'Connor'), it would result in
a broken command that is not syntactically correct (or
worse).
* The first occurrence of substring `$ARG` will be replaced
with the empty string, in the command when the command is
first called to add a trailer with the specified <token>.
This is a bad design, the nature of automatic execution
causes it to add a trailer that we don't expect.
Introduce a new `trailer.<token>.cmd` configuration that
takes higher precedence to deprecate and eventually remove
`trailer.<token>.command`, which passes the value as an
argument to the command. Instead of "$ARG", users can
refer to the value as positional argument, $1, in their
scripts. At the same time, in order to allow
`git interpret-trailers` to better simulate the behavior
of `git command -s`, 'trailer.<token>.cmd' will not
automatically execute.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the original documentation of `trailer.<token>.command`,
some descriptions are easily misunderstood. So let's modify
it to increase its readability.
In addition, clarify that `$ARG` in command can only be
replaced once.
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We stopped allowing symlinks for .gitmodules files in 10ecfa7649
(verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules, 2018-05-04), and we
stopped following symlinks for .gitattributes, .gitignore, and .mailmap
in the commits from 204333b015 (Merge branch 'jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow',
2021-03-22). The reasons are discussed in detail there, but we never
adjusted the documentation to let users know.
This hasn't been a big deal since the point is that such setups were
mildly broken and thought to be unusual anyway. But it certainly doesn't
hurt to be clear and explicit about it.
Suggested-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Format-patch doesn't have a way to format merges in a way that can be
applied by git-am (or any other tool), and so it just omits them.
However, this may be a surprising implication for users who are not well
versed in how the tool works. Let's add a note to the documentation
making this more clear.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
01d3a526 (t0000: check whether the shell supports the "local"
keyword, 2017-10-26) raised a test balloon to see if those who build
and test Git use a platform with a shell that lacks support for the
"local" keyword. After two years, 7f0b5908 (t0000: reword comments
for "local" test, 2019-08-08) documented that "local" keyword, even
though is outside POSIX, is allowed in our test scripts.
Let's write it in the CodingGuidelines, too. It might be tempting
to allow it in scripted Porcelains (we have avoided getting them
contaminiated by "local" so far), but they are on their way out and
getting rewritten in C.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify that pathnames recorded in Git trees are most often (but
not necessarily) encoded in UTF-8.
* ab/pathname-encoding-doc:
doc: clarify the filename encoding in git diff
The checkout machinery has been taught to perform the actual
write-out of the files in parallel when able.
* mt/parallel-checkout-part-2:
parallel-checkout: add design documentation
parallel-checkout: support progress displaying
parallel-checkout: add configuration options
parallel-checkout: make it truly parallel
unpack-trees: add basic support for parallel checkout
Builds on top of the sparse-index infrastructure to mark operations
that are not ready to mark with the sparse index, causing them to
fall back on fully-populated index that they always have worked with.
* ds/sparse-index-protections: (47 commits)
name-hash: use expand_to_path()
sparse-index: expand_to_path()
name-hash: don't add directories to name_hash
revision: ensure full index
resolve-undo: ensure full index
read-cache: ensure full index
pathspec: ensure full index
merge-recursive: ensure full index
entry: ensure full index
dir: ensure full index
update-index: ensure full index
stash: ensure full index
rm: ensure full index
merge-index: ensure full index
ls-files: ensure full index
grep: ensure full index
fsck: ensure full index
difftool: ensure full index
commit: ensure full index
checkout: ensure full index
...
The prefetch task in "git maintenance" assumed that "git fetch"
from any remote would fetch all its local branches, which would
fetch too much if the user is interested in only a subset of
branches there.
* ds/maintenance-prefetch-fix:
maintenance: respect remote.*.skipFetchAll
maintenance: use 'git fetch --prefetch'
fetch: add --prefetch option
maintenance: simplify prefetch logic
When executing `git -h`, then the `--config-env` documentation rightly
lists the option as requiring an equals between the option and its
argument: this is the only currently supported format. But the git(1)
manpage incorrectly lists the option as taking a space in between.
Fix the issue by adding the missing space.
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-of-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From the documentation for generating patch text with diff-related
commands, refer to the documentation for the diff attribute.
This attribute influences the way that patches are generated, but this
was previously not mentioned in e.g., the git-diff manpage.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oliver <git@mavit.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the placeholders %ah and %ch to format author date and committer
date, like --date=human does, which provides more humanity date output.
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes it is useful to get information of an object without having to
download it completely.
Add the "object-info" capability that lets the client ask for
object-related information with their full hexadecimal object names.
Only sizes are returned for now.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Albuquerque <bga@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation updates, with unrelated comment updates, too.
* ab/usage-error-docs:
api docs: document that BUG() emits a trace2 error event
api docs: document BUG() in api-error-handling.txt
usage.c: don't copy/paste the same comment three times
AFAICT parsing the output of `git diff --name-only master...feature`
is the intended way of programmatically getting the list of files
modified
by a feature branch. It is impossible to parse text unless you know what
encoding it is in. The output encoding of diff --name-only and
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
