The man page for `git svn` describes a situation in which "'git svn'
will not be able to rebuild" your $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files, but
no mention is made of in what circumstances `git svn` *will* be able to
do so, how to get `git svn` to do so, or even what these files are.
This patch adds a FILES section to the man page with a description of
what $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files are and how they are (re)built, and
links to this description from various other parts of the man page.
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
As $GIT_DIR may not equal '.git', it's usually more generally correct to
refer to files in $GIT_DIR rather than in .git .
This will also allow me to link some of the occurrences of '.git' in
git-svn.txt to a new reference target inside this file in an upcoming
commit, because in AsciiDoc definitions apparently can't start with
a '.' character.
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
It's redundant to say that $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log or
$GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index is in .git/svn when $GIT_DIR is '.git', and
is wrong when $GIT_DIR is not '.git'
Also, a '/' was missing from the pathname $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index .
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
As asterisks are used to indicate bold text in AsciiDoc, shell glob
expressions must be escaped appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
On my system this is in /usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex not
/etc/asciidoc/dblatex. Extract this portion of the path to a variable
so that is can be set in config.mak.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
"git remote set-head" has always supported --add and --delete
as synonyms for the -a and -d option but forgot to document
them.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
* bc/submodule-status-ignored:
Improve documentation concerning the status.submodulesummary setting
submodule: don't print status output with ignore=all
submodule: fix confusing variable name
* cc/replace-with-the-same-type:
Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commits
t6050-replace: use some long option names
replace: allow long option names
Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section
t6050-replace: add test to clean up all the replace refs
t6050-replace: test that objects are of the same type
Documentation/replace: state that objects must be of the same type
replace: forbid replacing an object with one of a different type
The id is already different for binary files. The hash used is an
implementation detail, so let's just document how diffs are compared.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side
computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
dropped connection. The server side has been taught to send a small
empty messages to keep the connection alive.
* jk/upload-pack-keepalive:
upload-pack: bump keepalive default to 5 seconds
upload-pack: send keepalive packets during pack computation
Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @".
* fc/at-head:
Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
sha1-name: pass len argument to interpret_branch_name()
"git check-ignore" follows the same rule as "git add" and "git
status" in that the ignore/exclude mechanism does not take effect
on paths that are already tracked. With "--no-index" option, it
can be used to diagnose which paths that should have been ignored
have been mistakenly added to the index.
* dw/check-ignore-sans-index:
check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contents
Give "update-refs" a "--stdin" option to read multiple update
requests and perform them in an all-or-none fashion.
* bk/refs-multi-update:
update-ref: add test cases covering --stdin signature
update-ref: support multiple simultaneous updates
refs: add update_refs for multiple simultaneous updates
refs: add function to repack without multiple refs
refs: factor delete_ref loose ref step into a helper
refs: factor update_ref steps into helpers
refs: report ref type from lock_any_ref_for_update
reset: rename update_refs to reset_refs
Just like "make -C <directory>", make "git -C <directory> ..." to
go there before doing anything else.
* nr/git-cd-to-a-directory:
t0056: "git -C" test updates
git: run in a directory given with -C option
Fix a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later that made it
impossible to base your local work on anything but a local branch
of the upstream repository you are tracking from.
* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
t3200: fix failure on case-insensitive filesystems
branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
t3200: Add test demonstrating minor regression in 41c21f2
Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
t3200: Minor fix when preparing for tracking failure
t2024: Fix &&-chaining and a couple of typos
"git status" now omits the prefix to make its output a comment in a
commit log editor, which is not necessary for human consumption.
We may want to tighten the output to omit unnecessary trailing blank
lines, but that does not have to be in the scope of this series.
* mm/status-without-comment-char:
t7508: avoid non-portable sed expression
status: add missing blank line after list of "other" files
tests: don't set status.displayCommentPrefix file-wide
status: disable display of '#' comment prefix by default
submodule summary: ignore --for-status option
wt-status: use argv_array API
builtin/stripspace.c: fix broken indentation
Make "foo^{tag}" to peel a tag to itself, i.e. no-op., and fail if
"foo" is not a tag. "git rev-parse --verify v1.0^{tag}" would be a
more convenient way to say "test $(git cat-file -t v1.0) = tag".
* rh/peeling-tag-to-tag:
peel_onion: do not assume length of x_type globals
peel_onion(): add support for <rev>^{tag}
When we converted many documents that were traditionally text-only
to be formatted to AsciiDoc, we did not update links that point at
them to refer to the formatted HTML files.
* ss/doclinks:
Documentation: make AsciiDoc links always point to HTML files
We liberally use "committish" and "commit-ish" (and "treeish" and
"tree-ish"); as these are non-words, let's unify these terms to
their dashed form. More importantly, clarify the documentation on
object peeling using these terms.
* rh/ishes-doc:
glossary: fix and clarify the definition of 'ref'
revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>}
glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish)
use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'
use 'tree-ish' instead of 'treeish'
glossary: define commit-ish (a.k.a. committish)
glossary: mention 'treeish' as an alternative to 'tree-ish'
When the user types "git diff" outside a working tree, thinking he
is inside one, the current error message that is a single-liner
"usage: git diff --no-index <path> <path>" may not be sufficient to
make him realize the mistake. Add "Not a git repository" to the
error message when we fell into the "--no-index" mode without an
explicit command line option to instruct us to do so.
* dw/diff-no-index-doc:
diff --no-index: describe in a separate paragraph
diff --no-index: clarify operation when not inside a repository
Update the user's manual to more recent versions of Git.
* ta/user-manual:
"git prune" is safe
Remove irrelevant reference from "Tying it all together"
Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format"
Improve section "Merging multiple trees"
Improve section "Manipulating branches"
Simplify "How to make a commit"
Fix some typos and improve wording
Use "git merge" instead of "git pull ."
Use current output for "git repack"
Use current "detached HEAD" message
Call it "Git User Manual" and remove reference to very old Git version
Finishing touches to update the document to adjust to a new option
"git clean" learned recently.
* jx/clean-interactive:
documentation: clarify notes for clean.requireForce
branch.<name>.remote can be set to '.' (period) as the repository
path (URL) as part of the remote name dwimmery. Tell the reader.
Such relative paths are not 'special'. Correct the branch.<name>.merge
note.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git cli will accept dot '.' (period) as the relative path
to the current repository. Explain this action.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked
paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output. This prevents
debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is
first removed from the index with `git rm --cached <path>`.
The option --no-index tells the command to bypass the check for the
path being in the index and hence allows tracked paths to be checked
too.
Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of `git add` and
`git status` its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion.
Test scripts are augmented to check this option against the standard
ignores to ensure correct behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Dave Williams <dave@opensourcesolutions.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was unclear in the documentation how various configurations and
environment variables determine which pager is eventually used.
* jc/pager-configuration-doc:
config: rewrite core.pager documentation
* mm/mediawiki-dumb-push-fix:
git-remote-mediawiki: no need to update private ref in non-dumb push
git-remote-mediawiki: use no-private-update capability on dumb push
transport-helper: add no-private-update capability
git-remote-mediawiki: add test and check Makefile targets
Typing 'HEAD' is tedious, especially when we can use '@' instead.
The reason for choosing '@' is that it follows naturally from the
ref@op syntax (e.g. HEAD@{u}), except we have no ref, and no
operation, and when we don't have those, it makes sens to assume
'HEAD'.
So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness.
Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so
let's make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pull --rebase" always flattened the history; pull.rebase can
now be set to "preserve" to invoke "rebase --preserve-merges".
* sh/pull-rebase-preserve:
pull: allow pull to preserve merges when rebasing
In the synopsis, the second form to detach HEAD at the named commit
labelled the argument as '<commit>'. While this is technically more
correct, because the feature to detach is not limited to the tip of
a named branch, it was found confusing and did not express the fact
that you have to give `--detach` if you are naming the commit you
want to detach HEAD at with a branch name.
Separate this case into two syntactical forms, mimicking the way how
the DESCRIPTION section shows this usage. Also update the text that
explains the syntax to name the commit to detach HEAD at to clarify.
Suggested-by: Benjamin Bergman <ben@benbergman.ca>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git status' and 'git commit' can be told to also show the output of "git
submodule summary" by setting the "status.submodulesummary" config option.
But status and commit also honor the "diff.ignoreSubmodules" and the
"submodule.<name>.ignore" settings, which then disable the summary partly
or completely. This - and the fact that the last two settings do not
affect the "git submodule" commands at all - is not well documented.
Extend the documentation in those places where "status.submodulesummary",
"diff.ignoreSubmodules" and "submodule.<name>.ignore" are described to
better explain these dependencies.
Thanks-to: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow section.<urlpattern>.var configuration variables to be
treated as a "virtual" section.var given a URL, and use the
mechanism to enhance http.* configuration variables.
This is a reroll of Kyle J. McKay's work.
* jc/url-match:
builtin/config.c: compilation fix
config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.key
builtin/config: refactor collect_config()
config: parse http.<url>.<variable> using urlmatch
config: add generic callback wrapper to parse section.<url>.key
config: add helper to normalize and match URLs
http.c: fix parsing of http.sslCertPasswordProtected variable
"git mv A B" when moving a submodule A does "the right thing",
inclusing relocating its working tree and adjusting the paths in
the .gitmodules file.
* jl/submodule-mv: (53 commits)
rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree
mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules
submodule.c: add .gitmodules staging helper functions
mv: move submodules using a gitfile
mv: move submodules together with their work trees
rm: do not set a variable twice without intermediate reading.
t6131 - skip tests if on case-insensitive file system
parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntax
pathspec: support :(glob) syntax
pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magic
pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspec
kill limit_pathspec_to_literal() as it's only used by parse_pathspec()
parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN
parse_pathspec: make sure the prefix part is wildcard-free
rename field "raw" to "_raw" in struct pathspec
tree-diff: remove the use of pathspec's raw[] in follow-rename codepath
remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth()
remove init_pathspec() in favor of parse_pathspec()
remove diff_tree_{setup,release}_paths
convert common_prefix() to use struct pathspec
...
Teaches "git blame" to take more than one -L ranges.
* es/blame-L-twice:
line-range: reject -L line numbers less than 1
t8001/t8002: blame: add tests of -L line numbers less than 1
line-range: teach -L^:RE to search from start of file
line-range: teach -L:RE to search from end of previous -L range
line-range: teach -L^/RE/ to search from start of file
line-range-format.txt: document -L/RE/ relative search
log: teach -L/RE/ to search from end of previous -L range
blame: teach -L/RE/ to search from end of previous -L range
line-range: teach -L/RE/ to search relative to anchor point
blame: document multiple -L support
t8001/t8002: blame: add tests of multiple -L options
blame: accept multiple -L ranges
blame: inline one-line function into its lone caller
range-set: publish API for re-use by git-blame -L
line-range-format.txt: clarify -L:regex usage form
git-log.txt: place each -L option variation on its own line
Allow a safer "rewind of the remote tip" push than blind "--force",
by requiring that the overwritten remote ref to be unchanged since
the new history to replace it was prepared.
The machinery is more or less ready. The "--force" option is again
the big red button to override any safety, thanks to J6t's sanity
(the original round allowed --lockref to defeat --force).
The logic to choose the default implemented here is fragile
(e.g. "git fetch" after seeing a failure will update the
remote-tracking branch and will make the next "push" pass,
defeating the safety pretty easily). It is suitable only for the
simplest workflows, and it may hurt users more than it helps them.
* jc/push-cas:
push: teach --force-with-lease to smart-http transport
send-pack: fix parsing of --force-with-lease option
t5540/5541: smart-http does not support "--force-with-lease"
t5533: test "push --force-with-lease"
push --force-with-lease: tie it all together
push --force-with-lease: implement logic to populate old_sha1_expect[]
remote.c: add command line option parser for "--force-with-lease"
builtin/push.c: use OPT_BOOL, not OPT_BOOLEAN
cache.h: move remote/connect API out of it
Allow fetch.prune and remote.*.prune configuration variables to be set,
and "git fetch" to behave as if "--prune" is given.
"git fetch" that honors remote.*.prune is fine, but I wonder if we
should somehow make "git push" aware of it as well. Perhaps
remote.*.prune should not be just a boolean, but a 4-way "none",
"push", "fetch", "both"?
* ms/fetch-prune-configuration:
fetch: make --prune configurable
There is no reason not to turn on keepalives by default.
They take very little bandwidth, and significantly less than
the progress reporting they are replacing. And in the case
that progress reporting is on, we should never need to send
a keepalive anyway, as we will constantly be showing
progress and resetting the keepalive timer.
We do not necessarily know what the client's idea of a
reasonable timeout is, so let's keep this on the low side of
5 seconds. That is high enough that we will always prefer
our normal 1-second progress reports to sending a keepalive
packet, but low enough that no sane client should consider
the connection hung.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When upload-pack has started pack-objects, there may be a quiet
period while pack-objects prepares the pack (i.e., counting objects
and delta compression). Normally we would see (and send to the
client) progress information, but if "--quiet" is in effect,
pack-objects will produce nothing at all until the pack data is
ready. On a large repository, this can take tens of seconds (or even
minutes if the system is loaded or the repository is badly packed).
Clients or intermediate proxies can sometimes give up in this
situation, assuming that the server or connection has hung.
This patch introduces a "keepalive" option; if upload-pack sees no
data from pack-objects for a certain number of seconds, it will send
an empty sideband data packet to let the other side know that we are
still working on it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it easier for readers to find the actual config variables that
implement the "upstream" relationship.
Suggested-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a --stdin signature to read update instructions from standard input
and apply multiple ref updates together. Use an input format that
supports any update that could be specified via the command-line,
including object names like "branch:path with space".
Signed-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is similar in spirit to "make -C dir ..." and "tar -C dir ...".
It takes more keypresses to invoke git command in a different
directory without leaving the current directory:
1. (cd ~/foo && git status)
git --git-dir=~/foo/.git --work-dir=~/foo status
GIT_DIR=~/foo/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=~/foo git status
2. (cd ../..; git grep foo)
3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do (cd $d && git svn rebase); done
The methods shown above are acceptable for scripting but are too
cumbersome for quick command line invocations.
With this new option, the above can be done with fewer keystrokes:
1. git -C ~/foo status
2. git -C ../.. grep foo
3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do git -C $d svn rebase; done
A new test script is added to verify the behavior of this option with
other path-related options like --git-dir and --work-tree.
Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merges are often treated as special case objects so tell users that
they are not special here.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
AsciiDoc's "link" is supposed to create hyperlinks for HTML output, so
prefer a "link" to point to an HTML file instead of a text file if an HTML
version of the file is being generated. For RelNotes, keep pointing to
text files as no equivalent HTML files are generated.
If appropriate, also update the link description to not contain the linked
file's extension.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Historically, "git status" needed to prefix each output line with '#' so
that the output could be added as comment to the commit message. This
prefix comment has no real purpose when "git status" is ran from the
command-line, and this may distract users from the real content.
Disable this prefix comment by default, and make it re-activable for
users needing backward compatibility with status.displayCommentPrefix.
Obviously, "git commit" ignores status.displayCommentPrefix and keeps the
comment unconditionnaly when writing to COMMIT_EDITMSG (but not when
writing to stdout for an error message or with --dry-run).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is now standard practice in Git to have both short and long option
names. So let's give a long option name to the git replace options too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were no hints in the documentation about how to create
replacement objects.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A previous patch ensures that both the replaced and the replacement
objects passed to git replace must be of the same type, except if
-f option is used.
While at it state that there is no other restriction on both objects.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You need at least four dashes in a line to have it recognized as listing
block delimiter by asciidoc.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If possible, <rev> will be dereferenced even if it is not a tag type
(e.g., commit dereferenced to a tree).
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A tree-ish isn't a ref. Also, mention dereferencing, and that a
commit dereferences to a tree, to support gitrevisions(7) and
rev-parse's error messages.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace 'committish' in documentation and comments with 'commit-ish'
to match gitglossary(7) and to be consistent with 'tree-ish'.
The only remaining instances of 'committish' are:
* variable, function, and macro names
* "(also committish)" in the definition of commit-ish in
gitglossary[7]
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace 'treeish' in documentation and comments with 'tree-ish' to
match gitglossary(7).
The only remaining instances of 'treeish' are:
* variable, function, and macro names
* "(also treeish)" in the definition of tree-ish in gitglossary(7)
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation contains a mix of the two spellings, so include both
in the glossary so that a search for either will lead to the
definition.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a user is working on master, and has merged in their feature branch, but now
has to "git pull" because master moved, with pull.rebase their feature branch
will be flattened into master.
This is because "git pull" currently does not know about rebase's preserve
merges flag, which would avoid this behavior, as it would instead replay just
the merge commit of the feature branch onto the new master, and not replay each
individual commit in the feature branch.
Add a --rebase=preserve option, which will pass along --preserve-merges to
rebase.
Also add 'preserve' to the allowed values for the pull.rebase config setting.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert most uses of OPT_BOOLEAN/OPTION_BOOLEAN that can use
OPT_BOOL/OPTION_BOOLEAN which have much saner semantics, and turn
remaining ones into OPT_SET_INT, OPT_COUNTUP, etc. as necessary.
* sb/parseopt-boolean-removal:
revert: use the OPT_CMDMODE for parsing, reducing code
checkout-index: fix negations of even numbers of -n
config parsing options: allow one flag multiple times
hash-object: replace stdin parsing OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_COUNTUP
branch, commit, name-rev: ease up boolean conditions
checkout: remove superfluous local variable
log, format-patch: parsing uses OPT__QUIET
Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOL
Remove deprecated OPTION_BOOLEAN for parsing arguments
"git check-ignore -z" applied the NUL termination to both its input
(with --stdin) and its output, but "git check-attr -z" ignored the
option on the output side.
This is potentially a backward incompatible fix. Let's see if
anybody screams before deciding if we want to do anything to help
existing users (there may be none).
* jc/check-x-z:
check-attr -z: a single -z should apply to both input and output
check-ignore -z: a single -z should apply to both input and output
check-attr: the name of the character is NUL, not NULL
check-ignore: the name of the character is NUL, not NULL
Complete the <rev>^{<type>} family of object descriptors by having
<rev>^{tag} dereference <rev> until a tag object is found (or fail if
unable).
At first glance this may not seem very useful, as commits, trees, and
blobs cannot be peeled to a tag, and a tag would just peel to itself.
However, this can be used to ensure that <rev> names a tag object:
$ git rev-parse --verify v1.8.4^{tag}
04f013dc38d7512eadb915eba22efc414f18b869
$ git rev-parse --verify master^{tag}
error: master^{tag}: expected tag type, but the object dereferences to tree type
fatal: Needed a single revision
Users can already ensure that <rev> is a tag object by checking the
output of 'git cat-file -t <rev>', but:
* users may expect <rev>^{tag} to exist given that <rev>^{commit},
<rev>^{tree}, and <rev>^{blob} all exist
* this syntax is more convenient/natural in some circumstances
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 664059fb (transport-helper: update remote helper namespace,
2013-04-17), a 'push' operation on a remote helper updates the
private ref by default. This is often a good thing, but it can also
be desirable to disable this update to force the next 'pull' to
re-import the pushed revisions.
Allow remote-helpers to disable the automatic update by introducing a new
capability.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is tentatively called 1.8.5, but it should be an easy matter of
renaming the release-notes file and RelNotes symlink to later call
it 1.9 near the end of the cycle if we wanted to.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Declare that the official grammar & spelling of the source of this
project is en_US, but strongly discourage patches only to "fix"
existing en_UK strings to avoid unnecessary churns.
* mb/docs-favor-en-us:
Provide some linguistic guidance for the documentation.
The text mentions core.pager and GIT_PAGER without giving the
overall picture of precedences. Borrow a better description from
the git-var(1) documentation.
The use of the mechanism to allow system-wide, global and
per-repository configuration files is not limited to this particular
variable. Remove it to clarify the paragraph.
Rewrite the part that explains how the environment variable LESS is
set to Git's default value, and how to selectively customize it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for "diff-files" mode of "git diff" primarily
talks about how changes in the files in the working tree are shown
relative to the contents previously added to that index, and tucks
explanation on how "--no-index" mode, which works in a quite
different way, may be implicitly used instead. Instead, add a
separate paragraph to explain what "--no-index" mode does, and also
mention when "--no-index" can be omitted from the command line
(essentially, when it is obvious from the context).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add "-i" (interactive clean option) to clarify the documentation for
"clean.requireForce" config variable.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git prune" is safe in case of concurrent accesses to a repository
but using it in such a case is not recommended.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sorry Jon, but this might not be of any help to new Git users ;)
Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove unnecessary quoting.
Simplify description of three-way merge.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add some missing punctuation.
Simplify description of "git branch -d/-D".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Combine the two cases for "git add" into one.
Add verb "use" to "git rm" case.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pull ." works, but "git merge" is the recommended
way for new users to do things. (The old description
also should have read "The former is actually *not* very
commonly used".)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current documentation mentions the private ref namespace, but does
not really explain why it can be useful.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In most cases, "feature <foo>" does not just require that the feature
exists, but also changes the behavior by enabling it.
Cases where the feature is only requested like cat-blob, notes or ls are
clearly documented below.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify documentation for "diff --no-index". State that when not
inside a repository, --no-index is implied and two arguments are
mandatory.
Clarify error message from diff-no-index to inform user that CWD is
not inside a repository and thus two arguments are mandatory.
Signed-off-by: Dale Worley <worley@ariadne.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we had to revert two topics at the last minute, let's have
another (hopefully short) round of rc to make sure the final release
will be sound.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit cdfd94837b, as it
does not just apply to "@" (and forms with modifiers like @{u}
applied to it), but also affects e.g. "refs/heads/@/foo", which it
shouldn't.
The basic idea of giving a short-hand might be good, and the topic
can be retried later, but let's revert to avoid affecting existing
use cases for now for the upcoming release.
This reverts commit a73653130e, as it
has been reported that "ls-files --killed" is too time-consuming in
a deep directory with too many untracked crufts (e.g. $HOME/.git
tracking only a few files).
We'd need to revisit it later but "ls-files --killed" needs to be
optimized before it happens.
Encourage new users to use 'log' instead. These days, these
commands are unified and just have different defaults.
'git log' only allowed you to view the log messages and no diffs
when it was added in early June 2005. It was only in early April
2006 that the command learned to take diff options. Because of
this, power users tended to use 'whatchanged' that already existed
since mid May 2005 and supported diff options.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back when the core tutorial was written, `log` and `whatchanged`
were scripted Porcelains. In the "Inspecting Changes" section that
talks about the plumbing commands in the diff family, it made sense
to use `log` and `whatchanged` as good examples of the use of these
plumbing commands, and because even these scripted Porcelains were
novelty (there wasn't the new end-user tutorial written), it made
some sense to illustrate uses of the `git log` (and `git
whatchanged`) scripted Porcelain commands.
But we no longer have scripted `log` and `whatchanged` to serve as
examples, and this document is not where the end users learn what
`git log` command is about. Stop at briefly mentioning the
possibility of combining rev-list with diff-tree to build your own
log, and leave the end-user documentation of `log` to the new
tutorial and the user manual.
Also resurrect the last version of `git-log`, `git-whatchanged`, and
`git-show` to serve as examples to contrib/examples/ directory.
While at it, remove 'whatchanged' from a list of sample commands
that are affected by GIT_FLUSH environment variable. This is not
meant to be an exhaustive list but as a list of typical ones, and an
old command that is kept primarily for backward compatibility does
not belong to it.
Helped-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option "--diff3" was added to "git merge-file" in e0af48e
(xdiff-merge: optionally show conflicts in "diff3 -m" style)
but it was never documented in "Documentation/git-merge-file.txt".
Add documentation for this option.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This may happen when `git gc --auto` is run automatically, then the
user, to avoid wait time, switches to a new terminal, keeps working
and `git gc --auto` is started again because the first gc instance has
not clean up the repository.
This patch tries to avoid multiple gc running, especially in --auto
mode. In the worst case, gc may be delayed 12 hours if a daemon reuses
the pid stored in gc.pid.
kill(pid, 0) support is added to MinGW port so it should work on
Windows too.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is with mostly minor documentation and test updates, nothing
spectacular except for removal of funky lstat(2) emulation on Cygwin.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The -L:RE option of blame/log searches from the end of the previous -L
range, if any. Add new notation -L^:RE to override this behavior and
search from start of file.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For consistency with -L/RE/, teach -L:RE to search relative to the end
of the previous -L range, if any.
The new behavior invalidates one test in t4211 which assumes that -L:RE
begins searching at start of file. This test will be resurrected in a
follow-up patch which teaches -L:RE how to override the default relative
search behavior.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The -L/RE/ option of blame/log searches from the end of the previous -L
range, if any. Add new notation -L^/RE/ to override this behavior and
search from start of file.
The new ^/RE/ syntax is valid only as the <start> argument of
-L<start>,<end>. The <end> argument, as usual, is relative to <start>.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Option -L/RE/ of blame/log now searches relative to the previous -L
range, if any. Document this.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
blame/log documentation describes -L option as:
-L<start>,<end>
-L:<regex>
<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
* number
* /regex/
* +offset or -offset
* :regex
which is incorrect and confusing since :regex is not one of the valid
forms of <start> or <end>; in fact, it must be -L's lone argument.
Clarify by discussing :<regex> at the same indentation level as "<start>
and <end>...":
-L<start>,<end>
-L:<regex>
<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
* number
* /regex/
* +offset or -offset
If :<regex> is given in place of <start> and <end> ...
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Standard practice in Git documentation is for each variation of an
option (such as: -p / --porcelain) to be placed on its own line in the
OPTIONS table. The -L option does not follow suit. It cuddles "-L
<start>,<end>:<file>" and "-L :<regex>:<file>", separated by a comma.
This is inconsistent and potentially confusing since the comma
separating them is typeset the same as the comma in "<start>,<end>". Fix
this by placing each variation on its own line.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently using "git rm" on a submodule removes the submodule's work tree
from that of the superproject and the gitlink from the index. But the
submodule's section in .gitmodules is left untouched, which is a leftover
of the now removed submodule and might irritate users (as opposed to the
setting in .git/config, this must stay as a reminder that the user showed
interest in this submodule so it will be repopulated later when an older
commit is checked out).
Let "git rm" help the user by not only removing the submodule from the
work tree but by also removing the "submodule.<submodule name>" section
from the .gitmodules file and stage both. This doesn't happen when the
"--cached" option is used, as it would modify the work tree. This also
silently does nothing when no .gitmodules file is found and only issues a
warning when it doesn't have a section for this submodule. This is because
the user might just use plain gitlinks without the .gitmodules file or has
already removed the section by hand before issuing the "git rm" command
(in which case the warning reminds him that rm would have done that for
him). Only when .gitmodules is found and contains merge conflicts the rm
command will fail and tell the user to resolve the conflict before trying
again.
Also extend the man page to inform the user about this new feature. While
at it promote the submodule sub-section to a chapter as it made not much
sense under "REMOVING FILES THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE FILESYSTEM".
In t7610 three uses of "git rm submod" had to be replaced with "git rm
--cached submod" because that test expects .gitmodules and the work tree
to stay untouched. Also in t7400 the tests for the remaining settings in
the .gitmodules file had to be changed to assert that these settings are
missing.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently using "git mv" on a submodule moves the submodule's work tree in
that of the superproject. But the submodule's path setting in .gitmodules
is left untouched, which is now inconsistent with the work tree and makes
git commands that rely on the proper path -> name mapping (like status and
diff) behave strangely.
Let "git mv" help here by not only moving the submodule's work tree but
also updating the "submodule.<submodule name>.path" setting from the
.gitmodules file and stage both. This doesn't happen when no .gitmodules
file is found and only issues a warning when it doesn't have a section for
this submodule. This is because the user might just use plain gitlinks
without the .gitmodules file or has already updated the path setting by
hand before issuing the "git mv" command (in which case the warning
reminds him that mv would have done that for him). Only when .gitmodules
is found and contains merge conflicts the mv command will fail and tell
the user to resolve the conflict before trying again.
Also extend the man page to inform the user about this new feature.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using the same urlmatch_config_entry() infrastructure, add a new
mode "--get-urlmatch" to the "git config" command, to learn values
for the "virtual" two-level variables customized for the specific
URL.
git config [--<type>] --get-urlmatch <section>[.<key>] <url>
With <section>.<key> fully specified, the configuration data for
<section>.<urlpattern>.<key> for <urlpattern> that best matches the
given <url> is sought (and if not found, <section>.<key> is used)
and reported. For example, with this configuration:
[http]
sslVerify
[http "https://weak.example.com"]
cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
sslVerify = false
You would get
$ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://good.example.com
true
$ git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslVerify https://weak.example.com
false
With only <section> specified, you can get a list of all variables
in the section with their values that apply to the given URL. E.g
$ git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
http.cookiefile /tmp/cookie.txt
http.sslverify false
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the urlmatch_config_entry() to wrap the underlying
http_options() two-level variable parser in order to set
http.<variable> to the value with the most specific URL in the
configuration.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
fix typo in documentation of git-svn
Documentation/rev-list-options: add missing word in --*-parents
log doc: the argument to --encoding is not optional
This patch allows users to use the short form -q on
log and format-patch, which was non possible before.
Also the documentation of format-patch mentions -q now.
The documentation of log doesn't even talk about --quiet, so I'll leave
that for more experienced git contributors. ;)
It doesn't seem to change the default behavior, but in combination
with --stat for example it suppresses the actual stats.
however the only relevant code in log is
if (quiet)
rev->diffopt.output_format |= DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit c334b87b (cat-file: split --batch input lines on whitespace,
2013-07-11) taught `cat-file --batch-check` to split input lines on
the first whitespace, and stash everything after the first token
into the %(rest) output format element. It claimed:
Object names cannot contain spaces, so any input with
spaces would have resulted in a "missing" line.
But that is not correct. Refs, object sha1s, and various peeling
suffixes cannot contain spaces, but some object names can. In
particular:
1. Tree paths like "[<tree>]:path with whitespace"
2. Reflog specifications like "@{2 days ago}"
3. Commit searches like "rev^{/grep me}" or ":/grep me"
To remain backwards compatible, we cannot split on whitespace by
default, hence we will ship 1.8.4 with the commit reverted.
Resurrect its attempt but in a weaker form; only do the splitting
when "%(rest)" is used in the output format. Since that element did
not exist at all before c334b87, old scripts cannot be affected.
The existence of object names with spaces does mean that you
cannot reliably do:
echo ":path with space and other data" |
git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectname) %(rest)"
as it would split the path and feed only ":path" to get_sha1. But
that command is nonsensical. If you wanted to see "and other data"
in "%(rest)", git cannot possibly know where the filename ends and
the "rest" begins.
It might be more robust to have something like "-z" to separate the
input elements. But this patch is still a reasonable step before
having that. It makes the easy cases easy; people who do not care
about %(rest) do not have to consider it, and the %(rest) code
handles the spaces and newlines of "rev-list --objects" correctly.
Hard cases remain hard but possible (if you might get whitespace in
your input, you do not get to use %(rest) and must split and join
the output yourself using more flexible tools). And most
importantly, it does not preclude us from having different splitting
rules later if a "-z" (or similar) option is added. So we can make
the hard cases easier later, if we choose to.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A commit has "parent commits" or "parents", not "commits".
Signed-off-by: Torstein Hegge <hegge@resisty.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
$ git log --encoding
fatal: Option '--encoding' requires a value
$ git rev-list --encoding
fatal: Option '--encoding' requires a value
The argument to --encoding has always been mandatory. Unfortunately
manpages like git-rev-list(1), git-log(1), and git-show(1) have
described the option's syntax as "--encoding[=<encoding>]" since it
was first documented. Clarify by removing the extra brackets.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cygwin port added a "not quite correct but a lot faster and good
enough for many lstat() calls that are only used to see if the
working tree entity matches the index entry" lstat() emulation some
time ago, and it started biting us in places. This removes it and
uses the standard lstat() that comes with Cygwin.
Recent topic that uses lstat on packed-refs file is broken when
this cheating lstat is used, and this is a simplest fix that is
also the cleanest direction to go in the long run.
* rj/cygwin-clarify-use-of-cheating-lstat:
cygwin: Remove the Win32 l/stat() implementation
This reverts commit c334b87b30c1464a1ab563fe1fb8de5eaf0e5bac; the
update assumed that people only used the command to read from
"rev-list --objects" output, whose lines begin with a 40-hex object
name followed by a whitespace, but it turns out that scripts feed
random extended SHA-1 expressions (e.g. "HEAD:$pathname") in which
a whitespace has to be kept.
This will hopefully avoid questions over which spelling and grammar should
be used. Translators are of course free to create localizations for
specific English dialects.
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When moving a submodule which uses a gitfile to point to the git directory
stored in .git/modules/<name> of the superproject two changes must be made
to make the submodule work: the .git file and the core.worktree setting
must be adjusted to point from work tree to git directory and back.
Achieve that by remembering which submodule uses a gitfile by storing the
result of read_gitfile() of each submodule. If that is not NULL the new
function connect_work_tree_and_git_dir() is called after renaming the
submodule's work tree which updates the two settings to the new values.
Extend the man page to inform the user about that feature (and while at it
change the description to not talk about a script anymore, as mv is a
builtin for quite some time now).
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
HTTP servers may send Set-Cookie headers in a response and expect them
to be set on subsequent requests. By default, libcurl behavior is to
store such cookies in memory and reuse them across requests within a
single session. However, it may also make sense, depending on the
server and the cookies, to store them across sessions. Provide users
an option to enable this behavior, writing cookies out to the same
file specified in http.cookiefile.
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stress the difference between the two with a suggestion on
when the user should use one in place of the other.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --global section of git-config(1) currently reads like:
For writing options: write to global /.gitconfig file rather than the
^
start tilde
repository .git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if
this file exists and the/.gitconfig file doesn’t.
^
end tilde
Instead of tilde (~) being interpreted literally, asciidoc subscripts
the text between the two tildes. To fix this problem, use backticks (`)
to quote all the paths in the file uniformly, just like config.txt does.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
See 390eb36 (upload-pack: optionally allow fetching from the tips of
hidden refs - 2013-01-28) for more information.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
