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René Scharfe
96099726dd archive: expand only a single %(describe) per archive
Every %(describe) placeholder in $Format:...$ strings in files with the
attribute export-subst is expanded by calling git describe.  This can
potentially result in a lot of such calls per archive.  That's OK for
local repositories under control of the user of git archive, but could
be a problem for hosted repositories.

Expand only a single %(describe) placeholder per archive for now to
avoid denial-of-service attacks.  We can make this limit configurable
later if needed, but let's start out simple.

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-11 13:22:44 -08:00
Victor Engmark
2ff6c34612 userdiff: support Bash
Support POSIX, bashism and mixed function declarations, all four
compound command types, trailing comments and mixed whitespace.

Even though Bash allows locale-dependent characters in function names
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/245336/3645>, only detect function
names with characters allowed by POSIX.1-2017
<https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_235>
for simplicity. This should cover the vast majority of use cases, and
produces system-agnostic results.

Since a word pattern has to be specified, but there is no easy way to
know the default word pattern, use the default `IFS` characters for a
starter. A later patch can improve this.

Signed-off-by: Victor Engmark <victor@engmark.name>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-22 10:29:30 -07:00
Ash Holland
09dad9256a userdiff: support Markdown
It's typical to find Markdown documentation alongside source code, and
having better context for documentation changes is useful; see also
commit 69f9c87d4 (userdiff: add support for Fountain documents,
2015-07-21).

The pattern is based on the CommonMark specification 0.29, section 4.2
<https://spec.commonmark.org/> but doesn't match empty headings, as
seeing them in a hunk header is unlikely to be useful.

Only ATX headings are supported, as detecting setext headings would
require printing the line before a pattern matches, or matching a
multiline pattern. The word-diff pattern is the same as the pattern for
HTML, because many Markdown parsers accept inline HTML.

Signed-off-by: Ash Holland <ash@sorrel.sh>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-02 18:04:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
376e7309e1 Merge branch 'ln/userdiff-elixir'
The patterns to detect function boundary for Elixir language has
been added.

* ln/userdiff-elixir:
  userdiff: add Elixir to supported userdiff languages
2019-12-01 09:04:36 -08:00
Łukasz Niemier
a807200f67 userdiff: add Elixir to supported userdiff languages
Adds support for xfuncref in Elixir[1] language which is Ruby-like
language that runs on Erlang[3] Virtual Machine (BEAM).

[1]: https://elixir-lang.org
[2]: https://www.erlang.org

Signed-off-by: Łukasz Niemier <lukasz@niemier.pl>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-10 15:26:26 +09:00
Elijah Newren
031fd4b93b Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-07 13:42:00 +09:00
Stephen Boyd
3c81760bc6 userdiff: add a builtin pattern for dts files
The Linux kernel receives many patches to the devicetree files each
release. The hunk header for those patches typically show nothing,
making it difficult to figure out what node is being modified without
applying the patch or opening the file and seeking to the context. Let's
add a builtin 'dts' pattern to git so that users can get better diff
output on dts files when they use the diff=dts driver.

The regex has been constructed based on the spec at devicetree.org[1]
and with some help from Johannes Sixt.

[1] https://github.com/devicetree-org/devicetree-specification/releases/latest

Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-21 15:09:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f496b064fc Merge branch 'nd/switch-and-restore'
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.

* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
  completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
  switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
  t2027: use test_must_be_empty
  Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
  help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
  doc: promote "git restore"
  user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
  completion: support restore
  t: add tests for restore
  restore: support --patch
  restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
  restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
  restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
  restore: add --worktree and --staged
  checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
  restore: disable overlay mode by default
  restore: make pathspec mandatory
  restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
  checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
  doc: promote "git switch"
  ...
2019-07-09 15:25:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a41dad4330 Merge branch 'ml/userdiff-rust'
The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
boundary for Rust has been added.

* ml/userdiff-rust:
  userdiff: two simplifications of patterns for rust
  userdiff: add built-in pattern for rust
2019-06-21 11:24:08 -07:00
Boxuan Li
2731a7840a userdiff: fix grammar and style issues
Signed-off-by: Boxuan Li <liboxuan@connect.hku.hk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-29 09:50:31 -07:00
Boxuan Li
91bf382fcf userdiff: add Octave
Octave pattern is almost the same as matlab, except
that '%%%' and '##' can also be used to begin code sections,
in addition to '%%' that is understood by both. Octave
pattern is merged into Matlab pattern. Test cases for
the hunk header patterns of matlab and octave under
t/t4018 are added.

Signed-off-by: Boxuan Li <liboxuan@connect.hku.hk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-19 10:45:28 +09:00
Marc-André Lureau
d74e78602e userdiff: add built-in pattern for rust
This adds xfuncname and word_regex patterns for Rust, a quite
popular programming language. It also includes test cases for the
xfuncname regex (t4018) and updated documentation.

The word_regex pattern finds identifiers, integers, floats and
operators, according to the Rust Reference Book.

Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-17 12:54:02 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
04116ecb7b Merge branch 'ab/doc-misc-typofixes'
Typofixes.

* ab/doc-misc-typofixes:
  doc: fix typos in man pages
2019-04-16 19:28:08 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
6d281f70cc Merge branch 'ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more'
Documentation mark-up fixes.

* ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more:
  Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces
  git-svn.txt: drop escaping '\' that ends up being rendered
  git.txt: remove empty line before list continuation
  config/fsck.txt: avoid starting line with dash
  config/diff.txt: drop spurious backtick
2019-04-16 19:28:04 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
d787d311db checkout: split part of it to new command 'switch'
"git checkout" doing too many things is a source of confusion for many
users (and it even bites old timers sometimes). To remedy that, the
command will be split into two new ones: switch and restore. The good
old "git checkout" command is still here and will be until all (or most
of users) are sick of it.

See the new man page for the final design of switch. The actual
implementation though is still pretty much the same as "git checkout"
and not completely aligned with the man page. Following patches will
adjust their behavior to match the man page.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:56:59 +09:00
Alexander Blesius
ed31851fa6 doc: fix typos in man pages
Signed-off-by: Alexander Blesius <alexander+git@blesius.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18 14:45:21 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
2cab288694 Merge branch 'yb/utf-16le-bom-spellfix'
Doc update.

* yb/utf-16le-bom-spellfix:
  gitattributes.txt: fix typo
2019-03-11 16:16:24 +09:00
Martin Ågren
8d75a1d183 Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces
These tabs happen to appear in columns where they don't stand out too
much, so the diff here is non-obvious. Some of these are rendered
differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor (although the difference might
be invisible!), which is how I found a few of them. The remainder were
found using `git grep "[a-zA-Z.,)]$TAB[a-zA-Z]"`.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-07 09:25:32 +09:00
Yash Bhatambare
e6e15194a8 gitattributes.txt: fix typo
`UTF-16-LE-BOM` to `UTF-16LE-BOM`.

this closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2095

Signed-off-by: Yash Bhatambare <ybhatambare@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-07 09:24:06 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
13e263095b Merge branch 'jk/autocrlf-overrides-eol-doc'
Documentation around core.crlf has been updated.

* jk/autocrlf-overrides-eol-doc:
  docs/config: clarify "text property" in core.eol
  doc/gitattributes: clarify "autocrlf overrides eol"
2019-02-06 22:05:23 -08:00
Torsten Bögershausen
aab2a1ae48 Support working-tree-encoding "UTF-16LE-BOM"
Users who want UTF-16 files in the working tree set the .gitattributes
like this:
test.txt working-tree-encoding=UTF-16

The unicode standard itself defines 3 allowed ways how to encode UTF-16.
The following 3 versions convert all back to 'g' 'i' 't' in UTF-8:

a) UTF-16, without BOM, big endian:
$ printf "\000g\000i\000t" | iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 | od -c
0000000    g   i   t

b) UTF-16, with BOM, little endian:
$ printf "\377\376g\000i\000t\000" | iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 | od -c
0000000    g   i   t

c) UTF-16, with BOM, big endian:
$ printf "\376\377\000g\000i\000t" | iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 | od -c
0000000    g   i   t

Git uses libiconv to convert from UTF-8 in the index into ITF-16 in the
working tree.
After a checkout, the resulting file has a BOM and is encoded in "UTF-16",
in the version (c) above.
This is what iconv generates, more details follow below.

iconv (and libiconv) can generate UTF-16, UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE:

d) UTF-16
$ printf 'git' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 | od -c
0000000  376 377  \0   g  \0   i  \0   t

e) UTF-16LE
$ printf 'git' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16LE | od -c
0000000    g  \0   i  \0   t  \0

f)  UTF-16BE
$ printf 'git' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16BE | od -c
0000000   \0   g  \0   i  \0   t

There is no way to generate version (b) from above in a Git working tree,
but that is what some applications need.
(All fully unicode aware applications should be able to read all 3 variants,
but in practise we are not there yet).

When producing UTF-16 as an output, iconv generates the big endian version
with a BOM. (big endian is probably chosen for historical reasons).

iconv can produce UTF-16 files with little endianess by using "UTF-16LE"
as encoding, and that file does not have a BOM.

Not all users (especially under Windows) are happy with this.
Some tools are not fully unicode aware and can only handle version (b).

Today there is no way to produce version (b) with iconv (or libiconv).
Looking into the history of iconv, it seems as if version (c) will
be used in all future iconv versions (for compatibility reasons).

Solve this dilemma and introduce a Git-specific "UTF-16LE-BOM".
libiconv can not handle the encoding, so Git pick it up, handles the BOM
and uses libiconv to convert the rest of the stream.
(UTF-16BE-BOM is added for consistency)

Rported-by: Adrián Gimeno Balaguer <adrigibal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-31 10:27:52 -08:00
Jeff King
2b6808531a doc/gitattributes: clarify "autocrlf overrides eol"
We only override core.eol with core.autocrlf when the latter is set to
something besides "false".  Let's make this more clear, and point the
reader to the git-config definitions, which discuss this in more detail.

Noticed-by: Sergey Lukashev <lukashev.s@ya.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-29 09:21:33 -08:00
Andreas Heiduk
ad471949f4 doc: fix inappropriate monospace formatting
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23 12:23:09 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
2289880f78 Merge branch 'nd/command-list'
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
bit more consolidated to allow more automation.

* nd/command-list:
  completion: allow to customize the completable command list
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
  Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
  completion: reduce completable command list
  completion: let git provide the completable command list
  command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
  help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
  help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
  git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
  completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
  git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
  git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
  Remove common-cmds.h
  help: use command-list.h for common command list
  generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
  generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-06-01 15:06:37 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
6b0f1d9c47 Merge branch 'nd/doc-header'
Doc formatting fix.

* nd/doc-header:
  doc: keep first level section header in upper case
2018-05-23 14:38:22 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
1b81d8cb19 help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
The help command currently hard codes the list of guides and their
summary in C. Let's move this list to command-list.txt. This lets us
extract summary lines from Documentation/git*.txt. This also
potentially lets us list guides in git.txt, but I'll leave that for
now.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
1ac0ce4d32 Merge branch 'ls/checkout-encoding'
The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working
tree (and the other way around when checking in).

* ls/checkout-encoding:
  convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'
  convert: add tracing for 'working-tree-encoding' attribute
  convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings
  convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute
  utf8: add function to detect a missing UTF-16/32 BOM
  utf8: add function to detect prohibited UTF-16/32 BOM
  utf8: teach same_encoding() alternative UTF encoding names
  strbuf: add a case insensitive starts_with()
  strbuf: add xstrdup_toupper()
  strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower()
2018-05-08 15:59:22 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
76a8788c14 doc: keep first level section header in upper case
When formatted as a man page, 1st section header is always in upper
case even if we write it otherwise. Make all 1st section headers
uppercase to keep it close to the final output.

This does affect html since case is kept there, but I still think it's
a good idea to maintain a consistent style for 1st section headers.

Some sections perhaps should become second sections instead, where
case is kept, and for better organization. I will update if anyone has
suggestions about this.

While at there I also make some header more consistent (e.g. examples
vs example) and fix a couple minor things here and there.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-02 17:03:33 +09:00
Lars Schneider
e92d622536 convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'
UTF supports lossless conversion round tripping and conversions between
UTF and other encodings are mostly round trip safe as Unicode aims to be
a superset of all other character encodings. However, certain encodings
(e.g. SHIFT-JIS) are known to have round trip issues [1].

Add 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding', which contains a comma separated
list of encodings, to define for what encodings Git should check the
conversion round trip if they are used in the 'working-tree-encoding'
attribute.

Set SHIFT-JIS as default value for 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/170559/prb-conversion-problem-between-shift-jis-and-unicode

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-16 11:40:56 +09:00
Lars Schneider
107642fe26 convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute
Git recognizes files encoded with ASCII or one of its supersets (e.g.
UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1) as text files. All other encodings are usually
interpreted as binary and consequently built-in Git text processing
tools (e.g. 'git diff') as well as most Git web front ends do not
visualize the content.

Add an attribute to tell Git what encoding the user has defined for a
given file. If the content is added to the index, then Git reencodes
the content to a canonical UTF-8 representation. On checkout Git will
reverse this operation.

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-16 11:40:56 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
d16c37964c Merge branch 'jk/attributes-path-doc'
Doc update.

* jk/attributes-path-doc:
  doc/gitattributes: mention non-recursive behavior
2018-03-21 11:30:15 -07:00
Jeff King
b635ed97a0 doc/gitattributes: mention non-recursive behavior
The gitattributes documentation claims that the pattern
rules are largely the same as for gitignore. However, the
rules for recursion are different.

In an ideal world, we would make them the same (if for
nothing else than consistency and simplicity), but that
would create backwards compatibility issues. For some
discussion, see this thread:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/slrnkldd3g.1l4.jan@majutsushi.net/

But let's at least document the differences instead of
actively misleading the user by claiming that they're the
same.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-20 10:01:03 -07:00
Alban Gruin
1dbf0c0ad6 userdiff: add built-in pattern for golang
This adds xfuncname and word_regex patterns for golang, a quite
popular programming language. It also includes test cases for the
xfuncname regex (t4018) and updated documentation.

The xfuncname regex finds functions, structs and interfaces.  Although
the Go language prohibits the opening brace from being on its own
line, the regex does not makes it mandatory, to be able to match
`func` statements like this:

    func foo(bar int,
    	baz int) {
    }

This is covered by the test case t4018/golang-long-func.

The word_regex pattern finds identifiers, integers, floats, complex
numbers and operators, according to the go specification.

Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-01 13:36:49 -08:00
Jonathan Tan
addad10594 Docs: split out long-running subprocess handshake
Separating out the implementation of the handshake when starting a
long-running subprocess (for example, as is done for a clean/smudge
filter) was done in commit fa64a2fdbe ("sub-process: refactor
handshake to common function", 2017-07-26), but its documentation still
resides in gitattributes. Split out the documentation as well.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-25 11:24:32 -08:00
Torsten Bögershausen
9472935d81 add: introduce "--renormalize"
Make it safer to normalize the line endings in a repository.
Files that had been commited with CRLF will be commited with LF.

The old way to normalize a repo was like this:

 # Make sure that there are not untracked files
 $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
 $ git read-tree --empty
 $ git add .
 $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"

The user must make sure that there are no untracked files,
otherwise they would have been added and tracked from now on.

The new "add --renormalize" does not add untracked files:

 $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
 $ git add --renormalize .
 $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"

Note that "git add --renormalize <pathspec>" is the short form for
"git add -u --renormalize <pathspec>".

While at it, document that the same renormalization may be needed,
whenever a clean filter is added or changed.

Helped-By: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-17 10:31:05 +09:00
Ben Boeckel
3bc4b8f7c7 Documentation: mention that eol can change the dirty status of paths
When setting the `eol` attribute, paths can change their dirty status
without any change in the working directory. This can cause confusion
and should at least be mentioned with a remedy.

Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-07 08:57:54 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
487fe1ffcd Merge branch 'ls/filter-process-delayed' into jt/subprocess-handshake
* ls/filter-process-delayed:
  convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol
  convert: refactor capabilities negotiation
  convert: move multiple file filter error handling to separate function
  convert: put the flags field before the flag itself for consistent style
  t0021: write "OUT <size>" only on success
  t0021: make debug log file name configurable
  t0021: keep filter log files on comparison
2017-07-26 12:56:19 -07:00
Lars Schneider
2841e8f81c convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol
Some `clean` / `smudge` filters may require a significant amount of
time to process a single blob (e.g. the Git LFS smudge filter might
perform network requests). During this process the Git checkout
operation is blocked and Git needs to wait until the filter is done to
continue with the checkout.

Teach the filter process protocol, introduced in edcc8581 ("convert: add
filter.<driver>.process option", 2016-10-16), to accept the status
"delayed" as response to a filter request. Upon this response Git
continues with the checkout operation. After the checkout operation Git
calls "finish_delayed_checkout" which queries the filter for remaining
blobs. If the filter is still working on the completion, then the filter
is expected to block. If the filter has completed all remaining blobs
then an empty response is expected.

Git has a multiple code paths that checkout a blob. Support delayed
checkouts only in `clone` (in unpack-trees.c) and `checkout` operations
for now. The optimization is most effective in these code paths as all
files of the tree are processed.

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-30 13:50:41 -07:00
Andreas Heiduk
773a88914f doc: do not use rm .git/index when normalizing line endings
When illustrating how to normalize the line endings, the
documentation in gitattributes tells the user to `rm .git/index`.

This is incorrect for two reasons:

 - Users shouldn't be instructed to mess around with the internal
   implementation of Git using raw file system tools like `rm`.

 - Within a submodule or an additional working tree `.git` is just a
   file containing a `gitdir: <path>` pointer into the real `.git`
   directory.  Therefore `rm .git/index` does not work.

The purpose of the `rm .git/index` instruction is to remove all entries
from the index without touching the working tree.  The way to do this
with Git is to use `read-tree --empty`.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15 10:55:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
848d9a9bb7 Merge branch 'tb/doc-eol-normalization'
Doc update.

* tb/doc-eol-normalization:
  gitattributes.txt: document how to normalize the line endings
2017-04-23 22:07:45 -07:00
Torsten Bögershausen
85999743e7 gitattributes.txt: document how to normalize the line endings
The instructions how to normalize the line endings should have been updated
as part of commit 6523728499 'convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF',
(but that part never made it into the commit).

Update the documentation in Documentation/gitattributes.txt and add
a test case in t0025.

Reported by Kristian Adrup
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/954

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-13 15:53:41 -07:00
Stefan Beller
faa4e8ceb5 Documentation: fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-01 13:46:52 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
860a74d9d9 attr: support quoting pathname patterns in C style
Full pattern must be quoted. So 'pat"t"ern attr' will give exactly
'pat"t"ern', not 'pattern'. Also clarify that leading whitespaces are
not part of the pattern and document comment syntax.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-01 13:46:52 -08:00
Lars Schneider
c6b0831c9c docs: warn about possible '=' in clean/smudge filter process values
A pathname value in a clean/smudge filter process "key=value" pair can
contain the '=' character (introduced in edcc858). Make the user aware
of this issue in the docs, add a corresponding test case, and fix the
issue in filter process value parser of the example implementation in
contrib.

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-06 11:29:52 -08:00
Lars Schneider
0f71fa273f contrib/long-running-filter: add long running filter example
Add a simple pass-thru filter as example implementation for the Git
filter protocol version 2. See Documentation/gitattributes.txt, section
"Filter Protocol" for more info.

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-17 11:45:52 -07:00
Lars Schneider
edcc85814c convert: add filter.<driver>.process option
Git's clean/smudge mechanism invokes an external filter process for
every single blob that is affected by a filter. If Git filters a lot of
blobs then the startup time of the external filter processes can become
a significant part of the overall Git execution time.

In a preliminary performance test this developer used a clean/smudge
filter written in golang to filter 12,000 files. This process took 364s
with the existing filter mechanism and 5s with the new mechanism. See
details here: https://github.com/github/git-lfs/pull/1382

This patch adds the `filter.<driver>.process` string option which, if
used, keeps the external filter process running and processes all blobs
with the packet format (pkt-line) based protocol over standard input and
standard output. The full protocol is explained in detail in
`Documentation/gitattributes.txt`.

A few key decisions:

* The long running filter process is referred to as filter protocol
  version 2 because the existing single shot filter invocation is
  considered version 1.
* Git sends a welcome message and expects a response right after the
  external filter process has started. This ensures that Git will not
  hang if a version 1 filter is incorrectly used with the
  filter.<driver>.process option for version 2 filters. In addition,
  Git can detect this kind of error and warn the user.
* The status of a filter operation (e.g. "success" or "error) is set
  before the actual response and (if necessary!) re-set after the
  response. The advantage of this two step status response is that if
  the filter detects an error early, then the filter can communicate
  this and Git does not even need to create structures to read the
  response.
* All status responses are pkt-line lists terminated with a flush
  packet. This allows us to send other status fields with the same
  protocol in the future.

Helped-by: Martin-Louis Bright <mlbright@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-17 11:45:52 -07:00
Torsten Bögershausen
e28eae3184 gitattributes: Document the unified "auto" handling
Update the documentation about text=auto:
text=auto now follows the core.autocrlf handling when files are not
normalized in the repository.

For a cross platform project recommend the usage of attributes for
line-ending conversions.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-26 13:54:16 -07:00
Ville Skyttä
2e3a16b279 Spelling fixes
<BAD>                     <CORRECTED>
    accidently                accidentally
    commited                  committed
    dependancy                dependency
    emtpy                     empty
    existance                 existence
    explicitely               explicitly
    git-upload-achive         git-upload-archive
    hierachy                  hierarchy
    indegee                   indegree
    intial                    initial
    mulitple                  multiple
    non-existant              non-existent
    precendence.              precedence.
    priviledged               privileged
    programatically           programmatically
    psuedo-binary             pseudo-binary
    soemwhere                 somewhere
    successfull               successful
    transfering               transferring
    uncommited                uncommitted
    unkown                    unknown
    usefull                   useful
    writting                  writing

Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-11 14:35:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
104985c59e Merge branch 'jh/clean-smudge-f-doc'
A minor documentation update.

* jh/clean-smudge-f-doc:
  clarify %f documentation
2016-08-08 14:48:43 -07:00
Joey Hess
52db4b0467 clarify %f documentation
It's natural to expect %f to be an actual file on disk; help avoid that
mistake.

Signed-off-by: Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-03 10:10:35 -07:00