Doc update around use of "format-patch --subject-prefix" etc.
* ad/submitting-patches-title-decoration:
doc/SubmittingPatches: correct subject guidance
Currently 'git worktree add <path> <branch>', errors out when 'branch'
is not a local branch. It has no additional dwim'ing features that one
might expect.
Make it behave more like 'git checkout <branch>' when the branch doesn't
exist locally, but a remote tracking branch uniquely matches the desired
branch name, i.e. create a new branch from the remote tracking branch
and set the upstream to the remote tracking branch.
As 'git worktree add' currently just dies in this situation, there are
no backwards compatibility worries when introducing this feature.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'git worktree add' sets up tracking branches if '<branch>' is
a remote tracking branch, and doesn't set them up otherwise, as is the
default for 'git branch'.
This may or may not be what the user wants. Allow overriding this
behaviour with a --[no-]track flag that gets passed through to 'git
branch'.
We already respect branch.autoSetupMerge, as 'git worktree' just calls
'git branch' internally.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'git worktree add' is documented to take an optional <branch>
argument, which is checked out in the new worktree. However it is more
generally possible to use a commit-ish as the optional argument, and
check that out into the new worktree.
Document that this is a possibility, as new users of git worktree add
might find it helpful.
Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The text meant to say that receive-pack runs these hooks, and only
because receive-pack is not a command the end users use every day
(ever), as an explanation also meantioned that it is run in response
to 'git push', which is an end-user facing command readers hopefully
know about.
This unfortunately gave an incorrect impression that 'git push'
always result in the hook to run. If the refs push wanted to update
all already had the desired value, these hooks are not run.
Explicitly mention "... and updates reference(s)" as a precondition
to avoid this confusion.
Helped-by: Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach pack-objects to use the filtering provided by the
traverse_commit_list_filtered() interface to omit unwanted
objects from the resulting packfile.
Filtering requires the use of the "--stdout" option.
Add t5317 test.
In the future, we will introduce a "partial clone" mechanism
wherein an object in a repo, obtained from a remote, may
reference a missing object that can be dynamically fetched from
that remote once needed. This "partial clone" mechanism will
have a way, sometimes slow, of determining if a missing link
is one of the links expected to be produced by this mechanism.
This patch introduces handling of missing objects to help
debugging and development of the "partial clone" mechanism,
and once the mechanism is implemented, for a power user to
perform operations that are missing-object aware without
incurring the cost of checking if a missing link is expected.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach rev-list to use the filtering provided by the
traverse_commit_list_filtered() interface to omit
unwanted objects from the result.
Object filtering is only allowed when one of the "--objects*"
options are used.
When the "--filter-print-omitted" option is used, the omitted
objects are printed at the end. These are marked with a "~".
This option can be combined with "--quiet" to get a list of
just the omitted objects.
Add t6112 test.
In the future, we will introduce a "partial clone" mechanism
wherein an object in a repo, obtained from a remote, may
reference a missing object that can be dynamically fetched from
that remote once needed. This "partial clone" mechanism will
have a way, sometimes slow, of determining if a missing link
is one of the links expected to be produced by this mechanism.
This patch introduces handling of missing objects to help
debugging and development of the "partial clone" mechanism,
and once the mechanism is implemented, for a power user to
perform operations that are missing-object aware without
incurring the cost of checking if a missing link is expected.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although `git stash save` was deprecated recently, some parts of the
documentation still refer to it instead of `push`.
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `log --decorate` is used, git will decorate commits with all
available refs. While in most cases this may give the desired effect,
under some conditions it can lead to excessively verbose output.
Introduce two command line options, `--decorate-refs=<pattern>` and
`--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>` to allow the user to select which
refs are used in decoration.
When "--decorate-refs=<pattern>" is given, only the refs that match the
pattern are used in decoration. The refs that match the pattern when
"--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>" is given, are never used in
decoration.
These options follow the same convention for mixing negative and
positive patterns across the system, assuming that the inclusive default
is to match all refs available.
(1) if there is no positive pattern given, pretend as if an
inclusive default positive pattern was given;
(2) for each candidate, reject it if it matches no positive
pattern, or if it matches any one of the negative patterns.
The rules for what is considered a match are slightly different from the
rules used elsewhere.
Commands like `log --glob` assume a trailing '/*' when glob chars are
not present in the pattern. This makes it difficult to specify a single
ref. On the other hand, commands like `describe --match --all` allow
specifying exact refs, but do not have the convenience of allowing
"shorthand refs" like 'refs/heads' or 'heads' to refer to
'refs/heads/*'.
The commands introduced in this patch consider a match if:
(a) the pattern contains globs chars,
and regular pattern matching returns a match.
(b) the pattern does not contain glob chars,
and ref '<pattern>' exists, or if ref exists under '<pattern>/'
This allows both behaviours (allowing single refs and shorthand refs)
yet remaining compatible with existent commands.
Helped-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, 'git notes prune' in man page and usage message
incorrectly lists options as '[-n | -v]', rather than '[-n] [-v]'.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add mention of git prune's "--progress" option to the SYNOPSIS and
DESCRIPTION sections of the man page, and to the usage message of "git
prune" itself.
While we're here, move the explanation of "--" toward the end of the
DESCRIPTION section, where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the "git reflog" man page supports both "--dry-run" and "-n" for
a dry run, the man page mentions only the former, not the latter.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Doc update around use of "format-patch --subject-prefix" etc.
* ad/submitting-patches-title-decoration:
doc/SubmittingPatches: correct subject guidance
Various fixes to bp/fsmonitor topic.
* av/fsmonitor:
fsmonitor: simplify determining the git worktree under Windows
fsmonitor: store fsmonitor bitmap before splitting index
fsmonitor: read from getcwd(), not the PWD environment variable
fsmonitor: delay updating state until after split index is merged
fsmonitor: document GIT_TRACE_FSMONITOR
fsmonitor: don't bother pretty-printing JSON from watchman
fsmonitor: set the PWD to the top of the working tree
We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other
operations that need to see which paths have been modified.
* bp/fsmonitor:
fsmonitor: preserve utf8 filenames in fsmonitor-watchman log
fsmonitor: read entirety of watchman output
fsmonitor: MINGW support for watchman integration
fsmonitor: add a performance test
fsmonitor: add a sample integration script for Watchman
fsmonitor: add test cases for fsmonitor extension
split-index: disable the fsmonitor extension when running the split index test
fsmonitor: add a test tool to dump the index extension
update-index: add fsmonitor support to update-index
ls-files: Add support in ls-files to display the fsmonitor valid bit
fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension.
fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files.
update-index: add a new --force-write-index option
preload-index: add override to enable testing preload-index
bswap: add 64 bit endianness helper get_be64
Android's "repo" tool is a tool for managing a large codebase
consisting of multiple smaller repositories, similar to Git's
submodule feature. Starting with Git 94b8ae5a (ssh: introduce a
'simple' ssh variant, 2017-10-16), users noticed that it stopped
handling the port in ssh:// URLs.
The cause: when it encounters ssh:// URLs, repo pre-connects to the
server and sets GIT_SSH to a helper ".repo/repo/git_ssh" that reuses
that connection. Before 94b8ae5a, the helper was assumed to support
OpenSSH options for lack of a better guess and got passed a -p option
to set the port. After that patch, it uses the new default of a
simple helper that does not accept an option to set the port.
The next release of "repo" will set GIT_SSH_VARIANT to "ssh" to avoid
that. But users of old versions and of other similar GIT_SSH
implementations would not get the benefit of that fix.
So update the default to use OpenSSH options again, with a twist. As
observed in 94b8ae5a, we cannot assume that $GIT_SSH always handles
OpenSSH options: common helpers such as travis-ci's dpl[*] are
configured using GIT_SSH and do not accept OpenSSH options. So make
the default a new variant "auto", with the following behavior:
1. First, check for a recognized basename, like today.
2. If the basename is not recognized, check whether $GIT_SSH supports
OpenSSH options by running
$GIT_SSH -G <options> <host>
This returns status 0 and prints configuration in OpenSSH if it
recognizes all <options> and returns status 255 if it encounters
an unrecognized option. A wrapper script like
exec ssh -- "$@"
would fail with
ssh: Could not resolve hostname -g: Name or service not known
, correctly reflecting that it does not support OpenSSH options.
The command is run with stdin, stdout, and stderr redirected to
/dev/null so even a command that expects a terminal would exit
immediately.
3. Based on the result from step (2), behave like "ssh" (if it
succeeded) or "simple" (if it failed).
This way, the default ssh variant for unrecognized commands can handle
both the repo and dpl cases as intended.
This autodetection has been running on Google workstations since
2017-10-23 with no reported negative effects.
[*] 6c3fddfda1/lib/dpl/provider.rb (L215)
Reported-by: William Yan <wyan@google.com>
Improved-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is similar to ff1e72483 (tag: change default of `pager.tag` to
"on", 2017-08-02) and is safe now that we do not consider `pager.branch`
at all when we are not listing branches. This change will help with
listing many branches, but will not hurt users of `git branch
--edit-description` as it would have before the previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to de121ffe5 (tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only,
2017-08-02), use the DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG-mechanism to only respect
`pager.branch` when we are listing branches.
We have two possibilities of generalizing what that earlier commit made
to `git tag`. One is to interpret, e.g., --set-upstream-to as "it does
not use an editor, so we should page". Another, the one taken by this
commit, is to say "it does not list, so let's not page". That is in line
with the approach of the series on `pager.tag` and in particular the
wording in Documentation/git-tag.txt, which this commit reuses for
git-branch.txt.
This fixes the failing test added in the previous commit. Also adapt the
test for whether `git branch --set-upstream-to` respects `pager.branch`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --expiry-date as a data-type for config files when
'git config --get' is used. This will return any relative
or fixed dates from config files as timestamps.
This is useful for scripts (e.g. gc.reflogexpire) that work
with timestamps so that '2.weeks' can be converted to a format
acceptable by those scripts/functions.
Following the convention of git_config_pathname(), move
the helper function required for this feature from
builtin/reflog.c to builtin/config.c where other similar
functions exist (e.g. for --bool or --path), and match
the order of parameters with other functions (i.e. output
pointer as first parameter).
Signed-off-by: Haaris Mehmood <hsed@unimetic.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Support for the --set-upstream option was removed in 52668846ea
(builtin/branch: stop supporting the "--set-upstream" option,
2017-08-17), after a long deprecation period.
Remove the option from the command synopsis for consistency. Replace
another reference to it in the description of `--delete` with
`--set-upstream-to`.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The functionality to list tree objects in the order they were seen
while traversing the commits will be used in one of the next commits,
where we teach `git describe` to describe not only commits, but blobs, too.
The change in list-objects.c is rather minimal as we'll be re-using
the infrastructure put in place of the revision walking machinery. For
example one could expect that add_pending_tree is not called, but rather
commit->tree is directly passed to the tree traversal function. This
however requires a lot more code than just emptying the queue containing
trees after each commit.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an
HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor.
* bc/submitting-patches-in-asciidoc:
Documentation: convert SubmittingPatches to AsciiDoc
Documentation: enable compat-mode for Asciidoctor
Doc and message updates to teach users "bisect view" is a synonym
for "bisect visualize".
* rd/bisect-view-is-visualize:
bisect: mention "view" as an alternative to "visualize"
The "--format=..." option "git for-each-ref" takes learned to show
the name of the 'remote' repository and the ref at the remote side
that is affected for 'upstream' and 'push' via "%(push:remotename)"
and friends.
* js/for-each-ref-remote-name-and-ref:
for-each-ref: test :remotename and :remoteref
for-each-ref: let upstream/push report the remote ref name
for-each-ref: let upstream/push optionally report the remote name
MinGW updates.
* js/mingw-redirect-std-handles:
mingw: document the standard handle redirection
mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle
mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles
Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
configuration variables have been added to "git config --help".
* sb/blame-config-doc:
config: document blame configuration
"git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run
outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation
and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in
such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names.
* jc/check-ref-format-oor:
check-ref-format doc: --branch validates and expands <branch>
check-ref-format --branch: strip refs/heads/ using skip_prefix
check-ref-format --branch: do not expand @{...} outside repository
The set of paths output from "git status --ignored" was tied
closely with its "--untracked=<mode>" option, but now it can be
controlled more flexibly. Most notably, a directory that is
ignored because it is listed to be ignored in the ignore/exclude
mechanism can be handled differently from a directory that ends up
to be ignored only because all files in it are ignored.
* jm/status-ignored-files-list:
status: test ignored modes
status: document options to show matching ignored files
status: report matching ignored and normal untracked
status: add option to show ignored files differently
The SubmittingPatches document is often cited by outside parties as an
example of good practices to follow, including logical, independent
commits; patch sign-offs; and sending patches to a mailing list.
Currently, people who want to cite a particular section tend to either
refer to it by name and let the interested party search through the
document to find it, or link to a given line number on GitHub and hope
the file doesn't change.
Instead, convert the document to AsciiDoc. Build it as part of the
technical documentation, since it is likely of interest to the same
group of people. Provide stable links to the sections which outside
parties are likely to want to link to. Make some minor structural
changes to organize it so that it can be formatted sanely.
Since the makefile needs a .txt extension in order to build with the
rest of the documentation, simply copy the file. Ignore the temporary
file so it doesn't get checked in accidentally, and remove it as part of
the clean process. Do this instead of renaming the file so that people
who have already linked to the documentation (who we're trying to help)
don't find their links broken. Avoid symlinking since Windows will not
like that.
This allows us to render the document as part of the website for the
benefit of others who wish to link to it as well as providing a more
nicely formatted display for our community and potential contributors.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tweak a small number of files to mention "view" as an alternative to
"visualize".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The examples and common practice for adding markers such as "RFC" or
"v2" to the subject of patch emails is to have them within the same
brackets as the "PATCH" text, not after the closing bracket. Further,
the practice of `git format-patch` and the like, as well as what appears
to be the more common pratice on the mailing list, is to use "[RFC
PATCH]", not "[PATCH/RFC]".
Update the SubmittingPatches article to match and to reference the
`format-patch` helper arguments, and also make some minor text
clarifications in the area.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MinGW updates.
* js/mingw-redirect-std-handles:
mingw: document the standard handle redirection
mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle
mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles
Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
configuration variables have been added to "git config --help".
* sb/blame-config-doc:
config: document blame configuration
The illustrated history used to explain the `--fork-point` mode
named three keypoint commits B3, B2 and B1 from the oldest to the
newest, which was hard to read. Relabel them to B0, B1, B2. Also
illustrate the history after the rebase using the `--fork-point`
facility was made.
The text already mentions use of reflog, but the description is not
clear what benefit we are trying to gain by using reflog. Clarify
that it is to find the commits that were known to be at the tip of
the remote-tracking branch. This in turn necessitates users to know
the ramifications of the underlying assumptions, namely, expiry of
reflog entries will make it impossible to determine which commits
were at the tip of the remote-tracking branches and we fail when in
doubt (instead of giving a random and incorrect result without even
warning). Another limitation is that it won't be useful if you did
not fork from the tip of a remote-tracking branch but from in the
middle.
Describe them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are times when scripts want to know not only the name of the
push branch on the remote, but also the name of the branch as known
by the remote repository.
An example of this is when a tool wants to push to the very same branch
from which it would pull automatically, i.e. the `<remote>` and the `<to>`
in `git push <remote> <from>:<to>` would be provided by
`%(upstream:remotename)` and `%(upstream:remoteref)`, respectively.
This patch offers the new suffix :remoteref for the `upstream` and `push`
atoms, allowing to show exactly that. Example:
$ cat .git/config
...
[remote "origin"]
url = https://where.do.we.come/from
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remote/origin/*
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
[branch "develop/with/topics"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/develop/with/topics
...
$ git for-each-ref \
--format='%(push) %(push:remoteref)' \
refs/heads
refs/remotes/origin/master refs/heads/master
refs/remotes/origin/develop/with/topics refs/heads/develop/with/topics
Signed-off-by: J Wyman <jwyman@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new option --ignore-cr-at-eol tells the diff machinery to treat a
carriage-return at the end of a (complete) line as if it does not
exist.
Just like other "--ignore-*" options to ignore various kinds of
whitespace differences, this will help reviewing the real changes
you made without getting distracted by spurious CRLF<->LF conversion
made by your editor program.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
[jch: squashed in command line completion by Dscho]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push".
* tg/deprecate-stash-save:
stash: remove now superfluos help for "stash push"
stash: mark "git stash save" deprecated in the man page
stash: replace "git stash save" with "git stash push" in the documentation
The "--push-option=<string>" option to "git push" now defaults to a
list of strings configured via push.pushOption variable.
* mp/push-pushoption-config:
builtin/push.c: add push.pushOption config
"git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run
outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation
and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in
such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names.
* jc/check-ref-format-oor:
check-ref-format doc: --branch validates and expands <branch>
check-ref-format --branch: strip refs/heads/ using skip_prefix
check-ref-format --branch: do not expand @{...} outside repository
"git pull" has been taught to accept "--[no-]signoff" option and
pass it down to "git merge".
* wk/pull-signoff:
pull: pass --signoff/--no-signoff to "git merge"
A hook script that is set unexecutable is simply ignored. Git
notifies when such a file is ignored, unless the message is
squelched via advice.ignoredHook configuration.
* dm/run-command-ignored-hook-advise:
run-command: add hint when a hook is ignored
The most notable change is that we no longer take "git add ''" and
add everything. An empty string is now an error when used as a
pathspec element.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The options are currently only referenced by the git-blame man page,
also explain them in git-config, which is the canonical page to
contain all config options.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This heuristic has been the default since 2.14 so we should not confuse our
users by saying that it's experimental and off by default.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This feature has been in Git for Windows since v2.11.0(2), as an
experimental option. Now it is considered mature, and it is high time to
document it properly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoctor 1.5.0 and later have a compatibility mode that makes it more
compatible with some Asciidoc syntax, notably the single and double
quote handling. While this doesn't affect any of our current
documentation, it would be beneficial to enable this mode to reduce the
differences between AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor if we make use of those
features in the future.
Since this mode is specified as an attribute, if a version of
Asciidoctor doesn't understand it, it will simply be ignored.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The descriptions of the options '--parents', '--children' and
'--graph' say "see 'History Simplification' below", although the
referred section is in fact above the description of these options.
Send readers in the right direction by saying "above" instead of
"below".
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git stash push' fixes a historical wart in the interface of 'git stash
save'. As 'git stash push' has all functionality of 'git stash save',
with a nicer, more consistent user interface deprecate 'git stash
save'. To do this, remove it from the synopsis of the man page, and
move it to a separate section, stating that it is deprecated.
Helped-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash push" is the newer interface for creating a stash. While we
are still keeping "git stash save" around for the time being, it's better
to point new users of "git stash" to the more modern (and more feature
rich) interface, instead of teaching them the older version that we
might want to phase out in the future.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Push options need to be given explicitly, via the command line as "git
push --push-option <option>". Add the config option push.pushOption,
which is a multi-valued option, containing push options that are sent
by default.
When push options are set in the lower-priority configulation file
(e.g. /etc/gitconfig, or $HOME/.gitconfig), they can be unset later in
the more specific repository config by the empty string.
Add tests and update documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Marius Paliga <marius.paliga@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src>
side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but
the documentation was left stale.
* jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update:
fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1
Update the documentation for "git filter-branch" so that the filter
options are listed in the same order as they are applied, as
described in an earlier part of the doc.
* dg/filter-branch-filter-order-doc:
doc: list filter-branch subdirectory-filter first
"git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src>
side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but
the documentation was left stale.
* jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update:
fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1
Change the word "bla" to "section.variable"; "bla" is a placeholder
for a variable name but it wasn't clear for everyone.
While we're here, also reformat this sample command line to use
monospace instead of italics, to better match the rest of the file.
Use a space instead of a dash in "git config", as is common in the
rest of Git's documentation.
Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: MOY Matthieu <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bensoussan <daniel.bensoussan--bohm@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Timothee Albertin <timothee.albertin@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Payre <nathan.payre@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the "theoretically more correct" approach of simply
stepping back to the state before plumbing commands started paying
attention to "color.ui" configuration variable.
* jk/ref-filter-colors-fix:
tag: respect color.ui config
Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()"
Revert "t6006: drop "always" color config tests"
Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config"
color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
provide --color option for all ref-filter users
t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
t3203: drop "always" color test
t6006: drop "always" color config tests
t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
t7508: use test_terminal for color output
t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
Doc update.
* kd/doc-for-each-ref:
doc/for-each-ref: explicitly specify option names
doc/for-each-ref: consistently use '=' to between argument names and values
The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly
written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.
* jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix:
merge-strategies: avoid implying that "-s theirs" exists
The "--force" option can also be used when the named branch does not
yet exist, and the point of the option is the user can (re)point the
branch to the named commit even if it does. Add 'even' before 'if'
to clarify. Also, insert another comma after "Without -f" before
"the command refuses..." to make the text easier to parse.
Incidentally, this change should help certain versions of
docbook-xsl-stylesheets that render the original without any
whitespace between "-f" and "git".
Noticed-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the "theoretically more correct" approach of simply
stepping back to the state before plumbing commands started paying
attention to "color.ui" configuration variable.
Let's run with this one.
* jk/ref-filter-colors-fix:
tag: respect color.ui config
Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()"
Revert "t6006: drop "always" color config tests"
Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config"
The docs claim that filters are applied in the listed order, so
subdirectory-filter should come first.
For consistency, apply the same order to the SYNOPSIS and the script's usage, as
well as the switch while parsing arguments.
Add missing --prune-empty to the script's usage.
Signed-off-by: David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git check-ref-format --branch $name" feature was originally
introduced (and was advertised) as a way for scripts to take any
end-user supplied string (like "master", "@{-1}" etc.) and see if it
is usable when Git expects to see a branch name, and also obtain the
concrete branch name that the at-mark magic expands to.
Emphasize that "see if it is usable" role in the description and
clarify that the @{...} expansion only occurs when run from within a
repository.
[jn: split out from a larger patch]
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since a9d34933 ("Merge branch 'fm/fetch-raw-sha1'", 2015-06-01) we
allow to fetch by an object name when the other side accepts such a
request, but we never updated the documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 6be4595edb.
That commit weakened the "always" setting of color config so
that it acted as "auto". This was meant to solve regressions
in v2.14.2 in which setting "color.ui=always" in the on-disk
config broke scripts like add--interactive, because the
plumbing diff commands began to generate color output.
This was due to 136c8c8b8f (color: check color.ui in
git_default_config(), 2017-07-13), which was in turn trying
to fix issues caused by 4c7f1819b3 (make color.ui default to
'auto', 2013-06-10). But in weakening "always", we created
even more problems, as people expect to be able to use "git
-c color.ui=always" to force color (especially because some
commands don't have their own --color flag). We can fix that
by special-casing the command-line "-c", but now things are
getting pretty confusing.
Instead of piling hacks upon hacks, let's start peeling off
the hacks. The first step is dropping the weakening of
"always", which this revert does.
Note that we could actually revert the whole series merged
in by da15b78e52. Most of that
series consists of preparations to the tests to handle the
weakening of "-c color.ui=always". But it's worth keeping
for a few reasons:
- there are some other preparatory cleanups, like
e433749d86 (test-terminal: set TERM=vt100, 2017-10-03)
- it adds "--color" options more consistently in
0c88bf5050 (provide --color option for all ref-filter
users, 2017-10-03)
- some of the cases dropping "-c" end up being more robust
and realistic tests, as in 01c94e9001 (t7508: use
test_terminal for color output, 2017-10-03)
- the preferred tool for overriding config is "--color",
and we should be modeling that consistently
We can individually revert the few commits necessary to
restore some useful tests (which will be done on top of this
patch).
Note that this isn't a pure revert; we'll keep the test
added in t3701, but mark it as failure for now.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint' (early part):
color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
provide --color option for all ref-filter users
t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
t3203: drop "always" color test
t6006: drop "always" color config tests
t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
t7508: use test_terminal for color output
t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
Document the server support for Extra Parameters, additional information
that the client can send in its first message to the server during a
Git client-server interaction.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using the 'ssh' transport, the '-o' option is used to specify an
environment variable which should be set on the remote end. This allows
git to send additional information when contacting the server,
requesting the use of a different protocol version via the
'GIT_PROTOCOL' environment variable like so: "-o SendEnv=GIT_PROTOCOL".
Unfortunately not all ssh variants support the sending of environment
variables to the remote end. To account for this, only use the '-o'
option for ssh variants which are OpenSSH compliant. This is done by
checking that the basename of the ssh command is 'ssh' or the ssh
variant is overridden to be 'ssh' (via the ssh.variant config).
Other options like '-p' and '-P', which are used to specify a specific
port to use, or '-4' and '-6', which are used to indicate that IPV4 or
IPV6 addresses should be used, may also not be supported by all ssh
variants.
Currently if an ssh command's basename wasn't 'plink' or
'tortoiseplink' git assumes that the command is an OpenSSH variant.
Since user configured ssh commands may not be OpenSSH compliant, tighten
this constraint and assume a variant of 'simple' if the basename of the
command doesn't match the variants known to git. The new ssh variant
'simple' will only have the host and command to execute ([username@]host
command) passed as parameters to the ssh command.
Update the Documentation to better reflect the command-line options sent
to ssh commands based on their variant.
Reported-by: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create protocol.{c,h} and provide functions which future servers and
clients can use to determine which protocol to use or is being used.
Also introduce the 'GIT_PROTOCOL' environment variable which will be
used to communicate a colon separated list of keys with optional values
to a server. Unknown keys and values must be tolerated. This mechanism
is used to communicate which version of the wire protocol a client would
like to use with a server.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge can take --signoff, but without pull passing --signoff down, it
is inconvenient to use; allow 'pull' to take the option and pass it
through.
The order of options in merge-options.txt is mostly alphabetical by
long option since 7c85d274 (Documentation/merge-options.txt: order
options in alphabetical groups, 2009-10-22). The long-option bit
didn't make it into the commit message, but it's under the fold in
[1]. I've put --signoff between --log and --stat to preserve the
alphabetical order.
[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/87iqe7zspn.fsf@jondo.cante.net/
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pull has supported these since ea230d8 (pull: add the --gpg-sign
option, 2014-02-10). Insert in long-option alphabetical order
following 7c85d274 (Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options
in alphabetical groups, 2009-10-22).
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are "git checkout [-p][<tree-ish>][--][<paths>...]" in the
SYNOPSIS section, and "git checkout [-p][<tree-ish>][--]<paths>..."
as the header for the section that explains the "check out paths
from index/tree-ish" mode. It is unclear if we require at least one
path, or it is entirely optional.
Actually, both are wrong. Without the "-p(atch)" option, you must
have <pathspec> (otherwise, with a commit that is a <tree-ish>, you
would be checking out that commit to build a new history on top of
it). With it, it is already clear that you are checking out paths,
it is optional. In other words, you cannot omit both.
The source of the confusion is that -p(atch) is described as if it
is just another "optional" part and its description is lumped
together with the non patch mode, even though the actual end user
experience is vastly different.
Let's split the entry into two, and describe the regular mode and
the patch mode separately. This allows us to make it clear that the
regular mode MUST be given at least one pathspec, that the patch
mode can be invoked with either '-p' or '--patch' but one of these
must be given, and that the pathspec is entirely optional in the
patch mode.
Also, revamp the explanation of "checkout paths" by removing
extraneous description at the beginning, that says "checking out
paths is not checking out a branch". Explaining what it is for and
when the user wants to use it upfront is the most direct way to help
the readers.
Noticed-by: Robert P J Day
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a new format element,
%(trailers), to show only the commit log trailer part of the log
message.
* tb/show-trailers-in-ref-filter:
ref-filter.c: parse trailers arguments with %(contents) atom
ref-filter.c: use trailer_opts to format trailers
t6300: refactor %(trailers) tests
doc: use "`<literal>`"-style quoting for literal strings
doc: 'trailers' is the preferred way to format trailers
t4205: unfold across multiple lines
There are times when e.g. scripts want to know not only the name of the
upstream branch on the remote repository, but also the name of the
remote.
This patch offers the new suffix :remotename for the upstream and for
the push atoms, allowing to show exactly that. Example:
$ cat .git/config
...
[remote "origin"]
url = https://where.do.we.come/from
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remote/origin/*
[remote "hello-world"]
url = https://hello.world/git
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remote/origin/*
pushURL = hello.world:git
push = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
pushRemote = hello-world
...
$ git for-each-ref \
--format='%(upstream) %(upstream:remotename) %(push:remotename)' \
refs/heads/master
refs/remotes/origin/master origin hello-world
The implementation chooses *not* to DWIM the push remote if no explicit
push remote was configured; The reason is that it is possible to DWIM this
by using
%(if)%(push:remotename)%(then)
%(push:remotename)
%(else)
%(upstream:remotename)
%(end)
while it would be impossible to "un-DWIM" the information in case the
caller is really only interested in explicit push remotes.
While `:remote` would be shorter, it would also be a bit more ambiguous,
and it would also shut the door e.g. for `:remoteref` (which would
obviously refer to the corresponding ref in the remote repository).
Note: the dashless, non-CamelCased form `:remotename` follows the
example of the `:trackshort` example.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an hook is present but the file is not set as executable then git will
ignore the hook.
For now this is silent which can be confusing.
This commit adds this warning to improve the situation:
hint: The 'pre-commit' hook was ignored because it's not set as executable.
hint: You can disable this warning with `git config advice.ignoredHook false`
To allow the old use-case of enabling/disabling hooks via the executable flag a
new setting is introduced: advice.ignoredHook.
Signed-off-by: Damien Marié <damien@dam.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix regression of "git add -p" for users with "color.ui = always"
in their configuration, by merging the topic below and adjusting it
for the 'master' front.
* jk/ui-color-always-to-auto:
t7301: use test_terminal to check color
t4015: use --color with --color-moved
color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
provide --color option for all ref-filter users
t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
t3203: drop "always" color test
t6006: drop "always" color config tests
t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
t7508: use test_terminal for color output
t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
In 4f665f2cf3 (string-list.h: move documentation from Documentation/api/
into header, 2017-09-26) the string-list API documentation was moved to
string-list.h. The argv-array API documentation may follow a similar
course in the future. Until then, prevent the broken link from making
it to the end-user documentation.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint:
color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
provide --color option for all ref-filter users
t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
t3203: drop "always" color test
t6006: drop "always" color config tests
t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
t7508: use test_terminal for color output
t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
It can be handy to use `--color=always` (or it's synonym
`--color`) on the command-line to convince a command to
produce color even if it's stdout isn't going to the
terminal or a pager.
What's less clear is whether it makes sense to set config
variables like color.ui to `always`. For a one-shot like:
git -c color.ui=always ...
it's potentially useful (especially if the command doesn't
directly support the `--color` option). But setting `always`
in your on-disk config is much muddier, as you may be
surprised when piped commands generate colors (and send them
to whatever is consuming the pipe downstream).
Some people have done this anyway, because:
1. The documentation for color.ui makes it sound like
using `always` is a good idea, when you almost
certainly want `auto`.
2. Traditionally not every command (and especially not
plumbing) respected color.ui in the first place. So
the confusion came up less frequently than it might
have.
The situation changed in 136c8c8b8f (color: check color.ui
in git_default_config(), 2017-07-13), which negated point
(2): now scripts using only plumbing commands (like
add-interactive) are broken by this setting.
That commit was fixing real issues (e.g., by making
`color.ui=never` work, since `auto` is the default), so we
don't want to just revert it. We could turn `always` into a
noop in plumbing commands, but that creates a hard-to-explain
inconsistency between the plumbing and other commands.
Instead, let's just turn `always` into `auto` for all config.
This does break the "one-shot" config shown above, but again,
we're probably better to have simple and consistent rules than
to try to special-case command-line config.
There is one place where `always` should retain its meaning:
on the command line, `--color=always` should continue to be
the same as `--color`, overriding any isatty checks. Since the
command-line parser also depends on git_config_colorbool(), we
can use the existence of the "var" string to deterine whether
we are serving the command-line or the config.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When ref-filter learned about want_color() in 11b087adfd
(ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colors,
2017-07-13), it became useful to be able to turn colors off
and on for specific commands. For git-branch, you can do so
with --color/--no-color.
But for git-for-each-ref and git-tag, the other users of
ref-filter, you have no option except to tweak the
"color.ui" config setting. Let's give both of these commands
the usual color command-line options.
This is a bit more obvious as a method for overriding the
config. And it also prepares us for the behavior of "always"
changing (so that we are still left with a way of forcing
color when our output goes to a non-terminal).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks"
option can be passed to Git to disable them.
* jk/no-optional-locks:
git: add --no-optional-locks option
"git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an
existing one.
* sd/branch-copy:
branch: fix "copy" to never touch HEAD
branch: add a --copy (-c) option to go with --move (-m)
branch: add test for -m renaming multiple config sections
config: create a function to format section headers
The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from
the shell script to C.
* js/rebase-i-final:
rebase -i: rearrange fixup/squash lines using the rebase--helper
t3415: test fixup with wrapped oneline
rebase -i: skip unnecessary picks using the rebase--helper
rebase -i: check for missing commits in the rebase--helper
t3404: relax rebase.missingCommitsCheck tests
rebase -i: also expand/collapse the SHA-1s via the rebase--helper
rebase -i: do not invent onelines when expanding/collapsing SHA-1s
rebase -i: remove useless indentation
rebase -i: generate the script via rebase--helper
t3415: verify that an empty instructionFormat is handled as before
Fill trailer_opts with "unfold" and "only" to match the sub-arguments
given to the "%(trailers)" atom. Then, let's use the filled trailer_opts
instance with 'format_trailers_from_commit' in order to format trailers
in the desired manner.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"'<string>'"-style quoting is not appropriate when quoting literal
strings in the "Documentation/" subtree.
In preparation for adding additional information to this section of
git-for-each-ref(1)'s documentation, update them to use "`<literal>`"
instead.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation makes reference to 'contents:trailers' as an example
to dig the trailers out of a commit. 'trailers' is an unmentioned
alternative, which is treated as an alias of 'contents:trailers'.
Since 'trailers' is easier to type, prefer that as the designated way to
dig out trailers information.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This includes the core.fsmonitor setting, the fsmonitor integration hook,
and the fsmonitor index extension.
Also add documentation for the new fsmonitor options to ls-files and
update-index.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the
commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that
cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't.
* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook (2017-09-22) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2017-09-25 at 096e0502a8)
+ Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook
Add documentation for a topic that has recently graduated to the
'master' branch.
* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook:
Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook
"git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with
the "--all" option.
* mk/describe-match-with-all:
describe: teach --match to handle branches and remotes
Leaving spaces around the `-delimeters for commands means asciidoc fails
to parse them as the start of a literal string. Remove an extraneous
space that is causing a literal to not be formatted as such.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Acked-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This document describes what a transition to a new hash function for
Git would look like. Add it to Documentation/technical/ as the plan
of record so that future changes can be recorded as patches.
Also-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Also-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Also-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly
written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.
* jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix:
merge-strategies: avoid implying that "-s theirs" exists
"git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without
the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be
created. This has been corrected.
* ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger:
filter-branch: use hash-object instead of mktag
filter-branch: stash away ref map in a branch
filter-branch: preserve and restore $GIT_AUTHOR_* and $GIT_COMMITTER_*
filter-branch: reset $GIT_* before cleaning up
Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run
commands like "git status" in the background to keep track
of the state of the repository. Some of these commands may
refresh the index and write out the result in an
opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they
update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if
not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be
recomputed by the next caller.
But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations
in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing
themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words,
"git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is
holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status
would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it.
There are a couple possible solutions:
1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other
commands to tell status that they want the lock.
This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to
implement (and maybe even impossible with just
dotlocks to work from, as it requires some
inter-process communication).
2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status"
that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring
instead plumbing like diff-files, etc.
This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that
"status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the
repository state than is available from individual
plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_
want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to
take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands
like diff-files expect us to refresh the index
separately and write it to disk so that they can depend
on the result. But that write is exactly what we're
trying to avoid.
3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index.
This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any
work done in refreshing the index for such a call is
lost when the process exits. So a background process
may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times
until the user runs a command that does an index
refresh themselves.
This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test)
is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes
Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the
index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that
instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes
a "git" option and matching environment variable.
The reason there is two-fold:
1. An environment variable is carried through to
sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a
background process or not should apply to the whole
process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks
foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls
"status", you'll still get the effect.
2. There may be other programs that want the same
treatment.
I've punted here on finding more callers to convert,
since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated
background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh
of the index may be a good candidate.
The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating
Johannes's explanation:
Note that the regression test added in this commit does
not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written;
that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we
verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git
status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This mirrors commit 'bdfdaa497 ("strbuf.h: integrate api-strbuf.txt
documentation, 2015-01-16") which did the same for strbuf.h:
* API documentation uses /** */ to set it apart from other comments.
* Function names were stripped from the comments.
* Ordering of the header was adjusted to follow the one from the text
file.
* Edited some existing comments from string-list.h for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Git 2.14.2
Git 2.13.6
Git 2.12.5
Git 2.11.4
Git 2.10.5
cvsimport: shell-quote variable used in backticks
archimport: use safe_pipe_capture for user input
shell: drop git-cvsserver support by default
cvsserver: use safe_pipe_capture for `constant commands` as well
cvsserver: use safe_pipe_capture instead of backticks
cvsserver: move safe_pipe_capture() to the main package
The ability to exclude paths with a negative pathspec is not mentioned
in the man pages for git grep and other commands where it might be
useful.
Add an example and a pointer to the pathspec glossary entry in the man
page for git grep to help the user to discover this ability.
Add similar pointers from the git-add and git-status man pages.
Additionally,
- Add a test for the behaviour when multiple exclusions are present.
- Add a test for the ^ alias.
- Improve name of existing test.
- Improve grammar in glossary description of the exclude pathspec.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Manav Rathi <mnvrth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
