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Matthieu Moy
317d74be69 api-credential.txt: document that helpers field is filled-in automatically
It was unclear whether the field was to be specified by the user of the
API.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-12 07:48:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
02101c969d Merge branch 'mm/api-credentials-doc'
Finishing touches...

* mm/api-credentials-doc:
  docs: fix cross-directory linkgit references
2012-06-08 08:32:20 -07:00
Jeff King
fe77b416c7 docs: fix cross-directory linkgit references
Most of our documentation is in a single directory, so using
linkgit:git-config[1] just generates a relative link in the
same directory. However, this is not the case with the API
documentation in technical/*, which need to refer to
git-config from the parent directory.

We can fix this by passing a special prefix attribute when building
in a subdirectory, and respecting that prefix in our linkgit
definitions.

We only have to modify the html linkgit definition.  For
manpages, we can ignore this for two reasons:

  1. we do not generate actual links to the file in
     manpages, but instead just give the name and section of
     the linked manpage

  2. we do not currently build manpages for subdirectories,
     only html

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-08 08:31:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dd3d071182 Merge branch 'mm/api-credentials-doc'
* mm/api-credentials-doc:
  api-credentials.txt: add "see also" section
  api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly
  api-credentials.txt: show the big picture first
  doc: fix xref link from api docs to manual pages
2012-06-07 09:07:35 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
04ab6ae776 api-credentials.txt: add "see also" section
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-04 13:49:50 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
365fc8d56a api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly
The name of the configuration variable was mentioned only at the very
end of the explanation, in a place specific to a specific rule, hence it
was not very clear what the specification was about.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-04 13:49:44 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
2239888089 api-credentials.txt: show the big picture first
The API documentation targets two kinds of developers: those using the
C API, and those writing remote-helpers. The document was not clear
about which part was useful to which category, and for example, the C API
could be mistakenly thought as an API for writting remote helpers.

Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-04 13:47:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dd4287a2c9 doc: fix xref link from api docs to manual pages
They are one-level above, so refer them as linkgit:../git-foo[n] with "../"

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-04 13:46:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3f8acaae8a Sync with maint 2012-05-14 11:50:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
badabc06f3 Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal' into maint
By Jeff King
* jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal:
  docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
2012-05-14 11:43:04 -07:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
79135e4c22 pack-protocol: fix first-want separator in the examples
When sending the "want" list, the capabilities list is separated from
the obj-id by a SP instead of NUL as in the ref advertisement. The
text is correct, but the examples wrongly show the separator as
NUL. Fix the example so it uses SP.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-14 09:24:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d274fc093c Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal'
Our documentation was written for an ancient version of AsciiDoc,
making the source not very readable.

By Jeff King
* jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal:
  docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
2012-05-02 13:51:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d4a5d872c0 Merge branch 'jc/index-v4'
Trivially shrinks the on-disk size of the index file to save both I/O and
checksum overhead.

The topic should give a solid base to build on further updates, with the
code refactoring in its earlier parts, and the backward compatibility
mechanism in its later parts.

* jc/index-v4:
  index-v4: document the entry format
  unpack-trees: preserve the index file version of original
  update-index: upgrade/downgrade on-disk index version
  read-cache.c: write prefix-compressed names in the index
  read-cache.c: read prefix-compressed names in index on-disk version v4
  read-cache.c: move code to copy incore to ondisk cache to a helper function
  read-cache.c: move code to copy ondisk to incore cache to a helper function
  read-cache.c: report the header version we do not understand
  read-cache.c: make create_from_disk() report number of bytes it consumed
  read-cache.c: allow unaligned mapping of the index file
  cache.h: hide on-disk index details
  varint: make it available outside the context of pack
2012-05-02 13:51:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9e234af281 Merge branch 'jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack'
Avoid writing out unreachable objects as loose objects when repacking,
if such loose objects will immediately pruned due to its age anyway.

By Jeff King
* jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack:
  gc: use argv-array for sub-commands
  argv-array: add a new "pushl" method
  argv-array: refactor empty_argv initialization
  gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately pruned
2012-04-29 17:50:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
afd7bd2220 index-v4: document the entry format
Document the format so that others can learn from and build on top of
the series.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-27 16:03:31 -07:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
419f2ecf78 Merge branch 'hv/submodule-recurse-push'
"git push --recurse-submodules" learns to optionally look into the
histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them out.

By Heiko Voigt
* hv/submodule-recurse-push:
  push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand option
  Refactor submodule push check to use string list instead of integer
  Teach revision walking machinery to walk multiple times sequencially
2012-04-24 14:40:20 -07:00
Jeff King
d15bbe1379 argv-array: add a new "pushl" method
It can be convenient to push many strings in a single line
(e.g., if you are initializing an array with defaults). This
patch provides a convenience wrapper to allow this.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-18 16:16:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
19a6cd372a Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  string-list: document that string_list_insert() inserts unique strings
2012-03-30 20:25:55 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
b8939b2b3a string-list: document that string_list_insert() inserts unique strings
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-30 09:06:04 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
bcc0a3ea38 Teach revision walking machinery to walk multiple times sequencially
Previously it was not possible to iterate revisions twice using the
revision walking api. We add a reset_revision_walk() which clears the
used flags. This allows us to do multiple sequencial revision walks.

We add the appropriate calls to the existing submodule machinery doing
revision walks. This is done to avoid surprises if future code wants to
call these functions more than once during the processes lifetime.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-30 08:57:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
26f1e9bd68 Merge branch 'tr/maint-bundle-long-subject' into maint
* tr/maint-bundle-long-subject:
  t5704: match tests to modern style
  strbuf: improve strbuf_get*line documentation
  bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits
  bundle: put strbuf_readline_fd in strbuf.c with adjustments
2012-03-04 22:16:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
66b8800e53 Merge branch 'rs/no-no-no-parseopt'
* rs/no-no-no-parseopt:
  parse-options: remove PARSE_OPT_NEGHELP
  parse-options: allow positivation of options starting, with no-
  test-parse-options: convert to OPT_BOOL()

Conflicts:
	builtin/grep.c
2012-03-01 20:59:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ac1373f1c2 Merge branch 'tr/maint-bundle-long-subject'
* tr/maint-bundle-long-subject:
  t5704: match tests to modern style
  strbuf: improve strbuf_get*line documentation
  bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits
  bundle: put strbuf_readline_fd in strbuf.c with adjustments
2012-02-26 23:05:51 -08:00
René Scharfe
0f1930c587 parse-options: allow positivation of options starting, with no-
Long options can be negated by adding no- right after the leading
two dashes. This is useful e.g. to override options set by aliases.

For options that are defined to start with no- already, this looks
a bit funny. Allow such options to also be negated by removing the
prefix.

The following thirteen options are affected:

	apply          --no-add
	bisect--helper --no-checkout
	checkout-index --no-create
	clone          --no-checkout --no-hardlinks
	commit         --no-verify   --no-post-rewrite
	format-patch   --no-binary
	hash-object    --no-filters
	read-tree      --no-sparse-checkout
	revert         --no-commit
	show-branch    --no-name
	update-ref     --no-deref

The following five are NOT affected because they are defined with
PARSE_OPT_NONEG or the non-negated version is defined as well:

	branch       --no-merged
	format-patch --no-stat             --no-numbered
	update-index --no-assume-unchanged --no-skip-worktree

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-26 15:32:53 -08:00
Thomas Rast
1c5f93b9a6 strbuf: improve strbuf_get*line documentation
Clarify strbuf_getline() documentation, and add the missing documentation
for strbuf_getwholeline() and strbuf_getwholeline_fd().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-23 13:52:11 -08:00
Jeff King
9b25a0b52e config: add include directive
It can be useful to split your ~/.gitconfig across multiple
files. For example, you might have a "main" file which is
used on many machines, but a small set of per-machine
tweaks. Or you may want to make some of your config public
(e.g., clever aliases) while keeping other data back (e.g.,
your name or other identifying information). Or you may want
to include a number of config options in some subset of your
repos without copying and pasting (e.g., you want to
reference them from the .git/config of participating repos).

This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
It looks like:

  [include]
    path = /path/to/file

This is syntactically backwards-compatible with existing git
config parsers (i.e., they will see it as another config
entry and ignore it unless you are looking up include.path).

The implementation provides a "git_config_include" callback
which wraps regular config callbacks. Callers can pass it to
git_config_from_file, and it will transparently follow any
include directives, passing all of the discovered options to
the real callback.

Include directives are turned on automatically for "regular"
git config parsing. This includes calls to git_config, as
well as calls to the "git config" program that do not
specify a single file (e.g., using "-f", "--global", etc).
They are not turned on in other cases, including:

  1. Parsing of other config-like files, like .gitmodules.
     There isn't a real need, and I'd rather be conservative
     and avoid unnecessary incompatibility or confusion.

  2. Reading single files via "git config". This is for two
     reasons:

       a. backwards compatibility with scripts looking at
          config-like files.

       b. inspection of a specific file probably means you
	  care about just what's in that file, not a general
          lookup for "do we have this value anywhere at
	  all". If that is not the case, the caller can
	  always specify "--includes".

  3. Writing files via "git config"; we want to treat
     include.* variables as literal items to be copied (or
     modified), and not expand them. So "git config
     --unset-all foo.bar" would operate _only_ on
     .git/config, not any of its included files (just as it
     also does not operate on ~/.gitconfig).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:59:55 -08:00
Jeff King
c9b5e2a57d config: provide a version of git_config with more options
Callers may want to provide a specific version of a file in which to look
for config. Right now this can be done by setting the magic global
config_exclusive_filename variable.  By providing a version of git_config
that takes a filename, we can take a step towards making this magic global
go away.

Furthermore, by providing a more "advanced" interface, we now have a a
natural place to add new options for callers like git-config, which care
about tweaking the specifics of config lookup, without disturbing the
large number of "simple" users (i.e., every other part of git).

The astute reader of this patch may notice that the logic for handling
config_exclusive_filename was taken out of git_config_early, but added
into git_config. This means that git_config_early will no longer respect
config_exclusive_filename.  That's OK, because the only other caller of
git_config_early is check_repository_format_gently, but the only function
which sets config_exclusive_filename is cmd_config, which does not call
check_repository_format_gently (and if it did, it would have been a bug,
anyway, as we would be checking the repository format in the wrong file).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:58:07 -08:00
Jeff King
d7be1f142f docs/api-config: minor clarifications
The first change simply drops some parentheses to make a
statement more clear. The seconds clarifies that almost
nobody wants to call git_config_early.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:52:41 -08:00
Jeff King
9c3c22e2bf docs: add a basic description of the config API
This wasn't documented at all; this is pretty bare-bones,
but it should at least give new git hackers a basic idea of
how the reading side works.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-06 14:18:21 -08:00
Jeff King
d3e847c107 credential: add function for parsing url components
All of the components of a credential struct can be found in
a URL.  For example, the URL:

  http://foo:bar@example.com/repo.git

contains:

  protocol=http
  host=example.com
  path=repo.git
  username=foo
  password=bar

We want to be able to turn URLs into broken-down credential
structs so that we know two things:

  1. Which parts of the username/password we still need

  2. What the context of the request is (for prompting or
     as a key for storing credentials).

This code is based on http_auth_init in http.c, but needed a
few modifications in order to get all of the components that
the credential object is interested in.

Once the http code is switched over to the credential API,
then http_auth_init can just go away.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 23:16:24 -08:00
Jeff King
abca927dbe introduce credentials API
There are a few places in git that need to get a username
and password credential from the user; the most notable one
is HTTP authentication for smart-http pushing.

Right now the only choices for providing credentials are to
put them plaintext into your ~/.netrc, or to have git prompt
you (either on the terminal or via an askpass program). The
former is not very secure, and the latter is not very
convenient.

Unfortunately, there is no "always best" solution for
password management. The details will depend on the tradeoff
you want between security and convenience, as well as how
git can integrate with other security systems (e.g., many
operating systems provide a keychain or password wallet for
single sign-on).

This patch provides an abstract notion of credentials as a
data item, and provides three basic operations:

  - fill (i.e., acquire from external storage or from the
    user)

  - approve (mark a credential as "working" for further
    storage)

  - reject (mark a credential as "not working", so it can
    be removed from storage)

These operations can be backed by external helper processes
that interact with system- or user-specific secure storage.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 23:16:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a99c247c53 Merge branch 'nd/document-err-packet'
* nd/document-err-packet:
  pack-protocol: document "ERR" line
2011-10-12 12:34:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
af543833d4 Merge branch 'jc/parse-options-boolean'
* jc/parse-options-boolean:
  apply: use OPT_NOOP_NOARG
  revert: use OPT_NOOP_NOARG
  parseopt: add OPT_NOOP_NOARG
  archive.c: use OPT_BOOL()
  parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN

Conflicts:
	builtin/revert.c
2011-10-12 12:34:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7a95d1be03 Merge branch 'jk/argv-array'
* jk/argv-array:
  run_hook: use argv_array API
  checkout: use argv_array API
  bisect: use argv_array API
  quote: provide sq_dequote_to_argv_array
  refactor argv_array into generic code
  quote.h: fix bogus comment
  add sha1_array API docs
2011-10-05 12:36:24 -07:00
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
d78e5aecf9 pack-protocol: document "ERR" line
Since a807328 (connect.c: add a way for git-daemon to pass an error
back to client), git client recognizes "ERR" line and prints a
friendly message to user if an error happens at server side.

Document this.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-03 14:57:36 -07:00
René Scharfe
6acec0380b parseopt: add OPT_NOOP_NOARG
Add OPT_NOOP_NOARG, a helper macro to define deprecated options in a
standard way.  The help text is taken from the no-op option -r of
git revert.

The callback could be made to emit a (conditional?) warning later.  And
we could also add OPT_NOOP (requiring an argument) etc. as needed.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-28 12:46:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b04ba2bb42 parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN
It is natural to expect that an option defined with OPT_BOOLEAN() could be
used in this way:

	int option = -1; /* unspecified */

	struct option options[] = {
		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "option", &option, "set option"),
                OPT_END()
	};
	parse_options(ac, av, prefix, options, usage, 0);

        if (option < 0)
        	... do the default thing ...
	else if (!option)
		... --no-option was given ...
	else
		... --option was given ...

to easily tell three cases apart:

 - There is no mention of the `--option` on the command line;
 - The variable is positively set with `--option`; or
 - The variable is explicitly negated with `--no-option`.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. OPT_BOOLEAN() increments the variable
every time `--option` is given, and resets it to zero when `--no-option`
is given.

As a first step to remedy this, introduce a true boolean OPT_BOOL(), and
rename OPT_BOOLEAN() to OPT_COUNTUP(). To help transitioning, OPT_BOOLEAN
and OPTION_BOOLEAN are defined as deprecated synonyms to OPT_COUNTUP and
OPTION_COUNTUP respectively.

This is what db7244b (parse-options new features., 2007-11-07) from four
years ago started by marking OPTION_BOOLEAN as "INCR would have been a
better name".

Some existing users do depend on the count-up semantics; for example,
users of OPT__VERBOSE() could use it to raise the verbosity level with
repeated use of `-v` on the command line, but they probably should be
rewritten to use OPT__VERBOSITY() instead these days.  I suspect that some
users of OPT__FORCE() may also use it to implement different level of
forcibleness but I didn't check.

On top of this patch, here are the remaining clean-up tasks that other
people can help:

 - Look at each hit in "git grep -e OPT_BOOLEAN"; trace all uses of the
   value that is set to the underlying variable, and if it can proven that
   the variable is only used as a boolean, replace it with OPT_BOOL(). If
   the caller does depend on the count-up semantics, replace it with
   OPT_COUNTUP() instead.

 - Same for OPTION_BOOLEAN; replace it with OPTION_SET_INT and arrange to
   set 1 to the variable for a true boolean, and otherwise replace it with
   OPTION_COUNTUP.

 - Look at each hit in "git grep -e OPT__VERBOSE -e OPT__QUIET" and see if
   they can be replaced with OPT__VERBOSITY().

I'll follow this message up with a separate patch as an example.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-27 17:00:04 -07:00
Jeff King
c1189caeaf refactor argv_array into generic code
The submodule code recently grew generic code to build a
dynamic argv array. Many other parts of the code can reuse
this, too, so let's make it generically available.

There are two enhancements not found in the original code:

  1. We now handle the NULL-termination invariant properly,
     even when no strings have been pushed (before, you
     could have an empty, NULL argv). This was not a problem
     for the submodule code, which always pushed at least
     one argument, but was not sufficiently safe for
     generic code.

  2. There is a formatted variant of the "push" function.
     This is a convenience function which was not needed by
     the submodule code, but will make it easier to port
     other users to the new code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-14 11:56:36 -07:00
Jeff King
163ed566db add sha1_array API docs
This API was introduced in 902bb36, but never documented.
Let's be nice to future users of the code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-14 11:44:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
96b7c4deb8 Merge branch 'en/merge-recursive-2'
* en/merge-recursive-2: (57 commits)
  merge-recursive: Don't re-sort a list whose order we depend upon
  merge-recursive: Fix virtual merge base for rename/rename(1to2)/add-dest
  t6036: criss-cross + rename/rename(1to2)/add-dest + simple modify
  merge-recursive: Avoid unnecessary file rewrites
  t6022: Additional tests checking for unnecessary updates of files
  merge-recursive: Fix spurious 'refusing to lose untracked file...' messages
  t6022: Add testcase for spurious "refusing to lose untracked" messages
  t3030: fix accidental success in symlink rename
  merge-recursive: Fix working copy handling for rename/rename/add/add
  merge-recursive: add handling for rename/rename/add-dest/add-dest
  merge-recursive: Have conflict_rename_delete reuse modify/delete code
  merge-recursive: Make modify/delete handling code reusable
  merge-recursive: Consider modifications in rename/rename(2to1) conflicts
  merge-recursive: Create function for merging with branchname:file markers
  merge-recursive: Record more data needed for merging with dual renames
  merge-recursive: Defer rename/rename(2to1) handling until process_entry
  merge-recursive: Small cleanups for conflict_rename_rename_1to2
  merge-recursive: Fix rename/rename(1to2) resolution for virtual merge base
  merge-recursive: Introduce a merge_file convenience function
  merge-recursive: Fix modify/delete resolution in the recursive case
  ...
2011-09-02 10:00:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c4440374b1 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  add technical documentation about ref iteration
  Do not use C++-style comments
2011-08-22 21:02:41 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
1be9d84b2e add technical documentation about ref iteration
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-22 15:01:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
324b6b1678 Merge branch 'mh/check-attr-relative'
* mh/check-attr-relative: (29 commits)
  test-path-utils: Add subcommand "prefix_path"
  test-path-utils: Add subcommand "absolute_path"
  git-check-attr: Normalize paths
  git-check-attr: Demonstrate problems with relative paths
  git-check-attr: Demonstrate problems with unnormalized paths
  git-check-attr: test that no output is written to stderr
  Rename git_checkattr() to git_check_attr()
  git-check-attr: Fix command-line handling to match docs
  git-check-attr: Drive two tests using the same raw data
  git-check-attr: Add an --all option to show all attributes
  git-check-attr: Error out if no pathnames are specified
  git-check-attr: Process command-line args more systematically
  git-check-attr: Handle each error separately
  git-check-attr: Extract a function error_with_usage()
  git-check-attr: Introduce a new variable
  git-check-attr: Extract a function output_attr()
  Allow querying all attributes on a file
  Remove redundant check
  Remove redundant call to bootstrap_attr_stack()
  Extract a function collect_all_attrs()
  ...
2011-08-17 17:36:22 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
86d4b528d8 string-list: Add API to remove an item from an unsorted list
Teach the string-list API how to remove an entry in O(1) runtime by
moving the last entry to the vacated spot. As such, the routine works
only for unsorted lists.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-14 14:19:35 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
d932f4eb9f Rename git_checkattr() to git_check_attr()
Suggested by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04 15:53:21 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
ee548df300 Allow querying all attributes on a file
Add a function, git_all_attrs(), that reports on all attributes that
are set on a path.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04 15:53:18 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
352404ac4c Provide access to the name attribute of git_attr
It will be present in any likely future reimplementation, and its
availability simplifies other code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04 15:53:16 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
650cfc512e doc: Correct git_attr() calls in example code
Commit 7fb0eaa2 (2010-01-17) changed git_attr() to take a string
instead of a string and a length.  Update the documentation
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04 15:53:15 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
e9e0643fe6 add gitignore entry to description about how to write a builtin
If the author forgets the gitignore entry the built result will show up
as new file in the git working directory.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-03 11:44:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3e8cd966e0 Merge branch 'an/shallow-doc' into maint
* an/shallow-doc:
  Document the underlying protocol used by shallow repositories and --depth commands.
  Fix documentation of fetch-pack that implies that the client can disconnect after sending wants.
2011-08-01 14:43:53 -07:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
e44b6df90c Documentation: clarify the invalidated tree entry format
When the entry_count is -1, the tree is invalidated and therefore has
not associated hash (or object name). Explicitly state that the next
entry starts after the newline.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-31 18:23:49 -07:00
Alex Neronskiy
4a1c269516 Document the underlying protocol used by shallow repositories and --depth commands.
Explain the exchange that occurs between a client and server when
the client is requesting shallow history and/or is already using
a shallow repository.

Signed-off-by: Alex Neronskiy <zakmagnus@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-08 18:08:21 -07:00
Alex Neronskiy
a1e90b2352 Fix documentation of fetch-pack that implies that the client can disconnect after sending wants.
Specify conditions under which the client can terminate the connection
early. Previously, an unintended behavior was possible which could
confuse servers.

Based-on-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Neronskiy <zakmagnus@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-08 18:08:20 -07:00
Brandon Casey
7a45c31396 Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt: correct name of diff_unmerge()
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-26 14:50:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
54f6a8dbd6 Merge branch 'nd/index-doc'
* nd/index-doc:
  doc: technical details about the index file format
  doc: technical details about the index file format
2011-03-26 20:13:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
23fcc98f7f doc: technical details about the index file format
* Clarify "string of unsigned bytes";

 * Blob has two variants (regular file vs symlink), not (blob vs symlink);

 * Clarify permission mode bits;

 * Clarify ce_namelen() "too long to fit in the length field" case;

 * Clarify "." etc are forbidden as path components;

 * Match the description with the internal wording "cache-tree";

 * All types of extension begin with signature and length as explained in
   the first part. Don't repeat the "length" part in the description of
   each extension (can be mistaken as if there is a separate 32-bit size
   field inside the extension), but state what the signature for each
   extension is.

 * Don't say "Extension tag", as we have said "Extension signature" in the
   first part---be consistent;

 * Clarify the invalidation of cache-tree entries;

 * Correct description on subtree_nr field in the cache-tree;

 * Clarify the order of entries in cache-tree;

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-23 15:57:10 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
8c7d05171e doc: technical details about the index file format
This bases on the original work by Robin Rosenberg.

Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-27 01:21:27 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
469bfc962d Fix typos in the documentation
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-04 11:23:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
20f84c8f56 Merge branch 'rs/opt-help-text'
* rs/opt-help-text:
  verify-tag: document --verbose
  branch: improve --verbose description
  archive: improve --verbose description
  Describe various forms of "be quiet" using OPT__QUIET
  add OPT__FORCE
  add description parameter to OPT__QUIET
  add description parameter to OPT__DRY_RUN
  add description parameter to OPT__VERBOSE
2010-11-24 15:55:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5a7a0fae8f Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  clean: remove redundant variable baselen
  Documentation/git-pull: clarify configuration
  Document that rev-list --graph triggers parent rewriting.
  clean: avoid quoting twice
  document sigchain api
  Keep together options controlling the behaviour of diffcore-rename.
  t3402: test "rebase -s<strategy> -X<opt>"
2010-11-17 13:57:58 -08:00
Jeff King
ed296fe88d document sigchain api
It's pretty straightforward, but a stripped-down example
never hurts. And we should make clear that it is explicitly
OK to use SIG_DFL and SIG_IGN.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-16 09:50:25 -08:00
René Scharfe
76946b76fe add OPT__FORCE
Add OPT__FORCE as a helper macro in the same spirit as OPT__VERBOSE
et.al. to simplify defining -f/--force options.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lstfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-15 10:04:43 -08:00
René Scharfe
d52ee6e613 add description parameter to OPT__QUIET
Allows better help text to be defined than "be quiet".  Also make use
of the macro in a place that already had a different description.  No
object code changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-15 09:58:13 -08:00
René Scharfe
e21adb8c10 add description parameter to OPT__DRY_RUN
Allows better help text to be defined than "dry run".  Also make use
of the macro in places that already had a different description.  No
object code changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-15 09:57:37 -08:00
René Scharfe
fd03881a48 add description parameter to OPT__VERBOSE
Allows better help text to be defined than "be verbose".  Also make use
of the macro in places that already had a different description.  No
object code changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-15 09:56:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
75b17fee72 Merge branch 'jf/merge-ignore-ws'
* jf/merge-ignore-ws:
  merge-recursive: options to ignore whitespace changes
  merge-recursive --patience
  ll-merge: replace flag argument with options struct
  merge-recursive: expose merge options for builtin merge
2010-10-26 21:40:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c0808fe708 Merge branch 'jn/doc-backslash'
* jn/doc-backslash:
  Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion
  Documentation: remove stray backslashes from "Fighting regressions" article
  Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses
  Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manual
  Documentation: avoid stray backslashes in core tutorial
  Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manual
  Documentation: remove backslash before ~ in fast-import manual
  Documentation: remove stray backslash from "git bundle" manual
  Documentation/technical: avoid stray backslash in parse-options API docs
  Documentation: remove backslashes in manpage synopses
  Documentation: clarify quoting in gitignore docs
  Documentation: clarify quoting in "git rm" example
  Documentation: add missing quotes to "git grep" examples
  Documentation: clarify quoting in "git add" example
  Documentation: unbreak regex in show-ref manual
  Documentation: quoting trouble in "git rm" discussion
  Documentation: tweak description of log.date
2010-09-03 09:43:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8aed4a5e38 Merge branch 'jn/merge-renormalize'
* jn/merge-renormalize:
  merge-recursive --renormalize
  rerere: never renormalize
  rerere: migrate to parse-options API
  t4200 (rerere): modernize style
  ll-merge: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  ll-merge: make flag easier to populate
  Documentation/technical: document ll_merge
  merge-trees: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  merge-trees: push choice to renormalize away from low level
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): check that it can be turned off
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): try checkout -m and cherry-pick
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): style nitpicks
  Don't expand CRLFs when normalizing text during merge
  Try normalizing files to avoid delete/modify conflicts when merging
  Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization

Conflicts:
	builtin/rerere.c
	t/t4200-rerere.sh
2010-09-03 09:43:41 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
712516bcac ll-merge: replace flag argument with options struct
Keeping track of the flag bits is proving more trouble than it's
worth.  Instead, use a pointer to an options struct like most similar
APIs do.

Callers with no special requests can pass NULL to request the default
options.

Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Justin Frankel <justin@cockos.com>
Helped-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-26 09:18:51 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
6dcca4d0ea Documentation/technical: avoid stray backslash in parse-options API docs
Due to some unpleasant interaction between the `quote', 'italics',
and `monospace` rules, a certain paragraph ends up rendered like so:

	‘short` is a character for the short option
	  (e.g. <tt>'e\’</tt> for <tt>-e</tt>, use <tt>0</tt> to omit),

Use the {apostrophe} to avoid this.

While at it, escape "->" strings: they are meant as a literal
two-character C operator, not a right-pointing arrow.

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20 14:16:22 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
e6c111b4c0 unpack_trees: group error messages by type
When an error is encountered, it calls add_rejected_file() which either
- directly displays the error message and stops if in plumbing mode
  (i.e. if show_all_errors is not initialized at 1)
- or stores it so that it will be displayed at the end with display_error_msgs(),

Storing the files by error type permits to have a list of files for
which there is the same error instead of having a serie of almost
identical errors.

As each bind_overlap error combines a file and an old file, a list cannot be
done, therefore, theses errors are not stored but directly displayed.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-11 10:36:06 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
73cf7f713d ll-merge: make flag easier to populate
ll_merge() takes its options in a flag word, which has a few
advantages:

 - options flags can be cheaply passed around in registers, while
   an option struct passed by pointer cannot;

 - callers can easily pass 0 without trouble for no options,
   while an option struct passed by value would not allow that.

The downside is that code to populate and access the flag word can be
somewhat opaque.  Mitigate that with a few macros.

Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-06 09:20:01 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
24d113ec11 Documentation/technical: document ll_merge
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-06 09:20:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
609eb9f7ff Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: Spelling fix in protocol-capabilities.txt
  checkout: accord documentation to what git does
  t0005: work around strange $? in ksh when program terminated by a signal
2010-07-11 23:47:29 -07:00
Fredrik Skolmli
5d1e34158a Documentation: Spelling fix in protocol-capabilities.txt
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik@frsk.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-09 17:36:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a53deac89e Merge branch 'jp/string-list-api-cleanup'
* jp/string-list-api-cleanup:
  string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_append
  string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_lookup
  string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert_at_index
  string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert
  string_list: Fix argument order for for_each_string_list
  string_list: Fix argument order for print_string_list
2010-06-30 11:55:38 -07:00
Julian Phillips
1d2f80fa79 string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_append
Update the definition and callers of string_list_append to use the
string_list as the first argument.  This helps make the string_list
API easier to use by being more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-27 10:06:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
762655010d Merge branch 'js/async-thread'
* js/async-thread:
  fast-import: die_nicely() back to vsnprintf (reverts part of ebaa79f)
  Enable threaded async procedures whenever pthreads is available
  Dying in an async procedure should only exit the thread, not the process.
  Reimplement async procedures using pthreads
  Windows: more pthreads functions
  Fix signature of fcntl() compatibility dummy
  Make report() from usage.c public as vreportf() and use it.
  Modernize t5530-upload-pack-error.

Conflicts:
	http-backend.c
2010-06-21 06:02:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ae722b4e27 Merge branch 'sb/fmt-merge-msg'
* sb/fmt-merge-msg:
  fmt-merge-msg: hide summary option
  fmt-merge-msg: remove custom string_list implementation
  string-list: add unsorted_string_list_lookup()
  fmt-merge-msg: use pretty.c routines
  t6200: test fmt-merge-msg more
  t6200: modernize with test_tick
  fmt-merge-msg: be quiet if nothing to merge
2010-04-06 14:50:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
11766ca4a8 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  pack-protocol.txt: fix pkt-line lengths
  pack-protocol.txt: fix spelling
2010-04-04 10:23:21 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
c8a97906ba pack-protocol.txt: fix pkt-line lengths
Previously, the lengths were 4-bytes short. Fix it such that the lengths
reflect the total length of the pkt-line, as per spec.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-04 10:18:21 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
8e50175d94 pack-protocol.txt: fix spelling
s/paramater/parameter/.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-04 10:18:19 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
e242148012 string-list: add unsorted_string_list_lookup()
Sometimes users need to lookup a string in an unsorted string_list. In
that case they should use this function instead of the version for
sorted strings.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-24 19:41:19 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
f6b6098316 Enable threaded async procedures whenever pthreads is available
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-10 14:26:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a886ba2801 Merge branch 'sp/maint-push-sideband' into maint
* sp/maint-push-sideband:
  receive-pack: Send internal errors over side-band #2
  t5401: Use a bare repository for the remote peer
  receive-pack: Send hook output over side band #2
  receive-pack: Wrap status reports inside side-band-64k
  receive-pack: Refactor how capabilities are shown to the client
  send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with status data
  run-command: support custom fd-set in async
  run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe

Conflicts:
	builtin-receive-pack.c
	run-command.c
	t/t5401-update-hooks.sh
2010-03-02 22:54:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c06951894a Merge branch 'ml/color-when'
* ml/color-when:
  Add an optional argument for --color options
2010-03-02 12:44:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5f8a0de98b Merge branch 'sp/push-sideband'
* sp/push-sideband:
  receive-pack: Send internal errors over side-band #2
  t5401: Use a bare repository for the remote peer
  receive-pack: Send hook output over side band #2
  receive-pack: Wrap status reports inside side-band-64k
  receive-pack: Refactor how capabilities are shown to the client
  send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with status data
  run-command: support custom fd-set in async
  run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe
2010-02-21 12:00:07 -08:00
Mark Lodato
73e9da0196 Add an optional argument for --color options
Make git-branch, git-show-branch, git-grep, and all the diff-based
programs accept an optional argument <when> for --color.  The argument
is a colorbool: "always", "never", or "auto".  If no argument is given,
"always" is used;  --no-color is an alias for --color=never.  This makes
the command-line interface consistent with other GNU tools, such as `ls'
and `grep', and with the git-config color options.  Note that, without
an argument, --color and --no-color work exactly as before.

To implement this, two internal changes were made:

1. Allow the first argument of git_config_colorbool() to be NULL,
   in which case it returns -1 if the argument isn't "always", "never",
   or "auto".

2. Add OPT_COLOR_FLAG(), OPT__COLOR(), and parse_opt_color_flag_cb()
   to the option parsing library.  The callback uses
   git_config_colorbool(), so color.h is now a dependency
   of parse-options.c.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-18 17:21:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
76d44c8cfd Merge branch 'sp/maint-push-sideband' into sp/push-sideband
* sp/maint-push-sideband:
  receive-pack: Send hook output over side band #2
  receive-pack: Wrap status reports inside side-band-64k
  receive-pack: Refactor how capabilities are shown to the client
  send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with status data
  run-command: support custom fd-set in async
  run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe
  Update git fsck --full short description to mention packs

Conflicts:
	run-command.c
2010-02-05 21:08:53 -08:00
Erik Faye-Lund
ae6a5609c0 run-command: support custom fd-set in async
This patch adds the possibility to supply a set of non-0 file
descriptors for async process communication instead of the
default-created pipe.

Additionally, we now support bi-directional communiction with the
async procedure, by giving the async function both read and write
file descriptors.

To retain compatiblity and similar "API feel" with start_command,
we require start_async callers to set .out = -1 to get a readable
file descriptor.  If either of .in or .out is 0, we supply no file
descriptor to the async process.

[sp: Note: Erik started this patch, and a huge bulk of it is
     his work.  All bugs were introduced later by Shawn.]

Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-05 20:57:22 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
4f41b61148 run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe
Like .out, .err may now be set to a file descriptor > 0, which
is a writable pipe/socket/file that the child's stderr will be
redirected into.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-05 20:57:16 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
6a5d0b0a90 Fix typos in technical documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-31 10:24:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0877510ad4 Merge branch 'jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit'
* jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit:
  user_ident_sufficiently_given(): refactor the logic to be usable from elsewhere
  commit.c::print_summary: do not release the format string too early
  commit: allow suppression of implicit identity advice
  commit: show interesting ident information in summary
  strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquote
  strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"

Conflicts:
	builtin-commit.c
	ident.c
2010-01-20 14:40:12 -08:00
Jeff King
361df5df77 strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquote
This is handy for creating strings which will be fed to printf() or
strbuf_expand().

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-14 09:25:15 -08:00
Jeff King
0a0416a34a strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"
The only way to safely quote arbitrary text in a pretty-print user
format is to replace instances of "%" with "%x25". This is slightly
unreadable, and many users would expect "%%" to produce a single
"%", as that is what printf format specifiers do.

This patch converts "%%" to "%" for all users of strbuf_expand():

 (1) git-daemon interpolated paths

 (2) pretty-print user formats

 (3) merge driver command lines

Case (1) was already doing the conversion itself outside of
strbuf_expand(). Case (2) is the intended beneficiary of this patch.
Case (3) users probably won't notice, but as this is user-facing
behavior, consistently providing the quoting mechanism makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-14 09:24:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
73d66323ac Merge branch 'nd/sparse'
* nd/sparse: (25 commits)
  t7002: test for not using external grep on skip-worktree paths
  t7002: set test prerequisite "external-grep" if supported
  grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries
  commit: correctly respect skip-worktree bit
  ie_match_stat(): do not ignore skip-worktree bit with CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID
  tests: rename duplicate t1009
  sparse checkout: inhibit empty worktree
  Add tests for sparse checkout
  read-tree: add --no-sparse-checkout to disable sparse checkout support
  unpack-trees(): ignore worktree check outside checkout area
  unpack_trees(): apply $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout to the final index
  unpack-trees(): "enable" sparse checkout and load $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout
  unpack-trees.c: generalize verify_* functions
  unpack-trees(): add CE_WT_REMOVE to remove on worktree alone
  Introduce "sparse checkout"
  dir.c: export excluded_1() and add_excludes_from_file_1()
  excluded_1(): support exclude files in index
  unpack-trees(): carry skip-worktree bit over in merged_entry()
  Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktree
  Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1()
  ...

Conflicts:
	.gitignore
	Documentation/config.txt
	Documentation/git-update-index.txt
	Makefile
	entry.c
	t/t7002-grep.sh
2010-01-13 11:58:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b6b9f83ea1 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  rebase -i: abort cleanly if the editor fails to launch
  technical-docs: document hash API
  api-strbuf.txt: fix typos and document launch_editor()
2009-12-19 23:20:16 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
afab0fe052 technical-docs: document hash API
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-17 21:54:50 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
63b76948e1 api-strbuf.txt: fix typos and document launch_editor()
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-17 21:54:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f341feb86a Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: undocument gc'd function graph_release()
2009-11-22 19:04:30 -08:00
Greg Price
aa8dc9679a Documentation: undocument gc'd function graph_release()
graph_release() was removed in 064bfbd.  Cut it from the API
documentation and a comment.

Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-19 23:05:17 -08:00
Scott Chacon
b31222cfb7 Update packfile transfer protocol documentation
The current technical documentation for the packfile protocol is both
sparse and incorrect.  This documents the fetch-pack/upload-pack and
send-pack/ receive-pack protocols much more fully.

Add documentation from Shawn's upcoming http-protocol docs that is
shared by the packfile protocol. protocol-common.txt describes ABNF
notation amendments, refname rules and the packet line format.

Add documentation on the various capabilities supported by the
upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. protocol-capabilities.txt
describes multi-ack, thin-pack, side-band[-64k], shallow, no-progress,
include-tag, ofs-delta, delete-refs and report-status.

Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-13 12:07:21 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
989c530e7f racy-git.txt: explain nsec problem in more detail
Idealists may want USE_NSEC to be the default on Linux some day.
Point to a patch to better explain the requirements on
filesystem code for that to happen.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09 14:56:32 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
c28b3d6e7b Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktree
This adds index as a prerequisite for directory listing (with
exclude).  At the moment directory listing is used by "git clean",
"git add", "git ls-files" and "git status"/"git commit" and
unpack_trees()-related commands.  These commands have been
checked/modified to populate index before doing directory listing.

add_excludes_from_file() does not enable this feature, because it
is used to read .git/info/exclude and some explicit files specified
by "git ls-files".

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-23 17:13:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
08ac69685a Merge branch 'js/run-command-updates'
* js/run-command-updates:
  api-run-command.txt: describe error behavior of run_command functions
  run-command.c: squelch a "use before assignment" warning
  receive-pack: remove unnecessary run_status report
  run_command: report failure to execute the program, but optionally don't
  run_command: encode deadly signal number in the return value
  run_command: report system call errors instead of returning error codes
  run_command: return exit code as positive value
  MinGW: simplify waitpid() emulation macros
2009-08-10 22:14:57 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
0b91322311 api-run-command.txt: describe error behavior of run_command functions
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-08 13:51:25 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
6639ffc2e0 technical-docs: document tree-walking API
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-03 22:42:14 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
056724c624 technical/api-remote: Describe new struct remote member pushurl
...and pushurl_nr

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-09 23:46:47 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
df217ed643 parse-opts: add OPT_FILENAME and transition builtins
Commit dbd0f5c (Files given on the command line are relative to $cwd,
2008-08-06) introduced parse_options_fix_filename() as a minimal fix.
OPT_FILENAME is intended to be a more robust fix for the same issue.
OPT_FILENAME and its associated enum OPTION_FILENAME are used to
represent filename options within the parse options API.

This option is similar to OPTION_STRING. If --no is prefixed to the
option the filename is unset. If no argument is given and the default
value is set, the filename is set to the default value. The difference
is that the filename is prefixed with the prefix passed to
parse_options() (or parse_options_start()).

Update git-apply, git-commit, git-fmt-merge-msg, and git-tag to use
OPT_FILENAME with their filename options. Also, rename
parse_options_fix_filename() to fix_filename() as it is no longer
extern.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-25 01:07:33 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
3778292017 parse-opts: prepare for OPT_FILENAME
To give OPT_FILENAME the prefix, we pass the prefix to parse_options()
which passes the prefix to parse_options_start() which sets the prefix
member of parse_opts_ctx accordingly. If there isn't a prefix in the
calling context, passing NULL will suffice.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-25 01:07:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
104d379448 Merge branch 'rs/grep-parseopt'
* rs/grep-parseopt:
  grep: make callback functions static
  grep: use parseopt
  grep: remove global variable builtin_grep
  parseopt: add PARSE_OPT_NODASH
  parseopt: add OPT_NUMBER_CALLBACK
  parseopt: add OPT_NEGBIT
2009-05-23 01:38:32 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
ca156cfcc2 api-parse-options.txt: use 'func' instead of 'funct'
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-16 11:47:10 -07:00
René Scharfe
e0319ff5ed parseopt: add OPT_NUMBER_CALLBACK
Add a way to recognize numerical options.  The number is passed to
a callback function as a string.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-09 00:29:47 -07:00
René Scharfe
2f4b97f910 parseopt: add OPT_NEGBIT
Add OPTION_NEGBIT and OPT_NEGBIT, mirroring OPTION_BIT and OPT_BIT.
OPT_NEGBIT can be used together with OPT_BIT to define two options
that cancel each other out.

Note: this patch removes the reminder from the test script because
it adds a test for --no-or4 and there already was one for --or4.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-09 00:28:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b79376cdf3 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  grep: fix segfault when "git grep '('" is given
  Documentation: fix a grammatical error in api-builtin.txt
  builtin-merge: fix a typo in an error message
2009-04-28 00:46:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2254da06a5 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.1' into maint
* maint-1.6.1:
  grep: fix segfault when "git grep '('" is given
  Documentation: fix a grammatical error in api-builtin.txt
  builtin-merge: fix a typo in an error message
2009-04-28 00:46:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3e73cb2f48 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint-1.6.1
* maint-1.6.0:
  grep: fix segfault when "git grep '('" is given
  Documentation: fix a grammatical error in api-builtin.txt
  builtin-merge: fix a typo in an error message
2009-04-28 00:46:20 -07:00
Allan Caffee
d649048e68 Documentation: fix a grammatical error in api-builtin.txt
Signed-off-by: Allan Caffee <allan.caffee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-27 09:36:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
442dd42d6d Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes to 1.6.2.2
  Fix bash completion in path with spaces
  bash completion: only show 'log --merge' if merging
  git-tag(1): add hint about commit messages
  Documentation: update graph api example.
2009-03-30 13:29:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b19293df9e Merge branch 'maint-1.6.1' into maint
* maint-1.6.1:
  Fix bash completion in path with spaces
  bash completion: only show 'log --merge' if merging
  git-tag(1): add hint about commit messages
  Documentation: update graph api example.

Conflicts:
	contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
2009-03-30 13:25:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dcbf041745 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint-1.6.1
* maint-1.6.0:
  Fix bash completion in path with spaces
  bash completion: only show 'log --merge' if merging
  git-tag(1): add hint about commit messages
  Documentation: update graph api example.
2009-03-30 13:23:53 -07:00
Allan Caffee
7b60d0d3e4 Documentation: update graph api example.
As of commit 03300c0 the graph API uses '*' for all nodes including merges.
This updates the example in the documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: Allan Caffee <allan.caffee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-30 08:59:45 -07:00
René Scharfe
0d260f9a09 parseopt: prevent KEEP_UNKNOWN and STOP_AT_NON_OPTION from being used together
As suggested by Junio, disallow the flags PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN and
PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION to be turned on at the same time, as a
value of an unknown option could be mistakenly classified as a
non-option, stopping the parser early.  E.g.:

	git cmd --known --unknown value arg0 arg1

The parser should have stopped at "arg0", but it already stops at
"value".

This patch makes parse_options() die if the two flags are used in
combination.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-09 15:32:50 -07:00
René Scharfe
9ad7e6ea24 parseopt: document KEEP_ARGV0, KEEP_UNKNOWN, NO_INTERNAL_HELP
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-09 15:24:16 -07:00
Mike Ralphson
a1070d4cbb Documentation: Typo / spelling / formatting fixes
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-03 21:43:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b63bc0bc31 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  User-manual: "git stash <comment>" form is long gone
  add test-dump-cache-tree in Makefile
  fix typo in Documentation
  apply: fix access to an uninitialized mode variable, found by valgrind

Conflicts:
	Makefile
2009-02-04 00:12:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f081731090 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint
* maint-1.6.0:
  User-manual: "git stash <comment>" form is long gone
  add test-dump-cache-tree in Makefile
  fix typo in Documentation
  apply: fix access to an uninitialized mode variable, found by valgrind
2009-02-03 23:50:09 -08:00
Guanqun Lu
c9a8abcf9a fix typo in Documentation
Signed-off-by: Guanqun Lu <guanqun.lu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-03 22:09:03 -08:00
Stephan Beyer
14e6298f12 run_hook(): allow more than 9 hook arguments
This is done using the ALLOC_GROW macro.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 17:57:15 -08:00
Stephan Beyer
35d5ae679c api-run-command.txt: talk about run_hook()
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 17:16:34 -08:00
René Scharfe
2fc647004a strbuf: instate cleanup rule in case of non-memory errors
Make all strbuf functions that can fail free() their memory on error if
they have allocated it.  They don't shrink buffers that have been grown,
though.

This allows for easier error handling, as callers only need to call
strbuf_release() if A) the command succeeded or B) if they would have had
to do so anyway because they added something to the strbuf themselves.

Bonus hunk: document strbuf_readlink.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-06 22:13:43 -08:00
Alexander Potashev
51ea440637 Fix typos in documentation
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-09 21:39:23 -08:00
René Scharfe
9b864e730b add strbuf_expand_dict_cb(), a helper for simple cases
The new callback function strbuf_expand_dict_cb() can be used together
with strbuf_expand() if there is only a small number of placeholders
for static replacement texts.  It expects its dictionary as an array of
placeholder+value pairs as context parameter, terminated by an entry
with the placeholder member set to NULL.

The new helper is intended to aid converting the remaining calls of
interpolate().  strbuf_expand() is smaller, more flexible and can be
used to go faster than interpolate(), so it should replace the latter.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-23 19:55:47 -08:00
Nanako Shiraishi
7996ff335e run-command.c: remove run_command_v_opt_cd()
This function is not used anywhere.

Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>:
> Future callers can use run_command_v_opt_cd_env() instead.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-02 18:02:44 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
0dda1d1ec8 Fix two leftovers from path_list->string_list
In the documentation, where you cannot get compile errors for using the
wrong member name, there were two mentions of 'path' left.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-22 15:28:22 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
c455c87c5c Rename path_list to string_list
The name path_list was correct for the first usage of that data structure,
but it really is a general-purpose string list.

$ perl -i -pe 's/path-list/string-list/g' $(git grep -l path-list)
$ perl -i -pe 's/path_list/string_list/g' $(git grep -l path_list)
$ git mv path-list.h string-list.h
$ git mv path-list.c string-list.c
$ perl -i -pe 's/has_path/has_string/g' $(git grep -l has_path)
$ perl -i -pe 's/path/string/g' string-list.[ch]
$ git mv Documentation/technical/api-path-list.txt \
	Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
$ perl -i -pe 's/strdup_paths/strdup_strings/g' $(git grep -l strdup_paths)

... and then fix all users of string-list to access the member "string"
instead of "path".

Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt needed some rewrapping, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21 19:11:50 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
6c69207c73 api-run-command.txt: typofix
Replace "run_command_v_opt_dir" by "run_command_v_opt_cd".

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-17 20:50:06 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
224712e521 api-parse-options.txt: Introduce documentation for parse options API
Add some documentation of basics, macros and callback
implementation of the parse-options API.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-22 18:14:58 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
82936f295f api-builtin.txt: update and fix typo
Mention NEED_WORK_TREE flag and command-list.txt.
Fix "bulit-in" typo and AsciiDoc-formatting of a paragraph.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-22 18:14:17 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
328a4750b1 path-list documentation: document all functions and data structures
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-16 21:32:22 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
9e18522328 run-command documentation: fix "memset()" parameter
When initializing the struct async and struct child_process structures,
the documentation suggested "clearing" the structure with '0' instead of
'\0'.  It is enough to use integer zero here.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-16 21:31:17 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
dd613e6b87 Strbuf documentation: document most functions
All functions in strbuf.h are documented, except launch_editor().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-04 15:02:42 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
c16570c42a Revision walking documentation: document most important functions
Unfortunately the list is not complete, but includes the essential ones.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-31 14:32:56 -07:00
Adam Simpkins
7528f27dd6 log --graph --left-right: show left/right information in place of '*'
With the --graph option, the graph already outputs 'o' instead of '*'
for boundary commits.  Make it emit '<' or '>' when --left-right is
specified.

(This change also disables the '^' prefix for UNINTERESTING commits.
The graph code currently doesn't print anything special for these
commits, since it assumes no UNINTERESTING, non-BOUNDARY commits are
displayed.  This is potentially a bug if UNINTERESTING non-BOUNDARY
commits can actually be displayed via some code path.)

[jc: squashed the left-right change from Dscho and Adam's fixup into one]

Signed-off-by: Adam Simpkins <adam@adamsimpkins.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-25 12:06:52 -07:00
Adam Simpkins
7fefda5cc7 log and rev-list: add --graph option
This new option causes a text-based representation of the history to be
printed to the left of the normal output.

Signed-off-by: Adam Simpkins <adam@adamsimpkins.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-05 18:46:35 -07:00
Adam Simpkins
c12172d2ea Add history graph API
This new API allows the commit history to be displayed as a text-based
graphical representation.

Signed-off-by: Adam Simpkins <adam@adamsimpkins.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-05 17:56:36 -07:00
Peter Eriksen
9de328fea9 Add description of OFS_DELTA to the pack format description
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-06 17:22:46 -07:00
Christian Couder
ce2cf27adc run-command: Redirect stderr to a pipe before redirecting stdout to stderr
With this patch, in the 'start_command' function after forking
we now take care of stderr in the child process before stdout.

This way if 'start_command' is called with a 'child_process'
argument like this:

	.err = -1;
	.stdout_to_stderr = 1;

then stderr will be redirected to a pipe before stdout is
redirected to stderr. So we can now get the process' stdout
from the pipe (as well as its stderr).

Earlier such a call would have redirected stdout to stderr
before stderr was itself redirected, and therefore stdout
would not have followed stderr, which would not have been
very useful anyway.

Update documentation in 'api-run-command.txt' accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-05 12:18:03 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
34cd62eb91 Fix doc typos.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-02 16:08:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
25c4f61c51 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  templates/Makefile: don't depend on local umask setting
  Correct name of diff_flush() in API documentation
  Start preparing for 1.5.4.4

Conflicts:

	RelNotes
2008-02-29 00:00:09 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
a6f13ccf24 Correct name of diff_flush() in API documentation
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-28 13:35:09 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
b9dfe51c96 Technical documentation of the run-command API.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:37:36 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
f019d08ea6 API documentation for remote.h
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 00:27:42 -08:00
Jim Meyering
a5d86f7406 fix doc typos
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-29 22:00:34 -08:00
Brandon Casey
d6cf61bfd4 close_lock_file(): new function in the lockfile API
The lockfile API is a handy way to obtain a file that is cleaned
up if you die().  But sometimes you would need this sequence to
work:

 1. hold_lock_file_for_update() to get a file descriptor for
    writing;

 2. write the contents out, without being able to decide if the
    results should be committed or rolled back;

 3. do something else that makes the decision --- and this
    "something else" needs the lockfile not to have an open file
    descriptor for writing (e.g. Windows do not want a open file
    to be renamed);

 4. call commit_lock_file() or rollback_lock_file() as
    appropriately.

This adds close_lock_file() you can call between step 2 and 3 in
the above sequence.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-16 15:35:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0c0478cac8 Document lockfile API
We have nice set of placeholders, but nobody stepped in to fill
the gap in the API documentation, so I am doing it myself.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-16 12:42:37 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
f1cdcc70dc Documentation: typofix
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-07 14:02:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
530e741c72 Start preparing the API documents.
Most of them are still stubs, but the procedure to build the HTML
documentation, maintaining the index and installing the end product are
there.

I placed names of people who are likely to know the most about the topic
in the stub files, so that volunteers will know whom to ask questions as
needed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14 22:29:38 -08:00
linux@horizon.com
71362bd552 Documentation: describe pack idx v2
Lifted from the log message of c553ca25bd
(pack-objects: learn about pack index version 2).

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14 12:03:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aa576e6b47 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation/pack-format.txt: Clear up description of types.
  fix typo in git-am manpage
2007-03-22 03:05:25 -07:00
Peter Eriksen
979ea5856c Documentation/pack-format.txt: Clear up description of types.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-22 03:05:19 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
1b89ef1731 Provide some technical documentation for shallow clones
There has not been any work on the shallow stuff lately, so it is hard
to find out what it does, and how. This document describes the ideas
as well as the current problems, and can serve as a starting point for
shallow people.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-19 22:19:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9d0524d42f Update send-pack pipeline documentation.
The pipeline was much more complex and needed documentation, but
now it is trivial and straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-01 14:35:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b5ffa5ceef Documentation: illustrate send-pack pipeline.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-29 12:14:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e1bb1d31ea racy-git: documentation updates.
We've removed the workaround for runtime penalty that did not
exist in practice some time ago, but the technical paper that
proposed that change still said "we probably should do so".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-18 14:18:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
520cd3eca5 Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15 21:32:54 -07:00
Pavel Roskin
addf88e455 Assorted typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-09 02:42:41 -07:00
Horst H. von Brand
abda1ef590 Documentation: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-03 23:54:55 -07:00
Shawn Pearce
1361fa3e49 Improved pack format documentation.
While trying to implement a pack reader in Java I was mislead by
some facts listed in this documentation as well as found a few
details to be missing about the pack header.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-30 23:09:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9760662f1a Add Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
... along with the previous one, pack-heuristics, by popular
demand.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-07 02:07:40 -07:00
Jon Loeliger
b116b297a8 Added Packing Heursitics IRC writeup.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-07 02:06:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
76cead391f Documentation: fix missing links to git(7)
Also move pack protocol description to technical/.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-12 23:55:09 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
7061f5c2c5 [PATCH] Finish documenting trivial merge rules
Fix missing symbol explanations, a few incorrect cases, and add
two-way merge rules.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-24 22:05:55 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
3d89cb4f3f [PATCH] Document the trivial merge rules for 3(+more ancestors)-way merges.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-10 18:27:41 -07:00