The existing checkpoint command is very useful to force fast-import
to dump the branches out to disk so that standard Git tools can
access them and the objects they refer to. However there was not a
way to know when fast-import had finished executing the checkpoint
and it was safe to read those refs.
The progress command can be used to make fast-import output any
message of the frontend's choosing to standard out. The frontend
can scan for these messages using select() or poll() to monitor a
pipe connected to the standard output of fast-import.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
For the same reasons as the prior change we want to allow frontends
to omit the trailing LF that usually delimits commands. In some
cases these just make the input stream more verbose looking than
it needs to be, and its just simpler for the frontend developer to
get started if our parser is slightly more lenient about where an
LF is required and where it isn't.
To make this optional LF feature work we now have to buffer up to one
line of input in command_buf. This buffering can happen if we look
at the current input command but don't recognize it at this point
in the code. In such a case we need to "unget" the entire line,
but we cannot depend upon the stdio library to let us do ungetc()
for that many characters at once.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
A few fast-import frontend developers have found it odd that we
require the LF following a `data` command, especially in the exact
byte count format. Technically we don't need this LF to parse
the stream properly, but having it here does make the stream more
readable to humans. We can easily make the LF optional by peeking
at the next byte available from the stream and pushing it back into
the buffer if its not LF.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Several frontend developers have asked that some form of stream
comments be permitted within a fast-import data stream. This way
they can include information from their own frontend program about
where specific data was taken from in the source system, or about
a decision that their frontend may have made while creating the
fast-import data stream.
This change introduces comments in the Bourne-shell/Tcl/Perl style.
Lines starting with '#' are ignored, up to and including the LF.
Unlike the above mentioned three languages however we do not look for
and ignore leading whitespace. This just simplifies the definition
of the comment format and the code that parses them.
To make comments work we had to stop using read_next_command() within
cmd_data() and directly invoke read_line() during the inline variant
of the function. This is necessary to retain any lines of the
input data that might otherwise look like a comment to fast-import.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
As per http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118737219702802&w=2 , clarify
git-commit-tree documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Remove "DESTBRANCH" from usage, as it rewrites the branches given.
- Remove an = from an example usage, as the script doesn't understand
it.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Apply "Subproject commit HEX" changes produced by git-diff.
As usual in the current git, only the superproject itself is actually
modified (possibly creating empty directories for new submodules).
Any checked-out submodule is left untouched and is not required to
be up-to-date.
With clean-ups from Junio C Hamano.
Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With this option git-log prints log message size
just before the corresponding message.
Porcelain tools could use this to speedup parsing
of git-log output.
Note that size refers to log message only. If also
patch content is shown its size is not included.
In case it is not possible to know the size upfront
size value is set to zero.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows to refresh only a subset of the project files, based on
the specified pathspecs.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If cmd-list.made has been created by a previous run as root, output
redirection to it will fail. So remove it before regeneration.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cr/tag:
Teach "git stripspace" the --strip-comments option
Make verify-tag a builtin.
builtin-tag.c: Fix two memory leaks and minor notation changes.
launch_editor(): Heed GIT_EDITOR and core.editor settings
Make git tag a builtin.
These patches use docbook2x in order to create an info version of the
git user manual. No existing Makefile targets (including "all") are
touched, so you need to explicitly say
make info
sudo make install-info
to get git.info created and installed. If the info target directory
does not already contain a "dir" file, no directory entry is created.
This facilitates $(DESTDIR)-based installations. The same could be
achieved with
sudo make INSTALL_INFO=: install-info
explicitly.
perl is used for patching up sub-par file and directory information in
the Texinfo file. It would be cleaner to place the respective info
straight into user-manual.txt or the conversion configurations, but I
find myself unable to find out how to do this with Asciidoc/Texinfo.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
This attempts to force fixed-font in manpages for literal
blocks. I have tested this with docbook 1.71 and it seems to
work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This hides the backslash at the end of line from AsciiDoc
toolchain by introducing a trailing whitespace on one line in an
illustration in git-rev-parse.txt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The basic idea was proposed by Steve Hoelzer; in order to make
the list easier to search, we keep the command list in the
script that generates it with "sort -d".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The basic idea is from Mark Levedahl. I do not use GZ=1 nor
quick-install-doc myself (there obviously is a chicken-and-egg
issue with quick-install-doc for me).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These instructions tell you how to create a clone of a repository
created with git-svn, that can in turn be used with git-svn.
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As with git-add, I think previous updates to the git-commit man page did
indeed help make it more user-friendly. But I think the banishment of
the word "index" from the description goes too far; reinstate its use,
to simplify some of the language slightly and smooth the transition to
other documentation.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'master' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
documentation: use the word "index" in the git-add manual page
user-manual: mention git-gui
user-manual: mention git stash
user-manual: update for new default --track behavior
It was a neat trick to show that you could introduce the git-add manual
page without using the word "index", and it was certainly an improvement
over the previous man page (which started out "A simple wrapper for
git-update-index to add files to the index...").
But it's possible to use the standard terminology without sacrificing
user-friendliness. So, rewrite to use the word "index" when
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The git gui project seems to be still in early stages, but at a point
where it's worth mentioning as an alternative way of creating commits.
One feature of interest is the ability to manipulate individual diff
hunks. However, people have found that feature not to be easily
discoverable from the user-interface. Pending some ui improvements, a
parenthetical hint here may help.
(Thanks to Steffen Prohask and Junio Hamano for suggesting the
language.)
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Update documentation to reflect the --track default.
That change seems to have happened in the 1.5.3 -rc's, so bump the "for
version x.y.z or newer" warning as well.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The script starts in a subdirectory of the source directory to
muck with a branch whose structure does not have anything to
do with the actual work tree. Go up to the top to make it clear
that we operate on the whole tree.
It also exported GIT_DIR without any good reason. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-push it is the remote repository and not the
local repository which is fast forwarded. The description
of the -f option in the git-push manpage gets it the other
way round.
Signed-off-by: Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya <jyotirmoy@jyotirmoy.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The GIT_SSH environment variable has survived for quite a while
without being documented, but has been mentioned on list and on
my day-job repositories can only be accessed via magic supplied
through the wonderous hack that is GIT_SSH.
Advertising it alongside other "low level magic" such as GIT_PAGER
and GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY will certainly help others who need to
spread their own pixie dust to make things work.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current implementation of core.gitproxy only operates on
git:// URLs, so the ssh:// examples and custom protocol examples
have been removed or edited.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This changes the behaviour of cloning from a repository on the
local machine, by defaulting to "-l" (use hardlinks to share
files under .git/objects) and making "-l" a no-op. A new
option, --no-hardlinks, is also added to cause file-level copy
of files under .git/objects while still avoiding the normal
"pack to pipe, then receive and index pack" network transfer
overhead. The old behaviour of local cloning without -l nor -s
is availble by specifying the source repository with the newly
introduced file:///path/to/repo.git/ syntax (i.e. "same as
network" cloning).
* With --no-hardlinks (i.e. have all .git/objects/ copied via
cpio) would not catch the source repository corruption, and
also risks corrupted recipient repository if an
alpha-particle hits memory cell while indexing and resolving
deltas. As long as the recipient is created uncorrupted, you
have a good back-up.
* same-as-network is expensive, but it would catch the breakage
of the source repository. It still risks corrupted recipient
repository due to hardware failure. As long as the recipient
is created uncorrupted, you have a good back-up.
* The new default on the same filesystem, as long as the source
repository is healthy, it is very likely that the recipient
would be, too. Also it is very cheap. You do not get any
back-up benefit, though.
None of the method is resilient against the source repository
corruption, so let's discount that from the comparison. Then
the difference with and without --no-hardlinks matters primarily
if you value the back-up benefit or not. If you want to use the
cloned repository as a back-up, then it is cheaper to do a clone
with --no-hardlinks and two git-fsck (source before clone,
recipient after clone) than same-as-network clone, especially as
you are likely to do a git-fsck on the recipient if you are so
paranoid anyway.
Which leads me to believe that being able to use file:/// is
probably a good idea, if only for testability, but probably of
little practical value. We default to hardlinked clone for
everyday use, and paranoids can use --no-hardlinks as a way to
make a back-up.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes "make doc" work even if you made "sudo make doc" previously
by mistake. Apparently an oversight: the other targets did this already.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I switched git.kernel.dk to --base-path a few minutes ago, to get rid of
a /data/git postfix in the posted urls. But transitioning is tricky,
since now all old paths will fail miserably.
So I added this --base-path-relaxed option, that will make git-daemon
try the absolute path without prefixing --base-path before giving up.
With this in place and --base-path-relaxed added, both my new url of
git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git
and the old
git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block.git
work fine.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are (really!) systems where using environment variables is very
cumbersome (yes, Windows, it has problems unsetting them). Besides this
form is shorter.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
