linux-nfs.org seems to have restructured their repository layout since
8391c60 (git-remote.txt: fix example url, 2007-11-02), and Bruce's
repo is now at git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/bfields/linux.git.
Bruce also has a more richer internal branch structure (master,
everything, for-3.1, ...), so updating the existing example to use his
current repo may be confusing.
To simplify, I've replaced the NFS repo with Greg's staging repo.
I've also updated the output of the surrounding commands to match the
output of a current run through.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There may be times when using one of your local repositories as a
reference for a new clone make sense, but the implied version-bump in
the old example isn't one of them. I think a more intuitive example
is multi-user system with a central reference clone, and the new paths
hint at this use case.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are other examples in git-clone.txt demonstrating both '--bare'
and '-l -s'.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While both GUI and console Cygwin browsers do exist, anecdotal evidence
suggests most users rely on their native Windows browser. cygstart,
which is a long-standing part of the base Cygwin installation, will
cause the page to be opened in the default Windows browser (the one
registered to open .html files).
Signed-off-by: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Flip the default for color.ui to 'auto', which is what many
tutorials recommend new users to do.
* mm/color-auto-default:
make color.ui default to 'auto'
config: refactor management of color.ui's default value
The goal of the patch is to introduce the GNU diff
-B/--ignore-blank-lines as closely as possible. The short option is not
available because it's already used for "break-rewrites".
When this option is used, git-diff will not create hunks that simply
add or remove empty lines, but will still show empty lines
addition/suppression if they are close enough to "valuable" changes.
There are two differences between this option and GNU diff -B option:
- GNU diff doesn't have "--inter-hunk-context", so this must be handled
- The following sequence looks like a bug (context is displayed twice):
$ seq 5 >file1
$ cat <<EOF >file2
change
1
2
3
4
5
change
EOF
$ diff -u -B file1 file2
--- file1 2013-06-08 22:13:04.471517834 +0200
+++ file2 2013-06-08 22:13:23.275517855 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+change
1
2
+
3
4
5
@@ -3,3 +5,4 @@
3
4
5
+change
So here is a more thorough description of the option:
- real changes are interesting
- blank lines that are close enough (less than context size) to
interesting changes are considered interesting (recursive definition)
- "context" lines are used around each hunk of interesting changes
- If two hunks are separated by less than "inter-hunk-context", they
will be merged into one.
The implementation does the "interesting changes selection" in a single
pass.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an user wants to filter specific ref using the --refs option,
the pattern needs to match the full ref, e.g. --refs=refs/tags/v1.*.
It'd be convenient to specify a subpath of ref pattern. For
example, --refs=origin/* can find refs/remotes/origin/master by
searching the pattern against its substrings in turn:
refs/remotes/origin/master
remotes/origin/master
origin/master
If it finds a match in a subpath, unambigous part of the ref path will
be removed in the output.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation and some comments still refer to files in builtin/
as 'builtin-*.[cho]'. Update these to show the correct location.
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The section describing "git diff <blob> <blob>" had been placed in a
position that disrupted the statement "This is synonymous to the
previous form".
Reorder to place this form after all the <commit>-using forms, and the
note applying to them. Also mention this form in the initial description
paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 35d2fffd introduced 'git merge --abort' as a synonym to 'git reset
--merge', and added some failing tests in t7611-merge-abort.sh (search
'###' in this file) showing that 'git merge --abort' could not always
recover the pre-merge state.
Still, in many cases, 'git merge --abort' just works, and it is usually
considered that the ability to start a merge with uncommited changes is
an important property of Git.
Weaken the warning by discouraging only merge with /non-trivial/
uncommited changes.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The behavior of "git push --force" is rather clear when it updates only
one remote ref, but running it when pushing several branches can really
be dangerous. Warn the users a bit more and give them the alternative to
push only one branch.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes 'git rev-parse' behave as if it were invoked from the
specified subdirectory of a repository, with the difference that any
file paths which it prints are prefixed with the full path from the top
of the working tree.
This is useful for shell scripts where we may want to cd to the top of
the working tree but need to handle relative paths given by the user on
the command line.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was missed in the option list while mentioned from the general
description. Add it for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
save_stash() contains the logic for doing two potentially independent
operations; the first is preparing the stash merge commit, and the
second is updating the stash ref/ reflog accordingly. While the first
operation is abstracted out into a create_stash() for callers to access
via 'git stash create', the second one is not. Fix this by factoring
out the logic for storing the stash into a store_stash() that callers
can access via 'git stash store'.
Like create, store is not intended for end user interactive use, but for
callers in other scripts. We can simplify the logic in the
rebase.autostash feature using this new subcommand.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git stash save' can take -p, the short form of --patch, as an option.
Document this.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a note saying that the user probably wants "save" in the create
description. While at it, document that it can optionally take a
message in the synopsis.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some people often run 'git status -b'.
The config variable status.branch allows to set it by default.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Juan Garcia Garcia <Jorge-Juan.Garcia-Garcia@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lienard--Mayor <Mathieu.Lienard--Mayor@ensimag.imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Major update to the revision traversal logic to improve culling of
irrelevant parents while traversing a mergy history.
* kb/full-history-compute-treesame-carefully-2:
revision.c: make default history consider bottom commits
revision.c: don't show all merges for --parents
revision.c: discount side branches when computing TREESAME
revision.c: add BOTTOM flag for commits
simplify-merges: drop merge from irrelevant side branch
simplify-merges: never remove all TREESAME parents
t6012: update test for tweaked full-history traversal
revision.c: Make --full-history consider more merges
Documentation: avoid "uninteresting"
rev-list-options.txt: correct TREESAME for P
t6111: add parents to tests
t6111: allow checking the parents as well
t6111: new TREESAME test set
t6019: test file dropped in -s ours merge
decorate.c: compact table when growing
Introduce advice.rmHints to choose whether to display advice or not
when git rm fails. Defaults to true, in order to preserve current behavior.
As an example, the message:
error: 'foo.txt' has changes staged in the index
(use --cached to keep the file, or -f to force removal)
would look like, with advice.rmHints=false:
error: 'foo.txt' has changes staged in the index
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lienard--Mayor <Mathieu.Lienard--Mayor@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jorge Juan Garcia Garcia <Jorge-Juan.Garcia-Garcia@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes people would want to view the commits in parallel
histories in the order of author dates, not committer dates.
Teach "topo-order" sort machinery to do so, using a commit-info slab
to record the author dates of each commit, and prio-queue to sort
them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some people always run 'git status -s'.
The configuration variable status.short allows to set it by default.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Juan Garcia Garcia <Jorge-Juan.Garcia-Garcia@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lienard--Mayor <Mathieu.Lienard--Mayor@ensimag.imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rr/rebase-autostash:
rebase: implement --[no-]autostash and rebase.autostash
rebase --merge: return control to caller, for housekeeping
rebase -i: return control to caller, for housekeeping
am: return control to caller, for housekeeping
rebase: prepare to do generic housekeeping
rebase -i: don't error out if $state_dir already exists
am: tighten a conditional that checks for $dotest
Update the low-level diffcore documentation on -S/-G and --pickaxe-all.
* rr/diffcore-pickaxe-doc:
diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly
diffcore-pickaxe: make error messages more consistent
These days, "git --work-tree=there cmd" without specifying an
explicit --git-dir=here will do the usual discovery, but we had a
description of older behaviour in the documentation.
* cr/git-work-tree-sans-git-dir:
git.txt: remove stale comment regarding GIT_WORK_TREE
Primarily to push out two regression issues that seem to affect many
people, namely, the ".gitignore !directory" bug and "daemon cannot
read from $HOME owned by root" bug.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most users seem to like having colors enabled, and colors can help
beginners to understand the output of some commands (e.g. notice
immediately the boundary between commits in the output of "git log").
Many tutorials tell the users to set color.ui=auto as a very first step,
which tend to indicate that color.ui=none is not the recommanded value,
hence should not be the default.
These tutorials would benefit from skipping this step and starting the
real Git manipulations earlier. Other beginners do not know about
color.ui=auto, and may not discover it by themselves, hence live with
black&white outputs while they may have preferred colors.
A few people (e.g. color-blind) prefer having no colors, but they can
easily set color.ui=never for this (and googling "disable colors in git"
already tells them how to do so), but this needs not occupy space in
beginner-oriented documentations.
A transition period with Git emitting a warning when color.ui is unset
would be possible, but the discomfort of having the warning seems
superior to the benefit: users may be surprised by the change, but not
harmed by it.
The default value is changed, and the documentation is reworded to
mention "color.ui=false" first, since the primary use of color.ui after
this change is to disable colors, not to enable it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"This can help with debugging object negotiation or other protocol
issues."
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
5f44324 (core: log offset pack data accesses happened - 2011-07-06)
provides a way to observe pack access patterns via a config
switch. Setting an environment variable looks more obvious than a
config var, especially when you just need to _observe_, and more
inline with other tracing knobs we have.
Document it as it may be useful for remote troubleshooting.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A note in the beginning of this document describes the behavior already.
This patch just adds where to find the repositories.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When explaining the "--tags" option as an equivalent to giving an
explicit "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" refspec, the two asterisks were
misinterpreted by AsciiDoc as a request to typeset the string
segment between them in bold.
We could fix it in two ways. We can replace them with {asterisk}s
while keeping the string as body text, or we can mark it as a
literal string with backquotes around it.
Let's do the latter, as it is teaching the user an "exactly as
typed" alternative.
Noticed-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Special case "git clone" and use lighter-weight implementation to
check the completeness of the history behind refs.
* nd/clone-connectivity-shortcut:
clone: open a shortcut for connectivity check
index-pack: remove dead code (it should never happen)
fetch-pack: prepare updated shallow file before fetching the pack
clone: let the user know when check_everything_connected is run
The documentation of -S and -G is very sketchy. Completely rewrite the
sections in Documentation/diff-options.txt and
Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt.
References:
52e9578 ([PATCH] Introducing software archaeologist's tool "pickaxe".)
f506b8e (git log/diff: add -G<regexp> that greps in the patch text)
Inputs-from: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Official support for specifying --work-tree/GIT_WORK_TREE without
--git-dir/GIT_DIR was added with v1.7.4-rc3~2^2~2. Update description
of GIT_WORK_TREE to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/line-log:
git-log(1): remove --full-line-diff description
line-log: fix documentation formatting
log -L: improve comments in process_all_files()
log -L: store the path instead of a diff_filespec
log -L: test merge of parallel modify/rename
t4211: pass -M to 'git log -M -L...' test
log -L: fix overlapping input ranges
log -L: check range set invariants when we look it up
Speed up log -L... -M
log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcname
Implement line-history search (git log -L)
Export rewrite_parents() for 'log -L'
Refactor parse_loc
"git fetch origin master" unlike "git fetch origin" or "git fetch"
did not update "refs/remotes/origin/master"; this was an early
design decision to keep the update of remote tracking branches
predictable, but in practice it turns out that people find it more
convenient to opportunisticly update them whenever we have a chance,
and we have been updating them when we run "git push" which already
breaks the original "predictability" anyway.
Now such a fetch does update refs/remotes/origin/master.
* jk/fetch-always-update-tracking:
fetch: don't try to update unfetched tracking refs
fetch: opportunistically update tracking refs
refactor "ref->merge" flag
fetch/pull doc: untangle meaning of bare <ref>
t5510: start tracking-ref tests from a known state
"git clone foo/bar:baz" cannot be a request to clone from a remote
over git-over-ssh specified in the scp style. Detect this case and
clone from a local repository at "foo/bar:baz".
* nd/clone-local-with-colon:
clone: allow cloning local paths with colons in them
Enhance "check-ignore" (1.8.2 update) to work more like "check-attr"
over bidi-pipes.
* as/check-ignore:
t0008: use named pipe (FIFO) to test check-ignore streaming
Documentation: add caveats about I/O buffering for check-{attr,ignore}
check-ignore: allow incremental streaming of queries via --stdin
check-ignore: move setup into cmd_check_ignore()
check-ignore: add -n / --non-matching option
t0008: remove duplicated test fixture data
Update "git checkout foo" that DWIMs the intended "upstream" and
turns it into "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo" to
correctly take existing remote definitions into account.
The remote "origin" may be what uniquely map its own branch to
remotes/some/where/foo but that some/where may not be "origin".
* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
glossary: Update and rephrase the definition of a remote-tracking branch
branch.c: Validate tracking branches with refspecs instead of refs/remotes/*
t9114.2: Don't use --track option against "svn-remote"-tracking branches
t7201.24: Add refspec to keep --track working
t3200.39: tracking setup should fail if there is no matching refspec.
checkout: Use remote refspecs when DWIMming tracking branches
t2024: Show failure to use refspec when DWIMming remote branch names
t2024: Add tests verifying current DWIM behavior of 'git checkout <branch>'
We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options
of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and
--expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp.
Update "git gc" and "git reflog" with a new parsing function for
expiry dates.
* jc/prune-all:
prune: introduce OPT_EXPIRY_DATE() and use it
api-parse-options.txt: document "no-" for non-boolean options
git-gc.txt, git-reflog.txt: document new expiry options
date.c: add parse_expiry_date()
"git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does
not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork
from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from)
did not work correctly.
* mh/fetch-into-shallow:
t5500: add test for fetching with an unknown 'shallow'
upload-pack: ignore 'shallow' lines with unknown obj-ids
Update transport helper to report errors and maintain ref hierarchy
used to keep track of remote helper state better.
* fc/transport-helper-error-reporting:
transport-helper: fix remote helper namespace regression
test: remote-helper: add missing and
t5801: "VAR=VAL shell_func args" is forbidden
transport-helper: update remote helper namespace
transport-helper: trivial code shuffle
transport-helper: warn when refspec is not used
transport-helper: clarify pushing without refspecs
transport-helper: update refspec documentation
transport-helper: clarify *:* refspec
transport-helper: improve push messages
transport-helper: mention helper name when it dies
transport-helper: report errors properly
This new feature allows a rebase to be executed on a dirty worktree or
index. It works by creating a temporary "dangling merge commit" out
of the worktree and index changes (via 'git stash create'), and
automatically applying it after a successful rebase or abort.
rebase stores the SHA-1 hex of the temporary merge commit, along with
the rest of the rebase state, in either
.git/{rebase-merge,rebase-apply}/autostash depending on the kind of
rebase. Since $state_dir is automatically removed at the end of a
successful rebase or abort, so is the autostash.
The advantage of this approach is that we do not affect the normal
stash's reflogs, making the autostash invisible to the end-user. This
means that you can use 'git stash' during a rebase as usual.
When the autostash application results in a conflict, we push
$state_dir/autostash onto the normal stash and remove $state_dir
ending the rebase. The user can inspect the stash, and pop or drop at
any time.
Most significantly, this feature means that a caller like pull (with
pull.rebase set to true) can easily be patched to remove the
require_clean_work_tree restriction.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to make sure the cloned repository is good, we run "rev-list
--objects --not --all $new_refs" on the repository. This is expensive
on large repositories. This patch attempts to mitigate the impact in
this special case.
In the "good" clone case, we only have one pack. If all of the
following are met, we can be sure that all objects reachable from the
new refs exist, which is the intention of running "rev-list ...":
- all refs point to an object in the pack
- there are no dangling pointers in any object in the pack
- no objects in the pack point to objects outside the pack
The second and third checks can be done with the help of index-pack as
a slight variation of --strict check (which introduces a new condition
for the shortcut: pack transfer must be used and the number of objects
large enough to call index-pack). The first is checked in
check_everything_connected after we get an "ok" from index-pack.
"index-pack + new checks" is still faster than the current "index-pack
+ rev-list", which is the whole point of this patch. If any of the
conditions fail, we fall back to the good old but expensive "rev-list
..". In that case it's even more expensive because we have to pay for
the new checks in index-pack. But that should only happen when the
other side is either buggy or malicious.
Cloning linux-2.6 over file://
before after
real 3m25.693s 2m53.050s
user 5m2.037s 4m42.396s
sys 0m13.750s 0m16.574s
A more realistic test with ssh:// over wireless
before after
real 11m26.629s 10m4.213s
user 5m43.196s 5m19.444s
sys 0m35.812s 0m37.630s
This shortcut is not applied to shallow clones, partly because shallow
clones should have no more objects than a usual fetch and the cost of
rev-list is acceptable, partly to avoid dealing with corner cases when
grafting is involved.
This shortcut does not apply to unpack-objects code path either
because the number of objects must be small in order to trigger that
code path.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
file:///path/to/repo.git/ is converted to a hyperlink while others are
not. Put a backslash to avoid the conversion. Tested with asciidoc
8.6.5.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ec55559 (push: Add support for pre-push hooks, 2013-01-13) forgot to
add a note to git-push(1) about the new --no-verify option.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"diff-index" can be used to compare a tree with the tracked working
tree files (when used without the --index option), or with the index
(when used with the --index option).
The text however did not say anything about the comparison with the
working tree at all. Fix this.
Reported-by: Albert Netymk <albertnetymk@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This parameter is equivalent to the parameter --parents on svn cp commands
and is useful for non-standard repository layouts.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Schulte <tobias.schulte@gliderpilot.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
The existing documentation for "-d" does not make it obvious whether
its argument is supposed to be a full svn path, a partial svn path,
the glob from the config file, or what. Clarify the text and add an
example to get the reader started.
Reported-by: Nathan Gray <n8gray@n8gray.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
"git svn" can be configured to use multiple fetch, branches, and tags
refspecs by passing multiple --branches or --tags options at init time
or editing the configuration file later, which can be handy when
working with messy Subversion repositories. Add a note to the
configuration section documenting how this works.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Only consider the first parent commit when walking the commit history. This
is useful if you only wish to match tags on your branch after a merge.
Signed-off-by: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It looks like commit f8246281af
unintentionally removed the documentation for the `-e` option.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe how 'add' sets the submodule's logical name, which is used in
the configuration entry names.
Clarify that 'init' only sets up the configuration entries for
submodules that have already been added elsewhere. Describe that
<path> arguments limit the submodules that are configured.
Signed-off-by: Dale Worley <worley@ariadne.com>
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reimplement commit 4b7f53da on top of the new simplify-merges
infrastructure, tightening the condition to only consider root parents;
the original version incorrectly dropped parents that were TREESAME to
anything.
Original log message follows.
The merge simplification rule stated in 6546b59 (revision traversal:
show full history with merge simplification, 2008-07-31) still
treated merge commits too specially. Namely, in a history with this
shape:
---o---o---M
/
x---x---x
where three 'x' were on a history completely unrelated to the main
history 'o' and do not touch any of the paths we are following, we
still said that after simplifying all of the parents of M, 'x'
(which is the leftmost 'x' that rightmost 'x simplifies down to) and
'o' (which would be the last commit on the main history that touches
the paths we are following) are independent from each other, and
both need to be kept.
That is incorrect; when the side branch 'x' never touches the paths,
it should be removed to allow M to simplify down to the last commit
on the main history that touches the paths.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When simplifying an odd merge, such as one that used "-s ours", we may
find ourselves TREESAME to apparently redundant parents. Prevent
simplify_merges() from removing every TREESAME parent; if this would
happen reinstate the first TREESAME parent - the one that the default
log would have followed.
This avoids producing a totally disjoint history from the default log
when the default log is a better explanation of the end result, and aids
visualisation of odd merges.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
History simplification previously always treated merges as TREESAME
if they were TREESAME to any parent.
While this was consistent with the default behaviour, this could be
extremely unhelpful when searching detailed history, and could not be
overridden. For example, if a merge had ignored a change, as if by "-s
ours", then:
git log -m -p --full-history -Schange file
would successfully locate "change"'s addition but would not locate the
merge that resolved against it.
Futher, simplify_merges could drop the actual parent that a commit
was TREESAME to, leaving it as a normal commit marked TREESAME that
isn't actually TREESAME to its remaining parent.
Now redefine a commit's TREESAME flag to be true only if a commit is
TREESAME to _all_ of its parents. This doesn't affect either the default
simplify_history behaviour (because partially TREESAME merges are turned
into normal commits), or full-history with parent rewriting (because all
merges are output). But it does affect other modes. The clearest
difference is that --full-history will show more merges - sufficient to
ensure that -m -p --full-history log searches can really explain every
change to the file, including those changes' ultimate fate in merges.
Also modify simplify_merges to recalculate TREESAME after removing
a parent. This is achieved by storing per-parent TREESAME flags on the
initial scan, so the combined flag can be easily recomputed.
This fixes some t6111 failures, but creates a couple of new ones -
we are now showing some merges that don't need to be shown.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation of --boundary uses the term "uninteresting", which is
not used or defined anywhere else in the documentation. This is
unhelpful and confusing to anyone who hasn't seen the UNINTERESTING
flag in the source code.
Change to use "excluded", as per revisions.txt.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the example given, P is not TREESAME to E. This doesn't affect the
current result, but it will matter when we change behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we run a regular "git fetch" without arguments, we
update the tracking refs according to the configured
refspec. However, when we run "git fetch origin master" (or
"git pull origin master"), we do not look at the configured
refspecs at all, and just update FETCH_HEAD.
We miss an opportunity to update "refs/remotes/origin/master"
(or whatever the user has configured). Some users find this
confusing, because they would want to do further comparisons
against the old state of the remote master, like:
$ git pull origin master
$ git log HEAD...origin/master
In the currnet code, they are comparing against whatever
commit happened to be in origin/master from the last time
they did a complete "git fetch". This patch will update a
ref from the RHS of a configured refspec whenever we happen
to be fetching its LHS. That makes the case above work.
The downside is that any users who really care about whether
and when their tracking branches are updated may be
surprised.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation erroneously used the same wording for both fetch and
pull, stating that something will be merged even in git-fetch(1).
In addition, saying that "<ref> is equivalent to <ref>:" doesn't
really help anyone who still needs to read manpages. Clarify what is
actually going on.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
People not familiar with AsciiDoc may not realize they are
supposed to update *.txt files and not *.html/*.1 files when
preparing patches to the project.
Signed-off-by: Dale Worley <worley@ariadne.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Git 1.8.2.3
t5004: avoid using tar for checking emptiness of archive
t5004: ignore pax global header file
mergetools/kdiff3: do not use --auto when diffing
transport-helper: trivial style cleanup
The SVN::Fetcher module is now able to filter for inclusion as well
as exclusion (as used by --ignore-path). Also added tests, documentation
changes and git completion script.
If you have an SVN repository with many top level directories and you
only want a git-svn clone of some of them then using --ignore-path is
difficult as it requires a very long regexp. In this case it's much
easier to filter for inclusion.
[ew: remove trailing whitespace]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjwhams@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Typing 'HEAD' is tedious, especially when we can use '@' instead.
The reason for choosing '@' is that it follows naturally from the
ref@op syntax (e.g. HEAD@{u}), except we have no ref, and no
operation, and when we don't have those, it makes sens to assume
'HEAD'.
So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness.
Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so
let's make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Usually "foo:bar" is interpreted as an ssh url. This patch allows to
clone from such paths by putting at least one slash before the colon
(i.e. /path/to/foo:bar or just ./foo:bar).
file://foo:bar should also work, but local optimizations are off in
that case, which may be unwanted. While at there, warn the users about
--local being ignored in this case.
Reported-by: William Giokas <1007380@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing:
remote: 'show' and 'prune' can take more than one remote
remote: check for superfluous arguments in 'git remote add'
remote: add a test for extra arguments, according to docs
-C takes a commit object, not a file.
Signed-off-by: Anders Granskogen Bjørnstad <andersgb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing:
remote: 'show' and 'prune' can take more than one remote
remote: check for superfluous arguments in 'git remote add'
remote: add a test for extra arguments, according to docs
When the client sends a 'shallow' line for an object that the server does
not have, the server currently dies with the error: "did not find object
for shallow <obj-id>". The client may have truncated the history at
the commit by fetching shallowly from a different server, or the commit
may have been garbage collected by the server. In either case, this
unknown commit is not relevant for calculating the pack that is to be
sent and can be safely ignored, and it is not used when recomputing where
the updated history of the client is cauterised.
The documentation in technical/pack-protocol.txt has been updated to
remove the restriction that "Clients MUST NOT mention an obj-id which it
does not know exists on the server". This requirement is not realistic
because clients cannot know whether an object has been garbage collected
by the server.
Signed-off-by: Michael Heemskerk <mheemskerk@atlassian.com>
Reviewed-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update documentation for "log" and "shortlog".
* rr/shortlog-doc:
builtin/shortlog.c: make usage string consistent with log
builtin/log.c: make usage string consistent with doc
git-shortlog.txt: make SYNOPSIS match log, update OPTIONS
git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required
git-log.txt: generalize <since>..<until>
git-log.txt: order OPTIONS properly; move <since>..<until>
revisions.txt: clarify the .. and ... syntax
git-shortlog.txt: remove (-h|--help) from OPTIONS
The wording for "revision" in the glossary wanted to say it refers
to "commit (noun) as a concept" but it was badly phrased.
This may need further updates to hint that in contexts where it is
clear, the word may refer to an object name, not necessarily a
commit. But the patch as-is is already an improvement.
* jn/glossary-revision:
glossary: a revision is just a commit
Introduce "--ignore-removal" as a synonym to "--no-all" for "git
add", and improve the 2.0 migration warning with it.
* jc/add-ignore-removal:
git add: rephrase -A/--no-all warning
git add: --ignore-removal is a better named --no-all
* jn/gitweb-install-doc:
gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility
gitweb/INSTALL: Simplify description of GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM
Earlier we added support for --expire=all (or --expire=now) that
considers all crufts, regardless of their age, as eligible for
garbage collection by turning command argument parsers that use
approxidate() to use parse_expiry_date(), but "git prune" used a
built-in parse-options facility OPT_DATE() and did not benefit from
the new function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows remote-helpers to declare they can handle signed tags, and
issue a warning when using those that don't.
* jk/remote-helper-with-signed-tags:
transport-helper: add 'signed-tags' capability
transport-helper: pass --signed-tags=warn-strip to fast-export
fast-export: add --signed-tags=warn-strip mode
"git diff --diff-algorithm=algo" was understood by the command line
parser, but "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" was not.
* jk/diff-algo-finishing-touches:
diff: allow unstuck arguments with --diff-algorithm
git-merge(1): document diff-algorithm option to merge-recursive
The 'git remote show' and 'prune' subcommands are documented as taking
only a single remote name argument, but that is not the case; they
will simply iterate the action over all remotes given. Update the
documentation and tests to match.
With the last user of the -f flag gone, we also remove the code
supporting it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pretty-printing body of the commit that is stored in non UTF-8
encoding did not work well. The early part of this series fixes
it. And then it adds %C(auto) specifier that turns the coloring on
when we are emitting to the terminal, and adds column-aligning
format directives.
* nd/pretty-formats:
pretty: support %>> that steal trailing spaces
pretty: support truncating in %>, %< and %><
pretty: support padding placeholders, %< %> and %><
pretty: add %C(auto) for auto-coloring
pretty: split color parsing into a separate function
pretty: two phase conversion for non utf-8 commits
utf8.c: add reencode_string_len() that can handle NULs in string
utf8.c: add utf8_strnwidth() with the ability to skip ansi sequences
utf8.c: move display_mode_esc_sequence_len() for use by other functions
pretty: share code between format_decoration and show_decorations
pretty-formats.txt: wrap long lines
pretty: get the correct encoding for --pretty:format=%e
pretty: save commit encoding from logmsg_reencode if the caller needs it
Fixes a handful of issues in the code to traverse working tree to
find untracked and/or ignored files, cleans up and optimizes the
codepath in general.
* kb/status-ignored-optim-2:
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't scan the work tree twice
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't scan the work tree three times
dir.c: git-status: avoid is_excluded checks for tracked files
dir.c: replace is_path_excluded with now equivalent is_excluded API
dir.c: unify is_excluded and is_path_excluded APIs
dir.c: move prep_exclude
dir.c: factor out parts of last_exclude_matching for later reuse
dir.c: git-clean -d -X: don't delete tracked directories
dir.c: make 'git-status --ignored' work within leading directories
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't list empty directories as ignored
dir.c: git-ls-files --directories: don't hide empty directories
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't list empty ignored directories
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't list files in ignored directories
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't drop ignored directories
In the historical context of "git add --all ." that pays attention
to "all kinds of changes" (implying "without ignoring removals"),
the option to countermand it "--no-all" may have made sense, but
because we will be making "--all" the default when a pathspec is
given, it makes more sense to rename the option to a more explicit
"--ignore-removal". The "--all" option naturally becomes its
negation, "--no-ignore-removal".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ta/glossary:
glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics
glossary: remove outdated/misleading/irrelevant entries
Improve documentation to illustrate "push authenticated, fetch
anonymous" configuration for smart HTTP servers.
* jk/doc-http-backend:
doc/http-backend: match query-string in apache half-auth example
doc/http-backend: give some lighttpd config examples
doc/http-backend: clarify "half-auth" repo configuration
Preparatory steps to make "git add <pathspec>" take notice of
removed paths that match <pathspec> by default in Git 2.0.
* 'jc/add-2.0-delete-default' (early part):
git add: rephrase the "removal will cease to be ignored" warning
git add: rework the logic to warn "git add <pathspec>..." default change
git add: start preparing for "git add <pathspec>..." to default to "-A"
builtin/add.c: simplify boolean variables
Make the initial "sparse" selection of the paths more sticky across
"git checkout".
* nd/checkout-keep-sparse:
checkout: add --ignore-skip-worktree-bits in sparse checkout mode
This option is a remnant of an earlier log -L version, and not
currently implemented. Remove it until (if at all) it is implemented
again.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are broadly two problems with the current SYNOPSIS. First, it
completely omits the detail that paths can be specified. Second, it
attempts to list all the options: this is futile as, in addition to
the options unique to it, it accepts all the options that git-rev-list
accepts. In fixing these problems, make the SYNOPSIS consistent with
that in git-log.txt. Also add the corresponding sections to OPTIONS.
Save adding the options from rev-list-options.txt for a later patch,
as it requires some work to pick out the options that are relevant to
shortlog.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In its current form, the note talks about separating options from
"branch names" and "refnames" in the same sentence. This is entirely
inaccurate, as <revision range> need not be a set of branch names or
ref names. Rewrite it to use the word "revision range", to be
consistent with the SYNOPSIS.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'<since>..<until>' is misleading, as there are many other forms that
'git log' can accept as an argument. Replace it with <revision range>,
referring to the section "Specifying Ranges" in revisions.txt, and
rewrite the section appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The OPTIONS section lists <since>..<until> as the first item, but this
is inconsistent with the ordering in SYNOPSIS. Move it down until it
appears just before [[--] <path>...].
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In <rev1>..<rev2> and <rev1>...<rev2>, if either <rev1> or <rev2> is
omitted, it defaults to 'HEAD'. Add this detail to the document.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The second paragraph of the added description for the -L option
"<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:", and the list of
forms that follow the headline, were indented one level too short,
due to the missing "+" to signal that the next paragraph continues
the previous one.
Also "You can specify this option more than once" is about the -L
option, not about its various forms of starting and ending points.
Move it to the end of the main text.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current definition of 'revision' sounds like it is saying that a
revision is a tree object. In reality it is just a commit.
This should be especially useful for people used to other revision
control systems trying to see how familiar concepts translate into git
terms.
Reported-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ta/glossary:
glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics
glossary: remove outdated/misleading/irrelevant entries
Improve documentation to illustrate "push authenticated, fetch
anonymous" configuration for smart HTTP servers.
* jk/doc-http-backend:
doc/http-backend: match query-string in apache half-auth example
doc/http-backend: give some lighttpd config examples
doc/http-backend: clarify "half-auth" repo configuration
The definition of a remote-tracking branch in the glossary have been
out-of-date for a while (by e.g. referring to "Pull:" from old-style
$GIT_DIR/remotes files).
Also, the preceding patches have formalized that a remote-tracking branch
must match a configured refspec in order to be usable as an upstream.
This patch rewrites the paragraph on remote-tracking branches accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The DWIM mode of checkout allows you to run "git checkout foo" when there
is no existing local ref or path called "foo", and there is exactly _one_
remote with a remote-tracking branch called "foo". Git will automatically
create a new local branch called "foo" using the remote-tracking "foo" as
its starting point and configured upstream.
For example, consider the following unconventional (but perfectly valid)
remote setup:
[remote "origin"]
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[remote "frotz"]
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/*
Case 1: Assume both "origin" and "frotz" have remote-tracking branches called
"foo", at "refs/remotes/origin/foo" and "refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/foo"
respectively. In this case "git checkout foo" should fail, because there is
more than one remote with a "foo" branch.
Case 2: Assume only "frotz" have a remote-tracking branch called "foo". In
this case "git checkout foo" should succeed, and create a local branch "foo"
from "refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/foo", using remote branch "foo" from "frotz"
as its upstream.
The current code hardcodes the assumption that all remote-tracking branches
must match the "refs/remotes/$remote/*" pattern (which is true for remotes
with "conventional" refspecs, but not true for the "frotz" remote above).
When running "git checkout foo", the current code looks for exactly one ref
matching "refs/remotes/*/foo", hence in the above example, it fails to find
"refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/foo", which causes it to fail both case #1 and #2.
The better way to handle the above example is to actually study the fetch
refspecs to deduce the candidate remote-tracking branches for "foo"; i.e.
assume "foo" is a remote branch being fetched, and then map "refs/heads/foo"
through the refspecs in order to get the corresponding remote-tracking
branches "refs/remotes/origin/foo" and "refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/foo".
Finally we check which of these happens to exist in the local repo, and
if there is exactly one, we have an unambiguous match for "git checkout foo",
and may proceed.
This fixes most of the failing tests introduced in the previous patch.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To be consistent with the documentation of all the other commands,
remove (-h|--help) from the OPTIONS section.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to "git count-objects" to
show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary.
* ap/strbuf-humanize:
count-objects: add -H option to humanize sizes
strbuf: create strbuf_humanise_bytes() to show byte sizes
This is pretty useful in `%<(100)%s%Cred%>(20)% an' where %s does not
use up all 100 columns and %an needs more than 20 columns. By
replacing %>(20) with %>>(20), %an can steal spaces from %s.
%>> understands escape sequences, so %Cred does not stop it from
stealing spaces in %<(100).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
%>(N,trunc) truncates the right part after N columns and replace the
last two letters with "..". ltrunc does the same on the left. mtrunc
cuts the middle out.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Either %<, %> or %>< standing before a placeholder specifies how many
columns (at least as the placeholder can exceed it) it takes. Each
differs on how spaces are padded:
%< pads on the right (aka left alignment)
%> pads on the left (aka right alignment)
%>< pads both ways equally (aka centered)
The (<N>) follows them, e.g. `%<(100)', to specify the number of
columns the next placeholder takes.
However, if '|' stands before (<N>), e.g. `%>|(100)', then the number
of columns is calculated so that it reaches the Nth column on screen.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is not simply convenient over %C(auto,xxx). Some placeholders
(actually only one, %d) do multi coloring and we can't emit a multiple
colors with %C(auto,xxx).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows format-patch --cover-letter to be configurable; the most
notable is the "auto" mode to create cover-letter only for multi
patch series.
* fc/send-email-annotate:
rebase-am: explicitly disable cover-letter
format-patch: trivial cleanups
format-patch: add format.coverLetter configuration variable
log: update to OPT_BOOL
format-patch: refactor branch name calculation
format-patch: improve head calculation for cover-letter
send-email: make annotate configurable
Document where the configuration is read by the git-daemon when its --user
option is used.
* jk/daemon-user-doc:
doc: clarify that "git daemon --user=<user>" option does not export HOME=~user
Document that the "no-" prefix can also be used for non-boolean
options.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the new values that can be used for expiry values where their
use makes sense:
* git reflog expire --expire=[all|never]
* git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=[all|never]
* git gc --prune=all
Other combinations aren't useful and therefore no documentation is
added (even though they are allowed):
* git gc --prune=never
is redundant with "git gc --no-prune"
* git prune --expire=all
is equivalent to providing no --expire option
* git prune --expire=never
is a NOP
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This has never worked, since it's inception the code simply skips all
the refs, essentially telling fast-export to do nothing.
Let's at least tell the user what's going on.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The refspec capability is not only used by 'import', also by
'export', and it's recommended in both.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The *:* refspec doesn't work, and never has, clarify the code and
documentation to reflect that. This in effect reverts commit 9e7673e
(gitremote-helpers(1): clarify refspec behaviour).
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Highlight that CONFIG_SYSTEM and /etc/gitweb.conf are meant to be
the fallback configuration file in BUGS section of gitweb.conf
documentation. This will hopefully help people who expect them to
be a common default, which unfortunately came later in the history.
"git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff
--diff-algorithm=algo".
* jk/diff-algo-finishing-touches:
diff: allow unstuck arguments with --diff-algorithm
git-merge(1): document diff-algorithm option to merge-recursive
'git-status --ignored' still scans the work tree twice to collect
untracked and ignored files, respectively.
fill_directory / read_directory already supports collecting untracked and
ignored files in a single directory scan. However, the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED
flag to enable this has some git-add specific side-effects (e.g. it
doesn't recurse into ignored directories, so listing ignored files with
--untracked=all doesn't work).
The DIR_SHOW_IGNORED flag doesn't list untracked files and returns ignored
files in dir_struct.entries[] (instead of dir_struct.ignored[] as
DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED). DIR_SHOW_IGNORED is used all throughout git.
We don't want to break the existing API, so lets introduce a new flag
DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO that lists untracked as well as ignored files similar
to DIR_COLLECT_FILES, but will recurse into sub-directories based on the
other flags as DIR_SHOW_IGNORED does.
In dir.c::read_directory_recursive, add ignored files to either
dir_struct.entries[] or dir_struct.ignored[] based on the flags. Also move
the DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED case here so that filling result lists is in a
common place.
In wt-status.c::wt_status_collect_untracked, use the new flag and read
results from dir_struct.ignored[]. Remove the extra fill_directory call.
builtin/check-ignore.c doesn't call fill_directory, setting the git-add
specific DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED flag has no effect here. Remove for clarity.
Update API documentation to reflect the changes.
Performance: with this patch, 'git-status --ignored' is typically as fast
as 'git-status'.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The exact definition of "refspec" can be found in git-fetch and
git-push manpages. So don't duplicate this here in the glossary.
Actually the definition of "pathspec" should be moved to a separate
file akin to the way it's done with "refspec". But this will only be
wortwhile when there's more to say about it. So for the time being
just improve the first sentence a little bit; fix the indentation of
the first paragraph after the bullet list and remove the one-item
list of magic signatures with its - for the user - unnecessary
introduction of "magic word 'top'".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function.
When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1".
Also to people who look up "object name" in the glossary,
the details of which hash function is applied on what to
compute "object name" is not important but the fact that the
name is meant to be an unique identifier for the contents
stored in the object is.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Otherwise when using 'git branch -vv' it's hard to see them among so
much output.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows a remote helper using the 'export' protocol to specify that
it supports signed tags, changing the handing from 'warn-strip' to
'verbatim'.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This issues a warning while stripping signatures from signed tags, which
allows us to use it as default behaviour for remote helpers which cannot
specify how to handle signed tags.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout -- <paths>" is usually used to restore all modified
files in <paths>. In sparse checkout mode, this command is overloaded
with another meaning: to add back all files in <paths> that are
excluded by sparse patterns.
As the former makes more sense for day-to-day use. Switch it to the
default and the latter enabled with --ignore-skip-worktree-bits.
While at there, add info/sparse-checkout to gitrepository-layout.txt
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When setting up a "half-auth" repository in which reads can
be done anonymously but writes require authentication, it is
best if the server can require authentication for both the
ref advertisement and the actual receive-pack POSTs. This
alleviates the need for the admin to set http.receivepack in
the repositories, and means that the client is challenged
for credentials immediately, instead of partway through the
push process (and git clients older than v1.7.11.7 had
trouble handling these challenges).
Since detecting a push during the ref advertisement requires
matching the query string, and this is non-trivial to do in
Apache, we have traditionally punted and instructed users to
just protect "/git-receive-pack$". This patch provides the
mod_rewrite recipe to actually match the ref advertisement,
which is preferred.
While we're at it, let's add the recipe to our test scripts
so that we can be sure that it works, and doesn't get broken
(either by our changes or by changes in Apache).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Correct common spelling mistakes in comments and tests
kwset: fix spelling in comments
precompose-utf8: fix spelling of "want" in error message
compat/nedmalloc: fix spelling in comments
compat/regex: fix spelling and grammar in comments
obstack: fix spelling of similar
contrib/subtree: fix spelling of accidentally
git-remote-mediawiki: spelling fixes
doc: various spelling fixes
fast-export: fix argument name in error messages
Documentation: distinguish between ref and offset deltas in pack-format
i18n: make the translation of -u advice in one go
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fact that we don't set $HOME may confuse admins who expect
~<user>/.gitconfig to be used, because that is not what we try to
read. And worse, since 96b9e0e3, a git-daemon started by root is
likely to fail to run at all, as the user we switch to generally
cannot read ~root.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
eb32d236 introduced the OBJ_OFS_DELTA object that uses a relative offset to
identify the base object instead of the 20-byte SHA1 reference. The pack file
documentation only mentions the SHA1 based reference in its description of the
deltified object entry.
Update the pack format documentation to clarify that the deltified object
representation refers to its base using either a relative negative offset or
the absolute SHA1 identifier.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Saasen <ssaasen@atlassian.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a boolean http.sslTry option which allows to enable AUTH SSL/TLS and
encrypted data transfers when connecting via regular FTP protocol.
Default is false since it might trigger certificate verification errors on
misconfigured servers.
Signed-off-by: Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Typo fix: replacing it's -> its
t: make PIPE a standard test prerequisite
archive: clarify explanation of --worktree-attributes
t/README: --immediate skips cleanup commands for failed tests
"git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like
list of commands are given with "-a".
* po/help-guides:
doc: include --guide option description for "git help"
help: mention -a and -g option, and 'git help <concept>' usage.
builtin/help.c: add list_common_guides_help() function
builtin/help.c: add --guide option
builtin/help.c: split "-a" processing into two
Make it a bit clearer that --worktree-attributes is about files in the
working tree (checked out files, possibly changed) and not the current
working directory ($PWD). Link to the ATTRIBUTES section, which has
more details.
Reported-by: Amit Bakshi <ambakshi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
check-attr and check-ignore have the potential to deadlock callers
which do not read back the output in real-time. For example, if a
caller writes N paths out and then reads N lines back in, it risks
becoming blocked on write() to check-*, and check-* is blocked on
write back to the caller. Somebody has to buffer; the pipe buffers
provide some leeway, but they are limited.
Thanks to Peff for pointing this out:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/220534
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If `-n` or `--non-matching` are specified, non-matching pathnames will
also be output, in which case all fields in each output record except
for <pathname> will be empty. This can be useful when running
check-ignore as a background process, so that files can be
incrementally streamed to STDIN, and for each of these files, STDOUT
will indicate whether that file matched a pattern or not. (Without
this option, it would be impossible to tell whether the absence of
output for a given file meant that it didn't match any pattern, or
that the result simply hadn't been flushed to STDOUT yet.)
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The examples in the documentation are all for Apache. Let's
at least cover the basics: an anonymous server, an
authenticated server, and a "half auth" server with
anonymous read and authenticated write.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the http-backend is set up to allow anonymous read but
authenticated write, the http-backend manual suggests
catching only the "/git-receive-pack" POST of the packfile,
not the initial "info/refs?service=git-receive-pack" GET in
which we advertise refs.
This does work and is secure, as we do not allow any write
during the info/refs request, and the information in the ref
advertisement is the same that you would get from a fetch.
However, the configuration required by the server is
slightly more complex. The default `http.receivepack`
setting is to allow pushes if the webserver tells us that
the user authenticated, and otherwise to return a 403
("Forbidden"). That works fine if authentication is turned
on completely; the initial request requires authentication,
and http-backend realizes it is OK to do a push.
But for this "half-auth" state, no authentication has
occurred during the initial ref advertisement. The
http-backend CGI therefore does not think that pushing
should be enabled, and responds with a 403. The client
cannot continue, even though the server would have allowed
it to run if it had provided credentials.
It would be much better if the server responded with a 401,
asking for credentials during the initial contact. But
git-http-backend does not know about the server's auth
configuration (so a 401 would be confusing in the case of a
true anonymous server). Unfortunately, configuring Apache to
recognize the query string and apply the auth appropriately
to receive-pack (but not upload-pack) initial requests is
non-trivial.
The site admin can work around this by just turning on
http.receivepack explicitly in its repositories. Let's
document this workaround.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the new humanize() function to print loose objects size, pack size,
and garbage size in verbose mode, or loose objects size in regular mode.
This patch doesn't change the way anything is displayed when the option
is not used.
Also update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Humanization of downloaded size is done in the same function as text
formatting in 'process.c'. The code cannot be reused easily elsewhere.
Separate text formatting from size simplification and make the
function public in strbuf so that it can easily be used by other
callers.
We now can use strbuf_humanise_bytes() for both downloaded size and
download speed calculation. One of the drawbacks is that speed will
now look like this when download is stalled: "0 bytes/s" instead of
"0 KiB/s".
Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Strip @anchor elements in the texinfo output of the documentation,
as a single document created by concatenating our entire manual set
will produce many duplicates that makes newer texinfo unhappy.
* mg/texinfo-5:
Documentation: Strip texinfo anchors to avoid duplicates
Support "pull from one place, push to another place" workflow
better by introducing remote.pushdefault (overrides the "origin"
thing) and branch.*.pushremote (overrides the branch.*.remote).
* rr/triangle:
remote.c: introduce branch.<name>.pushremote
remote.c: introduce remote.pushdefault
remote.c: introduce a way to have different remotes for fetch/push
t5516 (fetch-push): drop implicit arguments from helper functions
t5516 (fetch-push): update test description
remote.c: simplify a bit of code using git_config_string()
Also, add a new option: 'auto', so if there's more than one patch, the
cover letter is generated, otherwise it's not.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some people always do --annotate, lets not force them to always type
that.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation says that "If no 'refspec' capability is advertised,
there is an implied `refspec *:*`" but this is only the case for the
"import" command.
Since there is a comment in transport-helper.c indicating that this
default is for historical reasons, change the documentation to clarify
that a refspec should always be specified.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fast-export can fail because of some pruned-reference when importing a
mark file.
The problem happens in the following scenario:
$ git fast-export --export-marks=MARKS master
(rewrite master)
$ git prune
$ git fast-export --import-marks=MARKS master
This might fail if some references have been removed by prune
because some marks will refer to no longer existing commits.
git-fast-export will not need these objects anyway as they were no
longer reachable.
We still need to update last_numid so we don't change the mapping
between marks and objects for remote-helpers.
Unfortunately, the mark file should not be rewritten without lost marks
if no new objects has been exported, as we could lose track of the last
last_numid.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach "merge/pull" to optionally verify and reject commits that are
not signed properly.
* sg/gpg-sig:
pretty printing: extend %G? to include 'N' and 'U'
merge/pull Check for untrusted good GPG signatures
merge/pull: verify GPG signatures of commits being merged
commit.c/GPG signature verification: Also look at the first GPG status line
Move commit GPG signature verification to commit.c
Commit 07924d4 (diff: Introduce --diff-algorithm command line option
2013-01-16) added diff-algorithm as a parameter to the recursive merge
strategy but did not document it. Do so.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we introduced the concept of "detached HEAD", we made sure that
commands that operate on the history of the current branch "just
work" in that state. They update the HEAD to point at the new
history without affecting any branch when the HEAD is detached, just
like they update the tip of the "current branch" to point at the new
history when HEAD points at a specific branch.
As this is done as the natural extension for these commands, we did
not, we still do not, and we do not want to repeat "A detached HEAD
is updated without affecting any branch" when describing what each
and every one of these commands that operates "on the current branch"
does.
Add a blanket description to the glossary to cover them instead.
The general principle is that operations to update the branch work
on and affect the HEAD, while operations to update the information
about a branch do not.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The explanation for 'git commit --amend' talks about preparing a tree
object, which shouldn't be how user-facing documentation talks about
commit.
Reword it to say it works as usual, but replaces the current commit.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This keeps texinfo 5.x happy. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/464210.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object}
can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".
* jc/sha1-name-object-peeler:
peel_onion(): teach $foo^{object} peeler
peel_onion: disambiguate to favor tree-ish when we know we want a tree-ish
Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
or en/US locale.
* mg/gpg-interface-using-status:
pretty: make %GK output the signing key for signed commits
pretty: parse the gpg status lines rather than the output
gpg_interface: allow to request status return
log-tree: rely upon the check in the gpg_interface
gpg-interface: check good signature in a reliable way
'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
$msg already ended with one.
* bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option:
Documentation/git-commit.txt: rework the --cleanup section
git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary
t7502: demonstrate breakage with a commit message with trailing newlines
t/t7502: compare entire commit message with what was expected
* maint-1.8.1:
Start preparing for 1.8.1.6
git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default
Fix revision walk for commits with the same dates
t2003: work around path mangling issue on Windows
pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait
pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags
use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object")
avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
entry: fix filter lookup
t2003: modernize style
name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true
The <commit>|<object> argument is actually not explained anywhere
(except implicitly in the description of an unannotated tag). Write a
little explanation, in particular to cover the default.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Note that the ability to display an individual guide was always
possible. Include this in the update.
Also tell readers how git(1) can be accessed, especially for Git for
Windows users who do not have the 'man' command. Likewise include a
commentary on how to access this page (Catch 22).
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new configuration variable overrides `remote.pushdefault` and
`branch.<name>.remote` for pushes. When you pull from one
place (e.g. your upstream) and push to another place (e.g. your own
publishing repository), you would want to set `remote.pushdefault` to
specify the remote to push to for all branches, and use this option to
override it for a specific branch.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new configuration variable defines the default remote to push to,
and overrides `branch.<name>.remote` for all branches. It is useful
in the typical triangular-workflow setup, where the remote you're
fetching from is different from the remote you're pushing to.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old version could be read to mean that the argument has to refer
to a valid object, but that is incorrect:
* the object is not necessarily read (e.g., to check for corruption)
* if the argument is a 40-digit string of hex digits, then it is
accepted whether or not is is the name of an existing object.
So reword the explanation to be less ambiguous.
Also fix the examples involving --verify: to be sure that the argument
refers to a commit (rather than some other kind of object), the
argument has to be suffixed with "^{commit}". This trick is not
possible in the example involving --default, so don't imply that it is
exactly the same as the previous example.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tb/document-status-u-tradeoff:
status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long
git status: document trade-offs in choosing parameters to the -u option
* da/downcase-u-in-usage:
contrib/mw-to-git/t/install-wiki.sh: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/examples/git-remote.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string
tests: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string
Documentation/user-manual.txt: use a lowercase "usage:" string
templates/hooks--update.sample: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/hooks/setgitperms.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/examples: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: use spaces instead of tabs
contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: fix broken error message
contrib/fast-import: use a lowercase "usage:" string
contrib/credential: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-cvsexportcommit: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-archimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-merge-one-file: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-relink: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string
git-sh-setup: use a lowercase "usage:" string
Expand %G? in pretty format strings to 'N' in case of no GPG signature
and 'U' in case of a good but untrusted GPG signature in addition to
the previous 'G'ood and 'B'ad. This eases writing anyting parsing
git-log output.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When --verify-signatures is specified, abort the merge in case a good
GPG signature from an untrusted key is encountered.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When --verify-signatures is specified on the command-line of git-merge
or git-pull, check whether the commits being merged have good gpg
signatures and abort the merge in case they do not. This allows e.g.
auto-deployment from untrusted repo hosts.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A string that names an object can be suffixed with ^{type} peeler to
say "I have this object name; peel it until you get this type. If
you cannot do so, it is an error". v1.8.2^{commit} asks for a commit
that is pointed at an annotated tag v1.8.2; v1.8.2^{tree} unwraps it
further to the top-level tree object. A special suffix ^{} (i.e. no
type specified) means "I do not care what it unwraps to; just peel
annotated tag until you get something that is not a tag".
When you have a random user-supplied string, you can turn it to a
bare 40-hex object name, and cause it to error out if such an object
does not exist, with:
git rev-parse --verify "$userstring^{}"
for most objects, but this does not yield the tag object name when
$userstring refers to an annotated tag.
Introduce a new suffix, ^{object}, that only makes sure the given
name refers to an existing object. Then
git rev-parse --verify "$userstring^{object}"
becomes a way to make sure $userstring refers to an existing object.
This is necessary because the plumbing "rev-parse --verify" is only
about "make sure the argument is something we can feed to get_sha1()
and turn it into a raw 20-byte object name SHA-1" and is not about
"make sure that 20-byte object name SHA-1 refers to an object that
exists in our object store". When the given $userstring is already
a 40-hex, by definition "rev-parse --verify $userstring" can turn it
into a raw 20-byte object name. With "$userstring^{object}", we can
make sure that the 40-hex string names an object that exists in our
object store before "--verify" kicks in.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the 1.7.9 feature to merge a signed tag and keep that in
the mergetag header in the resulting commit better.
* yd/doc-merge-annotated-tag:
Documentation: merging a tag is a special case
"git difftool --dir-diff" made symlinks to working tree files when
preparing a temporary directory structure, so that accidental edits
of these files in the difftool are reflected back to the working
tree, but the logic to decide when to do so was not quite right.
* jk/difftool-dir-diff-edit-fix:
difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree
difftool: avoid double slashes in symlink targets
git-difftool(1): fix formatting of --symlink description
This new syntax finds a funcname matching /pattern/, and then takes from there
up to (but not including) the next funcname. So you can say
git log -L:main:main.c
and it will dig up the main() function and show its line-log, provided
there are no other funcnames matching 'main'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a rewrite of much of Bo's work, mainly in an effort to split
it into smaller, easier to understand routines.
The algorithm is built around the struct range_set, which encodes a
series of line ranges as intervals [a,b). This is used in two
contexts:
* A set of lines we are tracking (which will change as we dig through
history).
* To encode diffs, as pairs of ranges.
The main routine is range_set_map_across_diff(). It processes the
diff between a commit C and some parent P. It determines which diff
hunks are relevant to the ranges tracked in C, and computes the new
ranges for P.
The algorithm is then simply to process history in topological order
from newest to oldest, computing ranges and (partial) diffs. At
branch points, we need to merge the ranges we are watching. We will
find that many commits do not affect the chosen ranges, and mark them
TREESAME (in addition to those already filtered by pathspec limiting).
Another pass of history simplification then gets rid of such commits.
This is wired as an extra filtering pass in the log machinery. This
currently only reduces code duplication, but should allow for other
simplifications and options to be used.
Finally, we hook a diff printer into the output chain. Ideally we
would wire directly into the diff logic, to optionally use features
like word diff. However, that will require some major reworking of
the diff chain, so we completely replace the output with our own diff
for now.
As this was a GSoC project, and has quite some history by now, many
people have helped. In no particular order, thanks go to
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Apologies to everyone I forgot.
Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We want to use the same style of -L n,m argument for 'git log -L' as
for git-blame. Refactor the argument parsing of the range arguments
from builtin/blame.c to the (new) file that will hold the 'git log -L'
logic.
To accommodate different data structures in blame and log -L, the file
contents are abstracted away; parse_range_arg takes a callback that it
uses to get the contents of a line of the (notional) file.
The new test is for a case that made me pause during debugging: the
'blame -L with invalid end' test was the only one that noticed an
outright failure to parse the end *at all*. So make a more explicit
test for that.
Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"insn" appears to be an in-code abbreviation and should not appear
in manual/help pages.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Krüger <matthias.krueger@famsik.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
More fixes for 1.8.2.1
merge-tree: fix typo in merge-tree.c::unresolved
git-commit doc: describe use of multiple `-m` options
git-pull doc: fix grammo ("conflicts" is plural)
