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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
238803cb40 mailmap doc + tests: document and test for case-insensitivity
Add documentation and more tests for case-insensitivity. The existing
test only matched on the E-Mail part, but as shown here we also match
the name with strcasecmp().

This behavior was last discussed on the mailing list in the thread
starting at [1]. It seems we're keeping it like this, so let's
document it.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87czykvg19.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-12 14:04:42 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
05b5ff219c mailmap doc + tests: add better examples & test them
Change the mailmap documentation added in 0925ce4d49 (Add map_user()
and clear_mailmap() to mailmap, 2009-02-08) to continue discussing the
Jane/Joe example. I think this makes things a lot less confusing as
we're building up more complex examples using one set of data which
covers all the things we'd like to discuss.

Also add tests to assert that what our documentation says is what's
actually happening. This is mostly (or entirely) covered by existing
tests which I'm not deleting, but having these tests for the synopsis
makes it easier to follow-along while reading the tests & docs.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-12 14:04:42 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
fcafb75382 mailmap doc: start by mentioning the comment syntax
Mentioning the comment syntax and blank line support first is in line
with how "git help config" describes its format. See
b8936cf060 (config.txt grammar, typo, and asciidoc fixes, 2006-06-08)
for the paragraph I'm copying & amending from its documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-12 14:04:40 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
6646cca892 check-mailmap doc: note config options
Add a passing mention of the mailmap.file and mailmap.blob
configuration options. Before this addition a reader of the
"check-mailmap" manpage would have no idea that a custom map could be
specified, unless they'd happen to e.g. come across it in the "config"
manpage first.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-12 14:04:40 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
4f2ee994f3 mailmap doc: quote config variables like.this
Quote the mailmap.file and mailmap.blob configuration variables as
`mailmap.file` and `mailmap.blob`, and link to git-config(1). This is
in line with the preferred way of doing this in the rest of our
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-12 14:04:40 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
42957af027 mailmap doc: create a new "gitmailmap(5)" man page
Create a gitmailmap(5) page similar to how .gitmodules and .gitignore
have their own pages at gitmodules(5) and gitignore(5). Now instead of
"check-mailmap", "blame" and "shortlog" documentation including the
description of the format we link to one canonical place.

This makes things easier for readers, since in our manpage or
web-based[1] output it's not clear that the "MAPPING AUTHORS" sections
aren't subtly different, as opposed to just included.

1. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-check-mailmap

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-12 14:04:39 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
c7b190dabd fetch: implement support for atomic reference updates
When executing a fetch, then git will currently allocate one reference
transaction per reference update and directly commit it. This means that
fetches are non-atomic: even if some of the reference updates fail,
others may still succeed and modify local references.

This is fine in many scenarios, but this strategy has its downsides.

- The view of remote references may be inconsistent and may show a
  bastardized state of the remote repository.

- Batching together updates may improve performance in certain
  scenarios. While the impact probably isn't as pronounced with loose
  references, the upcoming reftable backend may benefit as it needs to
  write less files in case the update is batched.

- The reference-update hook is currently being executed twice per
  updated reference. While this doesn't matter when there is no such
  hook, we have seen severe performance regressions when doing a
  git-fetch(1) with reference-transaction hook when the remote
  repository has hundreds of thousands of references.

Similar to `git push --atomic`, this commit thus introduces atomic
fetches. Instead of allocating one reference transaction per updated
reference, it causes us to only allocate a single transaction and commit
it as soon as all updates were received. If locking of any reference
fails, then we abort the complete transaction and don't update any
reference, which gives us an all-or-nothing fetch.

Note that this may not completely fix the first of above downsides, as
the consistent view also depends on the server-side. If the server
doesn't have a consistent view of its own references during the
reference negotiation phase, then the client would get the same
inconsistent view the server has. This is a separate problem though and,
if it actually exists, can be fixed at a later point.

This commit also changes the way we write FETCH_HEAD in case `--atomic`
is passed. Instead of writing changes as we go, we need to accumulate
all changes first and only commit them at the end when we know that all
reference updates succeeded. Ideally, we'd just do so via a temporary
file so that we don't need to carry all updates in-memory. This isn't
trivially doable though considering the `--append` mode, where we do not
truncate the file but simply append to it. And given that we support
concurrent processes appending to FETCH_HEAD at the same time without
any loss of data, seeding the temporary file with current contents of
FETCH_HEAD initially and then doing a rename wouldn't work either. So
this commit implements the simple strategy of buffering all changes and
appending them to the file on commit.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-12 12:06:15 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
ce81b1da23 config: add new way to pass config via --config-env
While it's already possible to pass runtime configuration via `git -c
<key>=<value>`, it may be undesirable to use when the value contains
sensitive information. E.g. if one wants to set `http.extraHeader` to
contain an authentication token, doing so via `-c` would trivially leak
those credentials via e.g. ps(1), which typically also shows command
arguments.

To enable this usecase without leaking credentials, this commit
introduces a new switch `--config-env=<key>=<envvar>`. Instead of
directly passing a value for the given key, it instead allows the user
to specify the name of an environment variable. The value of that
variable will then be used as value of the key.

Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-12 12:03:18 -08:00
Taylor Blau
a4a1ca22ef Documentation/git-clone.txt: document race with --local
When running 'git clone --local', the operation may fail if another
process is modifying the source repository. Document that this race
condition is known to hopefully help anyone who may run into it.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-11 22:03:08 -08:00
brian m. carlson
4eb56b56e7 docs: rephrase and clarify the git status --short format
The table describing the porcelain format in git-status(1) is helpful,
but it's not completely clear what the three sections mean, even to
some contributors.  As a result, users are unable to find how to detect
common cases like merge conflicts programmatically.

Let's improve this situation by rephrasing to be more explicit about
what each of the sections in the table means, to tell users in plain
language which cases are occurring, and to describe what "unmerged"
means.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-11 12:14:07 -08:00
Utku Gultopu
b356d23638 doc: remove "directory cache" from man pages
"directory cache" (or "directory cache index", "cache") are obsolete
terms which have been superseded by "index". Keeping them in the
documentation may be a source of confusion. This commit replaces
them with the current term, "index", on man pages.

Signed-off-by: Utku Gultopu <ugultopu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-09 22:57:24 -08:00
Vasyl Vavrychuk
155067ab4f git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
Google may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access
needs to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in
place, otherwise send-email fails with:

	5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
	5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials

Document steps required to make this work.

Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-07 22:44:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0454986e78 SubmittingPatches: tighten wording on "sign-off" procedure
The text says "if you can certify DCO then you add a Signed-off-by
trailer".  But it does not say anything about people who cannot or
do not want to certify.  A natural reading may be that if you do not
certify, you must not add the trailer, but it shouldn't hurt to be
overly explicit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-07 15:41:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
72c4083ddf The first batch in 2.31 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-06 23:33:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8664fcb83b Merge branch 'es/worktree-repair-both-moved'
"git worktree repair" learned to deal with the case where both the
repository and the worktree moved.

* es/worktree-repair-both-moved:
  worktree: teach `repair` to fix multi-directional breakage
2021-01-06 23:33:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b62bbd3580 Merge branch 'ab/trailers-extra-format'
The "--format=%(trailers)" mechanism gets enhanced to make it
easier to design output for machine consumption.

* ab/trailers-extra-format:
  pretty format %(trailers): add a "key_value_separator"
  pretty format %(trailers): add a "keyonly"
  pretty-format %(trailers): fix broken standalone "valueonly"
  pretty format %(trailers) doc: avoid repetition
  pretty format %(trailers) test: split a long line
2021-01-06 23:33:43 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
06ce79152b mktag: add a --[no-]strict option
Now that mktag has been migrated to use the fsck machinery to check
its input, it makes sense to teach it to run in the equivalent of "git
fsck"'s default mode.

For cases where mktag is used to (re)create a tag object using data
from an existing and malformed tag object, the validation may
optionally have to be loosened. Teach the command to take the
"--[no-]strict" option to do so.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-06 14:22:24 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
acfc01332b mktag: allow turning off fsck.extraHeaderEntry
In earlier commits mktag learned to use the fsck machinery, at which
point we needed to add fsck.extraHeaderEntry so it could be as strict
about extra headers as it's been ever since it was implemented.

But it's not nice to need to switch away from "mktag" to "hash-object"
+ manual "fsck" just because you'd like to have an extra header. So
let's support turning it off by getting "fsck.*" variables from the
config.

Pedantically speaking it's still not possible to make "mktag" behave
just like "hash-object -t tag" does, since we're unconditionally going
to check the referenced object in verify_object_in_tag(), which is our
own check, and not one that exists in fsck.c.

But the spirit of "this works like fsck" is preserved, in that if you
created such a tag with "hash-object" and did a full "fsck" on the
repository it would also error out about that invalid object, it just
wouldn't emit the same message as fsck does.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-05 14:58:29 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
acf9de4c94 mktag: use fsck instead of custom verify_tag()
Change the validation logic in "mktag" to use fsck's fsck_tag()
instead of its own custom parser. Curiously the logic for both dates
back to the same commit[1]. Let's unify them so we're not maintaining
two sets functions to verify that a tag is OK.

The behavior of fsck_tag() and the old "mktag" code being removed here
is different in few aspects.

I think it makes sense to remove some of those checks, namely:

 A. fsck only cares that the timezone matches [-+][0-9]{4}. The mktag
    code disallowed values larger than 1400.

    Yes there's currently no timezone with a greater offset[2], but
    since we allow any number of non-offical timezones (e.g. +1234)
    passing this through seems fine. Git also won't break in the
    future if e.g. French Polynesia decides it needs to outdo the Line
    Islands when it comes to timezone extravagance.

 B. fsck allows missing author names such as "tagger <email>", mktag
    wouldn't, but would allow e.g. "tagger [2 spaces] <email>" (but
    not "tagger [1 space] <email>"). Now we allow all of these.

 C. Like B, but "mktag" disallowed spaces in the <email> part, fsck
    allows it.

In some ways fsck_tag() is stricter than "mktag" was, namely:

 D. fsck disallows zero-padded dates, but mktag didn't care. So
    e.g. the timestamp "0000000000 +0000" produces an error now. A
    test in "t1006-cat-file.sh" relied on this, it's been changed to
    use "hash-object" (without fsck) instead.

There was one check I deemed worth keeping by porting it over to
fsck_tag():

 E. "mktag" did not allow any custom headers, and by extension (as an
    empty commit is allowed) also forbade an extra stray trailing
    newline after the headers it knew about.

    Add a new check in the "ignore" category to fsck and use it. This
    somewhat abuses the facility added in efaba7cc77 (fsck:
    optionally ignore specific fsck issues completely, 2015-06-22).

    This is somewhat of hack, but probably the least invasive change
    we can make here. The fsck command will shuffle these categories
    around, e.g. under --strict the "info" becomes a "warn" and "warn"
    becomes "error". Existing users of fsck's (and others,
    e.g. index-pack) --strict option rely on this.

    So we need to put something into a category that'll be ignored by
    all existing users of the API. Pretending that
    fsck.extraHeaderEntry=error ("ignore" by default) was set serves
    to do this for us.

1. ec4465adb3 (Add "tag" objects that can be used to sign other
   objects., 2005-04-25)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_time_offsets

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-05 14:58:29 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
18430ed363 mktag doc: update to explain why to use this
Change the mktag documentation to compare itself to the similar
"hash-object -t tag" command. Before this someone reading the
documentation wouldn't have much of an idea what the difference
was.

Let's allude to our own validation logic, and cross-link the "mktag"
and "hash-object" documentation to aid discover-ability. A follow-up
change to migrate "mktag" to use "fsck" validation will make the part
about validation logic clearer.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-05 14:58:28 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
3797a0a7b7 maintenance: use Windows scheduled tasks
Git's background maintenance uses cron by default, but this is not
available on Windows. Instead, integrate with Task Scheduler.

Tasks can be scheduled using the 'schtasks' command. There are several
command-line options that can allow for some advanced scheduling, but
unfortunately these seem to all require authenticating using a password.

Instead, use the "/xml" option to pass an XML file that contains the
configuration for the necessary schedule. These XML files are based on
some that I exported after constructing a schedule in the Task Scheduler
GUI. These options only run background maintenance when the user is
logged in, and more fields are populated with the current username and
SID at run-time by 'schtasks'.

Since the GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER environment variable allows us to
specify 'schtasks' as the scheduler, we can test the Windows-specific
logic on other platforms. Thus, add a check that the XML file written
by Git is valid when xmllint exists on the system.

Since we use a temporary file for the XML files sent to 'schtasks', we
prefix the random characters with the frequency so it is easier to
examine the proper file during tests. Instead of an exact match on the
'args' file, we 'grep' for the arguments other than the filename.

There is a deficiency in the current design. Windows has two kinds of
applications: GUI applications that start by "winmain()" and console
applications that start by "main()". Console applications are attached
to a new Console window if they are not already associated with a GUI
application. This means that every hour the scheudled task launches a
command window for the scheduled tasks. Not only is this visually
obtrusive, but it also takes focus from whatever else the user is
doing!

A simple fix would be to insert a GUI application that acts as a shim
between the scheduled task and Git. This is currently possible in Git
for Windows by setting the <Command> tag equal to

  C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe

with options "--hide --no-needs-console --command=cmd\git.exe"
followed by the arguments currently used. Since git-bash.exe is not
included in Windows builds of core Git, I chose to leave out this
feature. My plan is to submit a small patch to Git for Windows that
converts the use of git.exe with this use of git-bash.exe in the
short term. In the long term, we can consider creating this GUI
shim application within core Git, perhaps in contrib/.

Co-authored-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-05 14:38:02 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
2afe7e3567 maintenance: use launchctl on macOS
The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done
through cron. The 'crontab -e' command allows updating the schedule
while cron itself runs those commands. While this is technically
supported by macOS, it has some significant deficiencies:

1. Every run of 'crontab -e' must request elevated privileges through
   the user interface. When running 'git maintenance start' from the
   Terminal app, it presents a dialog box saying "Terminal.app would
   like to administer your computer. Administration can include
   modifying passwords, networking, and system settings." This is more
   alarming than what we are hoping to achieve. If this alert had some
   information about how "git" is trying to run "crontab" then we would
   have some reason to believe that this dialog might be fine. However,
   it also doesn't help that some scenarios just leave Git waiting for
   a response without presenting anything to the user. I experienced
   this when executing the command from a Bash terminal view inside
   Visual Studio Code.

2. While cron initializes a user environment enough for "git config
   --global --show-origin" to show the correct config file information,
   it does not set up the environment enough for Git Credential Manager
   Core to load credentials during a 'prefetch' task. My prefetches
   against private repositories required re-authenticating through UI
   pop-ups in a way that should not be required.

The solution is to switch from cron to the Apple-recommended [1]
'launchd' tool.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/ScheduledJobs.html

The basics of this tool is that we need to create XML-formatted
"plist" files inside "~/Library/LaunchAgents/" and then use the
'launchctl' tool to make launchd aware of them. The plist files
include all of the scheduling information, along with the command-line
arguments split across an array of <string> tags.

For example, here is my plist file for the weekly scheduled tasks:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0"><dict>
<key>Label</key><string>org.git-scm.git.weekly</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/local/libexec/git-core/git</string>
<string>--exec-path=/usr/local/libexec/git-core</string>
<string>for-each-repo</string>
<string>--config=maintenance.repo</string>
<string>maintenance</string>
<string>run</string>
<string>--schedule=weekly</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Day</key><integer>0</integer>
<key>Hour</key><integer>0</integer>
<key>Minute</key><integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>

The schedules for the daily and hourly tasks are more complicated
since we need to use an array for the StartCalendarInterval with
an entry for each of the six days other than the 0th day (to avoid
colliding with the weekly task), and each of the 23 hours other
than the 0th hour (to avoid colliding with the daily task).

The "Label" value is currently filled with "org.git-scm.git.X"
where X is the frequency. We need a different plist file for each
frequency.

The launchctl command needs to be aligned with a user id in order
to initialize the command environment. This must be done using
the 'launchctl bootstrap' subcommand. This subcommand is new as
of macOS 10.11, which was released in September 2015. Before that
release the 'launchctl load' subcommand was recommended. The best
source of information on this transition I have seen is available
at [2]. The current design does not preclude a future version that
detects the available fatures of 'launchctl' to use the older
commands. However, it is best to rely on the newest version since
Apple might completely remove the deprecated version on short
notice.

[2] https://babodee.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/launchctl-2-0-syntax/

To remove a schedule, we must run 'launchctl bootout' with a valid
plist file. We also need to 'bootout' a task before the 'bootstrap'
subcommand will succeed, if such a task already exists.

The need for a user id requires us to run 'id -u' which works on
POSIX systems but not Windows. Further, the need for fully-qualitifed
path names including $HOME behaves differently in the Git internals and
the external test suite. The $HOME variable starts with "C:\..." instead
of the "/c/..." that is provided by Git in these subcommands. The test
therefore has a prerequisite that we are not on Windows. The cross-
platform logic still allows us to test the macOS logic on a Linux
machine.

We can verify the commands that were run by 'git maintenance start'
and 'git maintenance stop' by injecting a script that writes the
command-line arguments into GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER.

An earlier version of this patch accidentally had an opening
"<dict>" tag when it should have had a closing "</dict>" tag. This
was caught during manual testing with actual 'launchctl' commands,
but we do not want to update developers' tasks when running tests.
It appears that macOS includes the "xmllint" tool which can verify
the XML format. This is useful for any system that might contain
the tool, so use it whenever it is available.

We strive to make these tests work on all platforms, but Windows caused
some headaches. In particular, the value of getuid() called by the C
code is not guaranteed to be the same as `$(id -u)` invoked by a test.
This is because `git.exe` is a native Windows program, whereas the
utility programs run by the test script mostly utilize the MSYS2 runtime,
which emulates a POSIX-like environment. Since the purpose of the test
is to check that the input to the hook is well-formed, the actual user
ID is immaterial, thus we can work around the problem by making the the
test UID-agnostic. Another subtle issue is the $HOME environment
variable being a Windows-style path instead of a Unix-style path. We can
be more flexible here instead of expecting exact path matches.

Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-05 14:38:02 -08:00
Martin Ågren
7b77f5a13e pack-format.txt: document sizes at start of delta data
We document the delta data as a set of instructions, but forget to
document the two sizes that precede those instructions: the size of the
base object and the size of the object to be reconstructed. Fix this
omission.

Rather than cramming all the details about the encoding into the running
text, introduce a separate section detailing our "size encoding" and
refer to it.

Reported-by: Ross Light <ross@zombiezen.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-04 13:00:28 -08:00
Philippe Blain
1f4e9319c7 gitmodules.txt: fix 'GIT_WORK_TREE' variable name
'gitmodules.txt' is a guide about the '.gitmodules' file that describes
submodule properties, and that file must exist at the root of the
repository. This was clarified in e5b5c1d2cf (Document clarification:
gitmodules, gitattributes, 2008-08-31).

However, that commit mistakenly uses the non-existing environment
variable 'GIT_WORK_DIR' to refer to the root of the repository.

Fix that by using the correct variable, 'GIT_WORK_TREE'. Take the
opportunity to modernize and improve the formatting of that guide,
and fix a grammar mistake.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-04 11:29:36 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
7efc378205 doc: fix some typos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Acked-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-04 11:27:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
71ca53e812 Git 2.30
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-27 15:15:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f6bf36dc9c Merge branch 'pb/doc-git-linkit-fix'
Docfix.

* pb/doc-git-linkit-fix:
  git.txt: fix typos in 'linkgit' macro invocation
2020-12-27 15:14:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4a0de43f49 Git 2.30-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-23 13:59:46 -08:00
Eric Wong
a9ecaa06a7 core.abbrev=no disables abbreviations
This allows users to write hash-agnostic scripts and configs by
disabling abbreviations.  Using "-c core.abbrev=40" will be
insufficient with SHA-256, and "-c core.abbrev=64" won't work with
SHA-1 repos today.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
[jc: tweaked implementation, added doc and a test]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-23 13:40:09 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
9ce0fc3311 mktag doc: grammar fix, when exists -> when it exists
Amend the wording of documentation added in 6cfec03680 (mktag:
minimally update the description., 2007-06-10). It makes more sense to
say "when it exists" here, as we're referring to "the message".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-22 17:49:05 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
f59b61dc4d mktag doc: say <hash> not <sha1>
Change the "mktag" documentation to refer to the input hash as just
"hash", not "sha1". This command has supported SHA-256 for a while
now.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-22 17:49:05 -08:00
Philippe Blain
5bed7f66c4 git.txt: fix typos in 'linkgit' macro invocation
The 'linkgit' Asciidoc macro is misspelled as 'linkit' in the
description of 'GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR' since the addition of that variable
to git(1) in 902a126eca (doc: mention GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR and
'sequence.editor' more, 2020-08-31). Also, it uses two colons instead of
one.

Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-22 12:02:29 -08:00
Martin Ågren
83fcadd636 git-maintenance.txt: add missing word
Add a missing "a" before "bunch".

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-21 14:33:08 -08:00
Sergey Organov
1d24509b7b doc/git-show: include --diff-merges description
Move description of --diff-merges option from git-log.txt to
diff-options.txt so that it is included in the git-show help.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-21 13:47:32 -08:00
Sergey Organov
e58142add4 doc/rev-list-options: document --first-parent changes merges format
After introduction of the --diff-merges=first-parent, the
--first-parent sets the default format for merges to the same value as
this new option. Document this behavior and add corresponding
reference to --diff-merges.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-21 13:47:32 -08:00
Sergey Organov
8efd2efc32 doc/diff-generate-patch: mention new --diff-merges option
Mention --diff-merges instead of -m in a note to merge formats to aid
discoverability, as -m is now described among --diff-merges options
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-21 13:47:32 -08:00
Sergey Organov
b5ffa9ec10 doc/git-log: describe new --diff-merges options
Describe all the new --diff-merges options in the git-log.txt and
adopt description of originals accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-21 13:47:32 -08:00
Eric Sunshine
cf76baea41 worktree: teach repair to fix multi-directional breakage
`git worktree repair` knows how to repair the two-way links between the
repository and a worktree as long as a link in one or the other
direction is sound. For instance, if a linked worktree is moved (without
using `git worktree move`), repair is possible because the worktree
still knows the location of the repository even though the repository no
longer knows where the worktree is. Similarly, if the repository is
moved, repair is possible since the repository still knows the locations
of the worktrees even though the worktrees no longer know where the
repository is.

However, if both the repository and the worktrees are moved, then links
are severed in both directions, and no repair is possible. This is the
case even when the new worktree locations are specified as arguments to
`git worktree repair`. The reason for this limitation is twofold. First,
when `repair` consults the worktree's gitfile (/path/to/worktree/.git)
to determine the corresponding <repo>/worktrees/<id>/gitdir file to fix,
<repo> is the old path to the repository, thus it is unable to fix the
`gitdir` file at its new location since it doesn't know where it is.
Second, when `repair` consults <repo>/worktrees/<id>/gitdir to find the
location of the worktree's gitfile (/path/to/worktree/.git), the path
recorded in `gitdir` is the old location of the worktree's gitfile, thus
it is unable to repair the gitfile since it doesn't know where it is.

Fix these shortcomings by teaching `repair` to attempt to infer the new
location of the <repo>/worktrees/<id>/gitdir file when the location
recorded in the worktree's gitfile has become stale but the file is
otherwise well-formed. The inference is intentionally simple-minded.
For each worktree path specified as an argument, `git worktree repair`
manually reads the ".git" gitfile at that location and, if it is
well-formed, extracts the <id>. It then searches for a corresponding
<id> in <repo>/worktrees/ and, if found, concludes that there is a
reasonable match and updates <repo>/worktrees/<id>/gitdir to point at
the specified worktree path. In order for <repo> to be known, `git
worktree repair` must be run in the main worktree or bare repository.

`git worktree repair` first attempts to repair each incoming
/path/to/worktree/.git gitfile to point at the repository, and then
attempts to repair outgoing <repo>/worktrees/<id>/gitdir files to point
at the worktrees. This sequence was chosen arbitrarily when originally
implemented since the order of fixes is immaterial as long as one side
of the two-way link between the repository and a worktree is sound.
However, for this new repair technique to work, the order must be
reversed. This is because the new inference mechanism, when it is
successful, allows the outgoing <repo>/worktrees/<id>/gitdir file to be
repaired, thus fixing one side of the two-way link. Once that side is
fixed, the other side can be fixed by the existing repair mechanism,
hence the order of repairs is now significant.

Two safeguards are employed to avoid hijacking a worktree from a
different repository if the user accidentally specifies a foreign
worktree as an argument. The first, as described above, is that it
requires an <id> match between the repository and the worktree. That
itself is not foolproof for preventing hijack, so the second safeguard
is that the inference will only kick in if the worktree's
/path/to/worktree/.git gitfile does not point at a repository.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-21 13:44:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6d3ef5b467 Git 2.30-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-18 15:15:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
772bdcd429 Merge branch 'js/init-defaultbranch-advice'
Our users are going to be trained to prepare for future change of
init.defaultBranch configuration variable.

* js/init-defaultbranch-advice:
  init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch
  get_default_branch_name(): prepare for showing some advice
  branch -m: allow renaming a yet-unborn branch
  init: document `init.defaultBranch` better
2020-12-18 15:15:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ba2aa15129 Another batch before 2.30-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-17 15:06:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7bceb83bfe Merge branch 'jh/index-v2-doc-on-fsmn'
Doc update.

* jh/index-v2-doc-on-fsmn:
  index-format.txt: document v2 format of file system monitor extension
2020-12-17 15:06:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
94dc98d1d2 Merge branch 'jb/midx-doc-update'
Doc update.

* jb/midx-doc-update:
  docs: multi-pack-index: remove note about future 'verify' work
2020-12-17 15:06:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f0c592dcfd Merge branch 'rj/make-clean'
Build optimization.

* rj/make-clean:
  Makefile: don't use a versioned temp distribution directory
  Makefile: don't try to clean old debian build product
  gitweb/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE
  Documentation/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE
  Documentation/Makefile: conditionally include doc.dep
2020-12-17 15:06:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1c52ecf4ba Git 2.30-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-14 10:30:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
aa35dadb26 Merge branch 'ae/doc-reproducible-html'
Newer versions of xsltproc can assign IDs in HTML documents it
generates in a consistent manner.  Use the feature to help format
HTML version of the user manual reproducibly.

* ae/doc-reproducible-html:
  doc: make HTML manual reproducible
2020-12-14 10:21:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c9f1f4412c Merge branch 'so/glossary-branch-is-not-necessarily-active'
The glossary described a branch as an "active" line of development,
which is misleading---a stale and non-moving branch is still a
branch.

* so/glossary-branch-is-not-necessarily-active:
  glossary: improve "branch" definition
2020-12-14 10:21:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
78abcff222 Merge branch 'dd/help-autocorrect-never'
"git $cmd $args", when $cmd is not a recognised subcommand, by
default tries to see if $cmd is a typo of an existing subcommand
and optionally executes the corrected command if there is only one
possibility, depending on the setting of help.autocorrect; the
users can now disable the whole thing, including the cycles spent
to find a likely typo, by setting the configuration variable to
'never'.

* dd/help-autocorrect-never:
  help.c: help.autocorrect=never means "do not compute suggestions"
2020-12-14 10:21:36 -08:00
Jeff Hostetler
5885367e8f index-format.txt: document v2 format of file system monitor extension
Update the documentation of the file system monitor extension to
describe version 2.

The format was extended to support opaque tokens in:
56c6910028 fsmonitor: change last update timestamp on the index_state to opaque token

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-14 08:42:23 -08:00
Johannes Berg
633eebe142 docs: multi-pack-index: remove note about future 'verify' work
This was implemented in the 'git multi-pack-index' command and
merged in 468b3221 (Merge branch 'ds/multi-pack-verify',
2018-10-10).

And there's no 'git midx' command.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-14 08:39:08 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
1296cbe4b4 init: document init.defaultBranch better
Our documentation does not mention any future plan to change 'master' to
other value. It is a good idea to document this, though.

Initial-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-13 15:53:50 -08:00
brian m. carlson
fac60b8925 rev-parse: add option for absolute or relative path formatting
git rev-parse has several options which print various paths.  Some of
these paths are printed relative to the current working directory, and
some are absolute.

Normally, this is not a problem, but there are times when one wants
paths entirely in one format or another.  This can be done trivially if
the paths are canonical, but canonicalizing paths is not possible on
some shell scripting environments which lack realpath(1) and also in Go,
which lacks functions that properly canonicalize paths on Windows.

To help out the scripter, let's provide an option which turns most of
the paths printed by git rev-parse to be either relative to the current
working directory or absolute and canonical.  Document which options are
affected and which are not so that users are not confused.

This approach is cleaner and tidier than providing duplicates of
existing options which are either relative or absolute.

Note that if the user needs both forms, it is possible to pass an
additional option in the middle of the command line which changes the
behavior of subsequent operations.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-12 23:35:51 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
058761f1c1 pretty format %(trailers): add a "key_value_separator"
Add a "key_value_separator" option to the "%(trailers)" pretty format,
to go along with the existing "separator" argument. In combination
these two options make it trivial to produce machine-readable (e.g. \0
and \0\0-delimited) format output.

As elaborated on in a previous commit which added "keyonly" it was
needlessly tedious to extract structured data from "%(trailers)"
before the addition of this "key_value_separator" option. As seen by
the test being added here extracting this data now becomes trivial.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-09 14:16:42 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
9d87d5ae02 pretty format %(trailers): add a "keyonly"
Add support for a "keyonly". This allows for easier parsing out of the
key and value. Before if you didn't want to make assumptions about how
the key was formatted. You'd need to parse it out as e.g.:

    --pretty=format:'%H%x00%(trailers:separator=%x00%x00)' \
                       '%x00%(trailers:separator=%x00%x00,valueonly)'

And then proceed to deduce keys by looking at those two and
subtracting the value plus the hardcoded ": " separator from the
non-valueonly %(trailers) line. Now it's possible to simply do:

    --pretty=format:'%H%x00%(trailers:separator=%x00%x00,keyonly)' \
                    '%x00%(trailers:separator=%x00%x00,valueonly)'

Which at least reduces it to a state machine where you get N keys and
correlate them with N values. Even better would be to have a way to
change the ": " delimiter to something easily machine-readable (a key
might contain ": " too). A follow-up change will add support for that.

I don't really have a use-case for just "keyonly" myself. I suppose it
would be useful in some cases as "key=*" matches case-insensitively,
so a plain "keyonly" will give you the variants of the keys you
matched. I'm mainly adding it to fix the inconsistency with
"valueonly".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-09 14:16:42 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2762e17117 pretty format %(trailers) doc: avoid repetition
Change the documentation for the various %(trailers) options so it
isn't repeating part of the documentation for "only" about how boolean
values are handled. Instead, let's split the description of that into
general documentation at the top.

It then suffices to refer to it by listing the options as
"opt[=<BOOL>]". I'm also changing it to upper-case "[=<BOOL>]" from
"[=val]" for consistency with "<SEP>"

It took me a couple of readings to realize that these options were
referring back to the "only" option's treatment of boolean
values.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-09 14:16:42 -08:00
Ramsay Jones
7a9272a836 Documentation/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE
The 'clean' target is still noticeably slow on cygwin, despite the
substantial improvement made by the previous patch. For example, the
second invocation of 'make clean' below:

  $ make clean >/dev/null 2>&1
  $ make clean
  ...
  make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ramsay/git/Documentation'
  make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ramsay/git'
  make[2]: 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
  make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ramsay/git'
  ...
  $

has been timed at 12.364s on my laptop (an old core i5-4200M @ 2.50GHz,
8GB RAM, 1TB HDD).

Notice that the 'clean' target is making a nested call to the parent
Makefile to ensure that the GIT-VERSION-FILE is up-to-date (prior to
the previous patch, there would have been _two_ such invocations).
This is to ensure that the $(GIT_VERSION) make variable is set, once
that file had been included.  However, the 'clean' target does not use
the $(GIT_VERSION) variable, directly or indirectly, so it does not
have any affect on what the target removes. Therefore, the time spent
on ensuring an up to date GIT-VERSION-FILE is wasted effort.

In order to eliminate such wasted effort, use the value of the internal
$(MAKECMDGOALS) variable to only '-include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE' when the
target is not 'clean'. (This drops the time down to 10.361s, on my laptop,
giving an improvement of 16.20%).

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08 16:56:56 -08:00
Ramsay Jones
54df87555b Documentation/Makefile: conditionally include doc.dep
The 'clean' target is noticeably slow on cygwin, even for a 'do-nothing'
invocation of 'make clean'. For example, the second 'make clean' below:

  $ make clean >/dev/null 2>&1
  $ make clean
  GIT_VERSION = 2.29.0
  ...
  make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ramsay/git/Documentation'
      GEN mergetools-list.made
      GEN cmd-list.made
      GEN doc.dep
  ...
  $

has been timed at 23.339s, using git v2.29.0, on my laptop (an old core
i5-4200M @ 2.50GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD).

Notice that, since the 'doc.dep' file does not exist, make takes the
time (about 8s) to generate several files in order to create the doc.dep
include file. (If an 'include' file is missing, but a target for the
said file is present in the Makefile, make will execute that target
and, if that file now exists, throw away all its internal data and
re-read and re-parse the Makefile). Having spent the time to include
the 'doc.dep' file, the 'clean' target immediately deletes those files.
The document dependencies specified in the 'doc.dep' include file,
expressed as make targets and prerequisites, do not affect what the
'clean' target removes. Therefore, the time spent in generating the
dependencies is completely wasted effort.

In order to eliminate such wasted effort, use the value of the internal
$(MAKECMDGOALS) variable to only '-include doc.dep' when the target is
not 'clean'. (This drops the time down to 12.364s, on my laptop, giving
an improvement of 47.02%).

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08 16:56:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3cf59784d4 Eleventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08 15:11:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
90051e5b5e Merge branch 'sn/config-doc-typofix'
Fix for an old typo.

* sn/config-doc-typofix:
  config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote)
2020-12-08 15:11:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5dfb976460 Merge branch 'ma/grep-init-default'
Code clean-up.

* ma/grep-init-default:
  MyFirstObjectWalk: drop `init_walken_defaults()`
  grep: copy struct in one fell swoop
  grep: use designated initializers for `grep_defaults`
  grep: don't set up a "default" repo for grep
2020-12-08 15:11:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
01b8886a62 Merge branch 'js/trace2-session-id'
The transport layer was taught to optionally exchange the session
ID assigned by the trace2 subsystem during fetch/push transactions.

* js/trace2-session-id:
  receive-pack: log received client session ID
  send-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities
  upload-pack, serve: log received client session ID
  fetch-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities
  transport: log received server session ID
  serve: advertise session ID in v2 capabilities
  receive-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities
  upload-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities
  trace2: add a public function for getting the SID
  docs: new transfer.advertiseSID option
  docs: new capability to advertise session IDs
2020-12-08 15:11:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a10e7842ab Merge branch 'ds/config-literal-value'
Various subcommands of "git config" that takes value_regex
learn the "--literal-value" option to take the value_regex option
as a literal string.

* ds/config-literal-value:
  config doc: value-pattern is not necessarily a regexp
  config: implement --fixed-value with --get*
  config: plumb --fixed-value into config API
  config: add --fixed-value option, un-implemented
  t1300: add test for --replace-all with value-pattern
  t1300: test "set all" mode with value-pattern
  config: replace 'value_regex' with 'value_pattern'
  config: convert multi_replace to flags
2020-12-08 15:11:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1bc550effe Merge branch 'ps/update-ref-multi-transaction'
"git update-ref --stdin" learns to take multiple transactions in a
single session.

* ps/update-ref-multi-transaction:
  update-ref: disallow "start" for ongoing transactions
  p1400: use `git-update-ref --stdin` to test multiple transactions
  update-ref: allow creation of multiple transactions
  t1400: avoid touching refs on filesystem
2020-12-08 15:11:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2aeafbc896 Merge branch 'jt/trace-error-on-warning'
Like die() and error(), a call to warning() will also trigger a
trace2 event.

* jt/trace-error-on-warning:
  usage: add trace2 entry upon warning()
2020-12-08 15:11:17 -08:00
Sangeeta Jain
8ef9312464 diff: do not show submodule with untracked files as "-dirty"
Git diff reports a submodule directory as -dirty even when there are
only untracked files in the submodule directory. This is inconsistent
with what `git describe --dirty` says when run in the submodule
directory in that state.

Make `--ignore-submodules=untracked` the default for `git diff` when
there is no configuration variable or command line option, so that the
command would not give '-dirty' suffix to a submodule whose working
tree has untracked files, to make it consistent with `git
describe --dirty` that is run in the submodule working tree.

And also make `--ignore-submodules=none` the default for `git status`
so that the user doesn't end up deleting a submodule that has
uncommitted (untracked) files.

Signed-off-by: Sangeeta Jain <sangunb09@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08 14:27:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3a0b884cab Tenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-03 00:18:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e89ecfbb13 Merge branch 'ab/retire-parse-remote'
"git-parse-remote" shell script library outlived its usefulness.

* ab/retire-parse-remote:
  submodule: fix fetch_in_submodule logic
  parse-remote: remove this now-unused library
  submodule: remove sh function in favor of helper
  submodule: use "fetch" logic instead of custom remote discovery
2020-12-03 00:18:06 -08:00
Arnout Engelen
3569e11d69 doc: make HTML manual reproducible
Versions of docbook-xsl newer than 1.79.1 allows xsltproc to assign
IDs to nodes in the generated HTML consistently, to make the output
resulting from the same source stable and reproducible.

Pass the generate.consistent.ids parameter from the command line to
ask for this feature.  Older versions of the tool simply ignores the
parameter and produces their output the same way as before this
change, so there is no need to check for toolchain version.

Signed-off-by: Arnout Engelen <arnout@bzzt.net>
Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-02 18:33:34 -08:00
Sergey Organov
eef1ceabd8 glossary: improve "branch" definition
The old phrasing is at least questionable, if not wrong, as there are
a lot of branches out there that didn't see active development for
years, yet they are still branches, ready to become active again any
time.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-02 14:53:42 -08:00
Štěpán Němec
e63d774242 config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote)
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-01 13:31:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
72ffeb997e Ninth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-30 14:49:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3d8f81f21b Merge branch 'sa/credential-store-timeout'
Multiple "credential-store" backends can race to lock the same
file, causing everybody else but one to fail---reattempt locking
with some timeout to reduce the rate of the failure.

* sa/credential-store-timeout:
  crendential-store: use timeout when locking file
2020-11-30 14:49:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b94b1f9af8 Merge branch 'jc/do-not-just-explain-but-update-your-patch'
Expectation for the original contributor after responding to a
review comment to use the explanation in a patch update has been
described.

* jc/do-not-just-explain-but-update-your-patch:
  MyFirstContribition: answering questions is not the end of the story
2020-11-30 14:49:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1c04cdd424 Merge branch 'ab/gc-keep-base-option'
Fix an option name in "gc" documentation.

* ab/gc-keep-base-option:
  gc: rename keep_base_pack variable for --keep-largest-pack
  gc docs: change --keep-base-pack to --keep-largest-pack
2020-11-30 14:49:43 -08:00
Martin Ågren
3bf97e1270 MyFirstObjectWalk: drop init_walken_defaults()
In a recent commit, we stopped calling `init_grep_defaults()` from this
function. Thus, by the end of the tutorial, we still haven't added any
contents to this function. Let's remove it for simplicity.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-30 13:55:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e67fbf927d Eighth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 15:24:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c902618795 config doc: value-pattern is not necessarily a regexp
The introductory part of the "git config --help" mentions the
optional value-pattern argument, but give no hint that it can be
something other than a regular expression (worse, it just says
"POSIX regexp", which usually means BRE but the regexp the command
takes is ERE).  Also, it needs to be documented that the '!' prefix
to negate the match, which is only mentioned in this part of the
document, works only with regexp and not with the --fixed-value.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 15:01:31 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
fda43942d7 config: add --fixed-value option, un-implemented
The 'git config' builtin takes a 'value-pattern' parameter for several
actions. This can cause confusion when expecting exact value matches
instead of regex matches, especially when the input string contains
metacharacters. While callers can escape the patterns themselves, it
would be more friendly to allow an argument to disable the pattern
matching in favor of an exact string match.

Add a new '--fixed-value' option that does not currently change the
behavior. The implementation will be filled in by later changes for
each appropriate action. For now, check and test that --fixed-value
will abort the command when included with an incompatible action or
without a 'value-pattern' argument.

The name '--fixed-value' was chosen over something simpler like
'--fixed' because some commands allow regular expressions on the
key in addition to the value.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 14:43:48 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
247e2f822e config: replace 'value_regex' with 'value_pattern'
The 'value_regex' argument in the 'git config' builtin is poorly named,
especially related to an upcoming change that allows exact string
matches instead of ERE pattern matches.

Perform a mostly mechanical change of every instance of 'value_regex' to
'value_pattern' in the codebase. This is only critical for documentation
and error messages, but it is best to be consistent inside the codebase,
too.

For documentation, use 'value-pattern' which is better punctuation. This
affects Documentation/git-config.txt and the usage in builtin/config.c,
which was already mixed between 'value_regex' and 'value-regex'.

I gave some thought to leaving the value_regex variables inside config.c
that are regex_t pointers. However, it is probably best to keep the name
consistent with the rest of the variables.

This does not update the translations inside the po/ directory, as that
creates conflicts with ongoing work. The input strings should
automatically update through automation, and a few of the output strings
currently use "[value_regex]" directly.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 14:43:48 -08:00
Drew DeVault
644bb953ce help.c: help.autocorrect=never means "do not compute suggestions"
While help.autocorrect can be set to 0 to decline auto-execution of
possibly mistyped commands, it still spends cycles to compute the
suggestions, and it wastes screen real estate.

Update help.autocorrect to accept the string "never" to just exit
with error upon mistyped commands to help users who prefer to never
see suggested corrections at all.

While at it, introduce "immediate" as a more readable way to
immediately execute the auto-corrected command, which can be done
with negative value.

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 13:02:15 -08:00
Simão Afonso
df7f915fb6 crendential-store: use timeout when locking file
When holding the lock for rewriting the credential file, use a timeout
to avoid race conditions when the credentials file needs to be updated
in parallel.

An example would be doing `fetch --all` on a repository with several
remotes that need credentials, using parallel fetching.

The timeout can be configured using "credentialStore.lockTimeoutMS",
defaulting to 1 second.

Signed-off-by: Simão Afonso <simao.afonso@powertools-tech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 12:30:18 -08:00
Jonathan Tan
0ee10fd129 usage: add trace2 entry upon warning()
Emit a trace2 error event whenever warning() is called, just like when
die(), error(), or usage() is called.

This helps debugging issues that would trigger warnings but not errors.
In particular, this might have helped debugging an issue I encountered
with commit graphs at $DAYJOB [1].

There is a tradeoff between including potentially relevant messages and
cluttering up the trace output produced. I think that warning() messages
should be included in traces, because by its nature, Git is used over
multiple invocations of the Git tool, and a failure (currently traced)
in a Git invocation might be caused by an unexpected interaction in a
previous Git invocation that only has a warning (currently untraced) as
a symptom - as is the case in [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200629220744.1054093-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-24 17:39:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a6d8d11036 MyFirstContribition: answering questions is not the end of the story
A review exchange may begin with a reviewer asking "what did you
mean by this phrase in your log message (or here in the doc)?", the
author answering what was meant, and then the reviewer saying "ah,
that is what you meant---then the flow of the logic makes sense".

But that is not the happy end of the story.  New contributors often
forget that the material that has been reviewed in the above exchange
is still unclear in the same way to the next person who reads it,
until it gets updated.

While we are in the vicinity, rephrase the verb "request" used to
refer to comments by reviewers to "suggest"---this matches the
contrast between "original" and "suggested" that appears later in
the same paragraph, and more importantly makes it clearer that it is
not like authors are to please reviewers' wishes but rather
reviewers are merely helping authors to polish their commits.

Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-24 14:11:17 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
16c5690929 maintenance: include 'cron' details in docs
Advanced and expert users may want to know how 'git maintenance start'
schedules background maintenance in order to customize their own
schedules beyond what the maintenance.* config values allow. Start a new
set of sections in git-maintenance.txt that describe how 'cron' is used
to run these tasks.

This is particularly valuable for users who want to inspect what Git is
doing or for users who want to customize the schedule further. Having a
baseline can provide a way forward for users who have never worked with
cron schedules.

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-24 13:02:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b291b0a628 Seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-21 15:14:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0dd171f0bc Merge branch 'jk/rev-parse-end-of-options'
"git rev-parse" learned the "--end-of-options" to help scripts to
safely take a parameter that is supposed to be a revision, e.g.
"git rev-parse --verify -q --end-of-options $rev".

* jk/rev-parse-end-of-options:
  rev-parse: handle --end-of-options
  rev-parse: put all options under the "-" check
  rev-parse: don't accept options after dashdash
2020-11-21 15:14:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
473c6224c6 Merge branch 'jc/format-patch-name-max'
The maximum length of output filenames "git format-patch" creates
has become configurable (used to be capped at 64).

* jc/format-patch-name-max:
  format-patch: make output filename configurable
2020-11-21 15:14:38 -08:00
Martin Ågren
96313423a7 grep: use designated initializers for grep_defaults
In 15fabd1bbd ("builtin/grep.c: make configuration callback more
reusable", 2012-10-09), we learned to fill a `static struct grep_opt
grep_defaults` which we can use as a blueprint for other such structs.

At the time, we didn't consider designated initializers to be widely
useable, but these days, we do. (See, e.g., cbc0f81d96 ("strbuf: use
designated initializers in STRBUF_INIT", 2017-07-10).)

Use designated initializers to let the compiler set up the struct and so
that we don't need to remember to call `init_grep_defaults()`.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-21 14:50:33 -08:00
Martin Ågren
1d3878799f grep: don't set up a "default" repo for grep
`init_grep_defaults()` fills a `static struct grep_opt grep_defaults`.
This struct is then used by `grep_init()` as a blueprint for other such
structs. Notably, `grep_init()` takes a `struct repo *` and assigns it
into the target struct.

As a result, it is unnecessary for us to take a `struct repo *` in
`init_grep_defaults()` as well. We assign it into the default struct and
never look at it again. And in light of how we return early if we have
already set up the default struct, it's not just unnecessary, but is
also a bit confusing: If we are called twice and with different repos,
is it a bug or a feature that we ignore the second repo?

Drop the repo parameter for `init_grep_defaults()`.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-21 14:50:29 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
db5368b846 gc docs: change --keep-base-pack to --keep-largest-pack
The --keep-base-pack option never existed in git.git. It was the name
for the --keep-largest-pack option in earlier revisions of that series
before it landed as ae4e89e549 ("gc: add --keep-largest-pack option",
2018-04-15).

The later patches in that series[1][2] weren't changed to also refer
to --keep-largest-pack, so we've had this reference to a nonexisting
option ever since the feature initially landed.

1. 55dfe13df9 ("gc: add gc.bigPackThreshold config", 2018-04-15)

2. 9806f5a7bf ("gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to
   "repack -ad"", 2018-04-15)

Reported-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-21 11:39:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
faefdd61ec Sixth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-18 13:33:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3f6dc9c366 Merge branch 'pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff'
"git blame -L :funcname -- path" did not work well for a path for
which a userdiff driver is defined.

* pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff:
  blame: simplify 'setup_blame_bloom_data' interface
  blame: simplify 'setup_scoreboard' interface
  blame: enable funcname blaming with userdiff driver
  line-log: mention both modes in 'blame' and 'log' short help
  doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiff
  blame-options.txt: also mention 'funcname' in '-L' description
  doc: line-range: improve formatting
  doc: log, gitk: move '-L' description to 'line-range-options.txt'
2020-11-18 13:32:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7660da1618 Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-3'
Parts of "git maintenance" to ease writing crontab entries (and
other scheduling system configuration) for it.

* ds/maintenance-part-3:
  maintenance: add troubleshooting guide to docs
  maintenance: use 'incremental' strategy by default
  maintenance: create maintenance.strategy config
  maintenance: add start/stop subcommands
  maintenance: add [un]register subcommands
  for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos
  maintenance: add --schedule option and config
  maintenance: optionally skip --auto process
2020-11-18 13:32:53 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
262a4d28fe update-ref: allow creation of multiple transactions
While git-update-ref has recently grown commands which allow interactive
control of transactions in e48cf33b61 (update-ref: implement interactive
transaction handling, 2020-04-02), it is not yet possible to create
multiple transactions in a single session. To do so, one currently still
needs to invoke the executable multiple times.

This commit addresses this shortcoming by allowing the "start" command
to create a new transaction if the current transaction has already been
either committed or aborted.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-16 13:44:01 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
a89a2fbfcc parse-remote: remove this now-unused library
The previous two commits removed the last use of a function in this
library, but most of it had been dead code for a while[1][2]. Only the
"get_default_remote" function was still being used.

Even though we had a manual page for this library it was never
intended (or I expect, actually) used outside of git.git. Let's just
remove it, if anyone still cares about a function here they can pull
them into their own project[3].

1. Last use of error_on_missing_default_upstream():
   d03ebd411c ("rebase: remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting",
   2019-03-18)

2. Last use of get_remote_merge_branch(): 49eb8d39c7 ("Remove
   contrib/examples/*", 2018-03-25)

3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87a6vmhdka.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-16 13:19:30 -08:00
Josh Steadmon
81bd549010 docs: new transfer.advertiseSID option
Document a new config option that allows users to determine whether or
not to advertise their session IDs to remote Git clients and servers.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-11 18:26:52 -08:00
Josh Steadmon
f5cdbe485f docs: new capability to advertise session IDs
In future patches, we will add the ability for Git servers and clients
to advertise unique session IDs via protocol capabilities. This
allows for easier debugging when both client and server logs are
available.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-11 18:26:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e31aba42fb Fifth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-11 13:18:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8d9e92b06b Merge branch 'mc/typofix'
Docfix.

* mc/typofix:
  doc: fixing two trivial typos in Documentation/
2020-11-11 13:18:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ee13bebbd5 Merge branch 'jc/abbrev-doc'
The documentation on the "--abbrev=<n>" option did not say the
output may be longer than "<n>" hexdigits, which has been
clarified.

* jc/abbrev-doc:
  doc: clarify that --abbrev=<n> is about the minimum length
2020-11-11 13:18:38 -08:00