The synopsys text and the usage string of subcommands that read list
of things from the standard input are often shown like this:
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes>
This is problematic in a number of ways:
* The way to use these commands is more often to feed them the
output from another command, not feed them from a file.
* Manual pages outside Git, commands that operate on the data read
from the standard input, e.g "sort", "grep", "sed", etc., are not
described with such a "< redirection-from-file" in their synopsys
text. Our doing so introduces inconsistency.
* We do not insist on where the output should go, by saying
git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes> > <output>
* As it is our convention to enclose placeholders inside <braket>,
the redirection operator followed by a placeholder filename
becomes very hard to read, both in the documentation and in the
help text.
Let's clean them all up, after making sure that the documentation
clearly describes the modes that take information from the standard
input and what kind of things are expected on the input.
[jc: stole example for fmt-merge-msg from Jonathan]
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While strbufs are pretty common throughout our code, it is
more flexible for functions to take a pointer/len pair than
a strbuf. It's easy to turn a strbuf into such a pair (by
dereferencing its members), but less easy to go the other
way (you can strbuf_attach, but that has implications about
memory ownership).
This patch teaches commit_tree (and its associated callers
and sub-functions) to take such a pair for the commit
message rather than a strbuf. This makes passing the buffer
around slightly more verbose, but means we can get rid of
some dangerous strbuf_attach calls in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document how to override commit.gpgsign configuration that is set to
true per "git commit" invocation (parse-options machinery lets us
say "--no-gpg-sign" to do so).
"git commit-tree" does not use parse-options, so manually add the
corresponding option for now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you want to GPG sign all your commits, you have to add the -S option
all the time. The commit.gpgsign config option allows to sign all
commits automatically.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit ba3c69a9 (commit: teach --gpg-sign option, 2011-10-05) added the
-S option but documented it in the command usage without indicating that
the value is optional and forgot to mention it in the manpage. Later
commit 098bbdc3 (Add -S, --gpg-sign option to manpage of "git commit",
2012-10-21) documented the option in the porcelain manpage.
Use wording from the porcelain manpage to document the option in the
plumbing manpage. Also update the commit-tree usage summary to indicate
that the -S value is optional to be consistent with the manpage and with
the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
79a9312 (commit-tree: update the command line parsing, 2011-11-09)
updated the command line parser to understand the usual "flags first
and then non-flag arguments" order, in addition to the original and
a bit unusual "tree comes first and then zero or more -p <parent>".
Unfortunately, ba3c69a (commit: teach --gpg-sign option, 2011-10-05)
broke it by mistake. Resurrect it, and protect the feature with a
test from future breakages.
Noticed by Keshav Kini
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/show-sig:
log --show-signature: reword the common two-head merge case
log-tree: show mergetag in log --show-signature output
log-tree.c: small refactor in show_signature()
commit --amend -S: strip existing gpgsig headers
verify_signed_buffer: fix stale comment
gpg-interface: allow use of a custom GPG binary
pretty: %G[?GS] placeholders
test "commit -S" and "log --show-signature"
log: --show-signature
commit: teach --gpg-sign option
Conflicts:
builtin/commit-tree.c
builtin/commit.c
builtin/merge.c
notes-cache.c
pretty.c
* nd/war-on-nul-in-commit:
commit_tree(): refuse commit messages that contain NULs
Convert commit_tree() to take strbuf as message
merge: abort if fails to commit
Conflicts:
builtin/commit.c
commit.c
commit.h
There wan't a way for commit_tree() to notice if the message the caller
prepared contained a NUL byte, as it did not take the length of the
message as a parameter. Use a pointer to a strbuf instead, so that we can
either choose to allow low-level plumbing commands to make commits that
contain NUL byte in its message, or forbid NUL everywhere by adding the
check in commit_tree(), in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses the gpg-interface.[ch] to allow signing the commit, i.e.
$ git commit --gpg-sign -m foo
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>"
4096-bit RSA key, ID 96AFE6CB, created 2011-10-03 (main key ID 713660A7)
[master 8457d13] foo
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
The lines of GPG detached signature are placed in a new multi-line header
field, instead of tucking the signature block at the end of the commit log
message text (similar to how signed tag is done), for multiple reasons:
- The signature won't clutter output from "git log" and friends if it is
in the extra header. If we place it at the end of the log message, we
would need to teach "git log" and friends to strip the signature block
with an option.
- Teaching new versions of "git log" and "gitk" to optionally verify and
show signatures is cleaner if we structurally know where the signature
block is (instead of scanning in the commit log message).
- The signature needs to be stripped upon various commit rewriting
operations, e.g. rebase, filter-branch, etc. They all already ignore
unknown headers, but if we place signature in the log message, all of
these tools (and third-party tools) also need to learn how a signature
block would look like.
- When we added the optional encoding header, all the tools (both in tree
and third-party) that acts on the raw commit object should have been
fixed to ignore headers they do not understand, so it is not like that
new header would be more likely to break than extra text in the commit.
A commit made with the above sample sequence would look like this:
$ git cat-file commit HEAD
tree 3cd71d90e3db4136e5260ab54599791c4f883b9d
parent b87755351a47b09cb27d6913e6e0e17e6254a4d4
author Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1317862251 -0700
committer Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1317862251 -0700
gpgsig -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
iQIcBAABAgAGBQJOjPtrAAoJELC16IaWr+bL4TMP/RSe2Y/jYnCkds9unO5JEnfG
...
=dt98
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
foo
but "git log" (unless you ask for it with --pretty=raw) output is not
cluttered with the signature information.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have kept the original "git commit-tree <tree> -p <parent> ..." syntax
forever, but "git commit-tree -p <parent> -p <parent> ... <tree>" would be
more intuitive way to spell it. Dashed flags along with their arguments
come first and then the "thing" argument after the flags.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the
same purpose.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This buffer is freed by the C runtime when commit-tree exits moments
later, but freeing it explicitly should make valgrind quieter.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Until now, this has been part of the commit-tree builtin.
However, it is already used by other builtins (like commit,
merge, and notes), and it would be useful to access it from
library code.
The check_valid helper has to come along, too, but is given
a more library-ish name of "assert_sha1_type".
Otherwise, the code is unchanged. There are still a few
rough edges for a library function, like printing the utf8
warning to stderr, but we can address those if and when they
come up as inappropriate.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c
builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c
you get
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type]
builtin/ builtin.h
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c
which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.
NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.
So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
