Instead of running around listing the changes near the release,
let's keep things nicely organized by summarizing the changes as
we merge things to the 'master' branch.
I haven't decided how well this will go with people's patch
submission procedure yet --- we'll play it by the ear and see
what happens.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Makefile: update check-docs target
cmd-list: add git-remote
Documentation: Drop full-stop from git-fast-import title.
Minor corrections to release notes
Update section about warning when leaving a detached head.
Also fix a few indentations that weren't like the rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This also adds a hook in the Makefile I can use to automatically
include pointers to documentation for older releases when updating
the pages at http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation still talked about the unnecessary 'safety'
in git-checkout.
Pointed out by Matthias Lederhofer.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The config variable gc.packrefs is tristate now: "true", "false"
and "notbare", where "notbare" is the default.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The old text suggested that git-update-server-info only needs to be run
if new tags or branches are created, but not for new commits.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It was suggested on the mailing list that being able to use `from`
in any commit to reset the current branch is useful in some types of
importers, such as a darcs importer.
We originally did not permit resetting an existing branch with a
new `from` command during a `commit` command, but this restriction
was only to help debug the hacked up cvs2svn that Jon Smirl was
developing in parallel with git-fast-import. It is probably more
of a problem to disallow it than to allow it. So now we permit a
`from` during any `commit`.
While making the changes required to permit multiple `from`
commands on the same branch, I discovered we no longer needed the
last_commit field to be set to 0 during a reset, so that was removed.
(Reset was originally setting the field to 0 to signal cmd_from()
that it was OK to execute on the branch.)
While poking around in this section of fast-import I also realized
the `reset` command was not working as intended if the corresponding
`from` command was omitted (as allowed by the BNF grammar and the
code). If `from` was omitted we cleared out the tree but we left
the tree SHA-1 and parent commit SHA-1 intact. This is not what
the user intended in this case. Instead they would be trying to
reset the branch to have no parent and to have no tree, making the
branch look new-born during the next commit. We now clear these
SHA-1 values during `reset`, ensuring the branch looks new-born if
`from` does not get supplied.
New test cases for these were also added.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is originally from Andy Parkins whose patch used --patchdepth; let's
use -p which is more in line with the underlying git-apply.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
bash: Hide git-fast-import.
fast-import: Add tip about importing renames.
fast-import: Hide the pack boundary commits by default.
Most users don't need the pack boundary information that fast-import
was printing to standard output, especially if they were calling
it with --quiet.
Those users who do want this information probably want it captured
so they can go back and use it to repack the imported repository.
So dumping the boundary commits to a log file makes more sense then
printing them to standard output.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Allow setting the path of asciidoc in only one place when creating
the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Dotan Barak <dotanb@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, treat
it as a shell command which is run using system(3).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The way 'git pull' without explicit parameters work were not
explained well in any existing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
tar archive frontend for fast-import.
Correct spelling of fast-import in docs.
Correct some language in fast-import documentation.
Correct ^0 asciidoc syntax in fast-import docs.
It makes "git reflog [show]" act as
git log -g --pretty=oneline --abbrev-cmit
and is fairly straightforward. So you can just write
git reflog
or
git reflog show
and it will show you the reflog in a nice format.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add -C[NUM] to git-am and git-rebase so that patches can be applied even
if context has changed a bit.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Its spelled 'fast-import', not 'gfi'. Linus and Dscho have both
recently pointed this out to me on the mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Minor documentation improvements, as suggested on the Git mailing
list by Horst H. von Brand and Karl Hasselström.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I wrote this documentation with asciidoc 7.1.2, but apparently
asciidoc 8 assumes ^ means superscript. The solution was already
documented in rev-parse's manpage and is to use {caret} instead.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
Add a Tips and Tricks section to fast-import's manual.
Don't crash fast-import if the marks cannot be exported.
Dump all refs and marks during a checkpoint in fast-import.
Teach fast-import how to sit quietly in the corner.
Teach fast-import how to clear the internal branch content.
Minor timestamp related documentation corrections for fast-import.
There has been some informative lessons learned in the gfi user
community, and these really should be written down and documented
for future generations of frontend developers.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the frontend asks us to checkpoint (via the explicit checkpoint
command) its probably because they are afraid the current import
will crash/fail/whatever and want to make sure they can pickup from
the last checkpoint. To do that sort of recovery, we will need the
current tip of every branch and tag available at the next startup.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Often users will be running fast-import from within a larger frontend
process, and this may be a frequent periodic tool such as a future
edition of `git-svn fetch`. We don't want to bombard users with our
large stats output if they won't be interested in it, so `--quiet`
is now an option to make gfi be more silent.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Some frontends may not be able to (easily) keep track of which files
are included in the branch, and which aren't. Performing this
tracking can be tedious and error prone for the frontend to do,
especially if its foreign data source cannot supply the changed
path list on a per-commit basis.
fast-import now allows a frontend to request that a branch's tree
be wiped clean (reset to the empty tree) at the start of a commit,
allowing the frontend to feed in all paths which belong on the branch.
This is ideal for a tar-file importer frontend, for example, as
the frontend just needs to reformat the tar data stream into a gfi
data stream, which may be something a few Perl regexps can take
care of. :)
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
As discussed on the mailing list, the documentation used here was
not quite accurate. Improve upon it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport: (81 commits)
S_IFLNK != 0140000
Don't do non-fastforward updates in fast-import.
Support RFC 2822 date parsing in fast-import.
Minor fast-import documentation corrections.
Remove unnecessary null pointer checks in fast-import.
Correct fast-import timezone documentation.
Correct minor style issue in fast-import.
Correct compiler warnings in fast-import.
Remove --branch-log from fast-import.
Initial draft of fast-import documentation.
Don't support shell-quoted refnames in fast-import.
Reduce memory usage of fast-import.
Include checkpoint command in the BNF.
Accept 'inline' file data in fast-import commit structure.
Reduce value duplication in t9300-fast-import.
Create test case for fast-import.
Support delimited data regions in fast-import.
Remove unnecessary options from fast-import.
Use fixed-size integers when writing out the index in fast-import.
Always use struct pack_header for pack header in fast-import.
...
If fast-import is being used to update an existing branch of
a repository, the user may not want to lose commits if another
process updates the same ref at the same time. For example, the
user might be using fast-import to make just one or two commits
against a live branch.
We now perform a fast-forward check during the ref updating process.
If updating a branch would cause commits in that branch to be lost,
we skip over it and display the new SHA1 to standard error.
This new default behavior can be overridden with `--force`, like
git-push and git-fetch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Since some frontends may be working with source material where
the dates are only readily available as RFC 2822 strings, it is
more friendly if fast-import exposes Git's parse_date() function
to handle the conversion. This way the frontend doesn't need
to perform the parsing itself.
The new --date-format option to fast-import can be used by a
frontend to select which format it will supply date strings in.
The default is the standard `raw` Git format, which fast-import
has always supported. Format rfc2822 can be used to activate the
parse_date() function instead.
Because fast-import could also be useful for creating new, current
commits, the format `now` is also supported to generate the current
system timestamp. The implementation of `now` is a trivial call
to datestamp(), but is actually a whole whopping 3 lines so that
fast-import can verify the frontend really meant `now`.
As part of this change I have added validation of the `raw` date
format. Prior to this change fast-import would accept anything
in a `committer` command, even if it was seriously malformed.
Now fast-import requires the '> ' near the end of the string and
verifies the timestamp is formatted properly.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Corrected a couple of header markup lines which were shorter than the
actual header, and made the `data` commands two formats into a named
list, which matches how we document the two formats of the `M` command
within a commit.
Also tried to simplify the language about our decimal integer format;
Linus pointed out I was probably being too specific at the cost of
reduced readability.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
