When http-backend spawns "upload-pack" to do ref
negotiation, it streams the http request body to
upload-pack, who then streams the http response back to the
client as it reads. In theory, git can go full-duplex; the
client can consume our response while it is still sending
the request. In practice, however, HTTP is a half-duplex
protocol. Even if our client is ready to read and write
simultaneously, we may have other HTTP infrastructure in the
way, including the webserver that spawns our CGI, or any
intermediate proxies.
In at least one documented case[1], this leads to deadlock
when trying a fetch over http. What happens is basically:
1. Apache proxies the request to the CGI, http-backend.
2. http-backend gzip-inflates the data and sends
the result to upload-pack.
3. upload-pack acts on the data and generates output over
the pipe back to Apache. Apache isn't reading because
it's busy writing (step 1).
This works fine most of the time, because the upload-pack
output ends up in a system pipe buffer, and Apache reads
it as soon as it finishes writing. But if both the request
and the response exceed the system pipe buffer size, then we
deadlock (Apache blocks writing to http-backend,
http-backend blocks writing to upload-pack, and upload-pack
blocks writing to Apache).
We need to break the deadlock by spooling either the input
or the output. In this case, it's ideal to spool the input,
because Apache does not start reading either stdout _or_
stderr until we have consumed all of the input. So until we
do so, we cannot even get an error message out to the
client.
The solution is fairly straight-forward: we read the request
body into an in-memory buffer in http-backend, freeing up
Apache, and then feed the data ourselves to upload-pack. But
there are a few important things to note:
1. We limit the in-memory buffer to prevent an obvious
denial-of-service attack. This is a new hard limit on
requests, but it's unlikely to come into play. The
default value is 10MB, which covers even the ridiculous
100,000-ref negotation in the included test (that
actually caps out just over 5MB). But it's configurable
on the off chance that you don't mind spending some
extra memory to make even ridiculous requests work.
2. We must take care only to buffer when we have to. For
pushes, the incoming packfile may be of arbitrary
size, and we should connect the input directly to
receive-pack. There's no deadlock problem here, though,
because we do not produce any output until the whole
packfile has been read.
For upload-pack's initial ref advertisement, we
similarly do not need to buffer. Even though we may
generate a lot of output, there is no request body at
all (i.e., it is a GET, not a POST).
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269020
Test-adapted-from: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change typedef each_ref_fn to take a "const struct object_id *oid"
parameter instead of "const unsigned char *sha1".
To aid this transition, implement an adapter that can be used to wrap
old-style functions matching the old typedef, which is now called
"each_ref_sha1_fn"), and make such functions callable via the new
interface. This requires the old function and its cb_data to be
wrapped in a "struct each_ref_fn_sha1_adapter", and that object to be
used as the cb_data for an adapter function, each_ref_fn_adapter().
This is an enormous diff, but most of it consists of simple,
mechanical changes to the sites that call any of the "for_each_ref"
family of functions. Subsequent to this change, the call sites can be
rewritten one by one to use the new interface.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant configuration option set on the
server side, "git fetch" can make a request with a "want" line that names
an object that has not been advertised (likely to have been obtained out
of band or from a submodule pointer). Only objects reachable from the
branch tips, i.e. the union of advertised branches and branches hidden by
transfer.hideRefs, will be processed. Note that there is an associated
cost of having to walk back the history to check the reachability.
This feature can be used when obtaining the content of a certain commit,
for which the sha1 is known, without the need of cloning the whole
repository, especially if a shallow fetch is used. Useful cases are e.g.
repositories containing large files in the history, fetching only the
needed data for a submodule checkout, when sharing a sha1 without telling
which exact branch it belongs to and in Gerrit, if you think in terms of
commits instead of change numbers. (The Gerrit case has already been
solved through allowTipSHA1InWant as every Gerrit change has a ref.)
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of dying immediately upon failing to obtain a lock, retry
after a short while with backoff.
* mh/lockfile-retry:
lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the packed-refs lock
lockfile: allow file locking to be retried with a timeout
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.
* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
doc: convert \--option to --option
doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
doc: fix length of underlined section-title
doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.
* jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix:
doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.
* ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix:
doc: fix unmatched code fences
Introduce http.<url>.SSLCipherList configuration variable to tweak
the list of cipher suite to be used with libcURL when talking with
https:// sites.
* ls/http-ssl-cipher-list:
http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher list
Just as we have "%(upstream)" to report the "@{upstream}"
for each ref, this patch adds "%(push)" to match "@{push}".
It supports the same tracking format modifiers as upstream
(because you may want to know, for example, which branches
have commits to push).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a triangular workflow, each branch may have two distinct
points of interest: the @{upstream} that you normally pull
from, and the destination that you normally push to. There
isn't a shorthand for the latter, but it's useful to have.
For instance, you may want to know which commits you haven't
pushed yet:
git log @{push}..
Or as a more complicated example, imagine that you normally
pull changes from origin/master (which you set as your
@{upstream}), and push changes to your own personal fork
(e.g., as myfork/topic). You may push to your fork from
multiple machines, requiring you to integrate the changes
from the push destination, rather than upstream. With this
patch, you can just do:
git rebase @{push}
rather than typing out the full name.
The heavy lifting is all done by branch_get_push; here we
just wire it up to the "@{push}" syntax.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix remaining instances where "pack-file" is used instead of
"packfile". Some places remain where we still use "pack-file",
This is the case when we explicitly refer to a file with a
".pack" extension as opposed to a data source providing a pack
data stream.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the options in config.txt are camelCase. Improve the readability
for allowtipsha1inwant by changing to allowTipSHA1InWant.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to display common commands in
groups rather than alphabetically. As a first step, define the
groups in a new block, and then assign a group to each
common command.
Add a block at the beginning of command-list.txt:
init start a working area (see also: git help tutorial)
worktree work on the current change (see also:[...]
info examine the history and state (see also: git [...]
history grow, mark and tweak your history
remote collaborate (see also: git help workflows)
storing information about common commands group, then map each common
command to a group:
git-add mainporcelain common worktree
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Emma Jane Hogbin Westby <emma.westby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to classify common commands by
group. Toward this end, a subsequent patch will add a new "common
groups" section to command-list.txt preceding the actual command list.
As preparation, teach existing command-list.txt parsing machinery, which
doesn't care about grouping, to skip over this upcoming "common groups"
section.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we create each branch struct, we fill in the
"remote_name" field from the config, and then fill in the
actual "remote" field (with a "struct remote") based on that
name. However, it turns out that nobody really cares about
the latter field. The only two sites that access it at all
are:
1. git-merge, which uses it to notice when the branch does
not have a remote defined. But we can easily replace this
with looking at remote_name instead.
2. remote.c itself, when setting up the @{upstream} merge
config. But we don't need to save the "remote" in the
"struct branch" for that; we can just look it up for
the duration of the operation.
So there is no need to have both fields; they are redundant
with each other (the struct remote contains the name, or you
can look up the struct from the name). It would be nice to
simplify this, especially as we are going to add matching
pushremote config in a future patch (and it would be nice to
keep them consistent).
So which one do we keep and which one do we get rid of?
If we had a lot of callers accessing the struct, it would be
more efficient to keep it (since you have to do a lookup to
go from the name to the struct, but not vice versa). But we
don't have a lot of callers; we have exactly one, so
efficiency doesn't matter. We can decide this based on
simplicity and readability.
And the meaning of the struct value is somewhat unclear. Is
it always the remote matching remote_name? If remote_name is
NULL (i.e., no per-branch config), does the struct fall back
to the "origin" remote, or is it also NULL? These questions
will get even more tricky with pushremotes, whose fallback
behavior is more complicated. So let's just store the name,
which pretty clearly represents the branch.*.remote config.
Any lookup or fallback behavior can then be implemented in
helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This wires the in-repo-symlink following code through to the cat-file
builtin. In the event of an out-of-repo link, cat-file will print
the link in a new format.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the "--allow-unknown-type" option to "cat-file" to allow
inspecting loose objects of an experimental or a broken type.
* kn/cat-file-literally:
t1006: add tests for git cat-file --allow-unknown-type
cat-file: teach cat-file a '--allow-unknown-type' option
cat-file: make the options mutually exclusive
sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type
"git merge FETCH_HEAD" learned that the previous "git fetch" could
be to create an Octopus merge, i.e. recording multiple branches
that are not marked as "not-for-merge"; this allows us to lose an
old style invocation "git merge <msg> HEAD $commits..." in the
implementation of "git pull" script; the old style syntax can now
be deprecated.
* jc/merge:
merge: deprecate 'git merge <message> HEAD <commit>' syntax
merge: handle FETCH_HEAD internally
merge: decide if we auto-generate the message early in collect_parents()
merge: make collect_parents() auto-generate the merge message
merge: extract prepare_merge_message() logic out
merge: narrow scope of merge_names
merge: split reduce_parents() out of collect_parents()
merge: clarify collect_parents() logic
merge: small leakfix and code simplification
merge: do not check argc to determine number of remote heads
merge: clarify "pulling into void" special case
t5520: test pulling an octopus into an unborn branch
t5520: style fixes
merge: simplify code flow
merge: test the top-level merge driver
There are several "raw formats", and describing --raw as "Generate the
raw format" in the documentation for git-log seems to imply that it
generates the raw *log* format.
Clarify the wording by saying "raw diff format" explicitly, and make a
special-case for "git log": "git log --raw" does not just change the
format, it shows something which is not shown by default.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since b814da8 (pull: add pull.ff configuration, 2014-01-15), running
git-pull with the configuration pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is
equivalent to passing --no-ff and --ff-only to git-merge. However, if
pull.ff=true, no switch is passed to git-merge. This leads to the
confusing behavior where pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is able to
override merge.ff, while pull.ff=true is unable to.
Fix this by adding the --ff switch if pull.ff=true, and add a test to
catch future regressions.
Furthermore, clarify in the documentation that pull.ff overrides
merge.ff.
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, there is only one attempt to acquire any lockfile, and if
the lock is held by another process, the locking attempt fails
immediately.
This is not such a limitation for loose reference files. First, they
don't take long to rewrite. Second, most reference updates have a
known "old" value, so if another process is updating a reference at
the same moment that we are trying to lock it, then probably the
expected "old" value will not longer be valid, and the update will
fail anyway.
But these arguments do not hold for packed-refs:
* The packed-refs file can be large and take significant time to
rewrite.
* Many references are stored in a single packed-refs file, so it could
be that the other process was changing a different reference than
the one that we are interested in.
Therefore, it is much more likely for there to be spurious lock
conflicts in connection to the packed-refs file, resulting in
unnecessary command failures.
So, if the first attempt to lock the packed-refs file fails, continue
retrying for a configurable length of time before giving up. The
default timeout is 1 second.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The former seems to just be syntactic sugar for the latter.
And as it's sugar that AsciiDoctor doesn't understand, it
would be nice to avoid it. Since there are only two spots,
and the resulting source is not significantly harder to
read, it's worth doing.
Note that this does slightly affect the generated HTML (it
has an extra newline), but the rendered result for both HTML
and docbook should be the same (since the newline is not
syntactically significant there).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes sure that AsciiDoc does not turn them into links.
Regular AsciiDoc does not catch these cases, but AsciiDoctor
does treat them as links.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Text like "{foo}" triggers an AsciiDoc attribute; we have to
write "\{foo}" to suppress this. But when the "foo" is not a
syntactically valid attribute, we can skip the quoting. This
makes the source nicer to read, and looks better under
Asciidoctor. With AsciiDoc itself, this patch produces no
changes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Older versions of AsciiDoc would convert the "--" in
"--option" into an emdash. According to 565e135
(Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc, 2011-06-29),
this is fixed in AsciiDoc 8.3.0. According to bf17126, we
don't support anything older than 8.4.1 anyway, so we no
longer need to worry about quoting.
Even though this does not change the output at all, there
are a few good reasons to drop the quoting:
1. It makes the source prettier to read.
2. We don't quote consistently, which may be confusing when
reading the source.
3. Asciidoctor does not like the quoting, and renders a
literal backslash.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All of the other options in the list put short and long as
two separate headings.
We can also drop the backslashing of `--`. It isn't used
elsewhere and is unnecessary for modern asciidoc (plus it
confuses asciidoctor).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In AsciiDoc, it is OK to say:
this is my title
-------------------------
but AsciiDoctor is more strict. Let's match the underline to
the title (which also makes the source prettier to read).
The output from AsciiDoc is the same either way.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In list content that wants to continue to a second
paragraph, the "+" continuation and subsequent paragraph
need to be left-aligned. Otherwise AsciiDoc seems to insert
only a linebreak.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Curly braces open an "attribute" in AsciiDoc; if there's no
such attribute, strange things may happen. In this case, the
unquoted "{type}" causes AsciiDoc to omit an entire line of
text from the output. We can fix it by putting the whole
phrase inside literal backticks (which also lets us get rid
of ugly backslash escaping).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
AsciiDoc misparses some text that contains a `literal`
word followed by a fancy `single quote' word, and treats
everything from the start of the literal to the end of the
quote as a single-quoted phrase.
We can work around this by switching the latter to be a
literal, as well. In the first case, this is perhaps what
was intended anyway, as it makes us consistent with the the
earlier literals in the same paragraph. In the second, the
output is arguably better, as we will format our commit
references as <code> blocks.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The asciidoctor renderer is more picky than classic asciidoc,
and insists that the start and end of a code fence be the
same size.
Found with this hacky perl script:
foreach my $fn (@ARGV) {
open(my $fh, '<', $fn);
my ($fence, $fence_lineno, $prev);
while (<$fh>) {
chomp;
if (/^----+$/) {
if ($fence_lineno) {
if ($_ ne $fence) {
print "$fn:$fence_lineno:mismatched fence: ",
length($fence), " != ", length($_), "\n";
}
$fence_lineno = undef;
}
# hacky check to avoid title-underlining
elsif ($prev eq '' || $prev eq '+') {
$fence = $_;
$fence_lineno = $.;
}
}
$prev = $_;
}
}
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to
take a really long object type name.
* jc/hash-object:
write_sha1_file(): do not use a separate sha1[] array
t1007: add hash-object --literally tests
hash-object --literally: fix buffer overrun with extra-long object type
git-hash-object.txt: document --literally option
"git p4" learned "--changes-block-size <n>" to read the changes in
chunks from Perforce, instead of making one call to "p4 changes"
that may trigger "too many rows scanned" error from Perforce.
* ls/p4-changes-block-size:
git-p4: use -m when running p4 changes
A replacement for contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir that does not
rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer
by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other.
* nd/multiple-work-trees: (41 commits)
prune --worktrees: fix expire vs worktree existence condition
t1501: fix test with split index
t2026: fix broken &&-chain
t2026 needs procondition SANITY
git-checkout.txt: a note about multiple checkout support for submodules
checkout: add --ignore-other-wortrees
checkout: pass whole struct to parse_branchname_arg instead of individual flags
git-common-dir: make "modules/" per-working-directory directory
checkout: do not fail if target is an empty directory
t2025: add a test to make sure grafts is working from a linked checkout
checkout: don't require a work tree when checking out into a new one
git_path(): keep "info/sparse-checkout" per work-tree
count-objects: report unused files in $GIT_DIR/worktrees/...
gc: support prune --worktrees
gc: factor out gc.pruneexpire parsing code
gc: style change -- no SP before closing parenthesis
checkout: clean up half-prepared directories in --to mode
checkout: reject if the branch is already checked out elsewhere
prune: strategies for linked checkouts
checkout: support checking out into a new working directory
...
Tweak the sample "store" backend of the credential helper to honor
XDG configuration file locations when specified.
* pt/credential-xdg:
t0302: "unreadable" test needs POSIXPERM
t0302: test credential-store support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support XDG_CONFIG_HOME
git-credential-store: support multiple credential files
Teach git about a new option, "http.sslCipherList", which permits one to
specify a list of ciphers to use when negotiating SSL connections. The
setting can be overwridden by the GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST environment
variable.
Signed-off-by: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git cat-file' throws an error while trying to print the type or
size of a broken/corrupt object. This is because these objects are
usually of unknown types.
Teach git cat-file a '--allow-unknown-type' option where it prints
the type or size of a broken/corrupt object without throwing
an error.
Modify '-t' and '-s' options to call sha1_object_info_extended()
directly to support the '--allow-unknown-type' option.
Add documentation for 'cat-file --allow-unknown-type'.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
cat-file: add documentation for '--allow-unknown-type' option.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the git-hash-object --literally option added by 5ba9a93
(hash-object: add --literally option, 2014-09-11).
While here, also correct a minor typesetting oversight.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The collect_parents() function now is responsible for
1. parsing the commits given on the command line into a list of
commits to be merged;
2. filtering these parents into independent ones; and
3. optionally calling fmt_merge_msg() via prepare_merge_message()
to prepare an auto-generated merge log message, using fake
contents that FETCH_HEAD would have had if these commits were
fetched from the current repository with "git pull . $args..."
Make "git merge FETCH_HEAD" to be the same as the traditional
git merge "$(git fmt-merge-msg <.git/FETCH_HEAD)" $commits
invocation of the command in "git pull", where $commits are the ones
that appear in FETCH_HEAD that are not marked as not-for-merge, by
making it do a bit more, specifically:
- noticing "FETCH_HEAD" is the only "commit" on the command line
and picking the commits that are not marked as not-for-merge as
the list of commits to be merged (substitute for step #1 above);
- letting the resulting list fed to step #2 above;
- doing the step #3 above, using the contents of the FETCH_HEAD
instead of fake contents crafted from the list of commits parsed
in the step #1 above.
Note that this changes the semantics. "git merge FETCH_HEAD" has
always behaved as if the first commit in the FETCH_HEAD file were
directly specified on the command line, creating a two-way merge
whose auto-generated merge log said "merge commit xyz". With this
change, if the previous fetch was to grab multiple branches (e.g.
"git fetch $there topic-a topic-b"), the new world order is to
create an octopus, behaving as if "git pull $there topic-a topic-b"
were run. This is a deliberate change to make that happen, and
can be seen in the changes to t3033 tests.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `-v` shows a unified diff in the editor to edit the commit
message to help the user to describe the change. The diff is
stripped and will not become a part of the commit message.
Add a note about this with the `-v` description and slightly modify
the description for the default `--cleanup` mode.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document `git status -v`, including its new doubled `-vv` form.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make many textual tweaks to the 2.4.0 release notes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"Todo list" is the name that is used in the user-facing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Simply running "p4 changes" on a large branch can result in a "too
many rows scanned" error from the Perforce server. It is better to
use a sequence of smaller calls to "p4 changes", using the "-m"
option to limit the size of each call.
Signed-off-by: Lex Spoon <lex@lexspoon.org>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old wording was somehow implying that <start> and <end> were not
regular expressions. Also, the common case is to use a plain function
name here so <funcname> makes sense (the fact that it is a regular
expression is documented in line-range-format.txt).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Changed inaccurate count of "rough rules" from three to the more
generic 'a few'.
Signed-off-by: Julian Gindi <juliangindi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Long ago, I documented a corruption recovery I did and gave
some C code that I used to help find a flipped bit. I had
to fix a similar case recently, and I ended up writing a few
more tools. I hope nobody ever has to use these, but it
does not hurt to share them, just in case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merges with an absurd number of parents are still a bad idea because
they do not render well in tools like gitk, but if they are present
in the repository being imported into git then there's no need to
avoid reproducing them faithfully.
In olden times, before v1.6.0-rc0~194 (2008-06-27), git commit-tree
and higher-level tools built on top of it were limited to writing 16
parents for a commit. Nowadays normal git operations are happy to
write more parents when asked, so the motivation for this note in the
fast-import documentation is gone and we can remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"build-time" is used everywhere else.
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Zago <git-patch@agt-the-walker.net>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit b27cfb0 (git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits
option, 2012-04-20), added the --keep-redundant-commits
option, and switched the default behavior (without that
option) to silently ignore empty commits. Later, the second
half of that commit was reverted in ac2b0e8 (cherry-pick:
regression fix for empty commits, 2012-05-29), but the
documentation added for --keep-redundant-commits was never
updated to match. Let's do so now.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ignoring a merge can be read as ignoring the changes a merge commit
introduces altogether, as if the entire side branch the merge commit
merged was removed from the history. But that is not what happens
if "-p" is not specified. What happens is that the individual
commits a merge commit introduces are replayed in order, and only
any possible merge conflict resolutions or manual amendments to the
merge commit are ignored.
Get this straight in the docs.
Also, do not say that merge commits are *tried* to be recreated. As that is
true almost everywhere it is better left unsaid.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
