`*` in format strings means peeling of tag objects so that object field
names refer to the object that the tag object points at, instead of the
tag object itself.
Currently, this is documented using grammar that is clearly inspired by
classical latin, though missing more than an article in order to be
classical english.
Try and straighten that explanation out a bit.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various commands list refs and allow to use a format string for the
output that interpolates from the ref as well as the object it points
at (for-each-ref; branch and tag in list mode).
Currently, the documentation talks about interpolating from the object.
This is confusing because a ref points to an object but not vice versa,
so the object cannot possible know %(refname), for example. Thus, this is
wrong independent of refs being objects (one day, maybe) or not.
Change the wording to make this clearer (and distinguish it from formats
for the log family).
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The '--set-upstream' option of branch was deprecated in b347d06b
("branch: deprecate --set-upstream and show help if we detect
possible mistaken use", 2012-08-30) and has been planned for removal
ever since.
In order to prevent "--set-upstream" on a command line from being taken as
an abbreviated form of "--set-upstream-to", explicitly catch "--set-upstream"
option and die, instead of just removing it from the list of options.
Before this change, an attempt to use "--set-upstream" resulted in:
$ git branch
* master
$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master
The --set-upstream flag is deprecated and will be removed. Consider using --track or --set-upstream-to
Branch origin/master set up to track local branch master.
$ echo $?
0
$ git branch
* master
origin/master
With this change, the behaviour becomes like this:
$ git branch
* master
$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master
fatal: the '--set-upstream' option is no longer supported. Please use '--track' or '--set-upstream-to' instead.
$ echo $?
128
$ git branch
* master
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing behavior of diff --color-moved=zebra does not define the
minimum size of a block at all, instead relying on a heuristic applied
later to filter out sets of adjacent moved lines that are shorter than 3
lines long. This can be confusing, because a block could thus be colored
as moved at the source but not at the destination (or vice versa),
depending on its neighbors.
Instead, teach diff that the minimum size of a block is 20 alphanumeric
characters, the same heuristic used by "git blame". This allows diff to
still exclude uninteresting lines appearing on their own (such as those
solely consisting of one or a few closing braces), as was the intention
of the adjacent-moved-line heuristic.
This requires a change in some tests in that some of their lines are no
longer considered to be part of a block, because they are too short.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interpret-trailers command recently learned some options
to make its output easier to parse (for a caller whose only
interested in picking out the trailer values). But it's not
very efficient for asking for the trailers of many commits
in a single invocation.
We already have "%(trailers)" to do that, but it doesn't
know about unfolding or omitting non-trailers. Let's plumb
those options through, so you can have the best of both.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last few commits have added command line options that
can turn interpret-trailers into a parsing tool. Since
they'd most often be used together, let's provide a
convenient single option for callers to invoke this mode.
This is implemented as a callback rather than a boolean so
that its effect is applied immediately, as if those options
had been specified. Later options can then override them.
E.g.:
git interpret-trailers --parse --no-unfold
would work.
Let's also update the documentation to make clear that this
parsing mode behaves quite differently than the normal
"add trailers to the input" mode.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of "--only-trailers" is to give a caller an output
that's easy for them to parse. Getting rid of the
non-trailer material helps, but we still may see more
complicated syntax like whitespace continuation. Let's add
an option to unfold any continuation, giving the output as a
single "key: value" line per trailer.
As a bonus, this could be used even without --only-trailers
to clean up unusual formatting in the incoming data.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can be useful to invoke interpret-trailers for the
primary purpose of parsing existing trailers. But in that
case, we don't want to apply existing ifMissing or ifExists
rules from the config. Let's add a special mode where we
avoid applying those rules. Coupled with --only-trailers,
this gives us a reasonable parsing tool.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In theory it's easy for any reader who wants to parse
trailers to do so. But there are a lot of subtle corner
cases around what counts as a trailer, when the trailer
block begins and ends, etc. Since interpret-trailers already
has our parsing logic, let's let callers ask it to just
output the trailers.
They still have to parse the "key: value" lines, but at
least they can ignore all of the other corner cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git config --bool xxx.yyy` returns `true` for `[xxx]yyy` but
`false` for `[xxx]yyy=` or `[xxx]yyy=""`. This is tested in
t1300-repo-config.sh since 09bc098c2.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When generating patches for the rebase command, if the user does
not realize the branch they are rebasing onto is thousands of
commits different, there is no progress indication after initial
rewinding message.
The progress meter as presented in this patch assumes the thousands of
patches to have a fine granularity as well as assuming to require all
the same amount of work/time for each, such that a steady progress bar
is achieved.
We do not want to estimate the time for each patch based e.g.
on their size or number of touched files (or parents) as that is too
expensive for just a progress meter.
This patch allows a progress option to be passed to format-patch
so that the user can be informed the progress of generating the
patch. This option is then used by the rebase command when
calling format-patch.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <kewillf@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All callers of fill_tree_descriptor() have been converted to object_id
already, so convert that function as well. As a nice side-effect we get
rid of NULL checks in tree-diff.c, as fill_tree_descriptor() already
does them for us.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Self-explanatory... trailer.ifexists is documented with the
right name, but after a while it switches to ifexist.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow using non-default values for trailers without having to set
them up in .gitconfig first. For example, if you have the following
configuration
trailer.signed-off-by.where = end
you may use "--where before" when a patch author forgets his
Signed-off-by and provides it in a separate email. Likewise for
--if-exists and --if-missing
Reverting to the behavior specified by .gitconfig is done with
--no-where, --no-if-exists and --no-if-missing.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Notably, let's declare that we aim to make "git add ''" illegal in
the cycle after this one.
The topic to do so, ex/deprecate-empty-pathspec-as-match-all, has
been cooking in 'next' too long, and will stay there during this
cycle, but not after.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who
actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an
editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable
pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this,
and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default.
* ma/pager-per-subcommand-action:
git.c: ignore pager.* when launching builtin as dashed external
tag: change default of `pager.tag` to "on"
tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only
t7006: add tests for how git tag paginates
git.c: provide setup_auto_pager()
git.c: let builtins opt for handling `pager.foo` themselves
builtin.h: take over documentation from api-builtin.txt
The filter-process interface learned to allow a process with long
latency give a "delayed" response.
* ls/filter-process-delayed:
convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol
convert: refactor capabilities negotiation
convert: move multiple file filter error handling to separate function
convert: put the flags field before the flag itself for consistent style
t0021: write "OUT <size>" only on success
t0021: make debug log file name configurable
t0021: keep filter log files on comparison
"%C(color name)" in the pretty print format always produced ANSI
color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now
honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness
of the output medium.
* jk/ref-filter-colors:
ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colors
pretty: respect color settings for %C placeholders
rev-list: pass diffopt->use_colors through to pretty-print
for-each-ref: load config earlier
color: check color.ui in git_default_config()
ref-filter: pass ref_format struct to atom parsers
ref-filter: factor out the parsing of sorting atoms
ref-filter: make parse_ref_filter_atom a private function
ref-filter: provide a function for parsing sort options
ref-filter: move need_color_reset_at_eol into ref_format
ref-filter: abstract ref format into its own struct
ref-filter: simplify automatic color reset
t: use test_decode_color rather than literal ANSI codes
docs/for-each-ref: update pointer to color syntax
check return value of verify_ref_format()
Remove an example that is now obsolete from a sample hook,
and improve an old example in it that added a sign-off manually
to use the interpret-trailers command.
* ks/prepare-commit-msg-sample:
hook: add a simple first example
hook: add sign-off using "interpret-trailers"
hook: name the positional variables
hook: cleanup script
The only difference between these is that the former takes an argument
`name` which it ignores completely. Still, the callers are quite careful
to provide reasonable values for it.
Once in-flight topics have landed, we should be able to remove
git_config_maybe_bool. In the meantime, document it as deprecated in the
technical documentation. While at it, document git_parse_maybe_bool.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we're about to touch the behavior of --signed=, do this as a
preparatory step.
The documentation mentions --sign=, and it works. But that's just
because it's an unambiguous abbreviation of --signed, which is how it is
actually implemented. This was added in commit 30261094 ("push: support
signing pushes iff the server supports it", 2015-08-19). Back when that
series was developed [1] [2], there were suggestions about both --sign=
and --signed=. The final implementation settled on --signed=, but some
of the documentation and commit messages ended up using --sign=.
The option is referred to as --signed= in Documentation/config.txt
(under push.gpgSign).
One could argue that we have promised --sign for two years now, so we
should implement it as an alias for --signed. (Then we might also
deprecate the latter, something which was considered already then.) That
would be a slightly more intrusive change.
This minor issue would only be a problem once we want to implement some
other option --signfoo, but the earlier we do this step, the better.
[1] v1-thread:
https://public-inbox.org/git/1439492451-11233-1-git-send-email-dborowitz@google.com/T/#u
[2] v2-thread:
https://public-inbox.org/git/1439998007-28719-1-git-send-email-dborowitz@google.com/T/#m6533a6c4707a30b0d81e86169ff8559460cbf6eb
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous patch taught `git tag` to only respect `pager.tag` in
list-mode. That patch left the default value of `pager.tag` at "off".
After that patch, it makes sense to let the default value be "on"
instead, since it will help with listing many tags, but will not hurt
users of `git tag -a` as it would have before. Make that change. Update
documentation and tests.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using, e.g., `git -c pager.tag tag -a new-tag` results in errors such as
"Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal" and a garbled terminal.
Someone who makes use of both `git tag -a` and `git tag -l` will
probably not set `pager.tag`, so that `git tag -a` will actually work,
at the cost of not paging output of `git tag -l`.
Use the mechanisms introduced in two earlier patches to ignore
`pager.tag` in git.c and let the `git tag` builtin handle it on its own.
Only respect `pager.tag` when running in list-mode.
There is a window between where the pager is started before and after
this patch. This means that early errors can behave slightly different
before and after this patch. Since operation-parsing has to happen
inside this window, this can be seen with `git -c pager.tag="echo pager
is used" tag -l --unknown-option`. This change in paging-behavior should
be acceptable since it only affects erroneous usages.
Update the documentation and update tests.
If an alias is used to run `git tag -a`, then `pager.tag` will still be
respected. Document this known breakage. It will be fixed in a later
commit. Add a similar test for `-l`, which works.
Noticed-by: Anatoly Borodin <anatoly.borodin@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Delete Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt and move its content
into builtin.h. Format it as a comment. Remove a '+' which was needed
when the information was formatted for AsciiDoc. Similarly, change
"::" to ":".
Document SUPPORT_SUPER_PREFIX, thereby bringing the documentation up to
date with the available flags.
While at it, correct '3 more things to do' to '4 more things to do'.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert grep to use 'struct repository' which enables recursing into
submodules to be handled in-process.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The patch is read from standard input and not from a parameter.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This operation has quadratic complexity, which is especially painful
on Windows, where shell scripts are *already* slow (mainly due to the
overhead of the POSIX emulation layer).
Let's reimplement this with linear complexity (using a hash map to
match the commits' subject lines) for the common case; Sadly, the
fixup/squash feature's design neglected performance considerations,
allowing arbitrary prefixes (read: `fixup! hell` will match the
commit subject `hello world`), which means that we are stuck with
quadratic performance in the worst case.
The reimplemented logic also happens to fix a bug where commented-out
lines (representing empty patches) were dropped by the previous code.
While at it, clarify how the fixup/squash feature works in `git rebase
-i`'s man page.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the documentation for the sub-process API from a separate txt file
to its header file.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ls/filter-process-delayed:
convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol
convert: refactor capabilities negotiation
convert: move multiple file filter error handling to separate function
convert: put the flags field before the flag itself for consistent style
t0021: write "OUT <size>" only on success
t0021: make debug log file name configurable
t0021: keep filter log files on comparison
The values have eluded documentation so far. While at it streamline
the wording by grouping relevant parts together.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some projects require every commit, even merges, to be signed off
[*1*]. Because "git merge" does not have a "--signoff" option like
"git commit" does, the user needs to add one manually when the
command presents an editor to describe the merge, or later use "git
commit --amend --signoff".
Help developers of these projects by teaching "--signoff" option to
"git merge".
*1* https://public-inbox.org/git/CAHv71zK5SqbwrBFX=a8-DY9H3KT4FEyMgv__p2gZzNr0WUAPUw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
Requested-by: Dan Kohn <dan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Łukasz Gryglicki <lukaszgryglicki@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To note that merely cloning git.git without --recurse-submodules
doesn't get you a full copy of the code anymore. See
5f6482d642 ("RelNotes: mention "log: make --regexp-ignore-case work
with --perl-regexp"", 2017-07-20).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To inform users that they can use --regexp-ignore-case now, and that
existing scripts which relied on that + PCRE may be buggy. See
9e3cbc59d5 ("log: make --regexp-ignore-case work with --perl-regexp",
2017-05-20).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To inform users that they can use the short form now. See
7531a2dd87 ("log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp", 2017-05-25).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The paragraph that describes the 'scissors' cleanup mode of
'commit' had the 'cut-line' in the middle of a sentence. This
made it possible for the line to get wrapped on smaler windows.
This shouldn't be the case as it makes it hard for the user to
understand the structure of the cut-line.
Reformat the pragraph to make the 'cut-line' stand on a line of
it's own thus distinguishing it from the rest of the paragraph.
This further prevents it from getting wrapped to some extent.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The i18n config variable used weren't readable as they were in
the crude form of how git stores/uses it's config variables.
Improve it's readability by replacing them with camelCased versions
of config variables as it doesn't have any impact on it's usage.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" learns to rebase the
branch in the submodules to an updated base.
* sb/pull-rebase-submodule:
builtin/fetch cleanup: always set default value for submodule recursing
pull: optionally rebase submodules (remote submodule changes only)
builtin/fetch: parse recurse-submodules-default at default options parsing
builtin/fetch: factor submodule recurse parsing out to submodule config
Update the hashmap API so that data to customize the behaviour of
the comparison function can be specified at the time a hashmap is
initialized.
* sb/hashmap-customize-comparison:
hashmap: migrate documentation from Documentation/technical into header
patch-ids.c: use hashmap correctly
hashmap.h: compare function has access to a data field
The color placeholders have traditionally been
unconditional, showing colors even when git is not otherwise
configured to do so. This was not so bad for their original
use, which was on the command-line (and the user could
decide at that moment whether to add colors or not). But
these days we have configured formats via pretty.*, and
those should operate correctly in multiple contexts.
In 3082517 (log --format: teach %C(auto,black) to respect
color config, 2012-12-17), we gave an extended placeholder
that could be used to accomplish this. But it's rather
clunky to use, because you have to specify it individually
for each color (and their matching resets) in the format.
We shied away from just switching the default to auto,
because it is technically breaking backwards compatibility.
However, there's not really a use case for unconditional
colors. The most plausible reason you would want them is to
redirect "git log" output to a file. But there, the right
answer is --color=always, as it does the right thing both
with custom user-format colors and git-generated colors.
So let's switch to the more useful default. In the
off-chance that somebody really does find a use for
unconditional colors without wanting to enable the rest of
git's colors, we provide a new %C(always,...) to enable the
old behavior. And we can remind them of --color=always in
the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for the %(color) placeholder refers to the
color.branch.* config for more details. But those details
moved to their own section in b92c1a28f
(Documentation/config.txt: describe 'color' value type in
the "Values" section, 2015-03-03). Let's update our
pointer. We can steal the text from 30cfe72d3 (pretty: fix
document link for color specification, 2016-10-11), which
fixed the same problem in a different place.
While we're at it, let's give an example, which makes the
syntax much more clear than just the text.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a simple example that replaces an outdated example
that was removed. This ensures that there's at the least
a simple example that illustrates what could be done
using the hook just by enabling it.
Also, update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare the 'preare-commit-msg' sample script for
upcoming changes. Preparation includes removal of
an example that has outlived it's purpose. The example
is the one that comments the "Conflicts:" part of a
merge commit message. It isn't relevant anymore as
it's done by default since 261f315b ("merge & sequencer:
turn "Conflicts:" hint into a comment", 2014-08-28).
Further update the relevant comments from the sample script
and update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree
configuration has been corrected.
* ah/doc-gitattributes-empty-index:
doc: do not use `rm .git/index` when normalizing line endings
The first illustration of the "RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE"
section in the 'git-rebase' documentation meant to depict that
there are number of commits on the 'master' branch, but it is
longer than the 'master' branch in the following illustrations
by one commit, even though there is no resetting of 'master' to
lose that commit.
Correct it.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git send-email" learned to overcome some SMTP server limitation
that does not allow many pieces of e-mails to be sent over a single
session.
* xz/send-email-batch-size:
send-email: --batch-size to work around some SMTP server limit
Some email servers (e.g. smtp.163.com) limit the number emails to be
sent per session (connection) and this will lead to a faliure when
sending many messages.
Teach send-email to disconnect after sending a number of messages
(configurable via the --batch-size=<num> option), wait for a few
seconds (configurable via the --relogin-delay=<seconds> option) and
reconnect, to work around such a limit.
Also add two configuration variables to give these options the default.
Note:
We will use this as a band-aid for now, but in the longer term, we
should look at and react to the SMTP error code from the server;
Xianqiang reports that 450 and 451 are returned by problematic
servers.
cf. https://public-inbox.org/git/7993e188.d18d.15c3560bcaf.Coremail.zxq_yx_007@163.com/
Signed-off-by: xiaoqiang zhao <zxq_yx_007@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some `clean` / `smudge` filters may require a significant amount of
time to process a single blob (e.g. the Git LFS smudge filter might
perform network requests). During this process the Git checkout
operation is blocked and Git needs to wait until the filter is done to
continue with the checkout.
Teach the filter process protocol, introduced in edcc8581 ("convert: add
filter.<driver>.process option", 2016-10-16), to accept the status
"delayed" as response to a filter request. Upon this response Git
continues with the checkout operation. After the checkout operation Git
calls "finish_delayed_checkout" which queries the filter for remaining
blobs. If the filter is still working on the completion, then the filter
is expected to block. If the filter has completed all remaining blobs
then an empty response is expected.
Git has a multiple code paths that checkout a blob. Support delayed
checkouts only in `clone` (in unpack-trees.c) and `checkout` operations
for now. The optimization is most effective in these code paths as all
files of the tree are processed.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While at it, clarify the use of `key`, `keydata`, `entry_or_key` as well
as documenting the new data pointer for the compare function.
Rework the example.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries the
user has in its output.
* lb/status-stash-count:
glossary: define 'stash entry'
status: add optional stash count information
stash: update documentation to use 'stash entry'
Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of
a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which
would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We
learned to give warnings when this happens.
* jk/warn-add-gitlink:
t: move "git add submodule" into test blocks
add: warn when adding an embedded repository
An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree
configuration has been corrected.
* ah/doc-gitattributes-empty-index:
doc: do not use `rm .git/index` when normalizing line endings
The manual correctly describes the syntax with `auto,` but the
trailing `,` is hard to spot in a terminal. The HTML format does not
have this problem. Adding an example helps both worlds.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach pull to optionally update submodules when '--recurse-submodules'
is provided. This will teach pull to run 'submodule update --rebase'
when the '--recurse-submodules' and '--rebase' flags are given under
specific circumstances.
On a rebase workflow:
=====================
1. Both sides change the submodule
------------------------------
Let's assume the following history in a submodule:
H---I---J---K---L local branch
\
M---N---O---P remote branch
and the following in the superproject (recorded submodule in parens):
A(H)---B(I)---F(K)---G(L) local branch
\
C(N)---D(N)---E(P) remote branch
In an ideal world this would rebase the submodule and rewrite
the submodule pointers that the superproject points at such that
the superproject looks like
A(H)---B(I) F(K')---G(L') rebased branch
\ /
C(N)---D(N)---E(P) remote branch
and the submodule as:
J---K---L (old dangeling tip)
/
H---I J'---K'---L' rebased branch
\ /
M---N---O---P remote branch
And if a conflict arises in the submodule the superproject rebase
would stop at that commit at which the submodule conflict occurs.
Currently a "pull --rebase" in the superproject produces
a merge conflict as the submodule pointer changes are
conflicting and cannot be resolved.
2. Local submodule changes only
-----------------------
Assuming histories as above, except that the remote branch
would not contain submodule changes, then a result as
A(H)---B(I) F(K)---G(L) rebased branch
\ /
C(I)---D(I)---E(I) remote branch
is desire-able. This is what currently happens in rebase.
If the recursive flag is given, the ideal git would
produce a superproject as:
A(H)---B(I) F(K')---G(L') rebased branch (incl. sub rebase!)
\ /
C(I)---D(I)---E(I) remote branch
and the submodule as:
J---K---L (old dangeling tip)
/
H---I J'---K'---L' locally rebased branch
\ /
M---N---O---P advanced branch
This patch doesn't address this issue, however
a test is added that this fails up front.
3. Remote submodule changes only
----------------------
Assuming histories as in (1) except that the local superproject branch
would not have touched the submodule the rebase already works out in the
superproject with no conflicts:
A(H)---B(I) F(P)---G(P) rebased branch (no sub changes)
\ /
C(N)---D(N)---E(P) remote branch
The recurse flag as presented in this patch would additionally
update the submodule as:
H---I J'---K'---L' rebased branch
\ /
M---N---O---P remote branch
As neither J, K, L nor J', K', L' are referred to from the superproject,
no rewriting of the superproject commits is required.
Conclusion for 'pull --rebase --recursive'
-----------------------------------------
If there are no local superproject changes it is sufficient to call
"submodule update --rebase" as this produces the desired results. In case
of conflicts, the behavior is the same as in 'submodule update --recursive'
which is assumed to be sane.
This patch implements (3) only.
On a merge workflow:
====================
We'll start off with the same underlying DAG as in (1) in the rebase
workflow. So in an ideal world a 'pull --merge --recursive' would
produce this:
H---I---J---K---L----X
\ /
M---N---O---P
with X as the new merge-commit in the submodule and the superproject
as:
A(H)---B(I)---F(K)---G(L)---Y(X)
\ /
C(N)---D(N)---E(P)
However modifying the submodules on the fly is not supported in git-merge
such that Y(X) is not easy to produce in a single patch. In fact git-merge
doesn't know about submodules at all.
However when at least one side does not contain commits touching the
submodule at all, then we do not need to perform the merge for the
submodule but a fast-forward can be done via checking out either L or P
in the submodule. This strategy is implemented in 68d03e4a6e (Implement
automatic fast-forward merge for submodules, 2010-07-07) already, so
to align with the rebase behavior we need to also update the worktree
of the submodule.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch aims to detangle (a) the usage of `git-submodule`
from (b) the concept of submodules and (c) how the actual
implementation looks like, such as where they are configured
and (d) what the best practices are.
To do so, move the conceptual parts of the 'git-submodule'
man page to a new man page gitsubmodules(7). This new page
is just like gitmodules(5), gitattributes(5), gitcredentials(7),
gitnamespaces(7), gittutorial(7), which introduce a concept
rather than explaining a specific command.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As there is no portable way to pass timezone information to
strftime, some output format from "git log" and friends are
impossible to produce. Teach our own strbuf_addftime to replace %z
and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this.
* rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ:
date: use localtime() for "-local" time formats
t0006: check --date=format zone offsets
strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself
"fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent
with other parts of the system.
* mh/fast-import-raise-default-depth:
fast-import: increase the default pack depth to 50
"filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used
to define a common function/variable that can be used by other
filters.
* ah/filter-branch-setup:
filter-branch: add [--] to usage
filter-branch: add `--setup` step
The "add" section for 'git-submodule' is redundant in its
description and the short synopsis line. Fix it.
Remove the redundant mentioning of the 'repository' argument
being mandatory.
The text is hard to read because of back-references, so remove
those.
Replace the word "humanish" by "canonical" as that conveys better
what we do to guess the path.
While at it, quote all occurrences of '.gitmodules' as that is an
important file in the submodule context, also link to it on its
first mention.
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We bumped the default in be4ca2905 (Increase
core.packedGitLimit, 2017-04-20) but never adjusted the
documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
* ab/pcre-v2:
grep: add support for PCRE v2
grep: un-break building with PCRE >= 8.32 without --enable-jit
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.20
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.32
grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT API
log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp
grep: skip pthreads overhead when using one thread
grep: don't redundantly compile throwaway patterns under threading
Introduce '--show-stash' and its configuration option 'status.showStash'
to allow git-status to show information about currently stashed entries.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the time, a 'stash entry' is called a 'stash'. Lets try to make
this more consistent and use 'stash entry' instead.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the ability to --copy a branch and its reflog and configuration,
this uses the same underlying machinery as the --move (-m) option
except the reflog and configuration is copied instead of being moved.
This is useful for e.g. copying a topic branch to a new version,
e.g. work to work-2 after submitting the work topic to the list, while
preserving all the tracking info and other configuration that goes
with the branch, and unlike --move keeping the other already-submitted
branch around for reference.
Like --move, when the source branch is the currently checked out
branch the HEAD is moved to the destination branch. In the case of
--move we don't really have a choice (other than remaining on a
detached HEAD) and in order to keep the functionality consistent, we
are doing it in similar way for --copy too.
The most common usage of this feature is expected to be moving to a
new topic branch which is a copy of the current one, in that case
moving to the target branch is what the user wants, and doesn't
unexpectedly behave differently than --move would.
One outstanding caveat of this implementation is that:
git checkout maint &&
git checkout master &&
git branch -c topic &&
git checkout -
Will check out 'maint' instead of 'master'. This is because the @{-N}
feature (or its -1 shorthand "-") relies on HEAD reflogs created by
the checkout command, so in this case we'll checkout maint instead of
master, as the user might expect. What to do about that is left to a
future change.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sahil Dua <sahildua2305@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no portable way to pass timezone information to strftime. Add
parameters for timezone offset and name to strbuf_addftime and let it
handle the timezone-related format specifiers %z and %Z internally.
Callers can opt out for %Z by passing NULL as timezone name. %z is
always handled internally -- this helps on Windows, where strftime would
expand it to a timezone name (same as %Z), in violation of POSIX.
Modifiers are not handled, e.g. %Ez is still passed to strftime.
Use an empty string as timezone name in show_date (the only current
caller) for now because we only have the timezone offset in non-local
mode. POSIX allows %Z to resolve to an empty string in case of missing
information.
Helped-by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When illustrating how to normalize the line endings, the
documentation in gitattributes tells the user to `rm .git/index`.
This is incorrect for two reasons:
- Users shouldn't be instructed to mess around with the internal
implementation of Git using raw file system tools like `rm`.
- Within a submodule or an additional working tree `.git` is just a
file containing a `gitdir: <path>` pointer into the real `.git`
directory. Therefore `rm .git/index` does not work.
The purpose of the `rm .git/index` instruction is to remove all entries
from the index without touching the working tree. The way to do this
with Git is to use `read-tree --empty`.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's an easy mistake to add a repository inside another
repository, like:
git clone $url
git add .
The resulting entry is a gitlink, but there's no matching
.gitmodules entry. Trying to use "submodule init" (or clone
with --recursive) doesn't do anything useful. Prior to
v2.13, such an entry caused git-submodule to barf entirely.
In v2.13, the entry is considered "inactive" and quietly
ignored. Either way, no clone of your repository can do
anything useful with the gitlink without the user manually
adding the submodule config.
In most cases, the user probably meant to either add a real
submodule, or they forgot to put the embedded repository in
their .gitignore file.
Let's issue a warning when we see this case. There are a few
things to note:
- the warning will go in the git-add porcelain; anybody
wanting to do low-level manipulation of the index is
welcome to create whatever funny states they want.
- we detect the case by looking for a newly added gitlink;
updates via "git add submodule" are perfectly reasonable,
and this avoids us having to investigate .gitmodules
entirely
- there's a command-line option to suppress the warning.
This is needed for git-submodule itself (which adds the
entry before adding any submodule config), but also
provides a mechanism for other scripts doing
submodule-like things.
We could make this a hard error instead of a warning.
However, we do add lots of sub-repos in our test suite. It's
not _wrong_ to do so. It just creates a state where users
may be surprised. Pointing them in the right direction with
a gentle hint is probably the best option.
There is a config knob that can disable the (long) hint. But
I intentionally omitted a config knob to disable the warning
entirely. Whether the warning is sensible or not is
generally about context, not about the user's preferences.
If there's a tool or workflow that adds gitlinks without
matching .gitmodules, it should probably be taught about the
new command-line option, rather than blanket-disabling the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some options specific for `git svn commit-diff` where not documented
so far.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse
configuration.
* sb/submodule-blanket-recursive:
builtin/fetch.c: respect 'submodule.recurse' option
builtin/push.c: respect 'submodule.recurse' option
builtin/grep.c: respect 'submodule.recurse' option
Introduce 'submodule.recurse' option for worktree manipulators
submodule loading: separate code path for .gitmodules and config overlay
reset/checkout/read-tree: unify config callback for submodule recursion
submodule test invocation: only pass additional arguments
submodule recursing: do not write a config variable twice
"git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files,
even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x".
"git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files
without "-uall". These have been corrected.
* sl/clean-d-ignored-fix:
clean: teach clean -d to preserve ignored paths
dir: expose cmp_name() and check_contains()
dir: hide untracked contents of untracked dirs
dir: recurse into untracked dirs for ignored files
t7061: status --ignored should search untracked dirs
t7300: clean -d should skip dirs with ignored files
In 618e613a70, 10 years ago, the default for pack depth used for
git-pack-objects and git-repack was changed from 10 to 50, while
leaving fast-import's default to 10.
There doesn't seem to be a reason besides oversight for the change not
having happened in fast-import as well.
Interestingly, fast-import uses pack.depth when it's set, and the
git-config manual says the default for pack.depth is 50. While the
git-fast-import manual does say the default depth is 10, the
inconsistency is also confusing.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A `--setup` step in `git filter-branch` makes it much easier to
define the initial values of variables used in the real filters.
Also sourcing/defining utility functions here instead of
`--env-filter` improves performance and minimizes clogging the
output in case of errors.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the missing documentation for `git svn init --ignore-refs`.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's
whitelisting is now documented better.
* jk/url-insteadof-config:
docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf
Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
multi-line comments.
* ab/c-translators-comment-style:
C style: use standard style for "TRANSLATORS" comments
Since 3ccd681c2a (Merge branch 'sb/submodule-rm-absorb', 2017-01-18)
git-rm tries to absorb any submodules git dir before deleting the
submodule. Correct the documentation to say so.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate
records the same set of push options used for pushing.
* jt/push-options-doc:
receive-pack: verify push options in cert
docs: correct receive.advertisePushOptions default
A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
documentation have been updated to https:// links.
* jk/update-links-in-docs:
doc: use https links to Wikipedia to avoid http redirects
Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
configuration variables.
* jk/doc-config-include:
docs/config: consistify include.path examples
docs/config: avoid the term "expand" for includes
docs/config: give a relative includeIf example
docs/config: clarify include/includeIf relationship
Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
* ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions:
git-filter-branch: be more direct in an error message
read-tree -m: make error message for merging 0 trees less smart aleck
usability: don't ask questions if no reply is required
The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though
the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with
ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is
based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier
to migrate away from it if/when necessary.
* ab/doc-replace-gmane-links:
doc: replace more gmane links
doc: replace a couple of broken gmane links
The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's
whitelisting is now documented better.
* jk/url-insteadof-config:
docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf
Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
multi-line comments.
* ab/c-translators-comment-style:
C style: use standard style for "TRANSLATORS" comments
The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.
* ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup: (31 commits)
grep: assert that threading is enabled when calling grep_{lock,unlock}
grep: given --threads with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease, warn
pack-objects: fix buggy warning about threads
pack-objects & index-pack: add test for --threads warning
test-lib: add a PTHREADS prerequisite
grep: move is_fixed() earlier to avoid forward declaration
grep: change internal *pcre* variable & function names to be *pcre1*
grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1
grep: factor test for \0 in grep patterns into a function
grep: remove redundant regflags assignments
grep: catch a missing enum in switch statement
perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines with -F
perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines
perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines with -F
perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines
perf: emit progress output when unpacking & building
perf: add a GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND for when *_MAKE_OPTS won't do
grep: add tests to fix blind spots with \0 patterns
grep: prepare for testing binary regexes containing rx metacharacters
grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 tests
...
"git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files,
even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x".
"git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files
without "-uall". These have been corrected.
* sl/clean-d-ignored-fix:
clean: teach clean -d to preserve ignored paths
dir: expose cmp_name() and check_contains()
dir: hide untracked contents of untracked dirs
dir: recurse into untracked dirs for ignored files
t7061: status --ignored should search untracked dirs
t7300: clean -d should skip dirs with ignored files
When compiling the documentation, asciidoc thinks a backtick surrounded
by whitespace shouldn't be interpreted as marking the start or end of a
literal. In most cases, that's useful behaviour, but in the git-pull
documentation it means asciidoc is failing to correctly detect which
text should be monospaced and which shouldn't.
To avoid this, remove the extraneous spaces from the text to be
monospaced. It would also be possible to fix the formatting by
switching to asciidoc's ++ monospace format markers and still have the
space characters included in the monospace text, but the spaces aren't
necessary and not having them keeps the markup simpler.
Also include a minor grammar fix suggested by Jeff while we're changing
these lines.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git rev-parse --short` is not a generic modifier but just a variant
of `--verify` and considers the given length only as a suggestion to
ensure uniqueness.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Any command that understands '--recurse-submodules' can have its
default changed to true, by setting the new 'submodule.recurse'
option.
This patch includes read-tree/checkout/reset for working tree
manipulating commands. Later patches will cover other commands.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a URL rewrite switches the protocol to something
nonstandard (like "persistent-https" for "https"), the user
may be bitten by the fact that the default protocol
restrictions are different between the two. Let's drop a
note in insteadOf that points the user in the right
direction.
It would be nice if we could make this work out of the box,
but we can't without knowing the security implications of
the user's rewrite. Only the documentation for a particular
remote helper can advise one way or the other. Since we do
include the persistent-https helper in contrib/ (and since
it was the helper in the real-world case that inspired that
patch), let's also drop a note there.
Suggested-by: Elliott Cable <me@ell.io>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change all the "TRANSLATORS: [...]" comments in the C code to use the
regular Git coding style, and amend the style guide so that the
example there uses that style.
This custom style was necessary back in 2010 when the gettext support
was initially added, and was subsequently documented in commit
cbcfd4e3ea ("i18n: mention "TRANSLATORS:" marker in
Documentation/CodingGuidelines", 2014-04-18).
GNU xgettext hasn't had the parsing limitation that necessitated this
exception for almost 3 years. Since its 0.19 release on 2014-06-02
it's been able to recognize TRANSLATOR comments in the standard Git
comment syntax[1].
Usually we'd like to keep compatibility with software that's that
young, but in this case literally the only person who needs to be
using a gettext newer than 3 years old is Jiang Xin (the only person
who runs & commits "make pot" results), so I think in this case we can
make an exception.
This xgettext parsing feature was added after a thread on the Git
mailing list[2] which continued on the bug-gettext[3] list, but we
never subsequently changed our style & styleguide, do so.
There are already longstanding changes in git that use the standard
comment style & have their TRANSLATORS comments extracted properly
without getting the literal "*"'s mixed up in the text, as would
happen before xgettext 0.19.
Commit 7ff2683253 ("builtin-am: implement -i/--interactive",
2015-08-04) added one such comment, which in commit df0617bfa7 ("l10n:
git.pot: v2.6.0 round 1 (123 new, 41 removed)", 2015-09-05) got picked
up in the po/git.pot file with the right format, showing that Jiang
already runs a modern xgettext.
The xgettext parser does not handle the sort of non-standard comment
style that I'm amending here in sequencer.c, but that isn't standard
Git comment syntax anyway. With this change to sequencer.c & "make
pot" the comment in the pot file is now correct:
#. TRANSLATORS: %s will be "revert", "cherry-pick" or
-#. * "rebase -i".
+#. "rebase -i".
1. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/?id=10af7fe6bd
2. <2ce9ec406501d112e032c8208417f8100bed04c6.1397712142.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com>
(https://public-inbox.org/git/2ce9ec406501d112e032c8208417f8100bed04c6.1397712142.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com/)
3. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2014-04/msg00016.html
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup: (31 commits)
grep: assert that threading is enabled when calling grep_{lock,unlock}
grep: given --threads with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease, warn
pack-objects: fix buggy warning about threads
pack-objects & index-pack: add test for --threads warning
test-lib: add a PTHREADS prerequisite
grep: move is_fixed() earlier to avoid forward declaration
grep: change internal *pcre* variable & function names to be *pcre1*
grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1
grep: factor test for \0 in grep patterns into a function
grep: remove redundant regflags assignments
grep: catch a missing enum in switch statement
perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines with -F
perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines
perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines with -F
perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines
perf: emit progress output when unpacking & building
perf: add a GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND for when *_MAKE_OPTS won't do
grep: add tests to fix blind spots with \0 patterns
grep: prepare for testing binary regexes containing rx metacharacters
grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 tests
...
The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..."
mechansim has further been taught to take symlinks into account.
The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to
a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such
a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the
current repository to determine if the contents from the named path
should be included.
* ab/conditional-config-with-symlinks:
config: match both symlink & realpath versions in IncludeIf.gitdir:*
"git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect
and reject a message before sending it out.
* jt/send-email-validate-hook:
send-email: support validate hook
Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been
extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module.
* bp/sub-process-convert-filter:
convert: update subprocess_read_status() to not die on EOF
sub-process: move sub-process functions into separate files
convert: rename reusable sub-process functions
convert: update generic functions to only use generic data structures
convert: separate generic structures and variables from the filter specific ones
convert: split start_multi_file_filter() into two separate functions
pkt-line: annotate packet_writel with LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL
convert: move packet_write_line() into pkt-line as packet_writel()
pkt-line: add packet_read_line_gently()
pkt-line: fix packet_read_line() to handle len < 0 errors
convert: remove erroneous tests for errno == EPIPE
A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
documentation have been updated to https:// links.
* jk/update-links-in-docs:
doc: use https links to Wikipedia to avoid http redirects
Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
* ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions:
git-filter-branch: be more direct in an error message
read-tree -m: make error message for merging 0 trees less smart aleck
usability: don't ask questions if no reply is required
Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
configuration variables.
* jk/doc-config-include:
docs/config: consistify include.path examples
docs/config: avoid the term "expand" for includes
docs/config: give a relative includeIf example
docs/config: clarify include/includeIf relationship
"git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
to pack-objects.
* jc/repack-threads:
repack: accept --threads=<n> and pass it down to pack-objects
The function `set_ident` in `filter-branch` exported the variables
GIT_(AUTHOR|COMMITTER)_(NAME|EMAIL|DATE) at least since 6f6826c52b in 2007.
Therefore the filter scripts don't need to re-eport them again.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a short -P option as a synonym for the longer --perl-regexp, for
consistency with the options the corresponding grep invocations
accept.
This was intentionally omitted in commit 727b6fc3ed ("log --grep:
accept --basic-regexp and --perl-regexp", 2012-10-03) for unspecified
future use.
Make it consistent with "grep" rather than to keep it open for future
use, and to avoid the confusion of -P meaning different things for
grep & log, as is the case with the -G option.
As noted in the aforementioned commit the --basic-regexp option can't
have a corresponding -G argument, as the log command already uses that
for -G<regex>.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a duplicate mention of --contains in the SYNOPSIS to mention
--no-contains.
This fixes an error introduced in my commit ac3f5a3468 ("ref-filter:
add --no-contains option to tag/branch/for-each-ref", 2017-03-24).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The manual for "git interpret-trailers" mentioned a non-existing
literal `overwrite` for its config option `trailer.ifexists`. The
correct name for that choice is `replace`.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate
records the same set of push options used for pushing.
* jt/push-options-doc:
receive-pack: verify push options in cert
docs: correct receive.advertisePushOptions default
The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though
the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with
ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is
based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier
to migrate away from it if/when necessary.
* ab/doc-replace-gmane-links:
doc: replace more gmane links
doc: replace a couple of broken gmane links
When we taught read_directory_recursive() to recurse into untracked
directories in search of ignored files given DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO, that
had the side effect of teaching it to collect the untracked contents of
untracked directories. It doesn't always make sense to return these,
though (we do need them for `clean -d`), so we introduce a flag
(DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS) to control whether or not read_directory()
strips dir->entries of the untracked contents of untracked dirs.
We also introduce check_contains() to check if one dir_entry corresponds
to a path which contains the path corresponding to another dir_entry.
This also fixes known breakages in t7061, since status --ignored now
searches untracked directories for ignored files.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop promising in our grep & rev-list options documentation that we're
always going to be using libpcre when given the --perl-regexp option.
Instead talk about using "Perl-compatible regular expressions" and
using these types of patterns using "a compile-time dependency".
Saying "libpcre" means that we're talking about libpcre.so, which is
always going to be v1. This change is part of an ongoing saga to add
support for libpcre2, which comes with PCRE v2.
In the future we might use some completely unrelated library to
provide perl-compatible regular expression support. By wording the
documentation differently and not promising any specific version of
PCRE or even PCRE at all we have more wiggle room to change the
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The configuration variable log.showSignature is mentioned in git-log's
manpage. Document it in git-config's manpage as well.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the conditional inclusion mechanism to support
e.g. gitdir:~/git_tree/repo where ~/git_tree is a symlink to
/mnt/stuff/repo.
This worked in the initial version of this facility[1], but regressed
later in the series while solving a related bug[2].
Now gitdir: will match against the symlinked
path (e.g. gitdir:~/git_tree/repo) in addition to the current
/mnt/stuff/repo path.
Since this is already in a release version note in the documentation
that this behavior changed, so users who expect their configuration to
work on both v2.13.0 and some future version of git with this fix
aren't utterly confused.
1. commit 3efd0bedc6 ("config: add conditional include", 2017-03-01)
2. commit 86f9515708 ("config: resolve symlinks in conditional
include's patterns", 2017-04-05)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our
historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot
represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a
separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish
timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good
move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the
timestamp_t.
* js/larger-timestamps:
archive-tar: fix a sparse 'constant too large' warning
use uintmax_t for timestamps
date.c: abort if the system time cannot handle one of our timestamps
timestamp_t: a new data type for timestamps
PRItime: introduce a new "printf format" for timestamps
parse_timestamp(): specify explicitly where we parse timestamps
t0006 & t5000: skip "far in the future" test when time_t is too limited
t0006 & t5000: prepare for 64-bit timestamps
ref-filter: avoid using `unsigned long` for catch-all data type
"git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags
initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in
subsequent fetches.
* ab/clone-no-tags:
tests: rename a test having to do with shallow submodules
clone: add a --no-tags option to clone without tags
tests: change "cd ... && git fetch" to "cd &&\n\tgit fetch"
The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names
of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now
configurable.
* sk/status-short-branch-color-config:
status: add color config slots for branch info in "--short --branch"
status: fix missing newline when comment chars are disabled
Currently, send-email has support for rudimentary e-mail validation.
Allow the user to add support for more validation by providing a
sendemail-validate hook.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the sub-proces functions into sub-process.h/c. Add documentation
for the new module in Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git read-tree -m" requires a tree argument to name the tree to be
merged in. Git uses a cutesy error message to say so and why:
$ git read-tree -m
warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is
deprecated; use --empty
fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
$ git read-tree -m --empty
fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
When lucky, that could produce an ah-hah moment for the user, but it's
more likely to irritate and distract them.
Instead, tell the user plainly that the tree argument is
required. Also document this requirement in the git-read-tree(1)
manpage where there is room to explain it in a more straightforward way.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the include examples use "foo.inc", but some use
"foo". Since the string of examples are meant to show
variations and how they differ, it's a good idea to change
only one thing at a time. The filename differences are not
relevant to what we're trying to show.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using the word "expand" to refer to including the contents
of another config file isn't really accurate, since it's a
verbatim insertion. And it can cause confusion with the
expanding of the path itself via things like "~".
Let's clarify when we are referring to the contents versus
the filename, and use appropriate verbs in each case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The changes in the previous commit hopefully clarify that
the evaluation of an include "path" variable is the same no
matter if it's in a conditional section or not. But since
this question came up on the list, let's add an example that
makes it obvious.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "includeIf" directives behave exactly like include ones,
except they only kick in when the conditional is true. That
was mentioned in the "conditional" section, but let's make
it more clear for the whole "includes" section, since people
don't necessarily read the documentation top to bottom.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit f6a4e61 ("push: accept push options", 2016-07-14), send-pack
was taught to include push options both within the signed cert (if the
push is a signed push) and outside the signed cert; however,
receive-pack ignores push options within the cert, only handling push
options outside the cert.
Teach receive-pack, in the case that push options are provided for a
signed push, to verify that the push options both within the cert and
outside the cert are consistent.
This sets in stone the requirement that send-pack redundantly send its
push options in 2 places, but I think that this is better than the
alternatives. Sending push options only within the cert is
backwards-incompatible with existing Git servers (which read push
options only from outside the cert), and sending push options only
outside the cert means that the push options are not signed for.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit c714e45 ("receive-pack: implement advertising and receiving
push options", 2016-07-14), receive-pack was taught to (among other
things) advertise that it understood push options, depending on
configuration. It was documented that it advertised such ability by
default; however, it actually does not. (In that commit, notice that
advertise_push_options defaults to 0, unlike advertise_atomic_push which
defaults to 1.)
Update the documentation to state that it does not advertise the ability
by default.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace a couple of broken links to gmane with links to other
archives. See commit 54471fdcc3 ("README: replace gmane link with
public-inbox", 2016-12-15) for prior art.
With this change there's still 4 references left in the code:
$ git grep -E '(article|thread)\.gmane.org' -- |grep -v RelNotes|wc -l
4
I couldn't find alternative links for those.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's configuration system works by reading multiple configuration
files in order, from general to specific:
- first, the system configuration /etc/gitconfig
- then the user's configuration (~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git/config)
- then the repository configuration (.git/config)
For single-valued configuration items, the latest value wins. For
multi-valued configuration items, values accumulate in that order.
For example, this allows setting a credential helper globally in
~/.gitconfig that git will try to use in all repositories, regardless
of whether they additionally provide another helper. This is usually
a nice thing --- e.g. I can install helpers to use my OS keychain and
to cache credentials for a short period of time globally.
Sometimes people want to be able to override an inherited setting.
For the credential.helper setting, this is done by setting the
configuration item to empty before giving it a new value. This is
already documented but the documentation is hard to find ---
git-config(1) says to look at gitcredentials(7) and the config
reference in gitcredentials(7) doesn't mention this issue.
Move the documentation to the config reference to make it easier to
find.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a --no-tags option to clone without fetching any tags.
Without this change there's no easy way to clone a repository without
also fetching its tags.
When supplying --single-branch the primary remote branch will be
cloned, but in addition tags will be followed & retrieved. Now
--no-tags can be added --single-branch to clone a repository without
tags, and which only tracks a single upstream branch.
This option works without --single-branch as well, and will do a
normal clone but not fetch any tags.
Many git commands pay some fixed overhead as a function of the number
of references. E.g. creating ~40k tags in linux.git will cause a
command like `git log -1 >/dev/null` to run in over a second instead
of in a matter of milliseconds, in addition numerous other things will
slow down, e.g. "git log <TAB>" with the bash completion will slowly
show ~40k references instead of 1.
The user might want to avoid all of that overhead to simply use a
repository like that to browse the "master" branch, or something like
a CI tool might want to keep that one branch up-to-date without caring
about any other references.
Without this change the only way of accomplishing this was either by
manually tweaking the config in a fresh repository:
git init git &&
cat >git/.git/config <<EOF &&
[remote "origin"]
url = git@github.com:git/git.git
tagOpt = --no-tags
fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
EOF
cd git &&
git pull
Which requires hardcoding the "master" name, which may not be the main
--single-branch would have retrieved, or alternatively by setting
tagOpt=--no-tags right after cloning & deleting any existing tags:
git clone --single-branch git@github.com:git/git.git &&
cd git &&
git config remote.origin.tagOpt --no-tags &&
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
Which of course was also subtly buggy if --branch was pointed at a
tag, leaving the user in a detached head:
git clone --single-branch --branch v2.12.0 git@github.com:git/git.git &&
cd git &&
git config remote.origin.tagOpt --no-tags &&
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
Now all this complexity becomes the much simpler:
git clone --single-branch --no-tags git@github.com:git/git.git
Or in the case of cloning a single tag "branch":
git clone --single-branch --branch v2.12.0 --no-tags git@github.com:git/git.git
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
