A user discovered a case where they had a stack of 20 simple commits to
rebase, and the rebase would succeed in picking the first commit and
then error out with a pair of "Could not execute the todo command" and
"Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by
merge" messages.
Their steps actually made use of the -i flag, but I switched it over to
-m to make it simpler to trigger the bug. With that flag, it bisects
back to commit 68aa495b59 (rebase: implement --merge via the
interactive machinery, 2018-12-11), but that's misleading. If you
change the -m flag to --keep-empty, then the problem persists and will
bisect back to 356ee4659b (sequencer: try to commit without forking
'git commit', 2017-11-24)
After playing with the testcase for a bit, I discovered that added
--exec "sleep 1" to the command line makes the rebase succeed, making me
suspect there is some kind of discard and reloading of caches that lead
us to believe that something is stat dirty, but I didn't succeed in
digging any further than that.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
I think this is in a good enough shape.
* ms/doc-bundle-format:
doc: describe Git bundle format
"git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
* pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index:
grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given
Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for
performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory
enumeration API has been corrected.
* en/fill-directory-fixes-more:
dir: point treat_leading_path() warning to the right place
dir: restructure in a way to avoid passing around a struct dirent
dir: treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive(), round 2
clean: demonstrate a bug with pathspecs
Clarify documentation on committer/author identities.
* bc/author-committer-doc:
doc: provide guidance on user.name format
docs: expand on possible and recommended user config options
doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1)
Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in
libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions
of gcc and clang.
* jk/asan-build-fix:
Makefile: use compat regex with SANITIZE=address
The code recently added in this release to move to the entry beyond
the ones in the same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode
did not count the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which
has been corrected.
* ds/sparse-cone:
.mailmap: fix GGG authoship screwup
unpack-trees: correctly compute result count
"git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree
structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which
has been corrected.
* nd/switch-and-restore:
restore: invalidate cache-tree when removing entries with --staged
Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the
stateless RPC mechanism.
* jk/no-flush-upon-disconnecting-slrpc-transport:
transport: don't flush when disconnecting stateless-rpc helper
Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over
"git checkout" that was done only half-way.
* hw/tutorial-favor-switch-over-checkout:
doc/gitcore-tutorial: fix prose to match example command
The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a
single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough
against corrupt index file.
* es/unpack-trees-oob-fix:
unpack-trees: watch for out-of-range index position
has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the
system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with
read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an
empty tree from promisor remotes.
* jt/sha1-file-remove-oi-skip-cached:
sha1-file: remove OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_CACHED
"git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is
nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints
configuration variable, which has been corrected.
* hw/commit-advise-while-rejecting:
commit: honor advice.statusHints when rejecting an empty commit
A recent update in the Linux VM images used by Azure Pipelines surfaced
a new problem in the "Documentation" job. Apparently, this warning
appears 396 times on `stderr` when running `make doc`:
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb:10: warning: constant Gem::ConfigMap is deprecated
This problem was already reported to the `rubygems` project via
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/3068.
As there is nothing Git can do about this warning, and as the
"Documentation" job reports this warning as a failure, let's just
silence it and move on.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of the multi-pack-index contains a small bug,
if all offsets are < 2^32 then there will be no LOFF chunk,
not only if they're all < 2^31 (since the highest bit is only
needed as the "LOFF-escape" when that's actually needed.)
Correct this, and clarify that in that case only offsets up
to 2^31-1 can be stored in the OOFF chunk.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we exemplify the difference between `-G` and `-S` (using
`--pickaxe-regex`), we do so using an example diff and git-diff
invocation involving "regexec", "regexp", "regmatch", ...
The example is correct, but we can make it easier to untangle by
avoiding writing "regex.*" unless it's really needed to make our point.
Use some made-up, non-regexy words instead.
Reported-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The bundle format was not documented. Describe the format with ABNF and
explain the meaning of each part.
Signed-off-by: Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 'err' contains output for multiple submodules and is printed all
at once by fetch_populated_submodules(), errors for each submodule
should be newline separated for readability. The same strbuf is added to
with a newline in the other half of the conditional where this error is
detected, so make the two consistent.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In this paragraph, we have a few instances of the '^' character, which
we give as "\^". This renders well with AsciiDoc ("^"), but Asciidoctor
renders it literally as "\^". Dropping the backslashes renders fine
with Asciidoctor, but not AsciiDoc...
An earlier version of this patch used "{caret}" instead of "^", which
avoided these escaping problems. The rendering was still so-so, though
-- these expressions end up set as normal text, similarly to when one
provides, e.g., computer code in the middle of running text, without
properly marking it with `backticks` to be monospaced.
As noted by Jeff King, this suggests actually wrapping these
expressions in backticks, setting them in monospace.
The lone "5" could be left as is or wrapped as `5`. Spell it out as
"five" instead -- this generally looks better anyway for small numbers
in the middle of text like this.
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>
f0fd0dc5c5 (submodule foreach: document '$sm_path' instead of '$path',
2018-05-08) updated the documentation to advise callers to favor
$sm_path over the deprecated synonym $path. However, the example in
that section still uses $path. Update it to use $sm_path.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 13185fd241 (l10n: zh_TW.po: update translation for v2.25.0 round 1,
2019-12-31), the author mistakenly used their GitHub username for
authorship information instead of their real name. However, a commit
with their real name exists prior to this: 9917eca794 (l10n: zh_TW: add
translation for v2.24.0, 2019-11-20).
Map their email to their real name so that these contributions can be
counted together.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since grep learned to recurse into submodules in 0281e487fd
(grep: optionally recurse into submodules, 2016-12-16),
using --recurse-submodules along with --no-index makes Git
die().
This is unfortunate because if submodule.recurse is set in a user's
~/.gitconfig, invoking `git grep --no-index` either inside or outside
a Git repository results in
fatal: option not supported with --recurse-submodules
Let's allow using these options together, so that setting submodule.recurse
globally does not prevent using `git grep --no-index`.
Using `--recurse-submodules` should not have any effect if `--no-index`
is used inside a repository, as Git will recurse into the checked out
submodule directories just like into regular directories.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 6462d5eb9a ("fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0", 2019-11-08)
contains a test that relies on having to lazily fetch the delta base of
a blob, but assumes that the tree being fetched (as part of the test) is
sent as a non-delta object. This assumption may not hold in the future;
for example, a change in the length of the object hash might result in
the tree being sent as a delta instead.
Make the test more robust by relying on having to lazily fetch the delta
base of the tree instead, and by making no assumptions on whether the
blobs are sent as delta or non-delta.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 49e268e23e (mingw: safeguard better against backslashes in file
names, 2020-01-09), the commit author is listed as
"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>", which
is erroneous. Fix the authorship by mapping the erroneous authorship to
his canonical authorship information.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users in a wide variety of situations find themselves with HTTP push
problems. Oftentimes these issues are due to antivirus software,
filtering proxies, or other man-in-the-middle situations; other times,
they are due to simple unreliability of the network.
However, a common solution to HTTP push problems found online is to
increase http.postBuffer. This works for none of the aforementioned
situations and is only useful in a small, highly restricted number of
cases: essentially, when the connection does not properly support
HTTP/1.1.
Document when raising this value is appropriate and what it actually
does, and discourage people from using it as a general solution for push
problems, since it is not effective there.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is quite common for users to want to ignore the changes to a file
that Git tracks. Common scenarios for this case are IDE settings and
configuration files, which should generally not be tracked and possibly
generated from tracked files using a templating mechanism.
However, users learn about the assume-unchanged and skip-worktree bits
and try to use them to do this anyway. This is problematic, because
when these bits are set, many operations behave as the user expects, but
they usually do not help when git checkout needs to replace a file.
There is no sensible behavior in this case, because sometimes the data
is precious, such as certain configuration files, and sometimes it is
irrelevant data that the user would be happy to discard.
Since this is not a supported configuration and users are prone to
misuse the existing features for unintended purposes, causing general
sadness and confusion, let's document the existing behavior and the
pitfalls in the documentation for git update-index so that users know
they should explore alternate solutions.
In addition, let's provide a recommended solution to dealing with the
common case of configuration files, since there are well-known
approaches used successfully in many environments.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's a frequent misconception that the user.name variable controls
authentication in some way, and as a result, beginning users frequently
attempt to change it when they're having authentication troubles.
Document that the convention is that this variable represents some form
of a human's personal name, although that is not required. In addition,
address concerns about whether Unicode is supported.
Use the term "personal name" as this is likely to draw the intended
contrast, be applicable across cultures which may have different naming
conventions, and be easily understandable to people who do not speak
English as their first language. Indicate that "some form" is
conventionally used, as people may use a nickname or preferred name
instead of a full legal name.
Point users who may be confused about authentication to an appropriate
configuration option instead. Provide a shortened form of this
information in the configuration option description.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the section on setting author and committer information, we omit the
author.* and committer.* variables, so mention them for completeness.
In addition, guide users to the typical case: simply setting user.name
and user.email, which are recommended if one does not need complex
configuration.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While at one time it made perfect sense to store information about
configuring author and committer information in the documentation for
git commit-tree, in modern Git that operation is seldom used. Most
users will use git commit and expect to find comprehensive documentation
about its use in the manual page for that command.
Considering that there is significant confusion about how one is to use
the user.name and user.email variables, let's put as much documentation
as possible into an obvious place where users will be more likely to
find it.
In addition, expand the environment variables section to describe their
use more fully. Even though we now describe all of the options there
and in the configuration settings documentation, preserve the existing
text in git-commit.txt so that people can easily reason about the
ordering of the various options they can use. Explain the use of the
author.* and committer.* options as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In many languages, the adverb with the root "actual" means "at the
present time." However, this usage is considered dated or even archaic
in English, and for referring to events occurring at the present time,
we usually prefer "currently" or "presently". "Actually" is commonly
used in modern English only for the meaning of "in fact" or to express a
contrast with what is expected.
Since the documentation refers to the available options at the present
time (that is, at the time of writing) instead of drawing a contrast,
let's switch to "currently," which both is commonly used and sounds less
formal than "presently."
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
