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>
To prevent long blocking time during a 'git fetch' call, a user
may want to set up a schedule for background 'git fetch' processes.
However, these runs will update the refs/remotes branches due to
the default refspec set in the config when Git adds a remote.
Hence the user will not notice when remote refs are updated during
their foreground fetches. In fact, they may _want_ those refs to
stay put so they can work with the refs from their last foreground
fetch call.
This can be accomplished by overriding the configured refspec using
'--refmap=' along with a custom refspec:
git fetch --refmap='' <remote> +refs/heads/*:refs/hidden/<remote>/*
to populate a custom ref space and download a pack of the new
reachable objects. This kind of call allows a few things to happen:
1. We download a new pack if refs have updated.
2. Since the refs/hidden branches exist, GC will not remove the
newly-downloaded data.
3. With fetch.writeCommitGraph enabled, the refs/hidden refs are
used to update the commit-graph file.
To avoid the refs/hidden directory from filling without bound, the
--prune option can be included. When providing a refspec like this,
the --prune option does not delete remote refs and instead only
deletes refs in the target refspace.
Update the documentation to clarify how '--refmap=""' works and
create tests to guarantee this behavior remains in the future.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 5d9324e0f4, reversing
changes made to c58ae96fc4.
The topic turns out to be too buggy for real use.
cf. <f2fe7437-8a48-3315-4d3f-8d51fe4bb8f1@gmail.com>
The whole submoduleAlternateErrorStrategyDie item is interpreted as
being part of the supporting content of the preceding item. This is
because we don't give a double-colon "::" for the separator, but just a
single colon, ":". Let's fix that.
There are a few other matches for [^:]:\s*$ in Documentation/config, but
I didn't spot any similar bugs among them.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 328c6cb853 (doc: promote "git switch", 2019-03-29), an example
was changed to use "git switch" rather than "git checkout" but an
instance of "git checkout" in the explanatory text preceding the
example was overlooked. Fix this oversight.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git sparse-checkout list" subcommand learned to give its output in
a more concise form when the "cone" mode is in effect.
* ds/sparse-list-in-cone-mode:
sparse-checkout: document interactions with submodules
sparse-checkout: list directories in cone mode
The sentence wants to talk about the superproject's possesive, not plural form.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Menzel <dev@tomsit.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to "From:" and "Subject:" already mentioned in the
documentation, "Date:" can also appear as an in-body header
to override the value in the e-mail headers. Document it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's core.multiPackIndex, not pack.multiIndex.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This typo was introduced in 94c0956b60 (sparse-checkout: create builtin
with 'list' subcommand, 2019-11-21).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using 'git submodule (init|deinit)' a user can select a subset of
submodules to populate. This behaves very similar to the sparse-checkout
feature, but those directories contain their own .git directory
including an object database and ref space. To have the sparse-checkout
file also determine if those files should exist would easily cause
problems. Therefore, keeping these features independent in this way
is the best way forward.
Also create a test that demonstrates this behavior to make sure
it doesn't change as the sparse-checkout feature evolves.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When core.sparseCheckoutCone is enabled, the 'git sparse-checkout set'
command takes a list of directories as input, then creates an ordered
list of sparse-checkout patterns such that those directories are
recursively included and all sibling entries along the parent directories
are also included. Listing the patterns is less user-friendly than the
directories themselves.
In cone mode, and as long as the patterns match the expected cone-mode
pattern types, change the output of 'git sparse-checkout list' to only
show the directories that created the patterns.
With this change, the following piped commands would not change the
working directory:
git sparse-checkout list | git sparse-checkout set --stdin
The only time this would not work is if core.sparseCheckoutCone is
true, but the sparse-checkout file contains patterns that do not
match the expected pattern types for cone mode.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The line number, regex or offset parameters <start> and <end> in
`git log -L <start>,<end>:<file>`, or the function name regex in
`git log -L :<funcname>:<file>` must exist in the starting
revision, or else the command exits with a fatal error.
This is not obvious in the documentation, so add a note to that
effect.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently the line-log functionality (git log -L) only supports
displaying patch output (`-p | --patch`, its default behavior) and suppressing it
(`-s | --no-patch`). A check was added in the code to that effect in 5314efaea
(line-log: detect unsupported formats, 2019-03-10) but the documentation was not
updated.
Explicitly mention that `-L` implies `-p`, that patch output can be
suppressed using `-s`, and that all other diff formats are not allowed.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Management of sparsely checked-out working tree has gained a
dedicated "sparse-checkout" command.
* ds/sparse-cone: (21 commits)
sparse-checkout: improve OS ls compatibility
sparse-checkout: respect core.ignoreCase in cone mode
sparse-checkout: check for dirty status
sparse-checkout: update working directory in-process for 'init'
sparse-checkout: cone mode should not interact with .gitignore
sparse-checkout: write using lockfile
sparse-checkout: use in-process update for disable subcommand
sparse-checkout: update working directory in-process
sparse-checkout: sanitize for nested folders
unpack-trees: add progress to clear_ce_flags()
unpack-trees: hash less in cone mode
sparse-checkout: init and set in cone mode
sparse-checkout: use hashmaps for cone patterns
sparse-checkout: add 'cone' mode
trace2: add region in clear_ce_flags
sparse-checkout: create 'disable' subcommand
sparse-checkout: add '--stdin' option to set subcommand
sparse-checkout: 'set' subcommand
clone: add --sparse mode
sparse-checkout: create 'init' subcommand
...
"git format-patch" can take a set of configured format.notes values
to specify which notes refs to use in the log message part of the
output. The behaviour of this was not consistent with multiple
--notes command line options, which has been corrected.
* dl/format-patch-notes-config-fixup:
notes.h: fix typos in comment
notes: break set_display_notes() into smaller functions
config/format.txt: clarify behavior of multiple format.notes
format-patch: move git_config() before repo_init_revisions()
format-patch: use --notes behavior for format.notes
notes: extract logic into set_display_notes()
notes: create init_display_notes() helper
notes: rename to load_display_notes()
A few more commands learned the "--pathspec-from-file" command line
option.
* am/pathspec-f-f-checkout:
checkout, restore: support the --pathspec-from-file option
doc: restore: synchronize <pathspec> description
doc: checkout: synchronize <pathspec> description
doc: checkout: fix broken text reference
doc: checkout: remove duplicate synopsis
add: support the --pathspec-from-file option
cmd_add: prepare for next patch
* hw/doc-in-header:
trace2: move doc to trace2.h
submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.h
tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.h
trace: move doc to trace.h
run-command: move doc to run-command.h
parse-options: add link to doc file in parse-options.h
credential: move doc to credential.h
argv-array: move doc to argv-array.h
cache: move doc to cache.h
sigchain: move doc to sigchain.h
pathspec: move doc to pathspec.h
revision: move doc to revision.h
attr: move doc to attr.h
refs: move doc to refs.h
remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h
sha1-array: move doc to sha1-array.h
merge: move doc to ll-merge.h
graph: move doc to graph.h and graph.c
dir: move doc to dir.h
diff: move doc to diff.h and diffcore.h
"git rebase" did not work well when format.useAutoBase
configuration variable is set, which has been corrected.
* dl/rebase-with-autobase:
rebase: fix format.useAutoBase breakage
format-patch: teach --no-base
t4014: use test_config()
format-patch: fix indentation
t3400: demonstrate failure with format.useAutoBase
Correct unintentional duplication(s) of words, such as "the the",
and "can can" etc.
The changes are only applied to cases where it's fixing what is clearly
wrong or prone to misunderstanding, as suggested by the reviewers.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: ryenus <ryenus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although Asciidoc allows to not indent following lines in a list item,
it is clearer and safer to follow the recommended rule.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Non ASCII characters may be handled by publishing chains, but right
now, nothing indicates the encoding of files. Moreover, non ASCII
source strings upset the localization toolchain.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a user uses the sparse-checkout feature in cone mode, they
add patterns using "git sparse-checkout set <dir1> <dir2> ..."
or by using "--stdin" to provide the directories line-by-line over
stdin. This behaviour naturally looks a lot like the way a user
would type "git add <dir1> <dir2> ..."
If core.ignoreCase is enabled, then "git add" will match the input
using a case-insensitive match. Do the same for the sparse-checkout
feature.
Perform case-insensitive checks while updating the skip-worktree
bits during unpack_trees(). This is done by changing the hash
algorithm and hashmap comparison methods to optionally use case-
insensitive methods.
When this is enabled, there is a small performance cost in the
hashing algorithm. To tease out the worst possible case, the
following was run on a repo with a deep directory structure:
git ls-tree -d -r --name-only HEAD |
git sparse-checkout set --stdin
The 'set' command was timed with core.ignoreCase disabled or
enabled. For the repo with a deep history, the numbers were
core.ignoreCase=false: 62s
core.ignoreCase=true: 74s (+19.3%)
For reproducibility, the equivalent test on the Linux kernel
repository had these numbers:
core.ignoreCase=false: 3.1s
core.ignoreCase=true: 3.6s (+16%)
Now, this is not an entirely fair comparison, as most users
will define their sparse cone using more shallow directories,
and the performance improvement from eb42feca97 ("unpack-trees:
hash less in cone mode" 2019-11-21) can remove most of the
hash cost. For a more realistic test, drop the "-r" from the
ls-tree command to store only the first-level directories.
In that case, the Linux kernel repository takes 0.2-0.25s in
each case, and the deep repository takes one second, plus or
minus 0.05s, in each case.
Thus, we _can_ demonstrate a cost to this change, but it is
unlikely to matter to any reasonable sparse-checkout cone.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 8164c961e1 (format-patch: use --notes behavior for format.notes,
2019-12-09), we slightly tweaked the behavior of having multiple
`format.notes` configuration variables. We did not update the
documentation to reflect this, however.
Explictly state the behavior of having multiple `format.notes`
configuration variables so users are clear on what to expect.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Presently in the manpages git-submodule[1] links to gitsubmodules[7]
and gitmodules[5], gitsubmodules[7] links to git-submodule[1] and gitmodules[5],
but gitmodules[5] only link to git-submodule[1] (and git-config[1]).
Add a link to gitsubmodules[7] in gitmodules[5], so that a person
stumbling upon gitmodules[5] can quickly access gitsubmodules[7],
which has a more high-level overview of submodule usage.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One kind of progress messages were always given during commit-graph
generation, instead of following the "if it takes more than two
seconds, show progress" pattern, which has been corrected.
* ds/commit-graph-delay-gen-progress:
commit-graph: use start_delayed_progress()
progress: create GIT_PROGRESS_DELAY
The interaction between "git clone --recurse-submodules" and
alternate object store was ill-designed. The documentation and
code have been taught to make more clear recommendations when the
users see failures.
* jt/clone-recursesub-ref-advise:
submodule--helper: advise on fatal alternate error
Doc: explain submodule.alternateErrorStrategy
"git log" family learned "--pretty=reference" that gives the name
of a commit in the format that is often used to refer to it in log
messages.
* dl/pretty-reference:
SubmittingPatches: use `--pretty=reference`
pretty: implement 'reference' format
pretty: add struct cmt_fmt_map::default_date_mode_type
pretty: provide short date format
t4205: cover `git log --reflog -z` blindspot
pretty.c: inline initalize format_context
revision: make get_revision_mark() return const pointer
completion: complete `tformat:` pretty format
SubmittingPatches: remove dq from commit reference
pretty-formats.txt: use generic terms for hash
SubmittingPatches: use generic terms for hash
Work around a issue where a FD that is left open when spawning a
child process and is kept open in the child can interfere with the
operation in the parent process on Windows.
* js/mingw-inherit-only-std-handles:
mingw: forbid translating ERROR_SUCCESS to an errno value
mingw: do set `errno` correctly when trying to restrict handle inheritance
mingw: restrict file handle inheritance only on Windows 7 and later
mingw: spawned processes need to inherit only standard handles
mingw: work around incorrect standard handles
mingw: demonstrate that all file handles are inherited by child processes
"git rebase -i" learned a few options that are known by "git
rebase" proper.
* ra/rebase-i-more-options:
rebase -i: finishing touches to --reset-author-date
rebase: add --reset-author-date
rebase -i: support --ignore-date
sequencer: rename amend_author to author_to_rename
rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date
sequencer: allow callers of read_author_script() to ignore fields
rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag
A few commands learned to take the pathspec from the
standard input or a named file, instead of taking it as the command
line arguments.
* am/pathspec-from-file:
commit: support the --pathspec-from-file option
doc: commit: synchronize <pathspec> description
reset: support the `--pathspec-from-file` option
doc: reset: synchronize <pathspec> description
pathspec: add new function to parse file
parse-options.h: add new options `--pathspec-from-file`, `--pathspec-file-nul`
Publicize lore.kernel.org mailing list archive and use URLs
pointing into it to refer to notable messages in the documentation.
* dl/lore-is-the-archive:
doc: replace LKML link with lore.kernel.org
RelNotes: replace Gmane with real Message-IDs
doc: replace MARC links with lore.kernel.org
Doc update for the mailing list archiving and nntp service.
* jk/lore-is-the-archive:
doc: replace public-inbox links with lore.kernel.org
doc: recommend lore.kernel.org over public-inbox.org
* maint-2.23: (44 commits)
Git 2.23.1
Git 2.22.2
Git 2.21.1
mingw: sh arguments need quoting in more circumstances
mingw: fix quoting of empty arguments for `sh`
mingw: use MSYS2 quoting even when spawning shell scripts
mingw: detect when MSYS2's sh is to be spawned more robustly
t7415: drop v2.20.x-specific work-around
Git 2.20.2
t7415: adjust test for dubiously-nested submodule gitdirs for v2.20.x
Git 2.19.3
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
...
* maint-2.22: (43 commits)
Git 2.22.2
Git 2.21.1
mingw: sh arguments need quoting in more circumstances
mingw: fix quoting of empty arguments for `sh`
mingw: use MSYS2 quoting even when spawning shell scripts
mingw: detect when MSYS2's sh is to be spawned more robustly
t7415: drop v2.20.x-specific work-around
Git 2.20.2
t7415: adjust test for dubiously-nested submodule gitdirs for v2.20.x
Git 2.19.3
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
...
* maint-2.21: (42 commits)
Git 2.21.1
mingw: sh arguments need quoting in more circumstances
mingw: fix quoting of empty arguments for `sh`
mingw: use MSYS2 quoting even when spawning shell scripts
mingw: detect when MSYS2's sh is to be spawned more robustly
t7415: drop v2.20.x-specific work-around
Git 2.20.2
t7415: adjust test for dubiously-nested submodule gitdirs for v2.20.x
Git 2.19.3
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
...
* maint-2.20: (36 commits)
Git 2.20.2
t7415: adjust test for dubiously-nested submodule gitdirs for v2.20.x
Git 2.19.3
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation
quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials
quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line
tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting
mingw: fix quoting of arguments
Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories
...
* maint-2.19: (34 commits)
Git 2.19.3
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation
quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials
quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line
tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting
mingw: fix quoting of arguments
Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories
protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default
path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams
...
* maint-2.18: (33 commits)
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation
quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials
quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line
tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting
mingw: fix quoting of arguments
Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories
protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default
path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams
is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up
...
* maint-2.17: (32 commits)
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation
quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials
quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line
tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting
mingw: fix quoting of arguments
Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories
protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default
path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams
is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up
mingw: disallow backslash characters in tree objects' file names
...
* maint-2.16: (31 commits)
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation
quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials
quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line
tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting
mingw: fix quoting of arguments
Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories
protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default
path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams
is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up
mingw: disallow backslash characters in tree objects' file names
path: safeguard `.git` against NTFS Alternate Streams Accesses
...
* maint-2.15: (29 commits)
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation
quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials
quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line
tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting
mingw: fix quoting of arguments
Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories
protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default
path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams
is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up
mingw: disallow backslash characters in tree objects' file names
path: safeguard `.git` against NTFS Alternate Streams Accesses
clone --recurse-submodules: prevent name squatting on Windows
is_ntfs_dotgit(): only verify the leading segment
...
Since ac1fbbda20 (submodule: do not copy unknown update mode from
.gitmodules, 2013-12-02), Git has been careful to avoid copying
[submodule "foo"]
update = !run an arbitrary scary command
from .gitmodules to a repository's local config, copying in the
setting 'update = none' instead. The gitmodules(5) manpage documents
the intention:
The !command form is intentionally ignored here for security
reasons
Unfortunately, starting with v2.20.0-rc0 (which integrated ee69b2a9
(submodule--helper: introduce new update-module-mode helper,
2018-08-13, first released in v2.20.0-rc0)), there are scenarios where
we *don't* ignore it: if the config store contains no
submodule.foo.update setting, the submodule-config API falls back to
reading .gitmodules and the repository-supplied !command gets run
after all.
This was part of a general change over time in submodule support to
read more directly from .gitmodules, since unlike .git/config it
allows a project to change values between branches and over time
(while still allowing .git/config to override things). But it was
never intended to apply to this kind of dangerous configuration.
The behavior change was not advertised in ee69b2a9's commit message
and was missed in review.
Let's take the opportunity to make the protection more robust, even in
Git versions that are technically not affected: instead of quietly
converting 'update = !command' to 'update = none', noisily treat it as
an error. Allowing the setting but treating it as meaning something
else was just confusing; users are better served by seeing the error
sooner. Forbidding the construct makes the semantics simpler and
means we can check for it in fsck (in a separate patch).
As a result, the submodule-config API cannot read this value from
.gitmodules under any circumstance, and we can declare with confidence
For security reasons, the '!command' form is not accepted
here.
Reported-by: Joern Schneeweisz <jschneeweisz@gitlab.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
* maint-2.14: (28 commits)
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation
quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials
quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line
tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting
mingw: fix quoting of arguments
Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories
protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default
path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams
is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up
mingw: disallow backslash characters in tree objects' file names
path: safeguard `.git` against NTFS Alternate Streams Accesses
clone --recurse-submodules: prevent name squatting on Windows
is_ntfs_dotgit(): only verify the leading segment
test-path-utils: offer to run a protectNTFS/protectHFS benchmark
...
"git submodule status" and "git submodule status --cached" show
different things, but the documentation did not cover them
correctly, which has been corrected.
* mg/doc-submodule-status-cached:
doc: document 'git submodule status --cached'
"git rev-parse --show-toplevel" run outside of any working tree did
not error out, which has been corrected.
* jk/fail-show-toplevel-outside-working-tree:
rev-parse: make --show-toplevel without a worktree an error
"git range-diff" learned to take the "--notes=<ref>" and the
"--no-notes" options to control the commit notes included in the
log message that gets compared.
* dl/range-diff-with-notes:
format-patch: pass notes configuration to range-diff
range-diff: pass through --notes to `git log`
range-diff: output `## Notes ##` header
t3206: range-diff compares logs with commit notes
t3206: s/expected/expect/
t3206: disable parameter substitution in heredoc
t3206: remove spaces after redirect operators
pretty-options.txt: --notes accepts a ref instead of treeish
rev-list-options.txt: remove reference to --show-notes
argv-array: add space after `while`
The beginning of rewriting "git add -i" in C.
* js/builtin-add-i:
built-in add -i: implement the `help` command
built-in add -i: use color in the main loop
built-in add -i: support `?` (prompt help)
built-in add -i: show unique prefixes of the commands
built-in add -i: implement the main loop
built-in add -i: color the header in the `status` command
built-in add -i: implement the `status` command
diff: export diffstat interface
Start to implement a built-in version of `git add --interactive`
If `format.useAutoBase = true`, there was no way to override this from
the command-line. Teach the `--no-base` option in format-patch to
override `format.useAutoBase`.
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we're now recommending lore.kernel.org, replace LKML link
with lore.kernel.org.
Although LKML has been around for a long time, nothing lasts forever
(see Gmane). Since LKML uses opaque message identifiers, switching to
lore.kernel.org should be a strict improvement since, even if
lore.kernel.org goes down, the Message-ID will allow future readers to
look up the referenced messages on any other archive.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only references to Gmane that remain are in RelNotes. Although these
are definitely not in active use, they might be of historical interest
for future readers so let's ensure that mail references are more robust.
Replace links to Gmane with links to lore.kernel.org (which is our new
preferred mailing list archive and has the Message-ID in the URL) and
bare Gmane ID references with Message-IDs.
The Message-IDs were found by searching for "gmane:<id>" on
https://public-inbox.org/git/ and taking the resulting message.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we're now recommending lore.kernel.org, replace marc.info links
with lore.kernel.org.
Although MARC has been around for a long time, nothing lasts forever
(see Gmane). Since MARC uses opaque message identifiers, switching to
lore.kernel.org should be a strict improvement since, even if
lore.kernel.org goes down, the Message-ID will allow future readers to
look up the referenced messages on any other archive.
We leave behind one reference to MARC in the README.md since it's a
perfectly fine mail archive for personal reading, just not for linking
messages for the future.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Decisions taken for simplicity:
1) For now, `--pathspec-from-file` is declared incompatible with
`--patch`, even when <file> is not `stdin`. Such use case it not
really expected.
2) It is not allowed to pass pathspec in both args and file.
`you must specify path(s) to restore` block was moved down to be able to
test for `pathspec.nr` instead, because testing for `argc` is no longer
correct.
`git switch` does not support the new options because it doesn't expect
`<pathspec>` arguments.
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git add` shows an example of good writing, follow it.
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git add` shows an example of good writing, follow it.
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was added in [1]. I understand that the duplicate change was not
intentional and comes from an oversight.
Also, in explanation, there was only one section for two synopsis
entries.
Fix both problems by removing duplicate synopsis.
<paths> vs <pathspec> is resolved in next patch.
[1] Commit b59698ae ("checkout doc: clarify command line args for "checkout paths" mode" 2017-10-11)
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Decisions taken for simplicity:
1) For now, `--pathspec-from-file` is declared incompatible with
`--interactive/--patch/--edit`, even when <file> is not `stdin`.
Such use case it not really expected. Also, it would require changes
to `interactive_add()` and `edit_patch()`.
2) It is not allowed to pass pathspec in both args and file.
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As with export-marks in the previous commit, import-marks can access the
filesystem. This is significantly less dangerous than export-marks
because it only involves reading from arbitrary paths, rather than
writing them. However, it could still be surprising and have security
implications (e.g., exfiltrating data from a service that accepts
fast-import streams).
Let's lump it (and its "if-exists" counterpart) in with export-marks,
and enable the in-stream version only if --allow-unsafe-features is set.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The fast-import stream command "feature export-marks=<path>" lets the
stream write marks to an arbitrary path. This may be surprising if you
are running fast-import against an untrusted input (which otherwise
cannot do anything except update Git objects and refs).
Let's disallow the use of this feature by default, and provide a
command-line option to re-enable it (you can always just use the
command-line --export-marks as well, but the in-stream version provides
an easy way for exporters to control the process).
This is a backwards-incompatible change, since the default is flipping
to the new, safer behavior. However, since the main users of the
in-stream versions would be import/export-based remote helpers, and
since we trust remote helpers already (which are already running
arbitrary code), we'll pass the new option by default when reading a
remote helper's stream. This should minimize the impact.
Note that the implementation isn't totally simple, as we have to work
around the fact that fast-import doesn't parse its command-line options
until after it has read any "feature" lines from the stream. This is how
it lets command-line options override in-stream. But in our case, it's
important to parse the new --allow-unsafe-features first.
There are three options for resolving this:
1. Do a separate "early" pass over the options. This is easy for us to
do because there are no command-line options that allow the
"unstuck" form (so there's no chance of us mistaking an argument
for an option), though it does introduce a risk of incorrect
parsing later (e.g,. if we convert to parse-options).
2. Move the option parsing phase back to the start of the program, but
teach the stream-reading code never to override an existing value.
This is tricky, because stream "feature" lines override each other
(meaning we'd have to start tracking the source for every option).
3. Accept that we might parse a "feature export-marks" line that is
forbidden, as long we don't _act_ on it until after we've parsed
the command line options.
This would, in fact, work with the current code, but only because
the previous patch fixed the export-marks parser to avoid touching
the filesystem.
So while it works, it does carry risk of somebody getting it wrong
in the future in a rather subtle and unsafe way.
I've gone with option (1) here as simple, safe, and unlikely to cause
regressions.
This fixes CVE-2019-1348.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
When recursively cloning a superproject with some shallow modules
defined in its .gitmodules, then recloning with "--reference=<path>", an
error occurs. For example:
git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \
master
git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \
--reference master master2
fails with:
fatal: submodule '<snip>' cannot add alternate: reference repository
'<snip>' is shallow
When a alternate computed from the superproject's alternate cannot be
added, whether in this case or another, advise about configuring the
"submodule.alternateErrorStrategy" configuration option and using
"--reference-if-able" instead of "--reference" when cloning.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 31224cbdc7 ("clone: recursive and reference option triggers
submodule alternates", 2016-08-17) taught Git to support the
configuration options "submodule.alternateLocation" and
"submodule.alternateErrorStrategy" on a superproject.
If "submodule.alternateLocation" is configured to "superproject" on a
superproject, whenever a submodule of that superproject is cloned, it
instead computes the analogous alternate path for that submodule from
$GIT_DIR/objects/info/alternates of the superproject, and references it.
The "submodule.alternateErrorStrategy" option determines what happens
if that alternate cannot be referenced. However, it is not clear that
the clone proceeds as if no alternate was specified when that option is
not set to "die" (as can be seen in the tests in 31224cbdc7). Therefore,
document it accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
