Remove empty and redundant documentation files from the
Documentation/technical/ directory.
The empty doc files included only TODO messages with no documentation for
years. Instead an approach is being taken to keep all doc beside the code
in the relevant header files.
Having empty doc files is confusing and disappointing to anybody looking
for information, besides having the documentation in header files makes it
easier for developers to find the information they are looking for.
Some of the content which could have gone here already exists elsewhere:
- api-object-access.txt -> sha1-file.c and object.h have some details.
- api-quote.txt -> quote.h has some details.
- api-xdiff-interface.txt -> xdiff-interface.h has some details.
- api-grep.txt -> grep.h does not have enough documentation at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The atomic push over smart HTTP transport did not work, which has
been corrected.
* bc/smart-http-atomic-push:
remote-curl: pass on atomic capability to remote side
"git format-patch -o <outdir>" did an equivalent of "mkdir <outdir>"
not "mkdir -p <outdir>", which is being corrected.
* bw/format-patch-o-create-leading-dirs:
format-patch: create leading components of output directory
When pushing more than one reference with the --atomic option, the
server is supposed to perform a single atomic transaction to update the
references, leaving them either all to succeed or all to fail. This
works fine when pushing locally or over SSH, but when pushing over HTTP,
we fail to pass the atomic capability to the remote side. In fact, we
have not reported this capability to any remote helpers during the life
of the feature.
Now normally, things happen to work nevertheless, since we actually
check for most types of failures, such as non-fast-forward updates, on
the client side, and just abort the entire attempt. However, if the
server side reports a problem, such as the inability to lock a ref, the
transaction isn't atomic, because we haven't passed the appropriate
capability over and the remote side has no way of knowing that we wanted
atomic behavior.
Fix this by passing the option from the transport code through to remote
helpers, and from the HTTP remote helper down to send-pack. With this
change, we can detect if the server side rejects the push and report
back appropriately. Note the difference in the messages: the remote
side reports "atomic transaction failed", while our own checking rejects
pushes with the message "atomic push failed".
Document the atomic option in the remote helper documentation, so other
implementers can implement it if they like.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The trace2 output, when sending them to files in a designated
directory, can populate the directory with too many files; a
mechanism is introduced to set the maximum number of files and
discard further logs when the maximum is reached.
* js/trace2-cap-max-output-files:
trace2: write discard message to sentinel files
trace2: discard new traces if target directory has too many files
docs: clarify trace2 version invariants
docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-config
Updates to fast-import/export.
* en/fast-imexport-nested-tags:
fast-export: handle nested tags
t9350: add tests for tags of things other than a commit
fast-export: allow user to request tags be marked with --mark-tags
fast-export: add support for --import-marks-if-exists
fast-import: add support for new 'alias' command
fast-import: allow tags to be identified by mark labels
fast-import: fix handling of deleted tags
fast-export: fix exporting a tag and nothing else
"git fetch --jobs=<n>" allowed <n> parallel jobs when fetching
submodules, but this did not apply to "git fetch --multiple" that
fetches from multiple remote repositories. It now does.
* js/fetch-jobs:
fetch: let --jobs=<n> parallelize --multiple, too
'git format-patch -o <outdir>' did an equivalent of 'mkdir <outdir>'
not 'mkdir -p <outdir>', which is being corrected.
Avoid the usage of 'adjust_shared_perm' on the leading directories which
may have security implications. Achieved by temporarily disabling of
'config.sharedRepository' like 'git init' does.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original phrasing of this paragraph made at least one person stumble
over the word "from" (thinking that it was a typo and "from" was
intended), and other readers chimed in, agreeing that it was confusing:
https://public-inbox.org/git/0102016b8d597569-c1f6cfdc-cb45-4428-8737-cb1bc30655d8-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com/#t
Let's rewrite that paragraph for clarity.
Inspired-by-a-patch-by: Catalin Criste <cris_linu_w@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few simplification and bugfixes to PCRE interface.
* ab/pcre-jit-fixes:
grep: under --debug, show whether PCRE JIT is enabled
grep: do not enter PCRE2_UTF mode on fixed matching
grep: stess test PCRE v2 on invalid UTF-8 data
grep: create a "is_fixed" member in "grep_pat"
grep: consistently use "p->fixed" in compile_regexp()
grep: stop using a custom JIT stack with PCRE v1
grep: stop "using" a custom JIT stack with PCRE v2
grep: remove overly paranoid BUG(...) code
grep: use PCRE v2 for optimized fixed-string search
grep: remove the kwset optimization
grep: drop support for \0 in --fixed-strings <pattern>
grep: make the behavior for NUL-byte in patterns sane
grep tests: move binary pattern tests into their own file
grep tests: move "grep binary" alongside the rest
grep: inline the return value of a function call used only once
t4210: skip more command-line encoding tests on MinGW
grep: don't use PCRE2?_UTF8 with "log --encoding=<non-utf8>"
log tests: test regex backends in "--encode=<enc>" tests
"git clean" fixes.
* en/clean-nested-with-ignored:
dir: special case check for the possibility that pathspec is NULL
clean: fix theoretical path corruption
clean: rewrap overly long line
clean: avoid removing untracked files in a nested git repository
clean: disambiguate the definition of -d
git-clean.txt: do not claim we will delete files with -n/--dry-run
dir: add commentary explaining match_pathspec_item's return value
dir: if our pathspec might match files under a dir, recurse into it
dir: make the DO_MATCH_SUBMODULE code reusable for a non-submodule case
dir: also check directories for matching pathspecs
dir: fix off-by-one error in match_pathspec_item
dir: fix typo in comment
t7300: add testcases showing failure to clean specified pathspecs
The markup used in user-manual has been updated to work better with
asciidoctor.
* ma/user-manual-markup-update:
user-manual.txt: render ASCII art correctly under Asciidoctor
asciidoctor-extensions.rb: handle "book" doctype in linkgit
user-manual.txt: change header notation
user-manual.txt: add missing section label
Start using DocBook 5 (instead of DocBook 4.5) as Asciidoctor 2.0
no longer works with the older one.
* bc/doc-use-docbook-5:
Documentation: fix build with Asciidoctor 2
Update support for Asciidoctor documentation toolchain.
* ma/asciidoctor-refmiscinfo:
doc-diff: replace --cut-header-footer with --cut-footer
asciidoctor-extensions: provide `<refmiscinfo/>`
Doc/Makefile: give mansource/-version/-manual attributes
The synopsis section in git-rev-list.txt has grown to be a huge list
that probably needs its own synopsis. Since the list is huge, users may
be given the false impression that the list is complete, however it is
not. It is missing many of the available options.
Since the list of options in the synopsis is not only annoying but
actively harmful, replace it with `[<options>]` so users know to
explicitly look through the documentation for further information.
While we're at it, update the optional path notation so that it is more
modern.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
So far, `--jobs=<n>` only parallelizes submodule fetches/clones, not
`--multiple` fetches, which is unintuitive, given that the option's name
does not say anything about submodules in particular.
Let's change that. With this patch, also fetches from multiple remotes
are parallelized.
For backwards-compatibility (and to prepare for a use case where
submodule and multiple-remote fetches may need different parallelization
limits), the config setting `submodule.fetchJobs` still only controls
the submodule part of `git fetch`, while the newly-introduced setting
`fetch.parallel` controls both (but can be overridden for submodules
with `submodule.fetchJobs`).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new "discard" event type for trace2 event destinations. When the
trace2 file count check creates a sentinel file, it will include the
normal trace2 output in the sentinel, along with this new discard
event.
Writing this message into the sentinel file is useful for tracking how
often the file count check triggers in practice.
Bump up the event format version since we've added a new event type.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
trace2 can write files into a target directory. With heavy usage, this
directory can fill up with files, causing difficulty for
trace-processing systems.
This patch adds a config option (trace2.maxFiles) to set a maximum
number of files that trace2 will write to a target directory. The
following behavior is enabled when the maxFiles is set to a positive
integer:
When trace2 would write a file to a target directory, first check
whether or not the traces should be discarded. Traces should be
discarded if:
* there is a sentinel file declaring that there are too many files
* OR, the number of files exceeds trace2.maxFiles.
In the latter case, we create a sentinel file named git-trace2-discard
to speed up future checks.
The assumption is that a separate trace-processing system is dealing
with the generated traces; once it processes and removes the sentinel
file, it should be safe to generate new trace files again.
The default value for trace2.maxFiles is zero, which disables the file
count check.
The config can also be overridden with a new environment variable:
GIT_TRACE2_MAX_FILES.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it explicit that we always want trace2 "version" events to be the
first event of any trace session. Also list the changes that would or
would not cause the EVENT format version field to be incremented.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the description of trace2's target-directory behavior into the
shared trace2-target-values file so that it is included in both the
git-config and api-trace2 docs. Leave the SID discussion only in
api-trace2 since it's a technical detail.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new option, --mark-tags, which will output mark identifiers with
each tag object. This improves the incremental export story with
--export-marks since it will allow us to record that annotated tags have
been exported, and it is also needed as a step towards supporting nested
tags.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fast-export and fast-import have nice --import-marks flags which allow
for incremental migrations. However, if there is a mark in
fast-export's file of marks without a corresponding mark in the one for
fast-import, then we run the risk that fast-export tries to send new
objects relative to the mark it knows which fast-import does not,
causing fast-import to fail.
This arises in practice when there is a filter of some sort running
between the fast-export and fast-import processes which prunes some
commits programmatically. Provide such a filter with the ability to
alias pruned commits to their most recent non-pruned ancestor.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark identifiers are used in fast-export and fast-import to provide a
label to refer to earlier content. Blobs are given labels because they
need to be referenced in the commits where they first appear with a
given filename, and commits are given labels because they can be the
parents of other commits. Tags were never given labels, probably
because they were viewed as unnecessary, but that presents two problems:
1. It leaves us without a way of referring to previous tags if we
want to create a tag of a tag (or higher nestings).
2. It leaves us with no way of recording that a tag has already been
imported when using --export-marks and --import-marks.
Fix these problems by allowing an optional mark label for tags.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A configuration variable tells "git fetch" to write the commit
graph after finishing.
* ds/commit-graph-on-fetch:
fetch: add fetch.writeCommitGraph config setting
The internal code originally invented for ".gitignore" processing
got reshuffled and renamed to make it less tied to "excluding" and
stress more that it is about "matching", as it has been reused for
things like sparse checkout specification that want to check if a
path is "included".
* ds/include-exclude:
unpack-trees: rename 'is_excluded_from_list()'
treewide: rename 'exclude' methods to 'pattern'
treewide: rename 'EXCL_FLAG_' to 'PATTERN_FLAG_'
treewide: rename 'struct exclude_list' to 'struct pattern_list'
treewide: rename 'struct exclude' to 'struct path_pattern'
"git rebase --keep-base <upstream>" tries to find the original base
of the topic being rebased and rebase on top of that same base,
which is useful when running the "git rebase -i" (and its limited
variant "git rebase -x").
The command also has learned to fast-forward in more cases where it
can instead of replaying to recreate identical commits.
* dl/rebase-i-keep-base:
rebase: teach rebase --keep-base
rebase tests: test linear branch topology
rebase: fast-forward --fork-point in more cases
rebase: fast-forward --onto in more cases
rebase: refactor can_fast_forward into goto tower
t3432: test for --no-ff's interaction with fast-forward
t3432: distinguish "noop-same" v.s. "work-same" in "same head" tests
t3432: test rebase fast-forward behavior
t3431: add rebase --fork-point tests
Start discouraging the use of "git filter-branch".
* en/filter-branch-deprecation:
t9902: use a non-deprecated command for testing
Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch
t6006: simplify, fix, and optimize empty message test
The documentation and tests for "git format-patch" have been
cleaned up.
* dl/format-patch-doc-test-cleanup:
config/format.txt: specify default value of format.coverLetter
Doc: add more detail for git-format-patch
t4014: stop losing return codes of git commands
t4014: remove confusing pipe in check_threading()
t4014: use test_line_count() where possible
t4014: let sed open its own files
t4014: drop redirections to /dev/null
t4014: use indentable here-docs
t4014: remove spaces after redirect operators
t4014: use sq for test case names
t4014: move closing sq onto its own line
t4014: s/expected/expect/
t4014: drop unnecessary blank lines from test cases
