The Git subcommand completion (in contrib/) listed credential
helpers among candidates, which is not something the end user would
invoke interatively.
* sg/completion-omit-credential-helpers:
completion: remove credential helpers from porcelain commands
Error messages from "git branch" called remote-tracking branches as
"remote branches".
* dl/branch-error-message:
branch: do not call a "remote-tracking branch" a "remote branch"
The refs API uses ref_lock struct which had its own "int fd", even
though the same file descriptor was in the lock struct it contains.
Clean-up the code to lose this redundant field.
* sb/ref-lock-lose-lock-fd:
refs.c: remove lock_fd from struct ref_lock
Add the "--allow-unknown-type" option to "cat-file" to allow
inspecting loose objects of an experimental or a broken type.
* kn/cat-file-literally:
t1006: add tests for git cat-file --allow-unknown-type
cat-file: teach cat-file a '--allow-unknown-type' option
cat-file: make the options mutually exclusive
sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type
A heuristic to help the "git <cmd> <revs> <pathspec>" command line
convention to catch mistyped paths is to make sure all the non-rev
parameters in the later part of the command line are names of the
files in the working tree, but that means "git grep $str -- \*.c"
must always be disambiguated with "--", because nobody sane will
create a file whose name literally is asterisk-dot-see. Loosen the
heuristic to declare that with a wildcard string the user likely
meant to give us a pathspec.
* nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs:
pathspec: avoid the need of "--" when wildcard is used
"git merge FETCH_HEAD" learned that the previous "git fetch" could
be to create an Octopus merge, i.e. recording multiple branches
that are not marked as "not-for-merge"; this allows us to lose an
old style invocation "git merge <msg> HEAD $commits..." in the
implementation of "git pull" script; the old style syntax can now
be deprecated.
* jc/merge:
merge: deprecate 'git merge <message> HEAD <commit>' syntax
merge: handle FETCH_HEAD internally
merge: decide if we auto-generate the message early in collect_parents()
merge: make collect_parents() auto-generate the merge message
merge: extract prepare_merge_message() logic out
merge: narrow scope of merge_names
merge: split reduce_parents() out of collect_parents()
merge: clarify collect_parents() logic
merge: small leakfix and code simplification
merge: do not check argc to determine number of remote heads
merge: clarify "pulling into void" special case
t5520: test pulling an octopus into an unborn branch
t5520: style fixes
merge: simplify code flow
merge: test the top-level merge driver
"git rebase -i" moved the "current" command from "todo" to "done" a
bit too prematurely, losing a step when a "pick" did not even start.
* ph/rebase-i-redo:
rebase -i: redo tasks that die during cherry-pick
Help us to find broken test script that splits the body part of the
test by mistaken use of wrong kind of quotes.
* jc/test-prereq-validate:
test: validate prerequistes syntax
The connection initiation code for "ssh" transport tried to absorb
differences between the stock "ssh" and Putty-supplied "plink" and
its derivatives, but the logic to tell that we are using "plink"
variants were too loose and falsely triggered when "plink" appeared
anywhere in the path (e.g. "/home/me/bin/uplink/ssh").
* bc/connect-plink:
connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives
t5601: fix quotation error leading to skipped tests
connect: simplify SSH connection code path
Developer support to automatically detect broken &&-chain in the
test scripts is now turned on by default.
* jk/test-chain-lint:
test-lib: turn on GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT by default
t7502-commit.sh: fix a broken and-chain
"git stash pop/apply" forgot to make sure that not just the working
tree is clean but also the index is clean. The latter is important
as a stash application can conflict and the index will be used for
conflict resolution.
* jk/stash-require-clean-index:
stash: require a clean index to apply
t3903: avoid applying onto dirty index
t3903: stop hard-coding commit sha1s
We have prepended $GIT_EXEC_PATH and the path "git" is installed in
(typically "/usr/bin") to $PATH when invoking subprograms and hooks
for almost eternity, but the original use case the latter tried to
support was semi-bogus (i.e. install git to /opt/foo/git and run it
without having /opt/foo on $PATH), and more importantly it has
become less and less relevant as Git grew more mainstream (i.e. the
users would _want_ to have it on their $PATH). Stop prepending the
path in which "git" is installed to users' $PATH, as that would
interfere the command search order people depend on (e.g. they may
not like versions of programs that are unrelated to Git in /usr/bin
and want to override them by having different ones in /usr/local/bin
and have the latter directory earlier in their $PATH).
* jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging:
stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH
core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed
to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but
the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it.
* jc/gitignore-precedence:
ignore: info/exclude should trump core.excludesfile
After "git add -N", the path appeared in output of "git diff HEAD"
and "git diff --cached HEAD", leading "git status" to classify it
as "Changes to be committed". Such a path, however, is not yet to
be scheduled to be committed. "git diff" showed the change to the
path as modification, not as a "new file", in the header of its
output.
Treat such paths as "yet to be added to the index but Git already
know about them"; "git diff HEAD" and "git diff --cached HEAD"
should not talk about them, and "git diff" should show them as new
files yet to be added to the index.
* nd/diff-i-t-a:
diff-lib.c: adjust position of i-t-a entries in diff
"git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no
object type that is "bl".
* jk/type-from-string-gently:
type_from_string_gently: make sure length matches
Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
files already.
* cn/bom-in-gitignore:
attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files
Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a
slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code
becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning.
* jk/prune-mtime:
sha1_file: only freshen packs once per run
sha1_file: freshen pack objects before loose
reachable: only mark local objects as recent
We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the
".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but
the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the
root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to
do, but still valid).
* jk/init-core-worktree-at-root:
init: don't set core.worktree when initializing /.git
The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory
showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the
directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also,
when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff"
and compare the file with the file with the same name in the
directory, instead of refusing to run.
* jc/diff-no-index-d-f:
diff-no-index: align D/F handling with that of normal Git
diff-no-index: DWIM "diff D F" into "diff D/F F"
The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global"
that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email
entries in it.
* oh/fix-config-default-user-name-section:
config: fix settings in default_user_config template
"git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost
the daylight-saving-time offset.
* jc/epochtime-wo-tz:
parse_date_basic(): let the system handle DST conversion
parse_date_basic(): return early when given a bogus timestamp
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
* pt/xdg-config-path:
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
Catch a programmer mistake to feed a pointer not an array to
ARRAY_SIZE() macro, by using a couple of GCC extensions.
* ep/do-not-feed-a-pointer-to-array-size:
git-compat-util.h: implement a different ARRAY_SIZE macro for for safely deriving the size of array
"hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to
take a really long object type name.
* jc/hash-object:
write_sha1_file(): do not use a separate sha1[] array
t1007: add hash-object --literally tests
hash-object --literally: fix buffer overrun with extra-long object type
git-hash-object.txt: document --literally option
The completion for "log --decorate=" parameter value was incorrect.
* sg/complete-decorate-full-not-long:
completion: fix and update 'git log --decorate=' options
"filter-branch" corrupted commit log message that ends with an
incomplete line on platforms with some "sed" implementations that
munge such a line. Work it around by avoiding to use "sed".
* jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete-line:
filter-branch: avoid passing commit message through sed
"git daemon" fails to build from the source under NO_IPV6
configuration (regression in 2.4).
* jc/daemon-no-ipv6-for-2.4.1:
daemon: unbreak NO_IPV6 build regression
Some error messages in "git config" were emitted without calling
the usual error() facility.
* jn/clean-use-error-not-fprintf-on-stderr:
config: use error() instead of fprintf(stderr, ...)
Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git()
call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the
state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history
with LF line ending to make their project portabile across
platforms while terminating lines in their working tree files with
CRLF for their platform.
* tb/blame-resurrect-convert-to-git:
blame: CRLF in the working tree and LF in the repo
git p4 attempts to better handle branches in Perforce.
* va/p4-client-path:
git-p4: improve client path detection when branches are used
t9801: check git-p4's branch detection with client spec enabled
When "add--interactive" splits a hunk into two overlapping hunks
and then let the user choose only one, it sometimes feeds an
incorrect patch text to "git apply". Add tests to demonstrate
this.
I have a slight suspicion that this may be $gmane/87202 coming back
and biting us (I seem to have said "let's run with this and see
what happens" back then).
* mm/add-p-split-error:
stash -p: demonstrate failure of split with mixed y/n
t3904-stash-patch: factor PERL prereq at the top of the file
t3904-stash-patch: fix test description
add -p: demonstrate failure when running 'edit' after a split
t3701-add-interactive: simplify code