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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jeff King
d59f765ac9 use sha1_to_hex_r() instead of strcpy
Before sha1_to_hex_r() existed, a simple way to get hex
sha1 into a buffer was with:

  strcpy(buf, sha1_to_hex(sha1));

This isn't wrong (assuming the buf is 41 characters), but it
makes auditing the code base for bad strcpy() calls harder,
as these become false positives.

Let's convert them to sha1_to_hex_r(), and likewise for
some calls to find_unique_abbrev(). While we're here, we'll
double-check that all of the buffers are correctly sized,
and use the more obvious GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ constant.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05 11:08:05 -07:00
Jeff King
2aea7a51a1 rev-list: make it obvious that we do not support notes
The rev-list command does not have the internal
infrastructure to display notes. Running:

  git rev-list --notes HEAD

will silently ignore the "--notes" option. Running:

  git rev-list --notes --grep=. HEAD

will crash on an assert. Running:

  git rev-list --format=%N HEAD

will place a literal "%N" in the output (it does not even
expand to an empty string).

Let's have rev-list tell the user that it cannot fill the
user's request, rather than silently producing wrong data.
Likewise, let's remove mention of the notes options from the
rev-list documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-24 10:33:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b3a30f6e0c Merge branch 'ls/hint-rev-list-count'
* ls/hint-rev-list-count:
  rev-list: add --count to usage guide
2015-07-10 14:26:13 -07:00
Jeff King
c8a70d3509 rev-list: disable --use-bitmap-index when pruning commits
The reachability bitmaps do not have enough information to
tell us which commits might have changed path "foo", so the
current code produces wrong answers for:

  git rev-list --use-bitmap-index --count HEAD -- foo

(it silently ignores the "foo" limiter). Instead, we should
fall back to doing a normal traversal (it is OK to fall
back rather than complain, because --use-bitmap-index is a
pure optimization, and might not kick in for other reasons,
such as there being no bitmaps in the repository).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-01 12:00:50 -07:00
Lawrence Siebert
75d2e5a7b0 rev-list: add --count to usage guide
--count should be mentioned in the usage guide, this updates code and
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Lawrence Siebert <lawrencesiebert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-01 09:29:11 -07:00
Jeff King
8597ea3afe commit: record buffer length in cache
Most callsites which use the commit buffer try to use the
cached version attached to the commit, rather than
re-reading from disk. Unfortunately, that interface provides
only a pointer to the NUL-terminated buffer, with no
indication of the original length.

For the most part, this doesn't matter. People do not put
NULs in their commit messages, and the log code is happy to
treat it all as a NUL-terminated string. However, some code
paths do care. For example, when checking signatures, we
want to be very careful that we verify all the bytes to
avoid malicious trickery.

This patch just adds an optional "size" out-pointer to
get_commit_buffer and friends. The existing callers all pass
NULL (there did not seem to be any obvious sites where we
could avoid an immediate strlen() call, though perhaps with
some further refactoring we could).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 12:09:38 -07:00
Jeff King
a97934d820 use get_cached_commit_buffer where appropriate
Some call sites check commit->buffer to see whether we have
a cached buffer, and if so, do some work with it. In the
long run we may want to switch these code paths to make
their decision on a different boolean flag (because checking
the cache may get a little more expensive in the future).
But for now, we can easily support them by converting the
calls to use get_cached_commit_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 12:08:17 -07:00
Jeff King
0fb370da9c provide a helper to free commit buffer
This converts two lines into one at each caller. But more
importantly, it abstracts the concept of freeing the buffer,
which will make it easier to change later.

Note that we also need to provide a "detach" mechanism for a
tricky case in index-pack. We are passed a buffer for the
object generated by processing the incoming pack. If we are
not using --strict, we just calculate the sha1 on that
buffer and return, leaving the caller to free it.  But if we
are using --strict, we actually attach that buffer to an
object, pass the object to the fsck functions, and then
detach the buffer from the object again (so that the caller
can free it as usual).  In this case, we don't want to free
the buffer ourselves, but just make sure it is no longer
associated with the commit.

Note that we are making the assumption here that the
attach/detach process does not impact the buffer at all
(e.g., it is never reallocated or modified). That holds true
now, and we have no plans to change that. However, as we
abstract the commit_buffer code, this dependency becomes
less obvious. So when we detach, let's also make sure that
we get back the same buffer that we gave to the
commit_buffer code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 12:07:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0f9e62e084 Merge branch 'jk/pack-bitmap'
Borrow the bitmap index into packfiles from JGit to speed up
enumeration of objects involved in a commit range without having to
fully traverse the history.

* jk/pack-bitmap: (26 commits)
  ewah: unconditionally ntohll ewah data
  ewah: support platforms that require aligned reads
  read-cache: use get_be32 instead of hand-rolled ntoh_l
  block-sha1: factor out get_be and put_be wrappers
  do not discard revindex when re-preparing packfiles
  pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cache
  t/perf: add tests for pack bitmaps
  t: add basic bitmap functionality tests
  count-objects: recognize .bitmap in garbage-checking
  repack: consider bitmaps when performing repacks
  repack: handle optional files created by pack-objects
  repack: turn exts array into array-of-struct
  repack: stop using magic number for ARRAY_SIZE(exts)
  pack-objects: implement bitmap writing
  rev-list: add bitmap mode to speed up object lists
  pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objects
  pack-objects: split add_object_entry
  pack-bitmap: add support for bitmap indexes
  documentation: add documentation for the bitmap format
  ewah: compressed bitmap implementation
  ...
2014-02-27 14:01:48 -08:00
Vicent Marti
aa32939fea rev-list: add bitmap mode to speed up object lists
The bitmap reachability index used to speed up the counting objects
phase during `pack-objects` can also be used to optimize a normal
rev-list if the only thing required are the SHA1s of the objects during
the list (i.e., not the path names at which trees and blobs were found).

Calling `git rev-list --objects --use-bitmap-index [committish]` will
perform an object iteration based on a bitmap result instead of actually
walking the object graph.

These are some example timings for `torvalds/linux` (warm cache,
best-of-five):

    $ time git rev-list --objects master > /dev/null

    real    0m34.191s
    user    0m33.904s
    sys     0m0.268s

    $ time git rev-list --objects --use-bitmap-index master > /dev/null

    real    0m1.041s
    user    0m0.976s
    sys     0m0.064s

Likewise, using `git rev-list --count --use-bitmap-index` will speed up
the counting operation by building the resulting bitmap and performing a
fast popcount (number of bits set on the bitmap) on the result.

Here are some sample timings of different ways to count commits in
`torvalds/linux`:

    $ time git rev-list master | wc -l
        399882

        real    0m6.524s
        user    0m6.060s
        sys     0m3.284s

    $ time git rev-list --count master
        399882

        real    0m4.318s
        user    0m4.236s
        sys     0m0.076s

    $ time git rev-list --use-bitmap-index --count master
        399882

        real    0m0.217s
        user    0m0.176s
        sys     0m0.040s

This also respects negative refs, so you can use it to count
a slice of history:

        $ time git rev-list --count v3.0..master
        144843

        real    0m1.971s
        user    0m1.932s
        sys     0m0.036s

        $ time git rev-list --use-bitmap-index --count v3.0..master
        real    0m0.280s
        user    0m0.220s
        sys     0m0.056s

Though note that the closer the endpoints, the less it helps. In the
traversal case, we have fewer commits to cross, so we take less time.
But the bitmap time is dominated by generating the pack revindex, which
is constant with respect to the refs given.

Note that you cannot yet get a fast --left-right count of a symmetric
difference (e.g., "--count --left-right master...topic"). The slow part
of that walk actually happens during the merge-base determination when
we parse "master...topic". Even though a count does not actually need to
know the real merge base (it only needs to take the symmetric difference
of the bitmaps), the revision code would require some refactoring to
handle this case.

Additionally, a `--test-bitmap` flag has been added that will perform
the same rev-list manually (i.e. using a normal revwalk) and using
bitmaps, and verify that the results are the same. This can be used to
exercise the bitmap code, and also to verify that the contents of the
.bitmap file are sane.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c01499ef69 C: have space around && and || operators
Correct all hits from

    git grep -e '\(&&\|||\)[^ ]' -e '[^	 ]\(&&\|||\)' -- '*.c'

i.e. && or || operators that are followed by anything but a SP,
or that follow something other than a SP or a HT, so that these
operators have a SP around it when necessary.

We usually refrain from making this kind of a tree-wide change in
order to avoid unnecessary conflicts with other "real work" patches,
but in this case, the end result does not have a potentially
cumbersome tree-wide impact, while this is a tree-wide cleanup.

Fixes to compat/regex/regcomp.c and xdiff/xemit.c are to replace a
HT immediately after && with a SP.

This is based on Felipe's patch to bultin/symbolic-ref.c; I did all
the finding out what other files in the whole tree need to be fixed
and did the fix and also the log message while reviewing that single
liner, so any screw-ups in this version are mine.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-16 10:26:39 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
e76a5fb459 list-objects: reduce one argument in mark_edges_uninteresting
mark_edges_uninteresting() is always called with this form

  mark_edges_uninteresting(revs->commits, revs, ...);

Remove the first argument and let mark_edges_uninteresting figure that
out by itself. It helps answer the question "are this commit list and
revs related in any way?" when looking at mark_edges_uninteresting
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-28 11:54:18 -07:00
Alexey Shumkin
ecaee8050c pretty: --format output should honor logOutputEncoding
One can set an alias
	$ git config [--global] alias.lg "log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset
	-%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cd) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset'
	--abbrev-commit --date=local"

to see the log as a pretty tree (like *gitk* but in a terminal).

However, log messages written in an encoding i18n.commitEncoding which differs
from terminal encoding are shown corrupted even when i18n.logOutputEncoding
and terminal encoding are the same (e.g. log messages committed on a Cygwin box
with Windows-1251 encoding seen on a Linux box with a UTF-8 encoding and vice versa).

To simplify an example we can say the following two commands are expected
to give the same output to a terminal:

	$ git log --oneline --no-color
	$ git log --pretty=format:'%h %s'

However, the former pays attention to i18n.logOutputEncoding
configuration, while the latter does not when it formats "%s".

The same corruption is true for
	$ git diff --submodule=log
and
	$ git rev-list --pretty=format:%s HEAD
and
	$ git reset --hard

This patch makes pretty --format honor logOutputEncoding when it formats
log message.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Shumkin <Alex.Crezoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-26 11:40:31 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
efc7df454e Move print_commit_list to libgit.a
This is used by bisect.c, part of libgit.a while it stays in
builtin/rev-list.c. Move it to commit.c so that we won't get undefined
reference if a program that uses libgit.a happens to pull it in.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-29 03:08:30 -04:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
c43cb38612 Move estimate_bisect_steps to libgit.a
This function is used by bisect.c, part of libgit.a while
estimate_bisect_steps stays in builtin/rev-list.c. Move it to bisect.a
so we won't have undefine reference if a standalone program that uses
libgit.a happens to pull it in.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-29 03:08:30 -04:00
Junio C Hamano
d318a3997a Merge branch 'jk/maint-reflog-walk-count-vs-time'
Gives a better DWIM behaviour for --pretty=format:%gd, "stash list", and
"log -g", depending on how the starting point ("master" vs "master@{0}" vs
"master@{now}") and date formatting options (e.g. "--date=iso") are given
on the command line.

By Jeff King (4) and Junio C Hamano (1)
* jk/maint-reflog-walk-count-vs-time:
  reflog-walk: tell explicit --date=default from not having --date at all
  reflog-walk: always make HEAD@{0} show indexed selectors
  reflog-walk: clean up "flag" field of commit_reflog struct
  log: respect date_mode_explicit with --format:%gd
  t1411: add more selector index/date tests
2012-05-11 11:30:08 -07:00
Jeff King
f026c7563a log: respect date_mode_explicit with --format:%gd
When we show a reflog selector (e.g., via "git log -g"), we
perform some DWIM magic: while we normally show the entry's
index (e.g., HEAD@{1}), if the user has given us a date
with "--date", then we show a date-based select (e.g.,
HEAD@{yesterday}).

However, we don't want to trigger this magic if the
alternate date format we got was from the "log.date"
configuration; that is not sufficiently strong context for
us to invoke this particular magic. To fix this, commit
f4ea32f (improve reflog date/number heuristic, 2009-09-24)
introduced a "date_mode_explicit" flag in rev_info. This
flag is set only when we see a "--date" option on the
command line, and we a vanilla date to the reflog code if
the date was not explicit.

Later, commit 8f8f547 (Introduce new pretty formats %g[sdD]
for reflog information, 2009-10-19) added another way to
show selectors, and it did not respect the date_mode_explicit
flag from f4ea32f.

This patch propagates the date_mode_explicit flag to the
pretty-print code, which can then use it to pass the
appropriate date field to the reflog code. This brings the
behavior of "%gd" in line with the other formats, and means
that its output is independent of any user configuration.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-04 09:39:14 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
989937221a rev-list: fix --verify-objects --quiet becoming --objects
When --quiet is specified, finish_object() is called instead of
show_object(). The latter is in charge of --verify-objects and
will be skipped  if --quiet is specified.

Move the code up to finish_object(). Also pass the quiet flag along
and make it always call show_* functions to avoid similar problems in
future.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-28 10:47:30 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
8ba8fe049f rev-list: remove BISECT_SHOW_TRIED flag
Since c99f069 (bisect--helper: remove "--next-vars" option as it is
now useless - 2009-04-21), this flag has always been off. Remove the
flag and all related code.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-28 10:47:28 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
cb8da70547 git rev-list: fix invalid typecast
git rev-list passes rev_list_info, not rev_list objects. Without this
fix, rev-list enables or disables the --verify-objects option depending
on a read from an undefined memory location.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13 12:49:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5a48d24012 rev-list --verify-object
Often we want to verify everything reachable from a given set of commits
are present in our repository and connected without a gap to the tips of
our refs. We used to do this for this purpose:

    $ rev-list --objects $commits_to_be_tested --not --all

Even though this is good enough for catching missing commits and trees,
we show the object name but do not verify their existence, let alone their
well-formedness, for the blob objects at the leaf level.

Add a new "--verify-object" option so that we can catch missing and broken
blobs as well.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-01 15:46:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4947367267 list-objects: pass callback data to show_objects()
The traverse_commit_list() API takes two callback functions, one to show
commit objects, and the other to show other kinds of objects. Even though
the former has a callback data parameter, so that the callback does not
have to rely on global state, the latter does not.

Give the show_objects() callback the same callback data parameter.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-01 15:46:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
91f175165a revision.c: add show_object_with_name() helper function
There are two copies of traverse_commit_list callback that show the object
name followed by pathname the object was found, to produce output similar
to "rev-list --objects".

Unify them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-22 11:34:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5f25b6299d rev-list: fix finish_object() call
The callback to traverse_commit_list() are to take linked name_path and
a string for the last path component.

If the callee used its parameters, it would have seen duplicated leading
paths. In this particular case, the callee does not use this argument but
that is not a reason to leave the call broken.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-22 11:34:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f67d2e82d6 Merge branch 'jk/format-patch-am'
* jk/format-patch-am:
  format-patch: preserve subject newlines with -k
  clean up calling conventions for pretty.c functions
  pretty: add pp_commit_easy function for simple callers
  mailinfo: always clean up rfc822 header folding
  t: test subject handling in format-patch / am pipeline

Conflicts:
	builtin/branch.c
	builtin/log.c
	commit.h
2011-05-31 12:19:11 -07:00
Jeff King
6bf139440c clean up calling conventions for pretty.c functions
We have a pretty_print_context representing the parameters
for a pretty-print session, but we did not use it uniformly.
As a result, functions kept growing more and more arguments.

Let's clean this up in a few ways:

  1. All pretty-print pp_* functions now take a context.
     This lets us reduce the number of arguments to these
     functions, since we were just passing around the
     context values separately.

  2. The context argument now has a cmit_fmt field, which
     was passed around separately. That's one less argument
     per function.

  3. The context argument always comes first, which makes
     calling a little more uniform.

This drops lines from some callers, and adds lines in a few
places (because we need an extra line to set the context's
fmt field). Overall, we don't save many lines, but the lines
that are there are a lot simpler and more readable.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-26 15:56:47 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
b388e14b89 rev-list --count: separate count for --cherry-mark
When --count is used with --cherry-mark, omit the patch equivalent
commits from the count for left and right commits and print the count of
equivalent commits separately.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-26 13:13:20 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
ad5aeeded3 revision.c: introduce --min-parents and --max-parents options
Introduce --min-parents and --max-parents options which limit the
revisions to those commits which have at least (or at most) that many
commits, where negative arguments for --max-parents= denote infinity
(i.e. no upper limit).

In particular:

  --max-parents=1 is the same as --no-merges;
  --min-parents=2 is the same as --merges;
  --max-parents=0 shows only roots; and
  --min-parents=3 shows only octopus merges

Using --min-parents=n and --max-parents=m with n>m gives you what you ask
for (i.e. nothing) for obvious reasons, just like when you give --merges
(show only merge commits) and --no-merges (show only non-merge commits) at
the same time.

Also, introduce --no-min-parents and --no-max-parents to do the obvious
thing for convenience.

We compute the number of parents only when we limit by that, so there
is no performance impact when there are no limiters.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-23 10:16:44 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
1df2d656cc rev-list/log: factor out revision mark generation
Currently, we have identical code for generating revision marks ('<',
'>', '-') in 5 places.

Factor out the code to a single function get_revision_mark() for easier
maintenance and extensibility.

Note that the check for !!revs in graph.c (which gets removed
effectively by this patch) is superfluous.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09 13:50:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
07e0a8314d Merge branch 'jk/maint-rev-list-nul'
* jk/maint-rev-list-nul:
  rev-list: handle %x00 NUL in user format
2010-11-17 14:59:33 -08:00
Jeff King
9130ac9fe1 rev-list: handle %x00 NUL in user format
The code paths for showing commits in "git log" and "git
rev-list --graph" correctly handle embedded NULs by looking
only at the resulting strbuf's length, and never treating it
as a C string. The code path for regular rev-list, however,
used printf("%s"), which resulted in truncated output. This
patch uses fwrite instead, like the --graph code path.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-13 18:58:33 -07:00
Štěpán Němec
62b4698e55 Use angles for placeholders consistently
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08 12:29:52 -07:00
Thomas Rast
f69c501832 rev-list: introduce --count option
Add a --count option that, instead of actually listing the commits,
merely counts them.

This is mostly geared towards script use, and to this end it acts
specially when used with --left-right: it outputs the left and right
counts separately.  Previously, scripts would have to run a shell loop
or small inline script over to achieve the same.  (Without
--left-right, a simple |wc -l does the job.)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-12 09:39:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f9bdf9b210 Merge branch 'ef/maint-empty-commit-log'
* ef/maint-empty-commit-log:
  rev-list: fix --pretty=oneline with empty message
2010-04-06 14:50:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aa4beff4b5 Merge branch 'mg/use-default-abbrev-length-in-rev-list'
* mg/use-default-abbrev-length-in-rev-list:
  rev-list: use default abbrev length when abbrev-commit is in effect
2010-04-03 12:28:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2e0e8b68e3 Merge branch 'lt/deepen-builtin-source'
* lt/deepen-builtin-source:
  Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory

Conflicts:
	Makefile
2010-03-10 15:25:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
81b50f3ce4 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of

	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
	Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
	builtin-shortlog.c     builtin-show-branch.c  builtin-show-ref.c
	builtin-shortlog.o     builtin-show-branch.o  builtin-show-ref.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
	builtin-shortlog.c  builtin-shortlog.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c

you get

	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>		[type]
	builtin/   builtin.h
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin		[auto-completes to]
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab>	[type]
	shortlog.c     shortlog.o     show-branch.c  show-branch.o  show-ref.c     show-ref.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho		[auto-completes to]
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab>	[type]
	shortlog.c  shortlog.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c

which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.

NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead.  I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.

So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion.  But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-22 14:29:41 -08:00