Rewrite the introduction. Rewrite each section completely to make them
work in the new order, to add some examples, and to move plumbing
commands (like git-commit-tree) to the following chapter.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The bottom-up blog, tree, commit order makes sense unless you want to
give explicit examples--it's easier to discover objects to examine if
you go in the other order....,
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Add an example using git-ls-files, standardize on the new "index"
terminology (as opposed to "cache"), attempt to clarify discussion and
make it a little shorter, avoid some unnecessary jargon ("write-back
cache").
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The low-level index operations aren't as important to regular users as
the rest of this "git concepts" chapter; so move it into a separate
chapter, and do some minor cleanup.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
"git internals" sounds like something only git developers must know
about, but this stuff should be of wider interest. Rename the chapter
and give it a slightly friendlier introduction.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The descriptions of the various object types should all be a subsection
of the "Object Database" section.
I cribbed most of this chapter from the README (now core-intro.txt and
git(7)), because there's stuff in there people need to know and I was
too lazy to rewrite it. The audience isn't quite right, though--the
chapter is a mixture of user- and developer- level documentation that
isn't as appropriate now as it was originally.
So, reserve this chapter for stuff users need to know, and move the
source code introduction into a new "git hacking" chapter where we'll
also move any hacker-only technical details.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
We used to rely on the fact that cherry-pick would trigger the code path
to set limited = 1 in handle_commit(), when an uninteresting commit was
encountered.
However, when cherry picking between two independent branches, i.e. when
there are no merge bases, and there is only linear development (which can
happen when you cvsimport a fork of a project), no uninteresting commit
will be encountered.
So set limited = 1 when --cherry-pick was asked for.
Noticed by Martin Bähr.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to (almost) always show the name of the file without
relying on "-H" option of GNU grep, we used to add /dev/null to
the argument list unless we are doing -l or -L. This caused
"/dev/null:0" to show up when -c is given in the output.
It is not enough to add -c to the set of options we do not pass
/dev/null for. When we have too many files, we invoke grep
multiple times and we need to avoid giving a widow filename to
the last invocation -- otherwise we will not see the name.
This keeps two filenames when the argv[] buffer is about to
overflow and we have not finished iterating over the index, so
that the last round will always have at least two paths to work
with (and not require /dev/null).
An obvious and the only exception is when there is only 1 file
that is given to the underlying grep, and in that case we avoid
passing /dev/null and let the external "grep -c" report only the
number of matches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Bram Schoenmakers noticed that git-config document was formatted
incorrectly. Depending on the version of AsciiDoc and docbook
toolchain, it is sometimes taken as a numbered example by AsciiDoc,
some other times passed intact to roff format to confuse "man".
Since we refer to the repository metadata directory as $GIT_DIR
elsewhere, work it around by using that symbolic name.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier commit fixed type-change case in "git add -u".
This adds a test to make sure we do not introduce regression.
At the same time, it fixes a stupid typo in the error message.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of the option gave impression that there
were several formats available by using three dots. There are
no other formats than tar and gzip currently supported.
Clarify that the archive goes to the standard output.
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds more proper rename detection limits. Instead of just checking
the limit against the number of potential rename destinations, we verify
that the rename matrix (which is what really matters) doesn't grow
ridiculously large, and we also make sure that we don't overflow when
doing the matrix size calculation.
This also changes the default limits from unlimited, to a rename matrix
that is limited to 100 entries on a side. You can raise it with the config
entry, or by using the "-l<n>" command line flag, but at least the default
is now a sane number that avoids spending lots of time (and memory) in
situations that likely don't merit it.
The choice of default value is of course very debatable. Limiting the
rename matrix to a 100x100 size will mean that even if you have just one
obvious rename, but you also create (or delete) 10,000 files, the rename
matrix will be so big that we disable the heuristics. Sounds reasonable to
me, but let's see if people hit this (and, perhaps more importantly,
actually *care*) in real life.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This will allow RFC-literate users to say:
format-patch --in-reply-to='<message.id@site.name>'
without forcing them to strip the surrounding angle brackets
like this:
format-patch --in-reply-to='message.id@site.name'
We accept both forms, and the latter gets necessary < and >
around it as before.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A duplicate of an already existing section in the documentation of
git-filter-branch was added in commit
f95eef15f2.
This patch removes that redundant section.
Signed-off-by: Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the curl program is not available (or not executable), and git clone is
started to clone a repository through http, this is the output
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/puppet/.git/
/usr/bin/git-clone: line 37: curl: command not found
Cannot get remote repository information.
Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
This patch improves the error message by checking the return code when
running curl to exit immediately if it's 126 or 127; the error output now
is
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/puppet/.git/
/usr/bin/git-clone: line 37: curl: command not found
Adrian Bridgett noticed this and reported through
http://bugs.debian.org/440976
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous check caused the hook to reject as unannotated any tag
whose SHA1 starts with a zero.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recent bug fix to correctly handle filenames with %s (or any
other valid Tcl format specifier) missed a \ on this line and
caused the remaining format arguments to not be supplied when we
updated the status bar. This caused a Tcl error anytime the user
was trying to perform a file revert.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Several users have requested a "make uninstall" target be provided
in the stock git-gui Makefile so that they can undo an install
if git-gui goes to the wrong place during the initial install,
or if they are unhappy with the tool and want to remove it from
their system.
We currently assume that the complete set of files we need to delete
are those defined by our Makefile and current source directory.
This could differ from what the user actually has installed if they
installed one version then attempt to use another to perform the
uninstall. Right now I'm just going to say that is "pilot error".
Users should uninstall git-gui using the same version of source
that they used to make the installation. Perhaps in the future we
could read tclIndex and base our uninstall decisions on its contents.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Simon Sasburg noticed that on X11 if there are more fonts than can
fit in the height of the screen Tk's native tk_optionMenu does not
offer scroll arrows to the user and it is not possible to review
all choices or to select those that are off-screen. On Mac OS X
the tk_optionMenu works properly but is awkward to navigate if the
list is long.
This is a rewrite of our font selection by providing a new modal
dialog that the user can launch from the git-gui Options panel.
The dialog offers the user a scrolling list of fonts in a pane.
An example text shows the user what the font looks like at the size
they have selected. But I have to admit the example pane is less
than ideal. For example in the case of our diff font we really
should show the user an example diff complete with our native diff
syntax coloring.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Acked-by: Simon Sasburg <simon.sasburg@gmail.com>
This is a very trivial hack to define a global mc procedure that
does not actually perform i18n translations on its input strings.
By declaring an mc procedure here in our maint version of git-gui
we can take patches that are intended for the latest development
version of git-gui and easily backport them without needing to
tweak the mc calls first.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
There was no newline at the end of the index commit message, putting
the shell prompt at its end after a 'git cat-file commit $id'. This is
similar to what was fixed in 843103d693.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Right now one can amend the last non-merge commit using a dirty index
and in the process maybe cause the last commit to have the same tree
as its parent. In such a case one would want to discard the last commit
instead of amending it.
This reverts commit 8588452ceb.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although message-id by defintion should have surrounding angle
brackets, there is no point forcing people to type them in.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On filesystems where it is appropriate to set core.filemode
to false, test 29 ("commitdiff(0): mode change") fails when
git-commit does not notice a file (execute) permission change.
A fix requires noting the new file execute permission in the
index with a "git update-index --chmod=+x", prior to the commit.
Add a function (note_chmod) which implements this idea, and
insert a call in each test that modifies the x permission.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Windows port of Tk does not have the send command so we
cannot delete it from our global namespace, but the Mac OS
X and X11 ports do have it. Switching this delete attempt
into a catch makes send go away, or stay away.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
1) pushes happen less often than fetches, so the bandwidth saving is
much less visible in that case overall.
2) thin packs have to be complemented with missing delta bases to be
valid, so many received thin packs will take more disk space.
3) the bother of repacking should be distributed amongst "clients"
i.e. fetchers and pushers as much as possible, and not the server
being fetched or pushed, to keep disk and CPU usage low on the
server.
This is why a fetch should get thin packs but a push should not.
Both Nico and I have been assuming that --no-thin was the default
behavior of git-push ever since Nico introduced --fix-thin into the
index-pack process, which allowed fetch and receive-pack to avoid
exploding packfiles received during transfer. This patch finally
makes it so.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove obsolete details (core.legacyheaders is always true now).
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of this patch code and message was written by Shawn O. Pearce.
I made some tests to know what the problem was, and then I changed
the code related with the SIGPIPE signal.
If the user has misconfigured `user.signingkey` in their .git/config
or just doesn't have any secret keys on their keyring and they ask
for a signed tag with `git tag -s` we better make sure the resulting
tag was actually signed by gpg.
Prior versions of builtin git-tag allowed this failure to slip
by without error as they were not checking the return value of
the finish_command() so they did not notice when gpg exited with
an error exit status. They also did not fail if gpg produced an
empty output or if read_in_full received an error from the read
system call while trying to read the pipe back from gpg.
Finally, we did not actually honor any return value from the do_sign
function as it returns ssize_t but was being stored into an unsigned
long. This caused the compiler to optimize out the die condition,
allowing git-tag to continue along and create the tag object.
However, when gpg gets a wrong username, it exits before any read was done
and then the writing process receives SIGPIPE and program is terminated.
By ignoring this signal, anyway, the function write_or_die gets EPIPE from
write_in_full and exits returning 0 to the system without a message.
Here we better call to write_in_full directly so we can fail
printing a message and return safely to the caller.
With these issues fixed `git-tag -s` will now fail to create the
tag and will report a non-zero exit status to its caller, thereby
allowing automated helper scripts to detect (and recover from)
failure if gpg is not working properly.
Proposed-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Oddly enough `git ls-files --others` supplies us the name of an
untracked submodule by including the trailing slash but that
same git version will not accept the name with a trailing slash
through `git update-index --stdin`. Stripping off that final
slash character before loading it into our file lists allows
git-gui to stage changes to submodules just like any other file.
This change should give git-gui users some basic submodule support,
but it is strictly at the plumbing level as we do not actually know
about calling the git-submodule porcelain that is a recent addition
to git 1.5.3.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If `git ls-files --others` returned us the name of a directory then
it is because Git has decided that this directory itself contains a
valid Git repository and its files shouldn't be listed as untracked
for this repository.
In such a case we should label the object as a Git repository and
not just as a directory.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui has a minor problem with regards to symlinks that point
to directories.
git init
mkdir realdir
ln -s realdir linkdir
git gui
Now clicking on file names in the "unstaged changes" window,
there's a problem coming from the "linkdir" symlink: git-gui
complains with
error reading "file4": illegal operation on a directory
...even though git-gui can add that same symlink to the index just
fine.
This patch fix this by adding a check.
[sp: Minor fix to use {link} instead of "link" in condition
and to only open the path if it is not a symlink.]
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Use the rev-list --parents functionality to read the parents
of the commit. cat-file only shows the raw object with the
original parents and doesn't take into account grafts; so
we'll rely on rev-list machinery for the smarts here.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code to squelch empty diffs introduced by commit
fb13227e08 would inadvertently
populate filespec "two" of a submodule change using the uninitialized
(null) SHA1, thereby replacing the submodule SHA1 by 0{40} in the output.
This change teaches diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch to handle
submodule changes correctly.
Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Dmitry V. Levin pointed out that on GNU linux libdir is often used
in Makefiles to mean "/usr/lib" or "/usr/lib64", a directory that
is meant to hold platform-specific binary files. Using a different
libdir meaning here in git-gui's Makefile breaks idomatic expressions
like rpm specifile "make libdir=%_libdir".
Originally I asked that the git.git Makefile undefine libdir before
it calls git-gui's own Makefile but it turns out this is very hard
to do, if not impossible. Renaming our libdir to gg_libdir resolves
this case with a minimum amount of fuss on our part.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The Tk designers blessed us with the "send" command, which on X11
will allow anyone who can connect to your X server to evaluate any
Tcl code they desire within any running Tk process. This is just
plain nuts. If git-gui wants someone running Tcl code within it
then would ask someone to supply that Tcl code to it; waiting for
someone to drop any random Tcl code into us is not fantastic idea.
By renaming send to the empty name the procedure will be removed
from the global namespace and Tk will stop responding to random Tcl
evaluation requests sent through the X server. Since there is no
facility to filter these requests it is unlikely that we will ever
consider enabling this command.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Steps to reproduce the bug:
$ mkdir repo && cd repo && git init
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
$ touch 'foo%3Fsuite'
$ git-gui
Then click on the 'foo%3Fsuite' icon to include it in a changeset, a
popup comes with:
'Error: bad field specifier "F"'
Vincent Danjean noticed the problem and also suggested the fix, reported
through
http://bugs.debian.org/441167
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
We have a workaround for the reparent function not working
correctly on the SVN native protocol servers. This workaround
opens a new connection (SVN::Ra object) to the new
URL/directory.
Since libsvn appears limited to only supporting one connection
at a time, this workaround invalidates the Git::SVN::Ra object
that is $self inside gs_fetch_loop_common(). So we need to
restart that connection once all the fetching is done for each
loop iteration to be able to run get_log() successfully.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the tag was moved in CVS or SVN history, it will be moved in the
imported history as well. Tag history is not tracked.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we're counting, a smaller number is 'fewer' not 'less'
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many users get confused when `git push origin master:foo` works
when foo already exists on the remote repository but are confused
when foo doesn't exist as a branch and this form does not create
the branch foo.
This new example highlights the trick of including refs/heads/
in front of the desired branch name to create a branch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Kristian Høgsberg pointed out that the two file modifications
we were doing during the 'creating initial files' step are not even
used within the test suite. This was actually confusing as we do
not even need these changes for the tests to pass. All that really
matters here is the specific commit dates are used so that these
appear in the branch's reflog, and that the dates are different so
that the branch will update when asked and the reflog entry is
also updated. There is no need for the file modification.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recently I found that doing a sequence like the following:
git-new-workdir a b
...
git-new-workdir a b
by accident will cause a (and now also b) to have an infinite cycle
in its refs directory. This is caused by git-new-workdir trying
to create the "refs" symlink over again, only during the second
time it is being created within a's refs directory and is now also
pointing back at a's refs.
This causes confusion in git as suddenly branches are named things
like "refs/refs/refs/refs/refs/refs/refs/heads/foo" instead of the
more commonly accepted "refs/heads/foo". Plenty of commands start
to see ambiguous ref names and others just take ages to compute.
git-clone has the same safety check, so git-new-workdir should
behave just like it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the preimage we are patching is shorter than what the patch
text expects, we tried to match the buffer contents at the
"original" line with the fragment in full, without checking we
have enough data to match in the preimage. This caused the size
of a later memmove() to wrap around and attempt to scribble
almost the entire address space. Not good.
The code that follows the part this patch touches tries to match
the fragment with line offsets. Curiously, that code does not
have the problem --- it guards against reading past the end of
the preimage.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
