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Junio C Hamano
84f3d6458b Merge branch 'nd/pack-objects-parseopt'
* nd/pack-objects-parseopt:
  pack-objects: convert to use parse_options()
  pack-objects: remove bogus comment
  pack-objects: do not accept "--index-version=version,"
2012-02-14 12:57:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d31f3785dc Merge branch 'mh/war-on-extra-refs'
* mh/war-on-extra-refs:
  refs: remove the extra_refs API
  clone: do not add alternate references to extra_refs
  everything_local(): mark alternate refs as complete
  fetch-pack.c: inline insert_alternate_refs()
  fetch-pack.c: rename some parameters from "path" to "refname"
  clone.c: move more code into the "if (refs)" conditional
  t5700: document a failure of alternates to affect fetch
2012-02-14 12:57:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
63d37c3062 Merge branch 'jk/userdiff-config-simplify'
* jk/userdiff-config-simplify:
  drop odd return value semantics from userdiff_config
2012-02-14 12:57:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
aa47ec99d1 Merge branch 'jc/checkout-out-of-unborn'
* jc/checkout-out-of-unborn:
  git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn branch
2012-02-12 22:43:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2ef80c2d89 Merge branch 'nd/diffstat-gramnum'
* nd/diffstat-gramnum:
  Use correct grammar in diffstat summary line
2012-02-12 22:43:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a7844827da Merge branch 'nd/cache-tree-api-refactor'
* nd/cache-tree-api-refactor:
  cache-tree: update API to take abitrary flags
2012-02-12 22:42:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1efb73322a Merge branch 'jk/maint-tag-show-fixes'
* jk/maint-tag-show-fixes:
  tag: do not show non-tag contents with "-n"
  tag: die when listing missing or corrupt objects
  tag: fix output of "tag -n" when errors occur

Conflicts:
	t/t7004-tag.sh
2012-02-12 22:42:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5cdc9fbb08 Merge branch 'jn/merge-no-edit-fix'
* jn/merge-no-edit-fix:
  merge: do not launch an editor on "--no-edit $tag"

Conflicts:
	builtin/merge.c
2012-02-12 22:41:51 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
a1287f7540 clone: do not add alternate references to extra_refs
Alternate references are directly (and now, correctly) handled by
fetch-pack, so there is no need to inform fetch-pack about them via
the extra_refs back channel.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-12 19:50:39 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
f257659132 everything_local(): mark alternate refs as complete
Objects in an alternate object database are already available to the
local repository and therefore don't need to be fetched.  So mark them
as complete in everything_local().

This fixes a test in t5700.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-12 19:50:39 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
c41a802fe9 fetch-pack.c: inline insert_alternate_refs()
The logic of the (single) caller is clearer without encapsulating this
one line in a function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-12 19:50:39 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
65385ef7d4 fetch-pack.c: rename some parameters from "path" to "refname"
The parameters denote reference names, which are no longer 1:1 with
filesystem paths.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-12 19:50:39 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
5b05795c4c clone.c: move more code into the "if (refs)" conditional
The bahavior of a bunch of code before the "if (refs)" statement also
depends on whether refs is set, so make the logic clearer by shifting
this code into the if statement.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-12 19:50:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ee8d52f839 Merge branch 'js/add-e-submodule-fix'
* js/add-e-submodule-fix:
  add -e: do not show difference in a submodule that is merely dirty
2012-02-10 14:08:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3d8bc74127 Merge branch 'jc/parse-date-raw'
* jc/parse-date-raw:
  parse_date(): '@' prefix forces git-timestamp
  parse_date(): allow ancient git-timestamp
2012-02-10 14:08:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fd6abd0c65 Merge branch 'jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge'
* jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge:
  merge: do not create a signed tag merge under --ff-only option
2012-02-10 14:08:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d88698ec0b Merge branch 'jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance'
* jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance:
  branch --edit-description: protect against mistyped branch name
2012-02-10 14:07:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3adab6f3a7 merge: do not launch an editor on "--no-edit $tag"
When the user explicitly asked us not to, don't launch an editor.

But do everything else the same way as the "edit" case, i.e. leave the
comment with verification result in the log template and record the
mergesig in the resulting merge commit for later inspection.

Based on initiail analysis by Jonathan Nieder.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-09 13:30:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
31fd8d72f2 tag: do not show non-tag contents with "-n"
"git tag -n" did not check the type of the object it is reading the top n
lines from. At least, avoid showing the beginning of trees and blobs when
dealing with lightweight tags that point at them.

As the payload of a tag and a commit look similar in that they both start
with a header block, which is skipped for the purpose of "-n" output,
followed by human readable text, allow the message of commit objects to be
shown just like the contents of tag objects. This avoids regression for
people who have been using "tag -n" to show the log messages of commits
that are pointed at by lightweight tags.

Test script is from Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-08 20:44:39 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
e859c69b26 cache-tree: update API to take abitrary flags
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-07 16:35:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6f1ede8423 Merge branch 'jx/i18n-more-marking'
* jx/i18n-more-marking:
  i18n: format_tracking_info "Your branch is behind" message
  i18n: git-commit whence_s "merge/cherry-pick" message
2012-02-07 12:56:54 -08:00
Jeff King
6680a0874f drop odd return value semantics from userdiff_config
When the userdiff_config function was introduced in be58e70
(diff: unify external diff and funcname parsing code,
2008-10-05), it used a return value convention unlike any
other config callback. Like other callbacks, it used "-1" to
signal error. But it returned "1" to indicate that it found
something, and "0" otherwise; other callbacks simply
returned "0" to indicate that no error occurred.

This distinction was necessary at the time, because the
userdiff namespace overlapped slightly with the color
configuration namespace. So "diff.color.foo" could mean "the
'foo' slot of diff coloring" or "the 'foo' component of the
"color" userdiff driver". Because the color-parsing code
would die on an unknown color slot, we needed the userdiff
code to indicate that it had matched the variable, letting
us bypass the color-parsing code entirely.

Later, in 8b8e862 (ignore unknown color configuration,
2009-12-12), the color-parsing code learned to silently
ignore unknown slots. This means we no longer need to
protect userdiff-matched variables from reaching the
color-parsing code.

We can therefore change the userdiff_config calling
convention to a more normal one. This drops some code from
each caller, which is nice. But more importantly, it reduces
the cognitive load for readers who may wonder why
userdiff_config is unlike every other config callback.

There's no need to add a new test confirming that this
works; t4020 already contains a test that sets
diff.color.external.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-07 10:44:54 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
701825de23 add -e: do not show difference in a submodule that is merely dirty
When the HEAD of the submodule matches what is recorded in the index of
the superproject, and it has local changes or untracked files, the patch
offered by "git add -e" for editing shows a diff like this:

    diff --git a/submodule b/submodule
    <header>
    -deadbeef...
    +deadbeef...-dirty

Because applying such a patch has no effect to the index, this is a
useless noise.  Generate the patch with IGNORE_DIRTY_SUBMODULES flag to
prevent such a change from getting reported.

This patch also loses the "-dirty" suffix from the output when the HEAD of
the submodule is different from what is in the index of the superproject.
As such dirtiness expressed by the suffix does not affect the result of
the patch application at all, there is no information lost if we remove
it. The user could still run "git status" before "git add -e" if s/he
cares about the dirtiness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-07 08:59:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
abe199808c git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn branch
Running "git checkout -b another" immediately after "git init" when you do
not even have a commit on 'master' fails with:

    $ git checkout -b another
    fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born

This is unnecessary, if we redefine "git checkout -b $name" that does not
take any $start_point (which has to be a commit) as "I want to check out a
new branch $name from the state I am in".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-06 16:32:15 -08:00
Jeff King
fb630e048c tag: die when listing missing or corrupt objects
We don't usually bother looking at tagged objects at all
when listing. However, if "-n" is specified, we open the
objects to read the annotations of the tags.  If we fail to
read an object, or if the object has zero length, we simply
silently return.

The first case is an indication of a broken or corrupt repo,
and we should notify the user of the error.

The second case is OK to silently ignore; however, the
existing code leaked the buffer returned by read_sha1_file.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-06 10:00:51 -08:00
Jeff King
ca51699961 tag: fix output of "tag -n" when errors occur
When "git tag" is instructed to print lines from annotated
tags via "-n", it first prints the tag name, then attempts
to parse and print the lines of the tag object, and then
finally adds a trailing newline.

If an error occurs, we return early from the function and
never print the newline, screwing up the output for the next
tag. Let's factor the line-printing into its own function so
we can manage the early returns better, and make sure that
we always terminate the line.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-06 10:00:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c2d17ba3db branch --edit-description: protect against mistyped branch name
It is very easy to mistype the branch name when editing its description,
e.g.

	$ git checkout -b my-topic master
	: work work work
	: now we are at a good point to switch working something else
	$ git checkout master
	: ah, let's write it down before we forget what we were doing
	$ git branch --edit-description my-tpoic

The command does not notice that branch 'my-tpoic' does not exist.  It is
not lost (it becomes description of an unborn my-tpoic branch), but is not
very useful.  So detect such a case and error out to reduce the grief
factor from this common mistake.

This incidentally also errors out --edit-description when the HEAD points
at an unborn branch (immediately after "init", or "checkout --orphan"),
because at that point, you do not even have any commit that is part of
your history and there is no point in describing how this particular
branch is different from the branch it forked off of, which is the useful
bit of information the branch description is designed to capture.

We may want to special case the unborn case later, but that is outside the
scope of this patch to prevent more common mistakes before 1.7.9 series
gains too much widespread use.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-05 17:28:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b5c9f1c1b0 merge: do not create a signed tag merge under --ff-only option
Starting at release v1.7.9, if you ask to merge a signed tag, "git merge"
always creates a merge commit, even when the tag points at a commit that
happens to be a descendant of your current commit.

Unfortunately, this interacts rather badly for people who use --ff-only to
make sure that their branch is free of local developments. It used to be
possible to say:

	$ git checkout -b frotz v1.7.9~30
        $ git merge --ff-only v1.7.9

and expect that the resulting tip of frotz branch matches v1.7.9^0 (aka
the commit tagged as v1.7.9), but this fails with the updated Git with:

	fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting.

because a merge that merges v1.7.9 tag to v1.7.9~30 cannot be created by
fast forwarding.

We could teach users that now they have to do

	$ git merge --ff-only v1.7.9^0

but it is far more pleasant for users if we DWIMmed this ourselves.

When an integrator pulls in a topic from a lieutenant via a signed tag,
even when the work done by the lieutenant happens to fast-forward, the
integrator wants to have a merge record, so the integrator will not be
asking for --ff-only when running "git pull" in such a case. Therefore,
this change should not regress the support for the use case v1.7.9 wanted
to add.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-05 16:30:26 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
7f814632f5 Use correct grammar in diffstat summary line
"git diff --stat" and "git apply --stat" now learn to print the line
"%d files changed, %d insertions(+), %d deletions(-)" in singular form
whenever applicable. "0 insertions" and "0 deletions" are also omitted
unless they are both zero.

This matches how versions of "diffstat" that are not prehistoric produced
their output, and also makes this line translatable.

[jc: with help from Thomas Dickey in archaeology of "diffstat"]
[jc: squashed Jonathan's updates to illustrations in tutorials and a test]

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-03 23:19:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2c733fb24c parse_date(): '@' prefix forces git-timestamp
The only place that the issue this series addresses was observed
where we read "cat-file commit" output and put it in GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
in order to replay a commit with an ancient timestamp.

With the previous patch alone, "git commit --date='20100917 +0900'"
can be misinterpreted to mean an ancient timestamp, not September in
year 2010.  Guard this codepath by requring an extra '@' in front of
the raw git timestamp on the parsing side. This of course needs to
be compensated by updating get_author_ident_from_commit and the code
for "git commit --amend" to prepend '@' to the string read from the
existing commit in the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-03 23:11:32 -08:00
Jiang Xin
be39de2b26 i18n: git-commit whence_s "merge/cherry-pick" message
Mark the "merge/cherry-pick" messages in whence_s for translation.
These messages returned from whence_s function are used as argument
to build other messages.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
99fb6e04cb pack-objects: convert to use parse_options()
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-01 13:05:00 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3a2ec52e99 pack-objects: remove bogus comment
The comment was introduced in b5d97e6 (pack-objects: run rev-list
equivalent internally. - 2006-09-04), stating that

git pack-objects [options] base-name <refs...>

is acceptable and refs should be passed into rev-list. But that's not
true. All arguments after base-name are ignored.

Remove the comment and reject this syntax (i.e. no more arguments after
base name)

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-01 13:04:11 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6a301345a5 pack-objects: do not accept "--index-version=version,"
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-01 13:03:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
873ce7c8d5 Merge branch 'tr/merge-edit-guidance'
* tr/merge-edit-guidance:
  merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing
2012-01-31 22:31:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
af6b37fab1 Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag'
* jc/pull-signed-tag:
  merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions

Conflicts:
	Documentation/merge-options.txt
2012-01-31 22:30:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5ce2b97d2c Merge branch 'nd/clone-detached'
* nd/clone-detached:
  clone: fix up delay cloning conditions
  push: do not let configured foreign-vcs permanently clobbered
  clone: print advice on checking out detached HEAD
  clone: allow --branch to take a tag
  clone: refuse to clone if --branch points to bogus ref
  clone: --branch=<branch> always means refs/heads/<branch>
  clone: delay cloning until after remote HEAD checking
  clone: factor out remote ref writing
  clone: factor out HEAD update code
  clone: factor out checkout code
  clone: write detached HEAD in bare repositories
  t5601: add missing && cascade
2012-01-31 22:24:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3e9e416593 Merge branch 'tr/grep-l-with-decoration'
* tr/grep-l-with-decoration:
  grep: fix -l/-L interaction with decoration lines
2012-01-31 22:01:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7010146f90 Merge branch 'rr/sequencer'
* rr/sequencer:
  sequencer: factor code out of revert builtin
  revert: prepare to move replay_action to header

Conflicts:
	builtin/revert.c
2012-01-31 22:01:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
87a23e77c6 Merge branch 'jc/advise-i18n'
* jc/advise-i18n:
  i18n of multi-line advice messages
2012-01-31 22:01:14 -08:00
Thomas Rast
f26af3fcbc merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing
Before f824628 (merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions,
2012-01-10), git-merge only started an editor if the user explicitly
asked for it with --edit.  Thus it seemed unlikely that the user would
need extra guidance.

After f824628 the _normal_ thing is to start an editor.  Give at least
an indication of why we are doing it.

The sentence about justification is one of the few things about
standard git that are not agnostic to the workflow that the user
chose.  However, f824628 was proposed by Linus specifically to
discourage users from merging unrelated upstream progress into topic
branches.  So we may as well take another step in the same direction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-31 12:04:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5a304dd303 Merge branch 'nd/index-pack-no-recurse'
* nd/index-pack-no-recurse:
  index-pack: eliminate unlimited recursion in get_base_data()
  index-pack: eliminate recursion in find_unresolved_deltas
  Eliminate recursion in setting/clearing marks in commit list
2012-01-29 13:18:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a734e7ef6c Merge branch 'mh/ref-clone-without-extra-refs'
* mh/ref-clone-without-extra-refs:
  write_remote_refs(): create packed (rather than extra) refs
  add_packed_ref(): new function in the refs API.
  ref_array: keep track of whether references are sorted
  pack_refs(): remove redundant check
2012-01-29 13:18:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bff64a9cda Merge branch 'tr/maint-mailinfo'
* tr/maint-mailinfo:
  mailinfo: with -b, keep space after [foo]
  am: learn passing -b to mailinfo

Conflicts:
	git-am.sh
2012-01-29 13:18:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
02a20d1038 Merge branch 'nd/maint-refname-in-hierarchy-check'
* nd/maint-refname-in-hierarchy-check:
  Fix incorrect ref namespace check
2012-01-29 13:18:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7b718fbf17 Merge branch 'cb/push-quiet'
* cb/push-quiet:
  t5541: avoid TAP test miscounting
  fix push --quiet: add 'quiet' capability to receive-pack
  server_supports(): parse feature list more carefully
2012-01-29 13:18:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7859f533e2 Merge branch 'nd/clone-single-branch'
* nd/clone-single-branch:
  clone: add --single-branch to fetch only one branch
2012-01-29 13:18:50 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
9049816140 clone: fix up delay cloning conditions
6f48d39 (clone: delay cloning until after remote HEAD checking -
2012-01-16) allows us to perform some checks on remote refs before the
actual cloning happens. But not all transport types support
this. Remote helper with "import" capability will not return complete
ref information until fetch is performed and therefore the clone cannot
be delayed.

foreign_vcs field in struct remote was used to detect this kind of transport
and save the result. This is a mistake because foreign_vcs is designed
to override url-based transport detection. As a result, if the same
"struct transport *" object is used on many different urls and one of
them attached remote transport, the following urls will be mistakenly
attached to the same transport. This fault is worked around by dad0b3d
(push: do not let configured foreign-vcs permanently clobbered -
2012-01-23)

To fix this, detect incomplete refs from transport_get_remote_refs()
by SHA-1. Incomplete ones must have null SHA-1 (*). Then revert
changes related to foreign_cvs field in 6f48d39 and dad0b3d.

A good thing from this change is that cloning smart http transport can
also be delayed. Earlier it falls into the same category "remote
transport, no delay".

(*) Theoretically if one of the remote refs happens to have null SHA-1,
it will trigger false alarm and the clone will not be delayed. But
that chance may be too small for us to pay attention to.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-24 10:05:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dad0b3d8e5 push: do not let configured foreign-vcs permanently clobbered
Recently, 6f48d39 (clone: delay cloning until after remote HEAD checking,
2012-01-16) tried to record if a remote helper needs to be called after
parsing the remote when transport_get() is called, by overwriting the
field meant to store the configured remote helper name in the remote
structure.

This is OK when a remote represents a single remote repository, but fails
miserably when pushing to locations with multiple URLs, like this:

    $ cat .git/config
    [remote "origin"]
        url = https://code.google.com/p/git-htmldocs/
        url = github.com:gitster/git-htmldocs.git
        push = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master
    $ git push

The second url that is supposed to use the git-over-ssh transport
mistakenly use https:// and fails with:

    error: Couldn't resolve host 'github.com:gitster' while accessing
    github.com:gitster/git-htmldocs.git/info/refs
    fatal: HTTP request failed

The right solution would probably be to dedicate a separate field to store
the detected external helper to be used, which is valid only during a
single use of transport until it is disconnected, instead of overwriting
foreign_vcs field, but in the meantime, this band-aid should suffice.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-23 16:38:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f8246281af merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions
Traditionally, a cleanly resolved merge was committed by "git merge" using
the auto-generated merge commit log message without invoking the editor.

After 5 years of use in the field, it turns out that people perform too
many unjustified merges of the upstream history into their topic branches.
These merges are not just useless, but they are often not explained well,
and making the end result unreadable when it gets time for merging their
history back to their upstream.

Earlier we added the "--edit" option to the command, so that people can
edit the log message to explain and justify their merge commits. Let's
take it one step further and spawn the editor by default when we are in an
interactive session (i.e. the standard input and the standard output are
pointing at the same tty device).

There may be existing scripts that leave the standard input and the
standard output of the "git merge" connected to whatever environment the
scripts were started, and such invocation might trigger the above
"interactive session" heuristics.  GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable
can be set to "no" at the beginning of such scripts to use the historical
behaviour while the script runs.

Note that this backward compatibility is meant only for scripts, and we
deliberately do *not* support "merge.edit = yes/no/auto" configuration
option to allow people to keep the historical behaviour.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-23 14:34:55 -08:00