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Junio C Hamano
9cf0137bdf Merge branch 'bg/install-branch-config-skip-prefix'
* bg/install-branch-config-skip-prefix:
  branch: use skip_prefix() in install_branch_config()
  t3200-branch: test setting branch as own upstream
2014-03-18 13:51:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6bd3424176 Merge branch 'jn/branch-lift-unnecessary-name-length-limit'
* jn/branch-lift-unnecessary-name-length-limit:
  branch.c: delete size check of newly tracked branch names
2014-03-18 13:50:48 -07:00
Brian Gesiak
303d1d0bd6 branch: use skip_prefix() in install_branch_config()
The install_branch_config() function reimplemented the skip_prefix()
function inline.

Reported-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gesiak <modocache@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-06 13:54:17 -08:00
Jacopo Notarstefano
9ef5e2a722 branch.c: delete size check of newly tracked branch names
Since commit 6f084a56 the length of a newly tracked branch name was limited
to 1019 = 1024 - 7 - 7 - 1 characters, a bound derived by having to store
this name in a char[1024] called key with two strings of length at most 7
and a '\0' character.

This was no longer necessary as of commit a9f2c136, which uses a strbuf
(documented in Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt) to store this value.

Remove this unneeded check to allow branch names longer than 1019
characters.

Signed-off-by: Jacopo Notarstefano <jacopo.notarstefano@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-05 12:26:51 -08:00
Christian Couder
5955654823 replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.

The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:

    $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
      grep -v strbuf\\.c |
      xargs perl -pi -e '
        s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
        s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
        s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
        s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
      '

on the result of preparatory changes in this series.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05 14:13:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
74051fa805 Merge branch 'jh/checkout-auto-tracking' into maint
"git branch --track" had a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later
that made it impossible to base your local work on anything but a
local branch of the upstream repository you are tracking from.

* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
  t3200: fix failure on case-insensitive filesystems
  branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
  t3200: Add test demonstrating minor regression in 41c21f2
  Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
  t3200: Minor fix when preparing for tracking failure
  t2024: Fix &&-chaining and a couple of typos
2013-10-23 13:32:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9a86b89941 Merge branch 'bk/refs-multi-update'
Give "update-refs" a "--stdin" option to read multiple update
requests and perform them in an all-or-none fashion.

* bk/refs-multi-update:
  update-ref: add test cases covering --stdin signature
  update-ref: support multiple simultaneous updates
  refs: add update_refs for multiple simultaneous updates
  refs: add function to repack without multiple refs
  refs: factor delete_ref loose ref step into a helper
  refs: factor update_ref steps into helpers
  refs: report ref type from lock_any_ref_for_update
  reset: rename update_refs to reset_refs
2013-09-20 12:36:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b05fc49adc Merge branch 'jh/checkout-auto-tracking'
Fix a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later that made it
impossible to base your local work on anything but a local branch
of the upstream repository you are tracking from.

* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
  t3200: fix failure on case-insensitive filesystems
  branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
  t3200: Add test demonstrating minor regression in 41c21f2
  Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
  t3200: Minor fix when preparing for tracking failure
  t2024: Fix &&-chaining and a couple of typos
2013-09-20 12:31:57 -07:00
Per Cederqvist
1d7358c524 branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
When creating an upstream relationship, we use the configured remotes and
their refspecs to determine the upstream configuration settings
branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge. However, if the matching
refspec does not have refs/heads/<something> on the remote side, we end
up rejecting the match, and failing the upstream configuration.

It could be argued that when we set up an branch's upstream, we want that
upstream to also be a proper branch in the remote repo. Although this is
typically the common case, there are cases (as demonstrated by the previous
patch in this series) where this requirement prevents a useful upstream
relationship from being formed. Furthermore:

 - We have fundamentally no say in how the remote repo have organized its
   branches. The remote repo may put branches (or branch-like constructs
   that are insteresting for downstreams to track) outside refs/heads/*.

 - The user may intentionally want to track a non-branch from a remote
   repo, by using a branch and configured upstream in the local repo.

Relaxing the checking to only require a matching remote/refspec allows the
testcase introduced in the previous patch to succeed, and has no negative
effect on the rest of the test suite.

This patch fixes a behavior (arguably a regression) first introduced in
41c21f2 (branch.c: Validate tracking branches with refspecs instead of
refs/remotes/*) on 2013-04-21 (released in >= v1.8.3.2).

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:03:20 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
82a0672f8e branch: trivial style fix
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-30 20:58:49 -07:00
Brad King
9bbb0fa1fd refs: report ref type from lock_any_ref_for_update
Expose lock_ref_sha1_basic's type_p argument to callers of
lock_any_ref_for_update.  Update all call sites to ignore it by passing
NULL for now.

Signed-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-30 14:57:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
77eb44b8ed Merge branch 'jh/checkout-auto-tracking'
Update "git checkout foo" that DWIMs the intended "upstream" and
turns it into "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo" to
correctly take existing remote definitions into account.

The remote "origin" may be what uniquely map its own branch to
remotes/some/where/foo but that some/where may not be "origin".

* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
  glossary: Update and rephrase the definition of a remote-tracking branch
  branch.c: Validate tracking branches with refspecs instead of refs/remotes/*
  t9114.2: Don't use --track option against "svn-remote"-tracking branches
  t7201.24: Add refspec to keep --track working
  t3200.39: tracking setup should fail if there is no matching refspec.
  checkout: Use remote refspecs when DWIMming tracking branches
  t2024: Show failure to use refspec when DWIMming remote branch names
  t2024: Add tests verifying current DWIM behavior of 'git checkout <branch>'
2013-05-29 14:23:10 -07:00
Johan Herland
41c21f22d0 branch.c: Validate tracking branches with refspecs instead of refs/remotes/*
The current code for validating tracking branches (e.g. the argument to
the -t/--track option) hardcodes refs/heads/* and refs/remotes/* as the
potential locations for tracking branches. This works with the refspecs
created by "git clone" or "git remote add", but is suboptimal in other
cases:

 - If "refs/remotes/foo/bar" exists without any association to a remote
   (i.e. there is no remote named "foo", or no remote with a refspec
   that matches "refs/remotes/foo/bar"), then it is impossible to set up
   a valid upstream config that tracks it. Currently, the code defaults
   to using "refs/remotes/foo/bar" from repo "." as the upstream, which
   works, but is probably not what the user had in mind when running
   "git branch baz --track foo/bar".

 - If the user has tweaked the fetch refspec for a remote to put its
   remote-tracking branches outside of refs/remotes/*, e.g. by running
       git config remote.foo.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/foo_stuff/*"
   then the current code will refuse to use its remote-tracking branches
   as --track arguments, since they do not match refs/remotes/*.

This patch removes the "refs/remotes/*" requirement for upstream branches,
and replaces it with explicit checking of the refspecs for each remote to
determine whether a given --track argument is a valid remote-tracking
branch. This solves both of the above problems, since the matching refspec
guarantees that there is a both a remote name and a remote branch name
that can be used for the upstream config.

However, this means that refs located within refs/remotes/* without a
corresponding remote/refspec will no longer be usable as upstreams.
The few existing tests which depended on this behavioral quirk has
already been fixed in the preceding patches.

This patch fixes the last remaining test failure in t2024-checkout-dwim.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-21 15:14:42 -07:00
Jiang Xin
bc554df8c9 i18n: branch: mark strings for translation
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 21:05:21 -07:00
Jeff King
caa2036b3b branch: give advice when tracking start-point is missing
If the user requests to --set-upstream-to a branch that does
not exist, then either:

  1. It was a typo.

  2. They thought the branch should exist.

In case (1), there is not much we can do beyond showing the
name we tried to use. For case (2), though, we can help to
guide them through common workflows.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02 16:14:13 -07:00
Jeff King
1a15d00bb9 branch: mention start_name in set-upstream error messages
If we refuse a branch operation because the tracking
start_name the user gave us is bogus, we just print
something like:

 fatal: Cannot setup tracking information; start point is not a branch

If we mention the actual name we tried to use, that may help
the user figure out why it didn't work (e.g., if they gave
us the arguments in the wrong order).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02 16:14:12 -07:00
Jeff King
a5e91c722c branch: improve error message for missing --set-upstream-to ref
If we are trying to set the upstream config for a branch,
the create_branch function will check both that the name
resolves as a ref, and that it is either a local or
remote-tracking branch.

However, before we do so we run get_sha1 on it to find out
whether it resolves at all (since the create_branch function
is also used to create actual branches, it wants to know
where to start the new branch). This means that if you feed
a ref that does not exist to "branch --set-upstream-to",
rather than getting a helpful message about tracking, you
only get "not a valid object name".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02 16:14:10 -07:00
Jeff King
e2b6aa5f1b branch: factor out "upstream is not a branch" error messages
This message is duplicated, and is quite long. Let's factor
it out, which avoids the repetition and the long lines. It
will also make future patches easier as we tweak the
message.

While we're at it, let's also mark it for translation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02 16:14:08 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
d53a35032a Remove i18n legos in notifying new branch tracking setup
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-07 11:46:02 -07:00
Jeff King
f9a482e62b checkout: suppress tracking message with "-q"
Like the "switched to..." message (which is already
suppressed by "-q"), this message is purely informational.
Let's silence it if the user asked us to be quiet.

This patch is slightly more than a one-liner, because we
have to teach create_branch to propagate the flag all the
way down to install_branch_config.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-26 21:32:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2e05710a16 Merge branch 'nd/resolve-ref'
* nd/resolve-ref:
  Rename resolve_ref() to resolve_ref_unsafe()
  Convert resolve_ref+xstrdup to new resolve_refdup function
  revert: convert resolve_ref() to read_ref_full()
2011-12-19 16:05:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b8fc5abd73 Merge branch 'jn/maint-sequencer-fixes'
* jn/maint-sequencer-fixes:
  revert: stop creating and removing sequencer-old directory
  Revert "reset: Make reset remove the sequencer state"
  revert: do not remove state until sequence is finished
  revert: allow single-pick in the middle of cherry-pick sequence
  revert: pass around rev-list args in already-parsed form
  revert: allow cherry-pick --continue to commit before resuming
  revert: give --continue handling its own function
2011-12-19 16:05:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b2dd021120 Merge branch 'jn/branch-move-to-self'
* jn/branch-move-to-self:
  Allow checkout -B <current-branch> to update the current branch
  branch: allow a no-op "branch -M <current-branch> HEAD"
2011-12-13 22:53:08 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
8cad4744ee Rename resolve_ref() to resolve_ref_unsafe()
resolve_ref() may return a pointer to a shared buffer and can be
overwritten by the next resolve_ref() calls. Callers need to
pay attention, not to keep the pointer when the next call happens.

Rename with "_unsafe" suffix to warn developers (or reviewers) before
introducing new call sites.

This patch is generated using the following command

git grep -l 'resolve_ref(' -- '*.[ch]'|xargs sed -i 's/resolve_ref(/resolve_ref_unsafe(/g'

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-13 09:39:46 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
a7eff1e027 Revert "reset: Make reset remove the sequencer state"
This reverts commit 95eb88d8ee, which
was a UI experiment that did not reflect how "git reset" actually gets
used.  The reversion also fixes a test, indicated in the patch.

Encouraged-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-12 13:33:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a4043aeafe Merge branch 'jc/request-pull-show-head-4'
* jc/request-pull-show-head-4:
  request-pull: use the annotated tag contents
  fmt-merge-msg.c: Fix an "dubious one-bit signed bitfield" sparse error
  environment.c: Fix an sparse "symbol not declared" warning
  builtin/log.c: Fix an "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning
  fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.description
  request-pull: use the branch description
  request-pull: state what commit to expect
  request-pull: modernize style
  branch: teach --edit-description option
  format-patch: use branch description in cover letter
  branch: add read_branch_desc() helper function

Conflicts:
	builtin/branch.c
2011-12-09 13:37:05 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
39bd6f7261 Allow checkout -B <current-branch> to update the current branch
When on master, "git checkout -B master <commit>" is a more natural way to
say "git reset --keep <commit>", which was originally invented for the
exact purpose of moving to the named commit while keeping the local changes
around.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-28 11:40:46 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
82433cdf4d revert: write REVERT_HEAD pseudoref during conflicted revert
When conflicts are encountered while reverting a commit, it can be
handy to have the name of that commit easily available.  For example,
to produce a copy of the patch to refer to while resolving conflicts:

	$ git revert 2eceb2a8
	error: could not revert 2eceb2a8... awesome, buggy feature
	$ git show -R REVERT_HEAD >the-patch
	$ edit $(git diff --name-only)

Set a REVERT_HEAD pseudoref when "git revert" does not make a commit,
for cases like this.  This also makes it possible for scripts to
distinguish between a revert that encountered conflicts and other
sources of an unmerged index.

After successfully committing, resetting with "git reset", or moving
to another commit with "git checkout" or "git reset", the pseudoref is
no longer useful, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-22 13:34:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6f9a332144 branch: add read_branch_desc() helper function
This will be used by various callers that make use of the branch
description throughout the system, so that if we need to update
the implementation the callers do not have to be modified.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-05 14:48:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cd4093b603 Merge branch 'rr/revert-cherry-pick-continue'
* rr/revert-cherry-pick-continue:
  builtin/revert.c: make commit_list_append() static
  revert: Propagate errors upwards from do_pick_commit
  revert: Introduce --continue to continue the operation
  revert: Don't implicitly stomp pending sequencer operation
  revert: Remove sequencer state when no commits are pending
  reset: Make reset remove the sequencer state
  revert: Introduce --reset to remove sequencer state
  revert: Make pick_commits functionally act on a commit list
  revert: Save command-line options for continuing operation
  revert: Save data for continuing after conflict resolution
  revert: Don't create invalid replay_opts in parse_args
  revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional code
  revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options
  revert: Eliminate global "commit" variable
  revert: Rename no_replay to record_origin
  revert: Don't check lone argument in get_encoding
  revert: Simplify and inline add_message_to_msg
  config: Introduce functions to write non-standard file
  advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict
2011-10-05 12:36:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c103e9529c Merge branch 'ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update'
* ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update:
  branch --set-upstream: regression fix
2011-09-16 21:48:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fa79937675 branch --set-upstream: regression fix
The "git branch" command, while not in listing mode, calls create_branch()
even when the target branch already exists, and it does so even when it is
not interested in updating the value of the branch (i.e. the name of the
commit object that sits at the tip of the existing branch). This happens
when the command is run with "--set-upstream" option.

The earlier safety-measure to prevent "git branch -f $branch $commit" from
updating the currently checked out branch did not take it into account,
and we no longer can update the tracking information of the current branch.

Minimally fix this regression by telling the validation code if it is
called to really update the value of a potentially existing branch, or if
the caller merely is interested in updating auxiliary aspects of a branch.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Jay Soffian
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-16 21:47:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1da6d98a9a Merge branch 'ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update'
* ci/forbid-unwanted-current-branch-update:
  Show interpreted branch name in error messages
  Prevent force-updating of the current branch
2011-08-28 21:19:31 -07:00
Conrad Irwin
587a9ee7da Show interpreted branch name in error messages
Change the error message when doing: "git branch @{-1}",
"git checkout -b @{-1}", or "git branch -m foo @{-1}"

 * was: A branch named '@{-1}' already exists.
 * now: A branch named 'bar' already exists.

Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-22 16:03:43 -07:00
Conrad Irwin
55c4a67307 Prevent force-updating of the current branch
"git branch -M <foo> <current-branch>" allows updating the current branch
which HEAD points, without the necessary house-keeping that git reset
normally does to make this operation sensible. It also leaves the reflog
in a confusing state (you would be warned when trying to read it).

"git checkout -B <current branch> <foo>" is also partly vulnerable to this
bug; due to inconsistent pre-flight checks it would perform half of its
task and then abort just before rewriting the branch. Again this
manifested itself as the index file getting out-of-sync with HEAD.

"git branch -f" already guarded against this problem, and aborts with
a fatal error.

Update "git branch -M", "git checkout -B" and "git branch -f" to share the
same check before allowing a branch to be created. These prevent you from
updating the current branch.

We considered suggesting the use of "git reset" in the failure message
but concluded that it was not possible to discern what the user was
actually trying to do.

Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-22 16:00:36 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
e9d4f7405b branch.c: use the parsed branch name
When setting up tracking info, branch.c uses the given branch specifier
("name"). Use the parsed name ("ref.buf") instead so that

git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo

sets up tracking info for the previous branch rather than for a branch
named "@{-1}".

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-19 11:01:36 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
95eb88d8ee reset: Make reset remove the sequencer state
Years of muscle memory have trained users to use "git reset --hard" to
remove the branch state after any sort operation.  Make it also remove
the sequencer state to facilitate this established workflow:

  $ git cherry-pick foo..bar
  ... conflict encountered ...
  $ git reset --hard # Oops, I didn't mean that
  $ git cherry-pick quux..bar
  ... cherry-pick succeeded ...

Guard against accidental removal of the sequencer state by providing
one level of "undo".  In the first "reset" invocation,
".git/sequencer" is moved to ".git/sequencer-old"; it is completely
removed only in the second invocation.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-08 09:24:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
663ee1a4c9 Merge branch 'jh/maint-do-not-track-non-branches'
* jh/maint-do-not-track-non-branches:
  branch/checkout --track: Ensure that upstream branch is indeed a branch
2011-03-15 14:22:13 -07:00
Jay Soffian
d7e5c0cbfb Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
When a cherry-pick conflicts git advises:

 $ git commit -c <original commit id>

to preserve the original commit message and authorship. Instead, let's
record the original commit id in CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and advise:

  $ git commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD

A later patch teaches git to handle the '-c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' part.
Note that we record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD even in the case where there
are no conflicts so that we may use it to communicate authorship to
commit; this will then allow us to remove set_author_ident_env from
revert.c. However, we do not record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when --no-commit
is used, as presumably the user intends to further edit the commit
and possibly even cherry-pick additional commits on top.

Tests and documentation contributed by Jonathan Nieder.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 22:58:02 -08:00
Johan Herland
21b5b1e8dc branch/checkout --track: Ensure that upstream branch is indeed a branch
When creating a new branch using the --track option, we must make sure that
we don't try to set an upstream that does not make sense to follow (using
'git pull') or update (using 'git push'). The current code checks against
using HEAD as upstream (since tracking a symref doesn't make sense). However,
tracking a tag doesn't make sense either. Indeed, tracking _any_ ref that is
not a (local or remote) branch doesn't make sense, and should be disallowed.

This patch achieves this by checking that the ref we're trying to --track
resides within refs/heads/* or refs/remotes/*. This new check replaces the
previous check against HEAD.

A couple of testcases are also added, verifying that we cannot create
branches with tags as upstreams.

Finally, some selftests relying on using a non-branch as an upstream have
been reworked or removed:

- t6040: Reverse the meaning of two tests that depend on the ability to
use (lightweight and annotated) tags as upstreams. These two tests were
originally added in commits 1be570f and 57ffc5f, and this patch reverts the
intention of those two commits.

- t7201: Remove part of a test (introduced in 9188ed8) relying on a
non-branch as upstream.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-16 16:55:56 -08:00
Tay Ray Chuan
cc70148385 builtin/checkout: handle -B from detached HEAD correctly
Ensure that strcmp() isn't called when head is null.

Previously we were getting segfaults when checkout -B was done from a
detached HEAD.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09 12:57:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
da288e25d9 Merge branch 'rc/maint-reflog-msg-for-forced-branch'
* rc/maint-reflog-msg-for-forced-branch:
  branch: say "Reset to" in reflog entries for 'git branch -f' operations

Conflicts:
	builtin-branch.c
2010-04-09 20:42:10 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
85e2233f98 branch: warn and refuse to set a branch as a tracking branch of itself.
Previous patch allows commands like "git branch --set-upstream foo foo",
which doesn't make much sense. Warn the user and don't change the
configuration in this case. Don't die to let the caller finish its job in
such case.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-18 17:46:28 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
4fc5006676 Add branch --set-upstream
Add --set-upstream option to branch that works like --track, except that
when branch exists already, its upstream info is changed without changing
the ref value.

Based-on-patch-from: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-18 17:09:32 -08:00
Thomas Rast
d824cbba02 Convert existing die(..., strerror(errno)) to die_errno()
Change calls to die(..., strerror(errno)) to use the new die_errno().

In the process, also make slight style adjustments: at least state
_something_ about the function that failed (instead of just printing
the pathname), and put paths in single quotes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-27 11:14:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a2fab531bb strbuf_check_branch_ref(): a helper to check a refname for a branch
This allows a common calling sequence

	strbuf_branchname(&ref, name);
	strbuf_splice(&ref, 0, 0, "refs/heads/", 11);
	if (check_ref_format(ref.buf))
		die(...);

to be refactored into

	if (strbuf_check_branch_ref(&ref, name))
		die(...);

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22 23:52:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a552de75eb strbuf_branchname(): a wrapper for branch name shorthands
The function takes a user-supplied string that is supposed to be a branch
name, and puts it in a strbuf after expanding possible shorthand notation.

A handful of open coded sequence to do this in the existing code have been
changed to use this helper function.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22 23:44:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
431b1969fc Rename interpret/substitute nth_last_branch functions
These allow you to say "git checkout @{-2}" to switch to the branch two
"branch switching" ago by pretending as if you typed the name of that
branch.  As it is likely that we will be introducing more short-hands to
write the name of a branch without writing it explicitly, rename the
functions from "nth_last_branch" to more generic "branch_name", to prepare
for different semantics.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22 23:36:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
72f600832f Improve "git branch --tracking" output
An earlier patch always spelled the full name of the ref that we track
(e.g. "refs/heads/frotz" instead of just "frotz" when we mean the branch
whose name is "frotz").  Worse yet, because we now use the true name of
the ref at the original repository when talk about a tracking branch that
copies from a remote, such a full name alone still does not give enough
information.

This reorganizes the verbose codepath to:

 - differentiate "refs/heads/something" and everything else; we say that
   the branch tracks "branch <something>" if it begins with "refs/heads/",
   and otherwise the branch tracks "ref refs/<someother>/<something>";

 - report the name of the remote when we talk about a tracking branch, by
   saying "branch frotz from origin";

 - not say "by merging" at the end; it is the default and is not worth
   reporting.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-10 22:21:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a9f2c13685 Make git-clone respect branch.autosetuprebase
When git-clone creates an initial branch it was not checking the
branch.autosetuprebase configuration option (which may exist in
~/.gitconfig).  Refactor the code used by "git branch" to create
a new branch, and use it instead of the insufficiently duplicated code
in builtin-clone.

Changes are partly, and the test is mostly, based on the previous work by
Pat Notz.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-03 22:58:52 -08:00