Git's configuration system works by reading multiple configuration
files in order, from general to specific:
- first, the system configuration /etc/gitconfig
- then the user's configuration (~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git/config)
- then the repository configuration (.git/config)
For single-valued configuration items, the latest value wins. For
multi-valued configuration items, values accumulate in that order.
For example, this allows setting a credential helper globally in
~/.gitconfig that git will try to use in all repositories, regardless
of whether they additionally provide another helper. This is usually
a nice thing --- e.g. I can install helpers to use my OS keychain and
to cache credentials for a short period of time globally.
Sometimes people want to be able to override an inherited setting.
For the credential.helper setting, this is done by setting the
configuration item to empty before giving it a new value. This is
already documented but the documentation is hard to find ---
git-config(1) says to look at gitcredentials(7) and the config
reference in gitcredentials(7) doesn't mention this issue.
Move the documentation to the config reference to make it easier to
find.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Listing the specific hooks might feel verbose but without it the
reader is left to wonder which hooks are triggered during the
push. Something which is not immediately obvious when only trying
to find out where the hook is executed.
Signed-off-by: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-use US English spelling
-minor wording change for better readability
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: René Genz <liebundartig@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow to lock a worktree immediately after it's created. This helps
prevent a race between "git worktree add; git worktree lock" and
"git worktree prune".
* nd/worktree-add-lock:
worktree add: add --lock option
Many stale HTTP(s) links have been updated in our documentation.
* jk/update-links-in-docs:
docs/bisect-lk2009: update java code conventions link
docs/bisect-lk2009: update nist report link
docs/archimport: quote sourcecontrol.net reference
gitcore-tutorial: update broken link
doc: replace or.cz gitwiki link with git.wiki.kernel.org
doc: use https links to avoid http redirect
"git rebase" learns "--signoff" option.
* gb/rebase-signoff:
rebase: pass --[no-]signoff option to git am
builtin/am: fold am_signoff() into am_append_signoff()
builtin/am: honor --signoff also when --rebasing
"git fetch-pack" was not prepared to accept ERR packet that the
upload-pack can send with a human-readable error message. It
showed the packet contents with ERR prefix, so there was no data
loss, but it was redundant to say "ERR" in an error message.
* jt/fetch-pack-error-reporting:
fetch-pack: show clearer error message upon ERR
Add finishing touches to a recent topic.
* jk/quarantine-received-objects:
refs: reject ref updates while GIT_QUARANTINE_PATH is set
receive-pack: document user-visible quarantine effects
receive-pack: drop tmp_objdir_env from run_update_hook
The old link just redirects to a big index page. I was able
to find a new link for the original document via Google.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original NIST press release linked here is no longer
available. But it was just a one-page summary of a larger
planning report; we can link to the report and point people
to the executive summary, which contains the same
information.
Ideally we'd cite it with a DOI, but I couldn't dig one up
for this particular document. I found many URLs pointing to
this report, but they all end up redirecting to this one
(and it looks somewhat official).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-archimport has an option to register archives at
mirrors.sourcecontrol.net. The sourcecontrol.net domain
still exists, but that hostname no longer exists.
That means this feature is presumably broken. I'll leave the
examination and modification of that to people who might
actually use archimport. But in the meantime, let's wrap the
reference in the documentation in backticks, which will
avoid turning it into a broken link (and thus polluting
linkchecker results).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The slides for the Linux-mentoring presentation are no
longer available. Let's point to the wayback version of the
page, which works.
Note that the referenced diagram is also available on page
15 of [1]. We could link to that instead, but it's not clear
from the URL scheme ("uploads") whether it's going to stick
around forever.
[1] https://www.linuxfoundation.jp/jp_uploads/seminar20070313/Randy.pdf
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The or.cz version of the Git wiki went away long ago, and
now just redirects to kernel.org.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many sites these days unconditionally redirect http requests
to their https equivalents. Let's make our links https in
the first place to save the client a redirect.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As explained in the document. This option has an advantage over the
command sequence "git worktree add && git worktree lock": there will be
no gap that somebody can accidentally "prune" the new worktree (or soon,
explicitly "worktree remove" it).
"worktree add" does keep a lock on while it's preparing the worktree.
If --lock is specified, this lock remains after the worktree is created.
Suggested-by: David Taylor <David.Taylor@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diff options "--ours", "--theirs" exist for quite some time.
But so far they were not documented. Now they are.
* ah/diff-files-ours-theirs-doc:
diff-files: document --ours etc.
Conversion from unsigned char [40] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id:
Documentation: update and rename api-sha1-array.txt
Rename sha1_array to oid_array
Convert sha1_array_for_each_unique and for_each_abbrev to object_id
Convert sha1_array_lookup to take struct object_id
Convert remaining callers of sha1_array_lookup to object_id
Make sha1_array_append take a struct object_id *
sha1-array: convert internal storage for struct sha1_array to object_id
builtin/pull: convert to struct object_id
submodule: convert check_for_new_submodule_commits to object_id
sha1_name: convert disambiguate_hint_fn to take object_id
sha1_name: convert struct disambiguate_state to object_id
test-sha1-array: convert most code to struct object_id
parse-options-cb: convert sha1_array_append caller to struct object_id
fsck: convert init_skiplist to struct object_id
builtin/receive-pack: convert portions to struct object_id
builtin/pull: convert portions to struct object_id
builtin/diff: convert to struct object_id
Convert GIT_SHA1_RAWSZ used for allocation to GIT_MAX_RAWSZ
Convert GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ used for allocation to GIT_MAX_HEXSZ
Define new hash-size constants for allocating memory
The output from "git status --short" has been extended to show
various kinds of dirtyness in submodules differently; instead of to
"M" for modified, 'm' and '?' can be shown to signal changes only
to the working tree of the submodule but not the commit that is
checked out.
* sb/submodule-short-status:
submodule.c: correctly handle nested submodules in is_submodule_modified
short status: improve reporting for submodule changes
submodule.c: stricter checking for submodules in is_submodule_modified
submodule.c: port is_submodule_modified to use porcelain 2
submodule.c: convert is_submodule_modified to use strbuf_getwholeline
submodule.c: factor out early loop termination in is_submodule_modified
submodule.c: use argv_array in is_submodule_modified
Add more structure and describe each possible option in a self-contained
way, not referring to any of the previously described options.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document & test for cases where there are two remotes pointing to the
same URL, and a background fetch & subsequent `git push
--force-with-lease` shouldn't clobber un-updated references we haven't
fetched.
Some editors like Microsoft's VSC have a feature to auto-fetch in the
background, this bypasses the protections offered by
--force-with-lease & --force-with-lease=<refname>, as noted in the
documentation being added here.
See the 'Tools that do an automatic fetch defeat "git push
--force-with-lease"' (<1491617750.2149.10.camel@mattmccutchen.net>)
git mailing list thread for more details. Jakub Narębski suggested
this method of adding another remote to bypass this edge case,
document that & add a test for it.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes it easy to sign off a whole patchset before submission.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, fetch-pack prints a confusing error message ("expected
ACK/NAK") when the server it's communicating with sends a pkt-line
starting with "ERR". Replace it with a less confusing error message.
Also update the documentation describing the fetch-pack/upload-pack
protocol (pack-protocol.txt) to indicate that "ERR" can be sent in the
place of "ACK" or "NAK". In practice, this has been done for quite some
time by other Git implementations (e.g. JGit sends "want $id not valid")
and by Git itself (since commit bdb31ea: "upload-pack: report "not our
ref" to client", 2017-02-23) whenever a "want" line references an object
that it does not have. (This is uncommon, but can happen if a repository
is garbage-collected during a negotiation.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Given that other instances of "{...}" in the revision documentation
represent literal characters of revision specifications, describing
the rev^-n shorthand as "<rev>^-{<n>}" incorrectly suggests that
something like "master^-{1}" is an acceptable form.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As documented in git-receive-pack(1), updating a ref from
within the pre-receive hook is dangerous and can corrupt
your repo. This patch forbids ref updates entirely during
the hook to make it harder for adventurous hook writers to
shoot themselves in the foot.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 722ff7f87 (receive-pack: quarantine objects until
pre-receive accepts, 2016-10-03) changed the underlying
details of how we take in objects. This is mostly
transparent to the user, but there are a few things they
might notice. Let's document them.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-diff understands "--ours", "--theirs" and "--base" for files with
conflicts. But so far they were not documented for the central diff
command but only for diff-files.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The instructions how to normalize the line endings should have been updated
as part of commit 6523728499 'convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF',
(but that part never made it into the commit).
Update the documentation in Documentation/gitattributes.txt and add
a test case in t0025.
Reported by Kristian Adrup
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/954
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git tag/branch/for-each-ref" family of commands long allowed to
filter the refs by "--contains X" (show only the refs that are
descendants of X), "--merged X" (show only the refs that are
ancestors of X), "--no-merged X" (show only the refs that are not
ancestors of X). One curious omission, "--no-contains X" (show
only the refs that are not descendants of X) has been added to
them.
* ab/ref-filter-no-contains:
tag: add tests for --with and --without
ref-filter: reflow recently changed branch/tag/for-each-ref docs
ref-filter: add --no-contains option to tag/branch/for-each-ref
tag: change --point-at to default to HEAD
tag: implicitly supply --list given another list-like option
tag: change misleading --list <pattern> documentation
parse-options: add OPT_NONEG to the "contains" option
tag: add more incompatibles mode tests
for-each-ref: partly change <object> to <commit> in help
tag tests: fix a typo in a test description
tag: remove a TODO item from the test suite
ref-filter: add test for --contains on a non-commit
ref-filter: make combining --merged & --no-merged an error
tag doc: reword --[no-]merged to talk about commits, not tips
tag doc: split up the --[no-]merged documentation
tag doc: move the description of --[no-]merged earlier
List the fields in order of appearance in the command output.
Signed-off-by: Mostyn Bramley-Moore <mostyn@antipode.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the structure and functions have changed names, update the code
examples and the documentation. Rename the file to match the new name
of the API.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On many keyboards, typing "@{" involves holding down SHIFT key and
one can easily end up with "@{Up..." when typing "@{upstream}". As
the upstream/push keywords do not appear anywhere else in the syntax,
we can safely accept them case insensitively without introducing
ambiguity or confusion to solve this.
* ab/case-insensitive-upstream-and-push-marker:
rev-parse: match @{upstream}, @{u} and @{push} case-insensitively
Doc update.
* ab/doc-submitting:
doc/SubmittingPatches: show how to get a CLI commit summary
doc/SubmittingPatches: clarify the casing convention for "area: change..."
"what URL do we want to update this submodule?" and "are we
interested in this submodule?" are split into two distinct
concepts, and then the way used to express the latter got extended,
paving a way to make it easier to manage a project with many
submodules and make it possible to later extend use of multiple
worktrees for a project with submodules.
* bw/submodule-is-active:
submodule add: respect submodule.active and submodule.<name>.active
submodule--helper init: set submodule.<name>.active
clone: teach --recurse-submodules to optionally take a pathspec
submodule init: initialize active submodules
submodule: decouple url and submodule interest
submodule--helper clone: check for configured submodules using helper
submodule sync: use submodule--helper is-active
submodule sync: skip work for inactive submodules
submodule status: use submodule--helper is-active
submodule--helper: add is-active subcommand
Stop supporting "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>" syntax that has
been deprecated since October 2007, and issues a deprecation
warning message since v2.5.0.
* jc/merge-drop-old-syntax:
merge: drop 'git merge <message> HEAD <commit>' syntax
Suppose I have a superproject 'super', with two submodules 'super/sub'
and 'super/sub1'. 'super/sub' itself contains a submodule
'super/sub/subsub'. Now suppose I run, from within 'super':
echo hi >sub/subsub/stray-file
echo hi >sub1/stray-file
Currently we get would see the following output in git-status:
git status --short
m sub
? sub1
With this patch applied, the untracked file in the nested submodule is
displayed as an untracked file on the 'super' level as well.
git status --short
? sub
? sub1
This doesn't change the output of 'git status --porcelain=1' for nested
submodules, because its output is always ' M' for either untracked files
or local modifications no matter the nesting level of the submodule.
'git status --porcelain=2' is affected by this change in a nested
submodule, though. Without this patch it would report the direct submodule
as modified and having no untracked files. With this patch it would report
untracked files. Chalk this up as a bug fix.
This bug fix also affects the default output (non-short, non-porcelain)
of git-status, which is not tested here.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If I add an untracked file to a submodule or modify a tracked file,
currently "git status --short" treats the change in the same way as
changes to the current HEAD of the submodule:
$ git clone --quiet --recurse-submodules https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit
$ echo hello >gerrit/plugins/replication/stray-file
$ sed -i -e 's/.*//' gerrit/plugins/replication/.mailmap
$ git -C gerrit status --short
M plugins/replication
This is by analogy with ordinary files, where "M" represents a change
that has not been added yet to the index. But this change cannot be
added to the index without entering the submodule, "git add"-ing it,
and running "git commit", so the analogy is counterproductive.
Introduce new status letters " ?" and " m" for this. These are similar
to the existing "??" and " M" but mean that the submodule (not the
parent project) has new untracked files and modified files, respectively.
The user can use "git add" and "git commit" from within the submodule to
add them.
Changes to the submodule's HEAD commit can be recorded in the index with
a plain "git add -u" and are shown with " M", like today.
To avoid excessive clutter, show at most one of " ?", " m", and " M" for
the submodule. They represent increasing levels of change --- the last
one that applies is shown (e.g., " m" if there are both modified files
and untracked files in the submodule, or " M" if the submodule's HEAD
has been modified and it has untracked files).
While making these changes, we need to make sure to not break porcelain
level 1, which shares code with "status --short". We only change
"git status --short".
Non-short "git status" and "git status --porcelain=2" already handle
these cases by showing more detail:
$ git -C gerrit status --porcelain=2
1 .M S.MU 160000 160000 160000 305c864db28eb0c77c8499bc04c87de3f849cf3c 305c864db28eb0c77c8499bc04c87de3f849cf3c plugins/replication
$ git -C gerrit status
[...]
modified: plugins/replication (modified content, untracked content)
Scripts caring about these distinctions should use --porcelain=2.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name-hash used for detecting paths that are different only in
cases (which matter on case insensitive filesystems) has been
optimized to take advantage of multi-threading when it makes sense.
* jh/memihash-opt:
name-hash: add test-lazy-init-name-hash to .gitignore
name-hash: add perf test for lazy_init_name_hash
name-hash: add test-lazy-init-name-hash
name-hash: perf improvement for lazy_init_name_hash
hashmap: document memihash_cont, hashmap_disallow_rehash api
hashmap: add disallow_rehash setting
hashmap: allow memihash computation to be continued
name-hash: specify initial size for istate.dir_hash table
"git checkout" is taught the "--recurse-submodules" option.
* sb/checkout-recurse-submodules:
builtin/read-tree: add --recurse-submodules switch
builtin/checkout: add --recurse-submodules switch
entry.c: create submodules when interesting
unpack-trees: check if we can perform the operation for submodules
unpack-trees: pass old oid to verify_clean_submodule
update submodules: add submodule_move_head
submodule.c: get_super_prefix_or_empty
update submodules: move up prepare_submodule_repo_env
submodules: introduce check to see whether to touch a submodule
update submodules: add a config option to determine if submodules are updated
update submodules: add submodule config parsing
make is_submodule_populated gently
lib-submodule-update.sh: define tests for recursing into submodules
lib-submodule-update.sh: replace sha1 by hash
lib-submodule-update: teach test_submodule_content the -C <dir> flag
lib-submodule-update.sh: do not use ./. as submodule remote
lib-submodule-update.sh: reorder create_lib_submodule_repo
submodule--helper.c: remove duplicate code
connect_work_tree_and_git_dir: safely create leading directories
"git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that
becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty.
* dp/filter-branch-prune-empty:
p7000: add test for filter-branch with --prune-empty
filter-branch: fix --prune-empty on parentless commits
t7003: ensure --prune-empty removes entire branch when applicable
t7003: ensure --prune-empty can prune root commit
"git describe --dirty" dies when it cannot be determined if the
state in the working tree matches that of HEAD (e.g. broken
repository or broken submodule). The command learned a new option
"git describe --broken" to give "$name-broken" (where $name is the
description of HEAD) in such a case.
* sb/describe-broken:
builtin/describe: introduce --broken flag
Recently we started passing the "--push-options" through the
external remote helper interface; now the "smart HTTP" remote
helper understands what to do with the passed information.
* sb/push-options-via-transport:
remote-curl: allow push options
send-pack: send push options correctly in stateless-rpc case
Change the revision parsing logic to match @{upstream}, @{u} & @{push}
case-insensitively.
Before this change supplying anything except the lower-case forms
emits an "unknown revision or path not in the working tree"
error. This change makes upper-case & mixed-case versions equivalent
to the lower-case versions.
The use-case for this is being able to hold the shift key down while
typing @{u} on certain keyboard layouts, which makes the sequence
easier to type, and reduces cases where git throws an error at the
user where it could do what he means instead.
These suffixes now join various other suffixes & special syntax
documented in gitrevisions(7) that matches case-insensitively. A table
showing the status of the various forms documented there before &
after this patch is shown below. The key for the table is:
- CI = Case Insensitive
- CIP = Case Insensitive Possible (without ambiguities)
- AG = Accepts Garbage (.e.g. @{./.4.minutes./.})
Before this change:
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
| What? | CI? | CIP? | AG? |
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
| @{<date>} | Y | Y | Y |
| @{upstream} | N | Y | N |
| @{push} | N | Y | N |
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
After it:
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
| What? | CI? | CIP? | AG? |
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
| @{<date>} | Y | Y | Y |
| @{upstream} | Y | Y | N |
| @{push} | Y | Y | N |
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
The ^{<type>} suffix is not made case-insensitive, because other
places that take <type> like "cat-file -t <type>" do want them case
sensitively (after all we never declared that type names are case
insensitive). Allowing case-insensitive typename only with this syntax
will make the resulting Git as a whole inconsistent.
This change was independently authored to scratch a longtime itch, but
when I was about to submit it I discovered that a similar patch had
been submitted unsuccessfully before by Conrad Irwin in August 2011 as
"rev-parse: Allow @{U} as a synonym for
@{u}" (<1313287071-7851-1-git-send-email-conrad.irwin@gmail.com>).
The tests for this patch are more exhaustive than in the 2011
submission. The starting point for them was to first change the code
to only support upper-case versions of the existing words, seeing what
broke, and amending the breaking tests to check upper case & mixed
case as appropriate, and where not redundant to other similar
tests. The implementation itself is equivalent.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend the section which describes how to get a commit summary to show
how do to that with "git show", currently the documentation only shows
how to do that with gitk.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default location "~/.git-credential-cache/socket" for the
socket used to communicate with the credential-cache daemon has
been moved to "~/.cache/git/credential/socket".
* dl/credential-cache-socket-in-xdg-cache:
credential-cache: add tests for XDG functionality
credential-cache: use XDG_CACHE_HOME for socket
path.c: add xdg_cache_home
Reflow the recently changed branch/tag-for-each-ref
documentation. This change shows no changes under --word-diff, except
the innocuous change of moving git-tag.txt's "[--sort=<key>]" around
slightly.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
