"$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log
message user edits was not documented.
* jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg:
commit: document the temporary commit message file
"git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
* kk/maint-commit-tree:
Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis"
commit-tree: resurrect command line parsing updates
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
* pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch:
am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found
We instead failed with an undocumented exit status 255.
Also define a "catch-all" status and document it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was a bit hard to learn how <rev>^@, <rev>^! and various other
forms of range specifiers are used, because they were discussed
mostly in the prose part of the documentation, unlike various forms
of extended SHA-1 expressions that are listed in an enumerated list.
Also add a few more examples showing use of <rev>, <rev>..<rev> and
<rev>^! forms, stolen from a patch by Max Horn.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
* jc/mergetool-tool-help:
mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool does
We do not document COMMIT_EDITMSG at all, but users may want
to know about it for two reasons:
1. They may want to tell their editor to configure itself
for formatting a commit message.
2. If a commit is aborted by an error, the user may want
to recover the commit message they typed.
Let's put a note in git-commit(1).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This way we do not have to risk the list of tools going out of sync
between the implementation and the documentation.
In the same spirit as bf73fc2 (difftool: print list of valid tools
with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29), trim the list of merge backends in
the documentation. We do not want to have a complete list of valid
tools; we only want a list to help people guess what kind of things
the tools do to be specified there, and refer them to --tool-help
for a complete list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach difftool's --dir-diff mode to use symlinks to represent
files from the working copy, and make it the default behavior
for the non-Windows platforms.
Using symlinks is simpler and safer since we do not need to
worry about copying files back into the worktree.
The old behavior is still available as --no-symlinks.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
* pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch:
am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output
is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish,
and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to
prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
* jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits)
t1512: match the "other" object names
t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output
rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>
rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish
reset: the command takes committish
commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits
apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs
sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types
revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish
revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags
sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish()
sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context()
sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish
sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags
sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits
sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option
sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags
get_sha1(): fix error status regression
sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names
sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res"
...
The git-credential command requires that you feed it a
broken-down credential, which means that the client needs to
parse a URL itself. Since we have our own URL-parsing
routines, we can easily allow the caller to just give us the
URL as-is, saving them some code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The text in git-credential(1) was copied from
technical/api-credentials, so it still talks about the
input/output format as coming from git to the helper. Since
the surrounding text already indicates that this format is
used for reading and writing with git credential, we can
just remove the extraneous confusing bits.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
* jc/apply-3way:
apply: tests for the --3way option
apply: document --3way option
apply: allow rerere() to work on --3way results
apply: register conflicted stages to the index
apply: --3way with add/add conflict
apply: move verify_index_match() higher
apply: plug the three-way merge logic in
apply: fall back on three-way merge
apply: accept -3/--3way command line option
apply: move "already exists" logic to check_to_create()
apply: move check_to_create_blob() closer to its sole caller
apply: further split load_preimage()
apply: refactor "previous patch" logic
apply: split load_preimage() helper function out
apply: factor out checkout_target() helper function
apply: refactor read_file_or_gitlink()
apply: clear_image() clears things a bit more
apply: a bit more comments on PATH_TO_BE_DELETED
apply: fix an incomplete comment in check_patch()
"git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the
history down to the root.
* cw/rebase-i-root:
t3404: make test 57 work with dash and others
Add tests for rebase -i --root without --onto
rebase -i: support --root without --onto
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its
linkification in frontends that support it; remove them
- (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not
the other way around
- trivial typo and wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If "git am" fails to apply something, the end user may need to know
where to find the patch that failed to apply, so that the user can
do other things (e.g. trying "GNU patch" on it, running "diffstat"
to see what it tried to change, etc.) The input to "am" may have
contained more than one patch, or the message may have been MIME
encoded, and knowing what the user fed to "am" does not help very
much for this purpose.
Also introduce advice.amworkdir configuration to allow people who
learned where to look to squelch this message.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teaches git to normalize pathnames read from readdir(3) and all
arguments from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming
that they come as decomposed UTF-8) to work around issues on Mac OS.
I think there still are other places that need conversion
(e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
should be a good first step in the right direction.
* tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname:
git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode
The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading.
* cn/cherry-pick-range-docs:
git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation
Documentation: --no-walk is no-op if range is specified
The new option allows you to feed an ambiguous prefix and enumerate
all the objects that share it as a prefix of their object names.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expose the credential API to scripted Porcelain writers.
* mm/credential-plumbing:
git-remote-mediawiki: update comments to reflect credential support
git-remote-mediawiki: add credential support
git credential fill: output the whole 'struct credential'
add 'git credential' plumbing command
Teach git to read various information from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ to allow
the user to avoid cluttering $HOME.
* mm/config-xdg:
config: write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file when appropriate
Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes
Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore
config: read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file
Mac OS X mangles file names containing unicode on file systems HFS+,
VFAT or SAMBA. When a file using unicode code points outside ASCII
is created on a HFS+ drive, the file name is converted into
decomposed unicode and written to disk. No conversion is done if
the file name is already decomposed unicode.
Calling open("\xc3\x84", ...) with a precomposed "Ä" yields the same
result as open("\x41\xcc\x88",...) with a decomposed "Ä".
As a consequence, readdir() returns the file names in decomposed
unicode, even if the user expects precomposed unicode. Unlike on
HFS+, Mac OS X stores files on a VFAT drive (e.g. an USB drive) in
precomposed unicode, but readdir() still returns file names in
decomposed unicode. When a git repository is stored on a network
share using SAMBA, file names are send over the wire and written to
disk on the remote system in precomposed unicode, but Mac OS X
readdir() returns decomposed unicode to be compatible with its
behaviour on HFS+ and VFAT.
The unicode decomposition causes many problems:
- The names "git add" and other commands get from the end user may
often be precomposed form (the decomposed form is not easily input
from the keyboard), but when the commands read from the filesystem
to see what it is going to update the index with already is on the
filesystem, readdir() will give decomposed form, which is different.
- Similarly "git log", "git mv" and all other commands that need to
compare pathnames found on the command line (often but not always
precomposed form; a command line input resulting from globbing may
be in decomposed) with pathnames found in the tree objects (should
be precomposed form to be compatible with other systems and for
consistency in general).
- The same for names stored in the index, which should be
precomposed, that may need to be compared with the names read from
readdir().
NFS mounted from Linux is fully transparent and does not suffer from
the above.
As Mac OS X treats precomposed and decomposed file names as equal,
we can
- wrap readdir() on Mac OS X to return the precomposed form, and
- normalize decomposed form given from the command line also to the
precomposed form,
to ensure that all pathnames used in Git are always in the
precomposed form. This behaviour can be requested by setting
"core.precomposedunicode" configuration variable to true.
The code in compat/precomposed_utf8.c implements basically 4 new
functions: precomposed_utf8_opendir(), precomposed_utf8_readdir(),
precomposed_utf8_closedir() and precompose_argv(). The first three
are to wrap opendir(3), readdir(3), and closedir(3) functions.
The argv[] conversion allows to use the TAB filename completion done
by the shell on command line. It tolerates other tools which use
readdir() to feed decomposed file names into git.
When creating a new git repository with "git init" or "git clone",
"core.precomposedunicode" will be set "false".
The user needs to activate this feature manually. She typically
sets core.precomposedunicode to "true" on HFS and VFAT, or file
systems mounted via SAMBA.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Formerly, the documentation for <refname> would occasionally say
<name> instead of <refname>. Now it uniformly uses <refname>.
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
P4Submit.applyCommit()
To avoid recalculating the same diffOpts for each commit, move it
out of applyCommit() and into the top-level run(). Also fix a bug
in that code which interpreted the value of detectRenames as a
string rather than as a boolean.
[pw: fix documentation, rearrange code a bit]
Signed-off-by: Gary Gibbons <ggibbons@perforce.com>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This fixes two formatting bugs in the git-config documentation:
- in the column.ui entry don't indent the last paragraph so that it isn't
formatted as a literal paragraph
- in the push.default entry separate the last paragraph from the
nested list.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow --root to be specified to rebase -i without --onto, making it
possible to edit and re-order all commits right back to the root(s).
If there is a conflict to be resolved when applying the first change,
the user will expect a sane index and working tree to get sensible
behaviour from git-diff and friends, so create a sentinel commit with an
empty tree to rebase onto. Automatically squash the sentinel with any
commits rebased directly onto it, so they end up as root commits in
their own right and retain their authorship and commit message.
Implicitly use rebase -i for non-interactive rebase of --root without
an --onto argument now that rebase -i can correctly do this.
Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of outputing only the username and password, print all the
attributes, even those that already appeared in the input.
This is closer to what the C API does, and allows one to take the exact
output of "git credential fill" as input to "git credential approve" or
"git credential reject".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The credential API is in C, and not available to scripting languages.
Expose the functionalities of the API by wrapping them into a new
plumbing command "git credentials".
In other words, replace the internal "test-credential" by an official Git
command.
Most documentation writen by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Volek <Pavel.Volek@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Kim Thuat Nguyen <Kim-Thuat.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Javier Roucher Iglesias <Javier.Roucher-Iglesias@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command line argument of "git cherry-pick maint master..next" is
just an ordinary revision range, which is unintuitive and at least
deserves documentation.
* cn/cherry-pick-range-docs:
git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation
Documentation: --no-walk is no-op if range is specified
We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
more modern style.
* jk/no-more-asciidoc7:
docs: drop antique comment from Makefile
docs: drop asciidoc7compatible flag
Teach git to write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config if
- it already exists,
- $HOME/.gitconfig file doesn't, and
- The --global option is used.
Otherwise, write to $HOME/.gitconfig when the --global option is
given, as before.
If the user doesn't create $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, there is
absolutely no change. Users can use this new file only if they want.
If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used.
Advice for users who often come back to an old version of Git: you
shouldn't create this file.
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This gives the default value for the core.attributesfile variable
following the exact same logic of the previous change for the
core.excludesfile setting.
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To use the feature of core.excludesfile, the user needs:
1. to create such a file,
2. and add configuration variable to point at it.
Instead, we can make this a one-step process by choosing a default value
which points to a filename in the user's $HOME, that is unlikely to
already exist on the system, and only use the presence of the file as a
cue that the user wants to use that feature.
And we use "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config/git}/ignore" as such a
file, in the same directory as the newly added configuration file
("${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config/git}/config). The use of this
directory is in line with XDG specification as a location to store
such application specific files.
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach git to read the "gitconfig" information from a new location,
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config; this allows the user to avoid
cluttering $HOME with many per-application configuration files.
In the order of reading, this file comes between the global
configuration file (typically $HOME/.gitconfig) and the system wide
configuration file (typically /etc/gitconfig).
We do not write to this new location (yet).
If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used. This is in line with XDG specification.
If the new file does not exist, the behavior is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to
optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but
we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always
use the optimization.
The command learns "--no-local" option to turn this off, as a more
explicit alternative over use of file:// URL.
* jk/clone-local:
clone: allow --no-local to turn off local optimizations
docs/clone: mention that --local may be ignored
Commit fe77b41 introduced a new attribute to let the linkgit macro
create cross-directory HTML references from the technical/ and howto/
subdirectories back to the main documentation. We define that attribute
to "../" on the command-line when building inside those subdirectories,
and otherwise leave it unset under the assumption that it would default
to being blank. Instead, asciidoc omits the link entirely, leading to
broken documentation. Fix this by defining git-relative-html-prefix to
blank in asciidoc.conf (and an instance on the command-line, when
present, will override it).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even with many new kinds of options, the command still takes the
single <tree> as the first argument.
Probably we would want to update the command to allow it to take
<tree>-ish at the end for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When given a set of commits, cherry-pick will apply the changes for
all of them. Specifying a simple range will also work as expected.
This can lead the user to think that
git cherry-pick A B..C
may apply A and then B..C, but that is not what happens.
Instead the revs are given to a single invocation of rev-list, which
will consider A and C as positive revs and B as a negative one. The
commit A will not be used if it is an ancestor of B.
Add a note about this and add an example with this particular
syntax, which has shown up on the list a few times.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing description can be misleading and cause the reader to
think that --no-walk will do something if they specify a range in the
command line instead of a set of revs.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch provides new informative help messages in the display of
'git status' (at the top) during conflicts, rebase, am, bisect or
cherry-pick process.
The new messages are not shown when using options such as -s or
--porcelain. The messages about the current situation of the user are
always displayed but the advices on what the user needs to do in order
to resume a rebase/bisect/am/commit after resolving conflicts can be
hidden by setting advice.statushints to 'false' in the config file.
Thus, information about the updated advice.statushints key are added
in Documentation/config.txt.
Also, the test t7060-wt-status.sh is now working with the new help
messages. Tests about suggestions of "git rm" are also added.
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During an interactive rebase session, it is sometimes desirable to
run tests on each commit in the resulting history. This can be done
by adding "exec <test command>" when editing the insn sheet, but the
command used for testing is often the same for all resulting commits.
By passing "--exec <cmd>" from the command line, automatically add
these "exec" lines after each commit in the final history. To work
well with the --autosquash option, these are added at the end of
each run of "fixup" and "squash".
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was unclear whether the field was to be specified by the user of the
API.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of our documentation is in a single directory, so using
linkgit:git-config[1] just generates a relative link in the
same directory. However, this is not the case with the API
documentation in technical/*, which need to refer to
git-config from the parent directory.
We can fix this by passing a special prefix attribute when building
in a subdirectory, and respecting that prefix in our linkgit
definitions.
We only have to modify the html linkgit definition. For
manpages, we can ignore this for two reasons:
1. we do not generate actual links to the file in
manpages, but instead just give the name and section of
the linked manpage
2. we do not currently build manpages for subdirectories,
only html
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document git commit '--branch' and '--no-post-rewrite'. Mention that
'-z' can also be spelt as '--null'.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mm/api-credentials-doc:
api-credentials.txt: add "see also" section
api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly
api-credentials.txt: show the big picture first
doc: fix xref link from api docs to manual pages
The name of the configuration variable was mentioned only at the very
end of the explanation, in a place specific to a specific rule, hence it
was not very clear what the specification was about.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The API documentation targets two kinds of developers: those using the
C API, and those writing remote-helpers. The document was not clear
about which part was useful to which category, and for example, the C API
could be mistakenly thought as an API for writting remote helpers.
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are read from
a file, did not treat individual lines in the given pattern argument as
separate regular expressions as it should.
By René Scharfe
* rs/maint-grep-F:
grep: stop leaking line strings with -f
grep: support newline separated pattern list
grep: factor out do_append_grep_pat()
grep: factor out create_grep_pat()
This is basically the same as using "file://", but is a
little less subtle for the end user. It also allows relative
paths to be specified.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --local flag is not "treat this like a local
repository", but rather "if we are local, turn on
optimizations". Therefore it does nothing in the case of:
git clone --local file:///path/to/repo
Let's make that more clear in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This comment warns about a bug in asciidoc 6, and points to
a patch from 2005. Since we don't even support versions of
asciidoc that old, we can safely get rid of the warning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we made the switch to supporting asciidoc 8 in 4c7100a
(Documentation: adjust to AsciiDoc 8, 2007-06-14), we were
able to leave most of the documentation intact by defining
asciidoc7compatible.
Since commit 6cf378f (docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal,
2012-04-26), we don't support versions of asciidoc older
than 8.4.1, which is when inline literals were introduced.
Therefore there is not much point in keeping our
documentation compatible with asciidoc 7.
So we are now free to drop the asciidoc7compatible flag and
update the documentation itself to assume asciidoc8.
Fortunately, doing the latter is very easy; we weren't using
any of the constructs impacted by asciidoc7compatible, so
there are no changes to make.
The reason is somewhat subtle. The asciidoc7compatible
affects only super/sub-scripts ("^" and "~") and index
terms. We don't use the latter at all. Nor we do we use the
former, but we did have to protect them from accidental
expansion in constructs like "rev^1". However, all of our
uses of "~" and "^" are either in code blocks (which are
rendered literally), or inside backticks. Prior to 6cf378f,
backticks were not inline literals, and needed proper
quoting. But post-6cf378f, we don't have to worry whether we
are using the old or new rules, as those characters are not
interpreted at all in either case.
I verified that the result of "make install-html
install-man" is identical before and after this patch on
asciidoc 8.6.7.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fixes quite a lot of brokenness when ident information needs to be taken
from the system and cleans up the code.
By Jeff King
* jk/ident-gecos-strbuf: (22 commits)
format-patch: do not use bogus email addresses in message ids
ident: reject bogus email addresses with IDENT_STRICT
ident: rename IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME to IDENT_STRICT
format-patch: use GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL in message ids
ident: let callers omit name with fmt_indent
ident: refactor NO_DATE flag in fmt_ident
ident: reword empty ident error message
format-patch: refactor get_patch_filename
ident: trim whitespace from default name/email
ident: use a dynamic strbuf in fmt_ident
ident: use full dns names to generate email addresses
ident: report passwd errors with a more friendly message
drop length limitations on gecos-derived names and emails
ident: don't write fallback username into git_default_name
fmt_ident: drop IDENT_WARN_ON_NO_NAME code
format-patch: use default email for generating message ids
ident: trim trailing newline from /etc/mailname
move git_default_* variables to ident.c
move identity config parsing to ident.c
fmt-merge-msg: don't use static buffer in record_person
...
"git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are read from
a file, did not treat individual lines in the given pattern argument as
separate regular expressions as it should.
From the FILES section of the git-config(1) manual:
$GIT_DIR/config::
Repository specific configuration file. (The filename is
of course relative to the repository root, not the working
directory.)
That's confusing because $GIT_DIR really is relative to the working
directory.
$ GIT_DIR=.git GIT_EDITOR='pwd; echo editing'
$ export GIT_DIR GIT_EDITOR
$ git config --edit --local
/home/jrn/src/git/Documentation
editing .git/config
It turns out that the comment is a remnant from older days when the
heading said ".git/config" (which is indeed relative to the top of the
worktree).
It was only when the heading was changed to refer more precisely to
<git dir>/config (see v1.5.3.2~18, AsciiDoc tweak to avoid leading
dot, 2007-09-14) that the parenthesis stopped making sense. Remove
it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The output
for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not terminate the
record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.
By Jeff King
* jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b:
status: respect "-b" for porcelain format
status: fix null termination with "-b"
status: refactor null_termination option
commit: refactor option parsing
When getpwuid fails, we give a cute but cryptic message.
While it makes sense if you know that getpwuid or identity
functions are being called, this code is triggered behind
the scenes by quite a few git commands these days (e.g.,
receive-pack on a remote server might use it for a reflog;
the current message is hard to distinguish from an
authentication error). Let's switch to something that gives
a little more context.
While we're at it, we can factor out all of the
cut-and-pastes of the "you don't exist" message into a
wrapper function. Rather than provide xgetpwuid, let's make
it even more specific to just getting the passwd entry for
the current uid. That's the only way we use getpwuid anyway,
and it lets us make an even more specific error message.
The current message also fails to mention errno. While the
usual cause for getpwuid failing is that the user does not
exist, mentioning errno makes it easier to diagnose these
problems. Note that POSIX specifies that errno remain
untouched if the passwd entry does not exist (but will be
set on actual errors), whereas some systems will return
ENOENT or similar for a missing entry. We handle both cases
in our wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we pull the user's name from the GECOS field of the
passwd file (or generate an email address based on their
username and hostname), we put the result into a
static buffer. While it's extremely unlikely that anybody
ever hit these limits (after all, in such a case their
parents must have hated them), we still had to deal with the
error cases in our code.
Converting these static buffers to strbufs lets us simplify
the code and drop some error messages from the documentation
that have confused some users.
The conversion is mostly mechanical: replace string copies
with strbuf equivalents, and access the strbuf.buf directly.
There are a few exceptions:
- copy_gecos and copy_email are the big winners in code
reduction (since they no longer have to manage the
string length manually)
- git_ident_config wants to replace old versions of
the default name (e.g., if we read the config multiple
times), so it must reset+add to the strbuf instead of
just adding
Note that there is still one length limitation: the
gethostname interface requires us to provide a static
buffer, so we arbitrarily choose 1024 bytes for the
hostname.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, patterns that contain newline characters don't match anything
when given to git grep. Regular grep(1) interprets patterns as lists of
newline separated search strings instead.
Implement this functionality by creating and inserting extra grep_pat
structures for patterns consisting of multiple lines when appending to
the pattern lists. For simplicity, all pattern strings are duplicated.
The original pattern is truncated in place to make it contain only the
first line.
Requested-by: Torne (Richard Coles) <torne@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description was misleading because it lead the reader to believe
that --git-dir would always show a relative path when, in fact, the
actual behaviour does not guarantee this.
Rather, it was intended that the advice be given that if a relative
path is shown, then the path is relative to the current working
directory and not some other directory (for example, the root of the
working tree).
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation of the dcommit subcommand is reworded to clarify that
the optional argument refers to a git branch, not an SVN branch.
The discussion of the optional argument is put into its own paragraph
as is the guidance about using 'dcommit' in preference to 'set-tree'.
The section on REBASE vs. PULL/MERGE is reworded to incorporate the
advice to prefer 'git rebase' previously in the description of 'dcommit'.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
When git svn rebase is performed after an unpushed merge, the
rebase operation follows both parents and replays both the user's
local commits and those from the merged branch. This is usually
not the intended behavior.
This patch adds support for the --preserve-merges/-p flag which
allows for a better workflow by re-applying merge commits as merges.
[ew: fixed a minor syntax error]
Signed-off-by: Avishay Lavie <avishay.lavie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Enables threading in index-pack to resolve base data in parallel.
By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (3) and Ramsay Jones (1)
* nd/threaded-index-pack:
index-pack: disable threading if NO_PREAD is defined
index-pack: support multithreaded delta resolving
index-pack: restructure pack processing into three main functions
compat/win32/pthread.h: Add an pthread_key_delete() implementation
This way the user does not have to scroll down to the bottom to find
it.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When sending the "want" list, the capabilities list is separated from
the obj-id by a SP instead of NUL as in the ref advertisement. The
text is correct, but the examples wrongly show the separator as
NUL. Fix the example so it uses SP.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
By Christopher Tiwald (2) and Jeff King (1)
* ct/advise-push-default:
Fix httpd tests that broke when non-ff push advice changed
clean up struct ref's nonfastforward field
push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
"git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
due to its age.
By Jeff King
* jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack:
gc: use argv-array for sub-commands
argv-array: add a new "pushl" method
argv-array: refactor empty_argv initialization
gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately pruned
This option was not yet described in the gitmodules documentation. We
only described it in the 'git submodule' command documentation but
gitmodules is the more natural place to look.
A short reference in the 'git submodule' documentation should be
sufficient since the details can now be found in the documentation to
gitmodules.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The output
for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not terminate the
record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.
By Jeff King
via Jeff King
* jk/status-porcelain-z-b:
status: refactor colopts handling
status: respect "-b" for porcelain format
status: fix null termination with "-b"
status: refactor null_termination option
commit: refactor option parsing
There is no reason not to, as the user has to explicitly ask
for it, so we are not breaking compatibility by doing so. We
can do this simply by moving the "show_branch" flag into
the wt_status struct. As a bonus, this saves us from passing
it explicitly, simplifying the code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
This puts delta resolving on each base on a separate thread, one base
cache per thread. Per-thread data is grouped in struct thread_local.
When running with nr_threads == 1, no pthreads calls are made. The
system essentially runs in non-thread mode.
An experiment on a Xeon 24 core machine with git.git shows that
performance does not increase proportional to the number of cores. So
by default, we use maximum 3 cores. Some numbers with --threads from 1
to 16:
1..4
real 0m8.003s 0m5.307s 0m4.321s 0m3.830s
user 0m7.720s 0m8.009s 0m8.133s 0m8.305s
sys 0m0.224s 0m0.372s 0m0.360s 0m0.360s
5..8
real 0m3.727s 0m3.604s 0m3.332s 0m3.369s
user 0m9.361s 0m9.817s 0m9.525s 0m9.769s
sys 0m0.584s 0m0.624s 0m0.540s 0m0.560s
9..12
real 0m3.036s 0m3.139s 0m3.177s 0m2.961s
user 0m8.977s 0m10.205s 0m9.737s 0m10.073s
sys 0m0.596s 0m0.680s 0m0.684s 0m0.680s
13..16
real 0m2.985s 0m2.894s 0m2.975s 0m2.971s
user 0m9.825s 0m10.573s 0m10.833s 0m11.361s
sys 0m0.788s 0m0.732s 0m0.904s 0m1.016s
On an Intel dual core and linux-2.6.git
1..4
real 2m37.789s 2m7.963s 2m0.920s 1m58.213s
user 2m28.415s 2m52.325s 2m50.176s 2m41.187s
sys 0m7.808s 0m11.181s 0m11.224s 0m10.731s
Thanks Ramsay Jones for troubleshooting and support on MinGW platform.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe config file selection in git-config. While the usage message of
git-config shows --local, the documentation page did not contain anything
about that.
Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rolls the two-directory-diff logic from diffall script (in contrib/) into
"git difftool" framework.
By Tim Henigan
* th/difftool-diffall:
difftool: print list of valid tools with '--tool-help'
difftool: teach difftool to handle directory diffs
difftool: eliminate setup_environment function
difftool: stop appending '.exe' to git
difftool: remove explicit change of PATH
difftool: exit(0) when usage is printed
difftool: add '--no-gui' option
difftool: parse options using Getopt::Long
Attach example sections to previous level of indenting.
Fix a trailing ::
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output.
By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1)
* nd/columns:
tag: add --column
column: support piping stdout to external git-column process
status: add --column
branch: add --column
help: reuse print_columns() for help -a
column: add dense layout support
t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1
column: add columnar layout
Stop starting pager recursively
Add column layout skeleton and git-column
Since commit 6cf378f, asciidoc backticks are now inline
literals; therefore quoting {tilde} inside them is wrong
(this instance was missed in 6cf378f because it happened on
a parallel line of development).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Spend only minimum number of columns necessary to show the number of lines
in the output from "diff --stat", instead of always allocating 4 columns
even when showing changes that are much smaller than 1000 lines.
By Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
* zj/diff-stat-smaller-num-columns:
diff --stat: use less columns for change counts
Our documentation was written for an ancient version of AsciiDoc,
making the source not very readable.
By Jeff King
* jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal:
docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
New users tend to work on one branch at a time and push the result
out. The current and upstream modes of push is a more suitable default
mode than matching mode for these people, but neither is surprise-free
depending on how the project is set up. Introduce a "simple" mode that
is a subset of "upstream" but only works when the branch is named the same
between the remote and local repositories.
The plan is to make it the new default when push.default is not
configured.
By Matthieu Moy (5) and others
* mm/simple-push:
push.default doc: explain simple after upstream
push: document the future default change for push.default (matching -> simple)
t5570: use explicit push refspec
push: introduce new push.default mode "simple"
t5528-push-default.sh: add helper functions
Undocument deprecated alias 'push.default=tracking'
Documentation: explain push.default option a bit more
Trivially shrinks the on-disk size of the index file to save both I/O and
checksum overhead.
The topic should give a solid base to build on further updates, with the
code refactoring in its earlier parts, and the backward compatibility
mechanism in its later parts.
* jc/index-v4:
index-v4: document the entry format
unpack-trees: preserve the index file version of original
update-index: upgrade/downgrade on-disk index version
read-cache.c: write prefix-compressed names in the index
read-cache.c: read prefix-compressed names in index on-disk version v4
read-cache.c: move code to copy incore to ondisk cache to a helper function
read-cache.c: move code to copy ondisk to incore cache to a helper function
read-cache.c: report the header version we do not understand
read-cache.c: make create_from_disk() report number of bytes it consumed
read-cache.c: allow unaligned mapping of the index file
cache.h: hide on-disk index details
varint: make it available outside the context of pack
When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references, the
command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper e.g. remote-curl, may
fail to hold all of them. Now such an internal invocation can feed the
references through the standard input of "fetch-pack".
By Ivan Todoroski
* it/fetch-pack-many-refs:
remote-curl: main test case for the OS command line overflow
fetch-pack: test cases for the new --stdin option
remote-curl: send the refs to fetch-pack on stdin
fetch-pack: new --stdin option to read refs from stdin
Conflicts:
t/t5500-fetch-pack.sh
By Luke Diamand
* ld/git-p4-tags-and-labels:
git p4: fix unit tests
git p4: move verbose to base class
git p4: Ignore P4EDITOR if it is empty
git p4: Squash P4EDITOR in test harness
git p4: fix-up "import/export of labels to/from p4"
git p4: import/export of labels to/from p4
git p4: Fixing script editor checks
"git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not introduce
any change in the original history.
By Neil Horman
* nh/empty-rebase:
git-rebase: add keep_empty flag
git-cherry-pick: Add test to validate new options
git-cherry-pick: Add keep-redundant-commits option
git-cherry-pick: add allow-empty option
Number of columns required for change counts is now computed based on
the maximum number of changed lines instead of being fixed. This means
that usually a few more columns will be available for the filenames
and the graph.
The graph width logic is also modified to include enough space for
"Bin XXX -> YYY bytes".
If changes to binary files are mixed with changes to text files,
change counts are padded to take at least three columns. And the other
way around, if change counts require more than three columns, then
"Bin"s are padded to align with the change count. This way, the +-
part starts in the same column as "XXX -> YYY" part for binary files.
This makes the graph easier to parse visually thanks to the empty
column. This mimics the layout of diff --stat before this change.
Tests and the tutorial are updated to reflect the new --stat output.
This means either the removal of extra padding and/or the addition of
up to three extra characters to truncated filenames. One test is added
to check the graph alignment when a binary file change and text file
change of more than 999 lines are committed together.
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"gitweb" learned to optionally omit output of fields that are expensive
to generate.
By Kacper Kornet
* kk/gitweb-omit-expensive:
gitweb: Option to not display information about owner
gitweb: Option to omit column with time of the last change
The new "include.path" directive in the configuration files learned
to understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
By Jeff King
* mm/include-userpath:
config: expand tildes in include.path variable
Avoid writing out unreachable objects as loose objects when repacking,
if such loose objects will immediately pruned due to its age anyway.
By Jeff King
* jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack:
gc: use argv-array for sub-commands
argv-array: add a new "pushl" method
argv-array: refactor empty_argv initialization
gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately pruned
You can already use relative paths in include.path, which
means that including "foo" from your global "~/.gitconfig"
will look in your home directory. However, you might want to
do something clever like putting "~/.gitconfig-foo" in a
specific repository's config file.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Normally all cells (and in turn columns) share the same width. This
layout mode can waste space because one long item can stretch our all
columns.
With COL_DENSE enabled, column width is calculated indepdendently. All
columns are shrunk to minimum, then it attempts to push cells of the
last row over to the next column with hope that everything still fits
even there's one row less. The process is repeated until the new layout
cannot fit in given width any more, or there's only one row left
(perfect!).
Apparently, this mode consumes more cpu than the old one, but it makes
better use of terminal space. For layouting one or two screens, cpu
usage should not be detectable.
This patch introduces option handling code besides layout modes and
enable/disable to expose this feature as "dense". The feature can be
turned off by specifying "nodense".
Thanks-to: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
COL_COLUMN and COL_ROW fill column by column (or row by row
respectively), given the terminal width and how many space between
columns. All cells have equal width.
Strings are supposed to be in UTF-8. Valid ANSI escape strings are OK.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A column option string consists of many token separated by either
a space or a comma. A token belongs to one of three groups:
- enabling: always, never and auto
- layout mode: currently plain (which does not layout at all)
- other future tuning flags
git-column can be used to pipe output to from a command that wants
column layout, but not to mess with its own output code. Simpler output
code can be changed to use column layout code directly.
Thanks-to: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.
It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:
1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
of `master{tilde}1`.
2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
quoting.
This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).
Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:
- HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")
- some code examples used the right-arrow character
instead of '->' because they failed to quote
- api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
HTML contained a bogus snippet like:
<tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>
which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
sections of the page.
- git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)
- mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
author@example.com
- the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".
- using "prime" notation like:
commit `C` and its replacement `C'`
confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
to be inside matched quotes
- asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
asterisks. In particular,
`credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`
properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
literally passed through the backslash in the second
case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some setups the repository owner is not a well defined concept
and administrator can prefer it to be not shown. This commit add
and an option that enable to reach this effect.
Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A handful of topics have been merged to maintenance releases, and
the first half of 6th batch graduates to 'master'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git commit --template F" errors out because the user did not
touch the message, it claimed that it aborts due to "empty message",
which was utterly wrong.
By Junio C Hamano (4) and Adam Monsen (1)
* jc/commit-unedited-template:
Documentation/git-commit: rephrase the "initial-ness" of templates
git-commit.txt: clarify -t requires editing message
commit: rephrase the error when user did not touch templated log message
commit: do not trigger bogus "has templated message edited" check
t7501: test the right kind of breakage
Generating information about last change for a large number of git
repositories can be very time consuming. This commit add an option to
omit 'Last Change' column when presenting the list of repositories.
Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a command line switch to git-rebase to allow a user the ability to specify
that they want to keep any commits in a series that are empty.
When git-rebase's type is am, then this option will automatically keep any
commit that has a tree object identical to its parent.
This patch changes the default behavior of interactive rebases as well. With
this patch, git-rebase -i will produce a revision set passed to
git-revision-editor, in which empty commits are commented out. Empty commits
may be kept manually by uncommenting them. If the new --keep-empty option is
used in an interactive rebase the empty commits will automatically all be
uncommented in the editor.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As the "simple" mode is described in terms of what "upstream" does,
swap the order of these two entries so that the reader sees "upstream"
first and then reads "simple" with the knowledge of what "upstream"
does.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is too early to start warning loudly about the future default change
in favor of 'simple', since many users use different versions of Git, and
would be harmed if we advised them to explicitely set
'push.default=simple' when using old versions of Git.
Still, we want to document the upcomming change so that:
* Users who may be affected by the change get one more chance to know it
in advance.
* We actually commit to changing the default, and avoid repeating past
errors.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When calling "git push" without argument, we want to allow Git to do
something simple to explain and safe. push.default=matching is unsafe
when used to push to shared repositories, and hard to explain to
beginners in some contexts. It is debatable whether 'upstream' or
'current' is the safest or the easiest to explain, so introduce a new
mode called 'simple' that is the intersection of them: push to the
upstream branch, but only if it has the same name remotely. If not, give
an error that suggests the right command to push explicitely to
'upstream' or 'current'.
A question is whether to allow pushing when no upstream is configured. An
argument in favor of allowing the push is that it makes the new mode work
in more cases. On the other hand, refusing to push when no upstream is
configured encourages the user to set the upstream, which will be
beneficial on the next pull. Lacking better argument, we chose to deny
the push, because it will be easier to change in the future if someone
shows us wrong.
Original-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-cherry-pick --allow-empty command by default only preserves empty
commits that were originally empty, i.e only those commits for which
<commit>^{tree} and <commit>^^{tree} are equal. By default commits which are
non-empty, but were made empty by the inclusion of a prior commit on the current
history are filtered out. This option allows us to override that behavior and
include redundant commits as empty commits in the change history.
Note that this patch changes the default behavior of git cherry-pick slightly.
Prior to this patch all commits in a cherry-pick sequence were applied and git
commit was run. The implication here was that, if a commit was redundant, and
the commit did not trigger the fast forward logic, the git commit operation, and
therefore the git cherry-pick operation would fail, displaying the cherry pick
advice (i.e. run git commit --allow-empty). With this patch however, such
redundant commits are automatically skipped without stopping, unless
--keep-redundant-commits is specified, in which case, they are automatically
applied as empty commits.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references, the
command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper e.g. remote-curl,
may fail to hold all of them. Now such an internal invocation can feed
the references through the standard input of "fetch-pack".
By Ivan Todoroski
* it/fetch-pack-many-refs:
remote-curl: main test case for the OS command line overflow
fetch-pack: test cases for the new --stdin option
remote-curl: send the refs to fetch-pack on stdin
fetch-pack: new --stdin option to read refs from stdin
"git push --recurse-submodules" learns to optionally look into the
histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them out.
By Heiko Voigt
* hv/submodule-recurse-push:
push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand option
Refactor submodule push check to use string list instead of integer
Teach revision walking machinery to walk multiple times sequencially
The verbose flag is common to all classes, or at least should be.
Make it a member of the base Command class, rather than
reimplementing for each class. Make option parsing mirror this.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous one is already in 'next' but was somewhat lacking.
The configuration "git-p4.validLabelRegexp" is now called
"labelExportRegexp", and its default covers lowercase alphabets as
well.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's been deprecated since 53c4031 (Johan Herland, Wed Feb 16 2011,
push.default: Rename 'tracking' to 'upstream'), so it's OK to remove it
from documentation (even though it's still supported) to make the
explanations more readable.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous documentation was explaining _what_ the options were doing,
but were of little help explaining _why_ a user should set his default to
either of the options.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it easier for distros to document custom pager and editor they
used when building their binary releases in "git var" documentation.
By Jonathan Nieder
* jn/debian-customizes-default-editor:
var doc: advertise current DEFAULT_PAGER and DEFAULT_EDITOR settings
var doc: default editor and pager are configurable at build time
Since bc7a96a (mergetool--lib: Refactor tools into separate files,
2011-08-18), it is possible to add a new diff tool by creating a simple
script in the '$(git --exec-path)/mergetools' directory. Updating the
difftool help text is still a manual process, and the documentation can
easily go out of sync.
This commit teaches difftool the '--tool-help' option, which:
- Reads the list of valid tools from 'mergetools/*'
- Determines which of them are actually installed
- Determines which are capable of diffing (i.e. not just a merge tool)
- Prints the resulting list for the user
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'difftool' is called to compare a range of commits that modify
more than one file, it opens a separate instance of the diff tool for
each file that changed.
The new '--dir-diff' option copies all the modified files to a temporary
location and runs a directory diff on them in a single instance of the
diff tool.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Break down the cases in which "git push" fails due to non-ff into
three categories, and give separate advise messages for each case.
By Christopher Tiwald (2) and Jeff King (1)
* ct/advise-push-default:
Fix httpd tests that broke when non-ff push advice changed
clean up struct ref's nonfastforward field
push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
"git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of existing
the "--exclude" option.
By Johannes Berg
* jb/am-include:
am: support --include option
It can be convenient to push many strings in a single line
(e.g., if you are initializing an array with defaults). This
patch provides a convenience wrapper to allow this.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git commit --template F" errors out because the user did not touch
the message, it claimed that it aborts due to "empty message", which was
utterly wrong.
By Junio C Hamano (4) and Adam Monsen (1)
* jc/commit-unedited-template:
Documentation/git-commit: rephrase the "initial-ness" of templates
git-commit.txt: clarify -t requires editing message
commit: rephrase the error when user did not touch templated log message
commit: do not trigger bogus "has templated message edited" check
t7501: test the right kind of breakage
Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking.
Also "branch" learns "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message.
By Jeff King
* jk/branch-quiet:
teach "git branch" a --quiet option
checkout: suppress tracking message with "-q"
If fast-import's command pipe and the frontend's cat-blob/ls response
pipe are both filled, there can be a deadlock. Luckily all existing
frontends consume any pending cat-blob/ls responses completely before
writing the next command.
Document the requirements so future frontend authors and users can be
spared from the problem, too. It is not always easy to catch that
kind of bug by testing.
To set the scene, add some words of explanation to help the novice
understand that "cat-blob" and "ls" output are meant for consumption
by the frontend.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git cherry-pick fails when picking a non-ff commit that is empty. The advice
given with the failure is that a git-commit --allow-empty should be issued to
explicitly add the empty commit during the cherry pick. This option allows a
user to specify before hand that they want to keep the empty commit. This
eliminates the need to issue both a cherry pick and a commit operation.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I tentatively named the release notes "1.7.11" but this may have to
be renamed to "1.8" or some other name later. Let's see how well
we would do during this cycle.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing label import code looks at each commit being
imported, and then checks for labels at that commit. This
doesn't work in the real world though because it will drop
labels applied on changelists that have already been imported,
a common pattern.
This change adds a new --import-labels option. With this option,
at the end of the sync, git p4 gets sets of labels in p4 and git,
and then creates a git tag for each missing p4 label.
This means that tags created on older changelists are
still imported.
Tags that could not be imported are added to an ignore
list.
The same sets of git and p4 tags and labels can also be used to
derive a list of git tags to export to p4. This is enabled with
--export-labels in 'git p4 submit'.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the default pager and editor chosen at compile time in the
git-var(1) manpage so users curious about what command _this_ copy of
git will fall back to when EDITOR, VISUAL, and PAGER are unset can
find the answer quickly.
In builds leaving those settings uncustomized, this patch makes the
manpage continue to say "usually vi" and "usually less" so the
formatted documentation is usable for a wide audience including users
of custom builds that change those settings. If you would like your
copy of the docs to be less noncommittal, you will need to set
DEFAULT_PAGER=less and DEFAULT_EDITOR=vi explicitly.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move git-p4 out of contrib/fast-import into the main code base,
aside other foreign SCM tools.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/maint-bundle-long-subject:
t5704: match tests to modern style
strbuf: improve strbuf_get*line documentation
bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits
bundle: put strbuf_readline_fd in strbuf.c with adjustments
With the "--index-version <n>" parameter, write the index out in the
specified version. With this, an index file that is written in newer
format (say v4) can be downgraded to be read by older versions of Git.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of "commit -t <file>" said the file is used "as the
initial version" of the commit message, but in the context of an SCM,
"version" is a loaded word that can needlesslyl confuse readers.
Explain the purpose of the mechanism without using "version".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a remote repo has too many tags (or branches), cloning it over the
smart HTTP transport can fail because remote-curl.c puts all the refs
from the remote repo on the fetch-pack command line. This can make the
command line longer than the global OS command line limit, causing
fetch-pack to fail.
This is especially a problem on Windows where the command line limit is
orders of magnitude shorter than Linux. There are already real repos out
there that msysGit cannot clone over smart HTTP due to this problem.
Here is an easy way to trigger this problem:
git init too-many-refs
cd too-many-refs
echo bla > bla.txt
git add .
git commit -m test
sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
tag=$(perl -e 'print "bla" x 30')
for i in `seq 50000`; do
echo $sha refs/tags/$tag-$i >> .git/packed-refs
done
Then share this repo over the smart HTTP protocol and try cloning it:
$ git clone http://localhost/.../too-many-refs/.git
Cloning into 'too-many-refs'...
fatal: cannot exec 'fetch-pack': Argument list too long
50k tags is obviously an absurd number, but it is required to
demonstrate the problem on Linux because it has a much more generous
command line limit. On Windows the clone fails with as little as 500
tags in the above loop, which is getting uncomfortably close to the
number of tags you might see in real long lived repos.
This is not just theoretical, msysGit is already failing to clone our
company repo due to this. It's a large repo converted from CVS, nearly
10 years of history.
Four possible solutions were discussed on the Git mailing list (in no
particular order):
1) Call fetch-pack multiple times with smaller batches of refs.
This was dismissed as inefficient and inelegant.
2) Add option --refs-fd=$n to pass a an fd from where to read the refs.
This was rejected because inheriting descriptors other than
stdin/stdout/stderr through exec() is apparently problematic on Windows,
plus it would require changes to the run-command API to open extra
pipes.
3) Add option --refs-from=$tmpfile to pass the refs using a temp file.
This was not favored because of the temp file requirement.
4) Add option --stdin to pass the refs on stdin, one per line.
In the end this option was chosen as the most efficient and most
desirable from scripting perspective.
There was however a small complication when using stdin to pass refs to
fetch-pack. The --stateless-rpc option to fetch-pack also uses stdin for
communication with the remote server.
If we are going to sneak refs on stdin line by line, it would have to be
done very carefully in the presence of --stateless-rpc, because when
reading refs line by line we might read ahead too much data into our
buffer and eat some of the remote protocol data which is also coming on
stdin.
One way to solve this would be to refactor get_remote_heads() in
fetch-pack.c to accept a residual buffer from our stdin line parsing
above, but this function is used in several places so other callers
would be burdened by this residual buffer interface even when most of
them don't need it.
In the end we settled on the following solution:
If --stdin is specified without --stateless-rpc, fetch-pack would read
the refs from stdin one per line, in a script friendly format.
However if --stdin is specified together with --stateless-rpc,
fetch-pack would read the refs from stdin in packetized format
(pkt-line) with a flush packet terminating the list of refs. This way we
can read the exact number of bytes that we need from stdin, and then
get_remote_heads() can continue reading from the same fd without losing
a single byte of remote protocol data.
This way the --stdin option only loses generality and scriptability when
used together with --stateless-rpc, which is not easily scriptable
anyway because it also uses pkt-line when talking to the remote server.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Todoroski <grnch@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clear that, when using commit --template, the message *must* be
changed or the commit will be aborted.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Ivan Heffner <iheffner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some distributors customize the fallback pager and editor used by git
commands when the user has not indicated a preference via the
core.editor/core.pager configuration or GIT_EDITOR, GIT_PAGER, VISUAL,
EDITOR, and PAGER environment variables, and git's build system
provides DEFAULT_PAGER and DEFAULT_EDITOR makefile settings to help
them with that (see v1.6.6-rc0~24, 2009-11-20).
Unfortunately those compile-time settings do not affect the
documentation, so the uninitiated user who tries to understand git by
reading the git-var(1) manpage can easily be confused when git falls
back to 'nano' and 'more' instead of 'vi' and 'less'. Even if the
distributor patches the distributed docs to reflect the new default,
the user may read the official documentation from the git-htmldocs
repository online and be confused in the same way.
Add a few words stating that the defaults are customizable at
compile time to make the behavior crystal clear.
Reported-by: Rodrigo Silva (MestreLion) <linux@rodrigosilva.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using this option git will search for all submodules that
have changed in the revisions to be send. It will then try to
push the currently checked out branch of each submodule.
This helps when a user has finished working on a change which
involves submodules and just wants to push everything in one go.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously it was not possible to iterate revisions twice using the
revision walking api. We add a reset_revision_walk() which clears the
used flags. This allows us to do multiple sequencial revision walks.
We add the appropriate calls to the existing submodule machinery doing
revision walks. This is done to avoid surprises if future code wants to
call these functions more than once during the processes lifetime.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Found by running this command:
$ git ls-files -z|xargs -0 perl -0777 -n \
-e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt]o)\s+\1\b/gims)' \
-e ' {' \
-e ' $n = ($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1);' \
-e ' ($v = $&) =~ s/\n/\\n/g;' \
-e ' print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n";' \
-e ' }'
Why not just git grep -E ...?
That wouldn't work then the doubled words are separated by a newline.
This is derived from a Makefile syntax-check rule in gnulib's maint.mk:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/top/maint.mk
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
am supports a number of pass-through options
to apply, like --exclude and --directory. Add
--include to this list.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's currently no way to suppress the informational
"deleted branch..." or "set up tracking..." messages. This
patch provides a "-q" option to do so.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All of the other options were included in the synopsis, so it makes
sense to include these as well.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously GIT_EDITOR was not listed in git(1) "Environment Variables" section,
which could be very confusing to users. Include it in "other" subsection along
with a link to git-var(1), since that is the page that fully describes all
places where editor can be set and also their preference order.
Also, git-var(1) did not say that hardcoded fallback 'vi' may have been changed
at build time. A user could be puzzled if 'nano' pops up even when none of the
mentioned environment vars or config.editor are set. Clarify this.
Ideally, the build system should be changed to reflect the chosen fallback
editor when creating the man pages. Not sure if that is even possible though.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Silva (MestreLion) <linux@rodrigosilva.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
