The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is
fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure
to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed.
* jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths:
attr: failure to open a .gitattributes file is OK with ENOTDIR
warn_on_inaccessible(): a helper to warn on inaccessible paths
attr: warn on inaccessible attribute files
gitignore: report access errors of exclude files
config: warn on inaccessible files
Avoid confusion in compound sentence about the start of the commit set
and the depth measure. Use two sentences.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The note that explains that changes introduced by removed commits are
preserved should be placed directly after the paragraph that describes
such commits removal. Otherwise the reference to "the commits" appears
out of context.
Also the big example that follows "Consider this history" is about
rewriting part of the history DAG. Move the paragraph that
describes the operation close to it.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Matching the default file prefix b/ does not yield any results if config
option diff.noprefix or diff.mnemonicprefix is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Mischa POSLAWSKY <git@shiar.nl>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the documentation of the core.whitespace option
"indent-with-non-tab" to correctly reflect that it catches the use of
spaces instead of the equivalent tabs, rather than a fixed number.
Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order:
cherry-pick/revert: respect order of revisions to pick
demonstrate broken 'git cherry-pick three one two'
teach log --no-walk=unsorted, which avoids sorting
* jc/maint-checkout-fileglob-doc:
gitcli: contrast wildcard given to shell and to git
gitcli: formatting fix
Document file-glob for "git checkout -- '*.c'"
Often we consult an in-tree .gitattributes file that exists per
directory. Majority of directories do not usually have such a file,
and it is perfectly fine if we cannot open it because there is no
such file, but we do want to know when there is an I/O or permission
error. Earlier, we made the codepath warn when we fail to open it
for reasons other than ENOENT for that reason.
We however sometimes have to attempt to open the .gitattributes file
from a directory that does not exist in the commit that is currently
checked out. "git pack-objects" wants to know if a path is marked
with "-delta" attributes, and "git archive" wants to know about
export-ignore and export-subst attributes. Both commands may and do
need to ask the attributes system about paths in an arbitrary
commit. "git diff", after removing an entire directory, may want to
know textconv on paths that used to be in that directory.
Make sure we also ignore a failure to open per-directory attributes
file due to ENOTDIR.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe the following in the draft release notes:
. jc/apply-binary-p0
. jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory
. jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name
. jk/maint-http-half-auth-push
. kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort
Yet to be merged before 1.7.12.1 are:
. jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths
. jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log
. mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode
changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places in
a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from this
problem.
* jc/apply-binary-p0:
apply: compute patch->def_name correctly under -p0
"git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path when
there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. Update the
command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case.
* jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory:
specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set
The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
documentation misleading.
* jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name:
doc: "git checkout -b/-B/--orphan" always takes a branch name
Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
for POST.
* jk/maint-http-half-auth-push:
http: prompt for credentials on failed POST
http: factor out http error code handling
t: test http access to "half-auth" repositories
t: test basic smart-http authentication
t/lib-httpd: recognize */smart/* repos as smart-http
t/lib-httpd: only route auth/dumb to dumb repos
t5550: factor out http auth setup
t5550: put auth-required repo in auth/dumb
"git for-each-ref" did not honor multiple "--sort=<key>" arguments
correctly.
* kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort:
for-each-ref: Fix sort with multiple keys
t6300: test sort with multiple keys
We will wait for a handful of other fixes that have graduated to the
'master' for 1.8.0 to be tested in the wild and then tag 1.7.12.1:
. mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order
. jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log
. jk/maint-http-half-auth-push
. jc/apply-binary-p0
. jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths
. kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/capabilities:
fetch-pack: mention server version with verbose output
parse_feature_request: make it easier to see feature values
fetch-pack: do not ask for unadvertised capabilities
do not send client agent unless server does first
send-pack: fix capability-sending logic
include agent identifier in capability string
* jk/check-docs-update:
check-docs: get documented command list from Makefile
check-docs: drop git-help special-case
check-docs: list git-gui as a command
check-docs: factor out command-list
command-list: mention git-credential-* helpers
command-list: add git-sh-i18n
check-docs: update non-command documentation list
check-docs: mention gitweb specially
