Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks"
option can be passed to Git to disable them.
* jk/no-optional-locks:
git: add --no-optional-locks option
"git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an
existing one.
* sd/branch-copy:
branch: fix "copy" to never touch HEAD
branch: add a --copy (-c) option to go with --move (-m)
branch: add test for -m renaming multiple config sections
config: create a function to format section headers
The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from
the shell script to C.
* js/rebase-i-final:
rebase -i: rearrange fixup/squash lines using the rebase--helper
t3415: test fixup with wrapped oneline
rebase -i: skip unnecessary picks using the rebase--helper
rebase -i: check for missing commits in the rebase--helper
t3404: relax rebase.missingCommitsCheck tests
rebase -i: also expand/collapse the SHA-1s via the rebase--helper
rebase -i: do not invent onelines when expanding/collapsing SHA-1s
rebase -i: remove useless indentation
rebase -i: generate the script via rebase--helper
t3415: verify that an empty instructionFormat is handled as before
As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the
commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that
cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't.
* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook (2017-09-22) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2017-09-25 at 096e0502a8)
+ Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook
Add documentation for a topic that has recently graduated to the
'master' branch.
* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook:
Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook
"git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with
the "--all" option.
* mk/describe-match-with-all:
describe: teach --match to handle branches and remotes
The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly
written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.
* jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix:
merge-strategies: avoid implying that "-s theirs" exists
"git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without
the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be
created. This has been corrected.
* ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger:
filter-branch: use hash-object instead of mktag
filter-branch: stash away ref map in a branch
filter-branch: preserve and restore $GIT_AUTHOR_* and $GIT_COMMITTER_*
filter-branch: reset $GIT_* before cleaning up
Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run
commands like "git status" in the background to keep track
of the state of the repository. Some of these commands may
refresh the index and write out the result in an
opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they
update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if
not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be
recomputed by the next caller.
But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations
in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing
themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words,
"git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is
holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status
would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it.
There are a couple possible solutions:
1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other
commands to tell status that they want the lock.
This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to
implement (and maybe even impossible with just
dotlocks to work from, as it requires some
inter-process communication).
2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status"
that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring
instead plumbing like diff-files, etc.
This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that
"status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the
repository state than is available from individual
plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_
want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to
take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands
like diff-files expect us to refresh the index
separately and write it to disk so that they can depend
on the result. But that write is exactly what we're
trying to avoid.
3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index.
This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any
work done in refreshing the index for such a call is
lost when the process exits. So a background process
may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times
until the user runs a command that does an index
refresh themselves.
This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test)
is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes
Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the
index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that
instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes
a "git" option and matching environment variable.
The reason there is two-fold:
1. An environment variable is carried through to
sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a
background process or not should apply to the whole
process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks
foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls
"status", you'll still get the effect.
2. There may be other programs that want the same
treatment.
I've punted here on finding more callers to convert,
since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated
background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh
of the index may be a good candidate.
The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating
Johannes's explanation:
Note that the regression test added in this commit does
not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written;
that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we
verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git
status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This mirrors commit 'bdfdaa497 ("strbuf.h: integrate api-strbuf.txt
documentation, 2015-01-16") which did the same for strbuf.h:
* API documentation uses /** */ to set it apart from other comments.
* Function names were stripped from the comments.
* Ordering of the header was adjusted to follow the one from the text
file.
* Edited some existing comments from string-list.h for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Git 2.14.2
Git 2.13.6
Git 2.12.5
Git 2.11.4
Git 2.10.5
cvsimport: shell-quote variable used in backticks
archimport: use safe_pipe_capture for user input
shell: drop git-cvsserver support by default
cvsserver: use safe_pipe_capture for `constant commands` as well
cvsserver: use safe_pipe_capture instead of backticks
cvsserver: move safe_pipe_capture() to the main package
The ability to exclude paths with a negative pathspec is not mentioned
in the man pages for git grep and other commands where it might be
useful.
Add an example and a pointer to the pathspec glossary entry in the man
page for git grep to help the user to discover this ability.
Add similar pointers from the git-add and git-status man pages.
Additionally,
- Add a test for the behaviour when multiple exclusions are present.
- Add a test for the ^ alias.
- Improve name of existing test.
- Improve grammar in glossary description of the exclude pathspec.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Manav Rathi <mnvrth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
References to multi-word configuration variable names in our
documentation must consistently use camelCase to highlight where
the word boundaries are, even though these are treated case
insensitively.
Fix a few places that spell them in all lowercase, which makes
them harder to read.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-parse" learned "--is-shallow-repository", that is to be
used in a way similar to existing "--is-bare-repository" and
friends.
* ow/rev-parse-is-shallow-repo:
rev-parse: rev-parse: add --is-shallow-repository
Doc update.
* kd/doc-for-each-ref:
doc/for-each-ref: explicitly specify option names
doc/for-each-ref: consistently use '=' to between argument names and values
The description of `-Xours` merge option has a parenthetical note
that tells the readers that it is very different from `-s ours`,
which is correct, but the description of `-Xtheirs` that follows it
carelessly says "this is the opposite of `ours`", giving a false
impression that the readers also need to be warned that it is very
different from `-s theirs`, which in reality does not even exist.
Clarify it a bit to avoid misleading readers.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With more commands (that potentially change a submodule) paying attention
to submodules as well as the recent discussion[1] on
submodule.<name>.update, let's spell out that submodule.<name>.update
is strictly to be used for configuring the "submodule update" command
and not to be obeyed by other commands.
These other commands usually have a strict meaning of what they should
do (i.e. checkout, reset, rebase, merge) as well as have their name
overlapping with the modes possible for submodule.<name>.update.
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/4283F0B0-BC1C-4ED1-8126-7E512D84484B@gmail.com/
submodule.<name>.update was set to "none", triggering unexpected
behavior as the submodule was thought to never be touched.
However a newer version of Git taught 'git pull --rebase' to also
populate and rebase submodules if they were active.
The newer options such as submodule.active and command specific
flags would not have triggered unexpected behavior.
Reported-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-read-tree manpage has a table that is meant to
be shown with its spacing exactly as it is in the source. We
mark it as a "literal paragraph" by indenting each line by
at least one space. This renders OK with asciidoc for both
the HTML and manpage versions.
But there are two problems when we render it with
asciidoctor.
The first is that some lines mix tabs and spaces. Even if
asciidoctor is correctly configured for 8-space tabs, it
seems to handle this case differently, soaking up some of
the initial literal-paragraph spaces and mis-aligning the
table text.
The second problem is that the table uses blank lines to
group rows. But as blank lines separate paragraphs in
asciidoc, this actually means that each chunk of the table
is rendered in its own pre-formatted <div> block. This
happens even with vanilla asciidoc, but there's no visible
result because the literal paragraphs aren't styled in any
special way. But with asciidoctor (or at least the styles
used on git-scm.com), literal paragraphs are styled with a
different background. This breaks the table into a visually
distracting sequence of chunks.
We can fix both by adding a literal-paragraph block
delimiter. That turns the whole table into a single block
(for both implementations) and causes asciidoctor to render
the indentation as it is in the source.
Reported-at: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/1023
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With "--state-branch=<branchname>" option, the mapping from old object names
and filtered ones in ./map/ directory is stashed away in the object database,
and the one from the previous run is read to populate the ./map/ directory,
allowing for incremental updates of large trees.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-msg hook is invoked by both commit and merge now.
Reported-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `git describe` uses `--match`, it matches only tags, basically
ignoring the `--all` argument even when it is specified.
Fix it by also matching branch name and $remote_name/$remote_branch_name,
for remote-tracking references, with the specified patterns. Update
documentation accordingly and add tests.
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Running `git fetch --unshallow` on a repo that is not in fact shallow
produces a fatal error message. Add a helper to rev-parse that scripters
can use to determine whether a repo is shallow or not.
Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git gc" and friends when multiple worktrees are used off of a
single repository did not consider the index and per-worktree refs
of other worktrees as the root for reachability traversal, making
objects that are in use only in other worktrees to be subject to
garbage collection.
* nd/prune-in-worktree:
refs.c: reindent get_submodule_ref_store()
refs.c: remove fallback-to-main-store code get_submodule_ref_store()
rev-list: expose and document --single-worktree
revision.c: --reflog add HEAD reflog from all worktrees
files-backend: make reflog iterator go through per-worktree reflog
revision.c: --all adds HEAD from all worktrees
refs: remove dead for_each_*_submodule()
refs.c: move for_each_remote_ref_submodule() to submodule.c
revision.c: use refs_for_each*() instead of for_each_*_submodule()
refs: add refs_head_ref()
refs: move submodule slash stripping code to get_submodule_ref_store
refs.c: refactor get_submodule_ref_store(), share common free block
revision.c: --indexed-objects add objects from all worktrees
revision.c: refactor add_index_objects_to_pending()
refs.c: use is_dir_sep() in resolve_gitlink_ref()
revision.h: new flag in struct rev_info wrt. worktree-related refs
Following are several fixes for duplicated words ("of of") and one
case where an extra article ("a") slipped in.
Signed-off-by: Evan Zacks <zackse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For count, sort and format, only the argument names were listed under
OPTIONS, not the option names.
Add the option names to make it clear the options exist
Signed-off-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The synopsis and description inconsistently add a '=' between the
argument name and it's value. Make this consistent.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-cvsserver script is old and largely unmaintained
these days. But git-shell allows untrusted users to run it
out of the box, significantly increasing its attack surface.
Let's drop it from git-shell's list of internal handlers so
that it cannot be run by default. This is not backwards
compatible. But given the age and development activity on
CVS-related parts of Git, this is likely to impact very few
users, while helping many more (i.e., anybody who runs
git-shell and had no intention of supporting CVS).
There's no configuration mechanism in git-shell for us to
add a boolean and flip it to "off". But there is a mechanism
for adding custom commands, and adding CVS support here is
fairly trivial. Let's document it to give guidance to
anybody who really is still running cvsserver.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
