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Author SHA1 Message Date
Junio C Hamano
7b4e2b7e6a Merge branch 'ef/mingw-write'
* ef/mingw-write:
  mingw: remove mingw_write
  prefer xwrite instead of write
2014-01-27 10:44:59 -08:00
Erik Faye-Lund
7edc02f4de prefer xwrite instead of write
Our xwrite wrapper already deals with a few potential hazards, and
are as such more robust. Prefer it instead of write to get the
robustness benefits everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Reviewed-and-improved-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-17 12:09:26 -08:00
Christian Couder
5955654823 replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.

The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:

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

on the result of preparatory changes in this series.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05 14:13:21 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
90f867b9a5 merge: simplify ff-only option
No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 11:12:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
89dde7882f Merge branch 'rh/ishes-doc'
We liberally use "committish" and "commit-ish" (and "treeish" and
"tree-ish"); as these are non-words, let's unify these terms to
their dashed form.  More importantly, clarify the documentation on
object peeling using these terms.

* rh/ishes-doc:
  glossary: fix and clarify the definition of 'ref'
  revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>}
  glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish)
  use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'
  use 'tree-ish' instead of 'treeish'
  glossary: define commit-ish (a.k.a. committish)
  glossary: mention 'treeish' as an alternative to 'tree-ish'
2013-09-17 11:42:51 -07:00
Richard Hansen
a8a5406ab3 use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'
Replace 'committish' in documentation and comments with 'commit-ish'
to match gitglossary(7) and to be consistent with 'tree-ish'.

The only remaining instances of 'committish' are:
  * variable, function, and macro names
  * "(also committish)" in the definition of commit-ish in
    gitglossary[7]

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 15:03:03 -07:00
Stefan Beller
d5d09d4754 Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOL
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27). All occurrences of the respective variables have
been reviewed and none of them relied on the counting up mechanism,
but all of them were using the variable as a true boolean.

This patch does not change semantics of any command intentionally.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 11:32:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d3aeb31dc4 Merge branch 'nd/const-struct-cache-entry'
* nd/const-struct-cache-entry:
  Convert "struct cache_entry *" to "const ..." wherever possible
2013-07-22 11:24:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9678ee7ba3 Merge branch 'mv/merge-ff-tristate'
The configuration variable "merge.ff" was cleary a tri-state to
choose one from "favor fast-forward when possible", "always create
a merge even when the history could fast-forward" and "do not
create any merge, only update when the history fast-forwards", but
the command line parser did not implement the usual convention of
"last one wins, and command line overrides the configuration"
correctly.

* mv/merge-ff-tristate:
  merge: handle --ff/--no-ff/--ff-only as a tri-state option
2013-07-15 10:28:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
778e4b8903 Merge branch 'ms/remote-tracking-branches-in-doc'
* ms/remote-tracking-branches-in-doc:
  Change "remote tracking" to "remote-tracking"
2013-07-12 12:04:07 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
9c5e6c802c Convert "struct cache_entry *" to "const ..." wherever possible
I attempted to make index_state->cache[] a "const struct cache_entry **"
to find out how existing entries in index are modified and where. The
question I have is what do we do if we really need to keep track of on-disk
changes in the index. The result is

 - diff-lib.c: setting CE_UPTODATE

 - name-hash.c: setting CE_HASHED

 - preload-index.c, read-cache.c, unpack-trees.c and
   builtin/update-index: obvious

 - entry.c: write_entry() may refresh the checked out entry via
   fill_stat_cache_info(). This causes "non-const struct cache_entry
   *" in builtin/apply.c, builtin/checkout-index.c and
   builtin/checkout.c

 - builtin/ls-files.c: --with-tree changes stagemask and may set
   CE_UPDATE

Of these, write_entry() and its call sites are probably most
interesting because it modifies on-disk info. But this is stat info
and can be retrieved via refresh, at least for porcelain
commands. Other just uses ce_flags for local purposes.

So, keeping track of "dirty" entries is just a matter of setting a
flag in index modification functions exposed by read-cache.c. Except
unpack-trees, the rest of the code base does not do anything funny
behind read-cache's back.

The actual patch is less valueable than the summary above. But if
anyone wants to re-identify the above sites. Applying this patch, then
this:

    diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
    index 430d021..1692891 100644
    --- a/cache.h
    +++ b/cache.h
    @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ static inline unsigned int canon_mode(unsigned int mode)
     #define cache_entry_size(len) (offsetof(struct cache_entry,name) + (len) + 1)

     struct index_state {
    -	struct cache_entry **cache;
    +	const struct cache_entry **cache;
     	unsigned int version;
     	unsigned int cache_nr, cache_alloc, cache_changed;
     	struct string_list *resolve_undo;

will help quickly identify them without bogus warnings.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-09 09:12:48 -07:00
Michael Schubert
d6ac1d2120 Change "remote tracking" to "remote-tracking"
Fix a typo ("remote remote-tracking") going back to the big cleanup
in 2010 (8b3f3f84 etc). Also, remove some more occurrences of
"tracking" and "remote tracking" in favor of "remote-tracking".

Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-03 13:27:15 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
a54841e96b merge: handle --ff/--no-ff/--ff-only as a tri-state option
These three options mean "favor fast-forwarding when possible,
without creating an unnecessary merge", "never fast-forward and
always create a merge commit even when the commit being merged is a
strict descendant", and "we do not want to create any merge commit;
update only when the merged commit is a strict descendant".

They are "pick one out of these three possibilities" options, and
correspond to "merge.ff" configuration that is tri-state (yes, no
and only).

However, the implementation did not follow the usual convention for
the command line options (later one wins, and command line overrides
what is in the configuration).

Fix this by consolidating two variables (fast_forward_only and
allow_fast_forward) used in the implementation into one enum that
can take one of the three possible values.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-02 13:08:42 -07:00
Vikrant Varma
f3f8af0e54 merge: use help_unknown_ref()
Use help.c:help_unknown_ref() instead of die() to provide a
friendlier error message before exiting, when one of the refs
specified in a merge is unknown.

Signed-off-by: Vikrant Varma <vikrant.varma94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-08 15:34:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d5fec92a7a Merge branch 'sg/gpg-sig'
Teach "merge/pull" to optionally verify and reject commits that are
not signed properly.

* sg/gpg-sig:
  pretty printing: extend %G? to include 'N' and 'U'
  merge/pull Check for untrusted good GPG signatures
  merge/pull: verify GPG signatures of commits being merged
  commit.c/GPG signature verification: Also look at the first GPG status line
  Move commit GPG signature verification to commit.c
2013-04-05 14:15:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e636241fdb Merge branch 'jc/merge-tag-object'
"git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
"git merge v1.8.2" as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload.

This makes the code notice the type of the tag object, in addition
to the dwim_ref() based classification the current code uses
(i.e. the name appears in refs/tags/) to decide when to special
case merging of tags.

* jc/merge-tag-object:
  t6200: test message for merging of an annotated tag
  t6200: use test_config/test_unconfig
  merge: a random object may not necssarily be a commit
2013-04-05 14:14:41 -07:00
Sebastian Götte
eb307ae7bb merge/pull Check for untrusted good GPG signatures
When --verify-signatures is specified, abort the merge in case a good
GPG signature from an untrusted key is encountered.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-31 22:38:49 -07:00
Sebastian Götte
efed002249 merge/pull: verify GPG signatures of commits being merged
When --verify-signatures is specified on the command-line of git-merge
or git-pull, check whether the commits being merged have good gpg
signatures and abort the merge in case they do not. This allows e.g.
auto-deployment from untrusted repo hosts.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-31 19:23:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2d1495fe44 merge: a random object may not necssarily be a commit
The user could have said "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.0.0)"; we
shouldn't mark it as "Merge commit '15999998fb...'" as the merge
name, even though such an invocation might be crazy.

We could even read the "tag " header from the tag object and replace
the object name the user gave us, but let's not lose the information
by doing so, at least not yet.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-19 10:59:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
149a4211a4 Merge branch 'jc/custom-comment-char'
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the
character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from
the default '#'.

* jc/custom-comment-char:
  Allow custom "comment char"
2013-02-04 10:23:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
eff80a9fd9 Allow custom "comment char"
Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #,
in their commit log message.  Many tracking system recognise
a token of #<bugid> form, for example.

The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end
users.  They have a choice between

 - Don't do it.  Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and

 - Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add.

Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g.

    $ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit

so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds.

[jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation
updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*()
functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are
from Ralf.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-16 12:48:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cf6c52fce8 Merge branch 'jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit'
Stop spending cycles to compute information to be placed on
commented lines in "merge --no-edit", which will be discarded
anyway.

* jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit:
  merge --no-edit: do not credit people involved in the side branch
2013-01-10 13:46:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ea12a7d696 Merge branch 'ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure'
"git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
status of the hook.  t7505 may want a general clean-up but that is
a different topic.

* ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure:
  merge: Honor prepare-commit-msg return code
2013-01-09 08:26:33 -08:00
Antoine Pelisse
3e4141d08c merge: Honor prepare-commit-msg return code
65969d4 (merge: honor prepare-commit-msg hook, 2011-02-14) tried to
make "git commit" and "git merge" consistent, because a merge that
required user assistance has to be concluded with "git commit", but
back then only "git commit" triggered prepare-commit-msg hook.

When it added a call to run the prepare-commit-msg hook, however, it
forgot to check the exit code from the hook like "git commit" does,
and ended up replacing one inconsistency with another.

When prepare-commit-msg hook that is run from "git merge" exits with
a non-zero status, abort the commit.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-03 09:10:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9bcbb1c218 merge --no-edit: do not credit people involved in the side branch
The credit lines "By" and "Via" to credit authors and committers for
their contributions on the side branch are meant as a hint to the
integrator to decide whom to mention in the log message text.  After
the integrator saves the message in the editor, they are meant to go
away and that is why they are commented out.

When a merge is recorded without editing the generated message,
however, its contents do not go through the normal stripspace()
and these lines are left in the merge.

Stop producing them when we know the merge is going to be recorded
without editing, i.e. when --no-edit is given.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-28 15:44:44 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
db699a8a1f Move try_merge_command and checkout_fast_forward to libgit.a
These functions are called in sequencer.c, which is part of
libgit.a. This makes libgit.a potentially require builtin/merge.c for
external git commands.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-29 03:08:30 -04:00
Junio C Hamano
738c218760 Merge branch 'tr/void-diff-setup-done' into maint-1.7.11
* tr/void-diff-setup-done:
  diff_setup_done(): return void
2012-09-11 10:53:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
096bbd6537 Merge branch 'nd/i18n-parseopt-help'
A lot of i18n mark-up for the help text from "git <cmd> -h".

* nd/i18n-parseopt-help: (66 commits)
  Use imperative form in help usage to describe an action
  Reduce translations by using same terminologies
  i18n: write-tree: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: verify-tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: verify-pack: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: update-server-info: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: update-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: update-index: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: symbolic-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: show-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: show-branch: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: shortlog: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: rm: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: revert, cherry-pick: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: rev-parse: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: reset: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: rerere: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: status: mark parseopt strings for translation
  i18n: replace: mark parseopt strings for translation
  ...
2012-09-07 11:09:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9cd33bbc52 Merge branch 'tr/void-diff-setup-done'
Remove unnecessary code.

* tr/void-diff-setup-done:
  diff_setup_done(): return void
2012-08-22 11:52:27 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
962e629567 i18n: merge: mark parseopt strings for translation
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-20 12:23:18 -07:00
Thomas Rast
28452655af diff_setup_done(): return void
diff_setup_done() has historically returned an error code, but lost
the last nonzero return in 943d5b7 (allow diff.renamelimit to be set
regardless of -M/-C, 2006-08-09).  The callers were in a pretty
confused state: some actually checked for the return code, and some
did not.

Let it return void, and patch all callers to take this into account.
This conveniently also gets rid of a handful of different(!) error
messages that could never be triggered anyway.

Note that the function can still die().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-03 12:11:07 -07:00
Jeff King
f9bc573fda ident: rename IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME to IDENT_STRICT
Callers who ask for ERROR_ON_NO_NAME are not so much
concerned that the name will be blank (because, after all,
we will fall back to using the username), but rather it is a
check to make sure that low-quality identities do not end up
in things like commit messages or emails (whereas it is OK
for them to end up in things like reflogs).

When future commits add more quality checks on the identity,
each of these callers would want to use those checks, too.
Rather than modify each of them later to add a new flag,
let's refactor the flag.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-24 17:16:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
283097e9ed Merge branch 'jc/merge-reduce-parents-early'
Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
final commit correctly.

By Junio C Hamano (4) and Michał Kiedrowicz (1)
* jc/merge-reduce-parents-early:
  fmt-merge-msg: discard needless merge parents
  builtin/merge.c: reduce parents early
  builtin/merge.c: collect other parents early
  builtin/merge.c: remove "remoteheads" global variable
  merge tests: octopus with redundant parents
2012-04-27 13:59:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e78cbf8cbb builtin/merge.c: reduce parents early
Instead of waiting until we record the parents of resulting merge, reduce
redundant parents (including our HEAD) immediately after reading them.

The change to t7602 illustrates the essence of the effect of this change.
The octopus merge strategy used to be fed with redundant commits only to
discard them as "up-to-date", but we no longer feed such redundant commits
to it and the affected test degenerates to a regular two-head merge.

And obviously the known-to-be-broken test in t6028 is now fixed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-17 17:15:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b5d887f906 builtin/merge.c: collect other parents early
Move the code around to populate remoteheads list early in the process
before any decision regarding twohead vs octopus and fast-forwardness is
made.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-17 17:14:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4c57bd2740 builtin/merge.c: remove "remoteheads" global variable
Instead pass it around starting from the toplevel cmd_merge()
as an explicit parameter.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-17 17:14:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d82829b612 Sync with 1.7.9.6 2012-04-02 13:11:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d387868a7d merge: backport GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT support
Even though 1.7.9.x series does not open the editor by default
when merging in general, it does do so in one occassion: when
merging an annotated tag. And worse yet, there is no good way
for older scripts to decline this.

Backport the support for GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable
from 1.7.10 track to help those stuck on 1.7.9.x maintenance
track.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-20 15:39:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
af050219e4 Merge branch 'zj/diff-stat-dyncol'
By Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (8) and Junio C Hamano (1)
* zj/diff-stat-dyncol:
  : This breaks tests. Perhaps it is not worth using the decimal-width stuff
  : for this series, at least initially.
  diff --stat: add config option to limit graph width
  diff --stat: enable limiting of the graph part
  diff --stat: add a test for output with COLUMNS=40
  diff --stat: use a maximum of 5/8 for the filename part
  merge --stat: use the full terminal width
  log --stat: use the full terminal width
  show --stat: use the full terminal width
  diff --stat: use the full terminal width
  diff --stat: tests for long filenames and big change counts
2012-03-06 14:53:06 -08:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
df44483a5d diff --stat: add config option to limit graph width
Config option diff.statGraphWidth=<width> is equivalent to
--stat-graph-width=<width>, except that the config option is ignored
by format-patch.

For the graph-width limiting to be usable, it should happen
'automatically' once configured, hence the config option.
Nevertheless, graph width limiting only makes sense when used on a
wide terminal, so it should not influence the output of format-patch,
which adheres to the 80-column standard.

Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01 09:15:58 -08:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
7a7159ace6 merge --stat: use the full terminal width
Make merge --stat behave like diff --stat and use the full terminal
width.

Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01 09:14:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4eed30a7cb Merge branch 'tr/merge-edit-guidance' into maint
* tr/merge-edit-guidance:
  merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing
2012-02-27 15:31:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d46f476cb2 merge: do not trust fstat(2) too much when checking interactiveness
The heuristic used by "git merge" to decide if it automatically gives an
editor upon clean automerge is to see if the standard input and the
standard output is the same device and is a tty, we are in an interactive
session.  "The same device" test was done by comparing fstat(2) result on
the two file descriptors (and they must match), and we asked isatty() only
for the standard input (we insist that they are the same device and there
is no point asking tty-ness of the standard output).

The stat(2) emulation in the Windows port however does not give a usable
value in the st_ino field, so even if the standard output is connected to
something different from the standard input, "The same device" test may
incorrectly return true. To accomodate it, add another isatty() check for
the standard output stream as well.

Reported-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-23 12:48:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5cdc9fbb08 Merge branch 'jn/merge-no-edit-fix'
* jn/merge-no-edit-fix:
  merge: do not launch an editor on "--no-edit $tag"

Conflicts:
	builtin/merge.c
2012-02-12 22:41:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fd6abd0c65 Merge branch 'jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge'
* jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge:
  merge: do not create a signed tag merge under --ff-only option
2012-02-10 14:08:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3adab6f3a7 merge: do not launch an editor on "--no-edit $tag"
When the user explicitly asked us not to, don't launch an editor.

But do everything else the same way as the "edit" case, i.e. leave the
comment with verification result in the log template and record the
mergesig in the resulting merge commit for later inspection.

Based on initiail analysis by Jonathan Nieder.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-09 13:30:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b5c9f1c1b0 merge: do not create a signed tag merge under --ff-only option
Starting at release v1.7.9, if you ask to merge a signed tag, "git merge"
always creates a merge commit, even when the tag points at a commit that
happens to be a descendant of your current commit.

Unfortunately, this interacts rather badly for people who use --ff-only to
make sure that their branch is free of local developments. It used to be
possible to say:

	$ git checkout -b frotz v1.7.9~30
        $ git merge --ff-only v1.7.9

and expect that the resulting tip of frotz branch matches v1.7.9^0 (aka
the commit tagged as v1.7.9), but this fails with the updated Git with:

	fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting.

because a merge that merges v1.7.9 tag to v1.7.9~30 cannot be created by
fast forwarding.

We could teach users that now they have to do

	$ git merge --ff-only v1.7.9^0

but it is far more pleasant for users if we DWIMmed this ourselves.

When an integrator pulls in a topic from a lieutenant via a signed tag,
even when the work done by the lieutenant happens to fast-forward, the
integrator wants to have a merge record, so the integrator will not be
asking for --ff-only when running "git pull" in such a case. Therefore,
this change should not regress the support for the use case v1.7.9 wanted
to add.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-05 16:30:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
873ce7c8d5 Merge branch 'tr/merge-edit-guidance'
* tr/merge-edit-guidance:
  merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing
2012-01-31 22:31:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
af6b37fab1 Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag'
* jc/pull-signed-tag:
  merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions

Conflicts:
	Documentation/merge-options.txt
2012-01-31 22:30:42 -08:00
Thomas Rast
f26af3fcbc merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing
Before f824628 (merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions,
2012-01-10), git-merge only started an editor if the user explicitly
asked for it with --edit.  Thus it seemed unlikely that the user would
need extra guidance.

After f824628 the _normal_ thing is to start an editor.  Give at least
an indication of why we are doing it.

The sentence about justification is one of the few things about
standard git that are not agnostic to the workflow that the user
chose.  However, f824628 was proposed by Linus specifically to
discourage users from merging unrelated upstream progress into topic
branches.  So we may as well take another step in the same direction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-31 12:04:38 -08:00