The advice message given by "git status" when it takes long time to
enumerate untracked paths has been updated.
* rr/status-untracked-advice:
status: modernize git-status "slow untracked files" advice
"git var UNKNOWN_VARIABLE" and "git var VARIABLE" with the variable
given an empty value used to behave identically. Now the latter
just gives an empty output, while the former still gives an error
message.
* sa/git-var-empty:
var: allow GIT_EDITOR to return null
var: do not print usage() with a correct invocation
"merge-tree" learns a new `--merge-base` option.
* kz/merge-tree-merge-base:
docs: fix description of the `--merge-base` option
merge-tree.c: allow specifying the merge-base when --stdin is passed
merge-tree.c: add --merge-base=<commit> option
`git status` can be slow when there are a large number of
untracked files and directories since Git must search the entire
worktree to enumerate them. When it is too slow, Git prints
advice with the elapsed search time and a suggestion to disable
the search using the `-uno` option. This suggestion also carries
a warning that might scare off some users.
However, these days, `-uno` isn't the only option. Git can reduce
the time taken to enumerate untracked files by caching results from
previous `git status` invocations, when the `core.untrackedCache`
and `core.fsmonitor` features are enabled.
Update the `git status` man page to explain these configuration
options, and update the advice to provide more detail about the
current configuration and to refer to the updated documentation.
Signed-off-by: Rudy Rigot <rudy.rigot@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A GNU make pattern rule with multiple targets has always meant that
a single invocation of the recipe will build all the targets.
However in older versions of GNU make a recipe that did not really
build all the targets would be tolerated.
Starting with GNU make 4.4 this behavior is deprecated and pattern
rules are expected to generate files to match all the patterns.
If not all targets are created then GNU make will not consider any
target up to date and will re-run the recipe when it is run again.
Modify Documentation/Makefile to split the man page-creating pattern
rule into a separate pattern rule for each pattern.
Reported-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before, git-var could print usage() even if the command was invoked
correctly with a variable defined in git_vars -- provided that its
read() function returned NULL.
Now, we only print usage() only if it was called with a logical
variable that wasn't defined -- regardless of read().
Since we now know the variable is valid when we call read_var(), we
can avoid printing usage() here (and exiting with code 129) and
instead exit quietly with code 1. While exiting with a different code
can be a breaking change, it's far better than changing the exit
status more generally from 'failure' to 'success'.
Signed-off-by: Sean Allred <allred.sean@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git receive-pack" used to use all the local refs as the boundary for
checking connectivity of the data "git push" sent, but now it uses
only the refs that it advertised to the pusher. In a repository with
the .hideRefs configuration, this reduces the resources needed to
perform the check.
cf. <221028.86bkpw805n.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
cf. <xmqqr0yrizqm.fsf@gitster.g>
* ps/receive-use-only-advertised:
receive-pack: only use visible refs for connectivity check
rev-parse: add `--exclude-hidden=` option
revision: add new parameter to exclude hidden refs
revision: introduce struct to handle exclusions
revision: move together exclusion-related functions
refs: get rid of global list of hidden refs
refs: fix memory leak when parsing hideRefs config
A pair of bugfixes to the Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt guide.
* tb/howto-maintain-git-fixes:
Documentation: build redo-seen.sh from jch..seen
Documentation: build redo-jch.sh from master..jch
'git maintenance register' is taught to write configuration to an
arbitrary path, and 'git for-each-repo' is taught to expand tilde
characters in paths.
* rp/maintenance-qol:
builtin/gc.c: fix use-after-free in maintenance_unregister()
maintenance --unregister: fix uninit'd data use & -Wdeclaration-after-statement
maintenance: add option to register in a specific config
for-each-repo: interpolate repo path arguments
Update the credential-cache documentation to provide a more realistic
example.
* mh/increase-credential-cache-timeout:
Documentation: increase example cache timeout to 1 hour
"git repack" learns to send cruft objects out of the way into
packfiles outside the repository.
* tb/repack-expire-to:
builtin/repack.c: implement `--expire-to` for storing pruned objects
builtin/repack.c: write cruft packs to arbitrary locations
builtin/repack.c: pass "cruft_expiration" to `write_cruft_pack`
builtin/repack.c: pass "out" to `prepare_pack_objects`
Add a new `--exclude-hidden=` option that is similar to the one we just
added to git-rev-list(1). Given a section name `uploadpack` or `receive`
as argument, it causes us to exclude all references that would be hidden
by the respective `$section.hideRefs` configuration.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Users can optionally hide refs from remote users in git-upload-pack(1),
git-receive-pack(1) and others via the `transfer.hideRefs`, but there is
not an easy way to obtain the list of all visible or hidden refs right
now. We'll require just that though for a performance improvement in our
connectivity check.
Add a new option `--exclude-hidden=` that excludes any hidden refs from
the next pseudo-ref like `--all` or `--branches`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
maintenance register currently records the maintenance repo exclusively
within the user's global configuration, but other configuration files
may be relevant when running maintenance if they are included from the
global config. This option allows the user to choose where maintenance
repos are recorded.
Signed-off-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@rjp.ie>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Previously the docs only described storage helpers.
A concrete example: Git Credential Manager can generate credentials
for GitHub and GitLab via OAuth.
https://github.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Git learned pushing submodules without pushing the superproject by
the user specifying --recurse-submodules=only through 6c656c3fe4
("submodules: add RECURSE_SUBMODULES_ONLY value", 2016-12-20) and
225e8bf778 ("push: add option to push only submodules", 2016-12-20).
For users who use this feature regularly, it is desirable to have an
equivalent configuration.
It turns out that such a configuration (push.recurseSubmodules=only) is
already supported, even though it is neither documented nor mentioned
in the commit messages, due to the way the --recurse-submodules=only
feature was implemented (a function used to parse --recurse-submodules
was updated to support "only", but that same function is used to parse
push.recurseSubmodules too). What is left is to document it and test it,
which is what this commit does.
There is a possible point of confusion when recursing into a submodule
that itself has the push.recurseSubmodules=only configuration, because
if a repository has only its submodules pushed and not itself, its
superproject can never be pushed. Therefore, treat such configurations
as being "on-demand", and print a warning message.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
It was previously unclear how unrecognised attributes are handled.
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The previous commit added a `--merge-base` option in order to allow
using a specified merge-base for the merge. Extend the input accepted
by `--stdin` to also allow a specified merge-base with each merge
requested. For example:
printf "<b3> -- <b1> <b2>" | git merge-tree --stdin
does a merge of b1 and b2, and uses b3 as the merge-base.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zhao <kylezhao@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
This patch will give our callers more flexibility to use `git merge-tree`,
such as:
git merge-tree --write-tree --merge-base=branch^ HEAD branch
This does a merge of HEAD and branch, but uses branch^ as the merge-base.
And the reason why using an option flag instead of a positional argument
is to allow additional commits passed to merge-tree to be handled via an
octopus merge in the future.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zhao <kylezhao@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Remotes are considered "promisor" if extensions.partialClone and some
other configuration variables are set. The casing for this in
Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt is not proper and may
cause confusion. This change corrects this casing.
Signed-off-by: Kousik Sanagavarapu <five231003@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Previously, the example *decreased* the cache timeout compared to the
default, making it less user friendly.
Instead, nudge users to make cache more usable. Many users choose
store over cache.
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAGJzqskRYN49SeS8kSEN5-vbB_Jt1QvAV9QhS6zNuKh0u8wxPQ@mail.gmail.com/
The default timeout remains 15 minutes. A stronger nudge would
be to increase that.
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The glossary entries for "commit-graph file" and "reachability
bitmap" have been added.
* po/glossary-around-traversal:
glossary: add reachability bitmap description
glossary: add "commit graph" description
doc: use 'object database' not ODB or abbreviation
doc: use "commit-graph" hyphenation consistently
Enable gc.cruftpacks by default for those who opt into
feature.experimental setting.
* es/mark-gc-cruft-as-experimental:
config: let feature.experimental imply gc.cruftPacks=true
gc: add tests for --cruft and friends
Git asks for a "password", but the user might use a
personal access token or OAuth access token instead.
Example:
Password for 'https://AzureDiamond@github.com':
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
