This patch introduces a very basic and barebone Git.pm module
with a sketch of how the generic interface would look like;
most functions are missing, but this should give some good base.
I will continue expanding it.
Most desirable now is more careful error reporting, generic_in() for feeding
input to Git commands and the repository() constructor doing some poking
with git-rev-parse to get the git directory and subdirectory prefix.
Those three are basically the prerequisities for converting git-mv.
I will send them as follow-ups to this patch.
Currently Git.pm just wraps up exec()s of Git commands, but even that
is not trivial to get right and various Git perl scripts do it in
various inconsistent ways. In addition to Git.pm, there is now also
Git.xs which provides barebone Git.xs for directly interfacing with
libgit.a, and as an example providing the hash_object() function using
libgit.
This adds the Git module, integrates it to the build system and as
an example converts the git-fmt-merge-msg.perl script to it (the result
is not very impressive since its advantage is not quite apparent in this
one, but I just picked up the simplest Git user around).
Compared to v3, only very minor things were fixed in this patch (some
whitespaces, a missing export, tiny bug in git-fmt-merge-msg.perl);
at first I wanted to post them as a separate patch but since this
is still only in pu, I decided that it will be cleaner to just resend
the patch.
My current working state is available all the time at
http://pasky.or.cz/~xpasky/git-perl/Git.pm
and an irregularily updated API documentation is at
http://pasky.or.cz/~xpasky/git-perl/Git.html
Many thanks to Jakub Narebski, Junio and others for their feedback.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We can now easily fetch and merge things from heads in the
refs/remotes/ hierarchy in remote repositories.
The refs/remotes/ hierarchy is likely to become the standard for
tracking foreign SCMs, as well as the location of Pull: targets
for tracking remote branches in newly cloned repositories.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since I've started using the "merge.summary" flag in my repo, my merge
messages look nicer, but I dislike how I get notifications of merges
within merges.
So I'd suggest this trivial change..
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/perl:
cvsimport: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
svnimport: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
send-email: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
rerere: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
In addition to the branch names, populate the log message with
one-line description from actual commits that are being merged.
This was prompted by Len's 12-way octopus. You need to have
'merge.summary' in the configuration file to enable it:
$ git repo-config merge.summary yes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The refspecs specified in the .git/remotes/<remote> on the "Pull: "
lines are for fetching multiple heads in one go, but most of the time
making an Octopus out of them is not what is wanted. Make git-fetch
leave the marker in .git/FETCH_HEAD file so that later stages can
tell which heads are for merging and which are not.
Tom Prince made me realize how stupid the original behaviour was.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Including the current branch in the list of heads being merged
was not a good idea, so drop it. And shorten the message by
grouping branches and tags together to form a single line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
