To figure out which commits we can write a bitmap for, the multi-pack
index/bitmap code does a reachability traversal, marking any commit
which can be found in the MIDX as eligible to receive a bitmap.
This approach will cause a problem when multi-pack bitmaps are able to
be generated from `git repack`, since the reference tips can change
during the repack. Even though we ignore commits that don't exist in
the MIDX (when doing a scan of the ref tips), it's possible that a
commit in the MIDX reaches something that isn't.
This can happen when a multi-pack index contains some pack which refers
to loose objects (e.g., if a pack was pushed after starting the repack
but before generating the MIDX which depends on an object which is
stored as loose in the repository, and by definition isn't included in
the multi-pack index).
By taking a snapshot of the references before we start repacking, we can
close that race window. In the above scenario (where we have a packed
object pointing at a loose one), we'll either (a) take a snapshot of the
references before seeing the packed one, or (b) take it after, at which
point we can guarantee that the loose object will be packed and included
in the MIDX.
This patch does just that. It writes a temporary "reference snapshot",
which is a list of OIDs that are at the ref tips before writing a
multi-pack bitmap. References that are "preferred" (i.e,. are a suffix
of at least one value of the 'pack.preferBitmapTips' configuration) are
marked with a special '+'.
The format is simple: one line per commit at each tip, with an optional
'+' at the beginning (for preferred references, as described above).
When provided, the reference snapshot is used to drive bitmap selection
instead of the MIDX code doing its own traversal. When it isn't
provided, the usual traversal takes place instead.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To power a new `--write-midx` mode, `git repack` will want to write a
multi-pack index containing a certain set of packs in the repository.
This new option will be used by `git repack` to write a MIDX which
contains only the packs which will survive after the repack (that is, it
will exclude any packs which are about to be deleted).
This patch effectively exposes the function implemented in the previous
commit via the `git multi-pack-index` builtin. An alternative approach
would have been to call that function from the `git repack` builtin
directly, but this introduces awkward problems around closing and
reopening the object store, so the MIDX will be written out-of-process.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The summary line had xy, while the description (and other sub-sections)
has XY.
Signed-off-by: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code cleanup to limit memory consumption and tighten protocol
message parsing.
* jk/reduce-malloc-in-v2-servers:
ls-refs: reject unknown arguments
serve: reject commands used as capabilities
serve: reject bogus v2 "command=ls-refs=foo"
docs/protocol-v2: clarify some ls-refs ref-prefix details
ls-refs: ignore very long ref-prefix counts
serve: drop "keys" strvec
serve: provide "receive" function for session-id capability
serve: provide "receive" function for object-format capability
serve: add "receive" method for v2 capabilities table
serve: return capability "value" from get_capability()
serve: rename is_command() to parse_command()
As we did previously in 'git add', add a '--sparse' option to 'git rm'
that allows modifying paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition.
The existing checks in 'git rm' are restricted to tracked files that
have the SKIP_WORKTREE bit in the current index. Future changes will
cause 'git rm' to reject removing paths outside of the sparse-checkout
definition, even if they are untracked or do not have the SKIP_WORKTREE
bit.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We previously modified 'git add' to refuse updating index entries
outside of the sparse-checkout cone. This is justified to prevent users
from accidentally getting into a confusing state when Git removes those
files from the working tree at some later point.
Unfortunately, this caused some workflows that were previously possible
to become impossible, especially around merge conflicts outside of the
sparse-checkout cone. These were documented in tests within t1092.
We now re-enable these workflows using a new '--sparse' option to 'git
add'. This allows users to signal "Yes, I do know what I'm doing with
these files," and accept the consequences of the files leaving the
worktree later.
We delay updating the advice message until implementing a similar option
in 'git rm' and 'git mv'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some commands have traditionally also removed untracked files (or
directories) that were in the way of a tracked file we needed. Document
these cases.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This fixes a long-standing patchwork of ignored files handling in
read-tree and merge-recursive, called out and suggested by Junio long
ago. Quoting from commit dcf0c16ef1 ("core.excludesfile clean-up"
2007-11-16):
git-read-tree takes --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>,
not because the flexibility was needed. Again, this was
because the option predates the standardization of the ignore
files.
...
On the other hand, I think it makes perfect sense to fix
git-read-tree, git-merge-recursive and git-clean to follow the
same rule as other commands. I do not think of a valid use case
to give an exclude-per-directory that is nonstandard to
read-tree command, outside a "negative" test in the t1004 test
script.
This patch is the first step to untangle this mess.
The next step would be to teach read-tree, merge-recursive and
clean (in C) to use setup_standard_excludes().
History shows each of these were partially or fully fixed:
* clean was taught the new trick in 1617adc7a0 ("Teach git clean to
use setup_standard_excludes()", 2007-11-14).
* read-tree was primarily used by checkout & merge scripts. checkout
and merge later became builtins and were both fixed to use the new
setup_standard_excludes() handling in fc001b526c ("checkout,merge:
loosen overwriting untracked file check based on info/exclude",
2011-11-27). So the primary users were fixed, though read-tree
itself was not.
* merge-recursive has now been replaced as the default merge backend
by merge-ort. merge-ort fixed this by using
setup_standard_excludes() starting early in its implementation; see
commit 6681ce5cf6 ("merge-ort: add implementation of checkout()",
2020-12-13), largely due to its design depending on checkout() and
thus being influenced by the checkout code. However,
merge-recursive itself was not fixed here, in part because its
design meant it had difficulty differentiating between untracked
files, ignored files, leftover tracked files that haven't been
removed yet due to order of processing files, and files written by
itself due to collisions).
Make the conversion more complete by now handling read-tree and
handling at least the unpack_trees() portion of merge-recursive. While
merge-recursive is on its way out, fixing the unpack_trees() portion is
easy and facilitates some of the later changes in this series. Note
that fixing read-tree makes the --exclude-per-directory option to
read-tree useless, so we remove it from the documentation (though we
continue to accept it if passed).
The read-tree changes happen to fix a bug in t1013.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original point of the GIT_REF_PARANOIA flag was to include broken
refs in iterations, so that possibly-destructive operations would not
silently ignore them (and would generally instead try to operate on the
oids and fail when the objects could not be accessed).
We already turned this on by default for some dangerous operations, like
"repack -ad" (where missing a reachability tip would mean dropping the
associated history). But it was not on for general use, even though it
could easily result in the spreading of corruption (e.g., imagine
cloning a repository which simply omits some of its refs because
their objects are missing; the result quietly succeeds even though you
did not clone everything!).
This patch turns on GIT_REF_PARANOIA by default. So a clone as mentioned
above would actually fail (upload-pack tells us about the broken ref,
and when we ask for the objects, pack-objects fails to deliver them).
This may be inconvenient when working with a corrupted repository, but:
- we are better off to err on the side of complaining about
corruption, and then provide mechanisms for explicitly loosening
safety.
- this is only one type of corruption anyway. If we are missing any
other objects in the history that _aren't_ ref tips, then we'd
behave similarly (happily show the ref, but then barf when we
started traversing).
We retain the GIT_REF_PARANOIA variable, but simply default it to "1"
instead of "0". That gives the user an escape hatch for loosening this
when working with a corrupt repository. It won't work across a remote
connection to upload-pack (because we can't necessarily set environment
variables on the remote), but there the client has other options (e.g.,
choosing which refs to fetch).
As a bonus, this also makes ref iteration faster in general (because we
don't have to call has_object_file() for each ref), though probably not
noticeably so in the general case. In a repo with a million refs, it
shaved a few hundred milliseconds off of upload-pack's advertisement;
that's noticeable, but most repos are not nearly that large.
The possible downside here is that any operation which iterates refs but
doesn't ever open their objects may now quietly claim to have X when the
object is corrupted (e.g., "git rev-list new-branch --not --all" will
treat a broken ref as uninteresting). But again, that's not really any
different than corruption below the ref level. We might have
refs/heads/old-branch as non-corrupt, but we are not actively checking
that we have the entire reachable history. Or the pointed-to object
could even be corrupted on-disk (but our "do we have it" check would
still succeed). In that sense, this is merely bringing ref-corruption in
line with general object corruption.
One alternative implementation would be to actually check for broken
refs, and then _immediately die_ if we see any. That would cause the
"rev-list --not --all" case above to abort immediately. But in many ways
that's the worst of all worlds:
- it still spends time looking up the objects an extra time
- it still doesn't catch corruption below the ref level
- it's even more inconvenient; with the current implementation of
GIT_REF_PARANOIA for something like upload-pack, we can make
the advertisement and let the client choose a non-broken piece of
history. If we bail as soon as we see a broken ref, they cannot even
see the advertisement.
The test changes here show some of the fallout. A non-destructive "git
repack -adk" now fails by default (but we can override it). Deleting a
broken ref now actually tells the hooks the correct "before" state,
rather than a confusing null oid.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MIDX files are used by default since commit 18e449f86b
(midx: enable core.multiPackIndex by default, 2020-09-25)
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An oddball OPTION_ARGUMENT feature has been removed from the
parse-options API.
* ab/retire-option-argument:
parse-options API: remove OPTION_ARGUMENT feature
difftool: use run_command() API in run_file_diff()
difftool: prepare "diff" cmdline in cmd_difftool()
difftool: prepare "struct child_process" in cmd_difftool()
Taking advantage of the CGI interface, http-backend has been
updated to enable protocol v2 automatically when the other side
asks for it.
* jk/http-server-protocol-versions:
docs/protocol-v2: point readers transport config discussion
docs/git: discuss server-side config for GIT_PROTOCOL
docs/http-backend: mention v2 protocol
http-backend: handle HTTP_GIT_PROTOCOL CGI variable
t5551: test v2-to-v0 http protocol fallback
When "git am --abort" fails to abort correctly, it still exited
with exit status of 0, which has been corrected.
* en/am-abort-fix:
am: fix incorrect exit status on am fail to abort
t4151: add a few am --abort tests
git-am.txt: clarify --abort behavior
Fix a bug in the --config option that's been there ever since its
introduction in 3ac68a93fd (help: add --config to list all available
config, 2018-05-26). Die when --all and --config are combined,
combining them doesn't make sense.
The code for the --config option when combined with an earlier
refactoring done to support the --guide option in
65f98358c0 (builtin/help.c: add --guide option, 2013-04-02) would
cause us to take the "--all" branch early and ignore the --config
option.
Let's instead list these as incompatible, both in the synopsis and
help output, and enforce it in the code itself.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As noted in 65f98358c0 (builtin/help.c: add --guide option,
2013-04-02) and a133737b80 (doc: include --guide option description
for "git help", 2013-04-02) which introduced the --guide option, it
cannot be combined with e.g. <command>.
Change the command and the "SYNOPSIS" section to reflect that desired
behavior. Now that we assert this in code we don't need to
exhaustively describe the previous confusing behavior in the
documentation either, instead of silently ignoring the provided
argument we'll now error out.
The "We're done. Ignore any remaining args" comment added in
15f7d49438 (builtin/help.c: split "-a" processing into two,
2013-04-02) can now be removed, it's obvious that we're asserting the
behavior with the check of "argc".
The "--config" option is still missing from the synopsis, it will be
added in a subsequent commit where we'll fix bugs in its
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the "Sending v2" section, readers are directed to create v2 patches
without using --range-diff. However, it is customary to include a
range-diff against the v1 patches as a reviewer aid.
Update the "Sending v2" section to suggest a simple workflow that uses
the --range-diff option. Also include some explanation for -v2 and
--range-diff to help the reader understand the importance.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a similar spirit as the previous patch, let sub-commands which
support showing or hiding a progress meter handle parsing the
`--progress` or `--no-progress` option, but do not expose it as an
option to the top-level `multi-pack-index` builtin.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In cone mode, the sparse-index code path learned to remove ignored
files (like build artifacts) outside the sparse cone, allowing the
entire directory outside the sparse cone to be removed, which is
especially useful when the sparse patterns change.
* ds/sparse-index-ignored-files:
sparse-checkout: clear tracked sparse dirs
sparse-index: add SPARSE_INDEX_MEMORY_ONLY flag
attr: be careful about sparse directories
sparse-checkout: create helper methods
sparse-index: use WRITE_TREE_MISSING_OK
sparse-index: silently return when cache tree fails
unpack-trees: fix nested sparse-dir search
sparse-index: silently return when not using cone-mode patterns
t7519: rewrite sparse index test
Code clean-up around "git serve".
* ab/serve-cleanup:
upload-pack: document and rename --advertise-refs
serve.[ch]: remove "serve_options", split up --advertise-refs code
{upload,receive}-pack tests: add --advertise-refs tests
serve.c: move version line to advertise_capabilities()
serve: move transfer.advertiseSID check into session_id_advertise()
serve.[ch]: don't pass "struct strvec *keys" to commands
serve: use designated initializers
transport: use designated initializers
transport: rename "fetch" in transport_vtable to "fetch_refs"
serve: mark has_capability() as static
"git maintenance" scheduler learned to use systemd timers as a
possible backend.
* lh/systemd-timers:
maintenance: add support for systemd timers on Linux
maintenance: `git maintenance run` learned `--scheduler=<scheduler>`
cache.h: Introduce a generic "xdg_config_home_for(…)" function
The reachability bitmap file used to be generated only for a single
pack, but now we've learned to generate bitmaps for history that
span across multiple packfiles.
* tb/multi-pack-bitmaps: (29 commits)
pack-bitmap: drop bitmap_index argument from try_partial_reuse()
pack-bitmap: drop repository argument from prepare_midx_bitmap_git()
p5326: perf tests for MIDX bitmaps
p5310: extract full and partial bitmap tests
midx: respect 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP'
t7700: update to work with MIDX bitmap test knob
t5319: don't write MIDX bitmaps in t5319
t5310: disable GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP
t0410: disable GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP
t5326: test multi-pack bitmap behavior
t/helper/test-read-midx.c: add --checksum mode
t5310: move some tests to lib-bitmap.sh
pack-bitmap: write multi-pack bitmaps
pack-bitmap: read multi-pack bitmaps
pack-bitmap.c: avoid redundant calls to try_partial_reuse
pack-bitmap.c: introduce 'bitmap_is_preferred_refname()'
pack-bitmap.c: introduce 'nth_bitmap_object_oid()'
pack-bitmap.c: introduce 'bitmap_num_objects()'
midx: avoid opening multiple MIDXs when writing
midx: close linked MIDXs, avoid leaking memory
...
The configuration option `rebase.forkpoint' is only mentioned in the man
page of git-config(1). Since it is a configuration for rebase, mention
it in the documentation of rebase at the --fork-point/--no-fork-point
section. This will help users set a preferred default for their
workflow.
Signed-off-by: Wesley Schwengle <wesley@opperschaap.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create "child_ready" event to capture the state of a child process
created in the background.
When a child command is started a "child_start" event is generated in
the Trace2 log. For normal synchronous children, a "child_exit" event
is later generated when the child exits or is terminated. The two events
include information, such as the "child_id" and "pid", to allow post
analysis to match-up the command line and exit status.
When a child is started in the background (and may outlive the parent
process), it is not possible for the parent to emit a "child_exit"
event. Create a new "child_ready" event to indicate whether the
child was successfully started. Also include the "child_id" and "pid"
to allow similar post processing.
This will be used in a later commit with the new "start_bg_command()".
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a few typos and alignment issues, and while at it update the
example hashes to show most of the ones available in recent crypt(3).
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
c057bad370 (git-cvsserver: use a password file cvsserver pserver,
2010-05-15) adds a way for `git cvsserver` to provide authenticated
pserver accounts without having clear text passwords, but uses the
username instead of the password to the call for crypt(3).
Correct that, and make sure the documentation correctly indicates how
to obtain hashed passwords that could be used to populate this
configuration, as well as correcting the hash that was used for the
tests.
This change will require that any user of this feature updates the
hashes in their configuration, but has the advantage of using a more
similar format than cvs uses, probably also easying any migration.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We've never documented the fact that a client can provide multiple
ref-prefix capabilities. Let's describe the behavior.
We also never discussed the "best effort" nature of the prefixes. The
client side of git.git has always treated them this way, filtering the
result with local patterns. And indeed any client must do this, because
the prefix patterns are not sufficient to express the usual refspecs
(and so for "foo" we ask for "refs/heads/foo", "refs/tags/foo", and so
on).
So this may be considered a change in the spec with respect to client
expectations / requirements, but it's mostly codifying existing
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the previous commit, the bitmap writing code learned to propagate
values from an existing hash-cache extension into the bitmap that it is
writing.
Now that that functionality exists, let's expose it by teaching the 'git
multi-pack-index' builtin to respect the `pack.writeBitmapHashCache`
option so that the hash-cache may be written at all.
Two minor points worth noting here:
- The 'git multi-pack-index write' sub-command didn't previously read
any configuration (instead this is handled in the base command). A
separate handler is added here to respect this write-specific
config option.
- I briefly considered adding a 'bitmap_flags' field to the static
options struct, but decided against it since it would require
plumbing through a new parameter to the write_midx_file() function.
Instead, a new MIDX-specific flag is added, which is translated to
the corresponding bitmap one.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ab/serve-cleanup:
upload-pack: document and rename --advertise-refs
serve.[ch]: remove "serve_options", split up --advertise-refs code
{upload,receive}-pack tests: add --advertise-refs tests
serve.c: move version line to advertise_capabilities()
serve: move transfer.advertiseSID check into session_id_advertise()
serve.[ch]: don't pass "struct strvec *keys" to commands
serve: use designated initializers
transport: use designated initializers
transport: rename "fetch" in transport_vtable to "fetch_refs"
serve: mark has_capability() as static
While 'git version' is probably the least complex git command,
it is a non-experimental user-facing builtin command. As such
it should have a help page.
Both `git help` and `git version` can be called as options
(`--help`/`--version`) that internally get converted to the
corresponding command. Add a small paragraph to
Documentation/git.txt describing how these two options
interact with each other and link to this help page for the
sub-options that `--version` can take. Well, currently there
is only one sub-option, but that could potentially increase
in future versions of Git.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `git help` command gained the ability to list config variables in
3ac68a93fd (help: add --config to list all available config, 2018-05-26)
but failed to tell readers of the config documenation itself.
Provide that cross reference.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As was noted in 1a85b49b87 (parse-options: make OPT_ARGUMENT() more
useful, 2019-03-14) there's only ever been one user of the
OPT_ARGUMENT(), that user was added in 20de316e33 (difftool: allow
running outside Git worktrees with --no-index, 2019-03-14).
The OPT_ARGUMENT() feature itself was added way back in
580d5bffde (parse-options: new option type to treat an option-like
parameter as an argument., 2008-03-02), but as discussed in
1a85b49b87 wasn't used until 20de316e33 in 2019.
Now that the preceding commit has migrated this code over to using
"struct strvec" to manage the "args" member of a "struct
child_process", we can just use that directly instead of relying on
OPT_ARGUMENT.
This has a minor change in behavior in that if we'll pass --no-index
we'll now always pass it as the first argument, before we'd pass it in
whatever position the caller did. Preserving this was the real value
of OPT_ARGUMENT(), but as it turns out we didn't need that either. We
can always inject it as the first argument, the other end will parse
it just the same.
Note that we cannot remove the "out" and "cpidx" members of "struct
parse_opt_ctx_t" added in 580d5bffde, while they were introduced with
OPT_ARGUMENT() we since used them for other things.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "send-pack" was changed to use the parse_options() API in
068c77a518 (builtin/send-pack.c: use parse_options API, 2015-08-19)
it was made to use one very long line, instead it should split them up
with newlines.
Furthermore we were including an inline explanation that you couldn't
combine "--all" and "<ref>", but unlike in the "blame" case this was
not preceded by an empty string.
Let's instead show that --all and <ref> can't be combined in the the
usual language of the usage syntax instead. We can make it clear that
one of the two options "--foo" and "--bar" is mandatory, but that the
two are mutually exclusive by referring to them as "( --foo | --bar
)".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify the usage string in the documentation so we group e.g. -i and
--info, and add the missing short options to the "-h" output.
The alignment of the second line is off now, but will be fixed with
another series of mine[1]. In the meantime let's just assume that fix
will make it in eventually for the purposes of this patch, if it's
misaligned for a bit it doesn't matter much.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-0.2-00000000000-20210901T110917Z-avarab@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both Johannes and I assumed (perhaps due to familiarity with rebase)
that am --abort would return the user to a clean state. However, since
am, unlike rebase, is intended to be used within a dirty working tree,
--abort will only clean the files involved in the am operation.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We recently added tips for server admins to configure various transports
to support v2's GIT_PROTOCOL variable. While the protocol-v2 document is
pretty technical and not of interest to most admins, it may be a
starting point for them to figure out how to turn on v2. Let's put some
pointers from there to the other documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The v2 protocol requires that the GIT_PROTOCOL environment variable gets
passed around, but we don't have any documentation describing how this
is supposed to work. In particular, we need to note what server admins
might need to configure to make things work.
The definition of the GIT_PROTOCOL variable is probably the best place
for this, since:
- we deal with multiple transports (ssh, http, etc).
Transport-specific documentation (like the git-http-backend bits
added in the previous commit) are helpful for those transports, but
this gives a broader overview. Plus we do not have a specific
transport endpoint program for ssh, so this is a reasonable place to
mention it.
- the server side of the protocol involves multiple programs. For now,
upload-pack is the only endpoint which uses GIT_PROTOCOL, but that
will likely expand in the future. We're better off with a central
discussion of what the server admin might need to do. However, for
discoverability, this patch adds a pointer from upload-pack's
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Historically there was a little bit of configuration needed at the
webserver level in order to get the client's v2 protocol probes to Git.
But when we introduced the v2 protocol, we never documented these.
As of the previous commit, this should mostly work out of the box
without any explicit configuration. But it's worth documenting this to
make it clear how we expect it to work, especially in the face of
webservers which don't provide all headers over the CGI interface. Or
anybody who runs across this documentation but has an older version of
Git (or _used_ to have an older version, and wonders why they still have
a SetEnvIf line in their Apache config and whether it's still
necessary).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic for auto-correction of misspelt subcommands learned to go
interactive when the help.autocorrect configuration variable is set
to 'prompt'.
* ab/help-autocorrect-prompt:
help.c: help.autocorrect=prompt waits for user action
Doc update plus improved error reporting.
* jk/log-warn-on-bogus-encoding:
docs: use "character encoding" to refer to commit-object encoding
logmsg_reencode(): warn when iconv() fails
"git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch"
forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling
want-ref requests.
* ka/want-ref-in-namespace:
docs: clarify the interaction of transfer.hideRefs and namespaces
upload-pack.c: treat want-ref relative to namespace
t5730: introduce fetch command helper
"git rebase" by default skips changes that are equivalent to
commits that are already in the history the branch is rebased onto;
give messages when this happens to let the users be aware of
skipped commits, and also teach them how to tell "rebase" to keep
duplicated changes.
* js/advise-when-skipping-cherry-picked:
sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commit
"git branch -D <branch>" used to refuse to remove a broken branch
ref that points at a missing commit, which has been corrected.
* rs/branch-allow-deleting-dangling:
branch: allow deleting dangling branches with --force
When changing the scope of a sparse-checkout using cone mode, we might
have some tracked directories go out of scope. The current logic removes
the tracked files from within those directories, but leaves the ignored
files within those directories. This is a bit unexpected to users who
have given input to Git saying they don't need those directories
anymore.
This is something that is new to the cone mode pattern type: the user
has explicitly said "I want these directories and _not_ those
directories." The typical sparse-checkout patterns more generally apply
to "I want files with with these patterns" so it is natural to leave
ignored files as they are. This focus on directories in cone mode
provides us an opportunity to change the behavior.
Leaving these ignored files in the sparse directories makes it
impossible to gain performance benefits in the sparse index. When we
track into these directories, we need to know if the files are ignored
or not, which might depend on the _tracked_ .gitignore file(s) within
the sparse directory. This depends on the indexed version of the file,
so the sparse directory must be expanded.
We must take special care to look for untracked, non-ignored files in
these directories before deleting them. We do not want to delete any
meaningful work that the users were doing in those directories and
perhaps forgot to add and commit before switching sparse-checkout
definitions. Since those untracked files might be code files that
generated ignored build output, also do not delete any ignored files
from these directories in that case. The users can recover their state
by resetting their sparse-checkout definition to include that directory
and continue. Alternatively, they can see the warning that is presented
and delete the directory themselves to regain the performance they
expect.
By deleting the sparse directories when changing scope (or running 'git
sparse-checkout reapply') we regain these performance benefits as if the
repository was in a clean state.
Since these ignored files are frequently build output or helper files
from IDEs, the users should not need the files now that the tracked
files are removed. If the tracked files reappear, then they will have
newer timestamps than the build artifacts, so the artifacts will need to
be regenerated anyway.
Use the sparse-index as a data structure in order to find the sparse
directories that can be safely deleted. Re-expand the index to a full
one if it was full before.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already passed the `--rebase-merges` option to `git rebase` instead,
now we make this move permanent.
As pointed out by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, in contrast to the
deprecation of `git rebase`'s `--preserve-merges` backend, `git svn`
only deprecated this option in v2.25.0 (because this developer missed
`git svn`'s use of that backend when deprecating the rebase backend
running up to Git v2.22).
Still, v2.25.0 has been released on January 13th, 2020. In other words,
`git svn` deprecated this option over one and a half years ago, _and_
has been redirecting to the `--rebase-merges` option during all that
time (read: `git svn rebase --preserve-merges` didn't do _precisely_
what the user asked, since v2.25.0, anyway, it fell back to pretending
that the user asked for `git svn rebase --rebase-merges` instead).
It is time to act on that deprecation and remove that option after all.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option was deprecated in favor of `--rebase-merges` some time ago,
and now we retire it.
To assist users to transition away, we do not _actually_ remove the
option, but now we no longer implement the functionality. Instead, we
offer a helpful error message suggesting which option to use.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for `git-rebase--preserve-merges.sh` entering its after
life, we remove this (deprecated) option that would still rely on it.
To help users transition who still did not receive the memo about the
deprecation, we offer a helpful error message instead of throwing our
hands in the air and saying that we don't know that option, never heard
of it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git bugreport writes bug report to the current directory by default,
instead of repository root.
Fix the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "unbundle" command added in 2e0afafebd (Add git-bundle: move
objects and references by archive, 2007-02-22) did not show progress
output, even though the underlying API learned how to show progress in
be042aff24 (Teach progress eye-candy to fetch_refs_from_bundle(),
2011-09-18).
Now we'll show "Unbundling objects" using the new --progress-title
option to "git index-pack", to go with its existing "Receiving
objects" and "Indexing objects" (which it shows when invoked with
"--stdin", and with a pack file, respectively).
Unlike "git bundle create" we don't handle "--quiet" here, nor
"--all-progress" and "--all-progress-implied". Those are all specific
to "create" (and "verify", in the case of "--quiet").
The structure of the existing documentation is a bit unclear, e.g. the
documentation for the "--quiet" option added in
79862b6b77 (bundle-create: progress output control, 2019-11-10) only
describes how it works for "create", and not for "verify". That and
other issues in it should be fixed, but I'd like to avoid untangling
that mess right now. Let's just support the standard "--no-progress"
implicitly here, and leave cleaning up the general behavior of "git
bundle" for a later change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a --progress-title option to index-pack, when data is piped into
index-pack its progress is a proxy for whatever's feeding it data.
This option will allow us to set a more relevant progress bar title in
"git bundle unbundle", and is also used in my "bundle-uri" RFC
patches[1] by a new caller in fetch-pack.c.
The code change in cmd_index_pack() won't handle
"--progress-title=xyz", only "--progress-title xyz", and the "(i+1)"
style (as opposed to "i + 1") is a bit odd.
Not using the "--long-option=value" style is inconsistent with
existing long options handled by cmd_index_pack(), but makes the code
that needs to call it better (two strvec_push(), instead of needing a
strvec_pushf()). Since the option is internal-only the inconsistency
shouldn't matter.
I'm copying the pattern to handle it as-is from the handling of the
existing "-o" option in the same function, see 9cf6d3357a (Add
git-index-pack utility, 2005-10-12) for its addition. That's a short
option, but the code to implement the two is the same in functionality
and style. Eventually we'd like to migrate all of this this to
parse_options(), which would make these differences in behavior go
away.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/RFC-cover-00.13-0000000000-20210805T150534Z-avarab@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done
through cron. On Linux systems managed by systemd, systemd provides an
alternative to schedule recurring tasks: systemd timers.
The main motivations to implement systemd timers in addition to cron
are:
* cron is optional and Linux systems running systemd might not have it
installed.
* The execution of `crontab -l` can tell us if cron is installed but not
if the daemon is actually running.
* With systemd, each service is run in its own cgroup and its logs are
tagged by the service inside journald. With cron, all scheduled tasks
are running in the cron daemon cgroup and all the logs of the
user-scheduled tasks are pretended to belong to the system cron
service.
Concretely, a user that doesn’t have access to the system logs won’t
have access to the log of their own tasks scheduled by cron whereas
they will have access to the log of their own tasks scheduled by
systemd timer.
Although `cron` attempts to send email, that email may go unseen by
the user because these days, local mailboxes are not heavily used
anymore.
In order to schedule git maintenance, we need two unit template files:
* ~/.config/systemd/user/git-maintenance@.service
to define the command to be started by systemd and
* ~/.config/systemd/user/git-maintenance@.timer
to define the schedule at which the command should be run.
Those units are templates that are parameterized by the frequency.
Based on those templates, 3 timers are started:
* git-maintenance@hourly.timer
* git-maintenance@daily.timer
* git-maintenance@weekly.timer
The command launched by those three timers are the same as with the
other scheduling methods:
/path/to/git for-each-repo --exec-path=/path/to
--config=maintenance.repo maintenance run --schedule=%i
with the full path for git to ensure that the version of git launched
for the scheduled maintenance is the same as the one used to run
`maintenance start`.
The timer unit contains `Persistent=true` so that, if the computer is
powered down when a maintenance task should run, the task will be run
when the computer is back powered on.
Signed-off-by: Lénaïc Huard <lenaic@lhuard.fr>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Depending on the system, different schedulers can be used to schedule
the hourly, daily and weekly executions of `git maintenance run`:
* `launchctl` for MacOS,
* `schtasks` for Windows and
* `crontab` for everything else.
`git maintenance run` now has an option to let the end-user explicitly
choose which scheduler he wants to use:
`--scheduler=auto|crontab|launchctl|schtasks`.
When `git maintenance start --scheduler=XXX` is run, it not only
registers `git maintenance run` tasks in the scheduler XXX, it also
removes the `git maintenance run` tasks from all the other schedulers to
ensure we cannot have two schedulers launching concurrent identical
tasks.
The default value is `auto` which chooses a suitable scheduler for the
system.
`git maintenance stop` doesn't have any `--scheduler` parameter because
this command will try to remove the `git maintenance run` tasks from all
the available schedulers.
Signed-off-by: Lénaïc Huard <lenaic@lhuard.fr>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The revision traversal API has been optimized by taking advantage
of the commit-graph, when available, to determine if a commit is
reachable from any of the existing refs.
* ps/connectivity-optim:
revision: avoid hitting packfiles when commits are in commit-graph
commit-graph: split out function to search commit position
revision: stop retrieving reference twice
connected: do not sort input revisions
revision: separate walk and unsorted flags
Write multi-pack bitmaps in the format described by
Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt, inferring their presence with
the absence of '--bitmap'.
To write a multi-pack bitmap, this patch attempts to reuse as much of
the existing machinery from pack-objects as possible. Specifically, the
MIDX code prepares a packing_data struct that pretends as if a single
packfile has been generated containing all of the objects contained
within the MIDX.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Opening multiple instance of the same MIDX can lead to problems like two
separate packed_git structures which represent the same pack being added
to the repository's object store.
The above scenario can happen because prepare_midx_pack() checks if
`m->packs[pack_int_id]` is NULL in order to determine if a pack has been
opened and installed in the repository before. But a caller can
construct two copies of the same MIDX by calling get_multi_pack_index()
and load_multi_pack_index() since the former manipulates the
object store directly but the latter is a lower-level routine which
allocates a new MIDX for each call.
So if prepare_midx_pack() is called on multiple MIDXs with the same
pack_int_id, then that pack will be installed twice in the object
store's packed_git pointer.
This can lead to problems in, for e.g., the pack-bitmap code, which does
something like the following (in pack-bitmap.c:open_pack_bitmap()):
struct bitmap_index *bitmap_git = ...;
for (p = get_all_packs(r); p; p = p->next) {
if (open_pack_bitmap_1(bitmap_git, p) == 0)
ret = 0;
}
which is a problem if two copies of the same pack exist in the
packed_git list because pack-bitmap.c:open_pack_bitmap_1() contains a
conditional like the following:
if (bitmap_git->pack || bitmap_git->midx) {
/* ignore extra bitmap file; we can only handle one */
warning("ignoring extra bitmap file: %s", packfile->pack_name);
close(fd);
return -1;
}
Avoid this scenario by not letting write_midx_internal() open a MIDX
that isn't also pointed at by the object store. So long as this is the
case, other routines should prefer to open MIDXs with
get_multi_pack_index() or reprepare_packed_git() instead of creating
instances on their own. Because get_multi_pack_index() returns
`r->object_store->multi_pack_index` if it is non-NULL, we'll only have
one instance of a MIDX open at one time, avoiding these problems.
To encourage this, drop the `struct multi_pack_index *` parameter from
`write_midx_internal()`, and rely instead on the `object_dir` to find
(or initialize) the correct MIDX instance.
Likewise, replace the call to `close_midx()` with
`close_object_store()`, since we're about to replace the MIDX with a new
one and should invalidate the object store's memory of any MIDX that
might have existed beforehand.
Note that this now forbids passing object directories that don't belong
to alternate repositories over `--object-dir`, since before we would
have happily opened a MIDX in any directory, but now restrict ourselves
to only those reachable by `r->objects->multi_pack_index` (and alternate
MIDXs that we can see by walking the `next` pointer).
As far as I can tell, supporting arbitrary directories with
`--object-dir` was a historical accident, since even the documentation
says `<alt>` when referring to the value passed to this option.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The soon-to-be-implemented multi-pack bitmap treats object in the first
bit position specially by assuming that all objects in the pack it was
selected from are also represented from that pack in the MIDX. In other
words, the pack from which the first object was selected must also have
all of its other objects selected from that same pack in the MIDX in
case of any duplicates.
But this assumption relies on the fact that there is at least one object
in that pack to begin with; otherwise the object in the first bit
position isn't from a preferred pack, in which case we can no longer
assume that all objects in that pack were also selected from the same
pack.
Guard this assumption by checking the number of objects in the given
preferred pack, and failing if the given pack is empty.
To make sure we can safely perform this check, open any packs which are
contained in an existing MIDX via prepare_midx_pack(). The same is done
for new packs via the add_pack_to_midx() callback, but packs picked up
from a previous MIDX will not yet have these opened.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expand the section about namespaces in the documentation of
`transfer.hideRefs` to point out the subtle differences between
`upload-pack` and `receive-pack`.
ffcfb68176 (upload-pack.c: treat want-ref relative to namespace,
2021-07-30) taught `upload-pack` to reject `want-ref`s for hidden refs,
which is now mentioned. It is clarified that at no point the name of a
hidden ref is revealed, but the object id it points to may.
Signed-off-by: Kim Altintop <kim@eagain.st>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Silently skipping commits when rebasing with --no-reapply-cherry-picks
(currently the default behavior) can cause user confusion. Issue
warnings when this happens, as well as advice on how to preserve the
skipped commits.
These warnings and advice are displayed only when using the (default)
"merge" rebase backend.
Update the git-rebase docs to mention the warnings and advice.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The most significant of this batch is of course "merge -sort".
Thanks, Elijah and everybody who helped the topic.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use `ort` instead of `recursive` as the default merge strategy.
* en/ort-becomes-the-default:
Update docs for change of default merge backend
Change default merge backend from recursive to ort
Documentation updates.
* en/merge-strategy-docs:
Update error message and code comment
merge-strategies.txt: add coverage of the `ort` merge strategy
git-rebase.txt: correct out-of-date and misleading text about renames
merge-strategies.txt: fix simple capitalization error
merge-strategies.txt: avoid giving special preference to patience algorithm
merge-strategies.txt: do not imply using copy detection is desired
merge-strategies.txt: update wording for the resolve strategy
Documentation: edit awkward references to `git merge-recursive`
directory-rename-detection.txt: small updates due to merge-ort optimizations
git-rebase.txt: correct antiquated claims about --rebase-merges
"git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out
around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop
but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a
descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up.
* en/pull-conflicting-options:
pull: fix handling of multiple heads
pull: update docs & code for option compatibility with rebasing
pull: abort by default when fast-forwarding is not possible
pull: make --rebase and --no-rebase override pull.ff=only
pull: since --ff-only overrides, handle it first
pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible
t7601: add tests of interactions with multiple merge heads and config
t7601: test interaction of merge/rebase/fast-forward flags and options
Fix syntax and correct the format of printf in MyFirstObjectWalk.txt
Signed-off-by: Zoker <kaixuanguiqu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git branch only allows deleting branches that point to valid commits.
Skip that check if --force is given, as the caller is indicating with
it that they know what they are doing and accept the consequences.
This allows deleting dangling branches, which previously had to be
reset to a valid start-point using --force first.
Reported-by: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The word "encoding" can mean a lot of things (e.g., base64 or
quoted-printable encoding in emails, HTML entities, URL encoding, and so
on). The documentation for i18n.commitEncoding and i18n.logOutputEncoding
uses the phrase "character encoding" to make this more clear.
Let's use that phrase in other places to make it clear what kind of
encoding we are talking about. This patch covers the gui.encoding
option, as well as the --encoding option for git-log, etc (in this
latter case, I word-smithed the sentence a little at the same time).
That, coupled with the mention of iconv in the --encoding description,
should make this more clear.
The other spot I looked at is the working-tree-encoding section of
gitattributes(5). But it gives specific examples of encodings that I
think make the meaning pretty clear already.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user asks for a pretty-printed commit to be converted (either
explicitly with --encoding=foo, or implicitly because the commit is
non-utf8 and we want to convert it), we pass it through iconv(). If that
fails, we fall back to showing the input verbatim, but don't tell the
user that the output may be bogus.
Let's add a warning to do so, along with a mention in the documentation
for --encoding. Two things to note about the implementation:
- we could produce the warning closer to the call to iconv() in
reencode_string_len(), which would let us relay the value of errno.
But this is not actually very helpful. reencode_string_len() does
not know we are operating on a commit, and indeed does not know that
the caller won't produce an error of its own. And the errno values
from iconv() are seldom helpful (iconv_open() only ever produces
EINVAL; perhaps EILSEQ from iconv() might be illuminating, but it
can also return EINVAL for incomplete sequences).
- if the reason for the failure is that the output charset is not
supported, then the user will see this warning for every commit we
try to display. That might be ugly and overwhelming, but on the
other hand it is making it clear that every one of them has not been
converted (and the likely outcome anyway is to re-try the command
with a supported output encoding).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git column's '--nl' option can be used to specify a "string to be
printed at the end of each line" (quoting the man page), but this
option and its mandatory argument has been parsed as OPT_INTEGER since
the introduction of the command in 7e29b8254f (Add column layout
skeleton and git-column, 2012-04-21). Consequently, any non-number
argument is rejected by parse-options, and any number other than 0
leads to segfault:
$ printf "%s\n" one two |git column --mode=plain --nl=foo
error: option `nl' expects a numerical value
$ printf "%s\n" one two |git column --mode=plain --nl=42
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ printf "%s\n" one two |git column --mode=plain --nl=0
one
two
Parse this option as OPT_STRING.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
trace2 logs learned to show parent process name to see in what
context Git was invoked.
* es/trace2-log-parent-process-name:
tr2: log parent process name
tr2: make process info collection platform-generic
Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a
location relative to Git installation (e.g. its $sharedir which is
$(prefix)/share), with "%(prefix)".
* js/expand-runtime-prefix:
expand_user_path: allow in-flight topics to keep using the old name
interpolate_path(): allow specifying paths relative to the runtime prefix
Use a better name for the function interpolating paths
expand_user_path(): clarify the role of the `real_home` parameter
expand_user_path(): remove stale part of the comment
tests: exercise the RUNTIME_PREFIX feature
Prepare the "ref-filter" machinery that drives the "--format"
option of "git for-each-ref" and its friends to be used in "git
cat-file --batch".
* zh/ref-filter-raw-data:
ref-filter: add %(rest) atom
ref-filter: use non-const ref_format in *_atom_parser()
ref-filter: --format=%(raw) support --perl
ref-filter: add %(raw) atom
ref-filter: add obj-type check in grab contents
Update the technical documentation to describe the multi-pack bitmap
format. This patch merely introduces the new format, and describes its
high-level ideas. Git does not yet know how to read nor write these
multi-pack variants, and so the subsequent patches will:
- Introduce code to interpret multi-pack bitmaps, according to this
document.
- Then, introduce code to write multi-pack bitmaps from the 'git
multi-pack-index write' sub-command.
Finally, the implementation will gain tests in subsequent patches (as
opposed to inline with the patch teaching Git how to write multi-pack
bitmaps) to avoid a cyclic dependency.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier "git log -m" was changed to always produce patch output,
which would break existing scripts, which has been reverted.
* jn/log-m-does-not-imply-p:
Revert 'diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"'
This reverts commit f5bfcc823b, which
made "git log -m" imply "--patch" by default. The logic was that
"-m", which makes diff generation for merges perform a diff against
each parent, has no use unless I am viewing the diff, so we could save
the user some typing by turning on display of the resulting diff
automatically. That wasn't expected to adversely affect scripts
because scripts would either be using a command like "git diff-tree"
that already emits diffs by default or would be combining -m with a
diff generation option such as --name-status. By saving typing for
interactive use without adversely affecting scripts in the wild, it
would be a pure improvement.
The problem is that although diff generation options are only relevant
for the displayed diff, a script author can imagine them affecting
path limiting. For example, I might run
git log -w --format=%H -- README
hoping to list commits that edited README, excluding whitespace-only
changes. In fact, a whitespace-only change is not TREESAME so the use
of -w here has no effect (since we don't apply these diff generation
flags to the diff_options struct rev_info::pruning used for this
purpose), but the documentation suggests that it should work
Suppose you specified foo as the <paths>. We shall call
commits that modify foo !TREESAME, and the rest TREESAME. (In
a diff filtered for foo, they look different and equal,
respectively.)
and a script author who has not tested whitespace-only changes
wouldn't notice.
Similarly, a script author could include
git log -m --first-parent --format=%H -- README
to filter the first-parent history for commits that modified README.
The -m is a no-op but it reflects the script author's intent. For
example, until 1e20a407fe (stash list: stop passing "-m" to "git
log", 2021-05-21), "git stash list" did this.
As a result, we can't safely change "-m" to imply "-p" without fear of
breaking such scripts. Restore the previous behavior.
Noticed because Rust's src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py made use of this
same construct: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/87513. That
script has been updated to omit the unnecessary "-m" option, but we
can expect other scripts in the wild to have similar expectations.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to compute whether objects reachable from a set of tips are all
connected, we do a revision walk with these tips as positive references
and `--not --all`. `--not --all` will cause the revision walk to load
all preexisting references as uninteresting, which can be very expensive
in repositories with many references.
Benchmarking the git-rev-list(1) command highlights that by far the most
expensive single phase is initial sorting of the input revisions: after
all references have been loaded, we first sort commits by author date.
In a real-world repository with about 2.2 million references, it makes
up about 40% of the total runtime of git-rev-list(1).
Ultimately, the connectivity check shouldn't really bother about the
order of input revisions at all. We only care whether we can actually
walk all objects until we hit the cut-off point. So sorting the input is
a complete waste of time.
Introduce a new "--unsorted-input" flag to git-rev-list(1) which will
cause it to not sort the commits and adjust the connectivity check to
always pass the flag. This results in the following speedups, executed
in a clone of gitlab-org/gitlab [1]:
Benchmark #1: git rev-list --objects --quiet --not --all --not $(cat newrev)
Time (mean ± σ): 7.639 s ± 0.065 s [User: 7.304 s, System: 0.335 s]
Range (min … max): 7.543 s … 7.742 s 10 runs
Benchmark #2: git rev-list --unsorted-input --objects --quiet --not --all --not $newrev
Time (mean ± σ): 4.995 s ± 0.044 s [User: 4.657 s, System: 0.337 s]
Range (min … max): 4.909 s … 5.048 s 10 runs
Summary
'git rev-list --unsorted-input --objects --quiet --not --all --not $(cat newrev)' ran
1.53 ± 0.02 times faster than 'git rev-list --objects --quiet --not --all --not $newrev'
[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab.git. Note that not all refs
are visible to clients.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clear that `ort` is the default merge strategy now rather than
`recursive`, including moving `ort` to the front of the list of merge
strategies.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --advertise-refs documentation in git-upload-pack added in
9812f2136b (upload-pack.c: use parse-options API, 2016-05-31) hasn't
been entirely true ever since v2 support was implemented in
e52449b672 (connect: request remote refs using v2, 2018-03-15). Under
v2 we don't advertise the refs at all, but rather dump the
capabilities header.
This option has always been an obscure internal implementation detail,
it wasn't even documented for git-receive-pack. Since it has exactly
one user let's rename it to --http-backend-info-refs, which is more
accurate and points the reader in the right direction. Let's also
cross-link this from the protocol v1 and v2 documentation.
I'm retaining a hidden --advertise-refs alias in case there's any
external users of this, and making both options hidden to the bash
completion (as with most other internal-only options).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 58634dbff8 ("rebase: Allow merge strategies to be used when
rebasing", 2006-06-21) added the --merge option to git-rebase so that
renames could be detected (at least when using the `recursive` merge
backend). However, git-am -3 gained that same ability in commit
579c9bb198 ("Use merge-recursive in git-am -3.", 2006-12-28). As such,
the comment about being able to detect renames is not particularly
noteworthy. Remove it.
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already have diff-algorithm that explains why there are special diff
algorithms, so we do not need to re-explain patience. patience exists
as its own toplevel option for historical reasons, but there's no reason
to give it special preference or document it again and suggest it's more
important than other diff algorithms, so just refer to it as a
deprecated shorthand for `diff-algorithm=patience`.
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stating that the recursive strategy "currently cannot make use of
detected copies" implies that this is a technical shortcoming of the
current algorithm. I disagree with that. I don't see how copies could
possibly be used in a sane fashion in a merge algorithm -- would we
propagate changes in one file on one side of history to each copy of
that file when merging? That makes no sense to me. I cannot think of
anything else that would make sense either. Change the wording to
simply state that we ignore any copies.
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is probably helpful to cover the default merge strategy first, so
move the text for the resolve strategy to later in the document.
Further, the wording for "resolve" claimed that it was "considered
generally safe and fast", which might imply in some readers minds that
the same is not true of other strategies. Rather than adding this text
to all the strategies, just remove it from this one.
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
