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Jeff King
9dad073d4b sequencer: handle ignore_footer when parsing trailers
The append_signoff() function takes an "ignore_footer"
argument, which specifies a number of bytes at the end of
the message buffer which should not be considered (they
cannot contain trailers, and the trailer is spliced in
before them).

But to find the existing trailers, it calls into
has_conforming_trailer(). That function takes an
ignore_footer parameter, but since 967dfd4d56 (sequencer:
use trailer's trailer layout, 2016-11-02) the parameter is
completely ignored.

The trailer interface we're using takes a single string,
with no option to tell it to use part of the string.
However, since we have a mutable strbuf, we can work around
this by simply overwriting (and later restoring) the
boundary with a NUL.

I'm not sure if this can actually trigger a bug in practice.
It's easy to get a non-zero ignore_footer by doing something
like this:

  git commit -F - --cleanup=verbatim <<-EOF
  subject

  body

  Signed-off-by: me

  # this looks like a comment, but is actually in the
  # message! That makes the earlier s-o-b fake.
  EOF

  git commit --amend -s

There git-commit calls ignore_non_trailer() to count up the
"#" cruft, which becomes the ignore_footer header. But it
works even without this patch! That's because the trailer
code _also_ calls ignore_non_trailer() and skips the cruft,
too. So it happens to work because the only callers with a
non-zero ignore_footer are using the exact same function
that the trailer parser uses internally.

And that seems true for all of the current callers, but
there's nothing guaranteeing it. We're better off only
feeding the correct buffer to the trailer code in the first
place.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 12:53:48 -07:00
Jeff King
26e28fe7bb test-advise: check argument count with argc instead of argv
We complain if "test-tool advise" is not given an argument, but we
quietly ignore any additional arguments it receives. Let's instead check
that we got the expected number. As a bonus, this silences
-Wunused-parameter, which notes that we don't ever look at argc.

While we're here, we can also fix the indentation in the conditional.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 12:53:48 -07:00
Jeff King
75d3bee157 sparse-checkout: fill in some options boilerplate
The sparse-checkout passes along argv and argc to its sub-command helper
functions. Many of these sub-commands do not yet take any command-line
options, and ignore those parameters.

Let's instead add empty option lists and make sure we call
parse_options(). That will give a useful error message for something
like:

  git sparse-checkout list --nonsense

which currently just silently ignores the unknown option.

As a bonus, it also silences some -Wunused-parameter warnings.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 12:53:48 -07:00
Jeff King
20f4b044a6 sequencer: drop repository argument from run_git_commit()
When we switched to using an external git-commit call in b0a3186140
(sequencer: simplify root commit creation, 2019-08-19), this function
didn't need to care about the repository object any more.

Arguably we could be passing along the repository path to the external
git-commit by using "--git-dir=r->path" here. But for the most part the
sequencer code relies on sub-process finding the same repository we're
already in (using the same environment variables or discovery process we
did). But we don't have a convenient interface for doing so, and there's
no indication that we need to. Let's just drop the unused parameter for
now.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 12:53:47 -07:00
Jeff King
5b9427e0ac push: drop unused repo argument to do_push()
We stopped using the "repo" argument in 8e4c8af058 (push: disallow --all
and refspecs when remote.<name>.mirror is set, 2019-09-02), which moved
the pushremote handling to its caller.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 12:53:47 -07:00
Jeff King
8d2aa8dfac assert PARSE_OPT_NONEG in parse-options callbacks
In the spirit of 517fe807d6 (assert NOARG/NONEG behavior of
parse-options callbacks, 2018-11-05), let's cover some parse-options
callbacks which expect to be used with PARSE_OPT_NONEG but don't
explicitly assert that this is the case. These callbacks are all used
correctly in the current code, but this will help document their
expectations and future-proof the code.

As a bonus, it also silences -Wunused-parameters (these were added since
the initial sweep of 517fe807d6, and we can't yet turn on
-Wunused-parameters to remind people because it has too many existing
false positives).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 12:53:47 -07:00
Jeff King
424e28fcad env--helper: write to opt->value in parseopt helper
We use OPT_CALLBACK_F() to call the option_parse_type() callback,
passing it the address of "cmdmode" as the value to write to. But the
callback doesn't look at opt->value at all, and instead writes to a
global variable.

This works out because that's the same global variable we happen to pass
in, but it's rather confusing.  Let's use the passed-in value instead.
We'll also make "cmdmode" a local variable of the main function,
ensuring we can't make the same mistake again.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 12:53:47 -07:00
Jeff King
e885a84f1b drop unused argc parameters
Many functions take an argv/argc pair, but never actually look at argc.
This makes it useless at best (we use the NULL sentinel in argv to find
the end of the array), and misleading at worst (what happens if the argc
count does not match the argv NULL?).

In each of these instances, the argv NULL does match the argc count, so
there are no bugs here. But let's tighten the interfaces to make it
harder to get wrong (and to reduce some -Wunused-parameter complaints).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 12:53:47 -07:00
Jeff King
185e865226 convert: drop unused crlf_action from check_global_conv_flags_eol()
The crlf_action parameter hasn't been used since a0ad53c181 (convert:
Correct NNO tests and missing `LF will be replaced by CRLF`,
2016-08-13), where that part of the function was hoisted out to a
separate will_convert_lf_to_crlf() helper. Let's drop the useless
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-30 12:53:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
306ee63a70 Eighteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-29 14:01:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
299deeac8a Merge branch 'ah/pull'
Earlier we taught "git pull" to warn when the user does not say the
histories need to be merged, rebased or accepts only fast-
forwarding, but the warning triggered for those who have set the
pull.ff configuration variable.

* ah/pull:
  pull: don't warn if pull.ff has been set
2020-09-29 14:01:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ac4089da7b Merge branch 'tg/range-diff-same-file-fix'
"git range-diff" showed incorrect diffstat, which has been
corrected.

* tg/range-diff-same-file-fix:
  diff: fix modified lines stats with --stat and --numstat
2020-09-29 14:01:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
71a9b82dd4 Merge branch 'jc/t1506-rev-parse-leaves-range-endpoint-unpeeled'
Test update.

* jc/t1506-rev-parse-leaves-range-endpoint-unpeeled:
  t1506: rev-parse A..B and A...B
2020-09-29 14:01:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9f489ac6bb Merge branch 'dl/zero-oid-in-hooks'
Adjust sample hooks for hash algorithm other than SHA-1.

* dl/zero-oid-in-hooks:
  hooks--update.sample: use hash-agnostic zero OID
  hooks--pre-push.sample: use hash-agnostic zero OID
  hooks--pre-push.sample: modernize script
2020-09-29 14:01:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e76ae33009 Merge branch 'jk/make-protocol-v2-the-default'
The transport protocol v2 has become the default again.

* jk/make-protocol-v2-the-default:
  protocol: re-enable v2 protocol by default
2020-09-29 14:01:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b28919c7bc Merge branch 'bc/clone-with-git-default-hash-fix'
"git clone" that clones from SHA-1 repository, while
GIT_DEFAULT_HASH set to use SHA-256 already, resulted in an
unusable repository that half-claims to be SHA-256 repository
with SHA-1 objects and refs.  This has been corrected.

* bc/clone-with-git-default-hash-fix:
  builtin/clone: avoid failure with GIT_DEFAULT_HASH
2020-09-29 14:01:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
288ed98bf7 Merge branch 'tb/bloom-improvements'
"git commit-graph write" learned to limit the number of bloom
filters that are computed from scratch with the --max-new-filters
option.

* tb/bloom-improvements:
  commit-graph: introduce 'commitGraph.maxNewFilters'
  builtin/commit-graph.c: introduce '--max-new-filters=<n>'
  commit-graph: rename 'split_commit_graph_opts'
  bloom: encode out-of-bounds filters as non-empty
  bloom/diff: properly short-circuit on max_changes
  bloom: use provided 'struct bloom_filter_settings'
  bloom: split 'get_bloom_filter()' in two
  commit-graph.c: store maximum changed paths
  commit-graph: respect 'commitGraph.readChangedPaths'
  t/helper/test-read-graph.c: prepare repo settings
  commit-graph: pass a 'struct repository *' in more places
  t4216: use an '&&'-chain
  commit-graph: introduce 'get_bloom_filter_settings()'
2020-09-29 14:01:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c5a8f1efc0 Merge branch 'bc/faq-misc'
More FAQ entries.

* bc/faq-misc:
  docs: explain how to deal with files that are always modified
  docs: explain why reverts are not always applied on merge
  docs: explain why squash merges are broken with long-running branches
2020-09-29 14:01:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9bc233ae1c Seventeenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25 15:25:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0335915690 Merge branch 'jk/diff-highlight-blank-match-fix'
"diff-highlight" (in contrib/) had a logic to flush its output upon
seeing a blank line but the way it detected a blank line was broken.

* jk/diff-highlight-blank-match-fix:
  diff-highlight: correctly match blank lines for flush
2020-09-25 15:25:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b5847b9fab Merge branch 'hx/push-atomic-with-cert'
"git push" that wants to be atomic and wants to send push
certificate learned not to prepare and sign the push certificate
when it fails the local check (hence due to atomicity it is known
that no certificate is needed).

* hx/push-atomic-with-cert:
  send-pack: run GPG after atomic push checking
2020-09-25 15:25:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
407d914521 Merge branch 'rs/misc-cleanups'
Code cleanup.

* rs/misc-cleanups:
  pack-write: use hashwrite_be32() in write_idx_file()
2020-09-25 15:25:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9f4588d72b Merge branch 'ld/p4-unshelve-fix'
The "unshelve" subcommand of "git p4" used incorrectly used
commit^N where it meant to say commit~N to name the Nth generation
ancestor, which has been corrected.

* ld/p4-unshelve-fix:
  git-p4: use HEAD~$n to find parent commit for unshelve
  git-p4 unshelve: adding a commit breaks git-p4 unshelve
2020-09-25 15:25:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6c430a647c Merge branch 'jx/proc-receive-hook'
"git receive-pack" that accepts requests by "git push" learned to
outsource most of the ref updates to the new "proc-receive" hook.

* jx/proc-receive-hook:
  doc: add documentation for the proc-receive hook
  transport: parse report options for tracking refs
  t5411: test updates of remote-tracking branches
  receive-pack: new config receive.procReceiveRefs
  doc: add document for capability report-status-v2
  New capability "report-status-v2" for git-push
  receive-pack: feed report options to post-receive
  receive-pack: add new proc-receive hook
  t5411: add basic test cases for proc-receive hook
  transport: not report a non-head push as a branch
2020-09-25 15:25:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
48794acc50 Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-1'
A "git gc"'s big brother has been introduced to take care of more
repository maintenance tasks, not limited to the object database
cleaning.

* ds/maintenance-part-1:
  maintenance: add trace2 regions for task execution
  maintenance: add auto condition for commit-graph task
  maintenance: use pointers to check --auto
  maintenance: create maintenance.<task>.enabled config
  maintenance: take a lock on the objects directory
  maintenance: add --task option
  maintenance: add commit-graph task
  maintenance: initialize task array
  maintenance: replace run_auto_gc()
  maintenance: add --quiet option
  maintenance: create basic maintenance runner
2020-09-25 15:25:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9f0be82123 t1506: rev-parse A..B and A...B
Because these constructs can be used to parse user input to be
passed to rev-list --objects, e.g.

	range=$(git rev-parse v1.0..v2.0) &&
	git rev-list --objects $range | git pack-objects --stdin

the endpoints (v1.0 and v2.0 in the example) are shown without
peeling them to underlying commits, even when they are annotated
tags.  Make sure it stays that way.

While at it, ensure "rev-parse A...B" also keeps the endpoints A and
B unpeeled, even though the negative side (i.e. the merge-base
between A and B) has to become a commit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25 14:09:17 -07:00
Jeff King
eb049759fb protocol: re-enable v2 protocol by default
Protocol v2 became the default in v2.26.0 via 684ceae32d (fetch: default
to protocol version 2, 2019-12-23). More widespread use turned up a
regression in negotiation. That was fixed in v2.27.0 via 4fa3f00abb
(fetch-pack: in protocol v2, in_vain only after ACK, 2020-04-27), but we
also reverted the default to v0 as a precuation in 11c7f2a30b (Revert
"fetch: default to protocol version 2", 2020-04-22).

In v2.28.0, we re-enabled it for experimental users with 3697caf4b9
(config: let feature.experimental imply protocol.version=2, 2020-05-20)
and haven't heard any complaints. v2.28 has only been out for 2 months,
but I'd generally expect people turning on feature.experimental to also
stay pretty up-to-date. So we're not likely to collect much more data by
waiting. In addition, we have no further reports from people running
v2.26.0, and of course some people have been setting protocol.version
manually for ages.

Let's move forward with v2 as the default again. It's possible there are
still lurking bugs, but we won't know until it gets more widespread use.
And we can find and squash them just like any other bug at this point.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25 11:40:42 -07:00
Alex Henrie
54200cef86 pull: don't warn if pull.ff has been set
A user who understands enough to set pull.ff does not need additional
instructions.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-24 23:04:27 -07:00
Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
ff0c7fa8cb diff: fix modified lines stats with --stat and --numstat
Only skip diffstats when both oids are valid and identical. This check
was causing both false-positives (files included in diffstats with no
actual changes (0 lines modified) and false-negatives (showing 0 lines
modified in stats when files had actually changed).

Also replaced same_contents with may_differ to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <tguyot@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-24 12:31:45 -07:00
Denton Liu
d8d3d632f4 hooks--update.sample: use hash-agnostic zero OID
The update sample hook has the zero OID hardcoded as 40 zeros. However,
with the introduction of SHA-256 support, this assumption no longer
holds true. Replace the hardcoded $z40 with a call to

	git hash-object --stdin </dev/null | tr '[0-9a-f]' '0'

so the sample hook becomes hash-agnostic.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-23 09:31:45 -07:00
Denton Liu
8c7e505950 hooks--pre-push.sample: use hash-agnostic zero OID
The pre-push sample hook has the zero OID hardcoded as 40 zeros.
However, with the introduction of SHA-256 support, this assumption no
longer holds true. Replace the hardcoded $z40 with a call to

	git hash-object --stdin </dev/null | tr '[0-9a-f]' '0'

so the sample hook becomes hash-agnostic.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-23 09:31:45 -07:00
Denton Liu
6a117da6e5 hooks--pre-push.sample: modernize script
The preferred form for a command substitution is $() over ``. Use this
form for the command substitution in the sample hook.

The preferred form for conditional tests is to use `test` over [].
Replace [] with `test`.

Finally, replace all instances of "sha" with "oid".

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-23 09:31:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e1cfff6765 Sixteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-22 12:36:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6854689e65 Merge branch 'ar/fetch-ipversion-in-all'
"git fetch --all --ipv4/--ipv6" forgot to pass the protocol options
to instances of the "git fetch" that talk to individual remotes,
which has been corrected.

* ar/fetch-ipversion-in-all:
  fetch: pass --ipv4 and --ipv6 options to sub-fetches
2020-09-22 12:36:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
31b9454170 Merge branch 'dl/complete-format-patch-recent-features'
Update to command line completion (in contrib/)

* dl/complete-format-patch-recent-features:
  contrib/completion: complete options that take refs for format-patch
2020-09-22 12:36:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
39149df364 Merge branch 'cs/don-t-pretend-a-failed-remote-set-head-succeeded'
"git remote set-head" that failed still said something that hints
the operation went through, which was misleading.

* cs/don-t-pretend-a-failed-remote-set-head-succeeded:
  remote: don't show success message when set-head fails
2020-09-22 12:36:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
221b755f3a Merge branch 'jk/dont-count-existing-objects-twice'
There is a logic to estimate how many objects are in the
repository, which is mean to run once per process invocation, but
it ran every time the estimated value was requested.

* jk/dont-count-existing-objects-twice:
  packfile: actually set approximate_object_count_valid
2020-09-22 12:36:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
26a3728bed Merge branch 'al/ref-filter-merged-and-no-merged'
"git for-each-ref" and friends that list refs used to allow only
one --merged or --no-merged to filter them; they learned to take
combination of both kind of filtering.

* al/ref-filter-merged-and-no-merged:
  Doc: prefer more specific file name
  ref-filter: make internal reachable-filter API more precise
  ref-filter: allow merged and no-merged filters
  Doc: cover multiple contains/no-contains filters
  t3201: test multiple branch filter combinations
2020-09-22 12:36:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4d515253af Merge branch 'cd/commit-graph-doc'
Doc update.

* cd/commit-graph-doc:
  commit-graph-format.txt: fix no-parent value
2020-09-22 12:36:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9a0249959d Merge branch 'kk/build-portability-fix'
Portability tweak for some shell scripts used while building.

* kk/build-portability-fix:
  Fit to Plan 9's ANSI/POSIX compatibility layer
2020-09-22 12:36:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4aff18a3f0 Merge branch 'ls/mergetool-meld-auto-merge'
The 'meld' backend of the "git mergetool" learned to give the
underlying 'meld' the '--auto-merge' option, which would help
reduce the amount of text that requires manual merging.

* ls/mergetool-meld-auto-merge:
  mergetool: allow auto-merge for meld to follow the vim-diff behavior
2020-09-22 12:36:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
458205ff0f Merge branch 'pw/add-p-edit-ita-path'
"add -p" now allows editing paths that were only added in intent.

* pw/add-p-edit-ita-path:
  add -p: fix editing of intent-to-add paths
2020-09-22 12:36:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c9a04f036f Merge branch 'hn/refs-trace-backend'
Developer support.

* hn/refs-trace-backend:
  refs: add GIT_TRACE_REFS debugging mechanism
2020-09-22 12:36:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b7e65b51e5 Merge branch 'jt/threaded-index-pack'
"git index-pack" learned to resolve deltified objects with greater
parallelism.

* jt/threaded-index-pack:
  index-pack: make quantum of work smaller
  index-pack: make resolve_delta() assume base data
  index-pack: calculate {ref,ofs}_{first,last} early
  index-pack: remove redundant child field
  index-pack: unify threaded and unthreaded code
  index-pack: remove redundant parameter
  Documentation: deltaBaseCacheLimit is per-thread
2020-09-22 12:36:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
634e0084fa Merge branch 'es/format-patch-interdiff-cleanup'
"format-patch --range-diff=<prev> <origin>..HEAD" has been taught
not to ignore <origin> when <prev> is a single version.

* es/format-patch-interdiff-cleanup:
  format-patch: use 'origin' as start of current-series-range when known
  diff-lib: tighten show_interdiff()'s interface
  diff: move show_interdiff() from its own file to diff-lib
2020-09-22 12:36:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bcb68bff80 Merge branch 'os/fetch-submodule-optim'
Optimization around submodule handling.

* os/fetch-submodule-optim:
  fetch: do not look for submodule changes in unchanged refs
2020-09-22 12:36:28 -07:00
brian m. carlson
47ac970309 builtin/clone: avoid failure with GIT_DEFAULT_HASH
If a user is cloning a SHA-1 repository with GIT_DEFAULT_HASH set to
"sha256", then we can end up with a repository where the repository
format version is 0 but the extensions.objectformat key is set to
"sha256".  This is both wrong (the user has a SHA-1 repository) and
nonfunctional (because the extension cannot be used in a v0 repository).

This happens because in a clone, we initially set up the repository, and
then change its algorithm based on what the remote side tells us it's
using.  We've initially set up the repository as SHA-256 in this case,
and then later on reset the repository version without clearing the
extension.

We could just always set the extension in this case, but that would mean
that our SHA-1 repositories weren't compatible with older Git versions,
even though there's no reason why they shouldn't be.  And we also don't
want to initialize the repository as SHA-1 initially, since that means
if we're cloning an empty repository, we'll have failed to honor the
GIT_DEFAULT_HASH variable and will end up with a SHA-1 repository, not a
SHA-256 repository.

Neither of those are appealing, so let's tell the repository
initialization code if we're doing a reinit like this, and if so, to
clear the extension if we're using SHA-1.  This makes sure we produce a
valid and functional repository and doesn't break any of our other use
cases.

Reported-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-22 09:22:32 -07:00
Jeff King
579789dbce diff-highlight: correctly match blank lines for flush
We try to flush the output from diff-highlight whenever we see a blank
line. That lets you see the output for each commit as soon as it is
generated, even if Git is still chugging away at a diff, or traversing
to find the next commit.

However, our "blank line" match checks length($_). That won't ever be
true, because we haven't chomped the line ending. As a result, we never
flush. Instead, let's use a simple regex which handles line endings in
with the end-of-line marker.

This has been broken since the initial version in 927a13fe87 (contrib:
add diff highlight script, 2011-10-18). Probably nobody noticed because:

  - most output is big enough, or comes fast enough, that it flushes
    anyway. And it can be difficult to notice the difference between
    "show a commit, then pause" and "pause, then show two commits". I
    only noticed because I was viewing "git log" output on a repo with a
    very slow textconv filter.

  - if stdout is going to the terminal (and not another pager like
    less), then the flush isn't necessary. So any manual testing would
    show it appearing to work.

You can easily see the difference with something like:

  echo '* diff=slow' >>.gitattributes
  git -c diff.slow.textconv='sleep 1; cat' \
      -c pager.log='diff-highlight | less' \
      log -p

That should generate one commit every second or so (more if it touches
multiple files), but without this patch it waits for many seconds before
generating several pages of output.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-21 22:33:28 -07:00
brian m. carlson
087c61677c docs: explain how to deal with files that are always modified
Users frequently have problems where two filenames differ only in case,
causing one of those files to show up consistently as being modified.
Let's add a FAQ entry that explains how to deal with that.

In addition, let's explain another common case where files are
consistently modified, which is when files using a smudge or clean
filter have not been run through that filter.  Explain the way to fix
this as well.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-20 21:29:02 -07:00
brian m. carlson
409f066716 docs: explain why reverts are not always applied on merge
A common scenario is for a user to apply a change to one branch and
cherry-pick it into another, then later revert it in the first branch.
This results in the change being present when the two branches are
merged, which is confusing to many users.

We already have documentation for how this works in `git merge`, but it
is clear from the frequency with which this is asked that it's hard to
grasp.  We also don't explain to users that they are better off doing a
rebase in this case, which will do what they intended.  Let's add an
entry to the FAQ telling users what's happening and advising them to use
rebase here.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-20 21:29:02 -07:00