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Junio C Hamano
4140830d25 Merge branch 'js/typofix'
* js/typofix:
  Documentation: clean up various typos in technical docs
  Documentation: clean up a few misspelled word typos
2022-09-21 15:27:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8c88f75909 Merge branch 'tz/tech-docs-to-help-fix'
Docfix for topic already in -rc0.

* tz/tech-docs-to-help-fix:
  api docs: link to html version of api-trace2
  docs: fix a few recently broken links
2022-09-21 14:23:14 -07:00
Jacob Stopak
bbb0c357b8 Documentation: clean up various typos in technical docs
Used GNU "aspell check <filename>" to review various technical
documentation files with the default aspell dictionary. Ignored
false-positives between american and british english.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-21 10:28:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
42bf77c7d0 Merge branch 'vd/scalar-to-main'
Hoist the remainder of "scalar" out of contrib/ to the main part of
the codebase.

* vd/scalar-to-main:
  Documentation/technical: include Scalar technical doc
  t/perf: add 'GIT_PERF_USE_SCALAR' run option
  t/perf: add Scalar performance tests
  scalar-clone: add test coverage
  scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list
  scalar: implement the `help` subcommand
  git help: special-case `scalar`
  scalar: include in standard Git build & installation
  scalar: fix command documentation section header
2022-09-19 14:35:25 -07:00
Todd Zullinger
4945f046c7 api docs: link to html version of api-trace2
In f6d25d7878 (api docs: document that BUG() emits a trace2 error event,
2021-04-13), a link to the plain text version of api-trace2 was added in
`technical/api-error-handling.txt`.

All of our other `link:`s point to the html versions.  Do the same here.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-16 08:39:11 -07:00
Todd Zullinger
086eaab8da docs: fix a few recently broken links
Some links were broken in the recent move of various technical docs
c0f6dd49f1 (Merge branch 'ab/tech-docs-to-help', 2022-08-14).

Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-16 08:38:03 -07:00
Jacob Stopak
c9dba103dd Documentation: fix various repeat word typos
Inspired by 24966cd982 ("doc: fix repeated words", 08-09-2019),
I ran "egrep -R "\<([a-zA-Z]+)\> \<\1\>" ./Documentation/*" to
find current cases of repeated words such as "the the" that were
quite clearly typos.

There were many false positives reported, such as "really really"
or valid uses of "that that" which I left alone.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-12 11:04:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3fe0121479 Merge branch 'ac/bitmap-lookup-table'
The pack bitmap file gained a bitmap-lookup table to speed up
locating the necessary bitmap for a given commit.

* ac/bitmap-lookup-table:
  pack-bitmap-write: drop unused pack_idx_entry parameters
  bitmap-lookup-table: add performance tests for lookup table
  pack-bitmap: prepare to read lookup table extension
  pack-bitmap-write: learn pack.writeBitmapLookupTable and add tests
  pack-bitmap-write.c: write lookup table extension
  bitmap: move `get commit positions` code to `bitmap_writer_finish`
  Documentation/technical: describe bitmap lookup table extension
2022-09-05 18:33:39 -07:00
Victoria Dye
9eb7a73158 Documentation/technical: include Scalar technical doc
Include 'Documentation/technical/scalar.txt' alongside the other HTML
technical docs when installing them.

Now that the document is intended as a widely-accessible reference, remove
the internal work-in-progress roadmap from the document. Those details
should no longer be needed to guide Scalar's development and, if they were
left, they could fall out-of-date and be misleading to readers.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-02 10:02:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d528044c83 Merge branch 'sg/parse-options-subcommand'
Introduce the "subcommand" mode to parse-options API and update the
command line parser of Git commands with subcommands.

* sg/parse-options-subcommand: (23 commits)
  remote: run "remote rm" argv through parse_options()
  maintenance: add parse-options boilerplate for subcommands
  pass subcommand "prefix" arguments to parse_options()
  builtin/worktree.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/stash.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/sparse-checkout.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/remote.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/reflog.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/notes.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/hook.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/gc.c: let parse-options parse 'git maintenance's subcommands
  builtin/commit-graph.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/bundle.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  parse-options: add support for parsing subcommands
  parse-options: drop leading space from '--git-completion-helper' output
  parse-options: clarify the limitations of PARSE_OPT_NODASH
  parse-options: PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options
  api-parse-options.txt: fix description of OPT_CMDMODE
  t0040-parse-options: test parse_options() with various 'parse_opt_flags'
  ...
2022-09-01 13:40:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
10ccb50b16 Merge branch 'tl/trace2-config-scope'
Tweak trace2 output about configuration variables.

* tl/trace2-config-scope:
  tr2: shows scope unconditionally in addition to key-value pair
  api-trace2.txt: print config key-value pair
2022-08-29 14:55:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bc820cf9e6 Merge branch 'vd/scalar-enables-fsmonitor'
"scalar" now enables built-in fsmonitor on enlisted repositories,
when able.

* vd/scalar-enables-fsmonitor:
  scalar: update technical doc roadmap with FSMonitor support
  scalar unregister: stop FSMonitor daemon
  scalar: enable built-in FSMonitor on `register`
  scalar: move config setting logic into its own function
  scalar-delete: do not 'die()' in 'delete_enlistment()'
  scalar-[un]register: clearly indicate source of error
  scalar-unregister: handle error codes greater than 0
  scalar: constrain enlistment search
2022-08-29 14:55:12 -07:00
Abhradeep Chakraborty
e9977b12fd Documentation/technical: describe bitmap lookup table extension
When reading bitmap file, Git loads each and every bitmap one by one
even if all the bitmaps are not required. A "bitmap lookup table"
extension to the bitmap format can reduce the overhead of loading
bitmaps which stores a list of bitmapped commit id pos (in the midx
or pack, along with their offset and xor offset. This way Git can
load only the necessary bitmaps without loading the previous bitmaps.

Older versions of Git ignore the lookup table extension and don't
throw any kind of warning or error while parsing the bitmap file.

Add some information for the new "bitmap lookup table" extension in the
bitmap-format documentation.

Mentored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Co-Mentored-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-26 10:13:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f00ddc9f48 Merge branch 'vd/scalar-generalize-diagnose'
The "diagnose" feature to create a zip archive for diagnostic
material has been lifted from "scalar" and made into a feature of
"git bugreport".

* vd/scalar-generalize-diagnose:
  scalar: update technical doc roadmap
  scalar-diagnose: use 'git diagnose --mode=all'
  builtin/bugreport.c: create '--diagnose' option
  builtin/diagnose.c: add '--mode' option
  builtin/diagnose.c: create 'git diagnose' builtin
  diagnose.c: add option to configure archive contents
  scalar-diagnose: move functionality to common location
  scalar-diagnose: move 'get_disk_info()' to 'compat/'
  scalar-diagnose: add directory to archiver more gently
  scalar-diagnose: avoid 32-bit overflow of size_t
  scalar-diagnose: use "$GIT_UNZIP" in test
2022-08-25 14:42:32 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
fa83cc834d parse-options: add support for parsing subcommands
Several Git commands have subcommands to implement mutually exclusive
"operation modes", and they usually parse their subcommand argument
with a bunch of if-else if statements.

Teach parse-options to handle subcommands as well, which will result
in shorter and simpler code with consistent error handling and error
messages on unknown or missing subcommand, and it will also make
possible for our Bash completion script to handle subcommands
programmatically.

The approach is guided by the following observations:

  - Most subcommands [1] are implemented in dedicated functions, and
    most of those functions [2] either have a signature matching the
    'int cmd_foo(int argc, const char **argc, const char *prefix)'
    signature of builtin commands or can be trivially converted to
    that signature, because they miss only that last prefix parameter
    or have no parameters at all.

  - Subcommand arguments only have long form, and they have no double
    dash prefix, no negated form, and no description, and they don't
    take any arguments, and can't be abbreviated.

  - There must be exactly one subcommand among the arguments, or zero
    if the command has a default operation mode.

  - All arguments following the subcommand are considered to be
    arguments of the subcommand, and, conversely, arguments meant for
    the subcommand may not preceed the subcommand.

So in the end subcommand declaration and parsing would look something
like this:

    parse_opt_subcommand_fn *fn = NULL;
    struct option builtin_commit_graph_options[] = {
        OPT_STRING(0, "object-dir", &opts.obj_dir, N_("dir"),
                   N_("the object directory to store the graph")),
        OPT_SUBCOMMAND("verify", &fn, graph_verify),
        OPT_SUBCOMMAND("write", &fn, graph_write),
        OPT_END(),
    };
    argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options,
                         builtin_commit_graph_usage, 0);
    return fn(argc, argv, prefix);

Here each OPT_SUBCOMMAND specifies the name of the subcommand and the
function implementing it, and the address of the same 'fn' subcommand
function pointer.  parse_options() then processes the arguments until
it finds the first argument matching one of the subcommands, sets 'fn'
to the function associated with that subcommand, and returns, leaving
the rest of the arguments unprocessed.  If none of the listed
subcommands is found among the arguments, parse_options() will show
usage and abort.

If a command has a default operation mode, 'fn' should be initialized
to the function implementing that mode, and parse_options() should be
invoked with the PARSE_OPT_SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONAL flag.  In this case
parse_options() won't error out when not finding any subcommands, but
will return leaving 'fn' unchanged.  Note that if that default
operation mode has any --options, then the PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT
flag is necessary as well (otherwise parse_options() would error out
upon seeing the unknown option meant to the default operation mode).

Some thoughts about the implementation:

  - The same pointer to 'fn' must be specified as 'value' for each
    OPT_SUBCOMMAND, because there can be only one set of mutually
    exclusive subcommands; parse_options() will BUG() otherwise.

    There are other ways to tell parse_options() where to put the
    function associated with the subcommand given on the command line,
    but I didn't like them:

      - Change parse_options()'s signature by adding a pointer to
        subcommand function to be set to the function associated with
        the given subcommand, affecting all callsites, even those that
        don't have subcommands.

      - Introduce a specific parse_options_and_subcommand() variant
        with that extra funcion parameter.

  - I decided against automatically calling the subcommand function
    from within parse_options(), because:

      - There are commands that have to perform additional actions
        after option parsing but before calling the function
        implementing the specified subcommand.

      - The return code of the subcommand is usually the return code
        of the git command, but preserving the return code of the
        automatically called subcommand function would have made the
        API awkward.

  - Also add a OPT_SUBCOMMAND_F() variant to allow specifying an
    option flag: we have two subcommands that are purposefully
    excluded from completion ('git remote rm' and 'git stash save'),
    so they'll have to be specified with the PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE
    flag.

  - Some of the 'parse_opt_flags' don't make sense with subcommands,
    and using them is probably just an oversight or misunderstanding.
    Therefore parse_options() will BUG() when invoked with any of the
    following flags while the options array contains at least one
    OPT_SUBCOMMAND:

      - PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH: parse_options() stops parsing
        arguments when encountering a "--" argument, so it doesn't
        make sense to expect and keep one before a subcommand, because
        it would prevent the parsing of the subcommand.

        However, this flag is allowed in combination with the
        PARSE_OPT_SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONAL flag, because the double dash
        might be meaningful for the command's default operation mode,
        e.g. to disambiguate refs and pathspecs.

      - PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION: As its name suggests, this flag
        tells parse_options() to stop as soon as it encouners a
        non-option argument, but subcommands are by definition not
        options...  so how could they be parsed, then?!

      - PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN: This flag can be used to collect any
        unknown --options and then pass them to a different command or
        subsystem.  Surely if a command has subcommands, then this
        functionality should rather be delegated to one of those
        subcommands, and not performed by the command itself.

        However, this flag is allowed in combination with the
        PARSE_OPT_SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONAL flag, making possible to pass
        --options to the default operation mode.

  - If the command with subcommands has a default operation mode, then
    all arguments to the command must preceed the arguments of the
    subcommand.

    AFAICT we don't have any commands where this makes a difference,
    because in those commands either only the command accepts any
    arguments ('notes' and 'remote'), or only the default subcommand
    ('reflog' and 'stash'), but never both.

  - The 'argv' array passed to subcommand functions currently starts
    with the name of the subcommand.  Keep this behavior.  AFAICT no
    subcommand functions depend on the actual content of 'argv[0]',
    but the parse_options() call handling their options expects that
    the options start at argv[1].

  - To support handling subcommands programmatically in our Bash
    completion script, 'git cmd --git-completion-helper' will now list
    both subcommands and regular --options, if any.  This means that
    the completion script will have to separate subcommands (i.e.
    words without a double dash prefix) from --options on its own, but
    that's rather easy to do, and it's not much work either, because
    the number of subcommands a command might have is rather low, and
    those commands accept only a single --option or none at all.  An
    alternative would be to introduce a separate option that lists
    only subcommands, but then the completion script would need not
    one but two git invocations and command substitutions for commands
    with subcommands.

    Note that this change doesn't affect the behavior of our Bash
    completion script, because when completing the --option of a
    command with subcommands, e.g. for 'git notes --<TAB>', then all
    subcommands will be filtered out anyway, as none of them will
    match the word to be completed starting with that double dash
    prefix.

[1] Except 'git rerere', because many of its subcommands are
    implemented in the bodies of the if-else if statements parsing the
    command's subcommand argument.

[2] Except 'credential', 'credential-store' and 'fsmonitor--daemon',
    because some of the functions implementing their subcommands take
    special parameters.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 11:13:14 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
99d86d60e5 parse-options: PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options
The description of 'PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN' starts with "Keep unknown
arguments instead of erroring out".  This is a bit misleading, as this
flag only applies to unknown --options, while non-option arguments are
kept even without this flag.

Update the description to clarify this, and rename the flag to
PARSE_OPTIONS_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT to make this obvious just by looking at
the flag name.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 11:13:14 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
80882bc5e7 api-parse-options.txt: fix description of OPT_CMDMODE
The description of the 'OPT_CMDMODE' macro states that "enum_val is
set to int_var when ...", but it's the other way around, 'int_var' is
set to 'enum_val'.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 11:13:14 -07:00
Victoria Dye
8e2841890a scalar: update technical doc roadmap with FSMonitor support
Update the Scalar roadmap to reflect completion of enabling the built-in
FSMonitor in Scalar.

Note that implementation of 'scalar help' was moved to the final set of
changes to move Scalar out of 'contrib/'. This is due to a dependency on
changes to 'git help', as all changes to the main Git tree *exclusively*
implemented to support Scalar are part of that series.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0d133a3dcf Merge branch 'ds/bundle-uri-more'
The "bundle URI" design gets documented.

* ds/bundle-uri-more:
  bundle-uri: add example bundle organization
  docs: document bundle URI standard
2022-08-18 13:07:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c0f6dd49f1 Merge branch 'ab/tech-docs-to-help'
Expose a lot of "tech docs" via "git help" interface.

* ab/tech-docs-to-help:
  docs: move http-protocol docs to man section 5
  docs: move cruft pack docs to gitformat-pack
  docs: move pack format docs to man section 5
  docs: move signature docs to man section 5
  docs: move index format docs to man section 5
  docs: move protocol-related docs to man section 5
  docs: move commit-graph format docs to man section 5
  git docs: add a category for file formats, protocols and interfaces
  git docs: add a category for user-facing file, repo and command UX
  git help doc: use "<doc>" instead of "<guide>"
  help.c: remove common category behavior from drop_prefix() behavior
  help.c: refactor drop_prefix() to use a "switch" statement"
2022-08-14 23:19:28 -07:00
Victoria Dye
43370b1e91 scalar: update technical doc roadmap
Update the Scalar roadmap to reflect the completion of generalizing 'scalar
diagnose' into 'git diagnose' and 'git bugreport --diagnose'.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-12 13:20:03 -07:00
Teng Long
35ae40ead3 tr2: shows scope unconditionally in addition to key-value pair
When we specify GIT_TRACE2_CONFIG_PARAMS or trace2.configparams,
trace2 will prints "interesting" config values to log. Sometimes,
when a config set in multiple scope files, the following output
looks like (the irrelevant fields are omitted here as "..."):

...| def_param    |  ...  | core.multipackindex:false
...| def_param    |  ...  | core.multipackindex:false
...| def_param    |  ...  | core.multipackindex:false

As the log shows, even each config in different scope is dumped, but
we don't know which scope it comes from. Therefore, it's better to
add the scope names as well to make them be more recognizable. For
example, when execute:

    $ GIT_TRACE2_PERF=1 \
    > GIT_TRACE2_CONFIG_PARAMS=core.multipackIndex \
    > git rev-list --test-bitmap HEAD"

The following is the ouput (the irrelevant fields are omitted here
as "..."):

Format normal:
... git.c:461 ... def_param scope:system core.multipackindex=false
... git.c:461 ... def_param scope:global core.multipackindex=false
... git.c:461 ... def_param scope:local core.multipackindex=false

Format perf:

... | def_param    | ... | scope:system | core.multipackindex:false
... | def_param    | ... | scope:global | core.multipackindex:false
... | def_param    | ... | scope:local  | core.multipackindex:false

Format event:

{"event":"def_param", ... ,"scope":"system","param":"core.multipackindex","value":"false"}
{"event":"def_param", ... ,"scope":"global","param":"core.multipackindex","value":"false"}
{"event":"def_param", ... ,"scope":"local","param":"core.multipackindex","value":"false"}

Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-11 21:05:00 -07:00
Teng Long
050d0dc241 api-trace2.txt: print config key-value pair
It's supported to print "interesting" config key-value paire
to tr2 log by setting "GIT_TRACE2_CONFIG_PARAMS" environment
variable and the "trace2.configparam" config, let's add the
related docs in Documentaion/technical/api-trace2.txt.

Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-11 21:05:00 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
d06ed85dcb bundle-uri: add example bundle organization
The previous change introduced the bundle URI design document. It
creates a flexible set of options that allow bundle providers many ways
to organize Git object data and speed up clones and fetches. It is
particularly important that we have flexibility so we can apply future
advancements as new ideas for efficiently organizing Git data are
discovered.

However, the design document does not provide even an example of how
bundles could be organized, and that makes it difficult to envision how
the feature should work at the end of the implementation plan.

Add a section that details how a bundle provider could work, including
using the Git server advertisement for multiple geo-distributed servers.
This organization is based on the GVFS Cache Servers which have
successfully used similar ideas to provide fast object access and
reduced server load for very large repositories.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-10 14:03:17 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
2da14fad8f docs: document bundle URI standard
Introduce the idea of bundle URIs to the Git codebase through an
aspirational design document. This document includes the full design
intended to include the feature in its fully-implemented form. This will
take several steps as detailed in the Implementation Plan section.

By committing this document now, it can be used to motivate changes
necessary to reach these final goals. The design can still be altered as
new information is discovered.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-10 14:03:11 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
1e2320161d docs: move http-protocol docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the http-protocol.txt documentation over. I'm renaming it to
"protocol-http" to be consistent with other things in the new
gitformat-protocol-* namespace.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:24 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
6b6029dd1d docs: move cruft pack docs to gitformat-pack
Integrate the cruft packs documentation initially added in
3d89a8c118 (Documentation/technical: add cruft-packs.txt, 2022-05-20)
to the newly created "gitformat-pack" documentation.

Like the "bitmap-format" added before it in
0d4455a3ab (documentation: add documentation for the bitmap format,
2013-11-14) the "cruft-packs" were documented in their own file.

As the diff move detection will show there is no change to
"Documentation/technical/cruft-packs.txt" here except to move it, and
to "indent" the existing sections by adding an extra "=" to them.

We could similarly convert the "bitmap-format.txt", but let's leave it
for now due to a conflict with the in-flight ac/bitmap-lookup-table
series.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:24 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
977c47b46d docs: move pack format docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the various documentation pertaining to the *.pack format and related
files, and updating things that refer to it to link to the new
location.

By moving these we can properly link from the newly created
gitformat-commit-graph to a gitformat-chunk-format page.

Integrating "Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt" and
"Documentation/technical/cruft-packs.txt" might logically be part of
this change, but as those cover parts of the wider "pack
format" (including associated files) that's documented outside of
"Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt" let's leave those for now,
subsequent commit(s) will address those.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:24 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
20516890dc docs: move signature docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the signature format documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:24 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
00d3e8d7dd docs: move index format docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the index format documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
5db921054e docs: move protocol-related docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space. By moving
the things that discuss the protocol we can properly link from
e.g. lsrefs.unborn and protocol.version documentation to a manpage we
build by default.

So far we have been using the "gitformat-" prefix for the
documentation we've been moving over from Documentation/technical/*,
but for protocol documentation let's use "gitprotocol-*".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
8cbace93d2 docs: move commit-graph format docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space.

By moving the documentation for the commit-graph format into man
section 5 and the new "developerinterfaces" category. This change is
split from subsequent commits due to the relatively large amount of
ASCIIDOC formatting changes that are required.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
844739ba27 git docs: add a category for file formats, protocols and interfaces
Create a new "File formats, protocols and other developer interfaces"
section in the main "git help git" manual page and start moving the
documentation that now lives in "Documentation/technical/*.git" over
to it. This complements the newly added and adjacent "Repository,
command and file interfaces" section.

This makes the technical documentation more accessible and
discoverable. Before this we wouldn't install it by default, and had
no ability to build man page versions of them. The links to them from
our existing documentation link to the generated HTML version of these
docs.

So let's start moving those over, starting with just the
"bundle-format.txt" documentation added in 7378ec90e1 (doc: describe
Git bundle format, 2020-02-07). We'll now have a new
gitformat-bundle(5) man page. Subsequent commits will move more git
internal format documentation over.

Unfortunately the syntax of the current Documentation/technical/*.txt
is not the same (when it comes to section headings etc.) as our
Documentation/*.txt documentation, so change the relevant bits of
syntax as we're moving this over.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3a03633812 Merge branch 'vd/scalar-doc'
Doc update.

* vd/scalar-doc:
  scalar: convert README.md into a technical design doc
  scalar: reword command documentation to clarify purpose
2022-07-27 09:16:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a88527203f Merge branch 'sg/index-format-doc-update'
Docfix.

* sg/index-format-doc-update:
  index-format.txt: remove outdated list of supported extensions
2022-07-27 09:16:53 -07:00
Victoria Dye
72d3a5da32 scalar: convert README.md into a technical design doc
Adapt the content from 'contrib/scalar/README.md' into a design document in
'Documentation/technical/'. In addition to reformatting for asciidoc,
elaborate on the background, purpose, and design choices that went into
Scalar.

Most of this document will persist in the 'Documentation/technical/' after
Scalar has been moved out of 'contrib/' and into the root of Git. Until that
time, it will also contain a temporary "Roadmap" section detailing the
remaining series needed to finish the initial version of Scalar. The section
will be removed once Scalar is moved to the repo root, but in the meantime
serves as a guide for readers to keep up with progress on the feature.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-07-18 11:03:56 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
a10f6e2bda index-format.txt: remove outdated list of supported extensions
The first section of 'Documentation/technical/index-format.txt'
mentions that "Git currently supports cache tree and resolve undo
extensions", but then goes on, and in the "Extensions" section
describes not only these two, but six other extensions [1].

Remove this sentence, as it's misleading about the status of all those
other extensions.

Alternatively we could keep that sentence and update the list of
extensions, but that might well lead to a recurring issue, because
apparently this list is never updated when a new index extension is
added.

[1] Split index, untracked cache, FS monitor cache, end of index
    entry, index entry offset table and sparse directory entries.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-07-18 09:24:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5dbbdaac79 Merge branch 'ac/bitmap-format-doc'
Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and
add some missing information to the documentation.

* ac/bitmap-format-doc:
  bitmap-format.txt: add information for trailing checksum
  bitmap-format.txt: fix some formatting issues
  bitmap-format.txt: feed the file to asciidoc to generate html
2022-07-11 15:38:50 -07:00
Abhradeep Chakraborty
ac7667bd44 bitmap-format.txt: add information for trailing checksum
Bitmap file has a trailing checksum at the end of the file. However
there is no information in the bitmap-format documentation about it.

Add a trailer section to include the trailing checksum info in the
`Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt` file.

Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-16 11:48:50 -07:00
Abhradeep Chakraborty
caea900272 bitmap-format.txt: fix some formatting issues
The asciidoc generated html for `Documentation/technical/bitmap-
format.txt` is broken. This is mainly because `-` is used for nested
lists (which is not allowed in asciidoc) instead of `*`.

Fix these and also reformat it for better readability of the html page.

Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-16 11:48:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4da14b574f Merge branch 'ab/bug-if-bug'
A new bug() and BUG_if_bug() API is introduced to make it easier to
uniformly log "detect multiple bugs and abort in the end" pattern.

* ab/bug-if-bug:
  cache-tree.c: use bug() and BUG_if_bug()
  receive-pack: use bug() and BUG_if_bug()
  parse-options.c: use optbug() instead of BUG() "opts" check
  parse-options.c: use new bug() API for optbug()
  usage.c: add a non-fatal bug() function to go with BUG()
  common-main.c: move non-trace2 exit() behavior out of trace2.c
2022-06-10 15:04:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a50036da1a Merge branch 'tb/cruft-packs'
A mechanism to pack unreachable objects into a "cruft pack",
instead of ejecting them into loose form to be reclaimed later, has
been introduced.

* tb/cruft-packs:
  sha1-file.c: don't freshen cruft packs
  builtin/gc.c: conditionally avoid pruning objects via loose
  builtin/repack.c: add cruft packs to MIDX during geometric repack
  builtin/repack.c: use named flags for existing_packs
  builtin/repack.c: allow configuring cruft pack generation
  builtin/repack.c: support generating a cruft pack
  builtin/pack-objects.c: --cruft with expiration
  reachable: report precise timestamps from objects in cruft packs
  reachable: add options to add_unseen_recent_objects_to_traversal
  builtin/pack-objects.c: --cruft without expiration
  builtin/pack-objects.c: return from create_object_entry()
  t/helper: add 'pack-mtimes' test-tool
  pack-mtimes: support writing pack .mtimes files
  chunk-format.h: extract oid_version()
  pack-write: pass 'struct packing_data' to 'stage_tmp_packfiles'
  pack-mtimes: support reading .mtimes files
  Documentation/technical: add cruft-packs.txt
2022-06-03 14:30:37 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
0cc05b044f usage.c: add a non-fatal bug() function to go with BUG()
Add a bug() function to use in cases where we'd like to indicate a
runtime BUG(), but would like to defer the BUG() call because we're
possibly accumulating more bug() callers to exhaustively indicate what
went wrong.

We already have this sort of facility in various parts of the
codebase, just in the form of ad-hoc re-inventions of the
functionality that this new API provides. E.g. this will be used to
replace optbug() in parse-options.c, and the 'error("BUG:[...]' we do
in a loop in builtin/receive-pack.c.

Unlike the code this replaces we'll log to trace2 with this new bug()
function (as with other usage.c functions, including BUG()), we'll
also be able to avoid calls to xstrfmt() in some cases, as the bug()
function itself accepts variadic sprintf()-like arguments.

Any caller to bug() can follow up such calls with BUG_if_bug(),
which will BUG() out (i.e. abort()) if there were any preceding calls
to bug(), callers can also decide not to call BUG_if_bug() and leave
the resulting BUG() invocation until exit() time. There are currently
no bug() API users that don't call BUG_if_bug() themselves after a
for-loop, but allowing for not calling BUG_if_bug() keeps the API
flexible. As the tests and documentation here show we'll catch missing
BUG_if_bug() invocations in our exit() wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-02 12:51:35 -07:00
Taylor Blau
f9825d1cf7 builtin/repack.c: support generating a cruft pack
Expose a way to split the contents of a repository into a main and cruft
pack when doing an all-into-one repack with `git repack --cruft -d`, and
a complementary configuration variable.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-26 15:48:26 -07:00
Taylor Blau
94cd775a6c pack-mtimes: support reading .mtimes files
To store the individual mtimes of objects in a cruft pack, introduce a
new `.mtimes` format that can optionally accompany a single pack in the
repository.

The format is defined in Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt, and
stores a 4-byte network order timestamp for each object in name (index)
order.

This patch prepares for cruft packs by defining the `.mtimes` format,
and introducing a basic API that callers can use to read out individual
mtimes.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-26 15:48:26 -07:00
Taylor Blau
3d89a8c118 Documentation/technical: add cruft-packs.txt
Create a technical document to explain cruft packs. It contains a brief
overview of the problem, some background, details on the implementation,
and a couple of alternative approaches not considered here.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-20 22:31:21 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
a6c80c313c trace2 docs: add missing full stop
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-04 10:31:05 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
236d1177ba trace2 docs: clarify what varargs is all about
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-04 10:31:05 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
c4667b17fb trace2 docs: fix a JSON formatted example
The example was not in valid JSON format due to a duplicate key "sid".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-04 10:31:04 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
1c538b951f trace2 docs: surround more terms in backticks
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-05-04 10:31:04 -07:00