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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
22233d43eb xdiff users: use designated initializers for out_line
Amend the code added in 611e42a598 (xdiff: provide a separate emit
callback for hunks, 2018-11-02) to be more readable by using
designated initializers.

This changes "priv" in rerere.c to be initialized to NULL as we did in
merge-tree.c. That's not needed as we'll only use it if the callback
is defined, but being consistent here is better and less verbose.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-11 12:47:31 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
cde555480b Merge branch 'nd/the-index'
More codepaths become aware of working with in-core repository
instance other than the default "the_repository".

* nd/the-index: (22 commits)
  rebase-interactive.c: remove the_repository references
  rerere.c: remove the_repository references
  pack-*.c: remove the_repository references
  pack-check.c: remove the_repository references
  notes-cache.c: remove the_repository references
  line-log.c: remove the_repository reference
  diff-lib.c: remove the_repository references
  delta-islands.c: remove the_repository references
  cache-tree.c: remove the_repository references
  bundle.c: remove the_repository references
  branch.c: remove the_repository reference
  bisect.c: remove the_repository reference
  blame.c: remove implicit dependency the_repository
  sequencer.c: remove implicit dependency on the_repository
  sequencer.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  transport.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  notes-merge.c: remove implicit dependency the_repository
  notes-merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  list-objects.c: reduce the_repository references
  list-objects-filter.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  ...
2019-01-04 13:33:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
39d23dfa40 Merge branch 'jk/xdiff-interface'
The interface into "xdiff" library used to discover the offset and
size of a generated patch hunk by first formatting it into the
textual hunk header "@@ -n,m +k,l @@" and then parsing the numbers
out.  A new interface has been introduced to allow callers a more
direct access to them.

* jk/xdiff-interface:
  xdiff-interface: drop parse_hunk_header()
  range-diff: use a hunk callback
  diff: convert --check to use a hunk callback
  combine-diff: use an xdiff hunk callback
  diff: use hunk callback for word-diff
  diff: discard hunk headers for patch-ids earlier
  diff: avoid generating unused hunk header lines
  xdiff-interface: provide a separate consume callback for hunks
  xdiff: provide a separate emit callback for hunks
2018-11-13 22:37:27 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
55e6b3547d rerere.c: remove the_repository references
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-12 14:50:06 +09:00
Jeff King
611e42a598 xdiff: provide a separate emit callback for hunks
The xdiff library always emits hunk header lines to our callbacks as
formatted strings like "@@ -a,b +c,d @@\n". This is convenient if we're
going to output a diff, but less so if we actually need to compute using
those numbers, which requires re-parsing the line.

In preparation for moving away from this, let's teach xdiff a new
callback function which gets the broken-out hunk information. To help
callers that don't want to use this new callback, if it's NULL we'll
continue to format the hunk header into a string.

Note that this function renames the "outf" callback to "out_line", as
well. This isn't strictly necessary, but helps in two ways:

  1. Now that there are two callbacks, it's nice to use more descriptive
     names.

  2. Many callers did not zero the emit_callback_data struct, and needed
     to be modified to set ecb.out_hunk to NULL. By changing the name of
     the existing struct member, that guarantees that any new callers
     from in-flight topics will break the build and be examined
     manually.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-02 20:43:02 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
11877b9ebe Merge branch 'nd/the-index'
Various codepaths in the core-ish part learn to work on an
arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default
instance "the_index".

* nd/the-index: (23 commits)
  revision.c: reduce implicit dependency the_repository
  revision.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  ws.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  tree-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  submodule.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  line-range.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  userdiff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  rerere.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  sha1-file.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  patch-ids.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  merge-blobs.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  ll-merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  diff-lib.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  read-cache.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  grep.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  diff.c: remove the_index dependency in textconv() functions
  blame.c: rename "repo" argument to "r"
  combine-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
  ...
2018-10-19 13:34:02 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
35843b1123 rerere.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
The reason rerere(), rerere_forget() and rerere_remaining() take a
struct repository instead of struct index_state is not obvious from
the patch:

Deep in update_paths() and find_conflict(), hold_locked_index() and
read_index() are called. These functions assumes the index path at
$GIT_DIR/index which is not always true when you take an arbitrary
index state. Taking a repository will allow us to point to the right
index path later when we replace them with repo_ versions.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-21 09:48:11 -07:00
Thomas Gummerer
2373b65059 rerere: mark strings for translation
'git rerere' is considered a porcelain command and as such its output
should be translated.  Its functionality is also only enabled through
a config setting, so scripts really shouldn't rely on the output
either way.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-06 13:22:34 -07:00
Thomas Gummerer
28fc9abd3f rerere: wrap paths in output in sq
It looks like most paths in the output in the git codebase are wrapped
in single quotes.  Standardize on that in rerere as well.

Apart from being more consistent, this also makes some of the strings
match strings that are already translated in other parts of the
codebase, thus reducing the work for translators, when the strings are
marked for translation in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-16 14:03:24 -07:00
Jeff King
06f46f237a avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) != len" pattern
The return value of write_in_full() is either "-1", or the
requested number of bytes[1]. If we make a partial write
before seeing an error, we still return -1, not a partial
value. This goes back to f6aa66cb95 (write_in_full: really
write in full or return error on disk full., 2007-01-11).

So checking anything except "was the return value negative"
is pointless. And there are a couple of reasons not to do
so:

  1. It can do a funny signed/unsigned comparison. If your
     "len" is signed (e.g., a size_t) then the compiler will
     promote the "-1" to its unsigned variant.

     This works out for "!= len" (unless you really were
     trying to write the maximum size_t bytes), but is a
     bug if you check "< len" (an example of which was fixed
     recently in config.c).

     We should avoid promoting the mental model that you
     need to check the length at all, so that new sites are
     not tempted to copy us.

  2. Checking for a negative value is shorter to type,
     especially when the length is an expression.

  3. Linus says so. In d34cf19b89 (Clean up write_in_full()
     users, 2007-01-11), right after the write_in_full()
     semantics were changed, he wrote:

       I really wish every "write_in_full()" user would just
       check against "<0" now, but this fixes the nasty and
       stupid ones.

     Appeals to authority aside, this makes it clear that
     writing it this way does not have an intentional
     benefit. It's a historical curiosity that we never
     bothered to clean up (and which was undoubtedly
     cargo-culted into new sites).

So let's convert these obviously-correct cases (this
includes write_str_in_full(), which is just a wrapper for
write_in_full()).

[1] A careful reader may notice there is one way that
    write_in_full() can return a different value. If we ask
    write() to write N bytes and get a return value that is
    _larger_ than N, we could return a larger total. But
    besides the fact that this would imply a totally broken
    version of write(), it would already invoke undefined
    behavior. Our internal remaining counter is an unsigned
    size_t, which means that subtracting too many byte will
    wrap it around to a very large number. So we'll instantly
    begin reading off the end of the buffer, trying to write
    gigabytes (or petabytes) of data.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14 15:17:59 +09:00
Brandon Williams
b2141fc1d2 config: don't include config.h by default
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h.  Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15 12:56:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
590f6e4235 Sync with 2.6.1 2015-10-05 13:20:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dc5400e11d Merge branch 'jc/rerere'
Code clean-up and minor fixes.

* jc/rerere: (21 commits)
  rerere: un-nest merge() further
  rerere: use "struct rerere_id" instead of "char *" for conflict ID
  rerere: call conflict-ids IDs
  rerere: further clarify do_rerere_one_path()
  rerere: further de-dent do_plain_rerere()
  rerere: refactor "replay" part of do_plain_rerere()
  rerere: explain the remainder
  rerere: explain "rerere forget" codepath
  rerere: explain the primary codepath
  rerere: explain MERGE_RR management helpers
  rerere: fix benign off-by-one non-bug and clarify code
  rerere: explain the rerere I/O abstraction
  rerere: do not leak mmfile[] for a path with multiple stage #1 entries
  rerere: stop looping unnecessarily
  rerere: drop want_sp parameter from is_cmarker()
  rerere: report autoupdated paths only after actually updating them
  rerere: write out each record of MERGE_RR in one go
  rerere: lift PATH_MAX limitation
  rerere: plug conflict ID leaks
  rerere: handle conflicts with multiple stage #1 entries
  ...
2015-10-05 12:30:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3adc4ec7b9 Sync with v2.5.4 2015-09-28 19:16:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6343e2f6f2 Sync with 2.3.10 2015-09-28 15:28:31 -07:00
Jeff King
3efb988098 react to errors in xdi_diff
When we call into xdiff to perform a diff, we generally lose
the return code completely. Typically by ignoring the return
of our xdi_diff wrapper, but sometimes we even propagate
that return value up and then ignore it later.  This can
lead to us silently producing incorrect diffs (e.g., "git
log" might produce no output at all, not even a diff header,
for a content-level diff).

In practice this does not happen very often, because the
typical reason for xdiff to report failure is that it
malloc() failed (it uses straight malloc, and not our
xmalloc wrapper).  But it could also happen when xdiff
triggers one our callbacks, which returns an error (e.g.,
outf() in builtin/rerere.c tries to report a write failure
in this way). And the next patch also plans to add more
failure modes.

Let's notice an error return from xdiff and react
appropriately. In most of the diff.c code, we can simply
die(), which matches the surrounding code (e.g., that is
what we do if we fail to load a file for diffing in the
first place). This is not that elegant, but we are probably
better off dying to let the user know there was a problem,
rather than simply generating bogus output.

We could also just die() directly in xdi_diff, but the
callers typically have a bit more context, and can provide a
better message (and if we do later decide to pass errors up,
we're one step closer to doing so).

There is one interesting case, which is in diff_grep(). Here
if we cannot generate the diff, there is nothing to match,
and we silently return "no hits". This is actually what the
existing code does already, but we make it a little more
explicit.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-28 14:57:10 -07:00
Jeff King
9dd330e6ca rerere: release lockfile in non-writing functions
There's a bug in builtin/am.c in which we take a lock on
MERGE_RR recursively. But rather than fix am.c, this patch
fixes the confusing interface from rerere.c that caused the
bug. Read on for the gory details.

The setup_rerere() function both reads the existing MERGE_RR
file, and takes MERGE_RR.lock. In the rerere() and
rerere_forget() functions, we end up in write_rr(), which
will then commit the lock file.

But for functions like rerere_clear() that do not write to
MERGE_RR, we expect the caller to have handled
setup_rerere(). That caller would then need to release the
lockfile, but it can't; the lock struct is local to
rerere.c.

For builtin/rerere.c, this is OK. We run a single rerere
operation and then exit immediately, which has the side
effect of rolling back the lockfile.

But in builtin/am.c, this is actively wrong. If we run "git
am -3 --skip", we call setup-rerere twice without releasing
the lock:

  1. The "--skip" causes us to call am_rerere_clear(), which
     calls setup_rerere(), but never drops the lock.

  2. We then proceed to the next patch.

  3. The "--3way" may cause us to call rerere() to handle
     conflicts in that patch, but we are already holding the
     lock. The lockfile code dies with:

     BUG: prepare_tempfile_object called for active object

We could fix this by having rerere_clear() call
rollback_lock_file(). But it feels a bit odd for it to roll
back a lockfile that it did not itself take. So let's
simplify the interface further, and handle setup_rerere in
the function itself, taking away the question from the
caller over whether they need to do so.

We can give rerere_gc() the same treatment, as well (even
though it doesn't have any callers besides builtin/rerere.c
at this point). Note that these functions don't take flags
from their callers to pass along to setup_rerere; that's OK,
because the flags would not be meaningful for what they are
doing.

Both of those functions need to hold the lock because even
though they do not write to MERGE_RR, they are still writing
and should be protected from a simultaneous "rerere" run.
But rerere_remaining(), "rerere diff", and "rerere status"
are all read-only operations. They want to setup_rerere(),
but do not care about taking the lock in the first place.
Since our update of MERGE_RR is the usual atomic rename done
by commit_lock_file, they can just do a lockless read. For
that, we teach setup_rerere a READONLY flag to avoid the
lock.

As a bonus, this pushes builtin/rerere.c's setup_rerere call
closer to the functions that use it. Which means that "git
rerere totally-bogus-command" will no longer silently
exit(0) in a repository without rerere enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-01 15:52:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1d51eced10 rerere: use "struct rerere_id" instead of "char *" for conflict ID
This gives a thin abstraction between the conflict ID that is a hash
value obtained by inspecting the conflicts and the name of the
directory under $GIT_DIR/rr-cache/, in which the previous resolution
is recorded to be replayed.  The plan is to make sure that the
presence of the directory does not imply the presense of a previous
resolution and vice-versa, and later allow us to have more than one
pair of <preimage, postimage> for a given conflict ID.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-24 16:05:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
18bb99342f rerere: call conflict-ids IDs
Most places we call conflict IDs "name" and some others we call them
"hex"; update all of them to "id".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-24 16:04:41 -07:00
Alex Henrie
9c9b4f2f8b standardize usage info string format
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:

- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-14 09:32:04 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
de3d8bb773 rerere: fix for merge.conflictstyle
If we use a different conflict style `git rerere forget` is not able
to find the matching conflict SHA-1 because the diff generated is
actually different from what `git merge` generated, due to the
XDL_MERGE_* option differences among the codepaths.

The fix is to call git_xmerge_config() so that git_xmerge_style is set
properly and the diffs match.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-30 10:30:02 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
01a10b0af9 rerere: convert to use parse_pathspec
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15 10:56:07 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
0ff07f2432 i18n: rerere: mark parseopt strings for translation
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-20 12:23:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0f891e7d7e rerere: libify rerere_clear() and rerere_gc()
This moves the two features from builtin/rerere.c to a more library-ish
portion of the codebase.  No behaviour change.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-08 12:55:34 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
5d2c3b0160 rerere forget: deprecate invocation without pathspec
rerere forget is a destructive command. When invoked without a path, it
operates on the current directory, potentially deleting many recorded
conflict resolutions.

To make the command safer, a path must be specified as of git 1.8.0. Until
then, give users time to write 'git rerere forget .' if they really mean
the entire current directory.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-02 12:26:18 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
ac49f5ca84 rerere "remaining"
After "rerere" resolves conflicts by reusing old resolution, there would
be three kinds of paths with conflict in the index:

 * paths that have been resolved in the working tree by rerere;
 * paths that need further work whose resolution could be recorded;
 * paths that need resolving that rerere won't help.

When the user wants a list of paths that need hand-resolving, output from
"rerere status" does not help, as it shows only the second category, but
the paths in the third category still needs work (rerere only makes sense
for regular files that have both our side and their side, and does not
help other kinds of conflicts, e.g. "we modified, they deleted").

The new subcommand "rerere remaining" can be used to show both. As
opposed to "rerere status", this subcommand also skips printing paths
that have been added to the index, since these paths are already
resolved and are no longer "remaining".

Initial patch provided by Junio. Refactored and modified to skip
resolved paths by Martin. Commit message mostly by Junio.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-16 13:20:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8aed4a5e38 Merge branch 'jn/merge-renormalize'
* jn/merge-renormalize:
  merge-recursive --renormalize
  rerere: never renormalize
  rerere: migrate to parse-options API
  t4200 (rerere): modernize style
  ll-merge: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  ll-merge: make flag easier to populate
  Documentation/technical: document ll_merge
  merge-trees: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  merge-trees: push choice to renormalize away from low level
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): check that it can be turned off
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): try checkout -m and cherry-pick
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): style nitpicks
  Don't expand CRLFs when normalizing text during merge
  Try normalizing files to avoid delete/modify conflicts when merging
  Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization

Conflicts:
	builtin/rerere.c
	t/t4200-rerere.sh
2010-09-03 09:43:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e24058f57f Merge branch 'sg/rerere-gc-old-still-used'
* sg/rerere-gc-old-still-used:
  rerere: fix overeager gc
  mingw_utime(): handle NULL times parameter
2010-08-31 16:14:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6b5005c88b Merge branch 'tf/string-list-init'
* tf/string-list-init:
  string_list: Add STRING_LIST_INIT macro and make use of it.
2010-08-18 12:47:04 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
672d1b789b rerere: migrate to parse-options API
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-06 09:20:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4bd874c8f3 Merge branch 'js/merge-rr-fix'
* js/merge-rr-fix:
  MERGE_RR is in .git, not .git/rr-cache
2010-07-15 12:08:36 -07:00
Jay Soffian
3ca399d40a MERGE_RR is in .git, not .git/rr-cache
0af0ac7 (Move MERGE_RR from .git/rr-cache/ into .git/) moved the
location of MERGE_RR but I found a few references to the old
location.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-14 13:04:25 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
7d7ff15b39 rerere: fix overeager gc
'rerere gc' prunes resolutions of conflicted merges that occurred long
time ago, and when doing so it takes the creation time of the
conflicted automerge results into account.  This can cause the loss of
frequently used conflict resolutions (e.g. long-living topic branches
are merged into a regularly rebuilt integration branch (think of git's
pu)) when they become old enough to exceed 'rerere gc's threshold.

To prevent the loss of valuable merge resolutions 'rerere' will (1)
update the timestamp of the recorded conflict resolution (i.e.
'postimage') each time when encountering and resolving the same merge
conflict, and (2) take this timestamp, i.e. the time of the last usage
into account when gc'ing.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-14 09:26:57 -07:00
Thiago Farina
183113a5ca string_list: Add STRING_LIST_INIT macro and make use of it.
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05 11:47:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a53deac89e Merge branch 'jp/string-list-api-cleanup'
* jp/string-list-api-cleanup:
  string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_append
  string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_lookup
  string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert_at_index
  string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert
  string_list: Fix argument order for for_each_string_list
  string_list: Fix argument order for print_string_list
2010-06-30 11:55:38 -07:00
Julian Phillips
1d2f80fa79 string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_append
Update the definition and callers of string_list_append to use the
string_list as the first argument.  This helps make the string_list
API easier to use by being more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-27 10:06:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
60335534a6 Merge branch 'rs/diff-no-minimal' into maint
* rs/diff-no-minimal:
  git diff too slow for a file
2010-06-21 05:38:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
39b5977b13 Merge branch 'rs/diff-no-minimal'
* rs/diff-no-minimal:
  git diff too slow for a file
2010-06-13 11:20:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
81b50f3ce4 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of

	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
	Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
	builtin-shortlog.c     builtin-show-branch.c  builtin-show-ref.c
	builtin-shortlog.o     builtin-show-branch.o  builtin-show-ref.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
	builtin-shortlog.c  builtin-shortlog.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c

you get

	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>		[type]
	builtin/   builtin.h
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin		[auto-completes to]
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab>	[type]
	shortlog.c     shortlog.o     show-branch.c  show-branch.o  show-ref.c     show-ref.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho		[auto-completes to]
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab>	[type]
	shortlog.c  shortlog.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c

which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.

NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead.  I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.

So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion.  But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-22 14:29:41 -08:00