In the Linux kernel, for example, it's common to include Cc: lines
for cases when you want to remember to cc someone on a patch without
necessarily claiming they signed off on it. Make git-send-email
aware of these.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I was using "branch" to mean "head", but that's perhaps a little
sloppy; so instead start by using the terms "branch head" and "head",
while still quickly falling back on "branch", since that's what
people actually say more frequently.
Also include glossary references on the first uses of "head" and "tag".
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The sort_glossary.pl script sorts the glossary, checks for duplicates,
and automatically adds cross-references.
But it's not so hard to do all that by hand, and sometimes the automatic
cross-references are a little wrong; so let's run the script one last
time and check in its output.
Note: to make the output fit better into the user manual I also deleted
the acknowledgements at the end, which was maybe a little rude; feel
free to object and I can find a different solution.
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
I'd like to start using references to the glossary in the user manual.
The "ref_" prefix for these references seems a little generic; so
replace with "def_".
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
"file patch" was doubtless intended to be "file path",
but "directory name" is clearer.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The --nonet option prevents xsltproc from going to the network to find
anything. But it always tries to find them locally first, so for a
user with the necessary docbook stylesheets installed the build will
work just fine without xsltproc attempting to use the network; all
--nonet does is make it fail rather than falling back on that. That
doesn't seem particularly helpful.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* ar/diff:
Add tests for --quiet option of diff programs
try-to-simplify-commit: use diff-tree --quiet machinery.
revision.c: explain what tree_difference does
Teach --quiet to diff backends.
diff --quiet
Remove unused diffcore_std_no_resolve
Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)
This patch adds support for a dummy remote '.' to avoid having
to declare a fake remote like
[remote "local"]
url = .
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
Such a builtin remote simplifies the operation of "git-fetch",
which will populate FETCH_HEAD but will not pretend that two
repositories are in use, will not create a thin pack, and will
not perform any useless remapping of names. The speed
improvement is around 20%, and it should improve more if
"git-fetch" is converted to a builtin.
To this end, git-parse-remote is grown with a new kind of
remote, 'builtin'. In git-fetch.sh, we treat the builtin remote
specially in that it needs no pack/store operations. In fact,
doing git-fetch on a builtin remote will simply populate
FETCH_HEAD appropriately.
The patch also improves of the --track/--no-track support,
extending it so that branch.<name>.remote items referring '.'
can be created. Finally, it fixes a typo in git-checkout.sh.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This introduces a new command-line option: --exit-code. The diff
programs will return 1 for differences, return 0 for equality, and
something else for errors.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previous formulation could make it appear as removing all lines
matching a regexp (at least, I was looking for such a flag, and
confused this flag for what I was looking for).
Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This avoids fetching new revisions remotely, and is usefuly
versus plain "git rebase" because the user does not have to
specify which remote head to rebase against.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Format some lists really as lists. Improves both html and man
output.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git-mergetool program can be used to automatically run an appropriate
merge resolution program to resolve merge conflicts. It will automatically
run one of kdiff3, tkdiff, meld, xxdiff, or emacs emerge programs.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Chain-reply-to is a personal perference, and is unlikely to change from
patchset to patchset. Similarly, bcc is likely to have the same values
every invocation is one likes to bcc oneself.
So, allow both to be set via configuration variables.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Wishing to implement an email aliases file, I found that they were already
implmented. Document them for the next user.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sergey Vlasov, Andy Parkins and Alex Riesen all pointed out that it
is possible for a single invocation of receive-pack to be given more
refs than the OS might allow us to pass as command line parameters
to a single hook invocation.
We don't want to break these up into multiple invocations (like
xargs might do) as that makes it impossible for the pre-receive
hook to verify multiple related ref updates occur at the same time,
and it makes it harder for post-receive to send out a single batch
notification.
Instead we pass the reference data on a pipe connected to the
hook's stdin, supplying one ref per line to the hook. This way a
single hook invocation can obtain an infinite amount of ref data,
without bumping into any operating system limits.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In order to track and build on top of a branch 'topic' you track from
your upstream repository, you often would end up doing this sequence:
git checkout -b mytopic origin/topic
git config --add branch.mytopic.remote origin
git config --add branch.mytopic.merge refs/heads/topic
This would first fork your own 'mytopic' branch from the 'topic'
branch you track from the 'origin' repository; then it would set up two
configuration variables so that 'git pull' without parameters does the
right thing while you are on your own 'mytopic' branch.
This commit adds a --track option to git-branch, so that "git
branch --track mytopic origin/topic" performs the latter two actions
when creating your 'mytopic' branch.
If the configuration variable branch.autosetupmerge is set to true, you
do not have to pass the --track option explicitly; further patches in
this series allow setting the variable with a "git remote add" option.
The configuration variable is off by default, and there is a --no-track
option to countermand it even if the variable is set.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
git.el: Retrieve commit log information from .dotest directory.
git.el: Avoid appending a signoff line that is already present.
setup_git_directory_gently: fix off-by-one error
user-manual: install user manual stylesheet with other web documents
user-manual: fix rendering of history diagrams
user-manual: fix missing colon in git-show example
user-manual: fix inconsistent use of pull and merge
user-manual: fix inconsistent example
glossary: fix overoptimistic automatic linking of defined terms
Documentation: s/seperator/separator/
Adjust reflog filemode in shared repository
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
user-manual: install user manual stylesheet with other web documents
user-manual: fix rendering of history diagrams
user-manual: fix missing colon in git-show example
user-manual: fix inconsistent use of pull and merge
user-manual: fix inconsistent example
glossary: fix overoptimistic automatic linking of defined terms
Asciidoc appears to interpret a backslash at the end of a line as
escaping the end-of-line character, which screws up the display of
history diagrams like
o--o--o
\
o--...
The obvious fix (replacing "\" by "\\") doesn't work. The only
workaround I've found is to include all such diagrams in a LiteralBlock.
Asciidoc claims that should be equivalent to a literal paragraph, so I
don't understand why the difference--perhaps it's an asciidoc bug.
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
There should be a colon in this git-show example.
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
I used "git pull ." instead of "git merge" here without any explanation.
Stick instead to "git merge" for now (the equivalent pull syntax is
still covered in a later chapter).
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The configuration file fragment here is inconsistent with the text
above. Thanks to Ramsay Jones for the correction.
Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The script sort_glossary.pl turns each use of "term" into a link to the
definition of "term". To avoid mangling links like
gitlink:git-term[1]
it doesn't replace any occurence of "term" preceded by "link:git-".
This fails for gitlink:git-symbolic-ref[1] when substituting for "ref".
So instead just refuse to replace anything preceded by a "-".
That could result in missing some opportunities, but that's a less
annoying error.
Actually I find the automatic substitution a little distracting; some
day maybe we should just run it once and commit the result, so it can
be hand-tuned.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The --interactive option behaves like "git commit", except that
"git add --interactive" is executed before committing. It is
incompatible with -a and -i.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
Allow fast-import frontends to reload the marks table
Use atomic updates to the fast-import mark file
Preallocate memory earlier in fast-import
I'm giving fast-import a lesson on how to reload the marks table
using the same format it outputs with --export-marks. This way
a frontend can reload the marks table from a prior import, making
incremental imports less painful.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Bill Lear pointed out that it is easy to send out notifications of
changes with the update hook, but successful execution of the update
hook does not necessarily mean that the ref was actually updated.
Lock contention on the ref or being unable to append to the reflog
may prevent the ref from being changed. Sending out notifications
prior to the ref actually changing is very misleading.
To help this situation I am introducing two new hooks to the
receive-pack flow: pre-receive and post-receive. These new hooks
are invoked only once per receive-pack execution and are passed
three arguments per ref (refname, old-sha1, new-sha1).
The new post-receive hook is ideal for sending out notifications,
as it has the complete list of all refnames that were successfully
updated as well as the old and new SHA-1 values. This allows more
interesting notifications to be sent. Multiple ref updates could
be easily summarized into one email, for example.
The new pre-receive hook is ideal for logging update attempts, as it
is run only once for the entire receive-pack operation. It can also
be used to verify multiple updates happen at once, e.g. an update
to the `maint` head must also be accompained by a new annotated tag.
Lots of documentation improvements for receive-pack are included
in this change, as we want to make sure the new hooks are clearly
explained.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch adds support to archimport for remapping the branch
names to match those used in git more closely. This is useful
for projects that migrate to git (as opposed to users that want
to use git on Arch-based projects). For example, one can choose
an Arch branch name and call it "master".
The new command-line syntax works even if there is a colon in
a branch name, since only the part after the last colon is taken
to be the git name (git does not allow colons in branch names).
The new feature is implemented so that archives rotated every
year can also be remapped into a single git archive.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master-for-junio' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
fast-import: Fail if a non-existant commit is used for merge
fast-import: Avoid infinite loop after reset
* maint:
Fix diff-options references in git-diff and git-format-patch
Add definition of <commit-ish> to the main git man page.
Begin SubmittingPatches with a check list
fast-import: Fail if a non-existant commit is used for merge
fast-import: Avoid infinite loop after reset
Most of the git-diff-* documentation used [<common diff options>]
instead of [--diff-options], so make that change in git-diff and
git-format-patch.
In addition, git-format-patch didn't include the meanings of the diff
options.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It seems that some people prefer a short list to a long text. But even for
the latter group, a quick reminder list is useful. So, add a check list to
Documentation/SubmittingPatches of what to do to get your patch accepted.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update the main git.html page to point at 1.5.0.3 documentation.
Update draft 1.5.1 release notes with what we have so far.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The existing --attach option did not create a true "attachment"
but multipart/mixed with Content-Disposition: inline. It should
have been with Content-Disposition: attachment.
Introduce --inline to add multipart/mixed that is inlined, and
make --attach to create an attachement.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'js/fetch-progress' (early part):
Fixup no-progress for fetch & clone
fetch & clone: do not output progress when not on a tty
Conflicts:
git-fetch.sh
* js/symlink:
Tell multi-parent diff about core.symlinks.
Handle core.symlinks=false case in merge-recursive.
Add core.symlinks to mark filesystems that do not support symbolic links.
* maint:
GIT 1.5.0.3
glossary: Add definitions for dangling and unreachable objects
user-manual: more detailed merge discussion
user-manual: how to replace commits older than most recent
user-manual: insert earlier of mention content-addressable architecture
user-manual: ensure generated manual references stylesheet
user-manual: reset to ORIG_HEAD not HEAD to undo merge
Documentation: mention module option to git-cvsimport
Define "dangling" and "unreachable" objects. Modified from original
text proposed by Yasushi Shoji.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add more details on conflict, including brief discussion of file stages.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"Modifying" an old commit by checking it out, --amend'ing it, then
rebasing on top of it, is a slightly cumbersome technique, but I've
found it useful frequently enough to make it seem worth documenting.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The content-addressable design is too important not to be worth at least
a brief mention a little earlier on.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The generated user manual is rather hard to read thanks to the lack of
the css that's supposed to be included from docbook-xsl.css.
I'm totally ignorant of the toolchain; grubbing through xmlto and
related scripts, the easiest way I could find to ensure that the
generated html links to the stylesheet is by calling xsltproc directly.
Maybe there's some better way.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As Linus pointed out recently on the mailing list,
git reset --hard HEAD^
doesn't undo a merge in the case where the merge did a fast-forward. So
the rcommendation here is a little dangerous.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git-cvsimport argument that specifies a cvs module to import should
probably be included in the default example.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch documents the previously undocumented option --rename-section
and adds a new option to zap an entire section.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Unset NO_C99_FORMAT on Cygwin.
Fix a "pointer type missmatch" warning.
Fix some "comparison is always true/false" warnings.
Fix an "implicit function definition" warning.
Fix a "label defined but unreferenced" warning.
Document the config variable format.suffix
git-merge: fail correctly when we cannot fast forward.
builtin-archive: use RUN_SETUP
Fix git-gc usage note
Some file systems that can host git repositories and their working copies
do not support symbolic links. But then if the repository contains a symbolic
link, it is impossible to check out the working copy.
This patch enables partial support of symbolic links so that it is possible
to check out a working copy on such a file system. A new flag
core.symlinks (which is true by default) can be set to false to indicate
that the filesystem does not support symbolic links. In this case, symbolic
links that exist in the trees are checked out as small plain files, and
checking in modifications of these files preserve the symlink property in
the database (as long as an entry exists in the index).
Of course, this does not magically make symbolic links work on such defective
file systems; hence, this solution does not help if the working copy relies
on that an entry is a real symbolic link.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add the new --no-abbrev option to the man page for the git-branch command.
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Another memory overrun in http-push.c
fetch.o depends on the headers, too.
Documentation: Correct minor typo in git-add documentation.
Documentation/git-send-email.txt: Fix labeled list formatting
Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt: Fix labeled list formatting
Documentation/build-docdep.perl: Fix dependencies for included asciidoc files
Fix some formatting problems:
- Some list labels were missing their "::" characters.
- Some of continuation paragraphs in labeled lists were incorrectly
formatted as literal paragraphs.
- In one case "[verse]" was missing before the config key list.
- The "Basic Examples" section was incorrectly nested inside the
"Config File-Only Options" section.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mark continuation paragraphs of list entries as such to avoid
getting literal paragraphs instead.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mark the continuation paragraph of a list entry as such to avoid
getting a literal paragraph instead.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Adding dependencies on included files to the generated man pages is
wrong - includes are processed by asciidoc, therefore the intermediate
Docbook XML files really depend on included files. Because of these
wrong dependencies the man pages were not rebuilt properly if the
intermediate XML files were left in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Start preparing Release Notes for 1.5.0.3
Documentation: git-remote add [-t <branch>] [-m <branch>] [-f] name url
Include config.mak in doc/Makefile
git.el: Set the default commit coding system from the repository config.
git-archimport: support empty summaries, put summary on a single line.
http-push.c::lock_remote(): validate all remote refs.
git-cvsexportcommit: don't cleanup .msg if not yet committed to cvs.
config.mak.autogen is already there. Without this change it is not
possible to override mandir in config.mak.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'js/diff-ni' (early part):
diff --no-index: also imitate the exit status of diff(1)
Fix typo: do not show name1 when name2 fails
Teach git-diff-files the new option `--no-index`
run_diff_{files,index}(): update calling convention.
update-index: do not die too early in a read-only repository.
git-status: do not be totally useless in a read-only repository.
* maint:
builtin-fmt-merge-msg: fix bugs in --file option
index-pack: Loop over pread until data loading is complete.
blameview: Fix the browse behavior in blameview
Fix minor typos/grammar in user-manual.txt
Correct ordering in git-cvsimport's option documentation
git-show: Reject native ref
Fix git-show man page formatting in the EXAMPLES section
A pair of commits on January 8th added option documentation (for -a,
-S and -L) in the middle of the documentation for the -A option. This
makes -A's documentation contiguous again.
Signed-off-by: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix asciidoc markup so that the man page is properly formatted in the
EXAMPLES section.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master: (201 commits)
Documentation: link in 1.5.0.2 material to the top documentation page.
Documentation: document remote.<name>.tagopt
GIT 1.5.0.2
git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
merge-index: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
diff --cached: give more sensible error message when HEAD is yet to be created.
Update tests to use test-chmtime
Add test-chmtime: a utility to change mtime on files
Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
Limit filename for format-patch
core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
...
Update config.txt with info regarding tagopt option
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.0.2
git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
* maint:
Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
To name a commit, you can now say
$ git rev-parse ':/Initial revision of "git"'
and it will return the hash of the youngest commit whose
commit message (the oneline) begins with the given prefix.
For future extension, a leading exclamation mark is treated
specially: if you want to match a commit message starting with
a '!', just repeat the exclamation mark. So, to match a commit
which starts with '!Hello World', use
$ git show ':/!!Hello World'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
Limit filename for format-patch
core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
git-show-ref --verify: Fail if called without a reference
Conflicts:
builtin-show-ref.c
diff.c
The intent of the commit 'fetch & clone: do not output progress when
not on a tty' was to make fetching and cloning less chatty when
output was not redirected (such as in a cron job).
However, there was a serious thinko in that commit. It assumed that
the client _and_ the server got this update at the same time. But
this is obviously not the case, and therefore upload-pack died on
seeing the option "--no-progress".
This patch fixes that issue by making it a protocol option. So, until
your server is updated, you still see the progress, but once the
server has this patch, it will be quiet.
A minor issue was also fixed: when cloning, the checkout did not
heed no_progress.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also, it turns out that SVN::Ra doesn't attempt to deal with
authentication or pass the username to ssh when doing svn+ssh://
URLs
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Since the options that affect the way metadata is handled in
git-svn, should be consistently set/unset throughout history
imported by git-svn; it makes sense to allow the user to set
certain options from the command-line that will write to the
config file when initially creating the repository.
Also, fix some formatting issues while we're updating
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
This documents the 'clone' and 'rebase' commands
of git-svn. Additionaly, examples are updated
to use them instead of the lower-level 'init' and
'fetch' commands.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Force the showing of the --minimize flag as an option in the
'migrate' help.
Also, fix the usage function to correctly filter out
the deprecated aliases.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Make sure we flush our userspace buffers and and fsync(2)
.rev_db information to disk if we use these options because
we really don't want to lose this information.
Also, disallow --use-svm-props and --no-metadata from the
command-line because history will be inconsistent if they're
only used occasionally. If a user wants to use these options,
they must be set in the config so they're always on.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
--no-follow-parent disables and reverts it back to the old
default behavior of not following parents (if you don't care for
full history).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
--svn-remote allows the default remote name to be overridden (useful
for tracking multiple SVN repositories).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Since refs/remotes/* are not automatically cloned, we expect the
user to be capable of copying those references themselves
anyways.
Also removed the documentation for --ignore-nodate while we're
at it; it has also been made automatic.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
It's not really useful anymore now that we have a better
--follow-parent for the valid cases. Any other use
of it is not valid.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Some workflows require use of repositories on machines that cannot be
connected, preventing use of git-fetch / git-push to transport objects and
references between the repositories.
git-bundle provides an alternate transport mechanism, effectively allowing
git-fetch and git-pull to operate using sneakernet transport. `git-bundle
create` allows the user to create a bundle containing one or more branches
or tags, but with specified basis assumed to exist on the target
repository. At the receiving end, git-bundle acts like git-fetch-pack,
allowing the user to invoke git-fetch or git-pull using the bundle file as
the URL. git-fetch and git-ls-remote determine they have a bundle URL by
checking that the URL points to a file, but are otherwise unchanged in
operation with bundles.
The original patch was done by Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>.
It was updated to make git-bundle a builtin, and get rid of the tar
format: now, the first line is supposed to say "# v2 git bundle", the next
lines either contain a prerequisite ("-" followed by the hash of the
needed commit), or a ref (the hash of a commit, followed by the name of
the ref), and finally the pack. As a result, the bundle argument can be
"-" now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
git-diff: fix combined diff
Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository
Include git-gui credits file in dist.
Document the new core.bare configuration option.
With this patch,
$ git show -s \
--pretty=format:' Ze komit %h woss%n dunn buy ze great %an'
shows something like
Ze komit 04c5c88 woss
dunn buy ze great Junio C Hamano
The supported placeholders are:
'%H': commit hash
'%h': abbreviated commit hash
'%T': tree hash
'%t': abbreviated tree hash
'%P': parent hashes
'%p': abbreviated parent hashes
'%an': author name
'%ae': author email
'%ad': author date
'%aD': author date, RFC2822 style
'%ar': author date, relative
'%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
'%cn': committer name
'%ce': committer email
'%cd': committer date
'%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
'%cr': committer date, relative
'%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp
'%e': encoding
'%s': subject
'%b': body
'%Cred': switch color to red
'%Cgreen': switch color to green
'%Cblue': switch color to blue
'%Creset': reset color
'%n': newline
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this flag and given two paths, git-diff-files behaves as a GNU diff
lookalike (plus the git goodies like --check, colour, etc.). This flag
is also available in git-diff. It also works outside of a git repository.
In addition, if git-diff{,-files} is called without revision or stage
parameter, and with exactly two paths at least one of which is not tracked,
the default is --no-index.
So, you can now say
git diff /etc/inittab /etc/fstab
and it actually works!
This also unifies the duplicated argument parsing between cmd_diff_files()
and builtin_diff_files().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In response to a feature request from Shawn Pearce, this patch allows
a user to update a named group of remotes by using "git remote update
<group>", where the group is defined in the config file by
remotes.<group>. The default if the named group is not specified is
now fetched group remotes.default, instead of remote.fetch, which is
what had been previously used.
In addition, if remotes.default is not defined, all remotes defined in
the config file will be used, as before, but there is now also
possible to request that a particular repository to be skipped by
default by using the boolean configuration parameter
remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is necessary if using CVS in an asymmetric fashion, i.e. when the
CVSROOT you are checking out from differs from the CVSROOT you have to
commit to.
Signed-off-by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The settings in /etc/gitconfig can be overridden in ~/.gitconfig,
which in turn can be overridden in .git/config.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds the option "--no-progress" to fetch-pack and upload-pack,
and makes fetch and clone pass this option when stdout is not a tty.
While at documenting that option, also document --strict and --timeout
options for upload-pack.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows users to use the command "git remote update" to update all
remotes that are being tracked in the repository.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation advertises the new `--depth <n>' parameter with an equal
sign, while the usage notes (shown after `git-clone --help') do not. If I
understood git-clone's source code correctly, the version without the
equal sign is correct, which is why this patch syncs documentation to the
usage note.
Signed-off-by: Christian Schlotter <schlotter@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Update draft release notes for 1.5.0.1
Convert update-index references in docs to add.
Attempt to improve git-rebase lead-in description.
Do not take mode bits from index after type change.
git-blame: prevent argument parsing segfault
Make gitk save and restore window pane position on Linux and Cygwin.
Make gitk save and restore the user set window position.
[PATCH] gitk: Use show-ref instead of ls-remote
[PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin.
[PATCH] gitk - remove trailing whitespace from a few lines.
Change git repo-config to git config
Instead of (or, in addition to) --tags, to use only tags for naming,
you can now use --refs=<pattern> to specify a shell glob pattern
which the refs must match to be used for naming.
Example:
$ git name-rev --refs=*v1* 33db5f4d33db5f4d tags/v1.0rc1^0~1593
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since `git add` is the approved porcelain for an end-user to invoke
when they want to manipulate the index, porcelain documentation
should steer the user to this command rather than the pure plumbing
update-index.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It was mentioned on #git this morning that the lead-in description
of git-rebase is very confusing. Too many branch this and branch
that in a very short run of text.
This new description attempts to walk the user through the command
syntax, while also describing exactly what git-rebase is doing to
their repository.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
GIT-VERSION-FILE: check ./version first.
sha1_file.c: Round the mmap offset to half the window size.
Make sure packedgitwindowsize is multiple of (pagesize * 2)
Add RelNotes 1.5.0.1
Still updating 1.5.0 release notes.
git-daemon: Avoid leaking the listening sockets into child processes.
Clarify two backward incompatible repository options.
It was unclear if the backward compatible features were disabled
or the configuration variables that controls them were set to
false by default from the description. Obviously we meant the
former, but the problem was made worse by the fact that one
configuration variable breaks compatibility when set to true and
the other one breaks it when set to false.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of running around listing the changes near the release,
let's keep things nicely organized by summarizing the changes as
we merge things to the 'master' branch.
I haven't decided how well this will go with people's patch
submission procedure yet --- we'll play it by the ear and see
what happens.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Makefile: update check-docs target
cmd-list: add git-remote
Documentation: Drop full-stop from git-fast-import title.
Minor corrections to release notes
Update section about warning when leaving a detached head.
Also fix a few indentations that weren't like the rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This also adds a hook in the Makefile I can use to automatically
include pointers to documentation for older releases when updating
the pages at http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation still talked about the unnecessary 'safety'
in git-checkout.
Pointed out by Matthias Lederhofer.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The config variable gc.packrefs is tristate now: "true", "false"
and "notbare", where "notbare" is the default.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The old text suggested that git-update-server-info only needs to be run
if new tags or branches are created, but not for new commits.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It was suggested on the mailing list that being able to use `from`
in any commit to reset the current branch is useful in some types of
importers, such as a darcs importer.
We originally did not permit resetting an existing branch with a
new `from` command during a `commit` command, but this restriction
was only to help debug the hacked up cvs2svn that Jon Smirl was
developing in parallel with git-fast-import. It is probably more
of a problem to disallow it than to allow it. So now we permit a
`from` during any `commit`.
While making the changes required to permit multiple `from`
commands on the same branch, I discovered we no longer needed the
last_commit field to be set to 0 during a reset, so that was removed.
(Reset was originally setting the field to 0 to signal cmd_from()
that it was OK to execute on the branch.)
While poking around in this section of fast-import I also realized
the `reset` command was not working as intended if the corresponding
`from` command was omitted (as allowed by the BNF grammar and the
code). If `from` was omitted we cleared out the tree but we left
the tree SHA-1 and parent commit SHA-1 intact. This is not what
the user intended in this case. Instead they would be trying to
reset the branch to have no parent and to have no tree, making the
branch look new-born during the next commit. We now clear these
SHA-1 values during `reset`, ensuring the branch looks new-born if
`from` does not get supplied.
New test cases for these were also added.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is originally from Andy Parkins whose patch used --patchdepth; let's
use -p which is more in line with the underlying git-apply.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
bash: Hide git-fast-import.
fast-import: Add tip about importing renames.
fast-import: Hide the pack boundary commits by default.
Most users don't need the pack boundary information that fast-import
was printing to standard output, especially if they were calling
it with --quiet.
Those users who do want this information probably want it captured
so they can go back and use it to repack the imported repository.
So dumping the boundary commits to a log file makes more sense then
printing them to standard output.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Allow setting the path of asciidoc in only one place when creating
the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Dotan Barak <dotanb@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, treat
it as a shell command which is run using system(3).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The way 'git pull' without explicit parameters work were not
explained well in any existing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
tar archive frontend for fast-import.
Correct spelling of fast-import in docs.
Correct some language in fast-import documentation.
Correct ^0 asciidoc syntax in fast-import docs.
It makes "git reflog [show]" act as
git log -g --pretty=oneline --abbrev-cmit
and is fairly straightforward. So you can just write
git reflog
or
git reflog show
and it will show you the reflog in a nice format.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add -C[NUM] to git-am and git-rebase so that patches can be applied even
if context has changed a bit.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Its spelled 'fast-import', not 'gfi'. Linus and Dscho have both
recently pointed this out to me on the mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Minor documentation improvements, as suggested on the Git mailing
list by Horst H. von Brand and Karl Hasselström.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I wrote this documentation with asciidoc 7.1.2, but apparently
asciidoc 8 assumes ^ means superscript. The solution was already
documented in rev-parse's manpage and is to use {caret} instead.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
Add a Tips and Tricks section to fast-import's manual.
Don't crash fast-import if the marks cannot be exported.
Dump all refs and marks during a checkpoint in fast-import.
Teach fast-import how to sit quietly in the corner.
Teach fast-import how to clear the internal branch content.
Minor timestamp related documentation corrections for fast-import.
There has been some informative lessons learned in the gfi user
community, and these really should be written down and documented
for future generations of frontend developers.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the frontend asks us to checkpoint (via the explicit checkpoint
command) its probably because they are afraid the current import
will crash/fail/whatever and want to make sure they can pickup from
the last checkpoint. To do that sort of recovery, we will need the
current tip of every branch and tag available at the next startup.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Often users will be running fast-import from within a larger frontend
process, and this may be a frequent periodic tool such as a future
edition of `git-svn fetch`. We don't want to bombard users with our
large stats output if they won't be interested in it, so `--quiet`
is now an option to make gfi be more silent.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Some frontends may not be able to (easily) keep track of which files
are included in the branch, and which aren't. Performing this
tracking can be tedious and error prone for the frontend to do,
especially if its foreign data source cannot supply the changed
path list on a per-commit basis.
fast-import now allows a frontend to request that a branch's tree
be wiped clean (reset to the empty tree) at the start of a commit,
allowing the frontend to feed in all paths which belong on the branch.
This is ideal for a tar-file importer frontend, for example, as
the frontend just needs to reformat the tar data stream into a gfi
data stream, which may be something a few Perl regexps can take
care of. :)
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
As discussed on the mailing list, the documentation used here was
not quite accurate. Improve upon it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport: (81 commits)
S_IFLNK != 0140000
Don't do non-fastforward updates in fast-import.
Support RFC 2822 date parsing in fast-import.
Minor fast-import documentation corrections.
Remove unnecessary null pointer checks in fast-import.
Correct fast-import timezone documentation.
Correct minor style issue in fast-import.
Correct compiler warnings in fast-import.
Remove --branch-log from fast-import.
Initial draft of fast-import documentation.
Don't support shell-quoted refnames in fast-import.
Reduce memory usage of fast-import.
Include checkpoint command in the BNF.
Accept 'inline' file data in fast-import commit structure.
Reduce value duplication in t9300-fast-import.
Create test case for fast-import.
Support delimited data regions in fast-import.
Remove unnecessary options from fast-import.
Use fixed-size integers when writing out the index in fast-import.
Always use struct pack_header for pack header in fast-import.
...
If fast-import is being used to update an existing branch of
a repository, the user may not want to lose commits if another
process updates the same ref at the same time. For example, the
user might be using fast-import to make just one or two commits
against a live branch.
We now perform a fast-forward check during the ref updating process.
If updating a branch would cause commits in that branch to be lost,
we skip over it and display the new SHA1 to standard error.
This new default behavior can be overridden with `--force`, like
git-push and git-fetch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Since some frontends may be working with source material where
the dates are only readily available as RFC 2822 strings, it is
more friendly if fast-import exposes Git's parse_date() function
to handle the conversion. This way the frontend doesn't need
to perform the parsing itself.
The new --date-format option to fast-import can be used by a
frontend to select which format it will supply date strings in.
The default is the standard `raw` Git format, which fast-import
has always supported. Format rfc2822 can be used to activate the
parse_date() function instead.
Because fast-import could also be useful for creating new, current
commits, the format `now` is also supported to generate the current
system timestamp. The implementation of `now` is a trivial call
to datestamp(), but is actually a whole whopping 3 lines so that
fast-import can verify the frontend really meant `now`.
As part of this change I have added validation of the `raw` date
format. Prior to this change fast-import would accept anything
in a `committer` command, even if it was seriously malformed.
Now fast-import requires the '> ' near the end of the string and
verifies the timestamp is formatted properly.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Corrected a couple of header markup lines which were shorter than the
actual header, and made the `data` commands two formats into a named
list, which matches how we document the two formats of the `M` command
within a commit.
Also tried to simplify the language about our decimal integer format;
Linus pointed out I was probably being too specific at the cost of
reduced readability.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Andy Parkins and Linus Torvalds both noticed that the description
of the timezone was incorrect. Its not expressed in minutes.
Its more like "hhmm", where "hh" is the number of hours and "mm"
is the number of minutes shifted from GMT/UTC.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The --branch-log option and its associated code hasn't been used in
several months, as its not really very useful for debugging fast-import
or a frontend. I don't plan on supporting it in this state long-term,
so I'm killing it now before it gets distributed to a wider audience.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is a first pass at the manpage for git-fast-import.
I have tried to cover the input format in extreme detail, creating a
reference which is more detailed than the BNF grammar appearing in
the header of fast-import.c. I have also covered some details about
gfi's performance and memory utilization, as well as the average
learning curve required to create a gfi frontend application (as it
is far lower than it might appear on first glance).
The documentation still lacks real example input streams, which may
turn out to be difficult to format in asciidoc due to the blank lines
which carry meaning within the format.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This can be used to compress multiple changesets into one, for example
like
git cvsexportcommit -P cvshead mybranch
without having to do so in git first.
Signed-off-by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
hg-to-git.py is able to convert a Mercurial repository into a git one,
and preserves the branches in the process (unlike tailor)
hg-to-git.py can probably be greatly improved (it's a rather crude
combination of shell and python) but it does already work quite well for
me. Features:
- supports incremental conversion
(for keeping a git repo in sync with a hg one)
- supports hg branches
- converts hg tags
Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This particular use of git-rebase to remove a single commit or a
range of commits from the history of a branch recently came up on
the mailing list. Documenting the example should help other users
arrive at the same solution on their own.
It also was not obvious to the newcomer that git-rebase is able to
accept any commit for --onto <newbase> and <upstream>. We should
at least minimally document this, as much of the language in
git-rebase's manpage refers to 'branch' rather than 'committish'.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation for git-for-each-ref said that the refname variable
would return "the part after $GIT_DIR/refs/", which isn't true.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* np/dreflog:
show-branch -g: default to the current branch.
Let git-checkout always drop any detached head
Enable HEAD@{...} and make it independent from the current branch
scan reflogs independently from refs
add reflog when moving HEAD to a new branch
create_symref(): do not assume pathname from git_path() persists long enough
add logref support to git-symbolic-ref
move create_symref() past log_ref_write()
add reflog entries for HEAD when detached
enable separate reflog for HEAD
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remember the original name of a ref when resolving it
make reflog filename independent from struct ref_lock
Mention git-revert as an alternative to git-reset to revert changes.
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now we have a separate reflog on HEAD, show-branch -g without an explicit
parameter defaults to the current branch, or HEAD when it is detached
from branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is to resolve conflicts early in preparation for possible
inclusion of "reflog on detached HEAD" series by Nico, as having
it in 1.5.0 would really help us remove confusion between
detached and attached states.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Jakub Narebski pointed out the positional notation in git-remote's
documentation was very confusing, especially now that we have 3
supported subcommands. Instead of referring to subcommands by
position, refer to them by name.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I was reading the tutorial and noticed that we say this:
Also, don't use "git reset" on a publicly-visible branch that
other developers pull from, as git will be confused by history
that disappears in this way.
I do not think this is a good explanation. For example, if we
do this:
(1) I build a series and push it out.
---o---o---o---j
(2) Alice clones from me, and builds two commits on top of it.
---o---o---o---j---a---a
(3) I rewind one and build a few, and push them out.
---o---o---o...j
\
h---h---h---h
(4) Alice pulls from me again:
---o---o---o---j---a---a---*
\ /
h---h---h---h
Contrary to the description, git will happily have Alice merge
between the two branches, and never gets confused.
Maybe I did not want to have 'j' because it was an incomplete
solution to some problem, and Alice may have fixed it up with
her changes, while I abandoned that approach I started with 'j',
and worked on something completely unrelated in the four 'h'
commits. In such a case, the merge Alice would make would be
very sensible, and after she makes the merge if I pull from her,
the world will be perfect. I started something with 'j' and
dropped the ball, Alice picked it up and perfected it while I
went on to work on something else with 'h'. This would be a
perfect example of distributed parallel collaboration. There is
nothing confused about it.
The case the rewinding becomes problematic is if the work done
in 'h' tries to solve the same problem as 'j' tried to solve in
a different way. Then the merge forced on Alice would make her
pick between my previous attempt with her fixups (j+a) and my
second attempt (h). If 'a' commits were to fix up what 'j'
started, presumably Alice already studied and knows enough about
the problem so she should be able to make an informed decision
to pick between what 'j+a' and 'h' do.
A lot worse case is if Alice's work is not at all related to
what 'j' wanted to do (she did not mean to pick up from where I
left off -- she just wanted to work on something different).
Then she would not be familiar enough with what 'j' and 'h'
tried to achieve, and I'd be forcing her to pick between the
two. Of course if she can make the right decision, then again
that is a perfect example of distributed collaboration, but that
does not change the fact that I'd be forcing her to clean up my
mess.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The default post-commit hook is actually empty; it is the update hook
that sends an email. This patch corrects hooks.txt to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since it can be annoying to manually cleanup 40 tracking branches
which were removed by the remote system, 'git remote prune <n>'
can now be used to delete any tracking branches under <n> which
are no longer available on the remote system.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Those new messages are certainly nice, but there might be cases where
they are simply unwelcome, like when git-commit is used within scripts.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It does not seem to need it either and gives an error on FC5 I use
at kernel.org to cut documentation tarballs, so remove it in the
meantime.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is in the hope of giving JBF's user-manual wider exposure.
I am not very happy with trailing whitespaces in the new
document, but let's not worry too much about the formatting
issues for now, but concentrate more on the structure and the
contents.
I'd like complete gitweb setup instructions some day, but for now just
refer to the gitweb README.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Document Junio's show-branch trick for finding out which tags are
descendents of a given comit.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
I still really want a section on interoperability with CVS, subversion,
etc., but I'm not getting around to it very fast, so just add this to
the TODO section for now. And a few other minor todo updates.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Add a brief discussion of reflogs. Also recovery of dangling commits
seems to fit in here, so move some of the discussion out of Linus's
email to here.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Direct editing of config files may be more natural for users than using
the git-config commandline; but we should still reference the
git-config man page when we describe such editing, so people know where
to go for details on the config file syntax and meanings of the
variables.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Looks like we're going to allow git-config as the preferred alias to
git-repo-config, so let's document that instead.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Initial import of fsck and dangling objects discussion, mostly lifted from
an email from Linus.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Love it or hate it, some people actually still program in Tcl. Some
of those programs are meant for interfacing with Git. Programs such as
gitk and git-gui. It may be useful to have Tcl-safe output available
from for-each-ref, just like shell, Perl and Python already enjoy.
Thanks to Sergey Vlasov for pointing out the horrible flaws in the
first and second version of this patch, and steering me in the right
direction for Tcl value quoting.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* The description of valid colour specifications was rather
incomplete, so fix it so that it actually describes colour specs as
accepted by color_parse().
* The list of colour items allowed in color.diff.BLAH was missing the
`commit' and `whitespace' entries.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I did this:
$ git tag -s test-sign
gpg: skipped "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>": secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
failed to sign the tag with GPG.
The problem is that I have used the comment field in my key's UID
definition.
$ gpg --list-keys andy
pub 1024D/4F712F6D 2003-08-14
uid Andy Parkins (Google) <andyparkins@gmail.com>
So when git-tag looks for "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>";
obviously it's not going to be found.
There shouldn't be a requirement that I use the same form of my name in
my git repository and my gpg key - I might want to be formal (Andrew) in
my gpg key and informal (Andy) in the repository. Further I might have
multiple keys in my keyring, and might want to use one that doesn't
match up with the address I use in commit messages.
This patch adds a configuration entry "user.signingkey" which, if
present, will be passed to the "-u" switch for gpg, allowing the tag
signing key to be overridden. If the entry is not present, the fallback
is the original method, which means existing behaviour will continue
untouched.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Keep git remote discussion in the first chapter, but postpone
lower-level git fetch usage (to fetch individual branches) till later.
Import a bunch of slightly modified text from the readme to give an
architectural overview at the end.
Add more discussion of history rewriting.
And a bunch of other miscellaneous changes....
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Document the recommended way to prime a repository with tons of
references with 'pack-refs --all -prune'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This introduces the config item remote.<name>.uploadpack to override the
default value (which is "git-upload-pack").
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows transfer.unpackLimit to specify what these two
configuration variables want to set.
We would probably want to deprecate the two separate variables,
as I do not see much point in specifying them independently.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes git-fetch over git native protocol to automatically
decide to keep the downloaded pack if the fetch results in more
than 100 objects, just like receive-pack invoked by git-push
does. This logic is disabled when --keep is explicitly given
from the command line, so that a very small clone still keeps
the downloaded pack as before.
The 100 threshold can be adjusted with fetch.unpacklimit
configuration. We might want to introduce transfer.unpacklimit
to consolidate the two unpacklimit variables, which will be a
topic for the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Just some option name disambiguation. This is the counter part to
commit d23842fd which made a similar change for push and send-pack.
--exec continues to work.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We used to get the following confusing error message:
$ git commit --amend -a -m foo
Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F
This is because --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F, which makes
sense, because they try to handle the same log message in different ways.
So update the documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Contrary to variable values, in subsection names parsing character
escape codes (besides literal escaping of " as \", and \ as \\)
is not performed; subsection name cannot contain newlines.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A short-hand "-g" for "git log --walk-reflogs" and "git
show-branch --reflog" makes it easier to access the reflog
info.
[jc: added -g to show-branch for symmetry]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Separate part of Documentation/config.txt which deals with git config file
syntax into "Syntax" subsection, and expand it. Add information about
subsections, boolean values, escaping and escape sequences in string
values, and continuing variable value on the next line.
Add also proxy settings to config file example to show example of
partially enclosed in double quotes string value.
Parts based on comments by Junio C Hamano, Johannes Schindelin,
config.c, and the smb.conf(5) man page.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-prune is not safe when run uncontrolled in parallel while
other git operations are creating new objects. To avoid
mistakes, do not run git-prune by default from git-gc.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This reverts commit 9b088c4e39.
Protecting 'mature' objects does not make it any safer. We should
admit that git-prune is inherently unsafe when run in parallel with
other operations without involving unwarranted locking overhead,
and with the latest git, even rebase and reset would not immediately
create crufts anyway.
Marco Candrian noticed that one cat-file example refers to a
blob object that is never used in the example sequence.
The bug is interesting in that the output from the botched
sample command is consistent with the incorrect blob object
name ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It appears git-gc will no longer prune automatically, so we don't
need to tell people not to do other stuff while running it.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Since references may be packed, it's no longer as helpful to
introduce references as paths relative to .git.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The option --reverse reverses the order of the commits.
[jc: with comments on rev_info.reverse from Simon 'corecode' Schubert.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This option gives grace period to objects that are unreachable
from the refs from getting pruned.
The default value is 24 hours and may be changed using
gc.prunegrace.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the output so the list at the top shows the reflog
message, along with their relative timestamps.
You can use --reflog=<n> to show <n> most recent log entries, or
use --reflog=<n>,<b> to show <n> entries going back from the
entry <b>. <b> can be either a number (so --reflog=4,20 shows 4
records starting from @{20}) or a timestamp (e.g. --reflog='4,1 day').
Here is a sample output (with --list option):
$ git show-branch --reflog=10 --list jc/show-reflog
[jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref
[jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^
[jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho
[jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho
[jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
[jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
[jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
[jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow retrievi
[jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4
[jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: use
This shows what I did more cleanly:
$ git show-branch --reflog=10 jc/show-reflog
! [jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref
! [jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^
! [jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog:
! [jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog:
! [jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_
! [jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read
! [jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend rea
! [jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow
! [jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4
! [jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --r
----------
+ [jc/show-reflog@{0}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
+ [jc/show-reflog@{2}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
+++ [jc/show-reflog@{1}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
+++++ [jc/show-reflog@{4}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
+ [jc/show-reflog@{5}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
+ [jc/show-reflog@{6}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
+ [jc/show-reflog@{7}] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the r
+ [jc/show-reflog@{9}] show-branch --reflog: use updated rea
+ [jc/show-reflog@{9}^] read_ref_at(): allow reporting the c
+ [jc/show-reflog@{9}~2] show-branch --reflog: show the refl
+ [jc/show-reflog@{9}~3] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the
++++++++++ [jc/show-reflog@{8}] dwim_ref(): Separate name-to-ref DWIM
At @{9}, I had a commit to complete 5 patch series, but I wanted
to consolidate two commits that enhances read_ref_at() into one
(they were @{9}^ and @{9}~3), and another two that touch show-branch
into one (@{9} and @{9}~2).
I first saved them with "format-patch -4", and then did a reset
at @{8}. At @{7}, I applied one of them with "am", and then
used "git-apply" on the other one, and amended the commit at
@{6} (so @{6} and @{7} has the same parent). I did not like the
log message, so I amended again at @{5}.
Then I cherry-picked @{9}~2 to create @{3} (the log message
shows that it needs to learn to set GIT_REFLOG_ACTION -- it uses
"git-commit" and the log entry is attributed for it). Another
cherry-pick built @{2} out of @{9}, but what I wanted to do was
to squash these two into one, so I did a "reset HEAD^" at @{1}
and then made the final commit by amending what was at the top.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For now it's just to get a more descriptive name. Later we might update the
push protocol to run more than one program on the other end. Moreover this
matches better the corresponding config option remote.<name>. receivepack.
--exec continues to work
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Having to specify git push --exec=... is annoying if you cannot have
git-receivepack in your PATH on the remote side (or don't want to).
This introduces the config item remote.<name>.receivepack to override
the default value (which is "git-receive-pack").
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
add all supported options to Documentation/git-....txt and the usage strings.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds two new classes (pure-helpers and "Interacting with
Others") to the command list in the main manual page. The
latter class is primarily about foreign SCM interface and is
placed before low-level (plumbing) commands.
Also it promotes a handful commands to mainporcelain category
while demoting some others.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This moves the source of the list of commands and categorization
to the end of Documentation/cmd-list.perl, so that re-categorization
and re-ordering would become easier to manage.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Editors often give easier handling of patch files if the
filename ends with .patch, so use it instead of .txt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This teaches "git-format-patch" to honor the --max-count
parameter revision traversal machinery takes, so that you can
say "git-format-patch -3" to process the three topmost commits
from the current HEAD (or "git-format-patch -2 topic" to name a
specific branch).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The revision specification syntax (sometimes referred to as
SHA1-expressions) is accepted almost everywhere in Git by
almost every tool. Unfortunately it is only documented in
git-rev-parse.txt, and most users don't know to look there.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In ab2a1a32 Junio improved the reflog query logic to support
obtaining the n-th prior value of a ref, but this was never
documented in git-rev-parse. Now it is.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of keeping the confused end user reading low-level
documentation, suggest the higher level commands that implement
what the user may want to do using them upfront.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Current README content is way too esoteric for someone looking at GIT
for the first time. Instead it should provide a quick summary of what
GIT is with a few pointers to other resources.
The bulk of the previous README content is moved to
Documentation/core-intro.txt.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The default can also be changed with "format.suffix" configuration.
Leaving it empty would not add any suffix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add discussion section to git-checkout documentation and mention
detached HEAD in repository-layout document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Promiscous pull shows the distributed nature of git better.
* Add a new step after that to teach "remote add".
* Highlight that with the shorthand defined you will get
remote tracking branches for free.
* Fix Alice's workflow.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The text is just copied from git-send-pack.txt.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K,Av(Bnig <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead, we complain to the user and suggest that they explicitly
specify the remote and branch. We depend on the exit status of
git-symbolic-ref, so let's go ahead and document that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When we are on a detached HEAD, there is no current branch.
There is no reason to leak the error messages to the end user
since this is a situation we expect to see.
This adds -q option to git-symbolic-ref to exit without issuing
an error message if the given name is not a symbolic ref.
By the way, with or without this patch, there currently is no
good way to tell failure modes between "git symbolic-ref HAED"
and "git symbolic-ref HEAD". Both says "is not a symbolic ref".
We may want to do something about it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We've squelched output from merge-recursive, and git-merge when
used with recursive does not attempt the trivial one first
anymore, so there won't be "Trying ... Nope." messages now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
My prior version of git-describe ran very slowly on even reasonably
sized projects like git.git and linux.git as it tended to identify
a large number of possible tags and then needed to generate the
revision list for each of those tags to sort them and select the
best tag to describe the input commit.
All we really need is the number of commits in the input revision
which are not in the tag. We can generate these counts during
the revision walking and tag matching loop by assigning a color to
each tag and coloring the commits as we walk them. This limits us
to identifying no more than 26 possible tags, as there is limited
space available within the flags field of struct commit.
The limitation of 26 possible tags is hopefully not going to be a
problem in real usage, as most projects won't create 26 maintenance
releases and merge them back into a development trunk after the
development trunk was tagged with a release candidate tag. If that
does occur git-describe will start to revert to its old behavior of
using the newer maintenance release tag to describe the development
trunk, rather than the development trunk's own tag. The suggested
workaround would be to retag the development trunk's tip.
However since even 26 possible tags can take a while to generate a
description for on some projects I'm defaulting the limit to 10 but
offering the user --candidates to increase the number of possible
matches if they need a more accurate result. I specifically chose
10 for the default as it seems unlikely projects will have more
than 10 maintenance releases merged into a development trunk before
retagging the development trunk, and it seems to perform about the
same on linux.git as v1.4.4.4 git-describe.
A large amount of debugging information was also added during
the development of this change, so I've left it in to be toggled
on with --debug. It may be useful to the end user to help them
understand why git-describe took one particular tag over another.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
1) talk about "git merge" instead of "git pull ."
2) suggest "git repo-config" instead of directly editing config files
3) echo "URL: blah" > .git/remotes/foo is obsolete and should be
"git repo-config remote.foo.url blah"
4) support for partial URL prefix has been removed (see commit
ea560e6d64) so drop mention of it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We say "this shows only the most often used ones"; so instead of
teaching --max-number=<n> form, list -<n> form which is much
easier to type.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
> I think the output from merge-recursive can be categorized into 5
> verbosity levels:
>
> 1. "CONFLICT", "Rename", "Adding here instead due to D/F conflict"
> (outermost)
>
> 2. "Auto-merged successfully" (outermost)
>
> 3. The first "Merging X with Y".
>
> 4. outermost "Merging:\ntitle1\ntitle2".
>
> 5. outermost "found N common ancestors\nancestor1\nancestor2\n..."
> and anything from inner merge.
>
> I would prefer the default verbosity level to be 2 (that is, show
> both 1 and 2).
and this change makes it so. I think level 3 is probably pointless
as its only one line of output above level 2, but I can see how some
users may want to view it but not view the slightly more verbose
output of level 4.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Steven Grimm noticed that git-repack's verbosity is inconsistent
because pack-objects is chatty and prune-packed is not. This
makes the latter a bit more chatty and gives -q option to
squelch it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While 'init-db' still is and probably will always remain a valid git
command for obvious backward compatibility reasons, it would be a good
idea to move shipped tools and docs to using 'init' instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Despite what the documentation claims, git-commit does not check commit
for suspicious lines: all hooks are disabled by default,
and the pre-comit hook could be changed to do something else.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
These days, the command does a lot more than just initialise the
object database (such as setting default config-variables,
installing template hooks...), and "git init" is actually a more
sensible name nowadays.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Correct command line examples of repo-config, format-patch and am.
A full object name is 40-hexdigit; it may be 20-byte but
20-digit is misleading.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Oops. Commit 515377ea9e missed one
file, git-init documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now that git-svn requires the SVN::* Perl library, the manpage doesn't need
to describe what happens when you don't have it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since we are talking about allowing potentially incompatible UI
changes in v1.5.0 iff the change improves the general situation,
I would say why not.
There is --no-utf8 flag to avoid re-coding from botching the log
message just in case, but we may not even need it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes the earlier "wait for 10 minutes before importing" safety
overridable with "-a(ll)" flag, and adds necessary documentation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also, document --{trunk,branches,tags} options while we're
documenting multi-init options.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Clarify definition of "reachable" (what chain?)
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add discussion of git-rebase, patch series, history rewriting.
Mention "pull ." as a synonym for "merge".
Remind myself of another case I want to cover in the other-vcs's chapter.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Add a brief description of the organization to the preface, expand the
final notes/todo's section, in hopes maybe some others will want to
contribute.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Make "init" the equivalent of "init-db". This should make first GIT
impression a little more friendly.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The goals are:
- Readable from beginning to end in order without having read
any other git documentation beforehand.
- Helpful section names and cross-references, so it's not too
hard to skip around some if you need to.
- Organized to allow it to grow much larger (unlike the
tutorials)
It's more liesurely than tutorial.txt, but tries to stay focused on
practical how-to stuff. It adds a discussion of how to resolve merge
conflicts, and partial instructions on setting up and dealing with a
public repository.
I've lifted a little bit from "branching and merging" (e.g., some of the
discussion of history diagrams), and could probably steal more if that's
OK. (Similarly anyone should of course feel free to reuse bits of this
if any parts seem more useful than the whole.)
There's a lot of detail on managing branches and using git-fetch, just
because those are essential even to people needing read-only access
(e.g., kernel testers). I think those sections will be much shorter
once the new "git remote" command and the disconnected checkouts are
taken into account.
I do feel bad about adding yet another piece of documentation, but I we
need something that goes through all the basics in a logical order, and
I wasn't seeing how to grow the tutorials into that.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* sp/mmap: (27 commits)
Spell default packedgitlimit slightly differently
Increase packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} on 64 bit systems.
Update packedGit config option documentation.
mmap: set FD_CLOEXEC for file descriptors we keep open for mmap()
pack-objects: fix use of use_pack().
Fix random segfaults in pack-objects.
Cleanup read_cache_from error handling.
Replace mmap with xmmap, better handling MAP_FAILED.
Release pack windows before reporting out of memory.
Default core.packdGitWindowSize to 1 MiB if NO_MMAP.
Test suite for sliding window mmap implementation.
Create pack_report() as a debugging aid.
Support unmapping windows on 'temporary' packfiles.
Improve error message when packfile mmap fails.
Ensure core.packedGitWindowSize cannot be less than 2 pages.
Load core configuration in git-verify-pack.
Fully activate the sliding window pack access.
Unmap individual windows rather than entire files.
Document why header parsing won't exceed a window.
Loop over pack_windows when inflating/accessing data.
...
Conflicts:
cache.h
pack-check.c
Edit for conciseness.
Add a "Making changes" section header.
When possible, make sure that stuff in text boxes could be entered literally.
(Don't use "..." unless we want a user to type that.)
Move 'commit -a' example into a literal code section, clarify that it finds
modified files automatically.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Clarify that dcommit creates a revision in SVN for every commit
in git. Also, add 'merge' to the rebase vs pull section because
git-merge is now a first-class UI.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds ability to do import "in chunks" (default 1000 revisions),
after each chunk git repo will be repacked. The option -R is used to
change default value of chunk size (or how often repository will
repacked).
Signed-off-by: Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If a branch other than "master" is checked out in the origin repository,
git-clone makes a local copy of that branch rather than the origin's
"master"
branch. This patch describes the actual behavior.
Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If we have a 64 bit address space we can easily afford to commit
a larger amount of virtual address space to pack file access.
So on these platforms we should increase the default settings of
core.packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} to something that will better
handle very large projects.
Thanks to Andy Whitcroft for pointing out that we can safely
increase these defaults on such systems.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Teach how to delete a branch with "git branch -d name".
- Usually a commit has one parent; merge has more.
- Teach "git show" instead of "git cat-file -p".
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Added color.branch and color.branch.<slot> to configuration list.
Style copied from color.status and meanings derived from the code.
Moved the color meanings from color.diff.<slot> to color.branch.<slot>
since the latter comes first alphabetically.
Added --color and --no-color to git-branch's usage and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"Use it with care" is a wrong wording to say "this is purely internal
and you are supposed to know what you are doing if you use this".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update examples, stop using branch named "origin" as an example.
Remove large example of use of remotes; that particular case is
nicely automated by default, so it's not so pressing to explain, and
we can refer to git-repo-config for the details.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update tutorial's discussion of origin branch to reflect new defaults,
and include a brief mention of git-repo-config.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update glossary entry for "origin" to reflect fact that it normally now refers
to a remote repository, not a branch.
Also, warning not to work on remote-tracking branches is no longer necessary
since git doesn't allow that.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix a couple remaining references to the origin branch.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I couldn't think of a really quick way to give all the details, so just refer
readers to the git-repo-config man page instead.
I haven't tested recent cvs import behavior--some time presumably it should be
updated to do something more similar to clone.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Corrected minor typos and documented the new k/m/g suffix for
core.packedGitWindowSize and core.packedGitLimit.
[jc: with a minor markup fix.]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master:
Documentation/config.txt (and repo-config manpage): mark-up fix.
Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes.
Use /dev/null for update hook stdin.
Redirect update hook stdout to stderr.
Remove unnecessary argc parameter from run_command_v.
Automatically detect a bare git repository.
Replace "GIT_DIR" with GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT.
Use PATH_MAX constant for --bare.
Force core.filemode to false on Cygwin.
Fix formatting for urls section of fetch, pull, and push manpages
Fix yet another subtle xdl_merge() bug
i18n: drop "encoding" header in the output after re-coding.
commit-tree: cope with different ways "utf-8" can be spelled.
Move commit reencoding parameter parsing to revision.c
Documentation: minor rewording for git-log and git-show pages.
Documentation: i18n commit log message notes.
t3900: test log --encoding=none
commit re-encoding: fix confusion between no and default conversion.
Sometimes its necessary to supply a value as a power of two in a
configuration parameter. In this case the user may want to use the
standard suffixes such as K, M, or G to indicate that the numerical
value should be multiplied by a constant base before being used.
Shell scripts/etc. can also benefit from this automatic option
parsing with `git repo-config --int`.
[jc: with a couple of test and a slight input tightening]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The line:
[remote "<remote>"]
was getting swallowed up by asciidoc, causing a critical line in the
explanation for how to store the .git/remotes information in .git/config
to go missing from the git-fetch, git-pull, and git-push manpages.
Put all of the examples into delimited blocks to fix this problem and to
make them look nicer.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This finally turns on the sliding window behavior for packfile data
access by mapping limited size windows and chaining them under the
packed_git->windows list.
We consider a given byte offset to be within the window only if there
would be at least 20 bytes (one hash worth of data) accessible after
the requested offset. This range selection relates to the contract
that use_pack() makes with its callers, allowing them to access
one hash or one object header without needing to call use_pack()
for every byte of data obtained.
In the worst case scenario we will map the same page of data twice
into memory: once at the end of one window and once again at the
start of the next window. This duplicate page mapping will happen
only when an object header or a delta base reference is spanned
over the end of a window and is always limited to just one page of
duplication, as no sane operating system will ever have a page size
smaller than a hash.
I am assuming that the possible wasted page of virtual address
space is going to perform faster than the alternatives, which
would be to copy the object header or ref delta into a temporary
buffer prior to parsing, or to check the window range on every byte
during header parsing. We may decide to revisit this decision in
the future since this is just a gut instinct decision and has not
actually been proven out by experimental testing.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Rather than hardcoding the maximum number of bytes which can be
mmapped from pack files we should make this value configurable,
allowing the end user to increase or decrease this limit on a
per-repository basis depending on the size of the repository
and the capabilities of their operating system.
In general users should not need to manually tune such a low-level
setting within the core code, but being able to artifically limit
the number of bytes which we can mmap at once from pack files will
make it easier to craft test cases for the new mmap sliding window
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/utf8:
t3900: test conversion to non UTF-8 as well
Rename t3900 test vector file
UTF-8: introduce i18n.logoutputencoding.
Teach log family --encoding
i18n.logToUTF8: convert commit log message to UTF-8
Move encoding conversion routine out of mailinfo to utf8.c
Conflicts:
commit.c
Junio rightly pointed out that the --reflog-action parameter
was starting to get out of control, as most porcelain code
needed to hand it to other porcelain and plumbing alike to
ensure the reflog contained the top-level user action and
not the lower-level actions it invoked.
At Junio's suggestion we are introducing the new set_reflog_action
function to all shell scripts, allowing them to declare early on
what their default reflog name should be, but this setting only
takes effect if the caller has not already set the GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is plausible for somebody to want to view the commit log in a
different encoding from i18n.commitencoding -- the project's
policy may be UTF-8 and the user may be using a commit message
hook to run iconv to conform to that policy (and either not have
i18n.commitencoding to default to UTF-8 or have it explicitly
set to UTF-8). Even then, Latin-1 may be more convenient for
the usual pager and the terminal the user uses.
The new variable i18n.logoutputencoding is used in preference to
i18n.commitencoding to decide what encoding to recode the log
output in when git-log and friends formats the commit log message.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio asked for a 'git gc' utility which users can execute on a
regular basis to perform basic repository actions such as:
* pack-refs --prune
* reflog expire
* repack -a -d
* prune
* rerere gc
So here is a command which does exactly that. The parameters fed
to reflog's expire subcommand can be chosen by the user by setting
configuration options in .git/config (or ~/.gitconfig), as users may
want different expiration windows for each repository but shouldn't
be bothered to remember what they are all of the time.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Recent "git push" keeps transferred objects packed much more aggressively
than before. Monitoring output from git-count-objects -v for number of
loose objects is not enough to decide when to repack -- having too many
small packs is also a good cue for repacking.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix minor mark-up mistakes and adjust to v1.5.0 BCP, namely:
- use "git add" instead of "git update-index";
- use "git merge" instead of "git pull .";
- use separate remote layout;
- use config instead of remotes/origin file;
Also updates "My typical git day" example since now I have
'next' branch these days.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of just warning, refuse to add otherwise ignored files
by default, and allow it with an -f option.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
One thing many people found confusing about git-add was that a
file whose name matches an ignored pattern could not be added to
the index. With this, such a file can be added by explicitly
spelling its name to git-add.
Fileglobs and recursive behaviour do not add ignored files to
the index. That is, if a pattern '*.o' is in .gitignore, and
two files foo.o, bar/baz.o are in the working tree:
$ git add foo.o
$ git add '*.o'
$ git add bar
Only the first form adds foo.o to the index.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds and uses the install-doc-quick.sh file to
Documentation/, which is usable for people who track either the
'html' or 'man' heads in Junio's repository (prefixed with
'origin/' if cloned locally). You may override this by
specifying DOC_REF in the make environment or in config.mak.
GZ may also be set in the environment (or config.mak) if you
wish to gzip the documentation after installing it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Branch has "-r" for remote branches and "-a" for local and remote.
It seems logical to mirror that in show-branch. Also removes the
dubiously useful "--tags" option (as part of changing the meaning
for "--all").
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This imitates the behaviour of git-commit.
Noticed by Han-Wen Nienhuys.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
