"git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=<how>" option.
* so/log-diff-merge: (32 commits)
t4013: add tests for --diff-merges=first-parent
doc/git-show: include --diff-merges description
doc/rev-list-options: document --first-parent changes merges format
doc/diff-generate-patch: mention new --diff-merges option
doc/git-log: describe new --diff-merges options
diff-merges: add '--diff-merges=1' as synonym for 'first-parent'
diff-merges: add old mnemonic counterparts to --diff-merges
diff-merges: let new options enable diff without -p
diff-merges: do not imply -p for new options
diff-merges: implement new values for --diff-merges
diff-merges: make -m/-c/--cc explicitly mutually exclusive
diff-merges: refactor opt settings into separate functions
diff-merges: get rid of now empty diff_merges_init_revs()
diff-merges: group diff-merge flags next to each other inside 'rev_info'
diff-merges: split 'ignore_merges' field
diff-merges: fix -m to properly override -c/--cc
t4013: add tests for -m failing to override -c/--cc
t4013: support test_expect_failure through ':failure' magic
diff-merges: revise revs->diff flag handling
diff-merges: handle imply -p on -c/--cc logic for log.c
...
Move description of --diff-merges option from git-log.txt to
diff-options.txt so that it is included in the git-show help.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe all the new --diff-merges options in the git-log.txt and
adopt description of originals accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of the '-L' option for `git log` and `gitk` is almost
the same, but is repeated in both 'git-log.txt' and 'gitk.txt' (the
difference being that 'git-log.txt' lists the option with a space
after '-L', while 'gitk.txt' lists it as stuck and notes that `gitk`
only understands the stuck form).
Reduce duplication by creating a new file, 'line-range-options.txt',
and include it in both files.
To simplify the presentation, only list the stuck form for both
commands, and remove the note about `gitk` only understanding the stuck
form.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, to countermand the implicit "-m" option when the
"--first-parent" option is used with "git log", we added the
"--[no-]diff-merges" option in the jk/log-fp-implies-m topic. To
leave the door open to allow the "--diff-merges" option to take
values that instructs how patches for merge commits should be
computed (e.g. "cc"? "-p against first parent?"), redefine
"--diff-merges" to take non-optional value, and implement "off"
that means the same thing as "--no-diff-merges".
* so/log-diff-merges-opt:
t/t4013: add test for --diff-merges=off
doc/git-log: describe --diff-merges=off
revision: change "--diff-merges" option to require parameter
"git log --first-parent -p" showed patches only for single-parent
commits on the first-parent chain; the "--first-parent" option has
been made to imply "-m". Use "--no-diff-merges" to restore the
previous behaviour to omit patches for merge commits.
* jk/log-fp-implies-m:
doc/git-log: clarify handling of merge commit diffs
doc/git-log: move "-t" into diff-options list
doc/git-log: drop "-r" diff option
doc/git-log: move "Diff Formatting" from rev-list-options
log: enable "-m" automatically with "--first-parent"
revision: add "--no-diff-merges" option to counteract "-m"
log: drop "--cc implies -m" logic
It can be surprising that git-log doesn't show any diff for merge
commits by default. Arguably "--cc" would be a reasonable default, but
it's very expensive (which is why we turn it on for "git show" but not
for "git log"). Let's at least document the current behavior, including
the recent "--first-parent implies -m" case
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-t" option is infrequently used; it doesn't deserve a spot near the
top of the options list. Let's push it down into the diff-options
include, near the definition of --raw.
We'll protect it with a git-log ifdef, since it doesn't make any sense
for non-tree diff commands. Note that this means it also shows up in
git-show, but that's a good thing; it applies equally well there.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This has been the default since 170c04383b (Porcelain level "log" family
should recurse when diffing., 2007-08-27). There's not even a way to
turn it off, so you'd never even want "-r" to override that.
It's not the default for plumbing like diff-tree, of course, but the
option is documented separately there.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our rev-list-options.txt include has a "Diff Formatting" section, but it
is ifndef'd out for all manpages except git-log. And a few bits of the
text are rather out of date.
We say "some of these options are specific to git-rev-list". That's
obviously silly since we (even before this patch) show the content only
for git-log. But moreover, it's not true; each of the listed options is
meaningful for other diff commands.
We also say "...however other diff options may be given. See git-diff-files
for more options." But there's no need to do so; git-log already has a
"Common Diff Options" section which includes diff-options.txt.
So let's move these options over to git-log and put them with the other
diff options, giving a single "diff" section for the git-log
documentation. We'll call it "Diff Formatting" but use the all-caps
top-level header to match its sibling sections. And we'll rewrite the
section intro to remove the useless bits and give a more generic
overview of the section which can be later extended.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `git log` synopsis mentions `<revision range>`, and the description
of this option links to gitrevisions(7), but a nice explanation of
how a revision range can be constructed from individual commits,
optionnally prefixed with `^`, also exists in `rev-list-description.txt`.
Include this description in the man page for `git log`.
Add Asciidoc 'ifdef's to `rev-list-description.txt` so that either `git
rev-list` or `git log` appears in the respective man pages.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add links to the documentation for `git rev-list` and `git diff`
instead of simply mentioning them, to make it easier for readers to reach
these documentation pages. Let's link to `git diff` as this is the
porcelain command, and the rest of the family (`diff-index`, `diff-tree` and
`diff-files`) are mentioned in the "Raw output format" section of the
`git diff` documentation.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--decorate-refs" and "--decorate-refs-exclude" options "git
log" takes have learned a companion configuration variable
log.excludeDecoration that sits at the lowest priority in the
family.
* ds/log-exclude-decoration-config:
log: add log.excludeDecoration config option
log-tree: make ref_filter_match() a helper method
In 'git log', the --decorate-refs-exclude option appends a pattern
to a string_list. This list is used to prevent showing some refs
in the decoration output, or even by --simplify-by-decoration.
Users may want to use their refs space to store utility refs that
should not appear in the decoration output. For example, Scalar [1]
runs a background fetch but places the "new" refs inside the
refs/scalar/hidden/<remote>/* refspace instead of refs/<remote>/*
to avoid updating remote refs when the user is not looking. However,
these "hidden" refs appear during regular 'git log' queries.
A similar idea to use "hidden" refs is under consideration for core
Git [2].
Add the 'log.excludeDecoration' config option so users can exclude
some refs from decorations by default instead of needing to use
--decorate-refs-exclude manually. The config value is multi-valued
much like the command-line option. The documentation is careful to
point out that the config value can be overridden by the
--decorate-refs option, even though --decorate-refs-exclude would
always "win" over --decorate-refs.
Since the 'log.excludeDecoration' takes lower precedence to
--decorate-refs, and --decorate-refs-exclude takes higher
precedence, the struct decoration_filter needed another field.
This led also to new logic in load_ref_decorations() and
ref_filter_match().
There are several tests in t4202-log.sh that test the
--decorate-refs-(include|exclude) options, so these are extended.
Since the expected output is already stored as a file, most tests
could simply replace a "--decorate-refs-exclude" option with an
in-line config setting. Other tests involve the precedence of
the config option compared to command-line options and needed more
modification.
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/77b1da5d3063a2404cd750adfe3bb8be9b6c497d.1585946894.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gister@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option name "--use-mailmap" looks OK, but it becomes awkward
when you have to negate it, i.e. "--no-use-mailmap". I, perhaps
with many other users, always try "--no-mailmap" and become unhappy
to see it fail.
Add an alias "--[no-]mailmap" to remedy this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The line number, regex or offset parameters <start> and <end> in
`git log -L <start>,<end>:<file>`, or the function name regex in
`git log -L :<funcname>:<file>` must exist in the starting
revision, or else the command exits with a fatal error.
This is not obvious in the documentation, so add a note to that
effect.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently the line-log functionality (git log -L) only supports
displaying patch output (`-p | --patch`, its default behavior) and suppressing it
(`-s | --no-patch`). A check was added in the code to that effect in 5314efaea
(line-log: detect unsupported formats, 2019-03-10) but the documentation was not
updated.
Explicitly mention that `-L` implies `-p`, that patch output can be
suppressed using `-s`, and that all other diff formats are not allowed.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The log.mailmap setting may be explicitly set to false, which disables
the mailmap feature implicity. In practice, doing so is equivalent to
always using the previously undocumented --no-use-mailmap option on the
command line.
Accordingly, we document both the existence of --no-use-mailmap as
well as briefly discuss the equivalence of it to log.mailmap=False.
Signed-off-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Display date and time information in a format similar to how people
write dates in other contexts. If the year isn't specified then, the
reader infers the date is given is in the current year.
By not displaying the redundant information, the reader concentrates
on the information that is different. The patch reports relative dates
based on information inferred from the date on the machine running the
git command at the time the command is executed.
While the format is more useful to humans by dropping inferred
information, there is nothing that makes it actually human. If the
'relative' date format wasn't already implemented then using
'relative' would have been appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-log.txt, we have an instance of \--, which is known to sometimes
render badly. This one is even worse than normal though, since ``\-- ''
(with or without that trailing space) appears to be entirely broken,
both in HTML and manpages, both with AsciiDoc (version 8.6.9) and
Asciidoctor (version 1.5.4).
Further down in git-log.txt we have a ``--'', which renders good. In
git-shortlog.txt, we use "\-- " (including the quotes and the space),
which happens to look fairly good. I failed to find any other similar
instances. So all in all, we quote a double-dash in three different
places and do it differently each time, with various degrees of success.
Switch all of these to `--`. This sets the double-dash in monospace and
matches what we usually do with example command line usages and options.
Note that we drop the trailing space as well, since `-- ` does not
render well. These should still be clear enough since just a few lines
above each instance, the space is clearly visible in a longer context.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Commit 1c262bb7b (doc: convert \--option to --option, 2015-05-13)
explains that we used to need to write \--option to play well with older
versions of AsciiDoc, but that we do not support such versions anymore
anyway, and that Asciidoctor literally renders \--.
With [\--], which is used to denote the optional separator between
revisions and paths, Asciidoctor renders the backslash literally.
Change all [\--] to [--]. This changes nothing for AsciiDoc version
8.6.9, but is an improvement for Asciidoctor version 1.5.4.
We use double-dashes in several list entries (\--::). In my testing, it
appears that we do need to use the backslash there, so leave those.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
When `log --decorate` is used, git will decorate commits with all
available refs. While in most cases this may give the desired effect,
under some conditions it can lead to excessively verbose output.
Introduce two command line options, `--decorate-refs=<pattern>` and
`--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>` to allow the user to select which
refs are used in decoration.
When "--decorate-refs=<pattern>" is given, only the refs that match the
pattern are used in decoration. The refs that match the pattern when
"--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>" is given, are never used in
decoration.
These options follow the same convention for mixing negative and
positive patterns across the system, assuming that the inclusive default
is to match all refs available.
(1) if there is no positive pattern given, pretend as if an
inclusive default positive pattern was given;
(2) for each candidate, reject it if it matches no positive
pattern, or if it matches any one of the negative patterns.
The rules for what is considered a match are slightly different from the
rules used elsewhere.
Commands like `log --glob` assume a trailing '/*' when glob chars are
not present in the pattern. This makes it difficult to specify a single
ref. On the other hand, commands like `describe --match --all` allow
specifying exact refs, but do not have the convenience of allowing
"shorthand refs" like 'refs/heads' or 'heads' to refer to
'refs/heads/*'.
The commands introduced in this patch consider a match if:
(a) the pattern contains globs chars,
and regular pattern matching returns a match.
(b) the pattern does not contain glob chars,
and ref '<pattern>' exists, or if ref exists under '<pattern>/'
This allows both behaviours (allowing single refs and shorthand refs)
yet remaining compatible with existent commands.
Helped-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log" learns log.showSignature configuration variable, and a
command line option "--no-show-signature" to countermand it.
* mj/log-show-signature-conf:
log: add log.showSignature configuration variable
log: add "--no-show-signature" command line option
t4202: refactor test
The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
* tr/doc-tt:
doc: change configuration variables format
doc: more consistency in environment variables format
doc: change environment variables format
doc: clearer rule about formatting literals
Users may want to always use "--show-signature" while using git-log and
related commands.
When log.showSignature is set to true, git-log and related commands will
behave as if "--show-signature" was given to them.
Note that this config variable is meant to affect git-log, git-show,
git-whatchanged and git-reflog. Other commands like git-format-patch,
git-rev-list are not to be affected by this config variable.
Signed-off-by: Mehul Jain <mehul.jain2029@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change GIT_* variables that where in italic style to monospaced font
according to the guideline. It was obtained with
perl -pi -e "s/\'(GIT_.*?)\'/\`\1\`/g" *.txt
One of the main purposes is to stick to the CodingGuidelines as possible so
that people writting new documentation by mimicking the existing are more likely
to have it right (even if they didn't read the CodingGuidelines).
Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We forgot to add "git log --decorate=auto" to documentation when we
added the feature back in v2.1.0 timeframe.
* rj/log-decorate-auto:
log: document the --decorate=auto option
Documentation/config.txt does not include the documentation for
log.follow that is in Documentation/git-log.txt. This commit adds the
log.follow documentation to config.txt and also updates the wording to
be consistent with the format that is followed by other boolean
configuration variables.
Signed-off-by: Eric N. Vander Weele <ericvw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
People who work on projects with mostly linear history with frequent
whole file renames may want to always use "git log --follow" when
inspecting the life of the content that live in a single path.
Teach the command to behave as if "--follow" was given from the
command line when log.follow configuration variable is set *and*
there is one (and only one) path on the command line.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old wording was somehow implying that <start> and <end> were not
regular expressions. Also, the common case is to use a plain function
name here so <funcname> makes sense (the fact that it is a regular
expression is documented in line-range-format.txt).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and
"thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can
decide what to do with them later.
- am.keepcr
- core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime
- diff.dirstat .noprefix
- gitcvs.usecrlfattr
- gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime
- pull.twohead
- receive.autogc
- sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- typeset options, commands, and paths in monospace;
- typeset references to sections with emphasis;
- replace some double quotes with proper AsciiDoc quotes (e.g. ``foo'');
- use title case when referring to section headings.
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"--log-size" was added in commit 9fa3465, and the commit message
contained a satisfactory explanation; however, the man page entry
for it did not describe the actual output format, what the output
meant and what the option was meant to be used for.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
blame/log documentation describes -L option as:
-L<start>,<end>
-L:<regex>
<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
* number
* /regex/
* +offset or -offset
* :regex
which is incorrect and confusing since :regex is not one of the valid
forms of <start> or <end>; in fact, it must be -L's lone argument.
Clarify by discussing :<regex> at the same indentation level as "<start>
and <end>...":
-L<start>,<end>
-L:<regex>
<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:
* number
* /regex/
* +offset or -offset
If :<regex> is given in place of <start> and <end> ...
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Standard practice in Git documentation is for each variation of an
option (such as: -p / --porcelain) to be placed on its own line in the
OPTIONS table. The -L option does not follow suit. It cuddles "-L
<start>,<end>:<file>" and "-L :<regex>:<file>", separated by a comma.
This is inconsistent and potentially confusing since the comma
separating them is typeset the same as the comma in "<start>,<end>". Fix
this by placing each variation on its own line.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git show -s" was less discoverable than it should be.
* mm/diff-no-patch-synonym-to-s:
Documentation/git-log.txt: capitalize section names
Documentation: move description of -s, --no-patch to diff-options.txt
Documentation/git-show.txt: include common diff options, like git-log.txt
diff: allow --patch & cie to override -s/--no-patch
diff: allow --no-patch as synonym for -s
t4000-diff-format.sh: modernize style
This is the convention in most other files and even at the beginning of
git-log.txt
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All surrounding examples are typeset as monospaced text. Follow suit.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation and some comments still refer to files in builtin/
as 'builtin-*.[cho]'. Update these to show the correct location.
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/line-log:
git-log(1): remove --full-line-diff description
line-log: fix documentation formatting
log -L: improve comments in process_all_files()
log -L: store the path instead of a diff_filespec
log -L: test merge of parallel modify/rename
t4211: pass -M to 'git log -M -L...' test
log -L: fix overlapping input ranges
log -L: check range set invariants when we look it up
Speed up log -L... -M
log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcname
Implement line-history search (git log -L)
Export rewrite_parents() for 'log -L'
Refactor parse_loc
This option is a remnant of an earlier log -L version, and not
currently implemented. Remove it until (if at all) it is implemented
again.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In its current form, the note talks about separating options from
"branch names" and "refnames" in the same sentence. This is entirely
inaccurate, as <revision range> need not be a set of branch names or
ref names. Rewrite it to use the word "revision range", to be
consistent with the SYNOPSIS.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'<since>..<until>' is misleading, as there are many other forms that
'git log' can accept as an argument. Replace it with <revision range>,
referring to the section "Specifying Ranges" in revisions.txt, and
rewrite the section appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The OPTIONS section lists <since>..<until> as the first item, but this
is inconsistent with the ordering in SYNOPSIS. Move it down until it
appears just before [[--] <path>...].
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
