The description of the configuration variable is obsolete and
wrong (saying only file content is used), not just incomplete.
It has used the attribute mechanism for a long time.
The documentation of gitattributes mentions the core.autocrlf
configuration variable in its description of crlf attribute.
Refer to the gitattributes documentation from here as well.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a paragraph about the swapped sides in a --merge rebase, which was
otherwise only documented in the sources.
Add a paragraph about the effects of the 'ours' strategy to the -s
description. Also remove the mention of the 'octopus' strategy, which
was copied from the git-merge description but is pointless in a
rebase.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/maint-blank-at-eof:
diff -B: colour whitespace errors
diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line
diff.c: split emit_line() from the first char and the rest of the line
diff.c: shuffling code around
diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end
core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof}
diff --color: color blank-at-eof
diff --whitespace=warn/error: fix blank-at-eof check
diff --whitespace=warn/error: obey blank-at-eof
diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison
apply --whitespace: warn blank but not necessarily empty lines at EOF
apply --whitespace=warn/error: diagnose blank at EOF
apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two
apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly
apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
We parse unhandled.log files for empty_dir statements and make a
best effort attempt to recreate empty directories on fresh
clones and rebase. This should cover the majority of cases
where users work off a single branch or for projects where
branches do not differ in empty directories.
Since this cannot affect "normal" git commands like "checkout"
or "reset", so users switching between branches in a single
working directory should use the new "git svn mkdirs" command
after switching branches.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
* ja/fetch-doc:
Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups
Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files
Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
* jc/receive-pack-auto:
receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info"
gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboase
Make it clear in the docs that the merge takes the tree of HEAD and
ignores everything in the other branches. This should hopefully clear
up confusion, usually caused by the user looking for a strategy that
resolves all conflict hunks in favour of HEAD (which is completely
different and currently not supported).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extra paragraphs should be prefixed with a plus sign.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the new "git var GIT_EDITOR" feature to decide what editor to
use, instead of duplicating its logic elsewhere. This should make
the behavior of commands in edge cases (e.g., editor names with
spaces) a little more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expose the command found by setup_pager() for scripts to use.
Scripts can use this to avoid repeating the logic to look for a
proper pager in each command.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expose the command used by launch_editor() for scripts to use.
This should allow one to avoid searching for a proper editor
separately in each command.
git_editor(void) uses the logic to decide which editor to use
that used to live in launch_editor(). The function returns NULL
if there is no suitable editor; the caller is expected to issue
an error message when appropriate.
launch_editor() uses git_editor() and gives the error message the
same way as before when EDITOR is not set.
"git var GIT_EDITOR" gives the editor name, or an error message
when there is no appropriate one.
"git var -l" gives GIT_EDITOR=name only if there is an
appropriate editor.
Originally-submitted-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current technical documentation for the packfile protocol is both
sparse and incorrect. This documents the fetch-pack/upload-pack and
send-pack/ receive-pack protocols much more fully.
Add documentation from Shawn's upcoming http-protocol docs that is
shared by the packfile protocol. protocol-common.txt describes ABNF
notation amendments, refname rules and the packet line format.
Add documentation on the various capabilities supported by the
upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. protocol-capabilities.txt
describes multi-ack, thin-pack, side-band[-64k], shallow, no-progress,
include-tag, ofs-delta, delete-refs and report-status.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since a0e4639 (filter-branch: fix ref rewriting with
--subdirectory-filter, 2008-08-12) git-filter-branch has done
nearest-ancestor rewriting when using a --subdirectory-filter.
However, that rewriting strategy is also a useful building block in
other tasks. For example, if you want to split out a subset of files
from your history, you would typically call
git filter-branch -- <refs> -- <files>
But this fails for all refs that do not point directly to a commit
that affects <files>, because their referenced commit will not be
rewritten and the ref remains untouched.
The code was already there for the --subdirectory-filter case, so just
introduce an option that enables it independently.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"-p" means "generate patch" in 'git log' and 'git diff', so it's
quite surprising that it means "suppress diffstat" in
'git format-patch'.
Keep the "-p" option for backward compatibility, but add
"--no-stat" as a more intuitive synonym. For backward compatibility
with scripts, we must allow combinations of --stat and --no-stat.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Format git commands and options consistently using back quotes
(i.e. a fixed font in the resulting HTML document).
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To simplify reading the documentation for format-patch, remove the
description of common diff options that are not useful for the
purpose of the command (i.e. "Prepare patches for e-mail submission").
Specifically, this removes the description of the following options:
--raw
-z
--color
--no-color
--color-words
--diff-filter
-S
--pickaxe-all
--pickaxe-regex
-R
--relative
--exit-code
--quiet
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King recently reinstated -p to suppress the default diffstat
(as -p used to work before 68daa64, about 14 months ago).
However, -p is also needed in combination with certain options
(e.g. --stat or --numstat) in order to produce any patch at all.
The documentation does not mention this.
Since the purpose of format-patch is to produce a patch that
can be emailed, it does not make sense that certain combination
of options will suppress the generation of the patch itself.
Therefore:
* Update 'git format-patch' to always generate a patch.
* Since the --name-only, --name-status, and --check suppresses
the generation of the patch, disallow those options,
and remove the description of them in the documentation.
* Remove the reference to -p in the description of -U.
* Remove the descriptions of the options that are synonyms for -p
plus another option (--patch-with-raw and --patch-with-stat).
* While at it, slightly tweak the description of -p itself
to say that it generates "plain patches", so that you can
think of -p as "plain patch" as an mnemonic aid.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the description next to --assume-unchanged because this option is only
useful in a special case of using that option.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach fetch --dry-run as users of "git remote prune" switching to "git fetch
--prune" may expect it. Unfortunately OPT__DRY_RUN() cannot be used as fetch
already uses "-n" for something else.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach fetch to cull stale remote tracking branches after fetching via --prune.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement the configuration skipFetchAll option to allow
certain remotes to be skipped when doing 'git fetch --all' and
'git remote update'. The existing skipDefaultUpdate variable
is still honored (by 'git fetch --all' and 'git remote update').
(If both are set in the configuration file with different values,
the value of the last occurrence will be used.)
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the --multiple option to specify that all arguments are either
groups or remotes. The primary reason for adding this option is
to allow us to re-implement 'git remote update' using fetch.
It would have been nice if this option was not needed, but since
the colon in a refspec is optional, it is in general not possible
to know whether a single, colon-less argument is a remote or a
refspec.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git remote' is meant for managing remotes and 'git fetch' is meant
for actually fetching data from remote repositories. Therefore, it is
not logical that you must use 'git remote update' to fetch from
more than one repository at once.
Add the --all option to 'git fetch', to tell it to attempt to fetch
from all remotes. Also, if --all is not given, the <repository>
argument is allowed to be the name of a group, to allow fetching
from all repositories in the group.
Other options except -v and -q are silently ignored.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This only changes the behavior of "git show-ref -h" without any
other options and arguments.
"show-ref -h" currently is short for "show-ref --head", which
shows all the refs/* and HEAD, as opposed to "show-ref" that
shows all the refs/* and not HEAD.
Does anybody use "show-ref -h"? It was in Linus's original, most
likely only because "it might be handy", not because "the command
should not show the HEAD by default for such and such reasons".
So I think it is okay if "show-ref -h" (but not "show-ref
--head") gives help and exits.
If a current script uses "git show-ref -h" without any other
arguments, it would have to be adapted by changing "-h" to
"--head".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds an asciidoc version of the "Fighting regressions with
git bisect" article that the author wrote for the Linux-Kongress
2009 (http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009).
This paper might be interesting to people who want to learn as much as
possible about "git bisect" from a single document.
The slides of the related presentation are available at:
http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/fighting_regressions_with_git_bisect_christian_couder.pdf
But the Linux Kongress people will not publish this paper online because
they print the papers on their UpTimes magazine
(http://www.lob.de/isbn/978-3-86541-358-1). But they don't take away the
rights of the author (which is very nice), so I have the right to publish
it.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were some differences between t1200 and the gitcore-tutorial. Add
missing tests for manually merging two branches, and use the same
commands in both files.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some repository owners may wish to enable smart HTTP, but disallow
dumb content serving. Disallowing dumb serving might be because
the owners want to rely upon reachability to control which objects
clients may access from the repository, or they just want to
encourage clients to use the more bandwidth efficient transport.
If http.getanyfile is set to false the backend CGI will return with
'403 Forbidden' when an object file is accessed by a dumb client.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-remote-curl backend detects if the remote server supports
the git-receive-pack service, and if so, runs git-send-pack in a
pipe to dump the command and pack data as a single POST request.
The advertisements from the server that were obtained during the
discovery are passed into git-send-pack before the POST request
starts. This permits git-send-pack to operate largely unmodified.
For smaller packs (those under 1 MiB) a HTTP/1.0 POST with a
Content-Length is used, permitting interaction with any server.
The 1 MiB limit is arbitrary, but is sufficent to fit most deltas
created by human authors against text sources with the occasional
small binary file (e.g. few KiB icon image). The configuration
option http.postBuffer can be used to increase (or shink) this
buffer if the default is not sufficient.
For larger packs which cannot be spooled entirely into the helper's
memory space (due to http.postBuffer being too small), the POST
request requires HTTP/1.1 and sets "Transfer-Encoding: chunked".
This permits the client to upload an unknown amount of data in one
HTTP transaction without needing to pregenerate the entire pack
file locally.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the git-http-backend examples, only match git-receive-pack within
/git/.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the git-http-backend documentation, add an example of how to set up
gitweb and git-http-backend on the same URL by using a series of
mod_alias commands.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the git-http-backend documentation, use mod_alias exlusively, instead
of using a combination of mod_alias and mod_rewrite. This makes the
example slightly shorted and a bit more clear.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify some of the git-http-backend documentation, particularly:
* In the Description, state that smart/dumb HTTP fetch and smart HTTP
push are supported, state that authenticated clients allow push, and
remove the note that this is only suited for read-only updates.
* At the start of Examples, state explicitly what URL is mapping to what
location on disk.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new environment variable, GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, to override the
method of using PATH_TRANSLATED to find the git repository on disk.
This makes it much easier to configure the web server, especially when
the web server's DocumentRoot does not contain the git repositories,
which is the usual case.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Requests for $GIT_URL/git-receive-pack and $GIT_URL/git-upload-pack
are forwarded to the corresponding backend process by directly
executing it and leaving stdin and stdout connected to the invoking
web server. Prior to starting the backend process the HTTP response
headers are sent, thereby freeing the backend from needing to know
about the HTTP protocol.
Requests that are encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip are
automatically inflated before being streamed into the backend.
This is primarily useful for the git-upload-pack backend, which
receives highly repetitive text data from clients that easily
compresses to 50% of its original size.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-http-backend CGI can be configured into any Apache server
using ScriptAlias, such as with the following configuration:
LoadModule cgi_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule alias_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
Repositories are accessed via the translated PATH_INFO.
The CGI is backwards compatible with the dumb client, allowing all
older HTTP clients to continue to download repositories which are
managed by the CGI.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we use -c, -C, or --amend, we are trying one of two things: using the
source as a template or modifying a commit with corrections.
When these options are used, the authorship and timestamp recorded in the
newly created commit are always taken from the original commit. This is
inconvenient when we just want to borrow the commit log message or when
our change to the code is so significant that we should take over the
authorship (with the blame for bugs we introduce, of course).
The new --reset-author option is meant to solve this need by regenerating
the timestamp and setting the committer as the new author.
Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduced in 492cf3f (More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev', 2009-10-29)
Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ja/fetch-doc:
Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups
Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files
Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
The remote helper interface now supports the push capability,
which can be used to ask the implementation to push one or more
specs to the remote repository. For remote-curl we implement this
by calling the existing WebDAV based git-http-push executable.
Internally the helper interface uses the push_refs transport hook
so that the complexity of the refspec parsing and matching can be
reused between remote implementations. When possible however the
helper protocol uses source ref name rather than the source SHA-1,
thereby allowing the helper to access this name if it is useful.
>From Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>:
update http tests according to remote-curl capabilities
o Pushing packed refs is now fixed.
o The transport helper fails if refs are already up-to-date. Add
a test for that.
o The transport helper will notice if refs are already
up-to-date. We therefore need to update server info in the
unpacked-refs test.
o The transport helper will purge deleted branches automatically.
o Use a variable ($ORIG_HEAD) instead of full SHA-1 name.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
CC: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some transports, like the native pack transport implemented by
fetch-pack, support useful features like depth or include tags.
These should be exposed if the underlying helper knows how to
use them.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some network protocols (e.g. native git://) are able to fetch more
than one ref at a time and reduce the overall transfer cost by
combining the requests into a single exchange. Instead of feeding
each fetch request one at a time to the helper, feed all of them
at once so the helper can decide whether or not it should batch them.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For convenience in scripts and aliases, add the option
--ff-only to only allow fast-forwards (and up-to-date,
despite the name).
Disallow combining --ff-only and --no-ff, since they
flatly contradict each other.
Allow all other options to be combined with --ff-only
(i.e. do not add any code to handle them specially),
including the following options:
* --strategy (one or more): As long as the chosen merge
strategy results in up-to-date or fast-forward, the
command will succeed.
* --squash: I cannot imagine why anyone would want to
squash commits only if fast-forward is possible, but I
also see no reason why it should not be allowed.
* --message: The message will always be ignored, but I see
no need to explicitly disallow providing a redundant message.
Acknowledgements: I did look at Yuval Kogman's earlier
patch (107768 in gmane), mainly as shortcut to find my
way in the code, but I did not copy anything directly.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also adds a note about why the output in the examples might give
different output today.
Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit b5227d8 changed the behavior of "ls-files" with
respect to includes, but accidentally broke the "-i" option
The original behavior was:
1. if no "-i" is given, cull all results according to --exclude*
2. if "-i" is given, show the inverse of (1)
The broken behavior was:
1. if no "-i" is given:
a. for "-o", cull results according to --exclude*
b. for index files, always show all
2. if "-i" is given:
a. for "-o", shows the inverse of (1a)
b. for index files, always show all
The fixed behavior keeps the new (1b) behavior introduced
by b5227d8, but fixes the (2b) behavior to show only ignored
files, not all files.
This patch also tweaks the documentation. The original text
was somewhat obscure in the first place, but it is also now
inaccurate (the relationship between (1b) and (2b) is not
quite a "reverse").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add p4merge to the set of built-in diff/merge tools, and update
bash completion and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the --dirty option, git describe works on HEAD but append s"-dirty"
iff the contents of the work tree differs from HEAD. E.g.
$ git describe --dirty
v1.6.5-15-gc274db7
$ echo >> Makefile
$ git describe --dirty
v1.6.5-15-gc274db7-dirty
The --dirty option can also be used to specify what is appended, instead
of the default string "-dirty".
$ git describe --dirty=.mod
v1.6.5-15-gc274db7.mod
Many build scripts use `git describe` to produce a version number based on
the description of HEAD (on which the work tree is based) + saying that if
the build contains uncommitted changes. This patch helps the writing of
such scripts since `git describe --dirty` does directly the intended thing.
Three possiblities were considered while discussing this new feature:
1. Describe the work tree by default and describe HEAD only if "HEAD" is
explicitly specified
Pro: does the right thing by default (both for users and for scripts)
Pro: other git commands that works on the work tree by default
Con: breaks existing scripts used by the Linux kernel and other projects
2. Use --worktree instead of --dirty
Pro: does what it says: "git describe --worktree" describes the work tree
Con: other commands do not require a --worktree option when working
on the work tree (it often is the default mode for them)
Con: unusable with an optional value: "git describe --worktree=.mod"
is quite unintuitive.
3. Use --dirty as in this patch
Pro: makes sense to specify an optional value (what the dirty mark is)
Pro: does not have any of the big cons of previous alternatives
* does not break scripts
* is not inconsistent with other git commands
This patch takes the third approach.
Signed-off-by: Jean Privat <jean@pryen.org>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/receive-pack-auto:
receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info"
gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboase
The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'. This does
achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the
apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right
circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages.
Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the
groff_char manpage.
Unfortunately, as Anders Kaseorg kindly pointed out, this is not
portable beyond groff, so we add an extra Makefile variable GNU_ROFF
which you need to enable to get the new quoting.
Thanks also to Miklos Vajna for documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the missing definite article ("the") in several places.
Change "note to..." to "note for...", since "note to" means that
that the note is addressed to someone (source: Google search).
Change "progressbar" to "progress bar" (source: Wikipedia).
Format git commands, options, and file names consistently using
back quotes (i.e. a fixed font in the resulting HTML document).
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce two new configuration variables, receive.autogc (defaults to
true) and receive.updateserverinfo (defaults to false). When these are
set, receive-pack runs "gc --auto --quiet" and "update-server-info"
respectively after it finishes receiving data from "git push" and updating
refs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated
style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and
move the examples to the corresponding manpages.
Furthermore,
- show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a
frequently asked question,
- explain the default fetch refspec.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Linus and other git developers from the early days trained their fingers
to type the command, every once in a while even without thinking, to check
the consistency of the repository back when the lower core part of the git
was still being developed. Developers who wanted to make sure that git
correctly dealt with packfiles could deliberately trigger their creation
and checked them after they were created carefully, but loose objects are
the ones that are written by various commands from random codepaths. It
made some technical sense to have a mode that checked only loose objects
from the debugging point of view for that reason.
Even for git developers, there no longer is any reason to type "git fsck"
every five minutes these days, worried that some newly created objects
might be corrupt due to recent change to git.
The reason we did not make "--full" the default is probably we trust our
filesystems a bit too much. At least, we trusted filesystems more than we
trusted the lower core part of git that was under development.
Once a packfile is created and we always use it read-only, there didn't
seem to be much point in suspecting that the underlying filesystems or
disks may corrupt them in such a way that is not caught by the SHA-1
checksum over the entire packfile and per object checksum. That trust in
the filesystems might have been a good tradeoff between fsck performance
and reliability on platforms git was initially developed on and for, but
it may not be true anymore as we run on many more platforms these days.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you use the option --submodule=log you can see the submodule
summaries inlined in the diff, instead of not-quite-helpful SHA-1 pairs.
The format imitates what "git submodule summary" shows.
To do that, <path>/.git/objects/ is added to the alternate object
databases (if that directory exists).
This option was requested by Jens Lehmann at the GitTogether in Berlin.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git stash list' had an undocumented limit of 10 stashes, unless other
git-log arguments were specified. This surprised at least one user,
but possibly served to cut the output below a screenful without using
a pager.
Since the last commit, 'git stash list' will fire up a pager according
to the same rules as the 'git log' it calls, so we can drop the limit.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add three new --pretty=format escapes:
%gD long reflog descriptor (e.g. refs/stash@{0})
%gd short reflog descriptor (e.g. stash@{0})
%gs reflog message
This is achieved by passing down the reflog info, if any, inside the
pretty_print_context struct.
We use the newly refactored get_reflog_selector(), and give it some
extra functionality to extract a shortened ref. The shortening is
cached inside the commit_reflogs struct; the only allocation of it
happens in read_complete_reflog(), where it is initialised to 0. Also
add another helper get_reflog_message() for the message extraction.
Note that the --format="%h %gD: %gs" tests may not work in real
repositories, as the --pretty formatter doesn't know to leave away the
": " on the last commit in an incomplete (because git-gc removed the
old part) reflog. This equivalence is nevertheless the main goal of
this patch.
Thanks to Jeff King for reviews, the %gd testcase and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a 'notemodify' subcommand of the 'commit' command. This subcommand
is similar to 'filemodify', except that no mode is supplied (all notes have
mode 0644), and the path is set to the hex SHA1 of the given "comittish".
This enables fast import of note objects along with their associated commits,
since the notes can now be named using the mark references of their
corresponding commits.
The patch also includes a test case of the added functionality.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-m" and "-F" options are already the established method
(in both git-commit and git-tag) to specify a commit/tag message
without invoking the editor. This patch teaches "git notes edit"
to respect the same options for specifying a notes message without
invoking the editor.
Multiple "-m" and/or "-F" options are concatenated as separate
paragraphs.
The patch also updates the "git notes" documentation and adds
selftests for the new functionality. Unfortunately, the added
selftests include a couple of lines with trailing whitespace
(without these the test will fail). This may cause git to warn
about "whitespace errors".
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Thomas Rast: fix trailing whitespace in t3301
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The script 'git notes' allows you to edit and show commit notes, by
calling either
git notes show <commit>
or
git notes edit <commit>
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Tor Arne Vestbø: fix printing of multi-line notes
- Michael J Gruber: test and handle empty notes gracefully
- Thomas Rast:
- only clean up message file when editing
- use GIT_EDITOR and core.editor over VISUAL/EDITOR
- t3301: fix confusing quoting in test for valid notes ref
- t3301: use test_must_fail instead of !
- refuse to edit notes outside refs/notes/
- Junio C Hamano: tests: fix "export var=val"
- Christian Couder: documentation: fix 'linkgit' macro in "git-notes.txt"
- Johan Herland: minor cleanup and bugfixing in git-notes.sh (v2)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tavestbo@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit notes are blobs which are shown together with the commit
message. These blobs are taken from the notes ref, which you can
configure by the config variable core.notesRef, which in turn can
be overridden by the environment variable GIT_NOTES_REF.
The notes ref is a branch which contains "files" whose names are
the names of the corresponding commits (i.e. the SHA-1).
The rationale for putting this information into a ref is this: we
want to be able to fetch and possibly union-merge the notes,
maybe even look at the date when a note was introduced, and we
want to store them efficiently together with the other objects.
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Thomas Rast: fix core.notesRef documentation
- Tor Arne Vestbø: fix printing of multi-line notes
- Alex Riesen: Using char array instead of char pointer costs less BSS
- Johan Herland: Plug leak when msg is good, but msglen or type causes return
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tavestbo@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
get_commit_notes(): Plug memory leak when 'if' triggers, but not because of read_sha1_file() failure
* maint:
git push: say that --tag can't be used with --all or --mirror in help text
git push: remove incomplete options list from help text
document push's new quiet option
Makefile: clean block-sha1/ directory instead of mozilla-sha1/
* jc/maint-blank-at-eof:
diff -B: colour whitespace errors
diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line
diff.c: split emit_line() from the first char and the rest of the line
diff.c: shuffling code around
diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end
core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof}
diff --color: color blank-at-eof
diff --whitespace=warn/error: fix blank-at-eof check
diff --whitespace=warn/error: obey blank-at-eof
diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison
apply --whitespace: warn blank but not necessarily empty lines at EOF
apply --whitespace=warn/error: diagnose blank at EOF
apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two
apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly
apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
‘git bisect reset’ accepts an optional argument specifying a branch to
check out after cleaning up the bisection state. This lets you
specify an arbitrary commit.
In particular, this provides a way to clean the bisection state
without moving HEAD: ‘git bisect reset HEAD’. This may be useful if
you are not interested in the state before you began a bisect,
especially if checking out the old commit would be expensive and
invalidate most of your compiled tree.
Clarify the ‘git bisect reset’ documentation to explain this optional
argument, which was previously mentioned only in the usage message.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit dae556b (environment: add global variable to disable replacement)
adds a variable to enable/disable replacement, and it is enabled by
default for most commands.
So there is no way to disable it for some commands, which is annoying
when we want to get information about a commit that has been replaced.
For example:
$ git cat-file -p N
would output information about the replacement commit if commit N is
replaced.
With the "--no-replace-objects" option that this patch adds it is
possible to get information about the original commit using:
$ git --no-replace-objects cat-file -p N
While at it, let's add some documentation about this new option in the
"git replace" man page too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tolerating empty path components in ref names means each ref does
not have a unique name. This creates difficulty for porcelains
that want to see if two branches are equal. Add a helper associating
to each ref a canonical name.
If a user asks a porcelain to create a ref "refs/heads//master",
the porcelain can run "git check-ref-format --print refs/heads//master"
and only deal with "refs/heads/master" from then on.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unless one already knew, it was not obvious what sort of shorthand
"git check-ref-format --branch" expands. Explain it.
The --branch argument is not optional.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When saying the initial branch is equal to the currently active
remote branch, it is probably intended that the branch heads
point to the same commit. Maybe it would be more useful to a
new user to emphasize that the tree contents and history are the
same.
More important, probably, is that this new branch is set up so
that "git pull" merges changes from the corresponding remote
branch. The next paragraph addresses that directly. What the
reader needs to know to begin with is that (1) the initial branch
is your own; if you do not pull, it won't get updated, and that
(2) the initial branch starts out at the same commit as the
upstream.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Idealists may want USE_NSEC to be the default on Linux some day.
Point to a patch to better explain the requirements on
filesystem code for that to happen.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not necessarily obvious to a git novice what it means for a
filesystem tree to be equal to the HEAD. Spell it out.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation seems to assume that the starting point for a new
branch is the tip of an existing (ordinary) branch, but that is not
the most common case. More often, "git branch" is used to begin
a branch from a remote-tracking branch, a tag, or an interesting
commit (e.g. origin/pu^2). Clarify the language so it can apply
to these cases. Thanks to Sean Estabrooks for the wording.
Also add a pointer to the user's manual for the bewildered.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the documentation for --merged and --no-merged to explain
the meaning of the optional parameter introduced in commit 049716b
(branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit,
2008-07-08).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sounds better this way, at least to my ears. ("The syntax and
supported options of git merge" is a plural noun. "the same"
instead of "equal" sounds less technical and seems to convey
the meaning better here.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fmt-merge-message builtin can be invoked as "git fmt-merge-msg" rather
than through the hard link in GIT_EXEC_PATH. Although this is unlikely to
confuse most script writers, it should not hurt to make the documentation
a little clearer anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it easier to edit just the commit message for a commit
using 'git rebase -i' by introducing the "reword" command.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches the "pretty" machinery to expand '%+x' to a LF followed by
the expansion of '%x' if and only if '%x' expands to a non-empty string,
and to remove LFs before '%-x' if '%x' expands to an empty string. This
works for any supported expansion placeholder 'x'.
This is expected to be immediately useful to reproduce the commit log
message with "%s%+b%n"; "%s%n%b%n" adds one extra LF if the log message is
a one-liner.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Translate some english words to portuguese and fix some
typos on translation.
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The default --aggressive window has been 250 since 1c192f34 "gc
--aggressive: make it really aggressive", released in git v1.6.3.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
A sample "git describe -h" did not match what the program actually says.
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When <path> is not given, use the "humanish" part of the source repository
instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'jc/maint-1.6.0-blank-at-eof' (early part):
diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end
core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof}
diff --color: color blank-at-eof
diff --whitespace=warn/error: fix blank-at-eof check
diff --whitespace=warn/error: obey blank-at-eof
diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison
apply --whitespace: warn blank but not necessarily empty lines at EOF
apply --whitespace=warn/error: diagnose blank at EOF
apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two
apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly
apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
A command line
$ git archive -o my-v2.0.zip v2.0
almost certainly wants the output in zip format, even though it does not
specify any --format option.
When --format is not given, but output filename is, try to infer what
format is requested from the filename extension. Currently this code only
knows about '.zip'. When the format is unspecified and the filename does
not tell us, the output will be in 'tar' format as before.
Of course, an explicit --format will not trigger this guesswork.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The '-o' option is commonly used in many tools to specify the output file.
Typing '--output' every time is a bit too long to be a practical alternative
to redirecting output. But specifying the output name has the advantage of
making possible to guess the desired output format by filename extension.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-push is not currently using -n for anything else, and it seems
unlikely we will want to use it to mean anything else in the future,
so add it as an alias for convenience.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
60c2993 (Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-run, 2009-08-15)
wanted to update the documentation to say that "git status" is not the
same as "git commit --dry-run" anymore, but it screwed up and also added
the description of --dry-run that was already present.
Noticed by Johannes Gilger.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* db/vcs-helper:
Makefile: remove remnant of separate http/https/ftp helpers
Use a clearer style to issue commands to remote helpers
Make the "traditionally-supported" URLs a special case
Makefile: install hardlinks for git-remote-<scheme> supported by libcurl if possible
Makefile: do not link three copies of git-remote-* programs
Makefile: git-http-fetch does not need expat
http-fetch: Fix Makefile dependancies
Add transport native helper executables to .gitignore
git-http-fetch: not a builtin
Use an external program to implement fetching with curl
Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
These messages are nice for new users, but experienced git
users know how to manipulate the index, and these messages
waste a lot of screen real estate.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This message is designed to help new users understand what
has happened when refs fail to push. However, it does not
help experienced users at all, and significantly clutters
the output, frequently dwarfing the regular status table and
making it harder to see.
This patch introduces a general configuration mechanism for
optional messages, with this push message as the first
example.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
