"git difftool" can now run outside a repository.
* js/difftool-no-index:
difftool: allow running outside Git worktrees with --no-index
parse-options: make OPT_ARGUMENT() more useful
difftool: remove obsolete (and misleading) comment
"git cherry-pick --options A..B", after giving control back to the
user to ask help resolving a conflicted step, did not honor the
options it originally received, which has been corrected.
* pw/cherry-pick-continue:
cherry-pick --continue: remember options
cherry-pick: demonstrate option amnesia
sequencer: break some long lines
The message given when "git commit -a <paths>" errors out has been
updated.
* nd/commit-a-with-paths-msg-update:
commit: improve error message in "-a <paths>" case
Code clean-up around a much-less-important-than-it-used-to-be
update_server_info() funtion.
* jk/server-info-rabbit-hole:
update_info_refs(): drop unused force parameter
server-info: drop objdirlen pointer arithmetic
server-info: drop nr_alloc struct member
server-info: use strbuf to read old info/packs file
server-info: simplify cleanup in parse_pack_def()
server-info: fix blind pointer arithmetic
http: simplify parsing of remote objects/info/packs
packfile: fix pack basename computation
midx: check both pack and index names for containment
t5319: drop useless --buffer from cat-file
t5319: fix bogus cat-file argument
pack-revindex: open index if necessary
packfile.h: drop extern from function declarations
Code cleanup.
* jk/unused-params-even-more:
parse_opt_ref_sorting: always use with NONEG flag
pretty: drop unused strbuf from parse_padding_placeholder()
pretty: drop unused "type" parameter in needs_rfc2047_encoding()
parse-options: drop unused ctx parameter from show_gitcomp()
fetch_pack(): drop unused parameters
report_path_error(): drop unused prefix parameter
unpack-trees: drop unused error_type parameters
unpack-trees: drop name_entry from traverse_by_cache_tree()
test-date: drop unused "now" parameter from parse_dates()
update-index: drop unused prefix_length parameter from do_reupdate()
log: drop unused "len" from show_tagger()
log: drop unused rev_info from early output
revision: drop some unused "revs" parameters
Test framework update to more robustly clean up leftover files and
processes after tests are done.
* sg/test-atexit:
t9811-git-p4-label-import: fix pipeline negation
git p4 test: disable '-x' tracing in the p4d watchdog loop
git p4 test: simplify timeout handling
git p4 test: clean up the p4d cleanup functions
git p4 test: use 'test_atexit' to kill p4d and the watchdog process
t0301-credential-cache: use 'test_atexit' to stop the credentials helper
tests: use 'test_atexit' to stop httpd
git-daemon: use 'test_atexit` to stop 'git-daemon'
test-lib: introduce 'test_atexit'
t/lib-git-daemon: make sure to kill the 'git-daemon' process
test-lib: fix interrupt handling with 'dash' and '--verbose-log -x'
The scripted version of "git rebase -i" wrote and rewrote the todo
list many times during a single step of its operation, and the
recent C-rewrite made a faithful conversion of the logic to C. The
implementation has been updated to carry necessary information
around in-core to avoid rewriting the same file over and over
unnecessarily.
* ag/sequencer-reduce-rewriting-todo:
rebase--interactive: move transform_todo_file()
sequencer: use edit_todo_list() in complete_action()
rebase-interactive: rewrite edit_todo_list() to handle the initial edit
rebase-interactive: append_todo_help() changes
rebase-interactive: use todo_list_write_to_file() in edit_todo_list()
sequencer: refactor skip_unnecessary_picks() to work on a todo_list
rebase--interactive: move rearrange_squash_in_todo_file()
rebase--interactive: move sequencer_add_exec_commands()
sequencer: change complete_action() to use the refactored functions
sequencer: make sequencer_make_script() write its script to a strbuf
sequencer: refactor rearrange_squash() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: refactor sequencer_add_exec_commands() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: refactor check_todo_list() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: introduce todo_list_write_to_file()
sequencer: refactor transform_todos() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: remove the 'arg' field from todo_item
sequencer: make the todo_list structure public
sequencer: changes in parse_insn_buffer()
A new hook "post-index-change" is called when the on-disk index
file changes, which can help e.g. a virtualized working tree
implementation.
* bp/post-index-change-hook:
read-cache: add post-index-change hook
"git mergetool" learned to offer Sublime Merge (smerge) as one of
its backends.
* da/smerge:
contrib/completion: add smerge to the mergetool completion candidates
mergetools: add support for smerge (Sublime Merge)
The tests have been updated not to rely on the abbreviated option
names the parse-options API offers, to protect us from an
abbreviated form of an option that used to be unique within the
command getting non-unique when a new option that share the same
prefix is added.
* js/spell-out-options-in-tests:
tests: disallow the use of abbreviated options (by default)
tests (pack-objects): use the full, unabbreviated `--revs` option
tests (status): spell out the `--find-renames` option in full
tests (push): do not abbreviate the `--follow-tags` option
t5531: avoid using an abbreviated option
t7810: do not abbreviate `--no-exclude-standard` nor `--invert-match`
tests (rebase): spell out the `--force-rebase` option
tests (rebase): spell out the `--keep-empty` option
Update our support to format documentation in the CI environment,
either with AsciiDoc ro Asciidoctor.
* sg/asciidoctor-in-ci:
ci: fix AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor stderr check in the documentation build job
ci: stick with Asciidoctor v1.5.8 for now
ci: install Asciidoctor in 'ci/install-dependencies.sh'
Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt: fix formatting
Documentation/technical/api-config.txt: fix formatting
Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt: fix formatting
Dev support update.
* js/check-docs-exe:
check-docs: fix for setups where executables have an extension
check-docs: do not expect guide pages to correspond to commands
check-docs: really look at the documented commands again
docs: do not document the `git remote-testgit` command
docs: move gitremote-helpers into section 7
Clean-up markup in the documentation suite.
* cb/doco-mono:
doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace.
doc/CodingGuidelines: URLs and paths as monospace
Further fixes to "git stash" reimplemented in C.
* js/stash-in-c-pathspec-fix:
stash: pass pathspec as pointer
built-in stash: handle :(glob) pathspecs again
legacy stash: fix "rudimentary backport of -q"
"git stash" rewritten in C.
* ps/stash-in-c: (28 commits)
tests: add a special setup where stash.useBuiltin is off
stash: optionally use the scripted version again
stash: add back the original, scripted `git stash`
stash: convert `stash--helper.c` into `stash.c`
stash: replace all `write-tree` child processes with API calls
stash: optimize `get_untracked_files()` and `check_changes()`
stash: convert save to builtin
stash: make push -q quiet
stash: convert push to builtin
stash: convert create to builtin
stash: convert store to builtin
stash: convert show to builtin
stash: convert list to builtin
stash: convert pop to builtin
stash: convert branch to builtin
stash: convert drop and clear to builtin
stash: convert apply to builtin
stash: mention options in `show` synopsis
stash: add tests for `git stash show` config
stash: rename test cases to be more descriptive
...
dumb-http walker has been updated to share more error recovery
strategy with the normal codepath.
* jk/http-walker-status-fix:
http: use normalize_curl_result() instead of manual conversion
http: normalize curl results for dumb loose and alternates fetches
http: factor out curl result code normalization
"git multi-pack-index verify" did not scale well with the number of
packfiles, which is being improved.
* jh/midx-verify-too-many-packs:
midx: during verify group objects by packfile to speed verification
midx: add progress indicators in multi-pack-index verify
trace2:data: add trace2 data to midx
progress: add sparse mode to force 100% complete message
A corner case bug in the refs API has been corrected.
* jk/refs-double-abort:
refs/files-backend: don't look at an aborted transaction
refs/files-backend: handle packed transaction prepare failure
The completion helper code now pays attention to repository-local
configuration (when available), which allows --list-cmds to honour
a repository specific setting of completion.commands, for example.
* tz/completion:
completion: use __git when calling --list-cmds
completion: fix multiple command removals
t9902: test multiple removals via completion.commands
git: read local config in --list-cmds
Dev support update to make it easier to compare two formatted
results from our documentation.
* ma/doc-diff-doc-vs-doctor-comparison:
doc-diff: add `--cut-header-footer`
doc-diff: support diffing from/to AsciiDoc(tor)
doc-diff: let `render_tree()` take an explicit directory name
Doc: auto-detect changed build flags
"git checkout -f <branch>" while the index has an unmerged path
incorrectly left some paths in an unmerged state, which has been
corrected.
* nd/checkout-f-while-conflicted-fix:
unpack-trees: fix oneway_merge accidentally carry over stage index
"git format-patch" used overwrite an existing patch/cover-letter
file. A new "--no-clobber" option stops it.
* jc/format-patch-error-check:
format-patch: notice failure to open cover letter for writing
builtin/log: downcase the beginning of error messages
A corner-case object name ambiguity while the sequencer machinery
is working (e.g. "rebase -i -x") has been (half) fixed.
* js/get-short-oid-drop-cache:
get_oid(): when an object was not found, try harder
sequencer: move stale comment into correct location
sequencer: improve error message when an OID could not be parsed
rebase -i: demonstrate obscure loose object cache bug
"git init" forgot to read platform-specific repository
configuration, which made Windows port to ignore settings of
core.hidedotfiles, for example.
* js/init-db-update-for-mingw:
mingw: respect core.hidedotfiles = false in git-init again
Error messages given from the http transport have been updated so
that they can be localized.
* js/remote-curl-i18n:
remote-curl: mark all error messages for translation
remote-http transport did not anonymize URLs reported in its error
messages at places.
* js/anonymize-remote-curl-diag:
curl: anonymize URLs in error messages and warnings
Documentation mark-up fixes.
* ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more:
Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces
git-svn.txt: drop escaping '\' that ends up being rendered
git.txt: remove empty line before list continuation
config/fsck.txt: avoid starting line with dash
config/diff.txt: drop spurious backtick
