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Author SHA1 Message Date
Stefan Beller
1b7cb8969c update-index: fix a memleak
`old` is not used outside the loop and would get lost
once we reach the goto.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-22 12:26:31 -07:00
Alex Henrie
9c9b4f2f8b standardize usage info string format
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:

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

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-14 09:32:04 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
697cc8efd9 lockfile.h: extract new header file for the functions in lockfile.c
Move the interface declaration for the functions in lockfile.c from
cache.h to a new file, lockfile.h. Add #includes where necessary (and
remove some redundant includes of cache.h by files that already
include builtin.h).

Move the documentation of the lock_file state diagram from lockfile.c
to the new header file.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:56:14 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
e197c21807 unable_to_lock_die(): rename function from unable_to_lock_index_die()
This function is used for other things besides the index, so rename it
accordingly.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-01 13:38:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
788cef81d4 Merge branch 'nd/split-index'
An experiment to use two files (the base file and incremental
changes relative to it) to represent the index to reduce I/O cost
of rewriting a large index when only small part of the working tree
changes.

* nd/split-index: (32 commits)
  t1700: new tests for split-index mode
  t2104: make sure split index mode is off for the version test
  read-cache: force split index mode with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX
  read-tree: note about dropping split-index mode or index version
  read-tree: force split-index mode off on --index-output
  rev-parse: add --shared-index-path to get shared index path
  update-index --split-index: do not split if $GIT_DIR is read only
  update-index: new options to enable/disable split index mode
  split-index: strip pathname of on-disk replaced entries
  split-index: do not invalidate cache-tree at read time
  split-index: the reading part
  split-index: the writing part
  read-cache: mark updated entries for split index
  read-cache: save deleted entries in split index
  read-cache: mark new entries for split index
  read-cache: split-index mode
  read-cache: save index SHA-1 after reading
  entry.c: update cache_changed if refresh_cache is set in checkout_entry()
  cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on prime_cache_tree()
  cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on cache tree update
  ...
2014-07-16 11:25:40 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
c18b80a0e8 update-index: new options to enable/disable split index mode
If you have a large work tree but only make changes in a subset, then
$GIT_DIR/index's size should be stable after a while. If you change
branches that touch something else, $GIT_DIR/index's size may grow
large that it becomes as slow as the unified index. Do --split-index
again occasionally to force all changes back to the shared index and
keep $GIT_DIR/index small.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 11:49:41 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
078a58e825 read-cache: mark updated entries for split index
The large part of this patch just follows CE_ENTRY_CHANGED
marks. replace_index_entry() is updated to update
split_index->base->cache[] as well so base->cache[] does not reference
to a freed entry.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 11:49:40 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a5400efe29 cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on cache tree invalidation
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 11:49:39 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
782a5ff9ce update-index: be specific what part of the index has changed
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 11:49:38 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
e636a7b4d0 read-cache: be specific what part of the index has changed
cache entry additions, removals and modifications are separated
out. The rest of changes are still in the catch-all flag
SOMETHING_CHANGED, which would be more specific later.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 11:49:38 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
03b8664772 read-cache: new API write_locked_index instead of write_index/write_cache
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13 11:49:10 -07:00
Jeff King
c8e1ee4f2c update-index: fix segfault with missing --cacheinfo argument
Running "git update-index --cacheinfo" without any further
arguments results in a segfault rather than an error
message. Commit ec160ae (update-index: teach --cacheinfo a
new syntax "mode,sha1,path", 2014-03-23) added code to
examine the format of the argument, but forgot to handle the
NULL case.

Returning an error from the parser is enough, since we then
treat it as an old-style "--cacheinfo <mode> <sha1> <path>",
and complain that we have less than 3 arguments to read.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-04 11:02:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ec160ae12b update-index: teach --cacheinfo a new syntax "mode,sha1,path"
The "--cacheinfo" option is unusual in that it takes three option
parameters.  An option with an optional parameter is bad enough.  An
option with multiple parameters is simply insane.

Introduce a new syntax that takes these three things concatenated
together with a comma, which makes the command line syntax more
uniform across subcommands, while retaining the traditional syntax
for backward compatiblity.

If we were designing the "update-index" subcommand from scratch
today, it may probably have made sense to make this option (and
possibly others) a command mode option that does not take any option
parameter (hence no need for arg-help).  But we do not live in such
an ideal world, and as far as I can tell, the command still supports
(and must support) mixed command modes in a single invocation, e.g.

    $ git update-index path1 --add path2 \
        --cacheinfo 100644 $(git hash-object --stdin -w <path3) path3 \
	path4

must make sure path1 is already in the index and update all of these
four paths.  So this is probably as far as we can go to fix this issue
without risking to break people's existing scripts.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-24 10:43:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cbaeafc325 Merge branch 'nd/submodule-pathspec-ending-with-slash'
Allow "git cmd path/", when the 'path' is where a submodule is
bound to the top-level working tree, to match 'path', despite the
extra and unnecessary trailing slash.

* nd/submodule-pathspec-ending-with-slash:
  clean: use cache_name_is_other()
  clean: replace match_pathspec() with dir_path_match()
  pathspec: pass directory indicator to match_pathspec_item()
  match_pathspec: match pathspec "foo/" against directory "foo"
  dir.c: prepare match_pathspec_item for taking more flags
  pathspec: rename match_pathspec_depth() to match_pathspec()
  pathspec: convert some match_pathspec_depth() to dir_path_match()
  pathspec: convert some match_pathspec_depth() to ce_path_match()
2014-02-27 14:01:15 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
429bb40abd pathspec: convert some match_pathspec_depth() to ce_path_match()
This helps reduce the number of match_pathspec_depth() call sites and
show how match_pathspec_depth() is used.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24 14:36:52 -08:00
Karsten Blees
5699d17ee0 read-cache.c: fix memory leaks caused by removed cache entries
When cache_entry structs are removed from index_state.cache, they are not
properly freed. Freeing those entries wasn't possible before because we
couldn't remove them from index_state.name_hash.

Now that we _do_ remove the entries from name_hash, we can also free them.
Add 'free(cache_entry)' to all call sites of name-hash.c::remove_name_hash
in read-cache.c (we could free() directly in remove_name_hash(), but
name-hash.c isn't concerned with cache_entry allocation at all).

Accessing a cache_entry after removing it from the index is now no longer
allowed, as the memory has been freed. The following functions need minor
fixes (typically by copying ce->name before use):
 - builtin/rm.c::cmd_rm
 - builtin/update-index.c::do_reupdate
 - read-cache.c::read_index_unmerged
 - resolve-undo.c::unmerge_index_entry_at

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:04:25 -08:00
Karsten Blees
6bb69077b7 builtin/update-index.c: cleanup update_one
do_reupdate calls update_one with a cache_entry.name, there's no need for
the extra sanitation / normalization that happens in prefix_path.
cmd_update_index calls update_one with an already prefixed path, no need to
prefix_path twice.

Remove the extra prefix_path from update_one. Also remove the now unused
'prefix' and 'prefix_length' parameters.

As of d089eba "setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths in get_pathspec()",
prefix_path uncoditionally returns a copy, even if the passed in path isn't
changed. Lets unconditionally free() the result.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:04:25 -08:00
Karsten Blees
e837af6134 fix 'git update-index --verbose --again' output
'git update-index --verbose' consistently reports paths relative to the
work-tree root. The only exception is the '--again' option, which reports
paths relative to the current working directory.

Change do_reupdate to use non-prefixed paths.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:04:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b02f5aeda6 Merge branch 'jl/submodule-mv'
"git mv A B" when moving a submodule A does "the right thing",
inclusing relocating its working tree and adjusting the paths in
the .gitmodules file.

* jl/submodule-mv: (53 commits)
  rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree
  mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules
  submodule.c: add .gitmodules staging helper functions
  mv: move submodules using a gitfile
  mv: move submodules together with their work trees
  rm: do not set a variable twice without intermediate reading.
  t6131 - skip tests if on case-insensitive file system
  parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntax
  pathspec: support :(glob) syntax
  pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magic
  pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspec
  kill limit_pathspec_to_literal() as it's only used by parse_pathspec()
  parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN
  parse_pathspec: make sure the prefix part is wildcard-free
  rename field "raw" to "_raw" in struct pathspec
  tree-diff: remove the use of pathspec's raw[] in follow-rename codepath
  remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth()
  remove init_pathspec() in favor of parse_pathspec()
  remove diff_tree_{setup,release}_paths
  convert common_prefix() to use struct pathspec
  ...
2013-09-09 14:36:15 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
0fdc2ae512 convert some get_pathspec() calls to parse_pathspec()
These call sites follow the pattern:

   paths = get_pathspec(prefix, argv);
   init_pathspec(&pathspec, paths);

which can be converted into a single parse_pathspec() call.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15 10:56:06 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
64acde94ef move struct pathspec and related functions to pathspec.[ch]
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15 10:56:06 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
9c5e6c802c Convert "struct cache_entry *" to "const ..." wherever possible
I attempted to make index_state->cache[] a "const struct cache_entry **"
to find out how existing entries in index are modified and where. The
question I have is what do we do if we really need to keep track of on-disk
changes in the index. The result is

 - diff-lib.c: setting CE_UPTODATE

 - name-hash.c: setting CE_HASHED

 - preload-index.c, read-cache.c, unpack-trees.c and
   builtin/update-index: obvious

 - entry.c: write_entry() may refresh the checked out entry via
   fill_stat_cache_info(). This causes "non-const struct cache_entry
   *" in builtin/apply.c, builtin/checkout-index.c and
   builtin/checkout.c

 - builtin/ls-files.c: --with-tree changes stagemask and may set
   CE_UPDATE

Of these, write_entry() and its call sites are probably most
interesting because it modifies on-disk info. But this is stat info
and can be retrieved via refresh, at least for porcelain
commands. Other just uses ce_flags for local purposes.

So, keeping track of "dirty" entries is just a matter of setting a
flag in index modification functions exposed by read-cache.c. Except
unpack-trees, the rest of the code base does not do anything funny
behind read-cache's back.

The actual patch is less valueable than the summary above. But if
anyone wants to re-identify the above sites. Applying this patch, then
this:

    diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
    index 430d021..1692891 100644
    --- a/cache.h
    +++ b/cache.h
    @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ static inline unsigned int canon_mode(unsigned int mode)
     #define cache_entry_size(len) (offsetof(struct cache_entry,name) + (len) + 1)

     struct index_state {
    -	struct cache_entry **cache;
    +	const struct cache_entry **cache;
     	unsigned int version;
     	unsigned int cache_nr, cache_alloc, cache_changed;
     	struct string_list *resolve_undo;

will help quickly identify them without bogus warnings.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-09 09:12:48 -07:00
Antoine Pelisse
b04d930bbc update-index: allow "-h" to also display options
Even though "git update-index" was updated to use parse-options
infrastracture some time ago to make it possible to show list of
options with usage_with_options(), "git update-index -h" only shows
the usage.  Detect this case and call usage_with_options() to show
the list of options as well.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-23 23:49:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
10022a6d02 Merge branch 'kb/preload-index-more'
Use preloadindex in more places, which has a nice speedup on systems
with slow stat calls (and even on Linux).

* kb/preload-index-more:
  update-index/diff-index: use core.preloadindex to improve performance
2012-11-20 10:32:10 -08:00
Karsten Blees
7349afd20e update-index/diff-index: use core.preloadindex to improve performance
'update-index --refresh' and 'diff-index' (without --cached) don't honor
the core.preloadindex setting yet. Porcelain commands using these (such as
git [svn] rebase) suffer from this, especially on Windows.

Use read_cache_preload to improve performance.

Additionally, in builtin/diff.c, don't preload index status if we don't
access the working copy (--cached).

Results with msysgit on WebKit repo (2GB in 200k files):

                | update-index | diff-index | rebase
----------------+--------------+------------+---------
msysgit-v1.8.0  |       9.157s |    10.536s | 42.791s
+ preloadindex  |       9.157s |    10.536s | 28.725s
+ this patch    |       2.329s |     2.752s | 15.152s
+ fscache [1]   |       0.731s |     1.171s |  8.877s

[1] https://github.com/kblees/git/tree/kb/fscache-v3

Thanks-to: Albert Krawczyk <pro-logic@optusnet.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-11-02 11:38:29 -04:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
4a4838b46a i18n: update-index: mark parseopt strings for translation
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-22 10:58:29 -07:00
Thomas Gummerer
b60e188c51 Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen field
Strip the name length from the ce_flags field and move it
into its own ce_namelen field in struct cache_entry. This
will both give us a tiny bit of a performance enhancement
when working with long pathnames and is a refactoring for
more readability of the code.

It enhances readability, by making it more clear what
is a flag, and where the length is stored and make it clear
which functions use stages in comparisions and which only
use the length.

It also makes CE_NAMEMASK private, so that users don't
mistakenly write the name length in the flags.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-11 09:42:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
72fd7d82d7 Merge branch 'hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules'
"git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a submodule
used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an equivalent
operation to Porcelain writers.
2012-06-28 15:20:08 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
242f55f612 update-index: allow overwriting existing submodule index entries
In commit e01105 Linus introduced gitlinks to update-index. He explains
that he thinks it is not the right thing to replace a gitlink with
something else.

That commit is from the very first beginnings of submodule support.
Since then we have gotten a lot closer to being able to remove a
submodule without losing its history. This check prevents such a use
case, so I think this assumption has changed.

Additionally in the git add codepath we do not have such a check, so for
consistency reasons I think removing this check is the correct thing to
do.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-11 08:00:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
69dec66b2f update-index: upgrade/downgrade on-disk index version
With the "--index-version <n>" parameter, write the index out in the
specified version.  With this, an index file that is written in newer
format (say v4) can be downgraded to be read by older versions of Git.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-04 09:57:50 -07:00
Jim Meyering
dc4cd76710 plug a few coverity-spotted leaks
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-20 14:27:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c4ce46fc7a index_fd(): turn write_object and format_check arguments into one flag
The "format_check" parameter tucked after the existing parameters is too
ugly an afterthought to live in any reasonable API.

Combine it with the other boolean parameter "write_object" into a single
"flags" parameter.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-09 11:58:19 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
eb9cb55b94 Convert ce_path_match() to use struct pathspec
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-03 14:08:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6e67619d0c Merge branch 'jn/parse-options-extra'
* jn/parse-options-extra:
  update-index: migrate to parse-options API
  setup: save prefix (original cwd relative to toplevel) in startup_info
  parse-options: make resuming easier after PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION
  parse-options: allow git commands to invent new option types
  parse-options: never suppress arghelp if LITERAL_ARGHELP is set
  parse-options: do not infer PARSE_OPT_NOARG from option type
  parse-options: sanity check PARSE_OPT_NOARG flag
  parse-options: move NODASH sanity checks to parse_options_check
  parse-options: clearer reporting of API misuse
  parse-options: Don't call parse_options_check() so much
2010-12-12 21:49:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6758af89e4 Merge branch 'jn/git-cmd-h-bypass-setup'
* jn/git-cmd-h-bypass-setup:
  update-index -h: show usage even with corrupt index
  merge -h: show usage even with corrupt index
  ls-files -h: show usage even with corrupt index
  gc -h: show usage even with broken configuration
  commit/status -h: show usage even with broken configuration
  checkout-index -h: show usage even in an invalid repository
  branch -h: show usage even in an invalid repository

Conflicts:
	builtin/merge.c
2010-12-12 21:49:50 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
309be813c9 update-index: migrate to parse-options API
--refresh and --really-refresh accept flags (like -q) and modify
an error indicator.  It might make sense to make the error
indicator global, but just pass the flags and a pointer to the error
indicator in a struct instead.

--cacheinfo wants 3 arguments.  Use the OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK
extension to grab them and PARSE_OPT_NOARG to disallow the "sticked"
--cacheinfo=foo form.  (The resulting message

	$ git update-index --cacheinfo=foo
	error: option `cacheinfo' takes no value

is unfortunately incorrect.)

--assume-unchanged and --no-assume-unchanged probably should use the
OPT_UYN feature; but use a callback for now so the existing MARK_FLAG
and UNMARK_FLAG values can be used.

--stdin and --index-info are still constrained to be the last argument
(implemented using the OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK extension).

--unresolve and --again consume all arguments that come after them
(also using OPTION_LOWLEVEL_CALLBACK).

The order of options matters.  Each path on the command line is
affected only by the options that come before it.  A custom
argument-parsing loop with parse_options_step() brings that about.

In exchange for all the fuss, we get the usual perks: support for
un-sticked options, better usage error messages, more useful -h
output, and argument parsing code that should be easier to tweak
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-07 14:19:32 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
9c7c27eeab update-index -h: show usage even with corrupt index
When trying to fix up a corrupt repository, one might prefer that
"update-index -h" print an accurate usage message and exit rather
than reading the repository and complaining about the corruption.

[jn: with rewritten log message and tests]

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-22 11:04:54 -07:00
Štěpán Němec
d0bb136630 Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings
The `<file>' argument is optional in both cases (the man pages are
already correct).

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08 12:31:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
81b50f3ce4 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of

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

you get

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

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

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

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

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