"git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries the
user has in its output.
* lb/status-stash-count:
glossary: define 'stash entry'
status: add optional stash count information
stash: update documentation to use 'stash entry'
Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of
a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which
would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We
learned to give warnings when this happens.
* jk/warn-add-gitlink:
t: move "git add submodule" into test blocks
add: warn when adding an embedded repository
An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree
configuration has been corrected.
* ah/doc-gitattributes-empty-index:
doc: do not use `rm .git/index` when normalizing line endings
The manual correctly describes the syntax with `auto,` but the
trailing `,` is hard to spot in a terminal. The HTML format does not
have this problem. Adding an example helps both worlds.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach pull to optionally update submodules when '--recurse-submodules'
is provided. This will teach pull to run 'submodule update --rebase'
when the '--recurse-submodules' and '--rebase' flags are given under
specific circumstances.
On a rebase workflow:
=====================
1. Both sides change the submodule
------------------------------
Let's assume the following history in a submodule:
H---I---J---K---L local branch
\
M---N---O---P remote branch
and the following in the superproject (recorded submodule in parens):
A(H)---B(I)---F(K)---G(L) local branch
\
C(N)---D(N)---E(P) remote branch
In an ideal world this would rebase the submodule and rewrite
the submodule pointers that the superproject points at such that
the superproject looks like
A(H)---B(I) F(K')---G(L') rebased branch
\ /
C(N)---D(N)---E(P) remote branch
and the submodule as:
J---K---L (old dangeling tip)
/
H---I J'---K'---L' rebased branch
\ /
M---N---O---P remote branch
And if a conflict arises in the submodule the superproject rebase
would stop at that commit at which the submodule conflict occurs.
Currently a "pull --rebase" in the superproject produces
a merge conflict as the submodule pointer changes are
conflicting and cannot be resolved.
2. Local submodule changes only
-----------------------
Assuming histories as above, except that the remote branch
would not contain submodule changes, then a result as
A(H)---B(I) F(K)---G(L) rebased branch
\ /
C(I)---D(I)---E(I) remote branch
is desire-able. This is what currently happens in rebase.
If the recursive flag is given, the ideal git would
produce a superproject as:
A(H)---B(I) F(K')---G(L') rebased branch (incl. sub rebase!)
\ /
C(I)---D(I)---E(I) remote branch
and the submodule as:
J---K---L (old dangeling tip)
/
H---I J'---K'---L' locally rebased branch
\ /
M---N---O---P advanced branch
This patch doesn't address this issue, however
a test is added that this fails up front.
3. Remote submodule changes only
----------------------
Assuming histories as in (1) except that the local superproject branch
would not have touched the submodule the rebase already works out in the
superproject with no conflicts:
A(H)---B(I) F(P)---G(P) rebased branch (no sub changes)
\ /
C(N)---D(N)---E(P) remote branch
The recurse flag as presented in this patch would additionally
update the submodule as:
H---I J'---K'---L' rebased branch
\ /
M---N---O---P remote branch
As neither J, K, L nor J', K', L' are referred to from the superproject,
no rewriting of the superproject commits is required.
Conclusion for 'pull --rebase --recursive'
-----------------------------------------
If there are no local superproject changes it is sufficient to call
"submodule update --rebase" as this produces the desired results. In case
of conflicts, the behavior is the same as in 'submodule update --recursive'
which is assumed to be sane.
This patch implements (3) only.
On a merge workflow:
====================
We'll start off with the same underlying DAG as in (1) in the rebase
workflow. So in an ideal world a 'pull --merge --recursive' would
produce this:
H---I---J---K---L----X
\ /
M---N---O---P
with X as the new merge-commit in the submodule and the superproject
as:
A(H)---B(I)---F(K)---G(L)---Y(X)
\ /
C(N)---D(N)---E(P)
However modifying the submodules on the fly is not supported in git-merge
such that Y(X) is not easy to produce in a single patch. In fact git-merge
doesn't know about submodules at all.
However when at least one side does not contain commits touching the
submodule at all, then we do not need to perform the merge for the
submodule but a fast-forward can be done via checking out either L or P
in the submodule. This strategy is implemented in 68d03e4a6e (Implement
automatic fast-forward merge for submodules, 2010-07-07) already, so
to align with the rebase behavior we need to also update the worktree
of the submodule.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch aims to detangle (a) the usage of `git-submodule`
from (b) the concept of submodules and (c) how the actual
implementation looks like, such as where they are configured
and (d) what the best practices are.
To do so, move the conceptual parts of the 'git-submodule'
man page to a new man page gitsubmodules(7). This new page
is just like gitmodules(5), gitattributes(5), gitcredentials(7),
gitnamespaces(7), gittutorial(7), which introduce a concept
rather than explaining a specific command.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As there is no portable way to pass timezone information to
strftime, some output format from "git log" and friends are
impossible to produce. Teach our own strbuf_addftime to replace %z
and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this.
* rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ:
date: use localtime() for "-local" time formats
t0006: check --date=format zone offsets
strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself
"fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent
with other parts of the system.
* mh/fast-import-raise-default-depth:
fast-import: increase the default pack depth to 50
"filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used
to define a common function/variable that can be used by other
filters.
* ah/filter-branch-setup:
filter-branch: add [--] to usage
filter-branch: add `--setup` step
The "add" section for 'git-submodule' is redundant in its
description and the short synopsis line. Fix it.
Remove the redundant mentioning of the 'repository' argument
being mandatory.
The text is hard to read because of back-references, so remove
those.
Replace the word "humanish" by "canonical" as that conveys better
what we do to guess the path.
While at it, quote all occurrences of '.gitmodules' as that is an
important file in the submodule context, also link to it on its
first mention.
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We bumped the default in be4ca2905 (Increase
core.packedGitLimit, 2017-04-20) but never adjusted the
documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
* ab/pcre-v2:
grep: add support for PCRE v2
grep: un-break building with PCRE >= 8.32 without --enable-jit
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.20
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.32
grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT API
log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp
grep: skip pthreads overhead when using one thread
grep: don't redundantly compile throwaway patterns under threading
Introduce '--show-stash' and its configuration option 'status.showStash'
to allow git-status to show information about currently stashed entries.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the time, a 'stash entry' is called a 'stash'. Lets try to make
this more consistent and use 'stash entry' instead.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no portable way to pass timezone information to strftime. Add
parameters for timezone offset and name to strbuf_addftime and let it
handle the timezone-related format specifiers %z and %Z internally.
Callers can opt out for %Z by passing NULL as timezone name. %z is
always handled internally -- this helps on Windows, where strftime would
expand it to a timezone name (same as %Z), in violation of POSIX.
Modifiers are not handled, e.g. %Ez is still passed to strftime.
Use an empty string as timezone name in show_date (the only current
caller) for now because we only have the timezone offset in non-local
mode. POSIX allows %Z to resolve to an empty string in case of missing
information.
Helped-by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When illustrating how to normalize the line endings, the
documentation in gitattributes tells the user to `rm .git/index`.
This is incorrect for two reasons:
- Users shouldn't be instructed to mess around with the internal
implementation of Git using raw file system tools like `rm`.
- Within a submodule or an additional working tree `.git` is just a
file containing a `gitdir: <path>` pointer into the real `.git`
directory. Therefore `rm .git/index` does not work.
The purpose of the `rm .git/index` instruction is to remove all entries
from the index without touching the working tree. The way to do this
with Git is to use `read-tree --empty`.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's an easy mistake to add a repository inside another
repository, like:
git clone $url
git add .
The resulting entry is a gitlink, but there's no matching
.gitmodules entry. Trying to use "submodule init" (or clone
with --recursive) doesn't do anything useful. Prior to
v2.13, such an entry caused git-submodule to barf entirely.
In v2.13, the entry is considered "inactive" and quietly
ignored. Either way, no clone of your repository can do
anything useful with the gitlink without the user manually
adding the submodule config.
In most cases, the user probably meant to either add a real
submodule, or they forgot to put the embedded repository in
their .gitignore file.
Let's issue a warning when we see this case. There are a few
things to note:
- the warning will go in the git-add porcelain; anybody
wanting to do low-level manipulation of the index is
welcome to create whatever funny states they want.
- we detect the case by looking for a newly added gitlink;
updates via "git add submodule" are perfectly reasonable,
and this avoids us having to investigate .gitmodules
entirely
- there's a command-line option to suppress the warning.
This is needed for git-submodule itself (which adds the
entry before adding any submodule config), but also
provides a mechanism for other scripts doing
submodule-like things.
We could make this a hard error instead of a warning.
However, we do add lots of sub-repos in our test suite. It's
not _wrong_ to do so. It just creates a state where users
may be surprised. Pointing them in the right direction with
a gentle hint is probably the best option.
There is a config knob that can disable the (long) hint. But
I intentionally omitted a config knob to disable the warning
entirely. Whether the warning is sensible or not is
generally about context, not about the user's preferences.
If there's a tool or workflow that adds gitlinks without
matching .gitmodules, it should probably be taught about the
new command-line option, rather than blanket-disabling the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some options specific for `git svn commit-diff` where not documented
so far.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse
configuration.
* sb/submodule-blanket-recursive:
builtin/fetch.c: respect 'submodule.recurse' option
builtin/push.c: respect 'submodule.recurse' option
builtin/grep.c: respect 'submodule.recurse' option
Introduce 'submodule.recurse' option for worktree manipulators
submodule loading: separate code path for .gitmodules and config overlay
reset/checkout/read-tree: unify config callback for submodule recursion
submodule test invocation: only pass additional arguments
submodule recursing: do not write a config variable twice
"git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files,
even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x".
"git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files
without "-uall". These have been corrected.
* sl/clean-d-ignored-fix:
clean: teach clean -d to preserve ignored paths
dir: expose cmp_name() and check_contains()
dir: hide untracked contents of untracked dirs
dir: recurse into untracked dirs for ignored files
t7061: status --ignored should search untracked dirs
t7300: clean -d should skip dirs with ignored files
In 618e613a70, 10 years ago, the default for pack depth used for
git-pack-objects and git-repack was changed from 10 to 50, while
leaving fast-import's default to 10.
There doesn't seem to be a reason besides oversight for the change not
having happened in fast-import as well.
Interestingly, fast-import uses pack.depth when it's set, and the
git-config manual says the default for pack.depth is 50. While the
git-fast-import manual does say the default depth is 10, the
inconsistency is also confusing.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A `--setup` step in `git filter-branch` makes it much easier to
define the initial values of variables used in the real filters.
Also sourcing/defining utility functions here instead of
`--env-filter` improves performance and minimizes clogging the
output in case of errors.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the missing documentation for `git svn init --ignore-refs`.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's
whitelisting is now documented better.
* jk/url-insteadof-config:
docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf
Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
multi-line comments.
* ab/c-translators-comment-style:
C style: use standard style for "TRANSLATORS" comments
Since 3ccd681c2a (Merge branch 'sb/submodule-rm-absorb', 2017-01-18)
git-rm tries to absorb any submodules git dir before deleting the
submodule. Correct the documentation to say so.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate
records the same set of push options used for pushing.
* jt/push-options-doc:
receive-pack: verify push options in cert
docs: correct receive.advertisePushOptions default
A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
documentation have been updated to https:// links.
* jk/update-links-in-docs:
doc: use https links to Wikipedia to avoid http redirects
Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
configuration variables.
* jk/doc-config-include:
docs/config: consistify include.path examples
docs/config: avoid the term "expand" for includes
docs/config: give a relative includeIf example
docs/config: clarify include/includeIf relationship
Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
* ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions:
git-filter-branch: be more direct in an error message
read-tree -m: make error message for merging 0 trees less smart aleck
usability: don't ask questions if no reply is required
The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though
the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with
ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is
based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier
to migrate away from it if/when necessary.
* ab/doc-replace-gmane-links:
doc: replace more gmane links
doc: replace a couple of broken gmane links
The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's
whitelisting is now documented better.
* jk/url-insteadof-config:
docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf
Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
multi-line comments.
* ab/c-translators-comment-style:
C style: use standard style for "TRANSLATORS" comments
The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.
* ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup: (31 commits)
grep: assert that threading is enabled when calling grep_{lock,unlock}
grep: given --threads with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease, warn
pack-objects: fix buggy warning about threads
pack-objects & index-pack: add test for --threads warning
test-lib: add a PTHREADS prerequisite
grep: move is_fixed() earlier to avoid forward declaration
grep: change internal *pcre* variable & function names to be *pcre1*
grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1
grep: factor test for \0 in grep patterns into a function
grep: remove redundant regflags assignments
grep: catch a missing enum in switch statement
perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines with -F
perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines
perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines with -F
perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines
perf: emit progress output when unpacking & building
perf: add a GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND for when *_MAKE_OPTS won't do
grep: add tests to fix blind spots with \0 patterns
grep: prepare for testing binary regexes containing rx metacharacters
grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 tests
...
"git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files,
even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x".
"git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files
without "-uall". These have been corrected.
* sl/clean-d-ignored-fix:
clean: teach clean -d to preserve ignored paths
dir: expose cmp_name() and check_contains()
dir: hide untracked contents of untracked dirs
dir: recurse into untracked dirs for ignored files
t7061: status --ignored should search untracked dirs
t7300: clean -d should skip dirs with ignored files
When compiling the documentation, asciidoc thinks a backtick surrounded
by whitespace shouldn't be interpreted as marking the start or end of a
literal. In most cases, that's useful behaviour, but in the git-pull
documentation it means asciidoc is failing to correctly detect which
text should be monospaced and which shouldn't.
To avoid this, remove the extraneous spaces from the text to be
monospaced. It would also be possible to fix the formatting by
switching to asciidoc's ++ monospace format markers and still have the
space characters included in the monospace text, but the spaces aren't
necessary and not having them keeps the markup simpler.
Also include a minor grammar fix suggested by Jeff while we're changing
these lines.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git rev-parse --short` is not a generic modifier but just a variant
of `--verify` and considers the given length only as a suggestion to
ensure uniqueness.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Any command that understands '--recurse-submodules' can have its
default changed to true, by setting the new 'submodule.recurse'
option.
This patch includes read-tree/checkout/reset for working tree
manipulating commands. Later patches will cover other commands.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a URL rewrite switches the protocol to something
nonstandard (like "persistent-https" for "https"), the user
may be bitten by the fact that the default protocol
restrictions are different between the two. Let's drop a
note in insteadOf that points the user in the right
direction.
It would be nice if we could make this work out of the box,
but we can't without knowing the security implications of
the user's rewrite. Only the documentation for a particular
remote helper can advise one way or the other. Since we do
include the persistent-https helper in contrib/ (and since
it was the helper in the real-world case that inspired that
patch), let's also drop a note there.
Suggested-by: Elliott Cable <me@ell.io>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change all the "TRANSLATORS: [...]" comments in the C code to use the
regular Git coding style, and amend the style guide so that the
example there uses that style.
This custom style was necessary back in 2010 when the gettext support
was initially added, and was subsequently documented in commit
cbcfd4e3ea ("i18n: mention "TRANSLATORS:" marker in
Documentation/CodingGuidelines", 2014-04-18).
GNU xgettext hasn't had the parsing limitation that necessitated this
exception for almost 3 years. Since its 0.19 release on 2014-06-02
it's been able to recognize TRANSLATOR comments in the standard Git
comment syntax[1].
Usually we'd like to keep compatibility with software that's that
young, but in this case literally the only person who needs to be
using a gettext newer than 3 years old is Jiang Xin (the only person
who runs & commits "make pot" results), so I think in this case we can
make an exception.
This xgettext parsing feature was added after a thread on the Git
mailing list[2] which continued on the bug-gettext[3] list, but we
never subsequently changed our style & styleguide, do so.
There are already longstanding changes in git that use the standard
comment style & have their TRANSLATORS comments extracted properly
without getting the literal "*"'s mixed up in the text, as would
happen before xgettext 0.19.
Commit 7ff2683253 ("builtin-am: implement -i/--interactive",
2015-08-04) added one such comment, which in commit df0617bfa7 ("l10n:
git.pot: v2.6.0 round 1 (123 new, 41 removed)", 2015-09-05) got picked
up in the po/git.pot file with the right format, showing that Jiang
already runs a modern xgettext.
The xgettext parser does not handle the sort of non-standard comment
style that I'm amending here in sequencer.c, but that isn't standard
Git comment syntax anyway. With this change to sequencer.c & "make
pot" the comment in the pot file is now correct:
#. TRANSLATORS: %s will be "revert", "cherry-pick" or
-#. * "rebase -i".
+#. "rebase -i".
1. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/?id=10af7fe6bd
2. <2ce9ec406501d112e032c8208417f8100bed04c6.1397712142.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com>
(https://public-inbox.org/git/2ce9ec406501d112e032c8208417f8100bed04c6.1397712142.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com/)
3. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2014-04/msg00016.html
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup: (31 commits)
grep: assert that threading is enabled when calling grep_{lock,unlock}
grep: given --threads with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease, warn
pack-objects: fix buggy warning about threads
pack-objects & index-pack: add test for --threads warning
test-lib: add a PTHREADS prerequisite
grep: move is_fixed() earlier to avoid forward declaration
grep: change internal *pcre* variable & function names to be *pcre1*
grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1
grep: factor test for \0 in grep patterns into a function
grep: remove redundant regflags assignments
grep: catch a missing enum in switch statement
perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines with -F
perf: add a comparison test of log --grep regex engines
perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines with -F
perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines
perf: emit progress output when unpacking & building
perf: add a GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND for when *_MAKE_OPTS won't do
grep: add tests to fix blind spots with \0 patterns
grep: prepare for testing binary regexes containing rx metacharacters
grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 tests
...
The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..."
mechansim has further been taught to take symlinks into account.
The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to
a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such
a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the
current repository to determine if the contents from the named path
should be included.
* ab/conditional-config-with-symlinks:
config: match both symlink & realpath versions in IncludeIf.gitdir:*
"git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect
and reject a message before sending it out.
* jt/send-email-validate-hook:
send-email: support validate hook
Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been
extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module.
* bp/sub-process-convert-filter:
convert: update subprocess_read_status() to not die on EOF
sub-process: move sub-process functions into separate files
convert: rename reusable sub-process functions
convert: update generic functions to only use generic data structures
convert: separate generic structures and variables from the filter specific ones
convert: split start_multi_file_filter() into two separate functions
pkt-line: annotate packet_writel with LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL
convert: move packet_write_line() into pkt-line as packet_writel()
pkt-line: add packet_read_line_gently()
pkt-line: fix packet_read_line() to handle len < 0 errors
convert: remove erroneous tests for errno == EPIPE
A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
documentation have been updated to https:// links.
* jk/update-links-in-docs:
doc: use https links to Wikipedia to avoid http redirects
Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
* ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions:
git-filter-branch: be more direct in an error message
read-tree -m: make error message for merging 0 trees less smart aleck
usability: don't ask questions if no reply is required
Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
configuration variables.
* jk/doc-config-include:
docs/config: consistify include.path examples
docs/config: avoid the term "expand" for includes
docs/config: give a relative includeIf example
docs/config: clarify include/includeIf relationship
"git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
to pack-objects.
* jc/repack-threads:
repack: accept --threads=<n> and pass it down to pack-objects
The function `set_ident` in `filter-branch` exported the variables
GIT_(AUTHOR|COMMITTER)_(NAME|EMAIL|DATE) at least since 6f6826c52b in 2007.
Therefore the filter scripts don't need to re-eport them again.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a short -P option as a synonym for the longer --perl-regexp, for
consistency with the options the corresponding grep invocations
accept.
This was intentionally omitted in commit 727b6fc3ed ("log --grep:
accept --basic-regexp and --perl-regexp", 2012-10-03) for unspecified
future use.
Make it consistent with "grep" rather than to keep it open for future
use, and to avoid the confusion of -P meaning different things for
grep & log, as is the case with the -G option.
As noted in the aforementioned commit the --basic-regexp option can't
have a corresponding -G argument, as the log command already uses that
for -G<regex>.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a duplicate mention of --contains in the SYNOPSIS to mention
--no-contains.
This fixes an error introduced in my commit ac3f5a3468 ("ref-filter:
add --no-contains option to tag/branch/for-each-ref", 2017-03-24).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The manual for "git interpret-trailers" mentioned a non-existing
literal `overwrite` for its config option `trailer.ifexists`. The
correct name for that choice is `replace`.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate
records the same set of push options used for pushing.
* jt/push-options-doc:
receive-pack: verify push options in cert
docs: correct receive.advertisePushOptions default
The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though
the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with
ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is
based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier
to migrate away from it if/when necessary.
* ab/doc-replace-gmane-links:
doc: replace more gmane links
doc: replace a couple of broken gmane links
When we taught read_directory_recursive() to recurse into untracked
directories in search of ignored files given DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO, that
had the side effect of teaching it to collect the untracked contents of
untracked directories. It doesn't always make sense to return these,
though (we do need them for `clean -d`), so we introduce a flag
(DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS) to control whether or not read_directory()
strips dir->entries of the untracked contents of untracked dirs.
We also introduce check_contains() to check if one dir_entry corresponds
to a path which contains the path corresponding to another dir_entry.
This also fixes known breakages in t7061, since status --ignored now
searches untracked directories for ignored files.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop promising in our grep & rev-list options documentation that we're
always going to be using libpcre when given the --perl-regexp option.
Instead talk about using "Perl-compatible regular expressions" and
using these types of patterns using "a compile-time dependency".
Saying "libpcre" means that we're talking about libpcre.so, which is
always going to be v1. This change is part of an ongoing saga to add
support for libpcre2, which comes with PCRE v2.
In the future we might use some completely unrelated library to
provide perl-compatible regular expression support. By wording the
documentation differently and not promising any specific version of
PCRE or even PCRE at all we have more wiggle room to change the
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The configuration variable log.showSignature is mentioned in git-log's
manpage. Document it in git-config's manpage as well.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the conditional inclusion mechanism to support
e.g. gitdir:~/git_tree/repo where ~/git_tree is a symlink to
/mnt/stuff/repo.
This worked in the initial version of this facility[1], but regressed
later in the series while solving a related bug[2].
Now gitdir: will match against the symlinked
path (e.g. gitdir:~/git_tree/repo) in addition to the current
/mnt/stuff/repo path.
Since this is already in a release version note in the documentation
that this behavior changed, so users who expect their configuration to
work on both v2.13.0 and some future version of git with this fix
aren't utterly confused.
1. commit 3efd0bedc6 ("config: add conditional include", 2017-03-01)
2. commit 86f9515708 ("config: resolve symlinks in conditional
include's patterns", 2017-04-05)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our
historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot
represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a
separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish
timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good
move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the
timestamp_t.
* js/larger-timestamps:
archive-tar: fix a sparse 'constant too large' warning
use uintmax_t for timestamps
date.c: abort if the system time cannot handle one of our timestamps
timestamp_t: a new data type for timestamps
PRItime: introduce a new "printf format" for timestamps
parse_timestamp(): specify explicitly where we parse timestamps
t0006 & t5000: skip "far in the future" test when time_t is too limited
t0006 & t5000: prepare for 64-bit timestamps
ref-filter: avoid using `unsigned long` for catch-all data type
"git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags
initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in
subsequent fetches.
* ab/clone-no-tags:
tests: rename a test having to do with shallow submodules
clone: add a --no-tags option to clone without tags
tests: change "cd ... && git fetch" to "cd &&\n\tgit fetch"
The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names
of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now
configurable.
* sk/status-short-branch-color-config:
status: add color config slots for branch info in "--short --branch"
status: fix missing newline when comment chars are disabled
Currently, send-email has support for rudimentary e-mail validation.
Allow the user to add support for more validation by providing a
sendemail-validate hook.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the sub-proces functions into sub-process.h/c. Add documentation
for the new module in Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git read-tree -m" requires a tree argument to name the tree to be
merged in. Git uses a cutesy error message to say so and why:
$ git read-tree -m
warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is
deprecated; use --empty
fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
$ git read-tree -m --empty
fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
When lucky, that could produce an ah-hah moment for the user, but it's
more likely to irritate and distract them.
Instead, tell the user plainly that the tree argument is
required. Also document this requirement in the git-read-tree(1)
manpage where there is room to explain it in a more straightforward way.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of the include examples use "foo.inc", but some use
"foo". Since the string of examples are meant to show
variations and how they differ, it's a good idea to change
only one thing at a time. The filename differences are not
relevant to what we're trying to show.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using the word "expand" to refer to including the contents
of another config file isn't really accurate, since it's a
verbatim insertion. And it can cause confusion with the
expanding of the path itself via things like "~".
Let's clarify when we are referring to the contents versus
the filename, and use appropriate verbs in each case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The changes in the previous commit hopefully clarify that
the evaluation of an include "path" variable is the same no
matter if it's in a conditional section or not. But since
this question came up on the list, let's add an example that
makes it obvious.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "includeIf" directives behave exactly like include ones,
except they only kick in when the conditional is true. That
was mentioned in the "conditional" section, but let's make
it more clear for the whole "includes" section, since people
don't necessarily read the documentation top to bottom.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit f6a4e61 ("push: accept push options", 2016-07-14), send-pack
was taught to include push options both within the signed cert (if the
push is a signed push) and outside the signed cert; however,
receive-pack ignores push options within the cert, only handling push
options outside the cert.
Teach receive-pack, in the case that push options are provided for a
signed push, to verify that the push options both within the cert and
outside the cert are consistent.
This sets in stone the requirement that send-pack redundantly send its
push options in 2 places, but I think that this is better than the
alternatives. Sending push options only within the cert is
backwards-incompatible with existing Git servers (which read push
options only from outside the cert), and sending push options only
outside the cert means that the push options are not signed for.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit c714e45 ("receive-pack: implement advertising and receiving
push options", 2016-07-14), receive-pack was taught to (among other
things) advertise that it understood push options, depending on
configuration. It was documented that it advertised such ability by
default; however, it actually does not. (In that commit, notice that
advertise_push_options defaults to 0, unlike advertise_atomic_push which
defaults to 1.)
Update the documentation to state that it does not advertise the ability
by default.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace a couple of broken links to gmane with links to other
archives. See commit 54471fdcc3 ("README: replace gmane link with
public-inbox", 2016-12-15) for prior art.
With this change there's still 4 references left in the code:
$ git grep -E '(article|thread)\.gmane.org' -- |grep -v RelNotes|wc -l
4
I couldn't find alternative links for those.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's configuration system works by reading multiple configuration
files in order, from general to specific:
- first, the system configuration /etc/gitconfig
- then the user's configuration (~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git/config)
- then the repository configuration (.git/config)
For single-valued configuration items, the latest value wins. For
multi-valued configuration items, values accumulate in that order.
For example, this allows setting a credential helper globally in
~/.gitconfig that git will try to use in all repositories, regardless
of whether they additionally provide another helper. This is usually
a nice thing --- e.g. I can install helpers to use my OS keychain and
to cache credentials for a short period of time globally.
Sometimes people want to be able to override an inherited setting.
For the credential.helper setting, this is done by setting the
configuration item to empty before giving it a new value. This is
already documented but the documentation is hard to find ---
git-config(1) says to look at gitcredentials(7) and the config
reference in gitcredentials(7) doesn't mention this issue.
Move the documentation to the config reference to make it easier to
find.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a --no-tags option to clone without fetching any tags.
Without this change there's no easy way to clone a repository without
also fetching its tags.
When supplying --single-branch the primary remote branch will be
cloned, but in addition tags will be followed & retrieved. Now
--no-tags can be added --single-branch to clone a repository without
tags, and which only tracks a single upstream branch.
This option works without --single-branch as well, and will do a
normal clone but not fetch any tags.
Many git commands pay some fixed overhead as a function of the number
of references. E.g. creating ~40k tags in linux.git will cause a
command like `git log -1 >/dev/null` to run in over a second instead
of in a matter of milliseconds, in addition numerous other things will
slow down, e.g. "git log <TAB>" with the bash completion will slowly
show ~40k references instead of 1.
The user might want to avoid all of that overhead to simply use a
repository like that to browse the "master" branch, or something like
a CI tool might want to keep that one branch up-to-date without caring
about any other references.
Without this change the only way of accomplishing this was either by
manually tweaking the config in a fresh repository:
git init git &&
cat >git/.git/config <<EOF &&
[remote "origin"]
url = git@github.com:git/git.git
tagOpt = --no-tags
fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
EOF
cd git &&
git pull
Which requires hardcoding the "master" name, which may not be the main
--single-branch would have retrieved, or alternatively by setting
tagOpt=--no-tags right after cloning & deleting any existing tags:
git clone --single-branch git@github.com:git/git.git &&
cd git &&
git config remote.origin.tagOpt --no-tags &&
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
Which of course was also subtly buggy if --branch was pointed at a
tag, leaving the user in a detached head:
git clone --single-branch --branch v2.12.0 git@github.com:git/git.git &&
cd git &&
git config remote.origin.tagOpt --no-tags &&
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
Now all this complexity becomes the much simpler:
git clone --single-branch --no-tags git@github.com:git/git.git
Or in the case of cloning a single tag "branch":
git clone --single-branch --branch v2.12.0 --no-tags git@github.com:git/git.git
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
