A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output.
By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1)
* nd/columns:
tag: add --column
column: support piping stdout to external git-column process
status: add --column
branch: add --column
help: reuse print_columns() for help -a
column: add dense layout support
t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1
column: add columnar layout
Stop starting pager recursively
Add column layout skeleton and git-column
"help -a" also respects column.ui (and column.help if presents)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We used to underline a header text, like this:
This is a header
----------------
content...
But calculating text length so that the dashes align with the text
could get complicated because the text could be in any charset in
translated Git.
There is no point to use this pseudo underline; simply a blank
line would do and it even makes it easier to read:
This is a header
content...
While at it, give translators more context to translate, e.g.
e.g. "git commands available..." instead of "%s available..."
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch also marks most common commands' synopsis for translation
so that "git help" gives a friendly listing.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
term_columns() checks for terminal width via ioctl(2) on the standard
output, but we spawn the pager too early for this check to be useful.
The effect of this buglet can be observed by opening a wide terminal and
running "git -p help --all", which still shows 80-column output, while
"git help --all" uses the full terminal width. Run the check before we
spawn the pager to fix this.
While at it, move term_columns() to pager.c and export it from cache.h so
that callers other than the help subsystem can use it.
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When executing an external shell script like `git foo` with a bad
shebang, e.g. "#!/usr/bin/not/existing", execvp returns 127 (ENOENT).
Since help_unknown_cmd proposes the use of all external commands similar
to the name of the "unknown" command, it suggests the just failed command
again. Stop it and give some advice to the user.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test t7606-merge-custom.sh fails on cygwin when git-merge fails
with an "Could not find merge strategy 'theirs'" error, despite
the test correctly preparing an (executable) git-merge-theirs
script.
The cause of the failure is the mis-detection of the executable
status of the script, by the is_executable() function, while the
load_command_list() function is searching the path for additional
merge strategy programs.
Note that the l/stat() "functions" on cygwin are somewhat
schizophrenic (see commits adbc0b6, 7faee6b and 7974843), and
their behaviour depends on the timing of various git setup and
config function calls. In particular, until the "git_dir" has
been set (have_git_dir() returns true), the real cygwin (POSIX
emulating) l/stat() functions are called. Once "git_dir" has
been set, the "native Win32 API" implementations of l/stat()
may, or may not, be called depending on the setting of the
core.filemode and core.ignorecygwinfstricks config variables.
We also note that, since commit c869753, core.filemode is forced
to false, even on NTFS, by git-init and git-clone. A user (or a
test) can, of course, reset core.filemode to true explicitly if
the filesystem supports it (and he doesn't use any problematic
windows software). The test-suite currently runs all tests on
cygwin with core.filemode set to false.
Given the above, we see that the built-in merge strategies are
correctly detected as executable, since they are checked for
before "git_dir" is set, whereas all custom merge strategies are
not, since they are checked for after "git_dir" is set.
In order to fix the mis-detection problem, we change the code in
is_executable() to re-use the conditional WIN32 code section,
which actually looks at the content of the file to determine if
the file is executable. On cygwin we also make the additional
code conditional on the executable bit of the file mode returned
by the initial stat() call. (only the real cygwin function would
set the executable bit in the file mode.)
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If someone runs "git st", the command "git status" is not suggested
because it's not one of the closest levenshtein-neighbour.
Reserve the distance of 0 for common commands where the entered command
is a prefixe, as these are often more likely to be what the user meant.
This way, "git status" is the first suggestion, while a list of possible
typos are still suggested as well.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a given command is not found, then help.c tries to guess which one the
user could have meant. If help.autocorrect is 0 or unset, then a list of
suggestions is given as long as the dissimilarity between the given command
and the candidates is not excessively high. But if help.autocorrect was
non-zero (i.e., a delay after which the command is run automatically), the
latter restriction on dissimilarity was not obeyed.
In my case, this happened:
$ git ..daab02
WARNING: You called a Git command named '..daab02', which does not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'read-tree'
in 4.0 seconds automatically...
The patch reuses the similarity limit that is also applied when the list of
suggested commands is printed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code which is conditional on MinGW32 is actually conditional on Windows.
Use the WIN32 symbol, which is defined by the MINGW32 and MSVC environments,
but not by Cygwin.
Define SNPRINTF_SIZE_CORR=1 for MSVC too, as its vsnprintf function does
not add NUL at the end of the buffer if the result fits the buffer size
exactly.
Signed-off-by: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MSVC does not understand this C99 style.
Signed-off-by: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.6.3:
Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"
Documentation: merge: one <remote> is required
help.c: give correct structure's size to memset()
Most of the docs and printouts refer to "commands" when discussing what
the end users call via the "git" top-level program. We should refer them
as "git programs" when we discuss the fact that the commands are
implemented as separate programs, but in other contexts, it is better to
use the term "git commands" consistently.
Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These two structures are of the same type, but we'd better be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is off(0) by default, to avoid scaring people unless they asked to.
If set to a non-0 value, wait for that amount of deciseconds before
running the corrected command.
Suggested by Junio, so he has a chance to hit Ctrl-C.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch introduces a modified Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm into
Git's code base, and uses it with the following penalties to show some
similar commands when an unknown command was encountered:
swap = 0, insertion = 1, substitution = 2, deletion = 4
A typical output would now look like this:
$ git sm
git: 'sm' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
Did you mean one of these?
am
rm
The cut-off is at similarity rating 6, which was empirically determined
to give sensible results.
As a convenience, if there is only one candidate, Git continues under
the assumption that the user mistyped it. Example:
$ git reabse
WARNING: You called a Git program named 'reabse', which does
not exist.
Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'rebase'
[...]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Just calculate it where it is needed - it is cheap and trivial,
as all the lengths are already there (stored when creating the
command lists).
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch splits out git-help's functions to builtin-help.c and leaves
only functions used by other builtins in help.c.
First this removes git-help's functions from libgit which are not
interesting for other builtins, second this makes 'git help help' work
again.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cmd_help() is called, we always need the list of main and other
commands, not just when the list of all commands is shown. Before this
patch 'git help diff' invoked 'man gitdiff' because cmd_to_page()
thought 'diff' is not a git command.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make load_command_list() capable of filtering for a given prefix and
loading into a pair of "struct cmdnames" supplied by the caller.
Make the static add_cmdname(), exclude_cmds() and is_in_cmdlist()
functions non-static.
Make list_commands() accept a custom title, and work from a pair of
"struct cmdnames" supplied by the caller.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function list_commands_in_dir() tried to be lazy and just chdir()
to the directory which entries it listed, so that the check if the
file is executable could be done on dir->d_name.
However, there is no good reason to jump around wildly just to find
all Git commands.
Instead, have a strbuf and construct the full path dynamically.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sb/dashless:
Make usage strings dash-less
t/: Use "test_must_fail git" instead of "! git"
t/test-lib.sh: exit with small negagive int is ok with test_must_fail
Conflicts:
builtin-blame.c
builtin-mailinfo.c
builtin-mailsplit.c
builtin-shortlog.c
git-am.sh
t/t4150-am.sh
t/t4200-rerere.sh
The system's default browser for displaying HTML help pages is now used
directly on Windows, instead of launching git-web--browser, which
requires a Unix shell. Avoiding MSYS' bash when possible is good
because it avoids potential path translation issues. In this case it is
not too hard to avoid launching a shell, so let's avoid it.
The Windows-specific code is implemented in compat/mingw.c to avoid
platform-specific code in the main code base. On Windows, open_html is
provided as a define. If open_html is not defined, git-web--browse is
used. This approach avoids platform-specific ifdefs by using
per-function ifdefs. The "ifndef open_html" together with the
introductory comment should sufficiently warn developers, so that they
hopefully will not break this mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If htmldir (in the Makefile) is a relative path, this path will now be
interpreted relative to git_exec_path. This can be used to create an
installation that can be moved to a different directory without
re-compiling. The Windows installer (msysgit) is an example for such
a setup.
Note that the Makefile maps htmldir to the define GIT_HTML_PATH.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you misuse a git command, you are shown the usage string.
But this is currently shown in the dashed form. So if you just
copy what you see, it will not work, when the dashed form
is no longer supported.
This patch makes git commands show the dash-less version.
For shell scripts that do not specify OPTIONS_SPEC, git-sh-setup.sh
generates a dash-less usage string now.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* j6t/mingw: (38 commits)
compat/pread.c: Add a forward declaration to fix a warning
Windows: Fix ntohl() related warnings about printf formatting
Windows: TMP and TEMP environment variables specify a temporary directory.
Windows: Make 'git help -a' work.
Windows: Work around an oddity when a pipe with no reader is written to.
Windows: Make the pager work.
When installing, be prepared that template_dir may be relative.
Windows: Use a relative default template_dir and ETC_GITCONFIG
Windows: Compute the fallback for exec_path from the program invocation.
Turn builtin_exec_path into a function.
Windows: Use a customized struct stat that also has the st_blocks member.
Windows: Add a custom implementation for utime().
Windows: Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API.
Windows: Implement a custom spawnve().
Windows: Implement wrappers for gethostbyname(), socket(), and connect().
Windows: Work around incompatible sort and find.
Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads.
Windows: Disambiguate DOS style paths from SSH URLs.
Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation.
Windows: Implement start_command().
...
Before this patch, something like "git help tutorial" did not work,
people had to use "git help gittutorial" which is not very intuitive.
This patch uses the "is_git_command" function to test early if the
argument passed to "git help" is a git command, and if this is not the
case then we prefix the argument with "git" instead of "git-".
This way, things like "git help tutorial" or "git help glossary" will
work fine.
The little downside of this patch is that the "is_git_command" is a
little bit slow.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git help -a scans the PATH for git commands. On Windows it failed for two
reasons:
- The PATH separator is ';', not ':' on Windows.
- stat() does not set the executable bit.
We now open the file and guess whether it is executable.
The result of the guess is good enough for the list of git commands, but
it is of no use for a general stat() implementation because (1) it is a
guess, (2) the user has no way to influence the outcome (via chmod or
similar), and (3) it would reduce stat() performance by an unacceptable
amount. Therefore, this strategy is a special-case local to help.c.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Git's main usage pages did not show "git help" as a way to get more
information on a specific subcommand. This patch adds an info line after
the list of git commands currently printed by "git", "git help", "git
--help" and "git help --all".
Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data
parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify
global variables.
With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped
that this will help the libification effort.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently "git help -m GITCMD" is restricted to a set of man viewers
defined at compile time. You can subvert the "man.<tool>.path" to
force "git help -m" to use a different man, viewer, but if you have a
man viewer whose invocation syntax does not match one of the current
tools then you would have to write a wrapper script for it.
This patch adds a git config variable "man.<tool>.cmd" which allows a
more flexible man viewer choice.
If you run "git help -m GITCMD" with the "man.viewer" config variable
set to an unrecognized tool then it will query the "man.<tool>.cmd"
config variable. If this variable exists, then the specified tool will
be treated as a custom man viewer and it will be run in a shell with
the man page name of the GITCMD added as extra parameter.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch implements reading values from "man.<tool>.path"
configuration variables, and using these values as pathes to
the man viewer <tool>s when lauching them.
This makes it possible to use different version of the tools
than the one on the current PATH, or maybe a custom script.
In this patch we also try to launch "konqueror" using
"kfmclient" even if a path to a konqueror binary is given
in "man.konqueror.path".
The "man_viewer_list" becomes a simple string list to simplify
things for the following patches.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a document viewer that is unknown to the current version of git is
specified in the .git/config file, instead of erroring out the process
entirely, just issue a warning. It might be that the user usually is
using a newer git that supports it (and the configuration is written for
that version) but is temporarily using an older git that does not know the
viewer.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows multiple viewer candidates to be listed in the configuration
file, like this:
[man]
viewer = woman
viewer = konqueror
viewer = man
The candidates are tried in the order listed in the configuration file,
and the first suitable one (e.g. konqueror cannot be used outside windowed
environment) is used.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Tested-by: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch makes it possible to view man pages using other tools
than the "man" program. It also implements support for emacs'
"woman" and konqueror with the man KIO slave to view man pages.
Note that "emacsclient" is used with option "-e" to launch "woman"
on emacs and this works only on versions >= 22.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Tested-by: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we have an alias "foo" defined, then the help text for
"foo" (via "git help foo" or "git foo --help") now shows the
definition of the alias.
Before showing an alias definition, we make sure that there
is no git command which would override the alias (so that
even though you may have a "log" alias, even though it will
not work, we don't want to it supersede "git help log").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch converts cmd_help to use parseopt, along with a
few style cleanups, including:
- enum constants are now ALL_CAPS
- parse_help_format returns an enum value rather than
setting a global as a side effect
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cc/browser:
Documentation: add 'git-web--browse.txt' and simplify other docs.
git-web--browse: fix misplaced quote in init_browser_path()
web--browse: Add a few quotes in 'init_browser_path'.
Documentation: instaweb: add 'git-web--browse' information.
Adjust .gitignore for 5884f1(Rename 'git-help--browse.sh'...)
git-web--browse: do not start the browser with nohup
instaweb: use 'git-web--browse' to launch browser.
Rename 'git-help--browse.sh' to 'git-web--browse.sh'.
help--browse: add '--config' option to check a config option for a browser.
help: make 'git-help--browse' usable outside 'git-help'.
Conflicts:
git-web--browse.sh
The value of this new command line option will be used as a key to
check the configuration for an help browser.
This should remove the last bit in 'git-help--browse' that was
specific to 'git-help', so that other git command can use
'git-help--browse'.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
