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Thomas Rast
0c1cddd015 Documentation/gitk: document -L option
The -L option is the same as for git-log, so the entire block is just
copied from git-log.txt.  However, until the parser is fixed we add a
caveat that gitk only understands the stuck form.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-21 13:41:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
79fcbf7e70 Git 1.9-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-17 12:30:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
92251b1b5b Merge branch 'nd/shallow-clone'
Fetching from a shallow-cloned repository used to be forbidden,
primarily because the codepaths involved were not carefully vetted
and we did not bother supporting such usage. This attempts to allow
object transfer out of a shallow-cloned repository in a controlled
way (i.e. the receiver become a shallow repository with truncated
history).

* nd/shallow-clone: (31 commits)
  t5537: fix incorrect expectation in test case 10
  shallow: remove unused code
  send-pack.c: mark a file-local function static
  git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitations
  prune: clean .git/shallow after pruning objects
  clone: use git protocol for cloning shallow repo locally
  send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone via http
  receive-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone via http
  smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone
  remote-curl: pass ref SHA-1 to fetch-pack as well
  send-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone
  receive-pack: allow pushes that update .git/shallow
  connected.c: add new variant that runs with --shallow-file
  add GIT_SHALLOW_FILE to propagate --shallow-file to subprocesses
  receive/send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone
  receive-pack: reorder some code in unpack()
  fetch: add --update-shallow to accept refs that update .git/shallow
  upload-pack: make sure deepening preserves shallow roots
  fetch: support fetching from a shallow repository
  clone: support remote shallow repository
  ...
2014-01-17 12:21:20 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
2ce66e2a0a gitignore doc: add global gitignore to synopsis
The gitignore(5) manpage already documents $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore
but it is easy to forget that it exists.  Add a reminder to the
synopsis.

Noticed while looking for a place to put a list of scratch filenames
in the cwd used by one's editor of choice.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-16 15:23:56 -08:00
David Aguilar
b814da891e pull: add pull.ff configuration
Add a `pull.ff` configuration option that is analogous
to the `merge.ff` option.

This allows us to control the fast-forward behavior for
pull-initiated merges only.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-15 16:01:06 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
e78e6967f3 gitattributes: document more clearly where macros are allowed
The old text made it sound like macros are only allowed in the
.gitattributes file at the top-level of the working tree.  Make it
clear that they are also allowed in $GIT_DIR/info/attributes and in
the global and system-wide gitattributes files.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-14 13:56:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
08f19cfe9b Documentation: "git pull" does not have the "-m" option
Even though "--[no-]edit" can be used with "git pull", the
explanation of the interaction between this option and the "-m"
option does not make sense within the context of "git pull".  Use
the conditional inclusion mechanism to remove this part from "git
pull" documentation, while keeping it for "git merge".

Reported-by: Ivan Zakharyaschev
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-14 10:47:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8be1d04a7e Merge branch 'jc/maint-pull-docfix-for-409b8d82' into jc/maint-pull-docfix
* jc/maint-pull-docfix-for-409b8d82:
  Documentation: exclude irrelevant options from "git pull"
2014-01-14 10:47:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d51a47552a Documentation: exclude irrelevant options from "git pull"
10eb64f5 (git pull manpage: don't include -n from fetch-options.txt,
2008-01-25) introduced a way to exclude some parts of included
source when building git-pull documentation, and later 409b8d82
(Documentation/git-pull: put verbosity options before merge/fetch
ones, 2010-02-24) attempted to use the mechanism to exclude some
parts of merge-options.txt when used from git-pull.txt.

However, the latter did not have an intended effect, because the
macro "git-pull" used to decide if the source is included in
git-pull documentation were defined a bit too late.

Define the macro before it is used to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-14 10:46:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
14598b9070 Sync with 1.8.5.3
* maint:
  Git 1.8.5.3
  pack-heuristics.txt: mark up the file header properly
2014-01-13 11:39:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
864085aaf6 Update draft release notes to 1.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-13 11:39:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a65a53bf04 Merge branch 'jl/submodule-mv-checkout-caveat'
With a submodule that was initialized in an old fashioned way
without gitlinks, switching branches in the superproject between
the one with and without the submodule may leave the submodule
working tree with its embedded repository behind, as there may be
unexpendable state there. Document and warn users about this.

* jl/submodule-mv-checkout-caveat:
  rm: better document side effects when removing a submodule
  mv: better document side effects when moving a submodule
2014-01-13 11:33:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9fac0777e1 Merge branch 'jn/pager-lv-default-env'
Just like we give a reasonable default for "less" via the LESS
environment variable, specify a reasonable default for "lv" via the
"LV" environment variable when spawning the pager.

* jn/pager-lv-default-env:
  pager: set LV=-c alongside LESS=FRSX
2014-01-13 11:33:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4224916ae9 Git 1.8.5.3 2014-01-13 11:28:26 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
ebba6c0ca6 pack-heuristics.txt: mark up the file header properly
AsciiDoc wants these header-lines left-aligned.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-13 11:18:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a25014bc4c Update draft release notes to 1.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-10 11:25:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
74ca49330a Merge branch 'ss/builtin-cleanup'
"git help $cmd" unnecessarily enumerated potential command names
from the filesystem, even when $cmd is known to be a built-in.

Ideas for further optimization, primarily by killing the use of
is_in_cmdlist(), were suggested in the discussion, but they can
come as follow-ups on top of this series.

* ss/builtin-cleanup:
  builtin/help.c: speed up is_git_command() by checking for builtin commands first
  builtin/help.c: call load_command_list() only when it is needed
  git.c: consistently use the term "builtin" instead of "internal command"
2014-01-10 10:33:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2b2849765f Merge branch 'ta/format-user-manual-as-an-article'
Update the way the user-manual is formatted via AsciiDoc to save
trees.

* ta/format-user-manual-as-an-article:
  user-manual: improve html and pdf formatting
2014-01-10 10:33:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b2132068c6 Merge branch 'jk/oi-delta-base'
Teach "cat-file --batch" to show delta-base object name for a
packed object that is represented as a delta.

* jk/oi-delta-base:
  cat-file: provide %(deltabase) batch format
  sha1_object_info_extended: provide delta base sha1s
2014-01-10 10:33:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2da5cbd651 Merge branch 'sb/diff-orderfile-config'
Allow "git diff -O<file>" to be configured with a new configuration
variable.

* sb/diff-orderfile-config:
  diff: add diff.orderfile configuration variable
  diff: let "git diff -O" read orderfile from any file and fail properly
  t4056: add new tests for "git diff -O"
2014-01-10 10:32:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8a334727fc Merge branch 'rt/bfg-ad-in-filter-branch-doc'
* rt/bfg-ad-in-filter-branch-doc:
  docs: add filter-branch notes on The BFG
2014-01-10 10:32:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b0504a9519 Merge branch 'cc/replace-object-info'
read_sha1_file() that is the workhorse to read the contents given
an object name honoured object replacements, but there is no
corresponding mechanism to sha1_object_info() that is used to
obtain the metainfo (e.g. type & size) about the object, leading
callers to weird inconsistencies.

* cc/replace-object-info:
  replace info: rename 'full' to 'long' and clarify in-code symbols
  Documentation/git-replace: describe --format option
  builtin/replace: unset read_replace_refs
  t6050: add tests for listing with --format
  builtin/replace: teach listing using short, medium or full formats
  sha1_file: perform object replacement in sha1_object_info_extended()
  t6050: show that git cat-file --batch fails with replace objects
  sha1_object_info_extended(): add an "unsigned flags" parameter
  sha1_file.c: add lookup_replace_object_extended() to pass flags
  replace_object: don't check read_replace_refs twice
  rename READ_SHA1_FILE_REPLACE flag to LOOKUP_REPLACE_OBJECT
2014-01-10 10:32:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
010d81ae35 Merge branch 'nd/negative-pathspec'
Introduce "negative pathspec" magic, to allow "git log -- . ':!dir'" to
tell us "I am interested in everything but 'dir' directory".

* nd/negative-pathspec:
  pathspec.c: support adding prefix magic to a pathspec with mnemonic magic
  Support pathspec magic :(exclude) and its short form :!
  glossary-content.txt: rephrase magic signature part
2014-01-10 10:31:48 -08:00
Jens Lehmann
bbad9f9314 rm: better document side effects when removing a submodule
The "Submodules" section of the "git rm" documentation mentions what will
happen when a submodule with a gitfile gets removed with newer git. But it
doesn't talk about what happens when the user changes between commits
before and after the removal, which does not remove the submodule from the
work tree like using the rm command did the first time.

Explain what happens and what the user has to do manually to fix that in
the new BUGS section. Also document this behavior in a new test.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-07 14:34:06 -08:00
Jens Lehmann
1cbd18300a mv: better document side effects when moving a submodule
The "Submodules" section of the "git mv" documentation mentions what will
happen when a submodule with a gitfile gets moved with newer git. But it
doesn't talk about what happens when the user changes between commits
before and after the move, which does not update the work tree like using
the mv command did the first time.

Explain what happens and what the user has to do manually to fix that in
the new BUGS section. Also document this behavior in a new test.

Reported-by: George Papanikolaou <g3orge.app@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-07 14:33:04 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
e54c1f2d25 pager: set LV=-c alongside LESS=FRSX
On systems with lv configured as the preferred pager (i.e.,
DEFAULT_PAGER=lv at build time, or PAGER=lv exported in the
environment) git commands that use color show control codes instead of
color in the pager:

	$ git diff
	^[[1mdiff --git a/.mailfilter b/.mailfilter^[[m
	^[[1mindex aa4f0b2..17e113e 100644^[[m
	^[[1m--- a/.mailfilter^[[m
	^[[1m+++ b/.mailfilter^[[m
	^[[36m@@ -1,11 +1,58 @@^[[m

"less" avoids this problem because git uses the LESS environment
variable to pass the -R option ('output ANSI color escapes in raw
form') by default.  Use the LV environment variable to pass 'lv' the
-c option ('allow ANSI escape sequences for text decoration / color')
to fix it for lv, too.

Noticed when the default value for color.ui flipped to 'auto' in
v1.8.4-rc0~36^2~1 (2013-06-10).

Reported-by: Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen@avasys.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-07 09:23:41 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
145e073b84 user-manual: improve html and pdf formatting
Use asciidoc style 'article' instead of 'book' and change asciidoc
title level.  This removes blank first page and superfluous "Part I"
page (there is no "Part II") in pdf output. Also pdf size is
decreased by this from 77 to 67 pages.  In html output this removes
unnecessary sub-tocs and chapter numbering.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-06 11:30:17 -08:00
Sebastian Schuberth
c6127fa3e2 builtin/help.c: speed up is_git_command() by checking for builtin commands first
Since 2dce956 is_git_command() is a bit slow as it does file I/O in
the call to list_commands_in_dir(). Avoid the file I/O by adding an
early check for the builtin commands.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-06 11:26:31 -08:00
Sebastian Schuberth
3f784a4dcb git.c: consistently use the term "builtin" instead of "internal command"
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-06 11:25:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
932f7e4769 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation/gitmodules: Only 'update' and 'url' are required
  l10n: de.po: fix translation of 'prefix'
2014-01-06 10:39:07 -08:00
W. Trevor King
43fda9455c Documentation/gitmodules: Only 'update' and 'url' are required
Descriptions for all the settings fell under the initial "Each
submodule section also contains the following required keys:".  The
example shows sections with just 'path' and 'url' entries, which are
indeed required, but we should still make the required/optional
distinction explicit to clarify that the rest of them are optional.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-06 09:08:18 -08:00
Christian Couder
663a8566be replace info: rename 'full' to 'long' and clarify in-code symbols
Enum names SHORT/MEDIUM/FULL were too broad to be descriptive.  And
they clashed with built-in symbols on platforms like Windows.
Clarify by giving them REPLACE_FORMAT_ prefix.

Rename 'full' format in "git replace --format=<name>" to 'long', to
match others (i.e. 'short' and 'medium').

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:33:11 -08:00
Vicent Marti
ae4f07fbcc pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cache
When we use pack bitmaps rather than walking the object
graph, we end up with the list of objects to include in the
packfile, but we do not know the path at which any tree or
blob objects would be found.

In a recently packed repository, this is fine. A fetch would
use the paths only as a heuristic in the delta compression
phase, and a fully packed repository should not need to do
much delta compression.

As time passes, though, we may acquire more objects on top
of our large bitmapped pack. If clients fetch frequently,
then they never even look at the bitmapped history, and all
works as usual. However, a client who has not fetched since
the last bitmap repack will have "have" tips in the
bitmapped history, but "want" newer objects.

The bitmaps themselves degrade gracefully in this
circumstance. We manually walk the more recent bits of
history, and then use bitmaps when we hit them.

But we would also like to perform delta compression between
the newer objects and the bitmapped objects (both to delta
against what we know the user already has, but also between
"new" and "old" objects that the user is fetching). The lack
of pathnames makes our delta heuristics much less effective.

This patch adds an optional cache of the 32-bit name_hash
values to the end of the bitmap file. If present, a reader
can use it to match bitmapped and non-bitmapped names during
delta compression.

Here are perf results for p5310:

Test                      origin/master       HEAD^                      HEAD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5310.2: repack to disk    36.81(37.82+1.43)   47.70(48.74+1.41) +29.6%   47.75(48.70+1.51) +29.7%
5310.3: simulated clone   30.78(29.70+2.14)   1.08(0.97+0.10) -96.5%     1.07(0.94+0.12) -96.5%
5310.4: simulated fetch   3.16(6.10+0.08)     3.54(10.65+0.06) +12.0%    1.70(3.07+0.06) -46.2%
5310.6: partial bitmap    36.76(43.19+1.81)   6.71(11.25+0.76) -81.7%    4.08(6.26+0.46) -88.9%

You can see that the time spent on an incremental fetch goes
down, as our delta heuristics are able to do their work.
And we save time on the partial bitmap clone for the same
reason.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:23 -08:00
Vicent Marti
5cf2741c5a repack: consider bitmaps when performing repacks
Since `pack-objects` will write a `.bitmap` file next to the `.pack` and
`.idx` files, this commit teaches `git-repack` to consider the new
bitmap indexes (if they exist) when performing repack operations.

This implies moving old bitmap indexes out of the way if we are
repacking a repository that already has them, and moving the newly
generated bitmap indexes into the `objects/pack` directory, next to
their corresponding packfiles.

Since `git repack` is now capable of handling these `.bitmap` files,
a normal `git gc` run on a repository that has `pack.writebitmaps` set
to true in its config file will generate bitmap indexes as part of the
garbage collection process.

Alternatively, `git repack` can be called with the `-b` switch to
explicitly generate bitmap indexes if you are experimenting
and don't want them on all the time.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:23 -08:00
Vicent Marti
7cc8f97108 pack-objects: implement bitmap writing
This commit extends more the functionality of `pack-objects` by allowing
it to write out a `.bitmap` index next to any written packs, together
with the `.idx` index that currently gets written.

If bitmap writing is enabled for a given repository (either by calling
`pack-objects` with the `--write-bitmap-index` flag or by having
`pack.writebitmaps` set to `true` in the config) and pack-objects is
writing a packfile that would normally be indexed (i.e. not piping to
stdout), we will attempt to write the corresponding bitmap index for the
packfile.

Bitmap index writing happens after the packfile and its index has been
successfully written to disk (`finish_tmp_packfile`). The process is
performed in several steps:

    1. `bitmap_writer_set_checksum`: this call stores the partial
       checksum for the packfile being written; the checksum will be
       written in the resulting bitmap index to verify its integrity

    2. `bitmap_writer_build_type_index`: this call uses the array of
       `struct object_entry` that has just been sorted when writing out
       the actual packfile index to disk to generate 4 type-index bitmaps
       (one for each object type).

       These bitmaps have their nth bit set if the given object is of
       the bitmap's type. E.g. the nth bit of the Commits bitmap will be
       1 if the nth object in the packfile index is a commit.

       This is a very cheap operation because the bitmap writing code has
       access to the metadata stored in the `struct object_entry` array,
       and hence the real type for each object in the packfile.

    3. `bitmap_writer_reuse_bitmaps`: if there exists an existing bitmap
       index for one of the packfiles we're trying to repack, this call
       will efficiently rebuild the existing bitmaps so they can be
       reused on the new index. All the existing bitmaps will be stored
       in a `reuse` hash table, and the commit selection phase will
       prioritize these when selecting, as they can be written directly
       to the new index without having to perform a revision walk to
       fill the bitmap. This can greatly speed up the repack of a
       repository that already has bitmaps.

    4. `bitmap_writer_select_commits`: if bitmap writing is enabled for
       a given `pack-objects` run, the sequence of commits generated
       during the Counting Objects phase will be stored in an array.

       We then use that array to build up the list of selected commits.
       Writing a bitmap in the index for each object in the repository
       would be cost-prohibitive, so we use a simple heuristic to pick
       the commits that will be indexed with bitmaps.

       The current heuristics are a simplified version of JGit's
       original implementation. We select a higher density of commits
       depending on their age: the 100 most recent commits are always
       selected, after that we pick 1 commit of each 100, and the gap
       increases as the commits grow older. On top of that, we make sure
       that every single branch that has not been merged (all the tips
       that would be required from a clone) gets their own bitmap, and
       when selecting commits between a gap, we tend to prioritize the
       commit with the most parents.

       Do note that there is no right/wrong way to perform commit
       selection; different selection algorithms will result in
       different commits being selected, but there's no such thing as
       "missing a commit". The bitmap walker algorithm implemented in
       `prepare_bitmap_walk` is able to adapt to missing bitmaps by
       performing manual walks that complete the bitmap: the ideal
       selection algorithm, however, would select the commits that are
       more likely to be used as roots for a walk in the future (e.g.
       the tips of each branch, and so on) to ensure a bitmap for them
       is always available.

    5. `bitmap_writer_build`: this is the computationally expensive part
       of bitmap generation. Based on the list of commits that were
       selected in the previous step, we perform several incremental
       walks to generate the bitmap for each commit.

       The walks begin from the oldest commit, and are built up
       incrementally for each branch. E.g. consider this dag where A, B,
       C, D, E, F are the selected commits, and a, b, c, e are a chunk
       of simplified history that will not receive bitmaps.

            A---a---B--b--C--c--D
                     \
                      E--e--F

       We start by building the bitmap for A, using A as the root for a
       revision walk and marking all the objects that are reachable
       until the walk is over. Once this bitmap is stored, we reuse the
       bitmap walker to perform the walk for B, assuming that once we
       reach A again, the walk will be terminated because A has already
       been SEEN on the previous walk.

       This process is repeated for C, and D, but when we try to
       generate the bitmaps for E, we can reuse neither the current walk
       nor the bitmap we have generated so far.

       What we do now is resetting both the walk and clearing the
       bitmap, and performing the walk from scratch using E as the
       origin. This new walk, however, does not need to be completed.
       Once we hit B, we can lookup the bitmap we have already stored
       for that commit and OR it with the existing bitmap we've composed
       so far, allowing us to limit the walk early.

       After all the bitmaps have been generated, another iteration
       through the list of commits is performed to find the best XOR
       offsets for compression before writing them to disk. Because of
       the incremental nature of these bitmaps, XORing one of them with
       its predecesor results in a minimal "bitmap delta" most of the
       time. We can write this delta to the on-disk bitmap index, and
       then re-compose the original bitmaps by XORing them again when
       loaded.

       This is a phase very similar to pack-object's `find_delta` (using
       bitmaps instead of objects, of course), except the heuristics
       have been greatly simplified: we only check the 10 bitmaps before
       any given one to find best compressing one. This gives good
       results in practice, because there is locality in the ordering of
       the objects (and therefore bitmaps) in the packfile.

     6. `bitmap_writer_finish`: the last step in the process is
	serializing to disk all the bitmap data that has been generated
	in the two previous steps.

	The bitmap is written to a tmp file and then moved atomically to
	its final destination, using the same process as
	`pack-write.c:write_idx_file`.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:22 -08:00
Vicent Marti
aa32939fea rev-list: add bitmap mode to speed up object lists
The bitmap reachability index used to speed up the counting objects
phase during `pack-objects` can also be used to optimize a normal
rev-list if the only thing required are the SHA1s of the objects during
the list (i.e., not the path names at which trees and blobs were found).

Calling `git rev-list --objects --use-bitmap-index [committish]` will
perform an object iteration based on a bitmap result instead of actually
walking the object graph.

These are some example timings for `torvalds/linux` (warm cache,
best-of-five):

    $ time git rev-list --objects master > /dev/null

    real    0m34.191s
    user    0m33.904s
    sys     0m0.268s

    $ time git rev-list --objects --use-bitmap-index master > /dev/null

    real    0m1.041s
    user    0m0.976s
    sys     0m0.064s

Likewise, using `git rev-list --count --use-bitmap-index` will speed up
the counting operation by building the resulting bitmap and performing a
fast popcount (number of bits set on the bitmap) on the result.

Here are some sample timings of different ways to count commits in
`torvalds/linux`:

    $ time git rev-list master | wc -l
        399882

        real    0m6.524s
        user    0m6.060s
        sys     0m3.284s

    $ time git rev-list --count master
        399882

        real    0m4.318s
        user    0m4.236s
        sys     0m0.076s

    $ time git rev-list --use-bitmap-index --count master
        399882

        real    0m0.217s
        user    0m0.176s
        sys     0m0.040s

This also respects negative refs, so you can use it to count
a slice of history:

        $ time git rev-list --count v3.0..master
        144843

        real    0m1.971s
        user    0m1.932s
        sys     0m0.036s

        $ time git rev-list --use-bitmap-index --count v3.0..master
        real    0m0.280s
        user    0m0.220s
        sys     0m0.056s

Though note that the closer the endpoints, the less it helps. In the
traversal case, we have fewer commits to cross, so we take less time.
But the bitmap time is dominated by generating the pack revindex, which
is constant with respect to the refs given.

Note that you cannot yet get a fast --left-right count of a symmetric
difference (e.g., "--count --left-right master...topic"). The slow part
of that walk actually happens during the merge-base determination when
we parse "master...topic". Even though a count does not actually need to
know the real merge base (it only needs to take the symmetric difference
of the bitmaps), the revision code would require some refactoring to
handle this case.

Additionally, a `--test-bitmap` flag has been added that will perform
the same rev-list manually (i.e. using a normal revwalk) and using
bitmaps, and verify that the results are the same. This can be used to
exercise the bitmap code, and also to verify that the contents of the
.bitmap file are sane.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:22 -08:00
Vicent Marti
6b8fda2db1 pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objects
In this patch, we use the bitmap API to perform the `Counting Objects`
phase in pack-objects, rather than a traditional walk through the object
graph. For a reasonably-packed large repo, the time to fetch and clone
is often dominated by the full-object revision walk during the Counting
Objects phase. Using bitmaps can reduce the CPU time required on the
server (and therefore start sending the actual pack data with less
delay).

For bitmaps to be used, the following must be true:

  1. We must be packing to stdout (as a normal `pack-objects` from
     `upload-pack` would do).

  2. There must be a .bitmap index containing at least one of the
     "have" objects that the client is asking for.

  3. Bitmaps must be enabled (they are enabled by default, but can be
     disabled by setting `pack.usebitmaps` to false, or by using
     `--no-use-bitmap-index` on the command-line).

If any of these is not true, we fall back to doing a normal walk of the
object graph.

Here are some sample timings from a full pack of `torvalds/linux` (i.e.
something very similar to what would be generated for a clone of the
repository) that show the speedup produced by various
methods:

    [existing graph traversal]
    $ time git pack-objects --all --stdout --no-use-bitmap-index \
			    </dev/null >/dev/null
    Counting objects: 3237103, done.
    Compressing objects: 100% (508752/508752), done.
    Total 3237103 (delta 2699584), reused 3237103 (delta 2699584)

    real    0m44.111s
    user    0m42.396s
    sys     0m3.544s

    [bitmaps only, without partial pack reuse; note that
     pack reuse is automatic, so timing this required a
     patch to disable it]
    $ time git pack-objects --all --stdout </dev/null >/dev/null
    Counting objects: 3237103, done.
    Compressing objects: 100% (508752/508752), done.
    Total 3237103 (delta 2699584), reused 3237103 (delta 2699584)

    real    0m5.413s
    user    0m5.604s
    sys     0m1.804s

    [bitmaps with pack reuse (what you get with this patch)]
    $ time git pack-objects --all --stdout </dev/null >/dev/null
    Reusing existing pack: 3237103, done.
    Total 3237103 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

    real    0m1.636s
    user    0m1.460s
    sys     0m0.172s

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:22 -08:00
Vicent Marti
0d4455a3ab documentation: add documentation for the bitmap format
This is the technical documentation for the JGit-compatible Bitmap v1
on-disk format.

Signed-off-by: Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-30 12:19:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
53b2a5ff30 Merge branch 'jk/name-pack-after-byte-representation'
Two packfiles that contain the same set of objects have
traditionally been named identically, but that made repacking a
repository that is already fully packed without any cruft with a
different packing parameter cumbersome. Update the convention to
name the packfile after the bytestream representation of the data,
not after the set of objects in it.

* jk/name-pack-after-byte-representation:
  pack-objects doc: treat output filename as opaque
  pack-objects: name pack files after trailer hash
  sha1write: make buffer const-correct
2013-12-27 14:58:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6904f9aa5b Merge branch 'zk/difftool-counts'
Show the total number of paths and the number of paths shown so far
when "git difftool" prompts to launch an external diff tool, which
would give users some sense of progress.

* zk/difftool-counts:
  diff.c: fix some recent whitespace style violations
  difftool: display the number of files in the diff queue in the prompt
2013-12-27 14:58:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2b0a564e02 Merge branch 'jk/pull-rebase-using-fork-point'
* jk/pull-rebase-using-fork-point:
  rebase: use reflog to find common base with upstream
  pull: use merge-base --fork-point when appropriate
2013-12-27 14:58:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7cdebd8a20 Merge branch 'jc/push-refmap'
Make "git push origin master" update the same ref that would be
updated by our 'master' when "git push origin" (no refspecs) is run
while the 'master' branch is checked out, which makes "git push"
more symmetric to "git fetch" and more usable for the triangular
workflow.

* jc/push-refmap:
  push: also use "upstream" mapping when pushing a single ref
  push: use remote.$name.push as a refmap
  builtin/push.c: use strbuf instead of manual allocation
2013-12-27 14:57:50 -08:00
Jeff King
65ea9c3c3d cat-file: provide %(deltabase) batch format
It can be useful for debugging or analysis to see which
objects are stored as delta bases on top of others. This
information is available by running `git verify-pack`, but
that is extremely expensive (and is harder than necessary to
parse).

Instead, let's make it available as a cat-file query format,
which makes it fast and simple to get the bases for a subset
of the objects.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-26 11:54:26 -08:00
Samuel Bronson
6d8940b562 diff: add diff.orderfile configuration variable
diff.orderfile acts as a default for the -O command line option.

[sb: split up aw's original patch; rework tests and docs, treat option
as pathname]

Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-18 16:39:00 -08:00
Roberto Tyley
615b8f1a8d docs: add filter-branch notes on The BFG
The BFG is a tool specifically designed for the task of removing
unwanted data from Git repository history - a common use-case for which
git-filter-branch has been the traditional workhorse.

It's beneficial to let users know that filter-branch has an alternative
here:

* speed : The BFG is 10-50x faster
  http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#speed
* complexity of configuration : filter-branch is a very flexible tool,
  but demands very careful usage in order to get the desired results
  http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples

Obviously, filter-branch has it's advantages too - it permits very
complex rewrites, and doesn't require a JVM - but for the common
use-case of deleting unwanted data, it's helpful to users to be aware
that an alternative exists.

The BFG was released under the GPL in February 2013, and has since seen
widespread production use (The Guardian, RedHat, Google, UK Government
Digital Service), been tested against large repos (~300K commits, ~5GB
packfiles) and received significant positive feedback from users:

http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#feedback

Signed-off-by: Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-18 10:41:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7794a680e6 Sync with 1.8.5.2
* maint:
  Git 1.8.5.2
  cmd_repack(): remove redundant local variable "nr_packs"
2013-12-17 14:12:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b10cd577d8 Update draft release notes to 1.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-17 14:05:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
173473c287 Merge branch 'kn/gitweb-extra-branch-refs'
Allow gitweb to be configured to show refs out of refs/heads/ as if
they were branches.

* kn/gitweb-extra-branch-refs:
  gitweb: Denote non-heads, non-remotes branches
  gitweb: Add a feature for adding more branch refs
  gitweb: Return 1 on validation success instead of passed input
  gitweb: Move check-ref-format code into separate function
2013-12-17 12:03:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0067272999 Merge branch 'bc/doc-merge-no-op-revert'
* bc/doc-merge-no-op-revert:
  Documentation: document pitfalls with 3-way merge
2013-12-17 11:47:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4d1826d1d9 Merge branch 'fc/trivial'
* fc/trivial:
  remote: fix status with branch...rebase=preserve
  fetch: add missing documentation
  t: trivial whitespace cleanups
  abspath: trivial style fix
2013-12-17 11:46:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f9633716d0 Merge branch 'kb/doc-exclude-directory-semantics'
* kb/doc-exclude-directory-semantics:
  gitignore.txt: clarify recursive nature of excluded directories
2013-12-17 11:44:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5512ac5840 Git 1.8.5.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-17 11:42:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
59f3e3f1e2 Merge branch 'rs/doc-submitting-patches' into maint
* rs/doc-submitting-patches:
  SubmittingPatches: document how to handle multiple patches
2013-12-17 11:38:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5169f5a484 Merge branch 'tr/doc-git-cherry' into maint
* tr/doc-git-cherry:
  Documentation: revamp git-cherry(1)
2013-12-17 11:37:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
212607494d Merge branch 'nd/glossary-content-pathspec-markup' into maint
* nd/glossary-content-pathspec-markup:
  glossary-content.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
2013-12-17 11:36:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c8394bb466 Merge branch 'jj/doc-markup-gitcli' into maint
* jj/doc-markup-gitcli:
  Documentation/gitcli.txt: fix double quotes
2013-12-17 11:36:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5712dcb209 Merge branch 'jj/doc-markup-hints-in-coding-guidelines' into maint
* jj/doc-markup-hints-in-coding-guidelines:
  State correct usage of literal examples in man pages in the coding standards
2013-12-17 11:36:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ace08c2239 Merge branch 'jj/log-doc' into maint
* jj/log-doc:
  Documentation/git-log.txt: mark-up fix and minor rephasing
  Documentation/git-log: update "--log-size" description
2013-12-17 11:35:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7be001dfbf Merge branch 'jj/rev-list-options-doc' into maint
* jj/rev-list-options-doc:
  Documentation/rev-list-options.txt: fix some grammatical issues and typos
  Documentation/rev-list-options.txt: fix mark-up
2013-12-17 11:34:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e8fcf70cd4 Merge branch 'tb/doc-fetch-pack-url' into maint
* tb/doc-fetch-pack-url:
  git-fetch-pack uses URLs like git-fetch
2013-12-17 11:34:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a4a227a725 Merge branch 'mi/typofixes' into maint
* mi/typofixes:
  contrib: typofixes
  Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt: typofixes
  typofixes: fix misspelt comments
2013-12-17 11:34:01 -08:00
Jeff King
40a4f5a7bf pack-objects doc: treat output filename as opaque
After 1190a1a (pack-objects: name pack files after trailer hash,
2013-12-05), the SHA-1 used to determine the filename is calculated
differently.  Update the documentation to not guarantee anything more
than that the SHA-1 depends on the pack content somehow.

Hopefully this will discourage readers from depending on the old or
the new calculation.

Reported-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-16 11:36:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d7aced95cd Update draft release notes to 1.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-12 14:24:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
72911f8c18 Merge branch 'cn/thin-push-capability'
Allow receive-pack to insist on receiving a fat pack from "git
push" clients.

* cn/thin-push-capability:
  send-pack: don't send a thin pack to a server which doesn't support it
2013-12-12 14:20:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
577aed296a Merge branch 'jk/remove-deprecated'
* jk/remove-deprecated:
  stop installing git-tar-tree link
  peek-remote: remove deprecated alias of ls-remote
  lost-found: remove deprecated command
  tar-tree: remove deprecated command
  repo-config: remove deprecated alias for "git config"
2013-12-12 14:18:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fca26a3430 Merge branch 'rs/doc-submitting-patches'
* rs/doc-submitting-patches:
  SubmittingPatches: document how to handle multiple patches
2013-12-12 14:18:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
71fe59f880 Merge branch 'tr/doc-git-cherry'
* tr/doc-git-cherry:
  Documentation: revamp git-cherry(1)
2013-12-12 14:18:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e66ef7ae6f Merge branch 'mh/fetch-tags-in-addition-to-normal-refs'
The "--tags" option to "git fetch" used to be literally a synonym to
a "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" refspec, which meant that (1) as an
explicit refspec given from the command line, it silenced the lazy
"git fetch" default that is configured, and (2) also as an explicit
refspec given from the command line, it interacted with "--prune"
to remove any tag that the remote we are fetching from does not
have.

This demotes it to an option; with it, we fetch all tags in
addition to what would be fetched without the option, and it does
not interact with the decision "--prune" makes to see what
remote-tracking refs the local has are missing the remote
counterpart.

* mh/fetch-tags-in-addition-to-normal-refs: (23 commits)
  fetch: improve the error messages emitted for conflicting refspecs
  handle_duplicate(): mark error message for translation
  ref_remote_duplicates(): extract a function handle_duplicate()
  ref_remove_duplicates(): simplify loop logic
  t5536: new test of refspec conflicts when fetching
  ref_remove_duplicates(): avoid redundant bisection
  git-fetch.txt: improve description of tag auto-following
  fetch-options.txt: simplify ifdef/ifndef/endif usage
  fetch, remote: properly convey --no-prune options to subprocesses
  builtin/remote.c:update(): use struct argv_array
  builtin/remote.c: reorder function definitions
  query_refspecs(): move some constants out of the loop
  fetch --prune: prune only based on explicit refspecs
  fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to* other stuff
  fetch: only opportunistically update references based on command line
  get_expanded_map(): avoid memory leak
  get_expanded_map(): add docstring
  builtin/fetch.c: reorder function definitions
  get_ref_map(): rename local variables
  api-remote.txt: correct section "struct refspec"
  ...
2013-12-12 14:14:10 -08:00
Krzesimir Nowak
8d646a9bac gitweb: Add a feature for adding more branch refs
Allow extra-branch-refs feature to tell gitweb to show refs from
additional hierarchies in addition to branches in the list-of-branches
view.

Signed-off-by: Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@endocode.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-12 12:37:37 -08:00
Christian Couder
34a332221c Documentation/git-replace: describe --format option
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-12 11:53:49 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
82fba2b9d3 git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitations
Now that git supports data transfer from or to a shallow clone, these
limitations are not true anymore.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:19 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
eab3296c7e prune: clean .git/shallow after pruning objects
This patch teaches "prune" to remove shallow roots that are no longer
reachable from any refs (e.g. when the relevant refs are removed).

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:19 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
16094885ca smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:18 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
0a1bc12b6e receive-pack: allow pushes that update .git/shallow
The basic 8 steps to update .git/shallow does not fully apply here
because the user may choose to accept just a few refs (while fetch
always accepts all refs). The steps are modified a bit.

1-6. same as before. After calling assign_shallow_commits_to_refs at
   step 6, each shallow commit has a bitmap that marks all refs that
   require it.

7. mark all "ours" shallow commits that are reachable from any
   refs. We will need to do the original step 7 on them later.

8. go over all shallow commit bitmaps, mark refs that require new
   shallow commits.

9. setup a strict temporary shallow file to plug all the holes, even
   if it may cut some of our history short. This file is used by all
   hooks. The hooks could use --shallow-file=$GIT_DIR/shallow to
   overcome this and reach everything in current repo.

10. go over the new refs one by one. For each ref, do the reachability
   test if it needs a shallow commit on the list from step 7. Remove
   it if it's reachable from our refs. Gather all required shallow
   commits, run check_everything_connected() with the new ref, then
   install them to .git/shallow.

This mode is disabled by default and can be turned on with
receive.shallowupdate

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:18 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
5dbd767601 receive/send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:17 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
48d25cae22 fetch: add --update-shallow to accept refs that update .git/shallow
The same steps are done as in when --update-shallow is not given. The
only difference is we now add all shallow commits in "ours" and
"theirs" to .git/shallow (aka "step 8").

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:17 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
79d3a236c5 upload-pack: make sure deepening preserves shallow roots
When "fetch --depth=N" where N exceeds the longest chain of history in
the source repo, usually we just send an "unshallow" line to the
client so full history is obtained.

When the source repo is shallow we need to make sure to "unshallow"
the current shallow point _and_ "shallow" again when the commit
reaches its shallow bottom in the source repo.

This should fix both cases: large <N> and --unshallow.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:17 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
ad491366de make the sender advertise shallow commits to the receiver
If either receive-pack or upload-pack is called on a shallow
repository, shallow commits (*) will be sent after the ref
advertisement (but before the packet flush), so that the receiver has
the full "shape" of the sender's commit graph. This will be needed for
the receiver to update its .git/shallow if necessary.

This breaks the protocol for all clients trying to push to a shallow
repo, or fetch from one. Which is basically the same end result as
today's "is_repository_shallow() && die()" in receive-pack and
upload-pack. New clients will be made aware of shallow upstream and
can make use of this information.

The sender must send all shallow commits that are sent in the
following pack. It may send more shallow commits than necessary.

upload-pack for example may choose to advertise no shallow commits if
it knows in advance that the pack it's going to send contains no
shallow commits. But upload-pack is the server, so we choose the
cheaper way, send full .git/shallow and let the client deal with it.

Smart HTTP is not affected by this patch. Shallow support on
smart-http comes later separately.

(*) A shallow commit is a commit that terminates the revision
    walker. It is usually put in .git/shallow in order to keep the
    revision walker from going out of bound because there is no
    guarantee that objects behind this commit is available.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 16:14:16 -08:00
John Keeping
ad8261d212 rebase: use reflog to find common base with upstream
Commit 15a147e (rebase: use @{upstream} if no upstream specified,
2011-02-09) says:

	Make it default to 'git rebase @{upstream}'. That is also what
	'git pull [--rebase]' defaults to, so it only makes sense that
	'git rebase' defaults to the same thing.

but that isn't actually the case.  Since commit d44e712 (pull: support
rebased upstream + fetch + pull --rebase, 2009-07-19), pull has actually
chosen the most recent reflog entry which is an ancestor of the current
branch if it can find one.

Add a '--fork-point' argument to git-rebase that can be used to trigger
this behaviour.  This option is turned on by default if no non-option
arguments are specified on the command line, otherwise we treat an
upstream specified on the command-line literally.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10 10:56:30 -08:00
brian m. carlson
c566500032 Documentation: document pitfalls with 3-way merge
Oftentimes people will make the same change in two branches, revert the change
in one branch, and then be surprised when a merge reinstitutes that change when
the branches are merged.  Add an explanatory paragraph that explains that this
occurs and the reason why, so people are not surprised.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-09 13:42:40 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
379484b551 fetch: add missing documentation
There's no mention of the 'origin' default, or the fact that the
upstream tracking branch remote is used.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-09 13:24:33 -08:00
Karsten Blees
59856de171 gitignore.txt: clarify recursive nature of excluded directories
Additionally, precedence of negated patterns is exactly as outlined in
the DESCRIPTION section, we don't need to repeat this.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-09 10:55:48 -08:00
Zoltan Klinger
ee7fb0b1d4 difftool: display the number of files in the diff queue in the prompt
When --prompt option is set, git-difftool displays a prompt for each
modified file to be viewed in an external diff program.  At that
point, it could be useful to display a counter and the total number
of files in the diff queue.

Below is the current difftool prompt for the first of 5 modified files:

    Viewing: 'diff.c'
    Launch 'vimdiff' [Y/n]:

Consider the modified prompt:

    Viewing (1/5): 'diff.c'
    Launch 'vimdiff' [Y/n]:

The current GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF mechanism does not tell the number of
paths in the diff queue nor the current counter.  To make this
"counter/total" info available for GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF programs
without breaking existing ones by doing the following:

 - Keep track of the number of paths shown so far in diff_options;

 - Export two new environment variables from run_external_diff() to
   show the total number of paths (from diff_queue_struct) and the
   current value of the counter (from diff_options); and

 - Update git-difftool--helper to use these two environment variables.

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Klinger <zoltan.klinger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-06 14:00:27 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
ef79b1f870 Support pathspec magic :(exclude) and its short form :!
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-06 13:00:39 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
8b7cb51a9d glossary-content.txt: rephrase magic signature part
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-06 13:00:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
077f43447c Start 1.9 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-06 11:20:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cb6bd5722f Merge branch 'rr/for-each-ref-decoration'
Add a few formatting directives to "git for-each-ref --format=...",
to paint them in color, etc.

* rr/for-each-ref-decoration:
  for-each-ref: avoid color leakage
  for-each-ref: introduce %(color:...) for color
  for-each-ref: introduce %(upstream:track[short])
  for-each-ref: introduce %(HEAD) asterisk marker
  t6300 (for-each-ref): don't hardcode SHA-1 hexes
  t6300 (for-each-ref): clearly demarcate setup
2013-12-06 11:07:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
15a42a10ec Sync with 1.8.5 2013-12-05 14:11:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
10167eb251 Merge branch 'jc/ref-excludes'
People often wished a way to tell "git log --branches" (and "git
log --remotes --not --branches") to exclude some local branches
from the expansion of "--branches" (similarly for "--tags", "--all"
and "--glob=<pattern>").  Now they have one.

* jc/ref-excludes:
  rev-parse: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
  rev-list --exclude: export add/clear-ref-exclusion and ref-excluded API
  rev-list --exclude: tests
  document --exclude option
  revision: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
2013-12-05 12:59:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3576f113cb Merge branch 'nv/parseopt-opt-arg'
Enhance "rev-parse --parseopt" mode to help parsing options with
an optional parameter.

* nv/parseopt-opt-arg:
  rev-parse --parseopt: add the --stuck-long mode
  Use the word 'stuck' instead of 'sticked'
2013-12-05 12:59:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
07d406b742 Merge branch 'jc/merge-base-reflog'
Code the logic in "pull --rebase" that figures out a fork point
from reflog entries in C.

* jc/merge-base-reflog:
  merge-base: teach "--fork-point" mode
  merge-base: use OPT_CMDMODE and clarify the command line parsing
2013-12-05 12:58:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ca02465b41 push: use remote.$name.push as a refmap
Since f2690487 (fetch: opportunistically update tracking refs,
2013-05-11), we stopped taking a non-storing refspec given on the
command line of "git fetch" literally, and instead started mapping
it via remote.$name.fetch refspecs.  This allows

    $ git fetch origin master

from the 'origin' repository, which is configured with

    [remote "origin"]
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

to update refs/remotes/origin/master with the result, as if the
command line were

    $ git fetch origin +master:refs/remotes/origin/master

to reduce surprises and improve usability.  Before that change, a
refspec on the command line without a colon was only to fetch the
history and leave the result in FETCH_HEAD, without updating the
remote-tracking branches.

When you are simulating a fetch from you by your mothership with a
push by you into your mothership, instead of having:

    [remote "satellite"]
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/satellite/*

on the mothership repository and running:

    mothership$ git fetch satellite

you would have:

    [remote "mothership"]
        push = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/satellite/*

on your satellite machine, and run:

    satellite$ git push mothership

Because we so far did not make the corresponding change to the push
side, this command:

    satellite$ git push mothership master

does _not_ allow you on the satellite to only push 'master' out but
still to the usual destination (i.e. refs/remotes/satellite/master).

Implement the logic to map an unqualified refspec given on the
command line via the remote.$name.push refspec.  This will bring a
bit more symmetry between "fetch" and "push".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-04 15:11:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
daad3aa255 Sync with 1.8.5.1
* maint:
  Git 1.8.5.1
  ref-iteration doc: add_submodule_odb() returns 0 for success
2013-12-03 11:44:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
34f4a75f1e Merge branch 'nd/glossary-content-pathspec-markup'
* nd/glossary-content-pathspec-markup:
  glossary-content.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
2013-12-03 11:41:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0b6f39b060 Merge branch 'jj/doc-markup-gitcli'
* jj/doc-markup-gitcli:
  Documentation/gitcli.txt: fix double quotes
2013-12-03 11:41:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f0c9253ef9 Merge branch 'jj/doc-markup-hints-in-coding-guidelines'
* jj/doc-markup-hints-in-coding-guidelines:
  State correct usage of literal examples in man pages in the coding standards
2013-12-03 11:41:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a2cb44c61d Merge branch 'jj/log-doc'
Mark-up fixes.

* jj/log-doc:
  Documentation/git-log.txt: mark-up fix and minor rephasing
  Documentation/git-log: update "--log-size" description
2013-12-03 11:41:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a8cb37fb39 Merge branch 'jj/rev-list-options-doc'
Mark-up and grammo fixes.

* jj/rev-list-options-doc:
  Documentation/rev-list-options.txt: fix some grammatical issues and typos
  Documentation/rev-list-options.txt: fix mark-up
2013-12-03 11:41:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
144d84644f Merge branch 'mi/typofixes'
* mi/typofixes:
  contrib: typofixes
  Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt: typofixes
  typofixes: fix misspelt comments
2013-12-03 11:41:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
23ca729228 Merge branch 'tb/doc-fetch-pack-url'
* tb/doc-fetch-pack-url:
  git-fetch-pack uses URLs like git-fetch
2013-12-03 11:41:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a155a5f075 Git 1.8.5.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-03 11:16:56 -08:00
Nick Townsend
2951add0e9 ref-iteration doc: add_submodule_odb() returns 0 for success
The usage sample of add_submodule_odb() function in the Submodules
section expects non-zero return value for success, but the function
actually reports success with zero.

Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Nick Townsend <nick.townsend@mac.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-03 10:40:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
be38bee862 Sync with 1.8.4.5 2013-12-02 15:34:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2f93541d88 Git 1.8.4.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-02 15:33:30 -08:00
Thomas Rast
7c801fbc74 Documentation: revamp git-cherry(1)
git-cherry(1)'s "description" section has never really managed
to explain to me what the command does.  It contains too much
explanation of the algorithm instead of simply saying what
goals it achieves, and too much terminology that we otherwise
do not use (fork-point instead of merge-base).

Try a much more concise approach: state what it finds out, why
this is neat, and how the output is formatted, in a few short
paragraphs.  In return, provide much longer examples of how it
fits into a "format-patch | am" based workflow, and how it
compares to reading the same from git-log.

Also carefully avoid using "merge" in a context where it does
not mean something that comes from git-merge(1).  Instead, say
"apply" in an attempt to further link to patch workflow
concepts.

While there, also omit the language about _which_ upstream
branch we treat as the default.  I literally just learned that
we support having several, so let's not confuse new users
here, especially considering that git-config(1) does not
document this.

Prompted-by: a.huemer@commend.com on #git
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-27 12:16:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d2446dfd7f Git 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-27 12:14:45 -08:00
René Scharfe
eaa6c987e6 SubmittingPatches: document how to handle multiple patches
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-27 11:05:58 -08:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
1ba98a79f1 send-pack: don't send a thin pack to a server which doesn't support it
Up to now git has assumed that all servers are able to fix thin
packs. This is however not always the case.

Document the 'no-thin' capability and prevent send-pack from generating
a thin pack if the server advertises it.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-25 13:16:19 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
746be68d31 glossary-content.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
"**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it. This is similar
to 8447dc8 (gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns -
2013-11-07)

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-21 10:33:40 -08:00
Jason St. John
0b7e4e0da4 Documentation/gitcli.txt: fix double quotes
Replace double quotes around literal examples with backticks

Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-20 15:18:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
039a6d2463 Sync with 1.8.4.4 2013-11-20 11:26:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
becb4336cb Git 1.8.4.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-20 11:26:08 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
fddb74c947 for-each-ref: introduce %(color:...) for color
Enhance 'git for-each-ref' with color formatting options.  You can now
use the following format in for-each-ref:

  %(color:green)%(refname:short)%(color:reset)

where color names are described in color.branch.*.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-19 10:14:15 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
b28061ce0d for-each-ref: introduce %(upstream:track[short])
Introduce %(upstream:track) to display "[ahead M, behind N]" and
%(upstream:trackshort) to display "=", ">", "<", or "<>"
appropriately (inspired by contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh).

Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref:

  %(refname:short)%(upstream:trackshort)

to display refs with terse tracking information.

Note that :track and :trackshort only work with "upstream", and error
out when used with anything else.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-19 10:14:15 -08:00
Marc Branchaud
569fb49fce RelNotes: spelling & grammar fixes
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 14:35:55 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
7a48b83219 for-each-ref: introduce %(HEAD) asterisk marker
'git branch' shows which branch you are currently on with an '*', but
'git for-each-ref' misses this feature.  So, extend its format with
%(HEAD) for the same effect.

Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref:

  %(HEAD) %(refname:short)

to display an asterisk next to the current ref.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:49:42 -08:00
Jason St. John
19d6eb412c Documentation/rev-list-options.txt: fix some grammatical issues and typos
Various fixes:

 - fix typos (e.g. "show" -> "shown")
 - use "regular expression(s)" instead of "regexp" where appropriate
 - reword some sentences for easier reading
 - fix/improve some grammatical issues (e.g. comma usage)
 - add missing articles (e.g. "the")
 - change "E-mail" to "email"

Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:38:43 -08:00
Jason St. John
4528aa1aaf Documentation/rev-list-options.txt: fix mark-up
Some the labeled list entries have a blank line between the label
and the body text, and some don't.  Use the latter style for
consistency; incidentally, syntax highlighting in Vim works better
if there is no blank line there.

Typeset literal options, commands, and path names in monospace.
When using `literal string` mark-up to do so, there is no need to
escape AsciiDoc special characters with backslashes, so make sure we
don't do so.

Replace some double quotes with proper AsciiDoc quotes
(e.g. ``foo'').

Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:33:55 -08:00
Jason St. John
ca03c3682a State correct usage of literal examples in man pages in the coding standards
The man pages contain inconsistent usage of backticks vs. single quotes
around options, commands, etc. that are in paragraphs. This commit states
that backticks should always be used around literal examples.

This commit states that "--" and friends should not be escaped
(e.g. use `--pretty=oneline` instead of `\--pretty=oneline`).

This commit also states correct usage for typesetting command usage
examples with inline substitutions.

Thanks-to: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Stuart Rackham <srackham@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:30:51 -08:00
Karsten Blees
efc684245b remove old hash.[ch] implementation
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
6a364ced49 add a hashtable implementation that supports O(1) removal
The existing hashtable implementation (in hash.[ch]) uses open addressing
(i.e. resolve hash collisions by distributing entries across the table).
Thus, removal is difficult to implement with less than O(n) complexity.
Resolving collisions of entries with identical hashes (e.g. via chaining)
is left to the client code.

Add a hashtable implementation that supports O(1) removal and is slightly
easier to use due to builtin entry chaining.

Supports all basic operations init, free, get, add, remove and iteration.

Also includes ready-to-use hash functions based on the public domain FNV-1
algorithm (http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/fnv).

The per-entry data structure (hashmap_entry) is piggybacked in front of
the client's data structure to save memory. See test-hashmap.c for usage
examples.

The hashtable is resized by a factor of four when 80% full. With these
settings, average memory consumption is about 2/3 of hash.[ch], and
insertion is about twice as fast due to less frequent resizing.

Lookups are also slightly faster, because entries are strictly confined to
their bucket (i.e. no data of other buckets needs to be traversed).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:03:51 -08:00
Jason St. John
b20cc13e73 Documentation/git-log.txt: mark-up fix and minor rephasing
- typeset options, commands, and paths in monospace;
 - typeset references to sections with emphasis;
 - replace some double quotes with proper AsciiDoc quotes (e.g. ``foo'');
 - use title case when referring to section headings.

Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-13 14:09:14 -08:00
Jason St. John
c20e6fb1df Documentation/git-log: update "--log-size" description
"--log-size" was added in commit 9fa3465, and the commit message
contained a satisfactory explanation; however, the man page entry
for it did not describe the actual output format, what the output
meant and what the option was meant to be used for.

Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-13 14:06:17 -08:00
John Keeping
816b2c04c9 peek-remote: remove deprecated alias of ls-remote
This has been deprecated since commit 87194d2 (Deprecate peek-remote,
2007-11-24), included in version 1.5.4.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 14:10:22 -08:00
John Keeping
7c4012812a lost-found: remove deprecated command
"git lost-found" has been deprecated since commit fc8b5f0 (Deprecate
git-lost-found, 2007-11-08), included in version 1.5.4.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 14:10:21 -08:00
John Keeping
925ceccf05 tar-tree: remove deprecated command
"git tar-tree" has been a thin wrapper around "git archive" since commit
fd88d9c (Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to
git-archive, 2006-09-24), which also made it print a message indicating
that git-tar-tree is deprecated.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 14:10:19 -08:00
John Keeping
eb8e7e1d9a repo-config: remove deprecated alias for "git config"
The release notes for Git 1.5.4 say that "git repo-config" will be
removed in the next feature release.  Since Git 2.0 is nearly here,
remove it.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 14:10:17 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
510fa6f518 transport-helper: add 'force' to 'export' helpers
Otherwise they cannot know when to force the push or not (other than
hacks).

Tests-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Documentation-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 13:34:32 -08:00
Jason St. John
0ffa154b5b Correct word usage of "timezone" in "Documentation" directory
"timezone" is two words, not one (i.e. "time zone" is correct).

Correct this in these files:
-- date-formats.txt
-- git-blame.txt
-- git-cvsimport.txt
-- git-fast-import.txt
-- git-svn.txt
-- gitweb.conf.txt
-- rev-list-options.txt

Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 10:47:17 -08:00
Masanari Iida
7e7cf80d74 Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt: typofixes
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 09:42:08 -08:00
Torsten Bögershausen
70cce99441 git-fetch-pack uses URLs like git-fetch
"git fetch-pack" allows [<host>:]<directory> to point out the source
repository.
Use the term <repository>, which is already used in "git fetch" or "git pull"
to describe URLs supported by Git.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-11 12:18:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0ecd94d7d7 Sync with 1.8.4.3 2013-11-08 12:08:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d7d2c87955 Git 1.8.4.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-08 12:06:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
867b1c1bf6 Sync with maint
* maint:
  Start preparing for 1.8.4.3
  gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
2013-11-07 14:41:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
486b65a4c3 Start preparing for 1.8.4.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-07 14:39:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8edf8c0a9b Merge branch 'sc/doc-howto-dumb-http' into maint
An ancient How-To on serving Git repositories on an HTTP server
lacked a warning that it has been mostly superseded with more
modern way.

* sc/doc-howto-dumb-http:
  doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too old
2013-11-07 14:37:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5022b58e58 Merge branch 'vd/doc-unpack-objects' into maint
The synopsis section of "git unpack-objects" documentation has been
clarified a bit.

* vd/doc-unpack-objects:
  Documentation: "pack-file" is not literal in unpack-objects
  Documentation: restore a space in unpack-objects usage
2013-11-07 14:37:36 -08:00
Karsten Blees
8447dc8904 gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns
"**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-07 10:49:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
152a9c17a8 Merge branch 'fc/trivial'
A random collection of style fixes and minor doc updates.

* fc/trivial:
  setup: trivial style fixes
  run-command: trivial style fixes
  diff: trivial style fix
  revision: trivial style fixes
  pretty: trivial style fix
  describe: trivial style fixes
  transport-helper: trivial style fix
  sha1-name: trivial style cleanup
  branch: trivial style fix
  revision: add missing include
  doc/pull: clarify the illustrations
  t: replace pulls with merges
  merge: simplify ff-only option
2013-11-06 14:34:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f26f72de15 Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-04 15:05:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ea065926b3 Merge branch 'vd/doc-unpack-objects'
* vd/doc-unpack-objects:
  Documentation: "pack-file" is not literal in unpack-objects
  Documentation: restore a space in unpack-objects usage
2013-11-04 14:58:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
68d5fbe285 Merge branch 'sc/doc-howto-dumb-http'
* sc/doc-howto-dumb-http:
  doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too old
2013-11-04 14:57:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9dc01bf063 rev-parse: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
Teach "rev-parse" the same "I'm going to glob, but omit the ones
that match these patterns" feature as "rev-list".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-01 13:09:45 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
574d370b06 document --exclude option
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-01 13:09:19 -07:00
Vivien Didelot
61e2e22f60 Documentation: "pack-file" is not literal in unpack-objects
Make it clear that "pack-file" is not to be spelled as is in the
unpack-objects usage.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-01 09:13:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aa2706463f Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-01 08:14:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c9bb7d040a Merge branch 'rs/web-browse-xdg-open'
* rs/web-browse-xdg-open:
  web--browse: Add support for xdg-open
2013-11-01 07:38:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
60e779adaa Merge branch 'jk/pack-corruption-post-mortem'
* jk/pack-corruption-post-mortem:
  howto: add article on recovering a corrupted object
2013-11-01 07:38:46 -07:00
Nicolas Vigier
f8c872127d rev-parse --parseopt: add the --stuck-long mode
Add the --stuck-long option to output the options in their long form
if available, and with their arguments stuck.

Contrary to the default form (non stuck arguments and short options),
this can be parsed unambiguously when using options with optional
arguments :

 - in the non stuck form, when an option is taking an optional argument
   you cannot know if the next argument is its optional argument, or the
   next option.

 - the long options form allows to differentiate between an empty argument
   '--option=' and an unset argument '--option', which is not possible
   with short options.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 15:47:41 -07:00
Nicolas Vigier
b0d12fc9b2 Use the word 'stuck' instead of 'sticked'
The past participle of 'stick' is 'stuck'.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 15:47:38 -07:00
Vivien Didelot
724249862e Documentation: restore a space in unpack-objects usage
The commit 87b7b84 removed a space in the unpack-objects usage, which
makes the synopsis a bit confusing. This patch simply restores it.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 15:11:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5a3fd6afd4 doc/pull: clarify the illustrations
The second illustration that shows the history after "git pull"
spelled the remote-tracking branch with "remotes/" prefix, which
is not necessary.  Drop it.

To match the assumption that a remote-tracking branch is used to
keep track of the advancement of the master at the origin, update
the first illustration that shows the history before "git pull"
to show the distinction between the master currently at origin and
the stale origin/master remote-tracking branch.

Noticed-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-31 13:45:29 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
37f0dcbdc1 git-fetch.txt: improve description of tag auto-following
Make it clearer that tags are fetched independent of which branches
were fetched from the remote in any particular fetch.  (Tags are even
fetched if they point at objects that are in the current repository
but not reachable, which is probably a bug.)

Put less emphasis on the mechanism and more on the effect of tag
auto-following.  Also mention the options and configuration settings
that can change the tag-fetching behavior.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 14:16:41 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
01ca90c2e5 fetch-options.txt: simplify ifdef/ifndef/endif usage
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 14:16:41 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
0838bf47b3 fetch --prune: prune only based on explicit refspecs
The old behavior of "fetch --prune" was to prune whatever was being
fetched.  In particular, "fetch --prune --tags" caused tags not only
to be fetched, but also to be pruned.  This is inappropriate because
there is only one tags namespace that is shared among the local
repository and all remotes.  Therefore, if the user defines a local
tag and then runs "git fetch --prune --tags", then the local tag is
deleted.  Moreover, "--prune" and "--tags" can also be configured via
fetch.prune / remote.<name>.prune and remote.<name>.tagopt, making it
even less obvious that an invocation of "git fetch" could result in
tag lossage.

Since the command "git remote update" invokes "git fetch", it had the
same problem.

The command "git remote prune", on the other hand, disregarded the
setting of remote.<name>.tagopt, and so its behavior was inconsistent
with that of the other commands.

So the old behavior made it too easy to lose tags.  To fix this
problem, change "fetch --prune" to prune references based only on
refspecs specified explicitly by the user, either on the command line
or via remote.<name>.fetch.  Thus, tags are no longer made subject to
pruning by the --tags option or the remote.<name>.tagopt setting.

However, tags *are* still subject to pruning if they are fetched as
part of a refspec, and that is good.  For example:

* On the command line,

      git fetch --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'

  causes tags, and only tags, to be fetched and pruned, and is
  therefore a simple way for the user to get the equivalent of the old
  behavior of "--prune --tag".

* For a remote that was configured with the "--mirror" option, the
  configuration is set to include

      [remote "name"]
              fetch = +refs/*:refs/*

  , which causes tags to be subject to pruning along with all other
  references.  This is the behavior that will typically be desired for
  a mirror.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 14:16:37 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
c5a84e92a2 fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to* other stuff
Previously, fetch's "--tags" option was considered equivalent to
specifying the refspec "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" on the command line;
in particular, it caused the remote.<name>.refspec configuration to be
ignored.

But it is not very useful to fetch tags without also fetching other
references, whereas it *is* quite useful to be able to fetch tags *in
addition to* other references.  So change the semantics of this option
to do the latter.

If a user wants to fetch *only* tags, then it is still possible to
specifying an explicit refspec:

    git fetch <remote> 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'

Please note that the documentation prior to 1.8.0.3 was ambiguous
about this aspect of "fetch --tags" behavior.  Commit

    f0cb2f137c 2012-12-14 fetch --tags: clarify documentation

made the documentation match the old behavior.  This commit changes
the documentation to match the new behavior.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 14:16:36 -07:00
Rüdiger Sonderfeld
6ca0f80b6c web--browse: Add support for xdg-open
xdg-open is a tool similar to git-web--browse.  It opens a file or URL in the
user's preferred application.  It could probably be made default at least on
Linux with a graphical environment.

Signed-off-by: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 13:54:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
42817b96b1 Git 1.8.5-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 12:17:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0040d6eb23 Merge branch 'tr/gitk-doc-update'
* tr/gitk-doc-update:
  Documentation: revamp gitk(1)
2013-10-30 12:10:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
02882bc834 Merge branch 'sb/git-svn-docs-indent-with-ht'
* sb/git-svn-docs-indent-with-ht:
  git-svn docs: Use tabs consistently within the ascii doc
2013-10-30 12:10:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d96855ff51 merge-base: teach "--fork-point" mode
The "git pull --rebase" command computes the fork point of the
branch being rebased using the reflog entries of the "base" branch
(typically a remote-tracking branch) the branch's work was based on,
in order to cope with the case in which the "base" branch has been
rewound and rebuilt.  For example, if the history looked like this:

                     o---B1
                    /
    ---o---o---B2--o---o---o---Base
            \
             B3
              \
               Derived

where the current tip of the "base" branch is at Base, but earlier
fetch observed that its tip used to be B3 and then B2 and then B1
before getting to the current commit, and the branch being rebased
on top of the latest "base" is based on commit B3, it tries to find
B3 by going through the output of "git rev-list --reflog base" (i.e.
Base, B1, B2, B3) until it finds a commit that is an ancestor of the
current tip "Derived".

Internally, we have get_merge_bases_many() that can compute this
with one-go.  We would want a merge-base between Derived and a
fictitious merge commit that would result by merging all the
historical tips of "base".  When such a commit exist, we should get
a single result, which exactly match one of the reflog entries of
"base".

Teach "git merge-base" a new mode, "--fork-point", to compute
exactly that.

Helped-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Helped-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-29 13:06:08 -07:00
Sitaram Chamarty
6d52bc318b doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too old
Describe when it is still applicable, and tell people where to go
for most normal cases.

Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaram@atc.tcs.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-28 13:24:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0d6cf2471f Almost -rc0 for 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-28 10:53:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cfd10568b0 Sync with v1.8.4.2 2013-10-28 10:51:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f43bc33e44 Merge branch 'sb/repack-in-c'
Finishing touches to update documentation.

* sb/repack-in-c:
  Reword repack documentation to no longer state it's a script
2013-10-28 10:43:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dcb11cca50 Git 1.8.4.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-28 10:21:29 -07:00
Jeff King
41dfbb2dbe howto: add article on recovering a corrupted object
This is an asciidoc-ified version of a corruption post-mortem sent to
the git list. It complements the existing howto article, since it covers
a case where the object couldn't be easily recreated or copied from
elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-25 14:55:30 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
5b2515f400 api-remote.txt: correct section "struct refspec"
* Replace reference to function parse_ref_spec() with references to
  functions parse_fetch_refspec() and parse_push_refspec().

* Correct description of src and dst: they *do* include the '*'
  characters.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-24 13:28:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3d092bfc6f Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-23 13:37:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ea21efc740 Sync with 'maint' 2013-10-23 13:36:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ca462804c6 Almost 1.8.4.2 ;-)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-23 13:34:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
74051fa805 Merge branch 'jh/checkout-auto-tracking' into maint
"git branch --track" had a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later
that made it impossible to base your local work on anything but a
local branch of the upstream repository you are tracking from.

* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
  t3200: fix failure on case-insensitive filesystems
  branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
  t3200: Add test demonstrating minor regression in 41c21f2
  Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
  t3200: Minor fix when preparing for tracking failure
  t2024: Fix &&-chaining and a couple of typos
2013-10-23 13:32:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f92f068e76 Merge branch 'po/dot-url'
Explain how '.' can be used to refer to the "current repository"
in the documentation.

* po/dot-url:
  doc/cli: make "dot repository" an independent bullet point
  config doc: update dot-repository notes
  doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery
2013-10-23 13:21:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4197361e39 Merge branch 'mg/more-textconv'
Make "git grep" and "git show" pay attention to --textconv when
dealing with blob objects.

* mg/more-textconv:
  grep: honor --textconv for the case rev:path
  grep: allow to use textconv filters
  t7008: demonstrate behavior of grep with textconv
  cat-file: do not die on --textconv without textconv filters
  show: honor --textconv for blobs
  diff_opt: track whether flags have been set explicitly
  t4030: demonstrate behavior of show with textconv
2013-10-23 13:21:31 -07:00
Stefan Beller
3c123fb8b8 git-svn docs: Use tabs consistently within the ascii doc
While I can understand 4 or 7 white spaces are fancy, we'd rather want
to use tabs throughout the whole document.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-22 13:27:02 -07:00
Thomas Rast
744db23c2d Documentation: revamp gitk(1)
The gitk manpage suffers from a bit of neglect: there have been only
minor changes, and no changes to the set of options documented, since
a2df1fb (Documentation: New GUI configuration and command-line
options., 2008-11-13).  In the meantime, the set of rev-list options
has been expanded several times by options that are useful in gitk,
e.g., --ancestry-path and the optional globbing for --branches, --tags
and --remotes.

Restructure and expand the manpage.  List more options that the author
perceives as useful, while remaining somewhat terse.  Ideally the user
should not have to look up any of the references, but we dispense with
precise explanations in some places and refer to git-log(1) instead.

Note that the options that have an easy GUI equivalent (e.g.,
--word-diff, -S, --grep) are deliberately not listed even in the cases
where they simply fill in the GUI fields.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-22 11:23:31 -07:00
Stefan Beller
35c141768c Reword repack documentation to no longer state it's a script
This updates the documentation regarding the changes introduced
by a1bbc6c01 (2013-09-15, repack: rewrite the shell script in C).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-22 11:17:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
db9bdfbeb0 Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-18 13:53:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
82c41a9bfc Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-merge: document the -S option
2013-10-18 13:53:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6c2bec96a8 Merge branch 'jc/reflog-doc'
Document rules to use GIT_REFLOG_ACTION variable in the scripted
Porcelain.  git-rebase--interactive locally violates them, but it
is a leaf user that does not call out to or dot-source other
scripts, so it does not urgently need to be fixed.

* jc/reflog-doc:
  setup_reflog_action: document the rules for using GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
2013-10-18 13:50:12 -07:00
Nicolas Vigier
5f737ac91b git-merge: document the -S option
The option to gpg sign a merge commit is available but was not
documented. Use wording from the git-commit(1) manpage.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-18 12:47:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2141c474d0 Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 2013-10-17 15:57:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ff6e1b887f Merge branch 'jc/checkout-detach-doc'
"git checkout [--detach] <commit>" was listed poorly in the
synopsis section of its documentation.

* jc/checkout-detach-doc:
  checkout: update synopsys and documentation on detaching HEAD
2013-10-17 15:55:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
83f18cdd71 Sync with maint
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-17 15:54:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
92ab409055 Start preparing for 1.8.4.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-17 15:50:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9432c6aaa5 Merge branch 'jk/upload-pack-keepalive' into maint
* jk/upload-pack-keepalive:
  upload-pack: bump keepalive default to 5 seconds
  upload-pack: send keepalive packets during pack computation
2013-10-17 15:46:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1d25dd416f Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
List notable topics that graduated during Jonathan's interim
maintainership.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-16 12:27:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1668b7d78f Merge git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn
* git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn:
  git-svn: Warn about changing default for --prefix in Git v2.0
  Documentation/git-svn: Promote the use of --prefix in docs + examples
  git-svn.txt: elaborate on rev_map files
  git-svn.txt: replace .git with $GIT_DIR
  git-svn.txt: reword description of gc command
  git-svn.txt: fix AsciiDoc formatting error
  git-svn: fix signed commit parsing
2013-10-16 10:45:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9768648144 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-prune-packed.txt: fix reference to GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
  clone --branch: refuse to clone if upstream repo is empty
2013-10-15 16:15:00 -07:00
Steffen Prohaska
3991e91063 git-prune-packed.txt: fix reference to GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
git-prune-packed operates on GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, not
GIT_OBJECT_DIR.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-15 16:01:22 -07:00
Steffen Prohaska
6fb02165a3 git.txt: fix asciidoc syntax of --*-pathspecs
Labeled lists require a double colon.

[jc] I eyeballed the output from

        git grep '[^:]:$' Documentation/\*.txt

     and the patch fixes all breakages of this kind.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-15 15:47:05 -07:00
Philip Oakley
08f8d5d0c0 doc/cli: make "dot repository" an independent bullet point
The way to spell the current repository with a '.' dot is
independent from how the pathspec allows globs expanded by Git.

Make them two separate bullet items in the enumeration.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-15 14:58:21 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
f737684d34 format-patch doc: Thunderbird wraps lines unless mailnews.wraplength=0
The Thunderbird section of the 'MUA-specific hints' contains three
different approaches to setting up the mail client to leave patch
emails unmolested. The second approach (configuration) has a step
missing when configuring the composition window not to wrap. In
particular, the "mailnews.wraplength" configuration variable needs
to be set to zero. Update the documentation to add the missing
setting.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 16:20:01 -07:00
brian m. carlson
b75a6ca7f3 CodingGuidelines: style for multi-line comments
The style for multi-line comments is often mentioned and should be documented
for clarity.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 12:48:06 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
110f415ce8 Merge branch 'nv/doc-config-signingkey'
* nv/doc-config-signingkey:
  config doc: user.signingkey is also used for signed commits
2013-10-14 12:45:50 -07:00
Nicolas Vigier
f0551693cc config doc: user.signingkey is also used for signed commits
The description of the user.signingkey option only mentioned its use
when creating a signed tag. Make it clear that is is also used when
creating signed commits.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 12:45:22 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
865156a7cb Merge branch 'rj/doc-formatting-fix'
* rj/doc-formatting-fix:
  howto/revert-a-faulty-merge: fix unescaped '^'s
  howto/setup-git-server-over-http: fix unescaped '^'s
2013-10-14 11:07:50 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
c766e6f429 Merge branch 'po/remote-set-head-usage'
* po/remote-set-head-usage:
  remote set-head -h: add long options to synopsis
  remote doc: document long forms of set-head options
2013-10-14 11:07:29 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
78bef06589 howto/revert-a-faulty-merge: fix unescaped '^'s
Several uses of the '^' operator are being interpreted by asciidoc
as requests to show the following text as a superscript. In order
to fix this problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected git command invocations.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 07:25:42 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
6430692135 howto/setup-git-server-over-http: fix unescaped '^'s
The text contains two 'grep' invocations which include the 'start
of line' regular expression character '^'. Asciidoc mis-interprets
this use of '^' as a superscript request. In order to fix this
formatting problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected 'grep' command invocations.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 07:23:40 -07:00
Johan Herland
f849bb6b3b git-svn: Warn about changing default for --prefix in Git v2.0
In Git v2.0, we will change the default --prefix for init/clone from
none/empty to "origin/" (which causes SVN-tracking branches to be
placed at refs/remotes/origin/* instead of refs/remotes/*).

This patch warns users about the upcoming change, both in the git-svn
manual page, and on stderr when running init/clone in the "multi-mode"
without providing a --prefix.

Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-12 22:30:53 +00:00
Johan Herland
7091a2d0bf Documentation/git-svn: Promote the use of --prefix in docs + examples
Currently, the git-svn defaults to using an empty prefix, which ends
up placing the SVN-tracking refs directly in refs/remotes/*. This
placement runs counter to Git's convention of placing remote-tracking
branches in refs/remotes/$remote/*.

Furthermore, combining git-svn with "regular" Git remotes run the risk
of clobbering refs under refs/remotes (e.g. if you have a git remote
called "tags" with a "v1" branch, it will overlap with the git-svn's
tracking branch for the "v1" tag from Subversion.

Even though the git-svn refs stored in refs/remotes/* are not "proper"
remote-tracking branches (since they are not covered by a proper git
remote's refspec), they clearly represent a similar concept, and would
benefit from following the same convention.

For example, if git-svn tracks Subversion branch "foo" at
refs/remotes/foo, and you create a local branch refs/heads/foo to add
some commits to be pushed back to Subversion (using "git svn dcommit),
then it is clearly unhelpful of Git to throw

  warning: refname 'foo' is ambiguous.

every time you checkout, rebase, or otherwise interact with the branch.

At this time, the user is better off using the --prefix=foo/ (the
trailing slash is important) to git svn init/clone, to cause the
SVN-tracking refs to be placed at refs/remotes/foo/* instead of
refs/remotes/*. This patch updates the documentation to encourage
use of --prefix.

This is also in preparation for changing the default value of --prefix
at some point in the future.

Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-12 22:30:39 +00:00
Keshav Kini
945b9c14ff git-svn.txt: elaborate on rev_map files
The man page for `git svn` describes a situation in which "'git svn'
will not be able to rebuild" your $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files, but
no mention is made of in what circumstances `git svn` *will* be able to
do so, how to get `git svn` to do so, or even what these files are.

This patch adds a FILES section to the man page with a description of
what $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files are and how they are (re)built, and
links to this description from various other parts of the man page.

Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-10 06:56:12 +00:00
Keshav Kini
6fe7a30aec git-svn.txt: replace .git with $GIT_DIR
As $GIT_DIR may not equal '.git', it's usually more generally correct to
refer to files in $GIT_DIR rather than in .git .

This will also allow me to link some of the occurrences of '.git' in
git-svn.txt to a new reference target inside this file in an upcoming
commit, because in AsciiDoc definitions apparently can't start with
a '.' character.

Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-10 06:56:05 +00:00
Keshav Kini
e618c3960a git-svn.txt: reword description of gc command
It's redundant to say that $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log or
$GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index is in .git/svn when $GIT_DIR is '.git', and
is wrong when $GIT_DIR is not '.git'

Also, a '/' was missing from the pathname $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index .

Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-10 06:55:48 +00:00
Keshav Kini
9ebeb3392b git-svn.txt: fix AsciiDoc formatting error
As asterisks are used to indicate bold text in AsciiDoc, shell glob
expressions must be escaped appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
2013-10-10 06:55:23 +00:00
John Keeping
0079d6ebd7 Documentation/Makefile: make AsciiDoc dblatex dir configurable
On my system this is in /usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex not
/etc/asciidoc/dblatex.  Extract this portion of the path to a variable
so that is can be set in config.mak.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-03 12:21:19 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
9cd755b2fc RelNotes/1.8.5: direct script writers to "git status --porcelain"
[jn: with wording tweak from Keshav Kini]

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-27 17:05:02 -07:00
Philip Oakley
159543e831 remote doc: document long forms of set-head options
"git remote set-head" has always supported --add and --delete
as synonyms for the -a and -d option but forgot to document
them.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-27 16:49:18 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
8de8e40caa Sync with Git 1.8.4.1 2013-09-26 15:36:57 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
02a110ad43 Git 1.8.4.1
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-26 15:01:41 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
5636a20070 Merge branch 'bc/submodule-status-ignored'
* bc/submodule-status-ignored:
  Improve documentation concerning the status.submodulesummary setting
  submodule: don't print status output with ignore=all
  submodule: fix confusing variable name
2013-09-24 23:36:08 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
80f165a58a Merge branch 'cc/replace-with-the-same-type'
* cc/replace-with-the-same-type:
  Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commits
  t6050-replace: use some long option names
  replace: allow long option names
  Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section
  t6050-replace: add test to clean up all the replace refs
  t6050-replace: test that objects are of the same type
  Documentation/replace: state that objects must be of the same type
  replace: forbid replacing an object with one of a different type
2013-09-24 23:35:24 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
ccba805681 doc: don't claim that cherry calls patch-id
The id is already different for binary files.  The hash used is an
implementation detail, so let's just document how diffs are compared.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-24 15:54:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
128a96c984 Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the fifth batch of topics
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-20 12:42:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7b8315bb59 Merge branch 'jk/upload-pack-keepalive'
When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side
computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
dropped connection.  The server side has been taught to send a small
empty messages to keep the connection alive.

* jk/upload-pack-keepalive:
  upload-pack: bump keepalive default to 5 seconds
  upload-pack: send keepalive packets during pack computation
2013-09-20 12:39:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f406140baa Merge branch 'fc/at-head'
Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @".

* fc/at-head:
  Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
  sha1-name: pass len argument to interpret_branch_name()
2013-09-20 12:38:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
005a1de380 Merge branch 'dw/check-ignore-sans-index'
"git check-ignore" follows the same rule as "git add" and "git
status" in that the ignore/exclude mechanism does not take effect
on paths that are already tracked.  With "--no-index" option, it
can be used to diagnose which paths that should have been ignored
have been mistakenly added to the index.

* dw/check-ignore-sans-index:
  check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contents
2013-09-20 12:37:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9a86b89941 Merge branch 'bk/refs-multi-update'
Give "update-refs" a "--stdin" option to read multiple update
requests and perform them in an all-or-none fashion.

* bk/refs-multi-update:
  update-ref: add test cases covering --stdin signature
  update-ref: support multiple simultaneous updates
  refs: add update_refs for multiple simultaneous updates
  refs: add function to repack without multiple refs
  refs: factor delete_ref loose ref step into a helper
  refs: factor update_ref steps into helpers
  refs: report ref type from lock_any_ref_for_update
  reset: rename update_refs to reset_refs
2013-09-20 12:36:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
087350398e Merge branch 'nr/git-cd-to-a-directory'
Just like "make -C <directory>", make "git -C <directory> ..." to
go there before doing anything else.

* nr/git-cd-to-a-directory:
  t0056: "git -C" test updates
  git: run in a directory given with -C option
2013-09-20 12:35:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b05fc49adc Merge branch 'jh/checkout-auto-tracking'
Fix a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later that made it
impossible to base your local work on anything but a local branch
of the upstream repository you are tracking from.

* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
  t3200: fix failure on case-insensitive filesystems
  branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
  t3200: Add test demonstrating minor regression in 41c21f2
  Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
  t3200: Minor fix when preparing for tracking failure
  t2024: Fix &&-chaining and a couple of typos
2013-09-20 12:31:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6d3e1f2e45 Merge branch 'mm/status-without-comment-char'
"git status" now omits the prefix to make its output a comment in a
commit log editor, which is not necessary for human consumption.

We may want to tighten the output to omit unnecessary trailing blank
lines, but that does not have to be in the scope of this series.

* mm/status-without-comment-char:
  t7508: avoid non-portable sed expression
  status: add missing blank line after list of "other" files
  tests: don't set status.displayCommentPrefix file-wide
  status: disable display of '#' comment prefix by default
  submodule summary: ignore --for-status option
  wt-status: use argv_array API
  builtin/stripspace.c: fix broken indentation
2013-09-20 12:29:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
638924fec2 Merge branch 'rh/peeling-tag-to-tag'
Make "foo^{tag}" to peel a tag to itself, i.e. no-op., and fail if
"foo" is not a tag.  "git rev-parse --verify v1.0^{tag}" would be a
more convenient way to say "test $(git cat-file -t v1.0) = tag".

* rh/peeling-tag-to-tag:
  peel_onion: do not assume length of x_type globals
  peel_onion(): add support for <rev>^{tag}
2013-09-20 12:27:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eeaee045c8 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Start preparing for 1.8.4.1
2013-09-18 12:08:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a0d3f1090d Start preparing for 1.8.4.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-18 12:08:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
587e0a164a Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the fourth batch of topics 2013-09-18 11:55:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8d8387116a Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the first half of the fourth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-17 11:43:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
287c0feeab Merge branch 'ss/doclinks'
When we converted many documents that were traditionally text-only
to be formatted to AsciiDoc, we did not update links that point at
them to refer to the formatted HTML files.

* ss/doclinks:
  Documentation: make AsciiDoc links always point to HTML files
2013-09-17 11:42:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
89dde7882f Merge branch 'rh/ishes-doc'
We liberally use "committish" and "commit-ish" (and "treeish" and
"tree-ish"); as these are non-words, let's unify these terms to
their dashed form.  More importantly, clarify the documentation on
object peeling using these terms.

* rh/ishes-doc:
  glossary: fix and clarify the definition of 'ref'
  revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>}
  glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish)
  use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'
  use 'tree-ish' instead of 'treeish'
  glossary: define commit-ish (a.k.a. committish)
  glossary: mention 'treeish' as an alternative to 'tree-ish'
2013-09-17 11:42:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cd8c891b74 Merge branch 'dw/diff-no-index-doc'
When the user types "git diff" outside a working tree, thinking he
is inside one, the current error message that is a single-liner
"usage: git diff --no-index <path> <path>" may not be sufficient to
make him realize the mistake. Add "Not a git repository" to the
error message when we fell into the "--no-index" mode without an
explicit command line option to instruct us to do so.

* dw/diff-no-index-doc:
  diff --no-index: describe in a separate paragraph
  diff --no-index: clarify operation when not inside a repository
2013-09-17 11:42:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8fbb07e3f3 Merge branch 'ta/user-manual'
Update the user's manual to more recent versions of Git.

* ta/user-manual:
  "git prune" is safe
  Remove irrelevant reference from "Tying it all together"
  Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format"
  Improve section "Merging multiple trees"
  Improve section "Manipulating branches"
  Simplify "How to make a commit"
  Fix some typos and improve wording
  Use "git merge" instead of "git pull ."
  Use current output for "git repack"
  Use current "detached HEAD" message
  Call it "Git User Manual" and remove reference to very old Git version
2013-09-17 11:42:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9b4aa47e7d Merge branch 'jx/clean-interactive'
Finishing touches to update the document to adjust to a new option
"git clean" learned recently.

* jx/clean-interactive:
  documentation: clarify notes for clean.requireForce
2013-09-17 11:40:23 -07:00
Philip Oakley
b85ecea625 config doc: update dot-repository notes
branch.<name>.remote can be set to '.' (period) as the repository
path (URL) as part of the remote name dwimmery. Tell the reader.

Such relative paths are not 'special'. Correct the branch.<name>.merge
note.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-13 15:30:01 -07:00
Philip Oakley
431260cc8d doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery
The Git cli will accept dot '.' (period) as the relative path
to the current repository. Explain this action.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-13 15:29:59 -07:00
Dave Williams
8231fa6ae1 check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contents
check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked
paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output.  This prevents
debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is
first removed from the index with `git rm --cached <path>`.

The option --no-index tells the command to bypass the check for the
path being in the index and hence allows tracked paths to be checked
too.

Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of `git add` and
`git status` its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion.

Test scripts are augmented to check this option against the standard
ignores to ensure correct behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Dave Williams <dave@opensourcesolutions.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-12 15:40:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
89b1b47b0a Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the third batch of topics
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-12 14:42:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d5d0a23dbb Merge branch 'jc/pager-configuration-doc'
It was unclear in the documentation how various configurations and
environment variables determine which pager is eventually used.

* jc/pager-configuration-doc:
  config: rewrite core.pager documentation
2013-09-12 14:41:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7b828a0514 Merge branch 'mm/remote-helpers-doc'
* mm/remote-helpers-doc:
  Documentation/remote-helpers: document common use-case for private ref
2013-09-12 14:41:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8ee9a18300 Merge branch 'mn/doc-pack-heu-remove-dead-pastebin'
* mn/doc-pack-heu-remove-dead-pastebin:
  remove dead pastebin link from pack-heuristics document
2013-09-12 14:41:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
07fc8a9944 Merge branch 'mm/fast-import-feature-doc'
* mm/fast-import-feature-doc:
  Documentation/fast-import: clarify summary for `feature` command
2013-09-12 14:41:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
100ce1c543 Merge branch 'mm/mediawiki-dumb-push-fix'
* mm/mediawiki-dumb-push-fix:
  git-remote-mediawiki: no need to update private ref in non-dumb push
  git-remote-mediawiki: use no-private-update capability on dumb push
  transport-helper: add no-private-update capability
  git-remote-mediawiki: add test and check Makefile targets
2013-09-12 14:41:41 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
9ba89f484e Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Typing 'HEAD' is tedious, especially when we can use '@' instead.

The reason for choosing '@' is that it follows naturally from the
ref@op syntax (e.g. HEAD@{u}), except we have no ref, and no
operation, and when we don't have those, it makes sens to assume
'HEAD'.

So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness.

Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so
let's make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-12 14:39:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a194eaddca Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-11 15:05:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6026f68652 Merge branch 'sh/pull-rebase-preserve'
"git pull --rebase" always flattened the history; pull.rebase can
now be set to "preserve" to invoke "rebase --preserve-merges".

* sh/pull-rebase-preserve:
  pull: allow pull to preserve merges when rebasing
2013-09-11 14:57:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
26776c9737 checkout: update synopsys and documentation on detaching HEAD
In the synopsis, the second form to detach HEAD at the named commit
labelled the argument as '<commit>'.  While this is technically more
correct, because the feature to detach is not limited to the tip of
a named branch, it was found confusing and did not express the fact
that you have to give `--detach` if you are naming the commit you
want to detach HEAD at with a branch name.

Separate this case into two syntactical forms, mimicking the way how
the DESCRIPTION section shows this usage.  Also update the text that
explains the syntax to name the commit to detach HEAD at to clarify.

Suggested-by: Benjamin Bergman <ben@benbergman.ca>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-11 12:32:01 -07:00
Jens Lehmann
bb58b696c6 Improve documentation concerning the status.submodulesummary setting
'git status' and 'git commit' can be told to also show the output of "git
submodule summary" by setting the "status.submodulesummary" config option.
But status and commit also honor the "diff.ignoreSubmodules" and the
"submodule.<name>.ignore" settings, which then disable the summary partly
or completely. This - and the fact that the last two settings do not
affect the "git submodule" commands at all - is not well documented.

Extend the documentation in those places where "status.submodulesummary",
"diff.ignoreSubmodules" and "submodule.<name>.ignore" are described to
better explain these dependencies.

Thanks-to: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-11 12:20:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bb80ee0997 Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the second batch of topics
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 14:51:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a0a08d48d0 Merge branch 'jc/url-match'
Allow section.<urlpattern>.var configuration variables to be
treated as a "virtual" section.var given a URL, and use the
mechanism to enhance http.* configuration variables.

This is a reroll of Kyle J. McKay's work.

* jc/url-match:
  builtin/config.c: compilation fix
  config: "git config --get-urlmatch" parses section.<url>.key
  builtin/config: refactor collect_config()
  config: parse http.<url>.<variable> using urlmatch
  config: add generic callback wrapper to parse section.<url>.key
  config: add helper to normalize and match URLs
  http.c: fix parsing of http.sslCertPasswordProtected variable
2013-09-09 14:50:36 -07:00
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
Junio C Hamano
de9a25354a Merge branch 'es/blame-L-twice'
Teaches "git blame" to take more than one -L ranges.

* es/blame-L-twice:
  line-range: reject -L line numbers less than 1
  t8001/t8002: blame: add tests of -L line numbers less than 1
  line-range: teach -L^:RE to search from start of file
  line-range: teach -L:RE to search from end of previous -L range
  line-range: teach -L^/RE/ to search from start of file
  line-range-format.txt: document -L/RE/ relative search
  log: teach -L/RE/ to search from end of previous -L range
  blame: teach -L/RE/ to search from end of previous -L range
  line-range: teach -L/RE/ to search relative to anchor point
  blame: document multiple -L support
  t8001/t8002: blame: add tests of multiple -L options
  blame: accept multiple -L ranges
  blame: inline one-line function into its lone caller
  range-set: publish API for re-use by git-blame -L
  line-range-format.txt: clarify -L:regex usage form
  git-log.txt: place each -L option variation on its own line
2013-09-09 14:35:11 -07:00