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Author SHA1 Message Date
Johannes Schindelin
b42f69273b Add for_each_remote() function, and extend remote_find_tracking()
The function for_each_remote() does exactly what the name
suggests.

The function remote_find_tracking() was extended to be able to
search remote refs for a given local ref.  The caller sets
either src or dst (but not both) in the refspec parameter, and
remote_find_tracking() will fill in the other and return 0.

Both changes are required for the next step: simplification of
git-branch's --track functionality.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-11 15:28:15 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
8558fd9ece Move refspec pattern matching to match_refs().
This means that send-pack and http-push will support pattern refspecs,
so builtin-push.c doesn't have to expand them, and also git push can
just turn --tags into "refs/tags/*", further simplifying
builtin-push.c

check_ref_format() gets a third "conditionally okay" result for
something that's valid as a pattern but not as a particular ref.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 01:20:10 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
b516968ff6 Update local tracking refs when pushing
This also adds a --remote option to send-pack, which specifies the
configured remote being used. It is provided automatically by
git-push, and must match the url (which is still needed, since there
could be multiple urls).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-20 21:32:57 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
6b62816cb1 Move refspec parser from connect.c and cache.h to remote.{c,h}
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-20 21:32:56 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
7841ce7985 connect: display connection progress
Make git notify the user about host resolution/connection attempts.
This is useful both as a progress indicator on slow links, and helps
reassure the user there are no firewall problems.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-16 12:48:18 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
38b1c6626b Use run_command within send-pack
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-12 23:40:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cc44c7655f Mechanical conversion to use prefixcmp()
This mechanically converts strncmp() to use prefixcmp(), but only when
the parameters match specific patterns, so that they can be verified
easily.  Leftover from this will be fixed in a separate step, including
idiotic conversions like

    if (!strncmp("foo", arg, 3))

  =>

    if (!(-prefixcmp(arg, "foo")))

This was done by using this script in px.perl

   #!/usr/bin/perl -i.bak -p
   if (/strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)/ && (length($2) == $3)) {
           s|strncmp\(([^,]+), "([^\\"]*)", (\d+)\)|prefixcmp($1, "$2")|;
   }
   if (/strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)/ && (length($1) == $3)) {
           s|strncmp\("([^\\"]*)", ([^,]+), (\d+)\)|(-prefixcmp($2, "$1"))|;
   }

and running:

   $ git grep -l strncmp -- '*.c' | xargs perl px.perl

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-20 22:03:15 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
f8306418a6 Add a missing fork() error check.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-30 02:30:25 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
d23842fd53 rename --exec to --receive-pack for push and send-pack
For now it's just to get a more descriptive name.  Later we might update the
push protocol to run more than one program on the other end.  Moreover this
matches better the corresponding config option remote.<name>. receivepack.

--exec continues to work

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:54:33 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
18bd8821ca Update documentation of fetch-pack, push and send-pack
add all supported options to Documentation/git-....txt and the usage strings.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:54:32 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
e08140568a short i/o: clean up the naming for the write_{in,or}_xxx family
We recently introduced a write_in_full() which would either write
the specified object or emit an error message and fail.  In order
to fix the read side we now want to introduce a read_in_full()
but without an error emit.  This patch cleans up the naming
of this family of calls:

1) convert the existing write_or_whine() to write_or_whine_pipe()
   to better indicate its pipe specific nature,
2) convert the existing write_in_full() calls to write_or_whine()
   to better indicate its nature,
3) introduce a write_in_full() providing a write or fail semantic,
   and
4) convert write_or_whine() and write_or_whine_pipe() to use
   write_in_full().

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-08 15:44:47 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
825cee7b28 send pack check for failure to send revisions list
When passing the revisions list to pack-objects we do not check for
errors nor short writes.  Introduce a new write_in_full which will
handle short writes and report errors to the caller.  Use this to
short cut the send on failure, allowing us to wait for and report
the child in case the failure is its fault.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-02 23:33:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0ae5f98c7b send-pack: tell pack-objects to use its internal rev-list.
This means one less process in the pipeline to worry about, and
removes about 1/8 of the code.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-31 01:26:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4b4ee90e58 send-pack.c: use is_null_sha1()
Everybody else uses is_null_sha1() -- there is no point to have its
own is_zero_sha1() anymore.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-31 00:59:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e40a9e2c9e send-pack: fix pipeline.
send-pack builds a pipeline that runs "rev-list | pack-objects"
and sends the output from pack-objects to the other side, while
feeding the input side of that pipe from itself.  However, the
file descriptor that is given to this pipeline (so that it can
be dup2(2)'ed into file descriptor 1 of pack-objects) is closed
by the caller before the complex fork+exec dance!  Worse yet,
the caller already dup2's it to 1, so the child process did not
even have to.

I do not understand how this code could possibly have been
working, but it somehow was working by accident.

Merging the sliding mmap() code reveals this problem, presumably
because it keeps one extra file descriptor open for a packfile
and changes the way file descriptors are allocated.  I am too
tired to diagnose the problem now, but this seems to be a
sensible fix.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-29 11:37:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
37adac765a send-pack: tighten checks for remote names
"git push $URL HEAD~6" created a bogus ref HEAD~6 immediately
under $GIT_DIR of the remote repository.  While we should keep
refspecs that have arbitrary extended SHA-1 expression on the
source side working (e.g. "HEAD~6:refs/tags/yesterday"), we
should not create bogus ref on the other end.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-13 10:30:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d4f694ba89 Allow git push to delete remote ref.
This allows you to say

	git send-pack $URL :refs/heads/$branch

to delete the named remote branch.  The refspec $src:$dst means
replace the destination ref with the object known as $src on the
local side, so this is a natural extension to make an empty $src
mean "No object" to delete the target.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-24 03:59:05 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
fa438a2eb1 make git-push a bit more verbose
Currently git-push displays progress status for the local packing of
objects to send, but nothing once it starts to push it over the
connection.  Having progress status in that later case is especially
nice when pushing lots of objects over a slow network link.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-01 15:13:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8da1977554 Tell between packed, unpacked and symbolic refs.
This adds a "int *flag" parameter to resolve_ref() and makes
for_each_ref() family to call callback function with an extra
"int flag" parameter.  They are used to give two bits of
information (REF_ISSYMREF and REF_ISPACKED) about the ref.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-20 22:02:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cb5d709ff8 Add callback data to for_each_ref() family.
This is a long overdue fix to the API for for_each_ref() family
of functions.  It allows the callers to specify a callback data
pointer, so that the caller does not have to use static
variables to communicate with the callback funciton.

The updated for_each_ref() family takes a function of type

	int (*fn)(const char *, const unsigned char *, void *)

and a void pointer as parameters, and calls the function with
the name of the ref and its SHA-1 with the caller-supplied void
pointer as parameters.

The commit updates two callers, builtin-name-rev.c and
builtin-pack-refs.c as an example.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-20 21:47:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f6e8dd3b43 Merge branch 'aw/send-pack'
* aw/send-pack:
  send-pack: switch to using git-rev-list --stdin
2006-09-13 12:30:20 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu
8a5dbef8ac Test return value of finish_connect()
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-13 12:20:15 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
c727fe2afc send-pack: switch to using git-rev-list --stdin
When we are generating packs to update remote repositories we
want to supply as much information as possible about the revisions
that already exist to rev-list in order optimise the pack as much
as possible.  We need to pass two revisions for each branch we are
updating in the remote repository and one for each additional branch.
Where the remote repository has numerous branches we can run out
of command line space to pass them.

Utilise the git-rev-list --stdin mode to allow unlimited numbers
of revision constraints.  This allows us to move back to the much
simpler unordered revision selection code.

[jc: added some comments in the code to describe the pipe flow
 a bit.]

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-07 02:44:25 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
2d7320d0b0 Use xmalloc instead of malloc
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-31 16:24:39 -07:00
Shawn Pearce
e702496e43 Convert memcpy(a,b,20) to hashcpy(a,b).
This abstracts away the size of the hash values when copying them
from memory location to memory location, much as the introduction
of hashcmp abstracted away hash value comparsion.

A few call sites were using char* rather than unsigned char* so
I added the cast rather than open hashcpy to be void*.  This is a
reasonable tradeoff as most call sites already use unsigned char*
and the existing hashcmp is also declared to be unsigned char*.

[jc: Splitted the patch to "master" part, to be followed by a
 patch for merge-recursive.c which is not in "master" yet.

 Fixed the cast in the latter hunk to combine-diff.c which was
 wrong in the original.

 Also converted ones left-over in combine-diff.c, diff-lib.c and
 upload-pack.c ]

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-23 13:53:10 -07:00
David Rientjes
a89fccd281 Do not use memcmp(sha1_1, sha1_2, 20) with hardcoded length.
Introduces global inline:

	hashcmp(const unsigned char *sha1, const unsigned char *sha2)

Uses memcmp for comparison and returns the result based on the length of
the hash name (a future runtime decision).

Acked-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-17 14:23:53 -07:00
David Rientjes
96f1e58f52 remove unnecessary initializations
[jc: I needed to hand merge the changes to the updated codebase,
 so the result needs to be checked.]

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15 21:22:20 -07:00
David Rientjes
aa145403da Make pack_objects void.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-14 18:59:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1974632c66 Remove TYPE_* constant macros and use object_type enums consistently.
This updates the type-enumeration constants introduced to reduce
the memory footprint of "struct object" to match the type bits
already used in the packfile format, by removing the former
(i.e. TYPE_* constant macros) and using the latter (i.e. enum
object_type) throughout the code for consistency.

Eventually we can stop passing around the "type strings"
entirely, and this will help - no confusion about two different
integer enumeration.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-12 23:18:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2718ff098a Improve git-peek-remote
This makes git-peek-remote able to basically do everything that
git-ls-remote does (but obviously just for the native protocol, so no
http[s]: or rsync: support).

The default behaviour is the same, but you can now give a mixture of
"--refs", "--tags" and "--heads" flags, where "--refs" forces
git-peek-remote to only show real refs (ie none of the fakey tag lookups,
but also not the special pseudo-refs like HEAD and MERGE_HEAD).

The "--tags" and "--heads" flags respectively limit the output to just
regular tags and heads, of course.

You can still also ask to limit them by name too.

You can combine the flags, so

	git peek-remote --refs --tags .

will show all local _true_ tags, without the generated tag lookups
(compare the output without the "--refs" flag).

And "--tags --heads" will show both tags and heads, but will avoid (for
example) any special refs outside of the standard locations.

I'm also planning on adding a "--ignore-local" flag that allows us to ask
it to ignore any refs that we already have in the local tree, but that's
an independent thing.

All this is obviously gearing up to making "git fetch" cheaper.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-04 14:50:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
885a86abe2 Shrink "struct object" a bit
This shrinks "struct object" by a small amount, by getting rid of the
"struct type *" pointer and replacing it with a 3-bit bitfield instead.

In addition, we merge the bitfields and the "flags" field, which
incidentally should also remove a useless 4-byte padding from the object
when in 64-bit mode.

Now, our "struct object" is still too damn large, but it's now less
obviously bloated, and of the remaining fields, only the "util" (which is
not used by most things) is clearly something that should be eventually
discarded.

This shrinks the "git-rev-list --all" memory use by about 2.5% on the
kernel archive (and, perhaps more importantly, on the larger mozilla
archive). That may not sound like much, but I suspect it's more on a
64-bit platform.

There are other remaining inefficiencies (the parent lists, for example,
probably have horrible malloc overhead), but this was pretty obvious.

Most of the patch is just changing the comparison of the "type" pointer
from one of the constant string pointers to the appropriate new TYPE_xxx
small integer constant.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-17 18:49:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
84a9b58c42 sha1_name: warning ambiguous refs.
This makes sure that many commands that take refs on the command
line to honor core.warnambiguousrefs configuration.  Earlier,
the commands affected by this patch did not read the
configuration file.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-23 23:41:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9201c70742 Const tightening.
Mark Wooding noticed there was a type mismatch warning in git.c; this
patch does things slightly differently (mostly tightening const) and
was what I was holding onto, waiting for the setup-revisions change
to be merged into the master branch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-05 02:47:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f0b0af1b04 Merge branches 'jc/rev-list' and 'jc/pack-thin'
* jc/rev-list:
  rev-list --objects: use full pathname to help hashing.
  rev-list --objects-edge: remove duplicated edge commit output.
  rev-list --objects-edge

* jc/pack-thin:
  pack-objects: hash basename and direname a bit differently.
  pack-objects: allow "thin" packs to exceed depth limits
  pack-objects: use full pathname to help hashing with "thin" pack.
  pack-objects: thin pack micro-optimization.
  Use thin pack transfer in "git fetch".
  Add git-push --thin.
  send-pack --thin: use "thin pack" delta transfer.
  Thin pack - create packfile with missing delta base.

Conflicts:

	pack-objects.c (taking "next")
	send-pack.c (taking "next")
2006-02-24 21:55:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
797656e58d send-pack: do not give up when remote has insanely large number of refs.
Stephen C. Tweedie noticed that we give up running rev-list when
we see too many refs on the remote side.  Limit the number of
negative references we give to rev-list and continue.

Not sending any negative references to rev-list is very bad --
we may be pushing a ref that is new to the other end.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-22 01:47:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2245be3e7a send-pack --thin: use "thin pack" delta transfer.
The new flag loosens the usual "self containedness" requirment
of packfiles, and sends deltified representation of objects when
we know the other side has the base objects needed to unpack
them.  This would help reducing the transfer size.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-19 22:28:04 -08:00
Michal Ostrowski
77cb17e940 Exec git programs without using PATH.
The git suite may not be in PATH (and thus programs such as
git-send-pack could not exec git-rev-list).  Thus there is a need for
logic that will locate these programs.  Modifying PATH is not
desirable as it result in behavior differing from the user's
intentions, as we may end up prepending "/usr/bin" to PATH.

- git C programs will use exec*_git_cmd() APIs to exec sub-commands.
- exec*_git_cmd() will execute a git program by searching for it in
  the following directories:
	1. --exec-path (as used by "git")
	2. The GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable.
	3. $(gitexecdir) as set in Makefile (default value $(bindir)).
- git wrapper will modify PATH as before to enable shell scripts to
  invoke "git-foo" commands.

Ideally, shell scripts should use the git wrapper to become independent
of PATH, and then modifying PATH will not be necessary.

[jc: with minor updates after a brief review.]

Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-13 16:49:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cfee10a773 send-pack/receive-pack: allow errors to be reported back to pusher.
This updates the protocol between git-send-pack/git-receive-pack
in a backward compatible way to allow failures at the receiving
end to be propagated back to the sender.  Most notably, versions
of git-push before this could not notice if the update hook on
the receiving end refused to update the ref for its own policy
reasons.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-27 18:04:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
69310a34cb send-pack: reword non-fast-forward error message.
Wnen refusing to push a head, we said cryptic "remote 'branch'
object X does not exist on local" or "remote ref 'branch' is not
a strict subset of local ref 'branch'".  That was gittish.

Since the most likely reason this happens is because the pushed
head was not up-to-date, clarify the error message to say that
straight, and suggest pulling first.

First noticed by Johannes and seconded by Andreas.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-22 12:39:39 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
9470657ad0 Avoid misleading success message on error
When a push fails (for example when the remote head does not fast forward
to the desired ref) it is not correct to print "Everything up-to-date".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-21 12:22:43 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
41f93a2c90 Make "git-send-pack" less verbose by default
It used to make sense to have git-send-pack talk about the things it sent
when (a) it was a new program and (b) nobody had a lot of tags and
branches.

These days, it's just distracting to see tons of

	'refs/tags/xyz': up-to-date
	...

when updating a remote repo.

So shut it up by default, and add a "--verbose" flag for those who really
want to see it.

Also, since this makes he case of everything being up-to-date just totally
silent, make it say "Everything up-to-date" if no refs needed updating.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-20 21:18:32 -08:00
Petr Baudis
ed24928e12 Make git-send-pack exit with error when some refs couldn't be pushed out
In case some refs couldn't be pushed out due to an error (mostly the
not-a-proper-subset error), make git-send-pack exit with non-zero status
after the push is over (that is, it still tries to push out the rest
of the refs).

[jc: I adjusted a test for this change.]

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-13 18:15:02 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
4c353e890c Warn when send-pack does nothing
If you try to push into an empty repository with no ref arguments to
git push, it doesn't do anything and doesn't say anything. This adds a
warning when send-pack isn't going to push anything, so you don't
assume that it silently did what you wanted.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-04 10:32:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5a3277133d Make networking commands to work from a subdirectory.
These are whole-tree operations and there is not much point
making them operable from within a subdirectory, but it is easy
to do so, and using setup_git_directory() upfront helps git://
proxy specification picked up from the correct place.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-28 23:13:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9534f40bc4 Be careful when dereferencing tags.
One caller of deref_tag() was not careful enough to make sure
what deref_tag() returned was not NULL (i.e. we found a tag
object that points at an object we do not have).  Fix it, and
warn about refs that point at such an incomplete tag where
needed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-02 16:50:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1a7141ff28 Ignore funny refname sent from remote
This allows the remote side (most notably, upload-pack) to show
additional information without affecting the downloader.  Peek-remote
does not ignore them -- this is to make it useful for Pasky's
automatic tag following.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-15 11:23:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ff27adf3da Support +<src>:<dst> format in push as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-24 16:50:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
51b0fca012 Fix ref_newer() in send-pack.
When more than two references need to be checked with
ref_newer() function, the second and later calls did not work
correctly.  This was because the later calls found commits
retained by the "struct object" layer that still had smudges
made by earlier calls.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-05 23:05:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
37fde874c2 Fix send-pack for non-commitish tags.
Again I left the v2.6.11-tree tag behind.  My bad.

This commit makes sure that we do not barf when pushing a ref
that is a non-commitish tag.  You can update a remote ref under
the following conditions:

 * You can always use --force.
 * Creating a brand new ref is OK.
 * If the remote ref is exactly the same as what you are
   pushing, it is OK (nothing is pushed).
 * You can replace a commitish with another commitish which is a
   descendant of it, if you can verify the ancestry between them;
   this and the above means you have to have what you are replacing.
 * Otherwise you cannot update; you need to use --force.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-05 00:47:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f88395ac23 Renaming push.
This allows git-send-pack to push local refs to a destination
repository under different names.

Here is the name mapping rules for refs.

* If there is no ref mapping on the command line:

 - if '--all' is specified, it is equivalent to specifying
   <local> ":" <local> for all the existing local refs on the
   command line
 - otherwise, it is equivalent to specifying <ref> ":" <ref> for
   all the refs that exist on both sides.

* <name> is just a shorthand for <name> ":" <name>

* <src> ":" <dst>

  push ref that matches <src> to ref that matches <dst>.

  - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of local
    refs.

  - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs.

  - If <dst> does not match any remote refs, either

    - it has to start with "refs/"; <dst> is used as the
      destination literally in this case.

    - <src> == <dst> and the ref that matched the <src> must not
      exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
      locally is used as the name of the destination.

For example,

  - "git-send-pack --all <remote>" works exactly as before;

  - "git-send-pack <remote> master:upstream" pushes local master
    to remote ref that matches "upstream".  If there is no such
    ref, it is an error.

  - "git-send-pack <remote> master:refs/heads/upstream" pushes
    local master to remote refs/heads/upstream, even when
    refs/heads/upstream does not exist.

  - "git-send-pack <remote> master" into an empty remote
    repository pushes the local ref/heads/master to the remote
    ref/heads/master.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-03 17:16:29 -07:00