It can be helpful when creating a new branch to use the existing
tracking configuration from the branch point. However, there is
currently not a method to automatically do so.
Teach git-{branch,checkout,switch} an "inherit" argument to the
"--track" option. When this is set, creating a new branch will cause the
tracking configuration to default to the configuration of the branch
point, if set.
For example, if branch "main" tracks "origin/main", and we run
`git checkout --track=inherit -b feature main`, then branch "feature"
will track "origin/main". Thus, `git status` will show us how far
ahead/behind we are from origin, and `git pull` will pull from origin.
This is particularly useful when creating branches across many
submodules, such as with `git submodule foreach ...` (or if running with
a patch such as [1], which we use at $job), as it avoids having to
manually set tracking info for each submodule.
Since we've added an argument to "--track", also add "--track=direct" as
another way to explicitly get the original "--track" behavior ("--track"
without an argument still works as well).
Finally, teach branch.autoSetupMerge a new "inherit" option. When this
is set, "--track=inherit" becomes the default behavior.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180927221603.148025-1-sbeller@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new static variant of install_branch_config() that accepts
multiple remote branch names for tracking. This will be used in an
upcoming commit that enables inheriting the tracking configuration from
a parent branch.
Currently, all callers of install_branch_config() pass only a single
remote. Make install_branch_config() a small wrapper around
install_branch_config_multiple_remotes() so that existing callers do not
need to be changed.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few kinds of changes "git status" can show were not documented.
* ja/doc-status-types-and-copies:
Documentation/git-status: mention how to detect copies
Documentation/git-status: document porcelain status T (typechange)
Documentation/diff-format: state in which cases porcelain status is T
Documentation/git-status: remove impossible porcelain status DR and DC
Prevent "make sparse" from running for the source files that
haven't been modified.
* ab/make-sparse-for-real:
Makefile: make the "sparse" target non-.PHONY
When "git cmd -h" shows more than one line of usage text (e.g.
the cmd subcommand may take sub-sub-command), parse-options API
learned to align these lines, even across i18n/l10n.
* ab/align-parse-options-help:
parse-options: properly align continued usage output
git rev-parse --parseopt tests: add more usagestr tests
send-pack: properly use parse_options() API for usage string
parse-options API users: align usage output in C-strings
Teach "git help -c" into helping the command line completion of
configuration variables.
* ab/help-config-vars:
help: move column config discovery to help.c library
help / completion: make "git help" do the hard work
help tests: test --config-for-completion option & output
help: simplify by moving to OPT_CMDMODE()
help: correct logic error in combining --all and --guides
help: correct logic error in combining --all and --config
help tests: add test for --config output
help: correct usage & behavior of "git help --guides"
help: correct the usage string in -h and documentation
Built-in fsmonitor (part 1).
* jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part1:
t/helper/simple-ipc: convert test-simple-ipc to use start_bg_command
run-command: create start_bg_command
simple-ipc/ipc-win32: add Windows ACL to named pipe
simple-ipc/ipc-win32: add trace2 debugging
simple-ipc: move definition of ipc_active_state outside of ifdef
simple-ipc: preparations for supporting binary messages.
trace2: add trace2_child_ready() to report on background children
Mostly preliminary clean-up in the hook API.
* ab/config-based-hooks-1:
hook-list.h: add a generated list of hooks, like config-list.h
hook.c users: use "hook_exists()" instead of "find_hook()"
hook.c: add a hook_exists() wrapper and use it in bugreport.c
hook.[ch]: move find_hook() from run-command.c to hook.c
Makefile: remove an out-of-date comment
Makefile: don't perform "mv $@+ $@" dance for $(GENERATED_H)
Makefile: stop hardcoding {command,config}-list.h
Makefile: mark "check" target as .PHONY
Updates to the tests in t0000 to test the test framework.
* ab/lib-subtest:
test-lib tests: get rid of copy/pasted mock test code
test-lib tests: assert 1 exit code, not non-zero
test-lib tests: refactor common part of check_sub_test_lib_test*()
test-lib tests: avoid subshell for "test_cmp" for readability
test-lib tests: don't provide a description for the sub-tests
test-lib tests: split up "write and run" into two functions
test-lib tests: move "run_sub_test" to a new lib-subtest.sh
Various fixes in code paths that move untracked files away to make room.
* en/removing-untracked-fixes:
Documentation: call out commands that nuke untracked files/directories
Comment important codepaths regarding nuking untracked files/dirs
unpack-trees: avoid nuking untracked dir in way of locally deleted file
unpack-trees: avoid nuking untracked dir in way of unmerged file
Change unpack_trees' 'reset' flag into an enum
Remove ignored files by default when they are in the way
unpack-trees: make dir an internal-only struct
unpack-trees: introduce preserve_ignored to unpack_trees_options
read-tree, merge-recursive: overwrite ignored files by default
checkout, read-tree: fix leak of unpack_trees_options.dir
t2500: add various tests for nuking untracked files
"git grep --recurse-submodules" takes trees and blobs from the
submodule repository, but the textconv settings when processing a
blob from the submodule is not taken from the submodule repository.
A test is added to demonstrate the issue, without fixing it.
* mt/grep-submodule-textconv:
grep: demonstrate bug with textconv attributes and submodules
"git add", "git mv", and "git rm" have been adjusted to avoid
updating paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition unless
the user specifies a "--sparse" option.
* ds/add-rm-with-sparse-index:
advice: update message to suggest '--sparse'
mv: refuse to move sparse paths
rm: skip sparse paths with missing SKIP_WORKTREE
rm: add --sparse option
add: update --renormalize to skip sparse paths
add: update --chmod to skip sparse paths
add: implement the --sparse option
add: skip tracked paths outside sparse-checkout cone
add: fail when adding an untracked sparse file
dir: fix pattern matching on dirs
dir: select directories correctly
t1092: behavior for adding sparse files
t3705: test that 'sparse_entry' is unstaged
Protocol v0 clients can get stuck parsing a malformed feature line.
* ah/connect-parse-feature-v0-fix:
connect: also update offset for features without values
"make clean" has been updated to remove leftover .depend/
directories, even when it is not told to use them to compute header
dependencies.
* ab/make-clean-depend-dirs:
Makefile: clean .depend dirs under COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES != yes
Sensitive data in the HTTP trace were supposed to be redacted, but
we failed to do so in HTTP/2 requests.
* jk/http-redact-fix:
http: match headers case-insensitively when redacting
"git cvsserver" had a long-standing bug in its authentication code,
which has finally been corrected (it is unclear and is a separate
question if anybody is seriously using it, though).
* cb/cvsserver:
Documentation: cleanup git-cvsserver
git-cvsserver: protect against NULL in crypt(3)
git-cvsserver: use crypt correctly to compare password hashes
"git clone" from a repository whose HEAD is unborn into a bare
repository didn't follow the branch name the other side used, which
is corrected.
* jk/clone-unborn-head-in-bare:
clone: handle unborn branch in bare repos
"git stash", where the tentative change involves changing a
directory to a file (or vice versa), was confused, which has been
corrected.
* en/stash-df-fix:
stash: restore untracked files AFTER restoring tracked files
stash: avoid feeding directories to update-index
t3903: document a pair of directory/file bugs
When "git am --abort" fails to abort correctly, it still exited
with exit status of 0, which has been corrected.
* en/am-abort-fix:
am: fix incorrect exit status on am fail to abort
t4151: add a few am --abort tests
git-am.txt: clarify --abort behavior
"git update-ref --stdin" failed to flush its output as needed,
which potentially led the conversation to a deadlock.
* ps/update-ref-batch-flush:
t1400: avoid SIGPIPE race condition on fifo
update-ref: fix streaming of status updates
The "mode" word is useless in a call to open(2) that does not
create a new file. Such a call in the files backend of the ref
subsystem has been cleaned up.
* rs/no-mode-to-open-when-appending:
refs/files-backend: remove unused open mode parameter
The order in which various files that make up a single (conceptual)
packfile has been reevaluated and straightened up. This matters in
correctness, as an incomplete set of files must not be shown to a
running Git.
* tb/pack-finalize-ordering:
pack-objects: rename .idx files into place after .bitmap files
pack-write: split up finish_tmp_packfile() function
builtin/index-pack.c: move `.idx` files into place last
index-pack: refactor renaming in final()
builtin/repack.c: move `.idx` files into place last
pack-write.c: rename `.idx` files after `*.rev`
pack-write: refactor renaming in finish_tmp_packfile()
bulk-checkin.c: store checksum directly
pack.h: line-wrap the definition of finish_tmp_packfile()
The code that optionally creates the *.rev reverse index file has
been optimized to avoid needless computation when it is not writing
the file out.
* ab/reverse-midx-optim:
pack-write: skip *.rev work when not writing *.rev
The "git apply -3" code path learned not to bother the lower level
merge machinery when the three-way merge can be trivially resolved
without the content level merge.
* jc/trivial-threeway-binary-merge:
apply: resolve trivial merge without hitting ll-merge with "--3way"
Doc update plus improved error reporting.
* jk/log-warn-on-bogus-encoding:
docs: use "character encoding" to refer to commit-object encoding
logmsg_reencode(): warn when iconv() fails
The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature
is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly.
* tk/fast-export-anonymized-tag-fix:
fast-export: fix anonymized tag using original length
Even when running "git send-email" without its own threaded
discussion support, a threading related header in one message is
carried over to the subsequent message to result in an unwanted
threading, which has been corrected.
* mh/send-email-reset-in-reply-to:
send-email: avoid incorrect header propagation
Buggy tests could damage repositories outside the throw-away test
area we created. We now by default export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
to limit the damage from such a stray test.
* sg/set-ceiling-during-tests:
test-lib: set GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES to protect the surrounding repository
The sparse-index support can corrupt the index structure by storing
a stale and/or uninitialized data, which has been corrected.
* jh/sparse-index-resize-fix:
sparse-index: copy dir_hash in ensure_full_index()
"git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch"
forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling
want-ref requests.
* ka/want-ref-in-namespace:
docs: clarify the interaction of transfer.hideRefs and namespaces
upload-pack.c: treat want-ref relative to namespace
t5730: introduce fetch command helper
Build update for Apple clang.
* cb/makefile-apple-clang:
build: catch clang that identifies itself as "$VENDOR clang"
build: clang version may not be followed by extra words
build: update detect-compiler for newer Xcode version
"git branch -D <branch>" used to refuse to remove a broken branch
ref that points at a missing commit, which has been corrected.
* rs/branch-allow-deleting-dangling:
branch: allow deleting dangling branches with --force
The delayed checkout code path in "git checkout" etc. were chatty
even when --quiet and/or --no-progress options were given.
* mt/quiet-with-delayed-checkout:
checkout: make delayed checkout respect --quiet and --no-progress
"git diff --relative" segfaulted and/or produced incorrect result
when there are unmerged paths.
* dd/diff-files-unmerged-fix:
diff-lib: ignore paths that are outside $cwd if --relative asked
mmap() imitation used to call xmalloc() that dies upon malloc()
failure, which has been corrected to just return an error to the
caller to be handled.
* rs/git-mmap-uses-malloc:
compat: let git_mmap use malloc(3) directly
Various bugs in "git rebase -r" have been fixed.
* pw/rebase-r-fixes:
rebase -r: fix merge -c with a merge strategy
rebase -r: don't write .git/MERGE_MSG when fast-forwarding
rebase -i: add another reword test
rebase -r: make 'merge -c' behave like reword
Checking out all the paths from HEAD during the last conflicted
step in "git rebase" and continuing would cause the step to be
skipped (which is expected), but leaves MERGE_MSG file behind in
$GIT_DIR and confuses the next "git commit", which has been
corrected.
* pw/rebase-skip-final-fix:
rebase --continue: remove .git/MERGE_MSG
rebase --apply: restore some tests
t3403: fix commit authorship
Use upload-artifacts v1 (instead of v2) for 32-bit linux, as the
new version has a blocker bug for that architecture.
* cb/ci-use-upload-artifacts-v1:
ci: use upload-artifacts v1 for dockerized jobs
"git commit --fixup" now works with "--edit" again, after it was
broken in v2.32.
* jk/commit-edit-fixup-fix:
commit: restore --edit when combined with --fixup
"git range-diff" code clean-up.
* jk/range-diff-fixes:
range-diff: use ssize_t for parsed "len" in read_patches()
range-diff: handle unterminated lines in read_patches()
range-diff: drop useless "offset" variable from read_patches()
"git apply" miscounted the bytes and failed to read to the end of
binary hunks.
* jk/apply-binary-hunk-parsing-fix:
apply: keep buffer/size pair in sync when parsing binary hunks
