23a64c9e (conflict-marker-size: new attribute, 2010-01-16) introduced the
new attribute and also pass the conflict marker size as %L to merge driver
commands. This documents the substitution.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current documentation suggests that --local also ignores any
objects in local packs, which is incorrect. Change the language to be
clearer and more parallel to the other options that ignore objects.
While we're at it, fix a trivial error in --incremental's
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since the "See linkgit:git-config[1]..." paragraph was added to the
description for --untracked-files (d6293d1), the paragraphs for the
following options were indented at the same level as the "See
linkgit:git-config[1]" paragraph. This problem showed up in the
manpages, but not in the HTML documentation.
While this does fix the alignment of the options following
--untracked-files in the manpage, the "See linkgit..." portion of the
description does not retain its previous indentation level in the
manpages, or HTML documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description for --thin was misleading and downright wrong. Correct
it with some inspiration from the description of index-pack's --fix-thin
and some background information from Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we
may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat
the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be
represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at
worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it
is missing some of the refs they expected to see.
This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just
"refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an
abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note:
- most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where
that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help
indicate that it was a hierarchy. I didn't do the same for longer
paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming
"refs/heads/").
- in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about
unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs).
- In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed
refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that fast-import is creating packs with index version 2, there is
no point limiting the pack size by default. A pack split will still
happen if off_t is not sufficiently large to hold large offsets.
While updating the doc, let's remove the "packfiles fit on CDs"
suggestion. Pack files created by fast-import are still suboptimal and
a 'git repack -a -f -d' or even 'git gc --aggressive' would be a pretty
good idea before considering storage on CDs.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify that git-grep(1) searches only tracked files, and that each
<pathspec> is a pathspec, as in any other ordinary git commands.
Add an example to show a simple use case for searching all .c and .h
files in the current directory and below.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --paginate option is meant to negate the effect of an explicit or
implicit pager.<cmd> = false setting. Thus it turns the pager on if
output is going to a terminal rather than unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not double-backslash we forbid; backslashes are forbidden since
a4c2e699 (Disallow '\' in ref names, 2009-05-08)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived.
People however often wonder why their attempts to affect the way how the
command archives their tree by changing .gitattributes in their work tree
fail.
Add a bit of explanatory note to tell them how to achieve what they want
to do.
Noticed-by: Francois Marier
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rebase calls this same function "--continue", which means
users may be trained to type it. There is no reason to
deprecate --resolved (or -r), so we will keep it as a
synonym.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last item in the enumerated refname rule was mistakenly made into
a sub-item of the 7th one. It should be the 8th one in the list on its
own.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The lack of quoting made the entire line disappear.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
blame: prevent a segv when -L given start > EOF
git-push: document all the status flags used in the output
Fix parsing of imap.preformattedHTML and imap.sslverify
git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example
When 921177f (Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch"
examples, 2008-05-07) converted this from enumeration header to displayed
text, it failed to adjust for the AsciiDoc's rule to quote backslashes.
In displayed text, backslash is shown verbatim, while in enumeration
header, we need to double it.
We have a similar construct in git-rm.txt documentation, and need to be
careful when somebody wants to update it to match the style of the "git
add" example.
Noticed by: Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If there is a quoted path, update-index will correctly
unquote it. However, we must take care to put our new prefix
inside the double-quote.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds the possibility to supply a set of non-0 file
descriptors for async process communication instead of the
default-created pipe.
Additionally, we now support bi-directional communiction with the
async procedure, by giving the async function both read and write
file descriptors.
To retain compatiblity and similar "API feel" with start_command,
we require start_async callers to set .out = -1 to get a readable
file descriptor. If either of .in or .out is 0, we supply no file
descriptor to the async process.
[sp: Note: Erik started this patch, and a huge bulk of it is
his work. All bugs were introduced later by Shawn.]
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Like .out, .err may now be set to a file descriptor > 0, which
is a writable pipe/socket/file that the child's stderr will be
redirected into.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems that we have bad interaction with the code related to
GIT_WORK_TREE and "grep --no-index", and broke running grep inside
the .git directory. For now, just revert it and resurrect it after
1.7.0 ships.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar in spirit to 07cf0f2 (make --max-pack-size argument to 'git
pack-object' count in bytes, 2010-02-03) which made the option by the same
name to pack-objects, this counts the pack size limit in bytes.
In order not to cause havoc with people used to the previous megabyte
scale an integer smaller than 8192 is interpreted in megabytes but the
user gets a warning. Also a minimum size of 1 MiB is enforced to avoid an
explosion of pack files.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
This default for repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset has been "true" since
Git v1.6.0.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, when called without -n and -f, git clean issues
fatal: clean.requireForce not set and -n or -f not given; refusing to clean
which leaves the user wondering why force is required when requireForce
is not set. Looking up in git-clean(1) does not help because its
description is wrong.
Change it so that git clean issues
fatal: clean.requireForce defaults to true and -n or -f not given; refusing to clean
in this situation (and "...set to true..." when it is set) which makes
it clearer that an unset config means true here, and adjust the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The value passed to --max-pack-size used to count in MiB which was
inconsistent with the corresponding configuration variable as well as
other command arguments which are defined to count in bytes with an
optional unit suffix. This brings --max-pack-size in line with the
rest of Git.
Also, in order not to cause havoc with people used to the previous
megabyte scale, and because this is a sane thing to do anyway, a
minimum size of 1 MiB is enforced to avoid an explosion of pack files.
Adjust and extend test suite accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sp/maint-fast-import-large-blob:
fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to pack
bash: don't offer remote transport helpers as subcommands
Conflicts:
fast-import.c
If a blob is larger than the configured big-file-threshold, instead
of reading it into a single buffer obtained from malloc, stream it
onto the end of the current pack file. Streaming the larger objects
into the pack avoids the 4+ GiB memory footprint that occurs when
fast-import is processing 2+ GiB blobs.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the release notes "git status" was not mentioned, also shortly explain
the "-dirty" output generated by diff.
Added a paragraph to the "Pitfalls with submodules" section in
user-manual.txt describing new and old behavior of "git status" and "git
diff" for dirty submodules.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* bg/maint-add-all-doc:
git-rm doc: Describe how to sync index & work tree
git-add/rm doc: Consistently back-quote
Documentation: 'git add -A' can remove files
When the first piece of threaded code was introduced in commit 8ecce684, it
came with its own THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Makefile option. Since this time,
more threaded code has come into the codebase and a NO_PTHREADS option has
also been added. Get rid of the original option as the newer, more generic
option covers everything we need.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is already in the "bells and whistles" section, but it also has a
slight chance of breakage, so let's also mention it in the "changed
behaviors" section.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old "advice" message explained how to create a branch after going into
a detached HEAD state but didn't make it clear why the user may want to do
so. Also "moving to ... which isn't a local branch" was unclear if it is
complaining, if it is describing the new state, or if it is explaining why
the HEAD is detached (the true reason is the last one).
Give the established phrase 'detached HEAD' first to make it easy for
users to look up the concept in documentation, and briefly describe what
can be done in the state (i.e. play around without having to clean up)
before telling the user how to keep what was done during the temporary
state.
Allow the long description to be hidden by setting advice.detachedHead
configuration to false.
We might want to customize the advice depending on how the commit to check
out was spelled (e.g. instead of "new-branch-name", we way want to say
"topic" when "git checkout origin/topic" triggered this message) in later
updates, but this encapsulates that into a separate function and it should
be a good first step.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
e9fcd1e (Add push --set-upstream, 2010-01-16) inadvertently patched
the description of --upstream in the middle of that of --repo.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bed575e (commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status,
2009-12-07) forgot to add the :: that sets off an item from the
paragraph that explains it, breaking the layout.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'doc-style/for-next' of git://repo.or.cz/git/trast:
Documentation: merge: use MERGE_HEAD to refer to the remote branch
Documentation: simplify How Merge Works
Documentation: merge: add a section about fast-forward
Documentation: emphasize when git merge terminates early
Documentation: merge: add an overview
Documentation: merge: move merge strategy list to end
Documentation: suggest `reset --merge` in How Merge Works section
Documentation: merge: move configuration section to end
Documentation: emphasise 'git shortlog' in its synopsis
Documentation: show-files is now called git-ls-files
Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks
Documentation: git gc packs refs by default now
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
commit 57bddb11 (Documentation/git-merge: reword references to
"remote" and "pull", 2010-01-07) fixed the manual to drop the
assumption that the other branch being merged is from a remote
repository. Unfortunately, in a few places, to do so it
introduced the antecedentless phrase "their versions". Worse, in
passages like the following, 'they' is playing two roles.
| highlighting changes from both the HEAD and their versions.
|
| * Look at the diffs on their own. 'git log --merge -p <path>'
Using HEAD and MERGE_HEAD nicely assigns terminology to "our" and
"their" sides. It also provides the reader with practice using
names that git will recognize on the command line.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The user most likely does not care about the exact order of
operations because he cannot see it happening anyway. Instead,
try to explain what it means to merge two commits into a single
tree.
While at it:
- Change the heading to TRUE MERGE. The entire manual page is
about how merges work.
- Document MERGE_HEAD. It is a useful feature, since it makes
the parents of the intended merge commit easier to refer to.
- Do not assume commits named on the 'git merge' command line come
from another repository. For simplicity, the discussion of
conflicts still does assume that there is only one and it is a
branch head.
- Do not start list items with `code`. Otherwise, a toolchain bug
produces a line break in the generated nroff, resulting in odd
extra space.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Novices sometimes find the behavior of 'git merge' in the
fast-forward case surprising. Describe it thoroughly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
A merge-based operation in git can fail in two ways: one that
stops before touching anything, or one that goes ahead and
results in conflicts.
As the 'git merge' manual explains:
| A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
| commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
| match the tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit)
| when it starts out.
Unfortunately, the placement of this sentence makes it easy to
skip over, and its formulation leaves the important point, that
any other attempted merge will be gracefully aborted, unspoken.
So give this point its own section and expand upon it.
Probably this could be simplified somewhat: after all, a change
registered in the index is just a special kind of local
uncommited change, so the second added paragraph is only a
special case of the first. It seemed more helpful to be explicit
here.
Inspired by <http://gitster.livejournal.com/25801.html>.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The reader unfamiliar with the concepts of branching and merging
would have been completely lost. Try to help him with a diagram.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
So the section layout changes as follows:
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-MERGE STRATEGIES
HOW MERGE WORKS
HOW CONFLICTS ARE PRESENTED
HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS
EXAMPLES
+MERGE STRATEGIES
CONFIGURATION
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
DOCUMENTATION
GIT
NOTES
The first-time user will care more about conflicts than about
strategies other than 'recursive'.
One of the examples uses -s ours, but I do not think this hinders
readability.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The 'merge' manual suggests 'reset' to cancel a merge at the end
of the Merge Strategies list. It is more logical to explain this
right before explaining how merge conflicts work, so the daunted
reader can have a way out when he or she needs it most.
While at it, make the advice more dependable and self-contained
by providing the --merge option.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Configuration and environment variables belong to the back matter
of a manual page.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
For very large projects it is useful to be able to clone a subset of the
upstream SVN repo's branches. Allow for this by letting the left-side of
the branches and tags glob specs contain a brace-delineated comma-separated
list of names. e.g.:
branches = branches/{red,green}/src:refs/remotes/branches/*
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
In certain situations it may be necessary to manually remap an svn
repostitory UUID. For example:
o--- [git-svn clone]
/
[origin svn repo]
\
o--- [svnsync clone]
Imagine that only "git-svn clone" and "svnsync clone" are made available
to external users. Furthur, "git-svn clone" contains only trunk, and for
reasons unknown, "svnsync clone" is missing the revision properties that
normally provide the origin svn repo's UUID.
A git user who has cloned the "git-svn clone" repo now wishes to use
git-svn to pull in the missing branches from the "synsync clone" repo.
In order for git-svn to get the history correct for those branches,
it needs to know the origin svn repo's UUID. Hence rewriteUUID.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Consolidate the descriptions of --branches, --tags and --remotes a
bit, to make it less repetitive. Improve the grammar a bit, and spell
out the meaning of the 'append /*' rule.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ap/merge-backend-opts:
Document that merge strategies can now take their own options
Extend merge-subtree tests to test -Xsubtree=dir.
Make "subtree" part more orthogonal to the rest of merge-recursive.
pull: Fix parsing of -X<option>
Teach git-pull to pass -X<option> to git-merge
git merge -X<option>
git-merge-file --ours, --theirs
Conflicts:
git-compat-util.h
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
Documentation/git-config.txt
Documentation/git-merge.txt
Giving "Notes" information in the default output format of "log" and
"show" is a sensible progress (the user has asked for it by having the
notes), but for some commands (e.g. "format-patch") spewing notes into the
formatted commit log message without being asked is too aggressive.
Enable notes output only for "log", "show", "whatchanged" by default and
only when the user didn't ask any specific --pretty/--format from the
command line; users can explicitly override this default with --show-notes
and --no-notes option.
Parts of tests are taken from Jeff King's fix.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/grep-lookahead:
grep --no-index: allow use of "git grep" outside a git repository
grep: prepare to run outside of a work tree
grep: rip out pessimization to use fixmatch()
grep: rip out support for external grep
grep: optimize built-in grep by skipping lines that do not hit
Conflicts:
builtin-grep.c
t/t7002-grep.sh
* da/difftool:
difftool: Update copyright notices to list each year separately
difftool: Use eval to expand '--extcmd' expressions
difftool: Add '-x' and as an alias for '--extcmd'
t7800-difftool.sh: Simplify the --extcmd test
git-diff.txt: Link to git-difftool
difftool: Allow specifying unconfigured commands with --extcmd
difftool--helper: Remove use of the GIT_MERGE_TOOL variable
difftool--helper: Update copyright and remove distracting comments
git-difftool: Add '--gui' for selecting a GUI tool
t7800-difftool: Set a bogus tool for use by tests
* 'mh/rebase-fixup' (early part):
rebase-i: Ignore comments and blank lines in peek_next_command
lib-rebase: Allow comments and blank lines to be added to the rebase script
lib-rebase: Provide clearer debugging info about what the editor did
Add a command "fixup" to rebase --interactive
t3404: Use test_commit to set up test repository
* jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit:
user_ident_sufficiently_given(): refactor the logic to be usable from elsewhere
commit.c::print_summary: do not release the format string too early
commit: allow suppression of implicit identity advice
commit: show interesting ident information in summary
strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquote
strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"
Conflicts:
builtin-commit.c
ident.c
* bg/maint-add-all-doc:
git-rm doc: Describe how to sync index & work tree
git-add/rm doc: Consistently back-quote
Documentation: 'git add -A' can remove files
* maint-1.6.5:
Git 1.6.5.8
Fix mis-backport of t7002
bash completion: factor submodules into dirty state
reset: unbreak hard resets with GIT_WORK_TREE
Conflicts:
Documentation/git.txt
GIT-VERSION-GEN
RelNotes
Since local branch, tags and remote tracking branch namespaces are
most often used, add shortcut notations for globbing those in
manner similar to --glob option.
With this, one can express the "what I have but origin doesn't?"
as:
'git log --branches --not --remotes=origin'
Original-idea-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --glob=<glob-pattern> option to rev-parse and everything that
accepts its options. This option matches all refs that match given
shell glob pattern (complete with some DWIM logic).
Example:
'git log --branches --not --glob=remotes/origin'
To show what you have that origin doesn't.
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
