"git mergetool" feeds three versions (base, local and remote) of
a conflicted path unmodified. The command learned to optionally
prepare these files with unconflicted parts already resolved.
* sh/mergetool-hideresolved:
mergetool: add per-tool support and overrides for the hideResolved flag
mergetool: break setup_tool out into separate initialization function
mergetool: add hideResolved configuration
The purpose of a mergetool is to help the user resolve any conflicts
that Git cannot automatically resolve. If there is a conflict that must
be resolved manually Git will write a file named MERGED which contains
everything Git was able to resolve by itself and also everything that it
was not able to resolve wrapped in conflict markers.
One way to think of MERGED is as a two- or three-way diff. If each
"side" of the conflict markers is separately extracted an external tool
can represent those conflicts as a side-by-side diff.
However many mergetools instead diff LOCAL and REMOTE both of which
contain versions of the file from before the merge. Since the conflicts
Git resolved automatically are not present it forces the user to
manually re-resolve those conflicts. Some mergetools also show MERGED
but often only for reference and not as the focal point to resolve the
conflicts.
This adds a `mergetool.hideResolved` flag that will overwrite LOCAL and
REMOTE with each corresponding "side" of a conflicted file and thus hide
all conflicts that Git was able to resolve itself. Overwriting these
files will immediately benefit any mergetool that uses them without
requiring any changes to the tool.
No adverse effects were noted in a small survey of popular mergetools[1]
so this behavior defaults to `true`. However it can be globally disabled
by setting `mergetool.hideResolved` to `false`.
[1] https://www.eseth.org/2020/mergetools.htmlc884424769/2020/mergetools.md
Original-implementation-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Seth House <seth@eseth.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare tests not to be affected by the name of the default branch
"git init" creates.
* js/default-branch-name-tests-final-stretch: (28 commits)
tests: drop prereq `PREPARE_FOR_MAIN_BRANCH` where no longer needed
t99*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
tests(git-p4): transition to the default branch name `main`
t9[5-7]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t9[0-4]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t8*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t7[5-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t7[0-4]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t6[4-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t64*: preemptively adjust alignment to prepare for `master` -> `main`
t6[0-3]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t5[6-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t55[4-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t55[23]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t551*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t550*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t5503: prepare aligned comment for replacing `master` with `main`
t5[0-4]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t5323: prepare centered comment for `master` -> `main`
t4*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
...
Fix 2.29 regression where "git mergetool --tool-help" fails to list
all the available tools.
* pb/mergetool-tool-help-fix:
mergetool--lib: fix '--tool-help' to correctly show available tools
Commit 83bbf9b92e (mergetool--lib: improve support for vimdiff-style tool
variants, 2020-07-29) introduced a regression in the output of `git mergetool
--tool-help` and `git difftool --tool-help` [1].
In function 'show_tool_names' in git-mergetool--lib.sh, we loop over the
supported mergetools and their variants and accumulate them in the variable
'variants', separating them with a literal '\n'.
The code then uses 'echo $variants' to turn these '\n' into newlines, but this
behaviour is not portable, it just happens to work in some shells, like
dash(1)'s 'echo' builtin.
For shells in which 'echo' does not turn '\n' into newlines, the end
result is that the only tools that are shown are the existing variants
(except the last variant alphabetically), since the variants are
separated by actual newlines in '$variants' because of the several
'echo' calls in mergetools/{bc,vimdiff}::list_tool_variants.
Fix this bug by embedding an actual line feed into `variants` in
show_tool_names(). While at it, replace `sort | uniq` by `sort -u`.
To prevent future regressions, add a simple test that checks that a few
known tools are correctly shown (let's avoid counting the total number
of tools to lessen the maintenance burden when new tools are added or if
'--tool-help' learns additional logic, like hiding tools depending on
the current platform).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CADtb9DyozjgAsdFYL8fFBEWmq7iz4=prZYVUdH9W-J5CKVS4OA@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Based-on-patch-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Excluding t7817, which is added in an unrelated patch series at the time
of writing, this adjusts t7[5-9]*. This trick was performed via
$ (cd t &&
sed -i -e 's/master/main/g' -e 's/MASTER/MAIN/g' \
-e 's/Master/Main/g' -- t7[5-9]*.sh)
This allows us to define `GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=main`
for those tests.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to the manual adjustment to let the `linux-gcc` CI job run
the test suite with `master` and then with `main`, this patch makes sure
that GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME is set in all test scripts
that currently rely on the initial branch name being `master by default.
To determine which test scripts to mark up, the first step was to
force-set the default branch name to `master` in
- all test scripts that contain the keyword `master`,
- t4211, which expects `t/t4211/history.export` with a hard-coded ref to
initialize the default branch,
- t5560 because it sources `t/t556x_common` which uses `master`,
- t8002 and t8012 because both source `t/annotate-tests.sh` which also
uses `master`)
This trick was performed by this command:
$ sed -i '/^ *\. \.\/\(test-lib\|lib-\(bash\|cvs\|git-svn\)\|gitweb-lib\)\.sh$/i\
GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=master\
export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME\
' $(git grep -l master t/t[0-9]*.sh) \
t/t4211*.sh t/t5560*.sh t/t8002*.sh t/t8012*.sh
After that, careful, manual inspection revealed that some of the test
scripts containing the needle `master` do not actually rely on a
specific default branch name: either they mention `master` only in a
comment, or they initialize that branch specificially, or they do not
actually refer to the current default branch. Therefore, the
aforementioned modification was undone in those test scripts thusly:
$ git checkout HEAD -- \
t/t0027-auto-crlf.sh t/t0060-path-utils.sh \
t/t1011-read-tree-sparse-checkout.sh \
t/t1305-config-include.sh t/t1309-early-config.sh \
t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh t/t1450-fsck.sh \
t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh \
t/t2106-update-index-assume-unchanged.sh \
t/t3040-subprojects-basic.sh t/t3301-notes.sh \
t/t3308-notes-merge.sh t/t3423-rebase-reword.sh \
t/t3436-rebase-more-options.sh \
t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh t/t4257-am-interactive.sh \
t/t5323-pack-redundant.sh t/t5401-update-hooks.sh \
t/t5511-refspec.sh t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh \
t/t5529-push-errors.sh t/t5530-upload-pack-error.sh \
t/t5548-push-porcelain.sh \
t/t5552-skipping-fetch-negotiator.sh \
t/t5572-pull-submodule.sh t/t5608-clone-2gb.sh \
t/t5614-clone-submodules-shallow.sh \
t/t7508-status.sh t/t7606-merge-custom.sh \
t/t9302-fast-import-unpack-limit.sh
We excluded one set of test scripts in these commands, though: the range
of `git p4` tests. The reason? `git p4` stores the (foreign) remote
branch in the branch called `p4/master`, which is obviously not the
default branch. Manual analysis revealed that only five of these tests
actually require a specific default branch name to pass; They were
modified thusly:
$ sed -i '/^ *\. \.\/lib-git-p4\.sh$/i\
GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=master\
export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME\
' t/t980[0167]*.sh t/t9811*.sh
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge-recursive.c is built on the idea of running unpack_trees() and
then "doing minor touch-ups" to get the result. Unfortunately,
unpack_trees() was run in an update-as-it-goes mode, leading
merge-recursive.c to follow suit and end up with an immediate evaluation
and fix-it-up-as-you-go design. Some things like directory/file
conflicts are not well representable in the index data structure, and
required special extra code to handle. But then when it was discovered
that rename/delete conflicts could also be involved in directory/file
conflicts, the special directory/file conflict handling code had to be
copied to the rename/delete codepath. ...and then it had to be copied
for modify/delete, and for rename/rename(1to2) conflicts, ...and yet it
still missed some. Further, when it was discovered that there were also
file/submodule conflicts and submodule/directory conflicts, we needed to
copy the special submodule handling code to all the special cases
throughout the codebase.
And then it was discovered that our handling of directory/file conflicts
was suboptimal because it would create untracked files to store the
contents of the conflicting file, which would not be cleaned up if
someone were to run a 'git merge --abort' or 'git rebase --abort'. It
was also difficult or scary to try to add or remove the index entries
corresponding to these files given the directory/file conflict in the
index. But changing merge-recursive.c to handle these correctly was a
royal pain because there were so many sites in the code with similar but
not identical code for handling directory/file/submodule conflicts that
would all need to be updated.
I have worked hard to push all directory/file/submodule conflict
handling in merge-ort through a single codepath, and avoid creating
untracked files for storing tracked content (it does record things at
alternate paths, but makes sure they have higher-order stages in the
index).
Since updating merge-recursive is too much work and we don't want to
destabilize it, instead update the testsuite to have different
expectations for relevant directory/file/submodule conflict tests.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix that anti-pattern by a sequence of echo and test_cmp.
The patch was generated with this command:
sed -i -e '/test.*(cat/s/^\(\t*\)test "..cat \(.*\))" = \(".*"\)\(.*\)/\1echo \3 >expect \&\&\n\1test_cmp expect \2\4/' t7610-mergetool.sh
This helps on Windows, where test_cmp avoids spawning a process when
there is no difference.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subshells for pipelines are not required. This can save a number of
processes (if the shell does not optimize it away anyway).
The patch was generated with the command
sed -i 's/( *\(yes.*[^ ]\) *) *\&\&/\1 \&\&/' t7610-mergetool.sh
with a manual fixup of the case having no && at the end.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-difftool, if the tool is called with --gui but `diff.guitool` is
not set, it falls back to `diff.tool`. Make git-mergetool also fallback
from `merge.guitool` to `merge.tool` if the former is undefined.
If git-difftool, when called with `--gui`, were to use
`get_configured_mergetool` in a future patch, it would also get the
fallback behavior in the following precedence:
1. diff.guitool
2. merge.guitool
3. diff.tool
4. merge.tool
The behavior for when difftool or mergetool are called without `--gui`
should be identical with or without this patch.
Note that the search loop could be written as
sections="merge"
keys="tool"
if diff_mode
then
sections="diff $sections"
fi
if gui_mode
then
keys="guitool $keys"
fi
merge_tool=$(
IFS=' '
for key in $keys
do
for section in $sections
do
selected=$(git config $section.$key)
if test -n "$selected"
then
echo "$selected"
return
fi
done
done)
which would make adding a mode in the future much easier. However,
adding a new mode will likely never happen as it is highly discouraged
so, as a result, it is written in its current form so that it is more
readable for future readers.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 063f2bdbf7 (mergetool: accept -g/--[no-]gui as arguments,
2018-10-24), mergetool was taught the --gui option but no tests were
added to ensure that it was working properly. Add a test to ensure that
it works.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output for commands used to be suppressed by redirecting both stdout
and stderr to /dev/null. However, this should not happen since the
output is useful for debugging and, without the "-v" flag, test scripts
don't output anyway.
Unsuppress the output by removing the redirections to /dev/null.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test fixes.
* sg/test-must-be-empty:
tests: use 'test_must_be_empty' instead of 'test_cmp <empty> <out>'
tests: use 'test_must_be_empty' instead of 'test_cmp /dev/null <out>'
tests: use 'test_must_be_empty' instead of 'test ! -s'
tests: use 'test_must_be_empty' instead of '! test -s'
Using 'test_must_be_empty' is shorter and more idiomatic than
>empty &&
test_cmp empty out
as it saves the creation of an empty file. Furthermore, sometimes the
expected empty file doesn't have such a descriptive name like 'empty',
and its creation is far away from the place where it's finally used
for comparison (e.g. in 't7600-merge.sh', where two expected empty
files are created in the 'setup' test, but are used only about 500
lines later).
These cases were found by instrumenting 'test_cmp' to error out the
test script when it's used to compare empty files, and then converted
manually.
Note that even after this patch there still remain a lot of cases
where we use 'test_cmp' to check empty files:
- Sometimes the expected output is not hard-coded in the test, but
'test_cmp' is used to ensure that two similar git commands produce
the same output, and that output happens to be empty, e.g. the
test 'submodule update --merge - ignores --merge for new
submodules' in 't7406-submodule-update.sh'.
- Repetitive common tasks, including preparing the expected results
and running 'test_cmp', are often extracted into a helper
function, and some of this helper's callsites expect no output.
- For the same reason as above, the whole 'test_expect_success'
block is within a helper function, e.g. in 't3070-wildmatch.sh'.
- Or 'test_cmp' is invoked in a loop, e.g. the test 'cvs update
(-p)' in 't9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh'.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change various tests that use an idiom of the form:
>expect &&
test_cmp expect actual
To instead use:
test_must_be_empty actual
The test_must_be_empty() wrapper was introduced in ca8d148daf ("test:
test_must_be_empty helper", 2013-06-09). Many of these tests have been
added after that time. This was mostly found with, and manually pruned
from:
git grep '^\s+>.*expect.* &&$' t
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These tests employ a noisy subshell (with missing &&-chain) to feed
input into Git commands or files:
(echo a; echo b; echo c) | git some-command ...
Simplify by taking advantage of test_write_lines():
test_write_lines a b c | git some-command ...
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the argument order for test_cmp. When given the expected
result first the diff shows the actual output with '+' and the
expectation with '-', which is the convention for our tests.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git mergetool" without any pathspec on the command line that is
run from a subdirectory became no-op in Git v2.11 by mistake, which
has been fixed.
* rh/mergetool-regression-fix:
mergetool: fix running in subdir when rerere enabled
mergetool: take the "-O" out of $orderfile
t7610: add test case for rerere+mergetool+subdir bug
t7610: spell 'git reset --hard' consistently
t7610: don't assume the checked-out commit
t7610: always work on a test-specific branch
t7610: delete some now-unnecessary 'git reset --hard' lines
t7610: run 'git reset --hard' after each test to clean up
t7610: don't rely on state from previous test
t7610: use test_when_finished for cleanup tasks
t7610: move setup code to the 'setup' test case
t7610: update branch names to match test number
rev-parse doc: pass "--" to rev-parse in the --prefix example
.mailmap: record canonical email for Richard Hansen
"git mergetool" (without any pathspec on the command line) that is
not run from the top-level of the working tree no longer works in
Git v2.11, failing to get the list of unmerged paths from the output
of "git rerere remaining". This regression was introduced by
57937f70a0 ("mergetool: honor diff.orderFile", 2016-10-07).
This is because the pathnames output by the 'git rerere remaining'
command are relative to the top-level directory but the 'git diff
--name-only' command expects its pathname arguments to be relative
to the current working directory. To make everything consistent,
cd_to_toplevel before running 'git diff --name-only' and adjust any
relative pathnames.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If rerere is enabled and mergetool is run from a subdirectory,
mergetool always prints "No files need merging". Add an expected
failure test case for this situation.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Always check out the required commit at the beginning of the test so
that a failure in a previous test does not cause the test to work off
of the wrong commit.
This is a step toward making the tests more independent so that if one
test fails it doesn't cause subsequent tests to fail.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create and use a test-specific branch when the test might create a
commit. This is not always necessary for correctness, but it improves
debuggability by ensuring a commit created by test #N shows up on the
testN branch, not the branch for test #N-1.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tests now always run 'git reset --hard' at the end (even if they
fail), so it's no longer necessary to run 'git reset --hard' at the
beginning of a test.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use test_when_finished to run 'git reset --hard' after each test so
that the repository is left in a saner state for the next test.
This is a step toward making the tests more independent so that if one
test fails it doesn't cause subsequent tests to fail.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the repository must be in a particular state (beyond what is
already done by the 'setup' test case) before the test can run, make
the necessary repository changes in the test script even if it means
duplicating some lines of code from the previous test case.
This is a step toward making the tests more independent so that if one
test fails it doesn't cause subsequent tests to fail.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a step toward making the tests more independent so that if one
test fails it doesn't cause subsequent tests to fail.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Multiple test cases depend on these hunks, so move them to the 'setup'
test case. This is a step toward making the tests more independent so
that if one test fails it doesn't cause subsequent tests to fail.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename the testNN branches so that NN matches the test number. This
should make it easier to troubleshoot test issues. Use $test_count to
keep this future-proof.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_must_fail should only be used for testing git commands. To test the
failure of other commands use `!`.
Reported-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The lazy prereq for MKTEMP uses "mktemp -t" to see if
mergetool's internal mktemp call will be able to run. But
unlike the call inside mergetool, we do not ever bother to
clean up the result, and the /tmp of git developers will
slowly fill up with "foo.XXXXXX" directories as they run the
test suite over and over. Let's clean up the directory
after we've verified its creation.
Note that we don't use test_when_finished here, and instead
just make rmdir part of the &&-chain. We should only remove
something that we're confident we just created. A failure in
the middle of the chain either means there's nothing to
clean up, or we are very confused and should err on the side
of caution.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach mergetool to pass "-O<orderfile>" down to `git diff` when
specified on the command-line.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach mergetool to get the list of files to edit via `diff` so that we
gain support for diff.orderFile.
Suggested-by: Luis Gutierrez <luisgutz@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mktemp is not available on all platforms, so the test
'temporary filenames are used with mergetool.writeToTemp'
fails there.
This patch does not replace mktemp but just disables
the test that otherwise would fail.
mergetool checks itself before executing mktemp and
reports an error.
Signed-off-by: Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach resolve_deleted_merge() to honor the mergetool.keepBackup and
mergetool.keepTemporaries configuration knobs.
This ensures that the worktree is kept pristine when resolving deletion
conflicts with the variables both set to false.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If two branches each move a file into different directories then
mergetool will fail because it assumes that the file being merged, and
its parent directory, are present in the worktree.
Create the merge file's parent directory to allow using the
deleted base version of the file for merge resolution when
encountering a delete/delete conflict.
The end result is that a delete/delete conflict is presented for the
user to resolve.
Reported-by: Joe Einertson <joe@kidblog.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_config uses test_when_finished to reset the configuration after the
test, but this does not work inside a subshell. This does not cause a
problem here because the first thing the next test does is to set this
config variable itself, but we are about to add a check that will
complain when test_when_finished is used in a subshell.
In this case, "subdir" not a submodule so test_config has the same
effect when run at the top level and can simply be moved out of the
subshell.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow a temporary directory specified to be used while running "git
mergetool" backend.
* da/mergetool-temporary-directory:
t7610-mergetool: add test cases for mergetool.writeToTemp
mergetool: add an option for writing to a temporary directory
Add tests to ensure that filenames start with "./" when
mergetool.writeToTemp is false and do not start with "./" when
mergetool.writeToTemp is true.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently using "git rm" on a submodule removes the submodule's work tree
from that of the superproject and the gitlink from the index. But the
submodule's section in .gitmodules is left untouched, which is a leftover
of the now removed submodule and might irritate users (as opposed to the
setting in .git/config, this must stay as a reminder that the user showed
interest in this submodule so it will be repopulated later when an older
commit is checked out).
Let "git rm" help the user by not only removing the submodule from the
work tree but by also removing the "submodule.<submodule name>" section
from the .gitmodules file and stage both. This doesn't happen when the
"--cached" option is used, as it would modify the work tree. This also
silently does nothing when no .gitmodules file is found and only issues a
warning when it doesn't have a section for this submodule. This is because
the user might just use plain gitlinks without the .gitmodules file or has
already removed the section by hand before issuing the "git rm" command
(in which case the warning reminds him that rm would have done that for
him). Only when .gitmodules is found and contains merge conflicts the rm
command will fail and tell the user to resolve the conflict before trying
again.
Also extend the man page to inform the user about this new feature. While
at it promote the submodule sub-section to a chapter as it made not much
sense under "REMOVING FILES THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE FILESYSTEM".
In t7610 three uses of "git rm submod" had to be replaced with "git rm
--cached submod" because that test expects .gitmodules and the work tree
to stay untouched. Also in t7400 the tests for the remaining settings in
the .gitmodules file had to be changed to assert that these settings are
missing.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The actual external command to run for mergetool backend can be
specified with difftool/mergetool.$name.cmd configuration
variables, but this mechanism was ignored for the backends we
natively support.
* da/mergetool-custom:
mergetool--lib: Allow custom commands to override built-ins
