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Michael J Gruber
3f40617566 commit,merge,tag: describe -m likewise
This also removes the superfluous "specify" and rewords the misleading
"if any" which sounds as if omitting "-m" would omit the merge commit
message. (It means "if a merge commit is created at all".)

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15 10:51:08 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
67ac1e1d57 cherry-pick/revert: add support for -X/--strategy-option
For example, this would allow cherry-picking or reverting patches from
a piece of history with a different end-of-line style, like so:

	$ git revert -Xrenormalize old-problematic-commit

Currently that is possible with manual use of merge-recursive but the
cherry-pick/revert porcelain does not expose the functionality.

While at it, document the existing support for --strategy.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-28 11:27:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6758af89e4 Merge branch 'jn/git-cmd-h-bypass-setup'
* jn/git-cmd-h-bypass-setup:
  update-index -h: show usage even with corrupt index
  merge -h: show usage even with corrupt index
  ls-files -h: show usage even with corrupt index
  gc -h: show usage even with broken configuration
  commit/status -h: show usage even with broken configuration
  checkout-index -h: show usage even in an invalid repository
  branch -h: show usage even in an invalid repository

Conflicts:
	builtin/merge.c
2010-12-12 21:49:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
657072f3ac Merge branch 'jh/notes-merge'
* jh/notes-merge: (23 commits)
  Provide 'git merge --abort' as a synonym to 'git reset --merge'
  cmd_merge(): Parse options before checking MERGE_HEAD
  Provide 'git notes get-ref' to easily retrieve current notes ref
  git notes merge: Add testcases for merging notes trees at different fanouts
  git notes merge: Add another auto-resolving strategy: "cat_sort_uniq"
  git notes merge: --commit should fail if underlying notes ref has moved
  git notes merge: List conflicting notes in notes merge commit message
  git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 2/2
  git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 1/2
  Documentation: Preliminary docs on 'git notes merge'
  git notes merge: Add automatic conflict resolvers (ours, theirs, union)
  git notes merge: Handle real, non-conflicting notes merges
  builtin/notes.c: Refactor creation of notes commits.
  git notes merge: Initial implementation handling trivial merges only
  builtin/notes.c: Split notes ref DWIMmery into a separate function
  notes.c: Use two newlines (instead of one) when concatenating notes
  (trivial) t3303: Indent with tabs instead of spaces for consistency
  notes.h/c: Propagate combine_notes_fn return value to add_note() and beyond
  notes.h/c: Allow combine_notes functions to remove notes
  notes.c: Reorder functions in preparation for next commit
  ...

Conflicts:
	builtin.h
2010-12-08 11:24:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7d43de925b Merge branch 'cb/maint-orphan-merge-noclobber'
* cb/maint-orphan-merge-noclobber:
  do not overwrite untracked during merge from unborn branch
2010-11-24 15:55:36 -08:00
Johan Herland
35d2fffdb8 Provide 'git merge --abort' as a synonym to 'git reset --merge'
Teach 'git merge' the --abort option, which verifies the existence of
MERGE_HEAD and then invokes 'git reset --merge' to abort the current
in-progress merge and attempt to reconstruct the pre-merge state.

The reason for adding this option is to provide a user interface for
aborting an in-progress merge that is consistent with the interface
for aborting a rebase ('git rebase --abort'), aborting the application
of a patch series ('git am --abort'), and aborting an in-progress notes
merge ('git notes merge --abort').

The patch includes documentation and testcases that explain and verify
the various scenarios in which 'git merge --abort' can run. The
testcases also document the cases in which 'git merge --abort' is
unable to correctly restore the pre-merge state (look for the '###'
comments towards the bottom of t/t7609-merge-abort.sh).

This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Jonathan Nieder: Move test documentation into test_description

Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-17 13:23:55 -08:00
Johan Herland
2a22c1b35d cmd_merge(): Parse options before checking MERGE_HEAD
Reorder the initial part of builtin/merge.c:cmd_merge() so that command-line
options are parsed _before_ we load the index and check for MERGE_HEAD
(and exits if it exists). This does not change the behaviour of 'git merge',
but is needed in preparation for the implementation of 'git merge --abort'
(which requires MERGE_HEAD to be present).

This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Junio C Hamano: fixup minor style issues

Thanks-to: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-17 13:23:55 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
172b6428d0 do not overwrite untracked during merge from unborn branch
In case HEAD does not point to a valid commit yet, merge is
implemented as a hard reset. This will cause untracked files to be
overwritten.

Instead, assume the empty tree for HEAD and do a regular merge. An
untracked file will cause the merge to abort and do nothing. If no
conflicting files are present, the merge will have the same effect
as a hard reset.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-15 09:27:33 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
13931236b9 Change incorrect "remote branch" to "remote tracking branch" in C code
(Just like we did for documentation already)

In the process, we change "non-remote branch" to "branch outside the
refs/remotes/ hierarchy" to avoid the ugly "non-remote-tracking branch".
The new formulation actually corresponds to how the code detects this
case (i.e. prefixcmp(refname, "refs/remotes")).

Also, we use 'remote-tracking branch' in generated merge messages (by
merge an fmt-merge-msg).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
75b17fee72 Merge branch 'jf/merge-ignore-ws'
* jf/merge-ignore-ws:
  merge-recursive: options to ignore whitespace changes
  merge-recursive --patience
  ll-merge: replace flag argument with options struct
  merge-recursive: expose merge options for builtin merge
2010-10-26 21:40:54 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
da53eec688 merge -h: show usage even with corrupt index
Part of a campaign to make sure "git <command> -h" works correctly
when run from distractingly bad repositories.

[jn: with rewritten log message and tests]

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-22 11:04:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
02ef0ed710 Merge branch 'rr/fmt-merge-msg'
* rr/fmt-merge-msg:
  t6200-fmt-merge-msg: Exercise '--log' to configure shortlog length
  t6200-fmt-merge-msg: Exercise 'merge.log' to configure shortlog length
  merge: Make 'merge.log' an integer or boolean option
  merge: Make '--log' an integer option for number of shortlog entries
  fmt_merge_msg: Change fmt_merge_msg API to accept shortlog_len

Conflicts:
	builtin/merge.c
2010-09-29 13:48:20 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
bda3b8ff17 merge: Make 'merge.log' an integer or boolean option
Make 'merge.log' an integer or boolean option to set the number of
shortlog entries to display in the merge commit. Note that it defaults
to false, and that true means a default value of 20. Also update
corresponding documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-09 11:39:23 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
96e9420cd3 merge: Make '--log' an integer option for number of shortlog entries
Change the command-line '--log' option from a boolean option to an
integer option, and parse the optional integer provided on the
command-line into the 'shortlog_len' variable. Also update the
documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-09 11:39:20 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
1876166aaa fmt_merge_msg: Change fmt_merge_msg API to accept shortlog_len
Give "shortlog_len" parameter to the fmt_merge_msg(), remove its
"merge_summary" parameter, and remove fmt_merge_msg_shortlog() function.
In the updated API, shortlog_len == 0 means no shortlog is given.

The parameter "merge_title" controls if the title of the merge commit is
autogenerated (it reads something like "Merge branch ..."), and typically
it is set to true when the caller does not give its own message.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-09 11:39:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c208e05bd9 Merge branch 'dg/local-mod-error-messages'
* dg/local-mod-error-messages:
  t7609-merge-co-error-msgs: test non-fast forward case too.
  Move "show_all_errors = 1" to setup_unpack_trees_porcelain()
  setup_unpack_trees_porcelain: take the whole options struct as parameter
  Move set_porcelain_error_msgs to unpack-trees.c and rename it

Conflicts:
	merge-recursive.c
2010-09-03 22:23:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
460645a8c3 Merge branch 'jn/merge-custom-no-trivial'
* jn/merge-custom-no-trivial:
  t7606: Avoid using head as a file name
  merge: let custom strategies intervene in trivial merges
  t7606 (merge-theirs): modernize style
2010-09-03 09:43:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2b916ffa18 Merge branch 'jn/update-contrib-example-merge'
* jn/update-contrib-example-merge: (24 commits)
  merge script: learn --[no-]rerere-autoupdate
  merge script: notice @{-1} shorthand
  merge script: handle --no-ff --no-commit correctly
  merge script: --ff-only to disallow true merge
  merge script: handle many-way octopus
  merge script: handle -m --log correctly
  merge script: forbid merge -s index
  merge script: allow custom strategies
  merge script: merge -X<option>
  merge script: improve log message subject
  merge script: refuse to merge during merge
  merge script: tweak unmerged files message to match builtin
  merge script: --squash, --ff from unborn branch are errors
  fmt-merge-msg -m to override merge title
  merge-base --independent to print reduced parent list in a merge
  merge-base --octopus to mimic show-branch --merge-base
  Documentation: add a SEE ALSO section for merge-base
  t6200 (fmt-merge-msg): style nitpicks
  t6010 (merge-base): modernize style
  t7600 (merge): test merge from branch yet to be born
  ...
2010-09-03 09:43:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8aed4a5e38 Merge branch 'jn/merge-renormalize'
* jn/merge-renormalize:
  merge-recursive --renormalize
  rerere: never renormalize
  rerere: migrate to parse-options API
  t4200 (rerere): modernize style
  ll-merge: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  ll-merge: make flag easier to populate
  Documentation/technical: document ll_merge
  merge-trees: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  merge-trees: push choice to renormalize away from low level
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): check that it can be turned off
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): try checkout -m and cherry-pick
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): style nitpicks
  Don't expand CRLFs when normalizing text during merge
  Try normalizing files to avoid delete/modify conflicts when merging
  Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization

Conflicts:
	builtin/rerere.c
	t/t4200-rerere.sh
2010-09-03 09:43:41 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
5e65ee35dd Move "show_all_errors = 1" to setup_unpack_trees_porcelain()
Not only this makes the code clearer since setting up the porcelain error
message is meant to work with show_all_errors, but this fixes a call to
setup_unpack_trees_porcelain() in git_merge_trees() which did not set
show_all_errors.

add_rejected_path() used to double-check whether it was running in
plumbing mode. This check was ineffective since it was setting
show_all_errors too late for traverse_trees() to see it, and is made
useless by this patch. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-03 09:31:51 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
e294030fe8 setup_unpack_trees_porcelain: take the whole options struct as parameter
This is a preparation patch to let setup_unpack_trees_porcelain set
show_all_errors itself.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-03 09:31:41 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
dc1166e685 Move set_porcelain_error_msgs to unpack-trees.c and rename it
The function is currently dealing only with error messages, but the
intent of calling it is really to notify the unpack-tree mechanics that
it is running in porcelain mode.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-03 09:31:28 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
635a7bb1d8 merge-recursive: expose merge options for builtin merge
There are two very similar blocks of code that recognize options for
the "recursive" merge strategy.  Unify them.

No functional change intended.

Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-26 09:05:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b95d0a2f8c Merge branch 'gb/split-cmdline-errmsg'
* gb/split-cmdline-errmsg:
  split_cmdline: Allow caller to access error string
2010-08-21 23:28:55 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
b81f925f70 merge: do not mistake (ancestor of) tag for branch
If no branch 'foo' exists but a tag 'foo' does, then
git merge foo^ results in

	Merge branch 'foo' (early part)

as a commit message, because the relevant code path checks that
refs/heads/foo is a valid refname for writing rather than for
reading.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-18 14:02:02 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
52b48ef1e4 merge: let custom strategies intervene in trivial merges
As v1.6.1-rc1~294^2 (2008-08-23) explains, custom merge strategies
do not even kick in when the merge is truly trivial.  But they
should, since otherwise a custom “--strategy=theirs” is not useful.

Perhaps custom strategies should not allow fast-forward either.  This
patch does not make that change, since it is less important (because
it is always possible to explicitly use --no-ff).

Reported-by: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-15 20:09:48 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
e6c111b4c0 unpack_trees: group error messages by type
When an error is encountered, it calls add_rejected_file() which either
- directly displays the error message and stops if in plumbing mode
  (i.e. if show_all_errors is not initialized at 1)
- or stores it so that it will be displayed at the end with display_error_msgs(),

Storing the files by error type permits to have a list of files for
which there is the same error instead of having a serie of almost
identical errors.

As each bind_overlap error combines a file and an old file, a list cannot be
done, therefore, theses errors are not stored but directly displayed.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-11 10:36:06 -07:00
Diane Gasselin
23cbf11b5c merge-recursive: porcelain messages for checkout
A porcelain message was first added in checkout.c in the commit
8ccba008 (Junio C Hamano, Sat May 17 21:03:49 2008, unpack-trees:
allow Porcelain to give different error messages) to give better feedback
in the case of merge errors.

This patch adapts the porcelain messages for the case of checkout
instead. This way, when having a checkout error, "merge" no longer
appears in the error message.

While we're there, we add an advice in the case of
would_lose_untracked_file.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-11 10:36:03 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
08353ebbab Turn unpack_trees_options.msgs into an array + enum
The list of error messages was introduced as a structure, but an array
indexed over an enum is more flexible, since it allows one to store a
type of error message (index in the array) in a variable.

This change needs to rename would_lose_untracked ->
would_lose_untracked_file to avoid a clash with the function
would_lose_untracked in merge-recursive.c.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-11 10:36:00 -07:00
Greg Brockman
ad9ac6db5d split_cmdline: Allow caller to access error string
This allows the caller to add its own error message to that returned
by split_cmdline.  Thus error output following a failed split_cmdline
can be of the form

fatal: Bad alias.test string: cmdline ends with \

rather than

error: cmdline ends with \
fatal: Bad alias.test string

Signed-off-by: Greg Brockman <gdb@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-11 09:36:23 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
7610fa57e6 merge-recursive --renormalize
Teach "git merge-recursive" a --renormalize option to enable the
merge.renormalize configuration.  The --no-renormalize option can
be used to override it in the negative.

So in the future, you might be able to, e.g.:

	git checkout -m -Xrenormalize otherbranch

or

	git revert -Xrenormalize otherpatch

or

	git pull --rebase -Xrenormalize

The bad part: merge.renormalize is still not honored for most
commands.  And it reveals lots of places that -X has not been plumbed
in (so we get "git merge -Xrenormalize" but not much else).

NEEDSWORK: tests

Cc: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-06 09:20:02 -07:00
Eyvind Bernhardsen
f217f0e86d Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization
Currently, merging across changes in line ending normalization is
painful since files containing CRLF will conflict with normalized files,
even if the only difference between the two versions is the line
endings.  Additionally, any "real" merge conflicts that exist are
obscured because every line in the file has a conflict.

Assume you start out with a repo that has a lot of text files with CRLF
checked in (A):

      o---C
     /     \
    A---B---D

B: Add "* text=auto" to .gitattributes and normalize all files to
   LF-only

C: Modify some of the text files

D: Try to merge C

You will get a ridiculous number of LF/CRLF conflicts when trying to
merge C into D, since the repository contents for C are "wrong" wrt the
new .gitattributes file.

Fix ll-merge so that the "base", "theirs" and "ours" stages are passed
through convert_to_worktree() and convert_to_git() before a three-way
merge.  This ensures that all three stages are normalized in the same
way, removing from consideration differences that are only due to
normalization.

This feature is optional for now since it changes a low-level mechanism
and is not necessary for the majority of users.  The "merge.renormalize"
config variable enables it.

Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-02 15:43:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8642abc764 Merge branch 'tc/merge-m-log'
* tc/merge-m-log:
  merge: --log appends shortlog to message if specified
  fmt-merge-msg: add function to append shortlog only
  fmt-merge-msg: refactor merge title formatting
  fmt-merge-msg: minor refactor of fmt_merge_msg()
  merge: rename variable
  merge: update comment
  t7604-merge-custom-message: show that --log doesn't append to -m
  t7604-merge-custom-message: shift expected output creation

Conflicts:
	builtin.h
2010-06-18 11:16:54 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
f0ecac2b70 merge: --log appends shortlog to message if specified
When the user specifies a message, use fmt_merge_msg_shortlog() to
append the shortlog.

Previously, when a message was specified, we ignored the merge title
("Merge <foo> into <bar>") and shortlog from fmt_merge_msg().

Update the documentation for -m to reflect this too.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-10 12:02:20 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
97d45bcb2f merge: rename variable
It is more accurate to call it 'merge_names' instead of 'msg', as it
does not contain the final message.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-10 11:57:33 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
7558922028 merge: update comment
ce9d823 (merge: do not add standard message when message is given with
-m option) changed the behaviour of the code that the comment addressed,
but the comment was not similarly updated.

Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-10 11:57:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f78eeeaf55 Merge branch 'cc/revert-strategy'
* cc/revert-strategy:
  revert: add "--strategy" option to choose merge strategy
  merge: make function try_merge_command non static
  merge: refactor code that calls "git merge-STRATEGY"
  revert: refactor merge recursive code into its own function
  revert: use strbuf to refactor the code that writes the merge message

Conflicts:
	builtin/revert.c
2010-05-08 22:34:47 -07:00
Christian Couder
c674d05273 merge: make function try_merge_command non static
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-01 11:14:10 -07:00
Christian Couder
3f9083cde3 merge: refactor code that calls "git merge-STRATEGY"
In the try_merge_strategy() function, when the strategy is "recursive"
or "subtree", the merge_recursive() function is called.
Otherwise we launch a "git merge-STRATEGY" process.

To make it possible to reuse code that launches a "git merge-STRATEGY"
process, this patch refactors this code into a new try_merge_command()
function.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-01 11:14:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
99f5b0845a Merge branch 'cc/cherry-pick-ff'
* cc/cherry-pick-ff:
  revert: fix tiny memory leak in cherry-pick --ff
  rebase -i: use new --ff cherry-pick option
  Documentation: describe new cherry-pick --ff option
  cherry-pick: add tests for new --ff option
  revert: add --ff option to allow fast forward when cherry-picking
  builtin/merge: make checkout_fast_forward() non static
  parse-options: add parse_options_concat() to concat options
2010-03-28 21:52:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
81b50f3ce4 Move 'builtin-*' into a 'builtin/' subdirectory
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of

	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
	Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
	builtin-shortlog.c     builtin-show-branch.c  builtin-show-ref.c
	builtin-shortlog.o     builtin-show-branch.o  builtin-show-ref.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
	builtin-shortlog.c  builtin-shortlog.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c

you get

	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>		[type]
	builtin/   builtin.h
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin		[auto-completes to]
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab>	[type]
	shortlog.c     shortlog.o     show-branch.c  show-branch.o  show-ref.c     show-ref.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho		[auto-completes to]
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab>	[type]
	shortlog.c  shortlog.o
	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c

which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.

NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead.  I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.

So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion.  But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-22 14:29:41 -08:00