remote_find_tracking() populates the query struct with an allocated
string in the dst member. So, we do not need to xstrdup() the string,
since we can transfer ownership from the query struct (which will go
out of scope at the end of this function) to our callback struct, but
we must free the string if it will not be used so we will not leak
memory.
Let's do so.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
GIT_REFLOG_ACTION is an environment variable specifying the reflog
message to write after an action is completed. Several other commands
including merge, reset, and commit respect it.
Fix the failing tests in t/checkout-last by making checkout respect it
too. You can now expect
$ git checkout -
to work as expected after any operation that internally uses "checkout"
as its implementation detail, e.g. "rebase".
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update "git checkout foo" that DWIMs the intended "upstream" and
turns it into "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo" to
correctly take existing remote definitions into account.
The remote "origin" may be what uniquely map its own branch to
remotes/some/where/foo but that some/where may not be "origin".
* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
glossary: Update and rephrase the definition of a remote-tracking branch
branch.c: Validate tracking branches with refspecs instead of refs/remotes/*
t9114.2: Don't use --track option against "svn-remote"-tracking branches
t7201.24: Add refspec to keep --track working
t3200.39: tracking setup should fail if there is no matching refspec.
checkout: Use remote refspecs when DWIMming tracking branches
t2024: Show failure to use refspec when DWIMming remote branch names
t2024: Add tests verifying current DWIM behavior of 'git checkout <branch>'
Make the initial "sparse" selection of the paths more sticky across
"git checkout".
* nd/checkout-keep-sparse:
checkout: add --ignore-skip-worktree-bits in sparse checkout mode
The DWIM mode of checkout allows you to run "git checkout foo" when there
is no existing local ref or path called "foo", and there is exactly _one_
remote with a remote-tracking branch called "foo". Git will automatically
create a new local branch called "foo" using the remote-tracking "foo" as
its starting point and configured upstream.
For example, consider the following unconventional (but perfectly valid)
remote setup:
[remote "origin"]
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[remote "frotz"]
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/*
Case 1: Assume both "origin" and "frotz" have remote-tracking branches called
"foo", at "refs/remotes/origin/foo" and "refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/foo"
respectively. In this case "git checkout foo" should fail, because there is
more than one remote with a "foo" branch.
Case 2: Assume only "frotz" have a remote-tracking branch called "foo". In
this case "git checkout foo" should succeed, and create a local branch "foo"
from "refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/foo", using remote branch "foo" from "frotz"
as its upstream.
The current code hardcodes the assumption that all remote-tracking branches
must match the "refs/remotes/$remote/*" pattern (which is true for remotes
with "conventional" refspecs, but not true for the "frotz" remote above).
When running "git checkout foo", the current code looks for exactly one ref
matching "refs/remotes/*/foo", hence in the above example, it fails to find
"refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/foo", which causes it to fail both case #1 and #2.
The better way to handle the above example is to actually study the fetch
refspecs to deduce the candidate remote-tracking branches for "foo"; i.e.
assume "foo" is a remote branch being fetched, and then map "refs/heads/foo"
through the refspecs in order to get the corresponding remote-tracking
branches "refs/remotes/origin/foo" and "refs/remotes/frotz/nitfol/foo".
Finally we check which of these happens to exist in the local repo, and
if there is exactly one, we have an unambiguous match for "git checkout foo",
and may proceed.
This fixes most of the failing tests introduced in the previous patch.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout -- <paths>" is usually used to restore all modified
files in <paths>. In sparse checkout mode, this command is overloaded
with another meaning: to add back all files in <paths> that are
excluded by sparse patterns.
As the former makes more sense for day-to-day use. Switch it to the
default and the latter enabled with --ignore-skip-worktree-bits.
While at there, add info/sparse-checkout to gitrepository-layout.txt
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After printing the list of left-behind commits (with abbreviated
hashes), use an abbreviated hash in the suggested 'git branch' command;
there's no point in outputting a full 40-character hex string in some
friendly advice.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In checkout_paths() we do this
- for all updated items, call match_pathspec
- for all items, call match_pathspec (inside unmerge_cache)
- for all items, call match_pathspec (for showing "path .. is unmerged)
- for updated items, call match_pathspec and update paths
That's a lot of duplicate match_pathspec(s) and the function is not
exactly cheap to be called so many times, especially on large indexes.
This patch makes it call match_pathspec once per updated index entry,
save the result in ce_flags and reuse the results in the following
loops.
The changes in 0a1283b (checkout $tree $path: do not clobber local
changes in $path not in $tree - 2011-09-30) limit the affected paths
to ones we read from $tree. We do not do anything to other modified
entries in this case, so the "for all items" above could be modified
to "for all updated items". But..
The command's behavior now is modified slightly: unmerged entries that
match $path, but not updated by $tree, are now NOT touched. Although
this should be considered a bug fix, not a regression. A new test is
added for this change.
And while at there, free ps_matched after use.
The following command is tested on webkit, 215k entries. The pattern
is chosen mainly to make match_pathspec sweat:
git checkout -- "*[a-zA-Z]*[a-zA-Z]*[a-zA-Z]*"
before after
real 0m3.493s 0m2.737s
user 0m2.239s 0m1.586s
sys 0m1.252s 0m1.151s
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we switch to a new branch using checkout, we usually output a
message indicating what happened. However, when we switch from an unborn
branch to a new branch, we do not print anything, which may leave the
user wondering what happened.
The reason is that the unborn branch is a special case (see abe1998),
and does not follow the usual switch_branches code path. Let's add a
similar informational message to the special case to match the usual
code path.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and
defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an
appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder.
Reorganize the code and allow giving a proper diagnosis when the
user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a good name
for a branch).
* nd/checkout-option-parsing-fix:
checkout: reorder option handling
checkout: move more parameters to struct checkout_opts
checkout: pass "struct checkout_opts *" as const pointer
checkout operates in three different modes. On top of that it tries to
be smart by guessing the branch name for switching. This results in
messy option handling code. This patch reorders it so that
- cmd_checkout() is responsible for parsing, preparing input and
determining mode
- Code of each mode is in checkout_paths() and checkout_branch(),
where sanity checks are performed
Another slight improvement is always print branch name (or commit
name) when printing errors related ot them. This helps catch the case
where an option is mistaken as branch/commit.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A lot of i18n mark-up for the help text from "git <cmd> -h".
* nd/i18n-parseopt-help: (66 commits)
Use imperative form in help usage to describe an action
Reduce translations by using same terminologies
i18n: write-tree: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: verify-tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: verify-pack: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: update-server-info: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: update-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: update-index: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: tag: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: symbolic-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: show-ref: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: show-branch: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: shortlog: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: rm: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: revert, cherry-pick: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: rev-parse: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: reset: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: rerere: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: status: mark parseopt strings for translation
i18n: replace: mark parseopt strings for translation
...
This struct contains various switches to system and it feels somewhat
safer to have the compiler reassure us that nowhere else changes it.
One field that is changed, writeout_error, is split out and passed as
another argument.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff_setup_done() has historically returned an error code, but lost
the last nonzero return in 943d5b7 (allow diff.renamelimit to be set
regardless of -M/-C, 2006-08-09). The callers were in a pretty
confused state: some actually checked for the return code, and some
did not.
Let it return void, and patch all callers to take this into account.
This conveniently also gets rid of a handful of different(!) error
messages that could never be triggered anyway.
Note that the function can still die().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state
incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting in
unnecessary warnings.
* jk/maint-checkout-orphan-check-fix:
checkout: don't confuse ref and object flags
When we are leaving a detached HEAD, we do a revision traversal to
check whether we are orphaning any commits, marking the commit we're
leaving as the start of the traversal, and all existing refs as
uninteresting.
Prior to commit 468224e5, we did so by calling for_each_ref, and
feeding each resulting refname to setup_revisions. Commit 468224e5
refactored this to simply mark the pending objects, saving an extra
lookup.
However, it confused the "flags" parameter to the each_ref_fn
clalback, which is about the flags we found while looking up the ref
with the object flag. Because REF_ISSYMREF ("this ref is a symbolic
ref, e.g. refs/remotes/origin/HEAD") happens to be the same bit
pattern as SEEN ("we have picked this object up from the pending
list and moved it to revs.commits list"), we incorrectly reported
that a commit previously at the detached HEAD will become
unreachable if the only ref that can reach the commit happens to be
pointed at by a symbolic ref.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Strip the name length from the ce_flags field and move it
into its own ce_namelen field in struct cache_entry. This
will both give us a tiny bit of a performance enhancement
when working with long pathnames and is a refactoring for
more readability of the code.
It enhances readability, by making it more clear what
is a flag, and where the length is stored and make it clear
which functions use stages in comparisions and which only
use the length.
It also makes CE_NAMEMASK private, so that users don't
mistakenly write the name length in the flags.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
should be forbidden, but it wasn't.
* cw/no-detaching-an-unborn:
git-checkout: disallow --detach on unborn branch
abe199808c (git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn branch)
introduced a bug demonstrated by
git checkout --orphan foo
git checkout --detach
git symbolic-ref HEAD
which gives 'refs/heads/(null)'.
This happens because we strbuf_addf(&branch_ref, "refs/heads/%s",
opts->new_branch) when opts->new_branch can be NULL for --detach.
Catch and forbid this case, adding a test to t2017 to catch it in
future.
Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If stderr isn't a tty, we shouldn't be printing incremental progress
messages. In particular, this affects 'git checkout -f . >&logfile'
unless you provided -q. And git-new-workdir has no way to provide -q.
It would probably be better to have progress.c check isatty(2) all the time,
but that wouldn't allow things like 'git push --progress' to force progress
reporting to on, so I won't try to solve the general case right now.
Actual fix suggested by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Running "git checkout" on an unborn branch used to corrupt HEAD
(regression in 1.7.10); this makes it error out.
By Erik Faye-Lund
* ef/checkout-empty:
checkout: do not corrupt HEAD on empty repo
Running "git checkout" on an unborn branch used to corrupt HEAD
(regression in 1.7.10); this makes it error out.
By Erik Faye-Lund
* ef/checkout-empty:
checkout: do not corrupt HEAD on empty repo
When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we used
to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the refs as
lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new HEAD, and there
is no need to warn about them.
By Johannes Sixt
* js/checkout-detach-count:
checkout (detached): truncate list of orphaned commits at the new HEAD
t2020-checkout-detach: check for the number of orphaned commits
In abe1998 ("git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn
branch"), a code-path overly-optimisticly assumed that a
branch-name was specified. This is not always the case, and as
a result a NULL-pointer was attempted printed to .git/HEAD.
This could lead to at least two different failure modes:
1) vsnprintf formated the NULL-string as something useful (e.g
"(null)")
2) vsnprintf crashed
Neither were very convenient for formatting a new HEAD-reference.
To fix this, reintroduce some strictness so we only take this
new codepath if a banch-name was specified.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git checkout switches from a detached HEAD to any other commit, then
all orphaned commits were listed in a warning:
Warning: you are leaving 2 commits behind...:
a5e5396 another fixup
6aa1af6 fixup foo
But if the new commit is actually one from this list (6aa1af6 in this
example), then the list in the warning can be truncated at the new HEAD,
because history beginning at HEAD is not "left behind". This makes it so.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking.
Also "branch" learns "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message.
By Jeff King
* jk/branch-quiet:
teach "git branch" a --quiet option
checkout: suppress tracking message with "-q"
Like the "switched to..." message (which is already
suppressed by "-q"), this message is purely informational.
Let's silence it if the user asked us to be quiet.
This patch is slightly more than a one-liner, because we
have to teach create_branch to propagate the flag all the
way down to install_branch_config.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Running "git checkout -b another" immediately after "git init" when you do
not even have a commit on 'master' fails with:
$ git checkout -b another
fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born
This is unnecessary, if we redefine "git checkout -b $name" that does not
take any $start_point (which has to be a commit) as "I want to check out a
new branch $name from the state I am in".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/checkout-m-twoway:
checkout_merged(): squelch false warning from some gcc
Test 'checkout -m -- path'
checkout -m: no need to insist on having all 3 stages
* nd/resolve-ref:
Rename resolve_ref() to resolve_ref_unsafe()
Convert resolve_ref+xstrdup to new resolve_refdup function
revert: convert resolve_ref() to read_ref_full()
gcc 4.6.2 (there may be others) does not realize that the variable "mode"
can never be used uninitialized in this function and issues a false warning
under -Wuninitialized option.
Squelch it with an unnecessary initialization; it is not like a single
assignment matters to the performance in this codepath that writes out
to the filesystem with checkout_entry() anyway.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/resolve-ref:
Copy resolve_ref() return value for longer use
Convert many resolve_ref() calls to read_ref*() and ref_exists()
Conflicts:
builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
builtin/merge.c
refs.c
The content level merge machinery ll_merge() is prepared to merge
correctly in "both sides added differently" case by using an empty blob as
if it were the common ancestor. "checkout -m" could do the same, but didn't
bother supporting it and instead insisted on having all three stages.
Reported-by: Pete Harlan
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref() may return a pointer to a static buffer. Callers that
use this value longer than a couple of statements should copy the
value to avoid some hidden resolve_ref() call that may change the
static buffer's value.
The bug found by Tony Wang <wwwjfy@gmail.com> in builtin/merge.c
demonstrates this. The first call is in cmd_merge()
branch = resolve_ref("HEAD", head_sha1, 0, &flag);
Then deep in lookup_commit_or_die() a few lines after, resolve_ref()
may be called again and destroy "branch".
lookup_commit_or_die
lookup_commit_reference
lookup_commit_reference_gently
parse_object
lookup_replace_object
do_lookup_replace_object
prepare_replace_object
for_each_replace_ref
do_for_each_ref
get_loose_refs
get_ref_dir
get_ref_dir
resolve_ref
All call sites are checked and made sure that xstrdup() is called if
the value should be saved.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When on master, "git checkout -B master <commit>" is a more natural way to
say "git reset --keep <commit>", which was originally invented for the
exact purpose of moving to the named commit while keeping the local changes
around.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ignored files usually are generated files (e.g. .o files) and can be
safely discarded. However sometimes users may have important files in
working directory, but still want a clean "git status", so they mark
them as ignored files. But in this case, these files should not be
overwritten without asking first.
Enable this use case with --no-overwrite-ignore, where git only sees
tracked and untracked files, no ignored files. Those who mix
discardable ignored files with important ones may have to sort it out
themselves.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back in 1127148 (Loosen "working file will be lost" check in
Porcelain-ish - 2006-12-04), git-checkout.sh learned to quietly
overwrite ignored files. Howver the code only took .gitignore files
into account.
Standard ignored files include all specified in .gitignore files in
working directory _and_ $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. This patch makes sure
ignored files in info/exclude can also be overwritten automatically in
the spirit of the original patch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref() may return a pointer to a static buffer, which is not
safe for long-term use because if another resolve_ref() call happens,
the buffer may be changed. Many call sites though do not care about
this buffer. They simply check if the return value is NULL or not.
Convert all these call sites to new wrappers to reduce resolve_ref()
calls from 57 to 34. If we change resolve_ref() prototype later on
to avoid passing static buffer out, this helps reduce changes.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rs/pending:
commit: factor out clear_commit_marks_for_object_array
checkout: use leak_pending flag
bundle: use leak_pending flag
bisect: use leak_pending flag
revision: add leak_pending flag
checkout: use add_pending_{object,sha1} in orphan check
revision: factor out add_pending_sha1
checkout: check for "Previous HEAD" notice in t2020
Conflicts:
builtin/checkout.c
revision.c
* mh/check-ref-format-3: (23 commits)
add_ref(): verify that the refname is formatted correctly
resolve_ref(): expand documentation
resolve_ref(): also treat a too-long SHA1 as invalid
resolve_ref(): emit warnings for improperly-formatted references
resolve_ref(): verify that the input refname has the right format
remote: avoid passing NULL to read_ref()
remote: use xstrdup() instead of strdup()
resolve_ref(): do not follow incorrectly-formatted symbolic refs
resolve_ref(): extract a function get_packed_ref()
resolve_ref(): turn buffer into a proper string as soon as possible
resolve_ref(): only follow a symlink that contains a valid, normalized refname
resolve_ref(): use prefixcmp()
resolve_ref(): explicitly fail if a symlink is not readable
Change check_refname_format() to reject unnormalized refnames
Inline function refname_format_print()
Make collapse_slashes() allocate memory for its result
Do not allow ".lock" at the end of any refname component
Refactor check_refname_format()
Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument
Change bad_ref_char() to return a boolean value
...
Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument that indicates what
is acceptable in the reference name (analogous to "git
check-ref-format"'s "--allow-onelevel" and "--refspec-pattern"). This
is more convenient for callers and also fixes a failure in the test
suite (and likely elsewhere in the code) by enabling "onelevel" and
"refspec-pattern" to be allowed independently of each other.
Also rename check_ref_format() to check_refname_format() to make it
obvious that it deals with refnames rather than references themselves.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/argv-array:
run_hook: use argv_array API
checkout: use argv_array API
bisect: use argv_array API
quote: provide sq_dequote_to_argv_array
refactor argv_array into generic code
quote.h: fix bogus comment
add sha1_array API docs
Factor out the code to clear the commit marks for a whole struct
object_array from builtin/checkout.c into its own exported function
clear_commit_marks_for_object_array and use it in bisect and bundle
as well. It handles tags and commits and ignores objects of any
other type.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of going through all the references again when we clear the
commit marks, do it like bisect and bundle and gain ownership of the
list of pending objects which we constructed from those references.
We simply copy the struct object_array that points to the list, set
the flag leak_pending and then prepare_revision_walk won't destroy
it and it's ours. We use it to clear the marks and free it at the
end.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of building a list of textual arguments for setup_revisions, use
add_pending_object and add_pending_sha1 to queue the objects directly.
This is both faster and simpler.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Checking paths out of a tree is (currently) defined to do:
- Grab the paths from the named tree that match the given pathspec,
and add them to the index;
- Check out the contents from the index for paths that match the
pathspec to the working tree; and while at it
- If the given pathspec did not match anything, suspect a typo from the
command line and error out without updating the index nor the working
tree.
Suppose that the branch you are working on has dir/myfile, and the "other"
branch has dir/other but not dir/myfile. Further imagine that you have
either modified or removed dir/myfile in your working tree, but you have
not run "git add dir/myfile" or "git rm dir/myfile" to tell Git about your
local change. Running
$ git checkout other dir
would add dir/other to the index with the contents taken out of the
"other" branch, and check out the paths from the index that match the
pathspec "dir", namely, "dir/other" and "dir/myfile", overwriting your
local changes to "dir/myfile", even though "other" branch does not even
know about that file.
Fix it by updating the working tree only with the index entries that
was read from the "other" tree.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git branch" command, while not in listing mode, calls create_branch()
even when the target branch already exists, and it does so even when it is
not interested in updating the value of the branch (i.e. the name of the
commit object that sits at the tip of the existing branch). This happens
when the command is run with "--set-upstream" option.
The earlier safety-measure to prevent "git branch -f $branch $commit" from
updating the currently checked out branch did not take it into account,
and we no longer can update the tracking information of the current branch.
Minimally fix this regression by telling the validation code if it is
called to really update the value of a potentially existing branch, or if
the caller merely is interested in updating auxiliary aspects of a branch.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Jay Soffian
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We were using a similar ad-hoc rev_list_args structure, but
this saves some code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch -M <foo> <current-branch>" allows updating the current branch
which HEAD points, without the necessary house-keeping that git reset
normally does to make this operation sensible. It also leaves the reflog
in a confusing state (you would be warned when trying to read it).
"git checkout -B <current branch> <foo>" is also partly vulnerable to this
bug; due to inconsistent pre-flight checks it would perform half of its
task and then abort just before rewriting the branch. Again this
manifested itself as the index file getting out-of-sync with HEAD.
"git branch -f" already guarded against this problem, and aborts with
a fatal error.
Update "git branch -M", "git checkout -B" and "git branch -f" to share the
same check before allowing a branch to be created. These prevent you from
updating the current branch.
We considered suggesting the use of "git reset" in the failure message
but concluded that it was not possible to discern what the user was
actually trying to do.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The following sequence of commands reveals an issue with error
reporting of relative paths:
$ mkdir sub
$ cd sub
$ git ls-files --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.
$ git commit --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.
This bug is visible only if the normalized path (i.e., the relative
path from the repository root) is longer than the prefix.
Otherwise, the code skips over the normalized path and reads from
an unused memory location which still contains a leftover of the
original command line argument.
So instead, use the existing facilities to deal with relative paths
correctly.
Also fix inconsistency between "checkout" and "commit", e.g.
$ cd Documentation
$ git checkout nosuch.txt
error: pathspec 'Documentation/nosuch.txt' did not match...
$ git commit nosuch.txt
error: pathspec 'nosuch.txt' did not match...
by propagating the prefix down the codepath that reports the error.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* commit 'v1.7.6': (3211 commits)
Git 1.7.6
completion: replace core.abbrevguard to core.abbrev
Git 1.7.6-rc3
Documentation: git diff --check respects core.whitespace
gitweb: 'pickaxe' and 'grep' features requires 'search' to be enabled
t7810: avoid unportable use of "echo"
plug a few coverity-spotted leaks
builtin/gc.c: add missing newline in message
tests: link shell libraries into valgrind directory
t/Makefile: pass test opts to valgrind target properly
sh-i18n--envsubst.c: do not #include getopt.h
Fix typo: existant->existent
Git 1.7.6-rc2
gitweb: do not misparse nonnumeric content tag files that contain a digit
Git 1.7.6-rc1
fetch: do not leak a refspec
t3703: skip more tests using colons in file names on Windows
gitweb: Fix usability of $prevent_xss
gitweb: Move "Requirements" up in gitweb/INSTALL
gitweb: Describe CSSMIN and JSMIN in gitweb/INSTALL
...
When create a new branch, we fed "refs/heads/<proposed name>" as a string
to get_sha1() and expected it to fail when a branch already exists.
The right way to check if a ref exists is to check with resolve_ref().
A naïve solution that might appear attractive but does not work is to
forbid slashes in get_describe_name() but that will not work. A describe
name is is in the form of "ANYTHING-g<short sha1>", and that ANYTHING part
comes from a original tag name used in the repository the user ran the
describe command. A sick user could have a confusing hierarchical tag
whose name is "refs/heads/foobar" (stored as refs/tags/refs/heads/foobar")
to generate a describe name "refs/heads/foobar-6-g02ac983", and we should
be able to use that name to refer to the object whose name is 02ac983.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/format-patch-am:
format-patch: preserve subject newlines with -k
clean up calling conventions for pretty.c functions
pretty: add pp_commit_easy function for simple callers
mailinfo: always clean up rfc822 header folding
t: test subject handling in format-patch / am pipeline
Conflicts:
builtin/branch.c
builtin/log.c
commit.h
Many callers don't actually care about the pretty print
context at all; let's just give them a simple way of
pretty-printing a commit without having to create a context
struct.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When switching away from a detached HEAD with "git checkout", we give a
listing of the commits about to be lost, and then tell how to resurrect
them since 8e2dc6a (commit: give final warning when reattaching HEAD to
leave commits behind, 2011-02-18).
This is a good safety measure for people who are not comfortable with the
detached HEAD state, but the advice on how to keep the state you just left
was given even to those who set advice.detachedHead to false.
Keep the warning and informational commit listing, but honor the setting
of advice.detachedHead to squelch the advice.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/struct-pathspec:
pathspec: rename per-item field has_wildcard to use_wildcard
Improve tree_entry_interesting() handling code
Convert read_tree{,_recursive} to support struct pathspec
Reimplement read_tree_recursive() using tree_entry_interesting()
Mark the "Warning: you are leaving %d commit(s) behind" message added
in v1.7.5-rc0~74^2 (commit: give final warning when reattaching HEAD
to leave commits behind) by Junio C Hamano for translation.
This message requires the use of ngettext() features, and is the first
message to use the Q_() wrapper around ngettext().
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark messages added in v1.7.5-rc0~117^2~2 (checkout: introduce
--detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}") by Junio C Hamano
for translation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch changes behavior of the two functions. Previously it does
prefix matching only. Now it can also do wildcard matching.
All callers are updated. Some gain wildcard matching (archive,
checkout), others reset pathspec_item.has_wildcard to retain old
behavior (ls-files, ls-tree as they are plumbing).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When orphaning a commit on a detached HEAD, the warning
currently looks like:
Warning: you are leaving 3 commits behind, not connected to
any of your branches:
- commit subject 1
- commit subject 2
- commit subject 3
If you want to keep them by creating a new branch, this
may be a good time to do so with:
git branch new_branch_name 933a615ab0bc566dcfd8c01ec8af159f770d3fe5
Instead of using the "-" list, let's provide a more
traditional oneline format, with the abbreviated sha1 before
each subject. Users are accustomed to seeing commits in this
format, and having the sha1 of each commit can be useful if
you want to cherry-pick instead of creating a new branch.
The new format looks like:
Warning: you are leaving 3 commits behind, not connected to
any of your branches:
933a615 commit subject 1
824fcde commit subject 2
fa49b1a commit subject 3
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When leaving a detached HEAD, we do a revision walk to make
sure the commit we are leaving isn't being orphaned.
However, this leaves crufty marks in the commit objects
which can confuse later walkers, like the one in
stat_tracking_info.
Let's clean up after ourselves to prevent this conflict.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split up the "Switched to and reset branch" and "Switched to a new
branch" messages to make them easier to translate.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gettextize the "HEAD is now at" messages. Several tests in t7201-co.sh
explicitly checked for this message. Change them to skip under
GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split up the "does not have our/their version" message to make it
easier to translate.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* uk/checkout-ambiguous-ref:
Rename t2019 with typo "amiguous" that meant "ambiguous"
checkout: rearrange update_refs_for_switch for clarity
checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"
checkout: split off a function to peel away branchname arg
checkout: fix bug with ambiguous refs
Conflicts:
builtin/checkout.c
You can detach the HEAD at an arbitrary commit in order to browse the
files in various points in the history or build older versions of the
software, without recording any new commit, and come back to an existing
branch. When used in this "sightseer" mode, detached HEAD is a perfectly
safe mechanism. It also is a useful state to experiment with throw-away
commits.
When coming back to an existing branch with "git checkout master",
however, the commits that were created on the detached HEAD will become
unreachable from anywhere but the reflog of the HEAD. Check if the commit
we are about to leave is connected to some ref, and give a final warning
otherwise to remind the user for safety.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions such as hashcmp that expect a binary SHA-1 value take
parameters of type "unsigned char *" to avoid accepting a textual
SHA-1 passed by mistake. Unfortunately, this means passing the string
literal EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN requires an ugly cast. Tweak the
definition of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN to produce a value of more
convenient type.
In the future the definition might change to
extern const unsigned char empty_tree_sha1_bin[20];
#define EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN empty_tree_sha1_bin
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Take care of simple, exceptional cases before the meat of the "check
out by branch name" code begins. After this change, the function
vaguely follows the following pseudocode:
if (-B or -b)
create branch;
if (plain "git checkout" or "git checkout HEAD")
;
else if (--detach or checking out by non-branch commit name)
detach HEAD;
else if (checking out by branch name)
attach HEAD;
One nice side benefit is to make it possible to remove handling of
the --detach option from outside switch_branches.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For example, one might use this when making a temporary merge to
test that two topics work well together.
Patch by Junio, with tests from Jeff King.
[jn: with some extra checks for bogus commandline usage]
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code to parse and consume the tree name and "--" in commands such
as "git checkout @{-1} -- '*.c'" is intimidatingly long. Split it out
into a separate function and make it easier to skip on first reading
by making the data it uses and produces more explicit.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usual dwim_ref lookup prefers tags to branches. Because
checkout primarily works on branches, though, we switch that
behavior to prefer branches.
However, there was a bug in the implementation in which we
used lookup_commit_reference (which used the regular lookup
rules) to get the actual commit to checkout. Checking out an
ambiguous ref therefore ended up putting us in an extremely
broken state in which we wrote the branch ref into HEAD, but
actually checked out the tree for the tag.
This patch fixes the bug by always attempting to pull the
commit to be checked out from the branch-ified version of
the name we were given.
Patch by Junio, tests and commit message from Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add OPT__FORCE as a helper macro in the same spirit as OPT__VERBOSE
et.al. to simplify defining -f/--force options.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lstfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows better help text to be defined than "be quiet". Also make use
of the macro in a place that already had a different description. No
object code changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C
code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in
comment and usage strings.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a
remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something".
See discussion in e.g.
http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com
for more details.
This patch is a straightforward application of
perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/'
except in the RelNotes directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
be a little more verbose about what each option does
Signed-off-by: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jl/submodule-ignore-diff:
checkout: Use submodule.*.ignore settings from .git/config and .gitmodules
checkout: Add test for diff.ignoreSubmodules
checkout: respect diff.ignoreSubmodules setting
Conflicts:
builtin/checkout.c
* 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
* 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
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>
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>
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>
For "git status" and the diff family the submodule.*.ignore settings from
.git/config and .gitmodules can be used to override the default set via
diff.ignoreSubmodules on a per-submodule basis. Let's do this consistently
and teach checkout to use these settings too.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Keeping track of the flag bits is proving more trouble than it's
worth. Instead, use a pointer to an options struct like most similar
APIs do.
Callers with no special requests can pass NULL to request the default
options.
Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Justin Frankel <justin@cockos.com>
Helped-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'git checkout' reports uncommitted changes, it also does so for
submodules.
The default mode is now to look really hard into submodules, not only
for different commits, but also for modified files. Since this can be
pretty expensive when there are a lot (and large) submodules, there is
the diff.ignoreSubmodules option.
Let's respect that setting when 'git checkout' reports the uncommitted
changes, since it does nothing else than a 'git diff --name-status'.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* dg/local-mod-error-messages:
t7609: test merge and checkout error messages
unpack_trees: group error messages by type
merge-recursive: distinguish "removed" and "overwritten" messages
merge-recursive: porcelain messages for checkout
Turn unpack_trees_options.msgs into an array + enum
Conflicts:
t/t3400-rebase.sh
Fix "Switched to a new branch <name>" to read "Switched to branch
<name>" when <name> corresponds to an existing branch. This bug was
introduced in 02ac983 while introducing the `-B` switch.
Cc: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Add a “renormalize” bit to the ll-merge options word so callers can
decide on a case-by-case basis whether the merge is likely to have
overlapped with a change in smudge/clean rules.
This reveals a few commands that have not been taking that situation
into account, though it does not fix them.
No functional change intended.
Cc: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since they do not precede setup_revisions, these assignments of 0 to
rev.abbrev have no effect.
v1.7.1.1~17^2~3 (2010-05-03) taught the log --format=%h machinery
to respect --abbrev instead of always abbreviating, so we have to pay
attention to the abbrev setting now.
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>
Internally, --track and --orphan still use the 'safe' -b, not -B.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Shift the 'new' from the param to the hint, and expand the hint.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* gv/portable:
test-lib: use DIFF definition from GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
build: propagate $DIFF to scripts
Makefile: Tru64 portability fix
Makefile: HP-UX 10.20 portability fixes
Makefile: HPUX11 portability fixes
Makefile: SunOS 5.6 portability fix
inline declaration does not work on AIX
Allow disabling "inline"
Some platforms lack socklen_t type
Make NO_{INET_NTOP,INET_PTON} configured independently
Makefile: some platforms do not have hstrerror anywhere
git-compat-util.h: some platforms with mmap() lack MAP_FAILED definition
test_cmp: do not use "diff -u" on platforms that lack one
fixup: do not unconditionally disable "diff -u"
tests: use "test_cmp", not "diff", when verifying the result
Do not use "diff" found on PATH while building and installing
enums: omit trailing comma for portability
Makefile: -lpthread may still be necessary when libc has only pthread stubs
Rewrite dynamic structure initializations to runtime assignment
Makefile: pass CPPFLAGS through to fllow customization
Conflicts:
Makefile
wt-status.h
859c301 (refs: split log_ref_write logic into log_ref_setup,
2010-05-21) refactors the stack allocation of the log_file array into
the new log_ref_setup() function, but passes it back to the caller.
Since the original intent seems to have been to split the work between
log_ref_setup and log_ref_write, make it the caller's responsibility
to allocate the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Added changes to satisfy a corner case: creating reflogs by using -l
when core.logAllRefUpdates is set to false.
Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of production systems with
vendor compilers that choke unless all compound declarations can be
determined statically at compile time, for example hpux10.20 (I can
provide a comprehensive list of our supported platforms that exhibit
this problem if necessary).
This patch simply breaks apart any compound declarations with dynamic
initialisation expressions, and moves the initialisation until after
the last declaration in the same block, in all the places necessary to
have the offending compilers accept the code.
Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@thewrittenword.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to -b, --orphan creates a new branch, but it starts without any
commit. After running "git checkout --orphan newbranch", you are on a
new branch "newbranch", and the first commit you create from this state
will start a new history without any ancestry.
"git checkout --orphan" keeps the index and the working tree files
intact in order to make it convenient for creating a new history whose
trees resemble the ones from the original branch.
When creating a branch whose trees have no resemblance to the ones from
the original branch, it may be easier to start work on the new branch by
untracking and removing all working tree files that came from the
original branch, by running a 'git rm -rf .' immediately after running
"checkout --orphan".
Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git checkout --merge --conflict=diff3 can be used to present conflict
hunks including text from the common ancestor. The added information
is helpful for resolving a merge by hand, and merge tools tend to
understand it because it is very similar to what ‘diff3 -m’ produces.
Unlike current git, diff3 -m includes a label for the merge base on
the ||||||| line, and unfortunately, some tools cannot parse the
conflict hunks without it. Humans can benefit from a cue when
learning to interpreting the format, too. Mark the start of the text
from the old branch with a label based on the branch’s name.
git rerere does not have trouble parsing this output and its preimage
ids are unchanged since it includes its own code for recreating
conflict hunks. No other code in git tries to parse conflict hunks.
Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git checkout --conflict=diff3 can be used to present conflicts hunks
including text from the common ancestor:
<<<<<<< ours
ourside
|||||||
original
=======
theirside
>>>>>>> theirs
The added information is helpful for resolving a merge by hand, and
merge tools can usually understand it without trouble because it looks
like output from ‘diff3 -m’.
diff3 includes a label for the merge base on the ||||||| line, and it
seems some tools (for example, Emacs 22’s smerge-mode) cannot parse
conflict hunks without such a label. Humans could use help in
interpreting the output, too. So change the marker for the start of the
text from the common ancestor to include the label “base”.
git rerere’s conflict identifiers are not affected: to parse conflict
hunks, rerere looks for whitespace after the ||||||| marker rather
than a newline, and to compute preimage ids, rerere has its own code
for creating conflict hunks. No other code in git tries to parse
conflict hunks.
Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commands using the ll_merge() function will present conflict hunks
imitating ‘diff3 -m’ output if the merge.conflictstyle configuration
option is set appropriately. Unlike ‘diff3 -m’, the output does not
include a label for the merge base on the ||||||| line of the output,
and some tools misparse the conflict hunks without that.
Add a new ancestor_label parameter to ll_merge() to give callers the
power to rectify this situation. If ancestor_label is NULL, the output
format is unchanged. All callers pass NULL for now.
Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
