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Junio C Hamano
887c409a7a Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.2
  completion: Allow dash as the first character for __git_ps1
2012-02-21 15:18:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
72d5e74e99 Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-21 15:16:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
093b194cc5 Merge branch 'nd/diffstat-gramnum' into maint
* nd/diffstat-gramnum:
  Use correct grammar in diffstat summary line
2012-02-21 14:56:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b3a769dc35 Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-20 00:29:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
76bdcf0ee3 Merge branch 'tg/tag-points-at'
* tg/tag-points-at:
  builtin/tag.c: Fix a sparse warning
  tag: add --points-at list option
2012-02-20 00:15:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2c8fb23ac7 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.2
  gitweb: Fix 'grep' search for multiple matches in file
2012-02-20 00:14:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
233054d114 Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-20 00:14:00 -08:00
Philip Jägenstedt
ca5bc9e61f remote: fix set-branches usage and documentation
The canonical order of command line arguments is always to have dashed
commands before other parameters, but the "git remote set-branches"
subcommand was described to take "name" before an optional "--add".

Signed-off-by: Philip Jägenstedt <philip@foolip.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-19 23:44:38 -08:00
Jeff King
9b25a0b52e config: add include directive
It can be useful to split your ~/.gitconfig across multiple
files. For example, you might have a "main" file which is
used on many machines, but a small set of per-machine
tweaks. Or you may want to make some of your config public
(e.g., clever aliases) while keeping other data back (e.g.,
your name or other identifying information). Or you may want
to include a number of config options in some subset of your
repos without copying and pasting (e.g., you want to
reference them from the .git/config of participating repos).

This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
It looks like:

  [include]
    path = /path/to/file

This is syntactically backwards-compatible with existing git
config parsers (i.e., they will see it as another config
entry and ignore it unless you are looking up include.path).

The implementation provides a "git_config_include" callback
which wraps regular config callbacks. Callers can pass it to
git_config_from_file, and it will transparently follow any
include directives, passing all of the discovered options to
the real callback.

Include directives are turned on automatically for "regular"
git config parsing. This includes calls to git_config, as
well as calls to the "git config" program that do not
specify a single file (e.g., using "-f", "--global", etc).
They are not turned on in other cases, including:

  1. Parsing of other config-like files, like .gitmodules.
     There isn't a real need, and I'd rather be conservative
     and avoid unnecessary incompatibility or confusion.

  2. Reading single files via "git config". This is for two
     reasons:

       a. backwards compatibility with scripts looking at
          config-like files.

       b. inspection of a specific file probably means you
	  care about just what's in that file, not a general
          lookup for "do we have this value anywhere at
	  all". If that is not the case, the caller can
	  always specify "--includes".

  3. Writing files via "git config"; we want to treat
     include.* variables as literal items to be copied (or
     modified), and not expand them. So "git config
     --unset-all foo.bar" would operate _only_ on
     .git/config, not any of its included files (just as it
     also does not operate on ~/.gitconfig).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:59:55 -08:00
Jeff King
c9b5e2a57d config: provide a version of git_config with more options
Callers may want to provide a specific version of a file in which to look
for config. Right now this can be done by setting the magic global
config_exclusive_filename variable.  By providing a version of git_config
that takes a filename, we can take a step towards making this magic global
go away.

Furthermore, by providing a more "advanced" interface, we now have a a
natural place to add new options for callers like git-config, which care
about tweaking the specifics of config lookup, without disturbing the
large number of "simple" users (i.e., every other part of git).

The astute reader of this patch may notice that the logic for handling
config_exclusive_filename was taken out of git_config_early, but added
into git_config. This means that git_config_early will no longer respect
config_exclusive_filename.  That's OK, because the only other caller of
git_config_early is check_repository_format_gently, but the only function
which sets config_exclusive_filename is cmd_config, which does not call
check_repository_format_gently (and if it did, it would have been a bug,
anyway, as we would be checking the repository format in the wrong file).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:58:07 -08:00
Jeff King
d7be1f142f docs/api-config: minor clarifications
The first change simply drops some parentheses to make a
statement more clear. The seconds clarifies that almost
nobody wants to call git_config_early.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:52:41 -08:00
Jehan Bing
36daaaca00 Add a setting to require a filter to be successful
By default, a missing filter driver or a failure from the filter driver is
not an error, but merely makes the filter operation a no-op pass through.
This is useful to massage the content into a shape that is more convenient
for the platform, filesystem, and the user to use, and the content filter
mechanism is not used to turn something unusable into usable.

However, we could also use of the content filtering mechanism and store
the content that cannot be directly used in the repository (e.g. a UUID
that refers to the true content stored outside git, or an encrypted
content) and turn it into a usable form upon checkout (e.g. download the
external content, or decrypt the encrypted content).  For such a use case,
the content cannot be used when filter driver fails, and we need a way to
tell Git to abort the whole operation for such a failing or missing filter
driver.

Add a new "filter.<driver>.required" configuration variable to mark the
second use case.  When it is set, git will abort the operation when the
filter driver does not exist or exits with a non-zero status code.

Signed-off-by: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:37:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b0d66b5110 Sync with maint 2012-02-16 14:27:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d1ba7a4cb7 Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-16 14:26:32 -08:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
68e4b552a1 man: rearrange git synopsis to fit in 80 lines
The line was extended in 2dd8c3 ('git: add --info-path and --man-path
options'), and the formatted man output stopped fitting into the 80
column window.

Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-16 13:01:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5f90b6fa0f Sync with 1.7.9.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-14 09:56:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
90020e3bcd Git 1.7.9.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-14 09:53:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6f5e880c68 Sync with maint
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13 11:48:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
58d4203aa6 Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-13 11:46:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
624d3519c9 Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Again this round mostly consists of fixes for 1.7.9 in preparation for
merging these topics down to maint for 1.7.9.1

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-12 22:58:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2ef80c2d89 Merge branch 'nd/diffstat-gramnum'
* nd/diffstat-gramnum:
  Use correct grammar in diffstat summary line
2012-02-12 22:43:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b6b3b6a01f Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Document bunch of bugfix topics to be merged down to 'maint' soonish
for 1.7.9.1 maintenance release.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-10 14:16:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1e9d3e3663 Sync with maint 2012-02-10 14:07:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bf5cf766af Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-10 14:04:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4fed4c809a Merge branch 'jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag' into maint
* jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag:
  request-pull: explicitly ask tags/$name to be pulled
2012-02-10 13:59:02 -08:00
Tom Grennan
ae7706b9ac tag: add --points-at list option
This filters the list for tags of the given object.
Example,

   john$ git tag v1.0-john v1.0
   john$ git tag -l --points-at v1.0
   v1.0-john
   v1.0

Signed-off-by: Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-08 19:59:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
12766861cd Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-07 13:01:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dc347e9f6a Merge branch 'jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag'
* jc/maint-request-pull-for-tag:
  request-pull: explicitly ask tags/$name to be pulled
2012-02-07 12:57:10 -08:00
Jeff King
9c3c22e2bf docs: add a basic description of the config API
This wasn't documented at all; this is pretty bare-bones,
but it should at least give new git hackers a basic idea of
how the reading side works.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-06 14:18:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
65da088244 Sync with maint 2012-02-06 00:04:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2d1abfa8ee Prepare for 1.7.9.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-06 00:03:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cc811d8d02 Sync with 1.7.6.6
* maint-1.7.8:
  Git 1.7.6.6
  imap-send: remove dead code
2012-02-05 23:53:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d0482e88a7 Sync with 1.7.6.6
* maint-1.7.7:
  Git 1.7.6.6
  imap-send: remove dead code
2012-02-05 23:52:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
110c511dbe Sync with 1.7.6.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-05 23:52:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f174a2583c Git 1.7.6.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-05 23:50:52 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
7f814632f5 Use correct grammar in diffstat summary line
"git diff --stat" and "git apply --stat" now learn to print the line
"%d files changed, %d insertions(+), %d deletions(-)" in singular form
whenever applicable. "0 insertions" and "0 deletions" are also omitted
unless they are both zero.

This matches how versions of "diffstat" that are not prehistoric produced
their output, and also makes this line translatable.

[jc: with help from Thomas Dickey in archaeology of "diffstat"]
[jc: squashed Jonathan's updates to illustrations in tutorials and a test]

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>
2012-02-03 23:19:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f3fb07509c Update draft release notes to 1.7.10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-01 15:26:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
af6b37fab1 Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag'
* jc/pull-signed-tag:
  merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions

Conflicts:
	Documentation/merge-options.txt
2012-01-31 22:30:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5ce2b97d2c Merge branch 'nd/clone-detached'
* nd/clone-detached:
  clone: fix up delay cloning conditions
  push: do not let configured foreign-vcs permanently clobbered
  clone: print advice on checking out detached HEAD
  clone: allow --branch to take a tag
  clone: refuse to clone if --branch points to bogus ref
  clone: --branch=<branch> always means refs/heads/<branch>
  clone: delay cloning until after remote HEAD checking
  clone: factor out remote ref writing
  clone: factor out HEAD update code
  clone: factor out checkout code
  clone: write detached HEAD in bare repositories
  t5601: add missing && cascade
2012-01-31 22:24:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2ad9ba0382 request-pull: explicitly ask tags/$name to be pulled
When asking for a tag to be pulled, disambiguate by leaving tags/ prefix
in front of the name of the tag. E.g.

    ... in the git repository at:

      git://example.com/git/git.git/ tags/v1.2.3

    for you to fetch changes up to 123456...

This way, older versions of "git pull" can be used to respond to such a
request more easily, as "git pull $URL v1.2.3" did not DWIM to fetch
v1.2.3 tag in older versions. Also this makes it clearer for humans that
the pull request is made for a tag and he should anticipate a signed one.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-31 21:27:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
85da4d459b Kick off the post 1.7.9 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-29 13:46:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bff64a9cda Merge branch 'tr/maint-mailinfo'
* tr/maint-mailinfo:
  mailinfo: with -b, keep space after [foo]
  am: learn passing -b to mailinfo

Conflicts:
	git-am.sh
2012-01-29 13:18:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1082fb22b2 Merge branch 'pw/p4-view-updates'
* pw/p4-view-updates:
  git-p4: add tests demonstrating spec overlay ambiguities
  git-p4: adjust test to adhere to stricter useClientSpec
  git-p4: clarify comment
  git-p4: fix verbose comment typo
  git-p4: only a single ... wildcard is supported
2012-01-29 13:18:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7859f533e2 Merge branch 'nd/clone-single-branch'
* nd/clone-single-branch:
  clone: add --single-branch to fetch only one branch
2012-01-29 13:18:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
828ea97de4 Git 1.7.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-27 11:31:02 -08:00
Jeff King
733137496a docs: minor grammar fixes for v1.7.9 release notes
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-26 11:09:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f8246281af merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions
Traditionally, a cleanly resolved merge was committed by "git merge" using
the auto-generated merge commit log message without invoking the editor.

After 5 years of use in the field, it turns out that people perform too
many unjustified merges of the upstream history into their topic branches.
These merges are not just useless, but they are often not explained well,
and making the end result unreadable when it gets time for merging their
history back to their upstream.

Earlier we added the "--edit" option to the command, so that people can
edit the log message to explain and justify their merge commits. Let's
take it one step further and spawn the editor by default when we are in an
interactive session (i.e. the standard input and the standard output are
pointing at the same tty device).

There may be existing scripts that leave the standard input and the
standard output of the "git merge" connected to whatever environment the
scripts were started, and such invocation might trigger the above
"interactive session" heuristics.  GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable
can be set to "no" at the beginning of such scripts to use the historical
behaviour while the script runs.

Note that this backward compatibility is meant only for scripts, and we
deliberately do *not* support "merge.edit = yes/no/auto" configuration
option to allow people to keep the historical behaviour.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-23 14:34:55 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
69204d0ab1 Fix typo in 1.7.9 release notes
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-23 10:11:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bddcefc638 Git 1.7.9-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-18 15:53:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6e06367ab0 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Git 1.7.8.4
  Git 1.7.7.6
  diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees

Conflicts:
	GIT-VERSION-GEN
2012-01-18 15:52:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c572f491e5 Git 1.7.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-18 15:51:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d899cf559b Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint
* maint-1.7.7:
  Git 1.7.7.6
  diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees

Conflicts:
	GIT-VERSION-GEN
2012-01-18 15:48:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0065343548 Git 1.7.7.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-18 15:46:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
32c94f97b0 Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag-doc'
* jc/pull-signed-tag-doc:
  pulling signed tag: add howto document
2012-01-18 15:18:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
11b17afc93 pulling signed tag: add howto document
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-18 15:17:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c74f97a624 Merge branch 'nd/pathspec-recursion-cleanup'
* nd/pathspec-recursion-cleanup:
  diff-index: enable recursive pathspec matching in unpack_trees
  Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards
2012-01-18 15:16:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8ef7933880 Merge branch 'mh/maint-show-ref-doc'
* mh/maint-show-ref-doc:
  git-show-ref doc: typeset regexp in fixed width font
  git-show-ref: fix escaping in asciidoc source
2012-01-18 15:16:23 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
5a7d5b683f clone: allow --branch to take a tag
Because a tag ref cannot be put to HEAD, HEAD will become detached.
This is consistent with "git checkout <tag>".

This is mostly useful in shallow clone, where it allows you to clone a
tag in addtion to branches.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-16 16:26:26 -08:00
Thomas Rast
f7e5ea171b am: learn passing -b to mailinfo
git-am could pass -k to mailinfo, but not -b.  Introduce an option
that does so.  We change the meaning of the 'keep' state file, but are
careful not to cause a problem unless you downgrade in the middle of
an 'am' run.

This uncovers a bug in mailinfo -b, hence the failing test.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-16 16:04:52 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
8c69c1f92e Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards
It's actually unlimited recursion if wildcards are active regardless
--max-depth

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-14 18:39:04 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
87b340b967 git-show-ref doc: typeset regexp in fixed width font
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-13 09:50:45 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
6ab260809b git-show-ref: fix escaping in asciidoc source
Two "^" characters were incorrectly being interpreted as markup for
superscripting.  Fix them by writing them as attribute references
"{caret}".

Although a single "^" character in a paragraph cannot be
misinterpreted in this way, also write other "^" characters as
"{caret}" in the interest of good hygiene (unless they are in literal
paragraphs, of course, in which context attribute references are not
recognized).

Spell "{}" consistently, namely *not* quoted as "\{\}".  Since the
braces are empty, they cannot be interpreted as an attribute
reference, and either spelling is OK.  So arbitrarily choose one
variation and use it consistently.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-13 09:50:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6db5c6e43d Git 1.7.9-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-12 23:43:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b51ffa80f6 Merge branch 'tr/maint-mailinfo'
* tr/maint-mailinfo:
  mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k case
2012-01-12 23:34:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c4a01a3cbb Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.8.4
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6
  thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base
2012-01-12 23:33:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ab8a78084b Update draft release notes to 1.7.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-12 23:33:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5a6a939481 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint
* maint-1.7.7:
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6
  thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base
2012-01-12 23:31:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8f83acf77c Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-12 23:31:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
901c907d83 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7
* maint-1.7.6:
  Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6
  thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base
2012-01-12 23:31:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
04f6785a08 Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-12 23:30:53 -08:00
Thomas Rast
82553cbb08 mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k case
Since its very first description of -k, the documentation for
git-mailinfo claimed that (in the case without -k) after cleaning up
bracketed strings [blah], it would insert [PATCH].

It doesn't; on the contrary, one of the important jobs of mailinfo is
to remove those strings.

Since we're already there, rewrite the paragraph to give a complete
enumeration of all the transformations.  Specifically, it was missing
the whitespace normalization (run of isspace(c) -> ' ') and the
removal of leading ':'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-11 17:30:16 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
42d8c27990 git-p4: add tests demonstrating spec overlay ambiguities
Introduce new tests that look more closely at overlay situations
when there are conflicting files.  Five of these are broken.
Document the brokenness.

This is a fundamental problem with how git-p4 only "borrows" a
client spec.  At some sync operation, a new change can contain
a file which is already in the repo or explicitly deleted through
another mapping.  To sort this out would involve listing all the
files in the client spec to find one with a higher priority.
While this is not too hard for the initial import, subsequent
sync operations would be very costly.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-11 16:35:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e04dc492ac Sync with maint
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 14:46:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
be4d2920c2 Prepare for 1.7.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 14:27:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
55dcc2ebad Merge the attributes fix in from maint-1.6.7 branch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 14:24:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
804e97fc77 Prepare for 1.7.7.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 14:16:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6c65b5ea43 Merge the attributes fix in from maint-1.6.6 branch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 14:14:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f14f9803ef Prepare for 1.7.6.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 13:11:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b6fb7fed6a Documentation: rerere's rr-cache auto-creation and rerere.enabled
The description of rerere.enabled left the user in the dark as to who
might create an rr-cache directory.  Add a note that simply invoking
rerere does this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-10 12:59:31 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3e6e0edde2 clone: add --single-branch to fetch only one branch
When --single-branch is given, only one branch, either HEAD or one
specified by --branch, will be fetched. Also only tags that point to
the downloaded history are fetched.

This helps most in shallow clones, where it can reduce the download to
minimum and that is why it is enabled by default when --depth is given.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-08 13:48:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
eac2d83247 Git 1.7.9-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-06 12:51:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5de89d3abf Merge branch 'jc/show-sig'
* jc/show-sig:
  log --show-signature: reword the common two-head merge case
  log-tree: show mergetag in log --show-signature output
  log-tree.c: small refactor in show_signature()
  commit --amend -S: strip existing gpgsig headers
  verify_signed_buffer: fix stale comment
  gpg-interface: allow use of a custom GPG binary
  pretty: %G[?GS] placeholders
  test "commit -S" and "log --show-signature"
  log: --show-signature
  commit: teach --gpg-sign option

Conflicts:
	builtin/commit-tree.c
	builtin/commit.c
	builtin/merge.c
	notes-cache.c
	pretty.c
2012-01-06 12:44:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1067f8dd0e Merge branch 'jh/fetch-head-update'
* jh/fetch-head-update:
  write first for-merge ref to FETCH_HEAD first
2012-01-06 12:44:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8cbfc1189c Merge branch 'pw/p4-view-updates'
* pw/p4-view-updates:
  git-p4: view spec documentation
  git-p4: rewrite view handling
  git-p4: support single file p4 client view maps
  git-p4: sort client views by reverse View number
  git-p4: fix test for unsupported P4 Client Views
  git-p4: test client view handling
2012-01-06 12:43:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
21c6a18c75 Sync with 1.7.8.3 2012-01-06 12:42:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5f4d133fca Git 1.7.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-06 12:41:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cfdfc5a3b2 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint
* maint-1.7.7:
  Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere
2012-01-06 12:35:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8769e93327 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7
* maint-1.7.6:
  Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere
2012-01-06 12:35:05 -08:00
Thomas Rast
07b88a00c0 Documentation: rerere.enabled is the primary way to configure rerere
The wording seems to suggest that creating the directory is needed and the
setting of rerere.enabled is only for disabling the feature by setting it
to 'false'. But the configuration is meant to be the primary control and
setting it to 'true' will enable it; the rr-cache directory will be
created as necessary and the user does not have to create it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-06 12:27:59 -08:00
Joey Hess
96890f4c42 write first for-merge ref to FETCH_HEAD first
The FETCH_HEAD refname is supposed to refer to the ref that was fetched
and should be merged. However all fetched refs are written to
.git/FETCH_HEAD in an arbitrary order, and resolve_ref_unsafe simply
takes the first ref as the FETCH_HEAD, which is often the wrong one,
when other branches were also fetched.

The solution is to write the for-merge ref(s) to FETCH_HEAD first.
Then, unless --append is used, the FETCH_HEAD refname behaves as intended.
If the user uses --append, they presumably are doing so in order to
preserve the old FETCH_HEAD.

While we are at it, update an old example in the read-tree documentation
that implied that each entry in FETCH_HEAD only has the object name, which
is not true for quite a while.

[jc: adjusted tests]

Signed-off-by: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-03 16:13:14 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
896a681698 git-p4: view spec documentation
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-03 14:10:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4570aeb0d8 Merge branch 'pw/p4-docs-and-tests'
* pw/p4-docs-and-tests:
  git-p4: document and test submit options
  git-p4: test and document --use-client-spec
  git-p4: test --keep-path
  git-p4: test --max-changes
  git-p4: document and test --import-local
  git-p4: honor --changesfile option and test
  git-p4: document and test clone --branch
  git-p4: test cloning with two dirs, clarify doc
  git-p4: clone does not use --git-dir
  git-p4: introduce asciidoc documentation
  rename git-p4 tests
2012-01-03 14:09:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
228c341835 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  docs: describe behavior of relative submodule URLs
  fix hang in git fetch if pointed at a 0 length bundle
  Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees
  Add MYMETA.json to perl/.gitignore
2012-01-03 13:48:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bc0fe84b06 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint
* maint-1.7.7:
  docs: describe behavior of relative submodule URLs
  Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees
  Add MYMETA.json to perl/.gitignore
2012-01-03 13:47:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c07aa5b218 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7
* maint-1.7.6:
  Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees
  Add MYMETA.json to perl/.gitignore
2012-01-03 13:47:15 -08:00
Jens Lehmann
9e6ed475e7 docs: describe behavior of relative submodule URLs
Since the relative submodule URLs have been introduced in f31a522a2d, they
do not conform to the rules for resolving relative URIs but rather to
those of relative directories.

Document that behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-03 12:47:58 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
5c951ef47b Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees
Since 34110cd4 (Make 'unpack_trees()' have a separate source and
destination index) it is no longer true that a subdirectory with
the same prefix must not exist.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-01 01:18:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
17b4e93d5b Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-28 12:07:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
48de6569eb Sync with 1.7.8.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-28 12:04:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f3f778df69 Git 1.7.8.2
Contains accumulated fixes since 1.7.8 that have been merged to the
'master' branch in preparation for the 1.7.9 release.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-28 12:03:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
00754b20f9 Merge branch 'tr/doc-sh-setup' into maint
* tr/doc-sh-setup:
  git-sh-setup: make require_clean_work_tree part of the interface
2011-12-28 11:42:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
81eaa0655f Merge branch 'jk/doc-fsck' into maint
* jk/doc-fsck:
  docs: brush up obsolete bits of git-fsck manpage
2011-12-28 11:42:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3c06ab69b1 Merge branch 'jc/advice-doc' into maint
* jc/advice-doc:
  advice: Document that they all default to true
2011-12-28 11:32:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
699eb54876 Merge branch 'jk/maint-mv' into maint
* jk/maint-mv:
  mv: be quiet about overwriting
  mv: improve overwrite warning
  mv: make non-directory destination error more clear
  mv: honor --verbose flag
  docs: mention "-k" for both forms of "git mv"
2011-12-28 11:32:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
474294963e Merge branch 'ci/stripspace-docs' into maint
* ci/stripspace-docs:
  Update documentation for stripspace
2011-12-28 11:32:35 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
28755dbaa5 git-p4: document and test submit options
Clarify there is a -M option, but no -C.  These are both
configurable through variables.

Explain that the allowSubmit variable takes a comma-separated
list of branch names.

Catch earlier an invalid branch name given as an argument to
"git p4 clone".

Test option --origin, variable allowSubmit, and explicit master
branch name.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-27 10:19:31 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
09fca77b9e git-p4: test and document --use-client-spec
The depot path is required, even with this option.  Make sure
git-p4 fails and exits with non-zero.

Contents in the specified depot path will be rearranged according
to the client spec.  Test this and add a note in the docs.

Leave an XXX suggesting that this is somewhat confusing behavior
that might be good to fix later.

Function stripRepoPath() looks at self.useClientSpec.  Make sure
this is set both for command-line option --use-client-spec and
for configuration variable git-p4.useClientSpec.  Test this.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-27 10:19:31 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
5a92a6ce90 git-p4: document and test --import-local
Explain that it is needed on future syncs to find p4 branches
in refs/heads.  Test this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-27 10:19:30 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
1471c6b155 git-p4: document and test clone --branch
Clone with --branch will not checkout HEAD, unless the branch
happens to be called the default refs/remotes/p4/master.  The
--branch option is most useful with sync; give an example of
that.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-27 10:19:30 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
da191d15bf git-p4: test cloning with two dirs, clarify doc
Document how git-p4 currently works when specifying multiple
depot paths:

1.  No branches or directories are named.

2.  Conflicting files are silently ignored---the last change
    wins.

2.  Option --destination is required, else the last path is construed
    to be a directory.

3.  Revision specifiers must be the same on all paths for them to
    take effect.

Test this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-27 10:19:30 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
6679c34c47 git-p4: introduce asciidoc documentation
Add proper documentation for git-p4.  Delete the old .txt
documentation from contrib/fast-import.

Cc: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Cc: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-27 10:19:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ec330158ec Update draft release notes in preparation for 1.7.9-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-22 15:36:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f0ede8435a Merge branch 'tr/doc-sh-setup'
* tr/doc-sh-setup:
  git-sh-setup: make require_clean_work_tree part of the interface
2011-12-22 15:30:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5d6dfc7cb1 Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-22 11:43:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
adb86762e5 Merge branch 'jk/pretty-reglog-ent'
* jk/pretty-reglog-ent:
  pretty: give placeholders to reflog identity
2011-12-22 11:27:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a4c628d71d Merge branch 'jk/doc-fsck'
* jk/doc-fsck:
  docs: brush up obsolete bits of git-fsck manpage

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-fsck.txt
2011-12-22 11:27:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e443bdfe1e Sync with v1.7.8.1 2011-12-21 12:02:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2ce0edcd78 Git 1.7.8.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-21 12:02:13 -08:00
Thomas Rast
d577cd216e git-sh-setup: make require_clean_work_tree part of the interface
92c62a3 (Porcelain scripts: Rewrite cryptic "needs update" error
message, 2010-10-19) refactored git's own checking to a function in
git-sh-setup.  This is a very useful thing for script writers, so
document it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-20 14:01:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
184a541fb5 Merge branch 'jc/advice-doc'
* jc/advice-doc:
  advice: Document that they all default to true
2011-12-20 13:25:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
876a6f4991 Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-19 16:39:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2dccad3c6f Merge branch 'ab/enable-i18n'
* ab/enable-i18n:
  i18n: add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext

Conflicts:
	Makefile
2011-12-19 16:06:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b052781fef Merge branch 'jk/maint-mv'
* jk/maint-mv:
  mv: be quiet about overwriting
  mv: improve overwrite warning
  mv: make non-directory destination error more clear
  mv: honor --verbose flag
  docs: mention "-k" for both forms of "git mv"
2011-12-19 16:05:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ab2fadefab Merge branch 'ci/stripspace-docs'
* ci/stripspace-docs:
  Update documentation for stripspace
2011-12-19 16:05:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
367d20ec6b Merge branch 'jk/credentials'
* jk/credentials:
  t: add test harness for external credential helpers
  credentials: add "store" helper
  strbuf: add strbuf_add*_urlencode
  Makefile: unix sockets may not available on some platforms
  credentials: add "cache" helper
  docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
  credential: make relevance of http path configurable
  credential: add credential.*.username
  credential: apply helper config
  http: use credential API to get passwords
  credential: add function for parsing url components
  introduce credentials API
  t5550: fix typo
  test-lib: add test_config_global variant

Conflicts:
	strbuf.c
2011-12-19 16:05:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
26e94af0ba advice: Document that they all default to true
By definition, the default value of "advice.*" variables must be true and
they all control various additional help messages that are designed to aid
new users. Setting one to false is to tell Git that the user understands
the nature of the error and does not need the additional verbose help
message.

Also fix the asciidoc markup for linkgit:git-checkout[1] in the
description of the detachedHead advice by removing an excess colon.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-18 21:38:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ee22802493 Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-16 22:45:03 -08:00
Jeff King
2830308260 docs: brush up obsolete bits of git-fsck manpage
After the description and options, the fsck manpage contains
some discussion about what it does. Over time, this
discussion has become somewhat obsolete, both in content and
formatting. In particular:

  1. There are many options now, so starting the discussion
     with "It tests..." makes it unclear whether we are
     talking about the last option, or about the tool in
     general. Let's start a new "discussion" section and
     make our antecedent more clear.

  2. It gave an example for --unreachable using for-each-ref
     to mention all of the heads, saying that it will do "a
     _lot_ of verification". This is hopelessly out-of-date,
     as giving no arguments will check much more (reflogs,
     the index, non-head refs).

  3. It goes on to mention tests "to be added" (like tree
     object sorting). We now have these tests.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-16 16:24:35 -08:00
Jeff King
cd1957f5fc pretty: give placeholders to reflog identity
When doing a reflog walk, you can get some information about
the reflog (such as the subject line), but not the identity
information (i.e., name and email).

Let's make those available, mimicing the options for author
and committer identity.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-16 13:00:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
10f4eb652e Update draft release notes to 1.7.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-13 23:09:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b3f17ac3d6 Merge branch 'ks/tag-cleanup'
* ks/tag-cleanup:
  git-tag: introduce --cleanup option

Conflicts:
	builtin/tag.c
2011-12-13 23:07:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9e6324c4d7 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes for 1.7.8.1
  Git 1.7.7.5
  Git 1.7.6.5
  blame: don't overflow time buffer
  fetch: create status table using strbuf

Conflicts:
	RelNotes
2011-12-13 22:18:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7b6c5836cf Update draft release notes for 1.7.8.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-13 22:08:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8311158c66 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint
* maint-1.7.7:
  Git 1.7.7.5
  Git 1.7.6.5
  blame: don't overflow time buffer
  fetch: create status table using strbuf
  checkout,merge: loosen overwriting untracked file check based on info/exclude
  cast variable in call to free() in builtin/diff.c and submodule.c
  apply: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on a size_t type

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git.txt
	GIT-VERSION-GEN
	RelNotes
	builtin/fetch.c
2011-12-13 21:58:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
66c11f02b0 Git 1.7.7.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-13 21:55:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7857e3246f Merge branch 'maint-1.7.6' into maint-1.7.7
* maint-1.7.6:
  Git 1.7.6.5
  blame: don't overflow time buffer
  fetch: create status table using strbuf

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git.txt
	GIT-VERSION-GEN
	RelNotes
2011-12-13 21:44:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
15b7898c5e Git 1.7.6.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-13 21:32:30 -08:00
Conrad Irwin
497215d881 Update documentation for stripspace
Tell the user what this command is intended for, and expand the
description of what it does.

Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-12 16:48:54 -08:00
Jeff King
71e1b4b6bf credentials: add "store" helper
This is like "cache", except that we actually put the
credentials on disk. This can be terribly insecure, of
course, but we do what we can to protect them by filesystem
permissions, and we warn the user in the documentation.

This is not unlike using .netrc to store entries, but it's a
little more user-friendly. Instead of putting credentials in
place ahead of time, we transparently store them after
prompting the user for them once.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-12 16:09:38 -08:00
Jeff King
07b8738967 mv: honor --verbose flag
The code for a verbose flag has been here since "git mv" was
converted to C many years ago, but actually getting the "-v"
flag from the command line was accidentally lost in the
transition.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-12 11:52:31 -08:00
Jeff King
cfe21f05bb docs: mention "-k" for both forms of "git mv"
The "git mv" synopsis shows two forms: renaming a file, and
moving files into a directory. They can both make use of the
"-k" flag to ignore errors, so mention it in both places.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-12 11:49:49 -08:00
Jeff King
e2770979fe credentials: add "cache" helper
If you access repositories over smart-http using http
authentication, then it can be annoying to have git ask you
for your password repeatedly. We cache credentials in
memory, of course, but git is composed of many small
programs. Having to input your password for each one can be
frustrating.

This patch introduces a credential helper that will cache
passwords in memory for a short period of time.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 23:16:25 -08:00
Jeff King
a6fc9fd3f4 docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
The credential API and helper format is already defined in
technical/api-credentials.txt.  This presents the end-user
view.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 23:16:25 -08:00
Jeff King
d3e847c107 credential: add function for parsing url components
All of the components of a credential struct can be found in
a URL.  For example, the URL:

  http://foo:bar@example.com/repo.git

contains:

  protocol=http
  host=example.com
  path=repo.git
  username=foo
  password=bar

We want to be able to turn URLs into broken-down credential
structs so that we know two things:

  1. Which parts of the username/password we still need

  2. What the context of the request is (for prompting or
     as a key for storing credentials).

This code is based on http_auth_init in http.c, but needed a
few modifications in order to get all of the components that
the credential object is interested in.

Once the http code is switched over to the credential API,
then http_auth_init can just go away.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 23:16:24 -08:00
Jeff King
abca927dbe introduce credentials API
There are a few places in git that need to get a username
and password credential from the user; the most notable one
is HTTP authentication for smart-http pushing.

Right now the only choices for providing credentials are to
put them plaintext into your ~/.netrc, or to have git prompt
you (either on the terminal or via an askpass program). The
former is not very secure, and the latter is not very
convenient.

Unfortunately, there is no "always best" solution for
password management. The details will depend on the tradeoff
you want between security and convenience, as well as how
git can integrate with other security systems (e.g., many
operating systems provide a keychain or password wallet for
single sign-on).

This patch provides an abstract notion of credentials as a
data item, and provides three basic operations:

  - fill (i.e., acquire from external storage or from the
    user)

  - approve (mark a credential as "working" for further
    storage)

  - reject (mark a credential as "not working", so it can
    be removed from storage)

These operations can be backed by external helper processes
that interact with system- or user-specific secure storage.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 23:16:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9859a023fe Update draft release notes for 1.7.9
The first two of more important topics slated for 1.7.9 have been merged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-09 13:52:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
eb8aa3d2c2 Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag'
* jc/pull-signed-tag:
  commit-tree: teach -m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere
  commit-tree: update the command line parsing
  commit: teach --amend to carry forward extra headers
  merge: force edit and no-ff mode when merging a tag object
  commit: copy merged signed tags to headers of merge commit
  merge: record tag objects without peeling in MERGE_HEAD
  merge: make usage of commit->util more extensible
  fmt-merge-msg: Add contents of merged tag in the merge message
  fmt-merge-msg: package options into a structure
  fmt-merge-msg: avoid early returns
  refs DWIMmery: use the same rule for both "git fetch" and others
  fetch: allow "git fetch $there v1.0" to fetch a tag
  merge: notice local merging of tags and keep it unwrapped
  fetch: do not store peeled tag object names in FETCH_HEAD
  Split GPG interface into its own helper library

Conflicts:
	builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
	builtin/merge.c
2011-12-09 13:37:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a4043aeafe Merge branch 'jc/request-pull-show-head-4'
* jc/request-pull-show-head-4:
  request-pull: use the annotated tag contents
  fmt-merge-msg.c: Fix an "dubious one-bit signed bitfield" sparse error
  environment.c: Fix an sparse "symbol not declared" warning
  builtin/log.c: Fix an "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning
  fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.description
  request-pull: use the branch description
  request-pull: state what commit to expect
  request-pull: modernize style
  branch: teach --edit-description option
  format-patch: use branch description in cover letter
  branch: add read_branch_desc() helper function

Conflicts:
	builtin/branch.c
2011-12-09 13:37:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1ee740e669 Merge branch 'ab/pull-rebase-config'
* ab/pull-rebase-config:
  pull: introduce a pull.rebase option to enable --rebase
2011-12-09 13:37:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
51f737e350 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  am: don't persist keepcr flag
  mingw: give waitpid the correct signature
  git symbolic-ref: documentation fix
2011-12-09 13:34:18 -08:00