* maint:
user-manual: introduce "branch" and "branch head" differently
glossary: clean up cross-references
glossary: stop generating automatically
user-manual: Use def_ instead of ref_ for glossary references.
user-manual.txt: fix a tiny typo.
user-manual: run xsltproc without --nonet option
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
user-manual: introduce "branch" and "branch head" differently
glossary: clean up cross-references
glossary: stop generating automatically
user-manual: Use def_ instead of ref_ for glossary references.
user-manual.txt: fix a tiny typo.
user-manual: run xsltproc without --nonet option
This idea was suggested by Bill Lear
(Message-ID: <17920.38942.364466.642979@lisa.zopyra.com>)
and I think it is a very good one.
This patch adds a new test file for "git bisect run", but there
is currently only one basic test.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
There has not been any work on the shallow stuff lately, so it is hard
to find out what it does, and how. This document describes the ideas
as well as the current problems, and can serve as a starting point for
shallow people.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Setting up a git-daemon came up the other day on IRC, and it is slightly
non trivial for the uninitiated.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I think we can start to slow down, as we now have covered
everything I listed earlier in the short-term release plan.
The last release 1.5.0 took painfully too long.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new configuration variable core.deltaBaseCacheLimit allows the
user to control how much memory they are willing to give to Git for
caching base objects of deltas. This is not normally meant to be
a user tweakable knob; the "out of the box" settings are meant to
be suitable for almost all workloads.
We default to 16 MiB under the assumption that the cache is not
meant to consume all of the user's available memory, and that the
cache's main purpose was to cache trees, for faster path limiters
during revision traversal. Since trees tend to be relatively small
objects, this relatively small limit should still allow a large
number of objects.
On the other hand we don't want the cache to start storing 200
different versions of a 200 MiB blob, as this could easily blow
the entire address space of a 32 bit process.
We evict OBJ_BLOB from the cache first (credit goes to Junio) as
we want to favor OBJ_TREE within the cache. These are the objects
that have the highest inflate() startup penalty, as they tend to
be small and thus don't have that much of a chance to ammortize
that penalty over the entire data.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In the Linux kernel, for example, it's common to include Cc: lines
for cases when you want to remember to cc someone on a patch without
necessarily claiming they signed off on it. Make git-send-email
aware of these.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I was using "branch" to mean "head", but that's perhaps a little
sloppy; so instead start by using the terms "branch head" and "head",
while still quickly falling back on "branch", since that's what
people actually say more frequently.
Also include glossary references on the first uses of "head" and "tag".
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The sort_glossary.pl script sorts the glossary, checks for duplicates,
and automatically adds cross-references.
But it's not so hard to do all that by hand, and sometimes the automatic
cross-references are a little wrong; so let's run the script one last
time and check in its output.
Note: to make the output fit better into the user manual I also deleted
the acknowledgements at the end, which was maybe a little rude; feel
free to object and I can find a different solution.
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
I'd like to start using references to the glossary in the user manual.
The "ref_" prefix for these references seems a little generic; so
replace with "def_".
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
"file patch" was doubtless intended to be "file path",
but "directory name" is clearer.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The --nonet option prevents xsltproc from going to the network to find
anything. But it always tries to find them locally first, so for a
user with the necessary docbook stylesheets installed the build will
work just fine without xsltproc attempting to use the network; all
--nonet does is make it fail rather than falling back on that. That
doesn't seem particularly helpful.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* ar/diff:
Add tests for --quiet option of diff programs
try-to-simplify-commit: use diff-tree --quiet machinery.
revision.c: explain what tree_difference does
Teach --quiet to diff backends.
diff --quiet
Remove unused diffcore_std_no_resolve
Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)
This patch adds support for a dummy remote '.' to avoid having
to declare a fake remote like
[remote "local"]
url = .
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
Such a builtin remote simplifies the operation of "git-fetch",
which will populate FETCH_HEAD but will not pretend that two
repositories are in use, will not create a thin pack, and will
not perform any useless remapping of names. The speed
improvement is around 20%, and it should improve more if
"git-fetch" is converted to a builtin.
To this end, git-parse-remote is grown with a new kind of
remote, 'builtin'. In git-fetch.sh, we treat the builtin remote
specially in that it needs no pack/store operations. In fact,
doing git-fetch on a builtin remote will simply populate
FETCH_HEAD appropriately.
The patch also improves of the --track/--no-track support,
extending it so that branch.<name>.remote items referring '.'
can be created. Finally, it fixes a typo in git-checkout.sh.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This introduces a new command-line option: --exit-code. The diff
programs will return 1 for differences, return 0 for equality, and
something else for errors.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previous formulation could make it appear as removing all lines
matching a regexp (at least, I was looking for such a flag, and
confused this flag for what I was looking for).
Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This avoids fetching new revisions remotely, and is usefuly
versus plain "git rebase" because the user does not have to
specify which remote head to rebase against.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Format some lists really as lists. Improves both html and man
output.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git-mergetool program can be used to automatically run an appropriate
merge resolution program to resolve merge conflicts. It will automatically
run one of kdiff3, tkdiff, meld, xxdiff, or emacs emerge programs.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Chain-reply-to is a personal perference, and is unlikely to change from
patchset to patchset. Similarly, bcc is likely to have the same values
every invocation is one likes to bcc oneself.
So, allow both to be set via configuration variables.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Wishing to implement an email aliases file, I found that they were already
implmented. Document them for the next user.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sergey Vlasov, Andy Parkins and Alex Riesen all pointed out that it
is possible for a single invocation of receive-pack to be given more
refs than the OS might allow us to pass as command line parameters
to a single hook invocation.
We don't want to break these up into multiple invocations (like
xargs might do) as that makes it impossible for the pre-receive
hook to verify multiple related ref updates occur at the same time,
and it makes it harder for post-receive to send out a single batch
notification.
Instead we pass the reference data on a pipe connected to the
hook's stdin, supplying one ref per line to the hook. This way a
single hook invocation can obtain an infinite amount of ref data,
without bumping into any operating system limits.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In order to track and build on top of a branch 'topic' you track from
your upstream repository, you often would end up doing this sequence:
git checkout -b mytopic origin/topic
git config --add branch.mytopic.remote origin
git config --add branch.mytopic.merge refs/heads/topic
This would first fork your own 'mytopic' branch from the 'topic'
branch you track from the 'origin' repository; then it would set up two
configuration variables so that 'git pull' without parameters does the
right thing while you are on your own 'mytopic' branch.
This commit adds a --track option to git-branch, so that "git
branch --track mytopic origin/topic" performs the latter two actions
when creating your 'mytopic' branch.
If the configuration variable branch.autosetupmerge is set to true, you
do not have to pass the --track option explicitly; further patches in
this series allow setting the variable with a "git remote add" option.
The configuration variable is off by default, and there is a --no-track
option to countermand it even if the variable is set.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
