If you use "repack -adk" currently, we will pack all objects
that are already packed into the new pack, and then drop the
old packs. However, loose unreachable objects will be left
as-is. In theory these are meant to expire eventually with
"git prune". But if you are using "repack -k", you probably
want to keep things forever and therefore do not run "git
prune" at all. Meaning those loose objects may build up over
time and end up fooling any object-count heuristics (such as
the one done by "gc --auto", though since git-gc does not
support "repack -k", this really applies to whatever custom
scripts people might have driving "repack -k").
With this patch, we instead stuff any loose unreachable
objects into the pack along with the already-packed
unreachable objects. This may seem wasteful, but it is
really no more so than using "repack -k" in the first place.
We are at a slight disadvantage, in that we have no useful
ordering for the result, or names to hand to the delta code.
However, this is again no worse than what "repack -k" is
already doing for the packed objects. The packing of these
objects doesn't matter much because they should not be
accessed frequently (unless they actually _do_ become
referenced, but then they would get moved to a different
part of the packfile during the next repack).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usual way to do a full repack (and what is done by
git-gc) is to run "repack -Ad --unpack-unreachable=<when>",
which will loosen any unreachable objects newer than
"<when>", and drop any older ones.
This is a safer alternative to "repack -ad", because
"<when>" becomes a grace period during which we will not
drop any new objects that are about to be referenced.
However, it isn't perfectly safe. It's always possible that
a process is about to reference an old object. Even if that
process were to take care to update the timestamp on the
object, there is no atomicity with a simultaneously running
"repack" process.
So while unlikely, there is a small race wherein we may drop
an object that is in the process of being referenced. If you
do automated repacking on a large number of active
repositories, you may hit it eventually, and the result is a
corrupted repository.
It would be nice to fix that race in the long run, but it's
complicated. In the meantime, there is a much simpler
strategy for automated repository maintenance: do not drop
objects at all. We already have a "--keep-unreachable"
option in pack-objects; we just need to plumb it through
from git-repack.
Note that this _isn't_ plumbed through from git-gc, so at
this point it's strictly a tool for people doing their own
advanced repository maintenance strategy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was added back in 7e52f56 (gc: do not explode objects
which will be immediately pruned, 2012-04-07), but not
documented at the time, since it was an internal detail
between git-gc and git-repack. However, as people with
complicated setups may want to effectively reimplement the
steps of git-gc themselves, it is nice for us to document
these interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It turns out that the earlier effort to update the heuristics may
want to use a bit more time to mature. Turn it off by default.
* jk/diff-compact-heuristic:
diff: disable compaction heuristic for now
http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160610075043.GA13411@sigill.intra.peff.net
reports that a change to add a new "function" with common ending
with the existing one at the end of the file is shown like this:
def foo
do_foo_stuff()
+ common_ending()
+end
+
+def bar
+ do_bar_stuff()
+
common_ending()
end
when the new heuristic is in use. In reality, the change is to add
the blank line before "def bar" and everything below, which is what
the code without the new heuristic shows.
Disable the heuristics by default, and resurrect the documentation
for the option and the configuration variables, while clearly
marking the feature as still experimental.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
* tb/core-eol-fix:
convert.c: ident + core.autocrlf didn't work
t0027: test cases for combined attributes
convert: allow core.autocrlf=input and core.eol=crlf
t0027: make commit_chk_wrnNNO() reliable
The manpage output of our documentation did not render well in
terminal; typeset literals in bold by default to make them stand
out more.
* em/man-bold-literal:
Documentation: bold literals in man
"git cherry-pick --help" had three instances of word "behavior",
one of which was spelled "behaviour", which is updated to match the
other two.
* pa/cherry-pick-doc-typo:
git-cherry-pick.txt: correct a small typo
Correct faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit ." when
de-initialising all submodules, which would result in a strange
error message in a pathological corner case.
* sb/submodule-deinit-all:
submodule deinit: require '--all' instead of '.' for all submodules
"http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
* bn/http-cookiefile-config:
http: expand http.cookieFile as a path
Documentation: config: improve word ordering for http.cookieFile
Backticks are emphasized through monospaced styling in the HTML
version of Git documentation. But they were left unstyled in the
manual pages.
To make the man pages more comfortably read, `MAN_BOLD_LITERAL` was
added by 5121a6d (Documentation: option to render literal text as
bold for manpages, 2009-03-27). It allowed the user to build the
manpages with literals in bold style.
For precaution it was not set by default back then.
Since 79c461d (docs: default to more modern toolset, 2010-11-19), it
is assumed ASCIIDOC 8 and at least docbook-xsl 1.73 are used, so the
need for compatibility concern is much lessor now.
Remove `MAN_BOLD_LITERAL`, and typeset literals as bold by default .
Add `NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL`, a new Makefile option, disabling this
feature when defined.
Signed-off-by: Erwan MATHONIERE <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom RUSSELLO <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu MOY <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We forgot to add "git log --decorate=auto" to documentation when we
added the feature back in v2.1.0 timeframe.
* rj/log-decorate-auto:
log: document the --decorate=auto option
Most of the document mentions `behavior` instead of the British
variation, `behaviour`. This change makes it consistent.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar <scorphus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For those who use two-factor authentication with gmail, git-send-email
will not work unless it is setup with an app-specific password. The
example for setting up git-send-email for use with gmail will now
include information on generating and storing the app-specific password.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
customize this behaviour.
* js/windows-dotgit:
mingw: remove unnecessary definition
mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting
Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
* kf/gpg-sig-verification-doc:
Documentation: clarify signature verification
Find common mistakes when writing gitlink: in our documentation and
drive the check from "make check-docs".
I am not entirely happy with the way the script chooses what input
file to validate, but it is not worse than not having anything, so
let's move it forward and have the logic improved later when people
care about it deeply.
* jc/doc-lint:
ci: validate "linkgit:" in documentation
"git commit" learned to pay attention to "commit.verbose"
configuration variable and act as if "--verbose" option was
given from the command line.
* pb/commit-verbose-config:
commit: add a commit.verbose config variable
t7507-commit-verbose: improve test coverage by testing number of diffs
parse-options.c: make OPTION_COUNTUP respect "unspecified" values
t/t7507: improve test coverage
t0040-parse-options: improve test coverage
test-parse-options: print quiet as integer
t0040-test-parse-options.sh: fix style issues
"git format-patch" learned a new "--base" option to record what
(public, well-known) commit the original series was built on in
its output.
* xy/format-patch-base:
format-patch: introduce format.useAutoBase configuration
format-patch: introduce --base=auto option
format-patch: add '--base' option to record base tree info
patch-ids: make commit_patch_id() a public helper function
A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
* tb/core-eol-fix:
convert.c: ident + core.autocrlf didn't work
t0027: test cases for combined attributes
convert: allow core.autocrlf=input and core.eol=crlf
t0027: make commit_chk_wrnNNO() reliable
Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
* kf/gpg-sig-verification-doc:
Documentation: clarify signature verification
On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
customize this behaviour.
* js/windows-dotgit:
mingw: remove unnecessary definition
mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting
