Users were confused about the meaning and use of the --root option.
Notably, since 68c2ec7 (format-patch: show patch text for the root
commit, 2009-01-10), --root has nothing to do with showing the patch
text for the root commit any more.
Shorten and clarify the corresponding paragraph in the DESCRIPTION
section, document --root under OPTIONS, and add an explicit note that
root commits are formatted regardless.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
the "--use-separate-remote" option no longer exists, having since
become the default for a clone.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were added by accident in a42dea3.
This patch also rewords the description of how ranges of commits can be
skipped.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, 'git diff --no-index --stat a b' generated patch output in
addition to the --stat output (or whatever other output format was
requested). Now only the requested output is generated, and patch
output remains the default.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Long messages like those from lockfile.c when a lock can't be
obtained truncate with only 256 bytes in the message buffer.
Bump it to 1024 to give more space for these longer cases.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A bug report with "unable to write sha1 file" made us realize that we do
not have enough information to guess why close() is failing.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On a 32-bit system, the maximum possible size for an object is less than
4GB, while 64-bit systems may cope with larger objects. Due to this
limitation, variables holding object sizes are using an unsigned long
type (32 bits on 32-bit systems, or 64 bits on 64-bit systems).
When large objects are encountered, and/or people play with large delta
depth values, it is possible for the maximum allowed delta size
computation to overflow, especially on a 32-bit system. When this
occurs, surviving result bits may represent a value much smaller than
what it is supposed to be, or even zero. This prevents some objects
from being deltified although they do get deltified when a smaller depth
limit is used. Fix this by always performing a 64-bit multiplication.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit also converts all reference specifications to a monospaced font,
as the embedded ~ character used in some of the references sometimes causes
the text up to the next ~ to be displayed incorrectly as a subscript when the
HTML pages are generated. This was tested with asciidoc 8.2.5.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the index says that the file in the work tree that corresponds to the
blob object that is used for comparison is known to be unchanged, "diff"
reads from the file and applies convert_to_git(), instead of inflating the
object, to feed the internal diff engine with, because an earlier
benchnark found that it tends to be faster to use this optimization.
However, the index can lie when the path is marked as assume-unchanged.
Disable the optimization for such paths.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When preparing temporary files for an external diff or textconv, it is
easier on the external tools, especially when they are implemented using
platform tools, if they are fed the input after convert_to_working_tree().
This fixes msysGit issue 177.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'Everyday GIT' guide was using the old dashed form
of git-init.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code will end up calling lstat() to check whether the
file still exists; obviously this doesn't work if we're not
in the worktree.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When --pickaxe-regex is used, forward past the end of matches instead of
advancing to the byte after their start. This way matches count only
once, even if the regular expression matches their tail -- like in the
fixed-string fork of the code.
E.g.: /.*/ used to count the number of bytes instead of the number of
lines. /aa/ resulted in a count of two in "aaa" instead of one.
Also document the fact that regexec() needs a NUL-terminated string as
its second argument by adding an assert().
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mg/maint-submodule-normalize-path:
git submodule: Fix adding of submodules at paths with ./, .. and //
git submodule: Add test cases for git submodule add
* js/maint-1.6.0-path-normalize:
Remove unused normalize_absolute_path()
Test and fix normalize_path_copy()
Fix GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES on Windows
Move sanitary_path_copy() to path.c and rename it to normalize_path_copy()
Make test-path-utils more robust against incorrect use
For example:
git format-patch --numbered-files --stdout --attach HEAD~~
will create two messages with files 1 and 2 attached respectively.
Without --attach/--inline but with --stdout, --numbered-files option
can be simply ignored, because we are not creating any file ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If pack-objects is called with the --unpack-unreachable option then it
will unpack (i.e. loosen) all unreferenced objects from local not-kept
packs, including those that also exist in packs residing in an alternate
object database or a locally kept pack. The only user of this option is
git-repack.
In this case, repack will follow the call to pack-objects with a call to
prune-packed, which will delete these newly loosened objects, making the
act of loosening a waste of time. The unnecessary loosening can be
avoided by checking whether an object exists in a non-local pack or a
locally kept pack before loosening it.
This fixes the 'local packed unreachable obs that exist in alternate ODB
are not loosened' test in t7700.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Let PATH0=$PATH that was set before the invocation.
Let /foo be a build directory.
Let /pfx be the installation prefix.
Let pfxexecpath=/pfx/libexec/git-core.
The following is going on when 'git --exec-path=/foo gc' is invoked:
1. git sets PATH=/foo:$PATH0 using the path from --exec-path
2. gc execs 'git repack' (note: no dash).
3. Since there is a git in /foo (it's a build directory), /foo/git is
taken.
4. No explicit exec-path is set this time, hence, this secondary git sets
PATH=$pfxexecpath:/foo:$PATH
5. Since 'repack' is not a built-in, execv_dashed_external execs
'git-repack' (note: dash).
6. There is a $pfxexecpath/git-repack, and it is taken.
7. This git-repack runs 'git pack-objects' (note: no dash).
8. There is no git in $pfxexecpath, but there is one in /foo. Hence,
/foo/git is run.
9. pack-objects is a builtin, hence, in effect /foo/git-pack-objects
is run.
As you can see, the way in which we previously set the PATH allowed to
mix gits of different vintage. By setting GIT_EXEC_PATH when --exec-path
was given on the command line, we reduce the confusion.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If an unreferenced object exists in both a local pack and in either a pack
residing in an alternate object database or a local kept pack, then the
pack-objects call made by repack will loosen that object only to have it
immediately pruned by repack's call to prune-packed.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it more pleasant to read about a branch deletion by adding "was".
Jeff King suggested this, and I ignored it. He was right.
Update t3200 test again to match the change in output.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option to pack-objects/rev-list was created to improve the -A and -a
options of repack. It was found to be lacking in that it did not provide
the ability to differentiate between local and non-local kept packs, and
found to be unnecessary since objects residing in local kept packs can be
filtered out by the --honor-pack-keep option.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These two features were invented for use by repack when repack will delete
the local packs that have been made redundant. The packs accessible
through alternates are not deleted by repack, so the objects contained in
them are still accessible after the local packs are deleted. They do not
need to be repacked into the new pack or loosened. For the case of
loosening they would immediately be deleted by the subsequent prune-packed
that is called by repack anyway.
This fixes the test
'packed unreachable obs in alternate ODB are not loosened' in t7700.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --kept-pack-only option to pack-objects treats all kept packs as equal.
This results in objects that reside in an alternate pack that has a .keep
file, not being packed into a newly created pack when the user specifies the
-a option to repack. Since the user may not have any control over the
alternate database, git should not refrain from repacking those objects
even though they are in a pack with a .keep file.
This fixes the 'packed obs in alternate ODB kept pack are repacked' test in
t7700.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
1) The new --kept-pack-only mechansim of rev-list/pack-objects has
replaced --unpacked=. This new mechansim does not operate solely on
"local" packs now. The result is that objects residing in an alternate
pack which has a .keep file will not be repacked with repack -a.
This flaw is only apparent when a commit object is the one residing in
an alternate kept pack.
2) The 'repack unpacked objects' and 'loosen unpacked objects' mechanisms
of pack-objects, i.e. --keep-unreachable and --unpack-unreachable,
now do not operate solely on local packs. The --keep-unreachable
option no longer has any callers, but --unpack-unreachable is used when
repack is called with '-A -d' and the local repo has existing packs.
In this case, objects residing in alternate, not-kept packs will be
loosened, and then immediately deleted by repack's call to
prune-packed.
The test must manually call pack-objects to avoid the call to
prune-packed that is made by repack when -d is used.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoid splitting sentences across examples of command usage.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing text was very vague about what exactly it means
for difference to "contain" a change. This seems to cause
confusion on the mailing list every month or two.
To fix it we:
1. use "introduce or remove an instance of" instead of
"contain"
2. point the user to gitdiffcore(7), which contains a more
complete explanation
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup_revisions() while getting the command line arguments parses the
given commits from the command line, which means their direct parents will
not be rewritten by the custom graft file.
Call read_ancestry() early to work around this issue.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reword this section to make it less chatty. Also make minor grammatical
fixes.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The config file is not the only place remotes are defined, and without
consulting .git/remotes and .git/branches, you won't know if "origin" is
configured by the user. Don't give up too early and insult the user with
a wisecrack "Where do you want to fetch from today?"
The only thing the previous patch seems to want to prevent from happening
is a lazy "git fetch/push" that does not say where-from/to to produce an
error message 'origin not found', and we can do that by not letting
add_url_alias() to turn a nickname "origin" literally into a pathname
"origin" without changing the rest of the logic.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
