We already note that we may produce invalid output when we skip calling
iconv() altogether. But we may also do so if iconv() fails, and we have
no good alternative. Let's document this to avoid surprising users.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit fd680bc5 (logmsg_reencode(): warn when iconv()
fails, 2021-08-27). Throwing a warning for each and every commit
that gets reencoded, without allowing a way to squelch, would make
it unpleasant for folks who have to deal with an ancient part of the
history in an old project that used wrong encoding in the commits.
The word "encoding" can mean a lot of things (e.g., base64 or
quoted-printable encoding in emails, HTML entities, URL encoding, and so
on). The documentation for i18n.commitEncoding and i18n.logOutputEncoding
uses the phrase "character encoding" to make this more clear.
Let's use that phrase in other places to make it clear what kind of
encoding we are talking about. This patch covers the gui.encoding
option, as well as the --encoding option for git-log, etc (in this
latter case, I word-smithed the sentence a little at the same time).
That, coupled with the mention of iconv in the --encoding description,
should make this more clear.
The other spot I looked at is the working-tree-encoding section of
gitattributes(5). But it gives specific examples of encodings that I
think make the meaning pretty clear already.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user asks for a pretty-printed commit to be converted (either
explicitly with --encoding=foo, or implicitly because the commit is
non-utf8 and we want to convert it), we pass it through iconv(). If that
fails, we fall back to showing the input verbatim, but don't tell the
user that the output may be bogus.
Let's add a warning to do so, along with a mention in the documentation
for --encoding. Two things to note about the implementation:
- we could produce the warning closer to the call to iconv() in
reencode_string_len(), which would let us relay the value of errno.
But this is not actually very helpful. reencode_string_len() does
not know we are operating on a commit, and indeed does not know that
the caller won't produce an error of its own. And the errno values
from iconv() are seldom helpful (iconv_open() only ever produces
EINVAL; perhaps EILSEQ from iconv() might be illuminating, but it
can also return EINVAL for incomplete sequences).
- if the reason for the failure is that the output charset is not
supported, then the user will see this warning for every commit we
try to display. That might be ugly and overwhelming, but on the
other hand it is making it clear that every one of them has not been
converted (and the likely outcome anyway is to re-try the command
with a supported output encoding).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Early text written in 2006 explains the "--abbrev=<n>" option to
"show only a partial prefix", without saying that the length of the
partial prefix is not necessarily the number given to the option to
ensure that the output names the object uniquely.
Update documentation for the diff family of commands, "blame",
"branch --verbose", "ls-files" and "ls-tree" to stress that the
short prefix must uniquely refer to an object, and <n> is merely
the mininum number of hexdigits used in the prefix.
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Description suggested --no-abbrev-commit negates --oneline as well as any other
option that implies --abbrev-commit. Fix it to say that it's --abbrev-commit
that is negated, not the option that implies it.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log" family learned "--pretty=reference" that gives the name
of a commit in the format that is often used to refer to it in log
messages.
* dl/pretty-reference:
SubmittingPatches: use `--pretty=reference`
pretty: implement 'reference' format
pretty: add struct cmt_fmt_map::default_date_mode_type
pretty: provide short date format
t4205: cover `git log --reflog -z` blindspot
pretty.c: inline initalize format_context
revision: make get_revision_mark() return const pointer
completion: complete `tformat:` pretty format
SubmittingPatches: remove dq from commit reference
pretty-formats.txt: use generic terms for hash
SubmittingPatches: use generic terms for hash
Although `--notes=` accepts and handles a tree-ish just fine, it isn't a
common use-case for users to pass in bare trees. By having "treeish", it
makes it harder to click in users' minds that the argument here is the
same type as the `notes.displayRef` configuration variable, for example.
Change `treeish` to `ref` so that it will be easier for users to make
this connection.
Note that we don't completely lose the notion that `--notes=` can accept
a tree-ish. In git-notes.txt, we have
It is also permitted for a notes ref to point directly to a tree
object, in which case the history of the notes can be read with
`git log -p -g <refname>`.
which means that a hardcore user who wants to take advantage of this
obscure use-case will be able to infer the connection and not be
completely left in the dark.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The standard format for referencing other commits within some projects
(such as git.git) is the reference format. This is described in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches as
If you want to reference a previous commit in the history of a stable
branch, use the format "abbreviated hash (subject, date)", like this:
....
Commit f86a374 (pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak, 2015-03-30)
noticed that ...
....
Since this format is so commonly used, standardize it as a pretty
format.
The tests that are implemented essentially show that the format-string
does not change in response to various log options. This is useful
because, for future developers, it shows that we've considered the
limitations of the "canned format-string" approach and we are fine with
them.
Based-on-a-patch-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
* tr/doc-tt:
doc: change configuration variables format
doc: more consistency in environment variables format
doc: change environment variables format
doc: clearer rule about formatting literals
This change configuration variables that where in italic style
to monospace font according to the guideline. It was obtained with
grep '[[:alpha:]]*\.[[:alpha:]]*::$' config.txt | \
sed -e 's/::$//' -e 's/\./\\\\./' | \
xargs -iP perl -pi -e "s/\'P\'/\`P\`/g" ./*.txt
Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git log" shows the log message indented by 4-spaces, the
remainder of a line after a HT does not align in the way the author
originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default in
such a case, and allows the users to override it with a new option,
'--no-expand-tabs'.
* lt/pretty-expand-tabs:
pretty: test --expand-tabs
pretty: allow tweaking tabwidth in --expand-tabs
pretty: enable --expand-tabs by default for selected pretty formats
pretty: expand tabs in indented logs to make things line up properly
When the local convention of the project is to use tab width that is
not 8, it may make sense to allow "git log --expand-tabs=<n>" to
tweak the output to match it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log --pretty={medium,full,fuller}" and "git log" by default
prepend 4 spaces to the log message, so it makes sense to enable
the new "expand-tabs" facility by default for these formats.
Add --no-expand-tabs option to override the new default.
The change alone breaks a test in t4201 that runs "git shortlog"
on the output from "git log", and expects that the output from
"git log" does not do such a tab expansion. Adjust the test to
explicitly disable expand-tabs with --no-expand-tabs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A commit log message sometimes tries to line things up using tabs,
assuming fixed-width font with the standard 8-place tab settings.
Viewing such a commit however does not work well in "git log", as
we indent the lines by prefixing 4 spaces in front of them.
This should all line up:
Column 1 Column 2
-------- --------
A B
ABCD EFGH
SPACES Instead of Tabs
Even with multi-byte UTF8 characters:
Column 1 Column 2
-------- --------
Ä B
åäö 100
A Møøse once bit my sister..
Tab-expand the lines in "git log --expand-tabs" output before
prefixing 4 spaces.
This is based on the patch by Linus Torvalds, but at this step, we
require an explicit command line option to enable the behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
init_notes() is the main point of entry to the notes API. It ensures
that the input can be used as ref, because it needs a ref to update to
store notes tree after modifying it.
There however are many use cases where notes tree is only read, e.g.
"git log --notes=...". Any notes-shaped treeish could be used for such
purpose, but it is not allowed due to existing restriction.
Allow treeish expressions to be used in the case the notes tree is going
to be used without write "permissions". Add a flag to distinguish
whether the notes tree is intended to be used read-only, or will be
updated.
With this change, operations that use notes read-only can be fed any
notes-shaped tree-ish can be used, e.g. git log --notes=notes@{1}.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
expand_notes_ref is used by --ref from git-notes(1) and --notes from the
git log to find the full refname of a notes reference. Previously the
documentation of these options was not clear about what sorts of
expansions would be performed. Fix the documentation to clearly and
accurately describe the behavior of the expansions.
Add a test for this expansion when using git notes get-ref in order to
prevent future patches from changing this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rev-list command does not have the internal
infrastructure to display notes. Running:
git rev-list --notes HEAD
will silently ignore the "--notes" option. Running:
git rev-list --notes --grep=. HEAD
will crash on an assert. Running:
git rev-list --format=%N HEAD
will place a literal "%N" in the output (it does not even
expand to an empty string).
Let's have rev-list tell the user that it cannot fill the
user's request, rather than silently producing wrong data.
Likewise, let's remove mention of the notes options from the
rev-list documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the common case that the commit encoding matches the
output encoding, we do not touch the buffer at all, which
makes things much more efficient. But it might be unclear to
a consumer that we will pass through bogus sequences.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We forgot to list "tformat:<string>" when enumerating possible
values that "--pretty=<format>" can take. It was not described
that "--pretty='string with %s placeholder'" that is not understood
is DWIMmed as "--pretty=tformat:<that string>".
Further, it was unclear what "When omitted, defaults to 'medium'"
was meant. Is it "When --pretty=<something> was not given at all",
or is it "When --pretty is given without =<something>"? Clarify
that it is the latter.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
$ git log --encoding
fatal: Option '--encoding' requires a value
$ git rev-list --encoding
fatal: Option '--encoding' requires a value
The argument to --encoding has always been mandatory. Unfortunately
manpages like git-rev-list(1), git-log(1), and git-show(1) have
described the option's syntax as "--encoding[=<encoding>]" since it
was first documented. Clarify by removing the extra brackets.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pretty formats for GPG signatures were introduced but never
documented. Use the documentation from the commit that introduced them.
Do the same for the --show-signature option added to git log and
friends.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add log.abbrevCommit config variable as a convenience for users who
often use --abbrev-commit with git log and friends. Allow the option
to be overridden with --no-abbrev-commit. Per 635530a2fc and 4f62c2bc57,
the config variable is ignored when log is given "--pretty=raw".
(Also, a drive-by spelling correction in git log's short help.)
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the behavior or the new --notes, --notes=<ref> and --no-notes
options, and list --show-notes[=<ref>] and --[no-]standard-notes options
as deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Quotes (for emphasis) are used in option explanations, not the
headings.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "git help log" (and friends) it's not easy to find the possible
placeholder for <string> for the "--pretty=format:<string>" option
to git log.
This patch makes the placeholder easier to find by adding a reference
to the "PRETTY FORMATS" section and repeating the "format:<string>"
phrase.
Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With this patch, you can set notes.displayRef to a glob that points at
your favourite notes refs, e.g.,
[notes]
displayRef = refs/notes/*
Then git-log and friends will show notes from all trees.
Thanks to Junio C Hamano for lots of feedback, which greatly
influenced the design of the entire series and this commit in
particular.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Giving "Notes" information in the default output format of "log" and
"show" is a sensible progress (the user has asked for it by having the
notes), but for some commands (e.g. "format-patch") spewing notes into the
formatted commit log message without being asked is too aggressive.
Enable notes output only for "log", "show", "whatchanged" by default and
only when the user didn't ask any specific --pretty/--format from the
command line; users can explicitly override this default with --show-notes
and --no-notes option.
Parts of tests are taken from Jeff King's fix.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These two are often used together but are too long to type.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some people prefer to call the pretty-print styles "format", and get
annoyed to see "git log --format=short" fail. Introduce it as a synonym
to --pretty so that both can be used.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some instances replaced by "handful of", others use
the word "few", a couple get a slight rewording.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running log/show/whatchanged from the command line, the user may
want to use a preferred format without having to pass --pretty=<fmt>
option every time from the command line. This teaches these three
commands to honor a new configuration variable, format.pretty.
The --pretty option given from the command line will override the
configured format.
The earlier patch fixed the in-tree callers that run these commands
for purposes other than showing the output directly to the end user
(the only other in-tree caller is "git bisect visualize", whose output
directly goes to the end user and should be affected by this patch).
Similar fixes will be needed for end-user scripts that parse the
output from these commands and expect them to be in the default pretty
format.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation taken from paraphrased description of "--abbrev[=<n>]"
diff option, and from description of commit 5c51c985 introducing
this option.
Note that to change number of digits one must use "--abbrev=<n>",
which affects [also] diff output.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split description of pretty formats into list of pretty options
(--pretty and --encoding) in new file Documentation/pretty-options.txt
and description of formats itself as a separate "PRETTY FORMATS"
section in pretty-formats.txt
While at it correct formatting a bit, to be better laid out in the
resulting manpages: git-rev-list(1), git-show(1), git-log(1) and
git-diff-tree(1). Those manpages now include pretty options in the
same place as it was before, and description of formats just after
all options.
Inspired by the split into two filesdocumentation for merge strategies:
Documentation/merge-options.txt and Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
