"git update-index --refresh" has been taught to deal better with
racy timestamps (just like "git status" already does).
* ms/update-index-racy:
update-index: refresh should rewrite index in case of racy timestamps
t7508: add tests capturing racy timestamp handling
t7508: fix bogus mtime verification
test-lib: introduce API for verifying file mtime
Assorted updates to "git cat-file", especially "-h".
* ab/cat-file:
cat-file: s/_/-/ in typo'd usage_msg_optf() message
cat-file: don't whitespace-pad "(...)" in SYNOPSIS and usage output
cat-file: use GET_OID_ONLY_TO_DIE in --(textconv|filters)
object-name.c: don't have GET_OID_ONLY_TO_DIE imply *_QUIETLY
cat-file: correct and improve usage information
cat-file: fix remaining usage bugs
cat-file: make --batch-all-objects a CMDMODE
cat-file: move "usage" variable to cmd_cat_file()
cat-file docs: fix SYNOPSIS and "-h" output
parse-options API: add a usage_msg_optf()
cat-file tests: test messaging on bad objects/paths
cat-file tests: test bad usage
"git pull --rebase" ignored the rebase.autostash configuration
variable when the remote history is a descendant of our history,
which has been corrected.
* pb/pull-rebase-autostash-fix:
pull --rebase: honor rebase.autostash when fast-forwarding
Fix a regression in 2.35 that roke the use of "rebase" and "stash"
in a secondary worktree.
* en/keep-cwd:
sequencer, stash: fix running from worktree subdir
In commits bc3ae46b42 ("rebase: do not attempt to remove
startup_info->original_cwd", 2021-12-09) and 0fce211ccc ("stash: do not
attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd", 2021-12-09), we wanted to
allow the subprocess to know which directory the parent process was
running from, so that the subprocess could protect it. However...
When run from a non-main worktree, setup_git_directory() will note
that the discovered git directory
(/PATH/TO/.git/worktree/non-main-worktree) does not match
DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT (see setup_discovered_git_dir()), and
decide to set GIT_DIR in the environment. This matters because...
Whenever git is run with the GIT_DIR environment variable set, and
GIT_WORK_TREE not set, it presumes that '.' is the working tree. So...
This combination results in the subcommand being very confused about
the working tree. Fix it by also setting the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
variable along with setting cmd.dir.
A possibly more involved fix we could consider for later would be to
make setup.c set GIT_WORK_TREE whenever (a) it discovers both the git
directory and the working tree and (b) it decides to set GIT_DIR in the
environment. I did not attempt that here as such would be too big of a
change for a 2.35.1 release.
Test-case-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We added an unrelated sanity checking that leads to a BUG() while
plugging a leak, which triggered in a repository with symrefs in
the local branch namespace that point at a ref outside. Partially
revert the change to avoid triggering the BUG().
* ab/checkout-branch-info-leakfix:
checkout: avoid BUG() when hitting a broken repository
When 9081a421 (checkout: fix "branch info" memory leaks, 2021-11-16)
cleaned up existing memory leaks, we added an unrelated sanity check
to ensure that a local branch is truly local and not a symref to
elsewhere that dies with BUG() otherwise. This was misguided in two
ways. First of all, such a tightening did not belong to a leak-fix
patch. And the condition it detected was *not* a bug in our program
but a problem in user data, where warning() or die() would have been
more appropriate.
As the condition is not fatal (the result of computing the local
branch name in the code that is involved in the faulty check is only
used as a textual label for the commit), let's revert the code to
the original state, i.e. strip "refs/heads/" to compute the local
branch name if possible, and otherwise leave it NULL. The consumer
of the information in merge_working_tree() is prepared to see NULL
in there and act accordingly.
cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2042920
Reported-by: Petr Šplíchal <psplicha@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch -h" incorrectly said "--track[=direct|inherit]",
implying that "--trackinherit" is a valid option, which has been
corrected.
source: <3de40324bea6a1dd9bca2654721471e3809e87d8.1642538935.git.steadmon@google.com>
source: <c3c26192-aee9-185a-e559-b8735139e49c@web.de>
* js/branch-track-inherit:
branch,checkout: fix --track documentation
Document that the accepted variants of the --track option are --track,
--track=direct, and --track=inherit. The equal sign in the latter two
cannot be replaced with whitespace; in general optional arguments need
to be attached firmly to their option.
Put "direct" consistently before "inherit", if only for the reasons
that the former is the default, explained first in the documentation,
and comes before the latter alphabetically.
Mention both modes in the short help so that readers don't have to look
them up in the full documentation. They are literal strings and thus
untranslatable. PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP is inferred due to the pipe
and parenthesis characters, so we don't have to provide that flag
explicitly.
Mention that -t has the same effect as --track and --track=direct.
There is no way to specify inherit mode using the short option, because
short options generally don't accept optional arguments.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch -h" incorrectly said "--track[=direct|inherit]",
implying that "--trackinherit" is a valid option, which has been
corrected.
* js/branch-track-inherit:
branch,checkout: fix --track usage strings
As Ævar pointed out in [1], the use of PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP with a
list of allowed parameters is not recommended. Both git-branch and
git-checkout were changed in d311566 (branch: add flags and config to
inherit tracking, 2021-12-20) to use this discouraged combination for
their --track flags.
Fix this by removing PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, and changing the arghelp
to simply be "mode". Users may discover allowed values in the manual
pages.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/220111.86a6g3yqf9.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"pull --rebase" internally uses the merge machinery when the other
history is a descendant of ours (i.e. perform fast-forward). This
came from [1], where the discussion was started from a feature
request to do so. It is a bit hard to read the rationale behind it
in the discussion, but it seems that it was an established fact for
everybody involved that does not even need to be mentioned that
fast-forwarding done with "rebase" was much undesirable than done
with "merge", and more importantly, the result left by "merge" is as
good as (or better than) that by "rebase".
Except for one thing. Because "git merge" does not (and should not)
honor rebase.autostash, "git pull" needs to read it and forward it
when we use "git merge" as a (hopefully better) substitute for "git
rebase" during the fast-forwarding. But we forgot to do so (we only
add "--[no-]autostash" to the "git merge" command when "git pull" itself
was invoked with "--[no-]autostash" command line option.
Make sure "git merge" is run with "--autostash" when
rebase.autostash is set and used to fast-forward the history on
behalf of "git rebase". Incidentally this change also takes care of
the case where
- "git pull --rebase" (without other command line options) is run
- "rebase.autostash" is not set
- The history fast-forwards
In such a case, "git merge" is run with an explicit "--no-autostash"
to prevent it from honoring merge.autostash configuration, which is
what we want. After all, we want the "git merge" to pretend as if
it is "git rebase" while being used for this purpose.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqa8cfbkeq.fsf_-_@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/
Reported-by: Tilman Vogel <tilman.vogel@web.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some lockfile code called free() in signal-death code path, which
has been corrected.
* ps/lockfile-cleanup-fix:
fetch: fix deadlock when cleaning up lockfiles in async signals
Fix a typo in my recent 03dc51fe849 (cat-file: fix remaining usage
bugs, 2021-10-09).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix up whitespace issues around "(... | ...)" in the SYNOPSIS and
usage. These were introduced in ab/cat-file series. See
e145efa6059 (Merge branch 'ab/cat-file' into next, 2022-01-05). In
particular 57d6a1cf96, 5a40417876 and 97fe725075 in that series.
We'll now correctly emit this usage output:
$ git cat-file -h
usage: git cat-file <type> <object>
or: git cat-file (-e | -p) <object>
or: git cat-file (-t | -s) [--allow-unknown-type] <object>
[...]
Before this the last line of that would be inconsistent with the
preceding "(-e | -p)":
or: git cat-file ( -t | -s ) [--allow-unknown-type] <object>
Reported-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Switching out manual arg parsing for the parse-options API for the
expire and delete subcommands.
Move explicit_expiry flag into cmd_reflog_expire_cb struct so callbacks
can set both the value of the timestamp as well as the explicit_expiry
flag.
Signed-off-by: "John Cai" <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash apply" forgot to attempt restoring untracked files when
it failed to restore changes to tracked ones.
* en/stash-df-fix:
stash: do not return before restoring untracked files
Similar message templates have been consolidated so that
translators need to work on fewer number of messages.
* ja/i18n-similar-messages:
i18n: turn even more messages into "cannot be used together" ones
i18n: ref-filter: factorize "%(foo) atom used without %(bar) atom"
i18n: factorize "--foo outside a repository"
i18n: refactor "unrecognized %(foo) argument" strings
i18n: factorize "no directory given for --foo"
i18n: factorize "--foo requires --bar" and the like
i18n: tag.c factorize i18n strings
i18n: standardize "cannot open" and "cannot read"
i18n: turn "options are incompatible" into "cannot be used together"
i18n: refactor "%s, %s and %s are mutually exclusive"
i18n: refactor "foo and bar are mutually exclusive"
"git -c branch.autosetupmerge=inherit branch new old" makes "new"
to have the same upstream as the "old" branch, instead of marking
"old" itself as its upstream.
* js/branch-track-inherit:
config: require lowercase for branch.*.autosetupmerge
branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking
branch: accept multiple upstream branches for tracking
Code clean-up to hide vreportf() from public API.
* ab/usage-die-message:
config API: use get_error_routine(), not vreportf()
usage.c + gc: add and use a die_message_errno()
gc: return from cmd_gc(), don't call exit()
usage.c API users: use die_message() for error() + exit 128
usage.c API users: use die_message() for "fatal :" + exit 128
usage.c: add a die_message() routine
Code refactoring in the reflog part of refs API.
* ab/reflog-prep:
reflog + refs-backend: move "verbose" out of the backend
refs files-backend: assume cb->newlog if !EXPIRE_REFLOGS_DRY_RUN
reflog: reduce scope of "struct rev_info"
reflog expire: don't use lookup_commit_reference_gently()
reflog expire: refactor & use "tip_commit" only for UE_NORMAL
reflog expire: use "switch" over enum values
reflog: change one->many worktree->refnames to use a string_list
reflog expire: narrow scope of "cb" in cmd_reflog_expire()
reflog delete: narrow scope of "cmd" passed to count_reflog_ent()
"git stash" by default triggers its "push" action, but its
implementation also made "git stash -h" to show short help only for
"git stash push", which has been corrected.
* ab/do-not-limit-stash-help-to-push:
stash: don't show "git stash push" usage on bad "git stash" usage
"git fetch" and "git pull" are now declared sparse-index clean.
Also "git ls-files" learns the "--sparse" option to help debugging.
* ds/fetch-pull-with-sparse-index:
test-read-cache: remove --table, --expand options
t1091/t3705: remove 'test-tool read-cache --table'
t1092: replace 'read-cache --table' with 'ls-files --sparse'
ls-files: add --sparse option
fetch/pull: use the sparse index
Use of certain "git rev-list" options with "git fast-export"
created nonsense results (the worst two of which being "--reverse"
and "--invert-grep --grep=<foo>"). The use of "--first-parent" is
made to behave a bit more sensible than before.
* ws/fast-export-with-revision-options:
fast-export: fix surprising behavior with --first-parent
Certain sparse-checkout patterns that are valid in non-cone mode
led to segfault in cone mode, which has been corrected.
* ds/sparse-checkout-malformed-pattern-fix:
sparse-checkout: refuse to add to bad patterns
sparse-checkout: fix OOM error with mixed patterns
sparse-checkout: fix segfault on malformed patterns
When fetching packfiles, we write a bunch of lockfiles for the packfiles
we're writing into the repository. In order to not leave behind any
cruft in case we exit or receive a signal, we register both an exit
handler as well as signal handlers for common signals like SIGINT. These
handlers will then unlink the locks and free the data structure tracking
them. We have observed a deadlock in this logic though:
(gdb) bt
#0 __lll_lock_wait_private () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S:95
#1 0x00007f4932bea2cd in _int_free (av=0x7f4932f2eb20 <main_arena>, p=0x3e3e4200, have_lock=0) at malloc.c:3969
#2 0x00007f4932bee58c in __GI___libc_free (mem=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:2975
#3 0x0000000000662ab1 in string_list_clear ()
#4 0x000000000044f5bc in unlock_pack_on_signal ()
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 _int_free (av=0x7f4932f2eb20 <main_arena>, p=<optimized out>, have_lock=0) at malloc.c:4024
#7 0x00007f4932bee58c in __GI___libc_free (mem=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:2975
#8 0x000000000065afd5 in strbuf_release ()
#9 0x000000000066ddb9 in delete_tempfile ()
#10 0x0000000000610d0b in files_transaction_cleanup.isra ()
#11 0x0000000000611718 in files_transaction_abort ()
#12 0x000000000060d2ef in ref_transaction_abort ()
#13 0x000000000060d441 in ref_transaction_prepare ()
#14 0x000000000060e0b5 in ref_transaction_commit ()
#15 0x00000000004511c2 in fetch_and_consume_refs ()
#16 0x000000000045279a in cmd_fetch ()
#17 0x0000000000407c48 in handle_builtin ()
#18 0x0000000000408df2 in cmd_main ()
#19 0x00000000004078b5 in main ()
The process was killed with a signal, which caused the signal handler to
kick in and try free the data structures after we have unlinked the
locks. It then deadlocks while calling free(3P).
The root cause of this is that it is not allowed to call certain
functions in async-signal handlers, as specified by signal-safety(7).
Next to most I/O functions, this list of disallowed functions also
includes memory-handling functions like malloc(3P) and free(3P) because
they may not be reentrant. As a result, if we execute such functions in
the signal handler, then they may operate on inconistent state and fail
in unexpected ways.
Fix this bug by not calling non-async-signal-safe functions when running
in the signal handler. We're about to re-raise the signal anyway and
will thus exit, so it's not much of a problem to keep the string list of
lockfiles untouched. Note that it's fine though to call unlink(2), so
we'll still clean up the lockfiles correctly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Reviewed-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git update-index --refresh' and '--really-refresh' should force writing
of the index file if racy timestamps have been encountered, as
'git status' already does [1].
Note that calling 'git update-index --refresh' still does not guarantee
that there will be no more racy timestamps afterwards (the same holds
true for 'git status'):
- calling 'git update-index --refresh' immediately after touching and
adding a file may still leave racy timestamps if all three operations
occur within the racy-tolerance (usually 1 second unless USE_NSEC has
been defined)
- calling 'git update-index --refresh' for timestamps which are set into
the future will leave them racy
To guarantee that such racy timestamps will be resolved would require to
wait until the system clock has passed beyond these timestamps and only
then write the index file. Especially for future timestamps, this does
not seem feasible because of possibly long delays/hangs.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/d3dd805c-7c1d-30a9-6574-a7bfcb7fc013@syntevo.com/
Signed-off-by: Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two functions that have very similar logic of finding a header
value. find_commit_header, and find_header. We can conslidate the logic
by introducing a new function find_header_mem, which is equivalent to
find_commit_header except it takes a len parameter that determines how
many bytes will be read. find_commit_header and find_header can then both
call find_header_mem.
This reduces duplicate logic, as the logic for finding header values
can now all live in one place.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default merge message prepared by "git merge" records the name
of the current branch; the name can be overridden with a new option
to allow users to pretend a merge is made on a different branch.
* jc/merge-detached-head-name:
merge: allow to pretend a merge is made into a different branch
"git am" learns "--empty=(stop|drop|keep)" option to tweak what is
done to a piece of e-mail without a patch in it.
* xw/am-empty:
am: support --allow-empty to record specific empty patches
am: support --empty=<option> to handle empty patches
doc: git-format-patch: describe the option --always
Many git commands that deal with working tree files try to remove a
directory that becomes empty (i.e. "git switch" from a branch that
has the directory to another branch that does not would attempt
remove all files in the directory and the directory itself). This
drops users into an unfamiliar situation if the command was run in
a subdirectory that becomes subject to removal due to the command.
The commands have been taught to keep an empty directory if it is
the directory they were started in to avoid surprising users.
* en/keep-cwd:
t2501: simplify the tests since we can now assume desired behavior
dir: new flag to remove_dir_recurse() to spare the original_cwd
dir: avoid incidentally removing the original_cwd in remove_path()
stash: do not attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd
rebase: do not attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd
clean: do not attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd
symlinks: do not include startup_info->original_cwd in dir removal
unpack-trees: add special cwd handling
unpack-trees: refuse to remove startup_info->original_cwd
setup: introduce startup_info->original_cwd
t2501: add various tests for removing the current working directory
Even if some of these messages are not subject to gettext i18n, this
helps bring a single style of message for a given error type.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
They are all replaced by "the option '%s' requires '%s'", which is a
new string but replaces 17 previous unique strings.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use placeholders for constant tokens. The strings are turned into
"cannot be used together"
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use static strings for constant parts of the sentences. They are all
turned into "cannot be used together".
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit bee8691f19 ("stash: restore untracked files AFTER restoring
tracked files", 2021-09-10), we correctly identified that we should
restore changes to tracked files before attempting to restore untracked
files, and accordingly moved the code for restoring untracked files a
few lines down in do_apply_stash(). Unfortunately, the intervening
lines had some early return statements meaning that we suddenly stopped
restoring untracked files in some cases.
Even before the previous commit, there was another possible issue with
the current code -- a post-stash-apply 'git status' that was intended
to be run after restoring the stash was skipped when we hit a conflict
(or other error condition), which seems slightly inconsistent.
Fix both issues by saving the return status, and letting other
functionality run before returning.
Reported-by: AJ Henderson
Test-case-by: Randall S. Becker <randall.becker@nexbridge.ca>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ab/reflog-prep:
reflog + refs-backend: move "verbose" out of the backend
refs files-backend: assume cb->newlog if !EXPIRE_REFLOGS_DRY_RUN
reflog: reduce scope of "struct rev_info"
reflog expire: don't use lookup_commit_reference_gently()
reflog expire: refactor & use "tip_commit" only for UE_NORMAL
reflog expire: use "switch" over enum values
reflog: change one->many worktree->refnames to use a string_list
reflog expire: narrow scope of "cb" in cmd_reflog_expire()
reflog delete: narrow scope of "cmd" passed to count_reflog_ent()
The "init" and "set" subcommands in "git sparse-checkout" have been
unified for a better user experience and performance.
* en/sparse-checkout-set:
sparse-checkout: remove stray trailing space
clone: avoid using deprecated `sparse-checkout init`
Documentation: clarify/correct a few sparsity related statements
git-sparse-checkout.txt: update to document init/set/reapply changes
sparse-checkout: enable reapply to take --[no-]{cone,sparse-index}
sparse-checkout: enable `set` to initialize sparse-checkout mode
sparse-checkout: split out code for tweaking settings config
sparse-checkout: disallow --no-stdin as an argument to set
sparse-checkout: add sanity-checks on initial sparsity state
sparse-checkout: break apart functions for sparse_checkout_(set|add)
sparse-checkout: pass use_stdin as a parameter instead of as a global
New interface into the tmp-objdir API to help in-core use of the
quarantine feature.
* ns/tmp-objdir:
tmp-objdir: disable ref updates when replacing the primary odb
tmp-objdir: new API for creating temporary writable databases
"git format-patch" uses a single rev_info instance and then exits.
Mark the structure with UNLEAK() macro to squelch leak sanitizer.
* jc/unleak-log:
format-patch: mark rev_info with UNLEAK
When in cone mode sparse-checkout, it is unclear how 'git
sparse-checkout add <dir1> ...' should behave if the existing
sparse-checkout file does not match the cone mode patterns. Change the
behavior to fail with an error message about the existing patterns.
Also, all cone mode patterns start with a '/' character, so add that
restriction. This is necessary for our example test 'cone mode: warn on
bad pattern', but also requires modifying the example sparse-checkout
file we use to test the warnings related to recognizing cone mode
patterns.
This error checking would cause a failure further down the test script
because of a test that adds non-cone mode patterns without cleaning them
up. Perform that cleanup as part of the test now.
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a test to t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh that would result in an
infinite loop and out-of-memory error before this change. The issue
relies on having non-cone-mode patterns while trying to modify the
patterns in cone-mode.
The fix is simple, allowing us to break from the loop when the input
path does not contain a slash, as the "dir" pattern we added does not.
This is only a fix to the critical out-of-memory error. A better
response to such a strange state will follow in a later change.
Reported-by: Calbabreaker <calbabreaker@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the cat_one_file() logic that calls get_oid_with_context()
under --textconv and --filters to use the GET_OID_ONLY_TO_DIE flag,
thus improving the error messaging emitted when e.g. <path> is missing
but <rev> is not.
To service the "cat-file" use-case we need to introduce a new
"GET_OID_REQUIRE_PATH" flag, otherwise it would exit early as soon as
a valid "HEAD" was resolved, but in the "cat-file" case being changed
we always need a valid revision and path.
This arguably makes the "<bad rev>:<bad path>" and "<bad
rev>:<good (in HEAD) path>" use cases worse, as we won't quote the
<path> component at the user anymore, but let's just use the existing
logic "git log" et al use for now. We can improve the messaging for
those cases as a follow-up for all callers.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the usage output emitted on "git cat-file -h" to group related
options, making it clear to users which options go with which other
ones.
The new output is:
Check object existence or emit object contents
-e check if <object> exists
-p pretty-print <object> content
Emit [broken] object attributes
-t show object type (one of 'blob', 'tree', 'commit', 'tag', ...)
-s show object size
--allow-unknown-type allow -s and -t to work with broken/corrupt objects
Batch objects requested on stdin (or --batch-all-objects)
--batch[=<format>] show full <object> or <rev> contents
--batch-check[=<format>]
like --batch, but don't emit <contents>
--batch-all-objects with --batch[-check]: ignores stdin, batches all known objects
Change or optimize batch output
--buffer buffer --batch output
--follow-symlinks follow in-tree symlinks
--unordered do not order objects before emitting them
Emit object (blob or tree) with conversion or filter (stand-alone, or with batch)
--textconv run textconv on object's content
--filters run filters on object's content
--path blob|tree use a <path> for (--textconv | --filters ); Not with 'batch'
The old usage was:
<type> can be one of: blob, tree, commit, tag
-t show object type
-s show object size
-e exit with zero when there's no error
-p pretty-print object's content
--textconv for blob objects, run textconv on object's content
--filters for blob objects, run filters on object's content
--batch-all-objects show all objects with --batch or --batch-check
--path <blob> use a specific path for --textconv/--filters
--allow-unknown-type allow -s and -t to work with broken/corrupt objects
--buffer buffer --batch output
--batch[=<format>] show info and content of objects fed from the standard input
--batch-check[=<format>]
show info about objects fed from the standard input
--follow-symlinks follow in-tree symlinks (used with --batch or --batch-check)
--unordered do not order --batch-all-objects output
While shorter, I think the new one is easier to understand, as
e.g. "--allow-unknown-type" is grouped with "-t" and "-s", as it can
only be combined with those options. The same goes for "--buffer",
"--unordered" etc.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
