Allow receive-pack to insist on receiving a fat pack from "git
push" clients.
* cn/thin-push-capability:
send-pack: don't send a thin pack to a server which doesn't support it
The "--tags" option to "git fetch" used to be literally a synonym to
a "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" refspec, which meant that (1) as an
explicit refspec given from the command line, it silenced the lazy
"git fetch" default that is configured, and (2) also as an explicit
refspec given from the command line, it interacted with "--prune"
to remove any tag that the remote we are fetching from does not
have.
This demotes it to an option; with it, we fetch all tags in
addition to what would be fetched without the option, and it does
not interact with the decision "--prune" makes to see what
remote-tracking refs the local has are missing the remote
counterpart.
* mh/fetch-tags-in-addition-to-normal-refs: (23 commits)
fetch: improve the error messages emitted for conflicting refspecs
handle_duplicate(): mark error message for translation
ref_remote_duplicates(): extract a function handle_duplicate()
ref_remove_duplicates(): simplify loop logic
t5536: new test of refspec conflicts when fetching
ref_remove_duplicates(): avoid redundant bisection
git-fetch.txt: improve description of tag auto-following
fetch-options.txt: simplify ifdef/ifndef/endif usage
fetch, remote: properly convey --no-prune options to subprocesses
builtin/remote.c:update(): use struct argv_array
builtin/remote.c: reorder function definitions
query_refspecs(): move some constants out of the loop
fetch --prune: prune only based on explicit refspecs
fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to* other stuff
fetch: only opportunistically update references based on command line
get_expanded_map(): avoid memory leak
get_expanded_map(): add docstring
builtin/fetch.c: reorder function definitions
get_ref_map(): rename local variables
api-remote.txt: correct section "struct refspec"
...
Allow extra-branch-refs feature to tell gitweb to show refs from
additional hierarchies in addition to branches in the list-of-branches
view.
Signed-off-by: Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@endocode.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that git supports data transfer from or to a shallow clone, these
limitations are not true anymore.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch teaches "prune" to remove shallow roots that are no longer
reachable from any refs (e.g. when the relevant refs are removed).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The basic 8 steps to update .git/shallow does not fully apply here
because the user may choose to accept just a few refs (while fetch
always accepts all refs). The steps are modified a bit.
1-6. same as before. After calling assign_shallow_commits_to_refs at
step 6, each shallow commit has a bitmap that marks all refs that
require it.
7. mark all "ours" shallow commits that are reachable from any
refs. We will need to do the original step 7 on them later.
8. go over all shallow commit bitmaps, mark refs that require new
shallow commits.
9. setup a strict temporary shallow file to plug all the holes, even
if it may cut some of our history short. This file is used by all
hooks. The hooks could use --shallow-file=$GIT_DIR/shallow to
overcome this and reach everything in current repo.
10. go over the new refs one by one. For each ref, do the reachability
test if it needs a shallow commit on the list from step 7. Remove
it if it's reachable from our refs. Gather all required shallow
commits, run check_everything_connected() with the new ref, then
install them to .git/shallow.
This mode is disabled by default and can be turned on with
receive.shallowupdate
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The same steps are done as in when --update-shallow is not given. The
only difference is we now add all shallow commits in "ours" and
"theirs" to .git/shallow (aka "step 8").
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "fetch --depth=N" where N exceeds the longest chain of history in
the source repo, usually we just send an "unshallow" line to the
client so full history is obtained.
When the source repo is shallow we need to make sure to "unshallow"
the current shallow point _and_ "shallow" again when the commit
reaches its shallow bottom in the source repo.
This should fix both cases: large <N> and --unshallow.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If either receive-pack or upload-pack is called on a shallow
repository, shallow commits (*) will be sent after the ref
advertisement (but before the packet flush), so that the receiver has
the full "shape" of the sender's commit graph. This will be needed for
the receiver to update its .git/shallow if necessary.
This breaks the protocol for all clients trying to push to a shallow
repo, or fetch from one. Which is basically the same end result as
today's "is_repository_shallow() && die()" in receive-pack and
upload-pack. New clients will be made aware of shallow upstream and
can make use of this information.
The sender must send all shallow commits that are sent in the
following pack. It may send more shallow commits than necessary.
upload-pack for example may choose to advertise no shallow commits if
it knows in advance that the pack it's going to send contains no
shallow commits. But upload-pack is the server, so we choose the
cheaper way, send full .git/shallow and let the client deal with it.
Smart HTTP is not affected by this patch. Shallow support on
smart-http comes later separately.
(*) A shallow commit is a commit that terminates the revision
walker. It is usually put in .git/shallow in order to keep the
revision walker from going out of bound because there is no
guarantee that objects behind this commit is available.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 15a147e (rebase: use @{upstream} if no upstream specified,
2011-02-09) says:
Make it default to 'git rebase @{upstream}'. That is also what
'git pull [--rebase]' defaults to, so it only makes sense that
'git rebase' defaults to the same thing.
but that isn't actually the case. Since commit d44e712 (pull: support
rebased upstream + fetch + pull --rebase, 2009-07-19), pull has actually
chosen the most recent reflog entry which is an ancestor of the current
branch if it can find one.
Add a '--fork-point' argument to git-rebase that can be used to trigger
this behaviour. This option is turned on by default if no non-option
arguments are specified on the command line, otherwise we treat an
upstream specified on the command-line literally.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Oftentimes people will make the same change in two branches, revert the change
in one branch, and then be surprised when a merge reinstitutes that change when
the branches are merged. Add an explanatory paragraph that explains that this
occurs and the reason why, so people are not surprised.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no mention of the 'origin' default, or the fact that the
upstream tracking branch remote is used.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Additionally, precedence of negated patterns is exactly as outlined in
the DESCRIPTION section, we don't need to repeat this.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When --prompt option is set, git-difftool displays a prompt for each
modified file to be viewed in an external diff program. At that
point, it could be useful to display a counter and the total number
of files in the diff queue.
Below is the current difftool prompt for the first of 5 modified files:
Viewing: 'diff.c'
Launch 'vimdiff' [Y/n]:
Consider the modified prompt:
Viewing (1/5): 'diff.c'
Launch 'vimdiff' [Y/n]:
The current GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF mechanism does not tell the number of
paths in the diff queue nor the current counter. To make this
"counter/total" info available for GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF programs
without breaking existing ones by doing the following:
- Keep track of the number of paths shown so far in diff_options;
- Export two new environment variables from run_external_diff() to
show the total number of paths (from diff_queue_struct) and the
current value of the counter (from diff_options); and
- Update git-difftool--helper to use these two environment variables.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Klinger <zoltan.klinger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a few formatting directives to "git for-each-ref --format=...",
to paint them in color, etc.
* rr/for-each-ref-decoration:
for-each-ref: avoid color leakage
for-each-ref: introduce %(color:...) for color
for-each-ref: introduce %(upstream:track[short])
for-each-ref: introduce %(HEAD) asterisk marker
t6300 (for-each-ref): don't hardcode SHA-1 hexes
t6300 (for-each-ref): clearly demarcate setup
People often wished a way to tell "git log --branches" (and "git
log --remotes --not --branches") to exclude some local branches
from the expansion of "--branches" (similarly for "--tags", "--all"
and "--glob=<pattern>"). Now they have one.
* jc/ref-excludes:
rev-parse: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
rev-list --exclude: export add/clear-ref-exclusion and ref-excluded API
rev-list --exclude: tests
document --exclude option
revision: introduce --exclude=<glob> to tame wildcards
Enhance "rev-parse --parseopt" mode to help parsing options with
an optional parameter.
* nv/parseopt-opt-arg:
rev-parse --parseopt: add the --stuck-long mode
Use the word 'stuck' instead of 'sticked'
Code the logic in "pull --rebase" that figures out a fork point
from reflog entries in C.
* jc/merge-base-reflog:
merge-base: teach "--fork-point" mode
merge-base: use OPT_CMDMODE and clarify the command line parsing
Since f2690487 (fetch: opportunistically update tracking refs,
2013-05-11), we stopped taking a non-storing refspec given on the
command line of "git fetch" literally, and instead started mapping
it via remote.$name.fetch refspecs. This allows
$ git fetch origin master
from the 'origin' repository, which is configured with
[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
to update refs/remotes/origin/master with the result, as if the
command line were
$ git fetch origin +master:refs/remotes/origin/master
to reduce surprises and improve usability. Before that change, a
refspec on the command line without a colon was only to fetch the
history and leave the result in FETCH_HEAD, without updating the
remote-tracking branches.
When you are simulating a fetch from you by your mothership with a
push by you into your mothership, instead of having:
[remote "satellite"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/satellite/*
on the mothership repository and running:
mothership$ git fetch satellite
you would have:
[remote "mothership"]
push = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/satellite/*
on your satellite machine, and run:
satellite$ git push mothership
Because we so far did not make the corresponding change to the push
side, this command:
satellite$ git push mothership master
does _not_ allow you on the satellite to only push 'master' out but
still to the usual destination (i.e. refs/remotes/satellite/master).
Implement the logic to map an unqualified refspec given on the
command line via the remote.$name.push refspec. This will bring a
bit more symmetry between "fetch" and "push".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usage sample of add_submodule_odb() function in the Submodules
section expects non-zero return value for success, but the function
actually reports success with zero.
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Nick Townsend <nick.townsend@mac.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-cherry(1)'s "description" section has never really managed
to explain to me what the command does. It contains too much
explanation of the algorithm instead of simply saying what
goals it achieves, and too much terminology that we otherwise
do not use (fork-point instead of merge-base).
Try a much more concise approach: state what it finds out, why
this is neat, and how the output is formatted, in a few short
paragraphs. In return, provide much longer examples of how it
fits into a "format-patch | am" based workflow, and how it
compares to reading the same from git-log.
Also carefully avoid using "merge" in a context where it does
not mean something that comes from git-merge(1). Instead, say
"apply" in an attempt to further link to patch workflow
concepts.
While there, also omit the language about _which_ upstream
branch we treat as the default. I literally just learned that
we support having several, so let's not confuse new users
here, especially considering that git-config(1) does not
document this.
Prompted-by: a.huemer@commend.com on #git
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Up to now git has assumed that all servers are able to fix thin
packs. This is however not always the case.
Document the 'no-thin' capability and prevent send-pack from generating
a thin pack if the server advertises it.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it. This is similar
to 8447dc8 (gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns -
2013-11-07)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace double quotes around literal examples with backticks
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Enhance 'git for-each-ref' with color formatting options. You can now
use the following format in for-each-ref:
%(color:green)%(refname:short)%(color:reset)
where color names are described in color.branch.*.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce %(upstream:track) to display "[ahead M, behind N]" and
%(upstream:trackshort) to display "=", ">", "<", or "<>"
appropriately (inspired by contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh).
Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref:
%(refname:short)%(upstream:trackshort)
to display refs with terse tracking information.
Note that :track and :trackshort only work with "upstream", and error
out when used with anything else.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git branch' shows which branch you are currently on with an '*', but
'git for-each-ref' misses this feature. So, extend its format with
%(HEAD) for the same effect.
Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref:
%(HEAD) %(refname:short)
to display an asterisk next to the current ref.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various fixes:
- fix typos (e.g. "show" -> "shown")
- use "regular expression(s)" instead of "regexp" where appropriate
- reword some sentences for easier reading
- fix/improve some grammatical issues (e.g. comma usage)
- add missing articles (e.g. "the")
- change "E-mail" to "email"
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some the labeled list entries have a blank line between the label
and the body text, and some don't. Use the latter style for
consistency; incidentally, syntax highlighting in Vim works better
if there is no blank line there.
Typeset literal options, commands, and path names in monospace.
When using `literal string` mark-up to do so, there is no need to
escape AsciiDoc special characters with backslashes, so make sure we
don't do so.
Replace some double quotes with proper AsciiDoc quotes
(e.g. ``foo'').
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The man pages contain inconsistent usage of backticks vs. single quotes
around options, commands, etc. that are in paragraphs. This commit states
that backticks should always be used around literal examples.
This commit states that "--" and friends should not be escaped
(e.g. use `--pretty=oneline` instead of `\--pretty=oneline`).
This commit also states correct usage for typesetting command usage
examples with inline substitutions.
Thanks-to: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Stuart Rackham <srackham@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- typeset options, commands, and paths in monospace;
- typeset references to sections with emphasis;
- replace some double quotes with proper AsciiDoc quotes (e.g. ``foo'');
- use title case when referring to section headings.
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"--log-size" was added in commit 9fa3465, and the commit message
contained a satisfactory explanation; however, the man page entry
for it did not describe the actual output format, what the output
meant and what the option was meant to be used for.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This has been deprecated since commit 87194d2 (Deprecate peek-remote,
2007-11-24), included in version 1.5.4.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git lost-found" has been deprecated since commit fc8b5f0 (Deprecate
git-lost-found, 2007-11-08), included in version 1.5.4.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git tar-tree" has been a thin wrapper around "git archive" since commit
fd88d9c (Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to
git-archive, 2006-09-24), which also made it print a message indicating
that git-tar-tree is deprecated.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The release notes for Git 1.5.4 say that "git repo-config" will be
removed in the next feature release. Since Git 2.0 is nearly here,
remove it.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"timezone" is two words, not one (i.e. "time zone" is correct).
Correct this in these files:
-- date-formats.txt
-- git-blame.txt
-- git-cvsimport.txt
-- git-fast-import.txt
-- git-svn.txt
-- gitweb.conf.txt
-- rev-list-options.txt
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch-pack" allows [<host>:]<directory> to point out the source
repository.
Use the term <repository>, which is already used in "git fetch" or "git pull"
to describe URLs supported by Git.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An ancient How-To on serving Git repositories on an HTTP server
lacked a warning that it has been mostly superseded with more
modern way.
* sc/doc-howto-dumb-http:
doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too old
The synopsis section of "git unpack-objects" documentation has been
clarified a bit.
* vd/doc-unpack-objects:
Documentation: "pack-file" is not literal in unpack-objects
Documentation: restore a space in unpack-objects usage
Teach "rev-parse" the same "I'm going to glob, but omit the ones
that match these patterns" feature as "rev-list".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clear that "pack-file" is not to be spelled as is in the
unpack-objects usage.
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the --stuck-long option to output the options in their long form
if available, and with their arguments stuck.
Contrary to the default form (non stuck arguments and short options),
this can be parsed unambiguously when using options with optional
arguments :
- in the non stuck form, when an option is taking an optional argument
you cannot know if the next argument is its optional argument, or the
next option.
- the long options form allows to differentiate between an empty argument
'--option=' and an unset argument '--option', which is not possible
with short options.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit 87b7b84 removed a space in the unpack-objects usage, which
makes the synopsis a bit confusing. This patch simply restores it.
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The second illustration that shows the history after "git pull"
spelled the remote-tracking branch with "remotes/" prefix, which
is not necessary. Drop it.
To match the assumption that a remote-tracking branch is used to
keep track of the advancement of the master at the origin, update
the first illustration that shows the history before "git pull"
to show the distinction between the master currently at origin and
the stale origin/master remote-tracking branch.
Noticed-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clearer that tags are fetched independent of which branches
were fetched from the remote in any particular fetch. (Tags are even
fetched if they point at objects that are in the current repository
but not reachable, which is probably a bug.)
Put less emphasis on the mechanism and more on the effect of tag
auto-following. Also mention the options and configuration settings
that can change the tag-fetching behavior.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old behavior of "fetch --prune" was to prune whatever was being
fetched. In particular, "fetch --prune --tags" caused tags not only
to be fetched, but also to be pruned. This is inappropriate because
there is only one tags namespace that is shared among the local
repository and all remotes. Therefore, if the user defines a local
tag and then runs "git fetch --prune --tags", then the local tag is
deleted. Moreover, "--prune" and "--tags" can also be configured via
fetch.prune / remote.<name>.prune and remote.<name>.tagopt, making it
even less obvious that an invocation of "git fetch" could result in
tag lossage.
Since the command "git remote update" invokes "git fetch", it had the
same problem.
The command "git remote prune", on the other hand, disregarded the
setting of remote.<name>.tagopt, and so its behavior was inconsistent
with that of the other commands.
So the old behavior made it too easy to lose tags. To fix this
problem, change "fetch --prune" to prune references based only on
refspecs specified explicitly by the user, either on the command line
or via remote.<name>.fetch. Thus, tags are no longer made subject to
pruning by the --tags option or the remote.<name>.tagopt setting.
However, tags *are* still subject to pruning if they are fetched as
part of a refspec, and that is good. For example:
* On the command line,
git fetch --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
causes tags, and only tags, to be fetched and pruned, and is
therefore a simple way for the user to get the equivalent of the old
behavior of "--prune --tag".
* For a remote that was configured with the "--mirror" option, the
configuration is set to include
[remote "name"]
fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
, which causes tags to be subject to pruning along with all other
references. This is the behavior that will typically be desired for
a mirror.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, fetch's "--tags" option was considered equivalent to
specifying the refspec "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" on the command line;
in particular, it caused the remote.<name>.refspec configuration to be
ignored.
But it is not very useful to fetch tags without also fetching other
references, whereas it *is* quite useful to be able to fetch tags *in
addition to* other references. So change the semantics of this option
to do the latter.
If a user wants to fetch *only* tags, then it is still possible to
specifying an explicit refspec:
git fetch <remote> 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
Please note that the documentation prior to 1.8.0.3 was ambiguous
about this aspect of "fetch --tags" behavior. Commit
f0cb2f137c 2012-12-14 fetch --tags: clarify documentation
made the documentation match the old behavior. This commit changes
the documentation to match the new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
xdg-open is a tool similar to git-web--browse. It opens a file or URL in the
user's preferred application. It could probably be made default at least on
Linux with a graphical environment.
Signed-off-by: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git pull --rebase" command computes the fork point of the
branch being rebased using the reflog entries of the "base" branch
(typically a remote-tracking branch) the branch's work was based on,
in order to cope with the case in which the "base" branch has been
rewound and rebuilt. For example, if the history looked like this:
o---B1
/
---o---o---B2--o---o---o---Base
\
B3
\
Derived
where the current tip of the "base" branch is at Base, but earlier
fetch observed that its tip used to be B3 and then B2 and then B1
before getting to the current commit, and the branch being rebased
on top of the latest "base" is based on commit B3, it tries to find
B3 by going through the output of "git rev-list --reflog base" (i.e.
Base, B1, B2, B3) until it finds a commit that is an ancestor of the
current tip "Derived".
Internally, we have get_merge_bases_many() that can compute this
with one-go. We would want a merge-base between Derived and a
fictitious merge commit that would result by merging all the
historical tips of "base". When such a commit exist, we should get
a single result, which exactly match one of the reflog entries of
"base".
Teach "git merge-base" a new mode, "--fork-point", to compute
exactly that.
Helped-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Helped-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe when it is still applicable, and tell people where to go
for most normal cases.
Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaram@atc.tcs.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is an asciidoc-ified version of a corruption post-mortem sent to
the git list. It complements the existing howto article, since it covers
a case where the object couldn't be easily recreated or copied from
elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Replace reference to function parse_ref_spec() with references to
functions parse_fetch_refspec() and parse_push_refspec().
* Correct description of src and dst: they *do* include the '*'
characters.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch --track" had a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later
that made it impossible to base your local work on anything but a
local branch of the upstream repository you are tracking from.
* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
t3200: fix failure on case-insensitive filesystems
branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
t3200: Add test demonstrating minor regression in 41c21f2
Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
t3200: Minor fix when preparing for tracking failure
t2024: Fix &&-chaining and a couple of typos
Explain how '.' can be used to refer to the "current repository"
in the documentation.
* po/dot-url:
doc/cli: make "dot repository" an independent bullet point
config doc: update dot-repository notes
doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery
Make "git grep" and "git show" pay attention to --textconv when
dealing with blob objects.
* mg/more-textconv:
grep: honor --textconv for the case rev:path
grep: allow to use textconv filters
t7008: demonstrate behavior of grep with textconv
cat-file: do not die on --textconv without textconv filters
show: honor --textconv for blobs
diff_opt: track whether flags have been set explicitly
t4030: demonstrate behavior of show with textconv
While I can understand 4 or 7 white spaces are fancy, we'd rather want
to use tabs throughout the whole document.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The gitk manpage suffers from a bit of neglect: there have been only
minor changes, and no changes to the set of options documented, since
a2df1fb (Documentation: New GUI configuration and command-line
options., 2008-11-13). In the meantime, the set of rev-list options
has been expanded several times by options that are useful in gitk,
e.g., --ancestry-path and the optional globbing for --branches, --tags
and --remotes.
Restructure and expand the manpage. List more options that the author
perceives as useful, while remaining somewhat terse. Ideally the user
should not have to look up any of the references, but we dispense with
precise explanations in some places and refer to git-log(1) instead.
Note that the options that have an easy GUI equivalent (e.g.,
--word-diff, -S, --grep) are deliberately not listed even in the cases
where they simply fill in the GUI fields.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This updates the documentation regarding the changes introduced
by a1bbc6c01 (2013-09-15, repack: rewrite the shell script in C).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document rules to use GIT_REFLOG_ACTION variable in the scripted
Porcelain. git-rebase--interactive locally violates them, but it
is a leaf user that does not call out to or dot-source other
scripts, so it does not urgently need to be fixed.
* jc/reflog-doc:
setup_reflog_action: document the rules for using GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
The option to gpg sign a merge commit is available but was not
documented. Use wording from the git-commit(1) manpage.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout [--detach] <commit>" was listed poorly in the
synopsis section of its documentation.
* jc/checkout-detach-doc:
checkout: update synopsys and documentation on detaching HEAD
* git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn:
git-svn: Warn about changing default for --prefix in Git v2.0
Documentation/git-svn: Promote the use of --prefix in docs + examples
git-svn.txt: elaborate on rev_map files
git-svn.txt: replace .git with $GIT_DIR
git-svn.txt: reword description of gc command
git-svn.txt: fix AsciiDoc formatting error
git-svn: fix signed commit parsing
git-prune-packed operates on GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, not
GIT_OBJECT_DIR.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Labeled lists require a double colon.
[jc] I eyeballed the output from
git grep '[^:]:$' Documentation/\*.txt
and the patch fixes all breakages of this kind.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The way to spell the current repository with a '.' dot is
independent from how the pathspec allows globs expanded by Git.
Make them two separate bullet items in the enumeration.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Thunderbird section of the 'MUA-specific hints' contains three
different approaches to setting up the mail client to leave patch
emails unmolested. The second approach (configuration) has a step
missing when configuring the composition window not to wrap. In
particular, the "mailnews.wraplength" configuration variable needs
to be set to zero. Update the documentation to add the missing
setting.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
The style for multi-line comments is often mentioned and should be documented
for clarity.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
The description of the user.signingkey option only mentioned its use
when creating a signed tag. Make it clear that is is also used when
creating signed commits.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Several uses of the '^' operator are being interpreted by asciidoc
as requests to show the following text as a superscript. In order
to fix this problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected git command invocations.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
The text contains two 'grep' invocations which include the 'start
of line' regular expression character '^'. Asciidoc mis-interprets
this use of '^' as a superscript request. In order to fix this
formatting problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected 'grep' command invocations.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
In Git v2.0, we will change the default --prefix for init/clone from
none/empty to "origin/" (which causes SVN-tracking branches to be
placed at refs/remotes/origin/* instead of refs/remotes/*).
This patch warns users about the upcoming change, both in the git-svn
manual page, and on stderr when running init/clone in the "multi-mode"
without providing a --prefix.
Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Currently, the git-svn defaults to using an empty prefix, which ends
up placing the SVN-tracking refs directly in refs/remotes/*. This
placement runs counter to Git's convention of placing remote-tracking
branches in refs/remotes/$remote/*.
Furthermore, combining git-svn with "regular" Git remotes run the risk
of clobbering refs under refs/remotes (e.g. if you have a git remote
called "tags" with a "v1" branch, it will overlap with the git-svn's
tracking branch for the "v1" tag from Subversion.
Even though the git-svn refs stored in refs/remotes/* are not "proper"
remote-tracking branches (since they are not covered by a proper git
remote's refspec), they clearly represent a similar concept, and would
benefit from following the same convention.
For example, if git-svn tracks Subversion branch "foo" at
refs/remotes/foo, and you create a local branch refs/heads/foo to add
some commits to be pushed back to Subversion (using "git svn dcommit),
then it is clearly unhelpful of Git to throw
warning: refname 'foo' is ambiguous.
every time you checkout, rebase, or otherwise interact with the branch.
At this time, the user is better off using the --prefix=foo/ (the
trailing slash is important) to git svn init/clone, to cause the
SVN-tracking refs to be placed at refs/remotes/foo/* instead of
refs/remotes/*. This patch updates the documentation to encourage
use of --prefix.
This is also in preparation for changing the default value of --prefix
at some point in the future.
Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
The man page for `git svn` describes a situation in which "'git svn'
will not be able to rebuild" your $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files, but
no mention is made of in what circumstances `git svn` *will* be able to
do so, how to get `git svn` to do so, or even what these files are.
This patch adds a FILES section to the man page with a description of
what $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files are and how they are (re)built, and
links to this description from various other parts of the man page.
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
As $GIT_DIR may not equal '.git', it's usually more generally correct to
refer to files in $GIT_DIR rather than in .git .
This will also allow me to link some of the occurrences of '.git' in
git-svn.txt to a new reference target inside this file in an upcoming
commit, because in AsciiDoc definitions apparently can't start with
a '.' character.
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
It's redundant to say that $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log or
$GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index is in .git/svn when $GIT_DIR is '.git', and
is wrong when $GIT_DIR is not '.git'
Also, a '/' was missing from the pathname $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index .
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
As asterisks are used to indicate bold text in AsciiDoc, shell glob
expressions must be escaped appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
On my system this is in /usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex not
/etc/asciidoc/dblatex. Extract this portion of the path to a variable
so that is can be set in config.mak.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
"git remote set-head" has always supported --add and --delete
as synonyms for the -a and -d option but forgot to document
them.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
* bc/submodule-status-ignored:
Improve documentation concerning the status.submodulesummary setting
submodule: don't print status output with ignore=all
submodule: fix confusing variable name
* cc/replace-with-the-same-type:
Doc: 'replace' merge and non-merge commits
t6050-replace: use some long option names
replace: allow long option names
Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section
t6050-replace: add test to clean up all the replace refs
t6050-replace: test that objects are of the same type
Documentation/replace: state that objects must be of the same type
replace: forbid replacing an object with one of a different type
The id is already different for binary files. The hash used is an
implementation detail, so let's just document how diffs are compared.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
