* Only mention porcelain commands in examples
* Split a sentence for better readability
* Add missing apostrophes
* Clearly specify the advantages of using submodules
* Avoid abbreviations
* Use "Git" consistently
* Improve readability of certain lines
* Clarify when a submodule is considered active
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The -e option added in 7950571ad7 ("A few more options for
git-cat-file", 2005-12-03) has always errored out with message on
stderr saying that the provided object is malformed, like this:
$ git cat-file -e malformed; echo $?
fatal: Not a valid object name malformed
128
A reader of this documentation may be misled into thinking that
if ! git cat-file -e "$object" [...]
as opposed to:
if ! git cat-file -e "$object" 2>/dev/null [...]
is sufficient to implement a truly silent test that checks whether
some arbitrary $object string was both valid, and pointed to an
object that exists.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier versions of `git read-tree` required the `--prefix` option value
to end with a slash. This restriction was eventually lifted without a
corresponding amendment to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andreas G. Schacker <andreas.schacker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes users are given a hash of an object and they want to
identify it further (ex.: Use verify-pack to find the largest blobs,
but what are these? or [1])
One might be tempted to extend git-describe to also work with blobs,
such that `git describe <blob-id>` gives a description as
'<commit-ish>:<path>'. This was implemented at [2]; as seen by the sheer
number of responses (>110), it turns out this is tricky to get right.
The hard part to get right is picking the correct 'commit-ish' as that
could be the commit that (re-)introduced the blob or the blob that
removed the blob; the blob could exist in different branches.
Junio hinted at a different approach of solving this problem, which this
patch implements. Teach the diff machinery another flag for restricting
the information to what is shown. For example:
$ ./git log --oneline --find-object=v2.0.0:Makefile
b2feb64309 Revert the whole "ask curl-config" topic for now
47fbfded53 i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:"
we observe that the Makefile as shipped with 2.0 was appeared in
v1.9.2-471-g47fbfded53 and in v2.0.0-rc1-5-gb2feb6430b. The
reason why these commits both occur prior to v2.0.0 are evil
merges that are not found using this new mechanism.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob
[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171028004419.10139-1-sbeller@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The same document for "--diff-filter" is included by many
programs in the diff family. Because it mentions all
possible types (added, removed, etc), this may imply to the
reader that all types can be generated by a particular
command. But this isn't necessarily the case; "diff-files"
cannot generally produce an "Added" entry, since the diff is
limited to what is already in the index.
Let's make it clear that the list here is the full one, and
does not imply anything about what a particular invocation
may produce.
Note that conditionally including items (e.g., omitting
"Added" in the git-diff-files manpage) isn't the right
solution here for two reasons:
- The problem isn't diff-files, but doing an index to
working tree diff. "git diff" can do the same diff, but
also has other modes where "Added" does show up.
- The direction of the diff matters. Doing "diff-files -R"
can get you Added entries (but not Deleted ones).
So it's best just to explain that the set of available types
depends on the specific diff invocation.
Reported-by: John Cheng <johnlicheng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
049e64aa50 ("Documentation: convert SubmittingPatches to AsciiDoc",
2017-11-12) changed the `git blame` and `git shortlog` examples given in
the section on sending your patches.
In order to italicize the `$path` argument the commands are enclosed in
plus characters as opposed to backticks. The difference between the
quoting methods is that backtick enclosed text is not subject to further
expansion. This formatting makes reading SubmittingPatches in a git
clone a little more difficult. In addition to the underscores around
`$path` the `--` chars in `git shortlog --no-merges` must be replaced
with `{litdd}`.
Use backticks to quote these commands. The italicized `$path` is lost
from the html version but the commands can be read (and copied) more
easily by users reading the text version. These readers are more likely
to use the commands while submitting patches. Make it easier for them.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git describe" was taught to dig trees deeper to find a
<commit-ish>:<path> that refers to a given blob object.
* sb/describe-blob:
builtin/describe.c: describe a blob
builtin/describe.c: factor out describe_commit
builtin/describe.c: print debug statements earlier
builtin/describe.c: rename `oid` to avoid variable shadowing
revision.h: introduce blob/tree walking in order of the commits
list-objects.c: factor out traverse_trees_and_blobs
t6120: fix typo in test name
"git merge" learned to pay attention to merge.verifySignatures
configuration variable and pretend as if '--verify-signatures'
option was given from the command line.
* hi/merge-verify-sig-config:
t5573, t7612: clean up after unexpected success of 'pull' and 'merge'
t: add tests for pull --verify-signatures
merge: add config option for verifySignatures
Before 425a28e0a4 (diff-lib: allow ita entries treated as "not yet exist
in index" - 2016-10-24) there are never "new files" in the index, which
essentially disables rename detection because we only detect renames
when a new file appears in a diff pair.
After that commit, an i-t-a entry can appear as a new file in "git
diff-files". But the diff callback function in wt-status.c does not
handle this case and produces incorrect status output.
PS. The reader may notice that this patch adds a new xstrdup() but not
a free(). Yes we leak memory (the same for head_path). But wt_status
so far has been short lived, this leak should not matter in
practice.
Noticed-by: Alex Vandiver <alexmv@dropbox.com>
Helped-by: Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The build procedure now allows not just the repositories but also
the refs to be used to take pre-formatted manpages and html
documents to install.
* rb/quick-install-doc:
install-doc-quick: allow specifying what ref to install
A few structures and variables that are implementation details of
the decorate API have been renamed and then the API got documented
better.
* jt/decorate-api:
decorate: clean up and document API
"git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like
"git checkout" does, after the initial checkout.
* es/worktree-checkout-hook:
worktree: invoke post-checkout hook (unless --no-checkout)
With a configuration variable rebase.abbreviateCommands set,
"git rebase -i" produces the todo list with a single-letter
command names.
* lb/rebase-i-short-command-names:
sequencer.c: drop 'const' from function return type
t3404: add test case for abbreviated commands
rebase -i: learn to abbreviate command names
rebase -i -x: add exec commands via the rebase--helper
rebase -i: update functions to use a flags parameter
rebase -i: replace reference to sha1 with oid
rebase -i: refactor transform_todo_ids
rebase -i: set commit to null in exec commands
Documentation: use preferred name for the 'todo list' script
Documentation: move rebase.* configs to new file
In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the object
walking machinery has been taught a way to tell it to "filter" some
objects from enumeration.
* jh/object-filtering:
rev-list: support --no-filter argument
list-objects-filter-options: support --no-filter
list-objects-filter-options: fix 'keword' typo in comment
pack-objects: add list-objects filtering
rev-list: add list-objects filtering support
list-objects: filter objects in traverse_commit_list
oidset: add iterator methods to oidset
oidmap: add oidmap iterator methods
dir: allow exclusions from blob in addition to file
--update-shelve can now be specified multiple times on the
command-line, to update multiple shelved changelists in a single
submit.
This then means that a git patch series can be mirrored to a
sequence of shelved changelists, and (relatively easily) kept in
sync as changes are made in git.
Note that Perforce does not really support overlapping shelved
changelists where one change touches the files modified by
another. Trying to do this will result in merge conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for supplying the -m option with --fixup. Doing so has
errored out ever since --fixup was introduced. Before this, the only
way to amend the fixup message while committing was to use --edit and
amend it in the editor.
The use-case for this feature is one of:
* Leaving a quick note to self when creating a --fixup commit when
it's not self-evident why the commit should be squashed without a
note into another one.
* (Ab)using the --fixup feature to "fix up" commits that have already
been pushed to a branch that doesn't allow non-fast-forwards,
i.e. just noting "this should have been part of that other commit",
and if the history ever got rewritten in the future the two should
be combined.
In such a case you might want to leave a small message,
e.g. "forgot this part, which broke XYZ".
With this, --fixup <commit> -m"More" -m"Details" will result in a
commit message like:
!fixup <subject of <commit>>
More
Details
The reason the test being added here seems to squash "More" at the end
of the subject line of the commit being fixed up is because the test
code is using "%s%b" so the body immediately follows the subject, it's
not a bug in this code, and other tests t7500-commit.sh do the same
thing.
When the --fixup option was initially added the "Option -m cannot be
combined" error was expanded from -c, -C and -F to also include
--fixup[1]
Those options could also support combining with -m, but given what
they do I can't think of a good use-case for doing that, so I have not
made the more invasive change of splitting up the logic in commit.c to
first act on those, and then on -m options.
1. d71b8ba7c9 ("commit: --fixup option for use with rebase
--autosquash", 2010-11-02)
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unrecognized escape sequences are invalid in values:
$ git config -f - --list <<EOF
[foo]
bar = "\t\\\y\"\u"
EOF
fatal: bad config line 2 in standard input
But in subsection names, the backslash is simply dropped if the
following character does not produce a recognized escape sequence:
$ git config -f - --list <<EOF
[foo "\t\\\y\"\u"]
bar = baz
EOF
foo.t\y"u.bar=baz
Although it would be nice for subsection names and values to have
consistent behavior, changing the behavior for subsection names is a
nonstarter since it would cause existing, valid config files to
suddenly be interpreted differently.
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document that providing any of -c, -C, -F and --fixup along with -m
will result in an error. Some variant of this has been errored about
explicitly since 0c091296c0 ("git-commit: log parameter updates.",
2005-08-08), but the documentation was never updated to reflect this.
Wording-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git shows a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the
user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor
opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets
lost.
* ls/editor-waiting-message:
launch_editor(): indicate that Git waits for user input
refactor "dumb" terminal determination
Ancient part of codebase still shows dots after an abbreviated
object name just to show that it is not a full object name, but
these ellipses are confusing to people who newly discovered Git
who are used to seeing abbreviated object names and find them
confusing with the range syntax.
* ar/unconfuse-three-dots:
t2020: test variations that matter
t4013: test new output from diff --abbrev --raw
diff: diff_aligned_abbrev: remove ellipsis after abbreviated SHA-1 value
t4013: prepare for upcoming "diff --raw --abbrev" output format change
checkout: describe_detached_head: remove ellipsis after committish
print_sha1_ellipsis: introduce helper
Documentation: user-manual: limit usage of ellipsis
Documentation: revisions: fix typo: "three dot" ---> "three-dot" (in line with "two-dot").
The way "git worktree add" determines what branch to create from
where and checkout in the new worktree has been updated a bit.
* tg/worktree-create-tracking:
add worktree.guessRemote config option
worktree: add --guess-remote flag to add subcommand
worktree: make add <path> <branch> dwim
worktree: add --[no-]track option to the add subcommand
worktree: add can be created from any commit-ish
checkout: factor out functions to new lib file
"git diff" learned a variant of the "--patience" algorithm, to
which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be used as
anchoring points.
* jt/diff-anchored-patience:
diff: support anchoring line(s)
Sometimes users are given a hash of an object and they want to
identify it further (ex.: Use verify-pack to find the largest blobs,
but what are these? or [1])
When describing commits, we try to anchor them to tags or refs, as these
are conceptually on a higher level than the commit. And if there is no ref
or tag that matches exactly, we're out of luck. So we employ a heuristic
to make up a name for the commit. These names are ambiguous, there might
be different tags or refs to anchor to, and there might be different
path in the DAG to travel to arrive at the commit precisely.
When describing a blob, we want to describe the blob from a higher layer
as well, which is a tuple of (commit, deep/path) as the tree objects
involved are rather uninteresting. The same blob can be referenced by
multiple commits, so how we decide which commit to use? This patch
implements a rather naive approach on this: As there are no back pointers
from blobs to commits in which the blob occurs, we'll start walking from
any tips available, listing the blobs in-order of the commit and once we
found the blob, we'll take the first commit that listed the blob. For
example
git describe --tags v0.99:Makefile
conversion-901-g7672db20c2:Makefile
tells us the Makefile as it was in v0.99 was introduced in commit 7672db20.
The walking is performed in reverse order to show the introduction of a
blob rather than its last occurrence.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the N-th previous thing checked out syntax (@{-N}) is used
with '--branch' option of check-ref-format the result may not be
the name of a branch that currently exists or ever existed. This
is because @{-N} is used to refer to the N-th last checked out
"thing", which might be a commit object name if the previous check
out was a detached HEAD state; or a branch name, otherwise. The
documentation thus does a wrong thing by promoting it as the
"previous branch syntax".
State that @{-N} is the syntax for specifying "N-th last thing
checked out" and also state that the result of using @{-N} might
also result in an commit object name.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove any doubt that certificates might not be verified by
default.
Signed-off-by: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
@{-N} in "git checkout @{-N}" may refer to a detached HEAD state,
but the documentation was not clear about it, which has been fixed.
* ks/doc-checkout-previous:
Doc/checkout: checking out using @{-N} can lead to detached state
"git send-email" tries to see if the sendmail program is available
in /usr/lib and /usr/sbin; extend the list of locations to be
checked to also include directories on $PATH.
* fk/sendmail-from-path:
git-send-email: honor $PATH for sendmail binary
The tagnames "git log --decorate" uses to annotate the commits can
now be limited to subset of available refs with the two additional
options, --decorate-refs[-exclude]=<pattern>.
* ra/decorate-limit-refs:
log: add option to choose which refs to decorate
We allow the builders, who want to install the preformatted manpages
and html documents, to specify where in their filesystem these two
repositories are stored. Let them also specify which ref (or even a
revision) to grab the preformatted material from.
Signed-off-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git merge --verify-signatures can be used to verify that the tip commit
of the branch being merged in is properly signed, but it's cumbersome to
have to specify that every time.
Add a configuration option that enables this behaviour by default, which
can be overridden by --no-verify-signatures.
Signed-off-by: Hans Jerry Illikainen <hji@dyntopia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach upload-pack to negotiate object filtering over the protocol and
to send filter parameters to pack-objects. This is intended for partial
clone and fetch.
The idea to make upload-pack configurable using uploadpack.allowFilter
comes from Jonathan Tan's work in [1].
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/f211093280b422c32cc1b7034130072f35c5ed51.1506714999.git.jonathantanmy@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach gc to stop traversal at promisor objects, and to leave promisor
packfiles alone. This has the effect of only repacking non-promisor
packfiles, and preserves the distinction between promisor packfiles and
non-promisor packfiles.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach rev-list to support termination of an object traversal at any
object from a promisor remote (whether one that the local repo also has,
or one that the local repo knows about because it has another promisor
object that references it).
This will be used subsequently in gc and in the connectivity check used
by fetch.
For efficiency, if an object is referenced by a promisor object, and is
in the local repo only as a non-promisor object, object traversal will
not stop there. This is to avoid building the list of promisor object
references.
(In list-objects.c, the case where obj is NULL in process_blob() and
process_tree() do not need to be changed because those happen only when
there is a conflict between the expected type and the existing object.
If the object doesn't exist, an object will be synthesized, which is
fine.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change 'he' to 'them' to be more neutral in "gitworkflows.txt".
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Timothee Albertin <timothee.albertin@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Payre <nathan.payre@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bensoussan <daniel.bensoussan--bohm@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve the names of the identifiers in decorate.h, document them, and
add an example of how to use these functions.
The example is compiled and run as part of the test suite.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 84ff053d47 (pretty.c: delimit "%(trailers)" arguments
with ",", 2017-10-01) switched the syntax of the trailers
placeholder, but forgot to update the documentation in
pretty-formats.txt.
There's no need to mention the old syntax; it was never in a
released version of Git.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-clone and git-checkout both invoke the post-checkout hook following
a successful checkout, yet git-worktree neglects to do so even though it
too "checks out" the worktree. Fix this oversight.
Implementation note: The newly-created worktree may reference a branch
or be detached. In the latter case, a commit lookup is performed, though
the result is used only in a boolean sense to (a) determine if the
commit actually exists, and (b) assign either the branch name or commit
ID to HEAD. Since the post-commit hook needs to know the ID of the
checked-out commit, the lookup now needs to be done in all cases, rather
than only when detached. Consequently, a new boolean is needed to handle
(b) since the lookup result itself can no longer perform that role.
Reported-by: Matthew K Gumbel <matthew.k.gumbel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a graphical GIT_EDITOR is spawned by a Git command that opens
and waits for user input (e.g. "git rebase -i"), then the editor window
might be obscured by other windows. The user might be left staring at
the original Git terminal window without even realizing that s/he needs
to interact with another window before Git can proceed. To this user Git
appears hanging.
Print a message that Git is waiting for editor input in the original
terminal and get rid of it when the editor returns, if the terminal
supports erasing the last line. Also, make sure that our message is
terminated with a whitespace so that any message the editor may show
upon starting up will be kept separate from our message.
Power users might not want to see this message or their editor might
already print such a message (e.g. emacsclient). Allow these users to
suppress the message by disabling the "advice.waitingForEditor" config.
The standard advise() function is not used here as it would always add
a newline which would make deleting the message harder.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some users might want to have the --guess-remote option introduced in
the previous commit on by default, so they don't have to type it out
every time they create a new worktree.
Add a config option worktree.guessRemote that allows users to configure
the default behaviour for themselves.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'git worktree add <path>' creates a new branch named after the
basename of the <path>, that matches the HEAD of whichever worktree we
were on when calling "git worktree add <path>".
It's sometimes useful to have 'git worktree add <path> behave more like
the dwim machinery in 'git checkout <new-branch>', i.e. check if the new
branch name, derived from the basename of the <path>, uniquely matches
the branch name of a remote-tracking branch, and if so check out that
branch and set the upstream to the remote-tracking branch.
Add a new --guess-remote option that enables exactly that behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ssh-variant 'simple' introduced earlier broke existing
installations by not passing --port/-4/-6 and not diagnosing an
attempt to pass these as an error. Instead, default to
automatically detect how compatible the GIT_SSH/GIT_SSH_COMMAND is
to OpenSSH convention and then error out an invocation to make it
easier to diagnose connection errors.
* jn/ssh-wrappers:
connect: correct style of C-style comment
ssh: 'simple' variant does not support --port
ssh: 'simple' variant does not support -4/-6
ssh: 'auto' variant to select between 'ssh' and 'simple'
connect: split ssh option computation to its own function
connect: split ssh command line options into separate function
connect: split git:// setup into a separate function
connect: move no_fork fallback to git_tcp_connect
ssh test: make copy_ssh_wrapper_as clean up after itself
A new mechanism to upgrade the wire protocol in place is proposed
and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git
without harming them.
* bw/protocol-v1:
Documentation: document Extra Parameters
ssh: introduce a 'simple' ssh variant
i5700: add interop test for protocol transition
http: tell server that the client understands v1
connect: tell server that the client understands v1
connect: teach client to recognize v1 server response
upload-pack, receive-pack: introduce protocol version 1
daemon: recognize hidden request arguments
protocol: introduce protocol extension mechanisms
pkt-line: add packet_write function
connect: in ref advertisement, shallows are last
"git config --expiry-date gc.reflogexpire" can read "2.weeks" from
the configuration and report it as a timestamp, just like "--int"
would read "1k" and report 1024, to help consumption by scripts.
* hm/config-parse-expiry-date:
config: add --expiry-date
"git branch --set-upstream" has been deprecated and (sort of)
removed, as "--set-upstream-to" is the preferred one these days.
The documentation still had "--set-upstream" listed on its
synopsys section, which has been corrected.
* tz/branch-doc-remove-set-upstream:
branch doc: remove --set-upstream from synopsis
"git checkout --recursive" may overwrite and rewind the history of
the branch that happens to be checked out in submodule
repositories, which might not be desirable. Detach the HEAD but
still allow the recursive checkout to succeed in such a case.
* sb/submodule-recursive-checkout-detach-head:
Documentation/checkout: clarify submodule HEADs to be detached
recursive submodules: detach HEAD from new state
Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as
it was clear what it computed but not why/what for.
* jc/merge-base-fork-point-doc:
merge-base --fork-point doc: clarify the example and failure modes
The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an
HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor.
* bc/submitting-patches-in-asciidoc:
Documentation: convert SubmittingPatches to AsciiDoc
Documentation: enable compat-mode for Asciidoctor
We do not want an ellipsis displayed following an (abbreviated) SHA-1
value.
The days when this was necessary to indicate the truncation to
lower-level Git commands and/or the user are bygone.
However, to ease the transition, the ellipsis will still be printed if
the user sets the environment variable GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS to "yes".
Correct documentation with respect to what describe_detached_head prints
when GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS is not set as indicated above.
Add tests for the old and new behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There have been a few complaints on the mailing list that git-clone doesn't
respect the `submodule.recurse` setting, which every other command (that
potentially knows how to deal with submodules) respects. In case of clone
this is not beneficial to respect as the user may not want to obtain all
submodules (assuming a pathspec of '.').
Improve the documentation such that the pathspec is mentioned in the
synopsis to alleviate the confusion around the submodule recursion flag
in git-clone.
While at it clarify that the option can be given multiple times for complex
pathspecs.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git rebase -i` already know how to interpret single-letter command
names. Teach it to generate the todo list with these same abbreviated
names.
Based-on-patch-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce fetch-object, providing the ability to fetch one object from a
promisor remote.
This uses fetch-pack. To do this, the transport mechanism has been
updated with 2 flags, "from-promisor" to indicate that the resulting
pack comes from a promisor remote (and thus should be annotated as such
by index-pack), and "no-dependents" to indicate that only the objects
themselves need to be fetched (but fetching additional objects is
nevertheless safe).
Whenever "no-dependents" is used, fetch-pack will refrain from using any
object flags, because it is most likely invoked as part of a dynamic
object fetch by another Git command (which may itself use object flags).
An alternative to this is to leave fetch-pack alone, and instead update
the allocation of flags so that fetch-pack's flags never overlap with
any others, but this will end up shrinking the number of flags available
to nearly every other Git command (that is, every Git command that
accesses objects), so the approach in this commit was used instead.
This will be tested in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce new repository extension option:
`extensions.partialclone`
See the update to Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt
in this patch for more information.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach rev-list to support --no-filter to override a
previous --filter=<filter_spec> argument. This is
to be consistent with commands that use OPT_PARSE
macros.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach opt_parse_list_objects_filter() to take --no-filter
option and to free the contents of struct filter_options.
This command line argument will be automatically inherited
by commands using OPT_PARSE_LIST_OBJECTS_FILTER(); this
includes pack-objects.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use "todo list" instead of "instruction list" or "todo-list" to
reduce further confusion regarding the name of this script.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move all rebase.* configuration variables to a separate file in order to
remove duplicates, and include it in config.txt and git-rebase.txt. The
new descriptions are mostly taken from config.txt as they are more
verbose.
Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a helper print_sha1_ellipsis() that pays attention to the
GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS environment variable, and prepare the tests to
unconditionally set it for the test pieces that will be broken once the code
stops showing the extra dots by default.
The removal of these dots is merely a plan at this step and has not happened
yet but soon will.
Document GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS.
Signed-off-by: Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no need to use full 40-hex to identify the object names like
the examples hint at by omitting the tail part of an object name as if
that has to be spelled out but the example omits them only for brevity.
Give examples using abbreviated object names without ellipses just like
how people do in real life.
Signed-off-by: Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch --list" learned to show its output through the pager by
default when the output is going to a terminal, which is controlled
by the pager.branch configuration variable. This is similar to a
recent change to "git tag --list".
* ma/branch-list-paginate:
branch: change default of `pager.branch` to "on"
branch: respect `pager.branch` in list-mode only
t7006: add tests for how git branch paginates
@{-N} is a syntax for the N-th last "checkout" and not the N-th
last "branch". Therefore, in some cases using `git checkout @{-$N}`
DOES lead to a "detached HEAD" state. This can also be ensured by
the commit message of 75d6e552a (Documentation: @{-N} can refer to
a commit, 2014-01-19) which clearly specifies how @{-N} can be used
to refer not only to a branch but also to a commit.
Correct the misleading sentence which states that @{-N} doesn't
detach HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach diff a new algorithm, one that attempts to prevent user-specified
lines from appearing as a deletion or addition in the end result. The
end user can use this by specifying "--anchored=<text>" one or more
times when using Git commands like "diff" and "show".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This extends git-send-email to also consider sendmail binaries in $PATH
after checking the (fixed) list of /usr/sbin and /usr/lib, and before
falling back to localhost.
Signed-off-by: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you come to the documentation thinking "I do not want Git
to take any locks for my background processes", then you may
easily run across "--no-optional-locks" in git.txt.
But it's quite reasonable to hit a specific instance of the
problem: you have "git status" running in the background,
and you notice that it causes lock contention with other
processes. So you look in git-status.txt to see if there is
a way to disable it, but there's no mention of the flag.
Let's add a short note mentioning that status does indeed
touch the index (and why), with a pointer to the global
option. That can point users in the right direction and help
them make a more informed decision about what they're
disabling.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add --renormalize ." is a new and safer way to record the fact
that you are correcting the end-of-line convention and other
"convert_to_git()" glitches in the in-repository data.
* tb/add-renormalize:
add: introduce "--renormalize"
Teach "sendemail.tocmd" to places that know about "sendemail.to",
like documentation and shell completion (in contrib/).
* rv/sendemail-tocmd-in-config-and-completion:
completion: add git config sendemail.tocmd
Documentation/config: add sendemail.tocmd to list preceding "See git-send-email(1)"
Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as
it was clear what it computed but not why/what for.
* jc/merge-base-fork-point-doc:
merge-base --fork-point doc: clarify the example and failure modes
The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in
carriage return at the end of line.
* jc/ignore-cr-at-eol:
diff: --ignore-cr-at-eol
xdiff: reassign xpparm_t.flags bits
Doc update around use of "format-patch --subject-prefix" etc.
* ad/submitting-patches-title-decoration:
doc/SubmittingPatches: correct subject guidance
Currently 'git worktree add <path> <branch>', errors out when 'branch'
is not a local branch. It has no additional dwim'ing features that one
might expect.
Make it behave more like 'git checkout <branch>' when the branch doesn't
exist locally, but a remote tracking branch uniquely matches the desired
branch name, i.e. create a new branch from the remote tracking branch
and set the upstream to the remote tracking branch.
As 'git worktree add' currently just dies in this situation, there are
no backwards compatibility worries when introducing this feature.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'git worktree add' sets up tracking branches if '<branch>' is
a remote tracking branch, and doesn't set them up otherwise, as is the
default for 'git branch'.
This may or may not be what the user wants. Allow overriding this
behaviour with a --[no-]track flag that gets passed through to 'git
branch'.
We already respect branch.autoSetupMerge, as 'git worktree' just calls
'git branch' internally.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'git worktree add' is documented to take an optional <branch>
argument, which is checked out in the new worktree. However it is more
generally possible to use a commit-ish as the optional argument, and
check that out into the new worktree.
Document that this is a possibility, as new users of git worktree add
might find it helpful.
Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The text meant to say that receive-pack runs these hooks, and only
because receive-pack is not a command the end users use every day
(ever), as an explanation also meantioned that it is run in response
to 'git push', which is an end-user facing command readers hopefully
know about.
This unfortunately gave an incorrect impression that 'git push'
always result in the hook to run. If the refs push wanted to update
all already had the desired value, these hooks are not run.
Explicitly mention "... and updates reference(s)" as a precondition
to avoid this confusion.
Helped-by: Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach pack-objects to use the filtering provided by the
traverse_commit_list_filtered() interface to omit unwanted
objects from the resulting packfile.
Filtering requires the use of the "--stdout" option.
Add t5317 test.
In the future, we will introduce a "partial clone" mechanism
wherein an object in a repo, obtained from a remote, may
reference a missing object that can be dynamically fetched from
that remote once needed. This "partial clone" mechanism will
have a way, sometimes slow, of determining if a missing link
is one of the links expected to be produced by this mechanism.
This patch introduces handling of missing objects to help
debugging and development of the "partial clone" mechanism,
and once the mechanism is implemented, for a power user to
perform operations that are missing-object aware without
incurring the cost of checking if a missing link is expected.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach rev-list to use the filtering provided by the
traverse_commit_list_filtered() interface to omit
unwanted objects from the result.
Object filtering is only allowed when one of the "--objects*"
options are used.
When the "--filter-print-omitted" option is used, the omitted
objects are printed at the end. These are marked with a "~".
This option can be combined with "--quiet" to get a list of
just the omitted objects.
Add t6112 test.
In the future, we will introduce a "partial clone" mechanism
wherein an object in a repo, obtained from a remote, may
reference a missing object that can be dynamically fetched from
that remote once needed. This "partial clone" mechanism will
have a way, sometimes slow, of determining if a missing link
is one of the links expected to be produced by this mechanism.
This patch introduces handling of missing objects to help
debugging and development of the "partial clone" mechanism,
and once the mechanism is implemented, for a power user to
perform operations that are missing-object aware without
incurring the cost of checking if a missing link is expected.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although `git stash save` was deprecated recently, some parts of the
documentation still refer to it instead of `push`.
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `log --decorate` is used, git will decorate commits with all
available refs. While in most cases this may give the desired effect,
under some conditions it can lead to excessively verbose output.
Introduce two command line options, `--decorate-refs=<pattern>` and
`--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>` to allow the user to select which
refs are used in decoration.
When "--decorate-refs=<pattern>" is given, only the refs that match the
pattern are used in decoration. The refs that match the pattern when
"--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>" is given, are never used in
decoration.
These options follow the same convention for mixing negative and
positive patterns across the system, assuming that the inclusive default
is to match all refs available.
(1) if there is no positive pattern given, pretend as if an
inclusive default positive pattern was given;
(2) for each candidate, reject it if it matches no positive
pattern, or if it matches any one of the negative patterns.
The rules for what is considered a match are slightly different from the
rules used elsewhere.
Commands like `log --glob` assume a trailing '/*' when glob chars are
not present in the pattern. This makes it difficult to specify a single
ref. On the other hand, commands like `describe --match --all` allow
specifying exact refs, but do not have the convenience of allowing
"shorthand refs" like 'refs/heads' or 'heads' to refer to
'refs/heads/*'.
The commands introduced in this patch consider a match if:
(a) the pattern contains globs chars,
and regular pattern matching returns a match.
(b) the pattern does not contain glob chars,
and ref '<pattern>' exists, or if ref exists under '<pattern>/'
This allows both behaviours (allowing single refs and shorthand refs)
yet remaining compatible with existent commands.
Helped-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, 'git notes prune' in man page and usage message
incorrectly lists options as '[-n | -v]', rather than '[-n] [-v]'.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add mention of git prune's "--progress" option to the SYNOPSIS and
DESCRIPTION sections of the man page, and to the usage message of "git
prune" itself.
While we're here, move the explanation of "--" toward the end of the
DESCRIPTION section, where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the "git reflog" man page supports both "--dry-run" and "-n" for
a dry run, the man page mentions only the former, not the latter.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Doc update around use of "format-patch --subject-prefix" etc.
* ad/submitting-patches-title-decoration:
doc/SubmittingPatches: correct subject guidance
Various fixes to bp/fsmonitor topic.
* av/fsmonitor:
fsmonitor: simplify determining the git worktree under Windows
fsmonitor: store fsmonitor bitmap before splitting index
fsmonitor: read from getcwd(), not the PWD environment variable
fsmonitor: delay updating state until after split index is merged
fsmonitor: document GIT_TRACE_FSMONITOR
fsmonitor: don't bother pretty-printing JSON from watchman
fsmonitor: set the PWD to the top of the working tree
We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other
operations that need to see which paths have been modified.
* bp/fsmonitor:
fsmonitor: preserve utf8 filenames in fsmonitor-watchman log
fsmonitor: read entirety of watchman output
fsmonitor: MINGW support for watchman integration
fsmonitor: add a performance test
fsmonitor: add a sample integration script for Watchman
fsmonitor: add test cases for fsmonitor extension
split-index: disable the fsmonitor extension when running the split index test
fsmonitor: add a test tool to dump the index extension
update-index: add fsmonitor support to update-index
ls-files: Add support in ls-files to display the fsmonitor valid bit
fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension.
fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files.
update-index: add a new --force-write-index option
preload-index: add override to enable testing preload-index
bswap: add 64 bit endianness helper get_be64
Android's "repo" tool is a tool for managing a large codebase
consisting of multiple smaller repositories, similar to Git's
submodule feature. Starting with Git 94b8ae5a (ssh: introduce a
'simple' ssh variant, 2017-10-16), users noticed that it stopped
handling the port in ssh:// URLs.
The cause: when it encounters ssh:// URLs, repo pre-connects to the
server and sets GIT_SSH to a helper ".repo/repo/git_ssh" that reuses
that connection. Before 94b8ae5a, the helper was assumed to support
OpenSSH options for lack of a better guess and got passed a -p option
to set the port. After that patch, it uses the new default of a
simple helper that does not accept an option to set the port.
The next release of "repo" will set GIT_SSH_VARIANT to "ssh" to avoid
that. But users of old versions and of other similar GIT_SSH
implementations would not get the benefit of that fix.
So update the default to use OpenSSH options again, with a twist. As
observed in 94b8ae5a, we cannot assume that $GIT_SSH always handles
OpenSSH options: common helpers such as travis-ci's dpl[*] are
configured using GIT_SSH and do not accept OpenSSH options. So make
the default a new variant "auto", with the following behavior:
1. First, check for a recognized basename, like today.
2. If the basename is not recognized, check whether $GIT_SSH supports
OpenSSH options by running
$GIT_SSH -G <options> <host>
This returns status 0 and prints configuration in OpenSSH if it
recognizes all <options> and returns status 255 if it encounters
an unrecognized option. A wrapper script like
exec ssh -- "$@"
would fail with
ssh: Could not resolve hostname -g: Name or service not known
, correctly reflecting that it does not support OpenSSH options.
The command is run with stdin, stdout, and stderr redirected to
/dev/null so even a command that expects a terminal would exit
immediately.
3. Based on the result from step (2), behave like "ssh" (if it
succeeded) or "simple" (if it failed).
This way, the default ssh variant for unrecognized commands can handle
both the repo and dpl cases as intended.
This autodetection has been running on Google workstations since
2017-10-23 with no reported negative effects.
[*] 6c3fddfda1/lib/dpl/provider.rb (L215)
Reported-by: William Yan <wyan@google.com>
Improved-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is similar to ff1e72483 (tag: change default of `pager.tag` to
"on", 2017-08-02) and is safe now that we do not consider `pager.branch`
at all when we are not listing branches. This change will help with
listing many branches, but will not hurt users of `git branch
--edit-description` as it would have before the previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to de121ffe5 (tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only,
2017-08-02), use the DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG-mechanism to only respect
`pager.branch` when we are listing branches.
We have two possibilities of generalizing what that earlier commit made
to `git tag`. One is to interpret, e.g., --set-upstream-to as "it does
not use an editor, so we should page". Another, the one taken by this
commit, is to say "it does not list, so let's not page". That is in line
with the approach of the series on `pager.tag` and in particular the
wording in Documentation/git-tag.txt, which this commit reuses for
git-branch.txt.
This fixes the failing test added in the previous commit. Also adapt the
test for whether `git branch --set-upstream-to` respects `pager.branch`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --expiry-date as a data-type for config files when
'git config --get' is used. This will return any relative
or fixed dates from config files as timestamps.
This is useful for scripts (e.g. gc.reflogexpire) that work
with timestamps so that '2.weeks' can be converted to a format
acceptable by those scripts/functions.
Following the convention of git_config_pathname(), move
the helper function required for this feature from
builtin/reflog.c to builtin/config.c where other similar
functions exist (e.g. for --bool or --path), and match
the order of parameters with other functions (i.e. output
pointer as first parameter).
Signed-off-by: Haaris Mehmood <hsed@unimetic.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it safer to normalize the line endings in a repository.
Files that had been commited with CRLF will be commited with LF.
The old way to normalize a repo was like this:
# Make sure that there are not untracked files
$ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
$ git read-tree --empty
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"
The user must make sure that there are no untracked files,
otherwise they would have been added and tracked from now on.
The new "add --renormalize" does not add untracked files:
$ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes
$ git add --renormalize .
$ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization"
Note that "git add --renormalize <pathspec>" is the short form for
"git add -u --renormalize <pathspec>".
While at it, document that the same renormalization may be needed,
whenever a clean filter is added or changed.
Helped-By: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Support for the --set-upstream option was removed in 52668846ea
(builtin/branch: stop supporting the "--set-upstream" option,
2017-08-17), after a long deprecation period.
Remove the option from the command synopsis for consistency. Replace
another reference to it in the description of `--delete` with
`--set-upstream-to`.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The functionality to list tree objects in the order they were seen
while traversing the commits will be used in one of the next commits,
where we teach `git describe` to describe not only commits, but blobs, too.
The change in list-objects.c is rather minimal as we'll be re-using
the infrastructure put in place of the revision walking machinery. For
example one could expect that add_pending_tree is not called, but rather
commit->tree is directly passed to the tree traversal function. This
however requires a lot more code than just emptying the queue containing
trees after each commit.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an
HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor.
* bc/submitting-patches-in-asciidoc:
Documentation: convert SubmittingPatches to AsciiDoc
Documentation: enable compat-mode for Asciidoctor
Doc and message updates to teach users "bisect view" is a synonym
for "bisect visualize".
* rd/bisect-view-is-visualize:
bisect: mention "view" as an alternative to "visualize"
The "--format=..." option "git for-each-ref" takes learned to show
the name of the 'remote' repository and the ref at the remote side
that is affected for 'upstream' and 'push' via "%(push:remotename)"
and friends.
* js/for-each-ref-remote-name-and-ref:
for-each-ref: test :remotename and :remoteref
for-each-ref: let upstream/push report the remote ref name
for-each-ref: let upstream/push optionally report the remote name
MinGW updates.
* js/mingw-redirect-std-handles:
mingw: document the standard handle redirection
mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle
mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles
Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
configuration variables have been added to "git config --help".
* sb/blame-config-doc:
config: document blame configuration
"git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run
outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation
and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in
such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names.
* jc/check-ref-format-oor:
check-ref-format doc: --branch validates and expands <branch>
check-ref-format --branch: strip refs/heads/ using skip_prefix
check-ref-format --branch: do not expand @{...} outside repository
The set of paths output from "git status --ignored" was tied
closely with its "--untracked=<mode>" option, but now it can be
controlled more flexibly. Most notably, a directory that is
ignored because it is listed to be ignored in the ignore/exclude
mechanism can be handled differently from a directory that ends up
to be ignored only because all files in it are ignored.
* jm/status-ignored-files-list:
status: test ignored modes
status: document options to show matching ignored files
status: report matching ignored and normal untracked
status: add option to show ignored files differently
The SubmittingPatches document is often cited by outside parties as an
example of good practices to follow, including logical, independent
commits; patch sign-offs; and sending patches to a mailing list.
Currently, people who want to cite a particular section tend to either
refer to it by name and let the interested party search through the
document to find it, or link to a given line number on GitHub and hope
the file doesn't change.
Instead, convert the document to AsciiDoc. Build it as part of the
technical documentation, since it is likely of interest to the same
group of people. Provide stable links to the sections which outside
parties are likely to want to link to. Make some minor structural
changes to organize it so that it can be formatted sanely.
Since the makefile needs a .txt extension in order to build with the
rest of the documentation, simply copy the file. Ignore the temporary
file so it doesn't get checked in accidentally, and remove it as part of
the clean process. Do this instead of renaming the file so that people
who have already linked to the documentation (who we're trying to help)
don't find their links broken. Avoid symlinking since Windows will not
like that.
This allows us to render the document as part of the website for the
benefit of others who wish to link to it as well as providing a more
nicely formatted display for our community and potential contributors.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tweak a small number of files to mention "view" as an alternative to
"visualize".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The examples and common practice for adding markers such as "RFC" or
"v2" to the subject of patch emails is to have them within the same
brackets as the "PATCH" text, not after the closing bracket. Further,
the practice of `git format-patch` and the like, as well as what appears
to be the more common pratice on the mailing list, is to use "[RFC
PATCH]", not "[PATCH/RFC]".
Update the SubmittingPatches article to match and to reference the
`format-patch` helper arguments, and also make some minor text
clarifications in the area.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MinGW updates.
* js/mingw-redirect-std-handles:
mingw: document the standard handle redirection
mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle
mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles
Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
configuration variables have been added to "git config --help".
* sb/blame-config-doc:
config: document blame configuration
The illustrated history used to explain the `--fork-point` mode
named three keypoint commits B3, B2 and B1 from the oldest to the
newest, which was hard to read. Relabel them to B0, B1, B2. Also
illustrate the history after the rebase using the `--fork-point`
facility was made.
The text already mentions use of reflog, but the description is not
clear what benefit we are trying to gain by using reflog. Clarify
that it is to find the commits that were known to be at the tip of
the remote-tracking branch. This in turn necessitates users to know
the ramifications of the underlying assumptions, namely, expiry of
reflog entries will make it impossible to determine which commits
were at the tip of the remote-tracking branches and we fail when in
doubt (instead of giving a random and incorrect result without even
warning). Another limitation is that it won't be useful if you did
not fork from the tip of a remote-tracking branch but from in the
middle.
Describe them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are times when scripts want to know not only the name of the
push branch on the remote, but also the name of the branch as known
by the remote repository.
An example of this is when a tool wants to push to the very same branch
from which it would pull automatically, i.e. the `<remote>` and the `<to>`
in `git push <remote> <from>:<to>` would be provided by
`%(upstream:remotename)` and `%(upstream:remoteref)`, respectively.
This patch offers the new suffix :remoteref for the `upstream` and `push`
atoms, allowing to show exactly that. Example:
$ cat .git/config
...
[remote "origin"]
url = https://where.do.we.come/from
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remote/origin/*
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
[branch "develop/with/topics"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/develop/with/topics
...
$ git for-each-ref \
--format='%(push) %(push:remoteref)' \
refs/heads
refs/remotes/origin/master refs/heads/master
refs/remotes/origin/develop/with/topics refs/heads/develop/with/topics
Signed-off-by: J Wyman <jwyman@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new option --ignore-cr-at-eol tells the diff machinery to treat a
carriage-return at the end of a (complete) line as if it does not
exist.
Just like other "--ignore-*" options to ignore various kinds of
whitespace differences, this will help reviewing the real changes
you made without getting distracted by spurious CRLF<->LF conversion
made by your editor program.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
[jch: squashed in command line completion by Dscho]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push".
* tg/deprecate-stash-save:
stash: remove now superfluos help for "stash push"
stash: mark "git stash save" deprecated in the man page
stash: replace "git stash save" with "git stash push" in the documentation
The "--push-option=<string>" option to "git push" now defaults to a
list of strings configured via push.pushOption variable.
* mp/push-pushoption-config:
builtin/push.c: add push.pushOption config
"git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run
outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation
and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in
such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names.
* jc/check-ref-format-oor:
check-ref-format doc: --branch validates and expands <branch>
check-ref-format --branch: strip refs/heads/ using skip_prefix
check-ref-format --branch: do not expand @{...} outside repository
"git pull" has been taught to accept "--[no-]signoff" option and
pass it down to "git merge".
* wk/pull-signoff:
pull: pass --signoff/--no-signoff to "git merge"
A hook script that is set unexecutable is simply ignored. Git
notifies when such a file is ignored, unless the message is
squelched via advice.ignoredHook configuration.
* dm/run-command-ignored-hook-advise:
run-command: add hint when a hook is ignored
The most notable change is that we no longer take "git add ''" and
add everything. An empty string is now an error when used as a
pathspec element.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The options are currently only referenced by the git-blame man page,
also explain them in git-config, which is the canonical page to
contain all config options.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This heuristic has been the default since 2.14 so we should not confuse our
users by saying that it's experimental and off by default.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This feature has been in Git for Windows since v2.11.0(2), as an
experimental option. Now it is considered mature, and it is high time to
document it properly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoctor 1.5.0 and later have a compatibility mode that makes it more
compatible with some Asciidoc syntax, notably the single and double
quote handling. While this doesn't affect any of our current
documentation, it would be beneficial to enable this mode to reduce the
differences between AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor if we make use of those
features in the future.
Since this mode is specified as an attribute, if a version of
Asciidoctor doesn't understand it, it will simply be ignored.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The descriptions of the options '--parents', '--children' and
'--graph' say "see 'History Simplification' below", although the
referred section is in fact above the description of these options.
Send readers in the right direction by saying "above" instead of
"below".
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git stash push' fixes a historical wart in the interface of 'git stash
save'. As 'git stash push' has all functionality of 'git stash save',
with a nicer, more consistent user interface deprecate 'git stash
save'. To do this, remove it from the synopsis of the man page, and
move it to a separate section, stating that it is deprecated.
Helped-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash push" is the newer interface for creating a stash. While we
are still keeping "git stash save" around for the time being, it's better
to point new users of "git stash" to the more modern (and more feature
rich) interface, instead of teaching them the older version that we
might want to phase out in the future.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Push options need to be given explicitly, via the command line as "git
push --push-option <option>". Add the config option push.pushOption,
which is a multi-valued option, containing push options that are sent
by default.
When push options are set in the lower-priority configulation file
(e.g. /etc/gitconfig, or $HOME/.gitconfig), they can be unset later in
the more specific repository config by the empty string.
Add tests and update documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Marius Paliga <marius.paliga@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src>
side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but
the documentation was left stale.
* jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update:
fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1
Update the documentation for "git filter-branch" so that the filter
options are listed in the same order as they are applied, as
described in an earlier part of the doc.
* dg/filter-branch-filter-order-doc:
doc: list filter-branch subdirectory-filter first
"git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src>
side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but
the documentation was left stale.
* jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update:
fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1
Change the word "bla" to "section.variable"; "bla" is a placeholder
for a variable name but it wasn't clear for everyone.
While we're here, also reformat this sample command line to use
monospace instead of italics, to better match the rest of the file.
Use a space instead of a dash in "git config", as is common in the
rest of Git's documentation.
Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: MOY Matthieu <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bensoussan <daniel.bensoussan--bohm@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Timothee Albertin <timothee.albertin@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Payre <nathan.payre@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the "theoretically more correct" approach of simply
stepping back to the state before plumbing commands started paying
attention to "color.ui" configuration variable.
* jk/ref-filter-colors-fix:
tag: respect color.ui config
Revert "color: check color.ui in git_default_config()"
Revert "t6006: drop "always" color config tests"
Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config"
color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
provide --color option for all ref-filter users
t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
t3203: drop "always" color test
t6006: drop "always" color config tests
t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
t7508: use test_terminal for color output
t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
Doc update.
* kd/doc-for-each-ref:
doc/for-each-ref: explicitly specify option names
doc/for-each-ref: consistently use '=' to between argument names and values
The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly
written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.
* jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix:
merge-strategies: avoid implying that "-s theirs" exists
