git-svn by default puts its Subversion-tracking refs directly in
refs/remotes/*. This runs counter to Git's convention of using
refs/remotes/$remote/* for storing remote-tracking branches.
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.
The existing workaround for this is to supply the --prefix=quux/ to
git svn init/clone, so that git-svn's tracking branches end up in
refs/remotes/quux/* instead of refs/remotes/*. However, encouraging
users to specify --prefix to work around a design flaw in git-svn is
suboptimal, and not a long term solution to the problem. Instead,
git-svn should default to use a non-empty prefix that saves
unsuspecting users from the inconveniences described above.
This patch will only affect newly created git-svn setups, as the
--prefix option only applies to git svn init (and git svn clone).
Existing git-svn setups will continue with their existing (lack of)
prefix. Also, if anyone somehow prefers git-svn's old layout, they
can recreate that by explicitly passing an empty prefix (--prefix "")
on the git svn init/clone command line.
The patch changes the default value for --prefix from "" to "origin/",
updates the git-svn manual page, and fixes the fallout in the git-svn
testcases.
(Note that this patch might be easier to review using the --word-diff
and --word-diff-regex=. diff options.)
[ew: squashed description of <= 1.9 behavior into manpage]
Suggested-by: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
The second maintenance release for Git 1.9; contains all the fixes
that are scheduled to appear in Git 2.0.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jl/nor-or-nand-and:
code and test: fix misuses of "nor"
comments: fix misuses of "nor"
contrib: fix misuses of "nor"
Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
Eradicate mistaken use of "nor" (that is, essentially "nor" used
not in "neither A nor B" ;-)) from in-code comments, command output
strings, and documentations.
* jl/nor-or-nand-and:
code and test: fix misuses of "nor"
comments: fix misuses of "nor"
contrib: fix misuses of "nor"
Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
OPT_SET_PTR() implementation was broken on IL32P64 platforms;
it turns out that the macro is not used by any real user.
* mr/opt-set-ptr:
parse-options: remove unused OPT_SET_PTR
parse-options: add cast to correct pointer type to OPT_SET_PTR
MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crash
Make sure that the help text given to describe the "<param>" part
of the "git cmd --option=<param>" does not contain SP or _,
e.g. "--gpg-sign=<key-id>" option for "git commit" is not spelled
as "--gpg-sign=<key id>".
* jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words:
parse-options: make sure argh string does not have SP or _
update-index: teach --cacheinfo a new syntax "mode,sha1,path"
parse-options: multi-word argh should use dash to separate words
Allow tweaking the maximum length of the delta-chain produced by
"gc --aggressive".
* nd/gc-aggressive:
environment.c: fix constness for odb_pack_keep()
gc --aggressive: make --depth configurable
Attempts to show where a single-strand-of-pearls break in "git log"
output.
* nd/log-show-linear-break:
log: add --show-linear-break to help see non-linear history
object.h: centralize object flag allocation
This reverts commit 23d25e48f5, as it is
broken for users who haven't opted into the new feature of checking
out submodule.*.branch with update mode set to checkout.
Teaches the "rev-parse --parseopt" mechanism used by scripted
Porcelains to parse command line options and give help text how to
supply argv-help (the placeholder string for an option parameter,
e.g. "key-id" in "--gpg-sign=<key-id>").
* ib/rev-parse-parseopt-argh:
t1502: protect runs of SPs used in the indentation
rev-parse --parseopt: option argument name hints
When 1c192f3 (gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive - 2007-12-06)
made --depth=250 the default value, it didn't really explain the
reason behind, especially the pros and cons of --depth=250.
An old mail from Linus below explains it at length. Long story short,
--depth=250 is a disk saver and a performance killer. Not everybody
agrees on that aggressiveness. Let the user configure it.
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:19:24 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712060803430.13796@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Gmane-URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94637
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> 7:41:25elapsed 86%CPU
Heh. And this is why you want to do it exactly *once*, and then just
export the end result for others ;)
> -r--r--r-- 1 hharrison hharrison 324094684 2007-12-06 07:26 pack-1d46...pack
But yeah, especially if you allow longer delta chains, the end result can
be much smaller (and what makes the one-time repack more expensive is the
window size, not the delta chain - you could make the delta chains longer
with no cost overhead at packing time)
HOWEVER.
The longer delta chains do make it potentially much more expensive to then
use old history. So there's a trade-off. And quite frankly, a delta depth
of 250 is likely going to cause overflows in the delta cache (which is
only 256 entries in size *and* it's a hash, so it's going to start having
hash conflicts long before hitting the 250 depth limit).
So when I said "--depth=250 --window=250", I chose those numbers more as
an example of extremely aggressive packing, and I'm not at all sure that
the end result is necessarily wonderfully usable. It's going to save disk
space (and network bandwidth - the delta's will be re-used for the network
protocol too!), but there are definitely downsides too, and using long
delta chains may simply not be worth it in practice.
(And some of it might just want to have git tuning, ie if people think
that long deltas are worth it, we could easily just expand on the delta
hash, at the cost of some more memory used!)
That said, the good news is that working with *new* history will not be
affected negatively, and if you want to be _really_ sneaky, there are ways
to say "create a pack that contains the history up to a version one year
ago, and be very aggressive about those old versions that we still want to
have around, but do a separate pack for newer stuff using less aggressive
parameters"
So this is something that can be tweaked, although we don't really have
any really nice interfaces for stuff like that (ie the git delta cache
size is hardcoded in the sources and cannot be set in the config file, and
the "pack old history more aggressively" involves some manual scripting
and knowing how "git pack-objects" works rather than any nice simple
command line switch).
So the thing to take away from this is:
- git is certainly flexible as hell
- .. but to get the full power you may need to tweak things
- .. happily you really only need to have one person to do the tweaking,
and the tweaked end results will be available to others that do not
need to know/care.
And whether the difference between 320MB and 500MB is worth any really
involved tweaking (considering the potential downsides), I really don't
know. Only testing will tell.
Linus
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since 941987a5 (git-submodule: give submodules proper names,
2007-06-11) introduced the ability to move a submodule from one path
to another inside its superproject tree without losing its identity,
we should have consistently used submodule.<name>.* to access
settings related to the named submodule.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since 941987a5 (git-submodule: give submodules proper names,
2007-06-11) introduced the ability to move a submodule from one path
to another inside its superproject tree without losing its identity,
we should have consistently used submodule.<name>.* to access
settings related to the named submodule.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Option explanation is in rev-list-options.txt. The interaction with -z
is left undecided.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit --cleanup=<mode>" learned a new mode, scissors.
* nd/commit-editor-cleanup:
commit: add --cleanup=scissors
wt-status.c: move cut-line print code out to wt_status_add_cut_line
wt-status.c: make cut_line[] const to shrink .data section a bit
The "--cacheinfo" option is unusual in that it takes three option
parameters. An option with an optional parameter is bad enough. An
option with multiple parameters is simply insane.
Introduce a new syntax that takes these three things concatenated
together with a comma, which makes the command line syntax more
uniform across subcommands, while retaining the traditional syntax
for backward compatiblity.
If we were designing the "update-index" subcommand from scratch
today, it may probably have made sense to make this option (and
possibly others) a command mode option that does not take any option
parameter (hence no need for arg-help). But we do not live in such
an ideal world, and as far as I can tell, the command still supports
(and must support) mixed command modes in a single invocation, e.g.
$ git update-index path1 --add path2 \
--cacheinfo 100644 $(git hash-object --stdin -w <path3) path3 \
path4
must make sure path1 is already in the index and update all of these
four paths. So this is probably as far as we can go to fix this issue
without risking to break people's existing scripts.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"When you need to use space, use dash" is a strange way to say that
you must not use a space. Because it is more common for the command
line descriptions to use dashed-multi-words, you do not even want to
use spaces in these places. Rephrase the documentation to avoid
this strangeness.
Fix a few existing multi-word argument help strings, i.e.
- GPG key-ids given to -S/--gpg-sign are "key-id";
- Refs used for storing notes are "notes-ref"; and
- Expiry timestamps given to --expire are "expiry-date".
and update the corresponding documentation pages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Built-in commands can specify names for option arguments when usage text
is generated for a command. sh based commands should be able to do the
same.
Option argument name hint is any text that comes after [*=?!] after the
argument name up to the first whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Discard the accumulated "heuristics" to guess from which branch the
result wants to be pulled from and make sure what the end user
specified is not second-guessed by "git request-pull", to avoid
mistakes.
* lt/request-pull:
request-pull: documentation updates
request-pull: resurrect "pretty refname" feature
request-pull: test updates
request-pull: pick up tag message as before
request-pull: allow "local:remote" to specify names on both ends
request-pull: more strictly match local/remote branches
Serving objects from a shallow repository needs to write a
temporary file to be used, but the serving upload-pack may not have
write access to the repository which is meant to be read-only.
Instead feed these temporary shallow bounds from the standard input
of pack-objects so that we do not have to use a temporary file.
* nd/upload-pack-shallow:
upload-pack: send shallow info over stdin to pack-objects
