git-commit-vandalism/contrib
Christian Couder 435ec090ec config: add core.untrackedCache
When we know that mtime on directory as given by the environment
is usable for the purpose of untracked cache, we may want the
untracked cache to be always used without any mtime test or
kernel name check being performed.

Also when we know that mtime is not usable for the purpose of
untracked cache, for example because the repo is shared over a
network file system, we may want the untracked-cache to be
automatically removed from the index.

Allow the user to express such preference by setting the
'core.untrackedCache' configuration variable, which can take
'keep', 'false', or 'true' and default to 'keep'.

When read_index_from() is called, it now adds or removes the
untracked cache in the index to respect the value of this
variable. So it does nothing if the value is `keep` or if the
variable is unset; it adds the untracked cache if the value is
`true`; and it removes the cache if the value is `false`.

`git update-index --[no-|force-]untracked-cache` still adds the
untracked cache to, or removes it, from the index, but this
shows a warning if it goes against the value of
core.untrackedCache, because the next time the index is read
the untracked cache will be added or removed if the
configuration is set to do so.

Also `--untracked-cache` used to check that the underlying
operating system and file system change `st_mtime` field of a
directory if files are added or deleted in that directory. But
because those tests take a long time, `--untracked-cache` no
longer performs them. Instead, there is now
`--test-untracked-cache` to perform the tests. This change
makes `--untracked-cache` the same as `--force-untracked-cache`.

This last change is backward incompatible and should be
mentioned in the release notes.

Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>

read-cache: Duy'sfixup

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-27 12:30:00 -08:00
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buildsystems mark Windows build scripts executable 2013-11-25 15:01:22 -08:00
completion config: add core.untrackedCache 2016-01-27 12:30:00 -08:00
contacts contacts: add a Makefile to generate docs and install 2014-10-15 15:18:27 -07:00
convert-objects various contrib: Fix links in man pages 2014-08-07 09:43:21 -07:00
credential wincred: fix get credential if username has "@" 2015-01-25 20:08:56 -08:00
diff-highlight Merge branch 'jk/colors' into maint 2015-04-21 12:12:25 -07:00
emacs emacs: make 'git-status' work with separate git dirs 2012-11-26 09:34:28 -08:00
examples Merge branch 'pt/pull-builtin' into maint 2015-10-16 14:32:32 -07:00
fast-import comments: fix misuses of "nor" 2014-03-31 15:29:27 -07:00
git-jump git-jump: ignore (custom) prefix in diff mode 2012-09-17 12:31:57 -07:00
git-shell-commands Add sample commands for git-shell 2010-08-12 15:16:31 -07:00
gitview various contrib: Fix links in man pages 2014-08-07 09:43:21 -07:00
hg-to-git hg-to-git: --allow-empty-message in git commit 2013-07-23 12:17:23 -07:00
hooks git-multimail: update to release 1.2.0 2015-10-12 10:38:33 -07:00
mw-to-git Merge branch 'ep/shell-command-substitution' 2014-06-03 12:06:45 -07:00
persistent-https Add persistent-https to contrib 2012-05-30 13:50:45 -07:00
remote-helpers Revert "Merge branch 'jc/graduate-remote-hg-bzr' (early part)" 2014-05-20 14:48:11 -07:00
stats contrib: update stats/mailmap script 2012-12-12 11:09:11 -08:00
subtree Merge branch 'dg/subtree-test-cleanup' 2015-12-01 18:54:31 -05:00
svn-fe contrib/svn-fe: fix Makefile 2014-08-28 15:41:28 -07:00
thunderbird-patch-inline appp.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution 2014-04-23 15:17:01 -07:00
workdir git-new-workdir: don't fail if the target directory is empty 2014-12-03 12:49:24 -08:00
convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh contrib: add convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh 2014-07-21 12:05:53 -07:00
git-resurrect.sh git-sh-setup.sh: add variable to use the stuck-long mode 2014-02-03 12:11:10 -08:00
README
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh Escape Git's exec path in contrib/rerere-train.sh script 2015-11-20 06:43:00 -05:00

Contributed Software

Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
source tree, they are in somewhat different status.  The
intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
faster.

I am not expecting to touch these myself that much.  As far as
my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
owned by their respective primary authors.  I am willing to help
if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
owners.  IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch.  If
you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.

I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory.  On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
and inactive ones from time to time.

If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
there are some general interests (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
stuff there.

-jc