Documentation for "git fetch --depth" has been updated for clarity.
* ss/clone-depth-single-doc:
docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos
docs: say "commits" in the --depth option wording for git-clone
docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch
Drop a few old "todo" items by deciding that the change one of them
suggests is not such a good idea, and doing the change the other
one suggested to do.
* ss/user-manual:
user-manual: add addition gitweb information
user-manual: add section documenting shallow clones
glossary: define the term shallow clone
user-manual: remove temporary branch entry from todo list
"git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch
named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary
disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0.
* jk/list-tag-2.7-regression:
tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo"
t6300: use test_atom for some un-modern tests
The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file
listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change
that is responsible for the regression has been reverted.
* nd/exclusion-regression-fix:
Revert "dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match"
The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between
the '--signoff' option and DCO.
* dw/signoff-doc:
Expand documentation describing --signoff
New http.proxyAuthMethod configuration variable can be used to
specify what authentication method to use, as a way to work around
proxies that do not give error response expected by libcurl when
CURLAUTH_ANY is used. Also, the codepath for proxy authentication
has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication
material in user's keyrings.
* kf/http-proxy-auth-methods:
http: use credential API to handle proxy authentication
http: allow selection of proxy authentication method
"ls-remote" learned an option to show which branch the remote
repository advertises as its primary by pointing its HEAD at.
* tg/ls-remote-symref:
ls-remote: add support for showing symrefs
ls-remote: use parse-options api
ls-remote: fix synopsis
ls-remote: document --refs option
ls-remote: document --quiet option
"git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch
named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary
disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0.
* jk/list-tag-2.7-regression:
tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo"
t6300: use test_atom for some un-modern tests
To name a commit, you can now use the :/!-<negative pattern> regex
style, and consequentially, say
$ git rev-parse HEAD^{/!-foo}
and it will return the hash of the first commit reachable from HEAD,
whose commit message does not contain "foo". This is the opposite of the
existing <rev>^{/<pattern>} syntax.
The specific use-case this is intended for is to perform an operation,
excluding the most-recent commits containing a particular marker. For
example, if you tend to make "work in progress" commits, with messages
beginning with "WIP", you work, then it could be useful to diff against
"the most recent commit which was not a WIP commit". That sort of thing
now possible, via commands such as:
$ git diff @^{/!-^WIP}
The leader '/!-', rather than simply '/!', to denote a negative match,
is chosen to leave room for additional modifiers in the future.
Signed-off-by: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-over-rsync protocol is inefficient and broken, and
has been for a long time. It transfers way more objects than
it needs (grabbing all of the remote's "objects/",
regardless of which objects we need). It does its own ad-hoc
parsing of loose and packed refs from the remote, but
doesn't properly override packed refs with loose ones,
leading to garbage results (e.g., expecting the other side
to have an object pointed to by a stale packed-refs entry,
or complaining that the other side has two copies of the
refs[1]).
This latter breakage means that nobody could have
successfully pulled from a moderately active repository
since cd547b4 (fetch/push: readd rsync support, 2007-10-01).
We never made an official deprecation notice in the release
notes for git's rsync protocol, but the tutorial has marked
it as such since 914328a (Update tutorial., 2005-08-30).
And on the mailing list as far back as Oct 2005, we can find
Junio mentioning it as having "been deprecated for quite
some time."[2,3,4]. So it was old news then; cogito had
deprecated the transport in July of 2005[5] (though it did
come back briefly when Linus broke git-http-pull!).
Of course some people professed their love of rsync through
2006, but Linus clarified in his usual gentle manner[6]:
> Thanks! This is why I still use rsync, even though
> everybody and their mother tells me "Linus says rsync is
> deprecated."
No. You're using rsync because you're actively doing
something _wrong_.
The deprecation sentiment was reinforced in 2008, with a
mention that cloning via rsync is broken (with no fix)[7].
Even the commit porting rsync over to C from shell (cd547b4)
lists it as deprecated! So between the 10 years of informal
warnings, and the fact that it has been severely broken
since 2007, it's probably safe to simply remove it without
further deprecation warnings.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/285101
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/10093
[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/17734
[4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/18911
[5] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/5617
[6] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19354
[7] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103635
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in
place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output.
* tk/interpret-trailers-in-place:
interpret-trailers: add option for in-place editing
trailer: allow to write to files other than stdout
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>
"git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory
configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be
omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in
your workflow.
* ak/format-patch-odir-config:
format-patch: introduce format.outputDirectory configuration
"git pull --rebase" has been extended to allow invoking
"rebase -i".
* js/pull-rebase-i:
completion: add missing branch.*.rebase values
remote: handle the config setting branch.*.rebase=interactive
pull: allow interactive rebase with --rebase=interactive
Since b7cc53e9 (tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs, 2015-07-11),
git-tag has started showing tags with ambiguous names (i.e.,
when both "heads/foo" and "tags/foo" exists) as "tags/foo"
instead of just "foo". This is both:
- pointless; the output of "git tag" includes only
refs/tags, so we know that "foo" means the one in
"refs/tags".
and
- ambiguous; in the original output, we know that the line
"foo" means that "refs/tags/foo" exists. In the new
output, it is unclear whether we mean "refs/tags/foo" or
"refs/tags/tags/foo".
The reason this happens is that commit b7cc53e9 switched
git-tag to use ref-filter's "%(refname:short)" output
formatting, which was adapted from for-each-ref. This more
general code does not know that we care only about tags, and
uses shorten_unambiguous_ref to get the short-name. We need
to tell it that we care only about "refs/tags/", and it
should shorten with respect to that value.
In theory, the ref-filter code could figure this out by us
passing FILTER_REFS_TAGS. But there are two complications
there:
1. The handling of refname:short is deep in formatting
code that does not even have our ref_filter struct, let
alone the arguments to the filter_ref struct.
2. In git v2.7.0, we expose the formatting language to the
user. If we follow this path, it will mean that
"%(refname:short)" behaves differently for "tag" versus
"for-each-ref" (including "for-each-ref refs/tags/"),
which can lead to confusion.
Instead, let's add a new modifier to the formatting
language, "strip", to remove a specific set of prefix
components. This fixes "git tag", and lets users invoke the
same behavior from their own custom formats (for "tag" or
"for-each-ref") while leaving ":short" with its same
consistent meaning in all places.
We introduce a test in t7004 for "git tag", which fails
without this patch. We also add a similar test in t3203 for
"git branch", which does not actually fail. But since it is
likely that "branch" will eventually use the same formatting
code, the test helps defend against future regressions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, the only way to pass proxy credentials to curl is by including them
in the proxy URL. Usually, this means they will end up on disk unencrypted, one
way or another (by inclusion in ~/.gitconfig, shell profile or history). Since
proxy authentication often uses a domain user, credentials can be security
sensitive; therefore, a safer way of passing credentials is desirable.
If the configured proxy contains a username but not a password, query the
credential API for one. Also, make sure we approve/reject proxy credentials
properly.
For consistency reasons, add parsing of http_proxy/https_proxy/all_proxy
environment variables, which would otherwise be evaluated as a fallback by curl.
Without this, we would have different semantics for git configuration and
environment variables.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Knut Franke <k.franke@science-computing.de>
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
CURLAUTH_ANY does not work with proxies which answer unauthenticated requests
with a 307 redirect to an error page instead of a 407 listing supported
authentication methods. Therefore, allow the authentication method to be set
using the environment variable GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD or configuration
variables http.proxyAuthmethod and remote.<name>.proxyAuthmethod (in analogy
to http.proxy and remote.<name>.proxy).
The following values are supported:
* anyauth (default)
* basic
* digest
* negotiate
* ntlm
Signed-off-by: Knut Franke <k.franke@science-computing.de>
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is nice to just be able to test if untracked cache is
supported without enabling it.
Helped-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current update_linked_gitdir() has a bug that can create "gitdir"
file in non-multi-worktree setup. Worse, sometimes it can write relative
path to "gitdir" file, which will not work (e.g. "git worktree list"
will display the worktree's location incorrectly)
Instead of fixing this, we step back a bit. The original design was
probably not well thought out. For now, if the user manually moves a
worktree, they have to fix up "gitdir" file manually or the worktree
will get pruned.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usage of working directory is inconsistent in the git add help.
Also http://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone speaks only about working tree.
Remaining entry found by "git grep -B1 '^directory' git-add.txt" really
relates to a directory.
Signed-off-by: Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel@vogella.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
asciidoctor does not remove backslashes used to escape curly brackets from
the HTML output if the contents of the curly brackets are empty or contain
at least a <, -, or space. asciidoc does not require the backslashes in
these cases, so just remove them.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Kraai <matt.kraai@abbott.com>
Reported-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index"
behaviour outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the
user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a
new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this
cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be
disabled.
* tg/grep-no-index-fallback:
builtin/grep: add grep.fallbackToNoIndex config
t7810: correct --no-index test
Documentation for "git fetch --depth" has been updated for clarity.
* ss/clone-depth-single-doc:
docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos
docs: say "commits" in the --depth option wording for git-clone
docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch
The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file
listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change
that is responsible for the regression has been reverted.
* nd/exclusion-regression-fix:
Revert "dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match"
The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between
the '--signoff' option and DCO.
* dw/signoff-doc:
Expand documentation describing --signoff
Drop a few old "todo" items by deciding that the change one of them
suggests is not such a good idea, and doing the change the other
one suggested to do.
* ss/user-manual:
user-manual: add addition gitweb information
user-manual: add section documenting shallow clones
glossary: define the term shallow clone
user-manual: remove temporary branch entry from todo list
Some "git notes" operations, e.g. "git log --notes=<note>", should
be able to read notes from any tree-ish that is shaped like a notes
tree, but the notes infrastructure required that the argument must
be a ref under refs/notes/. Loosen it to require a valid ref only
when the operation would update the notes (in which case we must
have a place to store the updated notes tree, iow, a ref).
* mh/notes-allow-reading-treeish:
notes: allow treeish expressions as notes ref
Sometimes it's useful to know the main branch of a git repository
without actually downloading the repository. This can be done by
looking at the symrefs stored in the remote repository. Currently git
doesn't provide a simple way to show the symrefs stored on the remote
repository, even though the information is available. Add a --symref
command line argument to the ls-remote command, which shows the symrefs
in the remote repository.
While there, replace a literal tab in the format string with \t to make
it more obvious to the reader.
Suggested-by: pedro rijo <pedrorijo91@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git ls-remote takes an optional get-url argument, and specifying the
repository is optional. Fix the synopsis in the documentation to
reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --refs option was originally introduced in 2718ff0 ("Improve
git-peek-remote"). The ls-remote command was first documented in
972b6fe ("ls-remote: drop storing operation and add documentation."),
but the --refs option was never documented. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
cefb2a5e3 ("ls-remote: print URL when no repo is specified") added a
quiet option to ls-remote, but didn't add it to the documentation. Add
it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When working in a cross-platform environment, a user may want to
check if text files are stored normalized in the repository and
if .gitattributes are set appropriately.
Make it possible to let Git show the line endings in the index and
in the working tree and the effective text/eol attributes.
The end of line ("eolinfo") are shown like this:
"-text" binary (or with bare CR) file
"none" text file without any EOL
"lf" text file with LF
"crlf" text file with CRLF
"mixed" text file with mixed line endings.
The effective text/eol attribute is one of these:
"", "-text", "text", "text=auto", "text eol=lf", "text eol=crlf"
git ls-files --eol gives an output like this:
i/none w/none attr/text=auto t/t5100/empty
i/-text w/-text attr/-text t/test-binary-2.png
i/lf w/lf attr/text eol=lf t/t5100/rfc2047-info-0007
i/lf w/crlf attr/text eol=crlf doit.bat
i/mixed w/mixed attr/ locale/XX.po
to show what eol convention is used in the data in the index ('i'),
and in the working tree ('w'), and what attribute is in effect,
for each path that is shown.
Add test cases in t0027.
Helped-By: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a command line option --in-place to support in-place editing akin to
sed -i. This allows to write commands like the following:
git interpret-trailers --trailer "X: Y" a.txt > b.txt && mv b.txt a.txt
in a more concise way:
git interpret-trailers --trailer "X: Y" --in-place a.txt
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of years ago, I found the need to collaborate on topic
branches that were rebased all the time, and I really needed to see
what I was rebasing when pulling, so I introduced an
interactively-rebasing pull.
The way builtin pull works, this change also supports the value
'interactive' for the 'branch.<name>.rebase' config variable, which
is a neat thing because users can now configure given branches for
interactively-rebasing pulls without having to type out the complete
`--rebase=interactive` option every time they pull.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We can pass -o/--output-directory to the format-patch command to store
patches in some place other than the working directory. This patch
introduces format.outputDirectory configuration option for same
purpose.
The case of usage of this configuration option can be convenience
to not pass every time -o/--output-directory if an user has pattern
to store all patches in the /patches directory for example.
The format.outputDirectory has lower priority than command line
option, so if user will set format.outputDirectory and pass the
command line option, a result will be stored in a directory that
passed to command line option.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line)
how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files.
* vl/grep-configurable-threads:
grep: add --threads=<num> option and grep.threads configuration
grep: slight refactoring to the code that disables threading
grep: allow threading even on a single-core machine
"git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
too much time before emitting the first line of the result.
* ea/blame-progress:
blame: add support for --[no-]progress option
Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use
it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel.
Rerolled and this seems to be a lot cleaner. The merge of the
earlier one to 'next' has been reverted.
* sb/submodule-parallel-fetch:
submodules: allow parallel fetching, add tests and documentation
fetch_populated_submodules: use new parallel job processing
run-command: add an asynchronous parallel child processor
sigchain: add command to pop all common signals
strbuf: add strbuf_read_once to read without blocking
xread: poll on non blocking fds
submodule.c: write "Fetching submodule <foo>" to stderr
"branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.
* ps/push-delete-option:
push: add '-d' as shorthand for '--delete'
push: add '--delete' flag to synopsis
init_notes() is the main point of entry to the notes API. It ensures
that the input can be used as ref, because it needs a ref to update to
store notes tree after modifying it.
There however are many use cases where notes tree is only read, e.g.
"git log --notes=...". Any notes-shaped treeish could be used for such
purpose, but it is not allowed due to existing restriction.
Allow treeish expressions to be used in the case the notes tree is going
to be used without write "permissions". Add a flag to distinguish
whether the notes tree is intended to be used read-only, or will be
updated.
With this change, operations that use notes read-only can be fed any
notes-shaped tree-ish can be used, e.g. git log --notes=notes@{1}.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently when git grep is used outside of a git repository without the
--no-index option git simply dies. For convenience, add a
grep.fallbackToNoIndex configuration variable. If set to true, git grep
behaves like git grep --no-index if it is run outside of a git
repository. It defaults to false, preserving the current behavior.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original wording sounded as if --depth could only be used to deepen or
shorten the history of existing repos. However, that is not the case. In a
workflow like
$ git init
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/git/git.git
$ git fetch --depth=1
The newly initialized repo is properly created as a shallow repo.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not wrong to talk about "revisions" here, but in this context
revisions are always commits, and that is how we already name it in the
git-fetch docs. So align the docs by always referring to "commits".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 57534ee77d. The
feature added in that commit requires that patterns behave the same way
from anywhere. But some patterns can behave differently depending on
current "working" directory. The conditions to catch and avoid these
patterns are too loose. The untracked listing[1] and sparse-checkout
selection[2] can become incorrect as a result.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/283520
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/283532
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is confusing to document how --depth behaves as part of the
--single-branch docs. Better move that part to the --depth docs, saying
that it implies --single-branch by default.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Modify various document (man page) files to explain
in more detail what --signoff means.
This was inspired by https://lwn.net/Articles/669976/ where
paulj noted, "adding [the] '-s' argument to [a] git commit
doesn't really mean you have even heard of the DCO...".
Extending git's documentation will make it easier to argue
that developers understood --signoff when they use it.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were introduced back in 2006 at 3175aa1ec2 but
never documented.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rework the section on gitweb to add information about the cgi script
and the instaweb command.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are several places in the documentation that
the term shallow clone is used. Defining the term
enables its use elsewhere with a known definition.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the section on "How to check out a different version of a
project" the "new" branch is used as a temporary branch. A detached
HEAD was not used since it was a new feature introduced just a
couple weeks prior.
The section could be changed to use and explain a detached HEAD,
except that would increase the learning curve early in the manual.
Detached HEADs are discussed a couple sections later under
"Examining an old version without creating a new branch".
Let's declare that it is a bad idea to rewrite the example that
uses a temporary branch to do the sightseeing on a detached HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"format-patch" has learned a new option to zero-out the commit
object name on the mbox "From " line.
* bc/format-patch-null-from-line:
format-patch: check that header line has expected format
format-patch: add an option to suppress commit hash
sha1_file.c: introduce a null_oid constant
Add new config to avoid typing "--recurse-submodules" on each push.
* mc/push-recurse-submodules-config:
push: follow the "last one wins" convention for --recurse-submodules
push: test that --recurse-submodules on command line overrides config
push: add recurseSubmodules config option
"git push" takes "--delete" but does not take a short form "-d",
unlike "git branch" which does take both. Bring consistency
between them.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line) how
many threads to use when searching in the working tree files.
Signed-off-by: Victor Leschuk <vleschuk@accesssoftek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the command to show progress output when it takes long time to
produce the first line of output; this option cannot be used with
"--incremental" or "--porcelain" options.
git-annotate inherits the option as well.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Oftentimes, patches created by git format-patch will be stored in
version control or compared with diff. In these cases, two otherwise
identical patches can have different commit hashes, leading to diff
noise. Teach git format-patch a --zero-commit option that instead
produces an all-zero hash to avoid this diff noise.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git p4" used to import Perforce CLs that touch only paths outside
the client spec as empty commits. It has been corrected to ignore
them instead, with a new configuration git-p4.keepEmptyCommits as a
backward compatibility knob.
* ls/p4-keep-empty-commits:
git-p4: add option to keep empty commits
"git p4" used to import Perforce CLs that touch only paths outside
the client spec as empty commits. It has been corrected to ignore
them instead, with a new configuration git-p4.keepEmptyCommits as a
backward compatibility knob.
* ls/p4-keep-empty-commits:
git-p4: add option to keep empty commits
The delete flag is not mentioned in the synopsis of `git-push`.
Add the flag to make it more discoverable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This back-merges hopefully the last batch of trivially correct fixes
to the 2.6.x maintenance track from the master branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split index related options should appear in the 'SYNOPSIS'
section.
These options are already documented in the 'OPTIONS' section.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A changelist that contains only excluded files due to a client spec was
imported as an empty commit. Fix that issue by ignoring these commits.
Add option "git-p4.keepEmptyCommits" to make the previous behavior
available.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Pete Harlan
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was no way to defeat a configured rebase.autostash variable
from the command line, as "git rebase --no-autostash" was missing.
* jk/rebase-no-autostash:
Documentation/git-rebase: fix --no-autostash formatting
rebase: support --no-autostash
The git-submodule(1) is inconsistent. In the synopsis, it says:
git submodule [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
The description of the sync does not mention --recursive, and the
description of --recursive says that it is only available for foreach,
update and status.
The option was introduced (82f49f294c, Teach --recursive to submodule
sync, 2012-10-26) a while ago, so let's document it, too.
Reported-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach send-email to dump mail aliases, so that we can do tab completion
on the command line.
* jk/send-email-complete-aliases:
completion: add support for completing email aliases
sendemail: teach git-send-email to dump alias names
* maint:
http: treat config options sslCAPath and sslCAInfo as paths
Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example
filter-branch: deal with object name vs. pathname ambiguity in tree-filter
check-ignore: correct documentation about output
git-p4: clean up after p4 submit failure
git-p4: work with a detached head
git-p4: add option to system() to return subshell status
git-p4: add failing test for submit from detached head
remote-http(s): support SOCKS proxies
t5813: avoid creating urls that break on cygwin
Escape Git's exec path in contrib/rerere-train.sh script
allow hooks to ignore their standard input stream
rebase-i-exec: Allow space in SHELL_PATH
Documentation: make environment variable formatting more consistent
By default git check-ignore shows only the filenames that will be
ignored, not the pattern that causes their exclusion. Instead of moving
the partial exclude pattern precendence information to the -v option
where it belongs, link to gitignore(5) which describes this more
thoroughly.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Untracked cache related options should appear in the synopsis.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The --recurse-submodules command line parameter has existed for some
time but it has no config file equivalent.
Following the style of the corresponding parameter for git fetch, let's
invent push.recurseSubmodules to provide a default for this
parameter. This also requires the addition of --recurse-submodules=no to
allow the configuration to be overridden on the command line when
required.
The most straightforward way to implement this appears to be to make
push use code in submodule-config in a similar way to fetch.
Signed-off-by: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Introduce new option "credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP" which stops
git-credential-cache--daemon from quitting on SIGHUP. This is useful
when "git push" is started from Emacs, because all child
processes (including the daemon) will receive a SIGHUP when "git push"
exits.
Signed-off-by: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Add an option "--dump-aliases" which changes the default behavior of
git-send-email. This mode will simply read the alias files configured by
sendemail.aliasesfile and sendemail.aliasfiletype and dump a list of all
configured aliases, one per line. The intended use case for this option
is the bash-completion script which will use it to autocomplete aliases
on the options which take addresses.
Add some tests for the new option using various alias file formats.
A possible future extension to the alias dump format could be done by
extending the --dump-aliases to take an optional argument defining the
format to display. This has not been done in this patch as no user of
this information has been identified.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Extend transfer.hideRefs to work better with use of namespaces.
* lf/ref-is-hidden-namespace:
t5509: add basic tests for hideRefs
hideRefs: add support for matching full refs
upload-pack: strip refs before calling ref_is_hidden()
config.txt: document the semantics of hideRefs with namespaces
Documentation/git.txt is not consistent in the way it
stylizes mentions of Environment Variables. Most of them are
enclosed in single quotes, some are enclosed in backticks,
some are not enclosed.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
"git checkout" did not follow the usual "--[no-]progress"
convention and implemented only "--quiet" that is essentially
a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the
usual "--[no-]progress".
* ea/checkout-progress:
checkout: add --progress option
"git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it
needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do.
* rs/daemon-plug-child-leak:
daemon: plug memory leak
run-command: factor out child_process_clear()
In addition to matching stripped refs, one can now add hideRefs
patterns that the full (unstripped) ref is matched against. To
distinguish between stripped and full matches, those new patterns
must be prefixed with a circumflex (^).
This commit also removes support for the undocumented and unintended
hideRefs settings ".have" (suppressing all "have" lines) and
"capabilities^{}" (suppressing the capabilities line).
Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@lfos.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Right now, there is no clear definition of how transfer.hideRefs should
behave when a namespace is set. Explain that hideRefs prefixes match
stripped names in that case. This is how hideRefs patterns are currently
handled in receive-pack.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@lfos.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
AsciiDoc markup fixes.
* xf/user-manual-markup:
Documentation: match undefline with the text in old release notes
Documentation: match underline with the text
Documentation: fix header markup
"git merge-file" tried to signal how many conflicts it found, which
obviously would not work well when there are too many of them.
* jk/merge-file-exit-code:
merge-file: clamp exit code to maximum 127
The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read
list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they
only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading.
* jc/usage-stdin:
usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file
Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo
backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository
format version "1", with an extension mechanism.
* jk/repository-extension:
introduce "preciousObjects" repository extension
introduce "extensions" form of core.repositoryformatversion
"git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it
needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do.
* rs/daemon-plug-child-leak:
daemon: plug memory leak
run-command: factor out child_process_clear()
Avoid duplication by moving the code to release allocated memory for
arguments and environment to its own function, child_process_clear().
Export it to provide a counterpart to child_process_init().
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Under normal circumstances, and like other git commands,
git checkout will write progress info to stderr if
attached to a terminal. This option allows progress
to be forced even if not using a terminal. Also,
progress can be skipped if using option --no-progress.
Signed-off-by: Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git merge-file" tried to signal how many conflicts it found, which
obviously would not work well when there are too many of them.
* jk/merge-file-exit-code:
merge-file: clamp exit code to maximum 127
"git clone --dissociate" used to require that "--reference" was
used at the same time, but you can create a new repository that
borrows objects from another without using "--reference", namely
with "clone --local" from a repository that borrows objects from
other repositories.
* ar/clone-dissociate:
clone: allow "--dissociate" without reference
AsciiDoc markup fixes.
* xf/user-manual-markup:
Documentation: match undefline with the text in old release notes
Documentation: match underline with the text
Documentation: fix header markup
Git-merge-file is documented to return one of three exit
codes:
- zero means the merge was successful
- a negative number means an error occurred
- a positive number indicates the number of conflicts
Unfortunately, this all gets stuffed into an 8-bit return
code. Which means that if you have 256 conflicts, this wraps
to zero, and the merge appears to succeed (and commits a
blob full of conflict-marker cruft!).
This patch clamps the return value to a maximum of 127,
which we should be able to safely represent everywhere. This
also leaves 128-255 for other values. Shells (and some parts
of git) will typically represent signal death as 128 plus
the signal number. And negative values are typically coerced
to an 8-bit unsigned value (so "return -1" ends up as 255).
Technically negative returns have the same problem (e.g.,
"-256" wraps back to 0), but this is not a problem in
practice, as the only negative value we use is "-1".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo
backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository
format version "1", with an extension mechanism.
* jk/repository-extension:
introduce "preciousObjects" repository extension
introduce "extensions" form of core.repositoryformatversion
The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read
list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they
only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading.
* jc/usage-stdin:
usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file
Add the "list" subcommand to "git worktree".
* mr/worktree-list:
worktree: add 'list' command
worktree: add details to the worktree struct
worktree: add a function to get worktree details
worktree: refactor find_linked_symref function
worktree: add top-level worktree.c
The "Fast-forward merges" section of user-manual.txt incorrectly
says if the current branch is a descendant of the other, Git will
perform a fast-forward merge, but it should the other way around.
Signed-off-by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Again, we do not usually process release notes with AsciiDoc, but it
is better to be consistent.
This incidentally reveals breakages left by an ancient 5e00439f
(Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto,
2012-10-23). The index-format documentation was originally written
to be read as straight text without formatting and when the commit
forced everything in Documentation/ to go through AsciiDoc, it did
not do any adjustment--hence the double-dashes will be seen in the
resulting text that is rendered as preformatted fixed-width without
converted into em-dashes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--reference" option is not the only way to provide a repository
to borrow objects from. A repository that borrows from another
repository can be cloned with "clone --local" and the resulting
repository will borrow from the same repository, which the user
may want to "--dissociate" from.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
