Make it clearer that tags are fetched independent of which branches
were fetched from the remote in any particular fetch. (Tags are even
fetched if they point at objects that are in the current repository
but not reachable, which is probably a bug.)
Put less emphasis on the mechanism and more on the effect of tag
auto-following. Also mention the options and configuration settings
that can change the tag-fetching behavior.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If --no-prune is passed to one of the following commands:
git fetch --all
git fetch --multiple
git fetch --recurse-submodules
git remote update
then it must also be passed to the "fetch" subprocesses that those
commands use to do their work. Otherwise there might be a fetch.prune
or remote.<name>.prune configuration setting that causes pruning to
occur, contrary to the user's express wish.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use struct argv_array for calling the "git fetch" subprocesses.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reorder function definitions to remove the need for forward
declarations.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old behavior of "fetch --prune" was to prune whatever was being
fetched. In particular, "fetch --prune --tags" caused tags not only
to be fetched, but also to be pruned. This is inappropriate because
there is only one tags namespace that is shared among the local
repository and all remotes. Therefore, if the user defines a local
tag and then runs "git fetch --prune --tags", then the local tag is
deleted. Moreover, "--prune" and "--tags" can also be configured via
fetch.prune / remote.<name>.prune and remote.<name>.tagopt, making it
even less obvious that an invocation of "git fetch" could result in
tag lossage.
Since the command "git remote update" invokes "git fetch", it had the
same problem.
The command "git remote prune", on the other hand, disregarded the
setting of remote.<name>.tagopt, and so its behavior was inconsistent
with that of the other commands.
So the old behavior made it too easy to lose tags. To fix this
problem, change "fetch --prune" to prune references based only on
refspecs specified explicitly by the user, either on the command line
or via remote.<name>.fetch. Thus, tags are no longer made subject to
pruning by the --tags option or the remote.<name>.tagopt setting.
However, tags *are* still subject to pruning if they are fetched as
part of a refspec, and that is good. For example:
* On the command line,
git fetch --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
causes tags, and only tags, to be fetched and pruned, and is
therefore a simple way for the user to get the equivalent of the old
behavior of "--prune --tag".
* For a remote that was configured with the "--mirror" option, the
configuration is set to include
[remote "name"]
fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
, which causes tags to be subject to pruning along with all other
references. This is the behavior that will typically be desired for
a mirror.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, fetch's "--tags" option was considered equivalent to
specifying the refspec "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" on the command line;
in particular, it caused the remote.<name>.refspec configuration to be
ignored.
But it is not very useful to fetch tags without also fetching other
references, whereas it *is* quite useful to be able to fetch tags *in
addition to* other references. So change the semantics of this option
to do the latter.
If a user wants to fetch *only* tags, then it is still possible to
specifying an explicit refspec:
git fetch <remote> 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
Please note that the documentation prior to 1.8.0.3 was ambiguous
about this aspect of "fetch --tags" behavior. Commit
f0cb2f137c 2012-12-14 fetch --tags: clarify documentation
made the documentation match the old behavior. This commit changes
the documentation to match the new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old code processed (tags == TAGS_SET) before adding the entries
used to opportunistically update references mentioned on the command
line. The result was that all tags were also considered candidates
for opportunistic updating.
This is harmless for two reasons: (a) because it would only add
entries if there is a configured refspec that covers tags *and* both
--tags and another refspec appear on the command-line; (b) because any
extra entries would be deleted later by the call to
ref_remove_duplicates() anyway.
But, to avoid extra work and extra memory usage, and to make the
implementation better match the intention, change the algorithm
slightly: compute the opportunistic refspecs based only on the
command-line arguments, storing the results into a separate temporary
list. Then add the tags (which have to come earlier in the list so
that they are not de-duped in favor of an opportunistic entry). Then
concatenate the temporary list onto the main list.
This change will also make later changes easier.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old code could leak *expn_name if match_name_with_pattern()
succeeded but ignore_symref_update() returned true. So make sure that
*expn_name is freed in any case.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reorder function definitions to avoid the need for a forward
declaration of function find_non_local_tags().
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename "refs" -> "refspecs" and "ref_count" -> "refspec_count" to
reduce confusion, because they describe an array of "struct refspec",
as opposed to the "struct ref" objects that are also used in this
function.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Replace reference to function parse_ref_spec() with references to
functions parse_fetch_refspec() and parse_push_refspec().
* Correct description of src and dst: they *do* include the '*'
characters.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch --prune --tags" is currently interpreted as follows:
* "--tags" is equivalent to specifying a refspec
"refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*", and supersedes any default refspecs
configured via remote.$REMOTE.fetch.
* "--prune" only operates on the refspecs being fetched.
Therefore, "git fetch --prune --tags" prunes tags in refs/tags/* but
does not fetch or prune other references. The fact that this command
does not prune references outside of refs/tags/* was previously
untested. So add a test that verifies the status quo.
However, the status quo is surprising, so it will be changed later in
this patch series.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch" was being used with contrived refspecs to create tags and
remote-tracking branches in test repositories in preparation for the
actual tests. This is obscure and also makes one wonder whether this
is indeed just preparation or whether some side-effect of "git fetch"
is being tested.
So use the more straightforward commands "git tag" / "git update-ref"
when preparing branches in test repositories.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix an apparent copy-paste error: A few lines earlier, a tag
"refs/tags/sometag" is created. Check for the (non-)existence of that
tag, not "somebranch", which is otherwise never mentioned in the
script.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree
that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but
shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which
made it unnecessarily inefficient.
* jc/ls-files-killed-optim:
dir.c::test_one_path(): work around directory_exists_in_index_icase() breakage
t3010: update to demonstrate "ls-files -k" optimization pitfalls
ls-files -k: a directory only can be killed if the index has a non-directory
dir.c: use the cache_* macro to access the current index
"git branch --track" had a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later
that made it impossible to base your local work on anything but a
local branch of the upstream repository you are tracking from.
* jh/checkout-auto-tracking:
t3200: fix failure on case-insensitive filesystems
branch.c: Relax unnecessary requirement on upstream's remote ref name
t3200: Add test demonstrating minor regression in 41c21f2
Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
t3200: Minor fix when preparing for tracking failure
t2024: Fix &&-chaining and a couple of typos
When there is no sufficient overlap between old and new history
during a "git fetch" into a shallow repository, objects that the
sending side knows the receiving end has were unnecessarily sent.
* nd/fetch-into-shallow:
Add testcase for needless objects during a shallow fetch
list-objects: mark more commits as edges in mark_edges_uninteresting
list-objects: reduce one argument in mark_edges_uninteresting
upload-pack: delegate rev walking in shallow fetch to pack-objects
shallow: add setup_temporary_shallow()
shallow: only add shallow graft points to new shallow file
move setup_alternate_shallow and write_shallow_commits to shallow.c
Cleanups and tweaks for credential handling to work with ancient versions
of the gnome-keyring library that are still in use.
* bc/gnome-keyring:
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: support really ancient gnome-keyring
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: support ancient gnome-keyring
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: report failure to store password
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: use glib messaging functions
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: use glib memory allocation functions
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: use secure memory for reading passwords
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: use secure memory functions for passwds
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: use gnome helpers in keyring_object()
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: set Gnome application name
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: ensure buffer is non-empty before accessing
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: strlen() returns size_t, not ssize_t
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: exit non-zero when called incorrectly
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: add static where applicable
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: *style* use "if ()" not "if()" etc.
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: remove unused die() function
contrib/git-credential-gnome-keyring.c: remove unnecessary pre-declarations
Explain how '.' can be used to refer to the "current repository"
in the documentation.
* po/dot-url:
doc/cli: make "dot repository" an independent bullet point
config doc: update dot-repository notes
doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery
"git cherry-pick" without further options would segfault.
Could use a follow-up to handle '-' after argv[1] better.
* hu/cherry-pick-previous-branch:
cherry-pick: handle "-" after parsing options
Make "git grep" and "git show" pay attention to --textconv when
dealing with blob objects.
* mg/more-textconv:
grep: honor --textconv for the case rev:path
grep: allow to use textconv filters
t7008: demonstrate behavior of grep with textconv
cat-file: do not die on --textconv without textconv filters
show: honor --textconv for blobs
diff_opt: track whether flags have been set explicitly
t4030: demonstrate behavior of show with textconv
Document rules to use GIT_REFLOG_ACTION variable in the scripted
Porcelain. git-rebase--interactive locally violates them, but it
is a leaf user that does not call out to or dot-source other
scripts, so it does not urgently need to be fixed.
* jc/reflog-doc:
setup_reflog_action: document the rules for using GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
Rewrite "git repack" in C.
* sb/repack-in-c:
repack: improve warnings about failure of renaming and removing files
repack: retain the return value of pack-objects
repack: rewrite the shell script in C
Some progress and diagnostic messages from "git clone" were
incorrectly sent to the standard output stream, not to the standard
error stream.
* jk/clone-progress-to-stderr:
clone: always set transport options
clone: treat "checking connectivity" like other progress
clone: send diagnostic messages to stderr
The option to gpg sign a merge commit is available but was not
documented. Use wording from the git-commit(1) manpage.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"format-patch --from=<whom>" forgot to omit unnecessary in-body
from line, i.e. when <whom> is the same as the real author.
* jk/format-patch-from:
format-patch: print in-body "From" only when needed
Clean up the internal of the name-hash mechanism used to work
around case insensitivity on some filesystems to cleanly fix a
long-standing API glitch where the caller of cache_name_exists()
that ask about a directory with a counted string was required to
have '/' at one location past the end of the string.
* es/name-hash-no-trailing-slash-in-dirs:
dir: revert work-around for retired dangerous behavior
name-hash: stop storing trailing '/' on paths in index_state.dir_hash
employ new explicit "exists in index?" API
name-hash: refactor polymorphic index_name_exists()
"git filter-branch" in a repository with many refs blew limit of
command line length.
* lc/filter-branch-too-many-refs:
Allow git-filter-branch to process large repositories with lots of branches.
"git checkout [--detach] <commit>" was listed poorly in the
synopsis section of its documentation.
* jc/checkout-detach-doc:
checkout: update synopsys and documentation on detaching HEAD
