I often find myself pulling patches off of other peoples trees using
cherry-pick, and following it with an immediate 'git commit --amend -s'
command. Eliminate the need for a double commit by allowing signoff on a
cherry-pick or revert.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
remote: create fetch config lines with '+'
push: allow unqualified dest refspecs to DWIM
doc/git-gc: add a note about what is collected
t5516: remove ambiguity test (1)
Linked glossary from cvs-migration page
write-tree: properly detect failure to write tree objects
It seems to be a FAQ that people try running git-gc, and
then get puzzled about why the size of their .git directory
didn't change. This note mentions the reasons why things
might unexpectedly get kept.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Coming from CVS, I found the git glossary vital to learning git and learning
how terms in git correlate to the cvs terminology with which I am familiar.
This patch links the glossary from the cvs-migration page so cvs users will
be able to fine the glossary as soon as they start looking at git documents.
Signed-off-by: Matt Graham <mdg149@gmail.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Amend git-push refspec documentation
git-gc --prune is deprecated
svn-git: Use binmode for reading/writing binary rev maps
diff options documentation: refer to --diff-filter in --name-status
Don't force imap.host to be set when imap.tunnel is set
git-clone.txt: Adjust note to --shared for new pruning behavior of git-gc
git-svn bug with blank commits and author file
archive.c: format_subst - fixed bogus argument to memchr
copy.c: copy_fd - correctly report write errors
gitattributes: Fix subdirectory attributes specified from root directory
These paragraphs are a little confusing. Also, make it clearer when
you have to specify the full name for <dst>
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
25ee9731c1 made the '--prune' option
deprecated and removed its description from the git-gc man page. This
patch removes all references to this option from the rest of the Git
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git diff --name-status outputs letters, but the meaning of those letters
is documented elsewhere. Add a note to make the manpage more intuitive.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since git-gc now always calls prune, even with --auto, unreferenced objects
may be removed by more operations than just git-gc. This is important for
clones created using --shared or --reference.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
post-receive-email: fix accidental removal of a trailing space in signature line
Escape project names before creating pathinfo URLs
Escape project name in regexp
bash: Add completion for git diff --base --ours --theirs
diff-options.txt: document the new "--dirstat" option
This commit adds the documentation for the new option added by 7df7c01
(Add "--dirstat" for some directory statistics, 2008-02-12).
Noticed by Clint Adams, reported through
http://bugs.debian.org/476437
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds a remote.*.mirror configuration option that,
when set, automatically puts git-push in --mirror mode for that
remote.
Furthermore, the option is set automatically by `git remote
add --mirror'.
The code in remote.c to parse remote.*.skipdefaultupdate
had a subtle problem: a comment in the code indicated that
special care was needed for boolean options, but this care was
not used in parsing the option. Since I was touching related
code, I did this fix too.
[jc: and I further fixed up the "ignore boolean" code.]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These options filter the output from git branch to only include branches
whose tip is either merged or not merged into HEAD.
The use-case for these options is when working with integration of branches
from many remotes: `git branch --no-merged -a` will show a nice list of merge
candidates while `git branch --merged -a` will show the progress of your
integration work.
Also, a plain `git branch --merged` is a quick way to find local branches
which you might want to delete.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
gitweb: Fix 'history' view for deleted files with history
Document that WebDAV doesn't need git on the server, and works over SSL
git-remote: reject adding remotes with invalid names
am: POSIX portability fix
I managed to set up a Git repository on a preconfigured WebDAV server,
and using HTTPS, without installing Git on it or changing the server
configuration. This works through a proxy too. This patch reflects
this (it previously stated that Git was _necessary_ on the server,
which isn't true). Also give a few hints to troubleshoting.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git init --shared=0xxx, where '0xxx' is an octal number, will create
a repository with file modes set to '0xxx'. Users with a safe umask
value (0077) can use this option to force file modes. For example,
'0640' is a group-readable but not group-writable regardless of
user's umask value. Values compatible with old Git versions are written
as they were before, for compatibility reasons. That is, "1" for
"group" and "2" for "everybody".
"git config core.sharedRepository 0xxx" is also handled.
Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do some verb-noun agreement changes.
Clarify some file globbing cases.
Fixed a wrong statement in an example.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
git-bisect: make "start", "good" and "skip" succeed or fail atomically
git-am: cope better with an empty Subject: line
Ignore leading empty lines while summarizing merges
bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message
builtin-apply: Show a more descriptive error on failure when opening a patch
Clarify documentation of git-cvsserver, particularly in relation to git-shell
* maint-1.5.4:
git-bisect: make "start", "good" and "skip" succeed or fail atomically
git-am: cope better with an empty Subject: line
Ignore leading empty lines while summarizing merges
bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message
builtin-apply: Show a more descriptive error on failure when opening a patch
Clarify documentation of git-cvsserver, particularly in relation to git-shell
For SSH clients restricted to git-shell, CVS_SERVER does not have to be
specified, because git-shell understands the default value of 'cvs' to
mean git-cvsserver'. This makes it totally transparent to CVS users, but
the instruction to set up CVS access for people with real shell access
does not apply.
Previous wording mentioning GIT_AUTHOR, GIT_COMMITTER variables was
unclear that we really meant GIT_AUTHOR_(NAME|EMAIL), etc.
Note that the .ssh/environment file is a good place to set these, and that
the .bashrc is shell-specific. Add a bit of text to differentiate cvs -d
(setting CVSROOT) from cvs co -d (setting the name of the newly checked
out directory). Removed an extra 'Example:' string.
Signed-off-by: Scott Collins <scc@ScottCollins.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit teaches 'git commit/status' show a new 'Modified submodules'
section, which is an output from:
git submodule summary --cached --for-status --summary-limit <limit>
just before the 'Untracked files' section.
The <limit> is given by the config variable status.submodulesummary
to limit the submodule summary size. status.submodulesummary is a
bool/int variable with value:
- false or 0 by default to disable the summary, or
- positive number to limit the summary size, or
- true or negative number to unlimit the summary size.
Also mention status.submodulesummary in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These are the command line option equivalents of the 'merge.log' config
variable.
The patch also updates documentation and bash completion accordingly, and
adds a test.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These are new synonyms to the '--(no-)summary' option and the
'merge.summary' config variable, but are consistent with the soon to be
added 'merge --(no-)log' options. The 'merge.summary' config variable and
'--(no-)summary' options are still accepted, but are advertised to be
removed in the future.
'merge.log' takes precedence over 'merge.summary' if they are both set
inconsistently.
Update documentation and tests accordingly.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This variable has the same effect, as 'merge.diffstat'.
Also mention it in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option has the same effect as '--(no-)summary' (i.e. whether to
show a diffsat at the end of the merge or not), and it is consistent
with the '--stat' option of other git commands.
Documentation, tests, and bash completion are updaed accordingly, and the
old --summary option is marked as being deprected.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Include the new file from config.txt and git-merge.txt.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
bisect: fix bad rev checking in "git bisect good"
revision.c: make --date-order overriddable
git-submodule: Avoid 'fatal: cannot describe' message
Force the medium pretty format on calls to git log
Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs
Document option --only of git commit
Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end")
* maint-1.5.4:
bisect: fix bad rev checking in "git bisect good"
revision.c: make --date-order overriddable
Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs
Document option --only of git commit
Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end")
Users are not often aware of the fact that "git bisect -h" can give
them a long usage description, as "git bisect" seems to accept only
dashless subcommands like "start", "good", ...
That's why this patch adds a "git bisect help" subcommand that just
calls "git bisect -h". This new subcommand is also fully documented
in the short usage string (that "git bisect" gives), in the long
usage string and in the man page (that "git help bisect" gives).
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tagger is equal to the committer, not the author, so
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is the right environment variable to use, not
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE.
Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Its documentation was removed by 6c96753 (Documentation/git-commit: rewrite
to make it more end-user friendly, 2006-12-08), even though it is referenced
from a few places, including builtin-commit.c (as part of the commentary in
the commit message template).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
git-fetch: fix status output when not storing tracking ref
core-tutorial.txt: Fix showing the current behaviour.
git-archive: ignore prefix when checking file attribute
Fix documentation syntax of optional arguments in short options.
* maint-1.5.4:
core-tutorial.txt: Fix showing the current behaviour.
git-archive: ignore prefix when checking file attribute
Fix documentation syntax of optional arguments in short options.
The --root option from "git diff-tree" won't do nothing
when is given to commands like git-whatchanged or git-log,
because those always print the initial commit by default.
This fixes the tutorial explaining the function of the
log.showroot configuration variable.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an argument for an option is optional, like in -n from git-tag,
puting a space between the option and the argument is interpreted
as a missing argument for the option plus an isolated argument.
Documentation now reflects the need to write the parameter following
the option -n, as in "git tag -nARG", for instance.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch allows .git to be a regular textfile containing the path of
the real git directory (prefixed with "gitdir: "), which can be useful on
platforms lacking support for real symlinks.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mk/unpack-careful:
t5300: add test for "index-pack --strict"
receive-pack: allow using --strict mode for unpacking objects
unpack-objects: fix --strict handling
t5300: add test for "unpack-objects --strict"
unpack-objects: prevent writing of inconsistent objects
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a bit confusing on first read, that
"The packed archive format (.pack) is designed
to be unpackable..."
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rate of fixes that trickle in has slowed and we are definitely
getting there. Hopefully one final round and we will have the final
1.5.5 soon.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for creating a new tag object and retaining the tag message,
author, and date when rewriting tags. The gpg signature, if one exists,
will be stripped.
This adds nearly proper tag name filtering to filter-branch. Proper tag
name filtering would include the ability to change the tagger, tag date,
tag message, and _not_ strip a gpg signature if the tag did not change.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adds a gitcvs.dbtablenameprefix config variable, the contents of which
are prepended to any database tables names used by git-cvsserver. The
same substutions as gitcvs.dbname and gitcvs.dbuser are supported, and
any non-alphabetic characters are replaced with underscores.
A typo found in contrib/completion/git-completion.bash is also fixed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Update draft release notes for 1.5.4.5
Documentation: clarify use of .git{ignore,attributes} versus .git/info/*
t/t3800-mktag.sh: use test_must_fail rather than '!'
Conflicts:
t/t3800-mktag.sh
gitignore patterns can be read from three different
files, while gitattributes can come from two files. Let's
provide some hints to the user about the differences and how
they are typically used.
Suggested by Toby Corkindale, but gratuitously reworded by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@rea-group.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Texts between ~ and ~ will be subscripted during the asciidoc translation.
Signed-off-by: Guanqun Lu <Guanqun.Lu@Gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0c829391cf)
For a while now, git-checkout has been more powerful than the man-page
summary would suggest (the main text does describe the new features),
so update the summary to hopefully better reflect the current
functionality. Also update the glossary description of the word checkout.
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Texts between ~ and ~ will be subscripted during the asciidoc translation.
Signed-off-by: Guanqun Lu <Guanqun.Lu@Gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
checkout and branch recently learnt to track local branches when
branch.autosetupmerge = always, but they _also_ learnt to do that when
asked explicitely with the option "--track".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds a %xXX format which inserts two hexdigits after %x as a byte
value in the resulting string. This can be used to add a NUL byte or any
other byte that can make machine parsing easier. It is also necessary to
use fwrite to print out the data since printf will terminate if you feed
it a NUL.
Signed-off-by: Govind Salinas <blix@sophiasuchtig.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent discussion on the list, with the improvement f7c22cc (always start
looking up objects in the last used pack first, 2007-05-30) brought in,
reached the concensus that the current default 20 is too low.
Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77586
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fast-import documentation currently does not document the behaviour
of "merge" when there is no "from" in a commit. This patch adds a
description of what happens: the commit is created with a parent, but
no files. This behaviour is equivalent to "from" followed by
"filedeleteall".
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add sendemail.smtpserverport to the Configuration section
of the git-send-email manpage. It should probably be
referenced in the --smtp-server-port option as well.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Give a direct hint to those who feel highly annoyed by the auto gc
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was already some documentation about subtree under
Documentation/howto but it was missing from git-merge manpage.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Make man page building quiet when DOCBOOK_XSL_172 is defined
git-new-workdir: Share SVN meta data between work dirs and the repository
rev-parse: fix meaning of rev~ vs rev~0.
git-svn: don't blindly append '*' to branch/tags config
Tell xmlto to repress printing of the lines:
Note: meta date : No date. Using generated date git-xyx
Note: Writing git-xyz.1
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
merge-file: handle empty files gracefully
merge-recursive: handle file mode changes
Minor wording changes in the keyboard descriptions in git-add --interactive.
git fetch: Take '-n' to mean '--no-tags'
quiltimport: fix misquoting of parsed -p<num> parameter
git-quiltimport: better parser to grok "enhanced" series files.
The wording of the interactive help text from git-add--interactive.perl is
clearer. Just duplicate that text here.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Kumar <vineet@doorstop.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only reason we did not call "prune" in git-gc was that it is an
inherently dangerous operation: if there is a commit going on, you will
prune loose objects that were just created, and are, in fact, needed by the
commit object just about to be created.
Since it is dangerous, we told users so. That led to many users not even
daring to run it when it was actually safe. Besides, they are users, and
should not have to remember such details as when to call git-gc with
--prune, or to call git-prune directly.
Of course, the consequence was that "git gc --auto" gets triggered much
more often than we would like, since unreferenced loose objects (such as
left-overs from a rebase or a reset --hard) were never pruned.
Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire <minimum-age>, which
makes it a much safer operation. This allows us to call prune from git-gc,
with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose objects (this
value was determined in a discussion on the git list as a safe one).
If you want to override this grace period, just set the config variable
gc.pruneExpire to a different value; an example would be
[gc]
pruneExpire = 6.months.ago
or even "never", if you feel really paranoid.
Note that this new behaviour makes "--prune" be a no-op.
While adding a test to t5304-prune.sh (since it really tests the implicit
call to "prune"), also the original test for "prune --expire" was moved
there from t1410-reflog.sh, where it did not belong.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Also add titles to paragraphs under "CONFIGURATION VARIABLES".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
