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Junio C Hamano
ad77690fe4 Merge branch 'ta/glossary'
* ta/glossary:
  glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec
  The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
  glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics
  glossary: remove outdated/misleading/irrelevant entries
2013-04-21 18:40:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4059da3352 Merge branch 'fc/branch-upstream-color'
Add more colors to "git branch -vv" output.

* fc/branch-upstream-color:
  branch: colour upstream branches
2013-04-19 13:31:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
574d51b575 Merge branch 'mv/ssl-ftp-curl'
Does anybody really use commit walkers over (s)ftp?

* mv/ssl-ftp-curl:
  Support FTP-over-SSL/TLS for regular FTP
2013-04-19 13:31:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
288aa7534a Merge branch 'fc/send-email-annotate'
Allows format-patch --cover-letter to be configurable; the most
notable is the "auto" mode to create cover-letter only for multi
patch series.

* fc/send-email-annotate:
  rebase-am: explicitly disable cover-letter
  format-patch: trivial cleanups
  format-patch: add format.coverLetter configuration variable
  log: update to OPT_BOOL
  format-patch: refactor branch name calculation
  format-patch: improve head calculation for cover-letter
  send-email: make annotate configurable
2013-04-18 11:49:11 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
d5fa1f1a69 The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function.
When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 11:08:37 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
dbda21fa87 branch: colour upstream branches
Otherwise when using 'git branch -vv' it's hard to see them among so
much output.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 11:04:44 -07:00
Modestas Vainius
4bc444eb64 Support FTP-over-SSL/TLS for regular FTP
Add a boolean http.sslTry option which allows to enable AUTH SSL/TLS and
encrypted data transfers when connecting via regular FTP protocol.

Default is false since it might trigger certificate verification errors on
misconfigured servers.

Signed-off-by: Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-12 08:52:23 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
2a4c26076c format-patch: add format.coverLetter configuration variable
Also, add a new option: 'auto', so if there's more than one patch, the
cover letter is generated, otherwise it's not.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-07 13:37:47 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
402596aafa send-email: make annotate configurable
Some people always do --annotate, lets not force them to always type
that.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-07 00:42:29 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
9f765ce62f remote.c: introduce branch.<name>.pushremote
This new configuration variable overrides `remote.pushdefault` and
`branch.<name>.remote` for pushes.  When you pull from one
place (e.g. your upstream) and push to another place (e.g. your own
publishing repository), you would want to set `remote.pushdefault` to
specify the remote to push to for all branches, and use this option to
override it for a specific branch.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02 10:41:43 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
224c217163 remote.c: introduce remote.pushdefault
This new configuration variable defines the default remote to push to,
and overrides `branch.<name>.remote` for all branches.  It is useful
in the typical triangular-workflow setup, where the remote you're
fetching from is different from the remote you're pushing to.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02 10:41:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fec274b01f Merge branch 'tb/document-status-u-tradeoff' into maint
* tb/document-status-u-tradeoff:
  status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long
  git status: document trade-offs in choosing parameters to the -u option
2013-04-01 09:19:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d8355e5eae Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git help config: s/insn/instruction/
2013-03-28 14:34:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5e950c2199 Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maint
* maint-1.8.1:
  git help config: s/insn/instruction/
2013-03-28 14:34:07 -07:00
Matthias Krüger
3322ad4284 git help config: s/insn/instruction/
"insn" appears to be an in-code abbreviation and should not appear
in manual/help pages.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Krüger <matthias.krueger@famsik.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28 08:53:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c17866d7b6 Merge branch 'gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs' into maint
* gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs:
  Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
2013-03-26 12:40:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e4e1c54990 Merge branch 'jc/fetch-raw-sha1'
Allows requests to fetch objects at any tip of refs (including
hidden ones).  It seems that there may be use cases even outside
Gerrit (e.g. $gmane/215701).

* jc/fetch-raw-sha1:
  fetch: fetch objects by their exact SHA-1 object names
  upload-pack: optionally allow fetching from the tips of hidden refs
  fetch: use struct ref to represent refs to be fetched
  parse_fetch_refspec(): clarify the codeflow a bit
2013-03-21 14:02:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5d04924e19 Merge branch 'tb/document-status-u-tradeoff'
Suggest users to look into using--untracked=no option when "git
status" takes too long.

* tb/document-status-u-tradeoff:
  status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long
  git status: document trade-offs in choosing parameters to the -u option
2013-03-21 14:02:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9adf272a38 Merge branch 'gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs'
* gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs:
  Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
2013-03-19 12:16:22 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6a38ef2ced status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long
Introduce advice.statusUoption to suggest considering use of -u to
strike different trade-off when it took more than 2 seconds to
enumerate untracked/ignored files.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-16 21:44:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2a4a26b53d Sync with 'maint'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25 08:28:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cd9c038ac9 Merge branch 'jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default' into maint
* jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default:
  doc: mention tracking for pull.default
2013-02-25 08:04:20 -08:00
Greg Price
4f021b34f2 Documentation: "advice" is uncountable
"Advice" is a mass noun, not a count noun; it's not ordinarily
pluralized.

Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25 07:31:28 -08:00
Greg Price
48dfe969fc Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
A couple of references still survive to .git/refs as a tree
of all refs.  Fix one in docs, one in a -h message, one in
a -h message quoted in docs.

Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-24 22:23:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
20a599e2c1 Merge branch 'jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default'
We stopped mentioning `tracking` is a deprecated but supported
synonym for `upstream` in pull.default even though we have no
intention of removing the support for it.

* jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default:
  doc: mention tracking for pull.default
2013-02-18 16:05:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ce735bf7fd Merge branch 'jc/hidden-refs'
Allow the server side to redact the refs/ namespace it shows to the
client.

Will merge to 'master'.

* jc/hidden-refs:
  upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchies
  upload-pack: simplify request validation
  upload-pack: share more code
2013-02-17 15:25:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
390eb36b0a upload-pack: optionally allow fetching from the tips of hidden refs
With uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant configuration option set, future
versions of "git fetch" that allow an exact object name (likely to
have been obtained out of band) on the LHS of the fetch refspec can
make a request with a "want" line that names an object that may not
have been advertised due to transfer.hiderefs configuration.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-07 13:56:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
daebaa7813 upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchies
A repository may have refs that are only used for its internal
bookkeeping purposes that should not be exposed to the others that
come over the network.

Teach upload-pack to omit some refs from its initial advertisement
by paying attention to the uploadpack.hiderefs multi-valued
configuration variable.  Do the same to receive-pack via the
receive.hiderefs variable.  As a convenient short-hand, allow using
transfer.hiderefs to set the value to both of these variables.

Any ref that is under the hierarchies listed on the value of these
variable is excluded from responses to requests made by "ls-remote",
"fetch", etc. (for upload-pack) and "push" (for receive-pack).

Because these hidden refs do not count as OUR_REF, an attempt to
fetch objects at the tip of them will be rejected, and because these
refs do not get advertised, "git push :" will not see local branches
that have the same name as them as "matching" ones to be sent.

An attempt to update/delete these hidden refs with an explicit
refspec, e.g. "git push origin :refs/hidden/22", is rejected.  This
is not a new restriction.  To the pusher, it would appear that there
is no such ref, so its push request will conclude with "Now that I
sent you all the data, it is time for you to update the refs.  I saw
that the ref did not exist when I started pushing, and I want the
result to point at this commit".  The receiving end will apply the
compare-and-swap rule to this request and rejects the push with
"Well, your update request conflicts with somebody else; I see there
is such a ref.", which is the right thing to do. Otherwise a push to
a hidden ref will always be "the last one wins", which is not a good
default.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-07 13:48:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e34c7e2b51 Merge branch 'ta/doc-no-small-caps'
Update documentation to change "GIT" which was a poor-man's small
caps to "Git".  The latter was the intended spelling.

Also change "git" spelled in all-lowercase to "Git" when it refers
to the system as the whole or the concept it embodies, as opposed to
the command the end users would type.

* ta/doc-no-small-caps:
  Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT
  Documentation: describe the "repository" in repository-layout
  Documentation: add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary
  Documentation: do not use undefined terms git-dir and git-file
  Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
  Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
2013-02-05 16:13:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
370855e967 Merge branch 'jc/push-reject-reasons'
Improve error and advice messages given locally when "git push"
refuses when it cannot compute fast-forwardness by separating these
cases from the normal "not a fast-forward; merge first and push
again" case.

* jc/push-reject-reasons:
  push: finishing touches to explain REJECT_ALREADY_EXISTS better
  push: introduce REJECT_FETCH_FIRST and REJECT_NEEDS_FORCE
  push: further simplify the logic to assign rejection reason
  push: further clean up fields of "struct ref"
2013-02-04 10:25:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
149a4211a4 Merge branch 'jc/custom-comment-char'
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the
character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from
the default '#'.

* jc/custom-comment-char:
  Allow custom "comment char"
2013-02-04 10:23:49 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fa23348e95 doc: mention tracking for pull.default
When looking at a configuration file edited long time ago, a user
may find 'pull.default = tracking' and wonder what it means, but
earlier we stopped mentioning this value, even though the code still
support it and more importantly, we have no intention to force old
timers to update their configuration files.

Instead of not mentioning it, add it to the description in a way
that makes it clear that users have no reason to add new uses of it
preferring over 'upstream', by not listing it as a separate item on
the same footing as other values but as a deprecated synonym of the
'upstream' in its description.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-31 17:00:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a77133e383 Merge branch 'ss/help-htmlpath-config-doc' into maint
* ss/help-htmlpath-config-doc:
  config.txt: Document help.htmlpath config parameter
2013-01-28 11:13:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
75e5c0dc55 push: introduce REJECT_FETCH_FIRST and REJECT_NEEDS_FORCE
When we push to update an existing ref, if:

 * the object at the tip of the remote is not a commit; or
 * the object we are pushing is not a commit,

it won't be correct to suggest to fetch, integrate and push again,
as the old and new objects will not "merge".  We should explain that
the push must be forced when there is a non-committish object is
involved in such a case.

If we do not have the current object at the tip of the remote, we do
not even know that object, when fetched, is something that can be
merged.  In such a case, suggesting to pull first just like
non-fast-forward case may not be technically correct, but in
practice, most such failures are seen when you try to push your work
to a branch without knowing that somebody else already pushed to
update the same branch since you forked, so "pull first" would work
as a suggestion most of the time.  And if the object at the tip is
not a commit, "pull first" will fail, without making any permanent
damage.  As a side effect, it also makes the error message the user
will get during the next "push" attempt easier to understand, now
the user is aware that a non-commit object is involved.

In these cases, the current code already rejects such a push on the
client end, but we used the same error and advice messages as the
ones used when rejecting a non-fast-forward push, i.e. pull from
there and integrate before pushing again.

Introduce new rejection reasons and reword the messages
appropriately.

[jc: with help by Peff on message details]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-24 14:37:23 -08:00
Robin Rosenberg
c08e4d5b5c Enable minimal stat checking
Specifically the fields uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev are set to zero
by JGit. Other implementations, eg. Git in cygwin are allegedly also
somewhat incompatible with Git For Windows and on *nix platforms
the resolution of the timestamps may differ.

Any stat checking by git will then need to check content, which may
be very slow, particularly on Windows. Since mtime and size
is typically enough we should allow the user to tell git to avoid
checking these fields if they are set to zero in the index.

This change introduces a core.checkstat config option where the
the user can select to check all fields (default), or just size
and the whole second part of mtime (minimal).

Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-22 09:33:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
28f04f3463 Merge branch 'rt/commit-cleanup-config'
Add a configuration variable to set default clean-up mode other
than "strip".

* rt/commit-cleanup-config:
  commit: make default of "cleanup" option configurable
2013-01-20 17:07:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
577f63e781 Merge branch 'ap/log-mailmap'
Teach commands in the "log" family to optionally pay attention to
the mailmap.

* ap/log-mailmap:
  log --use-mailmap: optimize for cases without --author/--committer search
  log: add log.mailmap configuration option
  log: grep author/committer using mailmap
  test: add test for --use-mailmap option
  log: add --use-mailmap option
  pretty: use mailmap to display username and email
  mailmap: add mailmap structure to rev_info and pp
  mailmap: simplify map_user() interface
  mailmap: remove email copy and length limitation
  Use split_ident_line to parse author and committer
  string-list: allow case-insensitive string list
2013-01-20 17:06:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
264238f7bd Merge branch 'ss/help-htmlpath-config-doc'
Add missing doc.

* ss/help-htmlpath-config-doc:
  config.txt: Document help.htmlpath config parameter
2013-01-18 11:20:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
eff80a9fd9 Allow custom "comment char"
Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #,
in their commit log message.  Many tracking system recognise
a token of #<bugid> form, for example.

The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end
users.  They have a choice between

 - Don't do it.  Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and

 - Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add.

Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g.

    $ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit

so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds.

[jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation
updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*()
functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are
from Ralf.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-16 12:48:22 -08:00
Sebastian Staudt
b1f809d0ae config.txt: Document help.htmlpath config parameter
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Staudt <koraktor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-15 13:08:45 -08:00
Antoine Pelisse
e6bb5f78fb log: add log.mailmap configuration option
Teach "log.mailmap" configuration variable to turn "--use-mailmap"
option on to "git log", "git show" and "git whatchanged".

The "--no-use-mailmap" option from the command line can countermand
the setting.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10 12:33:09 -08:00
Ralf Thielow
51fb3a3dfa commit: make default of "cleanup" option configurable
The default of the "cleanup" option in "git commit"
is not configurable. Users who don't want to use the
default have to pass this option on every commit since
there's no way to configure it. This commit introduces
a new config option "commit.cleanup" which can be used
to change the default of the "cleanup" option in
"git commit".

Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10 11:45:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3a2ce79981 Merge branch 'nd/maint-branch-desc-doc'
Teach various forms of "format-patch" command line to identify what
branch the patches are taken from, so that the branch description
is picked up in more cases.

* nd/maint-branch-desc-doc:
  format-patch: pick up branch description when no ref is specified
  format-patch: pick up correct branch name from symbolic ref
  t4014: a few more tests on cover letter using branch description
  branch: delete branch description if it's empty
  config.txt: a few lines about branch.<name>.description
2013-01-09 08:27:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
902f2f4f0a Merge branch 'wk/submodule-update-remote'
The beginning of 'integrate with the tip of the remote branch, not
the commit recorded in the superproject gitlink' support.

* wk/submodule-update-remote:
  submodule add: If --branch is given, record it in .gitmodules
  submodule update: add --remote for submodule's upstream changes
  submodule: add get_submodule_config helper funtion
2013-01-05 23:42:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3a3100a889 Merge branch 'jk/mailmap-from-blob'
Allow us to read, and default to read, mailmap files from the tip
of the history in bare repositories.  This will help running tools
like shortlog in server settings.

* jk/mailmap-from-blob:
  mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositories
  mailmap: fix some documentation loose-ends for mailmap.blob
  mailmap: clean up read_mailmap error handling
  mailmap: support reading mailmap from blobs
  mailmap: refactor mailmap parsing for non-file sources
2013-01-05 23:41:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9a2c83d24c Merge branch 'cr/push-force-tag-update'
Require "-f" for push to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward.

* cr/push-force-tag-update:
  push: allow already-exists advice to be disabled
  push: rename config variable for more general use
  push: cleanup push rules comment
  push: clarify rejection of update to non-commit-ish
  push: require force for annotated tags
  push: require force for refs under refs/tags/
  push: flag updates that require force
  push: keep track of "update" state separately
  push: add advice for rejected tag reference
  push: return reject reasons as a bitset
2013-01-05 23:41:34 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a5ba2cbe14 config.txt: a few lines about branch.<name>.description
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-01 12:13:43 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
0b830ac521 Documentation: move diff.wordRegex from config.txt to diff-config.txt
19299a8 (Documentation: Move diff.<driver>.* from config.txt to
diff-config.txt, 2011-04-07) moved the diff configuration options to
diff-config.txt, but forgot about diff.wordRegex, which was left
behind in config.txt.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:21:46 -08:00
W. Trevor King
06b1abb5bd submodule update: add --remote for submodule's upstream changes
The current `update` command incorporates the superproject's gitlinked
SHA-1 ($sha1) into the submodule HEAD ($subsha1).  Depending on the
options you use, it may checkout $sha1, rebase the $subsha1 onto
$sha1, or merge $sha1 into $subsha1.  This helps you keep up with
changes in the upstream superproject.

However, it's also useful to stay up to date with changes in the
upstream subproject.  Previous workflows for incorporating such
changes include the ungainly:

  $ git submodule foreach 'git checkout $(git config --file $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch) && git pull'

With this patch, all of the useful functionality for incorporating
superproject changes can be reused to incorporate upstream subproject
updates.  When you specify --remote, the target $sha1 is replaced with
a $sha1 of the submodule's origin/master tracking branch.  If you want
to merge a different tracking branch, you can configure the
`submodule.<name>.branch` option in `.gitmodules`.  You can override
the `.gitmodules` configuration setting for a particular superproject
by configuring the option in that superproject's default configuration
(using the usual configuration hierarchy, e.g. `.git/config`,
`~/.gitconfig`, etc.).

Previous use of submodule.<name>.branch
=======================================

Because we're adding a new configuration option, it's a good idea to
check if anyone else is already using the option.  The foreach-pull
example above was described by Ævar in

  commit f030c96d86
  Author: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
  Date:   Fri May 21 16:10:10 2010 +0000

    git-submodule foreach: Add $toplevel variable

Gerrit uses the same interpretation for the setting, but because
Gerrit has direct access to the subproject repositories, it updates
the superproject repositories automatically when a subproject changes.
Gerrit also accepts the special value '.', which it expands into the
superproject's branch name.

Although the --remote functionality is using `submodule.<name>.branch`
slightly differently, the effect is the same.  The foreach-pull
example uses the option to record the name of the local branch to
checkout before pulls.  The tracking branch to be pulled is recorded
in `.git/modules/<name>/config`, which was initialized by the module
clone during `submodule add` or `submodule init`.  Because the branch
name stored in `submodule.<name>.branch` was likely the same as the
branch name used during the initial `submodule add`, the same branch
will be pulled in each workflow.

Implementation details
======================

In order to ensure a current tracking branch state, `update --remote`
fetches the submodule's remote repository before calculating the
SHA-1.  However, I didn't change the logic guarding the existing fetch:

  if test -z "$nofetch"
  then
    # Run fetch only if $sha1 isn't present or it
    # is not reachable from a ref.
    (clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" &&
      ( (rev=$(git rev-list -n 1 $sha1 --not --all 2>/dev/null) &&
       test -z "$rev") || git-fetch)) ||
    die "$(eval_gettext "Unable to fetch in submodule path '\$path'")"
  fi

There will not be a double-fetch, because the new $sha1 determined
after the `--remote` triggered fetch should always exist in the
repository.  If it doesn't, it's because some racy process removed it
from the submodule's repository and we *should* be re-fetching.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-19 09:40:01 -08:00