The --branch-log option and its associated code hasn't been used in
several months, as its not really very useful for debugging fast-import
or a frontend. I don't plan on supporting it in this state long-term,
so I'm killing it now before it gets distributed to a wider audience.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is a first pass at the manpage for git-fast-import.
I have tried to cover the input format in extreme detail, creating a
reference which is more detailed than the BNF grammar appearing in
the header of fast-import.c. I have also covered some details about
gfi's performance and memory utilization, as well as the average
learning curve required to create a gfi frontend application (as it
is far lower than it might appear on first glance).
The documentation still lacks real example input streams, which may
turn out to be difficult to format in asciidoc due to the blank lines
which carry meaning within the format.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This can be used to compress multiple changesets into one, for example
like
git cvsexportcommit -P cvshead mybranch
without having to do so in git first.
Signed-off-by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
hg-to-git.py is able to convert a Mercurial repository into a git one,
and preserves the branches in the process (unlike tailor)
hg-to-git.py can probably be greatly improved (it's a rather crude
combination of shell and python) but it does already work quite well for
me. Features:
- supports incremental conversion
(for keeping a git repo in sync with a hg one)
- supports hg branches
- converts hg tags
Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This particular use of git-rebase to remove a single commit or a
range of commits from the history of a branch recently came up on
the mailing list. Documenting the example should help other users
arrive at the same solution on their own.
It also was not obvious to the newcomer that git-rebase is able to
accept any commit for --onto <newbase> and <upstream>. We should
at least minimally document this, as much of the language in
git-rebase's manpage refers to 'branch' rather than 'committish'.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation for git-for-each-ref said that the refname variable
would return "the part after $GIT_DIR/refs/", which isn't true.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* np/dreflog:
show-branch -g: default to the current branch.
Let git-checkout always drop any detached head
Enable HEAD@{...} and make it independent from the current branch
scan reflogs independently from refs
add reflog when moving HEAD to a new branch
create_symref(): do not assume pathname from git_path() persists long enough
add logref support to git-symbolic-ref
move create_symref() past log_ref_write()
add reflog entries for HEAD when detached
enable separate reflog for HEAD
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remember the original name of a ref when resolving it
make reflog filename independent from struct ref_lock
Mention git-revert as an alternative to git-reset to revert changes.
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now we have a separate reflog on HEAD, show-branch -g without an explicit
parameter defaults to the current branch, or HEAD when it is detached
from branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is to resolve conflicts early in preparation for possible
inclusion of "reflog on detached HEAD" series by Nico, as having
it in 1.5.0 would really help us remove confusion between
detached and attached states.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Jakub Narebski pointed out the positional notation in git-remote's
documentation was very confusing, especially now that we have 3
supported subcommands. Instead of referring to subcommands by
position, refer to them by name.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I was reading the tutorial and noticed that we say this:
Also, don't use "git reset" on a publicly-visible branch that
other developers pull from, as git will be confused by history
that disappears in this way.
I do not think this is a good explanation. For example, if we
do this:
(1) I build a series and push it out.
---o---o---o---j
(2) Alice clones from me, and builds two commits on top of it.
---o---o---o---j---a---a
(3) I rewind one and build a few, and push them out.
---o---o---o...j
\
h---h---h---h
(4) Alice pulls from me again:
---o---o---o---j---a---a---*
\ /
h---h---h---h
Contrary to the description, git will happily have Alice merge
between the two branches, and never gets confused.
Maybe I did not want to have 'j' because it was an incomplete
solution to some problem, and Alice may have fixed it up with
her changes, while I abandoned that approach I started with 'j',
and worked on something completely unrelated in the four 'h'
commits. In such a case, the merge Alice would make would be
very sensible, and after she makes the merge if I pull from her,
the world will be perfect. I started something with 'j' and
dropped the ball, Alice picked it up and perfected it while I
went on to work on something else with 'h'. This would be a
perfect example of distributed parallel collaboration. There is
nothing confused about it.
The case the rewinding becomes problematic is if the work done
in 'h' tries to solve the same problem as 'j' tried to solve in
a different way. Then the merge forced on Alice would make her
pick between my previous attempt with her fixups (j+a) and my
second attempt (h). If 'a' commits were to fix up what 'j'
started, presumably Alice already studied and knows enough about
the problem so she should be able to make an informed decision
to pick between what 'j+a' and 'h' do.
A lot worse case is if Alice's work is not at all related to
what 'j' wanted to do (she did not mean to pick up from where I
left off -- she just wanted to work on something different).
Then she would not be familiar enough with what 'j' and 'h'
tried to achieve, and I'd be forcing her to pick between the
two. Of course if she can make the right decision, then again
that is a perfect example of distributed collaboration, but that
does not change the fact that I'd be forcing her to clean up my
mess.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The default post-commit hook is actually empty; it is the update hook
that sends an email. This patch corrects hooks.txt to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since it can be annoying to manually cleanup 40 tracking branches
which were removed by the remote system, 'git remote prune <n>'
can now be used to delete any tracking branches under <n> which
are no longer available on the remote system.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Those new messages are certainly nice, but there might be cases where
they are simply unwelcome, like when git-commit is used within scripts.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It does not seem to need it either and gives an error on FC5 I use
at kernel.org to cut documentation tarballs, so remove it in the
meantime.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is in the hope of giving JBF's user-manual wider exposure.
I am not very happy with trailing whitespaces in the new
document, but let's not worry too much about the formatting
issues for now, but concentrate more on the structure and the
contents.
I'd like complete gitweb setup instructions some day, but for now just
refer to the gitweb README.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Document Junio's show-branch trick for finding out which tags are
descendents of a given comit.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
I still really want a section on interoperability with CVS, subversion,
etc., but I'm not getting around to it very fast, so just add this to
the TODO section for now. And a few other minor todo updates.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Add a brief discussion of reflogs. Also recovery of dangling commits
seems to fit in here, so move some of the discussion out of Linus's
email to here.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Direct editing of config files may be more natural for users than using
the git-config commandline; but we should still reference the
git-config man page when we describe such editing, so people know where
to go for details on the config file syntax and meanings of the
variables.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Looks like we're going to allow git-config as the preferred alias to
git-repo-config, so let's document that instead.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Initial import of fsck and dangling objects discussion, mostly lifted from
an email from Linus.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Love it or hate it, some people actually still program in Tcl. Some
of those programs are meant for interfacing with Git. Programs such as
gitk and git-gui. It may be useful to have Tcl-safe output available
from for-each-ref, just like shell, Perl and Python already enjoy.
Thanks to Sergey Vlasov for pointing out the horrible flaws in the
first and second version of this patch, and steering me in the right
direction for Tcl value quoting.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* The description of valid colour specifications was rather
incomplete, so fix it so that it actually describes colour specs as
accepted by color_parse().
* The list of colour items allowed in color.diff.BLAH was missing the
`commit' and `whitespace' entries.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I did this:
$ git tag -s test-sign
gpg: skipped "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>": secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
failed to sign the tag with GPG.
The problem is that I have used the comment field in my key's UID
definition.
$ gpg --list-keys andy
pub 1024D/4F712F6D 2003-08-14
uid Andy Parkins (Google) <andyparkins@gmail.com>
So when git-tag looks for "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>";
obviously it's not going to be found.
There shouldn't be a requirement that I use the same form of my name in
my git repository and my gpg key - I might want to be formal (Andrew) in
my gpg key and informal (Andy) in the repository. Further I might have
multiple keys in my keyring, and might want to use one that doesn't
match up with the address I use in commit messages.
This patch adds a configuration entry "user.signingkey" which, if
present, will be passed to the "-u" switch for gpg, allowing the tag
signing key to be overridden. If the entry is not present, the fallback
is the original method, which means existing behaviour will continue
untouched.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Keep git remote discussion in the first chapter, but postpone
lower-level git fetch usage (to fetch individual branches) till later.
Import a bunch of slightly modified text from the readme to give an
architectural overview at the end.
Add more discussion of history rewriting.
And a bunch of other miscellaneous changes....
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Document the recommended way to prime a repository with tons of
references with 'pack-refs --all -prune'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This introduces the config item remote.<name>.uploadpack to override the
default value (which is "git-upload-pack").
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows transfer.unpackLimit to specify what these two
configuration variables want to set.
We would probably want to deprecate the two separate variables,
as I do not see much point in specifying them independently.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes git-fetch over git native protocol to automatically
decide to keep the downloaded pack if the fetch results in more
than 100 objects, just like receive-pack invoked by git-push
does. This logic is disabled when --keep is explicitly given
from the command line, so that a very small clone still keeps
the downloaded pack as before.
The 100 threshold can be adjusted with fetch.unpacklimit
configuration. We might want to introduce transfer.unpacklimit
to consolidate the two unpacklimit variables, which will be a
topic for the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Just some option name disambiguation. This is the counter part to
commit d23842fd which made a similar change for push and send-pack.
--exec continues to work.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We used to get the following confusing error message:
$ git commit --amend -a -m foo
Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F
This is because --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F, which makes
sense, because they try to handle the same log message in different ways.
So update the documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Contrary to variable values, in subsection names parsing character
escape codes (besides literal escaping of " as \", and \ as \\)
is not performed; subsection name cannot contain newlines.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A short-hand "-g" for "git log --walk-reflogs" and "git
show-branch --reflog" makes it easier to access the reflog
info.
[jc: added -g to show-branch for symmetry]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Separate part of Documentation/config.txt which deals with git config file
syntax into "Syntax" subsection, and expand it. Add information about
subsections, boolean values, escaping and escape sequences in string
values, and continuing variable value on the next line.
Add also proxy settings to config file example to show example of
partially enclosed in double quotes string value.
Parts based on comments by Junio C Hamano, Johannes Schindelin,
config.c, and the smb.conf(5) man page.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-prune is not safe when run uncontrolled in parallel while
other git operations are creating new objects. To avoid
mistakes, do not run git-prune by default from git-gc.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This reverts commit 9b088c4e39.
Protecting 'mature' objects does not make it any safer. We should
admit that git-prune is inherently unsafe when run in parallel with
other operations without involving unwarranted locking overhead,
and with the latest git, even rebase and reset would not immediately
create crufts anyway.
Marco Candrian noticed that one cat-file example refers to a
blob object that is never used in the example sequence.
The bug is interesting in that the output from the botched
sample command is consistent with the incorrect blob object
name ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It appears git-gc will no longer prune automatically, so we don't
need to tell people not to do other stuff while running it.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Since references may be packed, it's no longer as helpful to
introduce references as paths relative to .git.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The option --reverse reverses the order of the commits.
[jc: with comments on rev_info.reverse from Simon 'corecode' Schubert.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This option gives grace period to objects that are unreachable
from the refs from getting pruned.
The default value is 24 hours and may be changed using
gc.prunegrace.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the output so the list at the top shows the reflog
message, along with their relative timestamps.
You can use --reflog=<n> to show <n> most recent log entries, or
use --reflog=<n>,<b> to show <n> entries going back from the
entry <b>. <b> can be either a number (so --reflog=4,20 shows 4
records starting from @{20}) or a timestamp (e.g. --reflog='4,1 day').
Here is a sample output (with --list option):
$ git show-branch --reflog=10 --list jc/show-reflog
[jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref
[jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^
[jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho
[jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho
[jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
[jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
[jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
[jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow retrievi
[jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4
[jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: use
This shows what I did more cleanly:
$ git show-branch --reflog=10 jc/show-reflog
! [jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref
! [jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^
! [jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog:
! [jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog:
! [jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_
! [jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read
! [jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend rea
! [jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow
! [jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4
! [jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --r
----------
+ [jc/show-reflog@{0}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
+ [jc/show-reflog@{2}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
+++ [jc/show-reflog@{1}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
+++++ [jc/show-reflog@{4}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
+ [jc/show-reflog@{5}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
+ [jc/show-reflog@{6}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
+ [jc/show-reflog@{7}] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the r
+ [jc/show-reflog@{9}] show-branch --reflog: use updated rea
+ [jc/show-reflog@{9}^] read_ref_at(): allow reporting the c
+ [jc/show-reflog@{9}~2] show-branch --reflog: show the refl
+ [jc/show-reflog@{9}~3] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the
++++++++++ [jc/show-reflog@{8}] dwim_ref(): Separate name-to-ref DWIM
At @{9}, I had a commit to complete 5 patch series, but I wanted
to consolidate two commits that enhances read_ref_at() into one
(they were @{9}^ and @{9}~3), and another two that touch show-branch
into one (@{9} and @{9}~2).
I first saved them with "format-patch -4", and then did a reset
at @{8}. At @{7}, I applied one of them with "am", and then
used "git-apply" on the other one, and amended the commit at
@{6} (so @{6} and @{7} has the same parent). I did not like the
log message, so I amended again at @{5}.
Then I cherry-picked @{9}~2 to create @{3} (the log message
shows that it needs to learn to set GIT_REFLOG_ACTION -- it uses
"git-commit" and the log entry is attributed for it). Another
cherry-pick built @{2} out of @{9}, but what I wanted to do was
to squash these two into one, so I did a "reset HEAD^" at @{1}
and then made the final commit by amending what was at the top.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For now it's just to get a more descriptive name. Later we might update the
push protocol to run more than one program on the other end. Moreover this
matches better the corresponding config option remote.<name>. receivepack.
--exec continues to work
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Having to specify git push --exec=... is annoying if you cannot have
git-receivepack in your PATH on the remote side (or don't want to).
This introduces the config item remote.<name>.receivepack to override
the default value (which is "git-receive-pack").
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
add all supported options to Documentation/git-....txt and the usage strings.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds two new classes (pure-helpers and "Interacting with
Others") to the command list in the main manual page. The
latter class is primarily about foreign SCM interface and is
placed before low-level (plumbing) commands.
Also it promotes a handful commands to mainporcelain category
while demoting some others.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This moves the source of the list of commands and categorization
to the end of Documentation/cmd-list.perl, so that re-categorization
and re-ordering would become easier to manage.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Editors often give easier handling of patch files if the
filename ends with .patch, so use it instead of .txt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This teaches "git-format-patch" to honor the --max-count
parameter revision traversal machinery takes, so that you can
say "git-format-patch -3" to process the three topmost commits
from the current HEAD (or "git-format-patch -2 topic" to name a
specific branch).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The revision specification syntax (sometimes referred to as
SHA1-expressions) is accepted almost everywhere in Git by
almost every tool. Unfortunately it is only documented in
git-rev-parse.txt, and most users don't know to look there.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In ab2a1a32 Junio improved the reflog query logic to support
obtaining the n-th prior value of a ref, but this was never
documented in git-rev-parse. Now it is.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of keeping the confused end user reading low-level
documentation, suggest the higher level commands that implement
what the user may want to do using them upfront.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Current README content is way too esoteric for someone looking at GIT
for the first time. Instead it should provide a quick summary of what
GIT is with a few pointers to other resources.
The bulk of the previous README content is moved to
Documentation/core-intro.txt.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The default can also be changed with "format.suffix" configuration.
Leaving it empty would not add any suffix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add discussion section to git-checkout documentation and mention
detached HEAD in repository-layout document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Promiscous pull shows the distributed nature of git better.
* Add a new step after that to teach "remote add".
* Highlight that with the shorthand defined you will get
remote tracking branches for free.
* Fix Alice's workflow.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The text is just copied from git-send-pack.txt.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K,Av(Bnig <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead, we complain to the user and suggest that they explicitly
specify the remote and branch. We depend on the exit status of
git-symbolic-ref, so let's go ahead and document that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When we are on a detached HEAD, there is no current branch.
There is no reason to leak the error messages to the end user
since this is a situation we expect to see.
This adds -q option to git-symbolic-ref to exit without issuing
an error message if the given name is not a symbolic ref.
By the way, with or without this patch, there currently is no
good way to tell failure modes between "git symbolic-ref HAED"
and "git symbolic-ref HEAD". Both says "is not a symbolic ref".
We may want to do something about it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We've squelched output from merge-recursive, and git-merge when
used with recursive does not attempt the trivial one first
anymore, so there won't be "Trying ... Nope." messages now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
My prior version of git-describe ran very slowly on even reasonably
sized projects like git.git and linux.git as it tended to identify
a large number of possible tags and then needed to generate the
revision list for each of those tags to sort them and select the
best tag to describe the input commit.
All we really need is the number of commits in the input revision
which are not in the tag. We can generate these counts during
the revision walking and tag matching loop by assigning a color to
each tag and coloring the commits as we walk them. This limits us
to identifying no more than 26 possible tags, as there is limited
space available within the flags field of struct commit.
The limitation of 26 possible tags is hopefully not going to be a
problem in real usage, as most projects won't create 26 maintenance
releases and merge them back into a development trunk after the
development trunk was tagged with a release candidate tag. If that
does occur git-describe will start to revert to its old behavior of
using the newer maintenance release tag to describe the development
trunk, rather than the development trunk's own tag. The suggested
workaround would be to retag the development trunk's tip.
However since even 26 possible tags can take a while to generate a
description for on some projects I'm defaulting the limit to 10 but
offering the user --candidates to increase the number of possible
matches if they need a more accurate result. I specifically chose
10 for the default as it seems unlikely projects will have more
than 10 maintenance releases merged into a development trunk before
retagging the development trunk, and it seems to perform about the
same on linux.git as v1.4.4.4 git-describe.
A large amount of debugging information was also added during
the development of this change, so I've left it in to be toggled
on with --debug. It may be useful to the end user to help them
understand why git-describe took one particular tag over another.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
1) talk about "git merge" instead of "git pull ."
2) suggest "git repo-config" instead of directly editing config files
3) echo "URL: blah" > .git/remotes/foo is obsolete and should be
"git repo-config remote.foo.url blah"
4) support for partial URL prefix has been removed (see commit
ea560e6d64) so drop mention of it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We say "this shows only the most often used ones"; so instead of
teaching --max-number=<n> form, list -<n> form which is much
easier to type.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
> I think the output from merge-recursive can be categorized into 5
> verbosity levels:
>
> 1. "CONFLICT", "Rename", "Adding here instead due to D/F conflict"
> (outermost)
>
> 2. "Auto-merged successfully" (outermost)
>
> 3. The first "Merging X with Y".
>
> 4. outermost "Merging:\ntitle1\ntitle2".
>
> 5. outermost "found N common ancestors\nancestor1\nancestor2\n..."
> and anything from inner merge.
>
> I would prefer the default verbosity level to be 2 (that is, show
> both 1 and 2).
and this change makes it so. I think level 3 is probably pointless
as its only one line of output above level 2, but I can see how some
users may want to view it but not view the slightly more verbose
output of level 4.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Steven Grimm noticed that git-repack's verbosity is inconsistent
because pack-objects is chatty and prune-packed is not. This
makes the latter a bit more chatty and gives -q option to
squelch it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While 'init-db' still is and probably will always remain a valid git
command for obvious backward compatibility reasons, it would be a good
idea to move shipped tools and docs to using 'init' instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Despite what the documentation claims, git-commit does not check commit
for suspicious lines: all hooks are disabled by default,
and the pre-comit hook could be changed to do something else.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
These days, the command does a lot more than just initialise the
object database (such as setting default config-variables,
installing template hooks...), and "git init" is actually a more
sensible name nowadays.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Correct command line examples of repo-config, format-patch and am.
A full object name is 40-hexdigit; it may be 20-byte but
20-digit is misleading.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Oops. Commit 515377ea9e missed one
file, git-init documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now that git-svn requires the SVN::* Perl library, the manpage doesn't need
to describe what happens when you don't have it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since we are talking about allowing potentially incompatible UI
changes in v1.5.0 iff the change improves the general situation,
I would say why not.
There is --no-utf8 flag to avoid re-coding from botching the log
message just in case, but we may not even need it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes the earlier "wait for 10 minutes before importing" safety
overridable with "-a(ll)" flag, and adds necessary documentation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also, document --{trunk,branches,tags} options while we're
documenting multi-init options.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Clarify definition of "reachable" (what chain?)
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add discussion of git-rebase, patch series, history rewriting.
Mention "pull ." as a synonym for "merge".
Remind myself of another case I want to cover in the other-vcs's chapter.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Add a brief description of the organization to the preface, expand the
final notes/todo's section, in hopes maybe some others will want to
contribute.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Make "init" the equivalent of "init-db". This should make first GIT
impression a little more friendly.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The goals are:
- Readable from beginning to end in order without having read
any other git documentation beforehand.
- Helpful section names and cross-references, so it's not too
hard to skip around some if you need to.
- Organized to allow it to grow much larger (unlike the
tutorials)
It's more liesurely than tutorial.txt, but tries to stay focused on
practical how-to stuff. It adds a discussion of how to resolve merge
conflicts, and partial instructions on setting up and dealing with a
public repository.
I've lifted a little bit from "branching and merging" (e.g., some of the
discussion of history diagrams), and could probably steal more if that's
OK. (Similarly anyone should of course feel free to reuse bits of this
if any parts seem more useful than the whole.)
There's a lot of detail on managing branches and using git-fetch, just
because those are essential even to people needing read-only access
(e.g., kernel testers). I think those sections will be much shorter
once the new "git remote" command and the disconnected checkouts are
taken into account.
I do feel bad about adding yet another piece of documentation, but I we
need something that goes through all the basics in a logical order, and
I wasn't seeing how to grow the tutorials into that.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* sp/mmap: (27 commits)
Spell default packedgitlimit slightly differently
Increase packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} on 64 bit systems.
Update packedGit config option documentation.
mmap: set FD_CLOEXEC for file descriptors we keep open for mmap()
pack-objects: fix use of use_pack().
Fix random segfaults in pack-objects.
Cleanup read_cache_from error handling.
Replace mmap with xmmap, better handling MAP_FAILED.
Release pack windows before reporting out of memory.
Default core.packdGitWindowSize to 1 MiB if NO_MMAP.
Test suite for sliding window mmap implementation.
Create pack_report() as a debugging aid.
Support unmapping windows on 'temporary' packfiles.
Improve error message when packfile mmap fails.
Ensure core.packedGitWindowSize cannot be less than 2 pages.
Load core configuration in git-verify-pack.
Fully activate the sliding window pack access.
Unmap individual windows rather than entire files.
Document why header parsing won't exceed a window.
Loop over pack_windows when inflating/accessing data.
...
Conflicts:
cache.h
pack-check.c
Edit for conciseness.
Add a "Making changes" section header.
When possible, make sure that stuff in text boxes could be entered literally.
(Don't use "..." unless we want a user to type that.)
Move 'commit -a' example into a literal code section, clarify that it finds
modified files automatically.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Clarify that dcommit creates a revision in SVN for every commit
in git. Also, add 'merge' to the rebase vs pull section because
git-merge is now a first-class UI.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds ability to do import "in chunks" (default 1000 revisions),
after each chunk git repo will be repacked. The option -R is used to
change default value of chunk size (or how often repository will
repacked).
Signed-off-by: Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If a branch other than "master" is checked out in the origin repository,
git-clone makes a local copy of that branch rather than the origin's
"master"
branch. This patch describes the actual behavior.
Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If we have a 64 bit address space we can easily afford to commit
a larger amount of virtual address space to pack file access.
So on these platforms we should increase the default settings of
core.packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} to something that will better
handle very large projects.
Thanks to Andy Whitcroft for pointing out that we can safely
increase these defaults on such systems.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Teach how to delete a branch with "git branch -d name".
- Usually a commit has one parent; merge has more.
- Teach "git show" instead of "git cat-file -p".
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Added color.branch and color.branch.<slot> to configuration list.
Style copied from color.status and meanings derived from the code.
Moved the color meanings from color.diff.<slot> to color.branch.<slot>
since the latter comes first alphabetically.
Added --color and --no-color to git-branch's usage and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"Use it with care" is a wrong wording to say "this is purely internal
and you are supposed to know what you are doing if you use this".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update examples, stop using branch named "origin" as an example.
Remove large example of use of remotes; that particular case is
nicely automated by default, so it's not so pressing to explain, and
we can refer to git-repo-config for the details.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update tutorial's discussion of origin branch to reflect new defaults,
and include a brief mention of git-repo-config.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update glossary entry for "origin" to reflect fact that it normally now refers
to a remote repository, not a branch.
Also, warning not to work on remote-tracking branches is no longer necessary
since git doesn't allow that.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix a couple remaining references to the origin branch.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I couldn't think of a really quick way to give all the details, so just refer
readers to the git-repo-config man page instead.
I haven't tested recent cvs import behavior--some time presumably it should be
updated to do something more similar to clone.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Corrected minor typos and documented the new k/m/g suffix for
core.packedGitWindowSize and core.packedGitLimit.
[jc: with a minor markup fix.]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master:
Documentation/config.txt (and repo-config manpage): mark-up fix.
Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes.
Use /dev/null for update hook stdin.
Redirect update hook stdout to stderr.
Remove unnecessary argc parameter from run_command_v.
Automatically detect a bare git repository.
Replace "GIT_DIR" with GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT.
Use PATH_MAX constant for --bare.
Force core.filemode to false on Cygwin.
Fix formatting for urls section of fetch, pull, and push manpages
Fix yet another subtle xdl_merge() bug
i18n: drop "encoding" header in the output after re-coding.
commit-tree: cope with different ways "utf-8" can be spelled.
Move commit reencoding parameter parsing to revision.c
Documentation: minor rewording for git-log and git-show pages.
Documentation: i18n commit log message notes.
t3900: test log --encoding=none
commit re-encoding: fix confusion between no and default conversion.
Sometimes its necessary to supply a value as a power of two in a
configuration parameter. In this case the user may want to use the
standard suffixes such as K, M, or G to indicate that the numerical
value should be multiplied by a constant base before being used.
Shell scripts/etc. can also benefit from this automatic option
parsing with `git repo-config --int`.
[jc: with a couple of test and a slight input tightening]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The line:
[remote "<remote>"]
was getting swallowed up by asciidoc, causing a critical line in the
explanation for how to store the .git/remotes information in .git/config
to go missing from the git-fetch, git-pull, and git-push manpages.
Put all of the examples into delimited blocks to fix this problem and to
make them look nicer.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This finally turns on the sliding window behavior for packfile data
access by mapping limited size windows and chaining them under the
packed_git->windows list.
We consider a given byte offset to be within the window only if there
would be at least 20 bytes (one hash worth of data) accessible after
the requested offset. This range selection relates to the contract
that use_pack() makes with its callers, allowing them to access
one hash or one object header without needing to call use_pack()
for every byte of data obtained.
In the worst case scenario we will map the same page of data twice
into memory: once at the end of one window and once again at the
start of the next window. This duplicate page mapping will happen
only when an object header or a delta base reference is spanned
over the end of a window and is always limited to just one page of
duplication, as no sane operating system will ever have a page size
smaller than a hash.
I am assuming that the possible wasted page of virtual address
space is going to perform faster than the alternatives, which
would be to copy the object header or ref delta into a temporary
buffer prior to parsing, or to check the window range on every byte
during header parsing. We may decide to revisit this decision in
the future since this is just a gut instinct decision and has not
actually been proven out by experimental testing.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Rather than hardcoding the maximum number of bytes which can be
mmapped from pack files we should make this value configurable,
allowing the end user to increase or decrease this limit on a
per-repository basis depending on the size of the repository
and the capabilities of their operating system.
In general users should not need to manually tune such a low-level
setting within the core code, but being able to artifically limit
the number of bytes which we can mmap at once from pack files will
make it easier to craft test cases for the new mmap sliding window
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/utf8:
t3900: test conversion to non UTF-8 as well
Rename t3900 test vector file
UTF-8: introduce i18n.logoutputencoding.
Teach log family --encoding
i18n.logToUTF8: convert commit log message to UTF-8
Move encoding conversion routine out of mailinfo to utf8.c
Conflicts:
commit.c
Junio rightly pointed out that the --reflog-action parameter
was starting to get out of control, as most porcelain code
needed to hand it to other porcelain and plumbing alike to
ensure the reflog contained the top-level user action and
not the lower-level actions it invoked.
At Junio's suggestion we are introducing the new set_reflog_action
function to all shell scripts, allowing them to declare early on
what their default reflog name should be, but this setting only
takes effect if the caller has not already set the GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is plausible for somebody to want to view the commit log in a
different encoding from i18n.commitencoding -- the project's
policy may be UTF-8 and the user may be using a commit message
hook to run iconv to conform to that policy (and either not have
i18n.commitencoding to default to UTF-8 or have it explicitly
set to UTF-8). Even then, Latin-1 may be more convenient for
the usual pager and the terminal the user uses.
The new variable i18n.logoutputencoding is used in preference to
i18n.commitencoding to decide what encoding to recode the log
output in when git-log and friends formats the commit log message.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio asked for a 'git gc' utility which users can execute on a
regular basis to perform basic repository actions such as:
* pack-refs --prune
* reflog expire
* repack -a -d
* prune
* rerere gc
So here is a command which does exactly that. The parameters fed
to reflog's expire subcommand can be chosen by the user by setting
configuration options in .git/config (or ~/.gitconfig), as users may
want different expiration windows for each repository but shouldn't
be bothered to remember what they are all of the time.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Recent "git push" keeps transferred objects packed much more aggressively
than before. Monitoring output from git-count-objects -v for number of
loose objects is not enough to decide when to repack -- having too many
small packs is also a good cue for repacking.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix minor mark-up mistakes and adjust to v1.5.0 BCP, namely:
- use "git add" instead of "git update-index";
- use "git merge" instead of "git pull .";
- use separate remote layout;
- use config instead of remotes/origin file;
Also updates "My typical git day" example since now I have
'next' branch these days.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of just warning, refuse to add otherwise ignored files
by default, and allow it with an -f option.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
One thing many people found confusing about git-add was that a
file whose name matches an ignored pattern could not be added to
the index. With this, such a file can be added by explicitly
spelling its name to git-add.
Fileglobs and recursive behaviour do not add ignored files to
the index. That is, if a pattern '*.o' is in .gitignore, and
two files foo.o, bar/baz.o are in the working tree:
$ git add foo.o
$ git add '*.o'
$ git add bar
Only the first form adds foo.o to the index.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds and uses the install-doc-quick.sh file to
Documentation/, which is usable for people who track either the
'html' or 'man' heads in Junio's repository (prefixed with
'origin/' if cloned locally). You may override this by
specifying DOC_REF in the make environment or in config.mak.
GZ may also be set in the environment (or config.mak) if you
wish to gzip the documentation after installing it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Branch has "-r" for remote branches and "-a" for local and remote.
It seems logical to mirror that in show-branch. Also removes the
dubiously useful "--tags" option (as part of changing the meaning
for "--all").
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This imitates the behaviour of git-commit.
Noticed by Han-Wen Nienhuys.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This corrects minor remaining bits that still talked about <tree-ish>;
the Porcelain users (as opposed to plumbers) are mostly interested in
commits so use <commit> consistently and keep a sentence that mentions
that <tree-ish> can be used in place of them.
This adds --skip=<n> option to revision traversal machinery.
Documentation and test were added by Robert Fitzsimons.
Signed-off-by: Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/test-clone: (35 commits)
Introduce GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR
Revert "fix testsuite: make sure they use templates freshly built from the source"
fix testsuite: make sure they use templates freshly built from the source
rerere: fix breakage of resolving.
Add config example with respect to branch
Add documentation for show-branch --topics
make git a bit less cryptic on fetch errors
make patch_delta() error cases a bit more verbose
racy-git: documentation updates.
show-ref: fix --exclude-existing
parse-remote::expand_refs_wildcard()
vim syntax: follow recent changes to commit template
show-ref: fix --verify --hash=length
show-ref: fix --quiet --verify
avoid accessing _all_ loose refs in git-show-ref --verify
git-fetch: Avoid reading packed refs over and over again
Teach show-branch how to show ref-log data.
markup fix in svnimport documentation.
Documentation: new option -P for git-svnimport
Fix mis-mark-up in git-merge-file.txt documentation
...
Update config.txt with example with respect to branch
config variable. This give a better idea regarding
how branch names are expected.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add a quick paragraph explaining the --topics option for show-branch.
The explanation is an abbreviated version of the commit message from
d320a5437f.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We've removed the workaround for runtime penalty that did not
exist in practice some time ago, but the technical paper that
proposed that change still said "we probably should do so".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Finally.
The separate-remote layout is so much more organized than
traditional and easier to work with especially when you need to
deal with remote repositories with multiple branches and/or you
need to deal with more than one remote repositories, and using
traditional layout for new repositories simply does not make
much sense.
Internally we still have code for 1:1 mappings to create a bare
clone; that is a good thing and will not go away.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
'set-tree' probably accurately describes what the command
formerly known as 'commit' does.
I'm not entirely sure that 'dcommit' should be renamed to 'commit'
just yet... Perhaps 'push' or 'push-changes'?
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Most of this is derived from the documentation of RCS merge.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When --use-separate-remote is used on git-clone, the remote
heads are saved under $GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin/, not
"$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin/"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now that 'git add' is considered a first-class UI for 'update-index'
and that the 'git add' documentation states "Even modified files
must be added to the set of changes about to be committed" we should
make the output of 'git status' align with that documentation and
common usage.
So now we see a status output such as:
# Added but not yet committed:
# (will commit)
#
# new file: x
#
# Changed but not added:
# (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit)
#
# modified: x
#
# Untracked files:
# (use "git add" on files to include for commit)
#
# y
which just reads better in the context of using 'git add' to
manipulate a commit (and not a checkin, whatever the heck that is).
We also now support 'color.status.added' as an alias for the existing
'color.status.updated', as this alias more closely aligns with the
current output and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Two of the cases has "[--] [<path>...]" and two had "-- [<path>...]".
Not terribly consistent and potentially confusing. Also add "[--]" to
the synopsis so that it's obvious you can use it from the very
beginning.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For multivars, the "git-repo-config name value ^$" is useful but
nonintuitive and troublesome to do repeatedly (since the value is not
at the end of the command line). This commit simply adds an --add
option that adds a new value to a multivar. Particularly useful for
tracking a new branch on a remote:
git-repo-config --add remote.origin.fetch +next:origin/next
Includes documentation and test.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
New and experienced Git users alike are finding out too late that
they forgot to enable reflogs in the current repository, and cannot
use the information stored within it to recover from an incorrectly
entered command such as `git reset --hard HEAD^^^` when they really
meant HEAD^^ (aka HEAD~2).
So enable reflogs by default in all future versions of Git, unless
the user specifically disables it with:
[core]
logAllRefUpdates = false
in their .git/config or ~/.gitconfig.
We only enable reflogs in repositories that have a working directory
associated with them, as shared/bare repositories do not have
an easy means to prune away old log entries, or may fail logging
entirely if the user's gecos information is not valid during a push.
This heuristic was suggested on the mailing list by Junio.
Documentation was also updated to indicate the new default behavior.
We probably should start to teach usuing the reflog to recover
from mistakes in some of the tutorial material, as new users are
likely to make a few along the way and will feel better knowing
they can recover from them quickly and easily, without fsck-objects'
lost+found features.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Back in the old days of Git when people messed around with their
GIT_DIR environment variable more often it was nice to know whether
or not git-init-db created a .git directory or used GIT_DIR.
As most users at that time were rather technical UNIXy folk the
message "defaulting to local storage area" made sense to some and
seemed reasonable.
But it doesn't really convey any meaning to the new Git user,
as they don't know what a 'local storage area is' nor do they
know enough about Git to care. It also really doesn't tell the
experienced Git user a whole lot about the command they just ran,
especially if they might be reinitializing an existing repository
(e.g. to update hooks).
So now we print out what we did ("Initialized empty" or
"Reinitialized existing"), what type of repository ("" or "shared"),
and what location the repository will be in ("$GIT_DIR").
Suggested in part by Andy Parkins in his Git 'niggles' list
(<200612132237.10051.andyparkins@gmail.com>).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is nicer to let the user know when a commit succeeded all the time,
not only the first time. Also the commit sha1 is much more useful than
the tree sha1 in this case.
This patch also introduces a -q switch to supress this message as well
as the summary of created/deleted files.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since git-show is pure Porcelain, it is the ideal candidate to
pretty print other things than commits, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Porcelain documentation should talk in terms of end-user workflow, not
in terms of implementation details. Do not suggest update-index, but
git-add instead. Explain differences among 0-, 1- and 2-tree cases
not as differences of number of trees given to the command, but say
why user would want to give these number of trees to the command in
what situation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/read-tree-ignore:
read-tree: document --exclude-per-directory
Loosen "working file will be lost" check in Porcelain-ish
read-tree: further loosen "working file will be lost" check.
* np/addcommit:
git-commit: allow --only to lose what was staged earlier.
Documentation/git-commit: rewrite to make it more end-user friendly.
make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index
* lh/branch-rename:
git-branch: let caller specify logmsg
rename_ref: use lstat(2) when testing for symlink
git-branch: add options and tests for branch renaming
Conflicts:
builtin-branch.c
* js/merge:
merge-recursive: add/add really is modify/modify with an empty base
Get rid of the dependency on RCS' merge program
merge-file: support -p and -q; fix compile warnings
Add builtin merge-file, a minimal replacement for RCS merge
xdl_merge(): fix and simplify conflict handling
xdl_merge(): fix thinko
xdl_merge(): fix an off-by-one bug
merge-recursive: use xdl_merge().
xmerge: make return value from xdl_merge() more usable.
xdiff: add xdl_merge()
This is just a random hack to work around problems people seem
to be seeing in manpage backend of xmlto (it appears we are
getting ".sp" at the end of line without line break).
Could people test this out?
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This reverts commit 4c81c213a4.
Although --cached and --index are confusing wording, the use of
word --cached for git-diff is consistent with git-apply. It means
"work with index without looking at the working tree".
We should probably come up with better wording for --cached, if
somebody wants to deprecate it. But making --index and --cached
synonyms for diff while leaving them mean different things for
apply is no good.
While adding colour to the branch command it was pointed out that a
config option like "branch.color" conflicts with the pre-existing
"branch.something" namespace used for specifying default merge urls and
branches. The suggested solution was to flip the order of the
components to "color.branch", which I did for colourising branch.
This patch does the same thing for
- git-log (color.diff)
- git-status (color.status)
- git-diff (color.diff)
- pager (color.pager)
I haven't removed the old config options; but they should probably be
deprecated and eventually removed to prevent future namespace
collisions. I've done this deprecation by changing the documentation
for the config file to match the new names; and adding the "color.XXX"
options to contrib/completion/git-completion.bash.
Unfortunately git-svn reads "diff.color" and "pager.color"; which I
don't like to change unilaterally.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master: (42 commits)
git-svn: correctly handle packed-refs in refs/remotes/
add test case for recursive merge
git-svn: correctly display fatal() error messages
git-svn: allow dcommit to take an alternate head
git-svn: enable logging of information not supported by git
Clarify fetch error for missing objects.
Move Fink and Ports check to after config file
shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname
shortlog: remove "[PATCH]" prefix from shortlog output
Make sure the empty tree exists when needed in merge-recursive.
Don't use memcpy when source and dest. buffers may overlap
no need to install manpages as executable
Documentation: simpler shared repository creation
shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname
Add branch.*.merge warning and documentation update
Fix perl/ build.
git-svn: use do_switch for --follow-parent if the SVN library supports it
Fix documentation copy&paste typo
git-svn: extra error check to ensure we open a file correctly
Documentation: update git-clone man page with new behavior
...
Now that we have git-merge-file, an RCS merge lookalike, we no longer
need it. So long, merge, and thanks for all the fish!
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previously dcommit would unconditionally commit all patches
up-to and including the current HEAD. Now if an optional
command-line argument is specified, it will only commit
up to the specified revision.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Make sure the empty tree exists when needed in merge-recursive.
Don't use memcpy when source and dest. buffers may overlap
no need to install manpages as executable
No need to install manpages as executable. Noticed by Ville Skytt,Ad(B.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Over time, unresolved rr-cache entries are accumulated and they
tend to get less and less likely to be useful as the tips of
branches advance.
Reorder documentation page to show the subcommand section earlier
than the discussion section.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-am and git-rebase will be updated to use 'clear', and
diff/status can be used to aid the user in tracking progress in
the resolution process.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Take Johannes Schindelin's suggestions for a further simplification of
the shared repository creation using git --bare init-db --shared, and
for a simplified cvsimport using an existing CVS working directory.
Also insert more man page references.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
cvs-migration.txt | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch clarifies the meaning of the branch.*.merge option.
Previously, if branch.*.merge was specified but did not match any
ref, the message "No changes." was not really helpful regarding
the misconfiguration. This patch adds a warning for this.
Signed-off-by: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update git-clone man page to reflect recent changes
(--use-separate-remote default and use of .git/config instead of
remotes files), and rewrite introduction.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Modify cvs-migration.txt so it explains first how to develop against a
shared repository, then how to set up a shared repository, then how to
import a repository from cvs. Though this seems chronologically
backwards, it's still readable in this order, and it puts the more
commonly needed material closer to the front.
Remove the annotate/pickaxe section; perhaps it can find a place elsewhere
in the future. Remove most of the "why git is better than cvs" stuff from
the introduction.
Add some minor clarifications, including two that have come up several
times on the mailing list:
1. Recommend committing any changes before running pull.
2. Note that changes must be commited before they can be pushed.
Update the clone discussion to reflect the new --use-separate-remotes
default, and add a brief mention of git-cvsserver.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Rename the section titles to make the "how-to" content of the section
obvious. Also clarify that changes have to be commited before they can
be pushed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It really is an important concept to grasp for people coming
from CVS. Even if it is briefly mentioned, it is not obvious
enough to sink in.
[jc: with wording updates from J. Bruce Fields]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Extend git-branch with the following options:
git-branch -m|-M [<oldbranch>] newbranch
The -M variation is required to force renaming over an exsisting
branchname.
This also indroduces $GIT_DIR/RENAME_REF which is a "metabranch"
used when renaming branches. It will always hold the original sha1
for the latest renamed branch.
Additionally, if $GIT_DIR/logs/RENAME_REF exists, all branch rename
events are logged there.
Finally, some testcases are added to verify the new options.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This brings the power of the index up front using a proper mental model
without talking about the index at all. See for example how all the
technical discussion has been evacuated from the git-add man page.
Any content to be committed must be added together. Whether that
content comes from new files or modified files doesn't matter. You
just need to "add" it, either with git-add, or by providing
git-commit with -a (for already known files only of course).
No need for a separate command to distinguish new vs modified files
please. That would only screw the mental model everybody should have
when using GIT.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Document git diff options -b / --ignore-space-change and
-w / --ignore-all-space, introduced by Johannes Schindelin
in commit 0d21efa5, "Teach diff about -b and -w flags".
The description of options is taken from GNU diff man page and
GNU Diffutils info documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With making --use-separate-remote default when creating non-bare
clone, there was need for the flag which would turn off this behavior.
It was called --use-immingled-remote.
Immingle means to blend, to combine into one, to intermingle, but it
is a bit obscure word. I think it would be better to use simply
--no-separate-remote as the opposite to --use-separate-remote
option to git clone.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The fact that git has previously used symbolic links for representing
symbolic refs doesn't seem relevant to the current function of
git-symbolic-ref. This patch makes less of a big deal about the
symbolic link history and instead focuses on what git does now.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
'git diff --cached' still works, but its use is discouraged
in the documentation. 'git diff --index' does the same thing
and is consistent with how 'git apply --index' works.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* branch 'maint':
Document git-repo-config --bool/--int options.
tutorial: talk about user.name early and don't start with commit -a
git-blame: fix rev parameter handling.
Introducing yourself to git early would be a good idea; otherwise
the user may not find the mistake until much later when "git log"
is learned.
Teaching "commit -a" without saying that it is a shortcut for
listing the paths to commit leaves the user puzzled. Teach the
form with explicit paths first.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Eliminate 'commit' from some places and plug 'dcommit' more.
Also update the section --id (GIT_SVN_ID) usage since we
have multi-init/multi-fetch now.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Git no longer calls an external diff program to generate patches.
Remove the documentation which suggests that you can pass
arbitrary diff options via the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* js/shortlog:
git-shortlog: make common repository prefix configurable with .mailmap
git-shortlog: fix common repository prefix abbreviation.
builtin git-shortlog is broken
shortlog: fix "-n"
shortlog: handle email addresses case-insensitively
shortlog: read mailmap from ./.mailmap again
shortlog: do not crash on parsing "[PATCH"
Build in shortlog
* branch 'jc/merge':
git-merge: do not leak rev-parse output used for checking internally.
git-merge: tighten error checking.
merge: allow merging into a yet-to-be-born branch.
git-merge: make it usable as the first class UI
remove merge-recursive-old
Attempt to clarify somewhat the difference between pull and merge,
and give a little more details on the pull syntax.
I'm still not happy with this section: the explanation of the origin
branch isn't great, but maybe that should be left alone pending the
use-separate-remotes change; and we need to explain how to set up a
public repository and push to it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sometimes people accidentally commit files in wrong mode bits.
Show --summary output for the HEAD commit after successful commit
as a final sanity check.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new -v option makes git-branch show the abbreviated sha1 + subjectline
for each branch.
Additionally, minimum abbreviation length can be specified with
--abbrev=<length>
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows one to see a root commit as a diff in commands like git-log,
git-show and git-whatchanged.
Signed-off-by: Peter Baumann <Peter.B.Baumannn@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We've talked about this for quite some time on the list, and it
is a sane thing to do for a repository with an associcated
working tree.
For somebody who wants to use the traditional layout, there is a
backward compatibility option --use-immingled-remote, but it is
expected to be removed before the next major release.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Asciidoc-include it into the manuals for programs that use the
--pretty command-line option, for consistency among the docs.
This describes all the pretty-formats currently listed in the cmit_fmt
enum in commit.h, and also briefly describes the presence and format
of the 'Merge: ' line in some pretty formats.
There's a hedge that limiting your view of history can affect what
goes in the Merge: line, and that --abbrev/--no-abbrev do nothing to
the 'raw' format.
Signed-off-by: Chris Riddoch <chris@syntacticsugar.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of storing a list of refnames in append_ref, a list of
structures is created. Each of these stores the refname and a
symbolic constant representing its type.
The creation of the list is filtered based on a command line
switch; no switch means "local branches only", "-r" means "remote
branches only" (as they always did); but now "-a" means "local
branches or remote branches".
As a side effect, the list is now not global, but allocated in
print_ref_list() where it used.
Also a memory leak is plugged, the memory allocated during the
list creation was never freed.
It lays a groundwork to also display tags, but the command being
'git branch' it is not currently used.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This teaches the oft-requested syntax
git merge $commit
to implement merging the named commit to the current branch.
This hopefully would make "git merge" usable as the first class
UI instead of being a mere backend for "git pull".
Most notably, $commit above can be any committish, so you can
say for example:
git merge js/shortlog~2
to merge early part of a topic branch without merging the rest
of it.
A custom merge message can be given with the new --message=<msg>
parameter. The message is prepended in front of the usual
"Merge ..." message autogenerated with fmt-merge-message.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Rephrased a sentence in order to make more clear the concept of
pull . branch
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As discussed on git mailing list let's teach the reader about
the possiblity to have automatically signed off the commit running
the git-commit -s command
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[jc: with minimum squelching of compiler warning under "-pedantic"
compilation options.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For one, the documentation invalidly claimed that the paths have to be
absolute when that's not the case and in fact there is a very valid reason
not to use absolute paths (documented the reason as well).
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I copied most of the text from git-status.txt.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Rework cvsexportcommit to handle binary files for all cases.
Catch errors when writing an index that contains invalid objects.
test-lib.sh: A command dying due to a signal is an unexpected failure.
git-update-index(1): fix use of quoting in section title
* maint:
git-rebase: Use --ignore-if-in-upstream option when executing git-format-patch.
git-svn: fix dcommit losing changes when out-of-date from svn
git-svn: don't die on rebuild when --upgrade is specified
git-svn: avoid printing filenames of files we're not tracking
This moves the example to specify a line range with regexps to
a later part of the manual page that has similar examples.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
There was a bug in dcommit (and commit-diff) which caused deltas
to be generated against the latest version of the changed file
in a repository, and not the revision we are diffing (the tree)
against locally.
This bug can cause recent changes to the svn repository to be
silently clobbered by git-svn if our repository is out-of-date.
Thanks to Steven Grimm for noticing the bug.
The (few) people using the commit-diff command are now required
to use the -r/--revision argument. dcommit usage is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Just make it take over blame's place. Documentation and command
have all stopped mentioning "git-pickaxe". The built-in synonym
is left in the command table, so you can still say "git pickaxe",
but it probably is a good idea to retire it as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds documentation for --progress and --all-progress, remove a
duplicate --progress handling and make usage string more readable.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
