"git merge-recursive" backend recently learned a new heuristics to
infer file movement based on how other files in the same directory
moved. As this is inherently less robust heuristics than the one
based on the content similarity of the file itself (rather than
based on what its neighbours are doing), it sometimes gives an
outcome unexpected by the end users. This has been toned down to
leave the renamed paths in higher/conflicted stages in the index so
that the user can examine and confirm the result.
* en/merge-directory-renames:
merge-recursive: switch directory rename detection default
merge-recursive: give callers of handle_content_merge() access to contents
merge-recursive: track information associated with directory renames
t6043: fix copied test description to match its purpose
merge-recursive: switch from (oid,mode) pairs to a diff_filespec
merge-recursive: cleanup handle_rename_* function signatures
merge-recursive: track branch where rename occurred in rename struct
merge-recursive: remove ren[12]_other fields from rename_conflict_info
merge-recursive: shrink rename_conflict_info
merge-recursive: move some struct declarations together
merge-recursive: use 'ci' for rename_conflict_info variable name
merge-recursive: rename locals 'o' and 'a' to 'obuf' and 'abuf'
merge-recursive: rename diff_filespec 'one' to 'o'
merge-recursive: rename merge_options argument from 'o' to 'opt'
Use 'unsigned short' for mode, like diff_filespec does
"git fast-import" update.
* en/fast-import-parsing-fix:
fast-import: fix erroneous handling of get-mark with empty orphan commits
fast-import: only allow cat-blob requests where it makes sense
fast-import: check most prominent commands first
git-fast-import.txt: fix wording about where ls command can appear
t9300: demonstrate bug with get-mark and empty orphan commits
"git checkout -m <other>" was about carrying the differences
between HEAD and the working-tree files forward while checking out
another branch, and ignored the differences between HEAD and the
index. The command has been taught to abort when the index and the
HEAD are different.
* nd/checkout-m:
checkout: prevent losing staged changes with --merge
read-tree: add --quiet
unpack-trees: rename "gently" flag to "quiet"
unpack-trees: keep gently check inside add_rejected_path
"git difftool" can now run outside a repository.
* js/difftool-no-index:
difftool: allow running outside Git worktrees with --no-index
parse-options: make OPT_ARGUMENT() more useful
difftool: remove obsolete (and misleading) comment
A new hook "post-index-change" is called when the on-disk index
file changes, which can help e.g. a virtualized working tree
implementation.
* bp/post-index-change-hook:
read-cache: add post-index-change hook
Update our support to format documentation in the CI environment,
either with AsciiDoc ro Asciidoctor.
* sg/asciidoctor-in-ci:
ci: fix AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor stderr check in the documentation build job
ci: stick with Asciidoctor v1.5.8 for now
ci: install Asciidoctor in 'ci/install-dependencies.sh'
Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt: fix formatting
Documentation/technical/api-config.txt: fix formatting
Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt: fix formatting
Dev support update.
* js/check-docs-exe:
check-docs: fix for setups where executables have an extension
check-docs: do not expect guide pages to correspond to commands
check-docs: really look at the documented commands again
docs: do not document the `git remote-testgit` command
docs: move gitremote-helpers into section 7
Clean-up markup in the documentation suite.
* cb/doco-mono:
doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace.
doc/CodingGuidelines: URLs and paths as monospace
"git stash" rewritten in C.
* ps/stash-in-c: (28 commits)
tests: add a special setup where stash.useBuiltin is off
stash: optionally use the scripted version again
stash: add back the original, scripted `git stash`
stash: convert `stash--helper.c` into `stash.c`
stash: replace all `write-tree` child processes with API calls
stash: optimize `get_untracked_files()` and `check_changes()`
stash: convert save to builtin
stash: make push -q quiet
stash: convert push to builtin
stash: convert create to builtin
stash: convert store to builtin
stash: convert show to builtin
stash: convert list to builtin
stash: convert pop to builtin
stash: convert branch to builtin
stash: convert drop and clear to builtin
stash: convert apply to builtin
stash: mention options in `show` synopsis
stash: add tests for `git stash show` config
stash: rename test cases to be more descriptive
...
Dev support update to make it easier to compare two formatted
results from our documentation.
* ma/doc-diff-doc-vs-doctor-comparison:
doc-diff: add `--cut-header-footer`
doc-diff: support diffing from/to AsciiDoc(tor)
doc-diff: let `render_tree()` take an explicit directory name
Doc: auto-detect changed build flags
Documentation mark-up fixes.
* ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more:
Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces
git-svn.txt: drop escaping '\' that ends up being rendered
git.txt: remove empty line before list continuation
config/fsck.txt: avoid starting line with dash
config/diff.txt: drop spurious backtick
Build fix around use of asciidoctor instead of asciidoc
* ma/asciidoctor-fixes:
asciidoctor-extensions: fix spurious space after linkgit
Documentation/Makefile: add missing dependency on asciidoctor-extensions
Documentation/Makefile: add missing xsl dependencies for manpages
This teaches git-submodule the set-branch subcommand which allows the
branch of a submodule to be set through a porcelain command without
having to manually manipulate the .gitmodules file.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The {apostrophe} was needed at the time of a521845800 ("Documentation:
remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion", 2010-08-20). All
other uses of {apostrophe} were removed in 6cf378f0cb ("docs: stop using
asciidoc no-inline-literal", 2012-04-26).
Unfortunately, the {apostrophe} is rendered literally with Asciidoctor
(at least with 1.5.5-2.0.3). Avoid this by using single-quotes.
Escaping the leading single-quote allows the content to render properly
in AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase --rebase-merges" replaces its old "--preserve-merges"
option; the latter is now marked as deprecated.
* js/rebase-deprecate-preserve-merges:
rebase: deprecate --preserve-merges
While the minimum is 7-char, the unambiguous length can be longer.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The chance of a repository being corrupted due to a "gc" has nothing
to do with whether or not that "gc" was invoked via "gc --auto", but
whether there's other concurrent operations happening.
This is already noted earlier in the paragraph, so there's no reason
to suggest this here. The user can infer from the rest of the
documentation that "gc" will run automatically unless gc.auto=0 is
set, and we shouldn't confuse the issue by implying that "gc --auto"
is somehow more prone to produce corruption than a normal "gc".
Well, it is in the sense that a blocking "gc" would stop you from
doing anything else in *that* particular terminal window, but users
are likely to have another window, or to be worried about how
concurrent "gc" on a server might cause corruption.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend the "NOTES" section to fix up wording that's been with us since
3ffb58be0a ("doc/git-gc: add a note about what is collected",
2008-04-23).
I can't remember when/where anymore (I think Freenode #Git), but at
some point I was having a conversation with someone who was convinced
that "gc" would prune things only referenced by e.g. refs/pull/*, and
pointed to this section as proof.
It turned out that they'd read the "branches and tags" wording here
and thought just refs/{heads,tags}/* and refs/remotes/* etc. would be
kept, which is what we enumerate explicitly.
So let's say "other refs", even though just above we say "objects that
are referenced anywhere in your repository".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend the "PACKFILE OPTIMIZATION" section in "fast-import" to explain
that simply running "git gc --aggressive" after a "fast-import" should
properly optimize the repository. This is simpler and more effective
than the existing "repack" advice (which I'm keeping as it helps
explain things) because it e.g. also packs the newly imported refs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing "gc --aggressive" docs come just short of recommending to
users that they run it regularly. I've personally talked to many users
who've taken these docs as an advice to use this option, and have,
usually it's (mostly) a waste of time.
So let's clarify what it really does, and let the user draw their own
conclusions.
Let's also clarify the "The effects [...] are persistent" to
paraphrase a brief version of Jeff King's explanation at [1].
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/20190318235356.GK29661@sigill.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 07e7dbf0db (gc: default aggressive depth to 50, 2016-08-11) we
somewhat confusingly use the same depth under --aggressive as we do by
default.
As noted in that commit that makes sense, it was wrong to make more
depth the default for "aggressive", and thus save disk space at the
expense of runtime performance, which is usually the opposite of
someone who'd like "aggressive gc" wants.
But that's left us with a mostly-redundant configuration variable, so
let's clearly note in its documentation that it doesn't change the
default.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the AsciiDoc formatting so that an example of "gc --auto" isn't
rendered as "git-gc(1) --auto", but as "git gc --auto". This is
consistent with the rest of the links and command examples in this
documentation.
The formatting I'm changing was initially introduced in
d5d5d7b641 ("gc: automatically write commit-graph files", 2018-06-27).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config". A previous commit moved this
over from the "gc" docs, but tried to keep as many of the lines
identical to benefit from diff's move detection.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rather than duplicating the documentation for the various "gc" options
let's include the "gc" docs from git-config. They were mostly better
already, and now we don't have the same docs in two places with subtly
different wording.
In the cases where the git-gc(1) docs were saying something the "gc"
docs in git-config(1) didn't cover move the relevant section over to
the git-config(1) docs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When all of x/a, x/b, and x/c have moved to z/a, z/b, and z/c on one
branch, there is a question about whether x/d added on a different
branch should remain at x/d or appear at z/d when the two branches are
merged. There are different possible viewpoints here:
A) The file was placed at x/d; it's unrelated to the other files in
x/ so it doesn't matter that all the files from x/ moved to z/ on
one branch; x/d should still remain at x/d.
B) x/d is related to the other files in x/, and x/ was renamed to z/;
therefore x/d should be moved to z/d.
Since there was no ability to detect directory renames prior to
git-2.18, users experienced (A) regardless of context. Choice (B) was
implemented in git-2.18, with no option to go back to (A), and has been
in use since. However, one user reported that the merge results did not
match their expectations, making the change of default problematic,
especially since there was no notice printed when directory rename
detection moved files.
Note that there is also a third possibility here:
C) There are different answers depending on the context and content
that cannot be determined by git, so this is a conflict. Use a
higher stage in the index to record the conflict and notify the
user of the potential issue instead of silently selecting a
resolution for them.
Add an option for users to specify their preference for whether to use
directory rename detection, and default to (C). Even when directory
rename detection is on, add notice messages about files moved into new
directories.
As a sidenote, x/d did not have to be a new file here; it could have
already existed at some other path and been renamed to x/d, with
directory rename detection just renaming it again to z/d. Thus, it's
not just new files, but also a modification to all rename types (normal
renames, rename/add, rename/delete, rename/rename(1to1),
rename/rename(1to2), and rename/rename(2to1)).
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of --reset stays true to the first implementation in
438195cced (git-read-tree: add "--reset" flag, 2005-06-09). That is,
--reset discards unmerged entries. Or at least true to the commit
message because I can't be sure about read-tree's behavior regarding
local changes.
But in fcc387db9b (read-tree -m -u: do not overwrite or remove untracked
working tree files., 2006-05-17), it is clear that "-m -u" tries to keep
local changes, while --reset is singled out and will keep overwriting
worktree files. It's not stated in the commit message, but it's obvious
from the patch.
I went this far back not because I had a lot of free time, but because I
did not trust my reading of unpack-trees.c code. So far I think the
related changes in history agree with my understanding of the current
code, that "--reset" loses local changes.
This behavior is not mentioned in git-read-tree.txt, even though
old-timers probably can just guess it based on the "reset" name. Update
git-read-tree.txt about this.
Side note. There's another change regarding --reset that is not
obviously about local changes, b018ff6085 (unpack-trees: fix "read-tree
-u --reset A B" with conflicted index, 2012-12-29). But I'm pretty sure
this is about the first function of --reset, to discard unmerged entries
correctly.
PS. The patch changes one more line than necessary because the first
line uses spaces instead of tab.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoc uses either one-line or two-line syntax for document/section
titles[1]. The two-line form is used in git-status. Fix a few section
titles in the porcelain v2 section which were inadvertently using
markdown syntax.
[1] http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#X17
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
