The syntax section repeats what the preamble explained already.
That a variable can have multiple values is more about what a
variable is than the syntax of the file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Section names and variable names are both case-insensitive, but one
is described as "not case sensitive". Use "case-insensitive" for
both.
Instead of saying "... have to be escaped" without telling what that
escaping achieves, state it in a more positive way, i.e. "... can be
included by escaping".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git apply" was not very careful about reading from, removing,
updating and creating paths outside the working tree (under
--index/--cached) or the current directory (when used as a
replacement for GNU patch).
* jc/apply-beyond-symlink:
apply: do not touch a file beyond a symbolic link
apply: do not read from beyond a symbolic link
apply: do not read from the filesystem under --index
apply: reject input that touches outside the working area
The documentation of 'git submodule update' has several problems:
1) It mentions that value 'none' of submodule.$name.update can be
overridden by --checkout, but other combinations of configuration
values and command line options are not mentioned.
2) The documentation of submodule.$name.update is scattered across three
places, which is confusing.
3) The documentation of submodule.$name.update in gitmodules.txt is
incorrect, because the code always uses the value from .git/config
and never from .gitmodules.
4) Documentation of --force was incomplete, because it is only effective
in case of checkout method of update.
Fix all these problems by documenting submodule.*.update in
git-submodule.txt and make everybody else refer to it.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is needed in build automation where the tree really needs to
be reset to known state.
Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in
the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers
can check only one place for all necessary information.
* jk/strbuf-doc-to-header:
strbuf.h: group documentation for trim functions
strbuf.h: drop boilerplate descriptions of strbuf_split_*
strbuf.h: reorganize api function grouping headers
strbuf.h: format asciidoc code blocks as 4-space indent
strbuf.h: drop asciidoc list formatting from API docs
strbuf.h: unify documentation comments beginnings
strbuf.h: integrate api-strbuf.txt documentation
The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in
the API manual.
* jn/doc-api-errors:
doc: document error handling functions and conventions
"git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant
to the "log" command.
* jc/doc-log-rev-list-options:
Documentation: what does "git log --indexed-objects" even mean?
The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the
only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in
the --raw format.
* jc/diff-format-doc:
diff-format doc: a score can follow M for rewrite
The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option
easily misunderstood.
* mg/push-repo-option-doc:
git-push.txt: document the behavior of --repo
Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to
the documentation.
* jc/conf-var-doc:
CodingGuidelines: describe naming rules for configuration variables
config.txt: mark deprecated variables more prominently
config.txt: clarify that add.ignore-errors is deprecated
It was already documented, but the user had to follow the link to
git-mailinfo.txt to find it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The variable was documented in git-mailinfo.txt, but not in config.txt.
The detailed documentation is still the one of --scissors in
git-mailinfo.txt, but we give enough information here to let the user
understand what it is about, and to make it easy to find it (e.g.
searching ">8" and "8<" finds it).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify in the documentation that "remote.<nick>.pushURL" and
"remote.<nick>.URL" are there to name the same repository accessed
via different transports, not two separate repositories.
* jc/remote-set-url-doc:
Documentation/git-remote.txt: stress that set-url is not for triangular
The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option
easily misunderstood.
* mg/push-repo-option-doc:
git-push.txt: document the behavior of --repo
The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the
only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in
the --raw format.
* jc/diff-format-doc:
diff-format doc: a score can follow M for rewrite
"git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant
to the "log" command.
* jc/doc-log-rev-list-options:
Documentation: what does "git log --indexed-objects" even mean?
Extending the js/push-to-deploy topic, the behaviour of "git push"
when updating the working tree and the index with an update to the
branch that is checked out can be tweaked by push-to-checkout hook.
* jc/push-to-checkout:
receive-pack: support push-to-checkout hook
receive-pack: refactor updateInstead codepath
"git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.
* sb/atomic-push:
Document receive.advertiseatomic
t5543-atomic-push.sh: add basic tests for atomic pushes
push.c: add an --atomic argument
send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argument
send-pack: rename ref_update_to_be_sent to check_to_send_update
receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
receive-pack.c: add execute_commands_atomic function
receive-pack.c: move transaction handling in a central place
receive-pack.c: move iterating over all commands outside execute_commands
receive-pack.c: die instead of error in case of possible future bug
receive-pack.c: shorten the execute_commands loop over all commands
"git log --invert-grep --grep=WIP" will show only commits that do
not have the string "WIP" in their messages.
* cj/log-invert-grep:
log: teach --invert-grep option
The clone subcommand has long had support for excluding
subdirectories, but sync has not. This is a nuisance,
since as soon as you do a sync, any changed files that
were initially excluded start showing up.
Move the "exclude" command-line option into the parent
class; the actual behavior was already present there so
it simply had to be exposed.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Reviewed-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, a patch that affects outside the working area (either a
Git controlled working tree, or the current working directory when
"git apply" is used as a replacement of GNU patch) is rejected as a
mistake (or a mischief). Git itself does not create such a patch,
unless the user bends over backwards and specifies a non-standard
prefix to "git diff" and friends.
When `git apply` is used as a "better GNU patch", the user can pass
the `--unsafe-paths` option to override this safety check. This
option has no effect when `--index` or `--cached` is in use.
The new test was stolen from Jeff King with slight enhancements.
Note that a few new tests for touching outside the working area by
following a symbolic link are still expected to fail at this step,
but will be fixed in later steps.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sb/atomic-push:
Document receive.advertiseatomic
t5543-atomic-push.sh: add basic tests for atomic pushes
push.c: add an --atomic argument
send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argument
send-pack: rename ref_update_to_be_sent to check_to_send_update
receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
receive-pack.c: add execute_commands_atomic function
receive-pack.c: move transaction handling in a central place
receive-pack.c: move iterating over all commands outside execute_commands
receive-pack.c: die instead of error in case of possible future bug
receive-pack.c: shorten the execute_commands loop over all commands
We may want to say something about command line option names in the
new section as well, but for now, let's make sure everybody is clear
on how to structure and name their configuration variables.
The text for the rules are partly taken from the log message of
Jonathan's 6b3020a2 (add: introduce add.ignoreerrors synonym for
add.ignore-errors, 2010-12-01).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems to be a common mistake to try using a single remote
(e.g. 'origin') to fetch from one place (i.e. upstream) while
pushing to another (i.e. your publishing point).
That will never work satisfactorily, and it is easy to understand
why if you think about what refs/remotes/origin/* would mean in such
a world. It fundamentally cannot reflect the reality. If it
follows the state of your upstream, it cannot match what you have
published, and vice versa.
It may be that misinformation is spread by some people. Let's
counter them by adding a few words to our documentation.
- The description was referring to <oldurl> and <newurl>, but never
mentioned <name> argument you give from the command line. By
mentioning "remote <name>", stress the fact that it is configuring
a single remote.
- Add a reminder that explicitly states that this is about a single
remote, which the triangular workflow is not about.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
b6d8f309 (diff-raw format update take #2., 2005-05-23) started
documenting the diff format, and it said
...
(8) sha1 for "dst"; 0{40} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
(9) status, followed by similarlity index number only for C and R.
(10) a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used.
...
because C and R _were_ the only ones that came with a number back
then. This was corrected by ddafa7e9 (diff-helper: Fix R/C score
parsing under -z flag., 2005-05-29) and we started saying "score"
instead of "similarlity index" (because we can have other kind of
score there), and stopped saying "only for C and R" (because Git is
an ever evolving system). Later f345b0a0 (Add -B flag to diff-*
brothers., 2005-05-30) introduced a new concept, "dissimilarity"
score; it did not have to fix any documentation.
The current text that says only C and R can have scores came
independently from a5a323f3 (Add reference for status letters in
documentation., 2008-11-02) and it was wrong from the day one.
Noticed-by: Mike Hommey
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As per the code, the --repo <repo> option is equivalent to the
<repo> argument to 'git push', but somehow it was documented as
something that is more than that. [It exists for historical
reasons, back from the time when options had to come before
arguments.]
Say so. [But not that.]
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old text gave an impression that even in a new repository using
old form might be safer. Only Git from pre 1.7.0 days choke on the
correctly named variable, which is ancient by today's standard.
We have no intention to remove the support for deprecated ones, but
let's make sure that we do not give room for confused questions such
as "why does core.sparse-checkout not work, when add.ignore-errors
does?"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
4fe10219 (rev-list: add --indexed-objects option, 2014-10-16) adds
"--indexed-objects" option to "rev-list", and it is only useful in
the context of "git rev-list" and not "git log". There are other
object traversal options that do not make sense for "git log" that
are shown in the manual page.
Move the description of "--indexed-objects" to the object traversal
section so that it sits together with its friends "--objects",
"--objects-edge", etc. and then show them only in "git rev-list"
documentation.
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Version numbers in asciidoc-generated content (such as man pages)
went missing as of da8a366 (Documentation: refactor common operations
into variables). Fix by putting the underscore back in the variable
name.
Signed-off-by: Sven van Haastregt <svenvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of strbuf is documented as comments above functions,
and some is separate in Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt.
This makes it annoying to find the appropriate documentation.
We'd rather have it all in one place, which means all in the
text document, or all in the header.
Let's choose the header as that place. Even though the
formatting is not quite as pretty, this keeps the
documentation close to the related code. The hope is that
this makes it easier to find what you want (human-readable
comments are right next to the C declarations), and easier
for writers to keep the documentation up to date.
This is more or less a straight import of the text from
api-strbuf.txt into C comments, complete with asciidoc
formatting. The exceptions are:
1. All comments created in this way are started with "/**"
to indicate they are part of the API documentation. This
may help later with extracting the text to pretty-print
it.
2. Function descriptions do not repeat the function name,
as it is available in the context directly below. So:
`strbuf_add`::
Add data of given length to the buffer.
from api-strbuf.txt becomes:
/**
* Add data of given length to the buffer.
*/
void strbuf_add(struct strbuf *sb, const void *, size_t);
As a result, any block-continuation required in asciidoc
for that list item was dropped in favor of straight
blank-line paragraph (since it is not necessary when we
are not in a list item).
3. There is minor re-wording to integrate existing comments
and api-strbuf text. In each case, I took whichever
version was more descriptive, and eliminated any
redundancies. In one case, for strbuf_addstr, the api
documentation gave its inline definition; I eliminated
this as redundant with the actual definition, which can
be seen directly below the comment.
4. The functions in the header file are re-ordered to match
the ordering of the API documentation, under the
assumption that more thought went into the grouping
there.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We forgot to list "tformat:<string>" when enumerating possible
values that "--pretty=<format>" can take. It was not described
that "--pretty='string with %s placeholder'" that is not understood
is DWIMmed as "--pretty=tformat:<that string>".
Further, it was unclear what "When omitted, defaults to 'medium'"
was meant. Is it "When --pretty=<something> was not given at all",
or is it "When --pretty is given without =<something>"? Clarify
that it is the latter.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though "advice.h" includes "git-compat-util.h", it is not
sensible to have it as the first #include and indirectly satisify
the "You must give git-compat-util.h a clean environment to set up
feature test macros before including any of the system headers are
included", which is the real requirement.
Because:
- A command that interacts with the object store, config subsystem,
the index, or the working tree cannot do anything without using
what is declared in "cache.h";
- A built-in command must be declared in "builtin.h", so anything
in builtin/*.c must include it;
- These two headers both include "git-compat-util.h" as the first
thing; and
- Almost all our *.c files (outside compat/ and borrowed files in
xdiff/) need some Git-ness from "cache.h" to do something
Git-ish.
let's explicitly specify that one of these three header files must
be the first thing that is included.
Any of our *.c file should include the header file that directly
declares what it uses, instead of relying on the fact that some *.h
file it includes happens to include another *.h file that declares
the necessary function or type. Spell it out as another guideline
item.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was missing in 1b70fe5d30 (2015-01-07, receive-pack.c: negotiate
atomic push support) as I squashed the option in very late in the patch
series.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:
- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log --grep=<string>" shows only commits with messages that
match the given string, but sometimes it is useful to be able to
show only commits that do *not* have certain messages (e.g. "show
me ones that are not FIXUP commits").
Originally, we had the invert-grep flag in grep_opt, but because
"git grep --invert-grep" does not make sense except in conjunction
with "--files-with-matches", which is already covered by
"--files-without-matches", it was moved it to revisions structure.
To have the flag there expresses the function to the feature better.
When the newly inserted two tests run, the history would have commits
with messages "initial", "second", "third", "fourth", "fifth", "sixth"
and "Second", committed in this order. The commits that does not match
either "th" or "Sec" is "second" and "initial". For the case insensitive
case only "initial" matches.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Junghans <ottxor@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The assume-unchanged bit, and consequently core.ignoreStat, can be
misunderstood. Be assertive about the expectation that file changes should
notified to Git.
Overhaul the general wording thus:
1. direct description of what is ignored given first.
2. example instruction of the user manual action required.
3. use sideways indirection for assume-unchanged and update-index
references.
4. add a 'normally' to give leeway for the change detection.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier we made "rev-list --object-edge" more aggressively list the
objects at the edge commits, in order to reduce number of objects
fetched into a shallow repository, but the change affected cases
other than "fetching into a shallow repository" and made it
unusably slow (e.g. fetching into a normal repository should not
have to suffer the overhead from extra processing). Limit it to a
more specific case by introducing --objects-edge-aggressive, a new
option to rev-list.
* bc/fetch-thin-less-aggressive-in-normal-repository:
pack-objects: use --objects-edge-aggressive for shallow repos
rev-list: add an option to mark fewer edges as uninteresting
Documentation: add missing article in rev-list-options.txt
When receive.denyCurrentBranch is set to updateInstead, a push that
tries to update the branch that is currently checked out is accepted
only when the index and the working tree exactly matches the
currently checked out commit, in which case the index and the
working tree are updated to match the pushed commit. Otherwise the
push is refused.
This hook can be used to customize this "push-to-deploy" logic. The
hook receives the commit with which the tip of the current branch is
going to be updated, and can decide what kind of local changes are
acceptable and how to update the index and the working tree to match
the updated tip of the current branch.
For example, the hook can simply run `git read-tree -u -m HEAD "$1"`
in order to emulate 'git fetch' that is run in the reverse direction
with `git push`, as the two-tree form of `read-tree -u -m` is
essentially the same as `git checkout` that switches branches while
keeping the local changes in the working tree that do not interfere
with the difference between the branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a command line argument to the git push command to request atomic
pushes.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds support to send-pack to negotiate and use atomic pushes
iff the server supports it. Atomic pushes are activated by a new command
line flag --atomic.
In order to do this we also need to change the semantics for send_pack()
slightly. The existing send_pack() function actually doesn't send all the
refs back to the server when multiple refs are involved, for example
when using --all. Several of the failure modes for pushes can already be
detected locally in the send_pack client based on the information from the
initial server side list of all the refs as generated by receive-pack.
Any such refs that we thus know would fail to push are thus pruned from
the list of refs we send to the server to update.
For atomic pushes, we have to deal thus with both failures that are detected
locally as well as failures that are reported back from the server. In order
to do so we treat all local failures as push failures too.
We introduce a new status code REF_STATUS_ATOMIC_PUSH_FAILED so we can
flag all refs that we would normally have tried to push to the server
but we did not due to local failures. This is to improve the error message
back to the end user to flag that "these refs failed to update since the
atomic push operation failed."
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds the atomic protocol option to allow
receive-pack to inform the client that it has
atomic push capability.
This commit makes the functionality introduced
in the previous commits go live for the serving
side. The changes in documentation reflect the
protocol capabilities of the server.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git send-email" normally identifies itself via X-Mailer: header
in the message it sends out. A new command line flag allows the
user to squelch the header.
* lh/send-email-hide-x-mailer:
test/send-email: --[no-]xmailer tests
send-email: add --[no-]xmailer option
Newer libCurl knows how to talk IMAP; "git imap-send" has been
updated to use this instead of a hand-rolled OpenSSL calls.
* br/imap-send-via-libcurl:
git-imap-send: use libcurl for implementation
The git-send-email documentation was never updated to reflect
the change made in 01645b74 to use the SSL library's default
CA trust store rather than /etc/ssl/certs as a hardcoded
default CApath. This corrects that, and also tweaks the rest
of the text a bit to explain more accurately what is required
for a valid CApath / CAfile.
Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While here, also change grammatically poor "three dash lines" to
"three-dash line".
Suggested-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When fetching into or pushing from a shallow repository, we want to
aggressively mark edges as uninteresting, since this decreases the pack
size. However, aggressively marking edges can negatively affect
performance on large non-shallow repositories with lots of refs.
Teach pack-objects a --shallow option to indicate that we're pushing
from or fetching into a shallow repository. Use
--objects-edge-aggressive only for shallow repositories and otherwise
use --objects-edge, which performs better in the general case. Update
the callers to pass the --shallow option when they are dealing with a
shallow repository.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit fbd4a70 (list-objects: mark more commits as edges in
mark_edges_uninteresting - 2013-08-16), we marked an increasing number
of edges uninteresting. This change, and the subsequent change to make
this conditional on --objects-edge, are used by --thin to make much
smaller packs for shallow clones.
Unfortunately, they cause a significant performance regression when
pushing non-shallow clones with lots of refs (23.322 seconds vs.
4.785 seconds with 22400 refs). Add an option to git rev-list,
--objects-edge-aggressive, that preserves this more aggressive behavior,
while leaving --objects-edge to provide more performant behavior.
Preserve the current behavior for the moment by using the aggressive
option.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) allows its color output
to be customized via configuration variables.
* jk/colors:
parse_color: drop COLOR_BACKGROUND macro
diff-highlight: allow configurable colors
parse_color: recognize "no$foo" to clear the $foo attribute
parse_color: support 24-bit RGB values
parse_color: refactor color storage
Fixes long-standing misunderstanding of what assume-unchanged is
about. Some text near what is removed by the bottom patch may also
have to be removed.
* po/doc-assume-unchanged:
gitignore.txt: do not suggest assume-unchanged
doc: make clear --assume-unchanged's user contract
Credential helpers are asked in turn until one of them give
positive response, which is cumbersome to turn off when you need to
run Git in an automated setting. The credential helper interface
learned to allow a helper to say "stop, don't ask other helpers."
Also GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT environment can be set to false to disable
our built-in prompt mechanism for passwords.
* jk/credential-quit:
prompt: respect GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT to disable terminal prompts
credential: let helpers tell us to quit
"git push" into a repository with a working tree normally refuses
to modify the branch that is checked out. The command learned to
optionally do an equivalent of "git reset --hard" only when there
is no change to the working tree and the index instead, which would
be useful to "deploy" by pushing into a repository.
* js/push-to-deploy:
t5516: more tests for receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead
receive-pack: add another option for receive.denyCurrentBranch
"git am" learned "--message-id" option to copy the message ID of
the incoming e-mail to the log message of resulting commit.
* pb/am-message-id-footer:
git-am: add --message-id/--no-message-id
git-mailinfo: add --message-id
"git remote update --prune" to drop many refs has been optimized.
* mh/simplify-repack-without-refs:
sort_string_list(): rename to string_list_sort()
prune_remote(): iterate using for_each_string_list_item()
prune_remote(): rename local variable
repack_without_refs(): make the refnames argument a string_list
prune_remote(): sort delete_refs_list references en masse
prune_remote(): initialize both delete_refs lists in a single loop
prune_remote(): exit early if there are no stale references
"git config --get-color" did not parse its command line arguments
carefully.
* jk/colors-fix:
t4026: test "normal" color
config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1"
docs: describe ANSI 256-color mode
The Developers Certificate of Origin has a mixture of tabs and white
spaces which is annoying to view if your editor explicitly views white
space characters.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of disallowing ".git" in the index is that we
would never want to accidentally overwrite files in the
repository directory. But this means we need to respect the
filesystem's idea of when two paths are equal. The prior
commit added a helper to make such a comparison for NTFS
and FAT32; let's use it in verify_path().
We make this check optional for two reasons:
1. It restricts the set of allowable filenames, which is
unnecessary for people who are not on NTFS nor FAT32.
In practice this probably doesn't matter, though, as
the restricted names are rather obscure and almost
certainly would never come up in practice.
2. It has a minor performance penalty for every path we
insert into the index.
This patch ties the check to the core.protectNTFS config
option. Though this is expected to be most useful on Windows,
we allow it to be set everywhere, as NTFS may be mounted on
other platforms. The variable does default to on for Windows,
though.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of disallowing ".git" in the index is that we
would never want to accidentally overwrite files in the
repository directory. But this means we need to respect the
filesystem's idea of when two paths are equal. The prior
commit added a helper to make such a comparison for HFS+;
let's use it in verify_path.
We make this check optional for two reasons:
1. It restricts the set of allowable filenames, which is
unnecessary for people who are not on HFS+. In practice
this probably doesn't matter, though, as the restricted
names are rather obscure and almost certainly would
never come up in practice.
2. It has a minor performance penalty for every path we
insert into the index.
This patch ties the check to the core.protectHFS config
option. Though this is expected to be most useful on OS X,
we allow it to be set everywhere, as HFS+ may be mounted on
other platforms. The variable does default to on for OS X,
though.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --[no-]xmailer that allows a user to disable adding the 'X-Mailer:'
header to the email being sent.
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The assume-unchanged bit can be misunderstood. Be assertive about
the expectation that file changes should update that flag.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-update-index --assume-unchanged was never meant to ignore changes
to tracked files (only to spare some stats). So do not suggest it
as a means to achieve that.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many users misunderstand the --assume-unchanged contract, believing
it means Git won't look at the flagged file.
Be explicit that the --assume-unchanged contract is by the user that
they will NOT change the file so that Git does not need to look (and
expend, for example, lstat(2) cycles)
Mentioning "Git stops checking" does not help the reader, as it is
only one possible consequence of what that assumption allows Git to
do, but
(1) there are things other than "stop checking" that Git can do
based on that assumption; and
(2) Git is not obliged to stop checking; it merely is allowed to.
Also, this is a single flag bit, correct the plural to singular, and
the verb, accordingly.
Drop the stale and incorrect information about "poor-man's ignore",
which is not what this flag bit is about at all.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A request to store an empty note via "git notes" meant to remove
note from the object but with --allow-empty we will store a (surprise!)
note that is empty. In the longer run, we might want to deprecate
the somewhat unintuitive "emptying means deletion" behaviour.
* jh/empty-notes:
t3301: modernize style
notes: empty notes should be shown by 'git log'
builtin/notes: add --allow-empty, to allow storing empty notes
builtin/notes: split create_note() to clarify add vs. remove logic
builtin/notes: simplify early exit code in add()
builtin/notes: refactor note file path into struct note_data
builtin/notes: improve naming
t3301: verify that 'git notes' removes empty notes by default
builtin/notes: fix premature failure when trying to add the empty blob
Allow passing extra set of arguments when ssh is invoked to create
an encrypted & authenticated connection by introducing a new environment
variable GIT_SSH_COMMAND, whose contents is interpreted by shells.
This is not possible with existing GIT_SSH mechanism whose
invocation bypasses shells, which was designed more to match what
other programs with similar variables did, not necessarily to be
more useful.
* tq/git-ssh-command:
git_connect: set ssh shell command in GIT_SSH_COMMAND
By default, check-ignore does not list tracked files at all since
they are not subject to ignore patterns.
Make this clearer in the man page.
Reported-by: Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you run git as part of an automated system, you might
prefer git to die rather than try to issue a prompt on the
terminal (because there would be nobody to see it and
respond, and the process would hang forever).
This usually works out of the box because getpass() (and our
more featureful replacements) will fail when there is no
tty, but this does not cover all cases. For example, a batch
system run via ssh might have a tty, even when the user does
not expect it.
Let's provide an environment variable the user can set to
avoid even trying to touch the tty at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are trying to fill a credential, we loop over the
set of defined credential-helpers, then fall back to running
askpass, and then finally prompt on the terminal. Helpers
which cannot find a credential are free to tell us nothing,
but they cannot currently ask us to stop prompting.
This patch lets them provide a "quit" attribute, which asks
us to stop the process entirely (avoiding running more
helpers, as well as the askpass/terminal prompt).
This has a few possible uses:
1. A helper which prompts the user itself (e.g., in a
dialog) can provide a "cancel" button to the user to
stop further prompts.
2. Some helpers may know that prompting cannot possibly
work. For example, if their role is to broker a ticket
from an external auth system and that auth system
cannot be contacted, there is no point in continuing
(we need a ticket to authenticate, and the user cannot
provide one by typing it in).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When synchronizing between working directories, it can be handy to update
the current branch via 'push' rather than 'pull', e.g. when pushing a fix
from inside a VM, or when pushing a fix made on a user's machine (where
the developer is not at liberty to install an ssh daemon let alone know
the user's password).
The common workaround – pushing into a temporary branch and then merging
on the other machine – is no longer necessary with this patch.
The new option is:
'updateInstead':
Update the working tree accordingly, but refuse to do so if there
are any uncommitted changes.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Parse the option and pass it directly to git-mailinfo.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option adds the content of the Message-Id header at the end of the
commit message prepared by git-mailinfo. This is useful in order to
associate commit messages automatically with mailing list discussions.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The thread at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/257392
details problems when applying patches with "git am" in a repository with
CRLF line endings. In the example in the thread, the repository originated
from "git-svn" so it is not possible to use core.eol and friends on it.
Right now, the best option is to use "git am --keep-cr". However, when
a patch create new files, the patch application process will reject the
new file because it finds a "/dev/null\r" string instead of "/dev/null".
The problem is that SMTP transport is CRLF-unsafe. Sending a patch by
email is the same as passing it through "dos2unix | unix2dos". The newly
introduced CRLFs are normally transparent because git-am strips them. The
keepcr=true setting preserves them, but it is mostly working by chance
and it would be very problematic to have a "git am" workflow in a
repository with mixed LF and CRLF line endings.
The MIME solution to this is the quoted-printable transfer enconding.
This is not something that we want to enable by default, since it makes
received emails horrible to look at. However, it is a very good match
for projects that store CRLF line endings in the repository.
The only disadvantage of quoted-printable is that quoted-printable
patches fail to apply if the maintainer uses "git am --keep-cr". This
is because the decoded patch will have two carriage returns at the end
of the line. Therefore, add support for base64 transfer encoding too,
which makes received emails downright impossible to look at outside
a MUA, but really just works.
The patch covers all bases, including users that still live in the late
80s, by also providing a 7bit content transfer encoding that refuses
to send emails with non-ASCII character in them. And finally, "8bit"
will add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header but otherwise do nothing.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new name is more consistent with the names of other
string_list-related functions.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are general guidelines for writing good tests in t/README
but neither SubmittingPatches nor CodingGuidelines refers to it,
which makes the document easy to be missed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You can turn on ANSI text attributes like "reverse" by
putting "reverse" in your color spec. However, you cannot
ask to turn reverse off.
For common cases, this does not matter. You would turn on
"reverse" at the start of a colored section, and then clear
all attributes with a "reset". However, you may wish to turn
on some attributes, then selectively disable others. For
example:
git log --format="%C(bold ul yellow)%h%C(noul) %s"
underlines just the hash, but without the need to re-specify
the rest of the attributes. This can also help third-party
programs, like contrib/diff-highlight, that want to turn
some attribute on/off without disrupting existing coloring.
Note that some attribute specifications are probably
nonsensical (e.g., "bold nobold"). We do not bother to flag
such constructs, and instead let the terminal sort it out.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some terminals (like XTerm) allow full 24-bit RGB color
specifications using an extension to the regular ANSI color
scheme. Let's allow users to specify hex RGB colors,
enabling the all-important feature of hot pink ref
decorations:
git log --format="%h%C(#ff69b4)%d%C(reset) %s"
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our color specifications have supported the 256-color ANSI
extension for years, but we never documented it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-push manual page used "gitlink" in one place instead of
"linkgit". Fix this so the link renders correctly.
Noticed-by: Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git status' doesn't output leading '#'s these days.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In an earlier part there is:
"re-send it with "To:" set to the maintainer [*1*] and "cc:" the list [*2*]"
for the final submission, but later we see
"Send it to the list and cc the maintainer."
Fix the later one to match the previous.
Signed-off-by: Slavomir Vlcek <svlc@inventati.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although the "git notes" man page advertises that we support binary-safe
notes addition (using the -C option), we currently do not support adding
the empty note (i.e. using the empty blob to annotate an object). Instead,
an empty note is always treated as an intent to remove the note
altogether.
Introduce the --allow-empty option to the add/append/edit subcommands,
to explicitly allow an empty note to be stored into the notes tree.
Also update the documentation, and add test cases for the new option.
Reported-by: James H. Fisher <jhf@trifork.com>
Improved-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In particular, git-fast-import and -export link to each
other, and gitremote-helpers links to existing remote
helpers, and vice versa. Also link to fast-import from the
remote helper spec, as this is relevant for remote helpers
using the fast-import format.
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a missing article at the beginning of a sentence, and rephrase
slightly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Quinot <thomas@quinot.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use libcurl's high-level API functions to implement git-imap-send
instead of the previous low-level OpenSSL-based functions.
Since version 7.30.0, libcurl's API has been able to communicate with
IMAP servers. Using those high-level functions instead of the current
ones would reduce imap-send.c by some 1200 lines of code. For now,
the old ones are wrapped in #ifdefs, and the new functions are enabled
by make if curl's version is >= 7.34.0, from which version on curl's
CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS (enabling IMAP authentication) parameter has been
available. The low-level functions will still be used for tunneling
into the server for now.
As I don't have access to that many IMAP servers, I haven't been able to
test the new code with a wide variety of parameter combinations. I did
test both secure and insecure (imaps:// and imap://) connections and
values of "PLAIN" and "LOGIN" for the authMethod.
In order to suppress a sparse warning about "using sizeof on a
function", we use the same solution used in commit 9371322a6
("sparse: suppress some "using sizeof on a function" warnings",
06-10-2013) which solved exactly this problem for the other commands
using libcurl.
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reiter <ockham@raz.or.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It may be impractical to install a wrapper script for GIT_SSH
when additional parameters need to be passed. Provide an alternative
way of specifying a shell command to be run, including command line
arguments, by means of the GIT_SSH_COMMAND environment variable,
which behaves like GIT_SSH but is passed to the shell.
The special circuitry to modify parameters in the case of using
PuTTY's plink/tortoiseplink is activated only when using GIT_SSH;
in the case of using GIT_SSH_COMMAND, it is deliberately left up to
the user to make any required parameters adaptation before calling
the underlying ssh implementation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Quinot <thomas@quinot.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the original phrasing, it is possible to misunderstand as if
the contents in the index for only the specified paths are made into
the new commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option name "--store" was used early in development, but
never even made it into an applied patch, let alone a
released version of git. I forgot to update the matching
documentation at the time, though.
Noticed-by: Jesse Hopkins <jesse.hopkins@lmco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The -v/-q options were sort-of supported but without using the
parse-options API, and were not documented.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reiter <ockham@raz.or.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:
- Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
- Spell Linux as Capitalized;
- Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'for-junio' of git://bogomips.org/git-svn:
git-svn: use SVN::Ra::get_dir2 when possible
git-svn: add space after "W:" prefix in warning
git-svn: (cleanup) remove editor param passing
git-svn: prepare SVN::Ra config pieces once
Git.pm: add specified name to tempfile template
git-svn: disable _rev_list memoization
git-svn: save a little memory as fetch progresses
git-svn: remove unnecessary DESTROY override
git-svn: reload RA every log-window-size
git-svn.txt: advertise pushurl with dcommit
git-svn: remove mergeinfo rev caching
git-svn: cache only mergeinfo revisions
git-svn: reduce check_cherry_pick cache overhead
git-svn: only look at the root path for svn:mergeinfo
git-svn: only look at the new parts of svn:mergeinfo
Allow painting or not painting (partial) matches in context lines
when showing "grep -C<num>" output in color.
* rs/grep-color-words:
grep: add color.grep.matchcontext and color.grep.matchselected
Allow diff tool backend to stop early by exiting with a non-zero
status.
* da/difftool:
difftool: add support for --trust-exit-code
difftool--helper: exit when reading a prompt answer fails
Tighten the logic to decide that an unreachable cruft is
sufficiently old by covering corner cases such as an ancient object
becoming reachable and then going unreachable again, in which case
its retention period should be prolonged.
* jk/prune-mtime: (28 commits)
drop add_object_array_with_mode
revision: remove definition of unused 'add_object' function
pack-objects: double-check options before discarding objects
repack: pack objects mentioned by the index
pack-objects: use argv_array
reachable: use revision machinery's --indexed-objects code
rev-list: add --indexed-objects option
rev-list: document --reflog option
t5516: test pushing a tag of an otherwise unreferenced blob
traverse_commit_list: support pending blobs/trees with paths
make add_object_array_with_context interface more sane
write_sha1_file: freshen existing objects
pack-objects: match prune logic for discarding objects
pack-objects: refactor unpack-unreachable expiration check
prune: keep objects reachable from recent objects
sha1_file: add for_each iterators for loose and packed objects
count-objects: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
count-objects: do not use xsize_t when counting object size
prune-packed: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir
reachable: mark index blobs as SEEN
...
Add machinery to alternatively use AsciiDoctor to format our
documentation.
* bc/asciidoctor:
Documentation: remove Asciidoctor linkgit macro
Documentation: refactor common operations into variables
Documentation: implement linkgit macro for Asciidoctor
Documentation: move some AsciiDoc parameters into variables
Teach difftool to exit when a diff tool returns a non-zero exit
code when either --trust-exit-code is specified or
difftool.trustExitCode is true.
Forward exit codes from invoked diff tools to the caller when
--trust-exit-code is used.
Suggested-by: Adri Farr <14farresa@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The config option color.grep.match can be used to specify the highlighting
color for matching strings. Add the options matchContext and matchSelected
to allow different colors to be specified for matching strings in the
context vs. in selected lines. This is similar to the ms and mc specifiers
in GNU grep's environment variable GREP_COLORS.
Tests are from Zoltan Klinger's earlier attempt to solve the same
issue in a different way.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It took me a long time to notice the rider on the pack.threads
configuration option that it would multiple the memory consumption
by the number of CPUs in the machine. Clarify that the limit
applies per-thread.
Signed-off-by: Robert de Bath <rdebath@tvisiontech.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoctor provides an extension implementing a backend-independent
macro for dealing with manpage links just like the linkgit macro. As
this is more likely to be up-to-date with future changes in Asciidoctor,
prefer using it over reimplementing in Git.
This reverts commit 773ee47c2b.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Makefile performs several very similar tasks to convert AsciiDoc
files into either HTML or DocBook. Move these items into variables to
reduce the duplication.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Advertise that the svn-remote.<name>.pushurl config key allows specifying
the commit URL for the entire SVN repository in the documentation of the
git svn dcommit command.
Signed-off-by: Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik <sveinung84@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Add managed "env" array to child_process to clarify the lifetime
rules.
* rs/run-command-env-array:
use env_array member of struct child_process
run-command: add env_array, an optional argv_array for env
Newer versions of 'meld' breaks the auto-detection we use to see if
they are new enough to support the `--output` option.
* da/mergetool-meld:
mergetools/meld: make usage of `--output` configurable and more robust
Allow a temporary directory specified to be used while running "git
mergetool" backend.
* da/mergetool-temporary-directory:
t7610-mergetool: add test cases for mergetool.writeToTemp
mergetool: add an option for writing to a temporary directory
A new filter to programatically edit the tail end of the commit log
messages.
* cc/interpret-trailers:
Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers'
trailer: add tests for commands in config file
trailer: execute command from 'trailer.<name>.command'
trailer: add tests for "git interpret-trailers"
trailer: add interpret-trailers command
trailer: put all the processing together and print
trailer: parse trailers from file or stdin
trailer: process command line trailer arguments
trailer: read and process config information
trailer: process trailers from input message and arguments
trailer: add data structures and basic functions
Formatting nitpicks to help a (pickier) reimplementation of
AsciiDoc to grok our documentation.
* bc/asciidoc:
Documentation: fix mismatched delimiters in git-imap-send
Documentation: adjust document title underlining
core.filemode is set automatically when a repo is created.
But when a repo is exported via CIFS or cygwin is mixed with Git for Windows
or Eclipse core.filemode may better be set manually to false.
Update and improve the documentation
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct backtick quoting for some of the modification states to give
consistent web rendering.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to args, add a struct argv_array member to struct child_process
that simplifies specifying the environment for children. It is freed
automatically by finish_command() or if start_command() encounters an
error.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is currently no easy way to ask the revision traversal
machinery to include objects reachable from the index (e.g.,
blobs and trees that have not yet been committed). This
patch adds an option to do so.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is mostly used internally, but it does not hurt to
explain it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git help everyday" to show the Everyday Git document.
* po/everyday-doc:
doc: add 'everyday' to 'git help'
doc: Makefile regularise OBSOLETE_HTML list building
doc: modernise everyday.txt wording and format in man page style
Teach mergetool to write files in a temporary directory when
'mergetool.writeToTemp' is true.
This is helpful for tools such as Eclipse which cannot cope with
multiple copies of the same file in the worktree.
Suggested-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Older versions of meld listed --output in `meld --help`.
Newer versions only mention `meld [OPTIONS...]`.
Improve the checks to catch these newer versions.
Add a `mergetool.meld.hasOutput` configuration to allow
overriding the heuristic.
Reported-by: Andrey Novoseltsev <novoselt@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While use of the --reference option to borrow objects from an
existing local repository of the same project is an effective way to
reduce traffic when cloning a project over the network, it makes the
resulting "borrowing" repository dependent on the "borrowed"
repository. After running
git clone --reference=P $URL Q
the resulting repository Q will be broken if the borrowed repository
P disappears.
The way to allow the borrowed repository to be removed is to repack
the borrowing repository (i.e. run "git repack -a -d" in Q); while
power users may know it very well, it is not easily discoverable.
Teach a new "--dissociate" option to "git clone" to run this
repacking for the user.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
