When create a new branch, we fed "refs/heads/<proposed name>" as a string
to get_sha1() and expected it to fail when a branch already exists.
The right way to check if a ref exists is to check with resolve_ref().
A naïve solution that might appear attractive but does not work is to
forbid slashes in get_describe_name() but that will not work. A describe
name is is in the form of "ANYTHING-g<short sha1>", and that ANYTHING part
comes from a original tag name used in the repository the user ran the
describe command. A sick user could have a confusing hierarchical tag
whose name is "refs/heads/foobar" (stored as refs/tags/refs/heads/foobar")
to generate a describe name "refs/heads/foobar-6-g02ac983", and we should
be able to use that name to refer to the object whose name is 02ac983.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/format-patch-am:
format-patch: preserve subject newlines with -k
clean up calling conventions for pretty.c functions
pretty: add pp_commit_easy function for simple callers
mailinfo: always clean up rfc822 header folding
t: test subject handling in format-patch / am pipeline
Conflicts:
builtin/branch.c
builtin/log.c
commit.h
Many callers don't actually care about the pretty print
context at all; let's just give them a simple way of
pretty-printing a commit without having to create a context
struct.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When switching away from a detached HEAD with "git checkout", we give a
listing of the commits about to be lost, and then tell how to resurrect
them since 8e2dc6a (commit: give final warning when reattaching HEAD to
leave commits behind, 2011-02-18).
This is a good safety measure for people who are not comfortable with the
detached HEAD state, but the advice on how to keep the state you just left
was given even to those who set advice.detachedHead to false.
Keep the warning and informational commit listing, but honor the setting
of advice.detachedHead to squelch the advice.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/struct-pathspec:
pathspec: rename per-item field has_wildcard to use_wildcard
Improve tree_entry_interesting() handling code
Convert read_tree{,_recursive} to support struct pathspec
Reimplement read_tree_recursive() using tree_entry_interesting()
Mark the "Warning: you are leaving %d commit(s) behind" message added
in v1.7.5-rc0~74^2 (commit: give final warning when reattaching HEAD
to leave commits behind) by Junio C Hamano for translation.
This message requires the use of ngettext() features, and is the first
message to use the Q_() wrapper around ngettext().
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark messages added in v1.7.5-rc0~117^2~2 (checkout: introduce
--detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}") by Junio C Hamano
for translation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch changes behavior of the two functions. Previously it does
prefix matching only. Now it can also do wildcard matching.
All callers are updated. Some gain wildcard matching (archive,
checkout), others reset pathspec_item.has_wildcard to retain old
behavior (ls-files, ls-tree as they are plumbing).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When orphaning a commit on a detached HEAD, the warning
currently looks like:
Warning: you are leaving 3 commits behind, not connected to
any of your branches:
- commit subject 1
- commit subject 2
- commit subject 3
If you want to keep them by creating a new branch, this
may be a good time to do so with:
git branch new_branch_name 933a615ab0bc566dcfd8c01ec8af159f770d3fe5
Instead of using the "-" list, let's provide a more
traditional oneline format, with the abbreviated sha1 before
each subject. Users are accustomed to seeing commits in this
format, and having the sha1 of each commit can be useful if
you want to cherry-pick instead of creating a new branch.
The new format looks like:
Warning: you are leaving 3 commits behind, not connected to
any of your branches:
933a615 commit subject 1
824fcde commit subject 2
fa49b1a commit subject 3
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When leaving a detached HEAD, we do a revision walk to make
sure the commit we are leaving isn't being orphaned.
However, this leaves crufty marks in the commit objects
which can confuse later walkers, like the one in
stat_tracking_info.
Let's clean up after ourselves to prevent this conflict.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split up the "Switched to and reset branch" and "Switched to a new
branch" messages to make them easier to translate.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gettextize the "HEAD is now at" messages. Several tests in t7201-co.sh
explicitly checked for this message. Change them to skip under
GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split up the "does not have our/their version" message to make it
easier to translate.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* uk/checkout-ambiguous-ref:
Rename t2019 with typo "amiguous" that meant "ambiguous"
checkout: rearrange update_refs_for_switch for clarity
checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"
checkout: split off a function to peel away branchname arg
checkout: fix bug with ambiguous refs
Conflicts:
builtin/checkout.c
You can detach the HEAD at an arbitrary commit in order to browse the
files in various points in the history or build older versions of the
software, without recording any new commit, and come back to an existing
branch. When used in this "sightseer" mode, detached HEAD is a perfectly
safe mechanism. It also is a useful state to experiment with throw-away
commits.
When coming back to an existing branch with "git checkout master",
however, the commits that were created on the detached HEAD will become
unreachable from anywhere but the reflog of the HEAD. Check if the commit
we are about to leave is connected to some ref, and give a final warning
otherwise to remind the user for safety.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions such as hashcmp that expect a binary SHA-1 value take
parameters of type "unsigned char *" to avoid accepting a textual
SHA-1 passed by mistake. Unfortunately, this means passing the string
literal EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN requires an ugly cast. Tweak the
definition of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN to produce a value of more
convenient type.
In the future the definition might change to
extern const unsigned char empty_tree_sha1_bin[20];
#define EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN empty_tree_sha1_bin
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Take care of simple, exceptional cases before the meat of the "check
out by branch name" code begins. After this change, the function
vaguely follows the following pseudocode:
if (-B or -b)
create branch;
if (plain "git checkout" or "git checkout HEAD")
;
else if (--detach or checking out by non-branch commit name)
detach HEAD;
else if (checking out by branch name)
attach HEAD;
One nice side benefit is to make it possible to remove handling of
the --detach option from outside switch_branches.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For example, one might use this when making a temporary merge to
test that two topics work well together.
Patch by Junio, with tests from Jeff King.
[jn: with some extra checks for bogus commandline usage]
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code to parse and consume the tree name and "--" in commands such
as "git checkout @{-1} -- '*.c'" is intimidatingly long. Split it out
into a separate function and make it easier to skip on first reading
by making the data it uses and produces more explicit.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usual dwim_ref lookup prefers tags to branches. Because
checkout primarily works on branches, though, we switch that
behavior to prefer branches.
However, there was a bug in the implementation in which we
used lookup_commit_reference (which used the regular lookup
rules) to get the actual commit to checkout. Checking out an
ambiguous ref therefore ended up putting us in an extremely
broken state in which we wrote the branch ref into HEAD, but
actually checked out the tree for the tag.
This patch fixes the bug by always attempting to pull the
commit to be checked out from the branch-ified version of
the name we were given.
Patch by Junio, tests and commit message from Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add OPT__FORCE as a helper macro in the same spirit as OPT__VERBOSE
et.al. to simplify defining -f/--force options.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lstfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows better help text to be defined than "be quiet". Also make use
of the macro in a place that already had a different description. No
object code changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C
code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in
comment and usage strings.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a
remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something".
See discussion in e.g.
http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com
for more details.
This patch is a straightforward application of
perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/'
except in the RelNotes directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
be a little more verbose about what each option does
Signed-off-by: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jl/submodule-ignore-diff:
checkout: Use submodule.*.ignore settings from .git/config and .gitmodules
checkout: Add test for diff.ignoreSubmodules
checkout: respect diff.ignoreSubmodules setting
Conflicts:
builtin/checkout.c
* dg/local-mod-error-messages:
t7609-merge-co-error-msgs: test non-fast forward case too.
Move "show_all_errors = 1" to setup_unpack_trees_porcelain()
setup_unpack_trees_porcelain: take the whole options struct as parameter
Move set_porcelain_error_msgs to unpack-trees.c and rename it
Conflicts:
merge-recursive.c
* jn/merge-renormalize:
merge-recursive --renormalize
rerere: never renormalize
rerere: migrate to parse-options API
t4200 (rerere): modernize style
ll-merge: let caller decide whether to renormalize
ll-merge: make flag easier to populate
Documentation/technical: document ll_merge
merge-trees: let caller decide whether to renormalize
merge-trees: push choice to renormalize away from low level
t6038 (merge.renormalize): check that it can be turned off
t6038 (merge.renormalize): try checkout -m and cherry-pick
t6038 (merge.renormalize): style nitpicks
Don't expand CRLFs when normalizing text during merge
Try normalizing files to avoid delete/modify conflicts when merging
Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization
Conflicts:
builtin/rerere.c
t/t4200-rerere.sh
Not only this makes the code clearer since setting up the porcelain error
message is meant to work with show_all_errors, but this fixes a call to
setup_unpack_trees_porcelain() in git_merge_trees() which did not set
show_all_errors.
add_rejected_path() used to double-check whether it was running in
plumbing mode. This check was ineffective since it was setting
show_all_errors too late for traverse_trees() to see it, and is made
useless by this patch. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a preparation patch to let setup_unpack_trees_porcelain set
show_all_errors itself.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function is currently dealing only with error messages, but the
intent of calling it is really to notify the unpack-tree mechanics that
it is running in porcelain mode.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For "git status" and the diff family the submodule.*.ignore settings from
.git/config and .gitmodules can be used to override the default set via
diff.ignoreSubmodules on a per-submodule basis. Let's do this consistently
and teach checkout to use these settings too.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Keeping track of the flag bits is proving more trouble than it's
worth. Instead, use a pointer to an options struct like most similar
APIs do.
Callers with no special requests can pass NULL to request the default
options.
Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Justin Frankel <justin@cockos.com>
Helped-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'git checkout' reports uncommitted changes, it also does so for
submodules.
The default mode is now to look really hard into submodules, not only
for different commits, but also for modified files. Since this can be
pretty expensive when there are a lot (and large) submodules, there is
the diff.ignoreSubmodules option.
Let's respect that setting when 'git checkout' reports the uncommitted
changes, since it does nothing else than a 'git diff --name-status'.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* dg/local-mod-error-messages:
t7609: test merge and checkout error messages
unpack_trees: group error messages by type
merge-recursive: distinguish "removed" and "overwritten" messages
merge-recursive: porcelain messages for checkout
Turn unpack_trees_options.msgs into an array + enum
Conflicts:
t/t3400-rebase.sh
Fix "Switched to a new branch <name>" to read "Switched to branch
<name>" when <name> corresponds to an existing branch. This bug was
introduced in 02ac983 while introducing the `-B` switch.
Cc: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an error is encountered, it calls add_rejected_file() which either
- directly displays the error message and stops if in plumbing mode
(i.e. if show_all_errors is not initialized at 1)
- or stores it so that it will be displayed at the end with display_error_msgs(),
Storing the files by error type permits to have a list of files for
which there is the same error instead of having a serie of almost
identical errors.
As each bind_overlap error combines a file and an old file, a list cannot be
done, therefore, theses errors are not stored but directly displayed.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A porcelain message was first added in checkout.c in the commit
8ccba008 (Junio C Hamano, Sat May 17 21:03:49 2008, unpack-trees:
allow Porcelain to give different error messages) to give better feedback
in the case of merge errors.
This patch adapts the porcelain messages for the case of checkout
instead. This way, when having a checkout error, "merge" no longer
appears in the error message.
While we're there, we add an advice in the case of
would_lose_untracked_file.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The list of error messages was introduced as a structure, but an array
indexed over an enum is more flexible, since it allows one to store a
type of error message (index in the array) in a variable.
This change needs to rename would_lose_untracked ->
would_lose_untracked_file to avoid a clash with the function
would_lose_untracked in merge-recursive.c.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach "git merge-recursive" a --renormalize option to enable the
merge.renormalize configuration. The --no-renormalize option can
be used to override it in the negative.
So in the future, you might be able to, e.g.:
git checkout -m -Xrenormalize otherbranch
or
git revert -Xrenormalize otherpatch
or
git pull --rebase -Xrenormalize
The bad part: merge.renormalize is still not honored for most
commands. And it reveals lots of places that -X has not been plumbed
in (so we get "git merge -Xrenormalize" but not much else).
NEEDSWORK: tests
Cc: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a “renormalize” bit to the ll-merge options word so callers can
decide on a case-by-case basis whether the merge is likely to have
overlapped with a change in smudge/clean rules.
This reveals a few commands that have not been taking that situation
into account, though it does not fix them.
No functional change intended.
Cc: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since they do not precede setup_revisions, these assignments of 0 to
rev.abbrev have no effect.
v1.7.1.1~17^2~3 (2010-05-03) taught the log --format=%h machinery
to respect --abbrev instead of always abbreviating, so we have to pay
attention to the abbrev setting now.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Internally, --track and --orphan still use the 'safe' -b, not -B.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Shift the 'new' from the param to the hint, and expand the hint.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* gv/portable:
test-lib: use DIFF definition from GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
build: propagate $DIFF to scripts
Makefile: Tru64 portability fix
Makefile: HP-UX 10.20 portability fixes
Makefile: HPUX11 portability fixes
Makefile: SunOS 5.6 portability fix
inline declaration does not work on AIX
Allow disabling "inline"
Some platforms lack socklen_t type
Make NO_{INET_NTOP,INET_PTON} configured independently
Makefile: some platforms do not have hstrerror anywhere
git-compat-util.h: some platforms with mmap() lack MAP_FAILED definition
test_cmp: do not use "diff -u" on platforms that lack one
fixup: do not unconditionally disable "diff -u"
tests: use "test_cmp", not "diff", when verifying the result
Do not use "diff" found on PATH while building and installing
enums: omit trailing comma for portability
Makefile: -lpthread may still be necessary when libc has only pthread stubs
Rewrite dynamic structure initializations to runtime assignment
Makefile: pass CPPFLAGS through to fllow customization
Conflicts:
Makefile
wt-status.h
859c301 (refs: split log_ref_write logic into log_ref_setup,
2010-05-21) refactors the stack allocation of the log_file array into
the new log_ref_setup() function, but passes it back to the caller.
Since the original intent seems to have been to split the work between
log_ref_setup and log_ref_write, make it the caller's responsibility
to allocate the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Added changes to satisfy a corner case: creating reflogs by using -l
when core.logAllRefUpdates is set to false.
Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of production systems with
vendor compilers that choke unless all compound declarations can be
determined statically at compile time, for example hpux10.20 (I can
provide a comprehensive list of our supported platforms that exhibit
this problem if necessary).
This patch simply breaks apart any compound declarations with dynamic
initialisation expressions, and moves the initialisation until after
the last declaration in the same block, in all the places necessary to
have the offending compilers accept the code.
Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@thewrittenword.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to -b, --orphan creates a new branch, but it starts without any
commit. After running "git checkout --orphan newbranch", you are on a
new branch "newbranch", and the first commit you create from this state
will start a new history without any ancestry.
"git checkout --orphan" keeps the index and the working tree files
intact in order to make it convenient for creating a new history whose
trees resemble the ones from the original branch.
When creating a branch whose trees have no resemblance to the ones from
the original branch, it may be easier to start work on the new branch by
untracking and removing all working tree files that came from the
original branch, by running a 'git rm -rf .' immediately after running
"checkout --orphan".
Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git checkout --merge --conflict=diff3 can be used to present conflict
hunks including text from the common ancestor. The added information
is helpful for resolving a merge by hand, and merge tools tend to
understand it because it is very similar to what ‘diff3 -m’ produces.
Unlike current git, diff3 -m includes a label for the merge base on
the ||||||| line, and unfortunately, some tools cannot parse the
conflict hunks without it. Humans can benefit from a cue when
learning to interpreting the format, too. Mark the start of the text
from the old branch with a label based on the branch’s name.
git rerere does not have trouble parsing this output and its preimage
ids are unchanged since it includes its own code for recreating
conflict hunks. No other code in git tries to parse conflict hunks.
Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git checkout --conflict=diff3 can be used to present conflicts hunks
including text from the common ancestor:
<<<<<<< ours
ourside
|||||||
original
=======
theirside
>>>>>>> theirs
The added information is helpful for resolving a merge by hand, and
merge tools can usually understand it without trouble because it looks
like output from ‘diff3 -m’.
diff3 includes a label for the merge base on the ||||||| line, and it
seems some tools (for example, Emacs 22’s smerge-mode) cannot parse
conflict hunks without such a label. Humans could use help in
interpreting the output, too. So change the marker for the start of the
text from the common ancestor to include the label “base”.
git rerere’s conflict identifiers are not affected: to parse conflict
hunks, rerere looks for whitespace after the ||||||| marker rather
than a newline, and to compute preimage ids, rerere has its own code
for creating conflict hunks. No other code in git tries to parse
conflict hunks.
Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commands using the ll_merge() function will present conflict hunks
imitating ‘diff3 -m’ output if the merge.conflictstyle configuration
option is set appropriately. Unlike ‘diff3 -m’, the output does not
include a label for the merge base on the ||||||| line of the output,
and some tools misparse the conflict hunks without that.
Add a new ancestor_label parameter to ll_merge() to give callers the
power to rectify this situation. If ancestor_label is NULL, the output
format is unchanged. All callers pass NULL for now.
Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c
builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c
you get
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type]
builtin/ builtin.h
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c
which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.
NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.
So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
