We had this in "git merge" manual for eternity:
'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>...
[This] syntax (<msg> `HEAD` <commit>...) is supported for
historical reasons. Do not use it from the command line or in
new scripts. It is the same as `git merge -m <msg> <commit>...`.
With the update to "git merge" to make it understand what is
recorded in FETCH_HEAD directly, including Octopus merge cases, we
now can rewrite the use of this syntax in "git pull" with a simple
"git merge FETCH_HEAD".
Also there are quite a few fallouts in the test scripts, and it
turns out that "git cvsimport" also uses this old syntax to record
a merge.
Judging from this result, I would not be surprised if dropping the
support of the old syntax broke scripts people have written and been
relying on for the past ten years. But at least we can start the
deprecation process by throwing a warning message when the syntax is
used.
With luck, we might be able to drop the support in a few years.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The collect_parents() function now is responsible for
1. parsing the commits given on the command line into a list of
commits to be merged;
2. filtering these parents into independent ones; and
3. optionally calling fmt_merge_msg() via prepare_merge_message()
to prepare an auto-generated merge log message, using fake
contents that FETCH_HEAD would have had if these commits were
fetched from the current repository with "git pull . $args..."
Make "git merge FETCH_HEAD" to be the same as the traditional
git merge "$(git fmt-merge-msg <.git/FETCH_HEAD)" $commits
invocation of the command in "git pull", where $commits are the ones
that appear in FETCH_HEAD that are not marked as not-for-merge, by
making it do a bit more, specifically:
- noticing "FETCH_HEAD" is the only "commit" on the command line
and picking the commits that are not marked as not-for-merge as
the list of commits to be merged (substitute for step #1 above);
- letting the resulting list fed to step #2 above;
- doing the step #3 above, using the contents of the FETCH_HEAD
instead of fake contents crafted from the list of commits parsed
in the step #1 above.
Note that this changes the semantics. "git merge FETCH_HEAD" has
always behaved as if the first commit in the FETCH_HEAD file were
directly specified on the command line, creating a two-way merge
whose auto-generated merge log said "merge commit xyz". With this
change, if the previous fetch was to grab multiple branches (e.g.
"git fetch $there topic-a topic-b"), the new world order is to
create an octopus, behaving as if "git pull $there topic-a topic-b"
were run. This is a deliberate change to make that happen, and
can be seen in the changes to t3033 tests.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to pass the list of parents to fmt_merge_msg(), cmd_merge()
uses this strbuf to create something that look like FETCH_HEAD that
describes commits that are being merged. This is necessary only
when we are creating the merge commit message ourselves, but was
done unconditionally.
Move the variable and the logic to populate it to confine them in a
block that needs them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The latter does two separate things:
- Parse the list of commits on the command line, and formulate the
list of commits to be merged (including the current HEAD);
- Compute the list of parents to be recorded in the resulting merge
commit.
Split the latter into a separate helper function, so that we can
later supply the list commits to be merged from a different source
(namely, FETCH_HEAD).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify this small function in three ways.
- The function initially collects all commits to be merged into a
commit_list "remoteheads"; the "remotes" pointer always points at
the tail of this list (either the remoteheads variable itself, or
the ->next slot of the element at the end of the list) to help
elongate the list by repeated calls to commit_list_insert().
Because the new element appended by commit_list_insert() will
always have its ->next slot NULLed out, there is no need for us
to assign NULL to *remotes to terminate the list at the end.
- The variable "head_subsumed" always confused me every time I read
this code. What is happening here is that we inspect what the
caller told us to merge (including the current HEAD) and come up
with the list of parents to be recorded for the resulting merge
commit, omitting commits that are ancestor of other commits.
This filtering may remove the current HEAD from the resulting
parent list---and we signal that fact with this variable, so that
we can later record it as the first parent when "--no-ff" is in
effect.
- The "parents" list is created for this function by reduce_heads()
and was not deallocated after its use, even though the loop
control was written in such a way to allow us to do so by taking
the "next" element in a separate variable so that it can be used
in the next-step part of the loop control.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When parsing a merged object name like "foo~20" to formulate a merge
summary "Merge branch foo (early part)", a temporary strbuf is used,
but we forgot to deallocate it when we failed to find the named
branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To reject merging multiple commits into an unborn branch, we check
argc, thinking that collect_parents() that reads the remaining
command line arguments from <argc, argv> will give us the same
number of commits as its input, i.e. argc.
Because what we really care about is the number of commits, let the
function run and then make sure it returns only one commit instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of having it as one of the three if/elseif/.. case arms,
test the condition and handle this special case upfront. This makes
it easier to follow the flow of logic.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the first things cmd_merge() does is to see if the "--abort"
option is given and run "reset --merge" and exit. When the control
reaches this point, we know "--abort" was not given.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref_unsafe takes a boolean argument for reading (a nonexistent ref
resolves successfully for writing but not for reading). Change this to be
a flags field instead, and pass the new constant RESOLVE_REF_READING when
we want this behaviour.
While at it, swap two of the arguments in the function to put output
arguments at the end. As a nice side effect, this ensures that we can
catch callers that were unaware of the new API so they can be audited.
Give the wrapper functions resolve_refdup and read_ref_full the same
treatment for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the interface declaration for the functions in lockfile.c from
cache.h to a new file, lockfile.h. Add #includes where necessary (and
remove some redundant includes of cache.h by files that already
include builtin.h).
Move the documentation of the lock_file state diagram from lockfile.c
to the new header file.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even the one lockfile object needn't be allocated each time the
function is called. Instead, define one statically-allocated
lock_file object and reuse it for every call.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By the time the "if" block is entered, the lock_file instance from the
main function block is no longer in use, so re-use that one instead of
allocating a second one.
Note that the "lock" variable in the "if" block shadowed the "lock"
variable at function scope, so the only change needed is to remove the
inner definition.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most struct child_process variables are cleared using memset first after
declaration. Provide a macro, CHILD_PROCESS_INIT, that can be used to
initialize them statically instead. That's shorter, doesn't require a
function call and is slightly more readable (especially given that we
already have STRBUF_INIT, ARGV_ARRAY_INIT etc.).
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rs/code-cleaning:
fsck: simplify fsck_commit_buffer() by using commit_list_count()
commit: use commit_list_append() instead of duplicating its code
merge: simplify merge_trivial() by using commit_list_append()
use strbuf_addch for adding single characters
use strbuf_addbuf for adding strbufs
An experiment to use two files (the base file and incremental
changes relative to it) to represent the index to reduce I/O cost
of rewriting a large index when only small part of the working tree
changes.
* nd/split-index: (32 commits)
t1700: new tests for split-index mode
t2104: make sure split index mode is off for the version test
read-cache: force split index mode with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX
read-tree: note about dropping split-index mode or index version
read-tree: force split-index mode off on --index-output
rev-parse: add --shared-index-path to get shared index path
update-index --split-index: do not split if $GIT_DIR is read only
update-index: new options to enable/disable split index mode
split-index: strip pathname of on-disk replaced entries
split-index: do not invalidate cache-tree at read time
split-index: the reading part
split-index: the writing part
read-cache: mark updated entries for split index
read-cache: save deleted entries in split index
read-cache: mark new entries for split index
read-cache: split-index mode
read-cache: save index SHA-1 after reading
entry.c: update cache_changed if refresh_cache is set in checkout_entry()
cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on prime_cache_tree()
cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on cache tree update
...
Build the commit_list of parents by calling commit_list_append() twice
instead of allocating and linking the items by hand. This makes the
code shorter and simpler. Rename the commit_list from parent to parents
(plural) while at it because there are two of them.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'verify-commit' to be used in a way similar to 'verify-tag' is
used. Further work on verifying the mergetags might be needed.
* mg/verify-commit:
t7510: test verify-commit
t7510: exit for loop with test result
verify-commit: scriptable commit signature verification
gpg-interface: provide access to the payload
gpg-interface: provide clear helper for struct signature_check
Move "commit->buffer" out of the in-core commit object and keep
track of their lengths. Use this to optimize the code paths to
validate GPG signatures in commit objects.
* jk/commit-buffer-length:
reuse cached commit buffer when parsing signatures
commit: record buffer length in cache
commit: convert commit->buffer to a slab
commit-slab: provide a static initializer
use get_commit_buffer everywhere
convert logmsg_reencode to get_commit_buffer
use get_commit_buffer to avoid duplicate code
use get_cached_commit_buffer where appropriate
provide helpers to access the commit buffer
provide a helper to set the commit buffer
provide a helper to free commit buffer
sequencer: use logmsg_reencode in get_message
logmsg_reencode: return const buffer
do not create "struct commit" with xcalloc
commit: push commit_index update into alloc_commit_node
alloc: include any-object allocations in alloc_report
replace dangerous uses of strbuf_attach
commit_tree: take a pointer/len pair rather than a const strbuf
The struct has been growing members whose malloced memory needs to be
freed. Do this with one helper function so that no malloced memory shall
be left unfreed.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While strbufs are pretty common throughout our code, it is
more flexible for functions to take a pointer/len pair than
a strbuf. It's easy to turn a strbuf into such a pair (by
dereferencing its members), but less easy to go the other
way (you can strbuf_attach, but that has implications about
memory ownership).
This patch teaches commit_tree (and its associated callers
and sub-functions) to take such a pair for the commit
message rather than a strbuf. This makes passing the buffer
around slightly more verbose, but means we can get rid of
some dangerous strbuf_attach calls in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git merge" without argument, even when there is an upstream
defined for the current branch, refused to run until
merge.defaultToUpstream is set to true. Flip the default of that
configuration variable to true.
* fc/merge-default-to-upstream:
merge: enable defaulttoupstream by default
Update "update-ref --stdin [-z]" and then introduce a transactional
support for (multi-)reference updates.
* mh/ref-transaction: (27 commits)
ref_transaction_commit(): work with transaction->updates in place
struct ref_update: add a type field
struct ref_update: add a lock field
ref_transaction_commit(): simplify code using temporary variables
struct ref_update: store refname as a FLEX_ARRAY
struct ref_update: rename field "ref_name" to "refname"
refs: remove API function update_refs()
update-ref --stdin: reimplement using reference transactions
refs: add a concept of a reference transaction
update-ref --stdin: harmonize error messages
update-ref --stdin: improve the error message for unexpected EOF
t1400: test one mistake at a time
update-ref --stdin -z: deprecate interpreting the empty string as zeros
update-ref.c: extract a new function, parse_next_sha1()
t1400: test that stdin -z update treats empty <newvalue> as zeros
update-ref --stdin: simplify error messages for missing oldvalues
update-ref --stdin: make error messages more consistent
update-ref --stdin: improve error messages for invalid values
update-ref.c: extract a new function, parse_refname()
parse_cmd_verify(): copy old_sha1 instead of evaluating <oldvalue> twice
...
There's no point in this:
% git merge
fatal: No commit specified and merge.defaultToUpstream not set.
We know the most likely scenario is that the user wants to merge the
upstream, and if not, he can set merge.defaultToUpstream to false.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make sure that the help text given to describe the "<param>" part
of the "git cmd --option=<param>" does not contain SP or _,
e.g. "--gpg-sign=<key-id>" option for "git commit" is not spelled
as "--gpg-sign=<key id>".
* jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words:
parse-options: make sure argh string does not have SP or _
update-index: teach --cacheinfo a new syntax "mode,sha1,path"
parse-options: multi-word argh should use dash to separate words
Given that these constants are only being used when updating
references, it is inappropriate to give them such generic names as
"DIE_ON_ERR". So prefix their names with "UPDATE_REFS_".
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When it is not necessary to edit a commit log message (e.g. "git
commit -m" is given a message without specifying "-e"), we used to
disable the spawning of the editor by overriding GIT_EDITOR, but
this means all the uses of the editor, other than to edit the
commit log message, are also affected.
* bp/commit-p-editor:
run-command: mark run_hook_with_custom_index as deprecated
merge hook tests: fix and update tests
merge: fix GIT_EDITOR override for commit hook
commit: fix patch hunk editing with "commit -p -m"
test patch hunk editing with "commit -p -m"
merge hook tests: use 'test_must_fail' instead of '!'
merge hook tests: fix missing '&&' in test
"When you need to use space, use dash" is a strange way to say that
you must not use a space. Because it is more common for the command
line descriptions to use dashed-multi-words, you do not even want to
use spaces in these places. Rephrase the documentation to avoid
this strangeness.
Fix a few existing multi-word argument help strings, i.e.
- GPG key-ids given to -S/--gpg-sign are "key-id";
- Refs used for storing notes are "notes-ref"; and
- Expiry timestamps given to --expire are "expiry-date".
and update the corresponding documentation pages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don't set GIT_EDITOR to ":" when calling prepare-commit-msg hook if the
editor is going to be called (e.g. with "merge -e").
Signed-off-by: Benoit Pierre <benoit.pierre@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don't change git environment: move the GIT_EDITOR=":" override to the
hook command subprocess, like it's already done for GIT_INDEX_FILE.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Pierre <benoit.pierre@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce commit.gpgsign configuration variable to force every
commit to be GPG signed. The variable cannot be overriden from the
command line of some of the commands that create commits except for
"git commit" and "git commit-tree", but I am not convinced that it
is a good idea to sprinkle support for --no-gpg-sign everywhere,
which in turn means that this configuration variable may not be
such a good idea.
* nv/commit-gpgsign-config:
test the commit.gpgsign config option
commit-tree: add and document --no-gpg-sign
commit-tree: add the commit.gpgsign option to sign all commits
If you want to GPG sign all your commits, you have to add the -S option
all the time. The commit.gpgsign config option allows to sign all
commits automatically.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our xwrite wrapper already deals with a few potential hazards, and
are as such more robust. Prefer it instead of write to get the
robustness benefits everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Reviewed-and-improved-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.
The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:
$ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
grep -v strbuf\\.c |
xargs perl -pi -e '
s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
'
on the result of preparatory changes in this series.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We liberally use "committish" and "commit-ish" (and "treeish" and
"tree-ish"); as these are non-words, let's unify these terms to
their dashed form. More importantly, clarify the documentation on
object peeling using these terms.
* rh/ishes-doc:
glossary: fix and clarify the definition of 'ref'
revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>}
glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish)
use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'
use 'tree-ish' instead of 'treeish'
glossary: define commit-ish (a.k.a. committish)
glossary: mention 'treeish' as an alternative to 'tree-ish'
Replace 'committish' in documentation and comments with 'commit-ish'
to match gitglossary(7) and to be consistent with 'tree-ish'.
The only remaining instances of 'committish' are:
* variable, function, and macro names
* "(also committish)" in the definition of commit-ish in
gitglossary[7]
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This task emerged from b04ba2bb (parse-options: deprecate OPT_BOOLEAN,
2011-09-27). All occurrences of the respective variables have
been reviewed and none of them relied on the counting up mechanism,
but all of them were using the variable as a true boolean.
This patch does not change semantics of any command intentionally.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The configuration variable "merge.ff" was cleary a tri-state to
choose one from "favor fast-forward when possible", "always create
a merge even when the history could fast-forward" and "do not
create any merge, only update when the history fast-forwards", but
the command line parser did not implement the usual convention of
"last one wins, and command line overrides the configuration"
correctly.
* mv/merge-ff-tristate:
merge: handle --ff/--no-ff/--ff-only as a tri-state option
