So I find it irritating when git thinks for a long time without telling me
what's taking so long. And by "long time" I definitely mean less than two
seconds, which is already way too long for me.
This hits me when doing a large pull and the checkout takes a long time,
or when just switching to another branch that is old and again checkout
takes a while.
Now, git read-tree already had support for the "-v" flag that does nice
updates about what's going on, but it was delayed by two seconds, and if
the thing had already done more than half by then it would be quiet even
after that, so in practice it meant that we migth be quiet for up to four
seconds. Much too long.
So this patch changes the timeout to just one second, which makes it much
more palatable to me.
The other thing this patch does is that "git checkout" now doesn't disable
the "-v" flag when doing its thing, and only disables the output when
given the -q flag. When allowing "checkout -m" to fall back to a 3-way
merge, the users will see the error message from straight "checkout",
so we will tell them that we do fall back to make them look less scary.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Because ':/substring' extended SHA1 expression cannot take
postfix modifiers such as ^{tree} and ^{commit}, we would need
to do it in multiple steps. With the patch, you can start a new
branch from a randomly-picked commit whose message has the named
string in it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This also shortens option descriptions to fit in 80 columns.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When checking out another ref, the reflogs already record from which
branch you switched. Do that also when switching to a detached HEAD.
While at it, record also when coming _from_ a detached HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
user-manual: recovering from corruption
user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commits
user-manual: failed push to public repository
user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at start
git-checkout: describe detached head correctly
When you have a file called HEAD in the work tree, the code to report
where the HEAD is at when "git checkout $commit^0" is done triggered
unnecessary ambiguity checking.
Explicitly mark the command line with "--" and make it clear that we are
talking about a revision.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Updated post-checkout hook to take a flag specifying whether the checkout is
a branch checkout or a file checkout (from the index).
Signed-off-by: Josh England <jjengla@sandia.gov>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As suggested by Junio, adding the current branch name to the
reflog message for git-checkout would be helpful. For example:
"checkout: moving from next to master"
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although it is not advisable, we have always allowed a branch
and a tag to have the same basename (i.e. it is not illegal to
have refs/heads/frotz and refs/tags/frotz at the same time).
When talking about a specific commit, the interpretation of
'frotz' has always been "use tag and then check branch",
although we warn when ambiguities exist.
However "git checkout $name" is defined to (1) first see if it
matches the branch name, and if so switch to that branch; (2)
otherwise it is an instruction to detach HEAD to point at the
commit named by $name. We did not follow this definition when
$name appeared under both refs/heads/ and refs/tags/ -- we
switched to the branch but read the tree from the tagged commit,
which was utterly bogus.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-checkout is also adapted to make use of this new option
instead of the handcrafted command sequence.
Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is nice to see what is happening when checking out large amount of
files, either with git-checkout or git-reset. The new progress code
already decides what is a "significant amount" and displays progress
only in that case..
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
You cannot currently checkout the tip of an existing branch
without moving to the branch.
This allows you to detach your HEAD and place it at such a
commit, with:
$ git checkout master^0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
After "git reset" moves the HEAD around, it reports which commit
you are on, which gives the user a warm fuzzy feeling of
assurance. Give the same assurance from git-checkout when
moving the detached HEAD around.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Change the feedback message if doing 'git checkout foo' when already on
branch "foo".
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch adds support for a dummy remote '.' to avoid having
to declare a fake remote like
[remote "local"]
url = .
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
Such a builtin remote simplifies the operation of "git-fetch",
which will populate FETCH_HEAD but will not pretend that two
repositories are in use, will not create a thin pack, and will
not perform any useless remapping of names. The speed
improvement is around 20%, and it should improve more if
"git-fetch" is converted to a builtin.
To this end, git-parse-remote is grown with a new kind of
remote, 'builtin'. In git-fetch.sh, we treat the builtin remote
specially in that it needs no pack/store operations. In fact,
doing git-fetch on a builtin remote will simply populate
FETCH_HEAD appropriately.
The patch also improves of the --track/--no-track support,
extending it so that branch.<name>.remote items referring '.'
can be created. Finally, it fixes a typo in git-checkout.sh.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The symbolic notation of the fork point can contain whitespaces (e.g.
"git checkout -m 'HEAD@{9 hours ago}'"). Quote strings properly
when using eval to prepare GITHEAD_$new
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In order to track and build on top of a branch 'topic' you track from
your upstream repository, you often would end up doing this sequence:
git checkout -b mytopic origin/topic
git config --add branch.mytopic.remote origin
git config --add branch.mytopic.merge refs/heads/topic
This would first fork your own 'mytopic' branch from the 'topic'
branch you track from the 'origin' repository; then it would set up two
configuration variables so that 'git pull' without parameters does the
right thing while you are on your own 'mytopic' branch.
This commit adds a --track option to git-branch, so that "git
branch --track mytopic origin/topic" performs the latter two actions
when creating your 'mytopic' branch.
If the configuration variable branch.autosetupmerge is set to true, you
do not have to pass the --track option explicitly; further patches in
this series allow setting the variable with a "git remote add" option.
The configuration variable is off by default, and there is a --no-track
option to countermand it even if the variable is set.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We used to refuse leaving a detached HEAD when it wasn't matching an
existing ref so not to lose any commit that might have been performed
while not on any branch (unless -f was provided).
But this protection was completely bogus since it was still possible
to move to HEAD^ while still remaining detached but losing the last
commit anyway if there was one.
Now that we have a proper reflog for HEAD it is best to simply remove
that bogus (and admitedly annoying) protection and simply display the
last HEAD position instead. If one wants to recover a lost detached
state then it can be retrieved from the HEAD reflog.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is to resolve conflicts early in preparation for possible
inclusion of "reflog on detached HEAD" series by Nico, as having
it in 1.5.0 would really help us remove confusion between
detached and attached states.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Those new messages are certainly nice, but there might be cases where
they are simply unwelcome, like when git-commit is used within scripts.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This updates "git-checkout" to report which branch you are
switching to. Especially for people who do not use __git_ps1
from contrib/completion/git-completion.bash this would give a
friendlier feedback of what is going on, and should make the
reminder message much less scary.
Here is a sample session (the prompt tells which branch I am on).
* I have some local modification and realize that the change deserves
to be on its own new topic branch.
[git.git (master)]$ git diff --stat
git-checkout.sh | 10 ++++++++--
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
* So I switch to a new branch. I get a listing of local modifications
and assuring "Switched to a new branch" message.
[git.git (master)]$ git checkout -b jc/checkout
M git-checkout.sh
Switched to a new branch "jc/checkout"
* If I switch back to "master", I get essentially the same.
[git.git (jc/checkout)]$ git checkout master
M git-checkout.sh
Switched to branch "master"
* Detaching head would say which commit I am at and reminds me that
I am not on any branch (not that I would detach my HEAD while keeping
precious local changes around in any real-world workflow -- this is
just a sample session).
[git.git (master)]$ git checkout master^
M git-checkout.sh
Note: you are not on any branch and are at commit "master^"
If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
(now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
git checkout -b <new_branch_name>
* Coming back to an attached state can lose the detached HEAD, so
I get warned and stopped.
[git.git]$ git checkout master
You are not on any branch and switching to branch 'master'
may lose your changes. At this point, you can do one of two things:
(1) Decide it is Ok and say 'git checkout -f master';
(2) Start a new branch from the current commit, by saying
'git checkout -b <branch-name>'.
Leaving your HEAD detached; not switching to branch 'master'.
* Moving around while my HEAD is detached is Ok. I still get the list
of local modifications.
[git.git]$ git checkout master^0
M git-checkout.sh
* The previous step that switched to the tip commit is an obscure but
useful trick. My HEAD is still detached but now it is pointed at by
an existing ref, so I can come back safely.
[git.git]$ git checkout master
M git-checkout.sh
Switched to branch "master"
* And we are back on the "master" branch.
[git.git (master)]$ exit
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is not meant to frighten people or even to suggest they might be
doing something wrong, but rather to notify them of a state change and
provide a likely option in the case this state was entered by mistake.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Doing:
$ git checkout HEAD^
Generates the following message:
|warning: you are not on ANY branch anymore.
|If you meant to create a new branch from the commit, you need -b to
|associate a new branch with the wanted checkout. Example:
| git checkout -b <new_branch_name> HEAD^
Of course if the user does as told at this point the created branch
won't be located at the expected commit. Reword this message a bit to
avoid such confusion.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Commit c1a4278e switched the "merging checkout" implementation
from 3-way read-tree to merge-recursive, but forgot that
merge-recursive will signal an unmerged state with its own exit
status code. This prevented the clean-up phase (paths cleanly
merged should not be updated in the index) from running.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows "git checkout -m <other-branch>" to notice renames and
carry local changes in the working tree forward.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This converts scripts that do "cd $(rev-parse --show-cdup)" by
hand to use cd_to_toplevel.
I think git-fetch does not have to go to the toplevel, but that
should be dealt with in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/bare:
Disallow working directory commands in a bare repository.
git-fetch: allow updating the current branch in a bare repository.
Introduce is_bare_repository() and core.bare configuration variable
Move initialization of log_all_ref_updates
If the user tries to run a porcelainish command which requires
a working directory in a bare repository they may get unexpected
results which are difficult to predict and may differ from command
to command.
Instead we should detect that the current repository is a bare
repository and refuse to run the command there, as there is no
working directory associated with it.
[jc: updated Shawn's original somewhat -- bugs are mine.]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When switching branches, we usually first try read-tree to make
sure that we do not lose the local changes and then updated the
HEAD using update-ref. However, we detached and updated HEAD
before these checks, which was quite bad in a repository with
local changes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Checking for reachability from refs does not help much if the
state we are currently on is somewhere in the middle. We will
lose where we were.
So this makes sureh that HEAD is something directly pointed at
by one of the existing refs (most likely a tag for a user who
has been "sightseeing").
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When switching branches with "git checkout", we internally did $arg^0
(aka $arg^{commit}) suffix but there was no need to.
The improvement is easily visible in the change to an existing
test t/3200-branch.sh in this commit; it was expecting rather
ugly message.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
After making commits in the detached HEAD state, if you run "git
checkout" to switch to an existing branch, you will lose your
work. Make sure the switched-to branch is a fast-forward of the
current HEAD, or require -f when switching.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We used to say "you are not on a branch" before the initial
commit. This is incorrect -- the user is on a branch yet to be
born, but its name has been already determined.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows "git checkout v1.4.3" to dissociate the HEAD of
repository from any branch. After this point, "git branch"
starts reporting that you are not on any branch. You can go
back to an existing branch by saying "git checkout master", for
example.
This is still experimental. While I think it makes sense to
allow commits on top of detached HEAD, it is rather dangerous
unless you are careful in the current form. Next "git checkout
master" will obviously lose what you have done, so we might want
to require "git checkout -f" out of a detached HEAD if we find
that the HEAD commit is not an ancestor of any other branches.
There is no such safety valve implemented right now.
On the other hand, the reason the user did not start the ad-hoc
work on a new branch with "git checkout -b" was probably because
the work was of a throw-away nature, so the convenience of not
having that safety valve might be even better. The user, after
accumulating some commits on top of a detached HEAD, can always
create a new branch with "git checkout -b" not to lose useful
work done while the HEAD was detached.
We'll see.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This uses the previous update to read-tree in Porcelain-ish
commands "git checkout" and "git merge" to loosen the check
when switching branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is often wanted on the #git channel that this were to work to
recover removed directory:
rm -fr Documentation
git checkout -- Documentation
git checkout HEAD -- Documentation ;# alternatively
Now it does.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master: (72 commits)
runstatus: do not recurse into subdirectories if not needed
grep: fix --fixed-strings combined with expression.
grep: free expressions and patterns when done.
Corrected copy-and-paste thinko in ignore executable bit test case.
An illustration of rev-list --parents --pretty=raw
Allow git-checkout when on a non-existant branch.
gitweb: Decode long title for link tooltips
git-svn: Fix fetch --no-ignore-externals with GIT_SVN_NO_LIB=1
Ignore executable bit when adding files if filemode=0.
Remove empty ref directories that prevent creating a ref.
Use const for interpolate arguments
git-archive: update documentation
Deprecate merge-recursive.py
gitweb: fix over-eager application of esc_html().
Allow '(no author)' in git-svn's authors file.
Allow 'svn fetch' on '(no date)' revisions in Subversion.
git-repack: allow git-repack to run in subdirectory
Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to git-archive
git-tar-tree: Move code for git-archive --format=tar to archive-tar.c
git-tar-tree: Remove duplicate git_config() call
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