The content-addressable design is too important not to be worth at least
a brief mention a little earlier on.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The generated user manual is rather hard to read thanks to the lack of
the css that's supposed to be included from docbook-xsl.css.
I'm totally ignorant of the toolchain; grubbing through xmlto and
related scripts, the easiest way I could find to ensure that the
generated html links to the stylesheet is by calling xsltproc directly.
Maybe there's some better way.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As Linus pointed out recently on the mailing list,
git reset --hard HEAD^
doesn't undo a merge in the case where the merge did a fast-forward. So
the rcommendation here is a little dangerous.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git-cvsimport argument that specifies a cvs module to import should
probably be included in the default example.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch documents the previously undocumented option --rename-section
and adds a new option to zap an entire section.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Unset NO_C99_FORMAT on Cygwin.
Fix a "pointer type missmatch" warning.
Fix some "comparison is always true/false" warnings.
Fix an "implicit function definition" warning.
Fix a "label defined but unreferenced" warning.
Document the config variable format.suffix
git-merge: fail correctly when we cannot fast forward.
builtin-archive: use RUN_SETUP
Fix git-gc usage note
Some file systems that can host git repositories and their working copies
do not support symbolic links. But then if the repository contains a symbolic
link, it is impossible to check out the working copy.
This patch enables partial support of symbolic links so that it is possible
to check out a working copy on such a file system. A new flag
core.symlinks (which is true by default) can be set to false to indicate
that the filesystem does not support symbolic links. In this case, symbolic
links that exist in the trees are checked out as small plain files, and
checking in modifications of these files preserve the symlink property in
the database (as long as an entry exists in the index).
Of course, this does not magically make symbolic links work on such defective
file systems; hence, this solution does not help if the working copy relies
on that an entry is a real symbolic link.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add the new --no-abbrev option to the man page for the git-branch command.
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Another memory overrun in http-push.c
fetch.o depends on the headers, too.
Documentation: Correct minor typo in git-add documentation.
Documentation/git-send-email.txt: Fix labeled list formatting
Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt: Fix labeled list formatting
Documentation/build-docdep.perl: Fix dependencies for included asciidoc files
Fix some formatting problems:
- Some list labels were missing their "::" characters.
- Some of continuation paragraphs in labeled lists were incorrectly
formatted as literal paragraphs.
- In one case "[verse]" was missing before the config key list.
- The "Basic Examples" section was incorrectly nested inside the
"Config File-Only Options" section.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mark continuation paragraphs of list entries as such to avoid
getting literal paragraphs instead.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mark the continuation paragraph of a list entry as such to avoid
getting a literal paragraph instead.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Adding dependencies on included files to the generated man pages is
wrong - includes are processed by asciidoc, therefore the intermediate
Docbook XML files really depend on included files. Because of these
wrong dependencies the man pages were not rebuilt properly if the
intermediate XML files were left in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Start preparing Release Notes for 1.5.0.3
Documentation: git-remote add [-t <branch>] [-m <branch>] [-f] name url
Include config.mak in doc/Makefile
git.el: Set the default commit coding system from the repository config.
git-archimport: support empty summaries, put summary on a single line.
http-push.c::lock_remote(): validate all remote refs.
git-cvsexportcommit: don't cleanup .msg if not yet committed to cvs.
config.mak.autogen is already there. Without this change it is not
possible to override mandir in config.mak.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'js/diff-ni' (early part):
diff --no-index: also imitate the exit status of diff(1)
Fix typo: do not show name1 when name2 fails
Teach git-diff-files the new option `--no-index`
run_diff_{files,index}(): update calling convention.
update-index: do not die too early in a read-only repository.
git-status: do not be totally useless in a read-only repository.
* maint:
builtin-fmt-merge-msg: fix bugs in --file option
index-pack: Loop over pread until data loading is complete.
blameview: Fix the browse behavior in blameview
Fix minor typos/grammar in user-manual.txt
Correct ordering in git-cvsimport's option documentation
git-show: Reject native ref
Fix git-show man page formatting in the EXAMPLES section
A pair of commits on January 8th added option documentation (for -a,
-S and -L) in the middle of the documentation for the -A option. This
makes -A's documentation contiguous again.
Signed-off-by: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix asciidoc markup so that the man page is properly formatted in the
EXAMPLES section.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master: (201 commits)
Documentation: link in 1.5.0.2 material to the top documentation page.
Documentation: document remote.<name>.tagopt
GIT 1.5.0.2
git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
merge-index: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
diff --cached: give more sensible error message when HEAD is yet to be created.
Update tests to use test-chmtime
Add test-chmtime: a utility to change mtime on files
Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
Limit filename for format-patch
core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
...
Update config.txt with info regarding tagopt option
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.0.2
git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
* maint:
Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
To name a commit, you can now say
$ git rev-parse ':/Initial revision of "git"'
and it will return the hash of the youngest commit whose
commit message (the oneline) begins with the given prefix.
For future extension, a leading exclamation mark is treated
specially: if you want to match a commit message starting with
a '!', just repeat the exclamation mark. So, to match a commit
which starts with '!Hello World', use
$ git show ':/!!Hello World'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
Limit filename for format-patch
core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
git-show-ref --verify: Fail if called without a reference
Conflicts:
builtin-show-ref.c
diff.c
The intent of the commit 'fetch & clone: do not output progress when
not on a tty' was to make fetching and cloning less chatty when
output was not redirected (such as in a cron job).
However, there was a serious thinko in that commit. It assumed that
the client _and_ the server got this update at the same time. But
this is obviously not the case, and therefore upload-pack died on
seeing the option "--no-progress".
This patch fixes that issue by making it a protocol option. So, until
your server is updated, you still see the progress, but once the
server has this patch, it will be quiet.
A minor issue was also fixed: when cloning, the checkout did not
heed no_progress.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It explains what it does and why, and says how to use the new format.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also, it turns out that SVN::Ra doesn't attempt to deal with
authentication or pass the username to ssh when doing svn+ssh://
URLs
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Since the options that affect the way metadata is handled in
git-svn, should be consistently set/unset throughout history
imported by git-svn; it makes sense to allow the user to set
certain options from the command-line that will write to the
config file when initially creating the repository.
Also, fix some formatting issues while we're updating
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
This documents the 'clone' and 'rebase' commands
of git-svn. Additionaly, examples are updated
to use them instead of the lower-level 'init' and
'fetch' commands.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Force the showing of the --minimize flag as an option in the
'migrate' help.
Also, fix the usage function to correctly filter out
the deprecated aliases.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Make sure we flush our userspace buffers and and fsync(2)
.rev_db information to disk if we use these options because
we really don't want to lose this information.
Also, disallow --use-svm-props and --no-metadata from the
command-line because history will be inconsistent if they're
only used occasionally. If a user wants to use these options,
they must be set in the config so they're always on.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
--no-follow-parent disables and reverts it back to the old
default behavior of not following parents (if you don't care for
full history).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
--svn-remote allows the default remote name to be overridden (useful
for tracking multiple SVN repositories).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Since refs/remotes/* are not automatically cloned, we expect the
user to be capable of copying those references themselves
anyways.
Also removed the documentation for --ignore-nodate while we're
at it; it has also been made automatic.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
It's not really useful anymore now that we have a better
--follow-parent for the valid cases. Any other use
of it is not valid.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Some workflows require use of repositories on machines that cannot be
connected, preventing use of git-fetch / git-push to transport objects and
references between the repositories.
git-bundle provides an alternate transport mechanism, effectively allowing
git-fetch and git-pull to operate using sneakernet transport. `git-bundle
create` allows the user to create a bundle containing one or more branches
or tags, but with specified basis assumed to exist on the target
repository. At the receiving end, git-bundle acts like git-fetch-pack,
allowing the user to invoke git-fetch or git-pull using the bundle file as
the URL. git-fetch and git-ls-remote determine they have a bundle URL by
checking that the URL points to a file, but are otherwise unchanged in
operation with bundles.
The original patch was done by Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>.
It was updated to make git-bundle a builtin, and get rid of the tar
format: now, the first line is supposed to say "# v2 git bundle", the next
lines either contain a prerequisite ("-" followed by the hash of the
needed commit), or a ref (the hash of a commit, followed by the name of
the ref), and finally the pack. As a result, the bundle argument can be
"-" now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
git-diff: fix combined diff
Fix 'git commit -a' in a newly initialized repository
Include git-gui credits file in dist.
Document the new core.bare configuration option.
With this patch,
$ git show -s \
--pretty=format:' Ze komit %h woss%n dunn buy ze great %an'
shows something like
Ze komit 04c5c88 woss
dunn buy ze great Junio C Hamano
The supported placeholders are:
'%H': commit hash
'%h': abbreviated commit hash
'%T': tree hash
'%t': abbreviated tree hash
'%P': parent hashes
'%p': abbreviated parent hashes
'%an': author name
'%ae': author email
'%ad': author date
'%aD': author date, RFC2822 style
'%ar': author date, relative
'%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
'%cn': committer name
'%ce': committer email
'%cd': committer date
'%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
'%cr': committer date, relative
'%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp
'%e': encoding
'%s': subject
'%b': body
'%Cred': switch color to red
'%Cgreen': switch color to green
'%Cblue': switch color to blue
'%Creset': reset color
'%n': newline
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this flag and given two paths, git-diff-files behaves as a GNU diff
lookalike (plus the git goodies like --check, colour, etc.). This flag
is also available in git-diff. It also works outside of a git repository.
In addition, if git-diff{,-files} is called without revision or stage
parameter, and with exactly two paths at least one of which is not tracked,
the default is --no-index.
So, you can now say
git diff /etc/inittab /etc/fstab
and it actually works!
This also unifies the duplicated argument parsing between cmd_diff_files()
and builtin_diff_files().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In response to a feature request from Shawn Pearce, this patch allows
a user to update a named group of remotes by using "git remote update
<group>", where the group is defined in the config file by
remotes.<group>. The default if the named group is not specified is
now fetched group remotes.default, instead of remote.fetch, which is
what had been previously used.
In addition, if remotes.default is not defined, all remotes defined in
the config file will be used, as before, but there is now also
possible to request that a particular repository to be skipped by
default by using the boolean configuration parameter
remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is necessary if using CVS in an asymmetric fashion, i.e. when the
CVSROOT you are checking out from differs from the CVSROOT you have to
commit to.
Signed-off-by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The settings in /etc/gitconfig can be overridden in ~/.gitconfig,
which in turn can be overridden in .git/config.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds the option "--no-progress" to fetch-pack and upload-pack,
and makes fetch and clone pass this option when stdout is not a tty.
While at documenting that option, also document --strict and --timeout
options for upload-pack.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows users to use the command "git remote update" to update all
remotes that are being tracked in the repository.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation advertises the new `--depth <n>' parameter with an equal
sign, while the usage notes (shown after `git-clone --help') do not. If I
understood git-clone's source code correctly, the version without the
equal sign is correct, which is why this patch syncs documentation to the
usage note.
Signed-off-by: Christian Schlotter <schlotter@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Update draft release notes for 1.5.0.1
Convert update-index references in docs to add.
Attempt to improve git-rebase lead-in description.
Do not take mode bits from index after type change.
git-blame: prevent argument parsing segfault
Make gitk save and restore window pane position on Linux and Cygwin.
Make gitk save and restore the user set window position.
[PATCH] gitk: Use show-ref instead of ls-remote
[PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin.
[PATCH] gitk - remove trailing whitespace from a few lines.
Change git repo-config to git config
Instead of (or, in addition to) --tags, to use only tags for naming,
you can now use --refs=<pattern> to specify a shell glob pattern
which the refs must match to be used for naming.
Example:
$ git name-rev --refs=*v1* 33db5f4d33db5f4d tags/v1.0rc1^0~1593
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since `git add` is the approved porcelain for an end-user to invoke
when they want to manipulate the index, porcelain documentation
should steer the user to this command rather than the pure plumbing
update-index.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It was mentioned on #git this morning that the lead-in description
of git-rebase is very confusing. Too many branch this and branch
that in a very short run of text.
This new description attempts to walk the user through the command
syntax, while also describing exactly what git-rebase is doing to
their repository.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
GIT-VERSION-FILE: check ./version first.
sha1_file.c: Round the mmap offset to half the window size.
Make sure packedgitwindowsize is multiple of (pagesize * 2)
Add RelNotes 1.5.0.1
Still updating 1.5.0 release notes.
git-daemon: Avoid leaking the listening sockets into child processes.
Clarify two backward incompatible repository options.
It was unclear if the backward compatible features were disabled
or the configuration variables that controls them were set to
false by default from the description. Obviously we meant the
former, but the problem was made worse by the fact that one
configuration variable breaks compatibility when set to true and
the other one breaks it when set to false.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of running around listing the changes near the release,
let's keep things nicely organized by summarizing the changes as
we merge things to the 'master' branch.
I haven't decided how well this will go with people's patch
submission procedure yet --- we'll play it by the ear and see
what happens.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Makefile: update check-docs target
cmd-list: add git-remote
Documentation: Drop full-stop from git-fast-import title.
Minor corrections to release notes
Update section about warning when leaving a detached head.
Also fix a few indentations that weren't like the rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This also adds a hook in the Makefile I can use to automatically
include pointers to documentation for older releases when updating
the pages at http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation still talked about the unnecessary 'safety'
in git-checkout.
Pointed out by Matthias Lederhofer.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The config variable gc.packrefs is tristate now: "true", "false"
and "notbare", where "notbare" is the default.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The old text suggested that git-update-server-info only needs to be run
if new tags or branches are created, but not for new commits.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It was suggested on the mailing list that being able to use `from`
in any commit to reset the current branch is useful in some types of
importers, such as a darcs importer.
We originally did not permit resetting an existing branch with a
new `from` command during a `commit` command, but this restriction
was only to help debug the hacked up cvs2svn that Jon Smirl was
developing in parallel with git-fast-import. It is probably more
of a problem to disallow it than to allow it. So now we permit a
`from` during any `commit`.
While making the changes required to permit multiple `from`
commands on the same branch, I discovered we no longer needed the
last_commit field to be set to 0 during a reset, so that was removed.
(Reset was originally setting the field to 0 to signal cmd_from()
that it was OK to execute on the branch.)
While poking around in this section of fast-import I also realized
the `reset` command was not working as intended if the corresponding
`from` command was omitted (as allowed by the BNF grammar and the
code). If `from` was omitted we cleared out the tree but we left
the tree SHA-1 and parent commit SHA-1 intact. This is not what
the user intended in this case. Instead they would be trying to
reset the branch to have no parent and to have no tree, making the
branch look new-born during the next commit. We now clear these
SHA-1 values during `reset`, ensuring the branch looks new-born if
`from` does not get supplied.
New test cases for these were also added.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is originally from Andy Parkins whose patch used --patchdepth; let's
use -p which is more in line with the underlying git-apply.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
bash: Hide git-fast-import.
fast-import: Add tip about importing renames.
fast-import: Hide the pack boundary commits by default.
Most users don't need the pack boundary information that fast-import
was printing to standard output, especially if they were calling
it with --quiet.
Those users who do want this information probably want it captured
so they can go back and use it to repack the imported repository.
So dumping the boundary commits to a log file makes more sense then
printing them to standard output.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Allow setting the path of asciidoc in only one place when creating
the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Dotan Barak <dotanb@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, treat
it as a shell command which is run using system(3).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The way 'git pull' without explicit parameters work were not
explained well in any existing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
tar archive frontend for fast-import.
Correct spelling of fast-import in docs.
Correct some language in fast-import documentation.
Correct ^0 asciidoc syntax in fast-import docs.
It makes "git reflog [show]" act as
git log -g --pretty=oneline --abbrev-cmit
and is fairly straightforward. So you can just write
git reflog
or
git reflog show
and it will show you the reflog in a nice format.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add -C[NUM] to git-am and git-rebase so that patches can be applied even
if context has changed a bit.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Its spelled 'fast-import', not 'gfi'. Linus and Dscho have both
recently pointed this out to me on the mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Minor documentation improvements, as suggested on the Git mailing
list by Horst H. von Brand and Karl Hasselström.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
I wrote this documentation with asciidoc 7.1.2, but apparently
asciidoc 8 assumes ^ means superscript. The solution was already
documented in rev-parse's manpage and is to use {caret} instead.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
Add a Tips and Tricks section to fast-import's manual.
Don't crash fast-import if the marks cannot be exported.
Dump all refs and marks during a checkpoint in fast-import.
Teach fast-import how to sit quietly in the corner.
Teach fast-import how to clear the internal branch content.
Minor timestamp related documentation corrections for fast-import.
There has been some informative lessons learned in the gfi user
community, and these really should be written down and documented
for future generations of frontend developers.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If the frontend asks us to checkpoint (via the explicit checkpoint
command) its probably because they are afraid the current import
will crash/fail/whatever and want to make sure they can pickup from
the last checkpoint. To do that sort of recovery, we will need the
current tip of every branch and tag available at the next startup.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Often users will be running fast-import from within a larger frontend
process, and this may be a frequent periodic tool such as a future
edition of `git-svn fetch`. We don't want to bombard users with our
large stats output if they won't be interested in it, so `--quiet`
is now an option to make gfi be more silent.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Some frontends may not be able to (easily) keep track of which files
are included in the branch, and which aren't. Performing this
tracking can be tedious and error prone for the frontend to do,
especially if its foreign data source cannot supply the changed
path list on a per-commit basis.
fast-import now allows a frontend to request that a branch's tree
be wiped clean (reset to the empty tree) at the start of a commit,
allowing the frontend to feed in all paths which belong on the branch.
This is ideal for a tar-file importer frontend, for example, as
the frontend just needs to reformat the tar data stream into a gfi
data stream, which may be something a few Perl regexps can take
care of. :)
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
As discussed on the mailing list, the documentation used here was
not quite accurate. Improve upon it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport: (81 commits)
S_IFLNK != 0140000
Don't do non-fastforward updates in fast-import.
Support RFC 2822 date parsing in fast-import.
Minor fast-import documentation corrections.
Remove unnecessary null pointer checks in fast-import.
Correct fast-import timezone documentation.
Correct minor style issue in fast-import.
Correct compiler warnings in fast-import.
Remove --branch-log from fast-import.
Initial draft of fast-import documentation.
Don't support shell-quoted refnames in fast-import.
Reduce memory usage of fast-import.
Include checkpoint command in the BNF.
Accept 'inline' file data in fast-import commit structure.
Reduce value duplication in t9300-fast-import.
Create test case for fast-import.
Support delimited data regions in fast-import.
Remove unnecessary options from fast-import.
Use fixed-size integers when writing out the index in fast-import.
Always use struct pack_header for pack header in fast-import.
...
If fast-import is being used to update an existing branch of
a repository, the user may not want to lose commits if another
process updates the same ref at the same time. For example, the
user might be using fast-import to make just one or two commits
against a live branch.
We now perform a fast-forward check during the ref updating process.
If updating a branch would cause commits in that branch to be lost,
we skip over it and display the new SHA1 to standard error.
This new default behavior can be overridden with `--force`, like
git-push and git-fetch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Since some frontends may be working with source material where
the dates are only readily available as RFC 2822 strings, it is
more friendly if fast-import exposes Git's parse_date() function
to handle the conversion. This way the frontend doesn't need
to perform the parsing itself.
The new --date-format option to fast-import can be used by a
frontend to select which format it will supply date strings in.
The default is the standard `raw` Git format, which fast-import
has always supported. Format rfc2822 can be used to activate the
parse_date() function instead.
Because fast-import could also be useful for creating new, current
commits, the format `now` is also supported to generate the current
system timestamp. The implementation of `now` is a trivial call
to datestamp(), but is actually a whole whopping 3 lines so that
fast-import can verify the frontend really meant `now`.
As part of this change I have added validation of the `raw` date
format. Prior to this change fast-import would accept anything
in a `committer` command, even if it was seriously malformed.
Now fast-import requires the '> ' near the end of the string and
verifies the timestamp is formatted properly.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Corrected a couple of header markup lines which were shorter than the
actual header, and made the `data` commands two formats into a named
list, which matches how we document the two formats of the `M` command
within a commit.
Also tried to simplify the language about our decimal integer format;
Linus pointed out I was probably being too specific at the cost of
reduced readability.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Andy Parkins and Linus Torvalds both noticed that the description
of the timezone was incorrect. Its not expressed in minutes.
Its more like "hhmm", where "hh" is the number of hours and "mm"
is the number of minutes shifted from GMT/UTC.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The --branch-log option and its associated code hasn't been used in
several months, as its not really very useful for debugging fast-import
or a frontend. I don't plan on supporting it in this state long-term,
so I'm killing it now before it gets distributed to a wider audience.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This is a first pass at the manpage for git-fast-import.
I have tried to cover the input format in extreme detail, creating a
reference which is more detailed than the BNF grammar appearing in
the header of fast-import.c. I have also covered some details about
gfi's performance and memory utilization, as well as the average
learning curve required to create a gfi frontend application (as it
is far lower than it might appear on first glance).
The documentation still lacks real example input streams, which may
turn out to be difficult to format in asciidoc due to the blank lines
which carry meaning within the format.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This can be used to compress multiple changesets into one, for example
like
git cvsexportcommit -P cvshead mybranch
without having to do so in git first.
Signed-off-by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
hg-to-git.py is able to convert a Mercurial repository into a git one,
and preserves the branches in the process (unlike tailor)
hg-to-git.py can probably be greatly improved (it's a rather crude
combination of shell and python) but it does already work quite well for
me. Features:
- supports incremental conversion
(for keeping a git repo in sync with a hg one)
- supports hg branches
- converts hg tags
Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This particular use of git-rebase to remove a single commit or a
range of commits from the history of a branch recently came up on
the mailing list. Documenting the example should help other users
arrive at the same solution on their own.
It also was not obvious to the newcomer that git-rebase is able to
accept any commit for --onto <newbase> and <upstream>. We should
at least minimally document this, as much of the language in
git-rebase's manpage refers to 'branch' rather than 'committish'.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation for git-for-each-ref said that the refname variable
would return "the part after $GIT_DIR/refs/", which isn't true.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* np/dreflog:
show-branch -g: default to the current branch.
Let git-checkout always drop any detached head
Enable HEAD@{...} and make it independent from the current branch
scan reflogs independently from refs
add reflog when moving HEAD to a new branch
create_symref(): do not assume pathname from git_path() persists long enough
add logref support to git-symbolic-ref
move create_symref() past log_ref_write()
add reflog entries for HEAD when detached
enable separate reflog for HEAD
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remember the original name of a ref when resolving it
make reflog filename independent from struct ref_lock
Mention git-revert as an alternative to git-reset to revert changes.
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now we have a separate reflog on HEAD, show-branch -g without an explicit
parameter defaults to the current branch, or HEAD when it is detached
from branches.
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>
Jakub Narebski pointed out the positional notation in git-remote's
documentation was very confusing, especially now that we have 3
supported subcommands. Instead of referring to subcommands by
position, refer to them by name.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I was reading the tutorial and noticed that we say this:
Also, don't use "git reset" on a publicly-visible branch that
other developers pull from, as git will be confused by history
that disappears in this way.
I do not think this is a good explanation. For example, if we
do this:
(1) I build a series and push it out.
---o---o---o---j
(2) Alice clones from me, and builds two commits on top of it.
---o---o---o---j---a---a
(3) I rewind one and build a few, and push them out.
---o---o---o...j
\
h---h---h---h
(4) Alice pulls from me again:
---o---o---o---j---a---a---*
\ /
h---h---h---h
Contrary to the description, git will happily have Alice merge
between the two branches, and never gets confused.
Maybe I did not want to have 'j' because it was an incomplete
solution to some problem, and Alice may have fixed it up with
her changes, while I abandoned that approach I started with 'j',
and worked on something completely unrelated in the four 'h'
commits. In such a case, the merge Alice would make would be
very sensible, and after she makes the merge if I pull from her,
the world will be perfect. I started something with 'j' and
dropped the ball, Alice picked it up and perfected it while I
went on to work on something else with 'h'. This would be a
perfect example of distributed parallel collaboration. There is
nothing confused about it.
The case the rewinding becomes problematic is if the work done
in 'h' tries to solve the same problem as 'j' tried to solve in
a different way. Then the merge forced on Alice would make her
pick between my previous attempt with her fixups (j+a) and my
second attempt (h). If 'a' commits were to fix up what 'j'
started, presumably Alice already studied and knows enough about
the problem so she should be able to make an informed decision
to pick between what 'j+a' and 'h' do.
A lot worse case is if Alice's work is not at all related to
what 'j' wanted to do (she did not mean to pick up from where I
left off -- she just wanted to work on something different).
Then she would not be familiar enough with what 'j' and 'h'
tried to achieve, and I'd be forcing her to pick between the
two. Of course if she can make the right decision, then again
that is a perfect example of distributed collaboration, but that
does not change the fact that I'd be forcing her to clean up my
mess.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The default post-commit hook is actually empty; it is the update hook
that sends an email. This patch corrects hooks.txt to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since it can be annoying to manually cleanup 40 tracking branches
which were removed by the remote system, 'git remote prune <n>'
can now be used to delete any tracking branches under <n> which
are no longer available on the remote system.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
