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>
It does not seem to need it either and gives an error on FC5 I use
at kernel.org to cut documentation tarballs, so remove it in the
meantime.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is in the hope of giving JBF's user-manual wider exposure.
I am not very happy with trailing whitespaces in the new
document, but let's not worry too much about the formatting
issues for now, but concentrate more on the structure and the
contents.
I'd like complete gitweb setup instructions some day, but for now just
refer to the gitweb README.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Document Junio's show-branch trick for finding out which tags are
descendents of a given comit.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
I still really want a section on interoperability with CVS, subversion,
etc., but I'm not getting around to it very fast, so just add this to
the TODO section for now. And a few other minor todo updates.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Add a brief discussion of reflogs. Also recovery of dangling commits
seems to fit in here, so move some of the discussion out of Linus's
email to here.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Direct editing of config files may be more natural for users than using
the git-config commandline; but we should still reference the
git-config man page when we describe such editing, so people know where
to go for details on the config file syntax and meanings of the
variables.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Looks like we're going to allow git-config as the preferred alias to
git-repo-config, so let's document that instead.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Initial import of fsck and dangling objects discussion, mostly lifted from
an email from Linus.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Love it or hate it, some people actually still program in Tcl. Some
of those programs are meant for interfacing with Git. Programs such as
gitk and git-gui. It may be useful to have Tcl-safe output available
from for-each-ref, just like shell, Perl and Python already enjoy.
Thanks to Sergey Vlasov for pointing out the horrible flaws in the
first and second version of this patch, and steering me in the right
direction for Tcl value quoting.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* The description of valid colour specifications was rather
incomplete, so fix it so that it actually describes colour specs as
accepted by color_parse().
* The list of colour items allowed in color.diff.BLAH was missing the
`commit' and `whitespace' entries.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I did this:
$ git tag -s test-sign
gpg: skipped "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>": secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
failed to sign the tag with GPG.
The problem is that I have used the comment field in my key's UID
definition.
$ gpg --list-keys andy
pub 1024D/4F712F6D 2003-08-14
uid Andy Parkins (Google) <andyparkins@gmail.com>
So when git-tag looks for "Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>";
obviously it's not going to be found.
There shouldn't be a requirement that I use the same form of my name in
my git repository and my gpg key - I might want to be formal (Andrew) in
my gpg key and informal (Andy) in the repository. Further I might have
multiple keys in my keyring, and might want to use one that doesn't
match up with the address I use in commit messages.
This patch adds a configuration entry "user.signingkey" which, if
present, will be passed to the "-u" switch for gpg, allowing the tag
signing key to be overridden. If the entry is not present, the fallback
is the original method, which means existing behaviour will continue
untouched.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Keep git remote discussion in the first chapter, but postpone
lower-level git fetch usage (to fetch individual branches) till later.
Import a bunch of slightly modified text from the readme to give an
architectural overview at the end.
Add more discussion of history rewriting.
And a bunch of other miscellaneous changes....
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Document the recommended way to prime a repository with tons of
references with 'pack-refs --all -prune'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This introduces the config item remote.<name>.uploadpack to override the
default value (which is "git-upload-pack").
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
