There seems to be a perception that the howto's are bit-rotting a
little. The manual might be a more visible location for some of them,
and make-dist.txt seems like a good candidate to include as an example
in the manual.
For now, incorporate much of it verbatim. Later we may want to update
the example a bit.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
These two howto's have both been copied into the manual. I'd rather not
maintain both versions if possible, and I think the user-manual will be
more visible than the howto directory. (Though I wouldn't mind some
duplication if people really like having them here.)
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The quick start interrupts the flow of the manual a bit. Move it to
"appendix A" but add a reference to it in the preface. Also rename the
todo chapter to "appendix B", and revise the preface a little.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Revise and expand some of the definitions in the glossary, based in part
on a recent thread started by a user looking for help with some of the
jargon. I've borrowed some of the language from Linus's email on that
thread. (I'm assuming standing permission to plagiarize Linus's
email....)
Also start making a few changes to mitigate the appearance of
"circularity" mentioned in that thread:
- feel free to use somewhat longer definitions and to explain
some things more than once instead of relying purely on
cross-references
- don't use cross-references when they're redundant: eliminate
self-references and repeated references to the same entry.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Some revisions suggested by Junio along with some minor style fixes and
one compile fix (asterisks need escaping).
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Currently, there are rather draconian restrictions on the strings accepted
by the pickaxe search, which degrades its usefulness for digging in code
significantly. This patch remedies mentioned limitation.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The 'grep' type of search greps the currently selected tree for given
regexp and shows the results in a fancy table with links into blob view.
The number of shown matches is limited to 1000 and the whole feature
can be turned off (grepping linux-2.6.git already makes repo.or.cz a bit
unhappy).
This second revision makes it in documentation explicit that grep accepts
regexps, and makes grep accept extended regexps instead of basic regexps.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Currently, searchbar font was as big as the page heading font, because
font-size was made relative - but to the parent element, which was for some
reason indeed page_header. Since that seems to be illogical to me, I just
moved the div.search outside of div.page_header. I'm no CSS/DOM expert but
no adverse effects were observed by me.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
During the discussion of core.excludesfile in the user-manual, I realized
that the configuration wasn't mentioned in the man pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Checking if $diffinfo->{'status'} is equal 'D' is no longer the way to
check if the file was deleted in result. For merge commits
$diffinfo->{'status'} is reference to array of statuses for each
parent. Use the fact that $diffinfo->{'to_id'} is all zeros as sign
that file was deleted in result.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Petr Baudis pointed out the main git.git repository's Makefile dies
now if git-gui 0.7.0-rc1 or later is being used and TCL_PATH was not
set to a working tclsh program path. This breaks people who may have
a working build configuration today and suddenly upgrade to the latest
git release.
The tclIndex is required for git-gui to load its associated lib files,
but using the Tcl auto_load procedure to source only the files we need
is a performance optimization. We can emulate the auto_load by just
source'ing every file in that directory, assuming we source class.tcl
first to initialize our crude class system.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
to use for the current import by looking at the p4 tags. The current approach of using
the log message works better.
Signed-off-by: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>
it's creating a new branch from itself. It's a sensible error in general but
in the case of incremental imports we have to apply force :)
Signed-off-by: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>
mutt version 1.5.14 (perhaps earlier versions too) permits alias files to have
white space before the 'alias' keyword.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/42479,
a birdview on the source code was requested.
J. Bruce Fields suggested that my reply should be included in the
user manual, and there was nothing of an outcry, so here it is,
not 2 months later.
It includes modifications as suggested by J. Bruce Fields, Karl
Hasselström and Daniel Barkalow.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Earlier commit 4280cde95f made gitweb
show "No differences found" message for empty diff, for the HTML
output. But for merge commits, either -c format we use or --cc format,
empty diff doesn't mean no differences, but trivial merge.
Show "Trivial merge" message instead of "No differences found" for
merges.
While at it reword conditional in the code for easier reading.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Make git notify the user about host resolution/connection attempts.
This is useful both as a progress indicator on slow links, and helps
reassure the user there are no firewall problems.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
format-patch: add MIME-Version header when we add content-type.
Fixed link in user-manual
import-tars: Use the "Link indicator" to identify directories
git name-rev writes beyond the end of malloc() with large generations
Documentation/branch: fix small typo in -D example
Separate search text, which is saved in $searchtext global variable,
and is used in links, as default value for the textfield in search
form, and for pickaxe search, from search regexp, which is saved in
$search_regexp global variable, and is used as parameter to --grep,
--committer or --author options to git-rev-list, and for searching
commit body in gitweb. For now $search_regexp is unconditionallt
equal to quotemeta($searchtext), meaning that we always search for
fixed string.
This fixes bug where 'next page' links for 'search' view didn't work
for searchtext containing quotable characters, like `@'.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
David Kågedal proposed that gitweb should explicitely request
being somewhat smaller than normal, because it has good use for
long lines. However gitweb presents a table with several
columns, so having wider line is OK for it. Therefore explicit
'font-size: small' would make sense. Apparently many people on
the list seem to agree with him.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Earlier, we used the mode to determine if a name was associated with
a directory. This fails, since some tar programs do not set the mode
correctly. However, the link indicator _has_ to be set correctly.
Noticed by Chris Riddoch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
This patch fixes all calls to xread() where the return value is not
stored into an ssize_t. The patch should not have any effect whatsoever,
other than putting better/more appropriate type names on variables.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The return value from xread() is ssize_t.
Paolo Teti <paolo.teti@gmail.com> pointed out that in this case, the
signed return value was assigned to an unsigned type (size_t). This patch
fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When using git name-rev on my kernel tree I triggered a malloc()
corruption warning from glibc.
apw@pinky$ git log --pretty=one $N/base.. | git name-rev --stdin
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0bff8950 ***
Aborted
This comes from name_rev() which is building the name of the revision
in a malloc'd string, which it sprintf's into:
char *new_name = xmalloc(len + 8);
[...]
sprintf(new_name, "%.*s~%d^%d", len, tip_name,
generation, parent_number);
This allocation is only sufficient if the generation number is
less than 5 digits, in my case generation was 13432. In reality
parent_number can be up to 16 so that also can require two digits,
reducing us to 3 digits before we are at risk of blowing this
allocation.
This patch introduces a decimal_length() which approximates the
number of digits a type may hold, it produces the following:
Type Longest Value Len Est
---- ------------- --- ---
unsigned char 256 3 4
unsigned short 65536 5 6
unsigned long 4294967296 10 11
unsigned long long 18446744073709551616 20 21
char -128 4 4
short -32768 6 6
long -2147483648 11 11
long long -9223372036854775808 20 21
This is then used to size the new_name.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
