Non-GNU touch do not have the -d option to take free form
date strings. The POSIX -t option should be more widespread.
For this to work, date needs to output YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS date strings.
Signed-off-by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Plain integer types without a fixed size can vary between platforms. Even
though all common platforms use 32-bit ints, there is no guarantee that
this won't change at some point. Furthermore, specifying an integer type
with explicit size makes the definition of structures more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Its very annoying to need to specify the file content ahead of a
commit and use marks to connect the individual blobs to the commit's
file modification entry, especially if the frontend can't/won't
generate the blob SHA1s itself. Instead it would much easier to
use if we can accept the blob data at the same time as we receive
each file_change line.
Now fast-import accepts 'inline' instead of a mark idnum or blob
SHA1 within the 'M' type file_change command. If an inline is
detected the very next line must be a 'data n' command, supplying
the file data.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
It is error prone to list the value of each file twice, instead we
should list the value only once early in the script and reuse the
shell variable when we need to access it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Now that its easier to craft test cases (thanks to 'data <<')
we should start to verify fast-import works as expected.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
During testing its nice to not have to feed the length of a data
chunk to the 'data' command of fast-import. Instead we would
prefer to be able to establish a data chunk much like shell's <<
operator and use a line delimiter to denote the end of the input.
So now if a data command is started as 'data <<EOF' we will look
for a terminator line containing only the string EOF on that line.
Once found, we stop the data command. Everything between the two
lines is used as the data value.
The 'data <<' syntax is slower than 'data n', as we don't know how
many bytes to expect and instead must grow our buffer on the fly.
It also has the problem that the frontend must use a string which
will not appear on a line by itself in the input, and the data
region will always end in an LF. For these reasons real import
frontends are encouraged to continue to use _only_ 'data n'.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The --objects command line option is rather unnecessary. Internally
we allocate objects in 5000 unit blocks, ensuring that any sort
of malloc overhead is ammortized over the individual objects to
almost nothing. Since most frontends don't know how many objects
they will need for a given import run (and its hard for them to
predict without just doing the run) we probably won't see anyone
using --objects. Further since there's really no major benefit
to using the option, most frontends won't even bother supplying
it even if they could estimate the number of objects. So I'm
removing it.
The --max-objects-per-pack option was probably a mistake to even
have added in the first place. The packfile format is limited
to 4 GiB today; given that objects need at least 3 bytes of data
(and probably need even more) there's no way we are going to exceed
the limit of 1<<32-1 objects before we reach the file size limit.
So I'm removing it (to slightly reduce the complexity of the code)
before anyone gets any wise ideas and tries to use it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Currently the pack .idx file format uses 32-bit unsigned integers
for the fan-out table and the object offsets. We had previously
defined these as 'unsigned int', but not every system will define
that type to be a 32 bit value. To ensure maximum portability we
should always use 'uint32_t'.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Previously we were using 'unsigned int' to update the hdr_entries
field of the pack header after the file had been completed and
was being hashed. This may not be 32 bits on all platforms.
Instead we want to always uint32_t.
I'm actually cheating here by just using the pack_header like the
rest of Git and letting the struct definition declare the correct
type. Right now that field is still 'unsigned int' (wrong) but a
pending change submitted by Simon 'corecode' Schubert changes it
to uint32_t. After that change is merged in fast-import will do
the right thing all of the time.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Editors often give easier handling of patch files if the
filename ends with .patch, so use it instead of .txt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It does not make much sense to generate a patch that cannot be
applied. If --text is specified on the command line it still
takes precedence.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds --summary output in addition to the --stat to the
output from git-format-patch by default.
I think additions, removals and filemode changes are rare but
notable events and always showing it makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This teaches "git-format-patch" to honor the --max-count
parameter revision traversal machinery takes, so that you can
say "git-format-patch -3" to process the three topmost commits
from the current HEAD (or "git-format-patch -2 topic" to name a
specific branch).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Way back when Junio developed the 64 bit index topic he came up
with a means of changing the .idx file format so that older Git
clients would recognize that they don't understand the file and
refuse to read it, while newer clients could tell the difference
between the old-style and new-style .idx files. Unfortunately
this wasn't recorded anywhere.
This change documents how we might go about changing the .idx
file format by using a special signature in the first four bytes.
Credit (and possible blame) goes completely to Junio for thinking
up this technique.
The change also modifies the error message of the current Git code
so that users get a recommendation to upgrade their Git software
should this version or later encounter a new-style .idx which it
cannot process. We already do this for the .pack files, but since
we usually process the .idx files first its important that these
files are recognized and encourage an upgrade.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The revision specification syntax (sometimes referred to as
SHA1-expressions) is accepted almost everywhere in Git by
almost every tool. Unfortunately it is only documented in
git-rev-parse.txt, and most users don't know to look there.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In ab2a1a32 Junio improved the reflog query logic to support
obtaining the n-th prior value of a ref, but this was never
documented in git-rev-parse. Now it is.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of keeping the confused end user reading low-level
documentation, suggest the higher level commands that implement
what the user may want to do using them upfront.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Current README content is way too esoteric for someone looking at GIT
for the first time. Instead it should provide a quick summary of what
GIT is with a few pointers to other resources.
The bulk of the previous README content is moved to
Documentation/core-intro.txt.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The default can also be changed with "format.suffix" configuration.
Leaving it empty would not add any suffix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add discussion section to git-checkout documentation and mention
detached HEAD in repository-layout document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Branches are only contained by a packfile if the branch actually
had its most recent commit in that packfile. So new branches are
set to MAX_PACK_ID to ensure they don't cause their commit to list
as part of the first packfile when it closes out if the commit was
actually in existance before fast-import started.
Also corrected the type of last_commit to be umaxint_t to prevent
overflow and wraparound on very large imports. Though that is
highly unlikely to occur as we're talking 4 billion commits, which
no real project has right now.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Apparently the git convention is to declare any function which
takes no arguments as taking void. I did not do this during the
early fast-import development, but should have.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The length of an atom string cannot be negative. So make it
explicit and declare it as an unsigned value.
The shift width in a mark table node also cannot be negative.
I'm also moving it to after the pointer arrays to prevent any
possible alignment problems on a 64 bit system.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Now that fast-import uses uintmax_t (the largest available unsigned
integer type) for marks we don't want to say its an unsigned 32
bit integer in ASCII base 10 notation. It could be much larger,
especially on 64 bit systems, and especially if a frontend uses
a very large number of marks (1 per file revision on a very, very
large import).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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>
* Promiscous pull shows the distributed nature of git better.
* Add a new step after that to teach "remote add".
* Highlight that with the shorthand defined you will get
remote tracking branches for free.
* Fix Alice's workflow.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
