There is currently no comment syntax for the fsck.skipList, this isn't
really by design, and it would be nice to have support for comments.
Document that this doesn't work, and test for how this errors
out. These tests reveal a current bug, if there's invalid input the
output will emit some of the next line, and then go into uninitialized
memory. This is fixed in a subsequent change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since the skipList support was first added in cd94c6f91 ("fsck:
git receive-pack: support excluding objects from fsck'ing",
2015-06-22) the documentation for the format has that the file is a
sorted list of object names.
Thus, anyone using the feature would have thought the list needed to
be sorted. E.g. I recently in conjunction with my fetch.fsck.*
implementation in 1362df0d41 ("fetch: implement fetch.fsck.*",
2018-07-27) wrote some code to ship a skipList, and went out of my way
to sort it.
Doing so seems intuitive, since it contains fixed-width records, and
has no support for comments, so one might expect it to be binary
searched in-place on-disk.
However, as documented here this was never a requirement, so let's
change the documentation. Since this is a file format change let's
also document what was said about this in the past, so e.g. someone
like myself reading the new docs can see this never needed to be
sorted ("why do I have all this code to sort this thing...").
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git help --config" (which is used in command line completion)
missed the configuration variables not described in the main
config.txt file but are described in another file that is included
by it, which has been corrected.
* nd/complete-config-vars:
generate-cmdlist.sh: collect config from all config.txt files
"git branch --list" learned to take the default sort order from the
'branch.sort' configuration variable, just like "git tag --list"
pays attention to 'tag.sort'.
* sm/branch-sort-config:
branch: support configuring --sort via .gitconfig
The meaning of the possible values the "core.checkStat"
configuration variable can take were not adequately documented,
which has been fixed.
* nd/config-core-checkstat-doc:
config.txt: clarify core.checkStat
The core.commitGraph config setting was accidentally removed from
the config documentation. In that same patch, the config setting
that writes a commit-graph during garbage collection was incorrectly
written to the doc as "gc.commitGraph" instead of "gc.writeCommitGraph".
Reported-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This script uses Documentation/config.txt as input for "git help
--config" and "git config" completion but it misses the fact that
config.txt includes other txt files. Include all *config.txt as input
when scanning for config keys. This could produce false positives, but
as long as we stick to the blah-config.txt naming convention, we
should be ok.
While at there, move diff.* from config.txt to diff-config.txt where
all other diff config keys are.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sideband code learned to optionally paint selected keywords at
the beginning of incoming lines on the receiving end.
* hn/highlight-sideband-keywords:
sideband: do not read beyond the end of input
sideband: highlight keywords in remote sideband output
Recent update to "git config" broke updating variable in a
subsection, which has been corrected.
* sb/config-write-fix:
git-config: document accidental multi-line setting in deprecated syntax
config: fix case sensitive subsection names on writing
t1300: document current behavior of setting options
After a partial clone, repeated fetches from promisor remote would
have accumulated many packfiles marked with .promisor bit without
getting them coalesced into fewer packfiles, hurting performance.
"git repack" now learned to repack them.
* jt/repack-promisor-packs:
repack: repack promisor objects if -a or -A is set
repack: refactor setup of pack-objects cmd
"git tbdiff" that lets us compare individual patches in two
iterations of a topic has been rewritten and made into a built-in
command.
* js/range-diff: (21 commits)
range-diff: use dim/bold cues to improve dual color mode
range-diff: make --dual-color the default mode
range-diff: left-pad patch numbers
completion: support `git range-diff`
range-diff: populate the man page
range-diff --dual-color: skip white-space warnings
range-diff: offer to dual-color the diffs
diff: add an internal option to dual-color diffs of diffs
color: add the meta color GIT_COLOR_REVERSE
range-diff: use color for the commit pairs
range-diff: add tests
range-diff: do not show "function names" in hunk headers
range-diff: adjust the output of the commit pairs
range-diff: suppress the diff headers
range-diff: indent the diffs just like tbdiff
range-diff: right-trim commit messages
range-diff: also show the diff between patches
range-diff: improve the order of the shown commits
range-diff: first rudimentary implementation
Introduce `range-diff` to compare iterations of a topic branch
...
The API to iterate over all objects learned to optionally list
objects in the order they appear in packfiles, which helps locality
of access if the caller accesses these objects while as objects are
enumerated.
* jk/for-each-object-iteration:
for_each_*_object: move declarations to object-store.h
cat-file: use a single strbuf for all output
cat-file: split batch "buf" into two variables
cat-file: use oidset check-and-insert
cat-file: support "unordered" output for --batch-all-objects
cat-file: rename batch_{loose,packed}_object callbacks
t1006: test cat-file --batch-all-objects with duplicates
for_each_packed_object: support iterating in pack-order
for_each_*_object: give more comprehensive docstrings
for_each_*_object: take flag arguments as enum
for_each_*_object: store flag definitions in a single location
Documentation update.
* ab/newhash-is-sha256:
doc hash-function-transition: pick SHA-256 as NewHash
doc hash-function-transition: note the lack of a changelog
Add the '--quiet' option to git worktree, as for the other git
commands. 'add' is the only command affected by it since all other
commands, except 'list', are currently silent by default.
[jc: appiled trivial fix-up to keep the tests from touching outside
the scratch area]
Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The end result of documentation update has been made to be
inspected more easily to help developers.
* jk/diff-rendered-docs:
add a script to diff rendered documentation
Update to a few other topics around 'git fetch'.
* ab/fetch-nego:
fetch doc: cross-link two new negotiation options
negotiator: unknown fetch.negotiationAlgorithm should error out
The test performed at the receiving end of "git push" to prevent
bad objects from entering repository can be customized via
receive.fsck.* configuration variables; we now have gained a
counterpart to do the same on the "git fetch" side, with
fetch.fsck.* configuration variables.
* ab/fsck-transfer-updates:
fsck: test and document unknown fsck.<msg-id> values
fsck: add stress tests for fsck.skipList
fsck: test & document {fetch,receive}.fsck.* config fallback
fetch: implement fetch.fsck.*
transfer.fsckObjects tests: untangle confusing setup
config doc: elaborate on fetch.fsckObjects security
config doc: elaborate on what transfer.fsckObjects does
config doc: unify the description of fsck.* and receive.fsck.*
config doc: don't describe *.fetchObjects twice
receive.fsck.<msg-id> tests: remove dead code
The description of this key does not really tell what the 'minimal'
mode checks and does not check. The description for the 'default'
mode is not much better and just says 'all fields', which is unclear
and is not even correct (e.g. we do not look at 'atime').
Spell out what are and what are not checked under the 'minimal' mode
relative to the 'default' mode to help those who want to decide if
they want to use the 'minimal' mode, also taking information about
this mode from the commit message of c08e4d5b5c (Enable minimal stat
checking - 2013-01-22).
Helped-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for configuring default sort ordering for git branches. Command
line option will override this configured value, using the exact same
syntax.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Maftoul <samuel.maftoul@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git p4 submit" learns to ask its own pre-submit hook if it should
continue with submitting.
* cb/p4-pre-submit-hook:
git-p4: add the `p4-pre-submit` hook
Teach "git tag -s" etc. a few configuration variables (gpg.format
that can be set to "openpgp" or "x509", and gpg.<format>.program
that is used to specify what program to use to deal with the format)
to allow x.509 certs with CMS via "gpgsm" to be used instead of
openpgp via "gnupg".
* hs/gpgsm:
gpg-interface t: extend the existing GPG tests with GPGSM
gpg-interface: introduce new signature format "x509" using gpgsm
gpg-interface: introduce new config to select per gpg format program
gpg-interface: do not hardcode the key string len anymore
gpg-interface: introduce an abstraction for multiple gpg formats
t/t7510: check the validation of the new config gpg.format
gpg-interface: add new config to select how to sign a commit
A new configuration variable core.usereplacerefs has been added,
primarily to help server installations that want to ignore the
replace mechanism altogether.
* jk/core-use-replace-refs:
add core.usereplacerefs config option
check_replace_refs: rename to read_replace_refs
check_replace_refs: fix outdated comment
One of the "diff --color-moved" mode "dimmed_zebra" that was named
in an unusual way has been deprecated and replaced by
"dimmed-zebra".
* es/diff-color-moved-fix:
diff: --color-moved: rename "dimmed_zebra" to "dimmed-zebra"
Rendered documentation can be easier to read than raw text because
headings and emphasized phrases stand out. Add the missing markup and
Makefile rule required to render this design document using asciidoc.
Tested by running
make -C Documentation technical/partial-clone.html
and viewing the output in a browser.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you're going to access the contents of every object in a
packfile, it's generally much more efficient to do so in
pack order, rather than in hash order. That increases the
locality of access within the packfile, which in turn is
friendlier to the delta base cache, since the packfile puts
related deltas next to each other. By contrast, hash order
is effectively random, since the sha1 has no discernible
relationship to the content.
This patch introduces an "--unordered" option to cat-file
which iterates over packs in pack-order under the hood. You
can see the results when dumping all of the file content:
$ time ./git cat-file --batch-all-objects --buffer --batch | wc -c
6883195596
real 0m44.491s
user 0m42.902s
sys 0m5.230s
$ time ./git cat-file --unordered \
--batch-all-objects --buffer --batch | wc -c
6883195596
real 0m6.075s
user 0m4.774s
sys 0m3.548s
Same output, different order, way faster. The same speed-up
applies even if you end up accessing the object content in a
different process, like:
git cat-file --batch-all-objects --buffer --batch-check |
grep blob |
git cat-file --batch='%(objectname) %(rest)' |
wc -c
Adding "--unordered" to the first command drops the runtime
in git.git from 24s to 3.5s.
Side note: there are actually further speedups available
for doing it all in-process now. Since we are outputting
the object content during the actual pack iteration, we
know where to find the object and could skip the extra
lookup done by oid_object_info(). This patch stops short
of that optimization since the underlying API isn't ready
for us to make those sorts of direct requests.
So if --unordered is so much better, why not make it the
default? Two reasons:
1. We've promised in the documentation that --batch-all-objects
outputs in hash order. Since cat-file is plumbing,
people may be relying on that default, and we can't
change it.
2. It's actually _slower_ for some cases. We have to
compute the pack revindex to walk in pack order. And
our de-duplication step uses an oidset, rather than a
sort-and-dedup, which can end up being more expensive.
If we're just accessing the type and size of each
object, for example, like:
git cat-file --batch-all-objects --buffer --batch-check
my best-of-five warm cache timings go from 900ms to
1100ms using --unordered. Though it's possible in a
cold-cache or under memory pressure that we could do
better, since we'd have better locality within the
packfile.
And one final question: why is it "--unordered" and not
"--pack-order"? The answer is again two-fold:
1. "pack order" isn't a well-defined thing across the
whole set of objects. We're hitting loose objects, as
well as objects in multiple packs, and the only
ordering we're promising is _within_ a single pack. The
rest is apparently random.
2. The point here is optimization. So we don't want to
promise any particular ordering, but only to say that
we will choose an ordering which is likely to be
efficient for accessing the object content. That leaves
the door open for further changes in the future without
having to add another compatibility option.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It should be "is not an empty string" not "is not empty string". This
fixes wording originally introduced in ab9b31386b ("Documentation:
multi-head fetch.", 2005-08-24).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It *is* a confusing thing to look at a diff of diffs. All too easy is it
to mix up whether the -/+ markers refer to the "inner" or the "outer"
diff, i.e. whether a `+` indicates that a line was added by either the
old or the new diff (or both), or whether the new diff does something
different than the old diff.
To make things easier to process for normal developers, we introduced
the dual color mode which colors the lines according to the commit diff,
i.e. lines that are added by a commit (whether old, new, or both) are
colored in green. In non-dual color mode, the lines would be colored
according to the outer diff: if the old commit added a line, it would be
colored red (because that line addition is only present in the first
commit range that was specified on the command-line, i.e. the "old"
commit, but not in the second commit range, i.e. the "new" commit).
However, this dual color mode is still not making things clear enough,
as we are looking at two levels of diffs, and we still only pick a color
according to *one* of them (the outer diff marker is colored
differently, of course, but in particular with deep indentation, it is
easy to lose track of that outer diff marker's background color).
Therefore, let's add another dimension to the mix. Still use
green/red/normal according to the commit diffs, but now also dim the
lines that were only in the old commit, and use bold face for the lines
that are only in the new commit.
That way, it is much easier not to lose track of, say, when we are
looking at a line that was added in the previous iteration of a patch
series but the new iteration adds a slightly different version: the
obsolete change will be dimmed, the current version of the patch will be
bold.
At least this developer has a much easier time reading the range-diffs
that way.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After using this command extensively for the last two months, this
developer came to the conclusion that even if the dual color mode still
leaves a lot of room for confusion about what was actually changed, the
non-dual color mode is substantially worse in that regard.
Therefore, we really want to make the dual color mode the default.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The bulk of this patch consists of a heavily butchered version of
tbdiff's README written by Thomas Rast and Thomas Gummerer, lifted from
https://github.com/trast/tbdiff.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This command does not do a whole lot so far, apart from showing a usage
that is oddly similar to that of `git tbdiff`. And for a good reason:
the next commits will turn `range-branch` into a full-blown replacement
for `tbdiff`.
At this point, we ignore tbdiff's color options, as they will all be
implemented later using diff_options.
Since f318d73915 (generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to
command-list.h, 2018-05-10), every new command *requires* a man page to
build right away, so let's also add a blank man page, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, repack does not touch promisor packfiles at all, potentially
causing the performance of repositories that have many such packfiles to
drop. Therefore, repack all promisor objects if invoked with -a or -A.
This is done by an additional invocation of pack-objects on all promisor
objects individually given, which takes care of deduplication and allows
the resulting packfiles to respect flags such as --max-pack-size.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The colorization is controlled with the config setting "color.remote".
Supported keywords are "error", "warning", "hint" and "success". They
are highlighted if they appear at the start of the line, which is
common in error messages, eg.
ERROR: commit is missing Change-Id
The Git push process itself prints lots of non-actionable messages
(eg. bandwidth statistics, object counters for different phases of the
process). This obscures actionable error messages that servers may
send back. Highlighting keywords in the sideband draws more attention
to those messages.
The background for this change is that Gerrit does server-side
processing to create or update code reviews, and actionable error
messages (eg. missing Change-Id) must be communicated back to the user
during the push. User research has shown that new users have trouble
seeing these messages.
The highlighting is done on the client rather than server side, so
servers don't have to grow capabilities to understand terminal escape
codes and terminal state. It also consistent with the current state
where Git is control of the local display (eg. prefixing messages with
"remote: ").
The highlighting can be configured using color.remote.<KEYWORD>
configuration settings. Since the keys are matched case insensitively,
we match the keywords case insensitively too.
Finally, this solution is backwards compatible: many servers already
prefix their messages with "error", and they will benefit from this
change without requiring a server update. By contrast, a server-side
solution would likely require plumbing the TERM variable through the
git protocol, so it would require changes to both server and client.
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back when we removed `git apply --index-info` in 2007, we forgot to
adjust the documentation for update-index that reads its output.
Let's reorder the description of three formats to present the other
two formats that are still generated by git commands before this
format, and stop mentioning `git apply --index-info`.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
