In addition to adding the missing newline, add the x-ecutable bit
'mode change' character to the error message. This message now has
the same form as similar messages output by 'update-index'.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit aee9c7d65 (Submodules: Add the new "ignore" config option for
diff and status) introduced the ignore configuration option for
submodules so that configured submodules could be omitted from the
status and diff commands. Because this flag is respected in the diff
machinery it has the unintended consequence of potentially prohibiting
users from adding or resetting a submodule, even when a path to the
submodule is explicitly given.
Ensure that submodules can be added or set, even if they are configured
to be ignored, by setting the `DIFF_OPT_OVERRIDE_SUBMODULE_CONFIG` diff
flag.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of
a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which
would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We
learned to give warnings when this happens.
* jk/warn-add-gitlink:
t: move "git add submodule" into test blocks
add: warn when adding an embedded repository
Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
into its own header file.
* bw/config-h:
config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir
config: respect commondir
setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir
config: don't include config.h by default
config: remove git_config_iter
config: create config.h
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's an easy mistake to add a repository inside another
repository, like:
git clone $url
git add .
The resulting entry is a gitlink, but there's no matching
.gitmodules entry. Trying to use "submodule init" (or clone
with --recursive) doesn't do anything useful. Prior to
v2.13, such an entry caused git-submodule to barf entirely.
In v2.13, the entry is considered "inactive" and quietly
ignored. Either way, no clone of your repository can do
anything useful with the gitlink without the user manually
adding the submodule config.
In most cases, the user probably meant to either add a real
submodule, or they forgot to put the embedded repository in
their .gitignore file.
Let's issue a warning when we see this case. There are a few
things to note:
- the warning will go in the git-add porcelain; anybody
wanting to do low-level manipulation of the index is
welcome to create whatever funny states they want.
- we detect the case by looking for a newly added gitlink;
updates via "git add submodule" are perfectly reasonable,
and this avoids us having to investigate .gitmodules
entirely
- there's a command-line option to suppress the warning.
This is needed for git-submodule itself (which adds the
entry before adding any submodule config), but also
provides a mechanism for other scripts doing
submodule-like things.
We could make this a hard error instead of a warning.
However, we do add lots of sub-repos in our test suite. It's
not _wrong_ to do so. It just creates a state where users
may be surprised. Pointing them in the right direction with
a gentle hint is probably the best option.
There is a config knob that can disable the (long) hint. But
I intentionally omitted a config knob to disable the warning
entirely. Whether the warning is sensible or not is
generally about context, not about the user's preferences.
If there's a tool or workflow that adds gitlinks without
matching .gitmodules, it should probably be taught about the
new command-line option, rather than blanket-disabling the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the
default in-core index.
* bw/pathspec-sans-the-index:
pathspec: convert find_pathspecs_matching_against_index to take an index
pathspec: remove PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_CHEAP
ls-files: prevent prune_cache from overeagerly pruning submodules
pathspec: remove PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_EXPENSIVE flag
submodule: add die_in_unpopulated_submodule function
pathspec: provide a more descriptive die message
Convert find_pathspecs_matching_against_index to take an index
parameter.
In addition mark pathspec.c with NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS now
that it doesn't use any cache macros or reference 'the_index'.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since (ae8d08242 pathspec: pass directory indicator to
match_pathspec_item()) the path matching logic has been able to cope
with submodules without needing to strip off a trailing slash if a path
refers to a submodule.
Since the stripping the trailing slash is no longer necessary, remove
the PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_EXPENSIVE flag. In addition, factor
out the logic which dies if a path decends into a submodule so that it
can still be used as a check after a pathspec struct has been
initialized.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'git add' is the only command which dies when launched from an
unpopulated submodule (the place-holder directory for a submodule which
hasn't been checked out). This is triggered implicitly by passing the
PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_EXPENSIVE flag to 'parse_pathspec()'.
Instead make this desire more explicit by creating a function
'die_in_unpopulated_submodule()' which dies if the provided 'prefix' has
a leading path component which matches a submodule in the the index.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Callers of the hold_locked_index() function pass 0 when they want to
prepare to write a new version of the index file without wishing to
die or emit an error message when the request fails (e.g. somebody
else already held the lock), and pass 1 when they want the call to
die upon failure.
This option is called LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR by the underlying lockfile
API, and the hold_locked_index() function translates the paramter to
LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR when calling the hold_lock_file_for_update().
Replace these hardcoded '1' with LOCK_DIE_ON_ERROR and stop
translating. Callers other than the ones that are replaced with
this change pass '0' to the function; no behaviour change is
intended with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
Among the callers of hold_locked_index() that passes 0:
- diff.c::refresh_index_quietly() at the end of "git diff" is an
opportunistic update; it leaks the lockfile structure but it is
just before the program exits and nobody should care.
- builtin/describe.c::cmd_describe(),
builtin/commit.c::cmd_status(),
sequencer.c::read_and_refresh_cache() are all opportunistic
updates and they are OK.
- builtin/update-index.c::cmd_update_index() takes a lock upfront
but we may end up not needing to update the index (i.e. the
entries may be fully up-to-date), in which case we do not need to
issue an error upon failure to acquire the lock. We do diagnose
and die if we indeed need to update, so it is OK.
- wt-status.c::require_clean_work_tree() IS BUGGY. It asks
silence, does not check the returned value. Compare with
callsites like cmd_describe() and cmd_status() to notice that it
is wrong to call update_index_if_able() unconditionally.
When the chmod option was added to git add, it was hooked up to the diff
machinery, meaning that it only works when the version in the index
differs from the version on disk.
As the option was supposed to mirror the chmod option in update-index,
which always changes the mode in the index, regardless of the status of
the file, make sure the option behaves the same way in git add.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The executable bit will not be detected (and therefore will not be
set) for paths in a repository with `core.filemode` set to false,
though the users may still wish to add files as executable for
compatibility with other users who _do_ have `core.filemode`
functionality. For example, Windows users adding shell scripts may
wish to add them as executable for compatibility with users on
non-Windows.
Although this can be done with a plumbing command
(`git update-index --add --chmod=+x foo`), teaching the `git-add`
command allows users to set a file executable with a command that
they're already familiar with.
Signed-off-by: Edward Thomson <ethomson@edwardthomson.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git --literal-pathspecs add -u/-A" without any command line
argument misbehaved ever since Git 2.0.
* jc/add-u-A-default-to-top:
add: simplify -u/-A without pathspec
Since Git 2.0, "add -u" and "add -A" run from a subdirectory without
any pathspec mean "everything in the working tree" (before 2.0, they
were limited to the current directory). The limiting to the current
directory was implemented by inserting "." to the command line when
the end user did not give us any pathspec. At 2.0, we updated the
code to insert ":/" (instead of '.') to consider everything from the
top-level, by using a pathspec magic "top".
The call to parse_pathspec() using the command line arguments is,
however, made with PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL option since 5a76aff1 (add:
convert to use parse_pathspec, 2013-07-14), which predates Git 2.0.
In retrospect, there was no need to turn "adding . to limit to the
directory" into "adding :/ to unlimit to everywhere" in Git 2.0;
instead we could just have done "if there is no pathspec on the
command line, just let it be". The parse_pathspec() then would give
us a pathspec that matches everything and all is well.
Incidentally such a simplification also fixes a corner case bug that
stems from the fact that ":/" does not necessarily mean any magic.
A user would say "git --literal-pathspecs add -u :/" from the
command line when she has a directory ':' and wants to add
everything in it (and she knows that her :/ will be taken as
'everything under the sun' magic pathspec unless she disables the
magic with --literal-pathspecs). The internal use of ':/' would
behave the same way as such an explicitly given ":/" when run with
"--literal-pathspecs", and will not add everything under the sun as
the code originally intended.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit d95d728aba.
It turns out that many other commands that need to interact with the
result of running diff-files and diff-index, e.g. "git apply", "git
rm", etc., need to be adjusted to the new world order it brings in.
For example, it would break this sequence to correct a whitespace
breakage in the parts you changed:
git add -N file
git diff --cached file | git apply --cached --whitespace=fix
git checkout file
In the old world order, "diff" showed a patch to modify an existing
empty file by adding its full contents, and "apply" updated the
index by modifying the existing empty blob (which is what an
Intent-to-Add entry records in the index) with that patch.
In the new world order, "diff" shows a patch to create a new file
with its full contents, but because "apply" thinks that the i-t-a
entry already exists in the index, it refused to accept a creation.
Adjusting "apply" to this new world order is easy, but we need to
assess the extent of the damage to the rest of the system the new
world order brought in before going forward and adjust them all,
after which we can resurrect the commit being reverted here.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running "add -e", if launching the editor fails, we do
not notice and continue as if the output is what the user
asked for. The likely case is that the editor did not touch
the contents at all, and we end up adding everything.
Reported-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Entries added by "git add -N" are reminder for the user so that they
don't forget to add them before committing. These entries appear in
the index even though they are not real. Their presence in the index
leads to a confusing "git status" like this:
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
new file: foo
Changes not staged for commit:
modified: foo
If you do a "git commit", "foo" will not be included even though
"status" reports it as "to be committed". This patch changes the
output to become
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
new file: foo
no changes added to commit
The two hunks in diff-lib.c adjust "diff-index" and "diff-files" so
that i-t-a entries appear as new files in diff-files and nothing in
diff-index.
Due to this change, diff-files may start to report "new files" for the
first time. "add -u" needs to be told about this or it will die in
denial, screaming "new files can't exist! Reality is wrong." Luckily,
it's the only one among run_diff_files() callers that needs fixing.
Now in the new world order, a hierarchy in the index that contain
i-t-a paths is written out as a tree object as if these i-t-a
entries do not exist, and comparing the index with such a tree
object that would result from writing out the hierarchy will result
in no difference. Update a test in t2203 that expected the i-t-a
entries to appear as "added to the index" in the comparison to
instead expect no output.
An earlier change eec3e7e4 (cache-tree: invalidate i-t-a paths after
generating trees, 2012-12-16) becomes an unnecessary pessimization
in the new world order---a cache-tree in the index that corresponds
to a hierarchy with i-t-a paths can now be marked as valid and
record the object name of the tree that results from writing a tree
object out of that hierarchy, as it will compare equal to that tree.
Reverting the commit is left for the future, though, as it is purely
a performance issue and no longer affects correctness.
Helped-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt-
like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for
end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include:
- Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters
- Putting dashes in multiword parameter names
- Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar]
- Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...]
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add foo bar" adds neither foo nor bar when bar is ignored, but dies
to let the user recheck their command invocation. This becomes less
helpful when "git add foo.*" is subject to shell expansion and some of
the expanded files are ignored.
"git add --ignore-errors" is supposed to ignore errors when indexing
some files and adds the others. It does ignore errors from actual
indexing attempts, but does not ignore the error "file is ignored" as
outlined above. This is unexpected.
Change "git add foo bar" to add foo when bar is ignored, but issue
a warning and return a failure code as before the change.
That is, in the case of trying to add ignored files we now act the same
way (with or without "--ignore-errors") in which we act for more
severe indexing errors when "--ignore-errors" is specified.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the interface declaration for the functions in lockfile.c from
cache.h to a new file, lockfile.h. Add #includes where necessary (and
remove some redundant includes of cache.h by files that already
include builtin.h).
Move the documentation of the lock_file state diagram from lockfile.c
to the new header file.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most struct child_process variables are cleared using memset first after
declaration. Provide a macro, CHILD_PROCESS_INIT, that can be used to
initialize them statically instead. That's shorter, doesn't require a
function call and is slightly more readable (especially given that we
already have STRBUF_INIT, ARGV_ARRAY_INIT etc.).
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
run_add_interactive() in builtin/add.c manually computes array bounds
and allocates a static args array to build the add--interactive command
line, which is error-prone. Use the argv-array helper functions instead.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Ruch <bafain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This helps reduce the number of match_pathspec_depth() call sites and
show how m_p_d() is used. And it usage is:
- match against an index entry (ce_path_match or match_pathspec_depth
in ls-files)
- match against a dir_entry from read_directory (dir_path_match and
match_pathspec_depth in clean.c, which will be converted later)
- resolve-undo (rerere.c and ls-files.c)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree
used to emit an error.
* nd/add-empty-fix:
add: don't complain when adding empty project root
This behavior was added in 07d7bed (add: don't complain when adding
empty project root - 2009-04-28) then broken by 84b8b5d (remove
match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth() -
2013-07-14). Reinstate it.
Noticed-by: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use "struct pathspec" interface in more places, instead of array of
characters, the latter of which cannot express magic pathspecs
(e.g. ":(icase)makefile" that matches both Makefile and makefile).
* nd/magic-pathspec:
add: lift the pathspec magic restriction on "add -p"
pathspec: catch prepending :(prefix) on pathspec with short magic
"git mv A B" when moving a submodule A does "the right thing",
inclusing relocating its working tree and adjusting the paths in
the .gitmodules file.
* jl/submodule-mv: (53 commits)
rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree
mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules
submodule.c: add .gitmodules staging helper functions
mv: move submodules using a gitfile
mv: move submodules together with their work trees
rm: do not set a variable twice without intermediate reading.
t6131 - skip tests if on case-insensitive file system
parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntax
pathspec: support :(glob) syntax
pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magic
pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspec
kill limit_pathspec_to_literal() as it's only used by parse_pathspec()
parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN
parse_pathspec: make sure the prefix part is wildcard-free
rename field "raw" to "_raw" in struct pathspec
tree-diff: remove the use of pathspec's raw[] in follow-rename codepath
remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth()
remove init_pathspec() in favor of parse_pathspec()
remove diff_tree_{setup,release}_paths
convert common_prefix() to use struct pathspec
...
Since 480ca64 (convert run_add_interactive to use struct pathspec -
2013-07-14), we have unconditionally passed :(prefix)xxx to
add-interactive.perl. It implies that all commands
add-interactive.perl calls must be aware of pathspec magic, or
:(prefix) is barfed. The restriction to :/ only becomes unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A finishing touch to fix breakage to "add -e" caused by defaulting
ui.color to "auto".
* mm/color-auto-default:
git add -e: Explicitly specify that patch should have no color
After 4c7f1819 (make color.ui default to 'auto', 2013-06-10), the
patch file to be edited during 'git add -e' receives all the color
codes. This is because diffopt.use_color defaults to -1, which
causes want_color to now return 'auto'.
By explicitly setting use_color to 0, we can ensure the diff output
has no color codes in it.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
:(glob)path differs from plain pathspec that it uses wildmatch with
WM_PATHNAME while the other uses fnmatch without FNM_PATHNAME. The
difference lies in how '*' (and '**') is processed.
With the introduction of :(glob) and :(literal) and their global
options --[no]glob-pathspecs, the user can:
- make everything literal by default via --noglob-pathspecs
--literal-pathspecs cannot be used for this purpose as it
disables _all_ pathspec magic.
- individually turn on globbing with :(glob)
- make everything globbing by default via --glob-pathspecs
- individually turn off globbing with :(literal)
The implication behind this is, there is no way to gain the default
matching behavior (i.e. fnmatch without FNM_PATHNAME). You either get
new globbing or literal. The old fnmatch behavior is considered
deprecated and discouraged to use.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
match_pathspec_depth was created to replace match_pathspec (see
61cf282 (pathspec: add match_pathspec_depth() - 2010-12-15). It took
more than two years, but the replacement finally happens :-)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This passes the pathspec, more or less unmodified, to
git-add--interactive. The command itself does not process pathspec. It
simply passes the pathspec to other builtin commands. So if all those
commands support pathspec, we're good.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As promised in 0fa2eb530f (add: warn when -u or -A is used without
pathspec, 2013-01-28), in Git 2.0, "git add -u/-A" that is run
without pathspec in a subdirectory updates all updated paths in the
entire working tree, not just the current directory and its
subdirectories.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce "--ignore-removal" as a synonym to "--no-all" for "git
add", and improve the 2.0 migration warning with it.
* jc/add-ignore-removal:
git add: rephrase -A/--no-all warning
git add: --ignore-removal is a better named --no-all
In preparation for Git 2.0, "git add -u/-A" without pathspec checks
all the working tree (not limited to the current directory) and
issues a warning when it finds any path that we might add in Git
2.0, because that would mean the users' fingers need to be trained
to explicitly say "." if they want to keep the current behaviour.
However, the check was incomplete, because "git add" usually does
not refresh the index, considers a path that is stat-dirty but has
contents that is otherwise up-to-date in the index as "we might
add", and relies on that it is a no-op to add the same thing again
via the add_file_to_index() API (which also knows not to say "added"
in verbose mode when this happens). We do not want to trigger the
warning for a path that is outside the current directory is merely
stat-dirty, as it won't be added in Git 2.0, either.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Fixes a handful of issues in the code to traverse working tree to
find untracked and/or ignored files, cleans up and optimizes the
codepath in general.
* kb/status-ignored-optim-2:
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't scan the work tree twice
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't scan the work tree three times
dir.c: git-status: avoid is_excluded checks for tracked files
dir.c: replace is_path_excluded with now equivalent is_excluded API
dir.c: unify is_excluded and is_path_excluded APIs
dir.c: move prep_exclude
dir.c: factor out parts of last_exclude_matching for later reuse
dir.c: git-clean -d -X: don't delete tracked directories
dir.c: make 'git-status --ignored' work within leading directories
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't list empty directories as ignored
dir.c: git-ls-files --directories: don't hide empty directories
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't list empty ignored directories
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't list files in ignored directories
dir.c: git-status --ignored: don't drop ignored directories
Make "git add <pathspec>..." notice paths that have been removed
from the working tree, i.e. the same as "git add -A <pathspec>...".
Given that "git add <pathspec>" is to update the index with the
state of the named part of the working tree as a whole, it makes it
more intuitive, and also makes it possible to simplify the advice we
give while marking the paths the user finished resolving conflicts
with. We used to say "to record removal as a resolution, remove the
path from the working tree and say 'git rm'; for all other cases,
edit the path in the working tree and say 'git add'", but we can now
say "update the path in the working tree and say 'git add'" instead.
As promised, this merges the temporary update_files_in_cache() helper
function back to add_files_to_cache() function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now we have a synonym --ignore-removal for --no-all, we can rephrase
the Git 2.0 transition warning message in a more natural way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the historical context of "git add --all ." that pays attention
to "all kinds of changes" (implying "without ignoring removals"),
the option to countermand it "--no-all" may have made sense, but
because we will be making "--all" the default when a pathspec is
given, it makes more sense to rename the option to a more explicit
"--ignore-removal". The "--all" option naturally becomes its
negation, "--no-ignore-removal".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Preparatory steps to make "git add <pathspec>" take notice of
removed paths that match <pathspec> by default in Git 2.0.
* 'jc/add-2.0-delete-default' (early part):
git add: rephrase the "removal will cease to be ignored" warning
git add: rework the logic to warn "git add <pathspec>..." default change
git add: start preparing for "git add <pathspec>..." to default to "-A"
builtin/add.c: simplify boolean variables
Now the logic to decide when to warn has been tightened, we know the
user is in a situation where the current and future behaviours will
be different. Spell out what happens with these two versions and
how to explicitly ask for the behaviour, and suggest "git status" as
a way to inspect the current status.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The earlier logic to warn against "git add subdir" that is run
without "-A" or "--no-all" was only to check any <pathspec> given
exactly spells a directory name that (still) exists on the
filesystem. This had number of problems:
* "git add '*dir'" (note that the wildcard is hidden from the
shell) would not trigger the warning.
* "git add '*.py'" would behave differently between the current
version of Git and Git 2.0 for the same reason as "subdir", but
would not trigger the warning.
* "git add dir" for a submodule "dir" would just update the index
entry for the submodule "dir" without ever recursing into it, and
use of "-A" or "--no-all" would matter. But the logic only
checks the directory-ness of "dir" and gives an unnecessary
warning.
Rework the logic to detect the case where the behaviour will be
different in Git 2.0, and issue a warning only when it matters.
Even with the code before this warning, "git add subdir" will have
to traverse the directory in order to find _new_ files the index
does not know about _anyway_, so we can do this check without adding
an extra pass to find if <pathspec> matches any removed file.
This essentially updates the "add_files_to_cache()" public API to
"update_files_in_cache()" API that is internal to "git add", because
with the "--all" option, the function is no longer about "adding"
paths to the cache, but is also used to remove them.
There are other callers of the former from "checkout" (used when
"checkout -m" prepares the temporary tree that represents the local
modifications to be merged) and "commit" ("commit --include" that
picks up local changes in addition to what is in the index). Since
ADD_CACHE_IGNORE_ERRORS (aka "--no-all") is not used by either of
them, once dust settles after Git 2.0 and the warning becomes
unnecessary, we may want to unify these two functions again.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the spirit of the recent similar change for 'git add -u', avoid
pestering users that restrict their attention to a subdirectory and
will not be affected by the coming change in the behavior of pathless
'git add -A'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common workflow in large projects is to chdir into a subdirectory of
interest and only do work there:
cd src
vi foo.c
make test
git add -u
git commit
The upcoming change to 'git add -u' behavior would not affect such a
workflow: when the only changes present are in the current directory,
'git add -u' will add all changes, and whether that happens via an
implicit "." or implicit ":/" parameter is an unimportant
implementation detail.
The warning about use of 'git add -u' with no pathspec is annoying
because it seemingly serves no purpose in this case. So suppress the
warning unless there are changes outside the cwd that are not being
added.
A previous version of this patch ran two I/O-intensive diff-files
passes: one to find changes outside the cwd, and another to find
changes to add to the index within the cwd. This version runs one
full-tree diff and decides for each change whether to add it or warn
and suppress it in update_callback. As a result, even on very large
repositories "git add -u" will not be significantly slower than the
future default behavior ("git add -u :/"), and the slowdown relative
to "git add -u ." should be a useful clue to users of such
repositories to get into the habit of explicitly passing '.'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make warn_pathless_add() print its warning the first time it is called
and do nothing if called again. This will make it easier to show the
warning on the fly when a relevant condition is detected without
risking showing it multiple times when multiple such conditions hold.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the commands give an actual output (e.g. when ran with -v), the
output is visually mixed with the warning.
An additional blank line makes the actual output more visible.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently warn_pathless_add() is only called directly by cmd_add(),
but that is about to change. Move its definition higher in the file
and pass the "--update" or "--all" option name used in its message
through globals instead of function arguments to make it easier to
call without passing values that will not change through the call
chain.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We originally thought the transition would need a period where "git add
[-u|-A]" without pathspec would be forbidden, but the warning is big
enough to scare people and teach them not to use it (or, if so, to
understand the consequences).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git add subdir/" is run without "-u" or "-A" option, e.g.
$ edit subdir/x
$ create subdir/y
$ rm subdir/z
$ git add subdir/
the command does not notice removal of paths (e.g. subdir/z) from
the working tree. This sometimes confuses new people, as arguably
"git add" is told to record the current state of "subdir/" as a
whole, not the current state of the paths that exist in the working
tree that matches that pathspec (the latter by definition excludes
the state of "subdir/z" because it does not exist in the working
tree).
Plan to eventually make "git add" pretend as if "-A" is given when
there is a pathspec on the command line. When resolving a conflict
to remove a path, the current code tells you to "git rm $path", but
with such a change, you will be able to say "git add $path" (of
course you can do "git add -A $path" today). That means that we can
simplify the advice messages given by "git status". That all will
be in Git 2.0 or later, if we are going to do so.
For that transition to work, people need to learn either to say "git
add --no-all subdir/" when they want to ignore the removed paths
like "subdir/z", or to say "git add -A subdir/" when they want to
take the state of the directory as a whole.
"git add" without any argument will continue to be a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not to explicitly initialize static variables to 0 and instead
let BSS take care of it. Also use OPT_BOOL() to let the command
line arguments set these variables to 0 or 1, instead of the
deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN() aka OPT_COUNTUP().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pathspec is the most widely used term, and is the one defined in
gitglossary.txt. <filepattern> was used only in the synopsys for git-add
and git-commit, and in git-add.txt. Get rid of it.
This patch is obtained with by running:
perl -pi -e 's/filepattern/pathspec/' `git grep -l filepattern`
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Forbid "git add -u" and "git add -A" without pathspec run from a
subdirectory, to train people to type "." (or ":/") to make the
choice of default does not matter.
* mm/add-u-A-sans-pathspec:
add: warn when -u or -A is used without pathspec
Most Git commands that can be used with or without pathspec operate
tree-wide by default, the pathspec being used to restrict their
scope. A few exceptions are: 'git grep', 'git clean', 'git add -u'
and 'git add -A'. When run in a subdirectory without pathspec, they
operate only on paths in the current directory.
The inconsistency of 'git add -u' and 'git add -A' is particularly
problematic since other 'git add' subcommands (namely 'git add -p'
and 'git add -e') are tree-wide by default. It also means that "git
add -u && git commit" will record a state that is different from
what is recorded with "git commit -a".
Flipping the default now is unacceptable, so let's start training
users to type 'git add -u|-A :/' or 'git add -u|-A .' explicitly, to
prepare for the next steps:
* forbid 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec (like 'git add' without
option)
* much later, maybe, re-allow 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec, that
will add all tracked and modified files, or all files, tree-wide.
A nice side effect of this patch is that it makes the :/ magic
pathspec easier to discover for users.
When the command is called from the root of the tree, there is no
ambiguity and no need to change the behavior, hence no need to warn.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
files.
The variable names may want to get cleaned up but that can be done
in-tree.
* as/check-ignore:
clean.c, ls-files.c: respect encapsulation of exclude_list_groups
t0008: avoid brace expansion
add git-check-ignore sub-command
setup.c: document get_pathspec()
add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes
Conflicts:
builtin/ls-files.c
dir.c
Refactor and generally clean up the directory traversal API
implementation.
* as/dir-c-cleanup:
dir.c: rename free_excludes() to clear_exclude_list()
dir.c: refactor is_path_excluded()
dir.c: refactor is_excluded()
dir.c: refactor is_excluded_from_list()
dir.c: rename excluded() to is_excluded()
dir.c: rename excluded_from_list() to is_excluded_from_list()
dir.c: rename path_excluded() to is_path_excluded()
dir.c: rename cryptic 'which' variable to more consistent name
Improve documentation and comments regarding directory traversal API
api-directory-listing.txt: update to match code
This will be reused by a new git check-ignore command.
Also document validate_pathspec().
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extract the body of the for loop in treat_gitlinks() into a separate
check_path_for_gitlink() function so that it can be reused elsewhere.
This paves the way for a new check-ignore sub-command.
Also document treat_gitlinks().
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Perform the following function renames to make it explicit that these
pathspec handling functions are for matching against the index, rather
than against a tree or the working directory.
- fill_pathspec_matches() -> add_pathspec_matches_against_index()
- find_used_pathspec() -> find_pathspecs_matching_against_index()
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extract the following functions from builtin/add.c to pathspec.c, in
preparation for reuse by a new git check-ignore command:
- fill_pathspec_matches()
- find_used_pathspec()
The functions being extracted are not changed in any way, except
removal of the 'static' qualifier.
Also add comments documenting these newly public functions,
including clarifications that they operate on the index.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'argc' argument passed to validate_pathspec() was never used.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Start adopting clearer names for exclude functions. This 'is_*'
naming pattern for functions returning booleans was agreed here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/204661/focus=204924
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rj/path-cleanup:
Call mkpathdup() rather than xstrdup(mkpath(...))
Call git_pathdup() rather than xstrdup(git_path("..."))
path.c: Use vsnpath() in the implementation of git_path()
path.c: Don't discard the return value of vsnpath()
path.c: Remove the 'git_' prefix from a file scope function
In addition to updating the two xstrdup(git_path("...")) call sites
with git_pathdup(), we also fix a memory leak by freeing the memory
allocated to the ADD_EDIT.patch 'file' in the edit_patch() function.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").
* ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top:
add: create ADD_EDIT.patch with mode 0666
rerere: make rr-cache fanout directory honor umask
Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone
A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").
* ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top:
add: create ADD_EDIT.patch with mode 0666
rerere: make rr-cache fanout directory honor umask
Restore umasks influence on the permissions of work tree created by clone
"git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
updated.
* jc/ls-files-i-dir:
dir.c: make excluded() file scope static
unpack-trees.c: use path_excluded() in check_ok_to_remove()
builtin/add.c: use path_excluded()
path_excluded(): update API to less cache-entry centric
ls-files -i: micro-optimize path_excluded()
ls-files -i: pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
We should be letting the user's umask take care of
restricting permissions. Even though this is a temporary
file and probably nobody would notice, this brings us in
line with other temporary file creations in git (e.g.,
choosing "e"dit from git-add--interactive).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/
as excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading
paths while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are
also updated.
* jc/ls-files-i-dir:
dir.c: make excluded() file scope static
unpack-trees.c: use path_excluded() in check_ok_to_remove()
builtin/add.c: use path_excluded()
path_excluded(): update API to less cache-entry centric
ls-files -i: micro-optimize path_excluded()
ls-files -i: pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
This only happens in --ignore-missing --dry-run codepath which
presumably nobody should care, but is for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the HEAD of the submodule matches what is recorded in the index of
the superproject, and it has local changes or untracked files, the patch
offered by "git add -e" for editing shows a diff like this:
diff --git a/submodule b/submodule
<header>
-deadbeef...
+deadbeef...-dirty
Because applying such a patch has no effect to the index, this is a
useless noise. Generate the patch with IGNORE_DIRTY_SUBMODULES flag to
prevent such a change from getting reported.
This patch also loses the "-dirty" suffix from the output when the HEAD of
the submodule is different from what is in the index of the superproject.
As such dirtiness expressed by the suffix does not affect the result of
the patch application at all, there is no information lost if we remove
it. The user could still run "git status" before "git add -e" if s/he
cares about the dirtiness.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This extends the earlier approach to stream a large file directly from the
filesystem to its own packfile, and allows "git add" to send large files
directly into a single pack. Older code used to spawn fast-import, but the
new bulk-checkin API replaces it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ci/commit--interactive-atomic:
Test atomic git-commit --interactive
Add commit to list of config.singlekey commands
Add support for -p/--patch to git-commit
Allow git commit --interactive with paths
t7501.8: feed a meaningful command
Use a temporary index for git commit --interactive
The config machinery already makes section and variable names
lowercase when parsing them, so using strcasecmp for comparison just
feels wasteful. No noticeable change intended.
Noticed-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --interactive flag is already shared by git add and git commit,
share the -p and --patch flags too.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add -u" updates the index with the updated contents from the working
tree by internally running "diff-files" to grab the set of paths that are
different from the index. Then it updates the index entries for the paths
that are modified in the working tree, and deletes the index entries for
the paths that are deleted in the working tree.
It ignored the output from the diff-files that indicated that a path is
unmerged. For these paths, it instead relied on the fact that an unmerged
path is followed by the result of comparison between stage #2 (ours) and
the working tree, and used that to update or delete such a path when it is
used to record the resolution of a conflict.
As the result, when a path did not have stage #2 (e.g. "we deleted while
the other side added"), these unmerged stages were left behind, instead of
recording what the user resolved in the working tree.
Since we recently fixed "diff-files" to indicate if the corresponding path
exists on the working tree for an unmerged path, we do not have to rely on
the comparison with stage #2 anymore. We can instead tell the diff-files
not to compare with higher stages, and use the unmerged output to update
the index to reflect the state of the working tree.
The changes to the test vector in t2200 illustrates the nature of the bug
and the fix. The test expected stage #1 and #3 entries be left behind,
but it was codifying the buggy behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Prepare draft release notes to 1.7.4.2
gitweb: highlight: replace tabs with spaces
make_absolute_path: return the input path if it points to our buffer
valgrind: ignore SSE-based strlen invalid reads
diff --submodule: split into bite-sized pieces
cherry: split off function to print output lines
branch: split off function that writes tracking info and commit subject
standardize brace placement in struct definitions
compat: make gcc bswap an inline function
enums: omit trailing comma for portability
Conflicts:
RelNotes
In a struct definitions, unlike functions, the prevailing style is for
the opening brace to go on the same line as the struct name, like so:
struct foo {
int bar;
char *baz;
};
Indeed, grepping for 'struct [a-z_]* {$' yields about 5 times as many
matches as 'struct [a-z_]*$'.
Linus sayeth:
Heretic people all over the world have claimed that this inconsistency
is ... well ... inconsistent, but all right-thinking people know that
(a) K&R are _right_ and (b) K&R are right.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the "Unstaged changes after refreshing the index:"
translatable. It's displayed under `git add --refresh --verbose`.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the "remove '%s'" message translatable. It's displayed under `git
add -u --verbose`. Also skip the corresponding test when output is not
in the C locale.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the "did not match any files" message translatable, and skip the
test that checks for it when the C_LOCALE_OUTPUT prereq is not
present.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tests t2204 (.gitignore) and t3700 (add) explicitly check for
these messages, so while at it, split each relevant test into a part
that just checks "git add"'s exit status and a part that checks
porcelain output.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/struct-pathspec: (22 commits)
t6004: add pathspec globbing test for log family
t7810: overlapping pathspecs and depth limit
grep: drop pathspec_matches() in favor of tree_entry_interesting()
grep: use writable strbuf from caller for grep_tree()
grep: use match_pathspec_depth() for cache/worktree grepping
grep: convert to use struct pathspec
Convert ce_path_match() to use match_pathspec_depth()
Convert ce_path_match() to use struct pathspec
struct rev_info: convert prune_data to struct pathspec
pathspec: add match_pathspec_depth()
tree_entry_interesting(): optimize wildcard matching when base is matched
tree_entry_interesting(): support wildcard matching
tree_entry_interesting(): fix depth limit with overlapping pathspecs
tree_entry_interesting(): support depth limit
tree_entry_interesting(): refactor into separate smaller functions
diff-tree: convert base+baselen to writable strbuf
glossary: define pathspec
Move tree_entry_interesting() to tree-walk.c and export it
tree_entry_interesting(): remove dependency on struct diff_options
Convert struct diff_options to use struct pathspec
...
Currently, it sounds as if "notice removal of files" distinguishes "-A"
from "-u", and there is no mention of the worktree.
But both notice the removal, and only "-A" adds changes from untracked
files. Say so.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
add: introduce add.ignoreerrors synonym for add.ignore-errors
bash: Match lightweight tags in prompt
git-commit.txt: (synopsis): move -i and -o before "--"
Add OPT__FORCE as a helper macro in the same spirit as OPT__VERBOSE
et.al. to simplify defining -f/--force options.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lstfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows better help text to be defined than "dry run". Also make use
of the macro in places that already had a different description. No
object code changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows better help text to be defined than "be verbose". Also make use
of the macro in places that already had a different description. No
object code changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit c84de70 (excluded_1(): support exclude files in index -
2009-08-20) added support for excluded() where dtype can be NULL. It
was designed specifically for index matching because there was no
other way to extract dtype information from index. It did not support
wildcard matching (for example, "a*/" pattern would fail to match).
The code was probably misread when commit 108da0d (git add: Add the
"--ignore-missing" option for the dry run - 2010-07-10) was made
because DT_UNKNOWN happens to be zero (NULL) too.
Do not pass DT_UNKNOWN/NULL to excluded(), instead pass a pointer to a
variable that contains DT_UNKNOWN. The real dtype will be extracted
from worktree by excluded(), as expected.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes it is useful to know if a file or directory will be ignored
before it is added to the work tree. An example is "git submodule add",
where it would be really nice to be able to fail with an appropriate
error message before the submodule is cloned and checked out.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of production systems with
vendor compilers that choke unless all compound declarations can be
determined statically at compile time, for example hpux10.20 (I can
provide a comprehensive list of our supported platforms that exhibit
this problem if necessary).
This patch simply breaks apart any compound declarations with dynamic
initialisation expressions, and moves the initialisation until after
the last declaration in the same block, in all the places necessary to
have the offending compilers accept the code.
Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@thewrittenword.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This shrinks the top-level directory a bit, and makes it much more
pleasant to use auto-completion on the thing. Instead of
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab>
Display all 180 possibilities? (y or n)
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-sh
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-show-branch.c builtin-show-ref.c
builtin-shortlog.o builtin-show-branch.o builtin-show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shor<tab>
builtin-shortlog.c builtin-shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin-shortlog.c
you get
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em buil<tab> [type]
builtin/ builtin.h
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sh<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o show-branch.c show-branch.o show-ref.c show-ref.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/sho [auto-completes to]
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shor<tab> [type]
shortlog.c shortlog.o
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ em builtin/shortlog.c
which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.
NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
will just show the choices instead. I think bash has some cut-off
around 100 choices or something.
So the reason I see this is that I'm using an odd editory, and thus
don't have the rules to cut down on auto-completion. But you can
simulate that by using 'ls' instead, or something similar.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>