Document and apply workaround for a buggy version of dash that
mishandles "local var=val" construct.
* jc/local-extern-shell-rules:
t1016: local VAR="VAL" fix
t0610: local VAR="VAL" fix
t: teach lint that RHS of 'local VAR=VAL' needs to be quoted
t: local VAR="VAL" (quote ${magic-reference})
t: local VAR="VAL" (quote command substitution)
t: local VAR="VAL" (quote positional parameters)
CodingGuidelines: quote assigned value in 'local var=$val'
CodingGuidelines: describe "export VAR=VAL" rule
Doc update, as a preparation to enhance "git update-ref --stdin".
* kn/clarify-update-ref-doc:
githooks: use {old,new}-oid instead of {old,new}-value
update-ref: use {old,new}-oid instead of {old,new}value
"git pack-refs" learned the "--auto" option, which is a useful
addition to be triggered from "git gc --auto".
Acked-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
cf. <CAOLa=ZRAEA7rSUoYL0h-2qfEELdbPHbeGpgBJRqesyhHi9Q6WQ@mail.gmail.com>
* ps/pack-refs-auto:
builtin/gc: pack refs when using `git maintenance run --auto`
builtin/gc: forward git-gc(1)'s `--auto` flag when packing refs
t6500: extract objects with "17" prefix
builtin/gc: move `struct maintenance_run_opts`
builtin/pack-refs: introduce new "--auto" flag
builtin/pack-refs: release allocated memory
refs/reftable: expose auto compaction via new flag
refs: remove `PACK_REFS_ALL` flag
refs: move `struct pack_refs_opts` to where it's used
t/helper: drop pack-refs wrapper
refs/reftable: print errors on compaction failure
reftable/stack: gracefully handle failed auto-compaction due to locks
reftable/stack: use error codes when locking fails during compaction
reftable/error: discern locked/outdated errors
reftable/stack: fix error handling in `reftable_stack_init_addition()`
"git add -p" and other "interactive hunk selection" UI has learned to
skip showing the hunk immediately after it has already been shown, and
an additional action to explicitly ask to reshow the current hunk.
* rj/add-p-explicit-reshow:
add-patch: do not print hunks repeatedly
add-patch: introduce 'p' in interactive-patch
Documentation rules has been explicitly described how to mark-up
literal parts and a few manual pages have been updated as examples.
* ja/doc-markup-updates:
doc: git-clone: do not autoreference the manpage in itself
doc: git-clone: apply new documentation formatting guidelines
doc: git-init: apply new documentation formatting guidelines
doc: allow literal and emphasis format in doc vs help tests
doc: rework CodingGuidelines with new formatting rules
Dash bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/139097
lets the shell erroneously perform field splitting on the expansion
of a command substitution during declaration of a local or an extern
variable.
The explanation was stolen from ebee5580 (parallel-checkout: avoid
dash local bug in tests, 2021-06-06).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
https://lore.kernel.org/git/201307081121.22769.tboegi@web.de/
resulted in 9968ffff (test-lint: detect 'export FOO=bar',
2013-07-08) to add a rule to t/check-non-portable-shell.pl script to
reject
export VAR=VAL
and suggest us to instead write it as two statements, i.e.,
VAR=VAL
export VAR
This however was not spelled out in the CodingGuidelines document.
We may want to re-evaluate the rule since it is from ages ago, but
for now, let's make the written rule and what the automation
enforces consistent.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
core.commentChar used to be limited to a single byte, but has been
updated to allow an arbitrary multi-byte sequence.
* jk/core-comment-string:
config: add core.commentString
config: allow multi-byte core.commentChar
environment: drop comment_line_char compatibility macro
wt-status: drop custom comment-char stringification
sequencer: handle multi-byte comment characters when writing todo list
find multi-byte comment chars in unterminated buffers
find multi-byte comment chars in NUL-terminated strings
prefer comment_line_str to comment_line_char for printing
strbuf: accept a comment string for strbuf_add_commented_lines()
strbuf: accept a comment string for strbuf_commented_addf()
strbuf: accept a comment string for strbuf_stripspace()
environment: store comment_line_char as a string
strbuf: avoid shadowing global comment_line_char name
commit: refactor base-case of adjust_comment_line_char()
strbuf: avoid static variables in strbuf_add_commented_lines()
strbuf: simplify comment-handling in add_lines() helper
config: forbid newline as core.commentChar
"git config" learned "--comment=<message>" option to leave a
comment immediately after the "variable = value" on the same line
in the configuration file.
* rs/config-comment:
config: allow tweaking whitespace between value and comment
config: fix --comment formatting
config: add --comment option to add a comment
Allow git-cherry-pick(1) to automatically drop redundant commits via
a new `--empty` option, similar to the `--empty` options for
git-rebase(1) and git-am(1). Includes a soft deprecation of
`--keep-redundant-commits` as well as some related docs changes and
sequencer code cleanup.
* bl/cherry-pick-empty:
cherry-pick: add `--empty` for more robust redundant commit handling
cherry-pick: enforce `--keep-redundant-commits` incompatibility
sequencer: do not require `allow_empty` for redundant commit options
sequencer: handle unborn branch with `--allow-empty`
rebase: update `--empty=ask` to `--empty=stop`
docs: clean up `--empty` formatting in git-rebase(1) and git-am(1)
docs: address inaccurate `--empty` default with `--exec`
Documentation updates.
* ds/grep-doc-updates:
grep docs: describe --no-index further and improve formatting a bit
grep docs: describe --recurse-submodules further and improve formatting a bit
Introduce an experimental protocol for contributors to propose the
topic description to be used in the "What's cooking" report, the
merge commit message for the topic, and in the release notes and
document it in the SubmittingPatches document.
* jc/release-notes-entry-experiment:
SubmittingPatches: release-notes entry experiment
The implementation and documentation of "object-format" option
exchange between the Git itself and its remote helpers did not
quite match, which has been corrected.
* jk/remote-helper-object-format-option-fix:
transport-helper: send "true" value for object-format option
transport-helper: drop "object-format <algo>" option
transport-helper: use write helpers more consistently
Similar to the previous commit, rename {old,new}-value in the 'githooks'
documentation to {old,new}-oid. This improves clarity and also ensures
consistency within the document.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `git-update-ref` command is used to modify references. The usage of
{old,new}value in the documentation refers to the OIDs. This is fine
since the command only works with regular references which hold OIDs.
But if the command is updated to support symrefs, we'd also be dealing
with {old,new}-refs.
To improve clarity around what exactly {old,new}value mean, let's rename
it to {old,new}-oid.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hints that suggest what to do after resolving conflicts can now be
squelched by disabling advice.mergeConflict.
Acked-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
cf. <e040c631-42d9-4501-a7b8-046f8dac6309@gmail.com>
* pb/advice-merge-conflict:
builtin/am: allow disabling conflict advice
sequencer: allow disabling conflict advice
"git config" corrupted literal HT characters written in the
configuration file as part of a value, which has been corrected.
* ds/config-internal-whitespace-fix:
config.txt: describe handling of whitespace further
t1300: add more tests for whitespace and inline comments
config: really keep value-internal whitespace verbatim
config: minor addition of whitespace
Fix some small capitalization issues, as spotted while going through the
documentation. In general, a semicolon doesn't start a new sentence, and
"this" has no meaning of a proper noun in this context.
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Literal and placeholder formatting is more heavily enforced, with some
asciidoc magic. Basically, the markup is preserved everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Shortly we're going make interactive-patch stop printing automatically
the hunk under certain circumstances.
Let's introduce a new option to allow the user to explicitly request
the printing.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable had a name
that tempts users to set a Boolean value expressed in our usual
"false", "off", and "0", but it only took "no". This has been
corrected so "true" and its synonyms are taken as "normal", while
"false" and its synonyms are taken as "no".
* jc/show-untracked-false:
status: allow --untracked=false and friends
status: unify parsing of --untracked= and status.showUntrackedFiles
"git diff" and friends learned two extra configuration variables,
diff.srcPrefix and diff.dstPrefix.
* ph/diff-src-dst-prefix-config:
diff.*Prefix: use camelCase in the doc and test titles
diff: add diff.srcPrefix and diff.dstPrefix configuration variables
Work to support a repository that work with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
hash algorithms has started.
* eb/hash-transition: (30 commits)
t1016-compatObjectFormat: add tests to verify the conversion between objects
t1006: test oid compatibility with cat-file
t1006: rename sha1 to oid
test-lib: compute the compatibility hash so tests may use it
builtin/ls-tree: let the oid determine the output algorithm
object-file: handle compat objects in check_object_signature
tree-walk: init_tree_desc take an oid to get the hash algorithm
builtin/cat-file: let the oid determine the output algorithm
rev-parse: add an --output-object-format parameter
repository: implement extensions.compatObjectFormat
object-file: update object_info_extended to reencode objects
object-file-convert: convert commits that embed signed tags
object-file-convert: convert commit objects when writing
object-file-convert: don't leak when converting tag objects
object-file-convert: convert tag objects when writing
object-file-convert: add a function to convert trees between algorithms
object: factor out parse_mode out of fast-import and tree-walk into in object.h
cache: add a function to read an OID of a specific algorithm
tag: sign both hashes
commit: export add_header_signature to support handling signatures on tags
...
In the last chapter of this document, pipes are used in commands to
filter out the first/last trace messages. But according to git(1),
trace messages are sent to stderr if GIT_TRACE is set to '1', so those
commands do not produce the described results.
Fix this by redirecting stderr to stdout prior to the pipe operator
to additionally connect stderr to stdin of the latter command.
Further, while reviewing the above fix, Kyle Lippincott noticed
a second issue with the second of the examples: a missing slash in the
executable path "./bin-wrappers git".
Add the missing slash.
Helped-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before the changes to count omitted objects, the function
traverse_commit_list() was used and its call cannot be changed to pass
a pointer to an oidset to record omitted objects.
Fix the text to clarify that we now use another traversal function to
be able to pass the pointer to the introduced oidset.
Helped-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit f0d2f84919 (MyFirstObjectWalk: update recommended usage,
2022-03-09) changed a call of parse_list_objects_filter() in a way
that probably never worked: parse_list_objects_filter() always needed
a pointer as its first argument.
Fix this by removing the CALLOC_ARRAY and passing the address of
rev->filter to parse_list_objects_filter() in accordance to
such a call in revisions.c, for example.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pack-objects.c resides in builtin/ (not builtins/).
Fix the misspelled directory name.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a4e7e317f8 (config: add ctx arg to config_fn_t, 2023-06-28)
added a fourth argument to config_fn_t but did not change relevant
function calls in Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt.
Fix those calls and the example git_walken_config() to use
that additional argument.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The core.commentChar code recently learned to accept more than a
single ASCII character. But using it is annoying with multiple versions
of Git, since older ones will reject it outright:
$ git.v2.44.0 -c core.commentchar=foo stripspace -s
error: core.commentChar should only be one ASCII character
fatal: unable to parse 'core.commentchar' from command-line config
Let's add an alias core.commentString. That's arguably a better name
anyway, since we now can handle strings, and it makes it possible to
have a config that works reasonably with both old and new versions of
Git (see the example in the documentation).
This is strictly an alias, so there's not much point in adding duplicate
tests; I added a single one to t0030 that exercises the alias code.
Note also that the error messages for invalid values will now show the
variable the config parser handed us, and thus will be normalized to
lowercase (rather than camelcase). A few tests in t0030 are adjusted to
match.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "What's cooking" report lists the topics in flight, with a short
paragraph descibing what they are about.
Once written, the description is automatically picked up from the
"What's cooking" report and used in the commit log message of the
merge commit when the topic is merged into integration branches.
These commit log messges of the merge commits are then propagated to
the release notes.
It has been the maintainer's task to prepare these entries in the
"What's cooking" report. Even though the original author of a topic
may be in the best position to write the initial description of a
topic, we so far lacked a formal channel for the author to suggest
what description to use. The usual procedure has been for the
author to see the topic described in "What's cooking" report, and
then either complain about inaccurate explanation and/or offer a
rewrite.
Let's try an experiment to optionally let the author propose the one
paragraph description when the topic is submitted. Pick the cover
letter as the logical place to do so, and describe an experimental
workflow in the SubmittingPatches document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As with git-rebase(1) and git-am(1), git-cherry-pick(1) can result in a
commit being made redundant if the content from the picked commit is
already present in the target history. However, git-cherry-pick(1) does
not have the same options available that git-rebase(1) and git-am(1) have.
There are three things that can be done with these redundant commits:
drop them, keep them, or have the cherry-pick stop and wait for the user
to take an action. git-rebase(1) has the `--empty` option added in commit
e98c4269c8 (rebase (interactive-backend): fix handling of commits that
become empty, 2020-02-15), which handles all three of these scenarios.
Similarly, git-am(1) got its own `--empty` in 7c096b8d61 (am: support
--empty=<option> to handle empty patches, 2021-12-09).
git-cherry-pick(1), on the other hand, only supports two of the three
possiblities: Keep the redundant commits via `--keep-redundant-commits`,
or have the cherry-pick fail by not specifying that option. There is no
way to automatically drop redundant commits.
In order to bring git-cherry-pick(1) more in-line with git-rebase(1) and
git-am(1), this commit adds an `--empty` option to git-cherry-pick(1). It
has the same three options (keep, drop, and stop), and largely behaves
the same. The notable difference is that for git-cherry-pick(1), the
default will be `stop`, which maintains the current behavior when the
option is not specified.
Like the existing `--keep-redundant-commits`, `--empty=keep` will imply
`--allow-empty`.
The `--keep-redundant-commits` option will be documented as a deprecated
synonym of `--empty=keep`, and will be supported for backwards
compatibility for the time being.
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-am(1) got its own `--empty` option in 7c096b8d61 (am: support
--empty=<option> to handle empty patches, 2021-12-09), `stop` was used
instead of `ask`. `stop` is a more accurate term for describing what
really happens, and consistency is good.
Update git-rebase(1) to also use `stop`, while keeping `ask` as a
deprecated synonym. Update the tests to primarily use `stop`, but also
ensure that `ask` is still allowed.
In a future commit, we'll be adding a new `--empty` option for
git-cherry-pick(1) as well, making the consistency even more relevant.
Reported-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both of these pages document very similar `--empty` options, but with
different styles. The exact behavior of these `--empty` options differs
somewhat, but consistent styling in the docs is still beneficial. This
commit aims to make them more consistent.
Break the possible values for `--empty` into separate sections for
readability. Alphabetical order is chosen for consistency.
In a future commit, we'll be documenting a new `--empty` option for
git-cherry-pick(1), making the consistency even more relevant.
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for git-rebase(1) indicates that using the `--exec`
option will use `--empty=drop`. This is inaccurate: when `--interactive`
is not explicitly provided, `--exec` results in `--empty=keep`
behaviors.
Correctly indicate the behavior of `--exec` using `--empty=keep` when
`--interactive` is not specified.
Reported-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for "%(trailers[:options])" placeholder in the
"--pretty" option of commands in the "git log" family has been
updated.
* bl/doc-key-val-sep-fix:
docs: adjust trailer `separator` and `key_value_separator` language
docs: correct trailer `key_value_separator` description
