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Junio C Hamano
9de14c71f7 Merge branch 'fc/advice-diverged-history'
After "git pull" that is configured with pull.rebase=false
merge.ff=only fails due to our end having our own development, give
advice messages to get out of the "Not possible to fast-forward"
state.

* fc/advice-diverged-history:
  advice: add diverging advice for novices
2023-03-19 15:03:13 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
765071a8f2 advice: add diverging advice for novices
The user might not necessarily know why ff only was configured, maybe an
admin did it, or the installer (Git for Windows), or perhaps they just
followed some online advice.

This can happen not only on pull.ff=only, but merge.ff=only too.

Even worse if the user has configured pull.rebase=false and
merge.ff=only, because in those cases a diverging merge will constantly
keep failing. There's no trivial way to get out of this other than
`git merge --no-ff`.

Let's not assume our users are experts in git who completely understand
all their configurations.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-08 09:28:42 -08:00
Elijah Newren
f332121e75 treewide: remove unnecessary git-compat-util.h includes in headers
For sanity, we should probably do one of the following:

(a) make C and header files both depend upon everything they need
(b) consistently exclude git-compat-util.h from headers and require it
    be the first include in C files

Currently, we have some of the headers following (a) and others
following (b), which makes things messy.  In the past I was pushed
towards (b), as per [1] and [2].  Further, during this series I
discovered that this mixture empirically will mean that we end up with C
files that do not directly include git-compat-util.h, and do include
headers that don't include git-compat-util.h, with the result that we
likely have headers included before an indirect inclusion of
git-compat-util.h.  Since git-compat-util.h has tricky platform-specific
stuff that is meant to be included before everything else, this state of
affairs is risky and may lead to things breaking in subtle ways (and
only on some platforms) as per [1] and [2].

Since including git-compat-util.h in existing header files makes it
harder for us to catch C files that are missing that include, let's
switch to (b) to make the enforcement of this rule easier.  Remove the
inclusion of git-compat-util.h from header files other than the ones
that have been approved as alternate first includes.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180811173406.GA9119@sigill.intra.peff.net/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180811174301.GA9287@sigill.intra.peff.net/

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-23 17:25:28 -08:00
Shaoxuan Yuan
5efd533ed8 advice.h: add advise_on_moving_dirty_path()
Add an advice.

When the user use `git mv --sparse <dirty-path> <destination>`, Git
will warn the user to use `git add --sparse <paths>` then use
`git sparse-checkout reapply` to apply the sparsity rules.

Add a few lines to previous "move dirty path" tests so we can test
this new advice is working.

Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaoxuan Yuan <shaoxuan.yuan02@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-10 13:57:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ba2452b247 Merge branch 'tk/ambiguous-fetch-refspec'
Give hint when branch tracking cannot be established because fetch
refspecs from multiple remote repositories overlap.

* tk/ambiguous-fetch-refspec:
  tracking branches: add advice to ambiguous refspec error
2022-04-04 10:56:24 -07:00
Tao Klerks
e4921d877a tracking branches: add advice to ambiguous refspec error
The error "not tracking: ambiguous information for ref" is raised
when we are evaluating what tracking information to set on a branch,
and find that the ref to be added as tracking branch is mapped
under multiple remotes' fetch refspecs.

This can easily happen when a user copy-pastes a remote definition
in their git config, and forgets to change the tracking path.

Add advice in this situation, explicitly highlighting which remotes
are involved and suggesting how to correct the situation. Also
update a test to explicitly expect that advice.

Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-04-01 10:09:18 -07:00
Victoria Dye
9396251b37 reset: replace '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in performance advice
Replace references to '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in the advice on how to
skip refreshing the index. When the advice was introduced, '--quiet' was the
only way to avoid the expensive 'refresh_index(...)' at the end of a mixed
reset. After introducing '--no-refresh', however, '--quiet' became only a
fallback option for determining refresh behavior, overridden by
'--[no-]refresh' or 'reset.refresh' if either is set. To ensure users are
advised to use the most reliable option for avoiding 'refresh_index(...)',
replace recommendation of '--quiet' with '--[no-]refresh'.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-14 18:51:56 -07:00
Alex Henrie
808213ba36 switch: mention the --detach option when dying due to lack of a branch
Users who are accustomed to doing `git checkout <tag>` assume that
`git switch <tag>` will do the same thing. Inform them of the --detach
option so they aren't left wondering why `git switch` doesn't work but
`git checkout` does.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-25 22:21:48 -08:00
Glen Choo
961b130d20 branch: add --recurse-submodules option for branch creation
To improve the submodules UX, we would like to teach Git to handle
branches in submodules. Start this process by teaching "git branch" the
--recurse-submodules option so that "git branch --recurse-submodules
topic" will create the `topic` branch in the superproject and its
submodules.

Although this commit does not introduce breaking changes, it does not
work well with existing --recurse-submodules commands because "git
branch --recurse-submodules" writes to the submodule ref store, but most
commands only consider the superproject gitlink and ignore the submodule
ref store. For example, "git checkout --recurse-submodules" will check
out the commits in the superproject gitlinks (and put the submodules in
detached HEAD) instead of checking out the submodule branches.

Because of this, this commit introduces a new configuration value,
`submodule.propagateBranches`. The plan is for Git commands to
prioritize submodule ref store information over superproject gitlinks if
this value is true. Because "git branch --recurse-submodules" writes to
submodule ref stores, for the sake of clarity, it will not function
unless this configuration value is set.

This commit also includes changes that support working with submodules
from a superproject commit because "branch --recurse-submodules" (and
future commands) need to read .gitmodules and gitlinks from the
superproject commit, but submodules are typically read from the
filesystem's .gitmodules and the index's gitlinks. These changes are:

* add a submodules_of_tree() helper that gives the relevant
  information of an in-tree submodule (e.g. path and oid) and
  initializes the repository
* add is_tree_submodule_active() by adding a treeish_name parameter to
  is_submodule_active()
* add the "submoduleNotUpdated" advice to advise users to update the
  submodules in their trees

Incidentally, fix an incorrect usage string that combined the 'list'
usage of git branch (-l) with the 'create' usage; this string has been
incorrect since its inception, a8dfd5eac4 (Make builtin-branch.c use
parse_options., 2007-10-07).

Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-04 08:16:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fd0d7036e0 Merge branch 'ab/retire-advice-config'
Code clean up to migrate callers from older advice_config[] based
API to newer advice_if_enabled() and advice_enabled() API.

* ab/retire-advice-config:
  advice: move advice.graftFileDeprecated squashing to commit.[ch]
  advice: remove use of global advice_add_embedded_repo
  advice: remove read uses of most global `advice_` variables
  advice: add enum variants for missing advice variables
2021-09-10 11:46:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6c083b7619 Merge branch 'js/advise-when-skipping-cherry-picked'
"git rebase" by default skips changes that are equivalent to
commits that are already in the history the branch is rebased onto;
give messages when this happens to let the users be aware of
skipped commits, and also teach them how to tell "rebase" to keep
duplicated changes.

* js/advise-when-skipping-cherry-picked:
  sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commit
2021-09-10 11:46:19 -07:00
Josh Steadmon
767a4ca648 sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commit
Silently skipping commits when rebasing with --no-reapply-cherry-picks
(currently the default behavior) can cause user confusion. Issue
warnings when this happens, as well as advice on how to preserve the
skipped commits.

These warnings and advice are displayed only when using the (default)
"merge" rebase backend.

Update the git-rebase docs to mention the warnings and advice.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-30 16:35:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7d0daf3f12 Merge branch 'en/pull-conflicting-options'
"git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out
around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop
but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a
descendant of our history.  The series tries to fix them up.

* en/pull-conflicting-options:
  pull: fix handling of multiple heads
  pull: update docs & code for option compatibility with rebasing
  pull: abort by default when fast-forwarding is not possible
  pull: make --rebase and --no-rebase override pull.ff=only
  pull: since --ff-only overrides, handle it first
  pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible
  t7601: add tests of interactions with multiple merge heads and config
  t7601: test interaction of merge/rebase/fast-forward flags and options
2021-08-30 16:06:01 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
ab628588f8 advice: move advice.graftFileDeprecated squashing to commit.[ch]
Move the squashing of the advice.graftFileDeprecated advice over to an
external variable in commit.[ch], allowing advice() to purely use the
new-style API of invoking advice() with an enum.

See 8821e90a09 (advice: don't pointlessly suggest
--convert-graft-file, 2018-11-27) for why quieting this advice was
needed. It's more straightforward to move this code to commit.[ch] and
use it builtin/replace.c, than to go through the indirection of
advice.[ch].

Because this was the last advice_config variable we can remove that
old facility from advice.c.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 12:07:52 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
c2a4b6d4ee advice: remove use of global advice_add_embedded_repo
The external use of this variable was added in 532139940c (add: warn
when adding an embedded repository, 2017-06-14). For the use-case it's
more straightforward to track whether we've shown advice in
check_embedded_repo() than setting the global variable.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 12:07:52 -07:00
Ben Boeckel
ed9bff0817 advice: remove read uses of most global advice_ variables
In c4a09cc9cc (Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng', 2020-03-25), a new API for
accessing advice variables was introduced and deprecated `advice_config`
in favor of a new array, `advice_setting`.

This patch ports all but two uses which read the status of the global
`advice_` variables over to the new `advice_enabled` API. We'll deal
with advice_add_embedded_repo and advice_graft_file_deprecated
separately.

Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 12:07:52 -07:00
Ben Boeckel
69290551b9 advice: add enum variants for missing advice variables
In daef1b300b (Merge branch 'hw/advice-add-nothing', 2020-02-14), two
advice settings were introduced into the `advice_config` array.

Subsequently, c4a09cc9cc (Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng', 2020-03-25)
started to deprecate `advice_config` in favor of a new array,
`advice_setting`.

However, the latter branch did not include the former branch, and
therefore `advice_setting` is missing the two entries added by the
`hw/advice-add-nothing` branch.

These are currently the only entries in `advice_config` missing from
`advice_setting`.

Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 12:07:51 -07:00
Alex Henrie
3d5fc24dae pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible
The warning about pulling without specifying how to reconcile divergent
branches says that after setting pull.rebase to true, --ff-only can
still be passed on the command line to require a fast-forward. Make that
actually work.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
[en: updated tests; note 3 fixes and 1 new failure]
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-20 21:43:12 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
927dc33070 advice.h: add missing __attribute__((format)) & fix usage
Add the missing __attribute__((format)) checking to
advise_if_enabled(). This revealed a trivial issue introduced in
b3b18d1621 (advice: revamp advise API, 2020-03-02). We treated the
argv[1] as a format string, but did not intend to do so. Let's use
"%s" and pass argv[1] as an argument instead.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-13 15:20:20 -07:00
Matheus Tavares
a20f70478f add: warn when asked to update SKIP_WORKTREE entries
`git add` already refrains from updating SKIP_WORKTREE entries, but it
silently exits with zero code when it is asked to do so. Instead, let's
warn the user and display a hint on how to update these entries.

Note that we only warn the user whey they give a pathspec item that
matches no eligible path for updating, but it does match one or more
SKIP_WORKTREE entries. A warning was chosen over erroring out right away
to reproduce the same behavior `add` already exhibits with ignored
files. This also allow users to continue their workflow without having
to invoke `add` again with only the eligible paths (as those will have
already been added).

Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-08 14:18:03 -07:00
Srinidhi Kaushik
3b990aa645 push: parse and set flag for "--force-if-includes"
The previous commit added the necessary machinery to implement the
"--force-if-includes" protection, when "--force-with-lease" is used
without giving exact object the remote still ought to have. Surface
the feature by adding a command line option and a configuration
variable to enable it.

 - Add a flag: "TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE_IF_INCLUDES" to indicate that the
   new option was passed from the command line of via configuration
   settings; update command line and configuration parsers to set the
   new flag accordingly.

 - Introduce a new configuration option "push.useForceIfIncludes", which
   is equivalent to setting "--force-if-includes" in the command line.

 - Update "remote-curl" to recognize and pass this option to "send-pack"
   when enabled.

 - Update "advise" to catch the reject reason "REJECT_REF_NEEDS_UPDATE",
   set when the ref status is "REF_STATUS_REJECT_REMOTE_UPDATED" and
   (optionally) print a help message when the push fails.

 - The new option is a "no-op" in the following scenarios:
    * When used without "--force-with-lease".
    * When used with "--force-with-lease", and if the expected commit
      on the remote side is specified as an argument.

Signed-off-by: Srinidhi Kaushik <shrinidhi.kaushik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-03 09:59:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c4a09cc9cc Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng'
Revamping of the advise API to allow more systematic enumeration of
advice knobs in the future.

* hw/advise-ng:
  tag: use new advice API to check visibility
  advice: revamp advise API
  advice: change "setupStreamFailure" to "setUpstreamFailure"
  advice: extract vadvise() from advise()
2020-03-25 13:57:41 -07:00
Heba Waly
f665d63a91 tag: use new advice API to check visibility
change the advise call in tag library from advise() to
advise_if_enabled() to construct an example of the usage of
the new API.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-05 06:15:04 -08:00
Heba Waly
b3b18d1621 advice: revamp advise API
Currently it's very easy for the advice library's callers to miss
checking the visibility step before printing an advice. Also, it makes
more sense for this step to be handled by the advice library.

Add a new advise_if_enabled function that checks the visibility of
advice messages before printing.

Add a new helper advise_enabled to check the visibility of the advice
if the caller needs to carry out complicated processing based on that
value.

A list of advice_settings is added to cache the config variables names
and values, it's intended to replace advice_config[] and the global
variables once we migrate all the callers to use the new APIs.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-05 06:15:02 -08:00
Heba Waly
887a0fd573 add: change advice config variables used by the add API
advice.addNothing config variable is used to control the visibility of
two advice messages in the add library. This config variable is
replaced by two new variables, whose names are more clear and relevant
to the two cases.

Also add the two new variables to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-06 11:08:00 -08:00
Heba Waly
bf66db37f1 add: use advise function to display hints
Use the advise function in advice.c to display hints to the users, as
it provides a neat and a standard format for hint messages, i.e: the
text is colored in yellow and the line starts by the word "hint:".

Also this will enable us to control the messages using advice.*
configuration variables.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-15 12:15:04 -08:00
Jonathan Tan
4f3e57ef13 submodule--helper: advise on fatal alternate error
When recursively cloning a superproject with some shallow modules
defined in its .gitmodules, then recloning with "--reference=<path>", an
error occurs. For example:

  git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \
    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \
    master
  git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \
    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \
    --reference master master2

fails with:

  fatal: submodule '<snip>' cannot add alternate: reference repository
  '<snip>' is shallow

When a alternate computed from the superproject's alternate cannot be
added, whether in this case or another, advise about configuring the
"submodule.alternateErrorStrategy" configuration option and using
"--reference-if-able" instead of "--reference" when cloning.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-03 08:49:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d97c62c828 Merge branch 'ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip'
"git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action.

* ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip:
  cherry-pick/revert: advise using --skip
  cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option
  sequencer: use argv_array in reset_merge
  sequencer: rename reset_for_rollback to reset_merge
  sequencer: add advice for revert
2019-07-19 11:30:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cde9a64ea3 Merge branch 'ds/fetch-disable-force-notice'
"git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in
non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation.
The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable
this safety feature.

* ds/fetch-disable-force-notice:
  pull: add --[no-]show-forced-updates passthrough
  fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing
  fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument
2019-07-09 15:25:46 -07:00
Rohit Ashiwal
6a1f9046a4 sequencer: add advice for revert
In the case of merge conflicts, while performing a revert, we are
currently advised to use `git cherry-pick --<sequencer-options>`.
Introduce a separate advice message for `git revert`. Also change
the signature of `create_seq_dir` to handle which advice to display
selectively.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-02 12:08:07 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
377444b440 fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing
The --[no-]show-forced-updates option in 'git fetch' can be confusing
for some users, especially if it is enabled via config setting and not
by argument. Add advice to warn the user that the (forced update)
messages were not listed.

Additionally, warn users when the forced update check takes longer
than ten seconds, and recommend that they disable the check. These
messages can be disabled by the advice.fetchShowForcedUpdates config
setting.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-21 09:38:29 -07:00
Jeff Hostetler
0a53561a62 status: warn when a/b calculation takes too long
The ahead/behind calculation in 'git status' can be slow in some
cases. Users may not realize that there are ways to avoid this
computation, especially if they are not using the information.

Add a warning that appears if this calculation takes more than
two seconds. The warning can be disabled through the new config
setting advice.statusAheadBehind.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-21 09:35:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4aeeef3773 Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl'
Mechanically and systematically drop "extern" from function
declarlation.

* dl/no-extern-in-func-decl:
  *.[ch]: manually align parameter lists
  *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using sed
  *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatch
2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
Denton Liu
554544276a *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatch
There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations.
Remove some instances of "extern" for function declarations which are
caught by Coccinelle. Note that Coccinelle has some difficulty with
processing functions with `__attribute__` or varargs so some `extern`
declarations are left behind to be dealt with in a future patch.

This was the Coccinelle patch used:

	@@
	type T;
	identifier f;
	@@
	- extern
	  T f(...);

and it was run with:

	$ git ls-files \*.{c,h} |
		grep -v ^compat/ |
		xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place

Files under `compat/` are intentionally excluded as some are directly
copied from external sources and we should avoid churning them as much
as possible.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-05 15:20:06 +09:00
Denton Liu
eea9c1e78f tag: advise on nested tags
Robert Dailey reported confusion on the mailing list about a nested
tag which was most likely created by mistake. Jeff King noted that
this isn't a very common case and creating a tag-to-a-tag can be a
user-error.

Suggest that it may be a mistake with an advice message when
creating such a tag.  Those who do want to create a tag that point
at another tag regularly can turn it off with the usual advice
mechanism.

Reported-by: Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
[jc: fixed test style and tweaked the log message]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-12 10:52:35 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
dd8dd300c6 push: add an advice on unqualified <dst> push
Add an advice to the recently improved error message added in
f8aae12034 ("push: allow unqualified dest refspecs to DWIM",
2008-04-23).

Now with advice.pushUnqualifiedRefName=true (on by default) we show a
hint about how to proceed:

    $ ./git-push avar v2.19.0^{commit}:newbranch -n
    error: The destination you provided is not a full refname (i.e.,
    starting with "refs/"). We tried to guess what you meant by:

    - Looking for a ref that matches 'newbranch' on the remote side.
    - Checking if the <src> being pushed ('v2.19.0^{commit}')
      is a ref in "refs/{heads,tags}/". If so we add a corresponding
      refs/{heads,tags}/ prefix on the remote side.

    Neither worked, so we gave up. You must fully qualify the ref.
    hint: The <src> part of the refspec is a commit object.
    hint: Did you mean to create a new branch by pushing to
    hint: 'v2.19.0^{commit}:refs/heads/newbranch'?
    error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:avar/git.git'

When trying to push a tag, tree or a blob we suggest that perhaps the
user meant to push them to refs/tags/ instead.

The if/else duplication for all of OBJ_{COMMIT,TAG,TREE,BLOB} is
unfortunate, but is required to correctly mark the messages for
translation. See the discussion in
<87r2gxebsi.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> about that.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-14 15:27:55 +09:00
Ben Peart
649bf3a42f reset: warn when refresh_index() takes more than 2 seconds
refresh_index() is done after a reset command as an optimization.  Because
it can be an expensive call, warn the user if it takes more than 2 seconds
and tell them how to avoid it using the --quiet command line option or
reset.quiet config setting.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-24 11:57:08 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
50858edd1a Merge branch 'ab/checkout-default-remote'
"git checkout" and "git worktree add" learned to honor
checkout.defaultRemote when auto-vivifying a local branch out of a
remote tracking branch in a repository with multiple remotes that
have tracking branches that share the same names.

* ab/checkout-default-remote:
  checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemote
  checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>"
  builtin/checkout.c: use "ret" variable for return
  checkout: pass the "num_matches" up to callers
  checkout.c: change "unique" member to "num_matches"
  checkout.c: introduce an *_INIT macro
  checkout.h: wrap the arguments to unique_tracking_name()
  checkout tests: index should be clean after dwim checkout
2018-08-02 15:30:41 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
ad8d5104b4 checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>"
As the "checkout" documentation describes:

    If <branch> is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in
    exactly one remote (call it <remote>) with a matching name, treat
    as equivalent to [...] <remote>/<branch.

This is a really useful feature. The problem is that when you add
another remote (e.g. a fork), git won't find a unique branch name
anymore, and will instead print this unhelpful message:

    $ git checkout master
    error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git

Now it will, on my git.git checkout, print:

    $ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master
    error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
    hint: 'master' matched more than one remote tracking branch.
    hint: We found 26 remotes with a reference that matched. So we fell back
    hint: on trying to resolve the argument as a path, but failed there too!
    hint:
    hint: If you meant to check out a remote tracking branch on, e.g. 'origin',
    hint: you can do so by fully qualifying the name with the --track option:
    hint:
    hint:     git checkout --track origin/<name>

Note that the "error: pathspec[...]" message is still printed. This is
because whatever else checkout may have tried earlier, its final
fallback is to try to resolve the argument as a path. E.g. in this
case:

    $ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master pu
    error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
    error: pathspec 'pu' did not match any file(s) known to git.

There we don't print the "hint:" implicitly due to earlier logic
around the DWIM fallback. That fallback is only used if it looks like
we have one argument that might be a branch.

I can't think of an intrinsic reason for why we couldn't in some
future change skip printing the "error: pathspec[...]" error. However,
to do so we'd need to pass something down to checkout_paths() to make
it suppress printing an error on its own, and for us to be confident
that we're not silencing cases where those errors are meaningful.

I don't think that's worth it since determining whether that's the
case could easily change due to future changes in the checkout logic.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-11 09:41:01 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
431bb23a27 am: move advice.amWorkDir parsing back to advice.c
The only benefit from this move (apart from cleaner code) is that
advice.amWorkDir should now show up in `git help --config`. There
should be no regression since advice config is always read by the
git_default_config().

While at there, use advise() like other code. We now get "hint: "
prefix and the output is stderr instead of stdout (which is also the
reason for the test update because stderr is checked in a following
test and the extra advice can fail it).

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29 14:51:28 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
f9f99b3f7d Deprecate support for .git/info/grafts
The grafts feature was a convenient way to "stitch together" ancient
history to the fresh start of linux.git.

Its implementation is, however, not up to Git's standards, as there are
too many ways where it can lead to surprising and unwelcome behavior.

For example, when pushing from a repository with active grafts, it is
possible to miss commits that have been "grafted out", resulting in a
broken state on the other side.

Also, the grafts feature is limited to "rewriting" commits' list of
parents, it cannot replace anything else.

The much younger feature implemented as `git replace` set out to remedy
those limitations and dangerous bugs.

Seeing as `git replace` is pretty mature by now (since 4228e8bc98
(replace: add --graft option, 2014-07-19) it can perform the graft
file's duties), it is time to deprecate support for the graft file, and
to retire it eventually.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-30 11:12:31 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
0c69a132cb Merge branch 'ls/editor-waiting-message'
Git shows a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the
user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor
opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets
lost.

* ls/editor-waiting-message:
  launch_editor(): indicate that Git waits for user input
  refactor "dumb" terminal determination
2017-12-19 11:33:59 -08:00
Lars Schneider
abfb04d0c7 launch_editor(): indicate that Git waits for user input
When a graphical GIT_EDITOR is spawned by a Git command that opens
and waits for user input (e.g. "git rebase -i"), then the editor window
might be obscured by other windows. The user might be left staring at
the original Git terminal window without even realizing that s/he needs
to interact with another window before Git can proceed. To this user Git
appears hanging.

Print a message that Git is waiting for editor input in the original
terminal and get rid of it when the editor returns, if the terminal
supports erasing the last line.  Also, make sure that our message is
terminated with a whitespace so that any message the editor may show
upon starting up will be kept separate from our message.

Power users might not want to see this message or their editor might
already print such a message (e.g. emacsclient). Allow these users to
suppress the message by disabling the "advice.waitingForEditor" config.

The standard advise() function is not used here as it would always add
a newline which would make deleting the message harder.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-07 10:10:19 -08:00
Damien Marié
f805a00a39 run-command: add hint when a hook is ignored
When an hook is present but the file is not set as executable then git will
ignore the hook.
For now this is silent which can be confusing.

This commit adds this warning to improve the situation:

  hint: The 'pre-commit' hook was ignored because it's not set as executable.
  hint: You can disable this warning with `git config advice.ignoredHook false`

To allow the old use-case of enabling/disabling hooks via the executable flag a
new setting is introduced: advice.ignoredHook.

Signed-off-by: Damien Marié <damien@dam.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-10 13:21:46 +09:00
Jeff King
532139940c add: warn when adding an embedded repository
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>
2017-06-15 09:10:44 -07:00
Paul Tan
4a4cf9e821 pull: check if in unresolved merge state
Since d38a30d (Be more user-friendly when refusing to do something
because of conflict., 2010-01-12), git-pull will error out with
user-friendly advices if the user is in the middle of a merge or has
unmerged files.

Re-implement this behavior. While the "has unmerged files" case can be
handled by die_resolve_conflict(), we introduce a new function
die_conclude_merge() for printing a different error message for when
there are no unmerged files but the merge has not been finished.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-18 13:17:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
009055f3ec Merge branch 'jc/push-2.0-default-to-simple'
Finally update the "git push" default behaviour to "simple".
2014-03-07 15:13:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e9f1a6c189 Merge branch 'jk/gcc-function-attributes'
Use the function attributes extension to catch mistakes in use of
our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end
(i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)).

* jk/gcc-function-attributes:
  Add the LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL macro
  wt-status: use "format" function attribute for status_printf
  use "sentinel" function attribute for variadic lists
  add missing "format" function attributes
2013-07-22 11:23:59 -07:00
Jeff King
4621085b7e add missing "format" function attributes
For most of our functions that take printf-like formats, we
use gcc's __attribute__((format)) to get compiler warnings
when the functions are misused. Let's give a few more
functions the same protection.

In most cases, the annotations do not uncover any actual
bugs; the only code change needed is that we passed a size_t
to transfer_debug, which expected an int. Since we expect
the passed-in value to be a relatively small buffer size
(and cast a similar value to int directly below), we can
just cast away the problem.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-09 22:23:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8d8975aca7 Merge branch 'mm/rm-coalesce-errors'
Give a single message followed by list of paths from "git rm" to
report multiple paths that cannot be removed.

* mm/rm-coalesce-errors:
  rm: introduce advice.rmHints to shorten messages
  rm: better error message on failure for multiple files
2013-06-24 13:48:35 -07:00