It's arguably more correct to say "[<option>...]" than either of these
forms, but the vast majority of our documentation uses the
"[<options>]" form to indicate an arbitrary number of options, let's
do the same in these cases, which were the odd ones out.
In the case of "mv" and "sparse-checkout" let's add the missing "[]"
to indicate that these are optional.
In the case of "t/helper/test-proc-receive.c" there is no *.txt
version, making it the only hunk in this commit that's not a "doc txt
& -h consistency" change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The whitespace padding of alternatives should be of the form "[-f |
--force]" not "[-f|--force]". Likewise we should not have padding
before the first option, so "(--all | <pack-filename>...)" is correct,
not "( --all | <pack-filename>... )".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The whitespace padding of alternatives should be of the form "[-f |
--force]" not "[-f|--force]". Likewise we should not have padding
before the first option, so "(--all | <pack-filename>...)" is correct,
not "( --all | <pack-filename>... )".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a "-h" output syntax issue introduced when "--diagnose" was added
in aac0e8ffee (builtin/bugreport.c: create '--diagnose' option,
2022-08-12): We need to close the "[" we opened. The
corresponding *.txt change did not have the same issue.
The "help -h" output then had one "]" too many, which is an issue
introduced in b40845293b (help: correct the usage string in -h and
documentation, 2021-09-10).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a bug in db9d67f2e9 (builtin/cat-file.c: support NUL-delimited
input with `-z`, 2022-07-22), before that change the SYNOPSIS and "-h"
output were the same, but not afterwards.
That change followed a similar earlier divergence in
473fa2df08 (Documentation: add --batch-command to cat-file synopsis,
2022-04-07). Subsequent commits will fix this sort of thing more
systematically, but let's fix this one as a one-off.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the incorrect "[-o | --option <argument>]" syntax, which should be
"[(-o | --option) <argument>]", we were previously claiming that only
the long option accepted the "<argument>", which isn't what we meant.
This syntax issue for "bugreport" originated in
238b439d69 (bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info,
2020-04-16), and for "diagnose" in 6783fd3cef (builtin/diagnose.c:
create 'git diagnose' builtin, 2022-08-12), which copied and adjusted
"bugreport" documentation and code.
In the case of "Documentation/git-stash.txt" and "builtin/stash.c"
this is not a "doc txt & -h consistency" change, as we're changing
both versions, doing so here makes a subsequent change smaller.
In that case fix the incorrect "[-o | --option <argument>]" syntax,
which should be "[(-o | --option) <argument>]", we were previously
claiming that only the long option accepted the "<argument>", which
isn't what we meant.
The "stash" issue has been with us in both the "-h" and *.txt versions
since bd514cada4 (stash: introduce 'git stash store', 2013-06-15).
We could claim that this isn't a syntax issue if a "vertical bar binds
tighter than option and its argument", but such a rule would change
e.g. this "cat-file" SYNOPSIS example to mean something we don't:
... [<rev>:<path|tree-ish> | --path=<path|tree-ish> <rev>]
We have various other examples where the post-image here is already
used, e.g. for "format-patch" ("-o"), "grep" ("-m"),
"submodule" ("set-branch -b") etc.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the documentation and -h output for those built-in commands
where both the -h output and *.txt were lacking in word-wrapping.
There are many more built-ins that could use this treatment, this
change is narrowed to those where this whitespace change is needed to
make the -h and *.txt consistent in the end.
In the case of "Documentation/git-hash-object.txt" and
"builtin/hash-object.c" this is not a "doc txt & -h consistency"
change, as we're changing both versions, doing so here makes a
subsequent change smaller.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change commands in the "diff" family and "rev-list" to separate the
usage information and option listing with an empty line.
In the case of "git diff -h" we did this already (but let's use a
consistent "\n" pattern there), for the rest these are now consistent
with how the parse_options() API would emit usage.
As we'll see in a subsequent commit this also helps to make the "git
<cmd> -h" output more easily machine-readable, as we can assume that
the usage information is separated from the options by an empty line.
Note that "COMMON_DIFF_OPTIONS_HELP" starts with a "\n", so the
seeming omission of a "\n" here is correct, the second one is provided
by the macro.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of our commands use ''-quotation only for the name of the command
itself, and not its (optional) arguments. Let's do the same for these.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Almost all of our documentation doesn't use "'" syntax for
subcommands, but these did, let's make them consistent with the
rest.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoid repeating the "-h" output for the "git bundle" command, and
instead define the usage of each subcommand with macros, so that the
"-h" output for the command itself can re-use those definitions. See
[1], [2] and [3] for prior art using the same pattern.
1. b25b727494 (builtin/multi-pack-index.c: define common usage with a
macro, 2021-03-30)
2. 8757b35d44 (commit-graph: define common usage with a macro,
2021-08-23)
3. 1e91d3faf6 (reflog: move "usage" variables and use macros,
2022-03-17)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix indentation issues introduced with 73c3253d75 (bundle: framework
for options before bundle file, 2019-11-10), and carried forward in
some subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Edit the section which explains how to create a good SYNOPSIS section
for clarity and accuracy, it was mostly introduced in
c455bd8950 (CodingGuidelines: Add a section on writing documentation,
2010-11-04):
* Change "extra" example to "file", which now naturally follows from
previous "<file>..." example (one or more) to "[<file>...]" (zero or
more).
* Explain how we prefer spacing around "[]()" tokens and "|"
alternatives, this is not a new policy, but just codifies what's
already the pattern in the most wide use in the documentation.
Having a space around " | " for flags, but not for flag values is
inconsistent, but this style guide codifies existing
patterns. Grepping shows that we don't have any instance matching the
second "Don't" example:
git grep -E -h -o '=\([^)]+\)' -- builtin Documentation/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a test to assert basic compliance with the CodingGuidelines in the
SYNOPSIS and builtin -h output. For now we only assert that the "-h"
output doesn't have "\t" characters, as a very basic syntax check.
Subsequent commits will expand on the checks here as various issues
are fixed, but let's first add the test scaffolding.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test clean-up.
* es/t4301-sed-portability-fix:
t4301: emit blank line in more idiomatic fashion
t4301: fix broken &&-chains and add missing loop termination
t4301: account for behavior differences between sed implementations
The clean-up of temporary files created via mks_tempfile_dt() was
racy and attempted to unlink() the leading directory when signals
are involved, which has been corrected.
* rs/tempfile-cleanup-race-fix:
tempfile: avoid directory cleanup race
The pack bitmap file gained a bitmap-lookup table to speed up
locating the necessary bitmap for a given commit.
* ac/bitmap-lookup-table:
pack-bitmap-write: drop unused pack_idx_entry parameters
bitmap-lookup-table: add performance tests for lookup table
pack-bitmap: prepare to read lookup table extension
pack-bitmap-write: learn pack.writeBitmapLookupTable and add tests
pack-bitmap-write.c: write lookup table extension
bitmap: move `get commit positions` code to `bitmap_writer_finish`
Documentation/technical: describe bitmap lookup table extension
Multi-pack index got corrupted when preferred pack changed from one
pack to another in a certain way, which has been corrected.
* tb/midx-with-changing-preferred-pack-fix:
midx.c: avoid adding preferred objects twice
midx.c: include preferred pack correctly with existing MIDX
midx.c: extract `midx_fanout_add_pack_fanout()`
midx.c: extract `midx_fanout_add_midx_fanout()`
midx.c: extract `struct midx_fanout`
t/lib-bitmap.sh: avoid silencing stderr
t5326: demonstrate potential bitmap corruption
The code that implements multi-strategy support in "git merge" has
been clean-up a bit.
* en/merge-multi-strategies:
merge: small code readability improvement
merge: cleanup confusing logic for handling successful merges
More tests to protect the current behaviour of "merge-tree" before
it gets further updated.
* en/t4301-more-merge-tree-tests:
t4301: add more interesting merge-tree testcases
The auto-stashed local changes created by "git merge --autostash"
was mixed into a conflicted state left in the working tree, which
has been corrected.
* en/merge-unstash-only-on-clean-merge:
merge: only apply autostash when appropriate
Introduce the "subcommand" mode to parse-options API and update the
command line parser of Git commands with subcommands.
* sg/parse-options-subcommand: (23 commits)
remote: run "remote rm" argv through parse_options()
maintenance: add parse-options boilerplate for subcommands
pass subcommand "prefix" arguments to parse_options()
builtin/worktree.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/stash.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/sparse-checkout.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/remote.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/reflog.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/notes.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/hook.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/gc.c: let parse-options parse 'git maintenance's subcommands
builtin/commit-graph.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/bundle.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
parse-options: add support for parsing subcommands
parse-options: drop leading space from '--git-completion-helper' output
parse-options: clarify the limitations of PARSE_OPT_NODASH
parse-options: PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options
api-parse-options.txt: fix description of OPT_CMDMODE
t0040-parse-options: test parse_options() with various 'parse_opt_flags'
...
Since ee69e7884e (gc: use temporary file for editing crontab,
2022-08-28), we now insist that "argc == 3" (and otherwise return an
error). Coverity notes that this causes some dead code:
if (argc == 3)
fclose(from);
else
fclose(to);
as we will never trigger the else. This also causes a memory leak, since
we'll never close "to".
Now that all paths require 2 arguments, we can just reorganize the
function to check argc up front, and tweak the cleanup to do the right
thing for all cases.
While we're here, we can also notice some minor problems:
- we return a negative int via error() from what is essentially a
main() function; we should return a positive non-zero value for
error. Or better yet, we can just use usage(), which gives a better
message.
- while writing the usage message, we can note the one in the comment
was made out of date by ee69e7884e. But it also had a typo already,
calling the subcommand "cron" and not "crontab"
- we didn't check for an error from fopen(), meaning we would segfault
if the to-be-read file was missing. We can use xfopen() to catch
this.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix broken "&&-" chains and failures in early iterations of a loop.
* es/fix-chained-tests:
t5329: notice a failure within a loop
t: detect and signal failure within loop
t1092: fix buggy sparse "blame" test
t2407: fix broken &&-chains in compound statement
Update the version of Ubuntu used for GitHub Actions CI from 18.04
to 22.04.
* ds/github-actions-use-newer-ubuntu:
ci: update 'static-analysis' to Ubuntu 22.04
The preload-index codepath made copies of pathspec to give to
multiple threads, which were left leaked.
* ad/preload-plug-memleak:
preload-index: fix memleak
xcalloc(), imitating calloc(), takes "number of elements of the
array", and "size of a single element", in this order. A call that
does not follow this ordering has been corrected.
* sg/xcalloc-cocci-fix:
promisor-remote: fix xcalloc() argument order
The sequencer machinery translated messages left in the reflog by
mistake, which has been corrected.
* mg/sequencer-untranslate-reflog:
sequencer: do not translate command names
sequencer: do not translate parameters to error_resolve_conflict()
sequencer: do not translate reflog messages
Code clean-up to remove unused function parameters.
* jk/unused-fixes:
xdiff: drop unused mmfile parameters from xdl_do_patience_diff()
reflog: assert PARSE_OPT_NONEG in parse-options callbacks
reftable: drop unused parameter from reader_seek_linear()
verify_one_sparse(): drop unused parameters
match_pathname(): drop unused "flags" parameter
log-tree: drop unused commit param in remerge_diff()
xdiff: drop unused mmfile parameters from xdl_do_histogram_diff()
The bash prompt (in contrib/) learned to optionally indicate when
the index is unmerged.
* jd/prompt-show-conflict:
git-prompt: show presence of unresolved conflicts at command prompt
"scalar" now enables built-in fsmonitor on enlisted repositories,
when able.
* vd/scalar-enables-fsmonitor:
scalar: update technical doc roadmap with FSMonitor support
scalar unregister: stop FSMonitor daemon
scalar: enable built-in FSMonitor on `register`
scalar: move config setting logic into its own function
scalar-delete: do not 'die()' in 'delete_enlistment()'
scalar-[un]register: clearly indicate source of error
scalar-unregister: handle error codes greater than 0
scalar: constrain enlistment search
"git rev-list --ancestry-path=C A..B" is a natural extension of
"git rev-list A..B"; instead of choosing a subset of A..B to those
that have ancestry relationship with A, it lets a subset with
ancestry relationship with C.
* en/ancestry-path-in-a-range:
revision: allow --ancestry-path to take an argument
t6019: modernize tests with helper
rev-list-options.txt: fix simple typo
Test portability improvements.
* mt/rot13-in-c:
tests: use the new C rot13-filter helper to avoid PERL prereq
t0021: implementation the rot13-filter.pl script in C
t0021: avoid grepping for a Perl-specific string at filter output
The namespaces used by "log --decorate" from "refs/" hierarchy by
default has been tightened.
* ds/decorate-filter-tweak:
fetch: use ref_namespaces during prefetch
maintenance: stop writing log.excludeDecoration
log: create log.initialDecorationSet=all
log: add --clear-decorations option
log: add default decoration filter
log-tree: use ref_namespaces instead of if/else-if
refs: use ref_namespaces for replace refs base
refs: add array of ref namespaces
t4207: test coloring of grafted decorations
t4207: modernize test
refs: allow "HEAD" as decoration filter
The unusual use of:
printf "\\n" >>file &&
may give readers pause, making them wonder why this form was chosen over
the more typical:
printf "\n" >>file &&
However, even that may give pause since it is a somewhat unusual and
long-winded way of saying:
echo >>file &&
Therefore, replace `printf` with the more idiomatic `echo`, with the
hope of eliminating a possible stumbling block for those reading the
code.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix &&-chain breaks in a couple tests which went unnoticed due to blind
spots in the &&-chain linters. In particular, the "magic exit code 117"
&&-chain checker built into test-lib.sh only recognizes broken &&-chains
at the top-level; it does not work within `{...}` groups, `(...)`
subshells, `$(...)` substitutions, or within bodies of compound
statements, such as `if`, `for`, `while`, `case`, etc. Furthermore,
`chainlint.sed`, which detects broken &&-chains only in `(...)`
subshells, missed these cases (which are in subshells) because it
(surprisingly) neglects to check for intact &&-chain on single-line
`for` loops.
While at it, explicitly signal failure of commands within the `for`
loops (which might arise due to the filesystem being full or "inode"
exhaustion). This is important since failures within `for` and `while`
loops can go unnoticed if not detected and signaled manually since the
loop itself does not abort when a contained command fails, nor will a
failure necessarily be detected when the loop finishes since the loop
returns the exit code of the last command it ran on the final iteration,
which may not be the command which failed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While cron is specified by POSIX, there are a wide variety of
implementations in use. "git maintenance" assumes that the
"crontab" command can be fed from its standard input the new
contents and the syntax to do so is not to have any filename
argument, as POSIX describes. However, on FreeBSD, the cron
implementation requires a file name argument: if the user wants to
edit standard input, they must specify "-".
Unfortunately, POSIX systems do not have to interpret "-" on the
command line of crontab as a request to read from the standard
input. Blindly adding "-" on the command line would not work as a
general solution.
Since POSIX tells us that cron must accept a file name argument, let's
solve this problem by specifying a temporary file instead. This will
ensure that we work with the vast majority of implementations.
Note that because delete_tempfile closes the file for us, we should not
call fclose here on the handle, since doing so will introduce a double
free.
Reported-by: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
