These allow you to say "git checkout @{-2}" to switch to the branch two
"branch switching" ago by pretending as if you typed the name of that
branch. As it is likely that we will be introducing more short-hands to
write the name of a branch without writing it explicitly, rename the
functions from "nth_last_branch" to more generic "branch_name", to prepare
for different semantics.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier patch always spelled the full name of the ref that we track
(e.g. "refs/heads/frotz" instead of just "frotz" when we mean the branch
whose name is "frotz"). Worse yet, because we now use the true name of
the ref at the original repository when talk about a tracking branch that
copies from a remote, such a full name alone still does not give enough
information.
This reorganizes the verbose codepath to:
- differentiate "refs/heads/something" and everything else; we say that
the branch tracks "branch <something>" if it begins with "refs/heads/",
and otherwise the branch tracks "ref refs/<someother>/<something>";
- report the name of the remote when we talk about a tracking branch, by
saying "branch frotz from origin";
- not say "by merging" at the end; it is the default and is not worth
reporting.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-clone creates an initial branch it was not checking the
branch.autosetuprebase configuration option (which may exist in
~/.gitconfig). Refactor the code used by "git branch" to create
a new branch, and use it instead of the insufficiently duplicated code
in builtin-clone.
Changes are partly, and the test is mostly, based on the previous work by
Pat Notz.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches the new "@{-1} syntax to refer to the previous branch to "git
branch". After looking at somebody's faulty patch series on a topic
branch too long, if you decide it is not worth merging, you can just say:
$ git checkout master
$ git branch -D @{-1}
to get rid of it without having to type the name of the topic you now hate
so much for wasting a lot of your time.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/maint-co-track:
Enhance hold_lock_file_for_{update,append}() API
demonstrate breakage of detached checkout with symbolic link HEAD
Fix "checkout --track -b newbranch" on detached HEAD
Conflicts:
builtin-commit.c
The test to make sure that checkout fails when --track was asked for and
we cannot set up tracking information in t7201 was wrong, and it turns out
that the implementation for that feature itself was buggy. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since commit 6bb6b034 (builtin-commit: use commit_tree(), 2008-09-10),
builtin-commit performs a reduce_heads() unconditionally. However,
it's not always needed, and in some cases even harmful.
reduce_heads() is not needed for the initial commit or for an
"ordinary" commit, because they don't have any or have only one
parent, respectively.
reduce_heads() must be avoided when 'git commit' is run after a 'git
merge --no-ff --no-commit', otherwise it will turn the
non-fast-forward merge into fast-forward. For the same reason,
reduce_heads() must be avoided when amending such a merge commit.
To resolve this issue, 'git merge' will write info about whether
fast-forward is allowed or not to $GIT_DIR/MERGE_MODE. Based on this
info, 'git commit' will only perform reduce_heads() when it's
committing a merge and fast-forward is enabled.
Also add test cases to ensure that non-fast-forward merges are
committed and amended properly.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If you want to reuse the rerere cache in another repository, and set
a symbolic link to it, you do not want to have the two repositories
interfer with each other by accessing the _same_ MERGE_RR.
For example, if you use contrib/git-new-workdir to set up a second
working directory, and you have a conflict in one working directory,
but commit in the other working directory first, the wrong "resolution"
will be recorded.
The easy solution is to move MERGE_RR out of the rr-cache/ directory,
which also corresponds with the notion that rr-cache/ contains cached
resolutions, not some intermediate temporary states.
Noticed by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change cd67e4d4 introduced a new configuration parameter that told
pull to automatically perform a rebase instead of a merge. This
change provides a configuration option to enable this feature
automatically when creating a new branch.
If the variable branch.autosetuprebase applies for a branch that's
being created, that branch will have branch.<name>.rebase set to true.
Signed-off-by: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch" and "git checkout -b" now honor --track option even when
the upstream branch is local. Previously --track was silently ignored
when forking from a local branch. Also the command did not error out
when --track was explicitly asked for but the forked point specified
was not an existing branch (i.e. when there is no way to set up the
tracking configuration), but now it correctly does.
The configuration setting branch.autosetupmerge can now be set to
"always", which is equivalent to using --track from the command line.
Setting branch.autosetupmerge to "true" will retain the former behavior
of only setting up branch.*.merge for remote upstream branches.
Includes test cases for the new functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You can also create branches, in exactly the same way, with checkout -b.
This introduces branch.{c,h} library files for doing porcelain-level
operations on branches (such as creating them with their appropriate
default configuration).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
