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Eric Sunshine dd7961c0fb Documentation/git-tools: drop references to defunct tools
Cogito -- unmaintained since late 2006[1]
pg -- URL dead; web searches reveal no information
quilt2git -- URL dead; web searches reveal no information
(h)gct -- URL dead; no repository activity since 2007[2]

[1]: http://git.or.cz/cogito/
[2]: http://repo.or.cz/w/hgct.git

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-28 13:21:42 -07:00
Eric Sunshine e810f93977 Documentation/git-tools: fix item text formatting
Descriptive text for each tool item is incorrectly formatted using a
fixed width font. Fix formatting to use a variable width font by
unindenting the item text.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-28 13:21:13 -07:00
Eric Sunshine fd8c620cd9 Documentation/git-tools: improve discoverability of Git wiki
These days, the best way to find Git-related tools is via a search
engine. The Git wiki may be a distant second, and git-tools.txt falls in
last place. Therefore, promote the Git wiki reference to the top of
git-tools.txt so the reader will encounter it first, rather than hiding
it away at the very bottom.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-28 13:20:51 -07:00
Jeff King cc118a65b4 docs/config.txt: reorder hideRefs config
The descriptions for receive.hideRefs and
uploadpack.hideRefs are largely the same, and then
transfer.hideRefs refers to both of them. Instead, let's
make transfer.hideRefs the "master" source, and refer to it
from the other sites (with appropriate program-specific
annotations).

This avoids duplication, and will make it easier to document
changes to the config option without having to copy and
paste the description in two places.

While we're at it, this fixes some bogus subject/verb
agreement in the original description.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-28 13:15:40 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann da4c5adae9 typofix for index-format.txt
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-28 11:05:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a17c56c056 Git 2.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-27 12:29:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 7a2c87b152 Sync with 2.4.7 2015-07-27 12:26:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ca00f80b58 Git 2.4.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-27 12:25:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano caac7a3abe Merge branch 'jk/pretty-encoding-doc' into maint
Doc update.

* jk/pretty-encoding-doc:
  docs: clarify that --encoding can produce invalid sequences
2015-07-27 12:21:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ff132a190e Merge branch 'tb/checkout-doc' into maint
Doc update.

* tb/checkout-doc:
  git-checkout.txt: document "git checkout <pathspec>" better
2015-07-27 12:21:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3afcec9057 Merge branch 'ls/hint-rev-list-count' into maint
* ls/hint-rev-list-count:
  rev-list: add --count to usage guide
2015-07-27 12:21:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 315b3ba3e4 Merge branch 'mm/branch-doc-updates' into maint
* mm/branch-doc-updates:
  Documentation/branch: document -M and -D in terms of --force
  Documentation/branch: document -d --force and -m --force
2015-07-27 12:21:46 -07:00
Jacob Keller cd377f45c9 refs: loosen restriction on wildcard "*" refspecs
Loosen restrictions on refspecs by allowing patterns that have a "*"
within a component instead of only as the whole component.

Remove the logic to accept a single "*" as a whole component from
check_refname_format(), and implement an extended form of that logic
in check_refname_component().  Pass the pointer to the flags argument
to the latter, as it has to clear REFNAME_REFSPEC_PATTERN bit when
it sees "*".

Teach check_refname_component() function to allow an asterisk "*"
only when REFNAME_REFSPEC_PATTERN is set in the flags, and drop the
bit after seeing a "*", to ensure that one side of a refspec
contains at most one asterisk.

This will allow us to accept refspecs such as `for/bar*:foo/baz*`.
Any refspec which functioned before shall continue functioning with
the new logic.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-27 09:21:31 -07:00
Eric Sunshine f25b98e6f8 Documentation/git: drop outdated Cogito reference
Cogito hasn't been maintained since late 2006, so drop the reference
to it. The warning that SCMS front-ends might override listed
environment variables, however, may still be valuable, so keep it but
generalize the wording.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-25 10:47:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6f9504c48e RelNotes: am.threeWay does not exist (yet)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-24 14:31:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 15dc5b5fb0 Revert "git-am: add am.threeWay config variable"
This reverts commit d96a275b91.

It used to be possible to apply a patch series with "git am mbox"
and then only after seeing a failure, switch to three-way mode via
"git am -3" (no other options or arguments).  The commit being
reverted broke this workflow.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-24 10:55:24 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 5f5f553fd5 Documentation/git-worktree: fix broken 'linkgit' invocation
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-24 10:11:35 -07:00
Zoë Blade 69f9c87d46 userdiff: add support for Fountain documents
Add support for Fountain, a plain text screenplay format.  Git
facilitates not just programming specifically, but creative writing
in general, so it makes sense to also support other plain text
documents besides source code.

In the structure of a screenplay specifically, scenes are roughly
analogous to functions, in the sense that it makes your job easier
if you can see which ones were changed in a given range of patches.

More information about the Fountain format can be found on its
official website, at http://fountain.io .

Signed-off-by: Zoë Blade <zoe@bytenoise.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-23 14:44:51 -07:00
David Turner 144c76fa39 update-ref and tag: add --create-reflog arg
Allow the creation of a ref (e.g. stash) with a reflog already in
place. For most refs (e.g. those under refs/heads), this happens
automatically, but for others, we need this option.

Currently, git does this by pre-creating the reflog, but alternate ref
backends might store reflogs somewhere other than .git/logs.  Code
that now directly manipulates .git/logs should instead use git
plumbing commands.

I also added --create-reflog to git tag, just for completeness.

In a moment, we will use this argument to make git stash work with
alternate ref backends.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-21 14:08:35 -07:00
David Turner afcb2e7a3b git-reflog: add exists command
This is necessary because alternate ref backends might store reflogs
somewhere other than .git/logs.  Code that now directly manipulates
.git/logs should instead go through git-reflog.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-21 14:08:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c5918ab450 Merge branch 'tf/gitweb-typofix'
* tf/gitweb-typofix:
  gitweb: fix typo in man page
2015-07-21 12:45:27 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 5c942570fe worktree: add: suppress auto-vivication with --detach and no <branch>
Fix oversight where branch auto-vivication incorrectly kicks in when
--detach is specified and <branch> omitted. Instead, treat:

    git worktree add --detach <path>

as shorthand for:

    git worktree add --detach <path> HEAD

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-20 11:29:51 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 114ff8881a config: rename "gc.pruneWorktreesExpire" to "gc.worktreePruneExpire"
As of df0b6cf (worktree: new place for "git prune --worktrees",
2015-06-29), linked worktree pruning functionality moved from
"git prune --worktrees" to "git worktree prune". Rename the
associated configuration variable accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-20 11:09:06 -07:00
Michael Haggerty b07244f4c3 Documentation/git-worktree: wordsmith worktree-related manpages
[es: reword .git/worktrees and .git/worktrees/<id>/locked descriptions]

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-20 11:07:18 -07:00
Michael Haggerty fe819b4b73 Documentation/config: fix stale "git prune --worktree" reference
This should have been changed to "git worktree prune" by df0b6cf
(worktree: new place for "git prune --worktrees", 2015-06-29)

[es: reword commit message]

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-20 11:03:58 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 2e73ab6e69 Documentation/git-worktree: fix incorrect reference to file "locked"
The administrative file to suppress pruning is named "locked", not "lock".

[es: don't touch unrelated "git worktree lock" command; reword commit
message]

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-20 11:03:57 -07:00
Michael Haggerty bc483285b7 Documentation/git-worktree: consistently use term "linked working tree"
Sometimes linked working trees were called "linked working
directories" or "linked worktrees". Always refer to them as "linked
working trees" for consistency.

[es: fix additional occurrences]

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-20 11:03:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 4d9f744e34 Merge branch 'es/worktree-add'
Update to the "linked checkout" in 2.5.0-rc1.

Instead of "checkout --to" that does not do what "checkout"
normally does, move the functionality to "git worktree add".

As this makes the end-user experience of the "worktree add" more or
less complete, I am tempted to say we should cook the other topic
that removes the internal "new-worktree-mode" hack from "checkout"
a bit longer in 'next', and release 2.5 final without that one.

* es/worktree-add:
  Documentation/git: fix stale "MULTIPLE CHECKOUT MODE" reference
  worktree: caution that this is still experimental
  Documentation/git-worktree: fix stale "git checkout --to" references
2015-07-17 10:44:55 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 1eaca7a5bb Documentation/git: fix stale "MULTIPLE CHECKOUT MODE" reference
This should have been changed by 93a3649 (Documentation: move linked
worktree description from checkout to worktree, 2015-07-06).

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-17 10:05:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 18b22dbed8 worktree: caution that this is still experimental
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-16 15:59:48 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 4d5a3c5884 Documentation/git-worktree: fix stale "git checkout --to" references
These should have been changed to "git worktree add" by fc56361
(worktree: introduce "add" command, 2015-07-06.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-16 15:59:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6003e7f93a Sync with 2.4.6 2015-07-15 12:32:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano bb3e7b1a55 Git 2.4.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-15 12:31:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b7abfacf5e Merge branch 'mm/describe-doc' into maint
Docfix.

* mm/describe-doc:
  Documentation/describe: improve one-line summary
2015-07-15 11:41:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a15ebbc2c7 Merge branch 'fk/doc-format-patch-vn' into maint
Docfix.

* fk/doc-format-patch-vn:
  doc: format-patch: fix typo
2015-07-15 11:41:22 -07:00
Ilya Bobyr 2d893dff4c rev-parse --parseopt: allow [*=?!] in argument hints
A line in the input to "rev-parse --parseopt" describes an option by
listing a short and/or long name, optional flags [*=?!], argument hint,
and then whitespace and help string.

We did not allow any of the [*=?!] characters in the argument hints.
The following input

    pair=key=value  equals sign in the hint

used to generate a help line like this:

    --pair=key <value>   equals sign in the hint

and used to expect "pair=key" as the argument name.

That is not very helpful as we generally do not want any of the [*=?!]
characters in the argument names.  But we do want to use at least the
equals sign in the argument hints.

Update the parser to make long argument names stop at the first [*=?!]
character.

Add test case with equals sign in the argument hint and update the test
to perform all the operations in test_expect_success matching the
t/README requirements and allowing commands like

    ./t1502-rev-parse-parseopt.sh --run=1-2

to stop at the test case 2 without any further modification of the test
state area.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Bobyr <ilya.bobyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-15 10:30:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 01977f46cb Git 2.5.0-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-13 14:04:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 799767cc98 Merge branch 'es/worktree-add'
Update to the "linked checkout" in 2.5.0-rc1.

Instead of "checkout --to" that does not do what "checkout"
normally does, move the functionality to "git worktree add".

* es/worktree-add: (24 commits)
  Revert "checkout: retire --ignore-other-worktrees in favor of --force"
  checkout: retire --ignore-other-worktrees in favor of --force
  worktree: add: auto-vivify new branch when <branch> is omitted
  worktree: add: make -b/-B default to HEAD when <branch> is omitted
  worktree: extract basename computation to new function
  checkout: require worktree unconditionally
  checkout: retire --to option
  tests: worktree: retrofit "checkout --to" tests for "worktree add"
  worktree: add -b/-B options
  worktree: add --detach option
  worktree: add --force option
  worktree: introduce "add" command
  checkout: drop 'checkout_opts' dependency from prepare_linked_checkout
  checkout: make --to unconditionally verbose
  checkout: prepare_linked_checkout: drop now-unused 'new' argument
  checkout: relocate --to's "no branch specified" check
  checkout: fix bug with --to and relative HEAD
  Documentation/git-worktree: add EXAMPLES section
  Documentation/git-worktree: add high-level 'lock' overview
  Documentation/git-worktree: split technical info from general description
  ...
2015-07-13 14:02:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 7783eb2e59 Merge branch 'nd/multiple-work-trees'
"git checkout [<tree-ish>] <paths>" spent unnecessary cycles
checking if the current branch was checked out elsewhere, when we
know we are not switching the branches ourselves.

* nd/multiple-work-trees:
  worktree: new place for "git prune --worktrees"
  checkout: don't check worktrees when not necessary
2015-07-13 14:02:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 43f23b09bf Merge branch 'kb/use-nsec-doc'
Clarify in the Makefile a guideline to decide use of USE_NSEC.

* kb/use-nsec-doc:
  Makefile / racy-git.txt: clarify USE_NSEC prerequisites
2015-07-13 14:00:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c925fe2368 Revert "checkout: retire --ignore-other-worktrees in favor of --force"
This reverts commit 0d1a151783.

When trying to switch to a different branch, that happens to be
checked out in another working tree, the user shouldn't have to
give up the other safety measures (like protecting the local changes
that overlap the difference between the branches) while defeating
the "no two checkouts of the same branch" safety.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-12 09:38:21 -07:00
Simon A. Eugster f30301657b checkout: document subtlety around --ours/--theirs
During a 'rebase' (hence 'pull --rebase'), --ours/--theirs may
appear to be swapped to those who are not aware of the fact that
they are temporarily playing the role of the keeper of the more
authoritative history.

Add a note to clarify.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon A. Eugster <simon.eugster@eps.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-12 09:28:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano e59f6c2d34 The last minute bits of fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-10 14:29:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a745a58ade Merge branch 'mm/branch-doc-updates'
* mm/branch-doc-updates:
  Documentation/branch: document -M and -D in terms of --force
  Documentation/branch: document -d --force and -m --force
2015-07-10 14:26:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b3a30f6e0c Merge branch 'ls/hint-rev-list-count'
* ls/hint-rev-list-count:
  rev-list: add --count to usage guide
2015-07-10 14:26:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano e12fc40a15 Merge branch 'tb/checkout-doc'
Doc update.

* tb/checkout-doc:
  git-checkout.txt: document "git checkout <pathspec>" better
2015-07-10 14:17:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano bbddc51664 Merge branch 'jk/pretty-encoding-doc'
Doc update.

* jk/pretty-encoding-doc:
  docs: clarify that --encoding can produce invalid sequences
2015-07-10 14:17:54 -07:00
Karthik Nayak 35813042ef Documentation/tag: remove double occurance of "<pattern>"
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-10 09:44:13 -07:00
David Turner 076c98372e log: add "log.follow" configuration variable
People who work on projects with mostly linear history with frequent
whole file renames may want to always use "git log --follow" when
inspecting the life of the content that live in a single path.

Teach the command to behave as if "--follow" was given from the
command line when log.follow configuration variable is set *and*
there is one (and only one) path on the command line.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-09 10:24:23 -07:00
Remi Lespinet b1c8a11c80 send-email: allow multiple emails using --cc, --to and --bcc
Accept a list of emails separated by commas in flags --cc, --to and
--bcc.  Multiple addresses can already be given by using these options
multiple times, but it is more convenient to allow cutting-and-pasting
a list of addresses from the header of an existing e-mail message,
which already lists them as comma-separated list, as a value to a
single parameter.

The following format can now be used:

    $ git send-email --to='Jane <jdoe@example.com>, mike@example.com'

Remove the limitation imposed by 79ee555b (Check and document the
options to prevent mistakes, 2006-06-21) which rejected every argument
with comma in --cc, --to and --bcc.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lienard--Mayor <Mathieu.Lienard--Mayor@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jorge Juan Garcia Garcia <Jorge-Juan.Garcia-Garcia@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-07 14:39:07 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 0d1a151783 checkout: retire --ignore-other-worktrees in favor of --force
As a safeguard, checking out a branch already checked out by a different
worktree is disallowed. This behavior can be overridden with
--ignore-other-worktrees, however, this option is neither obvious nor
particularly discoverable. As a common safeguard override, --force is
more likely to come to mind. Therefore, overload it to also suppress the
check for a branch already checked out elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-07 14:34:46 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 1eb07d829f worktree: add: auto-vivify new branch when <branch> is omitted
As a convenience, when <branch> is omitted from "git worktree <path>
<branch>" and neither -b nor -B is used, automatically create a new
branch named after <path>, as if "-b $(basename <path>)" was specified.
Thus, "git worktree add ../hotfix" creates a new branch named "hotfix"
and associates it with new worktree "../hotfix".

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-07 14:34:32 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 0f4af3b9ea worktree: add: make -b/-B default to HEAD when <branch> is omitted
As a convenience, like "git branch" and "git checkout -b", make
"git worktree add -b <newbranch> <path> <branch>" default to HEAD when
<branch> is omitted.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:48 -07:00
Eric Sunshine b979d95027 checkout: retire --to option
Now that "git worktree add" has achieved user-facing feature-parity with
"git checkout --to", retire the latter.

Move the actual linked worktree creation functionality,
prepare_linked_checkout() and its helpers, verbatim from checkout.c to
worktree.c.

This effectively reverts changes to checkout.c by 529fef2 (checkout:
support checking out into a new working directory, 2014-11-30) with the
exception of merge_working_tree() and switch_branches() which still
require specialized knowledge that a the checkout is occurring in a
newly-created linked worktree (signaled to them by the private
GIT_CHECKOUT_NEW_WORKTREE environment variable).

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:47 -07:00
Eric Sunshine cbdf60fa18 worktree: add -b/-B options
One of git-worktree's roles is to populate the new worktree, much like
git-checkout, and thus, for convenience, ought to support several of the
same shortcuts. Toward this goal, add -b/-B options to create a new
branch and check it out in the new worktree.

(For brevity, only -b is mentioned in the synopsis; -B is omitted.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:47 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 39ecb27436 worktree: add --detach option
One of git-worktree's roles is to populate the new worktree, much like
git-checkout, and thus, for convenience, ought to support several of the
same shortcuts. Toward this goal, add a --detach option to detach HEAD
in the new worktree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:46 -07:00
Eric Sunshine f43254440d worktree: add --force option
By default, "git worktree add" refuses to create a new worktree when
the requested branch is already checked out elsewhere. Add a --force
option to override this safeguard.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:46 -07:00
Eric Sunshine fc56361f58 worktree: introduce "add" command
The plan is to relocate "git checkout --to" functionality to "git
worktree add". As a first step, introduce a bare-bones git-worktree
"add" command along with documentation. At this stage, "git worktree
add" merely invokes "git checkout --to" behind the scenes, but an
upcoming patch will move the actual functionality
(checkout.c:prepare_linked_checkout() and its helpers) to worktree.c.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:45 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 9645459756 Documentation/git-worktree: add EXAMPLES section
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:44 -07:00
Eric Sunshine a8ba5dd7b1 Documentation/git-worktree: add high-level 'lock' overview
Due to the (current) absence of a "git worktree lock" command, locking
a worktree's administrative files to prevent automatic pruning is a
manual task, necessarily requiring low-level understanding of linked
worktree functionality. However, this level of detail does not belong
in the high-level DESCRIPTION section, so add a generalized discussion
of locking to DESCRIPTION and move the technical information to DETAILS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:43 -07:00
Eric Sunshine af189b4cbe Documentation/git-worktree: split technical info from general description
The DESCRIPTION section should provide a high-level overview of linked
worktree functionality to bring users up to speed quickly, without
overloading them with low-level details, so relocate the technical
information to a new DETAILS section.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:43 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 6d3824cf92 Documentation/git-worktree: add BUGS section
Relocate submodule warning to BUGS and enumerate missing commands.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:43 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 93a36493e2 Documentation: move linked worktree description from checkout to worktree
Now that the git-worktree command exists, its documentation page is the
natural place for the linked worktree description to reside. Relocate
the "MULTIPLE WORKING TREES" description verbatim from git-checkout.txt
to git-worktree.txt.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:43 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 4f09825e58 Documentation/git-worktree: associate options with commands
git-worktree options affect some worktree commands but not others, but
this is not necessarily obvious from the option descriptions. Make this
clear by indicating explicitly which commands are affected by which
options.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:43 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 5c31464874 Documentation/git-checkout: fix incorrect worktree prune command
This was missed when "git prune --worktrees" became "git worktree prune".

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 11:07:42 -07:00
Matthieu Moy 83fe16703e Documentation/branch: document -M and -D in terms of --force
Now that we have proper documentation for --force's interaction with -d
and -m, we can avoid duplication and consider -M and -D as convenience
aliases for -m --force and -d --force.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 10:36:54 -07:00
Matthieu Moy 8482d042a0 Documentation/branch: document -d --force and -m --force
The --force option was modified in 356e91f (branch: allow -f with -m and
-d, 2014-12-08), but the documentation was not updated.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 10:36:51 -07:00
Karsten Blees 3a59e5954e Documentation/i18n.txt: clarify character encoding support
As a "distributed" VCS, git should better define the encodings of its core
textual data structures, in particular those that are part of the network
protocol.

That git is encoding agnostic is only really true for blob objects. E.g.
the 'non-NUL bytes' requirement of tree and commit objects excludes
UTF-16/32, and the special meaning of '/' in the index file as well as
space and linefeed in commit objects eliminates EBCDIC and other non-ASCII
encodings.

Git expects bytes < 0x80 to be pure ASCII, thus CJK encodings that partly
overlap with the ASCII range are problematic as well. E.g. fmt_ident()
removes trailing 0x5C from user names on the assumption that it is ASCII
'\'. However, there are over 200 GBK double byte codes that end in 0x5C.

UTF-8 as default encoding on Linux and respective path translations in the
Mac and Windows versions have established UTF-8 NFC as de-facto standard
for path names.

Update the documentation in i18n.txt to reflect the current status-quo.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-01 14:55:53 -07:00
Karsten Blees b1ffafa978 Makefile / racy-git.txt: clarify USE_NSEC prerequisites
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-01 14:54:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano cbed29f37b Git 2.5.0-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-01 14:05:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 15b3f71148 Merge branch 'mm/describe-doc'
Docfix.

* mm/describe-doc:
  Documentation/describe: improve one-line summary
2015-07-01 14:02:31 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 28c7b1f7b7 fast-import: add a get-mark command
It is sometimes useful for importers to be able to read the SHA-1
corresponding to a mark that they have created via fast-import. For
example, they might want to embed the SHA-1 into the commit message of
a later commit. Or it might be useful for internal bookkeeping uses,
or for logging.

Add a "get-mark" command to "git fast-import" that allows the importer
to ask for the value of a mark that has been created earlier.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-01 09:29:59 -07:00
Lawrence Siebert 75d2e5a7b0 rev-list: add --count to usage guide
--count should be mentioned in the usage guide, this updates code and
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Lawrence Siebert <lawrencesiebert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-01 09:29:11 -07:00
Galan Rémi 3707995960 git rebase -i: warn about removed commits
Check if commits were removed (i.e. a line was deleted) and print
warnings or stop git rebase depending on the value of the
configuration variable rebase.missingCommitsCheck.

This patch gives the user the possibility to avoid silent loss of
information (losing a commit through deleting the line in this case)
if he wants.

Add the configuration variable rebase.missingCommitsCheck.
    - When unset or set to "ignore", no checking is done.
    - When set to "warn", the commits are checked, warnings are
      displayed but git rebase still proceeds.
    - When set to "error", the commits are checked, warnings are
      displayed and the rebase is stopped.
      (The user can then use 'git rebase --edit-todo' and
      'git rebase --continue', or 'git rebase --abort')

rebase.missingCommitsCheck defaults to "ignore".

Signed-off-by: Galan Rémi <remi.galan-alfonso@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-30 12:14:25 -07:00
Galan Rémi c9266d5894 git-rebase -i: add command "drop" to remove a commit
Instead of removing a line to remove the commit, you can use the
command "drop" (just like "pick" or "edit"). It has the same effect as
deleting the line (removing the commit) except that you keep a visual
trace of your actions, allowing a better control and reducing the
possibility of removing a commit by mistake.

Signed-off-by: Galan Rémi <remi.galan-alfonso@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-30 12:14:25 -07:00
Jeff King aa1462cc3d introduce "format" date-mode
This feeds the format directly to strftime. Besides being a
little more flexible, the main advantage is that your system
strftime may know more about your locale's preferred format
(e.g., how to spell the days of the week).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-29 11:39:10 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy df0b6cfbda worktree: new place for "git prune --worktrees"
Commit 23af91d (prune: strategies for linked checkouts - 2014-11-30)
adds "--worktrees" to "git prune" without realizing that "git prune" is
for object database only. This patch moves the same functionality to a
new command "git worktree".

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
2015-06-29 08:48:44 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 2df5a846d0 Documentation/bisect: revise overall content
Thoroughly revise the "git bisect" manpage, including:

* Beef up the "Description" section.

* Make the first long example less specific to kernel development.

* De-emphasize implementation details in a couple of places.

* Add "(roughly N steps)" in the places where example output is shown.

* Properly markup code within the prose.

* Lots of wordsmithing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-26 14:15:05 -07:00
Matthieu Moy c9493973a5 Documentation/bisect: move getting help section to the end
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-26 11:10:54 -07:00
Jeff King 3115ee45c8 cat-file: sort and de-dup output of --batch-all-objects
The sorting we could probably live without, but printing
duplicates is just a hassle for the user, who must then
de-dup themselves (or risk a wrong answer if they are doing
something like counting objects with a particular property).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-26 09:24:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 7ecec52d42 Git 2.5.0-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-25 11:08:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a6a1ad9b25 Sync with 2.4.5 2015-06-25 11:04:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0df0541bf1 Git 2.4.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-25 11:03:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ebf4fc90da Merge branch 'sg/merge-summary-config' into maint
Doc updates.

* sg/merge-summary-config:
  Documentation: include 'merge.branchdesc' for merge and config as well
2015-06-25 11:02:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 68538cf954 Merge branch 'sb/pack-protocol-mention-smart-http' into maint
Doc updates.

* sb/pack-protocol-mention-smart-http:
  Documentation/technical/pack-protocol: mention http as possible protocol
2015-06-25 11:02:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6998d890c7 Merge branch 'jk/color-diff-plain-is-context' into maint
"color.diff.plain" was a misnomer; give it 'color.diff.context' as
a more logical synonym.

* jk/color-diff-plain-is-context:
  diff.h: rename DIFF_PLAIN color slot to DIFF_CONTEXT
  diff: accept color.diff.context as a synonym for "plain"
2015-06-25 11:02:11 -07:00
Jeff King 067fbd4105 introduce "preciousObjects" repository extension
If this extension is used in a repository, then no
operations should run which may drop objects from the object
storage. This can be useful if you are sharing that storage
with other repositories whose refs you cannot see.

For instance, if you do:

  $ git clone -s parent child
  $ git -C parent config extensions.preciousObjects true
  $ git -C parent config core.repositoryformatversion 1

you now have additional safety when running git in the
parent repository. Prunes and repacks will bail with an
error, and `git gc` will skip those operations (it will
continue to pack refs and do other non-object operations).
Older versions of git, when run in the repository, will
fail on every operation.

Note that we do not set the preciousObjects extension by
default when doing a "clone -s", as doing so breaks
backwards compatibility. It is a decision the user should
make explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-24 17:09:35 -07:00
Jeff King 00a09d57eb introduce "extensions" form of core.repositoryformatversion
Normally we try to avoid bumps of the whole-repository
core.repositoryformatversion field. However, it is
unavoidable if we want to safely change certain aspects of
git in a backwards-incompatible way (e.g., modifying the set
of ref tips that we must traverse to generate a list of
unreachable, safe-to-prune objects).

If we were to bump the repository version for every such
change, then any implementation understanding version `X`
would also have to understand `X-1`, `X-2`, and so forth,
even though the incompatibilities may be in orthogonal parts
of the system, and there is otherwise no reason we cannot
implement one without the other (or more importantly, that
the user cannot choose to use one feature without the other,
weighing the tradeoff in compatibility only for that
particular feature).

This patch documents the existing repositoryformatversion
strategy and introduces a new format, "1", which lets a
repository specify that it must run with an arbitrary set of
extensions. This can be used, for example:

 - to inform git that the objects should not be pruned based
   only on the reachability of the ref tips (e.g, because it
   has "clone --shared" children)

 - that the refs are stored in a format besides the usual
   "refs" and "packed-refs" directories

Because we bump to format "1", and because format "1"
requires that a running git knows about any extensions
mentioned, we know that older versions of the code will not
do something dangerous when confronted with these new
formats.

For example, if the user chooses to use database storage for
refs, they may set the "extensions.refbackend" config to
"db". Older versions of git will not understand format "1"
and bail. Versions of git which understand "1" but do not
know about "refbackend", or which know about "refbackend"
but not about the "db" backend, will refuse to run. This is
annoying, of course, but much better than the alternative of
claiming that there are no refs in the repository, or
writing to a location that other implementations will not
read.

Note that we are only defining the rules for format 1 here.
We do not ever write format 1 ourselves; it is a tool that
is meant to be used by users and future extensions to
provide safety with older implementations.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-24 17:09:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano df97e5dfea Ninth batch for 2.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-24 12:27:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 61461791be Merge branch 'fk/doc-format-patch-vn'
Docfix.

* fk/doc-format-patch-vn:
  doc: format-patch: fix typo
2015-06-24 12:21:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 4b64c8a1ee Merge branch 'rl/am-3way-config'
"git am" learned am.threeWay configuration variable.

* rl/am-3way-config:
  git-am: add am.threeWay config variable
  t4150-am: refactor am -3 tests
  git-am.sh: fix initialization of the threeway variable
2015-06-24 12:21:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 49ac7358da Merge branch 'jc/ll-merge-expose-path'
Traditionally, external low-level 3-way merge drivers are expected
to produce their results based solely on the contents of the three
variants given in temporary files named by %O, %A and %B on their
command line.  Additionally allow them to look at the final path
(given by %P).

* jc/ll-merge-expose-path:
  ll-merge: pass the original path to external drivers
2015-06-24 12:21:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a1eaf8655d Merge branch 'pt/pull-optparse'
"git pull" has become more aware of the options meant for
underlying "git fetch" and then learned to use parse-options
parser.

* pt/pull-optparse:
  pull: use git-rev-parse --parseopt for option parsing
  pull: handle git-fetch's options as well
2015-06-24 12:21:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 20d16da5ca Merge branch 'qn/blame-show-email'
"git blame" learned blame.showEmail configuration variable.

* qn/blame-show-email:
  blame: add blame.showEmail configuration
2015-06-24 12:21:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 8c17d5a3c0 Merge branch 'es/send-email-sendmail-alias'
"git send-email" learned to handle more forms of sendmail style
aliases file.

* es/send-email-sendmail-alias:
  send-email: further warn about unsupported sendmail aliases features
  t9001: add sendmail aliases line continuation tests
  t9001: refactor sendmail aliases test infrastructure
  send-email: implement sendmail aliases line continuation support
  send-email: simplify sendmail aliases comment and blank line recognizer
  send-email: refactor sendmail aliases parser
  send-email: fix style: cuddle 'elsif' and 'else' with closing brace
  send-email: drop noise comments which merely repeat what code says
  send-email: visually distinguish sendmail aliases parser warnings
  send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionality
2015-06-24 12:21:39 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 1335f73289 fsck: support ignoring objects in git fsck via fsck.skiplist
Identical to support in `git receive-pack for the config option
`receive.fsck.skiplist`, we now support ignoring given objects in
`git fsck` via `fsck.skiplist` altogether.

This is extremely handy in case of legacy repositories where it would
cause more pain to change incorrect objects than to live with them
(e.g. a duplicate 'author' line in an early commit object).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-23 14:27:37 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin cd94c6f91e fsck: git receive-pack: support excluding objects from fsck'ing
The optional new config option `receive.fsck.skipList` specifies the path
to a file listing the names, i.e. SHA-1s, one per line, of objects that
are to be ignored by `git receive-pack` when `receive.fsckObjects = true`.

This is extremely handy in case of legacy repositories where it would
cause more pain to change incorrect objects than to live with them
(e.g. a duplicate 'author' line in an early commit object).

The intended use case is for server administrators to inspect objects
that are reported by `git push` as being too problematic to enter the
repository, and to add the objects' SHA-1 to a (preferably sorted) file
when the objects are legitimate, i.e. when it is determined that those
problematic objects should be allowed to enter the server.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-23 14:27:37 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 02976bf856 fsck: introduce git fsck --connectivity-only
This option avoids unpacking each and all blob objects, and just
verifies the connectivity. In particular with large repositories, this
speeds up the operation, at the expense of missing corrupt blobs,
ignoring unreachable objects and other fsck issues, if any.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-23 14:27:37 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 2becf00ff7 fsck: support demoting errors to warnings
We already have support in `git receive-pack` to deal with some legacy
repositories which have non-fatal issues.

Let's make `git fsck` itself useful with such repositories, too, by
allowing users to ignore known issues, or at least demote those issues
to mere warnings.

Example: `git -c fsck.missingEmail=ignore fsck` would hide
problems with missing emails in author, committer and tagger lines.

In the same spirit that `git receive-pack`'s usage of the fsck machinery
differs from `git fsck`'s – some of the non-fatal warnings in `git fsck`
are fatal with `git receive-pack` when receive.fsckObjects = true, for
example – we strictly separate the fsck.<msg-id> from the
receive.fsck.<msg-id> settings.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-23 14:27:36 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 4b55b9b479 fsck: document the new receive.fsck.<msg-id> options
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-23 14:27:36 -07:00
Charles Bailey 2a514ed805 parse-options: move unsigned long option parsing out of pack-objects.c
The unsigned long option parsing (including 'k'/'m'/'g' suffix
parsing) is more widely applicable.  Add support for OPT_MAGNITUDE
to parse-options.h and change pack-objects.c use this support.

The error behavior on parse errors follows that of OPT_INTEGER.  The
name of the option that failed to parse is reported with a brief
message describing the expect format for the option argument and
then the full usage message for the command invoked.

This differs from the previous behavior for OPT_ULONG used in
pack-objects for --max-pack-size and --window-memory which used to
display the value supplied in the error message and did not display
the full usage message.

Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-22 15:07:21 -07:00
Jeff King 6a951937ae cat-file: add --batch-all-objects option
It can sometimes be useful to examine all objects in the
repository. Normally this is done with "git rev-list --all
--objects", but:

  1. That shows only reachable objects. You may want to look
     at all available objects.

  2. It's slow. We actually open each object to walk the
     graph. If your operation is OK with seeing unreachable
     objects, it's an order of magnitude faster to just
     enumerate the loose directories and pack indices.

You can do this yourself using "ls" and "git show-index",
but it's non-obvious.  This patch adds an option to
"cat-file --batch-check" to operate on all available
objects (rather than reading names from stdin).

This is based on a proposal by Charles Bailey to provide a
separate "git list-all-objects" command. That is more
orthogonal, as it splits enumerating the objects from
getting information about them. However, in practice you
will either:

  a. Feed the list of objects directly into cat-file anyway,
     so you can find out information about them. Keeping it
     in a single process is more efficient.

  b. Ask the listing process to start telling you more
     information about the objects, in which case you will
     reinvent cat-file's batch-check formatter.

Adding a cat-file option is simple and efficient. And if you
really do want just the object names, you can always do:

  git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectname)' --batch-all-objects

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-22 14:55:52 -07:00
Jeff King fc4937c372 cat-file: add --buffer option
We use a direct write() to output the results of --batch and
--batch-check. This is good for processes feeding the input
and reading the output interactively, but it introduces
measurable overhead if you do not want this feature. For
example, on linux.git:

  $ git rev-list --objects --all | cut -d' ' -f1 >objects
  $ time git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize)' \
          <objects >/dev/null
  real    0m5.440s
  user    0m5.060s
  sys     0m0.384s

This patch adds an option to use regular stdio buffering:

  $ time git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize)' \
          --buffer <objects >/dev/null
  real    0m4.975s
  user    0m4.888s
  sys     0m0.092s

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-22 14:55:52 -07:00
brian m. carlson e18443ece7 verify-tag: add option to print raw gpg status information
verify-tag by default displays human-readable output on standard error.
However, it can also be useful to get access to the raw gpg status
information, which is machine-readable, allowing automated
implementation of signing policy.  Add a --raw option to make verify-tag
produce the gpg status information on standard error instead of the
human-readable format.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-22 14:20:47 -07:00
brian m. carlson aeff29dd4d verify-commit: add option to print raw gpg status information
verify-commit by default displays human-readable output on standard
error.  However, it can also be useful to get access to the raw gpg
status information, which is machine-readable, allowing automated
implementation of signing policy.  Add a --raw option to make
verify-commit produce the gpg status information on standard error
instead of the human-readable format.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-22 14:20:47 -07:00
Jeff King e479c5f8f3 docs: clarify that --encoding can produce invalid sequences
In the common case that the commit encoding matches the
output encoding, we do not touch the buffer at all, which
makes things much more efficient. But it might be unclear to
a consumer that we will pass through bogus sequences.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-17 13:46:36 -07:00
Torsten Bögershausen c4ac525c84 git-checkout.txt: document "git checkout <pathspec>" better
git checkout <pathspec> can be used to reset changes in the working tree.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-17 13:33:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 16da57c7c6 Eighth batch for 2.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-16 14:39:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 5c040f5af5 Sync with 2.4.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-16 14:39:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f09bd215cd Git 2.4.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-16 14:38:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0d9388dc30 Merge branch 'sb/submodule-doc-intro' into maint
* sb/submodule-doc-intro:
  submodule doc: reorder introductory paragraphs
2015-06-16 14:33:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6de4c80839 Merge branch 'sb/glossary-submodule' into maint
* sb/glossary-submodule:
  glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject"
2015-06-16 14:33:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano afd647c55f Merge branch 'mc/commit-doc-grammofix' into maint
Doc grammar fix.

* mc/commit-doc-grammofix:
  Documentation/git-commit: grammofix
2015-06-16 14:33:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b76b4cd4f1 Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock' into maint
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
request first into core (to a reasonable limit).

* jk/http-backend-deadlock:
  http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
  t5551: factor out tag creation
  http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-06-16 14:33:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 4be33f7222 Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc' into maint
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated
concepts.

* mm/log-format-raw-doc:
  Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
  Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-06-16 14:33:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 486b51bc81 Merge branch 'sb/pack-protocol-mention-smart-http'
Doc updates.

* sb/pack-protocol-mention-smart-http:
  Documentation/technical/pack-protocol: mention http as possible protocol
2015-06-16 14:27:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c7ca4424ea Merge branch 'sg/merge-summary-config'
Doc updates.

* sg/merge-summary-config:
  Documentation: include 'merge.branchdesc' for merge and config as well
2015-06-16 14:27:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 412e63f0fd Merge branch 'ah/send-email-sendmail-alias'
"git send-email" learned the alias file format used by the sendmail
program (in an abbreviated form).

* ah/send-email-sendmail-alias:
  t9001: write $HOME/, not ~/, to help shells without tilde expansion
  send-email: add sendmail email aliases format
2015-06-16 14:27:04 -07:00
Jeff King 323598387d pkt-line: support tracing verbatim pack contents
When debugging the pack protocol, it is sometimes useful to
store the verbatim pack that we sent or received on the
wire. Looking at the on-disk result is often not helpful for
a few reasons:

  1. If the operation is a clone, we destroy the repo on
     failure, leaving nothing on disk.

  2. If the pack is small, we unpack it immediately, and the
     full pack never hits the disk.

  3. If we feed the pack to "index-pack --fix-thin", the
     resulting pack has the extra delta bases added to it.

We already have a GIT_TRACE_PACKET mechanism for tracing
packets. Let's extend it with GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE to dump the
verbatim packfile.

There are a few other positive fallouts that come from
rearranging this code:

 - We currently disable the packet trace after seeing the
   PACK header, even though we may get human-readable lines
   on other sidebands; now we include them in the trace.

 - We currently try to print "PACK ..." in the trace to
   indicate that the packfile has started. But because we
   disable packet tracing, we never printed this line. We
   will now do so.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-16 13:24:22 -07:00
Matthieu Moy 25f600e142 Documentation/describe: improve one-line summary
git describe does not show 'the most recent tag that is reachable from a
commit', but a descriptive name based on this tag. Fix the description to
reflect that.

Suggested-by: Albert Netymk <albertnetymk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-16 13:19:34 -07:00
Paul Tan 85b343245b argv-array: implement argv_array_pushv()
When we have a null-terminated array, it would be useful to convert it
or append it to an argv_array for further manipulation.

Implement argv_array_pushv() which will push a null-terminated array of
strings on to an argv_array.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-15 12:40:49 -07:00
Paul Tan ffad85c599 parse-options-cb: implement parse_opt_passthru_argv()
Certain git commands, such as git-pull, are simply wrappers around other
git commands like git-fetch, git-merge and git-rebase. As such, these
wrapper commands will typically need to "pass through" command-line
options of the commands they wrap.

Implement the parse_opt_passthru_argv() parse-options callback, which
will reconstruct all the provided command-line options into an
argv_array, such that it can be passed to another git command. This is
useful for passing command-line options that can be specified multiple
times.

Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-15 12:40:49 -07:00
Paul Tan 6b3ee18dc5 parse-options-cb: implement parse_opt_passthru()
Certain git commands, such as git-pull, are simply wrappers around other
git commands like git-fetch, git-merge and git-rebase. As such, these
wrapper commands will typically need to "pass through" command-line
options of the commands they wrap.

Implement the parse_opt_passthru() parse-options callback, which will
reconstruct the command-line option into an char* string, such that it
can be passed to another git command.

Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-15 12:40:49 -07:00
Michael Rappazzo 16cf51c7a2 git-rebase--interactive.sh: add config option for custom instruction format
A config option 'rebase.instructionFormat' can override the
default 'oneline' format of the rebase instruction list.

Since the list is parsed using the left, right or boundary mark plus
the sha1, they are prepended to the instruction format.

Signed-off-by: Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-15 11:42:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a5fe66802f Second half of seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-11 09:35:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c491e9e456 Merge branch 'sb/glossary-submodule'
* sb/glossary-submodule:
  glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject"
2015-06-11 09:29:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 7df5c978d5 Merge branch 'sb/submodule-doc-intro'
* sb/submodule-doc-intro:
  submodule doc: reorder introductory paragraphs
2015-06-11 09:29:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano db65170ee5 Merge branch 'jk/color-diff-plain-is-context'
"color.diff.plain" was a misnomer; give it 'color.diff.context' as
a more logical synonym.

* jk/color-diff-plain-is-context:
  diff.h: rename DIFF_PLAIN color slot to DIFF_CONTEXT
  diff: accept color.diff.context as a synonym for "plain"
2015-06-11 09:29:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 709cd912d4 Merge branch 'jc/diff-ws-error-highlight'
Allow whitespace breakages in deleted and context lines to be also
painted in the output.

* jc/diff-ws-error-highlight:
  diff.c: --ws-error-highlight=<kind> option
  diff.c: add emit_del_line() and emit_context_line()
  t4015: separate common setup and per-test expectation
  t4015: modernise style
2015-06-11 09:29:51 -07:00
Frans Klaver d614f07549 doc: format-patch: fix typo
reroll count documentation states that v<n> will be pretended to the
filename. Judging by the examples that should have been 'prepended'.

Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-10 14:37:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 7974889a05 Sync with 2.4.3 2015-06-05 12:23:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 69f9a6e54a Git 2.4.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-05 12:22:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f1673dc474 The first half of the seventh batch for 2.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-05 12:20:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 5455ee0573 Merge branch 'bc/object-id'
for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects
not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id".

* bc/object-id: (56 commits)
  struct ref_lock: convert old_sha1 member to object_id
  warn_if_dangling_symref(): convert local variable "junk" to object_id
  each_ref_fn_adapter(): remove adapter
  rev_list_insert_ref(): remove unneeded arguments
  rev_list_insert_ref_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
  mark_complete(): remove unneeded arguments
  mark_complete_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
  clear_marks(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  mark_complete(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  send_ref(): convert local variable "peeled" to object_id
  upload-pack: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
  find_symref(): convert local variable "unused" to object_id
  find_symref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  write_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  write_refs_to_temp_dir(): convert local variable sha1 to object_id
  submodule: rewrite to take an object_id argument
  shallow: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
  handle_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  add_info_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  handle_one_reflog(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  ...
2015-06-05 12:17:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c4a8354bc1 Merge branch 'jk/at-push-sha1'
Introduce <branch>@{push} short-hand to denote the remote-tracking
branch that tracks the branch at the remote the <branch> would be
pushed to.

* jk/at-push-sha1:
  for-each-ref: accept "%(push)" format
  for-each-ref: use skip_prefix instead of starts_with
  sha1_name: implement @{push} shorthand
  sha1_name: refactor interpret_upstream_mark
  sha1_name: refactor upstream_mark
  remote.c: add branch_get_push
  remote.c: return upstream name from stat_tracking_info
  remote.c: untangle error logic in branch_get_upstream
  remote.c: report specific errors from branch_get_upstream
  remote.c: introduce branch_get_upstream helper
  remote.c: hoist read_config into remote_get_1
  remote.c: provide per-branch pushremote name
  remote.c: hoist branch.*.remote lookup out of remote_get_1
  remote.c: drop "remote" pointer from "struct branch"
  remote.c: refactor setup of branch->merge list
  remote.c: drop default_remote_name variable
2015-06-05 12:17:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano e41f8d98e3 Merge branch 'ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file' into maint
Doc consistency updates.

* ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file:
  doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
2015-06-05 12:00:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 48feda5873 Merge branch 'fg/document-commit-message-stripping' into maint
* fg/document-commit-message-stripping:
  Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message
2015-06-05 12:00:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 7e46f27fa6 Merge branch 'pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff' into maint
The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff
configuration, but it didn't.

* pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff:
  pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string
  pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
2015-06-05 12:00:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 7c1ff53d5f Merge branch 'ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix' into maint
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix:
  doc: fix unmatched code fences
2015-06-05 12:00:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 413a715f18 Merge branch 'jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix' into maint
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix:
  doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
2015-06-05 12:00:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 96b7f93ac8 Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix' into maint
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.

* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
  doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
  doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
  doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
  doc: convert \--option to --option
  doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
  doc: fix length of underlined section-title
  doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
  doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
  doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-06-05 12:00:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano d9c82fa7a7 Merge branch 'pt/xdg-config-path' into maint
Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.

* pt/xdg-config-path:
  path.c: remove home_config_paths()
  git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
  git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
  credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
  dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
  attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
  path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
  t0302: "unreadable" test needs POSIXPERM
  t0302: test credential-store support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
  git-credential-store: support XDG_CONFIG_HOME
  git-credential-store: support multiple credential files
2015-06-05 12:00:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ef45bb1f81 ll-merge: pass the original path to external drivers
The interface to custom low-level merge driver was modeled to be
capable of driving programs like "merge" (from the RCS suite) that
can produce result solely by looking at three files that hold
contents of common ancestor, ours and theirs.  The information we
feed to the external drivers via the command line placeholders %O,
%A, and %B were designed to be purely about contents by giving
names of the temporary files that hold these variants without
exposing the original pathname.  No matter where the result goes,
merging the same three variants should produce the same result,
contents is the king, that is the Git way.

The external driver interface, however, is meant to help people to
step outside the Git worldview, and sometimes people want to know
the final path that the resulting merged contents would be stored
in.  Expose this to the external drivers via a new placeholder %P.

Requested-by: Andreas Gondek
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-04 15:36:32 -07:00
Remi Lespinet d96a275b91 git-am: add am.threeWay config variable
Add the am.threeWay configuration variable to use the -3 or --3way
option of git am by default. When am.threeway is set and not desired
for a specific git am command, the --no-3way option can be used to
override it.

Signed-off-by: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-04 10:42:41 -07:00
Stefan Beller 055c7e9fc6 Documentation/technical/pack-protocol: mention http as possible protocol
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-02 14:59:59 -07:00
Paul Tan eb2a8d9ed3 pull: handle git-fetch's options as well
While parsing the command-line arguments, git-pull stops parsing at the
first unrecognized option, assuming that any subsequent options are for
git-fetch, and can thus be kept in the shell's positional parameters
list, so that it can be passed to git-fetch via the expansion of "$@".

However, certain functions in git-pull assume that the positional
parameters do not contain any options:

* error_on_no_merge_candidates() uses the number of positional
  parameters to determine which error message to print out, and will
  thus print the wrong message if git-fetch's options are passed in as
  well.

* the call to get_remote_merge_branch() assumes that the positional
  parameters only contains the optional repo and refspecs, and will
  thus silently fail if git-fetch's options are passed in as well.

* --dry-run is a valid git-fetch option, but if provided after any
  git-fetch options, it is not recognized by git-pull and thus git-pull
  will continue to run the merge or rebase.

Fix these bugs by teaching git-pull to parse git-fetch's options as
well. Add tests to prevent regressions.

This removes the limitation where git-fetch's options have to come after
git-merge's and git-rebase's options on the command line. Update the
documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-02 13:36:22 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 2532dd0605 send-email: implement sendmail aliases line continuation support
Logical lines in sendmail aliases files can be spread over multiple
physical lines[1]. A line beginning with whitespace is folded into the
preceding line. A line ending with '\' consumes the following line.

[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aliases&sektion=5

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-01 15:53:11 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 5c3494ed88 send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionality
Sendmail aliases[1] supports expansion to a file ("/path/name") or
pipe ("|command"), as well as file inclusion (":include: /path/name"),
however, our implementation does not support such functionality.

[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aliases&sektion=5

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-01 15:52:33 -07:00
Quentin Neill 8b504db309 blame: add blame.showEmail configuration
Complement existing --show-email option with fallback
configuration variable, with tests.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Neill <quentin.neill@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-01 15:50:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f86f31ab33 Sixth batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-01 12:47:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a9d3493380 Merge branch 'fm/fetch-raw-sha1'
"git upload-pack" that serves "git fetch" can be told to serve
commits that are not at the tip of any ref, as long as they are
reachable from a ref, with uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant
configuration variable.

* fm/fetch-raw-sha1:
  upload-pack: optionally allow fetching reachable sha1
  upload-pack: prepare to extend allow-tip-sha1-in-want
  config.txt: clarify allowTipSHA1InWant with camelCase
2015-06-01 12:45:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6dec263333 Merge branch 'sg/help-group'
Group list of commands shown by "git help" along the workflow
elements to help early learners.

* sg/help-group:
  help: respect new common command grouping
  command-list.txt: drop the "common" tag
  generate-cmdlist: parse common group commands
  command-list.txt: add the common groups block
  command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" section
2015-06-01 12:45:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano abcbafedbf Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc'
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated
concepts.

* mm/log-format-raw-doc:
  Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
  Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-06-01 12:45:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 67f0b6f3b2 Merge branch 'dt/cat-file-follow-symlinks'
"git cat-file --batch(-check)" learned the "--follow-symlinks"
option that follows an in-tree symbolic link when asked about an
object via extended SHA-1 syntax, e.g. HEAD:RelNotes that points at
Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt.  With the new option, the command
behaves as if HEAD:Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt was given as
input instead.

* dt/cat-file-follow-symlinks:
  cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batch
  sha1_name: get_sha1_with_context learns to follow symlinks
  tree-walk: learn get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks
2015-06-01 12:45:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 1fd63cac50 Merge branch 'mc/commit-doc-grammofix'
Doc grammar fix.

* mc/commit-doc-grammofix:
  Documentation/git-commit: grammofix
2015-06-01 12:45:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 777e75b605 Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock'
Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
request first into core (to a reasonable limit).

* jk/http-backend-deadlock:
  http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
  t5551: factor out tag creation
  http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-06-01 12:45:09 -07:00
Stefan Beller e6a268c534 glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject"
Noticed-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-29 13:36:47 -07:00
Stefan Beller ec48a76306 submodule doc: reorder introductory paragraphs
It's better to start the man page with a description of what
submodules actually are, instead of saying what they are not.

Reorder the paragraphs such that

 - the first short paragraph introduces the submodule concept,
 - the second paragraph highlights the usage of the submodule command,
 - the third paragraph giving background information, and finally
 - the fourth paragraph discusing alternatives such as subtrees and
   remotes, which we don't want to be confused with.

This ordering deepens the knowledge on submodules with each paragraph.
First the basic questions like "How/what" will be answered, while the
underlying concepts will be taught at a later time.

Making sure it is not confused with subtrees and remotes is not really
enhancing knowledge of submodules itself, but rather painting the big
picture of git concepts, so you could also argue to have it as the second
paragraph. Personally I think this may confuse readers, specially
newcomers though.

Additionally to reordering the paragraphs, they have been slightly
reworded.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-28 15:18:11 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor fc0aa395f3 Documentation: include 'merge.branchdesc' for merge and config as well
'merge.branchdesc' is only mentioned in the docs of 'git fmt-merge-msg'.

The description of 'merge.log' is already duplicated between
'merge-config.txt' and 'git-fmt-merge-msg.txt'; instead of duplicating the
description of another config variable, extract the descriptions of both
of these variables from 'git-fmt-merge-msg.txt' into a separate file and
include it there and in 'merge-config.txt'.

Leave 'merge.summary' only in git-fmt-merge-msg.txt, as it is marked
as deprecated.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-28 12:38:46 -07:00
Jeff King 74b15bfbf6 diff: accept color.diff.context as a synonym for "plain"
The term "plain" is a bit ambiguous; let's allow the more
specific "context", but keep "plain" around for
compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-27 13:54:37 -07:00
Allen Hubbe 3169e06daf send-email: add sendmail email aliases format
Teach send-email to read aliases in the sendmail aliases format, i.e.

	<alias>: <address|alias>[, <address|alias>...]

Examples:

	alice: Alice W Land <awol@example.com>
	bob: Robert Bobbyton <bob@example.com>
	# this is a comment
	   # this is also a comment
	chloe: chloe@example.com
	abgroup: alice, bob
	bcgrp: bob, chloe, Other <o@example.com>

 - Quoted aliases and quoted addresses are not supported.
 - Line continuations are not supported.

Warnings are printed for explicitly unsupported constructs, and any
other lines that are not matched by the parser.

Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-27 13:01:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b8767f791c diff.c: --ws-error-highlight=<kind> option
Traditionally, we only cared about whitespace breakages introduced
in new lines.  Some people want to paint whitespace breakages on old
lines, too.  When they see a whitespace breakage on a new line, they
can spot the same kind of whitespace breakage on the corresponding
old line and want to say "Ah, those breakages are there but they
were inherited from the original, so let's not touch them for now."

Introduce `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>` option, that lets them pass
a comma separated list of `old`, `new`, and `context` to specify
what lines to highlight whitespace errors on.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26 23:00:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano fae46aa0ae Sync with 2.4.2 2015-05-26 13:50:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9eabf5b536 Git 2.4.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26 13:49:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 1e6c8babf8 Merge branch 'jc/hash-object' into maint
"hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to
take a really long object type name.

* jc/hash-object:
  write_sha1_file(): do not use a separate sha1[] array
  t1007: add hash-object --literally tests
  hash-object --literally: fix buffer overrun with extra-long object type
  git-hash-object.txt: document --literally option
2015-05-26 13:49:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 4ebdeb68ba Fifth batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26 13:33:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 38ccaf93bb Merge branch 'nd/untracked-cache'
Teach the index to optionally remember already seen untracked files
to speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft.

* nd/untracked-cache: (24 commits)
  git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cache
  untracked cache: guard and disable on system changes
  mingw32: add uname()
  t7063: tests for untracked cache
  update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cache
  update-index: manually enable or disable untracked cache
  status: enable untracked cache
  untracked-cache: temporarily disable with $GIT_DISABLE_UNTRACKED_CACHE
  untracked cache: mark index dirty if untracked cache is updated
  untracked cache: print stats with $GIT_TRACE_UNTRACKED_STATS
  untracked cache: avoid racy timestamps
  read-cache.c: split racy stat test to a separate function
  untracked cache: invalidate at index addition or removal
  untracked cache: load from UNTR index extension
  untracked cache: save to an index extension
  ewah: add convenient wrapper ewah_serialize_strbuf()
  untracked cache: don't open non-existent .gitignore
  untracked cache: mark what dirs should be recursed/saved
  untracked cache: record/validate dir mtime and reuse cached output
  untracked cache: make a wrapper around {open,read,close}dir()
  ...
2015-05-26 13:24:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 22a1ae6ef2 Merge branch 'pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff'
The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff
configuration, but it didn't.

* pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff:
  pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string
  pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
2015-05-26 13:24:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 636614f337 Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3' into jk/http-backend-deadlock
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3:
  http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
  t5551: factor out tag creation
  http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-05-25 20:44:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 7419a03fdb Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2' into jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.3
* jk/http-backend-deadlock-2.2:
  http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
  t5551: factor out tag creation
  http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
2015-05-25 20:44:04 -07:00
Jeff King 6bc0cb5176 http-backend: spool ref negotiation requests to buffer
When http-backend spawns "upload-pack" to do ref
negotiation, it streams the http request body to
upload-pack, who then streams the http response back to the
client as it reads. In theory, git can go full-duplex; the
client can consume our response while it is still sending
the request.  In practice, however, HTTP is a half-duplex
protocol. Even if our client is ready to read and write
simultaneously, we may have other HTTP infrastructure in the
way, including the webserver that spawns our CGI, or any
intermediate proxies.

In at least one documented case[1], this leads to deadlock
when trying a fetch over http. What happens is basically:

  1. Apache proxies the request to the CGI, http-backend.

  2. http-backend gzip-inflates the data and sends
     the result to upload-pack.

  3. upload-pack acts on the data and generates output over
     the pipe back to Apache. Apache isn't reading because
     it's busy writing (step 1).

This works fine most of the time, because the upload-pack
output ends up in a system pipe buffer, and Apache reads
it as soon as it finishes writing. But if both the request
and the response exceed the system pipe buffer size, then we
deadlock (Apache blocks writing to http-backend,
http-backend blocks writing to upload-pack, and upload-pack
blocks writing to Apache).

We need to break the deadlock by spooling either the input
or the output. In this case, it's ideal to spool the input,
because Apache does not start reading either stdout _or_
stderr until we have consumed all of the input. So until we
do so, we cannot even get an error message out to the
client.

The solution is fairly straight-forward: we read the request
body into an in-memory buffer in http-backend, freeing up
Apache, and then feed the data ourselves to upload-pack. But
there are a few important things to note:

  1. We limit the in-memory buffer to prevent an obvious
     denial-of-service attack. This is a new hard limit on
     requests, but it's unlikely to come into play. The
     default value is 10MB, which covers even the ridiculous
     100,000-ref negotation in the included test (that
     actually caps out just over 5MB). But it's configurable
     on the off chance that you don't mind spending some
     extra memory to make even ridiculous requests work.

  2. We must take care only to buffer when we have to. For
     pushes, the incoming packfile may be of arbitrary
     size, and we should connect the input directly to
     receive-pack. There's no deadlock problem here, though,
     because we do not produce any output until the whole
     packfile has been read.

     For upload-pack's initial ref advertisement, we
     similarly do not need to buffer. Even though we may
     generate a lot of output, there is no request body at
     all (i.e., it is a GET, not a POST).

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269020

Test-adapted-from: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25 20:43:18 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 2b2a5be394 each_ref_fn: change to take an object_id parameter
Change typedef each_ref_fn to take a "const struct object_id *oid"
parameter instead of "const unsigned char *sha1".

To aid this transition, implement an adapter that can be used to wrap
old-style functions matching the old typedef, which is now called
"each_ref_sha1_fn"), and make such functions callable via the new
interface. This requires the old function and its cb_data to be
wrapped in a "struct each_ref_fn_sha1_adapter", and that object to be
used as the cb_data for an adapter function, each_ref_fn_adapter().

This is an enormous diff, but most of it consists of simple,
mechanical changes to the sites that call any of the "for_each_ref"
family of functions. Subsequent to this change, the call sites can be
rewritten one by one to use the new interface.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25 12:19:27 -07:00
Fredrik Medley 68ee628932 upload-pack: optionally allow fetching reachable sha1
With uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant configuration option set on the
server side, "git fetch" can make a request with a "want" line that names
an object that has not been advertised (likely to have been obtained out
of band or from a submodule pointer). Only objects reachable from the
branch tips, i.e. the union of advertised branches and branches hidden by
transfer.hideRefs, will be processed. Note that there is an associated
cost of having to walk back the history to check the reachability.

This feature can be used when obtaining the content of a certain commit,
for which the sha1 is known, without the need of cloning the whole
repository, especially if a shallow fetch is used. Useful cases are e.g.
repositories containing large files in the history, fetching only the
needed data for a submodule checkout, when sharing a sha1 without telling
which exact branch it belongs to and in Gerrit, if you think in terms of
commits instead of change numbers. (The Gerrit case has already been
solved through allowTipSHA1InWant as every Gerrit change has a ref.)

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 18:25:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9532ead987 Fourth batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 12:53:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano e4b4e7d704 Merge branch 'ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file'
Doc consistency updates.

* ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file:
  doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
  git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
2015-05-22 12:42:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano fb257bfa17 Merge branch 'mh/lockfile-retry'
Instead of dying immediately upon failing to obtain a lock, retry
after a short while with backoff.

* mh/lockfile-retry:
  lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the packed-refs lock
  lockfile: allow file locking to be retried with a timeout
2015-05-22 12:41:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano d1caa58954 Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix'
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.

* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
  doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
  doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
  doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
  doc: convert \--option to --option
  doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
  doc: fix length of underlined section-title
  doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
  doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
  doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-05-22 12:41:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c24e0e7751 Merge branch 'jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix'
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix:
  doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
2015-05-22 12:41:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 236794f1eb Merge branch 'ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix'
A literal block in the tutorial had lines with unequal lengths to
delimit it from the rest of the document, which choke GitHub's
AsciiDoc renderer.

* ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix:
  doc: fix unmatched code fences
2015-05-22 12:41:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 39fa79178f Merge branch 'ls/http-ssl-cipher-list'
Introduce http.<url>.SSLCipherList configuration variable to tweak
the list of cipher suite to be used with libcURL when talking with
https:// sites.

* ls/http-ssl-cipher-list:
  http: add support for specifying an SSL cipher list
2015-05-22 12:41:45 -07:00
Jeff King 29bc88505f for-each-ref: accept "%(push)" format
Just as we have "%(upstream)" to report the "@{upstream}"
for each ref, this patch adds "%(push)" to match "@{push}".
It supports the same tracking format modifiers as upstream
(because you may want to know, for example, which branches
have commits to push).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 09:33:09 -07:00
Jeff King adfe5d0434 sha1_name: implement @{push} shorthand
In a triangular workflow, each branch may have two distinct
points of interest: the @{upstream} that you normally pull
from, and the destination that you normally push to. There
isn't a shorthand for the latter, but it's useful to have.

For instance, you may want to know which commits you haven't
pushed yet:

  git log @{push}..

Or as a more complicated example, imagine that you normally
pull changes from origin/master (which you set as your
@{upstream}), and push changes to your own personal fork
(e.g., as myfork/topic). You may push to your fork from
multiple machines, requiring you to integrate the changes
from the push destination, rather than upstream. With this
patch, you can just do:

  git rebase @{push}

rather than typing out the full name.

The heavy lifting is all done by branch_get_push; here we
just wire it up to the "@{push}" syntax.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 09:33:08 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt bbf431c9ae doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
Fix remaining instances where "pack-file" is used instead of
"packfile". Some places remain where we still use "pack-file",
This is the case when we explicitly refer to a file with a
".pack" extension as opposed to a data source providing a pack
data stream.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22 09:00:17 -07:00
Fredrik Medley bc0a474149 config.txt: clarify allowTipSHA1InWant with camelCase
Most of the options in config.txt are camelCase. Improve the readability
for allowtipsha1inwant by changing to allowTipSHA1InWant.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Medley <fredrik.medley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 13:40:22 -07:00
Sébastien Guimmara 413f50b901 command-list.txt: add the common groups block
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to display common commands in
groups rather than alphabetically. As a first step, define the
groups in a new block, and then assign a group to each
common command.

Add a block at the beginning of command-list.txt:

    init         start a working area (see also: git help tutorial)
    worktree     work on the current change (see also:[...]
    info         examine the history and state (see also: git [...]
    history      grow, mark and tweak your history
    remote       collaborate (see also: git help workflows)

storing information about common commands group, then map each common
command to a group:

    git-add          mainporcelain        common worktree

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by:  Emma Jane Hogbin Westby <emma.westby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 13:03:37 -07:00
Eric Sunshine 11c6659d85 command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common groups" section
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to classify common commands by
group. Toward this end, a subsequent patch will add a new "common
groups" section to command-list.txt preceding the actual command list.
As preparation, teach existing command-list.txt parsing machinery, which
doesn't care about grouping, to skip over this upcoming "common groups"
section.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 13:03:37 -07:00
Jeff King 9e3751d443 remote.c: drop "remote" pointer from "struct branch"
When we create each branch struct, we fill in the
"remote_name" field from the config, and then fill in the
actual "remote" field (with a "struct remote") based on that
name. However, it turns out that nobody really cares about
the latter field. The only two sites that access it at all
are:

  1. git-merge, which uses it to notice when the branch does
     not have a remote defined. But we can easily replace this
     with looking at remote_name instead.

  2. remote.c itself, when setting up the @{upstream} merge
     config. But we don't need to save the "remote" in the
     "struct branch" for that; we can just look it up for
     the duration of the operation.

So there is no need to have both fields; they are redundant
with each other (the struct remote contains the name, or you
can look up the struct from the name). It would be nice to
simplify this, especially as we are going to add matching
pushremote config in a future patch (and it would be nice to
keep them consistent).

So which one do we keep and which one do we get rid of?

If we had a lot of callers accessing the struct, it would be
more efficient to keep it (since you have to do a lookup to
go from the name to the struct, but not vice versa). But we
don't have a lot of callers; we have exactly one, so
efficiency doesn't matter. We can decide this based on
simplicity and readability.

And the meaning of the struct value is somewhat unclear. Is
it always the remote matching remote_name? If remote_name is
NULL (i.e., no per-branch config), does the struct fall back
to the "origin" remote, or is it also NULL? These questions
will get even more tricky with pushremotes, whose fallback
behavior is more complicated. So let's just store the name,
which pretty clearly represents the branch.*.remote config.
Any lookup or fallback behavior can then be implemented in
helper functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 10:48:10 -07:00
Matthieu Moy 92de92172d Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 15:28:51 -07:00
David Turner 122d53464b cat-file: add --follow-symlinks to --batch
This wires the in-repo-symlink following code through to the cat-file
builtin.  In the event of an out-of-repo link, cat-file will print
the link in a new format.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 13:46:21 -07:00
Michael Coleman 5c2a581dc9 Documentation/git-commit: grammofix
Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman <michael.karl.coleman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 21:20:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6c1249c503 Third batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-19 13:24:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3b7d373ae2 Merge branch 'kn/cat-file-literally'
Add the "--allow-unknown-type" option to "cat-file" to allow
inspecting loose objects of an experimental or a broken type.

* kn/cat-file-literally:
  t1006: add tests for git cat-file --allow-unknown-type
  cat-file: teach cat-file a '--allow-unknown-type' option
  cat-file: make the options mutually exclusive
  sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type
2015-05-19 13:17:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano bcd1ecd08a Merge branch 'jc/merge'
"git merge FETCH_HEAD" learned that the previous "git fetch" could
be to create an Octopus merge, i.e. recording multiple branches
that are not marked as "not-for-merge"; this allows us to lose an
old style invocation "git merge <msg> HEAD $commits..." in the
implementation of "git pull" script; the old style syntax can now
be deprecated.

* jc/merge:
  merge: deprecate 'git merge <message> HEAD <commit>' syntax
  merge: handle FETCH_HEAD internally
  merge: decide if we auto-generate the message early in collect_parents()
  merge: make collect_parents() auto-generate the merge message
  merge: extract prepare_merge_message() logic out
  merge: narrow scope of merge_names
  merge: split reduce_parents() out of collect_parents()
  merge: clarify collect_parents() logic
  merge: small leakfix and code simplification
  merge: do not check argc to determine number of remote heads
  merge: clarify "pulling into void" special case
  t5520: test pulling an octopus into an unborn branch
  t5520: style fixes
  merge: simplify code flow
  merge: test the top-level merge driver
2015-05-19 13:17:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3e199decd5 Merge branch 'fg/document-commit-message-stripping'
* fg/document-commit-message-stripping:
  Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message
2015-05-19 13:17:53 -07:00
Matthieu Moy d89df367f6 Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
There are several "raw formats", and describing --raw as "Generate the
raw format" in the documentation for git-log seems to imply that it
generates the raw *log* format.

Clarify the wording by saying "raw diff format" explicitly, and make a
special-case for "git log": "git log --raw" does not just change the
format, it shows something which is not shown by default.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18 13:42:52 -07:00
Paul Tan eb8dc05c3d pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
Since b814da8 (pull: add pull.ff configuration, 2014-01-15), running
git-pull with the configuration pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is
equivalent to passing --no-ff and --ff-only to git-merge. However, if
pull.ff=true, no switch is passed to git-merge. This leads to the
confusing behavior where pull.ff=false or pull.ff=only is able to
override merge.ff, while pull.ff=true is unable to.

Fix this by adding the --ff switch if pull.ff=true, and add a test to
catch future regressions.

Furthermore, clarify in the documentation that pull.ff overrides
merge.ff.

Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-18 11:22:27 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt 3890dae970 pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17 11:25:00 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt 4667391958 git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17 11:24:58 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt d017a450ed git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-17 11:24:57 -07:00
Michael Haggerty f4ab4f3ab1 lock_packed_refs(): allow retries when acquiring the packed-refs lock
Currently, there is only one attempt to acquire any lockfile, and if
the lock is held by another process, the locking attempt fails
immediately.

This is not such a limitation for loose reference files. First, they
don't take long to rewrite. Second, most reference updates have a
known "old" value, so if another process is updating a reference at
the same moment that we are trying to lock it, then probably the
expected "old" value will not longer be valid, and the update will
fail anyway.

But these arguments do not hold for packed-refs:

* The packed-refs file can be large and take significant time to
  rewrite.

* Many references are stored in a single packed-refs file, so it could
  be that the other process was changing a different reference than
  the one that we are interested in.

Therefore, it is much more likely for there to be spurious lock
conflicts in connection to the packed-refs file, resulting in
unnecessary command failures.

So, if the first attempt to lock the packed-refs file fails, continue
retrying for a configurable length of time before giving up. The
default timeout is 1 second.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14 14:51:51 -07:00