The contents within parenthesis should be omittable without resulting
in broken text.
Eliding the parenthesis left a period to end a run without any content.
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Doc updates.
* jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special:
docs: MERGE_AUTOSTASH is not that special
docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that special
refs.h: HEAD is not that special
git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special
git.txt: HEAD is not that special
"git checkout -B <branch> [<start-point>]" allowed a branch that is
in use in another worktree to be updated and checked out, which
might be a bit unexpected. The rule has been tightened, which is a
breaking change. "--ignore-other-worktrees" option is required to
unbreak you, if you are used to the current behaviour that "-B"
overrides the safety.
* jc/checkout-B-branch-in-use:
checkout: forbid "-B <branch>" from touching a branch used elsewhere
checkout: refactor die_if_checked_out() caller
Any string that is not meant to be used verbatim in the documentation
should be marked as a placeholder.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The CodingGuidelines documents stipulates that multi-word placeholders
are to be separated by dashes, not underscores nor spaces.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As René found in the guidance from CodingGuidelines:
Literal examples (e.g. use of command-line options, command names,
branch names, URLs, pathnames (files and directories), configuration
and environment variables) must be typeset in monospace (i.e. wrapped
with backticks)
So all instances of single and double quotes for wraping said examples
were replaced with simple backticks.
Suggested-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Lohmann <mi.al.lohmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
437591a9d7 combined the synopsis of "The second syntax" (meaning `git
merge --abort`) and "The third syntax" (for `git merge --continue`) into
this single line:
git merge (--continue | --abort | --quit)
but it was still referred to when describing the preconditions that have
to be fulfilled to run the respective actions. In other words:
References by number are no longer valid after a merge of some of the
synopses.
Also the previous version of the documentation did not acknowledge that
`--no-commit` would result in the precondition being fulfilled (thanks
to Elijah Newren and Junio C Hamano for pointing that out).
This change also groups `--abort` and `--continue` together when
explaining the prerequisites in order to avoid duplication.
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Lohmann <mi.al.lohmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git merge-file" learned to take the "--diff-algorithm" option to
use algorithm different from the default "myers" diff.
* ad/merge-file-diff-algo:
merge-file: add --diff-algorithm option
Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or
archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links.
* js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment:
doc: refer to internet archive
doc: update links for andre-simon.de
doc: switch links to https
doc: update links to current pages
Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records
information about commits that are lost from the object store,
which has negative performance implications. The default has been
flipped to disable this pessimization.
* ps/commit-graph-less-paranoid:
commit-graph: disable GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA by default
Introduce "git replay", a tool meant on the server side without
working tree to recreate a history.
* cc/git-replay:
replay: stop assuming replayed branches do not diverge
replay: add --contained to rebase contained branches
replay: add --advance or 'cherry-pick' mode
replay: use standard revision ranges
replay: make it a minimal server side command
replay: remove HEAD related sanity check
replay: remove progress and info output
replay: add an important FIXME comment about gpg signing
replay: change rev walking options
replay: introduce pick_regular_commit()
replay: die() instead of failing assert()
replay: start using parse_options API
replay: introduce new builtin
t6429: remove switching aspects of fast-rebase
There is no 'ref/notes/' hierarchy. '[format] notes = foo' uses notes
that are found in 'refs/notes/foo'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A handful of manual pages called MERGE_AUTOSTASH a "special ref",
but there is nothing special about it. It merely is yet another
pseudoref.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A handful of manual pages called AUTO_MERGE a "special ref", but
there is nothing special about it. It merely is yet another
pseudoref.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of "git bisect --no-checkout" called BISECT_HEAD a
"special ref", but there is nothing special about it. It merely is
yet another pseudoref.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The introductory text in "git help git" that describes HEAD called
it "a special ref". It is special compared to the more regular refs
like refs/heads/master and refs/tags/v1.0.0, but not that special,
unlike truly special ones like FETCH_HEAD.
Rewrite a few sentences to also introduce the distinction between a
regular ref that contain the object name and a symbolic ref that
contain the name of another ref. Update the description of HEAD
that point at the current branch to use the more correct term, a
"symbolic ref".
This was found as part of auditing the documentation and in-code
comments for uses of "special ref" that refer merely a "pseudo ref".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With one exception, the synopsis for `git add` consistently lists the
short counterpart alongside the long-form of each option (for instance,
"[--edit | -e]"). The exception is that -A is not mentioned alongside
--all. Fix this inconsistency
Reported-by: Benjamin Lehmann <ben.lehmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that both the pack-bitmap and pack-objects code are prepared to
handle marking and using objects from multiple bitmapped packs for
verbatim reuse, allow marking objects from all bitmapped packs as
eligible for reuse.
Within the `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` function, we no longer
only mark the pack whose first object is at bit position zero for reuse,
and instead mark any pack contained in the MIDX as a reuse candidate.
Provide a handful of test cases in a new script (t5332) exercising
interesting behavior for multi-pack reuse to ensure that we performed
all of the previous steps correctly.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In e704fc7978 (pack-objects: introduce pack.allowPackReuse, 2019-12-18),
the `pack.allowPackReuse` configuration option was introduced, allowing
users to disable the pack reuse mechanism.
To prepare for debugging multi-pack reuse, allow setting configuration
to "single" in addition to the usual bool-or-int values.
"single" implies the same behavior as "true", "1", "yes", and so on. But
it will complement a new "multi" value (to be introduced in a future
commit). When set to "single", we will only perform pack reuse on a
single pack, regardless of whether or not there are multiple MIDX'd
packs.
This requires no code changes (yet), since we only support single pack
reuse.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a multi-pack bitmap is used to implement verbatim pack reuse (that
is, when verbatim chunks from an on-disk packfile are copied
directly[^1]), it does so by using its "preferred pack" as the source
for pack-reuse.
This allows repositories to pack the majority of their objects into a
single (often large) pack, and then use it as the single source for
verbatim pack reuse. This increases the amount of objects that are
reused verbatim (and consequently, decrease the amount of time it takes
to generate many packs). But this performance comes at a cost, which is
that the preferred packfile must pace its growth with that of the entire
repository in order to maintain the utility of verbatim pack reuse.
As repositories grow beyond what we can reasonably store in a single
packfile, the utility of verbatim pack reuse diminishes. Or, at the very
least, it becomes increasingly more expensive to maintain as the pack
grows larger and larger.
It would be beneficial to be able to perform this same optimization over
multiple packs, provided some modest constraints (most importantly, that
the set of packs eligible for verbatim reuse are disjoint with respect
to the subset of their objects being sent).
If we assume that the packs which we treat as candidates for verbatim
reuse are disjoint with respect to any of their objects we may output,
we need to make only modest modifications to the verbatim pack-reuse
code itself. Most notably, we need to remove the assumption that the
bits in the reachability bitmap corresponding to objects from the single
reuse pack begin at the first bit position.
Future patches will unwind these assumptions and reimplement their
existing functionality as special cases of the more general assumptions
(e.g. that reuse bits can start anywhere within the bitset, but happen
to start at 0 for all existing cases).
This patch does not yet relax any of those assumptions. Instead, it
implements a foundational data-structure, the "Bitampped Packs" (`BTMP`)
chunk of the multi-pack index. The `BTMP` chunk's contents are described
in detail here. Importantly, the `BTMP` chunk contains information to
map regions of a multi-pack index's reachability bitmap to the packs
whose objects they represent.
For now, this chunk is only written, not read (outside of the test-tool
used in this patch to test the new chunk's behavior). Future patches
will begin to make use of this new chunk.
[^1]: Modulo patching any `OFS_DELTA`'s that cross over a region of the
pack that wasn't used verbatim.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout -B <branch> [<start-point>]", being a "forced" version
of "-b", switches to the <branch>, after optionally resetting its
tip to the <start-point>, even if the <branch> is in use in another
worktree, which is somewhat unexpected.
Protect the <branch> using the same logic that forbids "git checkout
<branch>" from touching a branch that is in use elsewhere.
This is a breaking change that may deserve backward compatibliity
warning in the Release Notes. The "--ignore-other-worktrees" option
can be used as an escape hatch if the finger memory of existing
users depend on the current behaviour of "-B".
Reported-by: Willem Verstraeten <willem.verstraeten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our
(ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version
requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow
simplifying our implementation.
* tz/send-email-negatable-options:
send-email: avoid duplicate specification warnings
perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0
"git rebase --autosquash" is now enabled for non-interactive rebase,
but it is still incompatible with the apply backend.
* ak/rebase-autosquash:
rebase: rewrite --(no-)autosquash documentation
rebase: support --autosquash without -i
rebase: fully ignore rebase.autoSquash without -i
"git for-each-ref --no-sort" still sorted the refs alphabetically
which paid non-trivial cost. It has been redefined to show output
in an unspecified order, to allow certain optimizations to take
advantage of.
* vd/for-each-ref-unsorted-optimization:
t/perf: add perf tests for for-each-ref
ref-filter.c: use peeled tag for '*' format fields
for-each-ref: clean up documentation of --format
ref-filter.c: filter & format refs in the same callback
ref-filter.c: refactor to create common helper functions
ref-filter.c: rename 'ref_filter_handler()' to 'filter_one()'
ref-filter.h: add functions for filter/format & format-only
ref-filter.h: move contains caches into filter
ref-filter.h: add max_count and omit_empty to ref_format
ref-filter.c: really don't sort when using --no-sort
Process to add some form of low-level unit tests has started.
* js/doc-unit-tests:
ci: run unit tests in CI
unit tests: add TAP unit test framework
unit tests: add a project plan document
Let's add a `--contained` option that can be used along with
`--onto` to rebase all the branches contained in the <revision-range>
argument.
Co-authored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is already a 'rebase' mode with `--onto`. Let's add an 'advance' or
'cherry-pick' mode with `--advance`. This new mode will make the target
branch advance as we replay commits onto it.
The replayed commits should have a single tip, so that it's clear where
the target branch should be advanced. If they have more than one tip,
this new mode will error out.
Co-authored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of the fixed "<oldbase> <branch>" arguments, the replay
command now accepts "<revision-range>..." arguments in a similar
way as many other Git commands. This makes its interface more
standard and more flexible.
This also enables many revision related options accepted and
eaten by setup_revisions(). If the replay command was a high level
one or had a high level mode, it would make sense to restrict some
of the possible options, like those generating non-contiguous
history, as they could be confusing for most users.
Also as the interface of the command is now mostly finalized,
we can add more documentation and more testcases to make sure
the command will continue to work as designed in the future.
We only document the rev-list related options among all the
revision related options that are now accepted, as the rev-list
related ones are probably the most useful for now.
Helped-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Helped-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We want this command to be a minimal command that just does server side
picking of commits, displaying the results on stdout for higher level
scripts to consume.
So let's simplify it:
* remove the worktree and index reading/writing,
* remove the ref (and reflog) updating,
* remove the assumptions tying us to HEAD, since (a) this is not a
rebase and (b) we want to be able to pick commits in a bare repo,
i.e. to/from branches that are not checked out and not the main
branch,
* remove unneeded includes,
* handle rebasing multiple branches by printing on stdout the update
ref commands that should be performed.
The output can be piped into `git update-ref --stdin` for the ref
updates to happen.
In the future to make it easier for users to use this command
directly maybe an option can be added to automatically pipe its output
into `git update-ref`.
Co-authored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For now, this is just a rename from `t/helper/test-fast-rebase.c` into
`builtin/replay.c` with minimal changes to make it build appropriately.
Let's add a stub documentation and a stub test script though.
Subsequent commits will flesh out the capabilities of the new command
and make it a more standard regular builtin.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Co-authored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 7a5d604443 (commit: detect commits that exist in commit-graph but not
in the ODB, 2023-10-31), we have introduced a new object existence check
into `repo_parse_commit_internal()` so that we do not parse commits via
the commit-graph that don't have a corresponding object in the object
database. This new check of course comes with a performance penalty,
which the commit put at around 30% for `git rev-list --topo-order`. But
there are in fact scenarios where the performance regression is even
higher. The following benchmark against linux.git with a fully-build
commit-graph:
Benchmark 1: git.v2.42.1 rev-list --count HEAD
Time (mean ± σ): 658.0 ms ± 5.2 ms [User: 613.5 ms, System: 44.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 650.2 ms … 666.0 ms 10 runs
Benchmark 2: git.v2.43.0-rc1 rev-list --count HEAD
Time (mean ± σ): 1.333 s ± 0.019 s [User: 1.263 s, System: 0.069 s]
Range (min … max): 1.302 s … 1.361 s 10 runs
Summary
git.v2.42.1 rev-list --count HEAD ran
2.03 ± 0.03 times faster than git.v2.43.0-rc1 rev-list --count HEAD
While it's a noble goal to ensure that results are the same regardless
of whether or not we have a potentially stale commit-graph, taking twice
as much time is a tough sell. Furthermore, we can generally assume that
the commit-graph will be updated by git-gc(1) or git-maintenance(1) as
required so that the case where the commit-graph is stale should not at
all be common.
With that in mind, default-disable GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA and restore
the behaviour and thus performance previous to the mentioned commit. In
order to not be inconsistent, also disable this behaviour by default in
`lookup_commit_in_graph()`, where the object existence check has been
introduced right at its inception via f559d6d45e (revision: avoid
hitting packfiles when commits are in commit-graph, 2021-08-09).
This results in another speedup in commands that end up calling this
function, even though it's less pronounced compared to the above
benchmark. The following has been executed in linux.git with ~1.2
million references:
Benchmark 1: GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA=true git rev-list --all --no-walk=unsorted
Time (mean ± σ): 2.947 s ± 0.003 s [User: 2.412 s, System: 0.534 s]
Range (min … max): 2.943 s … 2.949 s 3 runs
Benchmark 2: GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA=false git rev-list --all --no-walk=unsorted
Time (mean ± σ): 2.724 s ± 0.030 s [User: 2.207 s, System: 0.514 s]
Range (min … max): 2.704 s … 2.759 s 3 runs
Summary
GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA=false git rev-list --all --no-walk=unsorted ran
1.08 ± 0.01 times faster than GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA=true git rev-list --all --no-walk=unsorted
So whereas 7a5d604443 initially introduced the logic to start doing an
object existence check in `repo_parse_commit_internal()` by default, the
updated logic will now instead cause `lookup_commit_in_graph()` to stop
doing the check by default. This behaviour continues to be tweakable by
the user via the GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA environment variable.
Note that this requires us to amend some tests to manually turn on the
paranoid checks again. This is because we cause repository corruption by
manually deleting objects which are part of the commit graph already.
These circumstances shouldn't usually happen in repositories.
Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Beyond the fact that it's somewhat traditional to respect sites'
self-identification, it's helpful for links to point to the things
that people expect them to reference. Here that means linking to
specific pages instead of a domain.
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These sites offer https versions of their content.
Using the https versions provides some protection for users.
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's somewhat traditional to respect sites' self-identification.
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To orphan is a verb that denotes the act of getting on an unborn
branch, and a few references to "orphan branch" in our documentation
are misuses of the word. They caused end-user confusion, which was
made even worse because we did not have the term defined in the
glossary document. Add entries for "unborn" branch and "orphan"
operation to the glossary, and adjust existing documentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it possible to use other diff algorithms than the 'myers'
default algorithm, when using the 'git merge-file' command, to help
avoid spurious conflicts by selecting a more recent algorithm such
as 'histogram', for instance when using 'git merge-file' as part of
a custom merge driver.
Signed-off-by: Antonin Delpeuch <antonin@delpeuch.eu>
Reviewed-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"To dereference" and "to peel" were sometimes used in in-code
comments and documentation but without description in the glossary.
* vd/glossary-dereference-peel:
glossary: add definitions for dereference & peel
The following commit will make use of a Getopt::Long feature which is
only present in Perl >= 5.8.1. Document that as the minimum version we
support.
Many of our Perl scripts will continue to run with 5.8.0 but this change
allows us to adjust them as needed without breaking any promises to our
users.
The Perl requirement was last changed in d48b284183 (perl: bump the
required Perl version to 5.8 from 5.6.[21], 2010-09-24). At that time,
5.8.0 was 8 years old. It is now over 21 years old.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In most builtins ('rev-parse <revision>^{}', 'show-ref --dereference'),
"dereferencing" a tag refers to a recursive peel of the tag object. Unlike
these cases, the dereferencing prefix ('*') in 'for-each-ref' format
specifiers triggers only a single, non-recursive dereference of a given tag
object. For most annotated tags, a single dereference is all that is needed
to access the tag's associated commit or tree; "recursive" and
"non-recursive" dereferencing are functionally equivalent in these cases.
However, nested tags (annotated tags whose target is another annotated tag)
dereferenced once return another tag, where a recursive dereference would
return the commit or tree.
Currently, if a user wants to filter & format refs and include information
about a recursively-dereferenced tag, they can do so with something like
'cat-file --batch-check':
git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname)^{} %(refname)" <pattern> |
git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectname) %(rest)"
But the combination of commands is inefficient. So, to improve the
performance of this use case and align the defererencing behavior of
'for-each-ref' with that of other commands, update the ref formatting code
to use the peeled tag (from 'peel_iterated_oid()') to populate '*' fields
rather than the tag's immediate target object (from 'get_tagged_oid()').
Additionally, add a test to 't6300-for-each-ref' to verify new nested tag
behavior and update 't6302-for-each-ref-filter.sh' to print the correct
value for nested dereferenced fields.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the description of the `*` prefix from the --format option
documentation to the part of the command documentation that deals with other
object type-specific modifiers. Also reorganize and reword the remaining
--format documentation so that the explanation of the default format doesn't
interrupt the details on format string interpolation.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rewrite the description of the rebase --(no-)autosquash options to try
to make it a bit clearer. Don't use "the '...'" to refer to part of a
commit message, mention how --interactive can be used to review the
todo list, and add a bit more detail on commit --squash/amend.
Signed-off-by: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rebase --autosquash option is quietly ignored when used without
--interactive (apart from preventing preemptive fast-forwarding and
triggering conflicts with apply backend options).
Change that to support --autosquash without --interactive, by dropping
its restriction to REBASE_INTERACTIVE_EXCPLICIT mode. When used this
way, auto-squashing is done without opening the todo list editor.
Drop the -i requirement from the --autosquash description, and amend
t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh to test the option and the rebase.autoSquash
config variable with and without -i.
Signed-off-by: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Setting the rebase.autoSquash config variable to true implies a couple
of restrictions: it prevents preemptive fast-forwarding and it triggers
conflicts with apply backend options. However, it only actually results
in auto-squashing when combined with the --interactive (or -i) option,
due to code in run_specific_rebase() that disables auto-squashing unless
the REBASE_INTERACTIVE_EXPLICIT flag is set.
Doing autosquashing for rebase.autoSquash without --interactive would be
problematic in terms of backward compatibility, but conversely, there is
no need for the aforementioned restrictions without --interactive.
So drop the options.config_autosquash check from the conditions for
clearing allow_preemptive_ff, as the case where it is combined with
--interactive is already covered by the REBASE_INTERACTIVE_EXPLICIT
flag check above it.
Also drop the "apply options are incompatible with rebase.autoSquash"
error, because it is unreachable if it is restricted to --interactive,
as apply options already cause an error when used with --interactive.
Drop the tests for the error from t3422-rebase-incompatible-options.sh,
which has separate tests for the conflicts of --interactive with apply
options.
When neither --autosquash nor --no-autosquash are given, only set
options.autosquash to true if rebase.autosquash is combined with
--interactive.
Don't initialize options.config_autosquash to -1, as there is no need to
distinguish between rebase.autoSquash being unset or explicitly set to
false.
Finally, amend the rebase.autoSquash documentation to say it only
affects interactive mode.
Signed-off-by: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'gitglossary' definitions for "dereference" (as it used for both symrefs
and objects) and "peel". These terms are used in options and documentation
throughout Git, but they are not clearly defined anywhere and the behavior
they refer to depends heavily on context. Provide explicit definitions to
clarify existing documentation to users and help contributors to use the
most appropriate terminology possible in their additions to Git.
Update other definitions in the glossary that use the term "dereference" to
link to 'def_dereference'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In our current testing environment, we spend a significant amount of
effort crafting end-to-end tests for error conditions that could easily
be captured by unit tests (or we simply forgo some hard-to-setup and
rare error conditions). Describe what we hope to accomplish by
implementing unit tests, and explain some open questions and milestones.
Discuss desired features for test frameworks/harnesses, and provide a
comparison of several different frameworks. Finally, document our
rationale for implementing a custom framework.
Co-authored-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git merge-file" learns a mode to read three contents to be merged
from blob objects.
* bc/merge-file-object-input:
merge-file: add an option to process object IDs
git-merge-file doc: drop "-file" from argument placeholders
Teach "git show-ref" a mode to check the existence of a ref.
* ps/show-ref:
t: use git-show-ref(1) to check for ref existence
builtin/show-ref: add new mode to check for reference existence
builtin/show-ref: explicitly spell out different modes in synopsis
builtin/show-ref: ensure mutual exclusiveness of subcommands
builtin/show-ref: refactor options for patterns subcommand
builtin/show-ref: stop using global vars for `show_one()`
builtin/show-ref: stop using global variable to count matches
builtin/show-ref: refactor `--exclude-existing` options
builtin/show-ref: fix dead code when passing patterns
builtin/show-ref: fix leaking string buffer
builtin/show-ref: split up different subcommands
builtin/show-ref: convert pattern to a local variable
The codepath to traverse the commit-graph learned to notice that a
commit is missing (e.g., corrupt repository lost an object), even
though it knows something about the commit (like its parents) from
what is in commit-graph.
* ps/do-not-trust-commit-graph-blindly-for-existence:
commit: detect commits that exist in commit-graph but not in the ODB
commit-graph: introduce envvar to disable commit existence checks
Offer a slightly more verbose description of the issue fixed by
7144dee3ec (credential/libsecret: erase matching creds only, 2023-07-26)
and cb626f8e5c (credential/wincred: erase matching creds only,
2023-07-26).
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
References from description of the `--patch` option in various
manual pages have been simplified and improved.
* so/diff-doc-for-patch-update:
doc/diff-options: fix link to generating patch section
Overly long label names used in the sequencer machinery are now
chopped to fit under filesystem limitation.
* mp/rebase-label-length-limit:
rebase: allow overriding the maximal length of the generated labels
sequencer: truncate labels to accommodate loose refs
git merge-file knows how to merge files on the file system already. It
would be helpful, however, to allow it to also merge single blobs.
Teach it an `--object-id` option which means that its arguments are
object IDs and not files to allow it to do so.
We handle the empty blob specially since read_mmblob doesn't read it
directly and otherwise users cannot specify an empty ancestor.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <bk2204@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git merge-file` takes three positional arguments. Each of them is
documented as `<foo-file>`. In preparation for teaching this command to
alternatively take three object IDs, make these placeholders a bit more
generic by dropping the "-file" parts. Instead, clarify early that the
three arguments are filenames. Even after the next commit, we can afford
to present this file-centric view up front and in the general
discussion, since it will remain the default one.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <bk2204@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back in 32f3c541e3 (multi-pack-index: write pack names in chunk,
2018-07-12) the MIDX's "Packfile Names" (or "PNAM", for short) chunk was
described as containing an array of string entries. e0d1bcf825 notes
that this is the only chunk in the MIDX format's specification that is
not guaranteed to be 4-byte aligned, and so should be placed last.
This isn't quite accurate: the entries within the PNAM chunk are not
guaranteed to be 4-byte aligned since they are arbitrary strings, but
the chunk itself is 4-byte aligned since the ending is padded with NUL
bytes.
That padding has always been there since 32f3c541e3 via
midx.c::write_midx_pack_names(), which ended with:
i = MIDX_CHUNK_ALIGNMENT - (written % MIDX_CHUNK_ALIGNMENT)
if (i < MIDX_CHUNK_ALIGNMENT) {
unsigned char padding[MIDX_CHUNK_ALIGNMENT];
memset(padding, 0, sizeof(padding))
hashwrite(f, padding, i);
written += i;
}
In fact, 32f3c541e3's log message itself describes the chunk in its
first paragraph with:
Since filenames are not well structured, add padding to keep good
alignment in later chunks.
So these have always been externally aligned. Correct the corresponding
part of our documentation to reflect that.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
e0d1bcf825 (multi-pack-index: add format details, 2018-07-12) describes
the MIDX's "PNAM" chunk as having entries which are "null-terminated
strings".
This is a typo, as strings are terminated with a NUL character, which is
a distinct concept from "NULL" or "null", which we typically reserve for
the void pointer to address 0.
Correct the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While we have multiple ways to show the value of a given reference, we
do not have any way to check whether a reference exists at all. While
commands like git-rev-parse(1) or git-show-ref(1) can be used to check
for reference existence in case the reference resolves to something
sane, neither of them can be used to check for existence in some other
scenarios where the reference does not resolve cleanly:
- References which have an invalid name cannot be resolved.
- References to nonexistent objects cannot be resolved.
- Dangling symrefs can be resolved via git-symbolic-ref(1), but this
requires the caller to special case existence checks depending on
whether or not a reference is symbolic or direct.
Furthermore, git-rev-list(1) and other commands do not let the caller
distinguish easily between an actually missing reference and a generic
error.
Taken together, this seems like sufficient motivation to introduce a
separate plumbing command to explicitly check for the existence of a
reference without trying to resolve its contents.
This new command comes in the form of `git show-ref --exists`. This
new mode will exit successfully when the reference exists, with a
specific exit code of 2 when it does not exist, or with 1 when there
has been a generic error.
Note that the only way to properly implement this command is by using
the internal `refs_read_raw_ref()` function. While the public function
`refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()` can be made to behave in the same way by
passing various flags, it does not provide any way to obtain the errno
with which the reference backend failed when reading the reference. As
such, it becomes impossible for us to distinguish generic errors from
the explicit case where the reference wasn't found.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The synopsis treats the `--verify` and the implicit mode the same. They
are slightly different though:
- They accept different sets of flags.
- The implicit mode accepts patterns while the `--verify` mode
accepts references.
Split up the synopsis for these two modes such that we can disambiguate
those differences.
While at it, drop "--quiet" from the pattern mode's synopsis. It does
not make a lot of sense to list patterns, but squelch the listing output
itself. The description for "--quiet" is adapted accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our `lookup_commit_in_graph()` helper tries to look up commits from the
commit graph and, if it doesn't exist there, falls back to parsing it
from the object database instead. This is intended to speed up the
lookup of any such commit that exists in the database. There is an edge
case though where the commit exists in the graph, but not in the object
database. To avoid returning such stale commits the helper function thus
double checks that any such commit parsed from the graph also exists in
the object database. This makes the function safe to use even when
commit graphs aren't updated regularly.
We're about to introduce the same pattern into other parts of our code
base though, namely `repo_parse_commit_internal()`. Here the extra
sanity check is a bit of a tougher sell: `lookup_commit_in_graph()` was
a newly introduced helper, and as such there was no performance hit by
adding this sanity check. If we added `repo_parse_commit_internal()`
with that sanity check right from the beginning as well, this would
probably never have been an issue to begin with. But by retrofitting it
with this sanity check now we do add a performance regression to
preexisting code, and thus there is a desire to avoid this or at least
give an escape hatch.
In practice, there is no inherent reason why either of those functions
should have the sanity check whereas the other one does not: either both
of them are able to detect this issue or none of them should be. This
also means that the default of whether we do the check should likely be
the same for both. To err on the side of caution, we thus rather want to
make `repo_parse_commit_internal()` stricter than to loosen the checks
that we already have in `lookup_commit_in_graph()`.
The escape hatch is added in the form of a new GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA
environment variable that mirrors GIT_REF_PARANOIA. If enabled, which is
the default, we will double check that commits looked up in the commit
graph via `lookup_commit_in_graph()` also exist in the object database.
This same check will also be added in `repo_parse_commit_internal()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The codepath to handle recipient addresses `git send-email
--compose` learns from the user was completely broken, which has
been corrected.
* jk/send-email-fix-addresses-from-composed-messages:
send-email: handle to/cc/bcc from --compose message
Revert "send-email: extract email-parsing code into a subroutine"
doc/send-email: mention handling of "reply-to" with --compose
The attribute subsystem learned to honor `attr.tree` configuration
that specifies which tree to read the .gitattributes files from.
* jc/attr-tree-config:
attr: add attr.tree for setting the treeish to read attributes from
attr: read attributes from HEAD when bare repo
Many typos, ungrammatical sentences and wrong phrasing have been
fixed.
* sn/typo-grammo-phraso-fixes:
t/README: fix multi-prerequisite example
doc/gitk: s/sticked/stuck/
git-jump: admit to passing merge mode args to ls-files
doc/diff-options: improve wording of the log.diffMerges mention
doc: fix some typos, grammar and wording issues
Use parentheses and pipes to present alternatives in the argument help
for the --empty options of git am and git rebase, like in the rest of
the documentation.
While at it remove a stray use of the enum empty_action value
STOP_ON_EMPTY_COMMIT to indicate that no short option is present.
While it has a value of 0 and thus there is no user-visible change,
that enum is not meant to hold short option characters. Hard-code 0,
like we do for other options without a short option.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tutorial in Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt has steps to print
some text using the "_" function. However, this leads to compiler errors
when running "make" since "gettext.h" is not #included.
Update docs with a note to #include "gettext.h" in "builtin/psuh.c".
Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/SubmittingPatches informs the contributor that gitk's
context menu command "Copy commit summary" can be used to obtain the
conventional format of referencing existing commits. This command in
gitk was renamed to "Copy commit reference" in commit [1], following
implementation of Git's "reference" pretty format in [2].
Update mention of this gitk command in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
to its new name.
[1] b8b60957ce (gitk: rename "commit summary" to "commit reference",
2019-12-12)
[2] commit 1f0fc1d (pretty: implement 'reference' format, 2019-11-20)
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of the `git bisect run` command syntax at the beginning
of the manpage is `git bisect run <cmd>...`, which isn't quite clear
about what `<cmd>` is or what the `...` mean; one could think that it is
the whole (quoted) command line with all arguments in a single string,
or that it supports multiple commands, or that it doesn't accept
commands with arguments at all.
Change to `git bisect run <cmd> [<arg>...]` to clarify the syntax,
in both the manpage and the `git bisect -h` command output.
Additionally, change `--term-{new,bad}` et al to `--term-(new|bad)`
for consistency with the synopsis syntax conventions.
Signed-off-by: Javier Mora <cousteaulecommandant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-v" option is shown in the SYNOPSIS section near the top, but
"-q" is not shown anywhere there.
List "-q" alongside "-v".
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user writes a message via --compose, send-email will pick up
various headers like "From", "Subject", etc and use them for other
patches as if they were specified on the command-line. But we don't
handle "To", "Cc", or "Bcc" this way; we just tell the user "those
aren't interpeted yet" and ignore them.
But it seems like an obvious thing to want, especially as the same
feature exists when the cover letter is generated separately by
format-patch. There it is gated behind the --to-cover option, but I
don't think we'd need the same control here; since we generate the
--compose template ourselves based on the existing input, if the user
leaves the lines unchanged then the behavior remains the same.
So let's fill in the implementation; like those other headers we already
handle, we just need to assign to the initial_* variables. The only
difference in this case is that they are arrays, so we'll feed them
through parse_address_line() to split them (just like we would when
reading a single string via prompting).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for git-send-email lists the headers handled specially
by --compose in a way that implies that this is the complete set of
headers that are special. But one more was added by d11c943c78
(send-email: support separate Reply-To address, 2018-03-04) and never
documented.
Let's add it, and reword the documentation slightly to avoid having to
specify the list of headers twice (as it is growing and will continue to
do so as we add new features).
If you read the code, you may notice that we also handle MIME-Version
specially, in that we'll avoid over-writing user-provided MIME headers.
I don't think this is worth mentioning, as it's what you'd expect to
happen (as opposed to the other headers, which are picked up to be used
in later emails). And certainly this feature existed when the
documentation was expanded in 01d3861217 (git-send-email.txt: describe
--compose better, 2009-03-16), and we chose not to mention it then.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git am` passes the value given to its `--whitespace` option through
to the underlying `git apply`, and the value is called <action> over
there. Fix the documentation for the command that calls the value
<option> to say <action> instead.
Note that the option help given by `git am -h` already calls the
value <action>, so there is no need to make a matching change there.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git repack" learned "--max-cruft-size" to prevent cruft packs from
growing without bounds.
* tb/repack-max-cruft-size:
repack: free existing_cruft array after use
builtin/repack.c: avoid making cruft packs preferred
builtin/repack.c: implement support for `--max-cruft-size`
builtin/repack.c: parse `--max-pack-size` with OPT_MAGNITUDE
t7700: split cruft-related tests to t7704
The documentation for geometric repacking mentions a "--unpacked" option
that supposedly changes how loose objects are rolled up. This option has
never existed, and the implied behaviour, namely to include all unpacked
objects into the resulting packfile, is in fact the default behaviour.
Correct the documentation to not mention this option.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `-g` switch is a shorthand for `--geometric=` and allows the user to
specify the geometric. The documentation is wrong though and indicates
that the syntax for the shorthand is `-g=<factor>`. In fact though, the
option must be specified without the equals sign via `-g<factor>`.
Fix the syntax accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test coverage for trailers has been improved.
* la/trailer-test-and-doc-updates:
trailer doc: <token> is a <key> or <keyAlias>, not both
trailer doc: separator within key suppresses default separator
trailer doc: emphasize the effect of configuration variables
trailer --unfold help: prefer "reformat" over "join"
trailer --parse docs: add explanation for its usefulness
trailer --only-input: prefer "configuration variables" over "rules"
trailer --parse help: expose aliased options
trailer --no-divider help: describe usual "---" meaning
trailer: trailer location is a place, not an action
trailer doc: narrow down scope of --where and related flags
trailer: add tests to check defaulting behavior with --no-* flags
trailer test description: this tests --where=after, not --where=before
trailer tests: make test cases self-contained
44451a2 (attr: teach "--attr-source=<tree>" global option to "git",
2023-05-06) provided the ability to pass in a treeish as the attr
source. In the context of serving Git repositories as bare repos like we
do at GitLab however, it would be easier to point --attr-source to HEAD
for all commands by setting it once.
Add a new config attr.tree that allows this.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some references are special in the context of worktrees as they are
considered to be per-worktree instead of shared across all of the
worktrees. Most importantly, this includes "refs/worktree/" that have
explicitly been designed such that users can create per-woorktree refs.
But there are also special references that have an associated meaning
like "refs/bisect/", which is used to track state of git-bisect(1).
These special per-worktree references are documented in git-worktree(1),
but one instance is missing. In a9be29c981 (sequencer: make refs
generated by the `label` command worktree-local, 2018-04-25), we have
converted "refs/rewritten/" to be a per-worktree reference as well.
These references are used by our sequencer infrastructure to generate
labels for rebased commits. So in order to allow for multiple concurrent
rebases to happen in different worktrees, these references need to be
tracked per worktree.
We forgot to update our documentation to mention these new per-worktree
references, which is fixed by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option provides a shortcut to request diff with respect to first
parent for any kind of commit, universally. It's implemented as pure
synonym for "--diff-merges=first-parent --patch".
Gives user quick and universal way to see what changes, exactly, were
brought to a branch by merges as well as by regular commits.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Put descriptions of convenience shortcuts first, so they are the
first things reader observes rather than lengthy detailed stuff.
* Get rid of very long line containing all the --diff-merges formats
by replacing them with <format>, and putting each supported format
on its own line.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The DESCRIPTION's "first form" is actually the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th
form in SYNOPSIS, the "second form" is the 4th one.
Interestingly, this state of affairs was introduced in
97fe725075 (cat-file docs: fix SYNOPSIS and "-h" output, 2021-12-28)
with the claim of "Now the two will match again." ("the two" being
DESCRIPTION and SYNOPSIS)...
The description also suffers from other correctness and clarity issues,
e.g., the "first form" paragraph discusses -p, -s and -t, but leaves out
-e, which is included in the corresponding SYNOPSIS section; the second
paragraph mentions <format>, which doesn't occur in SYNOPSIS at all, and
of the three batch options, really only describes the behavior of
--batch-check. Also the mention of "drivers" seems an implementation
detail not adding much clarity in a short summary (and isn't expanded
upon in the rest of the man page, either).
Rather than trying to maintain one-to-one (or N-to-M) correspondence
between the DESCRIPTION and SYNOPSIS forms, creating duplication and
providing opportunities for error, shorten the former into a concise
summary describing the two general modes of operation: batch and
non-batch, leaving details to the subsequent manual sections.
While here, fix a grammar error in the description of -e and make the
following further minor improvements:
NAME:
shorten ("content or type and size" isn't the whole story; say
"details" and leave the actual details to later sections)
SYNOPSIS and --help:
move the (--textconv | --filters) form before --batch, closer
to the other non-batch forms
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The soft limit of the first line of the commit message should be
"no more than 50 characters" or "50 characters or less", but not
"less than 50 character".
This is an addition to commit c2c349a15c (doc: correct the 50 characters
soft limit, 2023-09-28).
Signed-off-by: 谢致邦 (XIE Zhibang) <Yeking@Red54.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Get rid of extraneous whitespace, replace tab-after-fullstop with
space, etc.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
