The "reference transaction" hook was introduced in commit 6754159767
(refs: implement reference transaction hook, 2020-06-19). The name of
the hook is declared as "reference-transaction" in "refs.c" and
testcases, but the name declared in "githooks.txt" is different.
Signed-off-by: Bojun Chen <bojun.cbj@alibaba-inc.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I've seen several people mis-configure git send-email on their first
attempt because they set the sendmail.* config options - not
sendemail.*. This patch detects this mistake and bails out with a
friendly warning.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In our test suite, when 'git p4' invokes a Git command as a
subprocesses, then it should run the 'git' binary we are testing.
Unfortunately, this is not the case in the 'linux-clang' and
'linux-gcc' jobs on Travis CI, where 'git p4' runs the system
'/usr/bin/git' instead.
Travis CI's default Linux image includes 'pyenv', and all Python
invocations that involve PATH lookup go through 'pyenv', e.g. our
'PYTHON_PATH=$(which python3)' sets '/opt/pyenv/shims/python3' as
PYTHON_PATH, which in turn will invoke '/usr/bin/python3'. Alas, the
'pyenv' version included in this image is buggy, and prepends the
directory containing the Python binary to PATH even if that is a
system directory already in PATH near the end. Consequently, 'git p4'
in those jobs ends up with its PATH starting with '/usr/bin', and then
runs '/usr/bin/git'.
So use the absolute paths '/usr/bin/python{2,3}' explicitly when
setting PYTHON_PATH in those Linux jobs to avoid the PATH lookup and
thus the bogus 'pyenv' from interfering with our 'git p4' tests.
Don't bother with special-casing Travis CI: while this issue doesn't
affect the corresponding Linux jobs on GitHub Actions, both CI systems
use Ubuntu LTS-based images, so we can safely rely on these Python
paths.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The index-pack documentation explicitly states that the pack
name is derived from the sorted list of object names, but
since commit 1190a1acf8 ("pack-objects: name pack files
after trailer hash") that isn't true anymore.
Be less explicit in the docs as to what the exact output is,
and just say that it's whatever goes into the pack name.
Also update a comment on write_idx_file() since it no longer
modifies the sha1 variable (it's const now anyway), as noted
by Junio.
Fixes: 1190a1acf8 ("pack-objects: name pack files after trailer hash")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pretend_object_file() is invoked with an object that does not exist
(as is the typical case), there is no need to fetch anything from the
promisor remote, because the caller already knows what the object is
supposed to contain. Therefore, suppress the fetch. (The
OBJECT_INFO_QUICK flag is added for the same reason.)
This was noticed at $DAYJOB when "blame" was run on a file that had
uncommitted modifications.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an object to be packed is noticed to be missing, prefetch all
to-be-packed objects in one batch.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use oid_object_info_extended() instead of oid_object_info() because a
subsequent commit needs to specify an additional flag here.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we invoke a remote transport helper and pass an option with an
argument, we quote the argument as a C-style string if necessary. This
is the case for the cas option, which implements the --force-with-lease
command-line flag, when we're passing a non-ASCII refname.
However, the remote curl helper isn't designed to parse such an
argument, meaning that if we try to use --force-with-lease with an HTTP
push and a non-ASCII refname, we get an error like this:
error: cannot parse expected object name '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"'
Note the double quote, which get_oid has reminded us is not valid in an
hex object ID.
Even if we had been able to parse it, we would send the wrong data to
the server: we'd send an escaped ref, which would not behave as the user
wanted and might accidentally result in updating or deleting a ref we
hadn't intended.
Since we need to expect a quoted C-style string here, just check if the
first argument is a double quote, and if so, unquote it. Note that if
the refname contains a double quote, then we will have double-quoted it
already, so there is no ambiguity.
We test for this case only in the smart protocol, since the DAV-based
protocol is not capable of handling this capability. We use UTF-8
because this is nicer in our tests and friendlier to Windows, but the
code should work for all non-ASCII refs.
While we're at it, since the name of the option is now well established
and isn't going to change, let's inline it instead of using the #define
constant.
Reported-by: Frej Bjon <frej.bjon@nemit.fi>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using git-prompt.sh with zsh, __git_ps1 currently errs
when inside a repo with:
__git_ps1:96: = not found
Avoid using non-portable "==" that is only understood by bash
and not zsh. Change to "=" so that the prompt script becomes
usable with zsh again.
Signed-off-by: David J. Malan <malan@harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git mv' has always complained about renaming a conflicted
file, as it cannot handle multiple index entries for one file.
However, the error message it uses has been the same as the
one for an untracked file:
fatal: not under version control, src=...
which is patently wrong. Distinguish the two cases and
add a test to make sure we produce the correct message.
Signed-off-by: Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 95c11ecc73 ("Fix error-prone fill_directory() API; make it only
return matches", 2020-04-01), we taught `fill_directory()`, or more
specifically `treat_path()`, to check against any pathspecs so that we
could simplify the callers.
But in doing so, we added a slightly-too-early return for the "excluded"
case. We end up not checking the pathspecs, meaning we return
`path_excluded` when maybe we should return `path_none`. As a result,
`git status --ignored -- pathspec` might show paths that don't actually
match "pathspec".
Move the "excluded" check down to after we've checked any pathspecs.
Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While we're at it, fix some minor misspelling
and improve translation for 3-way-merging.
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tran Ngoc Quan <vnwildman@gmail.com>
In 6b7093064a ("t3200: test for specific errors", 2020-06-15), we
learned to grep stderr to ensure that the failing `git branch`
invocations fail for the right reason. In two of these tests, we grep
for "File exists", expecting the string to show up there since config.c
calls `error_errno()`, which ends up including `strerror(errno)` in the
error message.
But as we saw in 4605a73073 ("t1091: don't grep for `strerror()`
string", 2020-03-08), there exists at least one implementation where
`strerror()` yields a slightly different string than the one we're
grepping for. In particular, these tests fail on the NonStop platform.
Similar to 4605a73073, grep for the beginning of the string instead to
avoid relying on `strerror()` behavior.
Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
AsciiDoctor renders the "~~~~~~~~~" literally. That's not our intention:
it is supposed to indicate a level 2 subsection. In 828197de8f ("docs:
adjust for the recent rename of `pu` to `seen`", 2020-06-25), the length
of this section header grew by two characters but we didn't adjust the
number of ~ characters accordingly. AsciiDoc handles this discrepancy ok
and still picks this up as a subsection title, but Asciidoctor is not as
forgiving.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the two-patch series for regression fix, to the users from 2.27
days, there is no visible behaviour change---we do not warn and fail
use of v0 repositories with newer extensions yet, so there is nothing
to note in the backward compatibility section.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 2.28-rc0, we corrected a bug that some repository extensions are
honored by mistake even in a version 0 repositories (these
configuration variables in extensions.* namespace were supposed to
have special meaning in repositories whose version numbers are 1 or
higher), but this was a bit too big a change.
* jn/v0-with-extensions-fix:
repository: allow repository format upgrade with extensions
Revert "check_repository_format_gently(): refuse extensions for old repositories"
This will allow these tests to run with alternative ref backends
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When upload-pack receives a request containing "have" hashes, it (among
other things) checks if the served repository has the corresponding
objects. However, it does not do so with the
OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT flag, so if serving a partial clone, a
lazy fetch will be triggered first.
This was discovered at $DAYJOB when a user fetched from a partial clone
(into another partial clone - although this would also happen if the
repo to be fetched into is not a partial clone).
Therefore, whenever "have" hashes are checked for existence, pass the
OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_FETCH_OBJECT flag. Also add the OBJECT_INFO_QUICK flag
to improve performance, as it is typical that such objects do not exist
in the serving repo, and the consequences of a false negative are minor
(usually, a slightly larger pack sent).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's useful and efficient to be able to get the size of the
contents directly without having to pipe through `wc -c`.
Also the result of the following:
`git for-each-ref --format='%(contents)' refs/heads/my-branch | wc -c`
is off by one as `git for-each-ref` appends a newline character
after the contents, which can be seen by comparing its output
with the output from `git cat-file`.
As with %(contents), %(contents:size) is silently ignored, if a
ref points to something other than a commit or a tag:
```
$ git update-ref refs/mytrees/first HEAD^{tree}
$ git for-each-ref --format='%(contents)' refs/mytrees/first
$ git for-each-ref --format='%(contents:size)' refs/mytrees/first
```
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
has_dir_name() has some optimizations for the case where entries are
added to an index in the correct order. They kick in if the new entry
sorts after the last one. One of them exits early if the last entry has
a longer name than the directory of the new entry. Here's its comment:
/*
* The directory prefix lines up with part of
* a longer file or directory name, but sorts
* after it, so this sub-directory cannot
* collide with a file.
*
* last: xxx/yy-file (because '-' sorts before '/')
* this: xxx/yy/abc
*/
However, a file named xxx/yy would be sorted before xxx/yy-file because
'-' sorts after NUL, so the length check against the last entry is not
sufficient to rule out a collision. Remove it.
Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We made the mistake in the past of respecting extensions.* even when the
repository format version was set to 0. This is bad because forgetting
to bump the repository version means that older versions of Git (which
do not know about our extensions) won't complain. I.e., it's not a
problem in itself, but it means your repository is in a state which does
not give you the protection you think you're getting from older
versions.
For compatibility reasons, we are stuck with that decision for existing
extensions. However, we'd prefer not to extend the damage further. We
can do that by catching any newly-added extensions and complaining about
the repository format.
Note that this is a pretty heavy hammer: we'll refuse to work with the
repository at all. A lesser option would be to ignore (possibly with a
warning) any new extensions. But because of the way the extensions are
handled, that puts the burden on each new extension that is added to
remember to "undo" itself (because they are handled before we know
for sure whether we are in a v1 repo or not, since we don't insist on a
particular ordering of config entries).
So one option would be to rewrite that handling to record any new
extensions (and their values) during the config parse, and then only
after proceed to handle new ones only if we're in a v1 repository. But
I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble:
- ignoring extensions is likely to end up with broken results anyway
(e.g., ignoring a proposed objectformat extension means parsing any
object data is likely to encounter errors)
- this is a sign that whatever tool wrote the extension field is
broken. We may be better off notifying immediately and forcefully so
that such tools don't even appear to work accidentally.
The only downside is that fixing the situation is a little tricky,
because programs like "git config" won't want to work with the
repository. But:
git config --file=.git/config core.repositoryformatversion 1
should still suffice.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we officially permit repository extensions in repository
format v0, permit upgrading a repository with extensions from v0 to v1
as well.
For example, this means a repository where the user has set
"extensions.preciousObjects" can use "git fetch --filter=blob:none
origin" to upgrade the repository to use v1 and the partial clone
extension.
To avoid mistakes, continue to forbid repository format upgrades in v0
repositories with an unrecognized extension. This way, a v0 user
using a misspelled extension field gets a chance to correct the
mistake before updating to the less forgiving v1 format.
While we're here, make the error message for failure to upgrade the
repository format a bit shorter, and present it as an error, not a
warning.
Reported-by: Huan Huan Chen <huanhuanchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 14c7fa269e.
The core.repositoryFormatVersion field was introduced in ab9cb76f66
(Repository format version check., 2005-11-25), providing a welcome
bit of forward compatibility, thanks to some welcome analysis by
Martin Atukunda. The semantics are simple: a repository with
core.repositoryFormatVersion set to 0 should be comprehensible by all
Git implementations in active use; and Git implementations should
error out early instead of trying to act on Git repositories with
higher core.repositoryFormatVersion values representing new formats
that they do not understand.
A new repository format did not need to be defined until 00a09d57eb
(introduce "extensions" form of core.repositoryformatversion,
2015-06-23). This provided a finer-grained extension mechanism for
Git repositories. In a repository with core.repositoryFormatVersion
set to 1, Git implementations can act on "extensions.*" settings that
modify how a repository is interpreted. In repository format version
1, unrecognized extensions settings cause Git to error out.
What happens if a user sets an extension setting but forgets to
increase the repository format version to 1? The extension settings
were still recognized in that case; worse, unrecognized extensions
settings do *not* cause Git to error out. So combining repository
format version 0 with extensions settings produces in some sense the
worst of both worlds.
To improve that situation, since 14c7fa269e
(check_repository_format_gently(): refuse extensions for old
repositories, 2020-06-05) Git instead ignores extensions in v0 mode.
This way, v0 repositories get the historical (pre-2015) behavior and
maintain compatibility with Git implementations that do not know about
the v1 format. Unfortunately, users had been using this sort of
configuration and this behavior change came to many as a surprise:
- users of "git config --worktree" that had followed its advice
to enable extensions.worktreeConfig (without also increasing the
repository format version) would find their worktree configuration
no longer taking effect
- tools such as copybara[*] that had set extensions.partialClone in
existing repositories (without also increasing the repository format
version) would find that setting no longer taking effect
The behavior introduced in 14c7fa269e might be a good behavior if we
were traveling back in time to 2015, but we're far too late. For some
reason I thought that it was what had been originally implemented and
that it had regressed. Apologies for not doing my research when
14c7fa269e was under development.
Let's return to the behavior we've had since 2015: always act on
extensions.* settings, regardless of repository format version. While
we're here, include some tests to describe the effect on the "upgrade
repository version" code path.
[*] ca76c0b1e1
Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix to the code to produce progress bar, which is new in the
upcoming release.
* tb/commit-graph-no-check-oids:
commit-graph: fix "Collecting commits from input" progress line
The code to produce progress output from "git commit-graph --write"
had a few breakages, which have been fixed.
* sg/commit-graph-progress-fix:
commit-graph: fix "Writing out commit graph" progress counter
commit-graph: fix progress of reachable commits
When an aliased command, whose output is piped to a pager by git,
gets killed by a signal, the pager got into a funny state, which
has been corrected (again).
* ta/wait-on-aliased-commands-upon-signal:
Wait for child on signal death for aliases to externals
Wait for child on signal death for aliases to builtins
The completion for diff command was added in fd0bc17557 but
missed the show command which also supports --color-moved[-ws].
This suffers from the very same problem [1] as the referenced
commit: no comma-separated list completion for --color-moved-ws.
[1]: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/240
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To display a progress line while reading commits from standard input
and looking them up, 5b6653e523 (builtin/commit-graph.c: dereference
tags in builtin, 2020-05-13) should have added a pair of
start_delayed_progress() and stop_progress() calls around the loop
reading stdin. Alas, the stop_progress() call ended up at the wrong
place, after write_commit_graph(), which does all the commit-graph
computation and writing, and has several progress lines of its own.
Consequently, that new
Collecting commits from input: 1234
progress line is overwritten by the first progress line shown by
write_commit_graph(), and its final "done" line is shown last, after
everything is finished:
$ { sleep 3 ; git rev-list -3 HEAD ; sleep 1 ; } | ~/src/git/git commit-graph write --stdin-commits
Expanding reachable commits in commit graph: 873402, done.
Writing out commit graph in 4 passes: 100% (3493608/3493608), done.
Collecting commits from input: 3, done.
Furthermore, that stop_progress() call was added after the 'cleanup'
label, where that loop reading stdin jumps in case of an error. In
case of invalid input this then results in the "done" line shown after
the error message:
$ { sleep 3 ; git rev-list -3 HEAD ; echo junk ; } | ~/src/git/git commit-graph write --stdin-commits
error: unexpected non-hex object ID: junk
Collecting commits from input: 3, done.
Move that stop_progress() call to the right place.
While at it, drop the unnecessary 'if (progress)' condition protecting
the stop_progress() call, because that function is prepared to handle
a NULL progress struct.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier "fix" to this script gave up updating it not to rely on
the current time because we cannot control what timestamp subversion
gives its commits. We however could solve the issue in a different
way and still use deterministic timestamps on Git commits.
One fix would be to sort the list of trees before removing duplicates,
but that loses information:
- we do care that the fetched history is in the same order
- there's a tree which appears twice in the history, and we'd want to
make sure that it's there both times
So instead, let's de-duplicate using a hash (preserving the order), and
drop only lines with identical trees and subjects (preserving the tree
which appears twice, since it has different subjects each time).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We always set the name and email for committer and author idents to make
the test suite more deterministic, but not timestamps. Many scripts use
test_tick to get consistent and sensibly incrementing timestamps as they
create commits. But other scripts don't particularly care about the
timestamp, and are happy to use whatever the current system time is.
This non-determinism can be annoying:
- when debugging a test, comparing results between two runs can be
difficult, because the commit ids change
- this can sometimes cause tests to be racy. E.g., traversal order
depends on timestamp order. Even in a well-ordered set of commands,
because our timestamp granularity is one second, two commits might
sometimes have the same timestamp and sometimes differ.
Let's set a default timestamp for all scripts to use. Any that use
test_tick already will be unaffected (because their first test_tick call
will overwrite our default), but it will make things a bit more
deterministic for those that don't.
We should be able to choose any time we want here. I picked this one
because:
- it differs from the initial test_tick default, which may make it
easier to distinguish when debugging tests. I picked "April 1st
13:14:15" in the hope that it might stand out.
- it's slightly before the test_tick default. Some tests create some
commits before the first call to test_tick, so using an older
timestamps for those makes sense chronologically. Note that this
isn't how things currently work (where system times are usually more
recent than test_tick), but that also allows us to flush out a few
hidden timestamp dependencies (like the one recently fixed in
t5539).
- we could likewise pick any timezone we want. Choosing +0000 would
have required fixing up fewer tests, but we're more likely to turn
up interesting cases by not matching $TZ exactly. And since
test_tick already checks "-0700", let's try something in the "+"
zone range for variety.
It's possible that the non-deterministic times could help flush out bugs
(e.g., if something broke when the clock flipped over to 2021, our test
suite would let us know). But historically that hasn't been the case;
all time-dependent outcomes we've seen turned out to be accidentally
flaky tests (which we fixed by using test_tick). If we do want to cover
handling the current time, we should dedicate one script to doing so,
and have it unset GIT_COMMITTER_DATE explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The early part of t9100 creates an unusual "doubled" history in the
"git-svn" ref. When we get to t9100.17, it looks like this:
$ git log --oneline --graph git-svn
[...]
* efd0303 detect node change from file to directory #2
|\
* | 3e727c0 detect node change from file to directory #2
|/
* 3b00468 try a deep --rmdir with a commit
|\
* | b4832d8 try a deep --rmdir with a commit
|/
* f0d7bd5 import for git svn
Each commit we make with "git commit" is paired with one from "git svn
set-tree", with the latter as a merge of the first and its grandparent.
Later, t9100.17 wants to check that "git svn fetch" gets the same trees.
And it does, but just one copy of each. So it uses rev-list to get the
tree of each commit and pipes it to "uniq" to drop the duplicates. Our
input isn't sorted, but it will find adjacent duplicates. This works
reliably because the order of commits from rev-list always shows the
duplicates next to each other. For any one of those merges, we could
choose to show its duplicate or the grandparent first. But barring
clocks running backwards, the duplicate will always have a time equal to
or greater than the grandparent. Even if equal, we break ties by showing
the first-parent first, so the duplicates remain adjacent.
But this would break if the timestamps stopped moving in chronological
order. Normally we would rely on test_tick for this, but we have _two_
sources of time here:
- "git commit" creates one commit based on GIT_COMMITTER_DATE (which
respects test_tick)
- the "svn set-tree" one is based on subversion, which does not have
an easy way to specify a timestamp
So using test_tick actually breaks the test, because now the duplicates
are far in the past, and we'll show the grandparent before the
duplicate. And likewise, a proposed change to set GIT_COMMITTER_DATE in
all scripts will break it.
We _could_ fix this by sorting before removing duplicates, but
presumably it's a useful part of the test to make sure the trees appear
in the same order in both spots. Likewise, we could use something like:
perl -ne 'print unless $seen{$_}++'
to remove duplicates without impacting the order. But that doesn't work
either, because there are actually multiple (non-duplicate) commits with
the same trees (we change a file mode and then change it back). So we'd
actually have to de-duplicate the combination of subject and tree. Which
then further throws off t9100.18, which compares the tree hashes
exactly; we'd have to strip the result back down.
Since this test _isn't_ buggy, the simplest thing is to just work around
the proposed change by documenting our expectation that git-created
commits are correctly interleaved using the current time.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of `git diff` goes through several different invocations
(numbering added by me):
1. git diff [<options>] [--] [<path>...]
2. git diff [<options>] --no-index [--] <path> <path>
3. git diff [<options>] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]
4. git diff [<options>] <commit> [--] [<path>...]
5. git diff [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...]
6. git diff [<options>] <commit>..<commit> [--] [<path>...]
7. git diff [<options>] <commit> <commit>... <commit> [--] [<path>...]
8. git diff [<options>] <commit>...<commit> [--] [<path>...]
It then goes on to say that "all of the <commit> in the above
description, except in the last two forms that use '..' notations, can
be any <tree>". The "last two" actually refers to 6 and 8. This got out
of sync in commit b7e10b2ca2 ("Documentation: usage for diff combined
commits", 2020-06-12) which added item 7 to the mix.
As a further complication, after b7e10b2ca2 we also have some potential
confusion around "the '..' notation". The "..[.]" in items 6 and 8 are
part of the rev notation, whereas the "..." in item 7 is manpage
language for "one or more".
Move item 6 down, i.e., to between 7 and 8, to restore the ordering.
Because 6 refers to 5 ("synonymous to the previous form") we need to
tweak the language a bit.
An added bonus of this commit is that we're trying to steer users away
from `git diff <commit>..<commit>` and moving it further down probably
doesn't hurt.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
