Add a new advice/hint in `git worktree add` for when the user
tries to create a new worktree from a reference that doesn't exist.
Current Behavior:
% git init foo
Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/foo/
% touch file
% git -C foo commit -q -a -m "test commit"
% git -C foo switch --orphan norefbranch
% git -C foo worktree add newbranch/
Preparing worktree (new branch 'newbranch')
fatal: invalid reference: HEAD
%
New Behavior:
% git init --bare foo
Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/foo/
% touch file
% git -C foo commit -q -a -m "test commit"
% git -C foo switch --orphan norefbranch
% git -C foo worktree add newbranch/
Preparing worktree (new branch 'newbranch')
hint: If you meant to create a worktree containing a new orphan branch
hint: (branch with no commits) for this repository, you can do so
hint: using the --orphan option:
hint:
hint: git worktree add --orphan newbranch/
hint:
hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.worktreeAddOrphan false"
fatal: invalid reference: HEAD
% git -C foo worktree add -b newbranch2 new_wt/
Preparing worktree (new branch 'newbranch')
hint: If you meant to create a worktree containing a new orphan branch
hint: (branch with no commits) for this repository, you can do so
hint: using the --orphan option:
hint:
hint: git worktree add --orphan -b newbranch2 new_wt/
hint:
hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.worktreeAddOrphan false"
fatal: invalid reference: HEAD
%
Signed-off-by: Jacob Abel <jacobabel@nullpo.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After "git pull" that is configured with pull.rebase=false
merge.ff=only fails due to our end having our own development, give
advice messages to get out of the "Not possible to fast-forward"
state.
* fc/advice-diverged-history:
advice: add diverging advice for novices
The user might not necessarily know why ff only was configured, maybe an
admin did it, or the installer (Git for Windows), or perhaps they just
followed some online advice.
This can happen not only on pull.ff=only, but merge.ff=only too.
Even worse if the user has configured pull.rebase=false and
merge.ff=only, because in those cases a diverging merge will constantly
keep failing. There's no trivial way to get out of this other than
`git merge --no-ff`.
Let's not assume our users are experts in git who completely understand
all their configurations.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an advice.
When the user use `git mv --sparse <dirty-path> <destination>`, Git
will warn the user to use `git add --sparse <paths>` then use
`git sparse-checkout reapply` to apply the sparsity rules.
Add a few lines to previous "move dirty path" tests so we can test
this new advice is working.
Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaoxuan Yuan <shaoxuan.yuan02@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Give hint when branch tracking cannot be established because fetch
refspecs from multiple remote repositories overlap.
* tk/ambiguous-fetch-refspec:
tracking branches: add advice to ambiguous refspec error
The error "not tracking: ambiguous information for ref" is raised
when we are evaluating what tracking information to set on a branch,
and find that the ref to be added as tracking branch is mapped
under multiple remotes' fetch refspecs.
This can easily happen when a user copy-pastes a remote definition
in their git config, and forgets to change the tracking path.
Add advice in this situation, explicitly highlighting which remotes
are involved and suggesting how to correct the situation. Also
update a test to explicitly expect that advice.
Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace references to '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in the advice on how to
skip refreshing the index. When the advice was introduced, '--quiet' was the
only way to avoid the expensive 'refresh_index(...)' at the end of a mixed
reset. After introducing '--no-refresh', however, '--quiet' became only a
fallback option for determining refresh behavior, overridden by
'--[no-]refresh' or 'reset.refresh' if either is set. To ensure users are
advised to use the most reliable option for avoiding 'refresh_index(...)',
replace recommendation of '--quiet' with '--[no-]refresh'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users who are accustomed to doing `git checkout <tag>` assume that
`git switch <tag>` will do the same thing. Inform them of the --detach
option so they aren't left wondering why `git switch` doesn't work but
`git checkout` does.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To improve the submodules UX, we would like to teach Git to handle
branches in submodules. Start this process by teaching "git branch" the
--recurse-submodules option so that "git branch --recurse-submodules
topic" will create the `topic` branch in the superproject and its
submodules.
Although this commit does not introduce breaking changes, it does not
work well with existing --recurse-submodules commands because "git
branch --recurse-submodules" writes to the submodule ref store, but most
commands only consider the superproject gitlink and ignore the submodule
ref store. For example, "git checkout --recurse-submodules" will check
out the commits in the superproject gitlinks (and put the submodules in
detached HEAD) instead of checking out the submodule branches.
Because of this, this commit introduces a new configuration value,
`submodule.propagateBranches`. The plan is for Git commands to
prioritize submodule ref store information over superproject gitlinks if
this value is true. Because "git branch --recurse-submodules" writes to
submodule ref stores, for the sake of clarity, it will not function
unless this configuration value is set.
This commit also includes changes that support working with submodules
from a superproject commit because "branch --recurse-submodules" (and
future commands) need to read .gitmodules and gitlinks from the
superproject commit, but submodules are typically read from the
filesystem's .gitmodules and the index's gitlinks. These changes are:
* add a submodules_of_tree() helper that gives the relevant
information of an in-tree submodule (e.g. path and oid) and
initializes the repository
* add is_tree_submodule_active() by adding a treeish_name parameter to
is_submodule_active()
* add the "submoduleNotUpdated" advice to advise users to update the
submodules in their trees
Incidentally, fix an incorrect usage string that combined the 'list'
usage of git branch (-l) with the 'create' usage; this string has been
incorrect since its inception, a8dfd5eac4 (Make builtin-branch.c use
parse_options., 2007-10-07).
Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git add", "git mv", and "git rm" have been adjusted to avoid
updating paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition unless
the user specifies a "--sparse" option.
* ds/add-rm-with-sparse-index:
advice: update message to suggest '--sparse'
mv: refuse to move sparse paths
rm: skip sparse paths with missing SKIP_WORKTREE
rm: add --sparse option
add: update --renormalize to skip sparse paths
add: update --chmod to skip sparse paths
add: implement the --sparse option
add: skip tracked paths outside sparse-checkout cone
add: fail when adding an untracked sparse file
dir: fix pattern matching on dirs
dir: select directories correctly
t1092: behavior for adding sparse files
t3705: test that 'sparse_entry' is unstaged
The previous changes modified the behavior of 'git add', 'git rm', and
'git mv' to not adjust paths outside the sparse-checkout cone, even if
they exist in the working tree and their cache entries lack the
SKIP_WORKTREE bit. The intention is to warn users that they are doing
something potentially dangerous. The '--sparse' option was added to each
command to allow careful users the same ability they had before.
To improve the discoverability of this new functionality, add a message
to advice.updateSparsePath that mentions the existence of the option.
The previous set of changes also modified the purpose of this message to
include possibly a list of paths instead of only a list of pathspecs.
Make the warning message more clear about this new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean up to migrate callers from older advice_config[] based
API to newer advice_if_enabled() and advice_enabled() API.
* ab/retire-advice-config:
advice: move advice.graftFileDeprecated squashing to commit.[ch]
advice: remove use of global advice_add_embedded_repo
advice: remove read uses of most global `advice_` variables
advice: add enum variants for missing advice variables
"git rebase" by default skips changes that are equivalent to
commits that are already in the history the branch is rebased onto;
give messages when this happens to let the users be aware of
skipped commits, and also teach them how to tell "rebase" to keep
duplicated changes.
* js/advise-when-skipping-cherry-picked:
sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commit
Silently skipping commits when rebasing with --no-reapply-cherry-picks
(currently the default behavior) can cause user confusion. Issue
warnings when this happens, as well as advice on how to preserve the
skipped commits.
These warnings and advice are displayed only when using the (default)
"merge" rebase backend.
Update the git-rebase docs to mention the warnings and advice.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the squashing of the advice.graftFileDeprecated advice over to an
external variable in commit.[ch], allowing advice() to purely use the
new-style API of invoking advice() with an enum.
See 8821e90a09 (advice: don't pointlessly suggest
--convert-graft-file, 2018-11-27) for why quieting this advice was
needed. It's more straightforward to move this code to commit.[ch] and
use it builtin/replace.c, than to go through the indirection of
advice.[ch].
Because this was the last advice_config variable we can remove that
old facility from advice.c.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The external use of this variable was added in 532139940c (add: warn
when adding an embedded repository, 2017-06-14). For the use-case it's
more straightforward to track whether we've shown advice in
check_embedded_repo() than setting the global variable.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In c4a09cc9cc (Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng', 2020-03-25), a new API for
accessing advice variables was introduced and deprecated `advice_config`
in favor of a new array, `advice_setting`.
This patch ports all but two uses which read the status of the global
`advice_` variables over to the new `advice_enabled` API. We'll deal
with advice_add_embedded_repo and advice_graft_file_deprecated
separately.
Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In daef1b300b (Merge branch 'hw/advice-add-nothing', 2020-02-14), two
advice settings were introduced into the `advice_config` array.
Subsequently, c4a09cc9cc (Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng', 2020-03-25)
started to deprecate `advice_config` in favor of a new array,
`advice_setting`.
However, the latter branch did not include the former branch, and
therefore `advice_setting` is missing the two entries added by the
`hw/advice-add-nothing` branch.
These are currently the only entries in `advice_config` missing from
`advice_setting`.
Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The warning about pulling without specifying how to reconcile divergent
branches says that after setting pull.rebase to true, --ff-only can
still be passed on the command line to require a fast-forward. Make that
actually work.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
[en: updated tests; note 3 fixes and 1 new failure]
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git add` already refrains from updating SKIP_WORKTREE entries, but it
silently exits with zero code when it is asked to do so. Instead, let's
warn the user and display a hint on how to update these entries.
Note that we only warn the user whey they give a pathspec item that
matches no eligible path for updating, but it does match one or more
SKIP_WORKTREE entries. A warning was chosen over erroring out right away
to reproduce the same behavior `add` already exhibits with ignored
files. This also allow users to continue their workflow without having
to invoke `add` again with only the eligible paths (as those will have
already been added).
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous commit added the necessary machinery to implement the
"--force-if-includes" protection, when "--force-with-lease" is used
without giving exact object the remote still ought to have. Surface
the feature by adding a command line option and a configuration
variable to enable it.
- Add a flag: "TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE_IF_INCLUDES" to indicate that the
new option was passed from the command line of via configuration
settings; update command line and configuration parsers to set the
new flag accordingly.
- Introduce a new configuration option "push.useForceIfIncludes", which
is equivalent to setting "--force-if-includes" in the command line.
- Update "remote-curl" to recognize and pass this option to "send-pack"
when enabled.
- Update "advise" to catch the reject reason "REJECT_REF_NEEDS_UPDATE",
set when the ref status is "REF_STATUS_REJECT_REMOTE_UPDATED" and
(optionally) print a help message when the push fails.
- The new option is a "no-op" in the following scenarios:
* When used without "--force-with-lease".
* When used with "--force-with-lease", and if the expected commit
on the remote side is specified as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Srinidhi Kaushik <shrinidhi.kaushik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Revamping of the advise API to allow more systematic enumeration of
advice knobs in the future.
* hw/advise-ng:
tag: use new advice API to check visibility
advice: revamp advise API
advice: change "setupStreamFailure" to "setUpstreamFailure"
advice: extract vadvise() from advise()
change the advise call in tag library from advise() to
advise_if_enabled() to construct an example of the usage of
the new API.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently it's very easy for the advice library's callers to miss
checking the visibility step before printing an advice. Also, it makes
more sense for this step to be handled by the advice library.
Add a new advise_if_enabled function that checks the visibility of
advice messages before printing.
Add a new helper advise_enabled to check the visibility of the advice
if the caller needs to carry out complicated processing based on that
value.
A list of advice_settings is added to cache the config variables names
and values, it's intended to replace advice_config[] and the global
variables once we migrate all the callers to use the new APIs.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fb6fbffbda (advice: keep config name in camelCase in advice_config[],
2018-05-26) changed the config names to camelCase, but one of the names
wasn't changed correctly. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for a new advice method, extract a version of advise()
that uses an explict 'va_list' parameter. Call it from advise() for a
functionally equivalent version.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
advice.addNothing config variable is used to control the visibility of
two advice messages in the add library. This config variable is
replaced by two new variables, whose names are more clear and relevant
to the two cases.
Also add the two new variables to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the advise function in advice.c to display hints to the users, as
it provides a neat and a standard format for hint messages, i.e: the
text is colored in yellow and the line starts by the word "hint:".
Also this will enable us to control the messages using advice.*
configuration variables.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When recursively cloning a superproject with some shallow modules
defined in its .gitmodules, then recloning with "--reference=<path>", an
error occurs. For example:
git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \
master
git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \
--reference master master2
fails with:
fatal: submodule '<snip>' cannot add alternate: reference repository
'<snip>' is shallow
When a alternate computed from the superproject's alternate cannot be
added, whether in this case or another, advise about configuring the
"submodule.alternateErrorStrategy" configuration option and using
"--reference-if-able" instead of "--reference" when cloning.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action.
* ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip:
cherry-pick/revert: advise using --skip
cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option
sequencer: use argv_array in reset_merge
sequencer: rename reset_for_rollback to reset_merge
sequencer: add advice for revert
"git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in
non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation.
The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable
this safety feature.
* ds/fetch-disable-force-notice:
pull: add --[no-]show-forced-updates passthrough
fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing
fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument
"git status" can be told a non-standard default value for the
"--[no-]ahead-behind" option with a new configuration variable
status.aheadBehind.
* jh/status-aheadbehind:
status: ignore status.aheadbehind in porcelain formats
status: warn when a/b calculation takes too long
status: add status.aheadbehind setting
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.
* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
t2027: use test_must_be_empty
Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
doc: promote "git restore"
user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
completion: support restore
t: add tests for restore
restore: support --patch
restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
restore: add --worktree and --staged
checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
restore: disable overlay mode by default
restore: make pathspec mandatory
restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
doc: promote "git switch"
...
In the case of merge conflicts, while performing a revert, we are
currently advised to use `git cherry-pick --<sequencer-options>`.
Introduce a separate advice message for `git revert`. Also change
the signature of `create_seq_dir` to handle which advice to display
selectively.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --[no-]show-forced-updates option in 'git fetch' can be confusing
for some users, especially if it is enabled via config setting and not
by argument. Add advice to warn the user that the (forced update)
messages were not listed.
Additionally, warn users when the forced update check takes longer
than ten seconds, and recommend that they disable the check. These
messages can be disabled by the advice.fetchShowForcedUpdates config
setting.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ahead/behind calculation in 'git status' can be slow in some
cases. Users may not realize that there are ways to avoid this
computation, especially if they are not using the information.
Add a warning that appears if this calculation takes more than
two seconds. The warning can be disabled through the new config
setting advice.statusAheadBehind.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Robert Dailey reported confusion on the mailing list about a nested
tag which was most likely created by mistake. Jeff King noted that
this isn't a very common case and creating a tag-to-a-tag can be a
user-error.
Suggest that it may be a mistake with an advice message when
creating such a tag. Those who do want to create a tag that point
at another tag regularly can turn it off with the usual advice
mechanism.
Reported-by: Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
[jc: fixed test style and tweaked the log message]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new command "git switch" is added to avoid the confusion of
one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new users. They are also helpful
to avoid ambiguation context.
For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands...
The "Checking out files" progress line in unpack-trees.c is also updated
to "Updating files" to be neutral to both git-checkout and git-switch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Detached HEAD mode is considered dangerous and confusing for newcomers
and we print a big block of warning how to move forward. But we should
also suggest the user the way to get out of it if they get into detached
HEAD by mistake.
While at there, I also suggest how to turn the advice off. This is
another thing I find annoying with advices and should be dealt with in a
more generic way. But that may require some refactoring in advice.c
first.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an advice to the recently improved error message added in
f8aae12034 ("push: allow unqualified dest refspecs to DWIM",
2008-04-23).
Now with advice.pushUnqualifiedRefName=true (on by default) we show a
hint about how to proceed:
$ ./git-push avar v2.19.0^{commit}:newbranch -n
error: The destination you provided is not a full refname (i.e.,
starting with "refs/"). We tried to guess what you meant by:
- Looking for a ref that matches 'newbranch' on the remote side.
- Checking if the <src> being pushed ('v2.19.0^{commit}')
is a ref in "refs/{heads,tags}/". If so we add a corresponding
refs/{heads,tags}/ prefix on the remote side.
Neither worked, so we gave up. You must fully qualify the ref.
hint: The <src> part of the refspec is a commit object.
hint: Did you mean to create a new branch by pushing to
hint: 'v2.19.0^{commit}:refs/heads/newbranch'?
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:avar/git.git'
When trying to push a tag, tree or a blob we suggest that perhaps the
user meant to push them to refs/tags/ instead.
The if/else duplication for all of OBJ_{COMMIT,TAG,TREE,BLOB} is
unfortunate, but is required to correctly mark the messages for
translation. See the discussion in
<87r2gxebsi.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> about that.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refresh_index() is done after a reset command as an optimization. Because
it can be an expensive call, warn the user if it takes more than 2 seconds
and tell them how to avoid it using the --quiet command line option or
reset.quiet config setting.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout" and "git worktree add" learned to honor
checkout.defaultRemote when auto-vivifying a local branch out of a
remote tracking branch in a repository with multiple remotes that
have tracking branches that share the same names.
* ab/checkout-default-remote:
checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemote
checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>"
builtin/checkout.c: use "ret" variable for return
checkout: pass the "num_matches" up to callers
checkout.c: change "unique" member to "num_matches"
checkout.c: introduce an *_INIT macro
checkout.h: wrap the arguments to unique_tracking_name()
checkout tests: index should be clean after dwim checkout
As the "checkout" documentation describes:
If <branch> is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in
exactly one remote (call it <remote>) with a matching name, treat
as equivalent to [...] <remote>/<branch.
This is a really useful feature. The problem is that when you add
another remote (e.g. a fork), git won't find a unique branch name
anymore, and will instead print this unhelpful message:
$ git checkout master
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git
Now it will, on my git.git checkout, print:
$ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
hint: 'master' matched more than one remote tracking branch.
hint: We found 26 remotes with a reference that matched. So we fell back
hint: on trying to resolve the argument as a path, but failed there too!
hint:
hint: If you meant to check out a remote tracking branch on, e.g. 'origin',
hint: you can do so by fully qualifying the name with the --track option:
hint:
hint: git checkout --track origin/<name>
Note that the "error: pathspec[...]" message is still printed. This is
because whatever else checkout may have tried earlier, its final
fallback is to try to resolve the argument as a path. E.g. in this
case:
$ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master pu
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'pu' did not match any file(s) known to git.
There we don't print the "hint:" implicitly due to earlier logic
around the DWIM fallback. That fallback is only used if it looks like
we have one argument that might be a branch.
I can't think of an intrinsic reason for why we couldn't in some
future change skip printing the "error: pathspec[...]" error. However,
to do so we'd need to pass something down to checkout_paths() to make
it suppress printing an error on its own, and for us to be confident
that we're not silencing cases where those errors are meaningful.
I don't think that's worth it since determining whether that's the
case could easily change due to future changes in the checkout logic.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only benefit from this move (apart from cleaner code) is that
advice.amWorkDir should now show up in `git help --config`. There
should be no regression since advice config is always read by the
git_default_config().
While at there, use advise() like other code. We now get "hint: "
prefix and the output is stderr instead of stdout (which is also the
reason for the test update because stderr is checked in a following
test and the extra advice can fail it).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For parsing, we don't really need this because the main config parser
will lowercase everything so we can do exact matching. But this array
now is also used for printing in `git help --config`. Keep camelCase
so we have a nice printout.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes it helps to list all available config vars so the user can
search for something they want. The config man page can also be used
but it's harder to search if you want to focus on the variable name,
for example.
This is not the best way to collect the available config since it's
not precise. Ideally we should have a centralized list of config in C
code (pretty much like 'struct option'), but that's a lot more work.
This will do for now.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by
the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal
code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up
in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism.
* js/deprecate-grafts:
Remove obsolete script to convert grafts to replace refs
technical/shallow: describe why shallow cannot use replace refs
technical/shallow: stop referring to grafts
filter-branch: stop suggesting to use grafts
Deprecate support for .git/info/grafts
Add a test for `git replace --convert-graft-file`
replace: introduce --convert-graft-file
replace: prepare create_graft() for converting graft files wholesale
replace: "libify" create_graft() and callees
replace: avoid using die() to indicate a bug
commit: Let the callback of for_each_mergetag return on error
argv_array: offer to split a string by whitespace
The grafts feature was a convenient way to "stitch together" ancient
history to the fresh start of linux.git.
Its implementation is, however, not up to Git's standards, as there are
too many ways where it can lead to surprising and unwelcome behavior.
For example, when pushing from a repository with active grafts, it is
possible to miss commits that have been "grafted out", resulting in a
broken state on the other side.
Also, the grafts feature is limited to "rewriting" commits' list of
parents, it cannot replace anything else.
The much younger feature implemented as `git replace` set out to remedy
those limitations and dangerous bugs.
Seeing as `git replace` is pretty mature by now (since 4228e8bc98
(replace: add --graft option, 2014-07-19) it can perform the graft
file's duties), it is time to deprecate support for the graft file, and
to retire it eventually.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is an attempt to resolve an issue I experience with people that are
new to Git -- especially colleagues in a team setting -- where they miss
that their push to a remote location failed because the failure and
success both return a block of white text.
An example is if I push something to a remote repository and then a
colleague attempts to push to the same remote repository and the push
fails because it requires them to pull first, but they don't notice
because a success and failure both return a block of white text. They
then continue about their business, thinking it has been successfully
pushed.
This patch colorizes the errors and hints (in red and yellow,
respectively) so whenever there is a failure when pushing to a remote
repository that fails, it is more noticeable.
[jes: fixed a couple bugs, added the color.{advice,push,transport}
settings, refactored to use want_color_stderr().]
Signed-off-by: Ryan Dammrose ryandammrose@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
