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Junio C Hamano
7b9b634ca5 Merge branch 'ab/doc-synopsis-and-cmd-usage'
The short-help text shown by "git cmd -h" and the synopsis text
shown at the beginning of "git help cmd" have been made more
consistent.

* ab/doc-synopsis-and-cmd-usage: (34 commits)
  tests: assert consistent whitespace in -h output
  tests: start asserting that *.txt SYNOPSIS matches -h output
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "worktree" consistent
  worktree: define subcommand -h in terms of command -h
  reflog doc: list real subcommands up-front
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "commit" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "diff-tree" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: use "[<label>...]" for "zero or more"
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "annotate" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "stash" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options
  doc txt & -h consistency: use "git foo" form, not "git-foo"
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "bundle" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "read-tree" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "rerere" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options and labels
  doc txt & -h consistency: make output order consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: add or fix optional "--" syntax
  doc txt & -h consistency: fix mismatching labels
  doc SYNOPSIS & -h: use "-" to separate words in labels, not "_"
  ...
2022-10-28 11:26:54 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
8c9e292dc0 doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options and labels
Fix various issues of SYNOPSIS and -h output syntax where:

 * Options such as --force were missing entirely
 * ...or the short option, such as -f

 * We said "opts" or "options", but could instead enumerate
   the (small) set of supported options

 * Options that were missing entirely (ls-remote's --sort=<key>)

   As we can specify "--sort" multiple times (it's backed by a
   string-list" it should really be "[(--sort=<key>)...]", which is
   what "git for-each-ref" lists it as, but let's leave that issue for
   a subsequent cleanup, and stop at making these consistent. Other
   "ref-filter.h" users share the same issue, e.g. "git-branch.txt".

 * For "verify-tag" and "verify-commit" we were missing the "--raw"
   option.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-13 09:32:56 -07:00
Fangyi Zhou
225e815ef2 help: fix doubled words in explanation for developer interfaces
Signed-off-by: Fangyi Zhou <me@fangyi.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-16 09:20:11 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
5cf88fd8b0 git-compat-util.h: use "UNUSED", not "UNUSED(var)"
As reported in [1] the "UNUSED(var)" macro introduced in
2174b8c75d (Merge branch 'jk/unused-annotation' into next,
2022-08-24) breaks coccinelle's parsing of our sources in files where
it occurs.

Let's instead partially go with the approach suggested in [2] of
making this not take an argument. As noted in [1] "coccinelle" will
ignore such tokens in argument lists that it doesn't know about, and
it's less of a surprise to syntax highlighters.

This undoes the "help us notice when a parameter marked as unused is
actually use" part of 9b24034754 (git-compat-util: add UNUSED macro,
2022-08-19), a subsequent commit will further tweak the macro to
implement a replacement for that functionality.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220825.86ilmg4mil.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220819.868rnk54ju.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-01 10:49:48 -07:00
Jeff King
63e14ee2d6 refs: mark unused each_ref_fn parameters
Functions used with for_each_ref(), etc, need to conform to the
each_ref_fn interface. But most of them don't need every parameter;
let's annotate the unused ones to quiet -Wunused-parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 12:18:54 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
844739ba27 git docs: add a category for file formats, protocols and interfaces
Create a new "File formats, protocols and other developer interfaces"
section in the main "git help git" manual page and start moving the
documentation that now lives in "Documentation/technical/*.git" over
to it. This complements the newly added and adjacent "Repository,
command and file interfaces" section.

This makes the technical documentation more accessible and
discoverable. Before this we wouldn't install it by default, and had
no ability to build man page versions of them. The links to them from
our existing documentation link to the generated HTML version of these
docs.

So let's start moving those over, starting with just the
"bundle-format.txt" documentation added in 7378ec90e1 (doc: describe
Git bundle format, 2020-02-07). We'll now have a new
gitformat-bundle(5) man page. Subsequent commits will move more git
internal format documentation over.

Unfortunately the syntax of the current Documentation/technical/*.txt
is not the same (when it comes to section headings etc.) as our
Documentation/*.txt documentation, so change the relevant bits of
syntax as we're moving this over.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
d976c5100f git docs: add a category for user-facing file, repo and command UX
Create a new "Repository, command and file interfaces" section in the
main "git help git" manual page. Move things that belong under this
new criteria from the generic "Guides" section.

The "Guides" section was added in f442f28a81 (git.txt: add list of
guides, 2020-08-05). It makes sense to have e.g. "giteveryday(7)" and
"gitfaq(7)" listed under "Guides".

But placing e.g. "gitignore(5)" in it is stretching the meaning of
what a "guide" is, ideally that section should list things similar to
"giteveryday(7)" and "gitcore-tutorial(7)".

An alternate name that was considered for this new section was "User
formats", for consistency with the nomenclature used for man section 5
in general. My man(1) lists it as "File formats and conventions,
e.g. /etc/passwd".

So calling this "git help --formats" or "git help --user-formats"
would make sense for e.g. gitignore(5), but would be stretching it
somewhat for githooks(5), and would seem really suspect for the likes
of gitcli(7).

Let's instead pick a name that's closer to the generic term "User
interface", which is really what this documentation discusses: General
user-interface documentation that doesn't obviously belong elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
936b8eb6c8 help.c: remove common category behavior from drop_prefix() behavior
Change the behavior of the "git" prefix stripping for CAT_guide so
that we don't try to strip the "git-" prefix in that case. We should
be stripping either "git" or "git-" depending on the category. This
change makes it easier to add extra "category" conditions in
subsequent commits.

Before this we'd in principle strip a "git-" prefix from a "guide" in
command-list.txt, in practice we have no such entry there. As we don't
have any entry that looks like "git-foo" in command-list.txt this
changes nothing in practice, but it makes the intent of the code
clearer. In that hypothetical case we'd now strip it down to "-foo",
not "foo".

When this code was added in cfb22a02ab (help: use command-list.h for
common command list, 2018-05-10) the only entries in command-list.txt
that didn't begin with "git-" were "gitweb" and "gitk".

Then when the "guides" special-case was added in 1b81d8cb19 (help:
use command-list.txt for the source of guides, 2018-05-20) we had the
various "git" (not "git-") prefixed "guide" entries, which the
"CAT_guide" case handles.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2f8b3ea662 help.c: refactor drop_prefix() to use a "switch" statement"
Refactor the drop_prefix() function in in help.c to make it easier to
strip prefixes from categories that aren't "CAT_guide". There are no
functional changes here, by doing this we make a subsequent functional
change's diff smaller.

As before we first try to strip "git-" unconditionally, if that works
we'll return the stripped string. Then we'll strip "git" if the
command is in "CAT_guide".

This means that we'd in principle strip "git-foo" down to "foo" if
it's in CAT_guide. That doesn't make much sense, and we don't have
such an entry in command-list.txt, but let's preserve that behavior
for now.

While we're at it remove a stray newline that had been added after the
"return name;" statement.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
439c1e6d5d Merge branch 'jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2'
Built-in fsmonitor (part 2).

* jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2: (30 commits)
  t7527: test status with untracked-cache and fsmonitor--daemon
  fsmonitor: force update index after large responses
  fsmonitor--daemon: use a cookie file to sync with file system
  fsmonitor--daemon: periodically truncate list of modified files
  t/perf/p7519: add fsmonitor--daemon test cases
  t/perf/p7519: speed up test on Windows
  t/perf/p7519: fix coding style
  t/helper/test-chmtime: skip directories on Windows
  t/perf: avoid copying builtin fsmonitor files into test repo
  t7527: create test for fsmonitor--daemon
  t/helper/fsmonitor-client: create IPC client to talk to FSMonitor Daemon
  help: include fsmonitor--daemon feature flag in version info
  fsmonitor--daemon: implement handle_client callback
  compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: implement FSEvent listener on MacOS
  compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: add MacOS header files for FSEvent
  compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-win32: implement FSMonitor backend on Windows
  fsmonitor--daemon: create token-based changed path cache
  fsmonitor--daemon: define token-ids
  fsmonitor--daemon: add pathname classification
  fsmonitor--daemon: implement 'start' command
  ...
2022-04-04 10:56:24 -07:00
Jeff Hostetler
dd77cf61a1 help: include fsmonitor--daemon feature flag in version info
Add the "feature: fsmonitor--daemon" message to the output of
`git version --build-options`.

The builtin FSMonitor is only available on certain platforms and
even then only when certain Makefile flags are enabled, so print
a message in the verbose version output when it is available.

This can be used by test scripts for prereq testing.  Granted, tests
could just try `git fsmonitor--daemon status` and look for a 128 exit
code or grep for a "not supported" message on stderr, but these
methods are rather obscure.

The main advantage is that the feature message will automatically
appear in bug reports and other support requests.

This concept was also used during the development of Scalar for
similar reasons.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-25 16:04:16 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
93de1b6999 help: don't print "\n" before single-section output
Fix a formatting regression in 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt
for the source of guides, 2018-05-20). Adjust the output of "git help
--guides" and any other future single-section commands so that a
newline isn't inserted before the only section being printed.

This changes the output from:

    $ git help --guides

    The Git concept guides are:
    [...]

To:

    $ git help --guides
    The Git concept guides are:
    [...]

That we started printing an extra "\n" in 1b81d8cb19 wasn't intended,
but an emergent effect of moving all of the printing of "git help"
output to code that was ready to handle printing N sections.

With 1b81d8cb19 we started using the "print_cmd_by_category()"
function added earlier in the same series, or in cfb22a02ab (help:
use command-list.h for common command list, 2018-05-10).

Fixing this formatting nit is easy enough. Let's have all of the
output that would like to be "\n"-separated from other lines emit its
own "\n". We then adjust "print_cmd_by_category()" to only print a
"\n" to delimit the sections it's printing out.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-23 13:41:37 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
1ce590133b help: add --no-[external-commands|aliases] for use with --all
Add the ability to only emit git's own usage information under
--all. This also allows us to extend the "test_section_spacing" tests
added in a preceding commit to test "git help --all"
output.

Previously we could not do that, as the tests might find a git-*
command in the "$PATH", which would make the output differ from one
setup to another.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-23 13:41:37 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
6fb427abbb help.c: split up list_all_cmds_help() function
Split up the listing of commands and aliases from
list_all_cmds_help(). This will make a subsequent functional change
smaller.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-23 13:41:36 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
cd87ce7d0d help.c: use puts() instead of printf{,_ln}() for consistency
Change code in "help.c" that used printf_ln() without format
specifiers to use puts() instead, as other existing code in the file
does. Let's also change related code to use puts() instead of the
equivalent of calling "printf" with a "%s\n" format.

This formatting-only change will make a subsequent functional change
easier to read, as it'll be changing code that's consistently using
the same functions to do the same things.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-23 13:41:36 -08:00
Kashav Madan
0fc8ed154c help: make auto-correction prompt more consistent
There are three callsites of git_prompt() helper function that ask a
"yes/no" question to the end user, but one of them in help.c that
asks if the suggested auto-correction is OK, which is given when the
user makes a possible typo in a Git subcommand name, is formatted
differently from the others.

Update the format string to make the prompt string look more
consistent.

Signed-off-by: Kashav Madan <kshvmdn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-16 13:49:39 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
06fa4db3f7 help: move column config discovery to help.c library
When a git_config() call was added in dbfae68969 (help: reuse
print_columns() for help -a, 2012-04-13) to read the column config
we'd always use the resulting "colopts" variable.

Then in 63eae83f8f (help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands
with synopsis, 2018-05-20) we started only using the "colopts" config
under "--all" if "--no-verbose" was also given, but the "git_config()"
call was not moved inside the "verbose" branch of the code.

This change effectively does that, we'll only call list_commands()
under "--all --no-verbose", so let's have it look up the config it
needs. See 26c7d06783 (help -a: improve and make --verbose default, 2018-09-29) for another case in help.c where we look up config.

The get_colopts() function is named for consistency with the existing
get_alias() function added in 26c7d06783.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-23 10:30:43 -07:00
Azeem Bande-Ali
dc66e3c799 help.c: help.autocorrect=prompt waits for user action
If help.autocorrect is set to 'prompt', the user is prompted
before the suggested action is executed.

Based on original patch by David Barr
https://lore.kernel.org/git/1283758030-13345-1-git-send-email-david.barr@cordelta.com/

Signed-off-by: Azeem Bande-Ali <me@azeemba.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-14 11:20:49 -07:00
Drew DeVault
644bb953ce help.c: help.autocorrect=never means "do not compute suggestions"
While help.autocorrect can be set to 0 to decline auto-execution of
possibly mistyped commands, it still spends cycles to compute the
suggestions, and it wastes screen real estate.

Update help.autocorrect to accept the string "never" to just exit
with error upon mistyped commands to help users who prefer to never
see suggested corrections at all.

While at it, introduce "immediate" as a more readable way to
immediately execute the auto-corrected command, which can be done
with negative value.

Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25 13:02:15 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
722fc37491 help: do not expect built-in commands to be hardlinked
When building with SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS=YesPlease, the built-in
commands are no longer present in the `PATH` as hardlinks to `git`.

As a consequence, `load_command_list()` needs to be taught to find the
names of the built-in commands from elsewhere.

This only affected the output of `git --list-cmds=main`, but not the
output of `git help -a` because the latter includes the built-in
commands by virtue of them being listed in command-list.txt.

The bug was detected via a patch series that turns the merge strategies
included in Git into built-in commands: `git merge -s help` relies on
`load_command_list()` to determine the list of available merge
strategies.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-07 15:25:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0d9a8e33f9 Merge branch 'jk/leakfix'
Code clean-up.

* jk/leakfix:
  submodule--helper: fix leak of core.worktree value
  config: fix leak in git_config_get_expiry_in_days()
  config: drop git_config_get_string_const()
  config: fix leaks from git_config_get_string_const()
  checkout: fix leak of non-existent branch names
  submodule--helper: use strbuf_release() to free strbufs
  clear_pattern_list(): clear embedded hashmaps
2020-08-27 14:04:49 -07:00
Jeff King
f1de981e8b config: fix leaks from git_config_get_string_const()
There are two functions to get a single config string:

  - git_config_get_string()

  - git_config_get_string_const()

One might naively think that the first one allocates a new string and
the second one just points us to the internal configset storage. But
in fact they both allocate a new copy; the second one exists only to
avoid having to cast when using it with a const global which we never
intend to free.

The documentation for the function explains that clearly, but it seems
I'm not alone in being surprised by this. Of 17 calls to the function,
13 of them leak the resulting value.

We could obviously fix these by adding the appropriate free(). But it
would be simpler still if we actually had a non-allocating way to get
the string. There's git_config_get_value() but that doesn't quite do
what we want. If the config key is present but is a boolean with no
value (e.g., "[foo]bar" in the file), then we'll get NULL (whereas the
string versions will print an error and die).

So let's introduce a new variant, git_config_get_string_tmp(), that
behaves as these callers expect. We need a new name because we have new
semantics but the same function signature (so even if we converted the
four remaining callers, topics in flight might be surprised). The "tmp"
is because this value should only be held onto for a short time. In
practice it's rare for us to clear and refresh the configset,
invalidating the pointer, but hopefully the "tmp" makes callers think
about the lifetime. In each of the converted cases here the value only
needs to last within the local function or its immediate caller.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-14 10:52:04 -07:00
Philippe Blain
0371a764d2 help: drop usage of 'common' and 'useful' for guides
Since 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides,
2018-05-20), all man5/man7 guides listed in command-list.txt appear in
the output of 'git help -g'.

However, 'git help -g' still prefixes this list with "The common Git
guides are:", which makes one wonder if there are others!

In the same spirit, the man page for 'git help' describes the '--guides'
option as listing 'useful' guides, which is not false per se but can
also be taken to mean that there are other guides that exist but are not
useful.

Instead of 'common' and 'useful', use 'Git concept guides' in both
places. To keep the code in line with this change, rename
help.c::list_common_guides_help to list_guides_help.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-04 18:34:01 -07:00
Emily Shaffer
39f4919dc5 help: add shell-path to --build-options
It may be useful to know which shell Git was built to try to point to,
in the event that shell-based Git commands are failing. $SHELL_PATH is
set during the build and used to launch the manpage viewer, as well as
by git-compat-util.h, and it's used during tests. 'git version
--build-options' is encouraged for use in bug reports, so it makes sense
to include this information there.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-12 22:02:17 -07:00
Emily Shaffer
617d57195a bugreport: gather git version and build info
Knowing which version of Git a user has and how it was built allows us
to more precisely pin down the circumstances when a certain issue
occurs, so teach bugreport how to tell us the same output as 'git
version --build-options'.

It's not ideal to directly call 'git version --build-options' because
that output goes to stdout. Instead, wrap the version string in a helper
within help.[ch] library, and call that helper from within the bugreport
library.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16 15:23:42 -07:00
Emily Shaffer
709df95b78 help: move list_config_help to builtin/help
Starting in 3ac68a93fd, help.o began to depend on builtin/branch.o,
builtin/clean.o, and builtin/config.o. This meant that help.o was
unusable outside of the context of the main Git executable.

To make help.o usable by other commands again, move list_config_help()
into builtin/help.c (where it makes sense to assume other builtin libraries
are present).

When command-list.h is included but a member is not used, we start to
hear a compiler warning. Since the config list is generated in a fairly
different way than the command list, and since commands and config
options are semantically different, move the config list into its own
header and move the generator into its own script and build rule.

For reasons explained in 976aaedc (msvc: add a Makefile target to
pre-generate the Visual Studio solution, 2019-07-29), some build
artifacts we consider non-source files cannot be generated in the
Visual Studio environment, and we already have some Makefile tweaks
to help Visual Studio to use generated command-list.h header file.
Do the same to a new generated file, config-list.h, introduced by
this change.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
2020-04-16 15:22:16 -07:00
Elijah Newren
96c0caf5e3 Fix spelling errors in messages shown to users
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-10 16:00:54 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8e111e487b Merge branch 'rs/help-unknown-ref-does-not-return'
Code cleanup.

* rs/help-unknown-ref-does-not-return:
  help: make help_unknown_ref() NORETURN
2019-09-30 13:19:27 +09:00
René Scharfe
80e3658647 help: make help_unknown_ref() NORETURN
Announce that calling help_unknown_ref() exits the program.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-30 10:22:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8d32d2552e Merge branch 'jk/help-unknown-ref-fix'
Improve the code to show args with potential typo that cannot be
interpreted as a commit-ish.

* jk/help-unknown-ref-fix:
  help_unknown_ref(): check for refname ambiguity
  help_unknown_ref(): duplicate collected refnames
2019-06-13 13:19:42 -07:00
Jeff King
2ed2e19958 help_unknown_ref(): check for refname ambiguity
When the user asks to merge "foo" and we suggest "origin/foo" instead,
we do so by simply chopping off "refs/remotes/" from the front of the
suggested ref. This is usually fine, but it's possible that the
resulting name is ambiguous (e.g., you have "refs/heads/origin/foo",
too).

Let's use shorten_unambiguous_ref() to do this the right way, which
should usually yield the same "origin/foo", but "remotes/origin/foo" if
necessary.

Note that in this situation there may be other options (e.g., we could
suggest "heads/origin/foo" as well). I'll leave that up for debate; the
focus here is just to avoid giving advice that does not actually do what
we expect.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-15 10:58:02 +09:00
Jeff King
8ed51b0666 help_unknown_ref(): duplicate collected refnames
When "git merge" sees an unknown refname, we iterate through the refs to
try to suggest some possible alternates. We do so with for_each_ref(),
and in the callback we add some of the refnames we get to a
string_list that is declared with NODUP, directly adding a pointer into
the refname string our callback received.

But the for_each_ref() machinery does not promise that the refname
string will remain valid, and as a result we may print garbage memory.

The code in question dates back to its inception in e56181060e (help:
add help_unknown_ref(), 2013-05-04). But back then, the refname strings
generally did remain stable, at least immediately after the
for_each_ref() call. Later, in d1cf15516f (packed_ref_iterator_begin():
iterate using `mmapped_ref_iterator`, 2017-09-25), we started
consistently re-using a separate buffer for packed refs.

The fix is simple: duplicate the strings we intend to collect. We
already call string_list_clear(), so the memory is correctly freed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-15 10:58:00 +09:00
Jeff King
057ab54b66 completion: fix multiple command removals
Commit 6532f3740b ("completion: allow to customize the completable
command list", 2018-05-20) tried to allow multiple space-separated
entries in completion.commands. To do this, it copies each parsed token
into a strbuf so that the result is NUL-terminated.

However, for tokens starting with "-", it accidentally passes the
original non-terminated string, meaning that only the final one worked.
Switch to using the strbuf.

Reported-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-21 11:52:11 +09:00
Jeff King
83b0ecf333 git: read local config in --list-cmds
Normally code that is checking config before we've decided to do
setup_git_directory() would use read_early_config(), which uses
discover_git_directory() to tentatively see if we're in a repo,
and if so to add it to the config sequence.

But list_cmds() uses the caching configset mechanism which
rightly does not use read_early_config(), because it has no
idea if it's being called early.

Call setup_git_directory_gently() so we can pick up repo-level
config (like completion.commands).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-21 11:52:11 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6195a76da4 help: align the longest command in the command listing
"longest" is used to determine how many extra spaces we need to print
to keep the command description aligned. For the longest command, we
should print no extra space instead of one, or we'll get unaligned
output like this (notice the "checkout" line):

    grow, mark and tweak your common history
       branch     List, create, or delete branches
       checkout    Switch branches or restore working tree files
       commit     Record changes to the repository
       diff       Show changes between commits, commit and ...
       merge      Join two or more development histories together
       rebase     Reapply commits on top of another base tip
       tag        Create, list, delete or verify a tag ...

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-31 15:27:35 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
1c4b985965 help -a: handle aliases with long names gracefully
We take pains to determine the longest command beforehand, so that we
can align the category column after printing the command names.

However, then we re-use that value when printing the aliases. If any
alias name is longer than the longest command name, we consequently try
to add a negative number of spaces (but `mput_char()` does not expect
any negative values and simply decrements until the value is 0, i.e.
it tries to add close to 2**31 spaces).

Let's fix this by adjusting the `longest` variable before printing the
aliases.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1975.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-12 17:18:38 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
26c7d06783 help -a: improve and make --verbose default
When you type "git help" (or just "git") you are greeted with a list
with commonly used commands and their short description and are
suggested to use "git help -a" or "git help -g" for more details.

"git help -av" would be more friendly and inline with what is shown
with "git help" since it shows list of commands with description as
well, and commands are properly grouped.

"help -av" does not show everything "help -a" shows though. Add
external command section in "help -av" for this. While at there, add a
section for aliases as well (until now aliases have no UI, just "git
config").

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-03 21:23:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d28017005f Merge branch 'hn/highlight-sideband-keywords'
The sideband code learned to optionally paint selected keywords at
the beginning of incoming lines on the receiving end.

* hn/highlight-sideband-keywords:
  sideband: do not read beyond the end of input
  sideband: highlight keywords in remote sideband output
2018-08-20 12:41:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c5d276cb18 Merge branch 'mk/http-backend-content-length'
The http-backend (used for smart-http transport) used to slurp the
whole input until EOF, without paying attention to CONTENT_LENGTH
that is supplied in the environment and instead expecting the Web
server to close the input stream.  This has been fixed.

* mk/http-backend-content-length:
  t5562: avoid non-portable "export FOO=bar" construct
  http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH for receive-pack
  http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875
  http-backend: cleanup writing to child process
2018-08-17 13:09:57 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys
bf1a11f0a1 sideband: highlight keywords in remote sideband output
The colorization is controlled with the config setting "color.remote".

Supported keywords are "error", "warning", "hint" and "success". They
are highlighted if they appear at the start of the line, which is
common in error messages, eg.

   ERROR: commit is missing Change-Id

The Git push process itself prints lots of non-actionable messages
(eg. bandwidth statistics, object counters for different phases of the
process). This obscures actionable error messages that servers may
send back. Highlighting keywords in the sideband draws more attention
to those messages.

The background for this change is that Gerrit does server-side
processing to create or update code reviews, and actionable error
messages (eg. missing Change-Id) must be communicated back to the user
during the push. User research has shown that new users have trouble
seeing these messages.

The highlighting is done on the client rather than server side, so
servers don't have to grow capabilities to understand terminal escape
codes and terminal state. It also consistent with the current state
where Git is control of the local display (eg. prefixing messages with
"remote: ").

The highlighting can be configured using color.remote.<KEYWORD>
configuration settings. Since the keys are matched case insensitively,
we match the keywords case insensitively too.

Finally, this solution is backwards compatible: many servers already
prefix their messages with "error", and they will benefit from this
change without requiring a server update. By contrast, a server-side
solution would likely require plumbing the TERM variable through the
git protocol, so it would require changes to both server and client.

Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-08 15:20:09 -07:00
Max Kirillov
6c213e863a http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH for receive-pack
Push passes to another commands, as described in
https://public-inbox.org/git/20171129032214.GB32345@sigill.intra.peff.net/

As it gets complicated to correctly track the data length, instead transfer
the data through parent process and cut the pipe as the specified length is
reached. Do it only when CONTENT_LENGTH is set, otherwise pass the input
directly to the forked commands.

Add tests for cases:

* CONTENT_LENGTH is set, script's stdin has more data, with all combinations
  of variations: fetch or push, plain or compressed body, correct or truncated
  input.

* CONTENT_LENGTH is specified to a value which does not fit into ssize_t.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-27 10:47:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2289880f78 Merge branch 'nd/command-list'
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
bit more consolidated to allow more automation.

* nd/command-list:
  completion: allow to customize the completable command list
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
  Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
  completion: reduce completable command list
  completion: let git provide the completable command list
  command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
  help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
  help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
  git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
  completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
  git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
  git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
  Remove common-cmds.h
  help: use command-list.h for common command list
  generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
  generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-06-01 15:06:37 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
e17ca92637 completion: drop the hard coded list of config vars
The new help option --config-for-completion is a machine friendlier
version of --config where all the placeholders and wildcards are
dropped, leaving only the good, completable prefixes for
git-completion.bash to consume.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29 14:51:28 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3ac68a93fd help: add --config to list all available config
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>
2018-05-29 14:51:28 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
17b3e51505 Merge branch 'nd/command-list' into nd/complete-config-vars
* nd/command-list:
  completion: allow to customize the completable command list
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
  Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
  completion: reduce completable command list
  completion: let git provide the completable command list
  command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
  help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
  help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
  git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
  completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
  git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
  git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
  Remove common-cmds.h
  help: use command-list.h for common command list
  generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
  generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-05-29 14:51:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6532f3740b completion: allow to customize the completable command list
By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others
that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can
now customize it a new config variable.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
1b81d8cb19 help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
The help command currently hard codes the list of guides and their
summary in C. Let's move this list to command-list.txt. This lets us
extract summary lines from Documentation/git*.txt. This also
potentially lets us list guides in git.txt, but I'll leave that for
now.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
63eae83f8f help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
This lists all recognized commands [1] by category. The group order
follows closely git.txt.

[1] We may actually show commands that are not built (e.g. if you set
NO_PERL you don't have git-instaweb but it's still listed here). I
ignore the problem because on Linux a git package could be split
anyway. The "git-core" package may not contain git-instaweb even if
it's built because it may end up in a separate package. We can't know
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3c7777672b git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
This allows us to select any group of commands by a category defined
in command-list.txt. This is an internal/hidden option so we don't
have to be picky about the category name or worried about exposing too
much.

This will be used later by git-completion.bash to retrieve certain
command groups.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6bb2dc0b94 completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
This is part of the effort to break down and provide commands by
category in machine-readable form. This could be helpful later on when
completion script switches to use --list-cmds for selecting
completable commands. It would be much easier for the user to choose
to complete _all_ commands instead of the default selection by passing
different values to --list-cmds in git-completino.bash.

While at there, replace "git help -a" in git-completion.bash with
--list-cmds since it's better suited for this task.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00