The documentation seems to assume that the starting point for a new
branch is the tip of an existing (ordinary) branch, but that is not
the most common case. More often, "git branch" is used to begin
a branch from a remote-tracking branch, a tag, or an interesting
commit (e.g. origin/pu^2). Clarify the language so it can apply
to these cases. Thanks to Sean Estabrooks for the wording.
Also add a pointer to the user's manual for the bewildered.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the documentation for --merged and --no-merged to explain
the meaning of the optional parameter introduced in commit 049716b
(branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit,
2008-07-08).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sounds better this way, at least to my ears. ("The syntax and
supported options of git merge" is a plural noun. "the same"
instead of "equal" sounds less technical and seems to convey
the meaning better here.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fmt-merge-message builtin can be invoked as "git fmt-merge-msg" rather
than through the hard link in GIT_EXEC_PATH. Although this is unlikely to
confuse most script writers, it should not hurt to make the documentation
a little clearer anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is excellent documentation for these options in
Documentation/Makefile, but some users may never find it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are several reasons a git-pull invocation might not
have anything marked for merge:
1. We're not on a branch, so there is no branch
configuration.
2. We're on a branch, but there is no configuration for
this branch.
3. We fetched from the configured remote, but the
configured branch to merge didn't get fetched (either
it doesn't exist, or wasn't part of the fetch refspec).
4. We fetched from the non-default remote, but didn't
specify a branch to merge. We can't use the configured
one because it applies to the default remote.
5. We fetched from a specified remote, and a refspec was
given, but it ended up not fetching anything (this is
actually hard to do; if the refspec points to a remote
branch and it doesn't exist, then fetch will fail and
we never make it to this code path. But if you provide
a wildcard refspec like
refs/bogus/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
then you can see this failure).
We have handled (1) and (2) for some time. Recently, commit
a6dbf88 added code to handle case (3).
This patch handles cases (4) and (5), which previously just
fell under other cases, producing a confusing message.
While we're at it, let's rewrap the text for case (3), which
looks terribly ugly as it is.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After doing a rebase, git-svn checks that the SVN URL
is what it expects. However, it does not account for
rewriteRoot, which is a legitimate way for the URL
to change. This produces a lot of spurious errors.
[ew: fixed line wrapping]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
When git is compiled with the MIPSpro 7.4.4m compiler, and NO_PTHREADS is
set, and NO_MMAP is _not_ set, then git segfaults when trying to access the
first entry in a reflog. If NO_PTHREADS is not set (which implies that the
pthread library is linked in), or NO_MMAP _is_ set, then the segfault is
not encountered. The conservative choice has been made to set NO_MMAP in
the Makefile to avoid this flaw. The GNU C compiler does not produce this
behavior.
The segfault happens in refs.c:read_ref_at(). The mmap succeeds, and the
loop is executed properly until rec is rewound into the first line (reflog
entry) of the file. The segfault is caught by test 28 of
t1400-update-ref.sh which fails when 'git rev-parse --verify "master@{May 25
2005}"' is called.
So, add a comment in the Makefile to describe why NO_MMAP is set and as a
hint to those who may be interested in unsetting it.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When ls-files was called with -i but no exclude pattern, it was
calling fprintf(stderr, "...", NULL) and then exiting. On Solaris,
passing NULL into fprintf was causing a segfault. On glibc systems,
it was simply producing incorrect output (eg: "(null)": ...). The
NULL pointer was a result of argv[0] not being preserved by the option
parser. Instead of requesting that the option parser preserve
argv[0], use die() with a constant string.
A trigger for this bug was: `git ls-files -i`
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since commit dcda3614 removed the use of a variable length array from
builtin-pack-objects.c, it is now safe to compile with the threaded delta
search feature enabled. Formerly, the MIPSpro 7.4.4m compiler warned that
variable length arrays should not be used with pthreads.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During an MSVC build on cygwin, the make program did not notice
when the compiler or linker exited with an error. This was caused
by the scripts exiting with the value returned by system() directly.
On POSIX-like systems, such as cygwin, the return value of system()
has the exit code of the executed command encoded in the first byte
(ie the value is shifted up by 8 bits). This allows the bottom
7 bits to contain the signal number of a terminated process, while
the eighth bit indicates whether a core-dump was produced. (A value
of -1 indicates that the command failed to execute.)
The make program, however, expects the exit code to be encoded in the
bottom byte. Futhermore, it apparently masks off and ignores anything
in the upper bytes.
However, these scripts are (naturally) intended to be used on the
windows platform, where we can not assume POSIX-like semantics from
a perl implementation (eg ActiveState). So, in general, we can not
assume that shifting the return value right by eight will get us
the exit code.
In order to improve portability, we assume that a zero return from
system() indicates success, whereas anything else indicates failure.
Since we don't need to know the exact exit code from the compiler
or linker, we simply exit with 0 (success) or 1 (failure).
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the MSVC section of the Makefile, BASIC_CFLAGS is set to a
value which contains the string "-DWIN32-D_CONSOLE". This results
in a (single) malformed -Define being passed to the compiler.
At least on my cygwin installation, the msvc compiler seems to
ignore this parameter, without issuing an error or warning, and
results in the WIN32 and _CONSOLE macros being undefined. This
breaks the build.
In order to fix the build, we simply insert a space between the
two -Define parameters, "-DWIN32" and "-D_CONSOLE", as originally
intended.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With --prefix=string that does not end with a slash, the top-level entries
are written out with the specified prefix as expected, but no paths in the
directories are added.
Fix this by adding the prefix in write_archive_entry() instead of letting
get_pathspec() and read_tree_recursive() pair; they are designed to only
handle prefixes that are path components.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git am learned --scissors, git commit learned --dry-run and git log
learned --decorate=long|short recently.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it easier to edit just the commit message for a commit
using 'git rebase -i' by introducing the "reword" command.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When reading the "raw format" timestamp from the input stream, make sure
that the timezone offset is a reasonable value by imitating 7122f82
(date.c: improve guess between timezone offset and year., 2006-06-08).
We _might_ want to also check if the timestamp itself is reasonable, but
that is left for a separate commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back when a74b170 (git-pull: disallow implicit merging to detached HEAD,
2007-01-15) added this check, $? referred to the error status of reading
HEAD as a symbolic-ref; but cd67e4d (Teach 'git pull' about --rebase,
2007-11-28) moved the command away from where the check is, and nobody
noticed the breakage. Ever since, $? has always been 0 (tr at the end of
the pipe to find merge_head never fails) and other case arms were never
reached.
These days, error_on_no_merge_candidates function is prepared to handle a
detached HEAD case, which was what the code this patch removes used to
handle.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running "git show-branch" without any parameter in a repository that
has showbranch.default defined, we used to rely on the fact that our
handcrafted option parsing loop never looked at av[0].
The array of default strings had the first real command line argument in
default_arg[0], but the option parser wanted to look at the array starting
at av[1], so we assigned the address of -1th element to av to force the
loop start working from default_arg[0].
This no longer worked since 5734365 (show-branch: migrate to parse-options
API, 2009-05-21), as parse_options_start() saved the incoming &av[0] in
its ctx->out and later in parse_options_end() it did memmove to ctx->out
(with ctx->cpidx == 0), overwriting the memory before default_arg[] array.
I am not sure if this is a bug in parse_options(), or a bug in the caller,
and tonight I do not have enough concentration to figure out which. In
any case, this patch works the issue around.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This fixes '--relative-date' so that it does not give '0
year, 12 months', for the interval 360 <= diff < 365.
Signed-off-by: Johan Sageryd <j416@1616.se>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
commit 51ea551 ("make sure byte swapping is optimal for git"
2009-08-18) introduced a "sane definition for ntohl()/htonl()"
for use on some GNU C platforms. Unfortunately, for some of
these platforms, this results in the introduction of a problem
which is essentially the reverse of a problem that commit 6e1c234
("Fix some warnings (on cygwin) to allow -Werror" 2008-07-3) was
intended to fix.
In particular, on platforms where the uint32_t type is defined
to be unsigned long, the return type of the new ntohl()/htonl()
is causing gcc to issue printf format warnings, such as:
warning: long unsigned int format, unsigned int arg (arg 3)
(nine such warnings, covering six different files). The earlier
commit (6e1c234) needed to suppress these same warnings, except
that the types were in the opposite direction; namely the format
specifier ("%u") was 'unsigned int' and the argument type (ie the
return type of ntohl()) was 'long unsigned int' (aka uint32_t).
In order to suppress these warnings, the earlier commit used the
(C99) PRIu32 format specifier, since the definition of this macro
is suitable for use with the uint32_t type on that platform.
This worked because the return type of the (original) platform
ntohl()/htonl() functions was uint32_t.
In order to suppress these warnings, we change the return type of
the new byte swapping functions in the compat/bswap.h header file
from 'unsigned int' to uint32_t.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Translate some english words to portuguese and fix some
typos on translation.
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
For example:
alias -group friends foo Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Acked(-and-tested)-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Some compilers (including at least MSVC and ARM RVDS) supports
NORETURN on function declarations, but not on function pointers.
This patch makes it possible to define NORETURN for these compilers,
by splitting the NORETURN macro into two - one for function
declarations and one for function pointers.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Some compilers (including at least MSVC) support NORETURN
on function declarations, but only before the function-name.
This patch makes it possible to define NORETURN to something
meaningful for those compilers.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
It is more customizable, and uses a line prefix to show the commit.
Signed-off-by: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Some people have mod_cgid instead of mod_cgi, most likely as a result of
choosing a threaded MPM.
In cases where the user has both modules, mod_cgi will be preferred in
order to maintain a simpler setup.
This patch also causes instaweb to print a message and die in cases
where there is no module that instaweb knows how to handle.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rada <marada@uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When we show a reflog, we have two ways of naming the entry:
by sequence number (e.g., HEAD@{0}) or by date (e.g.,
HEAD@{10 minutes ago}). There is no explicit option to set
one or the other, but we guess based on whether or not the
user has provided us with a date format, showing them the
date version if they have done so, and the sequence number
otherwise.
This usually made sense if the use did something like "git
log -g --date=relative". However, it didn't make much sense
if the user set the date format using the log.date config
variable; in that case, all of their reflogs would end up as
dates.
This patch records the source of the date format and only
triggers the date-based view if --date= was given on the
command line.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
A recent "cut at scissors" implementation rewinds and truncates
the output file to store the message when it sees a scissors mark,
but it did not check if these library calls succeeded.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[sp: Use fseek as rewind returns void]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The format of the generated MSVC solution file is fixed in a way that
just opening it in Visual Studio and immediately closing it again
without performing any modifications does not trigger a prompt to save
the solution file. This behavior was caused by several minor
incompatibilities between the generated file and what Visual Studio
2008 expected, so Visual Studio transparently fixed the file format,
marking it internally as modified.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
In order to be able to open the generated solution file by double-
clicking it in Windows Explorer, all project files need to use DOS
line-endings and a comment about the Visual Studio version needs to
be added to the header of the solution file. This also fixes the icon
that is displayed for the solution file in Windows Explorer.
Note that opening the solution file from a running instance of Visual
Studio already worked before.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Defining UNICODE for MSVC IDE builds results in certain Win32 WIDE
API's receiving ANSI strings. The result of which is an invalid use
of the API and will end in either data corruption or an application
crash.
Prevent the use of WIDE API's when building with the MSVC IDE for
compatibility with msysGit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The default --aggressive window has been 250 since 1c192f34 "gc
--aggressive: make it really aggressive", released in git v1.6.3.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Previously the old error message just told the user that it was not
possible to delete the ref from the packed-refs file. Give instructions
on how to resolve the problem.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
parse_long_opt always matches both --opt and --no-opt for any option
"opt", and only get_value checks whether --no-opt is actually valid.
Since the options for git branch contains both "no-merged" and "merged"
there are two matches for --no-merge, but no exact match. With this
patch the negation of a NONEG option is rejected earlier, but it changes
the error message from "option `no-opt' isn't available" to "unknown
option `no-opt'".
[jk: added test]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Current behavior of 'git clone' when not using --mirror is to fetch
everything from the peer, and then filter out unwanted refs just before
writing them out to the cloned repository. This may become highly
inefficient if the peer has an unusual ref namespace, or if it simply
has "remotes" refs of its own, and those locally unwanted refs are
connecting to a large set of objects which becomes unreferenced as soon
as they are fetched.
Let's filter out those unwanted refs from the peer _before_ asking it
what refs we want to fetch instead, which is the most logical thing to
do anyway.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
According to egrep(1) the US-ASCII table is used when LC_ALL=C is set.
We do not rely here on the LC_ALL value we get from the environment.
Signed-off-by: Christian Himpel <chressie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
