In particular, it can get called with four arguments if you happen to
be referring to a repo using the ssh:// scheme with a non-default port
number.
Signed-off-by: Dan Bornstein <danfuzz@milk.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier workaround designed to help people who list logical
directories that will not match what getcwd(3) returns in the
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES had an adverse effect when it is slow to
stat and readlink a directory component of an element listed on it.
* mh/maint-ceil-absolute:
Provide a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in ceiling paths
Commit 1b77d83cab 'setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks
in ceiling paths' changed the setup code to resolve symlinks in the
entries in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES. Because those entries are
compared textually to the symlink-resolved current directory, an
entry in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES that contained a symlink would have
no effect. It was known that this could cause performance problems
if the symlink resolution *itself* touched slow filesystems, but it
was thought that such use cases would be unlikely. The intention of
the earlier change was to deal with a case when the user has this:
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/home/gitster
but in reality, /home/gitster is a symbolic link to somewhere else,
e.g. /net/machine/home4/gitster. A textual comparison between the
specified value /home/gitster and the location getcwd(3) returns
would not help us, but readlink("/home/gitster") would still be
fast.
After this change was released, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
reported:
> [...] my computer has been acting so slow when I’m not connected to
> the network. I put various network filesystem paths in
> $GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, such as
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n/andersk (to avoid hitting its parents
> /afs/athena.mit.edu, /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a, and
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n which all live in different AFS
> volumes). Now when I’m not connected to the network, every
> invocation of Git, including the __git_ps1 in my shell prompt, waits
> for AFS to timeout.
To allow users to work around this problem, give them a mechanism to
turn off symlink resolution in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES entries. All
the entries that follow an empty entry will not be checked for symbolic
links and used literally in comparison. E.g. with these:
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=:/foo/bar:/xyzzy or
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/foo/bar::/xyzzy
we will not readlink("/xyzzy") because it comes after an empty entry.
With the former (but not with the latter), "/foo/bar" comes after an
empty entry, and we will not readlink it, either.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old Git version where it appeared is now useful only to historians,
not to normal users. Also, the text was mentioning only the per-repo
config file, but this is a good place to teach that customization can
also be made per-user.
While at it, remove a now-defunct e-mail from an example.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT,
to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small
caps. Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days.
Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation. The name to refer
to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the
command end-users type is "git". And document this in the coding
guideline.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and
finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error
message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does
not exist there" and moving on.
* jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen:
config: exit on error accessing any config file
doc: advertise GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors
config, gitignore: failure to access with ENOTDIR is ok
Deal with a situation where .config/git is a file and we notice
.config/git/config is not readable due to ENOTDIR, not ENOENT.
* jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen:
config: exit on error accessing any config file
doc: advertise GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors
config, gitignore: failure to access with ENOTDIR is ok
Allow scripts to feed literal paths to commands that take
pathspecs, by disabling wildcard globbing.
* jk/pathspec-literal:
add global --literal-pathspecs option
Conflicts:
dir.c
We earlier removed a link to list of contributors that pointed to a
defunct page; let's use a working one from Ohloh.net to replace it
instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git takes pathspec arguments in many places to limit the
scope of an operation. These pathspecs are treated not as
literal paths, but as glob patterns that can be fed to
fnmatch. When a user is giving a specific pattern, this is a
nice feature.
However, when programatically providing pathspecs, it can be
a nuisance. For example, to find the latest revision which
modified "$foo", one can use "git rev-list -- $foo". But if
"$foo" contains glob characters (e.g., "f*"), it will
erroneously match more entries than desired. The caller
needs to quote the characters in $foo, and even then, the
results may not be exactly the same as with a literal
pathspec. For instance, the depth checks in
match_pathspec_depth do not kick in if we match via fnmatch.
This patch introduces a global command-line option (i.e.,
one for "git" itself, not for specific commands) to turn
this behavior off. It also has a matching environment
variable, which can make it easier if you are a script or
porcelain interface that is going to issue many such
commands.
This option cannot turn off globbing for particular
pathspecs. That could eventually be done with a ":(noglob)"
magic pathspec prefix. However, that level of granularity is
more cumbersome to use for many cases, and doing ":(noglob)"
right would mean converting the whole codebase to use
"struct pathspec", as the usual "const char **pathspec"
cannot represent extra per-item flags.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unlike other environment variables (e.g. GIT_WORK_TREE, GIT_NAMESPACE),
the Documentation/git.txt file did not mention that the GIT_DIR
environment variable can also be set using the --git-dir command line
option.
Signed-off-by: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We earlier removed a link to list of contributors that pointed to a
defunct page; let's use a working one from Ohloh.net to replace it
instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The linked page has not been showing the promised "more complete
list" for more than 6 months by now, and nobody has resurrected
the list there nor elsewhere since then.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On a multiuser system where mortals do not have write access to /etc,
the GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM variable is the best tool we have to keep
getting work done when a syntax error or other problem renders
/etc/gitconfig buggy, until the sysadmin sorts the problem out.
Noticed while experimenting with teaching git to error out when
/etc/gitconfig is unreadable.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The second paragraph in the git(1) description section were meant to
guide people who are not ready to dive into this page away from here.
Referring migrating CVS users to another page before they get
acquainted with Git was somewhat out of place. Move the reference to
the "FURTHER DOCUMENTATION" section and push that section down.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The one at kernel.org has not been updated for quite a while and
can no longer be called "the latest".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously GIT_EDITOR was not listed in git(1) "Environment Variables" section,
which could be very confusing to users. Include it in "other" subsection along
with a link to git-var(1), since that is the page that fully describes all
places where editor can be set and also their preference order.
Also, git-var(1) did not say that hardcoded fallback 'vi' may have been changed
at build time. A user could be puzzled if 'nano' pops up even when none of the
mentioned environment vars or config.editor are set. Clarify this.
Ideally, the build system should be changed to reflect the chosen fallback
editor when creating the man pages. Not sure if that is even possible though.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Silva (MestreLion) <linux@rodrigosilva.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The line was extended in 2dd8c3 ('git: add --info-path and --man-path
options'), and the formatted man output stopped fitting into the 80
column window.
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.7.7:
Git 1.7.7.5
Git 1.7.6.5
blame: don't overflow time buffer
fetch: create status table using strbuf
checkout,merge: loosen overwriting untracked file check based on info/exclude
cast variable in call to free() in builtin/diff.c and submodule.c
apply: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on a size_t type
Conflicts:
Documentation/git.txt
GIT-VERSION-GEN
RelNotes
builtin/fetch.c
* nk/ref-doc:
glossary: clarify description of HEAD
glossary: update description of head and ref
glossary: update description of "tag"
git.txt: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
check-ref-format doc: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
git-remote.txt: avoid sounding as if loose refs are the only ones in the world
git-remote.txt: fix wrong remote refspec
* nk/ref-doc:
glossary: clarify description of HEAD
glossary: update description of head and ref
glossary: update description of "tag"
git.txt: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
check-ref-format doc: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
git-remote.txt: avoid sounding as if loose refs are the only ones in the world
git-remote.txt: fix wrong remote refspec
Document the namespace mechanism in a new gitnamespaces(7) page.
Reference it from receive-pack and upload-pack.
Document the new --namespace option and GIT_NAMESPACE environment
variable in git(1), and reference gitnamespaces(7).
Add a sample Apache configuration to http-backend(1) to support
namespaced repositories, and reference gitnamespaces(7).
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is an unimportant implementation detail that branches and tags are
stored somewhere under $GIT_DIR/refs directory, or the name of the commit
that will become the parent of the next commit is stored in $GIT_DIR/HEAD.
What is more important is that branches live in refs/heads and tags live
in refs/tags hierarchy in the ref namespace, and HEAD means the tip of the
current branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* js/info-man-path:
Documentation: clarify meaning of --html-path, --man-path, and --info-path
git: add --info-path and --man-path options
Conflicts:
Makefile
These options tell UI programs where git put its documentation, so
"Help" actions can show the documentation for *this* version of git
without regard to how MANPATH and INFOPATH are set up. Details:
. Each variable tells where documentation is expected to be. They do
not indicate whether documentation was actually installed.
. The output of "git --html-path" is an absolute path and can be used
in "file://$(git --html-path)/git-add.html" to name the HTML file
documenting a particular command.
. --man-path names a manual page hierarchy (e.g.,
/home/user/share/man). Its output can be passed to "man -M" or put
at the beginning of $MANPATH.
. --info-path names a directory with info files (e.g.,
/home/user/share/info). Its output is suitable as an argument to
"info -d" or for inclusion in $INFOPATH.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to the way the --html-path option lets UI programs learn where git
has its HTML documentation pages, expose the other two paths used to store
the documentation pages of these two types.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove a spurious empty line which prevented asciidoc from recognizing a
list continuation mark ('+'), so that it does not get output literally any
more.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As 1.7.4.3 has backmerged a handful of fixes from the master,
drop these entries from 1.7.5 release notes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is a nice shortlog-ish output of the authors there. We
also point people directly to shortlog, but of course they
might be reading the documentation online or from a binary
package of git.
The point of these sections is generally to:
1. Give credit where it is due.
2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
file bug reports.
But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.
So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.
Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
* nd/setup: (47 commits)
setup_work_tree: adjust relative $GIT_WORK_TREE after moving cwd
git.txt: correct where --work-tree path is relative to
Revert "Documentation: always respect core.worktree if set"
t0001: test git init when run via an alias
Remove all logic from get_git_work_tree()
setup: rework setup_explicit_git_dir()
setup: clean up setup_discovered_git_dir()
t1020-subdirectory: test alias expansion in a subdirectory
setup: clean up setup_bare_git_dir()
setup: limit get_git_work_tree()'s to explicit setup case only
Use git_config_early() instead of git_config() during repo setup
Add git_config_early()
git-rev-parse.txt: clarify --git-dir
t1510: setup case #31
t1510: setup case #30
t1510: setup case #29
t1510: setup case #28
t1510: setup case #27
t1510: setup case #26
t1510: setup case #25
...
* sn/doc-opt-notation:
Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings
Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string
Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation
Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation
Use angles for placeholders consistently
Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML
documentation.
In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a
hard copy of the git reference manual.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* kf/askpass-config:
Extend documentation of core.askpass and GIT_ASKPASS.
Allow core.askpass to override SSH_ASKPASS.
Add a new option 'core.askpass'.
There are 108 of them already. That's a bit more than one third of
all the files in the Documentation directory already, and still growing.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we
link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has
this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes.
Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except
- when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or
- in very technical context (git-send-pack).
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'ld/discovery-limit-to-fs' (early part):
Rename ONE_FILESYSTEM to DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM: flip the default to stop at filesystem boundaries
Add support for GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM
truncate cwd string before printing error message
config.c: remove static keyword from git_env_bool()
* ar/config-from-command-line:
Complete prototype of git_config_from_parameters()
Use strbufs instead of open-coded string manipulation
Allow passing of configuration parameters in the command line
If a missing ONE_FILESYSTEM defaults to true, the only users who set this
variable set it to false to tell git not to limit the discovery to one
filesystem; there are too many negations in one sentence to make a simple
panda brain dizzy.
Use the variable GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM that changes the
behaviour from the default "limit to one filesystem" to "cross the
boundary as I ask you to"; makes the semantics much more straight
forward.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Regarding the new environment variable, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 in
<alpine.LFD.2.00.1003301537150.3707@i5.linux-foundation.org>:
I suspect that it is _very_ unusual to have a source repo that crosses
multiple filesystems, and the original reason for this patch-series
seems to me to be likely to be more common than that multi-fs case. So
having the logic go the other way would seem to match the common case,
no?
The "crossing filesystem boundary" condition is checked by comparing
st_dev field in the result from stat(2). This is slightly worrysome if
non-POSIX ports return different values in the field even for directories
in the same work tree extracted to the same "filesystem". Erik Faye-Lund
confirms that in the msysgit port st_dev is 0, so this should be safe, as
"even Windows is safe" ;-)
This will affect those who use /.git to cram /etc and /home/me in the same
repostiory, /home is mounted from non-root filesystem, and a git operation
is done from inside /home/me/src. But that is such a corner case we don't
want to give preference over helping people who will benefit from having
this default so that they do not have to suffer from slow automounters.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The values passed this way will override whatever is defined
in the config files.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch makes git pay attention to the GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM environment
variable. When that variable is set, git will stop searching for a
GIT_DIR when it attempts to cross a filesystem boundary.
When working in an environment with too many automount points to make
maintaining a GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list enjoyable, GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM
gives the option of turning all such attempts off with one setting.
Signed-off-by: Lars R. Damerow <lars@pixar.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jn/maint-fix-pager:
tests: Fix race condition in t7006-pager
t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new one
tests: Add tests for automatic use of pager
am: Fix launching of pager
git svn: Fix launching of pager
git.1: Clarify the behavior of the --paginate option
Make 'git var GIT_PAGER' always print the configured pager
Fix 'git var' usage synopsis
The --paginate option is meant to negate the effect of an explicit or
implicit pager.<cmd> = false setting. Thus it turns the pager on if
output is going to a terminal rather than unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
Documentation/git-config.txt
Documentation/git-merge.txt
* maint-1.6.5:
Git 1.6.5.8
Fix mis-backport of t7002
bash completion: factor submodules into dirty state
reset: unbreak hard resets with GIT_WORK_TREE
Conflicts:
Documentation/git.txt
GIT-VERSION-GEN
RelNotes
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.
The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.
Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
* maint:
Git 1.6.5.7
worktree: don't segfault with an absolute pathspec without a work tree
ignore unknown color configuration
help.autocorrect: do not run a command if the command given is junk
Illustrate "filter" attribute with an example
Commit dae556b (environment: add global variable to disable replacement)
adds a variable to enable/disable replacement, and it is enabled by
default for most commands.
So there is no way to disable it for some commands, which is annoying
when we want to get information about a commit that has been replaced.
For example:
$ git cat-file -p N
would output information about the replacement commit if commit N is
replaced.
With the "--no-replace-objects" option that this patch adds it is
possible to get information about the original commit using:
$ git --no-replace-objects cat-file -p N
While at it, let's add some documentation about this new option in the
"git replace" man page too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.6.3:
Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"
Documentation: merge: one <remote> is required
help.c: give correct structure's size to memset()
Most of the docs and printouts refer to "commands" when discussing what
the end users call via the "git" top-level program. We should refer them
as "git programs" when we discuss the fact that the commands are
implemented as separate programs, but in other contexts, it is better to
use the term "git commands" consistently.
Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add references to the gitworkflows(7) manpage added in f948dd8
(Documentation: add manpage about workflows, 2008-10-19) to both
gittutorial(1) and git(1), so that new users might actually discover
and read it.
Noticed by Randal L. Schwartz.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These links inside "stalenotes" section need to be updated on the master
branch every time a new stable or maintenance release is made.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This can be used in GUIs to open installed HTML documentation in the
browser.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The unwary user may not know how to disable the -FRSX options.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.6.3
git-am: Do not exit silently if committer is unset
t0004: fix timing bug
git-mailinfo: document the -n option
Fix backwards-incompatible handling of core.sharedRepository
* dr/ceiling:
Eliminate an unnecessary chdir("..")
Add support for GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
Fold test-absolute-path into test-path-utils
Implement normalize_absolute_path
Conflicts:
cache.h
setup.c
I think that some of these uses of italics were meant to be
rendered in quotation marks, anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some manual pages use teletype font to set command names. We
change them to use italics, instead. This creates a visual
distinction between names of commands and command lines that
can be typed at the command line. It is also more consistent
with other man pages outside Git.
In this patch, the commands named are non-git commands like bash.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.
Using
doit () {
perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
}
for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
do
doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
done
git diff
.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* j6t/mingw: (38 commits)
compat/pread.c: Add a forward declaration to fix a warning
Windows: Fix ntohl() related warnings about printf formatting
Windows: TMP and TEMP environment variables specify a temporary directory.
Windows: Make 'git help -a' work.
Windows: Work around an oddity when a pipe with no reader is written to.
Windows: Make the pager work.
When installing, be prepared that template_dir may be relative.
Windows: Use a relative default template_dir and ETC_GITCONFIG
Windows: Compute the fallback for exec_path from the program invocation.
Turn builtin_exec_path into a function.
Windows: Use a customized struct stat that also has the st_blocks member.
Windows: Add a custom implementation for utime().
Windows: Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API.
Windows: Implement a custom spawnve().
Windows: Implement wrappers for gethostbyname(), socket(), and connect().
Windows: Work around incompatible sort and find.
Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads.
Windows: Disambiguate DOS style paths from SSH URLs.
Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation.
Windows: Implement start_command().
...
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format
names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`.
While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some
places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page
synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the conversion of HTML documentation to man pages
tutorial.html -> gittutorial (7)
tutorial-2.html -> gittutorial-2 (7)
cvs-migration.html -> gitcvs-migration (7)
diffcore.html -> gitdiffcore (7)
repository-layout.html -> gitrepository-layout (5)
hooks.html -> githooks (5)
glossary.html -> gitglossary (7)
core-tutorial.html -> gitcore-tutorial (7)
and the automatic update of references to these pages,
a little debris was left behind. We clear it away.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.
Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.
Some are:
-f, --foo::
-f|--foo::
-f | --foo::
But AsciiDoc has the special form:
-f::
--foo::
This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user
level, it seems better to move it to man section 1.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:
diffcore.txt -> gitdiffcore.txt (man section 7)
repository-layout.txt -> gitrepository-layout.txt (man section 5)
Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:
core-tutorial.txt -> gitcore-tutorial.txt
glossary.txt -> gitglossary.txt
But as the glossary is included in the user manual and as the new
gitglossary man page cannot be included as a whole in the user manual,
the actual glossary content is now in its own "glossary-content.txt"
new file. And this file is included by both the user manual and the
gitglossary man page.
Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly
and sometimes improved a little too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man page format:
cvs-migration.txt -> gitcvs-migration.txt
tutorial.txt -> gittutorial.txt
tutorial-2.txt -> gittutorial-2.txt
These new man pages are put in section 7, and other documents that reference
the above ones are change accordingly.
[jc: with help from Nanako to clean things up]
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make git recognize a new environment variable that prevents it from
chdir'ing up into specified directories when looking for a GIT_DIR.
Useful for avoiding slow network directories.
For example, I use git in an environment where homedirs are automounted
and "ls /home/nonexistent" takes about 9 seconds. Setting
GIT_CEILING_DIRS="/home" allows "git help -a" (for bash completion) and
"git symbolic-ref" (for my shell prompt) to run in a reasonable time.
Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.4.4
ident.c: reword error message when the user name cannot be determined
Fix dcommit, rebase when rewriteRoot is in use
Really make the LF after reset in fast-import optional
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:
@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
# Inline macros.
# Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
# (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
# Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
(?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
# Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]
This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of them are still stubs, but the procedure to build the HTML
documentation, maintaining the index and installing the end product are
there.
I placed names of people who are likely to know the most about the topic
in the stub files, so that volunteers will know whom to ask questions as
needed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Option -i|--info for "git-help" is documented only in the new
"git-help.txt" man page, but this new man page is referenced
from the "--help" option documentation in the "git.txt" man page.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "Discussion" section has a lot of useful information, but is a
little wordy, especially for an already-long man page, and is designed
for an audience more of potential git hackers than users, which probably
doesn't make as much sense as git matures. Also, I (perhaps foolishly)
forked a version in the user manual, which has been significantly
rewritten in an attempt to address some of the above problems.
So, remove this section and replace it by a (very terse) summary of the
original material--my attempt at the World's Shortest Git Overview--and
a reference to the appropriate chapter of the user manual. It's
unfortunate to remove something that's been in this place for a long
time, as some people may still depend on finding it there. But I think
we'll want to do this some day anyway.
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
HPA noticed that yum does not like the newer git RPM set; it turns out
that we do not ship git-p4 anymore but existing installations do not
realize the package is gone if we do not tell anything about it.
David Kastrup suggests using Obsoletes in the spec file of the new
RPM to replace the old package, so here is a try.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"GIT_DIR=some.where git --bare cmd" and worse yet
"git --git-dir=some.where --bare cmd" were very confusing. They
both ignored git-dir specified, and instead made $cwd as GIT_DIR.
This changes --bare not to override existing GIT_DIR.
This has been like this for a long time. Let's hope nobody sane
relied on this insane behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To keep the change small, this is done by setting GIT_PAGER to "cat".
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The GIT_SSH environment variable has survived for quite a while
without being documented, but has been mentioned on list and on
my day-job repositories can only be accessed via magic supplied
through the wonderous hack that is GIT_SSH.
Advertising it alongside other "low level magic" such as GIT_PAGER
and GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY will certainly help others who need to
spread their own pixie dust to make things work.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add "Configuration" section to describe merge.summary
configuration variable (which is mentioned in git-fmt-merge-msg(1)
man page, but it is a plumbing command), and merge.verbosity
configuration variable (so there is a place to make reference
from "Environment Variables" section of git(7) man page) to the
git-merge(1) man page. Also describe GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY
environment.
The configuration variable merge.verbosity and environment variable
GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY were introduced in commit 8c3275ab, which also
documented configuration variable but not environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ei/worktree+filter:
filter-branch: always export GIT_DIR if it is set
setup_git_directory: fix segfault if repository is found in cwd
test GIT_WORK_TREE
extend rev-parse test for --is-inside-work-tree
Use new semantics of is_bare/inside_git_dir/inside_work_tree
introduce GIT_WORK_TREE to specify the work tree
test git rev-parse
rev-parse: introduce --is-bare-repository
rev-parse: document --is-inside-git-dir
This patch arose from a discussion started by Jim Meyering's patch
whose intention was to provide better diagnostics for failed writes.
Linus proposed a better way to do things, which also had the added
benefit that adding a fflush() to git-log-* operations and incremental
git-blame operations could improve interactive respose time feel, at
the cost of making things a bit slower when we aren't piping the
output to a downstream program.
This patch skips the fflush() calls when stdout is a regular file, or
if the environment variable GIT_FLUSH is set to "0". This latter can
speed up a command such as:
GIT_FLUSH=0 strace -c -f -e write time git-rev-list HEAD | wc -l
a tiny amount.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup_gdg is used as abbreviation for setup_git_directory_gently.
The work tree can be specified using the environment variable
GIT_WORK_TREE and the config option core.worktree (the environment
variable has precendence over the config option). Additionally
there is a command line option --work-tree which sets the
environment variable.
setup_gdg does the following now:
GIT_DIR unspecified
repository in .git directory
parent directory of the .git directory is used as work tree,
GIT_WORK_TREE is ignored
GIT_DIR unspecified
repository in cwd
GIT_DIR is set to cwd
see the cases with GIT_DIR specified what happens next and
also see the note below
GIT_DIR specified
GIT_WORK_TREE/core.worktree unspecified
cwd is used as work tree
GIT_DIR specified
GIT_WORK_TREE/core.worktree specified
the specified work tree is used
Note on the case where GIT_DIR is unspecified and repository is in cwd:
GIT_WORK_TREE is used but is_inside_git_dir is always true.
I did it this way because setup_gdg might be called multiple
times (e.g. when doing alias expansion) and in successive calls
setup_gdg should do the same thing every time.
Meaning of is_bare/is_inside_work_tree/is_inside_git_dir:
(1) is_bare_repository
A repository is bare if core.bare is true or core.bare is
unspecified and the name suggests it is bare (directory not
named .git). The bare option disables a few protective
checks which are useful with a working tree. Currently
this changes if a repository is bare:
updates of HEAD are allowed
git gc packs the refs
the reflog is disabled by default
(2) is_inside_work_tree
True if the cwd is inside the associated working tree (if there
is one), false otherwise.
(3) is_inside_git_dir
True if the cwd is inside the git directory, false otherwise.
Before this patch is_inside_git_dir was always true for bare
repositories.
When setup_gdg finds a repository git_config(git_default_config) is
always called. This ensure that is_bare_repository makes use of
core.bare and does not guess even though core.bare is specified.
inside_work_tree and inside_git_dir are set if setup_gdg finds a
repository. The is_inside_work_tree and is_inside_git_dir functions
will die if they are called before a successful call to setup_gdg.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Documentation: don't reference non-existent 'git-cvsapplycommit'
user-manual: stop deprecating the manual
user-manual: miscellaneous editing
user-manual: fix .gitconfig editing examples
user-manual: clean up fast-forward and dangling-objects sections
user-manual: add section ID's
user-manual: more discussion of detached heads, fix typos
git-gui: Allow spaces in path to 'wish'
gitk: Allow user to choose whether to see the diff, old file, or new file
It's just as much a work-in-progress, but at least now it's gotten
enough technical review to shake out most of the really bad lies, so
hopefully it doesn't do any actual damage. And if we encourage people
to read it, they'll be more likely to whine about it, which will help
get it fixed faster.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Some other programs get the user's email address from $EMAIL, so fall back to
that if we don't have a Git-specific email address.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
http.c: Fix problem with repeated calls of http_init
Add missing reference to GIT_COMMITTER_DATE in git-commit-tree documentation
Fix import-tars fix.
Update .mailmap with "Michael"
Do not barf on too long action description
Catch empty pathnames in trees during fsck
Don't allow empty pathnames in fast-import
import-tars: be nice to wrong directory modes
git-svn: Added 'find-rev' command
git shortlog documentation: add long options and fix a typo
* 'master-for-junio' of git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport:
fast-import: Fail if a non-existant commit is used for merge
fast-import: Avoid infinite loop after reset
* maint:
Fix diff-options references in git-diff and git-format-patch
Add definition of <commit-ish> to the main git man page.
Begin SubmittingPatches with a check list
fast-import: Fail if a non-existant commit is used for merge
fast-import: Avoid infinite loop after reset
Update the main git.html page to point at 1.5.0.3 documentation.
Update draft 1.5.1 release notes with what we have so far.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This also adds a hook in the Makefile I can use to automatically
include pointers to documentation for older releases when updating
the pages at http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds two new classes (pure-helpers and "Interacting with
Others") to the command list in the main manual page. The
latter class is primarily about foreign SCM interface and is
placed before low-level (plumbing) commands.
Also it promotes a handful commands to mainporcelain category
while demoting some others.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Current README content is way too esoteric for someone looking at GIT
for the first time. Instead it should provide a quick summary of what
GIT is with a few pointers to other resources.
The bulk of the previous README content is moved to
Documentation/core-intro.txt.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While 'init-db' still is and probably will always remain a valid git
command for obvious backward compatibility reasons, it would be a good
idea to move shipped tools and docs to using 'init' instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Make "init" the equivalent of "init-db". This should make first GIT
impression a little more friendly.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio asked for a 'git gc' utility which users can execute on a
regular basis to perform basic repository actions such as:
* pack-refs --prune
* reflog expire
* repack -a -d
* prune
* rerere gc
So here is a command which does exactly that. The parameters fed
to reflog's expire subcommand can be chosen by the user by setting
configuration options in .git/config (or ~/.gitconfig), as users may
want different expiration windows for each repository but shouldn't
be bothered to remember what they are all of the time.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Most of this is derived from the documentation of RCS merge.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Git no longer calls an external diff program to generate patches.
Remove the documentation which suggests that you can pass
arbitrary diff options via the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I copied most of the text from git-status.txt.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Just make it take over blame's place. Documentation and command
have all stopped mentioning "git-pickaxe". The built-in synonym
is left in the command table, so you can still say "git pickaxe",
but it probably is a good idea to retire it as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes the documentation less confusing to newcomers.
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Two asterisks the SYNOPSIS section were mistaken as emphasis,
and the latter backtick in "`<key>`s" were not recognized as
closing backtick.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The brief list given in "Symbolic Identifiers" section of the
main documentation is good enough for overview, but help the
reader to find a more comrehensive list as needed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Currently it does what git-blame does, but only faster.
More importantly, its internal structure is designed to support
content movement (aka cut-and-paste) more easily by allowing
more than one paths to be taken from the same commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch documents zip backend options.
It also adds git-archive command into the main git manual
page.
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The command now issues a big deprecation warning message and runs
git-archive command with appropriate arguments.
git-tar-tree $tree_ish $base always forces $base to be the leading
directory name, so the --prefix parameter passed internally to
git-archive is a slash appended to it, i.e. "--prefix=$base/".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this, you can say
git --bare repack -a -d
inside a bare repository, and it will actually work. While at it,
also move the --version, --help and --exec-path options to the
handle_options() function.
While at documenting the new options, also document the --paginate
option.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* ml/trace:
test-lib: unset GIT_TRACE
GIT_TRACE: fix a mixed declarations and code warning
GIT_TRACE: show which built-in/external commands are executed
With the environment variable GIT_TRACE set git will show
- alias expansion
- built-in command execution
- external command execution
on stderr.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The program is not used by git-clone since git-fetch-pack was extended
to allow its caller do what git-clone-pack alone did, and git-clone was
updated to use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
