'git remote' parses its subcommands with a long list of if-else if
statements. parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands, so
let's use that facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code,
handling unknown subcommands, and listing subcommands for Bash
completion. Make sure that the default operation mode doesn't accept
any arguments; and while at it remove the capitalization of the error
message and adjust the test checking it accordingly.
Note that 'git remote' has both 'remove' and 'rm' subcommands, and the
former is preferred [1], so hide the latter for completion.
Note also that the functions implementing each subcommand only accept
the 'argc' and '**argv' parameters, so add a (unused) '*prefix'
parameter to make them match the type expected by parse-options, and
thus avoid casting a bunch of function pointers.
[1] e17dba8fe1 (remote: prefer subcommand name 'remove' to 'rm',
2012-09-06)
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git reflog' parses its subcommands with a couple of if-else if
statements. parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands, so
let's use that facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code,
and listing subcommands for Bash completion.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git notes' parses its subcommands with a long list of if-else if
statements. parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands, so
let's use that facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code,
handling unknown subcommands, and listing subcommands for Bash
completion. Make sure that the default operation mode doesn't accept
any arguments.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git multi-pack-index' parses its subcommands with a couple of if-else
if statements. parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands,
so let's use that facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code,
handling missing or unknown subcommands, and listing subcommands for
Bash completion.
Note that the functions implementing each subcommand only accept the
'argc' and '**argv' parameters, so add a (unused) '*prefix' parameter
to make them match the type expected by parse-options, and thus avoid
casting function pointers.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git hook' parses its currently only subcommand with an if statement.
parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands, so let's use that
facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code, handling missing
or unknown subcommands, and listing subcommands for Bash completion.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git maintenanze' parses its subcommands with a couple of if
statements. parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands, so
let's use that facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code,
handling missing or unknown subcommands, and listing subcommands for
Bash completion.
This change makes 'git maintenance' consistent with other commands in
that the help text shown for '-h' goes to standard output, not error,
in the exit code and error message on unknown subcommand, and the
error message on missing subcommand. There is a test checking these,
which is now updated accordingly.
Note that some of the functions implementing each subcommand don't
accept any parameters, so add the (unused) 'argc', '**argv' and
'*prefix' parameters to make them match the type expected by
parse-options, and thus avoid casting function pointers.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git commit-graph' parses its subcommands with an if-else if
statement. parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands, so
let's use that facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code,
handling missing or unknown subcommands, and listing subcommands for
Bash completion.
Note that the functions implementing each subcommand only accept the
'argc' and '**argv' parameters, so add a (unused) '*prefix' parameter
to make them match the type expected by parse-options, and thus avoid
casting function pointers.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git bundle' parses its subcommands with a couple of if-else if
statements. parse-options has just learned to parse subcommands, so
let's use that facility instead, with the benefits of shorter code,
handling missing or unknown subcommands, and listing subcommands for
Bash completion.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Several Git commands have subcommands to implement mutually exclusive
"operation modes", and they usually parse their subcommand argument
with a bunch of if-else if statements.
Teach parse-options to handle subcommands as well, which will result
in shorter and simpler code with consistent error handling and error
messages on unknown or missing subcommand, and it will also make
possible for our Bash completion script to handle subcommands
programmatically.
The approach is guided by the following observations:
- Most subcommands [1] are implemented in dedicated functions, and
most of those functions [2] either have a signature matching the
'int cmd_foo(int argc, const char **argc, const char *prefix)'
signature of builtin commands or can be trivially converted to
that signature, because they miss only that last prefix parameter
or have no parameters at all.
- Subcommand arguments only have long form, and they have no double
dash prefix, no negated form, and no description, and they don't
take any arguments, and can't be abbreviated.
- There must be exactly one subcommand among the arguments, or zero
if the command has a default operation mode.
- All arguments following the subcommand are considered to be
arguments of the subcommand, and, conversely, arguments meant for
the subcommand may not preceed the subcommand.
So in the end subcommand declaration and parsing would look something
like this:
parse_opt_subcommand_fn *fn = NULL;
struct option builtin_commit_graph_options[] = {
OPT_STRING(0, "object-dir", &opts.obj_dir, N_("dir"),
N_("the object directory to store the graph")),
OPT_SUBCOMMAND("verify", &fn, graph_verify),
OPT_SUBCOMMAND("write", &fn, graph_write),
OPT_END(),
};
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options,
builtin_commit_graph_usage, 0);
return fn(argc, argv, prefix);
Here each OPT_SUBCOMMAND specifies the name of the subcommand and the
function implementing it, and the address of the same 'fn' subcommand
function pointer. parse_options() then processes the arguments until
it finds the first argument matching one of the subcommands, sets 'fn'
to the function associated with that subcommand, and returns, leaving
the rest of the arguments unprocessed. If none of the listed
subcommands is found among the arguments, parse_options() will show
usage and abort.
If a command has a default operation mode, 'fn' should be initialized
to the function implementing that mode, and parse_options() should be
invoked with the PARSE_OPT_SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONAL flag. In this case
parse_options() won't error out when not finding any subcommands, but
will return leaving 'fn' unchanged. Note that if that default
operation mode has any --options, then the PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT
flag is necessary as well (otherwise parse_options() would error out
upon seeing the unknown option meant to the default operation mode).
Some thoughts about the implementation:
- The same pointer to 'fn' must be specified as 'value' for each
OPT_SUBCOMMAND, because there can be only one set of mutually
exclusive subcommands; parse_options() will BUG() otherwise.
There are other ways to tell parse_options() where to put the
function associated with the subcommand given on the command line,
but I didn't like them:
- Change parse_options()'s signature by adding a pointer to
subcommand function to be set to the function associated with
the given subcommand, affecting all callsites, even those that
don't have subcommands.
- Introduce a specific parse_options_and_subcommand() variant
with that extra funcion parameter.
- I decided against automatically calling the subcommand function
from within parse_options(), because:
- There are commands that have to perform additional actions
after option parsing but before calling the function
implementing the specified subcommand.
- The return code of the subcommand is usually the return code
of the git command, but preserving the return code of the
automatically called subcommand function would have made the
API awkward.
- Also add a OPT_SUBCOMMAND_F() variant to allow specifying an
option flag: we have two subcommands that are purposefully
excluded from completion ('git remote rm' and 'git stash save'),
so they'll have to be specified with the PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE
flag.
- Some of the 'parse_opt_flags' don't make sense with subcommands,
and using them is probably just an oversight or misunderstanding.
Therefore parse_options() will BUG() when invoked with any of the
following flags while the options array contains at least one
OPT_SUBCOMMAND:
- PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH: parse_options() stops parsing
arguments when encountering a "--" argument, so it doesn't
make sense to expect and keep one before a subcommand, because
it would prevent the parsing of the subcommand.
However, this flag is allowed in combination with the
PARSE_OPT_SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONAL flag, because the double dash
might be meaningful for the command's default operation mode,
e.g. to disambiguate refs and pathspecs.
- PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION: As its name suggests, this flag
tells parse_options() to stop as soon as it encouners a
non-option argument, but subcommands are by definition not
options... so how could they be parsed, then?!
- PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN: This flag can be used to collect any
unknown --options and then pass them to a different command or
subsystem. Surely if a command has subcommands, then this
functionality should rather be delegated to one of those
subcommands, and not performed by the command itself.
However, this flag is allowed in combination with the
PARSE_OPT_SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONAL flag, making possible to pass
--options to the default operation mode.
- If the command with subcommands has a default operation mode, then
all arguments to the command must preceed the arguments of the
subcommand.
AFAICT we don't have any commands where this makes a difference,
because in those commands either only the command accepts any
arguments ('notes' and 'remote'), or only the default subcommand
('reflog' and 'stash'), but never both.
- The 'argv' array passed to subcommand functions currently starts
with the name of the subcommand. Keep this behavior. AFAICT no
subcommand functions depend on the actual content of 'argv[0]',
but the parse_options() call handling their options expects that
the options start at argv[1].
- To support handling subcommands programmatically in our Bash
completion script, 'git cmd --git-completion-helper' will now list
both subcommands and regular --options, if any. This means that
the completion script will have to separate subcommands (i.e.
words without a double dash prefix) from --options on its own, but
that's rather easy to do, and it's not much work either, because
the number of subcommands a command might have is rather low, and
those commands accept only a single --option or none at all. An
alternative would be to introduce a separate option that lists
only subcommands, but then the completion script would need not
one but two git invocations and command substitutions for commands
with subcommands.
Note that this change doesn't affect the behavior of our Bash
completion script, because when completing the --option of a
command with subcommands, e.g. for 'git notes --<TAB>', then all
subcommands will be filtered out anyway, as none of them will
match the word to be completed starting with that double dash
prefix.
[1] Except 'git rerere', because many of its subcommands are
implemented in the bodies of the if-else if statements parsing the
command's subcommand argument.
[2] Except 'credential', 'credential-store' and 'fsmonitor--daemon',
because some of the functions implementing their subcommands take
special parameters.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output of 'git <cmd> --git-completion-helper' always starts with a
space, e.g.:
$ git config --git-completion-helper
--global --system --local [...]
This doesn't matter for the completion script, because field splitting
discards that space anyway.
However, later patches in this series will teach parse-options to
handle subcommands, and subcommands will be included in the completion
helper output as well. This will make the loop printing options (and
subcommands) a tad more complex, so I wanted to test the result. The
test would have to account for the presence of that leading space,
which bugged my OCD, so let's get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the comment documenting 'struct option' to clarify that
PARSE_OPT_NODASH can only be an argumentless short option; see
51a9949eda (parseopt: add PARSE_OPT_NODASH, 2009-05-07).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of 'PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN' starts with "Keep unknown
arguments instead of erroring out". This is a bit misleading, as this
flag only applies to unknown --options, while non-option arguments are
kept even without this flag.
Update the description to clarify this, and rename the flag to
PARSE_OPTIONS_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT to make this obvious just by looking at
the flag name.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of the 'OPT_CMDMODE' macro states that "enum_val is
set to int_var when ...", but it's the other way around, 'int_var' is
set to 'enum_val'. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 't0040-parse-options.sh' we thoroughly test the parsing of all
types and forms of options, but in all those tests parse_options() is
always invoked with a 0 flags parameter.
Add a few tests to demonstrate how various 'enum parse_opt_flags'
values are supposed to influence option parsing.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git remote' without a subcommand defaults to listing all remotes and
doesn't accept any arguments except the '-v|--verbose' option.
We are about to teach parse-options to handle subcommands, and update
'git remote' to make use of that new feature. So let's add some tests
to make sure that the upcoming changes don't inadvertently change the
behavior in these cases.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git notes' without a subcommand defaults to listing all notes and
doesn't accept any arguments.
We are about to teach parse-options to handle subcommands, and update
'git notes' to make use of that new feature. So let's add a test to
make sure that the upcoming changes don't inadvertenly change the
behavior in this corner case.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our Bash completion script can complete --options for commands using
parse-options even when that command doesn't have a dedicated
completion function, but to do so the completion script must know
which commands use parse-options and which don't. Therefore, commands
not using parse-options are marked in 'git.c's command list with the
NO_PARSEOPT flag.
Update this list, and remove this flag from the commands that by now
use parse-options.
After this change we can TAB complete --options of the plumbing
commands 'commit-tree', 'mailinfo' and 'mktag'.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, HTTP transport clients learned to tell the server side
what locale they are in by sending Accept-Language HTTP header, but
this was done only for some requests but not others.
* ll/curl-accept-language:
remote-curl: send Accept-Language header to server
An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to
at a bogus place, which as been corrected.
* jk/diff-files-cleanup-fix:
diff-files: move misplaced cleanup label
A coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY
macro has been improved.
* rs/cocci-array-copy:
cocci: avoid normalization rules for memcpy
"git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn
did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which
has been corrected.
* jk/clone-unborn-confusion:
clone: move unborn head creation to update_head()
clone: use remote branch if it matches default HEAD
clone: propagate empty remote HEAD even with other branches
clone: drop extra newline from warning message
A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor
remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected.
* hx/lookup-commit-in-graph-fix:
t5330: remove run_with_limited_processses()
commit-graph.c: no lazy fetch in lookup_commit_in_graph()
The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against
GC, which has been corrected.
* jc/resolve-undo:
fsck: do not dereference NULL while checking resolve-undo data
revision: mark blobs needed for resolve-undo as reachable
The way "git multi-pack" uses parse-options API has been improved.
* sg/multi-pack-index-parse-options-fix:
multi-pack-index: simplify handling of unknown --options
The code to convert between GPG trust level strings and internal
constants we use to represent them have been cleaned up.
* jd/gpg-interface-trust-level-string:
gpg-interface: add function for converting trust level to string
Add Coccinelle rules to detect the pattern of initializing and then
finalizing a structure without using it in between at all, which
happens after code restructuring and the compilers fail to
recognize as an unused variable.
* ab/cocci-unused:
cocci: generalize "unused" rule to cover more than "strbuf"
cocci: add and apply a rule to find "unused" strbufs
cocci: have "coccicheck{,-pending}" depend on "coccicheck-test"
cocci: add a "coccicheck-test" target and test *.cocci rules
Makefile & .gitignore: ignore & clean "git.res", not "*.res"
Makefile: remove mandatory "spatch" arguments from SPATCH_FLAGS
Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in
the merge-ort strategy.
* en/merge-dual-dir-renames-fix:
merge-ort: fix issue with dual rename and add/add conflict
merge-ort: shuffle the computation and cleanup of potential collisions
merge-ort: make a separate function for freeing struct collisions
merge-ort: small cleanups of check_for_directory_rename
t6423: add tests of dual directory rename plus add/add conflict
Tweak tests so that they still work when the "git init" template
did not create .git/info directory.
* ab/test-without-templates:
tests: don't assume a .git/info for .git/info/sparse-checkout
tests: don't assume a .git/info for .git/info/exclude
tests: don't assume a .git/info for .git/info/refs
tests: don't assume a .git/info for .git/info/attributes
tests: don't assume a .git/info for .git/info/grafts
tests: don't depend on template-created .git/branches
t0008: don't rely on default ".git/info/exclude"
Teach "make all" to build gitweb as well.
* ab/build-gitweb:
gitweb/Makefile: add a "NO_GITWEB" parameter
Makefile: build 'gitweb' in the default target
gitweb/Makefile: include in top-level Makefile
gitweb: remove "test" and "test-installed" targets
gitweb/Makefile: prepare to merge into top-level Makefile
gitweb/Makefile: clear up and de-duplicate the gitweb.{css,js} vars
gitweb/Makefile: add a $(GITWEB_ALL) variable
gitweb/Makefile: define all .PHONY prerequisites inline
Apply Coccinelle rule to turn raw memmove() into MOVE_ARRAY() cpp
macro, which would improve maintainability and readability.
* jc/builtin-mv-move-array:
builtin/mv.c: use the MOVE_ARRAY() macro instead of memmove()
Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust
against different end-user vim settings.
* fr/vimdiff-layout-fix:
vimdiff: make layout engine more robust against user vim settings
The implementation of mkstemp() for MinGW uses mktemp() and open()
without the flag O_EXCL, which is racy. It's not a security problem
for now because all of its callers only create files within the
repository (incl. worktrees). Replace it with a call to our more
secure internal function, git_mkstemp_mode(), to prevent possible
future issues.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is a known social engineering attack that takes advantage of the
fact that a working tree can include an entire bare repository,
including a config file. A user could run a Git command inside the bare
repository thinking that the config file of the 'outer' repository would
be used, but in reality, the bare repository's config file (which is
attacker-controlled) is used, which may result in arbitrary code
execution. See [1] for a fuller description and deeper discussion.
A simple mitigation is to forbid bare repositories unless specified via
`--git-dir` or `GIT_DIR`. In environments that don't use bare
repositories, this would be minimally disruptive.
Create a config variable, `safe.bareRepository`, that tells Git whether
or not to die() when working with a bare repository. This config is an
enum of:
- "all": allow all bare repositories (this is the default)
- "explicit": only allow bare repositories specified via --git-dir
or GIT_DIR.
If we want to protect users from such attacks by default, neither value
will suffice - "all" provides no protection, but "explicit" is
impractical for bare repository users. A more usable default would be to
allow only non-embedded bare repositories ([2] contains one such
proposal), but detecting if a repository is embedded is potentially
non-trivial, so this work is not implemented in this series.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/kl6lsfqpygsj.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/5b969c5e-e802-c447-ad25-6acc0b784582@github.com
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use git_protected_config() to read `safe.directory` instead of
read_very_early_config(), making it 'protected configuration only'.
As a result, `safe.directory` now respects "-c", so update the tests and
docs accordingly. It used to ignore "-c" due to how it was implemented,
not because of security or correctness concerns [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqlevabcsu.fsf@gitster.g/
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`uploadpack.packObjectsHook` is the only 'protected configuration only'
variable today, but we've noted that `safe.directory` and the upcoming
`safe.bareRepository` should also be 'protected configuration only'. So,
for consistency, we'd like to have a single implementation for protected
configuration.
The primary constraints are:
1. Reading from protected configuration should be fast. Nearly all "git"
commands inside a bare repository will read both `safe.directory` and
`safe.bareRepository`, so we cannot afford to be slow.
2. Protected configuration must be readable when the gitdir is not
known. `safe.directory` and `safe.bareRepository` both affect
repository discovery and the gitdir is not known at that point [1].
The chosen implementation in this commit is to read protected
configuration and cache the values in a global configset. This is
similar to the caching behavior we get with the_repository->config.
Introduce git_protected_config(), which reads protected configuration
and caches them in the global configset protected_config. Then, refactor
`uploadpack.packObjectsHook` to use git_protected_config().
The protected configuration functions are named similarly to their
non-protected counterparts, e.g. git_protected_config_check_init() vs
git_config_check_init().
In light of constraint 1, this implementation can still be improved.
git_protected_config() iterates through every variable in
protected_config, which is wasteful, but it makes the conversion simple
because it matches existing patterns. We will likely implement constant
time lookup functions for protected configuration in a future series
(such functions already exist for non-protected configuration, i.e.
repo_config_get_*()).
An alternative that avoids introducing another configset is to continue
to read all config using git_config(), but only accept values that have
the correct config scope [2]. This technically fulfills constraint 2,
because git_config() simply ignores the local and worktree config when
the gitdir is not known. However, this would read incomplete config into
the_repository->config, which would need to be reset when the gitdir is
known and git_config() needs to read the local and worktree config.
Resetting the_repository->config might be reasonable while we only have
these 'protected configuration only' variables, but it's not clear
whether this extends well to future variables.
[1] In this case, we do have a candidate gitdir though, so with a little
refactoring, it might be possible to provide a gitdir.
[2] This is how `uploadpack.packObjectsHook` was implemented prior to
this commit.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For security reasons, there are config variables that are only trusted
when they are specified in certain configuration scopes, which are
sometimes referred to on-list as 'protected configuration' [1]. A future
commit will introduce another such variable, so let's define our terms
so that we can have consistent documentation and implementation.
In our documentation, define 'protected configuration' as the system,
global and command config scopes. As a shorthand, I will refer to
variables that are only respected in protected configuration as
'protected configuration only', but this term is not used in the
documentation.
This definition of protected configuration is based on whether or not
Git can reasonably protect the user by ignoring the configuration scope:
- System, global and command line config are considered protected
because an attacker who has control over any of those can do plenty of
harm without Git, so we gain very little by ignoring those scopes.
- On the other hand, local (and similarly, worktree) config are not
considered protected because it is relatively easy for an attacker to
control local config, e.g.:
- On some shared user environments, a non-admin attacker can create a
repository high up the directory hierarchy (e.g. C:\.git on
Windows), and a user may accidentally use it when their PS1
automatically invokes "git" commands.
`safe.directory` prevents attacks of this form by making sure that
the user intended to use the shared repository. It obviously
shouldn't be read from the repository, because that would end up
trusting the repository that Git was supposed to reject.
- "git upload-pack" is expected to run in repositories that may not be
controlled by the user. We cannot ignore all config in that
repository (because "git upload-pack" would fail), but we can limit
the risks by ignoring `uploadpack.packObjectsHook`.
Only `uploadpack.packObjectsHook` is 'protected configuration only'. The
following variables are intentionally excluded:
- `safe.directory` should be 'protected configuration only', but it does
not technically fit the definition because it is not respected in the
"command" scope. A future commit will fix this.
- `trace2.*` happens to read the same scopes as `safe.directory` because
they share an implementation. However, this is not for security
reasons; it is because we want to start tracing so early that
repository-level config and "-c" are not available [2].
This requirement is unique to `trace2.*`, so it does not makes sense
for protected configuration to be subject to the same constraints.
[1] For example,
https://lore.kernel.org/git/6af83767-576b-75c4-c778-0284344a8fe7@github.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/a0c89d0d-669e-bf56-25d2-cbb09b012e70@jeffhostetler.com/
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a subsequent commit, we will introduce "protected configuration",
which is easiest to describe in terms of configuration scopes (i.e. it's
the union of the 'system', 'global', and 'command' scopes). This
description is fine for ML discussions, but it's inadequate for end
users because we don't provide a good description of "configuration
scopes" in the public docs.
145d59f482 (config: add '--show-scope' to print the scope of a config
value, 2020-02-10) introduced the word "scope" to our public docs, but
that only enumerates the scopes and assumes the user can figure out
what those values mean.
Add a SCOPES section to Documentation/git-config.txt that describes the
configuration scopes, their corresponding CLI options, and mentions that
some configuration options are only respected in certain scopes. Then,
use the word "scope" to simplify the FILES section and change some
confusing wording.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
