The user most likely does not care about the exact order of
operations because he cannot see it happening anyway. Instead,
try to explain what it means to merge two commits into a single
tree.
While at it:
- Change the heading to TRUE MERGE. The entire manual page is
about how merges work.
- Document MERGE_HEAD. It is a useful feature, since it makes
the parents of the intended merge commit easier to refer to.
- Do not assume commits named on the 'git merge' command line come
from another repository. For simplicity, the discussion of
conflicts still does assume that there is only one and it is a
branch head.
- Do not start list items with `code`. Otherwise, a toolchain bug
produces a line break in the generated nroff, resulting in odd
extra space.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Novices sometimes find the behavior of 'git merge' in the
fast-forward case surprising. Describe it thoroughly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
A merge-based operation in git can fail in two ways: one that
stops before touching anything, or one that goes ahead and
results in conflicts.
As the 'git merge' manual explains:
| A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
| commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
| match the tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit)
| when it starts out.
Unfortunately, the placement of this sentence makes it easy to
skip over, and its formulation leaves the important point, that
any other attempted merge will be gracefully aborted, unspoken.
So give this point its own section and expand upon it.
Probably this could be simplified somewhat: after all, a change
registered in the index is just a special kind of local
uncommited change, so the second added paragraph is only a
special case of the first. It seemed more helpful to be explicit
here.
Inspired by <http://gitster.livejournal.com/25801.html>.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The reader unfamiliar with the concepts of branching and merging
would have been completely lost. Try to help him with a diagram.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
So the section layout changes as follows:
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-MERGE STRATEGIES
HOW MERGE WORKS
HOW CONFLICTS ARE PRESENTED
HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS
EXAMPLES
+MERGE STRATEGIES
CONFIGURATION
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
DOCUMENTATION
GIT
NOTES
The first-time user will care more about conflicts than about
strategies other than 'recursive'.
One of the examples uses -s ours, but I do not think this hinders
readability.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The 'merge' manual suggests 'reset' to cancel a merge at the end
of the Merge Strategies list. It is more logical to explain this
right before explaining how merge conflicts work, so the daunted
reader can have a way out when he or she needs it most.
While at it, make the advice more dependable and self-contained
by providing the --merge option.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Configuration and environment variables belong to the back matter
of a manual page.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The rule has always been that a cache entry that is ce_uptodate(ce)
means that we already have checked the work tree entity and we know
there is no change in the work tree compared to the index, and nobody
should have to double check. Note that false ce_uptodate(ce) does not
mean it is known to be dirty---it only means we don't know if it is
clean.
There are a few codepaths (refresh-index and preload-index are among
them) that mark a cache entry as up-to-date based solely on the return
value from ie_match_stat(); this function uses lstat() to see if the
work tree entity has been touched, and for a submodule entry, if its
HEAD points at the same commit as the commit recorded in the index of
the superproject (a submodule that is not even cloned is considered
clean).
A submodule is no longer considered unmodified merely because its HEAD
matches the index of the superproject these days, in order to prevent
people from forgetting to commit in the submodule and updating the
superproject index with the new submodule commit, before commiting the
state in the superproject. However, the patch to do so didn't update
the codepath that marks cache entries up-to-date based on the updated
definition and instead worked it around by saying "we don't trust the
return value of ce_uptodate() for submodules."
This makes ce_uptodate() trustworthy again by not marking submodule
entries up-to-date.
The next step _could_ be to introduce a few "in-core" flag bits to
cache_entry structure to record "this entry is _known_ to be dirty",
call is_submodule_modified() from ie_match_stat(), and use these new
bits to avoid running this rather expensive check more than once, but
that can be a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no point doing self-assignments of these variables. Instead,
just export them to the environment, but do so in a sub-shell, because
VAR1=VAL1 VAR2=VAL2 ... command arg1 arg2...
does not mark the variables exported if command that is run
is a shell function, according to POSIX.1.
The callers of do_with_author do not rely on seeing the effect of any
shell variable assignments that may happen inside what was called through
this shell function (currently "output" is the only one), so running it in
the subshell doesn't have an adverse semantic effect.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rather than juggling with the env var GIT_DIR around the invocation of
gitk, set it and GIT_WORK_TREE after finishing setup, ensuring that any
external tool works with the setup we're running with.
This also allows us to remove a couple of conditionals when running gitk
or git gui in a submodule, as we know that the variables are present and
have to be unset and reset before and after the invocation.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Refactor checking for a bare repository into its own proc, that relies
on git rev-parse --is-bare-repository if possible. For older versions of
git we fall back to a logic such that the repository is considered bare
if:
* either the core.bare setting is true
* or the worktree is not set and the directory name ends with .git
The error message for the case of an unhandled bare repository is also
updated to reflect the fact that the problem is not the funny name but
the bareness.
The new refactored proc is also used to disable the menu entry to
explore the working copy, and to skip changing to the worktree before
the gitk invocation.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Don't rely on the git worktree being the updir of the gitdir, since it
might not be. Instead, define (and use) a new _gitworktree global
variable, setting it to $GIT_WORK_TREE if present, falling back to
core.worktree if defined, and finally to whatever we guess the correct
worktree is. Getting core.worktree requires the config from the alleged
git dir _gitdir to be loaded early.
Supporting non-standard worktree locations also breaks the git-gui
assumption (made when calling gitk) that the worktree was the dirname of
$_gitdir and that, by consequence, the git dir could be set to the tail
of $_gitdir once we changed to the worktree root directory. Therefore,
we need to export a GIT_DIR environment variable set to the full,
normalized path of $_gitdir instead. We also skip changing to the worktree
directory if it's empty (i.e. if we're working on a bare repository).
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Multiple lines can be selected in the diff viewer and applied all
at once, rather than selecting "Stage Line For Commit" on each
individual line.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To make it easier for users to deal with submodules, a special diff
popup menu has been added for submodules. The "Show Less Context"
and "Show More Context" entries have been removed, as they don't make
any sense for a submodule summary. Four new entries are added to the
top of the popup menu to gain access to more detailed information
about the changes in a submodule than the plain summary does offer.
These are:
- "Visualize These Changes In The Submodule"
starts gitk showing the selected commit range
- "Visualize These Changes In The Submodule"
starts gitk showing the whole submodule history of the current branch
- "Visualize All Branch History In The Submodule"
starts gitk --all in the submodule
- "Start git gui In The Submodule"
guess what :-)
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Doing so is much faster and gives the same output.
Here are some numbers:
$ time git submodule summary
real 0m0.219s
user 0m0.050s
sys 0m0.111s
$ time git diff --submodule
real 0m0.012s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.009s
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When git-gui is run from a .git dir, _gitdir would be set to "." by
rev-parse, something that confuses the worktree detection.
Fix by expanding the value of _gitdir to pwd in this special case.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
If a diff looked like:
@@
context
-del1
-del2
and you wanted to stage the deletion 'del1', the generated patch
wouldn't apply because it was missing the line 'del2' converted to
context, but this line was counted in the @@-line
Signed-off-by: Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When unstaging a partly staged file or submodule, the file_states
list was not updated properly (unless unstaged linewise). Its
index_info part did not contain the former head_info as it should
have but kept its old value.
This seems not to have had any bad effects but diminishes the value
of the file_states list for future enhancements.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When trying to run gitk on a branch name whose name matches a local
file, it will toss an error saying that the name is ambiguous. Adding
a pair of dashes will make gitk parse the options to the left of
it as branch names. Since wish eats the first pair of dashes we
throw at it, we need to add a second one to ensure they get through.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
When the number of recent repo's gets to ten there can be a
situation where an item is removed from the .gitconfig file via
a call to git config --unset, but the internal representation of
that file (repo_config(gui.recentrepo)) is not updated. Then a
subsequent attempt to remove an item from the list fails because
git-gui attempts to call --unset on a value that has already
been removed. This leads to duplicates in the .gitconfig file,
which then also cause errors if the git-gui tries to --unset them
(rather than using --unset-all. --unset-all is not used because it
is not expected that duplicates should ever be allowed to exist.)
When loading the list of recent repositories (proc _get_recentrepos)
if a repo in the list is not considered a valid git reposoitory
then we should go ahead and remove it so it doesn't take up a slot
in the list (since we limit to 10 items). This will prevent a bunch
of invalid entries in the list (which are not shown) from making
valid entries dissapear off the list even when there are less than
ten valid entries.
See: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=362
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
As reported to msysGit (bug #340) it is possible to get some very
long error messages when updating the index. The use of a label to
display this prevents scrolling the output. This patch replaces the
label with a scrollable text widget configured to look like a label.
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn:
git-svn: allow subset of branches/tags to be specified in glob spec
git-svn: allow UUID to be manually remapped via rewriteUUID
git-svn: update svn mergeinfo test suite
git-svn: document --username/commit-url for branch/tag
git-svn: add --username/commit-url options for branch/tag
git-svn: respect commiturl option for branch/tag
git-svn: fix mismatched src/dst errors for branch/tag
git-svn: handle merge-base failures
git-svn: ignore changeless commits when checking for a cherry-pick
For very large projects it is useful to be able to clone a subset of the
upstream SVN repo's branches. Allow for this by letting the left-side of
the branches and tags glob specs contain a brace-delineated comma-separated
list of names. e.g.:
branches = branches/{red,green}/src:refs/remotes/branches/*
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
In certain situations it may be necessary to manually remap an svn
repostitory UUID. For example:
o--- [git-svn clone]
/
[origin svn repo]
\
o--- [svnsync clone]
Imagine that only "git-svn clone" and "svnsync clone" are made available
to external users. Furthur, "git-svn clone" contains only trunk, and for
reasons unknown, "svnsync clone" is missing the revision properties that
normally provide the origin svn repo's UUID.
A git user who has cloned the "git-svn clone" repo now wishes to use
git-svn to pull in the missing branches from the "synsync clone" repo.
In order for git-svn to get the history correct for those branches,
it needs to know the origin svn repo's UUID. Hence rewriteUUID.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Add a partial branch (e.g., a branch from a project subdirectory) to the
git-svn mergeinfo test repository.
Add a tag and a branch from that tag to the git-svn mergeinfo test repository.
Update the test script to expect a known failure in git-svn exposed by these
additions where merge info for partial branches is not preserved.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Myrick <amyrick@apple.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Add ability to specify on the command line the username to perform the
operation as and the writable URL of the repository to perform it on.
[ew: shortened subject]
Signed-off-by: Igor Mironov <igor.a.mironov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
When constructing a destination URL, use the property 'commiturl' if it
is specified in the configuration file; otherwise take 'url' as usual.
This accommodates the scenario where a user only wants to involve the
writable repository in operations performing a commit and defaults
everything else to a read-only URL.
[ew: shortened subject]
Signed-off-by: Igor Mironov <igor.a.mironov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Change git-svn to warn and continue when merge-base fails while processing svn
merge tickets.
merge-base can fail when a partial branch is created and merged back to trunk
in svn, because it cannot find a common ancestor between the partial branch and
trunk.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Myrick <amyrick@apple.com>
Acked-by: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Update git-svn to ignore commits that do not change the tree when it is
deciding if an svn merge ticket represents a real branch merge or just a
cherry-pick.
Consider the following integration model in the svn repository:
F---G branch1
/ \
D tag1 \ E tag2
/ \ /
A---B C trunk
branch1 is merged to trunk in commit C.
With this patch, git-svn will correctly identify branch1 as a proper merge
parent, instead of incorrectly ignoring it as a cherry-pick.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Myrick <amyrick@apple.com>
Acked-by: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
4cacc621 made difftool fall back to mergetool.prompt
when difftool.prompt is unconfigured. This adds a test.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Having recently added support for building git-imap-send on
Windows, we now link against OpenSSL libraries, and the linker
issues the following warning:
warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/lssl'; ignored
In order to suppress the warning, we change the msvc linker
script to translate an '-lssl' parameter to the ssleay32.lib
library.
Note that the linker script was already including ssleay32.lib
(along with libeay32.lib) as part of the translation of the
'-lcrypto' library parameter. However, libeay32.dll does not
depend on ssleay32.dll and can be used stand-alone, so we remove
ssleay32.lib from the '-lcrypto' translation.
The dependence of ssleay32.dll on libeay32.dll is represented in
the Makefile by the NEEDS_CRYPTO_WITH_SSL build variable.
Also, add the corresponding change to the buildsystem generator.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jl/submodule-diff:
Performance optimization for detection of modified submodules
git status: Show uncommitted submodule changes too when enabled
Teach diff that modified submodule directory is dirty
Show submodules as modified when they contain a dirty work tree
The documentation states that "git-difftool falls back to git-mergetool
config variables when the difftool equivalents have not been defined".
Until now, this was not the case for "difftool.prompt".
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit ade2ca0c (Do not try to remove directories when removing
old links, 2009-10-27) added an expression to a 'test' using an
'-o' or connective. This resulted in the buildsystem generator
mistaking a conditional 'rm' for a linker command. In order to
fix the breakage, we filter out all 'test' commands before then
attempting to identify the commands of interest.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function takes two paths, an early part of abs is supposed to match
base; otherwise abs is not a path under base and the function returns the
full path of abs. The caller can easily confuse the implementation by
giving duplicated and needless slashes in these path arguments.
Credit for test script, motivation and initial patch goes to Thomas Rast.
A follow-up fix (squashed) is by Hannes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
