The function `write_reused_pack_verbatim()` within
`builtin/pack-objects.c` is responsible for writing out a continuous
set of objects beginning at the start of the reuse packfile.
In the existing implementation, we did something like:
while (pos < reuse_packfile_bitmap->word_alloc &&
reuse_packfile_bitmap->words[pos] == (eword_t)~0)
pos++;
if (pos)
/* write first `pos * BITS_IN_WORD` objects from pack */
as an optimization to record a single chunk for the longest continuous
prefix of objects wanted out of the reuse pack, instead of having a
chunk for each individual object. For more details, see bb514de356
(pack-objects: improve partial packfile reuse, 2019-12-18).
In order to retain this optimization in a multi-pack reuse world, we can
no longer assume that the first object in a pack is on a word boundary
in the bitmap storing the set of reusable objects.
Assuming that all objects from the beginning of the reuse packfile up to
the object corresponding to the first bit on a word boundary are part of
the result, consume whole words at a time until the last whole word
belonging to the reuse packfile. Copy those objects to the resulting
packfile, and track that we reused them by recording a single chunk.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function `write_reused_pack()` within `builtin/pack-objects.c` is
responsible for performing pack-reuse on a single pack, and has two main
functions:
- it dispatches a call to `write_reused_pack_verbatim()` to see if we
can reuse portions of the packfile in whole-word chunks
- for any remaining objects (that is, any objects that appear after
the first "gap" in the bitmap), call write_reused_pack_one() on that
object to record it for reuse.
Prepare this function for multi-pack reuse by removing the assumption
that the bit position corresponding to the first object being reused
from a given pack must be at bit position zero.
The changes in this function are mostly straightforward. Initialize `i`
to the position of the first word to contain bits corresponding to that
reuse pack. In most situations, we throw the initialized value away,
since we end up replacing it with the return value from
write_reused_pack_verbatim(), moving us past the section of whole words
that we reused.
Likewise, modify the per-object loop to ignore any bits at the beginning
of the first word that do not belong to the pack currently being reused,
as well as skip to the "done" section once we have processed the last
bit corresponding to this pack.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Further prepare pack-objects to perform verbatim pack-reuse over
multiple packfiles by converting functions that take in a pointer to a
`struct packed_git` to instead take in a pointer to a `struct
bitmapped_pack`.
The additional information found in the bitmapped_pack struct (such as
the bit position corresponding to the beginning of the pack) will be
necessary in order to perform verbatim pack-reuse.
Note that we don't use any of the extra pieces of information contained
in the bitmapped_pack struct, so this step is merely preparatory and
does not introduce any functional changes.
Note further that we do not change the argument type to
write_reused_pack_one(). That function is responsible for copying
sections of the packfile directly and optionally patching any OFS_DELTAs
to account for not reusing sections of the packfile in between a delta
and its base.
As such, that function is (and should remain) oblivious to multi-pack
reuse, and does not require any of the extra pieces of information
stored in the bitmapped_pack struct.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When reusing objects from a pack, we keep track of a set of one or more
`reused_chunk`s, corresponding to sections of one or more object(s) from
a source pack that we are reusing. Each chunk contains two pieces of
information:
- the offset of the first object in the source pack (relative to the
beginning of the source pack)
- the difference between that offset, and the corresponding offset in
the pack we're generating
The purpose of keeping track of these is so that we can patch an
OFS_DELTAs that cross over a section of the reuse pack that we didn't
take.
For instance, consider a hypothetical pack as shown below:
(chunk #2)
__________...
/
/
+--------+---------+-------------------+---------+
... | <base> | <other> | (unused) | <delta> | ...
+--------+---------+-------------------+---------+
\ /
\______________/
(chunk #1)
Suppose that we are sending objects "base", "other", and "delta", and
that the "delta" object is stored as an OFS_DELTA, and that its base is
"base". If we don't send any objects in the "(unused)" range, we can't
copy the delta'd object directly, since its delta offset includes a
range of the pack that we didn't copy, so we have to account for that
difference when patching and reassembling the delta.
In order to compute this value correctly, we need to know not only where
we are in the packfile we're assembling (with `hashfile_total(f)`) but
also the position of the first byte of the packfile that we are
currently reusing. Currently, this works just fine, since when reusing
only a single pack those two values are always identical (because
verbatim reuse is the first thing pack-objects does when enabled after
writing the pack header).
But when reusing multiple packs which have one or more gaps, we'll need
to account for these two values diverging.
Together, these two allow us to compute the reused chunk's offset
difference relative to the start of the reused pack, as desired.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The routines pack-objects uses to perform verbatim pack-reuse are:
- write_reused_pack_one()
- write_reused_pack_verbatim()
- write_reused_pack()
, all of which assume that there is exactly one packfile being reused:
the global constant `reuse_packfile`.
Prepare for reusing objects from multiple packs by making reuse packfile
a parameter of each of the above functions in preparation for calling
these functions in a loop with multiple packfiles.
Note that we still have the global "reuse_packfile", but pass it through
each of the above function's parameter lists, eliminating all but one
direct access (the top-level caller in `write_pack_file()`). Even after
this series, we will still have a global, but it will hold the array of
reusable packfiles, and we'll pass them one at a time to these functions
in a loop.
Note also that we will eventually need to pass a `bitmapped_pack`
instead of a `packed_git` in order to hold onto additional information
required for reuse (such as the bit position of the first object
belonging to that pack). But that change will be made in a future commit
so as to minimize the noise below as much as possible.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Further prepare for enabling verbatim pack-reuse over multiple packfiles
by changing the signature of reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap() to
populate an array of `struct bitmapped_pack *`'s instead of a pointer to
a single packfile.
Since the array we're filling out is sized dynamically[^1], add an
additional `size_t *` parameter which will hold the number of reusable
packs (equal to the number of elements in the array).
Note that since we still have not implemented true multi-pack reuse,
these changes aren't propagated out to the rest of the caller in
builtin/pack-objects.c.
In the interim state, we expect that the array has a single element, and
we use that element to fill out the static `reuse_packfile` variable
(which is a bog-standard `struct packed_git *`). Future commits will
continue to push this change further out through the pack-objects code.
[^1]: That is, even though we know the number of packs which are
candidates for pack-reuse, we do not know how many of those
candidates we can actually reuse.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The signature of `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` currently takes
in a bitmap, as well as three output parameters (filled through
pointers, and passed as arguments), and also returns an integer result.
The output parameters are filled out with: (a) the packfile used for
pack-reuse, (b) the number of objects from that pack that we can reuse,
and (c) a bitmap indicating which objects we can reuse. The return value
is either -1 (when there are no objects to reuse), or 0 (when there is
at least one object to reuse).
Some of these parameters are redundant. Notably, we can infer from the
bitmap how many objects are reused by calling bitmap_popcount(). And we
can similar compute the return value based on that number as well.
As such, clean up the signature of this function to drop the "*entries"
parameter, as well as the int return value, since the single caller of
this function can infer these values themself.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a future commit, we will want to check whether or not a bitmap has
any bits set in any of its words. The best way to do this (prior to the
existence of this patch) is to call `bitmap_popcount()` and check
whether the result is non-zero.
But this is semi-wasteful, since we do not need to know the exact number
of bits set, only whether or not there is at least one of them.
Implement a new helper function to check just that.
Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When trying to assemble a pack with bitmaps using `--use-bitmap-index`,
`pack-objects` asks the pack-bitmap machinery for a bitmap which
indicates the set of objects we can "reuse" verbatim from on-disk.
This set is roughly comprised of: a prefix of objects in the bitmapped
pack (or preferred pack, in the case of a multi-pack reachability
bitmap), plus any other objects not included in the prefix, excluding
any deltas whose base we are not sending in the resulting pack.
The pack-bitmap machinery is responsible for computing this bitmap, and
does so with the following functions:
- reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()
- try_partial_reuse()
In the existing implementation, the first function is responsible for
(a) marking the prefix of objects in the reusable pack, and then (b)
calling try_partial_reuse() on any remaining objects to ensure that they
are also reusable (and removing them from the bitmapped set if they are
not).
Likewise, the `try_partial_reuse()` function is responsible for checking
whether an isolated object (that is, an object from the bitmapped
pack/preferred pack not contained in the prefix from earlier) may be
reused, i.e. that it isn't a delta of an object that we are not sending
in the resulting pack.
These functions are based on two core assumptions, which we will unwind
in this and the following commits:
1. There is only a single pack from the bitmap which is eligible for
verbatim pack-reuse. For single-pack bitmaps, this is trivially the
bitmapped pack. For multi-pack bitmaps, this is (currently) the
MIDX's preferred pack.
2. The pack eligible for reuse has its first object in bit position 0,
and all objects from that pack follow in pack-order from that first
bit position.
In order to perform verbatim pack reuse over multiple packs, we must
unwind these two assumptions. Most notably, in order to reuse bits from
a given packfile, we need to know the first bit position occupied by
an object form that packfile. To propagate this information around, pass
a `struct bitmapped_pack *` anywhere we previously passed a `struct
packed_git *`, since the former contains the bitmap position we're
interested in (as well as a pointer to the latter).
As an additional step, factor out a sub-routine from the main
`reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` function, called
`reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap_1()`. This new function will be
responsible for figuring out which objects may be reused from a single
pack, and the existing function will dispatch multiple calls to its new
helper function for each reusable pack.
Consequently, `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` will now maintain
an array of reusable packs instead of a single such pack. We currently
expect that array to have only a single element, so this awkward state
is short-lived. It will serve as useful scaffolding in subsequent
commits as we begin to work towards enabling multi-pack reuse.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The multi-pack index API exposes a `midx_contains_pack()` function that
takes in a string ending in either ".idx" or ".pack" and returns whether
or not the MIDX contains a given pack corresponding to that string.
There is no corresponding function to locate the position of a pack
within the MIDX's pack order (sorted lexically by pack filename).
We could add an optional out parameter to `midx_contains_pack()` that is
filled out with the pack's position when the parameter is non-NULL. To
minimize the amount of fallout from this change, instead introduce a new
function by renaming `midx_contains_pack()` to `midx_locate_pack()`,
adding that output parameter, and then reimplementing
`midx_contains_pack()` in terms of it.
Future patches will make use of this new function.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a multi-pack bitmap is used to implement verbatim pack reuse (that
is, when verbatim chunks from an on-disk packfile are copied
directly[^1]), it does so by using its "preferred pack" as the source
for pack-reuse.
This allows repositories to pack the majority of their objects into a
single (often large) pack, and then use it as the single source for
verbatim pack reuse. This increases the amount of objects that are
reused verbatim (and consequently, decrease the amount of time it takes
to generate many packs). But this performance comes at a cost, which is
that the preferred packfile must pace its growth with that of the entire
repository in order to maintain the utility of verbatim pack reuse.
As repositories grow beyond what we can reasonably store in a single
packfile, the utility of verbatim pack reuse diminishes. Or, at the very
least, it becomes increasingly more expensive to maintain as the pack
grows larger and larger.
It would be beneficial to be able to perform this same optimization over
multiple packs, provided some modest constraints (most importantly, that
the set of packs eligible for verbatim reuse are disjoint with respect
to the subset of their objects being sent).
If we assume that the packs which we treat as candidates for verbatim
reuse are disjoint with respect to any of their objects we may output,
we need to make only modest modifications to the verbatim pack-reuse
code itself. Most notably, we need to remove the assumption that the
bits in the reachability bitmap corresponding to objects from the single
reuse pack begin at the first bit position.
Future patches will unwind these assumptions and reimplement their
existing functionality as special cases of the more general assumptions
(e.g. that reuse bits can start anywhere within the bitset, but happen
to start at 0 for all existing cases).
This patch does not yet relax any of those assumptions. Instead, it
implements a foundational data-structure, the "Bitampped Packs" (`BTMP`)
chunk of the multi-pack index. The `BTMP` chunk's contents are described
in detail here. Importantly, the `BTMP` chunk contains information to
map regions of a multi-pack index's reachability bitmap to the packs
whose objects they represent.
For now, this chunk is only written, not read (outside of the test-tool
used in this patch to test the new chunk's behavior). Future patches
will begin to make use of this new chunk.
[^1]: Modulo patching any `OFS_DELTA`'s that cross over a region of the
pack that wasn't used verbatim.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When selecting which packfiles will be written while generating a MIDX,
the MIDX internals fill out a 'struct pack_info' with various pieces of
book-keeping.
Instead of filling out each field of the `pack_info` structure
individually in each of the two spots that modify the array of such
structures (`ctx->info`), extract a common routine that does this for
us.
This reduces the code duplication by a modest amount. But more
importantly, it zero-initializes the structure before assigning values
into it. This hardens us for a future change which will add additional
fields to this structure which (until this patch) was not
zero-initialized.
As a result, any new fields added to the `pack_info` structure need only
be updated in a single location, instead of at each spot within midx.c.
There are no functional changes in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `find_objects()` function creates an object_list for any tips of the
reachability query which do not have corresponding bitmaps.
The object_list is not used outside of `find_objects()`, but we never
free it with `object_list_free()`, resulting in a leak. Let's plug that
leak by calling `object_list_free()`, which results in t6113 becoming
leak-free.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `bb_commit` commit slab is used by the pack-bitmap-write machinery
to track various pieces of bookkeeping used to generate reachability
bitmaps.
Even though we clear the slab when freeing the bitmap_builder struct
(with `bitmap_builder_clear()`), there are still pointers which point to
locations in memory that have not yet been freed, resulting in a leak.
Plug the leak by introducing a suitable `free_fn` for the `struct
bb_commit` type, and make sure it is called on each member of the slab
via the `deep_clear_bb_data()` function.
Note that it is possible for both of the arguments to `bitmap_free()` to
be NULL, but `bitmap_free()` is a noop for NULL arguments, so it is OK
to pass them unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-objects internals use a packing_data struct to track what
objects are part of the pack(s) being formed.
Since these structures contain allocated fields, failing to
appropriately free() them results in a leak. Plug that leak by
introducing a clear_packing_data() function, and call it in the
appropriate spots.
This is a fairly straightforward leak to plug, since none of the callers
expect to read any values or have any references to parts of the address
space being freed.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our
(ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version
requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow
simplifying our implementation.
* tz/send-email-negatable-options:
send-email: avoid duplicate specification warnings
perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0
"git rebase --autosquash" is now enabled for non-interactive rebase,
but it is still incompatible with the apply backend.
* ak/rebase-autosquash:
rebase: rewrite --(no-)autosquash documentation
rebase: support --autosquash without -i
rebase: fully ignore rebase.autoSquash without -i
"git for-each-ref --no-sort" still sorted the refs alphabetically
which paid non-trivial cost. It has been redefined to show output
in an unspecified order, to allow certain optimizations to take
advantage of.
* vd/for-each-ref-unsorted-optimization:
t/perf: add perf tests for for-each-ref
ref-filter.c: use peeled tag for '*' format fields
for-each-ref: clean up documentation of --format
ref-filter.c: filter & format refs in the same callback
ref-filter.c: refactor to create common helper functions
ref-filter.c: rename 'ref_filter_handler()' to 'filter_one()'
ref-filter.h: add functions for filter/format & format-only
ref-filter.h: move contains caches into filter
ref-filter.h: add max_count and omit_empty to ref_format
ref-filter.c: really don't sort when using --no-sort
Test and shell scripts clean-up.
* ps/ban-a-or-o-operator-with-test:
Makefile: stop using `test -o` when unlinking duplicate executables
contrib/subtree: convert subtree type check to use case statement
contrib/subtree: stop using `-o` to test for number of args
global: convert trivial usages of `test <expr> -a/-o <expr>`
"git format-patch --encode-email-headers" ignored the option when
preparing the cover letter, which has been corrected.
* ss/format-patch-use-encode-headers-for-cover-letter:
format-patch: fix ignored encode_email_headers for cover letter
Update ref-related tests.
* ps/ref-tests-update:
t: mark several tests that assume the files backend with REFFILES
t7900: assert the absence of refs via git-for-each-ref(1)
t7300: assert exact states of repo
t4207: delete replace references via git-update-ref(1)
t1450: convert tests to remove worktrees via git-worktree(1)
t: convert tests to not access reflog via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not access symrefs via the filesystem
t: convert tests to not write references via the filesystem
t: allow skipping expected object ID in `ref-store update-ref`
"git add" and "git stash" learned to support the ":(attr:...)"
magic pathspec.
* jw/git-add-attr-pathspec:
attr: enable attr pathspec magic for git-add and git-stash
Code clean-up for jk/chunk-bounds topic.
* jk/chunk-bounds-more:
commit-graph: mark chunk error messages for translation
commit-graph: drop verify_commit_graph_lite()
commit-graph: check order while reading fanout chunk
commit-graph: use fanout value for graph size
commit-graph: abort as soon as we see a bogus chunk
commit-graph: clarify missing-chunk error messages
commit-graph: drop redundant call to "lite" verification
midx: check consistency of fanout table
commit-graph: handle overflow in chunk_size checks
The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test
suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected.
* js/ci-discard-prove-state:
ci: avoid running the test suite _twice_
Add support for GitLab CI.
* ps/ci-gitlab:
ci: add support for GitLab CI
ci: install test dependencies for linux-musl
ci: squelch warnings when testing with unusable Git repo
ci: unify setup of some environment variables
ci: split out logic to set up failed test artifacts
ci: group installation of Docker dependencies
ci: make grouping setup more generic
ci: reorder definitions for grouping functions
Update the base topic to work with CMake builds.
* js/doc-unit-tests-with-cmake:
cmake: handle also unit tests
cmake: use test names instead of full paths
cmake: fix typo in variable name
artifacts-tar: when including `.dll` files, don't forget the unit-tests
unit-tests: do show relative file paths
unit-tests: do not mistake `.pdb` files for being executable
cmake: also build unit tests
Process to add some form of low-level unit tests has started.
* js/doc-unit-tests:
ci: run unit tests in CI
unit tests: add TAP unit test framework
unit tests: add a project plan document
"To dereference" and "to peel" were sometimes used in in-code
comments and documentation but without description in the glossary.
* vd/glossary-dereference-peel:
glossary: add definitions for dereference & peel
A warning is issued for options which are specified more than once
beginning with perl-Getopt-Long >= 2.55. In addition to causing users
to see warnings, this results in test failures which compare the output.
An example, from t9001-send-email.37:
| +++ diff -u expect actual
| --- expect 2023-11-14 10:38:23.854346488 +0000
| +++ actual 2023-11-14 10:38:23.848346466 +0000
| @@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
| +Duplicate specification "no-chain-reply-to" for option "no-chain-reply-to"
| +Duplicate specification "to-cover|to-cover!" for option "to-cover"
| +Duplicate specification "cc-cover|cc-cover!" for option "cc-cover"
| +Duplicate specification "no-thread" for option "no-thread"
| +Duplicate specification "no-to-cover" for option "no-to-cover"
| fatal: longline.patch:35 is longer than 998 characters
| warning: no patches were sent
| error: last command exited with $?=1
| not ok 37 - reject long lines
Remove the duplicate option specs. These are primarily the explicit
'--no-' prefix opts which were added in f471494303 (git-send-email.perl:
support no- prefix with older GetOptions, 2015-01-30). This was done
specifically to support perl-5.8.0 which includes Getopt::Long 2.32[1].
Getopt::Long 2.33 added support for the '--no-' prefix natively by
appending '!' to the option specification string, which was included in
perl-5.8.1 and is not present in perl-5.8.0. The previous commit bumped
the minimum supported Perl version to 5.8.1 so we no longer need to
provide the '--no-' variants for negatable options manually.
Teach `--git-completion-helper` to output the '--no-' options. They are
not included in the options hash and would otherwise be lost.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The following commit will make use of a Getopt::Long feature which is
only present in Perl >= 5.8.1. Document that as the minimum version we
support.
Many of our Perl scripts will continue to run with 5.8.0 but this change
allows us to adjust them as needed without breaking any promises to our
users.
The Perl requirement was last changed in d48b284183 (perl: bump the
required Perl version to 5.8 from 5.6.[21], 2010-09-24). At that time,
5.8.0 was 8 years old. It is now over 21 years old.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add performance tests for 'for-each-ref'. The tests exercise different
combinations of filters/formats/options, as well as the overall performance
of 'git for-each-ref | git cat-file --batch-check' to demonstrate the
performance difference vs. 'git for-each-ref' with "%(*fieldname)" format
specifiers.
All tests are run against a repository with 40k loose refs - 10k commits,
each having a unique:
- branch
- custom ref (refs/custom/special_*)
- annotated tag pointing at the commit
- annotated tag pointing at the other annotated tag (i.e., a nested tag)
After those tests are finished, the refs are packed with 'pack-refs --all'
and the same tests are rerun.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In most builtins ('rev-parse <revision>^{}', 'show-ref --dereference'),
"dereferencing" a tag refers to a recursive peel of the tag object. Unlike
these cases, the dereferencing prefix ('*') in 'for-each-ref' format
specifiers triggers only a single, non-recursive dereference of a given tag
object. For most annotated tags, a single dereference is all that is needed
to access the tag's associated commit or tree; "recursive" and
"non-recursive" dereferencing are functionally equivalent in these cases.
However, nested tags (annotated tags whose target is another annotated tag)
dereferenced once return another tag, where a recursive dereference would
return the commit or tree.
Currently, if a user wants to filter & format refs and include information
about a recursively-dereferenced tag, they can do so with something like
'cat-file --batch-check':
git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname)^{} %(refname)" <pattern> |
git cat-file --batch-check="%(objectname) %(rest)"
But the combination of commands is inefficient. So, to improve the
performance of this use case and align the defererencing behavior of
'for-each-ref' with that of other commands, update the ref formatting code
to use the peeled tag (from 'peel_iterated_oid()') to populate '*' fields
rather than the tag's immediate target object (from 'get_tagged_oid()').
Additionally, add a test to 't6300-for-each-ref' to verify new nested tag
behavior and update 't6302-for-each-ref-filter.sh' to print the correct
value for nested dereferenced fields.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the description of the `*` prefix from the --format option
documentation to the part of the command documentation that deals with other
object type-specific modifiers. Also reorganize and reword the remaining
--format documentation so that the explanation of the default format doesn't
interrupt the details on format string interpolation.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
