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Junio C Hamano
783cfafb91 Merge branch 'cc/replace'
* cc/replace:
  Documentation: talk a little bit about GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS
  Documentation: fix typos and spelling in replace documentation
  replace: use a GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS env variable
2009-11-23 22:24:01 -08:00
Christian Couder
6476b38b1f replace: use a GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS env variable
This has the same effect as --no-replace-objects option; git ignores the
replace refs.  When --no-replace-objects option is passed to git, this
environment variable is set to "1" and exported to subprocesses in order
to propagate the same setting.

It is useful for example for scripts, as the git commands used in them can
now be aware that they must not read replace refs.

Tested-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-20 22:08:10 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
a97a74686d Introduce commit notes
Commit notes are blobs which are shown together with the commit
message.  These blobs are taken from the notes ref, which you can
configure by the config variable core.notesRef, which in turn can
be overridden by the environment variable GIT_NOTES_REF.

The notes ref is a branch which contains "files" whose names are
the names of the corresponding commits (i.e. the SHA-1).

The rationale for putting this information into a ref is this: we
want to be able to fetch and possibly union-merge the notes,
maybe even look at the date when a note was introduced, and we
want to store them efficiently together with the other objects.

This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Thomas Rast: fix core.notesRef documentation
- Tor Arne Vestbø: fix printing of multi-line notes
- Alex Riesen: Using char array instead of char pointer costs less BSS
- Johan Herland: Plug leak when msg is good, but msglen or type causes return

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tavestbo@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

get_commit_notes(): Plug memory leak when 'if' triggers, but not because of read_sha1_file() failure
2009-10-19 18:59:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f00ecbe42b Merge branch 'cc/replace'
* cc/replace:
  t6050: check pushing something based on a replaced commit
  Documentation: add documentation for "git replace"
  Add git-replace to .gitignore
  builtin-replace: use "usage_msg_opt" to give better error messages
  parse-options: add new function "usage_msg_opt"
  builtin-replace: teach "git replace" to actually replace
  Add new "git replace" command
  environment: add global variable to disable replacement
  mktag: call "check_sha1_signature" with the replacement sha1
  replace_object: add a test case
  object: call "check_sha1_signature" with the replacement sha1
  sha1_file: add a "read_sha1_file_repl" function
  replace_object: add mechanism to replace objects found in "refs/replace/"
  refs: add a "for_each_replace_ref" function
2009-08-21 18:47:53 -07:00
Giuseppe Bilotta
86c91f9179 git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences
Introduce --ignore-whitespace option and corresponding config bool to
ignore whitespace differences while applying patches, akin to the
'patch' program.

'git am', 'git rebase' and the bash git completion are made aware of
this option.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-05 11:59:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
130b04ab37 Merge branch 'js/maint-graft-unhide-true-parents'
* js/maint-graft-unhide-true-parents:
  git repack: keep commits hidden by a graft
  Add a test showing that 'git repack' throws away grafted-away parents

Conflicts:
	git-repack.sh
2009-07-25 00:45:03 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
7f3140cd23 git repack: keep commits hidden by a graft
When you have grafts that pretend that a given commit has different
parents than the ones recorded in the commit object, it is dangerous
to let 'git repack' remove those hidden parents, as you can easily
remove the graft and end up with a broken repository.

So let's play it safe and keep those parent objects and everything
that is reachable by them, in addition to the grafted parents.

As this behavior can only be triggered by git pack-objects, and as that
command handles duplicate parents gracefully, we do not bother to cull
duplicated parents that may result by using both true and grafted
parents.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-24 09:10:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bba0fd22ad push: do not give big warning when no preference is configured
If the message said "we will be changing the default in the future, so
this is to warn people who want to keep the current default what to do",
it would have made some sense, but as it stands, the message is merely an
unsolicited advertisement for a new feature, which it is not helpful at
all.  Squelch it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-18 17:20:52 -07:00
Christian Couder
dae556bdb1 environment: add global variable to disable replacement
This new "read_replace_refs" global variable is set to 1 by
default, so that replace refs are used by default. But
reachability traversal and packing commands ("cmd_fsck",
"cmd_prune", "cmd_pack_objects", "upload_pack",
"cmd_unpack_objects") set it to 0, as they must work with the
original DAG.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-31 17:02:59 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
348df16679 Rename core.unreliableHardlinks to core.createObject
"Unreliable hardlinks" is a misleading description for what is happening.
So rename it to something less misleading.

Suggested by Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-29 16:50:07 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
be66a6c43d Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
It seems that accessing NTFS partitions with ufsd (at least on my EeePC)
has an unnerving bug: if you link() a file and unlink() it right away,
the target of the link() will have the correct size, but consist of NULs.

It seems as if the calls are simply not serialized correctly, as single-stepping
through the function move_temp_to_file() works flawlessly.

As ufsd is "Commertial software" (sic!), I cannot fix it, and have to work
around it in Git.

At the same time, it seems that this fixes msysGit issues 222 and 229 to
assume that Windows cannot handle link() && unlink().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-25 09:49:21 -07:00
Finn Arne Gangstad
521537476f New config push.default to decide default behavior for push
When "git push" is not told what refspecs to push, it pushes all matching
branches to the current remote.  For some workflows this default is not
useful, and surprises new users.  Some have even found that this default
behaviour is too easy to trigger by accident with unwanted consequences.

Introduce a new configuration variable "push.default" that decides what
action git push should take if no refspecs are given or implied by the
command line arguments or the current remote configuration.

Possible values are:

  'nothing'  : Push nothing;
  'matching' : Current default behaviour, push all branches that already
               exist in the current remote;
  'tracking' : Push the current branch to whatever it is tracking;
  'current'  : Push the current branch to a branch of the same name,
               i.e. HEAD.

Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 14:50:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
954cfb5cfd Revert "Merge branch 'js/notes'"
This reverts commit 7b75b331f6, reversing
changes made to 5d680a67d7.
2009-02-10 21:32:10 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
879ef2485d Introduce commit notes
Commit notes are blobs which are shown together with the commit
message.  These blobs are taken from the notes ref, which you can
configure by the config variable core.notesRef, which in turn can
be overridden by the environment variable GIT_NOTES_REF.

The notes ref is a branch which contains "files" whose names are
the names of the corresponding commits (i.e. the SHA-1).

The rationale for putting this information into a ref is this: we
want to be able to fetch and possibly union-merge the notes,
maybe even look at the date when a note was introduced, and we
want to store them efficiently together with the other objects.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-21 02:47:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
671c9b7e31 Add cache preload facility
This can do the lstat() storm in parallel, giving potentially much
improved performance for cold-cache cases or things like NFS that have
weak metadata caching.

Just use "read_cache_preload()" instead of "read_cache()" to force an
optimistic preload of the index stat data.  The function takes a
pathspec as its argument, allowing us to preload only the relevant
portion of the index.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-14 19:11:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8bb4646dae Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Fix non-literal format in printf-style calls
  git-submodule: Avoid printing a spurious message.
  git ls-remote: make usage string match manpage
  Makefile: help people who run 'make check' by mistake
2008-11-11 14:49:50 -08:00
Daniel Lowe
9db56f71b9 Fix non-literal format in printf-style calls
These were found using gcc 4.3.2-1ubuntu11 with the warning:

    warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments

Incorporated suggestions from Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-11 14:43:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
98b35e2c74 Merge branch 'ar/maint-mksnpath' into ar/mksnpath
* ar/maint-mksnpath:
  Use git_pathdup instead of xstrdup(git_path(...))
  git_pathdup: returns xstrdup-ed copy of the formatted path
  Fix potentially dangerous use of git_path in ref.c
  Add git_snpath: a .git path formatting routine with output buffer

Conflicts:
	builtin-revert.c
	refs.c
	rerere.c
2008-10-30 18:08:58 -07:00
Alex Riesen
a4f34cbb4c Use git_pathdup instead of xstrdup(git_path(...))
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-30 17:52:24 -07:00
Dmitry Potapov
d2b0708e1a add have_git_dir() function
This function is used to learn whether git_dir is already set up or not.
It is necessary, because we want to read configuration in compat/cygwin.c

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-09-30 14:30:06 -07:00
Alex Riesen
1ce4790bf5 Make use of stat.ctime configurable
A new configuration variable 'core.trustctime' is introduced to
allow ignoring st_ctime information when checking if paths
in the working tree has changed, because there are situations where
it produces too much false positives.  Like when file system crawlers
keep changing it when scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned
files.

The default is to notice ctime changes.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-28 23:26:25 -07:00
Dmitry Potapov
5b8e6f85f9 shrink git-shell by avoiding redundant dependencies
A lot of modules that have nothing to do with git-shell functionality
were linked in, bloating git-shell more than 8 times.

This patch cuts off redundant dependencies by:
1. providing stubs for three functions that make no sense for git-shell;
2. moving quote_path_fully from environment.c to quote.c to make the
   later self sufficient;
3. moving make_absolute_path into a new separate file.

The following numbers have been received with the default optimization
settings on master using GCC 4.1.2:

Before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 143915    1348   93168  238431   3a35f git-shell

After:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  17670     788    8232   26690    6842 git-shell

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-27 23:22:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
abf7e0df17 Merge branch 'lt/config-fsync'
* lt/config-fsync:
  Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files
  Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines
  Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine
  Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
2008-06-25 13:19:49 -07:00
しらいしななこ
78d0f5d210 environment.c: remove unused function
get_refs_directory() is not used anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-19 17:07:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
aafe9fbaf4 Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files
As explained in the documentation[*] this is totally useless on
filesystems that do ordered/journalled data writes, but it can be a
useful safety feature on filesystems like HFS+ that only journal the
metadata, not the actual file contents.

It defaults to off, although we could presumably in theory some day
auto-enable it on a per-filesystem basis.

[*] Yes, I updated the docs for the thing.  Hell really _has_ frozen
    over, and the four horsemen are probably just beyond the horizon.
    EVERYBODY PANIC!

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-18 16:50:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b84c343c88 Merge branch 'db/clone-in-c'
* db/clone-in-c:
  Add test for cloning with "--reference" repo being a subset of source repo
  Add a test for another combination of --reference
  Test that --reference actually suppresses fetching referenced objects
  clone: fall back to copying if hardlinking fails
  builtin-clone.c: Need to closedir() in copy_or_link_directory()
  builtin-clone: fix initial checkout
  Build in clone
  Provide API access to init_db()
  Add a function to set a non-default work tree
  Allow for having for_each_ref() list extra refs
  Have a constant extern refspec for "--tags"
  Add a library function to add an alternate to the alternates file
  Add a lockfile function to append to a file
  Mark the list of refs to fetch as const

Conflicts:

	cache.h
	t/t5700-clone-reference.sh
2008-05-25 13:41:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b66ae7955c Merge branch 'sb/committer'
* sb/committer:
  commit: Show committer if automatic
  commit: Show author if different from committer
  Preparation to call determine_author_info from prepare_to_commit
2008-05-14 13:45:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dccb3a6acb Merge branch 'lt/core-optim'
* lt/core-optim:
  Optimize symlink/directory detection
  Avoid some unnecessary lstat() calls
  is_racy_timestamp(): do not check timestamp for gitlinks
  diff-lib.c: rename check_work_tree_entity()
  diff: a submodule not checked out is not modified
  Add t7506 to test submodule related functions for git-status
  t4027: test diff for submodule with empty directory
  Make git-add behave more sensibly in a case-insensitive environment
  When adding files to the index, add support for case-independent matches
  Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files
  Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive filsystems
  Add 'core.ignorecase' option
  Make hash_name_lookup able to do case-independent lookups
  Make "index_name_exists()" return the cache_entry it found
  Move name hashing functions into a file of its own
  Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields
2008-05-11 12:08:20 -07:00
Dustin Sallings
c998ae9baa Allow tracking branches to set up rebase by default.
Change cd67e4d4 introduced a new configuration parameter that told
pull to automatically perform a rebase instead of a merge.  This
change provides a configuration option to enable this feature
automatically when creating a new branch.

If the variable branch.autosetuprebase applies for a branch that's
being created, that branch will have branch.<name>.rebase set to true.

Signed-off-by: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-11 09:28:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
380a742679 Merge branch 'lt/case-insensitive'
* lt/case-insensitive:
  Make git-add behave more sensibly in a case-insensitive environment
  When adding files to the index, add support for case-independent matches
  Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files
  Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive filsystems
  Add 'core.ignorecase' option
  Make hash_name_lookup able to do case-independent lookups
  Make "index_name_exists()" return the cache_entry it found
  Move name hashing functions into a file of its own
  Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields
2008-05-10 18:14:28 -07:00
Santi Béjar
bb1ae3f6ff commit: Show committer if automatic
To warn the user in case he/she might be using an unintended
committer identity.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-06 16:50:17 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
19757d80e5 Add a function to set a non-default work tree
This function may only be used before the work tree is used.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:44 -07:00
Lars Hjemli
b44ebb19e3 Add platform-independent .git "symlink"
This patch allows .git to be a regular textfile containing the path of
the real git directory (prefixed with "gitdir: "), which can be useful on
platforms lacking support for real symlinks.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-09 01:22:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0a9b88b7de Add 'core.ignorecase' option
..and start using it for directory entry traversal (ie "git status" will
not consider entries that match an existing entry case-insensitively to
be a new file)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-09 01:22:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
60b188a984 Merge branch 'js/branch-track'
* js/branch-track:
  doc: documentation update for the branch track changes
  branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branches

Conflicts:

	Documentation/config.txt
	Documentation/git-branch.txt
	Documentation/git-checkout.txt
	builtin-branch.c
	cache.h
	t/t7201-co.sh
2008-02-27 13:02:57 -08:00
Jay Soffian
9ed36cfa35 branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branches
"git branch" and "git checkout -b" now honor --track option even when
the upstream branch is local.  Previously --track was silently ignored
when forking from a local branch.  Also the command did not error out
when --track was explicitly asked for but the forked point specified
was not an existing branch (i.e. when there is no way to set up the
tracking configuration), but now it correctly does.

The configuration setting branch.autosetupmerge can now be set to
"always", which is equivalent to using --track from the command line.
Setting branch.autosetupmerge to "true" will retain the former behavior
of only setting up branch.*.merge for remote upstream branches.

Includes test cases for the new functionality.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:17:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2ac4b4b222 Merge branch 'sp/safecrlf'
* sp/safecrlf:
  safecrlf: Add mechanism to warn about irreversible crlf conversions
2008-02-16 17:59:20 -08:00
Christian Couder
dfb068be8d Add "const" qualifier to "char *excludes_file".
Also use "git_config_string" to simplify "config.c" code
where "excludes_file" is set.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-15 21:24:54 -08:00
Christian Couder
ee9601e6be Add "const" qualifier to "char *editor_program".
Also use "git_config_string" to simplify "config.c" code
where "editor_program" is set.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-15 21:24:53 -08:00
Christian Couder
872da32d80 Add "const" qualifier to "char *pager_program".
Also use "git_config_string" to simplify "config.c" code
where "pager_program" is set.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-15 21:24:53 -08:00
Steffen Prohaska
21e5ad50fc safecrlf: Add mechanism to warn about irreversible crlf conversions
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data.
autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to
CRLF during checkout.  A file that contains a mixture of LF and
CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git.  For text
files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings
such that we have only LF line endings in the repository.
But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the
conversion can corrupt data.

If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by
setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes.  Right
after committing you still have the original file in your work
tree and this file is not yet corrupted.  You can explicitly tell
git that this file is binary and git will handle the file
appropriately.

Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with
mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary
files cannot be distinguished.  In both cases CRLFs are removed
in an irreversible way.  For text files this is the right thing
to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files
converting CRLFs corrupts data.

This patch adds a mechanism that can either warn the user about
an irreversible conversion or can even refuse to convert.  The
mechanism is controlled by the variable core.safecrlf, with the
following values:

 - false: disable safecrlf mechanism
 - warn: warn about irreversible conversions
 - true: refuse irreversible conversions

The default is to warn.  Users are only affected by this default
if core.autocrlf is set.  But the current default of git is to
leave core.autocrlf unset, so users will not see warnings unless
they deliberately chose to activate the autocrlf mechanism.

The safecrlf mechanism's details depend on the git command.  The
general principles when safecrlf is active (not false) are:

 - we warn/error out if files in the work tree can modified in an
   irreversible way without giving the user a chance to backup the
   original file.

 - for read-only operations that do not modify files in the work tree
   we do not not print annoying warnings.

There are exceptions.  Even though...

 - "git add" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, the
   next checkout would, so the safety triggers;

 - "git apply" to update a text file with a patch does touch the files
   in the work tree, but the operation is about text files and CRLF
   conversion is about fixing the line ending inconsistencies, so the
   safety does not trigger;

 - "git diff" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, it is
   often run to inspect the changes you intend to next "git add".  To
   catch potential problems early, safety triggers.

The concept of a safety check was originally proposed in a similar
way by Linus Torvalds.  Thanks to Dimitry Potapov for insisting
on getting the naked LF/autocrlf=true case right.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
2008-02-06 13:07:28 -08:00
Jeff King
6e9af863ee Support GIT_PAGER_IN_USE environment variable
When deciding whether or not to turn on automatic color
support, git_config_colorbool checks whether stdout is a
tty. However, because we run a pager, if stdout is not a
tty, we must check whether it is because we started the
pager. This used to be done by checking the pager_in_use
variable.

This variable was set only when the git program being run
started the pager; there was no way for an external program
running git indicate that it had already started a pager.
This patch allows a program to set GIT_PAGER_IN_USE to a
true value to indicate that even though stdout is not a tty,
it is because a pager is being used.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-11 00:42:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4eb39e9bcc Merge branch 'jc/spht'
* jc/spht:
  Use gitattributes to define per-path whitespace rule
  core.whitespace: documentation updates.
  builtin-apply: teach whitespace_rules
  builtin-apply: rename "whitespace" variables and fix styles
  core.whitespace: add test for diff whitespace error highlighting
  git-diff: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indent
  War on whitespace: first, a bit of retreat.

Conflicts:

	cache.h
	config.c
	diff.c
2007-12-09 01:23:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cf1b7869f0 Use gitattributes to define per-path whitespace rule
The `core.whitespace` configuration variable allows you to define what
`diff` and `apply` should consider whitespace errors for all paths in
the project (See gitlink:git-config[1]).  This attribute gives you finer
control per path.

For example, if you have these in the .gitattributes:

    frotz   whitespace
    nitfol  -whitespace
    xyzzy   whitespace=-trailing

all types of whitespace problems known to git are noticed in path 'frotz'
(i.e. diff shows them in diff.whitespace color, and apply warns about
them), no whitespace problem is noticed in path 'nitfol', and the
default types of whitespace problems except "trailing whitespace" are
noticed for path 'xyzzy'.  A project with mixed Python and C might want
to have:

    *.c    whitespace
    *.py   whitespace=-indent-with-non-tab

in its toplevel .gitattributes file.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-06 00:45:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
039bc64e88 core.excludesfile clean-up
There are inconsistencies in the way commands currently handle
the core.excludesfile configuration variable.  The problem is
the variable is too new to be noticed by anything other than
git-add and git-status.

 * git-ls-files does not notice any of the "ignore" files by
   default, as it predates the standardized set of ignore files.
   The calling scripts established the convention to use
   .git/info/exclude, .gitignore, and later core.excludesfile.

 * git-add and git-status know about it because they call
   add_excludes_from_file() directly with their own notion of
   which standard set of ignore files to use.  This is just a
   stupid duplication of code that need to be updated every time
   the definition of the standard set of ignore files is
   changed.

 * git-read-tree takes --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>,
   not because the flexibility was needed.  Again, this was
   because the option predates the standardization of the ignore
   files.

 * git-merge-recursive uses hardcoded per-directory .gitignore
   and nothing else.  git-clean (scripted version) does not
   honor core.* because its call to underlying ls-files does not
   know about it.  git-clean in C (parked in 'pu') doesn't either.

We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set
when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore
processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a
change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle
way.  I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change.

On the other hand, I think it makes perfect sense to fix
git-read-tree, git-merge-recursive and git-clean to follow the
same rule as other commands.  I do not think of a valid use case
to give an exclude-per-directory that is nonstandard to
read-tree command, outside a "negative" test in the t1004 test
script.

This patch is the first step to untangle this mess.

The next step would be to teach read-tree, merge-recursive and
clean (in C) to use setup_standard_excludes().

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 15:08:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a9cc857ada War on whitespace: first, a bit of retreat.
This introduces core.whitespace configuration variable that lets
you specify the definition of "whitespace error".

Currently there are two kinds of whitespace errors defined:

 * trailing-space: trailing whitespaces at the end of the line.

 * space-before-tab: a SP appears immediately before HT in the
   indent part of the line.

You can specify the desired types of errors to be detected by
listing their names (unique abbreviations are accepted)
separated by comma.  By default, these two errors are always
detected, as that is the traditional behaviour.  You can disable
detection of a particular type of error by prefixing a '-' in
front of the name of the error, like this:

	[core]
		whitespace = -trailing-space

This patch teaches the code to output colored diff with
DIFF_WHITESPACE color to highlight the detected whitespace
errors to honor the new configuration.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-02 17:58:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
55d1932bce Merge branch 'cr/tag'
* cr/tag:
  Teach "git stripspace" the --strip-comments option
  Make verify-tag a builtin.
  builtin-tag.c: Fix two memory leaks and minor notation changes.
  launch_editor(): Heed GIT_EDITOR and core.editor settings
  Make git tag a builtin.
2007-08-10 23:17:46 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
e90fdc39b6 Clean up work-tree handling
The old version of work-tree support was an unholy mess, barely readable,
and not to the point.

For example, why do you have to provide a worktree, when it is not used?
As in "git status".  Now it works.

Another riddle was: if you can have work trees inside the git dir, why
are some programs complaining that they need a work tree?

IOW it is allowed to call

	$ git --git-dir=../ --work-tree=. bla

when you really want to.  In this case, you are both in the git directory
and in the working tree.  So, programs have to actually test for the right
thing, namely if they are inside a working tree, and not if they are
inside a git directory.

Also, GIT_DIR=../.git should behave the same as if no GIT_DIR was
specified, unless there is a repository in the current working directory.
It does now.

The logic to determine if a repository is bare, or has a work tree
(tertium non datur), is this:

--work-tree=bla overrides GIT_WORK_TREE, which overrides core.bare = true,
which overrides core.worktree, which overrides GIT_DIR/.. when GIT_DIR
ends in /.git, which overrides the directory in which .git/ was found.

In related news, a long standing bug was fixed: when in .git/bla/x.git/,
which is a bare repository, git formerly assumed ../.. to be the
appropriate git dir.  This problem was reported by Shawn Pearce to have
caused much pain, where a colleague mistakenly ran "git init" in "/" a
long time ago, and bare repositories just would not work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-01 00:38:31 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
d7ac12b25d Add set_git_dir() function
With the function set_git_dir() you can reset the path that will
be used for git_path(), git_dir() and friends.

The responsibility to close files and throw away information from the
old git_dir lies with the caller.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-01 00:38:31 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
4d87b9c5db launch_editor(): Heed GIT_EDITOR and core.editor settings
In the commit 'Add GIT_EDITOR environment and core.editor
configuration variables', this was done for the shell scripts.
Port it over to builtin-tag's version of launch_editor(), which
is just about to be refactored into editor.c.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-21 16:51:14 -07:00