Given that other instances of "{...}" in the revision documentation
represent literal characters of revision specifications, describing
the rev^-n shorthand as "<rev>^-{<n>}" incorrectly suggests that
something like "master^-{1}" is an acceptable form.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the revision parsing logic to match @{upstream}, @{u} & @{push}
case-insensitively.
Before this change supplying anything except the lower-case forms
emits an "unknown revision or path not in the working tree"
error. This change makes upper-case & mixed-case versions equivalent
to the lower-case versions.
The use-case for this is being able to hold the shift key down while
typing @{u} on certain keyboard layouts, which makes the sequence
easier to type, and reduces cases where git throws an error at the
user where it could do what he means instead.
These suffixes now join various other suffixes & special syntax
documented in gitrevisions(7) that matches case-insensitively. A table
showing the status of the various forms documented there before &
after this patch is shown below. The key for the table is:
- CI = Case Insensitive
- CIP = Case Insensitive Possible (without ambiguities)
- AG = Accepts Garbage (.e.g. @{./.4.minutes./.})
Before this change:
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
| What? | CI? | CIP? | AG? |
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
| @{<date>} | Y | Y | Y |
| @{upstream} | N | Y | N |
| @{push} | N | Y | N |
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
After it:
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
| What? | CI? | CIP? | AG? |
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
| @{<date>} | Y | Y | Y |
| @{upstream} | Y | Y | N |
| @{push} | Y | Y | N |
|----------------+-----+------+-----|
The ^{<type>} suffix is not made case-insensitive, because other
places that take <type> like "cat-file -t <type>" do want them case
sensitively (after all we never declared that type names are case
insensitive). Allowing case-insensitive typename only with this syntax
will make the resulting Git as a whole inconsistent.
This change was independently authored to scratch a longtime itch, but
when I was about to submit it I discovered that a similar patch had
been submitted unsuccessfully before by Conrad Irwin in August 2011 as
"rev-parse: Allow @{U} as a synonym for
@{u}" (<1313287071-7851-1-git-send-email-conrad.irwin@gmail.com>).
The tests for this patch are more exhaustive than in the 2011
submission. The starting point for them was to first change the code
to only support upper-case versions of the existing words, seeing what
broke, and amending the breaking tests to check upper case & mixed
case as appropriate, and where not redundant to other similar
tests. The implementation itself is equivalent.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log rev^..rev" is commonly used to show all work done on and merged
from a side branch. This patch introduces a shorthand "rev^-" for this
and additionally allows "rev^-$n" to mean "reachable from rev, excluding
what is reachable from the nth parent of rev". For example, for a
two-parent merge, you can use rev^-2 to get the set of commits which were
made to the main branch while the topic branch was prepared.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the
documentation.
* po/range-doc:
doc: revisions: sort examples and fix alignment of the unchanged
doc: revisions: show revision expansion in examples
doc: revisions - clarify reachability examples
doc: revisions - define `reachable`
doc: gitrevisions - clarify 'latter case' is revision walk
doc: gitrevisions - use 'reachable' in page description
doc: revisions: single vs multi-parent notation comparison
doc: revisions: extra clarification of <rev>^! notation effects
doc: revisions: give headings for the two and three dot notations
doc: show the actual left, right, and boundary marks
doc: revisions - name the left and right sides
doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistently
The previous commit adjusted the column alignment for revision
examples which show expansion. Fix the unchanged examples and sort
those that show expansions to the end of the list.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The revisions examples show the revison arguments and the selected
commits, but do not show the intermediate step of the expansion of
the special 'range' notations. Extend the examples, including an
all-parents multi-parent merge commit example.
Sort the examples and fix the alignment for those unaffected
in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For the r1..r2 case, the exclusion of r1, rather than inclusion of r2,
would be the unexpected case in natural language for a simple linear
development, i.e. start..end excludes start.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not self-define `reachable`, which can lead to misunderstanding.
Instead define `reachability` explictly.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While there, also break out the other shorthand notations and
add a title for the revision range summary (which also appears
in git-rev-parse, so keep it mixed case).
We do not quote the notation within the headings as the asciidoc ->
docbook -> groff man viewer toolchain, particularly the docbook-groff
step, does not cope with two font changes, failing to return the heading
font to bold after the quotation of the notation.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The terms left and right side originate from the symmetric
difference. Name them there.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is an application of the newly added CodingGuidelines to HEAD and
variants like FETCH_HEAD. It was obtained with:
perl -pi -e "s/'([A-Z_]*HEAD)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of
forward-quotes, for long options.
This was obtained with:
perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt
and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to
describe rewritten history).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new "<branch>^{/!-<pattern>}" notation can be used to name a
commit that is reachable from <branch> that does not match the
given <pattern>.
* wp/sha1-name-negative-match:
object name: introduce '^{/!-<negative pattern>}' notation
test for '!' handling in rev-parse's named commits
To name a commit, you can now use the :/!-<negative pattern> regex
style, and consequentially, say
$ git rev-parse HEAD^{/!-foo}
and it will return the hash of the first commit reachable from HEAD,
whose commit message does not contain "foo". This is the opposite of the
existing <rev>^{/<pattern>} syntax.
The specific use-case this is intended for is to perform an operation,
excluding the most-recent commits containing a particular marker. For
example, if you tend to make "work in progress" commits, with messages
beginning with "WIP", you work, then it could be useful to diff against
"the most recent commit which was not a WIP commit". That sort of thing
now possible, via commands such as:
$ git diff @^{/!-^WIP}
The leader '/!-', rather than simply '/!', to denote a negative match,
is chosen to leave room for additional modifiers in the future.
Signed-off-by: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
asciidoctor does not remove backslashes used to escape curly brackets from
the HTML output if the contents of the curly brackets are empty or contain
at least a <, -, or space. asciidoc does not require the backslashes in
these cases, so just remove them.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Kraai <matt.kraai@abbott.com>
Reported-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a triangular workflow, each branch may have two distinct
points of interest: the @{upstream} that you normally pull
from, and the destination that you normally push to. There
isn't a shorthand for the latter, but it's useful to have.
For instance, you may want to know which commits you haven't
pushed yet:
git log @{push}..
Or as a more complicated example, imagine that you normally
pull changes from origin/master (which you set as your
@{upstream}), and push changes to your own personal fork
(e.g., as myfork/topic). You may push to your fork from
multiple machines, requiring you to integrate the changes
from the push destination, rather than upstream. With this
patch, you can just do:
git rebase @{push}
rather than typing out the full name.
The heavy lifting is all done by branch_get_push; here we
just wire it up to the "@{push}" syntax.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The earlier documentation made vague references to "is set to build
on". Flesh that out with references to the config settings, so folks
can use git-config(1) to get more detail on what @{upstream} means.
For example, @{upstream} does not care about remote.pushdefault or
branch.<name>.pushremote.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The @{-N} syntax always referred to the N-th last thing checked out,
which can be either a branch or a commit (for detached HEAD cases).
However, the documentation only mentioned branches.
Edit in a "/commit" in the appropriate places.
Reported-by: Kevin <ikke@ikke.info>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @".
* fc/at-head:
Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
sha1-name: pass len argument to interpret_branch_name()
Make "foo^{tag}" to peel a tag to itself, i.e. no-op., and fail if
"foo" is not a tag. "git rev-parse --verify v1.0^{tag}" would be a
more convenient way to say "test $(git cat-file -t v1.0) = tag".
* rh/peeling-tag-to-tag:
peel_onion: do not assume length of x_type globals
peel_onion(): add support for <rev>^{tag}
Typing 'HEAD' is tedious, especially when we can use '@' instead.
The reason for choosing '@' is that it follows naturally from the
ref@op syntax (e.g. HEAD@{u}), except we have no ref, and no
operation, and when we don't have those, it makes sens to assume
'HEAD'.
So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness.
Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so
let's make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If possible, <rev> will be dereferenced even if it is not a tag type
(e.g., commit dereferenced to a tree).
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Complete the <rev>^{<type>} family of object descriptors by having
<rev>^{tag} dereference <rev> until a tag object is found (or fail if
unable).
At first glance this may not seem very useful, as commits, trees, and
blobs cannot be peeled to a tag, and a tag would just peel to itself.
However, this can be used to ensure that <rev> names a tag object:
$ git rev-parse --verify v1.8.4^{tag}
04f013dc38
$ git rev-parse --verify master^{tag}
error: master^{tag}: expected tag type, but the object dereferences to tree type
fatal: Needed a single revision
Users can already ensure that <rev> is a tag object by checking the
output of 'git cat-file -t <rev>', but:
* users may expect <rev>^{tag} to exist given that <rev>^{commit},
<rev>^{tree}, and <rev>^{blob} all exist
* this syntax is more convenient/natural in some circumstances
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit cdfd94837b, as it
does not just apply to "@" (and forms with modifiers like @{u}
applied to it), but also affects e.g. "refs/heads/@/foo", which it
shouldn't.
The basic idea of giving a short-hand might be good, and the topic
can be retried later, but let's revert to avoid affecting existing
use cases for now for the upcoming release.
Typing 'HEAD' is tedious, especially when we can use '@' instead.
The reason for choosing '@' is that it follows naturally from the
ref@op syntax (e.g. HEAD@{u}), except we have no ref, and no
operation, and when we don't have those, it makes sens to assume
'HEAD'.
So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness.
Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so
let's make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update documentation for "log" and "shortlog".
* rr/shortlog-doc:
builtin/shortlog.c: make usage string consistent with log
builtin/log.c: make usage string consistent with doc
git-shortlog.txt: make SYNOPSIS match log, update OPTIONS
git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required
git-log.txt: generalize <since>..<until>
git-log.txt: order OPTIONS properly; move <since>..<until>
revisions.txt: clarify the .. and ... syntax
git-shortlog.txt: remove (-h|--help) from OPTIONS
In <rev1>..<rev2> and <rev1>...<rev2>, if either <rev1> or <rev2> is
omitted, it defaults to 'HEAD'. Add this detail to the document.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ta/glossary:
glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics
glossary: remove outdated/misleading/irrelevant entries
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function.
When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Correct common spelling mistakes in comments and tests
kwset: fix spelling in comments
precompose-utf8: fix spelling of "want" in error message
compat/nedmalloc: fix spelling in comments
compat/regex: fix spelling and grammar in comments
obstack: fix spelling of similar
contrib/subtree: fix spelling of accidentally
git-remote-mediawiki: spelling fixes
doc: various spelling fixes
fast-export: fix argument name in error messages
Documentation: distinguish between ref and offset deltas in pack-format
i18n: make the translation of -u advice in one go
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object}
can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".
* jc/sha1-name-object-peeler:
peel_onion(): teach $foo^{object} peeler
peel_onion: disambiguate to favor tree-ish when we know we want a tree-ish
A string that names an object can be suffixed with ^{type} peeler to
say "I have this object name; peel it until you get this type. If
you cannot do so, it is an error". v1.8.2^{commit} asks for a commit
that is pointed at an annotated tag v1.8.2; v1.8.2^{tree} unwraps it
further to the top-level tree object. A special suffix ^{} (i.e. no
type specified) means "I do not care what it unwraps to; just peel
annotated tag until you get something that is not a tag".
When you have a random user-supplied string, you can turn it to a
bare 40-hex object name, and cause it to error out if such an object
does not exist, with:
git rev-parse --verify "$userstring^{}"
for most objects, but this does not yield the tag object name when
$userstring refers to an annotated tag.
Introduce a new suffix, ^{object}, that only makes sure the given
name refers to an existing object. Then
git rev-parse --verify "$userstring^{object}"
becomes a way to make sure $userstring refers to an existing object.
This is necessary because the plumbing "rev-parse --verify" is only
about "make sure the argument is something we can feed to get_sha1()
and turn it into a raw 20-byte object name SHA-1" and is not about
"make sure that 20-byte object name SHA-1 refers to an object that
exists in our object store". When the given $userstring is already
a 40-hex, by definition "rev-parse --verify $userstring" can turn it
into a raw 20-byte object name. With "$userstring^{object}", we can
make sure that the 40-hex string names an object that exists in our
object store before "--verify" kicks in.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
rev-parse: clarify documentation of $name@{upstream} syntax
sha1_name: pass object name length to diagnose_invalid_sha1_path()
Makefile: keep LIB_H entries together and sorted
"git rev-parse" interprets string in string@{upstream} as a name of
a branch not a ref. For example, refs/heads/master@{upstream} looks
for an upstream branch that is merged by git-pull to ref
refs/heads/refs/heads/master not to refs/heads/master.
However the documentation could mislead a user to believe that the
string is interpreted as ref.
Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
localized, but the code to align it along with the names of branches
were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
* nd/branch-v-alignment:
branch -v: align even when branch names are in UTF-8
Branch names are usually in ASCII so they are not the problem. The
problem most likely comes from "(no branch)" translation, which is
in UTF-8 and makes display-width calculation just wrong. Clarify
this by renaming the field "len" in struct ref_item to "width", as
it stores the display-width and is used to compute the width of the
screen needed to show the names of all the branches, and compute the
display width using utf8_strwidth(), not byte-length with strlen().
Update document to mention the fact that we may want ref names in
UTF-8. Encodings that produce invalid UTF-8 are safe as utf8_strwidth()
falls back to strlen(). The ones that incidentally produce valid UTF-8
sequences will cause misalignment.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Either end of revision range operator can be omitted to default to HEAD,
as in "origin.." (what did I do since I forked) or "..origin" (what did
they do since I forked). But the current parser interprets ".." as an
empty range "HEAD..HEAD", and worse yet, because ".." does exist on the
filesystem, we get this annoying output:
$ cd Documentation/howto
$ git log .. ;# give me recent commits that touch Documentation/ area.
fatal: ambiguous argument '..': both revision and filename
Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions
Surely we could say "git log ../" or even "git log -- .." to disambiguate,
but we shouldn't have to.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was a bit hard to learn how <rev>^@, <rev>^! and various other
forms of range specifiers are used, because they were discussed
mostly in the prose part of the documentation, unlike various forms
of extended SHA-1 expressions that are listed in an enumerated list.
Also add a few more examples showing use of <rev>, <rev>..<rev> and
<rev>^! forms, stolen from a patch by Max Horn.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Formerly, the documentation for <refname> would occasionally say
<name> instead of <refname>. Now it uniformly uses <refname>.
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We explained <rev>~<n> as <n>th generation grand-parent, but a reader got
confused by the "grand-" part when <n> is 1.
Reword it with "ancestor"; with the "generation" and "following only the
first parents" around there, what we try to describe should be clear
enough now.
Noticed-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Helped-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Helped-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, the reader has to parse a textual description in order to
find a specific syntax in the list.
Restructure as a labelled list with systematic labels as well as
concrete examples as a visual guide.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our use of quotes is inconsistent everywhere and within some files.
Before reworking the structure of revisions.txt, make the quotes
consistent:
`git command`
'some snippet or term'
The former gets typeset as code, the latter with some form of emphasis.
the man backend uses two types of emphasis.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a cherry-pick conflicts git advises:
$ git commit -c <original commit id>
to preserve the original commit message and authorship. Instead, let's
record the original commit id in CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and advise:
$ git commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
A later patch teaches git to handle the '-c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' part.
Note that we record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD even in the case where there
are no conflicts so that we may use it to communicate authorship to
commit; this will then allow us to remove set_author_ident_env from
revert.c. However, we do not record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when --no-commit
is used, as presumably the user intends to further edit the commit
and possibly even cherry-pick additional commits on top.
Tests and documentation contributed by Jonathan Nieder.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
