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Elijah Newren
798cddfa51 documentation: add missing quotes
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2023-10-09 12:06:47 -07:00
Elijah Newren
4d542687fc documentation: add some commas where they are helpful
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2023-10-09 12:06:44 -07:00
Elijah Newren
2150b6fb47 documentation: fix capitalization
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2023-10-09 12:06:29 -07:00
Elijah Newren
0a4f051f93 documentation: add missing article
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2023-10-09 12:06:29 -07:00
Elijah Newren
3771d00257 documentation: fix choice of article
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2023-10-09 12:06:29 -07:00
Elijah Newren
6cc668c0ab documentation: fix singular vs. plural
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Elijah Newren
5676b04a44 documentation: fix verb tense
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Elijah Newren
ce14cc0b00 documentation: fix subject/verb agreement
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Elijah Newren
859a6d6045 documentation: remove extraneous words
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Elijah Newren
8936352242 documentation: add missing words
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Elijah Newren
dbe33c5ad0 documentation: fix apostrophe usage
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2023-10-09 12:06:29 -07:00
Elijah Newren
384f7d17d2 documentation: fix typos
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2023-10-09 12:06:24 -07:00
Elijah Newren
cf6cac2005 documentation: wording improvements
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2023-10-09 12:04:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a1264a08a1 Merge branch 'en/header-split-cache-h-part-3'
Header files cleanup.

* en/header-split-cache-h-part-3: (28 commits)
  fsmonitor-ll.h: split this header out of fsmonitor.h
  hash-ll, hashmap: move oidhash() to hash-ll
  object-store-ll.h: split this header out of object-store.h
  khash: name the structs that khash declares
  merge-ll: rename from ll-merge
  git-compat-util.h: remove unneccessary include of wildmatch.h
  builtin.h: remove unneccessary includes
  list-objects-filter-options.h: remove unneccessary include
  diff.h: remove unnecessary include of oidset.h
  repository: remove unnecessary include of path.h
  log-tree: replace include of revision.h with simple forward declaration
  cache.h: remove this no-longer-used header
  read-cache*.h: move declarations for read-cache.c functions from cache.h
  repository.h: move declaration of the_index from cache.h
  merge.h: move declarations for merge.c from cache.h
  diff.h: move declaration for global in diff.c from cache.h
  preload-index.h: move declarations for preload-index.c from elsewhere
  sparse-index.h: move declarations for sparse-index.c from cache.h
  name-hash.h: move declarations for name-hash.c from cache.h
  run-command.h: move declarations for run-command.c from cache.h
  ...
2023-06-29 16:43:21 -07:00
Elijah Newren
6723899932 merge-ll: rename from ll-merge
A long term (but rather minor) pet-peeve of mine was the name
ll-merge.[ch].  I thought it made it harder to realize what stuff was
related to merging when I was working on the merge machinery and trying
to improve it.

Further, back in d1cbe1e6d8 ("hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove
dependency on repository.h", 2023-04-22), we have split the portions of
hash.h that do not depend upon repository.h into a "hash-ll.h" (due to
the recommendation to use "ll" for "low-level" in its name[1], but which
I used as a suffix precisely because of my distaste for "ll-merge").
When we discussed adding additional "*-ll.h" files, a request was made
that we use "ll" consistently as either a prefix or a suffix.  Since it
is already in use as both a prefix and a suffix, the only way to do so
is to rename some files.

Besides my distaste for the ll-merge.[ch] name, let me also note that
the files
  ll-fsmonitor.h, ll-hash.h, ll-merge.h, ll-object-store.h, ll-read-cache.h
would have essentially nothing to do with each other and make no sense
to group.  But giving them the common "ll-" prefix would group them.  Using
"-ll" as a suffix thus seems just much more logical to me.  Rename
ll-merge.[ch] to merge-ll.[ch] to achieve this consistency, and to
ensure we get a more logical grouping of files.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/kl6lsfcu1g8w.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com/

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-21 13:39:54 -07:00
Linus Arver
548afb0d9a docs: typofixes
These were found with an automated CLI tool [1]. Only the
"Documentation" subfolder (and not source code files) was considered
because the docs are user-facing.

[1]: https://crates.io/crates/typos-cli

Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-12 13:52:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4f59836451 Merge branch 'ds/bundle-uri-5'
The bundle-URI subsystem adds support for creation-token heuristics
to help incremental fetches.

* ds/bundle-uri-5:
  bundle-uri: test missing bundles with heuristic
  bundle-uri: store fetch.bundleCreationToken
  fetch: fetch from an external bundle URI
  bundle-uri: drop bundle.flag from design doc
  clone: set fetch.bundleURI if appropriate
  bundle-uri: download in creationToken order
  bundle-uri: parse bundle.<id>.creationToken values
  bundle-uri: parse bundle.heuristic=creationToken
  t5558: add tests for creationToken heuristic
  bundle: verify using check_connected()
  bundle: test unbundling with incomplete history
2023-02-15 17:11:52 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
0524ad3542 bundle-uri: drop bundle.flag from design doc
The Implementation Plan section lists a 'bundle.flag' option that is not
documented anywhere else. What is documented elsewhere in the document
and implemented by previous changes is the 'bundle.heuristic' config
key. For now, a heuristic is required to indicate that a bundle list is
organized for use during 'git fetch', and it is also sufficient for all
existing designs.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-01-31 08:57:48 -08:00
Andrei Rybak
70661d288b Documentation: render dash correctly
Three hyphens are rendered verbatim in documentation, so "--" has to be
used to produce a dash.  Fix asciidoc output for dashes.  This is
similar to previous commits f0b922473e (Documentation: render special
characters correctly, 2021-07-29) and de82095a95 (doc
hash-function-transition: fix asciidoc output, 2021-02-05).

Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-01-23 09:40:14 -08:00
Taylor Blau
e87a229d57 Merge branch 'en/sparse-checkout-design'
Design doc.

* en/sparse-checkout-design:
  sparse-checkout.txt: new document with sparse-checkout directions
2022-11-18 18:44:01 -05:00
Kousik Sanagavarapu
29c550f0af repository-version.txt: partialClone casing change
Remotes are considered "promisor" if extensions.partialClone and some
other configuration variables are set. The casing for this in
Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt is not proper and may
cause confusion. This change corrects this casing.

Signed-off-by: Kousik Sanagavarapu <five231003@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-11-11 17:23:12 -05:00
Taylor Blau
4b6302c72f Merge branch 'po/glossary-around-traversal'
The glossary entries for "commit-graph file" and "reachability
bitmap" have been added.

* po/glossary-around-traversal:
  glossary: add reachability bitmap description
  glossary: add "commit graph" description
  doc: use 'object database' not ODB or abbreviation
  doc: use "commit-graph" hyphenation consistently
2022-11-08 17:14:51 -05:00
Elijah Newren
20d87d3291 sparse-checkout.txt: new document with sparse-checkout directions
Once upon a time, Matheus wrote some patches to make
   git grep [--cached | <REVISION>] ...
restrict its output to the sparsity specification when working in a
sparse checkout[1].  That effort got derailed by two things:

  (1) The --sparse-index work just beginning which we wanted to avoid
      creating conflicts for
  (2) Never deciding on flag and config names and planned high level
      behavior for all commands.

More recently, Shaoxuan implemented a more limited form of Matheus'
patches that only affected --cached, using a different flag name,
but also changing the default behavior in line with what Matheus did.
This again highlighted the fact that we never decided on command line
flag names, config option names, and the big picture path forward.

The --sparse-index work has been mostly complete (or at least released
into production even if some small edges remain) for quite some time
now.  We have also had several discussions on flag and config names,
though we never came to solid conclusions.  Stolee once upon a time
suggested putting all these into some document in
Documentation/technical[3], which Victoria recently also requested[4].
I'm behind the times, but here's a patch attempting to finally do that.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/5f3f7ac77039d41d1692ceae4b0c5df3bb45b74a.1612901326.git.matheus.bernardino@usp.br/
    (See his second link in that email in particular)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220908001854.206789-2-shaoxuan.yuan02@gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BHwNoVnooqDFPAsZxBT9aR5Dwk5D9sDRCvYSb8akxAJgA@mail.gmail.com/
    (Scroll to the very end for the final few paragraphs)
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/git/cafcedba-96a2-cb85-d593-ef47c8c8397c@github.com/

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-11-07 18:15:45 -05:00
Philip Oakley
fa8e8d5b31 doc: use 'object database' not ODB or abbreviation
The abbreviation 'ODB' is used in the technical documentation
sections for commit-graph and parallel-checkout, along with an
'odb' option in `git-pack-redundant`, without expansion.

Use 'object database' in full, in those entries. The text has not
been reflowed to keep the changes minimal.

While in the glossary for `object` terms, add the common`oid`
abbreviation to its entry.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-30 19:58:46 -04:00
Philip Oakley
776ba91a5e doc: use "commit-graph" hyphenation consistently
Note, historical release notes have not been updated.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-30 19:58:40 -04:00
Jeff Hostetler
81071626ba trace2: add global counter mechanism
Add global counters mechanism to Trace2.

The Trace2 counters mechanism adds the ability to create a set of
global counter variables and an API to increment them efficiently.
Counters can optionally report per-thread usage in addition to the sum
across all threads.

Counter events are emitted to the Trace2 logs when a thread exits and
at process exit.

Counters are an alternative to `data` and `data_json` events.

Counters are useful when you want to measure something across the life
of the process, when you don't want per-measurement events for
performance reasons, when the data does not fit conveniently within a
region, or when your control flow does not easily let you write the
final total.  For example, you might use this to report the number of
calls to unzip() or the number of de-delta steps during a checkout.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-24 12:45:26 -07:00
Jeff Hostetler
8ad575646c trace2: add stopwatch timers
Add stopwatch timer mechanism to Trace2.

Timers are an alternative to Trace2 Regions.  Regions are useful for
measuring the time spent in various computation phases, such as the
time to read the index, time to scan for unstaged files, time to scan
for untracked files, and etc.

However, regions are not appropriate in all places.  For example,
during a checkout, it would be very inefficient to use regions to
measure the total time spent inflating objects from the ODB from
across the entire lifetime of the process; a per-unzip() region would
flood the output and significantly slow the command; and some form of
post-processing would be requried to compute the time spent in unzip().

Timers can be used to measure a series of timer intervals and emit
a single summary event (at thread and/or process exit).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-24 12:45:26 -07:00
Jeff Hostetler
8e8c5ad27a api-trace2.txt: elminate section describing the public trace2 API
Eliminate the mostly obsolete `Public API` sub-section from the
`Trace2 API` section in the documentation.  Strengthen the referral
to `trace2.h`.

Most of the technical information in this sub-section was moved to
`trace2.h` in 6c51cb525d (trace2: move doc to trace2.h, 2019-11-17) to
be adjacent to the function prototypes.  The remaining text wasn't
that useful by itself.

Furthermore, the text would need a bit of overhaul to add routines
that do not immediately generate a message, such as stopwatch timers.
So it seemed simpler to just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-24 12:45:25 -07:00
Jeff Hostetler
5bbb925137 tr2tls: clarify TLS terminology
Reduce or eliminate use of the term "TLS" in the Trace2 code.

The term "TLS" has two popular meanings: "thread-local storage" and
"transport layer security".  In the Trace2 source, the term is associated
with the former.  There was concern on the mailing list about it refering
to the latter.

Update the source and documentation to eliminate the use of the "TLS" term
or replace it with the phrase "thread-local storage" to reduce ambiguity.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-24 12:45:25 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
7190b7ebf9 bundle-uri: fix technical doc issues
Two documentation issues exist in the technical docs for the bundle URI
feature.

First, there is an extraneous "the" across a linebreak, making the
nonsensical phrase "the bundle the list" which should just be "the
bundle list".

Secondly, the asciidoc update treats the string "`have`s" as starting a
"<code>" block, but the second tick is interpreted as an apostrophe
instead of a closing "</code>" tag. This causes entire sentences to be
formatted as code until the next one comes along. Simply adding a space
here does not work properly as the rendered HTML keeps that space.
Instead, restructure the sentence slightly to avoid using a plural,
allowing the HTML to render correctly.

Reported-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-07 11:00:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4140830d25 Merge branch 'js/typofix'
* js/typofix:
  Documentation: clean up various typos in technical docs
  Documentation: clean up a few misspelled word typos
2022-09-21 15:27:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8c88f75909 Merge branch 'tz/tech-docs-to-help-fix'
Docfix for topic already in -rc0.

* tz/tech-docs-to-help-fix:
  api docs: link to html version of api-trace2
  docs: fix a few recently broken links
2022-09-21 14:23:14 -07:00
Jacob Stopak
bbb0c357b8 Documentation: clean up various typos in technical docs
Used GNU "aspell check <filename>" to review various technical
documentation files with the default aspell dictionary. Ignored
false-positives between american and british english.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-21 10:28:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
42bf77c7d0 Merge branch 'vd/scalar-to-main'
Hoist the remainder of "scalar" out of contrib/ to the main part of
the codebase.

* vd/scalar-to-main:
  Documentation/technical: include Scalar technical doc
  t/perf: add 'GIT_PERF_USE_SCALAR' run option
  t/perf: add Scalar performance tests
  scalar-clone: add test coverage
  scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list
  scalar: implement the `help` subcommand
  git help: special-case `scalar`
  scalar: include in standard Git build & installation
  scalar: fix command documentation section header
2022-09-19 14:35:25 -07:00
Todd Zullinger
4945f046c7 api docs: link to html version of api-trace2
In f6d25d7878 (api docs: document that BUG() emits a trace2 error event,
2021-04-13), a link to the plain text version of api-trace2 was added in
`technical/api-error-handling.txt`.

All of our other `link:`s point to the html versions.  Do the same here.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-16 08:39:11 -07:00
Todd Zullinger
086eaab8da docs: fix a few recently broken links
Some links were broken in the recent move of various technical docs
c0f6dd49f1 (Merge branch 'ab/tech-docs-to-help', 2022-08-14).

Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-16 08:38:03 -07:00
Jacob Stopak
c9dba103dd Documentation: fix various repeat word typos
Inspired by 24966cd982 ("doc: fix repeated words", 08-09-2019),
I ran "egrep -R "\<([a-zA-Z]+)\> \<\1\>" ./Documentation/*" to
find current cases of repeated words such as "the the" that were
quite clearly typos.

There were many false positives reported, such as "really really"
or valid uses of "that that" which I left alone.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-12 11:04:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3fe0121479 Merge branch 'ac/bitmap-lookup-table'
The pack bitmap file gained a bitmap-lookup table to speed up
locating the necessary bitmap for a given commit.

* ac/bitmap-lookup-table:
  pack-bitmap-write: drop unused pack_idx_entry parameters
  bitmap-lookup-table: add performance tests for lookup table
  pack-bitmap: prepare to read lookup table extension
  pack-bitmap-write: learn pack.writeBitmapLookupTable and add tests
  pack-bitmap-write.c: write lookup table extension
  bitmap: move `get commit positions` code to `bitmap_writer_finish`
  Documentation/technical: describe bitmap lookup table extension
2022-09-05 18:33:39 -07:00
Victoria Dye
9eb7a73158 Documentation/technical: include Scalar technical doc
Include 'Documentation/technical/scalar.txt' alongside the other HTML
technical docs when installing them.

Now that the document is intended as a widely-accessible reference, remove
the internal work-in-progress roadmap from the document. Those details
should no longer be needed to guide Scalar's development and, if they were
left, they could fall out-of-date and be misleading to readers.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-02 10:02:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d528044c83 Merge branch 'sg/parse-options-subcommand'
Introduce the "subcommand" mode to parse-options API and update the
command line parser of Git commands with subcommands.

* sg/parse-options-subcommand: (23 commits)
  remote: run "remote rm" argv through parse_options()
  maintenance: add parse-options boilerplate for subcommands
  pass subcommand "prefix" arguments to parse_options()
  builtin/worktree.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/stash.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/sparse-checkout.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/remote.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/reflog.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/notes.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/multi-pack-index.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/hook.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/gc.c: let parse-options parse 'git maintenance's subcommands
  builtin/commit-graph.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  builtin/bundle.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
  parse-options: add support for parsing subcommands
  parse-options: drop leading space from '--git-completion-helper' output
  parse-options: clarify the limitations of PARSE_OPT_NODASH
  parse-options: PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options
  api-parse-options.txt: fix description of OPT_CMDMODE
  t0040-parse-options: test parse_options() with various 'parse_opt_flags'
  ...
2022-09-01 13:40:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
10ccb50b16 Merge branch 'tl/trace2-config-scope'
Tweak trace2 output about configuration variables.

* tl/trace2-config-scope:
  tr2: shows scope unconditionally in addition to key-value pair
  api-trace2.txt: print config key-value pair
2022-08-29 14:55:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bc820cf9e6 Merge branch 'vd/scalar-enables-fsmonitor'
"scalar" now enables built-in fsmonitor on enlisted repositories,
when able.

* vd/scalar-enables-fsmonitor:
  scalar: update technical doc roadmap with FSMonitor support
  scalar unregister: stop FSMonitor daemon
  scalar: enable built-in FSMonitor on `register`
  scalar: move config setting logic into its own function
  scalar-delete: do not 'die()' in 'delete_enlistment()'
  scalar-[un]register: clearly indicate source of error
  scalar-unregister: handle error codes greater than 0
  scalar: constrain enlistment search
2022-08-29 14:55:12 -07:00
Abhradeep Chakraborty
e9977b12fd Documentation/technical: describe bitmap lookup table extension
When reading bitmap file, Git loads each and every bitmap one by one
even if all the bitmaps are not required. A "bitmap lookup table"
extension to the bitmap format can reduce the overhead of loading
bitmaps which stores a list of bitmapped commit id pos (in the midx
or pack, along with their offset and xor offset. This way Git can
load only the necessary bitmaps without loading the previous bitmaps.

Older versions of Git ignore the lookup table extension and don't
throw any kind of warning or error while parsing the bitmap file.

Add some information for the new "bitmap lookup table" extension in the
bitmap-format documentation.

Mentored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Co-Mentored-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-26 10:13:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f00ddc9f48 Merge branch 'vd/scalar-generalize-diagnose'
The "diagnose" feature to create a zip archive for diagnostic
material has been lifted from "scalar" and made into a feature of
"git bugreport".

* vd/scalar-generalize-diagnose:
  scalar: update technical doc roadmap
  scalar-diagnose: use 'git diagnose --mode=all'
  builtin/bugreport.c: create '--diagnose' option
  builtin/diagnose.c: add '--mode' option
  builtin/diagnose.c: create 'git diagnose' builtin
  diagnose.c: add option to configure archive contents
  scalar-diagnose: move functionality to common location
  scalar-diagnose: move 'get_disk_info()' to 'compat/'
  scalar-diagnose: add directory to archiver more gently
  scalar-diagnose: avoid 32-bit overflow of size_t
  scalar-diagnose: use "$GIT_UNZIP" in test
2022-08-25 14:42:32 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
fa83cc834d parse-options: add support for parsing subcommands
Several Git commands have subcommands to implement mutually exclusive
"operation modes", and they usually parse their subcommand argument
with a bunch of if-else if statements.

Teach parse-options to handle subcommands as well, which will result
in shorter and simpler code with consistent error handling and error
messages on unknown or missing subcommand, and it will also make
possible for our Bash completion script to handle subcommands
programmatically.

The approach is guided by the following observations:

  - Most subcommands [1] are implemented in dedicated functions, and
    most of those functions [2] either have a signature matching the
    'int cmd_foo(int argc, const char **argc, const char *prefix)'
    signature of builtin commands or can be trivially converted to
    that signature, because they miss only that last prefix parameter
    or have no parameters at all.

  - Subcommand arguments only have long form, and they have no double
    dash prefix, no negated form, and no description, and they don't
    take any arguments, and can't be abbreviated.

  - There must be exactly one subcommand among the arguments, or zero
    if the command has a default operation mode.

  - All arguments following the subcommand are considered to be
    arguments of the subcommand, and, conversely, arguments meant for
    the subcommand may not preceed the subcommand.

So in the end subcommand declaration and parsing would look something
like this:

    parse_opt_subcommand_fn *fn = NULL;
    struct option builtin_commit_graph_options[] = {
        OPT_STRING(0, "object-dir", &opts.obj_dir, N_("dir"),
                   N_("the object directory to store the graph")),
        OPT_SUBCOMMAND("verify", &fn, graph_verify),
        OPT_SUBCOMMAND("write", &fn, graph_write),
        OPT_END(),
    };
    argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options,
                         builtin_commit_graph_usage, 0);
    return fn(argc, argv, prefix);

Here each OPT_SUBCOMMAND specifies the name of the subcommand and the
function implementing it, and the address of the same 'fn' subcommand
function pointer.  parse_options() then processes the arguments until
it finds the first argument matching one of the subcommands, sets 'fn'
to the function associated with that subcommand, and returns, leaving
the rest of the arguments unprocessed.  If none of the listed
subcommands is found among the arguments, parse_options() will show
usage and abort.

If a command has a default operation mode, 'fn' should be initialized
to the function implementing that mode, and parse_options() should be
invoked with the PARSE_OPT_SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONAL flag.  In this case
parse_options() won't error out when not finding any subcommands, but
will return leaving 'fn' unchanged.  Note that if that default
operation mode has any --options, then the PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT
flag is necessary as well (otherwise parse_options() would error out
upon seeing the unknown option meant to the default operation mode).

Some thoughts about the implementation:

  - The same pointer to 'fn' must be specified as 'value' for each
    OPT_SUBCOMMAND, because there can be only one set of mutually
    exclusive subcommands; parse_options() will BUG() otherwise.

    There are other ways to tell parse_options() where to put the
    function associated with the subcommand given on the command line,
    but I didn't like them:

      - Change parse_options()'s signature by adding a pointer to
        subcommand function to be set to the function associated with
        the given subcommand, affecting all callsites, even those that
        don't have subcommands.

      - Introduce a specific parse_options_and_subcommand() variant
        with that extra funcion parameter.

  - I decided against automatically calling the subcommand function
    from within parse_options(), because:

      - There are commands that have to perform additional actions
        after option parsing but before calling the function
        implementing the specified subcommand.

      - The return code of the subcommand is usually the return code
        of the git command, but preserving the return code of the
        automatically called subcommand function would have made the
        API awkward.

  - Also add a OPT_SUBCOMMAND_F() variant to allow specifying an
    option flag: we have two subcommands that are purposefully
    excluded from completion ('git remote rm' and 'git stash save'),
    so they'll have to be specified with the PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE
    flag.

  - Some of the 'parse_opt_flags' don't make sense with subcommands,
    and using them is probably just an oversight or misunderstanding.
    Therefore parse_options() will BUG() when invoked with any of the
    following flags while the options array contains at least one
    OPT_SUBCOMMAND:

      - PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH: parse_options() stops parsing
        arguments when encountering a "--" argument, so it doesn't
        make sense to expect and keep one before a subcommand, because
        it would prevent the parsing of the subcommand.

        However, this flag is allowed in combination with the
        PARSE_OPT_SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONAL flag, because the double dash
        might be meaningful for the command's default operation mode,
        e.g. to disambiguate refs and pathspecs.

      - PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION: As its name suggests, this flag
        tells parse_options() to stop as soon as it encouners a
        non-option argument, but subcommands are by definition not
        options...  so how could they be parsed, then?!

      - PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN: This flag can be used to collect any
        unknown --options and then pass them to a different command or
        subsystem.  Surely if a command has subcommands, then this
        functionality should rather be delegated to one of those
        subcommands, and not performed by the command itself.

        However, this flag is allowed in combination with the
        PARSE_OPT_SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONAL flag, making possible to pass
        --options to the default operation mode.

  - If the command with subcommands has a default operation mode, then
    all arguments to the command must preceed the arguments of the
    subcommand.

    AFAICT we don't have any commands where this makes a difference,
    because in those commands either only the command accepts any
    arguments ('notes' and 'remote'), or only the default subcommand
    ('reflog' and 'stash'), but never both.

  - The 'argv' array passed to subcommand functions currently starts
    with the name of the subcommand.  Keep this behavior.  AFAICT no
    subcommand functions depend on the actual content of 'argv[0]',
    but the parse_options() call handling their options expects that
    the options start at argv[1].

  - To support handling subcommands programmatically in our Bash
    completion script, 'git cmd --git-completion-helper' will now list
    both subcommands and regular --options, if any.  This means that
    the completion script will have to separate subcommands (i.e.
    words without a double dash prefix) from --options on its own, but
    that's rather easy to do, and it's not much work either, because
    the number of subcommands a command might have is rather low, and
    those commands accept only a single --option or none at all.  An
    alternative would be to introduce a separate option that lists
    only subcommands, but then the completion script would need not
    one but two git invocations and command substitutions for commands
    with subcommands.

    Note that this change doesn't affect the behavior of our Bash
    completion script, because when completing the --option of a
    command with subcommands, e.g. for 'git notes --<TAB>', then all
    subcommands will be filtered out anyway, as none of them will
    match the word to be completed starting with that double dash
    prefix.

[1] Except 'git rerere', because many of its subcommands are
    implemented in the bodies of the if-else if statements parsing the
    command's subcommand argument.

[2] Except 'credential', 'credential-store' and 'fsmonitor--daemon',
    because some of the functions implementing their subcommands take
    special parameters.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 11:13:14 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
99d86d60e5 parse-options: PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options
The description of 'PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN' starts with "Keep unknown
arguments instead of erroring out".  This is a bit misleading, as this
flag only applies to unknown --options, while non-option arguments are
kept even without this flag.

Update the description to clarify this, and rename the flag to
PARSE_OPTIONS_KEEP_UNKNOWN_OPT to make this obvious just by looking at
the flag name.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 11:13:14 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
80882bc5e7 api-parse-options.txt: fix description of OPT_CMDMODE
The description of the 'OPT_CMDMODE' macro states that "enum_val is
set to int_var when ...", but it's the other way around, 'int_var' is
set to 'enum_val'.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 11:13:14 -07:00
Victoria Dye
8e2841890a scalar: update technical doc roadmap with FSMonitor support
Update the Scalar roadmap to reflect completion of enabling the built-in
FSMonitor in Scalar.

Note that implementation of 'scalar help' was moved to the final set of
changes to move Scalar out of 'contrib/'. This is due to a dependency on
changes to 'git help', as all changes to the main Git tree *exclusively*
implemented to support Scalar are part of that series.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-18 21:35:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0d133a3dcf Merge branch 'ds/bundle-uri-more'
The "bundle URI" design gets documented.

* ds/bundle-uri-more:
  bundle-uri: add example bundle organization
  docs: document bundle URI standard
2022-08-18 13:07:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c0f6dd49f1 Merge branch 'ab/tech-docs-to-help'
Expose a lot of "tech docs" via "git help" interface.

* ab/tech-docs-to-help:
  docs: move http-protocol docs to man section 5
  docs: move cruft pack docs to gitformat-pack
  docs: move pack format docs to man section 5
  docs: move signature docs to man section 5
  docs: move index format docs to man section 5
  docs: move protocol-related docs to man section 5
  docs: move commit-graph format docs to man section 5
  git docs: add a category for file formats, protocols and interfaces
  git docs: add a category for user-facing file, repo and command UX
  git help doc: use "<doc>" instead of "<guide>"
  help.c: remove common category behavior from drop_prefix() behavior
  help.c: refactor drop_prefix() to use a "switch" statement"
2022-08-14 23:19:28 -07:00