Since Git 1.7.9, "git merge" defaulted to --no-ff (i.e. even when
the side branch being merged is a descendant of the current commit,
create a merge commit instead of fast-forwarding) when merging a
tag object. This was appropriate default for integrators who pull
signed tags from their downstream contributors, but caused an
unnecessary merges when used by downstream contributors who
habitually "catch up" their topic branches with tagged releases
from the upstream. Update "git merge" to default to --no-ff only
when merging a tag object that does *not* sit at its usual place in
refs/tags/ hierarchy, and allow fast-forwarding otherwise, to
mitigate the problem.
* jc/allow-ff-merging-kept-tags:
merge: allow fast-forward when merging a tracked tag
The new "--show-current-patch" option gives an end-user facing way
to get the diff being applied when "git rebase" (and "git am")
stops with a conflict.
* nd/rebase-show-current-patch:
rebase: introduce and use pseudo-ref REBASE_HEAD
rebase: add --show-current-patch
am: add --show-current-patch
Clarify how configured fetch refspecs interact with the "--prune"
option of "git fetch", and also add a handy short-hand for getting
rid of stale tags that are locally held.
* ab/fetch-prune:
fetch: make the --prune-tags work with <url>
fetch: add a --prune-tags option and fetch.pruneTags config
fetch tests: add scaffolding for the new fetch.pruneTags
git-fetch & config doc: link to the new PRUNING section
git remote doc: correct dangerous lies about what prune does
git fetch doc: add a new section to explain the ins & outs of pruning
fetch tests: fetch <url> <spec> as well as fetch [<remote>]
fetch tests: expand case/esac for later change
fetch tests: double quote a variable for interpolation
fetch tests: test --prune and refspec interaction
fetch tests: add a tag to be deleted to the pruning tests
fetch tests: re-arrange arguments for future readability
fetch tests: refactor in preparation for testing tag pruning
remote: add a macro for "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"
fetch: stop accessing "remote" variable indirectly
fetch: trivially refactor assignment to ref_nr
fetch: don't redundantly NULL something calloc() gave us
"git tag" learned an explicit "--edit" option that allows the
message given via "-m" and "-F" to be further edited.
* nm/tag-edit:
tag: add --edit option
Hotfix for a recent topic.
* tg/worktree-create-tracking:
git-worktree.txt: fix indentation of example and text of 'add' command
git-worktree.txt: fix missing ")" typo
"git am" has learned the "--quit" option, in addition to the existing
"--abort" option; having the pair mirrors a few other commands like
"rebase" and "cherry-pick".
* nd/am-quit:
am: support --quit
Doc update to warn against remaining bugs in untracked cache.
* ab/untracked-cache-invalidation-docs:
update-index doc: note the caveat with "could not open..."
update-index doc: note a fixed bug in the untracked cache
The log from "git daemon" can be redirected with a new option; one
relevant use case is to send the log to standard error (instead of
syslog) when running it from inetd.
* lw/daemon-log-destination:
daemon: add --log-destination=(stderr|syslog|none)
Update the documentation for the 'submodule.recurse' config to identify
that the clone command does not respect it.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 4e85333197 (worktree: make add <path> <branch> dwim, 2017-11-26)
added an example command in a literal code block, it neglected to
insert a mandatory "+" line before the block. This omission resulted
in both the literal code block and the (existing) paragraph following
the block to be outdented, even though they should be indented under
the 'add' sub-command along with the rest of the text pertaining to
that command. Furthermore, the mandatory "+" line separating the code
block from the following text got rendered as a leading character on
the line ("+ If <commit-ish>...") rather than being treated as a
formatting directive.
Fix these problems by adding the missing "+" line before the example
code block.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the closing ")" to a parenthetical phrase introduced by 4e85333197
(worktree: make add <path> <branch> dwim, 2017-11-26).
While at it, add a missing ":" at the end of the same sentence since
it precedes an example literal command block.
Reported-by: Mike Nordell <tamlin.thefirst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Long time ago at fab47d05 ("merge: force edit and no-ff mode when
merging a tag object", 2011-11-07), "git merge" was made to always
create a merge commit when merging a tag, even when the side branch
being merged is a descendant of the current branch.
This default is good for merges made by upstream maintainers to
integrate work signed by downstream contributors, but will leave
pointless no-ff merges when downstream contributors pull a newer
release tag to make their long-running topic branches catch up with
the upstream. When there is no local work left on the topic, such a
merge should simply fast-forward to the commit pointed at by the
release tag.
Update the default (again) for "git merge" that merges a tag object
to (1) --no-ff (i.e. create a merge commit even when side branch
fast forwards) if the tag being merged is not at its expected place
in refs/tags/ hierarchy and (2) --ff (i.e. allow fast-forward update
when able) otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is possible to have the output ' A' from 'git status --porcelain'
by adding a file using the '--intend-to-add' flag. Make this clear by
adding the pattern in the table of the documentation.
However the mode 'DM' (deleted in the index, modified in the working tree)
is not possible in the non-merge case in which the file only shows
as 'D ' (and adding it back to the worktree would show an additional line
of an '??' untracked file). It is also not possible in the merge case as
then the mode involves a 'U' on one side of the merge.
Remove that pattern.
Reported-by: Ross Light <light@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a small number of misspellings, ".gitmodule", scattered
throughout the code base, correct them ... no apparent functional
changes.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Among the "in progress" commands, only git-am and git-merge do not
support --quit. Support --quit in git-am too.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the reference to setting core.fsmonitor to `true` (or `false`) as those
are not valid settings.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The http tracing code, often used to debug connection issues,
learned to redact potentially sensitive information from its output
so that it can be more safely sharable.
* jt/http-redact-cookies:
http: support omitting data from traces
http: support cookie redaction when tracing
Doc updates.
* ks/submodule-doc-updates:
Doc/git-submodule: improve readability and grammar of a sentence
Doc/gitsubmodules: make some changes to improve readability and syntax
The machinery to clone & fetch, which in turn involves packing and
unpacking objects, have been told how to omit certain objects using
the filtering mechanism introduced by the jh/object-filtering
topic, and also mark the resulting pack as a promisor pack to
tolerate missing objects, taking advantage of the mechanism
introduced by the jh/fsck-promisors topic.
* jh/partial-clone:
t5616: test bulk prefetch after partial fetch
fetch: inherit filter-spec from partial clone
t5616: end-to-end tests for partial clone
fetch-pack: restore save_commit_buffer after use
unpack-trees: batch fetching of missing blobs
clone: partial clone
partial-clone: define partial clone settings in config
fetch: support filters
fetch: refactor calculation of remote list
fetch-pack: test support excluding large blobs
fetch-pack: add --no-filter
fetch-pack, index-pack, transport: partial clone
upload-pack: add object filtering for partial clone
In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery
for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been
taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a
packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that
promises to make them available on-demand and lazily.
* jh/fsck-promisors:
gc: do not repack promisor packfiles
rev-list: support termination at promisor objects
sha1_file: support lazily fetching missing objects
introduce fetch-object: fetch one promisor object
index-pack: refactor writing of .keep files
fsck: support promisor objects as CLI argument
fsck: support referenced promisor objects
fsck: support refs pointing to promisor objects
fsck: introduce partialclone extension
extension.partialclone: introduce partial clone extension
In the description of git interpret-trailers, we describe "a group…of
lines" that have certain characteristics. Ensure both options
describing this group use a singular verb for parallelism.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new command `git rebase --show-current-patch` is useful for seeing
the commit related to the current rebase state. Some however may find
the "git show" command behind it too limiting. You may want to
increase context lines, do a diff that ignores whitespaces...
For these advanced use cases, the user can execute any command they
want with the new pseudo ref REBASE_HEAD.
This also helps show where the stopped commit is from, which is hard
to see from the previous patch which implements --show-current-patch.
Helped-by: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is useful to see the full patch while resolving conflicts in a
rebase. The only way to do it now is
less .git/rebase-*/patch
which could turn out to be a lot longer to type if you are in a
linked worktree, or not at top-dir. On top of that, an ordinary user
should not need to peek into .git directory. The new option is
provided to examine the patch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pointing the user to $GIT_DIR/rebase-apply may encourage them to mess
around in there, which is not a good thing. With this, the user does
not have to keep the path around somewhere (because after a couple of
commands, the path may be out of scrollback buffer) when they need to
look at the patch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Note the caveat where 2.17 is stricter about index validation
potentially causing "could not open directory" warnings when git is
upgraded. See the preceding "dir.c: stop ignoring opendir() error in
open_cached_dir()" change.
This caused some mayhem when I upgraded git to a version with this
series at Booking.com, and other users have doubtless enabled the UC
extension and are in for a surprise when they upgrade. Let's give them
a headsup in the docs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the bug tested for in my "status: add a failing test showing
a core.untrackedCache bug" and fixed in Duy's "dir.c: fix missing dir
invalidation in untracked code".
Since this is very likely something others will encounter in the
future on older versions, and it's not obvious how to fix it let's
document both that it exists, and how to "fix" it with a one-off
command.
As noted in that commit, even though this bug gets the untracked cache
into a bad state, we have not yet found a case where this is user
visible, and thus it makes sense for these docs to focus on the
symlink case only.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the new --prune-tags option work properly when git-fetch is
invoked with a <url> parameter instead of a <remote name>
parameter.
This change is split off from the introduction of --prune-tags due to
the relative complexity of munging the incoming argv, which is easier
to review as a separate change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a --prune-tags option to git-fetch, along with fetch.pruneTags
config option and a -P shorthand (-p is --prune). This allows for
doing any of:
git fetch -p -P
git fetch --prune --prune-tags
git fetch -p -P origin
git fetch --prune --prune-tags origin
Or simply:
git config fetch.prune true &&
git config fetch.pruneTags true &&
git fetch
Instead of the much more verbose:
git fetch --prune origin 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' '+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'
Before this feature it was painful to support the use-case of pulling
from a repo which is having both its branches *and* tags deleted
regularly, and have our local references to reflect upstream.
At work we create deployment tags in the repo for each rollout, and
there's *lots* of those, so they're archived within weeks for
performance reasons.
Without this change it's hard to centrally configure such repos in
/etc/gitconfig (on servers that are only used for working with
them). You need to set fetch.prune=true globally, and then for each
repo:
git -C {} config --replace-all remote.origin.fetch "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" "^\+*refs/tags/\*:refs/tags/\*$"
Now I can simply set fetch.pruneTags=true in /etc/gitconfig as well,
and users running "git pull" will automatically get the pruning
semantics I want.
Even though "git remote" has corresponding "prune" and "update
--prune" subcommands I'm intentionally not adding a corresponding
prune-tags or "update --prune --prune-tags" mode to that command.
It's advertised (as noted in my recent "git remote doc: correct
dangerous lies about what prune does") as only modifying remote
tracking references, whereas any --prune-tags option is always going
to modify what from the user's perspective is a local copy of the tag,
since there's no such thing as a remote tracking tag.
Ideally add_prune_tags_to_fetch_refspec() would be something that
would use ALLOC_GROW() to grow the 'fetch` member of the 'remote'
struct. Instead I'm realloc-ing remote->fetch and adding the
tag_refspec to the end.
The reason is that parse_{fetch,push}_refspec which allocate the
refspec (ultimately remote->fetch) struct are called many places that
don't have access to a 'remote' struct. It would be hard to change all
their callsites to be amenable to carry around the bookkeeping
variables required for dynamic allocation.
All the other callers of the API first incrementally construct the
string version of the refspec in remote->fetch_refspec via
add_fetch_refspec(), before finally calling parse_fetch_refspec() via
some variation of remote_get().
It's less of a pain to deal with the one special case that needs to
modify already constructed refspecs than to chase down and change all
the other callsites. The API I'm adding is intentionally not
generalized because if we add more of these we'd probably want to
re-visit how this is done.
See my "Re: [BUG] git remote prune removes local tags, depending on
fetch config" (87po6ahx87.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com;
https://public-inbox.org/git/87po6ahx87.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/) for
more background info.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend the documentation for fetch.prune, fetch.<name>.prune and
--prune to link to the recently added PRUNING section.
I'd have liked to link directly to it with "<<PRUNING>>" from
fetch-options.txt, since it's included in git-fetch.txt (git-pull.txt
also includes it, but doesn't include that option). However making a
reference across files yields this error:
[...]/Documentation/git-fetch.xml:226: element xref: validity
error : IDREF attribute linkend references an unknown ID "PRUNING"
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git remote prune <name>" command uses the same machinery as "git
fetch <name> --prune", and shares all the same caveats, but its
documentation has suggested that it'll just "delete stale
remote-tracking branches under <name>".
This isn't true, and hasn't been true since at least v1.8.5.6 (the
oldest version I could be bothered to test).
E.g. if "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" is explicitly set in the refspec of
the remote, it'll delete all local tags <name> doesn't know about.
Instead, briefly give the reader just enough of a hint that this
option might constitute a shotgun aimed at their foot, and point them
to the new PRUNING section in the git-fetch documentation which
explains all the nuances of what this facility does.
See "[BUG] git remote prune removes local tags, depending on fetch
config" (CACi5S_39wNrbfjLfn0xhCY+uewtFN2YmnAcRc86z6pjUTjWPHQ@mail.gmail.com)
by Michael Giuffrida for the initial report.
Reported-by: Michael Giuffrida <michaelpg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
