Documentation updates.
* ds/grep-doc-updates:
grep docs: describe --no-index further and improve formatting a bit
grep docs: describe --recurse-submodules further and improve formatting a bit
Introduce an experimental protocol for contributors to propose the
topic description to be used in the "What's cooking" report, the
merge commit message for the topic, and in the release notes and
document it in the SubmittingPatches document.
* jc/release-notes-entry-experiment:
SubmittingPatches: release-notes entry experiment
The implementation and documentation of "object-format" option
exchange between the Git itself and its remote helpers did not
quite match, which has been corrected.
* jk/remote-helper-object-format-option-fix:
transport-helper: send "true" value for object-format option
transport-helper: drop "object-format <algo>" option
transport-helper: use write helpers more consistently
An additional test to demonstrate that clone would not choke on a
global configuration file that uses includeIf.onbranch:*.path.
* ps/clone-with-includeif-onbranch:
t5601: exercise clones with "includeIf.*.onbranch"
Fix the way recently added tests interpolate variables defined
outside them, and document the best practice to help future
developers.
* ps/t7800-variable-interpolation-fix:
t/README: document how to loop around test cases
t7800: use single quotes for test bodies
t7800: improve test descriptions with empty arguments
A unit test for reftable code tried to enumerate all files in a
directory after reftable operations and expected to see nothing but
the files it wanted to leave there, but was fooled by .nfs* cruft
files left, which has been corrected.
* ps/reftable-unit-test-nfs-workaround:
reftable: fix tests being broken by NFS' delete-after-close semantics
Hints that suggest what to do after resolving conflicts can now be
squelched by disabling advice.mergeConflict.
Acked-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
cf. <e040c631-42d9-4501-a7b8-046f8dac6309@gmail.com>
* pb/advice-merge-conflict:
builtin/am: allow disabling conflict advice
sequencer: allow disabling conflict advice
"git config" corrupted literal HT characters written in the
configuration file as part of a value, which has been corrected.
* ds/config-internal-whitespace-fix:
config.txt: describe handling of whitespace further
t1300: add more tests for whitespace and inline comments
config: really keep value-internal whitespace verbatim
config: minor addition of whitespace
Code clean-up in the "git log" machinery that implements custom log
message formatting.
* jk/pretty-subject-cleanup:
format-patch: fix leak of empty header string
format-patch: simplify after-subject MIME header handling
format-patch: return an allocated string from log_write_email_headers()
log: do not set up extra_headers for non-email formats
pretty: drop print_email_subject flag
pretty: split oneline and email subject printing
shortlog: stop setting pp.print_email_subject
"git checkout --conflict=bad" reported a bad conflictStyle as if it
were given to a configuration variable; it has been corrected to
report that the command line option is bad.
* pw/checkout-conflict-errorfix:
checkout: fix interaction between --conflict and --merge
checkout: cleanup --conflict=<style> parsing
merge options: add a conflict style member
merge-ll: introduce LL_MERGE_OPTIONS_INIT
xdiff-interface: refactor parsing of merge.conflictstyle
Remove an ancient and not well maintained Hg-to-git migration
script from contrib/.
Acked-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
cf. <37e4cd61-b370-437e-bd42-f98f47d3ad32@popies.net>
* jk/drop-hg-to-git:
contrib: drop hg-to-git script
The status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable had a name
that tempts users to set a Boolean value expressed in our usual
"false", "off", and "0", but it only took "no". This has been
corrected so "true" and its synonyms are taken as "normal", while
"false" and its synonyms are taken as "no".
* jc/show-untracked-false:
status: allow --untracked=false and friends
status: unify parsing of --untracked= and status.showUntrackedFiles
"git diff" and friends learned two extra configuration variables,
diff.srcPrefix and diff.dstPrefix.
* ph/diff-src-dst-prefix-config:
diff.*Prefix: use camelCase in the doc and test titles
diff: add diff.srcPrefix and diff.dstPrefix configuration variables
Work to support a repository that work with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
hash algorithms has started.
* eb/hash-transition: (30 commits)
t1016-compatObjectFormat: add tests to verify the conversion between objects
t1006: test oid compatibility with cat-file
t1006: rename sha1 to oid
test-lib: compute the compatibility hash so tests may use it
builtin/ls-tree: let the oid determine the output algorithm
object-file: handle compat objects in check_object_signature
tree-walk: init_tree_desc take an oid to get the hash algorithm
builtin/cat-file: let the oid determine the output algorithm
rev-parse: add an --output-object-format parameter
repository: implement extensions.compatObjectFormat
object-file: update object_info_extended to reencode objects
object-file-convert: convert commits that embed signed tags
object-file-convert: convert commit objects when writing
object-file-convert: don't leak when converting tag objects
object-file-convert: convert tag objects when writing
object-file-convert: add a function to convert trees between algorithms
object: factor out parse_mode out of fast-import and tree-walk into in object.h
cache: add a function to read an OID of a specific algorithm
tag: sign both hashes
commit: export add_header_signature to support handling signatures on tags
...
The "What's cooking" report lists the topics in flight, with a short
paragraph descibing what they are about.
Once written, the description is automatically picked up from the
"What's cooking" report and used in the commit log message of the
merge commit when the topic is merged into integration branches.
These commit log messges of the merge commits are then propagated to
the release notes.
It has been the maintainer's task to prepare these entries in the
"What's cooking" report. Even though the original author of a topic
may be in the best position to write the initial description of a
topic, we so far lacked a formal channel for the author to suggest
what description to use. The usual procedure has been for the
author to see the topic described in "What's cooking" report, and
then either complain about inaccurate explanation and/or offer a
rewrite.
Let's try an experiment to optionally let the author propose the one
paragraph description when the topic is submitted. Pick the cover
letter as the logical place to do so, and describe an experimental
workflow in the SubmittingPatches document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for "%(trailers[:options])" placeholder in the
"--pretty" option of commands in the "git log" family has been
updated.
* bl/doc-key-val-sep-fix:
docs: adjust trailer `separator` and `key_value_separator` language
docs: correct trailer `key_value_separator` description
A few typoes in "git config --help" have been corrected.
* bl/doc-config-fixes:
docs: fix typo in git-config `--default`
docs: clarify file options in git-config `--edit`
"git bugreport --no-suffix" was not supported and instead
segfaulted, which has been corrected.
* js/bugreport-no-suffix-fix:
bugreport.c: fix a crash in `git bugreport` with `--no-suffix` option
Improve the description of --no-index, to make it more clear to the users
what this option actually does under the hood, and what's its purpose.
Describe the dependency between --no-index and either of the --cached and
--untracked options, which cannot be used together.
As part of that, shuffle a couple of the options, to make the documentation
flow a bit better, because it makes more sense to describe first the options
that have something in common, and to after that describe an option that does
something differently. In more detail, --cached and --untracked both leave
git-grep(1) in the usual state, in which it treats the directory as a local
git repository, unlike --no-index that makes git-grep(1) treat the directory
not as a git repository.
While there, improve the descriptions of grep worker threads a bit, to give
them better context. Adjust the language a bit, to avoid addressing the
reader directly, which is in general preferred in technical documentation,
because it eliminates the possible element of persuading the user to do
something. In other words, we should be telling the user what our software
can do, instead of telling the user what to do.
Also perform some minor formatting improvements, to make it clear it's the
git commands, command parameters, and configuration option names.
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify that --recurse-submodules cannot be used together with --untracked,
and improve the formatting in a couple of places, to make it visually clear
that those are the commands or the names of configuration options.
While there, change a couple of "<tree>" placeholders to "_<tree>_", to help
with an ongoing translation improvement effort. [1]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cQc8W4JOpB+TMP=czketU1U7wcY_x9bsP5T=3-XjGLhRQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Imagine you want to grep for (. Easy:
$ git grep '('
fatal: unmatched parenthesis
uhoh. This is plainly wrong. Unless you know specifically that
(a) git grep has expression groups and '(' ... ')' are used for them.
(b) you can use -e '(' to explicitly say '(' is what you are looking
for, not the beginning of a group.
Similarly,
$ git grep ')'
fatal: incomplete pattern expression: )
is somehow worse. ")" is a complete regular expression pattern.
Of course, the error wants to say "group" here.
In this case it is also not "incomplete", it is unmatched.
Make them say
$ ./git grep '('
fatal: unmatched ( for expression group
$ ./git grep ')'
fatal: incomplete pattern expression group: )
which are clearer in indicating that it is not the expression that
is wrong (since no pattern had been parsed at all), but rather that
it is been misconstrued as a grouping operator.
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/1051205
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the run_am() function, we set up a child_process struct to run
"git-am", allocating memory for its args and env strvecs. These are
normally cleaned up when we call run_command(). But if we encounter
certain errors, we exit the function early and try to clean up ourselves
by clearing the am.args field. This leaks the "env" strvec.
We should use child_process_clear() instead, which covers both. And more
importantly, it future proofs us against the struct ever growing more
allocated fields.
These are unlikely errors to happen in practice, so they don't actually
trigger the leak sanitizer in the tests. But we can add a new test which
does exercise one of the paths (and fails SANITIZE=leak without this
patch).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The log_write_email_headers() function recently learned to return the
"extra_headers_p" variable to the caller as an allocated string. We
start by copying rev_info.extra_headers into a strbuf, and then detach
the strbuf at the end of the function. If there are no extra headers, we
leave the strbuf empty. Likewise, if there are no headers to return, we
pass back NULL.
This misses a corner case which can cause a leak. The "do we have any
headers to copy" check is done by looking for a NULL opt->extra_headers.
But the "do we have a non-empty string to return" check is done by
checking the length of the strbuf. That means if opt->extra_headers is
the empty string, we'll "copy" it into the strbuf, triggering an
allocation, but then leak the buffer when we return NULL from the
function.
We can solve this in one of two ways:
1. Rather than checking headers->len at the end, we could check
headers->alloc to see if we allocated anything. That retains the
original behavior before the recent change, where an empty
extra_headers string is "passed through" to the caller. In practice
this doesn't matter, though (the code which eventually looks at the
result treats NULL or the empty string the same).
2. Only bother copying a non-empty string into the strbuf. This has
the added bonus of avoiding a pointless allocation.
Arguably strbuf_addstr() could do this optimization itself, though
it may be slightly dangerous to do so (some existing callers may
not get a fresh allocation when they expect to). In theory callers
are all supposed to use strbuf_detach() in such a case, but there's
no guarantee that this is the case.
This patch uses option 2. Without it, building with SANITIZE=leak shows
many errors in t4021 and elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some cases it makes sense to loop around test cases so that we can
execute the same test with slightly different arguments. There are some
gotchas around quoting here though that are easy to miss and that may
lead to easy-to-miss errors and portability issues.
Document the proper way to do this in "t/README".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In eb84c8b6ce (git-difftool--helper: honor `--trust-exit-code` with
`--dir-diff`, 2024-02-20) we have started to loop around some of the
tests in t7800 so that they are reexecuted with slightly different
arguments. As part of that refactoring the quoting of test bodies was
changed from single quotes (') to double quotes (") so that the value of
the loop variable is accessible to the body.
As the test body is later on passed to eval this change was not required
though. Let's revert it back to use single quotes as usual in our tests.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of the tests in t7800 are executed repeatedly in a loop with
different arguments. To distinguish these tests, the value of that
variable is rendered into the test title. But given that one of the
values is the empty string, it results in a somewhat awkward test name:
difftool ignores exit code
Improve this by printing "without options" in case the value is empty.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it more clear what the whitespace characters are in the context of git
configuration files, and significantly improve the description of the leading
and trailing whitespace handling, especially how it works out together with
the presence of inline comments.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a handful of additional tests, to improve the coverage of the handling
of configuration file entries whose values contain internal whitespace,
leading and/or trailing whitespace, which may or may not be enclosed within
quotation marks, or which contain an additional inline comment.
At the same time, rework one already existing whitespace-related test a bit,
to ensure its consistency with the newly added tests. This change introduced
no functional changes to the already existing test.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a bug in function parse_value() that prevented whitespace characters
(i.e. spaces and horizontal tabs) found inside configuration option values
from being parsed and returned in their original form. The bug caused any
number of consecutive whitespace characters to be wrongly "squashed" into
the same number of space characters.
This bug was introduced back in July 2009, in commit ebdaae372b ("config:
Keep inner whitespace verbatim").
Further investigation showed that setting a configuration value, by invoking
git-config(1), converts value-internal horizontal tabs into "\t" escape
sequences, which the buggy value-parsing logic in function parse_value()
didn't "squash" into spaces. That's why the test included in the ebdaae37
commit passed, which presumably made the bug remain undetected for this long.
On the other hand, value-internal literal horizontal tab characters, found in
a configuration file edited by hand, do get "squashed" by the value-parsing
logic, so the right choice was to fix this bug by making the value-internal
whitespace characters preserved verbatim.
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In general, binary operators should be enclosed in a pair of leading and
trailing space (SP) characters. Thus, clean up one spotted expression that
for some reason had a "bunched up" operator.
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output format for dates "iso-strict" has been tweaked to show
a time in the Zulu timezone with "Z" suffix, instead of "+00:00".
* bb/iso-strict-utc:
date: make "iso-strict" conforming for the UTC timezone
The status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable was
incorrectly documented to accept "false", which has been corrected.
* jw/doc-show-untracked-files-fix:
doc: status.showUntrackedFiles does not take "false"
Mark-ups used in the documentation has been improved for
consistency.
* ja/doc-markup-fixes:
doc: git-clone: format placeholders
doc: git-clone: format verbatim words
doc: git-init: rework config item init.templateDir
doc: git-init: rework definition lists
doc: git-init: format placeholders
doc: git-init: format verbatim parts
The code to iterate over reflogs in the reftable has been optimized
to reduce memory allocation and deallocation.
Reviewed-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
cf. <Ze9eX-aaWoVaqsPP@google.com>
* ps/reftable-reflog-iteration-perf:
refs/reftable: track last log record name via strbuf
reftable/record: use scratch buffer when decoding records
reftable/record: reuse message when decoding log records
reftable/record: reuse refnames when decoding log records
reftable/record: avoid copying author info
reftable/record: convert old and new object IDs to arrays
refs/reftable: reload correct stack when creating reflog iter
