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
Enable gc.cruftpacks by default for those who opt into
feature.experimental setting.
* es/mark-gc-cruft-as-experimental:
config: let feature.experimental imply gc.cruftPacks=true
gc: add tests for --cruft and friends
Git asks for a "password", but the user might use a
personal access token or OAuth access token instead.
Example:
Password for 'https://AzureDiamond@github.com':
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
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>
In a similar spirit as the previous commit, the 'seen' branch gets
rebuilt by reintegrating topics between 'jch' and the (old) tip of
'seen'.
Update the instructions on how to generate Meta/redo-seen.sh for the
first time to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Rebuilding the 'jch' branch begins by reintegrating any topics between
'master' and 'jch', not 'master' and 'seen'.
In the maintainer guide, the documentation isn't quite right, since the
initial input to Meta/Reintegrate is "master..seen", not "master..jch".
This can lead to confusing results when generating the Meta/redo-jch.sh
script for the first time.
Additionally, rebuilding 'jch' takes place in two steps. First, running
the script up to the first "### match next" cut-line, and then comparing
the result with what's on 'next' (i.e. with "git diff jch next"). Then,
the remaining set of topics get merged down to 'jch' (which aren't on
'next') by running the entire "redo-jch.sh" script.
Clarify the documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
"git merge-tree --stdin" is a new way to request a series of merges
and report the merge results.
* en/merge-tree-sequence:
merge-tree: support multiple batched merges with --stdin
merge-tree: update documentation for differences in -z output
Define the logical elements of a "bundle list", data structure to
store them in-core, format to transfer them, and code to parse
them.
* ds/bundle-uri-3:
bundle-uri: suppress stderr from remote-https
bundle-uri: quiet failed unbundlings
bundle: add flags to verify_bundle()
bundle-uri: fetch a list of bundles
bundle: properly clear all revision flags
bundle-uri: limit recursion depth for bundle lists
bundle-uri: parse bundle list in config format
bundle-uri: unit test "key=value" parsing
bundle-uri: create "key=value" line parsing
bundle-uri: create base key-value pair parsing
bundle-uri: create bundle_list struct and helpers
bundle-uri: use plain string in find_temp_filename()
The role the security mailing list plays in an embargoed release
has been documented.
* jr/embargoed-releases-doc:
embargoed releases: also describe the git-security list and the process
"git rebase --keep-base" used to discard the commits that are
already cherry-picked to the upstream, even when "keep-base" meant
that the base, on top of which the history is being rebuilt, does
not yet include these cherry-picked commits. The --keep-base
option now implies --reapply-cherry-picks and --no-fork-point
options.
* pw/rebase-keep-base-fixes:
rebase --keep-base: imply --no-fork-point
rebase --keep-base: imply --reapply-cherry-picks
rebase: factor out branch_base calculation
rebase: rename merge_base to branch_base
rebase: store orig_head as a commit
rebase: be stricter when reading state files containing oids
t3416: set $EDITOR in subshell
t3416: tighten two tests
Two new facilities, "timer" and "counter", are introduced to the
trace2 API.
* jh/trace2-timers-and-counters:
trace2: add global counter mechanism
trace2: add stopwatch timers
trace2: convert ctx.thread_name from strbuf to pointer
trace2: improve thread-name documentation in the thread-context
trace2: rename the thread_name argument to trace2_thread_start
api-trace2.txt: elminate section describing the public trace2 API
tr2tls: clarify TLS terminology
trace2: use size_t alloc,nr_open_regions in tr2tls_thread_ctx
"git shortlog" learned to group by the "format" string.
* tb/shortlog-group:
shortlog: implement `--group=committer` in terms of `--group=<format>`
shortlog: implement `--group=author` in terms of `--group=<format>`
shortlog: extract `shortlog_finish_setup()`
shortlog: support arbitrary commit format `--group`s
shortlog: extract `--group` fragment for translation
shortlog: make trailer insertion a noop when appropriate
shortlog: accept `--date`-related options
Make sure generated dependency file is stably sorted to help
developers debugging their build issues.
* sg/stable-docdep:
Documentation/build-docdep.perl: generate sorted output
A new "--include-whitespace" option is added to "git patch-id", and
existing bugs in the internal patch-id logic that did not match
what "git patch-id" produces have been corrected.
* jz/patch-id:
builtin: patch-id: remove unused diff-tree prefix
builtin: patch-id: add --verbatim as a command mode
patch-id: fix patch-id for mode changes
builtin: patch-id: fix patch-id with binary diffs
patch-id: use stable patch-id for rebases
patch-id: fix stable patch id for binary / header-only
Git has an additional "commit graph" capability that supplements the
normal commit object's directed acyclic graph (DAG). The supplemental
commit graph file is designed for speed of access.
Describe the commit graph both from the normative DAG view point and
from the commit graph file perspective.
Also, clarify the link between the branch ref and branch tip
by linking to the `ref` glossary entry, matching this commit graph
entry.
The commit-graph file is also distinguished by its hyphenation.
Subsequent commit catches the few cases where the hyphenation of
commit-graph was missing.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
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>
Note, historical release notes have not been updated.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The short-help text shown by "git cmd -h" and the synopsis text
shown at the beginning of "git help cmd" have been made more
consistent.
* ab/doc-synopsis-and-cmd-usage: (34 commits)
tests: assert consistent whitespace in -h output
tests: start asserting that *.txt SYNOPSIS matches -h output
doc txt & -h consistency: make "worktree" consistent
worktree: define subcommand -h in terms of command -h
reflog doc: list real subcommands up-front
doc txt & -h consistency: make "commit" consistent
doc txt & -h consistency: make "diff-tree" consistent
doc txt & -h consistency: use "[<label>...]" for "zero or more"
doc txt & -h consistency: make "annotate" consistent
doc txt & -h consistency: make "stash" consistent
doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options
doc txt & -h consistency: use "git foo" form, not "git-foo"
doc txt & -h consistency: make "bundle" consistent
doc txt & -h consistency: make "read-tree" consistent
doc txt & -h consistency: make "rerere" consistent
doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options and labels
doc txt & -h consistency: make output order consistent
doc txt & -h consistency: add or fix optional "--" syntax
doc txt & -h consistency: fix mismatching labels
doc SYNOPSIS & -h: use "-" to separate words in labels, not "_"
...
Clarify that "the sentence after <area>: prefix does not begin with
a capital letter" rule applies only to the commit title.
* jc/use-of-uc-in-log-messages:
SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body
"git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable
cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected.
cf. <63a1c3d4-eff3-af10-4263-058c88e74594@github.com>
* tb/midx-repack-ignore-cruft-packs:
midx.c: avoid cruft packs with non-zero `repack --batch-size`
midx.c: remove unnecessary loop condition
midx.c: replace `xcalloc()` with `CALLOC_ARRAY()`
midx.c: avoid cruft packs with `repack --batch-size=0`
midx.c: prevent `expire` from removing the cruft pack
Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt: clarify expire behavior
Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt: fix typo
Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have
been clarified.
* jc/environ-docs:
environ: GIT_INDEX_VERSION affects not just a new repository
environ: simplify description of GIT_INDEX_FILE
environ: GIT_FLUSH should be made a usual Boolean
environ: explain Boolean environment variables
environ: document GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY
We are interested in exploring whether gc.cruftPacks=true should become
the default value.
To determine whether it is safe to do so, let's encourage more users to
try it out.
Users who have set feature.experimental=true have already volunteered to
try new and possibly-breaking config changes, so let's try this new
default with that set of users.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Meta/redo-jch.sh script is generated a few lines earlier by running:
$ Meta/Reintegrate master..seen >Meta/redo-jch.sh
But the resulting script is not necessarily executable. Later mentions
of this script invoke it with sh (instead of directly), but this one is
an odd one out.
Update the documentation to invoke the Meta/redo-jch.sh script with sh
in case the maintainer has not made the script executable.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff rev^!" did not show combined diff to go to the rev from
its parents.
* rs/diff-caret-bang-with-parents:
diff: support ^! for merges
revisions.txt: unspecify order of resolved parts of ^!
revision: use strtol_i() for exclude_parent
Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid
in C99.
* ab/coding-guidelines-c99:
CodingGuidelines: recommend against unportable C99 struct syntax
CodingGuidelines: mention C99 features we can't use
CodingGuidelines: allow declaring variables in for loops
CodingGuidelines: mention dynamic C99 initializer elements
CodingGuidelines: update for C99
During the initial development of the fsck-msgids.txt feature, it
has become apparent that it is very much error prone to make sure
the description in the documentation file are sorted and correctly
match what is in the fsck.h header file.
Add a quick-and-dirty Perl script and doc-lint target to sanity
check that the fsck-msgids.txt is consistent with the error type
list in the fsck.h header file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation lacks mention of specific <msg-id> that are supported.
While git-help --config will display a list of these options, often
developers' first instinct is to consult the git docs to find valid
config values.
Add a list of fsck error messages, and link to it from the git-fsck
documentation.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the recent turnover on the git-security list, questions came up how
things are usually run. Rather than answering questions individually,
extend Git's existing documentation about security vulnerabilities to
describe the git-security mailing list, how things are run on that list,
and what to expect throughout the process from the time a security bug
is reported all the way to the time when a fix is released.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Ramer <gitprplr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are situations where the user might not want the default
setting where patch-id strips all whitespace. They might be working
in a language where white space is syntactically important, or they
might have CI testing that enforces strict whitespace linting. In
these cases, a whitespace change would result in the patch
fundamentally changing, and thus deserving of a different id.
Add a new mode that is exclusive of --stable and --unstable called
--verbatim. It also corresponds to the config
patchid.verbatim = true. In this mode, the stable algorithm is
used and whitespace is not stripped from the patch text.
Users of --unstable mainly care about compatibility with old git
versions, which unstripping the whitespace would break. Thus there
isn't a usecase for the combination of --verbatim and --unstable,
and we don't expose this so as to not add maintainence burden.
Signed-off-by: Jerry Zhang <jerry@skydio.com>
fixes https://github.com/Skydio/revup/issues/2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to generating a shortlog based on committer, author, or the
identity in one or more specified trailers, it can be useful to generate
a shortlog based on an arbitrary commit format.
This can be used, for example, to generate a distribution of commit
activity over time, like so:
$ git shortlog --group='%cd' --date='format:%Y-%m' -s v2.37.0..
117 2022-06
274 2022-07
324 2022-08
263 2022-09
7 2022-10
Arbitrary commit formats can be used. In fact, `git shortlog`'s default
behavior (to count by commit authors) can be emulated as follows:
$ git shortlog --group='%aN <%aE>' ...
and future patches will make the default behavior (as well as
`--committer`, and `--group=trailer:<trailer>`) special cases of the
more flexible `--group` option.
Note also that the SHORTLOG_GROUP_FORMAT enum value is used only to
designate that `--group:<format>` is in use when in stdin mode to
declare that the combination is invalid.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare for a future patch which will introduce arbitrary pretty formats
via the `--group` argument.
To allow additional customizability (for example, to support something
like `git shortlog -s --group='%aD' --date='format:%Y-%m' ...` (which
groups commits by the datestring 'YYYY-mm' according to author date), we
must store off the `--date` parsed from calling `parse_revision_opt()`.
Note that this also affects custom output `--format` strings in `git
shortlog`. Though this is a behavior change, this is arguably fixing a
long-standing bug (ie., that `--format` strings are not affected by
`--date` specifiers as they should be).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pruning objects with `--cruft`, `git repack` offers some
flexibility when selecting the set of which objects are pruned via the
`--cruft-expiration` option.
This is useful for expiring objects which are older than the grace
period, making races where to-be-pruned objects become reachable and
then ancestors of freshly pushed objects, leaving the repository in a
corrupt state after pruning substantially less likely [1].
But in practice, such races are impossible to avoid entirely, no matter
how long the grace period is. To prevent this race, it is often
advisable to temporarily put a repository into a read-only state. But in
practice, this is not always practical, and so some middle ground would
be nice.
This patch introduces a new option, `--expire-to`, which teaches `git
repack` to write an additional cruft pack containing just the objects
which were pruned from the repository. The caller can specify a
directory outside of the current repository as the destination for this
second cruft pack.
This makes it possible to prune objects from a repository, while still
holding onto a supplemental copy of them outside of the original
repository. Having this copy on-disk makes it substantially easier to
recover objects when the aforementioned race is encountered.
`--expire-to` is implemented in a somewhat convoluted manner, which is
to take advantage of the fact that the first time `write_cruft_pack()`
is called, it adds the name of the cruft pack to the `names` string
list. That means the second time we call `write_cruft_pack()`, objects
in the previously-written cruft pack will be excluded.
As long as the caller ensures that no objects are expired during the
second pass, this is sufficient to generate a cruft pack containing all
objects which don't appear in any of the new packs written by `git
repack`, including the cruft pack. In other words, all of the objects
which are about to be pruned from the repository.
It is important to note that the destination in `--expire-to` does not
necessarily need to be a Git repository (though it can be) Notably, the
expired packs do not contain all ancestors of expired objects. So if the
source repository contains something like:
<unreachable>
/
C1 --- C2
\
refs/heads/master
where C2 is unreachable, but has a parent (C1) which is reachable, and
C2 would be pruned, then the expiry pack will contain only C2, not C1.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190319001829.GL29661@sigill.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Add an option, --stdin, to merge-tree which will accept lines of input
with two branches to merge per line, and which will perform all the
merges and give output for each in turn. This option implies -z, and
modifies the output to also include a merge status since the exit code
of the program can no longer convey that information now that multiple
merges are involved.
This could be useful, for example, by Git hosting providers. When one
branch is updated, one may want to check whether all code reviews
targetting that branch can still cleanly merge. Avoiding the overhead
of starting up a separate process for each of those code reviews might
provide significant savings in a repository with many code reviews.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Informational Messages was updated in de90581141 ("merge-ort:
optionally produce machine-readable output", 2022-06-18) to provide more
detailed and machine parseable output when `-z` is passed, but the
Documentation was not updated to reflect these changes. Update it now.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To make sure that our manpages are rebuilt when any of the included
source files change and only the affected manpages are rebuilt,
'build-docdep.perl' scans our documentation source files for include
directives, and outputs 'make' dependencies to be included by
'Documentation/Makefile'. This script relies on Perl's hash data
structures, and generates its output while iterating over them, and
since hashes in Perl are very much unordered, the output varies
greatly from run to run, both the order of targets and the order of
dependencies of each target.
This lack of ordering doesn't matter for 'make', because it cares
neither about the order of targets in a Makefile nor about the order
of a target's dependencies. However, it does matter to developers
looking into build issues potentially involving these generated
dependencies, as it's rather hard to tell whether there are any
relevant (i.e. not order-only) changes among the dependencies compared
to the previous run.
So let's make 'build-docdep.perl's output stable and ordered by
sorting the keys of the hashes before iterating over them.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After checking out a "branch" that is a symbolic-ref that points at
another branch, "git symbolic-ref HEAD" reports the underlying
branch, not the symbolic-ref the user gave checkout as argument.
The command learned the "--no-recurse" option to stop after
dereferencing a symbolic-ref only once.
* jc/symbolic-ref-no-recurse:
symbolic-ref: teach "--[no-]recurse" option
Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid
in C99.
* ab/coding-guidelines-c99:
CodingGuidelines: recommend against unportable C99 struct syntax
CodingGuidelines: mention C99 features we can't use
CodingGuidelines: allow declaring variables in for loops
CodingGuidelines: mention dynamic C99 initializer elements
CodingGuidelines: update for C99
Clarify that "the sentence after <area>: prefix does not begin with
a capital letter" rule applies only to the commit title.
* jc/use-of-uc-in-log-messages:
SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body
By default, use of fsmonitor on a repository on networked
filesystem is disabled. Add knobs to make it workable on macOS.
* ed/fsmonitor-on-networked-macos:
fsmonitor: fix leak of warning message
fsmonitor: add documentation for allowRemote and socketDir options
fsmonitor: check for compatability before communicating with fsmonitor
fsmonitor: deal with synthetic firmlinks on macOS
fsmonitor: avoid socket location check if using hook
fsmonitor: relocate socket file if .git directory is remote
fsmonitor: refactor filesystem checks to common interface
Given the name of the option it is confusing if --keep-base actually
changes the base of the branch without --fork-point being explicitly
given on the command line.
The combination of --keep-base with an explicit --fork-point is still
supported even though --fork-point means we do not keep the same base
if the upstream branch has been rewound. We do this in case anyone is
relying on this behavior which is tested in t3431[1]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200715032014.GA10818@generichostname/
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As --keep-base does not rebase the branch it is confusing if it
removes commits that have been cherry-picked to the upstream branch.
As --reapply-cherry-picks is not supported by the "apply" backend this
commit ensures that cherry-picks are reapplied by forcing the upstream
commit to match the onto commit unless --no-reapply-cherry-picks is
given.
Reported-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the "git reflog" documentation to exhaustively list the
subcommands it accepts in the SYNOPSIS, as opposed to leaving that for
a "[verse]" in the DESCRIPTION section. This documentation style was
added in cf39f54efc (git reflog show, 2007-02-08), but isn't how
other commands which take subcommands are documented.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct uses of "<label>..." where we really meant to say
"[<label>...]", i.e. the command in question taken an optional set of
"<label>". As the CodingGuidelines notes "[o]ptional parts [should be]
enclosed in square brackets".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cmd_blame() already detected whether it was processing "blame" or
"annotate", but it didn't adjust its usage output accordingly. Let's
do that.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend both the -h output and *.txt to match one another. In this case
the *.txt didn't list the "save" subcommand, and the "-h" was
similarly missing some commands.
Let's also convert the *.c code to use a macro definition, similar to
that used in preceding commits. This avoids duplication.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change those built-in commands that were attempting to exhaustively
list the options in the "-h" output to actually do so, and always
have *.txt documentation know about the exhaustive list of options.
Let's also fix the documentation and -h output for those built-in
commands where the *.txt and -h output was a mismatch of missing
options on both sides.
In the case of "interpret-trailers" fixing the missing options reveals
that the *.txt version was implicitly claiming that the command had
two operating modes, which a look at the -h version (and studying the
documentation) will show is not the case.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the "git cmd" form instead of "git-cmd" for both "git
receive-pack" and "git credential-cache--daemon".
For "git-receive-pack" we do have a binary with that name, even when
installed with SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS=YesPlease, but for the purposes
of the SYNOPSIS let's use the "git cmd" form like everywhere else. It
can be invoked like that (and our tests do so), the parts of our
documentation that explain when you need to use the dashed form do so,
and use it.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The C version was right to use "()" in place of "[]" around the option
listing, let's update the *.txt version accordingly, and furthermore
list the *.c options in the same order as the *.txt.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For "rerere" say "pathspec" consistently, and list the subcommands in
the order that they're discussed in the "COMMANDS" section of the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix various issues of SYNOPSIS and -h output syntax where:
* Options such as --force were missing entirely
* ...or the short option, such as -f
* We said "opts" or "options", but could instead enumerate
the (small) set of supported options
* Options that were missing entirely (ls-remote's --sort=<key>)
As we can specify "--sort" multiple times (it's backed by a
string-list" it should really be "[(--sort=<key>)...]", which is
what "git for-each-ref" lists it as, but let's leave that issue for
a subsequent cleanup, and stop at making these consistent. Other
"ref-filter.h" users share the same issue, e.g. "git-branch.txt".
* For "verify-tag" and "verify-commit" we were missing the "--raw"
option.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the "[--]" for those cases where the *.txt and -h were
inconsistent, or where we incorrectly stated in one but not the other
that the "--" was mandatory.
In the case of "rev-list" both sides were wrong, as we we don't
require one or more paths if "--" is used, e.g. this is OK:
git rev-list HEAD --
That part of this change is not a "doc txt & -h consistency" change,
as we're changing both versions, doing so here makes both sides
consistent.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix various inconsistencies between command SYNOPSIS and the
corresponding -h output where our translatable labels didn't match
up.
In some cases we need to adjust the prose that follows the SYNOPSIS
accordingly, as it refers back to the changed label.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's arguably more correct to say "[<option>...]" than either of these
forms, but the vast majority of our documentation uses the
"[<options>]" form to indicate an arbitrary number of options, let's
do the same in these cases, which were the odd ones out.
In the case of "mv" and "sparse-checkout" let's add the missing "[]"
to indicate that these are optional.
In the case of "t/helper/test-proc-receive.c" there is no *.txt
version, making it the only hunk in this commit that's not a "doc txt
& -h consistency" change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The whitespace padding of alternatives should be of the form "[-f |
--force]" not "[-f|--force]". Likewise we should not have padding
before the first option, so "(--all | <pack-filename>...)" is correct,
not "( --all | <pack-filename>... )".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The whitespace padding of alternatives should be of the form "[-f |
--force]" not "[-f|--force]". Likewise we should not have padding
before the first option, so "(--all | <pack-filename>...)" is correct,
not "( --all | <pack-filename>... )".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the incorrect "[-o | --option <argument>]" syntax, which should be
"[(-o | --option) <argument>]", we were previously claiming that only
the long option accepted the "<argument>", which isn't what we meant.
This syntax issue for "bugreport" originated in
238b439d69 (bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info,
2020-04-16), and for "diagnose" in 6783fd3cef (builtin/diagnose.c:
create 'git diagnose' builtin, 2022-08-12), which copied and adjusted
"bugreport" documentation and code.
In the case of "Documentation/git-stash.txt" and "builtin/stash.c"
this is not a "doc txt & -h consistency" change, as we're changing
both versions, doing so here makes a subsequent change smaller.
In that case fix the incorrect "[-o | --option <argument>]" syntax,
which should be "[(-o | --option) <argument>]", we were previously
claiming that only the long option accepted the "<argument>", which
isn't what we meant.
The "stash" issue has been with us in both the "-h" and *.txt versions
since bd514cada4 (stash: introduce 'git stash store', 2013-06-15).
We could claim that this isn't a syntax issue if a "vertical bar binds
tighter than option and its argument", but such a rule would change
e.g. this "cat-file" SYNOPSIS example to mean something we don't:
... [<rev>:<path|tree-ish> | --path=<path|tree-ish> <rev>]
We have various other examples where the post-image here is already
used, e.g. for "format-patch" ("-o"), "grep" ("-m"),
"submodule" ("set-branch -b") etc.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the documentation and -h output for those built-in commands
where both the -h output and *.txt were lacking in word-wrapping.
There are many more built-ins that could use this treatment, this
change is narrowed to those where this whitespace change is needed to
make the -h and *.txt consistent in the end.
In the case of "Documentation/git-hash-object.txt" and
"builtin/hash-object.c" this is not a "doc txt & -h consistency"
change, as we're changing both versions, doing so here makes a
subsequent change smaller.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of our commands use ''-quotation only for the name of the command
itself, and not its (optional) arguments. Let's do the same for these.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Almost all of our documentation doesn't use "'" syntax for
subcommands, but these did, let's make them consistent with the
rest.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Edit the section which explains how to create a good SYNOPSIS section
for clarity and accuracy, it was mostly introduced in
c455bd8950 (CodingGuidelines: Add a section on writing documentation,
2010-11-04):
* Change "extra" example to "file", which now naturally follows from
previous "<file>..." example (one or more) to "[<file>...]" (zero or
more).
* Explain how we prefer spacing around "[]()" tokens and "|"
alternatives, this is not a new policy, but just codifies what's
already the pattern in the most wide use in the documentation.
Having a space around " | " for flags, but not for flag values is
inconsistent, but this style guide codifies existing
patterns. Grepping shows that we don't have any instance matching the
second "Don't" example:
git grep -E -h -o '=\([^)]+\)' -- builtin Documentation/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
New explanation for the difference between these values.
It's hard to understand what they do based only on the names.
New description of used default ports.
Signed-off-by: Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@wired4ever.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There will be two primary ways to advertise a bundle list: as a list of
packet lines in Git's protocol v2 and as a config file served from a
bundle URI. Both of these fundamentally use a list of key-value pairs.
We will use the same set of key-value pairs across these formats.
Create a new bundle_list_update() method that is currently unusued, but
will be used in the next change. It inspects each key to see if it is
understood and then applies it to the given bundle_list. Here are the
keys that we teach Git to understand:
* bundle.version: This value should be an integer. Git currently
understands only version 1 and will ignore the list if the version is
any other value. This version can be increased in the future if we
need to add new keys that Git should not ignore. We can add new
"heuristic" keys without incrementing the version.
* bundle.mode: This value should be one of "all" or "any". If this
mode is not understood, then Git will ignore the list. This mode
indicates whether Git needs all of the bundle list items to make a
complete view of the content or if any single item is sufficient.
The rest of the keys use a bundle identifier "<id>" as part of the key
name. Keys using the same "<id>" describe a single bundle list item.
* bundle.<id>.uri: This stores the URI of the bundle item. This
currently is expected to be an absolute URI, but will be relaxed to be
a relative URI in the future.
While parsing, return an error if a URI key is repeated, since we can
make that restriction with bundle lists.
Make the git_parse_int() method global so we can parse the integer
version value carefully.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Per 33665d98e6 (reftable: make assignments portable to AIX xlc
v12.01, 2022-03-28) forms like ".a.b = *c" can be replaced by using
".a = { .b = *c }" instead.
We'll probably allow these sooner than later, but since the workaround
is trivial let's note it among the C99 features we'd like to hold off
on for now.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The C99 section of the CodingGuidelines is a good overview of what we
can use, but is sorely lacking in what we can't use. Something that
comes up occasionally is the portability of %z.
Per [1] we couldn't use it for the longest time due to MSVC not
supporting it, but nowadays by requiring C99 we rely on the MSVC
version that does, but we can't use it yet because a C library that
MinGW uses doesn't support it.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/a67e0fd8-4a14-16c9-9b57-3430440ef93c@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 44ba10d671 (revision: use C99 declaration of variable in for()
loop, 2021-11-14) released with v2.35.0 we've had a variable declared
with in a for loop.
Since then we've had inadvertent follow-ups to that with at least
cb2607759e (merge-ort: store more specific conflict information,
2022-06-18) released with v2.38.0.
As November 2022 is within the window of this upcoming release,
let's update the guideline to allow this. We can have the promised
"revisit" discussion while this patch cooks, and drop it if it turns
out that it is still premature, which is not expected to happen at
this moment.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first use of variables in initializer elements appears to have
been 2b6854c863 (Cleanup variables in cat-file, 2007-04-21) released
with v1.5.2.
Some of those caused portability issues, and e.g. that "cat-file" use
was changed in 66dbfd55e3 (Rewrite dynamic structure initializations
to runtime assignment, 2010-05-14) which went out with v1.7.2.
But curiously 66dbfd55e3 missed some of them, e.g. an archive.c use
added in d5f53d6d6f (archive: complain about path specs that don't
match anything, 2009-12-12), and another one in merge-index.c (later
builtin/merge-index.c) in 0077138cd9 (Simplify some instances of
run_command() by using run_command_v_opt()., 2009-06-08).
As far as I can tell there's been no point since 2b6854c863 in 2007
where a compiler that didn't support this has been able to compile
git. Presumably 66dbfd55e3 was an attempt to make headway with wider
portability that ultimately wasn't completed.
In any case, we are thoroughly reliant on this syntax at this point,
so let's update the guidelines, see
https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy1tunjgp.fsf@gitster.g/ for the
initial discussion.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 7bc341e21b (git-compat-util: add a test balloon for C99
support, 2021-12-01) we've had a hard dependency on C99, but the prose
in CodingGuidelines was written under the assumption that we were
using C89 with a few C99 features.
As the updated prose notes we'd still like to hold off on novel C99
features, but let's make it clear that we target that C version, and
then enumerate new C99 features that are safe to use.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable
cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected.
* tb/midx-repack-ignore-cruft-packs:
midx.c: avoid cruft packs with non-zero `repack --batch-size`
midx.c: remove unnecessary loop condition
midx.c: replace `xcalloc()` with `CALLOC_ARRAY()`
midx.c: avoid cruft packs with `repack --batch-size=0`
midx.c: prevent `expire` from removing the cruft pack
Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt: clarify expire behavior
Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt: fix typo
Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have
been clarified.
* jc/environ-docs:
environ: GIT_INDEX_VERSION affects not just a new repository
environ: simplify description of GIT_INDEX_FILE
environ: GIT_FLUSH should be made a usual Boolean
environ: explain Boolean environment variables
environ: document GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY
"scalar unregister" in a repository that is already been
unregistered reported an error.
* ds/scalar-unregister-idempotent:
string-list: document iterator behavior on NULL input
gc: replace config subprocesses with API calls
scalar: make 'unregister' idempotent
maintenance: add 'unregister --force'
Suppose you are managing many maintenance tracks in your project,
and some of the more recent ones are maint-2.36 and maint-2.37.
Further imagine that your project recently tagged the official 2.38
release, which means you would need to start maint-2.38 track soon,
by doing:
$ git checkout -b maint-2.38 v2.38.0^0
$ git branch --list 'maint-2.3[6-9]'
* maint-2.38
maint-2.36
maint-2.37
So far, so good. But it also is reasonable to want not to have to
worry about which maintenance track is the latest, by pointing a
more generic-sounding 'maint' branch at it, by doing:
$ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/maint refs/heads/maint-2.38
which would allow you to say "whichever it is, check out the latest
maintenance track", by doing:
$ git checkout maint
$ git branch --show-current
maint-2.38
It is arguably better to say that we are on 'maint-2.38' rather than
on 'maint', and "git merge/pull" would record "into maint-2.38" and
not "into maint", so I think what we have is a good behaviour.
One thing that is slightly irritating, however, is that I do not
think there is a good way (other than "cat .git/HEAD") to learn that
you checked out 'maint' to get into that state. Just like the output
of "git branch --show-current" shows above, "git symbolic-ref HEAD"
would report 'refs/heads/maint-2.38', bypassing the intermediate
symbolic ref at 'refs/heads/maint' that is pointed at by HEAD.
The internal resolve_ref() API already has the necessary support for
stopping after resolving a single level of a symbolic-ref, and we
can expose it by adding a "--[no-]recurse" option to the command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The version numbers do not mean much, but we may want to call the
first one in 2023 version 3.1 or something, but let's just increment
the second digit from the previous one for this cycle.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare for GNU [ef]grep that throw warning of their uses.
* dd/retire-efgrep:
t: convert fgrep usage to "grep -F"
t: convert egrep usage to "grep -E"
t: remove \{m,n\} from BRE grep usage
CodingGuidelines: allow grep -E
Update the description of the summary section to clarify that the
"do not capitalize" rule applies only the word after the "<area>:"
prefix of the title and nowhere else. This hopefully will prevent
folks from writing their proposed log message in all lowercase.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Add documentation for 'fsmonitor.allowRemote' and 'fsmonitor.socketDir'.
Call-out experimental nature of 'fsmonitor.allowRemote' and limited
filesystem support for 'fsmonitor.socketDir'.
Signed-off-by: Eric DeCosta <edecosta@mathworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
revision.c::handle_revision_arg_1() resolves <rev>^! by first adding the
negated parents and then <rev> itself. builtin_diff_combined() expects
the first tree to be the merge and the remaining ones to be the parents,
though. This mismatch results in bogus diff output.
Remember the first tree that doesn't belong to a parent and use it
instead of blindly picking the first one. This makes "git diff <rev>^!"
consistent with "git show <rev>^!".
Reported-by: Tim Jaacks <tim.jaacks@garz-fricke.com>
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitrevisions(7) says that <rev>^! resolves to <rev> and then all the
parents of <rev>. revision.c::handle_revision_arg_1() actually adds
all parents first, then <rev>. Change the documentation to leave the
order unspecified, to avoid misleading readers.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier patch discussed and fixed a scenario where Git could be used
as a vector to exfiltrate sensitive data through a Docker container when
a potential victim clones a suspicious repository with local submodules
that contain symlinks.
That security hole has since been plugged, but a similar one still
exists. Instead of convincing a would-be victim to clone an embedded
submodule via the "file" protocol, an attacker could convince an
individual to clone a repository that has a submodule pointing to a
valid path on the victim's filesystem.
For example, if an individual (with username "foo") has their home
directory ("/home/foo") stored as a Git repository, then an attacker
could exfiltrate data by convincing a victim to clone a malicious
repository containing a submodule pointing at "/home/foo/.git" with
`--recurse-submodules`. Doing so would expose any sensitive contents in
stored in "/home/foo" tracked in Git.
For systems (such as Docker) that consider everything outside of the
immediate top-level working directory containing a Dockerfile as
inaccessible to the container (with the exception of volume mounts, and
so on), this is a violation of trust by exposing unexpected contents in
the working copy.
To mitigate the likelihood of this kind of attack, adjust the "file://"
protocol's default policy to be "user" to prevent commands that execute
without user input (including recursive submodule initialization) from
taking place by default.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The 'git maintenance unregister' subcommand has a step that removes the
current repository from the multi-valued maitenance.repo config key.
This fails if the repository is not listed in that key. This makes
running 'git maintenance unregister' twice result in a failure in the
second instance.
This failure exit code is helpful, but its message is not. Add a new
die() message that explicitly calls out the failure due to the
repository not being registered.
In some cases, users may want to run 'git maintenance unregister' just
to make sure that background jobs will not start on this repository, but
they do not want to check to see if it is registered first. Add a new
'--force' option that will siltently succeed if the repository is not
already registered.
Also add an extra test of 'git maintenance unregister' at a point where
there are no registered repositories. This should fail without --force.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We attribute each documentation text file to a man section by finding a
line in the file that looks like "gitfoo(<digit>)". Commit cc75e556a9
("scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list", 2022-09-02) updated this
logic to look not only for "gitfoo" but also "scalarfoo". In doing so,
it forgot to account for the fact that after the updated regex has found
a match, the man section is no longer to be found in `$1` but now lives
in `$2`.
This makes our git(1) manpage look as follows:
Main porcelain commands
git-add(git)
Add file contents to the index.
[...]
gitk(git)
The Git repository browser.
scalar(scalar)
A tool for managing large Git repositories.
Restore the man sections by not capturing the (git|scalar) part of the
match into `$1`.
As noted by Ævar [1], we could even match any "foo" rather than just
"gitfoo" and "scalarfoo", but that's a larger change. For now, just fix
the regression in cc75e556a9.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/220923.86wn9u4joo.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/#t
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Despite forbidden by CodingGuidelines, our usage of 'grep -E' has been
increased over the years, and noone has come and complained.
Let's lift the restriction.
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Used GNU "aspell check <filename>" to review various 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>
The `expire` sub-command unlinks any packs that are (a) contained in the
MIDX, but (b) have no objects referenced by the MIDX.
This sub-command ignores `.keep` packs, which remain on-disk even if
they have no objects referenced by the MIDX. Cruft packs, however,
aren't given the same treatment: if none of the objects contained in the
cruft pack are selected from the cruft pack by the MIDX, then the cruft
pack is eligible to be expired.
This is less than desireable, since the cruft pack has important
metadata about the individual object mtimes, which is useful to
determine how quickly an object should age out of the repository when
pruning.
Ordinarily, we wouldn't expect the contents of a cruft pack to
duplicated across non-cruft packs (and we'd expect to see the MIDX
select all cruft objects from other sources even less often). But
nonetheless, it is still possible to trick the `expire` sub-command into
removing the `.mtimes` file in this circumstance.
Teach the `expire` sub-command to ignore cruft packs in the same manner
as it does `.keep` packs, in order to keep their metadata around, even
when they are unreferenced by the MIDX.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `expire` sub-command of `git multi-pack-index` will never expire
`.keep` packs, regardless of whether or not any of their objects were
selected in the MIDX.
This has always been the case since 19575c7c8e (multi-pack-index:
implement 'expire' subcommand, 2019-06-10), which came after cff9711616
(multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand, 2019-06-10), when
this documentation was originally written.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the extra space character between "tracked" and "by", which dates
back to when this paragraph was originally written in cff9711616
(multi-pack-index: prepare for 'expire' subcommand, 2019-06-10).
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a reviewing guidelines document including advice and common terminology
used in Git mailing list reviews. The document is included in the
'TECH_DOCS' list in order to include it in Git's published documentation.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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
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>
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>
This uses atoi() and checks if the result is not zero to decide what
to do. Turning it into the usual Boolean environment variable to
use git_env_bool() would not break those who have been using "set to
0, or set to non-zero, that can be parsed with atoi()" values, but
will match the expectation of those who expected "true" to mean
"yes".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many environment variables use the git_env_bool() API to parse their
values, and allow the usual "true/yes/on are true, false/no/off are
false. In addition non-zero numbers are true and zero is false. An
empty string is also false." set of values.
Mark them as such, and consistently say "true" or "false", instead
of random mixes of '1', '0', 'yes', 'true', etc. in their
description.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though the name of the environment variable is mentioned in
"git config --help" from http.sslVerify, there is no description for
it. Add one.
Note that this is not a usual Boolean environment variable whose
value can be yes/true/on vs no/false/off; the existence of it is
enough to trigger the feature named by the variable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git
<subcmd>" in "git help <subcmd>" with the text from "git help config".
* ab/dedup-config-and-command-docs:
docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that fuzzy map to built-ins
docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that map to a built-in
log docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
notes docs: de-duplicate and combine configuration sections
apply docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
send-email docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
grep docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
docs: add and use include template for config/* includes
As the 'master' front will soon tag a preview and then release
candidates for 2.38, it is unknown if we are going to issue another
maintenance release on the 2.37.x track, but as we have accumulated
enough material there, let's prepare a draft for it.
Even if we end up not tagging 2.37.4, it would help motivated distro
packagers to maintain their slightly older and "more stable" versions.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
"git format-patch --from=<ident>" can be told to add an in-body
"From:" line even for commits that are authored by the given
<ident> with "--force-in-body-from"option.
* jc/format-patch-force-in-body-from:
format-patch: learn format.forceInBodyFrom configuration variable
format-patch: allow forcing the use of in-body From: header
pretty: separate out the logic to decide the use of in-body from
Add a CONFIGURATION section to the documentation of various built-ins,
for those cases where the relevant config/NAME.txt doesn't map only to
one git-NAME.txt. In particular:
* config/blame.txt: used by git-{blame,annotate}.txt. Since the
git-annotate(1) documentation refers to git-blame(1) don't add a
"CONFIGURATION" section to git-annotate(1), only to git-blame(1).
* config/checkout.txt: maps to both git-checkout.txt and
git-switch.txt (but nothing else).
* config/init.txt: should be included in git-init(1) and
git-clone(1).
* config/column.txt: We should ideally mention the relevant subset of
this in git-{branch,clean,status,tag}.txt, but let's punt on it for
now. We will when we eventually split these sort of files into
e.g. config/column.txt and
config/column/{branch,clean,status,tag}.txt, with the former
including the latter set.
Things that are being left out, and why:
* config/{remote,remotes,credential}.txt: Configuration that affects
how we talk to remote repositories is harder to untangle. We'll need
to include some of this in git-{fetch,remote,push,ls-remote}.txt
etc., but some of those only use a small subset of these
options. Let's leave this for now.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a CONFIGURATION section to the documentation of various built-ins,
for those cases where the relevant config/NAME.txt describes
configuration that is only used by the relevant built-in documented in
git-NAME.txt. Subsequent commits will handle more complex cases.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Include the "config/difftool.txt" file in "git-difftool.txt", and move
the relevant part of git-difftool(1) configuration from
"config/diff.txt" to config/difftool.txt".
Doing this is slightly odd, as we usually discuss configuration in
alphabetical order, but by doing it we're able to include the full set
of configuration used by git-difftool(1) (and only that configuration)
in its own documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Combine the various "notes" configuration sections spread across
Documentation/config/notes.txt and Documentation/git-notes.txt to live
in the former, and to be included in the latter.
We'll now forward link from "git notes" to the "CONFIGURATION" section
below, rather than to "git-config(1)" when discussing configuration
variables that are (also) discussed in that section.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The wording is not identical to Documentation/config/apply.txt, but
that version is better.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
De-duplicate the discussion of "send-email" configuration, such that
the "git-config(1)" manual page becomes the source of truth, and
"git-send-email(1)" includes the relevant part.
Most commands that suffered from such duplication had diverging text
discussing the same variables, but in this case some config was also
only discussed in one or the other.
This is mostly a move-only change, the exception is a minor rewording
of changing wording like "see above" to "see linkgit:git-config[1]",
as well as a clarification about the big section of command-line
option tweaking config being discussed in git-send-email(1)'s main
docs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Include the "config/grep.txt" file in "git-grep.txt", instead of
repeating an almost identical description of the "grep" configuration
variables in two places.
There is no loss of information here that isn't shown in the addition
to "grep.txt". This change was made by copying the contents of
"git-grep.txt"'s version over the "grep.txt" version. Aside from the
change "grep.txt" being made here the two were identical.
This documentation started being copy/pasted around in
b22520a37c (grep: allow -E and -n to be turned on by default via
configuration, 2011-03-30). After that in e.g. 6453f7b348 (grep: add
grep.fullName config variable, 2014-03-17) they started drifting
apart, with only grep.fullName being described in the command
documentation.
In 434e6e753f (config.txt: move grep.* to a separate file,
2018-10-27) we gained the include, but didn't do this next step, let's
do it now.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In b6a8d09f6d (gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in
"gc", 2019-04-07) the "git gc" documentation was made to include the
config/gc.txt in its "CONFIGURATION" section. We do that in several
other places, but "git gc" was the only one with a blurb above the
include to orient the reader.
We don't want readers to carefully scrutinize "git-config(1)" and
"git-gc(1)" looking for discrepancies, instead we should tell them
that the latter includes a part of the former.
This change formalizes that wording in two new templates to be
included, one for the "git gc" case where the entire section is
included from "git-config(1)", and another for when the inclusion of
"git-config(1)" follows discussion unique to that documentation. In
order to use that re-arrange the order of those being discussed in the
"git-merge(1)" documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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
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>
Add 'scalar' as a 'mainporcelain' command in the Git command list. Update
the regex in 'cmd-list.perl' used to match the first line of command
documentation to find 'scalar(1)'.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move 'scalar' out of 'contrib/' and into the root of the Git tree. The goal
of this change is to build 'scalar' as part of the standard Git build &
install processes.
This patch includes both the physical move of Scalar's files out of
'contrib/' ('scalar.c', 'scalar.txt', and 't9xxx-scalar.sh'), and the
changes to the build definitions in 'Makefile' and 'CMakelists.txt' to
accommodate the new program.
At a high level, Scalar is built so that:
- there is a 'scalar-objs' target (similar to those created in 029bac01a8
(Makefile: add {program,xdiff,test,git,fuzz}-objs & objects targets,
2021-02-23)) for debugging purposes.
- it appears in the root of the install directory (rather than the
gitexecdir).
- it is included in the 'bin-wrappers/' directory for use in tests.
- it receives a platform-specific executable suffix (e.g., '.exe'), if
applicable.
- 'scalar.txt' is installed as 'man1' documentation.
- the 'clean' target removes the 'scalar' executable.
Additionally, update the root level '.gitignore' file to ignore the Scalar
executable.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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'
...
Commit e4319562bc (trailer: be stricter in parsing separators, 2016-11-02)
restricted whitespaces allowed by `git interpret-trailers` in the "token"
part of the trailers it reads. This commit didn't update the related
documentation in Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt though.
Also commit 60ef86a162 (trailer: support values folded to multiple lines,
2016-10-21) updated the documentation, but didn't make it clear how many
whitespace characters are allowed at the beginning of new lines in folded
values.
Let's fix both of these issues by rewriting the paragraph describing
what whitespaces are allowed by `git interpret-trailers` in the trailers
it reads.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"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
"git rev-list --ancestry-path=C A..B" is a natural extension of
"git rev-list A..B"; instead of choosing a subset of A..B to those
that have ancestry relationship with A, it lets a subset with
ancestry relationship with C.
* en/ancestry-path-in-a-range:
revision: allow --ancestry-path to take an argument
t6019: modernize tests with helper
rev-list-options.txt: fix simple typo
The namespaces used by "log --decorate" from "refs/" hierarchy by
default has been tightened.
* ds/decorate-filter-tweak:
fetch: use ref_namespaces during prefetch
maintenance: stop writing log.excludeDecoration
log: create log.initialDecorationSet=all
log: add --clear-decorations option
log: add default decoration filter
log-tree: use ref_namespaces instead of if/else-if
refs: use ref_namespaces for replace refs base
refs: add array of ref namespaces
t4207: test coloring of grafted decorations
t4207: modernize test
refs: allow "HEAD" as decoration filter
As the need to use the "--force-in-body-from" option primarily is
tied to which mailing list the mails go to (and get their From:
address mangled), it is likely that a user who needs to use this
option once to interact with their upstream project needs to use it
for all patches they send out.
Add a configuration variable, suitable for setting in the local
configuration file per repository, for this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users may be authoring and committing their commits under the same
e-mail address they use to send their patches from, in which case
they shouldn't need to use the in-body From: line in their outgoing
e-mails. At the receiving end, "git am" will use the address on the
"From:" header of the incoming e-mail and all should be well.
Some mailing lists, however, mangle the From: address from what the
original sender had; in such a situation, the user may want to add
the in-body "From:" header even for their own patches.
"git format-patch --[no-]force-in-body-from" was invented for such
users.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation for "git add --renormalize" has been improved.
source: <20220810144450.470-2-philipoakley@iee.email>
* po/doc-add-renormalize:
doc add: renormalize is not idempotent for CRCRLF
Teach Git to provide a way for users to enable/disable bitmap lookup
table extension by providing a config option named 'writeBitmapLookupTable'.
Default is false.
Also add test to verify writting of lookup table.
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>
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>
The `git range-diff` command can be quite expensive, which is not a
surprise given that the underlying algorithm to match up pairs of
commits between the provided two commit ranges has a cubic runtime.
Therefore it makes sense to restrict the commit ranges as much as
possible, to reduce the amount of input to that O(N^3) algorithm.
In chatty repositories with wide trees, this is not necessarily
possible merely by choosing commit ranges wisely.
Let's give users another option to restrict the commit ranges: by
providing a pathspec. That helps in repositories with wide trees because
it is likely that the user has a good idea which subset of the tree they
are actually interested in.
Example:
git range-diff upstream/main upstream/seen HEAD -- range-diff.c
This shows commits that are either in the local branch or in `seen`, but
not in `main`, skipping all commits that do not touch `range-diff.c`.
Note: Since we piggy-back the pathspecs onto the `other_arg` mechanism
that was introduced to be able to pass through the `--notes` option to
the revision machinery, we must now ensure that the `other_arg` array is
appended at the end (the revision range must come before the pathspecs,
if any).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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
* ds/bundle-uri-clone:
clone: warn on failure to repo_init()
clone: --bundle-uri cannot be combined with --depth
bundle-uri: add support for http(s):// and file://
clone: add --bundle-uri option
bundle-uri: create basic file-copy logic
remote-curl: add 'get' capability
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>
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>
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>
We have long allowed users to run e.g.
git log --ancestry-path master..seen
which shows all commits which satisfy all three of these criteria:
* are an ancestor of seen
* are not an ancestor of master
* have master as an ancestor
This commit allows another variant:
git log --ancestry-path=$TOPIC master..seen
which shows all commits which satisfy all of these criteria:
* are an ancestor of seen
* are not an ancestor of master
* have $TOPIC in their ancestry-path
that last bullet can be defined as commits meeting any of these
criteria:
* are an ancestor of $TOPIC
* have $TOPIC as an ancestor
* are $TOPIC
This also allows multiple --ancestry-path arguments, which can be
used to find commits with any of the given topics in their ancestry
path.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
"git rev-list --disk-usage" learned to take an optional value
"human" to show the reported value in human-readable format, like
"3.40MiB".
* ll/disk-usage-humanise:
rev-list: support human-readable output for `--disk-usage`
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"
Update the Scalar roadmap to reflect the completion of generalizing 'scalar
diagnose' into 'git diagnose' and 'git bugreport --diagnose'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a '--diagnose' option for 'git bugreport' to collect additional
information about the repository and write it to a zipped archive.
The '--diagnose' option behaves effectively as an alias for simultaneously
running 'git bugreport' and 'git diagnose'. In the documentation, users are
explicitly recommended to attach the diagnostics alongside a bug report to
provide additional context to readers, ideally reducing some back-and-forth
between reporters and those debugging the issue.
Note that '--diagnose' may take an optional string arg (either 'stats' or
'all'). If specified without the arg, the behavior corresponds to running
'git diagnose' without '--mode'. As with 'git diagnose', this default is
intended to help reduce unintentional leaking of sensitive information).
Users can also explicitly specify '--diagnose=(stats|all)' to generate the
respective archive created by 'git diagnose --mode=(stats|all)'.
Suggested-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create '--mode=<mode>' option in 'git diagnose' to allow users to optionally
select non-default diagnostic information to include in the output archive.
Additionally, document the currently-available modes, emphasizing the
importance of not sharing a '--mode=all' archive publicly due to the
presence of sensitive information.
Note that the option parsing callback - 'option_parse_diagnose()' - is added
to 'diagnose.c' rather than 'builtin/diagnose.c' so that it may be reused in
future callers configuring a diagnostics archive.
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a 'git diagnose' builtin to generate a standalone zip archive of
repository diagnostics.
The "diagnose" functionality was originally implemented for Scalar in
aa5c79a331 (scalar: implement `scalar diagnose`, 2022-05-28). However, the
diagnostics gathered are not specific to Scalar-cloned repositories and
can be useful when diagnosing issues in any Git repository.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we specify GIT_TRACE2_CONFIG_PARAMS or trace2.configparams,
trace2 will prints "interesting" config values to log. Sometimes,
when a config set in multiple scope files, the following output
looks like (the irrelevant fields are omitted here as "..."):
...| def_param | ... | core.multipackindex:false
...| def_param | ... | core.multipackindex:false
...| def_param | ... | core.multipackindex:false
As the log shows, even each config in different scope is dumped, but
we don't know which scope it comes from. Therefore, it's better to
add the scope names as well to make them be more recognizable. For
example, when execute:
$ GIT_TRACE2_PERF=1 \
> GIT_TRACE2_CONFIG_PARAMS=core.multipackIndex \
> git rev-list --test-bitmap HEAD"
The following is the ouput (the irrelevant fields are omitted here
as "..."):
Format normal:
... git.c:461 ... def_param scope:system core.multipackindex=false
... git.c:461 ... def_param scope:global core.multipackindex=false
... git.c:461 ... def_param scope:local core.multipackindex=false
Format perf:
... | def_param | ... | scope:system | core.multipackindex:false
... | def_param | ... | scope:global | core.multipackindex:false
... | def_param | ... | scope:local | core.multipackindex:false
Format event:
{"event":"def_param", ... ,"scope":"system","param":"core.multipackindex","value":"false"}
{"event":"def_param", ... ,"scope":"global","param":"core.multipackindex","value":"false"}
{"event":"def_param", ... ,"scope":"local","param":"core.multipackindex","value":"false"}
Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's supported to print "interesting" config key-value paire
to tr2 log by setting "GIT_TRACE2_CONFIG_PARAMS" environment
variable and the "trace2.configparam" config, let's add the
related docs in Documentaion/technical/api-trace2.txt.
Signed-off-by: Teng Long <dyroneteng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The '--disk-usage' option for git-rev-list was introduced in 16950f8384
(rev-list: add --disk-usage option for calculating disk usage, 2021-02-09).
This is very useful for people inspect their git repo's objects usage
infomation, but the resulting number is quit hard for a human to read.
Teach git rev-list to output a human readable result when using
'--disk-usage'.
Signed-off-by: Li Linchao <lilinchao@oschina.cn>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A previous change added the '--bundle-uri' option, but did not check
if the --depth parameter was included. Since bundles are not compatible
with shallow clones, provide an error message to the user who is
attempting this combination.
I am leaving this as its own change, separate from the one that
implements '--bundle-uri', because this is more of an advisory for the
user. There is nothing wrong with bootstrapping with bundles and then
fetching a shallow clone. However, that is likely going to involve too
much work for the client _and_ the server. The client will download all
of this bundle information containing the full history of the
repository only to ignore most of it. The server will get a shallow
fetch request, but with a list of haves that might cause a more painful
computation of that shallow pack-file.
Reviewed-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cloning a remote repository is one of the most expensive operations in
Git. The server can spend a lot of CPU time generating a pack-file for
the client's request. The amount of data can clog the network for a long
time, and the Git protocol is not resumable. For users with poor network
connections or are located far away from the origin server, this can be
especially painful.
Add a new '--bundle-uri' option to 'git clone' to bootstrap a clone from
a bundle. If the user is aware of a bundle server, then they can tell
Git to bootstrap the new repository with these bundles before fetching
the remaining objects from the origin server.
Reviewed-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A future change will want a way to download a file over HTTP(S) using
the simplest of download mechanisms. We do not want to assume that the
server on the other side understands anything about the Git protocol but
could be a simple static web server.
Create the new 'get' capability for the remote helpers which advertises
that the 'get' command is avalable. A caller can send a line containing
'get <url> <path>' to download the file at <url> into the file at
<path>.
Reviewed-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous change introduced the bundle URI design document. It
creates a flexible set of options that allow bundle providers many ways
to organize Git object data and speed up clones and fetches. It is
particularly important that we have flexibility so we can apply future
advancements as new ideas for efficiently organizing Git data are
discovered.
However, the design document does not provide even an example of how
bundles could be organized, and that makes it difficult to envision how
the feature should work at the end of the implementation plan.
Add a section that details how a bundle provider could work, including
using the Git server advertisement for multiple geo-distributed servers.
This organization is based on the GVFS Cache Servers which have
successfully used similar ideas to provide fast object access and
reduced server load for very large repositories.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce the idea of bundle URIs to the Git codebase through an
aspirational design document. This document includes the full design
intended to include the feature in its fully-implemented form. This will
take several steps as detailed in the Implementation Plan section.
By committing this document now, it can be used to motivate changes
necessary to reach these final goals. The design can still be altered as
new information is discovered.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Bug report
https://lore.kernel.org/git/AM0PR02MB56357CC96B702244F3271014E8DC9@AM0PR02MB5635.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com/
noted that a file containing /r/r/n needed renormalising twice.
This is by design. Lone CR characters, not paired with an LF, are left
unchanged. Note this limitation of the "clean" filter in the documentation.
Renormalize was introduced at 9472935d81 (add: introduce "--renormalize",
Torsten Bögershausen, 2017-11-16)
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Operating modes like "--batch" of "git cat-file" command learned to
take NUL-terminated input, instead of one-item-per-line.
* tb/cat-file-z:
builtin/cat-file.c: support NUL-delimited input with `-z`
t1006: extract --batch-command inputs to variables
Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in
"git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command
line completion to include them in its offerings.
source: <pull.1285.v2.git.1658002423864.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
* mb/config-document-include:
config.txt: document include, includeIf
The previous change introduced the --clear-decorations option for users
who do not want their decorations limited to a narrow set of ref
namespaces.
Add a config option that is equivalent to specifying --clear-decorations
by default.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous changes introduced a new default ref filter for decorations
in the 'git log' command. This can be overridden using
--decorate-refs=HEAD and --decorate-refs=refs/, but that is cumbersome
for users.
Instead, add a --clear-decorations option that resets all previous
filters to a blank filter that accepts all refs.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a user runs 'git log', they expect a certain set of helpful
decorations. This includes:
* The HEAD ref
* Branches (refs/heads/)
* Stashes (refs/stash)
* Tags (refs/tags/)
* Remote branches (refs/remotes/)
* Replace refs (refs/replace/ or $GIT_REPLACE_REF_BASE)
Each of these namespaces was selected due to existing test cases that
verify these namespaces appear in the decorations. In particular,
stashes and replace refs can have custom colors from the
color.decorate.<slot> config option.
While one test checks for a decoration from notes, it only applies to
the tip of refs/notes/commit (or its configured ref name). Notes form
their own kind of decoration instead. Modify the expected output for the
tests in t4013 that expect this note decoration. There are several
tests throughout the codebase that verify that --decorate-refs,
--decorate-refs-exclude, and log.excludeDecoration work as designed and
the tests continue to pass without intervention.
However, there are other refs that are less helpful to show as
decoration:
* Prefetch refs (refs/prefetch/)
* Rebase refs (refs/rebase-merge/ and refs/rebase-apply/)
* Bundle refs (refs/bundle/) [!]
[!] The bundle refs are part of a parallel series that bootstraps a repo
from a bundle file, storing the bundle's refs into the repo's
refs/bundle/ namespace.
In the case of prefetch refs, 96eaffebbf (maintenance: set
log.excludeDecoration durin prefetch, 2021-01-19) added logic to add
refs/prefetch/ to the log.excludeDecoration config option. Additional
feedback pointed out that having such a side-effect can be confusing and
perhaps not helpful to users. Instead, we should hide these ref
namespaces that are being used by Git for internal reasons but are not
helpful for the users to see.
The way to provide a seamless user experience without setting the config
is to modify the default decoration filters to match our expectation of
what refs the user actually wants to see.
In builtin/log.c, after parsing the --decorate-refs and
--decorate-refs-exclude options from the command-line, call
set_default_decoration_filter(). This method populates the exclusions
from log.excludeDecoration, then checks if the list of pattern
modifications are empty. If none are specified, then the default set is
restricted to the set of inclusions mentioned earlier (HEAD, branches,
etc.). A previous change introduced the ref_namespaces array, which
includes all of these currently-used namespaces. The 'decoration' value
is non-zero when that namespace is associated with a special coloring
and fits into the list of "expected" decorations as described above,
which makes the implementation of this filter very simple.
Note that the logic in ref_filter_match() in log-tree.c follows this
matching pattern:
1. If there are exclusion patterns and the ref matches one, then ignore
the decoration.
2. If there are inclusion patterns and the ref matches one, then
definitely include the decoration.
3. If there are config-based exclusions from log.excludeDecoration and
the ref matches one, then ignore the decoration.
With this logic in mind, we need to ensure that we do not populate our
new defaults if any of these filters are manually set. Specifically, if
a user runs
git -c log.excludeDecoration=HEAD log
then we expect the HEAD decoration to not appear. If we left the default
inclusions in the set, then HEAD would match that inclusion before
reaching the config-based exclusions.
A potential alternative would be to check the list of default inclusions
at the end, after the config-based exclusions. This would still create a
behavior change for some uses of --decorate-refs-exclude=<X>, and could
be overwritten somewhat with --decorate-refs=refs/ and
--decorate-refs=HEAD. However, it no longer becomes possible to include
refs outside of the defaults while also excluding some using
log.excludeDecoration.
Another alternative would be to exclude the known namespaces that are
not intended to be shown. This would reduce the visible effect of the
change for expert users who use their own custom ref namespaces. The
implementation change would be very simple to swap due to our use of
ref_namespaces:
int i;
struct string_list *exclude = decoration_filter->exclude_ref_pattern;
/*
* No command-line or config options were given, so
* populate with sensible defaults.
*/
for (i = 0; i < NAMESPACE__COUNT; i++) {
if (ref_namespaces[i].decoration)
continue;
string_list_append(exclude, ref_namespaces[i].ref);
}
The main downside of this approach is that we expect to add new hidden
namespaces in the future, and that means that Git versions will be less
stable in how they behave as those namespaces are added.
It is critical that we provide ways for expert users to disable this
behavior change via command-line options and config keys. These changes
will be implemented in a future change.
Add a test that checks that the defaults are not added when
--decorate-refs is specified. We verify this by showing that HEAD is not
included as it normally would. Also add a test that shows that the
default filter avoids the unwanted decorations from refs/prefetch,
refs/rebase-merge,
and refs/bundle.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the http-protocol.txt documentation over. I'm renaming it to
"protocol-http" to be consistent with other things in the new
gitformat-protocol-* namespace.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Integrate the cruft packs documentation initially added in
3d89a8c118 (Documentation/technical: add cruft-packs.txt, 2022-05-20)
to the newly created "gitformat-pack" documentation.
Like the "bitmap-format" added before it in
0d4455a3ab (documentation: add documentation for the bitmap format,
2013-11-14) the "cruft-packs" were documented in their own file.
As the diff move detection will show there is no change to
"Documentation/technical/cruft-packs.txt" here except to move it, and
to "indent" the existing sections by adding an extra "=" to them.
We could similarly convert the "bitmap-format.txt", but let's leave it
for now due to a conflict with the in-flight ac/bitmap-lookup-table
series.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the various documentation pertaining to the *.pack format and related
files, and updating things that refer to it to link to the new
location.
By moving these we can properly link from the newly created
gitformat-commit-graph to a gitformat-chunk-format page.
Integrating "Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt" and
"Documentation/technical/cruft-packs.txt" might logically be part of
this change, but as those cover parts of the wider "pack
format" (including associated files) that's documented outside of
"Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt" let's leave those for now,
subsequent commit(s) will address those.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the signature format documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the index format documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space. By moving
the things that discuss the protocol we can properly link from
e.g. lsrefs.unborn and protocol.version documentation to a manpage we
build by default.
So far we have been using the "gitformat-" prefix for the
documentation we've been moving over from Documentation/technical/*,
but for protocol documentation let's use "gitprotocol-*".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space.
By moving the documentation for the commit-graph format into man
section 5 and the new "developerinterfaces" category. This change is
split from subsequent commits due to the relatively large amount of
ASCIIDOC formatting changes that are required.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
