It was not clear from the "description" section of git-branch(1)
that using a <pattern> meant that you _had_ to use the --list
option. Let's clarify that, and while we're at it, reword some
clunky and ambiguous sentences.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These are kept short by simply deferring to PEP-8. Most of the Python
code in Git is already very close to this style (some things in contrib/
are not).
Rationale for version suggestions:
- Amongst the noise in [1], there isn't any disagreement about using
2.6 as a base (see also [2]), although Brandon Casey recently added
support for 2.4 and 2.5 to git-p4 [3].
- Restricting ourselves to 2.6+ makes aiming for Python 3 compatibility
significantly easier [4].
- Advocating Python 3 support in all scripts is currently unrealistic
because:
- 'p4 -G' provides output in a format that is very hard to use with
Python 3 (and its documentation claims Python 3 is unsupported).
- Mercurial does not support Python 3.
- Bazaar does not support Python 3.
- But we should try to make new scripts compatible with Python 3
because all new Python development is happening on version 3 and the
Python community will eventually stop supporting Python 2 [5].
- Python 3.1 is required to support the 'surrogateescape' error handler
for encoding/decodng filenames to/from Unicode strings and Python 3.0
is not longer supported.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/210329
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/210429
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/214579
[4] http://docs.python.org/3.3/howto/pyporting.html#try-to-support-python-2-6-and-newer-only
[5] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404/
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some reimplementations of Git does not write all the stat info back
to the index due to their implementation limitations (e.g. jgit
running on Java). A configuration option can tell Git to ignore
changes to most of the stat fields and only pay attention to mtime
and size, which these implementations can reliably update. This
avoids excessive revalidation of contents.
* rr/minimal-stat:
Enable minimal stat checking
An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
* mh/ceiling:
string_list_longest_prefix(): remove function
setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks in ceiling paths
longest_ancestor_length(): require prefix list entries to be normalized
longest_ancestor_length(): take a string_list argument for prefixes
longest_ancestor_length(): use string_list_split()
Introduce new function real_path_if_valid()
real_path_internal(): add comment explaining use of cwd
Introduce new static function real_path_internal()
Most Git commands that can be used with or without pathspec operate
tree-wide by default, the pathspec being used to restrict their
scope. A few exceptions are: 'git grep', 'git clean', 'git add -u'
and 'git add -A'. When run in a subdirectory without pathspec, they
operate only on paths in the current directory.
The inconsistency of 'git add -u' and 'git add -A' is particularly
problematic since other 'git add' subcommands (namely 'git add -p'
and 'git add -e') are tree-wide by default. It also means that "git
add -u && git commit" will record a state that is different from
what is recorded with "git commit -a".
Flipping the default now is unacceptable, so let's start training
users to type 'git add -u|-A :/' or 'git add -u|-A .' explicitly, to
prepare for the next steps:
* forbid 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec (like 'git add' without
option)
* much later, maybe, re-allow 'git add -u|-A' without pathspec, that
will add all tracked and modified files, or all files, tree-wide.
A nice side effect of this patch is that it makes the :/ magic
pathspec easier to discover for users.
When the command is called from the root of the tree, there is no
ambiguity and no need to change the behavior, hence no need to warn.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe tools for automation that were invented since this
document was originally written.
* jc/doc-maintainer:
howto/maintain: document "### match next" convention in jch/pu branch
howto/maintain: mark titles for asciidoc
Documentation: update "howto maintain git"
When we push to update an existing ref, if:
* the object at the tip of the remote is not a commit; or
* the object we are pushing is not a commit,
it won't be correct to suggest to fetch, integrate and push again,
as the old and new objects will not "merge". We should explain that
the push must be forced when there is a non-committish object is
involved in such a case.
If we do not have the current object at the tip of the remote, we do
not even know that object, when fetched, is something that can be
merged. In such a case, suggesting to pull first just like
non-fast-forward case may not be technically correct, but in
practice, most such failures are seen when you try to push your work
to a branch without knowing that somebody else already pushed to
update the same branch since you forked, so "pull first" would work
as a suggestion most of the time. And if the object at the tip is
not a commit, "pull first" will fail, without making any permanent
damage. As a side effect, it also makes the error message the user
will get during the next "push" attempt easier to understand, now
the user is aware that a non-commit object is involved.
In these cases, the current code already rejects such a push on the
client end, but we used the same error and advice messages as the
ones used when rejecting a non-fast-forward push, i.e. pull from
there and integrate before pushing again.
Introduce new rejection reasons and reword the messages
appropriately.
[jc: with help by Peff on message details]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-cvsimport relies on version 2 of cvsps and does not work with the
new version 3. Since cvsps 3.x does not currently work as well as
version 2 for incremental import, document this fact.
Specifically, there is no way to make new git-cvsimport that supports
cvsps 3.x and have a seamless transition for existing users since cvsps
3.x needs a time from which to continue importing and git-cvsimport does
not save the time of the last import or import into a specific namespace
so there is no safe way to calculate the time of the last import.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an extra hook so that "git push" that is run without making
sure what is being pushed is sane can be checked and rejected (as
opposed to the user deciding not pushing).
* as/pre-push-hook:
Add sample pre-push hook script
push: Add support for pre-push hooks
hooks: Add function to check if a hook exists
Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
files.
The variable names may want to get cleaned up but that can be done
in-tree.
* as/check-ignore:
clean.c, ls-files.c: respect encapsulation of exclude_list_groups
t0008: avoid brace expansion
add git-check-ignore sub-command
setup.c: document get_pathspec()
add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes
Conflicts:
builtin/ls-files.c
dir.c
Various git-cvsserver updates.
* mo/cvs-server-updates:
t9402: Use TABs for indentation
t9402: Rename check.cvsCount and check.list
t9402: Simplify git ls-tree
t9402: Add missing &&; Code style
t9402: No space after IO-redirection
t9402: Dont use test_must_fail cvs
t9402: improve check_end_tree() and check_end_full_tree()
t9402: sed -i is not portable
cvsserver Documentation: new cvs ... -r support
cvsserver: add t9402 to test branch and tag refs
cvsserver: support -r and sticky tags for most operations
cvsserver: Add version awareness to argsfromdir
cvsserver: generalize getmeta() to recognize commit refs
cvsserver: implement req_Sticky and related utilities
cvsserver: add misc commit lookup, file meta data, and file listing functions
cvsserver: define a tag name character escape mechanism
cvsserver: cleanup extra slashes in filename arguments
cvsserver: factor out git-log parsing logic
Various 'reset' optimizations and clean-ups, followed by a change
to allow "git reset" to work even on an unborn branch.
* mz/reset-misc:
reset: update documentation to require only tree-ish with paths
reset [--mixed]: use diff-based reset whether or not pathspec was given
reset: allow reset on unborn branch
reset $sha1 $pathspec: require $sha1 only to be treeish
reset.c: inline update_index_refresh()
reset.c: finish entire cmd_reset() whether or not pathspec is given
reset [--mixed]: only write index file once
reset.c: move lock, write and commit out of update_index_refresh()
reset.c: move update_index_refresh() call out of read_from_tree()
reset.c: replace switch by if-else
reset: avoid redundant error message
reset --keep: only write index file once
reset.c: share call to die_if_unmerged_cache()
reset.c: extract function for updating {ORIG_,}HEAD
reset.c: remove unnecessary variable 'i'
reset.c: extract function for parsing arguments
reset: don't allow "git reset -- $pathspec" in bare repo
reset.c: pass pathspec around instead of (prefix, argv) pair
reset $pathspec: exit with code 0 if successful
reset $pathspec: no need to discard index
Specifically the fields uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev are set to zero
by JGit. Other implementations, eg. Git in cygwin are allegedly also
somewhat incompatible with Git For Windows and on *nix platforms
the resolution of the timestamps may differ.
Any stat checking by git will then need to check content, which may
be very slow, particularly on Windows. Since mtime and size
is typically enough we should allow the user to tell git to avoid
checking these fields if they are set to zero in the index.
This change introduces a core.checkstat config option where the
the user can select to check all fields (default), or just size
and the whole second part of mtime (minimal).
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 7dff9b3 (Support 'raw' date format) added a raw date format.
Update the git-for-each-ref documentation to include this.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a configuration variable to set default clean-up mode other
than "strip".
* rt/commit-cleanup-config:
commit: make default of "cleanup" option configurable
Teach commands in the "log" family to optionally pay attention to
the mailmap.
* ap/log-mailmap:
log --use-mailmap: optimize for cases without --author/--committer search
log: add log.mailmap configuration option
log: grep author/committer using mailmap
test: add test for --use-mailmap option
log: add --use-mailmap option
pretty: use mailmap to display username and email
mailmap: add mailmap structure to rev_info and pp
mailmap: simplify map_user() interface
mailmap: remove email copy and length limitation
Use split_ident_line to parse author and committer
string-list: allow case-insensitive string list
* git://bogomips.org/git-svn:
git-svn: teach find-rev to find near matches
git svn: do not overescape URLs (fallback case)
Git::SVN::Editor::T: pass $deletions to ->A and ->D
In the precedence order, the environment variable $EMAIL comes
between the built-in default (i.e. taking value by asking the
system's gethostname() etc.) and the user.email configuration
variable; the documentation implied that it is stronger than the
configuration like $GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL is, which is wrong.
* pe/doc-email-env-is-trumped-by-config:
git-commit-tree(1): correct description of defaults
Add support for a pre-push hook which can be used to determine if the
set of refs to be pushed is suitable for the target repository. The
hook is run with two arguments specifying the name and location of the
destination repository.
Information about what is to be pushed is provided by sending lines of
the following form to the hook's standard input:
<local ref> SP <local sha1> SP <remote ref> SP <remote sha1> LF
If the hook exits with a non-zero status, the push will be aborted.
This will allow the script to determine if the push is acceptable based
on the target repository and branch(es), the commits which are to be
pushed, and even the source branches in some cases.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a single SVN repository is split into multiple Git repositories
many SVN revisions will exist in only one of the Git repositories
created. For some projects the only way to build a working artifact is
to check out corresponding versions of various repositories, with no
indication of what those are in the Git world - in the SVN world the
revision numbers are sufficient.
By adding "--before" to "git-svn find-rev" we can say "tell me what this
repository looked like when that other repository looked like this":
git svn find-rev --before \
r$(git --git-dir=/over/there.git svn find-rev HEAD)
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
When resetting with paths, we no longer require a commit argument, but
only a tree-ish. Update the documentation and synopsis accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #,
in their commit log message. Many tracking system recognise
a token of #<bugid> form, for example.
The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end
users. They have a choice between
- Don't do it. Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and
- Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add.
Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g.
$ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit
so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds.
[jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation
updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*()
functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are
from Ralf.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since command line options have higher priority than config file
variables and taking previous commit into account, we need a way
how to specify myers algorithm on command line. However,
inventing `--myers` is not the right answer. We need far more
general option, and that is `--diff-algorithm`.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some users or projects prefer different algorithms over others, e.g.
patience over myers or similar. However, specifying appropriate
argument every time diff is to be used is impractical. Moreover,
creating an alias doesn't play nicely with other tools based on diff
(git-show for instance). Hence, a configuration variable which is able
to set specific algorithm is needed. For now, these four values are
accepted: 'myers' (which has the same effect as not setting the config
variable at all), 'minimal', 'patience' and 'histogram'.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It finds its upstream and applies the commit properly, but
the sync step will fail unless it is told which branch to
work on.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is legal to sync a branch with a different name than
refs/remotes/p4/master, and to do so even when master does
not exist.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For a clone or sync, --branch says where the newly imported
branch should go, or which existing branch to sync up. It
takes an argument, which is currently either something that
starts with "refs/", or if not, "refs/heads/p4" is prepended.
Putting it in heads seems like a bad default; these should
go in remotes/p4/ in most situations. Make that the new default,
and be more liberal in the form of the branch name.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make sure that the example on how to use git-p4.branchList
works if typed directly. In particular, it does not make sense
to set a config variable until the git repository has been
initialized.
Reported-by: Olivier Delalleau <shish@keba.be>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using the --branch argument to "git p4 clone", one
might specify a destination for p4 changes different from
the default refs/remotes/p4/master. Both cases should
create a master branch and checkout files.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
