Currently, server options for Git protocol v2 can only be specified via
the command line option "--server-option" or "-o", which is inconvenient
when users want to specify a list of default options to send. Therefore,
we are introducing a new configuration to hold a list of default server
options, akin to the `push.pushOption` configuration for push options.
Initially, I named the new configuration `fetch.serverOption` to align
with `push.pushOption`. However, after discussing with Patrick, it was
renamed to `remote.<name>.serverOption` as suggested, because:
1. Server options are designed to be server-specific, making it more
logical to use a per-remote configuration.
2. Using "fetch." prefixed configurations in git-clone or git-ls-remote
seems out of place and inconsistent in design.
The parsing logic for `remote.<name>.serverOption` also relies on
`transport.c:parse_transport_option`, similar to `push.pushOption`, and
they follow the same priority design:
1. Server options set in lower-priority configuration files (e.g.,
/etc/gitconfig or $HOME/.gitconfig) can be overridden or unset in
more specific repository configurations using an empty string.
2. Command-line specified server options take precedence over those from
the configuration.
Server options from configuration are stored to the corresponding
`remote.h:remote` as a new field `server_options`. The field will be
utilized in the subsequent commit to help initialize the
`server_options` of `transport.h:transport`.
And documentation have been updated accordingly.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reported-by: Liu Zhongbo <liuzhongbo.6666@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Background tasks "git maintenance" runs may need to use credential
information when going over the network, but a credential helper
may work only in an interactive environment, and end up blocking a
scheduled task waiting for UI. Credential helpers can now behave
differently when they are not running interactively.
* ds/background-maintenance-with-credential:
scalar: configure maintenance during 'reconfigure'
maintenance: add custom config to background jobs
credential: add new interactive config option
Give timeout to the locking code to write to reftable.
* ps/reftable-concurrent-writes:
refs/reftable: reload locked stack when preparing transaction
reftable/stack: allow locking of outdated stacks
refs/reftable: introduce "reftable.lockTimeout"
241499aba0 ("send-email: add mailmap support via sendemail.mailmap and
--mailmap", 2024-08-27) added support for --mailmap, and the associated
sendemail.mailmap.* configuration variables. Add documentation to
reflect this feature.
Fixes: 241499aba0 ("send-email: add mailmap support via sendemail.mailmap and --mailmap")
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When multiple concurrent processes try to update references in a
repository they may try to lock the same lockfiles. This can happen even
when the updates are non-conflicting and can both be applied, so it
doesn't always make sense to abort the transaction immediately. Both the
"loose" and "packed" backends thus have a grace period that they wait
for the lock to be released that can be controlled via the config values
"core.filesRefLockTimeout" and "core.packedRefsTimeout", respectively.
The reftable backend doesn't have such a setting yet and instead fails
immediately when it sees such a lock. But the exact same concepts apply
here as they do apply to the other backends.
Introduce a new "reftable.lockTimeout" config that controls how long we
may wait for a "tables.list" lock to be released. The default value of
this config is 100ms, which is the same default as we have it for the
"loose" backend.
Note that even though we also lock individual tables, this config really
only applies to the "tables.list" file. This is because individual
tables are only ever locked when we already hold the "tables.list" lock
during compaction. When we observe such a lock we in fact do not want to
compact the table at all because it is already in the process of being
compacted by a concurrent process. So applying the same timeout here
would not make any sense and only delay progress.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When scripts or background maintenance wish to perform HTTP(S) requests,
there is a risk that our stored credentials might be invalid. At the
moment, this causes the credential helper to ping the user and block the
process. Even if the credential helper does not ping the user, Git falls
back to the 'askpass' method, which includes a direct ping to the user
via the terminal.
Even setting the 'core.askPass' config as something like 'echo' will
causes Git to fallback to a terminal prompt. It uses
git_terminal_prompt(), which finds the terminal from the environment and
ignores whether stdin has been redirected. This can also block the
process awaiting input.
Create a new config option to prevent user interaction, favoring a
failure to a blocked process.
The chosen name, 'credential.interactive', is taken from the config
option used by Git Credential Manager to already avoid user
interactivity, so there is already one credential helper that integrates
with this option. However, older versions of Git Credential Manager also
accepted other string values, including 'auto', 'never', and 'always'.
The modern use is to use a boolean value, but we should still be
careful that some users could have these non-booleans. Further, we
should respect 'never' the same as 'false'. This is respected by the
implementation and test, but not mentioned in the documentation.
The implementation for the Git interactions takes place within
credential_getpass(). The method prototype is modified to return an
'int' instead of 'void'. This allows us to detect that no attempt was
made to fill the given credential, changing the single caller slightly.
Also, a new trace2 region is added around the interactive portion of the
credential request. This provides a way to measure the amount of time
spent in that region for commands that _are_ interactive. It also makes
a conventient way to test that the config option works with
'test_region'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back when 7cc91a2f (Add the configuration option skipFetchAll,
2009-11-09) added for the sole purpose of adding skipFetchAll as a
synonym to skipDefaultUpdate, there was no explanation about the
reason why it was needed., but these two configuration variables
mean exactly the same thing.
Also, when we taught the "prefetch" task to "git maintenance" later,
we did make it pay attention to the setting, but we forgot to
document it.
Document these variables as synonyms that collectively implements
the last-one-wins semantics, and also clarify that the prefetch task
is also controlled by this variable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The GIT_ADVICE environment variable was added implicitly in b79deeb554
(advice: add --no-advice global option, 2024-05-03) but was not
documented. Add documentation to show that it is an option for tools
that want to disable these messages. Make note that while the
--no-advice option exists, older Git versions will fail to parse that
option. The environment variable presents a way to change the behavior
of Git versions that understand it without disrupting older versions.
Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Maintenance tasks other than "gc" now properly go background when
"git maintenance" runs them.
* ps/maintenance-detach-fix:
run-command: fix detaching when running auto maintenance
builtin/maintenance: add a `--detach` flag
builtin/gc: add a `--detach` flag
builtin/gc: stop processing log file on signal
builtin/gc: fix leaking config values
builtin/gc: refactor to read config into structure
config: fix constness of out parameter for `git_config_get_expiry()`
Similar to the preceding commit, introduce a new "init.defaultRefFormat"
config that allows the user to globally set the ref storage format used
by newly created repositories.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The object format for repositories can either be configured explicitly
by passing the `--object-format=` option to git-init(1) or git-clone(1),
or globally by setting the `GIT_DEFAULT_HASH` environment variable.
While the former makes sense, setting random environment variables is
not really a good user experience in case someone decides to only use
SHA256 repositories.
It is only natural to expect for a user that things like this can also
be configured via their config. As such, introduce a new config
"init.defaultObjectFormat", similar to "init.defaultBranch", that allows
the user to configure the default object format when creating new repos.
The precedence order now is the following, where the first one wins:
1. The `--object-format=` switch.
2. The `GIT_DEFAULT_HASH` environment variable.
3. The `init.defaultObjectFormat` config variable.
This matches the typical precedence order we use in Git. We typically
let the environment override the config such that the latter can easily
be overridden on an ephemeral basis, for example by scripts.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the past, we used to execute `git gc --auto` as part of our automatic
housekeeping routines. As git-gc(1) may require quite some time to
perform the housekeeping, it knows to detach itself and run in the
background so that the user can continue their work.
Eventually, we refactored our automatic housekeeping to instead use the
more flexible git-maintenance(1) command. The upside of this new infra
is that the user can configure which maintenance tasks are performed, at
least to a certain degree. So while it continues to run git-gc(1) by
default, it can also be adapted to e.g. use git-multi-pack-index(1) for
maintenance of the object database.
The auto-detach of the new infra is somewhat broken though once the user
configures non-standard tasks. The problem is essentially that we detach
at the wrong level in the process hierarchy: git-maintenance(1) never
detaches itself, but instead it continues to be git-gc(1) which does.
When configured to only run the git-gc(1) maintenance task, then the
result is basically the same as before. But when configured to run other
tasks, then git-maintenance(1) will wait for these to run to completion.
Even worse, it may be that git-gc(1) runs concurrently with other
housekeeping tasks, stomping on each others feet.
Fix this bug by asking git-gc(1) to not detach when it is being invoked
via git-maintenance(1). Instead, git-maintenance(1) now respects a new
config "maintenance.autoDetach", the equivalent of "gc.autoDetach", and
detaches itself into the background when running as part of our auto
maintenance. This should continue to behave the same for all users which
use the git-gc(1) task, only. For others though, it means that we now
properly perform all tasks in the background. The default behaviour of
git-maintenance(1) when executed by the user does not change, it will
remain in the foreground unless they pass the `--detach` option.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for `http.proxy` describes that option, and the
environment variables it overrides, as supporting "the syntax understood
by curl". curl allows SOCKS proxies to use a path to a Unix domain
socket, like `socks5h://localhost/path/to/socket.sock`. Git should
therefore include, if present, the path part of the proxy URL in what it
passes to libcurl.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Hendrickson <ryan.hendrickson@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
What happens when http.cookieFile gets the special value "" has
been clarified in the documentation.
* ps/doc-http-empty-cookiefile:
doc: update http.cookieFile with in-memory cookie processing
When `core.maxTreeDepth` was originally introduced via be20128bfa (add
core.maxTreeDepth config, 2023-08-31), its default value was 4096.
There have since been a couple of updates to its default value that were
not reflected in the documentation for `core.maxTreeDepth`:
- 4d5693ba05 (lower core.maxTreeDepth default to 2048, 2023-08-31)
- b64d78ad02 (max_tree_depth: lower it for MSVC to avoid stack
overflows, 2023-11-01)
Commit 4d5693ba05 lowers the default to 2048 for platforms with smaller
stack sizes, and commit b64d78ad02 lowers the default even further when
Git is compiled with MSVC.
Neither of these changes were reflected in the documentation, which I
noticed while merging newer releases back into GitHub's private fork
(which contained the original implementation of `core.maxTreeDepth`).
Update the documentation to reflect what the platform-specific default
values are.
Noticed-by: Keith W. Campbell <keithc@ca.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A handful of entries are added to the GitFAQ document.
* bc/gitfaq-more:
doc: mention that proxies must be completely transparent
gitfaq: add entry about syncing working trees
gitfaq: give advice on using eol attribute in gitattributes
gitfaq: add documentation on proxies
The http transport can now be told to send request with
authentication material without first getting a 401 response.
* bc/http-proactive-auth:
http: allow authenticating proactively
A new warning message is issued when a command has to expand a
sparse index to handle working tree cruft that are outside of the
sparse checkout.
* ds/advice-sparse-index-expansion:
advice: warn when sparse index expands
Documentation only mentions how to read cookies from the given file
and how to save them to the file using http.saveCookies.
But underlying libcURL allows the HTTP cookies used only in memory;
cookies from the server will be accepted and sent back in successive
requests within same connection, by using an empty string as the
filename. Document this.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Szlazak <piotr.szlazak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When making a request over HTTP(S), Git only sends authentication if it
receives a 401 response. Thus, if a repository is open to the public
for reading, Git will typically never ask for authentication for fetches
and clones.
However, there may be times when a user would like to authenticate
nevertheless. For example, a forge may give higher rate limits to users
who authenticate because they are easier to contact in case of excessive
use. Or it may be useful for a known heavy user, such as an internal
service, to proactively authenticate so its use can be monitored and, if
necessary, throttled.
Let's make this possible with a new option, "http.proactiveAuth". This
option specifies a type of authentication which can be used to
authenticate against the host in question. This is necessary because we
lack the WWW-Authenticate header to provide us details; similarly, we
cannot accept certain types of authentication because we require
information from the server, such as a nonce or challenge, to
successfully authenticate.
If we're in auto mode and we got a username and password, set the
authentication scheme to Basic. libcurl will not send authentication
proactively unless there's a single choice of allowed authentication,
and we know in this case we didn't get an authtype entry telling us what
scheme to use, or we would have taken a different codepath and written
the header ourselves. In any event, of the other schemes that libcurl
supports, Digest and NTLM require a nonce or challenge, which means that
they cannot work with proactive auth, and GSSAPI does not use a username
and password at all, so Basic is the only logical choice among the
built-in options.
Note that the existing http_proactive_auth variable signifies proactive
auth if there are already credentials, which is different from the
functionality we're adding, which always seeks credentials even if none
are provided. Nonetheless, t5540 tests the existing behavior for
WebDAV-based pushes to an open repository without credentials, so we
preserve it. While at first this may seem an insecure and bizarre
decision, it may be that authentication is done with TLS certificates,
in which case it might actually provide a quite high level of security.
Expand the variable to use an enum to handle the additional cases and a
helper function to distinguish our new cases from the old ones.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already document in the FAQ that proxies must be completely
transparent and not modify the request or response in any way, but add
similar documentation to the http.proxy entry. We know that while the
FAQ is very useful, users sometimes are less likely to read in favor of
the documentation specific to an option or command, so adding it in both
places will help users be adequately informed.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Bloom filter used for path limited history traversal was broken
on systems whose "char" is unsigned; update the implementation and
bump the format version to 2.
* tb/path-filter-fix:
bloom: introduce `deinit_bloom_filters()`
commit-graph: reuse existing Bloom filters where possible
object.h: fix mis-aligned flag bits table
commit-graph: new Bloom filter version that fixes murmur3
commit-graph: unconditionally load Bloom filters
bloom: prepare to discard incompatible Bloom filters
bloom: annotate filters with hash version
repo-settings: introduce commitgraph.changedPathsVersion
t4216: test changed path filters with high bit paths
t/helper/test-read-graph: implement `bloom-filters` mode
bloom.h: make `load_bloom_filter_from_graph()` public
t/helper/test-read-graph.c: extract `dump_graph_info()`
gitformat-commit-graph: describe version 2 of BDAT
commit-graph: ensure Bloom filters are read with consistent settings
revision.c: consult Bloom filters for root commits
t/t4216-log-bloom.sh: harden `test_bloom_filters_not_used()`
Typically, forcing a sparse index to expand to a full index means that
Git could not determine the status of a file outside of the
sparse-checkout and needed to expand sparse trees into the full list of
sparse blobs. This operation can be very slow when the sparse-checkout
is much smaller than the full tree at HEAD.
When users are in this state, there is usually a modified or untracked
file outside of the sparse-checkout mentioned by the output of 'git
status'. There are a number of reasons why this is insufficient:
1. Users may not have a full understanding of which files are inside or
outside of their sparse-checkout. This is more common in monorepos
that manage the sparse-checkout using custom tools that map build
dependencies into sparse-checkout definitions.
2. In some cases, an empty directory could exist outside the
sparse-checkout and these empty directories are not reported by 'git
status' and friends.
3. If the user has '.gitignore' or 'exclude' files, then 'git status'
will squelch the warnings and not demonstrate any problems.
In order to help users who are in this state, add a new advice message
to indicate that a sparse index is expanded to a full index. This
message should be written at most once per process, so add a static
global 'give_advice_on_expansion' to sparse-index.c. Further, there is a
case in 'git sparse-checkout set' that uses the sparse index as an
in-memory data structure (even when writing a full index) so we need to
disable the message in that kind of case.
The t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh test script compares the
behavior of several Git commands across full and sparse repositories,
including sparse repositories with and without a sparse index. We need
to disable the advice in the sparse-index repo to avoid differences in
stderr. By leaving the advice on in the sparse-checkout repo (without
the sparse index), we can test the behavior of disabling the advice in
convert_to_sparse(). (Indeed, these tests are how that necessity was
discovered.) Add a test that reenables the advice and demonstrates that
the message is output.
The advice message is defined outside of expand_index() to avoid super-
wide lines. It is also defined as a macro to avoid compile issues with
-Werror=format-security.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Memory ownership rules for the in-core representation of
remote.*.url configuration values have been straightened out, which
resulted in a few leak fixes and code clarification.
* jk/remote-wo-url:
remote: drop checks for zero-url case
remote: always require at least one url in a remote
t5801: test remote.*.vcs config
t5801: make remote-testgit GIT_DIR setup more robust
remote: allow resetting url list
config: document remote.*.url/pushurl interaction
remote: simplify url/pushurl selection
remote: use strvecs to store remote url/pushurl
remote: transfer ownership of memory in add_url(), etc
remote: refactor alias_url() memory ownership
archive: fix check for missing url
The murmur3 implementation in bloom.c has a bug when converting series
of 4 bytes into network-order integers when char is signed (which is
controllable by a compiler option, and the default signedness of char is
platform-specific). When a string contains characters with the high bit
set, this bug causes results that, although internally consistent within
Git, does not accord with other implementations of murmur3 (thus,
the changed path filters wouldn't be readable by other off-the-shelf
implementatios of murmur3) and even with Git binaries that were compiled
with different signedness of char. This bug affects both how Git writes
changed path filters to disk and how Git interprets changed path filters
on disk.
Therefore, introduce a new version (2) of changed path filters that
corrects this problem. The existing version (1) is still supported and
is still the default, but users should migrate away from it as soon
as possible.
Because this bug only manifests with characters that have the high bit
set, it may be possible that some (or all) commits in a given repo would
have the same changed path filter both before and after this fix is
applied. However, in order to determine whether this is the case, the
changed paths would first have to be computed, at which point it is not
much more expensive to just compute a new changed path filter.
So this patch does not include any mechanism to "salvage" changed path
filters from repositories. There is also no "mixed" mode - for each
invocation of Git, reading and writing changed path filters are done
with the same version number; this version number may be explicitly
stated (typically if the user knows which version they need) or
automatically determined from the version of the existing changed path
filters in the repository.
There is a change in write_commit_graph(). graph_read_bloom_data()
makes it possible for chunk_bloom_data to be non-NULL but
bloom_filter_settings to be NULL, which causes a segfault later on. I
produced such a segfault while developing this patch, but couldn't find
a way to reproduce it neither after this complete patch (or before),
but in any case it seemed like a good thing to include that might help
future patch authors.
The value in t0095 was obtained from another murmur3 implementation
using the following Go source code:
package main
import "fmt"
import "github.com/spaolacci/murmur3"
func main() {
fmt.Printf("%x\n", murmur3.Sum32([]byte("Hello world!")))
fmt.Printf("%x\n", murmur3.Sum32([]byte{0x99, 0xaa, 0xbb, 0xcc, 0xdd, 0xee, 0xff}))
}
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A subsequent commit will introduce another version of the changed-path
filter in the commit graph file. In order to control which version to
write (and read), a config variable is needed.
Therefore, introduce this config variable. For forwards compatibility,
teach Git to not read commit graphs when the config variable
is set to an unsupported version. Because we teach Git this,
commitgraph.readChangedPaths is now redundant, so deprecate it and
define its behavior in terms of the config variable we introduce.
This commit does not change the behavior of writing (Git writes changed
path filters when explicitly instructed regardless of any config
variable), but a subsequent commit will restrict Git such that it will
only write when commitgraph.changedPathsVersion is a recognized value.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For over a year, setting add.interactive.useBuiltin configuration
variable did nothing but giving a "this does not do anything"
warning. Finally remove it.
* jc/add-i-retire-usebuiltin-config:
add-i: finally retire add.interactive.useBuiltin
Earlier we stopped using the tree of HEAD as the default source of
attributes in a bare repository, but failed to document it. This
has been corrected.
* jc/no-default-attr-tree-in-bare:
attr.tree: HEAD:.gitattributes is no longer the default in a bare repo
The pseudo-merge reachability bitmap to help more efficient storage
of the reachability bitmap in a repository with too many refs has
been added.
* tb/pseudo-merge-reachability-bitmap: (26 commits)
pack-bitmap.c: ensure pseudo-merge offset reads are bounded
Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt: add missing position table
t/perf: implement performance tests for pseudo-merge bitmaps
pseudo-merge: implement support for finding existing merges
ewah: `bitmap_equals_ewah()`
pack-bitmap: extra trace2 information
pack-bitmap.c: use pseudo-merges during traversal
t/test-lib-functions.sh: support `--notick` in `test_commit_bulk()`
pack-bitmap: implement test helpers for pseudo-merge
ewah: implement `ewah_bitmap_popcount()`
pseudo-merge: implement support for reading pseudo-merge commits
pack-bitmap.c: read pseudo-merge extension
pseudo-merge: scaffolding for reads
pack-bitmap: extract `read_bitmap()` function
pack-bitmap-write.c: write pseudo-merge table
pseudo-merge: implement support for selecting pseudo-merge commits
config: introduce `git_config_double()`
pack-bitmap: make `bitmap_writer_push_bitmapped_commit()` public
pack-bitmap: implement `bitmap_writer_has_bitmapped_object_id()`
pack-bitmap-write: support storing pseudo-merge commits
...
When the user adds to "git rebase -i" instruction to "pick" a merge
commit, the error experience is not pleasant. Such an error is now
caught earlier in the process that parses the todo list.
* pw/rebase-i-error-message:
rebase -i: improve error message when picking merge
rebase -i: pass struct replay_opts to parse_insn_line()
"git diff --exit-code --ext-diff" learned to take the exit status
of the external diff driver into account when deciding the exit
status of the overall "git diff" invocation when configured to do
so.
* rs/diff-exit-code-with-external-diff:
diff: let external diffs report that changes are uninteresting
userdiff: add and use struct external_diff
t4020: test exit code with external diffs
Because remote.*.url is treated as a multi-valued key, there is no way
to override previous config. So for example if you have
remote.origin.url set to some wrong value, doing:
git -c remote.origin.url=right fetch
would not work. It would append "right" to the list, which means we'd
still fetch from "wrong" (since subsequent values are used only as push
urls).
Let's provide a mechanism to reset the list, like we do for other
multi-valued keys (e.g., credential.helper, http.extraheaders, and
merge.suppressDest all use this "empty string means reset" pattern).
Reported-by: Mathew George <mathewegeorge@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for these keys gives a very terse definition and
points you to the fetch/push manpages. But from reading those pages it
was not at all obvious to me that:
- these are keys that can be defined multiple times with meaningful
behavior (especially remote.*.url)
- the way that pushurl overrides url (the git-push page does mention
that "pushurl defaults to url", but it is not immediately clear what
a multi-valued url would do in that situation).
Let's try to summarize the current behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The safe.directory configuration knob has been updated to
optionally allow leading path matches.
* jc/safe-directory-leading-path:
safe.directory: allow "lead/ing/path/*" match
The alias-expanded command lines are logged to the trace output.
* iw/trace-argv-on-alias:
run-command: show prepared command
Documentation: alias: add notes on shell expansion
Documentation: alias: rework notes into points
The options --exit-code and --quiet instruct git diff to indicate
whether it found any significant changes by exiting with code 1 if it
did and 0 if there were none. Currently this doesn't work if external
diff programs are involved, as we have no way to learn what they found.
Add that ability in the form of the new configuration options
diff.trustExitCode and diff.<driver>.trustExitCode and the environment
variable GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF_TRUST_EXIT_CODE. They pair with the config
options diff.external and diff.<driver>.command and the environment
variable GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF, respectively.
The new options are off by default, keeping the old behavior. Enabling
them indicates that the external diff returns exit code 1 if it finds
significant changes and 0 if it doesn't, like diff(1).
The name of the new options is taken from the git difftool and mergetool
options of similar purpose. (There they enable passing on the exit code
of a diff tool and to infer whether a merge done by a merge tool is
successful.)
The new feature sets the diff flag diff_from_contents in
diff_setup_done() if we need the exit code and are allowed to call
external diffs. This disables the optimization that avoids calling the
program with --quiet. Add it back by skipping the call if the external
diff is not able to report empty diffs. We can only do that check after
evaluating the file-specific attributes in run_external_diff().
If we do run the external diff with --quiet, send its output to
/dev/null.
I considered checking the output of the external diff to check whether
its empty. It was added as 11be65cfa4 (diff: fix --exit-code with
external diff, 2024-05-05) and quickly reverted, as it does not work
with external diffs that do not write to stdout. There's no reason why
a graphical diff tool would even need to write anything there at all.
I also considered using a non-zero exit code for empty diffs, which
could be done without adding new configuration options. We'd need to
disable the optimization that allows git diff --quiet to skip calling
external diffs, though -- that might be quite surprising if graphical
diff programs are involved. And assigning the opposite meaning of the
exit codes compared to diff(1) and git diff --exit-code to the external
diff can cause unnecessary confusion.
Suggested-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clear that the interactive.singleKey configuration option is
disabled by default, using rather subtle wording that avoids an
emphasis on the actual default value. This should eliminate any
associated doubts.
While there, touch up the remaining wording of the description a bit.
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The promisor.quiet configuration knob can be set to true to make
lazy fetching from promisor remotes silent.
* th/quiet-lazy-fetch-from-promisor:
promisor-remote: add promisor.quiet configuration option
The configuration variable stopped doing anything (other than
announcing itself as a variable that does not do anything useful,
when it is used) in Git 2.40.
At this point, it is not even worth giving the warning, which was
meant to be a way to help users notice they are carrying unused
cruft in their configuration files and give them a chance to
clean-up.
Let's remove the warning and documentation for it, and truly stop
paying attention to it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
Documentation/config/add.txt | 6 ------
builtin/add.c | 6 +-----
t/t3701-add-interactive.sh | 15 ---------------
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 26 deletions(-)
51441e64 (stop using HEAD for attributes in bare repository by
default, 2024-05-03) has addressed a recent performance regression
by partially reverting a topic that was merged at 26dd307c (Merge
branch 'jc/attr-tree-config', 2023-10-30). But it forgot to update
the documentation to remove the mention of a special case in bare
repositories.
Let's update the document before the update hits the next release.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When writing inline shell for shell-expansion aliases (i.e. prefixed
with "!"), there are some caveats around argument parsing to be aware
of. This series of notes attempts to explain what is happening more
clearly.
Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only todo commands that accept a merge commit are "merge" and
"reset". All the other commands like "pick" or "reword" fail when they
try to pick a a merge commit and print the message
error: commit abc123 is a merge but no -m option was given.
followed by a hint about the command being rescheduled. This message is
designed to help the user when they cherry-pick a merge and forget to
pass "-m". For users who are rebasing the message is confusing as there
is no way for rebase to cherry-pick the merge.
Improve the user experience by detecting the error and printing some
advice on how to fix it when the todo list is parsed rather than waiting
for the "pick" command to fail. The advice recommends "merge" rather
than "exec git cherry-pick -m ..." on the assumption that cherry-picking
merges is relatively rare and it is more likely that the user chose
"pick" by a mistake.
It would be possible to support cherry-picking merges by allowing the
user to pass "-m" to "pick" commands but that adds complexity to do
something that can already be achieved with
exec git cherry-pick -m1 abc123
Reported-by: Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When safe.directory was introduced in v2.30.3 timeframe, 8959555c
(setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level
directory, 2022-03-02), it only allowed specific opt-out
directories. Immediately after an embargoed release that included
the change, 0f85c4a3 (setup: opt-out of check with safe.directory=*,
2022-04-13) was done as a response to loosen the check so that a
single '*' can be used to say "I trust all repositories" for folks
who host too many repositories to list individually.
Let's further loosen the check to allow people to say "everything
under this hierarchy is deemed safe" by specifying such a leading
directory with "/*" appended to it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a number of caveats when using aliases. Rather than
stuffing them all together in a paragraph, let's separate them out
into individual points to make it clearer what's going on.
Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a configuration option to allow output from the promisor
fetching objects to be suppressed.
This allows us to stop commands like 'git blame' being swamped
with progress messages and gc notifications from the promisor
when used in a partial clone.
Signed-off-by: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
