Since a807328 (connect.c: add a way for git-daemon to pass an error
back to client), git client recognizes "ERR" line and prints a
friendly message to user if an error happens at server side.
Document this.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before falling back to gethostname(), check /etc/mailname if
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL is not set in the environment or through config
files. Only fall back if /etc/mailname cannot be opened or read.
The /etc/mailname convention comes from Debian policy section 11.6
("mail transport, delivery and user agents"), though maybe it could be
useful sometimes on other machines, too. The lack of this support was
noticed by various people in different ways:
- Ian observed that git was choosing the address
'ian@anarres.relativity.greenend.org.uk' rather than
'ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk' as it should have done.
- Jonathan noticed that operations like "git commit" were needlessly
slow when using a resolver that was slow to handle reverse DNS
lookups.
Alas, after this patch, if /etc/mailname is set up and the [user] name
and email configuration aren't, the committer email will not provide a
charming reminder of which machine commits were made on any more. But
I think it's worth it.
Mechanics: the functionality of reading mailname goes in its own
function, so people who care about other distros can easily add an
implementation to a similar location without making copy_email() too
long and losing clarity. While at it, we split out the fallback
default logic that does gethostname(), too (rearranging it a little
and adding a check for errors from gethostname while at it).
Based on a patch by Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>.
Requested-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, 582aa00 (git diff too slow for a file, 2010-05-02)
unconditionally dropped XDF_NEED_MINIMAL option from the internal xdiff
invocation to help performance on pathological cases, while hinting that a
follow-up patch could reintroduce it with "--minimal" option from the
command line.
Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add OPT_NOOP_NOARG, a helper macro to define deprecated options in a
standard way. The help text is taken from the no-op option -r of
git revert.
The callback could be made to emit a (conditional?) warning later. And
we could also add OPT_NOOP (requiring an argument) etc. as needed.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is natural to expect that an option defined with OPT_BOOLEAN() could be
used in this way:
int option = -1; /* unspecified */
struct option options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "option", &option, "set option"),
OPT_END()
};
parse_options(ac, av, prefix, options, usage, 0);
if (option < 0)
... do the default thing ...
else if (!option)
... --no-option was given ...
else
... --option was given ...
to easily tell three cases apart:
- There is no mention of the `--option` on the command line;
- The variable is positively set with `--option`; or
- The variable is explicitly negated with `--no-option`.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. OPT_BOOLEAN() increments the variable
every time `--option` is given, and resets it to zero when `--no-option`
is given.
As a first step to remedy this, introduce a true boolean OPT_BOOL(), and
rename OPT_BOOLEAN() to OPT_COUNTUP(). To help transitioning, OPT_BOOLEAN
and OPTION_BOOLEAN are defined as deprecated synonyms to OPT_COUNTUP and
OPTION_COUNTUP respectively.
This is what db7244b (parse-options new features., 2007-11-07) from four
years ago started by marking OPTION_BOOLEAN as "INCR would have been a
better name".
Some existing users do depend on the count-up semantics; for example,
users of OPT__VERBOSE() could use it to raise the verbosity level with
repeated use of `-v` on the command line, but they probably should be
rewritten to use OPT__VERBOSITY() instead these days. I suspect that some
users of OPT__FORCE() may also use it to implement different level of
forcibleness but I didn't check.
On top of this patch, here are the remaining clean-up tasks that other
people can help:
- Look at each hit in "git grep -e OPT_BOOLEAN"; trace all uses of the
value that is set to the underlying variable, and if it can proven that
the variable is only used as a boolean, replace it with OPT_BOOL(). If
the caller does depend on the count-up semantics, replace it with
OPT_COUNTUP() instead.
- Same for OPTION_BOOLEAN; replace it with OPTION_SET_INT and arrange to
set 1 to the variable for a true boolean, and otherwise replace it with
OPTION_COUNTUP.
- Look at each hit in "git grep -e OPT__VERBOSE -e OPT__QUIET" and see if
they can be replaced with OPT__VERBOSITY().
I'll follow this message up with a separate patch as an example.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The negation example uses '*' to match everything. This used to work
before 9037026 (unpack-trees: fix sparse checkout's "unable to match
directories") because back then, the list of paths is used to match
sparse patterns, so with the patterns
*
!subdir/
subdir/ always matches any path that start with subdir/ and "*" has no
chance to get tested. The result is subdir is excluded.
After the said commit, a tree structure is dynamically created and
sparse pattern matching now follows closely how read_directory()
applies .gitignore. This solves one problem, but reveals another one.
With this new strategy, "!subdir/" rule will be only tested once when
"subdir" directory is examined. Entries inside subdir, when examined,
will match "*" and are (correctly) re-added again because any rules
without a slash will match at every directory level. In the end, "*"
can revert every negation rules.
In order to correctly exclude subdir, we must use
/*
!subdir
to limit "match all" rule at top level only.
"*" rule has no actual use in sparse checkout and can be confusing to
users. While we can automatically turn "*" to "/*", this violates
.gitignore definition. Instead, discourage "*" in favor of "/*" (in
the second example).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mergetool now treats its path arguments as a pathspec (like other git
subcommands), restricting action to the given files and directories.
Files matching the pathspec are filtered so mergetool only acts on
unmerged paths; previously it would assume each path argument was in an
unresolved state, and get confused when it couldn't check out their
other stages.
Running "git mergetool subdir" will prompt to resolve all conflicted
blobs under subdir.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Mah <me@JonathonMah.com>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option causes check-attr to consider .gitattributes only from
the index, ignoring .gitattributes from the working tree. This allows
the command to be used in situations where a working tree does not exist.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of .git/info/sparse-checkout and
skip-worktree is exactly the opposite of what is true, which is:
If a file matches a pattern in sparse-checkout, then (it is to be
checked out and therefore) skip-worktree is unset for that file;
otherwise, it is set (so that it is not checked out).
Currently, the opposite is documented, and (consistently) read-tree's
behavior with respect to bit flips is descibed incorrectly.
Fix it.
In hindsight, it would have been much better to have a "sparse-ignore"
or "sparse-skip" file so that an empty file would mean a full checkout,
and the file logic would be analogous to that of .gitignore, excludes
and skip-worktree.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a few missing articles and such, and mark-up 'commands' and `files`
appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git term is 'working tree', so replace the most public references
to 'working copy'.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'ls-files' refers to 'update-index' to show how the 'assume unchanged'
bit can be seen. This makes the connection 'bi-directional'.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Older asciidoc (e.g. 8.2.5 on Centos 5.5) is unhappy if a manpage does not
have a SYNOPSIS section. Show a sample (and a possibly bogus) command line
of running two commands that pay attention to this environment variable
with a customized value.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
The submodule code recently grew generic code to build a
dynamic argv array. Many other parts of the code can reuse
this, too, so let's make it generically available.
There are two enhancements not found in the original code:
1. We now handle the NULL-termination invariant properly,
even when no strings have been pushed (before, you
could have an empty, NULL argv). This was not a problem
for the submodule code, which always pushed at least
one argument, but was not sufficiently safe for
generic code.
2. There is a formatted variant of the "push" function.
This is a convenience function which was not needed by
the submodule code, but will make it easier to port
other users to the new code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This API was introduced in 902bb36, but never documented.
Let's be nice to future users of the code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users had problems finding a working setting for notes.rewriteRef.
Document how to enable rewriting for notes/commits, which should be a
safe setting.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow git-svn to populate the svn:mergeinfo property automatically in
a narrow range of circumstances. Specifically, when dcommitting a
revision with multiple parents, all but (potentially) the first of
which have been committed to SVN in the same repository as the target
of the dcommit.
In this case, the merge info is the union of that given by each of the
parents, plus all changes introduced to the first parent by the other
parents.
In all other cases where a revision to be committed has multiple
parents, cause "git svn dcommit" to raise an error rather than
completing the commit and potentially losing history information in
the upstream SVN repository.
This behavior is disabled by default, and can be enabled by setting
the svn.pushmergeinfo config option.
[ew: minor style changes and manpage merge fix]
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Jacobs <bjacobs@woti.com>
* jn/remote-helpers-doc:
(short) documentation for the testgit remote helper
Documentation/git-remote-helpers: explain how import works with multiple refs
Documentation/remote-helpers: explain capabilities first
Removing Cogito leaves just git and StGit, which is a rather
incomplete list of git diff tools available. Sidestep the problem
of deciding what tools to mention by not mentioning any.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"branch -v" without other options or parameters still works in the list
mode, but that is not because there is "-v" but because there is no
parameter nor option.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The %(body) placeholder returns the whole body of a tag or
commit, including the signature. However, callers may want
to get just the body without signature, or just the
signature.
Rather than change the meaning of %(body), which might break
some scripts, this patch introduces a new set of
placeholders which break down the %(contents) placeholder
into its constituent parts.
[jk: initial patch by mg, rebased on top of my refactoring
and with tests by me]
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few more parts of this document is stale that needs updating
to reflect the reality, but I do not regularly rebase topics that
are only in "pu" anymore, which may be noteworthy for a commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit ffa69e61d3, reversing
changes made to 4a13c4d148.
Adding a new command line option to receive-pack and feed it from
send-pack is not an acceptable way to add features, as there is no
guarantee that your updated send-pack will be talking to updated
receive-pack. New features need to be added via the capability mechanism
negotiated over the protocol.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This single variable can be used to set instead of setting fsckobjects
variable for fetch & receive independently.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This corresponds to receive.fsckobjects configuration variable added (a
lot) earlier in 20dc001 (receive-pack: allow using --strict mode for
unpacking objects, 2008-02-25).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/maint-format-patch-empty-output:
Document negated forms of format-patch --to --cc --add-headers
t4014: "no-add-headers" is actually called "no-add-header"
t4014: invoke format-patch with --stdout where intended
t4014: check for empty files from git format-patch --stdout
* en/merge-recursive-2: (57 commits)
merge-recursive: Don't re-sort a list whose order we depend upon
merge-recursive: Fix virtual merge base for rename/rename(1to2)/add-dest
t6036: criss-cross + rename/rename(1to2)/add-dest + simple modify
merge-recursive: Avoid unnecessary file rewrites
t6022: Additional tests checking for unnecessary updates of files
merge-recursive: Fix spurious 'refusing to lose untracked file...' messages
t6022: Add testcase for spurious "refusing to lose untracked" messages
t3030: fix accidental success in symlink rename
merge-recursive: Fix working copy handling for rename/rename/add/add
merge-recursive: add handling for rename/rename/add-dest/add-dest
merge-recursive: Have conflict_rename_delete reuse modify/delete code
merge-recursive: Make modify/delete handling code reusable
merge-recursive: Consider modifications in rename/rename(2to1) conflicts
merge-recursive: Create function for merging with branchname:file markers
merge-recursive: Record more data needed for merging with dual renames
merge-recursive: Defer rename/rename(2to1) handling until process_entry
merge-recursive: Small cleanups for conflict_rename_rename_1to2
merge-recursive: Fix rename/rename(1to2) resolution for virtual merge base
merge-recursive: Introduce a merge_file convenience function
merge-recursive: Fix modify/delete resolution in the recursive case
...
While it's not a command meant to be used by actual users (hence, not
mentionned in git(1)), this command is a very precious help for
remote-helpers authors.
The best place for such technical doc is the source code, but users may
not find it without a link in a manpage.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
