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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-10-30 17:19:07 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-10-30 17:19:07 -0700
commite7e55483439b2e1f483e3753109a433f2fba1a26 (patch)
treed23cefa5a370522e35e6bfcd54cee5c62bf390a4
parentt915{0,1}: use $TEST_DIRECTORY (diff)
parentclone: detect extra arguments (diff)
downloadtgif-e7e55483439b2e1f483e3753109a433f2fba1a26.tar.xz
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint: clone: detect extra arguments clone: fix help on options push: fix typo in usage More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev'
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt17
-rw-r--r--builtin-clone.c13
-rw-r--r--builtin-push.c2
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index b231dbb947..e9dbca7d87 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ OPTIONS
--abbrev=<n>::
Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
- abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
+ abbreviated object name, use <n> digits, or as many digits
+ as needed to form a unique object name. An <n> of 0
+ will suppress long format, only showing the closest tag.
--candidates=<n>::
Instead of considering only the 10 most recent tags as
@@ -68,8 +70,8 @@ OPTIONS
This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name
in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be
a tagged version. Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will
- describe such a commit as v1.2-0-deadbeef (0th commit since tag v1.2
- that points at object deadbeef....).
+ describe such a commit as v1.2-0-gdeadbee (0th commit since tag v1.2
+ that points at object deadbee....).
--match <pattern>::
Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid
@@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ the output shows the reference path as well:
[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 v1.0.5^2
tags/v1.0.0-21-g975b
- [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all HEAD^
+ [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 HEAD^
heads/lt/describe-7-g975b
With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the
@@ -117,6 +119,13 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:
[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --abbrev=0 v1.0.5^2
tags/v1.0.0
+Note that the suffix you get if you type these commands today may be
+longer than what Linus saw above when he ran this command, as your
+git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with
+975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone may not
+be sufficient to disambiguate these commits.
+
+
SEARCH STRATEGY
---------------
diff --git a/builtin-clone.c b/builtin-clone.c
index 5762a6f9d8..caf3025031 100644
--- a/builtin-clone.c
+++ b/builtin-clone.c
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ static struct option builtin_clone_options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-checkout", &option_no_checkout,
"don't create a checkout"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "bare", &option_bare, "create a bare repository"),
- OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "naked", &option_bare, "create a bare repository"),
+ { OPTION_BOOLEAN, 0, "naked", &option_bare, NULL,
+ "create a bare repository",
+ PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN },
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "mirror", &option_mirror,
"create a mirror repository (implies bare)"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('l', "local", &option_local,
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ static struct option builtin_clone_options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "shared", &option_shared,
"setup as shared repository"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "recursive", &option_recursive,
- "setup as shared repository"),
+ "initialize submodules in the clone"),
OPT_STRING(0, "template", &option_template, "path",
"path the template repository"),
OPT_STRING(0, "reference", &option_reference, "repo",
@@ -377,8 +379,13 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, builtin_clone_options,
builtin_clone_usage, 0);
+ if (argc > 2)
+ usage_msg_opt("Too many arguments.",
+ builtin_clone_usage, builtin_clone_options);
+
if (argc == 0)
- die("You must specify a repository to clone.");
+ usage_msg_opt("You must specify a repository to clone.",
+ builtin_clone_usage, builtin_clone_options);
if (option_mirror)
option_bare = 1;
diff --git a/builtin-push.c b/builtin-push.c
index b5cd2cdad0..8631c06ed6 100644
--- a/builtin-push.c
+++ b/builtin-push.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ int cmd_push(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
OPT_BIT( 0 , "all", &flags, "push all refs", TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL),
OPT_BIT( 0 , "mirror", &flags, "mirror all refs",
(TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR|TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE)),
- OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "tags", &tags, "push tags (can't be used with --all or --mirror"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "tags", &tags, "push tags (can't be used with --all or --mirror)"),
OPT_BIT('n' , "dry-run", &flags, "dry run", TRANSPORT_PUSH_DRY_RUN),
OPT_BIT( 0, "porcelain", &flags, "machine-readable output", TRANSPORT_PUSH_PORCELAIN),
OPT_BIT('f', "force", &flags, "force updates", TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE),