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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-11-13 22:37:26 +0900
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-11-13 22:37:26 +0900
commite146cc97be4c054c60d38e9f4edcdc33205bf563 (patch)
treeb36de8c572922ac1c0fda47c028cd7ccd8fd7a35 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'bp/refresh-index-using-preload' (diff)
parentgit-worktree.txt: correct linkgit command name (diff)
downloadtgif-e146cc97be4c054c60d38e9f4edcdc33205bf563.tar.xz
Merge branch 'nd/per-worktree-ref-iteration'
The code to traverse objects for reachability, used to decide what objects are unreferenced and expendable, have been taught to also consider per-worktree refs of other worktrees as starting points to prevent data loss. * nd/per-worktree-ref-iteration: git-worktree.txt: correct linkgit command name reflog expire: cover reflog from all worktrees fsck: check HEAD and reflog from other worktrees fsck: move fsck_head_link() to get_default_heads() to avoid some globals revision.c: better error reporting on ref from different worktrees revision.c: correct a parameter name refs: new ref types to make per-worktree refs visible to all worktrees Add a place for (not) sharing stuff between worktrees refs.c: indent with tabs, not spaces
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-reflog.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-worktree.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt11
3 files changed, 46 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
index 472a6808cd..ff487ff77d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ depending on the subcommand:
'git reflog' ['show'] [log-options] [<ref>]
'git reflog expire' [--expire=<time>] [--expire-unreachable=<time>]
[--rewrite] [--updateref] [--stale-fix]
- [--dry-run | -n] [--verbose] [--all | <refs>...]
+ [--dry-run | -n] [--verbose] [--all [--single-worktree] | <refs>...]
'git reflog delete' [--rewrite] [--updateref]
[--dry-run | -n] [--verbose] ref@\{specifier\}...
'git reflog exists' <ref>
@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ Options for `expire`
--all::
Process the reflogs of all references.
+--single-worktree::
+ By default when `--all` is specified, reflogs from all working
+ trees are processed. This option limits the processing to reflogs
+ from the current working tree only.
+
--expire=<time>::
Prune entries older than the specified time. If this option is
not specified, the expiration time is taken from the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
index 5e986ce8aa..cb86318f3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
@@ -204,6 +204,35 @@ working trees, it can be used to identify worktrees. For example if
you only have two working trees, at "/abc/def/ghi" and "/abc/def/ggg",
then "ghi" or "def/ghi" is enough to point to the former working tree.
+REFS
+----
+In multiple working trees, some refs may be shared between all working
+trees, some refs are local. One example is HEAD is different for all
+working trees. This section is about the sharing rules and how to access
+refs of one working tree from another.
+
+In general, all pseudo refs are per working tree and all refs starting
+with "refs/" are shared. Pseudo refs are ones like HEAD which are
+directly under GIT_DIR instead of inside GIT_DIR/refs. There are one
+exception to this: refs inside refs/bisect and refs/worktree is not
+shared.
+
+Refs that are per working tree can still be accessed from another
+working tree via two special paths, main-worktree and worktrees. The
+former gives access to per-worktree refs of the main working tree,
+while the latter to all linked working trees.
+
+For example, main-worktree/HEAD or main-worktree/refs/bisect/good
+resolve to the same value as the main working tree's HEAD and
+refs/bisect/good respectively. Similarly, worktrees/foo/HEAD or
+worktrees/bar/refs/bisect/bad are the same as
+GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees/foo/HEAD and
+GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees/bar/refs/bisect/bad.
+
+To access refs, it's best not to look inside GIT_DIR directly. Instead
+use commands such as linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] or linkgit:git-update-ref[1]
+which will handle refs correctly.
+
CONFIGURATION FILE
------------------
By default, the repository "config" file is shared across all working
@@ -258,7 +287,8 @@ linked working tree `git rev-parse --git-path HEAD` returns
`/path/other/test-next/.git/HEAD` or `/path/main/.git/HEAD`) while `git
rev-parse --git-path refs/heads/master` uses
$GIT_COMMON_DIR and returns `/path/main/.git/refs/heads/master`,
-since refs are shared across all working trees.
+since refs are shared across all working trees, except refs/bisect and
+refs/worktree.
See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] for more information. The rule of
thumb is do not make any assumption about whether a path belongs to
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 36fcca8087..d501af9d77 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -95,8 +95,10 @@ refs::
References are stored in subdirectories of this
directory. The 'git prune' command knows to preserve
objects reachable from refs found in this directory and
- its subdirectories. This directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR
- is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/refs" will be used instead.
+ its subdirectories.
+ This directory is ignored (except refs/bisect and
+ refs/worktree) if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and
+ "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/refs" will be used instead.
refs/heads/`name`::
records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branch `name`
@@ -170,6 +172,11 @@ hooks::
each hook. This directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set
and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/hooks" will be used instead.
+common::
+ When multiple working trees are used, most of files in
+ $GIT_DIR are per-worktree with a few known exceptions. All
+ files under 'common' however will be shared between all
+ working trees.
index::
The current index file for the repository. It is