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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-add.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 86 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-list.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin-push.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | help.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | transport.c | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | transport.h | 3 |
14 files changed, 117 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 7791c32bc3..2632c5149e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ color.interactive.<slot>:: Use customized color for 'git-add --interactive' output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` or `error`, for four distinct types of normal output from interactive - programs. The values of these variables may be specified as + commands. The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>. color.pager:: @@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ instaweb.port:: linkgit:git-instaweb[1]. interactive.singlekey:: - In interactive programs, allow the user to provide one-letter + In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter). Currently this is used only by the `\--patch` mode of linkgit:git-add[1]. Note that this setting is silently diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index d313795fdb..ea3b1bc19f 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -q:: --quiet:: Pass --quiet to git-fetch-pack and silence any other internally - used programs. + used git commands. -v:: --verbose:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index ab1943c712..e67b7e875e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [--edit | -e] [--all | [--update | -u]] [--intent-to-add | -N] - [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--] <filepattern>... + [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--] [<filepattern>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index c04ae739ed..af68d694a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]... - [-m <msg>] <remote> <remote>... + [-m <msg>] <remote>... 'git merge' <msg> HEAD <remote>... DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 2653388fd8..58d2bd5d4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -195,6 +195,92 @@ reason:: refs, no explanation is needed. For a failed ref, the reason for failure is described. +Note about fast-forwards +------------------------ + +When an update changes a branch (or more in general, a ref) that used to +point at commit A to point at another commit B, it is called a +fast-forward update if and only if B is a descendant of A. + +In a fast-forward update from A to B, the set of commits that the original +commit A built on top of is a subset of the commits the new commit B +builds on top of. Hence, it does not lose any history. + +In contrast, a non-fast-forward update will lose history. For example, +suppose you and somebody else started at the same commit X, and you built +a history leading to commit B while the other person built a history +leading to commit A. The history looks like this: + +---------------- + + B + / + ---X---A + +---------------- + +Further suppose that the other person already pushed changes leading to A +back to the original repository you two obtained the original commit X. + +The push done by the other person updated the branch that used to point at +commit X to point at commit A. It is a fast-forward. + +But if you try to push, you will attempt to update the branch (that +now points at A) with commit B. This does _not_ fast-forward. If you did +so, the changes introduced by commit A will be lost, because everybody +will now start building on top of B. + +The command by default does not allow an update that is not a fast-forward +to prevent such loss of history. + +If you do not want to lose your work (history from X to B) nor the work by +the other person (history from X to A), you would need to first fetch the +history from the repository, create a history that contains changes done +by both parties, and push the result back. + +You can perform "git pull", resolve potential conflicts, and "git push" +the result. A "git pull" will create a merge commit C between commits A +and B. + +---------------- + + B---C + / / + ---X---A + +---------------- + +Updating A with the resulting merge commit will fast-forward and your +push will be accepted. + +Alternatively, you can rebase your change between X and B on top of A, +with "git pull --rebase", and push the result back. The rebase will +create a new commit D that builds the change between X and B on top of +A. + +---------------- + + B D + / / + ---X---A + +---------------- + +Again, updating A with this commit will fast-forward and your push will be +accepted. + +There is another common situation where you may encounter non-fast-forward +rejection when you try to push, and it is possible even when you are +pushing into a repository nobody else pushes into. After you push commit +A yourself (in the first picture in this section), replace it with "git +commit --amend" to produce commit B, and you try to push it out, because +forgot that you have pushed A out already. In such a case, and only if +you are certain that nobody in the meantime fetched your earlier commit A +(and started building on top of it), you can run "git push --force" to +overwrite it. In other words, "git push --force" is a method reserved for +a case where you do mean to lose history. + + Examples -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index bf98c8449c..3341d1b62f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ between the two operands. The following two commands are equivalent: $ git rev-list A...B ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -'git-rev-list' is a very essential git program, since it +'rev-list' is a very essential git command, since it provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be used by commands as different as 'git-bisect' and diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 5fd5953e29..5832c752e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ Synching repositories include::cmds-synchingrepositories.txt[] -The following are helper programs used by the above; end users +The following are helper commands used by the above; end users typically do not use them directly. include::cmds-synchelpers.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index aaa073efc8..1195e83b6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ Performing a three-way merge The attribute `merge` affects how three versions of a file is merged when a file-level merge is necessary during `git merge`, -and other programs such as `git revert` and `git cherry-pick`. +and other commands such as `git revert` and `git cherry-pick`. Set:: diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index 7ba5e589d7..b3640c4e64 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ git * DESCRIPTION ----------- -This tutorial explains how to use the "core" git programs to set up and +This tutorial explains how to use the "core" git commands to set up and work with a git repository. If you just need to use git as a revision control system you may prefer @@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ into it later. Obviously, this repository creation needs to be done only once. [NOTE] -'git-push' uses a pair of programs, +'git-push' uses a pair of commands, 'git-send-pack' on your local machine, and 'git-receive-pack' on the remote machine. The communication between the two over the network internally uses an SSH connection. diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 0b88a51d0b..67ebffa568 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -4131,7 +4131,7 @@ What does this mean? `git rev-list` is the original version of the revision walker, which _always_ printed a list of revisions to stdout. It is still functional, -and needs to, since most new Git programs start out as scripts using +and needs to, since most new Git commands start out as scripts using `git rev-list`. `git rev-parse` is not as important any more; it was only used to filter out diff --git a/builtin-push.c b/builtin-push.c index bc0c91aa4e..67f6d96fbe 100644 --- a/builtin-push.c +++ b/builtin-push.c @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ static int do_push(const char *repo, int flags) struct transport *transport = transport_get(remote, url[i]); int err; + int nonfastforward; if (receivepack) transport_set_option(transport, TRANS_OPT_RECEIVEPACK, receivepack); @@ -148,13 +149,19 @@ static int do_push(const char *repo, int flags) if (flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_VERBOSE) fprintf(stderr, "Pushing to %s\n", url[i]); - err = transport_push(transport, refspec_nr, refspec, flags); + err = transport_push(transport, refspec_nr, refspec, flags, + &nonfastforward); err |= transport_disconnect(transport); if (!err) continue; error("failed to push some refs to '%s'", url[i]); + if (nonfastforward) { + printf("To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected.\n" + "Merge the remote changes before pushing again.\n" + "See 'non-fast forward' section of 'git push --help' for details.\n"); + } errs++; } return !!errs; @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd) struct cmdnames main_cmds, other_cmds; memset(&main_cmds, 0, sizeof(main_cmds)); - memset(&other_cmds, 0, sizeof(main_cmds)); + memset(&other_cmds, 0, sizeof(other_cmds)); memset(&aliases, 0, sizeof(aliases)); git_config(git_unknown_cmd_config, NULL); @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ const char *help_unknown_cmd(const char *cmd) const char *assumed = main_cmds.names[0]->name; main_cmds.names[0] = NULL; clean_cmdnames(&main_cmds); - fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: You called a Git program named '%s', " + fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: You called a Git command named '%s', " "which does not exist.\n" "Continuing under the assumption that you meant '%s'\n", cmd, assumed); diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c index afec5b731a..faee154c38 100644 --- a/transport.c +++ b/transport.c @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ static int print_one_push_status(struct ref *ref, const char *dest, int count, i } static void print_push_status(const char *dest, struct ref *refs, - int verbose, int porcelain) + int verbose, int porcelain, int * nonfastforward) { struct ref *ref; int n = 0; @@ -836,11 +836,14 @@ static void print_push_status(const char *dest, struct ref *refs, if (ref->status == REF_STATUS_OK) n += print_one_push_status(ref, dest, n, porcelain); + *nonfastforward = 0; for (ref = refs; ref; ref = ref->next) { if (ref->status != REF_STATUS_NONE && ref->status != REF_STATUS_UPTODATE && ref->status != REF_STATUS_OK) n += print_one_push_status(ref, dest, n, porcelain); + if (ref->status == REF_STATUS_REJECT_NONFASTFORWARD) + *nonfastforward = 1; } } @@ -999,7 +1002,8 @@ int transport_set_option(struct transport *transport, } int transport_push(struct transport *transport, - int refspec_nr, const char **refspec, int flags) + int refspec_nr, const char **refspec, int flags, + int * nonfastforward) { verify_remote_names(refspec_nr, refspec); @@ -1029,7 +1033,8 @@ int transport_push(struct transport *transport, if (!quiet || push_had_errors(remote_refs)) print_push_status(transport->url, remote_refs, - verbose | porcelain, porcelain); + verbose | porcelain, porcelain, + nonfastforward); if (!(flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_DRY_RUN)) { struct ref *ref; diff --git a/transport.h b/transport.h index f1d3ebf674..171a01c7a3 100644 --- a/transport.h +++ b/transport.h @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ int transport_set_option(struct transport *transport, const char *name, const char *value); int transport_push(struct transport *connection, - int refspec_nr, const char **refspec, int flags); + int refspec_nr, const char **refspec, int flags, + int * nonfastforward); const struct ref *transport_get_remote_refs(struct transport *transport); |