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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt | 86 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-in-core-index.txt | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt | 25 |
9 files changed, 107 insertions, 62 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt index 2602668677..e7cbb7c13a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt @@ -16,10 +16,15 @@ Data Structure of no interest to the calling programs. The name of the attribute can be retrieved by calling `git_attr_name()`. -`struct git_attr_check`:: +`struct attr_check_item`:: - This structure represents a set of attributes to check in a call - to `git_check_attr()` function, and receives the results. + This structure represents one attribute and its value. + +`struct attr_check`:: + + This structure represents a collection of `attr_check_item`. + It is passed to `git_check_attr()` function, specifying the + attributes to check, and receives their values. Attribute Values @@ -27,7 +32,7 @@ Attribute Values An attribute for a path can be in one of four states: Set, Unset, Unspecified or set to a string, and `.value` member of `struct -git_attr_check` records it. There are three macros to check these: +attr_check_item` records it. There are three macros to check these: `ATTR_TRUE()`:: @@ -48,49 +53,51 @@ value of the attribute for the path. Querying Specific Attributes ---------------------------- -* Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` to define the list of - attributes you would want to check. To populate this array, you would - need to define necessary attributes by calling `git_attr()` function. +* Prepare `struct attr_check` using attr_check_initl() + function, enumerating the names of attributes whose values you are + interested in, terminated with a NULL pointer. Alternatively, an + empty `struct attr_check` can be prepared by calling + `attr_check_alloc()` function and then attributes you want to + ask about can be added to it with `attr_check_append()` + function. * Call `git_check_attr()` to check the attributes for the path. -* Inspect `git_attr_check` structure to see how each of the attribute in - the array is defined for the path. +* Inspect `attr_check` structure to see how each of the + attribute in the array is defined for the path. Example ------- -To see how attributes "crlf" and "indent" are set for different paths. +To see how attributes "crlf" and "ident" are set for different paths. -. Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` with two elements (because - we are checking two attributes). Initialize their `attr` member with - pointers to `struct git_attr` obtained by calling `git_attr()`: +. Prepare a `struct attr_check` with two elements (because + we are checking two attributes): ------------ -static struct git_attr_check check[2]; +static struct attr_check *check; static void setup_check(void) { - if (check[0].attr) + if (check) return; /* already done */ - check[0].attr = git_attr("crlf"); - check[1].attr = git_attr("ident"); + check = attr_check_initl("crlf", "ident", NULL); } ------------ -. Call `git_check_attr()` with the prepared array of `struct git_attr_check`: +. Call `git_check_attr()` with the prepared `struct attr_check`: ------------ const char *path; setup_check(); - git_check_attr(path, ARRAY_SIZE(check), check); + git_check_attr(path, check); ------------ -. Act on `.value` member of the result, left in `check[]`: +. Act on `.value` member of the result, left in `check->items[]`: ------------ - const char *value = check[0].value; + const char *value = check->items[0].value; if (ATTR_TRUE(value)) { The attribute is Set, by listing only the name of the @@ -109,20 +116,39 @@ static void setup_check(void) } ------------ +To see how attributes in argv[] are set for different paths, only +the first step in the above would be different. + +------------ +static struct attr_check *check; +static void setup_check(const char **argv) +{ + check = attr_check_alloc(); + while (*argv) { + struct git_attr *attr = git_attr(*argv); + attr_check_append(check, attr); + argv++; + } +} +------------ + Querying All Attributes ----------------------- To get the values of all attributes associated with a file: -* Call `git_all_attrs()`, which returns an array of `git_attr_check` - structures. +* Prepare an empty `attr_check` structure by calling + `attr_check_alloc()`. + +* Call `git_all_attrs()`, which populates the `attr_check` + with the attributes attached to the path. -* Iterate over the `git_attr_check` array to examine the attribute - names and values. The name of the attribute described by a - `git_attr_check` object can be retrieved via - `git_attr_name(check[i].attr)`. (Please note that no items will be - returned for unset attributes, so `ATTR_UNSET()` will return false - for all returned `git_array_check` objects.) +* Iterate over the `attr_check.items[]` array to examine + the attribute names and values. The name of the attribute + described by a `attr_check.items[]` object can be retrieved via + `git_attr_name(check->items[i].attr)`. (Please note that no items + will be returned for unset attributes, so `ATTR_UNSET()` will return + false for all returned `attr_check.items[]` objects.) -* Free the `git_array_check` array. +* Free the `attr_check` struct by calling `attr_check_free()`. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt index 28f5a8b715..a3f020cd9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt @@ -188,7 +188,9 @@ Returns the removed entry, or NULL if not found. `void *hashmap_iter_next(struct hashmap_iter *iter)`:: `void *hashmap_iter_first(struct hashmap *map, struct hashmap_iter *iter)`:: - Used to iterate over all entries of a hashmap. + Used to iterate over all entries of a hashmap. Note that it is + not safe to add or remove entries to the hashmap while + iterating. + `hashmap_iter_init` initializes a `hashmap_iter` structure. + diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-in-core-index.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-in-core-index.txt deleted file mode 100644 index adbdbf5d75..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-in-core-index.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -in-core index API -================= - -Talk about <read-cache.c> and <cache-tree.c>, things like: - -* cache -> the_index macros -* read_index() -* write_index() -* ie_match_stat() and ie_modified(); how they are different and when to - use which. -* index_name_pos() -* remove_index_entry_at() -* remove_file_from_index() -* add_file_to_index() -* add_index_entry() -* refresh_index() -* discard_index() -* cache_tree_invalidate_path() -* cache_tree_update() - -(JC, Linus) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 27bd701c0d..36768b479e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: Introduce an option with string argument. The string argument is put into `str_var`. +`OPT_STRING_LIST(short, long, &struct string_list, arg_str, description)`:: + Introduce an option with string argument. + The string argument is stored as an element in `string_list`. + Use of `--no-option` will clear the list of preceding values. + `OPT_INTEGER(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: Introduce an option with integer argument. The integer is put into `int_var`. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt index 540e455689..eb1fa9853e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt @@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ parse_pathspec(). This function takes several arguments: - prefix and args come from cmd_* functions -get_pathspec() is obsolete and should never be used in new code. - parse_pathspec() helps catch unsupported features and reject them politely. At a lower level, different pathspec-related functions may not support the same set of features. Such pathspec-sensitive diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt index 3e75497a37..dcc52943a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt @@ -38,16 +38,20 @@ Functions `sha1_array_for_each_unique`:: Efficiently iterate over each unique element of the list, executing the callback function for each one. If the array is - not sorted, this function has the side effect of sorting it. + not sorted, this function has the side effect of sorting it. If + the callback returns a non-zero value, the iteration ends + immediately and the callback's return is propagated; otherwise, + 0 is returned. Examples -------- ----------------------------------------- -void print_callback(const unsigned char sha1[20], +int print_callback(const unsigned char sha1[20], void *data) { printf("%s\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1)); + return 0; /* always continue */ } void some_func(void) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt index 941fa178dd..3dce003fda 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt @@ -47,16 +47,20 @@ Functions Can be passed to the config parsing infrastructure to parse local (worktree) submodule configurations. -`const struct submodule *submodule_from_path(const unsigned char *commit_sha1, const char *path)`:: +`const struct submodule *submodule_from_path(const unsigned char *treeish_name, const char *path)`:: - Lookup values for one submodule by its commit_sha1 and path. + Given a tree-ish in the superproject and a path, return the + submodule that is bound at the path in the named tree. -`const struct submodule *submodule_from_name(const unsigned char *commit_sha1, const char *name)`:: +`const struct submodule *submodule_from_name(const unsigned char *treeish_name, const char *name)`:: The same as above but lookup by name. -If given the null_sha1 as commit_sha1 the local configuration of a -submodule will be returned (e.g. consolidated values from local git +Whenever a submodule configuration is parsed in `parse_submodule_config_option` +via e.g. `gitmodules_config()`, it will overwrite the null_sha1 entry. +So in the normal case, when HEAD:.gitmodules is parsed first and then overlayed +with the repository configuration, the null_sha1 entry contains the local +configuration of a submodule (e.g. consolidated values from local git configuration and the .gitmodules file in the worktree). For an example usage see test-submodule-config.c. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 736f3894a8..c59ac9936a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -219,7 +219,9 @@ out of what the server said it could do with the first 'want' line. shallow-line = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id) - depth-request = PKT-LINE("deepen" SP depth) + depth-request = PKT-LINE("deepen" SP depth) / + PKT-LINE("deepen-since" SP timestamp) / + PKT-LINE("deepen-not" SP ref) first-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id SP capability-list) additional-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index 4c28d3a8ae..26dcc6f502 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -179,6 +179,31 @@ This capability adds "deepen", "shallow" and "unshallow" commands to the fetch-pack/upload-pack protocol so clients can request shallow clones. +deepen-since +------------ + +This capability adds "deepen-since" command to fetch-pack/upload-pack +protocol so the client can request shallow clones that are cut at a +specific time, instead of depth. Internally it's equivalent of doing +"rev-list --max-age=<timestamp>" on the server side. "deepen-since" +cannot be used with "deepen". + +deepen-not +---------- + +This capability adds "deepen-not" command to fetch-pack/upload-pack +protocol so the client can request shallow clones that are cut at a +specific revision, instead of depth. Internally it's equivalent of +doing "rev-list --not <rev>" on the server side. "deepen-not" +cannot be used with "deepen", but can be used with "deepen-since". + +deepen-relative +--------------- + +If this capability is requested by the client, the semantics of +"deepen" command is changed. The "depth" argument is the depth from +the current shallow boundary, instead of the depth from remote refs. + no-progress ----------- |