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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-command.txt | 99 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-index-skel.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/index-format.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/shallow.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt | 36 |
11 files changed, 170 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt index 1a797812fb..a959517b23 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt @@ -53,3 +53,11 @@ Functions `argv_array_clear`:: Free all memory associated with the array and return it to the initial, empty state. + +`argv_array_detach`:: + Detach the argv array from the `struct argv_array`, transfering + ownership of the allocated array and strings. + +`argv_array_free_detached`:: + Free the memory allocated by a `struct argv_array` that was later + detached and is now no longer needed. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-command.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d3b978177b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-command.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +Integrating new subcommands +=========================== + +This is how-to documentation for people who want to add extension +commands to git. It should be read alongside api-builtin.txt. + +Runtime environment +------------------- + +git subcommands are standalone executables that live in the git exec +path, normally /usr/lib/git-core. The git executable itself is a +thin wrapper that knows where the subcommands live, and runs them by +passing command-line arguments to them. + +(If "git foo" is not found in the git exec path, the wrapper +will look in the rest of your $PATH for it. Thus, it's possible +to write local git extensions that don't live in system space.) + +Implementation languages +------------------------ + +Most subcommands are written in C or shell. A few are written in +Perl. + +While we strongly encourage coding in portable C for portability, +these specific scripting languages are also acceptable. We won't +accept more without a very strong technical case, as we don't want +to broaden the git suite's required dependencies. Import utilities, +surgical tools, remote helpers and other code at the edges of the +git suite are more lenient and we allow Python (and even Tcl/tk), +but they should not be used for core functions. + +This may change in the future. Especially Python is not allowed in +core because we need better Python integration in the git Windows +installer before we can be confident people in that environment +won't experience an unacceptably large loss of capability. + +C commands are normally written as single modules, named after the +command, that link a collection of functions called libgit. Thus, +your command 'git-foo' would normally be implemented as a single +"git-foo.c" (or "builtin/foo.c" if it is to be linked to the main +binary); this organization makes it easy for people reading the code +to find things. + +See the CodingGuidelines document for other guidance on what we consider +good practice in C and shell, and api-builtin.txt for the support +functions available to built-in commands written in C. + +What every extension command needs +---------------------------------- + +You must have a man page, written in asciidoc (this is what git help +followed by your subcommand name will display). Be aware that there is +a local asciidoc configuration and macros which you should use. It's +often helpful to start by cloning an existing page and replacing the +text content. + +You must have a test, written to report in TAP (Test Anything Protocol). +Tests are executables (usually shell scripts) that live in the 't' +subdirectory of the tree. Each test name begins with 't' and a sequence +number that controls where in the test sequence it will be executed; +conventionally the rest of the name stem is that of the command +being tested. + +Read the file t/README to learn more about the conventions to be used +in writing tests, and the test support library. + +Integrating a command +--------------------- + +Here are the things you need to do when you want to merge a new +subcommand into the git tree. + +1. Don't forget to sign off your patch! + +2. Append your command name to one of the variables BUILTIN_OBJS, +EXTRA_PROGRAMS, SCRIPT_SH, SCRIPT_PERL or SCRIPT_PYTHON. + +3. Drop its test in the t directory. + +4. If your command is implemented in an interpreted language with a +p-code intermediate form, make sure .gitignore in the main directory +includes a pattern entry that ignores such files. Python .pyc and +.pyo files will already be covered. + +5. If your command has any dependency on a particular version of +your language, document it in the INSTALL file. + +6. There is a file command-list.txt in the distribution main directory +that categorizes commands by type, so they can be listed in appropriate +subsections in the documentation's summary command list. Add an entry +for yours. To understand the categories, look at git-cmmands.txt +in the main directory. + +7. Give the maintainer one paragraph to include in the RelNotes file +to describe the new feature; a good place to do so is in the cover +letter [PATCH 0/n]. + +That's all there is to it. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-index-skel.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-index-skel.txt index af7cc2e395..730cfacf78 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-index-skel.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-index-skel.txt @@ -11,5 +11,3 @@ documents them. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // table of contents end //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - -2007-11-24 diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt index 95a8bf3846..84686b5c69 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt @@ -279,6 +279,22 @@ same behaviour as well. Strip whitespace from a buffer. The second parameter controls if comments are considered contents to be removed or not. +`strbuf_split_buf`:: +`strbuf_split_str`:: +`strbuf_split_max`:: +`strbuf_split`:: + + Split a string or strbuf into a list of strbufs at a specified + terminator character. The returned substrings include the + terminator characters. Some of these functions take a `max` + parameter, which, if positive, limits the output to that + number of substrings. + +`strbuf_list_free`:: + + Free a list of strbufs (for example, the return values of the + `strbuf_split()` functions). + `launch_editor`:: Launch the user preferred editor to edit a file and fill the buffer diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt index 94d7a2bd99..7386bcab3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the `unsorted_string_list_delete_item`. . Can remove items not matching a criterion from a sorted or unsorted - list using `filter_string_list`. + list using `filter_string_list`, or remove empty strings using + `string_list_remove_empty_items`. . Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`. @@ -75,6 +76,12 @@ Functions to be deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are retained. +`string_list_remove_empty_items`:: + + Remove any empty strings from the list. If free_util is true, + call free() on the util members of any items that have to be + deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are retained. + `string_list_longest_prefix`:: Return the longest string within a string_list that is a diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 9d25b30178..7324154838 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ GIT index format ================ -= The git index file has the following format +== The git index file has the following format All binary numbers are in network byte order. Version 2 is described here unless stated otherwise. @@ -161,8 +161,9 @@ GIT index format this span of index as a tree. An entry can be in an invalidated state and is represented by having - -1 in the entry_count field. In this case, there is no object name - and the next entry starts immediately after the newline. + a negative number in the entry_count field. In this case, there is no + object name and the next entry starts immediately after the newline. + When writing an invalid entry, -1 should always be used as entry_count. The entries are written out in the top-down, depth-first order. The first entry represents the root level of the repository, followed by the diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index 1803e64e46..a7871fb865 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ GIT pack format =============== -= pack-*.pack files have the following format: +== pack-*.pack files have the following format: - A header appears at the beginning and consists of the following: @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ GIT pack format - The trailer records 20-byte SHA1 checksum of all of the above. -= Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format: +== Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format: - The header consists of 256 4-byte network byte order integers. N-th entry of this table records the number of @@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ Pack file entry: <+ -= Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and - have some other reorganizations. They have the format: +== Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and + have some other reorganizations. They have the format: - A 4-byte magic number '\377tOc' which is an unreasonable fanout[0] value. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index d51e20f352..f1a51edf47 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ A few things to remember here: - The repository path is always quoted with single quotes. Fetching Data From a Server -=========================== +--------------------------- When one Git repository wants to get data that a second repository has, the first can 'fetch' from the second. This operation determines @@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ with the object name that each reference currently points to. $ echo -e -n "0039git-upload-pack /schacon/gitbook.git\0host=example.com\0" | nc -v example.com 9418 - 00887217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag + 00887217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack + side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag 00441d3fcd5ced445d1abc402225c0b8a1299641f497 refs/heads/integration 003f7217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 refs/heads/master 003cb88d2441cac0977faf98efc80305012112238d9d refs/tags/v0.9 @@ -421,7 +422,7 @@ entire packfile without multiplexing. Pushing Data To a Server -======================== +------------------------ Pushing data to a server will invoke the 'receive-pack' process on the server, which will allow the client to tell it which references it should diff --git a/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt b/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt index 681efe4219..9b5a0bc186 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -git-send-pack -============= +Git-send-pack internals +======================= Overall operation ----------------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt index 559263af48..0502a5471e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ -Def.: Shallow commits do have parents, but not in the shallow +Shallow commits +=============== + +.Definition +********************************************************* +Shallow commits do have parents, but not in the shallow repo, and therefore grafts are introduced pretending that these commits have no parents. +********************************************************* The basic idea is to write the SHA1s of shallow commits into $GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents like the contents diff --git a/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt b/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt index 24c84100b0..c79d4a7c47 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt @@ -74,24 +74,24 @@ For multiple ancestors, a '+' means that this case applies even if only one ancestor or remote fits; a '^' means all of the ancestors must be the same. -case ancest head remote result ----------------------------------------- -1 (empty)+ (empty) (empty) (empty) -2ALT (empty)+ *empty* remote remote -2 (empty)^ (empty) remote no merge -3ALT (empty)+ head *empty* head -3 (empty)^ head (empty) no merge -4 (empty)^ head remote no merge -5ALT * head head head -6 ancest+ (empty) (empty) no merge -8 ancest^ (empty) ancest no merge -7 ancest+ (empty) remote no merge -10 ancest^ ancest (empty) no merge -9 ancest+ head (empty) no merge -16 anc1/anc2 anc1 anc2 no merge -13 ancest+ head ancest head -14 ancest+ ancest remote remote -11 ancest+ head remote no merge + case ancest head remote result + ---------------------------------------- + 1 (empty)+ (empty) (empty) (empty) + 2ALT (empty)+ *empty* remote remote + 2 (empty)^ (empty) remote no merge + 3ALT (empty)+ head *empty* head + 3 (empty)^ head (empty) no merge + 4 (empty)^ head remote no merge + 5ALT * head head head + 6 ancest+ (empty) (empty) no merge + 8 ancest^ (empty) ancest no merge + 7 ancest+ (empty) remote no merge + 10 ancest^ ancest (empty) no merge + 9 ancest+ head (empty) no merge + 16 anc1/anc2 anc1 anc2 no merge + 13 ancest+ head ancest head + 14 ancest+ ancest remote remote + 11 ancest+ head remote no merge Only #2ALT and #3ALT use *empty*, because these are the only cases where there can be conflicts that didn't exist before. Note that we |