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2013-04-28documentation: trivial whitespace cleanupsLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-1/+1
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function. When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-01Merge branch 'tb/document-status-u-tradeoff' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* tb/document-status-u-tradeoff: status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long git status: document trade-offs in choosing parameters to the -u option
2013-03-28Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint-1.8.1: git help config: s/insn/instruction/
2013-03-28git help config: s/insn/instruction/Libravatar Matthias Krüger1-1/+1
"insn" appears to be an in-code abbreviation and should not appear in manual/help pages. Signed-off-by: Matthias Krüger <matthias.krueger@famsik.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-26Merge branch 'gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs: Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
2013-03-16status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too longLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
Introduce advice.statusUoption to suggest considering use of -u to strike different trade-off when it took more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked/ignored files. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25Sync with 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25Merge branch 'jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default: doc: mention tracking for pull.default
2013-02-25Documentation: "advice" is uncountableLibravatar Greg Price1-1/+1
"Advice" is a mass noun, not a count noun; it's not ordinarily pluralized. Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-24Fix ".git/refs" stragglersLibravatar Greg Price1-1/+1
A couple of references still survive to .git/refs as a tree of all refs. Fix one in docs, one in a -h message, one in a -h message quoted in docs. Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18Merge branch 'jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
We stopped mentioning `tracking` is a deprecated but supported synonym for `upstream` in pull.default even though we have no intention of removing the support for it. * jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default: doc: mention tracking for pull.default
2013-02-17Merge branch 'jc/hidden-refs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+23
Allow the server side to redact the refs/ namespace it shows to the client. Will merge to 'master'. * jc/hidden-refs: upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchies upload-pack: simplify request validation upload-pack: share more code
2013-02-07upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchiesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+23
A repository may have refs that are only used for its internal bookkeeping purposes that should not be exposed to the others that come over the network. Teach upload-pack to omit some refs from its initial advertisement by paying attention to the uploadpack.hiderefs multi-valued configuration variable. Do the same to receive-pack via the receive.hiderefs variable. As a convenient short-hand, allow using transfer.hiderefs to set the value to both of these variables. Any ref that is under the hierarchies listed on the value of these variable is excluded from responses to requests made by "ls-remote", "fetch", etc. (for upload-pack) and "push" (for receive-pack). Because these hidden refs do not count as OUR_REF, an attempt to fetch objects at the tip of them will be rejected, and because these refs do not get advertised, "git push :" will not see local branches that have the same name as them as "matching" ones to be sent. An attempt to update/delete these hidden refs with an explicit refspec, e.g. "git push origin :refs/hidden/22", is rejected. This is not a new restriction. To the pusher, it would appear that there is no such ref, so its push request will conclude with "Now that I sent you all the data, it is time for you to update the refs. I saw that the ref did not exist when I started pushing, and I want the result to point at this commit". The receiving end will apply the compare-and-swap rule to this request and rejects the push with "Well, your update request conflicts with somebody else; I see there is such a ref.", which is the right thing to do. Otherwise a push to a hidden ref will always be "the last one wins", which is not a good default. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-05Merge branch 'ta/doc-no-small-caps'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-56/+56
Update documentation to change "GIT" which was a poor-man's small caps to "Git". The latter was the intended spelling. Also change "git" spelled in all-lowercase to "Git" when it refers to the system as the whole or the concept it embodies, as opposed to the command the end users would type. * ta/doc-no-small-caps: Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT Documentation: describe the "repository" in repository-layout Documentation: add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary Documentation: do not use undefined terms git-dir and git-file Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git' Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
2013-02-04Merge branch 'jc/push-reject-reasons'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+11
Improve error and advice messages given locally when "git push" refuses when it cannot compute fast-forwardness by separating these cases from the normal "not a fast-forward; merge first and push again" case. * jc/push-reject-reasons: push: finishing touches to explain REJECT_ALREADY_EXISTS better push: introduce REJECT_FETCH_FIRST and REJECT_NEEDS_FORCE push: further simplify the logic to assign rejection reason push: further clean up fields of "struct ref"
2013-02-04Merge branch 'jc/custom-comment-char'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from the default '#'. * jc/custom-comment-char: Allow custom "comment char"
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-56/+56
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-31doc: mention tracking for pull.defaultLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
When looking at a configuration file edited long time ago, a user may find 'pull.default = tracking' and wonder what it means, but earlier we stopped mentioning this value, even though the code still support it and more importantly, we have no intention to force old timers to update their configuration files. Instead of not mentioning it, add it to the description in a way that makes it clear that users have no reason to add new uses of it preferring over 'upstream', by not listing it as a separate item on the same footing as other values but as a deprecated synonym of the 'upstream' in its description. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-28Merge branch 'ss/help-htmlpath-config-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
* ss/help-htmlpath-config-doc: config.txt: Document help.htmlpath config parameter
2013-01-24push: introduce REJECT_FETCH_FIRST and REJECT_NEEDS_FORCELibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+11
When we push to update an existing ref, if: * the object at the tip of the remote is not a commit; or * the object we are pushing is not a commit, it won't be correct to suggest to fetch, integrate and push again, as the old and new objects will not "merge". We should explain that the push must be forced when there is a non-committish object is involved in such a case. If we do not have the current object at the tip of the remote, we do not even know that object, when fetched, is something that can be merged. In such a case, suggesting to pull first just like non-fast-forward case may not be technically correct, but in practice, most such failures are seen when you try to push your work to a branch without knowing that somebody else already pushed to update the same branch since you forked, so "pull first" would work as a suggestion most of the time. And if the object at the tip is not a commit, "pull first" will fail, without making any permanent damage. As a side effect, it also makes the error message the user will get during the next "push" attempt easier to understand, now the user is aware that a non-commit object is involved. In these cases, the current code already rejects such a push on the client end, but we used the same error and advice messages as the ones used when rejecting a non-fast-forward push, i.e. pull from there and integrate before pushing again. Introduce new rejection reasons and reword the messages appropriately. [jc: with help by Peff on message details] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-22Enable minimal stat checkingLibravatar Robin Rosenberg1-0/+6
Specifically the fields uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev are set to zero by JGit. Other implementations, eg. Git in cygwin are allegedly also somewhat incompatible with Git For Windows and on *nix platforms the resolution of the timestamps may differ. Any stat checking by git will then need to check content, which may be very slow, particularly on Windows. Since mtime and size is typically enough we should allow the user to tell git to avoid checking these fields if they are set to zero in the index. This change introduces a core.checkstat config option where the the user can select to check all fields (default), or just size and the whole second part of mtime (minimal). Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-20Merge branch 'rt/commit-cleanup-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Add a configuration variable to set default clean-up mode other than "strip". * rt/commit-cleanup-config: commit: make default of "cleanup" option configurable
2013-01-20Merge branch 'ap/log-mailmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Teach commands in the "log" family to optionally pay attention to the mailmap. * ap/log-mailmap: log --use-mailmap: optimize for cases without --author/--committer search log: add log.mailmap configuration option log: grep author/committer using mailmap test: add test for --use-mailmap option log: add --use-mailmap option pretty: use mailmap to display username and email mailmap: add mailmap structure to rev_info and pp mailmap: simplify map_user() interface mailmap: remove email copy and length limitation Use split_ident_line to parse author and committer string-list: allow case-insensitive string list
2013-01-18Merge branch 'ss/help-htmlpath-config-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Add missing doc. * ss/help-htmlpath-config-doc: config.txt: Document help.htmlpath config parameter
2013-01-16Allow custom "comment char"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #, in their commit log message. Many tracking system recognise a token of #<bugid> form, for example. The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end users. They have a choice between - Don't do it. Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and - Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add. Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g. $ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds. [jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*() functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are from Ralf.] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-15config.txt: Document help.htmlpath config parameterLibravatar Sebastian Staudt1-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Staudt <koraktor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10log: add log.mailmap configuration optionLibravatar Antoine Pelisse1-0/+4
Teach "log.mailmap" configuration variable to turn "--use-mailmap" option on to "git log", "git show" and "git whatchanged". The "--no-use-mailmap" option from the command line can countermand the setting. Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10commit: make default of "cleanup" option configurableLibravatar Ralf Thielow1-0/+9
The default of the "cleanup" option in "git commit" is not configurable. Users who don't want to use the default have to pass this option on every commit since there's no way to configure it. This commit introduces a new config option "commit.cleanup" which can be used to change the default of the "cleanup" option in "git commit". Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-09Merge branch 'nd/maint-branch-desc-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Teach various forms of "format-patch" command line to identify what branch the patches are taken from, so that the branch description is picked up in more cases. * nd/maint-branch-desc-doc: format-patch: pick up branch description when no ref is specified format-patch: pick up correct branch name from symbolic ref t4014: a few more tests on cover letter using branch description branch: delete branch description if it's empty config.txt: a few lines about branch.<name>.description
2013-01-05Merge branch 'wk/submodule-update-remote'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
The beginning of 'integrate with the tip of the remote branch, not the commit recorded in the superproject gitlink' support. * wk/submodule-update-remote: submodule add: If --branch is given, record it in .gitmodules submodule update: add --remote for submodule's upstream changes submodule: add get_submodule_config helper funtion
2013-01-05Merge branch 'jk/mailmap-from-blob'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Allow us to read, and default to read, mailmap files from the tip of the history in bare repositories. This will help running tools like shortlog in server settings. * jk/mailmap-from-blob: mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositories mailmap: fix some documentation loose-ends for mailmap.blob mailmap: clean up read_mailmap error handling mailmap: support reading mailmap from blobs mailmap: refactor mailmap parsing for non-file sources
2013-01-05Merge branch 'cr/push-force-tag-update'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+7
Require "-f" for push to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward. * cr/push-force-tag-update: push: allow already-exists advice to be disabled push: rename config variable for more general use push: cleanup push rules comment push: clarify rejection of update to non-commit-ish push: require force for annotated tags push: require force for refs under refs/tags/ push: flag updates that require force push: keep track of "update" state separately push: add advice for rejected tag reference push: return reject reasons as a bitset
2013-01-01config.txt: a few lines about branch.<name>.descriptionLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27Documentation: move diff.wordRegex from config.txt to diff-config.txtLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-6/+0
19299a8 (Documentation: Move diff.<driver>.* from config.txt to diff-config.txt, 2011-04-07) moved the diff configuration options to diff-config.txt, but forgot about diff.wordRegex, which was left behind in config.txt. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-19submodule update: add --remote for submodule's upstream changesLibravatar W. Trevor King1-0/+6
The current `update` command incorporates the superproject's gitlinked SHA-1 ($sha1) into the submodule HEAD ($subsha1). Depending on the options you use, it may checkout $sha1, rebase the $subsha1 onto $sha1, or merge $sha1 into $subsha1. This helps you keep up with changes in the upstream superproject. However, it's also useful to stay up to date with changes in the upstream subproject. Previous workflows for incorporating such changes include the ungainly: $ git submodule foreach 'git checkout $(git config --file $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch) && git pull' With this patch, all of the useful functionality for incorporating superproject changes can be reused to incorporate upstream subproject updates. When you specify --remote, the target $sha1 is replaced with a $sha1 of the submodule's origin/master tracking branch. If you want to merge a different tracking branch, you can configure the `submodule.<name>.branch` option in `.gitmodules`. You can override the `.gitmodules` configuration setting for a particular superproject by configuring the option in that superproject's default configuration (using the usual configuration hierarchy, e.g. `.git/config`, `~/.gitconfig`, etc.). Previous use of submodule.<name>.branch ======================================= Because we're adding a new configuration option, it's a good idea to check if anyone else is already using the option. The foreach-pull example above was described by Ævar in commit f030c96d8643fa0a1a9b2bd9c2f36a77721fb61f Author: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Date: Fri May 21 16:10:10 2010 +0000 git-submodule foreach: Add $toplevel variable Gerrit uses the same interpretation for the setting, but because Gerrit has direct access to the subproject repositories, it updates the superproject repositories automatically when a subproject changes. Gerrit also accepts the special value '.', which it expands into the superproject's branch name. Although the --remote functionality is using `submodule.<name>.branch` slightly differently, the effect is the same. The foreach-pull example uses the option to record the name of the local branch to checkout before pulls. The tracking branch to be pulled is recorded in `.git/modules/<name>/config`, which was initialized by the module clone during `submodule add` or `submodule init`. Because the branch name stored in `submodule.<name>.branch` was likely the same as the branch name used during the initial `submodule add`, the same branch will be pulled in each workflow. Implementation details ====================== In order to ensure a current tracking branch state, `update --remote` fetches the submodule's remote repository before calculating the SHA-1. However, I didn't change the logic guarding the existing fetch: if test -z "$nofetch" then # Run fetch only if $sha1 isn't present or it # is not reachable from a ref. (clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" && ( (rev=$(git rev-list -n 1 $sha1 --not --all 2>/dev/null) && test -z "$rev") || git-fetch)) || die "$(eval_gettext "Unable to fetch in submodule path '\$path'")" fi There will not be a double-fetch, because the new $sha1 determined after the `--remote` triggered fetch should always exist in the repository. If it doesn't, it's because some racy process removed it from the submodule's repository and we *should* be re-fetching. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-13mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositoriesLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+5
The motivation for mailmap.blob is to let users of bare repositories use the mailmap feature, as they would not have a checkout containing the .mailmap file. We can make it even easier for them by just looking in HEAD:.mailmap by default. We can't know for sure that this is where they would keep a mailmap, of course, but it is the best guess (and it matches the non-bare behavior, which reads from HEAD:.mailmap in the working tree). If it's missing, git will silently ignore the setting. We do not do the same magic in the non-bare case, because: 1. In the common case, HEAD:.mailmap will be the same as the .mailmap in the working tree, which is a no-op. 2. In the uncommon case, the user has modified .mailmap but not yet committed it, and would expect the working tree version to take precedence. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-12mailmap: support reading mailmap from blobsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+6
In a bare repository, there isn't a simple way to respect an in-tree mailmap without extracting it to a temporary file. This patch provides a config variable, similar to mailmap.file, which reads the mailmap from a blob in the repository. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-04Merge branch 'mm/status-push-pull-advise'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
* mm/status-push-pull-advise: document that statusHints affects git checkout
2012-12-04document that statusHints affects git checkoutLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-2/+3
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-03push: allow already-exists advice to be disabledLibravatar Chris Rorvick1-2/+6
Add 'advice.pushAlreadyExists' option to disable the advice shown when an update is rejected for a reference that is not allowed to update at all (verses those that are allowed to fast-forward.) Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-03push: rename config variable for more general useLibravatar Chris Rorvick1-1/+1
The 'pushNonFastForward' advice config can be used to squelch several instances of push-related advice. Rename it to 'pushUpdateRejected' to cover other reject scenarios that are unrelated to fast-forwarding. Retain the old name for compatibility. Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-18Documentation: move diff.wordRegex from config.txt to diff-config.txtLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-6/+0
19299a8 (Documentation: Move diff.<driver>.* from config.txt to diff-config.txt, 2011-04-07) moved the diff configuration options to diff-config.txt, but forgot about diff.wordRegex, which was left behind in config.txt. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-04Merge branch 'pp/maint-doc-pager-config'Libravatar Jeff King1-4/+4
* pp/maint-doc-pager-config: Documentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pager
2012-10-29Documentation: improve the example of overriding LESS via core.pagerLibravatar Patrick Palka1-4/+4
You can override an option set in the LESS variable by simply prefixing the command line option with `-+`. This is more robust than the previous example if the default LESS options are to ever change. Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-09-17Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
* maint: t/perf: add "trash directory" to .gitignore Add missing -z to git check-attr usage text for consistency with man page git-jump: ignore (custom) prefix in diff mode Documentation: indent-with-non-tab uses "equivalent tabs" not 8 completion: add --no-edit to git-commit
2012-09-17Documentation: indent-with-non-tab uses "equivalent tabs" not 8Libravatar Wesley J. Landaker1-2/+3
Update the documentation of the core.whitespace option "indent-with-non-tab" to correctly reflect that it catches the use of spaces instead of the equivalent tabs, rather than a fixed number. Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-27Merge branch 'js/grep-patterntype-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+9
"grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if a configuration variable tells it to. * js/grep-patterntype-config: grep: add a grep.patternType configuration setting
2012-08-03grep: add a grep.patternType configuration settingLibravatar J Smith1-1/+9
The grep.extendedRegexp configuration setting enables the -E flag on grep by default but there are no equivalents for the -G, -F and -P flags. Rather than adding an additional setting for grep.fooRegexp for current and future pattern matching options, add a grep.patternType setting that can accept appropriate values for modifying the default grep pattern matching behavior. The current values are "basic", "extended", "fixed", "perl" and "default" for setting -G, -E, -F, -P and the default behavior respectively. When grep.patternType is set to a value other than "default", the grep.extendedRegexp setting is ignored. The value of "default" restores the current default behavior, including the grep.extendedRegexp behavior. Signed-off-by: J Smith <dark.panda@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-30Merge branch 'pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it. * pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch: am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found