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2011-09-04transfer.fsckobjects: unify fetch/receive.fsckobjectsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+9
This single variable can be used to set instead of setting fsckobjects variable for fetch & receive independently. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-04fetch.fsckobjects: verify downloaded objectsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
This corresponds to receive.fsckobjects configuration variable added (a lot) earlier in 20dc001 (receive-pack: allow using --strict mode for unpacking objects, 2008-02-25). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-21Merge branch 'jc/checkout-detached'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
* jc/checkout-detached: Reword "detached HEAD" notification
2010-02-03make --max-pack-size argument to 'git pack-object' count in bytesLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-4/+7
The value passed to --max-pack-size used to count in MiB which was inconsistent with the corresponding configuration variable as well as other command arguments which are defined to count in bytes with an optional unit suffix. This brings --max-pack-size in line with the rest of Git. Also, in order not to cause havoc with people used to the previous megabyte scale, and because this is a sane thing to do anyway, a minimum size of 1 MiB is enforced to avoid an explosion of pack files. Adjust and extend test suite accordingly. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-01Merge branch 'sp/maint-fast-import-large-blob' into sp/fast-import-large-blobLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
* sp/maint-fast-import-large-blob: fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to pack bash: don't offer remote transport helpers as subcommands Conflicts: fast-import.c
2010-02-01fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to packLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+14
If a blob is larger than the configured big-file-threshold, instead of reading it into a single buffer obtained from malloc, stream it onto the end of the current pack file. Streaming the larger objects into the pack avoids the 4+ GiB memory footprint that occurs when fast-import is processing 2+ GiB blobs. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-29Reword "detached HEAD" notificationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
The old "advice" message explained how to create a branch after going into a detached HEAD state but didn't make it clear why the user may want to do so. Also "moving to ... which isn't a local branch" was unclear if it is complaining, if it is describing the new state, or if it is explaining why the HEAD is detached (the true reason is the last one). Give the established phrase 'detached HEAD' first to make it easy for users to look up the concept in documentation, and briefly describe what can be done in the state (i.e. play around without having to clean up) before telling the user how to keep what was done during the temporary state. Allow the long description to be hidden by setting advice.detachedHead configuration to false. We might want to customize the advice depending on how the commit to check out was spelled (e.g. instead of "new-branch-name", we way want to say "topic" when "git checkout origin/topic" triggered this message) in later updates, but this encapsulates that into a separate function and it should be a good first step. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24Documentation: add missing :: in config.txtLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+1
bed575e (commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status, 2009-12-07) forgot to add the :: that sets off an item from the paragraph that explains it, breaking the layout. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-39/+39
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next: Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull" Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-config.txt Documentation/git-merge.txt
2010-01-20Merge branch 'jc/grep-lookahead'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+0
* jc/grep-lookahead: grep --no-index: allow use of "git grep" outside a git repository grep: prepare to run outside of a work tree grep: rip out pessimization to use fixmatch() grep: rip out support for external grep grep: optimize built-in grep by skipping lines that do not hit Conflicts: builtin-grep.c t/t7002-grep.sh
2010-01-20Merge branch 'mm/conflict-advice'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* mm/conflict-advice: Be more user-friendly when refusing to do something because of conflict. Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt advice.c advice.h
2010-01-20Merge branch 'jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit: user_ident_sufficiently_given(): refactor the logic to be usable from elsewhere commit.c::print_summary: do not release the format string too early commit: allow suppression of implicit identity advice commit: show interesting ident information in summary strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquote strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%" Conflicts: builtin-commit.c ident.c
2010-01-17Merge branch 'jh/commit-status'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
* jh/commit-status: t7502: test commit.status, --status and --no-status commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status Conflicts: Documentation/git-commit.txt builtin-commit.c
2010-01-14commit: allow suppression of implicit identity adviceLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
We now nag the user with a giant warning when their identity was pulled from the username, hostname, and gecos information, in case it is not correct. Most users will suppress this by simply setting up their information correctly. However, there may be some users who consciously want to use that information, because having the value change from host to host contains useful information. These users can now set advice.implicitidentity to false to suppress the message. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-13Merge branch 'nd/sparse'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* nd/sparse: (25 commits) t7002: test for not using external grep on skip-worktree paths t7002: set test prerequisite "external-grep" if supported grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries commit: correctly respect skip-worktree bit ie_match_stat(): do not ignore skip-worktree bit with CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID tests: rename duplicate t1009 sparse checkout: inhibit empty worktree Add tests for sparse checkout read-tree: add --no-sparse-checkout to disable sparse checkout support unpack-trees(): ignore worktree check outside checkout area unpack_trees(): apply $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout to the final index unpack-trees(): "enable" sparse checkout and load $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout unpack-trees.c: generalize verify_* functions unpack-trees(): add CE_WT_REMOVE to remove on worktree alone Introduce "sparse checkout" dir.c: export excluded_1() and add_excludes_from_file_1() excluded_1(): support exclude files in index unpack-trees(): carry skip-worktree bit over in merged_entry() Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktree Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1() ... Conflicts: .gitignore Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-update-index.txt Makefile entry.c t/t7002-grep.sh
2010-01-13grep: rip out support for external grepLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+0
We still allow people to pass --[no-]ext-grep on the command line, but the option is ignored. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-13commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-statusLibravatar James P. Howard, II1-0/+5
A new configuration variable commit.status, and new command line options --status, and --no-status control whether or not the git status information is included in the commit message template when using an editor to prepare the commit message. It does not affect the effects of a user's commit.template settings. Signed-off-by: James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-12Be more user-friendly when refusing to do something because of conflict.Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+4
Various commands refuse to run in the presence of conflicts (commit, merge, pull, cherry-pick/revert). They all used to provide rough, and inconsistant error messages. A new variable advice.resolveconflict is introduced, and allows more verbose messages, pointing the user to the appropriate solution. For commit, the error message used to look like this: $ git commit foo.txt: needs merge foo.txt: unmerged (c34a92682e0394bc0d6f4d4a67a8e2d32395c169) foo.txt: unmerged (3afcd75de8de0bb5076942fcb17446be50451030) foo.txt: unmerged (c9785d77b76dfe4fb038bf927ee518f6ae45ede4) error: Error building trees The "need merge" line is given by refresh_cache. We add the IN_PORCELAIN option to make the output more consistant with the other porcelain commands, and catch the error in return, to stop with a clean error message. The next lines were displayed by a call to cache_tree_update(), which is not reached anymore if we noticed the conflict. The new output looks like: U foo.txt fatal: 'commit' is not possible because you have unmerged files. Please, fix them up in the work tree, and then use 'git add/rm <file>' as appropriate to mark resolution and make a commit, or use 'git commit -a'. Pull is slightly modified to abort immediately if $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD exists instead of waiting for merge to complain. The behavior of merge and the test-case are slightly modified to reflect the usual flow: start with conflicts, fix them, and afterwards get rid of MERGE_HEAD, with different error messages at each stage. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Merge branch 'tr/http-updates'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
* tr/http-updates: Remove http.authAny Allow curl to rewind the RPC read buffer Add an option for using any HTTP authentication scheme, not only basic http: maintain curl sessions
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-36/+36
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax: both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist. The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands., 2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants. Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell, git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the $PATH.
2010-01-10Documentation: format full commands in typewriter fontLibravatar Thomas Rast1-6/+6
Use `code snippet` style instead of 'emphasis' for `git cmd ...` according to the following rules: * The SYNOPSIS sections are left untouched. * If the intent is that the user type the command exactly as given, it is `code`. If the user is only loosely referred to a command and/or option, it remains 'emphasised'. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-10Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+10
* maint: base85: Make the code more obvious instead of explaining the non-obvious base85: encode_85() does not use the decode table base85 debug code: Fix length byte calculation Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks Documentation: git gc packs refs by default now checkout -m: do not try to fall back to --merge from an unborn branch
2010-01-09Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaksLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
As a verb, 'setup' is spelled 'set up'. “diff commands such as diff-files” scans better without a comma. Clarify that shallow and deep are special non-boolean values for format.thread rather than boolean values with some other name. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-09Documentation: git gc packs refs by default nowLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-9/+6
In commit 56752391 (Make "git gc" pack all refs by default, 2007-05-24), 'git gc' was changed to run pack-refs by default Versions before v1.5.1.2 cannot clone repos with packed refs over http, and versions before v1.4.4 cannot handled packed refs at all, but more recent git should have no problems. Try to make this more clear in the git-config manual. The analagous passage in git-gc.txt was updated already with commit fe2128a (Change git-gc documentation to reflect gc.packrefs implementation., 2008-01-09). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-30Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+15
* maint: textconv: stop leaking file descriptors commit: --cleanup is a message option git count-objects: handle packs bigger than 4G t7102: make the test fail if one of its check fails Documentation: always respect core.worktree if set
2009-12-29Remove http.authAnyLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+0
Back when the feature to use different HTTP authentication methods was originally written, it needed an extra HTTP request for everything when the feature was in effect, because we didn't reuse curl sessions. However, b8ac923 (Add an option for using any HTTP authentication scheme, not only basic, 2009-11-27) builds on top of an updated codebase that does reuse curl sessions; there is no need to manually avoid the extra overhead by making this configurable anymore. Acked-by: Martin Storsjo <martin@martin.st> Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-29Documentation: always respect core.worktree if setLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-8/+15
The value of core.worktree in a ".git/config" is honored even when it differs from the directory that has the ".git" directory as its subdirectory. This is likely to be a misconfiguration, so warn users about it. Also, drop the part of the documentation that incorrectly claimed that we ignore such a misconfigured value. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-26Merge branch 'sr/vcs-helper'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* sr/vcs-helper: tests: handle NO_PYTHON setting builtin-push: don't access freed transport->url Add Python support library for remote helpers Basic build infrastructure for Python scripts Allow helpers to report in "list" command that the ref is unchanged Fix various memory leaks in transport-helper.c Allow helper to map private ref names into normal names Add support for "import" helper command Allow specifying the remote helper in the url Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcs Allow fetch to modify refs Use a function to determine whether a remote is valid Allow programs to not depend on remotes having urls Fix memory leak in helper method for disconnect Conflicts: Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt Makefile builtin-ls-remote.c builtin-push.c transport-helper.c
2009-11-28Give the hunk comment its own colorLibravatar Bert Wesarg1-4/+4
Inspired by the coloring of quilt. Introduce a separate color and paint the hunk comment part, i.e. the name of the function, in a separate color "diff.func" (defaults to plain). Whitespace between hunk header and hunk comment is printed in plain color. Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-27Add an option for using any HTTP authentication scheme, not only basicLibravatar Martin Storsjö1-0/+7
This adds the configuration option http.authAny (overridable with the environment variable GIT_HTTP_AUTH_ANY), for instructing curl to allow any HTTP authentication scheme, not only basic (which sends the password in plaintext). When this is enabled, curl has to do double requests most of the time, in order to discover which HTTP authentication method to use, which lowers the performance slightly. Therefore this isn't enabled by default. One example of another authentication scheme to use is digest, which doesn't send the password in plaintext, but uses a challenge-response mechanism instead. Using digest authentication in practice requires at least curl 7.18.1, due to bugs in the digest handling in earlier versions of curl. Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st> Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-27http: maintain curl sessionsLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-0/+6
Allow curl sessions to be kept alive (ie. not ended with curl_easy_cleanup()) even after the request is completed, the number of which is determined by the configuration setting http.minSessions. Add a count for curl sessions, and update it, across slots, when starting and ending curl sessions. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-23Merge branch 'mm/maint-hint-failed-merge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* mm/maint-hint-failed-merge: user-manual: Document that "git merge" doesn't like uncommited changes. merge-recursive: point the user to commit when file would be overwritten.
2009-11-23Merge branch 'bg/fetch-multi'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
* bg/fetch-multi: Re-implement 'git remote update' using 'git fetch' builtin-fetch: add --dry-run option builtin-fetch: add --prune option teach warn_dangling_symref to take a FILE argument remote: refactor some logic into get_stale_heads() Add missing test for 'git remote update --prune' Add the configuration option skipFetchAll Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch' Teach the --all option to 'git fetch'
2009-11-22config documentation: some configs are auto-set by git-initLibravatar Matthew Ogilvie1-2/+22
Add documentation for core.ignorecase, and mention git-init in core.filemode and core.symlinks. Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22Merge branch 'mo/maint-crlf-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
* mo/maint-crlf-doc: core.autocrlf documentation: mention the crlf attribute
2009-11-22Merge branch 'mm/config-pathname-tilde-expand'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
* mm/config-pathname-tilde-expand: Documentation: avoid xmlto input error expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template
2009-11-22merge-recursive: point the user to commit when file would be overwritten.Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+4
The commit-before-pull is well accepted in the DVCS community, but is confusing some new users. This should get them back in the right way when the problem occurs. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-21Documentation: avoid xmlto input errorLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Do not write literal "~/" or "~user" but use "{tilde}/" and "{tilde}user"; otherwise the text between them gets enclosed in "<subscript>...</subscript>". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-20Merge branch 'jh/notes' (early part)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
* 'jh/notes' (early part): Add selftests verifying concatenation of multiple notes for the same commit Refactor notes code to concatenate multiple notes annotating the same object Add selftests verifying that we can parse notes trees with various fanouts Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes Teach notes code to free its internal data structures on request Add '%N'-format for pretty-printing commit notes Add flags to get_commit_notes() to control the format of the note string t3302-notes-index-expensive: Speed up create_repo() fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit" Add an expensive test for git-notes Speed up git notes lookup Add a script to edit/inspect notes Introduce commit notes Conflicts: .gitignore Documentation/pretty-formats.txt pretty.c
2009-11-20Merge branch 'sp/smart-http'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
* sp/smart-http: (37 commits) http-backend: Let gcc check the format of more printf-type functions. http-backend: Fix access beyond end of string. http-backend: Fix bad treatment of uintmax_t in Content-Length t5551-http-fetch: Work around broken Accept header in libcurl t5551-http-fetch: Work around some libcurl versions http-backend: Protect GIT_PROJECT_ROOT from /../ requests Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport http-backend: Test configuration options http-backend: Use http.getanyfile to disable dumb HTTP serving test smart http fetch and push http tests: use /dumb/ URL prefix set httpd port before sourcing lib-httpd t5540-http-push: remove redundant fetches Smart HTTP fetch: gzip requests Smart fetch over HTTP: client side Smart push over HTTP: client side Discover refs via smart HTTP server when available http-backend: more explict LocationMatch http-backend: add example for gitweb on same URL http-backend: use mod_alias instead of mod_rewrite ... Conflicts: .gitignore remote-curl.c
2009-11-20Merge branch 'jn/editor-pager'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
* jn/editor-pager: Provide a build time default-pager setting Provide a build time default-editor setting am -i, git-svn: use "git var GIT_PAGER" add -i, send-email, svn, p4, etc: use "git var GIT_EDITOR" Teach git var about GIT_PAGER Teach git var about GIT_EDITOR Suppress warnings from "git var -l" Do not use VISUAL editor on dumb terminals Handle more shell metacharacters in editor names
2009-11-19expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-4/+5
In 395de250d (Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template), we introduced the mechanism. But expanding ~ using getpw is not what people overriding $HOME would usually expect. In particular, git looks for the user's .gitconfig using $HOME, so it's better to be consistent. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-17Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+3
These config variables are parsed to substitute ~ and ~user with getpw entries. user_path() refactored into new function expand_user_path(), to allow dynamically allocating the return buffer. Original patch by Karl Chen, modified by Matthieu Moy, and further amended by Junio C Hamano. Signed-off-by: Karl Chen <quarl@quarl.org> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-17Add a config option for remotes to specify a foreign vcsLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-0/+4
If this is set, the url is not required, and the transport always uses a helper named "git-remote-<value>". It is a separate configuration option in order to allow a sensible configuration for foreign systems which either have no meaningful urls for repositories or which require urls that do not specify the system used by the repository at that location. However, this only affects how the name of the helper is determined, not anything about the interaction with the helper, and the contruction is such that, if the foreign scm does happen to use a co-named url method, a url with that method may be used directly. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-16core.autocrlf documentation: mention the crlf attributeLibravatar Matthew Ogilvie1-3/+4
The description of the configuration variable is obsolete and wrong (saying only file content is used), not just incomplete. It has used the attribute mechanism for a long time. The documentation of gitattributes mentions the core.autocrlf configuration variable in its description of crlf attribute. Refer to the gitattributes documentation from here as well. Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-15Merge branch 'fc/doc-fast-forward'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* fc/doc-fast-forward: Use 'fast-forward' all over the place Conflicts: builtin-merge.c
2009-11-13add -i, send-email, svn, p4, etc: use "git var GIT_EDITOR"Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-3/+1
Use the new "git var GIT_EDITOR" feature to decide what editor to use, instead of duplicating its logic elsewhere. This should make the behavior of commands in edge cases (e.g., editor names with spaces) a little more consistent. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-10Add the configuration option skipFetchAllLibravatar Björn Gustavsson1-1/+7
Implement the configuration skipFetchAll option to allow certain remotes to be skipped when doing 'git fetch --all' and 'git remote update'. The existing skipDefaultUpdate variable is still honored (by 'git fetch --all' and 'git remote update'). (If both are set in the configuration file with different values, the value of the last occurrence will be used.) Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04Smart push over HTTP: client sideLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+8
The git-remote-curl backend detects if the remote server supports the git-receive-pack service, and if so, runs git-send-pack in a pipe to dump the command and pack data as a single POST request. The advertisements from the server that were obtained during the discovery are passed into git-send-pack before the POST request starts. This permits git-send-pack to operate largely unmodified. For smaller packs (those under 1 MiB) a HTTP/1.0 POST with a Content-Length is used, permitting interaction with any server. The 1 MiB limit is arbitrary, but is sufficent to fit most deltas created by human authors against text sources with the occasional small binary file (e.g. few KiB icon image). The configuration option http.postBuffer can be used to increase (or shink) this buffer if the default is not sufficient. For larger packs which cannot be spooled entirely into the helper's memory space (due to http.postBuffer being too small), the POST request requires HTTP/1.1 and sets "Transfer-Encoding: chunked". This permits the client to upload an unknown amount of data in one HTTP transaction without needing to pregenerate the entire pack file locally. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-25Merge branch 'jc/receive-pack-auto'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* jc/receive-pack-auto: receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info" gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboase