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2021-04-08Merge branch 'll/clone-reject-shallow'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
"git clone --reject-shallow" option fails the clone as soon as we notice that we are cloning from a shallow repository. * ll/clone-reject-shallow: builtin/clone.c: add --reject-shallow option
2021-04-01builtin/clone.c: add --reject-shallow optionLibravatar Li Linchao1-0/+4
In some scenarios, users may want more history than the repository offered for cloning, which happens to be a shallow repository, can give them. But because users don't know it is a shallow repository until they download it to local, we may want to refuse to clone this kind of repository, without creating any unnecessary files. The '--depth=x' option cannot be used as a solution; the source may be deep enough to give us 'x' commits when cloned, but the user may later need to deepen the history to arbitrary depth. Teach '--reject-shallow' option to "git clone" to abort as soon as we find out that we are cloning from a shallow repository. Signed-off-by: Li Linchao <lilinchao@oschina.cn> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-23rebase: remove transitory rebase.useBuiltin setting & envLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-7/+0
Remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting and the now-obsolete GIT_TEST_REBASE_USE_BUILTIN test flag. This was left in place after my d03ebd411c6 (rebase: remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting, 2019-03-18) to help anyone who'd used the experimental flag and wanted to know that it was the default, or that they should transition their test environment to use the builtin rebase unconditionally. It's been more than long enough for those users to get a headsup about this. So remove all the scaffolding that was left inplace after d03ebd411c6. I'm also removing the documentation entry, if anyone still has this left in their configuration they can do some source archaeology to figure out what it used to do, which makes more sense than exposing every git user reading the documentation to this legacy configuration switch. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-22Merge branch 'dl/stash-show-untracked'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
"git stash show" learned to optionally show untracked part of the stash. * dl/stash-show-untracked: stash show: learn stash.showIncludeUntracked stash show: teach --include-untracked and --only-untracked
2021-03-22Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-generation-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
A new configuration variable has been introduced to allow choosing which version of the generation number gets used in the commit-graph file. * ds/commit-graph-generation-config: commit-graph: use config to specify generation type commit-graph: create local repository pointer
2021-03-14Merge branch 'jn/mergetool-hideresolved-is-optional'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Disable the recent mergetool's hideresolved feature by default for backward compatibility and safety. * jn/mergetool-hideresolved-is-optional: doc: describe mergetool configuration in git-mergetool(1) mergetool: do not enable hideResolved by default
2021-03-13mergetool: do not enable hideResolved by defaultLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
When 98ea309b3f (mergetool: add hideResolved configuration, 2021-02-09) introduced the mergetool.hideResolved setting to reduce the clutter in viewing non-conflicted sections of files in a mergetool, it enabled it by default, explaining: No adverse effects were noted in a small survey of popular mergetools[1] so this behavior defaults to `true`. In practice, alas, adverse effects do appear. A few issues: 1. No indication is shown in the UI that the base, local, and remote versions shown have been modified by additional resolution. This is inherent in the design: the idea of mergetool.hideResolved is to convince a mergetool that expects pristine local, base, and remote files to show partially resolved verisons of those files instead; there is no additional source of information accessible to the mergetool to see where the resolution has happened. (By contrast, a mergetool generating the partial resolution from conflict markers for itself would be able to hilight the resolved sections with a different color.) A user accustomed to seeing the files without partial resolution gets no indication that this behavior has changed when they upgrade Git. 2. If the computed merge did not line up the files correctly (for example due to repeated sections in the file), the partially resolved files can be misleading and do not have enough information to reconstruct what happened and compute the correct merge result. 3. Resolving a conflict can involve information beyond the textual conflict. For example, if the local and remote versions added overlapping functionality in different ways, seeing the full unresolved versions of each alongside the base gives information about each side's intent that makes it possible to come up with a resolution that combines those two intents. By contrast, when starting with partially resolved versions of those files, one can produce a subtly wrong resolution that includes redundant extra code added by one side that is not needed in the approach taken on the other. All that said, a user wanting to focus on textual conflicts with reduced clutter can still benefit from mergetool.hideResolved=true as a way to deemphasize sections of the code that resolve cleanly without requiring any changes to the invoked mergetool. The caveats described above are reduced when the user has explicitly turned this on, because then the user is aware of them. Flip the default to 'false'. Reported-by: Dana Dahlstrom <dahlstrom@google.com> Helped-by: Seth House <seth@eseth.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-05stash show: learn stash.showIncludeUntrackedLibravatar Denton Liu1-0/+5
The previous commit teaches `git stash show --include-untracked`. It may be desirable for a user to be able to always enable the --include-untracked behavior. Teach the stash.showIncludeUntracked config option which allows users to do this in a similar manner to stash.showPatch. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-25Merge branch 'ah/rebase-no-fork-point-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
"git rebase --[no-]fork-point" gained a configuration variable rebase.forkPoint so that users do not have to keep specifying a non-default setting. * ah/rebase-no-fork-point-config: rebase: add a config option for --no-fork-point
2021-02-25commit-graph: use config to specify generation typeLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+6
We have two established generation number versions: 1: topological levels 2: corrected commit dates The corrected commit dates are enabled by default, but they also write extra data in the GDAT and GDOV chunks. Services that host Git data might want to have more control over when this feature rolls out than just updating the Git binaries. Add a new "commitGraph.generationVersion" config option that specifies the intended generation number version. If this value is less than 2, then the GDAT chunk is never written _or read_ from an existing file. This can replace our use of the GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_NO_GDAT environment variable in the test suite. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-24rebase: add a config option for --no-fork-pointLibravatar Alex Henrie1-0/+3
Some users (myself included) would prefer to have this feature off by default because it can silently drop commits. Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-17Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-pack-refs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
"git maintenance" tool learned a new "pack-refs" maintenance task. * ds/maintenance-pack-refs: maintenance: incremental strategy runs pack-refs weekly maintenance: add pack-refs task
2021-02-17Merge branch 'sh/mergetool-hideresolved'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+15
"git mergetool" feeds three versions (base, local and remote) of a conflicted path unmodified. The command learned to optionally prepare these files with unconflicted parts already resolved. * sh/mergetool-hideresolved: mergetool: add per-tool support and overrides for the hideResolved flag mergetool: break setup_tool out into separate initialization function mergetool: add hideResolved configuration
2021-02-17Merge branch 'jt/clone-unborn-head'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+10
"git clone" tries to locally check out the branch pointed at by HEAD of the remote repository after it is done, but the protocol did not convey the information necessary to do so when copying an empty repository. The protocol v2 learned how to do so. * jt/clone-unborn-head: clone: respect remote unborn HEAD connect, transport: encapsulate arg in struct ls-refs: report unborn targets of symrefs
2021-02-09maintenance: incremental strategy runs pack-refs weeklyLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-2/+3
When the 'maintenance.strategy' config option is set to 'incremental', a default maintenance schedule is enabled. Add the 'pack-refs' task to that strategy at the weekly cadence. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-09mergetool: add per-tool support and overrides for the hideResolved flagLibravatar Seth House1-0/+5
Add a per-tool override flag so that users may enable the flag for one tool and disable it for another by setting `mergetool.<tool>.hideResolved` to `false`. In addition, the author or maintainer of a mergetool may optionally override the default `hideResolved` value for that mergetool. If the `mergetools/<tool>` shell script contains a `hide_resolved_enabled` function it will be called when the mergetool is invoked and the return value will be used as the default for the `hideResolved` flag. hide_resolved_enabled () { return 1 } Disabling may be desirable if the mergetool wants or needs access to the original, unmodified 'LOCAL' and 'REMOTE' versions of the conflicted file. For example: - A tool may use a custom conflict resolution algorithm and prefer to ignore the results of Git's conflict resolution. - A tool may want to visually compare/constrast the version of the file from before the merge (saved to 'LOCAL', 'REMOTE', and 'BASE') with Git's conflict resolution results (saved to 'MERGED'). Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Seth House <seth@eseth.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-09mergetool: add hideResolved configurationLibravatar Seth House1-0/+10
The purpose of a mergetool is to help the user resolve any conflicts that Git cannot automatically resolve. If there is a conflict that must be resolved manually Git will write a file named MERGED which contains everything Git was able to resolve by itself and also everything that it was not able to resolve wrapped in conflict markers. One way to think of MERGED is as a two- or three-way diff. If each "side" of the conflict markers is separately extracted an external tool can represent those conflicts as a side-by-side diff. However many mergetools instead diff LOCAL and REMOTE both of which contain versions of the file from before the merge. Since the conflicts Git resolved automatically are not present it forces the user to manually re-resolve those conflicts. Some mergetools also show MERGED but often only for reference and not as the focal point to resolve the conflicts. This adds a `mergetool.hideResolved` flag that will overwrite LOCAL and REMOTE with each corresponding "side" of a conflicted file and thus hide all conflicts that Git was able to resolve itself. Overwriting these files will immediately benefit any mergetool that uses them without requiring any changes to the tool. No adverse effects were noted in a small survey of popular mergetools[1] so this behavior defaults to `true`. However it can be globally disabled by setting `mergetool.hideResolved` to `false`. [1] https://www.eseth.org/2020/mergetools.html https://github.com/whiteinge/eseth/blob/c884424769fffb05d87afb33b2cf80cecb4044c3/2020/mergetools.md Original-implementation-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Seth House <seth@eseth.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05clone: respect remote unborn HEADLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-1/+1
Teach Git to use the "unborn" feature introduced in a previous patch as follows: Git will always send the "unborn" argument if it is supported by the server. During "git clone", if cloning an empty repository, Git will use the new information to determine the local branch to create. In all other cases, Git will ignore it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05ls-refs: report unborn targets of symrefsLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-0/+9
When cloning, we choose the default branch based on the remote HEAD. But if there is no remote HEAD reported (which could happen if the target of the remote HEAD is unborn), we'll fall back to using our local init.defaultBranch. Traditionally this hasn't been a big deal, because most repos used "master" as the default. But these days it is likely to cause confusion if the server and client implementations choose different values (e.g., if the remote started with "main", we may choose "master" locally, create commits there, and then the user is surprised when they push to "master" and not "main"). To solve this, the remote needs to communicate the target of the HEAD symref, even if it is unborn, and "git clone" needs to use this information. Currently, symrefs that have unborn targets (such as in this case) are not communicated by the protocol. Teach Git to advertise and support the "unborn" feature in "ls-refs" (by default, this is advertised, but server administrators may turn this off through the lsrefs.unborn config). This feature indicates that "ls-refs" supports the "unborn" argument; when it is specified, "ls-refs" will send the HEAD symref with the name of its unborn target. This change is only for protocol v2. A similar change for protocol v0 would require independent protocol design (there being no analogous position to signal support for "unborn") and client-side plumbing of the data required, so the scope of this patch set is limited to protocol v2. The client side will be updated to use this in a subsequent commit. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-25Documentation/config/pack.txt: advertise 'pack.writeReverseIndex'Libravatar Taylor Blau1-0/+7
Now that the pack.writeReverseIndex configuration is respected in both 'git index-pack' and 'git pack-objects' (and therefore, all of their callers), we can safely advertise it for use in the git-config manual. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-25Merge branch 'sj/untracked-files-in-submodule-directory-is-not-dirty'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
"git diff" showed a submodule working tree with untracked cruft as "Submodule commit <objectname>-dirty", but a natural expectation is that the "-dirty" indicator would align with "git describe --dirty", which does not consider having untracked files in the working tree as source of dirtiness. The inconsistency has been fixed. * sj/untracked-files-in-submodule-directory-is-not-dirty: diff: do not show submodule with untracked files as "-dirty"
2021-01-15Merge branch 'ta/doc-typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+3
Doc fix. * ta/doc-typofix: doc: fix some typos
2021-01-15Merge branch 'ew/decline-core-abbrev'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
The configuration variable 'core.abbrev' can be set to 'no' to force no abbreviation regardless of the hash algorithm. * ew/decline-core-abbrev: core.abbrev=no disables abbreviations
2021-01-04doc: fix some typosLibravatar Thomas Ackermann2-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Acked-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-23core.abbrev=no disables abbreviationsLibravatar Eric Wong1-0/+2
This allows users to write hash-agnostic scripts and configs by disabling abbreviations. Using "-c core.abbrev=40" will be insufficient with SHA-256, and "-c core.abbrev=64" won't work with SHA-1 repos today. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> [jc: tweaked implementation, added doc and a test] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-14Merge branch 'dd/help-autocorrect-never'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+8
"git $cmd $args", when $cmd is not a recognised subcommand, by default tries to see if $cmd is a typo of an existing subcommand and optionally executes the corrected command if there is only one possibility, depending on the setting of help.autocorrect; the users can now disable the whole thing, including the cycles spent to find a likely typo, by setting the configuration variable to 'never'. * dd/help-autocorrect-never: help.c: help.autocorrect=never means "do not compute suggestions"
2020-12-08Merge branch 'js/trace2-session-id'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
The transport layer was taught to optionally exchange the session ID assigned by the trace2 subsystem during fetch/push transactions. * js/trace2-session-id: receive-pack: log received client session ID send-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities upload-pack, serve: log received client session ID fetch-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities transport: log received server session ID serve: advertise session ID in v2 capabilities receive-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities upload-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities trace2: add a public function for getting the SID docs: new transfer.advertiseSID option docs: new capability to advertise session IDs
2020-12-08diff: do not show submodule with untracked files as "-dirty"Libravatar Sangeeta Jain1-0/+2
Git diff reports a submodule directory as -dirty even when there are only untracked files in the submodule directory. This is inconsistent with what `git describe --dirty` says when run in the submodule directory in that state. Make `--ignore-submodules=untracked` the default for `git diff` when there is no configuration variable or command line option, so that the command would not give '-dirty' suffix to a submodule whose working tree has untracked files, to make it consistent with `git describe --dirty` that is run in the submodule working tree. And also make `--ignore-submodules=none` the default for `git status` so that the user doesn't end up deleting a submodule that has uncommitted (untracked) files. Signed-off-by: Sangeeta Jain <sangunb09@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-30Merge branch 'sa/credential-store-timeout'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Multiple "credential-store" backends can race to lock the same file, causing everybody else but one to fail---reattempt locking with some timeout to reduce the rate of the failure. * sa/credential-store-timeout: crendential-store: use timeout when locking file
2020-11-30Merge branch 'ab/gc-keep-base-option'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Fix an option name in "gc" documentation. * ab/gc-keep-base-option: gc: rename keep_base_pack variable for --keep-largest-pack gc docs: change --keep-base-pack to --keep-largest-pack
2020-11-25help.c: help.autocorrect=never means "do not compute suggestions"Libravatar Drew DeVault1-7/+8
While help.autocorrect can be set to 0 to decline auto-execution of possibly mistyped commands, it still spends cycles to compute the suggestions, and it wastes screen real estate. Update help.autocorrect to accept the string "never" to just exit with error upon mistyped commands to help users who prefer to never see suggested corrections at all. While at it, introduce "immediate" as a more readable way to immediately execute the auto-corrected command, which can be done with negative value. Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25crendential-store: use timeout when locking fileLibravatar Simão Afonso1-0/+6
When holding the lock for rewriting the credential file, use a timeout to avoid race conditions when the credentials file needs to be updated in parallel. An example would be doing `fetch --all` on a repository with several remotes that need credentials, using parallel fetching. The timeout can be configured using "credentialStore.lockTimeoutMS", defaulting to 1 second. Signed-off-by: Simão Afonso <simao.afonso@powertools-tech.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-21Merge branch 'jc/format-patch-name-max'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
The maximum length of output filenames "git format-patch" creates has become configurable (used to be capped at 64). * jc/format-patch-name-max: format-patch: make output filename configurable
2020-11-21gc docs: change --keep-base-pack to --keep-largest-packLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-3/+3
The --keep-base-pack option never existed in git.git. It was the name for the --keep-largest-pack option in earlier revisions of that series before it landed as ae4e89e549 ("gc: add --keep-largest-pack option", 2018-04-15). The later patches in that series[1][2] weren't changed to also refer to --keep-largest-pack, so we've had this reference to a nonexisting option ever since the feature initially landed. 1. 55dfe13df9 ("gc: add gc.bigPackThreshold config", 2018-04-15) 2. 9806f5a7bf ("gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad"", 2018-04-15) Reported-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-18Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-3'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+25
Parts of "git maintenance" to ease writing crontab entries (and other scheduling system configuration) for it. * ds/maintenance-part-3: maintenance: add troubleshooting guide to docs maintenance: use 'incremental' strategy by default maintenance: create maintenance.strategy config maintenance: add start/stop subcommands maintenance: add [un]register subcommands for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos maintenance: add --schedule option and config maintenance: optionally skip --auto process
2020-11-11docs: new transfer.advertiseSID optionLibravatar Josh Steadmon1-0/+4
Document a new config option that allows users to determine whether or not to advertise their session IDs to remote Git clients and servers. Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-09format-patch: make output filename configurableLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
For the past 15 years, we've used the hardcoded 64 as the length limit of the filename of the output from the "git format-patch" command. Since the value is shorter than the 80-column terminal, it could grow without line wrapping a bit. At the same time, since the value is longer than half of the 80-column terminal, we could fit two or more of them in "ls" output on such a terminal if we allowed to lower it. Introduce a new command line option --filename-max-length=<n> and a new configuration variable format.filenameMaxLength to override the hardcoded default. While we are at it, remove a check that the name of output directory does not exceed PATH_MAX---this check is pointless in that by the time control reaches the function, the caller would already have done an equivalent of "mkdir -p", so if the system does not like an overly long directory name, the control wouldn't have reached here, and otherwise, we know that the system allowed the output directory to exist. In the worst case, we will get an error when we try to open the output file and handle the error correctly anyway. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-02Merge branch 'bk/sob-dco'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Document that the meaning of a Signed-off-by trailer can vary from project to project in the end-user documentation, and clarify what it means to this project. * bk/sob-dco: Documentation: stylistically normalize references to Signed-off-by: SubmittingPatches: clarify DCO is our --signoff rule Documentation: clarify and expand description of --signoff doc: preparatory clean-up of description on the sign-off option
2020-10-27Merge branch 'dl/checkout-guess'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+13
"git checkout" learned to use checkout.guess configuration variable and enable/disable its "--[no-]guess" option accordingly. * dl/checkout-guess: checkout: learn to respect checkout.guess Documentation/config/checkout: replace sq with backticks
2020-10-27Merge branch 'sb/clone-origin'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
"git clone" learned clone.defaultremotename configuration variable to customize what nickname to use to call the remote the repository was cloned from. * sb/clone-origin: clone: allow configurable default for `-o`/`--origin` clone: read new remote name from remote_name instead of option_origin clone: validate --origin option before use refs: consolidate remote name validation remote: add tests for add and rename with invalid names clone: use more conventional config/option layering clone: add tests for --template and some disallowed option pairs
2020-10-27Merge branch 'sk/force-if-includes'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+12
"git push --force-with-lease[=<ref>]" can easily be misused to lose commits unless the user takes good care of their own "git fetch". A new option "--force-if-includes" attempts to ensure that what is being force-pushed was created after examining the commit at the tip of the remote ref that is about to be force-replaced. * sk/force-if-includes: t, doc: update tests, reference for "--force-if-includes" push: parse and set flag for "--force-if-includes" push: add reflog check for "--force-if-includes"
2020-10-27Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-2'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+20
"git maintenance", an extended big brother of "git gc", continues to evolve. * ds/maintenance-part-2: maintenance: add incremental-repack auto condition maintenance: auto-size incremental-repack batch maintenance: add incremental-repack task midx: use start_delayed_progress() midx: enable core.multiPackIndex by default maintenance: create auto condition for loose-objects maintenance: add loose-objects task maintenance: add prefetch task
2020-10-20Documentation: stylistically normalize references to Signed-off-by:Libravatar Bradley M. Kuhn1-1/+1
Ted reported an old typo in the git-commit.txt and merge-options.txt. Namely, the phrase "Signed-off-by line" was used without either a definite nor indefinite article. Upon examination, it seems that the documentation (including items in Documentation/, but also option help strings) have been quite inconsistent on usage when referring to `Signed-off-by`. First, very few places used a definite or indefinite article with the phrase "Signed-off-by line", but that was the initial typo that led to this investigation. So, normalize using either an indefinite or definite article consistently. The original phrasing, in Commit 3f971fc425b (Documentation updates, 2005-08-14), is "Add Signed-off-by line". Commit 6f855371a53 (Add --signoff, --check, and long option-names. 2005-12-09) switched to using "Add `Signed-off-by:` line", but didn't normalize the former commit to match. Later commits seem to have cut and pasted from one or the other, which is likely how the usage became so inconsistent. Junio stated on the git mailing list in <xmqqy2k1dfoh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> a preference to leave off the colon. Thus, prefer `Signed-off-by` (with backticks) for the documentation files and Signed-off-by (without backticks) for option help strings. Additionally, Junio argued that "trailer" is now the standard term to refer to `Signed-off-by`, saying that "becomes plenty clear that we are not talking about any random line in the log message". As such, prefer "trailer" over "line" anywhere the former word fits. However, leave alone those few places in documentation that use Signed-off-by to refer to the process (rather than the specific trailer), or in places where mail headers are generally discussed in comparison with Signed-off-by. Reported-by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-16maintenance: create maintenance.strategy configLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+15
To provide an on-ramp for users to use background maintenance without several 'git config' commands, create a 'maintenance.strategy' config option. Currently, the only important value is 'incremental' which assigns the following schedule: * gc: never * prefetch: hourly * commit-graph: hourly * loose-objects: daily * incremental-repack: daily These tasks are chosen to minimize disruptions to foreground Git commands and use few compute resources. The 'maintenance.strategy' is intended as a baseline that can be customzied further by manually assigning 'maintenance.<task>.enabled' and 'maintenance.<task>.schedule' config options, which will override any recommendation from 'maintenance.strategy'. This operates similarly to config options like 'feature.experimental' which operate as "meta" config options that change default config values. This presents a way forward for updating the 'incremental' strategy in the future or adding new strategies. For example, a potential strategy could be to include a 'full' strategy that runs the 'gc' task weekly and no other tasks by default. Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-08checkout: learn to respect checkout.guessLibravatar Denton Liu1-0/+5
The current behavior of git checkout/switch is that --guess is currently enabled by default. However, some users may not wish for this to happen automatically. Instead of forcing users to specify --no-guess manually each time, teach these commands the checkout.guess configuration variable that gives users the option to set a default behavior. Teach the completion script to recognize the new config variable and disable DWIM logic if it is set to false. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-07Documentation/config/checkout: replace sq with backticksLibravatar Denton Liu1-8/+8
The modern style for Git documentation is to use backticks to quote any command-line documenation so that it is typeset in monospace. Replace all single quotes with backticks to conform to this. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-05Merge branch 'jk/format-auto-base-when-able'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
"git format-patch" learns to take "whenAble" as a possible value for the format.useAutoBase configuration variable to become no-op when the automatically computed base does not make sense. * jk/format-auto-base-when-able: format-patch: teach format.useAutoBase "whenAble" option
2020-10-04Merge branch 'jc/fmt-merge-msg-suppress-destination'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * jc/fmt-merge-msg-suppress-destination: config/fmt-merge-msg.txt: drop space in quote
2020-10-04Merge branch 'tb/upload-pack-filters'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Hotfix. * tb/upload-pack-filters: config/uploadpack.txt: fix typo in `--filter=tree:<n>`
2020-10-03t, doc: update tests, reference for "--force-if-includes"Libravatar Srinidhi Kaushik2-3/+12
Update test cases for the new option, and document its usage and update related references. Update test cases for the new option, and document its usage and update related references. - t/t5533-push-cas.sh: Update test cases for "compare-and-swap" when used along with "--force-if-includes" helps mitigate overwrites when remote refs are updated in the background; allows forced updates when changes from remote are integrated locally. - Documentation: Add reference for the new option, configuration setting ("push.useForceIfIncludes") and advise messages. Signed-off-by: Srinidhi Kaushik <shrinidhi.kaushik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>