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2021-01-12fetch: implement support for atomic reference updatesLibravatar Patrick Steinhardt1-0/+4
When executing a fetch, then git will currently allocate one reference transaction per reference update and directly commit it. This means that fetches are non-atomic: even if some of the reference updates fail, others may still succeed and modify local references. This is fine in many scenarios, but this strategy has its downsides. - The view of remote references may be inconsistent and may show a bastardized state of the remote repository. - Batching together updates may improve performance in certain scenarios. While the impact probably isn't as pronounced with loose references, the upcoming reftable backend may benefit as it needs to write less files in case the update is batched. - The reference-update hook is currently being executed twice per updated reference. While this doesn't matter when there is no such hook, we have seen severe performance regressions when doing a git-fetch(1) with reference-transaction hook when the remote repository has hundreds of thousands of references. Similar to `git push --atomic`, this commit thus introduces atomic fetches. Instead of allocating one reference transaction per updated reference, it causes us to only allocate a single transaction and commit it as soon as all updates were received. If locking of any reference fails, then we abort the complete transaction and don't update any reference, which gives us an all-or-nothing fetch. Note that this may not completely fix the first of above downsides, as the consistent view also depends on the server-side. If the server doesn't have a consistent view of its own references during the reference negotiation phase, then the client would get the same inconsistent view the server has. This is a separate problem though and, if it actually exists, can be fixed at a later point. This commit also changes the way we write FETCH_HEAD in case `--atomic` is passed. Instead of writing changes as we go, we need to accumulate all changes first and only commit them at the end when we know that all reference updates succeeded. Ideally, we'd just do so via a temporary file so that we don't need to carry all updates in-memory. This isn't trivially doable though considering the `--append` mode, where we do not truncate the file but simply append to it. And given that we support concurrent processes appending to FETCH_HEAD at the same time without any loss of data, seeding the temporary file with current contents of FETCH_HEAD initially and then doing a rename wouldn't work either. So this commit implements the simple strategy of buffering all changes and appending them to the file on commit. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-1'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
A "git gc"'s big brother has been introduced to take care of more repository maintenance tasks, not limited to the object database cleaning. * ds/maintenance-part-1: maintenance: add trace2 regions for task execution maintenance: add auto condition for commit-graph task maintenance: use pointers to check --auto maintenance: create maintenance.<task>.enabled config maintenance: take a lock on the objects directory maintenance: add --task option maintenance: add commit-graph task maintenance: initialize task array maintenance: replace run_auto_gc() maintenance: add --quiet option maintenance: create basic maintenance runner
2020-09-17maintenance: replace run_auto_gc()Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-2/+4
The run_auto_gc() method is used in several places to trigger a check for repo maintenance after some Git commands, such as 'git commit' or 'git fetch'. To allow for extra customization of this maintenance activity, replace the 'git gc --auto [--quiet]' call with one to 'git maintenance run --auto [--quiet]'. As we extend the maintenance builtin with other steps, users will be able to select different maintenance activities. Rename run_auto_gc() to run_auto_maintenance() to be clearer what is happening on this call, and to expose all callers in the current diff. Rewrite the method to use a struct child_process to simplify the calls slightly. Since 'git fetch' already allows disabling the 'git gc --auto' subprocess, add an equivalent option with a different name to be more descriptive of the new behavior: '--[no-]maintenance'. Update the documentation to include these options at the same time. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-24Merge branch 'jc/no-update-fetch-head'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
"git fetch" learned --no-write-fetch-head option to avoid writing the FETCH_HEAD file. * jc/no-update-fetch-head: fetch: optionally allow disabling FETCH_HEAD update
2020-08-18fetch: optionally allow disabling FETCH_HEAD updateLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
If you run fetch but record the result in remote-tracking branches, and either if you do nothing with the fetched refs (e.g. you are merely mirroring) or if you always work from the remote-tracking refs (e.g. you fetch and then merge origin/branchname separately), you can get away with having no FETCH_HEAD at all. Teach "git fetch" a command line option "--[no-]write-fetch-head". The default is to write FETCH_HEAD, and the option is primarily meant to be used with the "--no-" prefix to override this default, because there is no matching fetch.writeFetchHEAD configuration variable to flip the default to off (in which case, the positive form may become necessary to defeat it). Note that under "--dry-run" mode, FETCH_HEAD is never written; otherwise you'd see list of objects in the file that you do not actually have. Passing `--write-fetch-head` does not force `git fetch` to write the file. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-13fetch, pull doc: correct description of '--set-upstream'Libravatar Philippe Blain1-1/+1
The '--set-upstream' option to `git fetch` (which is also accepted by `git pull` and passed through to the underlying `git fetch`) allows setting the upstream configuration for the current branch. This was added in 24bc1a1292 (pull, fetch: add --set-upstream option, 2019-08-19). However, the documentation for that option describes its action as 'If the remote is fetched successfully, pull and add upstream (tracking) reference [...]', which is wrong because this option does not cause neither `git fetch` nor `git pull` to pull: `git fetch` does not pull and `git pull` always pulls. Fix the description of that option. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-28Merge branch 'dr/doc-recurse-submodules'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Documentation updates around the "--recurse-submodules" option. * dr/doc-recurse-submodules: doc: --recurse-submodules mostly applies to active submodules doc: be more precise on (fetch|push).recurseSubmodules doc: explain how to deactivate submodule.recurse completely doc: document --recurse-submodules for reset and restore doc: list all commands affected by submodule.recurse
2020-04-06doc: be more precise on (fetch|push).recurseSubmodulesLibravatar Damien Robert1-1/+2
The default value also depends on the value of submodule.recurse. Use this opportunity to correct some grammar mistakes in Documentation/config/fetch.txt signaled by Robert P. J. Day. Also mention `fetch.recurseSubmodules` in fetch-options.txt. In git-push.txt, `push.recurseSubmodules` is implicitly mentioned (by explaining how to disable it), so no need to add it there. Lastly add a link to `git-fetch` in `git-pull.txt` to explain the meaning of `--recurse-submodules` there. Signed-off-by: Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-28pull: remove --update-head-ok from documentationLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
'git pull' implicitly passes --update-head-ok to 'git fetch', but doesn't itself accept that option from users. That makes sense, as it wouldn't work without the possibility to update HEAD. Remove the option from the command's documentation to match its actual behavior. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-11pull: document more passthru optionsLibravatar René Scharfe1-3/+7
git pull accepts the options --dry-run, -p/--prune, --refmap, and -t/--tags since a32975f516 (pull: pass git-fetch's options to git-fetch, 2015-06-18), -j/--jobs since 62104ba14a (submodules: allow parallel fetching, add tests and documentation, 2015-12-15), and --set-upstream since 24bc1a1292 (pull, fetch: add --set-upstream option, 2019-08-19). Update its documentation to match. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-14Merge branch 'ds/refmap-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
"git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation. * ds/refmap-doc: fetch: document and test --refmap=""
2020-01-21fetch: document and test --refmap=""Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+4
To prevent long blocking time during a 'git fetch' call, a user may want to set up a schedule for background 'git fetch' processes. However, these runs will update the refs/remotes branches due to the default refspec set in the config when Git adds a remote. Hence the user will not notice when remote refs are updated during their foreground fetches. In fact, they may _want_ those refs to stay put so they can work with the refs from their last foreground fetch call. This can be accomplished by overriding the configured refspec using '--refmap=' along with a custom refspec: git fetch --refmap='' <remote> +refs/heads/*:refs/hidden/<remote>/* to populate a custom ref space and download a pack of the new reachable objects. This kind of call allows a few things to happen: 1. We download a new pack if refs have updated. 2. Since the refs/hidden branches exist, GC will not remove the newly-downloaded data. 3. With fetch.writeCommitGraph enabled, the refs/hidden refs are used to update the commit-graph file. To avoid the refs/hidden directory from filling without bound, the --prune option can be included. When providing a refspec like this, the --prune option does not delete remote refs and instead only deletes refs in the target refspace. Update the documentation to clarify how '--refmap=""' works and create tests to guarantee this behavior remains in the future. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-06fetch: add the command-line option `--write-commit-graph`Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+4
This option overrides the config setting `fetch.writeCommitGraph`, if both are set. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-15Merge branch 'js/fetch-jobs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+9
"git fetch --jobs=<n>" allowed <n> parallel jobs when fetching submodules, but this did not apply to "git fetch --multiple" that fetches from multiple remote repositories. It now does. * js/fetch-jobs: fetch: let --jobs=<n> parallelize --multiple, too
2019-10-06fetch: let --jobs=<n> parallelize --multiple, tooLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-4/+9
So far, `--jobs=<n>` only parallelizes submodule fetches/clones, not `--multiple` fetches, which is unintuitive, given that the option's name does not say anything about submodules in particular. Let's change that. With this patch, also fetches from multiple remotes are parallelized. For backwards-compatibility (and to prepare for a use case where submodule and multiple-remote fetches may need different parallelization limits), the config setting `submodule.fetchJobs` still only controls the submodule part of `git fetch`, while the newly-introduced setting `fetch.parallel` controls both (but can be overridden for submodules with `submodule.fetchJobs`). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-19pull, fetch: add --set-upstream optionLibravatar Corentin BOMPARD1-0/+7
Add the --set-upstream option to git pull/fetch which lets the user set the upstream configuration (branch.<current-branch-name>.merge and branch.<current-branch-name>.remote) for the current branch. A typical use-case is: git clone http://example.com/my-public-fork git remote add main http://example.com/project-main-repo git pull --set-upstream main master or, instead of the last line: git fetch --set-upstream main master git merge # or git rebase This is mostly equivalent to cloning project-main-repo (which sets upsteam) and then "git remote add" my-public-fork, but may feel more natural for people using a hosting system which allows forking from the web UI. This functionality is analog to "git push --set-upstream". Signed-off-by: Corentin BOMPARD <corentin.bompard@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Nathan BERBEZIER <nathan.berbezier@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Pablo CHABANNE <pablo.chabanne@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr> Patch-edited-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-09Merge branch 'ds/fetch-disable-force-notice'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
"git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation. The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable this safety feature. * ds/fetch-disable-force-notice: pull: add --[no-]show-forced-updates passthrough fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument
2019-06-21fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argumentLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+13
After updating a set of remove refs during a 'git fetch', we walk the commits in the new ref value and not in the old ref value to discover if the update was a forced update. This results in two things happening during the command: 1. The line including the ref update has an additional "(forced-update)" marker at the end. 2. The ref log for that remote branch includes a bit saying that update is a forced update. For many situations, this forced-update message happens infrequently, or is a small bit of information among many ref updates. Many users ignore these messages, but the calculation required here slows down their fetches significantly. Keep in mind that they do not have the opportunity to calculate a commit-graph file containing the newly-fetched commits, so these comparisons can be very slow. Add a '--[no-]show-forced-updates' option that allows a user to skip this calculation. The only permanent result is dropping the forced-update bit in the reflog. Include a new fetch.showForcedUpdates config setting that allows this behavior without including the argument in every command. The config setting is overridden by the command-line arguments. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-19fetch: only run 'gc' once when fetching multiple remotesLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
In multiple remotes mode, git-fetch is launched for n-1 remotes and the last remote is handled by the current process. Each of these processes will in turn run 'gc' at the end. This is not really a problem because even if multiple 'gc --auto' is run at the same time we still handle it correctly. It does show multiple "auto packing in the background" messages though. And we may waste some resources when gc actually runs because we still do some stuff before checking the lock and moving it to background. So let's try to avoid that. We should only need one 'gc' run after all objects and references are added anyway. Add a new option --no-auto-gc that will be used by those n-1 processes. 'gc --auto' will always run on the main fetch process (*). (*) even if we fetch remotes in parallel at some point in future, this should still be fine because we should "join" all those processes before this step. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-18clone: send server options when using protocol v2Libravatar Jonathan Tan1-1/+2
Commit 5e3548ef16 ("fetch: send server options when using protocol v2", 2018-04-24) taught "fetch" the ability to send server options when using protocol v2, but not "clone". This ability is triggered by "-o" or "--server-option". Teach "clone" the same ability, except that because "clone" already has "-o" for another parameter, teach "clone" only to receive "--server-option". Explain in the documentation, both for clone and for fetch, that server handling of server options are server-specific. This is similar to receive-pack's handling of push options - currently, they are just sent to hooks to interpret as they see fit. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-09-17Merge branch 'ab/fetch-tags-noclobber'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+10
The rules used by "git push" and "git fetch" to determine if a ref can or cannot be updated were inconsistent; specifically, fetching to update existing tags were allowed even though tags are supposed to be unmoving anchoring points. "git fetch" was taught to forbid updates to existing tags without the "--force" option. * ab/fetch-tags-noclobber: fetch: stop clobbering existing tags without --force fetch: document local ref updates with/without --force push doc: correct lies about how push refspecs work push doc: move mention of "tag <tag>" later in the prose push doc: remove confusing mention of remote merger fetch tests: add a test for clobbering tag behavior push tests: use spaces in interpolated string push tests: make use of unused $1 in test description fetch: change "branch" to "reference" in --force -h output
2018-08-31fetch: document local ref updates with/without --forceLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-5/+10
Refer to the new git-push(1) documentation about when ref updates are and aren't allowed with and without --force, noting how "git-fetch" differs from the behavior of "git-push". Perhaps it would be better to split this all out into a new gitrefspecs(7) man page, or present this information using tables. In lieu of that, this is accurate, and fixes a big omission in the existing refspec docs. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-01fetch doc: cross-link two new negotiation optionsLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+3
Users interested in the fetch.negotiationAlgorithm variable added in 42cc7485a2 ("negotiator/skipping: skip commits during fetch", 2018-07-16) are probably interested in the related --negotiation-tip option added in 3390e42adb ("fetch-pack: support negotiation tip whitelist", 2018-07-02). Change the documentation for those two to reference one another to point readers in the right direction. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-03fetch-pack: support negotiation tip whitelistLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-0/+16
During negotiation, fetch-pack eventually reports as "have" lines all commits reachable from all refs. Allow the user to restrict the commits sent in this way by providing a whitelist of tips; only the tips themselves and their ancestors will be sent. Both globs and single objects are supported. This feature is only supported for protocols that support connect or stateless-connect (such as HTTP with protocol v2). This will speed up negotiation when the repository has multiple relatively independent branches (for example, when a repository interacts with multiple repositories, such as with linux-next [1] and torvalds/linux [2]), and the user knows which local branch is likely to have commits in common with the upstream branch they are fetching. [1] https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next/ [2] https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-24fetch: send server options when using protocol v2Libravatar Brandon Williams1-0/+8
Teach fetch to optionally accept server options by specifying them on the cmdline via '-o' or '--server-option'. These server options are sent to the remote end when performing a fetch communicating using protocol version 2. If communicating using a protocol other than v2 the provided options are ignored and not sent to the remote end. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-09fetch: add a --prune-tags option and fetch.pruneTags configLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+13
Add a --prune-tags option to git-fetch, along with fetch.pruneTags config option and a -P shorthand (-p is --prune). This allows for doing any of: git fetch -p -P git fetch --prune --prune-tags git fetch -p -P origin git fetch --prune --prune-tags origin Or simply: git config fetch.prune true && git config fetch.pruneTags true && git fetch Instead of the much more verbose: git fetch --prune origin 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' '+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*' Before this feature it was painful to support the use-case of pulling from a repo which is having both its branches *and* tags deleted regularly, and have our local references to reflect upstream. At work we create deployment tags in the repo for each rollout, and there's *lots* of those, so they're archived within weeks for performance reasons. Without this change it's hard to centrally configure such repos in /etc/gitconfig (on servers that are only used for working with them). You need to set fetch.prune=true globally, and then for each repo: git -C {} config --replace-all remote.origin.fetch "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" "^\+*refs/tags/\*:refs/tags/\*$" Now I can simply set fetch.pruneTags=true in /etc/gitconfig as well, and users running "git pull" will automatically get the pruning semantics I want. Even though "git remote" has corresponding "prune" and "update --prune" subcommands I'm intentionally not adding a corresponding prune-tags or "update --prune --prune-tags" mode to that command. It's advertised (as noted in my recent "git remote doc: correct dangerous lies about what prune does") as only modifying remote tracking references, whereas any --prune-tags option is always going to modify what from the user's perspective is a local copy of the tag, since there's no such thing as a remote tracking tag. Ideally add_prune_tags_to_fetch_refspec() would be something that would use ALLOC_GROW() to grow the 'fetch` member of the 'remote' struct. Instead I'm realloc-ing remote->fetch and adding the tag_refspec to the end. The reason is that parse_{fetch,push}_refspec which allocate the refspec (ultimately remote->fetch) struct are called many places that don't have access to a 'remote' struct. It would be hard to change all their callsites to be amenable to carry around the bookkeeping variables required for dynamic allocation. All the other callers of the API first incrementally construct the string version of the refspec in remote->fetch_refspec via add_fetch_refspec(), before finally calling parse_fetch_refspec() via some variation of remote_get(). It's less of a pain to deal with the one special case that needs to modify already constructed refspecs than to chase down and change all the other callsites. The API I'm adding is intentionally not generalized because if we add more of these we'd probably want to re-visit how this is done. See my "Re: [BUG] git remote prune removes local tags, depending on fetch config" (87po6ahx87.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com; https://public-inbox.org/git/87po6ahx87.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/) for more background info. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-09git-fetch & config doc: link to the new PRUNING sectionLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+3
Amend the documentation for fetch.prune, fetch.<name>.prune and --prune to link to the recently added PRUNING section. I'd have liked to link directly to it with "<<PRUNING>>" from fetch-options.txt, since it's included in git-fetch.txt (git-pull.txt also includes it, but doesn't include that option). However making a reference across files yields this error: [...]/Documentation/git-fetch.xml:226: element xref: validity error : IDREF attribute linkend references an unknown ID "PRUNING" Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-10Merge branch 'nd/shallow-deepen'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone deeper. A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this easier to use. "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>" and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify "I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and "Give me only the history since that version". * nd/shallow-deepen: (27 commits) fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commits upload-pack: add get_reachable_list() upload-pack: split check_unreachable() in two, prep for get_reachable_list() t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth excluding a ref clone: define shallow clone boundary with --shallow-exclude fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-exclude upload-pack: support define shallow boundary by excluding revisions refs: add expand_ref() t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth since a specific date clone: define shallow clone boundary based on time with --shallow-since fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-since upload-pack: add deepen-since to cut shallow repos based on time shallow.c: implement a generic shallow boundary finder based on rev-list fetch-pack: use a separate flag for fetch in deepening mode fetch-pack.c: mark strings for translating fetch-pack: use a common function for verbose printing fetch-pack: use skip_prefix() instead of starts_with() upload-pack: move rev-list code out of check_non_tip() upload-pack: make check_non_tip() clean things up on error upload-pack: tighten number parsing at "deepen" lines ...
2016-07-13Merge branch 'mm/doc-tt'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font. * mm/doc-tt: doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentation doc: typeset long options with argument as literal doc: typeset '--' as literal doc: typeset long command-line options as literal doc: typeset short command-line options as literal Documentation/git-mv.txt: fix whitespace indentation
2016-06-28doc: typeset long command-line options as literalLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-3/+3
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of forward-quotes, for long options. This was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to describe rewritten history). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-27Merge branch 'jk/fetch-prune-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jk/fetch-prune-doc: fetch: document that pruning happens before fetching
2016-06-14fetch: document that pruning happens before fetchingLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
This was changed in 10a6cc8 (fetch --prune: Run prune before fetching, 2014-01-02), but it seems that nobody in that discussion realized we were advertising the "after" explicitly. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commitsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+5
In git-fetch, --depth argument is always relative with the latest remote refs. This makes it a bit difficult to cover this use case, where the user wants to make the shallow history, say 3 levels deeper. It would work if remote refs have not moved yet, but nobody can guarantee that, especially when that use case is performed a couple months after the last clone or "git fetch --depth". Also, modifying shallow boundary using --depth does not work well with clones created by --since or --not. This patch fixes that. A new argument --deepen=<N> will add <N> more (*) parent commits to the current history regardless of where remote refs are. Have/Want negotiation is still respected. So if remote refs move, the server will send two chunks: one between "have" and "want" and another to extend shallow history. In theory, the client could send no "want"s in order to get the second chunk only. But the protocol does not allow that. Either you send no want lines, which means ls-remote; or you have to send at least one want line that carries deep-relative to the server.. The main work was done by Dongcan Jiang. I fixed it up here and there. And of course all the bugs belong to me. (*) We could even support --deepen=<N> where <N> is negative. In that case we can cut some history from the shallow clone. This operation (and --depth=<shorter depth>) does not require interaction with remote side (and more complicated to implement as a result). Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Dongcan Jiang <dongcan.jiang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-excludeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-sinceLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-24Merge branch 'ew/force-ipv4'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
"git fetch" and friends that make network connections can now be told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6). * ew/force-ipv4: connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operations
2016-02-12connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operationsLibravatar Eric Wong1-0/+8
Sometimes it is necessary to force IPv4-only or IPv6-only operation on networks where name lookups may return a non-routable address and stall remote operations. The ssh(1) command has an equivalent switches which we may pass when we run them. There may be old ssh(1) implementations out there which do not support these switches; they should report the appropriate error in that case. rsync support is untouched for now since it is deprecated and scheduled to be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Reviewed-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-20Merge branch 'ss/clone-depth-single-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+5
Documentation for "git fetch --depth" has been updated for clarity. * ss/clone-depth-single-doc: docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos docs: say "commits" in the --depth option wording for git-clone docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch
2016-01-08docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized reposLibravatar Sebastian Schuberth1-4/+5
The original wording sounded as if --depth could only be used to deepen or shorten the history of existing repos. However, that is not the case. In a workflow like $ git init $ git remote add origin https://github.com/git/git.git $ git fetch --depth=1 The newly initialized repo is properly created as a shallow repo. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-16submodules: allow parallel fetching, add tests and documentationLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+7
This enables the work of the previous patches. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-13*config.txt: stick to camelCase naming conventionLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and "thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can decide what to do with them later. - am.keepcr - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime - diff.dirstat .noprefix - gitcvs.usecrlfattr - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime - pull.twohead - receive.autogc - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-05fetch: allow explicit --refmap to override configurationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Since the introduction of opportunisitic updates of remote-tracking branches, started at around f2690487 (fetch: opportunistically update tracking refs, 2013-05-11) with a few updates in v1.8.4 era, the remote.*.fetch configuration always kicks in even when a refspec to specify what to fetch is given on the command line, and there is no way to disable or override it per-invocation. Teach the command to pay attention to the --refmap=<lhs>:<rhs> command-line options that can be used to override the use of configured remote.*.fetch as the refmap. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> ---
2014-01-17Merge branch 'nd/shallow-clone'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+12
Fetching from a shallow-cloned repository used to be forbidden, primarily because the codepaths involved were not carefully vetted and we did not bother supporting such usage. This attempts to allow object transfer out of a shallow-cloned repository in a controlled way (i.e. the receiver become a shallow repository with truncated history). * nd/shallow-clone: (31 commits) t5537: fix incorrect expectation in test case 10 shallow: remove unused code send-pack.c: mark a file-local function static git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitations prune: clean .git/shallow after pruning objects clone: use git protocol for cloning shallow repo locally send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone via http receive-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone via http smart-http: support shallow fetch/clone remote-curl: pass ref SHA-1 to fetch-pack as well send-pack: support pushing to a shallow clone receive-pack: allow pushes that update .git/shallow connected.c: add new variant that runs with --shallow-file add GIT_SHALLOW_FILE to propagate --shallow-file to subprocesses receive/send-pack: support pushing from a shallow clone receive-pack: reorder some code in unpack() fetch: add --update-shallow to accept refs that update .git/shallow upload-pack: make sure deepening preserves shallow roots fetch: support fetching from a shallow repository clone: support remote shallow repository ...
2013-12-10fetch: add --update-shallow to accept refs that update .git/shallowLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+6
The same steps are done as in when --update-shallow is not given. The only difference is we now add all shallow commits in "ours" and "theirs" to .git/shallow (aka "step 8"). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10upload-pack: make sure deepening preserves shallow rootsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+6
When "fetch --depth=N" where N exceeds the longest chain of history in the source repo, usually we just send an "unshallow" line to the client so full history is obtained. When the source repo is shallow we need to make sure to "unshallow" the current shallow point _and_ "shallow" again when the commit reaches its shallow bottom in the source repo. This should fix both cases: large <N> and --unshallow. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30fetch-options.txt: simplify ifdef/ifndef/endif usageLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-4/+1
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30fetch --prune: prune only based on explicit refspecsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+14
The old behavior of "fetch --prune" was to prune whatever was being fetched. In particular, "fetch --prune --tags" caused tags not only to be fetched, but also to be pruned. This is inappropriate because there is only one tags namespace that is shared among the local repository and all remotes. Therefore, if the user defines a local tag and then runs "git fetch --prune --tags", then the local tag is deleted. Moreover, "--prune" and "--tags" can also be configured via fetch.prune / remote.<name>.prune and remote.<name>.tagopt, making it even less obvious that an invocation of "git fetch" could result in tag lossage. Since the command "git remote update" invokes "git fetch", it had the same problem. The command "git remote prune", on the other hand, disregarded the setting of remote.<name>.tagopt, and so its behavior was inconsistent with that of the other commands. So the old behavior made it too easy to lose tags. To fix this problem, change "fetch --prune" to prune references based only on refspecs specified explicitly by the user, either on the command line or via remote.<name>.fetch. Thus, tags are no longer made subject to pruning by the --tags option or the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. However, tags *are* still subject to pruning if they are fetched as part of a refspec, and that is good. For example: * On the command line, git fetch --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' causes tags, and only tags, to be fetched and pruned, and is therefore a simple way for the user to get the equivalent of the old behavior of "--prune --tag". * For a remote that was configured with the "--mirror" option, the configuration is set to include [remote "name"] fetch = +refs/*:refs/* , which causes tags to be subject to pruning along with all other references. This is the behavior that will typically be desired for a mirror. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to* other stuffLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+3
Previously, fetch's "--tags" option was considered equivalent to specifying the refspec "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" on the command line; in particular, it caused the remote.<name>.refspec configuration to be ignored. But it is not very useful to fetch tags without also fetching other references, whereas it *is* quite useful to be able to fetch tags *in addition to* other references. So change the semantics of this option to do the latter. If a user wants to fetch *only* tags, then it is still possible to specifying an explicit refspec: git fetch <remote> 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' Please note that the documentation prior to 1.8.0.3 was ambiguous about this aspect of "fetch --tags" behavior. Commit f0cb2f137c 2012-12-14 fetch --tags: clarify documentation made the documentation match the old behavior. This commit changes the documentation to match the new behavior. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-11Merge branch 'rr/maint-fetch-tag-doc-asterisks'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* rr/maint-fetch-tag-doc-asterisks: fetch-options.txt: prevent a wildcard refspec from getting misformatted
2013-06-07fetch-options.txt: prevent a wildcard refspec from getting misformattedLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
When explaining the "--tags" option as an equivalent to giving an explicit "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" refspec, the two asterisks were misinterpreted by AsciiDoc as a request to typeset the string segment between them in bold. We could fix it in two ways. We can replace them with {asterisk}s while keeping the string as body text, or we can mark it as a literal string with backquotes around it. Let's do the latter, as it is teaching the user an "exactly as typed" alternative. Noticed-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>