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2013-09-12check-ignore: Add option to ignore index contentsLibravatar Dave Williams1-0/+7
check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output. This prevents debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is first removed from the index with `git rm --cached <path>`. The option --no-index tells the command to bypass the check for the path being in the index and hence allows tracked paths to be checked too. Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of `git add` and `git status` its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion. Test scripts are augmented to check this option against the standard ignores to ensure correct behaviour. Signed-off-by: Dave Williams <dave@opensourcesolutions.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-30Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: Start preparing for 1.8.3.3 check-ignore doc: fix broken link to ls-files page test: spell 'ls-files --delete' option correctly in test descriptions
2013-06-30check-ignore doc: fix broken link to ls-files pageLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-11Documentation: add caveats about I/O buffering for check-{attr,ignore}Libravatar Adam Spiers1-0/+5
check-attr and check-ignore have the potential to deadlock callers which do not read back the output in real-time. For example, if a caller writes N paths out and then reads N lines back in, it risks becoming blocked on write() to check-*, and check-* is blocked on write back to the caller. Somebody has to buffer; the pipe buffers provide some leeway, but they are limited. Thanks to Peff for pointing this out: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/220534 Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-11check-ignore: add -n / --non-matching optionLibravatar Adam Spiers1-0/+15
If `-n` or `--non-matching` are specified, non-matching pathnames will also be output, in which case all fields in each output record except for <pathname> will be empty. This can be useful when running check-ignore as a background process, so that files can be incrementally streamed to STDIN, and for each of these files, STDOUT will indicate whether that file matched a pattern or not. (Without this option, it would be impossible to tell whether the absence of output for a given file meant that it didn't match any pattern, or that the result simply hadn't been flushed to STDOUT yet.) Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-06add git-check-ignore sub-commandLibravatar Adam Spiers1-0/+89
This works in a similar manner to git-check-attr. Thanks to Jeff King and Junio C Hamano for the idea: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/108671/focus=108815 Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>