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2011-03-30Make "git notes add" more user-friendly when there are existing notesLibravatar Johan Herland1-2/+5
Currently, "notes add" (without -f/--force) will abort when the given object already has existing notes. This makes sense for the modes of "git notes add" that would necessarily overwrite the old message (when using the -m/-F/-C/-c options). However, when no options are given (meaning the notes are created from scratch in the editor) it is not very user-friendly to abort on existing notes, and forcing the user to run "git notes edit". Instead, it is better to simply "redirect" to "git notes edit" automatically, i.e. open the existing notes in the editor and let the user edit them. This patch does just that. This changes the behavior of "git notes add" without options when notes already exist for the given object, but I doubt that many users really depend on the previous failure from "git notes add" in this case. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-17Provide 'git notes get-ref' to easily retrieve current notes refLibravatar Johan Herland1-0/+5
Script may use 'git notes get-ref' to easily retrieve the current notes ref. Suggested-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-17git notes merge: Add another auto-resolving strategy: "cat_sort_uniq"Libravatar Johan Herland1-1/+11
This new strategy is similar to "concatenate", but in addition to concatenating the two note candidates, this strategy sorts the resulting lines, and removes duplicate lines from the result. This is equivalent to applying the "cat | sort | uniq" shell pipeline to the two note candidates. This strategy is useful if the notes follow a line-based format where one wants to avoid duplicate lines in the merge result. Note that if either of the note candidates contain duplicate lines _prior_ to the merge, these will also be removed by this merge strategy. The patch also contains tests and documentation for the new strategy. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-17git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 2/2Libravatar Johan Herland1-0/+22
When the notes merge conflicts in .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE have been resolved, we need to record a new notes commit on the appropriate notes ref with the resolved notes. This patch implements 'git notes merge --commit' which the user should run after resolving conflicts in the notes merge worktree. This command finalizes the notes merge by recombining the partial notes tree from part 1 with the now-resolved conflicts in the notes merge worktree in a merge commit, and updating the appropriate ref to this merge commit. In order to correctly finalize the merge, we need to keep track of three things: - The partial merge result from part 1, containing the auto-merged notes. This is now stored into a ref called .git/NOTES_MERGE_PARTIAL. - The unmerged notes. These are already stored in .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE, thanks to part 1. - The notes ref to be updated by the finalized merge result. This is now stored in a symref called .git/NOTES_MERGE_REF. In addition to "git notes merge --commit", which uses the above details to create the finalized notes merge commit, this patch also implements "git notes merge --reset", which aborts the ongoing notes merge by simply removing the files/directory described above. FTR, "git notes merge --commit" reuses "git notes merge --reset" to remove the information described above (.git/NOTES_MERGE_*) after the notes merge have been successfully finalized. The patch also contains documentation and testcases for the two new options. This patch has been improved by the following contributions: - Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: Fix nonsense sentence in --commit description - Sverre Rabbelier: Rename --reset to --abort Thanks-to: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Thanks-to: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-17git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 1/2Libravatar Johan Herland1-3/+7
Conflicts (that are to be resolved manually) are written into a special- purpose working tree, located at .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE. Within this directory, conflicting notes entries are stored (with conflict markers produced by ll_merge()) using the SHA1 of the annotated object. The .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE directory will only contain the _conflicting_ note entries. The non-conflicting note entries (aka. the partial merge result) are stored in 'local_tree', and the SHA1 of the resulting commit is written to 'result_sha1'. The return value from notes_merge() is -1. The user is told to edit the files within the .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE directory in order to resolve the conflicts. The patch also contains documentation and testcases for the correct setup of .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE. The next part will recombine the partial notes merge result with the resolved conflicts in .git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE to produce the complete merge result. This patch has been improved by the following contributions: - Jonathan Nieder: Use trace_printf(...) instead of OUTPUT(o, 5, ...) Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-17Documentation: Preliminary docs on 'git notes merge'Libravatar Johan Herland1-1/+43
This patch has been improved by the following contributions: - Stephen Boyd: Use "automatically resolves" instead of "auto-resolves" - Stephen Boyd: Remove unbalanced '(' Thanks-to: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09notes: allow --dry-run for -n and --verbose for -vLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+2
For consistency with other git commands, let the prune subcommand of git notes accept the long options --dry-run and --verbose for the respective short ones -n and -v. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13Merge branch 'mg/notes-dry-run'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+8
* mg/notes-dry-run: notes: dry-run and verbose options for prune
2010-05-19notes: dry-run and verbose options for pruneLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-1/+8
Introduce -n and -v options for "git notes prune" in complete analogy to "git prune" so that one can check for dangling notes easily. The output is a list of names of objects whose notes would be resp. are removed so that one can check the object ("git show sha1") as well as the note ("git notes show sha1"). Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08Documentation/notes: nitpicksLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-6/+6
Spell out “or” in the NAME line and simplify the leading sentence in the DESCRIPTION. Some other language cleanups, too. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08Documentation/notes: clean up description of rewriting configurationLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-18/+29
Clarify that the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REFS environment variable overrides both ‘[notes "rewrite"] <command>’ and ‘[notes] rewriteRef’. Add explanations of GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE and GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REFS to the ENVIRONMENT section. Cc: Leif Arne Storset <lstorset@opera.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default display refsLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-17/+19
The main description of display refs for notes should be in git-log.1, where there is a chance to give a leisurely description of all the ways they can be set, what they are used for, and so on. The description in git-notes.1 is only meant to be a quick reminder of how notes are used. So simplify it. Also add an entry for GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF to the environment section. Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default notes refLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-11/+20
Separate the documentation of the semantics, command-line option, configuration item, and environment variable for the default notes ref. The documentation is easier to digest in bite-sized pieces. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08Documentation/notes: add configuration sectionLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-0/+59
Copy the descriptions of configuration variables from git-config.1. Once the descriptions have been ironed out, it would be nice to refactor them to share text, but for now it is simplest to experiment with separate copies. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08Documentation/notes: describe content of notes blobsLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+37
stripspace/text-based formatting kicks in when specifying the notes content with -m or -F, or when an editor is used to edit the notes. To binary-safely create notes from files, the following construct is required: git notes add -C $(git hash-object -w <file>) <object> Explain this trick (thanks, Johan!) in the manual. Add an ordinary example, too, to keep this esoteric one company. Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08Documentation/notes: document format of notes treesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-9/+21
Separate the specification of the notes format exposed in git-config.1 from the description of the option; or in other words, move the explanation for what to expect to find at refs/notes/commits from git-config.1 to git-notes.1. Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-24Merge branch 'tr/notes-display'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+40
* tr/notes-display: git-notes(1): add a section about the meaning of history notes: track whether notes_trees were changed at all notes: add shorthand --ref to override GIT_NOTES_REF commit --amend: copy notes to the new commit rebase: support automatic notes copying notes: implement helpers needed for note copying during rewrite notes: implement 'git notes copy --stdin' rebase -i: invoke post-rewrite hook rebase: invoke post-rewrite hook commit --amend: invoke post-rewrite hook Documentation: document post-rewrite hook Support showing notes from more than one notes tree test-lib: unset GIT_NOTES_REF to stop it from influencing tests Conflicts: git-am.sh refs.c
2010-03-12git-notes(1): add a section about the meaning of historyLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+14
To the displaying code, the only interesting thing about a notes ref is that it has a tree of the required format. However, notes actually have a history since they are recorded as successive commits. Make a note about the existence of this history in the manpage, but keep some doors open if we want to change the details. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-12notes: add shorthand --ref to override GIT_NOTES_REFLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+5
Adds a shorthand option that overrides the GIT_NOTES_REF variable, and hence determines the notes tree that will be manipulated. It also DWIMs a refs/notes/ prefix. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-12notes: implement helpers needed for note copying during rewriteLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+4
Implement helper functions to load the rewriting config, and to actually copy the notes. Also document the config. Secondly, also implement an undocumented --for-rewrite=<cmd> option to 'git notes copy' which is used like --stdin, but also puts the configuration for <cmd> into effect. It will be needed to support the copying in git-rebase. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-12notes: implement 'git notes copy --stdin'Libravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+11
This implements a mass-copy command that takes a sequence of lines in the format <from-sha1> SP <to-sha1> [ SP <rest> ] LF on stdin, and copies each <from-sha1>'s notes to the <to-sha1>. The <rest> is ignored. The intent, of course, is that this can read the same input that the 'post-rewrite' hook gets. The copy_note() function is exposed for everyone's and in particular the next commit's use. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-12Support showing notes from more than one notes treeLibravatar Thomas Rast1-5/+6
With this patch, you can set notes.displayRef to a glob that points at your favourite notes refs, e.g., [notes] displayRef = refs/notes/* Then git-log and friends will show notes from all trees. Thanks to Junio C Hamano for lots of feedback, which greatly influenced the design of the entire series and this commit in particular. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-04Documentation: fix a few typos in git-notes.txtLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13builtin-notes: Add "copy" subcommand for copying notes between objectsLibravatar Johan Herland1-0/+8
This is useful for keeping notes to objects that are being rewritten by e.g. 'git commit --amend', 'git rebase', or 'git cherry-pick'. "git notes copy <from> <to>" is in practice equivalent to "git notes add -C $(git notes list <from>) <to>", although it is somewhat more convenient for regular users. "git notes copy" takes the same -f option as "git add", to overwrite existing notes at the target (instead of aborting with an error message). If the <from>-object has no notes, "git notes copy" will abort with an error message. The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13builtin-notes: Add -c/-C options for reusing notesLibravatar Johan Herland1-2/+10
Inspired by the -c/-C options to "git commit", we teach these options to "git notes add/append" to allow reuse of note objects. With this patch in place, it is now easy to copy or move notes between objects. For example, to copy object A's notes to object B: git notes add [-f] -C $(git notes list A) B To move instead of copying, you simply remove the notes from the source object afterwards, e.g.: git notes remove A The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new functionality. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13builtin-notes: Deprecate the -m/-F options for "git notes edit"Libravatar Johan Herland1-1/+1
The semantics for "git notes edit -m/-F" overlap with those for "git notes add -f", and the behaviour (i.e. overwriting existing notes with the given message/file) is more intuitively captured by (and better documented with) "git notes add -f". Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13builtin-notes: Add "append" subcommand for appending to note objectsLibravatar Johan Herland1-0/+5
"git notes append" is equivalent to "git notes edit" except that instead of editing existing notes contents, you can only append to it. This is useful for quickly adding annotations like e.g.: git notes append -m "Acked-by: A U Thor <author@example.com>" "git notes append" takes the same -m/-F options as "git notes add". If there is no existing note to append to, "git notes append" is identical to "git notes add" (i.e. it adds a new note). The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13builtin-notes: Add "add" subcommand for adding notes to objectsLibravatar Johan Herland1-0/+11
"git notes add" is identical to "git notes edit" except that instead of editing existing notes for a given object, you can only add notes to an object that currently has none. If "git notes add" finds existing notes for the given object, the addition is aborted. However, if the new -f/--force option is used, "git notes add" will _overwrite_ the existing notes with the new notes contents. If there is no existing notes for the given object. "git notes add" is identical to "git notes edit" (i.e. it adds a new note). The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand. Suggested-by: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13builtin-notes: Add --message/--file aliases for -m/-F optionsLibravatar Johan Herland1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13builtin-notes: Add "list" subcommand for listing note objectsLibravatar Johan Herland1-1/+12
"git notes list" will list all note objects in the current notes ref (in the format "<note object> <annotated object>"). "git notes list <object>" will list the note object associated with the given <object>, or fail loudly if the given <object> has no associated notes. If no arguments are given to "git notes", it defaults to the "list" subcommand. This is for pseudo-compatibility with "git tag" and "git branch". The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13Documentation: Generalize git-notes docs to 'objects' instead of 'commits'Libravatar Johan Herland1-15/+20
Notes can annotate arbitrary objects (not only commits), but this is not reflected in the current documentation. This patch rewrites the git-notes documentation to talk about 'objects' instead of 'commits'. However, the discussion on commit notes and how they are displayed by 'git log' is largely preserved. Finally, I add myself to the Author/Documentation credits, since most of the lines in the git-notes code and docs are blamed on me. Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13builtin-notes: Add "prune" subcommand for removing notes for missing objectsLibravatar Johan Herland1-1/+3
"git notes prune" will remove all notes that annotate unreachable/non- existing objects. The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13builtin-notes: Add "remove" subcommand for removing existing notesLibravatar Johan Herland1-5/+10
Using "git notes remove" is equivalent to specifying an empty note message. The patch includes tests verifying correct behaviour of the new subcommand. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-13Builtin-ify git-notesLibravatar Johan Herland1-4/+2
The builtin-ification includes some minor behavioural changes to the command-line interface: It is no longer allowed to mix the -m and -F arguments, and it is not allowed to use multiple -F options. As part of the builtin-ification, we add the commit_notes() function to the builtin API. This function (together with the notes.h API) can be easily used from other builtins to manipulate the notes tree. Also includes needed changes to t3301. This patch has been improved by the following contributions: - Stephen Boyd: Use die() instead of fprintf(stderr, ...) followed by exit(1) Cc: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+1
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.
2009-10-19Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit"Libravatar Johan Herland1-1/+15
The "-m" and "-F" options are already the established method (in both git-commit and git-tag) to specify a commit/tag message without invoking the editor. This patch teaches "git notes edit" to respect the same options for specifying a notes message without invoking the editor. Multiple "-m" and/or "-F" options are concatenated as separate paragraphs. The patch also updates the "git notes" documentation and adds selftests for the new functionality. Unfortunately, the added selftests include a couple of lines with trailing whitespace (without these the test will fail). This may cause git to warn about "whitespace errors". This patch has been improved by the following contributions: - Thomas Rast: fix trailing whitespace in t3301 Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-19Add a script to edit/inspect notesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+46
The script 'git notes' allows you to edit and show commit notes, by calling either git notes show <commit> or git notes edit <commit> This patch has been improved by the following contributions: - Tor Arne Vestbø: fix printing of multi-line notes - Michael J Gruber: test and handle empty notes gracefully - Thomas Rast: - only clean up message file when editing - use GIT_EDITOR and core.editor over VISUAL/EDITOR - t3301: fix confusing quoting in test for valid notes ref - t3301: use test_must_fail instead of ! - refuse to edit notes outside refs/notes/ - Junio C Hamano: tests: fix "export var=val" - Christian Couder: documentation: fix 'linkgit' macro in "git-notes.txt" - Johan Herland: minor cleanup and bugfixing in git-notes.sh (v2) Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tavestbo@trolltech.com> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-10Revert "Merge branch 'js/notes'"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-46/+0
This reverts commit 7b75b331f6744fbf953fe8913703378ef86a2189, reversing changes made to 5d680a67d7909c89af96eba4a2d77abed606292b.
2008-12-21Add a script to edit/inspect notesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+46
The script 'git notes' allows you to edit and show commit notes, by calling either git notes show <commit> or git notes edit <commit> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>