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2020-01-22doc: dissuade users from trying to ignore tracked filesLibravatar brian m. carlson1-0/+16
It is quite common for users to want to ignore the changes to a file that Git tracks. Common scenarios for this case are IDE settings and configuration files, which should generally not be tracked and possibly generated from tracked files using a templating mechanism. However, users learn about the assume-unchanged and skip-worktree bits and try to use them to do this anyway. This is problematic, because when these bits are set, many operations behave as the user expects, but they usually do not help when git checkout needs to replace a file. There is no sensible behavior in this case, because sometimes the data is precious, such as certain configuration files, and sometimes it is irrelevant data that the user would be happy to discard. Since this is not a supported configuration and users are prone to misuse the existing features for unintended purposes, causing general sadness and confusion, let's document the existing behavior and the pitfalls in the documentation for git update-index so that users know they should explore alternate solutions. In addition, let's provide a recommended solution to dealing with the common case of configuration files, since there are well-known approaches used successfully in many environments. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-01Merge branch 'en/doc-typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * en/doc-typofix: Fix spelling errors in no-longer-updated-from-upstream modules multimail: fix a few simple spelling errors sha1dc: fix trivial comment spelling error Fix spelling errors in test commands Fix spelling errors in messages shown to users Fix spelling errors in names of tests Fix spelling errors in comments of testcases Fix spelling errors in code comments Fix spelling errors in documentation outside of Documentation/ Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new
2019-11-07Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and newLibravatar Elijah Newren1-1/+1
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-02update-index: optionally leave skip-worktree entries aloneLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+6
While `git update-index` mostly ignores paths referring to index entries whose skip-worktree bit is set, in b4d1690df11 (Teach Git to respect skip-worktree bit (reading part), 2009-08-20), for reasons that are not entirely obvious, the `--remove` option was made special: it _does_ remove index entries even if their skip-worktree bit is set. Seeing as this behavior has been in place for a decade now, it does not make sense to change it. However, in preparation for fixing a bug in `git stash` where it pretends that skip-worktree entries have actually been removed, we need a mode where `git update-index` leaves all skip-worktree entries alone, even if the `--remove` option was passed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-20Merge branch 'jc/update-index-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+6
Doc update. * jc/update-index-doc: update-index: there no longer is `apply --index-info`
2018-08-08update-index: there no longer is `apply --index-info`Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+6
Back when we removed `git apply --index-info` in 2007, we forgot to adjust the documentation for update-index that reads its output. Let's reorder the description of three formats to present the other two formats that are still generated by git commands before this format, and stop mentioning `git apply --index-info`. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-08git-update-index.txt: reword possibly confusing exampleLibravatar Elijah Newren1-2/+2
The following phrase could be interpreted multiple ways: "To pretend you have a file with mode and sha1 at path" In particular, I can think of two: 1. Pretend we have some new file, which happens to have a given mode and sha1 2. Pretend one of the files we are already tracking has a different mode and sha1 than what it really does I think people could easily assume either case while reading, but the example command provided doesn't actually handle the first case, which caused some minor frustration to at least one user. Modify the example command so that it correctly handles both cases, and re-order the wording in a way that makes it more likely folks will assume the first interpretation. I believe the new example shouldn't pose any obstacles to those wanting the second interpretation (at worst, they pass an unnecessary extra flag). Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-02doc: keep first level section header in upper caseLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-10/+10
When formatted as a man page, 1st section header is always in upper case even if we write it otherwise. Make all 1st section headers uppercase to keep it close to the final output. This does affect html since case is kept there, but I still think it's a good idea to maintain a consistent style for 1st section headers. Some sections perhaps should become second sections instead, where case is kept, and for better organization. I will update if anyone has suggestions about this. While at there I also make some header more consistent (e.g. examples vs example) and fix a couple minor things here and there. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-27Merge branch 'bp/fsmonitor'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Doc update for a recently added feature. * bp/fsmonitor: fsmonitor: update documentation to remove reference to invalid config settings
2018-02-14fsmonitor: update documentation to remove reference to invalid config settingsLibravatar Ben Peart1-2/+2
Remove the reference to setting core.fsmonitor to `true` (or `false`) as those are not valid settings. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-09update-index doc: note the caveat with "could not open..."Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+10
Note the caveat where 2.17 is stricter about index validation potentially causing "could not open directory" warnings when git is upgraded. See the preceding "dir.c: stop ignoring opendir() error in open_cached_dir()" change. This caused some mayhem when I upgraded git to a version with this series at Booking.com, and other users have doubtless enabled the UC extension and are in for a surprise when they upgrade. Let's give them a headsup in the docs. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-09update-index doc: note a fixed bug in the untracked cacheLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+16
Document the bug tested for in my "status: add a failing test showing a core.untrackedCache bug" and fixed in Duy's "dir.c: fix missing dir invalidation in untracked code". Since this is very likely something others will encounter in the future on older versions, and it's not obvious how to fix it let's document both that it exists, and how to "fix" it with a one-off command. As noted in that commit, even though this bug gets the untracked cache into a bad state, we have not yet found a case where this is user visible, and thus it makes sense for these docs to focus on the symlink case only. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-21Merge branch 'bp/fsmonitor'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+45
We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other operations that need to see which paths have been modified. * bp/fsmonitor: fsmonitor: preserve utf8 filenames in fsmonitor-watchman log fsmonitor: read entirety of watchman output fsmonitor: MINGW support for watchman integration fsmonitor: add a performance test fsmonitor: add a sample integration script for Watchman fsmonitor: add test cases for fsmonitor extension split-index: disable the fsmonitor extension when running the split index test fsmonitor: add a test tool to dump the index extension update-index: add fsmonitor support to update-index ls-files: Add support in ls-files to display the fsmonitor valid bit fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension. fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files. update-index: add a new --force-write-index option preload-index: add override to enable testing preload-index bswap: add 64 bit endianness helper get_be64
2017-10-01fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension.Libravatar Ben Peart1-0/+45
This includes the core.fsmonitor setting, the fsmonitor integration hook, and the fsmonitor index extension. Also add documentation for the new fsmonitor options to ls-files and update-index. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-25Merge branch 'ez/doc-duplicated-words-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Typofix. * ez/doc-duplicated-words-fix: doc: fix minor typos (extra/duplicated words)
2017-09-14doc: fix minor typos (extra/duplicated words)Libravatar Evan Zacks1-1/+1
Following are several fixes for duplicated words ("of of") and one case where an extra article ("a") slipped in. Signed-off-by: Evan Zacks <zackse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-23treewide: correct several "up-to-date" to "up to date"Libravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+1
Follow the Oxford style, which says to use "up-to-date" before the noun, but "up to date" after it. Don't change plumbing (specifically send-pack.c, but transport.c (git push) also has the same string). This was produced by grepping for "up-to-date" and "up to date". It turned out we only had to edit in one direction, removing the hyphens. Fix a typo in Documentation/git-diff-index.txt while we're there. Reported-by: Jeffrey Manian <jeffrey.manian@gmail.com> Reported-by: STEVEN WHITE <stevencharleswhitevoices@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-06Documentation/git-update-index: explain splitIndex.*Libravatar Christian Couder1-8/+29
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-01Documentation/git-update-index: talk about core.splitIndex config varLibravatar Christian Couder1-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset long command-line options as literalLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-7/+7
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>
2016-01-27config: add core.untrackedCacheLibravatar Christian Couder1-15/+52
When we know that mtime on directory as given by the environment is usable for the purpose of untracked cache, we may want the untracked cache to be always used without any mtime test or kernel name check being performed. Also when we know that mtime is not usable for the purpose of untracked cache, for example because the repo is shared over a network file system, we may want the untracked-cache to be automatically removed from the index. Allow the user to express such preference by setting the 'core.untrackedCache' configuration variable, which can take 'keep', 'false', or 'true' and default to 'keep'. When read_index_from() is called, it now adds or removes the untracked cache in the index to respect the value of this variable. So it does nothing if the value is `keep` or if the variable is unset; it adds the untracked cache if the value is `true`; and it removes the cache if the value is `false`. `git update-index --[no-|force-]untracked-cache` still adds the untracked cache to, or removes it, from the index, but this shows a warning if it goes against the value of core.untrackedCache, because the next time the index is read the untracked cache will be added or removed if the configuration is set to do so. Also `--untracked-cache` used to check that the underlying operating system and file system change `st_mtime` field of a directory if files are added or deleted in that directory. But because those tests take a long time, `--untracked-cache` no longer performs them. Instead, there is now `--test-untracked-cache` to perform the tests. This change makes `--untracked-cache` the same as `--force-untracked-cache`. This last change is backward incompatible and should be mentioned in the release notes. Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> read-cache: Duy'sfixup Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-25update-index: add --test-untracked-cacheLibravatar Christian Couder1-1/+11
It is nice to just be able to test if untracked cache is supported without enabling it. Helped-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-10Documentation/git-update-index: add missing opts to synopsisLibravatar Christian Couder1-0/+1
Split index related options should appear in the 'SYNOPSIS' section. These options are already documented in the 'OPTIONS' section. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-11-24Documentation/git-update-index: add missing opts to synopsysLibravatar Christian Couder1-0/+1
Untracked cache related options should appear in the synopsis. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-03-12update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cacheLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+6
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-12update-index: manually enable or disable untracked cacheLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+8
Overall time saving on "git status" is about 40% in the best case scenario, removing ..collect_untracked() as the most time consuming function. read and refresh index operations are now at the top (which should drop when index-helper and/or watchman support is added). More numbers and analysis below. webkit.git ========== 169k files. 6k dirs. Lots of test data (i.e. not touched most of the time) Base status ----------- Index version 4 in split index mode and cache-tree populated. No untracked cache. It shows how time is consumed by "git status". The same settings are used for other repos below. 18:28:10.199679 builtin/commit.c:1394 performance: 0.000000451 s: cmd_status:setup 18:28:10.474847 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.274873831 s: read_index 18:28:10.475295 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.000000656 s: read_index 18:28:10.728443 preload-index.c:131 performance: 0.253147487 s: read_index_preload 18:28:10.741422 read-cache.c:1254 performance: 0.012868340 s: refresh_index 18:28:10.752300 wt-status.c:623 performance: 0.010421357 s: wt_status_collect_changes_worktree 18:28:10.762069 wt-status.c:629 performance: 0.009644748 s: wt_status_collect_changes_index 18:28:11.601019 wt-status.c:632 performance: 0.838859547 s: wt_status_collect_untracked 18:28:11.605939 builtin/commit.c:1421 performance: 0.004835004 s: cmd_status:update_index 18:28:11.606580 trace.c:415 performance: 1.407878388 s: git command: 'git' 'status' Populating status ----------------- This is after enabling untracked cache and the cache is still empty. We see a slight increase in .._collect_untracked() and update_index (because new cache has to be written to $GIT_DIR/index). 18:28:18.915213 builtin/commit.c:1394 performance: 0.000000326 s: cmd_status:setup 18:28:19.197364 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.281901416 s: read_index 18:28:19.197754 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.000000546 s: read_index 18:28:19.451355 preload-index.c:131 performance: 0.253599607 s: read_index_preload 18:28:19.464400 read-cache.c:1254 performance: 0.012935336 s: refresh_index 18:28:19.475115 wt-status.c:623 performance: 0.010236920 s: wt_status_collect_changes_worktree 18:28:19.486022 wt-status.c:629 performance: 0.010801685 s: wt_status_collect_changes_index 18:28:20.362660 wt-status.c:632 performance: 0.876551366 s: wt_status_collect_untracked 18:28:20.396199 builtin/commit.c:1421 performance: 0.033447969 s: cmd_status:update_index 18:28:20.396939 trace.c:415 performance: 1.482695902 s: git command: 'git' 'status' Populated status ---------------- After the cache is populated, wt_status_collect_untracked() drops 82% from 0.838s to 0.144s. Overall time drops 45%. Top offenders are now read_index() and read_index_preload(). 18:28:20.408605 builtin/commit.c:1394 performance: 0.000000457 s: cmd_status:setup 18:28:20.692864 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.283980458 s: read_index 18:28:20.693273 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.000000661 s: read_index 18:28:20.958814 preload-index.c:131 performance: 0.265540254 s: read_index_preload 18:28:20.972375 read-cache.c:1254 performance: 0.013437429 s: refresh_index 18:28:20.983959 wt-status.c:623 performance: 0.011146646 s: wt_status_collect_changes_worktree 18:28:20.993948 wt-status.c:629 performance: 0.009879094 s: wt_status_collect_changes_index 18:28:21.138125 wt-status.c:632 performance: 0.144084737 s: wt_status_collect_untracked 18:28:21.173678 builtin/commit.c:1421 performance: 0.035463949 s: cmd_status:update_index 18:28:21.174251 trace.c:415 performance: 0.766707355 s: git command: 'git' 'status' gentoo-x86.git ============== This repository is a strange one with a balanced, wide and shallow worktree (about 100k files and 23k dirs) and no .gitignore in worktree. .._collect_untracked() time drops 88%, total time drops 56%. Base status ----------- 18:20:40.828642 builtin/commit.c:1394 performance: 0.000000496 s: cmd_status:setup 18:20:41.027233 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.198130532 s: read_index 18:20:41.027670 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.000000581 s: read_index 18:20:41.171716 preload-index.c:131 performance: 0.144045594 s: read_index_preload 18:20:41.179171 read-cache.c:1254 performance: 0.007320424 s: refresh_index 18:20:41.185785 wt-status.c:623 performance: 0.006144638 s: wt_status_collect_changes_worktree 18:20:41.192701 wt-status.c:629 performance: 0.006780184 s: wt_status_collect_changes_index 18:20:41.991723 wt-status.c:632 performance: 0.798927029 s: wt_status_collect_untracked 18:20:41.994664 builtin/commit.c:1421 performance: 0.002852772 s: cmd_status:update_index 18:20:41.995458 trace.c:415 performance: 1.168427502 s: git command: 'git' 'status' Populating status ----------------- 18:20:48.968848 builtin/commit.c:1394 performance: 0.000000380 s: cmd_status:setup 18:20:49.172918 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.203734214 s: read_index 18:20:49.173341 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.000000562 s: read_index 18:20:49.320013 preload-index.c:131 performance: 0.146671391 s: read_index_preload 18:20:49.328039 read-cache.c:1254 performance: 0.007921957 s: refresh_index 18:20:49.334680 wt-status.c:623 performance: 0.006172020 s: wt_status_collect_changes_worktree 18:20:49.342526 wt-status.c:629 performance: 0.007731746 s: wt_status_collect_changes_index 18:20:50.257510 wt-status.c:632 performance: 0.914864222 s: wt_status_collect_untracked 18:20:50.338371 builtin/commit.c:1421 performance: 0.080776477 s: cmd_status:update_index 18:20:50.338900 trace.c:415 performance: 1.371462446 s: git command: 'git' 'status' Populated status ---------------- 18:20:50.351160 builtin/commit.c:1394 performance: 0.000000571 s: cmd_status:setup 18:20:50.577358 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.225917338 s: read_index 18:20:50.577794 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.000000617 s: read_index 18:20:50.734140 preload-index.c:131 performance: 0.156345564 s: read_index_preload 18:20:50.745717 read-cache.c:1254 performance: 0.011463075 s: refresh_index 18:20:50.755176 wt-status.c:623 performance: 0.008877929 s: wt_status_collect_changes_worktree 18:20:50.763768 wt-status.c:629 performance: 0.008471633 s: wt_status_collect_changes_index 18:20:50.854885 wt-status.c:632 performance: 0.090988721 s: wt_status_collect_untracked 18:20:50.857765 builtin/commit.c:1421 performance: 0.002789097 s: cmd_status:update_index 18:20:50.858411 trace.c:415 performance: 0.508647673 s: git command: 'git' 'status' linux-2.6 ========= Reference repo. Not too big. .._collect_status() drops 84%. Total time drops 42%. Base status ----------- 18:34:09.870122 builtin/commit.c:1394 performance: 0.000000385 s: cmd_status:setup 18:34:09.943218 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.072871177 s: read_index 18:34:09.943614 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.000000491 s: read_index 18:34:10.004364 preload-index.c:131 performance: 0.060748102 s: read_index_preload 18:34:10.008190 read-cache.c:1254 performance: 0.003714285 s: refresh_index 18:34:10.012087 wt-status.c:623 performance: 0.002775446 s: wt_status_collect_changes_worktree 18:34:10.016054 wt-status.c:629 performance: 0.003862140 s: wt_status_collect_changes_index 18:34:10.214747 wt-status.c:632 performance: 0.198604837 s: wt_status_collect_untracked 18:34:10.216102 builtin/commit.c:1421 performance: 0.001244166 s: cmd_status:update_index 18:34:10.216817 trace.c:415 performance: 0.347670735 s: git command: 'git' 'status' Populating status ----------------- 18:34:16.595102 builtin/commit.c:1394 performance: 0.000000456 s: cmd_status:setup 18:34:16.666600 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.070992413 s: read_index 18:34:16.667012 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.000000606 s: read_index 18:34:16.729375 preload-index.c:131 performance: 0.062362492 s: read_index_preload 18:34:16.732565 read-cache.c:1254 performance: 0.003075517 s: refresh_index 18:34:16.736148 wt-status.c:623 performance: 0.002422201 s: wt_status_collect_changes_worktree 18:34:16.739990 wt-status.c:629 performance: 0.003746618 s: wt_status_collect_changes_index 18:34:16.948505 wt-status.c:632 performance: 0.208426710 s: wt_status_collect_untracked 18:34:16.961744 builtin/commit.c:1421 performance: 0.013151887 s: cmd_status:update_index 18:34:16.962233 trace.c:415 performance: 0.368537535 s: git command: 'git' 'status' Populated status ---------------- 18:34:16.970026 builtin/commit.c:1394 performance: 0.000000631 s: cmd_status:setup 18:34:17.046235 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.075904673 s: read_index 18:34:17.046644 read-cache.c:1407 performance: 0.000000681 s: read_index 18:34:17.113564 preload-index.c:131 performance: 0.066920253 s: read_index_preload 18:34:17.117281 read-cache.c:1254 performance: 0.003604055 s: refresh_index 18:34:17.121115 wt-status.c:623 performance: 0.002508345 s: wt_status_collect_changes_worktree 18:34:17.125089 wt-status.c:629 performance: 0.003871636 s: wt_status_collect_changes_index 18:34:17.156089 wt-status.c:632 performance: 0.030895703 s: wt_status_collect_untracked 18:34:17.169861 builtin/commit.c:1421 performance: 0.013686404 s: cmd_status:update_index 18:34:17.170391 trace.c:415 performance: 0.201474531 s: git command: 'git' 'status' Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-22Merge branch 'po/doc-assume-unchanged'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+8
Fixes long-standing misunderstanding of what assume-unchanged is about. Some text near what is removed by the bottom patch may also have to be removed. * po/doc-assume-unchanged: gitignore.txt: do not suggest assume-unchanged doc: make clear --assume-unchanged's user contract
2014-12-09doc: make clear --assume-unchanged's user contractLibravatar Philip Oakley1-10/+8
Many users misunderstand the --assume-unchanged contract, believing it means Git won't look at the flagged file. Be explicit that the --assume-unchanged contract is by the user that they will NOT change the file so that Git does not need to look (and expend, for example, lstat(2) cycles) Mentioning "Git stops checking" does not help the reader, as it is only one possible consequence of what that assumption allows Git to do, but (1) there are things other than "stop checking" that Git can do based on that assumption; and (2) Git is not obliged to stop checking; it merely is allowed to. Also, this is a single flag bit, correct the plural to singular, and the verb, accordingly. Drop the stale and incorrect information about "poor-man's ignore", which is not what this flag bit is about at all. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-04Documentation: typofixesLibravatar Thomas Ackermann1-1/+1
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about the following points: - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS; - Spell Linux as Capitalized; - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-19Merge branch 'sp/doc-update-index-cacheinfo'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* sp/doc-update-index-cacheinfo: Documentation: use single-parameter --cacheinfo in example
2014-09-11Documentation: use single-parameter --cacheinfo in exampleLibravatar Steffen Prohaska1-1/+1
The single-parameter form is described as the preferred way. Separate arguments are only supported for backward compatibility. Update the example to the recommended form. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-13update-index: new options to enable/disable split index modeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+11
If you have a large work tree but only make changes in a subset, then $GIT_DIR/index's size should be stable after a while. If you change branches that touch something else, $GIT_DIR/index's size may grow large that it becomes as slow as the unified index. Do --split-index again occasionally to force all changes back to the shared index and keep $GIT_DIR/index small. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-24update-index: teach --cacheinfo a new syntax "mode,sha1,path"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
The "--cacheinfo" option is unusual in that it takes three option parameters. An option with an optional parameter is bad enough. An option with multiple parameters is simply insane. Introduce a new syntax that takes these three things concatenated together with a comma, which makes the command line syntax more uniform across subcommands, while retaining the traditional syntax for backward compatiblity. If we were designing the "update-index" subcommand from scratch today, it may probably have made sense to make this option (and possibly others) a command mode option that does not take any option parameter (hence no need for arg-help). But we do not live in such an ideal world, and as far as I can tell, the command still supports (and must support) mixed command modes in a single invocation, e.g. $ git update-index path1 --add path2 \ --cacheinfo 100644 $(git hash-object --stdin -w <path3) path3 \ path4 must make sure path1 is already in the index and update all of these four paths. So this is probably as far as we can go to fix this issue without risking to break people's existing scripts. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-17documentation: trivial style cleanupsLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-6/+4
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-1/+1
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function. When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-25Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+9
* maint-1.8.1: bundle: Add colons to list headings in "verify" bundle: Fix "verify" output if history is complete Documentation: filter-branch env-filter example git-filter-branch.txt: clarify ident variables usage git-compat-util.h: Provide missing netdb.h definitions describe: Document --match pattern format Documentation/githooks: Explain pre-rebase parameters update-index: list supported idx versions and their features diff-options: unconfuse description of --color read-cache.c: use INDEX_FORMAT_{LB,UB} in verify_hdr() index-format.txt: mention of v4 is missing in some places
2013-02-23update-index: list supported idx versions and their featuresLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+9
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-8/+8
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-04update-index: upgrade/downgrade on-disk index versionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
With the "--index-version <n>" parameter, write the index out in the specified version. With this, an index file that is written in newer format (say v4) can be downgraded to be read by older versions of Git. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-05Merge branch 'sn/doc-update-index-assume-unchanged'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
* sn/doc-update-index-assume-unchanged: Documentation/git-update-index: refer to 'ls-files'
2011-09-21Documentation/git-update-index: refer to 'ls-files'Libravatar Stefan Naewe1-2/+5
'ls-files' refers to 'update-index' to show how the 'assume unchanged' bit can be seen. This makes the connection 'bi-directional'. Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesLibravatar Jeff King1-9/+0
The point of these sections is generally to: 1. Give credit where it is due. 2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or file bug reports. But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody useless. So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section to give credit to the major contributors and point to shortlog and blame for more information. Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can follow that to the main git manpage.
2010-10-21Merge branch 'sn/doc-opt-notation' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* sn/doc-opt-notation: Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation Use angles for placeholders consistently
2010-10-13Documentation: update-index: -z applies also to --index-infoLibravatar Bert Wesarg1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08Use parentheses and `...' where appropriateLibravatar Štěpán Němec1-2/+2
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the same purpose. Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20Documentation: remove backslashes in manpage synopsesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
For some reason, various manual pages have an asterisk escaped with \ in the synopsis. Since there is no other asterisk to pair it with, Asciidoc does not consider this asterisk escapable, so it passes the backslash through. Each page either uses [verse] or has only one asterisk, so it is safe to drop the backslashes (checked with asciidoc 8.5.2). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08Documentation: git-add does not update files marked "assume unchanged"Libravatar Clemens Buchacher1-2/+0
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+11
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next: Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull" Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-config.txt Documentation/git-merge.txt
2010-01-13Merge branch 'nd/sparse'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+29
* nd/sparse: (25 commits) t7002: test for not using external grep on skip-worktree paths t7002: set test prerequisite "external-grep" if supported grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries commit: correctly respect skip-worktree bit ie_match_stat(): do not ignore skip-worktree bit with CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID tests: rename duplicate t1009 sparse checkout: inhibit empty worktree Add tests for sparse checkout read-tree: add --no-sparse-checkout to disable sparse checkout support unpack-trees(): ignore worktree check outside checkout area unpack_trees(): apply $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout to the final index unpack-trees(): "enable" sparse checkout and load $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout unpack-trees.c: generalize verify_* functions unpack-trees(): add CE_WT_REMOVE to remove on worktree alone Introduce "sparse checkout" dir.c: export excluded_1() and add_excludes_from_file_1() excluded_1(): support exclude files in index unpack-trees(): carry skip-worktree bit over in merged_entry() Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktree Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1() ... Conflicts: .gitignore Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-update-index.txt Makefile entry.c t/t7002-grep.sh
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-11/+11
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.