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2013-12-27Merge branch 'zk/difftool-counts'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Show the total number of paths and the number of paths shown so far when "git difftool" prompts to launch an external diff tool, which would give users some sense of progress. * zk/difftool-counts: diff.c: fix some recent whitespace style violations difftool: display the number of files in the diff queue in the prompt
2013-12-17Git 1.8.5.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-06difftool: display the number of files in the diff queue in the promptLibravatar Zoltan Klinger1-0/+9
When --prompt option is set, git-difftool displays a prompt for each modified file to be viewed in an external diff program. At that point, it could be useful to display a counter and the total number of files in the diff queue. Below is the current difftool prompt for the first of 5 modified files: Viewing: 'diff.c' Launch 'vimdiff' [Y/n]: Consider the modified prompt: Viewing (1/5): 'diff.c' Launch 'vimdiff' [Y/n]: The current GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF mechanism does not tell the number of paths in the diff queue nor the current counter. To make this "counter/total" info available for GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF programs without breaking existing ones by doing the following: - Keep track of the number of paths shown so far in diff_options; - Export two new environment variables from run_external_diff() to show the total number of paths (from diff_queue_struct) and the current value of the counter (from diff_options); and - Update git-difftool--helper to use these two environment variables. Signed-off-by: Zoltan Klinger <zoltan.klinger@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-03Git 1.8.5.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-02Sync with 1.8.4.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
2013-12-02Git 1.8.4.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-27Git 1.8.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-20Sync with 1.8.4.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
2013-11-20Git 1.8.4.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-08Sync with 1.8.4.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
2013-11-08Git 1.8.4.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-28Sync with v1.8.4.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
2013-10-28Git 1.8.4.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-18Merge branch 'jc/reflog-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
Document rules to use GIT_REFLOG_ACTION variable in the scripted Porcelain. git-rebase--interactive locally violates them, but it is a leaf user that does not call out to or dot-source other scripts, so it does not urgently need to be fixed. * jc/reflog-doc: setup_reflog_action: document the rules for using GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
2013-10-15git.txt: fix asciidoc syntax of --*-pathspecsLibravatar Steffen Prohaska1-3/+3
Labeled lists require a double colon. [jc] I eyeballed the output from git grep '[^:]:$' Documentation/\*.txt and the patch fixes all breakages of this kind. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-26Sync with Git 1.8.4.1Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+2
2013-09-26Git 1.8.4.1Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-20Merge branch 'nr/git-cd-to-a-directory'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+15
Just like "make -C <directory>", make "git -C <directory> ..." to go there before doing anything else. * nr/git-cd-to-a-directory: t0056: "git -C" test updates git: run in a directory given with -C option
2013-09-09Merge branch 'jl/submodule-mv'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+29
"git mv A B" when moving a submodule A does "the right thing", inclusing relocating its working tree and adjusting the paths in the .gitmodules file. * jl/submodule-mv: (53 commits) rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules submodule.c: add .gitmodules staging helper functions mv: move submodules using a gitfile mv: move submodules together with their work trees rm: do not set a variable twice without intermediate reading. t6131 - skip tests if on case-insensitive file system parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntax pathspec: support :(glob) syntax pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magic pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspec kill limit_pathspec_to_literal() as it's only used by parse_pathspec() parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN parse_pathspec: make sure the prefix part is wildcard-free rename field "raw" to "_raw" in struct pathspec tree-diff: remove the use of pathspec's raw[] in follow-rename codepath remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth() remove init_pathspec() in favor of parse_pathspec() remove diff_tree_{setup,release}_paths convert common_prefix() to use struct pathspec ...
2013-09-09git: run in a directory given with -C optionLibravatar Nazri Ramliy1-1/+15
This is similar in spirit to "make -C dir ..." and "tar -C dir ...". It takes more keypresses to invoke git command in a different directory without leaving the current directory: 1. (cd ~/foo && git status) git --git-dir=~/foo/.git --work-dir=~/foo status GIT_DIR=~/foo/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=~/foo git status 2. (cd ../..; git grep foo) 3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do (cd $d && git svn rebase); done The methods shown above are acceptable for scripting but are too cumbersome for quick command line invocations. With this new option, the above can be done with fewer keystrokes: 1. git -C ~/foo status 2. git -C ../.. grep foo 3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do git -C $d svn rebase; done A new test script is added to verify the behavior of this option with other path-related options like --git-dir and --work-tree. Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-30Merge branch 'mm/war-on-whatchanged'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* mm/war-on-whatchanged: whatchanged: document its historical nature core-tutorial: trim the section on Inspecting Changes
2013-08-23Git 1.8.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-13core-tutorial: trim the section on Inspecting ChangesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Back when the core tutorial was written, `log` and `whatchanged` were scripted Porcelains. In the "Inspecting Changes" section that talks about the plumbing commands in the diff family, it made sense to use `log` and `whatchanged` as good examples of the use of these plumbing commands, and because even these scripted Porcelains were novelty (there wasn't the new end-user tutorial written), it made some sense to illustrate uses of the `git log` (and `git whatchanged`) scripted Porcelain commands. But we no longer have scripted `log` and `whatchanged` to serve as examples, and this document is not where the end users learn what `git log` command is about. Stop at briefly mentioning the possibility of combining rev-list with diff-tree to build your own log, and leave the end-user documentation of `log` to the new tutorial and the user manual. Also resurrect the last version of `git-log`, `git-whatchanged`, and `git-show` to serve as examples to contrib/examples/ directory. While at it, remove 'whatchanged' from a list of sample commands that are affected by GIT_FLUSH environment variable. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list but as a list of typical ones, and an old command that is kept primarily for backward compatibility does not belong to it. Helped-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22Sync with Git 1.8.3.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
2013-07-22Git 1.8.3.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntaxLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15pathspec: support :(glob) syntaxLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+19
:(glob)path differs from plain pathspec that it uses wildmatch with WM_PATHNAME while the other uses fnmatch without FNM_PATHNAME. The difference lies in how '*' (and '**') is processed. With the introduction of :(glob) and :(literal) and their global options --[no]glob-pathspecs, the user can: - make everything literal by default via --noglob-pathspecs --literal-pathspecs cannot be used for this purpose as it disables _all_ pathspec magic. - individually turn on globbing with :(glob) - make everything globbing by default via --glob-pathspecs - individually turn off globbing with :(literal) The implication behind this is, there is no way to gain the default matching behavior (i.e. fnmatch without FNM_PATHNAME). You either get new globbing or literal. The old fnmatch behavior is considered deprecated and discouraged to use. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magicLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+2
--literal-pathspecs and its equivalent environment variable are probably used for scripting. In that setting, pathspec magic may be unwanted. Disabling globbing in individual pathspec can be done via :(literal) magic. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15Sync with 1.8.3.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15Git 1.8.3.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-03Merge branch 'cr/git-work-tree-sans-git-dir' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
* cr/git-work-tree-sans-git-dir: git.txt: remove stale comment regarding GIT_WORK_TREE
2013-06-28Sync with 1.8.3.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
2013-06-28Git 1.8.3.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-20Merge branch 'nd/traces'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
* nd/traces: git.txt: document GIT_TRACE_PACKET core: use env variable instead of config var to turn on logging pack access
2013-06-19setup_reflog_action: document the rules for using GIT_REFLOG_ACTIONLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
The set_reflog_action helper (in git-sh-setup) is designed to be used once at the very top of a program, like this in "git am", for example: set_reflog_action am The helper function sets the given string to GIT_REFLOG_ACTION only when GIT_REFLOG_ACTION is not yet set. Thanks to this, "git am", when run as the top-level program, will use "am" in GIT_REFLOG_ACTION and the reflog entries made by whatever it does will record the updates of refs done by "am". Because of the conditional assignment, when "git am" is run as a subprogram (i.e. an implementation detail) of "git rebase" that already sets GIT_REFLOG_ACTION to its own name, the call in "git am" to the helper function at the beginning will *not* have any effect. So "git rebase" can do this: set_reflog_action rebase ... do its own preparation, like checking out "onto" commit ... decide to do "format-patch" to "am" pipeline git format-patch --stdout >mbox git am mbox and the reflog entries made inside "git am" invocation will say "rebase", not "am". Calls to "git" commands that update refs would use GIT_REFLOG_ACTION to record who did that update. Most such calls in scripted Porcelains do not define custom reflog message and rely on GIT_REFLOG_ACTION to contain its (or its caller's, when it is called as a subprogram) name. If a scripted Porcelain wants to record a custom reflog message for a single invocation of "git" command (e.g. when "git rebase" uses "git checkout" to detach HEAD at the commit a series is to be replayed on), it needs to set GIT_REFLOG_ACTION to the custom message and export it while calling the "git" command, but such an assignment must be restricted to that single "git" invocation and should not be left behind to affect later codepath. Document the rules to avoid future confusion. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-11Merge branch 'cr/git-work-tree-sans-git-dir'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
These days, "git --work-tree=there cmd" without specifying an explicit --git-dir=here will do the usual discovery, but we had a description of older behaviour in the documentation. * cr/git-work-tree-sans-git-dir: git.txt: remove stale comment regarding GIT_WORK_TREE
2013-06-10Sync with 1.8.3.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-10Git 1.8.3.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Primarily to push out two regression issues that seem to affect many people, namely, the ".gitignore !directory" bug and "daemon cannot read from $HOME owned by root" bug. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-09git.txt: document GIT_TRACE_PACKETLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+6
"This can help with debugging object negotiation or other protocol issues." Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-09core: use env variable instead of config var to turn on logging pack accessLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+7
5f44324 (core: log offset pack data accesses happened - 2011-07-06) provides a way to observe pack access patterns via a config switch. Setting an environment variable looks more obvious than a config var, especially when you just need to _observe_, and more inline with other tracing knobs we have. Document it as it may be useful for remote troubleshooting. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-03git.txt: remove stale comment regarding GIT_WORK_TREELibravatar Chris Rorvick1-3/+1
Official support for specifying --work-tree/GIT_WORK_TREE without --git-dir/GIT_DIR was added with v1.7.4-rc3~2^2~2. Update description of GIT_WORK_TREE to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-29Start 1.8.4 cycleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-29Merge branch 'as/check-ignore'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
Enhance "check-ignore" (1.8.2 update) to work more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes. * as/check-ignore: t0008: use named pipe (FIFO) to test check-ignore streaming Documentation: add caveats about I/O buffering for check-{attr,ignore} check-ignore: allow incremental streaming of queries via --stdin check-ignore: move setup into cmd_check_ignore() check-ignore: add -n / --non-matching option t0008: remove duplicated test fixture data
2013-05-09Git 1.8.2.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-26Git 1.8.2.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-5/+5
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>
2013-04-11Documentation: add caveats about I/O buffering for check-{attr,ignore}Libravatar Adam Spiers1-2/+3
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>
2013-04-07Git 1.8.2.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-07Sync with 1.8.1.6Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
2013-04-07Git 1.8.1.6Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>