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2012-09-14Merge branch 'jc/ll-merge-binary-ours'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git merge -Xtheirs" did not help content-level merge of binary files; it should just take their version. Also "*.jpg binary" in the attributes did not imply they should use the binary ll-merge driver. * jc/ll-merge-binary-ours: ll-merge: warn about inability to merge binary files only when we can't attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driver merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to binary ll-merge driver
2012-09-08attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driverLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The built-in "binary" attribute macro expands to "-diff -text", so that textual diff is not produced, and the contents will not go through any CR/LF conversion ever. During a merge, it should also choose the "binary" low-level merge driver, but it didn't. Make it expand to "-diff -merge -text". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-25Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributesLibravatar Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen1-0/+2
This gives the default value for the core.attributesfile variable following the exact same logic of the previous change for the core.excludesfile setting. Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17Add a setting to require a filter to be successfulLibravatar Jehan Bing1-10/+31
By default, a missing filter driver or a failure from the filter driver is not an error, but merely makes the filter operation a no-op pass through. This is useful to massage the content into a shape that is more convenient for the platform, filesystem, and the user to use, and the content filter mechanism is not used to turn something unusable into usable. However, we could also use of the content filtering mechanism and store the content that cannot be directly used in the repository (e.g. a UUID that refers to the true content stored outside git, or an encrypted content) and turn it into a usable form upon checkout (e.g. download the external content, or decrypt the encrypted content). For such a use case, the content cannot be used when filter driver fails, and we need a way to tell Git to abort the whole operation for such a failing or missing filter driver. Add a new "filter.<driver>.required" configuration variable to mark the second use case. When it is set, git will abort the operation when the filter driver does not exist or exits with a non-zero status code. Signed-off-by: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-15Add built-in diff patterns for MATLAB codeLibravatar Gustaf Hendeby1-0/+2
MATLAB is often used in industry and academia for scientific computations motivating it being included as a built-in pattern. Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-17Merge branch 'mh/check-attr-relative'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* mh/check-attr-relative: (29 commits) test-path-utils: Add subcommand "prefix_path" test-path-utils: Add subcommand "absolute_path" git-check-attr: Normalize paths git-check-attr: Demonstrate problems with relative paths git-check-attr: Demonstrate problems with unnormalized paths git-check-attr: test that no output is written to stderr Rename git_checkattr() to git_check_attr() git-check-attr: Fix command-line handling to match docs git-check-attr: Drive two tests using the same raw data git-check-attr: Add an --all option to show all attributes git-check-attr: Error out if no pathnames are specified git-check-attr: Process command-line args more systematically git-check-attr: Handle each error separately git-check-attr: Extract a function error_with_usage() git-check-attr: Introduce a new variable git-check-attr: Extract a function output_attr() Allow querying all attributes on a file Remove redundant check Remove redundant call to bootstrap_attr_stack() Extract a function collect_all_attrs() ...
2011-08-04doc: Add a link from gitattributes(5) to git-check-attr(1)Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-03gitattributes: Reword "attribute macro" to "macro attribute"Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-9/+9
The new wording makes it clearer that such a beast is an attribute in addition to being a macro (as opposed to being only a macro that is used for attributes). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-03gitattributes: Clarify discussion of attribute macrosLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+8
In particular, make it clear that attribute macros are themselves recorded as attributes in addition to setting other attributes. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-24doc: discuss textconv versus external diff driversLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+31
We already talk about how to use each one and how they work, but it is a reasonable question to wonder why one might use one over the other. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-18docs: fix grammar in gitattributes.txtLibravatar Alexei Sholik1-5/+5
[jc: with a fixlet from Marc Branchaud] Signed-off-by: Alexei Sholik <alcosholik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-13Merge branch 'jn/perl-funcname'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* jn/perl-funcname: userdiff/perl: catch BEGIN/END/... and POD as headers diff: funcname and word patterns for perl
2011-01-13Merge branch 'jk/diff-driver-binary-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+33
* jk/diff-driver-binary-doc: docs: explain diff.*.binary option
2011-01-10docs: explain diff.*.binary optionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+33
This was added long ago as part of the userdiff refactoring for textconv, as internally it made the code simpler and cleaner. However, there was never a concrete use case for actually using the config variable. Now that Matthieu Moy has provided such a use case, it's easy to explain it using his example. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-27diff: funcname and word patterns for perlLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-0/+2
The default function name discovery already works quite well for Perl code... with the exception of here-documents (or rather their ending). sub foo { print <<END here-document END return 1; } The default funcname pattern treats the unindented END line as a function declaration and puts it in the @@ line of diff and "grep --show-function" output. With a little knowledge of perl syntax, we can do better. You can try it out by adding "*.perl diff=perl" to the gitattributes file. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-22convert filter: supply path to external driverLibravatar Pete Wyckoff1-0/+10
Filtering to support keyword expansion may need the name of the file being filtered. In particular, to support p4 keywords like $File: //depot/product/dir/script.sh $ the smudge filter needs to know the name of the file it is smudging. Allow "%f" in the custom filter command line specified in the configuration. This will be substituted by the filename inside a single-quote pair to be passed to the shell. Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-01Make the tab width used for whitespace checks configurableLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-2/+4
A new whitespace "rule" is added that sets the tab width to use for whitespace checks and fix-ups and replaces the hard-coded constant 8. Since the setting is part of the rules, it can be set per file using .gitattributes. The new configuration is backwards compatible because older git versions simply ignore unknown whitespace rules. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-29Merge branch 'bc/fortran-userdiff'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* bc/fortran-userdiff: userdiff.c: add builtin fortran regex patterns
2010-09-29Merge branch 'po/etc-gitattributes'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+10
* po/etc-gitattributes: Add global and system-wide gitattributes Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Makefile
2010-09-10userdiff.c: add builtin fortran regex patternsLibravatar Brandon Casey1-0/+2
This adds fortran xfuncname and wordRegex patterns to the list of builtin patterns. The intention is for the patterns to be appropriate for all versions of fortran including 77, 90, 95. The patterns can be enabled by adding the diff=fortran attribute to the .gitattributes file for the desired file glob. This also adds a new macro named IPATTERN which is just like the PATTERNS macro except it sets the REG_ICASE flag so that case will be ignored. The test code in t4018 and the docs were updated as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-03Merge branch 'jn/merge-renormalize'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+34
* jn/merge-renormalize: merge-recursive --renormalize rerere: never renormalize rerere: migrate to parse-options API t4200 (rerere): modernize style ll-merge: let caller decide whether to renormalize ll-merge: make flag easier to populate Documentation/technical: document ll_merge merge-trees: let caller decide whether to renormalize merge-trees: push choice to renormalize away from low level t6038 (merge.renormalize): check that it can be turned off t6038 (merge.renormalize): try checkout -m and cherry-pick t6038 (merge.renormalize): style nitpicks Don't expand CRLFs when normalizing text during merge Try normalizing files to avoid delete/modify conflicts when merging Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization Conflicts: builtin/rerere.c t/t4200-rerere.sh
2010-09-01Add global and system-wide gitattributesLibravatar Petr Onderka1-3/+10
Allow gitattributes to be set globally and system wide. This way, settings for particular file types can be set in one place and apply for all user's repositories. The location of system-wide attributes file is $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes. The location of the global file can be configured by setting core.attributesfile. Some parts of the code were copied from the implementation of the same functionality in config.c. Signed-off-by: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-16Userdiff patterns for C#Libravatar Petr Onderka1-0/+2
Add userdiff patterns for C#. This code is an improved version of code by Adam Petaccia from 21 June 2009 mail to the list. Signed-off-by: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-02Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalizationLibravatar Eyvind Bernhardsen1-0/+34
Currently, merging across changes in line ending normalization is painful since files containing CRLF will conflict with normalized files, even if the only difference between the two versions is the line endings. Additionally, any "real" merge conflicts that exist are obscured because every line in the file has a conflict. Assume you start out with a repo that has a lot of text files with CRLF checked in (A): o---C / \ A---B---D B: Add "* text=auto" to .gitattributes and normalize all files to LF-only C: Modify some of the text files D: Try to merge C You will get a ridiculous number of LF/CRLF conflicts when trying to merge C into D, since the repository contents for C are "wrong" wrt the new .gitattributes file. Fix ll-merge so that the "base", "theirs" and "ours" stages are passed through convert_to_worktree() and convert_to_git() before a three-way merge. This ensures that all three stages are normalized in the same way, removing from consideration differences that are only due to normalization. This feature is optional for now since it changes a low-level mechanism and is not necessary for the majority of users. The "merge.renormalize" config variable enables it. Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-21Merge branch 'eb/core-eol'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-32/+133
* eb/core-eol: Add "core.eol" config variable Rename the "crlf" attribute "text" Add per-repository eol normalization Add tests for per-repository eol normalization Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Makefile
2010-06-06Add "core.eol" config variableLibravatar Eyvind Bernhardsen1-13/+15
Introduce a new configuration variable, "core.eol", that allows the user to set which line endings to use for end-of-line-normalized files in the working directory. It defaults to "native", which means CRLF on Windows and LF everywhere else. Note that "core.autocrlf" overrides core.eol. This means that [core] autocrlf = true puts CRLFs in the working directory even if core.eol is set to "lf". Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-21Merge branch 'tr/word-diff'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* tr/word-diff: diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-words Conflicts: diff.c
2010-05-19Rename the "crlf" attribute "text"Libravatar Eyvind Bernhardsen1-24/+35
As discussed on the list, "crlf" is not an optimal name. Linus suggested "text", which is much better. Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-19Add per-repository eol normalizationLibravatar Eyvind Bernhardsen1-25/+113
Change the semantics of the "crlf" attribute so that it enables end-of-line normalization when it is set, regardless of "core.autocrlf". Add a new setting for "crlf": "auto", which enables end-of-line conversion but does not override the automatic text file detection. Add a new attribute "eol" with possible values "crlf" and "lf". When set, this attribute enables normalization and forces git to use CRLF or LF line endings in the working directory, respectively. The line ending style to be used for normalized text files in the working directory is set using "core.autocrlf". When it is set to "true", CRLFs are used in the working directory; when set to "input" or "false", LFs are used. Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-14diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-wordsLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+1
This teaches the --color-words engine a more general interface that supports two new modes: * --word-diff=plain, inspired by the 'wdiff' utility (most similar to 'wdiff -n <old> <new>'): uses delimiters [-removed-] and {+added+} * --word-diff=porcelain, which generates an ad-hoc machine readable format: - each diff unit is prefixed by [-+ ] and terminated by newline as in unified diff - newlines in the input are output as a line consisting only of a tilde '~' Both of these formats still support color if it is enabled, using it to highlight the differences. --color-words becomes a synonym for --word-diff=color, which is the color-only format. Also adds some compatibility/convenience options. Thanks to Junio C Hamano and Miles Bader for good ideas. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-02diff: cache textconv outputLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+20
Running a textconv filter can take a long time. It's particularly bad for a large file which needs to be spooled to disk, but even for small files, the fork+exec overhead can add up for something like "git log -p". This patch uses the notes-cache mechanism to keep a fast cache of textconv output. Caches are stored in refs/notes/textconv/$x, where $x is the userdiff driver defined in gitattributes. Caching is enabled only if diff.$x.cachetextconv is true. In my test repo, on a commit with 45 jpg and avi files changed and a textconv to show their exif tags: [before] $ time git show >/dev/null real 0m13.724s user 0m12.057s sys 0m1.624s [after, first run] $ git config diff.mfo.cachetextconv true $ time git show >/dev/null real 0m14.252s user 0m12.197s sys 0m1.800s [after, subsequent runs] $ time git show >/dev/null real 0m0.352s user 0m0.148s sys 0m0.200s So for a slight (3.8%) cost on the first run, we achieve an almost 40x speed up on subsequent runs. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-23Documentation: mention conflict marker size argument (%L) for merge driverLibravatar Bert Wesarg1-1/+2
23a64c9e (conflict-marker-size: new attribute, 2010-01-16) introduced the new attribute and also pass the conflict marker size as %L to merge driver commands. This documents the substitution. Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20conflict-marker-size: add test and docsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+17
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-6/+6
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.
2009-12-14Illustrate "filter" attribute with an exampleLibravatar Nanako Shiraishi1-0/+19
The example was taken from aa4ed402c9721170fde2e9e43c3825562070e65e (Add 'filter' attribute and external filter driver definition). Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21Document `delta` attribute in "git help attributes".Libravatar Nasser Grainawi1-0/+10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"Libravatar Ori Avtalion1-1/+1
Most of the docs and printouts refer to "commands" when discussing what the end users call via the "git" top-level program. We should refer them as "git programs" when we discuss the fact that the commands are implemented as separate programs, but in other contexts, it is better to use the term "git commands" consistently. Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name> Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-17doc/gitattributes: clarify location of config textLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+6
The gitattributes documentation has a section on the "diff" attribute, with subsections for each of the things you might want to configure in your diff config section (external diff, hunk headers, etc). The first such subsection specifically notes that the definition of the diff driver should go into $GIT_DIR/config, but subsequent sections do not. This location is implied if you are reading the documentation sequentially, but it is not uncommon for a new user to jump to (or be referred to) a specific section. For a new user who does not know git well enough to recognize the config syntax, it is not clear that those directives don't also go into the gitattributes file. This patch just mentions the config file in each subsection, similar to the way it is mentioned in the first. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07Merge branch 'maint-1.6.1' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
* maint-1.6.1: Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given. git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
2009-04-07Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint-1.6.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
* maint-1.6.0: Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given. git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
2009-04-07Documentation: clarify .gitattributes searchLibravatar Jason Merrill1-3/+3
Use the term "toplevel of the work tree" in gitattributes.txt and gitignore.txt to define the limits of the search for those files. Signed-off-by: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-25gitattributes.txt: Path matching rules are explained in gitignore.txtLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-6/+7
The rules how the patterns are matched against path names are the same for .gitattribute and .gitignore files. This also replace the notion "glob pattern" by "pattern" because gitignore.txt talks about "glob" only in some contexts where the pattern is mentioned. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-21Change the spelling of "wordregex".Libravatar Boyd Stephen Smith Jr1-2/+2
Use "wordRegex" for configuration variable names. Use "word_regex" for C language tokens. Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17color-words: make regex configurable via attributesLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+21
Make the --color-words splitting regular expression configurable via the diff driver's 'wordregex' attribute. The user can then set the driver on a file in .gitattributes. If a regex is given on the command line, it overrides the driver's setting. We also provide built-in regexes for the languages that already had funcname patterns, and add an appropriate diff driver entry for C/++. (The patterns are designed to run UTF-8 sequences into a single chunk to make sure they remain readable.) Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-14Documentation: New GUI configuration and command-line options.Libravatar Alexander Gavrilov1-0/+17
Add information on new git-gui and gitk command-line options, configuration variables, and the encoding attribute. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-12Merge branch 'jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+53
* jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix: Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests. add userdiff textconv tests document the diff driver textconv feature diff: add missing static declaration Conflicts: Documentation/gitattributes.txt
2008-11-02Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
* maint: Start 1.6.0.4 cycle add instructions on how to send patches to the mailing list with Gmail Documentation/gitattributes: Add subsection header for each attribute git send-email: avoid leaking directory file descriptors. send-pack: do not send out single-level refs such as refs/stash fix overlapping memcpy in normalize_absolute_path pack-objects: avoid reading uninitalized data correct cache_entry allocation Conflicts: RelNotes
2008-11-01Documentation/gitattributes: Add subsection header for each attributeLibravatar Jakub Narebski1-0/+6
This makes attributes easier to find; before this patch some attributes had individual subsections, and some didn't. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-31Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* maint: git-svn: change dashed git-commit-tree to git commit-tree Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute bash completion: add doubledash to "git show" Use test-chmtime -v instead of perl in t5000 to get mtime of a file Add --verbose|-v to test-chmtime asciidoc: add minor workaround to add an empty line after code blocks Plug a memleak in builtin-revert Add file delete/create info when we overflow rename_limit Install git-cvsserver in $(bindir) Install git-shell in bindir, too
2008-10-31Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attributeLibravatar Jan Krüger1-2/+2
The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to some kind of path". This clarifies things. Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>