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2022-02-14doc: clarify interaction between 'eol' and text=autoLibravatar brian m. carlson1-5/+6
The `eol` takes effect on text files only when the index has the contents in LF line endings. Paths with contents in CRLF line endings in the index may become dirty unless text=auto. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-12docs: correct documentation about eol attributeLibravatar brian m. carlson1-5/+6
The documentation for the eol attribute states that it is "effectively setting the text attribute". However, this implies that it forces the text attribute to always be set, which has not been the case since 6523728499 ("convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF", 2016-06-28). Let's avoid confusing users (and the present author when trying to describe Git's behavior to others) by clearly documenting in which cases the "eol" attribute has effect. Specifically, the attribute always has an effect unless the file is explicitly set as -text, or the file is set as text=auto and the file is detected as binary. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-04docs: document symlink restrictions for dot-filesLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+6
We stopped allowing symlinks for .gitmodules files in 10ecfa7649 (verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules, 2018-05-04), and we stopped following symlinks for .gitattributes, .gitignore, and .mailmap in the commits from 204333b015 (Merge branch 'jk/open-dotgitx-with-nofollow', 2021-03-22). The reasons are discussed in detail there, but we never adjusted the documentation to let users know. This hasn't been a big deal since the point is that such setups were mildly broken and thought to be unusual anyway. But it certainly doesn't hurt to be clear and explicit about it. Suggested-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-08userdiff: add support for SchemeLibravatar Atharva Raykar1-0/+2
Add a diff driver for Scheme-like languages which recognizes top level and local `define` forms, whether it is a function definition, binding, syntax definition or a user-defined `define-xyzzy` form. Also supports R6RS `library` forms, `module` forms along with class and struct declarations used in Racket (PLT Scheme). Alternate "def" syntax such as those in Gerbil Scheme are also supported, like defstruct, defsyntax and so on. The rationale for picking `define` forms for the hunk headers is because it is usually the only significant form for defining the structure of the program, and it is a common pattern for schemers to have local function definitions to hide their visibility, so it is not only the top level `define`'s that are of interest. Schemers also extend the language with macros to provide their own define forms (for example, something like a `define-test-suite`) which is also captured in the hunk header. Since it is common practice to extend syntax with variants of a form like `module+`, `class*` etc, those have been supported as well. The word regex is a best-effort attempt to conform to R7RS[1] valid identifiers, symbols and numbers. [1] https://small.r7rs.org/attachment/r7rs.pdf (section 2.1) Signed-off-by: Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-11archive: expand only a single %(describe) per archiveLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+2
Every %(describe) placeholder in $Format:...$ strings in files with the attribute export-subst is expanded by calling git describe. This can potentially result in a lot of such calls per archive. That's OK for local repositories under control of the user of git archive, but could be a problem for hosted repositories. Expand only a single %(describe) placeholder per archive for now to avoid denial-of-service attacks. We can make this limit configurable later if needed, but let's start out simple. Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-22userdiff: support BashLibravatar Victor Engmark1-0/+3
Support POSIX, bashism and mixed function declarations, all four compound command types, trailing comments and mixed whitespace. Even though Bash allows locale-dependent characters in function names <https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/245336/3645>, only detect function names with characters allowed by POSIX.1-2017 <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_235> for simplicity. This should cover the vast majority of use cases, and produces system-agnostic results. Since a word pattern has to be specified, but there is no easy way to know the default word pattern, use the default `IFS` characters for a starter. A later patch can improve this. Signed-off-by: Victor Engmark <victor@engmark.name> Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-02userdiff: support MarkdownLibravatar Ash Holland1-0/+2
It's typical to find Markdown documentation alongside source code, and having better context for documentation changes is useful; see also commit 69f9c87d4 (userdiff: add support for Fountain documents, 2015-07-21). The pattern is based on the CommonMark specification 0.29, section 4.2 <https://spec.commonmark.org/> but doesn't match empty headings, as seeing them in a hunk header is unlikely to be useful. Only ATX headings are supported, as detecting setext headings would require printing the line before a pattern matches, or matching a multiline pattern. The word-diff pattern is the same as the pattern for HTML, because many Markdown parsers accept inline HTML. Signed-off-by: Ash Holland <ash@sorrel.sh> Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-01Merge branch 'ln/userdiff-elixir'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
The patterns to detect function boundary for Elixir language has been added. * ln/userdiff-elixir: userdiff: add Elixir to supported userdiff languages
2019-11-10userdiff: add Elixir to supported userdiff languagesLibravatar Łukasz Niemier1-0/+2
Adds support for xfuncref in Elixir[1] language which is Ruby-like language that runs on Erlang[3] Virtual Machine (BEAM). [1]: https://elixir-lang.org [2]: https://www.erlang.org Signed-off-by: Łukasz Niemier <lukasz@niemier.pl> Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-07Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and newLibravatar Elijah Newren1-3/+3
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>
2019-08-21userdiff: add a builtin pattern for dts filesLibravatar Stephen Boyd1-0/+2
The Linux kernel receives many patches to the devicetree files each release. The hunk header for those patches typically show nothing, making it difficult to figure out what node is being modified without applying the patch or opening the file and seeking to the context. Let's add a builtin 'dts' pattern to git so that users can get better diff output on dts files when they use the diff=dts driver. The regex has been constructed based on the spec at devicetree.org[1] and with some help from Johannes Sixt. [1] https://github.com/devicetree-org/devicetree-specification/releases/latest Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-09Merge branch 'nd/switch-and-restore'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and "checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout" command. * nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits) completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d" switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect t2027: use test_must_be_empty Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups doc: promote "git restore" user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard' completion: support restore t: add tests for restore restore: support --patch restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged restore: add --worktree and --staged checkout: factor out worktree checkout code restore: disable overlay mode by default restore: make pathspec mandatory restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore' doc: promote "git switch" ...
2019-06-21Merge branch 'ml/userdiff-rust'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words boundary for Rust has been added. * ml/userdiff-rust: userdiff: two simplifications of patterns for rust userdiff: add built-in pattern for rust
2019-05-29userdiff: fix grammar and style issuesLibravatar Boxuan Li1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Boxuan Li <liboxuan@connect.hku.hk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-19userdiff: add OctaveLibravatar Boxuan Li1-1/+1
Octave pattern is almost the same as matlab, except that '%%%' and '##' can also be used to begin code sections, in addition to '%%' that is understood by both. Octave pattern is merged into Matlab pattern. Test cases for the hunk header patterns of matlab and octave under t/t4018 are added. Signed-off-by: Boxuan Li <liboxuan@connect.hku.hk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-17userdiff: add built-in pattern for rustLibravatar Marc-André Lureau1-0/+2
This adds xfuncname and word_regex patterns for Rust, a quite popular programming language. It also includes test cases for the xfuncname regex (t4018) and updated documentation. The word_regex pattern finds identifiers, integers, floats and operators, according to the Rust Reference Book. Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-16Merge branch 'ab/doc-misc-typofixes'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Typofixes. * ab/doc-misc-typofixes: doc: fix typos in man pages
2019-04-16Merge branch 'ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Documentation mark-up fixes. * ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more: Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces git-svn.txt: drop escaping '\' that ends up being rendered git.txt: remove empty line before list continuation config/fsck.txt: avoid starting line with dash config/diff.txt: drop spurious backtick
2019-04-02checkout: split part of it to new command 'switch'Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+2
"git checkout" doing too many things is a source of confusion for many users (and it even bites old timers sometimes). To remedy that, the command will be split into two new ones: switch and restore. The good old "git checkout" command is still here and will be until all (or most of users) are sick of it. See the new man page for the final design of switch. The actual implementation though is still pretty much the same as "git checkout" and not completely aligned with the man page. Following patches will adjust their behavior to match the man page. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18doc: fix typos in man pagesLibravatar Alexander Blesius1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Alexander Blesius <alexander+git@blesius.eu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-11Merge branch 'yb/utf-16le-bom-spellfix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Doc update. * yb/utf-16le-bom-spellfix: gitattributes.txt: fix typo
2019-03-07Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spacesLibravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+1
These tabs happen to appear in columns where they don't stand out too much, so the diff here is non-obvious. Some of these are rendered differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor (although the difference might be invisible!), which is how I found a few of them. The remainder were found using `git grep "[a-zA-Z.,)]$TAB[a-zA-Z]"`. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-07gitattributes.txt: fix typoLibravatar Yash Bhatambare1-1/+1
`UTF-16-LE-BOM` to `UTF-16LE-BOM`. this closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2095 Signed-off-by: Yash Bhatambare <ybhatambare@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-06Merge branch 'jk/autocrlf-overrides-eol-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
Documentation around core.crlf has been updated. * jk/autocrlf-overrides-eol-doc: docs/config: clarify "text property" in core.eol doc/gitattributes: clarify "autocrlf overrides eol"
2019-01-31Support working-tree-encoding "UTF-16LE-BOM"Libravatar Torsten Bögershausen1-1/+3
Users who want UTF-16 files in the working tree set the .gitattributes like this: test.txt working-tree-encoding=UTF-16 The unicode standard itself defines 3 allowed ways how to encode UTF-16. The following 3 versions convert all back to 'g' 'i' 't' in UTF-8: a) UTF-16, without BOM, big endian: $ printf "\000g\000i\000t" | iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 | od -c 0000000 g i t b) UTF-16, with BOM, little endian: $ printf "\377\376g\000i\000t\000" | iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 | od -c 0000000 g i t c) UTF-16, with BOM, big endian: $ printf "\376\377\000g\000i\000t" | iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 | od -c 0000000 g i t Git uses libiconv to convert from UTF-8 in the index into ITF-16 in the working tree. After a checkout, the resulting file has a BOM and is encoded in "UTF-16", in the version (c) above. This is what iconv generates, more details follow below. iconv (and libiconv) can generate UTF-16, UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE: d) UTF-16 $ printf 'git' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 | od -c 0000000 376 377 \0 g \0 i \0 t e) UTF-16LE $ printf 'git' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16LE | od -c 0000000 g \0 i \0 t \0 f) UTF-16BE $ printf 'git' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16BE | od -c 0000000 \0 g \0 i \0 t There is no way to generate version (b) from above in a Git working tree, but that is what some applications need. (All fully unicode aware applications should be able to read all 3 variants, but in practise we are not there yet). When producing UTF-16 as an output, iconv generates the big endian version with a BOM. (big endian is probably chosen for historical reasons). iconv can produce UTF-16 files with little endianess by using "UTF-16LE" as encoding, and that file does not have a BOM. Not all users (especially under Windows) are happy with this. Some tools are not fully unicode aware and can only handle version (b). Today there is no way to produce version (b) with iconv (or libiconv). Looking into the history of iconv, it seems as if version (c) will be used in all future iconv versions (for compatibility reasons). Solve this dilemma and introduce a Git-specific "UTF-16LE-BOM". libiconv can not handle the encoding, so Git pick it up, handles the BOM and uses libiconv to convert the rest of the stream. (UTF-16BE-BOM is added for consistency) Rported-by: Adrián Gimeno Balaguer <adrigibal@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-29doc/gitattributes: clarify "autocrlf overrides eol"Libravatar Jeff King1-1/+3
We only override core.eol with core.autocrlf when the latter is set to something besides "false". Let's make this more clear, and point the reader to the git-config definitions, which discuss this in more detail. Noticed-by: Sergey Lukashev <lukashev.s@ya.ru> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23doc: fix inappropriate monospace formattingLibravatar Andreas Heiduk1-15/+15
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-01Merge branch 'nd/command-list'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a bit more consolidated to allow more automation. * nd/command-list: completion: allow to customize the completable command list completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h completion: reduce completable command list completion: let git provide the completable command list command-list.txt: documentation and guide line help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis git: support --list-cmds=list-<category> completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=* Remove common-cmds.h help: use command-list.h for common command list generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-05-23Merge branch 'nd/doc-header'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Doc formatting fix. * nd/doc-header: doc: keep first level section header in upper case
2018-05-21help: use command-list.txt for the source of guidesLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
The help command currently hard codes the list of guides and their summary in C. Let's move this list to command-list.txt. This lets us extract summary lines from Documentation/git*.txt. This also potentially lets us list guides in git.txt, but I'll leave that for now. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-08Merge branch 'ls/checkout-encoding'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+88
The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working tree (and the other way around when checking in). * ls/checkout-encoding: convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding' convert: add tracing for 'working-tree-encoding' attribute convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute utf8: add function to detect a missing UTF-16/32 BOM utf8: add function to detect prohibited UTF-16/32 BOM utf8: teach same_encoding() alternative UTF encoding names strbuf: add a case insensitive starts_with() strbuf: add xstrdup_toupper() strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower()
2018-05-02doc: keep first level section header in upper caseLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+2
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>
2018-04-16convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'Libravatar Lars Schneider1-0/+8
UTF supports lossless conversion round tripping and conversions between UTF and other encodings are mostly round trip safe as Unicode aims to be a superset of all other character encodings. However, certain encodings (e.g. SHIFT-JIS) are known to have round trip issues [1]. Add 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding', which contains a comma separated list of encodings, to define for what encodings Git should check the conversion round trip if they are used in the 'working-tree-encoding' attribute. Set SHIFT-JIS as default value for 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'. [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/170559/prb-conversion-problem-between-shift-jis-and-unicode Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-16convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attributeLibravatar Lars Schneider1-0/+80
Git recognizes files encoded with ASCII or one of its supersets (e.g. UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1) as text files. All other encodings are usually interpreted as binary and consequently built-in Git text processing tools (e.g. 'git diff') as well as most Git web front ends do not visualize the content. Add an attribute to tell Git what encoding the user has defined for a given file. If the content is added to the index, then Git reencodes the content to a canonical UTF-8 representation. On checkout Git will reverse this operation. Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-21Merge branch 'jk/attributes-path-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+10
Doc update. * jk/attributes-path-doc: doc/gitattributes: mention non-recursive behavior
2018-03-20doc/gitattributes: mention non-recursive behaviorLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+10
The gitattributes documentation claims that the pattern rules are largely the same as for gitignore. However, the rules for recursion are different. In an ideal world, we would make them the same (if for nothing else than consistency and simplicity), but that would create backwards compatibility issues. For some discussion, see this thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/slrnkldd3g.1l4.jan@majutsushi.net/ But let's at least document the differences instead of actively misleading the user by claiming that they're the same. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-01userdiff: add built-in pattern for golangLibravatar Alban Gruin1-0/+2
This adds xfuncname and word_regex patterns for golang, a quite popular programming language. It also includes test cases for the xfuncname regex (t4018) and updated documentation. The xfuncname regex finds functions, structs and interfaces. Although the Go language prohibits the opening brace from being on its own line, the regex does not makes it mandatory, to be able to match `func` statements like this: func foo(bar int, baz int) { } This is covered by the test case t4018/golang-long-func. The word_regex pattern finds identifiers, integers, floats, complex numbers and operators, according to the go specification. Signed-off-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-25Docs: split out long-running subprocess handshakeLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-46/+8
Separating out the implementation of the handshake when starting a long-running subprocess (for example, as is done for a clean/smudge filter) was done in commit fa64a2fdbeed ("sub-process: refactor handshake to common function", 2017-07-26), but its documentation still resides in gitattributes. Split out the documentation as well. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-17add: introduce "--renormalize"Libravatar Torsten Bögershausen1-2/+4
Make it safer to normalize the line endings in a repository. Files that had been commited with CRLF will be commited with LF. The old way to normalize a repo was like this: # Make sure that there are not untracked files $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes $ git read-tree --empty $ git add . $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization" The user must make sure that there are no untracked files, otherwise they would have been added and tracked from now on. The new "add --renormalize" does not add untracked files: $ echo "* text=auto" >.gitattributes $ git add --renormalize . $ git commit -m "Introduce end-of-line normalization" Note that "git add --renormalize <pathspec>" is the short form for "git add -u --renormalize <pathspec>". While at it, document that the same renormalization may be needed, whenever a clean filter is added or changed. Helped-By: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-07Documentation: mention that `eol` can change the dirty status of pathsLibravatar Ben Boeckel1-1/+4
When setting the `eol` attribute, paths can change their dirty status without any change in the working directory. This can cause confusion and should at least be mentioned with a remedy. Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-26Merge branch 'ls/filter-process-delayed' into jt/subprocess-handshakeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+65
* ls/filter-process-delayed: convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol convert: refactor capabilities negotiation convert: move multiple file filter error handling to separate function convert: put the flags field before the flag itself for consistent style t0021: write "OUT <size>" only on success t0021: make debug log file name configurable t0021: keep filter log files on comparison
2017-06-30convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocolLibravatar Lars Schneider1-4/+65
Some `clean` / `smudge` filters may require a significant amount of time to process a single blob (e.g. the Git LFS smudge filter might perform network requests). During this process the Git checkout operation is blocked and Git needs to wait until the filter is done to continue with the checkout. Teach the filter process protocol, introduced in edcc8581 ("convert: add filter.<driver>.process option", 2016-10-16), to accept the status "delayed" as response to a filter request. Upon this response Git continues with the checkout operation. After the checkout operation Git calls "finish_delayed_checkout" which queries the filter for remaining blobs. If the filter is still working on the completion, then the filter is expected to block. If the filter has completed all remaining blobs then an empty response is expected. Git has a multiple code paths that checkout a blob. Support delayed checkouts only in `clone` (in unpack-trees.c) and `checkout` operations for now. The optimization is most effective in these code paths as all files of the tree are processed. Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15doc: do not use `rm .git/index` when normalizing line endingsLibravatar Andreas Heiduk1-1/+1
When illustrating how to normalize the line endings, the documentation in gitattributes tells the user to `rm .git/index`. This is incorrect for two reasons: - Users shouldn't be instructed to mess around with the internal implementation of Git using raw file system tools like `rm`. - Within a submodule or an additional working tree `.git` is just a file containing a `gitdir: <path>` pointer into the real `.git` directory. Therefore `rm .git/index` does not work. The purpose of the `rm .git/index` instruction is to remove all entries from the index without touching the working tree. The way to do this with Git is to use `read-tree --empty`. Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-23Merge branch 'tb/doc-eol-normalization'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+2
Doc update. * tb/doc-eol-normalization: gitattributes.txt: document how to normalize the line endings
2017-04-13gitattributes.txt: document how to normalize the line endingsLibravatar Torsten Bögershausen1-4/+2
The instructions how to normalize the line endings should have been updated as part of commit 6523728499e 'convert: unify the "auto" handling of CRLF', (but that part never made it into the commit). Update the documentation in Documentation/gitattributes.txt and add a test case in t0025. Reported by Kristian Adrup https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/954 Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-01Documentation: fix a typoLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-01attr: support quoting pathname patterns in C styleLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-3/+5
Full pattern must be quoted. So 'pat"t"ern attr' will give exactly 'pat"t"ern', not 'pattern'. Also clarify that leading whitespaces are not part of the pattern and document comment syntax. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-06docs: warn about possible '=' in clean/smudge filter process valuesLibravatar Lars Schneider1-1/+3
A pathname value in a clean/smudge filter process "key=value" pair can contain the '=' character (introduced in edcc858). Make the user aware of this issue in the docs, add a corresponding test case, and fix the issue in filter process value parser of the example implementation in contrib. Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-17contrib/long-running-filter: add long running filter exampleLibravatar Lars Schneider1-1/+3
Add a simple pass-thru filter as example implementation for the Git filter protocol version 2. See Documentation/gitattributes.txt, section "Filter Protocol" for more info. Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-17convert: add filter.<driver>.process optionLibravatar Lars Schneider1-1/+154
Git's clean/smudge mechanism invokes an external filter process for every single blob that is affected by a filter. If Git filters a lot of blobs then the startup time of the external filter processes can become a significant part of the overall Git execution time. In a preliminary performance test this developer used a clean/smudge filter written in golang to filter 12,000 files. This process took 364s with the existing filter mechanism and 5s with the new mechanism. See details here: https://github.com/github/git-lfs/pull/1382 This patch adds the `filter.<driver>.process` string option which, if used, keeps the external filter process running and processes all blobs with the packet format (pkt-line) based protocol over standard input and standard output. The full protocol is explained in detail in `Documentation/gitattributes.txt`. A few key decisions: * The long running filter process is referred to as filter protocol version 2 because the existing single shot filter invocation is considered version 1. * Git sends a welcome message and expects a response right after the external filter process has started. This ensures that Git will not hang if a version 1 filter is incorrectly used with the filter.<driver>.process option for version 2 filters. In addition, Git can detect this kind of error and warn the user. * The status of a filter operation (e.g. "success" or "error) is set before the actual response and (if necessary!) re-set after the response. The advantage of this two step status response is that if the filter detects an error early, then the filter can communicate this and Git does not even need to create structures to read the response. * All status responses are pkt-line lists terminated with a flush packet. This allows us to send other status fields with the same protocol in the future. Helped-by: Martin-Louis Bright <mlbright@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>