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2012-12-21Merge branch 'ta/new-command-howto'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-99/+0
* ta/new-command-howto: Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txt
2012-12-21Merge branch 'ta/api-index-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+0
* ta/api-index-doc: Remove misleading date from api-index-skel.txt
2012-12-21Merge branch 'nd/index-format-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
* nd/index-format-doc: index-format.txt: clarify what is "invalid"
2012-12-21Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txtLibravatar Thomas Ackermann1-99/+0
The contents of this document does not describe any particular API, but is more about the way to add a new command, which belongs to the "How To" section of the documentation suite. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-16Remove misleading date from api-index-skel.txtLibravatar Thomas Ackermann1-2/+0
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-15Renumber list in api-command.txtLibravatar Thomas Ackermann1-7/+7
Start list with 1 instead of 0; ASCIIDOC will renumber it anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-13index-format.txt: clarify what is "invalid"Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+3
A cache-tree entry with a negative entry count is considered invalid by the current Git; it records that we do not know the object name of a tree that would result by writing the directory covered by the cache-tree as a tree object. Clarify that any entry with a negative entry count is invalid, but the implementations must write -1 there. This way, we can later decide to allow writers to use negative values other than -1 to encode optional information on such invalidated entries without harming interoperability; we do not know what will be encoded and how, so we keep these other negative values as reserved for now. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-26Documentation: how to add a new commandLibravatar Eric S. Raymond1-0/+99
This document contains no new policies or proposals; it attempts to document established practices and interface requirements. Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-20Merge branch 'ta/doc-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano6-29/+36
* ta/doc-cleanup: Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidoc Documentation/technical: convert plain text files to asciidoc Change headline of technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt to not confuse its content with content from git-send-pack.txt Shorten two over-long lines in git-bisect-lk2009.txt by abbreviating some sha1 Split over-long synopsis in git-fetch-pack.txt into several lines
2012-11-15Merge branch 'mh/notes-string-list'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+8
Improve the asymptotic performance of the cat_sort_uniq notes merge strategy. * mh/notes-string-list: string_list_add_refs_from_colon_sep(): use string_list_split() notes: fix handling of colon-separated values combine_notes_cat_sort_uniq(): sort and dedup lines all at once Initialize sort_uniq_list using named constant string_list: add a function string_list_remove_empty_items()
2012-11-08string_list: add a function string_list_remove_empty_items()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+8
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-11-04strbuf_split*(): document functionsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+16
Document strbuf_split_buf(), strbuf_split_str(), strbuf_split_max(), strbuf_split(), and strbuf_list_free() in the header file and in api-strbuf.txt. (These functions were previously completely undocumented.) Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-25Merge branch 'fa/remote-svn'Libravatar Jeff King1-0/+8
A GSoC project. * fa/remote-svn: Add a test script for remote-svn remote-svn: add marks-file regeneration Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing remote-svn: add incremental import remote-svn: Activate import/export-marks for fast-import Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notes Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls remote-svn, vcs-svn: Enable fetching to private refs When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of "--quiet" Add documentation for the 'bidi-import' capability of remote-helpers Connect fast-import to the remote-helper via pipe, adding 'bidi-import' capability Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detached Add svndump_init_fd to allow reading dumps from arbitrary FDs Add git-remote-testsvn to Makefile Implement a remote helper for svn in C
2012-10-16Documentation/technical: convert plain text files to asciidocLibravatar Thomas Ackermann5-27/+34
These were not originally meant for asciidoc, but they are already so close. Mark them up in asciidoc. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-16Change headline of technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt to not confuse its ↵Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-2/+2
content with content from git-send-pack.txt Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-07Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detachedLibravatar Florian Achleitner1-0/+8
Allow detaching of ownership of the argv_array's contents and add a function to free those detached argv_arrays later. This makes it possible to use argv_array efficiently with the exiting struct child_process which only contains a member char **argv. Add to documentation. Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav.id.au> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-21Merge branch 'mh/fetch-filter-refs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
Finishing touch to update documentation of string-list to make sure the earlier rewrite of ref-list match logic that depends on its sort order will not get broken. * mh/fetch-filter-refs: string_list API: document what "sorted" means
2012-09-18Merge branch 'jc/make-static'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+0
Turn many file-scope private symbols to static to reduce the global namespace contamination. * jc/make-static: sequencer.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static ident.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static trace.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static wt-status.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static read-cache.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static strbuf.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static sha1-array.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static symlinks.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static notes.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static rerere.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static graph.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static diff.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static commit.c: mark a file-scope private symbol as static builtin/notes.c: mark file-scope private symbols as static
2012-09-18Sync with 1.7.12.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
2012-09-18Doc: Improve shallow depth wordingLibravatar Philip Oakley1-2/+4
Avoid confusion in compound sentence about the start of the commit set and the depth measure. Use two sentences. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-18string_list API: document what "sorted" meansLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+4
The recent work on using string_list to represent the list of refs that matched with the refs on the other side during fetch heavily depends on the sort order by string_list's implementation, and changing string_list will break it. Document that it uses strcmp() order, at least for now. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-17Merge branch 'mh/string-list'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+63
* mh/string-list: api-string-list.txt: initialize the string_list the easy way string_list: add a function string_list_longest_prefix() string_list: add a new function, string_list_remove_duplicates() string_list: add a new function, filter_string_list() string_list: add two new functions for splitting strings string_list: add function string_list_append_nodup()
2012-09-15sha1-array.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as staticLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-12api-string-list.txt: initialize the string_list the easy wayLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-2/+1
In the demo code blurb, show how to initialize the string_list using STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP rather than memset(). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-12string_list: add a function string_list_longest_prefix()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+8
Add a function that finds the longest string from a string_list that is a prefix of a given string. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-12string_list: add a new function, string_list_remove_duplicates()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+9
Add a function that deletes duplicate entries from a sorted string_list. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-12string_list: add a new function, filter_string_list()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+11
This function allows entries that don't match a specified criterion to be discarded from a string_list while preserving the order of the remaining entries. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-12string_list: add two new functions for splitting stringsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+21
Add two new functions, string_list_split() and string_list_split_in_place(). These split a string into a string_list on a separator character. The first makes copies of the substrings (leaving the input string untouched) and the second splits the original string in place, overwriting the separator characters with NULs and referring to the original string's memory. These functions are similar to the strbuf_split_*() functions except that they work with the more powerful string_list interface. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-12string_list: add function string_list_append_nodup()Libravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+14
Add a new function that appends a string to a string_list without copying it. This can be used to pass ownership of an already-copied string to a string_list that has strdup_strings set. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-11Merge branch 'jk/argv-array'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Use argv-array API in "git fetch" implementation. * jk/argv-array: submodule: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays fetch: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays argv-array: fix bogus cast when freeing array argv-array: add pop function
2012-09-02argv-array: add pop functionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
Sometimes we build a set of similar command lines, differing only in the final arguments (e.g., "fetch --multiple"). To use argv_array for this, you have to either push the same set of elements repeatedly, or break the abstraction by manually manipulating the array's internal members. Instead, let's provide a sanctioned "pop" function to remove elements from the end. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-25add 'git credential' plumbing commandLibravatar Javier Roucher Iglesias1-36/+3
The credential API is in C, and not available to scripting languages. Expose the functionalities of the API by wrapping them into a new plumbing command "git credentials". In other words, replace the internal "test-credential" by an official Git command. Most documentation writen by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Pavel Volek <Pavel.Volek@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Kim Thuat Nguyen <Kim-Thuat.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Javier Roucher Iglesias <Javier.Roucher-Iglesias@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-12Merge branch 'mm/api-credentials-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
* mm/api-credentials-doc: api-credential.txt: document that helpers field is filled-in automatically
2012-06-12api-credential.txt: document that helpers field is filled-in automaticallyLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+4
It was unclear whether the field was to be specified by the user of the API. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-08Merge branch 'mm/api-credentials-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-5/+5
Finishing touches... * mm/api-credentials-doc: docs: fix cross-directory linkgit references
2012-06-08docs: fix cross-directory linkgit referencesLibravatar Jeff King3-5/+5
Most of our documentation is in a single directory, so using linkgit:git-config[1] just generates a relative link in the same directory. However, this is not the case with the API documentation in technical/*, which need to refer to git-config from the parent directory. We can fix this by passing a special prefix attribute when building in a subdirectory, and respecting that prefix in our linkgit definitions. We only have to modify the html linkgit definition. For manpages, we can ignore this for two reasons: 1. we do not generate actual links to the file in manpages, but instead just give the name and section of the linked manpage 2. we do not currently build manpages for subdirectories, only html Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-07Merge branch 'mm/api-credentials-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-7/+60
* mm/api-credentials-doc: api-credentials.txt: add "see also" section api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly api-credentials.txt: show the big picture first doc: fix xref link from api docs to manual pages
2012-06-04api-credentials.txt: add "see also" sectionLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-04api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitlyLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-2/+4
The name of the configuration variable was mentioned only at the very end of the explanation, in a place specific to a specific rule, hence it was not very clear what the specification was about. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-04api-credentials.txt: show the big picture firstLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-3/+47
The API documentation targets two kinds of developers: those using the C API, and those writing remote-helpers. The document was not clear about which part was useful to which category, and for example, the C API could be mistakenly thought as an API for writting remote helpers. Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-04doc: fix xref link from api docs to manual pagesLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+2
They are one-level above, so refer them as linkgit:../git-foo[n] with "../" Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-14Sync with maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
2012-05-14Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-19/+19
By Jeff King * jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal: docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
2012-05-14pack-protocol: fix first-want separator in the examplesLibravatar Carlos Martín Nieto1-2/+2
When sending the "want" list, the capabilities list is separated from the obj-id by a SP instead of NUL as in the ref advertisement. The text is correct, but the examples wrongly show the separator as NUL. Fix the example so it uses SP. Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-02Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-19/+19
Our documentation was written for an ancient version of AsciiDoc, making the source not very readable. By Jeff King * jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal: docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
2012-05-02Merge branch 'jc/index-v4'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
Trivially shrinks the on-disk size of the index file to save both I/O and checksum overhead. The topic should give a solid base to build on further updates, with the code refactoring in its earlier parts, and the backward compatibility mechanism in its later parts. * jc/index-v4: index-v4: document the entry format unpack-trees: preserve the index file version of original update-index: upgrade/downgrade on-disk index version read-cache.c: write prefix-compressed names in the index read-cache.c: read prefix-compressed names in index on-disk version v4 read-cache.c: move code to copy incore to ondisk cache to a helper function read-cache.c: move code to copy ondisk to incore cache to a helper function read-cache.c: report the header version we do not understand read-cache.c: make create_from_disk() report number of bytes it consumed read-cache.c: allow unaligned mapping of the index file cache.h: hide on-disk index details varint: make it available outside the context of pack
2012-04-29Merge branch 'jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Avoid writing out unreachable objects as loose objects when repacking, if such loose objects will immediately pruned due to its age anyway. By Jeff King * jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack: gc: use argv-array for sub-commands argv-array: add a new "pushl" method argv-array: refactor empty_argv initialization gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately pruned
2012-04-27index-v4: document the entry formatLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
Document the format so that others can learn from and build on top of the series. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King2-19/+19
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc 8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the documentation could be built on either version. It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want inline literals on their own merits, which are: 1. The source is much easier to read when the literal contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead of `master{tilde}1`. 2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of quoting. This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up, or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the output). Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to making the source more readable, this patch fixes several formatting bugs: - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B") - some code examples used the right-arrow character instead of '->' because they failed to quote - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting HTML contained a bogus snippet like: <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt> which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole sections of the page. - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes) - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for author@example.com - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}". - using "prime" notation like: commit `C` and its replacement `C'` confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant to be inside matched quotes - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our asterisks. In particular, `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*` properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but literally passed through the backslash in the second case. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-24Merge branch 'hv/submodule-recurse-push'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
"git push --recurse-submodules" learns to optionally look into the histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them out. By Heiko Voigt * hv/submodule-recurse-push: push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand option Refactor submodule push check to use string list instead of integer Teach revision walking machinery to walk multiple times sequencially