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2014-09-19Merge branch 'sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow: Document LF appearing in shallow command during send-pack/receive-pack
2014-08-28Document LF appearing in shallow command during send-pack/receive-packLibravatar Shawn Pearce1-1/+1
The implementation sends an LF, but the protocol documentation was missing this detail. Signed-off-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-04Merge branch 'ta/doc-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+30
* ta/doc-config: add documentation for writing config files
2014-07-30add documentation for writing config filesLibravatar Tanay Abhra1-1/+30
Replace TODO introduced in commit 9c3c22 with documentation explaining Git config API functions for writing configuration files. Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-23Merge branch 'ta/string-list-init'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
* ta/string-list-init: replace memset with string-list initializers string-list: add string_list initializer helper function
2014-07-22Merge branch 'kb/perf-trace'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+97
* kb/perf-trace: api-trace.txt: add trace API documentation progress: simplify performance measurement by using getnanotime() wt-status: simplify performance measurement by using getnanotime() git: add performance tracing for git's main() function to debug scripts trace: add trace_performance facility to debug performance issues trace: add high resolution timer function to debug performance issues trace: add 'file:line' to all trace output trace: move code around, in preparation to file:line output trace: add current timestamp to all trace output trace: disable additional trace output for unit tests trace: add infrastructure to augment trace output with additional info sha1_file: change GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS logging to use trace API Documentation/git.txt: improve documentation of 'GIT_TRACE*' variables trace: improve trace performance trace: remove redundant printf format attribute trace: consistently name the format parameter trace: move trace declarations from cache.h to new trace.h
2014-07-22Merge branch 'ye/doc-http-proto' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* ye/doc-http-proto: http-protocol.txt: Basic Auth is defined in RFC 2617, not RFC 2616
2014-07-21Merge branch 'kb/hashmap-updates'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+50
* kb/hashmap-updates: hashmap: add string interning API hashmap: add simplified hashmap_get_from_hash() API hashmap: improve struct hashmap member documentation hashmap: factor out getting a hash code from a SHA1
2014-07-21string-list: add string_list initializer helper functionLibravatar Tanay Abhra1-0/+5
The string-list API has STRING_LIST_INIT_* macros to be used to define variables with initializers, but lacks functions to initialize an uninitialized piece of memory to be used as a string-list at the run-time. Introduce `string_list_init()` function for that. Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-16Merge branch 'nd/split-index'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+35
An experiment to use two files (the base file and incremental changes relative to it) to represent the index to reduce I/O cost of rewriting a large index when only small part of the working tree changes. * nd/split-index: (32 commits) t1700: new tests for split-index mode t2104: make sure split index mode is off for the version test read-cache: force split index mode with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX read-tree: note about dropping split-index mode or index version read-tree: force split-index mode off on --index-output rev-parse: add --shared-index-path to get shared index path update-index --split-index: do not split if $GIT_DIR is read only update-index: new options to enable/disable split index mode split-index: strip pathname of on-disk replaced entries split-index: do not invalidate cache-tree at read time split-index: the reading part split-index: the writing part read-cache: mark updated entries for split index read-cache: save deleted entries in split index read-cache: mark new entries for split index read-cache: split-index mode read-cache: save index SHA-1 after reading entry.c: update cache_changed if refresh_cache is set in checkout_entry() cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on prime_cache_tree() cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on cache tree update ...
2014-07-13api-trace.txt: add trace API documentationLibravatar Karsten Blees1-0/+97
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-07hashmap: add string interning APILibravatar Karsten Blees1-0/+15
Interning short strings with high probability of duplicates can reduce the memory footprint and speed up comparisons. Add strintern() and memintern() APIs that use a hashmap to manage the pool of unique, interned strings. Note: strintern(getenv()) could be used to sanitize git's use of getenv(), in case we ever encounter a platform where a call to getenv() invalidates previous getenv() results (which is allowed by POSIX). Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-07hashmap: add simplified hashmap_get_from_hash() APILibravatar Karsten Blees1-0/+14
Hashmap entries are typically looked up by just a key. The hashmap_get() API expects an initialized entry structure instead, to support compound keys. This flexibility is currently only needed by find_dir_entry() in name-hash.c (and compat/win32/fscache.c in the msysgit fork). All other (currently five) call sites of hashmap_get() have to set up a near emtpy entry structure, resulting in duplicate code like this: struct hashmap_entry keyentry; hashmap_entry_init(&keyentry, hash(key)); return hashmap_get(map, &keyentry, key); Add a hashmap_get_from_hash() API that allows hashmap lookups by just specifying the key and its hash code, i.e.: return hashmap_get_from_hash(map, hash(key), key); Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-07hashmap: improve struct hashmap member documentationLibravatar Karsten Blees1-4/+12
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-07hashmap: factor out getting a hash code from a SHA1Libravatar Karsten Blees1-0/+9
Copying the first bytes of a SHA1 is duplicated in six places, however, the implications (the actual value would depend on the endianness of the platform) is documented only once. Add a properly documented API for this. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-25Merge branch 'ye/doc-http-proto'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* ye/doc-http-proto: http-protocol.txt: Basic Auth is defined in RFC 2617, not RFC 2616
2014-06-20Merge branch 'jm/api-strbuf-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
* jm/api-strbuf-doc: api-strbuf.txt minor typos
2014-06-16Merge branch 'ta/string-list-init'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* ta/string-list-init: string-list: spell all values out that are given to a string_list initializer
2014-06-16Merge branch 'jk/http-errors'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Propagate the error messages from the webserver better to the client coming over the HTTP transport. * jk/http-errors: http: default text charset to iso-8859-1 remote-curl: reencode http error messages strbuf: add strbuf_reencode helper http: optionally extract charset parameter from content-type http: extract type/subtype portion of content-type t5550: test display of remote http error messages t/lib-httpd: use write_script to copy CGI scripts test-lib: preserve GIT_CURL_VERBOSE from the environment
2014-06-16http-protocol.txt: Basic Auth is defined in RFC 2617, not RFC 2616Libravatar Yi EungJun1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Yi EungJun <eungjun.yi@navercorp.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-16Merge branch 'jk/strbuf-tolower'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* jk/strbuf-tolower: strbuf: add strbuf_tolower function
2014-06-16Merge branch 'jk/argv-array-for-child-process'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-8/+7
* jk/argv-array-for-child-process: argv-array: drop "detach" code get_importer: use run-command's internal argv_array get_exporter: use argv_array get_helper: use run-command's internal argv_array git_connect: use argv_array run_column_filter: use argv_array run-command: store an optional argv_array
2014-06-13read-cache: split-index modeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+35
This split-index mode is designed to keep write cost proportional to the number of changes the user has made, not the size of the work tree. (Read cost is another matter, to be dealt separately.) This mode stores index info in a pair of $GIT_DIR/index and $GIT_DIR/sharedindex.<SHA-1>. sharedindex is large and unchanged over time while "index" is smaller and updated often. Format details are in index-format.txt, although not everything is implemented in this patch. Shared indexes are not automatically removed, because it's unclear if the shared index is needed by any (even temporary) indexes by just looking at it. After a while you'll collect stale shared indexes. The good news is one shared index is useable for long, until $GIT_DIR/index becomes too big and sluggish that the new shared index must be created. The safest way to clean shared indexes is to turn off split index mode, so shared files are all garbage, delete them all, then turn on split index mode again. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-09api-strbuf.txt minor typosLibravatar Jeremiah Mahler1-5/+5
Fixed some minor typos in api-strbuf.txt: 'A' instead of 'An', 'have' instead of 'has', a overlong line, and 'another' instead of 'an other'. Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-06string-list: spell all values out that are given to a string_list initializerLibravatar Tanay Abhra1-0/+2
STRING_LIST_INIT_{NODUP,DUP} initializers list values only for earlier structure members, relying on the usual convention in C that the omitted members are initailized to 0, i.e. the former is expanded to the latter: struct string_list l = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP; struct string_list l = { NULL, 0, 0, 1 }; and the last member that is not mentioned (i.e. 'cmp') is initialized to NULL. While there is nothing wrong in this construct, spelling out all the values where the macros are defined will serve also as a documentation, so let's do so. Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-06Merge branch 'jj/command-line-adjective'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jj/command-line-adjective: Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix other minor grammatical issues
2014-06-03Merge branch 'bg/strbuf-trim'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* bg/strbuf-trim: api-strbuf.txt: add docs for _trim and _ltrim strbuf: use _rtrim and _ltrim in strbuf_trim
2014-06-03Merge branch 'dt/api-doc-setup-gently'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+8
* dt/api-doc-setup-gently: docs: document RUN_SETUP_GENTLY and clarify RUN_SETUP
2014-05-27strbuf: add strbuf_reencode helperLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
This is a convenience wrapper around `reencode_string_len` and `strbuf_attach`. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-23strbuf: add strbuf_tolower functionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
This is a convenience wrapper to call tolower on each character of the string. This makes config's lowercase() function obsolete, though note that because we have a strbuf, we are careful to operate over the whole strbuf, rather than assuming that a NUL is the end-of-string. We could continue to offer a pure-string lowercase, but there would be no callers (in most pure-string cases, we actually duplicate and lowercase the duplicate, for which we have the xstrdup_tolower wrapper). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-21Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix ↵Libravatar Jason St. John1-1/+1
other minor grammatical issues Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-19Merge branch 'kb/fast-hashmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
* kb/fast-hashmap: Documentation/technical/api-hashmap: remove source highlighting
2014-05-19Documentation/technical/api-hashmap: remove source highlightingLibravatar Anders Kaseorg1-1/+0
The highlighting was pretty, but unfortunately, the failure mode when source-highlight is not installed was that the entire code block disappears. See https://bugs.debian.org/745591, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316810. Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-15argv-array: drop "detach" codeLibravatar Jeff King1-8/+0
The argv_array_detach function (and associated free() function) was really only useful for transferring ownership of the memory to a "struct child_process". Now that we have an internal argv_array in that struct, there are no callers left. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-15run-command: store an optional argv_arrayLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+7
All child_process structs need to point to an argv. For flexibility, we do not mandate the use of a dynamic argv_array. However, because the child_process does not own the memory, this can make memory management with a separate argv_array difficult. For example, if a function calls start_command but not finish_command, the argv memory must persist. The code needs to arrange to clean up the argv_array separately after finish_command runs. As a result, some of our code in this situation just leaks the memory. To help such cases, this patch adds a built-in argv_array to the child_process, which gets cleaned up automatically (both in finish_command and when start_command fails). Callers may use it if they choose, but can continue to use the raw argv if they wish. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-06api-strbuf.txt: add docs for _trim and _ltrimLibravatar Brian Gesiak1-0/+9
API documentation for strbuf does not document strbuf_trim() or strbuf_ltrim(). Add documentation for these two functions. Signed-off-by: Brian Gesiak <modocache@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-30docs: document RUN_SETUP_GENTLY and clarify RUN_SETUPLibravatar David Turner1-5/+8
We only said what happens when we find the Git directory under RUN_SETUP, without saying what happens otherwise. Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twitter.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-08Merge branch 'jl/nor-or-nand-and'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-6/+6
Eradicate mistaken use of "nor" (that is, essentially "nor" used not in "neither A nor B" ;-)) from in-code comments, command output strings, and documentations. * jl/nor-or-nand-and: code and test: fix misuses of "nor" comments: fix misuses of "nor" contrib: fix misuses of "nor" Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
2014-04-08Merge branch 'mr/opt-set-ptr'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+0
OPT_SET_PTR() implementation was broken on IL32P64 platforms; it turns out that the macro is not used by any real user. * mr/opt-set-ptr: parse-options: remove unused OPT_SET_PTR parse-options: add cast to correct pointer type to OPT_SET_PTR MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crash
2014-03-31Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"Libravatar Justin Lebar3-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31parse-options: remove unused OPT_SET_PTRLibravatar Marat Radchenko1-4/+0
OPT_SET_PTR was never used since its creation at db7244bd (parse-options new features., 2007-11-07). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-14Merge branch 'rt/links-for-asciidoctor'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* rt/links-for-asciidoctor: Documentation: fix documentation AsciiDoc links for external urls
2014-02-27Merge branch 'nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+20
Attempting to deepen a shallow repository by fetching over smart HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when no-done extension was used. The fetching side waited for the list of shallow boundary commits after the sending end stopped talking to it. * nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix: t5537: move http tests out to t5539 fetch-pack: fix deepen shallow over smart http with no-done cap protocol-capabilities.txt: document no-done protocol-capabilities.txt: refer multi_ack_detailed back to pack-protocol.txt pack-protocol.txt: clarify 'obj-id' in the last ACK after 'done' test: rename http fetch and push test files
2014-02-27Merge branch 'jk/pack-bitmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+164
Borrow the bitmap index into packfiles from JGit to speed up enumeration of objects involved in a commit range without having to fully traverse the history. * jk/pack-bitmap: (26 commits) ewah: unconditionally ntohll ewah data ewah: support platforms that require aligned reads read-cache: use get_be32 instead of hand-rolled ntoh_l block-sha1: factor out get_be and put_be wrappers do not discard revindex when re-preparing packfiles pack-bitmap: implement optional name_hash cache t/perf: add tests for pack bitmaps t: add basic bitmap functionality tests count-objects: recognize .bitmap in garbage-checking repack: consider bitmaps when performing repacks repack: handle optional files created by pack-objects repack: turn exts array into array-of-struct repack: stop using magic number for ARRAY_SIZE(exts) pack-objects: implement bitmap writing rev-list: add bitmap mode to speed up object lists pack-objects: use bitmaps when packing objects pack-objects: split add_object_entry pack-bitmap: add support for bitmap indexes documentation: add documentation for the bitmap format ewah: compressed bitmap implementation ...
2014-02-27Merge branch 'kb/fast-hashmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-52/+235
Improvements to our hash table to get it to meet the needs of the msysgit fscache project, with some nice performance improvements. * kb/fast-hashmap: name-hash: retire unused index_name_exists() hashmap.h: use 'unsigned int' for hash-codes everywhere test-hashmap.c: drop unnecessary #includes .gitignore: test-hashmap is a generated file read-cache.c: fix memory leaks caused by removed cache entries builtin/update-index.c: cleanup update_one fix 'git update-index --verbose --again' output remove old hash.[ch] implementation name-hash.c: remove cache entries instead of marking them CE_UNHASHED name-hash.c: use new hash map implementation for cache entries name-hash.c: remove unreferenced directory entries name-hash.c: use new hash map implementation for directories diffcore-rename.c: use new hash map implementation diffcore-rename.c: simplify finding exact renames diffcore-rename.c: move code around to prepare for the next patch buitin/describe.c: use new hash map implementation add a hashtable implementation that supports O(1) removal submodule: don't access the .gitmodules cache entry after removing it
2014-02-24hashmap.h: use 'unsigned int' for hash-codes everywhereLibravatar Karsten Blees1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-20Documentation: fix documentation AsciiDoc links for external urlsLibravatar Roberto Tyley1-2/+2
Turns out that putting 'link:' before the 'http' is actually superfluous in AsciiDoc, as there's already a predefined macro to handle it. "http, https, [etc] URLs are rendered using predefined inline macros." http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_urls "Hypertext links to files on the local file system are specified using the link inline macro." http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_linking_to_local_documents Despite being superfluous, the reference implementation of AsciiDoc tolerates the extra 'link:' and silently removes it, giving a functioning link in the generated HTML. However, AsciiDoctor (the Ruby implementation of AsciiDoc used to render the http://git-scm.com/ site) does /not/ have this behaviour, and so generates broken links, as can be seen here: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-cvsimport (links to cvs2git & parsecvs) http://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch (link to The BFG) It's worth noting that after this change, the html generated by 'make html' in the git project is identical, and all links still work. Signed-off-by: Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-10protocol-capabilities.txt: document no-doneLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+12
See 3e63b21 (upload-pack: Implement no-done capability - 2011-03-14) and 761ecf0 (fetch-pack: Implement no-done capability - 2011-03-14) for more information. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-10protocol-capabilities.txt: refer multi_ack_detailed back to pack-protocol.txtLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+6
pack-protocol.txt explains in detail how multi_ack_detailed works and what's the difference between no multi_ack, multi_ack and multi_ack_detailed. No need to repeat here. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-10pack-protocol.txt: clarify 'obj-id' in the last ACK after 'done'Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+2
It's introduced in 1bd8c8f (git-upload-pack: Support the multi_ack protocol - 2005-10-28) but probably better documented in the commit message of 78affc4 (Add multi_ack_detailed capability to fetch-pack/upload-pack - 2009-10-30). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>