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2011-04-01Merge branch 'nd/index-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+185
* nd/index-doc: doc: technical details about the index file format doc: technical details about the index file format
2011-03-23doc: technical details about the index file formatLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-37/+57
* Clarify "string of unsigned bytes"; * Blob has two variants (regular file vs symlink), not (blob vs symlink); * Clarify permission mode bits; * Clarify ce_namelen() "too long to fit in the length field" case; * Clarify "." etc are forbidden as path components; * Match the description with the internal wording "cache-tree"; * All types of extension begin with signature and length as explained in the first part. Don't repeat the "length" part in the description of each extension (can be mistaken as if there is a separate 32-bit size field inside the extension), but state what the signature for each extension is. * Don't say "Extension tag", as we have said "Extension signature" in the first part---be consistent; * Clarify the invalidation of cache-tree entries; * Correct description on subtree_nr field in the cache-tree; * Clarify the order of entries in cache-tree; Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-27doc: technical details about the index file formatLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+165
This bases on the original work by Robin Rosenberg. Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-04Fix typos in the documentationLibravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-24Merge branch 'rs/opt-help-text'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+6
* rs/opt-help-text: verify-tag: document --verbose branch: improve --verbose description archive: improve --verbose description Describe various forms of "be quiet" using OPT__QUIET add OPT__FORCE add description parameter to OPT__QUIET add description parameter to OPT__DRY_RUN add description parameter to OPT__VERBOSE
2010-11-17Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+41
* maint: clean: remove redundant variable baselen Documentation/git-pull: clarify configuration Document that rev-list --graph triggers parent rewriting. clean: avoid quoting twice document sigchain api Keep together options controlling the behaviour of diffcore-rename. t3402: test "rebase -s<strategy> -X<opt>"
2010-11-16document sigchain apiLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+41
It's pretty straightforward, but a stripped-down example never hurts. And we should make clear that it is explicitly OK to use SIG_DFL and SIG_IGN. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-15add OPT__FORCELibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+3
Add OPT__FORCE as a helper macro in the same spirit as OPT__VERBOSE et.al. to simplify defining -f/--force options. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lstfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-15add description parameter to OPT__QUIETLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Allows better help text to be defined than "be quiet". Also make use of the macro in a place that already had a different description. No object code changes intended. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-15add description parameter to OPT__DRY_RUNLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Allows better help text to be defined than "dry run". Also make use of the macro in places that already had a different description. No object code changes intended. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-15add description parameter to OPT__VERBOSELibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Allows better help text to be defined than "be verbose". Also make use of the macro in places that already had a different description. No object code changes intended. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-26Merge branch 'jf/merge-ignore-ws'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-20/+51
* jf/merge-ignore-ws: merge-recursive: options to ignore whitespace changes merge-recursive --patience ll-merge: replace flag argument with options struct merge-recursive: expose merge options for builtin merge
2010-09-03Merge branch 'jn/doc-backslash'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
* jn/doc-backslash: Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion Documentation: remove stray backslashes from "Fighting regressions" article Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manual Documentation: avoid stray backslashes in core tutorial Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manual Documentation: remove backslash before ~ in fast-import manual Documentation: remove stray backslash from "git bundle" manual Documentation/technical: avoid stray backslash in parse-options API docs Documentation: remove backslashes in manpage synopses Documentation: clarify quoting in gitignore docs Documentation: clarify quoting in "git rm" example Documentation: add missing quotes to "git grep" examples Documentation: clarify quoting in "git add" example Documentation: unbreak regex in show-ref manual Documentation: quoting trouble in "git rm" discussion Documentation: tweak description of log.date
2010-09-03Merge branch 'jn/merge-renormalize'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+73
* 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
2010-08-26ll-merge: replace flag argument with options structLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-20/+51
Keeping track of the flag bits is proving more trouble than it's worth. Instead, use a pointer to an options struct like most similar APIs do. Callers with no special requests can pass NULL to request the default options. Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> Helped-by: Justin Frankel <justin@cockos.com> Helped-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20Documentation/technical: avoid stray backslash in parse-options API docsLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
Due to some unpleasant interaction between the `quote', 'italics', and `monospace` rules, a certain paragraph ends up rendered like so: ‘short` is a character for the short option (e.g. <tt>'e\’</tt> for <tt>-e</tt>, use <tt>0</tt> to omit), Use the {apostrophe} to avoid this. While at it, escape "->" strings: they are meant as a literal two-character C operator, not a right-pointing arrow. Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-11unpack_trees: group error messages by typeLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+2
When an error is encountered, it calls add_rejected_file() which either - directly displays the error message and stops if in plumbing mode (i.e. if show_all_errors is not initialized at 1) - or stores it so that it will be displayed at the end with display_error_msgs(), Storing the files by error type permits to have a list of files for which there is the same error instead of having a serie of almost identical errors. As each bind_overlap error combines a file and an old file, a list cannot be done, therefore, theses errors are not stored but directly displayed. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-06ll-merge: make flag easier to populateLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+7
ll_merge() takes its options in a flag word, which has a few advantages: - options flags can be cheaply passed around in registers, while an option struct passed by pointer cannot; - callers can easily pass 0 without trouble for no options, while an option struct passed by value would not allow that. The downside is that code to populate and access the flag word can be somewhat opaque. Mitigate that with a few macros. Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-06Documentation/technical: document ll_mergeLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-0/+70
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-11Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: Documentation: Spelling fix in protocol-capabilities.txt checkout: accord documentation to what git does t0005: work around strange $? in ksh when program terminated by a signal
2010-07-09Documentation: Spelling fix in protocol-capabilities.txtLibravatar Fredrik Skolmli1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik@frsk.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-30Merge branch 'jp/string-list-api-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* jp/string-list-api-cleanup: string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_append string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_lookup string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert_at_index string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_insert string_list: Fix argument order for for_each_string_list string_list: Fix argument order for print_string_list
2010-06-27string_list: Fix argument order for string_list_appendLibravatar Julian Phillips1-2/+2
Update the definition and callers of string_list_append to use the string_list as the first argument. This helps make the string_list API easier to use by being more consistent. Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-21Merge branch 'js/async-thread'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
* js/async-thread: fast-import: die_nicely() back to vsnprintf (reverts part of ebaa79f) Enable threaded async procedures whenever pthreads is available Dying in an async procedure should only exit the thread, not the process. Reimplement async procedures using pthreads Windows: more pthreads functions Fix signature of fcntl() compatibility dummy Make report() from usage.c public as vreportf() and use it. Modernize t5530-upload-pack-error. Conflicts: http-backend.c
2010-04-06Merge branch 'sb/fmt-merge-msg'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
* sb/fmt-merge-msg: fmt-merge-msg: hide summary option fmt-merge-msg: remove custom string_list implementation string-list: add unsorted_string_list_lookup() fmt-merge-msg: use pretty.c routines t6200: test fmt-merge-msg more t6200: modernize with test_tick fmt-merge-msg: be quiet if nothing to merge
2010-04-04Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
* maint: pack-protocol.txt: fix pkt-line lengths pack-protocol.txt: fix spelling
2010-04-04pack-protocol.txt: fix pkt-line lengthsLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-4/+4
Previously, the lengths were 4-bytes short. Fix it such that the lengths reflect the total length of the pkt-line, as per spec. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-04pack-protocol.txt: fix spellingLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-1/+1
s/paramater/parameter/. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-24string-list: add unsorted_string_list_lookup()Libravatar Stephen Boyd1-1/+5
Sometimes users need to lookup a string in an unsorted string_list. In that case they should use this function instead of the version for sorted strings. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-10Enable threaded async procedures whenever pthreads is availableLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-2/+3
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-02Merge branch 'sp/maint-push-sideband' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+41
* sp/maint-push-sideband: receive-pack: Send internal errors over side-band #2 t5401: Use a bare repository for the remote peer receive-pack: Send hook output over side band #2 receive-pack: Wrap status reports inside side-band-64k receive-pack: Refactor how capabilities are shown to the client send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with status data run-command: support custom fd-set in async run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe Conflicts: builtin-receive-pack.c run-command.c t/t5401-update-hooks.sh
2010-03-02Merge branch 'ml/color-when'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
* ml/color-when: Add an optional argument for --color options
2010-02-21Merge branch 'sp/push-sideband'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+41
* sp/push-sideband: receive-pack: Send internal errors over side-band #2 t5401: Use a bare repository for the remote peer receive-pack: Send hook output over side band #2 receive-pack: Wrap status reports inside side-band-64k receive-pack: Refactor how capabilities are shown to the client send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with status data run-command: support custom fd-set in async run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe
2010-02-18Add an optional argument for --color optionsLibravatar Mark Lodato1-0/+12
Make git-branch, git-show-branch, git-grep, and all the diff-based programs accept an optional argument <when> for --color. The argument is a colorbool: "always", "never", or "auto". If no argument is given, "always" is used; --no-color is an alias for --color=never. This makes the command-line interface consistent with other GNU tools, such as `ls' and `grep', and with the git-config color options. Note that, without an argument, --color and --no-color work exactly as before. To implement this, two internal changes were made: 1. Allow the first argument of git_config_colorbool() to be NULL, in which case it returns -1 if the argument isn't "always", "never", or "auto". 2. Add OPT_COLOR_FLAG(), OPT__COLOR(), and parse_opt_color_flag_cb() to the option parsing library. The callback uses git_config_colorbool(), so color.h is now a dependency of parse-options.c. Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-05Merge branch 'sp/maint-push-sideband' into sp/push-sidebandLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+41
* sp/maint-push-sideband: receive-pack: Send hook output over side band #2 receive-pack: Wrap status reports inside side-band-64k receive-pack: Refactor how capabilities are shown to the client send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with status data run-command: support custom fd-set in async run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe Update git fsck --full short description to mention packs Conflicts: run-command.c
2010-02-05run-command: support custom fd-set in asyncLibravatar Erik Faye-Lund1-10/+40
This patch adds the possibility to supply a set of non-0 file descriptors for async process communication instead of the default-created pipe. Additionally, we now support bi-directional communiction with the async procedure, by giving the async function both read and write file descriptors. To retain compatiblity and similar "API feel" with start_command, we require start_async callers to set .out = -1 to get a readable file descriptor. If either of .in or .out is 0, we supply no file descriptor to the async process. [sp: Note: Erik started this patch, and a huge bulk of it is his work. All bugs were introduced later by Shawn.] Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-05run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipeLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+1
Like .out, .err may now be set to a file descriptor > 0, which is a writable pipe/socket/file that the child's stderr will be redirected into. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-31Fix typos in technical documentation.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues3-8/+8
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20Merge branch 'jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
* jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit: user_ident_sufficiently_given(): refactor the logic to be usable from elsewhere commit.c::print_summary: do not release the format string too early commit: allow suppression of implicit identity advice commit: show interesting ident information in summary strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquote strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%" Conflicts: builtin-commit.c ident.c
2010-01-14strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquoteLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+7
This is handy for creating strings which will be fed to printf() or strbuf_expand(). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-14strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"Libravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
The only way to safely quote arbitrary text in a pretty-print user format is to replace instances of "%" with "%x25". This is slightly unreadable, and many users would expect "%%" to produce a single "%", as that is what printf format specifiers do. This patch converts "%%" to "%" for all users of strbuf_expand(): (1) git-daemon interpolated paths (2) pretty-print user formats (3) merge driver command lines Case (1) was already doing the conversion itself outside of strbuf_expand(). Case (2) is the intended beneficiary of this patch. Case (3) users probably won't notice, but as this is user-facing behavior, consistently providing the quoting mechanism makes sense. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-13Merge branch 'nd/sparse'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* nd/sparse: (25 commits) t7002: test for not using external grep on skip-worktree paths t7002: set test prerequisite "external-grep" if supported grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries commit: correctly respect skip-worktree bit ie_match_stat(): do not ignore skip-worktree bit with CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID tests: rename duplicate t1009 sparse checkout: inhibit empty worktree Add tests for sparse checkout read-tree: add --no-sparse-checkout to disable sparse checkout support unpack-trees(): ignore worktree check outside checkout area unpack_trees(): apply $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout to the final index unpack-trees(): "enable" sparse checkout and load $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout unpack-trees.c: generalize verify_* functions unpack-trees(): add CE_WT_REMOVE to remove on worktree alone Introduce "sparse checkout" dir.c: export excluded_1() and add_excludes_from_file_1() excluded_1(): support exclude files in index unpack-trees(): carry skip-worktree bit over in merged_entry() Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktree Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1() ... Conflicts: .gitignore Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-update-index.txt Makefile entry.c t/t7002-grep.sh
2009-12-19Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-4/+56
* maint: rebase -i: abort cleanly if the editor fails to launch technical-docs: document hash API api-strbuf.txt: fix typos and document launch_editor()
2009-12-17technical-docs: document hash APILibravatar Stephen Boyd1-2/+48
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-17api-strbuf.txt: fix typos and document launch_editor()Libravatar Stephen Boyd1-2/+8
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+0
* maint: Documentation: undocument gc'd function graph_release()
2009-11-19Documentation: undocument gc'd function graph_release()Libravatar Greg Price1-5/+0
graph_release() was removed in 064bfbd. Cut it from the API documentation and a comment. Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@ksplice.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-13Update packfile transfer protocol documentationLibravatar Scott Chacon3-41/+777
The current technical documentation for the packfile protocol is both sparse and incorrect. This documents the fetch-pack/upload-pack and send-pack/ receive-pack protocols much more fully. Add documentation from Shawn's upcoming http-protocol docs that is shared by the packfile protocol. protocol-common.txt describes ABNF notation amendments, refname rules and the packet line format. Add documentation on the various capabilities supported by the upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. protocol-capabilities.txt describes multi-ack, thin-pack, side-band[-64k], shallow, no-progress, include-tag, ofs-delta, delete-refs and report-status. Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09racy-git.txt: explain nsec problem in more detailLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+6
Idealists may want USE_NSEC to be the default on Linux some day. Point to a patch to better explain the requirements on filesystem code for that to happen. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-23Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktreeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+3
This adds index as a prerequisite for directory listing (with exclude). At the moment directory listing is used by "git clean", "git add", "git ls-files" and "git status"/"git commit" and unpack_trees()-related commands. These commands have been checked/modified to populate index before doing directory listing. add_excludes_from_file() does not enable this feature, because it is used to read .git/info/exclude and some explicit files specified by "git ls-files". Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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