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2019-07-09Merge branch 'pw/doc-synopsis-markup-opmode-options'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+2
Docfix. * pw/doc-synopsis-markup-opmode-options: show --continue/skip etc. consistently in synopsis
2019-07-09Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-write-refactor'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-17/+0
Renamed from commit-graph-format-v2 and changed scope. * ds/commit-graph-write-refactor: commit-graph: extract write_commit_graph_file() commit-graph: extract copy_oids_to_commits() commit-graph: extract count_distinct_commits() commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_all_packs() commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_commit_hex() commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_packs() commit-graph: create write_commit_graph_context commit-graph: remove Future Work section commit-graph: collapse parameters into flags commit-graph: return with errors during write commit-graph: fix the_repository reference
2019-07-09Merge branch 'sg/trace2-rename'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Dev support update to help tracing out tests. * sg/trace2-rename: trace2: correct typo in technical documentation Revert "test-lib: whitelist GIT_TR2_* in the environment"
2019-07-09Merge branch 'dl/config-alias-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+16
Doc update. * dl/config-alias-doc: config/alias.txt: document alias accepting non-command first word config/alias.txt: change " and ' to `
2019-07-09Merge branch 'tm/tag-gpgsign-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+15
A new tag.gpgSign configuration variable turns "git tag -a" into "git tag -s". * tm/tag-gpgsign-config: tag: add tag.gpgSign config option to force all tags be GPG-signed
2019-07-09Merge branch 'po/doc-branch'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+26
Doc update. * po/doc-branch: doc branch: provide examples for listing remote tracking branches
2019-07-09Merge branch 'nb/branch-show-other-worktrees-head'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-4/+13
"git branch --list" learned to show branches that are checked out in other worktrees connected to the same repository prefixed with '+', similar to the way the currently checked out branch is shown with '*' in front. * nb/branch-show-other-worktrees-head: branch: add worktree info on verbose output branch: update output to include worktree info ref-filter: add worktreepath atom
2019-06-27trace2: correct typo in technical documentationLibravatar Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón1-1/+1
an apparent typo for the environment variable was included with 81567caf87 ("trace2: update docs to describe system/global config settings", 2019-04-15), and was missed when renamed variables by e4b75d6a1d ("trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*", 2019-05-19) Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-21The third batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+29
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-21Merge branch 'an/ignore-doc-update'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-22/+44
The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only matches directories") has been revamped. * an/ignore-doc-update: gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
2019-06-21Merge branch 'ab/hash-object-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
Doc update. * ab/hash-object-doc: hash-object doc: stop mentioning git-cvsimport
2019-06-21Merge branch 'cm/send-email-document-req-modules'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
A doc update. * cm/send-email-document-req-modules: send-email: update documentation of required Perl modules
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
2019-06-17show --continue/skip etc. consistently in synopsisLibravatar Phillip Wood2-3/+2
Command mode options that the user can choose one among many are listed like this in the documentation: git am (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit) They are listed on a single line and in parenthesis, because they are not optional. But documentation pages for some commands deviate from this norm. Fix the merge and rebase docs to match this style. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-17The second batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+77
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-17Merge branch 'po/git-help-on-git-itself'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
"git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some people). * po/git-help-on-git-itself: Doc: git.txt: remove backticks from link and add git-scm.com/docs git.c: show usage for accessing the git(1) help page
2019-06-17Merge branch 'es/first-contrib-tutorial'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+1133
A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core developers. * es/first-contrib-tutorial: doc: add some nit fixes to MyFirstContribution documentation: add anchors to MyFirstContribution documentation: add tutorial for first contribution
2019-06-17Merge branch 'bl/userdiff-octave'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words boundary for Matlab has been extend to cover Octave, which is more or less equivalent. * bl/userdiff-octave: userdiff: fix grammar and style issues userdiff: add Octave
2019-06-17Merge branch 'ba/clone-remote-submodules'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+8
"git clone --recurse-submodules" learned to set up the submodules to ignore commit object names recorded in the superproject gitlink and instead use the commits that happen to be at the tip of the remote-tracking branches from the get-go, by passing the new "--remote-submodules" option. * ba/clone-remote-submodules: clone: add `--remote-submodules` flag
2019-06-17Merge branch 'vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
"git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work when both options are given. * vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit: merge: refuse --commit with --squash
2019-06-17Merge branch 'es/git-debugger-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Doc update. * es/git-debugger-doc: doc: hint about GIT_DEBUGGER in CodingGuidelines
2019-06-13The first batch after 2.22Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+77
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-13Merge branch 'ew/update-server-info'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+1
"git update-server-info" learned not to rewrite the file with the same contents. * ew/update-server-info: update-server-info: avoid needless overwrites
2019-06-13Merge branch 'dl/format-patch-notes-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+21
"git format-patch" learns a configuration to set the default for its --notes=<ref> option. * dl/format-patch-notes-config: format-patch: teach format.notes config option git-format-patch.txt: document --no-notes option
2019-06-13Merge branch 'nd/merge-quit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
"git merge" learned "--quit" option that cleans up the in-progress merge while leaving the working tree and the index still in a mess. * nd/merge-quit: merge: add --quit merge: remove drop_save() in favor of remove_merge_branch_state()
2019-06-13Merge branch 'en/fast-export-encoding'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+14
The "git fast-export/import" pair has been taught to handle commits with log messages in encoding other than UTF-8 better. * en/fast-export-encoding: fast-export: do automatic reencoding of commit messages only if requested fast-export: differentiate between explicitly UTF-8 and implicitly UTF-8 fast-export: avoid stripping encoding header if we cannot reencode fast-import: support 'encoding' commit header t9350: fix encoding test to actually test reencoding
2019-06-13Merge branch 'ab/send-email-transferencoding-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Since "git send-email" learned to take 'auto' as the value for the transfer-encoding, it by mistake stopped honoring the values given to the configuration variables sendemail.transferencoding and/or sendemail.<ident>.transferencoding. This has been corrected to (finally) redoing the order of setting the default, reading the configuration and command line options. * ab/send-email-transferencoding-fix: send-email: fix regression in sendemail.identity parsing send-email: document --no-[to|cc|bcc] send-email: fix broken transferEncoding tests send-email: remove cargo-culted multi-patch pattern in tests send-email: do defaults -> config -> getopt in that order send-email: rename the @bcclist variable for consistency send-email: move the read_config() function above getopts
2019-06-12commit-graph: remove Future Work sectionLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-17/+0
The commit-graph feature began with a long list of planned benefits, most of which are now complete. The future work section has only a few items left. As for making more algorithms aware of generation numbers, some are only waiting for generation number v2 to ensure the performance matches the existing behavior using commit date. It is unlikely that we will ever send a commit-graph file as part of the protocol, since we would need to verify the data, and that is expensive. If we want to start trusting remote content, then that item can be investigated again. While there is more work to be done on the feature, having a section of the docs devoted to a TODO list is wasteful and hard to keep up-to-date. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-06config/alias.txt: document alias accepting non-command first wordLibravatar Denton Liu1-0/+10
One can see that an alias that begins with a non-command first word, such as `loud-rebase = -c commit.verbose=true rebase`, is permitted. However, this isn't immediately obvious to users as alias instances typically begin with a command. Document the fact that an alias can begin with a non-command first word so that users will be able to discover that this is a feature. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-06config/alias.txt: change " and ' to `Libravatar Denton Liu1-6/+6
Before, the documentation would mix " and ' for code and config snippets. Change these instances to ` so that they are marked up in monospace. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-05tag: add tag.gpgSign config option to force all tags be GPG-signedLibravatar Tigran Mkrtchyan2-0/+15
As many CI/CD tools don't allow to control command line options when executing `git tag` command, a default value in the configuration file will allow to enforce tag signing if required. The new config-file option tag.gpgSign is added to define default behavior of tag signings. To override default behavior the command line option -s, --sign and --no-sign can be used: $ git tag -m "commit message" will generate a GPG signed tag if tag.gpgSign option is true, while $ git tag --no-sign -m "commit message" will skip the signing step. Signed-off-by: Tigran Mkrtchyan <tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-04gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readableLibravatar Dr. Adam Nielsen1-22/+44
Renew paragraphs relevant for pattern with slash. Aim to make it more clear and to avoid possible pitfalls for the reader. Add some examples. Signed-off-by: Dr. Adam Nielsen <admin@in-ici.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-03Git 2.22-rc3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-03Merge branch 'cc/list-objects-filter-wo-sparse-path'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
Disable "--filter=sparse:path=<path>" that would allow reading from paths on the filesystem. * cc/list-objects-filter-wo-sparse-path: list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters
2019-06-03RelNotes: minor typo fixes in 2.22.0 draftLibravatar Todd Zullinger1-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-31send-email: update documentation of required Perl modulesLibravatar Chris Mayo1-2/+6
Improve and complete the list of required email related Perl modules, clarifying which are core Perl modules and remove Net::SMTP::SSL. git-send-email uses the TLS support in the Net::SMTP core module from recent versions of Perl. Documenting the minimum version is complex because of separate numbering for Perl (5.21.5~169), Net:SMTP (2.34) and libnet (3.01). Version numbers from commit: bfbfc9a953 ("send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v2.34", 2017-05-31). Users of older Perl versions without Net::SMTP::SSL installed will get a clear error message. Signed-off-by: Chris Mayo <aklhfex@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-30Git 2.22-rc2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-30Merge branch 'es/doc-gitsubmodules-markup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+7
Doc markup fix. * es/doc-gitsubmodules-markup: gitsubmodules: align html and nroff lists
2019-05-30Merge branch 'js/rebase-deprecate-preserve-merges'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-4/+6
A bit more leftover clean-up to deprepcate "rebase -p". * js/rebase-deprecate-preserve-merges: rebase docs: recommend `-r` over `-p` docs: say that `--rebase=preserve` is deprecated tests: mark a couple more test cases as requiring `rebase -p`
2019-05-29doc: add some nit fixes to MyFirstContributionLibravatar Emily Shaffer1-4/+27
A trial run-through of the tutorial revealed a few typos and missing commands in the tutorial itself. This commit fixes typos, clarifies which lines to keep or modify in some places, and adds a section on putting the git-psuh binary into the gitignore. Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-29list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filtersLibravatar Christian Couder1-3/+4
If someone wants to use as a filter a sparse file that is in the repository, something like "--filter=sparse:oid=<ref>:<path>" already works. So 'sparse:path' is only interesting if the sparse file is not in the repository. In this case though the current implementation has a big security issue, as it makes it possible to ask the server to read any file, like for example /etc/password, and to explore the filesystem, as well as individual lines of files. If someone is interested in using a sparse file that is not in the repository as a filter, then at the minimum a config option, such as "uploadpack.sparsePathFilter", should be implemented first to restrict the directory from which the files specified by 'sparse:path' can be read. For now though, let's just disable 'sparse:path' filters. Helped-by: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com> Helped-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-29doc branch: provide examples for listing remote tracking branchesLibravatar Philip Oakley1-6/+26
The availability of these pattern selections is not obvious from the man pages, as per mail thread <87lfz3vcbt.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>. Provide examples. Re-order the `git branch` synopsis to emphasise the `--list <pattern>` pairing. Also expand and reposition the `all/remotes` options. Split the over-long description into three parts so that the <pattern> description can be seen. Clarify that the `all/remotes` options require the --list if patterns are to be used. Add examples of listing remote tracking branches that match a pattern, including `git for-each-ref` which has more options. Improve the -a/-r warning message. The message confused this author as the combined -a and -r options had not been given, though a pattern had. Specifically guide the user that maybe they needed the --list option to enable a remote branch pattern selection. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-29send-email: fix regression in sendemail.identity parsingLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+4
Fix a regression in my recent 3494dfd3ee ("send-email: do defaults -> config -> getopt in that order", 2019-05-09). I missed that the $identity variable needs to be extracted from the command-line before we do the config reading, as it determines which config variable we should read first. See [1] for the report. The sendemail.identity feature was added back in 34cc60ce2b ("send-email: Add support for SSL and SMTP-AUTH", 2007-09-03), there were no tests to assert that it worked properly. So let's fix both the regression, and add some tests to assert that this is being parsed properly. While I'm at it I'm adding a --no-identity option to go with --[to|cc|bcc] variable, since the semantics are similar. It's like to/cc/bcc except that unlike those we don't support multiple identities, but we could now easily add it support for it if anyone cares. In just fixing the --identity command-line parsing bug I discovered that a narrow fix to that wouldn't do. In read_config() we had a state machine that would only set config values if they weren't set already, and thus by proxy we wouldn't e.g. set "to" based on sendemail.to if we'd seen sendemail.gmail.to before, with --identity=gmail. I'd modified some of the relevant code in 3494dfd3ee, but just reverting to that wouldn't do, since it would bring back the regression fixed in that commit. Refactor read_config() do what we actually mean here. We don't want to set a given sendemail.VAR if a sendemail.$identity.VAR previously set it. The old code was conflating this desire with the hardcoded defaults for these variables, and as discussed in 3494dfd3ee that was never going to work. Instead pass along the state of whether an identity config set something before, as distinguished from the state of the default just being false, or the default being a non-bool or true (e.g. --transferencoding). I'm still not happy with the test coverage here, e.g. there's nothing testing sendemail.smtpEncryption, but I only have so much time to fix this code. 1. https://public-inbox.org/git/5cddeb61.1c69fb81.47ed4.e648@mx.google.com/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
2019-05-28doc: hint about GIT_DEBUGGER in CodingGuidelinesLibravatar Emily Shaffer1-0/+6
We check for a handy environment variable GIT_DEBUGGER when running via bin-wrappers/, but this feature is undocumented. Add a hint to how to use it into the CodingGuidelines (which is where other useful environment settings like DEVELOPER are documented). Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28rebase docs: recommend `-r` over `-p`Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+3
The `--preserve-merges` option is now deprecated in favor of `--rebase-merges`; Let's stop recommending the former. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28docs: say that `--rebase=preserve` is deprecatedLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+3
As of Git v2.22.0, the `--preserve-merges` backend of `git rebase` will be officially deprecated in favor of the `--rebase-merges` backend. Consequently, `git pull --rebase=preserve` will also be deprected. State this explicitly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28merge: refuse --commit with --squashLibravatar Vishal Verma1-0/+2
Convert option_commit to tristate, representing the states of 'default/untouched', 'enabled-by-cli', 'disabled-by-cli'. With this in place, check whether option_commit was enabled by cli when squashing a merge. If so, error out, as this is not supported. Previously, when --squash was supplied, 'option_commit' was silently dropped. This could have been surprising to a user who tried to override the no-commit behavior of squash using --commit explicitly. Add a note to the --squash option for git-merge to clarify the incompatibility, and add a test case to t7600-merge.sh Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Cc: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal@stellar.sh> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28hash-object doc: stop mentioning git-cvsimportLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-3/+1
Remove a reference to git-cvsimport in the intro. As can be seen from the history of this command[1] it was originally intended for use with git-cvsimport, but how it uses it (and that it uses it at all) is irrelevant trivia at this point. 1. See 7672db20c2 ("[PATCH] Expose object ID computation functions.", 2005-07-08) and 8b8840e046 ("[PATCH] cvsgit fixes: spaces in filenames and CVS server dialog woes", 2005-08-15). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28trace2: document the supported values of GIT_TRACE2* env variablesLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-8/+35
The descriptions of the GIT_TRACE2* environment variables link to the technical docs for further details on the supported values. However, a link like this only really works if the docs are viewed in a browser and the full documentation is available. OTOH, in 'man git' there are no links to conveniently click on, and distro-shipped git packages tend to include only the man pages, while the technical docs and the docs in html format are in a separate 'git-doc' package. So let's describe the supported values to make the manpage more self-contained, but still keep the references to the technical docs because the details of the SID, and the JSON and perf output formats are definitely beyond the scope of 'man git'. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>