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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
2019-06-03Git 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>
2019-05-30Git 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>
2019-05-29send-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>
2019-05-28trace2: 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>
2019-05-28trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*Libravatar SZEDER Gábor3-39/+39
For an environment variable that is supposed to be set by users, the GIT_TR2* env vars are just too unclear, inconsistent, and ugly. Most of the established GIT_* environment variables don't use abbreviations, and in case of the few that do (GIT_DIR, GIT_COMMON_DIR, GIT_DIFF_OPTS) it's quite obvious what the abbreviations (DIR and OPTS) stand for. But what does TR stand for? Track, traditional, trailer, transaction, transfer, transformation, transition, translation, transplant, transport, traversal, tree, trigger, truncate, trust, or ...?! The trace2 facility, as the '2' suffix in its name suggests, is supposed to eventually supercede Git's original trace facility. It's reasonable to expect that the corresponding environment variables follow suit, and after the original GIT_TRACE variables they are called GIT_TRACE2; there is no such thing is 'GIT_TR'. All trace2-specific config variables are, very sensibly, in the 'trace2' section, not in 'tr2'. OTOH, we don't gain anything at all by omitting the last three characters of "trace" from the names of these environment variables. So let's rename all GIT_TR2* environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*, before they make their way into a stable release. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28gitsubmodules: align html and nroff listsLibravatar Emily Shaffer1-7/+7
There appears to be a bug in the toolchain generating manpages from lettered lists. When a list is enumerated with letters, the resulting nroff shows numbers instead. Mostly this is harmless, but in the case of gitsubmodules, the paragraph following the list refers back to each bullet by letter. As a result, reading this documentation via `man gitsubmodules` is hard to parse - readers must infer that a bug exists and a refers to 1, b refers to 2, and c refers to 3 in the list above. The problem specifically was introduced in ad47194; previously rather than generating numerated lists the bulleted area was entirely monospaced in HTML and shown in plaintext in nroff. The bug seems to exist in docbook-xml - I've reported it on May 1 via the docbook-apps mail list - but for now it may make more sense to just work around the issue. Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-28clone: add `--remote-submodules` flagLibravatar Ben Avison1-1/+8
When using `git clone --recurse-submodules` there was previously no way to pass a `--remote` switch to the implicit `git submodule update` command for any use case where you want the submodules to be checked out on their remote-tracking branch rather than with the SHA-1 recorded in the superproject. This patch rectifies this situation. It actually passes `--no-fetch` to `git submodule update` as well on the grounds they the submodule has only just been cloned, so fetching from the remote again only serves to slow things down. Signed-off-by: Ben Avison <bavison@riscosopen.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-19Git 2.22-rc1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+76
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-19Merge branch 'js/stash-in-c-use-builtin-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+15
Doc update. * js/stash-in-c-use-builtin-doc: stash: document stash.useBuiltin
2019-05-19Merge branch 'ds/trace2-document-env-vars'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+21
Doc update. * ds/trace2-document-env-vars: trace2: add variable description to git.txt
2019-05-19Merge branch 'dl/difftool-mergetool'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-3/+9
Update "git difftool" and "git mergetool" so that the combinations of {diff,merge}.{tool,guitool} configuration variables serve as fallback settings of each other in a sensible order. * dl/difftool-mergetool: difftool: fallback on merge.guitool difftool: make --gui, --tool and --extcmd mutually exclusive mergetool: fallback to tool when guitool unavailable mergetool--lib: create gui_mode function mergetool: use get_merge_tool function t7610: add mergetool --gui tests t7610: unsuppress output
2019-05-19Merge branch 'dl/branch-from-3dot-merge-base'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+9
"git branch new A...B" and "git checkout -b new A...B" have been taught that in their contexts, the notation A...B means "the merge base between these two commits", just like "git checkout A...B" detaches HEAD at that commit. * dl/branch-from-3dot-merge-base: branch: make create_branch accept a merge base rev t2018: cleanup in current test
2019-05-19documentation: add anchors to MyFirstContributionLibravatar Emily Shaffer1-0/+35
During the course of review for MyFirstContribution.txt, the suggestion came up to include anchors to make it easier for veteran contributors to link specific sections of this documents to newbies. To make life easier for reviewers, add these anchors in their own commit. See review context here: https://public-inbox.org/git/20190507195938.GD220818@google.com/ AsciiDoc does not support :sectanchors: and the anchors are not discoverable, but they are referenceable. So a link to "foo.com/MyFirstContribution.html#prerequisites" will still work if that file was generated with AsciiDoc. The inclusion of :sectanchors: does not create warnings or errors while compiling directly with `asciidoc -b html5 Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt` or while compiling with `make doc`. AsciiDoctor does support :sectanchors: and displays a paragraph link on mouseover. When the anchor is included above or inline with a section (as in this change), the link provided points to the custom ID contained within [[]] instead of to an autogenerated ID. Practically speaking, this means we have .../MyFirstContribution.html#summary instead of .../MyFirstContribution.html#_summary. In addition to being prettier, the custom IDs also enable anchor linking to work with asciidoc-generated pages. This change compiles with no warnings using `asciidoctor -b html5 Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt`. Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-19documentation: add tutorial for first contributionLibravatar Emily Shaffer2-0/+1075
This tutorial covers how to add a new command to Git and, in the process, everything from cloning git/git to getting reviewed on the mailing list. It's meant for new contributors to go through interactively, learning the techniques generally used by the git/git development community. Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-19merge: add --quitLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
This allows to cancel the current merge without resetting worktree/index, which is what --abort is for. Like other --quit(s), this is often used when you forgot that you're in the middle of a merge and already switched away, doing different things. By the time you've realized, you can't even continue the merge anymore. This also makes all in-progress commands, am, merge, rebase, revert and cherry-pick, take all three --abort, --continue and --quit (bisect has a different UI). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> 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>
2019-05-19send-email: document --no-[to|cc|bcc]Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+4
These options added in f434c083a0 ("send-email: add --no-cc, --no-to, and --no-bcc", 2010-03-07) were never documented. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-17format-patch: teach format.notes config optionLibravatar Denton Liu2-0/+18
In git-format-patch, notes can be appended with the `--notes` option. However, this must be specified by the user on an invocation-by-invocation basis. If a user is not careful, it's possible that they may forget to include it and generate a patch series without notes. Teach git-format-patch the `format.notes` config option. Its value is a notes ref that will be automatically appended. The special value of "standard" can be used to specify the standard notes. This option is overridable with the `--no-notes` option in case a user wishes not to append notes. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-16Doc: git.txt: remove backticks from link and add git-scm.com/docsLibravatar Philip Oakley1-1/+2
While checking the html formatted git(1) manual page, it was noted that the link to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html was formatted as code. Remove the backticks. While at it, add the https://git-scm.com/docs link which one reviewer noted had linkable section headings. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-15update-server-info: avoid needless overwritesLibravatar Eric Wong1-10/+1
Do not change the existing info/refs and objects/info/packs files if they match the existing content on the filesystem. This is intended to preserve mtime and make it easier for dumb HTTP pollers to rely on the If-Modified-Since header. Combined with stdio and kernel buffering; the kernel should be able to avoid block layer writes and reduce wear for small files. As a result, the --force option is no longer needed. So stop documenting it, but let it remain for compatibility (and debugging, if necessary). v3: perform incremental comparison while generating to avoid OOM with giant files. Remove documentation for --force. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-15stash: document stash.useBuiltinLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+15
The stash.useBuiltin variable introduced in 90a462725e ("stash: optionally use the scripted version again", 2019-02-25) was turned on by default, but had no documentation. Let's document it so that users who run into any stability issues with the C rewrite know there's an escape hatch, and spell out that the user should please report the bug when they have to turn off the built-in stash. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-14fast-export: do automatic reencoding of commit messages only if requestedLibravatar Elijah Newren1-0/+7
Automatic re-encoding of commit messages (and dropping of the encoding header) hurts attempts to do reversible history rewrites (e.g. sha1sum <-> sha256sum transitions, some subtree rewrites), and seems inconsistent with the general principle followed elsewhere in fast-export of requiring explicit user requests to modify the output (e.g. --signed-tags=strip, --tag-of-filtered-object=rewrite). Add a --reencode flag that the user can use to specify, and like other fast-export flags, default it to 'abort'. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-14fast-import: support 'encoding' commit headerLibravatar Elijah Newren1-0/+7
Since git supports commit messages with an encoding other than UTF-8, allow fast-import to import such commits. This may be useful for folks who do not want to reencode commit messages from an external system, and may also be useful to achieve reversible history rewrites (e.g. sha1sum <-> sha256sum transitions or subtree work) with git repositories that have used specialized encodings in their commit history. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-13Git 2.22-rc0Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+39
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-13Merge branch 'dl/rev-tilde-doc-clarify'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-15/+14
Docfix. * dl/rev-tilde-doc-clarify: revisions.txt: remove ambibuity between <rev>:<path> and :<path> revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form revisions.txt: mark optional rev arguments with [] revisions.txt: change "rev" to "<rev>"
2019-05-13Merge branch 'jk/ls-files-doc-markup-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Docfix. * jk/ls-files-doc-markup-fix: doc/ls-files: put nested list for "-t" option into block