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2021-01-15index-format: discuss recursion of cache-tree betterLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+2
The end of the cache tree index extension format trails off with ellipses ever since 23fcc98 (doc: technical details about the index file format, 2011-03-01). While an intuitive reader could gather what this means, it could be better to use "and so on" instead. Really, this is only justified because I also wanted to point out that the number of subtrees in the index format is used to determine when the recursive depth-first-search stack should be "popped." This should help to add clarity to the format. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-15index-format: update preamble to cache tree extensionLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-6/+27
I had difficulty in my efforts to learn about the cache tree extension based on the documentation and code because I had an incorrect assumption about how it behaved. This might be due to some ambiguity in the documentation, so this change modifies the beginning of the cache tree format by expanding the description of the feature. My hope is that this documentation clarifies a few things: 1. There is an in-memory recursive tree structure that is constructed from the extension data. This structure has a few differences, such as where the name is stored. 2. What does it mean for an entry to be invalid? 3. When exactly are "new" trees created? Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-15index-format: use 'cache tree' over 'cached tree'Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-3/+3
The index has a "cache tree" extension. This corresponds to a significant API implemented in cache-tree.[ch]. However, there are a few places that refer to this erroneously as "cached tree". These are rare, but notably the index-format.txt file itself makes this error. The only other reference is in t7104-reset-hard.sh. Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-27Git 2.30Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-27Merge branch 'pb/doc-git-linkit-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Docfix. * pb/doc-git-linkit-fix: git.txt: fix typos in 'linkgit' macro invocation
2020-12-23Git 2.30-rc2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-22git.txt: fix typos in 'linkgit' macro invocationLibravatar Philippe Blain1-2/+2
The 'linkgit' Asciidoc macro is misspelled as 'linkit' in the description of 'GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR' since the addition of that variable to git(1) in 902a126eca (doc: mention GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR and 'sequence.editor' more, 2020-08-31). Also, it uses two colons instead of one. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-21git-maintenance.txt: add missing wordLibravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+1
Add a missing "a" before "bunch". Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-18Git 2.30-rc1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-18Merge branch 'js/init-defaultbranch-advice'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+7
Our users are going to be trained to prepare for future change of init.defaultBranch configuration variable. * js/init-defaultbranch-advice: init: provide useful advice about init.defaultBranch get_default_branch_name(): prepare for showing some advice branch -m: allow renaming a yet-unborn branch init: document `init.defaultBranch` better
2020-12-17Another batch before 2.30-rc1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-17Merge branch 'jh/index-v2-doc-on-fsmn'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+8
Doc update. * jh/index-v2-doc-on-fsmn: index-format.txt: document v2 format of file system monitor extension
2020-12-17Merge branch 'jb/midx-doc-update'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+0
Doc update. * jb/midx-doc-update: docs: multi-pack-index: remove note about future 'verify' work
2020-12-17Merge branch 'rj/make-clean'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Build optimization. * rj/make-clean: Makefile: don't use a versioned temp distribution directory Makefile: don't try to clean old debian build product gitweb/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE Documentation/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE Documentation/Makefile: conditionally include doc.dep
2020-12-14Git 2.30-rc0Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+28
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-14Merge branch 'ae/doc-reproducible-html'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Newer versions of xsltproc can assign IDs in HTML documents it generates in a consistent manner. Use the feature to help format HTML version of the user manual reproducibly. * ae/doc-reproducible-html: doc: make HTML manual reproducible
2020-12-14Merge branch 'so/glossary-branch-is-not-necessarily-active'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The glossary described a branch as an "active" line of development, which is misleading---a stale and non-moving branch is still a branch. * so/glossary-branch-is-not-necessarily-active: glossary: improve "branch" definition
2020-12-14Merge branch 'dd/help-autocorrect-never'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+8
"git $cmd $args", when $cmd is not a recognised subcommand, by default tries to see if $cmd is a typo of an existing subcommand and optionally executes the corrected command if there is only one possibility, depending on the setting of help.autocorrect; the users can now disable the whole thing, including the cycles spent to find a likely typo, by setting the configuration variable to 'never'. * dd/help-autocorrect-never: help.c: help.autocorrect=never means "do not compute suggestions"
2020-12-14index-format.txt: document v2 format of file system monitor extensionLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-2/+8
Update the documentation of the file system monitor extension to describe version 2. The format was extended to support opaque tokens in: 56c6910028 fsmonitor: change last update timestamp on the index_state to opaque token Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-14docs: multi-pack-index: remove note about future 'verify' workLibravatar Johannes Berg1-4/+0
This was implemented in the 'git multi-pack-index' command and merged in 468b3221 (Merge branch 'ds/multi-pack-verify', 2018-10-10). And there's no 'git midx' command. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-13init: document `init.defaultBranch` betterLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-4/+7
Our documentation does not mention any future plan to change 'master' to other value. It is a good idea to document this, though. Initial-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08Documentation/Makefile: conditionally include ../GIT-VERSION-FILELibravatar Ramsay Jones1-0/+2
The 'clean' target is still noticeably slow on cygwin, despite the substantial improvement made by the previous patch. For example, the second invocation of 'make clean' below: $ make clean >/dev/null 2>&1 $ make clean ... make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ramsay/git/Documentation' make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ramsay/git' make[2]: 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date. make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ramsay/git' ... $ has been timed at 12.364s on my laptop (an old core i5-4200M @ 2.50GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD). Notice that the 'clean' target is making a nested call to the parent Makefile to ensure that the GIT-VERSION-FILE is up-to-date (prior to the previous patch, there would have been _two_ such invocations). This is to ensure that the $(GIT_VERSION) make variable is set, once that file had been included. However, the 'clean' target does not use the $(GIT_VERSION) variable, directly or indirectly, so it does not have any affect on what the target removes. Therefore, the time spent on ensuring an up to date GIT-VERSION-FILE is wasted effort. In order to eliminate such wasted effort, use the value of the internal $(MAKECMDGOALS) variable to only '-include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE' when the target is not 'clean'. (This drops the time down to 10.361s, on my laptop, giving an improvement of 16.20%). Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08Documentation/Makefile: conditionally include doc.depLibravatar Ramsay Jones1-0/+2
The 'clean' target is noticeably slow on cygwin, even for a 'do-nothing' invocation of 'make clean'. For example, the second 'make clean' below: $ make clean >/dev/null 2>&1 $ make clean GIT_VERSION = 2.29.0 ... make[1]: Entering directory '/home/ramsay/git/Documentation' GEN mergetools-list.made GEN cmd-list.made GEN doc.dep ... $ has been timed at 23.339s, using git v2.29.0, on my laptop (an old core i5-4200M @ 2.50GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD). Notice that, since the 'doc.dep' file does not exist, make takes the time (about 8s) to generate several files in order to create the doc.dep include file. (If an 'include' file is missing, but a target for the said file is present in the Makefile, make will execute that target and, if that file now exists, throw away all its internal data and re-read and re-parse the Makefile). Having spent the time to include the 'doc.dep' file, the 'clean' target immediately deletes those files. The document dependencies specified in the 'doc.dep' include file, expressed as make targets and prerequisites, do not affect what the 'clean' target removes. Therefore, the time spent in generating the dependencies is completely wasted effort. In order to eliminate such wasted effort, use the value of the internal $(MAKECMDGOALS) variable to only '-include doc.dep' when the target is not 'clean'. (This drops the time down to 12.364s, on my laptop, giving an improvement of 47.02%). Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08Eleventh batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+45
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-08Merge branch 'sn/config-doc-typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Fix for an old typo. * sn/config-doc-typofix: config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote)
2020-12-08Merge branch 'ma/grep-init-default'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-33/+1
Code clean-up. * ma/grep-init-default: MyFirstObjectWalk: drop `init_walken_defaults()` grep: copy struct in one fell swoop grep: use designated initializers for `grep_defaults` grep: don't set up a "default" repo for grep
2020-12-08Merge branch 'js/trace2-session-id'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-2/+32
The transport layer was taught to optionally exchange the session ID assigned by the trace2 subsystem during fetch/push transactions. * js/trace2-session-id: receive-pack: log received client session ID send-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities upload-pack, serve: log received client session ID fetch-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities transport: log received server session ID serve: advertise session ID in v2 capabilities receive-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities upload-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities trace2: add a public function for getting the SID docs: new transfer.advertiseSID option docs: new capability to advertise session IDs
2020-12-08Merge branch 'ds/config-literal-value'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+22
Various subcommands of "git config" that takes value_regex learn the "--literal-value" option to take the value_regex option as a literal string. * ds/config-literal-value: config doc: value-pattern is not necessarily a regexp config: implement --fixed-value with --get* config: plumb --fixed-value into config API config: add --fixed-value option, un-implemented t1300: add test for --replace-all with value-pattern t1300: test "set all" mode with value-pattern config: replace 'value_regex' with 'value_pattern' config: convert multi_replace to flags
2020-12-08Merge branch 'ps/update-ref-multi-transaction'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
"git update-ref --stdin" learns to take multiple transactions in a single session. * ps/update-ref-multi-transaction: update-ref: disallow "start" for ongoing transactions p1400: use `git-update-ref --stdin` to test multiple transactions update-ref: allow creation of multiple transactions t1400: avoid touching refs on filesystem
2020-12-08Merge branch 'jt/trace-error-on-warning'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Like die() and error(), a call to warning() will also trigger a trace2 event. * jt/trace-error-on-warning: usage: add trace2 entry upon warning()
2020-12-03Tenth batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+16
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-03Merge branch 'ab/retire-parse-remote'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-23/+0
"git-parse-remote" shell script library outlived its usefulness. * ab/retire-parse-remote: submodule: fix fetch_in_submodule logic parse-remote: remove this now-unused library submodule: remove sh function in favor of helper submodule: use "fetch" logic instead of custom remote discovery
2020-12-02doc: make HTML manual reproducibleLibravatar Arnout Engelen1-1/+4
Versions of docbook-xsl newer than 1.79.1 allows xsltproc to assign IDs to nodes in the generated HTML consistently, to make the output resulting from the same source stable and reproducible. Pass the generate.consistent.ids parameter from the command line to ask for this feature. Older versions of the tool simply ignores the parameter and produces their output the same way as before this change, so there is no need to check for toolchain version. Signed-off-by: Arnout Engelen <arnout@bzzt.net> Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Helped-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-02glossary: improve "branch" definitionLibravatar Sergey Organov1-1/+1
The old phrasing is at least questionable, if not wrong, as there are a lot of branches out there that didn't see active development for years, yet they are still branches, ready to become active again any time. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-01config.txt: fix a typo (backslash != backquote)Libravatar Štěpán Němec1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-30Ninth batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+21
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-30Merge branch 'sa/credential-store-timeout'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Multiple "credential-store" backends can race to lock the same file, causing everybody else but one to fail---reattempt locking with some timeout to reduce the rate of the failure. * sa/credential-store-timeout: crendential-store: use timeout when locking file
2020-11-30Merge branch 'jc/do-not-just-explain-but-update-your-patch'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+15
Expectation for the original contributor after responding to a review comment to use the explanation in a patch update has been described. * jc/do-not-just-explain-but-update-your-patch: MyFirstContribition: answering questions is not the end of the story
2020-11-30Merge branch 'ab/gc-keep-base-option'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Fix an option name in "gc" documentation. * ab/gc-keep-base-option: gc: rename keep_base_pack variable for --keep-largest-pack gc docs: change --keep-base-pack to --keep-largest-pack
2020-11-30MyFirstObjectWalk: drop `init_walken_defaults()`Libravatar Martin Ågren1-24/+0
In a recent commit, we stopped calling `init_grep_defaults()` from this function. Thus, by the end of the tutorial, we still haven't added any contents to this function. Let's remove it for simplicity. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25Eighth batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+32
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25config doc: value-pattern is not necessarily a regexpLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+7
The introductory part of the "git config --help" mentions the optional value-pattern argument, but give no hint that it can be something other than a regular expression (worse, it just says "POSIX regexp", which usually means BRE but the regexp the command takes is ERE). Also, it needs to be documented that the '!' prefix to negate the match, which is only mentioned in this part of the document, works only with regexp and not with the --fixed-value. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25config: add --fixed-value option, un-implementedLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-7/+13
The 'git config' builtin takes a 'value-pattern' parameter for several actions. This can cause confusion when expecting exact value matches instead of regex matches, especially when the input string contains metacharacters. While callers can escape the patterns themselves, it would be more friendly to allow an argument to disable the pattern matching in favor of an exact string match. Add a new '--fixed-value' option that does not currently change the behavior. The implementation will be filled in by later changes for each appropriate action. For now, check and test that --fixed-value will abort the command when included with an incompatible action or without a 'value-pattern' argument. The name '--fixed-value' was chosen over something simpler like '--fixed' because some commands allow regular expressions on the key in addition to the value. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25config: replace 'value_regex' with 'value_pattern'Libravatar Derrick Stolee1-10/+10
The 'value_regex' argument in the 'git config' builtin is poorly named, especially related to an upcoming change that allows exact string matches instead of ERE pattern matches. Perform a mostly mechanical change of every instance of 'value_regex' to 'value_pattern' in the codebase. This is only critical for documentation and error messages, but it is best to be consistent inside the codebase, too. For documentation, use 'value-pattern' which is better punctuation. This affects Documentation/git-config.txt and the usage in builtin/config.c, which was already mixed between 'value_regex' and 'value-regex'. I gave some thought to leaving the value_regex variables inside config.c that are regex_t pointers. However, it is probably best to keep the name consistent with the rest of the variables. This does not update the translations inside the po/ directory, as that creates conflicts with ongoing work. The input strings should automatically update through automation, and a few of the output strings currently use "[value_regex]" directly. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25help.c: help.autocorrect=never means "do not compute suggestions"Libravatar Drew DeVault1-7/+8
While help.autocorrect can be set to 0 to decline auto-execution of possibly mistyped commands, it still spends cycles to compute the suggestions, and it wastes screen real estate. Update help.autocorrect to accept the string "never" to just exit with error upon mistyped commands to help users who prefer to never see suggested corrections at all. While at it, introduce "immediate" as a more readable way to immediately execute the auto-corrected command, which can be done with negative value. Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-25crendential-store: use timeout when locking fileLibravatar Simão Afonso1-0/+6
When holding the lock for rewriting the credential file, use a timeout to avoid race conditions when the credentials file needs to be updated in parallel. An example would be doing `fetch --all` on a repository with several remotes that need credentials, using parallel fetching. The timeout can be configured using "credentialStore.lockTimeoutMS", defaulting to 1 second. Signed-off-by: Simão Afonso <simao.afonso@powertools-tech.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-24usage: add trace2 entry upon warning()Libravatar Jonathan Tan1-1/+1
Emit a trace2 error event whenever warning() is called, just like when die(), error(), or usage() is called. This helps debugging issues that would trigger warnings but not errors. In particular, this might have helped debugging an issue I encountered with commit graphs at $DAYJOB [1]. There is a tradeoff between including potentially relevant messages and cluttering up the trace output produced. I think that warning() messages should be included in traces, because by its nature, Git is used over multiple invocations of the Git tool, and a failure (currently traced) in a Git invocation might be caused by an unexpected interaction in a previous Git invocation that only has a warning (currently untraced) as a symptom - as is the case in [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200629220744.1054093-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-24MyFirstContribition: answering questions is not the end of the storyLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+15
A review exchange may begin with a reviewer asking "what did you mean by this phrase in your log message (or here in the doc)?", the author answering what was meant, and then the reviewer saying "ah, that is what you meant---then the flow of the logic makes sense". But that is not the happy end of the story. New contributors often forget that the material that has been reviewed in the above exchange is still unclear in the same way to the next person who reads it, until it gets updated. While we are in the vicinity, rephrase the verb "request" used to refer to comments by reviewers to "suggest"---this matches the contrast between "original" and "suggested" that appears later in the same paragraph, and more importantly makes it clearer that it is not like authors are to please reviewers' wishes but rather reviewers are merely helping authors to polish their commits. Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-21Seventh batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-21Merge branch 'jk/rev-parse-end-of-options'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
"git rev-parse" learned the "--end-of-options" to help scripts to safely take a parameter that is supposed to be a revision, e.g. "git rev-parse --verify -q --end-of-options $rev". * jk/rev-parse-end-of-options: rev-parse: handle --end-of-options rev-parse: put all options under the "-" check rev-parse: don't accept options after dashdash