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2021-09-03Merge branch 'ps/connectivity-optim'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
The revision traversal API has been optimized by taking advantage of the commit-graph, when available, to determine if a commit is reachable from any of the existing refs. * ps/connectivity-optim: revision: avoid hitting packfiles when commits are in commit-graph commit-graph: split out function to search commit position revision: stop retrieving reference twice connected: do not sort input revisions revision: separate walk and unsorted flags
2021-08-30The second batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+29
The most significant of this batch is of course "merge -sort". Thanks, Elijah and everybody who helped the topic. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-30Merge branch 'en/ort-becomes-the-default'Libravatar Junio C Hamano5-60/+67
Use `ort` instead of `recursive` as the default merge strategy. * en/ort-becomes-the-default: Update docs for change of default merge backend Change default merge backend from recursive to ort
2021-08-30Merge branch 'en/merge-strategy-docs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-40/+53
Documentation updates. * en/merge-strategy-docs: Update error message and code comment merge-strategies.txt: add coverage of the `ort` merge strategy git-rebase.txt: correct out-of-date and misleading text about renames merge-strategies.txt: fix simple capitalization error merge-strategies.txt: avoid giving special preference to patience algorithm merge-strategies.txt: do not imply using copy detection is desired merge-strategies.txt: update wording for the resolve strategy Documentation: edit awkward references to `git merge-recursive` directory-rename-detection.txt: small updates due to merge-ort optimizations git-rebase.txt: correct antiquated claims about --rebase-merges
2021-08-30Merge branch 'en/pull-conflicting-options'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-9/+54
"git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up. * en/pull-conflicting-options: pull: fix handling of multiple heads pull: update docs & code for option compatibility with rebasing pull: abort by default when fast-forwarding is not possible pull: make --rebase and --no-rebase override pull.ff=only pull: since --ff-only overrides, handle it first pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible t7601: add tests of interactions with multiple merge heads and config t7601: test interaction of merge/rebase/fast-forward flags and options
2021-08-24The first batch post 2.33Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+48
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-24Merge branch 'es/trace2-log-parent-process-name'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
trace2 logs learned to show parent process name to see in what context Git was invoked. * es/trace2-log-parent-process-name: tr2: log parent process name tr2: make process info collection platform-generic
2021-08-24Merge branch 'js/expand-runtime-prefix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a location relative to Git installation (e.g. its $sharedir which is $(prefix)/share), with "%(prefix)". * js/expand-runtime-prefix: expand_user_path: allow in-flight topics to keep using the old name interpolate_path(): allow specifying paths relative to the runtime prefix Use a better name for the function interpolating paths expand_user_path(): clarify the role of the `real_home` parameter expand_user_path(): remove stale part of the comment tests: exercise the RUNTIME_PREFIX feature
2021-08-24Merge branch 'ab/bundle-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-30/+117
Doc update. * ab/bundle-doc: bundle doc: replace "basis" with "prerequsite(s)" bundle doc: elaborate on rev<->ref restriction bundle doc: elaborate on object prerequisites bundle doc: rewrite the "DESCRIPTION" section
2021-08-24Merge branch 'zh/ref-filter-raw-data'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Prepare the "ref-filter" machinery that drives the "--format" option of "git for-each-ref" and its friends to be used in "git cat-file --batch". * zh/ref-filter-raw-data: ref-filter: add %(rest) atom ref-filter: use non-const ref_format in *_atom_parser() ref-filter: --format=%(raw) support --perl ref-filter: add %(raw) atom ref-filter: add obj-type check in grab contents
2021-08-16Git 2.33Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-11Git 2.33-rc2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-11Merge branch 'jn/log-m-does-not-imply-p'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Earlier "git log -m" was changed to always produce patch output, which would break existing scripts, which has been reverted. * jn/log-m-does-not-imply-p: Revert 'diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"'
2021-08-09Revert 'diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"'Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
This reverts commit f5bfcc823ba242a46e20fb6f71c9fbf7ebb222fe, which made "git log -m" imply "--patch" by default. The logic was that "-m", which makes diff generation for merges perform a diff against each parent, has no use unless I am viewing the diff, so we could save the user some typing by turning on display of the resulting diff automatically. That wasn't expected to adversely affect scripts because scripts would either be using a command like "git diff-tree" that already emits diffs by default or would be combining -m with a diff generation option such as --name-status. By saving typing for interactive use without adversely affecting scripts in the wild, it would be a pure improvement. The problem is that although diff generation options are only relevant for the displayed diff, a script author can imagine them affecting path limiting. For example, I might run git log -w --format=%H -- README hoping to list commits that edited README, excluding whitespace-only changes. In fact, a whitespace-only change is not TREESAME so the use of -w here has no effect (since we don't apply these diff generation flags to the diff_options struct rev_info::pruning used for this purpose), but the documentation suggests that it should work Suppose you specified foo as the <paths>. We shall call commits that modify foo !TREESAME, and the rest TREESAME. (In a diff filtered for foo, they look different and equal, respectively.) and a script author who has not tested whitespace-only changes wouldn't notice. Similarly, a script author could include git log -m --first-parent --format=%H -- README to filter the first-parent history for commits that modified README. The -m is a no-op but it reflects the script author's intent. For example, until 1e20a407fe2 (stash list: stop passing "-m" to "git log", 2021-05-21), "git stash list" did this. As a result, we can't safely change "-m" to imply "-p" without fear of breaking such scripts. Restore the previous behavior. Noticed because Rust's src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py made use of this same construct: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/87513. That script has been updated to omit the unnecessary "-m" option, but we can expect other scripts in the wild to have similar expectations. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-09connected: do not sort input revisionsLibravatar Patrick Steinhardt1-1/+7
In order to compute whether objects reachable from a set of tips are all connected, we do a revision walk with these tips as positive references and `--not --all`. `--not --all` will cause the revision walk to load all preexisting references as uninteresting, which can be very expensive in repositories with many references. Benchmarking the git-rev-list(1) command highlights that by far the most expensive single phase is initial sorting of the input revisions: after all references have been loaded, we first sort commits by author date. In a real-world repository with about 2.2 million references, it makes up about 40% of the total runtime of git-rev-list(1). Ultimately, the connectivity check shouldn't really bother about the order of input revisions at all. We only care whether we can actually walk all objects until we hit the cut-off point. So sorting the input is a complete waste of time. Introduce a new "--unsorted-input" flag to git-rev-list(1) which will cause it to not sort the commits and adjust the connectivity check to always pass the flag. This results in the following speedups, executed in a clone of gitlab-org/gitlab [1]: Benchmark #1: git rev-list --objects --quiet --not --all --not $(cat newrev) Time (mean ± σ): 7.639 s ± 0.065 s [User: 7.304 s, System: 0.335 s] Range (min … max): 7.543 s … 7.742 s 10 runs Benchmark #2: git rev-list --unsorted-input --objects --quiet --not --all --not $newrev Time (mean ± σ): 4.995 s ± 0.044 s [User: 4.657 s, System: 0.337 s] Range (min … max): 4.909 s … 5.048 s 10 runs Summary 'git rev-list --unsorted-input --objects --quiet --not --all --not $(cat newrev)' ran 1.53 ± 0.02 times faster than 'git rev-list --objects --quiet --not --all --not $newrev' [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab.git. Note that not all refs are visible to clients. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05Update docs for change of default merge backendLibravatar Elijah Newren5-60/+67
Make it clear that `ort` is the default merge strategy now rather than `recursive`, including moving `ort` to the front of the list of merge strategies. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05merge-strategies.txt: add coverage of the `ort` merge strategyLibravatar Elijah Newren1-0/+14
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05git-rebase.txt: correct out-of-date and misleading text about renamesLibravatar Elijah Newren1-3/+1
Commit 58634dbff8 ("rebase: Allow merge strategies to be used when rebasing", 2006-06-21) added the --merge option to git-rebase so that renames could be detected (at least when using the `recursive` merge backend). However, git-am -3 gained that same ability in commit 579c9bb198 ("Use merge-recursive in git-am -3.", 2006-12-28). As such, the comment about being able to detect renames is not particularly noteworthy. Remove it. Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05merge-strategies.txt: fix simple capitalization errorLibravatar Elijah Newren1-1/+1
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05merge-strategies.txt: avoid giving special preference to patience algorithmLibravatar Elijah Newren1-5/+1
We already have diff-algorithm that explains why there are special diff algorithms, so we do not need to re-explain patience. patience exists as its own toplevel option for historical reasons, but there's no reason to give it special preference or document it again and suggest it's more important than other diff algorithms, so just refer to it as a deprecated shorthand for `diff-algorithm=patience`. Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05merge-strategies.txt: do not imply using copy detection is desiredLibravatar Elijah Newren1-3/+3
Stating that the recursive strategy "currently cannot make use of detected copies" implies that this is a technical shortcoming of the current algorithm. I disagree with that. I don't see how copies could possibly be used in a sane fashion in a merge algorithm -- would we propagate changes in one file on one side of history to each copy of that file when merging? That makes no sense to me. I cannot think of anything else that would make sense either. Change the wording to simply state that we ignore any copies. Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05merge-strategies.txt: update wording for the resolve strategyLibravatar Elijah Newren1-7/+6
It is probably helpful to cover the default merge strategy first, so move the text for the resolve strategy to later in the document. Further, the wording for "resolve" claimed that it was "considered generally safe and fast", which might imply in some readers minds that the same is not true of other strategies. Rather than adding this text to all the strategies, just remove it from this one. Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05Documentation: edit awkward references to `git merge-recursive`Libravatar Elijah Newren3-9/+9
A few places in the documentation referred to the "`recursive` strategy" using the phrase "`git merge-recursive`", suggesting that it was forking subprocesses to call a toplevel builtin. Perhaps that was relevant to when rebase was a shell script, but it seems like a rather indirect way to refer to the `recursive` strategy. Simplify the references. Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05directory-rename-detection.txt: small updates due to merge-ort optimizationsLibravatar Elijah Newren1-6/+8
In commit 0c4fd732f0 ("Move computation of dir_rename_count from merge-ort to diffcore-rename", 2021-02-27), much of the logic for computing directory renames moved into diffcore-rename. directory-rename-detection.txt had claims that all of that logic was found in merge-recursive. Update the documentation. Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-05git-rebase.txt: correct antiquated claims about --rebase-mergesLibravatar Elijah Newren1-6/+10
When --rebase-merges was first introduced, it only worked with the `recursive` strategy. Some time later, it gained support for merges using the `octopus` strategy. The limitation of only supporting these two strategies was documented in 25cff9f109 ("rebase -i --rebase-merges: add a section to the man page", 2018-04-25) and lifted in e145d99347 ("rebase -r: support merge strategies other than `recursive`", 2019-07-31). However, when the limitation was lifted, the documentation was not updated. Update it now. Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-04The eighth batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+16
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-04Merge branch 'ar/doc-markup-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+2
Doc mark-up fix. * ar/doc-markup-fix: Documentation: render special characters correctly
2021-08-04Merge branch 'pb/merge-autostash-more'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
The local changes stashed by "git merge --autostash" were lost when the merge failed in certain ways, which has been corrected. * pb/merge-autostash-more: merge: apply autostash if merge strategy fails merge: apply autostash if fast-forward fails Documentation: define 'MERGE_AUTOSTASH' merge: add missing word "strategy" to a message
2021-08-04Merge branch 'ab/update-submitting-patches'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-111/+96
Reorganize and update the SubmitingPatches document. * ab/update-submitting-patches: SubmittingPatches: replace discussion of Travis with GitHub Actions SubmittingPatches: move discussion of Signed-off-by above "send"
2021-08-02bundle doc: replace "basis" with "prerequsite(s)"Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-7/+7
In the preceding commits we introduced new documentation that talks about "[commit|object] prerequsite(s)", but also faithfully moved around existing documentation that talks about the "basis". Let's change both that moved-around documentation and other existing documentation in the file to consistently use "[commit|object]" prerequisite(s)" instead of talking about "basis". The mention of "basis" isn't wrong, but readers will be helped by us using only one term throughout the document for this concept. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-02bundle doc: elaborate on rev<->ref restrictionLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-8/+38
Elaborate on the restriction that you cannot provide a revision that doesn't resolve to a reference in the "SPECIFYING REFERENCES" section with examples. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-02bundle doc: elaborate on object prerequisitesLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-3/+34
Split out the discussion bout "object prerequisites" into its own section, and add some more examples of the common cases. See 2e0afafebd (Add git-bundle: move objects and references by archive, 2007-02-22) for the introduction of the documentation being changed here. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-02bundle doc: rewrite the "DESCRIPTION" sectionLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-15/+41
Rewrite the "DESCRIPTION" section for "git bundle" to start by talking about what bundles are in general terms, rather than diving directly into one example of what they might be used for. This changes documentation that's been substantially the same ever since the command was added in 2e0afafebd8 (Add git-bundle: move objects and references by archive, 2007-02-22). I've split up the DESCRIPTION into that section and a "BUNDLE FORMAT" section, it briefly discusses the format, but then links to the technical/bundle-format.txt documentation. The "the user must specify a basis" part of this is discussed below in "SPECIFYING REFERENCES", and will be further elaborated on in a subsequent commit. So I'm removing that part and letting the mention of "revision exclusions" suffice. There was a discussion about whether to say anything at all about "thin packs" here[1]. I think it's good to mention it for the curious reader willing to read the technical docs, but let's explicitly say that there's no "thick pack", and that the difference shouldn't matter. 1. http://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqk0mbt5rj.fsf@gitster.g Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-02Git 2.33-rc0Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+17
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-02Merge branch 'fc/pull-no-rebase-merges-theirs-into-ours'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Documentation fix for "git pull --rebase=no". * fc/pull-no-rebase-merges-theirs-into-ours: doc: pull: fix rebase=false documentation
2021-08-02Merge branch 'jk/config-env-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+17
Documentation around GIT_CONFIG has been updated. * jk/config-env-doc: doc/git-config: simplify "override" advice for FILES section doc/git-config: clarify GIT_CONFIG environment variable doc/git-config: explain --file instead of referring to GIT_CONFIG
2021-08-02Merge branch 'pb/submodule-recurse-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
Doc update. * pb/submodule-recurse-doc: doc: clarify description of 'submodule.recurse'
2021-07-30Documentation: render special characters correctlyLibravatar Andrei Rybak2-2/+2
Three hyphens are rendered verbatim, so "--" has to be used to produce a dash. There is no double arrow ("<->" is rendered as "<→"), so a left and right arrow "<-->" have to be combined for that. So fix asciidoc output for special characters. This is similar to fixes in commit de82095a95 (doc hash-function-transition: fix asciidoc output, 2021-02-05). Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-28The seventh batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+43
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-28Merge branch 'en/rename-limits-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-12/+21
Documentation on "git diff -l<n>" and diff.renameLimit have been updated, and the defaults for these limits have been raised. * en/rename-limits-doc: rename: bump limit defaults yet again diffcore-rename: treat a rename_limit of 0 as unlimited doc: clarify documentation for rename/copy limits diff: correct warning message when renameLimit exceeded
2021-07-28Merge branch 'ds/gender-neutral-doc-guidelines'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+45
A guideline for gender neutral documentation has been added. * ds/gender-neutral-doc-guidelines: CodingGuidelines: recommend gender-neutral description
2021-07-28Merge branch 'dl/diff-merge-base'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+7
"git diff --merge-base" documentation has been updated. * dl/diff-merge-base: git-diff: fix missing --merge-base docs
2021-07-28Merge branch 'sm/worktree-add-lock'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
"git worktree add --lock" learned to record why the worktree is locked with a custom message. * sm/worktree-add-lock: worktree: teach `add` to accept --reason <string> with --lock worktree: mark lock strings with `_()` for translation t2400: clean up '"add" worktree with lock' test
2021-07-26interpolate_path(): allow specifying paths relative to the runtime prefixLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+9
Ever since Git learned to detect its install location at runtime, there was the slightly awkward problem that it was impossible to specify paths relative to said location. For example, if a version of Git was shipped with custom SSL certificates to use, there was no portable way to specify `http.sslCAInfo`. In Git for Windows, the problem was "solved" for years by interpreting paths starting with a slash as relative to the runtime prefix. However, this is not correct: such paths _are_ legal on Windows, and they are interpreted as absolute paths in the same drive as the current directory. After a lengthy discussion, and an even lengthier time to mull over the problem and its best solution, and then more discussions, we eventually decided to introduce support for the magic sequence `%(prefix)/`. If a path starts with this, the remainder is interpreted as relative to the detected (runtime) prefix. If built without runtime prefix support, Git will simply interpolate the compiled-in prefix. If a user _wants_ to specify a path starting with the magic sequence, they can prefix the magic sequence with `./` and voilà, the path won't be expanded. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-26ref-filter: --format=%(raw) support --perlLibravatar ZheNing Hu1-2/+2
Because the perl language can handle binary data correctly, add the function perl_quote_buf_with_len(), which can specify the length of the data and prevent the data from being truncated at '\0' to help `--format="%(raw)"` support `--perl`. Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-26ref-filter: add %(raw) atomLibravatar ZheNing Hu1-0/+9
Add new formatting option `%(raw)`, which will print the raw object data without any changes. It will help further to migrate all cat-file formatting logic from cat-file to ref-filter. The raw data of blob, tree objects may contain '\0', but most of the logic in `ref-filter` depends on the output of the atom being text (specifically, no embedded NULs in it). E.g. `quote_formatting()` use `strbuf_addstr()` or `*._quote_buf()` add the data to the buffer. The raw data of a tree object is `100644 one\0...`, only the `100644 one` will be added to the buffer, which is incorrect. Therefore, we need to find a way to record the length of the atom_value's member `s`. Although strbuf can already record the string and its length, if we want to replace the type of atom_value's member `s` with strbuf, many places in ref-filter that are filled with dynamically allocated mermory in `v->s` are not easy to replace. At the same time, we need to check if `v->s == NULL` in populate_value(), and strbuf cannot easily distinguish NULL and empty strings, but c-style "const char *" can do it. So add a new member in `struct atom_value`: `s_size`, which can record raw object size, it can help us add raw object data to the buffer or compare two buffers which contain raw object data. Note that `--format=%(raw)` cannot be used with `--python`, `--shell`, `--tcl`, and `--perl` because if the binary raw data is passed to a variable in such languages, these may not support arbitrary binary data in their string variable type. Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Hariom Verma <hariom18599@gmail.com> Helped-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Helped-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Based-on-patch-by: Olga Telezhnaya <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-23Documentation: define 'MERGE_AUTOSTASH'Libravatar Philippe Blain1-1/+2
The documentation for 'git merge --abort' and 'git merge --quit' both mention the special ref 'MERGE_AUTOSTASH', but this ref is not formally defined anywhere. Mention it in the description of the '--autostash' option for 'git merge'. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-22tr2: log parent process nameLibravatar Emily Shaffer1-0/+14
It can be useful to tell who invoked Git - was it invoked manually by a user via CLI or script? By an IDE? In some cases - like 'repo' tool - we can influence the source code and set the GIT_TRACE2_PARENT_SID environment variable from the caller process. In 'repo''s case, that parent SID is manipulated to include the string "repo", which means we can positively identify when Git was invoked by 'repo' tool. However, identifying parents that way requires both that we know which tools invoke Git and that we have the ability to modify the source code of those tools. It cannot scale to keep up with the various IDEs and wrappers which use Git, most of which we don't know about. Learning which tools and wrappers invoke Git, and how, would give us insight to decide where to improve Git's usability and performance. Unfortunately, there's no cross-platform reliable way to gather the name of the parent process. If procfs is present, we can use that; otherwise we will need to discover the name another way. However, the process ID should be sufficient to look up the process name on most platforms, so that code may be shareable. Git for Windows gathers similar information and logs it as a "data_json" event. However, since "data_json" has a variable format, it is difficult to parse effectively in some languages; instead, let's pursue a dedicated "cmd_ancestry" event to record information about the ancestry of the current process and a consistent, parseable way. Git for Windows also gathers information about more than one generation of parent. In Linux further ancestry info can be gathered with procfs, but it's unwieldy to do so. In the interest of later moving Git for Windows ancestry logging to the 'cmd_ancestry' event, and in the interest of later adding more ancestry to the Linux implementation - or of adding this functionality to other platforms which have an easier time walking the process tree - let's make 'cmd_ancestry' accept an array of parentage. Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-22The sixth batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-22Merge branch 'bc/rev-list-without-commit-line'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
"git rev-list" learns to omit the "commit <object-name>" header lines from the output with the `--no-commit-header` option. * bc/rev-list-without-commit-line: rev-list: add option for --pretty=format without header