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2021-03-15simple-ipc: design documentation for new IPC mechanismLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-0/+105
Brief design documentation for new IPC mechanism allowing foreground Git client to talk with an existing daemon process at a known location using a named pipe or unix domain socket. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-08Git 2.30.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-08Merge branch 'ma/doc-pack-format-varint-for-sizes' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+16
Doc update. * ma/doc-pack-format-varint-for-sizes: pack-format.txt: document sizes at start of delta data
2021-02-05Prepare for 2.30.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+47
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05Merge branch 'jt/packfile-as-uri-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
Doc fix for packfile URI feature. * jt/packfile-as-uri-doc: Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URI
2021-02-05Merge branch 'ab/fsck-doc-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+0
Documentation for "git fsck" lost stale bits that has become incorrect. * ab/fsck-doc-fix: fsck doc: remove ancient out-of-date diagnostics
2021-02-05Merge branch 'tb/local-clone-race-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Doc update. * tb/local-clone-race-doc: Documentation/git-clone.txt: document race with --local
2021-02-05Merge branch 'bc/doc-status-short' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+20
Doc update. * bc/doc-status-short: docs: rephrase and clarify the git status --short format
2021-02-05Merge branch 'ug/doc-lose-dircache' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-6/+4
Doc update. * ug/doc-lose-dircache: doc: remove "directory cache" from man pages
2021-02-05Merge branch 'vv/send-email-with-less-secure-apps-access' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
Doc update. * vv/send-email-with-less-secure-apps-access: git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with Gmail
2021-02-05Merge branch 'jc/sign-off' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Doc update. * jc/sign-off: SubmittingPatches: tighten wording on "sign-off" procedure
2021-02-05Merge branch 'pb/doc-modules-git-work-tree-typofix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-15/+15
Doc fix. * pb/doc-modules-git-work-tree-typofix: gitmodules.txt: fix 'GIT_WORK_TREE' variable name
2021-01-20fsck doc: remove ancient out-of-date diagnosticsLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-8/+0
Remove diagnostics that haven't been emitted by "fsck" or its predecessors for around 15 years. This documentation was added in c64b9b88605 (Reference documentation for the core git commands., 2005-05-05), but was out-of-date quickly after that. Notes on individual diagnostics: - "expect dangling commits": Added in bcee6fd8e71 (Make 'fsck' able to[...], 2005-04-13), documented in c64b9b88605. Not emitted since 1024932f019 (fsck-cache: walk the 'refs' directory[...], 2005-05-18). - "missing sha1 directory": Added in 20222118ae4 (Add first cut at "fsck-cache"[...], 2005-04-08), documented in c64b9b88605. Not emitted since 230f13225df (Create object subdirectories on demand, 2005-10-08). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-20Doc: clarify contents of packfile sent as URILibravatar Jonathan Tan1-2/+5
Clarify that, when the packfile-uri feature is used, the client should not assume that the extra packfiles downloaded would only contain a single blob, but support packfiles containing multiple objects of all types. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-11Documentation/git-clone.txt: document race with --localLibravatar Taylor Blau1-0/+4
When running 'git clone --local', the operation may fail if another process is modifying the source repository. Document that this race condition is known to hopefully help anyone who may run into it. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-11docs: rephrase and clarify the git status --short formatLibravatar brian m. carlson1-8/+20
The table describing the porcelain format in git-status(1) is helpful, but it's not completely clear what the three sections mean, even to some contributors. As a result, users are unable to find how to detect common cases like merge conflicts programmatically. Let's improve this situation by rephrasing to be more explicit about what each of the sections in the table means, to tell users in plain language which cases are occurring, and to describe what "unmerged" means. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-09doc: remove "directory cache" from man pagesLibravatar Utku Gultopu2-6/+4
"directory cache" (or "directory cache index", "cache") are obsolete terms which have been superseded by "index". Keeping them in the documentation may be a source of confusion. This commit replaces them with the current term, "index", on man pages. Signed-off-by: Utku Gultopu <ugultopu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-07git-send-email.txt: mention less secure app access with GmailLibravatar Vasyl Vavrychuk1-1/+5
Google may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access needs to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in place, otherwise send-email fails with: 5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials Document steps required to make this work. Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.] Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-07SubmittingPatches: tighten wording on "sign-off" procedureLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The text says "if you can certify DCO then you add a Signed-off-by trailer". But it does not say anything about people who cannot or do not want to certify. A natural reading may be that if you do not certify, you must not add the trailer, but it shouldn't hurt to be overly explicit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-04pack-format.txt: document sizes at start of delta dataLibravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+16
We document the delta data as a set of instructions, but forget to document the two sizes that precede those instructions: the size of the base object and the size of the object to be reconstructed. Fix this omission. Rather than cramming all the details about the encoding into the running text, introduce a separate section detailing our "size encoding" and refer to it. Reported-by: Ross Light <ross@zombiezen.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-04gitmodules.txt: fix 'GIT_WORK_TREE' variable nameLibravatar Philippe Blain1-15/+15
'gitmodules.txt' is a guide about the '.gitmodules' file that describes submodule properties, and that file must exist at the root of the repository. This was clarified in e5b5c1d2cf (Document clarification: gitmodules, gitattributes, 2008-08-31). However, that commit mistakenly uses the non-existing environment variable 'GIT_WORK_DIR' to refer to the root of the repository. Fix that by using the correct variable, 'GIT_WORK_TREE'. Take the opportunity to modernize and improve the formatting of that guide, and fix a grammar mistake. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Acked-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-04doc: fix some typosLibravatar Thomas Ackermann6-7/+7
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Acked-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.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>
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