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2019-05-16blame: add config options for the output of ignored or unblamable linesLibravatar Barret Rhoden2-1/+15
When ignoring commits, the commit that is blamed might not be responsible for the change, due to the inaccuracy of our heuristic. Users might want to know when a particular line has a potentially inaccurate blame. Furthermore, guess_line_blames() may fail to find any parent commit for a given line touched by an ignored commit. Those 'unblamable' lines remain blamed on an ignored commit. Users might want to know if a line is unblamable so that they do not spend time investigating a commit they know is uninteresting. This patch adds two config options to mark these two types of lines in the output of blame. The first option can identify ignored lines by specifying blame.markIgnoredLines. When this option is set, each blame line that was blamed on a commit other than the ignored commit is marked with a '?'. For example: 278b6158d6fdb (Barret Rhoden 2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26) appears as: ?278b6158d6fd (Barret Rhoden 2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26) where the '?' is placed before the commit, and the hash has one fewer characters. Sometimes we are unable to even guess at what ancestor commit touched a line. These lines are 'unblamable.' The second option, blame.markUnblamableLines, will mark the line with '*'. For example, say we ignore e5e8d36d04cbe, yet we are unable to blame this line on another commit: e5e8d36d04cbe (Barret Rhoden 2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26) appears as: *e5e8d36d04cb (Barret Rhoden 2016-04-11 13:57:54 -0400 26) When these config options are used together, every line touched by an ignored commit will be marked with either a '?' or a '*'. Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-16blame: add the ability to ignore commits and their changesLibravatar Barret Rhoden3-0/+22
Commits that make formatting changes or function renames are often not interesting when blaming a file. A user may deem such a commit as 'not interesting' and want to ignore and its changes it when assigning blame. For example, say a file has the following git history / rev-list: ---O---A---X---B---C---D---Y---E---F Commits X and Y both touch a particular line, and the other commits do not: X: "Take a third parameter" -MyFunc(1, 2); +MyFunc(1, 2, 3); Y: "Remove camelcase" -MyFunc(1, 2, 3); +my_func(1, 2, 3); git-blame will blame Y for the change. I'd like to be able to ignore Y: both the existence of the commit as well as any changes it made. This differs from -S rev-list, which specifies the list of commits to process for the blame. We would still process Y, but just don't let the blame 'stick.' This patch adds the ability for users to ignore a revision with --ignore-rev=rev, which may be repeated. They can specify a set of files of full object names of revs, e.g. SHA-1 hashes, one per line. A single file may be specified with the blame.ignoreRevFile config option or with --ignore-rev-file=file. Both the config option and the command line option may be repeated multiple times. An empty file name "" will clear the list of revs from previously processed files. Config options are processed before command line options. For a typical use case, projects will maintain the file containing revisions for commits that perform mass reformatting, and their users have the option to ignore all of the commits in that file. Additionally, a user can use the --ignore-rev option for one-off investigation. To go back to the example above, X was a substantive change to the function, but not the change the user is interested in. The user inspected X, but wanted to find the previous change to that line - perhaps a commit that introduced that function call. To make this work, we can't simply remove all ignored commits from the rev-list. We need to diff the changes introduced by Y so that we can ignore them. We let the blames get passed to Y, just like when processing normally. When Y is the target, we make sure that Y does not *keep* any blames. Any changes that Y is responsible for get passed to its parent. Note we make one pass through all of the scapegoats (parents) to attempt to pass blame normally; we don't know if we *need* to ignore the commit until we've checked all of the parents. The blame_entry will get passed up the tree until we find a commit that has a diff chunk that affects those lines. One issue is that the ignored commit *did* make some change, and there is no general solution to finding the line in the parent commit that corresponds to a given line in the ignored commit. That makes it hard to attribute a particular line within an ignored commit's diff correctly. For example, the parent of an ignored commit has this, say at line 11: commit-a 11) #include "a.h" commit-b 12) #include "b.h" Commit X, which we will ignore, swaps these lines: commit-X 11) #include "b.h" commit-X 12) #include "a.h" We can pass that blame entry to the parent, but line 11 will be attributed to commit A, even though "include b.h" came from commit B. The blame mechanism will be looking at the parent's view of the file at line number 11. ignore_blame_entry() is set up to allow alternative algorithms for guessing per-line blames. Any line that is not attributed to the parent will continue to be blamed on the ignored commit as if that commit was not ignored. Upcoming patches have the ability to detect these lines and mark them in the blame output. The existing algorithm is simple: blame each line on the corresponding line in the parent's diff chunk. Any lines beyond that stay with the target. For example, the parent of an ignored commit has this, say at line 11: commit-a 11) void new_func_1(void *x, void *y); commit-b 12) void new_func_2(void *x, void *y); commit-c 13) some_line_c commit-d 14) some_line_d After a commit 'X', we have: commit-X 11) void new_func_1(void *x, commit-X 12) void *y); commit-X 13) void new_func_2(void *x, commit-X 14) void *y); commit-c 15) some_line_c commit-d 16) some_line_d Commit X nets two additionally lines: 13 and 14. The current guess_line_blames() algorithm will not attribute these to the parent, whose diff chunk is only two lines - not four. When we ignore with the current algorithm, we get: commit-a 11) void new_func_1(void *x, commit-b 12) void *y); commit-X 13) void new_func_2(void *x, commit-X 14) void *y); commit-c 15) some_line_c commit-d 16) some_line_d Note that line 12 was blamed on B, though B was the commit for new_func_2(), not new_func_1(). Even when guess_line_blames() finds a line in the parent, it may still be incorrect. Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-14Second batch after 2.20Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+42
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-14Merge branch 'do/gitweb-strict-export-conf-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Doc update. * do/gitweb-strict-export-conf-doc: docs: fix $strict_export text in gitweb.conf.txt
2019-01-14Merge branch 'en/directory-renames-nothanks-doc-update'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
Doc update. * en/directory-renames-nothanks-doc-update: git-rebase.txt: update note about directory rename detection and am
2019-01-14Merge branch 'fd/gitweb-snapshot-conf-doc-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Doc update. * fd/gitweb-snapshot-conf-doc-fix: docs/gitweb.conf: config variable typo
2019-01-14Merge branch 'km/rebase-doc-typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Doc update. * km/rebase-doc-typofix: rebase docs: drop stray word in merge command description
2019-01-14Merge branch 'tb/log-G-binary'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+7
"git log -G<regex>" looked for a hunk in the "git log -p" patch output that contained a string that matches the given pattern. Optimize this code to ignore binary files, which by default will not show any hunk that would match any pattern (unless textconv or the --text option is in effect, that is). * tb/log-G-binary: log -G: ignore binary files
2019-01-14Merge branch 'nd/attr-pathspec-in-tree-walk'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
The traversal over tree objects has learned to honor ":(attr:label)" pathspec match, which has been implemented only for enumerating paths on the filesystem. * nd/attr-pathspec-in-tree-walk: tree-walk: support :(attr) matching dir.c: move, rename and export match_attrs() pathspec.h: clean up "extern" in function declarations tree-walk.c: make tree_entry_interesting() take an index tree.c: make read_tree*() take 'struct repository *'
2019-01-04First batch after 2.20.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+44
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-04Merge branch 'sg/clone-initial-fetch-configuration'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Refspecs configured with "git -c var=val clone" did not propagate to the resulting repository, which has been corrected. * sg/clone-initial-fetch-configuration: Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variables clone: respect additional configured fetch refspecs during initial fetch clone: use a more appropriate variable name for the default refspec
2019-01-04Merge branch 'nd/checkout-dwim-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
"git checkout frotz" (without any double-dash) avoids ambiguity by making sure 'frotz' cannot be interpreted as a revision and as a path at the same time. This safety has been updated to check also a unique remote-tracking branch 'frotz' in a remote, when dwimming to create a local branch 'frotz' out of a remote-tracking branch 'frotz' from a remote. * nd/checkout-dwim-fix: checkout: disambiguate dwim tracking branches and local files
2019-01-04Merge branch 'ab/push-dwim-dst'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+30
"git push $there $src:$dst" rejects when $dst is not a fully qualified refname and not clear what the end user meant. The codepath has been taught to give a clearer error message, and also guess where the push should go by taking the type of the pushed object into account (e.g. a tag object would want to go under refs/tags/). * ab/push-dwim-dst: push doc: document the DWYM behavior pushing to unqualified <dst> push: test that <src> doesn't DWYM if <dst> is unqualified push: add an advice on unqualified <dst> push push: move unqualified refname error into a function push: improve the error shown on unqualified <dst> push i18n: remote.c: mark error(...) messages for translation remote.c: add braces in anticipation of a follow-up change
2019-01-04Merge branch 'en/fast-export-import'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-4/+42
Small fixes and features for fast-export and fast-import, mostly on the fast-export side. * en/fast-export-import: fast-export: add a --show-original-ids option to show original names fast-import: remove unmaintained duplicate documentation fast-export: add --reference-excluded-parents option fast-export: ensure we export requested refs fast-export: when using paths, avoid corrupt stream with non-existent mark fast-export: move commit rewriting logic into a function for reuse fast-export: avoid dying when filtering by paths and old tags exist fast-export: use value from correct enum git-fast-export.txt: clarify misleading documentation about rev-list args git-fast-import.txt: fix documentation for --quiet option fast-export: convert sha1 to oid
2019-01-04Merge branch 'fc/http-version'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
The "http.version" configuration variable can be used with recent enough cURL library to force the version of HTTP used to talk when fetching and pushing. * fc/http-version: http: add support selecting http version
2018-12-26log -G: ignore binary filesLibravatar Thomas Braun2-1/+7
The -G<regex> option of log looks for the differences whose patch text contains added/removed lines that match regex. Currently -G looks also into patches of binary files (which according to [1]) is binary as well. This has a couple of issues: - It makes the pickaxe search slow. In a proprietary repository of the author with only ~5500 commits and a total .git size of ~300MB searching takes ~13 seconds $time git log -Gwave > /dev/null real 0m13,241s user 0m12,596s sys 0m0,644s whereas when we ignore binary files with this patch it takes ~4s $time ~/devel/git/git log -Gwave > /dev/null real 0m3,713s user 0m3,608s sys 0m0,105s which is a speedup of more than fourfold. - The internally used algorithm for generating patch text is based on xdiff and its states in [1] > The output format of the binary patch file is proprietary > (and binary) and it is basically a collection of copy and insert > commands [..] which means that the current format could change once the internal algorithm is changed as the format is not standardized. In addition the git binary patch format used for preparing patches for git apply is *different* from the xdiff format as can be seen by comparing git log -p -a commit 6e95bf4bafccf14650d02ab57f3affe669be10cf Author: A U Thor <author@example.com> Date: Thu Apr 7 15:14:13 2005 -0700 modify binary file diff --git a/data.bin b/data.bin index f414c84..edfeb6f 100644 --- a/data.bin +++ b/data.bin @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@ a a^@a +a +a^@a with git log --binary commit 6e95bf4bafccf14650d02ab57f3affe669be10cf Author: A U Thor <author@example.com> Date: Thu Apr 7 15:14:13 2005 -0700 modify binary file diff --git a/data.bin b/data.bin index f414c84bd3aa25fa07836bb1fb73db784635e24b..edfeb6f501[..] GIT binary patch literal 12 QcmYe~N@Pgn0zx1O01)N^ZvX%Q literal 6 NcmYe~N@Pgn0ssWg0XP5v which seems unexpected. To resolve these issues this patch makes -G<regex> ignore binary files by default. Textconv filters are supported and also -a/--text for getting the old and broken behaviour back. The -S<block of text> option of log looks for differences that changes the number of occurrences of the specified block of text (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file. As we want to keep the current behaviour, add a test to ensure it stays that way. [1]: http://www.xmailserver.org/xdiff.html Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-15Sync with Git 2.20.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
* maint: Git 2.20.1 .gitattributes: ensure t/oid-info/* has eol=lf t9902: 'send-email' test case requires PERL t4256: mark support files as LF-only parse-options: fix SunCC compiler warning help -a: handle aliases with long names gracefully help.h: fix coding style run-command: report exec failure
2018-12-15Prepare for 2.21 cycle to start soonishLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+22
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-15Git 2.20.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-10rebase docs: drop stray word in merge command descriptionLibravatar Kyle Meyer1-1/+1
Delete a misplaced word introduced by caafecfcf1 (rebase --rebase-merges: adjust man page for octopus support, 2018-03-09). Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-09docs: fix $strict_export text in gitweb.conf.txtLibravatar Denis Ovsienko1-2/+2
The section discusses $gitweb_export_ok and $gitweb_list, but gitweb Perl code does not have such variables (this likely hangs over from GITWEB_EXPORT_OK and GITWEB_LIST respectively). Fix the section to spell $export_ok and $projects_list like the rest of the document. Signed-off-by: Denis Ovsienko <denis@ovsienko.info> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-09docs/gitweb.conf: config variable typoLibravatar Frank Dana1-1/+1
The documentation for the feature 'snapshot' claimed "This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via repository's `gitweb.blame` configuration variable" Fixed to specify `gitweb.snapshot` as the variable name. Signed-off-by: Frank Dana <ferdnyc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-09git-rebase.txt: update note about directory rename detection and amLibravatar Elijah Newren1-2/+3
In commit 6aba117d5cf7 ("am: avoid directory rename detection when calling recursive merge machinery", 2018-08-29), the git-rebase manpage probably should have also been updated to note the stronger incompatibility between git-am and directory rename detection. Update it now. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-04Merge branch 'en/rebase-consistency'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+17
* en/rebase-consistency: rebase docs: fix incorrect format of the section Behavioral Differences
2018-12-04rebase docs: fix incorrect format of the section Behavioral DifferencesLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-13/+17
The text body of section Behavioral Differences is typeset as code, but should be regular text. Remove the indentation to achieve that. While here, prettify the language: - use "the x backend" instead of "x-based rebase"; - use present tense instead of future tense; and use subsections instead of a list. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-04RelNotes 2.20: drop spurious double quoteLibravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+1
We have three double-quote characters, which is one too many or too few. Dropping the last one seems to match the original intention best. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-04RelNotes 2.20: clarify sentenceLibravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+1
I had to read this sentence a few times to understand it. Let's try to clarify it. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-04RelNotes 2.20: move some items between sectionsLibravatar Martin Ågren1-13/+13
Some items that should be in "Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc." have ended up in "UI, Workflows & Features" and "Fixes since v2.19". Move them, and do s/uses/use/ while at it. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-01Git 2.20-rc2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+19
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-01Merge branch 'gh/diff-raw-has-no-ellipses'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+8
"git diff --raw" lost ellipses to adjust the output columns for some time now, but the documentation still showed them. * gh/diff-raw-has-no-ellipses: doc: update diff-format.txt for removed ellipses in --raw
2018-12-01Merge branch 'ma/reset-doc-rendering-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-130/+147
Doc updates. * ma/reset-doc-rendering-fix: git-reset.txt: render literal examples as monospace git-reset.txt: render tables correctly under Asciidoctor
2018-11-30format-patch: do not let its diff-options affect --range-diffLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Stop leaking how the primary output of format-patch is customized to the range-diff machinery and instead let the latter use its own "reasonable default", in order to correct the breakage introduced by a5170794 ("Merge branch 'ab/range-diff-no-patch'", 2018-11-18) on the 'master' front. "git format-patch --range-diff..." without any weird diff option started to include the "range-diff --stat" output, which is rather useless right now, that made the whole thing unusable and this is probably the least disruptive way to whip the codebase into a shippable shape. We may want to later make the range-diff driven by format-patch more configurable, but that would have to wait until we have a good design. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-29git-reset.txt: render literal examples as monospaceLibravatar Martin Ågren1-65/+66
Large parts of this document do not use `backticks` around literal examples such as branch names (`topic/wip`), git usages, `HEAD` and `<commit-ish>` so they render as ordinary text. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-29git-reset.txt: render tables correctly under AsciidoctorLibravatar Martin Ågren1-62/+78
Asciidoctor removes the indentation of each line in these tables, so the last lines of each table have a completely broken alignment. Similar to 379805051d ("Documentation: render revisions correctly under Asciidoctor", 2018-05-06), use an explicit literal block to indicate that we want to keep the leading whitespace in the tables. Because this gives us some extra indentation, we can remove the one that we have been carrying explicitly. That is, drop the first six spaces of indentation on each line. With Asciidoc (8.6.10), this results in identical rendering before and after this commit, both for git-reset.1 and git-reset.html. Reported-by: Paweł Samoraj <samoraj.pawel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-26doc: update diff-format.txt for removed ellipses in --rawLibravatar Greg Hurrell1-8/+8
Since 7cb6ac1e4b ("diff: diff_aligned_abbrev: remove ellipsis after abbreviated SHA-1 value", 2017-12-03), the "--raw" format of diff does not add ellipses in an attempt to align the output, but the documentation was not updated to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-21Git 2.20-rc1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-21Sync with 2.19.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+108
2018-11-21Git 2.19.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+108
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-21Merge branch 'uk/merge-subtree-doc-update' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Belated documentation update to adjust to a new world order that happened a yew years ago. * uk/merge-subtree-doc-update: howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-histories
2018-11-21Merge branch 'ah/doc-updates' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano12-79/+92
Doc updates. * ah/doc-updates: doc: fix formatting in git-update-ref doc: fix indentation of listing blocks in gitweb.conf.txt doc: fix descripion for 'git tag --format' doc: fix inappropriate monospace formatting doc: fix ASCII art tab spacing doc: clarify boundaries of 'git worktree list --porcelain'
2018-11-21Merge branch 'sg/doc-show-branch-typofix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * sg/doc-show-branch-typofix: doc: fix small typo in git show-branch
2018-11-21Merge branch 'mm/doc-no-dashed-git' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+3
Doc update. * mm/doc-no-dashed-git: doc: fix a typo and clarify a sentence
2018-11-21Merge branch 'jc/how-to-document-api' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Doc update. * jc/how-to-document-api: CodingGuidelines: document the API in *.h files
2018-11-21Merge branch 'mw/doc-typofixes' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+2
Typofixes. * mw/doc-typofixes: docs: typo: s/isimilar/similar/ docs: graph: remove unnecessary `graph_update()' call docs: typo: s/go/to/
2018-11-21Merge branch 'ma/mailing-list-address-in-git-help' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
Doc update. * ma/mailing-list-address-in-git-help: git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive
2018-11-21Merge branch 'nd/packobjectshook-doc-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Doc update. * nd/packobjectshook-doc-fix: config.txt: correct the note about uploadpack.packObjectsHook
2018-11-21Merge branch 'ma/commit-graph-docs' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-19/+20
Doc update. * ma/commit-graph-docs: Doc: refer to the "commit-graph file" with dash git-commit-graph.txt: refer to "*commit*-graph file" git-commit-graph.txt: typeset more in monospace git-commit-graph.txt: fix bullet lists
2018-11-21Merge branch 'dz/credential-doc-url-matching-rules' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Doc update. * dz/credential-doc-url-matching-rules: doc: clarify gitcredentials path component matching
2018-11-21Merge branch 'fe/doc-updates' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-5/+39
Doc updates. * fe/doc-updates: git-describe.1: clarify that "human readable" is also git-readable git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples git-archimport.1: specify what kind of Arch we're talking about
2018-11-21Merge branch 'bw/protocol-v2' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Doc fix. * bw/protocol-v2: config: document value 2 for protocol.version