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2018-06-11checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemoteLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason3-1/+38
Introduce a checkout.defaultRemote setting which can be used to designate a remote to prefer (via checkout.defaultRemote=origin) when running e.g. "git checkout master" to mean origin/master, even though there's other remotes that have the "master" branch. I want this because it's very handy to use this workflow to checkout a repository and create a topic branch, then get back to a "master" as retrieved from upstream: ( cd /tmp && rm -rf tbdiff && git clone git@github.com:trast/tbdiff.git && cd tbdiff && git branch -m topic && git checkout master ) That will output: Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Switched to a new branch 'master' But as soon as a new remote is added (e.g. just to inspect something from someone else) the DWIMery goes away: ( cd /tmp && rm -rf tbdiff && git clone git@github.com:trast/tbdiff.git && cd tbdiff && git branch -m topic && git remote add avar git@github.com:avar/tbdiff.git && git fetch avar && git checkout master ) Will output (without the advice output added earlier in this series): error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. The new checkout.defaultRemote config allows me to say that whenever that ambiguity comes up I'd like to prefer "origin", and it'll still work as though the only remote I had was "origin". Also adjust the advice.checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName message to mention this new config setting to the user, the full output on my git.git is now (the last paragraph is new): $ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. hint: 'master' matched more than one remote tracking branch. hint: We found 26 remotes with a reference that matched. So we fell back hint: on trying to resolve the argument as a path, but failed there too! hint: hint: If you meant to check out a remote tracking branch on, e.g. 'origin', hint: you can do so by fully qualifying the name with the --track option: hint: hint: git checkout --track origin/<name> hint: hint: If you'd like to always have checkouts of an ambiguous <name> prefer hint: one remote, e.g. the 'origin' remote, consider setting hint: checkout.defaultRemote=origin in your config. I considered splitting this into checkout.defaultRemote and worktree.defaultRemote, but it's probably less confusing to break our own rules that anything shared between config should live in core.* than have two config settings, and I couldn't come up with a short name under core.* that made sense (core.defaultRemoteForCheckout?). See also 70c9ac2f19 ("DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"", 2009-10-18) which introduced this DWIM feature to begin with, and 4e85333197 ("worktree: make add <path> <branch> dwim", 2017-11-26) which added it to git-worktree. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-11checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>"Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+7
As the "checkout" documentation describes: If <branch> is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in exactly one remote (call it <remote>) with a matching name, treat as equivalent to [...] <remote>/<branch. This is a really useful feature. The problem is that when you add another remote (e.g. a fork), git won't find a unique branch name anymore, and will instead print this unhelpful message: $ git checkout master error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git Now it will, on my git.git checkout, print: $ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. hint: 'master' matched more than one remote tracking branch. hint: We found 26 remotes with a reference that matched. So we fell back hint: on trying to resolve the argument as a path, but failed there too! hint: hint: If you meant to check out a remote tracking branch on, e.g. 'origin', hint: you can do so by fully qualifying the name with the --track option: hint: hint: git checkout --track origin/<name> Note that the "error: pathspec[...]" message is still printed. This is because whatever else checkout may have tried earlier, its final fallback is to try to resolve the argument as a path. E.g. in this case: $ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master pu error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. error: pathspec 'pu' did not match any file(s) known to git. There we don't print the "hint:" implicitly due to earlier logic around the DWIM fallback. That fallback is only used if it looks like we have one argument that might be a branch. I can't think of an intrinsic reason for why we couldn't in some future change skip printing the "error: pathspec[...]" error. However, to do so we'd need to pass something down to checkout_paths() to make it suppress printing an error on its own, and for us to be confident that we're not silencing cases where those errors are meaningful. I don't think that's worth it since determining whether that's the case could easily change due to future changes in the checkout logic. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-01A bit more topics before -rc1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+22
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-01Merge branch 'rd/tag-doc-lightweight'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Docfix. * rd/tag-doc-lightweight: tag: clarify in the doc that a tag can refer to a non-commit object
2018-06-01Merge branch 'rd/doc-options-placeholder'Libravatar Junio C Hamano19-38/+38
Docfix. * rd/doc-options-placeholder: Use proper syntax for replaceables in command docs
2018-06-01Merge branch 'ld/p4-unshelve'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+32
"git p4" learned to "unshelve" shelved commit from P4. * ld/p4-unshelve: git-p4: add unshelve command
2018-06-01Merge branch 'nd/command-list'Libravatar Junio C Hamano6-4/+24
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a bit more consolidated to allow more automation. * nd/command-list: completion: allow to customize the completable command list completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h completion: reduce completable command list completion: let git provide the completable command list command-list.txt: documentation and guide line help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis git: support --list-cmds=list-<category> completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=* Remove common-cmds.h help: use command-list.h for common command list generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-06-01RelNotes: remove duplicate release noteLibravatar Elijah Newren1-11/+3
In the 2.18 cycle, directory rename detection was merged, then reverted, then reworked in such a way to fix another prominent bug in addition to the original problem causing it to be reverted. When the reworked series was merged, we ended up with two nearly duplicate release notes. Remove the second copy, but preserve the information about the extra bug fix. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-30Git 2.18-rc0Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+36
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-30The seventh batch for 2.18Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+80
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-30Merge branch 'ab/get-short-oid'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+11
When a short hexadecimal string is used to name an object but there are multiple objects that share the string as the prefix of their names, the code lists these ambiguous candidates in a help message. These object names are now sorted according to their types for easier eyeballing. * ab/get-short-oid: get_short_oid: sort ambiguous objects by type, then SHA-1 sha1-name.c: move around the collect_ambiguous() function git-p4: change "commitish" typo to "committish" sha1-array.h: align function arguments sha1-name.c: remove stray newline
2018-05-30Merge branch 'jt/partial-clone-proto-v2'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Transfer protocol v2 learned to support the partial clone. * jt/partial-clone-proto-v2: {fetch,upload}-pack: support filter in protocol v2 upload-pack: read config when serving protocol v2 upload-pack: fix error message typo
2018-05-30Merge branch 'sb/blame-color'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+27
"git blame" learns to unhighlight uninteresting metadata from the originating commit on lines that are the same as the previous one, and also paint lines in different colors depending on the age of the commit. * sb/blame-color: builtin/blame: add new coloring scheme config builtin/blame: highlight recently changed lines builtin/blame: dim uninteresting metadata lines
2018-05-30Merge branch 'cf/submodule-progress-dissociate'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+16
"git submodule update" and "git submodule add" supported the "--reference" option to borrow objects from a neighbouring local repository like "git clone" does, but lacked the more recent invention "--dissociate". Also "git submodule add" has been taught to take the "--progress" option. * cf/submodule-progress-dissociate: submodule: add --dissociate option to add/update commands submodule: add --progress option to add command submodule: clean up substitutions in script
2018-05-30Merge branch 'bp/status-rename-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+22
"git status" learned to honor a new status.renames configuration to skip rename detection, which could be useful for those who want to do so without disabling the default rename detection done by the "git diff" command. * bp/status-rename-config: add status config and command line options for rename detection
2018-05-30Merge branch 'bp/merge-rename-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-6/+16
With merge.renames configuration set to false, the recursive merge strategy can be told not to spend cycles trying to find renamed paths and merge them accordingly. * bp/merge-rename-config: merge: pass aggressive when rename detection is turned off merge: add merge.renames config setting merge: update documentation for {merge,diff}.renameLimit
2018-05-29Sync with Git 2.17.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano5-0/+49
* maint: (25 commits) Git 2.17.1 Git 2.16.4 Git 2.15.2 Git 2.14.4 Git 2.13.7 fsck: complain when .gitmodules is a symlink index-pack: check .gitmodules files with --strict unpack-objects: call fsck_finish() after fscking objects fsck: call fsck_finish() after fscking objects fsck: check .gitmodules content fsck: handle promisor objects in .gitmodules check fsck: detect gitmodules files fsck: actually fsck blob data fsck: simplify ".git" check index-pack: make fsck error message more specific verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant ...
2018-05-29tag: clarify in the doc that a tag can refer to a non-commit objectLibravatar Robert P. J. Day1-2/+2
Reword "man git-tag" to clarify that a tag can refer directly to an arbitrary object, not just a commit object. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-25Use proper syntax for replaceables in command docsLibravatar Robert P. J. Day19-38/+38
The standard for command documentation synopses appears to be: [...] means optional <...> means replaceable [<...>] means both optional and replaceable So fix a number of doc pages that use incorrect variations of the above. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-24git-p4: add unshelve commandLibravatar Luke Diamand1-0/+32
This can be used to "unshelve" a shelved P4 commit into a git commit. For example: $ git p4 unshelve 12345 The resulting commit ends up in the branch: refs/remotes/p4/unshelved/12345 If that branch already exists, it is renamed - for example the above branch would be saved as p4/unshelved/12345.1. git-p4 checks that the shelved changelist is based on files which are at the same Perforce revision as the origin branch being used for the unshelve (HEAD by default). If they are not, it will refuse to unshelve. This is to ensure that the unshelved change does not contain other changes mixed-in. The reference branch can be changed manually with the "--origin" option. The change adds a new Unshelve command class. This just runs the existing P4Sync code tweaked to handle a shelved changelist. Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-23The sixth batch for 2.18Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+101
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-23Merge branch 'bc/asciidoctor-tab-width'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+3
Asciidoctor gives a reasonable imitation for AsciiDoc, but does not render illustration in a literal block correctly when indented with HT by default. The problem is fixed by forcing 8-space tabs. * bc/asciidoctor-tab-width: Documentation: render revisions correctly under Asciidoctor Documentation: use 8-space tabs with Asciidoctor
2018-05-23Merge branch 'nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
Doc update. * nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc: pack-objects: validation and documentation about unreachable options
2018-05-23Merge branch 'ah/misc-doc-updates'Libravatar Junio C Hamano6-68/+77
Misc doc fixes. * ah/misc-doc-updates: doc: normalize [--options] to [options] in git-diff doc: add note about shell quoting to revision.txt git-svn: remove ''--add-author-from' for 'commit-diff' doc: add '-d' and '-o' for 'git push' doc: clarify ignore rules for git ls-files doc: align 'diff --no-index' in text and synopsis doc: improve formatting in githooks.txt
2018-05-23Merge branch 'nd/doc-header'Libravatar Junio C Hamano38-96/+96
Doc formatting fix. * nd/doc-header: doc: keep first level section header in upper case
2018-05-23Merge branch 'js/rebase-recreate-merge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-2/+175
"git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole topology of commit graph elsewhere. * js/rebase-recreate-merge: rebase -i --rebase-merges: add a section to the man page rebase -i: introduce --rebase-merges=[no-]rebase-cousins pull: accept --rebase=merges to recreate the branch topology rebase --rebase-merges: avoid "empty merges" sequencer: handle post-rewrite for merge commands sequencer: make refs generated by the `label` command worktree-local rebase --rebase-merges: add test for --keep-empty rebase: introduce the --rebase-merges option rebase-helper --make-script: introduce a flag to rebase merges sequencer: fast-forward `merge` commands, if possible sequencer: introduce the `merge` command sequencer: introduce new commands to reset the revision git-rebase--interactive: clarify arguments sequencer: offer helpful advice when a command was rescheduled sequencer: refactor how original todo list lines are accessed sequencer: make rearrange_squash() a bit more obvious sequencer: avoid using errno clobbered by rollback_lock_file()
2018-05-23Merge branch 'nd/pack-objects-pack-struct'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-3/+9
"git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry" while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance quite a bit. * nd/pack-objects-pack-struct: ci: exercise the whole test suite with uncommon code in pack-objects pack-objects: reorder members to shrink struct object_entry pack-objects: shrink delta_size field in struct object_entry pack-objects: shrink size field in struct object_entry pack-objects: clarify the use of object_entry::size pack-objects: don't check size when the object is bad pack-objects: shrink z_delta_size field in struct object_entry pack-objects: refer to delta objects by index instead of pointer pack-objects: move in_pack out of struct object_entry pack-objects: move in_pack_pos out of struct object_entry pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::depth pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::dfs_state pack-objects: turn type and in_pack_type to bitfields pack-objects: a bit of document about struct object_entry read-cache.c: make $GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX boolean
2018-05-23Merge branch 'js/no-pager-shorthand'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
"git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter option. Now it does. * js/no-pager-shorthand: git: add -P as a short option for --no-pager
2018-05-23Merge branch 'tg/worktree-add-existing-branch'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
"git worktree add" learned to check out an existing branch. * tg/worktree-add-existing-branch: worktree: teach "add" to check out existing branches worktree: factor out dwim_branch function worktree: improve message when creating a new worktree worktree: remove extra members from struct add_opts
2018-05-23Merge branch 'js/deprecate-grafts'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-13/+20
The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism. * js/deprecate-grafts: Remove obsolete script to convert grafts to replace refs technical/shallow: describe why shallow cannot use replace refs technical/shallow: stop referring to grafts filter-branch: stop suggesting to use grafts Deprecate support for .git/info/grafts Add a test for `git replace --convert-graft-file` replace: introduce --convert-graft-file replace: prepare create_graft() for converting graft files wholesale replace: "libify" create_graft() and callees replace: avoid using die() to indicate a bug commit: Let the callback of for_each_mergetag return on error argv_array: offer to split a string by whitespace
2018-05-23Merge branch 'bw/server-options'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-0/+26
The transport protocol v2 is getting updated further. * bw/server-options: fetch: send server options when using protocol v2 ls-remote: send server options when using protocol v2 serve: introduce the server-option capability
2018-05-23Merge branch 'nd/repack-keep-pack'Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-6/+43
"git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers to repack all objects into one pack by default. The command has been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in other packs and loose ones are repacked. * nd/repack-keep-pack: pack-objects: show some progress when counting kept objects gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad" gc: handle a corner case in gc.bigPackThreshold gc: add gc.bigPackThreshold config gc: add --keep-largest-pack option repack: add --keep-pack option t7700: have closing quote of a test at the beginning of line
2018-05-23Merge branch 'nd/pack-format-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+92
Doc update. * nd/pack-format-doc: pack-format.txt: more details on pack file format
2018-05-23Merge branch 'jk/apply-p-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
Doc update. * jk/apply-p-doc: apply: clarify "-p" documentation
2018-05-23Merge branch 'ao/config-api-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+10
Doc update. * ao/config-api-doc: doc: fix config API documentation about config_with_options
2018-05-22Git 2.17.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+16
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-22Sync with Git 2.16.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-0/+33
* maint-2.16: Git 2.16.4 Git 2.15.2 Git 2.14.4 Git 2.13.7 verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
2018-05-22Git 2.16.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-22Sync with Git 2.15.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-0/+28
* maint-2.15: Git 2.15.2 Git 2.14.4 Git 2.13.7 verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
2018-05-22Git 2.15.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-22Sync with Git 2.14.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+25
* maint-2.14: Git 2.14.4 Git 2.13.7 verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
2018-05-22Git 2.14.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-22Sync with Git 2.13.7Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
* maint-2.13: Git 2.13.7 verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
2018-05-22Git 2.13.7Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-22submodule: add --dissociate option to add/update commandsLibravatar Casey Fitzpatrick1-1/+9
Add --dissociate option to add and update commands, both clone helper commands that already have the --reference option --dissociate pairs with. Signed-off-by: Casey Fitzpatrick <kcghost@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-22submodule: add --progress option to add commandLibravatar Casey Fitzpatrick1-0/+7
The '--progress' was introduced in 72c5f88311d (clone: pass --progress decision to recursive submodules, 2016-09-22) to fix the progress reporting of the clone command. Also add the progress option to the 'submodule add' command. The update command already supports the progress flag, but it is not documented. Signed-off-by: Casey Fitzpatrick <kcghost@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21completion: allow to customize the completable command listLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy2-1/+10
By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can now customize it a new config variable. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21completion: add and use --list-cmds=aliasLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
By providing aliases via --list-cmds=, we could simplify command collection code in the script. We only issue one git command. Before this patch that is "git config", after it's "git --list-cmds=". In "git help" completion case we actually reduce one "git" process (for getting guides) but that call was added in this series so it does not really count. A couple of bash functions are removed because they are not needed anymore. __git_compute_all_commands() and $__git_all_commands stay because they are still needed for completing pager.* config and without "alias" group, the result is still cacheable. There is a slight (good) change in _git_help() with this patch: before "git help <tab>" shows external commands (as in _not_ part of git) as well as part of $__git_all_commands. We have finer control over command listing now and can exclude that because we can't provide a man page for external commands anyway. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpersLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21help: use command-list.txt for the source of guidesLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy3-3/+3
The help command currently hard codes the list of guides and their summary in C. Let's move this list to command-list.txt. This lets us extract summary lines from Documentation/git*.txt. This also potentially lets us list guides in git.txt, but I'll leave that for now. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>