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2020-08-10Merge branch 'pb/guide-docs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano5-18/+28
Update "git help guides" documentation organization. * pb/guide-docs: git.txt: add list of guides Documentation: don't hardcode command categories twice help: drop usage of 'common' and 'useful' for guides command-list.txt: add missing 'gitcredentials' and 'gitremote-helpers'
2020-08-10Merge branch 'ny/notes-doc-sample-update'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Doc updates. * ny/notes-doc-sample-update: docs: improve the example that illustrates git-notes path names
2020-08-10Merge branch 'jk/strvec'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The argv_array API is useful for not just managing argv but any "vector" (NULL-terminated array) of strings, and has seen adoption to a certain degree. It has been renamed to "strvec" to reduce the barrier to adoption. * jk/strvec: strvec: rename struct fields strvec: drop argv_array compatibility layer strvec: update documention to avoid argv_array strvec: fix indentation in renamed calls strvec: convert remaining callers away from argv_array name strvec: convert more callers away from argv_array name strvec: convert builtin/ callers away from argv_array name quote: rename sq_dequote_to_argv_array to mention strvec strvec: rename files from argv-array to strvec argv-array: rename to strvec argv-array: use size_t for count and alloc
2020-08-04git.txt: add list of guidesLibravatar Philippe Blain3-1/+14
Not all man5/man7 guides are mentioned in the 'git(1)' documentation, which makes the missing ones somewhat hard to find. Add a list of the guides to git(1) by leveraging the existing `Documentation/cmd-list.perl` script to generate a file `cmds-guide.txt` which gets included in git.txt. Also, do not hard-code the manual section '1'. Instead, use a regex so that the manual section is discovered from the first line of each `git*.txt` file. This addition was hinted at in 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides, 2018-05-20). Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-04Documentation: don't hardcode command categories twiceLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-13/+9
Instead of hard-coding the list of command categories in both `Documentation/Makefile` and `Documentation/cmd-list.perl`, make the Makefile the authoritative source and tweak `cmd-list.perl` so that it receives the list of command categories as argument. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-04help: drop usage of 'common' and 'useful' for guidesLibravatar Philippe Blain1-3/+3
Since 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides, 2018-05-20), all man5/man7 guides listed in command-list.txt appear in the output of 'git help -g'. However, 'git help -g' still prefixes this list with "The common Git guides are:", which makes one wonder if there are others! In the same spirit, the man page for 'git help' describes the '--guides' option as listing 'useful' guides, which is not false per se but can also be taken to mean that there are other guides that exist but are not useful. Instead of 'common' and 'useful', use 'Git concept guides' in both places. To keep the code in line with this change, rename help.c::list_common_guides_help to list_guides_help. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-04command-list.txt: add missing 'gitcredentials' and 'gitremote-helpers'Libravatar Philippe Blain2-1/+2
The guides 'gitcredentials' and 'gitremote-helpers' do not currently appear in command-list.txt. 'gitcredentials' was forgotten back when guides were added to command-list.txt in 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides, 2018-05-20). 'gitremote-helpers' was moved to section 7 in 439cc74632 (docs: move gitremote-helpers into section 7, 2019-03-25), but command-list.txt was not updated at the time. Add these two guides to the list of guides in 'command-list.txt', so that they appear in the output of 'git help --guides', and capitalize the first word of the description of 'gitcredentials', as was done in 1b81d8c (help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides, 2018-05-20) for the other guides. While at it, add a comment in Documentation/Makefile to remind developers to update command-list.txt if they add a new guide. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-04Fourth batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-03docs: improve the example that illustrates git-notes path namesLibravatar Noam Yorav-Raphael1-1/+1
Make it clear that the filename has only the rest of the object ID, not the entirety of it. Signed-off-by: Noam Yorav-Raphael <noamraph@gmail.com> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-01Third batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
A couple of brown-paper-bag fixes, plus the other "The branch 'master' no longer is special" fix. Now we are ready to rewind 'next'.
2020-08-01Merge branch 'jc/fmt-merge-msg-suppress-destination' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
"git merge" learned to selectively omit " into <branch>" at the end of the title of default merge message with merge.suppressDest configuration. * jc/fmt-merge-msg-suppress-destination: fmt-merge-msg: allow merge destination to be omitted again Revert "fmt-merge-msg: stop treating `master` specially"
2020-07-30The second batch -- mostly minor typofixesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-30Merge branch 'jb/doc-packfile-name' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Doc update. * jb/doc-packfile-name: pack-write/docs: update regarding pack naming
2020-07-30Merge branch 'ar/help-guides-doc' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* ar/help-guides-doc: git-help.txt: fix mentions of option --guides
2020-07-30First batch post 2.28Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+67
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-30Merge branch 'cc/pretty-contents-size' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+21
"git for-each-ref --format=<>" learned %(contents:size). * cc/pretty-contents-size: ref-filter: add support for %(contents:size) t6300: test refs pointing to tree and blob Documentation: clarify %(contents:XXXX) doc
2020-07-30Merge branch 'pb/log-rev-list-doc' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano4-40/+71
"git help log" has been enhanced by sharing more material from the documentation for the underlying "git rev-list" command. * pb/log-rev-list-doc: git-log.txt: include rev-list-description.txt git-rev-list.txt: move description to separate file git-rev-list.txt: tweak wording in set operations git-rev-list.txt: fix Asciidoc syntax revisions.txt: describe 'rev1 rev2 ...' meaning for ranges git-log.txt: add links to 'rev-list' and 'diff' docs
2020-07-30Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph-bloom-updates' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Updates to the changed-paths bloom filter. * ds/commit-graph-bloom-updates: commit-graph: check all leading directories in changed path Bloom filters revision: empty pathspecs should not use Bloom filters revision.c: fix whitespace commit-graph: check chunk sizes after writing commit-graph: simplify chunk writes into loop commit-graph: unify the signatures of all write_graph_chunk_*() functions commit-graph: persist existence of changed-paths bloom: fix logic in get_bloom_filter() commit-graph: change test to die on parse, not load commit-graph: place bloom_settings in context
2020-07-30Merge branch 'sg/commit-graph-cleanups' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The changed-path Bloom filter is improved using ideas from an independent implementation. * sg/commit-graph-cleanups: commit-graph: simplify write_commit_graph_file() #2 commit-graph: simplify write_commit_graph_file() #1 commit-graph: simplify parse_commit_graph() #2 commit-graph: simplify parse_commit_graph() #1 commit-graph: clean up #includes diff.h: drop diff_tree_oid() & friends' return value commit-slab: add a function to deep free entries on the slab commit-graph-format.txt: all multi-byte numbers are in network byte order commit-graph: fix parsing the Chunk Lookup table tree-walk.c: don't match submodule entries for 'submod/anything'
2020-07-30fmt-merge-msg: allow merge destination to be omitted againLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
In Git 2.28, we stopped special casing 'master' when producing the default merge message by just removing the code to squelch "into 'master'" at the end of the message. Introduce multi-valued merge.suppressDest configuration variable that gives a set of globs to match against the name of the branch into which the merge is being made, to let users specify for which branch fmt-merge-msg's output should be shortened. When it is not set, 'master' is used as the sole value of the variable by default. The above move mostly reverts the pre-2.28 default in repositories that have no relevant configuration. Add a few tests to protect the behaviour with the new configuration variable from future regression. Helped-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-29git-help.txt: fix mentions of option --guidesLibravatar Andrei Rybak1-2/+2
Fix typos introduced in commit a133737b80 ("doc: include --guide option description for "git help"", 2013-04-02). Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-28strvec: update documention to avoid argv_arrayLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
There were a few mentions of argv_array in a non-code file which didn't get picked up in the previous commits (note that even comments in code files were already covered because of the mechanical conversion via perl). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-24Merge branch 'ps/ref-transaction-hook' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
A new hook. * ps/ref-transaction-hook: githooks.txt: use correct "reference-transaction" hook name
2020-07-24githooks.txt: use correct "reference-transaction" hook nameLibravatar Bojun Chen1-2/+2
The "reference transaction" hook was introduced in commit 6754159767 (refs: implement reference transaction hook, 2020-06-19). The name of the hook is declared as "reference-transaction" in "refs.c" and testcases, but the name declared in "githooks.txt" is different. Signed-off-by: Bojun Chen <bojun.cbj@alibaba-inc.com> Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-22pack-write/docs: update regarding pack namingLibravatar Johannes Berg1-2/+2
The index-pack documentation explicitly states that the pack name is derived from the sorted list of object names, but since commit 1190a1acf800 ("pack-objects: name pack files after trailer hash") that isn't true anymore. Be less explicit in the docs as to what the exact output is, and just say that it's whatever goes into the pack name. Also update a comment on write_idx_file() since it no longer modifies the sha1 variable (it's const now anyway), as noted by Junio. Fixes: 1190a1acf800 ("pack-objects: name pack files after trailer hash") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-22Documentation/RelNotes: fix a typo in 2.28's relnotesLibravatar Taylor Blau1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-22Git 2.28-rc2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-18Merge branch 'js/pu-to-seen' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Last minute fix-up to documentation. * js/pu-to-seen: gitworkflows.txt: fix broken subsection underline
2020-07-18gitworkflows.txt: fix broken subsection underlineLibravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+1
AsciiDoctor renders the "~~~~~~~~~" literally. That's not our intention: it is supposed to indicate a level 2 subsection. In 828197de8f ("docs: adjust for the recent rename of `pu` to `seen`", 2020-06-25), the length of this section header grew by two characters but we didn't adjust the number of ~ characters accordingly. AsciiDoc handles this discrepancy ok and still picks this up as a subsection title, but Asciidoctor is not as forgiving. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-17RelNotes: update the v0 with extension situationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+0
With the two-patch series for regression fix, to the users from 2.27 days, there is no visible behaviour change---we do not warn and fail use of v0 repositories with newer extensions yet, so there is nothing to note in the backward compatibility section. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-16Git 2.28-rc1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-16ref-filter: add support for %(contents:size)Libravatar Christian Couder1-0/+3
It's useful and efficient to be able to get the size of the contents directly without having to pipe through `wc -c`. Also the result of the following: `git for-each-ref --format='%(contents)' refs/heads/my-branch | wc -c` is off by one as `git for-each-ref` appends a newline character after the contents, which can be seen by comparing its output with the output from `git cat-file`. As with %(contents), %(contents:size) is silently ignored, if a ref points to something other than a commit or a tag: ``` $ git update-ref refs/mytrees/first HEAD^{tree} $ git for-each-ref --format='%(contents)' refs/mytrees/first $ git for-each-ref --format='%(contents:size)' refs/mytrees/first ``` Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-15Hopefully the last batch before -rc1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-15Merge branch 'ct/diff-with-merge-base-clarification' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+8
Doc update. * ct/diff-with-merge-base-clarification: git-diff.txt: reorder possible usages git-diff.txt: don't mark required argument as optional
2020-07-13git-diff.txt: reorder possible usagesLibravatar Martin Ågren1-6/+7
The description of `git diff` goes through several different invocations (numbering added by me): 1. git diff [<options>] [--] [<path>...] 2. git diff [<options>] --no-index [--] <path> <path> 3. git diff [<options>] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...] 4. git diff [<options>] <commit> [--] [<path>...] 5. git diff [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...] 6. git diff [<options>] <commit>..<commit> [--] [<path>...] 7. git diff [<options>] <commit> <commit>... <commit> [--] [<path>...] 8. git diff [<options>] <commit>...<commit> [--] [<path>...] It then goes on to say that "all of the <commit> in the above description, except in the last two forms that use '..' notations, can be any <tree>". The "last two" actually refers to 6 and 8. This got out of sync in commit b7e10b2ca2 ("Documentation: usage for diff combined commits", 2020-06-12) which added item 7 to the mix. As a further complication, after b7e10b2ca2 we also have some potential confusion around "the '..' notation". The "..[.]" in items 6 and 8 are part of the rev notation, whereas the "..." in item 7 is manpage language for "one or more". Move item 6 down, i.e., to between 7 and 8, to restore the ordering. Because 6 refers to 5 ("synonymous to the previous form") we need to tweak the language a bit. An added bonus of this commit is that we're trying to steer users away from `git diff <commit>..<commit>` and moving it further down probably doesn't hurt. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-13git-diff.txt: don't mark required argument as optionalLibravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+1
Commit b7e10b2ca2 ("Documentation: usage for diff combined commits", 2020-06-12) modified the synopsis by adding an optional "[<commit>...]" to 'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...] to effectively add 'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit>... <commit> [--] [<path>...] as another valid invocation. Which makes sense. Further down, in the description, it left the existing entry for 'git diff' [<options>] <commit> <commit> [--] [<path>...] intact and added a new entry on 'git diff' [<options>] <commit> [<commit>...] <commit> [--] [<path>...] where it says that "[t]his form is to view the results of a merge commit" and details how "the first listed commit must be the merge itself". But one possible instantiation of this form is `git diff <commit> <commit>` for which the added text doesn't really apply. Remove the brackets so that we lose this overlap between the two descriptions. We can still use the more compact representation in the synopsis. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-10Documentation: clarify %(contents:XXXX) docLibravatar Christian Couder1-6/+18
Let's avoid a big dense paragraph by using an unordered list for the %(contents:XXXX) format specifiers. While at it let's also make the following improvements: - Let's not describe %(contents) using "complete message" as it's not clear what an incomplete message is. - Let's improve how the "subject" and "body" are described. - Let's state that "signature" is only available for tag objects. Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-09Git 2.28-rc0Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+27
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-09Merge branch 'ma/rebase-doc-typofix' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Typofix. * ma/rebase-doc-typofix: git-rebase.txt: fix description list separator
2020-07-09Merge branch 'jn/eject-fetch-write-commit-graph-out-of-experimental' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-10/+1
"fetch.writeCommitGraph" was enabled when "feature.experimental" is asked for, but it was found to be a bit too risky even for bold folks in its current shape. The configuration has been ejected, at least for now, from the "experimental" feature set. * jn/eject-fetch-write-commit-graph-out-of-experimental: experimental: default to fetch.writeCommitGraph=false
2020-07-09Merge branch 'cc/cat-file-usage-update' into masterLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Doc/usage update. * cc/cat-file-usage-update: cat-file: add missing [=<format>] to usage/synopsis
2020-07-09git-rebase.txt: fix description list separatorLibravatar Martin Ågren1-1/+1
We don't give a "::" for the list separator, but just a single ":". This ends up rendering literally, "--apply: Use applying strategies ...". As a follow-on error, the list continuation, "+", also ends up rendering literally (because we don't have a list). This was introduced in 52eb738d6b ("rebase: add an --am option", 2020-02-15) and survived the rename in 10cdb9f38a ("rebase: rename the two primary rebase backends", 2020-02-15). Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-08git-log.txt: include rev-list-description.txtLibravatar Philippe Blain3-0/+27
The `git log` synopsis mentions `<revision range>`, and the description of this option links to gitrevisions(7), but a nice explanation of how a revision range can be constructed from individual commits, optionnally prefixed with `^`, also exists in `rev-list-description.txt`. Include this description in the man page for `git log`. Add Asciidoc 'ifdef's to `rev-list-description.txt` so that either `git rev-list` or `git log` appears in the respective man pages. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-08git-rev-list.txt: move description to separate fileLibravatar Philippe Blain2-38/+39
A following commit will reuse the description of the `git rev-list` command in the `git log` manpage. Move this description to a separate file. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-08git-rev-list.txt: tweak wording in set operationsLibravatar Philippe Blain1-6/+6
Tweak a sentence to make it a little more readable. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-08git-rev-list.txt: fix Asciidoc syntaxLibravatar Philippe Blain1-6/+6
Using '{caret}' inside double quotes and immediately following with a single quoted word does not create the desired output: '<commit1>' appears verbatim instead of being emphasized. Use a litteral caret ('^') instead. Also, remove the leading tabs in shell examples to bring them more in line with the rest of the documentation. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-08revisions.txt: describe 'rev1 rev2 ...' meaning for rangesLibravatar Philippe Blain1-0/+3
The "Specifying ranges" section does not mention explicitly that several commits can be specified to form a range. Add a mention to that effect. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-08git-log.txt: add links to 'rev-list' and 'diff' docsLibravatar Philippe Blain1-2/+2
Add links to the documentation for `git rev-list` and `git diff` instead of simply mentioning them, to make it easier for readers to reach these documentation pages. Let's link to `git diff` as this is the porcelain command, and the rest of the family (`diff-index`, `diff-tree` and `diff-files`) are mentioned in the "Raw output format" section of the `git diff` documentation. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-08experimental: default to fetch.writeCommitGraph=falseLibravatar Jonathan Nieder2-10/+1
The fetch.writeCommitGraph feature makes fetches write out a commit graph file for the newly downloaded pack on fetch. This improves the performance of various commands that would perform a revision walk and eventually ought to be the default for everyone. To prepare for that future, it's enabled by default for users that set feature.experimental=true to experience such future defaults. Alas, for --unshallow fetches from a shallow clone it runs into a snag: by the time Git has fetched the new objects and is writing a commit graph, it has performed a revision walk and r->parsed_objects contains information about the shallow boundary from *before* the fetch. The commit graph writing code is careful to avoid writing a commit graph file in shallow repositories, but the new state is not shallow, and the result is that from that point on, commands like "git log" make use of a newly written commit graph file representing a fictional history with the old shallow boundary. We could fix this by making the commit graph writing code more careful to avoid writing a commit graph that could have used any grafts or shallow state, but it is possible that there are other pieces of mutated state that fetch's commit graph writing code may be relying on. So disable it in the feature.experimental configuration. Google developers have been running in this configuration (by setting fetch.writeCommitGraph=false in the system config) to work around this bug since it was discovered in April. Once the fix lands, we'll enable fetch.writeCommitGraph=true again to give it some early testing before rolling out to a wider audience. In other words: - this patch only affects behavior with feature.experimental=true - it makes feature.experimental match the configuration Google has been using for the last few months, meaning it would leave users in a better tested state than without it - this should improve testing for other features guarded by feature.experimental, by making feature.experimental safer to use Reported-by: Jay Conrod <jayconrod@google.com> Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-06The seventh batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+35
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>