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2016-10-17Merge branch 'jk/alt-odb-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Codepaths involved in interacting alternate object store have been cleaned up. * jk/alt-odb-cleanup: alternates: use fspathcmp to detect duplicates sha1_file: always allow relative paths to alternates count-objects: report alternates via verbose mode fill_sha1_file: write into a strbuf alternates: store scratch buffer as strbuf fill_sha1_file: write "boring" characters alternates: use a separate scratch space alternates: encapsulate alt->base munging alternates: provide helper for allocating alternate alternates: provide helper for adding to alternates list link_alt_odb_entry: refactor string handling link_alt_odb_entry: handle normalize_path errors t5613: clarify "too deep" recursion tests t5613: do not chdir in main process t5613: whitespace/style cleanups t5613: use test_must_fail t5613: drop test_valid_repo function t5613: drop reachable_via function
2016-10-17Merge branch 'nd/commit-p-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
Documentation for "git commit" was updated to clarify that "commit -p <paths>" adds to the current contents of the index to come up with what to commit. * nd/commit-p-doc: git-commit.txt: clarify --patch mode with pathspec
2016-10-11Sync with maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+45
* maint: Start preparing for 2.10.2
2016-10-11Start preparing for 2.10.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+45
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-11Merge branch 'pb/rev-list-reverse-with-count' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does. * pb/rev-list-reverse-with-count: rev-list-options: clarify the usage of --reverse
2016-10-10Ninth batch for 2.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-23/+40
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-10Merge branch 'jc/blame-reverse'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+4
It is a common mistake to say "git blame --reverse OLD path", expecting that the command line is dwimmed as if asking how lines in path in an old revision OLD have survived up to the current commit. * jc/blame-reverse: blame: dwim "blame --reverse OLD" as "blame --reverse OLD.." blame: improve diagnosis for "--reverse NEW"
2016-10-10Merge branch 'nd/shallow-deepen'Libravatar Junio C Hamano6-1/+75
The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone deeper. A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this easier to use. "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>" and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify "I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and "Give me only the history since that version". * nd/shallow-deepen: (27 commits) fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commits upload-pack: add get_reachable_list() upload-pack: split check_unreachable() in two, prep for get_reachable_list() t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth excluding a ref clone: define shallow clone boundary with --shallow-exclude fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-exclude upload-pack: support define shallow boundary by excluding revisions refs: add expand_ref() t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth since a specific date clone: define shallow clone boundary based on time with --shallow-since fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-since upload-pack: add deepen-since to cut shallow repos based on time shallow.c: implement a generic shallow boundary finder based on rev-list fetch-pack: use a separate flag for fetch in deepening mode fetch-pack.c: mark strings for translating fetch-pack: use a common function for verbose printing fetch-pack: use skip_prefix() instead of starts_with() upload-pack: move rev-list code out of check_non_tip() upload-pack: make check_non_tip() clean things up on error upload-pack: tighten number parsing at "deepen" lines ...
2016-10-10count-objects: report alternates via verbose modeLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
There's no way to get the list of alternates that git computes internally; our tests only infer it based on which objects are available. In addition to testing, knowing this list may be helpful for somebody debugging their alternates setup. Let's add it to the "count-objects -v" output. We could give it a separate flag, but there's not really any need. "count-objects -v" is already a debugging catch-all for the object database, its output is easily extensible to new data items, and printing the alternates is not expensive (we already had to find them to count the objects). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-06Eighth batch for 2.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+34
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-06Merge branch 'ps/http-gssapi-cred-delegation'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
In recent versions of cURL, GSSAPI credential delegation is disabled by default due to CVE-2011-2192; introduce a configuration to selectively allow enabling this. * ps/http-gssapi-cred-delegation: http: control GSSAPI credential delegation
2016-10-06Merge branch 'vn/revision-shorthand-for-side-branch-log'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+15
"git log rev^..rev" is an often-used revision range specification to show what was done on a side branch merged at rev. This has gained a short-hand "rev^-1". In general "rev^-$n" is the same as "^rev^$n rev", i.e. what has happened on other branches while the history leading to nth parent was looking the other way. * vn/revision-shorthand-for-side-branch-log: revision: new rev^-n shorthand for rev^n..rev
2016-10-06Merge branch 'jk/ambiguous-short-object-names'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
When given an abbreviated object name that is not (or more realistically, "no longer") unique, we gave a fatal error "ambiguous argument". This error is now accompanied by hints that lists the objects that begins with the given prefix. During the course of development of this new feature, numerous minor bugs were uncovered and corrected, the most notable one of which is that we gave "short SHA1 xxxx is ambiguous." twice without good reason. * jk/ambiguous-short-object-names: get_short_sha1: make default disambiguation configurable get_short_sha1: list ambiguous objects on error for_each_abbrev: drop duplicate objects sha1_array: let callbacks interrupt iteration get_short_sha1: mark ambiguity error for translation get_short_sha1: NUL-terminate hex prefix get_short_sha1: refactor init of disambiguation code get_short_sha1: parse tags when looking for treeish get_sha1: propagate flags to child functions get_sha1: avoid repeating ourselves via ONLY_TO_DIE get_sha1: detect buggy calls with multiple disambiguators
2016-10-05git-commit.txt: clarify --patch mode with pathspecLibravatar Duy Nguyen1-2/+4
How pathspec is used, with and without --interactive/--patch, is different. But this is not clear from the document. These changes hint the user to keep reading (to option #5) instead of stopping at #2 and assuming --patch/--interactive behaves the same way. And since all the options listed here always mention how the index is involved (or not) in the final commit, add that bit for #5 as well. This "on top of the index" is implied when you head over git-add(1), but if you just go straight to the "Interactive mode" and not read what git-add is for, you may miss it. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-03Sync with 2.10.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+13
* maint: Git 2.10.1
2016-10-03Seventh batch for 2.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+40
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-03Merge branch 'pb/rev-list-reverse-with-count'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does. * pb/rev-list-reverse-with-count: rev-list-options: clarify the usage of --reverse
2016-10-03Merge branch 'ik/gitweb-force-highlight'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+14
"gitweb" can spawn "highlight" to show blob contents with (programming) language-specific syntax highlighting, but only when the language is known. "highlight" can however be told to make the guess itself by giving it "--force" option, which has been enabled. * ik/gitweb-force-highlight: gitweb: use highlight's shebang detection gitweb: remove unused guess_file_syntax() parameter
2016-10-03Git 2.10.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+13
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-03Merge branch 'jk/doc-cvs-update' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+6
Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated. * jk/doc-cvs-update: docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepage docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs
2016-09-29http: control GSSAPI credential delegationLibravatar Petr Stodulka1-0/+14
Delegation of credentials is disabled by default in libcurl since version 7.21.7 due to security vulnerability CVE-2011-2192. Which makes troubles with GSS/kerberos authentication when delegation of credentials is required. This can be changed with option CURLOPT_GSSAPI_DELEGATION in libcurl with set expected parameter since libcurl version 7.22.0. This patch provides new configuration variable http.delegation which corresponds to curl parameter "--delegation" (see man 1 curl). The following values are supported: * none (default). * policy * always Signed-off-by: Petr Stodulka <pstodulk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-29Sync with maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+87
* maint: Prepare for 2.10.1
2016-09-29Sixth batch for 2.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+28
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-29Prepare for 2.10.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+87
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-29Merge branch 'et/add-chmod-x' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
"git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has been corrected. * et/add-chmod-x: add: document the chmod option
2016-09-29Merge branch 'nd/checkout-disambiguation' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
"git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate. This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the command was run from a subdirectory. * nd/checkout-disambiguation: checkout: fix ambiguity check in subdir checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rules checkout: add some spaces between code and comment
2016-09-29Merge branch 'ep/doc-check-ref-format-example' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been fixed. * ep/doc-check-ref-format-example: git-check-ref-format.txt: fixup documentation
2016-09-29Merge branch 'mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+12
Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is 'false', instead of saying their default is taken from `color.ui`. When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to 'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been corrected. * mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto: Documentation/config: default for color.* is color.ui
2016-09-29Merge branch 'jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git gc --aggressive" used to limit the delta-chain length to 250, which is way too deep for gaining additional space savings and is detrimental for runtime performance. The limit has been reduced to 50. * jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth: gc: default aggressive depth to 50
2016-09-27rev-list-options: clarify the usage of --reverseLibravatar Pranit Bauva1-2/+3
Users often wonder if the oldest or the newest n commits are shown by `log -n --reverse`. Clarify that --reverse kicks in only after deciding which commits are to be shown to unconfuse them. Reported-by: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-27revision: new rev^-n shorthand for rev^n..revLibravatar Vegard Nossum1-2/+15
"git log rev^..rev" is commonly used to show all work done on and merged from a side branch. This patch introduces a shorthand "rev^-" for this and additionally allows "rev^-$n" to mean "reachable from rev, excluding what is reachable from the nth parent of rev". For example, for a two-parent merge, you can use rev^-2 to get the set of commits which were made to the main branch while the topic branch was prepared. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-26Fifth batch for 2.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+66
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-26Merge branch 'jk/doc-cvs-update'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+6
Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated. * jk/doc-cvs-update: docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepage docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs
2016-09-26Merge branch 'nd/checkout-disambiguation'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
"git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate. This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the command was run from a subdirectory. * nd/checkout-disambiguation: checkout: fix ambiguity check in subdir checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rules checkout: add some spaces between code and comment
2016-09-26Merge branch 'jt/format-patch-rfc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
In some projects, it is common to use "[RFC PATCH]" as the subject prefix for a patch meant for discussion rather than application. A new option "--rfc" was a short-hand for "--subject-prefix=RFC PATCH" to help the participants of such projects. * jt/format-patch-rfc: format-patch: add "--rfc" for the common case of [RFC PATCH]
2016-09-26Merge branch 'ep/doc-check-ref-format-example'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been fixed. * ep/doc-check-ref-format-example: git-check-ref-format.txt: fixup documentation
2016-09-26Merge branch 'mh/diff-indent-heuristic'Libravatar Junio C Hamano5-9/+15
Output from "git diff" can be made easier to read by selecting which lines are common and which lines are added/deleted intelligently when the lines before and after the changed section are the same. A command line option is added to help with the experiment to find a good heuristics. * mh/diff-indent-heuristic: blame: honor the diff heuristic options and config parse-options: add parse_opt_unknown_cb() diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffs xdl_change_compact(): introduce the concept of a change group recs_match(): take two xrecord_t pointers as arguments is_blank_line(): take a single xrecord_t as argument xdl_change_compact(): only use heuristic if group can't be matched xdl_change_compact(): fix compaction heuristic to adjust ixo
2016-09-26Merge branch 'mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+12
Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is 'false', instead of saying their default is taken from `color.ui`. When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to 'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been corrected. * mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto: Documentation/config: default for color.* is color.ui
2016-09-26sha1_array: let callbacks interrupt iterationLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+6
The callbacks for iterating a sha1_array must have a void return. This is unlike our usual for_each semantics, where a callback may interrupt iteration and have its value propagated. Let's switch it to the usual form, which will enable its use in more places (e.g., where we are replacing an existing iteration with a different data structure). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-25gitweb: use highlight's shebang detectionLibravatar Ian Kelling1-7/+14
The "highlight" binary can, in some cases, determine the language type by the means of file contents, for example the shebang in the first line for some scripting languages. Make use of this autodetection for files which syntax is not known by gitweb. In that case, pass the blob contents to "highlight --force"; the parameter is needed to make it always generate HTML output (which includes HTML-escaping). Although we now run highlight on files which do not end up highlighted, performance is virtually unaffected because when we call highlight, it is used for escaping HTML. In the case that highlight is used, gitweb calls sanitize() instead of esc_html(), and the latter is significantly slower (it does more, being roughly a superset of sanitize()). Simple benchmark comparing performance of 'blob' view of files without syntax highlighting in gitweb before and after this change indicates ±1% difference in request time for all file types. Benchmark was performed on local instance on Debian, using Apache/2.4.23 web server and CGI. Document the feature and improve syntax highlight documentation, add test to ensure gitweb doesn't crash when language detection is used. Signed-off-by: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org> Acked-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveatsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
Back when this guide was written, cvsimport was the only game in town. These days it is probably not the best option. Rather than go into details, let's point people to the note at the top of cvsimport which gives other options. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepageLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
The old page gives a 404 now. Searching for "cvsps" via Google returns a GitHub project page as the top hit. Reported-by: Dan Pritts Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
parsecvs maintenance was taken over by ESR, and the name changed to cvs-fast-export as it learned to support that output format. Let's point to cvs-fast-export, as it should have additional bug-fixes and be more convenient to use. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-21Fourth batch for 2.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-15/+86
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-21Merge branch 'jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git gc --aggressive" used to limit the delta-chain length to 250, which is way too deep for gaining additional space savings and is detrimental for runtime performance. The limit has been reduced to 50. * jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth: gc: default aggressive depth to 50
2016-09-21Merge branch 'et/add-chmod-x'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
"git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has been corrected. * et/add-chmod-x: add: document the chmod option
2016-09-21Merge branch 'js/cat-file-filters'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+30
Even though "git hash-objects", which is a tool to take an on-filesystem data stream and put it into the Git object store, allowed to perform the "outside-world-to-Git" conversions (e.g. end-of-line conversions and application of the clean-filter), and it had the feature on by default from very early days, its reverse operation "git cat-file", which takes an object from the Git object store and externalize for the consumption by the outside world, lacked an equivalent mechanism to run the "Git-to-outside-world" conversion. The command learned the "--filters" option to do so. * js/cat-file-filters: cat-file: support --textconv/--filters in batch mode cat-file --textconv/--filters: allow specifying the path separately cat-file: introduce the --filters option cat-file: fix a grammo in the man page
2016-09-21git-check-ref-format.txt: fixup documentationLibravatar Elia Pinto1-2/+2
die is not a standard shell function. Use a different shell code for the example. Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-21format-patch: add "--rfc" for the common case of [RFC PATCH]Libravatar Josh Triplett1-1/+7
Add an alias for --subject-prefix='RFC PATCH', which is used commonly in some development communities to deserve such a short-hand. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-21checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rulesLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+12
Normally we err on the safe side: if something can be seen as both an SHA1 and a pathspec, we stop and scream. In checkout, there is one exception added in 859fdab (git-checkout: improve error messages, detect ambiguities. - 2008-07-23), to allow the common case "git checkout branch". Let's document this exception. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>