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2022-02-25switch: mention the --detach option when dying due to lack of a branchLibravatar Alex Henrie1-0/+1
Users who are accustomed to doing `git checkout <tag>` assume that `git switch <tag>` will do the same thing. Inform them of the --detach option so they aren't left wondering why `git switch` doesn't work but `git checkout` does. Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-04branch: add --recurse-submodules option for branch creationLibravatar Glen Choo1-0/+1
To improve the submodules UX, we would like to teach Git to handle branches in submodules. Start this process by teaching "git branch" the --recurse-submodules option so that "git branch --recurse-submodules topic" will create the `topic` branch in the superproject and its submodules. Although this commit does not introduce breaking changes, it does not work well with existing --recurse-submodules commands because "git branch --recurse-submodules" writes to the submodule ref store, but most commands only consider the superproject gitlink and ignore the submodule ref store. For example, "git checkout --recurse-submodules" will check out the commits in the superproject gitlinks (and put the submodules in detached HEAD) instead of checking out the submodule branches. Because of this, this commit introduces a new configuration value, `submodule.propagateBranches`. The plan is for Git commands to prioritize submodule ref store information over superproject gitlinks if this value is true. Because "git branch --recurse-submodules" writes to submodule ref stores, for the sake of clarity, it will not function unless this configuration value is set. This commit also includes changes that support working with submodules from a superproject commit because "branch --recurse-submodules" (and future commands) need to read .gitmodules and gitlinks from the superproject commit, but submodules are typically read from the filesystem's .gitmodules and the index's gitlinks. These changes are: * add a submodules_of_tree() helper that gives the relevant information of an in-tree submodule (e.g. path and oid) and initializes the repository * add is_tree_submodule_active() by adding a treeish_name parameter to is_submodule_active() * add the "submoduleNotUpdated" advice to advise users to update the submodules in their trees Incidentally, fix an incorrect usage string that combined the 'list' usage of git branch (-l) with the 'create' usage; this string has been incorrect since its inception, a8dfd5eac4 (Make builtin-branch.c use parse_options., 2007-10-07). Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-10Merge branch 'ab/retire-advice-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-32/+2
Code clean up to migrate callers from older advice_config[] based API to newer advice_if_enabled() and advice_enabled() API. * ab/retire-advice-config: advice: move advice.graftFileDeprecated squashing to commit.[ch] advice: remove use of global advice_add_embedded_repo advice: remove read uses of most global `advice_` variables advice: add enum variants for missing advice variables
2021-09-10Merge branch 'js/advise-when-skipping-cherry-picked'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
"git rebase" by default skips changes that are equivalent to commits that are already in the history the branch is rebased onto; give messages when this happens to let the users be aware of skipped commits, and also teach them how to tell "rebase" to keep duplicated changes. * js/advise-when-skipping-cherry-picked: sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commit
2021-08-30sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commitLibravatar Josh Steadmon1-0/+2
Silently skipping commits when rebasing with --no-reapply-cherry-picks (currently the default behavior) can cause user confusion. Issue warnings when this happens, as well as advice on how to preserve the skipped commits. These warnings and advice are displayed only when using the (default) "merge" rebase backend. Update the git-rebase docs to mention the warnings and advice. Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-30Merge branch 'en/pull-conflicting-options'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
"git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up. * en/pull-conflicting-options: pull: fix handling of multiple heads pull: update docs & code for option compatibility with rebasing pull: abort by default when fast-forwarding is not possible pull: make --rebase and --no-rebase override pull.ff=only pull: since --ff-only overrides, handle it first pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible t7601: add tests of interactions with multiple merge heads and config t7601: test interaction of merge/rebase/fast-forward flags and options
2021-08-25advice: move advice.graftFileDeprecated squashing to commit.[ch]Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+0
Move the squashing of the advice.graftFileDeprecated advice over to an external variable in commit.[ch], allowing advice() to purely use the new-style API of invoking advice() with an enum. See 8821e90a09a (advice: don't pointlessly suggest --convert-graft-file, 2018-11-27) for why quieting this advice was needed. It's more straightforward to move this code to commit.[ch] and use it builtin/replace.c, than to go through the indirection of advice.[ch]. Because this was the last advice_config variable we can remove that old facility from advice.c. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25advice: remove use of global advice_add_embedded_repoLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+0
The external use of this variable was added in 532139940c9 (add: warn when adding an embedded repository, 2017-06-14). For the use-case it's more straightforward to track whether we've shown advice in check_embedded_repo() than setting the global variable. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25advice: remove read uses of most global `advice_` variablesLibravatar Ben Boeckel1-28/+0
In c4a09cc9ccb (Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng', 2020-03-25), a new API for accessing advice variables was introduced and deprecated `advice_config` in favor of a new array, `advice_setting`. This patch ports all but two uses which read the status of the global `advice_` variables over to the new `advice_enabled` API. We'll deal with advice_add_embedded_repo and advice_graft_file_deprecated separately. Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25advice: add enum variants for missing advice variablesLibravatar Ben Boeckel1-0/+2
In daef1b300b0 (Merge branch 'hw/advice-add-nothing', 2020-02-14), two advice settings were introduced into the `advice_config` array. Subsequently, c4a09cc9ccb (Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng', 2020-03-25) started to deprecate `advice_config` in favor of a new array, `advice_setting`. However, the latter branch did not include the former branch, and therefore `advice_setting` is missing the two entries added by the `hw/advice-add-nothing` branch. These are currently the only entries in `advice_config` missing from `advice_setting`. Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-20pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossibleLibravatar Alex Henrie1-0/+1
The warning about pulling without specifying how to reconcile divergent branches says that after setting pull.rebase to true, --ff-only can still be passed on the command line to require a fast-forward. Make that actually work. Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> [en: updated tests; note 3 fixes and 1 new failure] Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-13advice.h: add missing __attribute__((format)) & fix usageLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+1
Add the missing __attribute__((format)) checking to advise_if_enabled(). This revealed a trivial issue introduced in b3b18d16213 (advice: revamp advise API, 2020-03-02). We treated the argv[1] as a format string, but did not intend to do so. Let's use "%s" and pass argv[1] as an argument instead. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-08add: warn when asked to update SKIP_WORKTREE entriesLibravatar Matheus Tavares1-0/+4
`git add` already refrains from updating SKIP_WORKTREE entries, but it silently exits with zero code when it is asked to do so. Instead, let's warn the user and display a hint on how to update these entries. Note that we only warn the user whey they give a pathspec item that matches no eligible path for updating, but it does match one or more SKIP_WORKTREE entries. A warning was chosen over erroring out right away to reproduce the same behavior `add` already exhibits with ignored files. This also allow users to continue their workflow without having to invoke `add` again with only the eligible paths (as those will have already been added). Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-03push: parse and set flag for "--force-if-includes"Libravatar Srinidhi Kaushik1-0/+2
The previous commit added the necessary machinery to implement the "--force-if-includes" protection, when "--force-with-lease" is used without giving exact object the remote still ought to have. Surface the feature by adding a command line option and a configuration variable to enable it. - Add a flag: "TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE_IF_INCLUDES" to indicate that the new option was passed from the command line of via configuration settings; update command line and configuration parsers to set the new flag accordingly. - Introduce a new configuration option "push.useForceIfIncludes", which is equivalent to setting "--force-if-includes" in the command line. - Update "remote-curl" to recognize and pass this option to "send-pack" when enabled. - Update "advise" to catch the reject reason "REJECT_REF_NEEDS_UPDATE", set when the ref status is "REF_STATUS_REJECT_REMOTE_UPDATED" and (optionally) print a help message when the push fails. - The new option is a "no-op" in the following scenarios: * When used without "--force-with-lease". * When used with "--force-with-lease", and if the expected commit on the remote side is specified as an argument. Signed-off-by: Srinidhi Kaushik <shrinidhi.kaushik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-25Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+51
Revamping of the advise API to allow more systematic enumeration of advice knobs in the future. * hw/advise-ng: tag: use new advice API to check visibility advice: revamp advise API advice: change "setupStreamFailure" to "setUpstreamFailure" advice: extract vadvise() from advise()
2020-03-05tag: use new advice API to check visibilityLibravatar Heba Waly1-1/+0
change the advise call in tag library from advise() to advise_if_enabled() to construct an example of the usage of the new API. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-05advice: revamp advise APILibravatar Heba Waly1-0/+51
Currently it's very easy for the advice library's callers to miss checking the visibility step before printing an advice. Also, it makes more sense for this step to be handled by the advice library. Add a new advise_if_enabled function that checks the visibility of advice messages before printing. Add a new helper advise_enabled to check the visibility of the advice if the caller needs to carry out complicated processing based on that value. A list of advice_settings is added to cache the config variables names and values, it's intended to replace advice_config[] and the global variables once we migrate all the callers to use the new APIs. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-06add: change advice config variables used by the add APILibravatar Heba Waly1-1/+2
advice.addNothing config variable is used to control the visibility of two advice messages in the add library. This config variable is replaced by two new variables, whose names are more clear and relevant to the two cases. Also add the two new variables to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-15add: use advise function to display hintsLibravatar Heba Waly1-0/+1
Use the advise function in advice.c to display hints to the users, as it provides a neat and a standard format for hint messages, i.e: the text is colored in yellow and the line starts by the word "hint:". Also this will enable us to control the messages using advice.* configuration variables. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-03submodule--helper: advise on fatal alternate errorLibravatar Jonathan Tan1-0/+1
When recursively cloning a superproject with some shallow modules defined in its .gitmodules, then recloning with "--reference=<path>", an error occurs. For example: git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \ https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \ master git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \ https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \ --reference master master2 fails with: fatal: submodule '<snip>' cannot add alternate: reference repository '<snip>' is shallow When a alternate computed from the superproject's alternate cannot be added, whether in this case or another, advise about configuring the "submodule.alternateErrorStrategy" configuration option and using "--reference-if-able" instead of "--reference" when cloning. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-19Merge branch 'ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
"git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action. * ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip: cherry-pick/revert: advise using --skip cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option sequencer: use argv_array in reset_merge sequencer: rename reset_for_rollback to reset_merge sequencer: add advice for revert
2019-07-09Merge branch 'ds/fetch-disable-force-notice'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
"git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation. The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable this safety feature. * ds/fetch-disable-force-notice: pull: add --[no-]show-forced-updates passthrough fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument
2019-07-02sequencer: add advice for revertLibravatar Rohit Ashiwal1-0/+1
In the case of merge conflicts, while performing a revert, we are currently advised to use `git cherry-pick --<sequencer-options>`. Introduce a separate advice message for `git revert`. Also change the signature of `create_seq_dir` to handle which advice to display selectively. Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-21fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listingLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+1
The --[no-]show-forced-updates option in 'git fetch' can be confusing for some users, especially if it is enabled via config setting and not by argument. Add advice to warn the user that the (forced update) messages were not listed. Additionally, warn users when the forced update check takes longer than ten seconds, and recommend that they disable the check. These messages can be disabled by the advice.fetchShowForcedUpdates config setting. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-21status: warn when a/b calculation takes too longLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-0/+1
The ahead/behind calculation in 'git status' can be slow in some cases. Users may not realize that there are ways to avoid this computation, especially if they are not using the information. Add a warning that appears if this calculation takes more than two seconds. The warning can be disabled through the new config setting advice.statusAheadBehind. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-13Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Mechanically and systematically drop "extern" from function declarlation. * dl/no-extern-in-func-decl: *.[ch]: manually align parameter lists *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using sed *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatch
2019-05-05*.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatchLibravatar Denton Liu1-1/+1
There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations. Remove some instances of "extern" for function declarations which are caught by Coccinelle. Note that Coccinelle has some difficulty with processing functions with `__attribute__` or varargs so some `extern` declarations are left behind to be dealt with in a future patch. This was the Coccinelle patch used: @@ type T; identifier f; @@ - extern T f(...); and it was run with: $ git ls-files \*.{c,h} | grep -v ^compat/ | xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place Files under `compat/` are intentionally excluded as some are directly copied from external sources and we should avoid churning them as much as possible. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-12tag: advise on nested tagsLibravatar Denton Liu1-0/+1
Robert Dailey reported confusion on the mailing list about a nested tag which was most likely created by mistake. Jeff King noted that this isn't a very common case and creating a tag-to-a-tag can be a user-error. Suggest that it may be a mistake with an advice message when creating such a tag. Those who do want to create a tag that point at another tag regularly can turn it off with the usual advice mechanism. Reported-by: Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> [jc: fixed test style and tweaked the log message] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-14push: add an advice on unqualified <dst> pushLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+1
Add an advice to the recently improved error message added in f8aae12034 ("push: allow unqualified dest refspecs to DWIM", 2008-04-23). Now with advice.pushUnqualifiedRefName=true (on by default) we show a hint about how to proceed: $ ./git-push avar v2.19.0^{commit}:newbranch -n error: The destination you provided is not a full refname (i.e., starting with "refs/"). We tried to guess what you meant by: - Looking for a ref that matches 'newbranch' on the remote side. - Checking if the <src> being pushed ('v2.19.0^{commit}') is a ref in "refs/{heads,tags}/". If so we add a corresponding refs/{heads,tags}/ prefix on the remote side. Neither worked, so we gave up. You must fully qualify the ref. hint: The <src> part of the refspec is a commit object. hint: Did you mean to create a new branch by pushing to hint: 'v2.19.0^{commit}:refs/heads/newbranch'? error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:avar/git.git' When trying to push a tag, tree or a blob we suggest that perhaps the user meant to push them to refs/tags/ instead. The if/else duplication for all of OBJ_{COMMIT,TAG,TREE,BLOB} is unfortunate, but is required to correctly mark the messages for translation. See the discussion in <87r2gxebsi.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> about that. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-24reset: warn when refresh_index() takes more than 2 secondsLibravatar Ben Peart1-0/+1
refresh_index() is done after a reset command as an optimization. Because it can be an expensive call, warn the user if it takes more than 2 seconds and tell them how to avoid it using the --quiet command line option or reset.quiet config setting. Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-02Merge branch 'ab/checkout-default-remote'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
"git checkout" and "git worktree add" learned to honor checkout.defaultRemote when auto-vivifying a local branch out of a remote tracking branch in a repository with multiple remotes that have tracking branches that share the same names. * ab/checkout-default-remote: checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemote checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>" builtin/checkout.c: use "ret" variable for return checkout: pass the "num_matches" up to callers checkout.c: change "unique" member to "num_matches" checkout.c: introduce an *_INIT macro checkout.h: wrap the arguments to unique_tracking_name() checkout tests: index should be clean after dwim checkout
2018-06-11checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>"Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+1
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>
2018-05-29am: move advice.amWorkDir parsing back to advice.cLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+1
The only benefit from this move (apart from cleaner code) is that advice.amWorkDir should now show up in `git help --config`. There should be no regression since advice config is always read by the git_default_config(). While at there, use advise() like other code. We now get "hint: " prefix and the output is stderr instead of stdout (which is also the reason for the test update because stderr is checked in a following test and the extra advice can fail it). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-30Deprecate support for .git/info/graftsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+1
The grafts feature was a convenient way to "stitch together" ancient history to the fresh start of linux.git. Its implementation is, however, not up to Git's standards, as there are too many ways where it can lead to surprising and unwelcome behavior. For example, when pushing from a repository with active grafts, it is possible to miss commits that have been "grafted out", resulting in a broken state on the other side. Also, the grafts feature is limited to "rewriting" commits' list of parents, it cannot replace anything else. The much younger feature implemented as `git replace` set out to remedy those limitations and dangerous bugs. Seeing as `git replace` is pretty mature by now (since 4228e8bc98 (replace: add --graft option, 2014-07-19) it can perform the graft file's duties), it is time to deprecate support for the graft file, and to retire it eventually. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-19Merge branch 'ls/editor-waiting-message'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Git shows a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets lost. * ls/editor-waiting-message: launch_editor(): indicate that Git waits for user input refactor "dumb" terminal determination
2017-12-07launch_editor(): indicate that Git waits for user inputLibravatar Lars Schneider1-0/+1
When a graphical GIT_EDITOR is spawned by a Git command that opens and waits for user input (e.g. "git rebase -i"), then the editor window might be obscured by other windows. The user might be left staring at the original Git terminal window without even realizing that s/he needs to interact with another window before Git can proceed. To this user Git appears hanging. Print a message that Git is waiting for editor input in the original terminal and get rid of it when the editor returns, if the terminal supports erasing the last line. Also, make sure that our message is terminated with a whitespace so that any message the editor may show upon starting up will be kept separate from our message. Power users might not want to see this message or their editor might already print such a message (e.g. emacsclient). Allow these users to suppress the message by disabling the "advice.waitingForEditor" config. The standard advise() function is not used here as it would always add a newline which would make deleting the message harder. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-10run-command: add hint when a hook is ignoredLibravatar Damien Marié1-0/+1
When an hook is present but the file is not set as executable then git will ignore the hook. For now this is silent which can be confusing. This commit adds this warning to improve the situation: hint: The 'pre-commit' hook was ignored because it's not set as executable. hint: You can disable this warning with `git config advice.ignoredHook false` To allow the old use-case of enabling/disabling hooks via the executable flag a new setting is introduced: advice.ignoredHook. Signed-off-by: Damien Marié <damien@dam.io> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15add: warn when adding an embedded repositoryLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
It's an easy mistake to add a repository inside another repository, like: git clone $url git add . The resulting entry is a gitlink, but there's no matching .gitmodules entry. Trying to use "submodule init" (or clone with --recursive) doesn't do anything useful. Prior to v2.13, such an entry caused git-submodule to barf entirely. In v2.13, the entry is considered "inactive" and quietly ignored. Either way, no clone of your repository can do anything useful with the gitlink without the user manually adding the submodule config. In most cases, the user probably meant to either add a real submodule, or they forgot to put the embedded repository in their .gitignore file. Let's issue a warning when we see this case. There are a few things to note: - the warning will go in the git-add porcelain; anybody wanting to do low-level manipulation of the index is welcome to create whatever funny states they want. - we detect the case by looking for a newly added gitlink; updates via "git add submodule" are perfectly reasonable, and this avoids us having to investigate .gitmodules entirely - there's a command-line option to suppress the warning. This is needed for git-submodule itself (which adds the entry before adding any submodule config), but also provides a mechanism for other scripts doing submodule-like things. We could make this a hard error instead of a warning. However, we do add lots of sub-repos in our test suite. It's not _wrong_ to do so. It just creates a state where users may be surprised. Pointing them in the right direction with a gentle hint is probably the best option. There is a config knob that can disable the (long) hint. But I intentionally omitted a config knob to disable the warning entirely. Whether the warning is sensible or not is generally about context, not about the user's preferences. If there's a tool or workflow that adds gitlinks without matching .gitmodules, it should probably be taught about the new command-line option, rather than blanket-disabling the warning. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-18pull: check if in unresolved merge stateLibravatar Paul Tan1-0/+1
Since d38a30d (Be more user-friendly when refusing to do something because of conflict., 2010-01-12), git-pull will error out with user-friendly advices if the user is in the middle of a merge or has unmerged files. Re-implement this behavior. While the "has unmerged files" case can be handled by die_resolve_conflict(), we introduce a new function die_conclude_merge() for printing a different error message for when there are no unmerged files but the merge has not been finished. Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-07Merge branch 'jc/push-2.0-default-to-simple'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
Finally update the "git push" default behaviour to "simple".
2013-07-22Merge branch 'jk/gcc-function-attributes'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Use the function attributes extension to catch mistakes in use of our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end (i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)). * jk/gcc-function-attributes: Add the LAST_ARG_MUST_BE_NULL macro wt-status: use "format" function attribute for status_printf use "sentinel" function attribute for variadic lists add missing "format" function attributes
2013-07-09add missing "format" function attributesLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
For most of our functions that take printf-like formats, we use gcc's __attribute__((format)) to get compiler warnings when the functions are misused. Let's give a few more functions the same protection. In most cases, the annotations do not uncover any actual bugs; the only code change needed is that we passed a size_t to transfer_debug, which expected an int. Since we expect the passed-in value to be a relatively small buffer size (and cast a similar value to int directly below), we can just cast away the problem. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-24Merge branch 'mm/rm-coalesce-errors'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Give a single message followed by list of paths from "git rm" to report multiple paths that cannot be removed. * mm/rm-coalesce-errors: rm: introduce advice.rmHints to shorten messages rm: better error message on failure for multiple files
2013-06-18push: switch default from "matching" to "simple"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
We promised to change the behaviour of lazy "git push [there]" that does not say what to push on the command line from "matching" to "simple" in Git 2.0. This finally flips that bit. Helped-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-12rm: introduce advice.rmHints to shorten messagesLibravatar Mathieu Lienard--Mayor1-0/+1
Introduce advice.rmHints to choose whether to display advice or not when git rm fails. Defaults to true, in order to preserve current behavior. As an example, the message: error: 'foo.txt' has changes staged in the index (use --cached to keep the file, or -f to force removal) would look like, with advice.rmHints=false: error: 'foo.txt' has changes staged in the index Signed-off-by: Mathieu Lienard--Mayor <Mathieu.Lienard--Mayor@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Jorge Juan Garcia Garcia <Jorge-Juan.Garcia-Garcia@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-11Merge branch 'nd/warn-ambiguous-object-name'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
"git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string, directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just like we warn when more than one refs/ hierachies share the same name. * nd/warn-ambiguous-object-name: get_sha1: warn about full or short object names that look like refs
2013-05-29get_sha1: warn about full or short object names that look like refsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+1
When we get 40 hex digits, we immediately assume it's an SHA-1. This is the right thing to do because we have no way else to specify an object. If there is a ref with the same object name, it will be ignored. Warn the user about this case because the ref with full object name is likely a mistake, for example git checkout -b $empty_var $(git rev-parse something) advice.object_name_warning is not documented because frankly people should not be aware about it until they encounter this situation. While at there, warn about ambiguation with abbreviated SHA-1 too. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02branch: give advice when tracking start-point is missingLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
If the user requests to --set-upstream-to a branch that does not exist, then either: 1. It was a typo. 2. They thought the branch should exist. In case (1), there is not much we can do beyond showing the name we tried to use. For case (2), though, we can help to guide them through common workflows. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-21Merge branch 'tb/document-status-u-tradeoff'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Suggest users to look into using--untracked=no option when "git status" takes too long. * tb/document-status-u-tradeoff: status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long git status: document trade-offs in choosing parameters to the -u option
2013-03-16status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too longLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+1
Introduce advice.statusUoption to suggest considering use of -u to strike different trade-off when it took more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked/ignored files. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>