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2018-06-01Merge branch 'nd/command-list'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-32/+8
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
2018-05-21Move declaration for alias.c to alias.hLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+1
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 Duy1-32/+0
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>
2018-05-21help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsisLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+7
This lists all recognized commands [1] by category. The group order follows closely git.txt. [1] We may actually show commands that are not built (e.g. if you set NO_PERL you don't have git-instaweb but it's still listed here). I ignore the problem because on Linux a git package could be split anyway. The "git-core" package may not contain git-instaweb even if it's built because it may end up in a separate package. We can't know anyway. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-11exec_cmd: rename to use dash in file nameLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+1
This is more consistent with the project style. The majority of Git's source files use dashes in preference to underscores in their file names. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
2018-02-22help: rename 'new' variablesLibravatar Brandon Williams1-5/+5
Rename C++ keyword in order to bring the codebase closer to being able to be compiled with a C++ compiler. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-25Merge branch 'ks/help-alias-label'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git help co" now says "co is aliased to ...", not "git co is". * ks/help-alias-label: help: change a message to be more precise
2017-09-14help: change a message to be more preciseLibravatar Kaartic Sivaraam1-1/+1
When the user tries to use '--help' option on an aliased command information about the alias is printed as sshown below, $ git co --help `git co' is aliased to `checkout' This doesn't seem correct as the user has aliased only 'co' and not 'git co'. This might even be incorrect in cases in which the user has used an alias like 'tgit'. $ tgit co --help `git co' is aliased to `checkout' So, make the message more precise. Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-07help: release strbuf on error return in exec_woman_emacs()Libravatar Rene Scharfe1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-07help: release strbuf on error return in exec_man_man()Libravatar Rene Scharfe1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-07help: release strbuf on error return in exec_man_konqueror()Libravatar Rene Scharfe1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15config: don't include config.h by defaultLibravatar Brandon Williams1-0/+1
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include config.h in those files which require use of the config system. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-30help: introduce option --exclude-guidesLibravatar Ralf Thielow1-7/+23
Introduce option --exclude-guides to the help command. With this option being passed, "git help" will open man pages only for actual commands. Since we know it is a command, we can use function help_unknown_command to give the user advice on typos. Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-26Merge branch 'js/no-html-bypass-on-windows' into rt/help-unknownLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+0
* js/no-html-bypass-on-windows: Revert "display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API"
2016-08-19Revert "display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API"Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-7/+0
Since 4804aab (help (Windows): Display HTML in default browser using Windows' shell API, 2008-07-13), Git for Windows used to call `ShellExecute()` to launch the default Windows handler for `.html` files. The idea was to avoid going through a shell script, for performance reasons. However, this change ignores the `help.browser` config setting. Together with browsing help not being a performance-critical operation, let's just revert that patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-09builtin/help.c: use warning_errno()Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macrosLibravatar Jeff King1-6/+3
Using FLEX_ARRAY macros reduces the amount of manual computation size we have to do. It also ensures we don't overflow size_t, and it makes sure we write the same number of bytes that we allocated. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05convert strncpy to memcpyLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
strncpy is known to be a confusing function because of its termination semantics. These calls are all correct, but it takes some examination to see why. In particular, every one of them expects to copy up to the length limit, and then makes some arrangement for terminating the result. We can just use memcpy, along with noting explicitly how the result is terminated (if it is not already obvious). That should make it more clear to a reader that we are doing the right thing. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05help: clean up kfmclient mungingLibravatar Jeff King1-11/+4
When we are going to launch "/path/to/konqueror", we instead rewrite this into "/path/to/kfmclient" by duplicating the original string and writing over the ending bits. This can be done more obviously with strip_suffix and xstrfmt. Note that we also fix a subtle bug with the "filename" parameter, which is passed as argv[0] to the child. If the user has configured a program name with no directory component, we always pass the string "kfmclient", even if your program is called something else. But if you give a full path, we give the basename of that path. But more bizarrely, if we rewrite "konqueror" to "kfmclient", we still pass "konqueror". The history of this function doesn't reveal anything interesting, so it looks like just an oversight from combining the suffix-munging with the basename-finding. Let's just call basename on the munged path, which produces consistent results (if you gave a program, whether a full path or not, we pass its basename). Probably this doesn't matter at all in practice, but it makes the code slightly less confusing to read. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-25help: drop prepend function in favor of xstrfmtLibravatar Jeff King1-12/+2
This function predates xstrfmt, and its functionality is a subset. Let's just use xstrfmt. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-20Merge branch 'sb/leaks'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Code cleanup. * sb/leaks: builtin/help.c: fix memory leak bundle.c: fix memory leak connect.c: do not leak "conn" after showing diagnosis
2015-03-20Merge branch 'km/bsd-shells'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Portability fixes and workarounds for shell scripts have been added to help BSD-derived systems. * km/bsd-shells: t5528: do not fail with FreeBSD shell help.c: use SHELL_PATH instead of hard-coded "/bin/sh" git-compat-util.h: move SHELL_PATH default into header git-instaweb: use @SHELL_PATH@ instead of /bin/sh git-instaweb: allow running in a working tree subdirectory
2015-03-10builtin/help.c: fix memory leakLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-10help.c: use SHELL_PATH instead of hard-coded "/bin/sh"Libravatar Kyle J. McKay1-1/+1
If the user has set SHELL_PATH in the Makefile then we should respect that value and use it. Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-14standardize usage info string formatLibravatar Alex Henrie1-1/+1
This patch puts the usage info strings that were not already in docopt- like format into docopt-like format, which will be a litle easier for end users and a lot easier for translators. Changes include: - Placing angle brackets around fill-in-the-blank parameters - Putting dashes in multiword parameter names - Adding spaces to [-f|--foobar] to make [-f | --foobar] - Replacing <foobar>* with [<foobar>...] Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-22Merge branch 'jc/exec-cmd-system-path-leak-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
The function sometimes returned a non-freeable memory and some other times returned a piece of memory that must be freed. * jc/exec-cmd-system-path-leak-fix: system_path(): always return free'able memory to the caller
2014-11-30system_path(): always return free'able memory to the callerLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
The function sometimes returns a newly allocated string and sometimes returns a borrowed string, the latter of which the callers must not free(). The existing callers all assume that the return value belongs to the callee and most of them copy it with strdup() when they want to keep it around. They end up leaking the returned copy when the callee returned a new string because they cannot tell if they should free it. Change the contract between the callers and system_path() to make the returned string owned by the callers; they are responsible for freeing it when done, but they do not have to make their own copy to store it away. Adjust the callers to make sure they do not leak the returned string once they are done, but do not bother freeing it just before dying, exiting or exec'ing other program to avoid unnecessary churn. Reported-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-10doc: add 'everyday' to 'git help'Libravatar Philip Oakley1-0/+1
The "Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So" is not accessible via the Git help system. Move everyday.txt to giteveryday.txt so that "git help everyday" works, and create a new placeholder file everyday.html to refer people who follow existing URLs to the updated location. giteveryday.txt now formats well with AsciiDoc as a man page and refreshed content to a more command modern style. Add 'everyday' to the help --guides list and update git(1) and 5 other links to giteveryday. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-20run-command: introduce CHILD_PROCESS_INITLibravatar René Scharfe1-2/+1
Most struct child_process variables are cleared using memset first after declaration. Provide a macro, CHILD_PROCESS_INIT, that can be used to initialize them statically instead. That's shorter, doesn't require a function call and is slightly more readable (especially given that we already have STRBUF_INIT, ARGV_ARRAY_INIT etc.). Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-06builtin/help.c: speed up is_git_command() by checking for builtin commands firstLibravatar Sebastian Schuberth1-0/+3
Since 2dce956 is_git_command() is a bit slow as it does file I/O in the call to list_commands_in_dir(). Avoid the file I/O by adding an early check for the builtin commands. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-06builtin/help.c: call load_command_list() only when it is neededLibravatar Sebastian Schuberth1-1/+2
This avoids list_commands_in_dir() being called when not needed which is quite slow due to file I/O in order to list matching files in a directory. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-05replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()Libravatar Christian Couder1-4/+4
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API functions. The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this: $ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c | grep -v strbuf\\.c | xargs perl -pi -e ' s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g; s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g; s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g; s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g; ' on the result of preparatory changes in this series. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-26Merge branch 'ph/builtin-srcs-are-in-subdir-these-days'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+0
* ph/builtin-srcs-are-in-subdir-these-days: fix "builtin-*" references to be "builtin/*"
2013-06-18fix "builtin-*" references to be "builtin/*"Libravatar Phil Hord1-2/+0
Documentation and some comments still refer to files in builtin/ as 'builtin-*.[cho]'. Update these to show the correct location. Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Assisted-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-12help: mark common_guides[] as translatableLibravatar Simon Ruderich1-7/+7
Signed-off-by: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org> Acked-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02builtin/help.c: add list_common_guides_help() functionLibravatar Philip Oakley1-3/+33
This implements what "help -g" introduced in the previous step does. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02builtin/help.c: add --guide optionLibravatar Philip Oakley1-2/+8
Logic, but no actions, included. The --all commands option, if given, will display the list of available commands. The --guide option's list of guides will then be displayed. The common commands list is only displayed if neither option, nor a command or guide name, is given. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-02builtin/help.c: split "-a" processing into twoLibravatar Philip Oakley1-1/+7
"help -a" (help all) gives the list of available commands and then further gives hints on the use of "git help". Separate these into two steps, because we will add "help -g" (help guides) that want to also show the overall hints after it is done. While at it, change the definition of the "-a" option to use OPT_BOOL, not the deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN. We do not behave differently when the user gives the "-a" option multiple times, e.g. "git help -a -a". Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-04Merge branch 'jk/config-parsing-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+7
Configuration parsing for tar.* configuration variables were broken. Introduce a new config-keyname parser API to make the callers much less error prone. * jk/config-parsing-cleanup: reflog: use parse_config_key in config callback help: use parse_config_key for man config submodule: simplify memory handling in config parsing submodule: use parse_config_key when parsing config userdiff: drop parse_driver function convert some config callbacks to parse_config_key archive-tar: use parse_config_key when parsing config config: add helper function for parsing key names
2013-01-23help: use parse_config_key for man configLibravatar Jeff King1-7/+7
The resulting code ends up about the same length, but it is a little more self-explanatory. It now explicitly documents and checks the pre-condition that the incoming var starts with "man.", and drops the magic offset "4". Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-18help: include <common-cmds.h> only in one fileLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-18/+0
This header not only declares but also defines the contents of the array that holds the list of command names and help text. Do not include it in multiple places to waste text space. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-20i18n: help: mark parseopt strings for translationLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-5/+5
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-09Merge branch 'cw/help-over-network'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+15
"git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the default location where the build procedure installs them locally; the variable can even point at a http:// URL. * cw/help-over-network: Allow help.htmlpath to be a URL prefix Add config variable to set HTML path for git-help --web
2012-06-28Allow help.htmlpath to be a URL prefixLibravatar Chris Webb1-3/+5
Setting this to a URL prefix instead of a path to a local directory allows git-help --web to work even when HTML docs aren't locally installed, by pointing the browser at a copy accessible on the web. For example, [help] format = html htmlpath = http://git-scm.com/docs will use the publicly available documentation on the git homepage. Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-28Add config variable to set HTML path for git-help --webLibravatar Chris Webb1-1/+10
If set in git-config, help.htmlpath overrides system_path(GIT_HTML_PATH) which was compiled in. This allows users to repoint system-wide git at their own copy of the documentation without recompiling. Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-22Restore use of 'help.format' configuration property in 'git help'Libravatar Pat Thoyts1-3/+3
Commit 1cc8af0 "help: use HTML as the default help format on Windows" lost the ability to make use of the help.format config value by forcing the use of a compiled in default if no command-line argument was provided. This commit restores the use of the help.format value if one is available, overriding the compiled default. Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-06help: use HTML as the default help format on WindowsLibravatar Vincent van Ravesteijn1-1/+7
When 'git help $cmd' is run without a format option (e.g. -w), the 'man' format is always used. On some platforms, however, manual page viewers are not often available. Introduce DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT make variable in order to allow the default format configurable at compile time, and set it to HTML when compiling on Windows (but not Cygwin). Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-03Merge branch 'nd/columns'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output. By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1) * nd/columns: tag: add --column column: support piping stdout to external git-column process status: add --column branch: add --column help: reuse print_columns() for help -a column: add dense layout support t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1 column: add columnar layout Stop starting pager recursively Add column layout skeleton and git-column
2012-04-27help: reuse print_columns() for help -aLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+6
"help -a" also respects column.ui (and column.help if presents) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-25help: replace underlining "help -a" headers using hyphens with a blank lineLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
We used to underline a header text, like this: This is a header ---------------- content... But calculating text length so that the dashes align with the text could get complicated because the text could be in any charset in translated Git. There is no point to use this pseudo underline; simply a blank line would do and it even makes it easier to read: This is a header content... While at it, give translators more context to translate, e.g. e.g. "git commands available..." instead of "%s available..." Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>