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2005-11-16git's rev-parse.c function show_datestring presumes gnu dateLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-14/+1
Ok. This is the insane patch to do this. It really isn't very careful, and the reason I call it "approxidate()" will become obvious when you look at the code. It is very liberal in what it accepts, to the point where sometimes the results may not make a whole lot of sense. It accepts "last week" as a date string, by virtue of "last" parsing as the number 1, and it totally ignoring superfluous fluff like "ago", so "last week" ends up being exactly the same thing as "1 week ago". Fine so far. It has strange side effects: "last december" will actually parse as "Dec 1", which actually _does_ turn out right, because it will then notice that it's not December yet, so it will decide that you must be talking about a date last year. So it actually gets it right, but it's kind of for the "wrong" reasons. It also accepts the numbers 1..10 in string format ("one" .. "ten"), so you can do "ten weeks ago" or "ten hours ago" and it will do the right thing. But it will do some really strange thigns too: the string "this will last forever", will not recognize anyting but "last", which is recognized as "1", which since it doesn't understand anything else it will think is the day of the month. So if you do gitk --since="this will last forever" the date will actually parse as the first day of the current month. And it will parse the string "now" as "now", but only because it doesn't understand it at all, and it makes everything relative to "now". Similarly, it doesn't actually parse the "ago" or "from now", so "2 weeks ago" is exactly the same as "2 weeks from now". It's the current date minus 14 days. But hey, it's probably better (and certainly faster) than depending on GNU date. So now you can portably do things like gitk --since="two weeks and three days ago" git log --since="July 5" git-whatchanged --since="10 hours ago" git log --since="last october" and it will actually do exactly what you thought it would do (I think). It will count 17 days backwards, and it will do so even if you don't have GNU date installed. (I don't do "last monday" or similar yet, but I can extend it to that too if people want). It was kind of fun trying to write code that uses such totally relaxed "understanding" of dates yet tries to get it right for the trivial cases. The result should be mixed with a few strange preprocessor tricks, and be submitted for the IOCCC ;) Feel free to try it out, and see how many strange dates it gets right. Or wrong. And if you find some interesting (and valid - not "interesting" as in "strange", but "interesting" as in "I'd be interested in actually doing this) thing it gets wrong - usually by not understanding it and silently just doing some strange things - please holler. Now, as usual this certainly hasn't been getting a lot of testing. But my code always works, no? Linus Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-30Update git-rev-list options list in rev-parse.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28Be more careful about reference parsingLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
This does two things: - we don't allow "." and ".." as components of a refname. Thus get_sha1() will not accept "./refname" as being the same as "refname" any more. - git-rev-parse stops doing revision translation after seeing a pathname, to match the brhaviour of all the tools (once we see a pathname, everything else will also be parsed as a pathname). Basically, if you did git log * and "gitk" was somewhere in the "*", we don't want to replace the filename "gitk" with the SHA1 of the branch with the same name. Of course, if there is any change of ambiguity, you should always use "--" to make it explicit what are filenames and what are revisions, but this makes the normal cases sane. The refname rule also means that instead of the "--", you can do the same thing we're used to doing with filenames that start with a slash: use "./filename" instead, and now it's a filename, not an option (and not a revision). So "git log ./*.c" is now actually a perfectly valid thing to do, even if the first C-file might have the same name as a branch. Trivial test: git-rev-parse gitk ./gitk gitk should output something like 9843c3074dfbf57117565f6b7c93e3e6812857ee ./gitk gitk where the "./gitk" isn't seen as a revision, and the second "gitk" is a filename simply because we've seen filenames already, and thus stopped doing revision parsing. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-26git-rev-list: make --dense the default (and introduce "--sparse")Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
This actually does three things: - make "--dense" the default for git-rev-list. Since dense is a no-op if no filenames are given, this doesn't actually change any historical behaviour, but it's logically the right default (if we want to prune on filenames, do it fully. The sparse "merge-only" thing may be useful, but it's not what you'd normally expect) - make "git-rev-parse" show the default revision control before it shows any pathnames. This was a real bug, but nobody would ever have noticed, because the default thing tends to only make sense for git-rev-list, and git-rev-list didn't use to take pathnames. - it changes "git-rev-list" to match the other commands that take a mix of revisions and filenames - it no longer requires the "--" before filenames (although you still need to do it if a filename could be confused with a revision name, eg "gitk" in the git archive) This all just makes for much more pleasant and obvous usage. Just doing a gitk t/ does the obvious thing: it will show the history as it concerns the "t/" subdirectory. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-20git-rev-parse: pass on "--" flag when requiredLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+4
If rev-parse output includes both flags and files, we should pass on any "--" marker we see, so that the end result can also tell the difference between a flag and a filename that begins with '-'. [jc: merged a later one liner updates from Linus] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-18Avoid ambiguity between refname and filename in rev-parseLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-4/+8
Although it really is very convenient, not requiring explicit '-r' option to name revs is sometimes ambiguous. Usually we allow a "--" to say where a filename starts when it _is_ ambiguous. However, we fail that at times. In particular, git-rev-parse fails it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-05upload-pack: Do not choke on too many heads request.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Cloning from a repository with more than 256 refs (heads and tags included) will choke, because upload-pack has a built-in limit of feeding not more than MAX_NEEDS (currently 256) heads to underlying git-rev-list. This is a problem when cloning a repository with many tags, like http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git, which has 290+ tags. This commit introduces a new flag, --all, to git-rev-list, to include all refs in the repository. Updated upload-pack detects requests that ask more than MAX_NEEDS refs, and sends everything back instead. We may probably want to tweak the definitions of MAX_NEEDS and MAX_HAS, but that is a separate topic. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20[PATCH] Teach "git-rev-parse" about date-based cut-offsLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+41
This adds the options "--since=date" and "--before=date" to git-rev-parse, which knows how to translate them into seconds since the epoch for git-rev-list. With this, you can do git log --since="2 weeks ago" or git log --until=yesterday to show the commits that have happened in the last two weeks or are older than 24 hours, respectively. The flags "--after=" and "--before" are synonyms for --since and --until, and you can combine them, so git log --after="Aug 5" --before="Aug 10" is a valid (but strange) thing to do. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-18[PATCH] Add "--git-dir" flag to git-rev-parseLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+16
Especially when you're deep inside the git repository, it's not all that trivial for scripts to figure out where GIT_DIR is if it isn't set. So add a flag to git-rev-parse to show where it is, since it will have figured it out anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-24Rationalize output selection in rev-parse.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-67/+54
Earlier rounds broke 'whatchanged -p'. In attempting to fix this, make two axis of output selection in rev-parse orthogonal: --revs-only tells it not to output things that are not revisions nor flags that rev-list would take. --no-revs tells it not to output things that are revisions or flags that rev-list would take. --flags tells it not to output parameters that do not start with a '-'. --no-flags tells it not to output parameters that starts with a '-'. So for example 'rev-parse --no-revs -p arch/i386' would yield '-p arch/i386', while 'rev-parse --no-revs --flags -p archi/i386' would give just '-p'. Also the meaning of --verify has been made stronger. It now rejects anything but a single valid rev argument. Earlier it passed some flags through without complaining. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-23[PATCH] Fix git-rev-parse --default and --flags handlingLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
This makes the argument to --default and any --flags arguments should up correctly, and makes "--" together with --flags act sanely. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-17Add --symbolic flag to git-rev-parse.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+18
This is most useful with --all, --revs-only, --no-flags and --verify. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-16[PATCH] Make "git diff" work inside relative subdirectoriesLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+6
We always show the diff as an absolute path, but pathnames to diff are taken relative to the current working directory (and if no pathnames are given, the default ends up being all of the current working directory). Note that "../xyz" also works, so you can do cd linux/drivers/char git diff ../block and it will generate a diff of the linux/drivers/block changes. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-09Update rev-parse flags list.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
I haven't audited the rev-parse users, but I am having a feeling that many of them would choke when they expect a couple of SHA1 object names and malicious user feeds them "--max-count=6" or somesuch to shoot himself in the foot. Anyway, this adds a couple of missing parameters that affect the list of revs to be returned from rev-list, not the flags that affect how they are presented by rev-list. I think that is the intention, but I am not quite sure. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-05Update get_sha1() to grok extended format.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-183/+5
Everybody envies rev-parse, who is the only one that can grok the extended sha1 format. Move the get_extended_sha1() out of rev-parse, rename it to get_sha1() and make it available to everybody else. The one I posted earlier to the list had one bug where it did not handle a name that ends with a digit correctly (it incorrectly tried the "Nth parent" path). This commit fixes it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-07-22[PATCH] Help scripts that use git-rev-parse to grok args with SP/TAB/LFLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+31
The git-rev-parse command uses LF to separate each argument it parses, so its users at least need to set IFS to LF to be able to handle filenames with embedded SPs and TABs. Some commands, however, can take and do expect arguments with embedded LF, notably, "-S" (pickaxe) of diff family, so even this workaround does not work for them. When --sq flag to git-rev-parse is given, instead of showing one argument per line, it outputs arguments quoted for consumption with "eval" by the caller, to remedy this situation. As an example, this patch converts git-whatchanged to use this new feature. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-11git-rev-parse: Allow a "zeroth" parent of a commit - the commit itself.Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+5
This sounds nonsensical, but it's useful to make sure that the result is a commit. For example, "git-rev-parse v2.6.12" will return the _tag_ object for v2.6.12, but "git-rev-parse v2.6.12^0" will return the _commit_ object associated with that tag (and v2.6.12^1 will return the first parent). Also, since the "parent" code will actually parse the commit, this, together with the "--verify" flag, will verify not only that the result is a single SHA1, but will also have verified that it's a proper commit that we can see.
2005-07-06Add "--flags" and "--no-flags" arguments to git-rev-parseLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+14
The scripts that use this (notably "git diff") will want to split up flags and file arguments.
2005-07-03git-rev-parse: support show sha1 names for pack entriesLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+49
This is actually subtly wrong. If a short match is found in the object directory, but would _also_ match another SHA1 ID in a pack (or it shows in one pack but not another), we'll never have done the pack lookup, and we think it's unique. I can't find it in myself to care. You really want to use enough of a SHA1 that there is never any ambiguity.
2005-07-03Make git-rev-parse support cogito-style "short hex names"Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-3/+76
Currently only for unpacked objects, but the infrastructure is there to do it for packed objects too.
2005-07-03Add "--all" flag to rev-parse that shows all refsLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+12
And make git-rev-list just silently ignore non-commit refs if we're not asking for all objects.
2005-06-26git-rev-parse: add "--not" flag to mark subsequent heads negativeLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-15/+15
If you have two lists of heads, and you want to see ones reachable from list $a but not from list $b, just do git-rev-list $(git-rev-parse $a --not $b) which is useful for both bisecting (where "b" would be the list of known good revisions, and "a" would be the latest found bad head) and for just seeing what the difference between two sets of heads are if you want to generate a pack-file for the difference.
2005-06-24git-rev-parse: re-organize and be more carefulLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-26/+81
Output default revisions as their hex SHA1 names to be consistent. Add "--verify" flag that verifies that we output a single ref and not more (and disables ref arguments).
2005-06-20Change parent syntax to "xyz^" instead of "xyz.p"Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-5/+5
The ".pN" thing might be a common ending of a tag, and in contrast, ^ already is a special character for revisions so use that instead.
2005-06-20Make rev-parse understand "extended sha1" syntaxLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-4/+57
You can say "HEAD.p" for the "parent of HEAD". It nests, so HEAD.p2.p means parent of second parent of HEAD (which obviously depends on HEAD being a merge).
2005-06-20git-rev-parse: flush "default" head when encountering something unexpectedLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+4
The unexpected thing is likely a pathname, we need the default for that too.
2005-06-20git-rev-parse: parse ".." before simple SHA1'sLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-14/+14
This fixes "<hexsha1>..*", since get_sha1() will happily ignore any garbage at the end and thus we never got to the ".." check before.
2005-06-13Teach git-rev-parse about revision-specifying argumentsLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-2/+31
Things like "--max-count=xxx" are "rev-only".
2005-06-13git-rev-parse: split "revs" and "non-revs"Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-2/+25
Sometimes we only want to output revisions, and sometimes we want to only see the stuff that wasn't revisions. Teach git-rev-parse to understand the "--revs-only" and "--no-revs" flags.
2005-06-13Add 'git-rev-parse' helper scriptLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+70
It's an incredibly cheesy helper that changes human-readable revision arguments into the git-rev-list argument format. You can use it to do something like this: git-rev-list --pretty $(git-rev-parse --default HEAD "$@") which is what git-log-script will become. Here git-rev-parse will then allow you to use arguments like "v2.6.12-rc5.." or similar human-readable ranges. It's really quite stupid: "a..b" will be converted into "a" and "^b" if "a" and "b" are valid object pointers. And the "--default" case will be used if nothing but flags have been seen, so that you can default to a certain argument if there are no other ranges.