Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:19 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jt/batch-fetch-blobs-in-diff'
While running "git diff" in a lazy clone, we can upfront know which
missing blobs we will need, instead of waiting for the on-demand
machinery to discover them one by one. Aim to achieve better
performance by batching the request for these promised blobs.
* jt/batch-fetch-blobs-in-diff:
diff: batch fetching of missing blobs
sha1-file: support OBJECT_INFO_FOR_PREFETCH
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:18 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ab/gc-docs'
Update docs around "gc".
* ab/gc-docs:
gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0
gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects
gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import"
gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive
gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth
gc docs: fix formatting for "gc.writeCommitGraph"
gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config"
gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc"
gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold"
gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags
gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc"
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:18 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'dl/submodule-set-branch'
"git submodule" learns "set-branch" subcommand that allows the
submodule.*.branch settings to be modified.
* dl/submodule-set-branch:
submodule: teach set-branch subcommand
submodule--helper: teach config subcommand --unset
git-submodule.txt: "--branch <branch>" option defaults to 'master'
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:18 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jk/revision-rewritten-parents-in-prio-queue'
Performance fix for "rev-list --parents -- pathspec".
* jk/revision-rewritten-parents-in-prio-queue:
revision: use a prio_queue to hold rewritten parents
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:17 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'dk/blame-keep-origin-blob'
Performance fix around "git blame", especially in a linear history
(which is the norm we should optimize for).
* dk/blame-keep-origin-blob:
blame.c: don't drop origin blobs as eagerly
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:17 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'bc/hash-transition-16'
Conversion from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/hash-transition-16: (35 commits)
gitweb: make hash size independent
Git.pm: make hash size independent
read-cache: read data in a hash-independent way
dir: make untracked cache extension hash size independent
builtin/difftool: use parse_oid_hex
refspec: make hash size independent
archive: convert struct archiver_args to object_id
builtin/get-tar-commit-id: make hash size independent
get-tar-commit-id: parse comment record
hash: add a function to lookup hash algorithm by length
remote-curl: make hash size independent
http: replace sha1_to_hex
http: compute hash of downloaded objects using the_hash_algo
http: replace hard-coded constant with the_hash_algo
http-walker: replace sha1_to_hex
http-push: remove remaining uses of sha1_to_hex
http-backend: allow 64-character hex names
http-push: convert to use the_hash_algo
builtin/pull: make hash-size independent
builtin/am: make hash size independent
...
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:16 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'en/fast-import-parsing-fix'
"git fast-import" update.
* en/fast-import-parsing-fix:
fast-import: fix erroneous handling of get-mark with empty orphan commits
fast-import: only allow cat-blob requests where it makes sense
fast-import: check most prominent commands first
git-fast-import.txt: fix wording about where ls command can appear
t9300: demonstrate bug with get-mark and empty orphan commits
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:16 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jt/fetch-no-update-shallow-in-proto-v2'
Fix for protocol v2 support in "git fetch-pack" of shallow clones.
* jt/fetch-no-update-shallow-in-proto-v2:
fetch-pack: respect --no-update-shallow in v2
fetch-pack: call prepare_shallow_info only if v0
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:16 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jt/fetch-pack-wanted-refs-optim'
Performance fix around "git fetch" that grabs many refs.
* jt/fetch-pack-wanted-refs-optim:
fetch-pack: binary search when storing wanted-refs
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:15 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ab/test-lib-pass-trace2-env'
Allow tracing of Git executable while running the testsuite.
* ab/test-lib-pass-trace2-env:
test-lib: whitelist GIT_TR2_* in the environment
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:15 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'sg/index-pack-progress'
A progress indicator has been added to the "index-pack" step, which
often makes users wait for completion during "git clone".
* sg/index-pack-progress:
index-pack: show progress while checking objects
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:15 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ab/commit-graph-fixes'
Code cleanup with more careful error checking before using data
read from the commit-graph file.
* ab/commit-graph-fixes:
commit-graph: improve & i18n error messages
commit-graph write: don't die if the existing graph is corrupt
commit-graph verify: detect inability to read the graph
commit-graph: don't pass filename to load_commit_graph_one_fd_st()
commit-graph: don't early exit(1) on e.g. "git status"
commit-graph: fix segfault on e.g. "git status"
commit-graph tests: test a graph that's too small
commit-graph tests: split up corrupt_graph_and_verify()
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:14 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ab/gc-reflog'
Fix various glitches in "git gc" around reflog handling.
* ab/gc-reflog:
gc: handle & check gc.reflogExpire config
reflog tests: assert lack of early exit with expiry="never"
reflog tests: test for the "points nowhere" warning
reflog tests: make use of "test_config" idiom
gc: refactor a "call me once" pattern
gc: convert to using the_hash_algo
gc: remove redundant check for gc_auto_threshold
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:14 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/checkout-m'
"git checkout -m <other>" was about carrying the differences
between HEAD and the working-tree files forward while checking out
another branch, and ignored the differences between HEAD and the
index. The command has been taught to abort when the index and the
HEAD are different.
* nd/checkout-m:
checkout: prevent losing staged changes with --merge
read-tree: add --quiet
unpack-trees: rename "gently" flag to "quiet"
unpack-trees: keep gently check inside add_rejected_path
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:14 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'js/difftool-no-index'
"git difftool" can now run outside a repository.
* js/difftool-no-index:
difftool: allow running outside Git worktrees with --no-index
parse-options: make OPT_ARGUMENT() more useful
difftool: remove obsolete (and misleading) comment
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:13 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'pw/cherry-pick-continue'
"git cherry-pick --options A..B", after giving control back to the
user to ask help resolving a conflicted step, did not honor the
options it originally received, which has been corrected.
* pw/cherry-pick-continue:
cherry-pick --continue: remember options
cherry-pick: demonstrate option amnesia
sequencer: break some long lines
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:13 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/commit-a-with-paths-msg-update'
The message given when "git commit -a <paths>" errors out has been
updated.
* nd/commit-a-with-paths-msg-update:
commit: improve error message in "-a <paths>" case
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:13 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jk/server-info-rabbit-hole'
Code clean-up around a much-less-important-than-it-used-to-be
update_server_info() funtion.
* jk/server-info-rabbit-hole:
update_info_refs(): drop unused force parameter
server-info: drop objdirlen pointer arithmetic
server-info: drop nr_alloc struct member
server-info: use strbuf to read old info/packs file
server-info: simplify cleanup in parse_pack_def()
server-info: fix blind pointer arithmetic
http: simplify parsing of remote objects/info/packs
packfile: fix pack basename computation
midx: check both pack and index names for containment
t5319: drop useless --buffer from cat-file
t5319: fix bogus cat-file argument
pack-revindex: open index if necessary
packfile.h: drop extern from function declarations
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:12 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt-4'
Fourth batch to teach the diff machinery to use the parse-options
API.
* nd/diff-parseopt-4:
am: avoid diff_opt_parse()
diff --no-index: use parse_options() instead of diff_opt_parse()
range-diff: use parse_options() instead of diff_opt_parse()
diff.c: allow --no-color-moved-ws
diff-parseopt: convert --color-moved-ws
diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]color-moved
diff-parseopt: convert --inter-hunk-context
diff-parseopt: convert --no-prefix
diff-parseopt: convert --line-prefix
diff-parseopt: convert --[src|dst]-prefix
diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]abbrev
diff-parseopt: convert --diff-filter
diff-parseopt: convert --find-object
diff-parseopt: convert -O
diff-parseopt: convert --pickaxe-all|--pickaxe-regex
diff-parseopt: convert -S|-G
diff-parseopt: convert -l
diff-parseopt: convert -z
diff-parseopt: convert --ita-[in]visible-in-index
diff-parseopt: convert --ws-error-highlight
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:12 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jk/unused-params-even-more'
Code cleanup.
* jk/unused-params-even-more:
parse_opt_ref_sorting: always use with NONEG flag
pretty: drop unused strbuf from parse_padding_placeholder()
pretty: drop unused "type" parameter in needs_rfc2047_encoding()
parse-options: drop unused ctx parameter from show_gitcomp()
fetch_pack(): drop unused parameters
report_path_error(): drop unused prefix parameter
unpack-trees: drop unused error_type parameters
unpack-trees: drop name_entry from traverse_by_cache_tree()
test-date: drop unused "now" parameter from parse_dates()
update-index: drop unused prefix_length parameter from do_reupdate()
log: drop unused "len" from show_tagger()
log: drop unused rev_info from early output
revision: drop some unused "revs" parameters
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:12 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'sg/test-atexit'
Test framework update to more robustly clean up leftover files and
processes after tests are done.
* sg/test-atexit:
t9811-git-p4-label-import: fix pipeline negation
git p4 test: disable '-x' tracing in the p4d watchdog loop
git p4 test: simplify timeout handling
git p4 test: clean up the p4d cleanup functions
git p4 test: use 'test_atexit' to kill p4d and the watchdog process
t0301-credential-cache: use 'test_atexit' to stop the credentials helper
tests: use 'test_atexit' to stop httpd
git-daemon: use 'test_atexit` to stop 'git-daemon'
test-lib: introduce 'test_atexit'
t/lib-git-daemon: make sure to kill the 'git-daemon' process
test-lib: fix interrupt handling with 'dash' and '--verbose-log -x'
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:11 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ag/sequencer-reduce-rewriting-todo'
The scripted version of "git rebase -i" wrote and rewrote the todo
list many times during a single step of its operation, and the
recent C-rewrite made a faithful conversion of the logic to C. The
implementation has been updated to carry necessary information
around in-core to avoid rewriting the same file over and over
unnecessarily.
* ag/sequencer-reduce-rewriting-todo:
rebase--interactive: move transform_todo_file()
sequencer: use edit_todo_list() in complete_action()
rebase-interactive: rewrite edit_todo_list() to handle the initial edit
rebase-interactive: append_todo_help() changes
rebase-interactive: use todo_list_write_to_file() in edit_todo_list()
sequencer: refactor skip_unnecessary_picks() to work on a todo_list
rebase--interactive: move rearrange_squash_in_todo_file()
rebase--interactive: move sequencer_add_exec_commands()
sequencer: change complete_action() to use the refactored functions
sequencer: make sequencer_make_script() write its script to a strbuf
sequencer: refactor rearrange_squash() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: refactor sequencer_add_exec_commands() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: refactor check_todo_list() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: introduce todo_list_write_to_file()
sequencer: refactor transform_todos() to work on a todo_list
sequencer: remove the 'arg' field from todo_item
sequencer: make the todo_list structure public
sequencer: changes in parse_insn_buffer()
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:41:10 +0000 (16:41 +0900)]
Merge branch 'bp/post-index-change-hook'
A new hook "post-index-change" is called when the on-disk index
file changes, which can help e.g. a virtualized working tree
implementation.
* bp/post-index-change-hook:
read-cache: add post-index-change hook
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:24 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
The sixth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:48 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'da/smerge'
"git mergetool" learned to offer Sublime Merge (smerge) as one of
its backends.
* da/smerge:
contrib/completion: add smerge to the mergetool completion candidates
mergetools: add support for smerge (Sublime Merge)
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:47 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'dl/flex-str-cocci'
Code clean-up.
* dl/flex-str-cocci:
cocci: FLEX_ALLOC_MEM to FLEX_ALLOC_STR
midx.c: convert FLEX_ALLOC_MEM to FLEX_ALLOC_STR
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:47 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'js/spell-out-options-in-tests'
The tests have been updated not to rely on the abbreviated option
names the parse-options API offers, to protect us from an
abbreviated form of an option that used to be unique within the
command getting non-unique when a new option that share the same
prefix is added.
* js/spell-out-options-in-tests:
tests: disallow the use of abbreviated options (by default)
tests (pack-objects): use the full, unabbreviated `--revs` option
tests (status): spell out the `--find-renames` option in full
tests (push): do not abbreviate the `--follow-tags` option
t5531: avoid using an abbreviated option
t7810: do not abbreviate `--no-exclude-standard` nor `--invert-match`
tests (rebase): spell out the `--force-rebase` option
tests (rebase): spell out the `--keep-empty` option
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:47 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/read-tree-reset-doc'
The documentation for "git read-tree --reset -u" has been updated.
* nd/read-tree-reset-doc:
read-tree.txt: clarify --reset and worktree changes
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:47 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/interpret-trailers-docfix'
Doc update.
* nd/interpret-trailers-docfix:
interpret-trailers.txt: start the desc line with a capital letter
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:46 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'sg/asciidoctor-in-ci'
Update our support to format documentation in the CI environment,
either with AsciiDoc ro Asciidoctor.
* sg/asciidoctor-in-ci:
ci: fix AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor stderr check in the documentation build job
ci: stick with Asciidoctor v1.5.8 for now
ci: install Asciidoctor in 'ci/install-dependencies.sh'
Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt: fix formatting
Documentation/technical/api-config.txt: fix formatting
Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt: fix formatting
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:46 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'tz/asciidoctor-fixes'
Doc updates.
* tz/asciidoctor-fixes:
Documentation/git-status: fix titles in porcelain v2 section
Documentation/rev-list-options: wrap --date=<format> block with "--"
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:46 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'js/check-docs-exe'
Dev support update.
* js/check-docs-exe:
check-docs: fix for setups where executables have an extension
check-docs: do not expect guide pages to correspond to commands
check-docs: really look at the documented commands again
docs: do not document the `git remote-testgit` command
docs: move gitremote-helpers into section 7
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:45 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/include-if-wildmatch'
A buglet in configuration parser has been fixed.
* nd/include-if-wildmatch:
config: correct '**' matching in includeIf patterns
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:45 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'cb/doco-mono'
Clean-up markup in the documentation suite.
* cb/doco-mono:
doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace.
doc/CodingGuidelines: URLs and paths as monospace
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:45 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'tg/stash-in-c-show-default-to-p-fix'
A regression fix.
* tg/stash-in-c-show-default-to-p-fix:
stash: setup default diff output format if necessary
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:44 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'js/stash-in-c-pathspec-fix'
Further fixes to "git stash" reimplemented in C.
* js/stash-in-c-pathspec-fix:
stash: pass pathspec as pointer
built-in stash: handle :(glob) pathspecs again
legacy stash: fix "rudimentary backport of -q"
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:44 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'tb/stash-in-c-unused-param-fix'
Code clean-up.
* tb/stash-in-c-unused-param-fix:
stash: drop unused parameter
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:14:43 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ps/stash-in-c'
"git stash" rewritten in C.
* ps/stash-in-c: (28 commits)
tests: add a special setup where stash.useBuiltin is off
stash: optionally use the scripted version again
stash: add back the original, scripted `git stash`
stash: convert `stash--helper.c` into `stash.c`
stash: replace all `write-tree` child processes with API calls
stash: optimize `get_untracked_files()` and `check_changes()`
stash: convert save to builtin
stash: make push -q quiet
stash: convert push to builtin
stash: convert create to builtin
stash: convert store to builtin
stash: convert show to builtin
stash: convert list to builtin
stash: convert pop to builtin
stash: convert branch to builtin
stash: convert drop and clear to builtin
stash: convert apply to builtin
stash: mention options in `show` synopsis
stash: add tests for `git stash show` config
stash: rename test cases to be more descriptive
...
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:33:35 +0000 (19:33 +0900)]
The fifth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:12 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'sg/t5318-cleanup'
Code cleanup.
* sg/t5318-cleanup:
t5318-commit-graph: remove unused variable
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:12 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jt/t5551-protocol-v2-does-not-have-half-auth'
Test update.
* jt/t5551-protocol-v2-does-not-have-half-auth:
t5551: mark half-auth no-op fetch test as v0-only
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:11 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jk/http-walker-status-fix'
dumb-http walker has been updated to share more error recovery
strategy with the normal codepath.
* jk/http-walker-status-fix:
http: use normalize_curl_result() instead of manual conversion
http: normalize curl results for dumb loose and alternates fetches
http: factor out curl result code normalization
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:11 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jh/midx-verify-too-many-packs'
"git multi-pack-index verify" did not scale well with the number of
packfiles, which is being improved.
* jh/midx-verify-too-many-packs:
midx: during verify group objects by packfile to speed verification
midx: add progress indicators in multi-pack-index verify
trace2:data: add trace2 data to midx
progress: add sparse mode to force 100% complete message
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:11 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'bb/unicode-12'
Unicode update.
* bb/unicode-12:
unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 12
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:11 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jk/refs-double-abort'
A corner case bug in the refs API has been corrected.
* jk/refs-double-abort:
refs/files-backend: don't look at an aborted transaction
refs/files-backend: handle packed transaction prepare failure
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:10 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/checkout-m-doc-update'
Doc about the above.
* nd/checkout-m-doc-update:
checkout.txt: note about losing staged changes with --merge
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:10 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'tb/trace2-va-list-fix'
Fix some code that passed a NULL when a va_list was expected.
* tb/trace2-va-list-fix:
trace2: NULL is not allowed for va_list
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:09 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'tz/completion'
The completion helper code now pays attention to repository-local
configuration (when available), which allows --list-cmds to honour
a repository specific setting of completion.commands, for example.
* tz/completion:
completion: use __git when calling --list-cmds
completion: fix multiple command removals
t9902: test multiple removals via completion.commands
git: read local config in --list-cmds
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:09 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ma/doc-diff-doc-vs-doctor-comparison'
Dev support update to make it easier to compare two formatted
results from our documentation.
* ma/doc-diff-doc-vs-doctor-comparison:
doc-diff: add `--cut-header-footer`
doc-diff: support diffing from/to AsciiDoc(tor)
doc-diff: let `render_tree()` take an explicit directory name
Doc: auto-detect changed build flags
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:09 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'tz/t4038-bash-redirect-target-workaround'
Work-around extra warning from bash in our tests.
* tz/t4038-bash-redirect-target-workaround:
t4038-diff-combined: quote paths with whitespace
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:09 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ab/drop-scripted-rebase'
Retire scripted "git rebase" implementation.
* ab/drop-scripted-rebase:
rebase: remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:08 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jk/perf-lib-tee'
Code cleanup in the test framework.
* jk/perf-lib-tee:
perf-lib.sh: rely on test-lib.sh for --tee handling
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:08 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ab/doc-misc-typofixes'
Typofixes.
* ab/doc-misc-typofixes:
doc: fix typos in man pages
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:08 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'mh/pack-protocol-doc-fix'
Docfix.
* mh/pack-protocol-doc-fix:
fix pack protocol example client/server communication
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:07 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'tg/glossary-overlay'
Doc update.
* tg/glossary-overlay:
glossary: add definition for overlay
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:07 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/checkout-f-while-conflicted-fix'
"git checkout -f <branch>" while the index has an unmerged path
incorrectly left some paths in an unmerged state, which has been
corrected.
* nd/checkout-f-while-conflicted-fix:
unpack-trees: fix oneway_merge accidentally carry over stage index
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:07 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'pw/rerere-autoupdate'
Doc updates.
* pw/rerere-autoupdate:
merge: tweak --rerere-autoupdate documentation
am/cherry-pick/rebase/revert: document --rerere-autoupdate
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:06 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jc/format-patch-error-check'
"git format-patch" used overwrite an existing patch/cover-letter
file. A new "--no-clobber" option stops it.
* jc/format-patch-error-check:
format-patch: notice failure to open cover letter for writing
builtin/log: downcase the beginning of error messages
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:06 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'js/get-short-oid-drop-cache'
A corner-case object name ambiguity while the sequencer machinery
is working (e.g. "rebase -i -x") has been (half) fixed.
* js/get-short-oid-drop-cache:
get_oid(): when an object was not found, try harder
sequencer: move stale comment into correct location
sequencer: improve error message when an OID could not be parsed
rebase -i: demonstrate obscure loose object cache bug
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:06 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'dl/subtree-limit-to-one-rev'
"git subtree" (in contrib/) update.
* dl/subtree-limit-to-one-rev:
contrib/subtree: ensure only one rev is provided
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:05 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'js/init-db-update-for-mingw'
"git init" forgot to read platform-specific repository
configuration, which made Windows port to ignore settings of
core.hidedotfiles, for example.
* js/init-db-update-for-mingw:
mingw: respect core.hidedotfiles = false in git-init again
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:05 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'js/remote-curl-i18n'
Error messages given from the http transport have been updated so
that they can be localized.
* js/remote-curl-i18n:
remote-curl: mark all error messages for translation
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:04 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'js/anonymize-remote-curl-diag'
remote-http transport did not anonymize URLs reported in its error
messages at places.
* js/anonymize-remote-curl-diag:
curl: anonymize URLs in error messages and warnings
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:04 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more'
Documentation mark-up fixes.
* ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more:
Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces
git-svn.txt: drop escaping '\' that ends up being rendered
git.txt: remove empty line before list continuation
config/fsck.txt: avoid starting line with dash
config/diff.txt: drop spurious backtick
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:03 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ma/asciidoctor-fixes'
Build fix around use of asciidoctor instead of asciidoc
* ma/asciidoctor-fixes:
asciidoctor-extensions: fix spurious space after linkgit
Documentation/Makefile: add missing dependency on asciidoctor-extensions
Documentation/Makefile: add missing xsl dependencies for manpages
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:03 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jt/test-protocol-version'
Help developers by making it easier to run most of the tests under
different versions of over-the-wire protocols.
* jt/test-protocol-version:
t5552: compensate for v2 filtering ref adv.
tests: fix protocol version for overspecifications
t5700: only run with protocol version 1
t5512: compensate for v0 only sending HEAD symrefs
t5503: fix overspecification of trace expectation
tests: always test fetch of unreachable with v0
t5601: check ssh command only with protocol v0
tests: define GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:28:03 +0000 (19:28 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt-3'
Third batch to teach the diff machinery to use the parse-options
API.
* nd/diff-parseopt-3:
diff-parseopt: convert --submodule
diff-parseopt: convert --ignore-submodules
diff-parseopt: convert --textconv
diff-parseopt: convert --ext-diff
diff-parseopt: convert --quiet
diff-parseopt: convert --exit-code
diff-parseopt: convert --color-words
diff-parseopt: convert --word-diff-regex
diff-parseopt: convert --word-diff
diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]color
diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]follow
diff-parseopt: convert -R
diff-parseopt: convert -a|--text
diff-parseopt: convert --full-index
diff-parseopt: convert --binary
diff-parseopt: convert --anchored
diff-parseopt: convert --diff-algorithm
diff-parseopt: convert --histogram
diff-parseopt: convert --patience
diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]indent-heuristic
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:14:07 +0000 (14:14 -0400)]
update_info_refs(): drop unused force parameter
Once upon a time the force flag meant something when writing info/refs,
but it hasn't done anything since
60d0526aaa (Unoptimize info/refs
creation., 2005-09-14).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:14:04 +0000 (14:14 -0400)]
server-info: drop objdirlen pointer arithmetic
When writing objects/info/packs, we use the basename of each pack
(i.e., just the "pack-
1234abcd.pack" part). We compute that manually by
adding "objdirlen + 6" to the name.
This _should_ work consistently, as we do not include non-local packs,
meaning everything should be in $objdir/pack/. Before
f13d7db4af
(server-info.c: use pack_local like everybody else., 2005-12-05), this
was definitely true, since we computed "local" based on comparing the
objdir string. Since then, we're relying on the code on packfile.c to
match our expectations of p->pack_name and p->local.
I think our expectations do still hold today, but we can be a bit more
defensive by just using pack_basename() to get the base. That
future-proofs us, and should hopefully be more obviously safe to
somebody reading the code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:14:00 +0000 (14:14 -0400)]
server-info: drop nr_alloc struct member
We keep an array of struct pointers, with each one representing a single
packfile. But for some reason there is a nr_alloc parameter inside each
struct, which has never been used.
This is probably cruft left over from development, where we might have
wanted a nr_alloc to dynamically grow the list. But as it turns out, we
do not dynamically grow the list at all, but rather count up the total
number of packs and use that as a maximum size. So while we're thinking
of this, let's add an assert() that documents (and checks!) that our
allocation and fill loops stay in sync.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:13:56 +0000 (14:13 -0400)]
server-info: use strbuf to read old info/packs file
This old code uses fgets with a fixed-size buffer. Let's use a strbuf
instead, so we don't have to wonder if "1000" is big enough, or what
happens if we see a long line.
This also lets us drop our custom code to trim the newline.
Probably nobody actually cares about the 1000-char limit (after all, the
lines generally only say "P pack-[0-9a-f]{40}.pack"), so this is mostly
just about cleanup/readability.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:13:14 +0000 (14:13 -0400)]
server-info: simplify cleanup in parse_pack_def()
We have two exits from the function: either we jump to the out_stale
label or not. But in both exits we repeat our cleanup, and the only
difference is our return value. Let's just use a variable for the return
value to avoid repeating ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:13:10 +0000 (14:13 -0400)]
server-info: fix blind pointer arithmetic
When we're writing out a new objects/info/packs file, we read back the
old one to try to keep the ordering the same. When we see a line
starting with "P", we expect "P pack-1234..." and blindly jump to "line
+ 2" to parse the pack name. If we saw a line with _just_ "P" and
nothing else, we'd jump past the end of the buffer and start reading
arbitrary memory.
This shouldn't be a big attack vector, as the files are local to the
repository and written by us, but it's clearly worth fixing (we do read
remote copies of the file for dumb-http fetches, but using a totally
different parser!).
Let's instead use skip_prefix() here, which avoids pointer arithmetic
altogether. Note that this converts our switch statement to an if/else
chain, making it slightly more verbose. But it will also make it easier
to do a few follow-on cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:12:55 +0000 (14:12 -0400)]
http: simplify parsing of remote objects/info/packs
We can use skip_prefix() and parse_oid_hex() to continuously increment
our pointer, rather than dealing with magic numbers. This also fixes a
few small shortcomings:
- if we see a line with the right prefix, suffix, and length, i.e.
matching /P pack-.{40}.pack\n/, we'll interpret the middle part as
hex without checking if it could be parsed. This could lead to us
looking at uninitialized garbage in the hash array. In practice this
means we'll just make a garbage request to the server which will
fail, though it's interesting that a malicious server could convince
us to leak 40 bytes of uninitialized stack to them.
- the current code is picky about seeing a newline at the end of file,
but we can easily be more liberal
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:06:22 +0000 (14:06 -0400)]
packfile: fix pack basename computation
When we have a multi-pack-index that covers many packfiles, we try to
avoid opening the .idx for those packfiles. To do that we feed the pack
name to midx_contains_pack(). But that function wants to see only the
basename, which we compute using strrchr() to find the final slash. But
that leaves an extra "/" at the start of our string.
We can fix this by incrementing the pointer. That also raises the
question of what to do when the name does not have a '/' at all. This
should generally not happen (we always find files in "pack/"), but it
doesn't hurt to be defensive here.
Let's wrap all of that up in a helper function and make it publicly
available, since a later patch will need to use it, too.
The tests don't notice because there's nothing about opening those .idx
files that would cause us to give incorrect output. It's just a little
slower. The new test checks this case by corrupting the covered .idx,
and then making sure we don't complain about it.
We also have to tweak t5570, which intentionally corrupts a .idx file
and expects us to notice it. When run with GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX,
this will fail since we now will (correctly) not bother opening the .idx
at all. We can fix that by unconditionally dropping any midx that's
there, which ensures we'll have to read the .idx.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:06:04 +0000 (14:06 -0400)]
midx: check both pack and index names for containment
A midx file (and the struct we parse from it) contains a list of all of
the covered packfiles, mentioned by their ".idx" names (e.g.,
"pack-1234.idx", etc). And thus calls to midx_contains_pack() expect
callers to provide the idx name.
This works for most of the calls, but the one in open_packed_git_1()
tries to feed a packed_git->pack_name, which is the ".pack" name,
meaning we'll never find a match (even if the pack is covered by the
midx).
We can fix this by converting the ".pack" to ".idx" in the caller.
However, that requires allocating a new string. Instead, let's make
midx_contains_pack() a bit friendlier, and allow it take _either_ the
.pack or .idx variant.
All cleverness in the matching code is credited to René. Bugs are mine.
There's no test here, because while this does fix _a_ bug, it's masked
by another bug in that same caller. That will be covered (with a test)
in the next patch.
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:05:03 +0000 (14:05 -0400)]
t5319: drop useless --buffer from cat-file
The cat-file --buffer option is the default already when using
--batch-all-objects. It doesn't hurt to specify it, but it's nice for
the test scripts to model good usage.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:04:56 +0000 (14:04 -0400)]
t5319: fix bogus cat-file argument
There's no such argument as "--unsorted"; it's spelled "--unordered".
But our test failed to notice that cat-file didn't run at all because:
1. It lost the exit code of git on the left-hand side of a pipe.
2. It was comparing two runs of the broken invocation with and without
a particular config variable (and indeed, both cases produced no
output!).
Let's fix the option, but also tweak the helper function to check the
exit code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:04:24 +0000 (14:04 -0400)]
pack-revindex: open index if necessary
We can't create a pack revindex if we haven't actually looked at the
index. Normally we would never get as far as creating a revindex without
having already been looking in the pack, so this code never bothered to
double-check that pack->index_data had been loaded.
But with the new multi-pack-index feature, many code paths might not
load the individual pack .idx at all (they'd find objects via the midx
and then open the .pack, but not its index).
This can't yet be triggered in practice, because a bug in the midx code
means we accidentally open up the individual .idx files anyway. But in
preparation for fixing that, let's have the revindex code check that
everything it needs has been loaded.
In most cases this will just be a quick noop. But note that this does
introduce a possibility of error (if we have to open the index and it's
corrupt), so load_pack_revindex() now returns a result code, and callers
need to handle the error.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:03:41 +0000 (14:03 -0400)]
packfile.h: drop extern from function declarations
As CodingGuidelines recommends, we do not need an "extern" when
declaring a public function. Let's drop these. Note that we leave the
extern on report_garbage(), as that is actually a function pointer, not
a function itself.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Schindelin [Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:37:24 +0000 (02:37 -0700)]
tests: disallow the use of abbreviated options (by default)
Git's command-line parsers support uniquely abbreviated options, e.g.
`git init --ba` would automatically expand `--ba` to `--bare`.
This is a very convenient feature in every day life for Git users, in
particular when tab completion is not available.
However, it is not a good idea to rely on that in Git's test suite, as
something that is a unique abbreviation of a command line option today
might no longer be a unique abbreviation tomorrow.
For example, if a future contribution added a new mode
`git init --babyproofing` and a previously-introduced test case used the
fact that `git init --ba` expanded to `git init --bare`, that future
contribution would now have to touch seemingly unrelated tests just to
keep the test suite from failing.
So let's disallow abbreviated options in the test suite by default.
Note: for ease of implementation, this patch really only touches the
`parse-options` machinery: more and more hand-rolled option parsers are
converted to use that internal API, and more and more scripts are
converted to built-ins (naturally using the parse-options API, too), so
in practice this catches most issues, and is definitely the biggest bang
for the buck.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Denton Liu [Fri, 8 Feb 2019 11:21:34 +0000 (03:21 -0800)]
submodule: teach set-branch subcommand
This teaches git-submodule the set-branch subcommand which allows the
branch of a submodule to be set through a porcelain command without
having to manually manipulate the .gitmodules file.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:19:09 +0000 (02:19 +0900)]
The fourth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:26 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jt/submodule-fetch-errmsg'
Error message update.
* jt/submodule-fetch-errmsg:
submodule: explain first attempt failure clearly
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:26 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jk/sha1dc'
Build update for SHA-1 with collision detection.
* jk/sha1dc:
Makefile: fix unaligned loads in sha1dc with UBSan
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:25 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jk/promote-ggg'
Suggest GitGitGadget instead of submitGit as a way to submit
patches based on GitHub PR to us.
* jk/promote-ggg:
point pull requesters to GitGitGadget
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:25 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ar/t4150-remove-cruft'
Test cleanup.
* ar/t4150-remove-cruft:
t4150: remove unused variable
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:24 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'js/rebase-deprecate-preserve-merges'
"git rebase --rebase-merges" replaces its old "--preserve-merges"
option; the latter is now marked as deprecated.
* js/rebase-deprecate-preserve-merges:
rebase: deprecate --preserve-merges
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:24 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ms/worktree-add-atomic-mkdir'
"git worktree add" used to do a "find an available name with stat
and then mkdir", which is race-prone. This has been fixed by using
mkdir and reacting to EEXIST in a loop.
* ms/worktree-add-atomic-mkdir:
worktree: fix worktree add race
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:23 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jk/line-log-with-patch'
"git log -L<from>,<to>:<path>" with "-s" did not suppress the patch
output as it should. This has been corrected.
* jk/line-log-with-patch:
line-log: detect unsupported formats
line-log: suppress diff output with "-s"
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:23 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ra/t3600-test-path-funcs'
A GSoC micro.
* ra/t3600-test-path-funcs:
t3600: use helpers to replace test -d/f/e/s <path>
t3600: modernize style
test functions: add function `test_file_not_empty`
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:23 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'nd/rewritten-ref-is-per-worktree'
"git rebase" uses the refs/rewritten/ hierarchy to store its
intermediate states, which inherently makes the hierarchy per
worktree, but it didn't quite work well.
* nd/rewritten-ref-is-per-worktree:
Make sure refs/rewritten/ is per-worktree
files-backend.c: reduce duplication in add_per_worktree_entries_to_dir()
files-backend.c: factor out per-worktree code in loose_fill_ref_dir()
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:22 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'jh/resize-convert-scratch-buffer'
When the "clean" filter can reduce the size of a huge file in the
working tree down to a small "token" (a la Git LFS), there is no
point in allocating a huge scratch area upfront, but the buffer is
sized based on the original file size. The convert mechanism now
allocates very minimum and reallocates as it receives the output
from the clean filter process.
* jh/resize-convert-scratch-buffer:
convert: avoid malloc of original file size
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:22 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'dl/ignore-docs'
Doc update.
* dl/ignore-docs:
docs: move core.excludesFile from git-add to gitignore
git-clean.txt: clarify ignore pattern files
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:21 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'ja/dir-rename-doc-markup-fix'
Doc update.
* ja/dir-rename-doc-markup-fix:
Doc: fix misleading asciidoc formating
Junio C Hamano [Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:14:20 +0000 (02:14 +0900)]
Merge branch 'dl/reset-doc-no-wrt-abbrev'
Doc update.
* dl/reset-doc-no-wrt-abbrev:
git-reset.txt: clarify documentation
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [Sun, 7 Apr 2019 19:52:17 +0000 (21:52 +0200)]
gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0
The chance of a repository being corrupted due to a "gc" has nothing
to do with whether or not that "gc" was invoked via "gc --auto", but
whether there's other concurrent operations happening.
This is already noted earlier in the paragraph, so there's no reason
to suggest this here. The user can infer from the rest of the
documentation that "gc" will run automatically unless gc.auto=0 is
set, and we shouldn't confuse the issue by implying that "gc --auto"
is somehow more prone to produce corruption than a normal "gc".
Well, it is in the sense that a blocking "gc" would stop you from
doing anything else in *that* particular terminal window, but users
are likely to have another window, or to be worried about how
concurrent "gc" on a server might cause corruption.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [Sun, 7 Apr 2019 19:52:16 +0000 (21:52 +0200)]
gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects
Amend the "NOTES" section to fix up wording that's been with us since
3ffb58be0a ("doc/git-gc: add a note about what is collected",
2008-04-23).
I can't remember when/where anymore (I think Freenode #Git), but at
some point I was having a conversation with someone who was convinced
that "gc" would prune things only referenced by e.g. refs/pull/*, and
pointed to this section as proof.
It turned out that they'd read the "branches and tags" wording here
and thought just refs/{heads,tags}/* and refs/remotes/* etc. would be
kept, which is what we enumerate explicitly.
So let's say "other refs", even though just above we say "objects that
are referenced anywhere in your repository".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [Sun, 7 Apr 2019 19:52:15 +0000 (21:52 +0200)]
gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import"
Amend the "PACKFILE OPTIMIZATION" section in "fast-import" to explain
that simply running "git gc --aggressive" after a "fast-import" should
properly optimize the repository. This is simpler and more effective
than the existing "repack" advice (which I'm keeping as it helps
explain things) because it e.g. also packs the newly imported refs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [Sun, 7 Apr 2019 19:52:14 +0000 (21:52 +0200)]
gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive
The existing "gc --aggressive" docs come just short of recommending to
users that they run it regularly. I've personally talked to many users
who've taken these docs as an advice to use this option, and have,
usually it's (mostly) a waste of time.
So let's clarify what it really does, and let the user draw their own
conclusions.
Let's also clarify the "The effects [...] are persistent" to
paraphrase a brief version of Jeff King's explanation at [1].
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/
20190318235356.GK29661@sigill.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>