Junio C Hamano [Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:54:19 +0000 (12:54 -0800)]
Merge branch 'hw/advice-add-nothing'
Two help messages given when "git add" notices the user gave it
nothing to add have been updated to use advise() API.
* hw/advice-add-nothing:
add: change advice config variables used by the add API
add: use advise function to display hints
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:12:08 +0000 (12:12 -0800)]
The fourth batch for 2.26
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:39 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'js/convert-typofix'
Typofix.
* js/convert-typofix:
convert: fix typo
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:39 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'js/ci-squelch-doc-warning'
Squelch unhelpful warning message during documentation build.
* js/ci-squelch-doc-warning:
ci: ignore rubygems warning in the "Documentation" job
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:39 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jb/multi-pack-index-docfix'
Doc fix.
* jb/multi-pack-index-docfix:
pack-format: correct multi-pack-index description
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:38 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ma/diff-doc-clarify-regexp-example'
Doc clarification.
* ma/diff-doc-clarify-regexp-example:
diff-options.txt: avoid "regex" overload in example
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:38 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ms/doc-bundle-format'
Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
* ms/doc-bundle-format:
doc: describe Git bundle format
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:38 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'es/submodule-fetch-message-fix'
Error message fix.
* es/submodule-fetch-message-fix:
submodule: add newline on invalid submodule error
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:37 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jb/parse-options-message-fix'
Error message fix.
* jb/parse-options-message-fix:
parse-options: lose an unnecessary space in an error message
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:37 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ma/filter-branch-doc-caret'
Doc mark-up updates.
* ma/filter-branch-doc-caret:
git-filter-branch.txt: wrap "maths" notation in backticks
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:37 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'km/submodule-doc-use-sm-path'
Docfix.
* km/submodule-doc-use-sm-path:
submodule foreach: replace $path with $sm_path in example
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:37 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jc/skip-prefix'
Code simplification.
* jc/skip-prefix:
C: use skip_prefix() to avoid hardcoded string length
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:36 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index'
"git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
* pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index:
grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:36 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'hw/doc-git-dir'
One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the
environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd"
option) is to disable the repository discovery. This has been
placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often
get confused.
* hw/doc-git-dir:
git: update documentation for --git-dir
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:36 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jk/push-default-doc'
Doc update.
* jk/push-default-doc:
doc: drop "explicitly given" from push.default description
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:36 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jk/clang-sanitizer-fixes'
C pedantry ;-) fix.
* jk/clang-sanitizer-fixes:
obstack: avoid computing offsets from NULL pointer
xdiff: avoid computing non-zero offset from NULL pointer
avoid computing zero offsets from NULL pointer
merge-recursive: use subtraction to flip stage
merge-recursive: silence -Wxor-used-as-pow warning
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:35 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'dt/submodule-rm-with-stale-cache'
Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when
.gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected.
* dt/submodule-rm-with-stale-cache:
git rm submodule: succeed if .gitmodules index stat info is zero
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:35 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jt/t5616-robustify'
Futureproofing a test not to depend on the current implementation
detail.
* jt/t5616-robustify:
t5616: make robust to delta base change
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:35 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jk/escaped-wildcard-dwim'
Disambiguation logic to tell revisions and pathspec apart has been
tweaked so that backslash-escaped glob special characters do not
count in the "wildcards are pathspec" rule.
* jk/escaped-wildcard-dwim:
verify_filename(): handle backslashes in "wildcards are pathspecs" rule
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:41:35 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jn/pretend-object-doc'
Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code
to tentatively use in-core objects.
* jn/pretend-object-doc:
sha1-file: document how to use pretend_object_file
Johannes Schindelin [Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:56:18 +0000 (18:56 +0000)]
convert: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Schindelin [Sun, 9 Feb 2020 22:36:16 +0000 (22:36 +0000)]
ci: ignore rubygems warning in the "Documentation" job
A recent update in the Linux VM images used by Azure Pipelines surfaced
a new problem in the "Documentation" job. Apparently, this warning
appears 396 times on `stderr` when running `make doc`:
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb:10: warning: constant Gem::ConfigMap is deprecated
This problem was already reported to the `rubygems` project via
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/3068.
As there is nothing Git can do about this warning, and as the
"Documentation" job reports this warning as a failure, let's just
silence it and move on.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 7 Feb 2020 22:16:40 +0000 (23:16 +0100)]
pack-format: correct multi-pack-index description
The description of the multi-pack-index contains a small bug,
if all offsets are < 2^32 then there will be no LOFF chunk,
not only if they're all < 2^31 (since the highest bit is only
needed as the "LOFF-escape" when that's actually needed.)
Correct this, and clarify that in that case only offsets up
to 2^31-1 can be stored in the OOFF chunk.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Martin Ågren [Thu, 6 Feb 2020 20:53:01 +0000 (21:53 +0100)]
diff-options.txt: avoid "regex" overload in example
When we exemplify the difference between `-G` and `-S` (using
`--pickaxe-regex`), we do so using an example diff and git-diff
invocation involving "regexec", "regexp", "regmatch", ...
The example is correct, but we can make it easier to untangle by
avoiding writing "regex.*" unless it's really needed to make our point.
Use some made-up, non-regexy words instead.
Reported-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Masaya Suzuki [Fri, 7 Feb 2020 20:42:25 +0000 (12:42 -0800)]
doc: describe Git bundle format
The bundle format was not documented. Describe the format with ABNF and
explain the meaning of each part.
Signed-off-by: Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Emily Shaffer [Fri, 7 Feb 2020 00:48:33 +0000 (16:48 -0800)]
submodule: add newline on invalid submodule error
Since 'err' contains output for multiple submodules and is printed all
at once by fetch_populated_submodules(), errors for each submodule
should be newline separated for readability. The same strbuf is added to
with a newline in the other half of the conditional where this error is
detected, so make the two consistent.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Heba Waly [Thu, 6 Feb 2020 10:57:30 +0000 (23:57 +1300)]
add: change advice config variables used by the add API
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>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 21:26:03 +0000 (13:26 -0800)]
The third batch for 2.26
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:35:00 +0000 (14:35 -0800)]
Merge branch 'mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update'
Doc update.
* mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update:
completion: add support for sparse-checkout
doc: sparse-checkout: mention --cone option
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:35:00 +0000 (14:35 -0800)]
Merge branch 'pb/recurse-submodule-in-worktree-fix'
The "--recurse-submodules" option of various subcommands did not
work well when run in an alternate worktree, which has been
corrected.
* pb/recurse-submodule-in-worktree-fix:
submodule.c: use get_git_dir() instead of get_git_common_dir()
t2405: clarify test descriptions and simplify test
t2405: use git -C and test_commit -C instead of subshells
t7410: rename to t2405-worktree-submodule.sh
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:34:59 +0000 (14:34 -0800)]
Merge branch 'es/fetch-show-failed-submodules-atend'
A fetch that is told to recursively fetch updates in submodules
inevitably produces reams of output, and it becomes hard to spot
error messages. The command has been taught to enumerate
submodules that had errors at the end of the operation.
* es/fetch-show-failed-submodules-atend:
fetch: emphasize failure during submodule fetch
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:34:59 +0000 (14:34 -0800)]
Merge branch 'en/fill-directory-fixes-more'
Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for
performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory
enumeration API has been corrected.
* en/fill-directory-fixes-more:
dir: point treat_leading_path() warning to the right place
dir: restructure in a way to avoid passing around a struct dirent
dir: treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive(), round 2
clean: demonstrate a bug with pathspecs
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:34:59 +0000 (14:34 -0800)]
Merge branch 'bc/hash-independent-tests-part-7'
Preparation of test scripts for the day when the object names will
use SHA-256 continues.
* bc/hash-independent-tests-part-7:
t5604: make hash independent
t5601: switch into repository to hash object
t5562: use $ZERO_OID
t5540: make hash size independent
t5537: make hash size independent
t5530: compute results based on object length
t5512: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t5510: make hash size independent
t5504: make hash algorithm independent
t5324: make hash size independent
t5319: make test work with SHA-256
t5319: change invalid offset for SHA-256 compatibility
t5318: update for SHA-256
t4300: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4204: make hash size independent
t4202: abstract away SHA-1-specific constants
t4200: make hash size independent
t4134: compute appropriate length constant
t4066: compute index line in diffs
t4054: make hash-size independent
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:34:58 +0000 (14:34 -0800)]
Merge branch 'km/submodule-add-errmsg'
Improve error message generation for "git submodule add".
* km/submodule-add-errmsg:
submodule add: show 'add --dry-run' stderr when aborting
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:34:58 +0000 (14:34 -0800)]
Merge branch 'am/checkout-file-and-ref-ref-ambiguity'
"git checkout X" did not correctly fail when X is not a local
branch but could name more than one remote-tracking branches
(i.e. to be dwimmed as the starting point to create a corresponding
local branch), which has been corrected.
* am/checkout-file-and-ref-ref-ambiguity:
checkout: don't revert file on ambiguous tracking branches
parse_branchname_arg(): extract part as new function
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:34:58 +0000 (14:34 -0800)]
Merge branch 'js/add-p-leftover-bits'
The final leg of rewriting "add -i/-p" in C.
* js/add-p-leftover-bits:
ci: include the built-in `git add -i` in the `linux-gcc` job
built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences more efficiently
built-in add -p: handle Escape sequences in interactive.singlekey mode
built-in add -p: respect the `interactive.singlekey` config setting
terminal: add a new function to read a single keystroke
terminal: accommodate Git for Windows' default terminal
terminal: make the code of disable_echo() reusable
built-in add -p: handle diff.algorithm
built-in add -p: support interactive.diffFilter
t3701: adjust difffilter test
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:34:58 +0000 (14:34 -0800)]
Merge branch 'js/patch-mode-in-others-in-c'
The effort to move "git-add--interactive" to C continues.
* js/patch-mode-in-others-in-c:
commit --interactive: make it work with the built-in `add -i`
built-in add -p: implement the "worktree" patch modes
built-in add -p: implement the "checkout" patch modes
built-in stash: use the built-in `git add -p` if so configured
legacy stash -p: respect the add.interactive.usebuiltin setting
built-in add -p: implement the "stash" and "reset" patch modes
built-in add -p: prepare for patch modes other than "stage"
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:34:57 +0000 (14:34 -0800)]
Merge branch 'dl/test-must-fail-fixes'
Test clean-up.
* dl/test-must-fail-fixes:
t1507: inline full_name()
t1507: run commands within test_expect_success
t1507: stop losing return codes of git commands
t1501: remove use of `test_might_fail cp`
t1409: use test_path_is_missing()
t1409: let sed open its own input file
t1307: reorder `nongit test_must_fail`
t1306: convert `test_might_fail rm` to `rm -f`
t0020: use ! check_packed_refs_marked
t0020: don't use `test_must_fail has_cr`
t0003: don't use `test_must_fail attr_check`
t0003: use test_must_be_empty()
t0003: use named parameters in attr_check()
t0000: replace test_must_fail with run_sub_test_lib_test_err()
t/lib-git-p4: use test_path_is_missing()
Jacques Bodin-Hullin [Wed, 5 Feb 2020 13:07:23 +0000 (13:07 +0000)]
parse-options: lose an unnecessary space in an error message
Signed-off-by: Jacques Bodin-Hullin <j.bodinhullin@monsieurbiz.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Martin Ågren [Mon, 3 Feb 2020 20:36:50 +0000 (21:36 +0100)]
git-filter-branch.txt: wrap "maths" notation in backticks
In this paragraph, we have a few instances of the '^' character, which
we give as "\^". This renders well with AsciiDoc ("^"), but Asciidoctor
renders it literally as "\^". Dropping the backslashes renders fine
with Asciidoctor, but not AsciiDoc...
An earlier version of this patch used "{caret}" instead of "^", which
avoided these escaping problems. The rendering was still so-so, though
-- these expressions end up set as normal text, similarly to when one
provides, e.g., computer code in the middle of running text, without
properly marking it with `backticks` to be monospaced.
As noted by Jeff King, this suggests actually wrapping these
expressions in backticks, setting them in monospace.
The lone "5" could be left as is or wrapped as `5`. Spell it out as
"five" instead -- this generally looks better anyway for small numbers
in the middle of text like this.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:35:46 +0000 (11:35 -0800)]
C: use skip_prefix() to avoid hardcoded string length
We often skip an optional prefix in a string with a hardcoded
constant, e.g.
if (starts_with(string, "prefix"))
string += 6;
which is less error prone when written
skip_prefix(string, "prefix", &string);
Note that this changes a few error messages from "git reflog expire
--expire=nonsense.timestamp", which used to complain by saying
'--expire=nonsense.timestamp' is not a valid timestamp
but with this change, we say
'nonsense.timestamp' is not a valid timestamp
which is more technically correct (the string with --expire= as
a prefix obviously cannot be a valid timestamp, but the error is
about the part of the input without that prefix).
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Kyle Meyer [Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:08:43 +0000 (12:08 -0500)]
submodule foreach: replace $path with $sm_path in example
f0fd0dc5c5 (submodule foreach: document '$sm_path' instead of '$path',
2018-05-08) updated the documentation to advise callers to favor
$sm_path over the deprecated synonym $path. However, the example in
that section still uses $path. Update it to use $sm_path.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:17 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Sync with maint
* maint:
.mailmap: map Yi-Jyun Pan's email
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:16:10 +0000 (14:16 -0800)]
The second batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:12 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'bc/misconception-doc'
Doc updates.
* bc/misconception-doc:
docs: mention when increasing http.postBuffer is valuable
doc: dissuade users from trying to ignore tracked files
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:11 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'bc/author-committer-doc'
Clarify documentation on committer/author identities.
* bc/author-committer-doc:
doc: provide guidance on user.name format
docs: expand on possible and recommended user config options
doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1)
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:11 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ss/t6025-modernize'
Test style updates.
* ss/t6025-modernize:
t6025: use helpers to replace test -f <path>
t6025: modernize style
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:11 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'lh/bool-to-type-bool'
Replace "git config --bool" calls with "git config --type=bool" in
sample templates.
* lh/bool-to-type-bool:
templates: fix deprecated type option `--bool`
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:11 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ds/refmap-doc'
"git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation.
* ds/refmap-doc:
fetch: document and test --refmap=""
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:10 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'bc/actualmente'
Doc grammo fix.
* bc/actualmente:
docs: use "currently" for the present time
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:10 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'rt/submodule-i18n'
Comments update.
* rt/submodule-i18n:
submodule.c: mark more strings for translation
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:10 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'js/builtin-add-i-cmds'
Minor bugfixes to "git add -i" that has recently been rewritten in C.
* js/builtin-add-i-cmds:
built-in add -i: accept open-ended ranges again
built-in add -i: do not try to `patch`/`diff` an empty list of files
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:09 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jk/test-fixes'
Test fixes.
* jk/test-fixes:
t7800: don't rely on reuse_worktree_file()
t4018: drop "debugging" cat from hunk-header tests
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:09 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jk/asan-build-fix'
Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in
libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions
of gcc and clang.
* jk/asan-build-fix:
Makefile: use compat regex with SANITIZE=address
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:09 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'sg/completion-worktree'
The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete
subcommands and arguments to "git worktree".
* sg/completion-worktree:
completion: list paths and refs for 'git worktree add'
completion: list existing working trees for 'git worktree' subcommands
completion: simplify completing 'git worktree' subcommands and options
completion: return the index of found word from __git_find_on_cmdline()
completion: clean up the __git_find_on_cmdline() helper function
t9902-completion: add tests for the __git_find_on_cmdline() helper
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:09 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jn/test-lint-one-shot-export-to-shell-function'
The test-lint machinery knew to check "VAR=VAL shell_function"
construct, but did not check "VAR= shell_funciton", which has been
corrected.
* jn/test-lint-one-shot-export-to-shell-function:
fetch test: mark test of "skipping" haves as v0-only
t/check-non-portable-shell: detect "FOO= shell_func", too
fetch test: avoid use of "VAR= cmd" with a shell function
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:08 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'hi/gpg-mintrustlevel'
gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to
tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum
trust level.
* hi/gpg-mintrustlevel:
gpg-interface: add minTrustLevel as a configuration option
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:08 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'am/test-pathspec-f-f-error-cases'
More tests.
* am/test-pathspec-f-f-error-cases:
t: add tests for error conditions with --pathspec-from-file
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:08 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ds/graph-horizontal-edges'
Rendering by "git log --graph" of ancestry lines leading to a merge
commit were made suboptimal to waste vertical space a bit with a
recent update, which has been corrected.
* ds/graph-horizontal-edges:
graph: fix collapse of multiple edges
graph: add test to demonstrate horizontal line bug
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:08 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'am/update-pathspec-f-f-tests'
Test updates.
* am/update-pathspec-f-f-tests:
t: directly test parse_pathspec_file()
t: fix quotes tests for --pathspec-from-file
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:08 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'ds/sparse-cone'
The code recently added in this release to move to the entry beyond
the ones in the same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode
did not count the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which
has been corrected.
* ds/sparse-cone:
.mailmap: fix GGG authoship screwup
unpack-trees: correctly compute result count
Junio C Hamano [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:17:07 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'hi/indent-text-with-tabs-in-editorconfig'
Tell .editorconfig that in this project, *.txt files are indented
with tabs.
* hi/indent-text-with-tabs-in-editorconfig:
editorconfig: indent text files with tabs
Heba Waly [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 01:14:01 +0000 (01:14 +0000)]
git: update documentation for --git-dir
git --git-dir <path> is a bit confusing and sometimes doesn't work as
the user would expect it to.
For example, if the user runs `git --git-dir=<path> status`, git
will skip the repository discovery algorithm and will assign the
work tree to the user's current work directory unless otherwise
specified. When this assignment is wrong, the output will not match
the user's expectations.
This patch updates the documentation to make it clearer.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Denton Liu [Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:23:58 +0000 (22:23 -0500)]
.mailmap: map Yi-Jyun Pan's email
In
13185fd241 (l10n: zh_TW.po: update translation for v2.25.0 round 1,
2019-12-31), the author mistakenly used their GitHub username for
authorship information instead of their real name. However, a commit
with their real name exists prior to this:
9917eca794 (l10n: zh_TW: add
translation for v2.24.0, 2019-11-20).
Map their email to their real name so that these contributions can be
counted together.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Philippe Blain [Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:37:28 +0000 (13:37 +0000)]
grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given
Since grep learned to recurse into submodules in
0281e487fd
(grep: optionally recurse into submodules, 2016-12-16),
using --recurse-submodules along with --no-index makes Git
die().
This is unfortunate because if submodule.recurse is set in a user's
~/.gitconfig, invoking `git grep --no-index` either inside or outside
a Git repository results in
fatal: option not supported with --recurse-submodules
Let's allow using these options together, so that setting submodule.recurse
globally does not prevent using `git grep --no-index`.
Using `--recurse-submodules` should not have any effect if `--no-index`
is used inside a repository, as Git will recurse into the checked out
submodule directories just like into regular directories.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:53:55 +0000 (00:53 -0500)]
doc: drop "explicitly given" from push.default description
The documentation for push.default mentions that it is used if no
refspec is "explicitly given". Let's drop the notion of "explicit" here,
since it's vague, and just mention that any refspec from anywhere is
sufficient to override this.
I've dropped the mention of "explicitly given" from the definition of
the "nothing" value right below, too. It's close enough to our
clarification that it should be obvious we mean the same type of "given"
here.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:44:29 +0000 (00:44 -0500)]
obstack: avoid computing offsets from NULL pointer
As with the previous two commits, UBSan with clang-11 complains about
computing offsets from a NULL pointer. The failures in t4013 (and
elsewhere) look like this:
kwset.c:102:23: runtime error: applying non-zero offset
107820859019600 to null pointer
...
not ok 79 - git log -SF master # magic is (not used)
That line is not enlightening:
... = obstack_alloc(&kwset->obstack, sizeof (struct trie));
because obstack is implemented almost entirely in macros, and the actual
problem is five macros deep (I temporarily converted them to inline
functions to get better compiler errors, which was tedious but worked
reasonably well).
The actual problem is in these pointer-alignment macros:
/* If B is the base of an object addressed by P, return the result of
aligning P to the next multiple of A + 1. B and P must be of type
char *. A + 1 must be a power of 2. */
#define __BPTR_ALIGN(B, P, A) ((B) + (((P) - (B) + (A)) & ~(A)))
/* Similar to _BPTR_ALIGN (B, P, A), except optimize the common case
where pointers can be converted to integers, aligned as integers,
and converted back again. If PTR_INT_TYPE is narrower than a
pointer (e.g., the AS/400), play it safe and compute the alignment
relative to B. Otherwise, use the faster strategy of computing the
alignment relative to 0. */
#define __PTR_ALIGN(B, P, A) \
__BPTR_ALIGN (sizeof (PTR_INT_TYPE) < sizeof (void *) ? (B) : (char *) 0, \
P, A)
If we have a sufficiently-large integer pointer type, then we do the
computation using a NULL pointer constant. That turns __BPTR_ALIGN()
into something like:
NULL + (P - NULL + A) & ~A
and UBSan is complaining about adding the full value of P to that
initial NULL. We can fix this by doing our math as an integer type, and
then casting the result back to a pointer. The problem case only happens
when we know that the integer type is large enough, so there should be
no issue with truncation.
Another option would be just simplify out all the 0's from
__BPTR_ALIGN() for the NULL-pointer case. That probably wouldn't work
for a platform where the NULL pointer isn't all-zeroes, but Git already
wouldn't work on such a platform (due to our use of memset to set
pointers in structs to NULL). But I tried here to keep as close to the
original as possible.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:39:29 +0000 (00:39 -0500)]
xdiff: avoid computing non-zero offset from NULL pointer
As with the previous commit, clang-11's UBSan complains about computing
offsets from a NULL pointer, causing some tests to fail. In this case,
though, we're actually computing a non-zero offset, which is even more
dubious. From t7810:
xdiff-interface.c:268:14: runtime error: applying non-zero offset 1 to null pointer
...
not ok 131 - grep -p with userdiff
The problem is our parsing of the funcname config. We count the number
of lines in the string, allocate an array, and then loop over our
allocated entries, parsing each line and moving our cursor to one past
the trailing newline for the next iteration.
But the final line will not generally have a trailing newline (since
it's a config value), and hence we go to one past NULL. In practice this
is OK, since our loop should terminate before we look at the value. But
even computing such an invalid pointer technically violates the
standard.
We can fix it by leaving the pointer at NULL if we're at the end, rather
than one-past. And while we're thinking about it, we can also document
the variant by asserting that our initial line-count matches the
second-pass of parsing.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:46:47 +0000 (00:46 -0500)]
avoid computing zero offsets from NULL pointer
The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer in clang-11 seems to have learned a new
trick: it complains about computing offsets from a NULL pointer, even if
that offset is 0. This causes numerous test failures. For example, from
t1090:
unpack-trees.c:1355:41: runtime error: applying zero offset to null pointer
...
not ok 6 - in partial clone, sparse checkout only fetches needed blobs
The code in question looks like this:
struct cache_entry **cache_end = cache + nr;
...
while (cache != cache_end)
and we sometimes pass in a NULL and 0 for "cache" and "nr". This is
conceptually fine, as "cache_end" would be equal to "cache" in this
case, and we wouldn't enter the loop at all. But computing even a zero
offset violates the C standard. And given the fact that UBSan is
noticing this behavior, this might be a potential problem spot if the
compiler starts making unexpected assumptions based on undefined
behavior.
So let's just avoid it, which is pretty easy. In some cases we can just
switch to iterating with a numeric index (as we do in sequencer.c here).
In other cases (like the cache_end one) the use of an end pointer is
more natural; we can keep that by just explicitly checking for the
NULL/0 case when assigning the end pointer.
Note that there are two ways you can write this latter case, checking
for the pointer:
cache_end = cache ? cache + nr : cache;
or the size:
cache_end = nr ? cache + nr : cache;
For the case of a NULL/0 ptr/len combo, they are equivalent. But writing
it the second way (as this patch does) has the property that if somebody
were to incorrectly pass a NULL pointer with a non-zero length, we'd
continue to notice and segfault, rather than silently pretending the
length was zero.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
David Turner [Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:58:56 +0000 (13:58 -0500)]
git rm submodule: succeed if .gitmodules index stat info is zero
The bug was that ie_match_stat() was used to compare if the stat info
for the file was compatible with the stat info in the index, rather
using ie_modified() to check if the file was in fact different from the
version in the index.
A version of this (with deinit instead of rm) was reported here:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPOqYV+C-P9M2zcUBBkD2LALPm4K3sxSut+BjAkZ9T1AKLEr+A@mail.gmail.com/
It seems that in that case, the user's clone command left the index
with empty stat info. The mailing list was unable to reproduce this.
But we (Two Sigma) hit the bug while using some plumbing commands, so
I'm fixing it. I manually confirmed that the fix also repairs deinit
in this scenario.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Bétous <th.betous@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:26:07 +0000 (13:26 -0800)]
Sync with maint
* maint:
.mailmap: fix erroneous authorship for Johannes Schindelin
Junio C Hamano [Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:19:53 +0000 (13:19 -0800)]
.mailmap: fix GGG authoship screwup
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jonathan Tan [Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:28:23 +0000 (12:28 -0800)]
t5616: make robust to delta base change
Commit
6462d5eb9a ("fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0", 2019-11-08)
contains a test that relies on having to lazily fetch the delta base of
a blob, but assumes that the tree being fetched (as part of the test) is
sent as a non-delta object. This assumption may not hold in the future;
for example, a change in the length of the object hash might result in
the tree being sent as a delta instead.
Make the test more robust by relying on having to lazily fetch the delta
base of the tree instead, and by making no assumptions on whether the
blobs are sent as delta or non-delta.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Sat, 25 Jan 2020 23:57:45 +0000 (18:57 -0500)]
merge-recursive: use subtraction to flip stage
The flip_stage() helper uses a bit-flipping xor to switch between "2"
and "3". While clever, this relies on a property of those two numbers
that is mostly coincidence. Let's write it as a subtraction; that's more
clear and would extend to other numbers if somebody copies the logic.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:37:23 +0000 (00:37 -0500)]
merge-recursive: silence -Wxor-used-as-pow warning
The merge-recursive code uses stage number constants like this:
add = &ci->ren1->dst_entry->stages[2 ^ 1];
...
add = &ci->ren2->dst_entry->stages[3 ^ 1];
The xor has the effect of flipping the "1" bit, so that "2 ^ 1" becomes
"3" and "3 ^ 1" becomes "2", which correspond to the "ours" and "theirs"
stages respectively.
Unfortunately, clang-10 and up issue a warning for this code:
merge-recursive.c:1759:40: error: result of '2 ^ 1' is 3; did you mean '1 << 1' (2)? [-Werror,-Wxor-used-as-pow]
add = &ci->ren1->dst_entry->stages[2 ^ 1];
~~^~~
1 << 1
merge-recursive.c:1759:40: note: replace expression with '0x2 ^ 1' to silence this warning
We could silence it by using 0x2, as the compiler mentions. Or by just
using the constants "2" and "3" directly. But after digging into it, I
do think this bit-flip is telling us something. If we just wrote:
add = &ci->ren2->dst_entry->stages[2];
for the second one, you might think that "ren2" and "2" correspond. But
they don't. The logic is: ren2 is theirs, which is stage 3, but we
are interested in the opposite side's stage, so flip it to 2.
So let's keep the bit-flipping, but let's also put it behind a named
function, which will make its purpose a bit clearer. This also has the
side effect of suppressing the warning (and an optimizing compiler
should be able to easily turn it into a constant as before).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King [Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:51 +0000 (19:00 -0500)]
verify_filename(): handle backslashes in "wildcards are pathspecs" rule
Commit
28fcc0b71a (pathspec: avoid the need of "--" when wildcard is
used, 2015-05-02) allowed:
git rev-parse '*.c'
without the double-dash. But the rule it uses to check for wildcards
actually looks for any glob special. This is overly liberal, as it means
that a pattern that doesn't actually do any wildcard matching, like
"a\b", will be considered a pathspec.
If you do have such a file on disk, that's presumably what you wanted.
But if you don't, the results are confusing: rather than say "there's no
such path a\b", we'll quietly accept it as a pathspec which very likely
matches nothing (or at least not what you intended). Likewise, looking
for path "a\*b" doesn't expand the search at all; it would only find a
single entry, "a*b".
This commit switches the rule to trigger only when glob metacharacters
would expand the search, meaning both of those cases will now report an
error (you can still disambiguate using "--", of course; we're just
tightening the DWIM heuristic).
Note that we didn't test the original feature in
28fcc0b71a at all. So
this patch not only tests for these corner cases, but also adds a
regression test for the existing behavior.
Reported-by: David Burström <davidburstrom@spotify.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Denton Liu [Tue, 14 Jan 2020 02:49:38 +0000 (21:49 -0500)]
.mailmap: fix erroneous authorship for Johannes Schindelin
In
49e268e23e (mingw: safeguard better against backslashes in file
names, 2020-01-09), the commit author is listed as
"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>", which
is erroneous. Fix the authorship by mapping the erroneous authorship to
his canonical authorship information.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Matheus Tavares [Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:00:03 +0000 (16:00 -0300)]
completion: add support for sparse-checkout
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Matheus Tavares [Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:00:02 +0000 (16:00 -0300)]
doc: sparse-checkout: mention --cone option
In
af09ce2 ("sparse-checkout: init and set in cone mode", 2019-11-21),
the '--cone' option was added to 'git sparse-checkout init'.
Document it.
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:12 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
The first batch post 2.25 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:32 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'nd/switch-and-restore'
"git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree
structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which
has been corrected.
* nd/switch-and-restore:
restore: invalidate cache-tree when removing entries with --staged
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:32 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jk/no-flush-upon-disconnecting-slrpc-transport'
Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the
stateless RPC mechanism.
* jk/no-flush-upon-disconnecting-slrpc-transport:
transport: don't flush when disconnecting stateless-rpc helper
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:31 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'hw/tutorial-favor-switch-over-checkout'
Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over
"git checkout" that was done only half-way.
* hw/tutorial-favor-switch-over-checkout:
doc/gitcore-tutorial: fix prose to match example command
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:31 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'es/unpack-trees-oob-fix'
The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a
single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough
against corrupt index file.
* es/unpack-trees-oob-fix:
unpack-trees: watch for out-of-range index position
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:31 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'bc/run-command-nullness-after-free-fix'
C pedantry ;-) fix.
* bc/run-command-nullness-after-free-fix:
run-command: avoid undefined behavior in exists_in_PATH
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:30 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'en/string-list-can-be-custom-sorted'
API-doc update.
* en/string-list-can-be-custom-sorted:
string-list: note in docs that callers can specify sorting function
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:30 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees'
Code simplification.
* en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees:
unpack-trees: exit check_updates() early if updates are not wanted
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:30 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'jt/sha1-file-remove-oi-skip-cached'
has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the
system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with
read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an
empty tree from promisor remotes.
* jt/sha1-file-remove-oi-skip-cached:
sha1-file: remove OBJECT_INFO_SKIP_CACHED
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:30 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'hw/commit-advise-while-rejecting'
"git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is
nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints
configuration variable, which has been corrected.
* hw/commit-advise-while-rejecting:
commit: honor advice.statusHints when rejecting an empty commit
Junio C Hamano [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:07:29 +0000 (15:07 -0800)]
Merge branch 'dl/credential-netrc'
Sample credential helper for using .netrc has been updated to work
out of the box.
* dl/credential-netrc:
contrib/credential/netrc: work outside a repo
contrib/credential/netrc: make PERL_PATH configurable
Philippe Blain [Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:01:17 +0000 (15:01 +0000)]
submodule.c: use get_git_dir() instead of get_git_common_dir()
Ever since
df56607dff (git-common-dir: make "modules/"
per-working-directory directory, 2014-11-30), submodules in linked worktrees
are cloned to $GIT_DIR/modules, i.e. $GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees/<name>/modules.
However, this convention was not followed when the worktree updater commands
checkout, reset and read-tree learned to recurse into submodules. Specifically,
submodule.c::submodule_move_head, introduced in
6e3c1595c6 (update submodules:
add submodule_move_head, 2017-03-14) and submodule.c::submodule_unset_core_worktree,
(re)introduced in
898c2e65b7 (submodule: unset core.worktree if no working tree
is present, 2018-12-14) use get_git_common_dir() instead of get_git_dir()
to get the path of the submodule repository.
This means that, for example, 'git checkout --recurse-submodules <branch>'
in a linked worktree will correctly checkout <branch>, detach the submodule's HEAD
at the commit recorded in <branch> and update the submodule working tree, but the
submodule HEAD that will be moved is the one in $GIT_COMMON_DIR/modules/<name>/,
i.e. the submodule repository of the main superproject working tree.
It will also rewrite the gitfile in the submodule working tree of the linked worktree
to point to $GIT_COMMON_DIR/modules/<name>/.
This leads to an incorrect (and confusing!) state in the submodule working tree
of the main superproject worktree.
Additionally, if switching to a commit where the submodule is not present,
submodule_unset_core_worktree will be called and will incorrectly remove
'core.wortree' from the config file of the submodule in the main superproject worktree,
$GIT_COMMON_DIR/modules/<name>/config.
Fix this by constructing the path to the submodule repository using get_git_dir()
in both submodule_move_head and submodule_unset_core_worktree.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Philippe Blain [Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:01:16 +0000 (15:01 +0000)]
t2405: clarify test descriptions and simplify test
When 'checkout --to' functionality was moved to 'worktree add', tests were adapted
in
f194b1ef6e (tests: worktree: retrofit "checkout --to" tests for "worktree add",
2015-07-06).
The calls were changed to 'worktree add' in this test (then t7410), but the test
descriptions were not updated, keeping 'checkout' instead of using the new
terminology (linked worktrees).
Also, in the test each worktree is created in
$TRASH_DIRECTORY/<leading-directory>/main, where the name of <leading-directory>
carries some information about what behavior each test verifies. This directory
structure is not mandatory for the tests; the worktrees can live next to one
another in the trash directory.
Clarify the tests by using the right terminology, and remove the unnecessary
leading directories such that all superproject worktrees are directly next to one
another in the trash directory.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Philippe Blain [Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:01:15 +0000 (15:01 +0000)]
t2405: use git -C and test_commit -C instead of subshells
The subshells used in the setup phase of this test are unnecessary.
Remove them by using 'git -C' and 'test_commit -C'.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Philippe Blain [Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:01:14 +0000 (15:01 +0000)]
t7410: rename to t2405-worktree-submodule.sh
This test was added in
df56607dff (git-common-dir: make "modules/"
per-working-directory directory, 2014-11-30), back when the 'git worktree' command
did not exist and 'git checkout --to' was used to create supplementary worktrees.
Since this file contains tests for the interaction of 'git worktree' with
submodules, rename it to t2405-worktree-submodule.sh, following the naming scheme for
tests checking the behavior of various commands with submodules.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
brian m. carlson [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:45:43 +0000 (03:45 +0000)]
docs: mention when increasing http.postBuffer is valuable
Users in a wide variety of situations find themselves with HTTP push
problems. Oftentimes these issues are due to antivirus software,
filtering proxies, or other man-in-the-middle situations; other times,
they are due to simple unreliability of the network.
However, a common solution to HTTP push problems found online is to
increase http.postBuffer. This works for none of the aforementioned
situations and is only useful in a small, highly restricted number of
cases: essentially, when the connection does not properly support
HTTP/1.1.
Document when raising this value is appropriate and what it actually
does, and discourage people from using it as a general solution for push
problems, since it is not effective there.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
brian m. carlson [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:45:42 +0000 (03:45 +0000)]
doc: dissuade users from trying to ignore tracked files
It is quite common for users to want to ignore the changes to a file
that Git tracks. Common scenarios for this case are IDE settings and
configuration files, which should generally not be tracked and possibly
generated from tracked files using a templating mechanism.
However, users learn about the assume-unchanged and skip-worktree bits
and try to use them to do this anyway. This is problematic, because
when these bits are set, many operations behave as the user expects, but
they usually do not help when git checkout needs to replace a file.
There is no sensible behavior in this case, because sometimes the data
is precious, such as certain configuration files, and sometimes it is
irrelevant data that the user would be happy to discard.
Since this is not a supported configuration and users are prone to
misuse the existing features for unintended purposes, causing general
sadness and confusion, let's document the existing behavior and the
pitfalls in the documentation for git update-index so that users know
they should explore alternate solutions.
In addition, let's provide a recommended solution to dealing with the
common case of configuration files, since there are well-known
approaches used successfully in many environments.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
brian m. carlson [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:45:41 +0000 (03:45 +0000)]
doc: provide guidance on user.name format
It's a frequent misconception that the user.name variable controls
authentication in some way, and as a result, beginning users frequently
attempt to change it when they're having authentication troubles.
Document that the convention is that this variable represents some form
of a human's personal name, although that is not required. In addition,
address concerns about whether Unicode is supported.
Use the term "personal name" as this is likely to draw the intended
contrast, be applicable across cultures which may have different naming
conventions, and be easily understandable to people who do not speak
English as their first language. Indicate that "some form" is
conventionally used, as people may use a nickname or preferred name
instead of a full legal name.
Point users who may be confused about authentication to an appropriate
configuration option instead. Provide a shortened form of this
information in the configuration option description.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
brian m. carlson [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:45:40 +0000 (03:45 +0000)]
docs: expand on possible and recommended user config options
In the section on setting author and committer information, we omit the
author.* and committer.* variables, so mention them for completeness.
In addition, guide users to the typical case: simply setting user.name
and user.email, which are recommended if one does not need complex
configuration.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
brian m. carlson [Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:45:39 +0000 (03:45 +0000)]
doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1)
While at one time it made perfect sense to store information about
configuring author and committer information in the documentation for
git commit-tree, in modern Git that operation is seldom used. Most
users will use git commit and expect to find comprehensive documentation
about its use in the manual page for that command.
Considering that there is significant confusion about how one is to use
the user.name and user.email variables, let's put as much documentation
as possible into an obvious place where users will be more likely to
find it.
In addition, expand the environment variables section to describe their
use more fully. Even though we now describe all of the options there
and in the configuration settings documentation, preserve the existing
text in git-commit.txt so that people can easily reason about the
ordering of the various options they can use. Explain the use of the
author.* and committer.* options as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Lucius Hu [Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:53:32 +0000 (22:53 +0000)]
templates: fix deprecated type option `--bool`
The `--bool` option to `git-config` is marked as historical, and users are
recommended to use `--type=bool` instead. This commit replaces all occurrences
of `--bool` in the templates.
Also note that, no other deprecated type options are found, including `--int`,
`--bool-or-int`, `--path`, or `--expiry-date`.
Signed-off-by: Lucius Hu <orctarorga@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>