Now that we have a way to export stashes to a ref, let's provide a way
to import them from such a ref back to the stash. This works much the
way the export code does, except that we strip off the first parent
chain commit and then store each resulting commit back to the stash.
We don't clear the stash first and instead add the specified stashes to
the top of the stash. This is because users may want to export just a
few stashes, such as to share a small amount of work in progress with a
colleague, and it would be undesirable for the receiving user to lose
all of their data. For users who do want to replace the stash, it's
easy to do to: simply run "git stash clear" first.
We specifically rely on the fact that we'll produce identical stash
commits on both sides in our tests. This provides a cheap,
straightforward check for our tests and also makes it easy for users to
see if they already have the same data in both repositories.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common user problem is how to sync in-progress work to another
machine. Users currently must use some sort of transfer of the working
tree, which poses security risks and also necessarily causes the index
to become dirty. The experience is suboptimal and frustrating for
users.
A reasonable idea is to use the stash for this purpose, but the stash is
stored in the reflog, not in a ref, and as such it cannot be pushed or
pulled. This also means that it cannot be saved into a bundle or
preserved elsewhere, which is a problem when using throwaway development
environments.
In addition, users often want to replicate stashes across machines, such
as when they must use multiple machines or when they use throwaway dev
environments, such as those based on the Devcontainer spec, where they
might otherwise lose various in-progress work.
Let's solve this problem by allowing the user to export the stash to a
ref (or, to just write it into the repository and print the hash, à la
git commit-tree). Introduce git stash export, which writes a chain of
commits where the first parent is always a chain to the previous stash,
or to a single, empty commit (for the final item) and the second is the
stash commit normally written to the reflog.
Iterate over each stash from top to bottom, looking up the data for each
one, and then create the chain from the single empty commit back up in
reverse order. Generate a predictable empty commit so our behavior is
reproducible. Create a useful commit message, preserving the author and
committer information, to help users identify stash commits when viewing
them as normal commits.
If the user has specified specific stashes they'd like to export
instead, use those instead of iterating over all of the stashes.
As part of this, specifically request quiet behavior when looking up the
OID for a revision because we will eventually hit a revision that
doesn't exist and we don't want to die when that occurs.
When exporting stashes, be sure to verify that they look like valid
stashes and don't contain invalid data. This will help avoid failures
on import or problems due to attempting to export invalid refs that are
not stashes.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files. While not
wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc,
meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that
could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting.
It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files,
since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows
various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering. Let's do that
here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where
relevant. Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new
extension as well.
Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
brian m. carlson