In rebase, one can pass the `--autostash` option to cause the worktree
to be automatically stashed before continuing with the rebase. This
option is missing in merge, however.
Implement the `--autostash` option and corresponding `merge.autoStash`
option in merge which stashes before merging and then pops after.
This option is useful when a developer has some local changes on a topic
branch but they realize that their work depends on another branch.
Previously, they had to run something like
git fetch ...
git stash push
git merge FETCH_HEAD
git stash pop
but now, that is reduced to
git fetch ...
git merge --autostash FETCH_HEAD
When an autostash is generated, it is automatically reapplied to the
worktree only in three explicit situations:
1. An incomplete merge is commit using `git commit`.
2. A merge completes successfully.
3. A merge is aborted using `git merge --abort`.
In all other situations where the merge state is removed using
remove_merge_branch_state() such as aborting a merge via
`git reset --hard`, the autostash is saved into the stash reflog
instead keeping the worktree clean.
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Suggested-by: Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When all of x/a, x/b, and x/c have moved to z/a, z/b, and z/c on one
branch, there is a question about whether x/d added on a different
branch should remain at x/d or appear at z/d when the two branches are
merged. There are different possible viewpoints here:
A) The file was placed at x/d; it's unrelated to the other files in
x/ so it doesn't matter that all the files from x/ moved to z/ on
one branch; x/d should still remain at x/d.
B) x/d is related to the other files in x/, and x/ was renamed to z/;
therefore x/d should be moved to z/d.
Since there was no ability to detect directory renames prior to
git-2.18, users experienced (A) regardless of context. Choice (B) was
implemented in git-2.18, with no option to go back to (A), and has been
in use since. However, one user reported that the merge results did not
match their expectations, making the change of default problematic,
especially since there was no notice printed when directory rename
detection moved files.
Note that there is also a third possibility here:
C) There are different answers depending on the context and content
that cannot be determined by git, so this is a conflict. Use a
higher stage in the index to record the conflict and notify the
user of the potential issue instead of silently selecting a
resolution for them.
Add an option for users to specify their preference for whether to use
directory rename detection, and default to (C). Even when directory
rename detection is on, add notice messages about files moved into new
directories.
As a sidenote, x/d did not have to be a new file here; it could have
already existed at some other path and been renamed to x/d, with
directory rename detection just renaming it again to z/d. Thus, it's
not just new files, but also a modification to all rename types (normal
renames, rename/add, rename/delete, rename/rename(1to1),
rename/rename(1to2), and rename/rename(2to1)).
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Note that this file is not directly included in config.txt but through
merge-config.txt and it's in "merge" section instead of a separate
"fmtMergeMsg" section like others.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the ability to control rename detection for merge via a config setting.
This setting behaves the same and defaults to the value of diff.renames but only
applies to merge.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the documentation to better indicate that the renameLimit setting is
ignored if rename detection is turned off via command line options or config
settings.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git merge --verify-signatures can be used to verify that the tip commit
of the branch being merged in is properly signed, but it's cumbersome to
have to specify that every time.
Add a configuration option that enables this behaviour by default, which
can be overridden by --no-verify-signatures.
Signed-off-by: Hans Jerry Illikainen <hji@dyntopia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change GIT_* variables that where in italic style to monospaced font
according to the guideline. It was obtained with
perl -pi -e "s/\'(GIT_.*?)\'/\`\1\`/g" *.txt
One of the main purposes is to stick to the CodingGuidelines as possible so
that people writting new documentation by mimicking the existing are more likely
to have it right (even if they didn't read the CodingGuidelines).
Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'merge.branchdesc' is only mentioned in the docs of 'git fmt-merge-msg'.
The description of 'merge.log' is already duplicated between
'merge-config.txt' and 'git-fmt-merge-msg.txt'; instead of duplicating the
description of another config variable, extract the descriptions of both
of these variables from 'git-fmt-merge-msg.txt' into a separate file and
include it there and in 'merge-config.txt'.
Leave 'merge.summary' only in git-fmt-merge-msg.txt, as it is marked
as deprecated.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and
"thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can
decide what to do with them later.
- am.keepcr
- core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime
- diff.dirstat .noprefix
- gitcvs.usecrlfattr
- gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime
- pull.twohead
- receive.autogc
- sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the show_tool_names() function to build lists of all
the built-in tools supported by difftool and mergetool.
This frees us from needing to update the documentation
whenever a new tool is added.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change was already done by 0e615b252f (Matthieu Moy, Tue Nov 2
2010, Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"), but new
instances of remote tracking (without dash) were introduced in the
meantime.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
This variable gives the default setting for --ff, --no-ff or --ff-only
options of "git merge" command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git merge" without specifying any commit is a no-op by default.
A new option merge.defaultupstream can be set to true to cause such an
invocation of the command to merge the upstream branches configured for
the current branch by using their last observed values stored in their
remote tracking branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make 'merge.log' an integer or boolean option to set the number of
shortlog entries to display in the merge commit. Note that it defaults
to false, and that true means a default value of 20. Also update
corresponding documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, merging across changes in line ending normalization is
painful since files containing CRLF will conflict with normalized files,
even if the only difference between the two versions is the line
endings. Additionally, any "real" merge conflicts that exist are
obscured because every line in the file has a conflict.
Assume you start out with a repo that has a lot of text files with CRLF
checked in (A):
o---C
/ \
A---B---D
B: Add "* text=auto" to .gitattributes and normalize all files to
LF-only
C: Modify some of the text files
D: Try to merge C
You will get a ridiculous number of LF/CRLF conflicts when trying to
merge C into D, since the repository contents for C are "wrong" wrt the
new .gitattributes file.
Fix ll-merge so that the "base", "theirs" and "ours" stages are passed
through convert_to_worktree() and convert_to_git() before a three-way
merge. This ensures that all three stages are normalized in the same
way, removing from consideration differences that are only due to
normalization.
This feature is optional for now since it changes a low-level mechanism
and is not necessary for the majority of users. The "merge.renormalize"
config variable enables it.
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add p4merge to the set of built-in diff/merge tools, and update
bash completion and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Araxis merge is now a built-in diff/merge tool.
This adds araxis to git-completion and updates
the documentation to mention araxis.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds diffuse as a built-in merge tool.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
TortoiseMerge comes with TortoiseSVN or TortoiseGit for Windows. It can
only be used as a merge tool with an existing base file. It cannot be
used without a base nor as a diff tool.
The documentation only mentions the slash '/' as command line option
prefix, which refused to work, but the parser also accepts the dash '-'
See http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=226
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve some minor language and format issues like hyphenation,
phrases, spacing, word order, comma, attributes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of rename limiting is to bound the amount of time
we spend figuring out inexact renames. Currently we use a
single value, diff.renamelimit, for all situations. However,
it is probably the case that a user is willing to spend more
time finding renames during a merge than they are while
looking at git-log.
This patch provides a way of setting those values separately
(though for backwards compatibility, merge still falls back
on the diff renamelimit).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These are new synonyms to the '--(no-)summary' option and the
'merge.summary' config variable, but are consistent with the soon to be
added 'merge --(no-)log' options. The 'merge.summary' config variable and
'--(no-)summary' options are still accepted, but are advertised to be
removed in the future.
'merge.log' takes precedence over 'merge.summary' if they are both set
inconsistently.
Update documentation and tests accordingly.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This variable has the same effect, as 'merge.diffstat'.
Also mention it in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Include the new file from config.txt and git-merge.txt.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>