Loosen overly strict ownership check introduced in the recent past,
to keep the promise "cloning a suspicious repository is a safe
first step to inspect it".
* bc/allow-upload-pack-from-other-people:
Allow cloning from repositories owned by another user
Historically, Git has allowed users to clone from an untrusted
repository, and we have documented that this is safe to do so:
`upload-pack` tries to avoid any dangerous configuration options or
hooks from the repository it's serving, making it safe to clone an
untrusted directory and run commands on the resulting clone.
However, this was broken by f4aa8c8bb1 ("fetch/clone: detect dubious
ownership of local repositories", 2024-04-10) in an attempt to make
things more secure. That change resulted in a variety of problems when
cloning locally and over SSH, but it did not change the stated security
boundary. Because the security boundary has not changed, it is safe to
adjust part of the code that patch introduced.
To do that and restore the previous functionality, adjust enter_repo to
take two flags instead of one.
The two bits are
- ENTER_REPO_STRICT: callers that require exact paths (as opposed
to allowing known suffixes like ".git", ".git/.git" to be
omitted) can set this bit. Corresponds to the "strict" parameter
that the flags word replaces.
- ENTER_REPO_ANY_OWNER_OK: callers that are willing to run without
ownership check can set this bit.
The former is --strict-paths option of "git daemon". The latter is
set only by upload-pack, which honors the claimed security boundary.
Note that local clones across ownership boundaries require --no-local so
that upload-pack is used. Document this fact in the manual page and
provide an example.
This patch was based on one written by Junio C Hamano.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for the --shallow-exclude option to clone/fetch/etc.
claims that the option takes a revision, but it does not. As per
upload-pack.c's process_deepen_not(), it passes the option to
expand_ref() and dies if it does not find exactly one ref matching the
name passed. Further, this has always been the case ever since these
options were introduced by the commits merged in a460ea4a3c (Merge
branch 'nd/shallow-deepen', 2016-10-10). Fix the documentation to
match the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new configuration variable remote.<name>.serverOption makes the
transport layer act as if the --serverOption=<value> option is
given from the command line.
* xx/remote-server-option-config:
ls-remote: leakfix for not clearing server_options
fetch: respect --server-option when fetching multiple remotes
transport.c:š¤ make use of server options from remote
remote: introduce remote.<name>.serverOption configuration
transport: introduce parse_transport_option() method
Utilize the `server_options` from the corresponding remote during the
handshake in `transport.c` when Git protocol v2 is detected. This helps
initialize the `server_options` in `transport.h:transport` if no server
options are set for the transport (typically via `--server-option` or
`-o`).
While another potential place to incorporate server options from the
remote is in `transport.c:transport_get`, setting server options for a
transport using a protocol other than v2 could lead to unexpected errors
(see `transport.c:die_if_server_options`).
Relevant tests and documentation have been updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the new synopsis formatting backend, no special asciidoc markup
is needed.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noƫl Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoc.py does not have the concept of generalized roles, whereas
asciidoctor interprets [foo]`blah` as blah with role foo in the
synopsis, making in effect foo disappear in the output. Note that
square brackets not directly followed by an inline markup do not
define a role, which is why we do not have the issue on other parts of
the documentation.
In order to get a consistant result across asciidoctor and
asciidoc.py, the hack is to use the {empty} entity
to split the bracket part from the inline format part.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noƫl Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark-ups used in the documentation has been improved for
consistency.
* ja/doc-markup-fixes:
doc: git-clone: format placeholders
doc: git-clone: format verbatim words
doc: git-init: rework config item init.templateDir
doc: git-init: rework definition lists
doc: git-init: format placeholders
doc: git-init: format verbatim parts
With the new formatting rules, we use _<placeholders>_.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noƫl Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We also apply the formatting to urls.txt which is included.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noƫl Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new `--ref-format` value flag for git-clone(1) that allows
the user to specify the ref format that is to be used for a newly
initialized repository.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
6f054f9fb3 (builtin/clone.c: disallow --local clones with
symlinks, 2022-07-28) gives a good error message when "git clone
--local" fails when the repo to clone has symlinks in
"$GIT_DIR/objects". In bffc762f87 (dir-iterator: prevent top-level
symlinks without FOLLOW_SYMLINKS, 2023-01-24), we later extended this
restriction to the case where "$GIT_DIR/objects" is itself a symlink,
but we didn't update the error message then - bffc762f87's tests show
that we print a generic "failed to start iterator over" message.
This is exacerbated by the fact that Documentation/git-clone.txt
mentions neither restriction, so users are left wondering if this is
intentional behavior or not.
Fix this by adding a check to builtin/clone.c: when doing a local clone,
perform an extra check to see if "$GIT_DIR/objects" is a symlink, and if
so, assume that that was the reason for the failure and report the
relevant information. Ideally, dir_iterator_begin() would tell us that
the real failure reason is the presence of the symlink, but (as far as I
can tell) there isn't an appropriate errno value for that.
Also, update Documentation/git-clone.txt to reflect that this
restriction exists.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git
<subcmd>" in "git help <subcmd>" with the text from "git help config".
* ab/dedup-config-and-command-docs:
docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that fuzzy map to built-ins
docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that map to a built-in
log docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
notes docs: de-duplicate and combine configuration sections
apply docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
send-email docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
grep docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
docs: add and use include template for config/* includes
Add a CONFIGURATION section to the documentation of various built-ins,
for those cases where the relevant config/NAME.txt doesn't map only to
one git-NAME.txt. In particular:
* config/blame.txt: used by git-{blame,annotate}.txt. Since the
git-annotate(1) documentation refers to git-blame(1) don't add a
"CONFIGURATION" section to git-annotate(1), only to git-blame(1).
* config/checkout.txt: maps to both git-checkout.txt and
git-switch.txt (but nothing else).
* config/init.txt: should be included in git-init(1) and
git-clone(1).
* config/column.txt: We should ideally mention the relevant subset of
this in git-{branch,clean,status,tag}.txt, but let's punt on it for
now. We will when we eventually split these sort of files into
e.g. config/column.txt and
config/column/{branch,clean,status,tag}.txt, with the former
including the latter set.
Things that are being left out, and why:
* config/{remote,remotes,credential}.txt: Configuration that affects
how we talk to remote repositories is harder to untangle. We'll need
to include some of this in git-{fetch,remote,push,ls-remote}.txt
etc., but some of those only use a small subset of these
options. Let's leave this for now.
Signed-off-by: Ćvar ArnfjƶrĆ° Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a CONFIGURATION section to the documentation of various built-ins,
for those cases where the relevant config/NAME.txt describes
configuration that is only used by the relevant built-in documented in
git-NAME.txt. Subsequent commits will handle more complex cases.
Signed-off-by: Ćvar ArnfjƶrĆ° Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A previous change added the '--bundle-uri' option, but did not check
if the --depth parameter was included. Since bundles are not compatible
with shallow clones, provide an error message to the user who is
attempting this combination.
I am leaving this as its own change, separate from the one that
implements '--bundle-uri', because this is more of an advisory for the
user. There is nothing wrong with bootstrapping with bundles and then
fetching a shallow clone. However, that is likely going to involve too
much work for the client _and_ the server. The client will download all
of this bundle information containing the full history of the
repository only to ignore most of it. The server will get a shallow
fetch request, but with a list of haves that might cause a more painful
computation of that shallow pack-file.
Reviewed-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cloning a remote repository is one of the most expensive operations in
Git. The server can spend a lot of CPU time generating a pack-file for
the client's request. The amount of data can clog the network for a long
time, and the Git protocol is not resumable. For users with poor network
connections or are located far away from the origin server, this can be
especially painful.
Add a new '--bundle-uri' option to 'git clone' to bootstrap a clone from
a bundle. If the user is aware of a bundle server, then they can tell
Git to bootstrap the new repository with these bundles before fetching
the remaining objects from the origin server.
Reviewed-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cloning a repo with a --filter and with --recurse-submodules
enabled, the partial clone filter only applies to the top-level repo.
This can lead to unexpected bandwidth and disk usage for projects which
include large submodules. For example, a user might wish to make a
partial clone of Gerrit and would run:
`git clone --recurse-submodules --filter=blob:5k https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit`.
However, only the superproject would be a partial clone; all the
submodules would have all blobs downloaded regardless of their size.
With this change, the same filter can also be applied to submodules,
meaning the expected bandwidth and disk savings apply consistently.
To avoid changing default behavior, add a new clone flag,
`--also-filter-submodules`. When this is set along with `--filter` and
`--recurse-submodules`, the filter spec is passed along to git-submodule
and git-submodule--helper, such that submodule clones also have the
filter applied.
This applies the same filter to the superproject and all submodules.
Users who need to customize the filter per-submodule would need to clone
with `--no-recurse-submodules` and then manually initialize each
submodule with the proper filter.
Applying filters to submodules should be safe thanks to Jonathan Tan's
recent work [1, 2, 3] eliminating the use of alternates as a method of
accessing submodule objects, so any submodule object access now triggers
a lazy fetch from the submodule's promisor remote if the accessed object
is missing. This patch is a reworked version of [4], which was created
prior to Jonathan Tan's work.
[1]: 8721e2e (Merge branch 'jt/partial-clone-submodule-1', 2021-07-16)
[2]: 11e5d0a (Merge branch 'jt/grep-wo-submodule-odb-as-alternate',
2021-09-20)
[3]: 162a13b (Merge branch 'jt/no-abuse-alternate-odb-for-submodules',
2021-10-25)
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/52bf9d45b8e2b72ff32aa773f2415bf7b2b86da2.1563322192.git.steadmon@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "init" and "set" subcommands in "git sparse-checkout" have been
unified for a better user experience and performance.
* en/sparse-checkout-set:
sparse-checkout: remove stray trailing space
clone: avoid using deprecated `sparse-checkout init`
Documentation: clarify/correct a few sparsity related statements
git-sparse-checkout.txt: update to document init/set/reapply changes
sparse-checkout: enable reapply to take --[no-]{cone,sparse-index}
sparse-checkout: enable `set` to initialize sparse-checkout mode
sparse-checkout: split out code for tweaking settings config
sparse-checkout: disallow --no-stdin as an argument to set
sparse-checkout: add sanity-checks on initial sparsity state
sparse-checkout: break apart functions for sparse_checkout_(set|add)
sparse-checkout: pass use_stdin as a parameter instead of as a global
According to CodingGuidelines, multi-word placeholders should use
hyphens as word separators.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noƫl Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some scenarios, users may want more history than the repository
offered for cloning, which happens to be a shallow repository, can
give them. But because users don't know it is a shallow repository
until they download it to local, we may want to refuse to clone
this kind of repository, without creating any unnecessary files.
The '--depth=x' option cannot be used as a solution; the source may
be deep enough to give us 'x' commits when cloned, but the user may
later need to deepen the history to arbitrary depth.
Teach '--reject-shallow' option to "git clone" to abort as soon as
we find out that we are cloning from a shallow repository.
Signed-off-by: Li Linchao <lilinchao@oschina.cn>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running 'git clone --local', the operation may fail if another
process is modifying the source repository. Document that this race
condition is known to hopefully help anyone who may run into it.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone" learned clone.defaultremotename configuration variable
to customize what nickname to use to call the remote the repository
was cloned from.
* sb/clone-origin:
clone: allow configurable default for `-o`/`--origin`
clone: read new remote name from remote_name instead of option_origin
clone: validate --origin option before use
refs: consolidate remote name validation
remote: add tests for add and rename with invalid names
clone: use more conventional config/option layering
clone: add tests for --template and some disallowed option pairs
While the default remote name of "origin" can be changed at clone-time
with `git clone`'s `--origin` option, it was previously not possible
to specify a default value for the name of that remote. Add support for
a new `clone.defaultRemoteName` config, with the newly-created remote
name resolved in priority order:
1. (Highest priority) A remote name passed directly to `git clone -o`
2. A `clone.defaultRemoteName=new_name` in config `git clone -c`
3. A `clone.defaultRemoteName` value set in `/path/to/template/config`,
where `--template=/path/to/template` is provided
4. A `clone.defaultRemoteName` value set in a non-template config file
5. The default value of `origin`
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Barag <sean@barag.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The run_auto_gc() method is used in several places to trigger a check
for repo maintenance after some Git commands, such as 'git commit' or
'git fetch'.
To allow for extra customization of this maintenance activity, replace
the 'git gc --auto [--quiet]' call with one to 'git maintenance run
--auto [--quiet]'. As we extend the maintenance builtin with other
steps, users will be able to select different maintenance activities.
Rename run_auto_gc() to run_auto_maintenance() to be clearer what is
happening on this call, and to expose all callers in the current diff.
Rewrite the method to use a struct child_process to simplify the calls
slightly.
Since 'git fetch' already allows disabling the 'git gc --auto'
subprocess, add an equivalent option with a different name to be more
descriptive of the new behavior: '--[no-]maintenance'. Update the
documentation to include these options at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were a couple of instances in our manual pages that had an
opening diamond bracket without a corresponding closing one.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It turns out that the "--filter=<filter-spec>" option is not
documented anywhere in the "git clone" page, and instead is
detailed carefully in "git rev-list" where it serves a
different purpose.
Add a small bit about this option in the documentation. It
would be worth some time to create a subsection in the "git clone"
documentation about partial clone as a concept and how it can be
a surprising experience. For example, "git checkout" will likely
trigger a pack download.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Non ASCII characters may be handled by publishing chains, but right
now, nothing indicates the encoding of files. Moreover, non ASCII
source strings upset the localization toolchain.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noƫl Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When someone wants to clone a large repository, but plans to work
using a sparse-checkout file, they either need to do a full
checkout first and then reduce the patterns they included, or
clone with --no-checkout, set up their patterns, and then run
a checkout manually. This requires knowing a lot about the repo
shape and how sparse-checkout works.
Add a new '--sparse' option to 'git clone' that initializes the
sparse-checkout file to include the following patterns:
/*
!/*/
These patterns include every file in the root directory, but
no directories. This allows a repo to include files like a
README or a bootstrapping script to grow enlistments from that
point.
During the 'git sparse-checkout init' call, we must first look
to see if HEAD is valid, since 'git clone' does not have a valid
HEAD at the point where it initializes the sparse-checkout. The
following checkout within the clone command will create the HEAD
ref and update the working directory correctly.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
forms to make them more recognisable.
* qn/clone-doc-use-long-form:
docs: git-clone: list short form of options first
docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options
List the short form of options (e.g.: '-l') before the long form (e.g.
'--local').
This is to match the doc of git-add, git-commit, git-clean, git-branch...
Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden <quentin.nerden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To make the doc of git-clone easier to read,
refer to the long form of the options
(it is easier to guess what '--verbose' is doing than '-v').
Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden <quentin.nerden@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using `git clone --recurse-submodules` there was previously no way to
pass a `--remote` switch to the implicit `git submodule update` command for
any use case where you want the submodules to be checked out on their
remote-tracking branch rather than with the SHA-1 recorded in the superproject.
This patch rectifies this situation. It actually passes `--no-fetch` to
`git submodule update` as well on the grounds they the submodule has only just
been cloned, so fetching from the remote again only serves to slow things down.
Signed-off-by: Ben Avison <bavison@riscosopen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 5e3548ef16 ("fetch: send server options when using protocol v2",
2018-04-24) taught "fetch" the ability to send server options when using
protocol v2, but not "clone". This ability is triggered by "-o" or
"--server-option".
Teach "clone" the same ability, except that because "clone" already
has "-o" for another parameter, teach "clone" only to receive
"--server-option".
Explain in the documentation, both for clone and for fetch, that server
handling of server options are server-specific. This is similar to
receive-pack's handling of push options - currently, they are just sent
to hooks to interpret as they see fit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to limitations in the current implementation, some configuration
variables specified via 'git clone -c var=val' (or 'git -c var=val
clone') are ignored during the initial fetch and checkout.
Let the users know which configuration variables are known to be
ignored ('remote.origin.mirror' and 'remote.origin.tagOpt') under the
documentation of 'git clone -c', along with hints to use the options
'--mirror' and '--no-tags' instead.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER GƔbor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When formatted as a man page, 1st section header is always in upper
case even if we write it otherwise. Make all 1st section headers
uppercase to keep it close to the final output.
This does affect html since case is kept there, but I still think it's
a good idea to maintain a consistent style for 1st section headers.
Some sections perhaps should become second sections instead, where
case is kept, and for better organization. I will update if anyone has
suggestions about this.
While at there I also make some header more consistent (e.g. examples
vs example) and fix a couple minor things here and there.
Signed-off-by: Nguyį» n ThĆ”i Ngį»c Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of the <repository> argument directs readers to "See the
URLS section below". When generating HTML this becomes a link to the
"GIT URLS" section. When reading the man page in a terminal, the
caption is slightly misleading. Use "GIT URLS" as the caption to avoid
any confusion.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There have been a few complaints on the mailing list that git-clone doesn't
respect the `submodule.recurse` setting, which every other command (that
potentially knows how to deal with submodules) respects. In case of clone
this is not beneficial to respect as the user may not want to obtain all
submodules (assuming a pathspec of '.').
Improve the documentation such that the pathspec is mentioned in the
synopsis to alleviate the confusion around the submodule recursion flag
in git-clone.
While at it clarify that the option can be given multiple times for complex
pathspecs.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a --no-tags option to clone without fetching any tags.
Without this change there's no easy way to clone a repository without
also fetching its tags.
When supplying --single-branch the primary remote branch will be
cloned, but in addition tags will be followed & retrieved. Now
--no-tags can be added --single-branch to clone a repository without
tags, and which only tracks a single upstream branch.
This option works without --single-branch as well, and will do a
normal clone but not fetch any tags.
Many git commands pay some fixed overhead as a function of the number
of references. E.g. creating ~40k tags in linux.git will cause a
command like `git log -1 >/dev/null` to run in over a second instead
of in a matter of milliseconds, in addition numerous other things will
slow down, e.g. "git log <TAB>" with the bash completion will slowly
show ~40k references instead of 1.
The user might want to avoid all of that overhead to simply use a
repository like that to browse the "master" branch, or something like
a CI tool might want to keep that one branch up-to-date without caring
about any other references.
Without this change the only way of accomplishing this was either by
manually tweaking the config in a fresh repository:
git init git &&
cat >git/.git/config <<EOF &&
[remote "origin"]
url = git@github.com:git/git.git
tagOpt = --no-tags
fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
EOF
cd git &&
git pull
Which requires hardcoding the "master" name, which may not be the main
--single-branch would have retrieved, or alternatively by setting
tagOpt=--no-tags right after cloning & deleting any existing tags:
git clone --single-branch git@github.com:git/git.git &&
cd git &&
git config remote.origin.tagOpt --no-tags &&
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
Which of course was also subtly buggy if --branch was pointed at a
tag, leaving the user in a detached head:
git clone --single-branch --branch v2.12.0 git@github.com:git/git.git &&
cd git &&
git config remote.origin.tagOpt --no-tags &&
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
Now all this complexity becomes the much simpler:
git clone --single-branch --no-tags git@github.com:git/git.git
Or in the case of cloning a single tag "branch":
git clone --single-branch --branch v2.12.0 --no-tags git@github.com:git/git.git
Signed-off-by: Ćvar ArnfjƶrĆ° Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach clone --recurse-submodules to optionally take a pathspec argument
which describes which submodules should be recursively initialized and
cloned. If no pathspec is provided, --recurse-submodules will
recursively initialize and clone all submodules by using a default
pathspec of ".". In order to construct more complex pathspecs,
--recurse-submodules can be given multiple times.
This also configures the 'submodule.active' configuration option to be
the given pathspec, such that any future invocation of `git submodule
update` will keep up with the pathspec.
Additionally the switch '--recurse' is removed from the Documentation as
well as marked hidden in the options array, to streamline the options
for submodules. A simple '--recurse' doesn't convey what is being
recursed, e.g. it could mean directories or trees (c.f. ls-tree) In a
lot of other commands we already have '--recurse-submodules' to mean
recursing into submodules, so advertise this spelling here as the
genuine option.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use
correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone
deeper. A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this
easier to use. "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>"
and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify
"I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and
"Give me only the history since that version".
* nd/shallow-deepen: (27 commits)
fetch, upload-pack: --deepen=N extends shallow boundary by N commits
upload-pack: add get_reachable_list()
upload-pack: split check_unreachable() in two, prep for get_reachable_list()
t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth excluding a ref
clone: define shallow clone boundary with --shallow-exclude
fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-exclude
upload-pack: support define shallow boundary by excluding revisions
refs: add expand_ref()
t5500, t5539: tests for shallow depth since a specific date
clone: define shallow clone boundary based on time with --shallow-since
fetch: define shallow boundary with --shallow-since
upload-pack: add deepen-since to cut shallow repos based on time
shallow.c: implement a generic shallow boundary finder based on rev-list
fetch-pack: use a separate flag for fetch in deepening mode
fetch-pack.c: mark strings for translating
fetch-pack: use a common function for verbose printing
fetch-pack: use skip_prefix() instead of starts_with()
upload-pack: move rev-list code out of check_non_tip()
upload-pack: make check_non_tip() clean things up on error
upload-pack: tighten number parsing at "deepen" lines
...
In a later patch we want to try to create alternates for submodules,
but they might not exist in the referenced superproject. So add a way
to skip the non existing references and report them.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth"
that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also
be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream
of the submodules are not prepared for.
* sb/clone-shallow-passthru:
clone: do not let --depth imply --shallow-submodules
In v2.9.0, we prematurely flipped the default to force cloning
submodules shallowly, when the superproject is getting cloned
shallowly. This is likely to fail when the upstream repositories
submodules are cloned from a repository that is not prepared to
serve histories that ends at a commit that is not at the tip of a
branch, and we know the world is not yet ready.
Use a safer default to clone the submodules fully, unless the user
tells us that she knows that the upstream repository of the
submodules are willing to cooperate with "--shallow-submodules"
option.
Noticed-by: Vadim Eisenberg <VADIME@il.ibm.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano