Used GNU "aspell check <filename>" to review various documentation
files with the default aspell dictionary. Ignored false-positives
between american and british english.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses atoi() and checks if the result is not zero to decide what
to do. Turning it into the usual Boolean environment variable to
use git_env_bool() would not break those who have been using "set to
0, or set to non-zero, that can be parsed with atoi()" values, but
will match the expectation of those who expected "true" to mean
"yes".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many environment variables use the git_env_bool() API to parse their
values, and allow the usual "true/yes/on are true, false/no/off are
false. In addition non-zero numbers are true and zero is false. An
empty string is also false." set of values.
Mark them as such, and consistently say "true" or "false", instead
of random mixes of '1', '0', 'yes', 'true', etc. in their
description.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though the name of the environment variable is mentioned in
"git config --help" from http.sslVerify, there is no description for
it. Add one.
Note that this is not a usual Boolean environment variable whose
value can be yes/true/on vs no/false/off; the existence of it is
enough to trigger the feature named by the variable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expose a lot of "tech docs" via "git help" interface.
* ab/tech-docs-to-help:
docs: move http-protocol docs to man section 5
docs: move cruft pack docs to gitformat-pack
docs: move pack format docs to man section 5
docs: move signature docs to man section 5
docs: move index format docs to man section 5
docs: move protocol-related docs to man section 5
docs: move commit-graph format docs to man section 5
git docs: add a category for file formats, protocols and interfaces
git docs: add a category for user-facing file, repo and command UX
git help doc: use "<doc>" instead of "<guide>"
help.c: remove common category behavior from drop_prefix() behavior
help.c: refactor drop_prefix() to use a "switch" statement"
Create a new "File formats, protocols and other developer interfaces"
section in the main "git help git" manual page and start moving the
documentation that now lives in "Documentation/technical/*.git" over
to it. This complements the newly added and adjacent "Repository,
command and file interfaces" section.
This makes the technical documentation more accessible and
discoverable. Before this we wouldn't install it by default, and had
no ability to build man page versions of them. The links to them from
our existing documentation link to the generated HTML version of these
docs.
So let's start moving those over, starting with just the
"bundle-format.txt" documentation added in 7378ec90e1 (doc: describe
Git bundle format, 2020-02-07). We'll now have a new
gitformat-bundle(5) man page. Subsequent commits will move more git
internal format documentation over.
Unfortunately the syntax of the current Documentation/technical/*.txt
is not the same (when it comes to section headings etc.) as our
Documentation/*.txt documentation, so change the relevant bits of
syntax as we're moving this over.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a new "Repository, command and file interfaces" section in the
main "git help git" manual page. Move things that belong under this
new criteria from the generic "Guides" section.
The "Guides" section was added in f442f28a81 (git.txt: add list of
guides, 2020-08-05). It makes sense to have e.g. "giteveryday(7)" and
"gitfaq(7)" listed under "Guides".
But placing e.g. "gitignore(5)" in it is stretching the meaning of
what a "guide" is, ideally that section should list things similar to
"giteveryday(7)" and "gitcore-tutorial(7)".
An alternate name that was considered for this new section was "User
formats", for consistency with the nomenclature used for man section 5
in general. My man(1) lists it as "File formats and conventions,
e.g. /etc/passwd".
So calling this "git help --formats" or "git help --user-formats"
would make sense for e.g. gitignore(5), but would be stretching it
somewhat for githooks(5), and would seem really suspect for the likes
of gitcli(7).
Let's instead pick a name that's closer to the generic term "User
interface", which is really what this documentation discusses: General
user-interface documentation that doesn't obviously belong elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL has a sentence that adds no
value, since it repeats the meaning from the previous sentence (twice!).
The word "whitelist" has cultural implications that are not inclusive,
which brought attention to this sentence.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the behavior of "git -v" to be synonymous with "--version" /
"version", and "git -h" to be synonymous with "--help", but not "help".
These shorthands both display the "unknown option" message. Following
this change, "-v" displays the version, and "-h" displays the help text
of the "git" command.
It should be noted that the "-v" shorthand could be misinterpreted by
the user to mean "verbose" instead of "version", since some sub-commands
make use of it in this context. The top-level "git" command does not
have a "verbose" flag, so it's safe to introduce this shorthand
unambiguously.
Signed-off-by: Garrit Franke <garrit@slashdev.space>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Redact the path part of packfile URI that appears in the trace output.
* if/redact-packfile-uri:
http-fetch: redact url on die() message
fetch-pack: redact packfile urls in traces
In some setups, packfile uris act as bearer token. It is not
recommended to expose them plainly in logs, although in special
circunstances (e.g. debug) it makes sense to write them.
Redact the packfile URL paths by default, unless the GIT_TRACE_REDACT
variable is set to false. This mimics the redacting of the Authorization
header in HTTP.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Frade <ifrade@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original point of the GIT_REF_PARANOIA flag was to include broken
refs in iterations, so that possibly-destructive operations would not
silently ignore them (and would generally instead try to operate on the
oids and fail when the objects could not be accessed).
We already turned this on by default for some dangerous operations, like
"repack -ad" (where missing a reachability tip would mean dropping the
associated history). But it was not on for general use, even though it
could easily result in the spreading of corruption (e.g., imagine
cloning a repository which simply omits some of its refs because
their objects are missing; the result quietly succeeds even though you
did not clone everything!).
This patch turns on GIT_REF_PARANOIA by default. So a clone as mentioned
above would actually fail (upload-pack tells us about the broken ref,
and when we ask for the objects, pack-objects fails to deliver them).
This may be inconvenient when working with a corrupted repository, but:
- we are better off to err on the side of complaining about
corruption, and then provide mechanisms for explicitly loosening
safety.
- this is only one type of corruption anyway. If we are missing any
other objects in the history that _aren't_ ref tips, then we'd
behave similarly (happily show the ref, but then barf when we
started traversing).
We retain the GIT_REF_PARANOIA variable, but simply default it to "1"
instead of "0". That gives the user an escape hatch for loosening this
when working with a corrupt repository. It won't work across a remote
connection to upload-pack (because we can't necessarily set environment
variables on the remote), but there the client has other options (e.g.,
choosing which refs to fetch).
As a bonus, this also makes ref iteration faster in general (because we
don't have to call has_object_file() for each ref), though probably not
noticeably so in the general case. In a repo with a million refs, it
shaved a few hundred milliseconds off of upload-pack's advertisement;
that's noticeable, but most repos are not nearly that large.
The possible downside here is that any operation which iterates refs but
doesn't ever open their objects may now quietly claim to have X when the
object is corrupted (e.g., "git rev-list new-branch --not --all" will
treat a broken ref as uninteresting). But again, that's not really any
different than corruption below the ref level. We might have
refs/heads/old-branch as non-corrupt, but we are not actively checking
that we have the entire reachable history. Or the pointed-to object
could even be corrupted on-disk (but our "do we have it" check would
still succeed). In that sense, this is merely bringing ref-corruption in
line with general object corruption.
One alternative implementation would be to actually check for broken
refs, and then _immediately die_ if we see any. That would cause the
"rev-list --not --all" case above to abort immediately. But in many ways
that's the worst of all worlds:
- it still spends time looking up the objects an extra time
- it still doesn't catch corruption below the ref level
- it's even more inconvenient; with the current implementation of
GIT_REF_PARANOIA for something like upload-pack, we can make
the advertisement and let the client choose a non-broken piece of
history. If we bail as soon as we see a broken ref, they cannot even
see the advertisement.
The test changes here show some of the fallout. A non-destructive "git
repack -adk" now fails by default (but we can override it). Deleting a
broken ref now actually tells the hooks the correct "before" state,
rather than a confusing null oid.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While 'git version' is probably the least complex git command,
it is a non-experimental user-facing builtin command. As such
it should have a help page.
Both `git help` and `git version` can be called as options
(`--help`/`--version`) that internally get converted to the
corresponding command. Add a small paragraph to
Documentation/git.txt describing how these two options
interact with each other and link to this help page for the
sub-options that `--version` can take. Well, currently there
is only one sub-option, but that could potentially increase
in future versions of Git.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The v2 protocol requires that the GIT_PROTOCOL environment variable gets
passed around, but we don't have any documentation describing how this
is supposed to work. In particular, we need to note what server admins
might need to configure to make things work.
The definition of the GIT_PROTOCOL variable is probably the best place
for this, since:
- we deal with multiple transports (ssh, http, etc).
Transport-specific documentation (like the git-http-backend bits
added in the previous commit) are helpful for those transports, but
this gives a broader overview. Plus we do not have a specific
transport endpoint program for ssh, so this is a reasonable place to
mention it.
- the server side of the protocol involves multiple programs. For now,
upload-pack is the only endpoint which uses GIT_PROTOCOL, but that
will likely expand in the future. We're better off with a central
discussion of what the server admin might need to do. However, for
discoverability, this patch adds a pointer from upload-pack's
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM mechanism to decline from reading the
system-wide configuration file with GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM that lets
users specify from which file to read the system-wide configuration
(setting it to an empty file would essentially be the same as
setting NOSYSTEM), and introduce GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL to override the
per-user configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig.
* ps/config-global-override:
t1300: fix unset of GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM leaking into subsequent tests
config: allow overriding of global and system configuration
config: unify code paths to get global config paths
config: rename `git_etc_config()`
"git --config-env var=val cmd" weren't accepted (only
--config-env=var=val was).
* ps/config-env-option-with-separate-value:
git: support separate arg for `--config-env`'s value
git.txt: fix synopsis of `--config-env` missing the equals sign
When executing `git -h`, then the `--config-env` documentation rightly
lists the option as requiring an equals between the option and its
argument: this is the only currently supported format. But the git(1)
manpage incorrectly lists the option as taking a space in between.
Fix the issue by adding the missing space.
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-of-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to have git run in a fully controlled environment without any
misconfiguration, it may be desirable for users or scripts to override
global- and system-level configuration files. We already have a way of
doing this, which is to unset both HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment
variables and to set `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL=true`. This is quite kludgy,
and unsetting the first two variables likely has an impact on other
executables spawned by such a script.
The obvious way to fix this would be to introduce `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`
as an equivalent to `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`. But in the past, it has
turned out that this design is inflexible: we cannot test system-level
parsing of the git configuration in our test harness because there is no
way to change its location, so all tests run with `GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`
set.
Instead of doing the same mistake with `GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`, introduce
two new variables `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL` and `GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM`:
- If unset, git continues to use the usual locations.
- If set to a specific path, we skip reading the normal
configuration files and instead take the path. By setting the path
to `/dev/null`, no configuration will be loaded for the respective
level.
This implements the usecase where we want to execute code in a sanitized
environment without any potential misconfigurations via `/dev/null`, but
is more flexible and allows for more usecases than simply adding
`GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we write `<name>`s with the "s" tucked on to the closing backtick,
we end up rendering the backticks literally. Rephrase this sentence
slightly to render this as monospace.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs
via environment variables, and tweak the way GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
encodes variable/value pairs to make it more robust.
* ps/config-env-pairs:
config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs
environment: make `getenv_safe()` a public function
config: store "git -c" variables using more robust format
config: parse more robust format in GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
config: extract function to parse config pairs
quote: make sq_dequote_step() a public function
config: add new way to pass config via `--config-env`
git: add `--super-prefix` to usage string
While it's already possible to pass runtime configuration via `git -c
<key>=<value>`, it may be undesirable to use when the value contains
sensitive information. E.g. if one wants to set `http.extraHeader` to
contain an authentication token, doing so via `-c` would trivially leak
those credentials via e.g. ps(1), which typically also shows command
arguments.
To enable this usecase without leaking credentials, this commit
introduces a new switch `--config-env=<key>=<envvar>`. Instead of
directly passing a value for the given key, it instead allows the user
to specify the name of an environment variable. The value of that
variable will then be used as value of the key.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'linkgit' Asciidoc macro is misspelled as 'linkit' in the
description of 'GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR' since the addition of that variable
to git(1) in 902a126eca (doc: mention GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR and
'sequence.editor' more, 2020-08-31). Also, it uses two colons instead of
one.
Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When set in the environment, GIT_TRACE_REFS makes git print operations and
results as they flow through the ref storage backend. This helps debug
discrepancies between different ref backends.
Example:
$ GIT_TRACE_REFS="1" ./git branch
15:42:09.769631 refs/debug.c:26 ref_store for .git
15:42:09.769681 refs/debug.c:249 read_raw_ref: HEAD: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (=> refs/heads/ref-debug) type 1: 0
15:42:09.769695 refs/debug.c:249 read_raw_ref: refs/heads/ref-debug: 3a238e539b (=> refs/heads/ref-debug) type 0: 0
15:42:09.770282 refs/debug.c:233 ref_iterator_begin: refs/heads/ (0x1)
15:42:09.770290 refs/debug.c:189 iterator_advance: refs/heads/b4 (0)
15:42:09.770295 refs/debug.c:189 iterator_advance: refs/heads/branch3 (0)
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In fde97d8ac6 (Update documentation to remove incorrect GIT_DIFF_OPTS
example., 2006-11-27), the description of the 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF'
variable was moved from 'diff-format.txt' to 'git.txt', and the
documentation was updated to remove a 'diff(1)' invocation since Git did
not use an external diff program anymore by default.
However, the description of 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' still mentions "instead
of the diff invocation described above", which is confusing.
Correct that outdated sentence.
Also, link to git(1) in 'diff-generate-patch.txt' when GIT_DIFF_OPTS and
GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF are mentioned, so that users can easily know what
these variables are about.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The environment variable `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`, and the configuration
variable 'sequence.editor', which were added in 821881d88d ("rebase -i":
support special-purpose editor to edit insn sheet, 2011-10-17), are
mentioned in the `git config` man page but not anywhere else.
Include `config/sequencer.txt` in `git-rebase.txt`, so that both the
environment variable and the configuration setting are mentioned there.
Also, add `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` to the list of environment variables
in `git(1)`.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recent addition of SHA-256 support is marked as experimental in
the documentation.
* ma/doc-sha-256-is-experimental:
Documentation: mark `--object-format=sha256` as experimental
After eff45daab8 ("repository: enable SHA-256 support by default",
2020-07-29), vanilla builds of Git enable the user to run, e.g.,
git init --object-format=sha256
and hack away. This can be a good way to gain experience with the
SHA-256 world, e.g., to find bugs that
GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH=sha256 make test
doesn't spot.
But it really is a separate world: Such SHA-256 repos will live entirely
separate from the (by now fairly large) set of SHA-1 repos. Interacting
across the border is possible in principle, e.g., through "diff + apply"
(or "format-patch + am"), but even that has its limitations: Applying a
SHA-256 diff in a SHA-1 repo works in the simple case, but if you need
to resort to `-3`, you're out of luck.
Similarly, "push + pull" should work, but you really will be operating
mostly offset from the rest of the world. That might be ok by the time
you initialize your repository, and it might be ok for several months
after that, but there might come a day when you're starting to regret
your use of `git init --object-format=sha256` and have dug yourself into
a fairly deep hole.
There are currently topics in flight to document our data formats and
protocols regarding SHA-256 and in some cases (midx and commit-graph),
we're considering adjusting how the file formats indicate which object
format to use.
Wherever `--object-format` is mentioned in our documentation, let's make
it clear that using it with "sha256" is experimental. If we later need
to explain why we can't handle data we generated back in 2020, we can
always point to this paragraph we're adding here.
By "include::"-ing a small blurb, we should be able to be consistent
throughout the documentation and can eventually gradually tone down the
severity of this text. One day, we might even use it to start phasing
out `--object-format=sha1`, but let's not get ahead of ourselves...
There's also `extensions.objectFormat`, but it's only mentioned three
times. Twice where we're adding this new disclaimer and in the third
spot we already have a "do not edit" warning. From there, interested
readers should eventually find this new one that we're adding here.
Because `GIT_DEFAULT_HASH` provides another entry point to this
functionality, document the experimental nature of it too.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Not all man5/man7 guides are mentioned in the 'git(1)' documentation,
which makes the missing ones somewhat hard to find.
Add a list of the guides to git(1) by leveraging the existing
`Documentation/cmd-list.perl` script to generate a file `cmds-guide.txt`
which gets included in git.txt.
Also, do not hard-code the manual section '1'. Instead, use a regex so
that the manual section is discovered from the first line of each
`git*.txt` file.
This addition was hinted at in 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt
for the source of guides, 2018-05-20).
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>
The interface to redact sensitive information in the trace output
has been simplified.
* jt/redact-all-cookies:
http: redact all cookies, teach GIT_TRACE_REDACT=0
Rewrite support for GIT_CURL_VERBOSE in terms of GIT_TRACE_CURL.
Looking good.
* jt/curl-verbose-on-trace-curl:
http, imap-send: stop using CURLOPT_VERBOSE
t5551: test that GIT_TRACE_CURL redacts password
In trace output (when GIT_TRACE_CURL is true), redact the values of all
HTTP cookies by default. Now that auth headers (since the implementation
of GIT_TRACE_CURL in 74c682d3c6 ("http.c: implement the GIT_TRACE_CURL
environment variable", 2016-05-24)) and cookie values (since this
commit) are redacted by default in these traces, also allow the user to
inhibit these redactions through an environment variable.
Since values of all cookies are now redacted by default,
GIT_REDACT_COOKIES (which previously allowed users to select individual
cookies to redact) now has no effect.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To set the default hash algorithm you can set the `GIT_DEFAULT_HASH`
environment variable. In the documentation this variable is named
`GIT_DEFAULT_HASH_ALGORITHM`, which is incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Whenever GIT_CURL_VERBOSE is set, teach Git to behave as if
GIT_TRACE_CURL=1 and GIT_TRACE_CURL_NO_DATA=1 is set, instead of setting
CURLOPT_VERBOSE.
This is to prevent inadvertent revelation of sensitive data. In
particular, GIT_CURL_VERBOSE redacts neither the "Authorization" header
nor any cookies specified by GIT_REDACT_COOKIES.
Unifying the tracing mechanism also has the future benefit that any
improvements to the tracing mechanism will benefit both users of
GIT_CURL_VERBOSE and GIT_TRACE_CURL, and we do not need to remember to
implement any improvement twice.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For the foreseeable future, SHA-1 will be the default algorithm for Git.
However, when running the testsuite, we want to be able to test an
arbitrary algorithm. It would be quite burdensome and very untidy to
have to specify the algorithm we'd like to test every time we
initialized a new repository somewhere in the testsuite, so add an
environment variable to allow us to specify the default hash algorithm
for Git.
This has the benefit that we can set it once for the entire testsuite
and not have to think about it. In the future, users can also use it to
set the default for their repositories if they would like to do so.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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
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>
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>
One kind of progress messages were always given during commit-graph
generation, instead of following the "if it takes more than two
seconds, show progress" pattern, which has been corrected.
* ds/commit-graph-delay-gen-progress:
commit-graph: use start_delayed_progress()
progress: create GIT_PROGRESS_DELAY
Doc update for the mailing list archiving and nntp service.
* jk/lore-is-the-archive:
doc: replace public-inbox links with lore.kernel.org
doc: recommend lore.kernel.org over public-inbox.org
The start_delayed_progress() method is a preferred way to show
optional progress to users as it ignores steps that take less
than two seconds. However, this makes testing unreliable as tests
expect to be very fast.
In addition, users may want to decrease or increase this time
interval depending on their preferences for terminal noise.
Create the GIT_PROGRESS_DELAY environment variable to control
the delay set during start_delayed_progress(). Set the value
in some tests to guarantee their output remains consistent.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.
* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
t2027: use test_must_be_empty
Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
doc: promote "git restore"
user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
completion: support restore
t: add tests for restore
restore: support --patch
restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
restore: add --worktree and --staged
checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
restore: disable overlay mode by default
restore: make pathspec mandatory
restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
doc: promote "git switch"
...
It's been behaving so since 6a536e2076 (git: treat "git -C '<path>'"
as a no-op when <path> is empty, 2015-03-06).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some
people).
* po/git-help-on-git-itself:
Doc: git.txt: remove backticks from link and add git-scm.com/docs
git.c: show usage for accessing the git(1) help page
The descriptions of the GIT_TRACE2* environment variables link to the
technical docs for further details on the supported values. However,
a link like this only really works if the docs are viewed in a browser
and the full documentation is available. OTOH, in 'man git' there are
no links to conveniently click on, and distro-shipped git packages
tend to include only the man pages, while the technical docs and the
docs in html format are in a separate 'git-doc' package.
So let's describe the supported values to make the manpage more
self-contained, but still keep the references to the technical docs
because the details of the SID, and the JSON and perf output formats
are definitely beyond the scope of 'man git'.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For an environment variable that is supposed to be set by users, the
GIT_TR2* env vars are just too unclear, inconsistent, and ugly.
Most of the established GIT_* environment variables don't use
abbreviations, and in case of the few that do (GIT_DIR,
GIT_COMMON_DIR, GIT_DIFF_OPTS) it's quite obvious what the
abbreviations (DIR and OPTS) stand for. But what does TR stand for?
Track, traditional, trailer, transaction, transfer, transformation,
transition, translation, transplant, transport, traversal, tree,
trigger, truncate, trust, or ...?!
The trace2 facility, as the '2' suffix in its name suggests, is
supposed to eventually supercede Git's original trace facility. It's
reasonable to expect that the corresponding environment variables
follow suit, and after the original GIT_TRACE variables they are
called GIT_TRACE2; there is no such thing is 'GIT_TR'.
All trace2-specific config variables are, very sensibly, in the
'trace2' section, not in 'tr2'.
OTOH, we don't gain anything at all by omitting the last three
characters of "trace" from the names of these environment variables.
So let's rename all GIT_TR2* environment variables to GIT_TRACE2*,
before they make their way into a stable release.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While checking the html formatted git(1) manual page, it was noted
that the link to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html was formatted
as code. Remove the backticks.
While at it, add the https://git-scm.com/docs link which one reviewer
noted had linkable section headings.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt contains the full details
of the trace2 API and the GIT_TR2* environment variables. However,
most environment variables are included in Documentation/git.txt,
including the GIT_TRACE* variables.
Add a brief description of the GIT_TR2* variables with links to
the full technical details. The biggest difference from the
original variables is that we can specify a Unix Domain Socket.
Mention this difference, but leave the details to the technical
documents.
Reported-by: Szeder Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously the switching branch business of 'git checkout' becomes a
new command 'switch'. This adds the restore command for the checking
out paths path.
Similar to git-switch, a new man page is added to describe what the
command will become. The implementation will be updated shortly to
match the man page.
A couple main differences from 'git checkout <paths>':
- 'restore' by default will only update worktree. This matters more
when --source is specified ('checkout <tree> <paths>' updates both
worktree and index).
- 'restore --staged' can be used to restore the index. This command
overlaps with 'git reset <paths>'.
- both worktree and index could also be restored at the same time
(from a tree) when both --staged and --worktree are specified. This
overlaps with 'git checkout <tree> <paths>'
- default source for restoring worktree and index is the index and
HEAD respectively. A different (tree) source could be specified as
with --source (*).
- when both index and worktree are restored, --source must be
specified since the default source for these two individual targets
are different (**)
- --no-overlay is enabled by default, if an entry is missing in the
source, restoring means deleting the entry
(*) I originally went with --from instead of --source. I still think
--from is a better name. The short option -f however is already
taken by force. And I do think short option is good to have, e.g. to
write -s@ or -s@^ instead of --source=HEAD.
(**) If you sit down and think about it, moving worktree's source from
the index to HEAD makes sense, but nobody is really thinking it
through when they type the commands.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch is a no-op for Asciidoctor, but makes AsciiDoc render this as
intended.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The mailing list archive can help a user encountering a bug to tell
whether a recent regression has already been reported and whether a
longstanding bug has already had some discussion to start their
thinking.
Based-on-patch-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After fb0dc3bac1 (builtin/config.c: support `--type=<type>` as preferred
alias for `--<type>`, 2018-04-18) we have a more modern way of spelling
`--bool`.
Update all instances except those that explicitly document the
"historical options" in git-config.txt. The other old-style
type-specifiers already seem to be gone except for in that list of
historical options.
Tweak the grammar a little in config.txt while we are there.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current wording of the description of GIT_TRACE=/path/to/file
("... will try to write the trace messages into it") might be
misunderstood as "overwriting"; at least I interpreted it that way on
a cursory first read.
State it more explicitly that the trace messages are appended.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
bit more consolidated to allow more automation.
* nd/command-list:
completion: allow to customize the completable command list
completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
completion: reduce completable command list
completion: let git provide the completable command list
command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
Remove common-cmds.h
help: use command-list.h for common command list
generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others
that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can
now customize it a new config variable.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By providing aliases via --list-cmds=, we could simplify command
collection code in the script. We only issue one git command. Before
this patch that is "git config", after it's "git --list-cmds=". In
"git help" completion case we actually reduce one "git" process (for
getting guides) but that call was added in this series so it does not
really count.
A couple of bash functions are removed because they are not needed
anymore. __git_compute_all_commands() and $__git_all_commands stay
because they are still needed for completing pager.* config and
without "alias" group, the result is still cacheable.
There is a slight (good) change in _git_help() with this patch: before
"git help <tab>" shows external commands (as in _not_ part of git) as
well as part of $__git_all_commands. We have finer control over
command listing now and can exclude that because we can't provide a
man page for external commands anyway.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows us to select any group of commands by a category defined
in command-list.txt. This is an internal/hidden option so we don't
have to be picky about the category name or worried about exposing too
much.
This will be used later by git-completion.bash to retrieve certain
command groups.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is part of the effort to break down and provide commands by
category in machine-readable form. This could be helpful later on when
completion script switches to use --list-cmds for selecting
completable commands. It would be much easier for the user to choose
to complete _all_ commands instead of the default selection by passing
different values to --list-cmds in git-completino.bash.
While at there, replace "git help -a" in git-completion.bash with
--list-cmds since it's better suited for this task.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even if these are hidden options, let's make them a bit more generic
since we're introducing more listing types shortly. The code is
structured to allow combining multiple listing types together because
we will soon add more types the 'builtins'.
'parseopt' remains separate because it has separate (SPC) to match
git-completion.bash needs and will not combine with others.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is possible to configure 'less', the pager, to use an alternate
screen to show the content, for example, by setting LESS=RS in the
environment. When it is closed in this configuration, it switches
back to the original screen, and all content is gone.
It is not uncommon to request that the output remains visible in
the terminal. For this, the option --no-pager can be used. But
it is a bit cumbersome to type, even when command completion is
available. Provide a short option, -P, to make the option more
easily accessible.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a mention of the security mailing list to the "Reporting Bugs"
section. There's a mention of this list at
https://git-scm.com/community but none in git.git itself.
The copy is pasted from the git-scm.com website. Let's use the same
wording in both places.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
GIT_TRACE_CURL provides a way to debug what is being sent and received
over HTTP, with automatic redaction of sensitive information. But it
also logs data transmissions, which significantly increases the log file
size, sometimes unnecessarily. Add an option "GIT_TRACE_CURL_NO_DATA" to
allow the user to omit such data transmissions.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using GIT_TRACE_CURL, Git already redacts the "Authorization:" and
"Proxy-Authorization:" HTTP headers. Extend this redaction to a
user-specified list of cookies, specified through the
"GIT_REDACT_COOKIES" environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ancient part of codebase still shows dots after an abbreviated
object name just to show that it is not a full object name, but
these ellipses are confusing to people who newly discovered Git
who are used to seeing abbreviated object names and find them
confusing with the range syntax.
* ar/unconfuse-three-dots:
t2020: test variations that matter
t4013: test new output from diff --abbrev --raw
diff: diff_aligned_abbrev: remove ellipsis after abbreviated SHA-1 value
t4013: prepare for upcoming "diff --raw --abbrev" output format change
checkout: describe_detached_head: remove ellipsis after committish
print_sha1_ellipsis: introduce helper
Documentation: user-manual: limit usage of ellipsis
Documentation: revisions: fix typo: "three dot" ---> "three-dot" (in line with "two-dot").
A new mechanism to upgrade the wire protocol in place is proposed
and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git
without harming them.
* bw/protocol-v1:
Documentation: document Extra Parameters
ssh: introduce a 'simple' ssh variant
i5700: add interop test for protocol transition
http: tell server that the client understands v1
connect: tell server that the client understands v1
connect: teach client to recognize v1 server response
upload-pack, receive-pack: introduce protocol version 1
daemon: recognize hidden request arguments
protocol: introduce protocol extension mechanisms
pkt-line: add packet_write function
connect: in ref advertisement, shallows are last
Introduce a helper print_sha1_ellipsis() that pays attention to the
GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS environment variable, and prepare the tests to
unconditionally set it for the test pieces that will be broken once the code
stops showing the extra dots by default.
The removal of these dots is merely a plan at this step and has not happened
yet but soon will.
Document GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS.
Signed-off-by: Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various fixes to bp/fsmonitor topic.
* av/fsmonitor:
fsmonitor: simplify determining the git worktree under Windows
fsmonitor: store fsmonitor bitmap before splitting index
fsmonitor: read from getcwd(), not the PWD environment variable
fsmonitor: delay updating state until after split index is merged
fsmonitor: document GIT_TRACE_FSMONITOR
fsmonitor: don't bother pretty-printing JSON from watchman
fsmonitor: set the PWD to the top of the working tree
This feature has been in Git for Windows since v2.11.0(2), as an
experimental option. Now it is considered mature, and it is high time to
document it properly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using the 'ssh' transport, the '-o' option is used to specify an
environment variable which should be set on the remote end. This allows
git to send additional information when contacting the server,
requesting the use of a different protocol version via the
'GIT_PROTOCOL' environment variable like so: "-o SendEnv=GIT_PROTOCOL".
Unfortunately not all ssh variants support the sending of environment
variables to the remote end. To account for this, only use the '-o'
option for ssh variants which are OpenSSH compliant. This is done by
checking that the basename of the ssh command is 'ssh' or the ssh
variant is overridden to be 'ssh' (via the ssh.variant config).
Other options like '-p' and '-P', which are used to specify a specific
port to use, or '-4' and '-6', which are used to indicate that IPV4 or
IPV6 addresses should be used, may also not be supported by all ssh
variants.
Currently if an ssh command's basename wasn't 'plink' or
'tortoiseplink' git assumes that the command is an OpenSSH variant.
Since user configured ssh commands may not be OpenSSH compliant, tighten
this constraint and assume a variant of 'simple' if the basename of the
command doesn't match the variants known to git. The new ssh variant
'simple' will only have the host and command to execute ([username@]host
command) passed as parameters to the ssh command.
Update the Documentation to better reflect the command-line options sent
to ssh commands based on their variant.
Reported-by: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create protocol.{c,h} and provide functions which future servers and
clients can use to determine which protocol to use or is being used.
Also introduce the 'GIT_PROTOCOL' environment variable which will be
used to communicate a colon separated list of keys with optional values
to a server. Unknown keys and values must be tolerated. This mechanism
is used to communicate which version of the wire protocol a client would
like to use with a server.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Leaving spaces around the `-delimeters for commands means asciidoc fails
to parse them as the start of a literal string. Remove an extraneous
space that is causing a literal to not be formatted as such.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Acked-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run
commands like "git status" in the background to keep track
of the state of the repository. Some of these commands may
refresh the index and write out the result in an
opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they
update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if
not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be
recomputed by the next caller.
But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations
in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing
themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words,
"git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is
holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status
would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it.
There are a couple possible solutions:
1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other
commands to tell status that they want the lock.
This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to
implement (and maybe even impossible with just
dotlocks to work from, as it requires some
inter-process communication).
2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status"
that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring
instead plumbing like diff-files, etc.
This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that
"status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the
repository state than is available from individual
plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_
want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to
take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands
like diff-files expect us to refresh the index
separately and write it to disk so that they can depend
on the result. But that write is exactly what we're
trying to avoid.
3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index.
This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any
work done in refreshing the index for such a call is
lost when the process exits. So a background process
may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times
until the user runs a command that does an index
refresh themselves.
This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test)
is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes
Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the
index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that
instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes
a "git" option and matching environment variable.
The reason there is two-fold:
1. An environment variable is carried through to
sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a
background process or not should apply to the whole
process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks
foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls
"status", you'll still get the effect.
2. There may be other programs that want the same
treatment.
I've punted here on finding more callers to convert,
since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated
background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh
of the index may be a good candidate.
The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating
Johannes's explanation:
Note that the regression test added in this commit does
not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written;
that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we
verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git
status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git config --bool xxx.yyy` returns `true` for `[xxx]yyy` but
`false` for `[xxx]yyy=` or `[xxx]yyy=""`. This is tested in
t1300-repo-config.sh since 09bc098c2.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jacob Stopak