We used to get the following confusing error message:
$ git commit --amend -a -m foo
Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F
This is because --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F, which makes
sense, because they try to handle the same log message in different ways.
So update the documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Earlier code discarded GIT_AUTHOR_DATE taken from the base
commit when --author was specified. This was often wrong as
that use is likely to fix the spelling of author's name.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The following commands can reuse log message from an existing
commit while creating a new commit:
git-cherry-pick
git-rebase (both with and without --merge)
git-commit (-c and -C)
When the original commit was made in a different encoding from
the current i18n.commitencoding, "cat-file commit" would give a
string that is inconsistent with what the resulting commit will
claim to be in. Replace them with "git show -s --encoding".
"git-rebase" without --merge is "git format-patch" piped to "git
am" in essence, and has been taken care of before this commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This converts scripts that do "cd $(rev-parse --show-cdup)" by
hand to use cd_to_toplevel.
I think git-fetch does not have to go to the toplevel, but that
should be dealt with in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If the user tries to run a porcelainish command which requires
a working directory in a bare repository they may get unexpected
results which are difficult to predict and may differ from command
to command.
Instead we should detect that the current repository is a bare
repository and refuse to run the command there, as there is no
working directory associated with it.
[jc: updated Shawn's original somewhat -- bugs are mine.]
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If a user modifies files and runs 'git commit' (without the very
useful -a option) and they have not yet updated the index they
are probably coming from another SCM-like tool which would perform
the same as 'git commit -a' in this case. Showing the user their
current status and a final line of "nothing to commit" is not very
reassuring, as the user might believe that Git did not recognize
their files were modified.
Instead we can suggest as part of the 'nothing to commit' message
that the user invoke 'git add' to add files to their next commit.
Suggested by Andy Parkins' Git 'niggles' list
(<200612132237.10051.andyparkins@gmail.com>).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is nicer to let the user know when a commit succeeded all the time,
not only the first time. Also the commit sha1 is much more useful than
the tree sha1 in this case.
This patch also introduces a -q switch to supress this message as well
as the summary of created/deleted files.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The command used to have a safety valve to prevent this sequence:
edit foo
git update-index foo
edit foo
git diff foo
git commit --only foo
The reason for this was because an inexperienced user might
mistakenly think what is shown with the last-minute diff
contains all the change that is being committed (instead, what
the user asked to check was an incremental diff since what has
been staged so far). However, this turns out to only annoy
people who know what they are doing. Inexperienced people
would not be using the first "update-index" anyway, in which
case they would see the full changes in the "git diff".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sometimes people accidentally commit files in wrong mode bits.
Show --summary output for the HEAD commit after successful commit
as a final sanity check.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In a busy project, reverting a commit almost always results
in a conflict between one or more files (depending on the
commit being reverted). It is useful to record this
conflict in the commit-to-be message of the resulting commit
(after the resolve). The process now becomes:
git-revert <SHA-1>
<git complains and prints failed automatic>
<user manually resolves>
git-update-index <resolved files>
git-commit -s
And the commit message is now a merge of the revert commit
message and the conflict commit message, giving the user a
chance to edit it or add more information:
Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-commit.sh was using a mixture of spaces and tabs for indentation.
This is changed to one tab per indentation level.
No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This updates the use of git-update-ref in git-branch, git-tag
and git-commit to make them safer in a few corner cases as
demonstration.
- git-tag makes sure that the named tag does not exist, allows
you to edit tag message and then creates the tag. If a tag
with the same name was created by somebody else in the
meantime, it used to happily overwrote it. Now it notices
the situation.
- git-branch -d and git-commit (for the initial commit) had the
same issue but with smaller race window, which is plugged
with this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Actually, teach runstatus what to do if it is not passed; it should not list
the contents of completely untracked directories, but only the name of that
directory (plus a trailing '/').
[jc: with comments by Jeff King to match hide-empty-directories
behaviour of the original.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This creates a new git-runstatus which should do roughly the same thing
as the run_status function from git-commit.sh. Except for color support,
the main focus has been to keep the output identical, so that it can be
verified as correct and then used as a C platform for other improvements to
the status printing code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-commit.sh has the only one place where perl is used
and there it can quite trivially be done in sh.
git-ls-files without "-z" produces quoted output, even if
is different from that produced by perl code it is good
enough.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If committing a merge (.git/MERGE_HEAD exists), an initial tree
(no HEAD) or using --amend to amend the prior commit then denote
the subtype of commit in the reflog. This helps to distinguish
amended or merge commits from normal commits.
In the case of --amend the prior sha1 is probably the commit which
is being thrown away in favor of the new commit. Since it is likely
that the old commit doesn't have any ref pointing to it anymore
it can be interesting to know why that the commit was replaced
and orphaned.
In the case of a merge the prior sha1 is probably the first parent
of the new merge commit. Consequently having its prior sha1 in the
reflog is slightly less interesting but its still informative to
know the commit was the result of a merge which had to be completed
by hand.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The only visible change is that git-blame doesn't understand
"--compability" anymore, but it does accept "--compatibility" instead,
which is already documented.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some GIT's shell script are using bare 'perl' for perl invocation.
Use @@PERL@@ symbol and replace it with PERL_PATH_SQ everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Michal Rokos <michal.rokos@nextsoft.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Commit 29e4d36357 fixed the
underlying update-index races but git-commit was not careful
enough to preserve the index file timestamp when copying the
index file. This caused t3402 test to occasionally fail.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some implementations of "expr" (e.g. FreeBSD's) fail, if an
argument starts with a dash.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The current behaviour strips out lines starting with a # even when fed
through stdin or -m. This is particularly bad when importing history from
another SCM (tailor 0.9.23 uses git-commit). In the best cases all lines
are stripped and the commit fails with a confusing "empty log message"
error, but in many cases the commit is done, with loss of information.
Note that it is quite peculiar to just have "#" handled as a leading
comment char here. One commonly meet CVS: or CG: or STG: as prefixes, and
using GIT: would be more robust as well as consistent with other commit
tools. However, that would break any tool relying on the # (if any).
Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some people tend to do many little commits on a topic branch,
recording all the trials and errors, and when the topic is
reasonably cooked well, would want to record the net effect of
the series as one commit on top of the mainline, removing the
cruft from the history. The topic is then abandoned or forked
off again from that point at the mainline.
The barebone porcelainish that comes with core git tools does
not officially support such operation, but you can fake it by
using "git pull --no-merge" when such a topic branch is not a
strict superset of the mainline, like this:
git checkout mainline
git pull --no-commit . that-topic-branch
: fix conflicts if any
rm -f .git/MERGE_HEAD
git commit -a -m 'consolidated commit log message'
git branch -f that-topic-branch ;# now fully merged
This however does not work when the topic branch is a fast
forward of the mainline, because normal "git pull" will never
create a merge commit in such a case, and there is nothing
special --no-commit could do to begin with.
This patch introduces a new option, --squash, to support such a
workflow officially in both fast-forward case and true merge
case. The user-level operation would be the same in both cases:
git checkout mainline
git pull --squash . that-topic-branch
: fix conflicts if any -- naturally, there would be
: no conflict if fast forward.
git commit -a -m 'consolidated commit log message'
git branch -f that-topic-branch ;# now fully merged
When the current branch is already up-to-date with respect to
the other branch, there truly is nothing to do, so the new
option does not have any effect.
This was brought up in #git IRC channel recently.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previously, the command 'git-commit -e -m foo' would ignore the '-e' option
because the '-m' option overwrites the no_edit flag during sequential
option parsing. Now we cause -e to reset the no_edit flag after all
options are parsed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I find it very convenient to be able to supply multiple paragraphs
of text on the command line with a single git-commit call. This
change permits multiple -m/--message type options to be supplied
to git-commit with each message being added as its own paragraph
of text in the commit message.
The -m option is still not permitted with -c/-C/-F nor are multiple
occurrences of these options permitted.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
New users can be irritated by the git status text in their editor.
Let's give them a short help.
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
By default, we use --others --directory to show uninteresting
directories (to get user's attention) without their contents (to
unclutter output). Showing empty directories do not make sense,
so pass --no-empty-directory when we do so.
Giving -u (or --untracked) disables this uncluttering to let the
user get all untracked files.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When updating a ref at the direction of the user include a reason why
head was changed as part of the ref log (assuming it was enabled).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It's better to find out you need to fix your author and
committer information before you enter a long commit message.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When running "git commit --amend" only to fix the commit log
message without any content change, we mistakenly showed the
git-status output that says "nothing to commit" without
commenting it out.
If you have already run update-index but you want to amend the
top commit, "git commit --amend --only" without any paths should
have worked, because --only means "starting from the base
commit, update-index these paths only to prepare the index to
commit, and perform the commit". However, we refused -o without
paths.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some words, e.g., `match', are special to expr(1), and cause strange
parsing effects. Track down all uses of expr and mangle the arguments
so that this isn't a problem.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Spotted by Linus and Darrin Thompson. When we took a commit
message from -F <file> with an incomplete line, we appended "git
status" output, which ended up attaching a lone "#" at the end.
We still need the "do we have anything to commit?" check by
running "status" (which has to know what to do in different
cases with -i/-o/-a), but there is no point appending its output
to the proposed commit message given by the user.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
verbose option in git-commit.sh lead us to run git-diff-index, which
needs a commit-ish we are making diff against. When we are commiting
the fist set, we obviously don't have any commit-ish in the repo. So
we just skip the git-diff-index run.
It might be possible to produce diff against empty but do we need
that?
Signed-off-by: Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When amending a commit only to update the commit log message, git-status
would rightly say "Nothing to commit." Do not let this prevent commit to
be made.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
An earlier commit 8098a178b2
accidentally lost race protection from git-commit command.
This commit reinstates it. When something else updates HEAD
pointer while you were editing your commit message, the command
would notice and abort the commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new flag is used to amend the tip of the current branch. Prepare
the tree object you would want to replace the latest commit as usual
(this includes the usual -i/-o and explicit paths), and the commit log
editor is seeded with the commit message from the tip of the current
branch. The commit you create replaces the current tip -- if it was a
merge, it will have the parents of the current tip as parents -- so the
current top commit is discarded.
It is a rough equivalent for:
$ git reset --soft HEAD^
$ ... do something else to come up with the right tree ...
$ git commit -c ORIG_HEAD
but can be used to amend a merge commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When you say "git commit Documentaiton" to make partial commit
for the files only in that directory, we did not detect that as
a misspelled pathname and attempted to commit index without
change. If nothing matched, there is no harm done, but if the
index gets modified otherwise by having another valid pathspec
or after an explicit update-index, a user will not notice
without paying attention to the "git status" preview.
This introduces --error-unmatch option to ls-files, and uses it
to detect this common user error.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the "git commit paths..." to default to --only
semantics from traditional --include semantics, as agreed on the
list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Johannes noticed that git-rerere depends on Digest.pm, and if
one does not use the command, one can live without it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It was pointed out that otherwise more important summary
information prefixed with '#' would become prone to be missed.
Also instead of chopping at the first '^---$' line, stop at the
first 'diff --git a/' line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This revamps the git-status command to take the same set of
parameters as git commit. It gives a preview of what is being
committed with that command. With -v flag, it shows the diff
output between the HEAD commit and the index that would be
committed if these flags were given to git-commit command.
git-commit also acquires -v flag (it used to mean "verify" but
that is the default anyway and there is --no-verify to turn it
off, so not much is lost), which uses the updated git-status -v
to seed the commit log buffer. This is handy for writing a log
message while reviewing the changes one last time.
Now, git-commit and git-status are internally share the same
implementation.
Unlike previous git-commit change, this uses a temporary index
to prepare the index file that would become the real index file
after a successful commit, and moves it to the real index file
once the commit is actually made. This makes it safer than the
previous scheme, which stashed away the original index file and
restored it after an aborted commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Introduce --only flag to allow the new "partial commit"
semantics when paths are specified. The default is still the
traditional --include semantics. Once peoples' fingers and
scripts that want the traditional behaviour are updated to
explicitly say --include, we could change it to either default
to --only, or refuse to operate without either --only/--include
when paths are specified.
This also fixes a couple of bugs in the previous round. Namely:
- forgot to save/restore index in some cases.
- forgot to use the temporary index to show status when '--only
paths...' semantics was used.
- --author did not take precedence when reusing an existing
commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- "git commit" without _any_ parameter keeps the traditional
behaviour. It commits the current index.
We commit the whole index even when this form is run from a
subdirectory.
- "git commit --include paths..." (or "git commit -i paths...")
is equivalent to:
git update-index --remove paths...
git commit
- "git commit paths..." acquires a new semantics. This is an
incompatible change that needs user training, which I am
still a bit reluctant to swallow, but enough people seem to
have complained that it is confusing to them. It
1. refuses to run if $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD exists, and reminds
trained git users that the traditional semantics now needs
-i flag.
2. refuses to run if named paths... are different in HEAD and
the index (ditto about reminding). Added paths are OK.
3. reads HEAD commit into a temporary index file.
4. updates named paths... from the working tree in this
temporary index.
5. does the same updates of the paths... from the working
tree to the real index.
6. makes a commit using the temporary index that has the
current HEAD as the parent, and updates the HEAD with this
new commit.
- "git commit --all" can run from a subdirectory, but it updates
the index with all the modified files and does a whole tree
commit.
- In all cases, when the command decides not to create a new
commit, the index is left as it was before the command is
run. This means that the two "git diff" in the following
sequence:
$ git diff
$ git commit -a
$ git diff
would show the same diff if you abort the commit process by
making the commit log message empty.
This commit also introduces much requested --author option.
$ git commit --author 'A U Thor <author@example.com>'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In a workflow that employs relatively long lived topic branches,
the developer sometimes needs to resolve the same conflict over
and over again until the topic branches are done (either merged
to the "release" branch, or sent out and accepted upstream).
This commit introduces a new command, "git rerere", to help this
process by recording the conflicted automerge results and
corresponding hand-resolve results on the initial manual merge,
and later by noticing the same conflicted automerge and applying
the previously recorded hand resolution using three-way merge.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When TERM is set to 'dumb', do not start vi to edit the commit log
message.
Suggested by Amos Waterland.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio C Hamano