"git submodule update" and "git submodule add" supported the
"--reference" option to borrow objects from a neighbouring local
repository like "git clone" does, but lacked the more recent
invention "--dissociate". Also "git submodule add" has been taught
to take the "--progress" option.
* cf/submodule-progress-dissociate:
submodule: add --dissociate option to add/update commands
submodule: add --progress option to add command
submodule: clean up substitutions in script
Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames
for various commands better.
* sg/complete-paths:
t9902-completion: exercise __git_complete_index_file() directly
completion: don't return with error from __gitcomp_file_direct()
completion: fill COMPREPLY directly when completing paths
completion: improve handling quoted paths in 'git ls-files's output
completion: remove repeated dirnames with 'awk' during path completion
t9902-completion: ignore COMPREPLY element order in some tests
completion: use 'awk' to strip trailing path components
completion: let 'ls-files' and 'diff-index' filter matching paths
completion: improve handling quoted paths on the command line
completion: support completing non-ASCII pathnames
completion: simplify prefix path component handling during path completion
completion: move __git_complete_index_file() next to its helpers
t9902-completion: add tests demonstrating issues with quoted pathnames
Developer support. Use newer GCC on one of the builds done at
TravisCI.org to get more warnings and errors diagnosed.
* nd/travis-gcc-8:
travis-ci: run gcc-8 on linux-gcc jobs
"git update-ref A B" is supposed to ensure that ref A does not yet
exist when B is a NULL OID, but this check was not done correctly
for pseudo-refs outside refs/ hierarchy, e.g. MERGE_HEAD.
* ma/create-pseudoref-with-null-old-oid:
refs: handle zero oid for pseudorefs
t1400: add tests around adding/deleting pseudorefs
refs.c: refer to "object ID", not "sha1", in error messages
Code clean-up to turn history traversal more robust in a
semi-corrupt repository.
* jk/unavailable-can-be-missing:
mark_parents_uninteresting(): avoid most allocation
mark_parents_uninteresting(): replace list with stack
mark_parents_uninteresting(): drop missing object check
mark_tree_contents_uninteresting(): drop missing object check
"git status" learned to honor a new status.renames configuration to
skip rename detection, which could be useful for those who want to
do so without disabling the default rename detection done by the
"git diff" command.
* bp/status-rename-config:
add status config and command line options for rename detection
Developer support update, by using BUG() macro instead of die() to
mark codepaths that should not happen more clearly.
* js/use-bug-macro:
BUG_exit_code: fix sparse "symbol not declared" warning
Convert remaining die*(BUG) messages
Replace all die("BUG: ...") calls by BUG() ones
run-command: use BUG() to report bugs, not die()
test-tool: help verifying BUG() code paths
the_repository->index is not a allocated piece of memory but
repo_clear() indiscriminately attempted to free(3) it, which has
been corrected.
* nd/repo-clear-keep-the-index:
repository: fix free problem with repo_clear(the_repository)
Code clean-up to adjust to a more recent lockfile API convention that
allows lockfile instances kept on the stack.
* ma/lockfile-cleanup:
lock_file: move static locks into functions
lock_file: make function-local locks non-static
refs.c: do not die if locking fails in `delete_pseudoref()`
refs.c: do not die if locking fails in `write_pseudoref()`
t/helper/test-write-cache: clean up lock-handling
With merge.renames configuration set to false, the recursive merge
strategy can be told not to spend cycles trying to find renamed
paths and merge them accordingly.
* bp/merge-rename-config:
merge: pass aggressive when rename detection is turned off
merge: add merge.renames config setting
merge: update documentation for {merge,diff}.renameLimit
The implementation of "git rebase -i --root" has been updated to use
the sequencer machinery more.
* js/sequencer-and-root-commits:
rebase --rebase-merges: root commits can be cousins, too
rebase --rebase-merges: a "merge" into a new root is a fast-forward
sequencer: allow introducing new root commits
rebase -i --root: let the sequencer handle even the initial part
sequencer: learn about the special "fake root commit" handling
sequencer: extract helper to update active_cache_tree
"git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this
email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'. A new action
'Edit' has been added to this dialog's choice.
* dd/send-email-reedit:
git-send-email: allow re-editing of message
The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load
custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a
custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using
newer version of bash.
* fg/completion-external:
completion: load completion file for external subcommand
Asciidoctor gives a reasonable imitation for AsciiDoc, but does not
render illustration in a literal block correctly when indented with
HT by default. The problem is fixed by forcing 8-space tabs.
* bc/asciidoctor-tab-width:
Documentation: render revisions correctly under Asciidoctor
Documentation: use 8-space tabs with Asciidoctor
"git status" learned to pay attention to UI related diff
configuration variables such as diff.renames.
* em/status-rename-config:
wt-status: use settings from git_diff_ui_config
Misc doc fixes.
* ah/misc-doc-updates:
doc: normalize [--options] to [options] in git-diff
doc: add note about shell quoting to revision.txt
git-svn: remove ''--add-author-from' for 'commit-diff'
doc: add '-d' and '-o' for 'git push'
doc: clarify ignore rules for git ls-files
doc: align 'diff --no-index' in text and synopsis
doc: improve formatting in githooks.txt
The split-index feature had a long-standing and dormant bug in
certain use of the in-core merge machinery, which has been fixed.
* en/unpack-trees-split-index-fix:
unpack_trees: fix breakage when o->src_index != o->dst_index
"git format-patch --cover --attach" created a broken MIME multipart
message for the cover letter, which has been fixed by keeping the
cover letter as plain text file.
* bc/format-patch-cover-no-attach:
format-patch: make cover letters always text/plain
A test to see if the filesystem normalizes UTF-8 filename has been
updated to check what we need to know in a more direct way, i.e. a
path created in NFC form can be accessed with NFD form (or vice
versa) to cope with APFS as well as HFS.
* tb/test-apfs-utf8-normalization:
test: correct detection of UTF8_NFD_TO_NFC for APFS
"git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole
topology of commit graph elsewhere.
* js/rebase-recreate-merge:
rebase -i --rebase-merges: add a section to the man page
rebase -i: introduce --rebase-merges=[no-]rebase-cousins
pull: accept --rebase=merges to recreate the branch topology
rebase --rebase-merges: avoid "empty merges"
sequencer: handle post-rewrite for merge commands
sequencer: make refs generated by the `label` command worktree-local
rebase --rebase-merges: add test for --keep-empty
rebase: introduce the --rebase-merges option
rebase-helper --make-script: introduce a flag to rebase merges
sequencer: fast-forward `merge` commands, if possible
sequencer: introduce the `merge` command
sequencer: introduce new commands to reset the revision
git-rebase--interactive: clarify arguments
sequencer: offer helpful advice when a command was rescheduled
sequencer: refactor how original todo list lines are accessed
sequencer: make rearrange_squash() a bit more obvious
sequencer: avoid using errno clobbered by rollback_lock_file()
"git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry"
while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance
quite a bit.
* nd/pack-objects-pack-struct:
ci: exercise the whole test suite with uncommon code in pack-objects
pack-objects: reorder members to shrink struct object_entry
pack-objects: shrink delta_size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: shrink size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: clarify the use of object_entry::size
pack-objects: don't check size when the object is bad
pack-objects: shrink z_delta_size field in struct object_entry
pack-objects: refer to delta objects by index instead of pointer
pack-objects: move in_pack out of struct object_entry
pack-objects: move in_pack_pos out of struct object_entry
pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::depth
pack-objects: use bitfield for object_entry::dfs_state
pack-objects: turn type and in_pack_type to bitfields
pack-objects: a bit of document about struct object_entry
read-cache.c: make $GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX boolean
Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has
learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a,
z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also
want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory
'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename
to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this
work. Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the
working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what
our side originally had.
* en/rename-directory-detection-reboot: (36 commits)
merge-recursive: fix check for skipability of working tree updates
merge-recursive: make "Auto-merging" comment show for other merges
merge-recursive: fix remainder of was_dirty() to use original index
merge-recursive: fix was_tracked() to quit lying with some renamed paths
t6046: testcases checking whether updates can be skipped in a merge
merge-recursive: avoid triggering add_cacheinfo error with dirty mod
merge-recursive: move more is_dirty handling to merge_content
merge-recursive: improve add_cacheinfo error handling
merge-recursive: avoid spurious rename/rename conflict from dir renames
directory rename detection: new testcases showcasing a pair of bugs
merge-recursive: fix remaining directory rename + dirty overwrite cases
merge-recursive: fix overwriting dirty files involved in renames
merge-recursive: avoid clobbering untracked files with directory renames
merge-recursive: apply necessary modifications for directory renames
merge-recursive: when comparing files, don't include trees
merge-recursive: check for file level conflicts then get new name
merge-recursive: add computation of collisions due to dir rename & merging
merge-recursive: check for directory level conflicts
merge-recursive: add get_directory_renames()
merge-recursive: make a helper function for cleanup for handle_renames
...
"git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter
option. Now it does.
* js/no-pager-shorthand:
git: add -P as a short option for --no-pager
"git rebase -i" sometimes left intermediate "# This is a
combination of N commits" message meant for the human consumption
inside an editor in the final result in certain corner cases, which
has been fixed.
* js/rebase-i-clean-msg-after-fixup-continue:
rebase --skip: clean up commit message after a failed fixup/squash
sequencer: always commit without editing when asked for
rebase -i: Handle "combination of <n> commits" with GETTEXT_POISON
rebase -i: demonstrate bugs with fixup!/squash! commit messages
"git worktree add" learned to check out an existing branch.
* tg/worktree-add-existing-branch:
worktree: teach "add" to check out existing branches
worktree: factor out dwim_branch function
worktree: improve message when creating a new worktree
worktree: remove extra members from struct add_opts
The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by
the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal
code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up
in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism.
* js/deprecate-grafts:
Remove obsolete script to convert grafts to replace refs
technical/shallow: describe why shallow cannot use replace refs
technical/shallow: stop referring to grafts
filter-branch: stop suggesting to use grafts
Deprecate support for .git/info/grafts
Add a test for `git replace --convert-graft-file`
replace: introduce --convert-graft-file
replace: prepare create_graft() for converting graft files wholesale
replace: "libify" create_graft() and callees
replace: avoid using die() to indicate a bug
commit: Let the callback of for_each_mergetag return on error
argv_array: offer to split a string by whitespace
We learned that our source files with ".pl" and ".py" extensions
are Perl and Python files respectively and changes to them are
better viewed as such with appropriate diff drivers.
* ab/perl-python-attrs:
.gitattributes: add a diff driver for Python
.gitattributes: use the "perl" differ for Perl
.gitattributes: add *.pl extension for Perl
The codepath around object-info API has been taught to take the
repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store
the objects are to be located).
* sb/oid-object-info:
cache.h: allow oid_object_info to handle arbitrary repositories
packfile: add repository argument to cache_or_unpack_entry
packfile: add repository argument to unpack_entry
packfile: add repository argument to read_object
packfile: add repository argument to packed_object_info
packfile: add repository argument to packed_to_object_type
packfile: add repository argument to retry_bad_packed_offset
cache.h: add repository argument to oid_object_info
cache.h: add repository argument to oid_object_info_extended
The transport protocol v2 is getting updated further.
* bw/server-options:
fetch: send server options when using protocol v2
ls-remote: send server options when using protocol v2
serve: introduce the server-option capability
"git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers
to repack all objects into one pack by default. The command has
been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is
marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in
other packs and loose ones are repacked.
* nd/repack-keep-pack:
pack-objects: show some progress when counting kept objects
gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad"
gc: handle a corner case in gc.bigPackThreshold
gc: add gc.bigPackThreshold config
gc: add --keep-largest-pack option
repack: add --keep-pack option
t7700: have closing quote of a test at the beginning of line
The code has been taught to use the duplicated information stored
in the commit-graph file to learn the tree object name for a commit
to avoid opening and parsing the commit object when it makes sense
to do so.
* ds/lazy-load-trees:
coccinelle: avoid wrong transformation suggestions from commit.cocci
commit-graph: lazy-load trees for commits
treewide: replace maybe_tree with accessor methods
commit: create get_commit_tree() method
treewide: rename tree to maybe_tree
The code did not propagate the terminal width to subprocesses via
COLUMNS environment variable, which it now does. This caused
trouble to "git column" helper subprocess when "git tag --column=row"
tried to list the existing tags on a display with non-default width.
* nd/term-columns:
column: fix off-by-one default width
pager: set COLUMNS to term_columns()
Junio C Hamano