This page should hold every information about the git ways to parse command
lines, and best practices to be used for scripting.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
When git-tag and git-commit launches the editor, they used to
honor EDITOR="editor -options args..." but recent rewrite in C
insisted on $EDITOR to be the path to the editor executable.
This restores the older behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently git send-email does not accept $EDITOR with arguments, eg,
emacs -nw, when starting an editor to produce a cover letter. This
patch changes this by letting the shell handle the option parsing.
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command itself takes an optional <pattern> argument that
limits the shown tags to the ones that match when in listing
mode that is triggered with '-l' option. The <pattern> is not
an optional option-argument to '-l'.
With this fix, "git tag -l -n 4 v0.99" works as expected.
It also removes a few bogus tests in t7004.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tar-ball and the git archive itself is fine, but yes, the diff from
2.6.23 to 2.6.24-rc6 is bad. It's the "trim_common_tail()" optimization
that has caused way too much pain.
Very interesting breakage. The patch was actually "correct" in a (rather
limited) technical sense, but the context at the end was missing because
while the trim_common_tail() code made sure to keep enough common context
to allow a valid diff to be generated, the diff machinery itself could
decide that it could generate the diff differently than the "obvious"
solution.
Thee sad fact is that the git optimization (which is very important for
"git blame", which needs no context), is only really valid for that one
case where we really don't need any context.
[jc: since this is shared with "git diff -U0" codepath, context recovery
to the end of line needs to be done even for zero context case.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In everyday tasks, "repack -a -d -f" won't be used, so there
is not much point mentioning "repack". By showing the --prune
option to "gc", we can do without mentioning "git prune", too.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some entries in .gitignore are obselete. These should be cleaned up
just for the sake of general tidiness and so that any developers who
have a working tree that was moved forward without a clean know that
they have old stuff in their work tree.
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mostly typo and small grammatical fixes with one or two rewordings for
clarity. But note the important fix for status.relativepaths.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git shell became much more powerful for existing CVS setups.
We should not hide from those people who only read release
notes.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier conversion of shell scripts to parse-options made usage()
to run "git cmd -h" which in turn emit LONG_USAGE and exit with 0
status. This is inconsistent with the scripts that do not use
parse-options, whose usage() died with the message, exiting with 1.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During git-rebase --interactive's --continue implementation we used
to silently restart the rebase if the user had made the commit
for us. This is common if the user stops to edit a commit and
does so by amending it. My recent change to watch git-commit's
exit status broke this behavior.
Thanks to Bernt Hansen for catching it in 1.5.4-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The prepare_log_message() function serves two purposes:
- Prepares the commit log message template, to be given to the end
user;
- Return true if there is something committable;
7168624c35 (Do not generate full commit
log message if it is not going to be used) cheated to omit the former
when we know the log message template is not going to be used. However,
its replacement logic to see if there is something committable was
botched. When amending, it should compare the index with the parent of
the HEAD, not the current HEAD. Otherwise you cannot run --amend to
fix only the message without changing the tree.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The earlier test stripped away expected number of 'z' but the output
would have been very hard to read once somebody broke the common tail
optimization. Instead, count the number of 'z' and show it, to help
diagnosing the problem better in the future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the new options "--src-prefix=<prefix>", "--dst-prefix=<prefix>"
and "--no-prefix", you can now control the path prefixes of the diff
machinery. These used to by hardwired to "a/" for the source prefix
and "b/" for the destination prefix.
Initial patch by Pascal Obry. Sane option names suggested by Linus.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If git-commit fails for any reason then git-rebase needs to stop
and not plow through the rest of the series. Its unlikely that
a future git-commit will succeed if the current attempt failed.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we are rebasing changes that contain potential whitespace
errors that our .git/hooks/pre-commit hook looks for and fails
on then git-commit will fail to commit that change. This causes
git-rebase--interactive to squash commits together, even though it
was not requested to do so by the todo file.
Passing --no-verify to git-commit makes git-rebase -i behave more
like git-rebase normally would in such conditions, providing more
consistent behavior between the different rebase implementations.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When merging conflicting submodule changes from a supermodule, generate
a conflict message saying what went wrong. Also leave the tree in a state
where git status shows the conflict, and git submodule status gives the user
enough information to do the merge manally. Previously this would just fail.
Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-instaweb relied on a pipe in a sed script, but this is not supported
by MacOS X sed when using BREs. git-instaweb relies on a working perl
in any case, and perl re are more consistent between platforms, so
replace sed invocation with an equivalent perl invocation.
Also, fix the documented -b "" to work without giving a spurious 'command
not found' error.
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This tests a recently fixed regression in which "git clone
-o" didn't work at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to a subtle typo in a shell case pattern neither alternative worked.
Signed-off-by: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For commit objects, the Author is shown, so do the equivalent for
tag objects, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's possible for bad clients to commit symlinks without the
5-character "link " prefix in symlinks. So guard around this
bug in SVN and make a best effort to create symlinks if the
"link " prefix is missing.
More information on this SVN bug is described here:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2692
To be pedantic, there is still a corner case that neither we nor
SVN can handle: If somebody made a link using a broken SVN
client where "link " is the first part of its path, e.g.
"link sausage", then we'd end up having a symlink which points
to "sausage" because we incorrectly stripped the "link ".
Hopefully this hasn't happened in practice, but if it has,
it's not our fault SVN is broken :)
Thanks to Benoit Sigoure and Sverre Johansen for reporting
and feedback.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
We set the 6 environment variables for controlling
committer/author email/name/time for every commit.
We do this in the parent process to be passed to
git-commit-tree, because open3() doesn't afford us the control
of doing it only in the child process. This means we leave them
hanging around in the main process until the next revision comes
around and all 6 environment variables are overwridden again.
Unfortunately, for the last commit, leaving them hanging around
means the git-rebase invocation will pick it up, rewriting the
rebased commit with incorrect author information. This should fix
it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
I hesitate to suggest this, since GNU tr has accepted \n for 15 years,
but there are supposedly a few crufty vendor-supplied versions of tr still
in use. Also, all of the other uses of tr-with-newline in git use \012.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was an attempt to list the refs that were rewritten by filtering
the output of 'git show-ref' for 'refs/original'. But it got the
grep argument wrong, which did not account for the SHA1 that is listed
before the ref.
Moreover, right before this summary is the loop that actually does the
rewriting, and the rewritten refs are listed there anyway. So this extra
summary is plainly too verbose.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In unpack-trees.c (line 593), we do
..
if (same(old, merge)) {
*merge = *old;
} else {
..
and that "merge" is a cache_entry pointer. If we have a non-zero
FLEX_ARRAY size, it will cause us to copy the first few bytes of the
name too.
That is technically wrong even for FLEX_ARRAY being 1, but you'll never
notice, since the filenames should always be the same with the current
code. But if we do the same thing for a rename, we'd be screwed.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
aka don't do pointer arithmetics on structs that have a FLEX_ARRAY member,
or you'll end up believing your array is 1 cell off its real address.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since commit 376ccb8cbb (rebase -i: style
fixes and minor cleanups), unchanged SHA-1s are no longer mapped via
$REWRITTEN. But the updating phase was not prepared for the old head
not being rewritten.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was no documentation for the config variables diff.external
and mergetool.<tool>.path.
Noticed by Sebastian Schuberth.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We had the diff.external variable in the documentation of the config
file since its conception, but failed to respect it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that 'git peek-remote' is deprecated and only an alias for
'git ls-remote', it should not be referenced from other manual pages.
This also removes the description of the --exec option, which is no
longer present.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This error message prints the reponse from the server at this point.
Label it as such in the output.
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some versions of 'tr' only accept octal codes if entered with three digits,
and therefor misinterpret the '\0' in the test suite.
Some versions of 'tr' reject the (needless) use of character classes.
Signed-off-by: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A mutex and a condition variable is allocated for each thread and torn
down when the thread terminates. However, for certain workloads it can
happen that some threads are actually not started at all. In this case
we would leak the mutex and condition variable. Now we allocate them only
for those threads that are actually started.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We used to unconditionally add a message-id to the outgoing
email without bothering to check if it already had one.
Instead, let's use the existing one.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The exit status from curl was accidentally lost by the
'case' statement. We need to explicitly save it so that $?
doesn't get overwritten.
This improves the error message when fetching from an http
repository which has never had update-server-info run.
Previously, it would fail to note the fetch error and
produce multiple errors about the lack of origin branches.
It now correctly suggests running git-update-server-info.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the threaded pack-objects code the main thread and the worker threads
must mutually signal that they have assigned a new pack of work or have
completed their work, respectively. Previously, the code used mutexes that
were locked in one thread and unlocked from a different thread, which is
bogus (and happens to work on Linux).
Here we rectify the implementation by using condition variables: There is
one condition variable on which the main thread waits until a thread
requests new work; and each worker thread has its own condition variable
on which it waits until it is assigned new work or signaled to terminate.
As a cleanup, the worker threads are spawned only after the initial work
packages have been assigned.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pierre Habouzit