To help our developers, document what C99 language features are
being considered for adoption, in addition to what past experiments
have already decided.
* jc/document-test-balloons-in-flight:
CodingGuidelines: document test balloons in flight
Document recently added "git imap-send --list" with an example.
* ag/imap-send-list-folders-doc:
docs: explain how to use `git imap-send --list` command to get a list of available folders
6e411d2044 (Initial draft of fast-import documentation., 2007-02-05)
pointed out how much time a fast-import took on some hardware with a
specific cost. Let’s further point out that this experiment was done
in 2007. So modern hardware should have no issues with such a repo.
Also move the parenthetical to the end now that it contains four words.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the section for naming various API functions, the fact that
S_release() only releases the resources without preparing the
structure for immediate reuse becomes only apparent when you
readentries for S_release() and S_clear().
Clarify the description of S_release() a bit to make the entry self
sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/config-wo-the-repository: (21 commits)
config: fix sign comparison warnings
config: move Git config parsing into "environment.c"
config: remove unused `the_repository` wrappers
config: drop `git_config_set_multivar()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get_multivar_gently()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_set_multivar_in_file_gently()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_set_in_file_gently()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_set()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_set_gently()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_set_in_file()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get_bool()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get_ulong()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get_int()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get_string()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get_string()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get_string_multi()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get_value()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get_value()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_get()` wrapper
config: drop `git_config_clear()` wrapper
...
This patch compliments the previous commit, where builtins that use
add-patch infrastructure now respect diff.context and
diff.interHunkContext file configurations.
In particular, this patch helps users who don't want to set persistent
context configurations or just want a way to override them on a one-time
basis, by allowing the relevant builtins to accept corresponding command
line options that override the file configurations.
This mimics commands such as diff and log, which allow for both context
file configuration and command line overrides.
Signed-off-by: Leon Michalak <leonmichalak6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 4e43b7ff (Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental,
2019-04-25), the newly introduced git-switch(1) and git-restore(1)
commands were marked as experimental. This was done to provide time to
make breaking changes to the interface. It has now been over six years
since these commands were implemented and there hasn't been much change.
Consequently, users have grown to rely on how these commands work and it
is no longer feasible to make any breaking changes.
Let's remove the experimental label for git-switch(1) and
git-restore(1).
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for '--start-after' states that the flag cannot be
used with general pattern matching. This is a bit vague, since there is
no clear understanding about what 'general' means here. Rewrite the
sentence to be more specific.
While here, fix a typo in the 'OPT_STRING'.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve the 'git-for-each-ref(1)' documentation with two corrections:
1. Add parentheses around `--exclude=<pattern>` to indicate this option
can be repeated as a complete unit.
2. Move `--stdin | <pattern> ...` to the end, after all flags, since
`<pattern>` is a positional argument that should appear last in the
argument list.
While here, change to using the synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document that we do not require "real" name when signing your
patches off.
* bc/contribution-under-non-real-names:
SubmittingPatches: allow non-real name contributions
Declare weather-balloon we raised for "bool" type 18 months ago a
success and officially allow using the type in our codebase.
* pw/adopt-c99-bool-officially:
strbuf: convert predicates to return bool
git-compat-util: convert string predicates to return bool
CodingGuidelines: allow the use of bool
Adding a submodule at a path that previously hosted
another submodule (e.g., 'child') reuses the submodule
name derived from the path. If the original submodule
was only moved (e.g., to 'child_old') and not renamed,
this silently overwrites its configuration in .gitmodules.
This behavior loses user configuration and causes
confusion when the original submodule is expected
to remain intact. It assumes that the path-derived
name is always safe to reuse, even though the name
might still be in use elsewhere in the repository.
Teach module_add() to check if the computed submodule
name already exists in the repository's submodule config,
and if so, refuse the operation unless the user explicitly
renames the submodule or uses the --force option,
which will automatically generate a unique name by
appending a number (e.g., child1).
Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to portability concerns, we do not blindly say "It is in [[this
standard]], so we will make liberal use of it" for many features,
and use of C99 language features follow this same principle. When
we contemplate adopting a language feature that we haven't used in
our codebase, we typically first raise a test balloon, which
- is a piece of code that exercises the language feature we are
trying to see if it is OK to adopt
- is in a small section of code that we know everybody who cares
about having a working Git must be compiling
- is in a fairly stable part of the code, to allow reverting it
easily if some platforms do not understand it yet.
After a few years, with no breakage report from the community, we'd
declare that the feature is now safe to use in our codebase. Before
that, we forbid the use of the language construct except for the
designated test balloon code site.
The CodingGuidelines document lists these selected features that we
already have determined that they are safe, and also those features
that we know some platforms had trouble with.
Let's also start listing ongoing test balloons and expected timeline
for adoption. Recently phillip proposed to adopt the syntax to
spell a structure literally (i.e. compound literal) with a new test
balloon, which Patrick made redundant by pointing out an existing
one we had already.but without documenting it. Start the new section
with an entry for that test balloon.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clean up the way how signature on commit objects are exported to
and imported from fast-import stream.
* cc/fast-import-export-signature-names:
fast-(import|export): improve on commit signature output format
In 036876a106 (config: hide functions using `the_repository` by
default, 2024-08-13) we have moved around a bunch of functions in the
config subsystem that depend on `the_repository`. Those function have
been converted into mere wrappers around their equivalent function that
takes in a repository as parameter, and the intent was that we'll
eventually remove those wrappers to make the dependency on the global
repository variable explicit at the callsite.
Follow through with that intent and remove `git_config()`. All callsites
are adjusted so that they use `repo_config(the_repository, ...)`
instead. While some callsites might already have a repository available,
this mechanical conversion is the exact same as the current situation
and thus cannot cause any regression. Those sites should eventually be
cleaned up in a later patch series.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output `git imap-send --list` command can be a bit confusing for new
users since the IMAP LIST command output is very verbose. Help such users
to analyse the same by using an example output.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git uses `rebase.autostash` or `merge.autostash` to determine whether a
dirty worktree is allowed during pull. However, this behavior is not
clearly documented, making it difficult for users to discover how to
enable autostash, or causing them to unknowingly enable it. Add new
config option `pull.autostash` along with its documentation and test
cases.
`pull.autostash` provides the same functionality as `rebase.autostash`
and `merge.autostash`, but overrides them when set. If `pull.autostash`
is not set, it falls back to `rebase.autostash` or `merge.autostash`,
depending on the value of `pull.rebase`.
Signed-off-by: Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The gpg.program configuration variable, which names a pathname to
the (custom) GPG compatible program, can now be spelled with ~tilde
expansion.
* jb/gpg-program-variable-is-a-pathname:
gpg-interface: expand gpg.program as a path
Doc mark-up updates.
* ja/doc-git-log-markup:
doc: git-log: convert log config to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert diff options to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert pretty formats to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert pretty options to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert rev list options to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert line range format to new doc format
doc: git-log: convert line range options to new doc format
doc: git-log convert rev-list-description to new doc format
doc: convert git-log to new documentation format
Meson-based build update.
* ps/meson-cleanups:
ci: use Meson's new `--slice` option
meson: update subproject wrappers
meson: fix lookup of shell on MINGW64
meson: clean up unnecessary variables
meson: improve summary of auto-detected features
meson: stop printing 'https' option twice in our summaries
meson: stop discovering native version of Python
"pack-objects" has been taught to avoid pointing into objects in
cruft packs from midx.
* tb/midx-avoid-cruft-packs:
repack: exclude cruft pack(s) from the MIDX where possible
pack-objects: introduce '--stdin-packs=follow'
pack-objects: swap 'show_{object,commit}_pack_hint'
pack-objects: fix typo in 'show_object_pack_hint()'
pack-objects: perform name-hash traversal for unpacked objects
pack-objects: declare 'rev_info' for '--stdin-packs' earlier
pack-objects: factor out handling '--stdin-packs'
pack-objects: limit scope in 'add_object_entry_from_pack()'
pack-objects: use standard option incompatibility functions
Documentation updates for "git send-email".
* ag/doc-send-email:
docs: mention possible options for Proton Mail users
docs: add a paragraph explaining the `sendmailCmd` option of sendemail
docs: add an OAuth2.0 credential helper for AOL accounts
docs: add outlookidfix config option to sendemail documentation
docs: link OpenSSL's verify(1) manual page to know about -CAfile and -CApath options
We have had a test balloon for C99's bool type since 8277dbe987
(git-compat-util: convert skip_{prefix,suffix}{,_mem} to bool,
2023-12-16). As we've had it over 18 months without any complaints
let's declare it a success.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our submission guidelines require people to use their real name, but
this is not always suitable for various reasons.
For people who are transgender or non-binary and are transitioning or
who think they might want to transition, it can be a major obstacle and
cause major discomfort to require the use of their real name. This is
made worse by the fact that Git provides no way to change names built
into history, so the use of a deadname is forever. Our code of conduct
states that we "pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an
open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community," and
changing this policy is one way we can improve things for contributors.
In addition, there are some developers who are so widely known
pseudonymously that they have a Wikipedia page with their handle and no
real name. It would seem silly to reject patches from people who are
known and respected in their open-source community just because they
don't wish to share a real name.
There are also other good reasons why people might operate
pseudonymously: because they or their family members are well known and
they wish to protect their privacy, because of current or past
harassment or retaliation or fear of that happening in the future, or
because of concerns about unwanted attention from government officials
or other authority figures. As much as possible, we want to welcome
contributions from anyone who is willing to participate positively in
our community without having them worry about their safety or privacy.
In all of these cases, we should allow people to proceed using a
preferred name or pseudonymously if, in their best judgment, that's the
right thing to do. State that it is common to use a real name but
explicitly mention that contributors who are not comfortable doing so or
prefer to operate pseudonymously or under a preferred name can proceed
otherwise, provided the name is distinctive, identifying, and not
misleading. For instance, using U+2060 (WORD JOINER) as one's ID would
likely be distinctive but not identifying, since most people would have
trouble reading it due to its zero-width nature.
We prohibit identities which are misleading, since our goal is to create
a community which works together with a common goal, and misleading or
deceiving others is not conducive to good community or compatible with
our code of conduct, nor is it compatible with making a legal assertion
about the provenance of one's code.
Explicitly prohibit anonymous contributions to ensure that we have some
line of provenance to a known (if pseudonymous) author who might be able
to respond to questions about it. Explain that this is the reason we
have this policy to help contributors understand the rationale better.
Use "some form of your real name" since some current contributors use
shortened forms of their name or use initials, which have always been
considered acceptable. This helps guide people who would be fine using
their real name but have misconfigured `user.name` thinking it is
intended to be a username or is used for authentication (despite our
documentation to the contrary), but also allows for a variety of
circumstances where the contributor would feel more comfortable not
doing so.
Note that this policy is the same as that of the Linux kernel[0] and the
CNCF[1], as well as many smaller projects. The Linux kernel patch was
Acked-by one of the Linux Foundation's lawyers, Michael Dolan, so it
appears these changes have had legal review.
Additionally, retain the section header ID for ease of linking across
versions.
[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330
[1] https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/659fd32c86dc/dco-guidelines.md
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up around object access API.
* ps/object-store:
odb: rename `read_object_with_reference()`
odb: rename `pretend_object_file()`
odb: rename `has_object()`
odb: rename `repo_read_object_file()`
odb: rename `oid_object_info()`
odb: trivial refactorings to get rid of `the_repository`
odb: get rid of `the_repository` when handling submodule sources
odb: get rid of `the_repository` when handling the primary source
odb: get rid of `the_repository` in `for_each()` functions
odb: get rid of `the_repository` when handling alternates
odb: get rid of `the_repository` in `odb_mkstemp()`
odb: get rid of `the_repository` in `assert_oid_type()`
odb: get rid of `the_repository` in `find_odb()`
odb: introduce parent pointers
object-store: rename files to "odb.{c,h}"
object-store: rename `object_directory` to `odb_source`
object-store: rename `raw_object_store` to `object_database`
The `git-for-each-ref(1)` command is used to iterate over references
present in a repository. In large repositories with millions of
references, it would be optimal to paginate this output such that we
can start iteration from a given reference. This would avoid having to
iterate over all references from the beginning each time when paginating
through results.
The previous commit added 'seek' functionality to the reference
backends. Utilize this and expose a '--start-after' option in
'git-for-each-ref(1)'. When used, the reference iteration seeks to the
lexicographically next reference and iterates from there onward.
This enables efficient pagination workflows, where the calling script
can remember the last provided reference and use that as the starting
point for the next set of references:
git for-each-ref --count=100
git for-each-ref --count=100 --start-after=refs/heads/branch-100
git for-each-ref --count=100 --start-after=refs/heads/branch-200
Since the reference iterators only allow seeking to a specified marker
via the `ref_iterator_seek()`, we introduce a helper function
`start_ref_iterator_after()`, which seeks to next reference by simply
adding (char) 1 to the marker.
We must note that pagination always continues from the provided marker,
as such any concurrent reference updates lexicographically behind the
marker will not be output. Document the same.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git apply -N" should start from the current index and register
only new files, but it instead started from an empty index, which
has been corrected.
* rp/apply-intent-to-add-fix:
apply docs: clarify wording for --intent-to-add
t4140: test apply --intent-to-add interactions
apply: only write intents to add for new files
apply: read in the index in --intent-to-add mode
The reftable ref backend has matured enough; Git 3.0 will make it
the default format in a newly created repositories by default.
* ps/use-reftable-as-default-in-3.0:
setup: use "reftable" format when experimental features are enabled
BreakingChanges: announce switch to "reftable" format
This allows using a custom gpg program under the user's home directory
by specifying a path starting with '~'
[gpg]
program = "~/.local/bin/mygpg"
Signed-off-by: Jonas Brandstötter <jonas.brandstoetter@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitglossary documents Git pathspecs. One type of pathspec is the "glob"
pathspec, prefixed with the magic word "glob".
Regarding glob pathspecs, gitglossary says, '"**/foo" matches file or
directory "foo" anywhere, the same as pattern "foo".' That last phrase
('the same as pattern "foo") is incorrect. "**/foo" and "foo" are not
equivalent. "**/foo" matches foo anywhere, but "foo" does not.
This change removes the incorrect phrase from the glob pathspec doc.
Signed-off-by: Russell Hanneken <rhanneken@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A recent commit, d9cb0e6ff8 (fast-export, fast-import: add support for
signed-commits, 2025-03-10), added support for signed commits to
fast-export and fast-import.
When a signed commit is processed, fast-export can output either
"gpgsig sha1" or "gpgsig sha256" depending on whether the signed
commit uses the SHA-1 or SHA-256 Git object format.
However, this implementation has a number of limitations:
- the output format was not properly described in the documentation,
- the output format is not very informative as it doesn't even say
if the signature is an OpenPGP, an SSH, or an X509 signature,
- the implementation doesn't support having both one signature on
the SHA-1 object and one on the SHA-256 object.
Let's improve on these limitations by improving fast-export and
fast-import so that:
- all the signatures are exported,
- at most one signature on the SHA-1 object and one on the SHA-256
are imported,
- if there is more than one signature on the SHA-1 object or on
the SHA-256 object, fast-import emits a warning for each
additional signature,
- the output format is "gpgsig <git-hash-algo> <signature-format>",
where <git-hash-algo> is the Git object format as before, and
<signature-format> is the signature type ("openpgp", "x509",
"ssh" or "unknown"),
- the output is properly documented.
About the output format:
- <git-hash-algo> allows to know which representation of the commit
was signed (the SHA-1 or the SHA-256 version) which helps with
both signature verification and interoperability between repos
with different hash functions,
- <signature-format> helps tools that process the fast-export
stream, so they don't have to parse the ASCII armor to identify
the signature type.
It could be even better to be able to import more than one signature
on the SHA-1 object and on the SHA-256 object, but other parts of
Git don't handle that well for now, so this is left for future
improvements.
Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `manpage_target` variable isn't used at all, and the `manpage_path`
variable is only used in a single location. Remove the former variable
and inline the latter.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `git pack-refs --auto` flag asks the ref backend to decide for
itself whether or not references need to be repacked. This is done to
ensure that we don't repack in cases where the backend is already in a
good-enough state, which is typically the case for the "reftable"
backend that performs auto-compaction on writes.
As such, we initially only had heuristics in place for the "reftable"
backend. The "files" backend didn't have any heuristics, so we'd repack
loose references every time `git pack-refs --auto` was executed. This
caused excessive repacking with that backend though, which is why we
eventually implemented a heuristic via c3459ae9ef (refs/files: use
heuristic to decide whether to repack with `--auto`, 2024-09-04).
The documentation for the `--auto` flag hasn't been updated accordingly
and still claims that we don't have any metrics for the "files" backend.
Update it to reflect the new reality.
Reported-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When preparing the latest round of security fixes, we wrote release
notes in v2.43.7, and then successively merged those up through to the
various 'maint' branches.
However, the 2.49 release series is the first to have commit 1f010d6bdf
(doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20). This means
that we should have renamed the new-but-historical release notes from
*.txt to *.adoc during the merge into the 'maint-2.49' branch, but
neglected to do so.
Rename them accordingly to match the convention introduced by
1f010d6bdf. Since the release materials in question here were prepared
before v2.50.0 was tagged, the 'maint' track for that release series is
OK as is.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
- Explain possible options in description list instead of in a paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
- In description lists, put each option on its own line, to make them more
searchable and enable automatic translation of the options.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
For all the formats in the form of %(foo), the formatting needs to be
heavier because we not want the parentheses to be rendered as syntax
elements,but as keywords, i.e. we need to circumvent the syntax highlighting
of synopsis. In this particular case, this requires the heavy escaping of
the parts that contain parentheses with ++.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Fix some malformed synopis of options
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
- Add the '%' sign to the characters of keywords.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use `backticks` for commit ranges. The new rendering engine will apply
synopsis rules to these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
We also transform inline descriptions of possible values of option
--decorate into a list, which is more readable and extensible.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation for git-merge incorrectly notes that
tip of the current branch on ascii diagram is C,
while it is actually G (current branch is master,
HEAD on diagram is G).
Additionally diagrams on the page are adjusted
to use spaces instead of tabs, so that they align
regardless of tab size. This is in line with
diagrams on other git documentation pages.
Signed-off-by: Timur Sultanaev <str.write@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoid using a double negative, and keep in mind that --index and
--cached are distinct modes of operation.
Signed-off-by: Raymond E. Pasco <ray@ameretat.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the preceding commit we have announced the switch to the "reftable"
format in Git 3.0 for newly created repositories. The format is being
battle tested by GitLab and a couple of other developers, and except for
a small handful of issues exposed early after it has been merged it has
been rock solid. Regardless of that though the test user base is still
comparatively small, which increases the risk that we miss critical
bugs.
Address this by enabling the reftable format when experimental features
are enabled. This should increase the test user base by some margin and
thus give us more input before making the format the default.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "reftable" format has come a long way and has matured nicely since
it has been merged into git via 57db2a094d (refs: introduce reftable
backend, 2024-02-07). It fixes longstanding issues that cannot be fixed
with the "files" format in a backwards-compatible way and performs
significantly better in many use cases.
Announce that we will switch to the "reftable" format in Git 3.0 for
newly created repositories and wire up the change, hidden behind the
WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES preprocessor define.
This switch is dependent on support in the larger Git ecosystem. Most
importantly, libraries like JGit, libgit2 and Gitoxide should support
the reftable backend so that we don't break all applications and tools
built on top of those libraries.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git imap-send" has been broken for a long time, which has been
resurrected and then taught to talk OAuth2.0 etc.
* ag/imap-send-resurrection:
imap-send: fix minor mistakes in the logs
imap-send: display the destination mailbox when sending a message
imap-send: display port alongwith host when git credential is invoked
imap-send: add ability to list the available folders
imap-send: enable specifying the folder using the command line
imap-send: add PLAIN authentication method to OpenSSL
imap-send: add support for OAuth2.0 authentication
imap-send: gracefully fail if CRAM-MD5 authentication is requested without OpenSSL
imap-send: fix memory leak in case auth_cram_md5 fails
imap-send: fix bug causing cfg->folder being set to NULL
Rename `read_object_with_reference()` to `odb_read_object_peeled()` to
match other functions related to the object database and our modern
coding guidelines. Furthermore though, the old name didn't really
describe very well what this function actually does, which is to walk
down any commit and tag objects until an object of the required type has
been found. This is generally referred to as "peeling", so the new name
should be way more descriptive.
No compatibility wrapper is introduced as the function is not used a lot
throughout our codebase.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
4e51389000 (builtin/config: introduce "get" subcommand, 2024-05-06)
introduced `get` and `--url` but didn’t add `--url` to the synopsis.
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option was introduced in a series of commits from fe3ccc7aab (Merge
branch 'ps/config-subcommands', 2024-05-15) and deprecated
`value-pattern`. But `value-pattern` is still used throughout the doc.
The deprecated modes have been quarantined in the “Deprecated Modes”
section. So let’s only use `--value=<pattern>` in the rest of the doc.
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These options were introduced in a series of commits from
fe3ccc7aab (Merge branch 'ps/config-subcommands', 2024-05-15).[1]
But they were not documented here.
Document this option and the negated form according to the current
convention.[2]
[1]: `--value` is a replacement for the `value-pattern`
positional argument
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqcyct1mtq.fsf@gitster.g/
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option was introduced in a series of commits from fe3ccc7aab (Merge
branch 'ps/config-subcommands', 2024-05-15). But two styles were used
for the value provided to the option:
1. Synopsis: `--value=<value>`
2. Deprecated Modes: `--value=<pattern>`
(2) is also used in the synopsis on the command.
Use (2) consistently throughout since it’s a pattern in the general
case (`value` sounds more generic).
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These options were introduced in 4e51389000 (builtin/config:
introduce "get" subcommand, 2024-05-06) but not documented here.
Use the description from the source code.
Document this option and the negated form according to the current
convention.[1]
`--show-names` is also the default when `--get-regexp` is given. But
don’t mention it here since all the deprecated modes are quarantined in
the “Deprecated Modes” section.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqcyct1mtq.fsf@gitster.g/
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git merge/pull" has been taught the "--compact-summary" option to
use the compact-summary format, intead of diffstat, when showing
the summary of the incoming changes.
* jc/merge-compact-summary:
merge/pull: extend merge.stat configuration variable to cover --compact-summary
merge/pull: add the "--compact-summary" option
An interchange format for stash entries is defined, and subcommand
of "git stash" to import/export has been added.
* bc/stash-export-import:
builtin/stash: provide a way to import stashes from a ref
builtin/stash: provide a way to export stashes to a ref
builtin/stash: factor out revision parsing into a function
object-name: make get_oid quietly return an error
Proton Mail is an privacy-focused email service gaining popularity.
Unfortunately, it does not provide an SMTP server to send emails.
Proton Mail Bridge is an official solution for paid users, and for free
users, a client named git-protonmail is available. Mention the same in the
docs.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`sendmailCmd` is a configuration option in `git-send-email` that allows
users to send emails using an external application that supports
sendmail-like commands. This ability has been very useful to support
proprietary email APIs without modifying the `git-send-email` codebase.
It is also useful for users who prefer to use another SMTP client
instead of the SMTP perl library used by `git-send-email`.
This commit adds a paragraph to the documentation explaining this
option.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Yahoo and AOL, both advertise that they support app passwords for third-party
applications. But generating app passwords for them is broken and unreliable
for quite some time now. Yahoo already had an OAuth2.0 credential helper
added in the documentation, so I thought it would be a good idea to add one
for AOL accounts as well, which is more reliable and secure.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for command line option `--outlook-id-fix` is there in
the sendemail documentation, but the config option `sendemail.outlookidfix`
was missing. Add the same to the documentation.
White at it, also enclose the values `true` and `false` in backticks in
the documentation for `sendemail.mailmap`.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of `--smtp-ssl-cert-path` in the git-send-email documentation
mentions consulting OpenSSL's verify(1) manual page for details about the
`-CAfile` and `-CApath` options. However, the way it was written was quite
confusing, and it didn't mention that OpenSSL's verify(1) is the manual page
to refer to.
Fix this by slightly rewording the description and also add a link to the
OpenSSL verify(1) manual page.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'branch' section of the git-config documentation was missing
inline code formatting and emphasis for the <name> placeholder.
Both changes improve readability, especially when viewed online.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Ječmínek <kuba@kubajecminek.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git whatchanged" that is longer to type than "git log --raw"
which is its modern rough equivalent has outlived its usefulness
more than 10 years ago. Plan to deprecate and remove it.
* jc/you-still-use-whatchanged:
whatschanged: list it in BreakingChanges document
whatchanged: remove when built with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES
whatchanged: require --i-still-use-this
tests: prepare for a world without whatchanged
doc: prepare for a world without whatchanged
you-still-use-that??: help deprecating commands for removal
In ddee3703b3 (builtin/repack.c: add cruft packs to MIDX during
geometric repack, 2022-05-20), repack began adding cruft pack(s) to the
MIDX with '--write-midx' to ensure that the resulting MIDX was always
closed under reachability in order to generate reachability bitmaps.
While the previous patch added the '--stdin-packs=follow' option to
pack-objects, it is not yet on by default. Given that, suppose you have
a once-unreachable object packed in a cruft pack, which later becomes
reachable from one or more objects in a geometrically repacked pack.
That once-unreachable object *won't* appear in the new pack, since the
cruft pack was not specified as included or excluded when the
geometrically repacked pack was created with 'pack-objects
--stdin-packs' (*not* '--stdin-packs=follow', which is not on). If that
new pack is included in a MIDX without the cruft pack, then trying to
generate bitmaps for that MIDX may fail. This happens when the bitmap
selection process picks one or more commits which reach the
once-unreachable objects.
To mitigate this failure mode, commit ddee3703b3 ensures that the MIDX
will be closed under reachability by including cruft pack(s). If cruft
pack(s) were not included, we would fail to generate a MIDX bitmap. But
ddee3703b3 alludes to the fact that this is sub-optimal by saying
[...] it's desirable to avoid including cruft packs in the MIDX
because it causes the MIDX to store a bunch of objects which are
likely to get thrown away.
, which is true, but hides an even larger problem. If repositories
rarely prune their unreachable objects and/or have many of them, the
MIDX must keep track of a large number of objects which bloats the MIDX
and slows down object lookup.
This is doubly unfortunate because the vast majority of objects in cruft
pack(s) are unlikely to be read. But any object lookups that go through
the MIDX must binary search over them anyway, slowing down object
lookups using the MIDX.
This patch causes geometrically-repacked packs to contain a copy of any
once-unreachable object(s) with 'git pack-objects --stdin-packs=follow',
allowing us to avoid including any cruft packs in the MIDX. This is
because a sequence of geometrically-repacked packs that were all
generated with '--stdin-packs=follow' are guaranteed to have their union
be closed under reachability.
Note that you cannot guarantee that a collection of packs is closed
under reachability if not all of them were generated with "following" as
above. One tell-tale sign that not all geometrically-repacked packs in
the MIDX were generated with "following" is to see if there is a pack in
the existing MIDX that is not going to be somehow represented (either
verbatim or as part of a geometric rollup) in the new MIDX.
If there is, then starting to generate packs with "following" during
geometric repacking won't work, since it's open to the same race as
described above.
But if you're starting from scratch (e.g., building the first MIDX after
an all-into-one '--cruft' repack), then you can guarantee that the union
of subsequently generated packs from geometric repacking *is* closed
under reachability.
(One exception here is when "starting from scratch" results in a noop
repack, e.g., because the non-cruft pack(s) in a repository already form
a geometric progression. Since we can't tell whether or not those were
generated with '--stdin-packs=follow', they may depend on
once-unreachable objects, so we have to include the cruft pack in the
MIDX in this case.)
Detect when this is the case and avoid including cruft packs in the MIDX
where possible. The existing behavior remains the default, and the new
behavior is available with the config 'repack.midxMustIncludeCruft' set
to 'false'.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When invoked with '--stdin-packs', pack-objects will generate a pack
which contains the objects found in the "included" packs, less any
objects from "excluded" packs.
Packs that exist in the repository but weren't specified as either
included or excluded are in practice treated like the latter, at least
in the sense that pack-objects won't include objects from those packs.
This behavior forces us to include any cruft pack(s) in a repository's
multi-pack index for the reasons described in ddee3703b3
(builtin/repack.c: add cruft packs to MIDX during geometric repack,
2022-05-20).
The full details are in ddee3703b3, but the gist is if you
have a once-unreachable object in a cruft pack which later becomes
reachable via one or more commits in a pack generated with
'--stdin-packs', you *have* to include that object in the MIDX via the
copy in the cruft pack, otherwise we cannot generate reachability
bitmaps for any commits which reach that object.
Note that the traversal here is best-effort, similar to the existing
traversal which provides name-hash hints. This means that the object
traversal may hand us back a blob that does not actually exist. We
*won't* see missing trees/commits with 'ignore_missing_links' because:
- missing commit parents are discarded at the commit traversal stage by
revision.c::process_parents()
- missing tag objects are discarded by revision.c::handle_commit()
- missing tree objects are discarded by the list-objects code in
list-objects.c::process_tree()
But we have to handle potentially-missing blobs specially by making a
separate check to ensure they exist in the repository. Failing to do so
would mean that we'd add an object to the packing list which doesn't
actually exist, rendering us unable to write out the pack.
This prepares us for new repacking behavior which will "resurrect"
objects found in cruft or otherwise unspecified packs when generating
new packs. In the context of geometric repacking, this may be used to
maintain a sequence of geometrically-repacked packs, the union of which
is closed under reachability, even in the case described earlier.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various IMAP servers have different ways to name common folders.
For example, the folder where all deleted messages are stored is often
named "[Gmail]/Trash" on Gmail servers, and "Deleted" on Outlook.
Similarly, the Drafts folder is simply named "Drafts" on Outlook, but
on Gmail it is named "[Gmail]/Drafts".
This commit adds a `--list` command to the `imap-send` tool that lists
the available folders on the IMAP server, allowing users to see
which folders are available and how they are named. A sample output
looks like this when run against a Gmail server:
Fetching the list of available folders...
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"
* LIST (\HasChildren \Noselect) "/" "[Gmail]"
* LIST (\All \HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/All Mail"
* LIST (\Drafts \HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Drafts"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren \Important) "/" "[Gmail]/Important"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren \Sent) "/" "[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren \Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/Spam"
* LIST (\Flagged \HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Starred"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren \Trash) "/" "[Gmail]/Trash"
For OpenSSL, this is achived by running the 'IMAP LIST' command and
parsing the response. This command is specified in RFC6154:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6154#section-5.1
For libcurl, the example code published in the libcurl documentation
is used to implement this functionality:
https://curl.se/libcurl/c/imap-list.html
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some users may very often want to imap-send messages to a folder
other than the default set in the config. Add a command line
argument for the same.
While at it, fix minor mark-up inconsistencies in the existing
documentation text.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current implementation for PLAIN in imap-send works just fine
if using curl, but if attempted to use for OpenSSL, it is treated
as an invalid mechanism. The default implementation for OpenSSL is
IMAP LOGIN command rather than AUTH PLAIN. Since AUTH PLAIN is
still used today by many email providers in form of app passwords,
lets add an implementation that can use AUTH PLAIN if specified.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some leftover references to documentation source files that no
longer exist, due to recent ".txt" -> ".adoc" renaming, have been
corrected.
* jw/doc-txt-to-adoc-refs:
doc: update references to renamed AsciiDoc files
Document that related `git config` variables should be placed
one-per-line instead of separated by commas.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff --no-index dirA dirB" can limit the comparison with
pathspec at the end of the command line, just like normal "git
diff".
* jk/diff-no-index-with-pathspec:
diff --no-index: support limiting by pathspec
pathspec: add flag to indicate operation without repository
pathspec: add match_leading_pathspec variant
"git cat-file --batch" learns to understand %(objectmode) atom to
allow the caller to tell missing objects (due to repository
corruption) and submodules (whose commit objects are OK to be
missing) apart.
* vd/cat-file-objectmode-update:
cat-file.c: add batch handling for submodules
cat-file: add %(objectmode) atom
t1006: update 'run_tests' to test generic object specifiers
Documentation for "git send-email" has been updated with a bit more
credential helper and OAuth information.
* ag/send-email-docs:
docs: make the purpose of using app password for Gmail more clear in send-email
docs: remove credential helper links for emails from gitcredentials
docs: improve formatting in git-send-email documentation
docs: add credential helper for yahoo and link Google's sendgmail tool
"git pack-objects" learns to find delta bases from blobs at the
same path, using the --path-walk API.
* ds/path-walk-2:
pack-objects: allow --shallow and --path-walk
path-walk: add new 'edge_aggressive' option
pack-objects: thread the path-based compression
pack-objects: refactor path-walk delta phase
scalar: enable path-walk during push via config
pack-objects: enable --path-walk via config
repack: add --path-walk option
t5538: add tests to confirm deltas in shallow pushes
pack-objects: introduce GIT_TEST_PACK_PATH_WALK
p5313: add performance tests for --path-walk
pack-objects: update usage to match docs
pack-objects: add --path-walk option
pack-objects: extract should_attempt_deltas()
Doc update to the more recent world order.
* lo/my-first-ow-doc-update:
MyFirstContribution: add walken.c to meson.build
MyFirstContribution: use struct repository in examples
Existing `merge.stat` configuration variable is a Boolean that
defaults to `true` to control `git merge --[no-]stat` behaviour.
Extend it to be "Boolean or text", that takes false, true, or
"compact", with the last one triggering the --compact-summary option
introduced earlier. Any other values are taken as the same as true,
instead of signaling an error---it is not a grave enough offence to
stop their merge.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git merge" and "git pull" shows "git diff --stat --summary @{1}"
when they finish to indicate the extent of the changes brought into
the history by default. While it gives a good overview, it becomes
annoying when there are very many created or deleted paths.
Introduce "--compact-summary" option to these two commands that
tells it to instead show "git diff --compact-summary @{1}", which
gives the same information in a lot more compact form in such a
situation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.48:
Git 2.48.2
Git 2.47.3
Git 2.46.4
Git 2.45.4
Git 2.44.4
Git 2.43.7
wincred: avoid buffer overflow in wcsncat()
bundle-uri: fix arbitrary file writes via parameter injection
config: quote values containing CR character
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: convert new 'cygpath' calls
git-gui: do not mistake command arguments as redirection operators
git-gui: introduce function git_redir for git calls with redirections
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to git_read
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to _open_stdout_stderr
git-gui: convert git_read*, git_write to be non-variadic
git-gui: override exec and open only on Windows
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: revisit recently updated 'open' calls
git-gui: use git_read in githook_read
git-gui: sanitize $PATH on all platforms
git-gui: break out a separate function git_read_nice
git-gui: assure PATH has only absolute elements.
git-gui: remove option --stderr from git_read
git-gui: cleanup git-bash menu item
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: background
git-gui: avoid auto_execok in do_windows_shortcut
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
git-gui: avoid auto_execok for git-bash menu item
git-gui: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
git-gui: remove unused proc is_shellscript
git-gui: remove git config --list handling for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: remove special treatment of Windows from open_cmd_pipe
git-gui: remove HEAD detachment implementation for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: use only the configured shell
git-gui: remove Tcl 8.4 workaround on 2>@1 redirection
git-gui: make _shellpath usable on startup
git-gui: use [is_Windows], not bad _shellpath
git-gui: _which, only add .exe suffix if not present
gitk: encode arguments correctly with "open"
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: command pipeline
gitk: collect construction of blameargs into a single conditional
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands, readable and writable
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands with redirections
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirect to process
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections and background
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: 'eval exec'
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
gitk: have callers of diffcmd supply pipe symbol when necessary
gitk: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we have a way to export stashes to a ref, let's provide a way
to import them from such a ref back to the stash. This works much the
way the export code does, except that we strip off the first parent
chain commit and then store each resulting commit back to the stash.
We don't clear the stash first and instead add the specified stashes to
the top of the stash. This is because users may want to export just a
few stashes, such as to share a small amount of work in progress with a
colleague, and it would be undesirable for the receiving user to lose
all of their data. For users who do want to replace the stash, it's
easy to do to: simply run "git stash clear" first.
We specifically rely on the fact that we'll produce identical stash
commits on both sides in our tests. This provides a cheap,
straightforward check for our tests and also makes it easy for users to
see if they already have the same data in both repositories.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common user problem is how to sync in-progress work to another
machine. Users currently must use some sort of transfer of the working
tree, which poses security risks and also necessarily causes the index
to become dirty. The experience is suboptimal and frustrating for
users.
A reasonable idea is to use the stash for this purpose, but the stash is
stored in the reflog, not in a ref, and as such it cannot be pushed or
pulled. This also means that it cannot be saved into a bundle or
preserved elsewhere, which is a problem when using throwaway development
environments.
In addition, users often want to replicate stashes across machines, such
as when they must use multiple machines or when they use throwaway dev
environments, such as those based on the Devcontainer spec, where they
might otherwise lose various in-progress work.
Let's solve this problem by allowing the user to export the stash to a
ref (or, to just write it into the repository and print the hash, à la
git commit-tree). Introduce git stash export, which writes a chain of
commits where the first parent is always a chain to the previous stash,
or to a single, empty commit (for the final item) and the second is the
stash commit normally written to the reflog.
Iterate over each stash from top to bottom, looking up the data for each
one, and then create the chain from the single empty commit back up in
reverse order. Generate a predictable empty commit so our behavior is
reproducible. Create a useful commit message, preserving the author and
committer information, to help users identify stash commits when viewing
them as normal commits.
If the user has specified specific stashes they'd like to export
instead, use those instead of iterating over all of the stashes.
As part of this, specifically request quiet behavior when looking up the
OID for a revision because we will eventually hit a revision that
doesn't exist and we don't want to die when that occurs.
When exporting stashes, be sure to verify that they look like valid
stashes and don't contain invalid data. This will help avoid failures
on import or problems due to attempting to export invalid refs that are
not stashes.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have mentioned this in various reviews, but I didn't see it
mentioned in the CodingGuildelines document. Let's add it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
• Replace with phrases that are more standard (“all-or-nothing”
instead of “-none”)
• Add coordinating words that make it less likely for you to trip
over the sentence (“*that* "gc" can do”)
• Use “SMTP” instead of both SMTP and smtp
• Don’t mention `git fsck --reference` since the previous release
was not affected by this minor bug. Also say “errored out” since
the git-refs(1) bug was there in v2.48.0 as well
• Use the more widespread “linked” instead of “secondary worktree”
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The .txt extensions were changed to .adoc in 1f010d6 (doc: use .adoc
extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20). References to the renamed
files were not updated yet.
Signed-off-by: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 0b080a70ab (doc: git-diff: apply format changes to
diff-generate-patch, 2024-11-18) wrapped the ".." in
mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode>
in backticks. Note how the line before is quite similar,
index <hash>,<hash>..<hash>
but did not get any backticks. Remove the backticks, since they confuse
Asciidoctor.
The exact failure mode changed with c87b2b3a6f (doc: fix asciidoctor
synopsis processing of triple-dots, 2025-04-12), and arguably to the
better. But Asciidoctor (2.0.18) still ends up confused by these
backticks and leaves the manpage rendering as
index <hash>,<hash>..<hash>
mode <mode>,<mode>`..__<mode>__
{empty}`new file mode <mode>
Drop the backticks. This is a no-op with asciidoc (10.2.0).
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an object specification is passed to 'cat-file --batch[-check]'
referring to a submodule (e.g. 'HEAD:path/to/my/submodule'), the current
behavior of the command is to print the "missing" error message. However, it
is often valuable for callers to distinguish between paths that are actually
missing and "the submodule tree entry exists, but the object does not exist
in the repository".
To disambiguate without needing to invoke a separate Git process (e.g.
'ls-tree'), print the message "<oid> submodule" for such objects instead of
"<object> missing". In addition to the change from "missing" to "submodule",
the new message differs from the old in that it always prints the resolved
tree entry's OID, rather than the input object specification.
Note that this implementation maintains a distinction between submodules
where the commit OID is not present in the repo, and submodules where the
commit OID *is* present; the former will now print "<object> submodule", but
the latter will still print the full object content.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a formatting atom, used with the --batch-check/--batch-command options,
that prints the octal representation of the object mode if a given revision
includes that information, e.g. one that follows the format
<tree-ish>:<path>. If the mode information does not exist, an empty string
is printed instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instruct in the documentation to also add an entry in meson.build for
builtin/walken.c, as currently both Meson and Make are supported.
Helped-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the parameter `struct repository *repo` to the cmd_walken function.
Since commit 9b1cb5070f (builtin: add a repository parameter for
builtin functions, 2024-09-13), all the cmd_* have the `repo` parameter
and new commands must follow this convention, so the documentation
should also be changed.
Change the `git_config` calls to `repo_config`, also passing the `repo`
parameter, as since 036876a106 (config: hide functions using
`the_repository` by default, 2024-08-13) the non-repo config functions
are no longer recommended as they use the global `repository` variable.
Helped-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The OpenBSD 'sed' command does not support '\n' to represent newlines in
sed expressions. This leads to the follow compiler error:
In file included from builtin/help.c:15:
./config-list.h:282:18: error: use of undeclared identifier 'n'
"gitcvs.dbUser",n "gitcvs.dbPass",
^
1 error generated.
gmake: *** [Makefile:2821: builtin/help.o] Error 1
We can fix this by documenting related configuration variables
one-per-line instead of listing them separated by commas. This allows us
to remove the unportable part of the sed expression in
generate-configlist.sh.
Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark a new feature added during this cycle as experimental and fix
its default so that existing users of the fast-export command is
not broken.
* jc/signed-fast-export-is-experimental:
fast-export: --signed-commits is experimental
Doc mark-up fixes.
* ja/doc-synopsis-style:
doc: convert git-switch manpage to new synopsis style
doc: convert git-mergetool options to new synopsis style
doc: convert git-mergetool manpage to new synopsis style
doc: switch merge config description to new synopsis format
doc: convert merge strategies to synopsis format
doc: merge-options.adoc remove a misleading double negation
doc: convert merge options to new synopsis format
doc: convert git-merge manpage to new style
doc: convert git-checkout manpage to new style
227c4f33a0 (doc: add a blank line around block delimiters,
2025-03-09) added blank lines around block delimiters as a
defensive measure. For each block you had to mind the con-
text (like the commit says):
• Top-level: just add blank lines
• Block: use list continuation (+)
But list continuation was used here at the top level, which
results in literal `+` in the output formats.
Acked-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git notes --help" documentation updates.
* kh/notes-doc-fixes:
doc: notes: use stuck form throughout
doc: notes: treat --stdin equally between copy/remove
doc: notes: point out copy --stdin use with argv
doc: notes: clearly state that --stripspace is the default
doc: notes: remove stripspace discussion from other options
doc: notes: rework --[no-]stripspace
doc: notes: split out options with negated forms
doc: config: mention core.commentChar on commit.cleanup
doc: stripspace: mention where the default comes from
Integer overflow fix around code paths for "git multi-pack-index repack"..
* pw/midx-repack-overflow-fix:
midx docs: clarify tie breaking
midx: avoid negative array index
midx repack: avoid potential integer overflow on 64 bit systems
midx repack: avoid integer overflow on 32 bit systems
The current example for Gmail suggests using app passwords for
send-email if user has multi-factor authentication set up for their
account. However, it does not clarify that the user cannot use their
normal password in case they do not have multi-factor authentication
enabled. Most likely the example was written in the days when Google
allowed using normal passwords without multi-factor authentication.
Clarify that regular passwords do not work for Gmail and app-passwords
are the only way for basic authentication. Also encourage users to use
OAuth2.0 as a more secure alternative.
While at it, also prefer using the word "mechanism" over "method" for
`OAUTHBEARER` and `XOAUTH2` since that is what official docs use.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a recent attempt to add links of email helpers to git-scm.com [1], I
came to a conclusion that the links in the gitcredentials page are meant
for people needing credential helpers for cloning, fetching and pushing
repositories to remote hosts, and not sending emails. gitcredentials
docs don't even talk about send emails, thus confirming this view.
So, lets remove these links from the gitcredentials page. The links are
still available in the git-send-email documentation, which is the right
place for them.
[1]: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/pull/2005
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current documentation for git-send-email had an inconsistent use of
"", ``, and '' for quoting. This commit improves the formatting by
using the same style throughout the documentation. Missing full stops
have also been added at some places.
Finally, the cpan links of necessary perl modules have been added to
make their installation easier.
While at it, the unecessary use of $ with <num> and <int> placeholders
has also been removed.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit links `git-credential-yahoo` as a credential helper for
Yahoo accounts. Also, Google's `sendgmail` tool has been linked as an
alternative method for sending emails through Gmail.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix this inline list to use a single style, namely numeric, instead of
`(1)` followed by `(b)`.
Signed-off-by: Wonuk Kim <kimww0306@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.47:
Git 2.47.3
Git 2.46.4
Git 2.45.4
Git 2.44.4
Git 2.43.7
wincred: avoid buffer overflow in wcsncat()
bundle-uri: fix arbitrary file writes via parameter injection
config: quote values containing CR character
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: convert new 'cygpath' calls
git-gui: do not mistake command arguments as redirection operators
git-gui: introduce function git_redir for git calls with redirections
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to git_read
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to _open_stdout_stderr
git-gui: convert git_read*, git_write to be non-variadic
git-gui: override exec and open only on Windows
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: revisit recently updated 'open' calls
git-gui: use git_read in githook_read
git-gui: sanitize $PATH on all platforms
git-gui: break out a separate function git_read_nice
git-gui: assure PATH has only absolute elements.
git-gui: remove option --stderr from git_read
git-gui: cleanup git-bash menu item
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: background
git-gui: avoid auto_execok in do_windows_shortcut
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
git-gui: avoid auto_execok for git-bash menu item
git-gui: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
git-gui: remove unused proc is_shellscript
git-gui: remove git config --list handling for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: remove special treatment of Windows from open_cmd_pipe
git-gui: remove HEAD detachment implementation for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: use only the configured shell
git-gui: remove Tcl 8.4 workaround on 2>@1 redirection
git-gui: make _shellpath usable on startup
git-gui: use [is_Windows], not bad _shellpath
git-gui: _which, only add .exe suffix if not present
gitk: encode arguments correctly with "open"
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: command pipeline
gitk: collect construction of blameargs into a single conditional
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands, readable and writable
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands with redirections
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirect to process
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections and background
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: 'eval exec'
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
gitk: have callers of diffcmd supply pipe symbol when necessary
gitk: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
* maint-2.46:
Git 2.46.4
Git 2.45.4
Git 2.44.4
Git 2.43.7
wincred: avoid buffer overflow in wcsncat()
bundle-uri: fix arbitrary file writes via parameter injection
config: quote values containing CR character
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: convert new 'cygpath' calls
git-gui: do not mistake command arguments as redirection operators
git-gui: introduce function git_redir for git calls with redirections
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to git_read
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to _open_stdout_stderr
git-gui: convert git_read*, git_write to be non-variadic
git-gui: override exec and open only on Windows
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: revisit recently updated 'open' calls
git-gui: use git_read in githook_read
git-gui: sanitize $PATH on all platforms
git-gui: break out a separate function git_read_nice
git-gui: assure PATH has only absolute elements.
git-gui: remove option --stderr from git_read
git-gui: cleanup git-bash menu item
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: background
git-gui: avoid auto_execok in do_windows_shortcut
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
git-gui: avoid auto_execok for git-bash menu item
git-gui: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
git-gui: remove unused proc is_shellscript
git-gui: remove git config --list handling for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: remove special treatment of Windows from open_cmd_pipe
git-gui: remove HEAD detachment implementation for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: use only the configured shell
git-gui: remove Tcl 8.4 workaround on 2>@1 redirection
git-gui: make _shellpath usable on startup
git-gui: use [is_Windows], not bad _shellpath
git-gui: _which, only add .exe suffix if not present
gitk: encode arguments correctly with "open"
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: command pipeline
gitk: collect construction of blameargs into a single conditional
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands, readable and writable
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands with redirections
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirect to process
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections and background
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: 'eval exec'
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
gitk: have callers of diffcmd supply pipe symbol when necessary
gitk: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
* maint-2.45:
Git 2.45.4
Git 2.44.4
Git 2.43.7
wincred: avoid buffer overflow in wcsncat()
bundle-uri: fix arbitrary file writes via parameter injection
config: quote values containing CR character
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: convert new 'cygpath' calls
git-gui: do not mistake command arguments as redirection operators
git-gui: introduce function git_redir for git calls with redirections
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to git_read
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to _open_stdout_stderr
git-gui: convert git_read*, git_write to be non-variadic
git-gui: override exec and open only on Windows
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: revisit recently updated 'open' calls
git-gui: use git_read in githook_read
git-gui: sanitize $PATH on all platforms
git-gui: break out a separate function git_read_nice
git-gui: assure PATH has only absolute elements.
git-gui: remove option --stderr from git_read
git-gui: cleanup git-bash menu item
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: background
git-gui: avoid auto_execok in do_windows_shortcut
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
git-gui: avoid auto_execok for git-bash menu item
git-gui: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
git-gui: remove unused proc is_shellscript
git-gui: remove git config --list handling for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: remove special treatment of Windows from open_cmd_pipe
git-gui: remove HEAD detachment implementation for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: use only the configured shell
git-gui: remove Tcl 8.4 workaround on 2>@1 redirection
git-gui: make _shellpath usable on startup
git-gui: use [is_Windows], not bad _shellpath
git-gui: _which, only add .exe suffix if not present
gitk: encode arguments correctly with "open"
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: command pipeline
gitk: collect construction of blameargs into a single conditional
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands, readable and writable
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands with redirections
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirect to process
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections and background
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: 'eval exec'
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
gitk: have callers of diffcmd supply pipe symbol when necessary
gitk: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
* maint-2.44:
Git 2.44.4
Git 2.43.7
wincred: avoid buffer overflow in wcsncat()
bundle-uri: fix arbitrary file writes via parameter injection
config: quote values containing CR character
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: convert new 'cygpath' calls
git-gui: do not mistake command arguments as redirection operators
git-gui: introduce function git_redir for git calls with redirections
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to git_read
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to _open_stdout_stderr
git-gui: convert git_read*, git_write to be non-variadic
git-gui: override exec and open only on Windows
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: revisit recently updated 'open' calls
git-gui: use git_read in githook_read
git-gui: sanitize $PATH on all platforms
git-gui: break out a separate function git_read_nice
git-gui: assure PATH has only absolute elements.
git-gui: remove option --stderr from git_read
git-gui: cleanup git-bash menu item
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: background
git-gui: avoid auto_execok in do_windows_shortcut
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
git-gui: avoid auto_execok for git-bash menu item
git-gui: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
git-gui: remove unused proc is_shellscript
git-gui: remove git config --list handling for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: remove special treatment of Windows from open_cmd_pipe
git-gui: remove HEAD detachment implementation for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: use only the configured shell
git-gui: remove Tcl 8.4 workaround on 2>@1 redirection
git-gui: make _shellpath usable on startup
git-gui: use [is_Windows], not bad _shellpath
git-gui: _which, only add .exe suffix if not present
gitk: encode arguments correctly with "open"
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: command pipeline
gitk: collect construction of blameargs into a single conditional
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands, readable and writable
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands with redirections
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirect to process
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections and background
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: 'eval exec'
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
gitk: have callers of diffcmd supply pipe symbol when necessary
gitk: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
* maint-2.43:
Git 2.43.7
wincred: avoid buffer overflow in wcsncat()
bundle-uri: fix arbitrary file writes via parameter injection
config: quote values containing CR character
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: convert new 'cygpath' calls
git-gui: do not mistake command arguments as redirection operators
git-gui: introduce function git_redir for git calls with redirections
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to git_read
git-gui: pass redirections as separate argument to _open_stdout_stderr
git-gui: convert git_read*, git_write to be non-variadic
git-gui: override exec and open only on Windows
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: revisit recently updated 'open' calls
git-gui: use git_read in githook_read
git-gui: sanitize $PATH on all platforms
git-gui: break out a separate function git_read_nice
git-gui: assure PATH has only absolute elements.
git-gui: remove option --stderr from git_read
git-gui: cleanup git-bash menu item
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: background
git-gui: avoid auto_execok in do_windows_shortcut
git-gui: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
git-gui: avoid auto_execok for git-bash menu item
git-gui: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
git-gui: remove unused proc is_shellscript
git-gui: remove git config --list handling for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: remove special treatment of Windows from open_cmd_pipe
git-gui: remove HEAD detachment implementation for git < 1.5.3
git-gui: use only the configured shell
git-gui: remove Tcl 8.4 workaround on 2>@1 redirection
git-gui: make _shellpath usable on startup
git-gui: use [is_Windows], not bad _shellpath
git-gui: _which, only add .exe suffix if not present
gitk: encode arguments correctly with "open"
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: command pipeline
gitk: collect construction of blameargs into a single conditional
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands, readable and writable
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands with redirections
gitk: sanitize 'open' arguments: simple commands
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirect to process
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections and background
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: redirections
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: 'eval exec'
gitk: sanitize 'exec' arguments: simple cases
gitk: have callers of diffcmd supply pipe symbol when necessary
gitk: treat file names beginning with "|" as relative paths
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
As the design of signature handling is still being discussed, it is
likely that the data stream produced by the code in Git 2.50 would
have to be changed in such a way that is not backward compatible.
Mark the feature as experimental and discourge its use for now.
Also flip the default on the generation side to "strip"; users of
existing versions would not have passed --signed-commits=strip and
will be broken by this change if the default is made to abort, and
will be encouraged by the error message to produce data stream with
future breakage guarantees by passing --signed-commits option.
As we tone down the default behaviour, we no longer need the
FAST_EXPORT_SIGNED_COMMITS_NOABORT environment variable, which was
not discoverable enough.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git receive-pack" optionally learns not to care about connectivity
check, which can be useful when the repository arranges to ensure
connectivity by some other means.
* jt/receive-pack-skip-connectivity-check:
builtin/receive-pack: add option to skip connectivity check
t5410: test receive-pack connectivity check
gitcli(7) recommends the *stuck form*. `--ref` is the only one which
does not use it.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
46538012d9 (notes remove: --stdin reads from the standard input,
2011-05-18) added `--stdin` for the `remove` subcommand, documenting it
in the “Options” section. But `copy --stdin` was added before that, in
160baa0d9c (notes: implement 'git notes copy --stdin', 2010-03-12).
Treat this option equally between the two subcommands:
• remove: mention `--stdin` on the subcommand as well, like for `copy`
• copy: mention it as well under the option documentation
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unlike `remove --stdin`, this option cannot be combined with object
names given via the command line.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clearly state when which of the regular and negated form of the
option take effect.[1]
Also mention the subtle behavior that occurs when you mix options like
`-m` and `-C`, including a note that it might be fixed in the future.
The topic was brought up on v8 of the `--separator` series.[2][3]
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqcyct1mtq.fsf@gitster.g/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq4jp326oj.fsf@gitster.g/
† 3: v11 was the version that landed
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cleaning up whitespace in metadata is typical porcelain behavior and
this default does not need to be pointed out.[1] Only speak up when
the default `--stripspace` is not used.
Also remove all misleading mentions of comment lines in the process;
see the previous commit.
Also remove the period that trails the parenthetical here.
† 1: See `-F` in git-commit(1) which has nothing to say about whitespace
cleanup. The cleanup discussion is on `--cleanup`.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document this option by copying the bullet list from git-stripspace(1).
A bullet list is cleaner when there are this many points to consider.
We also get a more standardized description of the multiple-blank-lines
behavior. Compare the repeating (git-notes(1)):
empty lines other than a single line between paragraphs
With (git-stripspace(1)):
multiple consecutive empty lines
And:
leading [...] whitespace
With:
empty lines from the beginning
Leading whitespace in the form of spaces (indentation) are not removed.
However, empty lines at the start of the message are removed.
Note that we drop the mentions of comment line handling because they are
wrong; this option does not control how lines which can be recognized as
comment lines are handled. Only interactivity controls that:
• Comment lines are stripped after editing interactively
• Lines which could be recognized as comment lines are left alone when
the message is given non-interactively
So it is misleading to document the comment line behavior on
this option.
Further, the text is wrong:
Lines starting with `#` will be stripped out in non-editor cases
like `-m`, [...]
Comment lines are still indirectly discussed on other options. We will
deal with them in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split these out so that they are easier to search for.[1]
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqcyct1mtq.fsf@gitster.g/
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mention it in parentheses since we are in a configuration context.
Refer to the default as such, not as “the” character.
Also don’t mention `#` again; just say “comment character”.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also quote `#` in line with the modern formatting convention.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code path to access the "packed-refs" file while "fsck" is
taught to mmap the file, instead of reading the whole file in the
memory.
* sj/use-mmap-to-check-packed-refs:
packed-backend: mmap large "packed-refs" file during fsck
packed-backend: extract snapshot allocation in `load_contents`
packed-backend: fsck should warn when "packed-refs" file is empty
"git merge-tree" learned an option to see if it resolves cleanly
without actually creating a result.
* en/merge-tree-check:
merge-tree: add a new --quiet flag
merge-ort: add a new mergeability_only option
Support to create a loose object file with unknown object type has
been dropped.
* jk/no-funny-object-types:
object-file: drop support for writing objects with unknown types
hash-object: handle --literally with OPT_NEGBIT
hash-object: merge HASH_* and INDEX_* flags
hash-object: stop allowing unknown types
t: add lib-loose.sh
t/helper: add zlib test-tool
oid_object_info(): drop type_name strbuf
fsck: stop using object_info->type_name strbuf
oid_object_info_convert(): stop using string for object type
cat-file: use type enum instead of buffer for -t option
object-file: drop OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE flag
cat-file: make --allow-unknown-type a noop
object-file.h: fix typo in variable declaration
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Additionally, a list of option possible values has been reformatted as a
standalone definition list.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
In order to avoid breaking the format on '<<<<<<' and '>>>>>' lines
by applying the synopsis rules to these spans, they are formatted using '+'
signs instead of '`' signs.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two "scalar" subcommands that adds a repository that hasn't been
under "scalar"'s control are taught an option not to enable the
scheduled maintenance on it.
* ds/scalar-no-maintenance:
scalar reconfigure: improve --maintenance docs
scalar reconfigure: add --maintenance=<mode> option
scalar clone: add --no-maintenance option
scalar register: add --no-maintenance option
scalar: customize register_dir()'s behavior
Clarify what happens when an object exists in more than one pack, but
not in the preferred pack. "git multi-pack-index repack" relies on ties
for objects that are not in the preferred pack being resolved in favor
of the newest pack that contains a copy of the object. If ties were
resolved in favor of the oldest pack as the current documentation
suggests the multi-pack index would not reference any of the objects in
the pack created by "git multi-pack-index repack".
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --no-index option of git-diff enables using the diff machinery from
git while operating outside of a repository. This mode of git diff is
able to compare directories and produce a diff of their contents.
When operating git diff in a repository, git has the notion of
"pathspecs" which can specify which files to compare. In particular,
when using git to diff two trees, you might invoke:
$ git diff-tree -r <treeish1> <treeish2>.
where the treeish could point to a subdirectory of the repository.
When invoked this way, users can limit the selected paths of the tree by
using a pathspec. Either by providing some list of paths to accept, or
by removing paths via a negative refspec.
The git diff --no-index mode does not support pathspecs, and cannot
limit the diff output in this way. Other diff programs such as GNU
difftools have options for excluding paths based on a pattern match.
However, using git diff as a diff replacement has several advantages
over many popular diff tools, including coloring moved lines, rename
detections, and similar.
Teach git diff --no-index how to handle pathspecs to limit the
comparisons. This will only be supported if both provided paths are
directories.
For comparisons where one path isn't a directory, the --no-index mode
already has some DWIM shortcuts implemented in the fixup_paths()
function.
Modify the fixup_paths function to return 1 if both paths are
directories. If this is the case, interpret any extra arguments to git
diff as pathspecs via parse_pathspec.
Use parse_pathspec to load the remaining arguments (if any) to git diff
--no-index as pathspec items. Disable PATHSPEC_ATTR support since we do
not have a repository to do attribute lookup. Disable PATHSPEC_FROMTOP
since we do not have a repository root. All pathspecs are treated as
rooted at the provided comparison paths.
After loading the pathspec data, calculate skip offsets for skipping
past the root portion of the paths. This is required to ensure that
pathspecs start matching from the provided path, rather than matching
from the absolute path. We could instead pass the paths as prefix values
to parse_pathspec. This is slightly problematic because the paths come
from the command line and don't necessarily have the proper trailing
slash. Additionally, that would require parsing pathspecs multiple
times.
Pass the pathspec object and the skip offsets into queue_diff, which
in-turn must pass them along to read_directory_contents.
Modify read_directory_contents to check against the pathspecs when
scanning the directory. Use the skip offset to skip past the initial
root of the path, and only match against portions that are below the
intended directory structure being compared.
The search algorithm for finding paths is recursive with read_dir. To
make pathspec matching work properly, we must set both
DO_MATCH_DIRECTORY and DO_MATCH_LEADING_PATHSPEC.
Without DO_MATCH_DIRECTORY, paths like "a/b/c/d" will not match against
pathspecs like "a/b/c". This is usually achieved by setting the is_dir
parameter of match_pathspec.
Without DO_MATCH_LEADING_PATHSPEC, paths like "a/b/c" would not match
against pathspecs like "a/b/c/d". This is crucial because we recursively
iterate down the directories. We could simply avoid checking pathspecs
at subdirectories, but this would force recursion down directories
which would simply be skipped.
If we always passed DO_MATCH_LEADING_PATHSPEC, then we will
incorrectly match in certain cases such as matching 'a/c' against
':(glob)**/d'. The match logic will see that a matches the leading part
of the **/ and accept this even tho c doesn't match.
To avoid this, use the match_leading_pathspec() variant recently
introduced. This sets both flags when is_dir is set, but leaves them
both cleared when is_dir is 0.
Add test cases and documentation covering the new functionality. Note
for the documentation I opted not to move the placement of '--' which is
sometimes used to disambiguate arguments. The diff --no-index mode
requires exactly 2 arguments determining what to compare. Any additional
arguments are interpreted as pathspecs and must come afterwards. Use of
'--' would not actually disambiguate anything, since there will never be
ambiguity over which arguments represent paths or pathspecs.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During git-receive-pack(1), connectivity of the object graph is
validated to ensure that the received packfile does not leave the
repository in a broken state. This is done via git-rev-list(1) and
walking the objects, which can be expensive for large repositories.
Generally, this check is critical to avoid an incomplete received
packfile from corrupting a repository. Server operators may have
additional knowledge though around exactly how Git is being used on the
server-side which can be used to facilitate more efficient connectivity
computation of incoming objects.
For example, if it can be ensured that all objects in a repository are
connected and do not depend on any missing objects, the connectivity of
newly written objects can be checked by walking the object graph
containing only the new objects from the updated tips and identifying
the missing objects which represent the boundary between the new objects
and the repository. These boundary objects can be checked in the
canonical repository to ensure the new objects connect as expected and
thus avoid walking the rest of the object graph.
Git itself cannot make the guarantees required for such an optimization
as it is possible for a repository to contain an unreachable object that
references a missing object without the repository being considered
corrupt.
Introduce the --skip-connectivity-check option for git-receive-pack(1)
which bypasses this connectivity check to give more control to the
server-side. Note that without proper server-side validation of newly
received objects handled outside of Git, usage of this option risks
corrupting a repository.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `send-email` documentation has been updated with OAuth2.0
related examples.
* ag/doc-send-email:
docs: add credential helper for outlook and gmail in OAuth list of helpers
docs: improve send-email documentation
send-mail: improve checks for valid_fqdn
Bundle-URI feature did not use refs recorded in the bundle other
than normal branches as anchoring points to optimize the follow-up
fetch during "git clone"; now it is told to utilize all.
* sc/bundle-uri-use-all-refs-in-bundle:
bundle-uri: add test for bundle-uri clones with tags
bundle-uri: copy all bundle references ino the refs/bundle space
Since this document was written, the built-in API has been
updated a few times, but the document was left stale.
Adjust to the current best practices by calling repo_config() on the
repository instance the subcommand implementation receives as a
parameter, instead of calling git_config() that used to be the
common practice.
Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sample program, as written, would no longer build for at least two
reasons:
- Since this document was first written, the convention to call a
subcommand implementation has changed, and cmd_psuh() now needs
to accept the fourth parameter, repository.
- These days, compiler warning options for developers include one
that detects and complains about unused parameters, so ones that
are deliberately unused have to be marked as such.
Update the old-style examples to adjust to the current practices,
with explanations as needed.
Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-mentoring group was initially created to help newcomers
with their development itches. However, in practice,
most of their questions were already being addressed
directly on the mailing list, and contributors consistently
received helpful responses there.
Remove the mentoring group details from the Documentation.
Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git Forges may be interested in whether two branches can be merged while
not being interested in what the resulting merge tree is nor which files
conflicted. For such cases, add a new --quiet flag which
will make use of the new mergeability_only flag added to merge-ort in
the previous commit. This option allows the merge machinery to, in the
outer layer of the merge:
* exit early when a conflict is detected
* avoid writing (most) merged blobs/trees to the object store
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for allowing both the --shallow and --path-walk options
in the 'git pack-objects' builtin, create a new 'edge_aggressive' option
in the path-walk API. This option will help walk the boundary more
thoroughly and help avoid sending extra objects during fetches and
pushes.
The only use of the 'edge_hint_aggressive' option in the revision API is
within mark_edges_uninteresting(), which is usually called before
between prepare_revision_walk() and before visiting commits with
get_revision(). In prepare_revision_walk(), the UNINTERESTING commits
are walked until a boundary is found.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users may want to enable the --path-walk option for 'git pack-objects' by
default, especially underneath commands like 'git push' or 'git repack'.
This should be limited to client repositories, since the --path-walk option
disables bitmap walks, so would be bad to include in Git servers when
serving fetches and clones. There is potential that it may be helpful to
consider when repacking the repository, to take advantage of improved deltas
across historical versions of the same files.
Much like how "pack.useSparse" was introduced and included in
"feature.experimental" before being enabled by default, use the repository
settings infrastructure to make the new "pack.usePathWalk" config enabled by
"feature.experimental" and "feature.manyFiles".
In order to test that this config works, add a new trace2 region around
the path walk code that can be checked by a 'git push' command.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 'git pack-objects' supports a --path-walk option, allow passing it
through in 'git repack'. This presents interesting testing opportunities for
comparing the different repacking strategies against each other.
Add the --path-walk option to the performance tests in p5313.
For the microsoft/fluentui repo [1] checked out at a specific commit [2],
the --path-walk tests in p5313 look like this:
Test this tree
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
5313.18: thin pack with --path-walk 0.08(0.06+0.02)
5313.19: thin pack size with --path-walk 18.4K
5313.20: big pack with --path-walk 2.10(7.80+0.26)
5313.21: big pack size with --path-walk 19.8M
5313.22: shallow fetch pack with --path-walk 1.62(3.38+0.17)
5313.23: shallow pack size with --path-walk 33.6M
5313.24: repack with --path-walk 81.29(96.08+0.71)
5313.25: repack size with --path-walk 142.5M
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui
[2] e70848ebac1cd720875bccaa3026f4a9ed700e08
Along with the earlier tests in p5313, I'll instead reformat the
comparison as follows:
Repack Method Pack Size Time
---------------------------------------
Hash v1 439.4M 87.24s
Hash v2 161.7M 21.51s
Path Walk 142.5M 81.29s
There are a few things to notice here:
1. The benefits of --name-hash-version=2 over --name-hash-version=1 are
significant, but --path-walk still compresses better than that
option.
2. The --path-walk command is still using --name-hash-version=1 for the
second pass of delta computation, using the increased name hash
collisions as a potential method for opportunistic compression on
top of the path-focused compression.
3. The --path-walk algorithm is currently sequential and does not use
multiple threads for delta compression. Threading will be
implemented in a future change so the computation time will improve
to better compete in this metric.
There are small benefits in size for my copy of the Git repository:
Repack Method Pack Size Time
---------------------------------------
Hash v1 248.8M 30.44s
Hash v2 249.0M 30.15s
Path Walk 213.2M 142.50s
As well as in the nodejs/node repository [3]:
Repack Method Pack Size Time
---------------------------------------
Hash v1 739.9M 71.18s
Hash v2 764.6M 67.82s
Path Walk 698.1M 208.10s
[3] https://github.com/nodejs/node
This benefit also repeats in my copy of the Linux kernel repository:
Repack Method Pack Size Time
---------------------------------------
Hash v1 2.5G 554.41s
Hash v2 2.5G 549.62s
Path Walk 2.2G 1562.36s
It is important to see that even when the repository shape does not have
many name-hash collisions, there is a slight space boost to be found
using this method.
As this repacking strategy was released in Git for Windows 2.47.0, some
users have reported cases where the --path-walk compression is slightly
worse than the --name-hash-version=2 option. In those cases, it may be
beneficial to combine the two options. However, there has not been a
released version of Git that has both options and I don't have access to
these repos for testing.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The t0450 test script verifies that builtin usage matches the synopsis
in the documentation. Adjust the builtin to match and then remove 'git
pack-objects' from the exception list.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to more easily compute delta bases among objects that appear at
the exact same path, add a --path-walk option to 'git pack-objects'.
This option will use the path-walk API instead of the object walk given
by the revision machinery. Since objects will be provided in batches
representing a common path, those objects can be tested for delta bases
immediately instead of waiting for a sort of the full object list by
name-hash. This has multiple benefits, including avoiding collisions by
name-hash.
The objects marked as UNINTERESTING are included in these batches, so we
are guaranteeing some locality to find good delta bases.
After the individual passes are done on a per-path basis, the default
name-hash is used to find other opportunistic delta bases that did not
match exactly by the full path name.
The current implementation performs delta calculations while walking
objects, which is not ideal for a few reasons. First, this will cause
the "Enumerating objects" phase to be much longer than usual. Second, it
does not take advantage of threading during the path-scoped delta
calculations. Even with this lack of threading, the path-walk option is
sometimes faster than the usual approach. Future changes will refactor
this code to allow for threading, but that complexity is deferred until
later to keep this patch as simple as possible.
This new walk is incompatible with some features and is ignored by
others:
* Object filters are not currently integrated with the path-walk API,
such as sparse-checkout or tree depth. A blobless packfile could be
integrated easily, but that is deferred for later.
* Server-focused features such as delta islands, shallow packs, and
using a bitmap index are incompatible with the path-walk API.
* The path walk API is only compatible with the --revs option, not
taking object lists or pack lists over stdin. These alternative ways
to specify the objects currently ignores the --path-walk option
without even a warning.
Future changes will create performance tests that demonstrate the power
of this approach.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cat-file command has some minor support for handling objects with
"unknown" types. I.e., strings that are not "blob", "commit", "tree", or
"tag".
In theory this could be used for debugging or experimenting with
extensions to Git. But in practice this support is not very useful:
1. You can get the type and size of such objects, but nothing else.
Not even the contents!
2. Only loose objects are supported, since packfiles use numeric ids
for the types, rather than strings.
3. Likewise you cannot ever transfer objects between repositories,
because they cannot be represented in the packfiles used for the
on-the-wire protocol.
The support for these unknown types complicates the object-parsing code,
and has led to bugs such as b748ddb7a4 (unpack_loose_header(): fix
infinite loop on broken zlib input, 2025-02-25). So let's drop it.
The first step is to remove the user-facing parts, which are accessible
only via cat-file. This is technically backwards-incompatible, but given
the limitations listed above, these objects couldn't possibly be useful
in any workflow.
However, we can't just rip out the option entirely. That would hurt a
caller who ran:
git cat-file -t --allow-unknown-object <oid>
and fed it normal, well-formed objects. There --allow-unknown-type was
doing nothing, but we wouldn't want to start bailing with an error. So
to protect any such callers, we'll retain --allow-unknown-type as a
noop.
The code change is fairly small (but we'll able to clean up more code in
follow-on patches). The test updates drop any use of the option. We
still retain tests that feed the broken objects to cat-file without
--allow-unknown-type, as we should continue to confirm that those
objects are rejected. Note that in one spot we can drop a layer of loop,
re-indenting the body; viewing the diff with "-w" helps there.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make repository clean-up tasks "gc" can do available to "git
maintenance" front-end.
* ps/maintenance-missing-tasks:
builtin/maintenance: introduce "rerere-gc" task
builtin/gc: move rerere garbage collection into separate function
builtin/maintenance: introduce "worktree-prune" task
builtin/gc: move pruning of worktrees into a separate function
builtin/gc: remove global variables where it is trivial to do
builtin/gc: fix indentation of `cmd_gc()` parameters
We assume the "packed-refs" won't be empty and instead has at least one
line in it (even when there are no refs packed, there is the file header
line). Because there is no terminating LF in the empty file, we will
report "packedRefEntryNotTerminated(ERROR)" to the user.
However, the runtime code paths would accept an empty "packed-refs"
file, for example, "create_snapshot" would simply return the "snapshot"
without checking the content of "packed-refs". So, we should skip
checking the content of "packed-refs" when it is empty during fsck.
After 694b7a1999 (repack_without_ref(): write peeled refs in the
rewritten file, 2013-04-22), we would always write a header into the
"packed-refs" file. So, versions of Git that are not too ancient never
write such an empty "packed-refs" file.
As an empty file often indicates a sign of a filesystem-level issue, the
way we want to resolve this inconsistency is not make everybody totally
silent but notice and report the anomaly.
Let's create a "FSCK_INFO" message id "EMPTY_PACKED_REFS_FILE" to report
to the users that "packed-refs" is empty.
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --maintenance option for 'scalar reconfigure' has three possible
values. Improve the documentation by specifying the option in the -h
help menu and usage information.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This can be squashed into the previous step. That is how our "git
pack-redundant" conversion did.
Theoretically, however, those who want to gauge the need to keep the
command by exposing their users to patches before this one may want
to wait until their experiment finishes before they formally say
"this will go away".
This change is made into a separate patch from the previous step
precisely to help those folks.
While at it, update the documentation page to use the new [synopsis]
facility to mark-up the SYNOPSIS part.
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
[en: typofix]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we made "git whatchanged" require "--i-still-use-this" and asked
the users to report if they still want to use it, the logical next
step is to allow us build Git without "whatchanged" to prepare for
its eventual removal.
If we were to follow the pattern established in 8ccc75c2 (remote:
announce removal of "branches/" and "remotes/", 2025-01-22), we can
do this together with the documentation update to officially list
that the command will be removed in the BreakingChanges document,
but let's just keep the changes separate just in case we want to
proceed a bit slower.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update send-email to work better with Outlook's smtp server.
* ag/send-email-outlook:
send-email: add --[no-]outlook-id-fix option
send-email: retrieve Message-ID from outlook SMTP server
Some documentation examples reference "whatchanged", either as a
placeholder command or an example of source structure.
To reduce the need for future edits when `whatchanged` is removed,
replace these references with alternatives:
- In `MyFirstObjectWalk.adoc`, use `version` as the nearby anchor
point for `walken`, instead of `whatchanged`.
- In `user-manual.adoc`, cite `show` instead of `whatchanged` as
a command whose source lives in the same file as `log`.
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
[en: log message]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When refering to environment variables in the documentation, use the
ENV_VARIABLE format instead of $ENV_VARIABLE. The latter is used in the
documentation to refer to the actual value of the variable, not the name
of the variable.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To unify mark-up used in our documentation to a newer convention,
started by 22293895 (doc: apply synopsis simplification on git-clone
and git-init, 2024-09-24), update the documentation pages for 'git
verify-commit', 'git verify-tag', and 'git verify-pack' to
* use [synopsis], not [verse] in the SYNOPSIS section
* enclose `--option=<value>` in backquotes
* do not describe non-option arguments in the OPTIONS section
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To unify mark-up used in our documentation to a newer convention,
started by 22293895 (doc: apply synopsis simplification on git-clone
and git-init, 2024-09-24), update the documentation for 'git var' and
'git write-tree' to
* use [synopsis], not [verse] in the SYNOPSIS section
* enclose `--option=<value>` in backquotes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To unify mark-up used in our documentation to a newer convention,
started by 22293895 (doc: apply synopsis simplification on git-clone
and git-init, 2024-09-24), update the documentation of 'git daemon'
to
* use [synopsis], not [verse] in the SYNOPSIS section
* enclose `--option=<value>` in backquotes
Also, split '--[no-]option' into '--option' and '--no-option'
to make it easier to grep for them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit adds the `git-credential-outlook` and `git-credential-gmail`
helpers to the list of OAuth helpers.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
OAuth2.0 is a new authentication method that is being used by many email
providers, including Outlook and Gmail. Recently, the Authen::SASL perl
module has been updated to support OAuth2.0 authentication, thus making
the git-send-email script be able to use this authentication method as
well. So lets improve the documentation to reflect this change.
I also had a hard time finding a reliable OAuth2.0 access token
generator for Outlook and Gmail. So I added a link to the such
generators which I developed myself after seaching through lots of code
and API documentation to make things easier for others.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When users want to enable the latest and greatest configuration options
recommended by Scalar after a Git upgrade, 'scalar reconfigure --all' is
a great option that iterates over all repos in the multi-valued
'scalar.repos' config key.
However, this feature previously forced users to enable background
maintenance. In some environments this is not preferred.
Add a new --maintenance=<mode> option to 'scalar reconfigure' that
provides options for enabling (default), disabling, or leaving
background maintenance config as-is.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When creating a new enlistment via 'scalar clone', the default is to set
up situations that work for most user scenarios. Background maintenance
is one of those highly-recommended options for most users.
However, when using 'scalar clone' to create an enlistment in a
different situation, such as prepping a VM image, it may be valuable to
disable background maintenance so the manual maintenance steps do not
get blocked by concurrent background maintenance activities.
Add a new --no-maintenance option to 'scalar clone'.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When registering a repository with Scalar to get the latest opinionated
configuration, the 'scalar register' command will also set up background
maintenance. This is a recommended feature for most user scenarios.
However, this is not always recommended in some scenarios where
background modifications may interfere with foreground activities.
Specifically, setting up a clone for use in automation may require doing
certain maintenance steps in the foreground that could become blocked by
concurrent background maintenance operations.
Allow the user to specify --no-maintenance to 'scalar register'. This
requires updating the method prototype for register_dir(), so use the
default of enabling this value when otherwise specified.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While git-gc(1) knows to garbage collect the rerere cache,
git-maintenance(1) does not yet have a task for this cleanup. Introduce
a new "rerere-gc" task to plug this gap.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While git-gc(1) knows to prune stale worktrees, git-maintenance(1) does
not yet have a task for this cleanup. Introduce a new "worktree-prune"
task to plug this gap.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
7b399322a2 (doc: apply new format to git-branch man page, 2025-03-19)
updated the formatting for this doc to, among other things, use backtick
for some elements. In the process `è` was used by accident instead
of backtick.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tilde (~) count doesn’t match the length of the heading. In turn
you get a bunch of `<sub>~</sub>` instead of the intended `<h3>` in the
HTML output.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reduce requirement for Perl in our documentation build and a few
scripts.
* ps/fewer-perl:
Documentation: stop depending on Perl to generate command list
Documentation: stop depending on Perl to massage user manual
request-pull: stop depending on Perl
filter-branch: stop depending on Perl
Overhaul of the reftable API.
* ps/reftable-api-revamp:
reftable/table: move printing logic into test helper
reftable/constants: make block types part of the public interface
reftable/table: introduce iterator for table blocks
reftable/table: add `reftable_table` to the public interface
reftable/block: expose a generic iterator over reftable records
reftable/block: make block iterators reseekable
reftable/block: store block pointer in the block iterator
reftable/block: create public interface for reading blocks
git-zlib: use `struct z_stream_s` instead of typedef
reftable/block: rename `block_reader` to `reftable_block`
reftable/block: rename `block` to `block_data`
reftable/table: move reading block into block reader
reftable/block: simplify how we track restart points
reftable/blocksource: consolidate code into a single file
reftable/reader: rename data structure to "table"
reftable: fix formatting of the license header
Add an option to allow users to specifically enable or disable
retrieving the Message-ID from the Outlook SMTP server. This can be used
for other hosts mimicking the behaviour of Outlook, or for users who set
a custom domain to be a CNAME for the Outlook SMTP server.
While at it, lets also add missing * in description of --no-smtp-auth.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When downloading bundles via the bundle-uri functionality, we only copy the
references from refs/heads into the refs/bundle space. I'm not sure why this
refspec is hardcoded to be so limited, but it makes the ref negotiation on
the subsequent fetch suboptimal, since it won't use objects that are
referenced outside of the current heads of the bundled repository.
This change to copy everything in refs/ in the bundle to refs/bundles/
significantly helps the subsequent fetch, since nearly all the references
are now included in the negotiation.
The update to the bundle-uri unbundling refspec puts all the heads from a
bundle file into refs/bundle/heads instead of directly into refs/bundle/ so
the tests also need to be updated to look in the new heirarchy.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various build tweaks, including CSPRNG selection on some platforms.
* rj/build-tweaks:
config.mak.uname: set CSPRNG_METHOD to getrandom on Linux
config.mak.uname: add arc4random to the cygwin build
config.mak.uname: add sysinfo() configuration for cygwin
builtin/gc.c: correct RAM calculation when using sysinfo
config.mak.uname: add clock_gettime() to the cygwin build
config.mak.uname: add HAVE_GETDELIM to the cygwin section
config.mak.uname: only set NO_REGEX on cygwin for v1.7
config.mak.uname: add a note about NO_STRLCPY for Linux
Makefile: remove NEEDS_LIBRT build variable
meson.build: set default help format to html on windows
meson.build: only set build variables for non-default values
Makefile: only set some BASIC_CFLAGS when RUNTIME_PREFIX is set
meson.build: remove -DCURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK
Update parse-options API to catch mistakes to pass address of an
integral variable of a wrong type/size.
* ps/parse-options-integers:
parse-options: detect mismatches in integer signedness
parse-options: introduce precision handling for `OPTION_UNSIGNED`
parse-options: introduce precision handling for `OPTION_INTEGER`
parse-options: rename `OPT_MAGNITUDE()` to `OPT_UNSIGNED()`
parse-options: support unit factors in `OPT_INTEGER()`
global: use designated initializers for options
parse: fix off-by-one for minimum signed values
Document the convention to disable hooks altogether by setting the
hooksPath configuration variable to /dev/nulll
* ds/doc-disable-hooks:
docs: document core.hooksPath=/dev/null
Doc mark-up updates.
* ja/doc-reset-mv-rm-markup-updates:
doc: add markup for characters in Guidelines
doc: fix asciidoctor synopsis processing of triple-dots
doc: convert git-mv to new documentation format
doc: move synopsis git-mv commands in the synopsis section
doc: convert git-rm to new documentation format
doc: fix synopsis analysis logic
doc: convert git-reset to new documentation format
Remove remnants of the recursive merge strategy backend, which was
superseded by the ort merge strategy.
* en/merge-recursive-debug:
builtin/{merge,rebase,revert}: remove GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM
tests: remove GIT_TEST_MERGE_ALGORITHM and test_expect_merge_algorithm
merge-recursive.[ch]: thoroughly debug these
merge, sequencer: switch recursive merges over to ort
sequencer: switch non-recursive merges over to ort
merge-ort: enable diff-algorithms other than histogram
builtin/merge-recursive: switch to using merge_ort_generic()
checkout: replace merge_trees() with merge_ort_nonrecursive()
"git blame --porcelain" mode now talks about unblamable lines and
lines that are blamed to an ignored commit.
* kn/blame-porcelain-unblamable:
blame: print unblamable and ignored commits in porcelain mode
"git fetch [<remote>]" with only the configured fetch refspec
should be the only thing to update refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD,
but the code was overly eager to do so in other cases.
* jk/fetch-follow-remote-head-fix:
fetch: make set_head() call easier to read
fetch: don't ask for remote HEAD if followRemoteHEAD is "never"
fetch: only respect followRemoteHEAD with configured refspecs
With the preceding commit, `OPT_INTEGER()` has learned to support unit
factors. Consequently, the major differencen between `OPT_INTEGER()` and
`OPT_MAGNITUDE()` isn't the support of unit factors anymore, as both of
them do support them now. Instead, the difference is that one handles
signed and the other handles unsigned integers.
Adapt the name of `OPT_MAGNITUDE()` accordingly by renaming it to
`OPT_UNSIGNED()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two main differences between `OPT_INTEGER()` and
`OPT_MAGNITUDE()`:
- The former parses signed integers whereas the latter parses unsigned
integers.
- The latter parses unit factors like 'k', 'm' or 'g'.
While the first difference makes obvious sense, there isn't really a
good reason why signed integers shouldn't support unit factors, too.
This inconsistency will also become a bit of a problem with subsequent
commits, where we will fix a couple of callsites that pass an unsigned
integer to `OPT_INTEGER()`. There are three options:
- We could adapt those users to instead pass a signed integer, but
this would needlessly extend the range of accepted integer values.
- We could convert them to use `OPT_MAGNITUDE()`, as it only accepts
unsigned integers. But now we have the inconsistency that we also
start to accept unit factors.
- We could introduce `OPT_UNSIGNED()` as equivalent to `OPT_INTEGER()`
so that it knows to only accept unsigned integers without unit
suffix.
Introducing a whole new option type feels a bit excessive. There also
isn't really a good reason why `OPT_INTEGER()` cannot be extended to
also accept unit factors: all valid values passed to such options cannot
have a unit factors right now, so there wouldn't be any ambiguity.
Refactor `OPT_INTEGER()` to use `git_parse_int()`, which knows to
interpret unit factors. This removes the inconsistency between the
signed and unsigned options so that we can easily fix up callsites that
pass the wrong integer type right now.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some preprocessor -Defines have defaults set in the source code when
they have not been provided to the C compiler. In this case, there is
no need to pass them on the command-line, unless the build requires a
non-standard value.
The build variables for DEFAULT_EDITOR and DEFAULT_PAGER have appropriate
defaults ('vi' and 'less') set in the code. Add the preprocessor -Defines
to the 'libgit_c_args' only if the values set with the corresponding
'options' are different to these standard values.
Also, the 'git-var' documentation contains some conditional text which
documents the chosen compiled in value, which would not read well for
the standard values. Similar to the above, only add the corresponding
'-a' attribute arguments to the 'asciidoc_common_options' variable, if
the values set in the 'options' are different to these standard values.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cat-file --batch" and friends learned to allow "--filter=" to
omit certain objects, just like the transport layer does.
* ps/cat-file-filter-batch:
builtin/cat-file: use bitmaps to efficiently filter by object type
builtin/cat-file: deduplicate logic to iterate over all objects
pack-bitmap: introduce function to check whether a pack is bitmapped
pack-bitmap: add function to iterate over filtered bitmapped objects
pack-bitmap: allow passing payloads to `show_reachable_fn()`
builtin/cat-file: support "object:type=" objects filter
builtin/cat-file: support "blob:limit=" objects filter
builtin/cat-file: support "blob:none" objects filter
builtin/cat-file: wire up an option to filter objects
builtin/cat-file: introduce function to report object status
builtin/cat-file: rename variable that tracks usage
"git help --build-options" reports SHA-1 and SHA-256 backends used
in the build.
* jt/help-sha-backend-info-in-build-options:
help: include unsafe SHA-1 build info in version
help: include SHA implementation in version info
Updating multiple references have only been possible in all-or-none
fashion with transactions, but it can be more efficient to batch
multiple updates even when some of them are allowed to fail in a
best-effort manner. A new "best effort batches of updates" mode
has been introduced.
* kn/non-transactional-batch-updates:
update-ref: add --batch-updates flag for stdin mode
refs: support rejection in batch updates during F/D checks
refs: implement batch reference update support
refs: introduce enum-based transaction error types
refs/reftable: extract code from the transaction preparation
refs/files: remove duplicate duplicates check
refs: move duplicate refname update check to generic layer
refs/files: remove redundant check in split_symref_update()
"git rev-list" learns machine-parsable output format that delimits
each field with NUL.
* jt/rev-list-z:
rev-list: support NUL-delimited --missing option
rev-list: support NUL-delimited --boundary option
rev-list: support delimiting objects with NUL bytes
rev-list: refactor early option parsing
rev-list: inline `show_object_with_name()` in `show_object()`
Random build fixes.
* ps/misc-build-fixes:
ci: use Visual Studio for win+meson job on GitHub Workflows
meson: distinguish build and target host binaries
meson: respect 'tests' build option in contrib
gitweb: fix generation of "gitweb.js"
meson: fix handling of '-Dcurl=auto'
If a user wishes to disable hooks, then they can do so using the
established pattern of setting 'core.hooksPath' to /dev/null. This is
already tested in t1350-config-hooks-path.sh, but has not previously
been visible in the documentation.
Update the documentation to include this as an option.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "cmd-list.perl" script is used to extract the list of commands part
of a specific category and extracts the description of each command from
its respective manpage. The generated output is then included in git(1)
to list all Git commands.
The script is written in Perl. Refactor it to use shell scripting
exclusively so that we can get rid of the mandatory dependency on Perl
to build our documentation.
The converted script is slower compared to its Perl implementation. But
by being careful and not spawning external commands in `format_one ()`
we can mitigate the performance hit to a reasonable level:
Benchmark 1: Perl
Time (mean ± σ): 10.3 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 7.0 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 10.0 ms … 11.1 ms 200 runs
Benchmark 2: Shell
Time (mean ± σ): 74.4 ms ± 0.4 ms [User: 48.6 ms, System: 24.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 73.1 ms … 75.5 ms 200 runs
Summary
Perl ran
7.23 ± 0.13 times faster than Shell
While a sevenfold slowdown is significant, the benefit of not requiring
Perl for a fully-functioning Git installation outweighs waiting a couple
of milliseconds longer during the build process.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "fix-texi.perl" script is used to fix up the output of
`docbook2x-texi`:
- It changes the filename to be "git.info".
- It changes the directory category and entry.
The script is written in Perl, but it can be rather trivially converted
to a shell script. Do so to remove the dependency on Perl for building
the user manual.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The job to coalesce loose objects into packfiles in "git
maintenance" now has configurable batch size.
* ds/maintenance-loose-objects-batchsize:
maintenance: add loose-objects.batchSize config
maintenance: force progress/no-quiet to children
"git reflog" learns "drop" subcommand, that discards the entire
reflog data for a ref.
* kn/reflog-drop:
reflog: implement subcommand to drop reflogs
reflog: improve error for when reflog is not found
This rule was already implicitely applied in the converted man pages,
so let's state it loudly.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The processing of triple dot notation is tricky because it can be
mis-interpreted as an ellipsis. The special processing of the ellipsis
is now complete and takes into account the case of
`git-mv <source>... <dest>`
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Unfortunately, there's an inconsistency in the synopsis style, where
the ellipsis is used to indicate that the option can be repeated, but
it can also be used in Git's three-dot notation to indicate a range of
commits. The rendering engine will not be able to distinguish
between these two cases.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This also entails changing the help output for the command to match the new
synopsis.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The synopsis analysis logic was not able to handle backslashes and stars
which are used in the synopsis of the git-rm command. This patch fixes the
issue by updating the regular expression used to match the keywords.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As a wise man once told me, "Deleted code is debugged code!" So, move
the functions that are shared between merge-recursive and merge-ort from
the former to the latter, and then debug the remainder of
merge-recursive.[ch].
Joking aside, merge-ort was always intended to replace merge-recursive.
It has numerous advantages over merge-recursive (operates much faster,
can operate without a worktree or index, and fixes a number of known
bugs and suboptimal merges). Since we have now replaced all callers of
merge-recursive with equivalent functions from merge-ort, move the
shared functions from the former to the latter, and delete the remainder
of merge-recursive.[ch].
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ort merge strategy has always used the histogram diff algorithm.
The recursive merge strategy, in contrast, defaults to the myers
diff algorithm, while allowing it to be changed.
Change the ort merge strategy to allow different diff algorithms, by
removing the hard coded value in merge_start() and instead just making
it a default in init_merge_options(). Technically, this also changes
the default diff algorithm for the recursive backend too, but we're
going to remove the final callers of the recursive backend in the next
two commits.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Incrementally updating multi-pack index files.
* tb/incremental-midx-part-2:
midx: implement writing incremental MIDX bitmaps
pack-bitmap.c: use `ewah_or_iterator` for type bitmap iterators
pack-bitmap.c: keep track of each layer's type bitmaps
ewah: implement `struct ewah_or_iterator`
pack-bitmap.c: apply pseudo-merge commits with incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: compute disk-usage with incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: teach `rev-list --test-bitmap` about incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: support bitmap pack-reuse with incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: teach `show_objects_for_type()` about incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: teach `bitmap_for_commit()` about incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: open and store incremental bitmap layers
pack-revindex: prepare for incremental MIDX bitmaps
Documentation: describe incremental MIDX bitmaps
Documentation: remove a "future work" item from the MIDX docs
TCP keepalive behaviour on http transports can now be configured by
calling cURL library.
* tb/http-curl-keepalive:
http.c: allow custom TCP keepalive behavior via config
http.c: inline `set_curl_keepalive()`
http.c: introduce `set_long_from_env()` for convenience
http.c: remove unnecessary casts to long
When updating multiple references through stdin, Git's update-ref
command normally aborts the entire transaction if any single update
fails. This atomic behavior prevents partial updates. Introduce a new
batch update system, where the updates the performed together similar
but individual updates are allowed to fail.
Add a new `--batch-updates` flag that allows the transaction to continue
even when individual reference updates fail. This flag can only be used
in `--stdin` mode and builds upon the batch update support added to the
refs subsystem in the previous commits. When enabled, failed updates are
reported in the following format:
rejected SP (<old-oid> | <old-target>) SP (<new-oid> | <new-target>) SP <rejection-reason> LF
Update the documentation to reflect this change and also tests to cover
different scenarios where an update could be rejected.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, git-maintenance(1) uses the "gc" task to ensure that the
repository is well-maintained. This can be changed, for example by
either explicitly configuring which tasks should be enabled or by using
the "incremental" maintenance strategy. If so, git-maintenance(1) does
not know to expire reflog entries, which is a subtask that git-gc(1)
knows to perform for the user. Consequently, the reflog will grow
indefinitely unless the user manually trims it.
Introduce a new "reflog-expire" task that plugs this gap:
- When running the task directly, then we simply execute `git reflog
expire --all`, which is the same as git-gc(1).
- When running git-maintenance(1) with the `--auto` flag, then we only
run the task in case the "HEAD" reflog has at least N reflog entries
that would be discarded. By default, N is set to 100, but this can
be configured via "maintenance.reflog-expire.auto". When a negative
integer has been provided we always expire entries, zero causes us
to never expire entries, and a positive value specifies how many
entries need to exist before we consider pruning the entries.
Note that the condition for the `--auto` flags is merely a heuristic and
optimized for being fast. This is because `git maintenance run --auto`
will be executed quite regularly, so scanning through all reflogs would
likely be too expensive in many repositories.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Throughout the Git codebase we're using the typedeffed version of
`z_stream`, which maps to `struct z_stream_s`. By using a typedef
instead of the struct it becomes somewhat harder to predeclare the
symbol so that headers depending on the struct can do so without having
to pull in "zlib-compat.h".
We don't yet have users that would really care about this: the only
users that declare `z_stream` as a pointer are in "reftable/block.h",
which is a header that is internal to the reftable library. But in the
next step we're going to expose the `struct reftable_block` publicly,
and that struct does contain a pointer to `z_stream`. And as the public
header shouldn't depend on "reftable/system.h", which is an internal
implementation detail, we won't have the typedef for `z_stream` readily
available.
Prepare for this change by using `struct z_stream_s` throughout our code
base. In case zlib-ng is used we use a define to map from `z_stream_s`
to `zng_stream_s`.
Drop the pre-declaration of `struct z_stream` while at it. This struct
does not exist in the first place, and the declaration wasn't needed
because "reftable/block.h" already includes "reftable/basics.h" which
transitively includes "reftable/system.h" and thus "git-zlib.h".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git-blame(1)' command allows users to ignore specific revisions via
the '--ignore-rev <rev>' and '--ignore-revs-file <file>' flags. These
flags are often combined with the 'blame.markIgnoredLines' and
'blame.markUnblamableLines' config options. These config options prefix
ignored and unblamable lines with a '?' and '*', respectively.
However, this option was never extended to the porcelain mode of
'git-blame(1)'. Since the documentation does not indicate this
exclusion, it is a bug.
Fix this by printing 'ignored' and 'unblamable' respectively for the
options when using the porcelain modes.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Helped-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement support for the "object:type=" filter in git-cat-file(1),
which causes us to omit all objects that don't match the provided object
type.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement support for the "blob:limit=" filter in git-cat-file(1), which
causes us to omit all blobs that are bigger than a certain size.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement support for the "blob:none" filter in git-cat-file(1), which
causes us to omit all blobs.
Note that this new filter requires us to read the object type via
`oid_object_info_extended()` in `batch_object_write()`. But as we try to
optimize away reading objects from the database the `data->info.typep`
pointer may not be set. We thus have to adapt the logic to conditionally
set the pointer in cases where the filter is given.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In batch mode, git-cat-file(1) enumerates all objects and prints them
by iterating through both loose and packed objects. This works without
considering their reachability at all, and consequently most options to
filter objects as they exist in e.g. git-rev-list(1) are not applicable.
In some situations it may still be useful though to filter objects based
on properties that are inherent to them. This includes the object size
as well as its type.
Such a filter already exists in git-rev-list(1) with the `--filter=`
command line option. While this option supports a couple of filters that
are not applicable to our usecase, some of them are quite a neat fit.
Wire up the filter as an option for git-cat-file(1). This allows us to
reuse the same syntax as in git-rev-list(1) so that we don't have to
reinvent the wheel. For now, we die when any of the filter options has
been passed by the user, but they will be wired up in subsequent
commits.
Further note that the filters that we are about to introduce don't
significantly speed up the runtime of git-cat-file(1). While we can skip
emitting a lot of objects in case they are uninteresting to us, the
majority of time is spent reading the packfile, which is bottlenecked by
I/O and not the processor. This will change though once we start to make
use of bitmaps, which will allow us to skip reading the whole packfile.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 06c92dafb8 (Makefile: allow specifying a SHA-1 for non-cryptographic
uses, 2024-09-26), support for unsafe SHA-1 is added. Add the unsafe
SHA-1 build info to `git version --build-info` and update corresponding
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the `--build-options` flag is used with git-version(1), additional
information about the built version of Git is printed. During build
time, different SHA implementations may be configured, but this
information is not included in the version info.
Add the SHA implementations Git is built with to the version info by
requiring each backend to define a SHA1_BACKEND or SHA256_BACKEND symbol
as appropriate and use the value in the printed build options.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A documentation page was left out from formatting and installation,
which has been corrected.
* pw/build-breaking-changes-doc:
docs: add BreakingChanges to TECH_DOCS target
Doc mark-up updates.
* ja/doc-branch-markup:
doc: apply new format to git-branch man page
completion: take into account the formatting backticks for options
Bugfix in newly introduced large-object-promisor remote support.
* cc/lop-remote:
promisor-remote: compare remote names case sensitively
promisor-remote: fix possible issue when no URL is advertised
promisor-remote: fix segfault when remote URL is missing
t5710: arrange to delete the client before cloning
Using "git name-rev --stdin" as an example, improve the framework to
prepare tests to pretend to be in the future where the breaking
changes have already happened.
* jc/name-rev-stdin:
name-rev: remove "--stdin" support
t6120: further modernize
t6120: avoid hiding "git" exit status
t: introduce WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES prerequisite
t: extend test_lazy_prereq
t: document test_lazy_prereq
Almost all of the tools we discover during the build process need to be
native programs. There are only a handful of exceptions, which typically
are programs whose paths we need to embed into the resulting executable
so that they can be found on the target system when Git executes. While
this distinction typically doesn't matter, it does start to matter when
considering cross-compilation where the build and target machines are
different.
Meson supports cross-compilation via so-called machine files. These
machine files allow the user to override parameters for the build
machine, but also for the target machine when cross-compiling. Part of
the machine file is a section that allows the user to override the
location where binaries are to be found in the target system. The
following machine file would for example override the path of the POSIX
shell:
[binaries]
sh = '/usr/xpg4/bin/sh'
It can be handed over to Meson via `meson setup --cross-file`.
We do not handle this correctly right now though because we don't know
to distinguish binaries for the build and target hosts at all. Address
this by explicitly passing the `native:` parameter to `find_program()`:
- When set to `true`, we get binaries discovered on the build host.
- When set to `false`, we get either the path specified in the
machine file. Or, if no machine file exists or it doesn't specify
the binary path, then we fall back to the binary discovered on the
build host.
As mentioned, only a handful of binaries are not native: only the system
shell, Python and Perl need to be treated specially here.
Reported-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
First step of deprecating and removing merge-recursive.
* en/merge-ort-prepare-to-remove-recursive:
am: switch from merge_recursive_generic() to merge_ort_generic()
merge-ort: fix merge.directoryRenames=false
t3650: document bug when directory renames are turned off
merge-ort: support having merge verbosity be set to 0
merge-ort: allow rename detection to be disabled
merge-ort: add new merge_ort_generic() function
"git fast-export | git fast-import" learns to deal with commit and
tag objects with embedded signatures a bit better.
* cc/signed-fast-export-import:
fast-export, fast-import: add support for signed-commits
fast-export: do not modify memory from get_commit_buffer
git-fast-export.adoc: clarify why 'verbatim' may not be a good idea
fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim'
fast-export: fix missing whitespace after switch
git-fast-import.adoc: add missing LF in the BNF
"git fsck" becomes more careful when checking the refs.
* sj/ref-consistency-checks-more:
builtin/fsck: add `git refs verify` child process
packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is sorted
packed-backend: add "packed-refs" entry consistency check
packed-backend: check whether the refname contains NUL characters
packed-backend: add "packed-refs" header consistency check
packed-backend: check if header starts with "# pack-refs with: "
packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is regular file
builtin/refs: get worktrees without reading head information
t0602: use subshell to ensure working directory unchanged
The original documentation from 7b5cf8be18 (vimdiff: add tool
documentation, 2022-03-30) mistakenly described the marker as an
asterisk, which is the character "*". The code and examples have always
looked for an arobase ("@").
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Fernando Ramos <greenfoo@u92.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'loose-objects' task of 'git maintenance run' first deletes loose
objects that exit within packfiles and then collects loose objects into
a packfile. This second step uses an implicit limit of fifty thousand
that cannot be modified by users.
Add a new config option that allows this limit to be adjusted or ignored
entirely.
While creating tests for this option, I noticed that actually there was
an off-by-one error due to the strict comparison in the limit check. I
considered making the limit check turn true on equality, but instead I
thought to use INT_MAX as a "no limit" barrier which should mean it's
never possible to hit the limit. Thus, a new decrement to the limit is
provided if the value is positive. (The restriction to positive values
is to avoid underflow if INT_MIN is configured.)
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare to implement support for reachability bitmaps for the new
incremental multi-pack index (MIDX) feature over the following commits.
This commit begins by first describing the relevant format and usage
details for incremental MIDX bitmaps.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the items listed as "future work" in the MIDX's technical
documentation is to extend the format to allow MIDXs to be written
incrementally across multiple layers.
This was suggested all the way back in ceab693d1f (multi-pack-index: add
design document, 2018-07-12), and implemented in b9497848df (Merge
branch 'tb/incremental-midx-part-1', 2024-08-19). Let's remove it
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous commit changed the behavior of repack's '--max-cruft-size'
to specify a cruft pack-specific override for '--max-pack-size'.
Introduce a new flag, '--combine-cruft-below-size' which is a
replacement for the old behavior of '--max-cruft-size'. This new flag
does explicitly what it says: it combines together cruft packs which are
smaller than a given threshold, and leaves alone ones which are
larger.
This accomplishes the original intent of '--max-cruft-size', which was
to avoid repacking cruft packs larger than the given threshold.
The new behavior is slightly different. Instead of building up small
packs together until the threshold is met, '--combine-cruft-below-size'
packs up *all* cruft packs smaller than the threshold. This means that
we may make a pack much larger than the given threshold (e.g., if you
aggregate 5 packs which are each 99 MiB in size with a threshold of 100
MiB).
But that's OK: the point isn't to restrict the size of the cruft packs
we generate, it's to avoid working with ones that have already grown too
large. If repositories still want to limit the size of the generated
cruft pack(s), they may use '--max-cruft-size'.
There's some minor test fallout as a result of the slight differences in
behavior between the old meaning of '--max-cruft-size' and the behavior
of '--combine-cruft-below-size'. In the test which is now called
"--combine-cruft-below-size combines packs", we need to use the new flag
over the old one to exercise that test's intended behavior. The
remainder of the changes there are to improve the clarity of the
comments.
Suggested-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 37dc6d8104 (builtin/repack.c: implement support for
`--max-cruft-size`, 2023-10-02), we exposed new functionality that
allowed repositories to specify the behavior of when we should combine
multiple cruft packs together.
This feature was designed to ensure that we never repacked cruft packs
which were larger than the given threshold in order to provide tighter
I/O bounds for repositories that have many unreachable objects. In
essence, specifying '--max-cruft-size=N' instructed 'repack' to
aggregate cruft packs together (in order of ascending size) until the
combine size grows past 'N', and then make a new cruft pack whose
contents includes the packs we rolled up.
But this isn't quite how it works in practice. Suppose for example that
we have two cruft packs which are each 100MiB in size. One might expect
specifying "--max-cruft-size=200M" would combine these two packs
together, and then avoid repacking them until a pruning GC takes place.
In reality, 'repack' would try and aggregate these together, but writing
a pack that is strictly smaller than 200 MiB (since pack-objects'
"--max-pack-size" provides a strict bound for packs containing more than
one object).
So instead we'll write out a pack that is, say, 199 MiB in size, and
then another 1 MiB pack containing the balance. If we later repack the
repository without adding any new unreachable objects, we'll repeat the
same exercise again, making the same 199 MiB and 1 MiB packs each time.
This happens because of a poor choice to bolt the '--max-cruft-size'
functionality onto pack-objects' '--max-pack-size', forcing us to
generate packs which are always smaller than the provided threshold and
thus subject to repacking.
The following commit will introduce a new flag that implements something
similar to the behavior above. Let's prepare for that by making repack's
'--max-cruft-size' flag behave as an cruft pack-specific override for
'--max-pack-size'.
Do so by temporarily repurposing the 'collapse_small_cruft_packs()'
function to instead generate a cruft pack using the same instructions as
if we didn't specify any maximum pack size. The calling code looks
something like:
if (args->max_pack_size && !cruft_expiration) {
collapse_small_cruft_packs(in, args->max_pack_size, existing);
} else {
for_each_string_list_item(item, &existing->non_kept_packs)
fprintf(in, "-%s.pack\n", item->string);
for_each_string_list_item(item, &existing->cruft_packs)
fprintf(in, "-%s.pack\n", item->string);
}
This patch makes collapse_small_cruft_packs() behave identically to the
'else' arm of the conditional above. This repurposing of
'collapse_small_cruft_packs()' is intentional, since it will set us up
nicely to introduce the new behavior in the following commit.
Naturally, there is some test fallout in the test which exercises the
old meaning of '--max-cruft-size'. Mark that test as failing for now to
be dealt with in the following commit. Likewise, add a new test which
explicitly tests the behavior of '--max-cruft-size' to place a hard
limit on the size of any generated cruft pack(s).
Note that this is a breaking change, as it alters the user-visible
behavior of '--max-cruft-size'. But I'm OK changing this behavior in
this instance, since the behavior wasn't accurate to begin with.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `--missing={print,print-info}` option for git-rev-list(1) prints
missing objects found while performing the object walk in the form:
$ git rev-list --missing=print-info <rev>
?<oid> [SP <token>=<value>]... LF
Add support for printing missing objects in a NUL-delimited format when
the `-z` option is enabled.
$ git rev-list -z --missing=print-info <rev>
<oid> NUL missing=yes NUL [<token>=<value> NUL]...
In this mode, values containing special characters or spaces are printed
as-is without being escaped or quoted. Instead of prefixing the missing
OID with '?', a separate `missing=yes` token/value pair is appended.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `--boundary` option for git-rev-list(1) prints boundary objects
found while performing the object walk in the form:
$ git rev-list --boundary <rev>
-<oid> LF
Add support for printing boundary objects in a NUL-delimited format when
the `-z` option is enabled.
$ git rev-list -z --boundary <rev>
<oid> NUL boundary=yes NUL
In this mode, instead of prefixing the boundary OID with '-', a separate
`boundary=yes` token/value pair is appended.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When walking objects, git-rev-list(1) prints each object entry on a
separate line. Some options, such as `--objects`, may print additional
information about tree and blob object on the same line in the form:
$ git rev-list --objects <rev>
<tree/blob oid> SP [<path>] LF
Note that in this form the SP is appended regardless of whether the tree
or blob object has path information available. Paths containing a
newline are also truncated at the newline.
Introduce the `-z` option for git-rev-list(1) which reformats the output
to use NUL-delimiters between objects and associated info in the
following form:
$ git rev-list -z --objects <rev>
<oid> NUL [path=<path> NUL]
In this form, the start of each record is signaled by an OID entry that
is all hexidecimal and does not contain any '='. Additional path info
from `--objects` is appended to the record as a token/value pair
`path=<path>` as-is without any truncation.
For now, the `--objects` flag is the only options that can be used in
combination with `-z`. In a subsequent commit, NUL-delimited support for
other options is added. Other options that do not make sense when used
in combination with `-z` are rejected.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
curl supports a few options to control when and how often it should
instruct the OS to send TCP keepalives, like KEEPIDLE, KEEPINTVL, and
KEEPCNT. Until this point, there hasn't been a way for users to change
what values are used for these options, forcing them to rely on curl's
defaults.
But we do unconditionally enable TCP keepalives without giving users an
ability to tweak any fine-grained parameters. Ordinarily this isn't a
problem, particularly for users that have fast-enough connections,
and/or are talking to a server that has generous or nonexistent
thresholds for killing a connection it hasn't heard from in a while.
But it can present a problem when one or both of those assumptions fail.
For instance, I can reliably get an in-progress clone to be killed from
the remote end when cloning from some forges while using trickle to
limit my clone's bandwidth.
For those users and others who wish to more finely tune the OS's
keepalive behavior, expose configuration and environment variables which
allow setting curl's KEEPIDLE, KEEPINTVL, and KEEPCNT options.
Note that while KEEPIDLE and KEEPINTVL were added in curl 7.25.0,
KEEPCNT was added much more recently in curl 8.9.0. Per f7c094060c
(git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.25.0, 2024-10-23), both
KEEPIDLE and KEEPINTVL are set unconditionally. But since we may be
compiled with a curl that isn't as new as 8.9.0, only set KEEPCNT when
we have CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPCNT to begin with.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which automatically
formats placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine applies synopsis rules to
these spans.
Possible values for some variables, that were mentioned in the description
prose, are now made into enumerated list.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Because the "[remote "nick"] fetch = ..." configuration variables
have the nickname in the second part, the nicknames are case
sensitive, unlike the first and the third component (i.e.
"remote.origin.fetch" and "Remote.origin.FETCH" are the same thing,
but "remote.Origin.fetch" and "remote.origin.fetch" are different).
Let's follow the way Git works in general and compare the remote
names case sensitively when processing advertised remotes.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new followRemoteHEAD feature is triggered for almost every fetch,
causing us to ask the server about the remote "HEAD" and to consider
updating our local tracking HEAD symref. This patch limits the feature
only to the case when we are fetching a remote using its configured
refspecs (typically into its refs/remotes/ hierarchy). There are two
reasons for this.
One is efficiency. E.g., the fixes in 6c915c3f85 (fetch: do not ask for
HEAD unnecessarily, 2024-12-06) and 20010b8c20 (fetch: avoid ls-refs
only to ask for HEAD symref update, 2025-03-08) were aimed at reducing
the work we do when we would not be able to update HEAD anyway. But they
do not quite cover all cases. The remaining one is:
git fetch origin refs/heads/foo:refs/remotes/origin/foo
which _sometimes_ can update HEAD, but usually not. And that leads us to
the second point, which is being simple and explainable.
The code for updating the tracking HEAD symref requires both that we
learned which ref the remote HEAD points at, and that the server
advertised that ref to us. But because the v2 protocol narrows the
server's advertisement, the command above would not typically update
HEAD at all, unless it happened to point to the "foo" branch. Or even
weirder, it probably _would_ update if the server is very old and
supports only the v0 protocol, which always gives a full advertisement.
This creates confusing behavior for the user: sometimes we may try to
update HEAD and sometimes not, depending on vague rules.
One option here would be to loosen the update code to accept the remote
HEAD even if the server did not advertise that ref. I think that could
work, but it may also lead to interesting corner cases (e.g., creating a
dangling symref locally, even though the branch is not unborn on the
server, if we happen not to have fetched it).
So let's instead simplify the rules: we'll only consider updating the
tracking HEAD symref when we're doing a full fetch of the remote's
configured refs. This is easy to implement; we can just set a flag at
the moment we realize we're using the configured refspecs. And we can
drop the special case code added by 6c915c3f85 and 20010b8c20, since
this covers those cases. The existing tests from those commits still
pass.
In t5505, an incidental call to "git fetch <remote> <refspec>" updated
HEAD, which caused us to adjust the test in 3f763ddf28 (fetch: set
remote/HEAD if it does not exist, 2024-11-22). We can now adjust that
back to how it was before the feature was added.
Even though t5505 is incidentally testing our new desired behavior,
we'll add an explicit test in t5510 to make sure it is covered.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When BreakingChanges.txt was added in 57ec9254eb (docs: introduce
document to announce breaking changes, 2024-06-14) there was no
corresponding change to the Makefile to build it. Fix that by adding it
to the TECH_DOCS target.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Separate the paragraphs in the description of `--exclude` with a `+`
rather than an empty line to indent the whole description rather than
just the first paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When merge-ort was written, I did not at first allow rename detection to
be disabled, because I suspected that most folks disabling rename
detection were doing so solely for performance reasons. Since I put a
lot of working into providing dramatic speedups for rename detection
performance as used by the merge machinery, I wanted to know if there
were still real world repositories where rename detection was
problematic from a performance perspective. We have had years now to
collect such information, and while we never received one, waiting
longer with the option disabled seems unlikely to help surface such
issues at this point. Also, there has been at least one request to
allow rename detection to be disabled for behavioral rather than
performance reasons (see the thread including
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BG-Nx6SCxxkGXn_Fwd2wseifMFND8eddvWxiZVZk0zRaA@mail.gmail.com/
), so let's start heeding the config and command line settings.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The graph for `--ancestry-path=H D..M` should contain commit C.
Signed-off-by: Han Jiang <jhcarl0814@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This note was added to the restore command docs in 46e91b663b
(checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore', 2019-04-25),
but it is now inaccurate. The underlying builtin `add -i` implementation,
made default in 0527ccb1b5 (add -i: default to the built-in implementation,
2021-11-30), supports pathspecs, so `git restore -p <pathspec>...` has
worked for all users since then. I bisected to verify this was the commit
that added support.
Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While 'git-reflog(1)' currently allows users to expire reflogs and
delete individual entries, it lacks functionality to completely remove
reflogs for specific references. This becomes problematic in
repositories where reflogs are not needed but continue to accumulate
entries despite setting 'core.logAllRefUpdates=false'.
Add a new 'drop' subcommand to git-reflog that allows users to delete
the entire reflog for a specified reference. Include an '--all' flag to
enable dropping all reflogs from all worktrees and an addon flag
'--single-worktree', to only drop all reflogs from the current worktree.
While here, remove an extraneous newline in the file.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When breaking changes are enabled we continue to install documentation
of the git-pack-redundant(1) command even though it is completely
disabled and thus inaccessible. Improve this by only installing the
documentation in case breaking changes aren't enabled.
Based-on-patch-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As part of Git 3.0, remove the hidden synonym for "--annotate-stdin"
for real. As this does not change the fact that it used to be
called "--stdin" in older version of Git, keep that passage in the
documentation for "--annotate-stdin".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fast-export has a --signed-tags= option that controls how to handle tag
signatures. However, there is no equivalent for commit signatures; it
just silently strips the signature out of the commit (analogously to
--signed-tags=strip).
While signatures are generally problematic for fast-export/fast-import
(because hashes are likely to change), if they're going to support tag
signatures, there's no reason to not also support commit signatures.
So, implement a --signed-commits= option that mirrors the --signed-tags=
option.
On the fast-export side, try to be as much like signed-tags as possible,
in both implementation and in user-interface. This will change the
default behavior to '--signed-commits=abort' from what is now
'--signed-commits=strip'. In order to provide an escape hatch for users
of third-party tools that call fast-export and do not yet know of the
--signed-commits= option, add an environment variable
'FAST_EXPORT_SIGNED_COMMITS_NOABORT=1' that changes the default to
'--signed-commits=warn-strip'.
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --signed-tags= option takes one of five arguments specifying how to
handle signed tags during export. Among these arguments, 'strip' is to
'warn-strip' as 'verbatim' is to 'warn' (the unmentioned argument is
'abort', which stops the fast-export process entirely). That is,
signatures are either stripped or copied verbatim while exporting, with
or without a warning.
Match the pattern and rename 'warn' to 'warn-verbatim' to make it clear
that it instructs fast-export to copy signatures verbatim.
To maintain backwards compatibility, 'warn' is still recognized as
deprecated synonym of 'warn-verbatim'.
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation is using the historical mode for titles, which is a
setext-style (i.e., two-line) section title.
The issue with this mode is that starting block delimiters (e.g.,
`----`) can be confused with a section title when they are exactly the
same length as the preceding line. In the original documentation, this
is taken care of for English by the writer, but it is not the case for
translations where these delimiters are hidden. A translator can
generate a line that is exactly the same length as the following block
delimiter, which leads to this line being considered as a title.
To safeguard against this issue, add a blank line before and after
block delimiters where block is at root level, else add a "+" line
before block delimiters to link it to the preceding paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit bc26f7690a (clone: make it possible to specify --tags,
2025-02-06) added a new paragraph in the middle of this list item. By
adding an empty line rather than using a list continuation, we broke the
list continuation, with the new paragraph ending up funnily indented.
Restore the chain of list continuations.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some future breaking changes would remove certain parts of the
default repository, which were still described even when the
documents were built for the future with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES.
* pw/repo-layout-doc-update:
docs: fix repository-layout when building with breaking changes
Meson-based build procedure forgot to build some docs, which has
been corrected.
* pw/build-meson-technical-and-howto-docs:
meson: fix building technical and howto docs
Since commit 8ccc75c245 (remote: announce removal of "branches/" and
"remotes/", 2025-01-22) enabling WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES when building git
removes support for reading branches from ".git/branches" and remotes
from ".git/remotes". However those locations are still documented in
gitrepository-layout.adoc even though the build does not support them.
Rectify this by adding a new document attribute "with-breaking-changes"
and use it to make the inclusion of those sections of the documentation
conditional. Note that the name of the attribute does not match the test
prerequisite WITHOUT_BREAKING_CHANGES added in c5bc9a7f94 (Makefile:
wire up build option for deprecated features, 2025-01-22). This is to
avoid the awkward double negative ifndef::without_breaking_changes for
documentation that should be included when WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES is
enabled. The test prerequisite will be renamed to match the
documentation attribute in a future patch series.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update a few more instances of Documentation/*.txt files which have been
renamed to *.adoc.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit ec14d4ecb5 (builtin.h: take over documentation from
api-builtin.txt, 2017-08-02) deleted api-builtin.txt and moved the
contents into builtin.h. Most of the references were fixed in
d85e9448dd (new-command.txt: update reference to builtin docs,
2023-02-04), but one remained. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The top-level .gitattributes file contains entries for the Documentation
tree. Documentation/.gitattributes has not been touched since it was
added in 14f9e128d3 (Define the project whitespace policy, 2008-02-10).
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point behind a compile-time switch is to ensure that we have a
mechanism to hide myriad of backward incompatible changes that may
be prepared and accumulated over time, yet make them available for
testing any time during the development toward the big version
boundary. Add a few words to stress that point.
Since the document was first written, we have added the CI job that
the document anticipated us to have. Rephrase to state the current
status.
The discussion in [*1*] made us abandon the "feature.git3" based
runtime switching of behaviour and instead adopt the compile-time
switching mechanism, but a stray sentence about runtime switching
still remained in the final text by mistake. Remove it.
[Reference]
*1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqldzel6ug.fsf@gitster.g/
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Let's add a design doc about how we could improve handling liarge blobs
using "Large Object Promisors" (LOPs). It's a set of features with the
goal of using special dedicated promisor remotes to store large blobs,
and having them accessed directly by main remotes and clients.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
What happens to submodules during merge has been documented in a
bit more detail.
* lo/doc-merge-submodule-update:
merge-strategies.adoc: detail submodule merge
Assorted fixes and improvements to the build procedure based on
meson.
* ps/build-meson-fixes-0130:
gitlab-ci: restrict maximum number of link jobs on Windows
meson: consistently use custom program paths to resolve programs
meson: fix overwritten `git` variable
meson: prevent finding sed(1) in a loop
meson: improve handling of `sane_tool_path` option
meson: improve PATH handling
meson: drop separate version library
meson: stop linking libcurl into all executables
meson: introduce `libgit_curl` dependency
meson: simplify use of the common-main library
meson: inline the static 'git' library
meson: fix OpenSSL fallback when not explicitly required
meson: fix exec path with enabled runtime prefix
When our asciidoc files were renamed from "*.txt" to "*.adoc" in
1f010d6bdf (doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20)
the "meson.build" file in "Documentation" was updated but the
"meson.build" files in the "technical" and "howto" subdirectories were
not. This causes the meson build to fail when configured with
-Ddocs=html. Fix this by updating the relevant "meson.build" files.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diffs queued from git-diff-pairs(1) are flushed when stdin is
closed. To enable greater flexibility, allow control over when the diff
queue is flushed by writing a single NUL byte on stdin between input
file pairs. Diff output between flushes is separated by a single NUL
byte.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Through git-diff(1), a single diff can be generated from a pair of blob
revisions directly. Unfortunately, there is not a mechanism to compute
batches of specific file pair diffs in a single process. Such a feature
is particularly useful on the server-side where diffing between a large
set of changes is not feasible all at once due to timeout concerns.
To facilitate this, introduce git-diff-pairs(1) which acts as a backend
passing its NUL-terminated raw diff format input from stdin through diff
machinery to produce various forms of output such as patch or raw.
The raw format was originally designed as an interchange format and
represents the contents of the diff_queued_diff list making it possible
to break the diff pipeline into separate stages. For example,
git-diff-tree(1) can be used as a frontend to compute file pairs to
queue and feed its raw output to git-diff-pairs(1) to compute patches.
With this, batches of diffs can be progressively generated without
having to recompute renames or retrieve object context. Something like
the following:
git diff-tree -r -z -M $old $new |
git diff-pairs -p -z
should generate the same output as `git diff-tree -p -M`. Furthermore,
each line of raw diff formatted input can also be individually fed to a
separate git-diff-pairs(1) process and still produce the same output.
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We renamed from .txt to .adoc all the asciidoc source files and
necessary includes. We also need to adjust the build-docdep tool to
work on files whose suffix is .adoc when computing the documentation
dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The .txt extensions were changed to .adoc in 1f010d6bdf (doc: use .adoc
extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20). This left broken links in
the generated howto-index.html.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Removal of ".git/branches" and ".git/remotes" support in the
BreakingChanges document has been further clarified.
* jc/3.0-branches-remotes-update:
BreakingChanges: clarify branches/ and remotes/
"git refs migrate" can optionally be told not to migrate the reflog.
* kn/ref-migrate-skip-reflog:
builtin/refs: add '--no-reflog' flag to drop reflogs
The value of "uname -s" is by default sent over the wire as a part
of the "version" capability.
* ua/os-version-capability:
agent: advertise OS name via agent capability
t5701: add setup test to remove side-effect dependency
version: extend get_uname_info() to hide system details
version: refactor get_uname_info()
version: refactor redact_non_printables()
version: replace manual ASCII checks with isprint() for clarity
At now, we have already implemented the ref consistency checks for both
"files-backend" and "packed-backend". Although we would check some
redundant things, it won't cause trouble. So, let's integrate it into
the "git-fsck(1)" command to get feedback from the users. And also by
calling "git refs verify" in "git-fsck(1)", we make sure that the new
added checks don't break.
Introduce a new function "fsck_refs" that initializes and runs a child
process to execute the "git refs verify" command. In order to provide
the user interface create a progress which makes the total task be 1.
It's hard to know how many loose refs we will check now. We might
improve this later.
Then, introduce the option to allow the user to disable checking ref
database consistency. Put this function in the very first execution
sequence of "git-fsck(1)" due to that we don't want the existing code of
"git-fsck(1)" which would implicitly check the consistency of refs to
die the program.
Last, update the test to exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there is a "sorted" trait in the header of the "packed-refs" file,
it means that each entry is sorted increasingly by comparing the
refname. We should add checks to verify whether the "packed-refs" is
sorted in this case.
Update the "packed_fsck_ref_header" to know whether there is a "sorted"
trail in the header. It may seem that we could record all refnames
during the parsing process and then compare later. However, this is not
a good design due to the following reasons:
1. Because we need to store the state across the whole checking
lifetime, we would consume a lot of memory if there are many entries
in the "packed-refs" file.
2. We cannot reuse the existing compare function "cmp_packed_ref_records"
which cause repetition.
Because "cmp_packed_ref_records" needs an extra parameter "struct
snaphost", extract the common part into a new function
"cmp_packed_ref_records" to reuse this function to compare.
Then, create a new function "packed_fsck_ref_sorted" to parse the file
again and user the new fsck message "packedRefUnsorted(ERROR)" to report
to the user if the file is not sorted.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"packed-backend.c::next_record" will parse the ref entry to check the
consistency. This function has already checked the following things:
1. Parse the main line of the ref entry to inspect whether the oid is
not correct. Then, check whether the next character is oid. Then
check the refname.
2. If the next line starts with '^', it would continue to parse the
peeled oid and check whether the last character is '\n'.
As we decide to implement the ref consistency check for "packed-refs",
let's port these two checks and update the test to exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "packed-backend.c::create_snapshot", if there is a header (the line
which starts with '#'), we will check whether the line starts with "#
pack-refs with: ". However, we need to consider other situations and
discuss whether we need to add checks.
1. If the header does not exist, we should not report an error to the
user. This is because in older Git version, we never write header in
the "packed-refs" file. Also, we do allow no header in "packed-refs"
in runtime.
2. If the header content does not start with "# packed-ref with: ", we
should report an error just like what "create_snapshot" does. So,
create a new fsck message "badPackedRefHeader(ERROR)" for this.
3. If the header content is not the same as the constant string
"PACKED_REFS_HEADER". This is expected because we make it extensible
intentionally and runtime "create_snapshot" won't complain about
unknown traits. In order to align with the runtime behavior. There is
no need to report.
As we have analyzed, we only need to check the case 2 in the above. In
order to do this, use "open_nofollow" function to get the file
descriptor and then read the "packed-refs" file via "strbuf_read". Like
what "create_snapshot" and other functions do, we could split the line
by finding the next newline in the buffer. When we cannot find a
newline, we could report an error.
So, create a function "packed_fsck_ref_next_line" to find the next
newline and if there is no such newline, use
"packedRefEntryNotTerminated(ERROR)" to report an error to the user.
Then, parse the first line to apply the checks. Update the test to
exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The calls to `find_program()` in our documentation don't use our custom
program path. This variable gets populated on Windows with the location
of Git for Windows so that we can use it to provide our build tools.
Consequently, we may not be able to find all necessary binaries on
Windows.
Adapt the calls to use the program path to fix this. While at it, drop
`required: true` arguments, which are the default anyway.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're assigning the `git` variable in three places:
- In "meson.build" to store the external Git executable.
- In "meson.build" to store the compiled Git executable.
- In "Documentation/meson.build" to store the external Git executable,
a second time.
The last case is only needed because we overwrite the original variable
with the built version. Rename the variable used for the built Git
executable so that we don't have to resolve the external Git executable
multiple times.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're searching for the sed(1) executable in a loop, which will make us
try to find it multiple times. Starting with the preceding commit we
already declare a variable for that program in the top-level build file.
Use it so that we only need to search for the program once.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Submodule merges are, in general, similar to other merges based on oid
three-way-merge. When a conflict happens, however, Git has two special
cases (introduced in 68d03e4a6e) on handling the conflict before
yielding it to the user. From the merge-ort and merge-recursive sources:
- "Case #1: a is contained in b or vice versa": both strategies try to
perform a fast-forward in the submodules if the commit referred by the
conflicted submodule is descendant of another;
- "Case #2: There are one or more merges that contain a and b in the
submodule. If there is only one, then present it as a suggestion to the
user, but leave it marked unmerged so the user needs to confirm the
resolution."
Add a small paragraph on merge-strategies.adoc describing this behavior.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we have created an empty .git/branches/ hierarchy until fairly
recently, these directories may be found in modern repositories, but
it is highly unlikely that they are being used.
Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct the default target in Documentation/Makefile, and
future-proof all Makefiles from similar breakages by declaring the
default target (which happens to be "all") upfront.
* ad/set-default-target-in-makefiles:
Makefile: set default goals in makefiles
"git merge-tree --stdin" has been improved (including a workaround
for a deadlock).
* pw/merge-tree-stdin-deadlock-fix:
merge-tree: fix link formatting in html docs
merge-tree: improve docs for --stdin
merge-tree: only use basic merge config
merge-tree: remove redundant code
merge-tree --stdin: flush stdout to avoid deadlock
The documentation of "git commit" and "git rebase" now refer to
commit titles as such, not "subject".
* mh/doc-commit-title-not-subject:
doc: use 'title' consistently
Two configuration variables about SSL authentication material that
weren't mentioned in the documentations are now mentioned.
* ac/doc-http-ssl-type-config:
docs: indicate http.sslCertType and sslKeyType
The "git refs migrate" subcommand converts the backend used for ref
storage. It always migrates reflog data as well as refs. Introduce an
option to exclude reflogs from migration, allowing them to be discarded
when they are unnecessary.
This is particularly useful in server-side repositories, where reflogs
are typically not expected. However, some repositories may still have
them due to historical reasons, such as bugs, misconfigurations, or
administrative decisions to enable reflogs for debugging. In such
repositories, it would be optimal to drop reflogs during the migration.
To address this, introduce the '--no-reflog' flag, which prevents reflog
migration. When this flag is used, reflogs from the original reference
backend are migrated. Since only the new reference backend remains in
the repository, all previous reflogs are permanently discarded.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As some issues that can happen with a Git client can be operating system
specific, it can be useful for a server to know which OS a client is
using. In the same way it can be useful for a client to know which OS
a server is using.
Our current agent capability is in the form of "package/version" (e.g.,
"git/1.8.3.1"). Let's extend it to include the operating system name (os)
i.e in the form "package/version-os" (e.g., "git/1.8.3.1-Linux").
Including OS details in the agent capability simplifies implementation,
maintains backward compatibility, avoids introducing a new capability,
encourages adoption across Git-compatible software, and enhances
debugging by providing complete environment information without affecting
functionality. The operating system name is retrieved using the 'sysname'
field of the `uname(2)` system call or its equivalent.
However, there are differences between `uname(1)` (command-line utility)
and `uname(2)` (system call) outputs on Windows. These discrepancies
complicate testing on Windows platforms. For example:
- `uname(1)` output: MINGW64_NT-10.0-20348.3.4.10-87d57229.x86_64\
.2024-02-14.20:17.UTC.x86_64
- `uname(2)` output: Windows.10.0.20348
On Windows, uname(2) is not actually system-supplied but is instead
already faked up by Git itself. We could have overcome the test issue
on Windows by implementing a new `uname` subcommand in `test-tool`
using uname(2), but except uname(2), which would be tested against
itself, there would be nothing platform specific, so it's just simpler
to disable the tests on Windows.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-list --missing=" learned to accept "print-info" that gives
known details expected of the missing objects, like path and type.
* jt/rev-list-missing-print-info:
rev-list: extend print-info to print missing object type
rev-list: add print-info action to print missing object path
Lazy-loading missing files in a blobless clone on demand is costly
as it tends to be one-blob-at-a-time. "git backfill" is introduced
to help bulk-download necessary files beforehand.
* ds/backfill:
backfill: assume --sparse when sparse-checkout is enabled
backfill: add --sparse option
backfill: add --min-batch-size=<n> option
backfill: basic functionality and tests
backfill: add builtin boilerplate
A previous commit introduced a "promisor.acceptFromServer" configuration
variable with only "None" or "All" as valid values.
Let's introduce "KnownName" and "KnownUrl" as valid values for this
configuration option to give more choice to a client about which
promisor remotes it might accept among those that the server advertised.
In case of "KnownName", the client will accept promisor remotes which
are already configured on the client and have the same name as those
advertised by the client. This could be useful in a corporate setup
where servers and clients are trusted to not switch names and URLs, but
where some kind of control is still useful.
In case of "KnownUrl", the client will accept promisor remotes which
have both the same name and the same URL configured on the client as the
name and URL advertised by the server. This is the most secure option,
so it should be used if possible.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a server S knows that some objects from a repository are available
from a promisor remote X, S might want to suggest to a client C cloning
or fetching the repo from S that C may use X directly instead of S for
these objects.
Note that this could happen both in the case S itself doesn't have the
objects and borrows them from X, and in the case S has the objects but
knows that X is better connected to the world (e.g., it is in a
$LARGEINTERNETCOMPANY datacenter with petabit/s backbone connections)
than S. Implementation of the latter case, which would require S to
omit in its response the objects available on X, is left for future
improvement though.
Then C might or might not, want to get the objects from X. If S and C
can agree on C using X directly, S can then omit objects that can be
obtained from X when answering C's request.
To allow S and C to agree and let each other know about C using X or
not, let's introduce a new "promisor-remote" capability in the
protocol v2, as well as a few new configuration variables:
- "promisor.advertise" on the server side, and:
- "promisor.acceptFromServer" on the client side.
By default, or if "promisor.advertise" is set to 'false', a server S will
not advertise the "promisor-remote" capability.
If S doesn't advertise the "promisor-remote" capability, then a client C
replying to S shouldn't advertise the "promisor-remote" capability
either.
If "promisor.advertise" is set to 'true', S will advertise its promisor
remotes with a string like:
promisor-remote=<pr-info>[;<pr-info>]...
where each <pr-info> element contains information about a single
promisor remote in the form:
name=<pr-name>[,url=<pr-url>]
where <pr-name> is the urlencoded name of a promisor remote and
<pr-url> is the urlencoded URL of the promisor remote named <pr-name>.
For now, the URL is passed in addition to the name. In the future, it
might be possible to pass other information like a filter-spec that the
client may use when cloning from S, or a token that the client may use
when retrieving objects from X.
It is C's responsibility to arrange how it can reach X though, so pieces
of information that are usually outside Git's concern, like proxy
configuration, must not be distributed over this protocol.
It might also be possible in the future for "promisor.advertise" to have
other values. For example a value like "onlyName" could prevent S from
advertising URLs, which could help in case C should use a different URL
for X than the URL S is using. (The URL S is using might be an internal
one on the server side for example.)
By default or if "promisor.acceptFromServer" is set to "None", C will
not accept to use the promisor remotes that might have been advertised
by S. In this case, C will not advertise any "promisor-remote"
capability in its reply to S.
If "promisor.acceptFromServer" is set to "All" and S advertised some
promisor remotes, then on the contrary, C will accept to use all the
promisor remotes that S advertised and C will reply with a string like:
promisor-remote=<pr-name>[;<pr-name>]...
where the <pr-name> elements are the urlencoded names of all the
promisor remotes S advertised.
In a following commit, other values for "promisor.acceptFromServer" will
be implemented, so that C will be able to decide the promisor remotes it
accepts depending on the name and URL it received from S. So even if
that name and URL information is not used much right now, it will be
needed soon.
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first line of a commit message is variously called 'title' or
'subject'.
Prefer 'title' unless discussing email.
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the html documentation the link to the "OUTPUT" section is surrounded
by square brackets. Fix this by adding explicit link text to the cross
reference.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a section for --stdin in the list of options and document that it
implies -z so readers know how to parse the output. Also correct the
merge status documentation for --stdin as if the status is less than
zero "git merge-tree" dies before printing it.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explicitly set the default goal at the very top of various makefiles.
This is already present in some makefiles, but not all of them.
In particular, this corrects a regression introduced in a38edab7c8
(Makefile: generate doc versions via GIT-VERSION-GEN, 2024-12-06). That
commit added some config files as build targets for the Documentation
directory, and put the target configuration in a sensible place.
Unfortunately, that sensible place was above any other build target
definitions, meaning the default goal changed to being those
configuration files only, rather than the HTML and man page
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone" learned to make a shallow clone for a single commit
that is not necessarily be at the tip of any branch.
* tc/clone-single-revision:
builtin/clone: teach git-clone(1) the --revision= option
parse-options: introduce die_for_incompatible_opt2()
clone: introduce struct clone_opts in builtin/clone.c
clone: add tags refspec earlier to fetch refspec
clone: refactor wanted_peer_refs()
clone: make it possible to specify --tags
clone: cut down on global variables in clone.c
All the documentation .txt files have been renamed to .adoc to help
content aware editors.
* bc/doc-adoc-not-txt:
Remove obsolete ".txt" extensions for AsciiDoc files
doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files
gitattributes: mark AsciiDoc files as LF-only
editorconfig: add .adoc extension
doc: update gitignore for .adoc extension
When 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD' was added in b7f7d16562 (fetch:
add configuration for set_head behaviour, 2024-11-29), its description
was added to remote.txt in between the two paragraphs describing
'remote.<name>.serverOption'. Reunite these two paragraphs.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git -c help.autocorrect=0 psuh" shows the suggested typofix,
unlike the previous attempt in the base topic.
* da/help-autocorrect-one-fix:
help: add "show" as a valid configuration value
help: show the suggested command when help.autocorrect is false
"[help] autocorrect = 1" used to be a way to say "please wait for
0.1 second after suggesting a typofix of the command name before
running that command"; now it means "yes, if there is a plausible
typofix for the command name, please run it immediately".
* sc/help-autocorrect-one:
help: interpret boolean string values for help.autocorrect
"git pack-objects" and its wrapper "git repack" learned an option
to use an alternative path-hash function to improve delta-base
selection to produce a packfile with deeper history than window
size.
* ds/name-hash-tweaks:
pack-objects: prevent name hash version change
test-tool: add helper for name-hash values
p5313: add size comparison test
pack-objects: add GIT_TEST_NAME_HASH_VERSION
repack: add --name-hash-version option
pack-objects: add --name-hash-version option
pack-objects: create new name-hash function version
The -X renormalize (or merge.renormalize config) option is intended to
reduce conflicts due to normalization of newer versions of history. It
does so by renormalizing files that it is about to do a three-way
content merge on. Some folks thought it would renormalize all files
throughout the tree, and the previous wording wasn't clear enough to
dispell that misconception. Update the docs to make it clear that the
merge machinery will only apply renormalization to files which need a
three-way content merge.
(Technically, the merge machinery also does renormalization on
modify/delete conflicts, in order to see if the modification was merely
a normalization; if so, it can accept the delete and not report a
conflict. But it's not clear that this piece needs to be explained to
users, and trying to distinguish it might feel like splitting hairs and
overcomplicating the explanation, so we leave it out.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do not seem to centrally document exhaustively ways to spell
Boolean values.
The description in the Environment Variables of git(1) section
assumes that the reader is already familiar with how "Boolean valued
configuration variables" are specified, without referring to
anything, so there is no way for the readers to find out more.
The description of `bool` in the section on "--type
<type>" in "git config --help" might be the place to do so, but it
is not telling us all that much.
The description of Boolean valued placeholders in the pretty formats
section of "git log --help" enumerates the possible values with "etc."
implying there may be other synonyms; shrink the list of samples and
instead refer to the canonical and authoritative source of truth, which
now is git-config(1).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In Git v2.44.0 support for 'git archive' over HTTP protocol
was added, but it was nowhere documented how it should be
enabled in git-http-backend.
Add missing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Szlazak <piotr.szlazak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano