The gitattributes documentation has a section on the "diff"
attribute, with subsections for each of the things you might
want to configure in your diff config section (external
diff, hunk headers, etc). The first such subsection
specifically notes that the definition of the diff driver
should go into $GIT_DIR/config, but subsequent sections do
not.
This location is implied if you are reading the
documentation sequentially, but it is not uncommon for a new
user to jump to (or be referred to) a specific section. For
a new user who does not know git well enough to recognize
the config syntax, it is not clear that those directives
don't also go into the gitattributes file.
This patch just mentions the config file in each subsection,
similar to the way it is mentioned in the first.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the term "toplevel of the work tree" in gitattributes.txt and
gitignore.txt to define the limits of the search for those files.
Signed-off-by: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rules how the patterns are matched against path names are the same
for .gitattribute and .gitignore files.
This also replace the notion "glob pattern" by "pattern" because
gitignore.txt talks about "glob" only in some contexts where the pattern
is mentioned.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use "wordRegex" for configuration variable names. Use "word_regex" for C
language tokens.
Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the --color-words splitting regular expression configurable via
the diff driver's 'wordregex' attribute. The user can then set the
driver on a file in .gitattributes. If a regex is given on the
command line, it overrides the driver's setting.
We also provide built-in regexes for the languages that already had
funcname patterns, and add an appropriate diff driver entry for C/++.
(The patterns are designed to run UTF-8 sequences into a single chunk
to make sure they remain readable.)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add information on new git-gui and gitk command-line options,
configuration variables, and the encoding attribute.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes attributes easier to find; before this patch some
attributes had individual subsections, and some didn't.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can
mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to
some kind of path". This clarifies things.
Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch also changes the term "custom diff driver" to
"external diff driver"; now that there are more facets of a
"custom driver" than just external diffing, it makes sense
to refer to the configuration of "diff.foo.*" as the "foo
diff driver", with "diff.foo.command" as the "external
driver for foo".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for recognition of Objective-C class & instance methods,
C functions, and class implementation/interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan del Strother <jon.delStrother@bestbefore.tv>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Currently, the hunk headers produced by 'diff -p' are customizable by
setting the diff.*.funcname option in the config file. The 'funcname' option
takes a basic regular expression. This functionality was designed using the
GNU regex library which, by default, allows using backslashed versions of
some extended regular expression operators, even in Basic Regular Expression
mode. For example, the following characters, when backslashed, are
interpreted according to the extended regular expression rules: ?, +, and |.
As such, the builtin funcname patterns were created using some extended
regular expression operators.
Other platforms which adhere more strictly to the POSIX spec do not
interpret the backslashed extended RE operators in Basic Regular Expression
mode. This causes the pattern matching for the builtin funcname patterns to
fail on those platforms.
Introduce a new option 'xfuncname' which uses extended regular expressions,
and advertise it _instead_ of funcname. Since most users are on GNU
platforms, the majority of funcname patterns are created and tested there.
Advertising only xfuncname should help to avoid the creation of non-portable
patterns which work with GNU regex but not elsewhere.
Additionally, the extended regular expressions may be less ugly and
complicated compared to the basic RE since many common special operators do
not need to be backslashed.
For example, the GNU Basic RE:
^[ ]*\\(\\(public\\|static\\).*\\)$
becomes the following Extended RE:
^[ ]*((public|static).*)$
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only part of the hunk header that we can change is the "TEXT"
portion. Additionally, a few grammatical errors have been corrected.
Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley <gdolley@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Otherwise it will always print the class-name rather
than the name of the function inside that class.
While we're at it, reorder the gitattributes manpage to
list the built-in funcname pattern names in alphabetical
order.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The SYNOPSIS section of gitattibutes and gitmodule fail to clearly
specify the name of the in tree files used. This patch brings in the
initial `.' and the fact that the `.gitmodules' file should reside at
the top-level of the working tree.
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of crlf attribute incorrectly said that "-crlf" means
binary. It is true that for binary files you would want "-crlf", but
that is not the same thing.
We also have supported attribute macros and via that mechanism a handy
"binary" to specify "-crlf -diff" at the same time. It was not documented
anywhere as far as I can tell, even though the support was there from
the very beginning.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Find lines with <h1>..<h6> tags.
[jc: while at it, reordered entries to sort alphabetically.]
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All BibTeX entries starts with an @ followed by an entry type. Since
there are many entry types and own can be defined, the pattern matches
legal entry type names instead of just the default types (which would
be a long list). The pattern also matches strings and comments since
they will also be useful to position oneself in a bib-file.
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the hunk header pattern text was written patterns for Ruby and
Pascal/Delphi have been added. For users to be able to find them they
should be documented not only in code.
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The document gives overall definition of states in DESCRIPTION, describes
various aspects of git operations that can be influenced in EFFECTS, and
finally gives examples in the EXAMPLE section. Archive creation however
was somehow documented after the EXAMPLE section, not insode EFFECTS.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some manual pages use teletype font to set command names. We
change them to use italics, instead. This creates a visual
distinction between names of commands and command lines that
can be typed at the command line. It is also more consistent
with other man pages outside Git.
In this patch, the commands named are non-git commands like bash.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.
Using
doit () {
perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
}
for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
do
doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
done
git diff
.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format
names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`.
While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some
places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page
synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using
"git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is
not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to
refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no
escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.)
This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command,
program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can
be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are
made to use the dashless form.
The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens
and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched
versions are identical.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Paths marked with this attribute are not output to git-archive
output.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user
level, it seems better to move it to man section 1.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitignore patterns can be read from three different
files, while gitattributes can come from two files. Let's
provide some hints to the user about the differences and how
they are typically used.
Suggested by Toby Corkindale, but gratuitously reworded by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@rea-group.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data.
autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to
CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and
CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text
files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings
such that we have only LF line endings in the repository.
But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the
conversion can corrupt data.
If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by
setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right
after committing you still have the original file in your work
tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell
git that this file is binary and git will handle the file
appropriately.
Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with
mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary
files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed
in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing
to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files
converting CRLFs corrupts data.
This patch adds a mechanism that can either warn the user about
an irreversible conversion or can even refuse to convert. The
mechanism is controlled by the variable core.safecrlf, with the
following values:
- false: disable safecrlf mechanism
- warn: warn about irreversible conversions
- true: refuse irreversible conversions
The default is to warn. Users are only affected by this default
if core.autocrlf is set. But the current default of git is to
leave core.autocrlf unset, so users will not see warnings unless
they deliberately chose to activate the autocrlf mechanism.
The safecrlf mechanism's details depend on the git command. The
general principles when safecrlf is active (not false) are:
- we warn/error out if files in the work tree can modified in an
irreversible way without giving the user a chance to backup the
original file.
- for read-only operations that do not modify files in the work tree
we do not not print annoying warnings.
There are exceptions. Even though...
- "git add" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, the
next checkout would, so the safety triggers;
- "git apply" to update a text file with a patch does touch the files
in the work tree, but the operation is about text files and CRLF
conversion is about fixing the line ending inconsistencies, so the
safety does not trigger;
- "git diff" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, it is
often run to inspect the changes you intend to next "git add". To
catch potential problems early, safety triggers.
The concept of a safety check was originally proposed in a similar
way by Linus Torvalds. Thanks to Dimitry Potapov for insisting
on getting the naked LF/autocrlf=true case right.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:
@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
# Inline macros.
# Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
# (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
# Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
(?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
# Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]
This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `core.whitespace` configuration variable allows you to define what
`diff` and `apply` should consider whitespace errors for all paths in
the project (See gitlink:git-config[1]). This attribute gives you finer
control per path.
For example, if you have these in the .gitattributes:
frotz whitespace
nitfol -whitespace
xyzzy whitespace=-trailing
all types of whitespace problems known to git are noticed in path 'frotz'
(i.e. diff shows them in diff.whitespace color, and apply warns about
them), no whitespace problem is noticed in path 'nitfol', and the
default types of whitespace problems except "trailing whitespace" are
noticed for path 'xyzzy'. A project with mixed Python and C might want
to have:
*.c whitespace
*.py whitespace=-indent-with-non-tab
in its toplevel .gitattributes file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tweak the "filter" section of the gitattributes documentation to add
some
missing articles and improve some word choices without changing the
semantics of the section.
Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description was meant to emphasizes that the project should remain
usable even if the filter driver was not used. This makes it more explicit
and removes the "here is rope to hang yourself" paraphrase.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The order in which 'ident' and 'crlf' are carried out is documented a few paragraphs
later again, after 'filter' was introduced.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As suggested by Junio and Johannes, change the name of the former
attribute specfile to export-subst to indicate its function rather
than purpose and to make clear that it is not applied to working tree
files.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As suggested by Johannes, --pretty=format: placeholders in specfiles
need to be wrapped in $Format:...$ now. This syntax change restricts
the expansion of placeholders and makes it easier to use with files
that contain non-placeholder percent signs.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for a new attribute, specfile. Files marked as being
specfiles are expanded by git-archive when they are written to an
archive. It has no effect on worktree files. The same placeholders
as those for the option --pretty=format: of git-log et al. can be
used.
The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles. It is
limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though.
E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output,
and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes. That can be fixed
in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of
git-log, too.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The file used for per-repository attribute setting is not
$GIT_DIR/info/gitattributes, but $GIT_DIR/info/attributes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the external interface seems to have stabilized for this
new feature, let's document it properly.
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
$Id$ is present already in SVN and CVS; it would mean that people
converting their existing repositories won't have to make any changes to
the source files should they want to make use of the ident attribute.
Given that it's a feature that's meant to calm those very people, it
seems obtuse to make them edit every file just to make use of it.
I think that bzr uses $Id$; Mercurial has examples hooks for $Id$;
monotone has $Id$ on its wishlist. I can't think of a good reason not
to stick with the de-facto standard and call ours $Id$ instead of
$ident$.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The interface is similar to the custom low-level merge drivers.
First you configure your filter driver by defining 'filter.<name>.*'
variables in the configuration.
filter.<name>.clean filter command to run upon checkin
filter.<name>.smudge filter command to run upon checkout
Then you assign filter attribute to each path, whose name
matches the custom filter driver's name.
Example:
(in .gitattributes)
*.c filter=indent
(in config)
[filter "indent"]
clean = indent
smudge = cat
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The 'ident' attribute set to path squashes "$ident:<any bytes
except dollor sign>$" to "$ident$" upon checkin, and expands it
to "$ident: <blob SHA-1> $" upon checkout.
As we have two conversions that affect checkin/checkout paths,
clarify how they interact with each other.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Jeff King