It is misleading to mention that <ref> that does not store is to
fetch the ref into FETCH_HEAD, because a refspec that does store is
also to fetch the LHS into FETCH_HEAD. It is doubly misleading to
list it as part of "short-cut". <ref> stands for a refspec that has
it on the LHS with a colon and an empty RHS, and that definition
should be given at the beginning of the entry where the format is
defined.
Tentatively remove this misleading description, which leaves the
`tag <tag>` as the only true short-hand, so move it at the beginning
of the entry.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The text made it sound as if the leading plus is the only thing that
is optional, and forgot that <lhs> is the same as <lhs>:, i.e. fetch
it and do not store anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace desription of old-style "Pull:" lines in remotes/
configuration with modern remote.*.fetch variables.
As this note applies only to "git pull", enable it only
in git-pull manual page.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In old days before Git 1.5, it was customery for "git fetch" to use
the same local branch namespace to keep track of the remote-tracking
branches, and it was necessary to tell users not to check them out
and commit on them. Since everybody uses the separate remote layout
these days, there is no need to warn against the practice to check
out the right-hand side of <refspec> and build on it---the RHS is
typically not even a local branch.
Incidentally, this also kills one mention of "Pull:" line of
$GIT_DIR/remotes/* configuration, which is a lot less familiar to
new people than the more modern remote.*.fetch configuration
variable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While it is not *wrong* per-se to say that pulling a rewound/rebased
branch will lead to an unnecessary merge conflict, that is not what
the leading "+" sign to allow non-fast-forward update of remote-tracking
branch is at all.
Helped-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- "Branches" is a more common way to say "heads" in these days.
- Remote-tracking branches are used a lot more these days and it is
worth mentioning that it is one of the primary side effects of
the command to update them.
- Avoid "X. That means Y." If Y is easier to understand to
readers, just say that upfront.
- Use of explicit refspec to fetch tags does not have much to do
with turning "auto following" on or off. It is a way to fetch
tags that otherwise would not be fetched by auto-following.
Helped-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of showing a warning and working as before, fail and show
the message and force immediate upgrade from their upstream
repositories when these tools are run, per request from their
primary author.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tools are now maintained out-of-tree, and they have a regression
in v2.0. It's better to start warning the users as soon as possible.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit d508e4a8e2,
reversing changes made to e42552135a.
The author of the original topic says he broke the upcoming 2.0
release with something that relates to "synchronization crash
regression" while refusing to give further specifics, so this would
unfortunately be the safest option for the upcoming release.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Not all shells subject the prompt string to parameter expansion. Test
whether the shell will expand the value of PS1, and use the result to
control whether raw ref names are included directly in PS1.
This fixes a regression introduced in commit 8976500 ("git-prompt.sh:
don't put unsanitized branch names in $PS1"): zsh does not expand PS1
by default, but that commit assumed it did. The bug resulted in
prompts containing the literal string '${__git_ps1_branch_name}'
instead of the actual branch name.
Reported-by: Caleb Thompson <caleb@calebthompson.io>
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The highlighting was pretty, but unfortunately, the failure mode
when source-highlight is not installed was that the entire code
block disappears.
See https://bugs.debian.org/745591,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316810.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since git 2.0.0 starting git gui in a submodule using a gitfile fails with
the following error:
No working directory ../../../<path>
couldn't change working directory
to "../../../<path>": no such file or
directory
This is because "git rev-parse --show-toplevel" is only run when git gui
sees a git version of at least 1.7.0 (which is the version in which the
--show-toplevel option was introduced). But "package vsatisfies" returns
false when the major version changes, which is not what we want here.
Fix that for both places where the git version is checked using vsatisfies
by appending a '-' to the version number. This tells vsatisfies that a
change of the major version is not considered to be a problem, as long as
the new major version is larger. This is done for both the place that
caused the reported bug and another spot where the git version is tested
for another feature.
Reported-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@free.fr>
Helped-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Tested-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Older versions of Git before v1.7.10 did not DWIM
$ git pull $URL for-linus
to the tag "tags/for-linus" and the users were required to say
$ git pull $URL tags/for-linus
instead. Because newer versions of Git works either way,
request-pull used to show tags/for-linus when asked
$ git request-pull origin/master $URL for-linus
The recent updates broke this and in the output we see "for-linus"
without the "tags/" prefix.
As v1.7.10 is more than 2 years old, this should matter very little
in practice, but resurrecting it is very simple.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Otherwise it might collide with a function of the same name in the
user's environment.
Suggested-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The third maintenance release for Git 1.9; contains all the fixes
that are scheduled to appear in Git 2.0 since 1.9.2.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-shell(1) manpage says
EXAMPLE
To disable interactive logins, displaying a greeting
instead:
+
$ chsh -s /usr/bin/git-shell
$ mkdir $HOME/git-shell-commands
[...]
The stray "+" has been there ever since the example was added in
v1.8.3-rc0~210^2 (shell: new no-interactive-login command to print a
custom message, 2013-03-09). The "+" sign between paragraphs is
needed in asciidoc to attach extra paragraphs to a list item but here
it is not needed and ends up rendered as a literal "+". Remove it.
A quick search with "grep -e '<p>+' /usr/share/doc/git/html/*.html"
doesn't find any other instances of this problem.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git p4" dealing with changes in binary files were broken by a
change in 1.9 release.
* cl/p4-use-diff-tree:
git-p4: format-patch to diff-tree change breaks binary patches
The shell prompt script (in contrib/), when using the PROMPT_COMMAND
interface, used an unsafe construct when showing the branch name in
$PS1.
* rh/prompt-pcmode-avoid-eval-on-refname:
git-prompt.sh: don't put unsanitized branch names in $PS1
"git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD /bin/sh does not
work well with.
* km/avoid-non-function-return-in-rebase:
Revert "rebase: fix run_specific_rebase's use of "return" on FreeBSD"
rebase: avoid non-function use of "return" on FreeBSD
Some more Unicode codepoints defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero
width have been taught to our display column counting logic.
* tb/unicode-6.3-zero-width:
utf8.c: partially update to version 6.3
Describe one last minute one-liner fix for regression introduced in
1.9, and fix a grave mischaracterization on a recent remote-hg/bzr
change, pointed out by Felipe.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fixes a regression in 1.9.0 with an obviously correct single-liner.
* cl/p4-use-diff-tree:
git-p4: format-patch to diff-tree change breaks binary patches
When applying binary patches a full index is required. format-patch
already handles this, but diff-tree needs '--full-index' argument
to always output full index. When git-p4 runs git-apply to test
the patch, git-apply rejects the patch due to abbreviated blob
object names. This is the error message git-apply emits in this
case:
error: cannot apply binary patch to '<filename>' without full index line
error: <filename>: patch does not apply
Signed-off-by: Tolga Ceylan <tolga.ceylan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano