The ssh-variant 'simple' introduced earlier broke existing
installations by not passing --port/-4/-6 and not diagnosing an
attempt to pass these as an error. Instead, default to
automatically detect how compatible the GIT_SSH/GIT_SSH_COMMAND is
to OpenSSH convention and then error out an invocation to make it
easier to diagnose connection errors.
* jn/ssh-wrappers:
connect: correct style of C-style comment
ssh: 'simple' variant does not support --port
ssh: 'simple' variant does not support -4/-6
ssh: 'auto' variant to select between 'ssh' and 'simple'
connect: split ssh option computation to its own function
connect: split ssh command line options into separate function
connect: split git:// setup into a separate function
connect: move no_fork fallback to git_tcp_connect
ssh test: make copy_ssh_wrapper_as clean up after itself
A new mechanism to upgrade the wire protocol in place is proposed
and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git
without harming them.
* bw/protocol-v1:
Documentation: document Extra Parameters
ssh: introduce a 'simple' ssh variant
i5700: add interop test for protocol transition
http: tell server that the client understands v1
connect: tell server that the client understands v1
connect: teach client to recognize v1 server response
upload-pack, receive-pack: introduce protocol version 1
daemon: recognize hidden request arguments
protocol: introduce protocol extension mechanisms
pkt-line: add packet_write function
connect: in ref advertisement, shallows are last
In addition to "git stash -m message", the command learned to
accept "git stash -mmessage" form.
* ph/stash-save-m-option-fix:
stash: learn to parse -m/--message like commit does
Internaly we use 0{40} as a placeholder object name to signal the
codepath that there is no such object (e.g. the fast-forward check
while "git fetch" stores a new remote-tracking ref says "we know
there is no 'old' thing pointed at by the ref, as we are creating
it anew" by passing 0{40} for the 'old' side), and expect that a
codepath to locate an in-core object to return NULL as a sign that
the object does not exist. A look-up for an object that does not
exist however is quite costly with a repository with large number
of packfiles. This access pattern has been optimized.
* jk/fewer-pack-rescan:
sha1_file: fast-path null sha1 as a missing object
everything_local: use "quick" object existence check
p5551: add a script to test fetch pack-dir rescans
t/perf/lib-pack: use fast-import checkpoint to create packs
p5550: factor out nonsense-pack creation
The build procedure has been taught to avoid some unnecessary
instability in the build products.
* jn/reproducible-build:
generate-cmdlist: avoid non-deterministic output
git-gui: sort entries in optimized tclIndex
The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take
the "--autostash" option.
* ac/complete-pull-autostash:
completion: add --autostash and --no-autostash to pull
"git config --expiry-date gc.reflogexpire" can read "2.weeks" from
the configuration and report it as a timestamp, just like "--int"
would read "1k" and report 1024, to help consumption by scripts.
* hm/config-parse-expiry-date:
config: add --expiry-date
"git branch --set-upstream" has been deprecated and (sort of)
removed, as "--set-upstream-to" is the preferred one these days.
The documentation still had "--set-upstream" listed on its
synopsys section, which has been corrected.
* tz/branch-doc-remove-set-upstream:
branch doc: remove --set-upstream from synopsis
* cc/perf-run-config:
perf: store subsection results in "test-results/$GIT_PERF_SUBSECTION/"
perf/run: show name of rev being built
perf/run: add run_subsection()
perf/run: update get_var_from_env_or_config() for subsections
perf/run: add get_subsections()
perf/run: add calls to get_var_from_env_or_config()
perf/run: add GIT_PERF_DIRS_OR_REVS
perf/run: add get_var_from_env_or_config()
perf/run: add '--config' option to the 'run' script
"git checkout --recursive" may overwrite and rewind the history of
the branch that happens to be checked out in submodule
repositories, which might not be desirable. Detach the HEAD but
still allow the recursive checkout to succeed in such a case.
* sb/submodule-recursive-checkout-detach-head:
Documentation/checkout: clarify submodule HEADs to be detached
recursive submodules: detach HEAD from new state
Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as
it was clear what it computed but not why/what for.
* jc/merge-base-fork-point-doc:
merge-base --fork-point doc: clarify the example and failure modes
A few scripts (both in production and tests) incorrectly redirected
their error output. These have been corrected.
* tz/redirect-fix:
rebase: fix stderr redirect in apply_autostash()
t/lib-gpg: fix gpgconf stderr redirect to /dev/null
"git notes" sent its error message to its standard output stream,
which was corrected.
* tz/notes-error-to-stderr:
notes: send "Automatic notes merge failed" messages to stderr
The three-way merge performed by "git cherry-pick" was confused
when a new submodule was added in the meantime, which has been
fixed (or "papered over").
* sb/test-cherry-pick-submodule-getting-in-a-way:
merge-recursive: handle addition of submodule on our side of history
t/3512: demonstrate unrelated submodule/file conflict as cherry-pick failure
The sequencer machinery (used by "git cherry-pick A..B", and "git
rebase -i", among other things) would have lost a commit if stopped
due to an unlockable index file, which has been fixed.
* pw/sequencer-recover-from-unlockable-index:
sequencer: reschedule pick if index can't be locked
"git apply --inaccurate-eof" when used with "--ignore-space-change"
triggered an internal sanity check, which has been fixed.
* rs/apply-inaccurate-eof-with-incomplete-line:
apply: update line lengths for --inaccurate-eof
Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the
"--copy" option of "git branch".
* tz/complete-branch-copy:
completion: add '--copy' option to 'git branch'
When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened
to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has
been corrected.
* ew/rebase-mboxrd:
rebase: use mboxrd format to avoid split errors
Contrary to the documentation, "git pull -4/-6 other-args" did not
ask the underlying "git fetch" to go over IPv4/IPv6, which has been
corrected.
* sw/pull-ipv46-passthru:
pull: pass -4/-6 option to 'git fetch'
The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an
HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor.
* bc/submitting-patches-in-asciidoc:
Documentation: convert SubmittingPatches to AsciiDoc
Documentation: enable compat-mode for Asciidoctor
Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started
rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been
optimized again for most trivial cases.
* mh/avoid-rewriting-packed-refs:
files-backend: don't rewrite the `packed-refs` file unnecessarily
t1409: check that `packed-refs` is not rewritten unnecessarily
"git grep -W", "git diff -W" and their friends learned a heuristic
to extend a pre-context beyond the line that matches the "function
pattern" (aka "diff.*.xfuncname") to include a comment block, if
exists, that immediately precedes it.
* rs/include-comments-before-the-function-header:
grep: show non-empty lines before functions with -W
grep: update boundary variable for pre-context
t7810: improve check of -W with user-defined function lines
xdiff: show non-empty lines before functions with -W
xdiff: factor out is_func_rec()
t4051: add test for comments preceding function lines
"git branch --list" learned to show its output through the pager by
default when the output is going to a terminal, which is controlled
by the pager.branch configuration variable. This is similar to a
recent change to "git tag --list".
* ma/branch-list-paginate:
branch: change default of `pager.branch` to "on"
branch: respect `pager.branch` in list-mode only
t7006: add tests for how git branch paginates
"git branch" and "git checkout -b" are now forbidden from creating
a branch whose name is "HEAD".
* jc/branch-name-sanity:
builtin/branch: remove redundant check for HEAD
branch: correctly reject refs/heads/{-dash,HEAD}
branch: split validate_new_branchname() into two
branch: streamline "attr_only" handling in validate_new_branchname()
There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a
section of a configuration section, which has been corrected.
* rs/config-write-section-fix:
config: flip return value of write_section()
Contrary to the documentation, "git pull -4/-6 other-args" did not
ask the underlying "git fetch" to go over IPv4/IPv6, which has been
corrected.
* sw/pull-ipv46-passthru:
pull: pass -4/-6 option to 'git fetch'
Mentions of "git-rebase" and "git-am" (dashed form) still remained
in end-user visible strings emitted by the "git rebase" command;
they have been corrected.
* ks/rebase-no-git-foo:
git-rebase: clean up dashed-usages in messages
There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a
section of a configuration section, which has been corrected.
* rs/config-write-section-fix:
config: flip return value of write_section()
When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened
to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has
been corrected.
* ew/rebase-mboxrd:
rebase: use mboxrd format to avoid split errors
"git add --renormalize ." is a new and safer way to record the fact
that you are correcting the end-of-line convention and other
"convert_to_git()" glitches in the in-repository data.
* tb/add-renormalize:
add: introduce "--renormalize"
Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the
"--copy" option of "git branch".
* tz/complete-branch-copy:
completion: add '--copy' option to 'git branch'
"git apply --inaccurate-eof" when used with "--ignore-space-change"
triggered an internal sanity check, which has been fixed.
* rs/apply-inaccurate-eof-with-incomplete-line:
apply: update line lengths for --inaccurate-eof
The sequencer machinery (used by "git cherry-pick A..B", and "git
rebase -i", among other things) would have lost a commit if stopped
due to an unlockable index file, which has been fixed.
* pw/sequencer-recover-from-unlockable-index:
sequencer: reschedule pick if index can't be locked
Jeff Hostetler