Document that it is insecure to use Personal Access Tokens, which
some hosting providers take as username/password, embedded in URLs.
* mh/doc-credential-helpers-with-pat:
docs: discuss caching personal access tokens
docs: list popular credential helpers
The meson build procedure for Documentation/technical/ hierarchy was
missing necessary dependencies, which has been corrected.
* sj/meson-doc-technical-dependency-fix:
meson: fix missing deps for technical articles
We centrally explain that "--no-whatever" is the way to countermand
the "--whatever" option. Explain that a configured default and the
value specified by an environment variable can be overridden by the
corresponding command line option, too.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We need an explicit `depends: documentation_deps` so that all of our
Documentation targets know they require asciidoc.conf. This shows up
as parallel build failures with it not yet being available.
Other targets look OK already.
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe problems storing personal access tokens in git-credential-cache
and suggest alternatives.
Research suggests that many users are confused about this:
> the point of passwords is that (ideally) you memorise them [so]
> they're never stored anywhere in plain text. Yet GitHub's personal
> access token system seems to basically force you to store the token in
> plain text?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46645843/where-to-store-my-git-personal-access-token#comment89963004_46645843
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-credential-store saves credentials unencrypted on disk. It is the
least secure choice of credential helper. Nevertheless, it appears
several times more popular than any other credential helper [1].
Inform users about more secure alternatives.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35942754/how-can-i-save-username-and-password-in-git
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2a9dfdf260 (difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections, 2022-09-07)
moved the difftool documentation, but missed moving this "include" line that
includes the generated list of diff tools, as referenced in the moved text.
Restore the correct position of the included list.
Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Following the `CodingGuidlines`, since these placeholders are literal
they should be typeset verbatim, so fix some that aren't.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct verb tense, add missing words, avoid double blank lines,
and rephrase things that don’t read well to me like “Turn this linkage
to relative paths”.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 1bc1e94091 (doc: option value may be separate for valid reasons,
2024-11-25) added a paragraph discussing tilde-expansion of, e.g.,
~/directory/file.
The tilde character has a special meaning to asciidoc tools. In this
particular case, AsciiDoc matches up the two tildes in "e.g.
~/directory/file or ~u/d/f" and sets the text between them using
subscript. In the manpage, where subscripting is not possible, this
renders as "e.g. /directory/file oru/d/f".
These paths are literal values, which our coding guidelines want typeset
as verbatim using backticks. Do that. One effect of this is indeed that
the asciidoc tools stop interpreting tilde and other special characters.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The two-line heading added in 8525e92886 (Document HOME environment
variable, 2024-12-09) uses too many tilde characters, so the heading
isn't detected as such. Both AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor end up
misrendering this in different ways.
Use the correct number of tilde characters to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The build procedure based on meson learned to generate HTML
documention pages.
* ps/build-meson-html:
Documentation: wire up sanity checks for Meson
t/Makefile: make "check-meson" work with Dash
meson: install static files for HTML documentation
meson: generate articles
Documentation: refactor "howto-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
Documentation: refactor "api-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds
meson: generate user manual
Documentation: inline user-manual.conf
meson: generate HTML pages for all man page categories
meson: fix generation of merge tools
meson: properly wire up dependencies for our docs
meson: wire up support for AsciiDoctor
The developer documentation has been updated to give the latest
info on gitk and git-gui maintainer.
* as/gitk-git-gui-repo-update:
Update the official repo of gitk
Wire up sanity checks for Meson to verify that no man pages are missing.
This check is similar to the same check we already have for our tests.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we generate man pages, articles and user manual with Meson the
only thing that is still missing in an installation of HTML documents is
a couple of static files. Wire these up to finalize Meson's support for
generating HTML documentation.
Diffing an installation that uses our Makefile with an installation that
uses Meson only surfaces a couple of discepancies now:
- Meson doesn't install "everyday.html" and "git-remote-helpers.html".
These files are marked as obsolete and don't contain any useful
information anymore: they simply point to their modern equivalents.
- Meson doesn't install "*.txt" files when asking for HTML docs. I'm
not sure why our Makefiles do this in the first place, and it does
seem like the resulting installation is fully functional even
without those files.
Other than that, both layout and file contents are the exact same.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the Meson build system already knows to generate man pages and our
user manual, it does not yet generate the random assortment of articles
that we have. Plug this gap.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "howto-index.sh" is used to generate an index of our how-to docs. It
receives as input the paths to these documents, which would typically be
relative to the "Documentation/" directory in Makefile-based builds. In
an out-of-tree build though it will get relative that may be rooted
somewhere else entirely.
The file paths do end up in the generated index, and the expectation is
that they should always start with "howto/". But for out-of-tree builds
we would populate it with the paths relative to the build directory,
which is wrong.
Fix the issue by using `$(basename "$file")` to generate the path. While
at it, move the script into "howto/" to align it with the location of
the comparable "api-index.sh" script.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "api-index.sh" script generates an index of API-related
documentation. The script does not handle out-of-tree builds and thus
cannot be used easily by Meson.
Refactor it to be independent of locations by both accepting a source
directory where the API docs live as well as a path to an output file.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our documentation contains a user manual that gives people a short
introduction to Git. Our Makefile knows to generate the manual into
three different formats: an HTML page, a PDF and an info page. The Meson
build instructions don't yet generate any of these.
While wiring up all these formats I hit a couple of road blocks with how
we generate our info pages. Even though I eventually resolved these, it
made me question whether anybody actually uses info pages in the first
place. Checking through a couple of downstream consumers I couldn't find
a single user of either the info pages nor of our PDF manual in Arch
Linux, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD or OpenBSDFedora. So it's rather
safe to assume that there aren't really any users out there, and thus
the added complexity does not seem worth it.
Wire up support for building the user manual in HTML format and
conciously skip over the other two formats. This is basically a form of
silent deprecation: if people out there use the other two formats they
will eventually complain about them missing in Meson, which means we can
wire them up at a later point. If they don't we can phase out these
formats eventually.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When generating our user manual we set up a bit of extra configuration
compared to our normal configuration. This is done by having an extra
"user-manual.conf" file that Asciidoc seems to pull in automatically due
to matching filenames with "user-manual.txt". This dependency is quite
hidden though and thus easy to miss. Furthermore, it seems that Asciidoc
does not know to pull it in for out-of-tree builds where we use relative
paths.
The setup in AsciiDoctor is somewhat different: instead of having two
sets of configuration, we condition the use of manual-specific configs
based on whether the document type is "book". And as we only build our
user manual with that type this is sufficient.
Use the same trick for our user manual by inlining the configuration
into "asciidoc.conf.in" and making it conditional on whether or not
"doctype-book" is defined.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When generating HTML pages for our man pages we only generate them for
category 1 in Meson, which are the pages corresponding to our built-in
commands. I cannot tell why I added this filter though: our Makefile
installs all man pages, so a Meson-based build misses out on many of
them.
Fix this by removing the filter.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our buildsystems generate a list of diff and merge tools that ultimately
end up in our documentation. And while Meson does wire up the logic, it
tries to use the TOOL_MODE environment variable to set up the mode. This
is wrong though: the mode is set via an argument that we have fixed to
'diff' mode by accident.
Fix this such that merge tools are properly generated.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of Meson documentation targets use `meson.current_source_dir()`
to resolve inputs. This has the downside that it does not automagically
make Meson track these inputs as a dependency. After all, string
arguments really can be anything, even if they happen to match an actual
filesystem path.
Adapt these build targets to instead use inputs.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While our Makefile supports both Asciidoc and AsciiDoctor, our Meson
build instructions only support the former. Wire up support for the
latter, as well.
Our Makefile always favors Asciidoc, but Meson will automatically figure
out which of both to use based on whether they are installed or not. To
keep compatibility with our Makefile it favors Asciidoc over Asciidoctor
in case both are available.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Point out:
- current maintaner
- contribution flow is via the mailing list
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Let's wait for git-gui, gitk, and possibly po/ and delay the tagging
of the -rc1. Many people are already offline for the end-of-year
holidays and it is a slow week, and 'master' front has too many new
things graduated from 'next' a bit too early for me to feel
comfortable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git refs migrate" learned to also migrate the reflog data across
backends.
* kn/reflog-migration:
refs: mark invalid refname message for translation
refs: add support for migrating reflogs
refs: allow multiple reflog entries for the same refname
refs: introduce the `ref_transaction_update_reflog` function
refs: add `committer_info` to `ref_transaction_add_update()`
refs: extract out refname verification in transactions
refs/files: add count field to ref_lock
refs: add `index` field to `struct ref_udpate`
refs: include committer info in `ref_update` struct
A topic to optionally build with meson, which has graduated to
'master' recently, broke Documentation pipeline with asciidoctor
for the normal Makefile build as well as meson-based one, which
have been corrected.
* ma/asciidoctor-build-fixes:
asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in: inject GIT_DATE
asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in: add missing word
asciidoctor-extensions.rb.in: delete existing <refmiscinfo/>
A topic to optionally build with meson, which has graduated to
'master' recently, has regressed the normal Makefile build, which
is being corrected.
* ps/build-hotfix:
meson: add options to override build information
GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT and GIT_DATE
GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_VERSION
Makefile: introduce template for GIT-VERSION-GEN
Makefile: drop unneeded indirection for GIT-VERSION-GEN outputs
Makefile: stop including "GIT-VERSION-FILE" in docs
"git range-diff" learned to optionally show and compare merge
commits in the ranges being compared, with the --diff-merges
option.
* js/range-diff-diff-merges:
range-diff: introduce the convenience option `--remerge-diff`
range-diff: optionally include merge commits' diffs in the analysis
After a38edab7c8 (Makefile: generate doc versions via GIT-VERSION-GEN,
2024-12-06), we no longer inject GIT_DATE when building with
Asciidoctor.
Replace the <date/> tag in the XML to inject the value of GIT_DATE.
Unlike <refmiscinfo/> as handled in a recent commit, we have no reason
to expect that this tag might be missing, so there's no need for "maybe
remove, then add" and we can just outright replace the one that
Asciidoctor has generated based on the mtime of the source file.
Compared to pre-a38edab7c8, we now end up injecting this also in the
build of Git.3pm, which until now has been using the mtime of Git.pm.
That is arguably even a good change since it results in more
reproducible builds.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a38edab7c8 (Makefile: generate doc versions via GIT-VERSION-GEN,
2024-12-06) stopped providing an attribute value "Git $(GIT_VERSION)" to
asciidoc/Asciidoctor over the command line. Instead, we now provide the
attribute to asciidoc through a generated asciidoc.conf, where the value
is generated as "Git @GIT_VERSION@".
In the similar mechanism for Asciidoctor, we forgot the "Git" prefix.
Restore it.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After the recent a38edab7c8 (Makefile: generate doc versions via
GIT-VERSION-GEN, 2024-12-06), building with Asciidoctor results in
manpages where the headers no longer contain "Git Manual" and the
footers no longer identify the built Git version.
Before a38edab7c8, we used to just provide a few attributes to
Asciidoctor (and asciidoc). Commit 7a30134358 (asciidoctor-extensions:
provide `<refmiscinfo/>`, 2019-09-16) noted that older versions of
Asciidoctor didn't propagate those attributes into the built XML files,
so we started injecting them ourselves from this script. With newer
versions of Asciidoctor, we'd end up with some harmless duplication
among the tags in the final XML.
Post-a38edab7c8, we don't provide these attributes and Asciidoctor
inserts empty-ish values. After our additions from 7a30134358, we get
<refmiscinfo class="source"> </refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="manual"> </refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="source">2.47.1.[...]</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="manual">Git Manual</refmiscinfo>
When these are handled, it appears to be first come first served,
meaning that our additions have no effect and we regress as described in
the first paragraph.
Remove existing "source" or "manual" <refmiscinfo/> tags before adding
ours. I considered removing all <refmiscinfo/> to get a nice clean
slate, instead of just those two that we want to replace to be a bit
more precise. I opted for the latter. Maybe one day, Asciidoctor learns
to insert something useful there which `xmlto` can pick up and make good
use of -- let's not interfere.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/build-hotfix:
meson: add options to override build information
GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_BUILT_FROM_COMMIT and GIT_DATE
GIT-VERSION-GEN: fix overriding GIT_VERSION
Makefile: introduce template for GIT-VERSION-GEN
Makefile: drop unneeded indirection for GIT-VERSION-GEN outputs
Makefile: stop including "GIT-VERSION-FILE" in docs
We inject various different kinds of build information into build
artifacts, like the version string or the commit from which Git was
built. Add options to let users explicitly override this information
with Meson.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano