"git --no-lazy-fetch cmd" allows to run "cmd" while disabling lazy
fetching of objects from the promisor remote, which may be handy
for debugging.
* jc/no-lazy-fetch:
git: extend --no-lazy-fetch to work across subprocesses
git: document GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS environment variable
git: --no-lazy-fetch option
The formatting around "option push-option" was missing its closing
quote, leading to the output having a stray opening quote, rather than
rendering the item in italics (as we do for all of the other options in
the list).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-branch(1) will error out if you give it a bad ref name. But the user
might not understand why or what part of the name is illegal.
The user might know that there are some limitations based on the *loose
ref* format (filenames), but there are also further rules for
easier integration with shell-based tools, pathname expansion, and
playing well with reference name expressions.
The man page for git-check-ref-format(1) contains these rules. Let’s
advise about it since that is not a command that you just happen
upon. Also make this advise configurable since you might not want to be
reminded every time you make a little typo.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use double quotes like we use for “die” in this document.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use backticks for inline-verbatim rather than single quotes. Also quote
the unquoted ref globs.
Also replace “the add command” with “`git add`”.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In general, rewrite entries to the following form:
1. Clause or sentence describing when the advice is shown
2. Optional “to <verb>” clause which says what the advice is
about (e.g. for resetNoRefresh: tell the user that they can use
`--no-refresh`)
Concretely:
1. Use “shown” instead of “advice shown”
• “advice” is implied and a bit repetitive
2. Use “when” instead of “if”
3. Lead with “Shown when” and end the entry with the effect it has,
where applicable
4. Use “the user” instead of “a user” or “you”
5. implicitIdentity: rewrite description in order to lead with *when*
the advice is shown (see point (3))
6. Prefer the present tense (with the exception of pushNonFFMatching)
7. waitingForEditor: give example of relevance in this new context
8. pushUpdateRejected: exception to the above principles
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
d3b3419f8f (config: tell the user that we expect an ASCII character,
2023-03-27) updated an error message to make clear that this option
specifically wants an ASCII character but neglected to consider the
config documentation.
Reported-by: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also update the DEF_VER in GIT-VERSION-GEN, which I forgot to do
earlier (it should have been done when we started the new cycle).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git for-each-ref" learned "--include-root-refs" option to show
even the stuff outside the 'refs/' hierarchy.
* kn/for-all-refs:
for-each-ref: add new option to include root refs
ref-filter: rename 'FILTER_REFS_ALL' to 'FILTER_REFS_REGULAR'
refs: introduce `refs_for_each_include_root_refs()`
refs: extract out `loose_fill_ref_dir_regular_file()`
refs: introduce `is_pseudoref()` and `is_headref()`
When a merge conflicted at a submodule, merge-ort backend used to
unconditionally give a lengthy message to suggest how to resolve
it. Now the message can be squelched as an advice message.
* pb/ort-make-submodule-conflict-message-an-advice:
merge-ort: turn submodule conflict suggestions into an advice
Clarify wording in the CodingGuidelines that requires <git-compat-util.h>
to be the first header file.
* jc/doc-compat-util:
doc: clarify the wording on <git-compat-util.h> requirement
We clarified how "clean.requireForce" interacts with the "--dry-run"
option in the previous commit, both in the implementation and in the
documentation. Even when "git clean" (without other options) is
required to be used with "--force" (i.e. either clean.requireForce
is unset, or explicitly set to true) to protect end-users from
casual invocation of the command by mistake, "--dry-run" does not
require "--force" to be used, because it is already its own
protection mechanism by being a no-op to the working tree files.
The previous commit, however, missed another clean-up opportunity
around the same area. Just like in the "--dry-run" mode, the
command in the "--interactive" mode does not require "--force",
either. This is because by going interactive and giving the end
user one more chance to confirm, the mode itself is serving as its
own protection mechanism.
Let's take things one step further, and unify the code that defines
interaction between "--force" and these two other options. Just
like we added explanation for the reason why "--dry-run" does not
honor "clean.requireForce", give an explanation for the reason why
"--interactive" makes "clean.requireForce" to be ignored.
Finally, add some tests to show the interaction between "--force"
and "--interactive". We already have tests that show interaction
between "--force" and "--dry-run", but didn't test "--interactive".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
What -n actually does in addition to its documented behavior is
ignoring of configuration variable clean.requireForce, that makes
sense provided -n prevents files removal anyway.
So, first, document this in the manual, and then modify implementation
to make this more explicit in the code.
Improved implementation also stops to share single internal variable
'force' between command-line -f option and configuration variable
clean.requireForce, resulting in more clear logic.
Two error messages with slightly different text depending on if
clean.requireForce was explicitly set or not, are merged into a single
one.
The resulting error message now does not mention -n as well, as it
neither matches intended clean.requireForce usage nor reflects
clarified implementation.
Documentation of clean.requireForce is changed accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Practice the new mark-up rule for <placeholders> with "git add"
documentation page.
* jc/doc-add-placeholder-fix:
doc: apply the new placeholder rules to git-add documentation
The way placeholders are to be marked-up in documentation have been
specified; use "_<placeholder>_" to typeset the word inside a pair
of <angle-brakets> emphasized.
* ja/doc-placeholders-markup-rules:
doc: clarify the format of placeholders
"git reflog" learned a "list" subcommand that enumerates known reflogs.
* ps/reflog-list:
builtin/reflog: introduce subcommand to list reflogs
refs: stop resolving ref corresponding to reflogs
refs: drop unused params from the reflog iterator callback
refs: always treat iterators as ordered
refs/files: sort merged worktree and common reflogs
refs/files: sort reflogs returned by the reflog iterator
dir-iterator: support iteration in sorted order
dir-iterator: pass name to `prepare_next_entry_data()` directly
Doc update.
* ja/docfixes:
doc: end sentences with full-stop
doc: close unclosed angle-bracket of a placeholder in git-clone doc
doc: git-rev-parse: enforce command-line description syntax
"git difftool --dir-diff" learned to honor the "--trust-exit-code"
option; it used to always exit with 0 and signalled success.
* ps/difftool-dir-diff-exit-code:
git-difftool--helper: honor `--trust-exit-code` with `--dir-diff`
Git builtins used to be called like e.g. `git-commit`, not `git
commit` (*dashed form* and *non-dashed form*, respectively). The dashed
form was deprecated in version 1.5.4 (2006). Now only a few commands
have an alternative dashed form when `SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS` is
active.[1]
The mention here is from 2f7ee089df (parse-options: Add a gitcli(5) man
page., 2007-12-13), back when the deprecation was relatively
recent. These days though it seems like an irrelevant point to make to
budding CLI scripters—you don’t have to warn against a style that
probably doesn’t even work on their git(1) installation.
† 1: 179227d6e2 (Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins,
2020-09-21)
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By and large, variable groupings in Documentation/config.txt are sorted
alphabetically, though a few are not. Those outliers make it more
difficult to find a specific grouping when quickly running an eye over
the list to locate a variable of interest. Address this shortcoming by
sorting the groupings alphabetically.
NOTE: This change only sorts the top-level groupings (i.e. "core.*"
comes after "completion.*"); it does not touch the ordering of variables
within each group since variables within individual groups might
intentionally be ordered in some other fashion (such as
most-common-first or most-important-first).
Reported-by: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We added an "object-info" capability to the v2 upload-pack protocol in
a2ba162cda (object-info: support for retrieving object info,
2021-04-20). In the almost 3 years since, we have not added any
client-side support, and it does not appear to exist in other
implementations either (JGit understands the verb on the server side,
but not on the client side).
Since this largely unused code is accessible over the network by
default, it increases the attack surface of upload-pack. I don't know of
any particularly severe problem, but one issue is that because of the
request/response nature of the v2 protocol, it will happily read an
unbounded number of packets, adding each one to a string list (without
regard to whether they are objects we know about, duplicates, etc).
This may be something we want to improve in the long run, but in the
short term it makes sense to disable the feature entirely. We'll add a
config option as an escape hatch for anybody who wants to develop the
feature further.
A more gentle option would be to add the config option to let people
disable it manually, but leave it enabled by default. But given that
there's no client side support, that seems like the wrong balance with
security.
Disabling by default will slow adoption a bit once client-side support
does become available (there were some patches[1] in 2022, but nothing
got merged and there's been nothing since). But clients have to deal
with older servers that do not understand the option anyway (and the
capability system handles that), so it will just be a matter of servers
flipping their config at that point (and hopefully once any unbounded
allocations have been addressed).
[jk: this is a patch that GitHub has been running for several years, but
rebased forward and with a new commit message for upstream]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220208231911.725273-1-calvinwan@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we see a packfile-uri line from the client, we use
string_list_split() to split it on commas and store the result in a
string_list. A single packfile-uri line is therefore limited to storing
~64kb, the size of a pkt-line.
But we'll happily accept multiple such lines, and each line appends to
the string list, growing without bound.
In theory this could be useful, making:
0017packfile-uris http
0018packfile-uris https
equivalent to:
001dpackfile-uris http,https
But the protocol documentation doesn't indicate that this should work
(and indeed, refers to this in the singular as "the following argument
can be included in the client's request"). And the client-side
implementation in fetch-pack has always sent a single line (JGit appears
to understand the line on the server side but has no client-side
implementation, and libgit2 understands neither).
If we were worried about compatibility, we could instead just put a
limit on the maximum number of values we'd accept. The current client
implementation limits itself to only two values: "http" and "https", so
something like "256" would be more than enough. But accepting only a
single line seems more in line with the protocol documentation, and
matches other parts of the protocol (e.g., we will not accept a second
"filter" line).
We'll also make this more explicit in the protocol documentation; as
above, I think this was always the intent, but there's no harm in making
it clear.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the "ref-in-want" capability is advertised (which it is not by
default), then upload-pack processes a "want-ref" line from the client
by checking that the name is a valid ref and recording it in a
string-list.
In theory this list should grow no larger than the number of refs in the
server-side repository. But since we don't do any de-duplication, a
client which sends "want-ref refs/heads/foo" over and over will cause
the array to grow without bound.
We can fix this by switching to strmap, which efficiently detects
duplicates. There are two client-visible changes here:
1. The "wanted-refs" response will now be in an apparently-random
order (based on iterating the hashmap) rather than the order given
by the client. The protocol documentation is quiet on ordering
here. The current fetch-pack implementation is happy with any
order, as it looks up each returned ref using a binary search in
its local sorted list. JGit seems to implement want-ref on the
server side, but has no client-side support. libgit2 doesn't
support either side.
It would obviously be possible to record the original order or to
use the strmap as an auxiliary data structure. But if the client
doesn't care, we may as well do the simplest thing.
2. We'll now reject duplicates explicitly as a protocol error. The
client should never send them (and our current implementation, even
when asked to "git fetch master:one master:two" will de-dup on the
client side).
If we wanted to be more forgiving, we could perhaps just throw away
the duplicates. But then our "wanted-refs" response back to the
client would omit the duplicates, and it's hard to say what a
client that accidentally sent a duplicate would do with that. So I
think we're better off to complain loudly before anybody
accidentally writes such a client.
Let's also add a note to the protocol documentation clarifying that
duplicates are forbidden. As discussed above, this was already the
intent, but it's not very explicit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git log' learned in ae3e5e1ef2 (git log -p --merge [[--] paths...],
2006-07-03) to show commits touching conflicted files in the range
HEAD...MERGE_HEAD, an addition documented in d249b45547 (Document
rev-list's option --merge, 2006-08-04).
It can be useful to look at the commit history to understand what lead
to merge conflicts also for other mergy operations besides merges, like
cherry-pick, revert and rebase.
For rebases and cherry-picks, an interesting range to look at is
HEAD...{REBASE_HEAD,CHERRY_PICK_HEAD}, since even if all the commits
included in that range are not directly part of the 3-way merge,
conflicts encountered during these operations can indeed be caused by
changes introduced in preceding commits on both sides of the history.
For revert, as we are (most likely) reversing changes from a previous
commit, an appropriate range is REVERT_HEAD..HEAD, which is equivalent
to REVERT_HEAD...HEAD and to HEAD...REVERT_HEAD, if we keep HEAD and its
parents on the left side of the range.
As such, adjust the code in prepare_show_merge so it constructs the
range HEAD...$OTHER for OTHER={MERGE_HEAD, CHERRY_PICK_HEAD, REVERT_HEAD
or REBASE_HEAD}. Note that we try these pseudorefs in order, so keep
REBASE_HEAD last since the three other operations can be performed
during a rebase. Note also that in the uncommon case where $OTHER and
HEAD do not share a common ancestor, this will show the complete
histories of both sides since their root commits, which is the same
behaviour as currently happens in that case for HEAD and MERGE_HEAD.
Adjust the documentation of this option accordingly.
Co-authored-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Co-authored-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Lohmann <mi.al.lohmann@gmail.com>
[jc: tweaked in j6t's precedence fix that tries REBASE_HEAD last]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Variants of vimdiff learned to honor mergetool.<variant>.layout settings.
* km/mergetool-vimdiff-layout-fallback:
mergetools: vimdiff: use correct tool's name when reading mergetool config
"git am --help" now tells readers what actions are available in
"git am --whitespace=<action>", in addition to saying that the
option is passed through to the underlying "git apply".
* jc/am-whitespace-doc:
doc: add shortcut to "am --whitespace=<action>"
Modeling after how the `--no-replace-objects` option is made usable
across subprocess spawning (e.g., cURL based remote helpers are
spawned as a separate process while running "git fetch"), allow the
`--no-lazy-fetch` option to be passed across process boundaries.
Do not model how the value of GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS environment
variable is ignored, though. Just use the usual git_env_bool() to
allow "export GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH=0" and "unset GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH"
to be equivalents.
Also do not model how the request is not propagated to subprocesses
we spawn (e.g. "git clone --local" that spawns a new process to work
in the origin repository, while the original one working in the
newly created one) by the "--no-replace-objects" option, as this "do
not lazily fetch from the promisor" is more about a per-request
debugging aid, not "this repository's promisor should not be relied
upon" property specific to a repository.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reason why we require the <git-compat-util.h> file to be the
first header file to be included is because it insulates other
header files and source files from platform differences, like which
system header files must be included in what order, and what C
preprocessor feature macros must be defined to trigger certain
features we want out of the system.
We tried to clarify the rule in the coding guidelines document, but
the wording was a bit fuzzy that can lead to misinterpretations like
you can include <xdiff/xinclude.h> only to avoid having to include
<git-compat-util.h> even if you have nothing to do with the xdiff
implementation, for example. "You do not have to include more than
one of these" was also misleading and would have been puzzling if
you _needed_ to depend on more than one of these approved headers
(answer: you are allowed to include them all if you need the
declarations in them for reasons other than that you want to avoid
including compat-util yourself).
Instead of using the phrase "approved headers", enumerate them as
exceptions, each labeled with its intended audiences, to avoid such
misinterpretations. The structure also makes it easier to add new
exceptions, so add the description of "t/unit-tests/test-lib.h"
being an exception only for the unit tests implementation as an
example.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
This is a minor follow-up to cb00f524df (rebase: rewrite
--(no-)autosquash documentation, 2023-11-14) to fix a typo introduced in
that commit.
Signed-off-by: Richard Macklin <code@rmacklin.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This variable is used as the primary way to disable the object
replacement mechanism, with the "--no-replace-objects" command line
option as an end-user visible way to set it, but has not been
documented.
The original reason why it was left undocumented might be because it
was meant as an internal implementation detail, but the thing is,
that our tests use the environment variable directly without the
command line option, and there certainly are folks who learned its
use from there, making it impossible to deprecate or change its
behaviour by now.
Add documentation and note that for this variable, unlike many
boolean-looking environment variables, only the presence matters,
not what value it is set to.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Integrate the reftable code into the refs framework as a backend.
* ps/reftable-backend:
refs/reftable: fix leak when copying reflog fails
ci: add jobs to test with the reftable backend
refs: introduce reftable backend
Add a new advice type 'submoduleMergeConflict' for the error message
shown when a non-trivial submodule conflict is encountered, which
was added in 4057523a40 (submodule merge: update conflict error
message, 2022-08-04). That commit mentions making this message an
advice as possible future work. The message can now be disabled
with the advice mechanism.
Update the tests as the expected message now appears on stderr instead
of stdout.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In af626ac0e0 (pack-bitmap: enable reuse from all bitmapped packs,
2023-12-14), the documentation for `pack.allowPackReuse` was amended to
include its effect when set to "multi".
This split the documentation into two paragraphs, but did not de-dent
the second paragraph on the right-hand side of a line-continuation
marker. This causes the rendered documentation to appear oddly, where
the second paragraph is treated as a <pre> block when rendered as HTML.
Fix this by correctly removing the indentation on the second paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-for-each-ref(1) command doesn't provide a way to print root refs
i.e pseudorefs and HEAD with the regular "refs/" prefixed refs.
This commit adds a new option "--include-root-refs" to
git-for-each-ref(1). When used this would also print pseudorefs and HEAD
for the current worktree.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the new format rule when using placeholders in the description of
commands and options.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the git-reflog(1) command has subcommands to show reflog entries
or check for reflog existence, it does not have any subcommands that
would allow the user to enumerate all existing reflogs. This makes it
quite hard to discover which reflogs a repository has. While this can
be worked around with the "files" backend by enumerating files in the
".git/logs" directory, users of the "reftable" backend don't enjoy such
a luxury.
Introduce a new subcommand `git reflog list` that lists all reflogs the
repository knows of to fill this gap.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-rev-parse(1) manpage is completely off with respect to the
command-line description syntax with badly formatted placeholders and
malformed alternatives.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct a few random "sendemail.*" configuration parameter names in the
documentation that, for some unknown reason and contrary to the expected,
didn't use camel case format.
The majority of the corrections are straightforward, by using camel case
to denote boundaries of the individual words that, stringed together, make
up configuration parameter names. A couple of abbreviations found in some
of the corrected configuration parameter names present some exceptions,
which are described in detail below.
First, there's "SSL" as the abbreviation for "Secure Sockets Layer". [1]
As such, it's written using all uppercase letters, which is pretty much the
general rule for making abbreviations, although with certain exceptions.
Second, there's "Cc" as the abbreviation for "carbon copy", which is another
exception. As the acronym for "carbon copy", "cc" (mind the all lowercase
letters) stems from the rather old times when, literally, carbon copies were
made. [2] Therefore, using "CC" (mind the all uppercase letters) or "cc"
(mind the all lowercase letters) would be technically correct in the email
domain, as the abbreviation or as mentioned in RFC2076, [3] respectively, but
the age of email has established "Cc" (mind the mixed uppercase and lowercase
letters) as some kind of de facto standard. [1][4][5] Moreover, some of the
git utilities, primarily git-send-email(1), already refer to making email
carbon copies as specifying "Cc:" email headers. As a result, "Cc" becomes
one of the exceptions to the general rule for making abbreviations.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_copy
[3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2076
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212059
[5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50826
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `--trust-exit-code` option for git-diff-tool(1) was introduced via
2b52123fcf (difftool: add support for --trust-exit-code, 2014-10-26).
When set, it makes us return the exit code of the invoked diff tool when
diffing multiple files. This patch didn't change the code path where
`--dir-diff` was passed because we already returned the exit code of the
diff tool unconditionally in that case.
This was changed a month later via c41d3fedd8 (difftool--helper: add
explicit exit statement, 2014-11-20), where an explicit `exit 0` was
added to the end of git-difftool--helper.sh. While the stated intent of
that commit was merely a cleanup, it had the consequence that we now
to ignore the exit code of the diff tool when `--dir-diff` was set. This
change in behaviour is thus very likely an unintended side effect of
this patch.
Now there are two ways to fix this:
- We can either restore the original behaviour, which unconditionally
returned the exit code of the diffing tool when `--dir-diff` is
passed.
- Or we can make the `--dir-diff` case respect the `--trust-exit-code`
flag.
The fact that we have been ignoring exit codes for 7 years by now makes
me rather lean towards the latter option. Furthermore, respecting the
flag in one case but not the other would needlessly make the user
interface more complex.
Fix the bug so that we also honor `--trust-exit-code` for dir diffs and
adjust the documentation accordingly.
Reported-by: Jean-Rémy Falleri <jr.falleri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Perl implementation of add --interactive was removed in commit [1].
Additionally, the interactive.singleKey setting is no longer silently
ignored. The internal implementation of ReadKey [2] displays a warning
if the platform is unsupported.
[1] 20b813d7d (add: remove "add.interactive.useBuiltin" & Perl "git add--interactive", 2023-02-06)
[2] a5e46e6b0 (terminal: add a new function to read a single keystroke, 2020-01-14)
Signed-off-by: Julio Bacellari <julio.bacel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ps/reftable-backend:
refs/reftable: fix leak when copying reflog fails
ci: add jobs to test with the reftable backend
refs: introduce reftable backend
The /mergetools/vimdiff script, which handles both vimdiff, nvimdiff
and gvimdiff mergetools (the latter 2 simply source the vimdiff script), has a
function merge_cmd() which read the layout variable from git config, and it
would always read the value of mergetool.**vimdiff**.layout, instead of the
mergetool being currently used (vimdiff or nvimdiff or gvimdiff).
It looks like in 7b5cf8be18 (vimdiff: add tool documentation, 2022-03-30),
we explained the current behavior in Documentation/config/mergetool.txt:
```
mergetool.vimdiff.layout::
The vimdiff backend uses this variable to control how its split
windows look like. Applies even if you are using Neovim (`nvim`) or
gVim (`gvim`) as the merge tool. See BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section
```
which makes sense why it's explained this way - the vimdiff backend is used by
gvim and nvim. But the mergetool's configuration should be separate for each tool,
and indeed that's confirmed in same commit at Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.txt:
```
Variants
Instead of `--tool=vimdiff`, you can also use one of these other variants:
* `--tool=gvimdiff`, to open gVim instead of Vim.
* `--tool=nvimdiff`, to open Neovim instead of Vim.
When using these variants, in order to specify a custom layout you will have to
set configuration variables `mergetool.gvimdiff.layout` and
`mergetool.nvimdiff.layout` instead of `mergetool.vimdiff.layout`
```
So it looks like we just forgot to update the 1 part of the vimdiff script
that read the config variable. Cheers.
Though, for backward compatibility, I've kept the mergetool.vimdiff
fallback, so that people who unknowingly relied on it, won't have their
setup broken now.
Signed-off-by: Kipras Melnikovas <kipras@kipras.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We refer readers of "git am --help" to "git apply --help" for many
options that are passed through, and most of them are simple
booleans, but --whitespace takes from a set of actions whose names
may slip users' minds. Give a list of them in "git am --help" to
reduce one level of redirection only to find out what they are.
In the helper function to parse the available options, there was a
helpful comment reminding the developer to update list of <action>s
in the completion script. Mention the two documentation pages there
as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 9830926c7d (rev-list: add commit object support in `--missing`
option, 2023-10-27) we fixed the `--missing` option in `git rev-list`
so that it works with with missing commits, not just blobs/trees.
Unfortunately, such a command would still fail with a "fatal: bad
object <oid>" if it is passed a missing commit, blob or tree as an
argument (before the rev walking even begins).
When such a command is used to find the dependencies of some objects,
for example the dependencies of quarantined objects (see the
"QUARANTINE ENVIRONMENT" section in the git-receive-pack(1)
documentation), it would be better if the command would instead
consider such missing objects, especially commits, in the same way as
other missing objects.
If, for example `--missing=print` is used, it would be nice for some
use cases if the missing tips passed as arguments were reported in
the same way as other missing objects instead of the command just
failing.
We could introduce a new option to make it work like this, but most
users are likely to prefer the command to have this behavior as the
default one. Introducing a new option would require another dumb loop
to look for that option early, which isn't nice.
Also we made `git rev-list` work with missing commits very recently
and the command is most often passed commits as arguments. So let's
consider this as a bug fix related to these recent changes.
While at it let's add a NEEDSWORK comment to say that we should get
rid of the existing ugly dumb loops that parse the
`--exclude-promisor-objects` and `--missing=...` options early.
Helped-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes, especially during tests of low level machinery, it is
handy to have a way to disable lazy fetching of objects. This
allows us to say, for example, "git cat-file -e <object-name>", to
see if the object is locally available.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git branch" and friends learned to use the formatted text as
sorting key, not the underlying timestamp value, when the --sort
option is used with author or committer timestamp with a format
specifier (e.g., "--sort=creatordate:format:%H:%M:%S").
* vd/for-each-ref-sort-with-formatted-timestamp:
ref-filter.c: sort formatted dates by byte value
* ps/reftable-backend:
refs/reftable: fix leak when copying reflog fails
ci: add jobs to test with the reftable backend
refs: introduce reftable backend
Doc update.
* js/contributor-docs-updates:
SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCII
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub artifact format
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub visual
SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice
SubmittingPatches: update extra tags list
SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers
SubmittingPatches: drop ref to "What's in git.git"
CodingGuidelines: write punctuation marks
CodingGuidelines: move period inside parentheses
Doc update.
* ml/doc-merge-updates:
Documentation/git-merge.txt: use backticks for command wrapping
Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix reference to synopsis
Doc updates to clarify what an "unborn branch" means.
* jc/orphan-unborn:
orphan/unborn: fix use of 'orphan' in end-user facing messages
orphan/unborn: add to the glossary and use them consistently
Doc updates.
* jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special:
docs: MERGE_AUTOSTASH is not that special
docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that special
refs.h: HEAD is not that special
git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special
git.txt: HEAD is not that special
Unlike other environment variables that took the usual
true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1,
which has been corrected.
* cp/git-flush-is-an-env-bool:
write-or-die: make GIT_FLUSH a Boolean environment variable
Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or
archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links.
* js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment:
doc: refer to internet archive
doc: update links for andre-simon.de
doc: switch links to https
doc: update links to current pages
Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records
information about commits that are lost from the object store,
which has negative performance implications. The default has been
flipped to disable this pessimization.
* ps/commit-graph-less-paranoid:
commit-graph: disable GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA by default
Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our
(ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version
requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow
simplifying our implementation.
* tz/send-email-negatable-options:
send-email: avoid duplicate specification warnings
perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0
The "--fsck-objects" option of "git index-pack" now can take the
optional parameter to tweak severity of different fsck errors.
* jc/index-pack-fsck-levels:
index-pack: --fsck-objects to take an optional argument for fsck msgs
index-pack: test and document --strict=<msg-id>=<severity>...
Update the ref sorting functions of 'ref-filter.c' so that when date fields
are specified with a format string (such as in 'git for-each-ref
--sort=creatordate:<something>'), they are sorted by their formatted string
value rather than by the underlying numeric timestamp. Currently, date
fields are always sorted by timestamp, regardless of whether formatting
information is included in the '--sort' key.
Leaving the default (unformatted) date sorting unchanged, sorting by the
formatted date string adds some flexibility to 'for-each-ref' by allowing
for behavior like "sort by year, then by refname within each year" or "sort
by time of day". Because the inclusion of a format string previously had no
effect on sort behavior, this change likely will not affect existing usage
of 'for-each-ref' or other ref listing commands.
Additionally, update documentation & tests to document the new sorting
mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The syntax commonly used for alternatives is --opt-(a|b), not
--opt-{a,b}.
List bad/new and good/old consistently in this order, to be
consistent with the description for "git bisect terms". Clarify
<term> to either <term-old> or <term-new> to make them consistent
with the description of "git bisect (good|bad)" subcommands.
Suggested-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for "git bisect terms", although it did not hide
any information, was a bit incomplete and forced readers to fill in
the blanks to get the complete picture.
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to scalability issues, Shawn Pearce has originally proposed a new
"reftable" format more than six years ago [1]. Initially, this new
format was implemented in JGit with promising results. Around two years
ago, we have then added the "reftable" library to the Git codebase via
a4bbd13be3 (Merge branch 'hn/reftable', 2021-12-15). With this we have
landed all the low-level code to read and write reftables. Notably
missing though was the integration of this low-level code into the Git
code base in the form of a new ref backend that ties all of this
together.
This gap is now finally closed by introducing a new "reftable" backend
into the Git codebase. This new backend promises to bring some notable
improvements to Git repositories:
- It becomes possible to do truly atomic writes where either all refs
are committed to disk or none are. This was not possible with the
"files" backend because ref updates were split across multiple loose
files.
- The disk space required to store many refs is reduced, both compared
to loose refs and packed-refs. This is enabled both by the reftable
format being a binary format, which is more compact, and by prefix
compression.
- We can ignore filesystem-specific behaviour as ref names are not
encoded via paths anymore. This means there is no need to handle
case sensitivity on Windows systems or Unicode precomposition on
macOS.
- There is no need to rewrite the complete refdb anymore every time a
ref is being deleted like it was the case for packed-refs. This
means that ref deletions are now constant time instead of scaling
linearly with the number of refs.
- We can ignore file/directory conflicts so that it becomes possible
to store both "refs/heads/foo" and "refs/heads/foo/bar".
- Due to this property we can retain reflogs for deleted refs. We have
previously been deleting reflogs together with their refs to avoid
file/directory conflicts, which is not necessary anymore.
- We can properly enumerate all refs. With the "files" backend it is
not easily possible to distinguish between refs and non-refs because
they may live side by side in the gitdir.
Not all of these improvements are realized with the current "reftable"
backend implementation. At this point, the new backend is supposed to be
a drop-in replacement for the "files" backend that is used by basically
all Git repositories nowadays. It strives for 1:1 compatibility, which
means that a user can expect the same behaviour regardless of whether
they use the "reftable" backend or the "files" backend for most of the
part.
Most notably, this means we artificially limit the capabilities of the
"reftable" backend to match the limits of the "files" backend. It is not
possible to create refs that would end up with file/directory conflicts,
we do not retain reflogs, we perform stricter-than-necessary checks.
This is done intentionally due to two main reasons:
- It makes it significantly easier to land the "reftable" backend as
tests behave the same. It would be tough to argue for each and every
single test that doesn't pass with the "reftable" backend.
- It ensures compatibility between repositories that use the "files"
backend and repositories that use the "reftable" backend. Like this,
hosters can migrate their repositories to use the "reftable" backend
without causing issues for clients that use the "files" backend in
their clones.
It is expected that these artificial limitations may eventually go away
in the long term.
Performance-wise things very much depend on the actual workload. The
following benchmarks compare the "files" and "reftable" backends in the
current version:
- Creating N refs in separate transactions shows that the "files"
backend is ~50% faster. This is not surprising given that creating a
ref only requires us to create a single loose ref. The "reftable"
backend will also perform auto compaction on updates. In real-world
workloads we would likely also want to perform pack loose refs,
which would likely change the picture.
Benchmark 1: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.1 ms ± 0.3 ms [User: 0.6 ms, System: 1.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.8 ms … 4.3 ms 133 runs
Benchmark 2: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.7 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.6 ms, System: 2.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 2.4 ms … 2.9 ms 132 runs
Benchmark 3: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.975 s ± 0.006 s [User: 0.437 s, System: 1.535 s]
Range (min … max): 1.969 s … 1.980 s 3 runs
Benchmark 4: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.611 s ± 0.013 s [User: 0.782 s, System: 1.825 s]
Range (min … max): 2.597 s … 2.622 s 3 runs
Benchmark 5: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = files, refcount = 100000)
Time (mean ± σ): 198.442 s ± 0.241 s [User: 43.051 s, System: 155.250 s]
Range (min … max): 198.189 s … 198.670 s 3 runs
Benchmark 6: update-ref: create refs sequentially (refformat = reftable, refcount = 100000)
Time (mean ± σ): 294.509 s ± 4.269 s [User: 104.046 s, System: 190.326 s]
Range (min … max): 290.223 s … 298.761 s 3 runs
- Creating N refs in a single transaction shows that the "files"
backend is significantly slower once we start to write many refs.
The "reftable" backend only needs to update two files, whereas the
"files" backend needs to write one file per ref.
Benchmark 1: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.9 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.8 ms … 2.6 ms 151 runs
Benchmark 2: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.5 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.7 ms, System: 1.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 2.4 ms … 3.4 ms 148 runs
Benchmark 3: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 152.5 ms ± 5.2 ms [User: 19.1 ms, System: 133.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 148.5 ms … 167.8 ms 15 runs
Benchmark 4: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 58.0 ms ± 2.5 ms [User: 28.4 ms, System: 29.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 56.3 ms … 72.9 ms 40 runs
Benchmark 5: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 152.752 s ± 0.710 s [User: 20.315 s, System: 131.310 s]
Range (min … max): 152.165 s … 153.542 s 3 runs
Benchmark 6: update-ref: create many refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 51.912 s ± 0.127 s [User: 26.483 s, System: 25.424 s]
Range (min … max): 51.769 s … 52.012 s 3 runs
- Deleting a ref in a fully-packed repository shows that the "files"
backend scales with the number of refs. The "reftable" backend has
constant-time deletions.
Benchmark 1: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.7 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.6 ms … 2.1 ms 316 runs
Benchmark 2: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.8 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.7 ms … 2.1 ms 294 runs
Benchmark 3: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.0 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.5 ms, System: 1.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.9 ms … 2.5 ms 287 runs
Benchmark 4: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.9 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.5 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.8 ms … 2.1 ms 217 runs
Benchmark 5: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 229.8 ms ± 7.9 ms [User: 182.6 ms, System: 46.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 224.6 ms … 245.2 ms 6 runs
Benchmark 6: update-ref: delete ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.0 ms ± 0.0 ms [User: 0.6 ms, System: 1.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 2.0 ms … 2.1 ms 3 runs
- Listing all refs shows no significant advantage for either of the
backends. The "files" backend is a bit faster, but not by a
significant margin. When repositories are not packed the "reftable"
backend outperforms the "files" backend because the "reftable"
backend performs auto-compaction.
Benchmark 1: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 2.0 ms 1729 runs
Benchmark 2: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 1.8 ms 1816 runs
Benchmark 3: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 4.3 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.9 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 4.1 ms … 4.6 ms 645 runs
Benchmark 4: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 4.5 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 1.0 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 4.2 ms … 5.9 ms 643 runs
Benchmark 5: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.537 s ± 0.034 s [User: 0.488 s, System: 2.048 s]
Range (min … max): 2.511 s … 2.627 s 10 runs
Benchmark 6: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000, packed = true)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.712 s ± 0.017 s [User: 0.653 s, System: 2.059 s]
Range (min … max): 2.692 s … 2.752 s 10 runs
Benchmark 7: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 1.9 ms 1834 runs
Benchmark 8: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.4 ms … 2.0 ms 1840 runs
Benchmark 9: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 13.8 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 2.8 ms, System: 10.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 13.3 ms … 14.5 ms 208 runs
Benchmark 10: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 4.5 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 1.2 ms, System: 3.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 4.3 ms … 6.2 ms 624 runs
Benchmark 11: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 12.127 s ± 0.129 s [User: 2.675 s, System: 9.451 s]
Range (min … max): 11.965 s … 12.370 s 10 runs
Benchmark 12: show-ref: print all refs (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000, packed = false)
Time (mean ± σ): 2.799 s ± 0.022 s [User: 0.735 s, System: 2.063 s]
Range (min … max): 2.769 s … 2.836 s 10 runs
- Printing a single ref shows no real difference between the "files"
and "reftable" backends.
Benchmark 1: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.5 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.0 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.4 ms … 1.8 ms 1779 runs
Benchmark 2: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.4 ms … 2.5 ms 1753 runs
Benchmark 3: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.5 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.3 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.4 ms … 1.9 ms 1840 runs
Benchmark 4: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 2.0 ms 1831 runs
Benchmark 5: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = files, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 2.1 ms 1848 runs
Benchmark 6: show-ref: print single ref (refformat = reftable, refcount = 1000000)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.6 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.4 ms, System: 1.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 2.1 ms 1762 runs
So overall, performance depends on the usecases. Except for many
sequential writes the "reftable" backend is roughly on par or
significantly faster than the "files" backend though. Given that the
"files" backend has received 18 years of optimizations by now this can
be seen as a win. Furthermore, we can expect that the "reftable" backend
will grow faster over time when attention turns more towards
optimizations.
The complete test suite passes, except for those tests explicitly marked
to require the REFFILES prerequisite. Some tests in t0610 are marked as
failing because they depend on still-in-flight bug fixes. Tests can be
run with the new backend by setting the GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT
environment variable to "reftable".
There is a single known conceptual incompatibility with the dumb HTTP
transport. As "info/refs" SHOULD NOT contain the HEAD reference, and
because the "HEAD" file is not valid anymore, it is impossible for the
remote client to figure out the default branch without changing the
protocol. This shortcoming needs to be handled in a subsequent patch
series.
As the reftable library has already been introduced a while ago, this
commit message will not go into the details of how exactly the on-disk
format works. Please refer to our preexisting technical documentation at
Documentation/technical/reftable for this.
[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAJo=hJtyof=HRy=2sLP0ng0uZ4=S-DpZ5dR1aF+VHVETKG20OQ@mail.gmail.com/
Original-idea-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Based-on-patch-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that multi-pack reuse is supported, enable it via the
feature.experimental configuration in addition to the classic
`pack.allowPackReuse`.
This will allow more users to experiment with the new behavior who might
not otherwise be aware of the existing `pack.allowPackReuse`
configuration option.
The enum with values NO_PACK_REUSE, SINGLE_PACK_REUSE, and
MULTI_PACK_REUSE is defined statically in builtin/pack-objects.c's
compilation unit. We could hoist that enum into a scope visible from the
repository_settings struct, and then use that enum value in
pack-objects. Instead, define a single int that indicates what
pack-objects's default value should be to avoid additional unnecessary
code movement.
Though `feature.experimental` implies `pack.allowPackReuse=multi`, this
can still be overridden by explicitly setting the latter configuration
to either "single" or "false". Tests covering all of these cases are
showin t5332.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano