Both fetch and push support pattern refspecs which allow fetching or
pushing references that match a specific pattern. Because these patterns
are globs, they have somewhat limited ability to express more complex
situations.
For example, suppose you wish to fetch all branches from a remote except
for a specific one. To allow this, you must setup a set of refspecs
which match only the branches you want. Because refspecs are either
explicit name matches, or simple globs, many patterns cannot be
expressed.
Add support for a new type of refspec, referred to as "negative"
refspecs. These are prefixed with a '^' and mean "exclude any ref
matching this refspec". They can only have one "side" which always
refers to the source. During a fetch, this refers to the name of the ref
on the remote. During a push, this refers to the name of the ref on the
local side.
With negative refspecs, users can express more complex patterns. For
example:
git fetch origin refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* ^refs/heads/dontwant
will fetch all branches on origin into remotes/origin, but will exclude
fetching the branch named dontwant.
Refspecs today are commutative, meaning that order doesn't expressly
matter. Rather than forcing an implied order, negative refspecs will
always be applied last. That is, in order to match, a ref must match at
least one positive refspec, and match none of the negative refspecs.
This is similar to how negative pathspecs work.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The text tries to say the code accepts many variations that look remotely
like scissors and perforation marks, but gives too little detail for users
to decide what is and what is not taken as a scissors line for themselves.
Instead of describing the heuristics more, just spell out what will always
be accepted, namely "-- >8 --", as it would not help users to give them
more choices and flexibility and be "creative" in their scissors line.
Signed-off-by: Evan Gates <evan.gates@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
That should be a ":", not a second "=". While at it, refer to the
placeholder "<n>" as "<n>", not "n" (see, e.g., the entry just before
this one).
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We document how `merge.suppressDest` can be used to omit " into <branch
name>" from the title of the merge message. It is true that we omit the
space character before "into", but that lone double quote character
risks ending up on the wrong side of a line break, looking a bit out of
place. This currently happens with, e.g., 80-character terminals.
Drop that leading quoted space. The result should be just as clear about
how this option affects the formatted message.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that shortlog supports reading from trailers, it can be useful to
combine counts from multiple trailers, or between trailers and authors.
This can be done manually by post-processing the output from multiple
runs, but it's non-trivial to make sure that each name/commit pair is
counted only once.
This patch teaches shortlog to accept multiple --group options on the
command line, and pull data from all of them. That makes it possible to
run:
git shortlog -ns --group=author --group=trailer:co-authored-by
to get a shortlog that counts authors and co-authors equally.
The implementation is mostly straightforward. The "group" enum becomes a
bitfield, and the trailer key becomes a list. I didn't bother
implementing the multi-group semantics for reading from stdin. It would
be possible to do, but the existing matching code makes it awkward, and
I doubt anybody cares.
The duplicate suppression we used for trailers now covers authors and
committers as well (though in non-trailer single-group mode we can skip
the hash insertion and lookup, since we only see one value per commit).
There is one subtlety: we now care about the case when no group bit is
set (in which case we default to showing the author). The caller in
builtin/log.c needs to be adapted to ask explicitly for authors, rather
than relying on shortlog_init(). It would be possible with some
gymnastics to make this keep working as-is, but it's not worth it for a
single caller.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Trailers don't necessarily contain name/email identity values, so
shortlog has so far treated them as opaque strings. However, since many
trailers do contain identities, it's useful to treat them as such when
they can be parsed. That lets "-e" work as usual, as well as mailmap.
When they can't be parsed, we'll continue with the old behavior of
treating them as a single string (there's no new test for that here,
since the existing tests cover a trailer like this).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current documentation is vague about what happens with
--group=trailer:signed-off-by when we see a commit with:
Signed-off-by: One
Signed-off-by: Two
Signed-off-by: One
We clearly should credit both "One" and "Two", but should "One" get
credited twice? The current code does so, but mostly because that was
the easiest thing to do. It's probably more useful to count each commit
at most once. This will become especially important when we allow
values from multiple sources in a future patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a project uses commit trailers, this patch lets you use
shortlog to see who is performing each action. For example,
running:
git shortlog -ns --group=trailer:reviewed-by
in git.git shows who has reviewed. You can even use a custom
format to see things like who has helped whom:
git shortlog --format="...helped %an (%ad)" \
--group=trailer:helped-by
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for adding more grouping types, let's refactor the
committer/author grouping code and add a user-facing option that binds
them together. In particular:
- the main option is now "--group", to make it clear
that the various group types are mutually exclusive. The
"--committer" option is an alias for "--group=committer".
- we keep an enum rather than a binary flag, to prepare
for more values
- we prefer switch statements to ternary assignment, since
other group types will need more custom code
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Protocol v2 became the default in v2.26.0 via 684ceae32d (fetch: default
to protocol version 2, 2019-12-23). More widespread use turned up a
regression in negotiation. That was fixed in v2.27.0 via 4fa3f00abb
(fetch-pack: in protocol v2, in_vain only after ACK, 2020-04-27), but we
also reverted the default to v0 as a precuation in 11c7f2a30b (Revert
"fetch: default to protocol version 2", 2020-04-22).
In v2.28.0, we re-enabled it for experimental users with 3697caf4b9
(config: let feature.experimental imply protocol.version=2, 2020-05-20)
and haven't heard any complaints. v2.28 has only been out for 2 months,
but I'd generally expect people turning on feature.experimental to also
stay pretty up-to-date. So we're not likely to collect much more data by
waiting. In addition, we have no further reports from people running
v2.26.0, and of course some people have been setting protocol.version
manually for ages.
Let's move forward with v2 as the default again. It's possible there are
still lurking bugs, but we won't know until it gets more widespread use.
And we can find and squash them just like any other bug at this point.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users frequently have problems where two filenames differ only in case,
causing one of those files to show up consistently as being modified.
Let's add a FAQ entry that explains how to deal with that.
In addition, let's explain another common case where files are
consistently modified, which is when files using a smudge or clean
filter have not been run through that filter. Explain the way to fix
this as well.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A common scenario is for a user to apply a change to one branch and
cherry-pick it into another, then later revert it in the first branch.
This results in the change being present when the two branches are
merged, which is confusing to many users.
We already have documentation for how this works in `git merge`, but it
is clear from the frequency with which this is asked that it's hard to
grasp. We also don't explain to users that they are better off doing a
rebase in this case, which will do what they intended. Let's add an
entry to the FAQ telling users what's happening and advising them to use
rebase here.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In many projects, squash merges are commonly used, primarily to keep a
tidy history in the face of developers who do not use logically
independent, bisectable commits. As common as this is, this tends to
cause significant problems when squash merges are used to merge
long-running branches due to the lack of any new merge bases. Even very
experienced developers may make this mistake, so let's add a FAQ entry
explaining why this is problematic and explaining that regular merge
commits should be used to merge two long-running branches.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow users to append non-tracked files. This simplifies the generation
of source packages with a few extra files, e.g. containing version
information. They get the same access times and user information as
tracked files.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change filters.txt to ref-reachability-filters.txt in order to avoid
squatting on a file name that might be useful for another purpose.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lipman <alipman88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a configuration variable to specify a default value for the
recently-introduce '--max-new-filters' option of 'git commit-graph
write'.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a command-line flag to specify the maximum number of new Bloom
filters that a 'git commit-graph write' is willing to compute from
scratch.
Prior to this patch, a commit-graph write with '--changed-paths' would
compute Bloom filters for all selected commits which haven't already
been computed (i.e., by a previous commit-graph write with '--split'
such that a roll-up or replacement is performed).
This behavior can cause prohibitively-long commit-graph writes for a
variety of reasons:
* There may be lots of filters whose diffs take a long time to
generate (for example, they have close to the maximum number of
changes, diffing itself takes a long time, etc).
* Old-style commit-graphs (which encode filters with too many entries
as not having been computed at all) cause us to waste time
recomputing filters that appear to have not been computed only to
discover that they are too-large.
This can make the upper-bound of the time it takes for 'git commit-graph
write --changed-paths' to be rather unpredictable.
To make this command behave more predictably, introduce
'--max-new-filters=<n>' to allow computing at most '<n>' Bloom filters
from scratch. This lets "computing" already-known filters proceed
quickly, while bounding the number of slow tasks that Git is willing to
do.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a changed-path Bloom filter has either zero, or more than a
certain number (commonly 512) of entries, the commit-graph machinery
encodes it as "missing". More specifically, it sets the indices adjacent
in the BIDX chunk as equal to each other to indicate a "length 0"
filter; that is, that the filter occupies zero bytes on disk.
This has heretofore been fine, since the commit-graph machinery has no
need to care about these filters with too few or too many changed paths.
Both cases act like no filter has been generated at all, and so there is
no need to store them.
In a subsequent commit, however, the commit-graph machinery will learn
to only compute Bloom filters for some commits in the current
commit-graph layer. This is a change from the current implementation
which computes Bloom filters for all commits that are in the layer being
written. Critically for this patch, only computing some of the Bloom
filters means adding a third state for length 0 Bloom filters: zero
entries, too many entries, or "hasn't been computed".
It will be important for that future patch to distinguish between "not
representable" (i.e., zero or too-many changed paths), and "hasn't been
computed". In particular, we don't want to waste time recomputing
filters that have already been computed.
To that end, change how we store Bloom filters in the "computed but not
representable" category:
- Bloom filters with no entries are stored as a single byte with all
bits low (i.e., all queries to that Bloom filter will return
"definitely not")
- Bloom filters with too many entries are stored as a single byte with
all bits set high (i.e., all queries to that Bloom filter will
return "maybe").
These rules are sufficient to not incur a behavior change by changing
the on-disk representation of these two classes. Likewise, no
specification changes are necessary for the commit-graph format, either:
- Filters that were previously empty will be recomputed and stored
according to the new rules, and
- old clients reading filters generated by new clients will interpret
the filters correctly and be none the wiser to how they were
generated.
Clients will invoke the Bloom machinery in more cases than before, but
this can be addressed by returning a NULL filter when all bits are set
high. This can be addressed in a future patch.
Note that this does increase the size of on-disk commit-graphs, but far
less than other proposals. In particular, this is generally more
efficient than storing a bitmap for which commits haven't computed their
Bloom filters. Storing a bitmap incurs a penalty of one bit per commit,
whereas storing explicit filters as above incurs a penalty of one byte
per too-large or empty commit.
In practice, these boundary commits likely occupy a small proportion of
the overall number of commits, and so the size penalty is likely smaller
than storing a bitmap for all commits.
See, for example, these relative proportions of such boundary commits
(collected by SZEDER Gábor):
| Percentage of | commit-graph | |
| commits modifying | file size | |
├────────┬──────────────┼───────────────────┤ pct. |
| 0 path | >= 512 paths | before | after | change |
┌────────────────┼────────┼──────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼───────────┤
| android-base | 13.20% | 0.13% | 37.468M | 37.534M | +0.1741 % |
| cmssw | 0.15% | 0.23% | 17.118M | 17.119M | +0.0091 % |
| cpython | 3.07% | 0.01% | 7.967M | 7.971M | +0.0423 % |
| elasticsearch | 0.70% | 1.00% | 8.833M | 8.835M | +0.0128 % |
| gcc | 0.00% | 0.08% | 16.073M | 16.074M | +0.0030 % |
| gecko-dev | 0.14% | 0.64% | 59.868M | 59.874M | +0.0105 % |
| git | 0.11% | 0.02% | 3.895M | 3.895M | +0.0020 % |
| glibc | 0.02% | 0.10% | 3.555M | 3.555M | +0.0021 % |
| go | 0.00% | 0.07% | 3.186M | 3.186M | +0.0018 % |
| homebrew-cask | 0.40% | 0.02% | 7.035M | 7.035M | +0.0065 % |
| homebrew-core | 0.01% | 0.01% | 11.611M | 11.611M | +0.0002 % |
| jdk | 0.26% | 5.64% | 5.537M | 5.540M | +0.0590 % |
| linux | 0.01% | 0.51% | 63.735M | 63.740M | +0.0073 % |
| llvm-project | 0.12% | 0.03% | 25.515M | 25.516M | +0.0050 % |
| rails | 0.10% | 0.10% | 6.252M | 6.252M | +0.0027 % |
| rust | 0.07% | 0.17% | 9.364M | 9.364M | +0.0033 % |
| tensorflow | 0.09% | 1.02% | 7.009M | 7.010M | +0.0158 % |
| webkit | 0.05% | 0.31% | 17.405M | 17.406M | +0.0047 % |
(where the above increase is determined by computing a non-split
commit-graph before and after this patch).
Given that these projects are all "large" by commit count, the storage
cost by writing these filters explicitly is negligible. In the most
extreme example, android-base (which has 494,848 commits at the time of
writing) would have its commit-graph increase by a modest 68.4 KB.
Finally, a test to exercise filters which contain too many changed path
entries will be introduced in a subsequent patch.
Suggested-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of writing a new commit-graph in every 'git maintenance run
--auto' process (when maintenance.commit-graph.enalbed is configured to
be true), only write when there are "enough" commits not in a
commit-graph file.
This count is controlled by the maintenance.commit-graph.auto config
option.
To compute the count, use a depth-first search starting at each ref, and
leaving markers using the SEEN flag. If this count reaches the limit,
then terminate early and start the task. Otherwise, this operation will
peel every ref and parse the commit it points to. If these are all in
the commit-graph, then this is typically a very fast operation. Users
with many refs might feel a slow-down, and hence could consider updating
their limit to be very small. A negative value will force the step to
run every time.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, a normal run of "git maintenance run" will only run the 'gc'
task, as it is the only one enabled. This is mostly for backwards-
compatible reasons since "git maintenance run --auto" commands replaced
previous "git gc --auto" commands after some Git processes. Users could
manually run specific maintenance tasks by calling "git maintenance run
--task=<task>" directly.
Allow users to customize which steps are run automatically using config.
The 'maintenance.<task>.enabled' option then can turn on these other
tasks (or turn off the 'gc' task).
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A user may want to only run certain maintenance tasks in a certain
order. Add the --task=<task> option, which allows a user to specify an
ordered list of tasks to run. These cannot be run multiple times,
however.
Here is where our array of maintenance_task pointers becomes critical.
We can sort the array of pointers based on the task order, but we do not
want to move the struct data itself in order to preserve the hashmap
references. We use the hashmap to match the --task=<task> arguments into
the task struct data.
Keep in mind that the 'enabled' member of the maintenance_task struct is
a placeholder for a future 'maintenance.<task>.enabled' config option.
Thus, we use the 'enabled' member to specify which tasks are run when
the user does not specify any --task=<task> arguments. The 'enabled'
member should be ignored if --task=<task> appears.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first new task in the 'git maintenance' builtin is the
'commit-graph' task. This updates the commit-graph file
incrementally with the command
git commit-graph write --reachable --split
By writing an incremental commit-graph file using the "--split"
option we minimize the disruption from this operation. The default
behavior is to merge layers until the new "top" layer is less than
half the size of the layer below. This provides quick writes most
of the time, with the longer writes following a power law
distribution.
Most importantly, concurrent Git processes only look at the
commit-graph-chain file for a very short amount of time, so they
will verly likely not be holding a handle to the file when we try
to replace it. (This only matters on Windows.)
If a concurrent process reads the old commit-graph-chain file, but
our job expires some of the .graph files before they can be read,
then those processes will see a warning message (but not fail).
This could be avoided by a future update to use the --expire-time
argument when writing the commit-graph.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The run_auto_gc() method is used in several places to trigger a check
for repo maintenance after some Git commands, such as 'git commit' or
'git fetch'.
To allow for extra customization of this maintenance activity, replace
the 'git gc --auto [--quiet]' call with one to 'git maintenance run
--auto [--quiet]'. As we extend the maintenance builtin with other
steps, users will be able to select different maintenance activities.
Rename run_auto_gc() to run_auto_maintenance() to be clearer what is
happening on this call, and to expose all callers in the current diff.
Rewrite the method to use a struct child_process to simplify the calls
slightly.
Since 'git fetch' already allows disabling the 'git gc --auto'
subprocess, add an equivalent option with a different name to be more
descriptive of the new behavior: '--[no-]maintenance'. Update the
documentation to include these options at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Maintenance activities are commonly used as steps in larger scripts.
Providing a '--quiet' option allows those scripts to be less noisy when
run on a terminal window. Turn this mode on by default when stderr is
not a terminal.
Pipe the option to the 'git gc' child process.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'gc' builtin is our current entrypoint for automatically maintaining
a repository. This one tool does many operations, such as repacking the
repository, packing refs, and rewriting the commit-graph file. The name
implies it performs "garbage collection" which means several different
things, and some users may not want to use this operation that rewrites
the entire object database.
Create a new 'maintenance' builtin that will become a more general-
purpose command. To start, it will only support the 'run' subcommand,
but will later expand to add subcommands for scheduling maintenance in
the background.
For now, the 'maintenance' builtin is a thin shim over the 'gc' builtin.
In fact, the only option is the '--auto' toggle, which is handed
directly to the 'gc' builtin. The current change is isolated to this
simple operation to prevent more interesting logic from being lost in
all of the boilerplate of adding a new builtin.
Use existing builtin/gc.c file because we want to share code between the
two builtins. It is possible that we will have 'maintenance' replace the
'gc' builtin entirely at some point, leaving 'git gc' as an alias for
some specific arguments to 'git maintenance run'.
Create a new test_subcommand helper that allows us to test if a certain
subcommand was run. It requires storing the GIT_TRACE2_EVENT logs in a
file. A negation mode is available that will be used in later tests.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the mergetool used with "meld" backend behave similarly to "vimdiff" by
telling it to auto-merge non-conflicting parts and highlight the conflicting
parts when `mergetool.meld.useAutoMerge` is configured with `true`, or `auto`
for detecting the `--auto-merge` option automatically.
Helped-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Helped-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Sun <lin.sun@zoom.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Enable ref-filter to process multiple merged and no-merged filters, and
extend functionality to git branch, git tag and git for-each-ref. This
provides an easy way to check for branches that are "graduation
candidates:"
$ git branch --no-merged master --merged next
If passed more than one merged (or more than one no-merged) filter, refs
must be reachable from any one of the merged commits, and reachable from
none of the no-merged commits.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lipman <alipman88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update documentation for "git branch", "git for-each-ref" and "git tag"
with notes explaining what happens when passed multiple --contains or
--no-contains filters.
This behavior is useful to document prior to enabling multiple
merged/no-merged filters, in order to demonstrate consistent behavior
between merged/no-merged and contains/no-contains filters.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lipman <alipman88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The correct value from commit-graph.c:
#define GRAPH_PARENT_NONE 0x70000000
Signed-off-by: Conor Davis <git@conor.fastmail.fm>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When set in the environment, GIT_TRACE_REFS makes git print operations and
results as they flow through the ref storage backend. This helps debug
discrepancies between different ref backends.
Example:
$ GIT_TRACE_REFS="1" ./git branch
15:42:09.769631 refs/debug.c:26 ref_store for .git
15:42:09.769681 refs/debug.c:249 read_raw_ref: HEAD: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (=> refs/heads/ref-debug) type 1: 0
15:42:09.769695 refs/debug.c:249 read_raw_ref: refs/heads/ref-debug: 3a238e539b (=> refs/heads/ref-debug) type 0: 0
15:42:09.770282 refs/debug.c:233 ref_iterator_begin: refs/heads/ (0x1)
15:42:09.770290 refs/debug.c:189 iterator_advance: refs/heads/b4 (0)
15:42:09.770295 refs/debug.c:189 iterator_advance: refs/heads/branch3 (0)
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git uses the 'core.commitGraph' configuration value to control whether
or not the commit graph is used when parsing commits or performing a
traversal.
Now that commit-graphs can also contain a section for changed-path Bloom
filters, administrators that already have commit-graphs may find it
convenient to use those graphs without relying on their changed-path
Bloom filters. This can happen, for example, during a staged roll-out,
or in the event of an incident.
Introduce 'commitGraph.readChangedPaths' to control whether or not Bloom
filters are read. Note that this configuration is independent from both:
- 'core.commitGraph', to allow flexibility in using all parts of a
commit-graph _except_ for its Bloom filters.
- The '--changed-paths' option for 'git commit-graph write', to allow
reading and writing Bloom filters to be controlled independently.
When the variable is set, pretend as if no Bloom data was specified at
all. This avoids adding additional special-casing outside of the
commit-graph internals.
Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, `git worktree add` creates a new worktree associated with a
particular branch (which may have been created automatically if not
specified explicitly on the command-line). It is also convenient to
create throwaway worktrees not associated with any branch, which can be
handy when making experimental changes or doing testing. However, the
latter use-case may not be obvious to newcomers since the high-level
description of worktrees talks only about checking out "more than one
branch at a time". Therefore, enhance the description to to discuss both
use-cases.
A secondary goal of highlighting the distinction between branch-based
and throwaway worktrees is to help newcomers understand that the
simplest form `git worktree add <path>` automatically creates a new
branch. Stating this early in the description, may help newcomers avoid
creating branches without realizing they are doing so, and later
wondering why `git branch --list` shows branches the user did not
intentionally create.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Like `git switch` and `git checkout`, `git worktree add` can check out a
branch or set up a detached HEAD. However, unlike those other commands,
`git worktree add` does not understand -d as shorthand for --detach,
which may confound users accustomed to using -d for this purpose.
Address this shortcoming by teaching `add` to recognize -d for --detach,
thus bringing it in line with the other commands.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git checkout` learned -d as short option for --detach in 163e3b2975
(switch: add short option for --detach, 2019-03-29) but the
documentation was never updated to reflect the change.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In fde97d8ac6 (Update documentation to remove incorrect GIT_DIFF_OPTS
example., 2006-11-27), the description of the 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF'
variable was moved from 'diff-format.txt' to 'git.txt', and the
documentation was updated to remove a 'diff(1)' invocation since Git did
not use an external diff program anymore by default.
However, the description of 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' still mentions "instead
of the diff invocation described above", which is confusing.
Correct that outdated sentence.
Also, link to git(1) in 'diff-generate-patch.txt' when GIT_DIFF_OPTS and
GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF are mentioned, so that users can easily know what
these variables are about.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The .git/worktrees/<id>/gitdir file points at the location of a linked
worktree's .git file. Its content must be of the form
/path/to/worktree/.git (from which the location of the worktree itself
can be derived by stripping the "/.git" suffix). If the gitdir file is
deleted or becomes corrupted or outdated, then Git will be unable to
find the linked worktree. An easy way for the gitdir file to become
outdated is for the user to move the worktree manually (without using
"git worktree move"). Although it is possible to manually update the
gitdir file to reflect the new linked worktree location, doing so
requires a level of knowledge about worktree internals beyond what a
user should be expected to know offhand.
Therefore, teach "git worktree repair" how to repair broken or outdated
.git/worktrees/<id>/gitdir files automatically. (For this to work, the
command must either be invoked from within the worktree whose gitdir
file requires repair, or from within the main or any linked worktree by
providing the path of the broken worktree as an argument to "git
worktree repair".)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The .git file in a linked worktree is a "gitfile" which points back to
the .git/worktrees/<id> entry in the main worktree or bare repository.
If a worktree's .git file is deleted or becomes corrupted or outdated,
then the linked worktree won't know how to find the repository or any of
its own administrative files (such as 'index', 'HEAD', etc.). An easy
way for the .git file to become outdated is for the user to move the
main worktree or bare repository. Although it is possible to manually
update each linked worktree's .git file to reflect the new repository
location, doing so requires a level of knowledge about worktree
internals beyond what a user should be expected to know offhand.
Therefore, teach "git worktree repair" how to repair broken or outdated
worktree .git files automatically. (For this to work, the command must
be invoked from within the main worktree or bare repository, or from
within a worktree which has not become disconnected from the repository
-- such as one which was created after the repository was moved.)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The environment variable `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR`, and the configuration
variable 'sequence.editor', which were added in 821881d88d ("rebase -i":
support special-purpose editor to edit insn sheet, 2011-10-17), are
mentioned in the `git config` man page but not anywhere else.
Include `config/sequencer.txt` in `git-rebase.txt`, so that both the
environment variable and the configuration setting are mentioned there.
Also, add `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` to the list of environment variables
in `git(1)`.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name of the "Special-Use Mailboxes" in Gmail are localized
using the user's localization settings. Add a note to that effect
in `git imap-send`'s documentation, to make it easier for users to
configure their account.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As a public service, it is unlikely that the Gmail server is configured
to throw a certificate that does not verify at the user.
Remove the `sslVerify=false` config from the Gmail example.
Also, comment it in the `example.com` example, and add a note to the
user explaining that they might want to uncomment it if they are having
trouble connecting. While at it, use an Asciidoc 'Note' section in the
Gmail example also.
Based-on-patch-by: Barbu Paul - Gheorghe <barbu.paul.gheorghe@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the 'Examples' subsection in the 'Configuration' section and move
these examples to the 'Examples' section. Also remove the 'Variables'
title since it is now useless.
Also, use appropriate Asciidoc syntax for configuration values, and
capitalize 'Gmail' properly.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The positional arguments are specified in this order: "bad" then "good".
To avoid confusion, the options above the positional arguments
are now specified in the same order. They can still be specified in any
order since they're options, not positional arguments.
Signed-off-by: Hugo Locurcio <hugo.locurcio@hugo.pro>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano