By definition, the default value of "advice.*" variables must be true and
they all control various additional help messages that are designed to aid
new users. Setting one to false is to tell Git that the user understands
the nature of the error and does not need the additional verbose help
message.
Also fix the asciidoc markup for linkgit:git-checkout[1] in the
description of the detachedHead advice by removing an excess colon.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The credential API and helper format is already defined in
technical/api-credentials.txt. This presents the end-user
view.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently we either need to set branch.<name>.rebase for existing
branches if we'd like "git pull" to mean "git pull --rebase", or have
the forethought of setting "branch.autosetuprebase" before we create
the branch.
Introduce a "pull.rebase" option to globally configure "git pull" to
mean "git pull --rebase" for any branch.
This option will be considered at a lower priority than
branch.<name>.rebase, i.e. we could set pull.rebase=true and
branch.<name>.rebase=false and the latter configuration option would
win.
Reviewed-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fernando Vezzosi <buccia@repnz.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Herman <eric@freesa.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The insn sheet used by "rebase -i" is designed to be easily editable by
any text editor, but an editor that is specifically meant for it (but
is otherwise unsuitable for editing regular text files) could be useful
by allowing drag & drop reordering in a GUI environment, for example.
The GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR environment variable and/or the sequence.editor
configuration variable can be used to specify such an editor, while
allowing the usual editor to be used to edit commit log messages. As
usual, the environment variable takes precedence over the configuration
variable.
It is envisioned that other "sequencer" based tools will use the same
mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberndorfer <kumbayo84@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a list of gitweb config variables to git-config(1) manpage, just
linking to gitweb(1) or gitweb.conf(5).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using the [section.subsection] syntax, the subsection is transformed
to lower-case and is matched case sensitively. Say so in the
documentation and mention that you shouldn't be using it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git term is 'working tree', so replace the most public references
to 'working copy'.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users had problems finding a working setting for notes.rewriteRef.
Document how to enable rewriting for notes/commits, which should be a
safe setting.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This single variable can be used to set instead of setting fsckobjects
variable for fetch & receive independently.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This corresponds to receive.fsckobjects configuration variable added (a
lot) earlier in 20dc001 (receive-pack: allow using --strict mode for
unpacking objects, 2008-02-25).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for logging updates in git-update-ref, doesn't make it
clear that only a specific subset of refs are honored by this variable.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
AsciiDoc versions since 5.0.6 treat a double-dash surrounded by spaces
(outside of verbatim environments) as a request to insert an em dash.
Such versions also treat the three-character sequence "\--", when not
followed by another dash, as a request to insert two literal minus
signs. Thus from time to time there have been patches to add
backslashes to AsciiDoc markup to escape double-dashes that are meant
to be represent '--' characters used literally on the command line;
see v1.4.0-rc1~174, Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly,
2006-05-05, for example.
AsciiDoc 6.0.3 (2005-04-20) made life harder by also treating
double-dashes without surrounding whitespace as markup for an em dash,
though only when formatting for backends other than the manpages
(e.g., HTML). Many pages needed to be changed to use a backslash
before the "--" in names of command-line flags like "--add" (see
v0.99.6~37, Update tutorial, 2005-08-30).
AsciiDoc 8.3.0 (2008-11-29) refined the em-dash rule to avoid that
requirement. Double-dashes without surrounding spaces are not
rendered as em dashes any more unless bordered on both sides by
alphanumeric characters. The unescaped markup for option names (e.g.,
"--add") works fine, and many instances of this style have leaked into
Documentation/; git's HTML documentation contains many spurious em
dashes when formatted by an older toolchain. (This patch will not
change that.)
The upshot: "--" as an isolated word and in phrases like "git
web--browse" must be escaped if it is not to be rendered as an em dash
by current asciidoc. Use "\--" to avoid such misformatting in
sentences in which "--" represents a literal double-minus command line
argument that separates options and revs from pathspecs, and use
"{litdd}" in cases where the double-dash is embedded in the command
name. The latter is just for consistency with v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work
around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23).
List of lines to fix found by grepping manpages for "(em".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the config option http.cookiefile is set, pass this file to libCURL using
the CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE option. This is similar to calling curl with the -b
option. This allows git http authorization with authentication mechanisms
that use cookies, such as SAML Enhanced Client or Proxy (ECP) used by
Shibboleth.
To use SAML/ECP, the user needs to request a session cookie with their own ECP
code. See for example:
<https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/ECP>
Once the cookie file has been created, it can be passed to git with, e.g.
git config --global http.cookiefile "/home/dbrown/.curlcookies"
libCURL will then pass the appropriate session cookies to the git http server.
Signed-off-by: Duncan Brown <duncan.brown@ligo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add log.abbrevCommit config variable as a convenience for users who
often use --abbrev-commit with git log and friends. Allow the option
to be overridden with --no-abbrev-commit. Per 635530a2fc and 4f62c2bc57,
the config variable is ignored when log is given "--pretty=raw".
(Also, a drive-by spelling correction in git log's short help.)
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The config variable 'interactive.singlekey' influences also '--patch' mode of
git-add, git-reset, and git-checkout.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reading the diff-family and config man pages one may think that the
color.diff and color.ui settings apply to all diff commands. Make it
clearer that they do not apply to the plumbing variants
diff-{files,index,tree}.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Provide an environment variable GIT_PREFIX which contains the subdirectory
from which a !alias was called (i.e. 'git rev-parse --show-prefix') since
these cd to the to level directory before they are executed.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although the gitattributes page contains comprehensive information
about these configuration options, they should be included in the
config documentation for completeness.
Helped-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack-objects command should take notice of the object file and
refrain from attempting to delta large ones, to be consistent with
the fast-import command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add two configration variables grep.extendedRegexp and grep.lineNumbers to
allow the user to skip typing -E and -n on the command line, respectively.
Scripts that are meant to be used by random users and/or in random
repositories now have use -G and/or --no-line-number options as
appropriately to override the settings in the repository or user's
~/.gitconfig settings. Just because the script didn't say "git grep -n" no
longer guarantees that the output from the command will not have line
numbers.
Signed-off-by: Joe Ratterman <jratt0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the order to 1/0 to have the same true/false order as the rest
of the possibilities for a boolean variable in order not not confuse
users.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default of 7 comes from fairly early in git development, when
seven hex digits was a lot (it covers about 250+ million hash
values). Back then I thought that 65k revisions was a lot (it was what
we were about to hit in BK), and each revision tends to be about 5-10
new objects or so, so a million objects was a big number.
These days, the kernel isn't even the largest git project, and even
the kernel has about 220k revisions (_much_ bigger than the BK tree
ever was) and we are approaching two million objects. At that point,
seven hex digits is still unique for a lot of them, but when we're
talking about just two orders of magnitude difference between number
of objects and the hash size, there _will_ be collisions in truncated
hash values. It's no longer even close to unrealistic - it happens all
the time.
We should both increase the default abbrev that was unrealistically
small, _and_ add a way for people to set their own default per-project
in the git config file.
This is the first step to first make it configurable; the default of 7
is not raised yet.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 72a5b561fc, as adding
fixed number of hexdigits more than necessary to make one object name
locally unique does not help in futureproofing the uniqueness of names
we generate today.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now the behavior of fetch and pull can be configured to the recently added
'on-demand' mode separately for each submodule too.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To enable the user to change the default behavior of "git fetch" and "git
pull" regarding submodule recursion add the new "on-demand" value which
has just been added to the "--recurse-submodules" command line option.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users are sometimes confused with two different types of "tracking" behavior
in Git: "remote-tracking" branches (e.g. refs/remotes/*/*) versus the
merge/rebase relationship between a local branch and its @{upstream}
(controlled by branch.foo.remote and branch.foo.merge config settings).
When the push.default is set to 'tracking', it specifies that a branch should
be pushed to its @{upstream} branch. In other words, setting push.default to
'tracking' applies only to the latter of the above two types of "tracking"
behavior.
In order to make this more understandable to the user, we rename the
push.default == 'tracking' option to push.default == 'upstream'.
push.default == 'tracking' is left as a deprecated synonym for 'upstream'.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git rebase' without arguments is currently not supported. Make it
default to 'git rebase @{upstream}'. That is also what 'git pull
[--rebase]' defaults to, so it only makes sense that 'git rebase'
defaults to the same thing.
Defaulting to @{upstream} will make it possible to run e.g. 'git
rebase -i' without arguments, which is probably a quite common use
case. It also improves the scenario where you have multiple branches
that rebase against a remote-tracking branch, where you currently have
to choose between the extra network delay of 'git pull' or the
slightly awkward keys to enter 'git rebase @{u}'.
The error reporting when no upstream is configured for the current
branch or when no branch is checked out is reused from git-pull.sh. A
function is extracted into git-parse-remote.sh for this purpose.
Helped-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit f5e025a9d5.
The commit reflected what the code did. But the code did that because
it had bugs.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The variable gc.packrefs for git-gc can be set to true, false and
"notbare", not "nobare".
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <jiangxin@ossxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new whitespace "rule" is added that sets the tab width to use for
whitespace checks and fix-ups and replaces the hard-coded constant 8.
Since the setting is part of the rules, it can be set per file using
.gitattributes.
The new configuration is backwards compatible because older git versions
simply ignore unknown whitespace rules.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "[add] ignore-errors" tweakable introduced by v1.5.6-rc0~30^2 (Add
a config option to ignore errors for git-add, 2008-05-12) does not
follow the usual convention for naming values in the git configuration
file.
What convention? Glad you asked.
The section name indicates the affected subsystem.
The subsection name, if any, indicates which of
an unbound set of things to set the value for.
The variable name describes the effect of tweaking
this knob.
The section and variable names can be broken into
words using bumpyCaps in documentation as a hint to
the reader. These word breaks are not significant
at the level of code, since the section and variable
names are not case sensitive.
The name "add.ignore-errors" includes a dash, meaning a naive
configuration file like
[add]
ignoreErrors
does not have any effect. Avoid such confusion by renaming to the
more consistent add.ignoreErrors, but keep the old version for
backwards compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You can tell "git status" to paint the name of the current branch in its
output (the line that says "On branch ...") by setting the configuration
variable color.status.branch; it is by default turned off.
Signed-off-by: Aleksi Aalto <aga@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A user may want different pager settings or even a
different pager for various subcommands (e.g., because they
use different less settings for "log" vs "diff", or because
they have a pager that interprets only log output but not
other commands).
This patch extends the pager.<cmd> syntax to support not
only boolean to-page-or-not-to-page, but also to specify a
pager just for a specific command.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new boolean "fetchRecurseSubmodules" config option controls the
behavior for "git fetch" and "git pull". It specifies if these commands
should recurse into submodules and fetch new commits there too and can be
set separately for each submodule.
In the .gitmodules file "submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules" entries
are read before looking for them in .git/config. Thus settings found in
.git/config will override those from .gitmodules, thereby allowing the
user to ignore settings given by the remote side while also letting
upstream set reasonable defaults for those users who don't have special
needs.
This configuration can be overridden by the command line option
"--[no-]recurse-submodules" of "git fetch" and "git pull".
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new boolean option can be used to override the default for "git
fetch" and "git pull", which is to not recurse into populated submodules
and fetch all new commits there too.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"remote branch" is a branch hosted in a remote repository, while
"remote-tracking branch" is a copy of such branch, hosted locally.
The distinction is subtle when the copy is up-to-date, but rather
fundamental to understand what "git fetch" and "git push" do.
This patch should fix all incorrect usages in Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C
code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in
comment and usage strings.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a
remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something".
See discussion in e.g.
http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com
for more details.
This patch is a straightforward application of
perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/'
except in the RelNotes directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though git makes sure that it uses enough hexdigits to show an
abbreviated object name unambiguously, as more objects are added to the
repository over time, a short name that used to be unique will stop being
unique. Git uses this many extra hexdigits that are more than necessary
to make the object name currently unique, in the hope that its output will
stay unique a bit longer.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change push.default's description to add hyphens between values and
descriptions to make the manpage easier to read. The html version is
readable either way.
Change status.showUntrackedFiles to make item descriptions be
sentences and to use the same asciidoc format as push.default. The
only visual change is the additions of "."
Signed-off-by: Cliff Frey <cliff@meraki.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a small remark about how to recompress all existing objects after
changing the compression level for pack files.
Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-config(1), diff.noprefix was placed in between
diff.mnemonicprefix and the list of mnemonic prefixes, which is
obviously incorrect and very confusing to readers. Now, it is located
after the end of the explanation of mnemonicprefix, which makes much
more sense.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new command line parameter --smtp-server-option or default
configuration sendemail.smtpserveroption can be used to pass
specific options to the SMTP server. Update the documentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow gitattributes to be set globally and system wide. This way, settings
for particular file types can be set in one place and apply for all user's
repositories.
The location of system-wide attributes file is $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes.
The location of the global file can be configured by setting
core.attributesfile.
Some parts of the code were copied from the implementation of the same
functionality in config.c.
Signed-off-by: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano