In 34a3e69 (git-branch: default to --track) the default was changed to
true, to help new git users. But yours truly forgot to update the
documentation. This fixes it.
Noticed by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that 'git-instaweb' uses 'git-web--browse', update the
documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pack-objects" has the option --max-pack-size to limit the file
size of the packs to a certain amount of bytes. On platforms where
the pack file size is limited by filesystem constraints, it is easy
to forget this option, and this option does not exist for "git gc"
to begin with.
So introduce a config variable to set the default maximum, but make
this overrideable by the command line.
Suggested by Tor Arvid Lund.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data.
autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to
CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and
CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text
files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings
such that we have only LF line endings in the repository.
But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the
conversion can corrupt data.
If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by
setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right
after committing you still have the original file in your work
tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell
git that this file is binary and git will handle the file
appropriately.
Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with
mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary
files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed
in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing
to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files
converting CRLFs corrupts data.
This patch adds a mechanism that can either warn the user about
an irreversible conversion or can even refuse to convert. The
mechanism is controlled by the variable core.safecrlf, with the
following values:
- false: disable safecrlf mechanism
- warn: warn about irreversible conversions
- true: refuse irreversible conversions
The default is to warn. Users are only affected by this default
if core.autocrlf is set. But the current default of git is to
leave core.autocrlf unset, so users will not see warnings unless
they deliberately chose to activate the autocrlf mechanism.
The safecrlf mechanism's details depend on the git command. The
general principles when safecrlf is active (not false) are:
- we warn/error out if files in the work tree can modified in an
irreversible way without giving the user a chance to backup the
original file.
- for read-only operations that do not modify files in the work tree
we do not not print annoying warnings.
There are exceptions. Even though...
- "git add" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, the
next checkout would, so the safety triggers;
- "git apply" to update a text file with a patch does touch the files
in the work tree, but the operation is about text files and CRLF
conversion is about fixing the line ending inconsistencies, so the
safety does not trigger;
- "git diff" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, it is
often run to inspect the changes you intend to next "git add". To
catch potential problems early, safety triggers.
The concept of a safety check was originally proposed in a similar
way by Linus Torvalds. Thanks to Dimitry Potapov for insisting
on getting the naked LF/autocrlf=true case right.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
The prepare-commit-msg hook is run whenever a "fresh" commit message
is prepared, just before it is shown in the editor (if it is).
Its purpose is to modify the commit message in-place.
It takes one to three parameters. The first is the name of the file that
the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit message,
and can be: "message" (if a -m or -F option was given); "template" (if a
-t option was given or the configuration option commit.template is set);
"merge" (if the commit is a merge or a .git/MERGE_MSG file exists);
"squash" (if a .git/SQUASH_MSG file exists); or "commit", followed by
a commit SHA1 as the third parameter (if a -c, -C or --amend option
was given).
If its exit status is non-zero, git-commit will abort. The hook is
not suppressed by the --no-verify option, so it should not be used
as a replacement for the pre-commit hook.
The sample prepare-commit-msg comments out the `Conflicts:` part of
a merge's commit message; other examples are commented out, including
adding a Signed-off-by line at the bottom of the commit messsage,
that the user can then edit or discard altogether.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a preparatory patch that provides a simple way for the future
prepare-commit-msg hook to discover if the editor will be launched.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A pattern "foo/" in the exclude list did not match directory
"foo", but a pattern "foo" did. This attempts to extend the
exclude mechanism so that it would while not matching a regular
file or a symbolic link "foo". In order to differentiate a
directory and non directory, this passes down the type of path
being checked to excluded() function.
A downside is that the recursive directory walk may need to run
lstat(2) more often on systems whose "struct dirent" do not give
the type of the entry; earlier it did not have to do so for an
excluded path, but we now need to figure out if a path is a
directory before deciding to exclude it. This is especially bad
because an idea similar to the earlier CE_UPTODATE optimization
to reduce number of lstat(2) calls would by definition not apply
to the codepaths involved, as (1) directories will not be
registered in the index, and (2) excluded paths will not be in
the index anyway.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a few options to git-send-email to suppress the automatic
generation of 'Cc' fields: --suppress-from, and --signed-off-cc.
However, there are other times that git-send-email automatically
includes Cc'd recipients. This is not desirable for all development
environments.
Add a new option --suppress-cc, which can be specified one or more
times to list the categories of auto-cc fields that should be
suppressed. If not specified, it defaults to values to give the same
behavior as specified by --suppress-from, and --signed-off-cc. The
categories are:
self - patch sender. Same as --suppress-from.
author - patch author.
cc - cc lines mentioned in the patch.
cccmd - avoid running the cccmd.
sob - signed off by lines.
all - all non-explicit recipients
Signed-off-by: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We used to talk about "internal company procedures", but this
document is about submitting patches to the git mailing list.
More useful information is when to say Acked-by: and Tested-by:.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is something I've had in mind for some time. I get enough
e-mails as-is, and I suspect the workflow to get list members
involved would work better if we get the discussion concluded on
the list first before patches hit my tree (even 'next').
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new error mode allows a line to have a carriage return at the
end of the line when checking and fixing trailing whitespace errors.
Some people like to keep CRLF line ending recorded in the repository,
and still want to take advantage of the automated trailing whitespace
stripping. We still show ^M in the diff output piped to "less" to
remind them that they do have the CR at the end, but these carriage
return characters at the end are no longer flagged as errors.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Whilst convenient, it is most unwise to record passwords
in any place but one's brain. Moreover, it is especially
foolish to store them in configuration files, even with
access permissions set accordingly.
git-send-email has been amended, so that if it detects
an smtp username without a password, it promptly prompts
for the password and masks the input for privacy.
Furthermore, the argument to --smtp-pass has been rendered
optional.
The documentation has been updated to reflect these changes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 03, 2008:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > [From] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53457/focus=53458
> Julian Phillips:
> > Are you using docbook xsl 1.72? There are known problems building the
> > manpages with that version. 1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get
> > released.
I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file
used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and
backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the
wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping
in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end
this part of the manpage nightmare.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the text, the argument of -m is <master> which should be used in the
command synopsis, too.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adjust the command syntax to better reflect the call parameters:
[save] [message...] => [save [<message>]].
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto AT cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the upstream branch is tracked, we can detect if that branch
was rebased since it was last fetched. Teach git to use that
information to rebase from the old remote head onto the new remote head.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While there is information about this in the configuration section, it was
missing in the options section.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The -n option stands for --no-summary in git pull
[jes: reworded the description to avoid mentioning 'git-fetch';
also exclude '-n' conditional on git-pull -- ugly because of
the missing "else" statement in asciidoc]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-svn expects its references under refs/remotes/*; but these will
not be copied or set by "git clone"; put in this man page the manual
fiddling that is required with current git-svn to get this to work.
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is a scenario when using git clone -s and git gc --prune togother is
dangerous. Document this.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Only "status" accepts "--cached" and the preferred way of
passing sub-command specific options is after the sub-command.
The documentation is adapted to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace the "This manual page describes only the most frequently used options."
text with the list of rev-list options in git-log manpage. (The git-diff-tree
options are already included.)
Move these options to a separate file and include it from both
git-rev-list.txt and git-log.txt.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The lockfile API is a handy way to obtain a file that is cleaned
up if you die(). But sometimes you would need this sequence to
work:
1. hold_lock_file_for_update() to get a file descriptor for
writing;
2. write the contents out, without being able to decide if the
results should be committed or rolled back;
3. do something else that makes the decision --- and this
"something else" needs the lockfile not to have an open file
descriptor for writing (e.g. Windows do not want a open file
to be renamed);
4. call commit_lock_file() or rollback_lock_file() as
appropriately.
This adds close_lock_file() you can call between step 2 and 3 in
the above sequence.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have nice set of placeholders, but nobody stepped in to fill
the gap in the API documentation, so I am doing it myself.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rerere.enabled is _not_ on by default. The command is enabled if rr-cache
exists even when rerere.enabled is missing, and enabled or disabled by
explicitly setting the rerere.enabled variable.
This documents the default values of gc.auto, gc.autopacklimit
fetch.unpacklimit, receive.unpacklimit and transfer.unpacklimit.
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Johannes Schindelin