These were added by accident in a42dea3.
This patch also rewords the description of how ranges of commits can be
skipped.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The described issues are compiled from the tests by Michael Haggerty and me.
Because it is not apparent that these can be fixed anytime soon at least warn
unwary users not to rely on the inbuilt cvsimport to much.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already skip over loose refs under $GIT_DIR/refs if the name
ends with ".lock", so creating a branch named "foo.lock" will not
appear in the output of "git branch", "git for-each-ref", nor will
its commit be considered reachable by "git rev-list --all".
In the latter case this is especially evil, as it may cause
repository corruption when objects reachable only through such a
ref are deleted by "git prune".
It should be reasonably safe to deny use of ".lock" as a ref suffix.
In prior versions of Git such branches would be "phantom branches";
you can create it, but you can't see it in "git branch" output.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This changes the rules for refnames to forbid:
(1) a refname that contains "@{" in it.
Some people and foreign SCM converter may have named their branches
as frotz@24 and we still want to keep supporting it.
However, "git branch frotz@{24}" is a disaster. It cannot even
checked out because "git checkout frotz@{24}" will interpret it as
"detach the HEAD at twenty-fourth reflog entry of the frotz branch".
(2) a refname that ends with a dot.
We already reject a path component that begins with a dot, primarily
to avoid ambiguous range interpretation. If we allowed ".B" as a
valid ref, it is unclear if "A...B" means "in dot-B but not in A" or
"either in A or B but not in both".
But for this to be complete, we need also to forbid "A." to avoid "in
B but not in A-dot". This was not a problem in the original range
notation, but we should have added this restriction when three-dot
notation was introduced.
Unlike "no dot at the beginning of any path component" rule, this
rule does not have to be "no dot at the end of any path component",
because you cannot abbreviate the tail end away, similar to you can
say "dot-B" to mean "refs/heads/dot-B".
For these reasons, it is not likely people created branches with these
names on purpose, but we have allowed such names to be used for quite some
time, and it is possible that people created such branches by mistake or
by accident.
To help people with branches with such unfortunate names to recover,
we still allow "branch -d 'bad.'" to delete such branches, and also allow
"branch -m bad. good" to rename them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command may not be the best place to add this new feature, but
$ git check-ref-format --branch "@{-1}"
allows Porcelains to figure out what branch you were on before the last
branch switching.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This specifier represents the sanitized and filename friendly subject
line of a commit. No checks are made against the length of the string,
so users may need to trim the result to the desired length if using as a
filename. This is commonly used by format-patch to massage commit
subjects into filenames and output patches to files.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit also converts all reference specifications to a monospaced font,
as the embedded ~ character used in some of the references sometimes causes
the text up to the next ~ to be displayed incorrectly as a subscript when the
HTML pages are generated. This was tested with asciidoc 8.2.5.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation of the post-checkout hook just talks
about git-checkout. But recently git-clone was changed to
call it too, unless the -no-checkout (-n) option is used.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'Everyday GIT' guide was using the old dashed form
of git-init.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For example:
git format-patch --numbered-files --stdout --attach HEAD~~
will create two messages with files 1 and 2 attached respectively.
Without --attach/--inline but with --stdout, --numbered-files option
can be simply ignored, because we are not creating any file ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoid splitting sentences across examples of command usage.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing text was very vague about what exactly it means
for difference to "contain" a change. This seems to cause
confusion on the mailing list every month or two.
To fix it we:
1. use "introduce or remove an instance of" instead of
"contain"
2. point the user to gitdiffcore(7), which contains a more
complete explanation
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the options --committer-date-is-author-date and --ignore-date
to git-rebase. They were introduced in commit a79ec62d0 for git-am.
These options imply --force-rebase.
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git branch -f a b' resets a to b when a exists, rather then deleting a.
Say so in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a git push without any refspecs is attempted, display a warning.
The current default behavior is to push all matching refspecs, which
may come as a surprise to new users, so the warning shows how
push.default can be configured and what the possible values are.
Traditionalists who wish to keep the current behaviour are also told
how to configure this once and never see the warning again.
Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git push" is not told what refspecs to push, it pushes all matching
branches to the current remote. For some workflows this default is not
useful, and surprises new users. Some have even found that this default
behaviour is too easy to trigger by accident with unwanted consequences.
Introduce a new configuration variable "push.default" that decides what
action git push should take if no refspecs are given or implied by the
command line arguments or the current remote configuration.
Possible values are:
'nothing' : Push nothing;
'matching' : Current default behaviour, push all branches that already
exist in the current remote;
'tracking' : Push the current branch to whatever it is tracking;
'current' : Push the current branch to a branch of the same name,
i.e. HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If literal text (asciidoc `...`) can be rendered in a differently from
normal text for each output format (man, HTML), then we do not need
extra quotes or other wrapping around inline literal text segments.
config.txt
Change '`...`' to `...`. In asciidoc, the single quotes provide
emphasis, literal text should be distintive enough.
Change "`...`" to `...`. These double quotes do not work if present
in the described config value, so drop them.
git-checkout.txt
Change "`...`" to `...` or `"..."`. All instances are command line
argument examples. One "`-`" becomes `-`. Two others are involve
curly braces, so move the double quotes inside the literal region to
indicate that they might need to be quoted on the command line of
certain shells (tcsh).
git-merge.txt
Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are used to describe merge
conflict markers. The quotes should are not important.
git-rev-parse.txt
Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are around command line
arguments where no in-shell quoting should be necessary.
gitcli.txt
Change `"..."` to `...`. All instances are around command line
examples or single command arguments. They do not semanticly belong
inside the literal text, and they are not needed outside it.
glossary-content.txt
user-manual.txt
Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances were around command lines.
Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reword this section to make it less chatty. Also make minor grammatical
fixes.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Option --replace-all only allows at least two arguments, so
documentation was needing to be updated accordingly. A test showing
that the command fails with only one parameter is also provided.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rearrange the example usage of
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached ...'
so that --ignore-unmatch is in the main example block. People keep
stumbling over the (lack of this) option to the point where it is a
FAQ, so we would want to expose the most common usage where it stands
out.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As suggested by Junio, disallow the flags PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN and
PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION to be turned on at the same time, as a
value of an unknown option could be mistakenly classified as a
non-option, stopping the parser early. E.g.:
git cmd --known --unknown value arg0 arg1
The parser should have stopped at "arg0", but it already stops at
"value".
This patch makes parse_options() die if the two flags are used in
combination.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the config variable color.grep.external, which can be used to
switch on coloring of external greps. To enable auto coloring with
GNU grep, one needs to set color.grep.external to --color=always to
defeat the pager started by git grep. The value of the config
variable will be passed to the external grep only if it would
colorize internal grep's output, so automatic terminal detected
works. The default is to not pass any option, because the external
grep command could be a program without color support.
Also set the environment variables GREP_COLOR and GREP_COLORS to
pass the configured color for matches to the external grep. This
works with GNU grep; other variables could be added as needed.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Coloring matches makes them easier to spot in the output.
Add two options and two parameters: color.grep (to turn coloring on
or off), color.grep.match (to set the color of matches), --color
and --no-color (to turn coloring on or off, respectively).
The output of external greps is not changed.
This patch is based on earlier ones by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy and
Thiago Alves.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation is just a pointer to the --bool and --int
options, but it makes sense to at least mention that it
exists.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the following:
- git config value blame.date that expects one of the git log date
formats (e.g. relative,local,default,iso,...);
- git blame command line option --date expects one of the git
log date formats;
- documentation in blame-options.txt;
- git blame uses the appropriate date.c functions and enums to
make sense of the date format and provide appropriate data;
git blame continues to line up the output columns by padding the date
column up to the max width of the chosen date format.
The date format for git blame without both blame.date and --date continues
to be ISO for backwards compatibility.
git annotate ignores the date format specifiers and continues to uses the
ISO format, as before.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Letuchy <eugene@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Including passing parameters to the programs, and running more
complicated checks without requiring a seperate shell script.
Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When archiving a repository there is no way to specify a file as output.
This patch adds a new option "--output" that redirects the output to a
file instead of stdout.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara <carlos.duclos@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
David J. Mellor