The CI script to install dependencies for the documentation build
has been updated to install asciidoctor directly via the system
package manager instead of pinning to an older version via gem.
Additionally, an obsolete variable used for retired Azure Pipelines
environments has been removed.
* jk/ci-use-system-asciidoctor:
ci: use system asciidoctor
Our CI Documentation builds have pinned asciidoctor since 615a6c37e1
(ci: stick with Asciidoctor v1.5.8 for now, 2019-03-29). Back then a few
changes were needed to build with the then-new v2.0.0.
We've since made those changes, in f6461b82b9 (Documentation: fix build
with Asciidoctor 2, 2019-09-15) and other commits. So it is not only
safe to use newer versions of asciidoctor, but preferable: it's what
people are likely to use for actually building the documentation in
practice!
I don't think there's any need to pin to a specific version. We can just
use what ships in our Ubuntu image, which should give us an arbitrary
representative version (and if it changes and something breaks, we'd
want to know).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A collection of patches from Git for Windows has been upstreamed,
mostly focusing on simplifying and robustifying build configurations
for MinGW/MSYS2, dropping obsolete compatibility options, and allowing
the main 'git.exe' to be used directly without the extra wrapper
process on Windows.
* js/mingw-build-updates:
t0060: adjust the code style
mingw: allow `git.exe` to be used instead of the "Git wrapper"
mingw: ensure valid CTYPE
mingw: always define `ETC_*` for MSYS2 environments
windows: skip linking `git-<command>` for built-ins
mingw: rely on MSYS2's metadata instead of hard-coding it
mingw: only enable the MSYS2-specific stuff when compiling in MSYS2
mingw: set the prefix and HOST_CPU as per MSYS2's settings
mingw: avoid over-specifying `--pic-executable`
mingw: only use -Wl,--large-address-aware for 32-bit builds
mingw: drop the -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T option
mingw: stop hard-coding `CC = gcc`
mingw: include the Python parts in the build
The CI script to install dependencies for the documentation build
has been updated to install asciidoctor directly via the system
package manager instead of pinning to an older version via gem.
Additionally, an obsolete variable used for retired Azure Pipelines
environments has been removed.
* jk/ci-use-system-asciidoctor:
ci: drop ALREADY_HAVE_ASCIIDOCTOR variable
ci: fix missing Ruby dependency in "documentation" job
The CI job for Debian 11 has been updated to use Debian 12, as the
former is now out of the LTS period.
* jk/ci-bump-debian-to-12:
ci: bump debian-11 job to debian-12
* 'master' of https://github.com/j6t/gitk:
gitk: discourage AI contributions
gitk: move UI for generic colors above diff colors
gitk: avoid constructing dialog titles from text pieces
gitk: use more natural language for labels of color preferences
gitk: show color preferences on the button instead of the label
gitk: condense repetitive code around color buttons into foreach loops
gitk: set intitial colors of swatches using the available helper
Our install-dependencies script avoids installing asciidoctor if the
CI environment claims to have it already. But the only environment which
made use of this was Azure Pipelines, which went away in 6081d3898f (ci:
retire the Azure Pipelines definition, 2020-04-11). So this conditional
was effectively doing nothing. Let's clean it up.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our "documentation" job has recently stopped working with the following
error:
+ sudo gem install --version 1.5.8 asciidoctor
+ gem install --version 1.5.8 asciidoctor
./ci/install-dependencies.sh: 23: gem: not found
The root cause of this is that we never explicitly install Ruby, and
consequently gem(1) isn't explicitly pulled in, either. This used to
work alright because we transitively pulled in Ruby via asciidoc. But
due to an update it seems that we stopped pulling in the transitive
dependency, and consequently we don't have gem(1) available anymore.
Fix this by explicitly installing Ruby.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix conjoined bullet items for the maintenance strategies in
git-config(1). Reportedly, asciidoctor renders this document correctly
both before and after this patch. asciidoc renders it correctly only
_after_ this patch.
Signed-off-by: Brigham Campbell <me@brighamcampbell.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The object lookup machinery has been taught to gracefully recover
when a multi-pack-index points to an owning pack that was removed
during a concurrent geometric repack, and 'git replay' has been
fixed to not segfault when reading such missing objects.
* en/midx-missing-pack-fallback:
packfile: recover when a multi-pack-index names a removed pack
mktree: do not use OBJECT_INFO_QUICK when checking objects
mktree: plug per-tree leak in --batch mode
replay: fail gracefully when a merge input is unreadable
The memory ownership of argv elements passed to the revision
machinery has been made more robust by keeping logically "freed"
elements alive until the rev_info struct is released, preventing
use-after-free bugs when options store references to them.
* jk/rev-info-argv-to-free:
revision: simplify mark_argv_for_free() callers
revision: hang on to "freed" argv elements
The 'git replay' command has been taught the '--linearize' option to
drop merge commits and linearize the replayed history, mimicking 'git
rebase --no-rebase-merges'.
* tc/replay-linearize:
replay: offer an option to linearize the commit topology
replay: resolve the replay base outside pick_regular_commit()
replay: add helper to put entry into replayed_commits
Various spelling mistakes in comments and test descriptions have
been corrected.
* hk/typofix:
versioncmp: fix typo in versioncmp.c, t/t0022-crlf-rename.sh
The string extraction logic for the branch name and worktree name
from the given path in 'git worktree add' has been corrected and
simplified to avoid out-of-bounds reads and improper handling of
trailing slashes.
* rs/worktree-add-basename-fixes:
worktree add: let worktree_basename() return string copy
worktree add: trim slashes when deriving branch name from path
worktree add: reject separator-only path
worktree add: don't read out of bounds in worktree_basename()
GitHub Actions CI workflow runs triggered by pull requests have
been configured to cancel older runs when a new push is made to the
same pull request.
* hn/ci-cancel-stale-pr-runs:
ci: cancel stale pull request workflow runs
A few tests for the reference handling subsystem have been added to
exercise the handling of forbidden characters and symbolic references.
* ns/ref-symref-additional-tests:
t1402: test forbidden characters in refnames
t1401: check symbolic-ref failure and --quiet silence on a non-symbolic ref
These days, the test cases are less free-form than in the wild old days
of the Git project.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git for Windows wants to add `git.exe` to the users' `PATH`, without
cluttering the latter with unnecessary executables such as `wish.exe`.
To that end, it invented the concept of its "Git wrapper", i.e. a tiny
executable located in `C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe` (originally a
CMD script) whose sole purpose is to set up a couple of environment
variables and then spawn the _actual_ `git.exe` (which nowadays lives in
`C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe` for 64-bit, and the obvious
equivalent for 32-bit installations).
Currently, the following environment variables are set unless already
initialized:
- `MSYSTEM`, to make sure that the MSYS2 Bash and the MSYS2 Perl
interpreter behave as expected, and
- `PLINK_PROTOCOL`, to force PuTTY's `plink.exe` to use the SSH
protocol instead of Telnet,
- `PATH`, to make sure that the `bin` folder in the user's home
directory, as well as the `/mingw64/bin` and the `/usr/bin`
directories are included. The trick here is that the `/mingw64/bin/`
and `/usr/bin/` directories are relative to the top-level installation
directory of Git for Windows (which the included Bash interprets as
`/`, i.e. as the MSYS pseudo root directory).
Using the absence of `MSYSTEM` as a tell-tale, we can detect in
`git.exe` whether these environment variables have been initialized
properly. Therefore we can call `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git`
in-place after this change, without having to call Git through the Git
wrapper.
Obviously, above-mentioned directories must be _prepended_ to the `PATH`
variable, otherwise we risk picking up executables from unrelated Git
installations. We do that by constructing the new `PATH` value from
scratch, appending `$HOME/bin` (if `HOME` is set), then the MSYS2 system
directories, and then appending the original `PATH`.
Side note: this modification of the `PATH` variable is independent of
the modification necessary to reach the executables and scripts in
`/mingw64/libexec/git-core/`, i.e. the `GIT_EXEC_PATH`. That
modification is still performed by Git, elsewhere, long after making the
changes described above.
While we _still_ cannot simply hard-link `mingw64\bin\git.exe` to `cmd`
(because the former depends on a couple of `.dll` files that are only in
`mingw64\bin`, i.e. calling `...\cmd\git.exe` would fail to load due to
missing dependencies), at least we can now avoid that extra process of
running the Git wrapper (which then has to wait for the spawned
`git.exe` to finish) by calling `...\mingw64\bin\git.exe` directly, via
its absolute path.
Testing this is in Git's test suite tricky: we set up a "new" MSYS
pseudo-root and copy the `git.exe` file into the appropriate location,
then verify that `MSYSTEM` is set properly, and also that the `PATH` is
modified so that scripts can be found in `$HOME/bin`, `/mingw64/bin/`
and `/usr/bin/`.
This addresses https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2283
Note: This keeps the same, hard-coded MSYSTEM platform support for CMake
as before, and introduces an `msystem' and `mingw-prefix` knob for Meson
(read: neither CMake nor Meson will automatically inherit the setting
from the current build environment).
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A change between versions 2.4.1 and 2.6.0 of the MSYS2 runtime modified
how Cygwin's runtime (and hence Git for Windows' MSYS2 runtime
derivative) handles locales: d16a56306d (Consolidate wctomb/mbtowc calls
for POSIX-1.2008, 2016-07-20).
An unintended side-effect is that "cold-calling" into the POSIX
emulation will start with a locale based on the current code page,
something that Git for Windows is very ill-prepared for, as it expects
to be able to pass a command-line containing non-ASCII characters to the
shell without having those characters munged.
One symptom of this behavior: when `git clone` or `git fetch` shell out
to call `git-upload-pack` with a path that contains non-ASCII
characters, the shell tried to interpret the entire command-line
(including command-line parameters) as executable path, which obviously
must fail.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1036
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Special-casing even more configurations simply does not make sense.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is merely a historical wart that, say, `git-commit` exists in the
`libexec/git-core/` directory, a tribute to the original idea to let Git
be essentially a bunch of Unix shell scripts revolving around very few
"plumbing" (AKA low-level) commands.
Git has evolved a lot from there. These days, most of Git's
functionality is contained within the `git` executable, in the form of
"built-in" commands.
To accommodate for scripts that use the "dashed" form of Git commands,
even today, Git provides hard-links that make the `git` executable
available as, say, `git-commit`, just in case that an old script has not
been updated to invoke `git commit`.
Those hard-links do not come cheap: they take about half a minute for
every build of Git on Windows, they are mistaken for taking up huge
amounts of space by some Windows Explorer versions that do not
understand hard-links, and therefore many a "bug" report had to be
addressed.
The "dashed form" has been officially deprecated in Git version 1.5.4,
which was released on February 2nd, 2008, i.e. a very long time ago.
This deprecation was never finalized by skipping these hard-links, but
we can start the process now, in Git for Windows.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MSYS2 defines some helpful environment variables, e.g. `MSYSTEM`. There
is code in Git for Windows to ensure that that `MSYSTEM` variable is
set, hard-coding a default.
However, the existing solution jumps through hoops to reconstruct the
proper default, and is even incomplete doing so, as we found out when we
extended it to support CLANGARM64.
This is absolutely unnecessary because there is already a perfectly
valid `MSYSTEM` value we can use at build time. This is even true when
building the MINGW32 variant on a MINGW64 system because `makepkg-mingw`
will override the `MSYSTEM` value as per the `MINGW_ARCH` array.
The same is equally true for the `/mingw64`, `/mingw32` and
`/clangarm64` prefix: those values are already available via the
`MINGW_PREFIX` environment variable, and we just need to pass that
setting through.
Only when `MINGW_PREFIX` is not set (as is the case in Git for Windows'
minimal SDK, where only `MSYSTEM` is guaranteed to be set correctly), we
use as fall-back the top-level directory whose name is the down-cased
value of the `MSYSTEM` variable.
Incidentally, this also broadens the support to all the configurations
supported by the MSYS2 project, i.e. clang64 & ucrt64, too.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The tell-tale is the presence of the `MSYSTEM` value while compiling, of
course. In that case, we want to ensure that `MSYSTEM` is set when
running `git.exe`, and also enable the magic MSYS2 tty detection.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MSYS2 already defines a couple of helpful environment variables, and we
can use those to infer the installation location as well as the CPU. No
need for hard-coding ;-)
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In bf2d5d8239e (Don't let ld strip relocations, 2016-01-16) (picked from
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/612/commits/6a237925bf10),
Git for Windows introduced the `-Wl,-pic-executable` flag, specifying
the exact entry point via `-e`. This required discerning between i686
and x86_64 code because the former required the symbol to be prefixed
with an underscore, the latter did not.
As per https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10865, the
specified symbols are already the default, though.
So let's drop the overly-specific definition.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
That option only matters there, and is in fact only really understood in
those builds; UCRT64 versions of GCC, for example, do not know what to
do with that option.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option was added in fa93bb20d7 (MinGW: Fix stat definitions to
work with MinGW runtime version 4.0, 2013-09-11), i.e. a _long_ time
ago. So long, in fact, that it still targeted MinGW. But we switched to
mingw-w64 in 2015, which seems not to share the problem, and therefore
does not require a fix.
Even worse: This flag is incompatible with UCRT64, which we are about to
support by way of upstreaming `mingw-w64-git` to the MSYS2 project, see
https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/26470 for details.
So let's send that option into its well-deserved retirement.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is no longer true in general, not with supporting Clang out of the
box.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While Git for Windows does not _ship_ Python (in order to save on
bandwidth), MSYS2 provides very fine Python interpreters that users can
easily take advantage of, by using Git for Windows within its SDK.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git worktree repair command failed to rewrite the .git file of
a working tree from a relative path to an absolute path when the
command was run in the working tree itself. The
read_gitfile_gently() function was modified to also return whether
the path originally recorded in the file was absolute, and this new
capability is used to correctly detect such mismatches.
* yn/worktree-repair-relative:
worktree repair: detect relative path in .git file correctly
The zsh completion script (in 'contrib/') has been updated to
correctly locate the Git command after global options like '-C' by
properly skipping them, similar to how the bash completion does.
* ll/zsh-complete-git-potty-options:
completion: zsh: support completion after "git -C <path>"
The application of the edited patch in 'git add -e' has been
refactored to use the internal apply API directly, avoiding the need
to spawn a 'git apply' subprocess.
* gr/add-e-use-apply-api:
builtin/add.c: replace run_command() with direct apply_all_patches() call
The instructions for deprecated commands emitted by
you_still_use_that() have been reworded to clarify that the removal
decision is final and to provide more assertive guidance on finding
a replacement.
* jc/you-still-use-that:
you_still_use_that(): reword the instructions
'git checkout' and 'git worktree add' makes guesses based on a name
of a remote-tracking branch, but does not give an error when such a
remote-tracking branch cannot be uniquely identified, which has
been corrected.
* yn/worktree-ambiguous-remote-advice:
worktree add: treat multiple matches with --guess-remote as an error
worktree add: improve message for ambiguous remote branch name
checkout: improve message for ambiguous remote branch name
checkout: extract function to display advice for ambiguous remotes
The reftable code has been optimized to avoid an unnecessary
stat/reload of the stack when an addition already holds the
list_file lock, reducing the number of newfstatat syscalls from
linear to constant when writing refs.
* kn/reftable-optimize-reloading:
reftable/stack: avoid reloading the stack when already locked
reftable/stack: move list lock to `struct reftable_stack`
reftable/stack: rename reftable_stack_new_addition()
reftable/stack: remove `REFTABLE_STACK_NEW_ADDITION_RELOAD`
Debian 11 just recently went out of its LTS period, and is unmaintained
by the project (there is "Extended LTS", but it is a paid service
provided by a third party).
The point of the debian-11 job was to cover older releases in the LTS
state, per ac112fd4f0 (Add additional CI jobs to avoid accidental
breakage, 2024-10-31). Bumping to debian-12 will cover us there for the
next 2 years.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
* js/prefs-color-buttons:
gitk: move UI for generic colors above diff colors
gitk: avoid constructing dialog titles from text pieces
gitk: use more natural language for labels of color preferences
gitk: show color preferences on the button instead of the label
gitk: condense repetitive code around color buttons into foreach loops
gitk: set intitial colors of swatches using the available helper
The global variable 'fetch_if_missing' has been moved to a member in
'struct repository', continuing the libification process and
allowing per-repository control (such as for submodules).
* ty/repository-fetch-if-missing:
repository: move fetch_if_missing into struct repository
You do not want to mark an argv element for freeing unless the caller
has given us the free_removed_argv_elements flag. Originally we just
called free() in this case, so each caller checked the flag itself. Now
that we mark them via a helper function, we can push the check down into
the helper. This saves a little bit of duplicated code, but also
hopefully makes the result conceptually simpler.
Every caller but one was already checking this flag. The exception is
setup_revisions_from_strvec(), but it always sets the flag explicitly
(since its whole purpose is managing argv memory). So even though it was
not checking the flag, doing so is OK (it will always be set).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In setup_revisions() we rewrite the incoming argv array, losing
references to the strings it contains. For a synthetic argv array
constructed from heap strings, that traditionally meant we leaked those
allocated strings.
We fixed the leak in cd43948798 (revision: manage memory ownership of
argv in setup_revisions(), 2025-09-19). Now callers can tell the
revision code that argv entries are allocated and should be freed, which
it will do before overwriting them.
But this introduced a new bug! The overwritten entries go away as soon
as option parsing is finished, but a few options may actually create new
references to those strings. And once we free the strings, those stale
references become use-after-free bugs. For example, running:
git stash show --src-prefix=foo/
demonstrates the problem:
1. The stash command generates its own synthetic argv (because it has
to treat the stash specifiers specially) which it then passes to
setup_revisions().
2. Parsing will create a reference to the partial string "foo/" in
revs.diffopt.a_prefix.
3. When setup_revisions() finishes, we rewrite argv to throw away
parsed strings. This frees the entry holding "--src-prefix=foo",
at which point we have a dangling reference in revs.diffopt.
4. We generate an actual diff, accessing garbage memory via
revs.diffopt.a_prefix. The output is usually garbled, but ASan also
detects this reliably.
One obvious fix here is to allocate new strings when we pull data out of
the argv array. But doing so is error prone (every string option must
remember to do it or risk a subtle bug), and creates more questions
about memory ownership (e.g., some callers assign string literals
directly to a_prefix, and we would not want to free those).
Instead we can fix this centrally by delaying the free() calls. We'll
collect any "freed" strings in a new array, hold on to it for the life
of the rev_info struct, and then release it at the end. We can easily
use a strvec for this, since it handles growth and cleanup for us.
This fixes the prefix case above (which is now tested in t3903), and
should fix any other stray cases. Though I could not find any; we use
OPT_STRING only in the prefix diff options, and very few revision opts
store strings. Those that do (like --format and --encoding) already make
a copy of the string. They do not need for us to hold on to the memory
longer, but it does not hurt them if we do.
One may note that combined with cd43948798 we have approached a simpler
solution in a roundabout way. We are still hacking up argv, but now
carefully constructing a parallel argv of old strings we've overwritten
(and will eventually free). In an alternate universe, we could instead
leave the original argv pristine and return a new reduced-size argv.
This is conceptually simpler, though it does mean that every caller must
free that new argv array itself (not the entries). That's not something
they traditionally had to do, so it would mean tweaking every caller.
So even though the combination of this cd43948798 and this patch is a
little convoluted, it should make things just work (no leaks and no
use-after-free) without modifying any callers.
Reported-by: Nicolas Le Cam <niko.lecam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The patch fixes two typos in two places.
versioncmp.c: "fractionnal" -> "fractional"
t/t0022-crlf-rename.sh: "similiarity" -> "similarity"
No functional changes, only update a comment and a test_description.
Signed-off-by: Hardik Kumar <hardikxk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The CI workflow groups all runs by commit hash using
`group: ${{ github.sha }}`. This means every push to a pull
request starts a separate workflow run, and all workflows
triggered by the same commit share the same concurrency group.
With this change, pull request runs are grouped by pull request
number instead of commit hash, and runs superseded by a newer
push are canceled. The concurrency group becomes
`${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number ||
github.sha }}` and `cancel-in-progress` is set to true for
pull request events.
For pull request events, the group is `<workflow>-<pull-request-number>`
(e.g., "main-workflow-42"). If you push a new commit to an
existing pull request before the CI working on it finishes, the
new request will be placed in the same group and cancel the
currently running run.
For non-pull-request events, the group is `${{ github.workflow }}-${{
github.sha }}` and `cancel-in-progress` defaults to false, so
there is no regression in behavior.
Note that the previous configuration used `group: ${{ github.sha }}`,
which meant all workflows sharing the same commit hash were in the
same group. The new configuration includes the workflow name in
the group, so each workflow has its own concurrency group per
commit/PR.
Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the stated goals of git-replay(1) is to allow implementing the
git-rebase(1) functionality on the server side.
The default mode of git-rebase(1) is to act as if `--no-rebase-merges`
was given. This mode drops merge commits instead of replaying them, and
linearizes the history into a sequence of regular (single-parent)
commits.
Add option `--linearize` to git-replay(1) to do the same. Each replayed
commit is stacked on top of the previously replayed one. When a merge is
encountered, the commits reachable from all of its sides are replayed
into the single line and the merge itself is dropped.
If a ref was pointing to a merge commit, that ref is updated to the
merge's last replayed ancestor.
git-replay(1) accepts multiple branches, for example:
$ git replay --onto main topic1 topic2
Without `--linearize` this replays 'topic1' and 'topic2' onto 'main'
(keeping shared portions of history shared and divergent parts
divergent) and updates both refs.
Due to current implementation limitations, replaying multiple branches
with `--linearize` is disallowed to avoid concatenating unrelated
histories into a single line. For the same reason disallow the use of
`--contained` with `--linearize`.
Users who want to linearize multiple branches are advised to do this in
separate git-replay(1) invocations. Linearizing multiple branches at
once might be added later.
Note that `--linearize` is not modeled after git-rebase(1)'s
`--rebase-merges[=<mode>]` interface. Recreating merges, by preserving
their topology, is a distinct operation that would be a separate mode.
`--linearize` only drops merges and replays commits linearly. So
git-replay(1) uses its own option rather than reusing that interface.
Based-on-patches-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Depending on what gets passed into the function pick_regular_commit(),
it decides the new base for the replayed commit. It first tries to find
the replayed results of `pickme`'s parent in the `replayed_commits` map.
If not found, it falls back to `onto`.
When using git-replay(1) with --onto, the fallback is the revision
passed in with this option, but when using --revert, the fallback is
`last_commit`.
It's rather confusing the base is decided partly inside
pick_regular_commit() and partly by its caller.
Move the base selection completely into the caller: replay_revisions().
This bundles all the logic of deciding on the base together. Also, this
reduces the number of parameters of pick_regular_commit(), making its
interface cleaner.
This refactoring doesn't bring any behavior changes.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano