It's too dangerous not to. We need to follow alternate object
directories etc, or we might say something is unreachable just because
we didn't look it up completely.
This splits push-pull related commands into a separate
category. I think a bigger overhaul of the main index is
needed, but have not got around to it. Help is welcome.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds documentation for 'smarter push' family of commands.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds documentation for 'smarter pull' family of commands.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds documentation for creating packed archives, inspecting,
validating them, and unpacking them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oh, well.. FC4 has UTF-8 as the default environment, and I applaud
that, but then it sometimes results in these characters that aren't
actually visible as a problem.
The comment was left over from the days when we had a single
huge core-git.txt document. No more.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
While adding the documentation for these two commands, I noticed
that the name of the program on the other end (git-upload-pack)
is already almost configurable but git-clone-pack lacked command
line parameter parsing to actually use anything but default, so
I introduced --exec= like other remote commands while I was at it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds the usage string to checkout-cache and you can say
"--help" to get it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Now that we have something called tag object, and a notion of
"tags" stored in .git/refs/tags/ directory, the word "tagname"
has become misleading in the usage string. The documentation
already calls that <type>.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This documents the two pack push-pull protocols used by the
smart upload-fetch/clone and send/receive commands.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Useful for pulling stuff off a dedicated server. Instead of connecting
with ssh or just starting a local pipeline, we connect over TCP to the
other side and try to see if there's a git server listening.
Of course, since I haven't written the git server yet, that will never
happen. But the server really just needs to listen on a port, and
execute a "git-upload-pack" when somebody connects.
(It should read one packet-line, which should be of the format
"git-upload-pack directoryname\n"
and eventually we migth have other commands the server might accept).
We should always have unlinked any old ones before, but this just makes
sure that we never over-write any old file.
A quick "grep" now shows that all the core tools that open files for
writing use O_EXCL, ie we never overwrite an existing file in place.
We write them under another name and rename them to their destination,
so that if something bad happens in the middle, we won't have caused any
bigger harm.
Also, this makes the writing be NFS "intr" safe, and as a side effects
makes sure that if the target is hardlinked (or symlinked) we will have
broken the link.
I got tired of maintaining almost duplicated descriptions in
diff-* brothers, both in usage string and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Porcelain layers often want to find only names of changed files,
and even with diff-raw output format they end up having to pick
out only the filename. Support --name-only (and --name-only-z
for xargs -0 and cpio -0 users that want to treat filenames with
embedded newlines sanely) flag to help them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Just to be consistent, support "-u" as a synonym for "-p" like
everybody else does.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Previously, git-cvsimport-script would fail
on revisions with more than one digit.
Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
apply.c: In function `show_rename_copy':
apply.c:1147: warning: field precision is not type int (arg 3)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
That way we avoid any confusion with "GNU Interactive Tools", and it's
more descriptive anyway (the rpm documentation talks about how git is
split into a "core" part and an "SCM" part, this makes it clear that
this is the core one).
You can use it as
git branch <branchname> [start-point]
and it creates a new branch of name <branchname>. If a starting point
is specified, that will be where the branch is created, otherwise it
will be created at the current HEAD.
The sequence
git branch xyz abc
git checkout xyz
can also be written as
git checkout -b xyz abc
as per the previous commit.
In particular, if we check out something that isn't an old branch, it
now requires a new branch-name to check the thing out into.
So, for example:
git checkout -b my-branch v2.6.12
will create the new branch "my-branch", and start it at v2.6.12, while
git checkout master
will just switch back to the master branch.
Of course, if you want to create a new branch "my-branch" and _not_
check it out, you could have done so with just
git-rev-parse v2.6.12^0 > .git/refs/heads/my-branch
which I think I will codify as "git branch".
We still need to create a new branch if it didn't refer to an existing
branch, otherwise our HEAD will continue to point to something totally
different than what we just checked out.
I'll need to think about it. Maybe only do it with "-f" and force it to
the "master" branch?
This sounds nonsensical, but it's useful to make sure that the result is
a commit.
For example, "git-rev-parse v2.6.12" will return the _tag_ object for
v2.6.12, but "git-rev-parse v2.6.12^0" will return the _commit_ object
associated with that tag (and v2.6.12^1 will return the first parent).
Also, since the "parent" code will actually parse the commit, this,
together with the "--verify" flag, will verify not only that the result
is a single SHA1, but will also have verified that it's a proper commit
that we can see.
Cut-and-paste dup noticed by Junio. It's not even harmless, since a
match also causes that match to be invalidated, so this made it
impossible to update an existing branch by name.
I'd only tested the case of "ref doesn't exist at all on the other end",
which worked fine.
Use git-tar-tree directly from git source during make dist. This
handles bootstrap issue with git not being installed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- When local optimization is used, the variable repo has
already been passed through get_repo_base so there is no need
to check for .git subdirectory in there.
- Use cpio -l instead of "cp -l".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
git-cvsimport-script: add "import only" option which tells the script
not to perform a checkout after importing.
This ensures that the working directory and cache remain untouched and
will not create them if they do not exist.
Acked-by: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This option allows a write-tree even if the referenced objects are not
in the database.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Larsen <bryan.larsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This reverses the order of object lookup, to check pack index first and
then go to the filesystem to find .git/objects/??/ hierarchy.
When most of the objects are packed, this saves quite many stat() calls
and negative dcache entries; while the price this approach has to pay is
negligible, even when most of the objects are outside pack, because
checking pack index file is quite cheap.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When we allow a tag object in place of a commit object, we only
dereferenced the given tag once, which causes a tag that points at a tag
that points at a commit to be rejected. Instead, dereference tag
repeatedly until we get a non-tag.
This patch makes change to two functions:
- commit.c::lookup_commit_reference() is used by merge-base,
rev-tree and rev-parse to convert user supplied SHA1 to that of
a commit.
- rev-list uses its own get_commit_reference() to do the same.
Dereferencing tags this way helps both of these uses.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The location alt_odb[j].name[0..] is filled with ??/?{38} to form a sha1
filename to try, but I was too lazy to allocate a copy, so while
fsck_object_dir() is running for the directory, the filenames ??/?{38}
are filled after NUL (usually and always the location should have '/'),
making them "not found".
This should fix it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We used to print the index of the object we unpacked, not how many we
had unpacked. Which caused slightly confusing progress reports like
100% (2/3) done
rather than the more obvious "3/3" for 100% ;)
Add write_sha1_to_fd(), which writes an object to a file descriptor. This
includes support for unpacking it and recompressing it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This ends up being very calming for big "git clone"s, since otherwise
you just get very frustrated with a long silence, wondering whether it's
working at all.
Use "-q" to quiet it down.
Now if we could just do the same for the initial "figure out what to
pack" phase, which can also be quite slow if the other end is busy (or
not packed and not in cache)...
If it is fed a commit with more than one leading blank lines,
the sed scripts git-format-patch-script used looped forever.
Using git-stripspace upfront makes the sed script somewhat
simpler to work around this problem.
Also use git-rev-parse so that we can say
$ git-format-patch-script HEAD^^^^
to prepare the latest four patches for e-mail submission.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add notes on branches, merging, tagging, and update some of the usage to
the friendlier "git cmd" syntax.
It's still ridiculously lacking, but perhaps it's a _bit_ more useful.
Linus Torvalds