Thanks to Johannes Schindelin for review and fixes, and Julian
Phillips for the original C translation.
This changes a few small bits of behavior:
branch.<name>.merge is parsed as if it were the lhs of a fetch
refspec, and does not have to exactly match the actual lhs of a
refspec, so long as it is a valid abbreviation for the same ref.
branch.<name>.merge is no longer ignored if the remote is configured
with a branches/* file. Neither behavior is useful, because there can
only be one ref that gets fetched, but this is more consistant.
Also, fetch prints different information to standard out.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The example provided with the update-hook-example does not work on
either bash 2.05b.0(1)-release nor 3.1.17(1)-release. The matcher did
not match the lines that it advertised to match, such as:
refs/heads/bw/ linus
refs/heads/tmp/* *
In POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions, the star (*), is not an wildcard
meaning "match everything", it matches 0 or more matches of the atom
preceding it.
So to match "refs/heads/bw/topic-branch", the matcher should be written
as "refs/heads/bw/.*" to match "refs/heads/bw/" and everything after it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This section has not been updated in a while and
--branches/--tags/--trunk options are commonly used nowadays.
Noticed-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 098e711e caused git-push to match only branches when
considering which refs to push. This patch updates the
documentation accordingly and adds a test for this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Revise the introduction for concision, add pointers to the tutorial and
user manual as appropriate, delete cvsimport note from the end, as that
work's been done elsewhere already.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The "Discussion" section has a lot of useful information, but is a
little wordy, especially for an already-long man page, and is designed
for an audience more of potential git hackers than users, which probably
doesn't make as much sense as git matures. Also, I (perhaps foolishly)
forked a version in the user manual, which has been significantly
rewritten in an attempt to address some of the above problems.
So, remove this section and replace it by a (very terse) summary of the
original material--my attempt at the World's Shortest Git Overview--and
a reference to the appropriate chapter of the user manual. It's
unfortunate to remove something that's been in this place for a long
time, as some people may still depend on finding it there. But I think
we'll want to do this some day anyway.
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Actually I don't think we've previously mentioned .git/objects, so we
need a different introduction here.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Rewrite the introduction. Rewrite each section completely to make them
work in the new order, to add some examples, and to move plumbing
commands (like git-commit-tree) to the following chapter.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The bottom-up blog, tree, commit order makes sense unless you want to
give explicit examples--it's easier to discover objects to examine if
you go in the other order....,
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Add an example using git-ls-files, standardize on the new "index"
terminology (as opposed to "cache"), attempt to clarify discussion and
make it a little shorter, avoid some unnecessary jargon ("write-back
cache").
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The low-level index operations aren't as important to regular users as
the rest of this "git concepts" chapter; so move it into a separate
chapter, and do some minor cleanup.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
"git internals" sounds like something only git developers must know
about, but this stuff should be of wider interest. Rename the chapter
and give it a slightly friendlier introduction.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The descriptions of the various object types should all be a subsection
of the "Object Database" section.
I cribbed most of this chapter from the README (now core-intro.txt and
git(7)), because there's stuff in there people need to know and I was
too lazy to rewrite it. The audience isn't quite right, though--the
chapter is a mixture of user- and developer- level documentation that
isn't as appropriate now as it was originally.
So, reserve this chapter for stuff users need to know, and move the
source code introduction into a new "git hacking" chapter where we'll
also move any hacker-only technical details.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Bram Schoenmakers noticed that git-config document was formatted
incorrectly. Depending on the version of AsciiDoc and docbook
toolchain, it is sometimes taken as a numbered example by AsciiDoc,
some other times passed intact to roff format to confuse "man".
Since we refer to the repository metadata directory as $GIT_DIR
elsewhere, work it around by using that symbolic name.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of the option gave impression that there
were several formats available by using three dots. There are
no other formats than tar and gzip currently supported.
Clarify that the archive goes to the standard output.
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A duplicate of an already existing section in the documentation of
git-filter-branch was added in commit
f95eef15f2.
This patch removes that redundant section.
Signed-off-by: Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove obsolete details (core.legacyheaders is always true now).
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds a --threads=<n> parameter to 'git pack-objects' with
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pass --whitespace=<option> to git-apply. Since git-apply and git-am
expect this, I'm always surprised when I try to give it to git-rebase
and it doesn't work.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we're counting, a smaller number is 'fewer' not 'less'
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes git-svn unconditionally invoke git-log with --first-parent when
it is trying to discover its upstream subversion branch and collecting the
commit ids which should be pushed to it with dcommit. The reason for always
using --first-parent is to make git-svn behave in a predictable way when the
ancestry chain contains merges with other git-svn branches.
Since git-svn now always uses 'git-log --first-parent' there is no longer
any need for the --first-parent option to git-svn, so this is removed.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As suggested by Junio and Johannes, change the name of the former
attribute specfile to export-subst to indicate its function rather
than purpose and to make clear that it is not applied to working tree
files.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As suggested by Johannes, --pretty=format: placeholders in specfiles
need to be wrapped in $Format:...$ now. This syntax change restricts
the expansion of placeholders and makes it easier to use with files
that contain non-placeholder percent signs.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many users get confused when `git push origin master:foo` works
when foo already exists on the remote repository but are confused
when foo doesn't exist as a branch and this form does not create
the branch foo.
This new example highlights the trick of including refs/heads/
in front of the desired branch name to create a branch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-svn uses git-log to find embedded 'git-svn-id'-lines in commit
messages, it can get confused when local history contains merges with
other git-svn branches. But if --first-parent is supplied to git-log,
working_head_info() will only see 'branch-local' commits and thus the
first commit containing a 'git-svn-id' line should refer to the correct
subversion branch.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for a new attribute, specfile. Files marked as being
specfiles are expanded by git-archive when they are written to an
archive. It has no effect on worktree files. The same placeholders
as those for the option --pretty=format: of git-log et al. can be
used.
The attribute is useful for creating auto-updating specfiles. It is
limited by the underlying function format_commit_message(), though.
E.g. currently there is no placeholder for git-describe like output,
and expanded specfiles can't contain NUL bytes. That can be fixed
in format_commit_message() later and will then benefit users of
git-log, too.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using the "--mirror" option to "git remote add", the refs will not
be stored in the refs/remotes/ namespace, but in the same location as
on the remote side.
This option probably only makes sense in a bare repository.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows username and password to be given using --smtp-user
and --smtp-pass. SSL use is flagged by --smtp-ssl. These are
backed by corresponding defaults in the git configuration file.
This implements Junio's 'mail identity' suggestion in a slightly
more generalised manner. --identity=$identity, backed by
sendemail.identity indicates that the configuration subsection
[sendemail "$identity"] should take priority over the [sendemail]
section for all configuration values.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Stockwell <doug@11011.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
HPA noticed that yum does not like the newer git RPM set; it turns out
that we do not ship git-p4 anymore but existing installations do not
realize the package is gone if we do not tell anything about it.
David Kastrup suggests using Obsoletes in the spec file of the new
RPM to replace the old package, so here is a try.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow port specification in ssh:// URLs in the
usual notation:
ssh://[user@]host.domain[:<port>]/<path>
This allows git to be used over ssh-tunneling
networks.
Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The warning message to suggest "Consider running git-status" from
"git-diff" that we experimented with during the 1.5.3 cycle turns
out to be a bad idea. It robbed cache-dirty information from people
who valued it, while still asking users to run "update-index --refresh".
It was hoped that the new behaviour would at least have some educational
value, but not showing the cache-dirty paths like before meant that the
user would not even know easily which paths were cache-dirty, and it
made the need to refresh the index look like even more unnecessary chore.
This commit reinstates the traditional behaviour, but with a twist.
By default, the empty "diff --git" output is totally squelched out
from "git diff" output. At the end of the command, it automatically
runs "update-index --refresh" as needed, without even bothering the
user. In other words, people who do not care about the cache-dirtyness
do not even have to see the warning.
The traditional behaviour to see the stat-dirty output and to bypassing
the overhead of content comparison can be specified by setting the
configuration variable diff.autorefreshindex to false.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With this function, a commit filter can leave out unwanted commits
(such as temporary commits). It does _not_ undo the changeset
corresponding to that commit, but it _skips_ the revision. IOW
no tree object is changed by this.
If you like to commit early and often, but want to filter out all
intermediate commits, marked by "@@@" in the commit message, you can
now do this with
git filter-branch --commit-filter '
if git cat-file commit $GIT_COMMIT | grep '@@@' > /dev/null;
then
skip_commit "$@";
else
git commit-tree "$@";
fi' newbranch
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the convenience functions to the top of git-filter-branch.sh, and
return from the script when the environment variable SOURCE_FUNCTIONS is
set.
By sourcing git-filter-branch with that variable set automatically, all
commit filters may access the convenience functions like "map".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interactive mode of rebase can be used to split commits. Tell the
interested parties about it, with a dedicated section in the man page.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some time ago, filter-branch's syntax changed so that more than one
ref can be rewritten at the same time. This involved the removal of
the ref name for the result; instead, the refs are rewritten in-place.
This updates the last leftovers in the documentation to reflect the
new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Daniel Barkalow