Amend the "NOTES" section to fix up wording that's been with us since
3ffb58be0a ("doc/git-gc: add a note about what is collected",
2008-04-23).
I can't remember when/where anymore (I think Freenode #Git), but at
some point I was having a conversation with someone who was convinced
that "gc" would prune things only referenced by e.g. refs/pull/*, and
pointed to this section as proof.
It turned out that they'd read the "branches and tags" wording here
and thought just refs/{heads,tags}/* and refs/remotes/* etc. would be
kept, which is what we enumerate explicitly.
So let's say "other refs", even though just above we say "objects that
are referenced anywhere in your repository".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Amend the "PACKFILE OPTIMIZATION" section in "fast-import" to explain
that simply running "git gc --aggressive" after a "fast-import" should
properly optimize the repository. This is simpler and more effective
than the existing "repack" advice (which I'm keeping as it helps
explain things) because it e.g. also packs the newly imported refs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing "gc --aggressive" docs come just short of recommending to
users that they run it regularly. I've personally talked to many users
who've taken these docs as an advice to use this option, and have,
usually it's (mostly) a waste of time.
So let's clarify what it really does, and let the user draw their own
conclusions.
Let's also clarify the "The effects [...] are persistent" to
paraphrase a brief version of Jeff King's explanation at [1].
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/20190318235356.GK29661@sigill.intra.peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 07e7dbf0db (gc: default aggressive depth to 50, 2016-08-11) we
somewhat confusingly use the same depth under --aggressive as we do by
default.
As noted in that commit that makes sense, it was wrong to make more
depth the default for "aggressive", and thus save disk space at the
expense of runtime performance, which is usually the opposite of
someone who'd like "aggressive gc" wants.
But that's left us with a mostly-redundant configuration variable, so
let's clearly note in its documentation that it doesn't change the
default.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the AsciiDoc formatting so that an example of "gc --auto" isn't
rendered as "git-gc(1) --auto", but as "git gc --auto". This is
consistent with the rest of the links and command examples in this
documentation.
The formatting I'm changing was initially introduced in
d5d5d7b641 ("gc: automatically write commit-graph files", 2018-06-27).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config". A previous commit moved this
over from the "gc" docs, but tried to keep as many of the lines
identical to benefit from diff's move detection.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rather than duplicating the documentation for the various "gc" options
let's include the "gc" docs from git-config. They were mostly better
already, and now we don't have the same docs in two places with subtly
different wording.
In the cases where the git-gc(1) docs were saying something the "gc"
docs in git-config(1) didn't cover move the relevant section over to
the git-config(1) docs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clean up the grammar in the documentation for
"gc.bigPackThreshold". This documentation was added in 9806f5a7bf ("gc
--auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad"",
2018-04-15).
Saying "the amount of memory estimated for" flows more smoothly than
the previous "the amount of memory is estimated not enough".
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the mention of specific flags from the "gc" documentation, and
leave it at describing what we'll do instead. As seen in builtin/gc.c
we'll use various repack flags depending on what we detect we need to
do, so this isn't always accurate.
More importantly, a subsequent change is about to remove all this
documentation and replace it with an include of the gc.* docs in
git-config(1). By first changing this it's easier to reason about that
subsequent change.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The docs have been recommending that users need to run this manually,
but that hasn't been needed in practice for a long time except in
exceptional circumstances.
Let's instead have this reflect reality and say that most users don't
need to run this manually at all, while briefly describing the sorts
sort of cases where "gc" does need to be run manually.
Since we're recommending that users run this most of the and usually
don't need to tweak it, let's tone down the very prominent example of
the gc.auto=0 command. It's sufficient to point to the gc.auto
documentation below.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command line parser of "git commit-tree" has been rewritten to
use the parse-options API.
* br/commit-tree-parseopt:
commit-tree: utilize parse-options api
"git config --type=color ..." is meant to replace "git config --get-color"
but there is a slight difference that wasn't documented, which is
now fixed.
* jk/config-type-color-ends-with-lf:
config: document --type=color output is a complete line
"git fsck --connectivity-only" omits computation necessary to sift
the objects that are not reachable from any of the refs into
unreachable and dangling. This is now enabled when dangling
objects are requested (which is done by default, but can be
overridden with the "--no-dangling" option).
* jk/fsck-doc:
fsck: always compute USED flags for unreachable objects
doc/fsck: clarify --connectivity-only behavior
Rather than parse options manually, which is both difficult to
read and error prone, parse options supplied to commit-tree
using the parse-options api.
It was discovered that the --no-gpg-sign option was documented
but not implemented in commit 70ddbd7767 (commit-tree: add missing
--gpg-sign flag, 2019-01-19), and the existing implementation
would attempt to translate the option as a tree oid. It was also
suggested earlier in commit 55ca3f99ae (commit-tree: add and document
--no-gpg-sign, 2013-12-13) that commit-tree should be migrated to
utilize the parse-options api, which could help prevent mistakes
like this in the future. Hence this change.
Also update the documentation to better describe that mixing
`-m` and `-F` options will correctly compose commit log messages in the
order in which the options are given.
In the process, mark various strings for translation.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Richardson <brandon1024.br@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though the newer "--type=color" option to "git config" is meant
to be upward compatible with the traditional "--get-color" option,
unlike the latter, its output is not an incomplete line that lack
the LF at the end. That makes it consistent with output of other
types like "git config --type=bool".
Document it, as it sometimes surprises unsuspecting users.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A more structured way to obtain execution trace has been added.
* jh/trace2:
trace2: add for_each macros to clang-format
trace2: t/helper/test-trace2, t0210.sh, t0211.sh, t0212.sh
trace2:data: add subverb for rebase
trace2:data: add subverb to reset command
trace2:data: add subverb to checkout command
trace2:data: pack-objects: add trace2 regions
trace2:data: add trace2 instrumentation to index read/write
trace2:data: add trace2 hook classification
trace2:data: add trace2 transport child classification
trace2:data: add trace2 sub-process classification
trace2:data: add editor/pager child classification
trace2:data: add trace2 regions to wt-status
trace2: collect Windows-specific process information
trace2: create new combined trace facility
trace2: Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt
Output from "diff --cc" did not show the original paths when the
merge involved renames. A new option adds the paths in the
original trees to the output.
* en/combined-all-paths:
log,diff-tree: add --combined-all-paths option
Four new configuration variables {author,committer}.{name,email}
have been introduced to override user.{name,email} in more specific
cases.
* wh/author-committer-ident-config:
config: allow giving separate author and committer idents
The %(trailers) formatter in "git log --format=..." now allows to
optionally pick trailers selectively by keyword, show only values,
etc.
* aw/pretty-trailers:
pretty: add support for separator option in %(trailers)
strbuf: separate callback for strbuf_expand:ing literals
pretty: add support for "valueonly" option in %(trailers)
pretty: allow showing specific trailers
pretty: single return path in %(trailers) handling
pretty: allow %(trailers) options with explicit value
doc: group pretty-format.txt placeholders descriptions
The diff machinery, one of the oldest parts of the system, which
long predates the parse-options API, uses fairly long and complex
handcrafted option parser. This is being rewritten to use the
parse-options API.
* nd/diff-parseopt:
diff.c: convert --raw
diff.c: convert -W|--[no-]function-context
diff.c: convert -U|--unified
diff.c: convert -u|-p|--patch
diff.c: prepare to use parse_options() for parsing
diff.h: avoid bit fields in struct diff_flags
diff.h: keep forward struct declarations sorted
parse-options: allow ll_callback with OPTION_CALLBACK
parse-options: avoid magic return codes
parse-options: stop abusing 'callback' for lowlevel callbacks
parse-options: add OPT_BITOP()
parse-options: disable option abbreviation with PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN
parse-options: add one-shot mode
parse-options.h: remove extern on function prototypes
"git checkout --no-overlay" can be used to trigger a new mode of
checking out paths out of the tree-ish, that allows paths that
match the pathspec that are in the current index and working tree
and are not in the tree-ish.
* tg/checkout-no-overlay:
revert "checkout: introduce checkout.overlayMode config"
checkout: introduce checkout.overlayMode config
checkout: introduce --{,no-}overlay option
checkout: factor out mark_cache_entry_for_checkout function
checkout: clarify comment
read-cache: add invalidate parameter to remove_marked_cache_entries
entry: support CE_WT_REMOVE flag in checkout_entry
entry: factor out unlink_entry function
move worktree tests to t24*
`UTF-16-LE-BOM` to `UTF-16LE-BOM`.
this closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2095
Signed-off-by: Yash Bhatambare <ybhatambare@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --connectivity-only option avoids opening every object, and instead
just marks reachable objects with a flag and compares this to the set
of all objects. This strategy is discussed in more detail in 3e3f8bd608
(fsck: prepare dummy objects for --connectivity-check, 2017-01-17).
This means that we report _every_ unreachable object as dangling.
Whereas in a full fsck, we'd have actually opened and parsed each of
those unreachable objects, marking their child objects with the USED
flag, to mean "this was mentioned by another object". And thus we can
report only the tip of an unreachable segment of the object graph as
dangling.
You can see this difference with a trivial example:
tree=$(git hash-object -t tree -w /dev/null)
one=$(echo one | git commit-tree $tree)
two=$(echo two | git commit-tree -p $one $tree)
Running `git fsck` will report only $two as dangling, but with
--connectivity-only, both commits (and the tree) are reported. Likewise,
using --lost-found would write all three objects.
We can make --connectivity-only work like the normal case by taking a
separate pass over the unreachable objects, parsing them and marking
objects they refer to as USED. That still avoids parsing any blobs,
though we do pay the cost to access any unreachable commits and trees
(which may or may not be noticeable, depending on how many you have).
If neither --dangling nor --lost-found is in effect, then we can skip
this step entirely, just like we do now. That makes "--connectivity-only
--no-dangling" just as fast as the current "--connectivity-only". I.e.,
we do the correct thing always, but you can still tweak the options to
make it faster if you don't care about dangling objects.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On reading this again, there are two things that were not immediately
clear to me:
- we do still check links to blobs, even though we don't open the
blobs themselves
- we do not do the normal fsck checks, even for non-blob objects we do
open
Let's reword it to make these points a little more clear.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change it to "linkgit" so that the reference is properly rendered.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For --rename-empty, see 90d43b0768 (teach diffcore-rename to
optionally ignore empty content - 2012-03-22) for more information.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This also validates that the user specifies a single character in
--output-indicator-*, not a string.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 7171d8c15f ("upload-pack: send symbolic ref information as
capability"), we added a symref capability to the pack protocol, but it
was never documented. Adapt the patch notes from that commit and add
them to the capabilities documentation.
While we're at it, add a disclaimer to the top of
protocol-capabilities.txt noting that the doc only applies to v0/v1 of
the wire protocol.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The former wording implied that --no-commit would always cause the
merge operation to "pause" and allow the user to make further changes
and/or provide a special commit message for the merge commit. This
is not the case for fast-forward merges, as there is no merge commit
to create. Without a merge commit, there is no place where it makes
sense to "stop the merge and allow the user to tweak changes"; doing
that would require a full rebase of some sort.
Since users may be unaware of whether their branches have diverged or
not, modify the wording to correctly address fast-forward cases as well
and suggest using --no-ff with --no-commit if the point is to ensure
that the merge stops before completing.
Reported-by: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default pre-commit script checks the config variable
"hooks.allownonascii" to determine whether to allow non-ASCII file
names -- mention this in "man githooks", just as the section on
"update" mentions the use of "hooks.allowunannotated".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
submodule's default behavior wasn't documented in both git-submodule.txt
and in the usage text of git-submodule. Document the default behavior
similar to how git-remote does it.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase --merge" as been reimplemented by reusing the internal
machinery used for "git rebase -i".
* en/rebase-merge-on-sequencer:
git-rebase.txt: update to reflect merge now implemented on sequencer
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason