The documentation for 'git apply' talks about applying a
patch/diff to the index and to the working tree, which seems
to imply that it will not work outside a git repository.
Actually 'git patch' works outside a repository (which can
be useful especially for applying binary or rename patches that
the standard "patch" utility cannot handle), so the documentation
should mention it.
Thanks to Junio for suggesting better wording.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description for -z is too vague and general for the
apply, diff*, and log commands.
Change the description of -z for 'git log' to note that
commits will be separated by NULs.
Change the description of -z for 'git diff*' and 'git apply'
to note that it applies to the --numstat option, and for
'git diff*' also for --raw option.
Also correct the description of the "munging" of pathanmes that
takes place in the absence of -z for the 'git diff*' and
'git apply' commands, namely that apart from the characters mentioned,
double quotes will also be escaped and that the pathname will be
enclosed in double quotes if any characters are escaped.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current man page does a reasonable job at describing branch management
during the development process, but it does not contain any guidance as to
how the branches are affected by releases.
Add a basic introduction to the branch management undertaken during a
git.git release, so that a reader may gain some insight into how the
integration, maintenance, and topic branches are affected during the
release transition, and is thus able to better design the process for their
own project.
Other release activities such as reviews, testing, and creating
distributions are currently out of scope.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-svn has the following rule to detect the SVN base for its
operations: find the first git-svn-id line reachable through
first-parent ancestry. IOW,
git log --grep=^git-svn-id: --first-parent -1
Document this, as it is very important when using merges with git-svn.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
We parse unhandled.log files for empty_dir statements and make a
best effort attempt to recreate empty directories on fresh
clones and rebase. This should cover the majority of cases
where users work off a single branch or for projects where
branches do not differ in empty directories.
Since this cannot affect "normal" git commands like "checkout"
or "reset", so users switching between branches in a single
working directory should use the new "git svn mkdirs" command
after switching branches.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Extra paragraphs should be prefixed with a plus sign.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the new "git var GIT_EDITOR" feature to decide what editor to
use, instead of duplicating its logic elsewhere. This should make
the behavior of commands in edge cases (e.g., editor names with
spaces) a little more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expose the command found by setup_pager() for scripts to use.
Scripts can use this to avoid repeating the logic to look for a
proper pager in each command.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expose the command used by launch_editor() for scripts to use.
This should allow one to avoid searching for a proper editor
separately in each command.
git_editor(void) uses the logic to decide which editor to use
that used to live in launch_editor(). The function returns NULL
if there is no suitable editor; the caller is expected to issue
an error message when appropriate.
launch_editor() uses git_editor() and gives the error message the
same way as before when EDITOR is not set.
"git var GIT_EDITOR" gives the editor name, or an error message
when there is no appropriate one.
"git var -l" gives GIT_EDITOR=name only if there is an
appropriate editor.
Originally-submitted-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current technical documentation for the packfile protocol is both
sparse and incorrect. This documents the fetch-pack/upload-pack and
send-pack/ receive-pack protocols much more fully.
Add documentation from Shawn's upcoming http-protocol docs that is
shared by the packfile protocol. protocol-common.txt describes ABNF
notation amendments, refname rules and the packet line format.
Add documentation on the various capabilities supported by the
upload-pack and receive-pack protocols. protocol-capabilities.txt
describes multi-ack, thin-pack, side-band[-64k], shallow, no-progress,
include-tag, ofs-delta, delete-refs and report-status.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since a0e4639 (filter-branch: fix ref rewriting with
--subdirectory-filter, 2008-08-12) git-filter-branch has done
nearest-ancestor rewriting when using a --subdirectory-filter.
However, that rewriting strategy is also a useful building block in
other tasks. For example, if you want to split out a subset of files
from your history, you would typically call
git filter-branch -- <refs> -- <files>
But this fails for all refs that do not point directly to a commit
that affects <files>, because their referenced commit will not be
rewritten and the ref remains untouched.
The code was already there for the --subdirectory-filter case, so just
introduce an option that enables it independently.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"-p" means "generate patch" in 'git log' and 'git diff', so it's
quite surprising that it means "suppress diffstat" in
'git format-patch'.
Keep the "-p" option for backward compatibility, but add
"--no-stat" as a more intuitive synonym. For backward compatibility
with scripts, we must allow combinations of --stat and --no-stat.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Format git commands and options consistently using back quotes
(i.e. a fixed font in the resulting HTML document).
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To simplify reading the documentation for format-patch, remove the
description of common diff options that are not useful for the
purpose of the command (i.e. "Prepare patches for e-mail submission").
Specifically, this removes the description of the following options:
--raw
-z
--color
--no-color
--color-words
--diff-filter
-S
--pickaxe-all
--pickaxe-regex
-R
--relative
--exit-code
--quiet
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jeff King recently reinstated -p to suppress the default diffstat
(as -p used to work before 68daa64, about 14 months ago).
However, -p is also needed in combination with certain options
(e.g. --stat or --numstat) in order to produce any patch at all.
The documentation does not mention this.
Since the purpose of format-patch is to produce a patch that
can be emailed, it does not make sense that certain combination
of options will suppress the generation of the patch itself.
Therefore:
* Update 'git format-patch' to always generate a patch.
* Since the --name-only, --name-status, and --check suppresses
the generation of the patch, disallow those options,
and remove the description of them in the documentation.
* Remove the reference to -p in the description of -U.
* Remove the descriptions of the options that are synonyms for -p
plus another option (--patch-with-raw and --patch-with-stat).
* While at it, slightly tweak the description of -p itself
to say that it generates "plain patches", so that you can
think of -p as "plain patch" as an mnemonic aid.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the description next to --assume-unchanged because this option is only
useful in a special case of using that option.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This only changes the behavior of "git show-ref -h" without any
other options and arguments.
"show-ref -h" currently is short for "show-ref --head", which
shows all the refs/* and HEAD, as opposed to "show-ref" that
shows all the refs/* and not HEAD.
Does anybody use "show-ref -h"? It was in Linus's original, most
likely only because "it might be handy", not because "the command
should not show the HEAD by default for such and such reasons".
So I think it is okay if "show-ref -h" (but not "show-ref
--head") gives help and exits.
If a current script uses "git show-ref -h" without any other
arguments, it would have to be adapted by changing "-h" to
"--head".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were some differences between t1200 and the gitcore-tutorial. Add
missing tests for manually merging two branches, and use the same
commands in both files.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some repository owners may wish to enable smart HTTP, but disallow
dumb content serving. Disallowing dumb serving might be because
the owners want to rely upon reachability to control which objects
clients may access from the repository, or they just want to
encourage clients to use the more bandwidth efficient transport.
If http.getanyfile is set to false the backend CGI will return with
'403 Forbidden' when an object file is accessed by a dumb client.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-remote-curl backend detects if the remote server supports
the git-receive-pack service, and if so, runs git-send-pack in a
pipe to dump the command and pack data as a single POST request.
The advertisements from the server that were obtained during the
discovery are passed into git-send-pack before the POST request
starts. This permits git-send-pack to operate largely unmodified.
For smaller packs (those under 1 MiB) a HTTP/1.0 POST with a
Content-Length is used, permitting interaction with any server.
The 1 MiB limit is arbitrary, but is sufficent to fit most deltas
created by human authors against text sources with the occasional
small binary file (e.g. few KiB icon image). The configuration
option http.postBuffer can be used to increase (or shink) this
buffer if the default is not sufficient.
For larger packs which cannot be spooled entirely into the helper's
memory space (due to http.postBuffer being too small), the POST
request requires HTTP/1.1 and sets "Transfer-Encoding: chunked".
This permits the client to upload an unknown amount of data in one
HTTP transaction without needing to pregenerate the entire pack
file locally.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the git-http-backend examples, only match git-receive-pack within
/git/.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the git-http-backend documentation, add an example of how to set up
gitweb and git-http-backend on the same URL by using a series of
mod_alias commands.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the git-http-backend documentation, use mod_alias exlusively, instead
of using a combination of mod_alias and mod_rewrite. This makes the
example slightly shorted and a bit more clear.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify some of the git-http-backend documentation, particularly:
* In the Description, state that smart/dumb HTTP fetch and smart HTTP
push are supported, state that authenticated clients allow push, and
remove the note that this is only suited for read-only updates.
* At the start of Examples, state explicitly what URL is mapping to what
location on disk.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new environment variable, GIT_PROJECT_ROOT, to override the
method of using PATH_TRANSLATED to find the git repository on disk.
This makes it much easier to configure the web server, especially when
the web server's DocumentRoot does not contain the git repositories,
which is the usual case.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Requests for $GIT_URL/git-receive-pack and $GIT_URL/git-upload-pack
are forwarded to the corresponding backend process by directly
executing it and leaving stdin and stdout connected to the invoking
web server. Prior to starting the backend process the HTTP response
headers are sent, thereby freeing the backend from needing to know
about the HTTP protocol.
Requests that are encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip are
automatically inflated before being streamed into the backend.
This is primarily useful for the git-upload-pack backend, which
receives highly repetitive text data from clients that easily
compresses to 50% of its original size.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-http-backend CGI can be configured into any Apache server
using ScriptAlias, such as with the following configuration:
LoadModule cgi_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule alias_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so
ScriptAlias /git/ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/
Repositories are accessed via the translated PATH_INFO.
The CGI is backwards compatible with the dumb client, allowing all
older HTTP clients to continue to download repositories which are
managed by the CGI.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduced in 492cf3f (More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev', 2009-10-29)
Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The remote helper interface now supports the push capability,
which can be used to ask the implementation to push one or more
specs to the remote repository. For remote-curl we implement this
by calling the existing WebDAV based git-http-push executable.
Internally the helper interface uses the push_refs transport hook
so that the complexity of the refspec parsing and matching can be
reused between remote implementations. When possible however the
helper protocol uses source ref name rather than the source SHA-1,
thereby allowing the helper to access this name if it is useful.
>From Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>:
update http tests according to remote-curl capabilities
o Pushing packed refs is now fixed.
o The transport helper fails if refs are already up-to-date. Add
a test for that.
o The transport helper will notice if refs are already
up-to-date. We therefore need to update server info in the
unpacked-refs test.
o The transport helper will purge deleted branches automatically.
o Use a variable ($ORIG_HEAD) instead of full SHA-1 name.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
CC: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some transports, like the native pack transport implemented by
fetch-pack, support useful features like depth or include tags.
These should be exposed if the underlying helper knows how to
use them.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some network protocols (e.g. native git://) are able to fetch more
than one ref at a time and reduce the overall transfer cost by
combining the requests into a single exchange. Instead of feeding
each fetch request one at a time to the helper, feed all of them
at once so the helper can decide whether or not it should batch them.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For convenience in scripts and aliases, add the option
--ff-only to only allow fast-forwards (and up-to-date,
despite the name).
Disallow combining --ff-only and --no-ff, since they
flatly contradict each other.
Allow all other options to be combined with --ff-only
(i.e. do not add any code to handle them specially),
including the following options:
* --strategy (one or more): As long as the chosen merge
strategy results in up-to-date or fast-forward, the
command will succeed.
* --squash: I cannot imagine why anyone would want to
squash commits only if fast-forward is possible, but I
also see no reason why it should not be allowed.
* --message: The message will always be ignored, but I see
no need to explicitly disallow providing a redundant message.
Acknowledgements: I did look at Yuval Kogman's earlier
patch (107768 in gmane), mainly as shortcut to find my
way in the code, but I did not copy anything directly.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also adds a note about why the output in the examples might give
different output today.
Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit b5227d8 changed the behavior of "ls-files" with
respect to includes, but accidentally broke the "-i" option
The original behavior was:
1. if no "-i" is given, cull all results according to --exclude*
2. if "-i" is given, show the inverse of (1)
The broken behavior was:
1. if no "-i" is given:
a. for "-o", cull results according to --exclude*
b. for index files, always show all
2. if "-i" is given:
a. for "-o", shows the inverse of (1a)
b. for index files, always show all
The fixed behavior keeps the new (1b) behavior introduced
by b5227d8, but fixes the (2b) behavior to show only ignored
files, not all files.
This patch also tweaks the documentation. The original text
was somewhat obscure in the first place, but it is also now
inaccurate (the relationship between (1b) and (2b) is not
quite a "reverse").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add p4merge to the set of built-in diff/merge tools, and update
bash completion and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the --dirty option, git describe works on HEAD but append s"-dirty"
iff the contents of the work tree differs from HEAD. E.g.
$ git describe --dirty
v1.6.5-15-gc274db7
$ echo >> Makefile
$ git describe --dirty
v1.6.5-15-gc274db7-dirty
The --dirty option can also be used to specify what is appended, instead
of the default string "-dirty".
$ git describe --dirty=.mod
v1.6.5-15-gc274db7.mod
Many build scripts use `git describe` to produce a version number based on
the description of HEAD (on which the work tree is based) + saying that if
the build contains uncommitted changes. This patch helps the writing of
such scripts since `git describe --dirty` does directly the intended thing.
Three possiblities were considered while discussing this new feature:
1. Describe the work tree by default and describe HEAD only if "HEAD" is
explicitly specified
Pro: does the right thing by default (both for users and for scripts)
Pro: other git commands that works on the work tree by default
Con: breaks existing scripts used by the Linux kernel and other projects
2. Use --worktree instead of --dirty
Pro: does what it says: "git describe --worktree" describes the work tree
Con: other commands do not require a --worktree option when working
on the work tree (it often is the default mode for them)
Con: unusable with an optional value: "git describe --worktree=.mod"
is quite unintuitive.
3. Use --dirty as in this patch
Pro: makes sense to specify an optional value (what the dirty mark is)
Pro: does not have any of the big cons of previous alternatives
* does not break scripts
* is not inconsistent with other git commands
This patch takes the third approach.
Signed-off-by: Jean Privat <jean@pryen.org>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'. This does
achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the
apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right
circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages.
Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the
groff_char manpage.
Unfortunately, as Anders Kaseorg kindly pointed out, this is not
portable beyond groff, so we add an extra Makefile variable GNU_ROFF
which you need to enable to get the new quoting.
Thanks also to Miklos Vajna for documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the missing definite article ("the") in several places.
Change "note to..." to "note for...", since "note to" means that
that the note is addressed to someone (source: Google search).
Change "progressbar" to "progress bar" (source: Wikipedia).
Format git commands, options, and file names consistently using
back quotes (i.e. a fixed font in the resulting HTML document).
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce two new configuration variables, receive.autogc (defaults to
true) and receive.updateserverinfo (defaults to false). When these are
set, receive-pack runs "gc --auto --quiet" and "update-server-info"
respectively after it finishes receiving data from "git push" and updating
refs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Björn Gustavsson