The "fix-texi.perl" script is used to fix up the output of
`docbook2x-texi`:
- It changes the filename to be "git.info".
- It changes the directory category and entry.
The script is written in Perl, but it can be rather trivially converted
to a shell script. Do so to remove the dependency on Perl for building
the user manual.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The job to coalesce loose objects into packfiles in "git
maintenance" now has configurable batch size.
* ds/maintenance-loose-objects-batchsize:
maintenance: add loose-objects.batchSize config
maintenance: force progress/no-quiet to children
"git reflog" learns "drop" subcommand, that discards the entire
reflog data for a ref.
* kn/reflog-drop:
reflog: implement subcommand to drop reflogs
reflog: improve error for when reflog is not found
This rule was already implicitely applied in the converted man pages,
so let's state it loudly.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The processing of triple dot notation is tricky because it can be
mis-interpreted as an ellipsis. The special processing of the ellipsis
is now complete and takes into account the case of
`git-mv <source>... <dest>`
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Unfortunately, there's an inconsistency in the synopsis style, where
the ellipsis is used to indicate that the option can be repeated, but
it can also be used in Git's three-dot notation to indicate a range of
commits. The rendering engine will not be able to distinguish
between these two cases.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This also entails changing the help output for the command to match the new
synopsis.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The synopsis analysis logic was not able to handle backslashes and stars
which are used in the synopsis of the git-rm command. This patch fixes the
issue by updating the regular expression used to match the keywords.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which will automatically
format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine will apply synopsis rules to
these spans.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As a wise man once told me, "Deleted code is debugged code!" So, move
the functions that are shared between merge-recursive and merge-ort from
the former to the latter, and then debug the remainder of
merge-recursive.[ch].
Joking aside, merge-ort was always intended to replace merge-recursive.
It has numerous advantages over merge-recursive (operates much faster,
can operate without a worktree or index, and fixes a number of known
bugs and suboptimal merges). Since we have now replaced all callers of
merge-recursive with equivalent functions from merge-ort, move the
shared functions from the former to the latter, and delete the remainder
of merge-recursive.[ch].
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ort merge strategy has always used the histogram diff algorithm.
The recursive merge strategy, in contrast, defaults to the myers
diff algorithm, while allowing it to be changed.
Change the ort merge strategy to allow different diff algorithms, by
removing the hard coded value in merge_start() and instead just making
it a default in init_merge_options(). Technically, this also changes
the default diff algorithm for the recursive backend too, but we're
going to remove the final callers of the recursive backend in the next
two commits.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Incrementally updating multi-pack index files.
* tb/incremental-midx-part-2:
midx: implement writing incremental MIDX bitmaps
pack-bitmap.c: use `ewah_or_iterator` for type bitmap iterators
pack-bitmap.c: keep track of each layer's type bitmaps
ewah: implement `struct ewah_or_iterator`
pack-bitmap.c: apply pseudo-merge commits with incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: compute disk-usage with incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: teach `rev-list --test-bitmap` about incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: support bitmap pack-reuse with incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: teach `show_objects_for_type()` about incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: teach `bitmap_for_commit()` about incremental MIDXs
pack-bitmap.c: open and store incremental bitmap layers
pack-revindex: prepare for incremental MIDX bitmaps
Documentation: describe incremental MIDX bitmaps
Documentation: remove a "future work" item from the MIDX docs
TCP keepalive behaviour on http transports can now be configured by
calling cURL library.
* tb/http-curl-keepalive:
http.c: allow custom TCP keepalive behavior via config
http.c: inline `set_curl_keepalive()`
http.c: introduce `set_long_from_env()` for convenience
http.c: remove unnecessary casts to long
When updating multiple references through stdin, Git's update-ref
command normally aborts the entire transaction if any single update
fails. This atomic behavior prevents partial updates. Introduce a new
batch update system, where the updates the performed together similar
but individual updates are allowed to fail.
Add a new `--batch-updates` flag that allows the transaction to continue
even when individual reference updates fail. This flag can only be used
in `--stdin` mode and builds upon the batch update support added to the
refs subsystem in the previous commits. When enabled, failed updates are
reported in the following format:
rejected SP (<old-oid> | <old-target>) SP (<new-oid> | <new-target>) SP <rejection-reason> LF
Update the documentation to reflect this change and also tests to cover
different scenarios where an update could be rejected.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, git-maintenance(1) uses the "gc" task to ensure that the
repository is well-maintained. This can be changed, for example by
either explicitly configuring which tasks should be enabled or by using
the "incremental" maintenance strategy. If so, git-maintenance(1) does
not know to expire reflog entries, which is a subtask that git-gc(1)
knows to perform for the user. Consequently, the reflog will grow
indefinitely unless the user manually trims it.
Introduce a new "reflog-expire" task that plugs this gap:
- When running the task directly, then we simply execute `git reflog
expire --all`, which is the same as git-gc(1).
- When running git-maintenance(1) with the `--auto` flag, then we only
run the task in case the "HEAD" reflog has at least N reflog entries
that would be discarded. By default, N is set to 100, but this can
be configured via "maintenance.reflog-expire.auto". When a negative
integer has been provided we always expire entries, zero causes us
to never expire entries, and a positive value specifies how many
entries need to exist before we consider pruning the entries.
Note that the condition for the `--auto` flags is merely a heuristic and
optimized for being fast. This is because `git maintenance run --auto`
will be executed quite regularly, so scanning through all reflogs would
likely be too expensive in many repositories.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Throughout the Git codebase we're using the typedeffed version of
`z_stream`, which maps to `struct z_stream_s`. By using a typedef
instead of the struct it becomes somewhat harder to predeclare the
symbol so that headers depending on the struct can do so without having
to pull in "zlib-compat.h".
We don't yet have users that would really care about this: the only
users that declare `z_stream` as a pointer are in "reftable/block.h",
which is a header that is internal to the reftable library. But in the
next step we're going to expose the `struct reftable_block` publicly,
and that struct does contain a pointer to `z_stream`. And as the public
header shouldn't depend on "reftable/system.h", which is an internal
implementation detail, we won't have the typedef for `z_stream` readily
available.
Prepare for this change by using `struct z_stream_s` throughout our code
base. In case zlib-ng is used we use a define to map from `z_stream_s`
to `zng_stream_s`.
Drop the pre-declaration of `struct z_stream` while at it. This struct
does not exist in the first place, and the declaration wasn't needed
because "reftable/block.h" already includes "reftable/basics.h" which
transitively includes "reftable/system.h" and thus "git-zlib.h".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git-blame(1)' command allows users to ignore specific revisions via
the '--ignore-rev <rev>' and '--ignore-revs-file <file>' flags. These
flags are often combined with the 'blame.markIgnoredLines' and
'blame.markUnblamableLines' config options. These config options prefix
ignored and unblamable lines with a '?' and '*', respectively.
However, this option was never extended to the porcelain mode of
'git-blame(1)'. Since the documentation does not indicate this
exclusion, it is a bug.
Fix this by printing 'ignored' and 'unblamable' respectively for the
options when using the porcelain modes.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Helped-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement support for the "object:type=" filter in git-cat-file(1),
which causes us to omit all objects that don't match the provided object
type.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement support for the "blob:limit=" filter in git-cat-file(1), which
causes us to omit all blobs that are bigger than a certain size.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implement support for the "blob:none" filter in git-cat-file(1), which
causes us to omit all blobs.
Note that this new filter requires us to read the object type via
`oid_object_info_extended()` in `batch_object_write()`. But as we try to
optimize away reading objects from the database the `data->info.typep`
pointer may not be set. We thus have to adapt the logic to conditionally
set the pointer in cases where the filter is given.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In batch mode, git-cat-file(1) enumerates all objects and prints them
by iterating through both loose and packed objects. This works without
considering their reachability at all, and consequently most options to
filter objects as they exist in e.g. git-rev-list(1) are not applicable.
In some situations it may still be useful though to filter objects based
on properties that are inherent to them. This includes the object size
as well as its type.
Such a filter already exists in git-rev-list(1) with the `--filter=`
command line option. While this option supports a couple of filters that
are not applicable to our usecase, some of them are quite a neat fit.
Wire up the filter as an option for git-cat-file(1). This allows us to
reuse the same syntax as in git-rev-list(1) so that we don't have to
reinvent the wheel. For now, we die when any of the filter options has
been passed by the user, but they will be wired up in subsequent
commits.
Further note that the filters that we are about to introduce don't
significantly speed up the runtime of git-cat-file(1). While we can skip
emitting a lot of objects in case they are uninteresting to us, the
majority of time is spent reading the packfile, which is bottlenecked by
I/O and not the processor. This will change though once we start to make
use of bitmaps, which will allow us to skip reading the whole packfile.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 06c92dafb8 (Makefile: allow specifying a SHA-1 for non-cryptographic
uses, 2024-09-26), support for unsafe SHA-1 is added. Add the unsafe
SHA-1 build info to `git version --build-info` and update corresponding
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the `--build-options` flag is used with git-version(1), additional
information about the built version of Git is printed. During build
time, different SHA implementations may be configured, but this
information is not included in the version info.
Add the SHA implementations Git is built with to the version info by
requiring each backend to define a SHA1_BACKEND or SHA256_BACKEND symbol
as appropriate and use the value in the printed build options.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A documentation page was left out from formatting and installation,
which has been corrected.
* pw/build-breaking-changes-doc:
docs: add BreakingChanges to TECH_DOCS target
Doc mark-up updates.
* ja/doc-branch-markup:
doc: apply new format to git-branch man page
completion: take into account the formatting backticks for options
Bugfix in newly introduced large-object-promisor remote support.
* cc/lop-remote:
promisor-remote: compare remote names case sensitively
promisor-remote: fix possible issue when no URL is advertised
promisor-remote: fix segfault when remote URL is missing
t5710: arrange to delete the client before cloning
Using "git name-rev --stdin" as an example, improve the framework to
prepare tests to pretend to be in the future where the breaking
changes have already happened.
* jc/name-rev-stdin:
name-rev: remove "--stdin" support
t6120: further modernize
t6120: avoid hiding "git" exit status
t: introduce WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES prerequisite
t: extend test_lazy_prereq
t: document test_lazy_prereq
Almost all of the tools we discover during the build process need to be
native programs. There are only a handful of exceptions, which typically
are programs whose paths we need to embed into the resulting executable
so that they can be found on the target system when Git executes. While
this distinction typically doesn't matter, it does start to matter when
considering cross-compilation where the build and target machines are
different.
Meson supports cross-compilation via so-called machine files. These
machine files allow the user to override parameters for the build
machine, but also for the target machine when cross-compiling. Part of
the machine file is a section that allows the user to override the
location where binaries are to be found in the target system. The
following machine file would for example override the path of the POSIX
shell:
[binaries]
sh = '/usr/xpg4/bin/sh'
It can be handed over to Meson via `meson setup --cross-file`.
We do not handle this correctly right now though because we don't know
to distinguish binaries for the build and target hosts at all. Address
this by explicitly passing the `native:` parameter to `find_program()`:
- When set to `true`, we get binaries discovered on the build host.
- When set to `false`, we get either the path specified in the
machine file. Or, if no machine file exists or it doesn't specify
the binary path, then we fall back to the binary discovered on the
build host.
As mentioned, only a handful of binaries are not native: only the system
shell, Python and Perl need to be treated specially here.
Reported-by: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
First step of deprecating and removing merge-recursive.
* en/merge-ort-prepare-to-remove-recursive:
am: switch from merge_recursive_generic() to merge_ort_generic()
merge-ort: fix merge.directoryRenames=false
t3650: document bug when directory renames are turned off
merge-ort: support having merge verbosity be set to 0
merge-ort: allow rename detection to be disabled
merge-ort: add new merge_ort_generic() function
"git fast-export | git fast-import" learns to deal with commit and
tag objects with embedded signatures a bit better.
* cc/signed-fast-export-import:
fast-export, fast-import: add support for signed-commits
fast-export: do not modify memory from get_commit_buffer
git-fast-export.adoc: clarify why 'verbatim' may not be a good idea
fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim'
fast-export: fix missing whitespace after switch
git-fast-import.adoc: add missing LF in the BNF
"git fsck" becomes more careful when checking the refs.
* sj/ref-consistency-checks-more:
builtin/fsck: add `git refs verify` child process
packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is sorted
packed-backend: add "packed-refs" entry consistency check
packed-backend: check whether the refname contains NUL characters
packed-backend: add "packed-refs" header consistency check
packed-backend: check if header starts with "# pack-refs with: "
packed-backend: check whether the "packed-refs" is regular file
builtin/refs: get worktrees without reading head information
t0602: use subshell to ensure working directory unchanged
The original documentation from 7b5cf8be18 (vimdiff: add tool
documentation, 2022-03-30) mistakenly described the marker as an
asterisk, which is the character "*". The code and examples have always
looked for an arobase ("@").
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Fernando Ramos <greenfoo@u92.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'loose-objects' task of 'git maintenance run' first deletes loose
objects that exit within packfiles and then collects loose objects into
a packfile. This second step uses an implicit limit of fifty thousand
that cannot be modified by users.
Add a new config option that allows this limit to be adjusted or ignored
entirely.
While creating tests for this option, I noticed that actually there was
an off-by-one error due to the strict comparison in the limit check. I
considered making the limit check turn true on equality, but instead I
thought to use INT_MAX as a "no limit" barrier which should mean it's
never possible to hit the limit. Thus, a new decrement to the limit is
provided if the value is positive. (The restriction to positive values
is to avoid underflow if INT_MIN is configured.)
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare to implement support for reachability bitmaps for the new
incremental multi-pack index (MIDX) feature over the following commits.
This commit begins by first describing the relevant format and usage
details for incremental MIDX bitmaps.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the items listed as "future work" in the MIDX's technical
documentation is to extend the format to allow MIDXs to be written
incrementally across multiple layers.
This was suggested all the way back in ceab693d1f (multi-pack-index: add
design document, 2018-07-12), and implemented in b9497848df (Merge
branch 'tb/incremental-midx-part-1', 2024-08-19). Let's remove it
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous commit changed the behavior of repack's '--max-cruft-size'
to specify a cruft pack-specific override for '--max-pack-size'.
Introduce a new flag, '--combine-cruft-below-size' which is a
replacement for the old behavior of '--max-cruft-size'. This new flag
does explicitly what it says: it combines together cruft packs which are
smaller than a given threshold, and leaves alone ones which are
larger.
This accomplishes the original intent of '--max-cruft-size', which was
to avoid repacking cruft packs larger than the given threshold.
The new behavior is slightly different. Instead of building up small
packs together until the threshold is met, '--combine-cruft-below-size'
packs up *all* cruft packs smaller than the threshold. This means that
we may make a pack much larger than the given threshold (e.g., if you
aggregate 5 packs which are each 99 MiB in size with a threshold of 100
MiB).
But that's OK: the point isn't to restrict the size of the cruft packs
we generate, it's to avoid working with ones that have already grown too
large. If repositories still want to limit the size of the generated
cruft pack(s), they may use '--max-cruft-size'.
There's some minor test fallout as a result of the slight differences in
behavior between the old meaning of '--max-cruft-size' and the behavior
of '--combine-cruft-below-size'. In the test which is now called
"--combine-cruft-below-size combines packs", we need to use the new flag
over the old one to exercise that test's intended behavior. The
remainder of the changes there are to improve the clarity of the
comments.
Suggested-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 37dc6d8104 (builtin/repack.c: implement support for
`--max-cruft-size`, 2023-10-02), we exposed new functionality that
allowed repositories to specify the behavior of when we should combine
multiple cruft packs together.
This feature was designed to ensure that we never repacked cruft packs
which were larger than the given threshold in order to provide tighter
I/O bounds for repositories that have many unreachable objects. In
essence, specifying '--max-cruft-size=N' instructed 'repack' to
aggregate cruft packs together (in order of ascending size) until the
combine size grows past 'N', and then make a new cruft pack whose
contents includes the packs we rolled up.
But this isn't quite how it works in practice. Suppose for example that
we have two cruft packs which are each 100MiB in size. One might expect
specifying "--max-cruft-size=200M" would combine these two packs
together, and then avoid repacking them until a pruning GC takes place.
In reality, 'repack' would try and aggregate these together, but writing
a pack that is strictly smaller than 200 MiB (since pack-objects'
"--max-pack-size" provides a strict bound for packs containing more than
one object).
So instead we'll write out a pack that is, say, 199 MiB in size, and
then another 1 MiB pack containing the balance. If we later repack the
repository without adding any new unreachable objects, we'll repeat the
same exercise again, making the same 199 MiB and 1 MiB packs each time.
This happens because of a poor choice to bolt the '--max-cruft-size'
functionality onto pack-objects' '--max-pack-size', forcing us to
generate packs which are always smaller than the provided threshold and
thus subject to repacking.
The following commit will introduce a new flag that implements something
similar to the behavior above. Let's prepare for that by making repack's
'--max-cruft-size' flag behave as an cruft pack-specific override for
'--max-pack-size'.
Do so by temporarily repurposing the 'collapse_small_cruft_packs()'
function to instead generate a cruft pack using the same instructions as
if we didn't specify any maximum pack size. The calling code looks
something like:
if (args->max_pack_size && !cruft_expiration) {
collapse_small_cruft_packs(in, args->max_pack_size, existing);
} else {
for_each_string_list_item(item, &existing->non_kept_packs)
fprintf(in, "-%s.pack\n", item->string);
for_each_string_list_item(item, &existing->cruft_packs)
fprintf(in, "-%s.pack\n", item->string);
}
This patch makes collapse_small_cruft_packs() behave identically to the
'else' arm of the conditional above. This repurposing of
'collapse_small_cruft_packs()' is intentional, since it will set us up
nicely to introduce the new behavior in the following commit.
Naturally, there is some test fallout in the test which exercises the
old meaning of '--max-cruft-size'. Mark that test as failing for now to
be dealt with in the following commit. Likewise, add a new test which
explicitly tests the behavior of '--max-cruft-size' to place a hard
limit on the size of any generated cruft pack(s).
Note that this is a breaking change, as it alters the user-visible
behavior of '--max-cruft-size'. But I'm OK changing this behavior in
this instance, since the behavior wasn't accurate to begin with.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `--missing={print,print-info}` option for git-rev-list(1) prints
missing objects found while performing the object walk in the form:
$ git rev-list --missing=print-info <rev>
?<oid> [SP <token>=<value>]... LF
Add support for printing missing objects in a NUL-delimited format when
the `-z` option is enabled.
$ git rev-list -z --missing=print-info <rev>
<oid> NUL missing=yes NUL [<token>=<value> NUL]...
In this mode, values containing special characters or spaces are printed
as-is without being escaped or quoted. Instead of prefixing the missing
OID with '?', a separate `missing=yes` token/value pair is appended.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `--boundary` option for git-rev-list(1) prints boundary objects
found while performing the object walk in the form:
$ git rev-list --boundary <rev>
-<oid> LF
Add support for printing boundary objects in a NUL-delimited format when
the `-z` option is enabled.
$ git rev-list -z --boundary <rev>
<oid> NUL boundary=yes NUL
In this mode, instead of prefixing the boundary OID with '-', a separate
`boundary=yes` token/value pair is appended.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When walking objects, git-rev-list(1) prints each object entry on a
separate line. Some options, such as `--objects`, may print additional
information about tree and blob object on the same line in the form:
$ git rev-list --objects <rev>
<tree/blob oid> SP [<path>] LF
Note that in this form the SP is appended regardless of whether the tree
or blob object has path information available. Paths containing a
newline are also truncated at the newline.
Introduce the `-z` option for git-rev-list(1) which reformats the output
to use NUL-delimiters between objects and associated info in the
following form:
$ git rev-list -z --objects <rev>
<oid> NUL [path=<path> NUL]
In this form, the start of each record is signaled by an OID entry that
is all hexidecimal and does not contain any '='. Additional path info
from `--objects` is appended to the record as a token/value pair
`path=<path>` as-is without any truncation.
For now, the `--objects` flag is the only options that can be used in
combination with `-z`. In a subsequent commit, NUL-delimited support for
other options is added. Other options that do not make sense when used
in combination with `-z` are rejected.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
curl supports a few options to control when and how often it should
instruct the OS to send TCP keepalives, like KEEPIDLE, KEEPINTVL, and
KEEPCNT. Until this point, there hasn't been a way for users to change
what values are used for these options, forcing them to rely on curl's
defaults.
But we do unconditionally enable TCP keepalives without giving users an
ability to tweak any fine-grained parameters. Ordinarily this isn't a
problem, particularly for users that have fast-enough connections,
and/or are talking to a server that has generous or nonexistent
thresholds for killing a connection it hasn't heard from in a while.
But it can present a problem when one or both of those assumptions fail.
For instance, I can reliably get an in-progress clone to be killed from
the remote end when cloning from some forges while using trickle to
limit my clone's bandwidth.
For those users and others who wish to more finely tune the OS's
keepalive behavior, expose configuration and environment variables which
allow setting curl's KEEPIDLE, KEEPINTVL, and KEEPCNT options.
Note that while KEEPIDLE and KEEPINTVL were added in curl 7.25.0,
KEEPCNT was added much more recently in curl 8.9.0. Per f7c094060c
(git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.25.0, 2024-10-23), both
KEEPIDLE and KEEPINTVL are set unconditionally. But since we may be
compiled with a curl that isn't as new as 8.9.0, only set KEEPCNT when
we have CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPCNT to begin with.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Switch the synopsis to a synopsis block which automatically
formats placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace
- Use _<placeholder>_ instead of <placeholder> in the description
- Use `backticks` for keywords and more complex option
descriptions. The new rendering engine applies synopsis rules to
these spans.
Possible values for some variables, that were mentioned in the description
prose, are now made into enumerated list.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Because the "[remote "nick"] fetch = ..." configuration variables
have the nickname in the second part, the nicknames are case
sensitive, unlike the first and the third component (i.e.
"remote.origin.fetch" and "Remote.origin.FETCH" are the same thing,
but "remote.Origin.fetch" and "remote.origin.fetch" are different).
Let's follow the way Git works in general and compare the remote
names case sensitively when processing advertised remotes.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new followRemoteHEAD feature is triggered for almost every fetch,
causing us to ask the server about the remote "HEAD" and to consider
updating our local tracking HEAD symref. This patch limits the feature
only to the case when we are fetching a remote using its configured
refspecs (typically into its refs/remotes/ hierarchy). There are two
reasons for this.
One is efficiency. E.g., the fixes in 6c915c3f85 (fetch: do not ask for
HEAD unnecessarily, 2024-12-06) and 20010b8c20 (fetch: avoid ls-refs
only to ask for HEAD symref update, 2025-03-08) were aimed at reducing
the work we do when we would not be able to update HEAD anyway. But they
do not quite cover all cases. The remaining one is:
git fetch origin refs/heads/foo:refs/remotes/origin/foo
which _sometimes_ can update HEAD, but usually not. And that leads us to
the second point, which is being simple and explainable.
The code for updating the tracking HEAD symref requires both that we
learned which ref the remote HEAD points at, and that the server
advertised that ref to us. But because the v2 protocol narrows the
server's advertisement, the command above would not typically update
HEAD at all, unless it happened to point to the "foo" branch. Or even
weirder, it probably _would_ update if the server is very old and
supports only the v0 protocol, which always gives a full advertisement.
This creates confusing behavior for the user: sometimes we may try to
update HEAD and sometimes not, depending on vague rules.
One option here would be to loosen the update code to accept the remote
HEAD even if the server did not advertise that ref. I think that could
work, but it may also lead to interesting corner cases (e.g., creating a
dangling symref locally, even though the branch is not unborn on the
server, if we happen not to have fetched it).
So let's instead simplify the rules: we'll only consider updating the
tracking HEAD symref when we're doing a full fetch of the remote's
configured refs. This is easy to implement; we can just set a flag at
the moment we realize we're using the configured refspecs. And we can
drop the special case code added by 6c915c3f85 and 20010b8c20, since
this covers those cases. The existing tests from those commits still
pass.
In t5505, an incidental call to "git fetch <remote> <refspec>" updated
HEAD, which caused us to adjust the test in 3f763ddf28 (fetch: set
remote/HEAD if it does not exist, 2024-11-22). We can now adjust that
back to how it was before the feature was added.
Even though t5505 is incidentally testing our new desired behavior,
we'll add an explicit test in t5510 to make sure it is covered.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When BreakingChanges.txt was added in 57ec9254eb (docs: introduce
document to announce breaking changes, 2024-06-14) there was no
corresponding change to the Makefile to build it. Fix that by adding it
to the TECH_DOCS target.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Separate the paragraphs in the description of `--exclude` with a `+`
rather than an empty line to indent the whole description rather than
just the first paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When merge-ort was written, I did not at first allow rename detection to
be disabled, because I suspected that most folks disabling rename
detection were doing so solely for performance reasons. Since I put a
lot of working into providing dramatic speedups for rename detection
performance as used by the merge machinery, I wanted to know if there
were still real world repositories where rename detection was
problematic from a performance perspective. We have had years now to
collect such information, and while we never received one, waiting
longer with the option disabled seems unlikely to help surface such
issues at this point. Also, there has been at least one request to
allow rename detection to be disabled for behavioral rather than
performance reasons (see the thread including
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BG-Nx6SCxxkGXn_Fwd2wseifMFND8eddvWxiZVZk0zRaA@mail.gmail.com/
), so let's start heeding the config and command line settings.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The graph for `--ancestry-path=H D..M` should contain commit C.
Signed-off-by: Han Jiang <jhcarl0814@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This note was added to the restore command docs in 46e91b663b
(checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore', 2019-04-25),
but it is now inaccurate. The underlying builtin `add -i` implementation,
made default in 0527ccb1b5 (add -i: default to the built-in implementation,
2021-11-30), supports pathspecs, so `git restore -p <pathspec>...` has
worked for all users since then. I bisected to verify this was the commit
that added support.
Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While 'git-reflog(1)' currently allows users to expire reflogs and
delete individual entries, it lacks functionality to completely remove
reflogs for specific references. This becomes problematic in
repositories where reflogs are not needed but continue to accumulate
entries despite setting 'core.logAllRefUpdates=false'.
Add a new 'drop' subcommand to git-reflog that allows users to delete
the entire reflog for a specified reference. Include an '--all' flag to
enable dropping all reflogs from all worktrees and an addon flag
'--single-worktree', to only drop all reflogs from the current worktree.
While here, remove an extraneous newline in the file.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When breaking changes are enabled we continue to install documentation
of the git-pack-redundant(1) command even though it is completely
disabled and thus inaccessible. Improve this by only installing the
documentation in case breaking changes aren't enabled.
Based-on-patch-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As part of Git 3.0, remove the hidden synonym for "--annotate-stdin"
for real. As this does not change the fact that it used to be
called "--stdin" in older version of Git, keep that passage in the
documentation for "--annotate-stdin".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fast-export has a --signed-tags= option that controls how to handle tag
signatures. However, there is no equivalent for commit signatures; it
just silently strips the signature out of the commit (analogously to
--signed-tags=strip).
While signatures are generally problematic for fast-export/fast-import
(because hashes are likely to change), if they're going to support tag
signatures, there's no reason to not also support commit signatures.
So, implement a --signed-commits= option that mirrors the --signed-tags=
option.
On the fast-export side, try to be as much like signed-tags as possible,
in both implementation and in user-interface. This will change the
default behavior to '--signed-commits=abort' from what is now
'--signed-commits=strip'. In order to provide an escape hatch for users
of third-party tools that call fast-export and do not yet know of the
--signed-commits= option, add an environment variable
'FAST_EXPORT_SIGNED_COMMITS_NOABORT=1' that changes the default to
'--signed-commits=warn-strip'.
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --signed-tags= option takes one of five arguments specifying how to
handle signed tags during export. Among these arguments, 'strip' is to
'warn-strip' as 'verbatim' is to 'warn' (the unmentioned argument is
'abort', which stops the fast-export process entirely). That is,
signatures are either stripped or copied verbatim while exporting, with
or without a warning.
Match the pattern and rename 'warn' to 'warn-verbatim' to make it clear
that it instructs fast-export to copy signatures verbatim.
To maintain backwards compatibility, 'warn' is still recognized as
deprecated synonym of 'warn-verbatim'.
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation is using the historical mode for titles, which is a
setext-style (i.e., two-line) section title.
The issue with this mode is that starting block delimiters (e.g.,
`----`) can be confused with a section title when they are exactly the
same length as the preceding line. In the original documentation, this
is taken care of for English by the writer, but it is not the case for
translations where these delimiters are hidden. A translator can
generate a line that is exactly the same length as the following block
delimiter, which leads to this line being considered as a title.
To safeguard against this issue, add a blank line before and after
block delimiters where block is at root level, else add a "+" line
before block delimiters to link it to the preceding paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit bc26f7690a (clone: make it possible to specify --tags,
2025-02-06) added a new paragraph in the middle of this list item. By
adding an empty line rather than using a list continuation, we broke the
list continuation, with the new paragraph ending up funnily indented.
Restore the chain of list continuations.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some future breaking changes would remove certain parts of the
default repository, which were still described even when the
documents were built for the future with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES.
* pw/repo-layout-doc-update:
docs: fix repository-layout when building with breaking changes
Meson-based build procedure forgot to build some docs, which has
been corrected.
* pw/build-meson-technical-and-howto-docs:
meson: fix building technical and howto docs
Since commit 8ccc75c245 (remote: announce removal of "branches/" and
"remotes/", 2025-01-22) enabling WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES when building git
removes support for reading branches from ".git/branches" and remotes
from ".git/remotes". However those locations are still documented in
gitrepository-layout.adoc even though the build does not support them.
Rectify this by adding a new document attribute "with-breaking-changes"
and use it to make the inclusion of those sections of the documentation
conditional. Note that the name of the attribute does not match the test
prerequisite WITHOUT_BREAKING_CHANGES added in c5bc9a7f94 (Makefile:
wire up build option for deprecated features, 2025-01-22). This is to
avoid the awkward double negative ifndef::without_breaking_changes for
documentation that should be included when WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES is
enabled. The test prerequisite will be renamed to match the
documentation attribute in a future patch series.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update a few more instances of Documentation/*.txt files which have been
renamed to *.adoc.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit ec14d4ecb5 (builtin.h: take over documentation from
api-builtin.txt, 2017-08-02) deleted api-builtin.txt and moved the
contents into builtin.h. Most of the references were fixed in
d85e9448dd (new-command.txt: update reference to builtin docs,
2023-02-04), but one remained. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The top-level .gitattributes file contains entries for the Documentation
tree. Documentation/.gitattributes has not been touched since it was
added in 14f9e128d3 (Define the project whitespace policy, 2008-02-10).
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point behind a compile-time switch is to ensure that we have a
mechanism to hide myriad of backward incompatible changes that may
be prepared and accumulated over time, yet make them available for
testing any time during the development toward the big version
boundary. Add a few words to stress that point.
Since the document was first written, we have added the CI job that
the document anticipated us to have. Rephrase to state the current
status.
The discussion in [*1*] made us abandon the "feature.git3" based
runtime switching of behaviour and instead adopt the compile-time
switching mechanism, but a stray sentence about runtime switching
still remained in the final text by mistake. Remove it.
[Reference]
*1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqldzel6ug.fsf@gitster.g/
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Let's add a design doc about how we could improve handling liarge blobs
using "Large Object Promisors" (LOPs). It's a set of features with the
goal of using special dedicated promisor remotes to store large blobs,
and having them accessed directly by main remotes and clients.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
What happens to submodules during merge has been documented in a
bit more detail.
* lo/doc-merge-submodule-update:
merge-strategies.adoc: detail submodule merge
Assorted fixes and improvements to the build procedure based on
meson.
* ps/build-meson-fixes-0130:
gitlab-ci: restrict maximum number of link jobs on Windows
meson: consistently use custom program paths to resolve programs
meson: fix overwritten `git` variable
meson: prevent finding sed(1) in a loop
meson: improve handling of `sane_tool_path` option
meson: improve PATH handling
meson: drop separate version library
meson: stop linking libcurl into all executables
meson: introduce `libgit_curl` dependency
meson: simplify use of the common-main library
meson: inline the static 'git' library
meson: fix OpenSSL fallback when not explicitly required
meson: fix exec path with enabled runtime prefix
When our asciidoc files were renamed from "*.txt" to "*.adoc" in
1f010d6bdf (doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20)
the "meson.build" file in "Documentation" was updated but the
"meson.build" files in the "technical" and "howto" subdirectories were
not. This causes the meson build to fail when configured with
-Ddocs=html. Fix this by updating the relevant "meson.build" files.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diffs queued from git-diff-pairs(1) are flushed when stdin is
closed. To enable greater flexibility, allow control over when the diff
queue is flushed by writing a single NUL byte on stdin between input
file pairs. Diff output between flushes is separated by a single NUL
byte.
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Through git-diff(1), a single diff can be generated from a pair of blob
revisions directly. Unfortunately, there is not a mechanism to compute
batches of specific file pair diffs in a single process. Such a feature
is particularly useful on the server-side where diffing between a large
set of changes is not feasible all at once due to timeout concerns.
To facilitate this, introduce git-diff-pairs(1) which acts as a backend
passing its NUL-terminated raw diff format input from stdin through diff
machinery to produce various forms of output such as patch or raw.
The raw format was originally designed as an interchange format and
represents the contents of the diff_queued_diff list making it possible
to break the diff pipeline into separate stages. For example,
git-diff-tree(1) can be used as a frontend to compute file pairs to
queue and feed its raw output to git-diff-pairs(1) to compute patches.
With this, batches of diffs can be progressively generated without
having to recompute renames or retrieve object context. Something like
the following:
git diff-tree -r -z -M $old $new |
git diff-pairs -p -z
should generate the same output as `git diff-tree -p -M`. Furthermore,
each line of raw diff formatted input can also be individually fed to a
separate git-diff-pairs(1) process and still produce the same output.
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We renamed from .txt to .adoc all the asciidoc source files and
necessary includes. We also need to adjust the build-docdep tool to
work on files whose suffix is .adoc when computing the documentation
dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The .txt extensions were changed to .adoc in 1f010d6bdf (doc: use .adoc
extension for AsciiDoc files, 2025-01-20). This left broken links in
the generated howto-index.html.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Removal of ".git/branches" and ".git/remotes" support in the
BreakingChanges document has been further clarified.
* jc/3.0-branches-remotes-update:
BreakingChanges: clarify branches/ and remotes/
"git refs migrate" can optionally be told not to migrate the reflog.
* kn/ref-migrate-skip-reflog:
builtin/refs: add '--no-reflog' flag to drop reflogs
The value of "uname -s" is by default sent over the wire as a part
of the "version" capability.
* ua/os-version-capability:
agent: advertise OS name via agent capability
t5701: add setup test to remove side-effect dependency
version: extend get_uname_info() to hide system details
version: refactor get_uname_info()
version: refactor redact_non_printables()
version: replace manual ASCII checks with isprint() for clarity
At now, we have already implemented the ref consistency checks for both
"files-backend" and "packed-backend". Although we would check some
redundant things, it won't cause trouble. So, let's integrate it into
the "git-fsck(1)" command to get feedback from the users. And also by
calling "git refs verify" in "git-fsck(1)", we make sure that the new
added checks don't break.
Introduce a new function "fsck_refs" that initializes and runs a child
process to execute the "git refs verify" command. In order to provide
the user interface create a progress which makes the total task be 1.
It's hard to know how many loose refs we will check now. We might
improve this later.
Then, introduce the option to allow the user to disable checking ref
database consistency. Put this function in the very first execution
sequence of "git-fsck(1)" due to that we don't want the existing code of
"git-fsck(1)" which would implicitly check the consistency of refs to
die the program.
Last, update the test to exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there is a "sorted" trait in the header of the "packed-refs" file,
it means that each entry is sorted increasingly by comparing the
refname. We should add checks to verify whether the "packed-refs" is
sorted in this case.
Update the "packed_fsck_ref_header" to know whether there is a "sorted"
trail in the header. It may seem that we could record all refnames
during the parsing process and then compare later. However, this is not
a good design due to the following reasons:
1. Because we need to store the state across the whole checking
lifetime, we would consume a lot of memory if there are many entries
in the "packed-refs" file.
2. We cannot reuse the existing compare function "cmp_packed_ref_records"
which cause repetition.
Because "cmp_packed_ref_records" needs an extra parameter "struct
snaphost", extract the common part into a new function
"cmp_packed_ref_records" to reuse this function to compare.
Then, create a new function "packed_fsck_ref_sorted" to parse the file
again and user the new fsck message "packedRefUnsorted(ERROR)" to report
to the user if the file is not sorted.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"packed-backend.c::next_record" will parse the ref entry to check the
consistency. This function has already checked the following things:
1. Parse the main line of the ref entry to inspect whether the oid is
not correct. Then, check whether the next character is oid. Then
check the refname.
2. If the next line starts with '^', it would continue to parse the
peeled oid and check whether the last character is '\n'.
As we decide to implement the ref consistency check for "packed-refs",
let's port these two checks and update the test to exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "packed-backend.c::create_snapshot", if there is a header (the line
which starts with '#'), we will check whether the line starts with "#
pack-refs with: ". However, we need to consider other situations and
discuss whether we need to add checks.
1. If the header does not exist, we should not report an error to the
user. This is because in older Git version, we never write header in
the "packed-refs" file. Also, we do allow no header in "packed-refs"
in runtime.
2. If the header content does not start with "# packed-ref with: ", we
should report an error just like what "create_snapshot" does. So,
create a new fsck message "badPackedRefHeader(ERROR)" for this.
3. If the header content is not the same as the constant string
"PACKED_REFS_HEADER". This is expected because we make it extensible
intentionally and runtime "create_snapshot" won't complain about
unknown traits. In order to align with the runtime behavior. There is
no need to report.
As we have analyzed, we only need to check the case 2 in the above. In
order to do this, use "open_nofollow" function to get the file
descriptor and then read the "packed-refs" file via "strbuf_read". Like
what "create_snapshot" and other functions do, we could split the line
by finding the next newline in the buffer. When we cannot find a
newline, we could report an error.
So, create a function "packed_fsck_ref_next_line" to find the next
newline and if there is no such newline, use
"packedRefEntryNotTerminated(ERROR)" to report an error to the user.
Then, parse the first line to apply the checks. Update the test to
exercise the code.
Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The calls to `find_program()` in our documentation don't use our custom
program path. This variable gets populated on Windows with the location
of Git for Windows so that we can use it to provide our build tools.
Consequently, we may not be able to find all necessary binaries on
Windows.
Adapt the calls to use the program path to fix this. While at it, drop
`required: true` arguments, which are the default anyway.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're assigning the `git` variable in three places:
- In "meson.build" to store the external Git executable.
- In "meson.build" to store the compiled Git executable.
- In "Documentation/meson.build" to store the external Git executable,
a second time.
The last case is only needed because we overwrite the original variable
with the built version. Rename the variable used for the built Git
executable so that we don't have to resolve the external Git executable
multiple times.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're searching for the sed(1) executable in a loop, which will make us
try to find it multiple times. Starting with the preceding commit we
already declare a variable for that program in the top-level build file.
Use it so that we only need to search for the program once.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Submodule merges are, in general, similar to other merges based on oid
three-way-merge. When a conflict happens, however, Git has two special
cases (introduced in 68d03e4a6e) on handling the conflict before
yielding it to the user. From the merge-ort and merge-recursive sources:
- "Case #1: a is contained in b or vice versa": both strategies try to
perform a fast-forward in the submodules if the commit referred by the
conflicted submodule is descendant of another;
- "Case #2: There are one or more merges that contain a and b in the
submodule. If there is only one, then present it as a suggestion to the
user, but leave it marked unmerged so the user needs to confirm the
resolution."
Add a small paragraph on merge-strategies.adoc describing this behavior.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As we have created an empty .git/branches/ hierarchy until fairly
recently, these directories may be found in modern repositories, but
it is highly unlikely that they are being used.
Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct the default target in Documentation/Makefile, and
future-proof all Makefiles from similar breakages by declaring the
default target (which happens to be "all") upfront.
* ad/set-default-target-in-makefiles:
Makefile: set default goals in makefiles
"git merge-tree --stdin" has been improved (including a workaround
for a deadlock).
* pw/merge-tree-stdin-deadlock-fix:
merge-tree: fix link formatting in html docs
merge-tree: improve docs for --stdin
merge-tree: only use basic merge config
merge-tree: remove redundant code
merge-tree --stdin: flush stdout to avoid deadlock
The documentation of "git commit" and "git rebase" now refer to
commit titles as such, not "subject".
* mh/doc-commit-title-not-subject:
doc: use 'title' consistently
Two configuration variables about SSL authentication material that
weren't mentioned in the documentations are now mentioned.
* ac/doc-http-ssl-type-config:
docs: indicate http.sslCertType and sslKeyType
The "git refs migrate" subcommand converts the backend used for ref
storage. It always migrates reflog data as well as refs. Introduce an
option to exclude reflogs from migration, allowing them to be discarded
when they are unnecessary.
This is particularly useful in server-side repositories, where reflogs
are typically not expected. However, some repositories may still have
them due to historical reasons, such as bugs, misconfigurations, or
administrative decisions to enable reflogs for debugging. In such
repositories, it would be optimal to drop reflogs during the migration.
To address this, introduce the '--no-reflog' flag, which prevents reflog
migration. When this flag is used, reflogs from the original reference
backend are migrated. Since only the new reference backend remains in
the repository, all previous reflogs are permanently discarded.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As some issues that can happen with a Git client can be operating system
specific, it can be useful for a server to know which OS a client is
using. In the same way it can be useful for a client to know which OS
a server is using.
Our current agent capability is in the form of "package/version" (e.g.,
"git/1.8.3.1"). Let's extend it to include the operating system name (os)
i.e in the form "package/version-os" (e.g., "git/1.8.3.1-Linux").
Including OS details in the agent capability simplifies implementation,
maintains backward compatibility, avoids introducing a new capability,
encourages adoption across Git-compatible software, and enhances
debugging by providing complete environment information without affecting
functionality. The operating system name is retrieved using the 'sysname'
field of the `uname(2)` system call or its equivalent.
However, there are differences between `uname(1)` (command-line utility)
and `uname(2)` (system call) outputs on Windows. These discrepancies
complicate testing on Windows platforms. For example:
- `uname(1)` output: MINGW64_NT-10.0-20348.3.4.10-87d57229.x86_64\
.2024-02-14.20:17.UTC.x86_64
- `uname(2)` output: Windows.10.0.20348
On Windows, uname(2) is not actually system-supplied but is instead
already faked up by Git itself. We could have overcome the test issue
on Windows by implementing a new `uname` subcommand in `test-tool`
using uname(2), but except uname(2), which would be tested against
itself, there would be nothing platform specific, so it's just simpler
to disable the tests on Windows.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-list --missing=" learned to accept "print-info" that gives
known details expected of the missing objects, like path and type.
* jt/rev-list-missing-print-info:
rev-list: extend print-info to print missing object type
rev-list: add print-info action to print missing object path
Lazy-loading missing files in a blobless clone on demand is costly
as it tends to be one-blob-at-a-time. "git backfill" is introduced
to help bulk-download necessary files beforehand.
* ds/backfill:
backfill: assume --sparse when sparse-checkout is enabled
backfill: add --sparse option
backfill: add --min-batch-size=<n> option
backfill: basic functionality and tests
backfill: add builtin boilerplate
A previous commit introduced a "promisor.acceptFromServer" configuration
variable with only "None" or "All" as valid values.
Let's introduce "KnownName" and "KnownUrl" as valid values for this
configuration option to give more choice to a client about which
promisor remotes it might accept among those that the server advertised.
In case of "KnownName", the client will accept promisor remotes which
are already configured on the client and have the same name as those
advertised by the client. This could be useful in a corporate setup
where servers and clients are trusted to not switch names and URLs, but
where some kind of control is still useful.
In case of "KnownUrl", the client will accept promisor remotes which
have both the same name and the same URL configured on the client as the
name and URL advertised by the server. This is the most secure option,
so it should be used if possible.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a server S knows that some objects from a repository are available
from a promisor remote X, S might want to suggest to a client C cloning
or fetching the repo from S that C may use X directly instead of S for
these objects.
Note that this could happen both in the case S itself doesn't have the
objects and borrows them from X, and in the case S has the objects but
knows that X is better connected to the world (e.g., it is in a
$LARGEINTERNETCOMPANY datacenter with petabit/s backbone connections)
than S. Implementation of the latter case, which would require S to
omit in its response the objects available on X, is left for future
improvement though.
Then C might or might not, want to get the objects from X. If S and C
can agree on C using X directly, S can then omit objects that can be
obtained from X when answering C's request.
To allow S and C to agree and let each other know about C using X or
not, let's introduce a new "promisor-remote" capability in the
protocol v2, as well as a few new configuration variables:
- "promisor.advertise" on the server side, and:
- "promisor.acceptFromServer" on the client side.
By default, or if "promisor.advertise" is set to 'false', a server S will
not advertise the "promisor-remote" capability.
If S doesn't advertise the "promisor-remote" capability, then a client C
replying to S shouldn't advertise the "promisor-remote" capability
either.
If "promisor.advertise" is set to 'true', S will advertise its promisor
remotes with a string like:
promisor-remote=<pr-info>[;<pr-info>]...
where each <pr-info> element contains information about a single
promisor remote in the form:
name=<pr-name>[,url=<pr-url>]
where <pr-name> is the urlencoded name of a promisor remote and
<pr-url> is the urlencoded URL of the promisor remote named <pr-name>.
For now, the URL is passed in addition to the name. In the future, it
might be possible to pass other information like a filter-spec that the
client may use when cloning from S, or a token that the client may use
when retrieving objects from X.
It is C's responsibility to arrange how it can reach X though, so pieces
of information that are usually outside Git's concern, like proxy
configuration, must not be distributed over this protocol.
It might also be possible in the future for "promisor.advertise" to have
other values. For example a value like "onlyName" could prevent S from
advertising URLs, which could help in case C should use a different URL
for X than the URL S is using. (The URL S is using might be an internal
one on the server side for example.)
By default or if "promisor.acceptFromServer" is set to "None", C will
not accept to use the promisor remotes that might have been advertised
by S. In this case, C will not advertise any "promisor-remote"
capability in its reply to S.
If "promisor.acceptFromServer" is set to "All" and S advertised some
promisor remotes, then on the contrary, C will accept to use all the
promisor remotes that S advertised and C will reply with a string like:
promisor-remote=<pr-name>[;<pr-name>]...
where the <pr-name> elements are the urlencoded names of all the
promisor remotes S advertised.
In a following commit, other values for "promisor.acceptFromServer" will
be implemented, so that C will be able to decide the promisor remotes it
accepts depending on the name and URL it received from S. So even if
that name and URL information is not used much right now, it will be
needed soon.
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first line of a commit message is variously called 'title' or
'subject'.
Prefer 'title' unless discussing email.
Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the html documentation the link to the "OUTPUT" section is surrounded
by square brackets. Fix this by adding explicit link text to the cross
reference.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a section for --stdin in the list of options and document that it
implies -z so readers know how to parse the output. Also correct the
merge status documentation for --stdin as if the status is less than
zero "git merge-tree" dies before printing it.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Acked-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explicitly set the default goal at the very top of various makefiles.
This is already present in some makefiles, but not all of them.
In particular, this corrects a regression introduced in a38edab7c8
(Makefile: generate doc versions via GIT-VERSION-GEN, 2024-12-06). That
commit added some config files as build targets for the Documentation
directory, and put the target configuration in a sensible place.
Unfortunately, that sensible place was above any other build target
definitions, meaning the default goal changed to being those
configuration files only, rather than the HTML and man page
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone" learned to make a shallow clone for a single commit
that is not necessarily be at the tip of any branch.
* tc/clone-single-revision:
builtin/clone: teach git-clone(1) the --revision= option
parse-options: introduce die_for_incompatible_opt2()
clone: introduce struct clone_opts in builtin/clone.c
clone: add tags refspec earlier to fetch refspec
clone: refactor wanted_peer_refs()
clone: make it possible to specify --tags
clone: cut down on global variables in clone.c
All the documentation .txt files have been renamed to .adoc to help
content aware editors.
* bc/doc-adoc-not-txt:
Remove obsolete ".txt" extensions for AsciiDoc files
doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc files
gitattributes: mark AsciiDoc files as LF-only
editorconfig: add .adoc extension
doc: update gitignore for .adoc extension
When 'remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD' was added in b7f7d16562 (fetch:
add configuration for set_head behaviour, 2024-11-29), its description
was added to remote.txt in between the two paragraphs describing
'remote.<name>.serverOption'. Reunite these two paragraphs.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git -c help.autocorrect=0 psuh" shows the suggested typofix,
unlike the previous attempt in the base topic.
* da/help-autocorrect-one-fix:
help: add "show" as a valid configuration value
help: show the suggested command when help.autocorrect is false
"[help] autocorrect = 1" used to be a way to say "please wait for
0.1 second after suggesting a typofix of the command name before
running that command"; now it means "yes, if there is a plausible
typofix for the command name, please run it immediately".
* sc/help-autocorrect-one:
help: interpret boolean string values for help.autocorrect
"git pack-objects" and its wrapper "git repack" learned an option
to use an alternative path-hash function to improve delta-base
selection to produce a packfile with deeper history than window
size.
* ds/name-hash-tweaks:
pack-objects: prevent name hash version change
test-tool: add helper for name-hash values
p5313: add size comparison test
pack-objects: add GIT_TEST_NAME_HASH_VERSION
repack: add --name-hash-version option
pack-objects: add --name-hash-version option
pack-objects: create new name-hash function version
The -X renormalize (or merge.renormalize config) option is intended to
reduce conflicts due to normalization of newer versions of history. It
does so by renormalizing files that it is about to do a three-way
content merge on. Some folks thought it would renormalize all files
throughout the tree, and the previous wording wasn't clear enough to
dispell that misconception. Update the docs to make it clear that the
merge machinery will only apply renormalization to files which need a
three-way content merge.
(Technically, the merge machinery also does renormalization on
modify/delete conflicts, in order to see if the modification was merely
a normalization; if so, it can accept the delete and not report a
conflict. But it's not clear that this piece needs to be explained to
users, and trying to distinguish it might feel like splitting hairs and
overcomplicating the explanation, so we leave it out.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do not seem to centrally document exhaustively ways to spell
Boolean values.
The description in the Environment Variables of git(1) section
assumes that the reader is already familiar with how "Boolean valued
configuration variables" are specified, without referring to
anything, so there is no way for the readers to find out more.
The description of `bool` in the section on "--type
<type>" in "git config --help" might be the place to do so, but it
is not telling us all that much.
The description of Boolean valued placeholders in the pretty formats
section of "git log --help" enumerates the possible values with "etc."
implying there may be other synonyms; shrink the list of samples and
instead refer to the canonical and authoritative source of truth, which
now is git-config(1).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In Git v2.44.0 support for 'git archive' over HTTP protocol
was added, but it was nowhere documented how it should be
enabled in git-http-backend.
Add missing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Szlazak <piotr.szlazak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-clone(1) command has the option `--branch` that allows the user
to select the branch they want HEAD to point to. In a non-bare
repository this also checks out that branch.
Option `--branch` also accepts a tag. When a tag name is provided, the
commit this tag points to is checked out and HEAD is detached. Thus
`--branch` can be used to clone a repository and check out a ref kept
under `refs/heads` or `refs/tags`. But some other refs might be in use
as well. For example Git forges might use refs like `refs/pull/<id>` and
`refs/merge-requests/<id>` to track pull/merge requests. These refs
cannot be selected upon git-clone(1).
Add option `--revision` to git-clone(1). This option accepts a fully
qualified reference, or a hexadecimal commit ID. This enables the user
to clone and check out any revision they want. `--revision` can be used
in conjunction with `--depth` to do a minimal clone that only contains
the blob and tree for a single revision. This can be useful for
automated tests running in CI systems.
Using option `--branch` and `--single-branch` together is a similar
scenario, but serves a different purpose. Using these two options, a
singlet remote tracking branch is created and the fetch refspec is set
up so git-fetch(1) will receive updates on that branch from the remote.
This allows the user work on that single branch.
Option `--revision` on contrary detaches HEAD, creates no tracking
branches, and writes no fetch refspec.
Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
[jc: removed unnecessary TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK from the test]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Patrick Steinhardt