The documentation explained what "git stash" does to the working
tree (after stashing away the local changes) in terms of "reset
--hard", which was exposing an unnecessary implementation detail.
* tg/stash-doc-cleanup:
Documentation/stash: remove mention of git reset --hard
The push-options given via the "--push-options" option were not
passed through to external remote helpers such as "smart HTTP" that
are invoked via the transport helper.
* sb/push-options-via-transport:
push options: pass push options to the transport helper
A server can end up in a state where there are lots of unreferenced
loose objects (say, because many users are doing a bunch of rebasing
and pushing their rebased branches). Running "git gc --auto" in
this state would cause a gc.log file to be created, preventing
future auto gcs, causing pack files to pile up. Since many git
operations are O(n) in the number of pack files, this would lead to
poor performance.
Git should never get itself into a state where it refuses to do any
maintenance, just because at some point some piece of the maintenance
didn't make progress.
Teach Git to ignore gc.log files which are older than (by default)
one day old, which can be tweaked via the gc.logExpiry configuration
variable. That way, these pack files will get cleaned up, if
necessary, at least once per day. And operators who find a need for
more-frequent gcs can adjust gc.logExpiry to meet their needs.
There is also some cleanup: a successful manual gc, or a
warning-free auto gc with an old log file, will remove any old
gc.log files.
It might still happen that manual intervention is required
(e.g. because the repo is corrupt), but at the very least it won't
be because Git is too dumb to try again.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don't mention git reset --hard in the documentation for git stash save.
It's an implementation detail that doesn't matter to the end user and
thus shouldn't be exposed to them. In addition it's not quite true for
git stash -p, and will not be true when a filename argument to limit the
stash to a few files is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation gives an example of the submodule foreach
command that uses both backticks and single-quotes. We stick
the whole thing inside "+" markers to make it monospace, but
the inside punctuation still needs escaping. We handle the
backticks with "{backtick}", and use backslash-escaping for
the single-quotes.
But we missed the escaping on the second quote. Fortunately,
asciidoc renders this unbalanced quote as we want (showing
the quote), but asciidoctor does not. We could fix it by
adding the missing backslash.
However, let's take a step back. Even when rendered
correctly, it's hard to read a long command stuck into the
middle of a paragraph, and the important punctuation is hard
to notice. Let's instead bump it into its own single-line
code block. That makes both the source and the rendered
result more readable, and as a bonus we don't have to worry
about quoting at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each of these options is missing the closing single-quote on
the option name. This understandably confuses asciidoc,
which ends up rendering a stray quote, like:
option cloning {'true|false}
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of erroring out and telling the user that they should add a
positive pattern that covers everything else, just _do_ that.
For commands where we honor the current cwd by default (ie grep, ls-files
etc), we make that default positive pathspec be the current working
directory. And for commands that default to the whole project (ie diff,
log, etc), the default positive pathspec is the whole project.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The choice of '!' for a negative pathspec ends up not only not matching
what we do for revisions, it's also a horrible character for shell
expansion since it needs quoting.
So add '^' as an alternative alias for an excluding pathspec entry.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently have 168 man pages that mention they are part of Git, you
can check yourself easily via:
$ git grep "Part of the linkgit:git\[1\] suite" |wc -l
168
However some have a trailing period, i.e.
$ git grep "Part of the linkgit:git\[1\] suite." |wc -l
8
Unify the bottom line in all man pages to not end with a period.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using non-builtin protocols relying on a transport helper
(such as http), push options are not propagated to the helper.
The user could ask for push options and a push would seemingly succeed,
but the push options would never be transported to the server,
misleading the users expectation.
Fix this by propagating the push options to the transport helper.
This is only addressing the first issue of
(1) the helper protocol does not propagate push-option
(2) the http helper is not prepared to handle push-option
Once we fix (2), the http transport helper can make use of push options
as well, but that happens as a follow up. (1) is a bug fix, whereas (2)
is a feature, which is why we only do (1) here.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the document patch for f0298cf1c6 (revision walker: include a
detached HEAD in --all - 2009-01-16).
Even though that commit is about detached HEAD, as Jeff pointed out,
always adding HEAD in that case may have subtle differences with
--source or --exclude. So the document mentions nothing about the
detached-ness.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prior to this, the `--no-gui` option was not documented in the manpage.
This commit introduces this into the manpage
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We forgot that "strip" was introduced at 0571979bd6 ("tag: do not
show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo"", 2016-01-25) as part of Git
2.8 (and 2.7.1) when we started calling this "lstrip" to make it
easier to explain the new "rstrip" operation.
We shouldn't have renamed the existing one; "lstrip" should have
been a new synonym that means the same thing as "strip". Scripts
in the wild are surely using the original form already.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is often useful to break a commit into multiple parts that are more
logical separations. This can be tricky to learn how to do without the
brute-force method if re-writing code or commit messages from scratch.
Add a section to the git-reset documentation which shows an example
process for how to use git add -p and git commit -c HEAD@{1} to
interactively break a commit apart and re-use the original commit
message as a starting point when making the new commit message.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The output of 'git rev-parse --git-dir' can be either a relative or an
absolute path, depending on whether the current working directory is
at the top of the worktree or the .git directory or not, or how the
path to the repository is specified via the '--git-dir=<path>' option
or the $GIT_DIR environment variable. And if that output is a
relative path, then it is relative to the directory where any 'git
-C <path>' options might have led us.
This doesn't matter at all for regular scripts, because the git
wrapper automatically takes care of changing directories according to
the '-C <path>' options, and the scripts can then simply follow any
path returned by 'git rev-parse --git-dir', even if it's a relative
path.
Our Bash completion script, however, is unique in that it must run
directly in the user's interactive shell environment. This means that
it's not executed through the git wrapper and would have to take care
of any '-C <path> options on its own, and it can't just change
directories as it pleases. Consequently, adding support for taking
any '-C <path>' options on the command line into account during
completion turned out to be considerably more difficult, error prone
and required more subshells and git processes when it had to cope with
a relative path to the .git directory.
Help this rather special use case and teach 'git rev-parse' a new
'--absolute-git-dir' option which always outputs a canonicalized
absolute path to the .git directory, regardless of whether the path is
discovered automatically or is specified via $GIT_DIR or 'git
--git-dir=<path>'.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "core.logAllRefUpdates" that used to be boolean has been
enhanced to take 'always' as well, to record ref updates to refs
other than the ones that are expected to be updated (i.e. branches,
remote-tracking branches and notes).
* cw/log-updates-for-all-refs-really:
doc: add note about ignoring '--no-create-reflog'
update-ref: add test cases for bare repository
refs: add option core.logAllRefUpdates = always
config: add markup to core.logAllRefUpdates doc
Some people feel the default set of colors used by "git log --graph"
rather limiting. A mechanism to customize the set of colors has
been introduced.
* nd/log-graph-configurable-colors:
document behavior of empty color name
color_parse_mem: allow empty color spec
log --graph: customize the graph lines with config log.graphColors
color.c: trim leading spaces in color_parse_mem()
color.c: fix color_parse_mem() with value_len == 0
Asciidoctor, an alternative reimplementation of AsciiDoc, still
needs some changes to work with documents meant to be formatted
with AsciiDoc. "make USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=YesPlease" to use it out of
the box to document our pages is getting closer to reality.
* bc/use-asciidoctor-opt:
Documentation: implement linkgit macro for Asciidoctor
Makefile: add a knob to enable the use of Asciidoctor
Documentation: move dblatex arguments into variable
Documentation: add XSLT to fix DocBook for Texinfo
Documentation: sort sources for gitman.texi
Documentation: remove unneeded argument in cat-texi.perl
Documentation: modernize cat-texi.perl
Documentation: fix warning in cat-texi.perl
Commit 55cccf4bb (color_parse_mem: allow empty color spec,
2017-02-01) clearly defined the behavior of an empty color
config variable. Let's document that, and give a hint about
why it might be useful.
It's important not to say that it makes the item uncolored,
because it doesn't. It just sets no attributes, which means
that any previous attributes continue to take effect.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commands git-branch and git-tag accept the '--create-reflog'
option, and create reflog even when core.logallrefupdates
configuration is explicitly set not to.
On the other hand, the negated form '--no-create-reflog' is accepted
as a valid option but has no effect (other than overriding an
earlier '--create-reflog' on the command line). This silent noop may
puzzle users. To communicate that this is a known limitation, add a
short note in the manuals for git-branch and git-tag.
Signed-off-by: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add documentation for the `--recurse-submodules=only` option of
git-push. The feature was added in commit 225e8bf (add option to
push only submodules).
Signed-off-by: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since nobody uses the old API, make it file-scope static, and update
the documentation to describe the new API.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Full pattern must be quoted. So 'pat"t"ern attr' will give exactly
'pat"t"ern', not 'pattern'. Also clarify that leading whitespaces are
not part of the pattern and document comment syntax.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The URL matching function computes for two URLs whether they match not.
The match is performed by splitting up the URL into different parts and
then doing an exact comparison with the to-be-matched URL.
The main user of `urlmatch` is the configuration subsystem. It allows to
set certain configurations based on the URL which is being connected to
via keys like `http.<url>.*`. A common use case for this is to set
proxies for only some remotes which match the given URL. Unfortunately,
having exact matches for all parts of the URL can become quite tedious
in some setups. Imagine for example a corporate network where there are
dozens or even hundreds of subdomains, which would have to be configured
individually.
Allow users to write an asterisk '*' in place of any 'host' or
'subdomain' label as part of the host name. For example,
"http.https://*.example.com.proxy" sets "http.proxy" for all direct
subdomains of "https://example.com", e.g. "https://foo.example.com", but
not "https://foo.bar.example.com".
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <patrick.steinhardt@elego.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This environment variable and configuration value allow to
override the autodetection of plink/tortoiseplink in case that
Git gets it wrong.
[jes: wrapped overly-long lines, factored out and changed
get_ssh_variant() to handle_ssh_variant() to accomodate the
change from the putty/tortoiseplink variables to
port_option/needs_batch, adjusted the documentation, free()d
value obtained from the config.]
Signed-off-by: Segev Finer <segev208@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
* jc/abbrev-autoscale-config:
config.abbrev: document the new default that auto-scales
