The documentation for the --exclude-per-directory option marked it
as deprecated, which confused readers into thinking there may be a
plan to remove it in the future, which was not our intention.
* jc/ls-files-doc-update:
ls-files: avoid the verb "deprecate" for individual options
The labels on conflict markers for the common ancestor, our version,
and the other version are available to custom 3-way merge driver
via %S, %X, and %Y placeholders.
* ad/custom-merge-placeholder-for-symbolic-pathnames:
merge-ll: expose revision names to custom drivers
All conditional "advice" messages show how to turn them off, which
becomes repetitive. Setting advice.* configuration explicitly on
now omits the instruction part.
* rj/advice-disable-how-to-disable:
advice: allow disabling the automatic hint in advise_if_enabled()
Define "special ref" as a very narrow set that consists of
FETCH_HEAD and MERGE_HEAD, and clarify everything else that used to
be classified as such are actually just pseudorefs.
* ps/not-so-many-refs-are-special:
Documentation: add "special refs" to the glossary
refs: redefine special refs
refs: convert MERGE_AUTOSTASH to become a normal pseudo-ref
sequencer: introduce functions to handle autostashes via refs
refs: convert AUTO_MERGE to become a normal pseudo-ref
sequencer: delete REBASE_HEAD in correct repo when picking commits
sequencer: clean up pseudo refs with REF_NO_DEREF
The error message given when "git branch -d branch" fails due to
commits unique to the branch has been split into an error and a new
conditional advice message.
* rj/advice-delete-branch-not-fully-merged:
branch: make the advice to force-deleting a conditional one
advice: fix an unexpected leading space
advice: sort the advice related lists
When e750951e (ls-files: guide folks to --exclude-standard over
other --exclude* options, 2023-01-13) updated the documentation to
give greater visibility to the `--exclude-standard` option, it marked
the `--exclude-per-directory` option as "deprecated".
While it is technically correct that being deprecated does not
necessarily mean it is planned to be removed later, it seems to
cause confusion to readers, especially when we merely mean
The option Y can be used to achieve the same thing as the option
X much simpler. To those of you who aren't familiar with either
X or Y, we would recommend to use Y when appropriate.
This is especially true for `--exclude-standard` vs the combination
of more granular `--exclude-from` and `--exclude-per-directory`
options. It is true that one common combination of the granular
options can be obtained by just giving the former, but that does not
necessarily mean a more granular control is not necessary.
State the reason why we recommend readers `--exclude-standard` in
the description of `--exclude-per-directory`, instead of saying that
the option is deprecated. Also, spell out the recipe to emulate
what `--exclude-standard` does, so that the users can give it minute
tweaks (like "do the same as Git Porcelain, except I do not want to
read the global exclusion file from core.excludes").
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Custom merge drivers need access to the names of the revisions they
are working on, so that the merge conflict markers they introduce
can refer to those revisions. The placeholders '%S', '%X' and '%Y'
are introduced to this end.
Signed-off-by: Antonin Delpeuch <antonin@delpeuch.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the instruction for subscribing to the Git mailing list
we have on a few documentation pages.
Reported-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Helped-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch" learned to pay attention to "fetch.all" configuration
variable, which pretends as if "--all" was passed from the command
line when no remote parameter was given.
* tb/fetch-all-configuration:
fetch: add new config option fetch.all
The shell used when using the -x option is erroneously documented to be
the one pointed to by the $SHELL environmental variable. This was true
when rebase was implemented as a shell script but this is no longer
true.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using advise_if_enabled() to display an advice will automatically
include instructions on how to disable the advice, alongside the main
advice:
hint: use --reapply-cherry-picks to include skipped commits
hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.skippedCherryPicks false"
To do so, we provide a knob which can be used to disable the advice.
But also to tell us the opposite: to show the advice.
Let's not include the deactivation instructions for an advice if the
user explicitly sets its visibility.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new extension "refstorage" so that we can mark a
repository that uses a non-default ref backend, like reftable.
* ps/refstorage-extension:
t9500: write "extensions.refstorage" into config
builtin/clone: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
builtin/init: introduce `--ref-format=` value flag
builtin/rev-parse: introduce `--show-ref-format` flag
t: introduce GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
setup: introduce GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT envvar
setup: introduce "extensions.refStorage" extension
setup: set repository's formats on init
setup: start tracking ref storage format
refs: refactor logic to look up storage backends
worktree: skip reading HEAD when repairing worktrees
t: introduce DEFAULT_REPO_FORMAT prereq
'--filter=blob:limit=<n>' was introduced in 25ec7bcac0 (list-objects:
filter objects in traverse_commit_list, 2017-11-21) and later expanded
to bitmaps in 84243da129 (pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_LIMIT filtering,
2020-02-14)
The logic that was introduced in these commits (and that still persists
to this day) omits blobs larger than _or equal_ to n bytes or units.
However, the documentation (Documentation/rev-list-options.txt) states:
>The form '--filter=blob:limit=<n>[kmg]' omits blobs larger than n
bytes or units. n may be zero.
Moreover, the t6113-rev-list-bitmap-filters.sh tests for exactly this
logic, so it seems it is the documentation that needs fixing, not the
code.
This changes the explanation to be similar to
Documentation/git-clone.txt, which is correct.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Edigaryev <edigaryev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unlike other environment variables that took the usual
true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1,
which has been corrected.
* cp/git-flush-is-an-env-bool:
write-or-die: make GIT_FLUSH a Boolean environment variable
Streaming spans of packfile data used to be done only from a
single, primary, pack in a repository with multiple packfiles. It
has been extended to allow reuse from other packfiles, too.
* tb/multi-pack-verbatim-reuse: (26 commits)
t/perf: add performance tests for multi-pack reuse
pack-bitmap: enable reuse from all bitmapped packs
pack-objects: allow setting `pack.allowPackReuse` to "single"
t/test-lib-functions.sh: implement `test_trace2_data` helper
pack-objects: add tracing for various packfile metrics
pack-bitmap: prepare to mark objects from multiple packs for reuse
pack-revindex: implement `midx_pair_to_pack_pos()`
pack-revindex: factor out `midx_key_to_pack_pos()` helper
midx: implement `midx_preferred_pack()`
git-compat-util.h: implement checked size_t to uint32_t conversion
pack-objects: include number of packs reused in output
pack-objects: prepare `write_reused_pack_verbatim()` for multi-pack reuse
pack-objects: prepare `write_reused_pack()` for multi-pack reuse
pack-objects: pass `bitmapped_pack`'s to pack-reuse functions
pack-objects: keep track of `pack_start` for each reuse pack
pack-objects: parameterize pack-reuse routines over a single pack
pack-bitmap: return multiple packs via `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()`
pack-bitmap: simplify `reuse_partial_packfile_from_bitmap()` signature
ewah: implement `bitmap_is_empty()`
pack-bitmap: pass `bitmapped_pack` struct to pack-reuse functions
...
The builtin_objectmode attribute is populated for each path
without adding anything in .gitattributes files, which would be
useful in magic pathspec, e.g., ":(attr:builtin_objectmode=100755)"
to limit to executables.
* jw/builtin-objectmode-attr:
attr: add builtin objectmode values support
Doc update.
* js/contributor-docs-updates:
SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCII
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub artifact format
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub visual
SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice
SubmittingPatches: update extra tags list
SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers
SubmittingPatches: drop ref to "What's in git.git"
CodingGuidelines: write punctuation marks
CodingGuidelines: move period inside parentheses
The error message we show when the user tries to delete a not fully
merged branch describes the error and gives a hint to the user:
error: the branch 'foo' is not fully merged.
If you are sure you want to delete it, run 'git branch -D foo'.
Let's move the hint part so that it is displayed using the advice
machinery:
error: the branch 'foo' is not fully merged
hint: If you are sure you want to delete it, run 'git branch -D foo'
hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.forceDeleteBranch false"
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Let's keep the advice related lists sorted to make them more
digestible.
A multi-line comment has also been changed; that produces the unexpected
'insertion != deletion' in this supposedly 'only sort lines' commit.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is more correct because the <path>... doc syntax already indicates
that the arg is "array-type". It's how other tools do it. Finally, the
later document text mentions 'path' arguments, while it doesn't mention
'paths'.
Signed-off-by: Britton Leo Kerin <britton.kergin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Doc update.
* ml/doc-merge-updates:
Documentation/git-merge.txt: use backticks for command wrapping
Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix reference to synopsis
Introduce a boolean configuration option fetch.all which allows to
fetch all available remotes by default. The config option can be
overridden by explicitly specifying a remote or by using --no-all.
The behavior for --all is unchanged and calling git-fetch with --all
and a remote will still result in an error.
Additionally, describe the configuration variable in the config
documentation and implement new tests to cover the expected behavior.
Also add --no-all to the command-line documentation of git-fetch.
Signed-off-by: Tamino Bauknecht <dev@tb6.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 52d59cc645 (branch: add a --copy (-c) option to go with --move
(-m), 2017-06-18) <oldbranch> is used in more operations than just -m.
Let's also clarify what we do if <oldbranch> is omitted.
Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation should mention the default behavior.
It is better to explain the persistent nature of the
--reschedule-failed-exec flag from the user standpoint, rather than from
the implementation standpoint.
Signed-off-by: Illia Bobyr <illia.bobyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Among Git's environment variables, the ones marked as "Boolean"
accept values in a way similar to Boolean configuration variables,
i.e. values like 'yes', 'on', 'true' and positive numbers are
taken as "on" and values like 'no', 'off', 'false' are taken as
"off".
GIT_FLUSH can be used to force Git to use non-buffered I/O when
writing to stdout. It can only accept two values, '1' which causes
Git to flush more often and '0' which makes all output buffered.
Make GIT_FLUSH accept more values besides '0' and '1' by turning it
into a Boolean environment variable, modifying the required logic.
Update the related documentation.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since commit 62db5247 (rebase -i: generate the script via
rebase--helper, 2017-07-14), the short hash is given in
rebase-todo. Specifying rebase.instructionFormat does not alter this
behavior, contrary to what the documentation implies.
Signed-off-by: Maarten van der Schrieck <maarten@thingsconnected.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Doc updates to clarify what an "unborn branch" means.
* jc/orphan-unborn:
orphan/unborn: fix use of 'orphan' in end-user facing messages
orphan/unborn: add to the glossary and use them consistently
Introduce a new `--ref-format` value flag for git-clone(1) that allows
the user to specify the ref format that is to be used for a newly
initialized repository.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new `--ref-format` value flag for git-init(1) that allows
the user to specify the ref format that is to be used for a newly
initialized repository.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new `--show-ref-format` to git-rev-parse(1) that causes it
to print the ref format used by a repository.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT environment variable that lets
users control the default ref format used by both git-init(1) and
git-clone(1). This is modeled after GIT_DEFAULT_OBJECT_FORMAT, which
does the same thing for the repository's object format.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a new "extensions.refStorage" extension that allows us to
specify the ref storage format used by a repository. For now, the only
supported format is the "files" format, but this list will likely soon
be extended to also support the upcoming "reftable" format.
There have been discussions on the Git mailing list in the past around
how exactly this extension should look like. One alternative [1] that
was discussed was whether it would make sense to model the extension in
such a way that backends are arbitrarily stackable. This would allow for
a combined value of e.g. "loose,packed-refs" or "loose,reftable", which
indicates that new refs would be written via "loose" files backend and
compressed into "packed-refs" or "reftable" backends, respectively.
It is arguable though whether this flexibility and the complexity that
it brings with it is really required for now. It is not foreseeable that
there will be a proliferation of backends in the near-term future, and
the current set of existing formats and formats which are on the horizon
can easily be configured with the much simpler proposal where we have a
single value, only.
Furthermore, if we ever see that we indeed want to gain the ability to
arbitrarily stack the ref formats, then we can adapt the current
extension rather easily. Given that Git clients will refuse any unknown
value for the "extensions.refStorage" extension they would also know to
ignore a stacked "loose,packed-refs" in the future.
So let's stick with the easy proposal for the time being and wire up the
extension.
[1]: <pull.1408.git.1667846164.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
