* ps/show-ref:
t: use git-show-ref(1) to check for ref existence
builtin/show-ref: add new mode to check for reference existence
builtin/show-ref: explicitly spell out different modes in synopsis
builtin/show-ref: ensure mutual exclusiveness of subcommands
builtin/show-ref: refactor options for patterns subcommand
builtin/show-ref: stop using global vars for `show_one()`
builtin/show-ref: stop using global variable to count matches
builtin/show-ref: refactor `--exclude-existing` options
builtin/show-ref: fix dead code when passing patterns
builtin/show-ref: fix leaking string buffer
builtin/show-ref: split up different subcommands
builtin/show-ref: convert pattern to a local variable
References from description of the `--patch` option in various
manual pages have been simplified and improved.
* so/diff-doc-for-patch-update:
doc/diff-options: fix link to generating patch section
Overly long label names used in the sequencer machinery are now
chopped to fit under filesystem limitation.
* mp/rebase-label-length-limit:
rebase: allow overriding the maximal length of the generated labels
sequencer: truncate labels to accommodate loose refs
While we have multiple ways to show the value of a given reference, we
do not have any way to check whether a reference exists at all. While
commands like git-rev-parse(1) or git-show-ref(1) can be used to check
for reference existence in case the reference resolves to something
sane, neither of them can be used to check for existence in some other
scenarios where the reference does not resolve cleanly:
- References which have an invalid name cannot be resolved.
- References to nonexistent objects cannot be resolved.
- Dangling symrefs can be resolved via git-symbolic-ref(1), but this
requires the caller to special case existence checks depending on
whether or not a reference is symbolic or direct.
Furthermore, git-rev-list(1) and other commands do not let the caller
distinguish easily between an actually missing reference and a generic
error.
Taken together, this seems like sufficient motivation to introduce a
separate plumbing command to explicitly check for the existence of a
reference without trying to resolve its contents.
This new command comes in the form of `git show-ref --exists`. This
new mode will exit successfully when the reference exists, with a
specific exit code of 2 when it does not exist, or with 1 when there
has been a generic error.
Note that the only way to properly implement this command is by using
the internal `refs_read_raw_ref()` function. While the public function
`refs_resolve_ref_unsafe()` can be made to behave in the same way by
passing various flags, it does not provide any way to obtain the errno
with which the reference backend failed when reading the reference. As
such, it becomes impossible for us to distinguish generic errors from
the explicit case where the reference wasn't found.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The synopsis treats the `--verify` and the implicit mode the same. They
are slightly different though:
- They accept different sets of flags.
- The implicit mode accepts patterns while the `--verify` mode
accepts references.
Split up the synopsis for these two modes such that we can disambiguate
those differences.
While at it, drop "--quiet" from the pattern mode's synopsis. It does
not make a lot of sense to list patterns, but squelch the listing output
itself. The description for "--quiet" is adapted accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The codepath to handle recipient addresses `git send-email
--compose` learns from the user was completely broken, which has
been corrected.
* jk/send-email-fix-addresses-from-composed-messages:
send-email: handle to/cc/bcc from --compose message
Revert "send-email: extract email-parsing code into a subroutine"
doc/send-email: mention handling of "reply-to" with --compose
The attribute subsystem learned to honor `attr.tree` configuration
that specifies which tree to read the .gitattributes files from.
* jc/attr-tree-config:
attr: add attr.tree for setting the treeish to read attributes from
attr: read attributes from HEAD when bare repo
Many typos, ungrammatical sentences and wrong phrasing have been
fixed.
* sn/typo-grammo-phraso-fixes:
t/README: fix multi-prerequisite example
doc/gitk: s/sticked/stuck/
git-jump: admit to passing merge mode args to ls-files
doc/diff-options: improve wording of the log.diffMerges mention
doc: fix some typos, grammar and wording issues
The description of the `git bisect run` command syntax at the beginning
of the manpage is `git bisect run <cmd>...`, which isn't quite clear
about what `<cmd>` is or what the `...` mean; one could think that it is
the whole (quoted) command line with all arguments in a single string,
or that it supports multiple commands, or that it doesn't accept
commands with arguments at all.
Change to `git bisect run <cmd> [<arg>...]` to clarify the syntax,
in both the manpage and the `git bisect -h` command output.
Additionally, change `--term-{new,bad}` et al to `--term-(new|bad)`
for consistency with the synopsis syntax conventions.
Signed-off-by: Javier Mora <cousteaulecommandant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-v" option is shown in the SYNOPSIS section near the top, but
"-q" is not shown anywhere there.
List "-q" alongside "-v".
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user writes a message via --compose, send-email will pick up
various headers like "From", "Subject", etc and use them for other
patches as if they were specified on the command-line. But we don't
handle "To", "Cc", or "Bcc" this way; we just tell the user "those
aren't interpeted yet" and ignore them.
But it seems like an obvious thing to want, especially as the same
feature exists when the cover letter is generated separately by
format-patch. There it is gated behind the --to-cover option, but I
don't think we'd need the same control here; since we generate the
--compose template ourselves based on the existing input, if the user
leaves the lines unchanged then the behavior remains the same.
So let's fill in the implementation; like those other headers we already
handle, we just need to assign to the initial_* variables. The only
difference in this case is that they are arrays, so we'll feed them
through parse_address_line() to split them (just like we would when
reading a single string via prompting).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for git-send-email lists the headers handled specially
by --compose in a way that implies that this is the complete set of
headers that are special. But one more was added by d11c943c78
(send-email: support separate Reply-To address, 2018-03-04) and never
documented.
Let's add it, and reword the documentation slightly to avoid having to
specify the list of headers twice (as it is growing and will continue to
do so as we add new features).
If you read the code, you may notice that we also handle MIME-Version
specially, in that we'll avoid over-writing user-provided MIME headers.
I don't think this is worth mentioning, as it's what you'd expect to
happen (as opposed to the other headers, which are picked up to be used
in later emails). And certainly this feature existed when the
documentation was expanded in 01d3861217 (git-send-email.txt: describe
--compose better, 2009-03-16), and we chose not to mention it then.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git am` passes the value given to its `--whitespace` option through
to the underlying `git apply`, and the value is called <action> over
there. Fix the documentation for the command that calls the value
<option> to say <action> instead.
Note that the option help given by `git am -h` already calls the
value <action>, so there is no need to make a matching change there.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git repack" learned "--max-cruft-size" to prevent cruft packs from
growing without bounds.
* tb/repack-max-cruft-size:
repack: free existing_cruft array after use
builtin/repack.c: avoid making cruft packs preferred
builtin/repack.c: implement support for `--max-cruft-size`
builtin/repack.c: parse `--max-pack-size` with OPT_MAGNITUDE
t7700: split cruft-related tests to t7704
The documentation for geometric repacking mentions a "--unpacked" option
that supposedly changes how loose objects are rolled up. This option has
never existed, and the implied behaviour, namely to include all unpacked
objects into the resulting packfile, is in fact the default behaviour.
Correct the documentation to not mention this option.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `-g` switch is a shorthand for `--geometric=` and allows the user to
specify the geometric. The documentation is wrong though and indicates
that the syntax for the shorthand is `-g=<factor>`. In fact though, the
option must be specified without the equals sign via `-g<factor>`.
Fix the syntax accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test coverage for trailers has been improved.
* la/trailer-test-and-doc-updates:
trailer doc: <token> is a <key> or <keyAlias>, not both
trailer doc: separator within key suppresses default separator
trailer doc: emphasize the effect of configuration variables
trailer --unfold help: prefer "reformat" over "join"
trailer --parse docs: add explanation for its usefulness
trailer --only-input: prefer "configuration variables" over "rules"
trailer --parse help: expose aliased options
trailer --no-divider help: describe usual "---" meaning
trailer: trailer location is a place, not an action
trailer doc: narrow down scope of --where and related flags
trailer: add tests to check defaulting behavior with --no-* flags
trailer test description: this tests --where=after, not --where=before
trailer tests: make test cases self-contained
44451a2 (attr: teach "--attr-source=<tree>" global option to "git",
2023-05-06) provided the ability to pass in a treeish as the attr
source. In the context of serving Git repositories as bare repos like we
do at GitLab however, it would be easier to point --attr-source to HEAD
for all commands by setting it once.
Add a new config attr.tree that allows this.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
