Introduce the idea of bundle URIs to the Git codebase through an
aspirational design document. This document includes the full design
intended to include the feature in its fully-implemented form. This will
take several steps as detailed in the Implementation Plan section.
By committing this document now, it can be used to motivate changes
necessary to reach these final goals. The design can still be altered as
new information is discovered.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Operating modes like "--batch" of "git cat-file" command learned to
take NUL-terminated input, instead of one-item-per-line.
* tb/cat-file-z:
builtin/cat-file.c: support NUL-delimited input with `-z`
t1006: extract --batch-command inputs to variables
Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in
"git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command
line completion to include them in its offerings.
source: <pull.1285.v2.git.1658002423864.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
* mb/config-document-include:
config.txt: document include, includeIf
The previous change introduced the --clear-decorations option for users
who do not want their decorations limited to a narrow set of ref
namespaces.
Add a config option that is equivalent to specifying --clear-decorations
by default.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous changes introduced a new default ref filter for decorations
in the 'git log' command. This can be overridden using
--decorate-refs=HEAD and --decorate-refs=refs/, but that is cumbersome
for users.
Instead, add a --clear-decorations option that resets all previous
filters to a blank filter that accepts all refs.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a user runs 'git log', they expect a certain set of helpful
decorations. This includes:
* The HEAD ref
* Branches (refs/heads/)
* Stashes (refs/stash)
* Tags (refs/tags/)
* Remote branches (refs/remotes/)
* Replace refs (refs/replace/ or $GIT_REPLACE_REF_BASE)
Each of these namespaces was selected due to existing test cases that
verify these namespaces appear in the decorations. In particular,
stashes and replace refs can have custom colors from the
color.decorate.<slot> config option.
While one test checks for a decoration from notes, it only applies to
the tip of refs/notes/commit (or its configured ref name). Notes form
their own kind of decoration instead. Modify the expected output for the
tests in t4013 that expect this note decoration. There are several
tests throughout the codebase that verify that --decorate-refs,
--decorate-refs-exclude, and log.excludeDecoration work as designed and
the tests continue to pass without intervention.
However, there are other refs that are less helpful to show as
decoration:
* Prefetch refs (refs/prefetch/)
* Rebase refs (refs/rebase-merge/ and refs/rebase-apply/)
* Bundle refs (refs/bundle/) [!]
[!] The bundle refs are part of a parallel series that bootstraps a repo
from a bundle file, storing the bundle's refs into the repo's
refs/bundle/ namespace.
In the case of prefetch refs, 96eaffebbf (maintenance: set
log.excludeDecoration durin prefetch, 2021-01-19) added logic to add
refs/prefetch/ to the log.excludeDecoration config option. Additional
feedback pointed out that having such a side-effect can be confusing and
perhaps not helpful to users. Instead, we should hide these ref
namespaces that are being used by Git for internal reasons but are not
helpful for the users to see.
The way to provide a seamless user experience without setting the config
is to modify the default decoration filters to match our expectation of
what refs the user actually wants to see.
In builtin/log.c, after parsing the --decorate-refs and
--decorate-refs-exclude options from the command-line, call
set_default_decoration_filter(). This method populates the exclusions
from log.excludeDecoration, then checks if the list of pattern
modifications are empty. If none are specified, then the default set is
restricted to the set of inclusions mentioned earlier (HEAD, branches,
etc.). A previous change introduced the ref_namespaces array, which
includes all of these currently-used namespaces. The 'decoration' value
is non-zero when that namespace is associated with a special coloring
and fits into the list of "expected" decorations as described above,
which makes the implementation of this filter very simple.
Note that the logic in ref_filter_match() in log-tree.c follows this
matching pattern:
1. If there are exclusion patterns and the ref matches one, then ignore
the decoration.
2. If there are inclusion patterns and the ref matches one, then
definitely include the decoration.
3. If there are config-based exclusions from log.excludeDecoration and
the ref matches one, then ignore the decoration.
With this logic in mind, we need to ensure that we do not populate our
new defaults if any of these filters are manually set. Specifically, if
a user runs
git -c log.excludeDecoration=HEAD log
then we expect the HEAD decoration to not appear. If we left the default
inclusions in the set, then HEAD would match that inclusion before
reaching the config-based exclusions.
A potential alternative would be to check the list of default inclusions
at the end, after the config-based exclusions. This would still create a
behavior change for some uses of --decorate-refs-exclude=<X>, and could
be overwritten somewhat with --decorate-refs=refs/ and
--decorate-refs=HEAD. However, it no longer becomes possible to include
refs outside of the defaults while also excluding some using
log.excludeDecoration.
Another alternative would be to exclude the known namespaces that are
not intended to be shown. This would reduce the visible effect of the
change for expert users who use their own custom ref namespaces. The
implementation change would be very simple to swap due to our use of
ref_namespaces:
int i;
struct string_list *exclude = decoration_filter->exclude_ref_pattern;
/*
* No command-line or config options were given, so
* populate with sensible defaults.
*/
for (i = 0; i < NAMESPACE__COUNT; i++) {
if (ref_namespaces[i].decoration)
continue;
string_list_append(exclude, ref_namespaces[i].ref);
}
The main downside of this approach is that we expect to add new hidden
namespaces in the future, and that means that Git versions will be less
stable in how they behave as those namespaces are added.
It is critical that we provide ways for expert users to disable this
behavior change via command-line options and config keys. These changes
will be implemented in a future change.
Add a test that checks that the defaults are not added when
--decorate-refs is specified. We verify this by showing that HEAD is not
included as it normally would. Also add a test that shows that the
default filter avoids the unwanted decorations from refs/prefetch,
refs/rebase-merge,
and refs/bundle.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the http-protocol.txt documentation over. I'm renaming it to
"protocol-http" to be consistent with other things in the new
gitformat-protocol-* namespace.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Integrate the cruft packs documentation initially added in
3d89a8c118 (Documentation/technical: add cruft-packs.txt, 2022-05-20)
to the newly created "gitformat-pack" documentation.
Like the "bitmap-format" added before it in
0d4455a3ab (documentation: add documentation for the bitmap format,
2013-11-14) the "cruft-packs" were documented in their own file.
As the diff move detection will show there is no change to
"Documentation/technical/cruft-packs.txt" here except to move it, and
to "indent" the existing sections by adding an extra "=" to them.
We could similarly convert the "bitmap-format.txt", but let's leave it
for now due to a conflict with the in-flight ac/bitmap-lookup-table
series.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the various documentation pertaining to the *.pack format and related
files, and updating things that refer to it to link to the new
location.
By moving these we can properly link from the newly created
gitformat-commit-graph to a gitformat-chunk-format page.
Integrating "Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt" and
"Documentation/technical/cruft-packs.txt" might logically be part of
this change, but as those cover parts of the wider "pack
format" (including associated files) that's documented outside of
"Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt" let's leave those for now,
subsequent commit(s) will address those.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the signature format documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the index format documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space. By moving
the things that discuss the protocol we can properly link from
e.g. lsrefs.unborn and protocol.version documentation to a manpage we
build by default.
So far we have been using the "gitformat-" prefix for the
documentation we've been moving over from Documentation/technical/*,
but for protocol documentation let's use "gitprotocol-*".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space.
By moving the documentation for the commit-graph format into man
section 5 and the new "developerinterfaces" category. This change is
split from subsequent commits due to the relatively large amount of
ASCIIDOC formatting changes that are required.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a new "File formats, protocols and other developer interfaces"
section in the main "git help git" manual page and start moving the
documentation that now lives in "Documentation/technical/*.git" over
to it. This complements the newly added and adjacent "Repository,
command and file interfaces" section.
This makes the technical documentation more accessible and
discoverable. Before this we wouldn't install it by default, and had
no ability to build man page versions of them. The links to them from
our existing documentation link to the generated HTML version of these
docs.
So let's start moving those over, starting with just the
"bundle-format.txt" documentation added in 7378ec90e1 (doc: describe
Git bundle format, 2020-02-07). We'll now have a new
gitformat-bundle(5) man page. Subsequent commits will move more git
internal format documentation over.
Unfortunately the syntax of the current Documentation/technical/*.txt
is not the same (when it comes to section headings etc.) as our
Documentation/*.txt documentation, so change the relevant bits of
syntax as we're moving this over.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a new "Repository, command and file interfaces" section in the
main "git help git" manual page. Move things that belong under this
new criteria from the generic "Guides" section.
The "Guides" section was added in f442f28a81 (git.txt: add list of
guides, 2020-08-05). It makes sense to have e.g. "giteveryday(7)" and
"gitfaq(7)" listed under "Guides".
But placing e.g. "gitignore(5)" in it is stretching the meaning of
what a "guide" is, ideally that section should list things similar to
"giteveryday(7)" and "gitcore-tutorial(7)".
An alternate name that was considered for this new section was "User
formats", for consistency with the nomenclature used for man section 5
in general. My man(1) lists it as "File formats and conventions,
e.g. /etc/passwd".
So calling this "git help --formats" or "git help --user-formats"
would make sense for e.g. gitignore(5), but would be stretching it
somewhat for githooks(5), and would seem really suspect for the likes
of gitcli(7).
Let's instead pick a name that's closer to the generic term "User
interface", which is really what this documentation discusses: General
user-interface documentation that doesn't obviously belong elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace the use of "<guide>" originally introduced (as "GUIDE") in
a133737b80 (doc: include --guide option description for "git help",
2013-04-02) with the more generic "<doc>". The "<doc>" placeholder is
more generic, and one we'll be able to use as we introduce new
documentation categories.
Let's also add "<doc>" to the "git help -h" output, when it was made
to use parse_option() in in 41eb33bd0c (help: use parseopt,
2008-02-24).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--[no-]rerere-autoupdate" option controls what happens _after_
the rerere mechanism kicks in to reuse recorded resolutions and does
not prevent from the rerere mechanism to trigger in the first place.
It is unclear in the current text if "--no-rerere-autoupdate" stops
the auto-resolution. Rewrite the sentence to clarify.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `--rerere-autoupdate` option is shared across 5 commands, and
are described the same way because it works exactly the same way in
these commands.
Create a separate file and include it from the help pages for these
commands, so that we can improve the description at one place to
improve all of them at once, and keep them in sync.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cat-file" learned an option to use the mailmap when showing
commit and tag objects.
* sa/cat-file-mailmap:
cat-file: add mailmap support
ident: rename commit_rewrite_person() to apply_mailmap_to_header()
ident: move commit_rewrite_person() to ident.c
revision: improve commit_rewrite_person()
There are some inconsistencies with how different asciidoc environments
handle different combinations of "\{<>}", e.g. these results were
observed with asciidoc on two different environments:
| Input | Output (env A) | Output (env B) | same/different |
|-----------+----------------+------------------+----------------|
| \{<foo>\} | {<foo>} | \{<foo>}^M | different |
| {<foo>} | {<foo>} | {<foo>} | same |
| \{<foo>} | {<foo>} | \{<foo>}^M | different |
| \{foo\} | {foo} | {foo} | same |
| \{\} | {} | \{}^M | different |
| \{} | {} | {} | same |
| {\} | {} | {} | same |
The only instance of this biting us is "@\{<specifier>\}" in
Documentation/git-reflog.txt; all other combinations of "\{<>}" (e.g. in
Documentation/revisions.txt) seem to render consistently.
Fix this inconsistent rendering by removing the unnecessary "\" in
Documentation/git-reflog.txt.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase -i" learns to update branches whose tip appear in the
rebased range with "--update-refs" option.
source: <pull.1247.v5.git.1658255624.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
* ds/rebase-update-ref:
sequencer: notify user of --update-refs activity
sequencer: ignore HEAD ref under --update-refs
rebase: add rebase.updateRefs config option
sequencer: rewrite update-refs as user edits todo list
rebase: update refs from 'update-ref' commands
rebase: add --update-refs option
sequencer: add update-ref command
sequencer: define array with enum values
rebase-interactive: update 'merge' description
branch: consider refs under 'update-refs'
t2407: test branches currently using apply backend
t2407: test bisect and rebase as black-boxes
Update "git diff/log --raw" format documentation.
source: <pull.1259.git.1655123383.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
* pb/diff-doc-raw-format:
diff-index.txt: update raw output format in examples
diff-format.txt: correct misleading wording
diff-format.txt: dst can be 0* SHA-1 when path is deleted, too
Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and
add some missing information to the documentation.
source: <pull.1246.v4.git.1655355834.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
* ac/bitmap-format-doc:
bitmap-format.txt: add information for trailing checksum
bitmap-format.txt: fix some formatting issues
bitmap-format.txt: feed the file to asciidoc to generate html
References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase"
documentation mark-up have been corrected.
source: <pull.1270.v3.git.1656508868146.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
* ds/git-rebase-doc-markup:
git-rebase.txt: use back-ticks consistently
Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in
"git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command
line completion to include them in its offerings.
* mb/config-document-include:
config.txt: document include, includeIf
Add a new option "--format" that outputs index entries
informations in a custom format, taking inspiration
from the option with the same name in the `git ls-tree`
command.
"--format" cannot used with "-s", "-o", "-k", "-t",
" --resolve-undo","--deduplicate" and "--eol".
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When callers are using `cat-file` via one of the stdin-driven `--batch`
modes, all input is newline-delimited. This presents a problem when
callers wish to ask about, e.g. tree-entries that have a newline
character present in their filename.
To support this niche scenario, introduce a new `-z` mode to the
`--batch`, `--batch-check`, and `--batch-command` suite of options that
instructs `cat-file` to treat its input as NUL-delimited, allowing the
individual commands themselves to have newlines present.
The refactoring here is slightly unfortunate, since we turn loops like:
while (strbuf_getline(&buf, stdin) != EOF)
into:
while (1) {
int ret;
if (opt->nul_terminated)
ret = strbuf_getline_nul(&input, stdin);
else
ret = strbuf_getline(&input, stdin);
if (ret == EOF)
break;
}
It's tempting to think that we could use `strbuf_getwholeline()` and
specify either `\n` or `\0` as the terminating character. But for input
on platforms that include a CR character preceeding the LF, this
wouldn't quite be the same, since `strbuf_getline(...)` will trim any
trailing CR, while `strbuf_getwholeline(&buf, stdin, '\n')` will not.
In the future, we could clean this up further by introducing a variant
of `strbuf_getwholeline()` that addresses the aforementioned gap, but
that approach felt too heavy-handed for this pair of uses.
Some tests are added in t1006 to ensure that `cat-file` produces the
same output in `--batch`, `--batch-check`, and `--batch-command` modes
with and without the new `-z` option.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
