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David Glasser
07c4984508 doc: list filter-branch subdirectory-filter first
The docs claim that filters are applied in the listed order, so
subdirectory-filter should come first.

For consistency, apply the same order to the SYNOPSIS and the script's usage, as
well as the switch while parsing arguments.

Add missing --prune-empty to the script's usage.

Signed-off-by: David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-18 09:10:15 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
89dd32aedc check-ref-format doc: --branch validates and expands <branch>
"git check-ref-format --branch $name" feature was originally
introduced (and was advertised) as a way for scripts to take any
end-user supplied string (like "master", "@{-1}" etc.) and see if it
is usable when Git expects to see a branch name, and also obtain the
concrete branch name that the at-mark magic expands to.

Emphasize that "see if it is usable" role in the description and
clarify that the @{...} expansion only occurs when run from within a
repository.

[jn: split out from a larger patch]

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-18 08:01:48 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
83558a412a fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1
Since a9d34933 ("Merge branch 'fm/fetch-raw-sha1'", 2015-06-01) we
allow to fetch by an object name when the other side accepts such a
request, but we never updated the documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-18 05:59:34 +09:00
Jeff King
2c1acdf6c9 Revert "color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config"
This reverts commit 6be4595edb.

That commit weakened the "always" setting of color config so
that it acted as "auto". This was meant to solve regressions
in v2.14.2 in which setting "color.ui=always" in the on-disk
config broke scripts like add--interactive, because the
plumbing diff commands began to generate color output.

This was due to 136c8c8b8f (color: check color.ui in
git_default_config(), 2017-07-13), which was in turn trying
to fix issues caused by 4c7f1819b3 (make color.ui default to
'auto', 2013-06-10). But in weakening "always", we created
even more problems, as people expect to be able to use "git
-c color.ui=always" to force color (especially because some
commands don't have their own --color flag). We can fix that
by special-casing the command-line "-c", but now things are
getting pretty confusing.

Instead of piling hacks upon hacks, let's start peeling off
the hacks. The first step is dropping the weakening of
"always", which this revert does.

Note that we could actually revert the whole series merged
in by da15b78e52. Most of that
series consists of preparations to the tests to handle the
weakening of "-c color.ui=always". But it's worth keeping
for a few reasons:

  - there are some other preparatory cleanups, like
    e433749d86 (test-terminal: set TERM=vt100, 2017-10-03)

  - it adds "--color" options more consistently in
    0c88bf5050 (provide --color option for all ref-filter
    users, 2017-10-03)

  - some of the cases dropping "-c" end up being more robust
    and realistic tests, as in 01c94e9001 (t7508: use
    test_terminal for color output, 2017-10-03)

  - the preferred tool for overriding config is "--color",
    and we should be modeling that consistently

We can individually revert the few commits necessary to
restore some useful tests (which will be done on top of this
patch).

Note that this isn't a pure revert; we'll keep the test
added in t3701, but mark it as failure for now.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-17 15:08:51 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
433d62fea9 Merge branch 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint' (early part) into jk/ref-filter-colors-fix-maint
* 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint' (early part):
  color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
  provide --color option for all ref-filter users
  t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
  t3203: drop "always" color test
  t6006: drop "always" color config tests
  t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
  t7508: use test_terminal for color output
  t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
  t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
  test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
2017-10-17 15:08:31 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
2ac9cf7aff Crawling towards -rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-17 13:31:31 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
4339c9f2df Merge branch 'jc/doc-checkout'
Doc update.

* jc/doc-checkout:
  checkout doc: clarify command line args for "checkout paths" mode
2017-10-17 13:29:19 +09:00
Jonathan Tan
6464679d96 Documentation: document Extra Parameters
Document the server support for Extra Parameters, additional information
that the client can send in its first message to the server during a
Git client-server interaction.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-17 10:51:30 +09:00
Brandon Williams
94b8ae5aca ssh: introduce a 'simple' ssh variant
When using the 'ssh' transport, the '-o' option is used to specify an
environment variable which should be set on the remote end.  This allows
git to send additional information when contacting the server,
requesting the use of a different protocol version via the
'GIT_PROTOCOL' environment variable like so: "-o SendEnv=GIT_PROTOCOL".

Unfortunately not all ssh variants support the sending of environment
variables to the remote end.  To account for this, only use the '-o'
option for ssh variants which are OpenSSH compliant.  This is done by
checking that the basename of the ssh command is 'ssh' or the ssh
variant is overridden to be 'ssh' (via the ssh.variant config).

Other options like '-p' and '-P', which are used to specify a specific
port to use, or '-4' and '-6', which are used to indicate that IPV4 or
IPV6 addresses should be used, may also not be supported by all ssh
variants.

Currently if an ssh command's basename wasn't 'plink' or
'tortoiseplink' git assumes that the command is an OpenSSH variant.
Since user configured ssh commands may not be OpenSSH compliant, tighten
this constraint and assume a variant of 'simple' if the basename of the
command doesn't match the variants known to git.  The new ssh variant
'simple' will only have the host and command to execute ([username@]host
command) passed as parameters to the ssh command.

Update the Documentation to better reflect the command-line options sent
to ssh commands based on their variant.

Reported-by: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-17 10:51:30 +09:00
Brandon Williams
373d70efb2 protocol: introduce protocol extension mechanisms
Create protocol.{c,h} and provide functions which future servers and
clients can use to determine which protocol to use or is being used.

Also introduce the 'GIT_PROTOCOL' environment variable which will be
used to communicate a colon separated list of keys with optional values
to a server.  Unknown keys and values must be tolerated.  This mechanism
is used to communicate which version of the wire protocol a client would
like to use with a server.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-17 10:51:29 +09:00
W. Trevor King
3a4d2c7437 pull: pass --signoff/--no-signoff to "git merge"
merge can take --signoff, but without pull passing --signoff down, it
is inconvenient to use; allow 'pull' to take the option and pass it
through.

The order of options in merge-options.txt is mostly alphabetical by
long option since 7c85d274 (Documentation/merge-options.txt: order
options in alphabetical groups, 2009-10-22).  The long-option bit
didn't make it into the commit message, but it's under the fold in
[1].  I've put --signoff between --log and --stat to preserve the
alphabetical order.

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/87iqe7zspn.fsf@jondo.cante.net/

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-13 10:47:36 +09:00
W. Trevor King
488aa65c8f Documentation/merge-options.txt: describe -S/--gpg-sign for 'pull'
Pull has supported these since ea230d8 (pull: add the --gpg-sign
option, 2014-02-10).  Insert in long-option alphabetical order
following 7c85d274 (Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options
in alphabetical groups, 2009-10-22).

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-12 21:14:23 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b59698aef3 checkout doc: clarify command line args for "checkout paths" mode
There are "git checkout [-p][<tree-ish>][--][<paths>...]" in the
SYNOPSIS section, and "git checkout [-p][<tree-ish>][--]<paths>..."
as the header for the section that explains the "check out paths
from index/tree-ish" mode.  It is unclear if we require at least one
path, or it is entirely optional.

Actually, both are wrong.  Without the "-p(atch)" option, you must
have <pathspec> (otherwise, with a commit that is a <tree-ish>, you
would be checking out that commit to build a new history on top of
it).  With it, it is already clear that you are checking out paths,
it is optional.  In other words, you cannot omit both.

The source of the confusion is that -p(atch) is described as if it
is just another "optional" part and its description is lumped
together with the non patch mode, even though the actual end user
experience is vastly different.

Let's split the entry into two, and describe the regular mode and
the patch mode separately.  This allows us to make it clear that the
regular mode MUST be given at least one pathspec, that the patch
mode can be invoked with either '-p' or '--patch' but one of these
must be given, and that the pathspec is entirely optional in the
patch mode.

Also, revamp the explanation of "checkout paths" by removing
extraneous description at the beginning, that says "checking out
paths is not checking out a branch".  Explaining what it is for and
when the user wants to use it upfront is the most direct way to help
the readers.

Noticed-by: Robert P J Day
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-11 14:55:36 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
111ef79afe Git 2.15-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-11 14:54:04 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
4af0500a51 Merge branch 'hn/string-list-doc'
Docfix.

* hn/string-list-doc:
  api-argv-array.txt: remove broken link to string-list API
2017-10-11 14:52:22 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
b03cd16613 Merge branch 'tb/show-trailers-in-ref-filter'
"git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a new format element,
%(trailers), to show only the commit log trailer part of the log
message.

* tb/show-trailers-in-ref-filter:
  ref-filter.c: parse trailers arguments with %(contents) atom
  ref-filter.c: use trailer_opts to format trailers
  t6300: refactor %(trailers) tests
  doc: use "`<literal>`"-style quoting for literal strings
  doc: 'trailers' is the preferred way to format trailers
  t4205: unfold across multiple lines
2017-10-11 14:52:22 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
95649bc6f5 Merge branch 'jr/hash-migration-plan-doc'
Lay out plans for weaning us off of SHA-1.

* jr/hash-migration-plan-doc:
  technical doc: add a design doc for hash function transition
2017-10-11 14:52:22 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
cc72385fe3 for-each-ref: let upstream/push optionally report the remote name
There are times when e.g. scripts want to know not only the name of the
upstream branch on the remote repository, but also the name of the
remote.

This patch offers the new suffix :remotename for the upstream and for
the push atoms, allowing to show exactly that. Example:

	$ cat .git/config
	...
	[remote "origin"]
		url = https://where.do.we.come/from
		fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remote/origin/*
	[remote "hello-world"]
		url = https://hello.world/git
		fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remote/origin/*
		pushURL = hello.world:git
		push = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
	[branch "master"]
		remote = origin
		pushRemote = hello-world
	...

	$ git for-each-ref \
	  --format='%(upstream) %(upstream:remotename) %(push:remotename)' \
	  refs/heads/master
	refs/remotes/origin/master origin hello-world

The implementation chooses *not* to DWIM the push remote if no explicit
push remote was configured; The reason is that it is possible to DWIM this
by using

	%(if)%(push:remotename)%(then)
		%(push:remotename)
	%(else)
		%(upstream:remotename)
	%(end)

while it would be impossible to "un-DWIM" the information in case the
caller is really only interested in explicit push remotes.

While `:remote` would be shorter, it would also be a bit more ambiguous,
and it would also shut the door e.g. for `:remoteref` (which would
obviously refer to the corresponding ref in the remote repository).

Note: the dashless, non-CamelCased form `:remotename` follows the
example of the `:trackshort` example.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-10 13:41:35 +09:00
Damien Marié
f805a00a39 run-command: add hint when a hook is ignored
When an hook is present but the file is not set as executable then git will
ignore the hook.
For now this is silent which can be confusing.

This commit adds this warning to improve the situation:

  hint: The 'pre-commit' hook was ignored because it's not set as executable.
  hint: You can disable this warning with `git config advice.ignoredHook false`

To allow the old use-case of enabling/disabling hooks via the executable flag a
new setting is introduced: advice.ignoredHook.

Signed-off-by: Damien Marié <damien@dam.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-10 13:21:46 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
d35688db19 Prepare for -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-07 16:29:03 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
da15b78e52 Merge branch 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto'
Fix regression of "git add -p" for users with "color.ui = always"
in their configuration, by merging the topic below and adjusting it
for the 'master' front.

* jk/ui-color-always-to-auto:
  t7301: use test_terminal to check color
  t4015: use --color with --color-moved
  color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
  provide --color option for all ref-filter users
  t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
  t3203: drop "always" color test
  t6006: drop "always" color config tests
  t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
  t7508: use test_terminal for color output
  t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
  t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
  test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
2017-10-07 16:27:55 +09:00
Todd Zullinger
204f6d6987 api-argv-array.txt: remove broken link to string-list API
In 4f665f2cf3 (string-list.h: move documentation from Documentation/api/
into header, 2017-09-26) the string-list API documentation was moved to
string-list.h.  The argv-array API documentation may follow a similar
course in the future.  Until then, prevent the broken link from making
it to the end-user documentation.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-06 21:16:03 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
217f2767cb Git 2.15-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-05 13:49:07 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
aebd23506e Merge branch 'jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint' into jk/ui-color-always-to-auto
* jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint:
  color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
  provide --color option for all ref-filter users
  t3205: use --color instead of color.branch=always
  t3203: drop "always" color test
  t6006: drop "always" color config tests
  t7502: use diff.noprefix for --verbose test
  t7508: use test_terminal for color output
  t3701: use test-terminal to collect color output
  t4015: prefer --color to -c color.diff=always
  test-terminal: set TERM=vt100
2017-10-04 12:04:47 +09:00
Jeff King
6be4595edb color: make "always" the same as "auto" in config
It can be handy to use `--color=always` (or it's synonym
`--color`) on the command-line to convince a command to
produce color even if it's stdout isn't going to the
terminal or a pager.

What's less clear is whether it makes sense to set config
variables like color.ui to `always`. For a one-shot like:

  git -c color.ui=always ...

it's potentially useful (especially if the command doesn't
directly support the `--color` option). But setting `always`
in your on-disk config is much muddier, as you may be
surprised when piped commands generate colors (and send them
to whatever is consuming the pipe downstream).

Some people have done this anyway, because:

  1. The documentation for color.ui makes it sound like
     using `always` is a good idea, when you almost
     certainly want `auto`.

  2. Traditionally not every command (and especially not
     plumbing) respected color.ui in the first place. So
     the confusion came up less frequently than it might
     have.

The situation changed in 136c8c8b8f (color: check color.ui
in git_default_config(), 2017-07-13), which negated point
(2): now scripts using only plumbing commands (like
add-interactive) are broken by this setting.

That commit was fixing real issues (e.g., by making
`color.ui=never` work, since `auto` is the default), so we
don't want to just revert it.  We could turn `always` into a
noop in plumbing commands, but that creates a hard-to-explain
inconsistency between the plumbing and other commands.

Instead, let's just turn `always` into `auto` for all config.
This does break the "one-shot" config shown above, but again,
we're probably better to have simple and consistent rules than
to try to special-case command-line config.

There is one place where `always` should retain its meaning:
on the command line, `--color=always` should continue to be
the same as `--color`, overriding any isatty checks. Since the
command-line parser also depends on git_config_colorbool(), we
can use the existence of the "var" string to deterine whether
we are serving the command-line or the config.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04 11:35:30 +09:00
Jeff King
0c88bf5050 provide --color option for all ref-filter users
When ref-filter learned about want_color() in 11b087adfd
(ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colors,
2017-07-13), it became useful to be able to turn colors off
and on for specific commands. For git-branch, you can do so
with --color/--no-color.

But for git-for-each-ref and git-tag, the other users of
ref-filter, you have no option except to tweak the
"color.ui" config setting. Let's give both of these commands
the usual color command-line options.

This is a bit more obvious as a method for overriding the
config. And it also prepares us for the behavior of "always"
changing (so that we are still left with a way of forcing
color when our output goes to a non-terminal).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-04 11:35:29 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8fb8a945bc The twelfth batch for 2.15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-03 15:50:31 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8f2733a04b Merge branch 'ad/doc-markup-fix'
Docfix.

* ad/doc-markup-fix:
  doc: correct command formatting
2017-10-03 15:42:50 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
9124cca61f Merge branch 'mr/doc-negative-pathspec'
Doc updates.

* mr/doc-negative-pathspec:
  docs: improve discoverability of exclude pathspec
2017-10-03 15:42:50 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
d4e93836a6 Merge branch 'jk/no-optional-locks'
Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
operations in the same repository.  The new "--no-optional-locks"
option can be passed to Git to disable them.

* jk/no-optional-locks:
  git: add --no-optional-locks option
2017-10-03 15:42:49 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
d9ec072a29 Merge branch 'hn/string-list-doc'
Doc reorg.

* hn/string-list-doc:
  string-list.h: move documentation from Documentation/api/ into header
2017-10-03 15:42:48 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
3b48045c6c Merge branch 'sd/branch-copy'
"git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an
existing one.

* sd/branch-copy:
  branch: fix "copy" to never touch HEAD
  branch: add a --copy (-c) option to go with --move (-m)
  branch: add test for -m renaming multiple config sections
  config: create a function to format section headers
2017-10-03 15:42:48 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
5f3108b7b6 Merge branch 'js/rebase-i-final'
The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from
the shell script to C.

* js/rebase-i-final:
  rebase -i: rearrange fixup/squash lines using the rebase--helper
  t3415: test fixup with wrapped oneline
  rebase -i: skip unnecessary picks using the rebase--helper
  rebase -i: check for missing commits in the rebase--helper
  t3404: relax rebase.missingCommitsCheck tests
  rebase -i: also expand/collapse the SHA-1s via the rebase--helper
  rebase -i: do not invent onelines when expanding/collapsing SHA-1s
  rebase -i: remove useless indentation
  rebase -i: generate the script via rebase--helper
  t3415: verify that an empty instructionFormat is handled as before
2017-10-03 15:42:47 +09:00
Taylor Blau
67a20a0010 ref-filter.c: use trailer_opts to format trailers
Fill trailer_opts with "unfold" and "only" to match the sub-arguments
given to the "%(trailers)" atom. Then, let's use the filled trailer_opts
instance with 'format_trailers_from_commit' in order to format trailers
in the desired manner.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-02 21:15:30 +09:00
Taylor Blau
ced1f08b7b doc: use "<literal>"-style quoting for literal strings
"'<string>'"-style quoting is not appropriate when quoting literal
strings in the "Documentation/" subtree.

In preparation for adding additional information to this section of
git-for-each-ref(1)'s documentation, update them to use "`<literal>`"
instead.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-02 15:35:49 +09:00
Taylor Blau
85cd4bb319 doc: 'trailers' is the preferred way to format trailers
The documentation makes reference to 'contents:trailers' as an example
to dig the trailers out of a commit. 'trailers' is an unmentioned
alternative, which is treated as an alias of 'contents:trailers'.

Since 'trailers' is easier to type, prefer that as the designated way to
dig out trailers information.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-02 15:34:43 +09:00
Ben Peart
780494b1f5 fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension.
This includes the core.fsmonitor setting, the fsmonitor integration hook,
and the fsmonitor index extension.

Also add documentation for the new fsmonitor options to ls-files and
update-index.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-01 17:23:05 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
ea220ee40c The eleventh batch for 2.15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-29 11:25:46 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
d5eec90970 Merge branch 'sb/doc-config-submodule-update'
* sb/doc-config-submodule-update:
  Documentation/config: clarify the meaning of submodule.<name>.update
2017-09-29 11:23:44 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
d4d262d19e Merge branch 'sb/merge-commit-msg-hook'
As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the
commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that
cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't.
* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook (2017-09-22) 1 commit
(merged to 'next' on 2017-09-25 at 096e0502a8)
+ Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook

Add documentation for a topic that has recently graduated to the
'master' branch.

* sb/merge-commit-msg-hook:
  Documentation/githooks: mention merge in commit-msg hook
2017-09-29 11:23:42 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8c1bc7c244 Merge branch 'mk/describe-match-with-all'
"git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with
the "--all" option.

* mk/describe-match-with-all:
  describe: teach --match to handle branches and remotes
2017-09-29 11:23:41 +09:00
Adam Dinwoodie
5e633326e4 doc: correct command formatting
Leaving spaces around the `-delimeters for commands means asciidoc fails
to parse them as the start of a literal string.  Remove an extraneous
space that is causing a literal to not be formatted as such.

Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Acked-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-29 10:54:38 +09:00
Jonathan Nieder
752414ae43 technical doc: add a design doc for hash function transition
This document describes what a transition to a new hash function for
Git would look like.  Add it to Documentation/technical/ as the plan
of record so that future changes can be recorded as patches.

Also-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Also-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Also-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-28 19:37:52 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
20fed7cad4 The tenth batch for 2.15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-28 14:51:45 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
4da3e234f5 Merge branch 'jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix'
The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly
written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.

* jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix:
  merge-strategies: avoid implying that "-s theirs" exists
2017-09-28 14:47:57 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
47d26f0a66 Merge branch 'ks/doc-use-camelcase-for-config-name'
Doc update.

* ks/doc-use-camelcase-for-config-name:
  doc: camelCase the config variables to improve readability
2017-09-28 14:47:56 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
1ba75ffd01 Merge branch 'jk/doc-read-tree-table-asciidoctor-fix'
A docfix.

* jk/doc-read-tree-table-asciidoctor-fix:
  doc: put literal block delimiter around table
2017-09-28 14:47:55 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
386dd12b55 Merge branch 'ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger'
"git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without
the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be
created.  This has been corrected.

* ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger:
  filter-branch: use hash-object instead of mktag
  filter-branch: stash away ref map in a branch
  filter-branch: preserve and restore $GIT_AUTHOR_* and $GIT_COMMITTER_*
  filter-branch: reset $GIT_* before cleaning up
2017-09-28 14:47:52 +09:00
Jeff King
27344d6a6c git: add --no-optional-locks option
Some tools like IDEs or fancy editors may periodically run
commands like "git status" in the background to keep track
of the state of the repository. Some of these commands may
refresh the index and write out the result in an
opportunistic way: if they can get the index lock, then they
update the on-disk index with any updates they find. And if
not, then their in-core refresh is lost and just has to be
recomputed by the next caller.

But taking the index lock may conflict with other operations
in the repository. Especially ones that the user is doing
themselves, which _aren't_ opportunistic. In other words,
"git status" knows how to back off when somebody else is
holding the lock, but other commands don't know that status
would be happy to drop the lock if somebody else wanted it.

There are a couple possible solutions:

  1. Have some kind of "pseudo-lock" that allows other
     commands to tell status that they want the lock.

     This is likely to be complicated and error-prone to
     implement (and maybe even impossible with just
     dotlocks to work from, as it requires some
     inter-process communication).

  2. Avoid background runs of commands like "git status"
     that want to do opportunistic updates, preferring
     instead plumbing like diff-files, etc.

     This is awkward for a couple of reasons. One is that
     "status --porcelain" reports a lot more about the
     repository state than is available from individual
     plumbing commands. And two is that we actually _do_
     want to see the refreshed index. We just don't want to
     take a lock or write out the result. Whereas commands
     like diff-files expect us to refresh the index
     separately and write it to disk so that they can depend
     on the result. But that write is exactly what we're
     trying to avoid.

  3. Ask "status" not to lock or write the index.

     This is easy to implement. The big downside is that any
     work done in refreshing the index for such a call is
     lost when the process exits. So a background process
     may end up re-hashing a changed file multiple times
     until the user runs a command that does an index
     refresh themselves.

This patch implements the option 3. The idea (and the test)
is largely stolen from a Git for Windows patch by Johannes
Schindelin, 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not* to lock the
index and update it, 2016-08-12). The twist here is that
instead of making this an option to "git status", it becomes
a "git" option and matching environment variable.

The reason there is two-fold:

  1. An environment variable is carried through to
     sub-processes. And whether an invocation is a
     background process or not should apply to the whole
     process tree. So you could do "git --no-optional-locks
     foo", and if "foo" is a script or alias that calls
     "status", you'll still get the effect.

  2. There may be other programs that want the same
     treatment.

     I've punted here on finding more callers to convert,
     since "status" is the obvious one to call as a repeated
     background job. But "git diff"'s opportunistic refresh
     of the index may be a good candidate.

The test is taken from 67e5ce7f63, and it's worth repeating
Johannes's explanation:

  Note that the regression test added in this commit does
  not *really* verify that no index.lock file was written;
  that test is not possible in a portable way. Instead, we
  verify that .git/index is rewritten *only* when `git
  status` is run without `--no-optional-locks`.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-27 16:11:01 +09:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys
4f665f2cf3 string-list.h: move documentation from Documentation/api/ into header
This mirrors commit 'bdfdaa497 ("strbuf.h: integrate api-strbuf.txt
documentation, 2015-01-16") which did the same for strbuf.h:

* API documentation uses /** */ to set it apart from other comments.

* Function names were stripped from the comments.

* Ordering of the header was adjusted to follow the one from the text
  file.

* Edited some existing comments from string-list.h for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-27 09:14:34 +09:00