As per Wikipedia, "In current technical usage, for one to state that a
feature is deprecated is merely a recommendation against using it." It
is thus contradictory to claim that something is not "officially
deprecated" and then to immediately state that we are both discouraging
its use and pointing people elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We recently regressed our rendering with Asciidoctor of "literal"
elements in our manpages, i.e, stuff we have placed within `backticks`
in order to render as monospace. In particular, we lost the bold
rendering of such literal text.
The culprit is f6461b82b9 ("Documentation: fix build with Asciidoctor 2",
2019-09-15), where we switched from DocBook 4.5 to DocBook 5 with
Asciidoctor. As part of the switch, we started using the namespaced
DocBook XSLT stylesheets rather than the non-namespaced ones. (See
f6461b82b9 for more details on why we changed to the namespaced ones.)
The bold literals are implemented as an XSLT snippet <xsl:template
match="literal">...</xsl:template>. Now that we use namespaces, this
doesn't pick up our literals like it used to.
Match for "d:literal" in addition to just "literal", after defining the
d namespace. ("d" is what
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl-ns/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
uses.) Note that we need to keep matching without the namespace for
AsciiDoc.
This boldness was introduced by 5121a6d993 ("Documentation: option to
render literal text as bold for manpages", 2009-03-27) and made the
default in 5945717009 ("Documentation: bold literals in man",
2016-05-31).
One reason this was not caught in review is that our doc-diff tool diffs
without any boldness, i.e., it "only" compares text. As pointed out by
Peff in review of this patch, one can use `MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1
./doc-diff <...>`
This has been optically tested with AsciiDoc 8.6.10, Asciidoctor 1.5.5
and Asciidoctor 2.0.10. I've also verified that doc-diff produces the
empty output for all three programs, as expected, and that with the
MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING trick, AsciiDoc yields no diff, whereas with
Asciidoctor, we get bold literals, just like we want.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Within diff_no_index(), we have the following:
revs->diffopt.flags.exit_with_status = 1;
...
/*
* The return code for --no-index imitates diff(1):
* 0 = no changes, 1 = changes, else error
*/
return diff_result_code(&revs->diffopt, 0);
Which means when `git diff` is run in `--no-index` mode, `--exit-code`
is implied. However, the documentation for this is missing in
git-diff.txt.
Add a note about how `--exit-code` is implied in the `--no-index`
documentation to cover this documentation blindspot.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, in the event that a submodule's upstream URL changes, users
have to manually alter the URL in the .gitmodules file then run
`git submodule sync`. Let's make that process easier.
Teach submodule the set-url subcommand which will automatically change
the `submodule.$name.url` property in the .gitmodules file and then run
`git submodule sync` to complete the process.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In many projects the number of contributors is low enough that users know
each other and the full email address doesn't need to be displayed.
Displaying only the author's username saves a lot of columns on the screen.
Existing 'e/E' (as in "%ae" and "%aE") placeholders would show the
author's address as "prarit@redhat.com", which would waste columns to show
the same domain-part for all contributors when used in a project internal
to redhat. Introduce 'l/L' placeholders that strip '@' and domain part from
the e-mail address.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The guide "gitsubmodules" was added in d480345 (submodules: overhaul
documentation, 2017-06-22), but it was not added to
command-list.txt when commit 1b81d8c (help: use command-list.txt
for the source of guides, 2018-05-20) taught "git help" to obtain the
guide list from this file.
Add it now, and capitalize the first word of the description of
gitsubmodules, as was done in 1b81d8c (help: use command-list.txt
for the source of guides, 2018-05-20) for the other guides.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The hotfix application example uses `git merge --no-commit` to apply
temporary changes to the working tree during a bisect operation. In some
situations this can be a fast-forward and `merge` will apply the hotfix
branch's commits regardless of `--no-commit` (as documented in the `git
merge` manual).
In the pathological case this will make a `git bisect run` invocation
loop indefinitely between the first bisect step and the fast-forwarded
post-merge HEAD.
Add `--no-ff` to the merge command to avoid this issue.
Signed-off-by: Mihail Atanassov <m.atanassov92@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an option to print the object format used for input, output, or
storage. This allows shell scripts to discover the hash algorithm in
use.
Since the transition plan allows for multiple input algorithms, document
that we may provide multiple results for input, and the format that the
results may take. While we don't support this now, documenting it early
means that script authors can future-proof their scripts for when we do.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove empty and redundant documentation files from the
Documentation/technical/ directory.
The empty doc files included only TODO messages with no documentation for
years. Instead an approach is being taken to keep all doc beside the code
in the relevant header files.
Having empty doc files is confusing and disappointing to anybody looking
for information, besides having the documentation in header files makes it
easier for developers to find the information they are looking for.
Some of the content which could have gone here already exists elsewhere:
- api-object-access.txt -> sha1-file.c and object.h have some details.
- api-quote.txt -> quote.h has some details.
- api-xdiff-interface.txt -> xdiff-interface.h has some details.
- api-grep.txt -> grep.h does not have enough documentation at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-config.txt into
config.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information
beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file, also
documentation/technical/api-config.txt is removed because the information
it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and
syncronized with the documentation in config.h
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The atomic push over smart HTTP transport did not work, which has
been corrected.
* bc/smart-http-atomic-push:
remote-curl: pass on atomic capability to remote side
If a directory in $GIT_DIR is overridden when $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set,
then usually all paths within that directory are overridden as well.
There are a couple of exceptions, though, and two of them, namely
'refs/rewritten' and 'logs/HEAD' are not mentioned in
'gitrepository-layout'. Document them as well.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the --[no-]progress option to git multi-pack-index.
Pass the MIDX_PROGRESS flag to the subcommand functions
when progress should be displayed by multi-pack-index.
The progress feature was added to 'verify' in 144d703
("multi-pack-index: report progress during 'verify'", 2018-09-13)
but some subcommands were not updated to display progress, and
the ability to opt-out was overlooked.
Signed-off-by: William Baker <William.Baker@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing wording gives an impression that it only gives the
contents of the $GIT_DIR/rebase-apply/patch file, i.e. the patch
proper, but the option actually emits the entire e-mail message
being processed (iow, one of the output files from "git mailsplit").
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve the command description, including paragraph spacing.
Git URLs can accept bundle files for fetch, pull and clone, include
in that section. Include git clone in the bundle usage description.
Correct the quoting of <git-rev-list-args>.
Detail the <git-rev-list-args> options for cloning a complete repo.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git format-patch -o <outdir>" did an equivalent of "mkdir <outdir>"
not "mkdir -p <outdir>", which is being corrected.
* bw/format-patch-o-create-leading-dirs:
format-patch: create leading components of output directory
The builtin/notes.c::copy() function is prepared to handle either
one or two arguments given from the command line; when one argument
is given, to-obj defaults to HEAD.
bbb1b8a3 ("notes: check number of parameters to "git notes copy"",
2010-06-28) tried to make sure "git notes copy" (with *no* other
argument) does not dereference NULL by checking the number of
parameters, but it incorrectly insisted that we need two arguments,
instead of either one or two. This disabled the defaulting to-obj
to HEAD.
Correct it.
Signed-off-by: Doan Tran Cong Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pushing more than one reference with the --atomic option, the
server is supposed to perform a single atomic transaction to update the
references, leaving them either all to succeed or all to fail. This
works fine when pushing locally or over SSH, but when pushing over HTTP,
we fail to pass the atomic capability to the remote side. In fact, we
have not reported this capability to any remote helpers during the life
of the feature.
Now normally, things happen to work nevertheless, since we actually
check for most types of failures, such as non-fast-forward updates, on
the client side, and just abort the entire attempt. However, if the
server side reports a problem, such as the inability to lock a ref, the
transaction isn't atomic, because we haven't passed the appropriate
capability over and the remote side has no way of knowing that we wanted
atomic behavior.
Fix this by passing the option from the transport code through to remote
helpers, and from the HTTP remote helper down to send-pack. With this
change, we can detect if the server side rejects the push and report
back appropriately. Note the difference in the messages: the remote
side reports "atomic transaction failed", while our own checking rejects
pushes with the message "atomic push failed".
Document the atomic option in the remote helper documentation, so other
implementers can implement it if they like.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before, when format-patch generated a cover letter, only the body would
be populated with a branch's description while the subject would be
populated with placeholder text. However, users may want to have the
subject of their cover letter automatically populated in the same way.
Teach format-patch to accept the `--cover-from-description` option and
corresponding `format.coverFromDescription` config, allowing users to
populate different parts of the cover letter (including the subject
now).
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The trace2 output, when sending them to files in a designated
directory, can populate the directory with too many files; a
mechanism is introduced to set the maximum number of files and
discard further logs when the maximum is reached.
* js/trace2-cap-max-output-files:
trace2: write discard message to sentinel files
trace2: discard new traces if target directory has too many files
docs: clarify trace2 version invariants
docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-config
Updates to fast-import/export.
* en/fast-imexport-nested-tags:
fast-export: handle nested tags
t9350: add tests for tags of things other than a commit
fast-export: allow user to request tags be marked with --mark-tags
fast-export: add support for --import-marks-if-exists
fast-import: add support for new 'alias' command
fast-import: allow tags to be identified by mark labels
fast-import: fix handling of deleted tags
fast-export: fix exporting a tag and nothing else
"git fetch --jobs=<n>" allowed <n> parallel jobs when fetching
submodules, but this did not apply to "git fetch --multiple" that
fetches from multiple remote repositories. It now does.
* js/fetch-jobs:
fetch: let --jobs=<n> parallelize --multiple, too
'git format-patch -o <outdir>' did an equivalent of 'mkdir <outdir>'
not 'mkdir -p <outdir>', which is being corrected.
Avoid the usage of 'adjust_shared_perm' on the leading directories which
may have security implications. Achieved by temporarily disabling of
'config.sharedRepository' like 'git init' does.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Existing documentation on object walks seems to be primarily intended
as a reference for those already familiar with the procedure. This
tutorial attempts to give an entry-level guide to a couple of bare-bones
object walks so that new Git contributors can learn the concepts
without having to wade through options parsing or special casing.
The target audience is a Git contributor who is just getting started
with the concept of object walking. The goal is to prepare this
contributor to be able to understand and modify existing commands which
perform revision walks more easily, although it will also prepare
contributors to create new commands which perform walks.
The tutorial covers a basic overview of the structs involved during
object walk, setting up a basic commit walk, setting up a basic
all-object walk, and adding some configuration changes to both walk
types. It intentionally does not cover how to create new commands or
search for options from the command line or gitconfigs.
There is an associated patchset at
https://github.com/nasamuffin/git/tree/revwalk that contains a reference
implementation of the code generated by this tutorial.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few simplification and bugfixes to PCRE interface.
* ab/pcre-jit-fixes:
grep: under --debug, show whether PCRE JIT is enabled
grep: do not enter PCRE2_UTF mode on fixed matching
grep: stess test PCRE v2 on invalid UTF-8 data
grep: create a "is_fixed" member in "grep_pat"
grep: consistently use "p->fixed" in compile_regexp()
grep: stop using a custom JIT stack with PCRE v1
grep: stop "using" a custom JIT stack with PCRE v2
grep: remove overly paranoid BUG(...) code
grep: use PCRE v2 for optimized fixed-string search
grep: remove the kwset optimization
grep: drop support for \0 in --fixed-strings <pattern>
grep: make the behavior for NUL-byte in patterns sane
grep tests: move binary pattern tests into their own file
grep tests: move "grep binary" alongside the rest
grep: inline the return value of a function call used only once
t4210: skip more command-line encoding tests on MinGW
grep: don't use PCRE2?_UTF8 with "log --encoding=<non-utf8>"
log tests: test regex backends in "--encode=<enc>" tests
"git clean" fixes.
* en/clean-nested-with-ignored:
dir: special case check for the possibility that pathspec is NULL
clean: fix theoretical path corruption
clean: rewrap overly long line
clean: avoid removing untracked files in a nested git repository
clean: disambiguate the definition of -d
git-clean.txt: do not claim we will delete files with -n/--dry-run
dir: add commentary explaining match_pathspec_item's return value
dir: if our pathspec might match files under a dir, recurse into it
dir: make the DO_MATCH_SUBMODULE code reusable for a non-submodule case
dir: also check directories for matching pathspecs
dir: fix off-by-one error in match_pathspec_item
dir: fix typo in comment
t7300: add testcases showing failure to clean specified pathspecs
The markup used in user-manual has been updated to work better with
asciidoctor.
* ma/user-manual-markup-update:
user-manual.txt: render ASCII art correctly under Asciidoctor
asciidoctor-extensions.rb: handle "book" doctype in linkgit
user-manual.txt: change header notation
user-manual.txt: add missing section label
Start using DocBook 5 (instead of DocBook 4.5) as Asciidoctor 2.0
no longer works with the older one.
* bc/doc-use-docbook-5:
Documentation: fix build with Asciidoctor 2
Update support for Asciidoctor documentation toolchain.
* ma/asciidoctor-refmiscinfo:
doc-diff: replace --cut-header-footer with --cut-footer
asciidoctor-extensions: provide `<refmiscinfo/>`
Doc/Makefile: give mansource/-version/-manual attributes
