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A future caller will want to be able to perform a reachability traversal which terminates when visiting an object found in a kept pack. The closest existing option is '--honor-pack-keep', but this isn't quite what we want. Instead of halting the traversal midway through, a full traversal is always performed, and the results are only trimmed afterwords. Besides needing to introduce a new flag (since culling results post-facto can be different than halting the traversal as it's happening), there is an additional wrinkle handling the distinction in-core and on-disk kept packs. That is: what kinds of kept pack should stop the traversal? Introduce '--no-kept-objects[=<on-disk|in-core>]' to specify which kinds of kept packs, if any, should stop a traversal. This can be useful for callers that want to perform a reachability analysis, but want to leave certain packs alone (for e.g., when doing a geometric repack that has some "large" packs which are kept in-core that it wants to leave alone). Note that this option is not guaranteed to produce exactly the set of objects that aren't in kept packs, since it's possible the traversal order may end up in a situation where a non-kept ancestor was "cut off" by a kept object (at which point we would stop traversing). But, we don't care about absolute correctness here, since this will eventually be used as a purely additive guide in an upcoming new repack mode. Explicitly avoid documenting this new flag, since it is only used internally. In theory we could avoid even adding it rev-list, but being able to spell this option out on the command-line makes some special cases easier to test without promising to keep it behaving consistently forever. Those tricky cases are exercised in t6114. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-<commandname>.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://lore.kernel.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks