We explained <rev>~<n> as <n>th generation grand-parent, but a reader got
confused by the "grand-" part when <n> is 1.
Reword it with "ancestor"; with the "generation" and "following only the
first parents" around there, what we try to describe should be clear
enough now.
Noticed-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Helped-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Helped-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Variable names must start with an alphabetic character, regexp config key
matching has its limits, sentence grammar.
Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default output from "fsck" is often overwhelmed by informational
message on dangling objects, especially if you do not repack often, and a
real error can easily be buried.
Add "--no-dangling" option to omit them, and update the user manual to
demonstrate its use.
Based on a patch by Clemens Buchacher, but reverted the part to change
the default to --no-dangling, which is unsuitable for the first patch.
The usual three-step procedure to break the backward compatibility over
time needs to happen on top of this, if we were to go in that direction.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Text between two '*' is emphasized in AsciiDoc and makes explanations in
rev-list-options.txt on glob-related options very confusing, as the
rendered text would be missing two asterisks and the text between them
would be emphasized instead.
Use '{asterisk}' where needed to make them show up as asterisks in the
rendered text.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.3
CodingGuidelines: do not use 'which' in shell scripts
CodingGuidelines: Add a note about spaces after redirection
post-receive-email: match up $LOGBEGIN..$LOGEND pairs correctly
post-receive-email: remove unused variable
During the code review of a recent patch, it was noted that shell scripts
must not use 'which $cmd' to check the availability of the command $cmd.
The output of the command is not machine parseable and its exit code is
not reliable across platforms.
It is better to use 'type' to accomplish this task.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During code review of some patches, it was noted that redirection operators
should have space before, but no space after them.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option was already shown in -h output, so it should be documented
in the man page.
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Suggested-by: David A. Greene <greened@obbligato.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/maint-bundle-long-subject:
t5704: match tests to modern style
strbuf: improve strbuf_get*line documentation
bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits
bundle: put strbuf_readline_fd in strbuf.c with adjustments
* fc/push-prune:
push: add '--prune' option
remote: refactor code into alloc_delete_ref()
remote: reorganize check_pattern_match()
remote: use a local variable in match_push_refs()
Conflicts:
builtin/push.c
* maint:
Document accumulated fixes since 1.7.9.2
Git 1.7.8.5
grep -P: Fix matching ^ and $
am: don't infloop for an empty input file
rebase -m: only call "notes copy" when rewritten exists and is non-empty
git-p4: remove bash-ism in t9800
git-p4: remove bash-ism in t9809
git-p4: fix submit regression with clientSpec and subdir clone
git-p4: set useClientSpec variable on initial clone
Makefile: add thread-utils.h to LIB_H
Conflicts:
RelNotes
t/t9809-git-p4-client-view.sh
If --use-client-spec was given, set the matching configuration
variable. This is necessary to ensure that future submits
work properly.
The alternatives of requiring the user to set it, or providing
a command-line option on every submit, are error prone.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Long options can be negated by adding no- right after the leading
two dashes. This is useful e.g. to override options set by aliases.
For options that are defined to start with no- already, this looks
a bit funny. Allow such options to also be negated by removing the
prefix.
The following thirteen options are affected:
apply --no-add
bisect--helper --no-checkout
checkout-index --no-create
clone --no-checkout --no-hardlinks
commit --no-verify --no-post-rewrite
format-patch --no-binary
hash-object --no-filters
read-tree --no-sparse-checkout
revert --no-commit
show-branch --no-name
update-ref --no-deref
The following five are NOT affected because they are defined with
PARSE_OPT_NONEG or the non-negated version is defined as well:
branch --no-merged
format-patch --no-stat --no-numbered
update-index --no-assume-unchanged --no-skip-worktree
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify strbuf_getline() documentation, and add the missing documentation
for strbuf_getwholeline() and strbuf_getwholeline_fd().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ld/git-p4-expanded-keywords:
: Teach git-p4 to unexpand $RCS$-like keywords that are embedded in
: tracked contents in order to reduce unnecessary merge conflicts.
git-p4: add initial support for RCS keywords
* jk/config-include:
: An assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named file
: to be included in-place when Git looks up configuration variables.
config: add include directive
config: eliminate config_exclusive_filename
config: stop using config_exclusive_filename
config: provide a version of git_config with more options
config: teach git_config_rename_section a file argument
config: teach git_config_set_multivar_in_file a default path
config: copy the return value of prefix_filename
t1300: add missing &&-chaining
docs/api-config: minor clarifications
docs: add a basic description of the config API
RCS keywords cause problems for git-p4 as perforce always
expands them (if +k is set) and so when applying the patch,
git reports that the files have been modified by both sides,
when in fact they haven't.
This change means that when git-p4 detects a problem applying
a patch, it will check to see if keyword expansion could be
the culprit. If it is, it strips the keywords in the p4
repository so that they match what git is expecting. It then
has another go at applying the patch.
This behaviour is enabled with a new git-p4 configuration
option and is off by default.
Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was part of the "branch description" feature in the larger
"help people communicate better during their pull based workflow"
topic, but was never documented.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pushing groups of refs to a remote, there is no simple way to remove
old refs that still exist at the remote that is no longer updated from us.
This will allow us to remove such refs from the remote.
With this change, running this command
$ git push --prune remote refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/laptop/*
removes refs/remotes/laptop/foo from the remote if we do not have branch
"foo" locally anymore.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --ff-only option was not described next to --ff and --no-ff options in
"git merge" documentation, even though these three are logically together,
describing how to choose one of three possibilities.
Also the description for '--ff' and '--no-ff' discussed what '--ff' means,
and mentioned '--no-ff' as if it were a side-note to '--ff'.
Make them into three top-level entries and list them together. This way,
it would be more clear that the user can choose one from these three.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The canonical order of command line arguments is always to have dashed
commands before other parameters, but the "git remote set-branches"
subcommand was described to take "name" before an optional "--add".
Signed-off-by: Philip Jägenstedt <philip@foolip.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can be useful to split your ~/.gitconfig across multiple
files. For example, you might have a "main" file which is
used on many machines, but a small set of per-machine
tweaks. Or you may want to make some of your config public
(e.g., clever aliases) while keeping other data back (e.g.,
your name or other identifying information). Or you may want
to include a number of config options in some subset of your
repos without copying and pasting (e.g., you want to
reference them from the .git/config of participating repos).
This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
It looks like:
[include]
path = /path/to/file
This is syntactically backwards-compatible with existing git
config parsers (i.e., they will see it as another config
entry and ignore it unless you are looking up include.path).
The implementation provides a "git_config_include" callback
which wraps regular config callbacks. Callers can pass it to
git_config_from_file, and it will transparently follow any
include directives, passing all of the discovered options to
the real callback.
Include directives are turned on automatically for "regular"
git config parsing. This includes calls to git_config, as
well as calls to the "git config" program that do not
specify a single file (e.g., using "-f", "--global", etc).
They are not turned on in other cases, including:
1. Parsing of other config-like files, like .gitmodules.
There isn't a real need, and I'd rather be conservative
and avoid unnecessary incompatibility or confusion.
2. Reading single files via "git config". This is for two
reasons:
a. backwards compatibility with scripts looking at
config-like files.
b. inspection of a specific file probably means you
care about just what's in that file, not a general
lookup for "do we have this value anywhere at
all". If that is not the case, the caller can
always specify "--includes".
3. Writing files via "git config"; we want to treat
include.* variables as literal items to be copied (or
modified), and not expand them. So "git config
--unset-all foo.bar" would operate _only_ on
.git/config, not any of its included files (just as it
also does not operate on ~/.gitconfig).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
