shell: Rewrite documentation and improve error message
Update the documentation of 'git shell' to mention the interactive
mode and COMMAND_DIR. Also provide a hint when interactive mode is not
available in the shell.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Brockman <gdb@MIT.EDU> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This provides a mechanism for the server to expose custom
functionality to clients. My particular use case is that I would like
a way of discovering all repositories available for cloning. A
client that clones via
git clone user@example.com
can invoke a command by
ssh user@example.com $command
Signed-off-by: Greg Brockman <gdb@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
split_cmdline: Allow caller to access error string
This allows the caller to add its own error message to that returned
by split_cmdline. Thus error output following a failed split_cmdline
can be of the form
fatal: Bad alias.test string: cmdline ends with \
rather than
error: cmdline ends with \
fatal: Bad alias.test string
Signed-off-by: Greg Brockman <gdb@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These two tests weren't about how "git reflog show <branch>" exits when
there is no reflog, but were about "checkout" and "branch" create or not
create reflog when creating a new <branch>. Update the tests to check
what we are interested in, using "git rev-parse --verify".
Also lose tests based on "test -f .git/logs/refs/heads/<branch>" from
nearby, to avoid exposing this particular implementation detail
unnecessarily.
t/README: correct an exception when breaking a && chain in tests
The correct advice should have been taken from c289c31 (t/t7006: ignore
return status of shell's unset builtin, 2010-06-02). A real-life issue
we experienced was with "unset", not with "export" (exporting an
unset variable may have similar portability issues, though).
t/{t5541,lib-httpd}: replace problematic '!()' notation with test_must_fail
The '!()' notation is interpreted as a pattern-list on Ksh. The Ksh man
page describe it as follows:
!(pattern-list)
Matches anything except one of the given patterns.
Ksh performs a file glob using the pattern-list and then tries to execute
the first file in the list. If a space is added between the '!' and the
open parens, then Ksh will not interpret it as a pattern list, but in this
case, it is preferred to use test_must_fail, so lets do so.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/t3700: convert two uses of negation operator '!' to use test_must_fail
These two lines use the negation '!' operator to negate the result of a
simple command. Since these commands do not contain any pipes or other
complexities, the test_must_fail function can be used and is preferred
since it will additionally detect termination due to a signal.
This was noticed because the second use of '!' does not include a space
between the '!' and the opening parens. Ksh interprets this as follows:
!(pattern-list)
Matches anything except one of the given patterns.
Ksh performs a file glob using the pattern-list and then tries to execute
the first file in the list. If a space is added between the '!' and the
open parens, then Ksh will not interpret it as a pattern list, but in this
case, it is preferred to use test_must_fail, so lets do so.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some have found the wording of the description to be somewhat ambiguous
with respect to when it is desirable to use test_must_fail instead of
"! <git-command>". Tweak the wording somewhat to hopefully clarify that
it is _because_ test_must_fail can detect segmentation fault that it is
desirable to use it instead of "! <git-command>".
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The correct responses to a D and a T line in .git/objects/info/packs
are the same, so combine their case arms. In both cases we already
‘goto’ out of the switch so while at it, remove a redundant ‘break’
to avoid yet another line of code.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder <at> gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All the git add options were listed in the synopsis until the
--ignore-missing option was added. Change that so that the git add
documentation now has the complete listing.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git submodule add: Require the new --force option to add ignored paths
To make the behavior of "git submodule add" more consistent with "git add"
ignored submodule paths should not be silently added when they match an
entry in a .gitignore file. To be able to override that default behavior
in the same way as we can do that for "git add", the new option "--force"
is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The persistent memoization support introduced in commit 8bff7c538
relied on global destruction to write cached data, which was leading
to segfaults in some Perl configurations. Calling Memoize::unmemoize
in the END block forces the cache writeout to be performed earlier,
thus avoiding the bug.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
The current make target 'aggregate-results' scanned all files matching
test-results/t*-*. Normally these are only the test counts (and the
exit values, which are ignored), but with --tee the suite also dumps
all output. Furthermore, with --verbose t1450 contains several lines
starting with "broken link from ..." which matches the criteria used
by aggregate-results.sh.
Rename the counts output files to *.counts, and only scan those.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The svn-fe tool takes a Subversion dump file as input and produces
a fast-import stream as output. This can be useful as a low-level
tool in building other importers, or for debugging the vcs-svn
library.
make svn-fe
make svn-fe.1
to test.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier we tried to make sure that the trees we get are what A...B
syntax produced, by checking that earlier ones are all marked
uninteresting (which has to be true as they are merge bases),
there are two remaining ones that are interesting, and they are
marked as non-symmetric-left and symmetric-left respectively.
The "the last two must be interesting" condition is however wrong when one
is an ancestor of the other between A and B (i.e. fast-forward). In such
a case, one of them is marked uninteresting.
* jn/paginate-fix:
git --paginate: paginate external commands again
git --paginate: do not commit pager choice too early
tests: local config file should be honored from subdirs of toplevel
t7006: test pager configuration for several git commands
t7006 (pager): introduce helper for parameterized tests
* mg/revision-doc:
Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parse
Documentation: gitrevisions
Documentation: split off rev doc into include file
* bc/maint-makefile-fixes:
Makefile: work around ksh's failure to handle missing list argument to for loop
Makefile: remove some unnecessary curly braces
Documentation: add submodule.* to the big configuration variable list
The url, path, and the update items in [submodule "foo"] stanzas
are nicely explained in the .gitmodules and ‘git submodule’
documentation. Point there from the config documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is already excellent documentation for this facility in
git-submodule.1, but it is not so discoverable.
Relative paths in .gitmodules can be useful for serving the
same repository over multiple protocols, for example.
Thanks to Peter for pointing this out.
Cc: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, 452e225 (gitweb: fix esc_param, 2009-10-13) fixed CGI escaping
rules used in esc_url. A very similar logic exists in esc_param and needs
to be fixed the same way.
Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
73e25e7c (git --paginate: do not commit pager choice too early,
2010-06-26) failed to take some cases into account.
1b. Builtins that do not use RUN_SETUP (like git config) do
not find GIT_DIR set correctly when the pager is launched
from run_builtin(). So the core.pager configuration is
not honored from subdirectories of the toplevel for them.
4a. External git commands (like git request-pull) relied on the
early pager launch to take care of handling the -p option.
Ever since 73e25e7c, they do not honor the -p option at all.
4b. Commands invoked through ! aliases (like ls) were also relying
on the early pager launch.
Fix (4a) by launching the pager (if requested) before running such a
“dashed external”. For simplicity, this still does not search for a
.git directory before running the external command; when run from a
subdirectory of the toplevel, therefore, the “[core] pager”
configuration is still not honored.
Fix (4b) by launching pager if requested before carrying out such an
alias. Actually doing this has no effect, since the pager (if any)
would have already been launched in a failed attempt to try a
dashed external first. The choice-of-pager-not-honored-from-
subdirectory bug still applies here, too.
(1b) is not a regression. There is no need to fix it yet.
Noticed by Junio.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge-tree: fix where two branches share no changes
15b4f7a (merge-tree: use ll_merge() not xdl_merge(), 2010-01-16)
introduced a regression to merge-tree to cause it to segfault when merging
files which existed in one branch, but not in the other or in the
merge-base. This was caused by referencing entry->path at a time when
entry was known to be possibly-NULL.
To correct the problem, we save the path of the entry we came in with,
as the path should be the same among all the stages no matter which
sides are involved in the merge.
Signed-off-by: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use dev_t for device id (st_dev) from stat in setup_git_directory_gently()
The original declaration was int, which seems to cause trouble on my
machine. It causes spurious "filesystem boundary" errors when running
the testsuite. The cause seems to be
Using the correct type, dev_t, solves the issue. (Because I'm
paranoid and forgetful, I checked -- yes, Unix v7 had dev_t.)
Other uses of st_dev seem to be reasonably safe. fill_stat_cache_info
truncates it to an 'unsigned int', but that value seems to be used only
to validate the cache, and only if USE_STDEV is defined.
Signed-off-by: Raja R Harinath <harinath@hurrynot.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff A...B: give one possible diff when there are more than one merge-base
We instead showed a combined diff that explains one of the randomly
chosen merge-base as if it were the result of merging all the other
merge bases and two tips given, which made no sense at all.
An alternative is to simply fail such a request, telling the user that
there are criss-cross merges, but it wouldn't be so helpful.
git add: Add the "--ignore-missing" option for the dry run
Sometimes it is useful to know if a file or directory will be ignored
before it is added to the work tree. An example is "git submodule add",
where it would be really nice to be able to fail with an appropriate
error message before the submodule is cloned and checked out.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test-lib: TAP compliance for skipping tests on request
Make the output TAP compliant for tests skipped on request (GIT_SKIP_TESTS).
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
04ece59 (GIT_SKIP_TESTS: allow users to omit tests that are known to break, 2006-12-28)
introduced GIT_SKIP_TESTS, and since then we have had two nested loops
iterating over GIT_SKIP_TESTS with the same loop variable.
Reduce this to one loop.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Documentation: Spelling fix in protocol-capabilities.txt
checkout: accord documentation to what git does
t0005: work around strange $? in ksh when program terminated by a signal
This script is part of the second batch of tests, from the same day
the test infrastructure was added to git. Update it to use a more
modern style in the spirit of v1.6.4-rc0~45^2~2 (2009-05-22).
In particular:
- Put setup code inside test assertions, to avoid unexpected
breakages and avoid stray output without -v (as t/README
recommends); and
- Put the test title on the same line as the "test_expect_success",
and end the line with a single-quote to begin the body of the test
which is one multi-line string.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t0005: work around strange $? in ksh when program terminated by a signal
ksh93 is known to report $? of programs that terminated by a signal as
256 + signal number instead of 128 + signal number like other POSIX
compliant shells (ksh's behavior is still POSIX compliant in this regard).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge remote branch 'ko/master' into jc/read-tree-cache-tree-fix
* ko/master: (2325 commits)
Git 1.7.2-rc2
backmerge a few more fixes to 1.7.1.X series
fix git branch -m in presence of cross devices
t/t0006: specify timezone as EST5 not EST to comply with POSIX
add missing && to submodule-merge testcase
t/README: document more test helpers
test-date: fix sscanf type conversion
xdiff: optimise for no whitespace difference when ignoring whitespace.
gitweb: Move evaluate_gitweb_config out of run_request
parse_date: fix signedness in timezone calculation
t0006: test timezone parsing
rerere.txt: Document forget subcommand
t/README: proposed rewording...
t/README: Document the do's and don'ts of tests
t/README: Add a section about skipping tests
t/README: Document test_expect_code
t/README: Document test_external*
t/README: Document the prereq functions, and 3-arg test_*
t/README: Typo: paralell -> parallel
t/README: The trash is in 't/trash directory.$name'
...
When --graph is in effect, the line-prefix typically has colored graph
line segments and ends with reset. The color sequence "set" given to
this function is for showing the metainfo part of the patch text and
(1) it should not be applied to the graph lines, and (2) it will be
reset at the end of line_prefix so it won't be in effect anyway.
Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change tests to skip with skip_all=* + test_done instead of using say
+ test_done.
This is a follow-up to "tests: Skip tests in a way that makes sense
under TAP" (fadb5156e4). I missed these cases when prepearing that
patch, hopefully this is all of them.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 456156d a shortcut to priming the index tree reference was
introduced, but the justification for it was completely bogus.
"read-tree -m A B" is to take the index (and the working tree)
that is largely based on (but does not have to match exactly) A
and update it to B, while carrying the local change that does
not overlap the difference between A and B, so there is no reason
to expect that the resulting index should match the tree B.
Reorganize `git-log' man page to clarify common diff options.
This will reduce considerably the common confusion where people miss the
`--follow' option, and wonder why `-M'/`-C' is not working.
* Move the diff options include to after the log-specific flags, and add
a "Common diff options" subtitle before them. (These options apply
only when patches are shown, which is not a common use case among
newbies, so having them first is confusing.)
* Move the `--follow' description to the top of the listed options. The
options before that seem less important: `--full-diff' applies only
when patches are shown, `--source' and `--decorate' are less useful
with many common commit specifications.
* Clarify that `--follow' works only for a single path argument.
Signed-off-by: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t9118 (git-svn): prevent early failure from taking down later tests
When test #2 fails, the cwd is project/, causing all the
remaining tests in the same script to get confused and fail.
So in the spirit of v1.7.1.1~53^2~10 (t5550-http-fetch: Use subshell
for repository operations, 2010-04-17), use a subshell for svn
working copy operations. This way, the cwd will reliably return
to the top of the trash directory and later tests can still be run
when a command has failed.
Reported-by: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
@ is SVN's identifier for PEG revisions. But SVN's treatment of PEG
identifiers in copy target URLs changed in r954995/r952973, i.e. between
1.6.11 and 1.6.12. They get eaten now (which is considered the right
way).
Therefore, avoid the @ in the tests with funky branch names.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
* ab/tap:
t/README: document more test helpers
t/README: proposed rewording...
t/README: Document the do's and don'ts of tests
t/README: Add a section about skipping tests
t/README: Document test_expect_code
t/README: Document test_external*
t/README: Document the prereq functions, and 3-arg test_*
t/README: Typo: paralell -> parallel
t/README: The trash is in 't/trash directory.$name'
t/t9700/test.pl: don't access private object members, use public access methods
t9700: Use Test::More->builder, not $Test::Builder::Test
tests: Say "pass" rather than "ok" on empty lines for TAP
tests: Skip tests in a way that makes sense under TAP
test-lib: output a newline before "ok" under a TAP harness
test-lib: Make the test_external_* functions TAP-aware
test-lib: Adjust output to be valid TAP format
* maint:
backmerge a few more fixes to 1.7.1.X series
rev-parse: fix --parse-opt --keep-dashdash --stop-at-non-option
fix git branch -m in presence of cross devices
The ?: operator has a lower priority than |, so the implicit associativity
made the 6th argument of parse_options be PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH if
keep_dashdash was true discarding PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION and
PARSE_OPT_SHELL_EVAL.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge branch 'tr/receive-pack-aliased-update-fix' into maint
* tr/receive-pack-aliased-update-fix:
check_aliased_update: strcpy() instead of strcat() to copy
receive-pack: detect aliased updates which can occur with symrefs
receive-pack: switch global variable 'commands' to a parameter
When you have for example a bare repository stored on NFS, and that you
create new workdirs locally (using contrib's git-new-workdir), logs/refs
is a symlink to a different device. Hence when the reflogs are renamed,
all must happen below logs/refs or one gets cross device rename errors
like:
git branch -m foo
error: unable to move logfile logs/refs/heads/master to tmp-renamed-log: Invalid cross-device link
fatal: Branch rename failed
The fix is hence to use logs/refs/.tmp-renamed-log as a temporary log
name, instead of just tmp-renamed-log.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t/t0006: specify timezone as EST5 not EST to comply with POSIX
POSIX requires that both the timezone "standard" and "offset" be specified
in the TZ environment variable. This causes a problem on IRIX which does
not understand the timezone 'EST'.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
do not write out index when status does not have to
Some codepaths, such as "git status" and "git commit --dry-run",
tried to opportunisticly refresh the index and write the result
out. But they did so without checking if there was actually any
change that needs to be written out.
Makefile: work around ksh's failure to handle missing list argument to for loop
ksh does not like it when the list argument is missing in a 'for' loop.
This can happen when NO_CURL is set which causes REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES to be
unset. In this case, the 'for' loop in the Makefile is expanded to look
like this:
for p in ; do
and ksh complains like this:
/bin/ksh: syntax error at line 15 : `;' unexpected
The existing attempt to work around this issue, introduced by 70b89f87,
tried to protect the 'for' loop by first testing whether REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES
was empty, but this does not work since, as Johannes Sixt explains, "Before
the test for emptyness can happen, the complete statement must be parsed,
but ksh finds a syntax error in the statement and, therefore, cannot even
begin to execute the statement. (ksh doesn't follow POSIX in this regard,
where this would not be a syntax error.)".
Make's $(foreach) function could be used to avoid this shell glitch, but
since it has already caused a problem once before by generating a command
line that exceeded the maximum argument list length on IRIX, let's adopt
Bruce Stephens's suggestion for working around this issue in the same way
the OpenSSL folks have done it. This solution first assigns the contents
of the REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES make variable to a shell variable and then
supplies the shell variable as the list argument in the 'for' loop. This
satisfies ksh and has the expected behavior even if $(REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES)
is empty.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
xdiff: optimise for no whitespace difference when ignoring whitespace.
In xdl_recmatch, do the memcmp to check if the two lines are equal before
checking if whitespace flags are set. If the lines are identical, then
there is no need to check if they differ only in whitespace.
This makes the common case (there is no whitespace difference) faster.
It costs the case where lines are the same length and contain
whitespace differences, but the common case is more than 20% faster.
Signed-off-by: Dylan Reid <dgreid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parse
Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we
link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has
this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes.
Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except
- when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or
- in very technical context (git-send-pack).
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create a new man page gitrevisions(7) which contains the revsions and
ranges documentation but not more. This uses (per include) the same bits
as the pertaining section of git-rev-parse(1).
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: split off rev doc into include file
Currently, the documentation for revisions and ranges sits in the
git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, along with the
documentation of all rev-parse modes.
Split off the revisions and ranges section into an included file to
prepare for restructuring.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitweb: Move evaluate_gitweb_config out of run_request
Move evaluate_gitweb_config() and evaluate_git_version() out of
run_request() to run(), making them not run one for each request.
This changes how git behaves in FastCGI case.
This change makes it impossible to have config which changes with
request, but I don't think anyone relied on such (hidden action)
behavior.
While at it, reset timer and number of git commands at beginning of
run_request() in new reset_timer() subroutine. This fixes case when
gitweb was run using FastCGI interface: time is reported for request,
and not for single run of gitweb script. This changes slightly
behavior in non-FastCGI case: the number of git commands reported is
1 less (running `git --version` one per gitweb is not counted now).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
parse_date: fix signedness in timezone calculation
When no timezone is specified, we deduce the offset by
subtracting the result of mktime from our calculated
timestamp.
However, our timestamp is stored as an unsigned integer,
meaning we perform the subtraction as unsigned. For a
negative offset, this means we wrap to a very high number,
and our numeric timezone is in the millions of hours. You
can see this bug by doing:
$ TZ=EST \
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='2010-06-01 10:00' \
git commit -a -m foo
$ git cat-file -p HEAD | grep author
author Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 1275404416 +119304128
Instead, we should perform this subtraction as a time_t, the
same type that mktime returns.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git submodule: add submodules with git add -f <path>
Change `git submodule add' to add the new submodule <path> with `git
add --force'.
I keep my /etc in .git with a .gitignore that contains just
"*". I.e. `git status' will ignore everything that isn't in the tree
already. When I do:
git submodule add <url> hlagh
git-submodule will get as far as checking out the remote repository
into hlagh, but it'll die right afterwards when it fails to add the
new path:
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
hlagh
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added
Failed to add submodule 'hlagh'
Currently there's no way to add a submodule in this situation other
than to remove the ignored path from the .gitignore while I'm at it.
That's silly, when you run `git submodule add' you're explicitly
saying that you want to add something *new* to the repository. Instead
it should just add the path with `git add --force'.
Initially I implemented this by adding new -f and --force options to
`git submodule add'. But if the --force option isn't supplied it'll
get as far as cloning `hlagh', but won't add it.
So the first thing the user has to do is to remove `hlagh' and then
try again with the --force option.
That sucks, it should just add the path to begin with. I can't think
of any usecase where you've gone through the trouble of typing out
`git submodule add ..', but wish to be overriden by a `gitignore'. The
submodule semantics should be more like `git init', not `git add'.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>