git-checkout: safety when coming back from the detached HEAD state.
After making commits in the detached HEAD state, if you run "git
checkout" to switch to an existing branch, you will lose your
work. Make sure the switched-to branch is a fast-forward of the
current HEAD, or require -f when switching.
We used to say "you are not on a branch" before the initial
commit. This is incorrect -- the user is on a branch yet to be
born, but its name has been already determined.
This allows "git checkout v1.4.3" to dissociate the HEAD of
repository from any branch. After this point, "git branch"
starts reporting that you are not on any branch. You can go
back to an existing branch by saying "git checkout master", for
example.
This is still experimental. While I think it makes sense to
allow commits on top of detached HEAD, it is rather dangerous
unless you are careful in the current form. Next "git checkout
master" will obviously lose what you have done, so we might want
to require "git checkout -f" out of a detached HEAD if we find
that the HEAD commit is not an ancestor of any other branches.
There is no such safety valve implemented right now.
On the other hand, the reason the user did not start the ad-hoc
work on a new branch with "git checkout -b" was probably because
the work was of a throw-away nature, so the convenience of not
having that safety valve might be even better. The user, after
accumulating some commits on top of a detached HEAD, can always
create a new branch with "git checkout -b" not to lose useful
work done while the HEAD was detached.
git-fetch: allow updating the current branch in a bare repository.
Sometimes, people have only fetch access into a bare repository
that is used as a back-up location (or a distribution point) but
does not have a push access for networking reasons, e.g. one end
being behind a firewall, and updating the "current branch" in
such a case is perfectly fine.
This allows such a fetch without --update-head-ok, which is a
flag that should never be used by end users otherwise.
Introduce is_bare_repository() and core.bare configuration variable
This removes the old is_bare_git_dir(const char *) to ask if a
directory, if it is a GIT_DIR, is a bare repository, and
replaces it with is_bare_repository(void *). The function looks
at core.bare configuration variable if exists but uses the old
heuristics: if it is ".git" or ends with "/.git", then it does
not look like a bare repository, otherwise it does.
The patches to prevent Porcelainish that require working tree
from doing any damage in a bare repository make a lot of sense,
and I want to make the is_bare_git_dir() function more reliable.
In order to allow the repository owner override the heuristic
implemented in is_bare_git_dir() if/when it misidentifies a
particular repository, it would make sense to introduce a new
configuration variable "[core] bare = true/false", and make
is_bare_git_dir() notice it.
The scripts would do a 'repo-config --bool --get core.bare' and
iff the command fails (i.e. there is no such variable in the
configuration file), it would use the heuristic implemented at
the script level [*1*].
However, setup_git_env() which is called a lot earlier than we
even read from the repository configuration currently makes a
call to is_bare_git_dir(), in order to change the default
setting for log_all_ref_updates. It somehow feels that this is
a hack.
By the way, [*1*] is another thing I hate about the current
config mechanism. "git-repo-config --get" does not know what
the possible configuration variables are, let alone what the
default values for them are. It allows us not to maintain a
centralized configuration table, which makes it easy to
introduce ad-hoc variables and gives a warm fuzzy feeling of
being modular, but my feeling is that it is turning out to be a
rather high price to pay for scripts.
With this patch, cvsimport will skip commits made
in the last 10 minutes. The recent-ness test is of
5 minutes + cvsps fuzz window (5 minutes default).
When working with a CVS repository that is in use,
importing commits that are too recent can lead to
partially incorrect trees. This is mainly due to
- Commits that are within the cvsps fuzz window may later
be found to have affected more files.
- When performing incremental imports, clock drift between
the systems may lead to skipped commits.
This commit helps keep incremental imports of in-use
CVS repositories sane.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Remove unnecessary git-rm --cached reference from status output
Since git-reset has learned restoring the absence of paths git-rm --cached is
no longer necessary. Therefore remove it from the cached content header hint.
Also remove the unfortunate wording 'Cached' from the header itself.
Signed-off-by: Jürgen Rühle <j-r@online.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Readable from beginning to end in order without having read
any other git documentation beforehand.
- Helpful section names and cross-references, so it's not too
hard to skip around some if you need to.
- Organized to allow it to grow much larger (unlike the
tutorials)
It's more liesurely than tutorial.txt, but tries to stay focused on
practical how-to stuff. It adds a discussion of how to resolve merge
conflicts, and partial instructions on setting up and dealing with a
public repository.
I've lifted a little bit from "branching and merging" (e.g., some of the
discussion of history diagrams), and could probably steal more if that's
OK. (Similarly anyone should of course feel free to reuse bits of this
if any parts seem more useful than the whole.)
There's a lot of detail on managing branches and using git-fetch, just
because those are essential even to people needing read-only access
(e.g., kernel testers). I think those sections will be much shorter
once the new "git remote" command and the disconnected checkouts are
taken into account.
I do feel bad about adding yet another piece of documentation, but I we
need something that goes through all the basics in a logical order, and
I wasn't seeing how to grow the tutorials into that.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* sp/mmap: (27 commits)
Spell default packedgitlimit slightly differently
Increase packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} on 64 bit systems.
Update packedGit config option documentation.
mmap: set FD_CLOEXEC for file descriptors we keep open for mmap()
pack-objects: fix use of use_pack().
Fix random segfaults in pack-objects.
Cleanup read_cache_from error handling.
Replace mmap with xmmap, better handling MAP_FAILED.
Release pack windows before reporting out of memory.
Default core.packdGitWindowSize to 1 MiB if NO_MMAP.
Test suite for sliding window mmap implementation.
Create pack_report() as a debugging aid.
Support unmapping windows on 'temporary' packfiles.
Improve error message when packfile mmap fails.
Ensure core.packedGitWindowSize cannot be less than 2 pages.
Load core configuration in git-verify-pack.
Fully activate the sliding window pack access.
Unmap individual windows rather than entire files.
Document why header parsing won't exceed a window.
Loop over pack_windows when inflating/accessing data.
...
* jr/status:
Improve cached content header of status output
Support --amend on initial commit in status output
Improve "nothing to commit" part of status output
Clarify syntax and role of git-add in status output
git-reset <tree> -- <path> restores absense of <path> in <tree>
When <path> exists in the index (either merged or unmerged), and
<tree> does not have it, git-reset should be usable to restore
the absense of it from the tree. This implements it.
diff-index --cached --raw: show tree entry on the LHS for unmerged entries.
This updates the way diffcore represents an unmerged pair
somewhat. It used to be that entries with mode=0 on both sides
were used to represent an unmerged pair, but now it has an
explicit flag. This is to allow diff-index --cached to report
the entry from the tree when the path is unmerged in the index.
This is used in updating "git reset <tree> -- <path>" to restore
absense of the path in the index from the tree.
reflog --fix-stale: do not check the same trees and commits repeatedly.
Since we use the reachability tracking machinery now, we should
keep the already checked trees and commits whose completeness is
known, to avoid checking the same thing over and over again.
The logic in an earlier round to detect reflog entries that
point at a broken commit was not sufficient. Just like we do
not trust presense of a commit during pack transfer (we trust
only our refs), we should not trust a commit's presense, even if
the tree of that commit is complete.
A repository that had reflog enabled on some of the refs that
was rewound and then run git-repack or git-prune from older
versions of git can have reflog entries that point at a commit
that still exist but lack commits (or trees and blobs needed for
that commit) between it and some commit that is reachable from
one of the refs.
This revamps the logic -- the definition of "broken commit"
becomes: a commit that is not reachable from any of the refs and
there is a missing object among the commit, tree, or blob
objects reachable from it that is not reachable from any of the
refs. Entries in the reflog that refer to such a commit are
expired.
Since this computation involves traversing all the reachable
objects, i.e. it has the same cost as 'git prune', it is enabled
only when a new option --fix-stale. Fortunately, once this is
run, we should not have to ever worry about missing objects,
because the current prune and pack-objects know about reflogs
and protect objects referred by them.
Unfortunately, this will be absolutely necessary to help people
migrate to the newer prune and repack.
Move traversal of reachable objects into a separate library.
This moves major part of builtin-prune into a separate file,
reachable.c. It is used to mark the objects that are reachable
from refs, and optionally from reflogs.
The patch looks very large, but if you look at it with diff -C,
which this message is formatted in, most of them are copied
lines and there are very little additions.
builtin-prune: separate ref walking from reflog walking.
This is necessary for the next step, because the reason I am
making the connectivity walker into a library is because I want
to use it for cleaning up stale reflog entries.
builtin-prune: make file-scope static struct to an argument.
I want to make the first part of 'git prune' that marks the
reachable objects callable as a library, so this starts the
first step toward the goal by making the callchain to pass
rev_info structure as an argument.
gitweb: Fix split patches output (e.g. file to symlink)
Do not replace /dev/null in two-line from-file/to-file diff header for
split patches ("split" patch mean more than one patch per one
diff-tree raw line) by a/file or b/file link.
Split patches differ from pair of deletion/creation patch in git diff
header: both a/file and b/file are hyperlinks, in all patches in a
split.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
gitweb: Fix errors in git_patchset_body for empty patches
We now do not skip over empty patches in git_patchset_body (where
empty means that they consist only of git diff header, and of extended
diff header, for example "pure rename" patch). This means that after
extended diff header there can be next patch (i.e. /^diff /) or end of
patchset, and not necessary patch body (i.e. /^--- /).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
gitweb: Fix error in git_patchest_body for file creation/deletion patch
$from_id, $to_id variables should be local per PATCH.
Fix error in git_patchset_body for file creation (deletion) patches,
where instead of /dev/null as from-file (to-file) diff header line, it
had link to previous file with current file name. This error occured
only if there was another patch before file creation (deletion) patch.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-svn: clarify dcommit, rebase vs pull/merge
Clarify that dcommit creates a revision in SVN for every commit
in git. Also, add 'merge' to the rebase vs pull section because
git-merge is now a first-class UI.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds ability to do import "in chunks" (default 1000 revisions),
after each chunk git repo will be repacked. The option -R is used to
change default value of chunk size (or how often repository will
repacked).
Signed-off-by: Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Describe git-clone's actual behavior in the summary
If a branch other than "master" is checked out in the origin repository,
git-clone makes a local copy of that branch rather than the origin's
"master"
branch. This patch describes the actual behavior.
Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Set default "tar" umask to 002 and owner.group to root.root
In order to make the generated tar files more friendly to users who
extract them as root using GNU tar and its implied -p option, change
the default umask to 002 and change the owner name and group name to
root. This ensures that a) the extracted files and directories are
not world-writable and b) that they belong to user and group root.
Before they would have been assigned to a user and/or group named
git if it existed. This also answers the question in the removed
comment: uid=0, gid=0, uname=root, gname=root is exactly what we
want.
Normal users who let tar apply their umask while extracting are
only affected if their umask allowed the world to change their
files (e.g. a umask of zero). This case is so unlikely and strange
that we don't need to support it.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Increase packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} on 64 bit systems.
If we have a 64 bit address space we can easily afford to commit
a larger amount of virtual address space to pack file access.
So on these platforms we should increase the default settings of
core.packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} to something that will better
handle very large projects.
Thanks to Andy Whitcroft for pointing out that we can safely
increase these defaults on such systems.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The earlier test timestamp was too old; I forgot that the bare
unixtime integer had to be after Jan 1, 2000. This changes
test_tick to use the git-epoch timestamp.
Somehow we forgot to turn save_commit_buffer off while walking
the reachable objects. Releasing the memory for commit object
data that we do not use matters for large projects (for example,
about 90MB is saved while traversing linux-2.6 history).
It might be handy to have a single command that helps you manage
your configuration that relates to downloading from remote
repositories. This currently does only about 20% of what I want
it to do.
$ git remote
shows the list of 'remotes' you have defined somewhere, and
$ git remote origin
shows the details about the named remote (in this case
"origin"). How the branches are tracked, if you have a
tracking branch that is stale, etc.
$ git add another git://git.kernel.org/pub/...
defines the default remote.another.url and remote.another.fetch
entries just like a clone does; you can say "git fetch another"
afterwards.
For it to be useful, I think it should be enhanced to:
- check overlaps of tracking branches and warn;
- offer to remove stale tracking branches in one go;
- offer ways to remove or rename remote;
- offer ways to update an existing remote, perhaps have an
interactive mode;
Other enhancements might be also possible, but I do not think of
anything that is absolutely necessary other than the above right
now.
Blame "linenr" link jumps to previous state at "orig_lineno"
Blame currently displays the commit id which introduced a
block of one or more lines, the line numbers wrt the current
listing of the file and the file's line contents.
The commit id displayed is hyperlinked to the commit.
Currently the linenr links are hyperlinked to the same
commit id displayed to the left, which is _no_ different
than the block of lines displayed, since it is the _same
commit_ that is hyperlinked. And thus clicking on it leads
to the same state of the file for that chunk of
lines. I.e. data mining is not currently possible with
gitweb given a chunk of lines introduced by a commit.
This patch makes such data mining possible.
The line numbers are now hyperlinked to the parent of the
commit id of the block of lines. Furthermore they are
linked to the line where that block was introduced.
Thus clicking on a linenr link will show you the file's
line(s) state prior to the commit id you were viewing.
So clicking continually on a linenr link shows you how this
line and its line number changed over time, leading to the
initial commit where it was first introduced.
Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
gitweb: Fix "Use of uninitialized value" warning in git_tags_body
Fix "Use of uninitialized value" warning in git_tags_body generated
for lightweight tags of tree and blob object; those don't have age
($tag{'age'}) defined.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-svn: make --repack work consistently between fetch and multi-fetch
Since fetch reforks itself at most every 1000 revisions, we
need to update the counter in the parent process to have a
working count if we set our repack interval to be > ~1000
revisions. multi-fetch has always done this correctly
because of an extra process; now fetch uses the extra process;
as well.
While we're at it, only compile the $sha1 regex that checks for
repacking once.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It now requires at least one of the (trunk|branch|tags) arguments
(either from the command-line or in .git/config). Also we make
sure that anything that is passed as a URL ('help') in David's
case is actually a URL.
Thanks to David Kågedal for reporting this issue.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The variable named entry is allocated using malloc() and then
forgotten, it being shadowed by an automatic variable of the
same name. Fixing the array size at 3 worked so far because
the only caller of traverse_trees() needed only as much
entries. Simply remove the shadowing varaible and we're able
to traverse more than three trees and save stack space at the
same time!
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
pack-check.c::verify_packfile(): don't run SHA-1 update on huge data
Running the SHA1_Update() on the whole packfile in a single call
revealed an overflow problem we had in the SHA-1 implementation
on POWER architecture some time ago, which was fixed with commit b47f509b (June 19, 2006). Other SHA-1 implementations may have
a similar problem.
The sliding mmap() series already makes chunked calls to
SHA1_Update(), so this patch itself will become moot when it
graduates to "master", but in the meantime, run the hash
function in smaller chunks to prevent possible future problems.
My change in 190d7fdcf325bb444fa806f09ebbb403a4ae4ee6 had a small bug
found by Michael Krufky which caused the passed in hash value to be
ignored, so shortlog would only show the HEAD revision.
Signed-off-by: Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
gitweb: There can be empty patches (in git_patchset_body)
We now do not skip over empty patches in git_patchset_body
(where empty means that they consist only of git diff header,
and of extended diff header), so uncomment branch of code dealing
with empty patches (patches which do not have even two-line
from/to header)
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Teach how to delete a branch with "git branch -d name".
- Usually a commit has one parent; merge has more.
- Teach "git show" instead of "git cat-file -p".
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This modifies pretty_print_commit() to make the output of git-rev-list and
friends a bit more predictable.
A commit body starting with blank lines might be unheard-of, but still possible
to create using git-commit-tree (so is bound to appear somewhere, sometime).
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of "$projectroot/$pr->{'path'}" to get the path to project
GIT_DIR, it was used "$projectroot/$project" which is valid only
for actions where project parameter is set, and 'project_index' is not
one of them.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix infinite loop when deleting multiple packed refs.
It was stupid to link the same element twice to lock_file_list
and end up in a loop, so we certainly need a fix.
But it is not like we are taking a lock on multiple files in
this case. It is just that we leave the linked element on the
list even after commit_lock_file() successfully removes the
cruft.
We cannot remove the list element in commit_lock_file(); if we
are interrupted in the middle of list manipulation, the call to
remove_lock_file_on_signal() will happen with a broken list
structure pointed by lock_file_list, which would cause the cruft
to remain, so not removing the list element is the right thing
to do. Instead we should be reusing the element already on the
list.
There is already a code for that in lock_file() function in
lockfile.c. The code checks lk->next and the element is linked
only when it is not already on the list -- which is incorrect
for the last element on the list (which has NULL in its next
field), but if you read the check as "is this element already on
the list?" it actually makes sense. We do not want to link it
on the list again, nor we would want to set up signal/atexit
over and over.
This tries to be more to the point while also including a pointer on how to
unstage changes from the index.
Since this header is printed in two different code paths and the name of the
reference commit is needed for the unstage part, provide a new printing
function.
Signed-off-by: Jürgen Rühle <j-r@online.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Support --amend on initial commit in status output
We check the existence of the parent commit to determine whether the status is
requested for an initial commit. Since the parent commit depends on the
presence of the --amend switch do initial commit detection after command line
arguments have been handled.
Signed-off-by: Jürgen Rühle <j-r@online.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previously git-status in a clean working directory would advice the user to use
git add. This isn't very helpful when there is nothing to add in the working
directory, therefore note a clean working directory while displaying the other
sections and print the appropriate message for each case.
Signed-off-by: Jürgen Rühle <j-r@online.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
send pack check for failure to send revisions list
When passing the revisions list to pack-objects we do not check for
errors nor short writes. Introduce a new write_in_full which will
handle short writes and report errors to the caller. Use this to
short cut the send on failure, allowing us to wait for and report
the child in case the failure is its fault.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* 'sp/merge' (early part):
Use merge-recursive in git-am -3.
Allow merging bare trees in merge-recursive.
Move better_branch_name above get_ref in merge-recursive.
Documentation: update git-pull.txt for new clone behavior
Update examples, stop using branch named "origin" as an example.
Remove large example of use of remotes; that particular case is
nicely automated by default, so it's not so pressing to explain, and
we can refer to git-repo-config for the details.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Removal of them is needed regardless of errors. The original
code had the removal outside of the process which sets the flag
to tell the later step what to remove, but it runs as a
downstream of a pipeline and its effect was lost.
fail pull/merge early in the middle of conflicted merge
After a pull that results in a conflicted merge, a new user
often tries another "git pull" in desperation. When the index
is unmerged, merge backends correctly bail out without touching
either index nor the working tree, so this does not make the
wound any worse.
The user will however see several lines of messsages during this
process, such as "filename: needs merge", "you need to resolve
your current index first", "Merging...", and "Entry ... would be
overwritten by merge. Cannot merge.". They are unnecessarily
alarming, and cause useful conflict messages from the first pull
scroll off the top of the terminal.
This changes pull and merge to run "git-ls-files -u" upfront and
stop them much earlier than we currently do. Old timers may
know better and would not to try pulling again before cleaning
things up; this change adds extra overhead that is unnecessary
for them. But this would be worth paying for to save new people
from needless confusion.
This removes some unnecessary 'svn up' calls throughout
t9103-git-svn-graft-branches.sh:
* removed an 'svn log' call that was leftover from debugging
* removed multiple git-svn calls with a multi-init / multi-fetch
combination (which weren't tested before, either)
* replaced `rev-list ... | head -n1` with `rev-parse ...`
(not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that)
All this saves about 9 seconds from a test run
(53s -> 44s for 'make t91*') on my 1.3GHz Athlon
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-svn: t/t9100-git-svn-basic: remove old check for NO_SYMLINK
We don't support the svn command-line client anymore; nor
do we support anything before SVN 1.1.0, so we can be certain
symlinks will be supported in the SVN repository.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>