Maybe we would want to make this default before it graduates to
the master branch, but in the meantime to help testing things,
this allows you to say "git push --thin destination".
The new flag loosens the usual "self containedness" requirment
of packfiles, and sends deltified representation of objects when
we know the other side has the base objects needed to unpack
them. This would help reducing the transfer size.
Thin pack - create packfile with missing delta base.
This goes together with "rev-list --object-edge" change, to feed
pack-objects list of edge commits in addition to the usual
object list. Upon seeing such list, pack-objects loosens the
usual "self contained delta" constraints, and can produce delta
against blobs and trees contained in the edge commits without
storing the delta base objects themselves.
The resulting packfile is not usable in .git/object/packs, but
is a good way to implement "delta-only" transfer.
This new flag is similar to --objects, but causes rev-list to
show list of "uninteresting" commits that appear on the edge
commit prefixed with '-'.
Downstream pack-objects will be changed to take these as hints
to use the trees and blobs contained with them as base objects
of resulting pack, producing an incomplete (not self-contained)
pack.
Such a pack cannot be used in .git/objects/pack (it is prevented
by git-index-pack erroring out if it is fed to git-fetch-pack -k
or git-clone-pack), but would be useful when transferring only
small changes to huge blobs.
* jc/mv:
Allow git-mv to accept ./ in paths.
Merge fixes up to GIT 1.2.2
Fix retries in git-cvsimport
archimport: remove files from the index before adding/updating
Keep Porcelainish from failing by broken ident after making changes.
"empty ident not allowed" error makes commit-tree fail, so we
are already safer in that we would not end up with commit
objects that have bogus names on the author or committer fields.
However, before commit-tree is called there are already changes
made to the index file and the working tree. The operation can
be resumed after fixing the environment problem, but when this
triggers to a newcomer with unusable gecos, the first question
becomes "what did I lose and how would I recover".
This patch modifies some Porcelainish commands to verify
GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT as soon as we know we are going to make some
commits before doing much damage to prevent confusion.
Delay "empty ident" errors until they really matter.
Previous one warned people upfront to encourage fixing their
environment early, but some people just use repositories and git
tools read-only without making any changes, and in such a case
there is not much point insisting on them having a usable ident.
This round attempts to move the error until either "git-var"
asks for the ident explicitly or "commit-tree" wants to use it.
This is an Emacs interface for git. The user interface is modeled on
pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
tweaking to work on XEmacs.
The basic command is 'M-x git-status' which displays a buffer listing
modified files in the selected project tree. In that buffer the
following features are supported:
- add/remove files
- list unknown files
- commit marked files
- manage .gitignore
- commit merges based on MERGE_HEAD
- revert files to the HEAD version
- resolve conflicts with smerge or ediff
- diff files against HEAD/base/mine/other or combined diff
- get a log of the revisions for specified files
There are plenty of unimplemented features too, see the TODO list at
the top of the file...
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/ident:
Make "empty ident" error message a bit more helpful.
Merge branch 'jc/topo'
Merge branch 'jc/rebase-limit'
gitview: typofix
git-svn: remove files from the index before adding/updating
Make "empty ident" error message a bit more helpful.
It appears that some people who did not care about having bogus
names in their own commit messages are bitten by the recent
change to require a sane environment [*1*].
While it was a good idea to prevent people from using bogus
names to create commits and doing sign-offs, the error message
is not very informative. This patch attempts to warn things
upfront and hint people how to fix their environments.
When git-reset --hard is used and a subdirectory becomes
empty (as it contains no tracked files in the target tree)
the empty subdirectory should be removed. This matches
the behavior of git-checkout-index and git-read-tree -m
which would not have created the subdirectory or would
have deleted it when updating the working directory.
Subdirectories which are not empty will be left behind.
This may happen if the subdirectory still contains object
files from the user's build process (for example).
[jc: simplified the logic a bit, while keeping the test script.]
pack-objects: avoid delta chains that are too long.
This tries to rework the solution for the excess delta chain
problem. An earlier commit worked it around ``cheaply'', but
repeated repacking risks unbound growth of delta chains.
This version counts the length of delta chain we are reusing
from the existing pack, and makes sure a base object that has
sufficiently long delta chain does not get deltified.
* js/portable:
Support Irix
Optionally support old diffs
Fix cpio call
SubmittingPatches: note on whitespaces
Add a README for gitview
Add contrib/README.
git-tag: -l to list tags (usability).
* fix:
Document --short and --git-dir in git-rev-parse(1)
git-rev-parse: Fix --short= option parsing
Prevent git-upload-pack segfault if object cannot be found
Abstract test_create_repo out for use in tests.
Trap exit to clean up created directory if clone fails.
* jc/pack-reuse:
git-repack: allow passing a couple of flags to pack-objects.
pack-objects: finishing touches.
pack-objects: reuse data from existing packs.
Add contrib/gitview from Aneesh.
git-svn: ensure fetch always works chronologically.
git-svn: fix revision order when XML::Simple is not loaded
Introducing contrib/git-svn.
Allow building Git in systems without iconv
This introduces --no-reuse-delta option to disable reusing of
existing delta, which is a large part of the optimization
introduced by this series. This may become necessary if
repeated repacking makes delta chain too long. With this, the
output of the command becomes identical to that of the older
implementation. But the performance suffers greatly.
It still allows reusing non-deltified representations; there is
no point uncompressing and recompressing the whole text.
It also adds a couple more statistics output, while squelching
it under -q flag, which the last round forgot to do.
$ time old-git-pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null <RL
Generating pack...
Done counting 184141 objects.
Packing 184141 objects....................
real 12m8.530s user 11m1.450s sys 0m57.920s
$ time git-pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null <RL
Generating pack...
Done counting 184141 objects.
Packing 184141 objects.....................
Total 184141, written 184141 (delta 138297), reused 178833 (delta 134081)
real 0m59.549s user 0m56.670s sys 0m2.400s
$ time git-pack-objects --stdout --no-reuse-delta >/dev/null <RL
Generating pack...
Done counting 184141 objects.
Packing 184141 objects.....................
Total 184141, written 184141 (delta 134833), reused 47904 (delta 0)
real 11m13.830s user 9m45.240s sys 0m44.330s
There is one remaining issue when --no-reuse-delta option is not
used. It can create delta chains that are deeper than specified.
A<--B<--C<--D E F G
Suppose we have a delta chain A to D (A is stored in full either
in a pack or as a loose object. B is depth1 delta relative to A,
C is depth2 delta relative to B...) with loose objects E, F, G.
And we are going to pack all of them.
B, C and D are left as delta against A, B and C respectively.
So A, E, F, and G are examined for deltification, and let's say
we decided to keep E expanded, and store the rest as deltas like
this:
E<--F<--G<--A
Oops. We ended up making D a bit too deep, didn't we? B, C and
D form a chain on top of A!
This is because we did not know what the final depth of A would
be, when we checked objects and decided to keep the existing
delta. Unfortunately, deferring the decision until just before
the deltification is not an option. To be able to make B, C,
and D candidates for deltification with the rest, we need to
know the type and final unexpanded size of them, but the major
part of the optimization comes from the fact that we do not read
the delta data to do so -- getting the final size is quite an
expensive operation.
To prevent this from happening, we should keep A from being
deltified. But how would we tell that, cheaply?
To do this most precisely, after check_object() runs, each
object that is used as the base object of some existing delta
needs to be marked with the maximum depth of the objects we
decided to keep deltified (in this case, D is depth 3 relative
to A, so if no other delta chain that is longer than 3 based on
A exists, mark A with 3). Then when attempting to deltify A, we
would take that number into account to see if the final delta
chain that leads to D becomes too deep.
However, this is a bit cumbersome to compute, so we would cheat
and reduce the maximum depth for A arbitrarily to depth/4 in
this implementation.
When generating a new pack, notice if we have already needed
objects in existing packs. If an object is stored deltified,
and its base object is also what we are going to pack, then
reuse the existing deltified representation unconditionally,
bypassing all the expensive find_deltas() and try_deltas()
calls.
Also, notice if what we are going to write out exactly match
what is already in an existing pack (either deltified or just
compressed). In such a case, we can just copy it instead of
going through the usual uncompressing & recompressing cycle.
Without this patch, in linux-2.6 repository with about 1500
loose objects and a single mega pack:
git-svn: ensure fetch always works chronologically.
We run svn log against a URL without a working copy for the first fetch,
so we end up a log that's sorted from highest to lowest. That's bad, we
always want lowest to highest. Just default to --revision 0:HEAD now if
-r isn't specified for the first fetch.
Also sort the revisions after we get them just in case somebody
accidentally reverses the argument to --revision for whatever reason.
Thanks again to Emmanuel Guerin for helping me find this.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Systems using some uClibc versions do not properly support
iconv stuff. This patch allows Git to be built on those
systems by passing NO_ICONV=YesPlease to make. The only
drawback is mailinfo won't do charset conversion in those
systems.
Signed-off-by: Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Here, btw, is the trivial diff to turn my previous "tree-resolve" into a
> "resolve tree relative to the current branch".
Gaah. It was trivial, and it happened to work fine for my test-case, but
when I started looking at not doing that extremely aggressive subdirectory
merging, that showed a few other issues...
So in case people want to try, here's a third patch. Oh, and it's against
my _original_ path, not incremental to the middle one (ie both patches two
and three are against patch #1, it's not a nice series).
Now I'm really done, and won't be sending out any more patches today.
Sorry for the noise.
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>
> > If somebody is interested in making the "lots of filename changes" case go
> > fast, I'd be more than happy to walk them through what they'd need to
> > change. I'm just not horribly motivated to do it myself. Hint, hint.
>
> In case anybody is wondering, I share the same feeling. I
> cannot say I'd be "more than happy to" clean up potential
> breakages during the development of such changes, but if the
> change eventually would help certain use cases, I can be
> persuaded to help debugging such a mess ;-).
Actually, I got interested in seeing how hard this is, and wrote a simple
first cut at doing a tree-optimized merger.
Let me shout a bit first:
THIS IS WORKING CODE, BUT BE CAREFUL: IT'S A TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION
RATHER THAN THE FINAL PRODUCT!
With that out of the way, let me descibe what this does (and then describe
the missing parts).
This is basically a three-way merge that works entirely on the "tree"
level, rather than on the index. A lot of the _concepts_ are the same,
though, and if you're familiar with the results of an index merge, some of
the output will make more sense.
You give it three trees: the base tree (tree 0), and the two branches to
be merged (tree 1 and tree 2 respectively). It will then walk these three
trees, and resolve them as it goes along.
The interesting part is:
- it can resolve whole sub-directories in one go, without actually even
looking recursively at them. A whole subdirectory will resolve the same
way as any individual files will (although that may need some
modification, see later).
- if it has a "content conflict", for subdirectories that means "try to
do a recursive tree merge", while for non-subdirectories it's just a
content conflict and we'll output the stage 1/2/3 information.
- a successful merge will output a single stage 0 ("merged") entry,
potentially for a whole subdirectory.
- it outputs all the resolve information on stdout, so something like the
recursive resolver can pretty easily parse it all.
Now, the caveats:
- we probably need to be more careful about subdirectory resolves. The
trivial case (both branches have the exact same subdirectory) is a
trivial resolve, but the other cases ("branch1 matches base, branch2 is
different" probably can't be silently just resolved to the "branch2"
subdirectory state, since it might involve renames into - or out of -
that subdirectory)
- we do not track the current index file at all, so this does not do the
"check that index matches branch1" logic that the three-way merge in
git-read-tree does. The theory is that we'd do a full three-way merge
(ignoring the index and working directory), and then to update the
working tree, we'd do a two-way "git-read-tree branch1->result"
- I didn't actually make it do all the trivial resolve cases that
git-read-tree does. It's a technology demonstration.
Finally (a more serious caveat):
- doing things through stdout may end up being so expensive that we'd
need to do something else. In particular, it's likely that I should
not actually output the "merge results", but instead output a "merge
results as they _differ_ from branch1"
However, I think this patch is already interesting enough that people who
are interested in merging trees might want to look at it. Please keep in
mind that tech _demo_ part, and in particular, keep in mind the final
"serious caveat" part.
In many ways, the really _interesting_ part of a merge is not the result,
but how it _changes_ the branch we're merging into. That's particularly
important as it should hopefully also mean that the output size for any
reasonable case is minimal (and tracks what we actually need to do to the
current state to create the final result).
The code very much is organized so that doing the result as a "diff
against branch1" should be quite easy/possible. I was actually going to do
it, but I decided that it probably makes the output harder to read. I
dunno.
Anyway, let's think about this kind of approach.. Note how the code itself
is actually quite small and short, although it's prbably pretty "dense".
As an interesting test-case, I'd suggest this merge in the kernel:
which resolves beautifully (there are no actual file-level conflicts), and
you can look at the output of that command to start thinking about what
it does.
The interesting part (perhaps) is that timing that command for me shows
that it takes all of 0.004 seconds.. (the git-merge-base thing takes
considerably more ;)
The point is, we _can_ do the actual merge part really really quickly.
Linus
PS. Final note: when I say that it is "WORKING CODE", that is obviously by
my standards. IOW, I tested it once and it gave reasonable results - so it
must be perfect.
Whether it works for anybody else, or indeed for any other test-case, is
not my problem ;)
This adds --date-order to rev-list; it is similar to topo order
in the sense that no parent comes before all of its children,
but otherwise things are still ordered in the commit timestamp
order.
Print an error if cloning a http repo and NO_CURL is set
If Git is compiled with NO_CURL=YesPlease and one tries to
clone a http repository, git-clone tries to call the curl
binary. This trivial patch prints an error instead in such
situation.
Signed-off-by: Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is in the same spirit as an earlier patch for git-commit.
It does an extra ls-files to avoid complaining when a fully
tracked directory name is given on the command line (otherwise
--others restriction would say the pathspec does not match).
This allows you to rewrite history a bit more flexibly, by
separating the other branch name and new branch point. By
default, the new branch point is the same as the tip of the
other branch as before, but you can specify where you graft the
rebased branch onto.
commit: detect misspelled pathspec while making a partial commit.
When you say "git commit Documentaiton" to make partial commit
for the files only in that directory, we did not detect that as
a misspelled pathname and attempted to commit index without
change. If nothing matched, there is no harm done, but if the
index gets modified otherwise by having another valid pathspec
or after an explicit update-index, a user will not notice
without paying attention to the "git status" preview.
This introduces --error-unmatch option to ls-files, and uses it
to detect this common user error.
* master:
Merge some proposed fixes
s/SHELL/SHELL_PATH/ in Makefile
bisect: remove BISECT_NAMES after done.
Documentation: git-ls-files asciidocco.
Documentation: git-commit in 1.2.X series defaults to --include.
Merge branch 'pb/bisect'
When showing a conflicted merge from index stages and working
tree file, we did not fetch the mode from the working tree,
and mistook that as a deleted file. Also if the manual
resolution (or automated resolution by git rerere) ended up
taking either parent's version, we did not show _anything_ for
that path. Either was quite bad and confusing.