Just like we give a reasonable default for "less" via the LESS
environment variable, specify a reasonable default for "lv" via the
"LV" environment variable when spawning the pager.
* jn/pager-lv-default-env:
pager: set LV=-c alongside LESS=FRSX
When parsing a 40-hex string into the object name, the string is
checked to see if it can be interpreted as a ref so that a warning
can be given for ambiguity. The code kicked in even when the
core.warnambiguousrefs is set to false to squelch this warning, in
which case the cycles spent to look at the ref namespace were an
expensive no-op, as the result was discarded without being used.
* br/sha1-name-40-hex-no-disambiguation:
sha1_name: don't resolve refs when core.warnambiguousrefs is false
"git help $cmd" unnecessarily enumerated potential command names
from the filesystem, even when $cmd is known to be a built-in.
Ideas for further optimization, primarily by killing the use of
is_in_cmdlist(), were suggested in the discussion, but they can
come as follow-ups on top of this series.
* ss/builtin-cleanup:
builtin/help.c: speed up is_git_command() by checking for builtin commands first
builtin/help.c: call load_command_list() only when it is needed
git.c: consistently use the term "builtin" instead of "internal command"
Two-level configuration variable names in "branch.*" and "remote.*"
hierarchies whose variables are predominantly three-level where not
completed by hitting a <TAB> in bash and zsh completions.
"git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal
result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself.
* bm/merge-base-octopus-dedup:
merge-base --octopus: reduce the result from get_octopus_merge_bases()
merge-base: separate "--independent" codepath into its own helper
Fetching 'frotz' branch with "git fetch", while having
'frotz/nitfol' remote-tracking branch from an earlier fetch, would
error out, primarily because the command has not been told to
remove anything on our side. In such a case, "git fetch --prune"
can be used to remove 'frotz/nitfol' to make room to fetch and
store 'frotz' remote-tracking branch.
* tm/fetch-prune:
fetch --prune: Run prune before fetching
fetch --prune: always print header url
Allow "git diff -O<file>" to be configured with a new configuration
variable.
* sb/diff-orderfile-config:
diff: add diff.orderfile configuration variable
diff: let "git diff -O" read orderfile from any file and fail properly
t4056: add new tests for "git diff -O"
When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for
keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could
cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a
rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt
to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to
fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying.
* jh/rlimit-nofile-fallback:
get_max_fd_limit(): fall back to OPEN_MAX upon getrlimit/sysconf failure
read_sha1_file() that is the workhorse to read the contents given
an object name honoured object replacements, but there is no
corresponding mechanism to sha1_object_info() that is used to
obtain the metainfo (e.g. type & size) about the object, leading
callers to weird inconsistencies.
* cc/replace-object-info:
replace info: rename 'full' to 'long' and clarify in-code symbols
Documentation/git-replace: describe --format option
builtin/replace: unset read_replace_refs
t6050: add tests for listing with --format
builtin/replace: teach listing using short, medium or full formats
sha1_file: perform object replacement in sha1_object_info_extended()
t6050: show that git cat-file --batch fails with replace objects
sha1_object_info_extended(): add an "unsigned flags" parameter
sha1_file.c: add lookup_replace_object_extended() to pass flags
replace_object: don't check read_replace_refs twice
rename READ_SHA1_FILE_REPLACE flag to LOOKUP_REPLACE_OBJECT
Introduce "negative pathspec" magic, to allow "git log -- . ':!dir'" to
tell us "I am interested in everything but 'dir' directory".
* nd/negative-pathspec:
pathspec.c: support adding prefix magic to a pathspec with mnemonic magic
Support pathspec magic :(exclude) and its short form :!
glossary-content.txt: rephrase magic signature part
sha1_name: don't resolve refs when core.warnambiguousrefs is false
When seeing a full 40-hex object name, get_sha1_basic()
unconditionally checks if the string can also be interpreted as a
refname, but the result will not be used unless warn_ambiguous_refs
is in effect.
Omitting this unnecessary ref resolution provides a substantial
performance improvement, especially when passing many hashes to a
command (like "git rev-list --stdin") and core.warnambiguousrefs is
set to false. The check incurs 6 stat()s for every hash supplied,
which can be costly over NFS.
Signed-off-by: Brodie Rao <brodie@sf.io> Acked-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On systems with lv configured as the preferred pager (i.e.,
DEFAULT_PAGER=lv at build time, or PAGER=lv exported in the
environment) git commands that use color show control codes instead of
color in the pager:
"less" avoids this problem because git uses the LESS environment
variable to pass the -R option ('output ANSI color escapes in raw
form') by default. Use the LV environment variable to pass 'lv' the
-c option ('allow ANSI escape sequences for text decoration / color')
to fix it for lv, too.
Noticed when the default value for color.ui flipped to 'auto' in
v1.8.4-rc0~36^2~1 (2013-06-10).
Reported-by: Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen@avasys.jp> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use asciidoc style 'article' instead of 'book' and change asciidoc
title level. This removes blank first page and superfluous "Part I"
page (there is no "Part II") in pdf output. Also pdf size is
decreased by this from 77 to 67 pages. In html output this removes
unnecessary sub-tocs and chapter numbering.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin/help.c: speed up is_git_command() by checking for builtin commands first
Since 2dce956 is_git_command() is a bit slow as it does file I/O in
the call to list_commands_in_dir(). Avoid the file I/O by adding an
early check for the builtin commands.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'pushdefault' doesn't come up. This is because "$cur" is matched with
"remote.*" and a list of remotes are completed. Add 'pushdefault' as a
candidate for completion too, using __gitcomp_nl_append ().
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'autosetupmerge' and 'autosetuprebase' don't come up. This is because
"$cur" is matched with "branch.*" and a list of branches are
completed. Add 'autosetupmerge', 'autosetuprebase' as candidates for
completion too, using __gitcomp_nl_append ().
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first candidate has the suffix ".", and the second/ third candidates
have the suffix " ". To facilitate completions of this kind, create a
variation of __gitcomp_nl () that appends to the existing list of
completion candidates, COMPREPLY.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If zsh completion is being read from a location that is different from
system-wide default, it is likely that the user is trying to use a
custom version, perhaps closer to the bleeding edge, installed in her
own directory. We will more likely to find the matching bash completion
script in the same directory than in those system default places.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/gitmodules: Only 'update' and 'url' are required
Descriptions for all the settings fell under the initial "Each
submodule section also contains the following required keys:". The
example shows sections with just 'path' and 'url' entries, which are
indeed required, but we should still make the required/optional
distinction explicit to clarify that the rest of them are optional.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Reviewed-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we have a remote-tracking branch named "frotz/nitfol" from a
previous fetch, and the upstream now has a branch named "frotz",
fetch would fail to remove "frotz/nitfol" with a "git fetch --prune"
from the upstream. git would inform the user to use "git remote
prune" to fix the problem.
Change the way "fetch --prune" works by moving the pruning operation
before the fetching operation. This way, instead of warning the user
of a conflict, it autmatically fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Tom Miller <jackerran@gmail.com> Tested-by: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If "fetch --prune" is run with no new refs to fetch, but it has refs
to prune. Then, the header url is not printed as it would if there were
new refs to fetch.
Output before this patch:
$ git fetch --prune remote-with-no-new-refs
x [deleted] (none) -> origin/world
Output after this patch:
$ git fetch --prune remote-with-no-new-refs
From https://github.com/git/git
x [deleted] (none) -> origin/test
Signed-off-by: Tom Miller <jackerran@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 64a99eb4 git gc refuses to run without the --force option if
another gc process on the same repository is already running.
However, if the repository is shared and user A runs git gc on the
repository and while that gc is still running user B runs git gc on
the same repository the gc process run by user A will not be noticed
and the gc run by user B will go ahead and run.
The problem is that the kill(pid, 0) test fails with an EPERM error
since user B is not allowed to signal processes owned by user A
(unless user B is root).
Update the test to recognize an EPERM error as meaning the process
exists and another gc should not be run (unless --force is given).
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Having a simulated "known breakage" test means that the test
suite will always tell us there is a bug to be fixed, even
though it is only simulated.
The right way to test this is in a sub-test, that can also
check that we provide the correct exit status and output.
Fortunately, we already have such a test (added much later
by 5ebf89e).
We could arguably get rid of the simulated success test
immediately above, as well, as it is also redundant with the
tests added in 5ebf89e. However, it does not have the
annoying behavior of the "known breakage" test. It may also
be easier to debug if the test suite is truly broken, since
it is not a test-within-a-test, as the later tests are.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 517cd55 set HARNESS_ACTIVE unconditionally in
sub-tests, because that value affects the output of
"--verbose". t0000 needs stable output from its sub-tests,
and we may or may not be running under a TAP harness.
That commit made the decision to always set the variable,
since it has another useful side effect, which is
suppressing writes to t/test-results by the sub-tests (which
would just pollute the real results).
Since the last commit, though, the sub-tests have their own
test-results directories, so this is no longer an issue. We
can now update a few comments that are no longer accurate
nor necessary.
We can also revisit the choice of HARNESS_ACTIVE. Since we
must choose one value for stability, it's probably saner to
have it off. This means that future patches could test
things like the test-results writing, or the "--quiet"
option, which is currently ignored when run under a harness.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These scratch areas for sub-tests should be under the t0000 trash
directory, but because TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY defaults to
TEST_DIRECTORY, which is exported to help sub-tests find
test-lib.sh, the sub-test trash directories are created under the
toplevel t/ directory instead. Because some of the sub-tests
simulate failures, their trash directories are kept around.
Fix it by explicitly setting TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY appropriately for
sub-tests.
An alternative fix would be to pass the --root parameter that only
specifies where to put the trash directories, which would also work.
However, using TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY is more futureproof in case
tests want to write more output in addition to the test-results/
(which are already suppressed in sub-tests using the HARNESS_ACTIVE
setting) and trash directories.
This fixes a regression introduced by 38b074d (t/test-lib.sh: fix
TRASH_DIRECTORY handling, 2013-04-14). Before that commit, the
TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY setting was not respected consistently so most
tests did their work in a "trash" subdirectory of the current
directory instead of the output dir.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Clarified-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
use distinct username/password for http auth tests
The httpd server we set up to test git's http client code
knows about a single account, in which both the username and
password are "user@host" (the unusual use of the "@" here is
to verify that we handle the character correctly when URL
escaped).
This means that we may miss a certain class of errors in
which the username and password are mixed up internally by
git. We can make our tests more robust by having distinct
values for the username and password.
In addition to tweaking the server passwd file and the
client URL, we must teach the "askpass" harness to accept
multiple values. As a bonus, this makes the setup of some
tests more obvious; when we are expecting git to ask
only about the password, we can seed the username askpass
response with a bogus value.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
That commit taught do_askpass to hand ownership of our
buffer back to the caller rather than simply return a
pointer into our internal strbuf. What it failed to notice,
though, was that our internal strbuf is static, because we
are trying to emulate the getpass() interface.
By handing off ownership, we created a memory leak that
cannot be solved. Sometimes git_prompt returns a static
buffer from getpass() (or our smarter git_terminal_prompt
wrapper), and sometimes it returns an allocated string from
do_askpass.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an entry into the table of supported OSes. Do not set _XOPEN_SOURCE
(contrary to OpenBSD) because that disables the u_short and u_long
typedefs, which are used unconditionally in various other header files.
Signed-off-by: Benny Siegert <bsiegert@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
replace info: rename 'full' to 'long' and clarify in-code symbols
Enum names SHORT/MEDIUM/FULL were too broad to be descriptive. And
they clashed with built-in symbols on platforms like Windows.
Clarify by giving them REPLACE_FORMAT_ prefix.
Rename 'full' format in "git replace --format=<name>" to 'long', to
match others (i.e. 'short' and 'medium').
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge-base --octopus: reduce the result from get_octopus_merge_bases()
Scripts that use "merge-base --octopus" could do the reducing
themselves, but most of them are expected to want to get the reduced
results without having to do any work themselves.
Tests are taken from a message by Василий Макаров
<einmalfel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
We might want to vet the existing callers of the underlying
get_octopus_merge_bases() and find out if _all_ of them are doing
anything extra (like deduping) because the machinery can return
duplicate results. And if that is the case, then we may want to
move the dedupling down the callchain instead of having it here.
merge-base: separate "--independent" codepath into its own helper
It piggybacks on an unrelated handle_octopus() function only because
there are some similarities between the way they need to preprocess
their input and output their result. There is nothing similar in
the true logic between these two operations.
Support for grafts predates Git's strbuf, and hence it is understandable
that there was a hard-coded line length limit of 1023 characters (which
was chosen a bit awkwardly, given that it is *exactly* one byte short of
aligning with the 41 bytes occupied by a commit name and the following
space or new-line character).
While regular commit histories hardly win comprehensibility in general
if they merge more than twenty-two branches in one go, it is not Git's
business to limit grafts in such a way.
In this particular developer's case, the use case that requires
substantially longer graft lines to be supported is the visualization of
the commits' order implied by their changes: commits are considered to
have an implicit relationship iff exchanging them in an interactive
rebase would result in merge conflicts.
Thusly implied branches tend to be very shallow in general, and the
resulting thicket of implied branches is usually very wide; It is
actually quite common that *most* of the commits in a topic branch have
not even one implied parent, so that a final merge commit has about as
many implied parents as there are commits in said branch.
[jc: squashed in tests by Jonathan]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* fc/remote-helper-fixes:
remote-hg: test 'shared_path' in a moved clone
remote-hg: add tests for special filenames
remote-hg: fix 'shared path' path
remote-helpers: add extra safety checks
remote-hg: avoid buggy strftime()
Two packfiles that contain the same set of objects have
traditionally been named identically, but that made repacking a
repository that is already fully packed without any cruft with a
different packing parameter cumbersome. Update the convention to
name the packfile after the bytestream representation of the data,
not after the set of objects in it.
* jk/name-pack-after-byte-representation:
pack-objects doc: treat output filename as opaque
pack-objects: name pack files after trailer hash
sha1write: make buffer const-correct
"git diff ../else/where/A ../else/where/B" when ../else/where is
clearly outside the repository, and "git diff --no-index A B", do
not have to look at the index at all, but we used to read the index
unconditionally.
* tg/diff-no-index-refactor:
diff: avoid some nesting
diff: add test for --no-index executed outside repo
diff: don't read index when --no-index is given
diff: move no-index detection to builtin/diff.c
Show the total number of paths and the number of paths shown so far
when "git difftool" prompts to launch an external diff tool, which
would give users some sense of progress.
* zk/difftool-counts:
diff.c: fix some recent whitespace style violations
difftool: display the number of files in the diff queue in the prompt
Make "git push origin master" update the same ref that would be
updated by our 'master' when "git push origin" (no refspecs) is run
while the 'master' branch is checked out, which makes "git push"
more symmetric to "git fetch" and more usable for the triangular
workflow.
* jc/push-refmap:
push: also use "upstream" mapping when pushing a single ref
push: use remote.$name.push as a refmap
builtin/push.c: use strbuf instead of manual allocation
Subversion serf backend in versions 1.8.5 and below has a bug(*) that the
function creating the descriptor of a file change -- add_file() --
doesn't make a copy of its third argument when storing it on the
returned descriptor. As a result, by the time this field is used (in
transactions of file copying or renaming) it may well be released, and
the memory reused.
One of its possible manifestations is the svn assertion triggering on an
invalid path, with a message
This patch works around this bug, by storing the value to be passed as
the third argument to add_file() in a local variable with the same scope
as the file change descriptor, making sure their lifetime is the same.
* [ew: fixed in Subversion r1553376 as noted by Jonathan Nieder]
Cc: Benjamin Pabst <benjamin.pabst85@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru>
It can be useful for debugging or analysis to see which
objects are stored as delta bases on top of others. This
information is available by running `git verify-pack`, but
that is extremely expensive (and is harder than necessary to
parse).
Instead, let's make it available as a cat-file query format,
which makes it fast and simple to get the bases for a subset
of the objects.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sha1_object_info_extended: provide delta base sha1s
A caller of sha1_object_info_extended technically has enough
information to determine the base sha1 from the results of
the call. It knows the pack, offset, and delta type of the
object, which is sufficient to find the base.
However, the functions to do so are not publicly available,
and the code itself is intimate enough with the pack details
that it should be abstracted away. We could add a public
helper to allow callers to query the delta base separately,
but it is simpler and slightly more efficient to optionally
grab it along with the rest of the object_info data.
For cases where the object is not stored as a delta, we
write the null sha1 into the query field. A careful caller
could check "oi.whence == OI_PACKED && oi.u.packed.is_delta"
before looking at the base sha1, but using the null sha1
provides a simple alternative (and gives a better sanity
check for a non-careful caller than simply returning random
bytes).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sha1write function returns an int, but it will always be
"0". The failure-prone parts of the function happen in the
"flush" callback, which cannot pass an error back to us. So
we just end up calling die() during the flush.
Let's just drop the return value altogether, as it only
confuses callers into thinking that it might be useful.
Only one call site actually checked the return value. We can
drop that check, since it just led to a die() anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
add: don't complain when adding empty project root
This behavior was added in 07d7bed (add: don't complain when adding
empty project root - 2009-04-28) then broken by 84b8b5d (remove
match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth() -
2013-07-14). Reinstate it.
Noticed-by: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since e71d1378 (remote-hg: fix 'shared path' path, 2013-12-07),
Mercurial 'shared_path' file is correctly updated whenever a clone is
moved. Make sure it keeps working, especially as this is depending on a
private Mercurial file.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
log: properly handle decorations with chained tags
git log did not correctly handle decorations when a tag object referenced
another tag object that was no longer a ref, such as when the second tag was
deleted. The commit would not be decorated correctly because parse_object had
not been called on the second tag and therefore its tagged field had not been
filled in, resulting in none of the tags being associated with the relevant
commit.
Call parse_object to fill in this field if it is absent so that the chain of
tags can be dereferenced and the commit can be properly decorated. Include
tests as well to prevent future regressions.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff: let "git diff -O" read orderfile from any file and fail properly
The -O flag really shouldn't silently fail to do anything when given
a path that it can't read from.
However, it should be able to read from un-mmappable files, such as:
* pipes/fifos
* /dev/null: It's a character device (at least on Linux)
* ANY empty file:
Quoting Linux mmap(2), "SUSv3 specifies that mmap() should fail if
length is 0. However, in kernels before 2.6.12, mmap() succeeded in
this case: no mapping was created and the call returned addr. Since
kernel 2.6.12, mmap() fails with the error EINVAL for this case."
We especially want "-O/dev/null" to work, since we will be documenting
it as the way to cancel "diff.orderfile" when we add that.
(Note: "-O/dev/null" did have the right effect, since the existing error
handling essentially worked out to "silently ignore the orderfile". But
this was probably more coincidence than anything else.)
So, lets toss all of that logic to get the file mmapped and just use
strbuf_read_file() instead, which gives us decent error handling
practically for free.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin/prune.c: use strbuf to avoid having to worry about PATH_MAX
While at it, rename prune_tmp_object(), which used to be a helper to
remove temporary files that were created to become loose object
files, to prune_tmp_file(), as the function is also used to remove
any random cruft whose name begins with tmp_ directly in .git/object
or .git/object/pack directories these days.
Noticed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
get_max_fd_limit(): fall back to OPEN_MAX upon getrlimit/sysconf failure
On broken systems where RLIMIT_NOFILE is visible by the compliers
but underlying getrlimit() system call does not behave, we used to
simply die() when we are trying to decide how many file descriptors
to allocate for keeping packfiles open. Instead, allow the fallback
codepath to take over when we get such a failure from getrlimit().
The same issue exists with _SC_OPEN_MAX and sysconf(); restructure
the code in a similar way to prepare for a broken sysconf() as well.
Noticed-by: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The BFG is a tool specifically designed for the task of removing
unwanted data from Git repository history - a common use-case for which
git-filter-branch has been the traditional workhorse.
It's beneficial to let users know that filter-branch has an alternative
here:
* speed : The BFG is 10-50x faster
http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#speed
* complexity of configuration : filter-branch is a very flexible tool,
but demands very careful usage in order to get the desired results
http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples
Obviously, filter-branch has it's advantages too - it permits very
complex rewrites, and doesn't require a JVM - but for the common
use-case of deleting unwanted data, it's helpful to users to be aware
that an alternative exists.
The BFG was released under the GPL in February 2013, and has since seen
widespread production use (The Guardian, RedHat, Google, UK Government
Digital Service), been tested against large repos (~300K commits, ~5GB
packfiles) and received significant positive feedback from users:
Allow gitweb to be configured to show refs out of refs/heads/ as if
they were branches.
* kn/gitweb-extra-branch-refs:
gitweb: Denote non-heads, non-remotes branches
gitweb: Add a feature for adding more branch refs
gitweb: Return 1 on validation success instead of passed input
gitweb: Move check-ref-format code into separate function
Be more careful when parsing remote repository URL given in the
scp-style host:path notation.
* tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port:
git_connect(): use common return point
connect.c: refactor url parsing
git_connect(): refactor the port handling for ssh
git fetch: support host:/~repo
t5500: add test cases for diag-url
git fetch-pack: add --diag-url
git_connect: factor out discovery of the protocol and its parts
git_connect: remove artificial limit of a remote command
t5601: add tests for ssh
t5601: remove clear_ssh, refactor setup_ssh_wrapper
Remove a few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix comparison
functions, and rename them to starts_with and ends_with.
* cc/starts-n-ends-with:
replace {pre,suf}fixcmp() with {starts,ends}_with()
strbuf: introduce starts_with() and ends_with()
builtin/remote: remove postfixcmp() and use suffixcmp() instead
environment: normalize use of prefixcmp() by removing " != 0"
"git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before
editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned
control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the
first modified path was a submodule.
* jl/commit-v-strip-marker:
commit -v: strip diffs and submodule shortlogs from the commit message
SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket
layer in "git send-email".
* tr/send-email-ssl:
send-email: set SSL options through IO::Socket::SSL::set_client_defaults
send-email: --smtp-ssl-cert-path takes an argument
send-email: pass Debug to Net::SMTP::SSL::new