checkout-index -h: show usage even in an invalid repository
checkout-index loads the index before parsing options. Erroring out
is counterproductive at that point if the operator is hunting for a
command to recover useful data from the broken repository.
[jn: new commit message, tests]
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
branch -h: show usage even in an invalid repository
There is no need for "git branch -h" to try to access a repository.
In the spirit of v1.6.6-rc0~34^2~3 (Let 'git <command> -h' show usage
without a git dir, 2009-11-09). This brings git one step closer to
passing the following (automatically verifiable) test:
Before any repository access (aside from git_config()), a
function from the setup_git_directory_* family has been run
and thus one step closer to being able to use an automatic repository
access checker.
[jn: simplified; new commit message, test]
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff: don't presume empty file when corresponding object is missing
The low-level diff code will happily produce totally bogus diff output
with a broken repository via format-patch and friends by treating missing
objects as empty files. Let's prevent that from happening any longer.
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sn/doc-opt-notation:
Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings
Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string
Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation
Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation
Use angles for placeholders consistently
We already detect invalid input to these functions, but we
simply exit with an error code, never saying anything as
simple as "your input was wrong". Let's fix that.
Before:
$ git diff -CM
$ echo $?
128
After:
$ git diff -CM
error: invalid argument to -C: M
$ echo $?
128
There should be no problems with having diff_opt_parse print
to stderr, as there is already precedent in complaining
about bogus --color and --output arguments.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git_config() function signals error by returning -1 in
two instances:
1. An actual error occurs in opening a config file (parse
errors cause an immediate die).
2. Of the three possible config files, none was found.
However, this second case is often not an error at all; it
simply means that the user has no configuration (they are
outside a repo, and they have no ~/.gitconfig file). This
can lead to confusing errors, such as when the bash
completion calls "git config --list" outside of a repo. If
the user has a ~/.gitconfig, the command completes
succesfully; if they do not, it complains to stderr.
This patch allows callers of git_config to distinguish
between the two cases. Error is signaled by -1, and
otherwise the return value is the number of files parsed.
This means that the traditional "git_config(...) < 0" check
for error should work, but callers who want to know whether
we parsed any files or not can still do so.
[jc: with tests from Jonathan]
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous text was not exactly accurate; it is OK to
change space and minus lines, but only in certain ways. This
patch attempts to cover explicitly what can be done at the
individual line level, and cautions the user that
conceptually larger changes (like modifying a line) require
some understanding of the patch format.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff: handle lines containing only whitespace and tabs better
When a line contains nothing but whitespace with at least one tab
and the core.whitespace config option contains blank-at-eol, the
whitespace on the line is being printed twice, once unhighlighted
(unless otherwise matched by one of the other core.whitespace values),
and a second time highlighted for blank-at-eol.
Update the leading indentation check to stop checking when it reaches
the trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test-lib: extend test_decode_color to handle more color codes
Enhance the test_decode_color function to handle all common color codes,
including background colors and escapes that contain multiple codes.
This change necessitates changing <WHITE> to <BOLD>, so update t4034
as well.
This change is necessary for the next commit in order to test
background colors properly.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fast-import: do not clear notes in do_change_note_fanout()
Commit 5edde51 (fast-import: filemodify after M 040000 <tree> ""
crashes, 2010-10-17) taught fast-import to load trees from the
object db as needed when it is time to access them.
But it went too far. In change_note_fanout(), an empty,
not-loaded tree is not meant to destroy notes, so calling
load_tree() at that point is exactly the wrong thing to do.
Kudos to Johan Herland for t9301, which caught this failure.
Reported-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Encode.pm started updating the string to decode in-place when a second
argument is passed in version 2.40.
This causes 'decode_utf8("", Encode::FB_CROAK)' to die with a message
like:
Modification of a read-only value attempted at .../Encode.pm line 216.
Work around this by passing an empty variable instead of a constant
string.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-gui currently uses its own logic to determine the work-tree setting
but 'git rev-parse --toplevel' directly returns git's work-tree value
by calling get_git_work_tree() and is therefore always correct.
This fixes an inability to handle some repository configurations. In
particular where .git is a file containing a path to the real directory
(a cross-platform symbolic link).
To continue to support older versions than 1.7.0, setting the work-tree
by normalizing the --show-cdup value is more reliable as git-dir might be
outside the work-tree entirely.
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
t4203: do not let "git shortlog" DWIM based on tty
The "shortlog" command defaults to HEAD only when its standard input is
connected to a terminal; otherwise it acts in the traditional "filter"
mode to read and summarize the "git log" output.
Two new tests added to t4203 assumed that the command always default to
HEAD, but when the standard input is closed (or connected to /dev/null),
it output empty, which is a summary of its empty input, causing the test
to break.
t9300 (fast-import): another test for the "replace root" feature
Another test for the replace root feature. One can imagine an
implementation for which R "some/subdir" "" would free some state
associated to the subdir and leave fast-import confused.
Luckily, git's is not such an implementation.
While at it, change the previous test to use C "some/subdir" ""
instead of R (i.e., test both syntaxes).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
{cvs,svn}import: use the new 'git read-tree --empty'
Since fb1bb96 (read-tree: deprecate syntax without tree-ish args,
2010-09-10) not passing --empty caused a spurious warning that was
shown to the user.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
t/t9001-send-email.sh: fix stderr redirection in 'Invalid In-Reply-To'
Clarify and extend the "git diff" format documentation
git-show-ref.txt: clarify the pattern matching
documentation: git-config minor cleanups
Update test script annotate-tests.sh to handle missing/extra authors
Change push.default's description to add hyphens between values and
descriptions to make the manpage easier to read. The html version is
readable either way.
Change status.showUntrackedFiles to make item descriptions be
sentences and to use the same asciidoc format as push.default. The
only visual change is the additions of "."
Signed-off-by: Cliff Frey <cliff@meraki.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update test script annotate-tests.sh to handle missing/extra authors
The current script used by annotate-tests.sh (used by t8001 and t8002) fails
to emit a warning if any of the expected authors never show up in the output
or if authors that show up in the output were never specified as expected.
Update the script to fail in both of these scenarios.
Helped-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
blame: Add option to show author email instead of name
Add a new option -e (or --show-email) to git-blame that will display
the author's email instead of name on each line. This option works
for both git-blame and git-annotate.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
repack: place temporary packs under .git/objects/pack/
git-pack-objects is already careful to start out its temporary packs
under .git/objects/pack/ (cf. 8b4eb6b, Do not perform cross-directory
renames when creating packs, 2008-09-22), but git-repack did not
respond in kind so the effort was lost when the filesystem boundary is
exactly at that directory.
Let git-repack pass a path under .git/objects/pack/ as the base for
its temporary packs.
This means we might need the $PACKDIR sooner (before the pack-objects
invocation), so move the mkdir up just to be safe.
Also note that the only use of *.pack is in the find invocation way
before the pack-objects call, so the temporary packs will not suddenly
show up in any wildcards because of the directory change.
Reported-by: Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
And as a side-effect of 2794ad5 (fast-import: Allow filemodify to set
the root, 2010-10-10), this last call is accepted and changes
the tree entry for root:foo/bar to refer to the specified tree.
That seems safe enough but let's reject the new syntax (we never meant
to support it) and make it harder for frontends to introduce pointless
incompatibilities with git fast-import 1.7.3.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
fast-import: filemodify after M 040000 <tree> "" crashes
Until M 040000 <tree> "" syntax was introduced in commit 2794ad5
(fast-import: Allow filemodify to set the root, 2010-10-10), it
was impossible for the root entry to refer to an unloaded tree.
Update various functions to take that possibility into account.
Otherwise
M 040000 <tree> ""
M 100644 :1 "foo"
and similar commands (using D, C, or R after resetting the root
tree) segfault.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pushing via builtin transports (like file://, git://), the
underlying transport helper (in this case, git-pack-objects) did not get
the --progress option, even if it was passed to git push.
Fix this, and update the tests to reflect this.
Note that according to the git-pack-objects documentation, we can safely
apply the usual --progress semantics for the transport commands like
clone and fetch (and for pushing over other smart transports).
Reported-by: Chase Brammer <cbrammer@gmail.com> Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reported-by: Chase Brammer <cbrammer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For terminal tests that capture output/stderr, the TTY prerequisite
warning does not quite work for commands like
test_terminal foo >out 2>err
because the warning gets "swallowed" up by the redirection that's
supposed only to be done by the subcommand.
Even worse, the outcome depends on whether stdout was already a
terminal (in which case test_terminal is a noop) or not (in which case
test_terminal introduces a pseudo-tty in the middle of the pipeline).
- use the test_terminal script even when running with "-v".
- skip tests that require a terminal when the test_terminal
script is unusable because IO::Pty is not installed.
- write the "need to declare TTY prerequisite" message to fd 4,
where it will be printed when running tests with -v, rather
than being swallowed up by an unrelated redireciton.
Noticed-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is easy to forget to declare the TTY prerequisite when
writing tests on a system where it would always be satisfied
(because IO::Pty is installed; see v1.7.3-rc0~33^2, 2010-08-16
for example). Automatically detect this problem so there is
no need to remember.
test_terminal: need to declare TTY prerequisite
test_must_fail: command not found: test_terminal echo hi
test_terminal returns status 127 in this case to simulate
not being available.
Also replace the SIMPLEPAGERTTY prerequisite on one test with
"SIMPLEPAGER,TTY", since (1) the latter is supported now and
(2) the prerequisite detection relies on the TTY prereq being
explicitly declared.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
tests: test terminal output to both stdout and stderr
Some outputs (like the pager) care whether stdout is a
terminal. Others (like progress meters) care about stderr.
This patch sets up both. Technically speaking, we could go
further and set up just one (because either the other goes
to a terminal, or because our tests are only interested in
one). This patch does both to keep the interface to
lib-terminal simple.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
send-pack: avoid redundant "pack-objects died with strange error"
Saying "pack-objects died with strange error" after "pack-objects died
of signal 13" seems kind of redundant. The latter message was
introduced when the run-command API changed to report abnormal exits
on behalf of the caller (v1.6.5-rc0~86^2~5, 2009-07-04).
Similarly, after a controlled pack-objects failure (detectable as a
normal exit with nonzero status), a "died with strange error" message
would be redundant next to the message from pack-objects itself.
So leave off the "strange error" messages.
The result should look something like this:
$ git push sf master
Counting objects: 21542, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (4179/4179), done.
fatal: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied
error: pack-objects died of signal 13
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://sf.net/gitroot/project/project'
$
Or in the "controlled exit" case (contrived example):
[...]
fatal: delta size changed
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://example.com/foo/bar'
$
Improved-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge-file: correctly find files when called in subdir
Since b541248 (merge.conflictstyle: choose between "merge" and "diff3
-m" styles, 2008-08-29), git-merge-file uses setup_directory_gently(),
thus cd'ing around to find any possible config files to use.
This broke merge-file when it is called from within a subdirectory of
a repository, and the arguments are all relative paths.
Fix by prepending the prefix, as passed down from the main git
setup code, if there is any.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
prefix_filename(): safely handle the case where pfx_len=0
Current prefix_filename() is proofed against the case where the prefix
'pfx' is NULL or a 0-length string, _except on Windows_.
Change the behaviour to work the same on both platforms, and only
check pfx_len so that callers passing a NULL prefix with a nonzero
pfx_len segfault early on both.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t4203 (mailmap): stop hardcoding commit ids and dates
A seemingly innocuous change like adding test_tick somewhere can
completely upset the final mailmap test, since it checks commit
hashes and dates. Make the test less fragile by fuzzing away the
unpredictable parts and leaving in the authors (which is what the
test is about, anyway).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --check: correct line numbers of new blank lines at EOF
The whitespace check printed the value of the wrong variable, i.e. the
beginning of the block of blank lines at the EOF (possibly absent) in the
old file.
As "git diff --check" is used by users to check their changes before
making a commit, we should point at the line number in the file after
the change.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff"
Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section
Documentation: diff can compare blobs
Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
shell portability: no "export VAR=VAL"
CodingGuidelines: reword parameter expansion section
Documentation: update-index: -z applies also to --index-info
Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effects
Some .mailmap entry is of the <email1> <email2> form,
while a subsequent one looks like "User Name <Email2>,
and the two email addresses on the right are not identical
but are "equal" when using a case-insensitive comparator.
Then, when add_mapping is processing the latter line, new_email is NULL
and we free me->email, yet do not replace it with a new strdup'd string.
Thus, when later we attempt to use the buffer behind that ->email pointer,
we reference freed memory.
The solution is to free ->email and ->name only if we're about to replace them.
[jc: squashed in the tests from Jonathan]
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The real problem is that maintainers often pick random - and not at
> all stable - points for their development to begin with. They just
> pick some random "this is where Linus -git tree is today", and do
> their development on top of that. THAT is the problem - they are
> unaware that there's some nasty bug in that version.
Maybe they do this because they read it in the Git user-manual.
Fix the manual to give them better guidance.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff"
Originally "--no-index" mode triggered for untracked files within the
tracked tree, but with v1.5.6-rc1~41 (Merge branch 'jc/diff-no-no-index,
2008-05-26) the command was fixed to only implicitly trigger when paths
outside the tracked tree are mentioned.
Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Point in many directions in the hope of helping the reader find what
is needed more quickly.
This commit also removes the summary attached to the SEE ALSO entry
for difftool, to avoid making the SEE ALSO list too verbose. If the
reader wants a summary of the commands referred to, she can always
look to the top of the named pages or to the table of contents on the
main git(1) page.
Suggested-by: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code paths for showing commits in "git log" and "git
rev-list --graph" correctly handle embedded NULs by looking
only at the resulting strbuf's length, and never treating it
as a C string. The code path for regular rev-list, however,
used printf("%s"), which resulted in truncated output. This
patch uses fwrite instead, like the --graph code path.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
submodule sync: Update "submodule.<name>.url" for empty directories
If a submodule directory has not been filled by "git submodule update"
yet, then "git submodule sync" must still update the super-project's
configuration for submodule.<name>.url.
This situation occurs when switching between branches with a module from
different urls and other branches without the submodule.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Köhler <andi5.py@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
apply: Recognize epoch timestamps with : in the timezone
Some patches have a timezone formatted like ‘-08:00’ instead of
‘-0800’ (e.g. http://lwn.net/Articles/131729/), so git apply would
fail to recognize the epoch timestamp of deleted files and would
create empty files instead. Teach it to support both formats, and add
a test case.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
completion: Support the DWIM mode for git checkout
Ever since commit 70c9ac2 (DWIM: "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout
-b frotz origin/frotz"), git checkout has supported a DWIM mode where
it creates a local tracking branch for a remote branch if just the name
of the remote branch is specified on the command-line and only one remote
has a branch with that name. Teach the bash completion script to understand
this DWIM mode and provide such remote-tracking branch names as possible
completions.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This remote helper invokes external command and passes raw smart transport
stream through it. This is useful for instance for invoking ssh with
one-off odd options, connecting to git services in unix domain
sockets, in abstract namespace, using TLS or other secure protocols,
etc...
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This remote helper reflects raw smart remote transport stream back to the
calling program. This is useful for example if some UI wants to handle
ssh itself and not use hacks via GIT_SSH.
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
v1.7.3-rc0~75^2 (Teach fast-import to import subtrees named by tree id,
2010-06-30) has a shortcoming - it doesn't allow the root to be set.
Extend this behaviour by allowing the root to be referenced as the
empty path, "".
For a command (like filter-branch --subdirectory-filter) that wants
to commit a lot of trees that already exist in the object db, writing
undeltified objects as loose files only to repack them later can
involve a significant amount of overhead.
(23% slow-down observed on Linux 2.6.35, worse on Mac OS X 10.6)
Fortunately we have fast-import (which is one of the only git commands
that will write to a pack directly) but there is not an advertised way
to tell fast-import to commit a given tree without unpacking it.
This patch changes that, by allowing
M 040000 <tree id> ""
as a filemodify line in a commit to reset to a particular tree without
any need to parse it. For example,
Users can have their own pretty format aliases since 8028184 (pretty:
add aliases for pretty formats, 2010-05-02), so let's offer those
after '--pretty=' and '--format=' for 'log' and 'show', too.
Similar to the completion of aliases, this will invoke 'git config'
each time pretty aliases needs to be completed, so changes in pretty.*
configuration will be reflected immediately.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bash: support more 'git notes' subcommands and their options
The current completion function for 'git notes' only supported the
'edit' and 'show' subcommands and none of their options. This patch
adds support for all missing subcommands, options, and their arguments
(files or refs), if any.
The code responsible for completing subcommand looks different
compared to the completion functions of other git commands with
subcommands. This is because of the '--ref <notes-ref>' option which
comes before the subcommand (i.e. git notes --ref <notes-ref> add).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bisect: check for mandatory argument of 'bisect replay'
'git bisect replay' has a mandatory logfile argument, but the current
implementation doesn't check whether the user has specified one. When
the user omits the logfile argument, this leads to the following
unhelpful error message:
cannot read for replaying
So, check for the mandatory argument first, and provide a more
meaningful error message when it is omitted.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bisect: improve error msg of 'bisect reset' when original HEAD is deleted
'git bisect reset' (without the optional <commit> argument) returns to
the original HEAD from where the bisection was started. However,
when, for whatever reason, the user deleted the original HEAD before
invoking 'git bisect reset', then all he gets is an error message from
'git checkout':
fatal: invalid reference: somebranch
Let's try to be more helpful with an error message better describing
what went wrong and a suggestion about how to resolve the situation:
Could not check out original HEAD 'somebranch'. Try 'git bisect reset <commit>'.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bisect: improve error message of 'bisect log' while not bisecting
'git bisect log' is implemented by a direct invocation of 'cat
"$GIT_DIR/BISECT_LOG"', without any sanity checks. Consequently,
running 'git bisect log' while not bisecting leads to an error,
because the bisect logfile doesn't exists. The accompanying error
message
cat: /path/to/repo/.git/BISECT_LOG: No such file or directory
is neither very helpful nor very friendly.
Instead of blindly trying to cat the log file, first check whether
there is a bisection going on (i.e. the bisect logfile exists), and
die with a more appropriate error message when not.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t7607: use test-lib functions and check MERGE_HEAD
Use the test_commit and test_path_is_missing
functions from the test library.
Also make sure that a merge which fails due to
pre-merge checks aborts properly and does not
leave MERGE_HEAD behind.
The "will not overwrite removed file" test is an
exception to this. It notices the untracked file
at a stage where the merge is already well under
way. Therefore we cannot abort the merge without
major restructuring. See the following thread for
more details.
Group entries related to parameter substitutions together and avoid
using the word "regexp" to refer to the ${parameter/pattern/string}
substitution (banned), as the pattern there is a shell glob and not
a regular expression.
Therefore for the case when we don't have either action, or filename,
or parent hash [base] in path_info-based URL, i.e. for
http://server/gitweb/project/<object-id>
link, instead of using 'shortlog' view we allow dispatch() subroutine
to detect type of object and use appropriate action (in most case it
would be either 'commit' action, or 'tag', or 'tree' for top
directory).
Requested-by: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Tested-by: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effects
The explanatory comment before the definition of ALLOC_GROW carefully
lists arguments that will be used more than once and thus cannot have
side-effects; a lazy reader might conclude that the arguments not
listed are used only once and side effects safe.
Correct it to list all three arguments, avoiding this confusion.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string
This makes it cosistent with other places (including the
git-pack-objects(1) manpage itself) and avoids possible confusion (I,
for one, mistook `<object-list' for a `<object-list>' typo at first when
preparing this series).
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of using the regex-like bracket expression, use grouping to make
it more consistent with other similar places. The brackets now have the
same meaning as in other documentation (i.e., the argument is optional).
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Mentored-and-Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rather than attempting to trim off all the non-version number suffixes
from the 'git version' result, let us scan along from the beginning until
we find a non-numeric part and stop there. Any such dot-version number will
be compatible with the Tcl package version comparison command which is the
aim of this code.
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
SubmittingPatches: Document some extra tags used in commit messages
Document the meanings of the tags "Reported-by:", "Acked-by:",
"Reviewed-by:" and "Tested-by:" clearly. Also mention that the user is
free to use any custom tags.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Liked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t4026 (color): remove unneeded and unchained command
Ever since 8b12413 (color: allow multiple attributes 2010-02-27),
diff.color.new has been unused in t4026, so also remove the final unsetting
of that value to make the third to last test pass with appropriate
'&&' chaining.
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also add test_might_fail in front of the git_config --unset commands that
may be trying to unset a value that never got set (due to a previous
failing test) or that were already unset.
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t4002 (diff-basic): use test_might_fail for commands that might fail
Also replace '|| return 1' by '&&' to allow chain of operations to be
checked for proper return status, and modify the update-index command
as suggested by Jonathan Nieder to not exit early but try to make sure
files that match the work tree are marked as matching.
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>