Jens was the second person who hadn't heard of the "merge" program, and
didn't have it installed. So document as many dependency and install
issues as I can think of.
Sometimes we only want to output revisions, and sometimes we want to
only see the stuff that wasn't revisions. Teach git-rev-parse to
understand the "--revs-only" and "--no-revs" flags.
It's an incredibly cheesy helper that changes human-readable revision
arguments into the git-rev-list argument format.
You can use it to do something like this:
git-rev-list --pretty $(git-rev-parse --default HEAD "$@")
which is what git-log-script will become. Here git-rev-parse will
then allow you to use arguments like "v2.6.12-rc5.." or similar
human-readable ranges.
It's really quite stupid: "a..b" will be converted into "a" and "^b" if
"a" and "b" are valid object pointers. And the "--default" case will be
used if nothing but flags have been seen, so that you can default to a
certain argument if there are no other ranges.
Add "-z fuzz" argument, passed to cvsps, and clean up argument
processing. Also, use "cvsps --cvs-direct", which is is somewhat
faster.
Give the user the option of specifying the timestamp fuzz passed to
cvsps. Looking at the other arguments to it, I can't see anything else
that would be sane to play with. Also, use --cvs-direct, which speeds
up cvsps for remote repositories and doesn't seem to do anything bad to
local repositories.
Signed-off-by: Tommy McGuire <mcguire@crsr.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds some sanity checking to git-cvsimport-script,
specifically forcing the use of cvsps -x (to get the latest information
from the repository, rather than whatever is in the cache) and aborting
early if cvsps does not produce any output.
I debated removing the $MODULE directory following an abort, but I
eventually decided leaving stuff behind would make debugging easier. On
the other hand, this patch should help with the "cvsimport left me with
an empty repository" complaints.
Call cvsps with the -x flag, to get the current state of the repository,
and abort the cvs import early if cvsps does not produce any output.
Signed-off-by: Tommy McGuire <mcguire@crsr.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] diff-stages: unuglify the too big main() function.
Split the core of the program, diff_stage, from one big "main()"
function that does it all and leave only the parameter parsing,
setup and finalize part in the main().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] read-tree: loosen too strict index requirements
This patch teaches read-tree 3-way merge that, when only "the
other tree" changed a path, and if the index file already has
the same change, we are not in a situation that would clobber
the index and the work tree, and lets the merge succeed; this is
case #14ALT in t1000 test. It does not change the result of the
merge, but prevents it from failing when it does not have to.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Finish making --emu23 equivalent to pure 2-way merge.
This adds #3ALT rule (and #2ALT rule for symmetry) to the
read-tree 3-way merge logic that collapses paths that are added
only in one branch and not in the other internally.
This makes --emu23 to succeed in the last remaining case where
the pure 2-way merge succeeded and earlier one failed. Running
diff between t1001 and t1005 test scripts shows that the only
difference between the two is that --emu23 can leave the states
into separate stages so that the user can use usual 3-way merge
resolution techniques to carry forward the local changes when
pure 2-way merge would have refused to run.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] read-tree: fix too strong index requirement #5ALT
This fixes too strong index requirement 3-way merge enforces in
one case: the same file is added in both branches.
In this case, the original code insisted that if the index file
has that path, it must match our branch and be up-to-date.
However in this particular case, it only has to match it, and
can be dirty. We just need to make sure that we keep the
work-tree copy instead of checking out the merge result.
The resolution of such a path, however, cannot be left to
outside script, because we will not keep the original stage0
entries for unmerged paths when read-tree finishes, and at that
point, the knowledge of "if we resolve it to match the new file
added in both branches, the merge succeeds and the work tree
would not lose information, but we should _not_ update the work
tree from the resulting index file" is lost. For this reason,
the now code needs to resolve this case (#5ALT) internally.
This affects some existing tests in the test suite, but all in
positive ways. In t1000 (3-way test), this #5ALT case now gets
one stage0 entry, instead of an identical stage2 and stage3
entry pair, for such a path, and one test that checked for merge
failure (because the test assumed the "stricter-than-necessary"
behaviour) does not have to fail anymore. In t1005 (emu23
test), two tests that involves a case where the work tree
already had a change introduced in the upstream (aka "merged
head"), the merge succeeds instead of failing.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This new flag causes two-way fast forward to internally use the
three-way merge mechanism. This behaviour is intended to offer
a better fast forward semantics when used in a dirty work tree.
The new test t1005 is parallel to the existing t1001 "pure
2-way" tests, but some parts that are commented out would fail.
These failures are due to three-way merge enforcing too strict
index requirements for cases that could succeed. This problem
will be addressed by later patches.
Without even changing three-way mechanism, the --emu23 two-way
fast forward already gives the user an easier-to-handle merge
result when a file that "merged head" updates has local
modifications. This is demonstrated as "case 16" test in t1005.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is in preparation for "2-way fast-forward emulated with
3-way mechanism" series. It does not change what the tests for
pure 2-way do. It only changes how it tests things, to make
reviewing of differences of the two tests easier in later steps.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Add --diff-filter= output restriction to diff-* family.
This is a halfway between debugging aid and a helper to write an
ultra-smart merge scripts. The new option takes a string that
consists of a list of "status" letters, and limits the diff
output to only those classes of changes, with two exceptions:
- A broken pair (aka "complete rewrite"), does not match D
(deleted) or N (created). Use B to look for them.
- The letter "A" in the diff-filter string does not match
anything itself, but causes the entire diff that contains
selected patches to be output (this behaviour is similar to
that of --pickaxe-all for the -S option).
Normally, diff-tree does not feed unchanged filepair to diffcore
for performance reasons, so copies are detected only when the
source file of the copy happens to be modified in the same
changeset. This adds --find-copies-harder flag to tell
diff-tree to sacrifice the performance in order to find copies
the same way as other commands in diff-* family.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Fix rename/copy when dealing with temporarily broken pairs.
When rename/copy uses a file that was broken by diffcore-break
as the source, and the broken filepair gets merged back later,
the output was mislabeled as a rename. In this case, the source
file ends up staying in the output, so we should label it as a
copy instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Re-Fix SIGSEGV on unmerged files in git-diff-files -p
When an unmerged path was fed via diff_unmerged() into diffcore,
it eventually called run_diff() with "one" and "two" parameters
with NULL, but run_diff() was not written carefully enough to
notice this situation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A meaningful (ie non-empty) git patch always has more information in the
header than just the "diff --git" line itself: it needs to have either a
patch associated with it (which implies "---" and "+++" lines in the
header) or it needs to have rename/copy/delete/create information in it.
Just ignore git patches which have no change information. Otherwise we'll
end up with a patch that doesn't have filenames etc filled in, and we'll
be unhappy.
The diff-* brothers acquired a sibling, git-diff-stages. With
an unmerged index file, you specify two stage numbers and it
shows the differences between them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is the same as "-m", but it will silently ignore any unmerged
entries, which makes it useful for efficiently forcing a new position
regardless of the state of the current index file.
IOW, to reset to a previous HEAD (in case you have had a failed
merge, for example), you'd just do
git-read-tree -u --reset HEAD
which will also update your working tree to the right state.
NOTE! The "update" will not remove files that may have been added by the
merge. Yet.
One more time.. Clean up git-merge-one-file-script
This uses git-checkout-file to make sure that the full pathname is
created, instead of the script having to verify it by hand. Also,
simplify the 3-way merge case by just writing to the right file and
setting the initial index contents early.
[PATCH] git-merge-one-file-script cleanups from Cogito
Chain the resolving sequences (e.g. git-cat-file - chmod -
git-update-cache) through &&s so we stop right away in case one of the
command fails, and report the error code to the script caller.
Also add a copyright notice, some blank lines, ;; on a separate line,
and nicer error messages.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds a set of tests to make sure that requirements on
existing cache entries are checked when a read-tree -m 3-way
merge is run with an already populated index file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This changes how we handle merges: if a automated merge
fails, we will leave the index as a clean entry pointing
to the original branch, and leave the actual file _dirty_
the way the "merge" program left it.
You can then just do "git-diff-files -p" to see what the
merge conflicts did, fix them up, and commit the end result.
NOTE NOTE NOTE! Do _not_ use "git commit" to commit such
a merge. It won't set the parents right. I'll need to fix
that. In the meantime, you'd need to merge using
git-commit-tree $(git-write) -p HEAD -p MERGE_HEAD
This updates t1000 (basic 3-way merge test) to check the merge
results for both successful cases (earlier one checked the
result for only one of them). Also fixes typos in t1002 that
broke '&&' chain, potentially missing a test failure before the
chain got broken.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes three bugs in --merge-order support
* mark_ancestors_uninteresting was unnecessarily exponential which
caused a problem when a commit with no parents was merged near the
head of something like the linux kernel
* removed a spurious statement from find_base which wasn't
apparently causing problems now, but wasn't correct either.
* removed an unnecessarily strict check from find_base_for_list
that causes a problem if git-rev-list commit ^parent-of-commit
is specified.
* added some unit tests which were accidentally omitted from
original merge-order patch
The fix to mark_ancestors_uninteresting isn't an optimal fix - a full
graph scan will still be performed in this case even though it is
not strictly required. However, a full graph scan is linear
and still no worse than git-rev-list HEAD which runs in less than 2
seconds on a warm cache.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Talk about "git cvsimport" in the cvs migration docs
We should add a lot more information about how you copy repositories,
pulling and pushing, merging etc. Oh, well. I'm not exactly known for
my documentation skills. Maybe somebody else will help me..
[PATCH] read-tree: update documentation for 3-way merge.
This explains the new merge world order that formally assigns
specific meaning to each of three tree-ish command line
arguments. It also mentions -u option
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This gets the "cvs2git" program from the old git-tools
archive, and adds a nice script around it that makes it
much easier to use.
With this, you should be able to import a CVS archive
using just a simple
git cvsimport <cvsroot> <module>
and you're done. At least it worked for my one single test.
NOTE!! This may need tweaking. It currently expects (and
verifies) that cvsps version 2.1 is installed, but you
can't actually set any of the cvsps parameters, like the
time fuzz.
[PATCH] read-tree: save more user hassles during fast-forward.
This implements the "never lose the current cache information or
the work tree state, but favor a successful merge over merge
failure" principle in the fast-forward two-tree merge operation.
It comes with a set of tests to cover all the cases described in
the case matrix found in the new documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This fixes the documentation for git-ssh-push, as called by users (if you
run git-ssh-pull or git-ssh-push on one machine, the other runs on the
other machine, and they transfer data in the specified direction).
This also adds documentation for the -w option and for using filenames for
the commit-id (which does what you'd want: uses the source side's value,
not the value already on the target, even if you're running it on the
target).
It also credits me with the programs and the documentation for
git-ssh-push.
Someone who knows asciidoc should make sure I didn't mess up the
formatting. I'm only sure of the ascii part.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
rsh.c used to set the environment variable for the object database when
invoking the remote command. Now that there is a GIT_DIR variable, use
that instead.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds code to read a hash out of a specified file under
{GIT_DIR}/refs/, and to write such files atomically and optionally with an
compare and lock.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Looking good, but hey, it's not like I even have a real testcase for any
of this. But unlike the mess that this was yerstday, today read-cache
is pretty readable and understandable. Which is always a good sign.
Stop trying to haev this stateful thing that keeps track of what it has
seen, and use a much simpler "gather all the different stages with the
same name together and just merge them in one go" approach.
Makes it a lot more understandable, and allows the different merge
algorithms to share the basic merge loop.
[PATCH] Modify git-rev-list to linearise the commit history in merge order.
This patch linearises the GIT commit history graph into merge order
which is defined by invariants specified in Documentation/git-rev-list.txt.
The linearisation produced by this patch is superior in an objective sense
to that produced by the existing git-rev-list implementation in that
the linearisation produced is guaranteed to have the minimum number of
discontinuities, where a discontinuity is defined as an adjacent pair of
commits in the output list which are not related in a direct child-parent
relationship.
A test script, t/t6000-rev-list.sh, includes a test which demonstrates
that the linearisation produced by --merge-order has less discontinuities
than the linearisation produced by git-rev-list without the --merge-order
flag specified. To see this, do the following:
cd t
./t6000-rev-list.sh
cd trash
cat actual-default-order
cat actual-merge-order
The existing behaviour of git-rev-list is preserved, by default. To obtain
the modified behaviour, specify --merge-order or --merge-order --show-breaks
on the command line.
This version of the patch has been tested on the git repository and also on the linux-2.6
repository and has reasonable performance on both - ~50-100% slower than the original algorithm.
This version of the patch has incorporated a functional equivalent of the Linus' output limiting
algorithm into the merge-order algorithm itself. This operates per the notes associated
with Linus' commit 337cb3fb8da45f10fe9a0c3cf571600f55ead2ce.
This version has incorporated Linus' feedback regarding proposed changes to rev-list.c.
(see: [PATCH] Factor out filtering in rev-list.c)
This version has improved the way sort_first_epoch marks commits as uninteresting.
For more details about this change, refer to Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
and http://blackcubes.dyndns.org/epoch/.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
That's the final one ("Yeah, sure, we believe you").
Anyway, at least the tests pass, which is not saying a lot, since they
don't end up testing all the new the things that the new merge world
order tries to do. But hopefully we're now at least not any worse off
than we were before the rewrite.
[PATCH] 3-way merge tests for new "git-read-tree -m"?
The updated git-tread-tree -m is more strict in that it wants to
have the original cache up to date. The initial part of t1000
(merge tests from hell) fails due to it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Three-way merge: fix silly bug that made trivial merges not work
Making the main loop look more like the one- and two-way cases
introduced a bug where "src" had been updated early, but later
users hadn't been adjusted to match.
Add a "-u" flag to update the tree as a result of a merge.
Right now this code is way too anal about things, and fails merges it
shouldn't, but let me fix up the different cases and this will allow for
much smoother merging even in the presense of dirty data in the working
tree.
git-read-tree: be a lot more careful about merging dirty trees
We don't want to overwrite state that we haven't committed yet
when merging, so it's better to make git-read-tree fail than
end up with a merge tree that ends up not having the dirty changes.
Update git-resolve-script to fail cleanly when git-read-tree fails.
This adds documentation for the diffcore mechanism and explains
how numeric parameters to -B/-C/-M options affect the output,
which was left "black magic" so far.
The documentation is not connected to any of the other asciidoc
nodes yet. Awaiting for suggestions, fixes and help from other
people.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>