Provide an environment variable GIT_PREFIX which contains the subdirectory
from which a !alias was called (i.e. 'git rev-parse --show-prefix') since
these cd to the to level directory before they are executed.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If somebody has a name that includes an rfc822 special, we
will output it literally in the "From:" header. This is
usually OK, but certain characters (like ".") are supposed
to be enclosed in double-quotes in a mail header.
In practice, whether this matters may depend on your MUA.
Some MUAs will happily take in:
From: Foo B. Bar <author@example.com>
without quotes, and properly quote the "." when they send
the actual mail. Others may not, or may screw up harder
things like:
From: Foo "The Baz" Bar <author@example.com>
For example, mutt will strip the quotes, thinking they are
actual syntactic rfc822 quotes.
So let's quote properly, and then (if necessary) we still
apply rfc2047 encoding on top of that, which should make all
MUAs happy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For projects that do not release official archives, gitweb's snapshot
feature would be an excellent alternative, and but without the '-n'
('--no-name') argument, gzip includes a timestamp in output which results
in different files. Because some systems hash/checksum downloaded files
to ensure integrity of the tarball (e.g FreeBSD), it is desirable to
produce tarballs in a reproducible way for that purpose.
Whilst '--no-name' is more descriptive, the long version of the flag is
not supported on all systems. In particular, OpenBSD does not appear to
support it.
Supply '-n' to gzip to exclude timestamp from output and produce idential
output every time.
Signed-off-by: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au> Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rev-list --count: separate count for --cherry-mark
When --count is used with --cherry-mark, omit the patch equivalent
commits from the count for left and right commits and print the count of
equivalent commits separately.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The options '---use-log-author' and '--add-author-from' are applicable to other
subcommands except 'fetch' -- therefore move them from the 'fetch' section to
the more general 'options' section.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After posting a short request using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, if the slot
is reused for posting a large payload, the slot ends up having both
POSTFIELDS (which now points at a random garbage) and READFUNCTION,
in which case the curl library tries to use the stale POSTFIELDS.
Clear it as part of the general slot initialization in get_active_slot().
Heavylifting-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Acked-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Earlier, e9c8409 (diff-index --cached --raw: show tree entry on the LHS
for unmerged entries., 2007-01-05) taught the command to show the object
name and the mode from the entry coming from the tree side when comparing
a tree with an unmerged index.
This is a belated companion patch that teaches diff-files to show the mode
from the entry coming from the working tree side, when comparing an
unmerged index and the working tree.
diff: remove often unused parameters from diff_unmerge()
e9c8409 (diff-index --cached --raw: show tree entry on the LHS for
unmerged entries., 2007-01-05) added a <mode, object name> pair as
parameters to this function, to store them in the pre-image side of an
unmerged file pair. Now the function is fixed to return the filepair it
queued, we can make the caller on the special case codepath to do so.
The underlying diff_queue() returns diff_filepair so that the caller can
further add information to it, and the helper function diff_unmerge()
utilizes the feature itself, but does not expose it to its callers, which
was kind of selfish.
The symbols in attr.c only require file scope, so we add the static
modifier to their declaration.
The symbols in vcs-svn/svndump.c are external symbols, and they
already have extern declarations in the "svndump.h" header file,
so we simply include the header in svndump.c.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
which is caused by not passing the target-specific additions to
the EXTRA_CPPFLAGS variable to cgcc.
In order to fix the problem, we define a new sparse target which
depends on a set of non-existent "sparse object" files (*.sp)
which correspond to the set of C source files. In addition to the
new target, we also provide a new pattern rule for "creating" the
sparse object files from the source files by running cgcc. This
allows us to add '*.sp' to the rules setting the target-specific
EXTRA_CPPFLAGS variable, which is then included in the new pattern
rule to run cgcc.
Also, we change the 'check' target to re-direct the user to the
new sparse target.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
date: avoid "X years, 12 months" in relative dates
When relative dates are more than about a year ago, we start
writing them as "Y years, M months". At the point where we
calculate Y and M, we have the time delta specified as a
number of days. We calculate these integers as:
Y = days / 365
M = (days % 365 + 15) / 30
This rounds days in the latter half of a month up to the
nearest month, so that day 16 is "1 month" (or day 381 is "1
year, 1 month").
We don't round the year at all, though, meaning we can end
up with "1 year, 12 months", which is silly; it should just
be "2 years".
run-command: handle short writes and EINTR in die_child
If start_command fails after forking and before exec finishes, there
is not much use in noticing an I/O error on top of that.
finish_command will notice that the child exited with nonzero status
anyway. So as noted in v1.7.0.3~20^2 (run-command.c: fix build
warnings on Ubuntu, 2010-01-30) and v1.7.5-rc0~29^2 (2011-03-16), it
is safe to ignore errors from write in this codepath.
Even so, the result from write contains useful information: it tells
us if the write was cancelled by a signal (EINTR) or was only
partially completed (e.g., when writing to an almost-full pipe).
Let's use write_in_full to loop until the desired number of bytes have
been written (still ignoring errors if that fails).
As a happy side effect, the assignment to a dummy variable to appease
gcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE is no longer needed. xwrite and write_in_full
check the return value from write(2).
Noticed with gcc -Wunused-but-set-variable.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git versions starting at v1.7.5-rc0~29^2 until v1.7.5-rc3~2 (Revert
"run-command: prettify -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE workaround", 2011-04-18)
fixed it, the run_command facility would write a truncated error
message when the command is present but cannot be executed for some
other reason. For example, if I add a 'hello' command to git:
But with the problematic versions, we get disturbing output:
$ PATH=.:$PATH git hello
fatal: $
Add some tests to make sure it doesn't happen again.
The hello-script used in these tests uses cat instead of echo because
on Windows the bash spawned by git converts LF to CRLF in text written
by echo while the bash running tests does not, causing the test to
fail if "echo" is used. Thanks to Hannes for noticing.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Improved-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/format-patch: suggest Toggle Word Wrap add-on for Thunderbird
Of the (now) three methods to send unmangled patches using Thunderbird,
this method is listed first because it provides a single-click on-demand
option rather than a permanent change of configuration like the other
two methods.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: publicize hints for sending patches with GMail
The hints in SubmittingPatches about stopping GMail from clobbering
patches are widely useful both as examples of "git send-email" and
"git imap-send" usage.
Move the documentation to the appropriate places.
While at it, don't encourage storing passwords in config files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: hints for sending patches inline with Thunderbird
The standard reference for this information is the article
"Plain text e-mail - Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email" at
kb.mozillazine.org, but the hints hidden away in git's
SubmittingPatches file are more complete. Move them to the
"git format-patch" manual so they can be installed with git and
read by a wide audience.
While at it, make some tweaks:
- update "Approach #1" so it might work with Thunderbird 3;
- remove ancient version numbers from the descriptions of both
approaches so current readers might have more reason to
complain if they don't work.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: explain how to check for patch corruption
SubmittingPatches has some excellent advice about how to check a patch
for corruption before sending it off. Move it to the format-patch
manual so it can be installed with git's documentation for use by
people not necessarily interested in the git project's practices.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: describe the format of messages with inline patches
Add a DISCUSSION section to the "git format-patch" manual to encourage
people to send patches in a form that can be applied by "git am"
automatically. There are two such forms:
1. The default form in which most metadata goes in the mail header
and the message body starts with the patch description;
2. The snipsnip form in which a message starts with pertinent
discussion and ends with a patch after a "scissors" mark.
The example requires QP encoding in the "Subject:" header intended for
the mailer to give the reader a chance to reflect on that, rather than
being startled by it later. By contrast, in-body "From:" and
"Subject:" lines should be human-readable and not QP encoded.
Inspired-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Improved-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unlike plain merge-base, merge-base --octopus only requires at least one
commit argument; update the synopsis to reflect that.
Add a sentence to the discussion that when --octopus is used, we do expect
'2' (the common ansestor across all) as the result.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
format-patch: wrap email addresses after long names
We already wrap names in "from" headers, which tend to be
the long part of an address. But it's also possible for a
long name to not be wrapped, but to make us want to wrap the
email address. For example (imagine for the sake of
readability we want to wrap at 50 characters instead of 78):
From: this is my really long git name <foo@example.com>
The name does not overflow the line, but the name and email
together do. So we would rather see:
From: this is my really long git name
<git@example.com>
Because we wrap the name separately during add_rfc2047, we
neglected this case. Instead, we should see how long the
final line of the wrapped name ended up, and decide whether
or not to wrap based on that. We can't break the address
into multiple parts, so we either leave it with the name, or
put it by itself on a line.
Test by Erik Faye-Lund.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two tests looked for "[Uu]sage" in the output, but we cannot expect the
l10n to use that phrase. Mark them with test_i18ngrep so that in later
versions we can test truly localized versions with the same tests, not
just GETTEXT_POISON that happens to keep the original string in the
output.
Merge a few tests that were artificially split into "do" and "test output
under C_LOCALE_OUTPUT" in the original i18n patches back.
archive: document limitation of tar.umask config setting
The local value of the config variable tar.umask is not passed to the
other side with --remote. We may want to change that, but for now just
document this fact.
Reported-by: Jacek Masiulaniec <jacek.masiulaniec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On systems where the local time and file modification time may be out of
sync (e.g. test directory on NFS) t3306 and t5305 can fail because prune
compares times such as "now" (client time) with file modification times
(server times for remote file systems). I.e., these are spurious test
failures.
Avoid this by setting the relevant modification times to the local time.
Noticed on a system with as little as 2s time skew.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove a spurious empty line which prevented asciidoc from recognizing a
list continuation mark ('+'), so that it does not get output literally any
more.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the index has conflicted submodules, mergetool used to mildly
clobber the module, renaming it to mymodule.BACKUP.nnnn, then failing to
copy it non-recursively.
Recognize submodules and offer a resolution instead:
Selecting a commit will stage it, but not update the submodule (as git
does had there been no conflict). Type changes are also supported,
should the path be a submodule on one side, and a file, symlink,
directory, or deleted on the other.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Mah <me@JonathonMah.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
remove doubled words, e.g., s/to to/to/, and fix related typos
I found that some doubled words had snuck back into projects from which
I'd already removed them, so now there's a "syntax-check" makefile rule in
gnulib to help prevent recurrence.
Running the command below spotted a few in git, too:
The '-r' command-line option is a no-op provided only for backward
compatiblity since abd6970 (cherry-pick: make -r the default, 2006-10-05),
and somehow ended up surviving across reimplementation in C at 9509af6
(Make git-revert & git-cherry-pick a builtin, 2007-03-01) and another
rewrite of the command line parser at f810379 (Make builtin-revert.c use
parse_options, 2007-10-07). We should have stopped advertising the option
long time ago.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --quiet flag is not meant to be passed on to the diff, as the user
always wants the patches to be produced so catch it and pass it to
reopen_stdout which decides whether to print the filename or not.
Noticed by Paul Gortmaker
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--dirstat: In case of renames, use target filename instead of source filename
This changes --dirstat analysis to count "damage" toward the target filename,
rather than the source filename. For renames within a directory, this won't
matter to the final output, but when moving files between diretories, the
output now lists the target directory rather than the source directory.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is too coarse-grained way that led to artificial splitting of a
logically single test case into "do" and "check only without poison".
As the majority of check is done by comparing expected and actual output
stored in a file with test_cmp anyway, just introduce test_i18ncmp that
pretends the actual output matched the expected one when gettext-poison
is in effect.
Mark the init-db messages that were added in v1.7.5-rc1~16^2 (init,
clone: support --separate-git-dir for .git file) by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc
Duy for translation.
This requires splitting up the tests that the patch added so that
certain parts of them can be skipped unless the C_LOCALE_OUTPUT
prerequisite is satisfied.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
i18n: mark checkout plural warning for translation
Mark the "Warning: you are leaving %d commit(s) behind" message added
in v1.7.5-rc0~74^2 (commit: give final warning when reattaching HEAD
to leave commits behind) by Junio C Hamano for translation.
This message requires the use of ngettext() features, and is the first
message to use the Q_() wrapper around ngettext().
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
i18n: mark clone nonexistent repository message for translation
Mark the "repository '%s' does not exist" message added in
v1.7.4.2~21^2 (clone: die when trying to clone missing local path) by
Jeff King for translation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
i18n: mark merge CHERRY_PICK_HEAD messages for translation
Mark CHERRY_PICK_HEAD related messages in builtin/merge.c that were
added in v1.7.5-rc0~88^2~2 (Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD) by Jay Soffian
for translation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
i18n: mark merge "upstream" messages for translation
Mark the merge messages that were added in v1.7.5-rc1~17^2 (merge:
merge with the default upstream branch without argument) by Junio C
Hamano for translation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
i18n: mark merge "Could not read from" message for translation
Mark the "Could not read from '%s'" message that was added to
builtin/merge.c in v1.7.4.2~25^2 (merge: honor prepare-commit-msg
hook) by Jay Soffian for translation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
parse_value in config.c has a static buffer of 1024 bytes that it
parse the value into. This can sometimes be a problem when a
config file contains very long values.
It's particularly amusing that git-config already is able to write
such files, so it should probably be able to read them as well.
Fix this by using a strbuf instead of a fixed-size buffer.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf_init does not zero-terminate the initial buffer when hint is
non-zero. Fix this so we can rely on the string to be zero-terminated
even if we haven't filled it with anything yet.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach --dirstat not to completely ignore rearranged lines within a file
Currently, the --dirstat analysis ignores when lines within a file are
rearranged, because the "damage" calculated by show_dirstat() is 0.
However, if the object name has changed, we already know that there is
some damage, and it is unintuitive to claim there is _no_ damage.
Teach show_dirstat() to assign a minimum amount of damage (== 1) to
entries for which the analysis otherwise yields zero damage, to still
represent that these files are changed, instead of saying that there
is no change.
Also, skip --dirstat analysis when the object names are the same (e.g. for
a pure file rename).
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sparse: Fix an "symbol 'merge_file' not decared" warning
In order to fix the warning, we add a new "merge-file.h" header
containing the extern declaration of the merge_file() function,
and include the header in the source files that require the
declaration.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sparse: Fix an "symbol 'format_subject' not declared" warning
In order to fix the warning, we add an extern declaration for this
function to the "commit.h" header file, along with all other non-
static functions defined in pretty.c. Also, we remove the function
declaration from builtin/shortlog.c, since it is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Makefile: Use cgcc rather than sparse in the check target
cgcc is the recommended way to run sparse, since it provides
many -Defines suitable for the given gcc platform. Using an
"cgcc -no-compile" command runs sparse, with all the platform
specific definitions provided by cgcc, without also invoking
gcc.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Makefile: extract Q_() source strings as ngettext()
The Q_() wrapper added by 0c9ea33 (i18n: add stub Q_() wrapper for
ngettext, 2011-03-09) needs to be noticed by xgettext.
Add an appropriate --keyword option to the Makefile, so that "make pot"
would notice the strings in the plural form marked with the wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
i18n: avoid parenthesized string as array initializer
The syntax
static const char ignore_error[] = ("something");
is invalid C. A parenthesized string is not allowed as an array
initializer.
Some compilers, for example GCC and MSVC, allow this syntax as an
extension, but it is not a portable construct. tcc does not parse it, for
example.
Remove the parenthesis from the definition of the N_() macro to
fix this.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--dirstat-by-file: Make it faster and more correct
Currently, when using --dirstat-by-file, it first does the full --dirstat
analysis (using diffcore_count_changes()), and then resets 'damage' to 1,
if any damage was found by diffcore_count_changes().
But --dirstat-by-file is not interested in the file damage per se. It only
cares if the file changed at all. In that sense it only cares if the blob
object for a file has changed. We therefore only need to compare the
object names of each file pair in the diff queue and we can skip the
entire --dirstat analysis and simply set 'damage' to 1 for each entry
where the object name has changed.
This makes --dirstat-by-file faster, and also bypasses --dirstat's practice
of ignoring rearranged lines within a file.
The patch also contains an added testcase verifying that --dirstat-by-file
now detects changes that only rearrange lines within a file.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
--dirstat: Describe non-obvious differences relative to --stat or regular diff
Also add a testcase documenting the current behavior.
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/gitk/gitk:
gitk: Update cherry-pick error message parsing
gitk: Quote tag names in event bindings to avoid problems with % chars
gitk: Allow user to control how much of the SHA1 ID gets auto-selected
gitk: spelling fixes in Russian translation
gitk: Take only numeric version components when computing $git_version
git-svn: Cache results of running the executable "git config"
Running programs is not cheap!
Signed-off-by: James Y Knight <jknight@itasoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro R. Sedeño <asedeno@mit.edu> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
git-svn: Add a svn-remote.<name>.pushurl config key
Similar to the 'remote.<name>.pushurl' config key for git remotes,
'pushurl' is designed to be used in cases where 'url' points to an SVN
repository via a read-only transport, to provide an alternate
read/write transport. It is assumed that both keys point to the same
repository.
The 'pushurl' key is distinct from the 'commiturl' key in that
'commiturl' is a full svn path while 'pushurl' (like 'url') is a base
path. 'commiturl' takes precendece over 'pushurl' in cases where
either might be used.
The 'pushurl' is used by git-svn's dcommit and branch commands.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro R. Sedeño <asedeno@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: James Y Knight <jknight@itasoftware.com> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Commit 981ff5c37ae20687c98d98c8689d5e89016026d2 changed the error
message from git cherry-pick from
Automatic cherry-pick failed. [...advice...]
to
error: could not apply 7ab78c9... Do something neat.
[...advice...]
Update gitk’s regex to match this, restoring the ability to launch git
citool to resolve conflicted cherry-picks.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
merge: allow "-" as a short-hand for "previous branch"
Just like "git checkout -" is a short-hand for "git checkout @{-1}" to
conveniently switch back to the previous branch, "git merge -" is a
short-hand for "git merge @{-1}" to conveniently merge the previous branch.
It will allow me to say:
$ git checkout -b au/topic
$ git am -s ./+au-topic.mbox
$ git checkout pu
$ git merge -
which is an extremely typical and repetitive operation during my git day.