[jc: This is the version without asciidoc cross references;
Johannes says that the cross referenced one is generated from
this file using a Perl script, so I am placing this as the
source, and expecting to later receive the script and a Makefile
entry or two to massage this file into the final HTML or
whatever form.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[PATCH] use it's and its correctly in documentation
At one place in Documentation/tutorial.txt and several in the base
README, its was wrongly used in place of it's or vice versa. One
instance remains somewhere in Documentation/howto/, which I didn't
correct because it's in a quotation.
Signed-off-by: Greg Louis <glouis@dynamicro.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[PATCH] Also handle CVS branches with a '/' in their name
I track a CVS project which has a branch with a '/' in the branch name.
Since git wants the branch name to be a file name at the same time,
substitute that character to a '-' by default (override with "-s <subst>").
This should work well, despite the fact that a division and a difference
are completely different :-)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When running "git commit" with explicit path arguments, allow it to
take directory name. This makes "git commit Documentation/" to commit
everything that is changed under Documentation/ directory.
This corresponds to the -k flag to git format-patch --mbox
option. The option should probably not be used when applying a
real e-mail patch, but is needed when format-patch and applymbox
pair is used for cherrypicking.
Use LF and allow comments in objects/info/alternates file.
Yes, using the same format for the file and the environment variable
was a big mistake. This uses LF as the path separator, and allows
lines that begin with '#' to be comments. ':' is no longer a separator
in objects/info/alternates file.
Introduces --keep-subjects flag to tell it not to munge the
first line of the commit message. Running "git applymbox" on
the output from "git format-patch -m -k" would preserve the
original commit information better this way.
[PATCH] Improve handling of "." and ".." in git-diff-*
This fixes up usage of ".." (without an ending slash) and "." (with or
without the ending slash) in the git diff family.
It also fixes pathspec matching for the case of an empty pathspec, since a
"." in the top-level directory (or enough ".." under subdirectories) will
result in an empty pathspec. We used to not match it against anything, but
it should in fact match everything.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[PATCH] Make "git diff" work inside relative subdirectories
We always show the diff as an absolute path, but pathnames to diff are
taken relative to the current working directory (and if no pathnames are
given, the default ends up being all of the current working directory).
Note that "../xyz" also works, so you can do
cd linux/drivers/char
git diff ../block
and it will generate a diff of the linux/drivers/block changes.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[PATCH] Add a bit more links to the commands to the main git(7) page.
There are many programs like git-add not described at all, and the
organization of the list of commands may be suboptimal, but we have to
start somewhere.
Because there is no reason not to, and this makes things a bit
safer when running "git prune".
[jc: I do not necessarily agree with the reasoning of the
original author that it is a good way to keep "git prune" from
stomping on objects to have a symlink that points at .git/refs
of the repository A in the .git/refs of the repository B when
repository A borrows object database from repository B. For one
thing, the object database that everybody borrows objects from
may not even have its own .git/refs hierarchy. Come to think of
it, maybe we should disallow symlink inside .git/refs hierarchy;
we update the files there by creat/rename pair, so having
symlinks would not work anyway when you do anything that would
update them.]
Early versions of git-cvsimport defaulted to using preexisting keyword
expansion settings. This change preserves compatibility with existing cvs
imports and allows new repository migrations to kill keyword expansion.
After exploration of the different -k modes in the cvs protocol, we use -kk
which kills keyword expansion wherever possible. Against the protocol
spec, -ko and -kb will sometimes expand keywords.
Should improve our chances of detecting merges and reduce imported
repository size.
Signed-off: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The patch mixed up the sha1 for the object being pulled, and the
sha1 the pull engine internally use to represent the name of the
pack that contains the object being pulled.
[PATCH] cvsgit fixes: spaces in filenames and CVS server dialog woes
Problems found while importing dasher's CVS:
* Allow spaces in filenames.
* cvsps may create unnamed branches with revisions that don't really
exist, which causes the CVS server to return something we haven't
hitherto expected.
* Report deleted files when being verbose.
* Also, report the commit date. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[PATCH] Make git-format-patch's signoff option more consistent
Since git-commit-script has a "--signoff" option, use that in
git-format-patch-script, too (and since partial option names are
supported,"--sign" is still valid).
Also, if the message already contains the S-O-B line, silently ignore the
"--signoff" request.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The recent change to give the multiple commit message source was not
carrying over the authorship information from -C/-c commits correctly.
The export of the environment variable happens only in the subprocess,
not the main process that eventually runs git-commit-tree.
The right fix might be to teach git-commit-script to grok the From:
and Date: lines at the beginning of the commit message just like
git-applymbox knows how, but this has to do until that enhancement
happens.
[PATCH] Add documentation for git repack and git-prune-packed.
[jc: the patch forgot to update the main git.txt documentation,
making all these new documentation practically no-op, so I added
a minimum attempt linking them from there.]
Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Makes git work with a pure POSIX shell (tested with bash --posix and ash).
Right now git causes ash to choke on the redundant shift on line two.
Reduces the number of system calls git makes just to do a usage
statement from 22610 to 1122, and the runtime for same from 349ms to
29ms on my x86 Linux box.
Presents a standard usage statement, and pretty prints the available
commands in a form that does not scroll off small terminals.
[jc: while shifting when $# was zero was a bug, the original
patch failed to shift when it needs to, which I fixed up.]
Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Keep excellent tutorial for using topic branches by Tony Luck
I would eventually like to move this to become a part of the tutorial,
but anyway, this was an excellent post that describes how topic
branches can be used to keep track of local changes.
Often I find myself wanting to do quick branches check when I am
not in the windowing environment and cannot run gitk.
This stupid script shows commits leading to the heads of
interesting branches with indication which ones belong to which
branches, so that fork point is somewhat discernible without
using gitk.
[PATCH] Add some simple howtos, culled from the mailing list.
I think these are useful, and I think putting them in a new "howto"
directory might help some users until we get to the point of splitting
up the tutorial to be easier to read.
Given the authorship, I think it's safe to put these in the repository.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Add sample code to distinguish --force rebased head and simple
fast-forward. At the same time fixes a real bug; the "new ref"
path was using a wrong parameter.
Add cheap local clone '-s' flag to git-clone-script
Using the $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info/alternates mechanism,
create a new repository that borrows objects from the original
repository when --shared flag is given in addition to --local.
It is worth pointing out that the "cloned" repository depends on
the original repository, so this should be used only when you
can reasonably trust that the original repository would not
disappear without your knowing.
It was a mistake to use GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES
environment variable to specify what alternate object pools to
look for missing objects when working with an object database.
It is not a property of the process running the git commands,
but a property of the object database that is partial and needs
other object pools to complete the set of objects it lacks.
This patch allows you to have $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info/alternates
whose contents is in exactly the same format as the environment
variable, to let an object database name alternate object pools
it depends on.
Linus brought up that documentation for many commands have
incorrect attribution. I started counting lines again, but
ended up adding a handful of missing manual pages.
[PATCH] plug memory leak in diff.c::diff_free_filepair()
When I run git-diff-tree on big change, it seems the command eats so
much memory. so I just put git under valgrind to see what's going on.
diff_free_filespec_data() doesn't free diff_filespec itself.
[jc: I ended up doing things slightly differently from Yasushi's
patch. The original idea was to use free_filespec_data() only to
free the data portion and keep useing the filespec itself, but
no existing code seems to do things that way, so I just yanked
that part out.]
Signed-off-by: Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It seems that the localtime() libc routine doesn't care for finding a TZ
that's empty. It's ok with TZ not being set. Setting the TZ to GMT allowed
these tests to pass.
$ uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
Signed-off-by: Brad Roberts <braddr@puremagic.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The index cleanup code is executed via atexit() which is *after* main
has completed, so the stack allocated cache_file has gone out of scope.
Parisc seems to use stack in the destructor functions, so cache_file
gets partially overwritten leading to the predictable disastrous
consequences.
[jc: Just to make sure, I audited other users of the function
hold_index_file_for_update() to make sure they do not have this
problem; everybody else uses non-stack cache_file structure and
is fine. Thanks, James.]
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The "get_sha1_hex()" function is designed to work with SHA1 hex strings
that may be followed by arbitrary crud. However, that's not acceptable for
"get_sha1()" which is used for command line arguments etc: we don't want
to silently allow random characters after the end of the SHA1.
So verify that the hex string is all we have.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[PATCH] Make sure git-resolve-script always works on commits
You can resolve a tag, and it does the right thing except that it might
end up writing the tag itself into the resulting HEAD, which will confuse
subsequent operations no end.
This makes sure that when we resolve two heads, we will have turned them
into proper commits before we start acting on them.
This also fixes the parsing of "treeish^0", which would incorrectly
resolve to "treeish" instead of causing an error.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Not that I have stricter patch submission standard than ordinary
projects, I wanted to have it to make sure people understand
what they are doing when they add their own Signed-off-by line.
As brought up in the discussion which followed a patch to add a
signed-off-by line with the --sign flag to format-patch from
Johannes Schindelin, add --signoff to the git commit command.
Also add --verify to make sure the lines you introduced are
clean, which is more useful in commit but not very much in
format-patch as it was originally implemented, because finding
botches at format-patch time is too late.
This patch renames COPTS to CFLAGS, because it's COPTS that was user
overridable. Also, -Wall is moved there because it's optional. What
was CFLAGS is now ALL_CFLAGS, which users should not override.
Defines are added to DEFINES. Since ALL_CFLAGS is recursively expanded,
it uses the final value of DEFINES.
Implicit rules are made explicit since the implicit rules use CFLAGS
rather than ALL_CFLAGS. I believe that serious projects should not rely
on implicit rules anyway. Percent rules are used because they are used
already and because they don't need the .SUFFIXES target.
[jc: in addition to updating the patch for 0.99.4, I fixed up a
glitch in Pavel's original patch which compiled sha1.o out of
mozilla-sha1/sha1.c, where it should have left the resulting
object file in mozilla-sha1 directory for later "ar".]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is a beginning of resurrecting the multi-head pulling support
for git-fetch-pack command. The git-fetch-script wrapper still
only knows about fetching a single head, without renaming, so it is
not very useful unless you directly call git-fetch-pack itself yet.
It also fixes a longstanding obsolete description of how the command
discovers the list of local commits.
In the case where we don't know from context what type an object is, but
we don't have to fetch it, we need to parse it to determine the type
before processing it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[PATCH] Trapping exit in tests, using return for errors: further fixes.
"return" from a test would leave the exit trap set, which could cause a
spurious error message if it's the last test in the script or
--immediate is used.
The easiest solution would be to have a global trap that is set when
test-lib.sh is sourced and unset either by test_done(), error() or by
test_failure_() with --immediate.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[PATCH] Trapping exit in tests, using return for errors
I have noticed that "make test" fails without any explanations when the
"merge" utility is missing. I don't think tests should be silent in
case of failure.
It turned out that the particular test was using "exit" to interrupt the
test in case of an error. This caused the whole test script to exit.
No further tests would be run even if "--immediate" wasn't specified.
No error message was printed.
This patch does following:
All instances of "exit", "exit 1" and "(exit 1)" in tests have been
replaced with "return 1". In fact, "(exit 1)" had no effect.
File descriptor 5 is duplicated from file descriptor 1. This is needed
to print important error messages from tests.
New function test_run_() has been introduced. Any "return" in the test
would merely cause that function to return without skipping calls to
test_failure_() and test_ok_(). The new function also traps "exit" and
treats it like a fatal error (in case somebody reintroduces "exit" in
the tests).
test_expect_failure() and test_expect_success() check both the result of
eval and the return value of test_run_(). If the later is not 0, it's
always a failure because it indicates the the test didn't complete.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"t5400-send-pack.sh --verbose" stops waiting for user input. It happens
because "git log" uses less for output now. To prevent this, PAGER
should be set to cat.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
All test scripts should end with test_done, which reports the test
results. In the future, it could be used for other purposes, e.g. to
distinguish graceful end from "exit" in a test. This patch fixes
scripts that don't call test_done.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Split gitk off to its own package;
it needs tk installed, but nothing else does.
- Refer to GPL properly, don't install COPYING.
- Fix maintainer.
- Use dh_movefiles instead of dh_install;
we don't want to list everything *except* gitk.
In commit 4f7eb2e5a351e0d1f19fd4eab7e92834cc4528c2 I fixed git-merge-base
getting confused by datestamps that caused it to traverse things in a
non-obvious order.
However, my fix was a very brute-force one, and it had some really
horrible implications for more complex trees with lots of parallell
development. It might end up traversing all the way to the root commit.
Now, normally that isn't that horrible: it's used mainly for merging, and
the bad cases really tend to happen fairly rarely, so if it takes a few
seconds, we're not in too bad shape.
However, gitk will also do the git-merge-base for every merge it shows,
because it basically re-does the trivial merge in order to show the
"interesting" parts. And there we'd really like the result to be
instantaneous.
This patch does that by walking the tree more completely, and using the
same heuristic as git-rev-list to decide "ok, the rest is uninteresting".
In one - hopefully fairly extreme - case, it made a git-merge-base go from
just under five seconds(!) to a tenth of a second on my machine.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Refine the update heuristic to improve responsiveness a bit.
The previous commit improved performance a lot but also meant that
we waited longer to see something drawn. This refines the heuristics
for when to call update so that (1) when we have finished processing
a bufferfull of information from git-rev-list, we call update if
enough time has elapsed, regardless of how many commits we've drawn,
and (2) the number of commits drawn between updates scales with the
total number of commits drawn: 1 for 1-99 commits, 10 for 100-9999
commits, or 100 for >= 10000 commits.
git-rev-parse HEAD^1 would fail, because of an off-by-one bug (but HEAD^
would yield the expected result). Also, when the parent does not exist, do
not silently return an incorrect SHA1. Of course, this no longer applies
to git-rev-parse alone, but every user of get_sha1().
While at it, add a test.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Only do an update every 100 commits when drawing the graph.
On a large repository with > 60,000 commits, each call to the Tk
update primitive (which gives Tk a chance to respond to events and
redraw the screen) was taking up to 0.2 seconds. Because the logic
was to call update after drawing a commit if 0.1 seconds had passed
since the last update call, we were calling it for every commit,
which was slowing us down enormously. Now we also require that we
have drawn 100 commits since the last update (as well as it being
at least 0.1 seconds since the last update). Drawing 100 commits
takes around 0.1 - 0.2 seconds (even in this large repo) on my G5.
Although it is uncertain if we would keep .git/branches for
long, the shorthand stored there can be used for pushing if it
is host:path/to/git format, so let's make use of it. This does
not use git-parse-remote because that script will be rewritten
quite a bit for updated pulling.
Although these commands take only begin and end, not necessarily
generic SHA1 expressions rev-parse supports, supporting a..b
notation is good for consistency. This commit adds such without
breaking backward compatibility.
Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch
introduces, and record a new commit that records it. This
requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications from
the HEAD commit).
This is based on what Linus posted to the list, with
enhancements he suggested, including the use of -M to attempt
reverting renames.
While moving '-m' to make room for CVS compatible "here is the
log message", enhance source of log parameters.
-m 'message': a command line parameter.
-F <file> : a file (use '-' to read from stdin).
-C <commit> : message in existing commit.
-c <commit> : message in existing commit (allows further editing).
Longer option names for these options are also available.
While we are at it, get rid of shell array bashism.
I haven't audited the rev-parse users, but I am having a feeling
that many of them would choke when they expect a couple of SHA1
object names and malicious user feeds them "--max-count=6" or
somesuch to shoot himself in the foot. Anyway, this adds a
couple of missing parameters that affect the list of revs to be
returned from rev-list, not the flags that affect how they are
presented by rev-list. I think that is the intention, but I am
not quite sure.