* bl/gitweb-project-filter:
gitweb: Make project search respect project_filter
gitweb: improve usability of projects search form
gitweb: place links to parent directories in page header
gitweb: show active project_filter in project_list page header
gitweb: limit links to alternate forms of project_list to active project_filter
gitweb: add project_filter to limit project list to a subdirectory
gitweb: prepare git_get_projects_list for use outside 'forks'.
gitweb: move hard coded .git suffix out of git_get_projects_list
* jn/svn-fe: (36 commits)
vcs-svn: suppress a -Wtype-limits warning
vcs-svn: allow import of > 4GiB files
vcs-svn: rename check_overflow arguments for clarity
vcs-svn/svndiff.c: squelch false "unused" warning from gcc
vcs-svn: reset first_commit_done in fast_export_init
vcs-svn: do not initialize report_buffer twice
vcs-svn: avoid hangs from corrupt deltas
vcs-svn: guard against overflow when computing preimage length
vcs-svn: cap number of bytes read from sliding view
test-svn-fe: split off "test-svn-fe -d" into a separate function
vcs-svn: implement text-delta handling
vcs-svn: let deltas use data from preimage
vcs-svn: let deltas use data from postimage
vcs-svn: verify that deltas consume all inline data
vcs-svn: implement copyfrom_data delta instruction
vcs-svn: read instructions from deltas
vcs-svn: read inline data from deltas
vcs-svn: read the preimage when applying deltas
vcs-svn: parse svndiff0 window header
vcs-svn: skeleton of an svn delta parser
...
add -e: do not show difference in a submodule that is merely dirty
When the HEAD of the submodule matches what is recorded in the index of
the superproject, and it has local changes or untracked files, the patch
offered by "git add -e" for editing shows a diff like this:
Because applying such a patch has no effect to the index, this is a
useless noise. Generate the patch with IGNORE_DIRTY_SUBMODULES flag to
prevent such a change from getting reported.
This patch also loses the "-dirty" suffix from the output when the HEAD of
the submodule is different from what is in the index of the superproject.
As such dirtiness expressed by the suffix does not affect the result of
the patch application at all, there is no information lost if we remove
it. The user could still run "git status" before "git add -e" if s/he
cares about the dirtiness.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cb/push-quiet:
t5541: avoid TAP test miscounting
fix push --quiet: add 'quiet' capability to receive-pack
server_supports(): parse feature list more carefully
The imap-send code was adapted from another project, and
still contains many unused bits of code. One of these bits
contains a type "struct string_list" which bears no
resemblence to the "struct string_list" we use elsewhere in
git. This causes the compiler to complain if git's
string_list ever becomes part of cache.h.
Let's just drop the dead code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
branch --edit-description: protect against mistyped branch name
It is very easy to mistype the branch name when editing its description,
e.g.
$ git checkout -b my-topic master
: work work work
: now we are at a good point to switch working something else
$ git checkout master
: ah, let's write it down before we forget what we were doing
$ git branch --edit-description my-tpoic
The command does not notice that branch 'my-tpoic' does not exist. It is
not lost (it becomes description of an unborn my-tpoic branch), but is not
very useful. So detect such a case and error out to reduce the grief
factor from this common mistake.
This incidentally also errors out --edit-description when the HEAD points
at an unborn branch (immediately after "init", or "checkout --orphan"),
because at that point, you do not even have any commit that is part of
your history and there is no point in describing how this particular
branch is different from the branch it forked off of, which is the useful
bit of information the branch description is designed to capture.
We may want to special case the unborn case later, but that is outside the
scope of this patch to prevent more common mistakes before 1.7.9 series
gains too much widespread use.
merge: do not create a signed tag merge under --ff-only option
Starting at release v1.7.9, if you ask to merge a signed tag, "git merge"
always creates a merge commit, even when the tag points at a commit that
happens to be a descendant of your current commit.
Unfortunately, this interacts rather badly for people who use --ff-only to
make sure that their branch is free of local developments. It used to be
possible to say:
and expect that the resulting tip of frotz branch matches v1.7.9^0 (aka
the commit tagged as v1.7.9), but this fails with the updated Git with:
fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting.
because a merge that merges v1.7.9 tag to v1.7.9~30 cannot be created by
fast forwarding.
We could teach users that now they have to do
$ git merge --ff-only v1.7.9^0
but it is far more pleasant for users if we DWIMmed this ourselves.
When an integrator pulls in a topic from a lieutenant via a signed tag,
even when the work done by the lieutenant happens to fast-forward, the
integrator wants to have a merge record, so the integrator will not be
asking for --ff-only when running "git pull" in such a case. Therefore,
this change should not regress the support for the use case v1.7.9 wanted
to add.
The only place that the issue this series addresses was observed
where we read "cat-file commit" output and put it in GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
in order to replay a commit with an ancient timestamp.
With the previous patch alone, "git commit --date='20100917 +0900'"
can be misinterpreted to mean an ancient timestamp, not September in
year 2010. Guard this codepath by requring an extra '@' in front of
the raw git timestamp on the parsing side. This of course needs to
be compensated by updating get_author_ident_from_commit and the code
for "git commit --amend" to prepend '@' to the string read from the
existing commit in the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variable.
The date-time parser parses out a human-readble datestring piece by
piece, so that it could even parse a string in a rather strange
notation like 'noon november 11, 2005', but restricts itself from
parsing strings in "<seconds since epoch> <timezone>" format only
for reasonably new timestamps (like 1974 or newer) with 10 or more
digits. This is to prevent a string like "20100917" from getting
interpreted as seconds since epoch (we want to treat it as September
17, 2010 instead) while doing so.
The same codepath is used to read back the timestamp that we have
already recorded in the headers of commit and tag objects; because
of this, such a commit with timestamp "0 +0000" cannot be rebased or
amended very easily.
Teach parse_date() codepath to special case a string of the form
"<digits> +<4-digits>" to work this issue around, but require that
there is no other cruft around the string when parsing a timestamp
of this format for safety.
Note that this has a slight backward incompatibility implications.
If somebody writes "git commit --date='20100917 +0900'" and wants it
to mean a timestamp in September 2010 in Japan, this change will
break such a use case.
This is caused by the fact that localized messages do not have their
place in some RPM package. Let's postpone decision where they should
be put (be it git-i18n-Icelandic, or git-i18n, or git package itself)
for later by removing locale files at the end of install phase.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t0300 creates some helper shell scripts, and marks them with
"!/bin/sh". Even though the scripts are fairly simple, they
can fail on broken shells (specifically, Solaris /bin/sh
will persist a temporary assignment to IFS in a "read"
command).
Rather than work around the problem for Solaris /bin/sh,
using write_script will make sure we point to a known-good
shell that the user has given us.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many of the scripts in the test suite write small helper
shell scripts to disk. It's best if these shell scripts
start with "#!$SHELL_PATH" rather than "#!/bin/sh", because
/bin/sh on some platforms is too buggy to be used.
However, it can be cumbersome to expand $SHELL_PATH, because
the usual recipe for writing a script is:
cat >foo.sh <<-\EOF
#!/bin/sh
echo my arguments are "$@"
EOF
To expand $SHELL_PATH, you have to either interpolate the
here-doc (which would require quoting "\$@"), or split the
creation into two commands (interpolating the $SHELL_PATH
line, but not the rest of the script). Let's provide a
helper function that makes that less syntactically painful.
While we're at it, this helper can also take care of the
"chmod +x" that typically comes after the creation of such a
script, saving the caller a line.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On 32-bit architectures with 64-bit file offsets, gcc 4.3 and earlier
produce the following warning:
CC vcs-svn/sliding_window.o
vcs-svn/sliding_window.c: In function `check_overflow':
vcs-svn/sliding_window.c:36: warning: comparison is always false \
due to limited range of data type
The warning appears even when gcc is run without any warning flags
(this is gcc bug 12963). In later versions the same warning can be
reproduced with -Wtype-limits, which is implied by -Wextra.
On 64-bit architectures it really is possible for a size_t not to be
representable as an off_t so the check this is warning about is not
actually redundant. But even false positives are distracting. Avoid
the warning by making the "len" argument to check_overflow a
uintmax_t; no functional change intended.
Reported-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no reason in principle that an svn-format dump would not be
able to represent a file whose length does not fit in a 32-bit
integer. Use off_t consistently to represent file lengths (in place
of using uint32_t in some contexts) so we can handle that.
Most svn-fe code is already ready to do that without this patch and
passes values of type off_t around. The type mismatch from stragglers
was noticed with gcc -Wtype-limits.
While at it, tighten the parsing of the Text-content-length field to
make sure it is a number and does not overflow, and tighten other
overflow checks as that value is passed around and manipulated.
Inspired-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
vcs-svn: rename check_overflow arguments for clarity
Code using the argument names a and b just doesn't look right (not
sure why!). Use more explicit names "offset" and "len" to make their
type and meaning clearer.
Also rename check_overflow() to check_offset_overflow() to clarify
that we are making sure that "len" bytes beyond "offset" still fits
the type to represent an offset.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
i18n: format_tracking_info "Your branch is behind" message
Function format_tracking_info in remote.c is called by
wt_status_print_tracking in wt-status.c, which will print
branch tracking message in git-status. git-checkout also
show these messages through it's report_tracking function.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark the "merge/cherry-pick" messages in whence_s for translation.
These messages returned from whence_s function are used as argument
to build other messages.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitweb: Make project search respect project_filter
Make gitweb search within filtered projects (i.e. projects shown), and
change "List all projects" to "List all projects in '$project_filter/'"
if project_filter is used.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor generating project search form into git_project_search_form().
Make text field wider and add on mouse over explanation (via "title"
attribute), add an option to use regular expressions, and replace
'Search:' label with [Search] button.
Also add "List all projects" link to make it easier to go back from search
result to list of all projects (note that an empty search term is
disallowed).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitweb: place links to parent directories in page header
Change html page headers to not only link the project root and the
currently selected project but also the directories in between using
project_filter. (Allowing to jump to a list of all projects within
that intermediate directory directly and making the project_filter
feature visible to users).
Signed-off-by: Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitweb: show active project_filter in project_list page header
In the page header of a project_list view with a project_filter
given show breadcrumbs in the page headers showing which directory
it is currently limited to and also containing links to the parent
directories.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitweb: add project_filter to limit project list to a subdirectory
This commit changes the project listing views (project_list,
project_index and opml) to limit the output to only projects in a
subdirectory if the new optional parameter ?pf=directory name is
used.
The implementation of the filter reuses the implementation used for
the 'forks' action (i.e. listing all projects within that directory
from the projects list file (GITWEB_LIST) or only projects in the
given subdirectory of the project root directory without a projects
list file).
Reusing $project instead of adding a new parameter would have been
nicer from a UI point-of-view (including PATH_INFO support) but
would complicate the $project validating code that is currently
being used to ensure nothing is exported that should not be viewable.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitweb: prepare git_get_projects_list for use outside 'forks'.
Use of the filter option of git_get_projects_list is currently limited
to forks. It currently assumes the project belonging to the filter
directory was already validated to be visible in the project list.
To make it more generic add an optional argument to denote visibility
verification is still needed.
If there is a projects list file (GITWEB_LIST) only projects from
this list are returned anyway, so no more checks needed.
If there is no projects list file and the caller requests strict
checking (GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT), do not jump directly to the
given directory but instead do a normal search and filter the
results instead.
The only effect of GITWEB_STRICT_EXPORT without GITWEB_LIST is to make
sure no project can be viewed without also be found starting from
project root. git_get_projects_list without this patch does not enforce
this but all callers only call it with a filter already checked this
way. With this parameter a caller can request this check if the filter
cannot be checked this way.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ar/i18n-no-gettext:
i18n: Do not force USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME=fallthrough on NO_GETTEXT
i18n: Make NO_GETTEXT imply fallthrough scheme in shell l10n
add a Makefile switch to avoid gettext translation in shell scripts
git-sh-i18n: restructure the logic to compute gettext.sh scheme
* nd/clone-detached:
clone: fix up delay cloning conditions
push: do not let configured foreign-vcs permanently clobbered
clone: print advice on checking out detached HEAD
clone: allow --branch to take a tag
clone: refuse to clone if --branch points to bogus ref
clone: --branch=<branch> always means refs/heads/<branch>
clone: delay cloning until after remote HEAD checking
clone: factor out remote ref writing
clone: factor out HEAD update code
clone: factor out checkout code
clone: write detached HEAD in bare repositories
t5601: add missing && cascade
* va/git-p4-branch:
t9801: do not overuse test_must_fail
git-p4: Change p4 command invocation
git-p4: Add test case for complex branch import
git-p4: Search for parent commit on branch creation
* ld/git-p4-branches-and-labels:
git-p4: label import fails with multiple labels at the same changelist
git-p4: add test for p4 labels
git-p4: importing labels should cope with missing owner
git-p4: cope with labels with empty descriptions
git-p4: handle p4 branches and labels containing shell chars
request-pull: explicitly ask tags/$name to be pulled
When asking for a tag to be pulled, disambiguate by leaving tags/ prefix
in front of the name of the tag. E.g.
... in the git repository at:
git://example.com/git/git.git/ tags/v1.2.3
for you to fetch changes up to 123456...
This way, older versions of "git pull" can be used to respond to such a
request more easily, as "git pull $URL v1.2.3" did not DWIM to fetch
v1.2.3 tag in older versions. Also this makes it clearer for humans that
the pull request is made for a tag and he should anticipate a signed one.
merge: add instructions to the commit message when editing
Before f824628 (merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions,
2012-01-10), git-merge only started an editor if the user explicitly
asked for it with --edit. Thus it seemed unlikely that the user would
need extra guidance.
After f824628 the _normal_ thing is to start an editor. Give at least
an indication of why we are doing it.
The sentence about justification is one of the few things about
standard git that are not agnostic to the workflow that the user
chose. However, f824628 was proposed by Linus specifically to
discourage users from merging unrelated upstream progress into topic
branches. So we may as well take another step in the same direction.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/index-pack-no-recurse:
index-pack: eliminate unlimited recursion in get_base_data()
index-pack: eliminate recursion in find_unresolved_deltas
Eliminate recursion in setting/clearing marks in commit list
* mh/ref-clone-without-extra-refs:
write_remote_refs(): create packed (rather than extra) refs
add_packed_ref(): new function in the refs API.
ref_array: keep track of whether references are sorted
pack_refs(): remove redundant check
* pw/p4-view-updates:
git-p4: add tests demonstrating spec overlay ambiguities
git-p4: adjust test to adhere to stricter useClientSpec
git-p4: clarify comment
git-p4: fix verbose comment typo
git-p4: only a single ... wildcard is supported
* cb/push-quiet:
t5541: avoid TAP test miscounting
fix push --quiet: add 'quiet' capability to receive-pack
server_supports(): parse feature list more carefully
vcs-svn/svndiff.c: squelch false "unused" warning from gcc
Curiously, pre_len given to read_length() does not trigger the same warning
even though the code structure is the same. Most likely this is because
read_offset() is used only once and inlining it will make gcc realize that
it has a chance to do more flow analysis. Alas, the analysis is flawed, so
it does not help X-<.
Merge branch 'svn-fe' of git://repo.or.cz/git/jrn into jn/svn-fe
This simplifies svn-fe a great deal and fulfills a longstanding wish:
support for dumps with deltas in them, and incremental imports.
The cost is that commandline usage of the svn-fe tool becomes a little
more complicated since it no longer keeps state itself but instead reads
blobs back from fast-import in order to copy them between revisions and
apply deltas to them.
Also removes a couple of custom data structures and replaces them with
strbufs like other parts of Git.
* 'svn-fe' of git://repo.or.cz/git/jrn: (32 commits)
vcs-svn: reset first_commit_done in fast_export_init
vcs-svn: do not initialize report_buffer twice
vcs-svn: avoid hangs from corrupt deltas
vcs-svn: guard against overflow when computing preimage length
vcs-svn: cap number of bytes read from sliding view
test-svn-fe: split off "test-svn-fe -d" into a separate function
vcs-svn: implement text-delta handling
vcs-svn: let deltas use data from preimage
vcs-svn: let deltas use data from postimage
vcs-svn: verify that deltas consume all inline data
vcs-svn: implement copyfrom_data delta instruction
vcs-svn: read instructions from deltas
vcs-svn: read inline data from deltas
vcs-svn: read the preimage when applying deltas
vcs-svn: parse svndiff0 window header
vcs-svn: skeleton of an svn delta parser
vcs-svn: make buffer_read_binary API more convenient
vcs-svn: learn to maintain a sliding view of a file
Makefile: list one vcs-svn/xdiff object or header per line
vcs-svn: avoid using ls command twice
...
Recent releases of Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package
with some core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/)
against the upstream Perl5 people's wishes. The Time::HiRes module used by
gitweb one of them.
zsh adds a backslash (foo\ ) for each item in the COMPREPLY array if IFS
doesn't contain spaces. This issue has been reported[1], but there is no
solution yet.
This wasn't a problem due to another bug[2], which was fixed in zsh
version 4.3.12. After this change, 'git checkout ma<tab>' would resolve
to 'git checkout master\ '.
Aditionally, the introduction of __gitcomp_nl in commit a31e626
(completion: optimize refs completion) in git also made the problem
apparent, as Matthieu Moy reported.
The simplest and most generic solution is to hide all the changes we do
to IFS, so that "foo \nbar " is recognized by zsh as "foo bar". This
works on versions of git before and after the introduction of
__gitcomp_nl (a31e626), and versions of zsh before and after 4.3.12.
Once zsh is fixed, we should conditionally disable this workaround to
have the same benefits as bash users.
test_must_fail is to make sure a program we can potentially break during
the course of updating git itself exits with a non-zero status in a clean
and controlled way.
When we expect a non-zero exit status from the commands we use from the
underlying platform in tests, e.g. making sure a string "error: " does not
appear in the output by running "grep 'error: '", just use "! grep" for
readability. It is not like we will try to update Git and suddenly 'grep'
we use from the system starts segfaulting.
Check if branches created from old changelists are correctly imported.
Also included some updates to simple branch test so that both are
coherent in respect to each other.
Signed-off-by: Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-p4: Search for parent commit on branch creation
To find out which is its parent the commit of the new branch is compared
sequentially to each blob of the parent branch from the newest to the
oldest. The first blob which results in a zero diff is considered the
parent commit. If none is found, then the commit is applied to the top
of the parent branch.
A fast-import "checkpoint" call is required because diff-tree is only
able to work with blobs on disk. But most of these commits will not be
part of the final imported tree, making fast-import fail. To avoid this,
the temporary branches are tracked and then removed at the end of the
import process.
Signed-off-by: Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
submodule add: fix breakage when re-adding a deep submodule
Since recently a submodule with name <name> has its git directory in the
.git/modules/<name> directory of the superproject while the work tree
contains a gitfile pointing there.
When the same submodule is added on a branch where it wasn't present so
far (it is not found in the .gitmodules file), the name is not initialized
from the path as it should. This leads to a wrong path entered in the
gitfile when the .git/modules/<name> directory is found, as this happily
uses the - now empty - name. It then always points only a single directory
up, even if we have a path deeper in the directory hierarchy.
Fix that by initializing the name of the submodule early in module_clone()
if module_name() returned an empty name and add a test to catch that bug.
Reported-by: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
6f48d39 (clone: delay cloning until after remote HEAD checking -
2012-01-16) allows us to perform some checks on remote refs before the
actual cloning happens. But not all transport types support
this. Remote helper with "import" capability will not return complete
ref information until fetch is performed and therefore the clone cannot
be delayed.
foreign_vcs field in struct remote was used to detect this kind of transport
and save the result. This is a mistake because foreign_vcs is designed
to override url-based transport detection. As a result, if the same
"struct transport *" object is used on many different urls and one of
them attached remote transport, the following urls will be mistakenly
attached to the same transport. This fault is worked around by dad0b3d
(push: do not let configured foreign-vcs permanently clobbered -
2012-01-23)
To fix this, detect incomplete refs from transport_get_remote_refs()
by SHA-1. Incomplete ones must have null SHA-1 (*). Then revert
changes related to foreign_cvs field in 6f48d39 and dad0b3d.
A good thing from this change is that cloning smart http transport can
also be delayed. Earlier it falls into the same category "remote
transport, no delay".
(*) Theoretically if one of the remote refs happens to have null SHA-1,
it will trigger false alarm and the clone will not be delayed. But
that chance may be too small for us to pay attention to.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
push: do not let configured foreign-vcs permanently clobbered
Recently, 6f48d39 (clone: delay cloning until after remote HEAD checking,
2012-01-16) tried to record if a remote helper needs to be called after
parsing the remote when transport_get() is called, by overwriting the
field meant to store the configured remote helper name in the remote
structure.
This is OK when a remote represents a single remote repository, but fails
miserably when pushing to locations with multiple URLs, like this:
The right solution would probably be to dedicate a separate field to store
the detected external helper to be used, which is valid only during a
single use of transport until it is disconnected, instead of overwriting
foreign_vcs field, but in the meantime, this band-aid should suffice.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions
Traditionally, a cleanly resolved merge was committed by "git merge" using
the auto-generated merge commit log message without invoking the editor.
After 5 years of use in the field, it turns out that people perform too
many unjustified merges of the upstream history into their topic branches.
These merges are not just useless, but they are often not explained well,
and making the end result unreadable when it gets time for merging their
history back to their upstream.
Earlier we added the "--edit" option to the command, so that people can
edit the log message to explain and justify their merge commits. Let's
take it one step further and spawn the editor by default when we are in an
interactive session (i.e. the standard input and the standard output are
pointing at the same tty device).
There may be existing scripts that leave the standard input and the
standard output of the "git merge" connected to whatever environment the
scripts were started, and such invocation might trigger the above
"interactive session" heuristics. GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable
can be set to "no" at the beginning of such scripts to use the historical
behaviour while the script runs.
Note that this backward compatibility is meant only for scripts, and we
deliberately do *not* support "merge.edit = yes/no/auto" configuration
option to allow people to keep the historical behaviour.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>