Merge branch 'jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths' into maint
"git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to
rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they
have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but
it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era.
* jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths:
commit: fix "--amend --only" with no pathspec
Merge branch 'tg/maint-cache-name-compare' into maint
Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes,
in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially
replacing index entries instead of adding.
* tg/maint-cache-name-compare:
cache_name_compare(): do not truncate while comparing paths
"git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the
comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference
involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git
diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making
any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level
incorrectly read from the standard input.
* jc/refactor-diff-stdin:
diff-index.c: "git diff" has no need to read blob from the standard input
diff-index.c: unify handling of command line paths
diff-index.c: do not pretend paths are pathspecs
Merge branch 'vr/use-our-perl-in-tests' into maint
Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when
the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to
use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in
our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.
* vr/use-our-perl-in-tests:
t/README: add a bit more Don'ts
tests: enclose $PERL_PATH in double quotes
t/test-lib.sh: export PERL_PATH for use in scripts
t: Replace 'perl' by $PERL_PATH
Merge branch 'rj/platform-pread-may-be-thread-unsafe' into maint
On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our own
compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack program.
Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to avoid use of
this function in a threaded program.
* rj/platform-pread-may-be-thread-unsafe:
index-pack: Disable threading on cygwin
Merge branch 'jc/rev-list-simplify-merges-first-parent' into maint
When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
"--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't been
examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or taking
too long to produce any output. Teach the simplification logic to
ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic ignored when
both are in effect to work around the issue.
* jc/rev-list-simplify-merges-first-parent:
revision: ignore side parents while running simplify-merges
revision: note the lack of free() in simplify_merges()
revision: "simplify" options imply topo-order sort
Merge branch 'hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules' into maint
"git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a submodule
used to exist, but "git update-index" did not allow an equivalent
operation to Porcelain writers.
* hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules:
update-index: allow overwriting existing submodule index entries
"git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
* mm/verify-filename-fix:
verify_filename(): ask the caller to chose the kind of diagnosis
sha1_name: do not trigger detailed diagnosis for file arguments
"git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
updated.
* jc/ls-files-i-dir:
dir.c: make excluded() file scope static
unpack-trees.c: use path_excluded() in check_ok_to_remove()
builtin/add.c: use path_excluded()
path_excluded(): update API to less cache-entry centric
ls-files -i: micro-optimize path_excluded()
ls-files -i: pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
Merge branch 'jc/request-pull-match-tagname' into maint
"git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
* jc/request-pull-match-tagname:
request-pull: really favor a matching tag
cache_name_compare(): do not truncate while comparing paths
We failed to use ce_namelen() equivalent and instead only compared
up to the CE_NAMEMASK bytes by mistake. Adding an overlong path
that shares the same common prefix as an existing entry in the index
did not add a new entry, but instead replaced the existing one, as
the result.
When we do not have any pathspec, we typically disallow an
explicit "--only", because it makes no sense (your commit
would, by definition, be empty). But since 6a74642
(git-commit --amend: two fixes., 2006-04-20), we have
allowed "--amend --only" with the intent that it would amend
the commit, ignoring any contents staged in the index.
However, while that commit allowed the combination, we never
actually implemented the logic to make it work. The current
code notices that we have no pathspec and assumes we want to
do an as-is commit (i.e., the "--only" is ignored).
Instead, we must make sure to follow the partial-commit
code-path. We also need to tweak the list_paths function to
handle a NULL pathspec.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
blame: compute abbreviation width that ensures uniqueness
Julia Lawall noticed that in linux-next repository the commit object 60d5c9f5 (shown with the default abbreviation width baked into "git
blame") in output from
diff-index.c: "git diff" has no need to read blob from the standard input
Only "diff --no-index -" does. Bolting the logic into the low-level
function diff_populate_filespec() was a layering violation from day
one. Move populate_from_stdin() function out of the generic diff.c
to its only user, diff-index.c.
Also make sure "-" from the command line stays a special token "read
from the standard input", even if we later decide to sanitize the
result from prefix_filename() function in a few obvious ways,
e.g. removing unnecessary "./" prefix, duplicated slashes "//" in
the middle, etc.
diff-index.c: unify handling of command line paths
Regardless of where in the directory hierarchy you are, "-" on the
command line means the standard input. The old code knew too much
about how the low level machinery uses paths to read from the
working tree and did not bother to have the same check for "-" when
the command is run from the top-level.
Unify the codepaths for subdirectory case and toplevel case into one
and make it clearer.
"git diff --no-index" takes exactly two paths, not pathspecs, and
has its own way queue_diff() to populate the diff_queue. Do not
call diff_tree_setup_paths(), pretending as it takes pathspecs.
A path containing a space must be quoted when used as an
argument to either the copy or rename commands (because
unlike other commands, the path is not the final thing on
the line for those commands).
Commit 6280dfdc3b (fast-export: quote paths in output,
2011-08-05) previously attempted to fix fast-export's
quoting by passing all paths through quote_c_style().
However, that function does not consider the space to be a
character which requires quoting, so let's special-case the
space inside print_path(). This will cause space-containing
paths to also be quoted in other commands where such quoting
is not strictly necessary, but it does not hurt to do so.
The test from 6280dfdc3b did not detect this because, while
it does introduce renames in the export stream, it does not
actually turn on rename detection, so they were presented as
pairs of deletions/adds. Using "-M" reveals the bug.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Cygwin implementation of pread() is not thread-safe since, just
like the emulation provided by compat/pread.c, it uses a sequence of
seek-read-seek calls. In order to avoid failues due to thread-safety
issues, commit b038a61 disables threading when NO_PREAD is defined.
(ie when using the emulation code in compat/pread.c).
We introduce a new build variable, NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD, which allows
use to disable the threaded index-pack code on cygwin, in addition to
the above NO_PREAD case.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a few more advices that we often have to give to new test
writers.
Also update an example where a double quote pair is used to enclose
a test body to use a single quote pair, which is more readable and
more importantly gives saner semantics for variable substitution.
t/test-lib.sh: export PERL_PATH for use in scripts
Most notably, t4031 creates a small shell script that invokes perl
and we want to use "$PERL_PATH" to name the version of Perl suitable
for our use, read from GIT-BUILD-OPTS. The test would fail when it
is directly run in t/ directory from the shell or "make" is run in t/
directory.
This problem was hidden from "make test" run in the top-level
directory, because its Makefile exports PERL_PATH.
When running 'git diff --quiet <file1> <file2>', if file1 or file2
is outside the repository, it will exit(0) even if the files differ.
It should exit(1) when they differ.
This happens because 'diff_no_index' looks at the 'found_changes'
member from 'diff_options' to determine if changes were made. This
is the wrong thing to do, since it is only set if xdiff is actually
run and it finds a change (the diff machinery will optimize out the
xdiff call when it is not necessary) and in that case HAS_CHANGED
flag needs to be taken into account.
Use diff_result_code() that knows all these details for the correct
exit value instead.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When diff-no-index is given a relative path to a file outside the
repository, it aborts with error. However, if the file is given
using an absolute path, the diff runs as expected. The two cases
should be treated the same.
Tests and commit message by Tim Henigan.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit fe77b41 introduced a new attribute to let the linkgit macro
create cross-directory HTML references from the technical/ and howto/
subdirectories back to the main documentation. We define that attribute
to "../" on the command-line when building inside those subdirectories,
and otherwise leave it unset under the assumption that it would default
to being blank. Instead, asciidoc omits the link entirely, leading to
broken documentation. Fix this by defining git-relative-html-prefix to
blank in asciidoc.conf (and an instance on the command-line, when
present, will override it).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic of git-show has remained largely unchanged since around 5d7eeee (git-show: grok blobs, trees and tags, too, 2006-12-14): start
a revision walker with no_walk=1, look at its pending objects and
handle them one-by-one. For commits, this means stuffing them into a
new queue all alone, and running the walker.
Then Linus's f222abd (Make 'git show' more useful, 2009-07-13) came
along and set no_walk=0 whenever the user specifies a range. Which
appears to work fine, until you actually prod it hard enough, as the
preceding commit shows: UNINTERESTING commits will be marked as such,
but not walked further to propagate the marks.
Demonstrate this with the main tests of this patch: 'showing a range
walks (Y shape)'. The Y shape of history ensures that propagating the
UNINTERESTING marks is necessary to correctly exclude the main1
commit. The only example I could find actually requires that the
negative revisions are listed later, and in this scenario a dotted
range actually works. However, it is easy to find examples in git.git
where a dotted range is wrong, e.g.
While there, also test a few other things that are not covered so far:
the -N way of triggering a range (added in 5853cae, DWIM 'git show -5'
to 'git show --do-walk -5', 2010-06-01), and the interactions of tags,
commits and ranges.
Pointed out by Dr_Memory on #git.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
verify_filename(): ask the caller to chose the kind of diagnosis
verify_filename() can be called in two different contexts. Either we
just tried to interpret a string as an object name, and it fails, so
we try looking for a working tree file (i.e. we finished looking at
revs that come earlier on the command line, and the next argument
must be a pathname), or we _know_ that we are looking for a
pathname, and shouldn't even try interpreting the string as an
object name.
For example, with this change, we get:
$ git log COPYING HEAD:inexistant
fatal: HEAD:inexistant: no such path in the working tree.
Use '-- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.
$ git log HEAD:inexistant
fatal: Path 'inexistant' does not exist in 'HEAD'
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
sha1_name: do not trigger detailed diagnosis for file arguments
diagnose_invalid_sha1_path() is meant to be called to diagnose a
misspelt <treeish>:<pathname> when <pathname> does not exist in
<treeish>. However, the code may call it if <treeish>:<pathname> is
invalid (which triggers another call with only_to_die == 1), but for
another reason. This happens when calling e.g.
git log existing-file HEAD:existing-file
because existing-file is a path and not a revision, the code
verifies that the arguments that follow to be paths. This leads to
an incorrect message like "existing-file does not exist in HEAD",
even though the path exists in HEAD.
Check that the search for <pathname> in <treeish> fails before
triggering the diagnosis.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not autosquash in case of an implied interactive rebase
The option to autosquash is only used in case of an interactive rebase.
When merges are preserved, rebase uses an interactive rebase internally,
but in this case autosquash should still be disabled.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no point in running a pager when --quiet is given,
since we are producing no output. The regular diff code path
handles this already, because --quiet implies --exit-code,
and we check for --exit-code when deciding not to run the
pager.
However, the "quiet implies exit-code" logic is done in
diff_setup_done, and the no-index code path sets up its
pager before running diff_setup_done, and misses this case.
We can fix this by reordering our initialization.
Currently we do:
1. read command line arguments into diff_options
2. Set pager if EXIT_CODE not requested
3. always set EXIT_CODE, since we are emulating
traditional diff
4. call diff_setup_done
We can fix the problem by moving pager initialization (step
2) after step 4. But step 3 must come after step 2 (since we
want to know whether the _user_ requested --exit-code, not
whether we turned it on unconditionally). So we must move
both.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-diff does not rely on the git wrapper to setup its
pager; instead, it sets it up on its own after seeing
whether --quiet or --exit-code has been specified. After
diff_no_index was split off from cmd_diff, commit b3fde6c
(git diff --no-index: default to page like other diff
frontends, 2008-05-26) duplicated the one-liner from
cmd_diff to turn on the pager.
Later, commit 8f0359f (Allow pager of diff command be
enabled/disabled, 2008-07-21) taught the the version in
cmd_diff to respect the pager.diff config, but the version
in diff_no_index was left behind. This meant that
git -c pager.diff=0 diff a b
would not use a pager, but
git -c pager.diff=0 diff --no-index a b
would. Let's fix it by factoring out a common function.
While we're there, let's update the antiquated comment,
which claims that the pager interferes with propagating the
exit code; this has not been the case since ea27a18 (spawn
pager via run_command interface, 2008-07-22).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
perl/Makefile: install Git::SVN::* when NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=yes, too
v1.7.11-rc1~12^2~2 (2012-05-27) and friends split some git-svn code
into separate modules but did not update the fallback rules to install
them when NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER is set. Add the appropriate rules so
users without MakeMaker can use git-svn again.
perl/Makefile.PL: warn about duplicate module list in perl/Makefile
Adding or removing a module requires modifying both files to support
builds with and without MakeMaker. Add a comment to remind patch
authors and reviewers at the crucial moment.
Longer term, it would be nicer to maintain a single list, perhaps in a
separate file used by both build systems.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation
When given a set of commits, cherry-pick will apply the changes for
all of them. Specifying a simple range will also work as expected.
This can lead the user to think that
git cherry-pick A B..C
may apply A and then B..C, but that is not what happens.
Instead the revs are given to a single invocation of rev-list, which
will consider A and C as positive revs and B as a negative one. The
commit A will not be used if it is an ancestor of B.
Add a note about this and add an example with this particular
syntax, which has shown up on the list a few times.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation: --no-walk is no-op if range is specified
The existing description can be misleading and cause the reader to
think that --no-walk will do something if they specify a range in the
command line instead of a set of revs.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
revision: ignore side parents while running simplify-merges
The simplify_merges() function needs to look at all history chain to
find the closest ancestor that is relevant after the simplification,
but after --first-parent traversal, side parents haven't been marked
for relevance (they are irrelevant by definition due to the nature
of first-parent-only traversal) nor culled from the parents list of
resulting commits.
We cannot simply remove these side parents from the parents list, as
the output phase still wants to see the parents. Instead, teach
simplify_one() and its callees to ignore the later parents.
archive: ustar header checksum is computed unsigned
POSIX.1 (pax) is pretty clear on this:
The chksum field shall be the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard IRV
representation of the octal value of the simple sum of all octets
in the header logical record. Each octet in the header shall be
treated as an unsigned value. These values shall be added to an
unsigned integer, initialized to zero, the precision of which is
not less than 17 bits. When calculating the checksum, the chksum
field is treated as if it were all <space> characters.
completion: put main git and gitk completion functions back into git namespace
Commit 7f02f3d7 (completion: rename internal helpers _git and _gitk,
2012-05-19) renamed said functions to _main_git() and _main_gitk(),
respectively. By convention the name of our git-completion-specific
functions start with '_git' or '__git' prefix, so rename those
functions once again to put them back into our "namespace". Use the
two underscore prefix, because _git_main() could be mistaken for the
completion function of the (not yet existing) 'git main' command.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitweb: Skip 'modification times' tests when no date parser available
The If-Modified-Since support in Gitweb is conditional on the
availability of a date parser from either the HTTP::Date or
Time::ParseDate modules. If a suitable parser is not available,
then the corresponding 'modification times' tests should be skipped.
Introduce the DATE_PARSER test prerequisite and use it to skip
all of the dependent tests.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS defines PERL_PATH to be used in the test suite. Only a
few tests already actually use this variable when perl is needed. The
other test just call 'perl' and it might happen that the wrong perl
interpreter is used.
This becomes problematic on Windows, when the perl interpreter that is
compiled and installed on the Windows system is used, because this perl
interpreter might introduce some unexpected LF->CRLF conversions.
This patch makes sure that $PERL_PATH is used everywhere in the test suite
and that the correct perl interpreter is used.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tone down the lines that credit people involved and make them
comments, so that integrators who edit their merge messages can
still make use of the information, but lazy ones will not leave
the unverified guesses placed on the "via" line.
* jc/fmt-merge-msg-people:
fmt-merge-msg: make attribution into comment lines
fast-export: report SHA-1 instead of gibberish when marks exist already
Cc: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
update-index: allow overwriting existing submodule index entries
In commit e01105 Linus introduced gitlinks to update-index. He explains
that he thinks it is not the right thing to replace a gitlink with
something else.
That commit is from the very first beginnings of submodule support.
Since then we have gotten a lot closer to being able to remove a
submodule without losing its history. This check prevents such a use
case, so I think this assumption has changed.
Additionally in the git add codepath we do not have such a check, so for
consistency reasons I think removing this check is the correct thing to
do.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-svn: use YAML format for mergeinfo cache when possible
Since v1.7.0-rc2~11 (git-svn: persistent memoization, 2010-01-30),
git-svn has maintained some private per-repository caches in
.git/svn/.caches to avoid refetching and recalculating some
mergeinfo-related information with every "git svn fetch".
These caches use the 'nstore' format from the perl core module
Storable, which can be read and written quickly and was designed for
transfer over the wire (the 'n' stands for 'network'). This format is
endianness-independent and independent of floating-point
representation.
Unfortunately the format is *not* independent of the perl version ---
new perl versions will write files that very old perl cannot read.
Worse, the format is not independent of the size of a perl integer.
So if you toggle perl's use64bitint compile-time option, then using
'git svn fetch' on your old repositories produces errors like this:
Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit
into ../../lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380, at
/usr/share/perl/5.12/Memoize/Storable.pm line 21
That is, upgrading perl to a version that uses use64bitint for the
first time makes git-svn suddenly refuse to fetch in existing
repositories. Removing .git/svn/.caches lets git-svn recover.
It's time to switch to a platform independent serializer backend with
better compatibility guarantees. This patch uses YAML::Any.
Other choices were considered:
- thawing data from Data::Dumper involves "eval". Doing that without
creating a security risk is fussy.
- the JSON API works on scalars in memory and doesn't provide a
standard way to serialize straight to disk.
YAML::Any is reasonably fast and has a pleasant API. In most
backends, LoadFile() reads the entire file into a scalar anyway and
converts it as a second step, but having an interface that allows the
deserialization to happen on the fly without a temporary is still a
comfort.
YAML::Any is not a core perl module, so we take care to use it when
and only when it is available. Installations without that module
should fall back to using Storable with all its quirks, keeping their
cache files in
.git/svn/.caches/*.db
Installations with YAML peacefully coexist by keeping a separate set
of cache files in
.git/svn/.caches/*.yaml.
In most cases, switching between is a one-time thing, so it doesn't
seem worth the complication to migrate existing caches.
The upshot: after this patch, as long as YAML::Any is installed you
can move your git repository between machines with different perl
installations and "git svn fetch" will work fine. If you do not have
YAML::Any, the behavior is unchanged (and in particular does not get
any worse).
Reported-by: Sandro Weiser <sandro.weiser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Reported-by: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
This slices off another 600 or so lines from the frighteningly long
git-svn.perl script.
The Git::SVN::Ra interface is similar enough to SVN::Ra that it is
probably safe to ignore most of its implementation on first reading.
(Documenting or moving functions that do not fit that pattern is left
as an exercise to the interested reader.)
This makes the git-svn script shorter and less scary for beginners to
read through for the first time. Take the opportunity to explain the
purpose and basic interface of the Git::SVN::Editor class while at it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
revision: note the lack of free() in simplify_merges()
Among the three similar-looking loops that walk singly linked
commit_list, the first one is only peeking and the same list is
later used for real work. Leave a comment not to mistakenly
free its elements there.
The code internally runs sort_in_topo_order() already; it is more clear
to spell it out in the option parsing phase, instead of adding a special
case in simplify_merges() function.
Most of our documentation is in a single directory, so using
linkgit:git-config[1] just generates a relative link in the
same directory. However, this is not the case with the API
documentation in technical/*, which need to refer to
git-config from the parent directory.
We can fix this by passing a special prefix attribute when building
in a subdirectory, and respecting that prefix in our linkgit
definitions.
We only have to modify the html linkgit definition. For
manpages, we can ignore this for two reasons:
1. we do not generate actual links to the file in
manpages, but instead just give the name and section of
the linked manpage
2. we do not currently build manpages for subdirectories,
only html
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mm/api-credentials-doc:
api-credentials.txt: add "see also" section
api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly
api-credentials.txt: show the big picture first
doc: fix xref link from api docs to manual pages
fmt-merge-msg: make attribution into comment lines
The submaintainer credit is not something you can compute purely by
looking at the history and its shape, especially in the presense of
fast-forward merges, and this observation makes the information on
the "via" line unreliable. Let's leave the final determination of
credits up to whoever is making the merge and show them as comments.