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Junio C Hamano
bb9c16bd4f The sixth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-19 11:07:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b9497848df Merge branch 'tb/incremental-midx-part-1'
Incremental updates of multi-pack index files.

* tb/incremental-midx-part-1:
  midx: implement support for writing incremental MIDX chains
  t/t5313-pack-bounds-checks.sh: prepare for sub-directories
  t: retire 'GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_BITMAP'
  midx: implement verification support for incremental MIDXs
  midx: support reading incremental MIDX chains
  midx: teach `midx_fanout_add_midx_fanout()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: teach `midx_preferred_pack()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: teach `midx_contains_pack()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: remove unused `midx_locate_pack()`
  midx: teach `fill_midx_entry()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: teach `nth_midxed_offset()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: teach `bsearch_midx()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: introduce `bsearch_one_midx()`
  midx: teach `nth_bitmapped_pack()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: teach `nth_midxed_object_oid()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: teach `prepare_midx_pack()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: teach `nth_midxed_pack_int_id()` about incremental MIDXs
  midx: add new fields for incremental MIDX chains
  Documentation: describe incremental MIDX format
2024-08-19 11:07:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b9849e4f76 Sync with 'maint'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-16 12:57:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fa3b914457 Prepare for 2.46.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-16 12:52:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b3d175409d Merge branch 'sj/ref-fsck'
"git fsck" infrastructure has been taught to also check the sanity
of the ref database, in addition to the object database.

* sj/ref-fsck:
  fsck: add ref name check for files backend
  files-backend: add unified interface for refs scanning
  builtin/refs: add verify subcommand
  refs: set up ref consistency check infrastructure
  fsck: add refs report function
  fsck: add a unified interface for reporting fsck messages
  fsck: make "fsck_error" callback generic
  fsck: rename objects-related fsck error functions
  fsck: rename "skiplist" to "skip_oids"
2024-08-16 12:51:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9dd837e64f Merge branch 'jc/doc-rebase-fuzz-vs-offset-fix' into maint-2.46
"git rebase --help" referred to "offset" (the difference between
the location a change was taken from and the change gets replaced)
incorrectly and called it "fuzz", which has been corrected.

* jc/doc-rebase-fuzz-vs-offset-fix:
  doc: difference in location to apply is "offset", not "fuzz"
2024-08-16 12:50:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b74d885b11 Merge branch 'tn/doc-commit-fix' into maint-2.46
Docfix.

* tn/doc-commit-fix:
  doc: remove dangling closing parenthesis
2024-08-16 12:50:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fca5ece278 Merge branch 'jt/doc-post-receive-hook-update' into maint-2.46
Doc update.

* jt/doc-post-receive-hook-update:
  doc: clarify post-receive hook behavior
2024-08-16 12:50:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8ad56325e9 Merge branch 'jc/how-to-maintain-updates' (early part) into maint-2.46
* 'jc/how-to-maintain-updates' (early part):
  howto-maintain: update daily tasks
  howto-maintain: cover a whole development cycle
2024-08-16 12:50:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cb9c47ca2b Merge branch 'jc/doc-one-shot-export-with-shell-func' into maint-2.46
It has been documented that we avoid "VAR=VAL shell_func" and why.

* jc/doc-one-shot-export-with-shell-func:
  CodingGuidelines: document a shell that "fails" "VAR=VAL shell_func"
2024-08-16 12:50:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
87a1768b93 The fifth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-15 13:22:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
88457a6151 Merge branch 'ps/submodule-ref-format'
Support to specify ref backend for submodules has been enhanced.

* ps/submodule-ref-format:
  object: fix leaking packfiles when closing object store
  submodule: fix leaking seen submodule names
  submodule: fix leaking fetch tasks
  builtin/submodule: allow "add" to use different ref storage format
  refs: fix ref storage format for submodule ref stores
  builtin/clone: propagate ref storage format to submodules
  builtin/submodule: allow cloning with different ref storage format
  git-submodule.sh: break overly long command lines
2024-08-15 13:22:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2b9b229cb4 Merge branch 'es/doc-platform-support-policy'
A policy document that describes platform support levels and
expectation on platform stakeholders has been introduced.

* es/doc-platform-support-policy:
  Documentation: add platform support policy
2024-08-15 13:22:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
477ce5ccd6 The fourth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-14 14:54:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dd59778f76 Merge branch 'jc/document-use-of-local'
Doc update.

* jc/document-use-of-local:
  doc: note that AT&T ksh does not work with our test suite
2024-08-14 14:54:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7a95eceb6b Merge branch 'jr/ls-files-expand-literal-doc'
Docfix.

* jr/ls-files-expand-literal-doc:
  doc: fix hex code escapes in git-ls-files
2024-08-14 14:54:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4bad0119f2 Merge branch 'rh/http-proxy-path'
The value of http.proxy can have "path" at the end for a socks
proxy that listens to a unix-domain socket, but we started to
discard it when we taught proxy auth code path to use the
credential helpers, which has been corrected.

* rh/http-proxy-path:
  http: do not ignore proxy path
2024-08-14 14:54:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
25673b1c47 The third batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-08 10:41:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
536695cabe Merge branch 'ps/doc-more-c-coding-guidelines'
Some project conventions have been added to CodingGuidelines.

* ps/doc-more-c-coding-guidelines:
  Documentation: consistently use spaces inside initializers
  Documentation: document idiomatic function names
  Documentation: document naming schema for structs and their functions
  Documentation: clarify indentation style for C preprocessor directives
  clang-format: fix indentation width for preprocessor directives
2024-08-08 10:41:20 -07:00
shejialuo
1c31be45b3 fsck: add ref name check for files backend
The git-fsck(1) only implicitly checks the reference, it does not fully
check refs with bad format name such as standalone "@".

However, a file ending with ".lock" should not be marked as having a bad
ref name. It is expected that concurrent writers may have such lock files.
We currently ignore this situation. But for bare ".lock" file, we will
report it as error.

In order to provide such checks, add a new fsck message id "badRefName"
with default ERROR type. Use existing "check_refname_format" to explicit
check the ref name. And add a new unit test to verify the functionality.

Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-08 09:36:53 -07:00
shejialuo
a7600b8481 files-backend: add unified interface for refs scanning
For refs and reflogs, we need to scan its corresponding directories to
check every regular file or symbolic link which shares the same pattern.
Introduce a unified interface for scanning directories for
files-backend.

Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-08 09:36:53 -07:00
shejialuo
bf061d26c7 builtin/refs: add verify subcommand
Introduce a new subcommand "verify" in git-refs(1) to allow the user to
check the reference database consistency and also this subcommand will
be used as the entry point of checking refs for "git-fsck(1)".

Add "verbose" field into "fsck_options" to indicate whether we should
print verbose messages when checking refs and objects consistency.

Remove bit-field for "strict" field, this is because we cannot take
address of a bit-field which makes it unhandy to set member variables
when parsing the command line options.

The "git-fsck(1)" declares "fsck_options" variable with "static"
identifier which avoids complaint by the leak-checker. However, in
"git-refs verify", we need to do memory clean manually. Thus add
"fsck_options_clear" function in "fsck.c" to provide memory clean
operation.

Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-08 09:36:53 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
c369fc46d0 builtin/submodule: allow "add" to use different ref storage format
Same as with "clone", users may want to add a submodule to a repository
with a non-default ref storage format. Wire up a new `--ref-format=`
option that works the same as for `git submodule clone`.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-08 09:22:21 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
5ac781ad62 builtin/submodule: allow cloning with different ref storage format
As submodules are proper self-contained repositories, it is perfectly
valid for them to have a different ref storage format than their parent
repository. There is no obvious way for users to ask for the ref storage
format when initializing submodules though. Whether the setup of such
mixed-ref-storage-format constellations is all that useful remains to be
seen. But there is no good reason to not expose such an option, and we
will require it in a subsequent patch.

Introduce a new `--ref-format=` option for git-submodule(1) that allows
the user to pick the ref storage format. This option will also be used
in a subsequent commit, where we start to propagate the same flag from
git-clone(1) to cloning submodules with the `--recursive` switch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-08 09:20:49 -07:00
Taylor Blau
fcb2205b77 midx: implement support for writing incremental MIDX chains
Now that the rest of the MIDX subsystem and relevant callers have been
updated to learn about how to read and process incremental MIDX chains,
let's finally update the implementation in `write_midx_internal()` to be
able to write incremental MIDX chains.

This new feature is available behind the `--incremental` option for the
`multi-pack-index` builtin, like so:

    $ git multi-pack-index write --incremental

The implementation for doing so is relatively straightforward, and boils
down to a handful of different kinds of changes implemented in this
patch:

  - The `compute_sorted_entries()` function is taught to reject objects
    which appear in any existing MIDX layer.

  - Functions like `write_midx_revindex()` are adjusted to write
    pack_order values which are offset by the number of objects in the
    base MIDX layer.

  - The end of `write_midx_internal()` is adjusted to move
    non-incremental MIDX files when necessary (i.e. when creating an
    incremental chain with an existing non-incremental MIDX in the
    repository).

There are a handful of other changes that are introduced, like new
functions to clear incremental MIDX files that are unrelated to the
current chain (using the same "keep_hash" mechanism as in the
non-incremental case).

The tests explicitly exercising the new incremental MIDX feature are
relatively limited for two reasons:

  1. Most of the "interesting" behavior is already thoroughly covered in
     t5319-multi-pack-index.sh, which handles the core logic of reading
     objects through a MIDX.

     The new tests in t5334-incremental-multi-pack-index.sh are mostly
     focused on creating and destroying incremental MIDXs, as well as
     stitching their results together across layers.

  2. A new GIT_TEST environment variable is added called
     "GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX_WRITE_INCREMENTAL", which modifies the
     entire test suite to write incremental MIDXs after repacking when
     combined with the "GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX" variable.

     This exercises the long tail of other interesting behavior that is
     defined implicitly throughout the rest of the CI suite. It is
     likewise added to the linux-TEST-vars job.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-06 12:01:39 -07:00
Taylor Blau
6eb1a7d7b0 Documentation: describe incremental MIDX format
Prepare to implement incremental multi-pack indexes (MIDXs) over the
next several commits by first describing the relevant prerequisites
(like a new chunk in the MIDX format, the directory structure for
incremental MIDXs, etc.)

The format is described in detail in the patch contents below, but the
high-level description is as follows.

Incremental MIDXs live in $GIT_DIR/objects/pack/multi-pack-index.d, and
each `*.midx` within that directory has a single "parent" MIDX, which is
the MIDX layer immediately before it in the MIDX chain. The chain order
resides in a file 'multi-pack-index-chain' in the same directory.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-06 12:01:35 -07:00
Emily Shaffer
d53db106e0 Documentation: add platform support policy
Supporting many platforms is only possible when we have the right tools to
ensure that support.

Teach platform maintainers how they can help us to help them, by
explaining what kind of tooling support we would like to have, and what
level of support becomes available as a result. Provide examples so that
platform maintainers can see what we're asking for in practice.

With this policy in place, we can make changes with stronger assurance
that we are not breaking anybody we promised not to. Instead, we can
feel confident that our existing testing and integration practices
protect those who care from breakage.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-02 16:27:15 -07:00
Ryan Hendrickson
0ca365c2ed http: do not ignore proxy path
The documentation for `http.proxy` describes that option, and the
environment variables it overrides, as supporting "the syntax understood
by curl". curl allows SOCKS proxies to use a path to a Unix domain
socket, like `socks5h://localhost/path/to/socket.sock`. Git should
therefore include, if present, the path part of the proxy URL in what it
passes to libcurl.

Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Hendrickson <ryan.hendrickson@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-02 08:30:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
406f326d27 The second batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-01 10:18:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f08cd19dca Merge branch 'jc/doc-reviewing-guidelines-positive-reviews'
The reviewing guidelines document now explicitly encourages people
to give positive reviews and how.

* jc/doc-reviewing-guidelines-positive-reviews:
  ReviewingGuidelines: encourage positive reviews more
2024-08-01 10:18:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5617a8eee8 Merge branch 'jc/doc-rebase-fuzz-vs-offset-fix'
"git rebase --help" referred to "offset" (the difference between
the location a change was taken from and the change gets replaced)
incorrectly and called it "fuzz", which has been corrected.

* jc/doc-rebase-fuzz-vs-offset-fix:
  doc: difference in location to apply is "offset", not "fuzz"
2024-08-01 10:18:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
891ee3b9db Start the 2.47 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-31 13:34:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3ff9ceca89 Merge branch 'jc/how-to-maintain-updates'
Doc update.

* jc/how-to-maintain-updates:
  howto-maintain: update daily tasks
  howto-maintain: cover a whole development cycle
2024-07-31 13:34:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d18eb5ba79 Merge branch 'tn/doc-commit-fix'
Docfix.

* tn/doc-commit-fix:
  doc: remove dangling closing parenthesis
2024-07-31 13:34:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ca9221c17d Merge branch 'jc/doc-one-shot-export-with-shell-func'
It has been documented that we avoid "VAR=VAL shell_func" and why.

* jc/doc-one-shot-export-with-shell-func:
  CodingGuidelines: document a shell that "fails" "VAR=VAL shell_func"
2024-07-31 13:34:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f31e901332 Merge branch 'jt/doc-post-receive-hook-update'
Doc update.

* jt/doc-post-receive-hook-update:
  doc: clarify post-receive hook behavior
2024-07-31 13:34:16 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
6cda597283 Documentation: consistently use spaces inside initializers
Our coding guide is inconsistent with how it uses spaces inside of
initializers (`struct foo bar = { something }`). While we mostly carry
the space between open and closing braces and the initialized members,
in one case we don't.

Fix this one instance such that we consistently carry the space. This is
also consistent with how clang-format formats such initializers.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-30 13:50:25 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
10f0723c8d Documentation: document idiomatic function names
We semi-regularly have discussions around whether a function shall be
named `S_release()`, `S_clear()` or `S_free()`. Indeed, it may not be
obvious which of these is preferable as we never really defined what
each of these variants means exactly.

Carve out a space where we can add idiomatic names for common functions
in our coding guidelines and define each of those functions. Like this,
we can get to a shared understanding of their respective semantics and
can easily point towards our style guide in future discussions such that
our codebase becomes more consistent over time.

Note that the intent is not to rename all functions which violate these
semantics right away. Rather, the intent is to slowly converge towards a
common style over time.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-30 13:50:25 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
541204aabe Documentation: document naming schema for structs and their functions
We nowadays have a proper mishmash of struct-related functions that are
called `<verb>_<struct>` (e.g. `clear_prio_queue()`) versus functions
that are called `<struct>_<verb>` (e.g. `strbuf_clear()`). While the
former style may be easier to tie into a spoken conversation, most of
our communication happens in text anyway. Furthermore, prefixing
functions with the name of the structure they operate on makes it way
easier to group them together, see which functions are related, and will
also help folks who are using code completion.

Let's thus settle on one style, namely the one where functions start
with the name of the structure they operate on.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-30 13:50:25 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
7df3f55b92 Documentation: clarify indentation style for C preprocessor directives
In the preceding commit, we have settled on using a single space per
nesting level to indent preprocessor directives. Clarify our coding
guidelines accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-30 13:50:25 -07:00
Jayson Rhynas
c199707496 doc: fix hex code escapes in git-ls-files
The --format option on the git-ls-files man page states that `%xx`
interpolates to the character with hex code `xx`. This mirrors the
documentation and behavior of `git for-each-ref --format=...`. However,
in reality it requires the character with code `XX` to be specified as
`%xXX`, mirroring the behaviour of  `git log --format`.

Signed-off-by: Jayson Rhynas <jayrhynas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-26 10:53:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
70058db385 doc: difference in location to apply is "offset", not "fuzz"
The documentation to "git rebase" says that the line numbers (in the
rebased change) may not exactly be the same as the line numbers the
change gets replayed on top of the new base, but uses a wrong noun
"fuzz".  It should have said "offset".

They are both terms of art.  "fuzz" is about context lines not
exactly matching.  "offset" is about the difference in the location
that a change was taken from the original and the change gets
replayed on the target.  "offset" is often inevitable and part of
normal life.  "fuzz" on the other hand is often a sign of trouble
(and indeed "Git" refuses to apply a change with "fuzz", except
there are options to be fuzzy about whitespaces).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-25 10:28:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
92e24c8b79 ReviewingGuidelines: encourage positive reviews more
I saw some contributors hesitate to give a positive review on
patches by their coworkers.  When written well, a positive review
does not have to be a hollow "looks good" that rubber stamps an
useless approval on a topic that is not interesting to others.

Let's add a few paragraphs to encourage positive reviews, which is a
bit harder to give than a review to point out things to improve.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-25 08:50:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ad57f148c6 Git 2.46-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-23 16:54:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6fcd72d5ad Merge branch 'js/doc-markup-updates-fix'
Work around asciidoctor's css that renders `monospace` material
in the SYNOPSIS section of manual pages as block elements.

* js/doc-markup-updates-fix:
  Doc: fix Asciidoctor css workaround
  asciidoctor: fix `synopsis` rendering
2024-07-23 16:54:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
37b959ecfb Merge branch 'ja/doc-markup-updates-fix'
Fix documentation mark-up regression in 2.45.

* ja/doc-markup-updates-fix:
  doc: git-clone fix discrepancy between asciidoc and asciidoctor
2024-07-23 16:54:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d44ce6ddd5 Doc: fix Asciidoctor css workaround
The previous step introduced docinfo.html to be used to tweak the
CSS used by the asciidoctor, that by default renders <code> inside
<pre> as a block element, breaking the SYNOPSIS section of a few
pages that adopted a new convention we use since Git 2.45.

But in this project, HTML files are all generated.  We do not force
any human to write HTML by hand, which is an unusual and cruel
punishment.  "*.html" is in the .gitignore file, and "make clean"
removes them.  Having a tracked .html file makes "make clean" make
the tree dirty by removing the tracked docinfo.html file.

Let's do an obvious, minimum and stupid workaround to generate that
file at runtime instead.  The mark-up is being rethought in a major
way for the next development cycle, and the CSS workaround we added
in the previous step may have to adjusted, possibly in a large way,
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-23 11:02:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
728a1962cd CodingGuidelines: document a shell that "fails" "VAR=VAL shell_func"
Over the years, we accumulated the community wisdom to avoid the
common "one-short export" construct for shell functions, but seem to
have lost on which exact platform it is known to fail.  Now during
an investigation on a breakage for a recent topic, we found one
example of failing shell.  Let's document that.

This does *not* mean that we can freely start using the construct
once Ubuntu 20.04 is retired.  But it does mean that we cannot use
the construct until Ubuntu 20.04 is fully retired from the machines
that matter.  Moreover, posix explicitly says that the behaviour for
the construct is unspecified.

Helped-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-23 08:28:43 -07:00
Tomas Nordin
1c473dd6af doc: remove dangling closing parenthesis
The second line of the synopsis, starting with [--dry-run] has a
dangling closing paren in the second optional group. Probably added by
mistake, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-22 17:32:36 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
8bfc3e47a7 asciidoctor: fix synopsis rendering
Since 76880f0510 (doc: git-clone: apply new documentation formatting
guidelines, 2024-03-29), the synopsis of `git clone`'s manual page is
rendered differently than before; Its parent commit did the same for
`git init`.

The result looks quite nice. When rendered with AsciiDoc, that is. When
rendered using AsciiDoctor and displayed in a graphical web browser such
as Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc, the result is quite unpleasant to my eye,
reading something like this:

	SYNOPSIS

	 git clone
	  [
	 --template=
	 <template-directory>]
		  [
	 -l
	 ] [
	 -s
	 ] [
	 --no-hardlinks
	 ] [
	 -q
	 ] [
	[... continuing like this ...]

The reason is that AsciiDoctor's default style sheet contains this (see
https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/blob/854923b15533/src/stylesheets/asciidoctor.css#L519-L521
for context):

	pre > code {
	  display: block;
	}

It is this `display: block` that forces the parts that are enclosed in
`<code>` tags (such as the `git clone` or the `--template=` part) to be
rendered on their own line.

Side note: This seems not to affect console web browsers like `lynx` or
`w3m`, most likely because most style sheet directions cannot be
respected in text terminals and therefore they seem to punt on style
sheets altogether.

To fix this, let's apply the method recommended by AsciiDoctor in
https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor/latest/html-backend/default-stylesheet/#customize-docinfo
to partially override AsciiDoctor's default style sheet so that the
`<code>` sections of the synopsis are no longer each rendered on their
own, individual lines.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5063.

Even on the Git home page, where AsciiDoctor's default stylesheet is
_not_ used, this change resulted in some unpleasant rendering where not
only the font is changed for the `<code>` sections of the synopsis, but
padding and a different background color make the visual impression
quite uneven. This has been addressed in the meantime, via
https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/commit/a492d0565512.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-22 14:13:44 -07:00