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Junio C Hamano
081b08c45c Merge branch 'ja/dir-rename-doc-markup-fix'
Doc update.

* ja/dir-rename-doc-markup-fix:
  Doc: fix misleading asciidoc formating
2019-04-10 02:14:21 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
0b2094b06b Merge branch 'dl/reset-doc-no-wrt-abbrev'
Doc update.

* dl/reset-doc-no-wrt-abbrev:
  git-reset.txt: clarify documentation
2019-04-10 02:14:21 +09:00
Philip Oakley
ffea0248bf describe doc: remove '7-char' abbreviation reference
While the minimum is 7-char, the unambiguous length can be longer.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:24:51 +09:00
Philip Oakley
fe61ccbc35 rerere doc: quote rerere.enabled
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:23:25 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
0044f7700f gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0
The chance of a repository being corrupted due to a "gc" has nothing
to do with whether or not that "gc" was invoked via "gc --auto", but
whether there's other concurrent operations happening.

This is already noted earlier in the paragraph, so there's no reason
to suggest this here. The user can infer from the rest of the
documentation that "gc" will run automatically unless gc.auto=0 is
set, and we shouldn't confuse the issue by implying that "gc --auto"
is somehow more prone to produce corruption than a normal "gc".

Well, it is in the sense that a blocking "gc" would stop you from
doing anything else in *that* particular terminal window, but users
are likely to have another window, or to be worried about how
concurrent "gc" on a server might cause corruption.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:01:10 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
daecbf2261 gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects
Amend the "NOTES" section to fix up wording that's been with us since
3ffb58be0a ("doc/git-gc: add a note about what is collected",
2008-04-23).

I can't remember when/where anymore (I think Freenode #Git), but at
some point I was having a conversation with someone who was convinced
that "gc" would prune things only referenced by e.g. refs/pull/*, and
pointed to this section as proof.

It turned out that they'd read the "branches and tags" wording here
and thought just refs/{heads,tags}/* and refs/remotes/* etc. would be
kept, which is what we enumerate explicitly.

So let's say "other refs", even though just above we say "objects that
are referenced anywhere in your repository".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:01:09 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
7384504881 gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import"
Amend the "PACKFILE OPTIMIZATION" section in "fast-import" to explain
that simply running "git gc --aggressive" after a "fast-import" should
properly optimize the repository. This is simpler and more effective
than the existing "repack" advice (which I'm keeping as it helps
explain things) because it e.g. also packs the newly imported refs.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:01:09 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
22d4e3bd19 gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive
The existing "gc --aggressive" docs come just short of recommending to
users that they run it regularly. I've personally talked to many users
who've taken these docs as an advice to use this option, and have,
usually it's (mostly) a waste of time.

So let's clarify what it really does, and let the user draw their own
conclusions.

Let's also clarify the "The effects [...] are persistent" to
paraphrase a brief version of Jeff King's explanation at [1].

1. https://public-inbox.org/git/20190318235356.GK29661@sigill.intra.peff.net/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:01:09 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
080a4480a0 gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth
Since 07e7dbf0db (gc: default aggressive depth to 50, 2016-08-11) we
somewhat confusingly use the same depth under --aggressive as we do by
default.

As noted in that commit that makes sense, it was wrong to make more
depth the default for "aggressive", and thus save disk space at the
expense of runtime performance, which is usually the opposite of
someone who'd like "aggressive gc" wants.

But that's left us with a mostly-redundant configuration variable, so
let's clearly note in its documentation that it doesn't change the
default.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:01:09 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
54d56f52bd gc docs: fix formatting for "gc.writeCommitGraph"
Change the AsciiDoc formatting so that an example of "gc --auto" isn't
rendered as "git-gc(1) --auto", but as "git gc --auto". This is
consistent with the rest of the links and command examples in this
documentation.

The formatting I'm changing was initially introduced in
d5d5d7b641 ("gc: automatically write commit-graph files", 2018-06-27).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:01:09 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
d257e0fb0a gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config"
Re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config". A previous commit moved this
over from the "gc" docs, but tried to keep as many of the lines
identical to benefit from diff's move detection.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:01:09 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
b6a8d09f6d gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc"
Rather than duplicating the documentation for the various "gc" options
let's include the "gc" docs from git-config. They were mostly better
already, and now we don't have the same docs in two places with subtly
different wording.

In the cases where the git-gc(1) docs were saying something the "gc"
docs in git-config(1) didn't cover move the relevant section over to
the git-config(1) docs.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 17:01:09 +09:00
Elijah Newren
8c8e5bd6eb merge-recursive: switch directory rename detection default
When all of x/a, x/b, and x/c have moved to z/a, z/b, and z/c on one
branch, there is a question about whether x/d added on a different
branch should remain at x/d or appear at z/d when the two branches are
merged.  There are different possible viewpoints here:

  A) The file was placed at x/d; it's unrelated to the other files in
     x/ so it doesn't matter that all the files from x/ moved to z/ on
     one branch; x/d should still remain at x/d.

  B) x/d is related to the other files in x/, and x/ was renamed to z/;
     therefore x/d should be moved to z/d.

Since there was no ability to detect directory renames prior to
git-2.18, users experienced (A) regardless of context.  Choice (B) was
implemented in git-2.18, with no option to go back to (A), and has been
in use since.  However, one user reported that the merge results did not
match their expectations, making the change of default problematic,
especially since there was no notice printed when directory rename
detection moved files.

Note that there is also a third possibility here:

  C) There are different answers depending on the context and content
     that cannot be determined by git, so this is a conflict.  Use a
     higher stage in the index to record the conflict and notify the
     user of the potential issue instead of silently selecting a
     resolution for them.

Add an option for users to specify their preference for whether to use
directory rename detection, and default to (C).  Even when directory
rename detection is on, add notice messages about files moved into new
directories.

As a sidenote, x/d did not have to be a new file here; it could have
already existed at some other path and been renamed to x/d, with
directory rename detection just renaming it again to z/d.  Thus, it's
not just new files, but also a modification to all rename types (normal
renames, rename/add, rename/delete, rename/rename(1to1),
rename/rename(1to2), and rename/rename(2to1)).

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-08 16:02:08 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
328c6cb853 doc: promote "git switch"
The new command "git switch" is added to avoid the confusion of
one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new users. They are also helpful
to avoid ambiguation context.

For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands...

The "Checking out files" progress line in unpack-trees.c is also updated
to "Updating files" to be neutral to both git-checkout and git-switch.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:57:00 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
65f099b398 switch: no worktree status unless real branch switch happens
When we switch from one branch to another, it makes sense to show a
summary of local changes since there could be conflicts, or some files
left modified.... When switch is used solely for creating a new
branch (and "switch" to the same commit) or detaching, we don't really
need to show anything.

"git checkout" does it anyway for historical reasons. But we can start
with a clean slate with switch and don't have to.

This essentially reverts fa655d8411 (checkout: optimize "git checkout
-b <new_branch>" - 2018-08-16) and make it default for switch,
but also for -B and --detach. Users of big repos are encouraged to
move to switch.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:57:00 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
ccb111b342 switch: implicit dwim, use --no-guess to disable it
This is already the default in git-checkout. The real change in here is
just minor cleanup. The main excuse is to explain why dwim is kept default.

Contrary to detach mode that is easy to get into and confusing to get
back out. Automatically creating a tracking branch often does not kick
in as often (you would need a branch of the same name on a remote). And
since the branch creation is reported clearly, the user should be able
to undo/delete it if it's unwanted.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:57:00 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
d787d311db checkout: split part of it to new command 'switch'
"git checkout" doing too many things is a source of confusion for many
users (and it even bites old timers sometimes). To remedy that, the
command will be split into two new ones: switch and restore. The good
old "git checkout" command is still here and will be until all (or most
of users) are sick of it.

See the new man page for the final design of switch. The actual
implementation though is still pretty much the same as "git checkout"
and not completely aligned with the man page. Following patches will
adjust their behavior to match the man page.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:56:59 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
181e3725ec git-checkout.txt: fix monospace typeset
Add backticks where we have none, replace single quotes with backticks
and replace double-quotes. Drop double-quotes from nested constructions
such as `"@{-1}"`.

Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:56:58 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
9d223d43e5 doc: document --overwrite-ignore
I added this option in git-checkout and git-merge in c1d7036b6b
(checkout,merge: disallow overwriting ignored files with
--no-overwrite-ignore - 2011-11-27) but did not remember to update
documentation. This completes that commit.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:56:58 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
37f80025cd git-checkout.txt: fix one syntax line
<branch> can be omitted in this syntax, and it's actually documented a
few paragraphs down:

  You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to
  "check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with
  rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information,
  if exists, for the current branch.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:56:58 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
d333f672ae git-checkout.txt: spell out --no-option
It's easier to search for and also less cryptic.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:56:58 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
b5a0bd694c read-tree.txt: clarify --reset and worktree changes
The description of --reset stays true to the first implementation in
438195cced (git-read-tree: add "--reset" flag, 2005-06-09). That is,
--reset discards unmerged entries. Or at least true to the commit
message because I can't be sure about read-tree's behavior regarding
local changes.

But in fcc387db9b (read-tree -m -u: do not overwrite or remove untracked
working tree files., 2006-05-17), it is clear that "-m -u" tries to keep
local changes, while --reset is singled out and will keep overwriting
worktree files. It's not stated in the commit message, but it's obvious
from the patch.

I went this far back not because I had a lot of free time, but because I
did not trust my reading of unpack-trees.c code. So far I think the
related changes in history agree with my understanding of the current
code, that "--reset" loses local changes.

This behavior is not mentioned in git-read-tree.txt, even though
old-timers probably can just guess it based on the "reset" name. Update
git-read-tree.txt about this.

Side note. There's another change regarding --reset that is not
obviously about local changes, b018ff6085 (unpack-trees: fix "read-tree
-u --reset A B" with conflicted index, 2012-12-29). But I'm pretty sure
this is about the first function of --reset, to discard unmerged entries
correctly.

PS. The patch changes one more line than necessary because the first
line uses spaces instead of tab.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 10:56:02 +09:00
Todd Zullinger
473dd357b7 Documentation/git-status: fix titles in porcelain v2 section
Asciidoc uses either one-line or two-line syntax for document/section
titles[1].  The two-line form is used in git-status.  Fix a few section
titles in the porcelain v2 section which were inadvertently using
markdown syntax.

[1] http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#X17

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 17:46:26 +09:00
Todd Zullinger
39a869b2f2 Documentation/rev-list-options: wrap --date=<format> block with "--"
Using "+" to continue multiple list items is more tedious and
error-prone than wrapping the entire block with "--" block markers.

When using asciidoctor, the list items after the --date=iso list items
are incorrectly formatted when using "+" continuation.  Use "--" block
markers to correctly format the block.

When using asciidoc there is no change in how the content is rendered.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 17:45:51 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a34dca2451 interpret-trailers.txt: start the desc line with a capital letter
This description line is shown in 'git help -a' and all other commands
description starts with an uppercase character. This just makes that
printout a bit nicer.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 15:49:47 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
b373e4d29b Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt: fix formatting
Asciidoctor versions v1.5.7 or later print the following warning while
building the documentation:

      ASCIIDOC technical/protocol-v2.html
  asciidoctor: WARNING: protocol-v2.txt: line 38: unterminated listing block

This highlights an issue (even with older Asciidoctor versions) where
the 'Initial Client Request' header is not rendered as a header but in
monospace.  I'm not sure what exactly causes this issue and why it's
an issue only with this particular header, but all headers in
'protocol-v2.txt' are written like this:

   Initial Client Request
  ------------------------

i.e. the header itself is indented by a space, and the "underline" is
two characters longer than the header.

Dropping that indentation and making the length of the underline match
the length of the header apparently fixes this issue.

While at it, adjust all other headers 'protocol-v2.txt' as well, to
match the style we use everywhere else.

The page rendered with AsciiDoc doesn't have this formatting issue.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 15:17:47 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
eeb26f8185 Documentation/technical/api-config.txt: fix formatting
Asciidoctor versions v1.5.7 or later print the following warning while
building the documentation:

      ASCIIDOC technical/api-config.html
  asciidoctor: WARNING: api-config.txt: line 232: unterminated listing block

This highlight an issue (even with older Asciidoctor versions) where
the length of the '----' lines surrounding a code example don't match,
and the rest of the document is rendered in monospace.

Fix this by making sure that the length of those lines match.

The page rendered with AsciiDoc doesn't have this formatting issue.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 15:17:47 +09:00
SZEDER Gábor
9822842778 Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt: fix formatting
Asciidoctor versions v1.5.7 or later print the following warning while
building the documentation:

      ASCIIDOC git-diff-tree.xml
  asciidoctor: WARNING: diff-format.txt: line 2: unterminated listing block

This highlights an issue (even with older Asciidoctor versions) where
the "Raw output format" header is not rendered as a header, and the
rest of the document is rendered in monospace.  This is not caused by
'diff-format.txt' in itself, but rather by 'git-diff-tree.txt'
including 'pretty-formats.txt' and 'diff-format.txt' on subsequent
lines, while the former happens to end with monospace-formatted
example commands.

Fix this by inserting an empty line between the two include::
directives.

The page rendered with AsciiDoc doesn't have this formatting issue.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 15:17:47 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
c3eaa0cb9d docs: do not document the git remote-testgit command
Since 7ded055401 (build: do not install git-remote-testgit, 2013-06-07),
we do not install it. Therefore it makes no sense to document it,
either.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 14:00:54 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
439cc74632 docs: move gitremote-helpers into section 7
It is currently in section 1, but that section is intended for
"Executable programs or shell commands".

A more appropriate place is section 7: "Miscellaneous (including macro
packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), groff(7)".

This issue should have been detected earlier by `make check-docs`, but
was missed due to a bug in that Makefile target (that we are about to
fix).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 14:00:53 +09:00
Elijah Newren
cf7b857a77 fast-import: fix erroneous handling of get-mark with empty orphan commits
When get-mark was introduced in commit 28c7b1f7b7 ("fast-import: add a
get-mark command", 2015-07-01), it followed the precedent of the
cat-blob command to be allowed on any line other than in the middle of a
data directive; see commit 777f80d742 ("fast-import: Allow cat-blob
requests at arbitrary points in stream", 2010-11-28).  It was useful to
allow cat-blob directives in the middle of a commit to get more data
that would be used in writing the current commit object.  get-mark is
not similarly useful since fast-import can already use either object id
or mark.  Further, trying to allow this command anywhere caused parsing
bugs.  Fix the parsing problems by only allowing get-mark commands to
appear when other commands have completed.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 11:59:09 +09:00
Elijah Newren
7ffde293f2 fast-import: only allow cat-blob requests where it makes sense
In commit 777f80d742 ("fast-import: Allow cat-blob requests at
arbitrary points in stream", 2010-11-28), fast-import started allowing
cat-blob commands to appear on the start of any line except in the
middle of a "data" command.  It could be in the middle of various
directives that were part of a tag command, or in the middle of
checkpoints or progresses (each of which allow an optional second empty
newline), or even immediately after the mark command of a blob before
the data directive appeared (raising the question of what if it used the
mark for the blob that just barely appeared in the stream that we do not
yet have the data for).  None of these locations make any sense as
places to put cat-blob requests.

The purpose of this change as stated in that commit message was to

   [save] frontends from having to loop over everything they want to
   commit in the next commit and cat-ing the necessary objects in
   advance.

However, that can be achieved by simply allowing cat-blob requests to
appear whenever a filemodify directive is allowed.  Further, it avoids
setting a bad precedent for other commands to follow (e.g. get-mark); a
precedent which caused parsing problems in corner cases.

Technically, inline filemodify directives add a slight wrinkle in that
frontends might want to have cat-blob directives appear after the start
of the filemodify and before the data directive contained within it.  I
think it would have been better to disallow such a case (it would be
trivial to use cat-blob before the filemodify instead), but since there
is evidence this was used, for backwards compatibility let's support
that case too.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 11:59:08 +09:00
Elijah Newren
a63c54a019 git-fast-import.txt: fix wording about where ls command can appear
The docs claimed `ls` commands could appear almost anywhere, but the
code told a different story.  Modify the docs to match the code.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 11:59:08 +09:00
Elijah Newren
62edbec7de t9300: demonstrate bug with get-mark and empty orphan commits
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01 11:59:08 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3e41485d85 read-tree: add --quiet
read-tree is basically the front end of unpack-trees code and shoud
expose all of its functionality (unless it's designed for internal
use). This "opts.quiet" (formerly "opts.gently") was added for
builtin/checkout.c but there is no reason why other read-tree users
won't find this useful.

The test that is updated to run 'read-tree --quiet' was added because
unpack-trees was accidentally not being quiet [1] in 6a143aa2b2
(checkout -m: attempt merge when deletion of path was staged -
2014-08-12). Because checkout is the only "opts.quiet" user, there was
no other way to test quiet behavior. But we can now test it directly.

6a143aa2b2 was manually reverted to verify that read-tree --quiet
works correctly (i.e. test_must_be_empty fails).

[1] the commit message there say "errors out instead of performing a
    merge" but I'm pretty sure the "performing a merge" happens anyway
    even before that commit. That line should say "errors out
    _in addition to_ performing a merge"

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-24 21:35:34 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
fc559fbb54 gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold"
Clean up the grammar in the documentation for
"gc.bigPackThreshold". This documentation was added in 9806f5a7bf ("gc
--auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad"",
2018-04-15).

Saying "the amount of memory estimated for" flows more smoothly than
the previous "the amount of memory is estimated not enough".

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-24 21:31:10 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
cf9cd771e1 gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags
Remove the mention of specific flags from the "gc" documentation, and
leave it at describing what we'll do instead. As seen in builtin/gc.c
we'll use various repack flags depending on what we detect we need to
do, so this isn't always accurate.

More importantly, a subsequent change is about to remove all this
documentation and replace it with an include of the gc.* docs in
git-config(1). By first changing this it's easier to reason about that
subsequent change.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-24 21:31:10 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
b11e8560cc gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc"
The docs have been recommending that users need to run this manually,
but that hasn't been needed in practice for a long time except in
exceptional circumstances.

Let's instead have this reflect reality and say that most users don't
need to run this manually at all, while briefly describing the sorts
sort of cases where "gc" does need to be run manually.

Since we're recommending that users run this most of the and usually
don't need to tweak it, let's tone down the very prominent example of
the gc.auto=0 command. It's sufficient to point to the gc.auto
documentation below.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-24 21:31:10 +09:00
Josh Steadmon
a4d3a283db trace2: write to directory targets
When the value of a trace2 environment variable is an absolute path
referring to an existing directory, write output to files (one per
process) underneath the given directory. Files will be named according
to the final component of the trace2 SID, followed by a counter to avoid
potential collisions.

This makes it more convenient to collect traces for every git invocation
by unconditionally setting the relevant trace2 envvar to a constant
directory name.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-22 14:27:02 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a7256debd4 checkout.txt: note about losing staged changes with --merge
If you have staged changes in path A and perform 'checkout
--merge' (which could result in conflicts in a totally unrelated path
B), changes in A will be gone. Which is unexpected. We are supposed
to keep all changes, or kick and scream otherwise.

This is the result of how --merge is implemented, from the very first
day in 1be0659efc (checkout: merge local modifications while switching
branches., 2006-01-12):

1. a merge is done, unmerged entries are collected
2. a hard switch to a new branch is done, then unmerged entries added
   back

There is no trivial fix for this. Going with 3-way merge one file at a
time loses rename detection. Going with 3-way merge by trees requires
teaching the algorithm to pick up staged changes. And even if we detect
staged changes with --merge and abort for safety, an option to continue
--merge is very weird. Such an option would keep worktree changes, but
drop staged changes.

Because the problem has been with us since the introduction of --merge
and everybody has been pretty happy (except Phillip, who found this
problem), I'll just take a note here to acknowledge it and wait for
merge wizards to come in and work their magic. There may be a way
forward [1].

[1] CABPp-BFoL_U=bzON4SEMaQSKU2TKwnOgNqjt5MUaOejTKGUJxw@mail.gmail.com

Reported-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-21 12:07:41 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
041f5ea1cf The third batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-20 15:19:48 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
0c45fa32ec Merge branch 'br/commit-tree-parseopt'
The command line parser of "git commit-tree" has been rewritten to
use the parse-options API.

* br/commit-tree-parseopt:
  commit-tree: utilize parse-options api
2019-03-20 15:16:08 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
f6c75e392e Merge branch 'jk/config-type-color-ends-with-lf'
"git config --type=color ..." is meant to replace "git config --get-color"
but there is a slight difference that wasn't documented, which is
now fixed.

* jk/config-type-color-ends-with-lf:
  config: document --type=color output is a complete line
2019-03-20 15:16:08 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
ea327760d3 Merge branch 'jk/fsck-doc'
"git fsck --connectivity-only" omits computation necessary to sift
the objects that are not reachable from any of the refs into
unreachable and dangling.  This is now enabled when dangling
objects are requested (which is done by default, but can be
overridden with the "--no-dangling" option).

* jk/fsck-doc:
  fsck: always compute USED flags for unreachable objects
  doc/fsck: clarify --connectivity-only behavior
2019-03-20 15:16:06 +09:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
d03ebd411c rebase: remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting
Remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting, which was added as an escape
hatch to disable the builtin version of rebase first released with Git
2.20.

See [1] for the initial implementation of rebase.useBuiltin, and [2]
and [3] for the documentation and corresponding
GIT_TEST_REBASE_USE_BUILTIN option.

Carrying the legacy version is a maintenance burden as seen in
7e097e27d3 ("legacy-rebase: backport -C<n> and --whitespace=<option>
checks", 2018-11-20) and 9aea5e9286 ("rebase: fix regression in
rebase.useBuiltin=false test mode", 2019-02-13). Since the built-in
version has been shown to be stable enough let's remove the legacy
version.

As noted in [3] having use_builtin_rebase() shell out to get its
config doesn't make any sense anymore, that was done for the purposes
of spawning the legacy rebase without having modified any global
state. Let's instead handle this case in rebase_config().

There's still a bunch of references to git-legacy-rebase in po/*.po,
but those will be dealt with in time by the i18n effort.

Even though this configuration variable only existed two releases
let's not entirely delete the entry from the docs, but note its
absence. Individual versions of git tend to be around for a while due
to distro packaging timelines, so e.g. if we're "lucky" a given
version like 2.21 might be installed on say OSX for half a decade.

That'll mean some people probably setting this in config, and then
when they later wonder if it's needed they can Google search the
config option name or check it in git-config. It also allows us to
refer to the docs from the warning for details.

1. 55071ea248 ("rebase: start implementing it as a builtin",
   2018-08-07)
2. d8d0a546f0 ("rebase doc: document rebase.useBuiltin", 2018-11-14)
3. 62c23938fa ("tests: add a special setup where rebase.useBuiltin is
   off", 2018-11-14)
3. https://public-inbox.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1903141544110.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet/

Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-20 09:25:10 +09:00
Martin Ågren
e605077260 doc-diff: add --cut-header-footer
AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor do not agree on what to write in the header and
footer of each man-page, i.e., the very first and the very last line of
*.[157]. Those differences can certainly be interesting in their own
right, but they clutter the output of `./doc-diff --from-asciidoc
--to-asciidoctor HEAD HEAD` quite a bit since the diff contains some
10-15 lines of noise per file diffed.

Teach doc-diff to cut away the first two and last two lines, i.e., the
header/footer and the empty line immediately following/preceding it.
Because Asciidoctor uses an extra empty line compared to AsciiDoc,
remove one more line at each end of the file, but only if it's empty.

An alternative approach might be to pass down `--no-header-footer`,
which both AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor understand, but it has some
drawbacks. First of all, the result doesn't build -- `xmlto` stumbles on
the resulting xml since it has multiple root elements. Second, it cuts
too much -- dropping the header loses the synopsis, which would be
interesting to diff.

Like in the previous commit, encode this option into the directory name
of the "installed" and "rendered" files. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able
to trust that what we use out of that cache actually corresponds to the
options given for this run. (We could optimize this caching a little
since this flag doesn't affect the contents of "installed" at all, but
let's punt on that.)

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18 15:54:17 +09:00
Martin Ågren
2be39bb43d doc-diff: support diffing from/to AsciiDoc(tor)
Provide `--from-asciidoctor` and `--to-asciidoctor` to select that the
"from" resp. "to" commit should be built with Asciidoctor, and provide
an `--asciidoctor` shortcut for giving both. Similarly, provide
--{from-,to-,}asciidoc for explicitly selecting AsciiDoc.

Implement this using the USE_ASCIIDOCTOR flag. Let's not enforce a
default here, but instead just let the Makefile fall back on whatever is
in config.mak, so that `./doc-diff foo bar` without any of of these new
options behaves exactly like it did before this commit.

Encode the choice into the directory names of our "installed" and
"rendered" files, so that we can run `./doc-diff --from-asciidoc
--to-asciidoctor HEAD HEAD` without our two runs stomping on each other.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18 15:54:17 +09:00
Martin Ågren
bc71dc3fa1 doc-diff: let render_tree() take an explicit directory name
In `render_tree()`, `$1` is documented to be the commit-ish/oid and we
use it as that with `git checkout`, but we mostly use it to form the
name of various directories. To separate these concerns, and because we
are about to construct the directory names a bit differently, take two
distinct arguments instead.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18 15:54:17 +09:00
Martin Ågren
9a71722b4d Doc: auto-detect changed build flags
If you build the documentation switching between different options,
e.g., to build with both Asciidoc and Asciidoctor, you'll probably find
yourself running `make -C Documentation clean` either too often (wasting
time) or too rarely (getting mixed builds).

Track the flags we're using in the documentation build, similar to how
the main Makefile tracks CFLAGS and prefix flags. Track ASCIIDOC_COMMON
directly rather than its individual components -- that should make it
harder to forget to update the tracking if/when we modify the build
commands.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18 15:54:17 +09:00
Alexander Blesius
ed31851fa6 doc: fix typos in man pages
Signed-off-by: Alexander Blesius <alexander+git@blesius.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18 14:45:21 +09:00