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When a bundle provider wants to operate independently from a Git remote, they want to provide a single, consistent URI that users can use in their 'git clone --bundle-uri' commands. At this point, the Git client expects that URI to be a single bundle that can be unbundled and used to bootstrap the rest of the clone from the Git server. This single bundle cannot be re-used to assist with future incremental fetches. To allow for the incremental fetch case, teach Git to understand a bundle list that could be advertised at an independent bundle URI. Such a bundle list is likely to be inspected by human readers, even if only by the bundle provider creating the list. For this reason, we can take our expected "key=value" pairs and instead format them using Git config format. Create bundle_uri_parse_config_format() to parse a file in config format and convert that into a 'struct bundle_list' filled with its understanding of the contents. Be careful to use error_action CONFIG_ERROR_ERROR when calling git_config_from_file_with_options() because the default action for git_config_from_file() is to die() on a parsing error. The current warning isn't particularly helpful if it arises to a user, but it will be made more verbose at a higher layer later. Update 'test-tool bundle-uri' to take this config file format as input. It uses a filename instead of stdin because there is no existing way to parse a FILE pointer in the config machinery. Using git_config_from_mem() is overly complicated and more likely to introduce bugs than this simpler version. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-<commandname>.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission and Documentation/CodingGuidelines).
Those wishing to help with error message, usage and informational message
string translations (localization l10) should see po/README.md
(a po file is a Portable Object file that holds the translations).
To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org (not the Git list). The mailing list archives are available at https://lore.kernel.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks