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Docfix.
* xx/rfc2822-date-format-in-doc:
Documentation: fix typos describing date format
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NUL cannot appear in paths. Even disregarding filesystem path
limitations, the tree object format delimits with NUL, so such a path
cannot be encoded by Git.
When a quoted path is unquoted, it could possibly contain NUL from
"\000". Forbid it so it isn't truncated.
fast-import still has other issues with NUL, but those will be addressed
later.
Signed-off-by: Thalia Archibald <thalia@archibald.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Simply saying “C-style” string quoting is imprecise, as only a subset of
C escapes are supported. Document the exact escapes.
Signed-off-by: Thalia Archibald <thalia@archibald.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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It describes what characters cannot be in an unquoted path, but not
their semantics. Reframe it as a definition of unquoted paths. From the
perspective of the parser, whether it starts with `"` is what defines
whether it will parse it as quoted or unquoted.
The restrictions on characters in unquoted paths (with starting-", LF,
and spaces) are explained in the quoted paragraph. Move it to the
unquoted paragraph and reword.
The restriction that the source paths of filecopy and filerename cannot
contain SP is only stated in their respective sections. Restate it in
the <path> section.
Signed-off-by: Thalia Archibald <thalia@archibald.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This commit corrects a typographical error found in both
date-formats.txt and git-fast-import.txt documentation, where the term
`email format` was mistakenly used instead of `date format`.
Signed-off-by: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The CodingGuidelines documents stipulates that multi-word placeholders
are to be separated by dashes, not underscores nor spaces.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Diff best viewed with --color-diff.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Diff best viewed with --color-diff.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Add a CONFIGURATION section to the documentation of various built-ins,
for those cases where the relevant config/NAME.txt describes
configuration that is only used by the relevant built-in documented in
git-NAME.txt. Subsequent commits will handle more complex cases.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Samanta Navarro <ferivoz@riseup.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Some repositories in the wild have commits that record nonsense
committer timezone (e.g. rails.git); "git fast-import" learned an
option to pass these nonsense timestamps intact to allow recreating
existing repositories as-is.
* en/fast-import-looser-date:
fast-import: add new --date-format=raw-permissive format
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There are multiple repositories in the wild with random, invalid
timezones. Most notably is a commit from rails.git with a timezone of
"+051800"[1]. A few searches will find other repos with that same
invalid timezone as well. Further, Peff reports that GitHub relaxed
their fsck checks in August 2011 to accept any timezone value[2], and
there have been multiple reports to filter-repo about fast-import
crashing while trying to import their existing repositories since they
had timezone values such as "-7349423" and "-43455309"[3].
The existing check on timezone values inside fast-import may prove
useful for people who are crafting fast-import input by hand or with a
new script. For them, the check may help them avoid accidentally
recording invalid dates. (Note that this check is rather simplistic and
there are still several forms of invalid dates that fast-import does not
check for: dates in the future, timezone values with minutes that are
not divisible by 15, and timezone values with minutes that are 60 or
greater.) While this simple check may have some value for those users,
other users or tools will want to import existing repositories as-is.
Provide a --date-format=raw-permissive format that will not error out on
these otherwise invalid timezones so that such existing repositories can
be imported.
[1] https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4cf94979c9f4d6683c9338d694d5eb3106a4e734
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200521195513.GA1542632@coredump.intra.peff.net/
[3] https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/issues/88
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When converting a repository using submodules from one hash algorithm to
another, it is necessary to rewrite the submodules from the old
algorithm to the new algorithm, since only references to submodules, not
their contents, are written to the fast-export stream. Without rewriting
the submodules, fast-import fails with an "Invalid dataref" error when
encountering a submodule in another algorithm.
Add a pair of options, --rewrite-submodules-from and
--rewrite-submodules-to, that take a list of marks produced by
fast-export and fast-import, respectively, when processing the
submodule. Use these marks to map the submodule commits from the old
algorithm to the new algorithm.
We read marks into two corresponding struct mark_set objects and then
perform a mapping from the old to the new using a hash table. This lets
us reuse the same mark parsing code that is used elsewhere and allows us
to efficiently read and match marks based on their ID, since mark files
need not be sorted.
Note that because we're using a khash table for the object IDs, and this
table copies values of struct object_id instead of taking references to
them, it's necessary to zero the struct object_id values that we use to
insert and look up in the table. Otherwise, we would end up with SHA-1
values that don't match because of whatever stack garbage might be left
in the unused area.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* maint-2.23: (44 commits)
Git 2.23.1
Git 2.22.2
Git 2.21.1
mingw: sh arguments need quoting in more circumstances
mingw: fix quoting of empty arguments for `sh`
mingw: use MSYS2 quoting even when spawning shell scripts
mingw: detect when MSYS2's sh is to be spawned more robustly
t7415: drop v2.20.x-specific work-around
Git 2.20.2
t7415: adjust test for dubiously-nested submodule gitdirs for v2.20.x
Git 2.19.3
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
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* maint-2.22: (43 commits)
Git 2.22.2
Git 2.21.1
mingw: sh arguments need quoting in more circumstances
mingw: fix quoting of empty arguments for `sh`
mingw: use MSYS2 quoting even when spawning shell scripts
mingw: detect when MSYS2's sh is to be spawned more robustly
t7415: drop v2.20.x-specific work-around
Git 2.20.2
t7415: adjust test for dubiously-nested submodule gitdirs for v2.20.x
Git 2.19.3
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
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* maint-2.21: (42 commits)
Git 2.21.1
mingw: sh arguments need quoting in more circumstances
mingw: fix quoting of empty arguments for `sh`
mingw: use MSYS2 quoting even when spawning shell scripts
mingw: detect when MSYS2's sh is to be spawned more robustly
t7415: drop v2.20.x-specific work-around
Git 2.20.2
t7415: adjust test for dubiously-nested submodule gitdirs for v2.20.x
Git 2.19.3
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
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* maint-2.20: (36 commits)
Git 2.20.2
t7415: adjust test for dubiously-nested submodule gitdirs for v2.20.x
Git 2.19.3
Git 2.18.2
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation
quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials
quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line
tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting
mingw: fix quoting of arguments
Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories
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* maint-2.17: (32 commits)
Git 2.17.3
Git 2.16.6
test-drop-caches: use `has_dos_drive_prefix()`
Git 2.15.4
Git 2.14.6
mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"
mingw: refuse to access paths with trailing spaces or periods
mingw: refuse to access paths with illegal characters
unpack-trees: let merged_entry() pass through do_add_entry()'s errors
quote-stress-test: offer to test quoting arguments for MSYS2 sh
t6130/t9350: prepare for stringent Win32 path validation
quote-stress-test: allow skipping some trials
quote-stress-test: accept arguments to test via the command-line
tests: add a helper to stress test argument quoting
mingw: fix quoting of arguments
Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories
protect_ntfs: turn on NTFS protection by default
path: also guard `.gitmodules` against NTFS Alternate Data Streams
is_ntfs_dotgit(): speed it up
mingw: disallow backslash characters in tree objects' file names
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As with export-marks in the previous commit, import-marks can access the
filesystem. This is significantly less dangerous than export-marks
because it only involves reading from arbitrary paths, rather than
writing them. However, it could still be surprising and have security
implications (e.g., exfiltrating data from a service that accepts
fast-import streams).
Let's lump it (and its "if-exists" counterpart) in with export-marks,
and enable the in-stream version only if --allow-unsafe-features is set.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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The fast-import stream command "feature export-marks=<path>" lets the
stream write marks to an arbitrary path. This may be surprising if you
are running fast-import against an untrusted input (which otherwise
cannot do anything except update Git objects and refs).
Let's disallow the use of this feature by default, and provide a
command-line option to re-enable it (you can always just use the
command-line --export-marks as well, but the in-stream version provides
an easy way for exporters to control the process).
This is a backwards-incompatible change, since the default is flipping
to the new, safer behavior. However, since the main users of the
in-stream versions would be import/export-based remote helpers, and
since we trust remote helpers already (which are already running
arbitrary code), we'll pass the new option by default when reading a
remote helper's stream. This should minimize the impact.
Note that the implementation isn't totally simple, as we have to work
around the fact that fast-import doesn't parse its command-line options
until after it has read any "feature" lines from the stream. This is how
it lets command-line options override in-stream. But in our case, it's
important to parse the new --allow-unsafe-features first.
There are three options for resolving this:
1. Do a separate "early" pass over the options. This is easy for us to
do because there are no command-line options that allow the
"unstuck" form (so there's no chance of us mistaking an argument
for an option), though it does introduce a risk of incorrect
parsing later (e.g,. if we convert to parse-options).
2. Move the option parsing phase back to the start of the program, but
teach the stream-reading code never to override an existing value.
This is tricky, because stream "feature" lines override each other
(meaning we'd have to start tracking the source for every option).
3. Accept that we might parse a "feature export-marks" line that is
forbidden, as long we don't _act_ on it until after we've parsed
the command line options.
This would, in fact, work with the current code, but only because
the previous patch fixed the export-marks parser to avoid touching
the filesystem.
So while it works, it does carry risk of somebody getting it wrong
in the future in a rather subtle and unsafe way.
I've gone with option (1) here as simple, safe, and unlikely to cause
regressions.
This fixes CVE-2019-1348.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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fast-export and fast-import have nice --import-marks flags which allow
for incremental migrations. However, if there is a mark in
fast-export's file of marks without a corresponding mark in the one for
fast-import, then we run the risk that fast-export tries to send new
objects relative to the mark it knows which fast-import does not,
causing fast-import to fail.
This arises in practice when there is a filter of some sort running
between the fast-export and fast-import processes which prunes some
commits programmatically. Provide such a filter with the ability to
alias pruned commits to their most recent non-pruned ancestor.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mark identifiers are used in fast-export and fast-import to provide a
label to refer to earlier content. Blobs are given labels because they
need to be referenced in the commits where they first appear with a
given filename, and commits are given labels because they can be the
parents of other commits. Tags were never given labels, probably
because they were viewed as unnecessary, but that presents two problems:
1. It leaves us without a way of referring to previous tags if we
want to create a tag of a tag (or higher nestings).
2. It leaves us with no way of recording that a tag has already been
imported when using --export-marks and --import-marks.
Fix these problems by allowing an optional mark label for tags.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Doc update.
* en/fast-import-merge-doc:
git-fast-import.txt: clarify that multiple merge commits are allowed
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The grammar for commits used a '?' rather than a '*' on the `merge`
directive line, despite the fact that the code allows multiple `merge`
directives in order to support n-way merges. In fact, elsewhere in
git-fast-import.txt there is an explicit declaration that "an unlimited
number of `merge` commands per commit are permitted by fast-import".
Fix the grammar to match the intent and implementation.
Reported-by: Joachim Klein <joachim.klein@automata.tools>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Inspired by 21416f0a07 ("restore: fix typo in docs", 2019-08-03), I ran
"git grep -E '(\b[a-zA-Z]+) \1\b' -- Documentation/" to find other cases
where words were duplicated, e.g. "the the", and in most cases removed
one of the repeated words.
There were many false positives by this grep command, including
deliberate repeated words like "really really" or valid uses of "that
that" which I left alone, of course.
I also did not correct any of the legitimate, accidentally repeated
words in old RelNotes.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Since git supports commit messages with an encoding other than UTF-8,
allow fast-import to import such commits. This may be useful for folks
who do not want to reencode commit messages from an external system, and
may also be useful to achieve reversible history rewrites (e.g. sha1sum
<-> sha256sum transitions or subtree work) with git repositories that
have used specialized encodings in their commit history.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Update docs around "gc".
* ab/gc-docs:
gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0
gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects
gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import"
gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive
gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth
gc docs: fix formatting for "gc.writeCommitGraph"
gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config"
gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc"
gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold"
gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags
gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc"
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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>
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When get-mark was introduced in commit 28c7b1f7b7b7 ("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 777f80d7429b ("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>
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In commit 777f80d7429b ("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>
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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>
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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Knowing the original names (hashes) of commits can sometimes enable
post-filtering that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. In
particular, the desire to rewrite commit messages which refer to other
prior commits (on top of whatever other filtering is being done) is
very difficult without knowing the original names of each commit.
In addition, knowing the original names (hashes) of blobs can allow
filtering by blob-id without requiring re-hashing the content of the
blob, and is thus useful as a small optimization.
Once we add original ids for both commits and blobs, we may as well
add them for tags too for completeness. Perhaps someone will have a
use for them.
This commit teaches a new --show-original-ids option to fast-export
which will make it add a 'original-oid <hash>' line to blob, commits,
and tags. It also teaches fast-import to parse (and ignore) such
lines.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The standard for command documentation synopses appears to be:
[...] means optional
<...> means replaceable
[<...>] means both optional and replaceable
So fix a number of doc pages that use incorrect variations of the
above.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When formatted as a man page, 1st section header is always in upper
case even if we write it otherwise. Make all 1st section headers
uppercase to keep it close to the final output.
This does affect html since case is kept there, but I still think it's
a good idea to maintain a consistent style for 1st section headers.
Some sections perhaps should become second sections instead, where
case is kept, and for better organization. I will update if anyone has
suggestions about this.
While at there I also make some header more consistent (e.g. examples
vs example) and fix a couple minor things here and there.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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In 618e613a70, 10 years ago, the default for pack depth used for
git-pack-objects and git-repack was changed from 10 to 50, while
leaving fast-import's default to 10.
There doesn't seem to be a reason besides oversight for the change not
having happened in fast-import as well.
Interestingly, fast-import uses pack.depth when it's set, and the
git-config manual says the default for pack.depth is 50. While the
git-fast-import manual does say the default depth is 10, the
inconsistency is also confusing.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to
literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font.
* mm/doc-tt:
doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal
CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentation
doc: typeset long options with argument as literal
doc: typeset '--' as literal
doc: typeset long command-line options as literal
doc: typeset short command-line options as literal
Documentation/git-mv.txt: fix whitespace indentation
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This was obtained with:
perl -pi -e "s/'--'/\`--\`/g" *.txt
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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With many incremental imports, small packs become highly
inefficient due to the need to readdir scan and load many
indices to locate even a single object. Frequent repacking and
consolidation may be prohibitively expensive in terms of disk
I/O, especially in large repositories where the initial packs
were aggressively optimized and marked with .keep files.
In those cases, users may be better served with loose objects
and relying on "git gc --auto".
This changes the default behavior of fast-import for small
imports found in test cases, so adjustments to t9300 were
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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"git fast-import" learned to respond to the get-mark command via
its cat-blob-fd interface.
* mh/fast-import-get-mark:
fast-import: add a get-mark command
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It is sometimes useful for importers to be able to read the SHA-1
corresponding to a mark that they have created via fast-import. For
example, they might want to embed the SHA-1 into the commit message of
a later commit. Or it might be useful for internal bookkeeping uses,
or for logging.
Add a "get-mark" command to "git fast-import" that allows the importer
to ask for the value of a mark that has been created earlier.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Older versions of AsciiDoc would convert the "--" in
"--option" into an emdash. According to 565e135
(Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc, 2011-06-29),
this is fixed in AsciiDoc 8.3.0. According to bf17126, we
don't support anything older than 8.4.1 anyway, so we no
longer need to worry about quoting.
Even though this does not change the output at all, there
are a few good reasons to drop the quoting:
1. It makes the source prettier to read.
2. We don't quote consistently, which may be confusing when
reading the source.
3. Asciidoctor does not like the quoting, and renders a
literal backslash.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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In AsciiDoc, it is OK to say:
this is my title
-------------------------
but AsciiDoctor is more strict. Let's match the underline to
the title (which also makes the source prettier to read).
The output from AsciiDoc is the same either way.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation update.
* jn/doc-fast-import-no-16-octopus-limit:
fast-import doc: remove suggested 16-parent limit
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Documentation update.
* jn/doc-fast-import-no-16-octopus-limit:
fast-import doc: remove suggested 16-parent limit
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Merges with an absurd number of parents are still a bad idea because
they do not render well in tools like gitk, but if they are present
in the repository being imported into git then there's no need to
avoid reproducing them faithfully.
In olden times, before v1.6.0-rc0~194 (2008-06-27), git commit-tree
and higher-level tools built on top of it were limited to writing 16
parents for a commit. Nowadays normal git operations are happy to
write more parents when asked, so the motivation for this note in the
fast-import documentation is gone and we can remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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In particular, git-fast-import and -export link to each
other, and gitremote-helpers links to existing remote
helpers, and vice versa. Also link to fast-import from the
remote helper spec, as this is relevant for remote helpers
using the fast-import format.
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Allow remote-helper/fast-import based transport to rename the refs
while transferring the history.
* fc/remote-helper-refmap:
transport-helper: remove unnecessary strbuf resets
transport-helper: add support to delete branches
fast-export: add support to delete refs
fast-import: add support to delete refs
transport-helper: add support to push symbolic refs
transport-helper: add support for old:new refspec
fast-export: add new --refspec option
fast-export: improve argument parsing
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other minor grammatical issues
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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"timezone" is two words, not one (i.e. "time zone" is correct).
Correct this in these files:
-- date-formats.txt
-- git-blame.txt
-- git-cvsimport.txt
-- git-fast-import.txt
-- git-svn.txt
-- gitweb.conf.txt
-- rev-list-options.txt
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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We liberally use "committish" and "commit-ish" (and "treeish" and
"tree-ish"); as these are non-words, let's unify these terms to
their dashed form. More importantly, clarify the documentation on
object peeling using these terms.
* rh/ishes-doc:
glossary: fix and clarify the definition of 'ref'
revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>}
glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish)
use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'
use 'tree-ish' instead of 'treeish'
glossary: define commit-ish (a.k.a. committish)
glossary: mention 'treeish' as an alternative to 'tree-ish'
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Replace 'committish' in documentation and comments with 'commit-ish'
to match gitglossary(7) and to be consistent with 'tree-ish'.
The only remaining instances of 'committish' are:
* variable, function, and macro names
* "(also committish)" in the definition of commit-ish in
gitglossary[7]
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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In most cases, "feature <foo>" does not just require that the feature
exists, but also changes the behavior by enabling it.
Cases where the feature is only requested like cat-blob, notes or ls are
clearly documented below.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* jk/maint-fast-import-doc-reorder:
git-fast-import(1): reorganise options
git-fast-import(1): combine documentation of --[no-]relative-marks
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The options in git-fast-import(1) are not currently arranged in a
logical order, which has caused the '--done' options to be documented
twice (commit 3266de10).
Rearrange them into logical groups under subheadings.
Suggested-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The descriptions of '--relative-marks' and '--no-relative-marks' make
more sense when read together instead of as two independent options.
Combine them into a single description block.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* jk/maint-fast-import-doc-dedup-done:
git-fast-import(1): remove duplicate '--done' option
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The '--done' option to git-fast-import is documented twice in its manual
page. Combine the best bits of each description, keeping the location
of the instance that was added first.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Email addresses in documentation are converted into mailto: hyperlinks
in the HTML output and footnotes in man pages. This isn't desirable for
cases where the address is used as an example and is not valid.
Particularly annoying is the example "jane@laptop.(none)" which appears
in git-shortlog(1) as "jane@laptop[1].(none)", with note 1 saying:
1. jane@laptop
mailto:jane@laptop
Fix this by escaping these email addresses with a leading backslash, to
prevent Asciidoc expanding them as inline macros.
In the case of mailmap.txt, render the address monospaced so that it
matches the block examples surrounding that paragraph.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The documentation mentioned only newlines and double quotes as
characters needing escaping, but the backslash also needs it. Also, the
documentation was not clearly saying that double quotes around the file
name were required (double quotes in the examples could be interpreted as
part of the sentence, not part of the actual string).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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* er/doc-fast-import-done:
fast-import: document the --done option
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Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Our documentation was written for an ancient version of AsciiDoc,
making the source not very readable.
By Jeff King
* jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal:
docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
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In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.
It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:
1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
of `master{tilde}1`.
2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
quoting.
This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).
Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:
- HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")
- some code examples used the right-arrow character
instead of '->' because they failed to quote
- api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
HTML contained a bogus snippet like:
<tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>
which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
sections of the page.
- git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)
- mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
author@example.com
- the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".
- using "prime" notation like:
commit `C` and its replacement `C'`
confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
to be inside matched quotes
- asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
asterisks. In particular,
`credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`
properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
literally passed through the backslash in the second
case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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If fast-import's command pipe and the frontend's cat-blob/ls response
pipe are both filled, there can be a deadlock. Luckily all existing
frontends consume any pending cat-blob/ls responses completely before
writing the next command.
Document the requirements so future frontend authors and users can be
spared from the problem, too. It is not always easy to catch that
kind of bug by testing.
To set the scene, add some words of explanation to help the novice
understand that "cat-blob" and "ls" output are meant for consumption
by the frontend.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* di/fast-import-ident:
fsck: improve committer/author check
fsck: add a few committer name tests
fast-import: check committer name more strictly
fast-import: don't fail on omitted committer name
fast-import: add input format tests
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* di/fast-import-doc:
doc/fast-import: document feature import-marks-if-exists
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fast-import command-line option --import-marks-if-exists was introduced
in commit dded4f1 (fast-import: Introduce --import-marks-if-exists, 2011-01-15)
--import-marks option can be set via a "feature" command in a fast-import
stream and --import-marks-if-exists had support for such specification
from the very beginning too due to some shared codebase. Though the
documentation for this feature wasn't written in dded4f1.
Add the documentation for "feature import-marks-if-exists=<file>". Also add
a minimalistic test for it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The documentation declares following identity format:
(<name> SP)? LT <email> GT
where name is any string without LF and LT characters.
But fast-import just accepts any string up to first GT
instead of checking the whole format, and moreover just
writes it as is to the commit object.
git-fsck checks for [^<\n]* <[^<>\n]*> format. Note that the
space is mandatory. And the space quirk is already handled via
extending the string to the left when needed.
Modify fast-import input identity format to a slightly stricter
one - deny LF, LT and GT in both <name> and <email>. And check
for it.
This is stricter then git-fsck as fsck accepts "Name> <email>"
currently, but soon fsck check will be adjusted likewise.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* sr/transport-helper-fix: (21 commits)
transport-helper: die early on encountering deleted refs
transport-helper: implement marks location as capability
transport-helper: Use capname for refspec capability too
transport-helper: change import semantics
transport-helper: update ref status after push with export
transport-helper: use the new done feature where possible
transport-helper: check status code of finish_command
transport-helper: factor out push_update_refs_status
fast-export: support done feature
fast-import: introduce 'done' command
git-remote-testgit: fix error handling
git-remote-testgit: only push for non-local repositories
remote-curl: accept empty line as terminator
remote-helpers: export GIT_DIR variable to helpers
git_remote_helpers: push all refs during a non-local export
transport-helper: don't feed bogus refs to export push
git-remote-testgit: import non-HEAD refs
t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote helpers
t5800: use skip_all instead of prereq
t5800: factor out some ref tests
...
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* mz/doc-synopsis-verse:
Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
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The "notemodify" fast-import command was introduced in commit a8dd2e7
(fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes, 2009-10-09)
The commit log has slightly different description than the added
documentation. The latter is somewhat confusing. "notemodify" is a
subcommand of "commit" command used to add a note for some commit.
Does this note annotate the commit produced by the "commit" command
or a commit given by it's committish parameter? Which notes tree
does it write notes to?
The exact meaning could be deduced with old description and some
notes machinery knowledge. But let's make it more obvious. This
command is used in a context like "commit refs/notes/test" to
add or rewrite an annotation for a committish parameter. So the
advised way to add notes in a fast-import stream is:
1) import some commits (optional)
2) prepare a "commit" to the notes tree:
2.1) choose notes ref, committer, log message, etc.
2.2) create annotations with "notemodify", where each can refer to
a commit being annotated via a branch name, import mark reference,
sha1 and other expressions specified in the Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Add a 'done' command that causes fast-import to stop reading from the
stream and exit.
If the new --done command line flag was passed on the command line
(or a "feature done" declaration included at the start of the stream),
make the 'done' command mandatory. So "git fast-import --done"'s
input format will be prefix-free, making errors easier to detect when
they show up as early termination at some convenient time of the
upstream of a pipe writing to fast-import.
Another possible application of the 'done' command would to be allow a
fast-import stream that is only a small part of a larger encapsulating
stream to be easily parsed, leaving the file offset after the "done\n"
so the other application can pick up from there. This patch does not
teach fast-import to do that --- fast-import still uses buffered input
(stdio).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already
use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span
several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse]
does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section
indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that
use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections
for consistency.
Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to
align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which
already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to
the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting
within the document more consistent.
While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with
other commands.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Remove spurious "=" after --relative-marks.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The point of these sections is generally to:
1. Give credit where it is due.
2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
file bug reports.
But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.
So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.
Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
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Lazy fast-import frontend authors that want to rely on the backend to
keep track of the content of the imported trees _almost_ have what
they need in the 'cat-blob' command (v1.7.4-rc0~30^2~3, 2010-11-28).
But it is not quite enough, since
(1) cat-blob can be used to retrieve the content of files, but
not their mode, and
(2) using cat-blob requires the frontend to keep track of a name
(mark number or object id) for each blob to be retrieved
Introduce an 'ls' command to complement cat-blob and take care of the
remaining needs. The 'ls' command finds what is at a given path
within a given tree-ish (tag, commit, or tree):
'ls' SP <dataref> SP <path> LF
or in fast-import's active commit:
'ls' SP <path> LF
The response is a single line sent through the cat-blob channel,
imitating ls-tree output. So for example:
FE> ls :1 Documentation
gfi> 040000 tree 9e6c2b599341d28a2a375f8207507e0a2a627fe9 Documentation
FE> ls 9e6c2b599341d28a2a375f8207507e0a2a627fe9 git-fast-import.txt
gfi> 100644 blob 4f92954396e3f0f97e75b6838a5635b583708870 git-fast-import.txt
FE> ls :1 RelNotes
gfi> 120000 blob b942e499449d97aeb50c73ca2bdc1c6e6d528743 RelNotes
FE> cat-blob b942e499449d97aeb50c73ca2bdc1c6e6d528743
gfi> b942e499449d97aeb50c73ca2bdc1c6e6d528743 blob 32
gfi> Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
The most interesting parts of the reply are the first word, which is
a 6-digit octal mode (regular file, executable, symlink, directory,
or submodule), and the part from the second space to the tab, which is
a <dataref> that can be used in later cat-blob, ls, and filemodify (M)
commands to refer to the content (blob, tree, or commit) at that path.
If there is nothing there, the response is "missing some/path".
The intent is for this command to be used to read files from the
active commit, so a frontend can apply patches to them, and to copy
files and directories from previous revisions.
For example, proposed updates to svn-fe use this command in place of
its internal representation of the repository directory structure.
This simplifies the frontend a great deal and means support for
resuming an import in a separate fast-import run (i.e., incremental
import) is basically free.
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
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* rr/fi-import-marks-if-exists:
fast-import: Introduce --import-marks-if-exists
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* maint-1.7.0:
fast-import: introduce "feature notes" command
fast-import: clarify documentation of "feature" command
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
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Here is a 'feature' command for streams to use to require support for
the notemodify (N) command.
When the 'feature' facility was introduced (v1.7.0-rc0~95^2~4,
2009-12-04), the notes import feature was old news (v1.6.6-rc0~21^2~8,
2009-10-09) and it was not obvious it deserved to be a named feature.
But now that is clear, since all major non-git fast-import backends
lack support for it.
Details: on git version with this patch applied, any "feature notes"
command in the features/options section at the beginning of a stream
will be treated as a no-op. On fast-import implementations without
the feature (and older git versions), the command instead errors out
with a message like
This version of fast-import does not support feature notes.
So by declaring use of notes at the beginning of a stream, frontends
can avoid wasting time and other resources when the backend does not
support notes. (This would be especially important for backends that
do not support rewinding history after a botched import.)
Improved-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Improved-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The "feature" command allows streams to specify options for the import
that must not be ignored. Logically, they are part of the stream,
even though technically most supported features are synonyms to
command-line options.
Make this more obvious by being more explicit about how the analogy
between most "feature" commands and command-line options works. Treat
the feature (import-marks) that does not fit this analogy separately.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Omit needless words ("Additionally ... <path> may also" is redundant).
While at it, place the explanation of this special case after the
general rules for paths to provide the reader with some context.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When a frontend uses a marks file to ensure its state persists between
runs, it may represent "clean slate" when bootstrapping with "no marks
yet". In such a case, feeding the last state with --import-marks and
saving the state after the current run with --export-marks would be a
natural thing to do.
The --import-marks option however errors out when the specified marks file
doesn't exist; this makes bootstrapping a bit difficult. The location of
the marks file becomes backend-dependent when --relative-marks is in
effect, and the frontend cannot check for the existence of the file in
such a case.
The --import-marks-if-exists option does the same thing as --import-marks
but does not flag an error if the named file does not exist yet to help
these frontends.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* jn/fast-import-blob-access:
t9300: avoid short reads from dd
t9300: remove unnecessary use of /dev/stdin
fast-import: Allow cat-blob requests at arbitrary points in stream
fast-import: let importers retrieve blobs
fast-import: clarify documentation of "feature" command
fast-import: stricter parsing of integer options
Conflicts:
fast-import.c
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The new rule: a "cat-blob" can be inserted wherever a comment is
allowed, which means at the start of any line except in the middle of
a "data" command.
This saves frontends from having to loop over everything they want to
commit in the next commit and cat-ing the necessary objects in
advance.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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New objects written by fast-import are not available immediately.
Until a checkpoint has been started and finishes writing the pack
index, any new blobs will not be accessible using standard git tools.
So introduce a new way to access them: a "cat-blob" command in the
command stream requests for fast-import to print a blob to stdout or a
file descriptor specified by the argument to --cat-blob-fd. The value
for cat-blob-fd cannot be specified in the stream because that would
be a layering violation: the decision of where to direct a stream has
to be made when fast-import is started anyway, so we might as well
make the stream format is independent of that detail.
Output uses the same format as "git cat-file --batch".
Thanks to Sverre Rabbelier and Sam Vilain for guidance in designing
the protocol.
Based-on-patch-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Acked-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The "feature" command allows streams to specify options for the import
that must not be ignored. Logically, they are part of the stream,
even though technically most supported features are synonyms to
command-line options.
Make this more obvious by being more explicit about how the analogy
between most "feature" commands and command-line options works. Treat
the feature (import-marks) that does not fit this analogy separately.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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It can be tedious to wait for a multi-million-revision import.
Unfortunately it is hard to spy on the import because fast-import
works by continuously streaming out objects, without updating the pack
index or refs until a checkpoint command or the end of the stream.
So allow the impatient operator to request checkpoints by sending a
signal, like so:
killall -USR1 git-fast-import
When receiving such a signal, fast-import would schedule a checkpoint
to take place after the current top-level command (usually a "commit"
or "blob" request) finishes.
Caveats: just like ordinary checkpoint commands, such requests slow
down the import. Switching to a new pack at a suboptimal moment is
also likely to result in a less dense initial collection of packs.
That's the price.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* maint:
Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff"
Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section
Documentation: diff can compare blobs
Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
shell portability: no "export VAR=VAL"
CodingGuidelines: reword parameter expansion section
Documentation: update-index: -z applies also to --index-info
Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effects
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Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML
documentation.
In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a
hard copy of the git reference manual.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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v1.7.3-rc0~75^2 (Teach fast-import to import subtrees named by tree id,
2010-06-30) has a shortcoming - it doesn't allow the root to be set.
Extend this behaviour by allowing the root to be referenced as the
empty path, "".
For a command (like filter-branch --subdirectory-filter) that wants
to commit a lot of trees that already exist in the object db, writing
undeltified objects as loose files only to repack them later can
involve a significant amount of overhead.
(23% slow-down observed on Linux 2.6.35, worse on Mac OS X 10.6)
Fortunately we have fast-import (which is one of the only git commands
that will write to a pack directly) but there is not an advertised way
to tell fast-import to commit a given tree without unpacking it.
This patch changes that, by allowing
M 040000 <tree id> ""
as a filemodify line in a commit to reset to a particular tree without
any need to parse it. For example,
M 040000 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 ""
is a synonym for the deleteall command and the fast-import equivalent of
git read-tree 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Commit-message-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* jn/fast-import-subtree:
Teach fast-import to import subtrees named by tree id
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Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we
link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has
this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes.
Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except
- when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or
- in very technical context (git-send-pack).
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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To simulate the svn cp command, it would be very useful to be
replace an arbitrary file in the current revision by an
arbitrary directory from a previous one. Modify the filemodify
command to allow that:
M 040000 <tree id> pathname
This would be most useful in combination with a facility to
print the commit ids for new revisions as they are written.
Cc: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Now that fast-import is creating packs with index version 2, there is
no point limiting the pack size by default. A pack split will still
happen if off_t is not sufficiently large to hold large offsets.
While updating the doc, let's remove the "packfiles fit on CDs"
suggestion. Pack files created by fast-import are still suboptimal and
a 'git repack -a -f -d' or even 'git gc --aggressive' would be a pretty
good idea before considering storage on CDs.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Similar in spirit to 07cf0f2 (make --max-pack-size argument to 'git
pack-object' count in bytes, 2010-02-03) which made the option by the same
name to pack-objects, this counts the pack size limit in bytes.
In order not to cause havoc with people used to the previous megabyte
scale an integer smaller than 8192 is interpreted in megabytes but the
user gets a warning. Also a minimum size of 1 MiB is enforced to avoid an
explosion of pack files.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
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* sp/fast-import-large-blob:
fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to pack
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* sp/maint-fast-import-large-blob:
fast-import: Stream very large blobs directly to pack
bash: don't offer remote transport helpers as subcommands
Conflicts:
fast-import.c
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If a blob is larger than the configured big-file-threshold, instead
of reading it into a single buffer obtained from malloc, stream it
onto the end of the current pack file. Streaming the larger objects
into the pack avoids the 4+ GiB memory footprint that occurs when
fast-import is processing 2+ GiB blobs.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
Documentation/git-config.txt
Documentation/git-merge.txt
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* sr/gfi-options:
fast-import: add (non-)relative-marks feature
fast-import: allow for multiple --import-marks= arguments
fast-import: test the new option command
fast-import: add option command
fast-import: add feature command
fast-import: put marks reading in its own function
fast-import: put option parsing code in separate functions
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The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.
The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.
Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
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The fast-import parser does not validate that the author, committer
or tagger name component contains both a name and an email address.
Therefore the name component has always been optional. Correct the
documentation to match the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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After specifying 'feature relative-marks' the paths specified with
'feature import-marks' and 'feature export-marks' are relative to an
internal directory in the current repository.
In git-fast-import this means that the paths are relative to the
'.git/info/fast-import' directory. However, other importers may use a
different location.
Add 'feature non-relative-marks' to disable this behavior, this way
it is possible to, for example, specify the import-marks location as
relative, and the export-marks location as non-relative.
Also add tests to verify this behavior.
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The --import-marks= option may be specified multiple times on the
commandline and should result in all marks being read in. Only one
import-marks feature may be specified in the stream, which is
overriden by any --import-marks= commandline options.
If one wishes to specify import-marks files in addition to the one
specified in the stream, it is easy to repeat the stream option as a
--import-marks= commandline option.
Also verify this behavior with tests.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This allows the frontend to specify any of the supported options as
long as no non-option command has been given. This way the
user does not have to include any frontend-specific options, but
instead she can rely on the frontend to tell fast-import what it
needs.
Also factor out parsing of argv and have it execute when we reach the
first non-option command, or after all commands have been read and
no non-option command has been encountered.
Non-git options are ignored, unrecognised options result in an error.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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This allows the fronted to require a specific feature to be supported
by the backend, or abort.
Also add support for four initial feature, date-format=, force=,
import-marks=, export-marks=.
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Introduce a 'notemodify' subcommand of the 'commit' command. This subcommand
is similar to 'filemodify', except that no mode is supplied (all notes have
mode 0644), and the path is set to the hex SHA1 of the given "comittish".
This enables fast import of note objects along with their associated commits,
since the notes can now be named using the mark references of their
corresponding commits.
The patch also includes a test case of the added functionality.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Currently fast-import/export cannot be used for
repositories with submodules. This patch extends
the relevant programs to make them correctly
process gitlinks.
Links can be represented by two forms of the
Modify command:
M 160000 SHA1 some/path
which sets the link target explicitly, or
M 160000 :mark some/path
where the mark refers to a commit. The latter
form can be used by importing tools to build
all submodules simultaneously in one physical
repository, and then simply fetch them apart.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.
Using
doit () {
perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
}
for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
do
doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
done
git diff
.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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It's distracting.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Following what appears to be the predominant style, format
names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`.
While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some
places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page
synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using
"git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is
not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to
refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no
escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.)
This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command,
program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can
be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are
made to use the dashless form.
The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens
and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched
versions are identical.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user
level, it seems better to move it to man section 1.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The fast-import documentation currently does not document the behaviour
of "merge" when there is no "from" in a commit. This patch adds a
description of what happens: the commit is created with a parent, but
no files. This behaviour is equivalent to "from" followed by
"filedeleteall".
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Recent versions of fast-import will now dump information out upon
crashing, making it possible for the frontend developer to review
some state information and possibly restart the import from the
point where it crashed.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:
@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
# Inline macros.
# Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
# (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
# Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
(?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
# Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]
This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Fix minor typos throughout the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Hetro <whee@smaertness.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The existing checkpoint command is very useful to force fast-import
to dump the branches out to disk so that standard Git tools can
access them and the objects they refer to. However there was not a
way to know when fast-import had finished executing the checkpoint
and it was safe to read those refs.
The progress command can be used to make fast-import output any
message of the frontend's choosing to standard out. The frontend
can scan for these messages using select() or poll() to monitor a
pipe connected to the standard output of fast-import.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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For the same reasons as the prior change we want to allow frontends
to omit the trailing LF that usually delimits commands. In some
cases these just make the input stream more verbose looking than
it needs to be, and its just simpler for the frontend developer to
get started if our parser is slightly more lenient about where an
LF is required and where it isn't.
To make this optional LF feature work we now have to buffer up to one
line of input in command_buf. This buffering can happen if we look
at the current input command but don't recognize it at this point
in the code. In such a case we need to "unget" the entire line,
but we cannot depend upon the stdio library to let us do ungetc()
for that many characters at once.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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A few fast-import frontend developers have found it odd that we
require the LF following a `data` command, especially in the exact
byte count format. Technically we don't need this LF to parse
the stream properly, but having it here does make the stream more
readable to humans. We can easily make the LF optional by peeking
at the next byte available from the stream and pushing it back into
the buffer if its not LF.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Several frontend developers have asked that some form of stream
comments be permitted within a fast-import data stream. This way
they can include information from their own frontend program about
where specific data was taken from in the source system, or about
a decision that their frontend may have made while creating the
fast-import data stream.
This change introduces comments in the Bourne-shell/Tcl/Perl style.
Lines starting with '#' are ignored, up to and including the LF.
Unlike the above mentioned three languages however we do not look for
and ignore leading whitespace. This just simplifies the definition
of the comment format and the code that parses them.
To make comments work we had to stop using read_next_command() within
cmd_data() and directly invoke read_line() during the inline variant
of the function. This is necessary to retain any lines of the
input data that might otherwise look like a comment to fast-import.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Some source material (e.g. Subversion dump files) perform directory
renames by telling us the directory was copied, then deleted in the
same revision. This makes it difficult for a frontend to convert
such data formats to a fast-import stream, as all the frontend has
on hand is "Copy a/ to b/; Delete a/" with no details about what
files are in a/, unless the frontend also kept track of all files.
The new 'C' subcommand within a commit allows the frontend to make a
recursive copy of one path to another path within the branch, without
needing to keep track of the individual file paths. The metadata
copy is performed in memory efficiently, but is implemented as a
copy-immediately operation, rather than copy-on-write.
With this new 'C' subcommand frontends could obviously implement an
'R' (rename) on their own as a combination of 'C' and 'D' (delete),
but since we have already offered up 'R' in the past and it is a
trivial thing to keep implemented I'm not going to deprecate it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Rogan Dawes noticed I meant `filerename` here and not `filename`.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Some source material (e.g. Subversion dump files) perform directory
renames without telling us exactly which files in that subdirectory
were moved. This makes it hard for a frontend to convert such data
formats to a fast-import stream, as all the frontend has on hand
is "Rename a/ to b/" with no details about what files are in a/,
unless the frontend also kept track of all files.
The new 'R' subcommand within a commit allows the frontend to
rename either a file or an entire subdirectory, without needing to
know the object's SHA-1 or the specific files contained within it.
The rename is performed as efficiently as possible internally,
making it cheaper than a 'D'/'M' pair for a file rename.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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* maint:
Clarify documentation of fast-import's D subcommand
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The 'D' subcommand within a commit can also delete a directory
recursively. This wasn't clear in the prior version of the
documentation, leading to a question on the mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The tag command does not take a trailing LF.
Signed-off-by: Richard P. Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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* maint:
git.el: Retrieve commit log information from .dotest directory.
git.el: Avoid appending a signoff line that is already present.
setup_git_directory_gently: fix off-by-one error
user-manual: install user manual stylesheet with other web documents
user-manual: fix rendering of history diagrams
user-manual: fix missing colon in git-show example
user-manual: fix inconsistent use of pull and merge
user-manual: fix inconsistent example
glossary: fix overoptimistic automatic linking of defined terms
Documentation: s/seperator/separator/
Adjust reflog filemode in shared repository
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Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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I'm giving fast-import a lesson on how to reload the marks table
using the same format it outputs with --export-marks. This way
a frontend can reload the marks table from a prior import, making
incremental imports less painful.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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It was suggested on the mailing list that being able to use `from`
in any commit to reset the current branch is useful in some types of
importers, such as a darcs importer.
We originally did not permit resetting an existing branch with a
new `from` command during a `commit` command, but this restriction
was only to help debug the hacked up cvs2svn that Jon Smirl was
developing in parallel with git-fast-import. It is probably more
of a problem to disallow it than to allow it. So now we permit a
`from` during any `commit`.
While making the changes required to permit multiple `from`
commands on the same branch, I discovered we no longer needed the
last_commit field to be set to 0 during a reset, so that was removed.
(Reset was originally setting the field to 0 to signal cmd_from()
that it was OK to execute on the branch.)
While poking around in this section of fast-import I also realized
the `reset` command was not working as intended if the corresponding
`from` command was omitted (as allowed by the BNF grammar and the
code). If `from` was omitted we cleared out the tree but we left
the tree SHA-1 and parent commit SHA-1 intact. This is not what
the user intended in this case. Instead they would be trying to
reset the branch to have no parent and to have no tree, making the
branch look new-born during the next commit. We now clear these
SHA-1 values during `reset`, ensuring the branch looks new-born if
`from` does not get supplied.
New test cases for these were also added.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Most users don't need the pack boundary information that fast-import
was printing to standard output, especially if they were calling
it with --quiet.
Those users who do want this information probably want it captured
so they can go back and use it to repack the imported repository.
So dumping the boundary commits to a log file makes more sense then
printing them to standard output.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Its spelled 'fast-import', not 'gfi'. Linus and Dscho have both
recently pointed this out to me on the mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Minor documentation improvements, as suggested on the Git mailing
list by Horst H. von Brand and Karl Hasselström.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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I wrote this documentation with asciidoc 7.1.2, but apparently
asciidoc 8 assumes ^ means superscript. The solution was already
documented in rev-parse's manpage and is to use {caret} instead.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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There has been some informative lessons learned in the gfi user
community, and these really should be written down and documented
for future generations of frontend developers.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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If the frontend asks us to checkpoint (via the explicit checkpoint
command) its probably because they are afraid the current import
will crash/fail/whatever and want to make sure they can pickup from
the last checkpoint. To do that sort of recovery, we will need the
current tip of every branch and tag available at the next startup.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Often users will be running fast-import from within a larger frontend
process, and this may be a frequent periodic tool such as a future
edition of `git-svn fetch`. We don't want to bombard users with our
large stats output if they won't be interested in it, so `--quiet`
is now an option to make gfi be more silent.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Some frontends may not be able to (easily) keep track of which files
are included in the branch, and which aren't. Performing this
tracking can be tedious and error prone for the frontend to do,
especially if its foreign data source cannot supply the changed
path list on a per-commit basis.
fast-import now allows a frontend to request that a branch's tree
be wiped clean (reset to the empty tree) at the start of a commit,
allowing the frontend to feed in all paths which belong on the branch.
This is ideal for a tar-file importer frontend, for example, as
the frontend just needs to reformat the tar data stream into a gfi
data stream, which may be something a few Perl regexps can take
care of. :)
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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As discussed on the mailing list, the documentation used here was
not quite accurate. Improve upon it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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If fast-import is being used to update an existing branch of
a repository, the user may not want to lose commits if another
process updates the same ref at the same time. For example, the
user might be using fast-import to make just one or two commits
against a live branch.
We now perform a fast-forward check during the ref updating process.
If updating a branch would cause commits in that branch to be lost,
we skip over it and display the new SHA1 to standard error.
This new default behavior can be overridden with `--force`, like
git-push and git-fetch.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Since some frontends may be working with source material where
the dates are only readily available as RFC 2822 strings, it is
more friendly if fast-import exposes Git's parse_date() function
to handle the conversion. This way the frontend doesn't need
to perform the parsing itself.
The new --date-format option to fast-import can be used by a
frontend to select which format it will supply date strings in.
The default is the standard `raw` Git format, which fast-import
has always supported. Format rfc2822 can be used to activate the
parse_date() function instead.
Because fast-import could also be useful for creating new, current
commits, the format `now` is also supported to generate the current
system timestamp. The implementation of `now` is a trivial call
to datestamp(), but is actually a whole whopping 3 lines so that
fast-import can verify the frontend really meant `now`.
As part of this change I have added validation of the `raw` date
format. Prior to this change fast-import would accept anything
in a `committer` command, even if it was seriously malformed.
Now fast-import requires the '> ' near the end of the string and
verifies the timestamp is formatted properly.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Corrected a couple of header markup lines which were shorter than the
actual header, and made the `data` commands two formats into a named
list, which matches how we document the two formats of the `M` command
within a commit.
Also tried to simplify the language about our decimal integer format;
Linus pointed out I was probably being too specific at the cost of
reduced readability.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Andy Parkins and Linus Torvalds both noticed that the description
of the timezone was incorrect. Its not expressed in minutes.
Its more like "hhmm", where "hh" is the number of hours and "mm"
is the number of minutes shifted from GMT/UTC.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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The --branch-log option and its associated code hasn't been used in
several months, as its not really very useful for debugging fast-import
or a frontend. I don't plan on supporting it in this state long-term,
so I'm killing it now before it gets distributed to a wider audience.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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This is a first pass at the manpage for git-fast-import.
I have tried to cover the input format in extreme detail, creating a
reference which is more detailed than the BNF grammar appearing in
the header of fast-import.c. I have also covered some details about
gfi's performance and memory utilization, as well as the average
learning curve required to create a gfi frontend application (as it
is far lower than it might appear on first glance).
The documentation still lacks real example input streams, which may
turn out to be difficult to format in asciidoc due to the blank lines
which carry meaning within the format.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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