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2005-06-13[PATCH] Tutorial update to adjust for -B fixJunio C Hamano
Now -B does not say silly "complete rewrite" anymore for small files such as the one in the tutorial example. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08[PATCH] Tidy up some rev-list-related stuffPetr Baudis
This patch tidies up the git-rev-list documentation and epoch.c, which are in severe clash with the unwritten coding style now, and quite unreadable. It also fixes up compile failures with older compilers due to variable declarations after code. The patch mostly wraps lines before or on the 80th column, removes plenty of superfluous empty lines and changes comments from // to /* */. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08cvs-migration: add more of a header to the "annotate" discussionLinus Torvalds
2005-06-08[PATCH] Miniscule correction of diff-format.txtChristian Meder
Add missing "space" element to the description of the diff-format. Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org> Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-07Talk about "git cvsimport" in the cvs migration docsLinus Torvalds
We should add a lot more information about how you copy repositories, pulling and pushing, merging etc. Oh, well. I'm not exactly known for my documentation skills. Maybe somebody else will help me..
2005-06-07[PATCH] Documentation: describe diff tweaking (fix).Junio C Hamano
I cannot count ;-) Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-06-07[PATCH] Start cvs-migration documentationJunio C Hamano
This does a section to talk about "cvs annotate". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-07[PATCH] read-tree: update documentation for 3-way merge.Junio C Hamano
This explains the new merge world order that formally assigns specific meaning to each of three tree-ish command line arguments. It also mentions -u option Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-07[PATCH] read-tree: save more user hassles during fast-forward.Junio C Hamano
This implements the "never lose the current cache information or the work tree state, but favor a successful merge over merge failure" principle in the fast-forward two-tree merge operation. It comes with a set of tests to cover all the cases described in the case matrix found in the new documentation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-07[PATCH] Document git-ssh-pull and git-ssh-pushDaniel Barkalow
This fixes the documentation for git-ssh-push, as called by users (if you run git-ssh-pull or git-ssh-push on one machine, the other runs on the other machine, and they transfer data in the specified direction). This also adds documentation for the -w option and for using filenames for the commit-id (which does what you'd want: uses the source side's value, not the value already on the target, even if you're running it on the target). It also credits me with the programs and the documentation for git-ssh-push. Someone who knows asciidoc should make sure I didn't mess up the formatting. I'm only sure of the ascii part. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] Modify git-rev-list to linearise the commit history in merge order.jon@blackcubes.dyndns.org
This patch linearises the GIT commit history graph into merge order which is defined by invariants specified in Documentation/git-rev-list.txt. The linearisation produced by this patch is superior in an objective sense to that produced by the existing git-rev-list implementation in that the linearisation produced is guaranteed to have the minimum number of discontinuities, where a discontinuity is defined as an adjacent pair of commits in the output list which are not related in a direct child-parent relationship. With this patch a graph like this: a4 --- | \ \ | b4 | |/ | | a3 | | | | | a2 | | | | c3 | | | | | c2 | b3 | | | /| | b2 | | | c1 | | / | b1 a1 | | | a0 | | / root Sorts like this: = a4 | c3 | c2 | c1 ^ b4 | b3 | b2 | b1 ^ a3 | a2 | a1 | a0 = root Instead of this: = a4 | c3 ^ b4 | a3 ^ c2 ^ b3 ^ a2 ^ b2 ^ c1 ^ a1 ^ b1 ^ a0 = root A test script, t/t6000-rev-list.sh, includes a test which demonstrates that the linearisation produced by --merge-order has less discontinuities than the linearisation produced by git-rev-list without the --merge-order flag specified. To see this, do the following: cd t ./t6000-rev-list.sh cd trash cat actual-default-order cat actual-merge-order The existing behaviour of git-rev-list is preserved, by default. To obtain the modified behaviour, specify --merge-order or --merge-order --show-breaks on the command line. This version of the patch has been tested on the git repository and also on the linux-2.6 repository and has reasonable performance on both - ~50-100% slower than the original algorithm. This version of the patch has incorporated a functional equivalent of the Linus' output limiting algorithm into the merge-order algorithm itself. This operates per the notes associated with Linus' commit 337cb3fb8da45f10fe9a0c3cf571600f55ead2ce. This version has incorporated Linus' feedback regarding proposed changes to rev-list.c. (see: [PATCH] Factor out filtering in rev-list.c) This version has improved the way sort_first_epoch marks commits as uninteresting. For more details about this change, refer to Documentation/git-rev-list.txt and http://blackcubes.dyndns.org/epoch/. Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-05[PATCH] Make git-update-cache --force-remove regularPetr Baudis
Make the --force-remove flag behave same as --add, --remove and --replace. This means I can do git-update-cache --force-remove -- file1.c file2.c which is probably saner and also makes it easier to use in cg-rm. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-05[PATCH] rename git-rpush and git-rpull to git-ssh-push and git-ssh-pullJunio C Hamano
In preparation for 1.0 release, this makes the command names consistent with others in git-*-pull family. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-05[PATCH] Documentation: describe git extended diff headers.Junio C Hamano
The documentation failed to describe "diff --git" extended diff headers, so add some. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-05[PATCH] Documentation: describe diff tweaking.Junio C Hamano
This adds documentation for the diffcore mechanism and explains how numeric parameters to -B/-C/-M options affect the output, which was left "black magic" so far. The documentation is not connected to any of the other asciidoc nodes yet. Awaiting for suggestions, fixes and help from other people. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-05[PATCH] pull: gracefully recover from delta retrieval failure.Junio C Hamano
This addresses a concern raised by Jason McMullan in the mailing list discussion. After retrieving and storing a potentially deltified object, pull logic tries to check and fulfil its delta dependency. When the pull procedure is killed at this point, however, there was no easy way to recover by re-running pull, since next run would have found that we already have that deltified object and happily reported success, without really checking its delta dependency is satisfied. This patch introduces --recover option to git-*-pull family which causes them to re-validate dependency of deltified objects we are fetching. A new test t5100-delta-pull.sh covers such a failure mode. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-03[PATCH] diff: Fix docs and add -O to diff-helper.Junio C Hamano
This patch updates diff documentation and usage strings: - clarify the semantics of -R. It is not "output in reverse"; rather, it is "I will feed diff backwards". Semantically they are different when -C is involved. - describe -O in usage strings of diff-* brothers. It was implemented, documented but not described in usage text. Also it adds -O to diff-helper. Like -S (and unlike -M/-C/-B), this option can work on sanitized diff-raw output produced by the diff-* brothers. While we are at it, the call it makes to diffcore is cleaned up to use the diffcore_std() like everybody else, and the declaration for the low level diffcore routines are moved from diff.h (public) to diffcore.h (private between diff.c and diffcore backends). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-03[PATCH] git-tar-tree: small doc updateRene Scharfe
document difference in behaviour w/ regard to tree vs. commit and correct author information. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-03Clarify git-diff-cache semantics in the tutorial.Linus Torvalds
Adam Kropelin points out that it wasn't all that clear at all what the thing does. This hopefully helps a bit.
2005-06-02[PATCH] Handle deltified object correctly in git-*-pull family.Junio C Hamano
When a remote repository is deltified, we need to get the objects that a deltified object we want to obtain is based upon. The initial parts of each retrieved SHA1 file is inflated and inspected to see if it is deltified, and its base object is asked from the remote side when it is. Since this partial inflation and inspection has a small performance hit, it can optionally be skipped by giving -d flag to git-*-pull commands. This flag should be used only when the remote repository is known to have no deltified objects. Rsync transport does not have this problem since it fetches everything the remote side has. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-02Run the tutorial through ispell once moreLinus Torvalds
People are making fun of me for being a bad speeler.
2005-06-02tutorial.txt: start describing how to copy repositoriesLinus Torvalds
Both locally and remotely.
2005-06-01Update tutorial for simplified "git" script.Linus Torvalds
Use "git commit" instead of "git-commit-script", and talk about using "git log" before introducing the more complex "git-whatchanged". In short, try to make it feel a bit more normal to those poor souls using CVS. Do some whitspace edits too, to make the side notes stand out a bit more.
2005-06-01tutorial.txt: fix typos and a'git-whatchanged' exampleLinus Torvalds
Pointed out by Junio. I kant't speel.
2005-06-01Add first cut at a simple git tutorial.Linus Torvalds
This really is very basic stuff, no branches, no merging, no CVS imports. Let's start small.
2005-05-31[PATCH] Add -O<orderfile> option to diff-* brothers.Junio C Hamano
A new diffcore filter diffcore-order is introduced. This takes a text file each of whose line is a shell glob pattern. Patches that match a glob pattern on an earlier line in the file are output before patches that match a later line, and patches that do not match any glob pattern are output last. A typical orderfile for git project probably should look like this: README Makefile Documentation *.h *.c Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-30[PATCH] Add -B flag to diff-* brothers.Junio C Hamano
A new diffcore transformation, diffcore-break.c, is introduced. When the -B flag is given, a patch that represents a complete rewrite is broken into a deletion followed by a creation. This makes it easier to review such a complete rewrite patch. The -B flag takes the same syntax as the -M and -C flags to specify the minimum amount of non-source material the resulting file needs to have to be considered a complete rewrite, and defaults to 99% if not specified. As the new test t4008-diff-break-rewrite.sh demonstrates, if a file is a complete rewrite, it is broken into a delete/create pair, which can further be subjected to the usual rename detection if -M or -C is used. For example, if file0 gets completely rewritten to make it as if it were rather based on file1 which itself disappeared, the following happens: The original change looks like this: file0 --> file0' (quite different from file0) file1 --> /dev/null After diffcore-break runs, it would become this: file0 --> /dev/null /dev/null --> file0' file1 --> /dev/null Then diffcore-rename matches them up: file1 --> file0' The internal score values are finer grained now. Earlier maximum of 10000 has been raised to 60000; there is no user visible changes but there is no reason to waste available bits. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-30[PATCH] diff-helper: Fix R/C score parsing under -z flag.Junio C Hamano
The score number that follow R/C status were parsed but the parse pointer was not updated, causing the entire line to become unrecognized. This patch fixes this problem. There was a test missing to catch this breakage, which this commit adds as t4009-diff-rename-4.sh. The diff-raw tests used in related t4005-diff-rename-2.sh (the same test without -z) and t4007-rename-3.sh were stricter than necessarily, despite that the comment for the tests said otherwise. This patch also corrects them. The documentation is updated to say that the status can optionally be followed by a number called "score"; it does not have to stay similarity index forever and there is no reason to limit it only to C and R. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-29[PATCH] Pickaxe fixes.Junio C Hamano
A bug in the command line argument parsing code was making pickaxe not to work at all in diff-cache and diff-files commands. Embarrassingly enough, the working pickaxe in diff-tree tells me that it was not working in these two commands from day one. This patch fixes it. Also updates the documentation to describe the --pickaxe-all option. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-29[PATCH] Rewrite ls-tree to behave more like "/bin/ls -a"Junio C Hamano
This is a complete rewrite of ls-tree to make it behave more like what "/bin/ls -a" does in the current working directory. Namely, the changes are: - Unlike the old ls-tree behaviour that used paths arguments to restrict output (not that it worked as intended---as pointed out in the mailing list discussion, it was quite incoherent), this rewrite uses paths arguments to specify what to show. - Without arguments, it implicitly uses the root level as its sole argument ("/bin/ls -a" behaves as if "." is given without argument). - Without -r (recursive) flag, it shows the named blob (either file or symlink), or the named tree and its immediate children. - With -r flag, it shows the named path, and recursively descends into it if it is a tree. - With -d flag, it shows the named path and does not show its children even if the path is a tree, nor descends into it recursively. This is still request-for-comments patch. There is no mailing list consensus that this proposed new behaviour is a good one. The patch to t/t3100-ls-tree-restrict.sh illustrates user-visible behaviour changes. Namely: * "git-ls-tree $tree path1 path0" lists path1 first and then path0. It used to use paths as an output restrictor and showed output in cache entry order (i.e. path0 first and then path1) regardless of the order of paths arguments. * "git-ls-tree $tree path2" lists path2 and its immediate children but having explicit paths argument does not imply recursive behaviour anymore, hence paths/baz is shown but not paths/baz/b. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-29[PATCH] Document the --root switch of git-diff-treeThomas Glanzmann
Signed-off-by: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-26[PATCH] ls-tree matching multiple pathsJason McMullan
Enhance git-ls-tree to allow optional 'match paths' that restricts the output of git-ls-tree. This is useful to retrieve a single file's SHA1 out of a tree without creating an index. [JC: I added the test case] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-25[PATCH] show changed tree objects with recursive git-diff-treeJunio C Hamano
This adds a "-t" flag to tell the raw diff output to include the tree objects in the output when doing a recursive diff. Since that's how the non-recursive output already handles trees and the flag thus doesn't make sense without "-r", I made "-t" imply "-r". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-24[PATCH] Update git-diff-cache documentation.Junio C Hamano
The recent diff updates gave diff-cache the same ability to filter paths, which was not properly documented. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-23[PATCH] diff-raw format update take #2.Junio C Hamano
This changes the diff-raw format again, following the mailing list discussion. The new format explicitly expresses which one is a rename and which one is a copy. The documentation and tests are updated to match this change. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-22Fix up git-fsck-cache documentationLinus Torvalds
Notably, the "--unreachable" flag no longer depends on specified heads, and we should document what happens if no heads are given.
2005-05-22[PATCH] Docs - delta objectDavid Greaves
Added delta documentation Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-22[PATCH] Docs - include README in git.txtDavid Greaves
Include the README in the git.txt Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-22[PATCH] Docs - Makefile updateDavid Greaves
A Makefile that works just fine when the 6 character patch is applied to asciidoc Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-22[PATCH] The diff-raw format updates.Junio C Hamano
Update the diff-raw format as Linus and I discussed, except that it does not use sequence of underscore '_' letters to express nonexistence. All '0' mode is used for that purpose instead. The new diff-raw format can express rename/copy, and the earlier restriction that -M and -C _must_ be used with the patch format output is no longer necessary. The patch makes -M and -C flags independent of -p flag, so you need to say git-whatchanged -M -p to get the diff/patch format. Updated are both documentations and tests. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-21[PATCH] Introducing software archaeologist's tool "pickaxe".Junio C Hamano
This steals the "pickaxe" feature from JIT and make it available to the bare Plumbing layer. From the command line, the user gives a string he is intersted in. Using the diff-core infrastructure previously introduced, it filters the differences to limit the output only to the diffs between <src> and <dst> where the string appears only in one but not in the other. For example: $ ./git-rev-list HEAD | ./git-diff-tree -Sdiff-tree-helper --stdin -M would show the diffs that touch the string "diff-tree-helper". In real software-archaeologist application, you would typically look for a few to several lines of code and see where that code came from. The "pickaxe" module runs after "rename/copy detection" module, so it even crosses the file rename boundary, as the above example demonstrates. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-21[PATCH] Diff overhaul, adding half of copy detection.Junio C Hamano
This introduces the diff-core, the layer between the diff-tree family and the external diff interface engine. The calls to the interface diff-tree family uses (diff_change and diff_addremove) have not changed and will not change. The purpose of the diff-core layer is to provide an infrastructure to transform the set of differences sent from the applications, before sending them to the external diff interface. The recently introduced rename detection code has been rewritten to use the diff-core facility. When applications send in separate creates and deletes, matching ones are transformed into a single rename-and-edit diff, and sent out to the external diff interface as such. This patch also enhances the rename detection code further to be able to detect copies. Currently this happens only as long as copy sources appear as part of the modified files, but there already is enough provision for callers to report unmodified files to diff-core, so that they can be also used as copy source candidates. Extending the callers this way will be done in a separate patch. Please see and marvel at how well this works by trying out the newly added t/t4003-diff-rename-1.sh test script. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-20[PATCH] Document -R option for git-diff-tree.Junio C Hamano
Obviously we would want to document this as well. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-20[PATCH] diff overhaulJunio C Hamano
This cleans up the way calls are made into the diff core from diff-tree family and diff-helper. Earlier, these programs had "if (generating_patch)" sprinkled all over the place, but those ugliness are gone and handled uniformly from the diff core, even when not generating patch format. This also allowed diff-cache and diff-files to acquire -R (reverse) option to generate diff in reverse. Users of diff-tree can swap two trees easily so I did not add -R there. [ Linus' note: I'll add -R to "diff-tree" too, since a "commit diff" doesn't have another tree to switch around: the other tree is always the parent(s) of the commit ] Also -M<digits-as-mantissa> suggestion made by Linus has been implemented. Documentation updates are also included. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-19[PATCH] manpage name conflictSebastian Kuzminsky
This moves the git manpage to man7, since "git" isn't a direct command per se. It also does two other things: * Sort of works around the asciidoc 6.0.3 bug where the manpages all get called "git.1". It just renames them to what they should have been called. * Fixes a cut-n-paste bug in git-diff-helper.txt that was making asciidoc choke.
2005-05-19[PATCH] Implement git-checkout-cache -u to update stat information in the cache.Junio C Hamano
With -u flag, git-checkout-cache picks up the stat information from newly created file and updates the cache. This removes the need to run git-update-cache --refresh immediately after running git-checkout-cache. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-19[PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.Junio C Hamano
This rips out the rename detection engine from diff-helper and moves it to the diff core, and updates the internal calling convention used by diff-tree family into the diff core. In order to give the same option name to diff-tree family as well as to diff-helper, I've changed the earlier diff-helper '-r' option to '-M' (stands for Move; sorry but the natural abbreviation 'r' for 'rename' is already taken for 'recursive'). Although I did a fair amount of test with the git-diff-tree with existing rename commits in the core GIT repository, this should still be considered beta (preview) release. This patch depends on the diff-delta infrastructure just committed. This implements almost everything I wanted to see in this series of patch, except a few minor cleanups in the calling convention into diff core, but that will be a separate cleanup patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-18[PATCH] Diff-helper updateJunio C Hamano
This patch adds a framework and a stub implementation of rename detection to diff-helper program. The current stub code is just enough to detect pure renames in diff-tree output and not fancier. The plan is perhaps to use the same delta code when Nico's delta storage patch is merged for similarity evaluation purposes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-15[PATCH 3/3] Rename git-diff-tree-helper to git-diff-helper (part 2).Junio C Hamano
It used to be that diff-tree needed helper support to parse its raw output to generate diffs, but these days git-diff-* family produces the same output and the helper is not tied to diff-tree anymore. Drop "tree" from its name. This follows the "rename only" commit to adjust the contents of the files involved. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
2005-05-15[PATCH 2/3] Rename git-diff-tree-helper to git-diff-helper.Junio C Hamano
It used to be that diff-tree needed helper support to parse its raw output to generate diffs, but these days git-diff-* family produces the same output and the helper is not tied to diff-tree anymore. Drop "tree" from its name. This commit is done separately to record just the rename and no file content changes. The changes in the renamed files are recorded in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Bundled with the changes in the unrenamed files. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>