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2020-06-09reftable: clarify how empty tables should be writtenHan-Wen Nienhuys
The format allows for some ambiguity, as a lone footer also starts with a valid file header. However, the current JGit code will barf on this. This commit codifies this behavior into the standard. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-09reftable: file format documentationJonathan Nieder
Shawn Pearce explains: Some repositories contain a lot of references (e.g. android at 866k, rails at 31k). The reftable format provides: - Near constant time lookup for any single reference, even when the repository is cold and not in process or kernel cache. - Near constant time verification if a SHA-1 is referred to by at least one reference (for allow-tip-sha1-in-want). - Efficient lookup of an entire namespace, such as `refs/tags/`. - Support atomic push `O(size_of_update)` operations. - Combine reflog storage with ref storage. This file format spec was originally written in July, 2017 by Shawn Pearce. Some refinements since then were made by Shawn and by Han-Wen Nienhuys based on experiences implementing and experimenting with the format. (All of this was in the context of our work at Google and Google is happy to contribute the result to the Git project.) Imported from JGit[1]'s current version (c217d33ff, "Documentation/technical/reftable: improve repo layout", 2020-02-04) of Documentation/technical/reftable.md and converted to asciidoc by running pandoc -t asciidoc -f markdown reftable.md >reftable.txt using pandoc 2.2.1. The result required the following additional minor changes: - removed the [TOC] directive to add a table of contents, since asciidoc does not support it - replaced git-scm.com/docs links with linkgit: directives that link to other pages within Git's documentation [1] https://eclipse.googlesource.com/jgit/jgit Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-08Merge branch 'dl/remote-curl-deadlock-fix'Junio C Hamano
On-the-wire protocol v2 easily falls into a deadlock between the remote-curl helper and the fetch-pack process when the server side prematurely throws an error and disconnects. The communication has been updated to make it more robust. * dl/remote-curl-deadlock-fix: stateless-connect: send response end packet pkt-line: define PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END remote-curl: error on incomplete packet pkt-line: extern packet_length() transport: extract common fetch_pack() call remote-curl: remove label indentation remote-curl: fix typo
2020-06-08commit-graph-format.txt: all multi-byte numbers are in network byte orderSZEDER Gábor
The commit-graph format specifies that "All 4-byte numbers are in network order", but the commit-graph contains 8-byte integers as well (file offsets in the Chunk Lookup table), and their byte order is unspecified. Clarify that all multi-byte integers are in network byte order. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-02Merge branch 'jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix'Junio C Hamano
Docfix. * jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix: doc: fix wrong 4-byte length of pkt-line message
2020-05-27Documentation/technical: document object-format for protocol v2brian m. carlson
Document the object-format extension for protocol v2. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-24stateless-connect: send response end packetDenton Liu
Currently, remote-curl acts as a proxy and blindly forwards packets between an HTTP server and fetch-pack. In the case of a stateless RPC connection where the connection is terminated before the transaction is complete, remote-curl will blindly forward the packets before waiting on more input from fetch-pack. Meanwhile, fetch-pack will read the transaction and continue reading, expecting more input to continue the transaction. This results in a deadlock between the two processes. This can be seen in the following command which does not terminate: $ git -c protocol.version=2 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012 Cloning into 'git'... whereas the v1 version does terminate as expected: $ git -c protocol.version=1 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012 Cloning into 'git'... fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly Instead of blindly forwarding packets, make remote-curl insert a response end packet after proxying the responses from the remote server when using stateless_connect(). On the RPC client side, ensure that each response ends as described. A separate control packet is chosen because we need to be able to differentiate between what the remote server sends and remote-curl's control packets. By ensuring in the remote-curl code that a server cannot send response end packets, we prevent a malicious server from being able to perform a denial of service attack in which they spoof a response end packet and cause the described deadlock to happen. Reported-by: Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-21doc: fix wrong 4-byte length of pkt-line messageJiuyang Xie
The first four bytes of the line, the pkt-len, indicates the total length of the pkt-line in hexadecimal. Fix wrong pkt-len headers of some pkt-line messages in `http-protocol.txt` and `pack-protocol.txt`. Reviewed-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiuyang Xie <jiuyang.xjy@alibaba-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-14Merge branch 'ds/bloom-cleanup'Junio C Hamano
Code cleanup and typofixes * ds/bloom-cleanup: completion: offer '--(no-)patch' among 'git log' options bloom: use num_changes not nr for limit detection bloom: de-duplicate directory entries Documentation: changed-path Bloom filters use byte words bloom: parse commit before computing filters test-bloom: fix usage typo bloom: fix whitespace around tab length
2020-05-13Documentation: document v1 protocol object-format capabilitybrian m. carlson
Document a capability that indicates which hash algorithms are in use by both sides of a remote connection. Use the term "object-format", since this is the term used for the repository extension as well. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-11Documentation: changed-path Bloom filters use byte wordsDerrick Stolee
In Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt, the definition of the BIDX chunk specifies the length is a number of 8-byte words. During development we discovered that using 8-byte words in the Murmur3 hash algorithm causes issues with big-endian versus little- endian machines. Thus, the hash algorithm was adapted to work on a byte-by-byte basis. However, this caused a change in the definition of a "word" in bloom.h. Now, a "word" is a single byte, which allows filters to be as small as two bytes. These length-two filters are demonstrated in t0095-bloom.sh, and a larger filter of length 25 is demonstrated as well. The original point of using 8-byte words was for alignment reasons. It also presented opportunities for extremely sparse Bloom filters when there were a small number of changes at a commit, creating a very low false-positive rate. However, modifying the format at this point is unlikely to be a valuable exercise. Also, this use of single-byte granularity does present opportunities to save space. It is unclear if 8-byte alignment of the filters would present any meaningful performance benefits. Modify the format document to reflect reality. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-01Merge branch 'gs/commit-graph-path-filter'Junio C Hamano
Introduce an extension to the commit-graph to make it efficient to check for the paths that were modified at each commit using Bloom filters. * gs/commit-graph-path-filter: bloom: ignore renames when computing changed paths commit-graph: add GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_CHANGED_PATHS test flag t4216: add end to end tests for git log with Bloom filters revision.c: add trace2 stats around Bloom filter usage revision.c: use Bloom filters to speed up path based revision walks commit-graph: add --changed-paths option to write subcommand commit-graph: reuse existing Bloom filters during write commit-graph: write Bloom filters to commit graph file commit-graph: examine commits by generation number commit-graph: examine changed-path objects in pack order commit-graph: compute Bloom filters for changed paths diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changes bloom.c: core Bloom filter implementation for changed paths. bloom.c: introduce core Bloom filter constructs bloom.c: add the murmur3 hash implementation commit-graph: define and use MAX_NUM_CHUNKS
2020-04-06commit-graph: write Bloom filters to commit graph fileGarima Singh
Update the technical documentation for commit-graph-format with the formats for the Bloom filter index (BIDX) and Bloom filter data (BDAT) chunks. Write the computed Bloom filters information to the commit graph file using this format. Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-23trace2: teach Git to log environment variablesJosh Steadmon
Via trace2, Git can already log interesting config parameters (see the trace2_cmd_list_config() function). However, this can grant an incomplete picture because many config parameters also allow overrides via environment variables. To allow for more complete logs, we add a new trace2_cmd_list_env_vars() function and supporting implementation, modeled after the pre-existing config param logging implementation. Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Acked-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-12Merge branch 'jb/multi-pack-index-docfix'Junio C Hamano
Doc fix. * jb/multi-pack-index-docfix: pack-format: correct multi-pack-index description
2020-02-12Merge branch 'ms/doc-bundle-format'Junio C Hamano
Technical details of the bundle format has been documented. * ms/doc-bundle-format: doc: describe Git bundle format
2020-02-10pack-format: correct multi-pack-index descriptionJohannes Berg
The description of the multi-pack-index contains a small bug, if all offsets are < 2^32 then there will be no LOFF chunk, not only if they're all < 2^31 (since the highest bit is only needed as the "LOFF-escape" when that's actually needed.) Correct this, and clarify that in that case only offsets up to 2^31-1 can be stored in the OOFF chunk. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-07doc: describe Git bundle formatMasaya Suzuki
The bundle format was not documented. Describe the format with ABNF and explain the meaning of each part. Signed-off-by: Masaya Suzuki <masayasuzuki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-08Merge branch 'jb/doc-multi-pack-idx-fix'Junio C Hamano
Typofix. * jb/doc-multi-pack-idx-fix: multi-pack-index: correct configuration in documentation
2020-01-04multi-pack-index: correct configuration in documentationJohannes Berg
It's core.multiPackIndex, not pack.multiIndex. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-16Merge branch 'hw/doc-in-header'Junio C Hamano
* hw/doc-in-header: trace2: move doc to trace2.h submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.h tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.h trace: move doc to trace.h run-command: move doc to run-command.h parse-options: add link to doc file in parse-options.h credential: move doc to credential.h argv-array: move doc to argv-array.h cache: move doc to cache.h sigchain: move doc to sigchain.h pathspec: move doc to pathspec.h revision: move doc to revision.h attr: move doc to attr.h refs: move doc to refs.h remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h sha1-array: move doc to sha1-array.h merge: move doc to ll-merge.h graph: move doc to graph.h and graph.c dir: move doc to dir.h diff: move doc to diff.h and diffcore.h
2019-12-06Merge branch 'dl/lore-is-the-archive'Junio C Hamano
Publicize lore.kernel.org mailing list archive and use URLs pointing into it to refer to notable messages in the documentation. * dl/lore-is-the-archive: doc: replace LKML link with lore.kernel.org RelNotes: replace Gmane with real Message-IDs doc: replace MARC links with lore.kernel.org
2019-12-06Merge branch 'jk/lore-is-the-archive'Junio C Hamano
Doc update for the mailing list archiving and nntp service. * jk/lore-is-the-archive: doc: replace public-inbox links with lore.kernel.org doc: recommend lore.kernel.org over public-inbox.org
2019-12-04doc: replace LKML link with lore.kernel.orgDenton Liu
Since we're now recommending lore.kernel.org, replace LKML link with lore.kernel.org. Although LKML has been around for a long time, nothing lasts forever (see Gmane). Since LKML uses opaque message identifiers, switching to lore.kernel.org should be a strict improvement since, even if lore.kernel.org goes down, the Message-ID will allow future readers to look up the referenced messages on any other archive. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-01Merge branch 'en/doc-typofix'Junio C Hamano
Docfix. * en/doc-typofix: Fix spelling errors in no-longer-updated-from-upstream modules multimail: fix a few simple spelling errors sha1dc: fix trivial comment spelling error Fix spelling errors in test commands Fix spelling errors in messages shown to users Fix spelling errors in names of tests Fix spelling errors in comments of testcases Fix spelling errors in code comments Fix spelling errors in documentation outside of Documentation/ Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new
2019-12-01Merge branch 'hw/config-doc-in-header'Junio C Hamano
Follow recent push to move API docs from Documentation/ to header files and update config.h * hw/config-doc-in-header: config: move documentation to config.h
2019-11-30doc: replace public-inbox links with lore.kernel.orgJeff King
Since we're now recommending lore.kernel.org (and because the public-inbox.org domain might eventually go away), let's update our internal references to use it, too. That future-proofs our references, and sets the example we want people to follow. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18trace2: move doc to trace2.hHeba Waly
Move the functions documentation from Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt to trace2.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Only the functions documentation section is removed from Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt as the file is full of details that seemed more appropriate to be in a separate doc file as it is, with a link to the doc file added in the trace2.h. Also the functions doc is removed to avoid having redundandt info which will be hard to keep syncronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt to submodule-config.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. The documentation of parse_submodule_config_option() is discarded as the function was removed 2 years ago. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt to tree-walk.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Documentation/technical/api-tree-walking.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18trace: move doc to trace.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt to trace.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Documentation/technical/api-trace.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18run-command: move doc to run-command.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt to run-command.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18credential: move doc to credential.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt to credential.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Documentation/git-credential.txt and Documentation/gitcredentials.txt now link to credential.h instead of Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt for details about the credetials API. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18argv-array: move doc to argv-array.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt to argv-array.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18cache: move doc to cache.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt to cache.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18sigchain: move doc to sigchain.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-sigchain.txt to sigchain.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-sigchain.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18pathspec: move doc to pathspec.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-setup.txt to pathspec.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-setup.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18revision: move doc to revision.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt to revision.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18attr: move doc to attr.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt to attr.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18refs: move doc to refs.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt to refs.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt to remote.h and refspec.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. N.B. The doc for both push and fetch members of the remote struct aren't moved because they are out of date, as the members were changed from arrays of rspecs to struct refspec 2 years ago. Also documentation/technical/api-remote.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18sha1-array: move doc to sha1-array.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-oid-array.txt to sha1-array.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-oid-array.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18merge: move doc to ll-merge.hHeba Waly
Move the related documentation from Documentation/technical/api-merge.txt to ll-merge.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Only the ll-merge related doc is removed from documentation/technical/api-merge.txt because this information will be redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in ll-merge.h. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18graph: move doc to graph.h and graph.cHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt to graph.h and graph.c as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. The graph library was already well documented, so few comments were added to both graph.h and graph.c Also documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18dir: move doc to dir.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt to dir.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header files. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-18diff: move doc to diff.h and diffcore.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt to both diff.h and diffcore.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file. Also documentation/technical/api-diff.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and synchronized with the documentation in the header files. There are three members documented in the doc file that weren't found in the header files, assuming the doc wasn't up to date and the members no longer exist: touched_flags, COLOR_DIFF_WORDS and QUIET. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-07Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and newElijah Newren
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-25documentation: remove empty doc filesHeba Waly
Remove empty and redundant documentation files from the Documentation/technical/ directory. The empty doc files included only TODO messages with no documentation for years. Instead an approach is being taken to keep all doc beside the code in the relevant header files. Having empty doc files is confusing and disappointing to anybody looking for information, besides having the documentation in header files makes it easier for developers to find the information they are looking for. Some of the content which could have gone here already exists elsewhere: - api-object-access.txt -> sha1-file.c and object.h have some details. - api-quote.txt -> quote.h has some details. - api-xdiff-interface.txt -> xdiff-interface.h has some details. - api-grep.txt -> grep.h does not have enough documentation at the moment. Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-24config: move documentation to config.hHeba Waly
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-config.txt into config.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file, also documentation/technical/api-config.txt is removed because the information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and syncronized with the documentation in config.h Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-05trace2: write discard message to sentinel filesJosh Steadmon
Add a new "discard" event type for trace2 event destinations. When the trace2 file count check creates a sentinel file, it will include the normal trace2 output in the sentinel, along with this new discard event. Writing this message into the sentinel file is useful for tracking how often the file count check triggers in practice. Bump up the event format version since we've added a new event type. Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>