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2024-02-13Git 2.43.2v2.43.2Junio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-13Merge branch 'jc/bisect-doc' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * jc/bisect-doc: bisect: document command line arguments for "bisect start" bisect: document "terms" subcommand more fully
2024-02-13Merge branch 'jc/majordomo-to-subspace' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * jc/majordomo-to-subspace: Docs: majordomo@vger.kernel.org has been decomissioned
2024-02-13Merge branch 'nb/rebase-x-shell-docfix' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * nb/rebase-x-shell-docfix: rebase: fix documentation about used shell in -x
2024-02-13Merge branch 'ne/doc-filter-blob-limit-fix' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Docfix. * ne/doc-filter-blob-limit-fix: rev-list-options: fix off-by-one in '--filter=blob:limit=<n>' explainer
2024-02-08Git 2.43.1v2.43.1Junio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-08Merge branch 'ib/rebase-reschedule-doc' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * ib/rebase-reschedule-doc: rebase: clarify --reschedule-failed-exec default
2024-02-08Merge branch 'ms/rebase-insnformat-doc-fix' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Docfix. * ms/rebase-insnformat-doc-fix: Documentation: fix statement about rebase.instructionFormat
2024-02-08Merge branch 'js/contributor-docs-updates' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * js/contributor-docs-updates: SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCII SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub artifact format SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub visual SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice SubmittingPatches: update extra tags list SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers SubmittingPatches: drop ref to "What's in git.git" CodingGuidelines: write punctuation marks CodingGuidelines: move period inside parentheses
2024-02-08Merge branch 'ml/doc-merge-updates' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * ml/doc-merge-updates: Documentation/git-merge.txt: use backticks for command wrapping Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix reference to synopsis
2024-02-08Merge branch 'jc/orphan-unborn' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc updates to clarify what an "unborn branch" means. * jc/orphan-unborn: orphan/unborn: fix use of 'orphan' in end-user facing messages orphan/unborn: add to the glossary and use them consistently
2024-02-08Merge branch 'jc/doc-misspelt-refs-fix' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * jc/doc-misspelt-refs-fix: doc: format.notes specify a ref under refs/notes/ hierarchy
2024-02-08Merge branch 'jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc updates. * jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special: docs: MERGE_AUTOSTASH is not that special docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that special refs.h: HEAD is not that special git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special git.txt: HEAD is not that special
2024-02-08Merge branch 'es/add-doc-list-short-form-of-all-in-synopsis' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * es/add-doc-list-short-form-of-all-in-synopsis: git-add.txt: add missing short option -A to synopsis
2024-02-08Merge branch 'mk/doc-gitfile-more' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * mk/doc-gitfile-more: doc: make the gitfile syntax easier to discover
2024-02-08Merge branch 'cp/git-flush-is-an-env-bool' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Unlike other environment variables that took the usual true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1, which has been corrected. * cp/git-flush-is-an-env-bool: write-or-die: make GIT_FLUSH a Boolean environment variable
2024-02-08Merge branch 'js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links. * js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment: doc: refer to internet archive doc: update links for andre-simon.de doc: switch links to https doc: update links to current pages
2024-02-08Merge branch 'ps/commit-graph-less-paranoid' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records information about commits that are lost from the object store, which has negative performance implications. The default has been flipped to disable this pessimization. * ps/commit-graph-less-paranoid: commit-graph: disable GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA by default
2024-02-08Merge branch 'tz/send-email-negatable-options' into maint-2.43Junio C Hamano
Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our (ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow simplifying our implementation. * tz/send-email-negatable-options: send-email: avoid duplicate specification warnings perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0
2024-02-07bisect: document command line arguments for "bisect start"Junio C Hamano
The syntax commonly used for alternatives is --opt-(a|b), not --opt-{a,b}. List bad/new and good/old consistently in this order, to be consistent with the description for "git bisect terms". Clarify <term> to either <term-old> or <term-new> to make them consistent with the description of "git bisect (good|bad)" subcommands. Suggested-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-07bisect: document "terms" subcommand more fullyJunio C Hamano
The documentation for "git bisect terms", although it did not hide any information, was a bit incomplete and forced readers to fill in the blanks to get the complete picture. Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-20Docs: majordomo@vger.kernel.org has been decomissionedJunio C Hamano
Update the instruction for subscribing to the Git mailing list we have on a few documentation pages. Reported-by: Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com> Helped-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-17rebase: fix documentation about used shell in -xNikolay Borisov
The shell used when using the -x option is erroneously documented to be the one pointed to by the $SHELL environmental variable. This was true when rebase was implemented as a shell script but this is no longer true. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-16rev-list-options: fix off-by-one in '--filter=blob:limit=<n>' explainerNikolay Edigaryev
'--filter=blob:limit=<n>' was introduced in 25ec7bcac0 (list-objects: filter objects in traverse_commit_list, 2017-11-21) and later expanded to bitmaps in 84243da129 (pack-bitmap: implement BLOB_LIMIT filtering, 2020-02-14) The logic that was introduced in these commits (and that still persists to this day) omits blobs larger than _or equal_ to n bytes or units. However, the documentation (Documentation/rev-list-options.txt) states: >The form '--filter=blob:limit=<n>[kmg]' omits blobs larger than n bytes or units. n may be zero. Moreover, the t6113-rev-list-bitmap-filters.sh tests for exactly this logic, so it seems it is the documentation that needs fixing, not the code. This changes the explanation to be similar to Documentation/git-clone.txt, which is correct. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Edigaryev <edigaryev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-05rebase: clarify --reschedule-failed-exec defaultIllia Bobyr
Documentation should mention the default behavior. It is better to explain the persistent nature of the --reschedule-failed-exec flag from the user standpoint, rather than from the implementation standpoint. Signed-off-by: Illia Bobyr <illia.bobyr@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-04write-or-die: make GIT_FLUSH a Boolean environment variableChandra Pratap
Among Git's environment variables, the ones marked as "Boolean" accept values in a way similar to Boolean configuration variables, i.e. values like 'yes', 'on', 'true' and positive numbers are taken as "on" and values like 'no', 'off', 'false' are taken as "off". GIT_FLUSH can be used to force Git to use non-buffered I/O when writing to stdout. It can only accept two values, '1' which causes Git to flush more often and '0' which makes all output buffered. Make GIT_FLUSH accept more values besides '0' and '1' by turning it into a Boolean environment variable, modifying the required logic. Update the related documentation. Signed-off-by: Chandra Pratap <chandrapratap3519@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-03Documentation: fix statement about rebase.instructionFormatMaarten van der Schrieck
Since commit 62db5247 (rebase -i: generate the script via rebase--helper, 2017-07-14), the short hash is given in rebase-todo. Specifying rebase.instructionFormat does not alter this behavior, contrary to what the documentation implies. Signed-off-by: Maarten van der Schrieck <maarten@thingsconnected.nl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-27SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCIIJosh Soref
Git documentation does this with the exception of ancient release notes. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-27SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub artifact formatJosh Soref
GitHub wraps artifacts generated by workflows in a .zip file. Internally, workflows can package anything they like in them. A recently generated failure artifact had the form: windows-artifacts.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 76001695 12-19-2023 01:35 artifacts.tar.gz 11005650 12-19-2023 01:35 tracked.tar.gz --------- ------- 87007345 2 files Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-27SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub visualJosh Soref
GitHub has two general forms for its states, sometimes they're a simple colored object (e.g. green check or red x), and sometimes there's also a colored container (e.g. green box or red circle) which contains that object (e.g. check or x). That's a lot of words to try to describe things, but in general, the key for a failure is that it's recognized as an `x` and that it's associated with the color red -- the color of course is problematic for people who are red-green color-blind, but that's why they are paired with distinct shapes. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-27SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming adviceJosh Soref
Current statistics show a strong preference to only capitalize the first letter in a hyphenated tag, but that some guidance would be helpful: git log | perl -ne 'next unless /^\s+(?:Signed-[oO]ff|Acked)-[bB]y:/; s/^\s+//;s/:.*/:/;print'| sort|uniq -c|sort -n 2 Signed-off-By: 4 Signed-Off-by: 22 Acked-By: 47 Signed-Off-By: 2202 Acked-by: 95315 Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-27SubmittingPatches: update extra tags listJosh Soref
Add items with at least 100 uses in the past three years: - Co-authored-by - Helped-by - Mentored-by - Suggested-by git log --since=3.years| perl -ne 'next unless /^\s+[A-Z][a-z]+-\S+:/;s/^\s+//;s/:.*/:/;print'| sort|uniq -c|sort -n|grep '[0-9][0-9] ' 14 Based-on-patch-by: 14 Original-patch-by: 17 Tested-by: 100 Suggested-by: 121 Co-authored-by: 163 Mentored-by: 274 Reported-by: 290 Acked-by: 450 Helped-by: 602 Reviewed-by: 14111 Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-27SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailersJosh Soref
There seems to be consensus amongst the core Git community on a working set of common trailers, and there are non-trivial costs to people inventing new trailers (research to discover what they mean/how they differ from existing trailers) such that inventing new ones is generally unwarranted and not something to be recommended to new contributors. Suggested-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-27SubmittingPatches: drop ref to "What's in git.git"Josh Soref
"What's in git.git" was last seen in 2010: https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=%22what%27s+in+git.git%22 https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vaavikg72.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/ Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-27CodingGuidelines: write punctuation marksJosh Soref
- Match style in Release Notes Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-27CodingGuidelines: move period inside parenthesesJosh Soref
The contents within parenthesis should be omittable without resulting in broken text. Eliding the parenthesis left a period to end a run without any content. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-20Documentation/git-merge.txt: use backticks for command wrappingMichael Lohmann
As René found in the guidance from CodingGuidelines: Literal examples (e.g. use of command-line options, command names, branch names, URLs, pathnames (files and directories), configuration and environment variables) must be typeset in monospace (i.e. wrapped with backticks) So all instances of single and double quotes for wraping said examples were replaced with simple backticks. Suggested-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Lohmann <mi.al.lohmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-20Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix reference to synopsisMichael Lohmann
437591a9d738 combined the synopsis of "The second syntax" (meaning `git merge --abort`) and "The third syntax" (for `git merge --continue`) into this single line: git merge (--continue | --abort | --quit) but it was still referred to when describing the preconditions that have to be fulfilled to run the respective actions. In other words: References by number are no longer valid after a merge of some of the synopses. Also the previous version of the documentation did not acknowledge that `--no-commit` would result in the precondition being fulfilled (thanks to Elijah Newren and Junio C Hamano for pointing that out). This change also groups `--abort` and `--continue` together when explaining the prerequisites in order to avoid duplication. Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Lohmann <mi.al.lohmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-18doc: format.notes specify a ref under refs/notes/ hierarchyJunio C Hamano
There is no 'ref/notes/' hierarchy. '[format] notes = foo' uses notes that are found in 'refs/notes/foo'. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-15docs: MERGE_AUTOSTASH is not that specialJunio C Hamano
A handful of manual pages called MERGE_AUTOSTASH a "special ref", but there is nothing special about it. It merely is yet another pseudoref. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-15docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that specialJunio C Hamano
A handful of manual pages called AUTO_MERGE a "special ref", but there is nothing special about it. It merely is yet another pseudoref. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-15git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that specialJunio C Hamano
The description of "git bisect --no-checkout" called BISECT_HEAD a "special ref", but there is nothing special about it. It merely is yet another pseudoref. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-15git.txt: HEAD is not that specialJunio C Hamano
The introductory text in "git help git" that describes HEAD called it "a special ref". It is special compared to the more regular refs like refs/heads/master and refs/tags/v1.0.0, but not that special, unlike truly special ones like FETCH_HEAD. Rewrite a few sentences to also introduce the distinction between a regular ref that contain the object name and a symbolic ref that contain the name of another ref. Update the description of HEAD that point at the current branch to use the more correct term, a "symbolic ref". This was found as part of auditing the documentation and in-code comments for uses of "special ref" that refer merely a "pseudo ref". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-15git-add.txt: add missing short option -A to synopsisEric Sunshine
With one exception, the synopsis for `git add` consistently lists the short counterpart alongside the long-form of each option (for instance, "[--edit | -e]"). The exception is that -A is not mentioned alongside --all. Fix this inconsistency Reported-by: Benjamin Lehmann <ben.lehmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-03doc: make the gitfile syntax easier to discoverMarcel Krause
Signed-off-by: Marcel Krause <mk+copyleft@pimpmybyte.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-26commit-graph: disable GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA by defaultPatrick Steinhardt
In 7a5d604443 (commit: detect commits that exist in commit-graph but not in the ODB, 2023-10-31), we have introduced a new object existence check into `repo_parse_commit_internal()` so that we do not parse commits via the commit-graph that don't have a corresponding object in the object database. This new check of course comes with a performance penalty, which the commit put at around 30% for `git rev-list --topo-order`. But there are in fact scenarios where the performance regression is even higher. The following benchmark against linux.git with a fully-build commit-graph: Benchmark 1: git.v2.42.1 rev-list --count HEAD Time (mean ± σ): 658.0 ms ± 5.2 ms [User: 613.5 ms, System: 44.4 ms] Range (min … max): 650.2 ms … 666.0 ms 10 runs Benchmark 2: git.v2.43.0-rc1 rev-list --count HEAD Time (mean ± σ): 1.333 s ± 0.019 s [User: 1.263 s, System: 0.069 s] Range (min … max): 1.302 s … 1.361 s 10 runs Summary git.v2.42.1 rev-list --count HEAD ran 2.03 ± 0.03 times faster than git.v2.43.0-rc1 rev-list --count HEAD While it's a noble goal to ensure that results are the same regardless of whether or not we have a potentially stale commit-graph, taking twice as much time is a tough sell. Furthermore, we can generally assume that the commit-graph will be updated by git-gc(1) or git-maintenance(1) as required so that the case where the commit-graph is stale should not at all be common. With that in mind, default-disable GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA and restore the behaviour and thus performance previous to the mentioned commit. In order to not be inconsistent, also disable this behaviour by default in `lookup_commit_in_graph()`, where the object existence check has been introduced right at its inception via f559d6d45e (revision: avoid hitting packfiles when commits are in commit-graph, 2021-08-09). This results in another speedup in commands that end up calling this function, even though it's less pronounced compared to the above benchmark. The following has been executed in linux.git with ~1.2 million references: Benchmark 1: GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA=true git rev-list --all --no-walk=unsorted Time (mean ± σ): 2.947 s ± 0.003 s [User: 2.412 s, System: 0.534 s] Range (min … max): 2.943 s … 2.949 s 3 runs Benchmark 2: GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA=false git rev-list --all --no-walk=unsorted Time (mean ± σ): 2.724 s ± 0.030 s [User: 2.207 s, System: 0.514 s] Range (min … max): 2.704 s … 2.759 s 3 runs Summary GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA=false git rev-list --all --no-walk=unsorted ran 1.08 ± 0.01 times faster than GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA=true git rev-list --all --no-walk=unsorted So whereas 7a5d604443 initially introduced the logic to start doing an object existence check in `repo_parse_commit_internal()` by default, the updated logic will now instead cause `lookup_commit_in_graph()` to stop doing the check by default. This behaviour continues to be tweakable by the user via the GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA environment variable. Note that this requires us to amend some tests to manually turn on the paranoid checks again. This is because we cause repository corruption by manually deleting objects which are part of the commit graph already. These circumstances shouldn't usually happen in repositories. Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-26doc: update links for andre-simon.deJosh Soref
Beyond the fact that it's somewhat traditional to respect sites' self-identification, it's helpful for links to point to the things that people expect them to reference. Here that means linking to specific pages instead of a domain. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-26doc: switch links to httpsJosh Soref
These sites offer https versions of their content. Using the https versions provides some protection for users. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-26doc: update links to current pagesJosh Soref
It's somewhat traditional to respect sites' self-identification. Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-24orphan/unborn: add to the glossary and use them consistentlyJunio C Hamano
To orphan is a verb that denotes the act of getting on an unborn branch, and a few references to "orphan branch" in our documentation are misuses of the word. They caused end-user confusion, which was made even worse because we did not have the term defined in the glossary document. Add entries for "unborn" branch and "orphan" operation to the glossary, and adjust existing documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>