The "-u" option is described only in terms of "updating"
files, which in turn is described only as "similar to what
git commit -a does". Let's be a little more specific about
what updating entails.

Suggested by Geoffrey Irving.
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

It's --msg-filter, not --message-filter.
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This avoids invoking the shell. Not only is it faster, but
it prevents the possibility of interpreting our arguments in
the shell.
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

In get_sha1_basic, we parse a string like

  HEAD@{10 seconds ago}:path/to/file

into its constituent ref, reflog date, and path components.
We never actually munge the string itself, but instead keep
offsets into the string with their associated lengths.

When we call approxidate on the contents inside braces,
however, we pass just a string without a length. This means
that approxidate could sometimes look past the closing brace
and (erroneously) interpret the rest of the string as part
of the date.
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NDan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This test tried to push into a remote with ambiguous refs in
remotes/$x/master and remotes/$y/master. However, the remote
never actually tells us about the refs/remotes hierarchy, so
we don't even see this ambiguity.

The test happened to pass because we were simply looking for
failure, and the test fails for another reason: the dst
refspec does not exist and does not begin with refs/, making
it invalid.
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Coming from CVS, I found the git glossary vital to learning git and learning
how terms in git correlate to the cvs terminology with which I am familiar.

This patch links the glossary from the cvs-migration page so cvs users will
be able to fine the glossary as soon as they start looking at git documents.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Graham <mdg149@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Tomasz Fortuna reported that "git commit" does not error out properly when
it cannot write tree objects out.  "git write-tree" shares the same issue,
as the failure to notice the error is deep in the logic to write tree
objects out recursively.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Otherwise, there is a possible interaction with UTF-8 locales in
combination with PERL_UNICODE, resulting in "inconsistent size: 40" or
"read:"-type errors.

See also:
    perldoc -f binmode
    <http://perldoc.perl.org/perl581delta.html#UTF-8-no-longer-default-under-UTF-8-locales>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Weber <michaelw@foldr.org>
Acked-by: NEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

git diff --name-status outputs letters, but the meaning of those letters
is documented elsewhere. Add a note to make the manpage more intuitive.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When trying to import from svn using an author file, git-svn bails out
if it encounters a blank author. The attached patch changes this
behavior and allow using the author file with blanks authors.

I came across this bug while importing from a cvs2svn repo where the
initial revision (1) has a blank author. This doesn't break the behavior
of bailing out when an unknown author is encountered.
Acked-by: NEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Also removed a superfluous test.
Signed-off-by: NAriel Badichi <abadichi@bezeqint.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Previously, the errno could have been lost due to an intervening
close() call.

This patch also contains minor cosmetic changes.
Signed-off-by: NAriel Badichi <abadichi@bezeqint.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NMatthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

POSIX allows echo without flag to interpret specials such as \n, and we
tried to make things portable by using printf instead where it matters.
Recently added code to "git am" had unprotected "echo", which was caught
by t4014 and Rémi Vanicat.

This should fix it.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This moves the assignment to FIRSTLINE down so that we do not have
to have multiple copies.

Suggested by Linus.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Do some verb-noun agreement changes.
Clarify some file globbing cases.
Fixed a wrong statement in an example.
Signed-off-by: NJon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Before this patch, when "git bisect start", "git bisect good" or
"git bisect skip" were called with many revisions, they could fail
after having already marked some revisions as "good", "bad" or
"skip".

This could be especilally bad for "git bisect start" because as
the file ".git/BISECT_NAMES" would not have been written, there
would have been no attempt to clear the marked revisions on a
"git bisect reset". That's because if there is no
".git/BISECT_NAMES" file, nothing is done to clean things up, as
the bisect session is not supposed to have started.

While at it, let's also create the ".git/BISECT_START" file, only
after ".git/BISECT_NAMES" as been created.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When the Subject: line is empty for whatever reason, git-am was fooled by
it and left an empty line at the beginning of the resulting commit log
message.

This moves the logic around so that we do not keep $SUBJECT in a separate
variable.  Instead, $dotest/msg-clean, which used to be the log message
body extracted from the message and then trailing whitespaces cleansed
out, now contains the subject line followed by a blank line at the
beginning for normal messages, and we use the first line from the file as
the summary line throughout the program.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

"git log" and friends normally skip the initial empty lines when showing
one-line summary of a commit, but merge summary didn't.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
----
 builtin-fmt-merge-msg.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

To get the current HEAD when we start bisecting using for example
"git bisect start", we first try "git symbolic-ref HEAD" to get a
nice name, and if it fails, we fall back to "git rev-parse
--verify HEAD".

The problem is that when "git symbolic-ref HEAD" fails, it
displays "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref", so it looks like "git
bisect start" failed and does not accept detached HEAD, even if
in fact it worked fine.

This patch adds "-q" option to the "git symbolic-ref" call to
get rid of the misleading error message.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When a patch can't be opened (it doesn't exist, there are permission
problems, etc.) we get the usage text, which is not a proper indication of
failure.
Signed-off-by: NAlberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

For SSH clients restricted to git-shell, CVS_SERVER does not have to be
specified, because git-shell understands the default value of 'cvs' to
mean git-cvsserver'. This makes it totally transparent to CVS users, but
the instruction to set up CVS access for people with real shell access
does not apply.

Previous wording mentioning GIT_AUTHOR, GIT_COMMITTER variables was
unclear that we really meant GIT_AUTHOR_(NAME|EMAIL), etc.

Note that the .ssh/environment file is a good place to set these, and that
the .bashrc is shell-specific. Add a bit of text to differentiate cvs -d
(setting CVSROOT) from cvs co -d (setting the name of the newly checked
out directory).  Removed an extra 'Example:' string.
Signed-off-by: NScott Collins <scc@ScottCollins.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

gitk creates and uses ~/.gitk
Signed-off-by: NClifford Caoile <piyo@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Noticed by Fredrik Noring.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The previous one overwrote the variable used to report the bad input
when the input is actually bad, and we did not give a useful enough
information.  This corrects it.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

It seems that "git bisect good" and "git bisect skip" have never
properly checked arguments that have been passed to them. As soon
as one of them can be parsed as a SHA1, no error or warning would
be given.

This is because 'git rev-parse --revs-only --no-flags "$@"' always
"exit 0" and outputs all the SHA1 it can found from parsing "$@".

This patch fix this by using, for each "bisect good" argument, the
same logic as for the "bisect bad" argument.

While at it, this patch teaches "bisect bad" to give a meaningfull
error message when it is passed more than one argument.

Note that if "git bisect good" or "git bisect skip" is given some
proper revs and then something that is not a proper rev, then the
first proper revs will still have been marked as "good" or "skip".
Signed-off-by: NChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jan Engelhardt noticed that while --topo-order can be overridden by a
subsequent --date-order, the reverse was not possible. That's because
setup_revisions() failed to set revs->lifo properly.
Signed-off-by: NMichele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The tagger is equal to the committer, not the author, so
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is the right environment variable to use, not
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE.
Signed-off-by: NBjörn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Its documentation was removed by 6c96753d (Documentation/git-commit: rewrite
to make it more end-user friendly, 2006-12-08), even though it is referenced
from a few places, including builtin-commit.c (as part of the commentary in
the commit message template).
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NDirk Suesserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The --root option from "git diff-tree" won't do nothing
when is given to commands like git-whatchanged or git-log,
because those always print the initial commit by default.

This fixes the tutorial explaining the function of the
log.showroot configuration variable.
Signed-off-by: NCarlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Ulrik Sverdrup noticed that git-archive doesn't correctly apply the attribute
export-subst when the option --prefix is given, too.

When it checked if a file has the attribute turned on, git-archive would try
to look up the full path -- including the prefix -- in .gitattributes.  That's
wrong, as the prefix doesn't need to have any relation to any existing
directories, tracked or not.

This patch makes git-archive ignore the prefix when looking up if value of the
attribute export-subst for a file.
Signed-off-by: NRene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When an argument for an option is optional, like in -n from git-tag,
puting a space between the option and the argument is interpreted
as a missing argument for the option plus an isolated argument.
Documentation now reflects the need to write the parameter following
the option -n, as in "git tag -nARG", for instance.
Signed-off-by: NCarlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

An earlier commit 4be60962 (apply --unidiff-zero: loosen sanity checks for
--unidiff=0 patches, 2006-09-17) made match_beginning and match_end
computed incorrectly.  If a hunk inserts at the beginning, old position
recorded at the hunk is line 0, and if a hunk changes at the beginning, it
is line 1.  The new test added to t4104 exposes that the old code did not
insist on matching at the beginning for a patch to add a line to an empty
file.

An even older 65aadb92 (apply: force matching at the beginning.,
2006-05-24) was equally wrong in that it tried to take hints from the
number of leading context lines, to decide if the hunk must match at the
beginning, but we can just look at the line number in the hunk to decide.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

* jc/maint-fetch-regression-1.5.4:
  git-fetch test: test tracking fetch results, not just FETCH_HEAD
  Fix branches file configuration
  Tighten refspec processing

gitignore patterns can be read from three different
files, while gitattributes can come from two files. Let's
provide some hints to the user about the differences and how
they are typically used.

Suggested by Toby Corkindale, but gratuitously reworded by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: NToby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@rea-group.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>