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Junio C Hamano
83ac567781 Merge branch 'pw/rebase-i-error-message'
When the user adds to "git rebase -i" instruction to "pick" a merge
commit, the error experience is not pleasant.  Such an error is now
caught earlier in the process that parses the todo list.

* pw/rebase-i-error-message:
  rebase -i: improve error message when picking merge
  rebase -i: pass struct replay_opts to parse_insn_line()
2024-06-20 15:45:15 -07:00
Phillip Wood
4c063c82e9 rebase -i: improve error message when picking merge
The only todo commands that accept a merge commit are "merge" and
"reset". All the other commands like "pick" or "reword" fail when they
try to pick a a merge commit and print the message

    error: commit abc123 is a merge but no -m option was given.

followed by a hint about the command being rescheduled. This message is
designed to help the user when they cherry-pick a merge and forget to
pass "-m". For users who are rebasing the message is confusing as there
is no way for rebase to cherry-pick the merge.

Improve the user experience by detecting the error and printing some
advice on how to fix it when the todo list is parsed rather than waiting
for the "pick" command to fail. The advice recommends "merge" rather
than "exec git cherry-pick -m ..." on the assumption that cherry-picking
merges is relatively rare and it is more likely that the user chose
"pick" by a mistake.

It would be possible to support cherry-picking merges by allowing the
user to pass "-m" to "pick" commands but that adds complexity to do
something that can already be achieved with

    exec git cherry-pick -m1 abc123

Reported-by: Stefan Haller <lists@haller-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-05-30 10:02:58 -07:00
James Liu
b79deeb554 advice: add --no-advice global option
Advice hints must be disabled individually by setting the relevant
advice.* variables to false in the Git configuration. For server-side
and scripted usages of Git where hints can be a hindrance, it can be
cumbersome to maintain configuration to ensure all advice hints are
disabled in perpetuity. This is a particular concern in tests, where
new or changed hints can result in failed assertions.

Add a --no-advice global option to disable all advice hints from being
displayed. This is independent of the toggles for individual advice
hints. Use an internal environment variable (GIT_ADVICE) to ensure this
configuration is propagated to the usage site, even if it executes in a
subprocess.

Signed-off-by: James Liu <james@jamesliu.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-05-03 10:36:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
39b2c6f77e Merge branch 'jc/advice-sans-trailing-whitespace'
The "hint:" messages given by the advice mechanism, when given a
message with a blank line, left a line with trailing whitespace,
which has been cleansed.

* jc/advice-sans-trailing-whitespace:
  advice: omit trailing whitespace
2024-04-09 14:31:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2d8cf94b28 advice: omit trailing whitespace
Git tools all consistently encourage users to avoid whitespaces at
the end of line by giving them features like "git diff --check" and
"git am --whitespace=fix".  Make sure that the advice messages we
give users avoid trailing whitespaces.  We shouldn't be wasting
vertical screen real estate by adding blank lines in advice messages
that are supposed to be concise hints, but as long as we write such
blank line in our "hints", we should do it right.

A test that expects the current behaviour of leaving trailing
whitespaces has been adjusted.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-29 16:18:48 -07:00
Philippe Blain
ec0300914b sequencer: allow disabling conflict advice
Allow disabling the advice shown when a squencer operation results in a
merge conflict through a new config 'advice.mergeConflict', which is
named generically such that it can be used by other commands eventually.

Remove that final '\n' in the first hunk in sequencer.c to avoid an
otherwise empty 'hint: ' line before the line 'hint: Disable this
message with "git config advice.mergeConflict false"' which is
automatically added by 'advise_if_enabled'.

Note that we use 'advise_if_enabled' for each message in the second hunk
in sequencer.c, instead of using 'if (show_hints &&
advice_enabled(...)', because the former instructs the user how to
disable the advice, which is more user-friendly.

Update the tests accordingly. Note that the body of the second test in
t3507-cherry-pick-conflict.sh is enclosed in double quotes, so we must
escape them in the added line. Note that t5520-pull.sh, which checks
that we display the advice for 'git rebase' (via 'git pull --rebase')
does not have to be updated because it only greps for a specific line in
the advice message.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-18 09:28:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b09a8839a4 Merge branch 'kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice'
When git refuses to create a branch because the proposed branch
name is not a valid refname, an advice message is given to refer
the user to exact naming rules.

* kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice:
  branch: advise about ref syntax rules
  advice: use double quotes for regular quoting
  advice: use backticks for verbatim
  advice: make all entries stylistically consistent
  t3200: improve test style
2024-03-15 16:05:59 -07:00
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
8fbd903e58 branch: advise about ref syntax rules
git-branch(1) will error out if you give it a bad ref name. But the user
might not understand why or what part of the name is illegal.

The user might know that there are some limitations based on the *loose
ref* format (filenames), but there are also further rules for
easier integration with shell-based tools, pathname expansion, and
playing well with reference name expressions.

The man page for git-check-ref-format(1) contains these rules. Let’s
advise about it since that is not a command that you just happen
upon. Also make this advise configurable since you might not want to be
reminded every time you make a little typo.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-05 13:04:26 -08:00
Philippe Blain
b9e55be740 merge-ort: turn submodule conflict suggestions into an advice
Add a new advice type 'submoduleMergeConflict' for the error message
shown when a non-trivial submodule conflict is encountered, which
was added in 4057523a40 (submodule merge: update conflict error
message, 2022-08-04). That commit mentions making this message an
advice as possible future work.  The message can now be disabled
with the advice mechanism.

Update the tests as the expected message now appears on stderr instead
of stdout.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-26 10:07:01 -08:00
Rubén Justo
d919965af1 advice: allow disabling the automatic hint in advise_if_enabled()
Using advise_if_enabled() to display an advice will automatically
include instructions on how to disable the advice, alongside the main
advice:

	hint: use --reapply-cherry-picks to include skipped commits
	hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.skippedCherryPicks false"

To do so, we provide a knob which can be used to disable the advice.

But also to tell us the opposite: to show the advice.

Let's not include the deactivation instructions for an advice if the
user explicitly sets its visibility.

Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-16 13:07:00 -08:00
Rubén Justo
bec9bb4b39 branch: make the advice to force-deleting a conditional one
The error message we show when the user tries to delete a not fully
merged branch describes the error and gives a hint to the user:

	error: the branch 'foo' is not fully merged.
	If you are sure you want to delete it, run 'git branch -D foo'.

Let's move the hint part so that it is displayed using the advice
machinery:

	error: the branch 'foo' is not fully merged
	hint: If you are sure you want to delete it, run 'git branch -D foo'
	hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.forceDeleteBranch false"

Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-11 17:15:54 -08:00
Rubén Justo
3196029b5b advice: sort the advice related lists
Let's keep the advice related lists sorted to make them more
digestible.

A multi-line comment has also been changed; that produces the unexpected
'insertion != deletion' in this supposedly 'only sort lines' commit.

Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-01-11 17:15:54 -08:00
Oswald Buddenhagen
ff29a61cbb advice: handle "rebase" in error_resolve_conflict()
This makes sure that we get a properly translated message rather than
inserting the command (which we failed to translate) into a generic
fallback message.

The function is called indirectly via die_resolve_conflict() with fixed
strings, and directly with the string obtained via action_name(), which
in turn returns a string from a fixed set. Hence we know that the now
covered set of strings is exhausitive, and will therefore BUG() out when
encountering an unexpected string. We also know that all covered strings
are actually used.

Arguably, the above suggests that it would be cleaner to pass the
command as an enum in the first place, but that's left for another time.

Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-08-07 13:21:00 -07:00
Jacob Abel
35f0383ca6 worktree add: introduce "try --orphan" hint
Add a new advice/hint in `git worktree add` for when the user
tries to create a new worktree from a reference that doesn't exist.

Current Behavior:

% git init foo
Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/foo/
% touch file
% git -C foo commit -q -a -m "test commit"
% git -C foo switch --orphan norefbranch
% git -C foo worktree add newbranch/
Preparing worktree (new branch 'newbranch')
fatal: invalid reference: HEAD
%

New Behavior:

% git init --bare foo
Initialized empty Git repository in /path/to/foo/
% touch file
% git -C foo commit -q -a -m "test commit"
% git -C foo switch --orphan norefbranch
% git -C foo worktree add newbranch/
Preparing worktree (new branch 'newbranch')
hint: If you meant to create a worktree containing a new orphan branch
hint: (branch with no commits) for this repository, you can do so
hint: using the --orphan option:
hint:
hint:   git worktree add --orphan newbranch/
hint:
hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.worktreeAddOrphan false"
fatal: invalid reference: HEAD
% git -C foo worktree add -b newbranch2 new_wt/
Preparing worktree (new branch 'newbranch')
hint: If you meant to create a worktree containing a new orphan branch
hint: (branch with no commits) for this repository, you can do so
hint: using the --orphan option:
hint:
hint:   git worktree add --orphan -b newbranch2 new_wt/
hint:
hint: Disable this message with "git config advice.worktreeAddOrphan false"
fatal: invalid reference: HEAD
%

Signed-off-by: Jacob Abel <jacobabel@nullpo.dev>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-05-17 15:55:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9de14c71f7 Merge branch 'fc/advice-diverged-history'
After "git pull" that is configured with pull.rebase=false
merge.ff=only fails due to our end having our own development, give
advice messages to get out of the "Not possible to fast-forward"
state.

* fc/advice-diverged-history:
  advice: add diverging advice for novices
2023-03-19 15:03:13 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
765071a8f2 advice: add diverging advice for novices
The user might not necessarily know why ff only was configured, maybe an
admin did it, or the installer (Git for Windows), or perhaps they just
followed some online advice.

This can happen not only on pull.ff=only, but merge.ff=only too.

Even worse if the user has configured pull.rebase=false and
merge.ff=only, because in those cases a diverging merge will constantly
keep failing. There's no trivial way to get out of this other than
`git merge --no-ff`.

Let's not assume our users are experts in git who completely understand
all their configurations.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-08 09:28:42 -08:00
Elijah Newren
fc7bd51b06 treewide: replace cache.h with more direct headers, where possible
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-23 17:25:30 -08:00
Shaoxuan Yuan
5efd533ed8 advice.h: add advise_on_moving_dirty_path()
Add an advice.

When the user use `git mv --sparse <dirty-path> <destination>`, Git
will warn the user to use `git add --sparse <paths>` then use
`git sparse-checkout reapply` to apply the sparsity rules.

Add a few lines to previous "move dirty path" tests so we can test
this new advice is working.

Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaoxuan Yuan <shaoxuan.yuan02@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-10 13:57:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ba2452b247 Merge branch 'tk/ambiguous-fetch-refspec'
Give hint when branch tracking cannot be established because fetch
refspecs from multiple remote repositories overlap.

* tk/ambiguous-fetch-refspec:
  tracking branches: add advice to ambiguous refspec error
2022-04-04 10:56:24 -07:00
Tao Klerks
e4921d877a tracking branches: add advice to ambiguous refspec error
The error "not tracking: ambiguous information for ref" is raised
when we are evaluating what tracking information to set on a branch,
and find that the ref to be added as tracking branch is mapped
under multiple remotes' fetch refspecs.

This can easily happen when a user copy-pastes a remote definition
in their git config, and forgets to change the tracking path.

Add advice in this situation, explicitly highlighting which remotes
are involved and suggesting how to correct the situation. Also
update a test to explicitly expect that advice.

Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-04-01 10:09:18 -07:00
Victoria Dye
9396251b37 reset: replace '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in performance advice
Replace references to '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in the advice on how to
skip refreshing the index. When the advice was introduced, '--quiet' was the
only way to avoid the expensive 'refresh_index(...)' at the end of a mixed
reset. After introducing '--no-refresh', however, '--quiet' became only a
fallback option for determining refresh behavior, overridden by
'--[no-]refresh' or 'reset.refresh' if either is set. To ensure users are
advised to use the most reliable option for avoiding 'refresh_index(...)',
replace recommendation of '--quiet' with '--[no-]refresh'.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-14 18:51:56 -07:00
Alex Henrie
808213ba36 switch: mention the --detach option when dying due to lack of a branch
Users who are accustomed to doing `git checkout <tag>` assume that
`git switch <tag>` will do the same thing. Inform them of the --detach
option so they aren't left wondering why `git switch` doesn't work but
`git checkout` does.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-25 22:21:48 -08:00
Glen Choo
961b130d20 branch: add --recurse-submodules option for branch creation
To improve the submodules UX, we would like to teach Git to handle
branches in submodules. Start this process by teaching "git branch" the
--recurse-submodules option so that "git branch --recurse-submodules
topic" will create the `topic` branch in the superproject and its
submodules.

Although this commit does not introduce breaking changes, it does not
work well with existing --recurse-submodules commands because "git
branch --recurse-submodules" writes to the submodule ref store, but most
commands only consider the superproject gitlink and ignore the submodule
ref store. For example, "git checkout --recurse-submodules" will check
out the commits in the superproject gitlinks (and put the submodules in
detached HEAD) instead of checking out the submodule branches.

Because of this, this commit introduces a new configuration value,
`submodule.propagateBranches`. The plan is for Git commands to
prioritize submodule ref store information over superproject gitlinks if
this value is true. Because "git branch --recurse-submodules" writes to
submodule ref stores, for the sake of clarity, it will not function
unless this configuration value is set.

This commit also includes changes that support working with submodules
from a superproject commit because "branch --recurse-submodules" (and
future commands) need to read .gitmodules and gitlinks from the
superproject commit, but submodules are typically read from the
filesystem's .gitmodules and the index's gitlinks. These changes are:

* add a submodules_of_tree() helper that gives the relevant
  information of an in-tree submodule (e.g. path and oid) and
  initializes the repository
* add is_tree_submodule_active() by adding a treeish_name parameter to
  is_submodule_active()
* add the "submoduleNotUpdated" advice to advise users to update the
  submodules in their trees

Incidentally, fix an incorrect usage string that combined the 'list'
usage of git branch (-l) with the 'create' usage; this string has been
incorrect since its inception, a8dfd5eac4 (Make builtin-branch.c use
parse_options., 2007-10-07).

Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-04 08:16:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2d498a7c89 Merge branch 'ds/add-rm-with-sparse-index'
"git add", "git mv", and "git rm" have been adjusted to avoid
updating paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition unless
the user specifies a "--sparse" option.

* ds/add-rm-with-sparse-index:
  advice: update message to suggest '--sparse'
  mv: refuse to move sparse paths
  rm: skip sparse paths with missing SKIP_WORKTREE
  rm: add --sparse option
  add: update --renormalize to skip sparse paths
  add: update --chmod to skip sparse paths
  add: implement the --sparse option
  add: skip tracked paths outside sparse-checkout cone
  add: fail when adding an untracked sparse file
  dir: fix pattern matching on dirs
  dir: select directories correctly
  t1092: behavior for adding sparse files
  t3705: test that 'sparse_entry' is unstaged
2021-10-13 15:15:56 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
6579e788c0 advice: update message to suggest '--sparse'
The previous changes modified the behavior of 'git add', 'git rm', and
'git mv' to not adjust paths outside the sparse-checkout cone, even if
they exist in the working tree and their cache entries lack the
SKIP_WORKTREE bit. The intention is to warn users that they are doing
something potentially dangerous. The '--sparse' option was added to each
command to allow careful users the same ability they had before.

To improve the discoverability of this new functionality, add a message
to advice.updateSparsePath that mentions the existence of the option.

The previous set of changes also modified the purpose of this message to
include possibly a list of paths instead of only a list of pathspecs.
Make the warning message more clear about this new behavior.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-28 10:31:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fd0d7036e0 Merge branch 'ab/retire-advice-config'
Code clean up to migrate callers from older advice_config[] based
API to newer advice_if_enabled() and advice_enabled() API.

* ab/retire-advice-config:
  advice: move advice.graftFileDeprecated squashing to commit.[ch]
  advice: remove use of global advice_add_embedded_repo
  advice: remove read uses of most global `advice_` variables
  advice: add enum variants for missing advice variables
2021-09-10 11:46:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6c083b7619 Merge branch 'js/advise-when-skipping-cherry-picked'
"git rebase" by default skips changes that are equivalent to
commits that are already in the history the branch is rebased onto;
give messages when this happens to let the users be aware of
skipped commits, and also teach them how to tell "rebase" to keep
duplicated changes.

* js/advise-when-skipping-cherry-picked:
  sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commit
2021-09-10 11:46:19 -07:00
Josh Steadmon
767a4ca648 sequencer: advise if skipping cherry-picked commit
Silently skipping commits when rebasing with --no-reapply-cherry-picks
(currently the default behavior) can cause user confusion. Issue
warnings when this happens, as well as advice on how to preserve the
skipped commits.

These warnings and advice are displayed only when using the (default)
"merge" rebase backend.

Update the git-rebase docs to mention the warnings and advice.

Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-30 16:35:36 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
ab628588f8 advice: move advice.graftFileDeprecated squashing to commit.[ch]
Move the squashing of the advice.graftFileDeprecated advice over to an
external variable in commit.[ch], allowing advice() to purely use the
new-style API of invoking advice() with an enum.

See 8821e90a09 (advice: don't pointlessly suggest
--convert-graft-file, 2018-11-27) for why quieting this advice was
needed. It's more straightforward to move this code to commit.[ch] and
use it builtin/replace.c, than to go through the indirection of
advice.[ch].

Because this was the last advice_config variable we can remove that
old facility from advice.c.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 12:07:52 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
c2a4b6d4ee advice: remove use of global advice_add_embedded_repo
The external use of this variable was added in 532139940c (add: warn
when adding an embedded repository, 2017-06-14). For the use-case it's
more straightforward to track whether we've shown advice in
check_embedded_repo() than setting the global variable.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 12:07:52 -07:00
Ben Boeckel
ed9bff0817 advice: remove read uses of most global advice_ variables
In c4a09cc9cc (Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng', 2020-03-25), a new API for
accessing advice variables was introduced and deprecated `advice_config`
in favor of a new array, `advice_setting`.

This patch ports all but two uses which read the status of the global
`advice_` variables over to the new `advice_enabled` API. We'll deal
with advice_add_embedded_repo and advice_graft_file_deprecated
separately.

Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 12:07:52 -07:00
Ben Boeckel
69290551b9 advice: add enum variants for missing advice variables
In daef1b300b (Merge branch 'hw/advice-add-nothing', 2020-02-14), two
advice settings were introduced into the `advice_config` array.

Subsequently, c4a09cc9cc (Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng', 2020-03-25)
started to deprecate `advice_config` in favor of a new array,
`advice_setting`.

However, the latter branch did not include the former branch, and
therefore `advice_setting` is missing the two entries added by the
`hw/advice-add-nothing` branch.

These are currently the only entries in `advice_config` missing from
`advice_setting`.

Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25 12:07:51 -07:00
Alex Henrie
3d5fc24dae pull: abort if --ff-only is given and fast-forwarding is impossible
The warning about pulling without specifying how to reconcile divergent
branches says that after setting pull.rebase to true, --ff-only can
still be passed on the command line to require a fast-forward. Make that
actually work.

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
[en: updated tests; note 3 fixes and 1 new failure]
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-20 21:43:12 -07:00
Matheus Tavares
a20f70478f add: warn when asked to update SKIP_WORKTREE entries
`git add` already refrains from updating SKIP_WORKTREE entries, but it
silently exits with zero code when it is asked to do so. Instead, let's
warn the user and display a hint on how to update these entries.

Note that we only warn the user whey they give a pathspec item that
matches no eligible path for updating, but it does match one or more
SKIP_WORKTREE entries. A warning was chosen over erroring out right away
to reproduce the same behavior `add` already exhibits with ignored
files. This also allow users to continue their workflow without having
to invoke `add` again with only the eligible paths (as those will have
already been added).

Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-08 14:18:03 -07:00
Srinidhi Kaushik
3b990aa645 push: parse and set flag for "--force-if-includes"
The previous commit added the necessary machinery to implement the
"--force-if-includes" protection, when "--force-with-lease" is used
without giving exact object the remote still ought to have. Surface
the feature by adding a command line option and a configuration
variable to enable it.

 - Add a flag: "TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE_IF_INCLUDES" to indicate that the
   new option was passed from the command line of via configuration
   settings; update command line and configuration parsers to set the
   new flag accordingly.

 - Introduce a new configuration option "push.useForceIfIncludes", which
   is equivalent to setting "--force-if-includes" in the command line.

 - Update "remote-curl" to recognize and pass this option to "send-pack"
   when enabled.

 - Update "advise" to catch the reject reason "REJECT_REF_NEEDS_UPDATE",
   set when the ref status is "REF_STATUS_REJECT_REMOTE_UPDATED" and
   (optionally) print a help message when the push fails.

 - The new option is a "no-op" in the following scenarios:
    * When used without "--force-with-lease".
    * When used with "--force-with-lease", and if the expected commit
      on the remote side is specified as an argument.

Signed-off-by: Srinidhi Kaushik <shrinidhi.kaushik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-03 09:59:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c4a09cc9cc Merge branch 'hw/advise-ng'
Revamping of the advise API to allow more systematic enumeration of
advice knobs in the future.

* hw/advise-ng:
  tag: use new advice API to check visibility
  advice: revamp advise API
  advice: change "setupStreamFailure" to "setUpstreamFailure"
  advice: extract vadvise() from advise()
2020-03-25 13:57:41 -07:00
Heba Waly
f665d63a91 tag: use new advice API to check visibility
change the advise call in tag library from advise() to
advise_if_enabled() to construct an example of the usage of
the new API.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-05 06:15:04 -08:00
Heba Waly
b3b18d1621 advice: revamp advise API
Currently it's very easy for the advice library's callers to miss
checking the visibility step before printing an advice. Also, it makes
more sense for this step to be handled by the advice library.

Add a new advise_if_enabled function that checks the visibility of
advice messages before printing.

Add a new helper advise_enabled to check the visibility of the advice
if the caller needs to carry out complicated processing based on that
value.

A list of advice_settings is added to cache the config variables names
and values, it's intended to replace advice_config[] and the global
variables once we migrate all the callers to use the new APIs.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-05 06:15:02 -08:00
Heba Waly
fef0c76f18 advice: change "setupStreamFailure" to "setUpstreamFailure"
fb6fbffbda (advice: keep config name in camelCase in advice_config[],
2018-05-26) changed the config names to camelCase, but one of the names
wasn't changed correctly. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-02 12:37:22 -08:00
Heba Waly
06ac2b3b6e advice: extract vadvise() from advise()
In preparation for a new advice method, extract a version of advise()
that uses an explict 'va_list' parameter. Call it from advise() for a
functionally equivalent version.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-02 12:37:21 -08:00
Heba Waly
887a0fd573 add: change advice config variables used by the add API
advice.addNothing config variable is used to control the visibility of
two advice messages in the add library. This config variable is
replaced by two new variables, whose names are more clear and relevant
to the two cases.

Also add the two new variables to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-06 11:08:00 -08:00
Heba Waly
bf66db37f1 add: use advise function to display hints
Use the advise function in advice.c to display hints to the users, as
it provides a neat and a standard format for hint messages, i.e: the
text is colored in yellow and the line starts by the word "hint:".

Also this will enable us to control the messages using advice.*
configuration variables.

Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-15 12:15:04 -08:00
Jonathan Tan
4f3e57ef13 submodule--helper: advise on fatal alternate error
When recursively cloning a superproject with some shallow modules
defined in its .gitmodules, then recloning with "--reference=<path>", an
error occurs. For example:

  git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \
    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \
    master
  git clone --recurse-submodules --branch=master -j8 \
    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/superproject \
    --reference master master2

fails with:

  fatal: submodule '<snip>' cannot add alternate: reference repository
  '<snip>' is shallow

When a alternate computed from the superproject's alternate cannot be
added, whether in this case or another, advise about configuring the
"submodule.alternateErrorStrategy" configuration option and using
"--reference-if-able" instead of "--reference" when cloning.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-03 08:49:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d97c62c828 Merge branch 'ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip'
"git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action.

* ra/cherry-pick-revert-skip:
  cherry-pick/revert: advise using --skip
  cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option
  sequencer: use argv_array in reset_merge
  sequencer: rename reset_for_rollback to reset_merge
  sequencer: add advice for revert
2019-07-19 11:30:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cde9a64ea3 Merge branch 'ds/fetch-disable-force-notice'
"git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in
non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation.
The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable
this safety feature.

* ds/fetch-disable-force-notice:
  pull: add --[no-]show-forced-updates passthrough
  fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing
  fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument
2019-07-09 15:25:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
34186225b3 Merge branch 'jh/status-aheadbehind'
"git status" can be told a non-standard default value for the
"--[no-]ahead-behind" option with a new configuration variable
status.aheadBehind.

* jh/status-aheadbehind:
  status: ignore status.aheadbehind in porcelain formats
  status: warn when a/b calculation takes too long
  status: add status.aheadbehind setting
2019-07-09 15:25:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f496b064fc Merge branch 'nd/switch-and-restore'
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.

* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
  completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
  switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
  t2027: use test_must_be_empty
  Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
  help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
  doc: promote "git restore"
  user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
  completion: support restore
  t: add tests for restore
  restore: support --patch
  restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
  restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
  restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
  restore: add --worktree and --staged
  checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
  restore: disable overlay mode by default
  restore: make pathspec mandatory
  restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
  checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
  doc: promote "git switch"
  ...
2019-07-09 15:25:44 -07:00
Rohit Ashiwal
6a1f9046a4 sequencer: add advice for revert
In the case of merge conflicts, while performing a revert, we are
currently advised to use `git cherry-pick --<sequencer-options>`.
Introduce a separate advice message for `git revert`. Also change
the signature of `create_seq_dir` to handle which advice to display
selectively.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-02 12:08:07 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
377444b440 fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing
The --[no-]show-forced-updates option in 'git fetch' can be confusing
for some users, especially if it is enabled via config setting and not
by argument. Add advice to warn the user that the (forced update)
messages were not listed.

Additionally, warn users when the forced update check takes longer
than ten seconds, and recommend that they disable the check. These
messages can be disabled by the advice.fetchShowForcedUpdates config
setting.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-21 09:38:29 -07:00
Jeff Hostetler
0a53561a62 status: warn when a/b calculation takes too long
The ahead/behind calculation in 'git status' can be slow in some
cases. Users may not realize that there are ways to avoid this
computation, especially if they are not using the information.

Add a warning that appears if this calculation takes more than
two seconds. The warning can be disabled through the new config
setting advice.statusAheadBehind.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-21 09:35:02 -07:00