A new warning message is issued when a command has to expand a
sparse index to handle working tree cruft that are outside of the
sparse checkout.
* ds/advice-sparse-index-expansion:
advice: warn when sparse index expands
Typically, forcing a sparse index to expand to a full index means that
Git could not determine the status of a file outside of the
sparse-checkout and needed to expand sparse trees into the full list of
sparse blobs. This operation can be very slow when the sparse-checkout
is much smaller than the full tree at HEAD.
When users are in this state, there is usually a modified or untracked
file outside of the sparse-checkout mentioned by the output of 'git
status'. There are a number of reasons why this is insufficient:
1. Users may not have a full understanding of which files are inside or
outside of their sparse-checkout. This is more common in monorepos
that manage the sparse-checkout using custom tools that map build
dependencies into sparse-checkout definitions.
2. In some cases, an empty directory could exist outside the
sparse-checkout and these empty directories are not reported by 'git
status' and friends.
3. If the user has '.gitignore' or 'exclude' files, then 'git status'
will squelch the warnings and not demonstrate any problems.
In order to help users who are in this state, add a new advice message
to indicate that a sparse index is expanded to a full index. This
message should be written at most once per process, so add a static
global 'give_advice_on_expansion' to sparse-index.c. Further, there is a
case in 'git sparse-checkout set' that uses the sparse index as an
in-memory data structure (even when writing a full index) so we need to
disable the message in that kind of case.
The t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh test script compares the
behavior of several Git commands across full and sparse repositories,
including sparse repositories with and without a sparse index. We need
to disable the advice in the sparse-index repo to avoid differences in
stderr. By leaving the advice on in the sparse-checkout repo (without
the sparse index), we can test the behavior of disabling the advice in
convert_to_sparse(). (Indeed, these tests are how that necessity was
discovered.) Add a test that reenables the advice and demonstrates that
the message is output.
The advice message is defined outside of expand_index() to avoid super-
wide lines. It is also defined as a macro to avoid compile issues with
-Werror=format-security.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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()
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>
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>
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
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>
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>
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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
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>
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>
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
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>
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>
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>
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>
"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
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>
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
"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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
`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>
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>
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()
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
"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
"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
"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
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"
...
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>
