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Victoria Dye
9b1dc1c9d8 version: fix builtin linking & documentation
Like most builtins, 'version' is documented in a corresponding
'Documentation/git-version.txt' and can be invoked with 'git version'.
However, the 'check-docs' Makefile target showed that it was "removed but
documented: git-version." This was cause by the fact that it is not built as
a standalone 'git-version' executable, therefore appearing "removed" to
'check-docs'.

Without a precedent for documented builtins that aren't built into an
executable *or* any clear reason why a standalone 'git-version' shouldn't
exist, the 'check-docs' error appears to correctly identify an issue. To
correct that mismatch, add 'git-version' to the 'BUILT_INS' list in the root
Makefile (indicating that the 'cmd_version()' function appears in a file
that is *not* 'builtin/version.c'). Additionally, to avoid the "no link"
message in 'check-docs', list 'git-version' as an "ancilliaryinterrogator"
(like 'git help') in 'command-list.txt'.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-19 17:28:25 -07:00
Victoria Dye
89c8048855 diagnose: add to command-list.txt
Add 'git diagnose' as an "ancilliaryinterrogator" (like 'git bugreport') to
'command-list.txt' in order to have it show up in 'git help -a' and avoid
the "no link" warning message from the 'check-docs' Makefile target.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-19 17:27:26 -07:00
Victoria Dye
cc75e556a9 scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list
Add 'scalar' as a 'mainporcelain' command in the Git command list. Update
the regex in 'cmd-list.perl' used to match the first line of command
documentation to find 'scalar(1)'.

Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-02 10:02:56 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
1e2320161d docs: move http-protocol docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the http-protocol.txt documentation over. I'm renaming it to
"protocol-http" to be consistent with other things in the new
gitformat-protocol-* namespace.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:24 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
977c47b46d docs: move pack format docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the various documentation pertaining to the *.pack format and related
files, and updating things that refer to it to link to the new
location.

By moving these we can properly link from the newly created
gitformat-commit-graph to a gitformat-chunk-format page.

Integrating "Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt" and
"Documentation/technical/cruft-packs.txt" might logically be part of
this change, but as those cover parts of the wider "pack
format" (including associated files) that's documented outside of
"Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt" let's leave those for now,
subsequent commit(s) will address those.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:24 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
20516890dc docs: move signature docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the signature format documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:24 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
00d3e8d7dd docs: move index format docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the index format documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
5db921054e docs: move protocol-related docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space. By moving
the things that discuss the protocol we can properly link from
e.g. lsrefs.unborn and protocol.version documentation to a manpage we
build by default.

So far we have been using the "gitformat-" prefix for the
documentation we've been moving over from Documentation/technical/*,
but for protocol documentation let's use "gitprotocol-*".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
8cbace93d2 docs: move commit-graph format docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space.

By moving the documentation for the commit-graph format into man
section 5 and the new "developerinterfaces" category. This change is
split from subsequent commits due to the relatively large amount of
ASCIIDOC formatting changes that are required.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
844739ba27 git docs: add a category for file formats, protocols and interfaces
Create a new "File formats, protocols and other developer interfaces"
section in the main "git help git" manual page and start moving the
documentation that now lives in "Documentation/technical/*.git" over
to it. This complements the newly added and adjacent "Repository,
command and file interfaces" section.

This makes the technical documentation more accessible and
discoverable. Before this we wouldn't install it by default, and had
no ability to build man page versions of them. The links to them from
our existing documentation link to the generated HTML version of these
docs.

So let's start moving those over, starting with just the
"bundle-format.txt" documentation added in 7378ec90e1 (doc: describe
Git bundle format, 2020-02-07). We'll now have a new
gitformat-bundle(5) man page. Subsequent commits will move more git
internal format documentation over.

Unfortunately the syntax of the current Documentation/technical/*.txt
is not the same (when it comes to section headings etc.) as our
Documentation/*.txt documentation, so change the relevant bits of
syntax as we're moving this over.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
d976c5100f git docs: add a category for user-facing file, repo and command UX
Create a new "Repository, command and file interfaces" section in the
main "git help git" manual page. Move things that belong under this
new criteria from the generic "Guides" section.

The "Guides" section was added in f442f28a81 (git.txt: add list of
guides, 2020-08-05). It makes sense to have e.g. "giteveryday(7)" and
"gitfaq(7)" listed under "Guides".

But placing e.g. "gitignore(5)" in it is stretching the meaning of
what a "guide" is, ideally that section should list things similar to
"giteveryday(7)" and "gitcore-tutorial(7)".

An alternate name that was considered for this new section was "User
formats", for consistency with the nomenclature used for man section 5
in general. My man(1) lists it as "File formats and conventions,
e.g. /etc/passwd".

So calling this "git help --formats" or "git help --user-formats"
would make sense for e.g. gitignore(5), but would be stretching it
somewhat for githooks(5), and would seem really suspect for the likes
of gitcli(7).

Let's instead pick a name that's closer to the generic term "User
interface", which is really what this documentation discusses: General
user-interface documentation that doesn't obviously belong elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:23 -07:00
Emily Shaffer
96e7225b31 hook: add 'run' subcommand
In order to enable hooks to be run as an external process, by a
standalone Git command, or by tools which wrap Git, provide an external
means to run all configured hook commands for a given hook event.

Most of our hooks require more complex functionality than this, but
let's start with the bare minimum required to support our simplest
hooks.

In terms of implementation the usage_with_options() and "goto usage"
pattern here mirrors that of
builtin/{commit-graph,multi-pack-index}.c.

Some of the implementation here, such as a function being named
run_hooks_opt() when it's tasked with running one hook, to using the
run_processes_parallel_tr2() API to run with jobs=1 is somewhere
between a bit odd and and an overkill for the current features of this
"hook run" command and the hook.[ch] API.

This code will eventually be able to run multiple hooks declared in
config in parallel, by starting out with these names and APIs we
reduce the later churn of renaming functions, switching from the
run_command() to run_processes_parallel_tr2() API etc.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-07 15:19:34 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
e88842ee1c generate-cmdlist.sh: replace "grep' invocation with a shell version
Replace the "grep" we run to exclude certain programs from the
generated output with a pure-shell loop that strips out the comments,
and sees if the "cmd" we're reading is on a list of excluded
programs. This uses a trick similar to test_have_prereq() in
test-lib-functions.sh.

On my *nix system this makes things quite a bit slower compared to
HEAD~:
o
  'sh generate-cmdlist.sh.old command-list.txt' ran
    1.56 ± 0.11 times faster than 'sh generate-cmdlist.sh command-list.txt'
   18.00 ± 0.19 times faster than 'sh generate-cmdlist.sh.master command-list.txt'

But when I tried running generate-cmdlist.sh 100 times in CI I found
that it helped across the board even on OSX & Linux. I tried testing
it in CI with this ad-hoc few-liner:

    for i in $(seq -w 0 11 | sort -nr)
    do
    	git show HEAD~$i:generate-cmdlist.sh >generate-cmdlist-HEAD$i.sh &&
    	git add generate-cmdlist* &&
    	cp t/t0000-generate-cmdlist.sh t/t00$i-generate-cmdlist.sh || : &&
    	perl -pi -e "s/HEAD0/HEAD$i/g" t/t00$i-generate-cmdlist.sh &&
    	git add t/t00*.sh
    done && git commit -m"generated it"

Here HEAD~02 and the t0002* file refers to this change, and HEAD~03
and t0003* file to the preceding commit, the relevant results were:

    linux-gcc:

    [12:05:33] t0002-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok       14 ms ( 0.00 usr  0.00 sys +  3.64 cusr  3.09 csys =  6.73 CPU)
    [12:05:30] t0003-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok       32 ms ( 0.00 usr  0.00 sys +  2.66 cusr  1.81 csys =  4.47 CPU)

    osx-gcc:

    [11:58:04] t0002-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok    80081 ms ( 0.02 usr  0.02 sys + 17.80 cusr 10.07 csys = 27.91 CPU)
    [11:58:16] t0003-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok    92127 ms ( 0.02 usr  0.01 sys + 22.54 cusr 14.27 csys = 36.84 CPU)

    vs-test:

    [12:03:14] t0002-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok       30 s ( 0.02 usr  0.00 sys + 13.14 cusr 26.19 csys = 39.35 CPU)
    [12:03:20] t0003-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok       32 s ( 0.00 usr  0.02 sys + 13.25 cusr 26.10 csys = 39.37 CPU)

I.e. even on *nix running 100 of these in a loop was up to ~2x faster
in absolute runtime, I suspect it's due factors that are exacerbated
in the CI, e.g. much slower process startup due to some platform
limits, or a slower FS.

The "cut -d" change here is because we're not emitting the
40-character aligned output anymore, i.e. we'll get the output from
command_list() now, not an as-is line from command-list.txt.

This also makes the parsing more reliable, as we could tweak the
whitespace alignment without breaking this parser. Let's reword a
now-inaccurate comment in "command-list.txt" describing that previous
alignment limitation. We'll still need the "### command-list [...]"
line due to the "Documentation/cmd-list.perl" logic added in
11c6659d85 (command-list: prepare machinery for upcoming "common
groups" section, 2015-05-21).

There was a proposed change subsequent to this one[3] which continued
moving more logic into the "command_list() function, i.e. replaced the
"cut | tr | grep" chain in "category_list()" with an argument to
"command_list()".

That change might have had a bit of an effect, but not as much as the
preceding commit, so I decided to drop it. The relevant performance
numbers from it were:

    linux-gcc:

    [12:05:33] t0001-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok       13 ms ( 0.00 usr  0.00 sys +  3.33 cusr  2.78 csys =  6.11 CPU)
    [12:05:33] t0002-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok       14 ms ( 0.00 usr  0.00 sys +  3.64 cusr  3.09 csys =  6.73 CPU)

    osx-gcc:

    [11:58:03] t0001-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok    78416 ms ( 0.02 usr  0.01 sys + 11.78 cusr  6.22 csys = 18.03 CPU)
    [11:58:04] t0002-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok    80081 ms ( 0.02 usr  0.02 sys + 17.80 cusr 10.07 csys = 27.91 CPU)

    vs-test:

    [12:03:20] t0001-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok       34 s ( 0.00 usr  0.03 sys + 12.42 cusr 19.55 csys = 32.00 CPU)
    [12:03:14] t0002-generate-cmdlist.sh .. ok       30 s ( 0.02 usr  0.00 sys + 13.14 cusr 26.19 csys = 39.35 CPU)

As above HEAD~2 and t0002* are testing the code in this commit (and
the line is the same), but HEAD~1 and t0001* are testing that dropped
change in [3].

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-v2-00.10-00000000000-20211022T193027Z-avarab@gmail.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/patch-v2-08.10-83318d6c0da-20211022T193027Z-avarab@gmail.com/
3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/patch-v2-10.10-e10a43756d1-20211022T193027Z-avarab@gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-05 12:01:13 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
1ea3d7fcc4 command-list.txt: sort with "LC_ALL=C sort"
We should keep these files sorted in the C locale, e.g. in the C
locale the order is:

    git-check-mailmap
    git-check-ref-format
    git-checkout

But under en_US.UTF-8 it's:

    git-check-mailmap
    git-checkout
    git-check-ref-format

In a subsequent commit I'll change generate-cmdlist.sh to use C sort
order, and without this change we'd be led to believe that that change
caused a meaningful change in the output, so let's do this as a
separate step, right now the generate-cmdlist.sh script just uses the
order found in this file.

Note that this refers to the sort order of the lines in
command-list.txt, a subsequent commit will also change how we treat
the sort order of the "category" fields, but that's unrelated to this
change.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-05 12:01:12 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
6a9a50a8af command-list.txt: remove 'sparse-index' from main help
Ever since 'git sparse-checkout' was introduced [1] it is included in
'git --help' in the section "work on the current change" along with
the commands 'add', 'mv', 'restore', and 'rm'.  It clearly doesn't
belong to that group, moreover it can't be considered such a common
command to belong to 'git --help' in the first place, so remove it
from there.

[1] 94c0956b60 (sparse-checkout: create builtin with 'list'
                subcommand, 2019-11-21)

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-25 09:10:43 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
42957af027 mailmap doc: create a new "gitmailmap(5)" man page
Create a gitmailmap(5) page similar to how .gitmodules and .gitignore
have their own pages at gitmodules(5) and gitignore(5). Now instead of
"check-mailmap", "blame" and "shortlog" documentation including the
description of the format we link to one canonical place.

This makes things easier for readers, since in our manpage or
web-based[1] output it's not clear that the "MAPPING AUTHORS" sections
aren't subtly different, as opposed to just included.

1. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-check-mailmap

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-01-12 14:04:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e89ecfbb13 Merge branch 'ab/retire-parse-remote'
"git-parse-remote" shell script library outlived its usefulness.

* ab/retire-parse-remote:
  submodule: fix fetch_in_submodule logic
  parse-remote: remove this now-unused library
  submodule: remove sh function in favor of helper
  submodule: use "fetch" logic instead of custom remote discovery
2020-12-03 00:18:06 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
a89a2fbfcc parse-remote: remove this now-unused library
The previous two commits removed the last use of a function in this
library, but most of it had been dead code for a while[1][2]. Only the
"get_default_remote" function was still being used.

Even though we had a manual page for this library it was never
intended (or I expect, actually) used outside of git.git. Let's just
remove it, if anyone still cares about a function here they can pull
them into their own project[3].

1. Last use of error_on_missing_default_upstream():
   d03ebd411c ("rebase: remove the rebase.useBuiltin setting",
   2019-03-18)

2. Last use of get_remote_merge_branch(): 49eb8d39c7 ("Remove
   contrib/examples/*", 2018-03-25)

3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87a6vmhdka.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-16 13:19:30 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
4950b2a2b5 for-each-repo: run subcommands on configured repos
It can be helpful to store a list of repositories in global or system
config and then iterate Git commands on that list. Create a new builtin
that makes this process simple for experts. We will use this builtin to
run scheduled maintenance on all configured repositories in a future
change.

The test is very simple, but does highlight that the "--" argument is
optional.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-25 10:59:44 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
2057d75038 maintenance: create basic maintenance runner
The 'gc' builtin is our current entrypoint for automatically maintaining
a repository. This one tool does many operations, such as repacking the
repository, packing refs, and rewriting the commit-graph file. The name
implies it performs "garbage collection" which means several different
things, and some users may not want to use this operation that rewrites
the entire object database.

Create a new 'maintenance' builtin that will become a more general-
purpose command. To start, it will only support the 'run' subcommand,
but will later expand to add subcommands for scheduling maintenance in
the background.

For now, the 'maintenance' builtin is a thin shim over the 'gc' builtin.
In fact, the only option is the '--auto' toggle, which is handed
directly to the 'gc' builtin. The current change is isolated to this
simple operation to prevent more interesting logic from being lost in
all of the boilerplate of adding a new builtin.

Use existing builtin/gc.c file because we want to share code between the
two builtins. It is possible that we will have 'maintenance' replace the
'gc' builtin entirely at some point, leaving 'git gc' as an alias for
some specific arguments to 'git maintenance run'.

Create a new test_subcommand helper that allows us to test if a certain
subcommand was run. It requires storing the GIT_TRACE2_EVENT logs in a
file. A negation mode is available that will be used in later tests.

Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-09-17 11:30:04 -07:00
Philippe Blain
2135e1ad70 command-list.txt: add missing 'gitcredentials' and 'gitremote-helpers'
The guides 'gitcredentials' and 'gitremote-helpers' do not currently
appear in command-list.txt.

'gitcredentials' was forgotten back when guides were added to
command-list.txt in 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt for the
source of guides, 2018-05-20).

'gitremote-helpers' was moved to section 7 in 439cc74632 (docs: move
gitremote-helpers into section 7, 2019-03-25), but command-list.txt was
not updated at the time.

Add these two guides to the list of guides in 'command-list.txt', so
that they appear in the output of 'git help --guides', and capitalize
the first word of the description of 'gitcredentials', as was done in
1b81d8c (help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides,
2018-05-20) for the other guides.

While at it, add a comment in Documentation/Makefile to remind developers
to update command-list.txt if they add a new guide.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-04 18:34:01 -07:00
John Lin
81120a90aa bash-completion: add git-prune into bash completion
Sometimes git would suggest the user to run `git prune` when there are
too many unreachable loose objects. It's more user-friendly if we add
git-prune into bash completion.

Signed-off-by: John Lin <johnlinp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-22 11:29:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
80e013c0fd Merge branch 'bc/faq'
"git help guides" now includes the newly added FAQ document.

* bc/faq:
  command-list.txt: add gitfaq to the list of guides
2020-05-24 19:39:36 -07:00
Philippe Blain
2cf579c276 command-list.txt: add gitfaq to the list of guides
When 'gitfaq.txt' was added in 2149b6748f (docs: add a FAQ, 2020-03-30),
it was added to the Makefile but not to command-list.txt.

Add it there also, so that the new FAQ is listed in the output of
`git help --guides`.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-20 09:00:58 -07:00
Emily Shaffer
238b439d69 bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info
Teach Git how to prompt the user for a good bug report: reproduction
steps, expected behavior, and actual behavior. Later, Git can learn how
to collect some diagnostic information from the repository.

If users can send us a well-written bug report which contains diagnostic
information we would otherwise need to ask the user for, we can reduce
the number of question-and-answer round trips between the reporter and
the Git contributor.

Users may also wish to send a report like this to their local "Git
expert" if they have put their repository into a state they are confused
by.

Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16 15:23:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bd72a08d6c Merge branch 'ds/sparse-cone'
Management of sparsely checked-out working tree has gained a
dedicated "sparse-checkout" command.

* ds/sparse-cone: (21 commits)
  sparse-checkout: improve OS ls compatibility
  sparse-checkout: respect core.ignoreCase in cone mode
  sparse-checkout: check for dirty status
  sparse-checkout: update working directory in-process for 'init'
  sparse-checkout: cone mode should not interact with .gitignore
  sparse-checkout: write using lockfile
  sparse-checkout: use in-process update for disable subcommand
  sparse-checkout: update working directory in-process
  sparse-checkout: sanitize for nested folders
  unpack-trees: add progress to clear_ce_flags()
  unpack-trees: hash less in cone mode
  sparse-checkout: init and set in cone mode
  sparse-checkout: use hashmaps for cone patterns
  sparse-checkout: add 'cone' mode
  trace2: add region in clear_ce_flags
  sparse-checkout: create 'disable' subcommand
  sparse-checkout: add '--stdin' option to set subcommand
  sparse-checkout: 'set' subcommand
  clone: add --sparse mode
  sparse-checkout: create 'init' subcommand
  ...
2019-12-25 11:21:58 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
94c0956b60 sparse-checkout: create builtin with 'list' subcommand
The sparse-checkout feature is mostly hidden to users, as its
only documentation is supplementary information in the docs for
'git read-tree'. In addition, users need to know how to edit the
.git/info/sparse-checkout file with the right patterns, then run
the appropriate 'git read-tree -mu HEAD' command. Keeping the
working directory in sync with the sparse-checkout file requires
care.

Begin an effort to make the sparse-checkout feature a porcelain
feature by creating a new 'git sparse-checkout' builtin. This
builtin will be the preferred mechanism for manipulating the
sparse-checkout file and syncing the working directory.

The documentation provided is adapted from the "git read-tree"
documentation with a few edits for clarity in the new context.
Extra sections are added to hint toward a future change to
a more restricted pattern set.

Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-22 16:11:43 +09:00
Philippe Blain
762d5b4f46 help: add gitsubmodules to the list of guides
The guide "gitsubmodules" was added in d480345 (submodules: overhaul
documentation, 2017-06-22), but it was not added to
command-list.txt when commit 1b81d8c (help: use command-list.txt
for the source of guides, 2018-05-20) taught "git help" to obtain the
guide list from this file.

Add it now, and capitalize the first word of the description of
gitsubmodules, as was done in 1b81d8c (help: use command-list.txt
for the source of guides, 2018-05-20) for the other guides.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-29 12:41:05 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
1235875594 help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
The third column in command-list.txt determines what group a common
command is printed in 'git help'.

"git reset" is currently in the "work on the current change (see also:
git help everyday)" group. While it's true that "git reset" can
manipulate the index and can be in this group, its unique
functionality is resetting HEAD, which should be the "grow, mark,
tweak history" group.

Moving it there will also avoid the confusion because both 'restore'
and 'reset' are in the same group, next to each other.

While looking at the 'group, mark, tweak history', I realize "git
diff" should not be there. All the commands in this group is about
_changing_ the commit history while "git diff" is a read-only
operation. It fits better in the "examine the history and state" group
(especially when "git status", its close friend, is already there).

This is what we have after the reorganization:

    work on the current change (see also: git help everyday)
       add       Add file contents to the index
       mv        Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink
       restore   Restore working tree files
       rm        Remove files from the working tree and from the index

    examine the history and state (see also: git help revisions)
       bisect    Use binary search to find the commit that introduced a bug
       diff      Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
       grep      Print lines matching a pattern
       log       Show commit logs
       show      Show various types of objects
       status    Show the working tree status

    grow, mark and tweak your common history
       branch    List, create, or delete branches
       commit    Record changes to the repository
       merge     Join two or more development histories together
       rebase    Reapply commits on top of another base tip
       reset     Reset current HEAD to the specified state
       switch    Switch branches
       tag       Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-07 13:04:48 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
80f537f79c doc: promote "git restore"
The new command "git restore" (together with "git switch") are added
to avoid the confusion of one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new
users. They are also helpful to avoid ambiguous context.

For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands.

One nice thing about git-restore is the ability to restore
"everything", so it can be used in "git status" advice instead of both
"git checkout" and "git reset".  The three commands suggested by "git
status" are add, rm and restore.

"git checkout" is also removed from "git help" (i.e. it's no longer
considered a commonly used command)

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-07 13:04:48 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
46e91b663b checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
Previously the switching branch business of 'git checkout' becomes a
new command 'switch'. This adds the restore command for the checking
out paths path.

Similar to git-switch, a new man page is added to describe what the
command will become. The implementation will be updated shortly to
match the man page.

A couple main differences from 'git checkout <paths>':

- 'restore' by default will only update worktree. This matters more
  when --source is specified ('checkout <tree> <paths>' updates both
  worktree and index).

- 'restore --staged' can be used to restore the index. This command
  overlaps with 'git reset <paths>'.

- both worktree and index could also be restored at the same time
  (from a tree) when both --staged and --worktree are specified. This
  overlaps with 'git checkout <tree> <paths>'

- default source for restoring worktree and index is the index and
  HEAD respectively. A different (tree) source could be specified as
  with --source (*).

- when both index and worktree are restored, --source must be
  specified since the default source for these two individual targets
  are different (**)

- --no-overlay is enabled by default, if an entry is missing in the
  source, restoring means deleting the entry

(*) I originally went with --from instead of --source. I still think
  --from is a better name. The short option -f however is already
  taken by force. And I do think short option is good to have, e.g. to
  write -s@ or -s@^ instead of --source=HEAD.

(**) If you sit down and think about it, moving worktree's source from
  the index to HEAD makes sense, but nobody is really thinking it
  through when they type the commands.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-07 13:04:47 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
d787d311db checkout: split part of it to new command 'switch'
"git checkout" doing too many things is a source of confusion for many
users (and it even bites old timers sometimes). To remedy that, the
command will be split into two new ones: switch and restore. The good
old "git checkout" command is still here and will be until all (or most
of users) are sick of it.

See the new man page for the final design of switch. The actual
implementation though is still pretty much the same as "git checkout"
and not completely aligned with the man page. Following patches will
adjust their behavior to match the man page.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:56:59 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
eff5d693ad Merge branch 'du/cherry-is-plumbing'
Doc update to mark "git cherry" as a plumbing command.

* du/cherry-is-plumbing:
  doc: move git-cherry to plumbing
2018-10-26 14:22:14 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
46307e346c Merge branch 'du/get-tar-commit-id-is-plumbing'
Doc update to mark "git get-tar-commit-id" as a plumbing command.

* du/get-tar-commit-id-is-plumbing:
  doc: move git-get-tar-commit-id to plumbing
2018-10-26 14:22:12 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
7db60837be Merge branch 'du/rev-parse-is-plumbing'
Doc update.

* du/rev-parse-is-plumbing:
  doc: move git-rev-parse from porcelain to plumbing
2018-10-26 14:22:12 +09:00
Daniels Umanovskis
61018fe9e0 doc: move git-cherry to plumbing
Also remove git-cherry from Bash completion because plumbing
commands do not belong there.

Signed-off-by: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-12 08:26:49 +09:00
Daniels Umanovskis
ce366a8144 doc: move git-get-tar-commit-id to plumbing
This is definitely a low-level command, it's hard to argue
against it belonging in plumbing.

Signed-off-by: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-12 08:26:37 +09:00
Daniels Umanovskis
ac1f98a0df doc: move git-rev-parse from porcelain to plumbing
git-rev-parse mostly seems like plumbing, and is more usd in
scripts than in regular use. Online it's often mentioned as
a plumbing command. Nonetheless it's listed under porcelain
interrogators in `man git`. It seems appropriate to formally
move git-rev-parse to plumbing interrogators.

Signed-off-by: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-11 15:56:26 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
c00ba2233e Sync 'ds/multi-pack-index' to v2.19.0-rc0
* ds/multi-pack-index: (23 commits)
  midx: clear midx on repack
  packfile: skip loading index if in multi-pack-index
  midx: prevent duplicate packfile loads
  midx: use midx in approximate_object_count
  midx: use existing midx when writing new one
  midx: use midx in abbreviation calculations
  midx: read objects from multi-pack-index
  config: create core.multiPackIndex setting
  midx: write object offsets
  midx: write object id fanout chunk
  midx: write object ids in a chunk
  midx: sort and deduplicate objects from packfiles
  midx: read pack names into array
  multi-pack-index: write pack names in chunk
  multi-pack-index: read packfile list
  packfile: generalize pack directory list
  t5319: expand test data
  multi-pack-index: load into memory
  midx: write header information to lockfile
  multi-pack-index: add 'write' verb
  ...
2018-08-20 15:29:54 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
348ae56cb2 Introduce range-diff to compare iterations of a topic branch
This command does not do a whole lot so far, apart from showing a usage
that is oddly similar to that of `git tbdiff`. And for a good reason:
the next commits will turn `range-branch` into a full-blown replacement
for `tbdiff`.

At this point, we ignore tbdiff's color options, as they will all be
implemented later using diff_options.

Since f318d73915 (generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to
command-list.h, 2018-05-10), every new command *requires* a man page to
build right away, so let's also add a blank man page, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-13 10:44:50 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
6a257f03ba multi-pack-index: add builtin
This new 'git multi-pack-index' builtin will be the plumbing access
for writing, reading, and checking multi-pack-index files. The
initial implementation is a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-20 11:27:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2289880f78 Merge branch 'nd/command-list'
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
bit more consolidated to allow more automation.

* nd/command-list:
  completion: allow to customize the completable command list
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
  Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
  completion: reduce completable command list
  completion: let git provide the completable command list
  command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
  help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
  help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
  git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
  completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
  git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
  git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
  Remove common-cmds.h
  help: use command-list.h for common command list
  generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
  generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-06-01 15:06:37 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
d9fcc7f871 completion: reduce completable command list
The following commands are removed from the complete list:

- annotate             obsolete, discouraged to use
- filter-branch        not often used
- get-tar-commit-id    not often used
- imap-send            not often used
- interpreter-trailers not for interactive use
- name-rev             plumbing, just use git-describe
- p4                   too short and probably not often used (*)
- svn                  same category as p4 (*)
- verify-commit        not often used

(*) to be fair, send-email command which is in the same foreignscminterface
group as svn and p4 does get completion, just because it's used by git
and kernel development. So maybe we should include them.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
84a9713106 completion: let git provide the completable command list
Instead of maintaining a separate list of command classification,
which often could go out of date, let's centralize the information
back in git.

While the function in git-completion.bash implies "list porcelain
commands", that's not exactly what it does. It gets all commands (aka
--list-cmds=main,others) then exclude certain non-porcelain ones. We
could almost recreate this list two lists list-mainporcelain and
others. The non-porcelain-but-included-anyway is added by the third
category list-complete.

Note that the current completion script incorrectly classifies
filter-branch as porcelain and t9902 tests this behavior. We keep it
this way in t9902 because this test does not really care which
particular command is porcelain or plumbing, they're just names.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
fe902f2cef command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
This is intended to help anybody who needs to update command-list.txt.
It gives a brief introduction of all attributes a command can take.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
1b81d8cb19 help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
The help command currently hard codes the list of guides and their
summary in C. Let's move this list to command-list.txt. This lets us
extract summary lines from Documentation/git*.txt. This also
potentially lets us list guides in git.txt, but I'll leave that for
now.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
cfb22a02ab help: use command-list.h for common command list
The previous commit added code generation for all_cmd_desc[] which
includes almost everything we need to generate common command list.
Convert help code to use that array instead and drop common_cmds[] array.

The description of each common command group is removed from
command-list.txt. This keeps this file format simpler. common-cmds.h
will not be generated correctly after this change due to the
command-list.txt format change. But it does not matter and
common-cmds.h will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-10 19:52:47 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
f318d73915 generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
The current generate-cmds.sh generates just enough to print "git help"
output. That is, it only extracts help text for common commands.

The script is now updated to extract help text for all commands and
keep command classification a new file, command-list.h. This will be
useful later:

- "git help -a" could print a short summary of all commands instead of
  just the common ones.

- "git" could produce a list of commands of one or more category. One
  of its use is to reduce another command classification embedded in
  git-completion.bash.

The new file can be generated but is not used anywhere yet. The plan
is we migrate away from common-cmds.h. Then we can kill off
common-cmds.h build rules and generation code (and also delete
duplicate content in command-list.h which we keep for now to not mess
generate-cmds.sh up too much).

PS. The new fixed column requirement on command-list.txt is
technically not needed. But it helps simplify the code a bit at this
stage. We could lift this restriction later if we want to.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-10 19:52:47 +09:00
Derrick Stolee
4ce58ee38d commit-graph: create git-commit-graph builtin
Teach git the 'commit-graph' builtin that will be used for writing and
reading packed graph files. The current implementation is mostly
empty, except for an '--object-dir' option.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-02 14:27:38 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
ed21e30fef relink: retire the command
Back in the olden days, when all objects were loose and rubber boots were
made out of wood, it made sense to try to share (immutable) objects
between repositories.

Ever since the arrival of pack files, it is but an anachronism.

Let's move the script to the contrib/examples/ directory and no longer
offer it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-25 14:42:37 -08:00