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>
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>
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
...
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
"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>
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>
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>
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>
* 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
...
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>
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>
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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
"git checkout [<tree-ish>] <paths>" spent unnecessary cycles
checking if the current branch was checked out elsewhere, when we
know we are not switching the branches ourselves.
* nd/multiple-work-trees:
worktree: new place for "git prune --worktrees"
checkout: don't check worktrees when not necessary
Commit 23af91d (prune: strategies for linked checkouts - 2014-11-30)
adds "--worktrees" to "git prune" without realizing that "git prune" is
for object database only. This patch moves the same functionality to a
new command "git worktree".
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
command-list.sh, retired in the previous patch, was the only
consumer of the "common" tag, so drop this now-unnecessary
attribute.
before:
git-add mainporcelain common worktree
after:
git-add mainporcelain worktree
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to display common commands in
groups rather than alphabetically. As a first step, define the
groups in a new block, and then assign a group to each
common command.
Add a block at the beginning of command-list.txt:
init start a working area (see also: git help tutorial)
worktree work on the current change (see also:[...]
info examine the history and state (see also: git [...]
history grow, mark and tweak your history
remote collaborate (see also: git help workflows)
storing information about common commands group, then map each common
command to a group:
git-add mainporcelain common worktree
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Emma Jane Hogbin Westby <emma.westby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to classify common commands by
group. Toward this end, a subsequent patch will add a new "common
groups" section to command-list.txt preceding the actual command list.
As preparation, teach existing command-list.txt parsing machinery, which
doesn't care about grouping, to skip over this upcoming "common groups"
section.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The overwhelming majority of lines were single space aligned,
except a few ones aligned by tabs. Fix inconsistency by using
single space everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While at it add git-interpret-trailers to "command-list.txt".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit signatures can be verified using "git show -s --show-signature"
or the "%G?" pretty format and parsing the output, which is well suited
for user inspection, but not for scripting.
Provide a command "verify-commit" which is analogous to "verify-tag": It
returns 0 for good signatures and non-zero otherwise, has the gpg output
on stderr and (optionally) the commit object on stdout, sans the
signature, just like "verify-tag" does.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This has been deprecated since commit 87194d2 (Deprecate peek-remote,
2007-11-24), included in version 1.5.4.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git lost-found" has been deprecated since commit fc8b5f0 (Deprecate
git-lost-found, 2007-11-08), included in version 1.5.4.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git tar-tree" has been a thin wrapper around "git archive" since commit
fd88d9c (Remove upload-tar and make git-tar-tree a thin wrapper to
git-archive, 2006-09-24), which also made it print a message indicating
that git-tar-tree is deprecated.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The release notes for Git 1.5.4 say that "git repo-config" will be
removed in the next feature release. Since Git 2.0 is nearly here,
remove it.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce command check-mailmap, similar to check-attr and check-ignore,
which allows direct testing of .mailmap configuration.
As plumbing accessible to scripts and other porcelain, check-mailmap
publishes the stable, well-tested .mailmap functionality employed by
built-in Git commands. Consequently, script authors need not
re-implement .mailmap functionality manually, thus avoiding potential
quirks and behavioral differences.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
files.
The variable names may want to get cleaned up but that can be done
in-tree.
* as/check-ignore:
clean.c, ls-files.c: respect encapsulation of exclude_list_groups
t0008: avoid brace expansion
add git-check-ignore sub-command
setup.c: document get_pathspec()
add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes
Conflicts:
builtin/ls-files.c
dir.c
These commands were never added to the command-list. Adding
them makes "make check-docs" run without complaint.
While we're at it, let's capitalize the first letter of
their one-line summaries to match the rest of the git
manpages.
The credential-cache--daemon command is somewhat special. It
is already ignored by check-docs because it contains a "--",
marking it as a non-interesting implementation detail. It
is, in fact, documented, but since the documentation
basically just redirects you to a more appropriate command
anyway, let's explicitly omit it so it is not mentioned in
git(1).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit e30b2feb1b (Jun 24 2012, add 'git credential' plumbing command)
forgot to add git-credential to command-list.txt, hence the command was
not appearing in the documentation, making it hard for users to discover
it.
While we're there, capitalize the description line for git-crendential
for consistency with other commands.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output.
By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1)
* nd/columns:
tag: add --column
column: support piping stdout to external git-column process
status: add --column
branch: add --column
help: reuse print_columns() for help -a
column: add dense layout support
t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1
column: add columnar layout
Stop starting pager recursively
Add column layout skeleton and git-column
A column option string consists of many token separated by either
a space or a comma. A token belongs to one of three groups:
- enabling: always, never and auto
- layout mode: currently plain (which does not layout at all)
- other future tuning flags
git-column can be used to pipe output to from a command that wants
column layout, but not to mess with its own output code. Simpler output
code can be changed to use column layout code directly.
Thanks-to: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move git-p4 out of contrib/fast-import into the main code base,
aside other foreign SCM tools.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add link to gitweb(1) in "SEE ALSO" section of git-instaweb(1) manpage,
and "Ancillary Commands" section of git(1) manpage (the latter by the
way of command-list.txt file).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano
Philippe Blain
Emily Shaffer
Derrick Stolee
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Daniels Umanovskis
Johannes Schindelin
Derrick Stolee
Sébastien Guimmara
Eric Sunshine
Christian Couder
Michael J Gruber
John Keeping
Adam Spiers
Jeff King
Matthieu Moy
Pete Wyckoff
Jakub Narebski