Document the DWYM behavior that kicks in when pushing to an
unqualified <dst> reference.
This behavior was added in f88395ac23 ("Renaming push.", 2005-08-03)
and f8aae12034 ("push: allow unqualified dest refspecs to DWIM",
2008-04-23), and somewhat documented in bb9fca80ce ("git-push: Update
description of refspecs and add examples", 2007-06-09), but has never
been fully documented.
The closest we got to having documented it was the description in the
commit message for f8aae12034, which I've borrowed from in writing
this documentation.
Let's also refer to this new documentation from the existing
documentation we had (added in bb9fca80ce).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a formatting error introduced in my recently landed
fe802bd21e ("push doc: correct lies about how push refspecs work",
2018-08-31).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's complex rules governing whether a push is allowed to take
place depending on whether we're pushing to refs/heads/*, refs/tags/*
or refs/not-that/*. See is_branch() in refs.c, and the various
assertions in refs/files-backend.c. (e.g. "trying to write non-commit
object %s to branch '%s'").
This documentation has never been quite correct, but went downhill
after dbfeddb12e ("push: require force for refs under refs/tags/",
2012-11-29) when we started claiming that <dst> couldn't be a tag
object, which is incorrect. After some of the logic in that patch was
changed in 256b9d70a4 ("push: fix "refs/tags/ hierarchy cannot be
updated without --force"", 2013-01-16) the docs weren't updated, and
we've had some version of documentation that confused whether <src>
was a tag or not with whether <dst> would accept either an annotated
tag object or the commit it points to.
This makes the intro somewhat more verbose & complex, perhaps we
should have a shorter description here and split the full complexity
into a dedicated section. Very few users will find themselves needing
to e.g. push blobs or trees to refs/custom-namespace/* (or blobs or
trees at all), and that could be covered separately as an advanced
topic.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change will be followed-up with a subsequent change where I'll
change both sides of this mention of "tag <tag>" to be something
that's best read without interruption.
To make that change smaller, let's move this mention of "tag <tag>" to
the end of the "<refspec>..." section, it's now somewhere in the
middle.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Saying that "git push <remote> <src>:<dst>" won't push a merger of
<src> and <dst> to <dst> is clear from the rest of the context here,
so mentioning it is redundant, furthermore the mention of "EXAMPLES
below" isn't specific or useful.
This phrase was originally added in 149f6ddfb3 ("Docs: Expand
explanation of the use of + in git push refspecs.", 2009-02-19), as
can be seen in that change the point of the example being cited was to
show that force pushing can leave unreferenced commits on the
remote. It's enough that we explain that in its own section, it
doesn't need to be mentioned here.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Misc doc fixes.
* ah/misc-doc-updates:
doc: normalize [--options] to [options] in git-diff
doc: add note about shell quoting to revision.txt
git-svn: remove ''--add-author-from' for 'commit-diff'
doc: add '-d' and '-o' for 'git push'
doc: clarify ignore rules for git ls-files
doc: align 'diff --no-index' in text and synopsis
doc: improve formatting in githooks.txt
Add the missing `-o` shortcut for `--push-option` to the synopsis.
Add the missing `-d` shortcut for `--delete` in the main section.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When formatted as a man page, 1st section header is always in upper
case even if we write it otherwise. Make all 1st section headers
uppercase to keep it close to the final output.
This does affect html since case is kept there, but I still think it's
a good idea to maintain a consistent style for 1st section headers.
Some sections perhaps should become second sections instead, where
case is kept, and for better organization. I will update if anyone has
suggestions about this.
While at there I also make some header more consistent (e.g. examples
vs example) and fix a couple minor things here and there.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rather than using a backslash in \--foo, with or without ''-quoting,
write `--foo` for better rendering. As explained in commit 1c262bb7b
(doc: convert \--option to --option, 2015-05-13), the backslash is not
needed for the versions of AsciiDoc that we support, but is rendered
literally by Asciidoctor.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Push options need to be given explicitly, via the command line as "git
push --push-option <option>". Add the config option push.pushOption,
which is a multi-valued option, containing push options that are sent
by default.
When push options are set in the lower-priority configulation file
(e.g. /etc/gitconfig, or $HOME/.gitconfig), they can be unset later in
the more specific repository config by the empty string.
Add tests and update documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Marius Paliga <marius.paliga@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code clean-up.
* ma/parse-maybe-bool:
parse_decoration_style: drop unused argument `var`
treewide: deprecate git_config_maybe_bool, use git_parse_maybe_bool
config: make git_{config,parse}_maybe_bool equivalent
config: introduce git_parse_maybe_bool_text
t5334: document that git push --signed=1 does not work
Doc/git-{push,send-pack}: correct --sign= to --signed=
Since we're about to touch the behavior of --signed=, do this as a
preparatory step.
The documentation mentions --sign=, and it works. But that's just
because it's an unambiguous abbreviation of --signed, which is how it is
actually implemented. This was added in commit 30261094 ("push: support
signing pushes iff the server supports it", 2015-08-19). Back when that
series was developed [1] [2], there were suggestions about both --sign=
and --signed=. The final implementation settled on --signed=, but some
of the documentation and commit messages ended up using --sign=.
The option is referred to as --signed= in Documentation/config.txt
(under push.gpgSign).
One could argue that we have promised --sign for two years now, so we
should implement it as an alias for --signed. (Then we might also
deprecate the latter, something which was considered already then.) That
would be a slightly more intrusive change.
This minor issue would only be a problem once we want to implement some
other option --signfoo, but the earlier we do this step, the better.
[1] v1-thread:
https://public-inbox.org/git/1439492451-11233-1-git-send-email-dborowitz@google.com/T/#u
[2] v2-thread:
https://public-inbox.org/git/1439998007-28719-1-git-send-email-dborowitz@google.com/T/#m6533a6c4707a30b0d81e86169ff8559460cbf6eb
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document & test for cases where there are two remotes pointing to the
same URL, and a background fetch & subsequent `git push
--force-with-lease` shouldn't clobber un-updated references we haven't
fetched.
Some editors like Microsoft's VSC have a feature to auto-fetch in the
background, this bypasses the protections offered by
--force-with-lease & --force-with-lease=<refname>, as noted in the
documentation being added here.
See the 'Tools that do an automatic fetch defeat "git push
--force-with-lease"' (<1491617750.2149.10.camel@mattmccutchen.net>)
git mailing list thread for more details. Jakub Narębski suggested
this method of adding another remote to bypass this edge case,
document that & add a test for it.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add documentation for the `--recurse-submodules=only` option of
git-push. The feature was added in commit 225e8bf (add option to
push only submodules).
Signed-off-by: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page described two
ways for a client to steal data from a server that wasn't intended to be
shared. Similar attacks can be performed by a server on a client, so
adapt the section to cover both directions and add it to the
git-fetch(1), git-pull(1), and git-push(1) man pages. Also add
references to this section from the documentation of server
configuration options that attempt to control data leakage but may not
be fully effective.
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git push --force-with-lease" already had enough logic to allow
ensuring that such a push results in creation of a ref (i.e. the
receiving end did not have another push from sideways that would be
discarded by our force-pushing), but didn't expose this possibility
to the users. It does so now.
* jk/push-force-with-lease-creation:
t5533: make it pass on case-sensitive filesystems
push: allow pushing new branches with --force-with-lease
push: add shorthand for --force-with-lease branch creation
Documentation/git-push: fix placeholder formatting
"git push" learned to accept and pass extra options to the
receiving end so that hooks can read and react to them.
* sb/push-options:
add a test for push options
push: accept push options
receive-pack: implement advertising and receiving push options
push options: {pre,post}-receive hook learns about push options
Allow the empty string to stand in for the null SHA-1 when pushing a new
branch, like we do when deleting branches.
This means that the following command ensures that `new-branch` is
created on the remote (that is, is must not already exist):
git push --force-with-lease=new-branch: origin new-branch
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Format the placeholder as monospace to match other occurrences in this
file and obey CodingGuidelines.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This implements everything that is required on the client side to make use
of push options from the porcelain push command.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of
forward-quotes, for long options.
This was obtained with:
perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt
and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to
describe rewritten history).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change configuration variables that where in italic style
to monospace font according to the guideline. It was obtained with
grep '[[:alpha:]]*\.[[:alpha:]]*::$' config.txt | \
sed -e 's/::$//' -e 's/\./\\\\./' | \
xargs -iP perl -pi -e "s/\'P\'/\`P\`/g" ./*.txt
Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
not set.
* mm/push-simple-doc:
Documentation/git-push: document that 'simple' is the default
The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
not set.
* mm/push-simple-doc:
Documentation/git-push: document that 'simple' is the default
"git fetch" and friends that make network connections can now be
told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6).
* ew/force-ipv4:
connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operations
The default behavior is well documented already in git-config(1), but
git-push(1) itself did not mention it at all. For users willing to learn
how "git push" works but not how to configure it, this makes the
documentation cumbersome to read.
Make the git-push(1) page self-contained by adding a short summary of
what 'push.default=simple' does, early in the page.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes it is necessary to force IPv4-only or IPv6-only operation
on networks where name lookups may return a non-routable address and
stall remote operations.
The ssh(1) command has an equivalent switches which we may pass when
we run them. There may be old ssh(1) implementations out there
which do not support these switches; they should report the
appropriate error in that case.
rsync support is untouched for now since it is deprecated and
scheduled to be removed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.
* ps/push-delete-option:
push: add '-d' as shorthand for '--delete'
push: add '--delete' flag to synopsis
"git push" takes "--delete" but does not take a short form "-d",
unlike "git branch" which does take both. Bring consistency
between them.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The delete flag is not mentioned in the synopsis of `git-push`.
Add the flag to make it more discoverable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --recurse-submodules command line parameter has existed for some
time but it has no config file equivalent.
Following the style of the corresponding parameter for git fetch, let's
invent push.recurseSubmodules to provide a default for this
parameter. This also requires the addition of --recurse-submodules=no to
allow the configuration to be overridden on the command line when
required.
The most straightforward way to implement this appears to be to make
push use code in submodule-config in a similar way to fetch.
Signed-off-by: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Again, we do not usually process release notes with AsciiDoc, but it
is better to be consistent.
This incidentally reveals breakages left by an ancient 5e00439f
(Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto,
2012-10-23). The index-format documentation was originally written
to be read as straight text without formatting and when the commit
forced everything in Documentation/ to go through AsciiDoc, it did
not do any adjustment--hence the double-dashes will be seen in the
resulting text that is rendered as preformatted fixed-width without
converted into em-dashes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new flag --sign=true (or --sign=false), which means the same
thing as the original --signed (or --no-signed). Give it a third
value --sign=if-asked to tell push and send-pack to send a push
certificate if and only if the server advertised a push cert nonce.
If not, warn the user that their push may not be as secure as they
thought.
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Like --atomic, --signed will fail if the server does not advertise the
necessary capability. In addition, it requires gpg on the client side.
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.
* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
doc: convert \--option to --option
doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
doc: fix length of underlined section-title
doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
Older versions of AsciiDoc would convert the "--" in
"--option" into an emdash. According to 565e135
(Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc, 2011-06-29),
this is fixed in AsciiDoc 8.3.0. According to bf17126, we
don't support anything older than 8.4.1 anyway, so we no
longer need to worry about quoting.
Even though this does not change the output at all, there
are a few good reasons to drop the quoting:
1. It makes the source prettier to read.
2. We don't quote consistently, which may be confusing when
reading the source.
3. Asciidoctor does not like the quoting, and renders a
literal backslash.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The help text for the --force-with-lease option to git-push
does not parse cleanly. Clean up the wording and syntax to
be more sensible. Also remove redundant information in the
"--force-with-lease alone" description.
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Restructure "git push" codepath to make it easier to add new
configuration bits and then add push.followTags configuration that
turns --follow-tags option on by default.
* jk/push-config:
push: allow --follow-tags to be set by config push.followTags
cmd_push: pass "flags" pointer to config callback
cmd_push: set "atomic" bit directly
git_push_config: drop cargo-culted wt_status pointer
The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option
easily misunderstood.
* mg/push-repo-option-doc:
git-push.txt: document the behavior of --repo
The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option
easily misunderstood.
* mg/push-repo-option-doc:
git-push.txt: document the behavior of --repo
"git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.
* sb/atomic-push:
Document receive.advertiseatomic
t5543-atomic-push.sh: add basic tests for atomic pushes
push.c: add an --atomic argument
send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argument
send-pack: rename ref_update_to_be_sent to check_to_send_update
receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
receive-pack.c: add execute_commands_atomic function
receive-pack.c: move transaction handling in a central place
receive-pack.c: move iterating over all commands outside execute_commands
receive-pack.c: die instead of error in case of possible future bug
receive-pack.c: shorten the execute_commands loop over all commands
As per the code, the --repo <repo> option is equivalent to the
<repo> argument to 'git push', but somehow it was documented as
something that is more than that. [It exists for historical
reasons, back from the time when options had to come before
arguments.]
Say so. [But not that.]
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a command line argument to the git push command to request atomic
pushes.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Junio C Hamano
Andreas Heiduk
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Martin Ågren
Marius Paliga
Cornelius Weig
Matt McCutchen
John Keeping
Stefan Beller
Matthieu Moy
Tom Russello
Eric Wong
Patrick Steinhardt
Mike Crowe
Dave Borowitz
Jeff King
Phil Hord
Dave Olszewski
Michael J Gruber
Ronnie Sahlberg