Inspired by 24966cd982 ("doc: fix repeated words", 08-09-2019),
I ran "egrep -R "\<([a-zA-Z]+)\> \<\1\>" ./Documentation/*" to
find current cases of repeated words such as "the the" that were
quite clearly typos.
There were many false positives reported, such as "really really"
or valid uses of "that that" which I left alone.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoc renders `--` as em-dash. This is not appropriate for command
names. It also breaks linkgit links to these commands.
Fix git-credential-cache--daemon and git-fsmonitor--daemon. The latter
was added 3248486920 (fsmonitor: document builtin fsmonitor, 2022-03-25)
and included several links. A check for broken links in the HTML docs
turned this up.
Manually inspecting the other Documentation/git-*--*.txt files turned up
the issue in git-credential-cache--daemon.
While here, quote `git credential-cache--daemon` in the synopsis to
match the vast majority of our other documentation.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Built-in fsmonitor (part 2).
* jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2: (30 commits)
t7527: test status with untracked-cache and fsmonitor--daemon
fsmonitor: force update index after large responses
fsmonitor--daemon: use a cookie file to sync with file system
fsmonitor--daemon: periodically truncate list of modified files
t/perf/p7519: add fsmonitor--daemon test cases
t/perf/p7519: speed up test on Windows
t/perf/p7519: fix coding style
t/helper/test-chmtime: skip directories on Windows
t/perf: avoid copying builtin fsmonitor files into test repo
t7527: create test for fsmonitor--daemon
t/helper/fsmonitor-client: create IPC client to talk to FSMonitor Daemon
help: include fsmonitor--daemon feature flag in version info
fsmonitor--daemon: implement handle_client callback
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: implement FSEvent listener on MacOS
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: add MacOS header files for FSEvent
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-win32: implement FSMonitor backend on Windows
fsmonitor--daemon: create token-based changed path cache
fsmonitor--daemon: define token-ids
fsmonitor--daemon: add pathname classification
fsmonitor--daemon: implement 'start' command
...
Document how `core.fsmonitor` can be set to a boolean to enable
or disable the builtin FSMonitor.
Update references to `core.fsmonitor` and `core.fsmonitorHookVersion` and
pointers to `Watchman` to refer to it.
Create `git-fsmonitor--daemon` manual page and describe its features.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make several small updates, to address a few documentation issues
I spotted:
* sparse-checkout focused on "patterns" even though the inputs (and
outputs in the case of `list`) are directories in cone-mode
* The description section of the sparse-checkout documentation
was a bit sparse (no pun intended), and focused more on internal
mechanics rather than end user usage. This made sense in the
early days when the command was even more experimental, but let's
adjust a bit to try to make it more approachable to end users who
may want to consider using it. Keep the scary backward
compatibility warning, though; we're still hard at work trying to
fix up commands to behave reasonably in sparse checkouts.
* both read-tree and update-index tried to describe how to use the
skip-worktree bit, but both predated the sparse-checkout command.
The sparse-checkout command is a far easier mechanism to use and
for users trying to reduce the size of their working tree, we
should recommend users to look at it instead.
* The update-index documentation pointed out that assume-unchanged
and skip-worktree sounded similar but had different purposes.
However, it made no attempt to explain the differences, only to
point out that they were different. Explain the differences.
* The update-index documentation focused much more on (internal?)
implementation details than on end-user usage. Try to explain
its purpose better for users of update-index, rather than
fellow developers trying to work with the SKIP_WORKTREE bit.
* Clarify that when core.sparseCheckout=true, we treat a file's
presence in the working tree as being an override to the
SKIP_WORKTREE bit (i.e. in sparse checkouts when the file is
present we ignore the SKIP_WORKTREE bit).
Note that this commit, like many touching documentation, is best viewed
with the `--color-words` option to diff/log.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"directory cache" (or "directory cache index", "cache") are obsolete
terms which have been superseded by "index". Keeping them in the
documentation may be a source of confusion. This commit replaces
them with the current term, "index", on man pages.
Signed-off-by: Utku Gultopu <ugultopu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is quite common for users to want to ignore the changes to a file
that Git tracks. Common scenarios for this case are IDE settings and
configuration files, which should generally not be tracked and possibly
generated from tracked files using a templating mechanism.
However, users learn about the assume-unchanged and skip-worktree bits
and try to use them to do this anyway. This is problematic, because
when these bits are set, many operations behave as the user expects, but
they usually do not help when git checkout needs to replace a file.
There is no sensible behavior in this case, because sometimes the data
is precious, such as certain configuration files, and sometimes it is
irrelevant data that the user would be happy to discard.
Since this is not a supported configuration and users are prone to
misuse the existing features for unintended purposes, causing general
sadness and confusion, let's document the existing behavior and the
pitfalls in the documentation for git update-index so that users know
they should explore alternate solutions.
In addition, let's provide a recommended solution to dealing with the
common case of configuration files, since there are well-known
approaches used successfully in many environments.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Docfix.
* en/doc-typofix:
Fix spelling errors in no-longer-updated-from-upstream modules
multimail: fix a few simple spelling errors
sha1dc: fix trivial comment spelling error
Fix spelling errors in test commands
Fix spelling errors in messages shown to users
Fix spelling errors in names of tests
Fix spelling errors in comments of testcases
Fix spelling errors in code comments
Fix spelling errors in documentation outside of Documentation/
Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new
While `git update-index` mostly ignores paths referring to index entries
whose skip-worktree bit is set, in b4d1690df1 (Teach Git to respect
skip-worktree bit (reading part), 2009-08-20), for reasons that are not
entirely obvious, the `--remove` option was made special: it _does_
remove index entries even if their skip-worktree bit is set.
Seeing as this behavior has been in place for a decade now, it does not
make sense to change it.
However, in preparation for fixing a bug in `git stash` where it
pretends that skip-worktree entries have actually been removed, we need
a mode where `git update-index` leaves all skip-worktree entries alone,
even if the `--remove` option was passed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back when we removed `git apply --index-info` in 2007, we forgot to
adjust the documentation for update-index that reads its output.
Let's reorder the description of three formats to present the other
two formats that are still generated by git commands before this
format, and stop mentioning `git apply --index-info`.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The following phrase could be interpreted multiple ways:
"To pretend you have a file with mode and sha1 at path"
In particular, I can think of two:
1. Pretend we have some new file, which happens to have a given mode
and sha1
2. Pretend one of the files we are already tracking has a different
mode and sha1 than what it really does
I think people could easily assume either case while reading, but the
example command provided doesn't actually handle the first case, which
caused some minor frustration to at least one user. Modify the example
command so that it correctly handles both cases, and re-order the
wording in a way that makes it more likely folks will assume the first
interpretation. I believe the new example shouldn't pose any obstacles
to those wanting the second interpretation (at worst, they pass an
unnecessary extra flag).
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@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>
Remove the reference to setting core.fsmonitor to `true` (or `false`) as those
are not valid settings.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Note the caveat where 2.17 is stricter about index validation
potentially causing "could not open directory" warnings when git is
upgraded. See the preceding "dir.c: stop ignoring opendir() error in
open_cached_dir()" change.
This caused some mayhem when I upgraded git to a version with this
series at Booking.com, and other users have doubtless enabled the UC
extension and are in for a surprise when they upgrade. Let's give them
a headsup in the docs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the bug tested for in my "status: add a failing test showing
a core.untrackedCache bug" and fixed in Duy's "dir.c: fix missing dir
invalidation in untracked code".
Since this is very likely something others will encounter in the
future on older versions, and it's not obvious how to fix it let's
document both that it exists, and how to "fix" it with a one-off
command.
As noted in that commit, even though this bug gets the untracked cache
into a bad state, we have not yet found a case where this is user
visible, and thus it makes sense for these docs to focus on the
symlink case only.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other
operations that need to see which paths have been modified.
* bp/fsmonitor:
fsmonitor: preserve utf8 filenames in fsmonitor-watchman log
fsmonitor: read entirety of watchman output
fsmonitor: MINGW support for watchman integration
fsmonitor: add a performance test
fsmonitor: add a sample integration script for Watchman
fsmonitor: add test cases for fsmonitor extension
split-index: disable the fsmonitor extension when running the split index test
fsmonitor: add a test tool to dump the index extension
update-index: add fsmonitor support to update-index
ls-files: Add support in ls-files to display the fsmonitor valid bit
fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension.
fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files.
update-index: add a new --force-write-index option
preload-index: add override to enable testing preload-index
bswap: add 64 bit endianness helper get_be64
This includes the core.fsmonitor setting, the fsmonitor integration hook,
and the fsmonitor index extension.
Also add documentation for the new fsmonitor options to ls-files and
update-index.
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Following are several fixes for duplicated words ("of of") and one
case where an extra article ("a") slipped in.
Signed-off-by: Evan Zacks <zackse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Follow the Oxford style, which says to use "up-to-date" before the noun,
but "up to date" after it. Don't change plumbing (specifically
send-pack.c, but transport.c (git push) also has the same string).
This was produced by grepping for "up-to-date" and "up to date". It
turned out we only had to edit in one direction, removing the hyphens.
Fix a typo in Documentation/git-diff-index.txt while we're there.
Reported-by: Jeffrey Manian <jeffrey.manian@gmail.com>
Reported-by: STEVEN WHITE <stevencharleswhitevoices@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.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>
When we know that mtime on directory as given by the environment
is usable for the purpose of untracked cache, we may want the
untracked cache to be always used without any mtime test or
kernel name check being performed.
Also when we know that mtime is not usable for the purpose of
untracked cache, for example because the repo is shared over a
network file system, we may want the untracked-cache to be
automatically removed from the index.
Allow the user to express such preference by setting the
'core.untrackedCache' configuration variable, which can take
'keep', 'false', or 'true' and default to 'keep'.
When read_index_from() is called, it now adds or removes the
untracked cache in the index to respect the value of this
variable. So it does nothing if the value is `keep` or if the
variable is unset; it adds the untracked cache if the value is
`true`; and it removes the cache if the value is `false`.
`git update-index --[no-|force-]untracked-cache` still adds the
untracked cache to, or removes it, from the index, but this
shows a warning if it goes against the value of
core.untrackedCache, because the next time the index is read
the untracked cache will be added or removed if the
configuration is set to do so.
Also `--untracked-cache` used to check that the underlying
operating system and file system change `st_mtime` field of a
directory if files are added or deleted in that directory. But
because those tests take a long time, `--untracked-cache` no
longer performs them. Instead, there is now
`--test-untracked-cache` to perform the tests. This change
makes `--untracked-cache` the same as `--force-untracked-cache`.
This last change is backward incompatible and should be
mentioned in the release notes.
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
read-cache: Duy'sfixup
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is nice to just be able to test if untracked cache is
supported without enabling it.
Helped-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split index related options should appear in the 'SYNOPSIS'
section.
These options are already documented in the 'OPTIONS' section.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Untracked cache related options should appear in the synopsis.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fixes long-standing misunderstanding of what assume-unchanged is
about. Some text near what is removed by the bottom patch may also
have to be removed.
* po/doc-assume-unchanged:
gitignore.txt: do not suggest assume-unchanged
doc: make clear --assume-unchanged's user contract
Many users misunderstand the --assume-unchanged contract, believing
it means Git won't look at the flagged file.
Be explicit that the --assume-unchanged contract is by the user that
they will NOT change the file so that Git does not need to look (and
expend, for example, lstat(2) cycles)
Mentioning "Git stops checking" does not help the reader, as it is
only one possible consequence of what that assumption allows Git to
do, but
(1) there are things other than "stop checking" that Git can do
based on that assumption; and
(2) Git is not obliged to stop checking; it merely is allowed to.
Also, this is a single flag bit, correct the plural to singular, and
the verb, accordingly.
Drop the stale and incorrect information about "poor-man's ignore",
which is not what this flag bit is about at all.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:
- Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
- Spell Linux as Capitalized;
- Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The single-parameter form is described as the preferred way. Separate
arguments are only supported for backward compatibility. Update the
example to the recommended form.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you have a large work tree but only make changes in a subset, then
$GIT_DIR/index's size should be stable after a while. If you change
branches that touch something else, $GIT_DIR/index's size may grow
large that it becomes as slow as the unified index. Do --split-index
again occasionally to force all changes back to the shared index and
keep $GIT_DIR/index small.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--cacheinfo" option is unusual in that it takes three option
parameters. An option with an optional parameter is bad enough. An
option with multiple parameters is simply insane.
Introduce a new syntax that takes these three things concatenated
together with a comma, which makes the command line syntax more
uniform across subcommands, while retaining the traditional syntax
for backward compatiblity.
If we were designing the "update-index" subcommand from scratch
today, it may probably have made sense to make this option (and
possibly others) a command mode option that does not take any option
parameter (hence no need for arg-help). But we do not live in such
an ideal world, and as far as I can tell, the command still supports
(and must support) mixed command modes in a single invocation, e.g.
$ git update-index path1 --add path2 \
--cacheinfo 100644 $(git hash-object --stdin -w <path3) path3 \
path4
must make sure path1 is already in the index and update all of these
four paths. So this is probably as far as we can go to fix this issue
without risking to break people's existing scripts.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function.
When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.8.1:
bundle: Add colons to list headings in "verify"
bundle: Fix "verify" output if history is complete
Documentation: filter-branch env-filter example
git-filter-branch.txt: clarify ident variables usage
git-compat-util.h: Provide missing netdb.h definitions
describe: Document --match pattern format
Documentation/githooks: Explain pre-rebase parameters
update-index: list supported idx versions and their features
diff-options: unconfuse description of --color
read-cache.c: use INDEX_FORMAT_{LB,UB} in verify_hdr()
index-format.txt: mention of v4 is missing in some places
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the "--index-version <n>" parameter, write the index out in the
specified version. With this, an index file that is written in newer
format (say v4) can be downgraded to be read by older versions of Git.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'ls-files' refers to 'update-index' to show how the 'assume unchanged'
bit can be seen. This makes the connection 'bi-directional'.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of these sections is generally to:
1. Give credit where it is due.
2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
file bug reports.
But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.
So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.
Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
* sn/doc-opt-notation:
Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings
Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string
Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation
Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation
Use angles for placeholders consistently
Jacob Stopak
Todd Zullinger
Junio C Hamano
Jeff Hostetler
Elijah Newren
Utku Gultopu
brian m. carlson
Johannes Schindelin
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Ben Peart
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Evan Zacks
Martin Ågren
Christian Couder
Matthieu Moy
Philip Oakley
Thomas Ackermann
Steffen Prohaska
Felipe Contreras
Stefan Naewe
Jeff King
Bert Wesarg