"git restore --staged" without --source does not make much sense since
by default we restore from the index. Instead of copying the index to
itself, set the default source to HEAD in this case, yielding behavior
that matches "git reset -- <paths>".
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git-checkout rejects plenty of invalid option combinations. Since
git-checkout is equivalent of either
git restore --source --staged --worktree
or
git restore --worktree
that still leaves the new mode 'git restore --index' unprotected. Reject
some more invalid option combinations.
The other new mode 'restore --source --worktree' does not need anything
else.
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'git checkout <tree-ish> <pathspec>' updates both index and
worktree. But updating the index when you want to restore worktree
files is non-intuitive. The index contains the data ready for the next
commit, and there's no indication that the user will want to commit
the restored versions.
'git restore' therefore by default only touches worktree. The user has
the option to update either the index with
git restore --staged --source=<tree> <path> (1)
or update both with
git restore --staged --worktree --source=<tree> <path> (2)
PS. Orignally I wanted to make worktree update default and form (1)
would add index update while also updating the worktree, and the user
would need to do "--staged --no-worktree" to update index only. But it
looks really confusing that "--staged" option alone updates both. So
now form (2) is used for both, which reads much more obvious.
PPS. Yes form (1) overlaps with "git reset <rev> <path>". I don't know
if we can ever turn "git reset" back to "_always_ reset HEAD and
optionally do something else".
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Overlay mode is considered confusing when the command is about
restoring files on worktree. Disable it by default. The user can still
turn it on, or use 'git checkout' which still has overlay mode on by
default.
While at it, make the check in checkout_branch() stricter. Neither
--overlay or --no-overlay should be accepted in branch switching mode.
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"git restore" without arguments does not make much sense when
it's about restoring files (what files now?). We could default to
either
git restore .
or
git restore :/
Neither is intuitive. Make the user always give pathspec, force the
user to think the scope of restore they want because this is a
destructive operation.
"git restore -p" without pathspec is an exception to this
because it really is a separate mode. It will be treated as running
patch mode on the whole worktree.
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This is another departure from 'git checkout' syntax, which uses -- to
separate ref and pathspec. The observation is restore (or "git
checkout -- <pathspec>") is most often used to restore some files from
the index. If this is correct, we can simplify it by taking away the
ref, so that we can write
git restore some-file
without worrying about some-file being a ref and whether we need to do
git restore -- some-file
for safety. If the source of the restore comes from a tree, it will be
in the form of an option with value, e.g.
git restore --source=this-tree some-file
This is of course longer to type than using "--". But hopefully it
will not be used as often, and it is clearly easier to understand.
dwim_new_local_branch is no longer set (or unset) in cmd_restore_files()
because it's irrelevant because we don't really care about dwim-ing.
With accept_ref being unset, dwim can't happen.
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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.
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Switching and creating branches always involves knowing the
<start-point> to begin the new branch from. Sometimes, people want to
create a new branch that does not have any commits yet; --orphan is a
flag to allow that.
--orphan overrides the default of HEAD for <start-point> instead causing
us to start from an empty history with all tracked files removed from
the index and working tree. The use of --orphan is incompatible with
specifying a <start-point>.
A note on the implementation. An alternative is just create a dummy
commit in-core with empty tree and switch to it. But there's a chance
the commit's SHA-1 may end up somewhere permanent like reflog. It's best
to make sure "commit" pointer is NULL to avoid it.
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Unless you know what you're doing, switching to another branch to do
something then switching back could be confusing. Worse, you may even
forget that you're in the middle of something. By the time you realize,
you may have done a ton of work and it gets harder to go back.
A new option --ignore-in-progress was considered but dropped because it
was not exactly clear what should happen. Sometimes you can switch away
and get back safely and resume the operation. Sometimes not. And the
git-checkout behavior is automatically clear merge/revert/cherry-pick,
which makes it a bit even more confusing [1].
We may revisit and add this option in the future. But for now play it
safe and not allow it (you can't even skip this check with --force). The
user is suggested to cancel the operation by themselves (and hopefully
they do consider the consequences, not blindly type the command), or to
create a separate worktree instead of switching. The third option is
the good old "git checkout", but it's not mentioned.
[1] CACsJy8Axa5WsLSjiscjnxVK6jQHkfs-gH959=YtUvQkWriAk5w@mail.gmail.com
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When we switch from one branch to another, it makes sense to show a
summary of local changes since there could be conflicts, or some files
left modified.... When switch is used solely for creating a new
branch (and "switch" to the same commit) or detaching, we don't really
need to show anything.
"git checkout" does it anyway for historical reasons. But we can start
with a clean slate with switch and don't have to.
This essentially reverts fa655d8411 (checkout: optimize "git checkout
-b <new_branch>" - 2018-08-16) and make it default for switch,
but also for -B and --detach. Users of big repos are encouraged to
move to switch.
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is already the default in git-checkout. The real change in here is
just minor cleanup. The main excuse is to explain why dwim is kept default.
Contrary to detach mode that is easy to get into and confusing to get
back out. Automatically creating a tracking branch often does not kick
in as often (you would need a branch of the same name on a remote). And
since the branch creation is reported clearly, the user should be able
to undo/delete it if it's unwanted.
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"git checkout" automatically detaches branches and --detach is not
that useful (--no-detach is more likely). But for "switch", you
may want to use it more often once you're used to detached HEAD. This
of course adds -d to git-checkout but it does not harm (yet?) to do it.
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"git checkout <commit>" will checkout the commit in question and
detach HEAD from the current branch. It is naturally a right thing to
do once you get git references. But detached HEAD is a scary concept
to new users because we show a lot of warnings and stuff, and it could
be hard to get out of (until you know better).
To keep switch a bit more friendly to new users, we only allow
entering detached HEAD mode when --detach is given. "git
switch" must take a branch (unless you create a new branch,
then of course switch can take any commit-ish)
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"git checkout" can be executed without any arguments. What it does is
not exactly great: it switches from HEAD to HEAD and shows worktree
modification as a side effect.
Make switch reject this case. Just use "git status" if you want
that side effect. For switch, you have to either
- really switch a branch
- (explicitly) detach from the current branch
- create a new branch
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This command is about switching branch (or creating a new one) and
should not accept pathspec. This helps simplify ambiguation
handling. The other two ("git checkout" and "git restore") of
course do accept pathspec as before.
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This option is ancient. Nowadays reflog is enabled by default and
automatically created for new branches. Keep it in git-checkout only.
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--discard-changes is a better name than --force for this option since
it's what really happens. --force is turned to an alias for
--discard-changes. But it's meant to be an alias for potentially more
force options in the future.
Side note. It's not obvious from the patch but --discard-changes also
affects submodules if --recurse-submodules is used. The knob to force
updating submodules is hidden behind unpack-trees.c
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The shortcut of these options do not make much sense when used with
switch. And their descriptions are also tied to checkout. Move -b/-B
to cmd_checkout() and new -c/-C with the same functionality in
cmd_switch_branch()
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"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.
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This is a preparation step for introducing new commands that do parts
of what checkout does. There will be two new commands, one is about
switching branches, detaching HEAD... one about checking out
paths. These share the a subset of command line options. The rest of
command line options are separate.
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These local variables are referenced by struct option[]. This struct
will soon be broken down, moved away and we can't rely on local
variables anymore. Move these two to struct checkout_opts in
preparation for that.
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"opts" will soon be moved out of cmd_checkout(). To keep changes in
that patch smaller, convert "opts" to a pointer and keep the real
thing behind "real_opts".
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This is in preparation for the new command restore, which also
needs to parse opts->source_tree but does not need all the
disambiguation logic.
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The include list becomes very long and frankly a bit unorganized. With
the exception of builtin.h, cache.h or git-compat-util.h which have to
come first, keep the rest sorted.
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After a successful switch, if a merge, cherry-pick or revert is ongoing,
it is canceled. This behavior has been with us from the very early
beginning, soon after git-merge was created but never actually
documented [1]. It may be a good idea to be transparent and tell the
user if some operation is canceled.
I consider this a better way of telling the user than just adding a
sentence or two in git-checkout.txt, which will be mostly ignored
anyway.
PS. Originally I wanted to print more details like
warning: cancelling an in-progress merge from <SHA-1>
which may allow some level of undo if the user wants to. But that seems
a lot more work. Perhaps it can be improved later if people still want
that.
[1] ... and I will try not to argue whether it is a sensible behavior.
There is some more discussion here if people are interested:
CACsJy8Axa5WsLSjiscjnxVK6jQHkfs-gH959=YtUvQkWriAk5w@mail.gmail.com
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A more structured way to obtain execution trace has been added.
* jh/trace2:
trace2: add for_each macros to clang-format
trace2: t/helper/test-trace2, t0210.sh, t0211.sh, t0212.sh
trace2:data: add subverb for rebase
trace2:data: add subverb to reset command
trace2:data: add subverb to checkout command
trace2:data: pack-objects: add trace2 regions
trace2:data: add trace2 instrumentation to index read/write
trace2:data: add trace2 hook classification
trace2:data: add trace2 transport child classification
trace2:data: add trace2 sub-process classification
trace2:data: add editor/pager child classification
trace2:data: add trace2 regions to wt-status
trace2: collect Windows-specific process information
trace2: create new combined trace facility
trace2: Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt
"git checkout --no-overlay" can be used to trigger a new mode of
checking out paths out of the tree-ish, that allows paths that
match the pathspec that are in the current index and working tree
and are not in the tree-ish.
* tg/checkout-no-overlay:
revert "checkout: introduce checkout.overlayMode config"
checkout: introduce checkout.overlayMode config
checkout: introduce --{,no-}overlay option
checkout: factor out mark_cache_entry_for_checkout function
checkout: clarify comment
read-cache: add invalidate parameter to remove_marked_cache_entries
entry: support CE_WT_REMOVE flag in checkout_entry
entry: factor out unlink_entry function
move worktree tests to t24*
"git checkout [<tree-ish>] <pathspec>" started reporting the number
of paths that have got updated recently, but the same messages were
given when "git checkout -m <pathspec>" to unresolve conflicts that
have just been resolved. The message now reports these unresolved
paths separately from the paths that are checked out from the index.
* nd/checkout-noisy-unmerge:
checkout: count and print -m paths separately
checkout: update count-checkouts messages
The assumption to work on the single "in-core index" instance has
been reduced from the library-ish part of the codebase.
* nd/the-index-final:
cache.h: flip NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS switch
read-cache.c: remove the_* from index_has_changes()
merge-recursive.c: remove implicit dependency on the_repository
merge-recursive.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
sha1-name.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
read-cache.c: replace update_index_if_able with repo_&
read-cache.c: kill read_index()
checkout: avoid the_index when possible
repository.c: replace hold_locked_index() with repo_hold_locked_index()
notes-utils.c: remove the_repository references
grep: use grep_opt->repo instead of explict repo argument
Since 0f086e6dca (checkout: print something when checking out paths -
2018-11-13), this command reports how many paths have been updated
from what source (either from a tree, or from the index). I forget
that there's a third source: when -m is used, the merge conflict is
re-created (granted, also from the index, but it's not a straight copy
from the index).
Count and report unmerged paths separately. There's a bit more update
to avoid reporting:
Recreated X merge conflicts
Updated 0 paths from the index
The second line is unnecessary. Though if there's no conflict
recreation, we still report
Updated 0 paths from the index
to make it clear we're not really doing anything.
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 0f086e6dca [1] counts the number of files updated by "git
checkout -- <paths>" command and prints it. Later on 536ec1839d [2]
adds the ability to remove files in "git checkout -- <paths>". This is
still an update on worktree and should be reported to the user.
To prepare for such an update since that commit is on track to
'master' now, the messages are rephrased to avoid "checked out" which
does not imply file deletion.
[1] 0f086e6dca (checkout: print something when checking out paths -
2018-11-13)
[2] 536ec1839d (entry: support CE_WT_REMOVE flag in checkout_entry -
2018-12-20)
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"git checkout -b <new> [HEAD]" to create a new branch from the
current commit and check it out ought to be a no-op in the index
and the working tree in normal cases, but there are corner cases
that do require updates to the index and the working tree. Running
it immediately after "git clone --no-checkout" is one of these
cases that an earlier optimization kicked in incorrectly, which has
been fixed.
* bp/checkout-new-branch-optim:
checkout: fix regression in checkout -b on intitial checkout
checkout: add test demonstrating regression with checkout -b on initial commit
This reverts 1495ff7da5 ("checkout: introduce checkout.overlayMode
config", 2019-01-08) and thus removes the checkout.overlayMode config
option.
The option was originally introduced to give users the option to make
the new no-overlay behaviour the default. However users may be using
'git checkout' in scripts, even though it is porcelain. Users setting
the option to false may actually end up accidentally breaking scripts.
With the introduction of a new subcommand that will make the behaviour
the default, the config option will not be needed anymore anyway.
Revert the commit and remove the config option, so we don't risk
breaking scripts.
Suggested-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, index compat macros are off from now on, because they
could hide the_index dependency.
Only those in builtin can use it.
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When doing a 'checkout -b' do a full checkout including updating the working
tree when doing the initial checkout. As the new test involves an filesystem
access, do it later in the sequence to give chance to other cheaper tests to
leave early. This fixes the regression in behavior caused by fa655d8411
(checkout: optimize "git checkout -b <new_branch>", 2018-08-16).
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout [<tree-ish>] path..." learned to report the number of
paths that have been checked out of the index or the tree-ish,
which gives it the same degree of noisy-ness as the case in which
the command checks out a branch.
* nd/checkout-noisy:
t0027: squelch checkout path run outside test_expect_* block
checkout: print something when checking out paths
The traversal over tree objects has learned to honor
":(attr:label)" pathspec match, which has been implemented only for
enumerating paths on the filesystem.
* nd/attr-pathspec-in-tree-walk:
tree-walk: support :(attr) matching
dir.c: move, rename and export match_attrs()
pathspec.h: clean up "extern" in function declarations
tree-walk.c: make tree_entry_interesting() take an index
tree.c: make read_tree*() take 'struct repository *'
In the previous patch we introduced a new no-overlay mode for git
checkout. Some users (such as the author of this commit) may want to
have this mode turned on by default as it matches their mental model
more closely. Make that possible by introducing a new config option
to that extend.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently 'git checkout' is defined as an overlay operation, which
means that if in 'git checkout <tree-ish> -- [<pathspec>]' we have an
entry in the index that matches <pathspec>, but that doesn't exist in
<tree-ish>, that entry will not be removed from the index or the
working tree.
Introduce a new --{,no-}overlay option, which allows using 'git
checkout' in non-overlay mode, thus removing files from the working
tree if they do not exist in <tree-ish> but match <pathspec>.
Note that 'git checkout -p <tree-ish> -- [<pathspec>]' already works
this way, so no changes are needed for the patch mode. We disallow
'git checkout --overlay -p' to avoid confusing users who would expect
to be able to force overlay mode in 'git checkout -p' this way.
Untracked files are not affected by this change, so 'git checkout
--no-overlay HEAD -- untracked' will not remove untracked from the
working tree. This is so e.g. 'git checkout --no-overlay HEAD -- dir/'
doesn't delete all untracked files in dir/, but rather just resets the
state of files that are known to git.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout frotz" (without any double-dash) avoids ambiguity by
making sure 'frotz' cannot be interpreted as a revision and as a
path at the same time. This safety has been updated to check also
a unique remote-tracking branch 'frotz' in a remote, when dwimming
to create a local branch 'frotz' out of a remote-tracking branch
'frotz' from a remote.
* nd/checkout-dwim-fix:
checkout: disambiguate dwim tracking branches and local files
Factor out the code that marks a cache entry as matched for checkout
into a separate function. We are going to introduce a new mode in
'git checkout' in a subsequent commit, that is going to have a
slightly different logic. This would make this code unnecessarily
complex.
Moving that complexity into separate functions will make the code in
the subsequent step easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The key point for the if statement is that read_tree_some did not
update the entry, because either it doesn't exist in tree-ish or
doesn't match the pathspec. Clarify that.
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions call tree_entry_interesting() which will soon require
a 'struct index_state *' to be passed in. Instead of just changing the
function signature to take an index, update to take a repo instead
because these functions do need object database access.
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the problems with "git checkout" is that it does so many
different things and could confuse people specially when we fail to
handle ambiguation correctly.
One way to help with that is tell the user what sort of operation is
actually carried out. When switching branches, we always print
something unless --quiet, either
- "HEAD is now at ..."
- "Reset branch ..."
- "Already on ..."
- "Switched to and reset ..."
- "Switched to a new branch ..."
- "Switched to branch ..."
Checking out paths however is silent. Print something so that if we
got the user intention wrong, they won't waste too much time to find
that out. For the remaining cases of checkout we now print either
- "Checked out ... paths out of the index"
- "Checked out ... paths out of <abbrev hash>"
Since the purpose of printing this is to help disambiguate. Only do it
when "--" is missing.
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When checkout dwim is added in [1], it is restricted to only dwim when
certain conditions are met and fall back to default checkout behavior
otherwise. It turns out falling back could be confusing. One of the
conditions to turn
git checkout frotz
to
git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz
is that frotz must not exist as a file. But when the user comes to
expect "git checkout frotz" to create the branch "frotz" and there
happens to be a file named "frotz", git's silently reverting "frotz"
file content is not helping. This is reported in Git mailing list [2]
and even used as an example of "Git is bad" elsewhere [3].
We normally try to do the right thing, but when there are multiple
"right things" to do, it's best to leave it to the user to decide.
Check this case, ask the user to to disambiguate:
- "git checkout -- foo" will check out path "foo"
- "git checkout foo --" will dwim and create branch "foo" [4]
For users who do not want dwim, use --no-guess. It's useless in this
particular case because "git checkout --no-guess foo --" will just
fail. But it could be used by scripts.
[1] 70c9ac2f19 (DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz
origin/frotz" - 2009-10-18)
[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/CACsJy8B2TVr1g+k+eSQ=pBEO3WN4_LtgLo9gpur8X7Z9GOFL_A@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230655
[4] a047fafc78 (checkout: allow dwim for branch creation for "git
checkout $branch --" - 2013-10-18)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Junio C Hamano
Jeff Hostetler
Thomas Gummerer
Ben Peart