Split up the "USE_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS" into that setting
and a more narrow "USE_THE_INDEX_VARIABLE". In the case of these
built-ins we only need "the_index" variable, but not the compatibility
wrapper for functions we're not using.
Let's then have some users of "USE_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS" use
this more narrow and descriptive define.
For context: The USE_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS macro was added to
test-tool.h in f8adbec9fe (cache.h: flip
NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS switch, 2019-01-24).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 4aab5b46f4 (Make read-cache.c "the_index" free., 2007-04-01)
we've been undergoing a slow migration away from these macros, but
haven't made much progress since f8adbec9fe (cache.h: flip
NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS switch, 2019-01-24).
Let's move forward a bit by changing the users of those macros that
are rare enough that we can convert them in one go, and then remove
the compatibility shim.
The only manual change to the C code here is to "cache.h", the rest is
all the result of applying the new "index-compatibility.cocci".
Even though it's a one-off, let's keep the coccinelle rules for
now. We'll extend them in subsequent commits, and this will help
anything that's in-flight or out-of-tree to migrate.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Build argument list and environment of child processes by using
struct child_process and populating its members "args" and "env"
directly instead of maintaining separate strvecs and letting
run_command_v_opt() and friends populate these members. This is
simpler, shorter and slightly more efficient.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Fix a memory leak introduced in 44c175c7a4 (pull: error on no merge
candidates, 2015-06-18). As a result we can mark several tests as
passing with SANITIZE=leak using "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true".
Removing the "int ret = 0" assignment added here in a6d7eb2c7a (pull:
optionally rebase submodules (remote submodule changes only),
2017-06-23) is not a logic error, it could always have been left
uninitialized (as "int ret"), now that we'll use the "ret" from the
upper scope we can drop the assignment in the "opt_rebase" branch.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pull" without "--recurse-submodules=<arg>" made
submodule.recurse take precedence over fetch.recurseSubmodules by
mistake, which has been corrected.
* gc/pull-recurse-submodules:
pull: do not let submodule.recurse override fetch.recurseSubmodules
Fix a bug in "git pull" where `submodule.recurse` is preferred over
`fetch.recurseSubmodules` when performing a fetch
(Documentation/config/fetch.txt says that `fetch.recurseSubmodules`
should be preferred.). Do this by passing the value of the
"--recurse-submodules" CLI option to the underlying fetch, instead of
passing a value that combines the CLI option and config variables.
In other words, this bug occurred because builtin/pull.c is conflating
two similar-sounding, but different concepts:
- Whether "git pull" itself should care about submodules e.g. whether it
should update the submodule worktrees after performing a merge.
- The value of "--recurse-submodules" to pass to the underlying "git
fetch".
Thus, when `submodule.recurse` is set, the underlying "git fetch" gets
invoked with "--recurse-submodules[=value]", overriding the value of
`fetch.recurseSubmodules`.
An alternative (and more obvious) approach to fix the bug would be to
teach "git pull" to understand `fetch.recurseSubmodules`, but the
proposed solution works better because:
- We don't maintain two identical config-parsing implementions in "git
pull" and "git fetch".
- It works better with other commands invoked by "git pull" e.g. "git
merge" won't accidentally respect `fetch.recurseSubmodules`.
Reported-by: Huang Zou <huang.zou@schrodinger.com>
Helped-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unify more messages to help l10n.
* ja/i18n-common-messages:
i18n: fix some misformated placeholders in command synopsis
i18n: remove from i18n strings that do not hold translatable parts
i18n: factorize "invalid value" messages
i18n: factorize more 'incompatible options' messages
"git cmd -h" outside a repository should error out cleanly for many
commands, but instead it hit a BUG(), which has been corrected.
* js/short-help-outside-repo-fix:
t0012: verify that built-ins handle `-h` even without gitdir
checkout/fetch/pull/pack-objects: allow `-h` outside a repository
When we taught these commands about the sparse index, we did not account
for the fact that the `cmd_*()` functions _can_ be called without a
gitdir, namely when `-h` is passed to show the usage.
A plausible approach to address this is to move the
`prepare_repo_settings()` calls right after the `parse_options()` calls:
The latter will never return when it handles `-h`, and therefore it is
safe to assume that we have a `gitdir` at that point, as long as the
built-in is marked with the `RUN_SETUP` flag.
However, it is unfortunately not that simple. In `cmd_pack_objects()`,
for example, the repo settings need to be fully populated so that the
command-line options `--sparse`/`--no-sparse` can override them, not the
other way round.
Therefore, we choose to imitate the strategy taken in `cmd_diff()`,
where we simply do not bother to prepare and initialize the repo
settings unless we have a `gitdir`.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3688
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pull --rebase" ignored the rebase.autostash configuration
variable when the remote history is a descendant of our history,
which has been corrected.
* pb/pull-rebase-autostash-fix:
pull --rebase: honor rebase.autostash when fast-forwarding
Use the same message when an invalid value is passed to a command line
option or a configuration variable.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"pull --rebase" internally uses the merge machinery when the other
history is a descendant of ours (i.e. perform fast-forward). This
came from [1], where the discussion was started from a feature
request to do so. It is a bit hard to read the rationale behind it
in the discussion, but it seems that it was an established fact for
everybody involved that does not even need to be mentioned that
fast-forwarding done with "rebase" was much undesirable than done
with "merge", and more importantly, the result left by "merge" is as
good as (or better than) that by "rebase".
Except for one thing. Because "git merge" does not (and should not)
honor rebase.autostash, "git pull" needs to read it and forward it
when we use "git merge" as a (hopefully better) substitute for "git
rebase" during the fast-forwarding. But we forgot to do so (we only
add "--[no-]autostash" to the "git merge" command when "git pull" itself
was invoked with "--[no-]autostash" command line option.
Make sure "git merge" is run with "--autostash" when
rebase.autostash is set and used to fast-forward the history on
behalf of "git rebase". Incidentally this change also takes care of
the case where
- "git pull --rebase" (without other command line options) is run
- "rebase.autostash" is not set
- The history fast-forwards
In such a case, "git merge" is run with an explicit "--no-autostash"
to prevent it from honoring merge.autostash configuration, which is
what we want. After all, we want the "git merge" to pretend as if
it is "git rebase" while being used for this purpose.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqa8cfbkeq.fsf_-_@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/
Reported-by: Tilman Vogel <tilman.vogel@web.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git fetch' and 'git pull' commands parse the index in order to
determine if submodules exist. Without command_requires_full_index=0,
this will expand a sparse index, causing slow performance even when
there is no new data to fetch.
The .gitmodules file will never be inside a sparse directory entry, and
even if it was, the index_name_pos() method would expand the sparse
index if needed as we search for the path by name. These commands do not
iterate over the index, which is the typical thing we are careful about
when integrating with the sparse index.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The advice message given by "git pull" when the user hasn't made a
choice between merge and rebase still said that the merge is the
default, which no longer is the case. This has been corrected.
* ah/advice-pull-has-no-preference-between-rebase-and-merge:
pull: don't say that merge is "the default strategy"
"git pull" with any strategy when the other side is behind us
should succeed as it is a no-op, but doesn't.
* ev/pull-already-up-to-date-is-noop:
pull: should be noop when already-up-to-date
"git pull" with any strategy when the other side is behind us
should succeed as it is a no-op, but doesn't.
* ev/pull-already-up-to-date-is-noop:
pull: should be noop when already-up-to-date
Git no longer has a default strategy for reconciling divergent branches,
because there's no way for Git to know which strategy is appropriate in
any particular situation.
The initially proposed version in [*], that eventually became
031e2f7a (pull: abort by default when fast-forwarding is not
possible, 2021-07-22), dropped this phrase from the message, but
it was left in the final version by accident.
* https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210627000855.530985-1-alexhenrie24@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The already-up-to-date pull bug was fixed for --ff-only but it did not
include the case where --ff or --ff-only are not specified. This updates
the --ff-only fix to include the case where --ff or --ff-only are not
specified in command line flags or config.
Signed-off-by: Erwin Villejo <erwin.villejo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pull --ff-only" and "git pull --rebase --ff-only" should make
it a no-op to attempt pulling from a remote that is behind us, but
instead the command errored out by saying it was impossible to
fast-forward, which may technically be true, but not a useful thing
to diagnose as an error. This has been corrected.
* jc/fix-pull-ff-only-when-already-up-to-date:
pull: --ff-only should make it a noop when already-up-to-date
"git pull --no-verify" did not affect the underlying "git merge".
* ar/fix-git-pull-no-verify:
pull: honor --no-verify and do not call the commit-msg hook
Earlier, we made sure that "git pull --ff-only" (and "git -c
pull.ff=only pull") errors out when our current HEAD is not an
ancestor of the tip of the history we are merging, but the condition
to trigger the error was implemented incorrectly.
Imagine you forked from a remote branch, built your history on top
of it, and then attempted to pull from them again. If they have not
made any update in the meantime, our current HEAD is obviously not
their ancestor, and this new error triggers.
Without the --ff-only option, we just report that there is no need
to pull; we did the same historically with --ff-only, too.
Make sure we do not fail with the recently added check to restore
the historical behaviour.
Reported-by: Kenneth Arnold <ka37@calvin.edu>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option was incorrectly auto-translated to "--no-verify-signatures",
which causes the unexpected effect of the hook being called.
And an even more unexpected effect of disabling verification of signatures.
The manual page describes the option to behave same as the similarly
named option of "git merge", which seems to be the original intention
of this option in the "pull" command.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed.
* js/retire-preserve-merges:
sequencer: restrict scope of a formerly public function
rebase: remove a no-longer-used function
rebase: stop mentioning the -p option in comments
rebase: remove obsolete code comment
rebase: drop the internal `rebase--interactive` command
git-svn: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
rebase: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
pull: remove support for `--rebase=preserve`
tests: stop testing `git rebase --preserve-merges`
remote: warn about unhandled branch.<name>.rebase values
t5520: do not use `pull.rebase=preserve`
The run-command API has been updated so that the callers can easily
ask the file descriptors open for packfiles to be closed immediately
before spawning commands that may trigger auto-gc.
* js/run-command-close-packs:
Close object store closer to spawning child processes
run_auto_maintenance(): implicitly close the object store
run-command: offer to close the object store before running
run-command: prettify the `RUN_COMMAND_*` flags
pull: release packs before fetching
commit-graph: when closing the graph, also release the slab
In many cases where we spawned child processes that _may_ trigger a
repack, we explicitly closed the object store first (so that the
`repack` process can delete the `.pack` files, which would otherwise not
be possible on Windows since files cannot be deleted as long as they as
still in use).
Wherever possible, we now use the new `close_object_store` bit of the
`run_command()` API, to delay closing the object store even further.
This makes the code easier to maintain because it is now more obvious
that we only release those file handles because of those child
processes.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Windows, files cannot be removed nor renamed if there are still
handles held by a process. To remedy that, we try to release all open
handles to any `.pack` file before e.g. repacking (which would want to
remove the original `.pack` file(s) after it is done).
Since the `read_cache_unmerged()` and/or the `get_oid()` call in `git
pull` can cause `.pack` files to be opened, we need to release the open
handles before calling `git fetch`: the latter process might want to
spawn an auto-gc, which in turn might want to repack the objects.
This commit is similar in spirit to 5bdece0d70 (gc/repack: release
packs when needed, 2018-12-15).
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3336.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for `git-rebase--preserve-merges.sh` entering its after
life, we remove this (deprecated) option that would still rely on it.
To help users transition who still did not receive the memo about the
deprecation, we offer a helpful error message instead of throwing our
hands in the air and saying that we don't know that option, never heard
of it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With multiple heads, we should not allow rebasing or fast-forwarding.
Make sure any fast-forward request calls out specifically the fact that
multiple branches are in play. Also, since we cannot fast-forward to
multiple branches, fix our computation of can_ff.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-pull.txt includes merge-options.txt, which is written assuming
merges will happen. git-pull has allowed rebases for many years; update
the documentation to reflect that.
While at it, pass any `--signoff` flag through to the rebase backend too
so that we don't have to document it as merge-specific. Rebase has
supported the --signoff flag for years now as well.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have for some time shown a long warning when the user does not
specify how to reconcile divergent branches with git pull. Make it an
error now.
Initial-patch-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix the last few precedence tests failing in t7601 by now implementing
the logic to have --[no-]rebase override a pull.ff=only config setting.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are both merge and rebase branches in the logic, and previously
both had to handle fast-forwarding. Merge handled that implicitly
(because git merge handles it directly), while in rebase it was
explicit. Given that the --ff-only flag is meant to override any
--rebase or --no-rebase, make the code reflect that by handling
--ff-only before the merge-vs-rebase logic.
It turns out that this also fixes a bug for submodules. Previously,
when --ff-only was given, the code would run `merge --ff-only` on the
main module, and then run `submodule update --recursive --rebase` on the
submodules. With this change, we still run `merge --ff-only` on the
main module, but now run `submodule update --recursive --checkout` on
the submodules. I believe this better reflects the intent of --ff-only
to have it apply to both the main module and the submodules.
(Sidenote: It is somewhat interesting that all merges pass `--checkout`
to submodule update, even when `--no-ff` is specified, meaning that it
will only do fast-forward merges for submodules. This was discussed in
commit a6d7eb2c7a ("pull: optionally rebase submodules (remote submodule
changes only)", 2017-06-23). The same limitations apply now as then, so
we are not trying to fix this at this time.)
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The warning about pulling without specifying how to reconcile divergent
branches says that after setting pull.rebase to true, --ff-only can
still be passed on the command line to require a fast-forward. Make that
actually work.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
[en: updated tests; note 3 fixes and 1 new failure]
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two spaces unaligned to anything is not part of the coding-style. A
single tab is.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no need to store ran_ff. Now it's obvious from the conditionals.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently "git pull --rebase" takes a shortcut in the case a
fast-forward merge is possible; run_merge() is called with --ff-only.
However, "git merge" didn't have an --autostash option, so, when "git
pull --rebase --autostash" was called *and* the fast-forward merge
shortcut was taken, then the pull failed.
This was fixed in commit f15e7cf5cc (pull: ff --rebase --autostash
works in dirty repo, 2017-06-01) by simply skipping the fast-forward
merge shortcut.
Later on "git merge" learned the --autostash option [a03b55530a
(merge: teach --autostash option, 2020-04-07)], and so did "git pull"
[d9f15d37f1 (pull: pass --autostash to merge, 2020-04-07)].
Therefore it's not necessary to skip the fast-forward merge shortcut
anymore when called with --rebase --autostash.
Let's always take the fast-forward merge shortcut by essentially
reverting f15e7cf5cc.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no need to display the annoying warning on every pull... only
the ones that are not fast-forward.
The current warning tests still pass, but not because of the arguments
or the configuration, but because they are all fast-forward.
We need to test non-fast-forward situations now.
Suggestions-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor the advise() call that teaches users how they can choose
between merge and rebase into a helper function. This revealed that
the caller's logic needs to be further clarified to allow future
actions (like "erroring out" instead of the current "go ahead and
merge anyway") that should happen whether the advice message is
squelched out.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is easy enough to do, and gives a more descriptive name to the
variable that is scoped in a more focused way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Eventually we want to be omit the advice when we can fast-forward
in which case there is no reason to require the user to choose
between rebase or merge.
In order to do so, we need to delay giving the advice up to the
point where we can check if we can fast-forward or not.
Additionally, config_get_rebase() was probably never its true home.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We would like to be able to make this check before the decision to
rebase is made in a future step. Besides, using a separate helper
makes the code easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" checked for local changes
in a wrong range and failed to run correctly when it should.
* pb/pull-rebase-recurse-submodules:
pull: check for local submodule modifications with the right range
t5572: describe '--rebase' tests a little more
t5572: add notes on a peculiar test
pull --rebase: compute rebase arguments in separate function
In d18c950a69 (pull: warn if the user didn't say whether to rebase or
to merge, 2020-03-09), a new hint was introduced to encourage users to
make a conscious decision about whether they want their pull to merge or
to rebase by configuring the `pull.rebase` setting.
This warning was clearly intended to advise users, but as pointed out in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/87ima2rdsm.fsf%40evledraar.gmail.com, it
uses `warning()` instead of `advise()`.
One consequence is that the advice is not colorized in the same manner
as other, similar messages. So let's use `advise()` instead.
Pointed-out-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ever since 'git pull' learned '--recurse-submodules' in a6d7eb2c7a
(pull: optionally rebase submodules (remote submodule changes only),
2017-06-23), we check if there are local submodule modifications by
checking the revision range 'curr_head --not rebase_fork_point'.
The goal of this check is to abort the pull if there are submodule
modifications in the local commits being rebased, since this scenario is
not supported.
However, the actual range of commits being rebased is not
'rebase_fork_point..curr_head', as the logic in
'get_rebase_newbase_and_upstream' reveals, it is 'upstream..curr_head'.
If the 'git merge-base --fork-point' invocation in
'get_rebase_fork_point' fails to find a fork point between the current
branch and the remote-tracking branch we are pulling from,
'rebase_fork_point' is null and since 4d36f88be7 (submodule: do not pass
null OID to setup_revisions, 2018-05-24), 'submodule_touches_in_range'
checks 'curr_head' and all its ancestors for submodule modifications.
Since it is highly likely that there are submodule modifications in this
range (which is in effect the whole history of the current branch), this
prevents 'git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules' from succeeding if no
fork point exists between the current branch and the remote-tracking
branch being pulled. This can happen, for example, when the current
branch was forked from a commit which was never recorded in the reflog
of the remote-tracking branch we are pulling, as the last two paragraphs
of the "Discussion on fork-point mode" section in git-merge-base(1)
explain.
Fix this bug by passing 'upstream' instead of 'rebase_fork_point' as the
'excl_oid' argument to 'submodule_touches_in_range'.
Reported-by: Brice Goglin <bgoglin@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function 'run_rebase' is responsible for constructing the
command line to be passed to 'git rebase'. This includes both forwarding
pass-through options given to 'git pull' as well computing the <newbase>
and <upstream> arguments to 'git rebase'.
A following commit will need to access the <upstream> argument in
'cmd_pull' to fix a bug with 'git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules'.
In order to do so, refactor the code so that the <newbase> and
<upstream> commits are computed in a new, separate function,
'get_rebase_newbase_and_upstream'.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ted reported an old typo in the git-commit.txt and merge-options.txt.
Namely, the phrase "Signed-off-by line" was used without either a
definite nor indefinite article.
Upon examination, it seems that the documentation (including items in
Documentation/, but also option help strings) have been quite
inconsistent on usage when referring to `Signed-off-by`.
First, very few places used a definite or indefinite article with the
phrase "Signed-off-by line", but that was the initial typo that led
to this investigation. So, normalize using either an indefinite or
definite article consistently.
The original phrasing, in Commit 3f971fc425 (Documentation updates,
2005-08-14), is "Add Signed-off-by line". Commit 6f855371a5 (Add
--signoff, --check, and long option-names. 2005-12-09) switched to
using "Add `Signed-off-by:` line", but didn't normalize the former
commit to match. Later commits seem to have cut and pasted from one
or the other, which is likely how the usage became so inconsistent.
Junio stated on the git mailing list in
<xmqqy2k1dfoh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> a preference to leave off
the colon. Thus, prefer `Signed-off-by` (with backticks) for the
documentation files and Signed-off-by (without backticks) for option
help strings.
Additionally, Junio argued that "trailer" is now the standard term to
refer to `Signed-off-by`, saying that "becomes plenty clear that we
are not talking about any random line in the log message". As such,
prefer "trailer" over "line" anywhere the former word fits.
However, leave alone those few places in documentation that use
Signed-off-by to refer to the process (rather than the specific
trailer), or in places where mail headers are generally discussed in
comparison with Signed-off-by.
Reported-by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier we taught "git pull" to warn when the user does not say the
histories need to be merged, rebased or accepts only fast-
forwarding, but the warning triggered for those who have set the
pull.ff configuration variable.
* ah/pull:
pull: don't warn if pull.ff has been set
A user who understands enough to set pull.ff does not need additional
instructions.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
René Scharfe
Junio C Hamano
Glen Choo
Johannes Schindelin
Jean-Noël Avila
Philippe Blain
Derrick Stolee
Alex Henrie
Erwin Villejo
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