git/builtin/commit.c, branch v2.31.2

shortlog: remove unused(?) "repo-abbrev" feature

2021-01-12T22:04:42Z

Remove support for the magical "repo-abbrev" comment in .mailmap files. This was added to .mailmap parsing in [1], as a generalized feature of the git-shortlog Perl script added earlier in [2]. There was no documentation or tests for this feature, and I don't think it's used in practice anymore. What it did was to allow you to specify a single string to be search-replaced with "/.../" in the .mailmap file. E.g. for linux.git's current .mailmap: git archive --remote=git@gitlab.com:linux-kernel/linux.git \ HEAD -- .mailmap | grep -a repo-abbrev # repo-abbrev: /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ Then when running e.g.: git shortlog --merges --author=Linus -1 v5.10-rc7..v5.10 | grep Merge We'd emit (the [...] is mine): Merge tag [...]git://git.kernel.org/.../tip/tip But will now emit: Merge tag [...]git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip I think at this point this is just a historical artifact we can get rid of. It was initially meant for Linus's own use when we integrated the Perl script[2], but since then it seems he's stopped using it. Digging through Linus's release announcements on the LKML[3] the last release I can find that made use of this output is Linux 2.6.25-rc6 back in March 2008[4]. Later on Linus started using --no-merges[5], and nowadays seems to prefer some custom not-quite-shortlog format of merges from lieutenants[6]. You will still see it on linux.git if you run "git shortlog" manually yourself with --merges, with this removed you can still get the same output with: git log --pretty=fuller v5.10-rc7..v5.10 | sed 's!/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/!/.../!g' | git shortlog Arguably we should do the same for the search-replacing of "[PATCH]" at the beginning with "". That seems to be another relic of a bygone era when linux.git patches would have their E-Mail subject lines applied as-is by "git am" or whatever. But we documented that feature in "git-shortlog(1)", and it seems more widely applicable than something purely kernel-specific. 1. 7595e2ee6ef (git-shortlog: make common repository prefix configurable with .mailmap, 2006-11-25) 2. fa375c7f1b6 (Add git-shortlog perl script, 2005-06-04) 3. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ 4. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.LFD.1.00.0803161651350.3020@woody.linux-foundation.org/ 5. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/BANLkTinrbh7Xi27an3uY7pDWrNKhJRYmEA@mail.gmail.com/ 6. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg1+kf1AVzXA-RQX0zjM6t9J2Kay9xyuNqcFHWV-y5ZYw@mail.gmail.com/ Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: stylistically normalize references to Signed-off-by:

2020-10-20T18:57:40Z

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 3f971fc425b (Documentation updates, 2005-08-14), is "Add Signed-off-by line". Commit 6f855371a53 (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 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" Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn Acked-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

drop unused argc parameters

2020-09-30T19:53:47Z

Many functions take an argv/argc pair, but never actually look at argc. This makes it useless at best (we use the NULL sentinel in argv to find the end of the array), and misleading at worst (what happens if the argc count does not match the argv NULL?). In each of these instances, the argv NULL does match the argc count, so there are no bugs here. But let's tighten the interfaces to make it harder to get wrong (and to reduce some -Wunused-parameter complaints). Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'ds/maintenance-part-1'

2020-09-25T22:25:38Z

A "git gc"'s big brother has been introduced to take care of more repository maintenance tasks, not limited to the object database cleaning. * ds/maintenance-part-1: maintenance: add trace2 regions for task execution maintenance: add auto condition for commit-graph task maintenance: use pointers to check --auto maintenance: create maintenance..enabled config maintenance: take a lock on the objects directory maintenance: add --task option maintenance: add commit-graph task maintenance: initialize task array maintenance: replace run_auto_gc() maintenance: add --quiet option maintenance: create basic maintenance runner

maintenance: replace run_auto_gc()

2020-09-17T18:30:05Z

The run_auto_gc() method is used in several places to trigger a check for repo maintenance after some Git commands, such as 'git commit' or 'git fetch'. To allow for extra customization of this maintenance activity, replace the 'git gc --auto [--quiet]' call with one to 'git maintenance run --auto [--quiet]'. As we extend the maintenance builtin with other steps, users will be able to select different maintenance activities. Rename run_auto_gc() to run_auto_maintenance() to be clearer what is happening on this call, and to expose all callers in the current diff. Rewrite the method to use a struct child_process to simplify the calls slightly. Since 'git fetch' already allows disabling the 'git gc --auto' subprocess, add an equivalent option with a different name to be more descriptive of the new behavior: '--[no-]maintenance'. Update the documentation to include these options at the same time. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'pw/rebase-i-more-options'

2020-09-03T19:37:01Z

"git rebase -i" learns a bit more options. * pw/rebase-i-more-options: t3436: do not run git-merge-recursive in dashed form rebase: add --reset-author-date rebase -i: support --ignore-date rebase -i: support --committer-date-is-author-date am: stop exporting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE rebase -i: add --ignore-whitespace flag

builtin/commit: suggest update-ref for pseudoref removal

2020-08-21T18:20:10Z

When pseudorefs move to a different ref storage mechanism, pseudorefs no longer can be removed with 'rm'. Instead, suggest a "update-ref -d" command, which will work regardless of ref storage backend. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

am: stop exporting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE

2020-08-17T18:58:37Z

The implementation of --committer-date-is-author-date exports GIT_COMMITTER_DATE to override the default committer date but does not reset GIT_COMMITTER_DATE in the environment after creating the commit so it is set in the environment of any hooks that get run. We're about to add the same functionality to the sequencer and do not want to have GIT_COMMITTER_DATE set when running hooks or exec commands so lets update commit_tree_extended() to take an explicit committer so we override the default date without setting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE in the environment. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

strvec: rename struct fields

2020-07-31T02:18:06Z

The "argc" and "argv" names made sense when the struct was argv_array, but now they're just confusing. Let's rename them to "nr" (which we use for counts elsewhere) and "v" (which is rather terse, but reads well when combined with typical variable names like "args.v"). Note that we have to update all of the callers immediately. Playing tricks with the preprocessor is hard here, because we wouldn't want to rewrite unrelated tokens. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

strvec: convert builtin/ callers away from argv_array name

2020-07-28T22:02:18Z

We eventually want to drop the argv_array name and just use strvec consistently. There's no particular reason we have to do it all at once, or care about interactions between converted and unconverted bits. Because of our preprocessor compat layer, the names are interchangeable to the compiler (so even a definition and declaration using different names is OK). This patch converts all of the files in builtin/ to keep the diff to a manageable size. The conversion was done purely mechanically with: git ls-files '*.c' '*.h' | xargs perl -i -pe ' s/ARGV_ARRAY/STRVEC/g; s/argv_array/strvec/g; ' and then selectively staging files with "git add builtin/". We'll deal with any indentation/style fallouts separately. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano