git/help.c, branch v2.35.2

help: make auto-correction prompt more consistent

2021-12-16T21:49:39Z

There are three callsites of git_prompt() helper function that ask a "yes/no" question to the end user, but one of them in help.c that asks if the suggested auto-correction is OK, which is given when the user makes a possible typo in a Git subcommand name, is formatted differently from the others. Update the format string to make the prompt string look more consistent. Signed-off-by: Kashav Madan Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

help: move column config discovery to help.c library

2021-09-23T17:30:43Z

When a git_config() call was added in dbfae689690 (help: reuse print_columns() for help -a, 2012-04-13) to read the column config we'd always use the resulting "colopts" variable. Then in 63eae83f8f3 (help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis, 2018-05-20) we started only using the "colopts" config under "--all" if "--no-verbose" was also given, but the "git_config()" call was not moved inside the "verbose" branch of the code. This change effectively does that, we'll only call list_commands() under "--all --no-verbose", so let's have it look up the config it needs. See 26c7d067832 (help -a: improve and make --verbose default, 2018-09-29) for another case in help.c where we look up config. The get_colopts() function is named for consistency with the existing get_alias() function added in 26c7d067832. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

help.c: help.autocorrect=prompt waits for user action

2021-08-14T18:20:49Z

If help.autocorrect is set to 'prompt', the user is prompted before the suggested action is executed. Based on original patch by David Barr https://lore.kernel.org/git/1283758030-13345-1-git-send-email-david.barr@cordelta.com/ Signed-off-by: Azeem Bande-Ali Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

help.c: help.autocorrect=never means "do not compute suggestions"

2020-11-25T21:02:15Z

While help.autocorrect can be set to 0 to decline auto-execution of possibly mistyped commands, it still spends cycles to compute the suggestions, and it wastes screen real estate. Update help.autocorrect to accept the string "never" to just exit with error upon mistyped commands to help users who prefer to never see suggested corrections at all. While at it, introduce "immediate" as a more readable way to immediately execute the auto-corrected command, which can be done with negative value. Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

help: do not expect built-in commands to be hardlinked

2020-10-07T22:25:10Z

When building with SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS=YesPlease, the built-in commands are no longer present in the `PATH` as hardlinks to `git`. As a consequence, `load_command_list()` needs to be taught to find the names of the built-in commands from elsewhere. This only affected the output of `git --list-cmds=main`, but not the output of `git help -a` because the latter includes the built-in commands by virtue of them being listed in command-list.txt. The bug was detected via a patch series that turns the merge strategies included in Git into built-in commands: `git merge -s help` relies on `load_command_list()` to determine the list of available merge strategies. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jk/leakfix'

2020-08-27T21:04:49Z

Code clean-up. * jk/leakfix: submodule--helper: fix leak of core.worktree value config: fix leak in git_config_get_expiry_in_days() config: drop git_config_get_string_const() config: fix leaks from git_config_get_string_const() checkout: fix leak of non-existent branch names submodule--helper: use strbuf_release() to free strbufs clear_pattern_list(): clear embedded hashmaps

config: fix leaks from git_config_get_string_const()

2020-08-14T17:52:04Z

There are two functions to get a single config string: - git_config_get_string() - git_config_get_string_const() One might naively think that the first one allocates a new string and the second one just points us to the internal configset storage. But in fact they both allocate a new copy; the second one exists only to avoid having to cast when using it with a const global which we never intend to free. The documentation for the function explains that clearly, but it seems I'm not alone in being surprised by this. Of 17 calls to the function, 13 of them leak the resulting value. We could obviously fix these by adding the appropriate free(). But it would be simpler still if we actually had a non-allocating way to get the string. There's git_config_get_value() but that doesn't quite do what we want. If the config key is present but is a boolean with no value (e.g., "[foo]bar" in the file), then we'll get NULL (whereas the string versions will print an error and die). So let's introduce a new variant, git_config_get_string_tmp(), that behaves as these callers expect. We need a new name because we have new semantics but the same function signature (so even if we converted the four remaining callers, topics in flight might be surprised). The "tmp" is because this value should only be held onto for a short time. In practice it's rare for us to clear and refresh the configset, invalidating the pointer, but hopefully the "tmp" makes callers think about the lifetime. In each of the converted cases here the value only needs to last within the local function or its immediate caller. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

help: drop usage of 'common' and 'useful' for guides

2020-08-05T01:34:01Z

Since 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides, 2018-05-20), all man5/man7 guides listed in command-list.txt appear in the output of 'git help -g'. However, 'git help -g' still prefixes this list with "The common Git guides are:", which makes one wonder if there are others! In the same spirit, the man page for 'git help' describes the '--guides' option as listing 'useful' guides, which is not false per se but can also be taken to mean that there are other guides that exist but are not useful. Instead of 'common' and 'useful', use 'Git concept guides' in both places. To keep the code in line with this change, rename help.c::list_common_guides_help to list_guides_help. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

help: add shell-path to --build-options

2020-05-13T05:02:17Z

It may be useful to know which shell Git was built to try to point to, in the event that shell-based Git commands are failing. $SHELL_PATH is set during the build and used to launch the manpage viewer, as well as by git-compat-util.h, and it's used during tests. 'git version --build-options' is encouraged for use in bug reports, so it makes sense to include this information there. Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

bugreport: gather git version and build info

2020-04-16T22:23:42Z

Knowing which version of Git a user has and how it was built allows us to more precisely pin down the circumstances when a certain issue occurs, so teach bugreport how to tell us the same output as 'git version --build-options'. It's not ideal to directly call 'git version --build-options' because that output goes to stdout. Instead, wrap the version string in a helper within help.[ch] library, and call that helper from within the bugreport library. Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano