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2025-07-23config: move Git config parsing into "environment.c"Patrick Steinhardt1-0/+1
In "config.c" we host both the business logic to read and write config files as well as the logic to parse specific Git-related variables. On the one hand this is mixing concerns, but even more importantly it means that we cannot easily remove the dependency on `the_repository` in our config parsing logic. Move the logic into "environment.c". This file is a grab bag of all kinds of global state already, so it is quite a good fit. Furthermore, it also hosts most of the global variables that we're parsing the config values into, making this an even better fit. Note that there is one hidden change: in `parse_fsync_components()` we use an `int` to iterate through `ARRAY_SIZE(fsync_component_names)`. But as -Wsign-compare warnings are enabled in this file this causes a compiler warning. The issue is fixed by using a `size_t` instead. This change allows us to drop the `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` declaration. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-23config: drop `git_config()` wrapperPatrick Steinhardt1-2/+2
In 036876a1067 (config: hide functions using `the_repository` by default, 2024-08-13) we have moved around a bunch of functions in the config subsystem that depend on `the_repository`. Those function have been converted into mere wrappers around their equivalent function that takes in a repository as parameter, and the intent was that we'll eventually remove those wrappers to make the dependency on the global repository variable explicit at the callsite. Follow through with that intent and remove `git_config()`. All callsites are adjusted so that they use `repo_config(the_repository, ...)` instead. While some callsites might already have a repository available, this mechanical conversion is the exact same as the current situation and thus cannot cause any regression. Those sites should eventually be cleaned up in a later patch series. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-18pager: stop using `the_repository`Patrick Steinhardt1-2/+2
Stop using `the_repository` in the "pager" subsystem by passing in a repository when setting up the pager and when configuring it. Adjust callers accordingly by using `the_repository`. While there may be some callers that have a repository available in their context, this trivial conversion allows for easier verification and bubbles up the use of `the_repository` by one level. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-06global: trivial conversions to fix `-Wsign-compare` warningsPatrick Steinhardt1-3/+1
We have a bunch of loops which iterate up to an unsigned boundary using a signed index, which generates warnigs because we compare a signed and unsigned value in the loop condition. Address these sites for trivial cases and enable `-Wsign-compare` warnings for these code units. This patch only adapts those code units where we can drop the `DISABLE_SIGN_COMPARE_WARNINGS` macro in the same step. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-06global: mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`Patrick Steinhardt1-1/+3
Mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`. This allows for a structured approach to get rid of all such warnings over time in a way that can be easily measured. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-21builtin/help: fix leaks in `check_git_cmd()`Patrick Steinhardt1-6/+7
The `check_git_cmd()` function is declared to return a string constant. And while it sometimes does return a constant, it may also return an allocated string in two cases: - When handling aliases. This case is already marked with `UNLEAK()` to work around the leak. - When handling unknown commands in case "help.autocorrect" is enabled. This one is not marked with `UNLEAK()`. The function only has a single caller, so let's fix its return type to be non-constant, consistently return an allocated string and free it at its callsite to plug the leak. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-10-02Merge branch 'ps/leakfixes-part-7'Junio C Hamano1-7/+9
More leak-fixes. * ps/leakfixes-part-7: (23 commits) diffcore-break: fix leaking filespecs when merging broken pairs revision: fix leaking parents when simplifying commits builtin/maintenance: fix leak in `get_schedule_cmd()` builtin/maintenance: fix leaking config string promisor-remote: fix leaking partial clone filter grep: fix leaking grep pattern submodule: fix leaking submodule ODB paths trace2: destroy context stored in thread-local storage builtin/difftool: plug several trivial memory leaks builtin/repack: fix leaking configuration diffcore-order: fix leaking buffer when parsing orderfiles parse-options: free previous value of `OPTION_FILENAME` diff: fix leaking orderfile option builtin/pull: fix leaking "ff" option dir: fix off by one errors for ignored and untracked entries builtin/submodule--helper: fix leaking remote ref on errors t/helper: fix leaking subrepo in nested submodule config helper builtin/submodule--helper: fix leaking error buffer builtin/submodule--helper: clear child process when not running it submodule: fix leaking update strategy ...
2024-09-27builtin/help: fix leaking `html_path` when reading config multiple timesPatrick Steinhardt1-1/+2
The `html_path` variable gets populated via `git_help_config()`, which puts an allocated string into it if its value has been configured. We do not clear the old value though, which causes a memory leak in case the config exists multiple times. Plug this leak. The leak is exposed by t0012, but plugging it alone is not sufficient to make the test suite pass. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-27builtin/help: fix dangling reference to `html_path`Patrick Steinhardt1-6/+7
In `get_html_page_path()` we may end up assigning the return value of `system_path()` to the global `html_path` variable. But as we also assign the returned value to `to_free`, we will deallocate its memory upon returning from the function. Consequently, `html_path` will now point to deallocated memory. Fix this issue by instead assigning the value to a separate local variable. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-24builtin: fix typosAndrew Kreimer1-1/+1
Fix typos in comments. Signed-off-by: Andrew Kreimer <algonell@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-13builtin: remove USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE from builtin.hJohn Cai1-0/+2
Instead of including USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE by default on every builtin, remove it from builtin.h and add it to all the builtins that include builtin.h (by definition, that means all builtins/*.c). Also, remove the include statement for repository.h since it gets brought in through builtin.h. The next step will be to migrate each builtin from having to use the_repository. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-13builtin: add a repository parameter for builtin functionsJohn Cai1-1/+4
In order to reduce the usage of the global the_repository, add a parameter to builtin functions that will get passed a repository variable. This commit uses UNUSED on most of the builtin functions, as subsequent commits will modify the actual builtins to pass the repository parameter down. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-06Merge branch 'gc/config-context'Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
Reduce reliance on a global state in the config reading API. * gc/config-context: config: pass source to config_parser_event_fn_t config: add kvi.path, use it to evaluate includes config.c: remove config_reader from configsets config: pass kvi to die_bad_number() trace2: plumb config kvi config.c: pass ctx with CLI config config: pass ctx with config files config.c: pass ctx in configsets config: add ctx arg to config_fn_t urlmatch.h: use config_fn_t type config: inline git_color_default_config
2023-06-28config: add ctx arg to config_fn_tGlen Choo1-2/+3
Add a new "const struct config_context *ctx" arg to config_fn_t to hold additional information about the config iteration operation. config_context has a "struct key_value_info kvi" member that holds metadata about the config source being read (e.g. what kind of config source it is, the filename, etc). In this series, we're only interested in .kvi, so we could have just used "struct key_value_info" as an arg, but config_context makes it possible to add/adjust members in the future without changing the config_fn_t signature. We could also consider other ways of organizing the args (e.g. moving the config name and value into config_context or key_value_info), but in my experiments, the incremental benefit doesn't justify the added complexity (e.g. a config_fn_t will sometimes invoke another config_fn_t but with a different config value). In subsequent commits, the .kvi member will replace the global "struct config_reader" in config.c, making config iteration a global-free operation. It requires much more work for the machinery to provide meaningful values of .kvi, so for now, merely change the signature and call sites, pass NULL as a placeholder value, and don't rely on the arg in any meaningful way. Most of the changes are performed by contrib/coccinelle/config_fn_ctx.pending.cocci, which, for every config_fn_t: - Modifies the signature to accept "const struct config_context *ctx" - Passes "ctx" to any inner config_fn_t, if needed - Adds UNUSED attributes to "ctx", if needed Most config_fn_t instances are easily identified by seeing if they are called by the various config functions. Most of the remaining ones are manually named in the .cocci patch. Manual cleanups are still needed, but the majority of it is trivial; it's either adjusting config_fn_t that the .cocci patch didn't catch, or adding forward declarations of "struct config_context ctx" to make the signatures make sense. The non-trivial changes are in cases where we are invoking a config_fn_t outside of config machinery, and we now need to decide what value of "ctx" to pass. These cases are: - trace2/tr2_cfg.c:tr2_cfg_set_fl() This is indirectly called by git_config_set() so that the trace2 machinery can notice the new config values and update its settings using the tr2 config parsing function, i.e. tr2_cfg_cb(). - builtin/checkout.c:checkout_main() This calls git_xmerge_config() as a shorthand for parsing a CLI arg. This might be worth refactoring away in the future, since git_xmerge_config() can call git_default_config(), which can do much more than just parsing. Handle them by creating a KVI_INIT macro that initializes "struct key_value_info" to a reasonable default, and use that to construct the "ctx" arg. Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-21cache.h: remove this no-longer-used headerElijah Newren1-2/+1
Since this header showed up in some places besides just #include statements, update/clean-up/remove those other places as well. Note that compat/fsmonitor/fsm-path-utils-darwin.c previously got away with violating the rule that all files must start with an include of git-compat-util.h (or a short-list of alternate headers that happen to include it first). This change exposed the violation and caused it to stop building correctly; fix it by having it include git-compat-util.h first, as per policy. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-24hash-ll.h: split out of hash.h to remove dependency on repository.hElijah Newren1-0/+1
hash.h depends upon and includes repository.h, due to the definition and use of the_hash_algo (defined as the_repository->hash_algo). However, most headers trying to include hash.h are only interested in the layout of the structs like object_id. Move the parts of hash.h that do not depend upon repository.h into a new file hash-ll.h (the "low level" parts of hash.h), and adjust other files to use this new header where the convenience inline functions aren't needed. This allows hash.h and object.h to be fairly small, minimal headers. It also exposes a lot of hidden dependencies on both path.h (which was brought in by repository.h) and repository.h (which was previously implicitly brought in by object.h), so also adjust other files to be more explicit about what they depend upon. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-11pager.h: move declarations for pager.c functions from cache.hElijah Newren1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Acked-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21setup.h: move declarations for setup.c functions from cache.hElijah Newren1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21treewide: be explicit about dependence on gettext.hElijah Newren1-0/+1
Dozens of files made use of gettext functions, without explicitly including gettext.h. This made it more difficult to find which files could remove a dependence on cache.h. Make C files explicitly include gettext.h if they are using it. However, while compat/fsmonitor/fsm-ipc-darwin.c should also gain an include of gettext.h, it was left out to avoid conflicting with an in-flight topic. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-28Merge branch 'ab/doc-synopsis-and-cmd-usage'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The short-help text shown by "git cmd -h" and the synopsis text shown at the beginning of "git help cmd" have been made more consistent. * ab/doc-synopsis-and-cmd-usage: (34 commits) tests: assert consistent whitespace in -h output tests: start asserting that *.txt SYNOPSIS matches -h output doc txt & -h consistency: make "worktree" consistent worktree: define subcommand -h in terms of command -h reflog doc: list real subcommands up-front doc txt & -h consistency: make "commit" consistent doc txt & -h consistency: make "diff-tree" consistent doc txt & -h consistency: use "[<label>...]" for "zero or more" doc txt & -h consistency: make "annotate" consistent doc txt & -h consistency: make "stash" consistent doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options doc txt & -h consistency: use "git foo" form, not "git-foo" doc txt & -h consistency: make "bundle" consistent doc txt & -h consistency: make "read-tree" consistent doc txt & -h consistency: make "rerere" consistent doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options and labels doc txt & -h consistency: make output order consistent doc txt & -h consistency: add or fix optional "--" syntax doc txt & -h consistency: fix mismatching labels doc SYNOPSIS & -h: use "-" to separate words in labels, not "_" ...
2022-10-13doc txt & -h consistency: balance unbalanced "[" and "]"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+1
Fix a "-h" output syntax issue introduced when "--diagnose" was added in aac0e8ffeee (builtin/bugreport.c: create '--diagnose' option, 2022-08-12): We need to close the "[" we opened. The corresponding *.txt change did not have the same issue. The "help -h" output then had one "]" too many, which is an issue introduced in b40845293b5 (help: correct the usage string in -h and documentation, 2021-09-10). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-02git help: special-case `scalar`Johannes Schindelin1-0/+2
With this commit, `git help scalar` will open the appropriate manual or HTML page (instead of looking for `gitscalar`). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04git docs: add a category for file formats, protocols and interfacesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+9
Create a new "File formats, protocols and other developer interfaces" section in the main "git help git" manual page and start moving the documentation that now lives in "Documentation/technical/*.git" over to it. This complements the newly added and adjacent "Repository, command and file interfaces" section. This makes the technical documentation more accessible and discoverable. Before this we wouldn't install it by default, and had no ability to build man page versions of them. The links to them from our existing documentation link to the generated HTML version of these docs. So let's start moving those over, starting with just the "bundle-format.txt" documentation added in 7378ec90e1c (doc: describe Git bundle format, 2020-02-07). We'll now have a new gitformat-bundle(5) man page. Subsequent commits will move more git internal format documentation over. Unfortunately the syntax of the current Documentation/technical/*.txt is not the same (when it comes to section headings etc.) as our Documentation/*.txt documentation, so change the relevant bits of syntax as we're moving this over. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04git docs: add a category for user-facing file, repo and command UXÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+9
Create a new "Repository, command and file interfaces" section in the main "git help git" manual page. Move things that belong under this new criteria from the generic "Guides" section. The "Guides" section was added in f442f28a81b (git.txt: add list of guides, 2020-08-05). It makes sense to have e.g. "giteveryday(7)" and "gitfaq(7)" listed under "Guides". But placing e.g. "gitignore(5)" in it is stretching the meaning of what a "guide" is, ideally that section should list things similar to "giteveryday(7)" and "gitcore-tutorial(7)". An alternate name that was considered for this new section was "User formats", for consistency with the nomenclature used for man section 5 in general. My man(1) lists it as "File formats and conventions, e.g. /etc/passwd". So calling this "git help --formats" or "git help --user-formats" would make sense for e.g. gitignore(5), but would be stretching it somewhat for githooks(5), and would seem really suspect for the likes of gitcli(7). Let's instead pick a name that's closer to the generic term "User interface", which is really what this documentation discusses: General user-interface documentation that doesn't obviously belong elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04git help doc: use "<doc>" instead of "<guide>"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+1
Replace the use of "<guide>" originally introduced (as "GUIDE") in a133737b809 (doc: include --guide option description for "git help", 2013-04-02) with the more generic "<doc>". The "<doc>" placeholder is more generic, and one we'll be able to use as we introduce new documentation categories. Let's also add "<doc>" to the "git help -h" output, when it was made to use parse_option() in in 41eb33bd0cb (help: use parseopt, 2008-02-24). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-03-09Merge branch 'ab/help-fixes'Junio C Hamano1-10/+53
Updates to how command line options to "git help" are handled. * ab/help-fixes: help: don't print "\n" before single-section output help: add --no-[external-commands|aliases] for use with --all help: error if [-a|-g|-c] and [-i|-m|-w] are combined help: correct usage & behavior of "git help --all" help: note the option name on option incompatibility help.c: split up list_all_cmds_help() function help tests: test "git" and "git help [-a|-g] spacing help.c: use puts() instead of printf{,_ln}() for consistency help doc: add missing "]" to "[-a|--all]"
2022-02-23help: add --no-[external-commands|aliases] for use with --allÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+14
Add the ability to only emit git's own usage information under --all. This also allows us to extend the "test_section_spacing" tests added in a preceding commit to test "git help --all" output. Previously we could not do that, as the tests might find a git-* command in the "$PATH", which would make the output differ from one setup to another. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-23help: error if [-a|-g|-c] and [-i|-m|-w] are combinedÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-6/+35
Add more sanity checking to "git help" usage by erroring out if these man viewer options are combined with incompatible command-modes that will never use these documentation viewers. This continues the work started in d35d03cf93e (help: simplify by moving to OPT_CMDMODE(), 2021-09-22) of adding more sanity checking to "git help". Doing this allows us to clarify the "SYNOPSIS" in the documentation, and the "git help -h" output. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-23help: correct usage & behavior of "git help --all"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+3
Do the same for the "--all" option that I did for "--guides" in 9856ea6785c (help: correct usage & behavior of "git help --guides", 2021-09-22). I.e. we've documented it as ignoring non-option arguments, let's have it error out instead. As with other changes made in 62f035aee3f (Merge branch 'ab/help-config-vars', 2021-10-13) this is technically a change in behavior, but in practice it's just a bug fix. We were ignoring this before, but by erroring we can simplify our documentation and synopsis, as well as avoid user confusion as they wonder what the difference between e.g. "git help --all" and "git help --all status" is (there wasn't any difference). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-23help: note the option name on option incompatibilityÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-7/+8
Change the errors added in d35d03cf93e (help: simplify by moving to OPT_CMDMODE(), 2021-09-22) to quote the offending option at the user when invoked as e.g.: git help --guides garbage Now instead of: fatal: this option doesn't take any other arguments We'll emit: fatal: the '--guides' option doesn't take any non-option arguments Let's also rename the function, as it will be extended to do other checks that aren't "no extra argc" in a subsequent commit. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-04i18n: remove from i18n strings that do not hold translatable partsJean-Noël Avila1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-25run-command API users: use strvec_pushl(), not argv constructionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+1
Change a pattern of hardcoding an "argv" array size, populating it and assigning to the "argv" member of "struct child_process" to instead use "strvec_pushl()" to add data to the "args" member. This implements the same behavior as before in fewer lines of code, and moves us further towards being able to remove the "argv" member in a subsequent commit. Since we've entirely removed the "argv" variable(s) we can be sure that no potential logic errors of the type discussed in a preceding commit are being introduced here, i.e. ones where the local "argv" was being modified after the assignment to "struct child_process"'s "argv". Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-13Merge branch 'ab/help-config-vars'Junio C Hamano1-48/+83
Teach "git help -c" into helping the command line completion of configuration variables. * ab/help-config-vars: help: move column config discovery to help.c library help / completion: make "git help" do the hard work help tests: test --config-for-completion option & output help: simplify by moving to OPT_CMDMODE() help: correct logic error in combining --all and --guides help: correct logic error in combining --all and --config help tests: add test for --config output help: correct usage & behavior of "git help --guides" help: correct the usage string in -h and documentation
2021-09-23help: move column config discovery to help.c libraryÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-6/+1
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 <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-23help / completion: make "git help" do the hard workÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-13/+41
The "help" builtin has been able to emit configuration variables since e17ca926371 (completion: drop the hard coded list of config vars, 2018-05-26), but it hasn't produced exactly the format the completion script wanted. Let's do that. We got partway there in 2675ea1cc0f (completion: use 'sort -u' to deduplicate config variable names, 2019-08-13) and d9438873c4d (completion: deduplicate configuration sections, 2019-08-13), but after both we still needed some sorting, de-duplicating and awk post-processing of the list. We can instead simply do the relevant parsing ourselves (we were doing most of it already), and call string_list_remove_duplicates() after already sorting the list, so the caller doesn't need to invoke "sort -u". The "--config-for-completion" output is the same as before after being passed through "sort -u". Then add a new "--config-sections-for-completion" option. Under that output we'll emit config sections like "alias" (instead of "alias." in the --config-for-completion output). We need to be careful to leave the "--config-for-completion" option compatible with users git, but are still running a shell with an older git-completion.bash. If we e.g. changed the option name they'd see messages about git-completion.bash being unable to find the "--config-for-completion" option. Such backwards compatibility isn't something we should bend over backwards for, it's only helping users who: * Upgrade git * Are in an old shell * The git-completion.bash in that shell hasn't cached the old "--config-for-completion" output already. But since it's easy in this case to retain compatibility, let's do it, the older versions of git-completion.bash won't care that the input they get doesn't change after a "sort -u". While we're at it let's make "--config-for-completion" die if there's anything left over in "argc", and do the same in the new "--config-sections-for-completion" option. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-23help: simplify by moving to OPT_CMDMODE()Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-45/+36
As preceding commits have incrementally established all of the --all, --guides, --config and hidden --config-for-completion options are mutually exclusive. So let's use OPT_CMDMODE() to parse the command-line instead, and take advantage of its conflicting options detection. This is the first command with a hidden CMDMODE, so let's introduce a OPT_CMDMODE_F() macro to go along with OPT_CMDMODE(). I think this makes the usage information that we emit slightly worse, e.g. before we'd emit: $ git help --all --config fatal: --config and --all cannot be combined usage: git help [-a|--all] [--[no-]verbose]] [[-i|--info] [-m|--man] [-w|--web]] [<command>] or: git help [-g|--guides] or: git help [-c|--config] [...] $ And now: $ git help --all --config error: option `config' is incompatible with --all $ But improving that is a general topic for parse-options.c improvement, i.e. we should probably emit the full usage in that case. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-23help: correct logic error in combining --all and --guidesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+4
The --all and --guides commands could be combined, which wouldn't have any impact on the output except for: git help --all --guides --no-verbose Listing the guide alongside that output was clearly not intended, so let's error out here. See 002b726a400 (builtin/help.c: add list_common_guides_help() function, 2013-04-02) for the initial implementation. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-23help: correct logic error in combining --all and --configÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-9/+22
Fix a bug in the --config option that's been there ever since its introduction in 3ac68a93fd2 (help: add --config to list all available config, 2018-05-26). Die when --all and --config are combined, combining them doesn't make sense. The code for the --config option when combined with an earlier refactoring done to support the --guide option in 65f98358c0c (builtin/help.c: add --guide option, 2013-04-02) would cause us to take the "--all" branch early and ignore the --config option. Let's instead list these as incompatible, both in the synopsis and help output, and enforce it in the code itself. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-23help: correct usage & behavior of "git help --guides"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-4/+7
As noted in 65f98358c0c (builtin/help.c: add --guide option, 2013-04-02) and a133737b809 (doc: include --guide option description for "git help", 2013-04-02) which introduced the --guide option, it cannot be combined with e.g. <command>. Change the command and the "SYNOPSIS" section to reflect that desired behavior. Now that we assert this in code we don't need to exhaustively describe the previous confusing behavior in the documentation either, instead of silently ignoring the provided argument we'll now error out. The "We're done. Ignore any remaining args" comment added in 15f7d494380 (builtin/help.c: split "-a" processing into two, 2013-04-02) can now be removed, it's obvious that we're asserting the behavior with the check of "argc". The "--config" option is still missing from the synopsis, it will be added in a subsequent commit where we'll fix bugs in its implementation. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-14help: make sure local html page exists before calling external processesMatthias Aßhauer1-3/+6
We check that git.html exists, regardless of the page the user wants to open. Checking whether the requested page exists instead gives us a smoother user experience in two use cases: 1) The requested page doesn't exist When calling a git command and there is an error, most users reasonably expect git to produce an error message on the standard error stream, but in this case we pass the filepath to git web--browse which passes it on to a browser (or a helper program like xdg-open or start that should in turn open a browser) without any error and many GUI based browsers or helpers won't output such a message onto the standard error stream. Especially the helper programs tend to show the corresponding error message in a message box and wait for user input before exiting. This leaves users in interactive console sessions without an error message in their console, without a console prompt and without the help page they expected. 2) git.html is missing for some reason, but the user asked for some other page We currently refuse to show any local html help page when we can't find git.html. Even if the requested help page exists. If we check for the requested page instead, we can show the user all available pages and only error out on those that don't exist. Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-10help: correct the usage string in -h and documentationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+2
Clarify the usage string in the documentation so we group e.g. -i and --info, and add the missing short options to the "-h" output. The alignment of the second line is off now, but will be fixed with another series of mine[1]. In the meantime let's just assume that fix will make it in eventually for the purposes of this patch, if it's misaligned for a bit it doesn't matter much. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-0.2-00000000000-20210901T110917Z-avarab@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-06help: convert git_cmd to page in one placeAndrei Rybak1-9/+8
Depending on the chosen format of help pages, git-help uses function show_man_page, show_info_page, or show_html_page. The first thing all three functions do is to convert given `git_cmd` to a `page` using function cmd_to_page. Move the common part of these three functions to function cmd_help to avoid code duplication. Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-04help: drop usage of 'common' and 'useful' for guidesPhilippe Blain1-1/+1
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 <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-01Merge branch 'es/bugreport'Junio C Hamano1-0/+86
The "bugreport" tool. * es/bugreport: bugreport: drop extraneous includes bugreport: add compiler info bugreport: add uname info bugreport: gather git version and build info bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info help: move list_config_help to builtin/help
2020-04-16help: move list_config_help to builtin/helpEmily Shaffer1-0/+86
Starting in 3ac68a93fd2, help.o began to depend on builtin/branch.o, builtin/clean.o, and builtin/config.o. This meant that help.o was unusable outside of the context of the main Git executable. To make help.o usable by other commands again, move list_config_help() into builtin/help.c (where it makes sense to assume other builtin libraries are present). When command-list.h is included but a member is not used, we start to hear a compiler warning. Since the config list is generated in a fairly different way than the command list, and since commands and config options are semantically different, move the config list into its own header and move the generator into its own script and build rule. For reasons explained in 976aaedc (msvc: add a Makefile target to pre-generate the Visual Studio solution, 2019-07-29), some build artifacts we consider non-source files cannot be generated in the Visual Studio environment, and we already have some Makefile tweaks to help Visual Studio to use generated command-list.h header file. Do the same to a new generated file, config-list.h, introduced by this change. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
2020-04-10parse_config_key(): return subsection len as size_tJeff King1-1/+1
We return the length to a subset of a string using an "int *" out-parameter. This is fine most of the time, as we'd expect config keys to be relatively short, but it could behave oddly if we had a gigantic config key. A more appropriate type is size_t. Let's switch over, which lets our callers use size_t as appropriate (they are bound by our type because they must pass the out-parameter as a pointer). This is mostly just a cleanup to make it clear this code handles long strings correctly. In practice, our config parser already chokes on long key names (because of a similar int/size_t mixup!). When doing an int/size_t conversion, we have to be careful that nobody was trying to assign a negative value to the variable. I manually confirmed that for each case here. They tend to just feed the result to xmemdupz() or similar; in a few cases I adjusted the parameter types for helper functions to make sure the size_t is preserved. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-20completion: add more parameter value completionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+4
This adds value completion for a couple more paramters. To make it easier to maintain these hard coded lists, add a comment at the original list/code to remind people to update git-completion.bash too. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-26Merge branch 'rv/alias-help'Junio C Hamano1-3/+31
"git cmd --help" when "cmd" is aliased used to only say "cmd is aliased to ...". Now it shows that to the standard error stream and runs "git $cmd --help" where $cmd is the first word of the alias expansion. This could be misleading for those who alias a command with options (e.g. with "[alias] cpn = cherry-pick -n", "git cpn --help" would show the manual of "cherry-pick", and the reader would not be told to pay close attention to the part that describes the "--no-commit" option until closing the pager that showed the contents of the manual, if the pager is configured to restore the original screen, or would not be told at all, if the pager simply makes the message on the standard error scroll away. * rv/alias-help: git-help.txt: document "git help cmd" vs "git cmd --help" for aliases git.c: handle_alias: prepend alias info when first argument is -h help: redirect to aliased commands for "git cmd --help"
2018-10-11help: redirect to aliased commands for "git cmd --help"Rasmus Villemoes1-3/+31
As discussed in the thread for v1 of this patch [1] [2], this changes the rules for "git foo --help" when foo is an alias. (1) When invoked as "git help foo", we continue to print the "foo is aliased to bar" message and nothing else. (2) If foo is an alias for a shell command, print "foo is aliased to !bar" as usual. (3) Otherwise, print "foo is aliased to bar" to the standard error stream, and then break the alias string into words and pretend as if "git word[0] --help" were called. Getting the man page for git-cherry-pick directly with "git cp --help" is consistent with "--help" generally providing more comprehensive help than "-h". Printing the alias definition to stderr means that in certain cases (e.g. if help.format=web or if the pager uses an alternate screen and does not clear the terminal), one has 'cp' is aliased to 'cherry-pick -n' above the prompt when one returns to the terminal/quits the pager, which is a useful reminder that using 'cp' has some flag implicitly set. There are cases where this information vanishes or gets scrolled away, but being printed to stderr, it should never hurt. [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180926102636.30691-1-rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk/ [2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180926184914.GC30680@sigill.intra.peff.net/ Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-03help -a: improve and make --verbose defaultNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
When you type "git help" (or just "git") you are greeted with a list with commonly used commands and their short description and are suggested to use "git help -a" or "git help -g" for more details. "git help -av" would be more friendly and inline with what is shown with "git help" since it shows list of commands with description as well, and commands are properly grouped. "help -av" does not show everything "help -a" shows though. Add external command section in "help -av" for this. While at there, add a section for aliases as well (until now aliases have no UI, just "git config"). Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>