Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Wait, why did the remote rewind? Oh, I am very well aware of that glitch. git push has this hack to pretend as if the pusher immediately turned around and fetched from the remote. It shouldn't have been made to do so unconditionally; instead it

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce branch.name.pushremote

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: Comments are welcome. As the first cut, I would have expected the series to start from more general (not only this branch), with later follow-up to let more specific configuration. Also I'd prefer to see the push semantics (e.g. what does

[RFC/PATCH] Introduce remote.pushdefault

2013-02-08 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
This new configuration variable overrides branch-specific configuration `branch.name.remote` for pushes. It is useful in the typical scenario, where the remote I'm pulling from is not the remote I'm pushing to. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com --- Junio C Hamano wrote:

Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:45:07PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: To support a triangular arrangement well, there may need some thinking on what $branch@{upstream} means. The original intent of the upstream mode specified for push.default is push the result back to what you based your work on,

Re: [Request] Git export with hardlinks

2013-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 04:19:07PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: I'd like to script a git export command that can be given a list of already exported worktrees and the tree SHA1s these worktrees correspond too. The git export command should then for every file it wants to export lookup in the

[PATCH v3] branch: show rebase/bisect info when possible instead of (no branch)

2013-02-08 Thread Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
This prints more helpful info when HEAD is detached: is it detached because of bisect or rebase? What is the original branch name in those cases? Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy pclo...@gmail.com --- Keep no branch in all cases. Just append rebasing/bisecting [%s] when applicable.

Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Michael J Gruber
Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 08.02.2013 09:16: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Wait, why did the remote rewind? Oh, I am very well aware of that glitch. git push has this hack to pretend as if the pusher immediately turned around and fetched from the remote. It

Re: [RFC/PATCH 4/4] grep: obey --textconv for the case rev:path

2013-02-08 Thread Michael J Gruber
Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 07.02.2013 19:03: Michael J Gruber g...@drmicha.warpmail.net writes: (cd t git grep GET_SHA1_QUIETLY HEAD:../cache.h) ../HEAD:../cache.h:#define GET_SHA1_QUIETLY01 Yuck. And even more yuck: (cd t git grep --full-name GET_SHA1_QUIETLY

[PATCH] Use __VA_ARGS__ for all of error's arguments

2013-02-08 Thread Matt Kraai
From: Matt Kraai matt.kr...@amo.abbott.com QNX 6.3.2 uses GCC 2.95.3 by default, and GCC 2.95.3 doesn't remove the comma if the error macro's variable argument is left out. Instead of testing for a sufficiently recent version of GCC, make __VA_ARGS__ match all of the arguments. Signed-off-by:

git filter-branch --prune-empty not removing commits

2013-02-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Hoi, Found a small issue with git filter-branch not removing empty commits if they are the first commit in the tree. Find test script attached and example output below. I think the issue is in the function git_commit_non_empty_tree, which doesn't handle this case. I think something like the

Re: [PATCH] Use __VA_ARGS__ for all of error's arguments

2013-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 07:09:28AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: From: Matt Kraai matt.kr...@amo.abbott.com QNX 6.3.2 uses GCC 2.95.3 by default, and GCC 2.95.3 doesn't remove the comma if the error macro's variable argument is left out. Instead of testing for a sufficiently recent version of

Re: [PATCH v4] Add utf8_fprintf helper which returns correct columns

2013-02-08 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 08.02.13 08:20, Jiang Xin wrote: 2013/2/8 Torsten Bögershausen tbo...@web.de: On 08.02.13 03:10, Jiang Xin wrote: + /* If no error occurs, returns columns really required with utf8_strwidth. */ + if (0 = columns) + columns = utf8_strwidth(buf.buf); +

[PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread W. Trevor King
From: W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about auto: commit e9831e83e063844b90cf9e525d0003715dd8b395 Author: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Date: Mon Sep 17 00:39:52 2007 -0700 git-gc --auto: add documentation.

Re: git filter-branch --prune-empty not removing commits

2013-02-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 8 February 2013 16:23, Martijn van Oosterhout klep...@gmail.com wrote: git_commit_non_empty_tree() { +if test $# = 1 test -z $(git ls-tree $1) ; then +skip_commit $@ +fi if test $# = 3 test $1 = $(git rev-parse $3^{tree}); then

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Makefile: factor common configuration in git-default-config.mak

2013-02-08 Thread Matthieu Moy
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: I really think this is going in a wrong direction. Whatever you happen to have chosen in this patch will be available to others, while whatever are left out will not be. When adding new things, people need to ask if it needs to be sharable or not,

Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael J Gruber g...@drmicha.warpmail.net writes: As for the triangle remote, I really think we should clean up the situation regarding push, pushurlinsteadof and the various different and inconclusive output formats of git remote (with or without -v, with or without a remote name) first,

Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael J Gruber g...@drmicha.warpmail.net writes: Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 08.02.2013 09:16: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Wait, why did the remote rewind? Oh, I am very well aware of that glitch. git push has this hack to pretend as if the pusher immediately

[PATCH 1/2] Makefile: make script-related rules usable from subdirectories

2013-02-08 Thread Matthieu Moy
Git's Makefile provides a few nice features for script build and installation (substitute the first line with the right path, hardcode the path to Git library, ...). The Makefile already knows how to process files outside the toplevel directory with e.g. make SCRIPT_PERL=path/to/file.perl

Re: [PATCH] git-mergetool: print filename when it contains %

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org writes: Before this change, if git-mergetool was invoked with regard to Drop before this change,; it is clear (and it is a recommended practice) you are first describing what problem you are addressing. files with a percent sign (%) in their names, it would

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us writes: From: W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about auto: commit e9831e83e063844b90cf9e525d0003715dd8b395 Author: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Date: Mon Sep 17 00:39:52 2007 -0700

Re: [PATCH 4/4] git-remote-mediawiki: use Git's Makefile to build the script

2013-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 06:34:37PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: That seems much cleaner to me. If done right, it could also let people put: CONTRIB_PERL += contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki Actually, you can already do this: SCRIPT_PERL +=

Re: [PATCH] graph: output padding for merge subsequent parents

2013-02-08 Thread Matthieu Moy
John Keeping j...@keeping.me.uk writes: diff --git a/graph.c b/graph.c index 391a712..2a3fc5c 100644 --- a/graph.c +++ b/graph.c @@ -1227,6 +1227,16 @@ void graph_show_commit(struct git_graph *graph) if (!graph) return; + /* + * When showing a diff of a

Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Junio C Hamano wrote: Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: We have the problem now that new users do not necessarily understand the matching strategy, or why it is useful, and get confused. When we move to simple, we may be switching to a world where the early part of the learning curve is more

[PATCH] user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse

2013-02-08 Thread W. Trevor King
From: W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us acd2a45 (Refuse updating the current branch in a non-bare repository via push, 2009-02-11) changed the default to refuse such a push, but it forgot to update the docs. 7d182f5 (Documentation: receive.denyCurrentBranch defaults to 'refuse', 2010-03-17)

Re: [PATCH 4/4] git-remote-mediawiki: use Git's Makefile to build the script

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 06:34:37PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: That seems much cleaner to me. If done right, it could also let people put: CONTRIB_PERL += contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki Actually, you can

Re: [PATCH 4/4] git-remote-mediawiki: use Git's Makefile to build the script

2013-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:13:23AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 06:34:37PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: That seems much cleaner to me. If done right, it could also let people put:

Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Junio C Hamano wrote: [remote origin] url = ... where Ram fetches and pulls from ... pushurl = ... where Ram pushes to ... fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/* updateTrackOnPush = no Then git fetch (or git pull) will

Re: [PATCH v3] branch: show rebase/bisect info when possible instead of (no branch)

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy pclo...@gmail.com writes: This prints more helpful info when HEAD is detached: is it detached because of bisect or rebase? What is the original branch name in those cases? Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy pclo...@gmail.com --- Keep no branch in all cases. Just

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread W. Trevor King
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 09:36:53AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: I'd rather phrase it like ... may take long, so you would want to run it explicitly from time to time to avoid automatic gc kicking in when it is not convenient for you. Works for me. Removal of this is a good change, though. I

Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael J Gruber wrote: Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 08.02.2013 09:16: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Wait, why did the remote rewind? Oh, I am very well aware of that glitch. git push has this hack to pretend as if the pusher immediately turned around and fetched from

Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: And yes, a regular `git push origin refs/for/master` is just retarded. The usual incantation is git push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/master. Is the code review creation push that uses a different branchname from the branch the integrator pulls

Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] count-objects: report garbage files in pack directory too

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy pclo...@gmail.com writes: prepare_packed_git_one() is modified to allow count-objects to hook a report function to so we don't need to duplicate the pack searching logic in count-objects.c. When report_pack_garbage is NULL, the overhead is insignificant. Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] count-objects: report how much disk space taken by garbage files

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy pclo...@gmail.com writes: Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy pclo...@gmail.com --- We may do some redundant stat() here, but I don't think it can slow count-objects down much to worry about. I don't either. Looks like a good change to me. It appears that the sb.buf

Re: Proposal: branch.name.remotepush

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: Junio C Hamano wrote: [remote origin] url = ... where Ram fetches and pulls from ... pushurl = ... where Ram pushes to ... fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/*

Re: `git checkout --orpan` leaves a dirty worktree

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: Why should I have to `git rm -rf .` after a `git checkout --orphan`? What sort of misfeature/ incomplete feature is this? One designed for the going open source use case, where you have existing code that you want to put into a new branch without history. When there

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce branch.name.pushremote

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9b11597..0b3b1f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -727,6 +727,12 @@ branch.name.remote:: remote to fetch from/push to. It

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce remote.pushdefault

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9b11597..82a4a78 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1884,6 +1884,10 @@ receive.updateserverinfo:: If set to true,

Re: `git checkout --orpan` leaves a dirty worktree

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: BTW, Is there a better way to clean out the worktree than `git rm -rf .`, since that fails for submodules? The impulsive `reset --hard` obviously fails because there is no HEAD. I _think_ the git rm is one of the things on Jens's roadmap. Also

Improve 'git help' with basic user guide linkss

2013-02-08 Thread Philip Oakley
I'm looking at extending the 'git help' to include some information for the basic user who isn't ready for the extensive man page documentation for the various commands. If the user doesn't yet know which is the relevant command then they should also be offered a clue on how to finding the

Re: `git checkout --orpan` leaves a dirty worktree

2013-02-08 Thread Martin von Zweigbergk
I'm curious what your use case is. The behavior has been inconvenient for me too, but I have only used it in test cases; I have no real use case where I wanted to create an unborn/orphan branch. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Why should I

Re: Improve 'git help' with basic user guide linkss

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: I'm looking at extending the 'git help' to include some information for the basic user who isn't ready for the extensive man page documentation for the various commands. We have pointers at the beginning of git(1) for that exact reason. I am not

Re: [PATCH] git-mergetool: print filename when it contains %

2013-02-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote: Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org writes: Before this change, if git-mergetool was invoked with regard to Drop before this change,; it is clear (and it is a recommended practice) you are first describing what problem you are addressing. Junio,

Re: [PATCH] git-mergetool: print filename when it contains %

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org writes: Junio, thanks for the quick reply! I agree with your suggestions, and will take a look at addressing them, hopefully by Tuesday or so. FYI, here is what I queued for now. -- 8 -- From: Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 17:16:24

Re: Improve 'git help' with basic user guide linkss

2013-02-08 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 8:53 PM Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: I'm looking at extending the 'git help' to include some information for the basic user who isn't ready for the extensive man page documentation for the various commands.

Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: ... Will Git ever consider using inotify on Linux? What is the downside? I think this has come up from time to time, but my understanding is that nobody thought things through to find a good layer in the codebase to interface to an external

Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: ... Will Git ever consider using inotify on Linux? What is the downside? I think this has come up from time to time, but my understanding is that nobody thought things through to find a good layer in

Re: Improve 'git help' with basic user guide linkss

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: My initial https://github.com/PhilipOakley/git/commit/e6217d simply updates - N_(See 'git help command' for more information on a specific command.); + N_(See 'git help command' for more information on a specific command.\n + Or 'git help

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us writes: I just read through the manual cover to cover, so I have a number of other fixes in the pipe (from which I've already submitted the receive.denyCurrentBranch patch). Wonderful. ... Should I bundle them all into a single series to reduce clutter on

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
W. Trevor King wk...@tremily.us writes: I just read through the manual cover to cover, so I have a number of other fixes in the pipe (from which I've already submitted the receive.denyCurrentBranch patch). Wonderful. ... Should I bundle them all into a single series to reduce clutter on

Re: Improve 'git help' with basic user guide linkss

2013-02-08 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 10:54 PM Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: My initial https://github.com/PhilipOakley/git/commit/e6217d simply updates - N_(See 'git help command' for more information on a specific command.); + N_(See 'git help

segfault for git log --graph --no-walk --grep a

2013-02-08 Thread Thomas Haller
Hallo, I just found that git crashes with a segmentation fault when calling $ git log --graph --no-walk --grep pattern It happens both for version 1.7.10.4 from Debian (wheezy,amd64) and a fresh compiled git from github (git.git repository, master). For the error to occure, the pattern must

Re: segfault for git log --graph --no-walk --grep a

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Thomas Haller thom...@gmail.com writes: it happens in file revision.c:2306 because commit-buffer is zero: retval = grep_buffer(opt-grep_filter, commit-buffer, strlen(commit-buffer)); I think this has been fixed at be5c9fb9049e

Re: segfault for git log --graph --no-walk --grep a

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Thomas Haller thom...@gmail.com writes: it happens in file revision.c:2306 because commit-buffer is zero: retval = grep_buffer(opt-grep_filter, commit-buffer, strlen(commit-buffer)); I think this

Re: segfault for git log --graph --no-walk --grep a

2013-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:22:15PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Thomas Haller thom...@gmail.com writes: it happens in file revision.c:2306 because commit-buffer is zero: retval = grep_buffer(opt-grep_filter,

Re: segfault for git log --graph --no-walk --grep a

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Thomas Haller thom...@gmail.com writes: it happens in file revision.c:2306 because commit-buffer is zero: retval = grep_buffer(opt-grep_filter,

Re: Permission denied on home dir results in fatal error as of 1.8.1.1

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nick Muerdter st...@nickm.org writes: As of git 1.8.1.1 and above (tested up to 1.8.1.3), if the home directory can't be accessed, it results in a fatal error. In git 1.8.1 and below this same setup just resulted in warnings. Was this an intentional change? I think this was done to not just

Re: segfault for git log --graph --no-walk --grep a

2013-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:47:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: Yeah, that actually is a good point. We should be using logmsg_reencode so that we look for strings in the user's encoding. Perhaps like this. Just like the previous one (which should be discarded), this makes the function

Re: Permission denied on home dir results in fatal error as of 1.8.1.1

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote: Nick Muerdter st...@nickm.org writes: As of git 1.8.1.1 and above (tested up to 1.8.1.3), if the home directory can't be accessed, it results in a fatal error. In git 1.8.1 and below this same setup just resulted in warnings. Was this an intentional change? I think

Re: segfault for git log --graph --no-walk --grep a

2013-02-08 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:05:24PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:47:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: Yeah, that actually is a good point. We should be using logmsg_reencode so that we look for strings in the user's encoding. Perhaps like this. Just like the

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing

2013-02-08 Thread Javier Tia
+information from taking up too much space on disk or in memory. Some +git commands may automatically run linkgit:git-gc[1], so you don't +have to worry about running it manually. However, compressing large +repositories may take some time, so you might want to disable +automatic comression

git bisect result off by 1 commit

2013-02-08 Thread Tim Chen
When I am doing a git bisect to track down a problem commit on the Linux kernel tree, I found that git bisect actually led me to a patch that's one before the problem commit. In particular, $ git bisect replay bisectlog Previous HEAD position was d54b1a9... perf script: Remove use of die/exit

Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] count-objects: report garbage files in pack directory too

2013-02-08 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: +static void real_report_pack_garbage(const char *path, int len, const char *name) +{ Don't some callers call this on paths outside objects/pack/ directory? Is it still report-pack-garbage? In fact 3/3 uses it to

Re: git bisect result off by 1 commit

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Tim Chen tim.c.c...@linux.intel.com writes: When I am doing a git bisect to track down a problem commit on the Linux kernel tree, I found that git bisect actually led me to a patch that's one before the problem commit. In particular, $ git bisect replay bisectlog Previous HEAD position

Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

2013-02-08 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: ... Will Git ever consider using inotify on Linux? What is the downside? I think this has come up from time to time, but my

Re: Permission denied on home dir results in fatal error as of 1.8.1.1

2013-02-08 Thread Nick Muerdter
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Junio C Hamano wrote: Nick Muerdter st...@nickm.org writes: As of git 1.8.1.1 and above (tested up to 1.8.1.3), if the home directory can't be accessed, it results in a fatal error. In git 1.8.1 and below this same

Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Duy Nguyen pclo...@gmail.com writes: Can we replace open a socket to our daemon with open a special file in .git to get stat data written by our daemon? TCP/IP socket means system-wide daemon, not attractive. UNIX socket is not available on Windows (although there may be named pipe, I don't

Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

2013-02-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: I checked read-cache.c and preload-index.c code. To get the discussion rolling, I think something like the outline below may be a good starting point and a feasible weekend hack for somebody competent: * At the beginning of preload_index(), instead

Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

2013-02-08 Thread Robert Zeh
The delay for commands like git status is much worse on Windows than Linux; for my workflow I would be happy with a Windows only implementation. From the description so far, I have some question: how does the daemon get started and stopped? Is there one per repository --- this seems to be

Please pull l10n updates for 1.8.2 round 1

2013-02-08 Thread Jiang Xin
Hi, Junio The following changes since commit ec3ae6ec46ed48383ae40643990f169b65a563cc: Merge git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk (2013-01-23 08:35:03 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/ master for you to fetch changes up to

[PATCH v5] Add utf8_fprintf helper that returns correct columns

2013-02-08 Thread Jiang Xin
Since command usages can be translated, they may include utf-8 encoded strings, and the output in console may not align well any more. This is because strlen() is different from strwidth() on utf-8 strings. A wrapper utf8_fprintf() can help to return the correct columns required. Signed-off-by:

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce branch.name.pushremote

2013-02-08 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Junio C Hamano wrote: Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c index e53a6eb..d6fcfc0 100644 --- a/remote.c +++ b/remote.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static int branches_nr; static struct branch *current_branch; static const char *default_remote_name;

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce remote.pushdefault

2013-02-08 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Junio C Hamano wrote: Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9b11597..82a4a78 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1884,6 +1884,10 @@ receive.updateserverinfo:: If set