transport-helper: report errors properly

If a push fails because the remote-helper died (with fast-export),
the user may not see any error message. We do correctly die with a
failed exit code, as we notice that the helper has died while
reading back the ref status from the helper. However, we don't print
any message. This is OK if the helper itself printed a useful error
message, but we cannot count on that; let's let the user know that
the helper failed.

In the long run, it may make more sense to propagate the error back
up to push, so that it can present the usual status table and give a
nicer message. But this is a much simpler fix that can help
immediately.

While we're adding tests, let's also confirm that the remote-helper
dying is also detected when importing refs. We currently do so
robustly when the helper uses the "done" feature (and that is what
we test).  We cannot do so reliably when the helper does not use the
"done" feature, but it is not even worth testing; the right solution
is for the helper to start using "done".

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport-helper: mention helper name when it dies

When we try to read from a remote-helper and get EOF or an
error, we print a message indicating that the helper died.
However, users may not know that a remote helper was in use
(e.g., when using git-over-http), or even what a remote
helper is.

Let's print the name of the helper (e.g., "git-remote-https");
this makes it more obvious what the program is for, and
provides a useful token for reporting bugs or searching for
more information (e.g., in manpages).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport-helper: improve push messages

If there's already a remote-helper tracking ref, we can fetch the SHA-1
to report proper push messages (as opposed to always reporting
[new branch]).

The remote-helper currently can specify the old SHA-1 to avoid this
problem, but there's no point in forcing all remote-helpers to be aware
of git commit ids; they should be able to be agnostic of them.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitweb/INSTALL: Simplify description of GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM

The flow of the text describing GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM and
GITWEB_CONFIG_COMMON in gitweb/INSTALL is awkward.  "This is bad. Oh
the other hand, better is broken. Therefore we do this." forces
readers to make multiple guesses while reading: "ok, bad, so you
plan to change it and warn us about upcoming change?  oh, not that,
changing it is bad, so we have to live with it?  oh, not that, there
is another one that is common and that is what we can use".

Better rewrite said paragraph to avoid such a mental roller-coaster in
the first place.

Signed-off-by: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility

Highlight that CONFIG_SYSTEM and /etc/gitweb.conf are meant to be
the fallback configuration file in BUGS section of gitweb.conf
documentation.  This will hopefully help people who expect them to
be a common default, which unfortunately came later in the history.
date.c: add parse_expiry_date()

"git reflog --expire=all" tries to expire reflog entries up to the
current second, because the approxidate() parser gives the current
timestamp for anything it does not understand (and it does not know
what time "all" means).  When the user tells us to expire "all" (or
set the expiration time to "now"), the user wants to remove all the
reflog entries (no reflog entry should record future time).

Just set it to ULONG_MAX and to let everything that is older that
timestamp expire.

While at it, allow "now" to be treated the same way for callers that
parse expiry date timestamp with this function.  Also use an error
reporting version of approxidate() to report misspelled date.  When
the user says e.g. "--expire=mnoday" to delete entries two days or
older on Wednesday, we wouldn't want the "unknown, default to now"
logic to kick in.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport-helper: clarify *:* refspec

The *:* refspec doesn't work, and never has, clarify the code and
documentation to reflect that. This in effect reverts commit 9e7673e
(gitremote-helpers(1): clarify refspec behaviour).

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport-helper: update refspec documentation

The refspec capability is not only used by 'import', also by
'export', and it's recommended in both.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport-helper: clarify pushing without refspecs

This has never worked, since it's inception the code simply skips all
the refs, essentially telling fast-export to do nothing.

Let's at least tell the user what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport-helper: warn when refspec is not used

For the modes that need it. In the future we should probably error out,
instead of providing half-assed support.

The reason we want to do this is because if it's not present, the remote
helper might be updating refs/heads/*, or refs/remotes/origin/*,
directly, and in the process fetch will get confused trying to update
refs that are already updated, or older than what they should be. We
shouldn't be messing with the rest of git.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport-helper: trivial code shuffle

Just shuffle the die() part to make it more explicit, and cleanup the
code-style.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
transport-helper: update remote helper namespace

When pushing, the remote namespace is updated correctly
(e.g. refs/origin/master), but not the remote helper's
(e.g. refs/testgit/origin/master), which currently is only
updated while fetching.

Since the remote namespace is used to tell fast-export which commits
to avoid (because they were already imported/exported), it makes
sense to have them in sync so they don't get generated twice. If the
remote helper was implemented properly, they would be ignored, if
not, they probably would end up repeated.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-gc.txt, git-reflog.txt: document new expiry options

Document the new values that can be used for expiry values where their
use makes sense:

* git reflog expire --expire=[all|never]
* git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=[all|never]
* git gc --prune=all

Other combinations aren't useful and therefore no documentation is
added (even though they are allowed):

* git gc --prune=never

  is redundant with "git gc --no-prune"

* git prune --expire=all

  is equivalent to providing no --expire option

* git prune --expire=never

  is a NOP

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
api-parse-options.txt: document "no-" for non-boolean options

Document that the "no-" prefix can also be used for non-boolean
options.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rev-parse: add --prefix option

This makes 'git rev-parse' behave as if it were invoked from the
specified subdirectory of a repository, with the difference that any
file paths which it prints are prefixed with the full path from the top
of the working tree.

This is useful for shell scripts where we may want to cd to the top of
the working tree but need to handle relative paths given by the user on
the command line.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
submodule: drop the top-level requirement

Use the new rev-parse --prefix option to process all paths given to the
submodule command, dropping the requirement that it be run from the
top-level of the repository.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pretty: save commit encoding from logmsg_reencode if the caller needs it

The commit encoding is parsed by logmsg_reencode, there's no need for
the caller to re-parse it again. The reencoded message now has the new
encoding, not the original one. The caller would need to read commit
object again before parsing.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pretty: get the correct encoding for --pretty:format=%e

parse_commit_header() provides the commit encoding for '%e' and it
reads it from the re-encoded message, which contains the new encoding,
not the original one in the commit object. This never happens because
--pretty=format:xxx never respects i18n.logoutputencoding. But that's
a different story.

Get the commit encoding from logmsg_reencode() instead.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pretty-formats.txt: wrap long lines

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
pretty: share code between format_decoration and show_decorations

This also adds color support to format_decorations()

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>