From cc1b8d8bc6e453b96798574d67ce9590eb3e82e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:16:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhere It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it is missing some of the refs they expected to see. This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just "refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note: - most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help indicate that it was a hierarchy. I didn't do the same for longer paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming "refs/heads/"). - in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs). - In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse). Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 5 +++-- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-prune.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-push.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 22 ++++++++++++---------- Documentation/git-show-branch.txt | 10 +++++----- Documentation/git-stash.txt | 2 +- Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 22 +++++++++++----------- 10 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index e1c4320f0..379eee673 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ status if it is not. A reference is used in git to specify branches and tags. A branch head is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` directory, and -a tag is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directory. git -imposes the following rules on how references are named: +a tag is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directory (or, if refs +are packed by `git gc`, as entries in the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file). +git imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They can include slash `/` for hierarchical (directory) grouping, but no slash-separated component can begin with a diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index f43c8b2c0..88ea6246a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the current master branch, if any. This default configuration is achieved by creating references to -the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and +the remote branch heads under `refs/remotes/origin` and by initializing `remote.origin.url` and `remote.origin.fetch` configuration variables. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index e9952e821..97ea7973a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ higher level wrapper of this command, instead. Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to update the named heads. The list of commits available locally -is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to +is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to 'git-upload-pack' running on the other end. This command degenerates to download everything to complete the diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index ffd5025f7..61fd7d099 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ base-name:: --all:: This implies `--revs`. In addition to the list of revision arguments read from the standard input, pretend - as if all refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs` are specified to be + as if all refs under `refs/` are specified to be included. --include-tag:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt index 3bb730451..15cfb7a8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ NOTE: In most cases, users should run 'git gc', which calls 'git prune'. See the section "NOTES", below. This runs 'git fsck --unreachable' using all the refs -available in `$GIT_DIR/refs`, optionally with additional set of +available in `refs/`, optionally with additional set of objects specified on the command line, and prunes all unpacked objects unreachable from any of these head objects from the object database. In addition, it diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index bd79119dd..3f103ccb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below). --all:: Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all - refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/` be pushed. + refs under `refs/heads/` be pushed. --mirror:: Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all - refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/` (which includes but is not + refs under `refs/` (which includes but is not limited to `refs/heads/`, `refs/remotes/`, and `refs/tags/`) be mirrored to the remote repository. Newly created local refs will be pushed to the remote end, locally updated refs @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below). the same as prefixing all refs with a colon. --tags:: - All refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` are pushed, in + All refs under `refs/tags` are pushed, in addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command line. diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index d677c72d5..1a613aa10 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -101,15 +101,14 @@ OPTIONS abbreviation mode. --all:: - Show all refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs`. + Show all refs found in `refs/`. --branches[=pattern]:: --tags[=pattern]:: --remotes[=pattern]:: Show all branches, tags, or remote-tracking branches, - respectively (i.e., refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads`, - `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags`, or `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes`, - respectively). + respectively (i.e., refs found in `refs/heads`, + `refs/tags`, or `refs/remotes`, respectively). + If a `pattern` is given, only refs matching the given shell glob are shown. If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`, @@ -189,7 +188,7 @@ blobs contained in a commit. `g`, and an abbreviated object name. * A symbolic ref name. E.g. 'master' typically means the commit - object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master. If you + object referenced by refs/heads/master. If you happen to have both heads/master and tags/master, you can explicitly say 'heads/master' to tell git which one you mean. When ambiguous, a `` is disambiguated by taking the @@ -198,15 +197,15 @@ blobs contained in a commit. . if `$GIT_DIR/` exists, that is what you mean (this is usually useful only for `HEAD`, `FETCH_HEAD`, `ORIG_HEAD` and `MERGE_HEAD`); - . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/` if exists; + . otherwise, `refs/` if exists; - . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags/` if exists; + . otherwise, `refs/tags/` if exists; - . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/` if exists; + . otherwise, `refs/heads/` if exists; - . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/` if exists; + . otherwise, `refs/remotes/` if exists; - . otherwise, `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes//HEAD` if exists. + . otherwise, `refs/remotes//HEAD` if exists. + HEAD names the commit your changes in the working tree is based on. FETCH_HEAD records the branch you fetched from a remote repository @@ -217,6 +216,9 @@ you can change the tip of the branch back to the state before you ran them easily. MERGE_HEAD records the commit(s) you are merging into your branch when you run 'git merge'. ++ +Note that any of the `refs/*` cases above may come either from +the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file. * A ref followed by the suffix '@' with a date specification enclosed in a brace diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt index 734336119..b9c4154e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Shows the commit ancestry graph starting from the commits named -with s or s (or all refs under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads -and/or $GIT_DIR/refs/tags) semi-visually. +with s or s (or all refs under refs/heads +and/or refs/tags) semi-visually. It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time. @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ OPTIONS :: A glob pattern that matches branch or tag names under - $GIT_DIR/refs. For example, if you have many topic - branches under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/topic, giving + refs/. For example, if you have many topic + branches under refs/heads/topic, giving `topic/*` would show all of them. -r:: @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ EXAMPLE ------- If you keep your primary branches immediately under -`$GIT_DIR/refs/heads`, and topic branches in subdirectories of +`refs/heads`, and topic branches in subdirectories of it, having the following in the configuration file may help: ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt index 84e555d81..473889a66 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ A stash is by default listed as "WIP on 'branchname' ...", but you can give a more descriptive message on the command line when you create one. -The latest stash you created is stored in `$GIT_DIR/refs/stash`; older +The latest stash you created is stored in `refs/stash`; older stashes are found in the reflog of this reference and can be named using the usual reflog syntax (e.g. `stash@\{0}` is the most recently created stash, `stash@\{1}` is the one before it, `stash@\{2.hours.ago}` diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 6e9baf8b3..81c0e6f18 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -225,26 +225,26 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] --all:: - Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/` are listed on the + Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/` are listed on the command line as ''. --branches[=pattern]:: - Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` are listed + Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/heads` are listed on the command line as ''. If `pattern` is given, limit branches to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied. --tags[=pattern]:: - Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` are listed + Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/tags` are listed on the command line as ''. If `pattern` is given, limit tags to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied. --remotes[=pattern]:: - Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes` are listed + Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/remotes` are listed on the command line as ''. If `pattern`is given, limit remote tracking branches to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied. @@ -259,9 +259,9 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] ifndef::git-rev-list[] --bisect:: - Pretend as if the bad bisection ref `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/bad` + Pretend as if the bad bisection ref `refs/bisect/bad` was listed and as if it was followed by `--not` and the good - bisection refs `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/good-*` on the command + bisection refs `refs/bisect/good-*` on the command line. endif::git-rev-list[] @@ -561,10 +561,10 @@ Bisection Helpers Limit output to the one commit object which is roughly halfway between included and excluded commits. Note that the bad bisection ref -`$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/bad` is added to the included commits (if it -exists) and the good bisection refs `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/good-*` are +`refs/bisect/bad` is added to the included commits (if it +exists) and the good bisection refs `refs/bisect/good-*` are added to the excluded commits (if they exist). Thus, supposing there -are no refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/`, if +are no refs in `refs/bisect/`, if ----------------------------------------------------------------------- $ git rev-list --bisect foo ^bar ^baz @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ one. --bisect-vars:: This calculates the same as `--bisect`, except that refs in -`$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/` are not used, and except that this outputs +`refs/bisect/` are not used, and except that this outputs text ready to be eval'ed by the shell. These lines will assign the name of the midpoint revision to the variable `bisect_rev`, and the expected number of commits to be tested after `bisect_rev` is tested @@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ number of commits to be tested if `bisect_rev` turns out to be bad to This outputs all the commit objects between the included and excluded commits, ordered by their distance to the included and excluded -commits. Refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/bisect/` are not used. The farthest +commits. Refs in `refs/bisect/` are not used. The farthest from them is displayed first. (This is the only one displayed by `--bisect`.) + -- 2.26.2