Git 1.8.2-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -29,10 +29,15 @@ Many users found this counter-intuitive, given that "git commit -a"
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and other commands operate on the entire tree regardless of where you
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are. In this release, these commands give warning in such a case and
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encourage the user to say "git add -u/-A ." instead when restricting
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-the scope to the current directory. At Git 2.0 (not *this* one), we
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-plan to change these commands without pathspec to operate on the
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-entire tree, and training your fingers to type "." will protect you
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-against the future change.
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+the scope to the current directory.
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+At Git 2.0 (not *this* one), we plan to change these commands without
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+pathspec to operate on the entire tree. Forming a habit to type "."
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+when you mean to limit the command to the current working directory
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+will protect you against the planned future change, and that is the
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+whole point of the new message (there will be no configuration
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+variable to squelch this warning---it goes against the "habit forming"
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+objective).
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Updates since v1.8.1
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* Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
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affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
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+ * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES could be a "logical" pathname
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+ that uses a symbolic link to point at somewhere else (e.g. /home/me
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+ that points at /net/host/export/home/me, and the latter directory
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+ is automounted). Earlier when Git saw such a pathname e.g. /home/me
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+ on this environment variable, the "ceiling" mechanism did not take
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+ effect. With this release (the fix has also been merged to the
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+ v1.8.1.x maintenance series), elements on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
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+ are by default checked for such aliasing coming from symbolic
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+ links. As this needs to actually resolve symbolic links for each
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+ element on the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, you can disable this
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+ mechanism for some elements by listing them after an empty element
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+ on the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES. e.g. Setting /home/me::/home/him to
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+ GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES makes Git resolve symbolic links in
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+ /home/me when checking if the current directory is under /home/me,
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+ but does not do so for /home/him.
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+ (merge 7ec30aa mh/maint-ceil-absolute later to maint).
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