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* The third batchHEADmasterJunio C Hamano6 days1-0/+22
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'jc/cli-doc-option-and-config'Junio C Hamano6 days1-0/+17
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Doc update. * jc/cli-doc-option-and-config: gitcli: document that command line trumps config and env
| * gitcli: document that command line trumps config and envJunio C Hamano12 days1-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We centrally explain that "--no-whatever" is the way to countermand the "--whatever" option. Explain that a configured default and the value specified by an environment variable can be overridden by the corresponding command line option, too. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Acked-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'mh/doc-credential-helpers-with-pat'Junio C Hamano6 days2-12/+46
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document that it is insecure to use Personal Access Tokens, which some hosting providers take as username/password, embedded in URLs. * mh/doc-credential-helpers-with-pat: docs: discuss caching personal access tokens docs: list popular credential helpers
| * | docs: discuss caching personal access tokensM Hickford2025-01-111-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Describe problems storing personal access tokens in git-credential-cache and suggest alternatives. Research suggests that many users are confused about this: > the point of passwords is that (ideally) you memorise them [so] > they're never stored anywhere in plain text. Yet GitHub's personal > access token system seems to basically force you to store the token in > plain text? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46645843/where-to-store-my-git-personal-access-token#comment89963004_46645843 Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | docs: list popular credential helpersM Hickford2025-01-111-12/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git-credential-store saves credentials unencrypted on disk. It is the least secure choice of credential helper. Nevertheless, it appears several times more popular than any other credential helper [1]. Inform users about more secure alternatives. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35942754/how-can-i-save-username-and-password-in-git Signed-off-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | Merge branch 'sj/meson-doc-technical-dependency-fix'Junio C Hamano6 days1-0/+1
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The meson build procedure for Documentation/technical/ hierarchy was missing necessary dependencies, which has been corrected. * sj/meson-doc-technical-dependency-fix: meson: fix missing deps for technical articles
| * | | meson: fix missing deps for technical articlesSam James2025-01-141-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need an explicit `depends: documentation_deps` so that all of our Documentation targets know they require asciidoc.conf. This shows up as parallel build failures with it not yet being available. Other targets look OK already. Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | The second batchJunio C Hamano8 days1-0/+22
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* | | | Merge branch 'mh/gitattr-doc-markup-fix'Junio C Hamano8 days1-1/+1
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Doc markup fix. * mh/gitattr-doc-markup-fix: docs: fix typesetting of merge driver placeholders
| * | | | docs: fix typesetting of merge driver placeholdersMatthew Hughes2025-01-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Following the `CodingGuidlines`, since these placeholders are literal they should be typeset verbatim, so fix some that aren't. Signed-off-by: Matthew Hughes <matthewhughes934@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'aj/difftool-config-doc-fix'Junio C Hamano8 days2-2/+2
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Docfix. * aj/difftool-config-doc-fix: difftool docs: restore correct position of tool list
| * | | | | difftool docs: restore correct position of tool listAdam Johnson2025-01-092-2/+2
| | |_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2a9dfdf260 (difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections, 2022-09-07) moved the difftool documentation, but missed moving this "include" line that includes the generated list of diff tools, as referenced in the moved text. Restore the correct position of the included list. Signed-off-by: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | The first batchJunio C Hamano13 days1-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | Sync with Git 2.48.1Junio C Hamano2025-01-1310-1/+68
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| * | | | | Git 2.48.1v2.48.1Junio C Hamano2025-01-131-0/+7
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| * | | | | Sync with Git 2.47.2Junio C Hamano2025-01-139-1/+61
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | |/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Git 2.47.2 # -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- # # iQIzBAABCAAdFiEE4fA2sf7nIh/HeOzvsLXohpav5ssFAmdkT1sACgkQsLXohpav # 5svdhRAAq0WoZIg+33vYNNVSTm3Ux9RJslmXs3lQuhuUJ61hK/28drSLU29GH7x7 # 3nmmjp1cegnXRVLBAfoYDdzPprNNrQFQEHQEzgG/GDZw0OXn+WTZuNyrrUYoa+sd # QSLlElRj2qrpHIMOsMIBKBSNB+qjJHOMGdxcBAS768TfnQpGIpc1KJa24TxsVBzC # ScP4uvrFfPyQrqFUgiUhCeqLnO/6T5i/QAn/8cS5a1+zor5ZHSlw28TZTOxN2odo # Rulp/FtehiDEzmRowgD3M4fImAPY6Ib6VORCYASqpJFFla30tu2bQqEi6raOMTec # hg5Ibkmj6fHFONaYvoTMRkYHmtUnNgIPU/CYPwswNk8w1+PPQfJ+TYjBXOQgdTLW # F0azHBHh7NRmEHVydiF9CqjgNVRzjO4IEZfGqXNFPPMvR6UUzDaIkrpYbwXBFMin # GNPV3QISeXj9ROjJoCv0nclXETwWemykjZlD6b5krXn5TaJlFb+69qJvXrCLq5WY # EoevSqKkB9HVK9si7P8Sh1cPGOr3kfiFPmMNKFVI8l0+iDFgBywOomWNS/JEzqu1 # nN142DKdL1W/rkeMUhbX2h11CZNvHKIOy3iaA4MTOing8/eMzyUUQ73Ck7odYs4f # rZ0tTXKJhxojPvBpTxYe9SxM0bDLREiOv0zX76+sIuhbAQCmk0o= # =MNNf # -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- # gpg: Signature made Thu 19 Dec 2024 08:52:43 AM PST # gpg: using RSA key E1F036B1FEE7221FC778ECEFB0B5E88696AFE6CB # gpg: Good signature from "Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>" [ultimate] # gpg: aka "Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>" [ultimate] # gpg: aka "Junio C Hamano <jch@google.com>" [ultimate] * tag 'v2.47.2': Git 2.47.2 Git 2.46.3 Git 2.45.3 Git 2.44.3 Git 2.43.6 Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
| | * | | | Git 2.47.2v2.47.2Johannes Schindelin2024-11-261-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
| | * | | | Sync with 2.46.3Johannes Schindelin2024-11-268-1/+54
| | |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint-2.46: Git 2.46.3 Git 2.45.3 Git 2.44.3 Git 2.43.6 Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
| | | * | | | Git 2.46.3v2.46.3Johannes Schindelin2024-11-261-0/+6
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| | | * | | | Sync with 2.45.3Johannes Schindelin2024-11-267-1/+48
| | | |\ \ \ \ | | | | |/ / / | | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint-2.45: Git 2.45.3 Git 2.44.3 Git 2.43.6 Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
| | | | * | | Git 2.45.3v2.45.3Johannes Schindelin2024-11-261-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
| | | | * | | Sync with 2.44.3Johannes Schindelin2024-11-266-0/+42
| | | | |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint-2.44: Git 2.44.3 Git 2.43.6 Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
| | | | | * | | Git 2.44.3v2.44.3Johannes Schindelin2024-11-261-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
| | | | | * | | Sync with 2.43.6Johannes Schindelin2024-11-265-0/+35
| | | | | |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint-2.43: Git 2.43.6 Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
| | | | | | * | | Git 2.43.6v2.43.6Johannes Schindelin2024-11-261-0/+7
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| | | | | | * | | Sync with 2.42.4Johannes Schindelin2024-11-264-0/+28
| | | | | | |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint-2.42: Git 2.42.4 Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
| | | | | | | * | | Git 2.42.4v2.42.4Johannes Schindelin2024-11-261-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
| | | | | | | * | | Sync with 2.41.3Johannes Schindelin2024-11-263-0/+22
| | | | | | | |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint-2.41: Git 2.41.3 Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
| | | | | | | | * | | Git 2.41.3v2.41.3Johannes Schindelin2024-11-261-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
| | | | | | | | * | | Sync with 2.40.4Johannes Schindelin2024-11-262-0/+16
| | | | | | | | |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint-2.40: Git 2.40.4 credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by default credential: sanitize the user prompt credential_format(): also encode <host>[:<port>] t7300: work around platform-specific behaviour with long paths on MinGW compat/regex: fix argument order to calloc(3) mingw: drop bogus (and unneeded) declaration of `_pgmptr` ci: remove 'Upload failed tests' directories' step from linux32 jobs
| | | | | | | | | * | | Git 2.40.4v2.40.4Johannes Schindelin2024-11-261-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
| | | | | | | | | * | | credential: disallow Carriage Returns in the protocol by defaultJohannes Schindelin2024-11-261-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While Git has documented that the credential protocol is line-based, with newlines as terminators, the exact shape of a newline has not been documented. From Git's perspective, which is firmly rooted in the Linux ecosystem, it is clear that "a newline" means a Line Feed character. However, even Git's credential protocol respects Windows line endings (a Carriage Return character followed by a Line Feed character, "CR/LF") by virtue of using `strbuf_getline()`. There is a third category of line endings that has been used originally by MacOS, and that is respected by the default line readers of .NET and node.js: bare Carriage Returns. Git cannot handle those, and what is worse: Git's remedy against CVE-2020-5260 does not catch when credential helpers are used that interpret bare Carriage Returns as newlines. Git Credential Manager addressed this as CVE-2024-50338, but other credential helpers may still be vulnerable. So let's not only disallow Line Feed characters as part of the values in the credential protocol, but also disallow Carriage Return characters. In the unlikely event that a credential helper relies on Carriage Returns in the protocol, introduce an escape hatch via the `credential.protectProtocol` config setting. This addresses CVE-2024-52006. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
| | | | | | | | | * | | credential: sanitize the user promptJohannes Schindelin2024-11-261-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When asking the user interactively for credentials, we want to avoid misleading them e.g. via control sequences that pretend that the URL targets a trusted host when it does not. While Git learned, over the course of the preceding commits, to disallow URLs containing URL-encoded control characters by default, credential helpers are still allowed to specify values very freely (apart from Line Feed and NUL characters, anything is allowed), and this would allow, say, a username containing control characters to be specified that would then be displayed in the interactive terminal prompt asking the user for the password, potentially sending those control characters directly to the terminal. This is undesirable because control characters can be used to mislead users to divulge secret information to untrusted sites. To prevent such an attack vector, let's add a `git_prompt()` that forces the displayed text to be sanitized, i.e. displaying question marks instead of control characters. Note: While this commit's diff changes a lot of `user@host` strings to `user%40host`, which may look suspicious on the surface, there is a good reason for that: this string specifies a user name, not a <username>@<hostname> combination! In the context of t5541, the actual combination looks like this: `user%40@127.0.0.1:5541`. Therefore, these string replacements document a net improvement introduced by this commit, as `user@host@127.0.0.1` could have left readers wondering where the user name ends and where the host name begins. Hinted-at-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
* | | | | | | | | | | | Start the Git 2.49 cycleJunio C Hamano2025-01-131-0/+15
|/ / / / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | RelNotes/2.48.0: fix typos etc.Kristoffer Haugsbakk2025-01-071-13/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct verb tense, add missing words, avoid double blank lines, and rephrase things that don’t read well to me like “Turn this linkage to relative paths”. Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'jc/doc-opt-tilde-expand'Junio C Hamano2025-01-061-1/+1
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Docfix. * jc/doc-opt-tilde-expand: gitcli.txt: typeset pathnames as monospace
| * | | | | | | | | | | gitcli.txt: typeset pathnames as monospaceMartin Ågren2025-01-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 1bc1e94091 (doc: option value may be separate for valid reasons, 2024-11-25) added a paragraph discussing tilde-expansion of, e.g., ~/directory/file. The tilde character has a special meaning to asciidoc tools. In this particular case, AsciiDoc matches up the two tildes in "e.g. ~/directory/file or ~u/d/f" and sets the text between them using subscript. In the manpage, where subscripting is not possible, this renders as "e.g. /directory/file oru/d/f". These paths are literal values, which our coding guidelines want typeset as verbatim using backticks. Do that. One effect of this is indeed that the asciidoc tools stop interpreting tilde and other special characters. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'mh/doc-windows-home-env'Junio C Hamano2025-01-061-1/+1
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Docfix. * mh/doc-windows-home-env: git.txt: fix heading line of tildes
| * | | | | | | | | | | | git.txt: fix heading line of tildesMartin Ågren2025-01-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The two-line heading added in 8525e92886 (Document HOME environment variable, 2024-12-09) uses too many tilde characters, so the heading isn't detected as such. Both AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor end up misrendering this in different ways. Use the correct number of tilde characters to fix this. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'ps/build-meson-html'Junio C Hamano2025-01-029-58/+392
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The build procedure based on meson learned to generate HTML documention pages. * ps/build-meson-html: Documentation: wire up sanity checks for Meson t/Makefile: make "check-meson" work with Dash meson: install static files for HTML documentation meson: generate articles Documentation: refactor "howto-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds Documentation: refactor "api-index.sh" for out-of-tree builds meson: generate user manual Documentation: inline user-manual.conf meson: generate HTML pages for all man page categories meson: fix generation of merge tools meson: properly wire up dependencies for our docs meson: wire up support for AsciiDoctor
| * | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation: wire up sanity checks for MesonPatrick Steinhardt2024-12-273-0/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wire up sanity checks for Meson to verify that no man pages are missing. This check is similar to the same check we already have for our tests. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | meson: install static files for HTML documentationPatrick Steinhardt2024-12-271-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we generate man pages, articles and user manual with Meson the only thing that is still missing in an installation of HTML documents is a couple of static files. Wire these up to finalize Meson's support for generating HTML documentation. Diffing an installation that uses our Makefile with an installation that uses Meson only surfaces a couple of discepancies now: - Meson doesn't install "everyday.html" and "git-remote-helpers.html". These files are marked as obsolete and don't contain any useful information anymore: they simply point to their modern equivalents. - Meson doesn't install "*.txt" files when asking for HTML docs. I'm not sure why our Makefiles do this in the first place, and it does seem like the resulting installation is fully functional even without those files. Other than that, both layout and file contents are the exact same. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | meson: generate articlesPatrick Steinhardt2024-12-273-0/+164
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While the Meson build system already knows to generate man pages and our user manual, it does not yet generate the random assortment of articles that we have. Plug this gap. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation: refactor "howto-index.sh" for out-of-tree buildsPatrick Steinhardt2024-12-272-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "howto-index.sh" is used to generate an index of our how-to docs. It receives as input the paths to these documents, which would typically be relative to the "Documentation/" directory in Makefile-based builds. In an out-of-tree build though it will get relative that may be rooted somewhere else entirely. The file paths do end up in the generated index, and the expectation is that they should always start with "howto/". But for out-of-tree builds we would populate it with the paths relative to the build directory, which is wrong. Fix the issue by using `$(basename "$file")` to generate the path. While at it, move the script into "howto/" to align it with the location of the comparable "api-index.sh" script. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation: refactor "api-index.sh" for out-of-tree buildsPatrick Steinhardt2024-12-272-5/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "api-index.sh" script generates an index of API-related documentation. The script does not handle out-of-tree builds and thus cannot be used easily by Meson. Refactor it to be independent of locations by both accepting a source directory where the API docs live as well as a path to an output file. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | meson: generate user manualPatrick Steinhardt2024-12-271-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our documentation contains a user manual that gives people a short introduction to Git. Our Makefile knows to generate the manual into three different formats: an HTML page, a PDF and an info page. The Meson build instructions don't yet generate any of these. While wiring up all these formats I hit a couple of road blocks with how we generate our info pages. Even though I eventually resolved these, it made me question whether anybody actually uses info pages in the first place. Checking through a couple of downstream consumers I couldn't find a single user of either the info pages nor of our PDF manual in Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD or OpenBSDFedora. So it's rather safe to assume that there aren't really any users out there, and thus the added complexity does not seem worth it. Wire up support for building the user manual in HTML format and conciously skip over the other two formats. This is basically a form of silent deprecation: if people out there use the other two formats they will eventually complain about them missing in Meson, which means we can wire them up at a later point. If they don't we can phase out these formats eventually. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation: inline user-manual.confPatrick Steinhardt2024-12-273-12/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When generating our user manual we set up a bit of extra configuration compared to our normal configuration. This is done by having an extra "user-manual.conf" file that Asciidoc seems to pull in automatically due to matching filenames with "user-manual.txt". This dependency is quite hidden though and thus easy to miss. Furthermore, it seems that Asciidoc does not know to pull it in for out-of-tree builds where we use relative paths. The setup in AsciiDoctor is somewhat different: instead of having two sets of configuration, we condition the use of manual-specific configs based on whether the document type is "book". And as we only build our user manual with that type this is sufficient. Use the same trick for our user manual by inlining the configuration into "asciidoc.conf.in" and making it conditional on whether or not "doctype-book" is defined. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | meson: generate HTML pages for all man page categoriesPatrick Steinhardt2024-12-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When generating HTML pages for our man pages we only generate them for category 1 in Meson, which are the pages corresponding to our built-in commands. I cannot tell why I added this filter though: our Makefile installs all man pages, so a Meson-based build misses out on many of them. Fix this by removing the filter. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | meson: fix generation of merge toolsPatrick Steinhardt2024-12-271-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our buildsystems generate a list of diff and merge tools that ultimately end up in our documentation. And while Meson does wire up the logic, it tries to use the TOOL_MODE environment variable to set up the mode. This is wrong though: the mode is set via an argument that we have fixed to 'diff' mode by accident. Fix this such that merge tools are properly generated. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>