Learn to use format-patch and send-email if possible. These commands
are optimized for the workflow of sending patches, avoiding many ways
-your existing e-mail client that is optimized for "multipart/*" mime
-type e-mails to corrupt and render your patches unusable.
+your existing e-mail client (often optimized for "multipart/*" MIME
+type e-mails) might render your patches unusable.
People on the Git mailing list need to be able to read and
comment on the changes you are submitting. It is important for
git://git.ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
- Those who are interested in improve gitk can volunteer to help Paul
- in maintaining it cf. <YntxL/fTplFm8lr6@cleo>.
+ Those who are interested in improving gitk can volunteer to help Paul
+ maintain it, cf. <YntxL/fTplFm8lr6@cleo>.
- `po/` comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin:
In any time between the (2)-(3) cycle, the maintainer may pick it up
from the list and queue it to `seen`, in order to make it easier for
-people play with it without having to pick up and apply the patch to
+people to play with it without having to pick up and apply the patch to
their trees themselves.
[[patch-status]]
system.
* The git programs will pass the full URL to one another as arguments
on the command-line, meaning the credentials will be exposed to other
- users on OS's or systems that allow other users to see the full
+ unprivileged users on systems that allow them to see the full
process list of other users. On linux the "hidepid" setting
documented in procfs(5) allows for configuring this behavior.
+
-z::
ifdef::git-log[]
- Separate the commits with NULs instead of with new newlines.
+ Separate the commits with NULs instead of newlines.
+
Also, when `--raw` or `--numstat` has been given, do not munge
pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators.
multiple times, in which case the last key becomes the primary
key. The keys supported are the same as those in `git
for-each-ref`. Sort order defaults to the value configured for the
- `branch.sort` variable if exists, or to sorting based on the
+ `branch.sort` variable if it exists, or to sorting based on the
full refname (including `refs/...` prefix). This lists
detached HEAD (if present) first, then local branches and
finally remote-tracking branches. See linkgit:git-config[1].
In this example, there are 3 old and 3 new commits, where the developer
removed the 3rd, added a new one before the first two, and modified the
-commit message of the 2nd commit as well its diff.
+commit message of the 2nd commit as well as its diff.
When the output goes to a terminal, it is color-coded by default, just
like regular `git diff`'s output. In addition, the first line (adding a
to avoid ambiguity with `<name>` containing one.
+
This is useful for cases where you want to pass transitory
-configuration options to git, but are doing so on OS's where
-other processes might be able to read your cmdline
-(e.g. `/proc/self/cmdline`), but not your environ
+configuration options to git, but are doing so on operating systems
+where other processes might be able to read your command line
+(e.g. `/proc/self/cmdline`), but not your environment
(e.g. `/proc/self/environ`). That behavior is the default on
Linux, but may not be on your system.
+
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This attribute controls the length of conflict markers left in
-the work tree file during a conflicted merge. Only setting to
-the value to a positive integer has any meaningful effect.
+the work tree file during a conflicted merge. Only a positive
+integer has a meaningful effect.
For example, this line in `.gitattributes` can be used to tell the merge
machinery to leave much longer (instead of the usual 7-character-long)
git am -3 -k`
An alternate participant submission mechanism is using the
-`git request-pull` or pull-request mechanisms (e.g as used on
+`git request-pull` or pull-request mechanisms (e.g. as used on
GitHub (www.github.com) to notify your upstream of your
contribution.
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.
-I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area
+I expect things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
-there are some general interests (it does not have to be a
+there is general interest (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
* to only mean an external GITDIR referenced by a ".git" file.
*
* The platform FS event backends will receive watch-specific
- * relative paths (except for those OS's that always emit absolute
+ * relative paths (except for those OSes that always emit absolute
* paths). We use the following enum and routines to classify each
* path so that we know how to handle it. There is a slight asymmetry
* here because ".git/" is inside the working directory and the
struct string_list;
/**
- * strbuf's are meant to be used with all the usual C string and memory
+ * strbufs are meant to be used with all the usual C string and memory
* APIs. Given that the length of the buffer is known, it's often better to
- * use the mem* functions than a str* one (memchr vs. strchr e.g.).
+ * use the mem* functions than a str* one (e.g., memchr vs. strchr).
* Though, one has to be careful about the fact that str* functions often
* stop on NULs and that strbufs may have embedded NULs.
*
* strbufs have some invariants that are very important to keep in mind:
*
* - The `buf` member is never NULL, so it can be used in any usual C
- * string operations safely. strbuf's _have_ to be initialized either by
+ * string operations safely. strbufs _have_ to be initialized either by
* `strbuf_init()` or by `= STRBUF_INIT` before the invariants, though.
*
* Do *not* assume anything on what `buf` really is (e.g. if it is
*
* - The `buf` member is a byte array that has at least `len + 1` bytes
* allocated. The extra byte is used to store a `'\0'`, allowing the
- * `buf` member to be a valid C-string. Every strbuf function ensure this
+ * `buf` member to be a valid C-string. All strbuf functions ensure this
* invariant is preserved.
*
* NOTE: It is OK to "play" with the buffer directly if you work it this
substrings or globs or individual test numbers or ranges with an
optional negation prefix (of '!') that define what tests in a test
suite to include (or exclude, if negated) in the run. A range is two
-numbers separated with a dash and matches a range of tests with both
-ends been included. You may omit the first or the second number to
+numbers separated with a dash and specifies an inclusive range of tests
+to run. You may omit the first or the second number to
mean "from the first test" or "up to the very last test" respectively.
The argument to --run is split on commas into separate strings,
on all tests that match either the glob *rebase* or the glob
*merge?cherry-pick*.
-If --run starts with an unprefixed number or range the initial
-set of tests to run is empty. If the first item starts with '!'
+If --run starts with an unprefixed number or range, the initial
+set of tests to run is empty. If the first item starts with '!',
all the tests are added to the initial set. After initial set is
-determined every test number or range is added or excluded from
+determined, every test number or range is added or excluded from
the set one by one, from left to right.
For example, to run only tests up to a specific test (21), one
Recommended style
-----------------
-Here are some recommented styles when writing test case.
- - Keep test title the same line with test helper function itself.
+ - Keep the test_expect_* function call and test title on
+ the same line.
- Take test_expect_success helper for example, write it like:
+ For example, with test_expect_success, write it like:
test_expect_success 'test title' '
... test body ...
'test title' \
'... test body ...'
+ - End the line with an opening single quote.
- - End the line with a single quote.
-
- - Indent the body of here-document, and use "<<-" instead of "<<"
+ - Indent here-document bodies, and use "<<-" instead of "<<"
to strip leading TABs used for indentation:
test_expect_success 'test something' '
'
- Quote or escape the EOF delimiter that begins a here-document if
- there is no parameter and other expansion in it, to signal readers
+ there is no parameter or other expansion in it, to signal readers
that they can skim it more casually:
cmd <<-\EOF
Here are a few examples of things you probably should and shouldn't do
when writing tests.
-Here are the "do's:"
+The "do's:"
- Put all code inside test_expect_success and other assertions.
because the things the very basic core test tries to achieve is
to serve as a basis for people who are changing the Git internals
drastically. For these people, after making certain changes,
-not seeing failures from the basic test _is_ a failure. And
-such drastic changes to the core Git that even changes these
+not seeing failures from the basic test _is_ a failure. Any
+Git core changes so drastic that they change even these
otherwise supposedly stable object IDs should be accompanied by
an update to t0000-basic.sh.
hardcoded the object IDs like t0000-basic.sh does, that defeats
the purpose of t0000-basic.sh, which is to isolate that level of
validation in one place. Your test also ends up needing
-updating when such a change to the internal happens, so do _not_
+an update whenever the internals change, so do _not_
do it and leave the low level of validation to t0000-basic.sh.
Test coverage
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