This bug concerns the way `import_refs` that gets called by `fetch` computes
the heads that should be visible after the import.
Previously, the list of such heads was computed *before* local branches were
updated based on changes to the remote branches. So, commits that should have
been abandoned based on this update of the local branches weren't properly
abandoned.
Now, `import_refs` tracks the heads that need to be visible because of some ref
in a mapping keyed by the ref. If the ref moves or is deleted, the
corresponding heads are updated.
Fixes#864
This adds a config called `revsets.short-prefixes`, which lets the
user specify a revset in which to disambiguate otherwise ambiguous
change/commit ids. It defaults to the value of `revsets.log`.
I made it so you can disable the feature by setting
`revsets.short-prefixes = ""`. I don't like that the default value
(using `revsets.log`) cannot be configured explicitly by the
user. That will be addressed if we decide to merge the `[revsets]` and
`[revset-aliases]` sections some day.
I plan to add `revsets.short-prefixes` and `revsets.immutable` soon,
and I think `[revsets]` seems like reasonable place to put them. It
seems consistent with our `[templates]` section. However, it also
suffers from the same problem as that section, which is that the
difference between `[templates]` and `[template-aliases]` is not
clear. We can decide about about templates and revsets later.
IIUC, the consensus in the Git project is that the overloaded nature
of `git checkout` for many use cases was a mistake, and `git
switch/restore` are meant to replace it.
We currently say that `x..y` is "Ancestors of `y` that are not also
ancestors of `x`, both inclusive.". However, it's easy to think that
"both inclusive" means that both `x` and `y` are included in the set,
which is not the case. What we mean is more like "{Ancestors of `y`,
including `y` itself} that are not also {ancestors of `x`, including
`x` itself}.". Given that we already define ancestors and descendants
as being inclusive on the lines above, and we also give the equivalent
expressions using the `x:` and `:y` operators, it's probably best to
just skip the "both inclusive" parts.
This doc describes what we need to consider in a submodule storage
solution, some possible solutions and what criteria we should use to
decide on a future direction.
This is still a WIP:
- The solutions are still underdescribed
- The actual evaluation of solutions is missing
Suggestions for the above are welcome :)
The need for a glossary came up on Discord today.
This needs some more work, but I think this is a good start. I'm still
happy to update it if anyone has suggestions, of course. I haven't
started sprinkling pointers to the glossary from other places, so
users will only discover it by browsing the `docs/` directory.
This is a convenience optimization to improve the default user
experience, since `jj log` is a frequently run command. Accessing the
help information explicitly still follows normal CLI conventions, and
instructions are displayed appropriately if the user happens to make a
mistake. Discoverability should not be adversely harmed.
Note that this behavior mirrors what Sapling does [2], where `sl` will
display the smartlog by default.
[1] https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/issues/975
[2] https://sapling-scm.com/docs/overview/smartlog
The `heads()` revset function with one argument is the counterpart to
`roots()`. Without arguments, it returns the visible heads in the
repo, i.e. `heads(all())`. The two use cases are quite different, and
I think it would be good to clarify that the no-arg form returns the
visible heads, so let's split that out to a new `visible_heads()`
function.
This document is meant to be a record of how we think about Git
submodules (and not a _current_ implementation of submodules). We will
fill it out incrementally as we get a clearer idea of what we want
submodules to look like.
As an initial version, I started with (IMO) the least controversial
points:
- We want to support most workflows Git submodules users are accustomed
to.
- A roadmap that allows us to incrementally roll out Git submodule
functionality (instead of having to boil the ocean).
This serves the role of limit() in Mercurial. Since revsets in JJ is
(conceptually) an unordered set, a "limit" predicate should define its
ordering criteria. That's why the added predicate is named as "latest".
Closes#1110
We need 1.64 to bump `clap` to `4.1`. We don't really need to upgrade
to that, but being on an older version causes minor confusions like
#1393. Rust 1.64 is very close to 6 months old at this point.
This involves a little hack to insert a lambda parameter 'x' to be used at
keyword position. If the template language were dynamically typed (and were
interpreted), .map() implementation would be simpler. I considered that, but
interpreter version has its own warts (late error reporting, uneasy to cache
static object, etc.), and I don't think the current template engine is
complex enough to rewrite from scratch.
.map() returns template, which can't be join()-ed. This will be fixed later.
@joyously found `o` confusing because it's a valid change id prefix. I
don't have much preference, but `●` seems fine. The "ascii",
"ascii-large", and "legacy" graph styles still use "o".
I didn't change `@` since it seems useful to have that match the
symbol used on the CLI. I don't think we want to have users do
something like `jj co ◎-`.
Unlike Mercurial, this isn't a template keyword/function, but a config knob.
Exposing graph_width to templater wouldn't be easy, and I don't think it's
better to handle terminal wrapping in template.
I'm not sure if patch content should be wrapped, so this option only applies
to the template output for now.
Closes#1043
The parameter order follows indent()/label() functions, but this might be
a bad idea because fill() is more likely to have optional parameters. We can
instead add template.fill(width) method as well as .indent(prefix). If we take
this approach, we'll probably need to add string.fill()/indent() methods,
and/or implicit cast at method resolution. The good thing about the method
syntax is that we can add string.refill(), etc. for free, without inventing
generic labeled template functions.
For #1043, I think it's better to add a config like ui.log-word-wrap = true.
We could add term_width/graph_width keywords to the templater, but the
implementation would be more complicated, and is difficult to use for the
basic use case. Unlike Mercurial, our templater doesn't have a context map
to override the graph_width stub.
A list type isn't so useful without a map operation, but List<CommitId>
is at least printable. Maybe we can experiment with it to craft a map
operation.
If a map operation is introduced, this keyword might be replaced with
"parents.map(|commit| commit.commit_id)", where parents is of List<Commit>
type, and the .map() method will probably return List<Template>.
The argument order is different from Mercurial's indent() function. I think
indent(prefix, content) is more readable for lengthy content. However,
indent(content, prefix, ...) might be better if we want to add an optional
firstline_prefix argument.
This eliminates ambiguous parsing between "func()" and "expr ()".
I chose "++" as template concatenation operator in case we want to add
bit-wise negate operator. It's also easier to find/replace than "~".
The outermost "op-log" label isn't moved to the default template. I think
it belongs to the command's formatter rather than the template.
Old bikeshedding items:
- "current_head", "is_head", or "is_head_op"
=> renamed to "current_operation"
- "templates.op-log" vs "templates.op_log" (the whole template is labeled
as "op-log")
=> renamed to "op_log"
- "template-aliases.'format_operation_duration(time_range)'"
=> renamed to 'format_time_range(time_range)'
Now that we use headers to define `[template-aliases]`, I thought we should explain how they are also equivalent to dotted keys.
Alternatively, we could rewrite them all in the dotted style, but it would look awkward.
I'm going to remove the corresponding config knobs.
As an example of "brackets" short id, I put a simplified version. It's
unlikely that the "rest()" gets empty for hashes of 12-char long.
We have made some changes to CLI output that had not made it into the
tutorial. It's time to update it, especially with the new change id
rendering. Since I'm updating it now, and since it's a bit of work to
do so, I decided to use GitHub's Hello-World repo instead of jj's own
repo as our example.
Supported values are,
- `none` for no author information,
- `full` for both the name and email,
- `name` for just the name,
- `username` for username part of the email,
- (default) `email` (or any other gibberish for that matter) for the full email.
For stock merge-tools, having name -> args indirection makes sense. For
user-specific settings, it's simpler to set command name and arguments
together.
It might be a bit odd that "name with whitespace" can be parsed differently
depending on the existence of merge-tools."name with whitespace".
I keep calling it `underline` by mistake, so that probably means that
it's a more natural name for it. We haven't made a release of it yet,
so I didn't mention it in the changelog.
I didn't update all variables to also use `underline`, because I felt
that `underlined` was usually more natural there, plus crossterm calls
it `Attribute::Underlined`.
Add a new git.auto-local-branch config option. When set to false, a
remote-tracking branch imported from Git will not automatically create a
local branch target. This is implemented by a new GitSettings struct
that passes Git-related settings from UserSettings.
This behavior is particularly useful in a co-located jj and Git repo,
because a Git remote might have branches that are not of everyday
interest to the user, so it does not make sense to export them as local
branches in Git. E.g. https://github.com/gitster/git, the maintainer's
fork of Git, has 379 branches, most of which are topic branches kept
around for historical reasons, and Git developers wouldn't be expected
to have local branches for each remote-tracking branch.
I think of it more as style than a format, so using `style` in the
config key makes sense to me.
I didn't bother making upgrades easy by supporting the old name since
this was just released and only a few developers probably have it set.
The heading says it's going to explain aliases, but it doesn't, and
now that we've documented aliases in config.md, we probably don't need
to mention it in the tutorial.
The `git.fetch` and `git.push` keys can be used in the configuration file
for the default to use in `jj git fetch` and `jj git push` operations.
By defaut, "origin" is used in both cases.
- branches has the signature branches([needle]), meaning the needle is optional (branches() is equivalent to branches("")) and it matches all branches whose name contains needle as a substring
- remote_branches has the signature remote_branches([branch_needle[, remote_needle]]), meaning it can be called with no arguments, or one argument (in which case, it's similar to branches), or two arguments where the first argument matches branch names and the second argument matches remote names (similar to branches, remote_branches(), remote_branches("") and remote_branches("", "") are all equivalent)
Running `cargo fmt` while you're working in an editor means that you
may lose changes because of a race:
1. Your editor reads version X of file
2. `cargo fmt` reads version X
3. You save version Y from your editor
4. `cargo fmt` saves version Z, replacing Y
Since per-repo config may contain CLI settings, it must be visible to CLI.
Therefore, UserSettings::with_repo() -> RepoSettings isn't used, and its
implementation is nullified by this commit.
#616
After I changed `merge-tools.vimdiff.program` to `vim`, using
`vimdiff` as a diff editor wouldn't work at all.
Out of the box, it's still not a good experience. I included a
recommendation of a plugin to install to make it better.
It can be confusing that the lib crate is not tested when you run
`cargo test` without `--workspace` from the root directory. Also,
`nextest` is a non-obvious quality-of-life improvement, so let's
suggest that.
When importing `conflicts.md` into the Google repo, our internal tools
complained that it contained conflict markers. Similarly, if you ever
get an actual merge conflict in the file, the working-copy
snapshotting would parse our sample conflict markers here, forcing you
to work around it. Let's avoid that by indenting the conflict
markers. Hopefully readers will understand that the leading space is
not part of the markers.
When a workspace's working-copy commit is updated from another
workspace, the workspace becomes "stale". That means that the working
copy on disk doesn't represent the commit that the repo's view says it
should. In this state, we currently automatically it to the desired
commit next time the user runs any command in the workspace. That can
be undesirable e.g. if the user had a slow build or test run started
in the working copy. It can also be surprising that a checkout happens
when the user ran a seemingly readonly command like `jj status`.
This patch makes most commands instead error out if the working copy
is stale, and adds a `jj workspace update-stale` to update it. The
user can still run commands with `--no-commit-working-copy` in this
state (doing e.g. `jj --no-commit-working-copy rebase -r @ -d @--` is
another way of getting into the stale-working-copy state, by the way).
As dbarnett@ reported on #9, our default of `less`, combined with our
default of enabling color on TTYs, means that we print ANSI codes to
`less` by default. Unless the user has set e.g. `$LESS=R`, `less` is
going to escape those codes, resulting in garbage like this:
```
@ ESC[1;35mbb39c26a29feESC[0m ESC[1;33m(no email configured)ESC[0m ESC[1;36m2022-12-03....
```
I guess most of us didn't notice because we have something like
`$LESS=FRX` set.
This patch changes our default from `less` to `less -FRX`. Those are
the flags we're using for our internal hg distribution at Google, and
that has seemed quite uncontroversial.
I added a pointer from the changelog to the tracking issue while at
it.
It should be more reliable than parsing a command string into array.
Also updated some of the doc example to use array syntax. I don't think
"C:/Program Files" was parsed properly, but might work thanks to Windows
magic.
Teach Ui's writing functions to write to a pager without touching the
process's file descriptors. This is done by introducing UiOutput::Paged,
which spawns a pager that Ui's functions can write to.
The pager program can be chosen via `ui.pager`. (defaults to Defaults to
$PAGER, and 'less' if that is unset (falling back to 'less' also makes
the tests pass).
Currently, commands are paginated if:
- they have "long" output (as defined by jj developers)
- jj is invoked in a terminal
The next commit will allow pagination to be turned off via a CLI option.
More complex pagination toggling (e.g. showing a pager even if the
output doesn't look like a terminal, using a pager for shorter ouput) is
left for a future PR.
Because a unary negation node '~y' is more primitive than the corresponding
difference node 'x~y', '~y' is easier to deal with while rewriting the tree.
That's the main reason to add RevsetExpression::NotIn node.
As we have a NotIn node, it makes sense to add an operator for that. This
patch reuses '~' token, which I feel intuitive since the other set operators
looks like bitwise ops. Another option is '!'.
The unary '~' operator has the highest precedence among the set operators,
but they are lower than the ranges. This might be counter intuitive, but
useful because a prefix range ':x' can be negated without parens.
Maybe we can remove the redundant infix operator 'x ~ y', but it isn't
decided yet.
Function parameters are processed as local symbols while substituting
alias expression. This isn't as efficient as Mercurial which caches
a tree of fully-expanded function template, but that wouldn't matter in
practice.
Because the use of the change id is recommended, any operation should abort
if a valid change id happens to match a commit id. We still try the commit
id lookup first as the change id lookup is more costly.
Ambiguous change/commit id is reported as AmbiguousCommitIdPrefix for now.
Maybe we can merge AmbiguousCommit/ChangeIdPrefix errors into one?
Closes#799
Aliases are loaded at WorkspaceCommandHelper::new() as it's easier to warn
invalid declarations there. Not all commands use revsets, but many do, so
I think it's okay to always pay the loading cost. Parsing the declaration
part (i.e. a symbol) should be fast anyway.
The nested error message isn't super readable, but seems good enough.
Config syntax to bikeshed:
- naming: [revset-alias] vs [revset-aliases] ?
- function alias will need quotes: 'f(x)' = 'x'
The expression 'x ~ empty()' is identical to 'x & file(".")', but more
intuitive.
Note that 'x ~ empty()' is slower than 'x & file(".")' since the negative
intersection isn't optimized right now. I think that can be handled as
follows: 'x ~ filter(f)' -> 'x & filter(!f)' -> 'filter(!f, x)'
We have talked about showing the commit ID only for divergent changes
because it's generally easier to work with the change ID, and it's
less likely to result in a divergent change. However, it's useful to
have the commit ID available for pasting into e.g. a commit message or
the GitHub UI. To try to steer users towards using the change ID, this
commit moves the commit ID off to the right in the log output.
I put it just after the "divergent" field, because that makes it close
to how I imagine it would look if we decided to hide the commit ID
except for divergent changes. I was thinking that could be rendered as
"divergent (abc123)". So if we add config to hide the commit ID, then
it would be rendered almost the same for divergent commits (just with
the added parentheses). It would also make sense to replace the
"divergent" field by a question mark on the change ID, since change
IDs basically behave like branches. If we do that, then the placement
of the commit ID I picked in this commit does not make sense.
Given how easy this was, I can't believe I didn't make the change
sooner.
I haven't updated the screenshots in the readme because I plan to make
some further changes to the default template. I'll update them after
those changes.
It's useful to know when you've modified a branch that exists on a
remote. A typical case is when you have pushed a branch to a remote
and then rewritten it. This commit adds an indication in the
`branches` template keyword. A branch that needs to be pushed to a
remote now has a `*` at the end (similar to how conflicted branches
have a `?` at the end). Note that the indication only considers
remotes where the branch currently exists, so there won't be an
indication that the branch has not been pushed to a remote.
Closes#254
Unfortunately, TOML requires quotes around the argument. So, the
usage is `jj --config-toml ui.color=\"always\"` in bash. The plan is
to eventually have a `--config` option with simpler syntax for
simple cases.
As discussed in https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/discussions/688.
Since 'merges()' just filters the candidates set per item, it doesn't need
a candidates argument. Perhaps, 'merges(x)' could be a predicate to select
merge commits within a subgraph 'x', but I don't know if that would be
useful.
I feel the original -------/+++++++ pair is slightly confusing because
each half can be a separator by itself. I don't know what character other
than '-'/'+' is preferred, but let's pick '%' (for "mod") per @martinvonz
suggestion.
We have supported multiple workspaces for six months now, but I forgot
to remove a note in the revset doc saying that we don't support
it. Also update the text to descibe how to refer to the working-copy
commit in another workspace.
We have had support for workspaces for six months, but I forgot to
update the documentation.
This just adds some basic documentation; we can add more later.
Since we now allow pushing open commits, we can implement support for
pushing the "current" branch by defining a "current" branch as any
branch pointing to `@`. That definition of a current/active seems to
have been the consensus in discussion #411.
Closes#246.
Sturdy came up a while ago on lobste.rs when [jj was being discussed](https://lobste.rs/s/47zztj/jujutsu_dvcs). I'm not sure if I described it well, or if it's something you want as related-work, especially since the sturdy founder claims to be solving different problems in the very thread. But it does seem to be doing some similar things to removing the idea of an index/staging area.
It can be confusing that some commits (typically the working copy)
don't have a description. Let's show a placeholder text in such cases.
I chose the format to match the "(no email configured)" message we
already have.
The default log output of showing all commits is not very useful when
contributing to an existing repo. Let's have it default to showing
commits not on any remote branch instead. I think that's the best we
can do since we don't have a configurable main branch yet, and we
don't even have per-repo configuration..
Closes#250.
It's much easier to tell users on all platforms to put their config in
`~/.jjconfig.toml` than in a path that varies across the platforms, so
let's do that. It also seems like a less controversial location for
the file.
Closes ##233.
This adds a `jj sparse` command with options to list and manage the
set of paths to include in the working copy. It only supports includes
(postive matches) for now.
I'm not sure "sparse" is the best name for the feature. Perhaps it
would make sense as a subcommand under `jj workspace` - maybe `jj
workspace track`? However, there's also `jj untrack` for removing a
file from the working copy and leaving it in the working copy. I'm
happy to hear suggestions, or we can get back to the naming later.
This introduces a `connected(x)` function, which is simply the same as
`x:x`. It's occasionally useful if `x` is a long expression. It's also
useful as a building block for `root(x)` (coming soon).
I'm a little hesitant to do this because most tools I'm familiar with
have the config file directly in `~/`. It's also easier to describe
where to put the file if it doesn't vary across platforms. But we're
still early in the project, so let's try it and see if we get any
complaints.
It probably doesn't make sense to respect Git's `core.excludesFile`
config when not running in a Git-backed repo, but we also already
respect `.gitignore` files in the working copy regardless of backend,
so at least it's consistent with that. We can revisit it when the
native backend becomes a reasonable choice.
Closes#87.
We used to have documention about how conflicts are implemented, but I
removed that a long time ago when I rewrote the README to target users
rather than VCS hackers. Let's have a doc for the VCS hackers (and
curious users) as well, though.
I wanted to have all the documentation available on the command line,
but that makes it harder to maintain and link to. Let's move it to
markdown instead. We may later be able to add some way of presenting
the markdown in the terminal (or maybe by first converting it to
reStructuredText).
It makes sense to omit either of the arguments of the `..` operator,
even though `..x` is equivalent to `:x`. `x..`, with a implied right
argument of `heads()` is more useful.
I also changed the instructions to use `cargo install --git` pointing
straight to GitHub, so we don't have the naming conflict with the jj
repo created in the tutorial.
The command's help text says "Abandon a revision", which I think is a
good indication that the command's name should be `abandon`. This
patch renames the command and other user-facing occurrences of the
word. The remaining occurrences should be removed when I remove
support for evolution.
The table describes the simplified Git workflow of always using `git
commit -a`. With that workflow, you don't need to `git add` or `git
rm` to stage changes.
