If the operation corresponding to a workspace is missing for some reason
(the specific situation in the test in this commit is that an operation
was abandoned and garbage-collected from another workspace), currently,
jj fails with a 255 error code. Teach jj a way to recover from this
situation.
When jj detects such a situation, it prints a message and stops
operation, similar to when a workspace is stale. The message tells the
user what command to run.
When that command is run, jj loads the repo at the @ operation (instead
of the operation of the workspace), creates a new commit on the @
commit with an empty tree, and then proceeds as usual - in particular,
including the auto-snapshotting of the working tree, which creates
another commit that obsoletes the newly created commit.
There are several design points I considered.
1) Whether the recovery should be automatic, or (as in this commit)
manual in that the user should be prompted to run a command. The user
might prefer to recover in another way (e.g. by simply deleting the
workspace) and this situation is (hopefully) rare enough that I think
it's better to prompt the user.
2) Which command the user should be prompted to run (and thus, which
command should be taught to perform the recovery). I chose "workspace
update-stale" because the circumstances are very similar to it: it's
symptom is that the regular jj operation is blocked somewhere at the
beginning, and "workspace update-stale" already does some special work
before the blockage (this commit adds more of such special work). But it
might be better for something more explicitly named, or even a sequence
of commands (e.g. "create a new operation that becomes @ that no
workspace points to", "low-level command that makes a workspace point to
the operation @") but I can see how this can be unnecessarily confusing
for the user.
3) How we recover. I can think of several ways:
a) Always create a commit, and allow the automatic snapshotting to
create another commit that obsoletes this commit.
b) Create a commit but somehow teach the automatic snapshotting to
replace the created commit in-place (so it has no predecessor, as viewed
in "obslog").
c) Do either a) or b), with the added improvement that if there is no
diff between the newly created commit and the former @, to behave as if
no new commit was created (@ remains as the former @).
I chose a) since it was the simplest and most easily reasoned about,
which I think is the best way to go when recovering from a rare
situation.
These operator symbols are different from the ones in the revset language. I
have no idea if we need bitwise operators, but we'll probably add comparison
operators. It would look weird if 'x == y & z' were parsed as '(x == y) & z'.
this greatly speeds up the time to run all tests, at the cost of slightly larger recompile times for individual tests.
this unfortunately adds the requirement that all tests are listed in `runner.rs` for the crate.
to avoid forgetting, i've added a new test that ensures the directory is in sync with the file.
## benchmarks
before this change, recompiling all tests took 32-50 seconds and running a single test took 3.5 seconds:
```
; hyperfine 'touch lib/src/lib.rs && cargo t --test test_working_copy'
Time (mean ± σ): 3.543 s ± 0.168 s [User: 2.597 s, System: 1.262 s]
Range (min … max): 3.400 s … 3.847 s 10 runs
```
after this change, recompiling all tests take 4 seconds:
```
; hyperfine 'touch lib/src/lib.rs ; cargo t --test runner --no-run'
Time (mean ± σ): 4.055 s ± 0.123 s [User: 3.591 s, System: 1.593 s]
Range (min … max): 3.804 s … 4.159 s 10 runs
```
and running a single test takes about the same:
```
; hyperfine 'touch lib/src/lib.rs && cargo t --test runner -- test_working_copy'
Time (mean ± σ): 4.129 s ± 0.120 s [User: 3.636 s, System: 1.593 s]
Range (min … max): 3.933 s … 4.346 s 10 runs
```
about 1.4 seconds of that is the time for the runner, of which .4 is the time for the linker. so
there may be room for further improving the times.
When the user doesn't have a configured default command, we show a
hint saying to set `ui.default-command`. I think the user is very
likely to want to set that in the user-wide config, so let's include
the command in the hint.
This reimplements the change 9faa4670d5 "cli: on init, import git refs prior
to importing HEAD." Initialization is special because the HEAD ref isn't
available to jj yet, and there is an empty working-copy commit.
The initialization function could be refactored to go through the common code
path, but I think doing that would make future improvement harder. We might
want to initialize tracking branches based on .git/config for example.
Fixes#2942
This initializes a git backed repo.
* It does the same thing as `jj init --git` except that it
has a --colocated flag to explicitly specify that we want
the .git repo to be side-by-side the .jj repo in the working
directory.
* `jj init --git` will keep the current behaviour and will not
be able to create colocated git backed repos.
* Update test snapshots.
A few minor updates after 0f27152 AKA #2945
Specifically, I tried to change the help text so that it looks better as
Markdown. I also reworded the deprecation warning and added a hint.
this has two main advantages:
- it makes it clear that the shells are mutually exclusive
- it allows us to extend the command with shell-specific options in the future if necessary
as a happy accident, it also adds support for `elvish` and `powershell`.
for backwards compatibility, this also keeps the existing options as hidden flags.
i am not super happy with how the new help looks; the instructions for setting up the shell are
squished together and IMO a little harder to read. i'm open to suggestions.
it's somewhat confusing to me that the `--bash` flag exists at all, since it does nothing - maybe it makes sense to give a hard error? or just remove the flag?
but in any case, it seems good to document the existing behavior.
previously, `jj diff` would show the full contents of binary files such as images.
after this change, it instead shows "(binary)". it still shows the filename and metadata so that
users can open the file in the viewer of their choce.
future work could involve showing binary files as Sixel or similar; finding a way to compare large
non-binary files without filling up the screen; or extending the data backends to avoid having to
read the whole file contents into memory.
Previously, `jj git push; jj git push` would tell the user that "No
branches point to the specified revisions.". I found this confusing,
even though strictly speaking it is correct (as the default revset only
considers revisions that haven't been pushed to the remote).
Closes#2241
The error output gets more verbose because all gix error sources are printed.
Maybe we'll need a better formatting, but changing to multi-line output doesn't
look nice either.
Summary: As discussed in Discord, on GitHub, and elsewhere, this change
deprecates the use of `jj merge` and suggests users use `jj new` exclusively
instead. `merge` isn't completely unfit as a name; but we think it obscures
the generality of `new` and we want people to use it instead.
To further drive the bit home, by default, `jj merge` is now hidden. This will
hopefully stop new users from running into it.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Change-Id: I94938aca9d3e2aa12d1394a5fbc58acce3185b56
Summary: As discussed in Discord, on GitHub, and elsewhere, this change
deprecates the use of `jj checkout` and suggests users use `jj new` exclusively
instead. The verb `checkout` is a relic of a bygone era the — days of RCS
file locking, before 3-way merge — and is not a good, fitting name for the
functionality it provides.
To further drive the bit home, by default, `jj checkout` (and `jj co`) is now
hidden. This will hopefully stop new users from running into it.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Change-Id: I7a1adfc9168fce1f25cf5d4c4c313304769e41a1
These didn't really need to use `jj checkout`, and it will be deprecated in a
future change anyway. Move them out of there and into `new`.
Ideally this would go into `test_conflicts.rs`, but that exists in `jj-lib`, so
it doesn't have `TestEnvironment` available to it.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Change-Id: If0173b27ab4d1f6036a4ec632ec77b6824f310c3
This prevents rust doctests from trying to compile the code blocks.
I don't think we use doctests much or at all, but I'd like
`cargo insta test --test-runner nextest --accept --workspace`
to pass.
Unfortunately, this affects the output of `jj help` as well, but I
can't think of a workaround for that.
I am using a very hacky approach, using `insta` to generate the markdown help.
This is based on a lucky coincidence that `insta` chose to use a header
format for snapshot files that MkDocs interprets as a Markdown header (and
ignores).
I considered several other approaches, but I couldn't resist the facts that:
- This doesn't require new developers to install any extra tools or run any
extra commands.
- There is no need for a new CI check.
- There is no need to compile `jj` in the "Make HTML docs" GitHub action,
which is currently very fast and cheap.
Downside: I'm not sure how well MkDocs will work on Windows, unless the
developer explicitly enables symbolic links (which IIUC is not trivial).
### Possible alternatives
My next favorite approaches (which we could switch to later) would be:
#### `xtask`
Set up a CI check and a [Cargo `xtask`] so that `cargo xtask cli-help-to-md`
essentially runs `cargo run -- util markdown-help > docs/cli-reference.md` from
the project root.
Every developer would have to know to run `cargo xtask cli-help-to-md` if
they change the help text.
Eventually, we could have `cargo xtask preflight` that runs `cargo +nightly
fmt; cargo xtask cli-help-to-md; cargo nextest run`, or `cargo insta`.
#### Only generate markdown for CLI help when building the website, don't track it in Git.
I think that having the file in the repo will be nice to preview changes to
docs, and it'll allow people to consult the file on GitHub or in their repo.
The (currently) very fast job of building the website would now require
installing Rust and building `jj`.
#### Same as the `xtask`, but use a shell script instead of an `xtask`
An `xtask` might seem like overkill, since it's Rust instead of a shell script.
However, I don't want this to be a shell script so that new contributors on
Windows can still easily run it ( since this will be necessary for the CI to
pass) without us having to support a batch file.
#### Cargo Alias
My first attempt was to set up a [cargo alias] to run this, but that doesn't
support redirection (so I had to change the `jj util` command to output to a
file) and, worse, is incapable of executing the command *in the project root*
regardless of where in the project the current directory is. Again, this seems
to be too inconvenient for a command that every new PR author would have to run
to pass CI.
Overall, this just seems a bit ugly. I did file
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/13348, I'm not really sure that was
worthwhile, though.
**Aside:** For reference, the alias was:
```toml
# .cargo/config.toml
alias.gen-cli-reference = "run -p jj-cli -- util markdown-help docs/cli-reference.md"
```
### Non-alternatives
#### Clap's new feature
`clap` recently obtained a similarly-sounding feature in
https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/pull/5206. However, it only prints short help
for subcommands and can't be triggered by an option AFAICT, so it won't help us
too much.
[Cargo `xtask`]: https://github.com/matklad/cargo-xtask
[cargo alias]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#alias
The "::HEAD" set is usually smaller than "::git_refs". If these sets were
imported in that order, "HEAD..git_refs" commits would be indexed on top of
the "::HEAD" commits. It's not a problem, but undesirable.
This is a convenient command, for scripting things like `cd $(jj root)
&& do something`, and it seems better to allow people to find it
before they learn about workspaces.
The count() function in this trait is used by "jj branch" to determine
(and then report) how many commits a certain branch is ahead/behind
another branch. This is currently implemented by walking all commits
in the revset, counting how many were encountered. But this could be
improved: if the number is large, it is probably sufficient to report
"at least N" (instead of walking all the way), and this does not scale
well to jj backends that may not have all commits present locally (which
may prefer to return an estimate, rather than access the network).
Therefore, add a function that is explicitly documented to be O(1)
and that can return a range of values if the backend so chooses.
Also remove count(), as it is not immediately obvious that it is an
expensive call, and callers that are willing to pay the cost can obtain
the exact same functionality through iter().count() anyway. (In this
commit, all users of count() are migrated to iter().count() to preserve
all existing functionality; they will be migrated to count_estimate() in
a subsequent commit.)
"branch" needed to be updated due to this change. Although jj
is currently only available in English, I have attempted to keep
user-visible text from being assembled piece by piece, so that if we
later decide to translate jj into other languages, things will be easier
for translators.
