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[2a01:4f8:120:2468::2]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c2sm23785370wrn.28.2021.07.20.07.20.32 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:20:32 -0700 (PDT) From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , =?UTF-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= Subject: [PATCH v6 3/3] bundle doc: elaborate on rev<->ref restriction Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 16:20:26 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.32.0.874.ge7a9d58bfcf In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Elaborate on the restriction that you cannot provide a revision that doesn't resolve to a reference in the "SPECIFYING REFERENCES" section with examples. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason --- Documentation/git-bundle.txt | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt index d5627b8cc51..e7a685e533e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt @@ -145,14 +145,45 @@ unbundle :: SPECIFYING REFERENCES --------------------- -'git bundle' will only package references that are shown by -'git show-ref': this includes heads, tags, and remote heads. References -such as `master~1` cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for -defining the basis. More than one reference may be packaged, and more -than one basis can be specified. The objects packaged are those not -contained in the union of the given bases. Each basis can be -specified explicitly (e.g. `^master~10`), or implicitly (e.g. -`master~10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`). +Revisions must accompanied by reference names to be packaged in a +bundle, since the header of the bundle is in a format similar to 'git +show-ref'. + +More than one reference may be packaged, and more than one basis can +be specified. The objects packaged are those not contained in the +union of the given bases. + +The 'git bundle create' command resolves the reference names for you +using the same rules as `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref=loose`. Each +basis can be specified explicitly (e.g. `^master~10`), or implicitly +(e.g. `master~10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`). + +All of these simple cases are OK (assuming we have a "master" and +"next" branch): + +---------------- +$ git bundle create master.bundle master +$ echo master | git bundle create master.bundle --stdin +$ git bundle create master-and-next.bundle master next +$ (echo master; echo next) | git bundle create master-and-next.bundle --stdin +---------------- + +And so are these (and the same but omitted `--stdin` examples): + +---------------- +$ git bundle create recent-master.bundle master~10..master +$ git bundle create recent-updates.bundle master~10..master next~5..next +---------------- + +A revision name or a range whose right-hand-side cannot be resolved to +a reference is not accepted: + +---------------- +$ git bundle create HEAD.bundle $(git rev-parse HEAD) +fatal: Refusing to create empty bundle. +$ git bundle create master-yesterday.bundle master~10..master~5 +fatal: Refusing to create empty bundle. +---------------- OBJECT PREREQUISITES -------------------- -- 2.32.0.874.ge7a9d58bfcf