Introduce a checkout.defaultRemote setting which can be used to designate a remote to prefer (via checkout.defaultRemote=origin) when running e.g. "git checkout master" to mean origin/master, even though there's other remotes that have the "master" branch. I want this because it's very handy to use this workflow to checkout a repository and create a topic branch, then get back to a "master" as retrieved from upstream: ( cd /tmp && rm -rf tbdiff && git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx:trast/tbdiff.git && cd tbdiff && git branch -m topic && git checkout master ) That will output: Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Switched to a new branch 'master' But as soon as a new remote is added (e.g. just to inspect something from someone else) the DWIMery goes away: ( cd /tmp && rm -rf tbdiff && git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx:trast/tbdiff.git && cd tbdiff && git branch -m topic && git remote add avar git@xxxxxxxxxx:avar/tbdiff.git && git fetch avar && git checkout master ) Will output (without the advice output added earlier in this series): error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. The new checkout.defaultRemote config allows me to say that whenever that ambiguity comes up I'd like to prefer "origin", and it'll still work as though the only remote I had was "origin". Also adjust the advice.checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName message to mention this new config setting to the user, the full output on my git.git is now (the last paragraph is new): $ ./git --exec-path=$PWD checkout master error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. hint: The argument 'master' matched more than one remote tracking branch. hint: We found 26 remotes with a reference that matched. So we fell back hint: on trying to resolve the argument as a path, but failed there too! hint: hint: Perhaps you meant fully qualify the branch name? E.g. origin/<name> hint: instead of <name>? hint: hint: If you'd like to always have checkouts of 'master' prefer one remote, hint: e.g. the 'origin' remote, consider setting checkout.defaultRemote=origin hint: in your config. See the 'git-config' manual page for details. I considered splitting this into checkout.defaultRemote and worktree.defaultRemote, but it's probably less confusing to break our own rules that anything shared between config should live in core.* than have two config settings, and I couldn't come up with a short name under core.* that made sense (core.defaultRemoteForCheckout?). See also 70c9ac2f19 ("DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"", 2009-10-18) which introduced this DWIM feature to begin with, and 4e85333197 ("worktree: make add <path> <branch> dwim", 2017-11-26) which added it to git-worktree. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 9 +++++++++ Documentation/git-worktree.txt | 9 +++++++++ builtin/checkout.c | 15 +++++++++++---- checkout.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- checkout.h | 5 ++++- t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh | 12 ++++++++++++ t/t2025-worktree-add.sh | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 8 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 08d3e70989..e0d92217ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -350,7 +350,10 @@ advice.*:: remote tracking branch on more than one remote in situations where an unambiguous argument would have otherwise caused a remote-tracking branch to be - checked out. + checked out. See the `checkout.defaultRemote` + configuration variable for how to set a given remote + to used by default in some situations where this + advice would be printed. amWorkDir:: Advice that shows the location of the patch file when linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it. @@ -1105,6 +1108,22 @@ browser.<tool>.path:: browse HTML help (see `-w` option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]). +checkout.defaultRemote:: + When you run 'git checkout <something>' and only have one + remote, it may implicitly fall back on checking out and + tracking e.g. 'origin/<something>'. This stops working as soon + as you have more than one remote with a '<something>' + reference. This setting allows for setting the name of a + preferred remote that should always win when it comes to + disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to + `origin`. ++ +Currently this is used by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout +<something>' will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote, +and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when 'git worktree add' refers to a +remote branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like +commands or functionality in the future. + clean.requireForce:: A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, -i or -n. Defaults to true. diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index ca5fc9c798..8cb77bddeb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ equivalent to $ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch> ------------ + +If the branch exists in multiple remotes and one of them is named by +the `checkout.defaultRemote` configuration variable, we'll use that +one for the purposes of disambiguation, even if the `<branch>` isn't +unique across all remotes. Set it to +e.g. `checkout.defaultRemote=origin` to always checkout remote +branches from there if `<branch> is ambiguous but exists on the +'origin' remote. See also `checkout.defaultRemote` in +linkgit:git-config[1]. ++ You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to "check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information, diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt index afc6576a14..6638d5ca3d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt @@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ with a matching name, treat as equivalent to: $ git worktree add --track -b <branch> <path> <remote>/<branch> ------------ + +If the branch exists in multiple remotes and one of them is named by +the `checkout.defaultRemote` configuration variable, we'll use that +one for the purposes of disambiguation, even if the `<branch>` isn't +unique across all remotes. Set it to +e.g. `checkout.defaultRemote=origin` to always checkout remote +branches from there if `<branch> is ambiguous but exists on the +'origin' remote. See also `checkout.defaultRemote` in +linkgit:git-config[1]. ++ If `<commit-ish>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detach` used, then, as a convenience, the new worktree is associated with a branch (call it `<branch>`) named after `$(basename <path>)`. If `<branch>` diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index 710369a60a..78bbead000 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -913,8 +913,10 @@ static int parse_branchname_arg(int argc, const char **argv, * (b) If <something> is _not_ a commit, either "--" is present * or <something> is not a path, no -t or -b was given, and * and there is a tracking branch whose name is <something> - * in one and only one remote, then this is a short-hand to - * fork local <something> from that remote-tracking branch. + * in one and only one remote (or if the branch exists on the + * remote named in checkout.defaultRemote), then this is a + * short-hand to fork local <something> from that + * remote-tracking branch. * * (c) Otherwise, if "--" is present, treat it like case (1). * @@ -1277,9 +1279,14 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) "on trying to resolve the argument as a path, but failed there too!\n" "\n" "Perhaps you meant fully qualify the branch name? E.g. origin/<name>\n" - "instead of <name>?"), + "instead of <name>?\n" + "\n" + "If you'd like to always have checkouts of '%s' prefer one remote,\n" + "e.g. the 'origin' remote, consider setting checkout.defaultRemote=origin\n" + "in your config. See the 'git-config' manual page for details."), argv[0], - dwim_remotes_matched); + dwim_remotes_matched, + argv[0]); return ret; } else { return checkout_branch(&opts, &new_branch_info); diff --git a/checkout.c b/checkout.c index c578782baa..e6cfe6d2ab 100644 --- a/checkout.c +++ b/checkout.c @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ #include "remote.h" #include "refspec.h" #include "checkout.h" +#include "config.h" static int check_tracking_name(struct remote *remote, void *cb_data) { @@ -15,6 +16,12 @@ static int check_tracking_name(struct remote *remote, void *cb_data) return 0; } cb->num_matches++; + if (cb->default_remote && !strcmp(remote->name, cb->default_remote)) { + struct object_id *dst = xmalloc(sizeof(*cb->default_dst_oid)); + cb->default_dst_ref = xstrdup(query.dst); + oidcpy(dst, cb->dst_oid); + cb->default_dst_oid = dst; + } if (cb->dst_ref) { free(query.dst); return 0; @@ -27,14 +34,26 @@ const char *unique_tracking_name(const char *name, struct object_id *oid, int *dwim_remotes_matched) { struct tracking_name_data cb_data = TRACKING_NAME_DATA_INIT; + const char *default_remote = NULL; + if (!git_config_get_string_const("checkout.defaultremote", &default_remote)) + cb_data.default_remote = default_remote; cb_data.src_ref = xstrfmt("refs/heads/%s", name); cb_data.dst_oid = oid; for_each_remote(check_tracking_name, &cb_data); if (dwim_remotes_matched) *dwim_remotes_matched = cb_data.num_matches; free(cb_data.src_ref); - if (cb_data.num_matches == 1) + free((char *)default_remote); + if (cb_data.num_matches == 1) { + free(cb_data.default_dst_ref); + free(cb_data.default_dst_oid); return cb_data.dst_ref; + } free(cb_data.dst_ref); + if (cb_data.default_dst_ref) { + oidcpy(oid, cb_data.default_dst_oid); + free(cb_data.default_dst_oid); + return cb_data.default_dst_ref; + } return NULL; } diff --git a/checkout.h b/checkout.h index 4e518c801a..e9f1372f32 100644 --- a/checkout.h +++ b/checkout.h @@ -8,9 +8,12 @@ struct tracking_name_data { char *dst_ref; struct object_id *dst_oid; int num_matches; + const char *default_remote; + char *default_dst_ref; + struct object_id *default_dst_oid; }; -#define TRACKING_NAME_DATA_INIT { NULL, NULL, NULL, 0 } +#define TRACKING_NAME_DATA_INIT { NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL } /* * Check if the branch name uniquely matches a branch name on a remote diff --git a/t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh b/t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh index 14735f5bb8..ccd96ba85c 100755 --- a/t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh +++ b/t/t2024-checkout-dwim.sh @@ -91,6 +91,18 @@ test_expect_success 'checkout of branch from multiple remotes fails with advice' test_i18ngrep ! "^hint: " stderr ' +test_expect_success 'checkout of branch from multiple remotes succeeds with checkout.defaultRemote #1' ' + git checkout -B master && + status_uno_is_clean && + test_might_fail git branch -D foo && + + git -c checkout.defaultRemote=repo_a checkout foo && + status_uno_is_clean && + test_branch foo && + test_cmp_rev remotes/repo_a/foo HEAD && + test_branch_upstream foo repo_a foo +' + test_expect_success 'checkout of branch from a single remote succeeds #1' ' git checkout -B master && test_might_fail git branch -D bar && diff --git a/t/t2025-worktree-add.sh b/t/t2025-worktree-add.sh index d2e49f7632..be6e093142 100755 --- a/t/t2025-worktree-add.sh +++ b/t/t2025-worktree-add.sh @@ -402,6 +402,27 @@ test_expect_success '"add" <path> <branch> dwims' ' ) ' +test_expect_success '"add" <path> <branch> dwims with checkout.defaultRemote' ' + test_when_finished rm -rf repo_upstream repo_dwim foo && + setup_remote_repo repo_upstream repo_dwim && + git init repo_dwim && + ( + cd repo_dwim && + git remote add repo_upstream2 ../repo_upstream && + git fetch repo_upstream2 && + test_must_fail git worktree add ../foo foo && + git -c checkout.defaultRemote=repo_upstream worktree add ../foo foo && + >status.expect && + git status -uno --porcelain >status.actual && + test_cmp status.expect status.actual + ) && + ( + cd foo && + test_branch_upstream foo repo_upstream foo && + test_cmp_rev refs/remotes/repo_upstream/foo refs/heads/foo + ) +' + test_expect_success 'git worktree add does not match remote' ' test_when_finished rm -rf repo_a repo_b foo && setup_remote_repo repo_a repo_b && -- 2.17.0.290.gded63e768a