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SZEDER Gábor
4804d43791 completion: don't leak variable from the prompt into environment
Commit e5b8eebc (completion: fix issue with process substitution not
working on Git for Windows, 2011-10-26) introduced a new variable in
__git_ps1_show_upstream(), but didn't declare it as local to prevent it
from leaking into the environment.

We may want to rewrite it like the following, but that can wait until the
next cycle.

	while read key value
	do
		...
	done <<-EOF
	$(git config -z --get-regexp ...)
	EOF

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-09 05:44:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d050464541 request-pull: use the annotated tag contents
The integrator tool will start allowing to pull a signed or an annotated
tag, i.e.

    $ git pull $there tags/for-linus

and the description in the tag is used to convey a meaningful message from
the lieutenant to the integrator to justify the history being pulled.

Include the message in the pull request e-mail, as the same information is
useful in this context, too. It would encourage the lieutenants to write
meaningful messages in their signed tags.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-09 05:31:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8a04247896 Update draft release notes to 1.7.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 16:42:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d7a0129b3c Merge branch 'jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix'
* jc/remote-setbranches-usage-fix:
  remote: fix set-branches usage
2011-11-08 16:40:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8327ee8677 Merge branch 'fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix'
* fc/remote-seturl-usage-fix:
  remote: fix remote set-url usage
2011-11-08 16:40:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
14ba45a2e6 Sync with 1.7.7.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 16:38:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d4d5ab4727 Git 1.7.7.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 16:37:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
916034b93c Merge branch 'jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref' into maint
* jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref:
  branch -m/-M: remove undocumented RENAMED-REF

Conflicts:
	refs.c
2011-11-08 16:35:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1a61a9dae8 Merge branch 'jm/maint-gitweb-filter-forks-fix' into maint
* jm/maint-gitweb-filter-forks-fix:
  gitweb: fix regression when filtering out forks
2011-11-08 16:26:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
992499d853 Merge branch 'dm/pack-objects-update' into maint
* dm/pack-objects-update:
  pack-objects: don't traverse objects unnecessarily
  pack-objects: rewrite add_descendants_to_write_order() iteratively
  pack-objects: use unsigned int for counter and offset values
  pack-objects: mark add_to_write_order() as inline
2011-11-08 16:26:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fcbebfdd33 docs: Update install-doc-quick
The preformatted documentation pages live in their own repositories
these days. Adjust the installation procedure to the updated layout.

Tested-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 13:37:10 -08:00
Jeff King
939ca96b0e docs: don't mention --quiet or --exit-code in git-log(1)
These are diff-options, but they don't actually make sense
in the context of log.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 13:37:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
274a5c06d5 merge: record tag objects without peeling in MERGE_HEAD
Otherwise, "git commit" wouldn't have a way to tell that we were in the
middle of merging an annotated or signed tag, not a plain commit, after
"git merge" stops to ask the user to resolve conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 10:36:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ae8e4c9ce1 merge: make usage of commit->util more extensible
The merge-recursive code uses the commit->util field directly to annotate
the commit objects given from the command line, i.e. the remote heads to
be merged, with a single string to be used to describe it in its trace
messages and conflict markers.

Correct this short-signtedness by redefining the field to be a pointer to
a structure "struct merge_remote_desc" that later enhancements can add
more information. Store the original objects we were told to merge in a
field "obj" in this struct, so that we can recover the tag we were told to
merge.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 10:36:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
895680f044 fmt-merge-msg: Add contents of merged tag in the merge message
When a contributor asks the integrator to merge her history, a signed tag
can be a good vehicle to communicate the authenticity of the request while
conveying other information such as the purpose of the topic.

E.g. a signed tag "for-linus" can be created, and the integrator can run:

   $ git pull git://example.com/work.git/ for-linus

This would allow the integrator to run "git verify-tag FETCH_HEAD" to
validate the signed tag.

Update fmt-merge-msg so that it pre-fills the merge message template with
the body (but not signature) of the tag object to help the integrator write
a better merge message, in the same spirit as the existing merge.log summary
lines.

The message that comes from GPG signature validation is also included in
the merge message template to help the integrator verify it, but they are
prefixed with "#" to make them comments.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 10:36:18 -08:00
Jeff King
0b26abc0f5 reachable: per-object progress
The current progress code really just counts commits.
This patch makes it count all objects, giving us a "total"
count close to what a repack would show. This is nice when
using "git gc", which will usually have just repacked the
whole repo.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 22:12:19 -08:00
Jeff King
bf0a59b387 prune: handle --progress/no-progress
And have "git gc" pass no-progress when quiet.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 22:12:19 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
dc347195cc prune: show progress while marking reachable objects
prune already shows progress meter while pruning. The marking part may
take a few seconds or more, depending on repository size. Show
progress meter during this time too.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 22:12:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4cb6764227 Git 1.7.8-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 16:48:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
92622e6214 Merge branch 'ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree'
* ss/blame-textconv-fake-working-tree:
  blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling textconv_object(), again
2011-11-07 16:43:19 -08:00
Sebastian Schuberth
8518088fe8 blame.c: Properly initialize strbuf after calling textconv_object(), again
2564aa4 started to initialize buf.alloc, but that should actually be one
more byte than the string length due to the trailing \0. Also, do not
modify buf.alloc out of the strbuf code. Use the existing strbuf_attach
instead.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 16:42:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cbda121c99 fmt-merge-msg: package options into a structure
This way new features can be added more easily

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 15:34:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4c0ea82da3 fmt-merge-msg: avoid early returns
In various places in the codepath, the program tries to return early
assuming there is no more work needed. That is generally untrue when
over time new features are added.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 15:34:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dd621df9cd refs DWIMmery: use the same rule for both "git fetch" and others
"git log frotz" can DWIM to "refs/remotes/frotz/HEAD", but in the remote
access context, "git fetch frotz" to fetch what the other side happened to
have fetched from what it calls 'frotz' (which may not have any relation
to what we consider is 'frotz') the last time would not make much sense,
so the fetch rules table did not include "refs/remotes/%.*s/HEAD".

When the user really wants to, "git fetch $there remotes/frotz/HEAD" would
let her do so anyway, so this is not about safety or security; it merely
is about confusion avoidance and discouraging meaningless usage.

Specifically, it is _not_ about ambiguity avoidance. A name that would
become ambiguous if we use the same rules table for both fetch and local
rev-parse would be ambiguous locally at the remote side.

So for the same reason as we added rule to allow "git fetch $there v1.0"
instead of "git fetch $there tags/v1.0" in the previous commit, here is a
bit longer rope for the users, which incidentally simplifies our code.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 15:34:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
47d84b6abc fetch: allow "git fetch $there v1.0" to fetch a tag
You can already do so with "git fetch $there tags/v1.0" but if it is not
ambiguous there is no reason to force users to type more.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 15:34:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
57b58db74c merge: notice local merging of tags and keep it unwrapped
This also updates the autogenerated merge title message from "merge commit X"
to "merge tag X", and its effect can be seen in the changes to the test suite.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 14:06:39 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
6b37dff17f pull: introduce a pull.rebase option to enable --rebase
Currently we either need to set branch.<name>.rebase for existing
branches if we'd like "git pull" to mean "git pull --rebase", or have
the forethought of setting "branch.autosetuprebase" before we create
the branch.

Introduce a "pull.rebase" option to globally configure "git pull" to
mean "git pull --rebase" for any branch.

This option will be considered at a lower priority than
branch.<name>.rebase, i.e. we could set pull.rebase=true and
branch.<name>.rebase=false and the latter configuration option would
win.

Reviewed-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fernando Vezzosi <buccia@repnz.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Herman <eric@freesa.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-07 08:43:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5ae0f68160 Merge branch 'ab/i18n-test-fix'
* ab/i18n-test-fix:
  t/t7508-status.sh: use test_i18ncmp
  t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh: use test_i18ngrep
2011-11-06 21:22:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
78c17b9943 Merge branch 'sn/http-auth-with-netrc-fix'
* sn/http-auth-with-netrc-fix:
  http: don't always prompt for password
2011-11-06 21:22:19 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
de26347950 Merge branch 'pw/p4-appledouble-fix'
* pw/p4-appledouble-fix:
  git-p4: ignore apple filetype
2011-11-06 21:21:57 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
c49904efb5 remote: fix remote set-url usage
Bad copy-paste.

Otherwise the help text for "git remote set-url --help" would show help
for "git remote update" subcommand.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-06 21:16:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
656cdf0c9e remote: fix set-branches usage
Bad copy-paste.

Otherwise "git remote set-branches" without necessary argument
will result in an error message and help for set-url subcommand.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-06 21:15:30 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
1e49f22f07 fsck: print progress
fsck is usually a long process and it would be nice if it prints
progress from time to time.

Progress meter is not printed when --verbose is given because
--verbose prints a lot, there's no need for "alive" indicator.
Progress meter may provide "% complete" information but it would
be lost anyway in the flood of text.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-06 20:31:28 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
c9486eb04d fsck: avoid reading every object twice
During verify_pack() all objects are read for SHA-1 check. Then
fsck_sha1() is called on every object, which read the object again
(fsck_sha1 -> parse_object -> read_sha1_file).

Avoid reading an object twice, do fsck_sha1 while we have an object
uncompressed data in verify_pack.

On git.git, with this patch I got:

$ /usr/bin/time ./git fsck >/dev/null
98.97user 0.90system 1:40.01elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 616624maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+194186minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Without it:

$ /usr/bin/time ./git fsck >/dev/null
231.23user 2.35system 3:53.82elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 636688maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+461629minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-06 20:31:28 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
473935188c verify_packfile(): check as many object as possible in a pack
verify_packfile() checks for whole pack integerity first, then each
object individually. Once we get past whole pack check, we can
identify all objects in the pack. If there's an error with one object,
we should continue to check the next objects to salvage as many
objects as possible instead of stopping the process.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-06 20:31:28 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a3ed7552d6 fsck: return error code when verify_pack() goes wrong
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-06 20:31:28 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
83838d5c1b cast variable in call to free() in builtin/diff.c and submodule.c
Both of these free() calls are freeing a "const unsigned char (*)[20]"
type while free() expects a "void *". This results in the following
warning under clang 2.9:

    builtin/diff.c:185:7: warning: passing 'const unsigned char (*)[20]' to parameter of type 'void *' discards qualifiers
            free(parent);
                 ^~~~~~

    submodule.c:394:7: warning: passing 'const unsigned char (*)[20]' to parameter of type 'void *' discards qualifiers
            free(parents);
                 ^~~~~~~

This free()-ing without a cast was added by Jim Meyering to
builtin/diff.c in v1.7.6-rc3~4 and later by Fredrik Gustafsson in
submodule.c in v1.7.7-rc1~25^2.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-06 10:43:18 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
473f4c96e3 apply: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on a size_t type
According to the C standard size_t is always unsigned, therefore the
comparison "n1 < 0 || n2 < 0" when n1 and n2 are size_t will always be
false.

This was raised by clang 2.9 which throws this warning when compiling
apply.c:

    builtin/apply.c:253:9: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtautological-compare]
            if (n1 < 0 || n2 < 0)
                ~~ ^ ~
    builtin/apply.c:253:19: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtautological-compare]
            if (n1 < 0 || n2 < 0)
                          ~~ ^ ~

This check was originally added in v1.6.5-rc0~53^2 by Giuseppe Bilotta
while adding an option to git-apply to ignore whitespace differences.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-06 10:36:59 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
9f7ef0eaf2 git-p4: ignore apple filetype
Revert 97a21ca (git-p4: stop ignoring apple filetype, 2011-10-16)
and add a test case.

Reported-by: Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-05 23:17:52 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
ca0f515d75 t/t7508-status.sh: use test_i18ncmp
Change a i18n-specific comparison in t/t7508-status.sh to use
test_i18ncmp instead. This was introduced in v1.7.6.3~11^2 and has
been broken under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease since.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-05 23:14:26 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
475b3777bd t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh: use test_i18ngrep
Change a i18n-specific grep in t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh to use
test_i18ngrep instead. This was introduced in v1.7.7.2~5^2~11 and has
been broken under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease since.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-05 23:14:25 -07:00
Nick Alcock
ebaa1bd407 Support sizes >=2G in various config options accepting 'g' sizes.
The config options core.packedGitWindowSize, core.packedGitLimit,
core.deltaBaseCacheLimit, core.bigFileThreshold, pack.windowMemory and
pack.packSizeLimit all claim to support suffixes up to and including
'g'.  This implies that they should accept sizes >=2G on 64-bit
systems: certainly, specifying a size of 3g should not silently be
translated to zero or transformed into a large negative value due to
integer overflow.  However, due to use of git_config_int() rather than
git_config_ulong(), that is exactly what happens:

% git config core.bigFileThreshold 2g
% git gc --aggressive # with extra debugging code to print out
                      # core.bigfilethreshold after parsing
bigfilethreshold: -2147483648
[...]

This is probably irrelevant for core.deltaBaseCacheLimit, but is
problematic for the other values.  (It is particularly problematic for
core.packedGitLimit, which can't even be set to its default value in
the config file due to this bug.)

This fixes things for 32-bit platforms as well.  They get the usual bad
config error if an overlarge value is specified, e.g.:

fatal: bad config value for 'core.bigfilethreshold' in /home/nix/.gitconfig

This is detected in all cases, even if the 32-bit platform has no size
larger than 'long'.  For signed integral configuration values, we also
detect the case where the value is too large for the signed type but
not the unsigned type.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-05 23:10:43 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
97000ba6e2 Compatibility: declare strtoimax() under NO_STRTOUMAX
The previous one introduced an implementation of the function, but forgot
to add a declaration.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-05 23:10:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7a2b128d13 fetch: do not store peeled tag object names in FETCH_HEAD
We do not want to record tags as parents of a merge when the user does
"git pull $there tag v1.0" to merge tagged commit, but that is not a good
enough excuse to peel the tag down to commit when storing in FETCH_HEAD.
The caller of underlying "git fetch $there tag v1.0" may have other uses
of information contained in v1.0 tag in mind.

[jc: the test adjustment is to update for the new expectation]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-04 21:40:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2f47eae2a1 Split GPG interface into its own helper library
This mostly moves existing code from builtin/tag.c (for signing)
and builtin/verify-tag.c (for verifying) to a new gpg-interface.c
file to provide a more generic library interface.

 - sign_buffer() takes a payload strbuf, a signature strbuf, and a signing
   key, runs "gpg" to produce a detached signature for the payload, and
   appends it to the signature strbuf. The contents of a signed tag that
   concatenates the payload and the detached signature can be produced by
   giving the same strbuf as payload and signature strbuf.

 - verify_signed_buffer() takes a payload and a detached signature as
   <ptr, len> pairs, and runs "gpg --verify" to see if the payload matches
   the signature. It can optionally capture the output from GPG to allow
   the callers to pretty-print it in a way more suitable for their
   contexts.

"verify-tag" (aka "tag -v") used to save the whole tag contents as if it
is a detached signature, and fed gpg the payload part of the tag. It
relied on gpg to fail when the given tag is not signed but just is
annotated.  The updated run_gpg_verify() function detects the lack of
detached signature in the input, and errors out without bothering "gpg".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-04 21:40:25 -07:00
Jeff King
093c44a360 http: drop "local" member from request struct
This is a FILE pointer in the case that we are sending our
output to a file. We originally used it to run ftell() to
determine whether data had been written to our file during
our last call to curl. However, as of the last patch, we no
longer care about that flag anymore. All uses of this struct
member are now just book-keeping that can go away.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-04 12:05:01 -07:00
Mika Fischer
df26c47127 http.c: Rely on select instead of tracking whether data was received
Since now select is used with the file descriptors of the http connections,
tracking whether data was received recently (and trying to read more in
that case) is no longer necessary. Instead, always call select and rely on
it to return as soon as new data can be read.

Signed-off-by: Mika Fischer <mika.fischer@zoopnet.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-04 10:47:13 -07:00
Mika Fischer
eb56c82163 http.c: Use timeout suggested by curl instead of fixed 50ms timeout
Recent versions of curl can suggest a period of time the library user
should sleep and try again, when curl is blocked on reading or writing
(or connecting). Use this timeout instead of always sleeping for 50ms.

Signed-off-by: Mika Fischer <mika.fischer@zoopnet.de>
Helped-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-04 10:46:56 -07:00
Mika Fischer
6f9dd67ffe http.c: Use curl_multi_fdset to select on curl fds instead of just sleeping
Instead of sleeping unconditionally for a 50ms, when no data can be read
from the http connection(s), use curl_multi_fdset() to obtain the actual
file descriptors of the open connections and use them in the select call.
This way, the 50ms sleep is interrupted when new data arrives.

Signed-off-by: Mika Fischer <mika.fischer@zoopnet.de>
Helped-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-04 10:46:25 -07:00
Stefan Naewe
986bbc0842 http: don't always prompt for password
When a username is already specified at the beginning of any HTTP
transaction (e.g. "git push https://user@hosting.example.com/project.git"
or "git ls-remote https://user@hosting.example.com/project.git"), the code
interactively asks for a password before calling into the libcurl library.
It is very likely that the reason why user included the username in the
URL is because the user knows that it would require authentication to
access the resource. Asking for the password upfront would save one
roundtrip to get a 401 response, getting the password and then retrying
the request. This is a reasonable optimization.

HOWEVER.

This is done even when $HOME/.netrc might have a corresponding entry to
access the site, or the site does not require authentication to access the
resource after all. But neither condition can be determined until we call
into libcurl library (we do not read and parse $HOME/.netrc ourselves). In
these cases, the user is forced to respond to the password prompt, only to
give a password that is not used in the HTTP transaction. If the password
is in $HOME/.netrc, an empty input would later let the libcurl layer to
pick up the password from there, and if the resource does not require
authentication, any input would be taken and then discarded without
getting used. It is wasteful to ask this unused information to the end
user.

Reduce the confusion by not trying to optimize for this case and always
incur roundtrip penalty. An alternative might be to document this and keep
this round-trip optimization as-is.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-04 09:47:18 -07:00