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Junio C Hamano
670703e9d6 Merge branch 'mp/absorb-submodule-git-dir-upon-deinit'
"git submodule deinit" for a submodule whose .git metadata
directory is embedded in its working tree refused to work, until
the submodule gets converted to use the "absorbed" form where the
metadata directory is stored in superproject, and a gitfile at the
top-level of the working tree of the submodule points at it.  The
command is taught to convert such submodules to the absorbed form
as needed.

* mp/absorb-submodule-git-dir-upon-deinit:
  submodule: absorb git dir instead of dying on deinit
2021-12-10 14:35:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d67fc4bf0b Merge branch 'bc/require-c99'
Weather balloon to break people with compilers that do not support
C99.

* bc/require-c99:
  git-compat-util: add a test balloon for C99 support
2021-12-10 14:35:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b8148376a2 Merge branch 'hn/create-reflog-simplify'
A small simplification of API.

* hn/create-reflog-simplify:
  refs: drop force_create argument of create_reflog API
2021-12-10 14:35:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cdac0caddd Merge branch 'jt/midx-doc-fix'
Docfix.

* jt/midx-doc-fix:
  Doc: no midx and partial clone relation
2021-12-10 14:35:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
97991dfab7 Merge branch 'jk/t7006-sigpipe-tests-fix'
The function to cull a child process and determine the exit status
had two separate code paths for normal callers and callers in a
signal handler, and the latter did not yield correct value when the
child has caught a signal.  The handling of the exit status has
been unified for these two code paths.  An existing test with
flakiness has also been corrected.

* jk/t7006-sigpipe-tests-fix:
  t7006: simplify exit-code checks for sigpipe tests
  t7006: clean up SIGPIPE handling in trace2 tests
  run-command: unify signal and regular logic for wait_or_whine()
2021-12-10 14:35:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8bb6fe853f Merge branch 'jk/refs-g11-workaround'
Workaround for a false-alarm by gcc-11

* jk/refs-g11-workaround:
  refs: work around gcc-11 warning with REF_HAVE_NEW
2021-12-10 14:35:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
353a27ad95 Merge branch 'jk/fetch-pack-avoid-sigpipe-to-index-pack'
"git fetch", when received a bad packfile, can fail with SIGPIPE.
This wasn't wrong per-se, but we now detect the situation and fail
in a more predictable way.

* jk/fetch-pack-avoid-sigpipe-to-index-pack:
  fetch-pack: ignore SIGPIPE when writing to index-pack
2021-12-10 14:35:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
85ac30ff5c Merge branch 'hk/ci-checkwhitespace-commentfix'
Comment fix.

* hk/ci-checkwhitespace-commentfix:
  ci(check-whitespace): update stale file top comments
2021-12-10 14:35:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f0850875fd Merge branch 'vd/sparse-reset'
Various operating modes of "git reset" have been made to work
better with the sparse index.

* vd/sparse-reset:
  unpack-trees: improve performance of next_cache_entry
  reset: make --mixed sparse-aware
  reset: make sparse-aware (except --mixed)
  reset: integrate with sparse index
  reset: expand test coverage for sparse checkouts
  sparse-index: update command for expand/collapse test
  reset: preserve skip-worktree bit in mixed reset
  reset: rename is_missing to !is_in_reset_tree
2021-12-10 14:35:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4ee5cacc16 Merge branch 'tl/midx-docfix'
Doc mark-up fix.

* tl/midx-docfix:
  midx: fix a formatting issue in "multi-pack-index.txt"
2021-12-10 14:35:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cb136bd852 Merge branch 'po/size-t-for-vs'
On platforms where ulong is shorter than size_t, code paths that
shifted 1 or 1U to the left lacked the necessary cast to size_t,
which have been corrected.

* po/size-t-for-vs:
  object-file.c: LLP64 compatibility, upcast unity for left shift
  diffcore-delta.c: LLP64 compatibility, upcast unity for left shift
  repack.c: LLP64 compatibility, upcast unity for left shift
2021-12-10 14:35:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fc0e3e02c9 Merge branch 'rs/mergesort'
Bitop fix for platforms whose "long" is 32-bit.

* rs/mergesort:
  mergesort: avoid left shift overflow
2021-12-10 14:35:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8e715503f1 Merge branch 'ah/advice-pull-has-no-preference-between-rebase-and-merge'
The advice message given by "git pull" when the user hasn't made a
choice between merge and rebase still said that the merge is the
default, which no longer is the case.  This has been corrected.

* ah/advice-pull-has-no-preference-between-rebase-and-merge:
  pull: don't say that merge is "the default strategy"
2021-12-10 14:35:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7b11728a7b Merge branch 'ab/checkout-branch-info-leakfix'
Leakfix.

* ab/checkout-branch-info-leakfix:
  checkout: fix "branch info" memory leaks
2021-12-10 14:35:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b0b5337876 Merge branch 'jk/t5319-midx-corruption-test-deflake'
Test fix.

* jk/t5319-midx-corruption-test-deflake:
  t5319: corrupt more bytes of the midx checksum
2021-12-10 14:35:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9b0a970ace Merge branch 'js/trace2-avoid-recursive-errors'
trace2 error code path fix.

* js/trace2-avoid-recursive-errors:
  trace2: disable tr2_dst before warning on write errors
2021-12-10 14:35:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2d5b70de2d Merge branch 'jt/pack-header-lshift-overflow'
The code to decode the length of packed object size has been
corrected.

* jt/pack-header-lshift-overflow:
  packfile: avoid overflowing shift during decode
2021-12-10 14:35:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a0f3df5d64 Merge branch 'jk/jump-merge-with-pathspec'
The "merge" subcommand of "git jump" (in contrib/) silently ignored
pathspec and other parameters.

* jk/jump-merge-with-pathspec:
  git-jump: pass "merge" arguments to ls-files
2021-12-10 14:35:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a9c84980d0 Merge branch 'jk/test-bitmap-fix'
Tighten code for testing pack-bitmap.

* jk/test-bitmap-fix:
  test_bitmap_hashes(): handle repository without bitmaps
2021-12-10 14:35:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d1305bd3cf Merge branch 'ab/generate-command-list'
Build optimization.

* ab/generate-command-list:
  generate-cmdlist.sh: don't parse command-list.txt thrice
  generate-cmdlist.sh: replace "grep' invocation with a shell version
  generate-cmdlist.sh: do not shell out to "sed"
  generate-cmdlist.sh: stop sorting category lines
  generate-cmdlist.sh: replace for loop by printf's auto-repeat feature
  generate-cmdlist.sh: run "grep | sort", not "sort | grep"
  generate-cmdlist.sh: don't call get_categories() from category_list()
  generate-cmdlist.sh: spawn fewer processes
  generate-cmdlist.sh: trivial whitespace change
  command-list.txt: sort with "LC_ALL=C sort"
2021-12-10 14:35:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
03194a1afa Merge branch 'tw/var-default-branch'
"git var GIT_DEFAULT_BRANCH" is a way to see what name is used for
the newly created branch if "git init" is run.

* tw/var-default-branch:
  var: add GIT_DEFAULT_BRANCH variable
2021-12-10 14:35:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1c39c822a9 Merge branch 'jk/strbuf-addftime-seconds-since-epoch'
The "--date=format:<strftime>" gained a workaround for the lack of
system support for a non-local timezone to handle "%s" placeholder.

* jk/strbuf-addftime-seconds-since-epoch:
  strbuf_addftime(): handle "%s" manually
2021-12-10 14:35:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bd16b3c39f Merge branch 'js/ci-no-directional-formatting'
CI has been taught to catch some Unicode directional formatting
sequence that can be used in certain mischief.

* js/ci-no-directional-formatting:
  ci: disallow directional formatting
2021-12-10 14:35:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3d2dce168f Merge branch 'jc/fix-first-object-walk'
Doc update.

* jc/fix-first-object-walk:
  docs: add headers in MyFirstObjectWalk
  docs: fix places that break compilation in MyFirstObjectWalk
2021-12-10 14:35:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b5e7f5e5b1 Merge branch 'if/redact-packfile-uri'
Redact the path part of packfile URI that appears in the trace output.

* if/redact-packfile-uri:
  http-fetch: redact url on die() message
  fetch-pack: redact packfile urls in traces
2021-12-10 14:35:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
23c83fc473 Merge branch 'ja/doc-cleanup'
Doc update.

* ja/doc-cleanup:
  init doc: --shared=0xxx does not give umask but perm bits
  doc: git-init: clarify file modes in octal.
  doc: git-http-push: describe the refs as pattern pairs
  doc: uniformize <URL> placeholders' case
  doc: use three dots for indicating repetition instead of star
  doc: git-ls-files: express options as optional alternatives
  doc: use only hyphens as word separators in placeholders
  doc: express grammar placeholders between angle brackets
  doc: split placeholders as individual tokens
  doc: fix git credential synopsis
2021-12-10 14:35:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6d1e149ac0 Merge branch 'gc/remote-with-fewer-static-global-variables'
Code clean-up to eventually allow information on remotes defined
for an arbitrary repository to be read.

* gc/remote-with-fewer-static-global-variables:
  remote: die if branch is not found in repository
  remote: remove the_repository->remote_state from static methods
  remote: use remote_state parameter internally
  remote: move static variables into per-repository struct
  t5516: add test case for pushing remote refspecs
2021-12-10 14:35:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5396d7b298 Merge branch 'vd/sparse-sparsity-fix-on-read'
Ensure that the sparseness of the in-core index matches the
index.sparse configuration specified by the repository immediately
after the on-disk index file is read.

* vd/sparse-sparsity-fix-on-read:
  sparse-index: update do_read_index to ensure correct sparsity
  sparse-index: add ensure_correct_sparsity function
  sparse-index: avoid unnecessary cache tree clearing
  test-read-cache.c: prepare_repo_settings after config init
2021-12-10 14:35:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
83113c4268 Merge branch 'cw/protocol-v2-doc-fix'
Doc update.

* cw/protocol-v2-doc-fix:
  protocol-v2.txt: align delim-pkt spec with usage
2021-12-10 14:35:00 -08:00
Fabian Stelzer
50992f96c5 ssh signing: verify ssh-keygen in test prereq
Do a full ssh signing, find-principals and verify operation in the test
prereq's to make sure ssh-keygen works as expected. Only generating the
keys and verifying its presence is not sufficient in some situations.
One example was ssh-keygen creating unusable ssh keys in cygwin because
of unsafe default permissions for the key files. The other a broken
openssh 8.7 that segfaulted on any find-principals operation. This
extended prereq check avoids future test breakages in case ssh-keygen or
any environment behaviour changes.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:38:04 -08:00
Fabian Stelzer
122842fd93 ssh signing: make fmt-merge-msg consider key lifetime
Set the payload_type for check_signature() when generating merge messages to
verify merged tags signatures key lifetimes.
Implements the same tests as for verify-commit.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:38:04 -08:00
Fabian Stelzer
dd3aa418aa ssh signing: make verify-tag consider key lifetime
Set the payload_type for check_signature() when calling verify-tag.
Implements the same tests as for verify-commit.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:38:04 -08:00
Fabian Stelzer
4bbf3780ff ssh signing: make git log verify key lifetime
Set the payload_type for check_signature() when calling git log.
Implements the same tests as for verify-commit.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:38:04 -08:00
Fabian Stelzer
6393c956f4 ssh signing: make verify-commit consider key lifetime
If valid-before/after dates are configured for this signatures key in the
allowedSigners file then the verification should check if the key was valid at
the time the commit was made. This allows for graceful key rollover and
revoking keys without invalidating all previous commits.
This feature needs openssh > 8.8. Older ssh-keygen versions will simply
ignore this flag and use the current time.
Strictly speaking this feature is available in 8.7, but since 8.7 has a
bug that makes it unusable in another needed call we require 8.8.

Timestamp information is present on most invocations of check_signature.
However signer ident is not. We will need the signer email / name to be able
to implement "Trust on first use" functionality later.
Since the payload contains all necessary information we can parse it
from there. The caller only needs to provide us some info about the
payload by setting payload_type in the signature_check struct.

 - Add payload_type field & enum and payload_timestamp to struct
   signature_check
 - Populate the timestamp when not already set if we know about the
   payload type
 - Pass -Overify-time={payload_timestamp} in the users timezone to all
   ssh-keygen verification calls
 - Set the payload type when verifying commits
 - Add tests for expired, not yet valid and keys having a commit date
   outside of key validity as well as within

Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:38:04 -08:00
Fabian Stelzer
30770aa981 ssh signing: add key lifetime test prereqs
if ssh-keygen supports -Overify-time, add test keys marked as expired,
not yet valid and valid both within the test_tick timeframe and outside of it.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:38:04 -08:00
Fabian Stelzer
02769437e1 ssh signing: use sigc struct to pass payload
To be able to extend the payload metadata with things like its creation
timestamp or the creators ident we remove the payload parameters to
check_signature() and use the already existing sigc->payload field
instead, only adding the length field to the struct. This also allows
us to get rid of the xmemdupz() calls in the verify functions. Since
sigc is now used to input data as well as output the result move it to
the front of the function list.

 - Add payload_length to struct signature_check
 - Populate sigc.payload/payload_len on all call sites
 - Remove payload parameters to check_signature()
 - Remove payload parameters to internal verify_* functions and use sigc
   instead
 - Remove xmemdupz() used for verbose output since payload is now already
   populated.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:38:04 -08:00
Fabian Stelzer
cafd34522f t/fmt-merge-msg: make gpgssh tests more specific
Some GPGSSH fmt-merge-msg tests were only grepping for failed/successful
signature validation and not checking for the tag in the resulting merge
message. Add the missing grep for it.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:38:04 -08:00
Fabian Stelzer
5a2c1c0dee t/fmt-merge-msg: do not redirect stderr
All the GPG and GPGSSH tests are redirecing stdout as well as stderr
to `actual` and grep for success/failure over the resulting file.
However, no output is printed on stderr and we do not need to
include it in the grep.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:38:03 -08:00
Eric Sunshine
fca965a3bc t/lib-pager: use sane_unset() to avoid breaking &&-chain
This test intentionally breaks the &&-chain following `unset` since it
doesn't know if `unset` will succeed or fail and doesn't want a local
`unset` failure to abort the test overall. We can do better by using
sane_unset() which can be linked into the &&-chain as usual.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:35:47 -08:00
Elijah Newren
324b170b88 t2501: simplify the tests since we can now assume desired behavior
We no longer are dealing with a mixture of previous and desired
behavior, so simplify the tests a bit.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:13 -08:00
Elijah Newren
580a5d7f75 dir: new flag to remove_dir_recurse() to spare the original_cwd
remove_dir_recurse(), and its non-static wrapper called
remove_dir_recursively(), both take flags for modifying its behavior.
As with the previous commits, we would generally like to protect
the original_cwd, but we want to forced user commands (e.g. 'git rm -rf
...') or other special cases to remove it.  Add a flag for this purpose.
After reading through every caller of remove_dir_recursively() in the
current codebase, there was only one that should be adjusted and that
one only in a very unusual circumstance.  Add a pair of new testcases to
highlight that very specific case involving submodules && --git-dir &&
--work-tree.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:13 -08:00
Elijah Newren
63bbe8beb7 dir: avoid incidentally removing the original_cwd in remove_path()
Modern git often tries to avoid leaving empty directories around when
removing files.  Originally, it did not bother.  This behavior started
with commit 80e21a9ed8 (merge-recursive::removeFile: remove empty
directories, 2005-11-19), stating the reason simply as:

    When the last file in a directory is removed as the result of a
    merge, try to rmdir the now-empty directory.

This was reimplemented in C and renamed to remove_path() in commit
e1b3a2cad7 ("Build-in merge-recursive", 2008-02-07), but was still
internal to merge-recursive.

This trend towards removing leading empty directories continued with
commit d9b814cc97 (Add builtin "git rm" command, 2006-05-19), which
stated the reasoning as:

    The other question is what to do with leading directories. The old
    "git rm" script didn't do anything, which is somewhat inconsistent.
    This one will actually clean up directories that have become empty
    as a result of removing the last file, but maybe we want to have a
    flag to decide the behaviour?

remove_path() in dir.c was added in 4a92d1bfb7 (Add remove_path: a
function to remove as much as possible of a path, 2008-09-27), because
it was noted that we had two separate implementations of the same idea
AND both were buggy.  It described the purpose of the function as

    a function to remove as much as possible of a path

Why remove as much as possible?  Well, at the time we probably would
have said something like:

  * removing leading directories makes things feel tidy
  * removing leading directories doesn't hurt anything so long as they
    had no files in them.

But I don't believe those reasons hold when the empty directory happens
to be the current working directory we inherited from our parent
process.  Leaving the parent process in a deleted directory can cause
user confusion when subsequent processes fail: any git command, for
example, will immediately fail with

    fatal: Unable to read current working directory: No such file or directory

Other commands may similarly get confused.  Modify remove_path() so that
the empty leading directories it also deletes does not include the
current working directory we inherited from our parent process.  I have
looked through every caller of remove_path() in the current codebase to
make sure that all should take this change.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:13 -08:00
Elijah Newren
0fce211ccc stash: do not attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd
Since stash spawns a `clean` subprocess, make sure we run that from the
startup_info->original_cwd directory, so that the `clean` processs knows
to protect that directory.  Also, since the `clean` command might no
longer run from the toplevel, pass the ':/' magic pathspec to ensure we
still clean from the toplevel.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:13 -08:00
Elijah Newren
bc3ae46b42 rebase: do not attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd
Since rebase spawns a `checkout` subprocess, make sure we run that from
the startup_info->original_cwd directory, so that the checkout process
knows to protect that directory.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:13 -08:00
Elijah Newren
c65744e7d7 clean: do not attempt to remove startup_info->original_cwd
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:13 -08:00
Elijah Newren
00fcce285d symlinks: do not include startup_info->original_cwd in dir removal
symlinks has a pair of schedule_dir_for_removal() and
remove_scheduled_dirs() functions that ensure that directories made
empty by removing other files also themselves get removed.  However, we
want to exclude startup_info->original_cwd and leave it around.  This
avoids the user getting confused by subsequent git commands (and non-git
commands) that would otherwise report confusing messages about being
unable to read the current working directory.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:13 -08:00
Elijah Newren
0b0ee3388c unpack-trees: add special cwd handling
When running commands such as `git reset --hard` from a subdirectory, if
that subdirectory is in the way of adding needed files, bail with an
error message.

Note that this change looks kind of like it duplicates the new lines of
code from the previous commit in verify_clean_subdirectory().  However,
when we are preserving untracked files, we would rather any error
messages about untracked files being in the way take precedence over
error messages about a subdirectory that happens to be the_original_cwd
being in the way.  But in the UNPACK_RESET_OVERWRITE_UNTRACKED case,
there is no untracked checking to be done, so we simply add a special
case near the top of verify_absent_1.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:12 -08:00
Elijah Newren
b817e54533 unpack-trees: refuse to remove startup_info->original_cwd
In the past, when a directory needs to be removed to make room for a
file, we have always errored out when that directory contains any
untracked (but not ignored) files.  Add an extra condition on that: also
error out if the directory is the current working directory we inherited
from our parent process.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:12 -08:00
Elijah Newren
e6f8861bd4 setup: introduce startup_info->original_cwd
Removing the current working directory causes all subsequent git
commands run from that directory to get confused and fail with a message
about being unable to read the current working directory:

    $ git status
    fatal: Unable to read current working directory: No such file or directory

Non-git commands likely have similar warnings or even errors, e.g.

    $ bash -c 'echo hello'
    shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
    hello

This confuses end users, particularly since the command they get the
error from is not the one that caused the problem; the problem came from
the side-effect of some previous command.

We would like to avoid removing the current working directory of our
parent process; towards this end, introduce a new variable,
startup_info->original_cwd, that tracks the current working directory
that we inherited from our parent process.  For convenience of later
comparisons, we prefer that this new variable store a path relative to
the toplevel working directory (thus much like 'prefix'), except without
the trailing slash.

Subsequent commits will make use of this new variable.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:12 -08:00
Elijah Newren
8a0d52dfd8 t2501: add various tests for removing the current working directory
Numerous commands will remove directories left empty as a "convenience"
after removing files within them.  That is normally fine, but removing
the current working directory can be rather inconvenient since it can
cause confusion for the user when they run subsequent commands.  For
example, after one git process has removed the current working
directory, git status/log/diff will all abort with the message:

    fatal: Unable to read current working directory: No such file or directory

We also have code paths that, when a file needs to be placed where a
directory is (due to e.g. checkout, merge, reset, whatever), will check
if this is okay and error out if not.  These rules include:
  * all tracked files under that directory are intended to be removed by
    the operation
  * none of the tracked files under that directory have uncommitted
    modification
  * there are no untracked files under that directory
However, if we end up remove the current working directory, we can cause
user confusion when they run subsequent commands, so we would prefer if
there was a fourth rule added to this list: avoid removing the current
working directory.

Since there are several code paths that can result in the current
working directory being removed, add several tests of various different
codepaths.  To make it clearer what the difference between the current
behavior and the behavior at the end of the series, code both of them
into the tests and have the appropriate behavior be selected by a flag.
Subsequent commits will toggle the flag from current to desired
behavior.

Also add a few tests suggested during the review of earlier rounds of
this patch series.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-09 13:33:12 -08:00