eb32d236 introduced the OBJ_OFS_DELTA object that uses a relative offset to
identify the base object instead of the 20-byte SHA1 reference. The pack file
documentation only mentions the SHA1 based reference in its description of the
deltified object entry.
Update the pack format documentation to clarify that the deltified object
representation refers to its base using either a relative negative offset or
the absolute SHA1 identifier.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Saasen <ssaasen@atlassian.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
* mh/ceiling:
string_list_longest_prefix(): remove function
setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks in ceiling paths
longest_ancestor_length(): require prefix list entries to be normalized
longest_ancestor_length(): take a string_list argument for prefixes
longest_ancestor_length(): use string_list_split()
Introduce new function real_path_if_valid()
real_path_internal(): add comment explaining use of cwd
Introduce new static function real_path_internal()
The documentation for the ALLOC_GROW API implicitly encouraged
developers to use "ary" as the variable name for the array which is
dynamically grown. However "ary" is an unusual abbreviation hardly
used anywhere else in the source tree, and it is also better to name
variables based on their contents not on their type.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a sub-command dies due to a signal, we encode the
signal number into the numeric exit status as "signal -
128". This is easy to identify (versus a regular positive
error code), and when cast to an unsigned integer (e.g., by
feeding it to exit), matches what a POSIX shell would return
when reporting a signal death in $? or through its own exit
code.
So we have a negative value inside the code, but once it
passes across an exit() barrier, it looks positive (and any
code we receive from a sub-shell will have the positive
form). E.g., death by SIGPIPE (signal 13) will look like
-115 to us in inside git, but will end up as 141 when we
call exit() with it. And a program killed by SIGPIPE but run
via the shell will come to us with an exit code of 141.
Unfortunately, this means that when the "use_shell" option
is set, we need to be on the lookout for _both_ forms. We
might or might not have actually invoked the shell (because
we optimize out some useless shell calls). If we didn't invoke
the shell, we will will see the sub-process's signal death
directly, and run-command converts it into a negative value.
But if we did invoke the shell, we will see the shell's
128+signal exit status. To be thorough, we would need to
check both, or cast the value to an unsigned char (after
checking that it is not -1, which is a magic error value).
Fortunately, most callsites do not care at all whether the
exit was from a code or from a signal; they merely check for
a non-zero status, and sometimes propagate the error via
exit(). But for the callers that do care, we can make life
slightly easier by just using the consistent positive form.
This actually fixes two minor bugs:
1. In launch_editor, we check whether the editor died from
SIGINT or SIGQUIT. But we checked only the negative
form, meaning that we would fail to notice a signal
death exit code which was propagated through the shell.
2. In handle_alias, we assume that a negative return value
from run_command means that errno tells us something
interesting (like a fork failure, or ENOENT).
Otherwise, we simply propagate the exit code. Negative
signal death codes confuse us, and we print a useless
"unable to run alias 'foo': Success" message. By
encoding signal deaths using the positive form, the
existing code just propagates it as it would a normal
non-zero exit code.
The downside is that callers of run_command can no longer
differentiate between a signal received directly by the
sub-process, and one propagated. However, no caller
currently cares, and since we already optimize out some
calls to the shell under the hood, that distinction is not
something that should be relied upon by callers.
Fix the same logic in t/test-terminal.perl for consistency [jc:
raised by Jonathan in the discussion].
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The contents of this document does not describe any particular API, but
is more about the way to add a new command, which belongs to the "How To"
section of the documentation suite.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Start list with 1 instead of 0; ASCIIDOC will renumber it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A cache-tree entry with a negative entry count is considered invalid
by the current Git; it records that we do not know the object name
of a tree that would result by writing the directory covered by the
cache-tree as a tree object.
Clarify that any entry with a negative entry count is invalid, but
the implementations must write -1 there. This way, we can later
decide to allow writers to use negative values other than -1 to
encode optional information on such invalidated entries without
harming interoperability; we do not know what will be encoded and
how, so we keep these other negative values as reserved for now.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This document contains no new policies or proposals; it attempts to
document established practices and interface requirements.
Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ta/doc-cleanup:
Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto
Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidoc
Documentation/technical: convert plain text files to asciidoc
Change headline of technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt to not confuse its content with content from git-send-pack.txt
Shorten two over-long lines in git-bisect-lk2009.txt by abbreviating some sha1
Split over-long synopsis in git-fetch-pack.txt into several lines
Improve the asymptotic performance of the cat_sort_uniq notes merge
strategy.
* mh/notes-string-list:
string_list_add_refs_from_colon_sep(): use string_list_split()
notes: fix handling of colon-separated values
combine_notes_cat_sort_uniq(): sort and dedup lines all at once
Initialize sort_uniq_list using named constant
string_list: add a function string_list_remove_empty_items()
Document strbuf_split_buf(), strbuf_split_str(), strbuf_split_max(),
strbuf_split(), and strbuf_list_free() in the header file and in
api-strbuf.txt. (These functions were previously completely
undocumented.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
This function was added in f103f95b11 in
the erroneous expectation that it would be used in the
reimplementation of longest_ancestor_length(). But it turned out to
be easier to use a function specialized for comparing path prefixes
(i.e., one that knows about slashes and root paths) than to prepare
the paths in such a way that a generic string prefix comparison
function can be used. So delete string_list_longest_prefix() and its
documentation and test cases.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
A GSoC project.
* fa/remote-svn:
Add a test script for remote-svn
remote-svn: add marks-file regeneration
Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing
remote-svn: add incremental import
remote-svn: Activate import/export-marks for fast-import
Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata
vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notes
Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls
remote-svn, vcs-svn: Enable fetching to private refs
When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of "--quiet"
Add documentation for the 'bidi-import' capability of remote-helpers
Connect fast-import to the remote-helper via pipe, adding 'bidi-import' capability
Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detached
Add svndump_init_fd to allow reading dumps from arbitrary FDs
Add git-remote-testsvn to Makefile
Implement a remote helper for svn in C
These were not originally meant for asciidoc, but they are already
so close. Mark them up in asciidoc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow detaching of ownership of the argv_array's contents and add a
function to free those detached argv_arrays later.
This makes it possible to use argv_array efficiently with the exiting
struct child_process which only contains a member char **argv.
Add to documentation.
Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Running "whatchanged --graph -m" on a simple two-head merges
can fall into infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Finishing touch to update documentation of string-list to make sure
the earlier rewrite of ref-list match logic that depends on its sort
order will not get broken.
* mh/fetch-filter-refs:
string_list API: document what "sorted" means
Turn many file-scope private symbols to static to reduce the
global namespace contamination.
* jc/make-static:
sequencer.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
ident.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
trace.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
wt-status.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
read-cache.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
strbuf.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
sha1-array.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
symlinks.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
notes.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
rerere.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
graph.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
diff.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
commit.c: mark a file-scope private symbol as static
builtin/notes.c: mark file-scope private symbols as static
Avoid confusion in compound sentence about the start of the commit set
and the depth measure. Use two sentences.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recent work on using string_list to represent the list of refs
that matched with the refs on the other side during fetch heavily
depends on the sort order by string_list's implementation, and
changing string_list will break it. Document that it uses strcmp()
order, at least for now.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mh/string-list:
api-string-list.txt: initialize the string_list the easy way
string_list: add a function string_list_longest_prefix()
string_list: add a new function, string_list_remove_duplicates()
string_list: add a new function, filter_string_list()
string_list: add two new functions for splitting strings
string_list: add function string_list_append_nodup()
In the demo code blurb, show how to initialize the string_list using
STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP rather than memset().
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a function that finds the longest string from a string_list that
is a prefix of a given string.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a function that deletes duplicate entries from a sorted
string_list.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function allows entries that don't match a specified criterion to
be discarded from a string_list while preserving the order of the
remaining entries.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add two new functions, string_list_split() and
string_list_split_in_place(). These split a string into a string_list
on a separator character. The first makes copies of the substrings
(leaving the input string untouched) and the second splits the
original string in place, overwriting the separator characters with
NULs and referring to the original string's memory.
These functions are similar to the strbuf_split_*() functions except
that they work with the more powerful string_list interface.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new function that appends a string to a string_list without
copying it. This can be used to pass ownership of an already-copied
string to a string_list that has strdup_strings set.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use argv-array API in "git fetch" implementation.
* jk/argv-array:
submodule: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays
fetch: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays
argv-array: fix bogus cast when freeing array
argv-array: add pop function
Sometimes we build a set of similar command lines, differing
only in the final arguments (e.g., "fetch --multiple"). To
use argv_array for this, you have to either push the same
set of elements repeatedly, or break the abstraction by
manually manipulating the array's internal members.
Instead, let's provide a sanctioned "pop" function to remove
elements from the end.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The credential API is in C, and not available to scripting languages.
Expose the functionalities of the API by wrapping them into a new
plumbing command "git credentials".
In other words, replace the internal "test-credential" by an official Git
command.
Most documentation writen by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Volek <Pavel.Volek@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Kim Thuat Nguyen <Kim-Thuat.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Javier Roucher Iglesias <Javier.Roucher-Iglesias@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was unclear whether the field was to be specified by the user of the
API.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most of our documentation is in a single directory, so using
linkgit:git-config[1] just generates a relative link in the
same directory. However, this is not the case with the API
documentation in technical/*, which need to refer to
git-config from the parent directory.
We can fix this by passing a special prefix attribute when building
in a subdirectory, and respecting that prefix in our linkgit
definitions.
We only have to modify the html linkgit definition. For
manpages, we can ignore this for two reasons:
1. we do not generate actual links to the file in
manpages, but instead just give the name and section of
the linked manpage
2. we do not currently build manpages for subdirectories,
only html
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mm/api-credentials-doc:
api-credentials.txt: add "see also" section
api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly
api-credentials.txt: show the big picture first
doc: fix xref link from api docs to manual pages
The name of the configuration variable was mentioned only at the very
end of the explanation, in a place specific to a specific rule, hence it
was not very clear what the specification was about.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The API documentation targets two kinds of developers: those using the
C API, and those writing remote-helpers. The document was not clear
about which part was useful to which category, and for example, the C API
could be mistakenly thought as an API for writting remote helpers.
Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
