When we are rebasing we know that the header lines in the
patch are good and that we don't need to pick up any headers
from the body of the patch.
This makes it possible to rebase commits whose commit message
start with "From" or "Date".
Test vectors by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <luksan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the new "git var GIT_PAGER" command to ask what pager to use.
Without this change, the core.pager configuration is ignored by
these commands.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to egrep(1) the US-ASCII table is used when LC_ALL=C is set.
We do not rely here on the LC_ALL value we get from the environment.
Signed-off-by: Christian Himpel <chressie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
RFC2822 specifies in paragraph 3.6.8, that optional header fields are
made up of any printable US-ASCII character except ' ' (space) and ':'
(colon).
The pattern for the egrep command is changed to match all of these
characters.
Signed-off-by: Christian Himpel <chressie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* bc/mailsplit-cr-at-eol:
Allow mailsplit (and hence git-am) to handle mails with CRLF line-endings
builtin-mailsplit.c: remove read_line_with_nul() since it is no longer used
builtin-mailinfo,builtin-mailsplit: use strbufs
strbuf: add new function strbuf_getwholeline()
Avoid git ending with this message:
"Patch format is not supported."
With improved error message in the format detection failure case by
Giuseppe Bilotta.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <ni.s@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We traditionally allowed a mbox file or a directory name of a maildir (but
never an individual file inside a maildir) to be given to "git am". Even
though an individual file in a maildir (or more generally, a piece of
RFC2822 e-mail) is not a mbox file, it contains enough information to
create a commit out of it, so there is no reason to reject one. Running
mailsplit on such a file feels stupid, but it does not hurt.
This builds on top of a5a6755 (git-am foreign patch support: introduce
patch_format, 2009-05-27) that introduced mailbox format detection. The
codepath to deal with a mbox requires it to begin with "From " line and
also allows it to begin with "From: ", but a random piece of e-mail can
and often do begin with any valid RFC2822 header lines.
Instead of checking the first line, we extract all the lines up to the
first empty line, and make sure they look like e-mail headers.
A test is added to t4150 to demonstrate this feature.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not that uncommon to have mails with DOS line-ending, notably
Thunderbird and web mailers like Gmail (when saving what they call
"original" message). So modify mailsplit to convert CRLF line-endings to
just LF.
Since git-rebase is built on top of git-am, add an option to mailsplit to
be used by git-am when it is acting on behalf of git-rebase, to refrain
from doing this conversion.
And add a test to make sure that rebase still works.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce --ignore-whitespace option and corresponding config bool to
ignore whitespace differences while applying patches, akin to the
'patch' program.
'git am', 'git rebase' and the bash git completion are made aware of
this option.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am and git-rebase are talkative scripts. Teach them to be quiet when
told, allowing them to speak only when they fail or experience errors.
The quiet option is maintained when git-am or git-rebase fails to apply
a patch. This means subsequent --resolved, --continue, --skip, --abort
invocations will be quiet if the original invocation was quiet.
Drop a handful of >&2 redirection; the rest of the program sends all the
info messages to stdout, not to stderr.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am with 3-way outputs errors when applying, even though the
3-way will usually be successful. We suppress these errors from
git-apply because they are not "true" errors until the 3-way has been
attempted.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce a clean_abort function that echoes an optional error message
to standard error, removes the dotest directory and exits with status 1.
Use it when patch format detection or patch splitting fails early.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Support StGIT patches by implementing a simple perl-based converter
mimicking StGIT's own parse_patch. Also support StGIT patch series by
'exploding' the index into a list of files and re-running the mail
splitting with patch_format set to stgit.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Default to mbox format if input is from stdin. Otherwise, look at the
first few lines of the first patch to try to guess its format.
Include checks for mailboxes, stgit patch series, stgit single patches
and hg patches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Set up a framework to allow git-am to support patches which are not in
mailbox format. Introduce a patch_format variable that presently can
only be set from the command line, defaulting to 'mbox' (the only
supported format) if not specified.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ash (used as /bin/sh on many distros) has a shell expansion bug
for the form ${var:+word word}. The result is a single argument
"word word". Work around by using ${var:+word} ${var:+word} or
equivalent.
Signed-off-by: Ben Jackson <ben@ben.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
People sometimes wonder why they cannot apply a patch that only
creates new files to an unborn branch.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you are in the middle of "git rebase", "git am --abort" by mistake
would have referred to nonexistent ORIG_HEAD and barfed, or worse yet, used
a stale ORIG_HEAD and taken you to an unexpected commit.
Also the option parsing did not reject "git am --abort --skip".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git am --abort resets the index unconditionally. But in case a previous
git am exited due to a dirty index it is preferable to keep that index.
Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update usage statement to remove a no-longer supported option, and to hide two
options (one a no-op, one internal) unless --help-all is used.
Use "test -t 0" instead of "tty -s" to detect when stdin is a terminal. (test
-t 0 is used elsewhere in git-am and in other git shell scripts, tty -s is
not, and appears to be deprecated by POSIX)
Use "test ..." instead of "[ ... ]" and "die <msg>" instead of "echo <msg>
>&2; exit 1" to be consistent with rest of script.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new option tells 'git-am' to ignore the date header field
recorded in the format-patch output. The commits will have the
timestamp when they are created instead.
You can work a lot in one day to accumulate many changes, but
apply and push to the public repository only some of them at
the end of the first day. Then next day you can spend all your
working hours reading comics or chatting with your coworkers,
and apply your remaining patches from the previous day using
this option to pretend that you have been working at the end
of the day.
Signed-off-by: しらいしななこ <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new option tells 'git-am' to use the timestamp recorded
in the Email message as both author and committer date.
Signed-off-by: しらいしななこ <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With --reject, git-am simply passes the --reject option to git-apply and thus
allows people to work with reject files if they so prefer.
Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The $FIRSTLINE variable is from the user's commit and can contain
arbitrary backslash escapes that may be (mis)interpreted when given to
"echo", depending on the implementation. Use "printf" to work around the
issue.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-am fails it's not always easy to see which patch failed,
since it's often hidden by a lot of error messages.
Add an extra line which prints the name of the failed patch just
before the resolve message to make it easier to find.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Flodén <jonas@floden.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thanks to a200337 (git-am: propagate -C<n>, -p<n> options as well,
2008-12-04) and commits around it, "git am" is equipped to correctly
propagate the command line flags such as -C/-p/-whitespace across a patch
failure and restart.
It is trivial to support --directory option now, resurrecting previous
attempts by Kevin and Simon.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All other state files use dash in their names, not underscores.
Also, there is no reason to call this "extra". Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reasoning is the same as the previous patch, where we made -C<n>
and -p<n> propagate across a failure.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These options are meant to deal with patches that do not apply cleanly
due to the differences between the version the patch was based on and
the version "git am" is working on.
Because a series of patches applied in the same "git am" run tends to
come from the same source, it is more useful to propagate these options
after the application stops.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you start "git am --whitespace=fix" and the patch application process
is interrupted by an unapplicable patch early in the series, after
fixing the offending patch, the remainder of the patch should be processed
still with --whitespace=fix when restarted with "git am --resolved" (or
dropping the offending patch with "git am --skip").
The breakage was introduced by the commit 67dad68 (add -C[NUM] to git-am,
2007-02-08); this should fix it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-apply documentation says that --binary is a historical option.
This patch lets git-am ignore --binary and removes advertisements of this
option.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The three separate lines for --skip, --resolved and --abort
are merged into one so that it is easy to see that they're
alternative and related options.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am output can be confusing, because the subject of the applied
patch can look like the rest of a sentence starting with "Applying".
The added colon should make this clearer.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 3-way merge, "am" will let the index with unmerged path waiting
for us to resolve conflicts and continue. But if we want to --skip
instead, "am" refuses to continue because of the dirty index.
With this patch, "am" will clean the index without touching files
locally modified, before continuing.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With git-am, it sounds awkward to have the patches in ".git/rebase/",
but for technical reasons, we have to keep the same directory name
for git-am and git-rebase. ".git/rebase-apply" seems to be a good
compromise.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After failing to apply patches in the middle of a series, "git am --abort"
lets you go back to the original commit.
[jc: doc/help update from Olivier, and fixups for "am -3" squashed in]
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sb/dashless:
Make usage strings dash-less
t/: Use "test_must_fail git" instead of "! git"
t/test-lib.sh: exit with small negagive int is ok with test_must_fail
Conflicts:
builtin-blame.c
builtin-mailinfo.c
builtin-mailsplit.c
builtin-shortlog.c
git-am.sh
t/t4150-am.sh
t/t4200-rerere.sh
Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be
tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR. While at it, avoid the rather
meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".
This was wished for on the mailing list, but so far unimplemented.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Invoking git-am or git-mailsplit without mbox or Maildir results in
reading an mbox from stdin. Mention this in the synopsis and usage
strings.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you misuse a git command, you are shown the usage string.
But this is currently shown in the dashed form. So if you just
copy what you see, it will not work, when the dashed form
is no longer supported.
This patch makes git commands show the dash-less version.
For shell scripts that do not specify OPTIONS_SPEC, git-sh-setup.sh
generates a dash-less usage string now.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"merge" and "reset" leave the original point in history in ORIG_HEAD,
which makes it easy to go back to where you were before you inflict a
major damage to your history and realize that you do not like the result
at all. These days with reflog, we technically do not need to use
ORIG_HEAD, but it is a handy way nevertheless.
This teaches "am" and "rebase" (all forms --- the vanilla one that uses
"am" as its backend, "-m" variant that cherry-picks, and "--interactive")
to do the same.
The original idea and a partial implementation to do this only for "rebase
-m" was by Brian Gernhardt; this extends on his idea.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
head -<n> was deprecated by POSIX, and as modern versions of coreutils
package don't support it at least one exports _POSIX2_VERSION=199209
it's fails on some systems.
head -n<n> is portable, but sed <n>q is even more.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Mery <amery@geeks.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
POSIX allows echo without flag to interpret specials such as \n, and we
tried to make things portable by using printf instead where it matters.
Recently added code to "git am" had unprotected "echo", which was caught
by t4014 and Rémi Vanicat.
This should fix it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This moves the assignment to FIRSTLINE down so that we do not have
to have multiple copies.
Suggested by Linus.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Traditionally git-rebase was implemented in terms of "format-patch" piped
to "am -3", to strike balance between speed (because it avoids a rather
expensive read-tree/merge-recursive machinery most of the time) and
flexibility (the magic "-3" allows it to fall back to 3-way merge as
necessary). However, this combination has one flaw when dealing with a
nonstandard commit log message format that has more than one lines in the
first paragraph.
This teaches "git am --rebasing" to take advantage of the fact that the
mbox message "git rebase" prepares for it records the original commit
object name, to get the log message from the original commit object
instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.5.4:
git-bisect: make "start", "good" and "skip" succeed or fail atomically
git-am: cope better with an empty Subject: line
Ignore leading empty lines while summarizing merges
bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message
builtin-apply: Show a more descriptive error on failure when opening a patch
Clarify documentation of git-cvsserver, particularly in relation to git-shell
When the Subject: line is empty for whatever reason, git-am was fooled by
it and left an empty line at the beginning of the resulting commit log
message.
This moves the logic around so that we do not keep $SUBJECT in a separate
variable. Instead, $dotest/msg-clean, which used to be the log message
body extracted from the message and then trailing whitespaces cleansed
out, now contains the subject line followed by a blank line at the
beginning for normal messages, and we use the first line from the file as
the summary line throughout the program.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-n" syntax is not supported by System V versions of
tail (which prefer "tail -1"). Unfortunately "tail -1" is
not actually POSIX. We had some of both forms in our
scripts.
Since neither form works everywhere, this patch replaces
both with the equivalent sed invocation:
sed -ne '$p'
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new option --rebasing is used internally for rebase to tell am that
it is being used for its purpose. This would leave .dotest/rebasing to
help "completion" scripts tell if the ongoing operation is am or rebase.
Also the option at the same time stands for --binary, -3 and -k which
are always given when rebase drives am as its backend.
Using the information "am" leaves, git-completion.bash tells ongoing
rebase and am apart.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It has been supported for a long time, but I do not think this feature has
been in use in the real world at all. We would eventually move this out
of the toplevel of the work tree and to somewhere under $GIT_DIR, so let's
remove the command line option to specify the location now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier commit c149184 (allow git-am to run in a subdirectory) taught
git-am to start from a subdirectory by going up to the root of the work
tree byitself, but it did not adjust the path to read the mbox from when
it did so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We just move to the top of the tree and proceed. This
shouldn't break any existing callers, since the behavior was
previously disallowed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With "too many unreachable loose objects" git gc --auto will always
trigger. This clutters the output of git am and thus git rebase.
Signed-off-by: Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
git-am -i: report rewritten title
git grep shows the same hit repeatedly for unmerged paths
Do check_repository_format() early (re-fix)
Do check_repository_format() early
Add missing inside_work_tree setting in setup_git_directory_gently
Jeff Garzik noticed that "git am -i" reports the applied patch with
the title before the user edited it. This was confusing.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit 6e9e0327b7. People
can prepare a text file with Subject: and From: headers and feed it to
"am" (pretending the file is a piece of e-mail), and have actually been
doing so. Strict checking for Date: breaks this established workflow,
which wants to record the time of the commit as the author time.
Thanks go to Jens Axboe for injection of sanity.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though commit-tree would default to the current time if the incoming
e-mail message somehow did not record the timestamp, it is safer to catch
the breakage sooner.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you have a file called HEAD in your work tree, many commands that
our scripts feed "HEAD" to would complain about the rev vs path
ambiguity. A solution is to form command line more carefully by
appending -- to them, which makes it clear that we mean HEAD rev not
HEAD file.
This patch would apply to maint.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
$ git am -3 -s -i file
spewed the usage strings back at the user while
$ git am -3 -i -s file
didn't. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was lost in the migration to git-rev-parse --parseopt by commit
78443d9049.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/autogc:
git-gc --auto: run "repack -A -d -l" as necessary.
git-gc --auto: restructure the way "repack" command line is built.
git-gc --auto: protect ourselves from accumulated cruft
git-gc --auto: add documentation.
git-gc --auto: move threshold check to need_to_gc() function.
repack -A -d: use --keep-unreachable when repacking
pack-objects --keep-unreachable
Export matches_pack_name() and fix its return value
Invoke "git gc --auto" from commit, merge, am and rebase.
Implement git gc --auto
We used to say "Applying <patch subject>", "Wrote <tree
object>", and "Committed <commit object>". Worse yet, with
extra blank lines around them.
Make the output more concise. The object names are not so
useful nor interesting.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am used "git apply -z --index-info" to find the original versions
of the files touched by the diff, to be able to do an inexpensive
three-way merge.
This operation makes only sense in a repository, since the index
information in the diff refers to blobs, which have to be present in
the current repository.
Therefore, teach "git apply" a mode to write out the result as an
index file to begin with, obviating the need for scripts to do it
themselves.
The sole user for --index-info is "git am" is converted to
use --build-fake-ancestor in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A lot of shell scripts contained stuff starting with
while case "$#" in 0) break ;; esac
and similar. I consider breaking out of the condition instead of the
body od the loop ugly, and the implied "true" value of the
non-matching case is not really obvious to humans at first glance. It
happens not to be obvious to some BSD shells, either, but that's
because they are not POSIX-compliant. In most cases, this has been
replaced by a straight condition using "test". "case" has the
advantage of being faster than "test" on vintage shells where "test"
is not a builtin. Since none of them is likely to run the git
scripts, anyway, the added readability should be worth the change.
A few loops have had their termination condition expressed
differently.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am used "git apply -z --index-info" to find the original versions
of the files touched by the diff, to be able to do an inexpensive
three-way merge.
This operation makes only sense in a repository, since the index
information in the diff refers to blobs, which have to be present in
the current repository.
Therefore, teach "git apply" a mode to write out the result as an
index file to begin with, obviating the need for scripts to do it
themselves.
The sole user for --index-info is "git am" is converted to
use --build-fake-ancestor in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of auto gc is to pack new objects created in loose
format, so a good rule of thumb is where we do update-ref after
creating a new commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usage information in git-am.sh now matches that of the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Hetro <whee@smaertness.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am expects the variable $resume to be empty or unset, which might not
be the case if $resume is set in the user's environment. So initialize
it to an empty value on startup.
The problem was noticed by Pierre Habouzit and reported through
http://bugs.debian.org/435807
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test if the From: line contains "Mail System Internal Data" and if
it is, skip this mail.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These variables let you specify an editor that will be launched in
preference to the EDITOR and VISUAL environment variables. The order
of preference is GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, EDITOR, VISUAL.
[jc: added a test and config variable documentation]
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, "git rerere" was enabled by creating the directory
.git/rr-cache. That is definitely not in line with most other
features, which are enabled by a config variable.
So, check the config variable "rerere.enabled". If it is set
to "false" explicitely, do not activate rerere, even if
.git/rr-cache exists. This should help when you want to disable
rerere temporarily.
If "rerere.enabled" is not set at all, fall back to detection
of the directory .git/rr-cache.
[jc: with minimum tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Under some implementations of echo (such as that provided by
dash), backslash escapes are recognized without any other
options. This means that echo-ing user-supplied strings may
cause any backslash sequences in them to be converted. Using
printf resolves the ambiguity.
This bug can be seen when using git-am to apply a patch
whose subject contains the character sequence "\n"; the
characters are converted to a literal newline. Noticed by
Szekeres Istvan.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This simplifies the shell code, reduces its memory footprint, and
speeds things up. The performance improvements should be noticable
when git-rebase works on big commits.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I am working on a project that required parsing through regular
mboxes that didn't necessarily have patches embedded in them. I
started by creating my own modified copy of git-am and working
from there. Very quickly, I noticed git-mailinfo wasn't able to
handle a big chunk of my email.
After hacking up numerous solutions and running into more
limitations, I decided it was just easier to rewrite a big chunk
of it. The following patch has a bunch of fixes and features
that I needed in order for me do what I wanted.
Note: I'm didn't follow any email rfc papers but I don't think
any of the changes I did required much knowledge (besides the
boundary stuff).
List of major changes/fixes:
- can't create empty patch files fix
- empty patch files don't fail, this failure will come inside git-am
- multipart boundaries are now handled
- only output inbody headers if a patch exists otherwise assume those
headers are part of the reply and instead output the original headers
- decode and filter base64 patches correctly
- various other accidental fixes
I believe I didn't break any existing functionality or
compatibility (other than what I describe above, which is really
only the empty patch file).
I tested this through various mailing list archives and
everything seemed to parse correctly (a couple thousand emails).
[jc: squashed in another patch from Don's five patch series to
fix the test case, as this patch exposes the bug in the test.]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
