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Elijah Newren
96c0caf5e3 Fix spelling errors in messages shown to users
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-10 16:00:54 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
8e111e487b Merge branch 'rs/help-unknown-ref-does-not-return'
Code cleanup.

* rs/help-unknown-ref-does-not-return:
  help: make help_unknown_ref() NORETURN
2019-09-30 13:19:27 +09:00
René Scharfe
80e3658647 help: make help_unknown_ref() NORETURN
Announce that calling help_unknown_ref() exits the program.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-30 10:22:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8d32d2552e Merge branch 'jk/help-unknown-ref-fix'
Improve the code to show args with potential typo that cannot be
interpreted as a commit-ish.

* jk/help-unknown-ref-fix:
  help_unknown_ref(): check for refname ambiguity
  help_unknown_ref(): duplicate collected refnames
2019-06-13 13:19:42 -07:00
Jeff King
2ed2e19958 help_unknown_ref(): check for refname ambiguity
When the user asks to merge "foo" and we suggest "origin/foo" instead,
we do so by simply chopping off "refs/remotes/" from the front of the
suggested ref. This is usually fine, but it's possible that the
resulting name is ambiguous (e.g., you have "refs/heads/origin/foo",
too).

Let's use shorten_unambiguous_ref() to do this the right way, which
should usually yield the same "origin/foo", but "remotes/origin/foo" if
necessary.

Note that in this situation there may be other options (e.g., we could
suggest "heads/origin/foo" as well). I'll leave that up for debate; the
focus here is just to avoid giving advice that does not actually do what
we expect.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-15 10:58:02 +09:00
Jeff King
8ed51b0666 help_unknown_ref(): duplicate collected refnames
When "git merge" sees an unknown refname, we iterate through the refs to
try to suggest some possible alternates. We do so with for_each_ref(),
and in the callback we add some of the refnames we get to a
string_list that is declared with NODUP, directly adding a pointer into
the refname string our callback received.

But the for_each_ref() machinery does not promise that the refname
string will remain valid, and as a result we may print garbage memory.

The code in question dates back to its inception in e56181060e (help:
add help_unknown_ref(), 2013-05-04). But back then, the refname strings
generally did remain stable, at least immediately after the
for_each_ref() call. Later, in d1cf15516f (packed_ref_iterator_begin():
iterate using `mmapped_ref_iterator`, 2017-09-25), we started
consistently re-using a separate buffer for packed refs.

The fix is simple: duplicate the strings we intend to collect. We
already call string_list_clear(), so the memory is correctly freed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-15 10:58:00 +09:00
Jeff King
057ab54b66 completion: fix multiple command removals
Commit 6532f3740b ("completion: allow to customize the completable
command list", 2018-05-20) tried to allow multiple space-separated
entries in completion.commands. To do this, it copies each parsed token
into a strbuf so that the result is NUL-terminated.

However, for tokens starting with "-", it accidentally passes the
original non-terminated string, meaning that only the final one worked.
Switch to using the strbuf.

Reported-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-21 11:52:11 +09:00
Jeff King
83b0ecf333 git: read local config in --list-cmds
Normally code that is checking config before we've decided to do
setup_git_directory() would use read_early_config(), which uses
discover_git_directory() to tentatively see if we're in a repo,
and if so to add it to the config sequence.

But list_cmds() uses the caching configset mechanism which
rightly does not use read_early_config(), because it has no
idea if it's being called early.

Call setup_git_directory_gently() so we can pick up repo-level
config (like completion.commands).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-21 11:52:11 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6195a76da4 help: align the longest command in the command listing
"longest" is used to determine how many extra spaces we need to print
to keep the command description aligned. For the longest command, we
should print no extra space instead of one, or we'll get unaligned
output like this (notice the "checkout" line):

    grow, mark and tweak your common history
       branch     List, create, or delete branches
       checkout    Switch branches or restore working tree files
       commit     Record changes to the repository
       diff       Show changes between commits, commit and ...
       merge      Join two or more development histories together
       rebase     Reapply commits on top of another base tip
       tag        Create, list, delete or verify a tag ...

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-31 15:27:35 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
1c4b985965 help -a: handle aliases with long names gracefully
We take pains to determine the longest command beforehand, so that we
can align the category column after printing the command names.

However, then we re-use that value when printing the aliases. If any
alias name is longer than the longest command name, we consequently try
to add a negative number of spaces (but `mput_char()` does not expect
any negative values and simply decrements until the value is 0, i.e.
it tries to add close to 2**31 spaces).

Let's fix this by adjusting the `longest` variable before printing the
aliases.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1975.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-12 17:18:38 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
26c7d06783 help -a: improve and make --verbose default
When you type "git help" (or just "git") you are greeted with a list
with commonly used commands and their short description and are
suggested to use "git help -a" or "git help -g" for more details.

"git help -av" would be more friendly and inline with what is shown
with "git help" since it shows list of commands with description as
well, and commands are properly grouped.

"help -av" does not show everything "help -a" shows though. Add
external command section in "help -av" for this. While at there, add a
section for aliases as well (until now aliases have no UI, just "git
config").

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-03 21:23:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d28017005f Merge branch 'hn/highlight-sideband-keywords'
The sideband code learned to optionally paint selected keywords at
the beginning of incoming lines on the receiving end.

* hn/highlight-sideband-keywords:
  sideband: do not read beyond the end of input
  sideband: highlight keywords in remote sideband output
2018-08-20 12:41:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c5d276cb18 Merge branch 'mk/http-backend-content-length'
The http-backend (used for smart-http transport) used to slurp the
whole input until EOF, without paying attention to CONTENT_LENGTH
that is supplied in the environment and instead expecting the Web
server to close the input stream.  This has been fixed.

* mk/http-backend-content-length:
  t5562: avoid non-portable "export FOO=bar" construct
  http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH for receive-pack
  http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875
  http-backend: cleanup writing to child process
2018-08-17 13:09:57 -07:00
Han-Wen Nienhuys
bf1a11f0a1 sideband: highlight keywords in remote sideband output
The colorization is controlled with the config setting "color.remote".

Supported keywords are "error", "warning", "hint" and "success". They
are highlighted if they appear at the start of the line, which is
common in error messages, eg.

   ERROR: commit is missing Change-Id

The Git push process itself prints lots of non-actionable messages
(eg. bandwidth statistics, object counters for different phases of the
process). This obscures actionable error messages that servers may
send back. Highlighting keywords in the sideband draws more attention
to those messages.

The background for this change is that Gerrit does server-side
processing to create or update code reviews, and actionable error
messages (eg. missing Change-Id) must be communicated back to the user
during the push. User research has shown that new users have trouble
seeing these messages.

The highlighting is done on the client rather than server side, so
servers don't have to grow capabilities to understand terminal escape
codes and terminal state. It also consistent with the current state
where Git is control of the local display (eg. prefixing messages with
"remote: ").

The highlighting can be configured using color.remote.<KEYWORD>
configuration settings. Since the keys are matched case insensitively,
we match the keywords case insensitively too.

Finally, this solution is backwards compatible: many servers already
prefix their messages with "error", and they will benefit from this
change without requiring a server update. By contrast, a server-side
solution would likely require plumbing the TERM variable through the
git protocol, so it would require changes to both server and client.

Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-08 15:20:09 -07:00
Max Kirillov
6c213e863a http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH for receive-pack
Push passes to another commands, as described in
https://public-inbox.org/git/20171129032214.GB32345@sigill.intra.peff.net/

As it gets complicated to correctly track the data length, instead transfer
the data through parent process and cut the pipe as the specified length is
reached. Do it only when CONTENT_LENGTH is set, otherwise pass the input
directly to the forked commands.

Add tests for cases:

* CONTENT_LENGTH is set, script's stdin has more data, with all combinations
  of variations: fetch or push, plain or compressed body, correct or truncated
  input.

* CONTENT_LENGTH is specified to a value which does not fit into ssize_t.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-27 10:47:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2289880f78 Merge branch 'nd/command-list'
The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
bit more consolidated to allow more automation.

* nd/command-list:
  completion: allow to customize the completable command list
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
  Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
  completion: reduce completable command list
  completion: let git provide the completable command list
  command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
  help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
  help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
  git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
  completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
  git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
  git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
  Remove common-cmds.h
  help: use command-list.h for common command list
  generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
  generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-06-01 15:06:37 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
e17ca92637 completion: drop the hard coded list of config vars
The new help option --config-for-completion is a machine friendlier
version of --config where all the placeholders and wildcards are
dropped, leaving only the good, completable prefixes for
git-completion.bash to consume.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29 14:51:28 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3ac68a93fd help: add --config to list all available config
Sometimes it helps to list all available config vars so the user can
search for something they want. The config man page can also be used
but it's harder to search if you want to focus on the variable name,
for example.

This is not the best way to collect the available config since it's
not precise. Ideally we should have a centralized list of config in C
code (pretty much like 'struct option'), but that's a lot more work.
This will do for now.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-29 14:51:28 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
17b3e51505 Merge branch 'nd/command-list' into nd/complete-config-vars
* nd/command-list:
  completion: allow to customize the completable command list
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=alias
  completion: add and use --list-cmds=nohelpers
  Move declaration for alias.c to alias.h
  completion: reduce completable command list
  completion: let git provide the completable command list
  command-list.txt: documentation and guide line
  help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
  help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
  git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
  completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
  git --list-cmds: collect command list in a string_list
  git.c: convert --list-* to --list-cmds=*
  Remove common-cmds.h
  help: use command-list.h for common command list
  generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to command-list.h
  generate-cmds.sh: factor out synopsis extract code
2018-05-29 14:51:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6532f3740b completion: allow to customize the completable command list
By default we show porcelain, external commands and a couple others
that are also popular. If you are not happy with this list, you can
now customize it a new config variable.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
1b81d8cb19 help: use command-list.txt for the source of guides
The help command currently hard codes the list of guides and their
summary in C. Let's move this list to command-list.txt. This lets us
extract summary lines from Documentation/git*.txt. This also
potentially lets us list guides in git.txt, but I'll leave that for
now.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
63eae83f8f help: add "-a --verbose" to list all commands with synopsis
This lists all recognized commands [1] by category. The group order
follows closely git.txt.

[1] We may actually show commands that are not built (e.g. if you set
NO_PERL you don't have git-instaweb but it's still listed here). I
ignore the problem because on Linux a git package could be split
anyway. The "git-core" package may not contain git-instaweb even if
it's built because it may end up in a separate package. We can't know
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3c7777672b git: support --list-cmds=list-<category>
This allows us to select any group of commands by a category defined
in command-list.txt. This is an internal/hidden option so we don't
have to be picky about the category name or worried about exposing too
much.

This will be used later by git-completion.bash to retrieve certain
command groups.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6bb2dc0b94 completion: implement and use --list-cmds=main,others
This is part of the effort to break down and provide commands by
category in machine-readable form. This could be helpful later on when
completion script switches to use --list-cmds for selecting
completable commands. It would be much easier for the user to choose
to complete _all_ commands instead of the default selection by passing
different values to --list-cmds in git-completino.bash.

While at there, replace "git help -a" in git-completion.bash with
--list-cmds since it's better suited for this task.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-21 13:23:14 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
cfb22a02ab help: use command-list.h for common command list
The previous commit added code generation for all_cmd_desc[] which
includes almost everything we need to generate common command list.
Convert help code to use that array instead and drop common_cmds[] array.

The description of each common command group is removed from
command-list.txt. This keeps this file format simpler. common-cmds.h
will not be generated correctly after this change due to the
command-list.txt format change. But it does not matter and
common-cmds.h will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-10 19:52:47 +09:00
Stefan Beller
d807c4a01d exec_cmd: rename to use dash in file name
This is more consistent with the project style. The majority of Git's
source files use dashes in preference to underscores in their file names.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
2018-04-11 18:11:00 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
ed32b788c0 version --build-options: report commit, too, if possible
In particular when local tags are used (or tags that are pushed to some
fork) to build Git, it is very hard to figure out from which particular
revision a particular Git executable was built. It gets worse when those
tags are deleted, or even updated.

Let's just report an exact, unabbreviated commit name in our build
options.

We need to be careful, though, to report when the current commit cannot
be determined, e.g. when building from a tarball without any associated
Git repository. This could be the case also when extracting Git's source
code into an unrelated Git worktree.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-14 22:53:04 -08:00
Eric Sunshine
b22894049f version --build-options: also report host CPU
It can be helpful for bug reports to include information about the
environment in which the bug occurs. "git version --build-options" can
help to supplement this information. In addition to the size of 'long'
already reported by --build-options, also report the host's CPU type.
Example output:

   $ git version --build-options
   git version 2.9.3.windows.2.826.g06c0f2f
   cpu: x86_64
   sizeof-long: 4

New Makefile variable HOST_CPU supports cross-compiling.

Suggested-by: Adric Norris <landstander668@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-14 22:52:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
aca226e6e9 Merge branch 'mb/reword-autocomplete-message'
Message update.

* mb/reword-autocomplete-message:
  auto-correct: tweak phrasing
2017-06-26 14:09:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
50f03c6676 Merge branch 'ab/free-and-null'
A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.

* ab/free-and-null:
  *.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro
  coccinelle: make use of the "expression" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
  coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
  coccinelle: make use of the "type" FREE_AND_NULL() rule
  coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL()
  git-compat-util: add a FREE_AND_NULL() wrapper around free(ptr); ptr = NULL
2017-06-24 14:28:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f31d23a399 Merge branch 'bw/config-h'
Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
into its own header file.

* bw/config-h:
  config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir
  config: respect commondir
  setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir
  config: don't include config.h by default
  config: remove git_config_iter
  config: create config.h
2017-06-24 14:28:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1c3d87cf55 Merge branch 'js/alias-early-config'
The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the
configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and
then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was
unnecessarilyl complex.  Attempt to simplify the logic by using the
early-config mechanism that does not chdir around.

* js/alias-early-config:
  alias: use the early config machinery to expand aliases
  t7006: demonstrate a problem with aliases in subdirectories
  t1308: relax the test verifying that empty alias values are disallowed
  help: use early config when autocorrecting aliases
  config: report correct line number upon error
  discover_git_directory(): avoid setting invalid git_dir
2017-06-24 14:28:40 -07:00
Marc Branchaud
968b1fe263 auto-correct: tweak phrasing
When help.autoCorrect is enabled, an invalid git command prints a
warning and a continuation message, which differs depending on
whether or not the value of help.autoCorrect is positive or
negative.

With help.autoCorrect = 15:

   WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
   Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'
   in 1.5 seconds automatically...

With help.autoCorrect < 0:

   WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
   Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'

The continuation message's phrasing is awkward.  This commit cleans it up.
As a bonus, we now use full-sentence strings which make translation easier.

With help.autoCorrect = 15:

   WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
   Continuing in 1.5 seconds, assuming that you meant 'log'.

With help.autoCorrect < 0:

   WARNING: You called a Git command named 'lgo', which does not exist.
   Continuing under the assumption that you meant 'log'.

Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-21 13:53:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
50ad8561de Merge branch 'jk/consistent-h'
"git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the
command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository
set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git
potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing.

* jk/consistent-h:
  t0012: test "-h" with builtins
  git: add hidden --list-builtins option
  version: convert to parse-options
  diff- and log- family: handle "git cmd -h" early
  submodule--helper: show usage for "-h"
  remote-{ext,fd}: print usage message on invalid arguments
  upload-archive: handle "-h" option early
  credential: handle invalid arguments earlier
2017-06-19 12:38:45 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
88ce3ef636 *.[ch] refactoring: make use of the FREE_AND_NULL() macro
Replace occurrences of `free(ptr); ptr = NULL` which weren't caught by
the coccinelle rule. These fall into two categories:

 - free/NULL assignments one after the other which coccinelle all put
   on one line, which is functionally equivalent code, but very ugly.

 - manually spotted occurrences where the NULL assignment isn't right
   after the free() call.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-16 12:44:09 -07:00
Brandon Williams
b2141fc1d2 config: don't include config.h by default
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h.  Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15 12:56:22 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
659fef199f help: use early config when autocorrecting aliases
Git has this feature which suggests similar commands (including aliases)
in case the user specified an unknown command.

This feature currently relies on a side effect of the way we expand
aliases right now: when a command is not a builtin, we use the regular
config machinery (meaning: discovering the .git/ directory and
initializing global state such as the config cache) to see whether the
command refers to an alias.

However, we will change the way aliases are expanded in the next
commits, to use the early config instead. That means that the
autocorrect feature can no longer discover the available aliases by
looking at the config cache (because it has not yet been initialized).

So let's just use the early config machinery instead.

This is slightly less performant than the previous way, as the early
config is used *twice*: once to see whether the command refers to an
alias, and then to see what aliases are most similar. However, this is
hardly a performance-critical code path, so performance is less important
here.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15 12:31:43 -07:00
Jeff King
b48cbfc5e6 version: convert to parse-options
The "git version" command didn't traditionally accept any
options, and in fact ignores any you give it. When we added
simple option parsing for "--build-options" in 6b9c38e14, we
didn't improve this; we just loop over the arguments and
pick out the one we recognize.

Instead, let's move to a real parsing loop, complain about
nonsense options, and recognize conventions like "-h".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-05 11:43:33 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
7d5e13f652 Merge branch 'bw/forking-and-threading'
The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust
against dead-locking in a threaded environment.

* bw/forking-and-threading:
  usage.c: drop set_error_handle()
  run-command: restrict PATH search to executable files
  run-command: expose is_executable function
  run-command: block signals between fork and execve
  run-command: add note about forking and threading
  run-command: handle dup2 and close errors in child
  run-command: eliminate calls to error handling functions in child
  run-command: don't die in child when duping /dev/null
  run-command: prepare child environment before forking
  string-list: add string_list_remove function
  run-command: use the async-signal-safe execv instead of execvp
  run-command: prepare command before forking
  t0061: run_command executes scripts without a #! line
  t5550: use write_script to generate post-update hook
2017-05-30 11:16:41 +09:00
Jean-Noel Avila
6c48686263 usability: don't ask questions if no reply is required
There has been a bug report by a corporate user that stated that
"spelling mistake of stash followed by a yes prints character 'y'
infinite times."

This analysis was false. When the spelling of a command contains
errors, the git program tries to help the user by providing candidates
which are close to the unexisting command. E.g Git prints the
following:

        git: 'stahs' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
        Did you mean this?

        stash

and then exits.

The problem with this hint is that it is not formally indicated as an
hint and the user is in fact encouraged to reply to the question,
whereas the Git command is already finished.

The user was unlucky enough that it was the command he was looking
for, and replied "yes" on the command line, effectively launching the
`yes` program.

The initial error is that the Git programs, when launched in
command-line mode (without interaction) must not ask questions,
because these questions would normally require a user input as a reply
that they won't handle indeed. That's a source of confusion on UX
level.

To improve the general usability of the Git suite, the following rule
was applied:

if the sentence
 * appears in a non-interactive session
 * is printed last before exit
 * is a question addressing the user ("you")

the sentence is turned into affirmative and proposes the option.

The basic rewording of the question sentences has been extended to
other spots found in the source.

Requested at https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/999 by rpai1

Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-12 15:18:13 +09:00
Brandon Williams
38124a40e4 run-command: expose is_executable function
Move the logic for 'is_executable()' from help.c to run_command.c and
expose it so that callers from outside help.c can access the function.
This is to enable run-command to be able to query if a file is
executable in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-25 18:45:29 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
c755015f79 help: improve is_executable() on Windows
On Windows, executables need to have the file extension `.exe`, or they
are not executables. Hence, to support scripts, Git for Windows also
looks for a she-bang line by opening the file in question, and executing
it via the specified script interpreter.

To figure out whether files in the `PATH` are executable, `git help` has
code that imitates this behavior. With one exception: it *always* opens
the files and looks for a she-bang line *or* an `MZ` tell-tale
(nevermind that files with the magic `MZ` but without file extension
`.exe` would still not be executable).

Opening this many files leads to performance problems that are even more
serious when a virus scanner is running. Therefore, let's change the
code to look for the file extension `.exe` early, and avoid opening the
file altogether if we already know that it is executable.

See the following measurements (in seconds) as an example, where we
execute a simple program that simply lists the directory contents and
calls open() on every listed file:

With virus scanner running (coldcache):

$ ./a.exe /libexec/git-core/
before open (git-add.exe): 0.000000
after open (git-add.exe): 0.412873
before open (git-annotate.exe): 0.000175
after open (git-annotate.exe): 0.397925
before open (git-apply.exe): 0.000243
after open (git-apply.exe): 0.399996
before open (git-archive.exe): 0.000147
after open (git-archive.exe): 0.397783
before open (git-bisect--helper.exe): 0.000160
after open (git-bisect--helper.exe): 0.397700
before open (git-blame.exe): 0.000160
after open (git-blame.exe): 0.399136
...

With virus scanner running (hotcache):

$ ./a.exe /libexec/git-core/
before open (git-add.exe): 0.000000
after open (git-add.exe): 0.000325
before open (git-annotate.exe): 0.000229
after open (git-annotate.exe): 0.000177
before open (git-apply.exe): 0.000167
after open (git-apply.exe): 0.000150
before open (git-archive.exe): 0.000154
after open (git-archive.exe): 0.000156
before open (git-bisect--helper.exe): 0.000132
after open (git-bisect--helper.exe): 0.000180
before open (git-blame.exe): 0.000718
after open (git-blame.exe): 0.000724
...

With this patch I get:

$ time git help git
Launching default browser to display HTML ...

real    0m8.723s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s

and without

$ time git help git
Launching default browser to display HTML ...

real    1m37.734s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.031s

both tests with cold cache and giving the machine some time to settle
down after restart.

[jes: adjusted the commit message]

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <heiko.voigt@mahr.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-30 09:04:17 -08:00
René Scharfe
9ed0d8d6e6 use QSORT
Apply the semantic patch contrib/coccinelle/qsort.cocci to the code
base, replacing calls of qsort(3) with QSORT.  The resulting code is
shorter and supports empty arrays with NULL pointers.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-29 15:42:18 -07:00
Jeff King
6b9c38e14c t0006: skip "far in the future" test when unsigned long is not long enough
Git's source code refers to timestamps as unsigned longs.  On 32-bit
platforms, as well as on Windows, unsigned long is not large enough
to capture dates that are "absurdly far in the future".

While we can fix this issue properly by replacing unsigned long with
a larger type, we want to be a bit more conservative and just skip
those tests on the maint track.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-15 09:05:53 -07:00
Jeff King
96ffc06f72 convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
Using FLEX_ARRAY macros reduces the amount of manual
computation size we have to do. It also ensures we don't
overflow size_t, and it makes sure we write the same number
of bytes that we allocated.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 14:51:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
510ab3f3c1 Merge branch 'js/sleep-without-select'
Portability fix.

* js/sleep-without-select:
  lockfile: wait using sleep_millisec() instead of select()
  lockfile: convert retry timeout computations to millisecond
  help.c: wrap wait-only poll() invocation in sleep_millisec()
  lockfile: replace random() by rand()
2015-06-24 12:21:47 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
2024d31765 help.c: wrap wait-only poll() invocation in sleep_millisec()
We want to use the new function elsewhere in a moment.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-05 15:00:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5455ee0573 Merge branch 'bc/object-id'
for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects
not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id".

* bc/object-id: (56 commits)
  struct ref_lock: convert old_sha1 member to object_id
  warn_if_dangling_symref(): convert local variable "junk" to object_id
  each_ref_fn_adapter(): remove adapter
  rev_list_insert_ref(): remove unneeded arguments
  rev_list_insert_ref_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
  mark_complete(): remove unneeded arguments
  mark_complete_oid(): new function, taking an object_oid
  clear_marks(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  mark_complete(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  send_ref(): convert local variable "peeled" to object_id
  upload-pack: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
  find_symref(): convert local variable "unused" to object_id
  find_symref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  write_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  write_refs_to_temp_dir(): convert local variable sha1 to object_id
  submodule: rewrite to take an object_id argument
  shallow: rewrite functions to take object_id arguments
  handle_one_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  add_info_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  handle_one_reflog(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
  ...
2015-06-05 12:17:37 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
91d6e94ea6 append_similar_ref(): rewrite to take an object_id argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25 12:19:33 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
2b2a5be394 each_ref_fn: change to take an object_id parameter
Change typedef each_ref_fn to take a "const struct object_id *oid"
parameter instead of "const unsigned char *sha1".

To aid this transition, implement an adapter that can be used to wrap
old-style functions matching the old typedef, which is now called
"each_ref_sha1_fn"), and make such functions callable via the new
interface. This requires the old function and its cb_data to be
wrapped in a "struct each_ref_fn_sha1_adapter", and that object to be
used as the cb_data for an adapter function, each_ref_fn_adapter().

This is an enormous diff, but most of it consists of simple,
mechanical changes to the sites that call any of the "for_each_ref"
family of functions. Subsequent to this change, the call sites can be
rewritten one by one to use the new interface.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-25 12:19:27 -07:00