This code is introduced in 23af91d (prune: strategies for linked
checkouts - 2014-11-30), and it's supposed to implement this rule from
that commit's message:
- linked checkouts are supposed to keep its location in $R/gitdir up
to date. The use case is auto fixup after a manual checkout move.
Note the name, "$R/gitdir", not "$R/gitfile". Correct the path to be
updated accordingly.
While at there, make sure I/O errors are not silently dropped.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All callers except three passed 1 for the "fatal" parameter to ask
this function to die upon error, but to a casual reader of the code,
it was not all obvious what that 1 meant. Instead, split the
function into two based on a common write_file_v() that takes the
flag, introduce write_file_gently() as a new way to attempt creating
a file without dying on error, and make three callers to call it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace "is this subdirectory a separate repository that should not
be touched?" check "git clean" does by checking if it has .git/HEAD
using the submodule-related code with a more optimized check.
* ee/clean-remove-dirs:
read_gitfile_gently: fix use-after-free
clean: improve performance when removing lots of directories
p7300: add performance tests for clean
t7300: add tests to document behavior of clean and nested git
setup: sanity check file size in read_gitfile_gently
setup: add gentle version of read_gitfile
The "dir" variable is a pointer into the "buf" array. When
we hit the cleanup_return path, the first thing we do is
free(buf); but one of the error messages prints "dir", which
will access the memory after the free.
We can fix this by reorganizing the error path a little. We
act on the fatal, error-printing conditions first, as they
want to access memory and do not care about freeing. Then we
free any memory, and finally return.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If this extension is used in a repository, then no
operations should run which may drop objects from the object
storage. This can be useful if you are sharing that storage
with other repositories whose refs you cannot see.
For instance, if you do:
$ git clone -s parent child
$ git -C parent config extensions.preciousObjects true
$ git -C parent config core.repositoryformatversion 1
you now have additional safety when running git in the
parent repository. Prunes and repacks will bail with an
error, and `git gc` will skip those operations (it will
continue to pack refs and do other non-object operations).
Older versions of git, when run in the repository, will
fail on every operation.
Note that we do not set the preciousObjects extension by
default when doing a "clone -s", as doing so breaks
backwards compatibility. It is a decision the user should
make explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Normally we try to avoid bumps of the whole-repository
core.repositoryformatversion field. However, it is
unavoidable if we want to safely change certain aspects of
git in a backwards-incompatible way (e.g., modifying the set
of ref tips that we must traverse to generate a list of
unreachable, safe-to-prune objects).
If we were to bump the repository version for every such
change, then any implementation understanding version `X`
would also have to understand `X-1`, `X-2`, and so forth,
even though the incompatibilities may be in orthogonal parts
of the system, and there is otherwise no reason we cannot
implement one without the other (or more importantly, that
the user cannot choose to use one feature without the other,
weighing the tradeoff in compatibility only for that
particular feature).
This patch documents the existing repositoryformatversion
strategy and introduces a new format, "1", which lets a
repository specify that it must run with an arbitrary set of
extensions. This can be used, for example:
- to inform git that the objects should not be pruned based
only on the reachability of the ref tips (e.g, because it
has "clone --shared" children)
- that the refs are stored in a format besides the usual
"refs" and "packed-refs" directories
Because we bump to format "1", and because format "1"
requires that a running git knows about any extensions
mentioned, we know that older versions of the code will not
do something dangerous when confronted with these new
formats.
For example, if the user chooses to use database storage for
refs, they may set the "extensions.refbackend" config to
"db". Older versions of git will not understand format "1"
and bail. Versions of git which understand "1" but do not
know about "refbackend", or which know about "refbackend"
but not about the "db" backend, will refuse to run. This is
annoying, of course, but much better than the alternative of
claiming that there are no refs in the repository, or
writing to a location that other implementations will not
read.
Note that we are only defining the rules for format 1 here.
We do not ever write format 1 ourselves; it is a tool that
is meant to be used by users and future extensions to
provide safety with older implementations.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The setup code used to die when core.bare and core.worktree are set
inconsistently, even for commands that do not need working tree.
* jk/die-on-bogus-worktree-late:
setup_git_directory: delay core.bare/core.worktree errors
read_gitfile_gently will allocate a buffer to fit the entire file that
should be read. Add a sanity check of the file size before opening to
avoid allocating a potentially huge amount of memory if we come across
a large file that someone happened to name ".git". The limit is set to
a sufficiently unreasonable size that should never be exceeded by a
genuine .git file.
Signed-off-by: Erik Elfström <erik.elfstrom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
read_gitfile will die on most error cases. This makes it unsuitable
for speculative calls. Extract the core logic and provide a gentle
version that returns NULL on failure.
The first usecase of the new gentle version will be to probe for
submodules during git clean.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Erik Elfström <erik.elfstrom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If both core.bare and core.worktree are set, we complain
about the bogus config and die. Dying is good, because it
avoids commands running and doing damage in a potentially
incorrect setup. But dying _there_ is bad, because it means
that commands which do not even care about the work tree
cannot run. This can make repairing the situation harder:
[setup]
$ git config core.bare true
$ git config core.worktree /some/path
[OK, expected.]
$ git status
fatal: core.bare and core.worktree do not make sense
[Hrm...]
$ git config --unset core.worktree
fatal: core.bare and core.worktree do not make sense
[Nope...]
$ git config --edit
fatal: core.bare and core.worktree do not make sense
[Gaaah.]
$ git help config
fatal: core.bare and core.worktree do not make sense
Instead, let's issue a warning about the bogus config when
we notice it (i.e., for all commands), but only die when the
command tries to use the work tree (by calling setup_work_tree).
So we now get:
$ git status
warning: core.bare and core.worktree do not make sense
fatal: unable to set up work tree using invalid config
$ git config --unset core.worktree
warning: core.bare and core.worktree do not make sense
We have to update t1510 to accomodate this; it uses
symbolic-ref to check whether the configuration works or
not, but of course that command does not use the working
tree. Instead, we switch it to use `git status`, as it
requires a work-tree, does not need any special setup, and
is read-only (so a failure will not adversely affect further
tests).
In addition, we add a new test that checks the desired
behavior (i.e., that running "git config" with the bogus
config does in fact work).
Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A heuristic to help the "git <cmd> <revs> <pathspec>" command line
convention to catch mistyped paths is to make sure all the non-rev
parameters in the later part of the command line are names of the
files in the working tree, but that means "git grep $str -- \*.c"
must always be disambiguated with "--", because nobody sane will
create a file whose name literally is asterisk-dot-see. Loosen the
heuristic to declare that with a wildcard string the user likely
meant to give us a pathspec.
* nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs:
pathspec: avoid the need of "--" when wildcard is used
When "--" is lacking from the command line and a command can take
both revs and paths, the idea is if an argument can be seen as both
an extended SHA-1 and a path, then "--" is required or git refuses
to continue. It's currently implemented as:
(1) if an argument is rev, then it must not exist in worktree
(2) else, it must exist in worktree
(3) else, "--" is required.
These rules work for literal paths, but when non-literal pathspec is
involved, it almost always requires the user to add "--" because it
fails (2) and (1) is really rarely met (take "*.c" for example, (1)
is met if there is a ref named "*.c").
This patch modifies the rules a bit by considering any valid (*)
wildcard pathspec "exist in worktree". The rules become:
(1) if an arg is a rev, then it must either exist in worktree or
not be a valid wildcard pathspec.
(2) else, it either exists in worktree or is a wildcard pathspec
(3) else, "--" is required.
With the new rules, "--" is not needed most of the time when
wildcard pathspec is involved.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
(alias R=$GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees/<id>)
- linked checkouts are supposed to keep its location in $R/gitdir up
to date. The use case is auto fixup after a manual checkout move.
- linked checkouts are supposed to update mtime of $R/gitdir. If
$R/gitdir's mtime is older than a limit, and it points to nowhere,
worktrees/<id> is to be pruned.
- If $R/locked exists, worktrees/<id> is not supposed to be pruned. If
$R/locked exists and $R/gitdir's mtime is older than a really long
limit, warn about old unused repo.
- "git checkout --to" is supposed to make a hard link named $R/link
pointing to the .git file on supported file systems to help detect
the user manually deleting the checkout. If $R/link exists and its
link count is greated than 1, the repo is kept.
Helped-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The repo setup procedure is updated to detect $GIT_DIR/commondir and
set $GIT_COMMON_DIR properly.
The core.worktree is ignored when $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set. This is
because the config file is shared in multi-checkout setup, but
checkout directories _are_ different. Making core.worktree effective
in all checkouts mean it's back to a single checkout.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the file "$GIT_DIR/commondir" exists, it contains the value of
$GIT_COMMON_DIR.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reduce the use of fixed sized buffer passed to getcwd() calls
by introducing xgetcwd() helper.
* rs/strbuf-getcwd:
use strbuf_add_absolute_path() to add absolute paths
abspath: convert absolute_path() to strbuf
use xgetcwd() to set $GIT_DIR
use xgetcwd() to get the current directory or die
wrapper: add xgetcwd()
abspath: convert real_path_internal() to strbuf
abspath: use strbuf_getcwd() to remember original working directory
setup: convert setup_git_directory_gently_1 et al. to strbuf
unix-sockets: use strbuf_getcwd()
strbuf: add strbuf_getcwd()
Convert several calls of getcwd() and die() to use xgetcwd() instead.
This way we get rid of fixed-size buffers (which can be too small
depending on the used file system) and gain consistent error messages.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert setup_git_directory_gently_1() and its helper functions
setup_explicit_git_dir(), setup_discovered_git_dir() and
setup_bare_git_dir() to use a struct strbuf to hold the current working
directory. Replacing the PATH_MAX-sized buffer used before removes a
path length limition on some file systems. The functions are converted
all in one go because they all read and write the variable cwd.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently `git_config()` uses a callback mechanism and file rereads for
config values. Due to this approach, it is not uncommon for the config
files to be parsed several times during the run of a git program, with
different callbacks picking out different variables useful to themselves.
Add a `config_set`, that can be used to construct an in-memory cache for
config-like files that the caller specifies (i.e., files like `.gitmodules`,
`~/.gitconfig` etc.). Add two external functions `git_configset_get_value`
and `git_configset_get_value_multi` for querying from the config sets.
`git_configset_get_value` follows `last one wins` semantic (i.e. if there
are multiple matches for the queried key in the files of the configset the
value returned will be the last entry in `value_list`).
`git_configset_get_value_multi` returns a list of values sorted in order of
increasing priority (i.e. last match will be at the end of the list). Add
type specific query functions like `git_configset_get_bool` and similar.
Add a default `config_set`, `the_config_set` to cache all key-value pairs
read from usual config files (repo specific .git/config, user wide
~/.gitconfig, XDG config and the global /etc/gitconfig). `the_config_set`
is populated using `git_config()`.
Add two external functions `git_config_get_value` and
`git_config_get_value_multi` for querying in a non-callback manner from
`the_config_set`. Also, add type specific query functions that are
implemented as a thin wrapper around the `config_set` API.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a buffer over-stepping issue triggered by providing an absolute path
that is similar to the work tree path.
abspath_part_inside_repo() may currently increment the path pointer by
offset_1st_component() + wtlen, which is too much, since
offset_1st_component() is a subset of wtlen.
For the *nix-style prefix '/', this does (by luck) not cause any issues,
since offset_1st_component() is 1 and there will always be a '/' or '\0'
that can "absorb" this.
In the case of DOS-style prefixes though, the offset_1st_component() is
3 and this can potentially over-step the string buffer. For example if
work_tree = "c:/r"
path = "c:/rl"
Then wtlen is 4, and incrementing the path pointer by (3 + 4) would
end up 2 bytes outside a string buffer of length 6.
Similarly if
work_tree = "c:/r"
path = "c:/rl/d/a"
Then (since the loop starts by also incrementing the pointer one step),
this would mean that the function would miss checking if "c:/rl/d" could
be the work_tree, arguably this is unlikely though, since it would only
be possible with symlinks on windows.
Fix this by simply avoiding to increment by offset_1st_component() and
wtlen at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow running "gc --auto" in the background.
* nd/daemonize-gc:
gc: config option for running --auto in background
daemon: move daemonize() to libgit.a
All subcommands that take pathspecs mishandled an in-tree symbolic
link when given it as a full path from the root (which arguably is
a sick way to use pathspecs). "git ls-files -s $(pwd)/RelNotes" in
our tree is an easy reproduction recipe.
* mw/symlinks:
setup: don't dereference in-tree symlinks for absolute paths
setup: add abspath_part_inside_repo() function
t0060: add tests for prefix_path when path begins with work tree
t0060: add test for prefix_path when path == work tree
t0060: add test for prefix_path on symlinks via absolute paths
t3004: add test for ls-files on symlinks via absolute paths
The prefix_path_gently() function currently applies real_path to
everything if given an absolute path, dereferencing symlinks both
outside and inside the work tree.
This causes most high-level functions to misbehave when acting on
symlinks given via absolute paths. For example
$ git add /dir/repo/symlink
attempts to add the target of the symlink rather than the symlink
itself, which is usually not what the user intends to do.
In order to manipulate symlinks in the work tree using absolute paths,
symlinks should only be dereferenced outside the work tree.
Modify the prefix_path_gently() to first normalize the path in order to
make sure path levels are separated by '/', then pass the result to
'abspath_part_inside_repo' to find the part inside the work tree
(without dereferencing any symlinks inside the work tree).
For absolute paths, prefix_path_gently() did not, nor does now do, any
actual prefixing, hence the result from abspath_part_in_repo() is
returned as-is.
Fixes t0060-82 and t3004-5.
Signed-off-by: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to extract the part of an absolute path which lies inside the
repo, it is not possible to directly use real_path, since that would
dereference symlinks both outside and inside the work tree.
Add an abspath_part_inside_repo() function which first checks if the
work tree is already the prefix, then incrementally checks each path
level by temporarily NUL-terminating at each '/' and comparing against
the work tree path. If a match is found, it overwrites the input path
with the remainder past the work tree (which will be the part inside the
work tree).
This function is currently only intended for use in
'prefix_path_gently'.
Signed-off-by: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Leaving only the function definitions and declarations so that any
new topic in flight can still make use of the old functions, replace
existing uses of the prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() with new API
functions.
The change can be recreated by mechanically applying this:
$ git grep -l -e prefixcmp -e suffixcmp -- \*.c |
grep -v strbuf\\.c |
xargs perl -pi -e '
s|!prefixcmp\(|starts_with\(|g;
s|prefixcmp\(|!starts_with\(|g;
s|!suffixcmp\(|ends_with\(|g;
s|suffixcmp\(|!ends_with\(|g;
'
on the result of preparatory changes in this series.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jx/relative-path-regression-fix:
Use simpler relative_path when set_git_dir
relative_path should honor dos-drive-prefix
test: use unambigous leading path (/foo) for MSYS
Using a relative_path as git_dir first appears in v1.5.6-1-g044bbbc.
It will make git_dir shorter only if git_dir is inside work_tree,
and this will increase performance. But my last refactor effort on
relative_path function (commit v1.8.3-rc2-12-ge02ca72) changed that.
Always use relative_path as git_dir may bring troubles like
$gmane/234434.
Because new relative_path is a combination of original relative_path
from path.c and original path_relative from quote.c, so in order to
restore the origin implementation, save the original relative_path
as remove_leading_path, and call it in setup.c.
Suggested-by: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
"git mv A B" when moving a submodule A does "the right thing",
inclusing relocating its working tree and adjusting the paths in
the .gitmodules file.
* jl/submodule-mv: (53 commits)
rm: delete .gitmodules entry of submodules removed from the work tree
mv: update the path entry in .gitmodules for moved submodules
submodule.c: add .gitmodules staging helper functions
mv: move submodules using a gitfile
mv: move submodules together with their work trees
rm: do not set a variable twice without intermediate reading.
t6131 - skip tests if on case-insensitive file system
parse_pathspec: accept :(icase)path syntax
pathspec: support :(glob) syntax
pathspec: make --literal-pathspecs disable pathspec magic
pathspec: support :(literal) syntax for noglob pathspec
kill limit_pathspec_to_literal() as it's only used by parse_pathspec()
parse_pathspec: preserve prefix length via PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN
parse_pathspec: make sure the prefix part is wildcard-free
rename field "raw" to "_raw" in struct pathspec
tree-diff: remove the use of pathspec's raw[] in follow-rename codepath
remove match_pathspec() in favor of match_pathspec_depth()
remove init_pathspec() in favor of parse_pathspec()
remove diff_tree_{setup,release}_paths
convert common_prefix() to use struct pathspec
...
Add "interactive" mode to "git clean".
The early part to refactor relative path related helper functions
looked sensible.
* jx/clean-interactive:
test: run testcases with POSIX absolute paths on Windows
test: add t7301 for git-clean--interactive
git-clean: add documentation for interactive git-clean
git-clean: add ask each interactive action
git-clean: add select by numbers interactive action
git-clean: add filter by pattern interactive action
git-clean: use a git-add-interactive compatible UI
git-clean: add colors to interactive git-clean
git-clean: show items of del_list in columns
git-clean: add support for -i/--interactive
git-clean: refactor git-clean into two phases
write_name{_quoted_relative,}(): remove redundant parameters
quote_path_relative(): remove redundant parameter
quote.c: substitute path_relative with relative_path
path.c: refactor relative_path(), not only strip prefix
test: add test cases for relative_path
When "git" is spawned in such a way that any of the low 3 file
descriptors is closed, our first open() may yield file descriptor 2,
and writing error message to it would screw things up in a big way.
* tr/protect-low-3-fds:
git: ensure 0/1/2 are open in main()
daemon/shell: refactor redirection of 0/1/2 from /dev/null
Both daemon.c and shell.c contain logic to open FDs 0/1/2 from
/dev/null if they are not already open. Move the function in daemon.c
to setup.c and use it in shell.c, too.
While there, remove a 'not' that inverted the meaning of the comment.
The point is indeed to *avoid* messing up.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepending prefix to pathspec is a trick to workaround the fact that
commands can be executed in a subdirectory, but all git commands run
at worktree's root. The prefix part should always be treated as
literal string. Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Original design of relative_path() is simple, just strip the prefix
(*base) from the absolute path (*abs).
In most cases, we need a real relative path, such as: ../foo,
../../bar. That's why there is another reimplementation
(path_relative()) in quote.c.
Borrow some codes from path_relative() in quote.c to refactor
relative_path() in path.c, so that it could return real relative
path, and user can reuse this function without reimplementing
his/her own. The function path_relative() in quote.c will be
substituted, and I would use the new relative_path() function when
implementing the interactive git-clean later.
Different results for relative_path() before and after this refactor:
abs path base path relative (original) relative (refactor)
======== ========= =================== ===================
/a/b /a/b . ./
/a/b/ /a/b . ./
/a /a/b/ /a ../
/ /a/b/ / ../../
/a/c /a/b/ /a/c ../c
/x/y /a/b/ /x/y ../../x/y
a/b/ a/b/ . ./
a/b/ a/b . ./
a a/b a ../
x/y a/b/ x/y ../../x/y
a/c a/b a/c ../c
(empty) (null) (empty) ./
(empty) (empty) (empty) ./
(empty) /a/b (empty) ./
(null) (null) (null) ./
(null) (empty) (null) ./
(null) /a/b (segfault) ./
You may notice that return value "." has been changed to "./".
It is because:
* Function quote_path_relative() in quote.c will show the relative
path as "./" if abs(in) and base(prefix) are the same.
* Function relative_path() is called only once (in setup.c), and
it will be OK for the return value as "./" instead of ".".
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
* lf/setup-prefix-pathspec:
setup.c: check that the pathspec magic ends with ")"
setup.c: stop prefix_pathspec() from looping past the end of string
An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
* jk/alias-in-bare:
setup: suppress implicit "." work-tree for bare repos
environment: add GIT_PREFIX to local_repo_env
cache.h: drop LOCAL_REPO_ENV_SIZE
The previous code did not diagnose an incorrectly spelled ":(top"
as an error.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code assumes that the string ends at either `)` or `,`, and does
not handle the case where strcspn() returns length due to end of
string. So specifying ":(top" as pathspec will cause the loop to go
past the end of string.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If an explicit GIT_DIR is given without a working tree, we
implicitly assume that the current working directory should
be used as the working tree. E.g.,:
GIT_DIR=/some/repo.git git status
would compare against the cwd.
Unfortunately, we fool this rule for sub-invocations of git
by setting GIT_DIR internally ourselves. For example:
git init foo
cd foo/.git
git status ;# fails, as we expect
git config alias.st status
git status ;# does not fail, but should
What happens is that we run setup_git_directory when doing
alias lookup (since we need to see the config), set GIT_DIR
as a result, and then leave GIT_WORK_TREE blank (because we
do not have one). Then when we actually run the status
command, we do setup_git_directory again, which sees our
explicit GIT_DIR and uses the cwd as an implicit worktree.
It's tempting to argue that we should be suppressing that
second invocation of setup_git_directory, as it could use
the values we already found in memory. However, the problem
still exists for sub-processes (e.g., if "git status" were
an external command).
You can see another example with the "--bare" option, which
sets GIT_DIR explicitly. For example:
git init foo
cd foo/.git
git status ;# fails
git --bare status ;# does NOT fail
We need some way of telling sub-processes "even though
GIT_DIR is set, do not use cwd as an implicit working tree".
We could do it by putting a special token into
GIT_WORK_TREE, but the obvious choice (an empty string) has
some portability problems.
Instead, we add a new boolean variable, GIT_IMPLICIT_WORK_TREE,
which suppresses the use of cwd as a working tree when
GIT_DIR is set. We trigger the new variable when we know we
are in a bare setting.
The variable is left intentionally undocumented, as this is
an internal detail (for now, anyway). If somebody comes up
with a good alternate use for it, and once we are confident
we have shaken any bugs out of it, we can consider promoting
it further.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The GIT_PREFIX variable is set based on our location within
the working tree. It should therefore be cleared whenever
GIT_WORK_TREE is cleared.
In practice, this doesn't cause any bugs, because none of
the sub-programs we invoke with local_repo_env cleared
actually care about GIT_PREFIX. But this is the right thing
to do, and future proofs us against that assumption changing.
While we're at it, let's define a GIT_PREFIX_ENVIRONMENT
macro; this avoids repetition of the string literal, which
can help catch any spelling mistakes in the code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier workaround designed to help people who list logical
directories that will not match what getcwd(3) returns in the
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES had an adverse effect when it is slow to
stat and readlink a directory component of an element listed on it.
* mh/maint-ceil-absolute:
Provide a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in ceiling paths
Commit 1b77d83cab 'setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks
in ceiling paths' changed the setup code to resolve symlinks in the
entries in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES. Because those entries are
compared textually to the symlink-resolved current directory, an
entry in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES that contained a symlink would have
no effect. It was known that this could cause performance problems
if the symlink resolution *itself* touched slow filesystems, but it
was thought that such use cases would be unlikely. The intention of
the earlier change was to deal with a case when the user has this:
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/home/gitster
but in reality, /home/gitster is a symbolic link to somewhere else,
e.g. /net/machine/home4/gitster. A textual comparison between the
specified value /home/gitster and the location getcwd(3) returns
would not help us, but readlink("/home/gitster") would still be
fast.
After this change was released, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
reported:
> [...] my computer has been acting so slow when I’m not connected to
> the network. I put various network filesystem paths in
> $GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, such as
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n/andersk (to avoid hitting its parents
> /afs/athena.mit.edu, /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a, and
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n which all live in different AFS
> volumes). Now when I’m not connected to the network, every
> invocation of Git, including the __git_ps1 in my shell prompt, waits
> for AFS to timeout.
To allow users to work around this problem, give them a mechanism to
turn off symlink resolution in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES entries. All
the entries that follow an empty entry will not be checked for symbolic
links and used literally in comparison. E.g. with these:
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=:/foo/bar:/xyzzy or
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/foo/bar::/xyzzy
we will not readlink("/xyzzy") because it comes after an empty entry.
With the former (but not with the latter), "/foo/bar" comes after an
empty entry, and we will not readlink it, either.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When giving arguments without "--" disambiguation, object names
that come earlier on the command line must not be interpretable as
pathspecs and pathspecs that come later on the command line must
not be interpretable as object names. Tweak the disambiguation
rule so that ":/" (no other string before or after) is always
interpreted as a pathspec, to avoid having to say "git cmd -- :/".
* nd/magic-pathspec-from-root:
grep: avoid accepting ambiguous revision
Update :/abc ambiguity check
Add a new command "git check-ignore" for debugging .gitignore
files.
The variable names may want to get cleaned up but that can be done
in-tree.
* as/check-ignore:
clean.c, ls-files.c: respect encapsulation of exclude_list_groups
t0008: avoid brace expansion
add git-check-ignore sub-command
setup.c: document get_pathspec()
add.c: extract new die_if_path_beyond_symlink() for reuse
add.c: extract check_path_for_gitlink() from treat_gitlinks() for reuse
pathspec.c: rename newly public functions for clarity
add.c: move pathspec matchers into new pathspec.c for reuse
add.c: remove unused argument from validate_pathspec()
dir.c: improve docs for match_pathspec() and match_pathspec_depth()
dir.c: provide clear_directory() for reclaiming dir_struct memory
dir.c: keep track of where patterns came from
dir.c: use a single struct exclude_list per source of excludes
Conflicts:
builtin/ls-files.c
dir.c
:/abc may mean two things:
- as a revision, it means the revision that has "abc" in commit
message.
- as a pathpec, it means "abc" from root.
Currently we see ":/abc" as a rev (most of the time), but never see it
as a pathspec even if "abc" exists and "git log :/abc" will gladly
take ":/abc" as rev even it's ambiguous. This patch makes it:
- ambiguous when "abc" exists on worktree
- a rev if abc does not exist on worktree
- a path if abc is not found in any commits (although better use
"--" to avoid ambiguation because searching through commit DAG is
expensive)
A plus from this patch is, because ":/" never matches anything as a
rev, it is never considered a valid rev and because root directory
always exists, ":/" is always unambiguously seen as a pathspec.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we have just created a new pathspec-handling library, now is a
good time to add some comments explaining get_pathspec().
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
longest_ancestor_length() relies on a textual comparison of directory
parts to find the part of path that overlaps with one of the paths in
prefix_list. But this doesn't work if any of the prefixes involves a
symbolic link, because the directories will look different even though
they might logically refer to the same directory. So canonicalize the
paths listed in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES using real_path_if_valid()
before passing them to longest_ancestor_length(). (Also rename
normalize_ceiling_entry() to canonicalize_ceiling_entry() to reflect
the change.)
path is already in canonical form, so doesn't need to be canonicalized
again.
This fixes some problems with using GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES that
contains paths involving symlinks, including t4035 if run with --root
set to a path involving symlinks.
Please note that test t0060 is *not* changed analogously, because that
would make the test suite results dependent on the contents of the
local root directory. However, real_path() is already tested
independently, and the "ancestor" tests cover the non-normalization
aspects of longest_ancestor_length(), so coverage remains sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Move the responsibility for normalizing prefixes from
longest_ancestor_length() to its callers. Use slightly different
normalizations at the two callers:
In setup_git_directory_gently_1(), use the old normalization, which
ignores paths that are not usable. In the next commit we will change
this caller to also resolve symlinks in the paths from
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES as part of the normalization.
In "test-path-utils longest_ancestor_length", use the old
normalization, but die() if any paths are unusable. Also change t0060
to only pass normalized paths to the test program (no empty entries or
non-absolute paths, strip trailing slashes from the paths, and remove
tests that thereby become redundant).
The point of this change is to reduce the scope of the ancestor_length
tests in t0060 from testing normalization+longest_prefix to testing
only mostly longest_prefix. This is necessary because when
setup_git_directory_gently_1() starts resolving symlinks as part of
its normalization, it will not be reasonable to do the same in the
test suite, because that would make the test results depend on the
contents of the root directory of the filesystem on which the test is
run. HOWEVER: under Windows, bash mangles arguments that look like
absolute POSIX paths into DOS paths. So we have to retain the level
of normalization done by normalize_path_copy() to convert the
bash-mangled DOS paths (which contain backslashes) into paths that use
forward slashes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Change longest_ancestor_length() to take the prefixes argument as a
string_list rather than as a colon-separated string. This will make
it easier for the caller to alter the entries before calling
longest_ancestor_length().
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
* maint-1.7.11:
Almost 1.7.11.6
gitweb: URL-decode $my_url/$my_uri when stripping PATH_INFO
rebase -i: use full onto sha1 in reflog
sh-setup: protect from exported IFS
receive-pack: do not leak output from auto-gc to standard output
t/t5400: demonstrate breakage caused by informational message from prune
setup: clarify error messages for file/revisions ambiguity
send-email: improve RFC2047 quote parsing
fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries
do not write null sha1s to on-disk index
diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a revision
name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we used to
give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message has been
clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command line.
* mm/die-with-dashdash-help:
setup: clarify error messages for file/revisions ambiguity
The previous "Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions" may sound
obvious for an old-time Unix user, but does not make it clear how to use
this '--'. In addition to mentionning this '--', give an idea of what the
new command should look like.
Ideally, we could provide cut-and-paste ready commands based on the
command that just failed, but we have no easy access to argv[] in this
place of the code.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output
is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish,
and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to
prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
* jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits)
t1512: match the "other" object names
t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output
rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>
rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish
reset: the command takes committish
commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits
apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs
sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types
revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish
revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags
sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish()
sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context()
sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish
sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags
sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits
sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option
sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags
get_sha1(): fix error status regression
sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names
sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res"
...
"git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
* th/diff-no-index-fixes:
diff-no-index: exit(1) if 'diff --quiet <repo file> <external file>' finds changes
diff: handle relative paths in no-index
"git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
* mm/verify-filename-fix:
verify_filename(): ask the caller to chose the kind of diagnosis
sha1_name: do not trigger detailed diagnosis for file arguments
"git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
did not give correct exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
* th/diff-no-index-fixes:
diff-no-index: exit(1) if 'diff --quiet <repo file> <external file>' finds changes
diff: handle relative paths in no-index
The only external caller is setup.c that tries to give a nicer error
message when an object name is misspelt (e.g. "HEAD:cashe.h").
Retire it and give the caller a dedicated and more intuitive API
function maybe_die_on_misspelt_object_name().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When diff-no-index is given a relative path to a file outside the
repository, it aborts with error. However, if the file is given
using an absolute path, the diff runs as expected. The two cases
should be treated the same.
Tests and commit message by Tim Henigan.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
verify_filename() can be called in two different contexts. Either we
just tried to interpret a string as an object name, and it fails, so
we try looking for a working tree file (i.e. we finished looking at
revs that come earlier on the command line, and the next argument
must be a pathname), or we _know_ that we are looking for a
pathname, and shouldn't even try interpreting the string as an
object name.
For example, with this change, we get:
$ git log COPYING HEAD:inexistant
fatal: HEAD:inexistant: no such path in the working tree.
Use '-- <path>...' to specify paths that do not exist locally.
$ git log HEAD:inexistant
fatal: Path 'inexistant' does not exist in 'HEAD'
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various failure modes in the repository detection code path currently
quote the wrong directory in their error message. The working directory
is changed iteratively to the parent directory until a git repository is
found. If the working directory cannot be changed to the parent
directory for some reason, the detection gives up and prints an error
message. The error message should report the current working directory.
Instead of continually updating the 'cwd' variable, which is actually
used to remember the original working directory, the 'offset' variable
is used to keep track of the current working directory. At the point
where the affected error handling code is called, 'offset' already
points to the end of the parent of the working directory, rather than
the current working directory.
Fix this by explicitly using a variable 'offset_parent' and update
'offset' concurrently with the call to chdir.
In a similar fashion, the function get_device_or_die() would print the
original working directory in case of a failure, rather than the current
working directory. Fix this as well by making use of the 'offset'
variable.
Lastly, replace the phrase 'mount parent' with 'mount point'. The former
appears to be a typo.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When you specify a local repository on the command line of
clone, ls-remote, upload-pack, receive-pack, or upload-archive,
or in a request to git-daemon, we perform a little bit of
lookup magic, doing things like looking in working trees for
.git directories and appending ".git" for bare repos.
For clone, this magic happens in get_repo_path. For
everything else, it happens in enter_repo. In both cases,
there are some ambiguous or confusing cases that aren't
handled well, and there is one case that is not handled the
same by both methods.
This patch tries to provide (and test!) standard, sensible
lookup rules for both code paths. The intended changes are:
1. When looking up "foo", we have always preferred
a working tree "foo" (containing "foo/.git" over the
bare "foo.git". But we did not prefer a bare "foo" over
"foo.git". With this patch, we do so.
2. We would select directories that existed but didn't
actually look like git repositories. With this patch,
we make sure a selected directory looks like a git
repo. Not only is this more sensible in general, but it
will help anybody who is negatively affected by change
(1) negatively (e.g., if they had "foo.git" next to its
separate work tree "foo", and expect to keep finding
"foo.git" when they reference "foo").
3. The enter_repo code path would, given "foo", look for
"foo.git/.git" (i.e., do the ".git" append magic even
for a repo with working tree). The clone code path did
not; with this patch, they now behave the same.
In the unlikely case of a working tree overlaying a bare
repo (i.e., a ".git" directory _inside_ a bare repo), we
continue to treat it as a working tree (prefering the
"inner" .git over the bare repo). This is mainly because the
combination seems nonsensical, and I'd rather stick with
existing behavior on the off chance that somebody is relying
on it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* cb/common-prefix-unification:
rename pathspec_prefix() to common_prefix() and move to dir.[ch]
consolidate pathspec_prefix and common_prefix
remove prefix argument from pathspec_prefix
Also make common_prefix_len() static as this refactoring makes dir.c
itself the only caller of this helper function.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The implementation from pathspec_prefix (slightly modified) replaces the
current common_prefix, because it also respects glob characters.
Based on a patch by Clemens Buchacher.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Passing a prefix to a function that is supposed to find the prefix is
strange. And it's really only used if the pathspec is NULL. Make the
callers handle this case instead.
As we are always returning a fresh copy of a string (or NULL), change the
type of the returned value to non-const "char *".
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function was not gentle at all to the callers and died without giving
them a chance to deal with possible errors. Rename it to read_gitfile(),
and update all the callers.
As no existing caller needs a true "gently" variant, we do not bother
adding one at this point.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Check if <path> is a valid git-dir or a valid git-file that points
to a valid git-dir.
We want tests to be independent from the fact that a git-dir may
be a git-file. Thus we changed tests to use this feature.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently parse-options.o pulls quite a big bunch of dependencies.
his complicates it's usage in contrib/ because it pulls external
dependencies and it also increases executables size.
Split off less generic and more internal to git part of
parse-options.c to parse-options-cb.c.
Move prefix_filename function from setup.c to abspath.c. abspath.o
and wrapper.o pull each other, so it's unlikely to increase the
dependencies. It was a dependency of parse-options.o that pulled
many others.
Now parse-options.o pulls just abspath.o, ctype.o, strbuf.o, usage.o,
wrapper.o, libc directly and strlcpy.o indirectly.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to do partial commits, git-commit overlays a tree on the
cache and checks pathspecs against the result. Currently, the
overlaying is done using "prefix" which prevents relative pathspecs
with ".." and absolute pathspec from matching when they refer to
files not under "prefix" and absent from the index, but still in
the tree (i.e. files staged for removal).
The point of providing a prefix at all is performance optimization.
If we say there is no common prefix for the files of interest, then
we have to read the entire tree into the index.
But even if we cannot use the working directory as a prefix, we can
still figure out if there is a common prefix for all given paths,
and use that instead. The pathspec_prefix() routine from ls-files.c
does exactly that.
Any use of global variables is removed from pathspec_prefix() so
that it can be called from commit.c.
Reported-by: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Analyzed-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* da/git-prefix-everywhere:
t/t7503-pre-commit-hook.sh: Add GIT_PREFIX tests
git-mergetool--lib: Make vimdiff retain the current directory
git: Remove handling for GIT_PREFIX
setup: Provide GIT_PREFIX to built-ins
* maint:
git-submodule.sh: separate parens by a space to avoid confusing some shells
Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt: correct name of diff_unmerge()
read_gitfile_gently: use ssize_t to hold read result
remove tests of always-false condition
rerere.c: diagnose a corrupt MERGE_RR when hitting EOF between TAB and '\0'
* jm/maint-misc-fix:
read_gitfile_gently: use ssize_t to hold read result
remove tests of always-false condition
rerere.c: diagnose a corrupt MERGE_RR when hitting EOF between TAB and '\0'
GIT_PREFIX was added in 7cf16a14f5 so that
aliases can know the directory from which a !alias was called.
Knowing the prefix relative to the root is helpful in other programs
so export it to built-ins as well.
Helped-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Otherwise, a negative error return becomes a very large read
value. We catch this in practice because we compare the
expected and actual numbers of bytes (and you are not likely
to be reading (size_t)-1 bytes), but this makes the
correctness a little more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/magic-pathspec:
setup.c: Fix some "symbol not declared" sparse warnings
t3703: Skip tests using directory name ":" on Windows
revision.c: leave a note for "a lone :" enhancement
t3703, t4208: add test cases for magic pathspec
rev/path disambiguation: further restrict "misspelled index entry" diag
fix overslow :/no-such-string-ever-existed diagnostics
fix overstrict :<path> diagnosis
grep: use get_pathspec() correctly
pathspec: drop "lone : means no pathspec" from get_pathspec()
Revert "magic pathspec: add ":(icase)path" to match case insensitively"
magic pathspec: add ":(icase)path" to match case insensitively
magic pathspec: futureproof shorthand form
magic pathspec: add tentative ":/path/from/top/level" pathspec support
In particular, sparse issues the "symbol 'a_symbol' was not declared.
Should it be static?" warnings for the following symbols:
setup.c:159:3: 'pathspec_magic'
setup.c:176:12: 'prefix_pathspec'
These symbols only require file scope, so we add the static modifier
to their declarations.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A colon followed by anything !isalnum() (e.g. ":/heh") at this point is
known not to be an existing rev. Just give a generic "neither a rev nor
a path" error message.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git cmd :/no-such-string-ever-existed" runs an extra round of get_sha1()
since 009fee4 (Detailed diagnosis when parsing an object name fails.,
2009-12-07). Once without error diagnosis to see there is no commit with
such a string in the log message (hence "it cannot be a ref"), and after
seeing that :/no-such-string-ever-existed is not a filename (hence "it
cannot be a path, either"), another time to give "better diagnosis".
The thing is, the second time it runs, we already know that traversing the
history all the way down to the root will _not_ find any matching commit.
Rename misguided "gently" parameter, which is turned off _only_ when the
"detailed diagnosis" codepath knows that it cannot be a ref and making the
call only for the caller to die with a message. Flip its meaning (and
adjust the callers) and call it "only_to_die", which is not a great name,
but it describes far more clearly what the codepaths that switches their
behaviour based on this variable do.
On my box, the command spends ~1.8 seconds without the patch to make the
report; with the patch it spends ~1.12 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We may want to give the pathspec subsystem such a feature, but not while
we are still using get_pathspec() that returns a stupid "char **" that
loses subtle nuances that existed in the input string.
In the meantime, the callers of get_pathspec() that want to support it
could do an equivalent before feeding their argv[] to the function
themselves quite easily.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit d0546e2d48, which
was only meant to be a Proof-of-concept used during the discussion.
The real implementation of the feature needs to wait until we migrate
all the code to use "struct pathspec", not "char **", to represent
richer semantics given to pathspec.
The earlier design was to take whatever non-alnum that the short format
parser happens to support, leaving the rest as part of the pattern, so a
version of git that knows '*' magic and a version that does not would have
behaved differently when given ":*Makefile". The former would have
applied the '*' magic to the pattern "Makefile", while the latter would
used no magic to the pattern "*Makefile".
Instead, just reserve all non-alnum ASCII letters that are neither glob
nor regexp special as potential magic signature, and when we see a magic
that is not supported, die with an error message, just like the longhand
codepath does.
With this, ":%#!*Makefile" will always mean "%#!" magic applied to the
pattern "*Makefile", no matter what version of git is used (it is a
different matter if the version of git supports all of these three magic
matching rules).
Also make ':' without anything else to mean "there is no pathspec". This
would allow differences between "git log" and "git log ." run from the top
level of the working tree (the latter simplifies no-op commits away from
the history) to be expressed from a subdirectory by saying "git log :".
Helped-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Support ":/" magic string that can be prefixed to a pathspec element to
say "this names the path from the top-level of the working tree", when
you are in the subdirectory.
For example, you should be able to say:
$ edit Makefile ;# top-level
$ cd Documentation
$ edit git.txt ;# in the subdirectory
and then do one of three things, still inside the subdirectory:
$ git add -u . ;# add only Documentation/git.txt
$ git add -u :/ ;# add everything, including paths outside Documentation
$ git add -u ;# whatever the default setting is.
To truly support magic pathspec, the API needs to be restructured so that
get_pathspec() and init_pathspec() are unified into one call. Currently,
the former just prefixes the user supplied pathspec with the current
subdirectory path, and the latter takes the output from the former and
pre-parses them into a bit richer structure for easier handling. They
should become a single API function that takes the current subdirectory
path and the remainder of argv[] (after parsing --options and revision
arguments from the command line) and returns an array of parsed pathspec
elements, and "magic" should become attributes of struct pathspec_item.
This patch implements only "top" magic because it can be hacked into the
system without such a refactoring.
The syntax for magic pathspec prefix is designed to be extensible yet
simple to type to invoke a simple magic like "from the top". The parser
for the magic prefix is hooked into get_pathspec() function in this patch,
and it needs to be moved when we refactor the API.
But we have to start from somewhere.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The same old problem reappears after setup code is reworked. We tend
to assume there is at least one path component in a path and forget
that path can be simply '/'.
Reported-by: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename the make_*_path functions so it's clearer what they do, in
particlar make clear what the differnce between make_absolute_path and
make_nonrelative_path is by renaming them real_path and absolute_path
respectively. make_relative_path has an understandable name and is
renamed to relative_path to maintain the name convention.
The function calls have been replaced 1-to-1 in their usage.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The original intention of --work-tree was to allow people to work in a
subdirectory of their working tree that does not have an embedded .git
directory. Because their working tree, which their $cwd was in, did not
have an embedded .git, they needed to use $GIT_DIR to specify where it is,
and because this meant there was no way to discover where the root level
of the working tree was, so we needed to add $GIT_WORK_TREE to tell git
where it was.
However, this facility has long been (mis)used by people's scripts to
start git from a working tree _with_ an embedded .git directory, let git
find .git directory, and then pretend as if an unrelated directory were
the associated working tree of the .git directory found by the discovery
process. It happens to work in simple cases, and is not worth causing
"regression" to these scripts.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
otherwise, comparison to validate against work tree will fail when
the path includes a symlink and the name passed is not canonical.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
