Add a new possible error result that can be returned by
safe_create_leading_directories() and
safe_create_leading_directories_const(): SCLD_VANISHED. This value
indicates that a file or directory on the path existed at one point
(either it already existed or the function created it), but then it
disappeared. This probably indicates that another process deleted the
directory while we were working. If SCLD_VANISHED is returned, the
caller might want to retry the function call, as there is a chance
that a new attempt will succeed.
Why doesn't safe_create_leading_directories() do the retrying
internally? Because an empty directory isn't really ever safe until
it holds a file. So even if safe_create_leading_directories() were
absolutely sure that the directory existed before it returned, there
would be no guarantee that the directory still existed when the caller
tried to write something in it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
safe_create_leading_directories_const() returns a non-zero value on
error. The old code at this calling site recognized a couple of
particular error values, and treated all other return values as
success. Instead, be more conservative: recognize the errors we are
interested in, but treat any other nonzero values as failures. This
is more robust in case somebody adds another possible return value
without telling us.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of returning magic integer values (which a couple of callers
go to the trouble of distinguishing), return values from an enum. Add
a docstring.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Always restore the slash that we scribbled over at the end of the
loop, rather than also fixing it up at each premature exit from the
loop. This makes it harder to forget to do the cleanup as new paths
are added to the code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the input path has multiple slashes between path components (e.g.,
"foo//bar"), then the old code was breaking the path at the last
slash, not the first one. So in the above example, the second slash
was overwritten with NUL, resulting in the parent directory being
sought as "foo/".
When stat() is called on "foo/", it fails with ENOTDIR if "foo" exists
but is not a directory. This caused the wrong path to be taken in the
subsequent logic.
So instead, split path components at the first intercomponent slash
rather than the last one.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename "pos" to "next_component", because now it always points at the
next component of the path name that has to be processed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Keep track of the position of the slash character independently of
"pos", thereby making the purpose of each variable clearer and
working towards other upcoming changes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes it more obvious that values of "st" don't persist across
loop iterations.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two processes creating loose objects at the same time could have
failed unnecessarily when the name of their new objects started
with the same byte value, due to a race condition.
* jh/loose-object-dirs-creation-race:
sha1_file.c:create_tmpfile(): Fix race when creating loose object dirs
"git am --abort" sometimes complained about not being able to write
a tree with an 0{40} object in it.
* jk/two-way-merge-corner-case-fix:
t1005: add test for "read-tree --reset -u A B"
t1005: reindent
unpack-trees: fix "read-tree -u --reset A B" with conflicted index
"git cat-file --batch-check=ok" did not check the existence of the
named object.
* sb/sha1-loose-object-info-check-existence:
sha1_loose_object_info(): do not return success on missing object
"git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the
command line parser.
* nd/magic-pathspec:
diff: restrict pathspec limitations to diff b/f case only
Its value is the same as the number of entries in the "names"
string_list, so just use "names.nr" in its place.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usage sample of add_submodule_odb() function in the Submodules
section expects non-zero return value for success, but the function
actually reports success with zero.
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Nick Townsend <nick.townsend@mac.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When submodule.$name.update is given as hint from the upstream in
the .gitmodules file, we used to blindly copy it to .git/config,
unless there already is a value defined for the submodule.
However, there is no reason to expect that the update mode hinted by
the upstream is available in the version of Git the user is using,
and a really custom "!cmd" prepared by an upstream person running on
Linux may not even be available to a user on Windows. It is simply
irresponsible to copy the setting blindly and to attempt to use it
during a later "submodule update" without validating it first.
Just show the suggested value to the diagnostic output, and set the
value to 'none' in the configuration, if it is not one of the ones
that are known to be supported by this version of Git.
Helped-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-cherry(1)'s "description" section has never really managed
to explain to me what the command does. It contains too much
explanation of the algorithm instead of simply saying what
goals it achieves, and too much terminology that we otherwise
do not use (fork-point instead of merge-base).
Try a much more concise approach: state what it finds out, why
this is neat, and how the output is formatted, in a few short
paragraphs. In return, provide much longer examples of how it
fits into a "format-patch | am" based workflow, and how it
compares to reading the same from git-log.
Also carefully avoid using "merge" in a context where it does
not mean something that comes from git-merge(1). Instead, say
"apply" in an attempt to further link to patch workflow
concepts.
While there, also omit the language about _which_ upstream
branch we treat as the default. I literally just learned that
we support having several, so let's not confuse new users
here, especially considering that git-config(1) does not
document this.
Prompted-by: a.huemer@commend.com on #git
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The internal mercurial API expects ordinary 8-bit string objects, not
Unicode string objects. With this change, the test-hg.sh unit tests
pass again.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Reviewed-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unbreaks a recent breakage due to use of unquote-c-style.
This may need to be cherry-picked down to 1.8.4.x series.
* 'rh/remote-hg-bzr-updates' (early part):
remote-hg: don't decode UTF-8 paths into Unicode objects
"**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it. This is similar
to 8447dc8 (gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns -
2013-11-07)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace double quotes around literal examples with backticks
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin_diff_b_f() needs a path, not pathspec. Other modes in diff
can deal with pathspec just fine. But because of the current
GUARD_PATHSPEC() location, other modes also reject :(glob) and
:(icase).
Move GUARD_PATHSPEC(), and the "path" assignment statement, which is
the reason of this GUARD_PATHSPEC(), inside builtin_diff_b_f().
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The internal mercurial API expects ordinary 8-bit string objects, not
Unicode string objects. With this change, the test-hg.sh unit tests
pass again.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Reviewed-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various fixes:
- fix typos (e.g. "show" -> "shown")
- use "regular expression(s)" instead of "regexp" where appropriate
- reword some sentences for easier reading
- fix/improve some grammatical issues (e.g. comma usage)
- add missing articles (e.g. "the")
- change "E-mail" to "email"
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some the labeled list entries have a blank line between the label
and the body text, and some don't. Use the latter style for
consistency; incidentally, syntax highlighting in Vim works better
if there is no blank line there.
Typeset literal options, commands, and path names in monospace.
When using `literal string` mark-up to do so, there is no need to
escape AsciiDoc special characters with backslashes, so make sure we
don't do so.
Replace some double quotes with proper AsciiDoc quotes
(e.g. ``foo'').
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The man pages contain inconsistent usage of backticks vs. single quotes
around options, commands, etc. that are in paragraphs. This commit states
that backticks should always be used around literal examples.
This commit states that "--" and friends should not be escaped
(e.g. use `--pretty=oneline` instead of `\--pretty=oneline`).
This commit also states correct usage for typesetting command usage
examples with inline substitutions.
Thanks-to: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Stuart Rackham <srackham@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hotfix for recent regression while talking to upload-pack
in a repository with many symbolic refs.
* maint:
Revert "upload-pack: send non-HEAD symbolic refs"
