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Author SHA1 Message Date
Kyle Meyer
04e5b3f0b4 submodule foreach: replace $path with $sm_path in example
f0fd0dc5c5 (submodule foreach: document '$sm_path' instead of '$path',
2018-05-08) updated the documentation to advise callers to favor
$sm_path over the deprecated synonym $path.  However, the example in
that section still uses $path.  Update it to use $sm_path.

Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-31 12:57:18 -08:00
Denton Liu
0ad7144999 .mailmap: map Yi-Jyun Pan's email
In 13185fd241 (l10n: zh_TW.po: update translation for v2.25.0 round 1,
2019-12-31), the author mistakenly used their GitHub username for
authorship information instead of their real name. However, a commit
with their real name exists prior to this: 9917eca794 (l10n: zh_TW: add
translation for v2.24.0, 2019-11-20).

Map their email to their real name so that these contributions can be
counted together.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-30 10:23:45 -08:00
Philippe Blain
c56c48dd07 grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given
Since grep learned to recurse into submodules in 0281e487fd
(grep: optionally recurse into submodules, 2016-12-16),
using --recurse-submodules along with --no-index makes Git
die().

This is unfortunate because if submodule.recurse is set in a user's
~/.gitconfig, invoking `git grep --no-index` either inside or outside
a Git repository results in

    fatal: option not supported with --recurse-submodules

Let's allow using these options together, so that setting submodule.recurse
globally does not prevent using `git grep --no-index`.

Using `--recurse-submodules` should not have any effect if `--no-index`
is used inside a repository, as Git will recurse into the checked out
submodule directories just like into regular directories.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-30 10:15:58 -08:00
Jeff King
cf82bff73f obstack: avoid computing offsets from NULL pointer
As with the previous two commits, UBSan with clang-11 complains about
computing offsets from a NULL pointer. The failures in t4013 (and
elsewhere) look like this:

  kwset.c:102:23: runtime error: applying non-zero offset 107820859019600 to null pointer
  ...
  not ok 79 - git log -SF master # magic is (not used)

That line is not enlightening:

  ... = obstack_alloc(&kwset->obstack, sizeof (struct trie));

because obstack is implemented almost entirely in macros, and the actual
problem is five macros deep (I temporarily converted them to inline
functions to get better compiler errors, which was tedious but worked
reasonably well).

The actual problem is in these pointer-alignment macros:

  /* If B is the base of an object addressed by P, return the result of
     aligning P to the next multiple of A + 1.  B and P must be of type
     char *.  A + 1 must be a power of 2.  */

  #define __BPTR_ALIGN(B, P, A) ((B) + (((P) - (B) + (A)) & ~(A)))

  /* Similar to _BPTR_ALIGN (B, P, A), except optimize the common case
     where pointers can be converted to integers, aligned as integers,
     and converted back again.  If PTR_INT_TYPE is narrower than a
     pointer (e.g., the AS/400), play it safe and compute the alignment
     relative to B.  Otherwise, use the faster strategy of computing the
     alignment relative to 0.  */

  #define __PTR_ALIGN(B, P, A)                                                \
    __BPTR_ALIGN (sizeof (PTR_INT_TYPE) < sizeof (void *) ? (B) : (char *) 0, \
                  P, A)

If we have a sufficiently-large integer pointer type, then we do the
computation using a NULL pointer constant. That turns __BPTR_ALIGN()
into something like:

  NULL + (P - NULL + A) & ~A

and UBSan is complaining about adding the full value of P to that
initial NULL. We can fix this by doing our math as an integer type, and
then casting the result back to a pointer. The problem case only happens
when we know that the integer type is large enough, so there should be
no issue with truncation.

Another option would be just simplify out all the 0's from
__BPTR_ALIGN() for the NULL-pointer case. That probably wouldn't work
for a platform where the NULL pointer isn't all-zeroes, but Git already
wouldn't work on such a platform (due to our use of memset to set
pointers in structs to NULL). But I tried here to keep as close to the
original as possible.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-28 23:13:25 -08:00
Jeff King
3cd309c16f xdiff: avoid computing non-zero offset from NULL pointer
As with the previous commit, clang-11's UBSan complains about computing
offsets from a NULL pointer, causing some tests to fail. In this case,
though, we're actually computing a non-zero offset, which is even more
dubious. From t7810:

  xdiff-interface.c:268:14: runtime error: applying non-zero offset 1 to null pointer
  ...
  not ok 131 - grep -p with userdiff

The problem is our parsing of the funcname config. We count the number
of lines in the string, allocate an array, and then loop over our
allocated entries, parsing each line and moving our cursor to one past
the trailing newline for the next iteration.

But the final line will not generally have a trailing newline (since
it's a config value), and hence we go to one past NULL. In practice this
is OK, since our loop should terminate before we look at the value. But
even computing such an invalid pointer technically violates the
standard.

We can fix it by leaving the pointer at NULL if we're at the end, rather
than one-past. And while we're thinking about it, we can also document
the variant by asserting that our initial line-count matches the
second-pass of parsing.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-28 23:13:25 -08:00
Jeff King
d20bc01a51 avoid computing zero offsets from NULL pointer
The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer in clang-11 seems to have learned a new
trick: it complains about computing offsets from a NULL pointer, even if
that offset is 0. This causes numerous test failures. For example, from
t1090:

  unpack-trees.c:1355:41: runtime error: applying zero offset to null pointer
  ...
  not ok 6 - in partial clone, sparse checkout only fetches needed blobs

The code in question looks like this:

  struct cache_entry **cache_end = cache + nr;
  ...
  while (cache != cache_end)

and we sometimes pass in a NULL and 0 for "cache" and "nr". This is
conceptually fine, as "cache_end" would be equal to "cache" in this
case, and we wouldn't enter the loop at all. But computing even a zero
offset violates the C standard. And given the fact that UBSan is
noticing this behavior, this might be a potential problem spot if the
compiler starts making unexpected assumptions based on undefined
behavior.

So let's just avoid it, which is pretty easy. In some cases we can just
switch to iterating with a numeric index (as we do in sequencer.c here).
In other cases (like the cache_end one) the use of an end pointer is
more natural; we can keep that by just explicitly checking for the
NULL/0 case when assigning the end pointer.

Note that there are two ways you can write this latter case, checking
for the pointer:

  cache_end = cache ? cache + nr : cache;

or the size:

  cache_end = nr ? cache + nr : cache;

For the case of a NULL/0 ptr/len combo, they are equivalent. But writing
it the second way (as this patch does) has the property that if somebody
were to incorrectly pass a NULL pointer with a non-zero length, we'd
continue to notice and segfault, rather than silently pretending the
length was zero.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-28 23:12:48 -08:00
David Turner
7edee32985 git rm submodule: succeed if .gitmodules index stat info is zero
The bug was that ie_match_stat() was used to compare if the stat info
for the file was compatible with the stat info in the index, rather
using ie_modified() to check if the file was in fact different from the
version in the index.

A version of this (with deinit instead of rm) was reported here:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPOqYV+C-P9M2zcUBBkD2LALPm4K3sxSut+BjAkZ9T1AKLEr+A@mail.gmail.com/

It seems that in that case, the user's clone command left the index
with empty stat info.  The mailing list was unable to reproduce this.
But we (Two Sigma) hit the bug while using some plumbing commands, so
I'm fixing it.  I manually confirmed that the fix also repairs deinit
in this scenario.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Bétous <th.betous@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-28 14:46:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7210ca4ee5 .mailmap: fix GGG authoship screwup
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-27 13:19:53 -08:00
Jonathan Tan
b54128bb0b t5616: make robust to delta base change
Commit 6462d5eb9a ("fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0", 2019-11-08)
contains a test that relies on having to lazily fetch the delta base of
a blob, but assumes that the tree being fetched (as part of the test) is
sent as a non-delta object. This assumption may not hold in the future;
for example, a change in the length of the object hash might result in
the tree being sent as a delta instead.

Make the test more robust by relying on having to lazily fetch the delta
base of the tree instead, and by making no assumptions on whether the
blobs are sent as delta or non-delta.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-27 12:42:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4c616c2ba1 merge-recursive: use subtraction to flip stage
The flip_stage() helper uses a bit-flipping xor to switch between "2"
and "3". While clever, this relies on a property of those two numbers
that is mostly coincidence. Let's write it as a subtraction; that's more
clear and would extend to other numbers if somebody copies the logic.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-27 11:17:41 -08:00
Jeff King
ee798742bd merge-recursive: silence -Wxor-used-as-pow warning
The merge-recursive code uses stage number constants like this:

  add = &ci->ren1->dst_entry->stages[2 ^ 1];
  ...
  add = &ci->ren2->dst_entry->stages[3 ^ 1];

The xor has the effect of flipping the "1" bit, so that "2 ^ 1" becomes
"3" and "3 ^ 1" becomes "2", which correspond to the "ours" and "theirs"
stages respectively.

Unfortunately, clang-10 and up issue a warning for this code:

  merge-recursive.c:1759:40: error: result of '2 ^ 1' is 3; did you mean '1 << 1' (2)? [-Werror,-Wxor-used-as-pow]
                  add = &ci->ren1->dst_entry->stages[2 ^ 1];
                                                     ~~^~~
                                                     1 << 1
  merge-recursive.c:1759:40: note: replace expression with '0x2 ^ 1' to silence this warning

We could silence it by using 0x2, as the compiler mentions. Or by just
using the constants "2" and "3" directly. But after digging into it, I
do think this bit-flip is telling us something. If we just wrote:

  add = &ci->ren2->dst_entry->stages[2];

for the second one, you might think that "ren2" and "2" correspond. But
they don't. The logic is: ren2 is theirs, which is stage 3, but we
are interested in the opposite side's stage, so flip it to 2.

So let's keep the bit-flipping, but let's also put it behind a named
function, which will make its purpose a bit clearer. This also has the
side effect of suppressing the warning (and an optimizing compiler
should be able to easily turn it into a constant as before).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-27 11:15:35 -08:00
Denton Liu
a0ba80001a .mailmap: fix erroneous authorship for Johannes Schindelin
In 49e268e23e (mingw: safeguard better against backslashes in file
names, 2020-01-09), the commit author is listed as
"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>", which
is erroneous. Fix the authorship by mapping the erroneous authorship to
his canonical authorship information.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-27 10:32:11 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
26027625dd rebase -i: also avoid SHA-1 collisions with missingCommitsCheck
When `rebase.missingCommitsCheck` is in effect, we use the backup of the
todo list that was copied just before the user was allowed to edit it.

That backup is, of course, just as susceptible to the hash collision as
the todo list itself: a reworded commit could make a previously
unambiguous short commit ID ambiguous all of a sudden.

So let's not just copy the todo list, but let's instead write out the
backup with expanded commit IDs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-23 12:48:12 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
b6992261de rebase -i: re-fix short SHA-1 collision
In 66ae9a57b8 (t3404: rebase -i: demonstrate short SHA-1 collision,
2013-08-23), we added a test case that demonstrated how it is possible
that a previously unambiguous short commit ID could become ambiguous
*during* a rebase.

In 75c6976655 (rebase -i: fix short SHA-1 collision, 2013-08-23), we
fixed that problem simply by writing out the todo list with expanded
commit IDs (except *right* before letting the user edit the todo list,
in which case we shorten them, but we expand them right after the file
was edited).

However, the bug resurfaced as a side effect of 393adf7a6f (sequencer:
directly call pick_commits() from complete_action(), 2019-11-24): as of
this commit, the sequencer no longer re-reads the todo list after
writing it out with expanded commit IDs.

The only redeeming factor is that the todo list is already parsed at
that stage, including all the commits corresponding to the commands,
therefore the sequencer can continue even if the internal todo list has
short commit IDs.

That does not prevent problems, though: the sequencer writes out the
`done` and `git-rebase-todo` files incrementally (i.e. overwriting the
todo list with a version that has _short_ commit IDs), and if a merge
conflict happens, or if an `edit` or a `break` command is encountered, a
subsequent `git rebase --continue` _will_ re-read the todo list, opening
an opportunity for the "short SHA-1 collision" bug again.

To avoid that, let's make sure that we do expand the commit IDs in the
todo list as soon as we have parsed it after letting the user edit it.

Additionally, we improve the 'short SHA-1 collide' test case in t3404 to
test specifically for the case where the rebase is resumed. We also
hard-code the expected colliding short SHA-1s, to document the
expectation (and to make it easier on future readers).

Note that we specifically test that the short commit ID is used in the
`git-rebase-todo.tmp` file: this file is created by the fake editor in
the test script and reflects the state that would have been presented to
the user to edit.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-23 12:48:11 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
d859dcad94 parse_insn_line(): improve error message when parsing failed
In the case that a `get_oid()` call failed, we showed some rather bogus
part of the line instead of the precise string we sent to said function.
That makes it rather hard for users to understand what is going wrong,
so let's fix that.

While at it, return a negative value from `parse_insn_line()` in case of
an error, as per our convention. This function's only caller,
`todo_list_parse_insn_buffer()`, cares only whether that return value is
non-zero or not, i.e. does not need to be changed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-23 12:48:05 -08:00
Philippe Blain
a9472afb63 submodule.c: use get_git_dir() instead of get_git_common_dir()
Ever since df56607dff (git-common-dir: make "modules/"
per-working-directory directory, 2014-11-30), submodules in linked worktrees
are cloned to $GIT_DIR/modules, i.e. $GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees/<name>/modules.

However, this convention was not followed when the worktree updater commands
checkout, reset and read-tree learned to recurse into submodules. Specifically,
submodule.c::submodule_move_head, introduced in 6e3c1595c6 (update submodules:
add submodule_move_head, 2017-03-14) and submodule.c::submodule_unset_core_worktree,
(re)introduced in 898c2e65b7 (submodule: unset core.worktree if no working tree
is present, 2018-12-14) use get_git_common_dir() instead of get_git_dir()
to get the path of the submodule repository.

This means that, for example, 'git checkout --recurse-submodules <branch>'
in a linked worktree will correctly checkout <branch>, detach the submodule's HEAD
at the commit recorded in <branch> and update the submodule working tree, but the
submodule HEAD that will be moved is the one in $GIT_COMMON_DIR/modules/<name>/,
i.e. the submodule repository of the main superproject working tree.
It will also rewrite the gitfile in the submodule working tree of the linked worktree
to point to $GIT_COMMON_DIR/modules/<name>/.
This leads to an incorrect (and confusing!) state in the submodule working tree
of the main superproject worktree.

Additionally, if switching to a commit where the submodule is not present,
submodule_unset_core_worktree will be called and will incorrectly remove
'core.wortree' from the config file of the submodule in the main superproject worktree,
$GIT_COMMON_DIR/modules/<name>/config.

Fix this by constructing the path to the submodule repository using get_git_dir()
in both submodule_move_head and submodule_unset_core_worktree.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22 13:39:01 -08:00
Philippe Blain
129510a067 t2405: clarify test descriptions and simplify test
When 'checkout --to' functionality was moved to 'worktree add', tests were adapted
in f194b1ef6e (tests: worktree: retrofit "checkout --to" tests for "worktree add",
2015-07-06).

The calls were changed to 'worktree add' in this test (then t7410), but the test
descriptions were not updated, keeping 'checkout' instead of using the new
terminology (linked worktrees).

Also, in the test each worktree is created in
$TRASH_DIRECTORY/<leading-directory>/main, where the name of <leading-directory>
carries some information about what behavior each test verifies. This directory
structure is not mandatory for the tests; the worktrees can live next to one
another in the trash directory.

Clarify the tests by using the right terminology, and remove the unnecessary
leading directories such that all superproject worktrees are directly next to one
another in the trash directory.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22 13:37:04 -08:00
Philippe Blain
4eaadc8493 t2405: use git -C and test_commit -C instead of subshells
The subshells used in the setup phase of this test are unnecessary.

Remove them by using 'git -C' and 'test_commit -C'.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22 13:36:05 -08:00
Philippe Blain
773c60a45e t7410: rename to t2405-worktree-submodule.sh
This test was added in df56607dff (git-common-dir: make "modules/"
per-working-directory directory, 2014-11-30), back when the 'git worktree' command
did not exist and 'git checkout --to' was used to create supplementary worktrees.

Since this file contains tests for the interaction of 'git worktree' with
submodules, rename it to t2405-worktree-submodule.sh, following the naming scheme for
tests checking the behavior of various commands with submodules.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22 13:36:03 -08:00
brian m. carlson
7a2dc95cbc docs: mention when increasing http.postBuffer is valuable
Users in a wide variety of situations find themselves with HTTP push
problems.  Oftentimes these issues are due to antivirus software,
filtering proxies, or other man-in-the-middle situations; other times,
they are due to simple unreliability of the network.

However, a common solution to HTTP push problems found online is to
increase http.postBuffer.  This works for none of the aforementioned
situations and is only useful in a small, highly restricted number of
cases: essentially, when the connection does not properly support
HTTP/1.1.

Document when raising this value is appropriate and what it actually
does, and discourage people from using it as a general solution for push
problems, since it is not effective there.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22 12:27:49 -08:00
brian m. carlson
1b13e9032f doc: dissuade users from trying to ignore tracked files
It is quite common for users to want to ignore the changes to a file
that Git tracks.  Common scenarios for this case are IDE settings and
configuration files, which should generally not be tracked and possibly
generated from tracked files using a templating mechanism.

However, users learn about the assume-unchanged and skip-worktree bits
and try to use them to do this anyway.  This is problematic, because
when these bits are set, many operations behave as the user expects, but
they usually do not help when git checkout needs to replace a file.

There is no sensible behavior in this case, because sometimes the data
is precious, such as certain configuration files, and sometimes it is
irrelevant data that the user would be happy to discard.

Since this is not a supported configuration and users are prone to
misuse the existing features for unintended purposes, causing general
sadness and confusion, let's document the existing behavior and the
pitfalls in the documentation for git update-index so that users know
they should explore alternate solutions.

In addition, let's provide a recommended solution to dealing with the
common case of configuration files, since there are well-known
approaches used successfully in many environments.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22 12:27:49 -08:00
brian m. carlson
69e104d70e doc: provide guidance on user.name format
It's a frequent misconception that the user.name variable controls
authentication in some way, and as a result, beginning users frequently
attempt to change it when they're having authentication troubles.
Document that the convention is that this variable represents some form
of a human's personal name, although that is not required.  In addition,
address concerns about whether Unicode is supported.

Use the term "personal name" as this is likely to draw the intended
contrast, be applicable across cultures which may have different naming
conventions, and be easily understandable to people who do not speak
English as their first language.  Indicate that "some form" is
conventionally used, as people may use a nickname or preferred name
instead of a full legal name.

Point users who may be confused about authentication to an appropriate
configuration option instead.  Provide a shortened form of this
information in the configuration option description.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22 12:27:08 -08:00
brian m. carlson
813f6025a5 docs: expand on possible and recommended user config options
In the section on setting author and committer information, we omit the
author.* and committer.* variables, so mention them for completeness.
In addition, guide users to the typical case: simply setting user.name
and user.email, which are recommended if one does not need complex
configuration.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22 12:27:08 -08:00
brian m. carlson
bc94e5862a doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1)
While at one time it made perfect sense to store information about
configuring author and committer information in the documentation for
git commit-tree, in modern Git that operation is seldom used.  Most
users will use git commit and expect to find comprehensive documentation
about its use in the manual page for that command.

Considering that there is significant confusion about how one is to use
the user.name and user.email variables, let's put as much documentation
as possible into an obvious place where users will be more likely to
find it.

In addition, expand the environment variables section to describe their
use more fully.  Even though we now describe all of the options there
and in the configuration settings documentation, preserve the existing
text in git-commit.txt so that people can easily reason about the
ordering of the various options they can use.  Explain the use of the
author.* and committer.* options as well.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-22 12:27:08 -08:00
brian m. carlson
856249c62a docs: use "currently" for the present time
In many languages, the adverb with the root "actual" means "at the
present time."  However, this usage is considered dated or even archaic
in English, and for referring to events occurring at the present time,
we usually prefer "currently" or "presently".  "Actually" is commonly
used in modern English only for the meaning of "in fact" or to express a
contrast with what is expected.

Since the documentation refers to the available options at the present
time (that is, at the time of writing) instead of drawing a contrast,
let's switch to "currently," which both is commonly used and sounds less
formal than "presently."

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-21 10:43:41 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
b40a50264a fetch: document and test --refmap=""
To prevent long blocking time during a 'git fetch' call, a user
may want to set up a schedule for background 'git fetch' processes.
However, these runs will update the refs/remotes branches due to
the default refspec set in the config when Git adds a remote.
Hence the user will not notice when remote refs are updated during
their foreground fetches. In fact, they may _want_ those refs to
stay put so they can work with the refs from their last foreground
fetch call.

This can be accomplished by overriding the configured refspec using
'--refmap=' along with a custom refspec:

  git fetch --refmap='' <remote> +refs/heads/*:refs/hidden/<remote>/*

to populate a custom ref space and download a pack of the new
reachable objects. This kind of call allows a few things to happen:

1. We download a new pack if refs have updated.
2. Since the refs/hidden branches exist, GC will not remove the
   newly-downloaded data.
3. With fetch.writeCommitGraph enabled, the refs/hidden refs are
   used to update the commit-graph file.

To avoid the refs/hidden directory from filling without bound, the
--prune option can be included. When providing a refspec like this,
the --prune option does not delete remote refs and instead only
deletes refs in the target refspace.

Update the documentation to clarify how '--refmap=""' works and
create tests to guarantee this behavior remains in the future.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-21 10:24:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
232378479e Sync with maint
* maint:
  msvc: accommodate for vcpkg's upgrade to OpenSSL v1.1.x
2020-01-16 15:18:46 -08:00
Jeff King
e4837b4406 t7800: don't rely on reuse_worktree_file()
A test in t7800 tries to make sure that when git-difftool runs an
external tool that fails, it stops looking at files. Our fake failing
tool prints the file name it was asked to diff before exiting non-zero,
and then we confirm the output contains only that file.

However, this subtly relies on our internal reuse_worktree_file().
Because we're diffing between branches, the command run by difftool
might see:

  - the git-stored filename (e.g., "file"), if we decided that the
    working tree contents were up-to-date with the object in the index
    and HEAD, and we could reuse them

  - a temporary filename (e.g. "/tmp/abc123_file") if we had to dump the
    contents from the object database

If the latter case happens, then the test fails, because it's expecting
the string "file". I discovered this when debugging something unrelated
with reuse_worktree_file(). I _thought_ it should be able to be
triggered by a racy-git situation, but running:

  ./t7800-difftool.sh --stress --run=2,13

never seems to fail. However, by my reading of reuse_worktree_file(),
this would probably always fail under Cygwin, because it sets
NO_FAST_WORKING_DIRECTORY. At any rate, since reuse_worktree_file()
is meant to be an optimization that may or may not trigger, our test
should be robust either way.

Instead of checking the filename, let's just make sure we got a single
line of output (which would not be true if we continued after the first
failure).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 14:48:26 -08:00
Jeff King
fbce03d329 t4018: drop "debugging" cat from hunk-header tests
We run a series of hunk-header tests in a loop, and each one does this:

  test_when_finished 'cat actual' &&      # for debugging only

This is pretty pointless. When the test succeeds, we waste time running
a useless cat process. If you're debugging a failure with "-i", then we
won't run the when-finished part at all. So it helps only if you're
running with something like "--verbose-log".

Since we expect the tests to succeed most of the time, a better way to
do this would be a helper that checks the output and dumps "actual" only
when it fails. But it's probably not even worth the effort, as anyone
debugging a failure could just run with "-i" and investigate the
"actual" file themselves.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 14:46:28 -08:00
Jeff King
f65d07fffa Makefile: use compat regex with SANITIZE=address
Recent versions of the gcc and clang Address Sanitizer produce test
failures related to regexec(). This triggers with gcc-10 and clang-8
(but not gcc-9 nor clang-7). Running:

  make CC=gcc-10 SANITIZE=address test

results in failures in t4018, t3206, and t4062.

The cause seems to be that when built with ASan, we use a different
version of regexec() than normal. And this version doesn't understand
the REG_STARTEND flag. Here's my evidence supporting that.

The failure in t4062 is an ASan warning:

  expecting success of 4062.2 '-G matches':
  	git diff --name-only -G "^(0{64}){64}$" HEAD^ >out &&
  	test 4096-zeroes.txt = "$(cat out)"

  =================================================================
  ==672994==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x7fa76f672000 at pc 0x7fa7726f75b6 bp 0x7ffe41bdda70 sp 0x7ffe41bdd220
  READ of size 4097 at 0x7fa76f672000 thread T0
      #0 0x7fa7726f75b5  (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.6+0x4f5b5)
      #1 0x562ae0c9c40e in regexec_buf /home/peff/compile/git/git-compat-util.h:1117
      #2 0x562ae0c9c40e in diff_grep /home/peff/compile/git/diffcore-pickaxe.c:52
      #3 0x562ae0c9cc28 in pickaxe_match /home/peff/compile/git/diffcore-pickaxe.c:166
      [...]

In this case we're looking in a buffer which was mmap'd via
reuse_worktree_file(), and whose size is 4096 bytes. But libasan's
regex tries to look at byte 4097 anyway! If we tweak Git like this:

  diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
  index 8e2914c031..cfae60c120 100644
  --- a/diff.c
  +++ b/diff.c
  @@ -3880,7 +3880,7 @@ static int reuse_worktree_file(struct index_state *istate,
           */
          if (ce_uptodate(ce) ||
              (!lstat(name, &st) && !ie_match_stat(istate, ce, &st, 0)))
  -               return 1;
  +               return 0;

          return 0;
   }

to use a regular buffer (with a trailing NUL) instead of an mmap, then
the complaint goes away.

The other failures are actually diff output with an incorrect funcname
header. If I instrument xdiff to show the funcname matching like so:

  diff --git a/xdiff-interface.c b/xdiff-interface.c
  index 8509f9ea22..f6c3dc1986 100644
  --- a/xdiff-interface.c
  +++ b/xdiff-interface.c
  @@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ struct ff_regs {
   	struct ff_reg {
   		regex_t re;
   		int negate;
  +		char *printable;
   	} *array;
   };

  @@ -218,7 +219,12 @@ static long ff_regexp(const char *line, long len,

   	for (i = 0; i < regs->nr; i++) {
   		struct ff_reg *reg = regs->array + i;
  -		if (!regexec_buf(&reg->re, line, len, 2, pmatch, 0)) {
  +		int ret = regexec_buf(&reg->re, line, len, 2, pmatch, 0);
  +		warning("regexec %s:\n  regex: %s\n  buf: %.*s",
  +			ret == 0 ? "matched" : "did not match",
  +			reg->printable,
  +			(int)len, line);
  +		if (!ret) {
   			if (reg->negate)
   				return -1;
   			break;
  @@ -264,6 +270,7 @@ void xdiff_set_find_func(xdemitconf_t *xecfg, const char *value, int cflags)
   			expression = value;
   		if (regcomp(&reg->re, expression, cflags))
   			die("Invalid regexp to look for hunk header: %s", expression);
  +		reg->printable = xstrdup(expression);
   		free(buffer);
   		value = ep + 1;
   	}

then when compiling with ASan and gcc-10, running the diff from t4018.66
produces this:

  $ git diff -U1 cpp-skip-access-specifiers
  warning: regexec did not match:
    regex: ^[     ]*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*:[[:space:]]*($|/[/*])
    buf: private:
  warning: regexec matched:
    regex: ^((::[[:space:]]*)?[A-Za-z_].*)$
    buf: private:
  diff --git a/cpp-skip-access-specifiers b/cpp-skip-access-specifiers
  index 4d4a9db..ebd6f42 100644
  --- a/cpp-skip-access-specifiers
  +++ b/cpp-skip-access-specifiers
  @@ -6,3 +6,3 @@ private:
          void DoSomething();
          int ChangeMe;
  };
          void DoSomething();
  -       int ChangeMe;
  +       int IWasChanged;
   };

That first regex should match (and is negated, so it should be telling
us _not_ to match "private:"). But it wouldn't if regexec() is looking
at the whole buffer, and not just the length-limited line we've fed to
regexec_buf(). So this is consistent again with REG_STARTEND being
ignored.

The correct output (compiling without ASan, or gcc-9 with Asan) looks
like this:

  warning: regexec matched:
    regex: ^[     ]*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*:[[:space:]]*($|/[/*])
    buf: private:
  [...more lines that we end up not using...]
  warning: regexec matched:
    regex: ^((::[[:space:]]*)?[A-Za-z_].*)$
    buf: class RIGHT : public Baseclass
  diff --git a/cpp-skip-access-specifiers b/cpp-skip-access-specifiers
  index 4d4a9db..ebd6f42 100644
  --- a/cpp-skip-access-specifiers
  +++ b/cpp-skip-access-specifiers
  @@ -6,3 +6,3 @@ class RIGHT : public Baseclass
          void DoSomething();
  -       int ChangeMe;
  +       int IWasChanged;
   };

So it really does seem like libasan's regex engine is ignoring
REG_STARTEND. We should be able to work around it by compiling with
NO_REGEX, which would use our local regexec(). But to make matters even
more interesting, this isn't enough by itself.

Because ASan has support from the compiler, it doesn't seem to intercept
our call to regexec() at the dynamic library level. It actually
recognizes when we are compiling a call to regexec() and replaces it
with ASan-specific code at that point. And unlike most of our other
compat code, where we might have git_mmap() or similar, the actual
symbol name in the compiled compat/regex code is regexec(). So just
compiling with NO_REGEX isn't enough; we still end up in libasan!

We can work around that by having the preprocessor replace regexec with
git_regexec (both in the callers and in the actual implementation), and
we truly end up with a call to our custom regex code, even when
compiling with ASan. That's probably a good thing to do anyway, as it
means anybody looking at the symbols later (e.g., in a debugger) would
have a better indication of which function is which. So we'll do the
same for the other common regex functions (even though just regexec() is
enough to fix this ASan problem).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 14:19:39 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
849e43cc18 built-in add -i: accept open-ended ranges again
The interactive `add` command allows selecting multiple files for some
of its sub-commands, via unique prefixes, indices or index ranges.

When re-implementing `git add -i` in C, we even added a code comment
talking about ranges with a missing end index, such as `2-`, but the
code did not actually accept those, as pointed out in
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2466#issuecomment-574142760.

Let's fix this, and add a test case to verify that this stays fixed
forever.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 14:10:23 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
d660a30ceb built-in add -i: do not try to patch/diff an empty list of files
When the user does not select any files to `patch` or `diff`, there is
no need to call `run_add_p()` on them.

Even worse: we _have_ to avoid calling `parse_pathspec()` with an empty
list because that would trigger this error:

	BUG: pathspec.c:557: PATHSPEC_PREFER_CWD requires arguments

So let's avoid doing any work on a list of files that is empty anyway.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2466.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 14:10:21 -08:00
Ralf Thielow
a4ffbbbb99 submodule.c: mark more strings for translation
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 14:02:45 -08:00
Jeff King
0cbb60574e dir: point treat_leading_path() warning to the right place
Commit 777b420347 (dir: synchronize treat_leading_path() and
read_directory_recursive(), 2019-12-19) tried to add two warning
comments in those functions, pointing at each other. But the one in
treat_leading_path() just points at itself.

Let's fix that. Since the comment also redirects the reader for more
details to "the commit that added this warning", and since we're now
modifying the warning (creating a new commit without those details),
let's mention the actual commit id.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 12:56:13 -08:00
Jeff King
ad6f2157f9 dir: restructure in a way to avoid passing around a struct dirent
Restructure the code slightly to avoid passing around a struct dirent
anywhere, which also enables us to avoid trying to manufacture one.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 12:56:13 -08:00
Elijah Newren
22705334b9 dir: treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive(), round 2
I was going to title this "dir: more synchronizing of
treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive()", a nod to commit
777b420347 ("dir: synchronize treat_leading_path() and
read_directory_recursive()", 2019-12-19), but the title was too long.

Anyway, first the backstory...

fill_directory() has always had a slightly error-prone interface: it
returns a subset of paths which *might* match the specified pathspec; it
was intended to prune away some paths which didn't match the specified
pathspec and keep at least all the ones that did match it.  Given this
interface, callers were responsible to post-process the results and
check whether each actually matched the pathspec.

builtin/clean.c did this.  It would first prune out duplicates (e.g. if
"dir" was returned as well as all files under "dir/", then it would
simplify this to just "dir"), and after pruning duplicates it would
compare the remaining paths to the specified pathspec(s).  This
post-processing itself could run into problems, though, as noted in
commit 404ebceda0 ("dir: also check directories for matching
pathspecs", 2019-09-17):

    For the case of git-clean and a set of pathspecs of "dir/file" and
    "more", this caused a problem because we'd end up with dir entries
    for both of
      "dir"
      "dir/file"
    Then correct_untracked_entries() would try to helpfully prune
    duplicates for us by removing "dir/file" since it's under "dir",
    leaving us with
      "dir"
    Since the original pathspec only had "dir/file", the only entry left
    doesn't match and leaves nothing to be removed.  (Note that if only
    one pathspec was specified, e.g. only "dir/file", then the
    common_prefix_len optimizations in fill_directory would cause us to
    bypass this problem, making it appear in simple tests that we could
    correctly remove manually specified pathspecs.)

That commit fixed the issue -- when multiple pathspecs were specified --
by making sure fill_directory() wouldn't return both "dir" and
"dir/file" outside the common_prefix_len optimization path.  This is
where it starts to get fun.

In commit b9670c1f5e ("dir: fix checks on common prefix directory",
2019-12-19), we noticed that the common_prefix_len wasn't doing
appropriate checks and letting all kinds of stuff through, resulting in
recursing into .git/ directories and other craziness.  So it started
locking down and doing checks on pathnames within that code path.  That
continued with commit 777b420347 ("dir: synchronize
treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive()", 2019-12-19), which
noted the following:

    Our optimization to avoid calling into read_directory_recursive()
    when all pathspecs have a common leading directory mean that we need
    to match the logic that read_directory_recursive() would use if we
    had just called it from the root.  Since it does more than call
    treat_path() we need to copy that same logic.

...and then it more forcefully addressed the issue with this wonderfully
ironic statement:

    Needing to duplicate logic like this means it is guaranteed someone
    will eventually need to make further changes and forget to update
    both locations.  It is tempting to just nuke the leading_directory
    special casing to avoid such bugs and simplify the code, but
    unpack_trees' verify_clean_subdirectory() also calls
    read_directory() and does so with a non-empty leading path, so I'm
    hesitant to try to restructure further.  Add obnoxious warnings to
    treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive() to try to warn
    people of such problems.

You would think that with such a strongly worded description, that its
author would have actually ensured that the logic in
treat_leading_path() and read_directory_recursive() did actually match
and that *everything* that was needed had at least been copied over at
the time that this paragraph was written.  But you'd be wrong, I messed
it up by missing part of the logic.

Copy the missing bits to fix the new final test in t7300.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 12:56:13 -08:00
Derrick Stolee
f365bf40a0 clean: demonstrate a bug with pathspecs
b9670c1f5e (dir: fix checks on common prefix directory, 2019-12-19)
modified the way pathspecs are handled when handling a directory
during "git clean -f <path>". While this improved the behavior for
known test breakages, it also regressed in how the clean command
handles cleaning a specified file.

Add a test case that demonstrates this behavior. This test passes
before b9670c1f5e then fails after.

Helped-by: Kevin Willford <Kevin.Willford@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 12:56:12 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
b6d4d82bd5 msvc: accommodate for vcpkg's upgrade to OpenSSL v1.1.x
With the upgrade, the library names changed from libeay32/ssleay32 to
libcrypto/libssl.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-16 12:18:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d0654dc308 Git 2.25
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-13 10:16:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b4615e40a8 l10n-2.25.0-rnd1
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Merge tag 'l10n-2.25.0-rnd1' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po

l10n-2.25.0-rnd1

* tag 'l10n-2.25.0-rnd1' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po:
  l10n: zh_CN: for git v2.25.0 l10n round 1
  l10n: Update Catalan translation
  l10n: de.po: Update German translation v2.25.0 round 1
  l10n: de.po: Reword generation numbers
  l10n: bg.po: Updated Bulgarian translation (4800t)
  l10n: es: 2.25.0 round #1
  l10n: sv.po: Update Swedish translation (4800t0f0u)
  l10n: fr.po v2.25.0 rnd 1
  l10n: vi(4800t): Updated Vietnamese translation v2.25.0
  l10n: zh_TW.po: update translation for v2.25.0 round 1
  l10n: it.po: update the Italian translation for Git 2.25.0
  l10n: git.pot: v2.25.0 round 1 (119 new, 13 removed)
  l10n: Update Catalan translation
  l10n: zh_TW: add translation for v2.24.0
2020-01-12 13:28:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4d924528d8 Revert "Merge branch 'ra/rebase-i-more-options'"
This reverts commit 5d9324e0f4, reversing
changes made to c58ae96fc4.

The topic turns out to be too buggy for real use.

cf. <f2fe7437-8a48-3315-4d3f-8d51fe4bb8f1@gmail.com>
2020-01-12 13:25:18 -08:00
Jiang Xin
ddc12c429b l10n: zh_CN: for git v2.25.0 l10n round 1
Translate 119 new messages (4800t0f0u) for git 2.25.0.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
2020-01-12 19:22:02 +08:00
Jiang Xin
e23b95e75b Merge branch 'master' of github.com:Softcatala/git-po into git-po-master
* 'master' of github.com:Softcatala/git-po:
  l10n: Update Catalan translation
2020-01-11 16:04:21 +08:00
Junio C Hamano
1cf4836865 Merge branch 'js/mingw-loosen-overstrict-tree-entry-checks'
Further tweak to a "no backslash in indexed paths" for Windows port
we applied earlier.

* js/mingw-loosen-overstrict-tree-entry-checks:
  mingw: safeguard better against backslashes in file names
2020-01-10 14:45:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d78a1968c5 Merge branch 'ma/config-advice-markup-fix'
Documentation markup fix.

* ma/config-advice-markup-fix:
  config/advice.txt: fix description list separator
2020-01-10 14:45:26 -08:00
Jordi Mas
a20ae3ee29 l10n: Update Catalan translation
Signed-off-by: Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org>
2020-01-10 22:21:55 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
49e268e23e mingw: safeguard better against backslashes in file names
In 224c7d70fa (mingw: only test index entries for backslashes, not tree
entries, 2019-12-31), we relaxed the check for backslashes in tree
entries to check only index entries.

However, the code change was incorrect: it was added to
`add_index_entry_with_check()`, not to `add_index_entry()`, so under
certain circumstances it was possible to side-step the protection.

Besides, the description of that commit purported that all index entries
would be checked when in fact they were only checked when being added to
the index (there are code paths that do not do that, constructing
"transient" index entries).

In any case, it was pointed out in one insightful review at
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/2437#issuecomment-566771835
that it would be a much better idea to teach `verify_path()` to perform
the check for a backslash. This is safer, even if it comes with two
notable drawbacks:

- `verify_path()` cannot say _what_ is wrong with the path, therefore
  the user will no longer be told that there was a backslash in the
  path, only that the path was invalid.

- The `git apply` command also calls the `verify_path()` function, and
  might have been able to handle Windows-style paths (i.e. with
  backslashes instead of forward slashes). This will no longer be
  possible unless the user (temporarily) sets `core.protectNTFS=false`.

Note that `git add <windows-path>` will _still_ work because
`normalize_path_copy_len()` will convert the backslashes to forward
slashes before hitting the code path that creates an index entry.

The clear advantage is that `verify_path()`'s purpose is to check the
validity of the file name, therefore we naturally tap into all the code
paths that need safeguarding, also implicitly into future code paths.

The benefits of that approach outweigh the downsides, so let's move the
check from `add_index_entry_with_check()` to `verify_path()`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-10 12:29:07 -08:00
Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
4c6c7971e0 unpack-trees: correctly compute result count
The clear_ce_flags_dir() method processes the cache entries within
a common directory. The returned int is the number of cache entries
processed by that directory. When using the sparse-checkout feature
in cone mode, we can skip the pattern matching for entries in the
directories that are entirely included or entirely excluded.

eb42feca (unpack-trees: hash less in cone mode, 2019-11-21)
introduced this performance feature. The old mechanism relied on
the counts returned by calling clear_ce_flags_1(), but the new
mechanism calculated the number of rows by subtracting "cache_end"
from "cache" to find the size of the range. However, the equation
is wrong because it divides by sizeof(struct cache_entry *). This
is not how pointer arithmetic works!

A coverity build of Git for Windows in preparation for the 2.25.0
release found this issue with the warning, "Pointer differences,
such as cache_end - cache, are automatically scaled down by the
size (8 bytes) of the pointed-to type (struct cache_entry *).
Most likely, the division by sizeof(struct cache_entry *) is
extraneous and should be eliminated." This warning is correct.

This leaves us with the question "how did this even work?" The
problem that occurs with this incorrect pointer arithmetic is
a performance-only bug, and a very slight one at that. Since
the entry count returned by clear_ce_flags_dir() is reduced by
a factor of 8, the loop in clear_ce_flags_1() will re-process
entries from those directories.

By inserting global counters into unpack-tree.c and tracing
them with trace2_data_intmax() (in a private change, for
testing), I was able to see count how many times the loop inside
clear_ce_flags_1() processed an entry and how many times
clear_ce_flags_dir() was called. Each of these are reduced by at
least a factor of 8 with the current change. A factor larger
than 8 happens when multiple levels of directories are repeated.

Specifically, in the Linux kernel repo, the command

	git sparse-checkout set LICENSES

restricts the working directory to only the files at root and
in the LICENSES directory. Here are the measured counts:

clear_ce_flags_1 loop blocks:
	Before: 11,520
	After:   1,621

clear_ce_flags_dir calls:
	Before: 7,048
	After:    606

While these are dramatic counts, the time spent in
clear_ce_flags_1() is under one millisecond in each case, so
the improvement is not measurable as an end-to-end time.

Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-10 11:34:36 -08:00
Matthias Rüster
63a5650a49 l10n: de.po: Update German translation v2.25.0 round 1
Signed-off-by: Matthias Rüster <matthias.ruester@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Phillip Szelat <phillip.szelat@gmail.com>
2020-01-10 12:04:03 +01:00
Thomas Braun
75449c1b39 l10n: de.po: Reword generation numbers
The english term generation is here not used in the sense of "to
generate" but in the sense of "generations of beings".

This corrects the initial translation from cf4c0c25 (l10n: update German
translation, 2018-12-06).

Fixed-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
2020-01-10 12:04:03 +01:00