The config callback functions get keys of the general form:
section.subsection.key
(where the subsection may be contain arbitrary data, or may
be missing). For matching keys without subsections, it is
simple enough to call "strcmp". Matching keys with
subsections is a little more complicated, and each callback
does it in an ad-hoc way, usually involving error-prone
pointer arithmetic.
Let's provide a helper that keeps the pointer arithmetic all
in one place.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Specifically the fields uid, gid, ctime, ino and dev are set to zero
by JGit. Other implementations, eg. Git in cygwin are allegedly also
somewhat incompatible with Git For Windows and on *nix platforms
the resolution of the timestamps may differ.
Any stat checking by git will then need to check content, which may
be very slow, particularly on Windows. Since mtime and size
is typically enough we should allow the user to tell git to avoid
checking these fields if they are set to zero in the index.
This change introduces a core.checkstat config option where the
the user can select to check all fields (default), or just size
and the whole second part of mtime (minimal).
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When pushing to update a branch with a commit that is not a
descendant of the commit at the tip, a wrong message "already
exists" was given, instead of the correct "non-fast-forward", if we
do not have the object sitting in the destination repository at the
tip of the ref we are updating.
The primary cause of the bug is that the check in a new helper
function is_forwardable() assumed both old and new objects are
available and can be checked, which is not always the case.
The way the caller uses the result of this function is also wrong.
If the helper says "we do not want to let this push go through", the
caller unconditionally translates it into "we blocked it because the
destination already exists", which is not true at all in this case.
Fix this by doing these three things:
* Remove unnecessary not_forwardable from "struct ref"; it is only
used inside set_ref_status_for_push();
* Make "refs/tags/" the only hierarchy that cannot be replaced
without --force;
* Remove the misguided attempt to force that everything that
updates an existing ref has to be a commit outside "refs/tags/"
hierarchy.
The policy last one tried to implement may later be resurrected and
extended to ensure fast-forwardness (defined as "not losing
objects", extending from the traditional "not losing commits from
the resulting history") when objects that are not commit are
involved (e.g. an annotated tag in hierarchies outside refs/tags),
but such a logic belongs to "is this a fast-forward?" check that is
done by ref_newer(); is_forwardable(), which is now removed, was not
the right place to do so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some users do want to write a line that begin with a pound sign, #,
in their commit log message. Many tracking system recognise
a token of #<bugid> form, for example.
The support we offer these use cases is not very friendly to the end
users. They have a choice between
- Don't do it. Avoid such a line by rewrapping or indenting; and
- Use --cleanup=whitespace but remove all the hint lines we add.
Give them a way to set a custom comment char, e.g.
$ git -c core.commentchar="%" commit
so that they do not have to do either of the two workarounds.
[jc: although I started the topic, all the tests and documentation
updates, many of the call sites of the new strbuf_add_commented_*()
functions, and the change to git-submodule.sh scripted Porcelain are
from Ralf.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a469a10 wraps some error calls in macros to give the
compiler a chance to do more static analysis on their
constant -1 return value. We limit the use of these macros
to __GNUC__, since gcc is the primary beneficiary of the new
information, and because we use GNU features for handling
variadic macros.
However, clang also defines __GNUC__, but generates warnings
with -Wunused-value when these macros are used in a void
context, because the constant "-1" ends up being useless.
Gcc does not complain about this case (though it is unclear
if it is because it is smart enough to see what we are
doing, or too dumb to realize that the -1 is unused). We
can squelch the warning by just disabling these macros when
clang is in use.
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow scripts to feed literal paths to commands that take
pathspecs, by disabling wildcard globbing.
* jk/pathspec-literal:
add global --literal-pathspecs option
Conflicts:
dir.c
Help compilers' flow analysis by making it more explicit that
error() always returns -1, to reduce false "variable used
uninitialized" warnings. Looks somewhat ugly but not too much.
* jk/error-const-return:
silence some -Wuninitialized false positives
make error()'s constant return value more visible
Allow us to read, and default to read, mailmap files from the tip
of the history in bare repositories. This will help running tools
like shortlog in server settings.
* jk/mailmap-from-blob:
mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositories
mailmap: fix some documentation loose-ends for mailmap.blob
mailmap: clean up read_mailmap error handling
mailmap: support reading mailmap from blobs
mailmap: refactor mailmap parsing for non-file sources
Require "-f" for push to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward.
* cr/push-force-tag-update:
push: allow already-exists advice to be disabled
push: rename config variable for more general use
push: cleanup push rules comment
push: clarify rejection of update to non-commit-ish
push: require force for annotated tags
push: require force for refs under refs/tags/
push: flag updates that require force
push: keep track of "update" state separately
push: add advice for rejected tag reference
push: return reject reasons as a bitset
Optimize matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain
wildcard characters.
* nd/pathspec-wildcard:
tree_entry_interesting: do basedir compare on wildcard patterns when possible
pathspec: apply "*.c" optimization from exclude
pathspec: do exact comparison on the leading non-wildcard part
pathspec: save the non-wildcard length part
An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
* mh/ceiling:
string_list_longest_prefix(): remove function
setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks in ceiling paths
longest_ancestor_length(): require prefix list entries to be normalized
longest_ancestor_length(): take a string_list argument for prefixes
longest_ancestor_length(): use string_list_split()
Introduce new function real_path_if_valid()
real_path_internal(): add comment explaining use of cwd
Introduce new static function real_path_internal()
Git takes pathspec arguments in many places to limit the
scope of an operation. These pathspecs are treated not as
literal paths, but as glob patterns that can be fed to
fnmatch. When a user is giving a specific pattern, this is a
nice feature.
However, when programatically providing pathspecs, it can be
a nuisance. For example, to find the latest revision which
modified "$foo", one can use "git rev-list -- $foo". But if
"$foo" contains glob characters (e.g., "f*"), it will
erroneously match more entries than desired. The caller
needs to quote the characters in $foo, and even then, the
results may not be exactly the same as with a literal
pathspec. For instance, the depth checks in
match_pathspec_depth do not kick in if we match via fnmatch.
This patch introduces a global command-line option (i.e.,
one for "git" itself, not for specific commands) to turn
this behavior off. It also has a matching environment
variable, which can make it easier if you are a script or
porcelain interface that is going to issue many such
commands.
This option cannot turn off globbing for particular
pathspecs. That could eventually be done with a ":(noglob)"
magic pathspec prefix. However, that level of granularity is
more cumbersome to use for many cases, and doing ":(noglob)"
right would mean converting the whole codebase to use
"struct pathspec", as the usual "const char **pathspec"
cannot represent extra per-item flags.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a few error functions that simply wrap error() and
provide a standardized message text. Like error(), they
always return -1; knowing that can help the compiler silence
some false positive -Wuninitialized warnings.
One strategy would be to just declare these as inline in the
header file so that the compiler can see that they always
return -1. However, gcc does not always inline them (e.g.,
it will not inline opterror, even with -O3), which renders
our change pointless.
Instead, let's follow the same route we did with error() in
the last patch, and define a macro that makes the constant
return value obvious to the compiler.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a bare repository, there isn't a simple way to respect an
in-tree mailmap without extracting it to a temporary file.
This patch provides a config variable, similar to
mailmap.file, which reads the mailmap from a blob in the
repository.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
References are allowed to update from one commit-ish to another if the
former is an ancestor of the latter. This behavior is oriented to
branches which are expected to move with commits. Tag references are
expected to be static in a repository, though, thus an update to
something under refs/tags/ should be rejected unless the update is
forced.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a flag for indicating an update to a reference requires force.
Currently the `nonfastforward` flag is used for this when generating the
status message. A separate flag insulates dependent logic from the
details of set_ref_status_for_push().
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the reference exists on the remote and it is not being removed, then
mark as an update. This is in preparation for handling tags (lightweight
and annotated) exceptionally.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Advising the user to fetch and merge only makes sense if the rejected
reference is a branch. If none of the rejections are for branches, just
tell the user the reference already exists.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a pattern contains only a single asterisk as wildcard,
e.g. "foo*bar", after literally comparing the leading part "foo" with
the string, we can compare the tail of the string and make sure it
matches "bar", instead of running fnmatch() on "*bar" against the
remainder of the string.
-O2 build on linux-2.6, without the patch:
$ time git rev-list --quiet HEAD -- '*.c'
real 0m40.770s
user 0m40.290s
sys 0m0.256s
With the patch
$ time ~/w/git/git rev-list --quiet HEAD -- '*.c'
real 0m34.288s
user 0m33.997s
sys 0m0.205s
The above command is not supposed to be widely popular. It's chosen
because it exercises pathspec matching a lot. The point is it cuts
down matching time for popular patterns like *.c, which could be used
as pathspec in other places.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We mark pathspec with wildcards with the field use_wildcard. We
could do better by saving the length of the non-wildcard part, which
can be used for optimizations such as f9f6e2c (exclude: do strcmp as
much as possible before fnmatch - 2012-06-07).
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We keep track of whether the user ident was given to us
explicitly, or if we guessed at it from system parameters
like username and hostname. However, we kept only a single
variable. This covers the common cases (because the author
and committer will usually come from the same explicit
source), but can miss two cases:
1. GIT_COMMITTER_* is set explicitly, but we fallback for
GIT_AUTHOR. We claim the ident is explicit, even though
the author is not.
2. GIT_AUTHOR_* is set and we ask for author ident, but
not committer ident. We will claim the ident is
implicit, even though it is explicit.
This patch uses two variables instead of one, updates both
when we set the "fallback" values, and updates them
individually when we read from the environment.
Rather than keep user_ident_sufficiently_given as a
compatibility wrapper, we update the only two callers to
check the committer_ident, which matches their intent and
what was happening already.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In v1.5.6-rc0~56^2 (2008-05-04) "user_ident_explicitly_given"
was introduced as a global for communication between config,
ident, and builtin-commit. In v1.7.0-rc0~72^2 (2010-01-07)
readers switched to using the common wrapper
user_ident_sufficiently_given(). After v1.7.11-rc1~15^2~18
(2012-05-21), the var is only written in ident.c.
Now we can make it static, which will enable further
refactoring without worrying about upsetting other code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is used by diff-no-index.c, part of libgit.a while it stays in
builtin/diff.c. Move it to diff.c so that we won't get undefined
reference if a program that uses libgit.a happens to pull it in.
While at it, move check_pager from git.c to pager.c. It makes more
sense there and pager.c is also part of libgit.a
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
These functions are called in sequencer.c, which is part of
libgit.a. This makes libgit.a potentially require builtin/merge.c for
external git commands.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
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>
The function is like real_path(), except that it returns NULL on error
instead of dying.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
being incorrect. Update the implementation to give the documented
status for a case that was documented, and introduce a new code for
"all other errors".
* jc/maint-config-exit-status:
config: "git config baa" should exit with status 1
Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack did
not advertise that they are available. Fix fetch-pack not to do so.
* jc/capabilities:
fetch-pack: mention server version with verbose output
parse_feature_request: make it easier to see feature values
fetch-pack: do not ask for unadvertised capabilities
do not send client agent unless server does first
send-pack: fix capability-sending logic
include agent identifier in capability string
We already take care to parse key/value capabilities like
"foo=bar", but the code does not provide a good way of
actually finding out what is on the right-hand side of the
"=".
A server using "parse_feature_request" could accomplish this
with some extra parsing. You must skip past the "key"
portion manually, check for "=" versus NUL or space, and
then find the length by searching for the next space (or
NUL). But clients can't even do that, since the
"server_supports" interface does not even return the
pointer.
Instead, let's have our parser share more information by
providing a pointer to the value and its length. The
"parse_feature_value" function returns a pointer to the
feature's value portion, along with the length of the value.
If the feature is missing, NULL is returned. If it does not
have an "=", then a zero-length value is returned.
Similarly, "server_feature_value" behaves in the same way,
but always checks the static server_feature_list variable.
We can then implement "server_supports" in terms of
"server_feature_value". We cannot implement the original
"parse_feature_request" in terms of our new function,
because it returned a pointer to the beginning of the
feature. However, no callers actually cared about the value
of the returned pointer, so we can simplify it to a boolean
just as we do for "server_supports".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We instead failed with an undocumented exit status 255.
Also define a "catch-all" status and document it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Split lower bits of ce_flags field and creates a new ce_namelen
field in the in-core index structure.
* tg/ce-namelen-field:
Strip namelen out of ce_flags into a ce_namelen field
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"
...
Teaches git to normalize pathnames read from readdir(3) and all
arguments from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming
that they come as decomposed UTF-8) to work around issues on Mac OS.
I think there still are other places that need conversion
(e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
should be a good first step in the right direction.
* tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname:
git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode
Strip the name length from the ce_flags field and move it
into its own ce_namelen field in struct cache_entry. This
will both give us a tiny bit of a performance enhancement
when working with long pathnames and is a refactoring for
more readability of the code.
It enhances readability, by making it more clear what
is a flag, and where the length is stored and make it clear
which functions use stages in comparisions and which only
use the length.
It also makes CE_NAMEMASK private, so that users don't
mistakenly write the name length in the flags.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new option allows you to feed an ambiguous prefix and enumerate
all the objects that share it as a prefix of their object names.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This teaches the revision parser that in "$name:$path" (used for a
blob object name), "$name" must be a tree-ish.
There are many more places where we know what types of objects are
called for. This patch adds support for "commit", "treeish", "tree",
and "blob", which could be used in the following contexts:
- "git apply --build-fake-ancestor" reads the "index" lines from
the patch; they must name blob objects (not even "blob-ish");
- "git commit-tree" reads a tree object name (not "tree-ish"), and
zero or more commit object names (not "committish");
- "git reset $rev" wants a committish; "git reset $rev -- $path"
wants a treeish.
They will come in later patches in the series.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many callers know that the user meant to name a committish by
syntactical positions where the object name appears. Calling this
function allows the machinery to disambiguate shorter-than-unique
abbreviated object names between committish and others.
Note that this does NOT error out when the named object is not a
committish. It is merely to give a hint to the disambiguation
machinery.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function takes user input string and returns the object name
(binary SHA-1) with mode bits and path when the object was looked
up in a tree.
Additionally give hints to help disambiguation of abbreviated object
names when the caller knows what it is looking for.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We know that the token "$name" that appear in "$name^{commit}",
"$name^4", "$name~4" etc. can only name a committish (either a
commit or a tag that peels to a commit). Teach get_short_sha1() to
take advantage of that knowledge when disambiguating an abbreviated
SHA-1 given as an object name.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach git to read various information from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ to allow
the user to avoid cluttering $HOME.
* mm/config-xdg:
config: write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file when appropriate
Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes
Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore
config: read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file
Mac OS X mangles file names containing unicode on file systems HFS+,
VFAT or SAMBA. When a file using unicode code points outside ASCII
is created on a HFS+ drive, the file name is converted into
decomposed unicode and written to disk. No conversion is done if
the file name is already decomposed unicode.
Calling open("\xc3\x84", ...) with a precomposed "Ä" yields the same
result as open("\x41\xcc\x88",...) with a decomposed "Ä".
As a consequence, readdir() returns the file names in decomposed
unicode, even if the user expects precomposed unicode. Unlike on
HFS+, Mac OS X stores files on a VFAT drive (e.g. an USB drive) in
precomposed unicode, but readdir() still returns file names in
decomposed unicode. When a git repository is stored on a network
share using SAMBA, file names are send over the wire and written to
disk on the remote system in precomposed unicode, but Mac OS X
readdir() returns decomposed unicode to be compatible with its
behaviour on HFS+ and VFAT.
The unicode decomposition causes many problems:
- The names "git add" and other commands get from the end user may
often be precomposed form (the decomposed form is not easily input
from the keyboard), but when the commands read from the filesystem
to see what it is going to update the index with already is on the
filesystem, readdir() will give decomposed form, which is different.
- Similarly "git log", "git mv" and all other commands that need to
compare pathnames found on the command line (often but not always
precomposed form; a command line input resulting from globbing may
be in decomposed) with pathnames found in the tree objects (should
be precomposed form to be compatible with other systems and for
consistency in general).
- The same for names stored in the index, which should be
precomposed, that may need to be compared with the names read from
readdir().
NFS mounted from Linux is fully transparent and does not suffer from
the above.
As Mac OS X treats precomposed and decomposed file names as equal,
we can
- wrap readdir() on Mac OS X to return the precomposed form, and
- normalize decomposed form given from the command line also to the
precomposed form,
to ensure that all pathnames used in Git are always in the
precomposed form. This behaviour can be requested by setting
"core.precomposedunicode" configuration variable to true.
The code in compat/precomposed_utf8.c implements basically 4 new
functions: precomposed_utf8_opendir(), precomposed_utf8_readdir(),
precomposed_utf8_closedir() and precompose_argv(). The first three
are to wrap opendir(3), readdir(3), and closedir(3) functions.
The argv[] conversion allows to use the TAB filename completion done
by the shell on command line. It tolerates other tools which use
readdir() to feed decomposed file names into git.
When creating a new git repository with "git init" or "git clone",
"core.precomposedunicode" will be set "false".
The user needs to activate this feature manually. She typically
sets core.precomposedunicode to "true" on HFS and VFAT, or file
systems mounted via SAMBA.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"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
When the caller knows that the parameter is meant to name a commit,
e.g. "56789a" in describe name "v1.2.3-4-g56789a", pass that as a
hint so that lower level can use it to disambiguate objects when
there is only one commit whose name begins with 56789a even if there
are objects of other types whose names share the same prefix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of a separate "int quietly" argument, make it take "unsigned
flags" so that we can pass other options to it.
The bit assignment of this flag word is exposed in cache.h because
the mechanism will be exposed to callers of the higher layer in
later commits in this series.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are only two callers, and they will benefit from being able to
pass disambiguation hints to underlying get_sha1_with_context() API
once it happens.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Teach git to read the "gitconfig" information from a new location,
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config; this allows the user to avoid
cluttering $HOME with many per-application configuration files.
In the order of reading, this file comes between the global
configuration file (typically $HOME/.gitconfig) and the system wide
configuration file (typically /etc/gitconfig).
We do not write to this new location (yet).
If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used. This is in line with XDG specification.
If the new file does not exist, the behavior is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
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>
Fixes quite a lot of brokenness when ident information needs to be taken
from the system and cleans up the code.
By Jeff King
* jk/ident-gecos-strbuf: (22 commits)
format-patch: do not use bogus email addresses in message ids
ident: reject bogus email addresses with IDENT_STRICT
ident: rename IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME to IDENT_STRICT
format-patch: use GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL in message ids
ident: let callers omit name with fmt_indent
ident: refactor NO_DATE flag in fmt_ident
ident: reword empty ident error message
format-patch: refactor get_patch_filename
ident: trim whitespace from default name/email
ident: use a dynamic strbuf in fmt_ident
ident: use full dns names to generate email addresses
ident: report passwd errors with a more friendly message
drop length limitations on gecos-derived names and emails
ident: don't write fallback username into git_default_name
fmt_ident: drop IDENT_WARN_ON_NO_NAME code
format-patch: use default email for generating message ids
ident: trim trailing newline from /etc/mailname
move git_default_* variables to ident.c
move identity config parsing to ident.c
fmt-merge-msg: don't use static buffer in record_person
...
When a submodule repository uses alternate object store mechanism, some
commands that were started from the superproject did not notice it and
failed with "No such object" errors. The subcommands of "git submodule"
command that recursed into the submodule in a separate process were OK;
only the ones that cheated and peeked directly into the submodule's
repository from the primary process were affected.
By Heiko Voigt
* hv/submodule-alt-odb:
teach add_submodule_odb() to look for alternates
Callers who ask for ERROR_ON_NO_NAME are not so much
concerned that the name will be blank (because, after all,
we will fall back to using the username), but rather it is a
check to make sure that low-quality identities do not end up
in things like commit messages or emails (whereas it is OK
for them to end up in things like reflogs).
When future commits add more quality checks on the identity,
each of these callers would want to use those checks, too.
Rather than modify each of them later to add a new flag,
let's refactor the flag.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most callers want to see all of "$name <$email> $date", but
a few want only limited parts, omitting the date, or even
the name. We already have IDENT_NO_DATE to handle the date
part, but there's not a good option for getting just the
email. Callers have to done one of:
1. Call ident_default_email; this does not respect
environment variables, nor does it promise to trim
whitespace or other crud from the result.
2. Call git_{committer,author}_info; this returns the name
and email, leaving the caller to parse out the wanted
bits.
This patch adds IDENT_NO_NAME; it stops short of adding
IDENT_NO_EMAIL, as no callers want it (nor are likely to),
and it complicates the error handling of the function.
When no name is requested, the angle brackets (<>) around
the email address are also omitted.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When peeking into object stores of submodules, the code forgot that they
might borrow objects from alternate object stores on their own.
By Heiko Voigt
* hv/submodule-alt-odb:
teach add_submodule_odb() to look for alternates
There's no reason anybody outside of ident.c should access
these directly (they should use the new accessors which make
sure the variables are initialized), so we can make them
file-scope statics.
While we're at it, move user_ident_explicitly_given into
ident.c; while still globally visible, it makes more sense
to reside with the ident code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's no reason for this to be in config, except that once
upon a time all of the config parsing was there. It makes
more sense to keep the ident code together.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function sets up the default name, email, and date, and
is not publicly available. Let's split it into three public
functions so that callers can get just the parts they need.
While we're at it, let's change the interface to simple
accessors. The original function was called only by fmt_ident,
and contained logic for "if we already have some other
value, don't load the default" which properly belongs in
fmt_ident.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we allow to link other object databases when loading a submodules
database we should also load possible alternates.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
By Christopher Tiwald (2) and Jeff King (1)
* ct/advise-push-default:
Fix httpd tests that broke when non-ff push advice changed
clean up struct ref's nonfastforward field
push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
More message strings marked for i18n.
By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (10) and Jonathan Nieder (1)
* nd/i18n:
help: replace underlining "help -a" headers using hyphens with a blank line
i18n: bundle: mark strings for translation
i18n: index-pack: mark strings for translation
i18n: apply: update say_patch_name to give translators complete sentence
i18n: apply: mark strings for translation
i18n: remote: mark strings for translation
i18n: make warn_dangling_symref() automatically append \n
i18n: help: mark strings for translation
i18n: mark relative dates for translation
strbuf: convenience format functions with \n automatically appended
Makefile: feed all header files to xgettext
New users tend to work on one branch at a time and push the result
out. The current and upstream modes of push is a more suitable default
mode than matching mode for these people, but neither is surprise-free
depending on how the project is set up. Introduce a "simple" mode that
is a subset of "upstream" but only works when the branch is named the same
between the remote and local repositories.
The plan is to make it the new default when push.default is not
configured.
By Matthieu Moy (5) and others
* mm/simple-push:
push.default doc: explain simple after upstream
push: document the future default change for push.default (matching -> simple)
t5570: use explicit push refspec
push: introduce new push.default mode "simple"
t5528-push-default.sh: add helper functions
Undocument deprecated alias 'push.default=tracking'
Documentation: explain push.default option a bit more
Trivially shrinks the on-disk size of the index file to save both I/O and
checksum overhead.
The topic should give a solid base to build on further updates, with the
code refactoring in its earlier parts, and the backward compatibility
mechanism in its later parts.
* jc/index-v4:
index-v4: document the entry format
unpack-trees: preserve the index file version of original
update-index: upgrade/downgrade on-disk index version
read-cache.c: write prefix-compressed names in the index
read-cache.c: read prefix-compressed names in index on-disk version v4
read-cache.c: move code to copy incore to ondisk cache to a helper function
read-cache.c: move code to copy ondisk to incore cache to a helper function
read-cache.c: report the header version we do not understand
read-cache.c: make create_from_disk() report number of bytes it consumed
read-cache.c: allow unaligned mapping of the index file
cache.h: hide on-disk index details
varint: make it available outside the context of pack
When PATH contains an unreadable directory, alias expansion code did
not kick in, and failed with an error that said "git-subcmd" was not
found.
By Jeff King (1) and Ramsay Jones (1)
* jk/run-command-eacces:
run-command: treat inaccessible directories as ENOENT
compat/mingw.[ch]: Change return type of exec functions to int
Rename detection logic used to match two empty files as renames during
merge-recursive, leading unnatural mismerges.
By Jeff King
* jk/diff-no-rename-empty:
merge-recursive: don't detect renames of empty files
teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty content
make is_empty_blob_sha1 available everywhere
drop casts from users EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
"git commit --author=$name" did not tell the name that was being
recorded in the resulting commit to hooks, even though it does do so
when the end user overrode the authorship via the "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
environment variable.
* jc/commit-hook-authorship:
commit: pass author/committer info to hooks
t7503: does pre-commit-hook learn authorship?
ident.c: add split_ident_line() to parse formatted ident line
When calling "git push" without argument, we want to allow Git to do
something simple to explain and safe. push.default=matching is unsafe
when used to push to shared repositories, and hard to explain to
beginners in some contexts. It is debatable whether 'upstream' or
'current' is the safest or the easiest to explain, so introduce a new
mode called 'simple' that is the intersection of them: push to the
upstream branch, but only if it has the same name remotely. If not, give
an error that suggests the right command to push explicitely to
'upstream' or 'current'.
A question is whether to allow pushing when no upstream is configured. An
argument in favor of allowing the push is that it makes the new mode work
in more cases. On the other hand, refusing to push when no upstream is
configured encourages the user to set the upstream, which will be
beneficial on the next pull. Lacking better argument, we chose to deny
the push, because it will be easier to change in the future if someone
shows us wrong.
Original-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Break down the cases in which "git push" fails due to non-ff into
three categories, and give separate advise messages for each case.
By Christopher Tiwald (2) and Jeff King (1)
* ct/advise-push-default:
Fix httpd tests that broke when non-ff push advice changed
clean up struct ref's nonfastforward field
push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
When PATH contains an unreadable directory, alias expansion code did not
kick in, and failed with an error that said "git-subcmd" was not found.
By Jeff King (1) and Ramsay Jones (1)
* jk/run-command-eacces:
run-command: treat inaccessible directories as ENOENT
compat/mingw.[ch]: Change return type of exec functions to int
Forbids rename detection logic from matching two empty files as renames
during merge-recursive to prevent mismerges.
By Jeff King
* jk/diff-no-rename-empty:
merge-recursive: don't detect renames of empty files
teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty content
make is_empty_blob_sha1 available everywhere
drop casts from users EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
"git commit --author=$name" did not tell the name that was being recorded
in the resulting commit to hooks, even though it does do so when the end
user overrode the authorship via the "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" environment
variable.
* jc/commit-hook-authorship:
commit: pass author/committer info to hooks
t7503: does pre-commit-hook learn authorship?
ident.c: add split_ident_line() to parse formatted ident line
When execvp reports EACCES, it can be one of two things:
1. We found a file to execute, but did not have
permissions to do so.
2. We did not have permissions to look in some directory
in the $PATH.
In the former case, we want to consider this a
permissions problem and report it to the user as such (since
getting this for something like "git foo" is likely a
configuration error).
In the latter case, there is a good chance that the
inaccessible directory does not contain anything of
interest. Reporting "permission denied" is confusing to the
user (and prevents our usual "did you mean...?" lookup). It
also prevents git from trying alias lookup, since we do so
only when an external command does not exist (not when it
exists but has an error).
This patch detects EACCES from execvp, checks whether we are
in case (2), and if so converts errno to ENOENT. This
behavior matches that of "bash" (but not of simpler shells
that use execvp more directly, like "dash").
Test stolen from Junio.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the code to write the index in the v4 on-disk format.
Record the format version of the on-disk index we read from in the
index_state, and use the format when writing the new index out.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The on-disk format of the index file is a detail whose implementation is
neatly encapsulated in read-cache.c; there is no need to expose it to the
general public that include the cache.h header file.
Also add a prominent mark to read-cache.c to delineate the parts that deal
with the index file I/O routines from the remainder of the file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each ref structure contains a "nonfastforward" field which
is set during push to show whether the ref rewound history.
Originally this was a single bit, but it was changed in
f25950f (push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward
errors) to an enum differentiating a non-ff of the current
branch versus another branch.
However, we never actually set the member according to the
enum values, nor did we ever read it expecting anything but
a boolean value. But we did use the side effect of declaring
the enum constants to store those values in a totally
different integer variable. The code as-is isn't buggy, but
the enum declaration inside "struct ref" is somewhat
misleading.
Let's convert nonfastforward back into a single bit, and
then define the NON_FF_* constants closer to where they
would be used (they are returned via the "int *nonfastforward"
parameter to transport_push, so we can define them there).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The read-cache implementation defines this static function,
but it is a generally useful concept in git. Let's give
the empty blob the same treatment as the empty tree,
providing both hex and binary forms of the sha1.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pushing a non-fast-forward update to a remote repository will result in
an error, but the hint text doesn't provide the correct resolution in
every case. Give better resolution advice in three push scenarios:
1) If you push your current branch and it triggers a non-fast-forward
error, you should merge remote changes with 'git pull' before pushing
again.
2) If you push to a shared repository others push to, and your local
tracking branches are not kept up to date, the 'matching refs' default
will generate non-fast-forward errors on outdated branches. If this is
your workflow, the 'matching refs' default is not for you. Consider
setting the 'push.default' configuration variable to 'current' or
'upstream' to ensure only your current branch is pushed.
3) If you explicitly specify a ref that is not your current branch or
push matching branches with ':', you will generate a non-fast-forward
error if any pushed branch tip is out of date. You should checkout the
offending branch and merge remote changes before pushing again.
Teach transport.c to recognize these scenarios and configure push.c
to hint for them. If 'git push's default behavior changes or we
discover more scenarios, extension is easy. Standardize on the
advice API and add three new advice variables, 'pushNonFFCurrent',
'pushNonFFDefault', and 'pushNonFFMatching'. Setting any of these
to 'false' will disable their affiliated advice. Setting
'pushNonFastForward' to false will disable all three, thus preserving the
config option for users who already set it, but guaranteeing new
users won't disable push advice accidentally.
Based-on-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christopher Tiwald <christiwald@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit formatting logic format_person_part() in pretty.c
implements the logic to split an author/committer ident line into
its parts, intermixed with logic to compute its output using these
piece it computes.
Separate the former out to a helper function split_ident_line() so
that other codepath can use the same logic, and rewrite the function
using the helper function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
check_leading_path() and has_dirs_only_path() both always use the default
cache, which could be a caveat for adding parallelism (which is a concern
and even a GSoC proposal).
Reimplement these two in terms of new threaded_check_leading_path() and
threaded_has_dirs_only_path() that take their own copy of the cache.
Signed-off-by: Jared Hance <jaredhance@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/config-include:
: An assignment to the include.path pseudo-variable causes the named file
: to be included in-place when Git looks up configuration variables.
config: add include directive
config: eliminate config_exclusive_filename
config: stop using config_exclusive_filename
config: provide a version of git_config with more options
config: teach git_config_rename_section a file argument
config: teach git_config_set_multivar_in_file a default path
config: copy the return value of prefix_filename
t1300: add missing &&-chaining
docs/api-config: minor clarifications
docs: add a basic description of the config API
It can be useful to split your ~/.gitconfig across multiple
files. For example, you might have a "main" file which is
used on many machines, but a small set of per-machine
tweaks. Or you may want to make some of your config public
(e.g., clever aliases) while keeping other data back (e.g.,
your name or other identifying information). Or you may want
to include a number of config options in some subset of your
repos without copying and pasting (e.g., you want to
reference them from the .git/config of participating repos).
This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
It looks like:
[include]
path = /path/to/file
This is syntactically backwards-compatible with existing git
config parsers (i.e., they will see it as another config
entry and ignore it unless you are looking up include.path).
The implementation provides a "git_config_include" callback
which wraps regular config callbacks. Callers can pass it to
git_config_from_file, and it will transparently follow any
include directives, passing all of the discovered options to
the real callback.
Include directives are turned on automatically for "regular"
git config parsing. This includes calls to git_config, as
well as calls to the "git config" program that do not
specify a single file (e.g., using "-f", "--global", etc).
They are not turned on in other cases, including:
1. Parsing of other config-like files, like .gitmodules.
There isn't a real need, and I'd rather be conservative
and avoid unnecessary incompatibility or confusion.
2. Reading single files via "git config". This is for two
reasons:
a. backwards compatibility with scripts looking at
config-like files.
b. inspection of a specific file probably means you
care about just what's in that file, not a general
lookup for "do we have this value anywhere at
all". If that is not the case, the caller can
always specify "--includes".
3. Writing files via "git config"; we want to treat
include.* variables as literal items to be copied (or
modified), and not expand them. So "git config
--unset-all foo.bar" would operate _only_ on
.git/config, not any of its included files (just as it
also does not operate on ~/.gitconfig).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a magic global variable that was intended as an
override to the usual git-config lookup process. Once upon a
time, you could specify GIT_CONFIG to any git program, and
it would look only at that file. This turned out to be
confusing and cause a lot of bugs for little gain. As a
result, dc87183 (Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not
other programs, 2008-06-30) took this away for all callers
except git-config.
Since git-config no longer uses it either, the variable can
just go away. As the diff shows, nobody was setting to
anything except NULL, so we can just replace any sites where
it was read with NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Callers may want to provide a specific version of a file in which to look
for config. Right now this can be done by setting the magic global
config_exclusive_filename variable. By providing a version of git_config
that takes a filename, we can take a step towards making this magic global
go away.
Furthermore, by providing a more "advanced" interface, we now have a a
natural place to add new options for callers like git-config, which care
about tweaking the specifics of config lookup, without disturbing the
large number of "simple" users (i.e., every other part of git).
The astute reader of this patch may notice that the logic for handling
config_exclusive_filename was taken out of git_config_early, but added
into git_config. This means that git_config_early will no longer respect
config_exclusive_filename. That's OK, because the only other caller of
git_config_early is check_repository_format_gently, but the only function
which sets config_exclusive_filename is cmd_config, which does not call
check_repository_format_gently (and if it did, it would have been a bug,
anyway, as we would be checking the repository format in the wrong file).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The other config-writing functions (git_config_set and
git_config_set_multivar) each have an -"in_file" version to
write a specific file. Let's add one for rename_section,
with the eventual goal of moving away from the magic
config_exclusive_filename global.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
builtin/blame.c has a helper function to compute how many columns
we need to show a line-number, whose implementation is reusable as
a more generic helper function to count the number of columns
necessary to show any cardinal number.
Rename it to decimal_width(), move it to pager.c and export it for
use by future callers.
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
term_columns() checks for terminal width via ioctl(2) on the standard
output, but we spawn the pager too early for this check to be useful.
The effect of this buglet can be observed by opening a wide terminal and
running "git -p help --all", which still shows 80-column output, while
"git help --all" uses the full terminal width. Run the check before we
spawn the pager to fix this.
While at it, move term_columns() to pager.c and export it from cache.h so
that callers other than the help subsystem can use it.
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
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>
We have been carefully choosing feature names used in the protocol
extensions so that the vocabulary does not contain a word that is a
substring of another word, so it is not a real problem, but we have
recently added "quiet" feature word, which would mean we cannot later
add some other word with "quiet" (e.g. "quiet-push"), which is awkward.
Let's make sure that we can eventually be able to do so by teaching the
clients and servers that feature words consist of non whitespace
letters. This parser also allows us to later add features with parameters
e.g. "feature=1.5" (parameter values need to be quoted for whitespaces,
but we will worry about the detauls when we do introduce them).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/git-prompt:
contrib: add credential helper for OS X Keychain
Makefile: OS X has /dev/tty
Makefile: linux has /dev/tty
credential: use git_prompt instead of git_getpass
prompt: use git_terminal_prompt
add generic terminal prompt function
refactor git_getpass into generic prompt function
move git_getpass to its own source file
imap-send: don't check return value of git_getpass
imap-send: avoid buffer overflow
Conflicts:
Makefile
* mh/ref-api:
add_ref(): take a (struct ref_entry *) parameter
create_ref_entry(): extract function from add_ref()
repack_without_ref(): remove temporary
resolve_gitlink_ref_recursive(): change to work with struct ref_cache
Pass a (ref_cache *) to the resolve_gitlink_*() helper functions
resolve_gitlink_ref(): improve docstring
get_ref_dir(): change signature
refs: change signatures of get_packed_refs() and get_loose_refs()
is_dup_ref(): extract function from sort_ref_array()
add_ref(): add docstring
parse_ref_line(): add docstring
is_refname_available(): remove the "quiet" argument
clear_ref_array(): rename from free_ref_array()
refs: rename parameters result -> sha1
refs: rename "refname" variables
struct ref_entry: document name member
Conflicts:
cache.h
refs.c
* jk/fetch-no-tail-match-refs:
connect.c: drop path_match function
fetch-pack: match refs exactly
t5500: give fully-qualified refs to fetch-pack
drop "match" parameter from get_remote_heads
* nd/resolve-ref:
Rename resolve_ref() to resolve_ref_unsafe()
Convert resolve_ref+xstrdup to new resolve_refdup function
revert: convert resolve_ref() to read_ref_full()
* jc/stream-to-pack:
bulk-checkin: replace fast-import based implementation
csum-file: introduce sha1file_checkpoint
finish_tmp_packfile(): a helper function
create_tmp_packfile(): a helper function
write_pack_header(): a helper function
Conflicts:
pack.h
This function was used for comparing local and remote ref
names during fetch (which makes it a candidate for "most
confusingly named function of the year").
It no longer has any callers, so let's get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The get_remote_heads function reads the list of remote refs
during git protocol session. It dates all the way back to
def88e9 (Commit first cut at "git-fetch-pack", 2005-07-04).
At that time, the idea was to come up with a list of refs we
were interested in, and then filter the list as we got it
from the remote side.
Later, 1baaae5 (Make maximal use of the remote refs,
2005-10-28) stopped filtering at the get_remote_heads layer,
letting us use the non-matching refs to find common history.
As a result, all callers now simply pass an empty match
list (and any future callers will want to do the same). So
let's drop these now-useless parameters.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref() may return a pointer to a shared buffer and can be
overwritten by the next resolve_ref() calls. Callers need to
pay attention, not to keep the pointer when the next call happens.
Rename with "_unsafe" suffix to warn developers (or reviewers) before
introducing new call sites.
This patch is generated using the following command
git grep -l 'resolve_ref(' -- '*.[ch]'|xargs sed -i 's/resolve_ref(/resolve_ref_unsafe(/g'
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is currently in connect.c, but really has nothing to
do with the git protocol itself. Let's make a new source
file all about prompting the user, which will make it
cleaner to refactor.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Try to consistently use the variable name "refname" when referring to
a string that names a reference.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* nd/resolve-ref:
Copy resolve_ref() return value for longer use
Convert many resolve_ref() calls to read_ref*() and ref_exists()
Conflicts:
builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
builtin/merge.c
refs.c
* jc/pull-signed-tag:
commit-tree: teach -m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere
commit-tree: update the command line parsing
commit: teach --amend to carry forward extra headers
merge: force edit and no-ff mode when merging a tag object
commit: copy merged signed tags to headers of merge commit
merge: record tag objects without peeling in MERGE_HEAD
merge: make usage of commit->util more extensible
fmt-merge-msg: Add contents of merged tag in the merge message
fmt-merge-msg: package options into a structure
fmt-merge-msg: avoid early returns
refs DWIMmery: use the same rule for both "git fetch" and others
fetch: allow "git fetch $there v1.0" to fetch a tag
merge: notice local merging of tags and keep it unwrapped
fetch: do not store peeled tag object names in FETCH_HEAD
Split GPG interface into its own helper library
Conflicts:
builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
builtin/merge.c
This extends the earlier approach to stream a large file directly from the
filesystem to its own packfile, and allows "git add" to send large files
directly into a single pack. Older code used to spawn fast-import, but the
new bulk-checkin API replaces it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
resolve_ref() may return a pointer to a static buffer, which is not
safe for long-term use because if another resolve_ref() call happens,
the buffer may be changed. Many call sites though do not care about
this buffer. They simply check if the return value is NULL or not.
Convert all these call sites to new wrappers to reduce resolve_ref()
calls from 57 to 34. If we change resolve_ref() prototype later on
to avoid passing static buffer out, this helps reduce changes.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log frotz" can DWIM to "refs/remotes/frotz/HEAD", but in the remote
access context, "git fetch frotz" to fetch what the other side happened to
have fetched from what it calls 'frotz' (which may not have any relation
to what we consider is 'frotz') the last time would not make much sense,
so the fetch rules table did not include "refs/remotes/%.*s/HEAD".
When the user really wants to, "git fetch $there remotes/frotz/HEAD" would
let her do so anyway, so this is not about safety or security; it merely
is about confusion avoidance and discouraging meaningless usage.
Specifically, it is _not_ about ambiguity avoidance. A name that would
become ambiguous if we use the same rules table for both fetch and local
rev-parse would be ambiguous locally at the remote side.
So for the same reason as we added rule to allow "git fetch $there v1.0"
instead of "git fetch $there tags/v1.0" in the previous commit, here is a
bit longer rope for the users, which incidentally simplifies our code.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since in-memory index entries are allocated individually now, the
variable slack at the end meant to provide an eight byte alignment
is not needed anymore. Have a single NUL instead. This saves zero
to seven bytes for an entry, depending on its filename length.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code to estimate the in-memory size of the index based on its on-disk
representation is subtly wrong for certain architecture-dependent struct
layouts. Instead of fixing it, replace the code to keep the index entries
in a single large block of memory and allocate each entry separately
instead. This is both simpler and more flexible, as individual entries
can now be freed. Actually using that added flexibility is left for a
later patch.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/maint-pack-objects-compete-with-delete:
downgrade "packfile cannot be accessed" errors to warnings
pack-objects: protect against disappearing packs
* ph/transport-with-gitfile:
Fix is_gitfile() for files too small or larger than PATH_MAX to be a gitfile
Add test showing git-fetch groks gitfiles
Teach transport about the gitfile mechanism
Learn to handle gitfiles in enter_repo
enter_repo: do not modify input
It's possible that while pack-objects is running, a
simultaneously running prune process might delete a pack
that we are interested in. Because we load the pack indices
early on, we know that the pack contains our item, but by
the time we try to open and map it, it is gone.
Since c715f78, we already protect against this in the normal
object access code path, but pack-objects accesses the packs
at a lower level. In the normal access path, we call
find_pack_entry, which will call find_pack_entry_one on each
pack index, which does the actual lookup. If it gets a hit,
we will actually open and verify the validity of the
matching packfile (using c715f78's is_pack_valid). If we
can't open it, we'll issue a warning and pretend that we
didn't find it, causing us to go on to the next pack (or on
to loose objects).
Furthermore, we will cache the descriptor to the opened
packfile. Which means that later, when we actually try to
access the object, we are likely to still have that packfile
opened, and won't care if it has been unlinked from the
filesystem.
Notice the "likely" above. If there is another pack access
in the interim, and we run out of descriptors, we could
close the pack. And then a later attempt to access the
closed pack could fail (we'll try to re-open it, of course,
but it may have been deleted). In practice, this doesn't
happen because we tend to look up items and then access them
immediately.
Pack-objects does not follow this code path. Instead, it
accesses the packs at a much lower level, using
find_pack_entry_one directly. This means we skip the
is_pack_valid check, and may end up with the name of a
packfile, but no open descriptor.
We can add the same is_pack_valid check here. Unfortunately,
the access patterns of pack-objects are not quite as nice
for keeping lookup and object access together. We look up
each object as we find out about it, and the only later when
writing the packfile do we necessarily access it. Which
means that the opened packfile may be closed in the interim.
In practice, however, adding this check still has value, for
three reasons.
1. If you have a reasonable number of packs and/or a
reasonable file descriptor limit, you can keep all of
your packs open simultaneously. If this is the case,
then the race is impossible to trigger.
2. Even if you can't keep all packs open at once, you
may end up keeping the deleted one open (i.e., you may
get lucky).
3. The race window is shortened. You may notice early that
the pack is gone, and not try to access it. Triggering
the problem without this check means deleting the pack
any time after we read the list of index files, but
before we access the looked-up objects. Triggering it
with this check means deleting the pack means deleting
the pack after we do a lookup (and successfully access
the packfile), but before we access the object. Which
is a smaller window.
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mh/check-ref-format-3: (23 commits)
add_ref(): verify that the refname is formatted correctly
resolve_ref(): expand documentation
resolve_ref(): also treat a too-long SHA1 as invalid
resolve_ref(): emit warnings for improperly-formatted references
resolve_ref(): verify that the input refname has the right format
remote: avoid passing NULL to read_ref()
remote: use xstrdup() instead of strdup()
resolve_ref(): do not follow incorrectly-formatted symbolic refs
resolve_ref(): extract a function get_packed_ref()
resolve_ref(): turn buffer into a proper string as soon as possible
resolve_ref(): only follow a symlink that contains a valid, normalized refname
resolve_ref(): use prefixcmp()
resolve_ref(): explicitly fail if a symlink is not readable
Change check_refname_format() to reject unnormalized refnames
Inline function refname_format_print()
Make collapse_slashes() allocate memory for its result
Do not allow ".lock" at the end of any refname component
Refactor check_refname_format()
Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument
Change bad_ref_char() to return a boolean value
...
* 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
When core.ignorecase is turned on and there are stale index
entries, "git commit" can sometimes report directories as
untracked, even though they contain tracked files.
You can see an example of this with:
# make a case-insensitive repo
git init repo && cd repo &&
git config core.ignorecase true &&
# with some tracked files in a subdir
mkdir subdir &&
> subdir/one &&
> subdir/two &&
git add . &&
git commit -m base &&
# now make the index entries stale
touch subdir/* &&
# and then ask commit to update those entries and show
# us the status template
git commit -a
which will report "subdir/" as untracked, even though it
clearly contains two tracked files. What is happening in the
commit program is this:
1. We load the index, and for each entry, insert it into the index's
name_hash. In addition, if ignorecase is turned on, we make an
entry in the name_hash for the directory (e.g., "contrib/"), which
uses the following code from 5102c61's hash_index_entry_directories:
hash = hash_name(ce->name, ptr - ce->name);
if (!lookup_hash(hash, &istate->name_hash)) {
pos = insert_hash(hash, &istate->name_hash);
if (pos) {
ce->next = *pos;
*pos = ce;
}
}
Note that we only add the directory entry if there is not already an
entry.
2. We run add_files_to_cache, which gets updated information for each
cache entry. It helpfully inserts this information into the cache,
which calls replace_index_entry. This in turn calls
remove_name_hash() on the old entry, and add_name_hash() on the new
one. But remove_name_hash doesn't actually remove from the hash, it
only marks it as "no longer interesting" (from cache.h):
/*
* We don't actually *remove* it, we can just mark it invalid so that
* we won't find it in lookups.
*
* Not only would we have to search the lists (simple enough), but
* we'd also have to rehash other hash buckets in case this makes the
* hash bucket empty (common). So it's much better to just mark
* it.
*/
static inline void remove_name_hash(struct cache_entry *ce)
{
ce->ce_flags |= CE_UNHASHED;
}
This is OK in the specific-file case, since the entries in the hash
form a linked list, and we can just skip the "not here anymore"
entries during lookup.
But for the directory hash entry, we will _not_ write a new entry,
because there is already one there: the old one that is actually no
longer interesting!
3. While traversing the directories, we end up in the
directory_exists_in_index_icase function to see if a directory is
interesting. This in turn checks index_name_exists, which will
look up the directory in the index's name_hash. We see the old,
deleted record, and assume there is nothing interesting. The
directory gets marked as untracked, even though there are index
entries in it.
The problem is in the code I showed above:
hash = hash_name(ce->name, ptr - ce->name);
if (!lookup_hash(hash, &istate->name_hash)) {
pos = insert_hash(hash, &istate->name_hash);
if (pos) {
ce->next = *pos;
*pos = ce;
}
}
Having a single cache entry that represents the directory is
not enough; that entry may go away if the index is changed.
It may be tempting to say that the problem is in our removal
method; if we removed the entry entirely instead of simply
marking it as "not here anymore", then we would know we need
to insert a new entry. But that only covers this particular
case of remove-replace. In the more general case, consider
something like this:
1. We add "foo/bar" and "foo/baz" to the index. Each gets
their own entry in name_hash, plus we make a "foo/"
entry that points to "foo/bar".
2. We remove the "foo/bar" entry from the index, and from
the name_hash.
3. We ask if "foo/" exists, and see no entry, even though
"foo/baz" exists.
So we need that directory entry to have the list of _all_
cache entries that indicate that the directory is tracked.
So that implies making a linked list as we do for other
entries, like:
hash = hash_name(ce->name, ptr - ce->name);
pos = insert_hash(hash, &istate->name_hash);
if (pos) {
ce->next = *pos;
*pos = ce;
}
But that's not right either. In fact, it shows a second bug
in the current code, which is that the "ce->next" pointer is
supposed to be linking entries for a specific filename
entry, but here we are overwriting it for the directory
entry. So the same cache entry ends up in two linked lists,
but they share the same "next" pointer.
As it turns out, this second bug can't be triggered in the
current code. The "if (pos)" conditional is totally dead
code; pos will only be non-NULL if there was an existing
hash entry, and we already checked that there wasn't one
through our call to lookup_hash.
But fixing the first bug means taking out that call to
lookup_hash, which is going to activate the buggy dead code,
and we'll end up splicing the two linked lists together.
So we need to have a separate next pointer for the list in
the directory bucket, and we need to traverse that list in
index_name_exists when we are looking up a directory.
This bloats "struct cache_entry" by a few bytes. Which is
annoying, because it's only necessary when core.ignorecase
is enabled. There's not an easy way around it, short of
separating out the "next" pointers from cache_entry entirely
(i.e., having a separate "cache_entry_list" struct that gets
stored in the name_hash). In practice, it probably doesn't
matter; we have thousands of cache entries, compared to the
millions of objects (where adding 4 bytes to the struct
actually does impact performance).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This code calls git_config from a helper function to parse the config entry
it is interested in. Calling git_config in this way may cause a problem if
the helper function can be called after a previous call to git_config by
another function since the second call to git_config may reset some
variable to the value in the config file which was previously overridden.
The above is not a problem in this case since the function passed to
git_config only parses one config entry and the variable it sets is not
assigned outside of the parsing function. But a programmer who desires
all of the standard config options to be parsed may be tempted to modify
git_attr_config() so that it falls back to git_default_config() and then it
_would_ be vulnerable to the above described behavior.
So, move the call to git_config up into the top-level cmd_* function and
move the responsibility for parsing core.attributesfile into the main
config file parser.
Which is only the logical thing to do ;-)
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Record information about resolve_ref(), hard-won via reverse
engineering, in a comment for future spelunkers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, get_sha1_hex() would read one character past the end of a
null-terminated string whose strlen was an even number less than 40.
Although the function correctly returned -1 in these cases, the extra
memory access might have been to uninitialized (or even, conceivably,
unallocated) memory.
Add a check to avoid reading past the end of a string.
This problem was discovered by Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
using valgrind.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rr/revert-cherry-pick-continue:
builtin/revert.c: make commit_list_append() static
revert: Propagate errors upwards from do_pick_commit
revert: Introduce --continue to continue the operation
revert: Don't implicitly stomp pending sequencer operation
revert: Remove sequencer state when no commits are pending
reset: Make reset remove the sequencer state
revert: Introduce --reset to remove sequencer state
revert: Make pick_commits functionally act on a commit list
revert: Save command-line options for continuing operation
revert: Save data for continuing after conflict resolution
revert: Don't create invalid replay_opts in parse_args
revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional code
revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options
revert: Eliminate global "commit" variable
revert: Rename no_replay to record_origin
revert: Don't check lone argument in get_encoding
revert: Simplify and inline add_message_to_msg
config: Introduce functions to write non-standard file
advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict
entr_repo(..., 0) currently modifies the input to strip away
trailing slashes. This means that we some times need to copy the
input to keep the original.
Change it to unconditionally copy it into the used_path buffer so
we can safely use the input without having to copy it. Also store
a working copy in validated_path up-front before we start
resolving anything.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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>
The following sequence of commands reveals an issue with error
reporting of relative paths:
$ mkdir sub
$ cd sub
$ git ls-files --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.
$ git commit --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.
This bug is visible only if the normalized path (i.e., the relative
path from the repository root) is longer than the prefix.
Otherwise, the code skips over the normalized path and reads from
an unused memory location which still contains a leftover of the
original command line argument.
So instead, use the existing facilities to deal with relative paths
correctly.
Also fix inconsistency between "checkout" and "commit", e.g.
$ cd Documentation
$ git checkout nosuch.txt
error: pathspec 'Documentation/nosuch.txt' did not match...
$ git commit nosuch.txt
error: pathspec 'nosuch.txt' did not match...
by propagating the prefix down the codepath that reports the error.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce two new functions corresponding to "git_config_set" and
"git_config_set_multivar" to write a non-standard configuration file.
Expose these new functions in cache.h for other git programs to use.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@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>
* jc/index-pack:
verify-pack: use index-pack --verify
index-pack: show histogram when emulating "verify-pack -v"
index-pack: start learning to emulate "verify-pack -v"
index-pack: a miniscule refactor
index-pack --verify: read anomalous offsets from v2 idx file
write_idx_file: need_large_offset() helper function
index-pack: --verify
write_idx_file: introduce a struct to hold idx customization options
index-pack: group the delta-base array entries also by type
Conflicts:
builtin/verify-pack.c
cache.h
sha1_file.c
* jk/clone-cmdline-config:
clone: accept config options on the command line
config: make git_config_parse_parameter a public function
remote: use new OPT_STRING_LIST
parse-options: add OPT_STRING_LIST helper
* jc/zlib-wrap:
zlib: allow feeding more than 4GB in one go
zlib: zlib can only process 4GB at a time
zlib: wrap deflateBound() too
zlib: wrap deflate side of the API
zlib: wrap inflateInit2 used to accept only for gzip format
zlib: wrap remaining calls to direct inflate/inflateEnd
zlib wrapper: refactor error message formatter
Conflicts:
sha1_file.c
In a workload other than "git log" (without pathspec nor any option that
causes us to inspect trees and blobs), the recency pack order is said to
cause the access jump around quite a bit. Add a hook to allow us observe
how bad it is.
"git config core.logpackaccess /var/tmp/pal.txt" will give you the log
in the specified file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for dividing the refs of a single repository into multiple
namespaces, each of which can have its own branches, tags, and HEAD.
Git can expose each namespace as an independent repository to pull from
and push to, while sharing the object store, and exposing all the refs
to operations such as git-gc.
Storing multiple repositories as namespaces of a single repository
avoids storing duplicate copies of the same objects, such as when
storing multiple branches of the same source. The alternates mechanism
provides similar support for avoiding duplicates, but alternates do not
prevent duplication between new objects added to the repositories
without ongoing maintenance, while namespaces do.
To specify a namespace, set the GIT_NAMESPACE environment variable to
the namespace. For each ref namespace, git stores the corresponding
refs in a directory under refs/namespaces/. For example,
GIT_NAMESPACE=foo will store refs under refs/namespaces/foo/. You can
also specify namespaces via the --namespace option to git.
Note that namespaces which include a / will expand to a hierarchy of
namespaces; for example, GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar will store refs under
refs/namespaces/foo/refs/namespaces/bar/. This makes paths in
GIT_NAMESPACE behave hierarchically, so that cloning with
GIT_NAMESPACE=foo/bar produces the same result as cloning with
GIT_NAMESPACE=foo and cloning from that repo with GIT_NAMESPACE=bar. It
also avoids ambiguity with strange namespace paths such as
foo/refs/heads/, which could otherwise generate directory/file conflicts
within the refs directory.
Add the infrastructure for ref namespaces: handle the GIT_NAMESPACE
environment variable and --namespace option, and support iterating over
refs in a namespace.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
