CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data.
autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to
CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and
CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text
files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings
such that we have only LF line endings in the repository.
But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the
conversion can corrupt data.
If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by
setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right
after committing you still have the original file in your work
tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell
git that this file is binary and git will handle the file
appropriately.
Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with
mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary
files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed
in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing
to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files
converting CRLFs corrupts data.
This patch adds a mechanism that can either warn the user about
an irreversible conversion or can even refuse to convert. The
mechanism is controlled by the variable core.safecrlf, with the
following values:
- false: disable safecrlf mechanism
- warn: warn about irreversible conversions
- true: refuse irreversible conversions
The default is to warn. Users are only affected by this default
if core.autocrlf is set. But the current default of git is to
leave core.autocrlf unset, so users will not see warnings unless
they deliberately chose to activate the autocrlf mechanism.
The safecrlf mechanism's details depend on the git command. The
general principles when safecrlf is active (not false) are:
- we warn/error out if files in the work tree can modified in an
irreversible way without giving the user a chance to backup the
original file.
- for read-only operations that do not modify files in the work tree
we do not not print annoying warnings.
There are exceptions. Even though...
- "git add" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, the
next checkout would, so the safety triggers;
- "git apply" to update a text file with a patch does touch the files
in the work tree, but the operation is about text files and CRLF
conversion is about fixing the line ending inconsistencies, so the
safety does not trigger;
- "git diff" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, it is
often run to inspect the changes you intend to next "git add". To
catch potential problems early, safety triggers.
The concept of a safety check was originally proposed in a similar
way by Linus Torvalds. Thanks to Dimitry Potapov for insisting
on getting the naked LF/autocrlf=true case right.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
When DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR is specified as a relative path,
init-db made it relative to exec_path using prefix_path(), which
is wrong. prefix_path() is about a file inside the work tree.
There was a similar misuse in config.c that takes relative
ETC_GITCONFIG path. Noticed by Junio C Hamano.
We concatenate the paths manually. (prefix_filename() won't do
because it expects a prefix with a trailing '/'.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 03, 2008:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > [From] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53457/focus=53458
> Julian Phillips:
> > Are you using docbook xsl 1.72? There are known problems building the
> > manpages with that version. 1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get
> > released.
I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file
used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and
backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the
wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping
in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end
this part of the manpage nightmare.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR is specified as a relative path,
init-db made it relative to exec_path using prefix_path(), which
is wrong. prefix_path() is about a file inside the work tree.
There was a similar misuse in config.c that takes relative
ETC_GITCONFIG path.
A convenience function prefix_filename() can concatenate two paths
to form a path that points at somewhere outside the work tree.
Use it in these codepaths instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the case of an malformed object, the object specific parsing functions
would return an error, which is currently ignored. The object can be partial
initialized in this case.
This patch make parse_object_buffer propagate such errors.
Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A zero commit date could be caused by:
* a missing author line
* a missing commiter line
* a malformed email address in the commiter line
* a malformed commit date
Simply reporting it as zero commit date is missleading.
Additionally, it upgrades the message to an error (instead of an printf).
Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the text, the argument of -m is <master> which should be used in the
command synopsis, too.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The regexp "$," can't match anything. Clearly not intended.
This was introduced in ce6f33c8 which is quite a while ago.
Signed-off-by: Tommy Thorn <tommy-git@thorn.ws>
Acked-by: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Let "git svn" run "git gc --auto" every 1000 imported commits to
reduce the number of loose objects.
To handle the common use case of frequent imports, where each
invocation typically fetches much less than 1000 commits, also run gc
unconditionally at the end of the import.
"1000" is the same number that was used by default when we called
git-repack. It isn't necessarily still the best choice.
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a moment, we'll start calling git-gc --auto instead, since it is a
better fit to what we're trying to accomplish.
The command line options are still accepted, but don't have any
effect, and we warn the user about that.
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch removes the '$Keyword: ...$' '...' data, so that files
don't have spurious megre conflicts between branches.
Handles both +ko and +k styles, and leaves the '$Foo$' in
the original file.
Signed-off-by: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>
The scripted version might not have handled this correctly
either, but the version rewritten in C definitely does not grok
this and complains $tag is not a commit object.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adjust the command syntax to better reflect the call parameters:
[save] [message...] => [save [<message>]].
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto AT cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the absolute minimum (and reliable) reproduction recipe
to demonstrate that revision range in a history with clock skew
sometimes fails to mark UNINTERESTING commit in topologically
early parts of the history.
The history looks like this:
o---o---o---o
one four
but one has the largest timestamp. "git rev-list four..one"
fails to notice that "one" should not be emitted.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we have known breakages, we still said "passed all N
test(s)", which was a bit funny.
This rewords it to read "passed all remaining N test(s)" in such
a case.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Originally, test_expect_failure was designed to be the opposite
of test_expect_success, but this was a bad decision. Most tests
run a series of commands that leads to the single command that
needs to be tested, like this:
test_expect_{success,failure} 'test title' '
setup1 &&
setup2 &&
setup3 &&
what is to be tested
'
And expecting a failure exit from the whole sequence misses the
point of writing tests. Your setup$N that are supposed to
succeed may have failed without even reaching what you are
trying to test. The only valid use of test_expect_failure is to
check a trivial single command that is expected to fail, which
is a minority in tests of Porcelain-ish commands.
This large-ish patch rewrites all uses of test_expect_failure to
use test_expect_success and rewrites the condition of what is
tested, like this:
test_expect_success 'test title' '
setup1 &&
setup2 &&
setup3 &&
! this command should fail
'
test_expect_failure is redefined to serve as a reminder that
that test *should* succeed but due to a known breakage in git it
currently does not pass. So if git-foo command should create a
file 'bar' but you discovered a bug that it doesn't, you can
write a test like this:
test_expect_failure 'git-foo should create bar' '
rm -f bar &&
git foo &&
test -f bar
'
This construct acts similar to test_expect_success, but instead
of reporting "ok/FAIL" like test_expect_success does, the
outcome is reported as "FIXED/still broken".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Because ':/substring' extended SHA1 expression cannot take
postfix modifiers such as ^{tree} and ^{commit}, we would need
to do it in multiple steps. With the patch, you can start a new
branch from a randomly-picked commit whose message has the named
string in it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
filter-branch previously took the first non-option argument as the name for
a new branch. Since dfd05e38, it now takes a revision or a revision range
and modifies the current branch. Update to operate on HEAD by default to
conform with standard git interface practice.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We only care about getting what should be an empty string and
sending it to a file, without a trailing LF, so the empty string
translates into a 0 byte file. Earlier when I originally wrote
these lines Mac OS X allowed the format string of printf to be
the empty string, but more recent versions appear to have been
'improved' with error messages if the format is not given.
This may cause problems if we ever wind up with changes to the hook
tests. A minor cleanup makes the test more safe on all systems,
by conforming to accepted printf conventions.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of the first things filter-branch does is to create a temporary
directory. This directory is eventually removed by the script during
normal operation, but is not removed if the script encounters an error.
Set a trap to remove it when the script terminates for any reason.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-relink is intended to search for packs and loose objects in
common between two repositories and to replace the one set with
hard links to the other. Files other than packs and loose objects
should not be touched, so add the "info" sub-directory to the
pattern of directory excludes.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Those two configuration variables are important enough that it is
worth to explicitely write about them in the "Gitweb config file
variables" section even if they are usually set during build by
GITWEB_PROJECTROOT and GITWEB_LIST build (Makefile) configuration
variables.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git reflog expire --all" opened a directory in $GIT_DIR/logs/,
read reflog files in there readdir(3), and rewrote the file by
creating a new file and renaming it back inside the loop. This
code structure can cause the newly created file to be returned
by subsequent call to readdir(3), and fall into an infinite loop
in the worst case.
This separates the processing to two phase. Running
for_each_reflog() to find out and collect all refs, and then
iterate over them, calling expire_reflog(). This way, the
program would behave exactly the same way as if all the refs
were given by the user from the command line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the commit message, or commit author contains non-ascii, it must be
converted from Perl internal representation to utf-8, to follow what
got declared in HTTP header. Use to_utf8() to do the conversion.
This necessarily replaces here-doc with "print" statements.
Signed-off-by: Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com>
Acked-by: İsmail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This accompanies c5b09feb78 (Avoid
update hook during git-rebase --interactive) to make sure that
any regression to make Debian's Bug#458782 (git-core: git-rebase
doesn't work when trying to squash changes into commits created
with --no-verify) resurface will be caught.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The exit value of some commands was not being used for the
test output.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the upstream branch is tracked, we can detect if that branch
was rebased since it was last fetched. Teach git to use that
information to rebase from the old remote head onto the new remote head.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git histories may have multiple roots, which can cause
git merge-base to fail and this caused git cvsserver to die.
This commit teaches git cvsserver to handle a failing git
merge-base gracefully, and modifies the test case to verify this.
All the test cases now use a history with two roots.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
git-cvsserver.perl | 9 ++++++++-
t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is preferable to have the test setup in a test case. The
setup itself may fail and having it as a test case handles this
situation more gracefully.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While there is information about this in the configuration section, it was
missing in the options section.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
