When a short hexadecimal string is used to name an object but there
are multiple objects that share the string as the prefix of their
names, the code lists these ambiguous candidates in a help message.
These object names are now sorted according to their types for
easier eyeballing.
* ab/get-short-oid:
get_short_oid: sort ambiguous objects by type, then SHA-1
sha1-name.c: move around the collect_ambiguous() function
git-p4: change "commitish" typo to "committish"
sha1-array.h: align function arguments
sha1-name.c: remove stray newline
Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id: (42 commits)
merge-one-file: compute empty blob object ID
add--interactive: compute the empty tree value
Update shell scripts to compute empty tree object ID
sha1_file: only expose empty object constants through git_hash_algo
dir: use the_hash_algo for empty blob object ID
sequencer: use the_hash_algo for empty tree object ID
cache-tree: use is_empty_tree_oid
sha1_file: convert cached object code to struct object_id
builtin/reset: convert use of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
builtin/receive-pack: convert one use of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
wt-status: convert two uses of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
submodule: convert several uses of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
sequencer: convert one use of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_HEX
merge: convert empty tree constant to the_hash_algo
builtin/merge: switch tree functions to use object_id
builtin/am: convert uses of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN to the_hash_algo
sha1-file: add functions for hex empty tree and blob OIDs
builtin/receive-pack: avoid hard-coded constants for push certs
diff: specify abbreviation size in terms of the_hash_algo
upload-pack: replace use of several hard-coded constants
...
Developer support update, by using BUG() macro instead of die() to
mark codepaths that should not happen more clearly.
* js/use-bug-macro:
BUG_exit_code: fix sparse "symbol not declared" warning
Convert remaining die*(BUG) messages
Replace all die("BUG: ...") calls by BUG() ones
run-command: use BUG() to report bugs, not die()
test-tool: help verifying BUG() code paths
The codepath around object-info API has been taught to take the
repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store
the objects are to be located).
* sb/oid-object-info:
cache.h: allow oid_object_info to handle arbitrary repositories
packfile: add repository argument to cache_or_unpack_entry
packfile: add repository argument to unpack_entry
packfile: add repository argument to read_object
packfile: add repository argument to packed_object_info
packfile: add repository argument to packed_to_object_type
packfile: add repository argument to retry_bad_packed_offset
cache.h: add repository argument to oid_object_info
cache.h: add repository argument to oid_object_info_extended
The code has been taught to use the duplicated information stored
in the commit-graph file to learn the tree object name for a commit
to avoid opening and parsing the commit object when it makes sense
to do so.
* ds/lazy-load-trees:
coccinelle: avoid wrong transformation suggestions from commit.cocci
commit-graph: lazy-load trees for commits
treewide: replace maybe_tree with accessor methods
commit: create get_commit_tree() method
treewide: rename tree to maybe_tree
Change the output emitted when an ambiguous object is encountered so
that we show tags first, then commits, followed by trees, and finally
blobs. Within each type we show objects in hashcmp() order. Before
this change the objects were only ordered by hashcmp().
The reason for doing this is that the output looks better as a result,
e.g. the v2.17.0 tag before this change on "git show e8f2" would
display:
hint: The candidates are:
hint: e8f2093055 tree
hint: e8f21caf94 commit 2013-06-24 - bash prompt: print unique detached HEAD abbreviated object name
hint: e8f21d02f7 blob
hint: e8f21d577c blob
hint: e8f25a3a50 tree
hint: e8f26250fa commit 2017-02-03 - Merge pull request #996 from jeffhostetler/jeffhostetler/register_rename_src
hint: e8f2650052 tag v2.17.0
hint: e8f2867228 blob
hint: e8f28d537c tree
hint: e8f2a35526 blob
hint: e8f2bc0c06 commit 2015-05-10 - Documentation: note behavior for multiple remote.url entries
hint: e8f2cf6ec0 tree
Now we'll instead show:
hint: e8f2650052 tag v2.17.0
hint: e8f21caf94 commit 2013-06-24 - bash prompt: print unique detached HEAD abbreviated object name
hint: e8f26250fa commit 2017-02-03 - Merge pull request #996 from jeffhostetler/jeffhostetler/register_rename_src
hint: e8f2bc0c06 commit 2015-05-10 - Documentation: note behavior for multiple remote.url entries
hint: e8f2093055 tree
hint: e8f25a3a50 tree
hint: e8f28d537c tree
hint: e8f2cf6ec0 tree
hint: e8f21d02f7 blob
hint: e8f21d577c blob
hint: e8f2867228 blob
hint: e8f2a35526 blob
Since we show the commit data in the output that's nicely aligned once
we sort by object type. The decision to show tags before commits is
pretty arbitrary. I don't want to order by object_type since there
tags come last after blobs, which doesn't make sense if we want to
show the most important things first.
I could display them after commits, but it's much less likely that
we'll display a tag, so if there is one it makes sense to show it
prominently at the top.
A note on the implementation: Derrick rightly pointed out[1] that
we're bending over backwards here in get_short_oid() to first
de-duplicate the list, and then emit it, but could simply do it in one
step.
The reason for that is that oid_array_for_each_unique() doesn't
actually require that the array be sorted by oid_array_sort(), it just
needs to be sorted in some order that guarantees that all objects with
the same ID are adjacent to one another, which (barring a hash
collision, which'll be someone else's problem) the sort_ambiguous()
function does.
I agree that would be simpler for this code, and had forgotten why I
initially wrote it like this[2]. But on further reflection I think
it's better to do more work here just so we're not underhandedly using
the oid-array API where we lie about the list being sorted. That would
break any subsequent use of oid_array_lookup() in subtle ways.
I could get around that by hacking the API itself to support this
use-case and documenting it, which I did as a WIP patch in [3], but I
think it's too much code smell just for this one call site. It's
simpler for the API to just introduce a oid_array_for_each() function
to eagerly spew out the list without sorting or de-duplication, and
then do the de-duplication and sorting in two passes.
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/20180501130318.58251-1-dstolee@microsoft.com/
2. https://public-inbox.org/git/876047ze9v.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
3. https://public-inbox.org/git/874ljrzctc.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A subsequent change will make use of this static function in the
get_short_oid() function, which is defined above where the
collect_ambiguous() function is now. Without this we'd then have a
compilation error due to a forward declaration.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This stray newline was accidentally introduced in
d2b7d9c7ed ("sha1_name: convert disambiguate_hint_fn to take
object_id", 2017-03-26).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In d8193743e0 (usage.c: add BUG() function, 2017-05-12), a new macro
was introduced to use for reporting bugs instead of die(). It was then
subsequently used to convert one single caller in 588a538ae5
(setup_git_env: convert die("BUG") to BUG(), 2017-05-12).
The cover letter of the patch series containing this patch
(cf 20170513032414.mfrwabt4hovujde2@sigill.intra.peff.net) is not
terribly clear why only one call site was converted, or what the plan
is for other, similar calls to die() to report bugs.
Let's just convert all remaining ones in one fell swoop.
This trick was performed by this invocation:
sed -i 's/die("BUG: /BUG("/g' $(git grep -l 'die("BUG' \*.c)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is more consistent with the project style. The majority of Git's
source files use dashes in preference to underscores in their file names.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
