Before 82dce99 (attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore,
2012-10-15), .gitattributes did not have any special treatment of a
leading '!'. The docs, however, always said
The rules how the pattern matches paths are the same as in
`.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5].
By those rules, leading '!' means pattern negation. So 82dce99
correctly determined that this kind of line makes no sense and should
be disallowed.
However, users who actually had a rule for files starting with a '!'
are in a bad position: before 82dce99 '!' matched that literal
character, so it is conceivable that users have .gitattributes with
such lines in them. After 82dce99 the unescaped version was
disallowed in such a way that git outright refuses to run(!) most
commands in the presence of such a .gitattributes. It therefore
becomes very hard to fix, let alone work with, such repositories.
Let's at least allow the users to fix their repos: change the fatal
error into a warning.
Reported-by: mathstuf@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier workaround designed to help people who list logical
directories that will not match what getcwd(3) returns in the
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES had an adverse effect when it is slow to
stat and readlink a directory component of an element listed on it.
* mh/maint-ceil-absolute:
Provide a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in ceiling paths
"git check-ignore ." segfaulted, as a function it calls deep in its
callchain took a string in the <ptr, length> form but did not stop
when given an empty string.
* as/check-ignore:
name-hash: allow hashing an empty string
t0008: document test_expect_success_multi
"Advice" is a mass noun, not a count noun; it's not ordinarily
pluralized.
Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 1b77d83cab 'setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks
in ceiling paths' changed the setup code to resolve symlinks in the
entries in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES. Because those entries are
compared textually to the symlink-resolved current directory, an
entry in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES that contained a symlink would have
no effect. It was known that this could cause performance problems
if the symlink resolution *itself* touched slow filesystems, but it
was thought that such use cases would be unlikely. The intention of
the earlier change was to deal with a case when the user has this:
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/home/gitster
but in reality, /home/gitster is a symbolic link to somewhere else,
e.g. /net/machine/home4/gitster. A textual comparison between the
specified value /home/gitster and the location getcwd(3) returns
would not help us, but readlink("/home/gitster") would still be
fast.
After this change was released, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
reported:
> [...] my computer has been acting so slow when I’m not connected to
> the network. I put various network filesystem paths in
> $GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, such as
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n/andersk (to avoid hitting its parents
> /afs/athena.mit.edu, /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a, and
> /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n which all live in different AFS
> volumes). Now when I’m not connected to the network, every
> invocation of Git, including the __git_ps1 in my shell prompt, waits
> for AFS to timeout.
To allow users to work around this problem, give them a mechanism to
turn off symlink resolution in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES entries. All
the entries that follow an empty entry will not be checked for symbolic
links and used literally in comparison. E.g. with these:
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=:/foo/bar:/xyzzy or
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/foo/bar::/xyzzy
we will not readlink("/xyzzy") because it comes after an empty entry.
With the former (but not with the latter), "/foo/bar" comes after an
empty entry, and we will not readlink it, either.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Usually we do not pass an empty string to the function hash_name()
because we almost always ask for hash values for a path that is a
candidate to be added to the index. However, check-ignore (and most
likely check-attr, but I didn't check) apparently has a callchain
to ask the hash value for an empty path when it was given a "." from
the top-level directory to ask "Is the path . excluded by default?"
Make sure that hash_name() does not overrun the end of the given
pathname even when it is empty.
Remove a sweep-the-issue-under-the-rug conditional in check-ignore
that avoided to pass an empty string to the callchain while at it.
It is a valid question to ask for check-ignore if the top-level is
set to be ignored by default, even though the answer is most likely
no, if only because there is currently no way to specify such an
entry in the .gitignore file. But it is an unusual thing to ask and
it is not worth optimizing for it by special casing at the top level
of the call chain.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
test_expect_success_multi() helper function warrants some explanation,
since at first sight it may seem like generic test framework plumbing,
but is in fact specific to testing check-ignore, and allows more
thorough testing of the various output formats without significantly
increase the size of t0008.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow the server side to redact the refs/ namespace it shows to the
client.
Will merge to 'master'.
* jc/hidden-refs:
upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchies
upload-pack: simplify request validation
upload-pack: share more code
Allows skipping the untracked check GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES
asks for the git-prompt (in contrib/) per repository.
* mw/bash-prompt-show-untracked-config:
t9903: add extra tests for bash.showDirtyState
t9903: add tests for bash.showUntrackedFiles
shell prompt: add bash.showUntrackedFiles option
"git log --grep=<pattern>" used to look for the pattern in literal
bytes of the commit log message and ignored the log-output encoding.
* jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free:
log: re-encode commit messages before grepping
Add 3 extra tests for the bash.showDirtyState config option; the
tests now cover all combinations of the shell var being set/unset
and the config option being missing/enabled/disabled, given a dirty
file.
Signed-off-by: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 4 tests for the bash.showUntrackedFiles config option, covering
all combinations of the shell var being set/unset and the config
option being enabled/disabled (the other 2 cases, missing config
with and without shell variable, are already covered by existing
tests).
Signed-off-by: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit eff80a9 (Allow custom "comment char") introduced a custom comment
character for commit messages but did not teach git-rebase--interactive
to use it.
Change git-rebase--interactive to read core.commentchar and use its
value when generating commit messages and for the command list.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you run "git log --grep=foo", we will run your regex on
the literal bytes of the commit message. This can provide
confusing results if the commit message is not in the same
encoding as your grep expression (or worse, you have commits
in multiple encodings, in which case your regex would need
to be written to match either encoding). On top of this, we
might also be grepping in the commit's notes, which are
already re-encoded, potentially leading to grepping in a
buffer with mixed encodings concatenated. This is insanity,
but most people never noticed, because their terminal and
their commit encodings all match.
Instead, let's massage the to-be-grepped commit into a
standardized encoding. There is not much point in adding a
flag for "this is the encoding I expect my grep pattern to
match"; the only sane choice is for it to use the log output
encoding. That is presumably what the user's terminal is
using, and it means that the patterns found by the grep will
match the output produced by git.
As a bonus, this fixes a potential segfault in commit_match
when commit->buffer is NULL, as we now build on logmsg_reencode,
which handles reading the commit buffer from disk if
necessary. The segfault can be triggered with:
git commit -m 'text1' --allow-empty
git commit -m 'text2' --allow-empty
git log --graph --no-walk --grep 'text2'
which arguably does not make any sense (--graph inherently
wants a connected history, and by --no-walk the command line
is telling us to show discrete points in history without
connectivity), and we probably should forbid the
combination, but that is a separate issue.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes
back from the server side to make sure that the request is being
handled properly.
* sp/smart-http-content-type-check:
http_request: reset "type" strbuf before adding
t5551: fix expected error output
Verify Content-Type from smart HTTP servers
We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input,
resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing
the "--raw --cc" output.
* jc/combine-diff-many-parents:
t4038: add tests for "diff --cc --raw <trees>"
combine-diff: lift 32-way limit of combined diff
"git cherry-pick" did not replay a root commit to an unborn branch.
* mz/pick-unborn:
learn to pick/revert into unborn branch
tests: move test_cmp_rev to test-lib-functions
Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
* jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests:
t9902: protect test from stray build artifacts
Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
has been broken since v1.7.12.
* jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs:
apply: diagnose incomplete submodule object name better
apply: simplify build_fake_ancestor()
git-am: record full index line in the patch used while rebasing
Fix various error messages and conditions in "git branch", e.g. we
advertised "branch -d/-D" to remove one or more branches but actually
implemented removal of zero or more branches---request to remove no
branches was not rejected.
* nd/branch-error-cases:
branch: let branch filters imply --list
docs: clarify git-branch --list behavior
branch: mark more strings for translation
branch: give a more helpful message on redundant arguments
branch: reject -D/-d without branch name
A repository may have refs that are only used for its internal
bookkeeping purposes that should not be exposed to the others that
come over the network.
Teach upload-pack to omit some refs from its initial advertisement
by paying attention to the uploadpack.hiderefs multi-valued
configuration variable. Do the same to receive-pack via the
receive.hiderefs variable. As a convenient short-hand, allow using
transfer.hiderefs to set the value to both of these variables.
Any ref that is under the hierarchies listed on the value of these
variable is excluded from responses to requests made by "ls-remote",
"fetch", etc. (for upload-pack) and "push" (for receive-pack).
Because these hidden refs do not count as OUR_REF, an attempt to
fetch objects at the tip of them will be rejected, and because these
refs do not get advertised, "git push :" will not see local branches
that have the same name as them as "matching" ones to be sent.
An attempt to update/delete these hidden refs with an explicit
refspec, e.g. "git push origin :refs/hidden/22", is rejected. This
is not a new restriction. To the pusher, it would appear that there
is no such ref, so its push request will conclude with "Now that I
sent you all the data, it is time for you to update the refs. I saw
that the ref did not exist when I started pushing, and I want the
result to point at this commit". The receiving end will apply the
compare-and-swap rule to this request and rejects the push with
"Well, your update request conflicts with somebody else; I see there
is such a ref.", which is the right thing to do. Otherwise a push to
a hidden ref will always be "the last one wins", which is not a good
default.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
was broken since v1.7.12.
* jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs:
apply: diagnose incomplete submodule object name better
apply: simplify build_fake_ancestor()
git-am: record full index line in the patch used while rebasing
The typical use-case is starting a rebase, do something else, come
back the day after, run "git status" or make a new commit and wonder
what in the world's going on. Which branch is being rebased is
probably the most useful tidbit to help, but the target may help
too.
Ideally, I would have loved to see "rebasing master on
origin/master", but the target ref name is not stored during rebase,
so this patch writes "rebasing master on a78c8c98b" as a
half-measure to remind future users of that potential improvement.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve "git p4" on Cygwin.
* pw/git-p4-on-cygwin: (21 commits)
git p4: introduce gitConfigBool
git p4: avoid shell when calling git config
git p4: avoid shell when invoking git config --get-all
git p4: avoid shell when invoking git rev-list
git p4: avoid shell when mapping users
git p4: disable read-only attribute before deleting
git p4 test: use test_chmod for cygwin
git p4: cygwin p4 client does not mark read-only
git p4 test: avoid wildcard * in windows
git p4 test: use LineEnd unix in windows tests too
git p4 test: newline handling
git p4: scrub crlf for utf16 files on windows
git p4: remove unreachable windows \r\n conversion code
git p4 test: translate windows paths for cygwin
git p4 test: start p4d inside its db dir
git p4 test: use client_view in t9806
git p4 test: avoid loop in client_view
git p4 test: use client_view to build the initial client
git p4: generate better error message for bad depot path
git p4: remove unused imports
...
Clarify the ownership rule for commit->buffer field, which some
callers incorrectly accessed without making sure it is populated.
* jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free:
logmsg_reencode: lazily load missing commit buffers
logmsg_reencode: never return NULL
commit: drop useless xstrdup of commit message
Configuration parsing for tar.* configuration variables were
broken. Introduce a new config-keyname parser API to make the
callers much less error prone.
* jk/config-parsing-cleanup:
reflog: use parse_config_key in config callback
help: use parse_config_key for man config
submodule: simplify memory handling in config parsing
submodule: use parse_config_key when parsing config
userdiff: drop parse_driver function
convert some config callbacks to parse_config_key
archive-tar: use parse_config_key when parsing config
config: add helper function for parsing key names
Allow a configuration variable core.commentchar to customize the
character used to comment out the hint lines in the edited text from
the default '#'.
* jc/custom-comment-char:
Allow custom "comment char"
Before parsing a suspected smart-HTTP response verify the returned
Content-Type matches the standard. This protects a client from
attempting to process a payload that smells like a smart-HTTP
server response.
JGit has been doing this check on all responses since the dawn of
time. I mistakenly failed to include it in git-core when smart HTTP
was introduced. At the time I didn't know how to get the Content-Type
from libcurl. I punted, meant to circle back and fix this, and just
plain forgot about it.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/merge-blobs:
Makefile: Replace merge-file.h with merge-blobs.h in LIB_H
merge-tree: fix d/f conflicts
merge-tree: add comments to clarify what these functions are doing
merge-tree: lose unused "resolve_directories"
merge-tree: lose unused "flags" from merge_list
Which merge_file() function do you mean?
With small updates to remove dependency on newer features of
Python, keep git-p4 usable with older Python.
* bc/git-p4-for-python-2.4:
INSTALL: git-p4 does not support Python 3
git-p4.py: support Python 2.4
git-p4.py: support Python 2.5
Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
* jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests:
t9902: protect test from stray build artifacts
"git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The
resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
command, and documentation was misleading.
* nd/fetch-depth-is-broken:
fetch: elaborate --depth action
upload-pack: fix off-by-one depth calculation in shallow clone
fetch: add --unshallow for turning shallow repo into complete one
Earlier, a230949 (am --rebasing: get patch body from commit, not
from mailbox, 2012-06-26) learned to regenerate patch body from the
commit object while rebasing, instead of reading from the rebase-am
front-end. While doing so, it used "git diff-tree" but without
giving it the "--full-index" option.
This does not matter for in-repository objects; during rebasing, any
abbreviated object name should uniquely identify them.
But we may be rebasing a commit that contains a change to a gitlink,
in which case we usually should not have the object (it names a
commit in the submodule). A full object name is necessary to later
reconstruct a fake ancestor index for them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, a branch filter like `--contains`, `--merged`, or
`--no-merged` is ignored when we are not in listing mode.
For example:
git branch --contains=foo bar
will create the branch "bar" from the current HEAD, ignoring
the `--contains` argument entirely. This is not very
helpful. There are two reasonable behaviors for git here:
1. Flag an error; the arguments do not make sense.
2. Implicitly go into `--list` mode
This patch chooses the latter, as it is more convenient, and
there should not be any ambiguity with attempting to create
a branch; using `--contains` and not wanting to list is
nonsensical.
That leaves the case where an explicit modification option
like `-d` is given. We already catch the case where
`--list` is given alongside `-d` and flag an error. With
this patch, we will also catch the use of `--contains` and
other filter options alongside `-d`.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When giving arguments without "--" disambiguation, object names
that come earlier on the command line must not be interpretable as
pathspecs and pathspecs that come later on the command line must
not be interpretable as object names. Tweak the disambiguation
rule so that ":/" (no other string before or after) is always
interpreted as a pathspec, to avoid having to say "git cmd -- :/".
* nd/magic-pathspec-from-root:
grep: avoid accepting ambiguous revision
Update :/abc ambiguity check
Update tests that were expecting to fail due to a bug that was
fixed earlier.
* tb/t0050-maint:
t0050: Use TAB for indentation
t0050: honor CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS in add (with different case)
t0050: known breakage vanished in merge (case change)
Output from "git status --ignored" did not work well when used with
"--untracked".
* ap/status-ignored-in-ignored-directory:
status: always report ignored tracked directories
git-status: Test --ignored behavior
dir.c: Make git-status --ignored more consistent
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()
