The peel_ref() interface is confusing and error-prone:
- it's typically used by ref iteration callbacks that have both a
refname and oid. But since they pass only the refname, we may load
the ref value from the filesystem again. This is inefficient, but
also means we are open to a race if somebody simultaneously updates
the ref. E.g., this:
int some_ref_cb(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid, ...)
{
if (!peel_ref(refname, &peeled))
printf("%s peels to %s",
oid_to_hex(oid), oid_to_hex(&peeled);
}
could print nonsense. It is correct to say "refname peels to..."
(you may see the "before" value or the "after" value, either of
which is consistent), but mentioning both oids may be mixing
before/after values.
Worse, whether this is possible depends on whether the optimization
to read from the current iterator value kicks in. So it is actually
not possible with:
for_each_ref(some_ref_cb);
but it _is_ possible with:
head_ref(some_ref_cb);
which does not use the iterator mechanism (though in practice, HEAD
should never peel to anything, so this may not be triggerable).
- it must take a fully-qualified refname for the read_ref_full() code
path to work. Yet we routinely pass it partial refnames from
callbacks to for_each_tag_ref(), etc. This happens to work when
iterating because there we do not call read_ref_full() at all, and
only use the passed refname to check if it is the same as the
iterator. But the requirements for the function parameters are quite
unclear.
Instead of taking a refname, let's instead take an oid. That fixes both
problems. It's a little funny for a "ref" function not to involve refs
at all. The key thing is that it's optimizing under the hood based on
having access to the ref iterator. So let's change the name to make it
clear why you'd want this function versus just peel_object().
There are two other directions I considered but rejected:
- we could pass the peel information into the each_ref_fn callback.
However, we don't know if the caller actually wants it or not. For
packed-refs, providing it is essentially free. But for loose refs,
we actually have to peel the object, which would be wasteful in most
cases. We could likewise pass in a flag to the callback indicating
whether the peeled information is known, but that complicates those
callbacks, as they then have to decide whether to manually peel
themselves. Plus it requires changing the interface of every
callback, whether they care about peeling or not, and there are many
of them.
- we could make a function to return the peeled value of the current
iterated ref (computing it if necessary), and BUG() otherwise. I.e.:
int peel_current_iterated_ref(struct object_id *out);
Each of the current callers is an each_ref_fn callback, so they'd
mostly be happy. But:
- we use those callbacks with functions like head_ref(), which do
not use the iteration code. So we'd need to handle the fallback
case there, anyway.
- it's possible that a caller would want to call into generic code
that sometimes is used during iteration and sometimes not. This
encapsulates the logic to do the fast thing when possible, and
fallback when necessary.
The implementation is mostly obvious, but I want to call out a few
things in the patch:
- the test-tool coverage for peel_ref() is now meaningless, as it all
collapses to a single peel_object() call (arguably they were pretty
uninteresting before; the tricky part of that function is the
fast-path we see during iteration, but these calls didn't trigger
that). I've just dropped it entirely, though note that some other
tests relied on the tags we created; I've moved that creation to the
tests where it matters.
- we no longer need to take a ref_store parameter, since we'd never
look up a ref now. We do still rely on a global "current iterator"
variable which _could_ be kept per-ref-store. But in practice this
is only useful if there are multiple recursive iterations, at which
point the more appropriate solution is probably a stack of
iterators. No caller used the actual ref-store parameter anyway
(they all call the wrapper that passes the_repository).
- the original only kicked in the optimization when the "refname"
pointer matched (i.e., not string comparison). We do likewise with
the "oid" parameter here, but fall back to doing an actual oideq()
call. This in theory lets us kick in the optimization more often,
though in practice no current caller cares. It should never be
wrong, though (peeling is a property of an object, so two refs
pointing to the same object would peel identically).
- the original took care not to touch the peeled out-parameter unless
we found something to put in it. But no caller cares about this, and
anyway, it is enforced by peel_object() itself (and even in the
optimized iterator case, that's where we eventually end up). We can
shorten the code and avoid an extra copy by just passing the
out-parameter through the stack.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Comments update.
* ab/gettext-charset-comment-fix:
gettext.c: remove/reword a mostly-useless comment
Makefile: remove a warning about old GETTEXT_POISON flag
Fix 2.29 regression where "git mergetool --tool-help" fails to list
all the available tools.
* pb/mergetool-tool-help-fix:
mergetool--lib: fix '--tool-help' to correctly show available tools
"git for-each-repo --config=<var> <cmd>" should not run <cmd> for
any repository when the configuration variable <var> is not defined
even once.
* ds/for-each-repo-noopfix:
for-each-repo: do nothing on empty config
Some tests expect that "ls -l" output has either '-' or 'x' for
group executable bit, but setgid bit can be inherited from parent
directory and make these fields 'S' or 's' instead, causing test
failures.
* mt/t4129-with-setgid-dir:
t4129: don't fail if setgid is set in the test directory
Follow-up on the "maintenance part-3" which introduced scheduled
maintenance tasks to support platforms whose native scheduling
methods are not 'cron'.
* ds/maintenance-part-4:
maintenance: use Windows scheduled tasks
maintenance: use launchctl on macOS
maintenance: include 'cron' details in docs
maintenance: extract platform-specific scheduling
Bash completion (in contrib/) update to make it easier for
end-users to add completion for their custom "git" subcommands.
* fc/completion-aliases-support:
completion: add proper public __git_complete
test: completion: add tests for __git_complete
completion: bash: improve function detection
completion: bash: add __git_have_func helper
"git stash" did not work well in a sparsely checked out working
tree.
* en/stash-apply-sparse-checkout:
stash: fix stash application in sparse-checkouts
stash: remove unnecessary process forking
t7012: add a testcase demonstrating stash apply bugs in sparse checkouts
Retire more names with "sha1" in it.
* ma/sha1-is-a-hash:
hash-lookup: rename from sha1-lookup
sha1-lookup: rename `sha1_pos()` as `hash_pos()`
object-file.c: rename from sha1-file.c
object-name.c: rename from sha1-name.c
Code clean-up.
* ma/t1300-cleanup:
t1300: don't needlessly work with `core.foo` configs
t1300: remove duplicate test for `--file no-such-file`
t1300: remove duplicate test for `--file ../foo`
"git rev-parse" can be explicitly told to give output as absolute
or relative path with the `--path-format=(absolute|relative)` option.
* bc/rev-parse-path-format:
rev-parse: add option for absolute or relative path formatting
abspath: add a function to resolve paths with missing components
The configuration variable 'core.abbrev' can be set to 'no' to
force no abbreviation regardless of the hash algorithm.
* ew/decline-core-abbrev:
core.abbrev=no disables abbreviations
We run "git pull" against "$cask_repo"; clarify that we are
expecting not to have any of our own modifications and running "git
pull" to merely update, by passing "--ff-only" on the command line.
Also, the "brew cask install" command line triggers an error message
that says:
Error: Calling brew cask install is disabled! Use brew install
[--cask] instead.
In addition, "brew install caskroom/cask/perforce" step triggers an
error that says:
Error: caskroom/cask was moved. Tap homebrew/cask instead.
Attempt to see if blindly following the suggestion in these error
messages gets us into a better shape.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running 'git clone --local', the operation may fail if another
process is modifying the source repository. Document that this race
condition is known to hopefully help anyone who may run into it.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mostly remove the comment I added 5e9637c629 (i18n: add
infrastructure for translating Git with gettext, 2011-11-18). Since
then we had a fix in 9c0495d23e (gettext.c: detect the vsnprintf bug
at runtime, 2013-12-01) so we're not running with the "set back to C
locale" hack on any modern system.
So having more than 1/4 of the file taken up by a digression about a
glibc bug that mostly doesn't happen to anyone anymore is just a
needless distraction. Shorten the comment to make a brief mention of
the bug, and where to find more info by looking at the git history for
this now-removed comment.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove a migratory warning I added in 6cdccfce1e (i18n: make
GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option, 2018-11-08) to give anyone using that
option in their builds a heads-up about the change from compile-time
to runtime introduced in that commit.
It's been more than 2 years since then, anyone who ran into this is
likely to have made a change as a result, so removing this is long
overdue.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The table describing the porcelain format in git-status(1) is helpful,
but it's not completely clear what the three sections mean, even to
some contributors. As a result, users are unable to find how to detect
common cases like merge conflicts programmatically.
Let's improve this situation by rephrasing to be more explicit about
what each of the sections in the table means, to tell users in plain
language which cases are occurring, and to describe what "unmerged"
means.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"directory cache" (or "directory cache index", "cache") are obsolete
terms which have been superseded by "index". Keeping them in the
documentation may be a source of confusion. This commit replaces
them with the current term, "index", on man pages.
Signed-off-by: Utku Gultopu <ugultopu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 014ade7484 (upload-pack: send ERR packet for non-tip objects,
2019-04-13) added a test that greps the output of a failed fetch to make
sure that upload-pack sent us the ERR packet we expected. But checking
this is racy; despite the argument in that commit, the client may still
be sending a "done" line after the server exits, causing it to die() on
a failed write() and never see the ERR packet at all.
This fails quite rarely on Linux, but more often on macOS. However, it
can be triggered reliably with:
diff --git a/fetch-pack.c b/fetch-pack.c
index 876f90c759..cf40de9092 100644
--- a/fetch-pack.c
+++ b/fetch-pack.c
@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ static int find_common(struct fetch_negotiator *negotiator,
done:
trace2_region_leave("fetch-pack", "negotiation_v0_v1", the_repository);
if (!got_ready || !no_done) {
+ sleep(1);
packet_buf_write(&req_buf, "done\n");
send_request(args, fd[1], &req_buf);
}
This is a real user-visible race that it would be nice to fix, but it's
tricky to do so: the client would have to speculatively try to read an
ERR packet after hitting a write() error. And at least for this error,
it's specific to v0 (since v2 does not enforce reachability at all).
So let's loosen the test to avoid annoying racy failures. If we
eventually do the read-after-failed-write thing, we can tighten it. And
if not, v0 will grow increasingly obsolete as servers support v2, so the
utility of this test will decrease over time anyway.
Note that we can still check stderr to make sure upload-pack bailed for
the reason we expected. It writes a similar message to stderr, and
because the server side is just another process connected by pipes,
we'll reliably see it. This would not be the case for git://, or for
ssh servers that do not relay stderr (e.g., GitHub's custom endpoint
does not).
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running this test in Cygwin, it's necessary to remove the inherited
access control lists from the Git working directory in order for later
permissions tests to work as expected.
As such, fix an error in the test script so that the ACLs are set for
the working directory, not a nonexistent subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Google may have changed Gmail security and now less secure app access
needs to be explicitly enabled if two-factor authentication is not in
place, otherwise send-email fails with:
5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at
5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials
Document steps required to make this work.
Signed-off-by: Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[dl: Clean up commit message and incorporate suggestions into patch.]
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git for-each-repo --config=X' should return success without calling any
subcommands when the config key 'X' has no value. The current
implementation instead segfaults.
A user could run into this issue if they used 'git maintenance start' to
initialize their cron schedule using 'git for-each-repo
--config=maintenance.repo ...' but then using 'git maintenance
unregister' to remove the config option. (Note: 'git maintenance stop'
would remove the config _and_ remove the cron schedule.)
Add a simple test to ensure this works. Use 'git help --no-such-option'
as the potential subcommand to ensure that we will hit a failure if the
subcommand is ever run.
Reported-by: Andreas Bühmann <dev@uuml.de>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The text says "if you can certify DCO then you add a Signed-off-by
trailer". But it does not say anything about people who cannot or
do not want to certify. A natural reading may be that if you do not
certify, you must not add the trailer, but it shouldn't hurt to be
overly explicit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A 3-year old test that was not testing anything useful has been
corrected.
* fc/t6030-bisect-reset-removes-auxiliary-files:
test: bisect-porcelain: fix location of files
"git worktree repair" learned to deal with the case where both the
repository and the worktree moved.
* es/worktree-repair-both-moved:
worktree: teach `repair` to fix multi-directional breakage
The ORT merge strategy learned to synthesize virtual ancestor tree
by recursively merging multiple merge bases together, just like the
recursive backend has done for years.
* en/merge-ort-recursive:
merge-ort: implement merge_incore_recursive()
merge-ort: make clear_internal_opts() aware of partial clearing
merge-ort: copy a few small helper functions from merge-recursive.c
commit: move reverse_commit_list() from merge-recursive
When a user does not tell "git pull" to use rebase or merge, the
command gives a loud message telling a user to choose between
rebase or merge but creates a merge anyway, forcing users who would
want to rebase to redo the operation. Fix an early part of this
problem by tightening the condition to give the message---there is
no reason to stop or force the user to choose between rebase or
merge if the history fast-forwards.
* fc/pull-merge-rebase:
pull: display default warning only when non-ff
pull: correct condition to trigger non-ff advice
pull: get rid of unnecessary global variable
pull: give the advice for choosing rebase/merge much later
pull: refactor fast-forward check
More "ORT" merge strategy.
* en/merge-ort-2:
merge-ort: add modify/delete handling and delayed output processing
merge-ort: add die-not-implemented stub handle_content_merge() function
merge-ort: add function grouping comments
merge-ort: add a paths_to_free field to merge_options_internal
merge-ort: add a path_conflict field to merge_options_internal
merge-ort: add a clear_internal_opts helper
merge-ort: add a few includes
The merge backend "done right" starts to emerge.
* en/merge-ort-impl:
merge-ort: free data structures in merge_finalize()
merge-ort: add implementation of record_conflicted_index_entries()
tree: enable cmp_cache_name_compare() to be used elsewhere
merge-ort: add implementation of checkout()
merge-ort: basic outline for merge_switch_to_result()
merge-ort: step 3 of tree writing -- handling subdirectories as we go
merge-ort: step 2 of tree writing -- function to create tree object
merge-ort: step 1 of tree writing -- record basenames, modes, and oids
merge-ort: have process_entries operate in a defined order
merge-ort: add a preliminary simple process_entries() implementation
merge-ort: avoid recursing into identical trees
merge-ort: record stage and auxiliary info for every path
merge-ort: compute a few more useful fields for collect_merge_info
merge-ort: avoid repeating fill_tree_descriptor() on the same tree
merge-ort: implement a very basic collect_merge_info()
merge-ort: add an err() function similar to one from merge-recursive
merge-ort: use histogram diff
merge-ort: port merge_start() from merge-recursive
merge-ort: add some high-level algorithm structure
merge-ort: setup basic internal data structures
