Filtering to support keyword expansion may need the name of
the file being filtered. In particular, to support p4 keywords
like
$File: //depot/product/dir/script.sh $
the smudge filter needs to know the name of the file it is
smudging.
Allow "%f" in the custom filter command line specified in the
configuration. This will be substituted by the filename
inside a single-quote pair to be passed to the shell.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Disable CRLF expansion when convert_to_working_tree() is called from
normalize_buffer(). This improves performance when merging branches
with conflicting line endings when core.eol=crlf or core.autocrlf=true
by making the normalization act as if core.eol=lf.
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, merging across changes in line ending normalization is
painful since files containing CRLF will conflict with normalized files,
even if the only difference between the two versions is the line
endings. Additionally, any "real" merge conflicts that exist are
obscured because every line in the file has a conflict.
Assume you start out with a repo that has a lot of text files with CRLF
checked in (A):
o---C
/ \
A---B---D
B: Add "* text=auto" to .gitattributes and normalize all files to
LF-only
C: Modify some of the text files
D: Try to merge C
You will get a ridiculous number of LF/CRLF conflicts when trying to
merge C into D, since the repository contents for C are "wrong" wrt the
new .gitattributes file.
Fix ll-merge so that the "base", "theirs" and "ours" stages are passed
through convert_to_worktree() and convert_to_git() before a three-way
merge. This ensures that all three stages are normalized in the same
way, removing from consideration differences that are only due to
normalization.
This feature is optional for now since it changes a low-level mechanism
and is not necessary for the majority of users. The "merge.renormalize"
config variable enables it.
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* gv/portable:
test-lib: use DIFF definition from GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
build: propagate $DIFF to scripts
Makefile: Tru64 portability fix
Makefile: HP-UX 10.20 portability fixes
Makefile: HPUX11 portability fixes
Makefile: SunOS 5.6 portability fix
inline declaration does not work on AIX
Allow disabling "inline"
Some platforms lack socklen_t type
Make NO_{INET_NTOP,INET_PTON} configured independently
Makefile: some platforms do not have hstrerror anywhere
git-compat-util.h: some platforms with mmap() lack MAP_FAILED definition
test_cmp: do not use "diff -u" on platforms that lack one
fixup: do not unconditionally disable "diff -u"
tests: use "test_cmp", not "diff", when verifying the result
Do not use "diff" found on PATH while building and installing
enums: omit trailing comma for portability
Makefile: -lpthread may still be necessary when libc has only pthread stubs
Rewrite dynamic structure initializations to runtime assignment
Makefile: pass CPPFLAGS through to fllow customization
Conflicts:
Makefile
wt-status.h
Introduce a new configuration variable, "core.eol", that allows the user
to set which line endings to use for end-of-line-normalized files in the
working directory. It defaults to "native", which means CRLF on Windows
and LF everywhere else.
Note that "core.autocrlf" overrides core.eol. This means that
[core]
autocrlf = true
puts CRLFs in the working directory even if core.eol is set to "lf".
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of production systems with
vendor compilers that choke unless all compound declarations can be
determined statically at compile time, for example hpux10.20 (I can
provide a comprehensive list of our supported platforms that exhibit
this problem if necessary).
This patch simply breaks apart any compound declarations with dynamic
initialisation expressions, and moves the initialisation until after
the last declaration in the same block, in all the places necessary to
have the offending compilers accept the code.
Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@thewrittenword.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As discussed on the list, "crlf" is not an optimal name. Linus
suggested "text", which is much better.
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the semantics of the "crlf" attribute so that it enables
end-of-line normalization when it is set, regardless of "core.autocrlf".
Add a new setting for "crlf": "auto", which enables end-of-line
conversion but does not override the automatic text file detection.
Add a new attribute "eol" with possible values "crlf" and "lf". When
set, this attribute enables normalization and forces git to use CRLF or
LF line endings in the working directory, respectively.
The line ending style to be used for normalized text files in the
working directory is set using "core.autocrlf". When it is set to
"true", CRLFs are used in the working directory; when set to "input" or
"false", LFs are used.
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, autocrlf would only work well for normalized
repositories. Any text files that contained CRLF in the repository
would cause problems, and would be modified when handled with
core.autocrlf set.
Change autocrlf to not do any conversions to files that in the
repository already contain a CR. git with autocrlf set will never
create such a file, or change a LF only file to contain CRs, so the
(new) assumption is that if a file contains a CR, it is intentional,
and autocrlf should not change that.
The following sequence should now always be a NOP even with autocrlf
set (assuming a clean working directory):
git checkout <something>
touch *
git add -A . (will add nothing)
git commit (nothing to commit)
Previously this would break for any text file containing a CR.
Some of you may have been folowing Eyvind's excellent thread about
trying to make end-of-line translation in git a bit smoother.
I decided to attack the problem from a different angle: Is it possible
to make autocrlf behave non-destructively for all the previous problem cases?
Stealing the problem from Eyvind's initial mail (paraphrased and
summarized a bit):
1. Setting autocrlf globally is a pain since autocrlf does not work well
with CRLF in the repo
2. Setting it in individual repos is hard since you do it "too late"
(the clone will get it wrong)
3. If someone checks in a file with CRLF later, you get into problems again
4. If a repository once has contained CRLF, you can't tell autocrlf
at which commit everything is sane again
5. autocrlf does needless work if you know that all your users want
the same EOL style.
I belive that this patch makes autocrlf a safe (and good) default
setting for Windows, and this solves problems 1-4 (it solves 2 by being
set by default, which is early enough for clone).
I implemented it by looking for CR charactes in the index, and
aborting any conversion attempt if this is found.
Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finag@pvv.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If there are foreign $Id$ keywords in the repository, they are most
likely there for a reason. Let's keep them on checkout (which is also
what the documentation indicates). Foreign $Id$ keywords are now
recognized by there being multiple space separated fields in $Id:xxxxx$.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Grubbström <grubba@grubba.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code to contract $Id:xxxxx$ strings could eat an arbitrary amount
of source text if the terminating $ was lost. It now refuses to
contract $Id:xxxxx$ strings spanning multiple lines.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Grubbström <grubba@grubba.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sp/maint-push-sideband:
receive-pack: Send hook output over side band #2
receive-pack: Wrap status reports inside side-band-64k
receive-pack: Refactor how capabilities are shown to the client
send-pack: demultiplex a sideband stream with status data
run-command: support custom fd-set in async
run-command: Allow stderr to be a caller supplied pipe
Update git fsck --full short description to mention packs
Conflicts:
run-command.c
This patch adds the possibility to supply a set of non-0 file
descriptors for async process communication instead of the
default-created pipe.
Additionally, we now support bi-directional communiction with the
async procedure, by giving the async function both read and write
file descriptors.
To retain compatiblity and similar "API feel" with start_command,
we require start_async callers to set .out = -1 to get a readable
file descriptor. If either of .in or .out is 0, we supply no file
descriptor to the async process.
[sp: Note: Erik started this patch, and a huge bulk of it is
his work. All bugs were introduced later by Shawn.]
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/conflict-marker-size:
rerere: honor conflict-marker-size attribute
rerere: prepare for customizable conflict marker length
conflict-marker-size: new attribute
rerere: use ll_merge() instead of using xdl_merge()
merge-tree: use ll_merge() not xdl_merge()
xdl_merge(): allow passing down marker_size in xmparam_t
xdl_merge(): introduce xmparam_t for merge specific parameters
git_attr(): fix function signature
Conflicts:
builtin-merge-file.c
ll-merge.c
xdiff/xdiff.h
xdiff/xmerge.c
The function took (name, namelen) as its arguments, but all the public
callers wanted to pass a full string.
Demote the counted-string interface to an internal API status, and allow
public callers to just pass the string to the function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that we have the use_shell feature, these callsites can
all be converted with small changes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As a general guideline, functions in git's code return zero to indicate
success and negative values to indicate failure. The run_command family of
functions followed this guideline. But there are actually two different
kinds of failure:
- failures of system calls;
- non-zero exit code of the program that was run.
Usually, a non-zero exit code of the program is a failure and means a
failure to the caller. Except that sometimes it does not. For example, the
exit code of merge programs (e.g. external merge drivers) conveys
information about how the merge failed, and not all exit calls are
actually failures.
Furthermore, the return value of run_command is sometimes used as exit
code by the caller.
This change arranges that the exit code of the program is returned as a
positive value, which can now be regarded as the "result" of the function.
System call failures continue to be reported as negative values.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many call sites use strbuf_init(&foo, 0) to initialize local
strbuf variable "foo" which has not been accessed since its
declaration. These can be replaced with a static initialization
using the STRBUF_INIT macro which is just as readable, saves a
function call, and takes up fewer lines.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data
parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify
global variables.
With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped
that this will help the libification effort.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
There are two heuristics in Git to detect whether a file is binary
or text. One in xdiff-interface.c (which is taken from GNU diff)
relies on existence of the NUL byte at the beginning. However,
convert.c used a different heuristic, which relied on the percent
of non-printable symbols (less than 1% for text files).
Due to differences in detection whether a file is binary or not,
it was possible that a file that diff treats as binary could be
treated as text by CRLF conversion. This is very confusing for a
user who sees that 'git diff' shows the file as binary expects it
to be added as binary.
This patch makes is_binary to consider any file that contains at
least one NUL character as binary, to ensure that the heuristics
used for CRLF conversion is tighter than what is used by diff.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When apply_filter() runs the external (clean or smudge) filter program, it
needs to pass the writable end of a pipe as its stdout. For this purpose,
it used to dup2(2) the file descriptor explicitly to stdout. Now we use
the facilities of start_command() to do it for us.
Furthermore, the path argument of a subordinate function, filter_buffer(),
was not used, so here we replace it to pass the fd instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The previous code already used finish_command() to wait for the process
to terminate, but did not use start_command() to run it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* crlf_to_git and ident_to_git:
Don't grow the buffer if there is enough space in the first place.
As a side effect, when the editing is done "in place", we don't grow, so
the buffer pointer doesn't changes, and `src' isn't invalidated anymore.
Thanks to Bernt Hansen for the bug report.
* apply_filter:
Fix memory leak due to fake in-place editing that didn't collected the
old buffer when the filter succeeds. Also a cosmetic fix.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
For that purpose, the ->buf is always initialized with a char * buf living
in the strbuf module. It is made a char * so that we can sloppily accept
things that perform: sb->buf[0] = '\0', and because you can't pass "" as an
initializer for ->buf without making gcc unhappy for very good reasons.
strbuf_init/_detach/_grow have been fixed to trust ->alloc and not ->buf
anymore.
as a consequence strbuf_detach is _mandatory_ to detach a buffer, copying
->buf isn't an option anymore, if ->buf is going to escape from the scope,
and eventually be free'd.
API changes:
* strbuf_setlen now always works, so just make strbuf_reset a convenience
macro.
* strbuf_detatch takes a size_t* optional argument (meaning it can be
NULL) to copy the buffer's len, as it was needed for this refactor to
make the code more readable, and working like the callers.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Now, those functions take an "out" strbuf argument, where they store their
result if any. In that case, it also returns 1, else it returns 0.
* those functions support "in place" editing, in the sense that it's OK to
call them this way:
convert_to_git(path, sb->buf, sb->len, sb);
When doable, conversions are done in place for real, else the strbuf
content is just replaced with the new one, transparentely for the caller.
If you want to create a new filter working this way, being the accumulation
of filter1, filter2, ... filtern, then your meta_filter would be:
int meta_filter(..., const char *src, size_t len, struct strbuf *sb)
{
int ret = 0;
ret |= filter1(...., src, len, sb);
if (ret) {
src = sb->buf;
len = sb->len;
}
ret |= filter2(...., src, len, sb);
if (ret) {
src = sb->buf;
len = sb->len;
}
....
return ret | filtern(..., src, len, sb);
}
That's why subfilters the convert_to_* functions called were also rewritten
to work this way.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
convert_sha1_file() became unused by the previous patch -- remove it.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the repository contained an expanded ident keyword (i.e. $Id:XXXX$),
then the wrong bytes were discarded, and the Id keyword was not
expanded. The fault was in convert.c:ident_to_worktree().
Previously, when a "$Id:" was found in the repository version,
ident_to_worktree() would search for the next "$" after this, and
discarded everything it found until then. That was done with the loop:
do {
ch = *cp++;
if (ch == '$')
break;
rem--;
} while (rem);
The above loop left cp pointing one character _after_ the final "$"
(because of ch = *cp++). This was different from the non-expanded case,
were cp is left pointing at the "$", and was different from the comment
which stated "discard up to but not including the closing $". This
patch fixes that by making the loop:
do {
ch = *cp;
if (ch == '$')
break;
cp++;
rem--;
} while (rem);
That is, cp is tested _then_ incremented.
This loop exits if it finds a "$" or if it runs out of bytes in the
source. After this loop, if there was no closing "$" the expansion is
skipped, and the outer loop is allowed to continue leaving this
non-keyword as it was. However, when the "$" is found, size is
corrected, before running the expansion:
size -= (cp - src);
This is wrong; size is going to be corrected anyway after the expansion,
so there is no need to do it here. This patch removes that redundant
correction.
To help find this bug, I heavily commented the routine; those comments
are included here as a bonus.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
gitattributes.txt says, of the crlf attribute:
Set::
Setting the `crlf` attribute on a path is meant to mark
the path as a "text" file. 'core.autocrlf' conversion
takes place without guessing the content type by
inspection.
That is to say that the crlf attribute does not force the file to have
CRLF line endings, instead it removes the autocrlf guesswork and forces
the file to be treated as text. Then, whatever line ending is defined
by the autocrlf setting is applied.
However, that is not what convert.c was doing. The conversion to CRLF
was being skipped in crlf_to_worktree() when the following condition was
true:
action == CRLF_GUESS && auto_crlf <= 0
That is to say conversion took place when not in guess mode (crlf attribute
not specified) or core.autocrlf set to true. This was wrong. It meant
that the crlf attribute being on for a given file _forced_ CRLF
conversion, when actually it should force the file to be treated as
text, and converted accordingly. The real test should simply be
auto_crlf <= 0
That is to say, if core.autocrlf is falsei (or input), conversion from
LF to CRLF is never done. When core.autocrlf is true, conversion from
LF to CRLF is done only when in CRLF_GUESS (and the guess is "text"), or
CRLF_TEXT mode.
Similarly for crlf_to_worktree(), if core.autocrlf is false, no conversion
should _ever_ take place. In reality it was only not taking place if
core.autocrlf was false _and_ the crlf attribute was unspecified.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As noted by Johan Herland, git-archive is a kind of checkout and needs
to apply any checkout filters that might be configured.
This patch adds the convenience function convert_sha1_file which returns
a buffer containing the object's contents, after converting, if necessary
(i.e. it's a combination of read_sha1_file and convert_to_working_tree).
Direct calls to read_sha1_file in git-archive are then replaced by calls
to convert_sha1_file.
Since convert_sha1_file expects its path argument to be NUL-terminated --
a convention it inherits from convert_to_working_tree -- the patch also
changes the path handling in archive-tar.c to always NUL-terminate the
string. It used to solely rely on the len field of struct strbuf before.
archive-zip.c already NUL-terminates the path and thus needs no such
change.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
$Id$ is present already in SVN and CVS; it would mean that people
converting their existing repositories won't have to make any changes to
the source files should they want to make use of the ident attribute.
Given that it's a feature that's meant to calm those very people, it
seems obtuse to make them edit every file just to make use of it.
I think that bzr uses $Id$; Mercurial has examples hooks for $Id$;
monotone has $Id$ on its wishlist. I can't think of a good reason not
to stick with the de-facto standard and call ours $Id$ instead of
$ident$.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The interface is similar to the custom low-level merge drivers.
First you configure your filter driver by defining 'filter.<name>.*'
variables in the configuration.
filter.<name>.clean filter command to run upon checkin
filter.<name>.smudge filter command to run upon checkout
Then you assign filter attribute to each path, whose name
matches the custom filter driver's name.
Example:
(in .gitattributes)
*.c filter=indent
(in config)
[filter "indent"]
clean = indent
smudge = cat
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The 'ident' attribute set to path squashes "$ident:<any bytes
except dollor sign>$" to "$ident$" upon checkin, and expands it
to "$ident: <blob SHA-1> $" upon checkout.
As we have two conversions that affect checkin/checkout paths,
clarify how they interact with each other.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also, noticed by valgrind: the code caused a read out-of-bounds.
Some comments updated as well (they still reflected old calling
conventions).
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This separates the checkattr() call and interpretation of the
returned value specific to the 'crlf' attribute into separate
routines, so that we can run a single call to checkattr() to
check for more than one attributes, and then interprete what
the returned settings mean separately.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This updates the semantics of 'crlf' so that .gitattributes file
can say "this is text, even though it may look funny".
Setting the `crlf` attribute on a path is meant to mark the path
as a "text" file. 'core.autocrlf' conversion takes place
without guessing the content type by inspection.
Unsetting the `crlf` attribute on a path is meant to mark the
path as a "binary" file. The path never goes through line
endings conversion upon checkin/checkout.
Unspecified `crlf` attribute tells git to apply the
`core.autocrlf` conversion when the file content looks like
text.
Setting the `crlf` attribut to string value "input" is similar
to setting the attribute to `true`, but also forces git to act
as if `core.autocrlf` is set to `input` for the path.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It was bothering me a lot that I abused small integer values
casted to (void *) to represent non string values in
gitattributes. This corrects it by making the type of attribute
values (const char *), and using the address of a few statically
allocated character buffer to denote true/false. Unset attributes
are represented as having NULLs as their values.
Added in-header documentation to explain how git_checkattr()
routine should be called.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows you to define three values (and possibly more) to
each attribute: true, false, and unset.
Typically the handlers that notice and act on attribute values
treat "unset" attribute to mean "do your default thing"
(e.g. crlf that is unset would trigger "guess from contents"),
so being able to override a setting to an unset state is
actually useful.
- If you want to set the attribute value to true, have an entry
in .gitattributes file that mentions the attribute name; e.g.
*.o binary
- If you want to set the attribute value explicitly to false,
use '-'; e.g.
*.a -diff
- If you want to make the attribute value _unset_, perhaps to
override an earlier entry, use '!'; e.g.
*.a -diff
c.i.a !diff
This also allows string values to attributes, with the natural
syntax:
attrname=attrvalue
but you cannot use it, as nobody takes notice and acts on
it yet.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Earlier we said 'crlf lets the path go through core.autocrlf
process while !crlf disables it altogether'. This fixes the
semantics to:
- Lack of 'crlf' attribute makes core.autocrlf to apply
(i.e. we guess based on the contents and if platform
expresses its desire to have CRLF line endings via
core.autocrlf, we do so).
- Setting 'crlf' attribute to true forces CRLF line endings in
working tree files, even if blob does not look like text
(e.g. contains NUL or other bytes we consider binary).
- Setting 'crlf' attribute to false disables conversion.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This defines the semantics of 'crlf' attribute as an example.
When a path has this attribute unset (i.e. '!crlf'), autocrlf
line-end conversion is not applied.
Eventually we would want to let users to build a pipeline of
processing to munge blob data to filesystem format (and in the
other direction) based on combination of attributes, and at that
point the mechanism in convert_to_{git,working_tree}() that
looks at 'crlf' attribute needs to be enhanced. Perhaps the
existing 'crlf' would become the first step in the input chain,
and the last step in the output chain.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
