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>
* wk/user-manual:
user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updates
user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text
user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'
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
In commit 9db31bdf (submodule: Add --force option for git submodule
update, 2011-04-01) we added the option to the implementation's usage
synopsis but forgot to add it to the synopsis in the command
documentation. Add the option to the synopsis in the same location it
is reported in usage and re-wrap the options to avoid long lines.
Signed-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'for-junio' of git://github.com/kusma/git:
wincred: improve compatibility with windows versions
wincred: accept CRLF on stdin to simplify console usage
This reverts commit 78457bc0cc.
commit 28c5d9e ("vcs-svn: drop string_pool") previously removed
the only call-site for strtok_r. So let's get rid of the compat
implementation as well.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On WinXP, the windows credential helper doesn't work at all (due to missing
Cred[Un]PackAuthenticationBuffer APIs). On Win7, the credential format used
by wincred is incompatible with native Windows tools (such as the control
panel applet or 'cmdkey.exe /generic'). These Windows tools only set the
TargetName, UserName and CredentialBlob members of the CREDENTIAL
structure (where CredentialBlob is the UTF-16-encoded password).
Remove the unnecessary packing / unpacking of the password, along with the
related API definitions, for compatibility with Windows XP.
Don't use CREDENTIAL_ATTRIBUTEs to identify credentials for compatibility
with Windows credential manager tools. Parse the protocol, username, host
and path fields from the credential's target name instead.
Credentials created with an old wincred version will have mangled or empty
passwords after this change.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
The windows credential helper currently only accepts LF on stdin, but bash
and cmd.exe both send CRLF. This prevents interactive use in the console.
Change the stdin parser to optionally accept CRLF.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
The term "bisect" was translated as "halbieren", we should
translate it as "binäre Suche" (binary search). While at
there, we should leave "bisect run" untranslated since it's
a subcommand of "git bisect".
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Translate 5 new messages came from git.pot update in 235537a
(l10n: git.pot: v1.8.2 round 3 (5 new)).
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Translate 35 new messages came from git.pot update
in 9caaf23 (l10n: Update git.pot (35 new, 14 removed
messages)).
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Further updates to the user manual.
* wk/user-manual:
user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updates
user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text
user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'
A change made on v1.8.1.x maintenance track had a nasty regression
to break the build when autoconf is used.
* jn/less-reconfigure:
Makefile: avoid infinite loop on configure.ac change
"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
An earlier change to config.mak.autogen broke a build driven by the
./configure script when --htmldir is not specified on the command
line of ./configure.
* ct/autoconf-htmldir:
Bugfix: undefined htmldir in config.mak.autogen
* bw/get-tz-offset-perl:
cvsimport: format commit timestamp ourselves without using strftime
perl/Git.pm: fix get_tz_offset to properly handle DST boundary cases
Move Git::SVN::get_tz to Git::get_tz_offset
"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>
