"git ls-files" can and does show multiple entries when the index is
unmerged, which is a source for confusion unless -s/-u option is in
use. A new option --deduplicate has been introduced.
* zh/ls-files-deduplicate:
ls-files.c: add --deduplicate option
ls_files.c: consolidate two for loops into one
ls_files.c: bugfix for --deleted and --modified
Document, clean-up and optimize the code around the cache-tree
extension in the index.
* ds/cache-tree-basics:
cache-tree: speed up consecutive path comparisons
cache-tree: use ce_namelen() instead of strlen()
index-format: discuss recursion of cache-tree better
index-format: update preamble to cache tree extension
index-format: use 'cache tree' over 'cached tree'
cache-tree: trace regions for prime_cache_tree
cache-tree: trace regions for I/O
cache-tree: use trace2 in cache_tree_update()
unpack-trees: add trace2 regions
tree-walk: report recursion counts
"git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=<how>" option.
* so/log-diff-merge: (32 commits)
t4013: add tests for --diff-merges=first-parent
doc/git-show: include --diff-merges description
doc/rev-list-options: document --first-parent changes merges format
doc/diff-generate-patch: mention new --diff-merges option
doc/git-log: describe new --diff-merges options
diff-merges: add '--diff-merges=1' as synonym for 'first-parent'
diff-merges: add old mnemonic counterparts to --diff-merges
diff-merges: let new options enable diff without -p
diff-merges: do not imply -p for new options
diff-merges: implement new values for --diff-merges
diff-merges: make -m/-c/--cc explicitly mutually exclusive
diff-merges: refactor opt settings into separate functions
diff-merges: get rid of now empty diff_merges_init_revs()
diff-merges: group diff-merge flags next to each other inside 'rev_info'
diff-merges: split 'ignore_merges' field
diff-merges: fix -m to properly override -c/--cc
t4013: add tests for -m failing to override -c/--cc
t4013: support test_expect_failure through ':failure' magic
diff-merges: revise revs->diff flag handling
diff-merges: handle imply -p on -c/--cc logic for log.c
...
Test clean-up plus UI improvement by hiding extra refs that
the prefetch task uses from "log --decorate" output.
* ds/maintenance-prefetch-cleanup:
t7900: clean up some broken refs
maintenance: set log.excludeDecoration durin prefetch
The test case added by 9466e3809d ("blame: enable funcname blaming with
userdiff driver", 2020-11-01) forgot to quote variable expansions. This
causes failures when the current directory contains blanks.
One variable that the test case introduces will not have IFS characters
and could remain without quotes, but let's quote all expansions for
consistency, not just the one that has the path name.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Acked-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using "1~5" isn't portable. Nobody seems to have noticed, since perhaps
people don't tend to run the perf suite on more exotic platforms. Still,
it's better to set a good example.
We can use:
perl -ne 'print if $. % 5 == 1'
instead. But we can further observe that perl does a good job of the
other parts of this pipeline, and fold the whole thing together.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'./t1234-foo.sh --stress-jobs=X ...' is supposed to run that test
script in X parallel jobs, but the number of jobs specified on the
command line is entirely ignored if other '--stress'-related options
follow. I.e. both './t1234-foo.sh --stress-jobs=X --stress-limit=Y'
and './t1234-foo.sh --stress-jobs=X --stress' fall back to using twice
the number of CPUs parallel jobs instead.
The former has been broken since commit de69e6f6c9 (tests: let
--stress-limit=<N> imply --stress, 2019-03-03) [1], which started to
unconditionally overwrite the $stress variable holding the specified
number of jobs in its effort to imply '--stress'. The latter has been
broken since f545737144 (tests: introduce --stress-jobs=<N>,
2019-03-03), because it didn't consider that handling '--stress' will
overwrite that variable as well.
We could fix this by being more careful about (over)writing that
$stress variable and checking first whether it has already been set.
But I think it's cleaner to use a dedicated variable to hold the
number of specified parallel jobs, so let's do that instead.
[1] In de69e6f6c9 there was no '--stress-jobs=X' option yet, the
number of parallel jobs had to be specified via '--stress=X', so,
strictly speaking, de69e6f6c9 broke './t1234-foo.sh --stress=X
--stress-limit=Y'.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs
via environment variables, and tweak the way GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
encodes variable/value pairs to make it more robust.
* ps/config-env-pairs:
config: allow specifying config entries via envvar pairs
environment: make `getenv_safe()` a public function
config: store "git -c" variables using more robust format
config: parse more robust format in GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
config: extract function to parse config pairs
quote: make sq_dequote_step() a public function
config: add new way to pass config via `--config-env`
git: add `--super-prefix` to usage string
"git bundle" learns "--stdin" option to read its refs from the
standard input. Also, it now does not lose refs whey they point
at the same object.
* jx/bundle:
bundle: arguments can be read from stdin
bundle: lost objects when removing duplicate pendings
test: add helper functions for git-bundle
Clean-up docs, codepaths and tests around mailmap.
* ab/mailmap: (22 commits)
shortlog: remove unused(?) "repo-abbrev" feature
mailmap doc + tests: document and test for case-insensitivity
mailmap tests: add tests for empty "<>" syntax
mailmap tests: add tests for whitespace syntax
mailmap tests: add a test for comment syntax
mailmap doc + tests: add better examples & test them
tests: refactor a few tests to use "test_commit --append"
test-lib functions: add an --append option to test_commit
test-lib functions: add --author support to test_commit
test-lib functions: document arguments to test_commit
test-lib functions: expand "test_commit" comment template
mailmap: test for silent exiting on missing file/blob
mailmap tests: get rid of overly complex blame fuzzing
mailmap tests: add a test for "not a blob" error
mailmap tests: remove redundant entry in test
mailmap tests: improve --stdin tests
mailmap tests: modernize syntax & test idioms
mailmap tests: use our preferred whitespace syntax
mailmap doc: start by mentioning the comment syntax
check-mailmap doc: note config options
...
"git fetch" learns to treat ref updates atomically in all-or-none
fashion, just like "git push" does, with the new "--atomic" option.
* ps/fetch-atomic:
fetch: implement support for atomic reference updates
fetch: allow passing a transaction to `s_update_ref()`
fetch: refactor `s_update_ref` to use common exit path
fetch: use strbuf to format FETCH_HEAD updates
fetch: extract writing to FETCH_HEAD
When more than one commit with the same patch ID appears on one
side, "git log --cherry-pick A...B" did not exclude them all when a
commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it
does.
* jk/log-cherry-pick-duplicate-patches:
patch-ids: handle duplicate hashmap entries
Prepare tests not to be affected by the name of the default branch
"git init" creates.
* js/default-branch-name-tests-final-stretch: (28 commits)
tests: drop prereq `PREPARE_FOR_MAIN_BRANCH` where no longer needed
t99*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
tests(git-p4): transition to the default branch name `main`
t9[5-7]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t9[0-4]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t8*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t7[5-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t7[0-4]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t6[4-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t64*: preemptively adjust alignment to prepare for `master` -> `main`
t6[0-3]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t5[6-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t55[4-9]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t55[23]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t551*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t550*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t5503: prepare aligned comment for replacing `master` with `main`
t5[0-4]*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
t5323: prepare centered comment for `master` -> `main`
t4*: adjust the references to the default branch name "main"
...
After expiring a reflog and making a single commit, the reflog for
the branch would record a single entry that knows both @{0} and
@{1}, but we failed to answer "what commit were we on?", i.e. @{1}
* dl/reflog-with-single-entry:
refs: allow @{n} to work with n-sized reflog
refs: factor out set_read_ref_cutoffs()
"git diff" showed a submodule working tree with untracked cruft as
"Submodule commit <objectname>-dirty", but a natural expectation is
that the "-dirty" indicator would align with "git describe --dirty",
which does not consider having untracked files in the working tree
as source of dirtiness. The inconsistency has been fixed.
* sj/untracked-files-in-submodule-directory-is-not-dirty:
diff: do not show submodule with untracked files as "-dirty"
Warn loudly when the "pack-redundant" command, which has been left
stale with almost unusable performance issues, gets used, as we no
longer want to recommend its use (instead just "repack -d" instead).
* jc/deprecate-pack-redundant:
pack-redundant: gauge the usage before proposing its removal
Newline characters in the host and path part of git:// URL are
now forbidden.
* jk/forbid-lf-in-git-url:
fsck: reject .gitmodules git:// urls with newlines
git_connect_git(): forbid newlines in host and path
The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD
display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up.
* ab/branch-sort:
branch: show "HEAD detached" first under reverse sort
branch: sort detached HEAD based on a flag
ref-filter: move ref_sorting flags to a bitfield
ref-filter: move "cmp_fn" assignment into "else if" arm
ref-filter: add braces to if/else if/else chain
branch tests: add to --sort tests
branch: change "--local" to "--list" in comment
File-level rename detection updates.
* en/diffcore-rename:
diffcore-rename: remove unnecessary duplicate entry checks
diffcore-rename: accelerate rename_dst setup
diffcore-rename: simplify and accelerate register_rename_src()
t4058: explore duplicate tree entry handling in a bit more detail
t4058: add more tests and documentation for duplicate tree entry handling
diffcore-rename: reduce jumpiness in progress counters
diffcore-rename: simplify limit check
diffcore-rename: avoid usage of global in too_many_rename_candidates()
diffcore-rename: rename num_create to num_destinations
"git mktag" validates its input using its own rules before writing
a tag object---it has been updated to share the logic with "git
fsck".
* ab/mktag: (23 commits)
mktag: add a --[no-]strict option
mktag: mark strings for translation
mktag: convert to parse-options
mktag: allow omitting the header/body \n separator
mktag: allow turning off fsck.extraHeaderEntry
fsck: make fsck_config() re-usable
mktag: use fsck instead of custom verify_tag()
mktag: use puts(str) instead of printf("%s\n", str)
mktag: remove redundant braces in one-line body "if"
mktag: use default strbuf_read() hint
mktag tests: test verify_object() with replaced objects
mktag tests: improve verify_object() test coverage
mktag tests: test "hash-object" compatibility
mktag tests: stress test whitespace handling
mktag tests: run "fsck" after creating "mytag"
mktag tests: don't create "mytag" twice
mktag tests: don't redirect stderr to a file needlessly
mktag tests: remove needless SHA-1 hardcoding
mktag tests: use "test_commit" helper
mktag tests: don't needlessly use a subshell
...
During a merge conflict, the name of a file may appear multiple
times in "git ls-files" output, once for each stage. If you use
both `--delete` and `--modify` at the same time, the output may
mention a deleted file twice.
When none of the '-t', '-u', or '-s' options is in use, these
duplicate entries do not add much value to the output.
Introduce a new '--deduplicate' option to suppress them.
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
[jc: extended doc and rewritten commit log]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
The tests for the 'prefetch' task create remotes and fetch refs into
'refs/prefetch/<remote>/' and tags into 'refs/tags/'. These tests use
the remotes to create objects not intended to be seen by the "local"
repository.
In that sense, the incrmental-repack tasks did not have these objects
and refs in mind. That test replaces the object directory with a
specific pack-file layout for testing the batch-size logic. However,
this causes some operations to start showing warnings such as:
error: refs/prefetch/remote1/one does not point to a valid object!
error: refs/tags/one does not point to a valid object!
This only shows up if you run the tests verbosely and watch the output.
It caught my eye and I _thought_ that there was a bug where 'git gc' or
'git repack' wouldn't check 'refs/prefetch/' before pruning objects.
That is incorrect. Those commands do handle 'refs/prefetch/' correctly.
All that is left is to clean up the tests in t7900-maintenance.sh to
remove these tags and refs that are not being repacked for the
incremental-repack tests. Use update-ref to ensure this works with all
ref backends.
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'prefetch' task fetches refs from all remotes and places them in the
refs/prefetch/<remote>/ refspace. As this task is intended to run in the
background, this allows users to keep their local data very close to the
remote servers' data while not updating the users' understanding of the
remote refs in refs/remotes/<remote>/.
However, this can clutter 'git log' decorations with copies of the refs
with the full name 'refs/prefetch/<remote>/<branch>'.
The log.excludeDecoration config option was added in a6be5e67 (log: add
log.excludeDecoration config option, 2020-05-16) for exactly this
purpose.
Ensure we set this only for users that would benefit from it by
assigning it at the beginning of the prefetch task. Other alternatives
would be during 'git maintenance register' or 'git maintenance start',
but those might assign the config even when the prefetch task is
disabled by existing config. Further, users could run 'git maintenance
run --task=prefetch' using their own scripting or scheduling. This
provides the best coverage to automatically update the config when
valuable.
It is improbable, but possible, that users might want to run the
prefetch task _and_ see these refs in their log decorations. This seems
incredibly unlikely to me, but users can always opt-in on a
command-by-command basis using --decorate-refs=refs/prefetch/.
Test that this works in a few cases. In particular, ensure that our
assignment of log.excludeDecoration=refs/prefetch/ is additive to other
existing exclusions. Further, ensure we do not add multiple copies in
multiple runs.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The index has a "cache tree" extension. This corresponds to a
significant API implemented in cache-tree.[ch]. However, there are a few
places that refer to this erroneously as "cached tree". These are rare,
but notably the index-format.txt file itself makes this error.
The only other reference is in t7104-reset-hard.sh.
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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
While we currently have the `GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS` environment variable
which can be used to pass runtime configuration data to git processes,
it's an internal implementation detail and not supposed to be used by
end users.
Next to being for internal use only, this way of passing config entries
has a major downside: the config keys need to be parsed as they contain
both key and value in a single variable. As such, it is left to the user
to escape any potentially harmful characters in the value, which is
quite hard to do if values are controlled by a third party.
This commit thus adds a new way of adding config entries via the
environment which gets rid of this shortcoming. If the user passes the
`GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=$n` environment variable, Git will parse environment
variable pairs `GIT_CONFIG_KEY_$i` and `GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_$i` for each
`i` in `[0,n)`.
While the same can be achieved with `git -c <name>=<value>`, one may
wish to not do so for potentially sensitive information. E.g. if one
wants to set `http.extraHeader` to contain an authentication token,
doing so via `-c` would trivially leak those credentials via e.g. ps(1),
which typically also shows command arguments.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous commit added a new format for $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS which
is able to robustly handle subsections with "=" in them. Let's start
writing the new format. Unfortunately, this does much less than you'd
hope, because "git -c" itself has the same ambiguity problem! But it's
still worth doing:
- we've now pushed the problem from the inter-process communication
into the "-c" command-line parser. This would free us up to later
add an unambiguous format there (e.g., separate arguments like "git
--config key value", etc).
- for --config-env, the parser already disallows "=" in the
environment variable name. So:
git --config-env section.with=equals.key=ENVVAR
will robustly set section.with=equals.key to the contents of
$ENVVAR.
The new test shows the improvement for --config-env.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we stuff config options into GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS, we shell-quote
each one as a single unit, like:
'section.one=value1' 'section.two=value2'
On the reading side, we de-quote to get the individual strings, and then
parse them by splitting on the first "=" we find. This format is
ambiguous, because an "=" may appear in a subsection. So the config
represented in a file by both:
[section "subsection=with=equals"]
key = value
and:
[section]
subsection = with=equals.key=value
ends up in this flattened format like:
'section.subsection=with=equals.key=value'
and we can't tell which was desired. We have traditionally resolved this
by taking the first "=" we see starting from the left, meaning that we
allowed arbitrary content in the value, but not in the subsection.
Let's make our environment format a bit more robust by separately
quoting the key and value. That turns those examples into:
'section.subsection=with=equals.key'='value'
and:
'section.subsection'='with=equals.key=value'
respectively, and we can tell the difference between them. We can detect
which format is in use for any given element of the list based on the
presence of the unquoted "=". That means we can continue to allow the
old format to work to support any callers which manually used the old
format, and we can even intermingle the two formats. The old format
wasn't documented, and nobody was supposed to be using it. But it's
likely that such callers exist in the wild, so it's nice if we can avoid
breaking them. Likewise, it may be possible to trigger an older version
of "git -c" that runs a script that calls into a newer version of "git
-c"; that new version would see the intermingled format.
This does create one complication, which is that the obvious format in
the new scheme for
[section]
some-bool
is:
'section.some-bool'
with no equals. We'd mistake that for an old-style variable. And it even
has the same meaning in the old style, but:
[section "with=equals"]
some-bool
does not. It would be:
'section.with=equals=some-bool'
which we'd take to mean:
[section]
with = equals=some-bool
in the old, ambiguous style. Likewise, we can't use:
'section.some-bool'=''
because that's ambiguous with an actual empty string. Instead, we'll
again use the shell-quoting to give us a hint, and use:
'section.some-bool'=
to show that we have no value.
Note that this commit just expands the reading side. We'll start writing
the new format via "git -c" in a future patch. In the meantime, the
existing "git -c" tests will make sure we didn't break reading the old
format. But we'll also add some explicit coverage of the two formats to
make sure we continue to handle the old one after we move the writing
side over.
And one final note: since we're now using the shell-quoting as a
semantically meaningful hint, this closes the door to us ever allowing
arbitrary shell quoting, like:
'a'shell'would'be'ok'with'this'.key=value
But we have never supported that (only what sq_quote() would produce),
and we are probably better off keeping things simple, robust, and
backwards-compatible, than trying to make it easier for humans. We'll
continue not to advertise the format of the variable to users, and
instead keep "git -c" as the recommended mechanism for setting config
(even if we are trying to be kind not to break users who may be relying
on the current undocumented format).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the "git blame --porcelain" output, lines that ends with three
integers may not be the line that shows a commit object with line
numbers and block length (the contents from the blamed file or the
summary field can have a line that happens to match). Also, the
names of the author may have more than three SP separated tokens
("git blame -L242,+1 cf6de18aab Documentation/SubmittingPatches"
gives an example). The existing "grep -E | cut" pipeline is a bit
too loose on these two points.
While they can be assumed on the test data, it is not so hard to
use the right pattern from the documented format, so let's do so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a pipe, only the return code of the last command is used. Thus, all
other commands will have their return codes masked. Rewrite pipes so
that there are no git commands upstream so that their failure is
reported.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The usage comment for test_commit() shows that the --author option
should be given as `--author=<author>`. However, this is incorrect as it
only works when given as `--author <author>`. Correct this erroneous
text.
Also, for the sake of correctness, fix the description as well since we
invoke `git commit` with `--author <author>`, not `--author=<author>`.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
