Both fetch and push support pattern refspecs which allow fetching or
pushing references that match a specific pattern. Because these patterns
are globs, they have somewhat limited ability to express more complex
situations.
For example, suppose you wish to fetch all branches from a remote except
for a specific one. To allow this, you must setup a set of refspecs
which match only the branches you want. Because refspecs are either
explicit name matches, or simple globs, many patterns cannot be
expressed.
Add support for a new type of refspec, referred to as "negative"
refspecs. These are prefixed with a '^' and mean "exclude any ref
matching this refspec". They can only have one "side" which always
refers to the source. During a fetch, this refers to the name of the ref
on the remote. During a push, this refers to the name of the ref on the
local side.
With negative refspecs, users can express more complex patterns. For
example:
git fetch origin refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* ^refs/heads/dontwant
will fetch all branches on origin into remotes/origin, but will exclude
fetching the branch named dontwant.
Refspecs today are commutative, meaning that order doesn't expressly
matter. Rather than forcing an implied order, negative refspecs will
always be applied last. That is, in order to match, a ref must match at
least one positive refspec, and match none of the negative refspecs.
This is similar to how negative pathspecs work.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a function for building a refspec using printf-style formatting. It
frees callers from managing their own buffer. Use it throughout the
tree to shorten and simplify its callers.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commit d27eb356bf ("remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h")
the documentation for the refspec structure was moved into refspec.h
This documentation refers to elements of the refspec_item, not the
struct refspec. Move the documentation slightly in order to align it
with the structure it is actually referring to.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name "argv-array" isn't very good, because it describes what the
data type can be used for (program argument arrays), not what it
actually is (a dynamically-growing string array that maintains a
NULL-terminator invariant). This leads to people being hesitant to use
it for other cases where it would actually be a good fit. The existing
name is also clunky to use. It's overly long, and the name often leads
to saying things like "argv.argv" (i.e., the field names overlap with
variable names, since they're describing the use, not the type). Let's
give it a more neutral name.
I settled on "strvec" because "vector" is the name for a dynamic array
type in many programming languages. "strarray" would work, too, but it's
longer and a bit more awkward to say (and don't we all say these things
in our mind as we type them?).
A more extreme direction would be a generic data structure which stores
a NULL-terminated of _any_ type. That would be easy to do with void
pointers, but we'd lose some type safety for the existing cases. Plus it
raises questions about memory allocation and ownership. So I limited
myself here to changing names only, and not semantics. If we do find a
use for that more generic data type, we could perhaps implement it at a
lower level and then provide type-safe wrappers around it for strings.
But that can come later.
This patch does the minimum to convert the struct and function names in
the header and implementation, leaving a few things for follow-on
patches:
- files retain their original names for now
- struct field names are retained for now
- there's a preprocessor compat layer that lets most users remain the
same for now. The exception is headers which made a manual forward
declaration of the struct. I've converted them (and their dependent
function declarations) here.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt to
remote.h and refspec.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.
N.B. The doc for both push and fetch members of the remote struct aren't
moved because they are out of date, as the members were changed from arrays
of rspecs to struct refspec 2 years ago.
Also documentation/technical/api-remote.txt is removed because the
information it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to
date and synchronized with the documentation in the header file.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Re-add the non-fatal version of refspec_item_init_or_die() renamed
away in an earlier change to get a more minimal diff. This should be
used by callers that have their own error handling.
This new function could be marked "static" since nothing outside of
refspec.c uses it, but expecting future use of it, let's make it
available to other users.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename the refspec_item_init() function introduced in
6d4c057859 ("refspec: introduce struct refspec", 2018-05-16) to
refspec_item_init_or_die().
This follows the convention of other *_or_die() functions, and is done
in preparation for making it a wrapper for a non-fatal variant.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When v2.18.0-rc0~10^2~1 (refspec: consolidate ref-prefix generation
logic, 2018-05-16) factored out the ref-prefix generation code for
reuse, it left out the 'if (!item->exact_sha1)' test in the original
ref-prefix generation code. As a result, fetches by SHA-1 generate
ref-prefixes as though the SHA-1 being fetched were an abbreviated ref
name:
$ GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 bin-wrappers/git -c protocol.version=2 \
fetch origin 12039e008f
[...]
packet: fetch> ref-prefix 12039e008f
packet: fetch> ref-prefix refs/12039e008f9a4e3394f3f94f8ea897785cb09448
packet: fetch> ref-prefix refs/tags/12039e008f9a4e3394f3f94f8ea897785cb09448
packet: fetch> ref-prefix refs/heads/12039e008f9a4e3394f3f94f8ea897785cb09448
packet: fetch> ref-prefix refs/remotes/12039e008f9a4e3394f3f94f8ea897785cb09448
packet: fetch> ref-prefix refs/remotes/12039e008f9a4e3394f3f94f8ea897785cb09448/HEAD
packet: fetch> 0000
If there is another ref name on the command line or the object being
fetched is already available locally, then that's mostly harmless.
But otherwise, we error out with
fatal: no matching remote head
since the server did not send any refs we are interested in. Filter
out the exact_sha1 refspecs to avoid this.
This patch adds a test to check this behavior that notices another
behavior difference between protocol v0 and v2 in the process. Add a
NEEDSWORK comment to clear it up.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using protocol v2 a client constructs a list of ref-prefixes which
are sent across the wire so that the server can do server-side filtering
of the ref-advertisement. The logic that does this exists for both
fetch and push (even though no push support for v2 currently exists yet)
and is roughly the same so lets consolidate this logic and make it
general enough that it can be used for both the push and fetch cases.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that there are no callers of 'parse_push_refspec()',
'parse_fetch_refspec()', and 'free_refspec()', remove these
functions.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert 'valid_fetch_refspec()' to use the new 'parse_refspec()'
function to only parse a single refspec and eliminate an allocation.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce 'struct refspec', an abstraction around a collection of
'struct refspec_item's much like how 'struct pathspec' holds a
collection of 'struct pathspec_item's.
A refspec struct also contains an array of the original refspec strings
which will be used to facilitate the migration to using this new
abstraction throughout the code base.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for introducing an abstraction around a collection of
refspecs (much like how a 'struct pathspec' is a collection of 'struct
pathspec_item's) rename the existing 'struct refspec' to 'struct
refspec_item'.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for performing a refactor on refspec related code, move
the refspec parsing logic into its own file.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
