With the interim protocol, we used to send the update commands even
though we already send a signed copy of the same information when
push certificate is in use. Update the send-pack/receive-pack pair
not to do so.
The notable thing on the receive-pack side is that it makes sure
that there is no command sent over the traditional protocol packet
outside the push certificate. Otherwise a pusher can claim to be
pushing one set of ref updates in the signed certificate while
issuing commands to update unrelated refs, and such an update will
evade later audits.
Finally, start documenting the protocol.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reusing the GPG signature check helpers we already have, verify
the signature in receive-pack and give the results to the hooks
via GIT_PUSH_CERT_{SIGNER,KEY,STATUS} environment variables.
Policy decisions, such as accepting or rejecting a good signature by
a key that is not fully trusted, is left to the hook and kept
outside of the core.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While signed tags and commits assert that the objects thusly signed
came from you, who signed these objects, there is not a good way to
assert that you wanted to have a particular object at the tip of a
particular branch. My signing v2.0.1 tag only means I want to call
the version v2.0.1, and it does not mean I want to push it out to my
'master' branch---it is likely that I only want it in 'maint', so
the signature on the object alone is insufficient.
The only assurance to you that 'maint' points at what I wanted to
place there comes from your trust on the hosting site and my
authentication with it, which cannot easily audited later.
Introduce a mechanism that allows you to sign a "push certificate"
(for the lack of better name) every time you push, asserting that
what object you are pushing to update which ref that used to point
at what other object. Think of it as a cryptographic protection for
ref updates, similar to signed tags/commits but working on an
orthogonal axis.
The basic flow based on this mechanism goes like this:
1. You push out your work with "git push --signed".
2. The sending side learns where the remote refs are as usual,
together with what protocol extension the receiving end
supports. If the receiving end does not advertise the protocol
extension "push-cert", an attempt to "git push --signed" fails.
Otherwise, a text file, that looks like the following, is
prepared in core:
certificate version 0.1
pusher Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1315427886 -0700
7339ca65... 21580ecb... refs/heads/master
3793ac56... 12850bec... refs/heads/next
The file begins with a few header lines, which may grow as we
gain more experience. The 'pusher' header records the name of
the signer (the value of user.signingkey configuration variable,
falling back to GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME|EMAIL}) and the time of the
certificate generation. After the header, a blank line follows,
followed by a copy of the protocol message lines.
Each line shows the old and the new object name at the tip of
the ref this push tries to update, in the way identical to how
the underlying "git push" protocol exchange tells the ref
updates to the receiving end (by recording the "old" object
name, the push certificate also protects against replaying). It
is expected that new command packet types other than the
old-new-refname kind will be included in push certificate in the
same way as would appear in the plain vanilla command packets in
unsigned pushes.
The user then is asked to sign this push certificate using GPG,
formatted in a way similar to how signed tag objects are signed,
and the result is sent to the other side (i.e. receive-pack).
In the protocol exchange, this step comes immediately before the
sender tells what the result of the push should be, which in
turn comes before it sends the pack data.
3. When the receiving end sees a push certificate, the certificate
is written out as a blob. The pre-receive hook can learn about
the certificate by checking GIT_PUSH_CERT environment variable,
which, if present, tells the object name of this blob, and make
the decision to allow or reject this push. Additionally, the
post-receive hook can also look at the certificate, which may be
a good place to log all the received certificates for later
audits.
Because a push certificate carry the same information as the usual
command packets in the protocol exchange, we can omit the latter
when a push certificate is in use and reduce the protocol overhead.
This however is not included in this patch to make it easier to
review (in other words, the series at this step should never be
released without the remainder of the series, as it implements an
interim protocol that will be incompatible with the final one).
As such, the documentation update for the protocol is left out of
this step.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Everywhere else we use PKT-LINE to denote the pkt-line formatted
data, but "shallow/deepen" messages are described with PKT_LINE().
Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git replace" learned a "--graft" option to rewrite parents of a
commit.
* cc/replace-graft:
replace: add test for --graft with a mergetag
replace: check mergetags when using --graft
replace: add test for --graft with signed commit
replace: remove signature when using --graft
contrib: add convert-grafts-to-replace-refs.sh
Documentation: replace: add --graft option
replace: add test for --graft
replace: add --graft option
replace: cleanup redirection style in tests
According to http://meta.ohloh.net/2014/07/black-duck-open-hub/
the site name of ohloh changed to openhub.
Change the man page accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* kb/perf-trace:
api-trace.txt: add trace API documentation
progress: simplify performance measurement by using getnanotime()
wt-status: simplify performance measurement by using getnanotime()
git: add performance tracing for git's main() function to debug scripts
trace: add trace_performance facility to debug performance issues
trace: add high resolution timer function to debug performance issues
trace: add 'file:line' to all trace output
trace: move code around, in preparation to file:line output
trace: add current timestamp to all trace output
trace: disable additional trace output for unit tests
trace: add infrastructure to augment trace output with additional info
sha1_file: change GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS logging to use trace API
Documentation/git.txt: improve documentation of 'GIT_TRACE*' variables
trace: improve trace performance
trace: remove redundant printf format attribute
trace: consistently name the format parameter
trace: move trace declarations from cache.h to new trace.h
The caret (^) is used as a markup symbol in AsciiDoc. Due to the
inability of AsciiDoc to parse a line containing an unmatched caret, it
omitted the line from the output, resulting in the man page missing the
end of a sentence. Escape this caret so that the man page ends up with
the complete text.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds into contrib/ an example script to convert
grafts from an existing grafts file into replace refs using
the new --graft option of "git replace".
While at it let's mention this new script in the
"git replace" documentation for the --graft option.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* kb/hashmap-updates:
hashmap: add string interning API
hashmap: add simplified hashmap_get_from_hash() API
hashmap: improve struct hashmap member documentation
hashmap: factor out getting a hash code from a SHA1
The string-list API has STRING_LIST_INIT_* macros to be used
to define variables with initializers, but lacks functions
to initialize an uninitialized piece of memory to be used as
a string-list at the run-time.
Introduce `string_list_init()` function for that.
Signed-off-by: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for configuring default sort ordering for git tags. Command
line option will override this configured value, using the exact same
syntax.
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach "git replace --edit" mode a "--raw" option to allow
editing the bare-metal representation data of objects.
* jk/replace-edit-raw:
replace: add a --raw mode for --edit
An experiment to use two files (the base file and incremental
changes relative to it) to represent the index to reduce I/O cost
of rewriting a large index when only small part of the working tree
changes.
* nd/split-index: (32 commits)
t1700: new tests for split-index mode
t2104: make sure split index mode is off for the version test
read-cache: force split index mode with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX
read-tree: note about dropping split-index mode or index version
read-tree: force split-index mode off on --index-output
rev-parse: add --shared-index-path to get shared index path
update-index --split-index: do not split if $GIT_DIR is read only
update-index: new options to enable/disable split index mode
split-index: strip pathname of on-disk replaced entries
split-index: do not invalidate cache-tree at read time
split-index: the reading part
split-index: the writing part
read-cache: mark updated entries for split index
read-cache: save deleted entries in split index
read-cache: mark new entries for split index
read-cache: split-index mode
read-cache: save index SHA-1 after reading
entry.c: update cache_changed if refresh_cache is set in checkout_entry()
cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on prime_cache_tree()
cache-tree: mark istate->cache_changed on cache tree update
...
Use trace_performance to measure and print execution time and command line
arguments of the entire main() function. In constrast to the shell's 'time'
utility, which measures total time of the parent process, this logs all
involved git commands recursively. This is particularly useful to debug
performance issues of scripted commands (i.e. which git commands were
called with which parameters, and how long did they execute).
Due to git's deliberate use of exit(), the implementation uses an atexit
routine rather than just adding trace_performance_since() at the end of
main().
Usage example: > GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE=~/git-trace.log git stash list
Creates a log file like this:
23:57:38.638765 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000310107 s: git command: 'git' 'rev-parse' '--git-dir'
23:57:38.644387 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000261759 s: git command: 'git' 'rev-parse' '--show-toplevel'
23:57:38.646207 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000304468 s: git command: 'git' 'config' '--get-colorbool' 'color.interactive'
23:57:38.648491 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000241667 s: git command: 'git' 'config' '--get-color' 'color.interactive.help' 'red bold'
23:57:38.650465 trace.c:405 performance: 0.000243063 s: git command: 'git' 'config' '--get-color' '' 'reset'
23:57:38.654850 trace.c:405 performance: 0.025126313 s: git command: 'git' 'stash' 'list'
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This changes GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS functionality as follows:
* supports the same options as GIT_TRACE (e.g. printing to stderr)
* no longer supports relative paths
* appends to the trace file rather than overwriting
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Separate GIT_TRACE description into what it prints and how to configure
where trace output is printed to. Change other GIT_TRACE_* descriptions to
refer to GIT_TRACE.
Add descriptions for GIT_TRACE_SETUP and GIT_TRACE_SHALLOW.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify error message puntuation to reduce review workload.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'verify-commit' to be used in a way similar to 'verify-tag' is
used. Further work on verifying the mergetags might be needed.
* mg/verify-commit:
t7510: test verify-commit
t7510: exit for loop with test result
verify-commit: scriptable commit signature verification
gpg-interface: provide access to the payload
gpg-interface: provide clear helper for struct signature_check
Interning short strings with high probability of duplicates can reduce the
memory footprint and speed up comparisons.
Add strintern() and memintern() APIs that use a hashmap to manage the pool
of unique, interned strings.
Note: strintern(getenv()) could be used to sanitize git's use of getenv(),
in case we ever encounter a platform where a call to getenv() invalidates
previous getenv() results (which is allowed by POSIX).
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hashmap entries are typically looked up by just a key. The hashmap_get()
API expects an initialized entry structure instead, to support compound
keys. This flexibility is currently only needed by find_dir_entry() in
name-hash.c (and compat/win32/fscache.c in the msysgit fork). All other
(currently five) call sites of hashmap_get() have to set up a near emtpy
entry structure, resulting in duplicate code like this:
struct hashmap_entry keyentry;
hashmap_entry_init(&keyentry, hash(key));
return hashmap_get(map, &keyentry, key);
Add a hashmap_get_from_hash() API that allows hashmap lookups by just
specifying the key and its hash code, i.e.:
return hashmap_get_from_hash(map, hash(key), key);
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Copying the first bytes of a SHA1 is duplicated in six places,
however, the implications (the actual value would depend on the
endianness of the platform) is documented only once.
Add a properly documented API for this.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
