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Junio C Hamano
a60abe10f2 Merge branch 'jk/init-core-worktree-at-root' into maint
We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the
".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but
the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the
root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to
do, but still valid).

* jk/init-core-worktree-at-root:
  init: don't set core.worktree when initializing /.git
2015-05-13 14:05:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
429ad20413 log: do not shorten decoration names too early
The DECORATE_SHORT_REFS option given to load_ref_decorations()
affects the way a copy of the refname is stored for each decorated
commit, and this forces later steps like current_pointed_by_HEAD()
to adjust their behaviour based on this initial settings.

Instead, we can always store the full refname and then shorten them
when producing the output.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-13 12:40:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
76c61fbdba log: decorate HEAD with branch name under --decorate=full, too
The previous step to teach "log --decorate" to show "HEAD -> master"
instead of "HEAD, master" when showing the commit at the tip of the
'master' branch, when the 'master' branch is checked out, did not
work for "log --decorate=full".

The commands in the "log" family prepare commit decorations for all
refs upfront, and the actual string used in a decoration depends on
how load_ref_decorations() is called very early in the process.  By
default, "git log --decorate" stores names with common prefixes such
as "refs/heads" stripped; "git log --decorate=full" stores the full
refnames.

When the current_pointed_by_HEAD() function has to decide if "HEAD"
points at the branch a decoration describes, however, what was
passed to load_ref_decorations() to decide to strip (or keep) such a
common prefix is long lost.  This makes it impossible to reliably
tell if a decoration that stores "refs/heads/master", for example,
is the 'master' branch (under "--decorate" with prefix omitted) or
'refs/heads/master' branch (under "--decorate=full").

Keep what was passed to load_ref_decorations() in a global next to
the global variable name_decoration, and use that to decide how to
match what was read from "HEAD" and what is in a decoration.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-13 10:25:18 -07:00
Jeff King
d595bdc17f doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
This makes sure that AsciiDoc does not turn them into links.
Regular AsciiDoc does not catch these cases, but AsciiDoctor
does treat them as links.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:14:46 -07:00
Jeff King
4538a88256 doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
Text like "{foo}" triggers an AsciiDoc attribute; we have to
write "\{foo}" to suppress this. But when the "foo" is not a
syntactically valid attribute, we can skip the quoting. This
makes the source nicer to read, and looks better under
Asciidoctor. With AsciiDoc itself, this patch produces no
changes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:14:46 -07:00
Jeff King
1c262bb7b2 doc: convert \--option to --option
Older versions of AsciiDoc would convert the "--" in
"--option" into an emdash. According to 565e135
(Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc, 2011-06-29),
this is fixed in AsciiDoc 8.3.0. According to bf17126, we
don't support anything older than 8.4.1 anyway, so we no
longer need to worry about quoting.

Even though this does not change the output at all, there
are a few good reasons to drop the quoting:

  1. It makes the source prettier to read.

  2. We don't quote consistently, which may be confusing when
     reading the source.

  3. Asciidoctor does not like the quoting, and renders a
     literal backslash.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:14:46 -07:00
Jeff King
0a3ca9c011 doc/add: reformat --edit option
All of the other options in the list put short and long as
two separate headings.

We can also drop the backslashing of `--`. It isn't used
elsewhere and is unnecessary for modern asciidoc (plus it
confuses asciidoctor).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:13:40 -07:00
Jeff King
a367b8699d doc: fix length of underlined section-title
In AsciiDoc, it is OK to say:

   this is my title
   -------------------------

but AsciiDoctor is more strict. Let's match the underline to
the title (which also makes the source prettier to read).
The output from AsciiDoc is the same either way.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:13:40 -07:00
Jeff King
5a8a19e903 doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
In list content that wants to continue to a second
paragraph, the "+" continuation and subsequent paragraph
need to be left-aligned. Otherwise AsciiDoc seems to insert
only a linebreak.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:13:40 -07:00
Jeff King
b50bfb8fd5 doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
Curly braces open an "attribute" in AsciiDoc; if there's no
such attribute, strange things may happen. In this case, the
unquoted "{type}" causes AsciiDoc to omit an entire line of
text from the output. We can fix it by putting the whole
phrase inside literal backticks (which also lets us get rid
of ugly backslash escaping).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:13:40 -07:00
Jeff King
e08bc7a9ec doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
AsciiDoc misparses some text that contains a `literal`
word followed by a fancy `single quote' word, and treats
everything from the start of the literal to the end of the
quote as a single-quoted phrase.

We can work around this by switching the latter to be a
literal, as well. In the first case, this is perhaps what
was intended anyway, as it makes us consistent with the the
earlier literals in the same paragraph. In the second, the
output is arguably better, as we will format our commit
references as <code> blocks.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:13:39 -07:00
Jeff King
ad3967a5a2 doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
The asciidoctor renderer is more picky than classic asciidoc,
and insists that the start and end of a code fence be the
same size.

Found with this hacky perl script:

    foreach my $fn (@ARGV) {
      open(my $fh, '<', $fn);
      my ($fence, $fence_lineno, $prev);
      while (<$fh>) {
        chomp;
        if (/^----+$/) {
          if ($fence_lineno) {
            if ($_ ne $fence) {
              print "$fn:$fence_lineno:mismatched fence: ",
                    length($fence), " != ", length($_), "\n";
            }
            $fence_lineno = undef;
          }
	  # hacky check to avoid title-underlining
          elsif ($prev eq '' || $prev eq '+') {
            $fence = $_;
            $fence_lineno = $.;
          }
        }
        $prev = $_;
      }
    }

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:33:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
185ce3a98c Merge branch 'mh/write-refs-sooner-2.3' into mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4
* mh/write-refs-sooner-2.3:
  ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
  ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
  ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
  rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
  commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
  write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
  t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
  update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
2015-05-12 21:28:54 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
cf018ee0cd ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
The old code was roughly

    for update in updates:
        acquire locks and check old_sha
    for update in updates:
        if changing value:
            write_ref_to_lockfile()
            commit_ref_update()
    for update in updates:
        if deleting value:
            unlink()
    rewrite packed-refs file
    for update in updates:
        if reference still locked:
            unlock_ref()

This has two problems.

Non-atomic updates
==================

The atomicity of the reference transaction depends on all pre-checks
being done in the first loop, before any changes have started being
committed in the second loop. The problem is that
write_ref_to_lockfile() (previously part of write_ref_sha1()), which
is called from the second loop, contains two more checks:

* It verifies that new_sha1 is a valid object

* If the reference being updated is a branch, it verifies that
  new_sha1 points at a commit object (as opposed to a tag, tree, or
  blob).

If either of these checks fails, the "transaction" is aborted during
the second loop. But this might happen after some reference updates
have already been permanently committed. In other words, the
all-or-nothing promise of "git update-ref --stdin" could be violated.

So these checks have to be moved to the first loop.

File descriptor exhaustion
==========================

The old code locked all of the references in the first loop, leaving
all of the lockfiles open until later loops. Since we might be
updating a lot of references, this could result in file descriptor
exhaustion.

The solution
============

After this patch, the code looks like

    for update in updates:
        acquire locks and check old_sha
        if changing value:
            write_ref_to_lockfile()
        else:
            close_ref()
    for update in updates:
        if changing value:
            commit_ref_update()
    for update in updates:
        if deleting value:
            unlink()
    rewrite packed-refs file
    for update in updates:
        if reference still locked:
            unlock_ref()

This fixes both problems:

1. The pre-checks in write_ref_to_lockfile() are now done in the first
   loop, before any changes have been committed. If any of the checks
   fails, the whole transaction can now be rolled back correctly.

2. All lockfiles are closed in the first loop immediately after they
   are created (either by write_ref_to_lockfile() or by close_ref()).
   This means that there is never more than one open lockfile at a
   time, preventing file descriptor exhaustion.

To simplify the bookkeeping across loops, add a new REF_NEEDS_COMMIT
bit to update->flags, which keeps track of whether the corresponding
lockfile needs to be committed, as opposed to just unlocked. (Since
"struct ref_update" is internal to the refs module, this change is not
visible to external callers.)

This change fixes two tests in t1400.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:28:03 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
cbf50f9e3d ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
Instead, work directly with update->flags. This has the advantage that
the REF_DELETING bit, set in the first loop, can be read in the second
loop instead of having to be recomputed. Plus, it was potentially
confusing having both update->flags and flags, which sometimes had
different values.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:28:03 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
61e51e0000 ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
That was the last caller, so delete function write_ref_sha1().

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:28:03 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
ba43b7f29c rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
Most of what it does is unneeded from these call sites.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:28:02 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
ad4cd6c297 commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:28:02 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
e6fd3c6730 write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
This is the first step towards separating the checking and writing of
the new reference value to committing the change.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:28:02 -07:00
Stefan Beller
fc38a9bb4d t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
During creation of the patch series our discussion we could have a
more descriptive name for the prerequisite for the test so it stays
unique when other limits of ulimit are introduced.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:28:02 -07:00
Stefan Beller
d415ad022d update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:28:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4ec6591dd7 Merge branch 'mh/write-refs-sooner-2.2' into mh/write-refs-sooner-2.3
* mh/write-refs-sooner-2.2:
  ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
  ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
  ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
  rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
  commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
  write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
  t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
  update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
2015-05-12 21:26:09 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
6c34492ab4 ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
The old code was roughly

    for update in updates:
        acquire locks and check old_sha
    for update in updates:
        if changing value:
            write_ref_to_lockfile()
            commit_ref_update()
    for update in updates:
        if deleting value:
            unlink()
    rewrite packed-refs file
    for update in updates:
        if reference still locked:
            unlock_ref()

This has two problems.

Non-atomic updates
==================

The atomicity of the reference transaction depends on all pre-checks
being done in the first loop, before any changes have started being
committed in the second loop. The problem is that
write_ref_to_lockfile() (previously part of write_ref_sha1()), which
is called from the second loop, contains two more checks:

* It verifies that new_sha1 is a valid object

* If the reference being updated is a branch, it verifies that
  new_sha1 points at a commit object (as opposed to a tag, tree, or
  blob).

If either of these checks fails, the "transaction" is aborted during
the second loop. But this might happen after some reference updates
have already been permanently committed. In other words, the
all-or-nothing promise of "git update-ref --stdin" could be violated.

So these checks have to be moved to the first loop.

File descriptor exhaustion
==========================

The old code locked all of the references in the first loop, leaving
all of the lockfiles open until later loops. Since we might be
updating a lot of references, this could result in file descriptor
exhaustion.

The solution
============

After this patch, the code looks like

    for update in updates:
        acquire locks and check old_sha
        if changing value:
            write_ref_to_lockfile()
        else:
            close_ref()
    for update in updates:
        if changing value:
            commit_ref_update()
    for update in updates:
        if deleting value:
            unlink()
    rewrite packed-refs file
    for update in updates:
        if reference still locked:
            unlock_ref()

This fixes both problems:

1. The pre-checks in write_ref_to_lockfile() are now done in the first
   loop, before any changes have been committed. If any of the checks
   fails, the whole transaction can now be rolled back correctly.

2. All lockfiles are closed in the first loop immediately after they
   are created (either by write_ref_to_lockfile() or by close_ref()).
   This means that there is never more than one open lockfile at a
   time, preventing file descriptor exhaustion.

To simplify the bookkeeping across loops, add a new REF_NEEDS_COMMIT
bit to update->flags, which keeps track of whether the corresponding
lockfile needs to be committed, as opposed to just unlocked. (Since
"struct ref_update" is internal to the refs module, this change is not
visible to external callers.)

This change fixes two tests in t1400.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:25:27 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
805cf6e938 ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
Instead, work directly with update->flags. This has the advantage that
the REF_DELETING bit, set in the first loop, can be read in the second
loop instead of having to be recomputed. Plus, it was potentially
confusing having both update->flags and flags, which sometimes had
different values.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:25:27 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
4da50def5b ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
And remove the function write_ref_sha1(), as it is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:25:26 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
29957fda0b rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
Most of what it does is unneeded from these call sites.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:25:26 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
38e50e81e3 commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:25:26 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
1d455231a0 write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
This is the first step towards separating the checking and writing of
the new reference value to committing the change.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:25:26 -07:00
Stefan Beller
71ad0505cc t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
During creation of the patch series, our discussion revealed that
we could have a more descriptive name for the prerequisite for the
test so it stays unique when other limits of ulimit are introduced.

Let's rename the existing ulimit about setting the stack size to
a more explicit ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 21:24:36 -07:00
Jeff King
cb64800d83 add: check return value of launch_editor
When running "add -e", if launching the editor fails, we do
not notice and continue as if the output is what the user
asked for. The likely case is that the editor did not touch
the contents at all, and we end up adding everything.

Reported-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 20:25:08 -07:00
Jean-Noel Avila
975e382d13 doc: fix unmatched code fences
This mismatch upsets the renderer on git-scm.com.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 13:08:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c99fec6e35 Sync with 2.3.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-11 14:39:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9a3d637541 Git 2.3.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-11 14:36:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
811ce1b47c Merge branch 'mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex' into maint-2.3
Documentation fix.

* mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex:
  log -L: improve error message on malformed argument
  Documentation: change -L:<regex> to -L:<funcname>
2015-05-11 14:34:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cd0120857b Merge branch 'jc/diff-no-index-d-f' into maint-2.3
The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory
showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the
directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work.  Also,
when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff"
and compare the file with the file with the same name in the
directory, instead of refusing to run.

* jc/diff-no-index-d-f:
  diff-no-index: align D/F handling with that of normal Git
  diff-no-index: DWIM "diff D F" into "diff D/F F"
2015-05-11 14:34:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1add9aed85 Merge branch 'oh/fix-config-default-user-name-section' into maint-2.3
The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global"
that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email
entries in it.

* oh/fix-config-default-user-name-section:
  config: fix settings in default_user_config template
2015-05-11 14:33:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
13ec221d8c Merge branch 'jc/epochtime-wo-tz' into maint-2.3
"git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost
the daylight-saving-time offset.

* jc/epochtime-wo-tz:
  parse_date_basic(): let the system handle DST conversion
  parse_date_basic(): return early when given a bogus timestamp
2015-05-11 14:33:58 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
c628edfddb reflog_expire(): integrate lock_ref_sha1_basic() errors into ours
Now that lock_ref_sha1_basic() gives us back its error messages via a
strbuf, incorporate its error message into our error message rather
than emitting two separate error messages.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:20 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
3553944aa8 ref_transaction_commit(): delete extra "the" from error message
While we are in the area, let's remove a superfluous definite article
from the error message that is emitted when the reference cannot be
locked. This improves how it reads and makes it a bit shorter.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:20 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
cbaabcbc6f ref_transaction_commit(): provide better error messages
Now that lock_ref_sha1_basic() gives us back its error messages via a
strbuf, incorporate its error message into our error message rather
than emitting one error messages to stderr immediately and returning a
second to our caller.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:20 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
abeef9c856 rename_ref(): integrate lock_ref_sha1_basic() errors into ours
Now that lock_ref_sha1_basic() gives us back its error messages via a
strbuf, incorporate its error message into our error message rather
than emitting two separate error messages.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:20 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
5b2d8d6f21 lock_ref_sha1_basic(): improve diagnostics for ref D/F conflicts
If there is a failure to lock a reference that is likely caused by a
D/F conflict (e.g., trying to lock "refs/foo/bar" when reference
"refs/foo" already exists), invoke verify_refname_available() to try
to generate a more helpful error message.

That function might not detect an error. For example, some
non-reference file might be blocking the deletion of an
otherwise-empty directory tree, or there might be a race with another
process that just deleted the offending reference. In such cases,
generate the strerror-based error message like before.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:20 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
4a32b2e08b lock_ref_sha1_basic(): report errors via a "struct strbuf *err"
For now, change the callers to spew the error to stderr like before.
But soon we will change them to incorporate the reason for the failure
into their own error messages.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
1146f17e2c verify_refname_available(): report errors via a "struct strbuf *err"
It shouldn't be spewing errors directly to stderr.

For now, change its callers to spew the errors to stderr.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
5baf37d383 verify_refname_available(): rename function
Rename is_refname_available() to verify_refname_available() and change
its return value from 1 for success to 0 for success, to be consistent
with our error-handling convention. In a moment it will also get a
"struct strbuf *err" parameter.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
e911104c84 refs: check for D/F conflicts among refs created in a transaction
If two references that D/F conflict (e.g., "refs/foo" and
"refs/foo/bar") are created in a single transaction, the old code
discovered the problem only after the "commit" phase of
ref_transaction_commit() had already begun. This could leave some
references updated and others not, which violates the promise of
atomicity.

Instead, check for such conflicts during the "locking" phase:

* Teach is_refname_available() to take an "extras" parameter that can
  contain extra reference names with which the specified refname must
  not conflict.

* Change lock_ref_sha1_basic() to take an "extras" parameter, which it
  passes through to is_refname_available().

* Change ref_transaction_commit() to pass "affected_refnames" to
  lock_ref_sha1_basic() as its "extras" argument.

This change fixes a test case in t1404.

This code is a bit stricter than it needs to be. We could conceivably
allow reference "refs/foo/bar" to be created in the same transaction
as "refs/foo" is deleted (or vice versa). But that would be
complicated to implement, because it is not possible to lock
"refs/foo/bar" while "refs/foo" exists as a loose reference, but on
the other hand we don't want to delete some references before adding
others (because that could leave a gap during which required objects
are unreachable). There is also a complication that reflog files'
paths can conflict.

Any less-strict implementation would probably require tricks like the
packing of all references before the start of the real transaction, or
the use of temporary intermediate reference names.

So for now let's accept too-strict checks. Some reference update
transactions will be rejected unnecessarily, but they will be rejected
in their entirety rather than leaving the repository in an
intermediate state, as would happen now.

Please note that there is still one kind of D/F conflict that is *not*
handled correctly. If two processes are running at the same time, and
one tries to create "refs/foo" at the same time that the other tries
to create "refs/foo/bar", then they can race with each other. Both
processes can obtain their respective locks ("refs/foo.lock" and
"refs/foo/bar.lock"), proceed to the "commit" phase of
ref_transaction_commit(), and then the slower process will discover
that it cannot rename its lockfile into place (after possibly having
committed changes to other references). There appears to be no way to
fix this race without changing the locking policy, which in turn would
require a change to *all* Git clients.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
07f9c881d6 ref_transaction_commit(): use a string_list for detecting duplicates
Detect duplicates by storing the reference names in a string_list and
sorting that, instead of sorting the ref_updates directly.

* In a moment the string_list will be used for another purpose, too.

* This removes the need for the custom comparison function
  ref_update_compare().

* This means that we can carry out the updates in the order that the
  user specified them instead of reordering them. This might be handy
  someday if, we want to permit multiple updates to a single reference
  as long as they are compatible with each other.

Note: we can't use string_list_remove_duplicates() to check for
duplicates, because we need to know the name of the reference that
appeared multiple times, to be used in the error message.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
61da596992 is_refname_available(): use dirname in first loop
In the first loop (over prefixes of refname), use dirname to keep
track of the current prefix. This is not an improvement in itself, but
in a moment we will start using dirname for a role where a
NUL-terminated string is needed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:18 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
521331cc9f struct nonmatching_ref_data: store a refname instead of a ref_entry
Now that we don't need a ref_entry to pass to
report_refname_conflict(), it is sufficient to store the refname of
the conflicting reference.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:18 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
385e8af5a2 report_refname_conflict(): inline function
It wasn't pulling its weight. And we are about to need code similar to
this where no ref_entry is available and with more diverse error
messages. Rather than try to generalize the function, just inline it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
2015-05-11 11:50:18 -07:00