Currently, there is only one attempt to acquire any lockfile, and if
the lock is held by another process, the locking attempt fails
immediately.
This is not such a limitation for loose reference files. First, they
don't take long to rewrite. Second, most reference updates have a
known "old" value, so if another process is updating a reference at
the same moment that we are trying to lock it, then probably the
expected "old" value will not longer be valid, and the update will
fail anyway.
But these arguments do not hold for packed-refs:
* The packed-refs file can be large and take significant time to
rewrite.
* Many references are stored in a single packed-refs file, so it could
be that the other process was changing a different reference than
the one that we are interested in.
Therefore, it is much more likely for there to be spurious lock
conflicts in connection to the packed-refs file, resulting in
unnecessary command failures.
So, if the first attempt to lock the packed-refs file fails, continue
retrying for a configurable length of time before giving up. The
default timeout is 1 second.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
A replacement for contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir that does not
rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer
by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other.
* nd/multiple-work-trees: (41 commits)
prune --worktrees: fix expire vs worktree existence condition
t1501: fix test with split index
t2026: fix broken &&-chain
t2026 needs procondition SANITY
git-checkout.txt: a note about multiple checkout support for submodules
checkout: add --ignore-other-wortrees
checkout: pass whole struct to parse_branchname_arg instead of individual flags
git-common-dir: make "modules/" per-working-directory directory
checkout: do not fail if target is an empty directory
t2025: add a test to make sure grafts is working from a linked checkout
checkout: don't require a work tree when checking out into a new one
git_path(): keep "info/sparse-checkout" per work-tree
count-objects: report unused files in $GIT_DIR/worktrees/...
gc: support prune --worktrees
gc: factor out gc.pruneexpire parsing code
gc: style change -- no SP before closing parenthesis
checkout: clean up half-prepared directories in --to mode
checkout: reject if the branch is already checked out elsewhere
prune: strategies for linked checkouts
checkout: support checking out into a new working directory
...
Teach git about a new option, "http.sslCipherList", which permits one to
specify a list of ciphers to use when negotiating SSL connections. The
setting can be overwridden by the GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST environment
variable.
Signed-off-by: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Restructure "git push" codepath to make it easier to add new
configuration bits and then add push.followTags configuration that
turns --follow-tags option on by default.
* jk/push-config:
push: allow --follow-tags to be set by config push.followTags
cmd_push: pass "flags" pointer to config callback
cmd_push: set "atomic" bit directly
git_push_config: drop cargo-culted wt_status pointer
"git log --decorate" did not reset colors correctly around the
branch names.
* jc/decorate-leaky-separator-color:
log --decorate: do not leak "commit" color into the next item
Documentation/config.txt: simplify boolean description in the syntax section
Documentation/config.txt: describe 'color' value type in the "Values" section
Documentation/config.txt: have a separate "Values" section
Documentation/config.txt: describe the structure first and then meaning
Documentation/config.txt: explain multi-valued variables once
Documentation/config.txt: avoid unnecessary negation
"git log --decorate" did not reset colors correctly around the
branch names.
* jc/decorate-leaky-separator-color:
log --decorate: do not leak "commit" color into the next item
Documentation/config.txt: simplify boolean description in the syntax section
Documentation/config.txt: describe 'color' value type in the "Values" section
Documentation/config.txt: have a separate "Values" section
Documentation/config.txt: describe the structure first and then meaning
Documentation/config.txt: explain multi-valued variables once
Documentation/config.txt: avoid unnecessary negation
The versionsort.prerelease configuration variable can be used to
specify that v1.0-pre1 comes before v1.0.
* nd/versioncmp-prereleases:
config.txt: update versioncmp.prereleaseSuffix
versionsort: support reorder prerelease suffixes
The interaction between "git submodule update" and the
submodule.*.update configuration was not clearly documented.
* ms/submodule-update-config-doc:
submodule: improve documentation of update subcommand
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and
"thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can
decide what to do with them later.
- am.keepcr
- core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime
- diff.dirstat .noprefix
- gitcvs.usecrlfattr
- gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime
- pull.twohead
- receive.autogc
- sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reported-by: "Mladen B." <mladen074@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interaction between "git submodule update" and the
submodule.*.update configuration was not clearly documented.
* ms/submodule-update-config-doc:
submodule: improve documentation of update subcommand
The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to
discover in the documentation.
* mm/am-c-doc:
Documentation/git-am.txt: mention mailinfo.scissors config variable
Documentation/config.txt: document mailinfo.scissors
Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to
the documentation.
* jc/conf-var-doc:
CodingGuidelines: describe naming rules for configuration variables
config.txt: mark deprecated variables more prominently
config.txt: clarify that add.ignore-errors is deprecated
The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to
discover in the documentation.
* mm/am-c-doc:
Documentation/git-am.txt: mention mailinfo.scissors config variable
Documentation/config.txt: document mailinfo.scissors
In "git log --decorate", you would see the commit header like this:
commit ... (HEAD, jc/decorate-leaky-separator-color)
where "commit ... (" is painted in color.diff.commit, "HEAD" in
color.decorate.head, ", " in color.diff.commit, the branch name in
color.decorate.branch and then closing ")" in color.diff.commit.
If you wanted to paint the HEAD and local branch name in the same
color as the body text (perhaps because cyan and green are too faint
on a black-on-white terminal to be readable), you would not want to
have to say
[color "decorate"]
head = black
branch = black
because that you would not be able to reuse same configuration on a
white-on-black terminal. You would naively expect
[color "decorate"]
head = normal
branch = normal
to work, but unfortunately it does not. It paints the string "HEAD"
and the branch name in the same color as the opening parenthesis or
comma between the decoration elements. This is because the code
forgets to reset the color after printing the "prefix" in its own
color.
It theoretically is possible that some people were expecting and
relying on that the attribute set as the "diff.commit" color, which
is used to draw these opening parenthesis and inter-item comma, is
inherited by the drawing of branch names, but it is not how the
coloring works everywhere else.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'true' short-hand doesn't deserve a separate sentence; even our own
git config --bool foo.bar yes
would not produce it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of describing it for color.branch.<slot> and have everybody
else refer to it, explain how colors are spelled in "Values" section
upfront.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The various types of values set to the configuration variables
deserve more than a brief footnote mention in the syntax section,
and it will be more so after the later steps of this clean up
effort.
Move the mention of booleans from the syntax section to this new
section, and describe how human-readble integers can be spelled with
scaling there.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A line can be continued via a backquote-LF and can be chomped at a
comment character. But that is not specific to string-typed values.
It is common to all, just like unquoted leading and trailing
whitespaces are stripped and inter-word spacing are retained.
Move the description around and desribe these structural rules
first, then introduce the double-quote facility as a way to override
them, and finally mention various types of values.
Note that these structural rules only apply to the value part of the
configuration file. E.g.
[aSection] \
name \
= value
does not work, because the rules kick in only after seeing "name =".
Both the original and the updated text are phrased in an awkward way
by singling out the "value" part of the line because of this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The syntax section repeats what the preamble explained already.
That a variable can have multiple values is more about what a
variable is than the syntax of the file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Section names and variable names are both case-insensitive, but one
is described as "not case sensitive". Use "case-insensitive" for
both.
Instead of saying "... have to be escaped" without telling what that
escaping achieves, state it in a more positive way, i.e. "... can be
included by escaping".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation of 'git submodule update' has several problems:
1) It mentions that value 'none' of submodule.$name.update can be
overridden by --checkout, but other combinations of configuration
values and command line options are not mentioned.
2) The documentation of submodule.$name.update is scattered across three
places, which is confusing.
3) The documentation of submodule.$name.update in gitmodules.txt is
incorrect, because the code always uses the value from .git/config
and never from .gitmodules.
4) Documentation of --force was incomplete, because it is only effective
in case of checkout method of update.
Fix all these problems by documenting submodule.*.update in
git-submodule.txt and make everybody else refer to it.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to
the documentation.
* jc/conf-var-doc:
CodingGuidelines: describe naming rules for configuration variables
config.txt: mark deprecated variables more prominently
config.txt: clarify that add.ignore-errors is deprecated
The variable was documented in git-mailinfo.txt, but not in config.txt.
The detailed documentation is still the one of --scissors in
git-mailinfo.txt, but we give enough information here to let the user
understand what it is about, and to make it easy to find it (e.g.
searching ">8" and "8<" finds it).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Extending the js/push-to-deploy topic, the behaviour of "git push"
when updating the working tree and the index with an update to the
branch that is checked out can be tweaked by push-to-checkout hook.
* jc/push-to-checkout:
receive-pack: support push-to-checkout hook
receive-pack: refactor updateInstead codepath
"git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.
* sb/atomic-push:
Document receive.advertiseatomic
t5543-atomic-push.sh: add basic tests for atomic pushes
push.c: add an --atomic argument
send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argument
send-pack: rename ref_update_to_be_sent to check_to_send_update
receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
receive-pack.c: add execute_commands_atomic function
receive-pack.c: move transaction handling in a central place
receive-pack.c: move iterating over all commands outside execute_commands
receive-pack.c: die instead of error in case of possible future bug
receive-pack.c: shorten the execute_commands loop over all commands
The old text gave an impression that even in a new repository using
old form might be safer. Only Git from pre 1.7.0 days choke on the
correctly named variable, which is ancient by today's standard.
We have no intention to remove the support for deprecated ones, but
let's make sure that we do not give room for confused questions such
as "why does core.sparse-checkout not work, when add.ignore-errors
does?"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was missing in 1b70fe5d30 (2015-01-07, receive-pack.c: negotiate
atomic push support) as I squashed the option in very late in the patch
series.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The assume-unchanged bit, and consequently core.ignoreStat, can be
misunderstood. Be assertive about the expectation that file changes should
notified to Git.
Overhaul the general wording thus:
1. direct description of what is ignored given first.
2. example instruction of the user manual action required.
3. use sideways indirection for assume-unchanged and update-index
references.
4. add a 'normally' to give leeway for the change detection.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When receive.denyCurrentBranch is set to updateInstead, a push that
tries to update the branch that is currently checked out is accepted
only when the index and the working tree exactly matches the
currently checked out commit, in which case the index and the
working tree are updated to match the pushed commit. Otherwise the
push is refused.
This hook can be used to customize this "push-to-deploy" logic. The
hook receives the commit with which the tip of the current branch is
going to be updated, and can decide what kind of local changes are
acceptable and how to update the index and the working tree to match
the updated tip of the current branch.
For example, the hook can simply run `git read-tree -u -m HEAD "$1"`
in order to emulate 'git fetch' that is run in the reverse direction
with `git push`, as the two-tree form of `read-tree -u -m` is
essentially the same as `git checkout` that switches branches while
keeping the local changes in the working tree that do not interfere
with the difference between the branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git send-email" normally identifies itself via X-Mailer: header
in the message it sends out. A new command line flag allows the
user to squelch the header.
* lh/send-email-hide-x-mailer:
test/send-email: --[no-]xmailer tests
send-email: add --[no-]xmailer option
"diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) allows its color output
to be customized via configuration variables.
* jk/colors:
parse_color: drop COLOR_BACKGROUND macro
diff-highlight: allow configurable colors
parse_color: recognize "no$foo" to clear the $foo attribute
parse_color: support 24-bit RGB values
parse_color: refactor color storage
"git push" into a repository with a working tree normally refuses
to modify the branch that is checked out. The command learned to
optionally do an equivalent of "git reset --hard" only when there
is no change to the working tree and the index instead, which would
be useful to "deploy" by pushing into a repository.
* js/push-to-deploy:
t5516: more tests for receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead
receive-pack: add another option for receive.denyCurrentBranch
"git config --get-color" did not parse its command line arguments
carefully.
* jk/colors-fix:
t4026: test "normal" color
config: fix parsing of "git config --get-color some.key -1"
docs: describe ANSI 256-color mode
The point of disallowing ".git" in the index is that we
would never want to accidentally overwrite files in the
repository directory. But this means we need to respect the
filesystem's idea of when two paths are equal. The prior
commit added a helper to make such a comparison for NTFS
and FAT32; let's use it in verify_path().
We make this check optional for two reasons:
1. It restricts the set of allowable filenames, which is
unnecessary for people who are not on NTFS nor FAT32.
In practice this probably doesn't matter, though, as
the restricted names are rather obscure and almost
certainly would never come up in practice.
2. It has a minor performance penalty for every path we
insert into the index.
This patch ties the check to the core.protectNTFS config
option. Though this is expected to be most useful on Windows,
we allow it to be set everywhere, as NTFS may be mounted on
other platforms. The variable does default to on for Windows,
though.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of disallowing ".git" in the index is that we
would never want to accidentally overwrite files in the
repository directory. But this means we need to respect the
filesystem's idea of when two paths are equal. The prior
commit added a helper to make such a comparison for HFS+;
let's use it in verify_path.
We make this check optional for two reasons:
1. It restricts the set of allowable filenames, which is
unnecessary for people who are not on HFS+. In practice
this probably doesn't matter, though, as the restricted
names are rather obscure and almost certainly would
never come up in practice.
2. It has a minor performance penalty for every path we
insert into the index.
This patch ties the check to the core.protectHFS config
option. Though this is expected to be most useful on OS X,
we allow it to be set everywhere, as HFS+ may be mounted on
other platforms. The variable does default to on for OS X,
though.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --[no-]xmailer that allows a user to disable adding the 'X-Mailer:'
header to the email being sent.
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The assume-unchanged bit can be misunderstood. Be assertive about
the expectation that file changes should update that flag.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The repo setup procedure is updated to detect $GIT_DIR/commondir and
set $GIT_COMMON_DIR properly.
The core.worktree is ignored when $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set. This is
because the config file is shared in multi-checkout setup, but
checkout directories _are_ different. Making core.worktree effective
in all checkouts mean it's back to a single checkout.
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When synchronizing between working directories, it can be handy to update
the current branch via 'push' rather than 'pull', e.g. when pushing a fix
from inside a VM, or when pushing a fix made on a user's machine (where
the developer is not at liberty to install an ssh daemon let alone know
the user's password).
The common workaround – pushing into a temporary branch and then merging
on the other machine – is no longer necessary with this patch.
The new option is:
'updateInstead':
Update the working tree accordingly, but refuse to do so if there
are any uncommitted changes.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The thread at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/257392
details problems when applying patches with "git am" in a repository with
CRLF line endings. In the example in the thread, the repository originated
from "git-svn" so it is not possible to use core.eol and friends on it.
Right now, the best option is to use "git am --keep-cr". However, when
a patch create new files, the patch application process will reject the
new file because it finds a "/dev/null\r" string instead of "/dev/null".
The problem is that SMTP transport is CRLF-unsafe. Sending a patch by
email is the same as passing it through "dos2unix | unix2dos". The newly
introduced CRLFs are normally transparent because git-am strips them. The
keepcr=true setting preserves them, but it is mostly working by chance
and it would be very problematic to have a "git am" workflow in a
repository with mixed LF and CRLF line endings.
The MIME solution to this is the quoted-printable transfer enconding.
This is not something that we want to enable by default, since it makes
received emails horrible to look at. However, it is a very good match
for projects that store CRLF line endings in the repository.
The only disadvantage of quoted-printable is that quoted-printable
patches fail to apply if the maintainer uses "git am --keep-cr". This
is because the decoded patch will have two carriage returns at the end
of the line. Therefore, add support for base64 transfer encoding too,
which makes received emails downright impossible to look at outside
a MUA, but really just works.
The patch covers all bases, including users that still live in the late
80s, by also providing a 7bit content transfer encoding that refuses
to send emails with non-ASCII character in them. And finally, "8bit"
will add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header but otherwise do nothing.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You can turn on ANSI text attributes like "reverse" by
putting "reverse" in your color spec. However, you cannot
ask to turn reverse off.
For common cases, this does not matter. You would turn on
"reverse" at the start of a colored section, and then clear
all attributes with a "reset". However, you may wish to turn
on some attributes, then selectively disable others. For
example:
git log --format="%C(bold ul yellow)%h%C(noul) %s"
underlines just the hash, but without the need to re-specify
the rest of the attributes. This can also help third-party
programs, like contrib/diff-highlight, that want to turn
some attribute on/off without disrupting existing coloring.
Note that some attribute specifications are probably
nonsensical (e.g., "bold nobold"). We do not bother to flag
such constructs, and instead let the terminal sort it out.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some terminals (like XTerm) allow full 24-bit RGB color
specifications using an extension to the regular ANSI color
scheme. Let's allow users to specify hex RGB colors,
enabling the all-important feature of hot pink ref
decorations:
git log --format="%h%C(#ff69b4)%d%C(reset) %s"
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our color specifications have supported the 256-color ANSI
extension for years, but we never documented it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a missing article at the beginning of a sentence, and rephrase
slightly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Quinot <thomas@quinot.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:
- Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
- Spell Linux as Capitalized;
- Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow painting or not painting (partial) matches in context lines
when showing "grep -C<num>" output in color.
* rs/grep-color-words:
grep: add color.grep.matchcontext and color.grep.matchselected
The config option color.grep.match can be used to specify the highlighting
color for matching strings. Add the options matchContext and matchSelected
to allow different colors to be specified for matching strings in the
context vs. in selected lines. This is similar to the ms and mc specifiers
in GNU grep's environment variable GREP_COLORS.
Tests are from Zoltan Klinger's earlier attempt to solve the same
issue in a different way.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It took me a long time to notice the rider on the pack.threads
configuration option that it would multiple the memory consumption
by the number of CPUs in the machine. Clarify that the limit
applies per-thread.
Signed-off-by: Robert de Bath <rdebath@tvisiontech.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Newer versions of 'meld' breaks the auto-detection we use to see if
they are new enough to support the `--output` option.
* da/mergetool-meld:
mergetools/meld: make usage of `--output` configurable and more robust
Allow a temporary directory specified to be used while running "git
mergetool" backend.
* da/mergetool-temporary-directory:
t7610-mergetool: add test cases for mergetool.writeToTemp
mergetool: add an option for writing to a temporary directory
core.filemode is set automatically when a repo is created.
But when a repo is exported via CIFS or cygwin is mixed with Git for Windows
or Eclipse core.filemode may better be set manually to false.
Update and improve the documentation
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach mergetool to write files in a temporary directory when
'mergetool.writeToTemp' is true.
This is helpful for tools such as Eclipse which cannot cope with
multiple copies of the same file in the worktree.
Suggested-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Older versions of meld listed --output in `meld --help`.
Newer versions only mention `meld [OPTIONS...]`.
Improve the checks to catch these newer versions.
Add a `mergetool.meld.hasOutput` configuration to allow
overriding the heuristic.
Reported-by: Andrey Novoseltsev <novoselt@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow "git push" request to be signed, so that it can be verified and
audited, using the GPG signature of the person who pushed, that the
tips of branches at a public repository really point the commits
the pusher wanted to, without having to "trust" the server.
* jc/push-cert: (24 commits)
receive-pack::hmac_sha1(): copy the entire SHA-1 hash out
signed push: allow stale nonce in stateless mode
signed push: teach smart-HTTP to pass "git push --signed" around
signed push: fortify against replay attacks
signed push: add "pushee" header to push certificate
signed push: remove duplicated protocol info
send-pack: send feature request on push-cert packet
receive-pack: GPG-validate push certificates
push: the beginning of "git push --signed"
pack-protocol doc: typofix for PKT-LINE
gpg-interface: move parse_signature() to where it should be
gpg-interface: move parse_gpg_output() to where it should be
send-pack: clarify that cmds_sent is a boolean
send-pack: refactor inspecting and resetting status and sending commands
send-pack: rename "new_refs" to "need_pack_data"
receive-pack: factor out capability string generation
send-pack: factor out capability string generation
send-pack: always send capabilities
send-pack: refactor decision to send update per ref
send-pack: move REF_STATUS_REJECT_NODELETE logic a bit higher
...
When operating with the stateless RPC mode, we will receive a nonce
issued by another instance of us that advertised our capability and
refs some time ago. Update the logic to check received nonce to
detect this case, compute how much time has passed since the nonce
was issued and report the status with a new environment variable
GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP to the hooks.
GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS will report "SLOP" in such a case. The
hooks are free to decide how large a slop it is willing to accept.
Strictly speaking, the "nonce" is not really a "nonce" anymore in
the stateless RPC mode, as it will happily take any "nonce" issued
by it (which is protected by HMAC and its secret key) as long as it
is fresh enough. The degree of this security degradation, relative
to the native protocol, is about the same as the "we make sure that
the 'git push' decided to update our refs with new objects based on
the freshest observation of our refs by making sure the values they
claim the original value of the refs they ask us to update exactly
match the current state" security is loosened to accomodate the
stateless RPC mode in the existing code without this series, so
there is no need for those who are already using smart HTTP to push
to their repositories to be alarmed any more than they already are.
In addition, the server operator can set receive.certnonceslop
configuration variable to specify how stale a nonce can be (in
seconds). When this variable is set, and if the nonce received in
the certificate that passes the HMAC check was less than that many
seconds old, hooks are given "OK" in GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS
(instead of "SLOP") and the received nonce value is given in
GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE, which makes it easier for a simple-minded
hook to check if the certificate we received is recent enough.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In order to prevent a valid push certificate for pushing into an
repository from getting replayed in a different push operation, send
a nonce string from the receive-pack process and have the signer
include it in the push certificate. The receiving end uses an HMAC
hash of the path to the repository it serves and the current time
stamp, hashed with a secret seed (the secret seed does not have to
be per-repository but can be defined in /etc/gitconfig) to generate
the nonce, in order to ensure that a random third party cannot forge
a nonce that looks like it originated from it.
The original nonce is exported as GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE for the hooks
to examine and match against the value on the "nonce" header in the
certificate to notice a replay, but returned "nonce" header in the
push certificate is examined by receive-pack and the result is
exported as GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS, whose value would be "OK"
if the nonce recorded in the certificate matches what we expect, so
that the hooks can more easily check.
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>
Too large files may lead to failure to allocate memory. If it happens
here, it could impact quite a few commands that involve
diff. Moreover, too large files are inefficient to compare anyway (and
most likely non-text), so mark them binary and skip looking at their
content.
Noticed-by: Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
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>
"git status" (and "git commit") behaved as if changes in a modified
submodule are not there if submodule.*.ignore configuration is set,
which was misleading. The configuration is only to unclutter diff
output during the course of development, and should not to hide
changes in the "status" output to cause the users forget to commit
them.
* jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored:
commit -m: commit staged submodules regardless of ignore config
status/commit: show staged submodules regardless of ignore config
submodule.*.ignore and diff.ignoresubmodules are used to ignore all
submodule changes in "diff" output, but it can be confusing to
apply these configuration values to status and commit.
This is a backward-incompatible change, but should be so in a good
way (aka bugfix).
* jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored:
commit -m: commit staged submodules regardless of ignore config
status/commit: show staged submodules regardless of ignore config
We currently have pack.writeBitmaps, which originally
operated at the pack-objects level. This should really have
been a repack.* option from day one. Let's give it the more
sensible name, but keep the old version as a deprecated
synonym.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `core.deltabasecachelimit` used to default to 16 MiB , but this
proved to be too small, and has been bumped to 96 MiB.
* dk/raise-core-deltabasecachelimit:
Bump core.deltaBaseCacheLimit to 96m
Since the very beginning of Git, we gave the LESS environment a
default value "FRSX" when we spawn "less" as the pager. "S" (chop
long lines instead of wrapping) has been removed from this default
set of options, because it is more or less a personal taste thing,
as opposed to others that have good justifications (i.e. "R" is very
much justified because many kinds of output we produce are colored
and "FX" is justified because output we produce is often shorter
than a page).
Existing users who prefer not to see line-wrapped output may want to
set
$ git config core.pager "less -S"
to restore the traditional behaviour. It is expected that people
find output from the most subcommands easier to read with the new
default, except for "blame" which tends to produce really long
lines. To override the new default only for "git blame", you can do
this:
$ git config pager.blame "less -S"
* mm/pager-less-sans-S:
pager: remove 'S' from $LESS by default
Many people are on filesystems with horrible stat latency (not
limited to Windows but also NFS), which core.preloadindex was
designed to help. We discussed enabling it by default early in 2013
but didn't.
Per
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/219273/focus=219322
let's enable the setting by default, with the original choice of max
20 threads / min 500 paths per thread parameters.
Signed-off-by: Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an option to format-patch for reading a signature from a file.
$ git format-patch -1 --signature-file=$HOME/.signature
The config variable `format.signaturefile` can also be used to make
this the default.
$ git config format.signaturefile $HOME/.signature
$ git format-patch -1
Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When core.commentChar is "auto", the comment char starts with '#' as
in default but if it's already in the prepared message, find another
char in a small subset. This should stop surprises because git strips
some lines unexpectedly.
Note that git is not smart enough to recognize '#' as the comment char
in custom templates and convert it if the final comment char is
different. It thinks '#' lines in custom templates as part of the
commit message. So don't use this with custom templates.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, Git used to set $LESS to -FRSX if $LESS was not set by
the user. The FRX flags actually make sense for Git (F and X because
sometimes the output Git pipes to less is short, and R because Git
pipes colored output). The S flag (chop long lines), on the other
hand, is not related to Git and is a matter of user preference. Git
should not decide for the user to change LESS's default.
More specifically, the S flag harms users who review untrusted code
within a pager, since a patch looking like:
-old code;
+new good code; [... lots of tabs ...] malicious code;
would appear identical to:
-old code;
+new good code;
Users who prefer the old behavior can still set the $LESS environment
variable to -FRSX explicitly, or set core.pager to 'less -S'.
The documentation in config.txt is made a bit longer to keep both an
example setting the 'S' flag (needed to recover the old behavior)
and an example showing how to unset a flag set by Git.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default of 16m causes serious thrashing for large delta chains
combined with large files.
Here are some benchmarks (pu variant of git blame):
time git blame -C src/xdisp.c >/dev/null
for a repository of Emacs repacked with git gc --aggressive (v1.9,
resulting in a window size of 250) located on an SSD drive. The file in
question has about 30000 lines, 1Mb of size, and a history with about
2500 commits.
16m (previous default):
real 3m33.936s
user 2m15.396s
sys 1m17.352s
32m:
real 3m1.319s
user 2m8.660s
sys 0m51.904s
64m:
real 2m20.636s
user 1m55.780s
sys 0m23.964s
96m:
real 2m5.668s
user 1m50.784s
sys 0m14.288s
128m:
real 2m4.337s
user 1m50.764s
sys 0m12.832s
192m:
real 2m3.567s
user 1m49.508s
sys 0m13.312s
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Eradicate mistaken use of "nor" (that is, essentially "nor" used
not in "neither A nor B" ;-)) from in-code comments, command output
strings, and documentations.
* jl/nor-or-nand-and:
code and test: fix misuses of "nor"
comments: fix misuses of "nor"
contrib: fix misuses of "nor"
Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
