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Junio C Hamano
69e82602b9 Merge branch 'hv/submodule-alt-odb' into maint
When a submodule repository uses alternate object store mechanism, some
commands that were started from the superproject did not notice it and
failed with "No such object" errors.  The subcommands of "git submodule"
command that recursed into the submodule in a separate process were OK;
only the ones that cheated and peeked directly into the submodule's
repository from the primary process were affected.

By Heiko Voigt
* hv/submodule-alt-odb:
  teach add_submodule_odb() to look for alternates
2012-05-25 11:26:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
98eb3fc6cb Merge branch 'bp/diff-no-index-strbuf-fix' into maint
The directory path used in "git diff --no-index", when it recurses
down, was broken with a recent update after v1.7.10.1 release.

By Bobby Powers
* bp/diff-no-index-strbuf-fix:
  diff --no-index: don't leak buffers in queue_diff
  diff --no-index: reset temporary buffer lengths on directory iteration
2012-05-25 11:25:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a8bd582d30 Merge branch 'jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b' into maint
"git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake.  The output
for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not terminate the
record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.

By Jeff King
* jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b:
  status: respect "-b" for porcelain format
  status: fix null termination with "-b"
  status: refactor null_termination option
  commit: refactor option parsing
2012-05-24 17:32:30 -07:00
Jens Lehmann
cb8ad289c6 Consistently use "superproject" instead of "supermodule"
We fairly consistently say "superproject" and never "supermodule" these
days. But there are seven occurrences of "supermodule" left in the current
work tree. Three appear in Release Notes for 1.5.3 and 1.7.7, three in
test names and one in a C-code comment.

Replace all occurrences of "supermodule" outside of the Release Notes
(which shouldn't be changed after the fact) with "superproject" for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-20 14:58:38 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
27ccd8d1a3 t3404: begin "exchange commits with -p" test with correct preconditions
The test case shows a bug in 'rebase -p', but even if the bug were fixed
the test would fail because it did not ensure that the preconditions match
the postconditions that were checked. Insert the suitable 'git checkout'.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-20 14:54:07 -07:00
Bobby Powers
f3999e0327 diff --no-index: reset temporary buffer lengths on directory iteration
Commit 875b91b (diff --no-index: use strbuf for temporary pathnames,
2012-04-25) introduced a regression when using diff --no-index with
directories.  When iterating through a directory, the switch to strbuf
from heap-allocated char arrays caused paths to form like 'dir/file1',
'dir/file1file2', rather than 'dir/file1', 'dir/file2' as expected.

Avoid this by resetting the paths variables to their original length
before each iteration.

Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-16 11:17:45 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
5e73633dbf teach add_submodule_odb() to look for alternates
Since we allow to link other object databases when loading a submodules
database we should also load possible alternates.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-14 11:56:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
adc3a81ce2 Merge branch 'jk/maint-reflog-walk-count-vs-time' into maint
Gives a better DWIM behaviour for --pretty=format:%gd, "stash list", and
"log -g", depending on how the starting point ("master" vs "master@{0}" vs
"master@{now}") and date formatting options (e.g. "--date=iso") are given
on the command line.

By Jeff King (4) and Junio C Hamano (1)
* jk/maint-reflog-walk-count-vs-time:
  reflog-walk: tell explicit --date=default from not having --date at all
  reflog-walk: always make HEAD@{0} show indexed selectors
  reflog-walk: clean up "flag" field of commit_reflog struct
  log: respect date_mode_explicit with --format:%gd
  t1411: add more selector index/date tests
2012-05-14 11:46:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3734dbc4ab Merge branch 'ef/checkout-empty' into maint
Running "git checkout" on an unborn branch used to corrupt HEAD
(regression in 1.7.10); this makes it error out.

By Erik Faye-Lund
* ef/checkout-empty:
  checkout: do not corrupt HEAD on empty repo
2012-05-14 11:42:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ea8c6761e3 Merge branch 'jk/maint-tformat-with-z' into maint
By Jan Krüger (1) and Junio C Hamano (1)
* jk/maint-tformat-with-z:
  log-tree: the previous one is still not quite right
  log-tree: use custom line terminator in line termination mode
2012-05-14 11:42:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a912913e86 Merge branch 'js/checkout-detach-count' into maint
When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we used
to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the refs as
lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new HEAD, and there
is no need to warn about them.

By Johannes Sixt
* js/checkout-detach-count:
  checkout (detached): truncate list of orphaned commits at the new HEAD
  t2020-checkout-detach: check for the number of orphaned commits
2012-05-14 11:42:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
07e74b0da2 Merge branch 'ct/advise-push-default' into maint
The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
categories; each case is given a separate advise message.

By Christopher Tiwald (2) and Jeff King (1)
* ct/advise-push-default:
  Fix httpd tests that broke when non-ff push advice changed
  clean up struct ref's nonfastforward field
  push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
2012-05-11 11:18:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9a10117560 Merge branch 'js/fast-import-test-9300' into maint
By Johannes Sixt
* js/fast-import-test-9300:
  t9300-fast-import: avoid 'exit' in test_expect_success snippets
2012-05-11 11:17:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
285005c8c4 Merge branch 'jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack' into maint
"git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
due to its age.

By Jeff King
* jk/repack-no-explode-objects-from-old-pack:
  gc: use argv-array for sub-commands
  argv-array: add a new "pushl" method
  argv-array: refactor empty_argv initialization
  gc: do not explode objects which will be immediately pruned
2012-05-11 11:16:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
538847cd4c Merge branch 'sl/test-wc-l-line-count' into maint
By Stefano Lattarini
* sl/test-wc-l-line-count:
  tests: modernise style: more uses of test_line_count
2012-05-11 11:14:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0582afbcb3 Merge branch 'rl/show-empty-prefix' into maint
Unlike "git rev-parse --show-cdup", "--show-prefix" did not give an
empty line when run at the top of the working tree.

By Ross Lagerwall
* rl/show-empty-prefix:
  rev-parse --show-prefix: add in trailing newline
2012-05-11 11:13:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
db8d664678 Merge branch 'mm/include-userpath' into maint
By Jeff King
* mm/include-userpath:
  config: expand tildes in include.path variable
2012-05-10 10:33:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6331da9707 Merge branch 'bw/test-fix-grep-gnuism' into maint
* bw/test-fix-grep-gnuism:
  t9400: fix gnuism in grep
2012-05-10 10:32:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8cde60210d Merge branch 'jk/http-backend-keep-committer-ident-env' into maint
By Jeff King
* jk/http-backend-keep-committer-ident-env:
  http-backend: respect existing GIT_COMMITTER_* variables

Conflicts:
	t/t5541-http-push.sh
2012-05-10 10:29:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
25047b8896 Merge branch 'jk/maint-push-progress' into maint
"git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago.

By Jeff King
* jk/maint-push-progress:
  t5541: test more combinations of --progress
  teach send-pack about --[no-]progress
  send-pack: show progress when isatty(2)
2012-05-10 10:08:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9aa620dfae Merge branch 'lp/diffstat-with-graph' into maint
"log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its output
had line breaks at wrong places.

By Lucian Poston (5) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (3)
* lp/diffstat-with-graph:
  t4052: work around shells unable to set COLUMNS to 1
  test-lib: skip test with COLUMNS=1 under mksh
  Prevent graph_width of stat width from falling below min
  t4052: Test diff-stat output with minimum columns
  t4052: Adjust --graph --stat output for prefixes
  Adjust stat width calculations to take --graph output into account
  Add output_prefix_length to diff_options
  t4052: test --stat output with --graph
2012-05-10 10:06:53 -07:00
Erik Faye-Lund
8338f771fe checkout: do not corrupt HEAD on empty repo
In abe1998 ("git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn
branch"), a code-path overly-optimisticly assumed that a
branch-name was specified. This is not always the case, and as
a result a NULL-pointer was attempted printed to .git/HEAD.

This could lead to at least two different failure modes:
 1) vsnprintf formated the NULL-string as something useful (e.g
    "(null)")
 2) vsnprintf crashed

Neither were very convenient for formatting a new HEAD-reference.

To fix this, reintroduce some strictness so we only take this
new codepath if a banch-name was specified.

Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-08 10:36:55 -07:00
Jeff King
d4a6bf1fb6 status: respect "-b" for porcelain format
There is no reason not to, as the user has to explicitly ask
for it, so we are not breaking compatibility by doing so. We
can do this simply by moving the "show_branch" flag into
the wt_status struct. As a bonus, this saves us from passing
it explicitly, simplifying the code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-05-08 04:51:08 -04:00
Jeff King
a598523787 status: fix null termination with "-b"
When the "-z" option is given to status, we are supposed to
NUL-terminate each record. However, the "-b" code to show
the tracking branch did not respect this, and always ended
with a newline.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-05-08 04:51:08 -04:00
Junio C Hamano
55ccf85a52 reflog-walk: tell explicit --date=default from not having --date at all
Introduction of opt->date_mode_explicit was a step in the right direction,
but lost that crucial bit at the very end of the callchain, and the callee
could not tell an explicitly specified "I want *date* but in default format"
from the built-in default value passed when there was no --date specified.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-07 14:18:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dc813f664d Merge branch 'jk/maint-gitweb-test-use-sane-perl' into maint
When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's $PATH
could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to specify the
path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH.  The gitweb test forgot to
use that Perl when running its test.

By Jeff King (1) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1)
* jk/maint-gitweb-test-use-sane-perl:
  Consistently use perl from /usr/bin/ for scripts
  t/gitweb-lib: use $PERL_PATH to run gitweb
2012-05-07 13:17:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6a88021e46 Merge branch 'js/daemon-test-race-fix' into maint
The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky.

By Johannes Sixt
* js/daemon-test-race-fix:
  t5570: fix forwarding of git-daemon messages via cat
2012-05-07 13:17:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4c8ad06e7c Merge branch 'jk/maint-config-bogus-section' into maint
"git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a bogus
one did not check the new name.

By Jeff King
* jk/maint-config-bogus-section:
  config: reject bogus section names for --rename-section
2012-05-07 13:14:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1d9fd6683c Merge branch 'pw/t5800-import-race-fix' into maint
The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky.

By Pete Wyckoff
* pw/t5800-import-race-fix:
  git-remote-testgit: fix race when spawning fast-import
2012-05-07 13:13:56 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
5d8863954f checkout (detached): truncate list of orphaned commits at the new HEAD
When git checkout switches from a detached HEAD to any other commit, then
all orphaned commits were listed in a warning:

  Warning: you are leaving 2 commits behind...:

    a5e5396 another fixup
    6aa1af6 fixup foo

But if the new commit is actually one from this list (6aa1af6 in this
example), then the list in the warning can be truncated at the new HEAD,
because history beginning at HEAD is not "left behind". This makes it so.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-04 12:42:27 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
f94920993a t2020-checkout-detach: check for the number of orphaned commits
Change the test that orphans commits to leave 2 commits behind. Add a test
that leaves only one of these behind.

The next patch will truncate the list of orphaned commits earlier. With
this preliminary update, its effect will become more obvious.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-04 12:42:25 -07:00
Jeff King
794151e9b5 reflog-walk: always make HEAD@{0} show indexed selectors
When we are showing reflog selectors during a walk, we infer
from context whether the user wanted to see the index in
each selector, or the reflog date. The current rules are:

  1. if the user asked for an explicit date format in the
     output, show the date

  2. if the user asked for ref@{now}, show the date

  3. if neither is true, show the index

However,  if we see "ref@{0}", that should be a strong clue
that the user wants to see the counted version. In fact, it
should be much stronger than the date format in (1). The
user may have been setting the date format to use in another
part of the output (e.g., in --format="%gd (%ad)", they may
have wanted to influence the author date).

This patch flips the rules to:

  1. if the user asked for ref@{0}, always show the index

  2. if the user asked for ref@{now}, always show the date

  3. otherwise, we have just "ref"; show them counted by
     default, but respect the presence of "--date" as a clue
     that the user wanted them date-based

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-04 09:39:14 -07:00
Jeff King
f026c7563a log: respect date_mode_explicit with --format:%gd
When we show a reflog selector (e.g., via "git log -g"), we
perform some DWIM magic: while we normally show the entry's
index (e.g., HEAD@{1}), if the user has given us a date
with "--date", then we show a date-based select (e.g.,
HEAD@{yesterday}).

However, we don't want to trigger this magic if the
alternate date format we got was from the "log.date"
configuration; that is not sufficiently strong context for
us to invoke this particular magic. To fix this, commit
f4ea32f (improve reflog date/number heuristic, 2009-09-24)
introduced a "date_mode_explicit" flag in rev_info. This
flag is set only when we see a "--date" option on the
command line, and we a vanilla date to the reflog code if
the date was not explicit.

Later, commit 8f8f547 (Introduce new pretty formats %g[sdD]
for reflog information, 2009-10-19) added another way to
show selectors, and it did not respect the date_mode_explicit
flag from f4ea32f.

This patch propagates the date_mode_explicit flag to the
pretty-print code, which can then use it to pass the
appropriate date field to the reflog code. This brings the
behavior of "%gd" in line with the other formats, and means
that its output is independent of any user configuration.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-04 09:39:14 -07:00
Jeff King
7904af1c10 t1411: add more selector index/date tests
We already check that @{now} and "--date" cause the
displayed selector to use the date for both the multiline
and oneline formats. However, we miss several cases:

  1. The --format=%gd selector is not tested at all.

  2. We do not check how the log.date config interacts with the
     "--date" magic (according to f4ea32f, it should not
     impact the output).

Doing so reveals that the combination of both (log.date
combined with the %gd format) does not behave as expected.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-04 09:39:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
edf141218e Merge branch 'jc/merge-reduce-parents-early' into maint
Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the final
commit correctly.

By Junio C Hamano (4) and Michał Kiedrowicz (1)
* jc/merge-reduce-parents-early:
  fmt-merge-msg: discard needless merge parents
  builtin/merge.c: reduce parents early
  builtin/merge.c: collect other parents early
  builtin/merge.c: remove "remoteheads" global variable
  merge tests: octopus with redundant parents
2012-05-03 15:36:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c968338042 Merge branch 'cb/http-multi-curl-auth' into maint
HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly when
multiple connections are used simultaneously.

By Jeff King (3) and Clemens Buchacher (1)
* cb/http-multi-curl-auth:
  http: use newer curl options for setting credentials
  http: clean up leak in init_curl_http_auth
  fix http auth with multiple curl handles
  http auth fails with multiple curl handles
2012-05-03 15:34:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
66bca3f722 Merge branch 'mb/fetch-call-a-non-branch-a-ref' into maint
The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch ref.

By Marc Branchaud
* mb/fetch-call-a-non-branch-a-ref:
  fetch: describe new refs based on where it came from
  fetch: Give remote_ref to update_local_ref() as well
2012-05-03 15:29:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b9f0662bb0 Merge branch 'pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing' into maint
The parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references that is
not followed by required SP/LF as an error.

By Pete Wyckoff
* pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing:
  fast-import: tighten parsing of datarefs
2012-05-01 21:12:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cda03b6ad3 Merge branch 'it/fetch-pack-many-refs' into maint
When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references, the
command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper e.g. remote-curl, may
fail to hold all of them. Now such an internal invocation can feed the
references through the standard input of "fetch-pack".

By Ivan Todoroski
* it/fetch-pack-many-refs:
  remote-curl: main test case for the OS command line overflow
  fetch-pack: test cases for the new --stdin option
  remote-curl: send the refs to fetch-pack on stdin
  fetch-pack: new --stdin option to read refs from stdin

Conflicts:
	t/t5500-fetch-pack.sh
2012-05-01 21:12:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
35977f2316 Merge branch 'lp/maint-diff-three-dash-with-graph' into maint
"log -p --graph" used with "--stat" had a few formatting error.

By Lucian Poston
* lp/maint-diff-three-dash-with-graph:
  t4202: add test for "log --graph --stat -p" separator lines
  log --graph: fix break in graph lines
  log --graph --stat: three-dash separator should come after graph lines
2012-05-01 21:11:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a4da3388fd Merge branch 'jk/rebase-i-submodule-conflict-only' into maint
Giving "--continue" to a conflicted "rebase -i" session skipped a
commit that only results in changes to submodules.

By John Keeping
* jk/rebase-i-submodule-conflict-only:
  rebase -i continue: don't skip commits that only change submodules
2012-05-01 21:11:26 -07:00
Jeff King
f71db097ef t/gitweb-lib: use $PERL_PATH to run gitweb
The current code runs "perl gitweb.cgi" to test gitweb. This
will use whatever version of perl happens to be first in the
PATH. We are better off using the specific perl that the
user specified via PERL_PATH, which matches what gets put on
the #!-line of the built gitweb.cgi.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-01 12:11:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fafd38299b log-tree: the previous one is still not quite right
The correct output would have NUL after each commit, so "-z --format=%s"
would have a single-liner subject with the line-terminating LF replaced
with NUL, and "-p/--stat -z --format=%s" would have a single-liner subject
with its line-terminating LF, followed by the diff/diffstat in which the
terminating LF of the last line is replaced with NUL, but to be consistent
with what "-p/--stat -z --pretty=format:%s" does, I think it is OK to
append NUL to the diff/diffstat part instead of replacing its last LF with
NUL.

The added test shows the update is still not right for "-p -z --format".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-01 10:29:50 -07:00
Jan Krüger
3e065308ca log-tree: use custom line terminator in line termination mode
When using a custom format in line termination mode (as opposed to line
separation mode), the configured line terminator is not used, so things
like "git log --pretty=tformat:%H -z" do not work properly.

Make it use the line terminator the user ordered.

Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-01 09:56:37 -07:00
Jeff King
e304aeba20 t5541: test more combinations of --progress
Previously, we tested only that "push --quiet --no-progress"
was silent. However, there are many other combinations that
were not tested:

  1. no options at all (but stderr as a tty)
  2. --no-progress by itself
  3. --quiet by itself
  4. --progress (when stderr not a tty)

These are tested elsewhere for general "push", but it is
important to test them separately for http. It follows a
very different code path than git://, and options must be
relayed across a remote helper to a separate send-pack
process (and in fact cases (1), (2), and (4) have all been
broken just for http at some point in the past).

We can drop the "--quiet --no-progress" test, as it is not
really interesting (it is already handled by testing them
separately in (2) and (3) above).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-01 09:41:13 -07:00
Jeff King
4c0a89fcde config: expand tildes in include.path variable
You can already use relative paths in include.path, which
means that including "foo" from your global "~/.gitconfig"
will look in your home directory. However, you might want to
do something clever like putting "~/.gitconfig-foo" in a
specific repository's config file.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-29 17:46:32 -07:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
bafa16e53c t4052: work around shells unable to set COLUMNS to 1
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-27 09:28:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d4958d30f8 Merge branch 'zj/mksh-columns-breakage' into lp/diffstat-with-graph
By Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
* zj/mksh-columns-breakage:
  test-lib: skip test with COLUMNS=1 under mksh
2012-04-27 09:28:00 -07:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
b082687cba test-lib: skip test with COLUMNS=1 under mksh
mksh does not allow $COLUMNS to be set below 12.  mksh(1) says that
$COLUMNS is "always set, defaults to 80, unless the value as reported
by stty(1) is non-zero and sane enough". This applies also to setting
it directly for one command:

    $ COLUMNS=10 python -c 'import os; print os.environ["COLUMNS"]'
    98

Add a test prerequisite by checking if we can set COLUMNS=1, to allow
us to skip tests that needs it.

Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-27 09:26:37 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
46e3581581 t5570: fix forwarding of git-daemon messages via cat
The shell function that starts git-daemon wants to read the first line of
the daemon's stderr to ensure that it started correctly. Subsequent daemon
errors should be redirected to fd 4 (which is the terminal in verbose mode
or /dev/null in quiet mode). To that end the shell script used 'read' to
get the first line of output, and then 'cat &' to forward everything else
in a background process.

The problem is, that 'cat >&4 &' does not produce any output because the
shell redirects a background process's stdin to /dev/null. To have this
command invocation do anything useful, we have to redirect its stdin
explicitly (which overrides the /dev/null redirection).

The shell function connects the daemon's stderr to its consumers via a
FIFO. We cannot just do this:

   read line <git_daemon_output
   cat <git_daemon_output >&4 &

because after the first redirection the pipe is closed and the daemon
could receive SIGPIPE if it writes at the wrong moment. Therefore, we open
the readable end of the FIFO only once on fd 7 in the shell and dup from
there to the stdin of the two consumers.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-27 08:01:33 -07:00