The error message after a failing commit_lock_file() call sometimes
looks like this, causing confusion:
$ git remote add remote git@server.com/repo.git
error: could not commit config file .git/config
# Huh?!
# I didn't want to commit anything, especially not my config file!
While in the narrow context of the lockfile module using the verb
'commit' in the error message makes perfect sense, in the broader
context of git the word 'commit' already has a very specific meaning,
hence the confusion.
Reword these error messages to say "could not write" instead of "could
not commit".
While at it, include strerror in the error messages after writing the
config file or the credential store fails to provide some information
about the cause of the failure, and update the style of the error
message after writing the reflog fails to match surrounding error
messages (i.e. no '' around the pathname and no () around the error
description).
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The "lockfile" API has been rebuilt on top of a new "tempfile" API.
* mh/tempfile:
credential-cache--daemon: use tempfile module
credential-cache--daemon: delete socket from main()
gc: use tempfile module to handle gc.pid file
lock_repo_for_gc(): compute the path to "gc.pid" only once
diff: use tempfile module
setup_temporary_shallow(): use tempfile module
write_shared_index(): use tempfile module
register_tempfile(): new function to handle an existing temporary file
tempfile: add several functions for creating temporary files
prepare_tempfile_object(): new function, extracted from create_tempfile()
tempfile: a new module for handling temporary files
commit_lock_file(): use get_locked_file_path()
lockfile: add accessor get_lock_file_path()
lockfile: add accessors get_lock_file_fd() and get_lock_file_fp()
create_bundle(): duplicate file descriptor to avoid closing it twice
lockfile: move documentation to lockfile.h and lockfile.c
To prepare for allowing a different "ref" backend to be plugged in
to the system, update_ref()/delete_ref() have been taught about
ref-like things like MERGE_HEAD that are per-worktree (they will
always be written to the filesystem inside $GIT_DIR).
* dt/refs-pseudo:
pseudoref: check return values from read_ref()
sequencer: replace write_cherry_pick_head with update_ref
bisect: use update_ref
pseudorefs: create and use pseudoref update and delete functions
refs: add ref_type function
refs: introduce pseudoref and per-worktree ref concepts
git_path() and mkpath() are handy helper functions but it is easy
to misuse, as the callers need to be careful to keep the number of
active results below 4. Their uses have been reduced.
* jk/git-path:
memoize common git-path "constant" files
get_repo_path: refactor path-allocation
find_hook: keep our own static buffer
refs.c: remove_empty_directories can take a strbuf
refs.c: avoid git_path assignment in lock_ref_sha1_basic
refs.c: avoid repeated git_path calls in rename_tmp_log
refs.c: simplify strbufs in reflog setup and writing
path.c: drop git_path_submodule
refs.c: remove extra git_path calls from read_loose_refs
remote.c: drop extraneous local variable from migrate_file
prefer mkpathdup to mkpath in assignments
prefer git_pathdup to git_path in some possibly-dangerous cases
add_to_alternates_file: don't add duplicate entries
t5700: modernize style
cache.h: complete set of git_path_submodule helpers
cache.h: clarify documentation for git_path, et al
A negative !ref entry in multi-value transfer.hideRefs
configuration can be used to say "don't hide this one".
* jk/negative-hiderefs:
refs: support negative transfer.hideRefs
docs/config.txt: reorder hideRefs config
These codepaths attempt to compare the "expected" current value with
the actual current value, but did not check if we successfully read
the current value before comparison.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first thing we do in this function is copy the input
into a strbuf. Of the 4 callers, 3 of them already have a
strbuf we could use. Let's just take the strbuf, and convert
the remaining caller to use a strbuf, rather than a raw
git_path. This is safer, anyway, as remove_dir_recursively
is a non-trivial function that might use the pathname
buffers itself (this is _probably_ OK, as the likely culprit
would be calling resolve_gitlink_ref, but we do not pass the
proper flags to ask it to avoid blowing away gitlinks).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Assigning the result of git_path is a bad pattern, because
it's not immediately obvious how long you expect the content
to stay valid (and it may be overwritten by subsequent
calls). Let's use a function-local strbuf here instead,
which we know is safe (we just have to remember to free it
in all code paths).
As a bonus, we get rid of a confusing variable-reuse
("ref_file" is used for two distinct purposes).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Because it's not safe to store the static-buffer results of
git_path for a long time, we end up formatting the same
filename over and over. We can fix this by using a
function-local strbuf to store the formatted pathname and
avoid repeating ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 1a83c24 (git_snpath(): retire and replace with
strbuf_git_path(), 2014-11-30) taught log_ref_setup and
log_ref_write_1 to take a strbuf parameter, rather than a
bare string. It then makes an alias to the strbuf's "buf"
field under the original name.
This made the original diff much shorter, but the resulting
code is more complicated that it needs to be. Since we've
aliased the pointer, we drop our reference to the strbuf to
ensure we don't accidentally change it. But if we simply
drop our alias and use "logfile.buf" directly, we do not
have to worry about this aliasing. It's a larger diff, but
the resulting code is simpler.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In iterating over the loose refs in "refs/foo/", we keep a
running strbuf with "refs/foo/one", "refs/foo/two", etc. But
we also need to access these files in the filesystem, as
".git/refs/foo/one", etc. For this latter purpose, we make a
series of independent calls to git_path(). These are safe
(we only use the result to call stat()), but assigning the
result of git_path is a suspicious pattern that we'd rather
avoid.
This patch keeps a running buffer with ".git/refs/foo/", and
we can just append/reset each directory element as we loop.
This matches how we handle the refnames. It should also be
more efficient, as we do not keep formatting the same
".git/refs/foo" prefix (which can be arbitrarily deep).
Technically we are dropping a call to strbuf_cleanup() on
each generated filename, but that's OK; it wasn't doing
anything, as we are putting in single-level names we read
from the filesystem (so it could not possibly be cleaning up
cruft like "./" in this instance).
A clever reader may also note that the running refname
buffer ("refs/foo/") is actually a subset of the filesystem
path buffer (".git/refs/foo/"). We could get by with one
buffer, indexing the length of $GIT_DIR when we want the
refname. However, having tried this, the resulting code
actually ends up a little more confusing, and the efficiency
improvement is tiny (and almost certainly dwarfed by the
system calls we are making).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As with the previous commit to git_path, assigning the
result of mkpath is suspicious, since it is not clear
whether we will still depend on the value after it may have
been overwritten by subsequent calls. This patch converts
low-hanging fruit to use mkpathdup instead of mkpath (with
the downside that we must remember to free the result).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Because git_path uses a static buffer that is shared with
calls to git_path, mkpath, etc, it can be dangerous to
assign the result to a variable or pass it to a non-trivial
function. The value may change unexpectedly due to other
calls.
None of the cases changed here has a known bug, but they're
worth converting away from git_path because:
1. It's easy to use git_pathdup in these cases.
2. They use constructs (like assignment) that make it
hard to tell whether they're safe or not.
The extra malloc overhead should be trivial, as an
allocation should be an order of magnitude cheaper than a
system call (which we are clearly about to make, since we
are constructing a filename). The real cost is that we must
remember to free the result.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We are about to move those members, so change client code to read them
through accessor functions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you hide a hierarchy of refs using the transfer.hideRefs
config, there is no way to later override that config to
"unhide" it. This patch implements a "negative" hide which
causes matches to immediately be marked as unhidden, even if
another match would hide it. We take care to apply the
matches in reverse-order from how they are fed to us by the
config machinery, as that lets our usual "last one wins"
config precedence work (and entries in .git/config, for
example, will override /etc/gitconfig).
So you can now do:
$ git config --system transfer.hideRefs refs/secret
$ git config transfer.hideRefs '!refs/secret/not-so-secret'
to hide refs/secret in all repos, except for one public bit
in one specific repo. Or you can even do:
$ git clone \
-u "git -c transfer.hiderefs="!refs/foo" upload-pack" \
remote:repo.git
to clone remote:repo.git, overriding any hiding it has
configured.
There are two alternatives that were considered and
rejected:
1. A generic config mechanism for removing an item from a
list. E.g.: (e.g., "[transfer] hideRefs -= refs/foo").
This is nice because it could apply to other
multi-valued config, as well. But it is not nearly as
flexible. There is no way to say:
[transfer]
hideRefs = refs/secret
hideRefs = refs/secret/not-so-secret
Having explicit negative specifications means we can
override previous entries, even if they are not the
same literal string.
2. Adding another variable to override some parts of
hideRefs (e.g., "exposeRefs").
This solves the problem from alternative (1), but it
cannot easily obey the normal config precedence,
because it would use two separate lists. For example:
[transfer]
hideRefs = refs/secret
exposeRefs = refs/secret/not-so-secret
hideRefs = refs/secret/not-so-secret/no-really-its-secret
With two lists, we have to apply the "expose" rules
first, and only then apply the "hide" rules. But that
does not match what the above config intends.
Of course we could internally parse that to a single
list, respecting the ordering, which saves us having to
invent the new "!" syntax. But using a single name
communicates to the user that the ordering _is_
important. And "!" is well-known for negation, and
should not appear at the beginning of a ref (it is
actually valid in a ref-name, but all entries here
should be fully-qualified, starting with "refs/").
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow an asterisk as a substring (as opposed to the entirety) of
a path component for both side of a refspec, e.g.
"refs/heads/o*:refs/remotes/heads/i*".
* jk/refspec-parse-wildcard:
refs: loosen restriction on wildcard "*" refspecs
refs: cleanup comments regarding check_refname_component()
In preparation for allowing different "backends" to store the refs
in a way different from the traditional "one ref per file in $GIT_DIR
or in a $GIT_DIR/packed-refs file" filesystem storage, reduce
direct filesystem access to ref-like things like CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
from scripts and programs.
* dt/refs-backend-preamble:
git-stash: use update-ref --create-reflog instead of creating files
update-ref and tag: add --create-reflog arg
refs: add REF_FORCE_CREATE_REFLOG flag
git-reflog: add exists command
refs: new public ref function: safe_create_reflog
refs: break out check for reflog autocreation
refs.c: add err arguments to reflog functions
Teach "git log" and friends a new "--date=format:..." option to
format timestamps using system's strftime(3).
* jk/date-mode-format:
strbuf: make strbuf_addftime more robust
introduce "format" date-mode
convert "enum date_mode" into a struct
show-branch: use DATE_RELATIVE instead of magic number
Clean up refs API and make "git clone" less intimate with the
implementation detail.
* mh/init-delete-refs-api:
delete_ref(): use the usual convention for old_sha1
cmd_update_ref(): make logic more straightforward
update_ref(): don't read old reference value before delete
check_branch_commit(): make first parameter const
refs.h: add some parameter names to function declarations
refs: move the remaining ref module declarations to refs.h
initial_ref_transaction_commit(): check for ref D/F conflicts
initial_ref_transaction_commit(): check for duplicate refs
refs: remove some functions from the module's public interface
initial_ref_transaction_commit(): function for initial ref creation
repack_without_refs(): make function private
prune_refs(): use delete_refs()
prune_remote(): use delete_refs()
delete_refs(): bail early if the packed-refs file cannot be rewritten
delete_refs(): make error message more generic
delete_refs(): new function for the refs API
delete_ref(): handle special case more explicitly
remove_branches(): remove temporary
delete_ref(): move declaration to refs.h
Add an environment variable to tell Git to look into refs hierarchy
other than refs/replace/ for the object replacement data.
* mh/replace-refs:
Allow to control where the replace refs are looked for
Pseudorefs should not be updated through the ref transaction
API, because alternate ref backends still need to store pseudorefs
in GIT_DIR (instead of wherever they store refs). Instead,
change update_ref and delete_ref to call pseudoref-specific
functions.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a function ref_type, which categorizes refs as per-worktree,
pseudoref, or normal ref.
Later, we will use this in refs.c to treat pseudorefs specially.
Alternate ref backends may use it to treat both pseudorefs and
per-worktree refs differently.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Loosen restrictions on refspecs by allowing patterns that have a "*"
within a component instead of only as the whole component.
Remove the logic to accept a single "*" as a whole component from
check_refname_format(), and implement an extended form of that logic
in check_refname_component(). Pass the pointer to the flags argument
to the latter, as it has to clear REFNAME_REFSPEC_PATTERN bit when
it sees "*".
Teach check_refname_component() function to allow an asterisk "*"
only when REFNAME_REFSPEC_PATTERN is set in the flags, and drop the
bit after seeing a "*", to ensure that one side of a refspec
contains at most one asterisk.
This will allow us to accept refspecs such as `for/bar*:foo/baz*`.
Any refspec which functioned before shall continue functioning with
the new logic.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correctly specify all characters which are rejected under the '4: a
bad character' disposition, which did not list all characters that
are treated as such.
Cleanup comment style for rejected refs by inserting a ", or" at the
end of each statement.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a flag to allow forcing the creation of a reflog even if the ref
name and core.logAllRefUpdates setting would not ordinarily cause ref
creation.
In a moment, we will use this to add options to git tag and git
update-ref to force reflog creation.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The safe_create_reflog function creates a reflog, if it does not
already exist.
The log_ref_setup function becomes private and gains a force_create
parameter to force the creation of a reflog even if log_all_ref_updates
is false or the refname is not one of the special refnames.
The new parameter also reduces the need to store, modify, and restore
the log_all_ref_updates global before reflog creation.
In a moment, we will use this to add reflog creation commands to
git-reflog.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an err argument to log_ref_setup that can explain the reason
for a failure. This then eliminates the need to manage errno through
this function since we can just add strerror(errno) to the err string
when meaningful. No callers relied on errno from this function for
anything else than the error message.
Also add err arguments to private functions write_ref_to_lockfile,
log_ref_write_1, commit_ref_update. This again eliminates the need to
manage errno in these functions.
Some error messages are slightly reordered.
Update of a patch by Ronnie Sahlberg.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In preparation for adding date modes that may carry extra
information beyond the mode itself, this patch converts the
date_mode enum into a struct.
Most of the conversion is fairly straightforward; we pass
the struct as a pointer and dereference the type field where
necessary. Locations that declare a date_mode can use a "{}"
constructor. However, the tricky case is where we use the
enum labels as constants, like:
show_date(t, tz, DATE_NORMAL);
Ideally we could say:
show_date(t, tz, &{ DATE_NORMAL });
but of course C does not allow that. Likewise, we cannot
cast the constant to a struct, because we need to pass an
actual address. Our options are basically:
1. Manually add a "struct date_mode d = { DATE_NORMAL }"
definition to each caller, and pass "&d". This makes
the callers uglier, because they sometimes do not even
have their own scope (e.g., they are inside a switch
statement).
2. Provide a pre-made global "date_normal" struct that can
be passed by address. We'd also need "date_rfc2822",
"date_iso8601", and so forth. But at least the ugliness
is defined in one place.
3. Provide a wrapper that generates the correct struct on
the fly. The big downside is that we end up pointing to
a single global, which makes our wrapper non-reentrant.
But show_date is already not reentrant, so it does not
matter.
This patch implements 3, along with a minor macro to keep
the size of the callers sane.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git for-each-ref" reported "missing object" for 0{40} when it
encounters a broken ref. The lack of object whose name is 0{40} is
not the problem; the ref being broken is.
* mh/reporting-broken-refs-from-for-each-ref:
read_loose_refs(): treat NULL_SHA1 loose references as broken
read_loose_refs(): simplify function logic
for-each-ref: report broken references correctly
t6301: new tests of for-each-ref error handling
The ref_transaction_update() family of functions use the following
convention for their old_sha1 parameters:
* old_sha1 == NULL: Don't check the old value at all.
* is_null_sha1(old_sha1): Ensure that the reference didn't exist
before the transaction.
* otherwise: Ensure that the reference had the specified value before
the transaction.
delete_ref() had a different convention, namely treating
is_null_sha1(old_sha1) as "don't care". Change it to adhere to the
standard convention to reduce the scope for confusion.
Please note that it is now a bug to pass old_sha1=NULL_SHA1 to
delete_ref() (because it doesn't make sense to delete a reference that
you already know doesn't exist). This is consistent with the behavior
of ref_transaction_delete().
Most of the callers of delete_ref() never pass old_sha1=NULL_SHA1 to
delete_ref(), and are therefore unaffected by this change. The
two exceptions are:
* The call in cmd_update_ref(), which passed NULL_SHA1 if the old
value passed in on the command line was 0{40} or the empty string.
Change that caller to pass NULL in those cases.
Arguably, it should be an error to call "update-ref -d" with the old
value set to "does not exist", just as it is for the `--stdin`
command "delete". But since this usage was accepted until now,
continue to accept it.
* The call in delete_branches(), which could pass NULL_SHA1 if
deleting a broken or symbolic ref. Change it to pass NULL in these
cases.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some functions from the refs module were still declared in cache.h.
Move them to refs.h.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In initial_ref_transaction_commit(), check for D/F conflicts (i.e.,
the type of conflict that exists between "refs/foo" and
"refs/foo/bar") among the references being created and between the
references being created and any hypothetical existing references.
Ideally, there shouldn't *be* any existing references when this
function is called. But, at least in the case of the "testgit" remote
helper, "clone" can be called after the remote-tracking "HEAD" and
"master" branches have already been created. So let's just do the
full-blown check.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Error out if the ref_transaction includes more than one update for any
refname.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The following functions are no longer used from outside the refs
module:
* lock_packed_refs()
* add_packed_ref()
* commit_packed_refs()
* rollback_packed_refs()
So make these functions private.
This is an important step, because it means that nobody outside of the
refs module needs to know the difference between loose and packed
references.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone" uses shortcuts when creating the initial set of
references:
* It writes them directly to packed-refs.
* It doesn't lock the individual references (though it does lock the
packed-refs file).
* It doesn't check for refname conflicts between two new references or
between one new reference and any hypothetical old ones.
* It doesn't create reflog entries for the reference creations.
This functionality was implemented in builtin/clone.c. But really that
file shouldn't have such intimate knowledge of how references are
stored. So provide a new function in the refs API,
initial_ref_transaction_commit(), which can be used for initial
reference creation. The new function is based on the ref_transaction
interface.
This means that we can make some other functions private to the refs
module. That will be done in a followup commit.
It would seem to make sense to add a test here that there are no
existing references, because that is how the function *should* be
used. But in fact, the "testgit" remote helper appears to call it
*after* having set up refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD and
refs/remotes/<name>/master, so we can't be so strict. For now, the
function trusts its caller to only call it when it makes sense. Future
commits will add some more limited sanity checks.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is no longer called from outside of the refs module. Also move its
docstring and change it to imperative voice.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we fail to delete the doomed references from the packed-refs file,
then it is unsafe to delete their loose references, because doing so
might expose a value from the packed-refs file that is obsolete and
perhaps even points at an object that has been garbage collected.
So if repack_without_refs() fails, emit a more explicit error message
and bail.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the error message from
Could not remove branch %s
to
could not remove reference %s
First of all, the old error message referred to "branch
refs/remotes/origin/foo", which was awkward even for the existing
caller. Normally we would refer to a reference like that as either
"remote-tracking branch origin/foo" or "reference
refs/remotes/origin/foo". Here I take the lazier alternative.
Moreover, now that this function is part of the refs API, it might be
called for refs that are neither branches nor remote-tracking
branches.
While we're at it, convert the error message to lower case, as per our
usual convention.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move the function remove_branches() from builtin/remote.c to refs.c,
rename it to delete_refs(), and make it public.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
delete_ref() uses a different convention for its old_sha1 parameter
than, say, ref_transaction_delete(): NULL_SHA1 means not to check the
old value. Make this fact a little bit clearer in the code by handling
it in explicit, commented code rather than burying it in a conditional
expression.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also
* Add a docstring
* Rename the second parameter to "old_sha1", to be consistent with the
convention used elsewhere in the refs module
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can be useful to have grafts or replace refs for specific use-cases while
keeping the default "view" of the repository pristine (or with a different
set of grafts/replace refs).
It is possible to use a different graft file with GIT_GRAFT_FILE, but while
replace refs are more powerful, they don't have an equivalent override.
Add a GIT_REPLACE_REF_BASE environment variable to control where git is
going to look for replace refs.
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Bring consistency to error reporting mechanism used in "refs" API.
* mh/verify-lock-error-report:
ref_transaction_commit(): do not capitalize error messages
verify_lock(): do not capitalize error messages
verify_lock(): report errors via a strbuf
verify_lock(): on errors, let the caller unlock the lock
verify_lock(): return 0/-1 rather than struct ref_lock *
NULL_SHA1 is used to indicate an "invalid object name" throughout our
code (and the code of other git implementations), so it is vastly more
likely that an on-disk reference was set to this value due to a
software bug than that NULL_SHA1 is the legitimate SHA-1 of an actual
object. Therefore, if a loose reference has the value NULL_SHA1,
consider it to be broken.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago
unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with
resource exhaustion. This is for 2.4.x track.
* mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4:
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
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
Make it clearer that there are two possible ways to read the
reference, but that we handle read errors uniformly regardless of
which way it was read.
This refactoring also makes the following change easier to implement.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our convention is for error messages to start with a lower-case
letter.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Our convention is for error messages to start with a lower-case
letter.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
