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Martin von Zweigbergk
71786f54c4 rebase: factor out reference parsing
Remove the parsing and validation of references (onto, upstream, branch)
from git-rebase--interactive.sh and rely on the information exported from
git-rebase.sh.

By using the parsing of the --onto parameter in git-rebase.sh, this
improves the error message when the parameter is invalid.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:08 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
8f9bfb64c5 rebase: reorder validation steps
Reorder validation steps in preparation for the validation to be factored
out from git-rebase--interactive.sh into git-rebase.sh.

The main functional difference is that the pre-rebase hook will no longer
be run if the work tree is dirty.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:08 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
cf432ca051 rebase: factor out command line option processing
Factor out the command line processing in git-rebase--interactive.sh
to git-rebase.sh. Store the options in variables in git-rebase.sh and
then source git-rebase--interactive.sh.

Suggested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:08 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
9765b6abeb rebase: align variable content
Make sure to interpret variables with the same name in the same way in
git-rebase.sh and git-rebase--interactive.sh. This will make it easier
to factor out code from git-rebase.sh to git-rebase--interactive and
export the variables.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:08 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
6bb4e485cf rebase: align variable names
git-rebase--interactive.sh will soon be sourced from
git-rebase.sh. Align the names of variables used in these scripts to
prepare for that.

Some names in git-rebase--interactive.sh, such as "author_script" and
"amend", are currently used in their upper case form to refer to a
file and in their lower case form to refer to something else. In these
cases, change the name of the existing lower case variable and
downcase the name of the variable that refers to the file.

Currently, git-rebase.sh uses mostly lower case variable names, while
git-rebase--interactive.sh uses mostly upper case variable names. For
consistency, downcase all variables, not just the ones that will be
shared between the two script files.

Helped-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:08 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
95135b06fe rebase: stricter check of standalone sub command
The sub commands '--continue', '--skip' or '--abort' may only be used
standalone according to the documentation. Other options following the
sub command are currently not accepted, but options preceeding them
are. For example, 'git rebase --continue -v' is not accepted, while
'git rebase -v --continue' is. Tighten up the check and allow no other
options when one of these sub commands are used.

Only check that it is standalone for non-interactive rebase for
now. Once the command line processing for interactive rebase has been
replaced by the command line processing in git-rebase.sh, this check
will also apply to interactive rebase.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:08 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
3426232248 rebase: act on command line outside parsing loop
To later be able to use the command line processing in git-rebase.sh
for both interactive and non-interactive rebases, move anything that
is specific to non-interactive rebase outside of the parsing
loop. Keep only parsing and validation of command line options in the
loop.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:08 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
99de0640f2 rebase: improve detection of rebase in progress
Detect early on if a rebase is in progress and what type of rebase it
is (interactive, merge-based or am-based). This prepares for further
refactoring where am-based rebase will be dispatched to
git-rebase--am.sh and merge-based rebase will be dispatched to
git-rebase--merge.sh.

The idea is to use the same variables whether the type of rebase was
detected from rebase-apply/ or rebase-merge/ directories or from the
command line options. This will make the code more readable and will
later also make it easier to dispatch to the type-specific scripts.

Also show a consistent error message independent of the type of rebase
that was in progress and remove the obsolete wording about being in
the middle of a 'patch application', since that (an existing
"$GIT_DIR"/rebase-apply/applying) aborts 'git rebase' at an earlier
stage.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:08 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
dc4a4b7387 rebase: remove unused rebase state 'prev_head'
The state stored in $GIT_DIR/rebase-merge/prev_head was introduced in
58634db (rebase: Allow merge strategies to be used when rebasing,
2006-06-21), but it was never used and should therefore be removed.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:08 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
10ffca7db2 rebase: read state outside loop
The 'onto_name' state used in 'git rebase --merge' is currently read
once for each commit that need to be applied. It doesn't change
between each iteration, however, so it should be moved out of the
loop. This also makes the code more readable. Also remove the unused
variable 'end'.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:07 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
02ac45fa62 rebase: refactor reading of state
The code reading the state saved in $merge_dir or $rebase_dir is
currently spread out in many places, making it harder to read and to
introduce additional state. Extract this code into one method that
reads the state. Only extract the code associated with the state that
is written when the rebase is initiated. Leave the state that changes
for each commmit, at least for now.

Currently, when resuming a merge-based rebase using --continue or
--skip, move_to_original_branch (via finish_rb_merge) will be called
without head_name and orig_head set. These variables are then lazily
read in move_to_original_branch if head_name is not set (together with
onto, which is unnecessarily read again). Change this by always
eagerly reading the state, for both am-based and merge-based rebase,
in the --continue and --skip cases. Note that this does not change the
behavior for am-based rebase, which read the state eagerly even before
this commit.

Reading the state eagerly means that part of the state will sometimes
be read unnecessarily. One example is when the rebase is continued,
but stops again at another merge conflict. Another example is when the
rebase is aborted. However, since both of these cases involve user
interaction, the delay is hopefully not noticeable. The
call_merge/continue_merge loop is not affected.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:07 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
69a636ad1a rebase: clearer names for directory variables
Instead of using the old variable name 'dotest' for
"$GIT_DIR"/rebase-merge and no variable for "$GIT_DIR"/rebase-apply,
introduce two variables 'merge_dir' and 'apply_dir' for these paths.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:08:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
99e63ef24e Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  rebase -i: clarify in-editor documentation of "exec"
  tests: sanitize more git environment variables
  fast-import: treat filemodify with empty tree as delete
  rebase: give a better error message for bogus branch
  rebase: use explicit "--" with checkout

Conflicts:
	t/t9300-fast-import.sh
2011-01-27 10:27:49 -08:00
Jeff King
4ac5356c62 rebase: give a better error message for bogus branch
When you give a non-existent branch to git-rebase, it spits
out the usage. This can be confusing, since you may
understand the usage just fine, but simply have made a
mistake in the branch name.

Before:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

After:

  $ git rebase origin bogus
  fatal: no such branch: bogus
  Usage: git rebase ...

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-26 17:27:02 -08:00
Jeff King
3b21a438c9 rebase: use explicit "--" with checkout
In the case of a ref/pathname conflict, checkout will
already do the right thing and checkout the ref. However,
for a non-existant ref, this has two advantages:

  1. If a file with that pathname exists, rebase will
     refresh the file from the index and then rebase the
     current branch instead of producing an error.

  2. If no such file exists, the error message using an
     explicit "--" is better:

       # before
       $ git rebase -i origin bogus
       error: pathspec 'bogus' did not match any file(s) known to git.
       Could not checkout bogus

       # after
       $ git rebase -i origin bogus
       fatal: invalid reference: bogus
       Could not checkout bogus

The problems seem to be trigger-able only through "git
rebase -i", as regular git-rebase checks the validity of the
branch parameter as a ref very early on. However, it doesn't
hurt to be defensive.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-26 17:26:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
37ad7ca7db Merge branch 'mz/rebase-abort-reflog-fix' into maint
* mz/rebase-abort-reflog-fix:
  rebase --abort: do not update branch ref
2010-12-14 07:35:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e0cbf12bf7 Merge branch 'mz/maint-rebase-stat-config' into maint
* mz/maint-rebase-stat-config:
  rebase: only show stat if configured to true
2010-12-14 07:35:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cd425a1585 Merge branch 'mz/rebase-i-verify'
* mz/rebase-i-verify:
  rebase: support --verify
2010-12-12 21:49:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6b236bfcb0 Merge branch 'mz/rebase-abort-reflog-fix'
* mz/rebase-abort-reflog-fix:
  rebase --abort: do not update branch ref
2010-12-12 21:49:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
25756cff93 Merge branch 'mz/maint-rebase-stat-config'
* mz/maint-rebase-stat-config:
  rebase: only show stat if configured to true
2010-12-12 21:49:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e4663556cf Merge branch 'rr/needs-clean-work-tree'
* rr/needs-clean-work-tree:
  Porcelain scripts: Rewrite cryptic "needs update" error message
2010-11-29 17:52:32 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
9474a029d5 rebase: only show stat if configured to true
If rebase.stat is set to true, a diffstat should be displayed. If it is
not set, it should default to false. However, if it is explicitly set to
false (or other value), a diffstat is still displayed, which is probably
not what most users would expect. Show diffstat only if it is set
to true.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-29 14:49:54 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
729ec9e23a rebase --abort: do not update branch ref
If a non-interactive rebase of a ref fails at commit X and is aborted by
the user, the ref will be updated twice. First to point at X (with the
reflog message "rebase finished: $head_name onto $onto"), and then back
to $orig_head. It should not be updated at all.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-23 16:23:10 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
7baf9c4b70 rebase: support --verify
Interactive rebase allows the '--verify' option to be passed, but it will
be ignored. Implement proper support for the option for both interactive
and non-interactive rebase by making it override any previous
'--no-verify'.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-23 12:15:43 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
f772c34ce0 rebase -X: do not clobber strategy
If any strategy options are passed to -X, the strategy will always be
set to 'recursive'. According to the documentation, it should default to
'recursive' if it is not set, but it should be possible to set it to
other values.

This fixes a regression introduced in v1.7.3-rc0~67^2 (2010-07-29).

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-10 09:38:36 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
92c62a3f4f Porcelain scripts: Rewrite cryptic "needs update" error message
Although Git interally has the facility to differentiate between
porcelain and plubmbing commands and appropriately print errors,
several shell scripts invoke plubming commands triggering cryptic
plumbing errors to be displayed on a porcelain interface. This patch
replaces the "needs update" message in git-pull and git-rebase, when
`git update-index` is run, with a more friendly message.

Reported-by: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Reported-by: Thore Husfeldt <thore.husfeldt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-28 13:28:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
69ae92bda1 shell portability: no "export VAR=VAL"
It is more portable to say "VAR=VAL && export VAR" instead.

Noticed by Ævar.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-13 11:36:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0c61c6de34 Merge branch 'os/fix-rebase-diff-no-prefix'
* os/fix-rebase-diff-no-prefix:
  Add --src/dst-prefix to git-formt-patch in git-rebase.sh
2010-09-15 12:40:33 -07:00
Oded Shimon
5b220a6876 Add --src/dst-prefix to git-formt-patch in git-rebase.sh
For the case of "diff.noprefix" in git-config, git-format-patch should
still output diff with standard prefixes for git-am

Signed-off-by: Oded Shimon <ods15@ods15.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-09 17:09:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
09c6a8e66c Merge branch 'jn/rebase-rename-am' into maint
* jn/rebase-rename-am:
  rebase: protect against diff.renames configuration
  t3400 (rebase): whitespace cleanup
  Teach "apply --index-info" to handle rename patches
  t4150 (am): futureproof against failing tests
  t4150 (am): style fix
2010-08-20 12:53:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
06d11b2e8d Merge branch 'ml/rebase-x-strategy'
* ml/rebase-x-strategy:
  rebase: support -X to pass through strategy options
2010-08-18 12:29:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9c74b94401 Merge branch 'jn/rebase-rename-am'
* jn/rebase-rename-am:
  rebase: protect against diff.renames configuration
  t3400 (rebase): whitespace cleanup
  Teach "apply --index-info" to handle rename patches
  t4150 (am): futureproof against failing tests
  t4150 (am): style fix
2010-08-18 12:16:31 -07:00
Willy Tarreau
1bc6bf6dea git-rebase: fix typo when parsing --force-rebase
Due to two missing hyphens, The "force" keyword on the command line
would be taken as an alias for the --force-rebase option.

Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09 11:51:50 -07:00
Mike Lundy
93ce190cd1 rebase: support -X to pass through strategy options
git-rebase calls out to merge strategies, but did not support merge
strategy options so far.  Add this, in the same style used in
git-merge.

Sadly we have to do the full quoting/eval dance here, since
merge-recursive supports the --subtree=<path> option which potentially
contains whitespace.

This patch does not cover git rebase -i, which does not call any merge
strategy directly except in --preserve-merges, and even then only for
merges.

[jc: with a trivial fix-up for 'expr']

Signed-off-by: Mike Lundy <mike@fluffypenguin.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-03 15:14:20 -07:00
David D. Kilzer
25e9325040 Fix git rebase --continue to work with touched files
When performing a non-interactive rebase, sometimes
"git rebase --continue" will fail if an unmodified file is
touched in the working directory:

    You must edit all merge conflicts and then
    mark them as resolved using git add

This is caused by "git diff-files" reporting a difference
between the index and the filesystem:

    :100644 100644 d00491...... 000000...... M	file

The fix is to run "git update-index --refresh" before
"git diff-files" as is done in git-rebase--interactive.

Signed-off-by: David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer@kilzer.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-28 13:57:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
840b3ca758 rebase: protect against diff.renames configuration
We currently do not disable diff.renames configuration while rebase
internally runs "format-patch" to feed "am -3".

The end user configuration for "diff" should not affect the result
produced by the higher level command that is related to "diff" only
because internally it is implemented in terms of it.

For that matter, I have a feeling that format-patch should not even look
at diff.renames, but we seem to have been doing this for a long time so
there is no easy way to fix this thinko.

In any case, here is a much straightforward fix for "rebase".

[jn: with test case from David]

Reported-by: David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer@kilzer.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-23 14:46:28 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
bffd750adf rebase: improve error message when upstream argument is missing
Strip out options before checking for a missing upstream argument.
Before:

 $ git rebase -m
 shift: 426: can't shift that many

After:

 $ git rebase -m
 Usage: git rebase ...

While at it, fix the usage message to explain that the upstream
argument is mandatory.

Reported-by: Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-31 17:53:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9234b00372 Merge branch 'mb/rebase-i-no-ff'
* mb/rebase-i-no-ff:
  Teach rebase the --no-ff option.

Conflicts:
	git-rebase--interactive.sh
	t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh
2010-04-03 12:28:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a86ed83cce Merge branch 'tr/notes-display'
* tr/notes-display:
  git-notes(1): add a section about the meaning of history
  notes: track whether notes_trees were changed at all
  notes: add shorthand --ref to override GIT_NOTES_REF
  commit --amend: copy notes to the new commit
  rebase: support automatic notes copying
  notes: implement helpers needed for note copying during rewrite
  notes: implement 'git notes copy --stdin'
  rebase -i: invoke post-rewrite hook
  rebase: invoke post-rewrite hook
  commit --amend: invoke post-rewrite hook
  Documentation: document post-rewrite hook
  Support showing notes from more than one notes tree
  test-lib: unset GIT_NOTES_REF to stop it from influencing tests

Conflicts:
	git-am.sh
	refs.c
2010-03-24 16:26:43 -07:00
Marc Branchaud
b499549401 Teach rebase the --no-ff option.
For git-rebase.sh, --no-ff is a synonym for --force-rebase.

For git-rebase--interactive.sh, --no-ff cherry-picks all the commits in
the rebased branch, instead of fast-forwarding over any unchanged commits.

--no-ff offers an alternative way to deal with reverted merges.  Instead of
"reverting the revert" you can use "rebase --no-ff" to recreate the branch
with entirely new commits (they're new because at the very least the
committer time is different).  This obviates the need to revert the
reversion, as you can re-merge the new topic branch directly.  Added an
addendum to revert-a-faulty-merge.txt describing the situation and how to
use --no-ff to handle it.

Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-24 14:42:57 -07:00
Thomas Rast
eb2151bb89 rebase: support automatic notes copying
Luckily, all the support already happens to be there.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-12 21:55:40 -08:00
Thomas Rast
96e19488f1 rebase: invoke post-rewrite hook
We have to deal with two separate code paths: a normal rebase, which
actually goes through git-am; and rebase {-m|-s}.

The only small issue with both is that they need to remember the
original sha1 across a possible conflict resolution.  rebase -m
already puts this information in $dotest/current, and we just
introduce a similar file for git-am.

Note that in git-am, the hook really only runs when coming from
git-rebase: the code path that sets the $dotest/original-commit file
is guarded by a test for $dotest/rebasing.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-12 21:55:39 -08:00
Markus Heidelberg
31d87385c4 rebase: don't invoke the pager for each commit summary
This regression was introduced by commit 0aa958d (rebase: replace
antiquated sed invocation, 2010-01-24), which changed the invocation of
"git rev-list | sed" to "git log".

It can be reproduced by something like this:
$ git rebase -s recursive origin/master

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-30 08:42:42 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
0aa958d4b4 rebase: replace antiquated sed invocation
Use the modern form of printing a commit subject instead of piping
the output of rev-list to sed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 09:43:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4a88fb7ffc Merge branch 'jc/rerere'
* jc/rerere:
  Teach --[no-]rerere-autoupdate option to merge, revert and friends
2010-01-18 18:13:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1f73566af5 Merge branch 'jc/checkout-merge-base'
* jc/checkout-merge-base:
  rebase -i: teach --onto A...B syntax
  rebase: fix --onto A...B parsing and add tests
  "rebase --onto A...B" replays history on the merge base between A and B
  "checkout A...B" switches to the merge base between A and B
2010-01-13 12:31:13 -08:00
Nanako Shiraishi
9f21e97ddc rebase: fix --onto A...B parsing and add tests
The previous patch didn't parse "rebase --onto A...B" correctly when A
isn't an empty string. It also tried to be careful to notice a case in
which there are more than one merge bases, but forgot to give --all option
to merge-base, making the test pointless.

Fix these problems and add a test script to verify. Improvements to the
script to parse A...B syntax was taken from review comments by Johannes
Schindelin.

Signed-off-by: しらいし ななこ <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-07 11:14:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cb6020bb01 Teach --[no-]rerere-autoupdate option to merge, revert and friends
Introduce a command line option to override rerere.autoupdate configuration
variable to make it more useful.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-04 00:20:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ad7ace714d Merge branch 'rs/work-around-grep-opt-insanity'
* rs/work-around-grep-opt-insanity:
  Protect scripted Porcelains from GREP_OPTIONS insanity
  mergetool--lib: simplify guess_merge_tool()

Conflicts:
	git-instaweb.sh
2009-11-25 11:45:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e1622bfcba Protect scripted Porcelains from GREP_OPTIONS insanity
If the user has exported the GREP_OPTIONS environment variable, the output
from "grep" and "egrep" in scripted Porcelains may be different from what
they expect.  For example, we may want to count number of matching lines,
by "grep" piped to "wc -l", and GREP_OPTIONS=-C3 will break such use.

The approach taken by this change to address this issue is to protect only
our own use of grep/egrep.  Because we do not unset it at the beginning of
our scripts, hook scripts run from the scripted Porcelains are exposed to
the same insanity this environment variable causes when grep/egrep is used
to implement logic (e.g. "grep | wc -l"), and it is entirely up to the
hook scripts to protect themselves.

On the other hand, applypatch-msg hook may want to show offending words in
the proposed commit log message using grep to the end user, and the user
might want to set GREP_OPTIONS=--color to paint the match more visibly.
The approach to protect only our own use without unsetting the environment
variable globally will allow this use case.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-23 16:31:07 -08:00