Built-in fsmonitor (part 2).
* jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2: (30 commits)
t7527: test status with untracked-cache and fsmonitor--daemon
fsmonitor: force update index after large responses
fsmonitor--daemon: use a cookie file to sync with file system
fsmonitor--daemon: periodically truncate list of modified files
t/perf/p7519: add fsmonitor--daemon test cases
t/perf/p7519: speed up test on Windows
t/perf/p7519: fix coding style
t/helper/test-chmtime: skip directories on Windows
t/perf: avoid copying builtin fsmonitor files into test repo
t7527: create test for fsmonitor--daemon
t/helper/fsmonitor-client: create IPC client to talk to FSMonitor Daemon
help: include fsmonitor--daemon feature flag in version info
fsmonitor--daemon: implement handle_client callback
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: implement FSEvent listener on MacOS
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: add MacOS header files for FSEvent
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-win32: implement FSMonitor backend on Windows
fsmonitor--daemon: create token-based changed path cache
fsmonitor--daemon: define token-ids
fsmonitor--daemon: add pathname classification
fsmonitor--daemon: implement 'start' command
...
Give hint when branch tracking cannot be established because fetch
refspecs from multiple remote repositories overlap.
* tk/ambiguous-fetch-refspec:
tracking branches: add advice to ambiguous refspec error
"git fetch --refetch" learned to fetch everything without telling
the other side what we already have, which is useful when you
cannot trust what you have in the local object store.
* rc/fetch-refetch:
docs: mention --refetch fetch option
fetch: after refetch, encourage auto gc repacking
t5615-partial-clone: add test for fetch --refetch
fetch: add --refetch option
builtin/fetch-pack: add --refetch option
fetch-pack: add refetch
fetch-negotiator: add specific noop initializer
Running 'git {merge,diff}tool --tool-help' now also prints usage
information about the vimdiff tool (and its variants) instead of just
its name.
Two new functions ('diff_cmd_help()' and 'merge_cmd_help()') have been
added to the set of functions that each merge tool (ie. scripts found
inside "mergetools/") can overwrite to provided tool specific
information.
Right now, only 'mergetools/vimdiff' implements these functions, but
other tools are encouraged to do so in the future, specially if they
take configuration options not explained anywhere else (as it is the
case with the 'vimdiff' tool and the new 'layout' option)
Note that the function 'show_tool_names', used in the implementation of
'git mergetool --tool-help', is also used in Documentation/Makefile to
generate the list of allowed values for the configuration variables
'{diff,merge}.{gui,}tool'. Adjust the rule so its output is an Asciidoc
"description list" instead of a plain list, with the tool name as the
item and the newly added tool description as the description.
In addition, a section has been added to
"Documentation/git-mergetool.txt" to explain the new "layout"
configuration option with examples.
Helped-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fernando Ramos <greenfoo@u92.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The error "not tracking: ambiguous information for ref" is raised
when we are evaluating what tracking information to set on a branch,
and find that the ref to be added as tracking branch is mapped
under multiple remotes' fetch refspecs.
This can easily happen when a user copy-pastes a remote definition
in their git config, and forgets to change the tracking path.
Add advice in this situation, explicitly highlighting which remotes
are involved and suggesting how to correct the situation. Also
update a test to explicitly expect that advice.
Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash" does not allow subcommands it internally runs as its
implementation detail, except for "git reset", to emit messages;
now "git reset" part has also been squelched.
* vd/stash-silence-reset:
reset: show --no-refresh in the short-help
reset: remove 'reset.refresh' config option
reset: remove 'reset.quiet' config option
reset: do not make '--quiet' disable index refresh
stash: make internal resets quiet and refresh index
reset: suppress '--no-refresh' advice if logging is silenced
reset: replace '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in performance advice
reset: introduce --[no-]refresh option to --mixed
reset: revise index refresh advice
Document it for partial clones as a means to apply a new filter, and
reference it from the remote.<name>.partialclonefilter config parameter.
Signed-off-by: Robert Coup <robert@coup.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Updates to refs traditionally weren't fsync'ed, but we can
configure using core.fsync variable to do so.
* ps/fsync-refs:
core.fsync: new option to harden references
Replace core.fsyncObjectFiles with two new configuration variables,
core.fsync and core.fsyncMethod.
* ns/core-fsyncmethod:
core.fsync: documentation and user-friendly aggregate options
core.fsync: new option to harden the index
core.fsync: add configuration parsing
core.fsync: introduce granular fsync control infrastructure
core.fsyncmethod: add writeout-only mode
wrapper: make inclusion of Windows csprng header tightly scoped
Document how `core.fsmonitor` can be set to a boolean to enable
or disable the builtin FSMonitor.
Update references to `core.fsmonitor` and `core.fsmonitorHookVersion` and
pointers to `Watchman` to refer to it.
Create `git-fsmonitor--daemon` manual page and describe its features.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-2.34:
Git 2.34.2
Git 2.33.2
Git 2.32.1
Git 2.31.2
GIT-VERSION-GEN: bump to v2.33.1
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
* maint-2.33:
Git 2.33.2
Git 2.32.1
Git 2.31.2
GIT-VERSION-GEN: bump to v2.33.1
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
* maint-2.32:
Git 2.32.1
Git 2.31.2
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
* maint-2.31:
Git 2.31.2
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
* maint-2.30:
Git 2.30.3
setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory
Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user
Remove the 'reset.quiet' config option, remove '--no-quiet' documentation in
'Documentation/git-reset.txt'. In 4c3abd0551 (reset: add new reset.quiet
config setting, 2018-10-23), 'reset.quiet' was introduced as a way to
globally change the default behavior of 'git reset --mixed' to skip index
refresh.
However, now that '--quiet' does not affect index refresh, 'reset.quiet'
would only serve to globally silence logging. This was not the original
intention of the config setting, and there's no precedent for such a setting
in other commands with a '--quiet' option, so it appears to be obsolete.
In addition to the options & its documentation, remove 'reset.quiet' from
the recommended config for 'scalar'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git repack" learned a new configuration to disable triggering of
age-old "update-server-info" command, which is rarely useful these
days.
* ps/repack-with-server-info:
repack: add config to skip updating server info
repack: refactor to avoid double-negation of update-server-info
It poses a security risk to search for a git directory outside of the
directories owned by the current user.
For example, it is common e.g. in computer pools of educational
institutes to have a "scratch" space: a mounted disk with plenty of
space that is regularly swiped where any authenticated user can create
a directory to do their work. Merely navigating to such a space with a
Git-enabled `PS1` when there is a maliciously-crafted `/scratch/.git/`
can lead to a compromised account.
The same holds true in multi-user setups running Windows, as `C:\` is
writable to every authenticated user by default.
To plug this vulnerability, we stop Git from accepting top-level
directories owned by someone other than the current user. We avoid
looking at the ownership of each and every directories between the
current and the top-level one (if there are any between) to avoid
introducing a performance bottleneck.
This new default behavior is obviously incompatible with the concept of
shared repositories, where we expect the top-level directory to be owned
by only one of its legitimate users. To re-enable that use case, we add
support for adding exceptions from the new default behavior via the
config setting `safe.directory`.
The `safe.directory` config setting is only respected in the system and
global configs, not from repository configs or via the command-line, and
can have multiple values to allow for multiple shared repositories.
We are particularly careful to provide a helpful message to any user
trying to use a shared repository.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When writing both loose and packed references to disk we first create a
lockfile, write the updated values into that lockfile, and on commit we
rename the file into place. According to filesystem developers, this
behaviour is broken because applications should always sync data to disk
before doing the final rename to ensure data consistency [1][2][3]. If
applications fail to do this correctly, a hard crash of the machine can
easily result in corrupted on-disk data.
This kind of corruption can in fact be easily observed with Git when the
machine hard-resets shortly after writing references to disk. On
machines with ext4, this will likely lead to the "empty files" problem:
the file has been renamed, but its data has not been synced to disk. The
result is that the reference is corrupt, and in the worst case this can
lead to data loss.
Implement a new option to harden references so that users and admins can
avoid this scenario by syncing locked loose and packed references to
disk before we rename them into place.
[1]: https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/
[2]: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ (What are the crash guarantees of overwrite-by-rename)
[3]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst (see auto_da_alloc)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ns/core-fsyncmethod:
core.fsync: documentation and user-friendly aggregate options
core.fsync: new option to harden the index
core.fsync: add configuration parsing
core.fsync: introduce granular fsync control infrastructure
core.fsyncmethod: add writeout-only mode
wrapper: make inclusion of Windows csprng header tightly scoped
This commit adds aggregate options for the core.fsync setting that are
more user-friendly. These options are specified in terms of 'levels of
safety', indicating which Git operations are considered to be sync
points for durability.
The new documentation is also included here in its entirety for ease of
review.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace references to '--quiet' with '--no-refresh' in the advice on how to
skip refreshing the index. When the advice was introduced, '--quiet' was the
only way to avoid the expensive 'refresh_index(...)' at the end of a mixed
reset. After introducing '--no-refresh', however, '--quiet' became only a
fallback option for determining refresh behavior, overridden by
'--[no-]refresh' or 'reset.refresh' if either is set. To ensure users are
advised to use the most reliable option for avoiding 'refresh_index(...)',
replace recommendation of '--quiet' with '--[no-]refresh'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the advice describing index refresh from "enumerate unstaged changes"
to "refresh the index." Describing 'refresh_index(...)' as "enumerating
unstaged changes" is not fully representative of what an index refresh is
doing; more generally, it updates the properties of index entries that are
affected by outside-of-index state, e.g. CE_UPTODATE, which is affected by
the file contents on-disk. This distinction is relevant to operations that
read the index but do not refresh first - e.g., 'git read-tree' - where a
stale index may cause incorrect behavior.
In addition to changing the advice message, use the "advise" function to
print advice.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, git-repack(1) will update server info that is required by
the dumb HTTP transport. This can be skipped by passing the `-n` flag,
but what we're noticably missing is a config option to permanently
disable updating this information.
Add a new option "repack.updateServerInfo" which can be used to disable
the logic. Most hosting providers have turned off the dumb HTTP protocol
anyway, and on the client-side it woudln't typically be useful either.
Giving a persistent way to disable this feature thus makes quite some
sense to avoid wasting compute cycles and storage.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change introduces code to parse the core.fsync setting and
configure the fsync_components variable.
core.fsync is configured as a comma-separated list of component names to
sync. Each time a core.fsync variable is encountered in the
configuration heirarchy, we start off with a clean state with the
platform default value. Passing 'none' resets the value to indicate
nothing will be synced. We gather all negative and positive entries from
the comma separated list and then compute the new value by removing all
the negative entries and adding all of the positive entries.
We issue a warning for components that are not recognized so that the
configuration code is compatible with configs from future versions of
Git with more repo components.
Complete documentation for the new setting is included in a later patch
in the series so that it can be reviewed once in final form.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit introduces the `core.fsyncMethod` configuration
knob, which can currently be set to `fsync` or `writeout-only`.
The new writeout-only mode attempts to tell the operating system to
flush its in-memory page cache to the storage hardware without issuing a
CACHE_FLUSH command to the storage controller.
Writeout-only fsync is significantly faster than a vanilla fsync on
common hardware, since data is written to a disk-side cache rather than
all the way to a durable medium. Later changes in this patch series will
take advantage of this primitive to implement batching of hardware
flushes.
When git_fsync is called with FSYNC_WRITEOUT_ONLY, it may fail and the
caller is expected to do an ordinary fsync as needed.
On Apple platforms, the fsync system call does not issue a CACHE_FLUSH
directive to the storage controller. This change updates fsync to do
fcntl(F_FULLFSYNC) to make fsync actually durable. We maintain parity
with existing behavior on Apple platforms by setting the default value
of the new core.fsyncMethod option.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In sparse-checkouts, files mis-marked as missing from the working tree
could lead to later problems. Such files were hard to discover, and
harder to correct. Automatically detecting and correcting the marking
of such files has been added to avoid these problems.
* en/present-despite-skipped:
repo_read_index: add config to expect files outside sparse patterns
Accelerate clear_skip_worktree_from_present_files() by caching
Update documentation related to sparsity and the skip-worktree bit
repo_read_index: clear SKIP_WORKTREE bit from files present in worktree
unpack-trees: fix accidental loss of user changes
t1011: add testcase demonstrating accidental loss of user modifications
The error message given by "git switch HEAD~4" has been clarified
to suggest the "--detach" option that is required.
* ah/advice-switch-requires-detach-to-detach:
switch: mention the --detach option when dying due to lack of a branch
Typically with sparse checkouts, we expect files outside the sparsity
patterns to be marked as SKIP_WORKTREE and be missing from the working
tree. Sometimes this expectation would be violated however; including
in cases such as:
* users grabbing files from elsewhere and writing them to the worktree
(perhaps by editing a cached copy in an editor, copying/renaming, or
even untarring)
* various git commands having incomplete or no support for the
SKIP_WORKTREE bit[1,2]
* users attempting to "abort" a sparse-checkout operation with a
not-so-early Ctrl+C (updating $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout and the
working tree is not atomic)[3].
When the SKIP_WORKTREE bit in the index did not reflect the presence of
the file in the working tree, it traditionally caused confusion and was
difficult to detect and recover from. So, in a sparse checkout, since
af6a51875a (repo_read_index: clear SKIP_WORKTREE bit from files present
in worktree, 2022-01-14), Git automatically clears the SKIP_WORKTREE
bit at index read time for entries corresponding to files that are
present in the working tree.
There is another workflow, however, where it is expected that paths
outside the sparsity patterns appear to exist in the working tree and
that they do not lose the SKIP_WORKTREE bit, at least until they get
modified. A Git-aware virtual file system[4] takes advantage of its
position as a file system driver to expose all files in the working
tree, fetch them on demand using partial clone on access, and tell Git
to pay attention to them on demand by updating the sparse checkout
pattern on writes. This means that commands like "git status" only have
to examine files that have potentially been modified, whereas commands
like "ls" are able to show the entire codebase without requiring manual
updates to the sparse checkout pattern.
Thus since af6a51875a, Git with such Git-aware virtual file systems
unsets the SKIP_WORKTREE bit for all files and commands like "git
status" have to fetch and examine them all.
Introduce a configuration setting sparse.expectFilesOutsideOfPatterns to
allow limiting the tracked set of files to a small set once again. A
Git-aware virtual file system or other application that wants to
maintain files outside of the sparse checkout can set this in a
repository to instruct Git not to check for the presence of
SKIP_WORKTREE files. The setting defaults to false, so most users of
sparse checkout will still get the benefit of an automatically updating
index to recover from the variety of difficult issues detailed in
af6a51875a for paths with SKIP_WORKTREE set despite the path being
present.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqbmb1a7ga.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/
[2] The three long paragraphs in the middle of
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BH9tju7WVm=QZDOvaMDdZbpNXrVWQdN-jmfN8wC6YVhmw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BFnFpzwGC11TLoLs8YK5yiisA5D5-fFjXnJsbESVDwZsA@mail.gmail.com/
[4] such as the vfsd described in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220207190320.2960362-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users who are accustomed to doing `git checkout <tag>` assume that
`git switch <tag>` will do the same thing. Inform them of the --detach
option so they aren't left wondering why `git switch` doesn't work but
`git checkout` does.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone --filter=... --recurse-submodules" only makes the
top-level a partial clone, while submodules are fully cloned. This
behaviour is changed to pass the same filter down to the submodules.
* js/apply-partial-clone-filters-recursively:
clone, submodule: pass partial clone filters to submodules
"git sparse-checkout" wants to work with per-worktree configuration,
but did not work well in a worktree attached to a bare repository.
* ds/sparse-checkout-requires-per-worktree-config:
config: make git_configset_get_string_tmp() private
worktree: copy sparse-checkout patterns and config on add
sparse-checkout: set worktree-config correctly
config: add repo_config_set_worktree_gently()
worktree: create init_worktree_config()
Documentation: add extensions.worktreeConfig details
"git branch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option.
* gc/branch-recurse-submodules:
branch.c: use 'goto cleanup' in setup_tracking() to fix memory leaks
branch: add --recurse-submodules option for branch creation
builtin/branch: consolidate action-picking logic in cmd_branch()
branch: add a dry_run parameter to create_branch()
branch: make create_branch() always create a branch
branch: move --set-upstream-to behavior to dwim_and_setup_tracking()
Removal of unused code and doc.
* js/no-more-legacy-stash:
stash: stop warning about the obsolete `stash.useBuiltin` config setting
stash: remove documentation for `stash.useBuiltin`
add: remove support for `git-legacy-stash`
git-sh-setup: remove remnant bits referring to `git-legacy-stash`
Interaction between fetch.negotiationAlgorithm and
feature.experimental configuration variables has been corrected.
* en/fetch-negotiation-default-fix:
repo-settings: rename the traditional default fetch.negotiationAlgorithm
repo-settings: fix error handling for unknown values
repo-settings: fix checking for fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=default
When cloning a repo with a --filter and with --recurse-submodules
enabled, the partial clone filter only applies to the top-level repo.
This can lead to unexpected bandwidth and disk usage for projects which
include large submodules. For example, a user might wish to make a
partial clone of Gerrit and would run:
`git clone --recurse-submodules --filter=blob:5k https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit`.
However, only the superproject would be a partial clone; all the
submodules would have all blobs downloaded regardless of their size.
With this change, the same filter can also be applied to submodules,
meaning the expected bandwidth and disk savings apply consistently.
To avoid changing default behavior, add a new clone flag,
`--also-filter-submodules`. When this is set along with `--filter` and
`--recurse-submodules`, the filter spec is passed along to git-submodule
and git-submodule--helper, such that submodule clones also have the
filter applied.
This applies the same filter to the superproject and all submodules.
Users who need to customize the filter per-submodule would need to clone
with `--no-recurse-submodules` and then manually initialize each
submodule with the proper filter.
Applying filters to submodules should be safe thanks to Jonathan Tan's
recent work [1, 2, 3] eliminating the use of alternates as a method of
accessing submodule objects, so any submodule object access now triggers
a lazy fetch from the submodule's promisor remote if the accessed object
is missing. This patch is a reworked version of [4], which was created
prior to Jonathan Tan's work.
[1]: 8721e2e (Merge branch 'jt/partial-clone-submodule-1', 2021-07-16)
[2]: 11e5d0a (Merge branch 'jt/grep-wo-submodule-odb-as-alternate',
2021-09-20)
[3]: 162a13b (Merge branch 'jt/no-abuse-alternate-odb-for-submodules',
2021-10-25)
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/52bf9d45b8e2b72ff32aa773f2415bf7b2b86da2.1563322192.git.steadmon@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The extensions.worktreeConfig extension was added in 58b284a (worktree:
add per-worktree config files, 2018-10-21) and was somewhat documented
in Documentation/git-config.txt. However, the extensions.worktreeConfig
value was not specified further in the list of possible config keys. The
location of the config.worktree file is not specified, and there are
some precautions that should be mentioned clearly, but are only
mentioned in git-worktree.txt.
Expand the documentation to help users discover the complexities of
extensions.worktreeConfig by adding details and cross links in these
locations (relative to Documentation/):
- config/extensions.txt
- git-config.txt
- git-worktree.txt
The updates focus on items such as
* $GIT_DIR/config.worktree takes precedence over $GIT_COMMON_DIR/config.
* The core.worktree and core.bare=true settings are incorrect to have in
the common config file when extensions.worktreeConfig is enabled.
* The sparse-checkout settings core.sparseCheckout[Cone] are recommended
to be set in the worktree config.
As documented in 11664196ac ("Revert "check_repository_format_gently():
refuse extensions for old repositories"", 2020-07-15), this extension
must be considered regardless of the repository format version for
historical reasons.
A future change will update references to extensions.worktreeConfig
within git-sparse-checkout.txt, but a behavior change is needed before
making those updates.
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To improve the submodules UX, we would like to teach Git to handle
branches in submodules. Start this process by teaching "git branch" the
--recurse-submodules option so that "git branch --recurse-submodules
topic" will create the `topic` branch in the superproject and its
submodules.
Although this commit does not introduce breaking changes, it does not
work well with existing --recurse-submodules commands because "git
branch --recurse-submodules" writes to the submodule ref store, but most
commands only consider the superproject gitlink and ignore the submodule
ref store. For example, "git checkout --recurse-submodules" will check
out the commits in the superproject gitlinks (and put the submodules in
detached HEAD) instead of checking out the submodule branches.
Because of this, this commit introduces a new configuration value,
`submodule.propagateBranches`. The plan is for Git commands to
prioritize submodule ref store information over superproject gitlinks if
this value is true. Because "git branch --recurse-submodules" writes to
submodule ref stores, for the sake of clarity, it will not function
unless this configuration value is set.
This commit also includes changes that support working with submodules
from a superproject commit because "branch --recurse-submodules" (and
future commands) need to read .gitmodules and gitlinks from the
superproject commit, but submodules are typically read from the
filesystem's .gitmodules and the index's gitlinks. These changes are:
* add a submodules_of_tree() helper that gives the relevant
information of an in-tree submodule (e.g. path and oid) and
initializes the repository
* add is_tree_submodule_active() by adding a treeish_name parameter to
is_submodule_active()
* add the "submoduleNotUpdated" advice to advise users to update the
submodules in their trees
Incidentally, fix an incorrect usage string that combined the 'list'
usage of git branch (-l) with the 'create' usage; this string has been
incorrect since its inception, a8dfd5eac4 (Make builtin-branch.c use
parse_options., 2007-10-07).
Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Give the traditional default fetch.negotiationAlgorithm the name
'consecutive'. Also allow a choice of 'default' to have Git decide
between the choices (currently, picking 'skipping' if
feature.experimental is true and 'consecutive' otherwise). Update the
documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 8a2cd3f512 (stash: remove the stash.useBuiltin setting, 2020-03-03),
we removed the setting, and for a couple of major versions, we still
documented the setting, telling users that it is gone.
We can now safely remove even the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an apostrophe to "signatures" to indicate the possessive
relationship in "the signature's creation".
Signed-off-by: Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Specifically, replace the tab between "the" and "first" with a space.
Signed-off-by: Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git -c branch.autosetupmerge=inherit branch new old" makes "new"
to have the same upstream as the "old" branch, instead of marking
"old" itself as its upstream.
* js/branch-track-inherit:
config: require lowercase for branch.*.autosetupmerge
branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking
branch: accept multiple upstream branches for tracking
The cryptographic signing using ssh keys can specify literal keys
for keytypes whose name do not begin with the "ssh-" prefix by
using the "key::" prefix mechanism (e.g. "key::ecdsa-sha2-nistp256").
* fs/ssh-signing-other-keytypes:
ssh signing: make sign/amend test more resilient
ssh signing: support non ssh-* keytypes
Extend the signing of objects with SSH keys and learn to pay
attention to the key validity time range when verifying.
* fs/ssh-signing-key-lifetime:
ssh signing: verify ssh-keygen in test prereq
ssh signing: make fmt-merge-msg consider key lifetime
ssh signing: make verify-tag consider key lifetime
ssh signing: make git log verify key lifetime
ssh signing: make verify-commit consider key lifetime
ssh signing: add key lifetime test prereqs
ssh signing: use sigc struct to pass payload
t/fmt-merge-msg: make gpgssh tests more specific
t/fmt-merge-msg: do not redirect stderr
It can be helpful when creating a new branch to use the existing
tracking configuration from the branch point. However, there is
currently not a method to automatically do so.
Teach git-{branch,checkout,switch} an "inherit" argument to the
"--track" option. When this is set, creating a new branch will cause the
tracking configuration to default to the configuration of the branch
point, if set.
For example, if branch "main" tracks "origin/main", and we run
`git checkout --track=inherit -b feature main`, then branch "feature"
will track "origin/main". Thus, `git status` will show us how far
ahead/behind we are from origin, and `git pull` will pull from origin.
This is particularly useful when creating branches across many
submodules, such as with `git submodule foreach ...` (or if running with
a patch such as [1], which we use at $job), as it avoids having to
manually set tracking info for each submodule.
Since we've added an argument to "--track", also add "--track=direct" as
another way to explicitly get the original "--track" behavior ("--track"
without an argument still works as well).
Finally, teach branch.autoSetupMerge a new "inherit" option. When this
is set, "--track=inherit" becomes the default behavior.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180927221603.148025-1-sbeller@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add missing colon to ensure correct rendering of definition list
item. Without the proper number of colons, it renders as just another
top-level paragraph rather than a list item.
Signed-off-by: Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The discussion for gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile shows an example string
that contains "user1@example.com,user2@example.com". Asciidoc thinks
these are real email addresses and generates "mailto" footnotes for
them. This makes the rendered content more confusing, as it has extra
"[1]" markers:
The file consists of one or more lines of principals followed by an
ssh public key. e.g.: user1@example.com[1],user2@example.com[2]
ssh-rsa AAAAX1... See ssh-keygen(1) "ALLOWED SIGNERS" for details.
and also generates pointless notes at the end of the page:
NOTES
1. user1@example.com
mailto:user1@example.com
2. user2@example.com
mailto:user2@example.com
We can fix this by putting the example into a backtick literal block.
That inhibits the mailto generation, and as a bonus typesets the example
text in a way that sets it off from the regular prose (a tt font for
html, or bold in the roff manpage).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If valid-before/after dates are configured for this signatures key in the
allowedSigners file then the verification should check if the key was valid at
the time the commit was made. This allows for graceful key rollover and
revoking keys without invalidating all previous commits.
This feature needs openssh > 8.8. Older ssh-keygen versions will simply
ignore this flag and use the current time.
Strictly speaking this feature is available in 8.7, but since 8.7 has a
bug that makes it unusable in another needed call we require 8.8.
Timestamp information is present on most invocations of check_signature.
However signer ident is not. We will need the signer email / name to be able
to implement "Trust on first use" functionality later.
Since the payload contains all necessary information we can parse it
from there. The caller only needs to provide us some info about the
payload by setting payload_type in the signature_check struct.
- Add payload_type field & enum and payload_timestamp to struct
signature_check
- Populate the timestamp when not already set if we know about the
payload type
- Pass -Overify-time={payload_timestamp} in the users timezone to all
ssh-keygen verification calls
- Set the payload type when verifying commits
- Add tests for expired, not yet valid and keys having a commit date
outside of key validity as well as within
Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We documented that with grep.patternType set to default, the "git
grep" command returns to "the default matching behavior" in 84befcd0
(grep: add a grep.patternType configuration setting, 2012-08-03).
The grep.extendedRegexp configuration variable was the only way to
configure the behavior before that, after b22520a3 (grep: allow -E
and -n to be turned on by default via configuration, 2011-03-30)
introduced it.
It is understandable that we referred to the behavior that honors
the older configuration variable as "the default matching"
behavior. It is fairly clear in its log message:
When grep.patternType is set to a value other than "default", the
grep.extendedRegexp setting is ignored. The value of "default" restores
the current default behavior, including the grep.extendedRegexp
behavior.
But when the paragraph is read in isolation by a new person who is
not aware of that backstory (which is the synonym for "most users"),
the "default matching behavior" can be read as "how 'git grep'
behaves without any configuration variables or options", which is
"match the pattern as BRE".
Clarify what the passage means by elaborating what the phrase
"default matching behavior" wanted to mean.
Helped-by: Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 9a5315edfd (Merge branch 'js/patch-mode-in-others-in-c',
2020-02-05), Git acquired a built-in implementation of `git add`'s
interactive mode that could be turned on via the config option
`add.interactive.useBuiltin`.
The first official Git version to support this knob was v2.26.0.
In 2df2d81ddd (add -i: use the built-in version when
feature.experimental is set, 2020-09-08), this built-in implementation
was also enabled via `feature.experimental`. The first version with this
change was v2.29.0.
More than a year (and very few bug reports) later, it is time to declare
the built-in implementation mature and to turn it on by default.
We specifically leave the `add.interactive.useBuiltin` configuration in
place, to give users an "escape hatch" in the unexpected case should
they encounter a previously undetected bug in that implementation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The user.signingKey config for ssh signing supports either a path to a
file containing the key or for the sake of convenience a literal string
with the ssh public key. To differentiate between those two cases we
check if the first few characters contain "ssh-" which is unlikely to be
the start of a path. ssh supports other key types which are not prefixed
with "ssh-" and will currently be treated as a file path and therefore
fail to load. To remedy this we move the prefix check into its own
function and introduce the prefix `key::` for literal ssh keys. This way
we don't need to add new key types when they become available. The
existing `ssh-` prefix is retained for compatibility with current user
configs but removed from the official documentation to discourage its
use.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log --grep=string --author=name" learns to highlight hits just
like "git grep string" does.
* hm/paint-hits-in-log-grep:
grep/pcre2: fix an edge case concerning ascii patterns and UTF-8 data
pretty: colorize pattern matches in commit messages
grep: refactor next_match() and match_one_pattern() for external use
Fix-up for the other topic already in 'next'.
* fs/ssh-signing-fix:
gpg-interface: fix leak of strbufs in get_ssh_key_fingerprint()
gpg-interface: fix leak of "line" in parse_ssh_output()
ssh signing: clarify trustlevel usage in docs
ssh signing: fmt-merge-msg tests & config parse
Use ssh public crypto for object and push-cert signing.
* fs/ssh-signing:
ssh signing: test that gpg fails for unknown keys
ssh signing: tests for logs, tags & push certs
ssh signing: duplicate t7510 tests for commits
ssh signing: verify signatures using ssh-keygen
ssh signing: provide a textual signing_key_id
ssh signing: retrieve a default key from ssh-agent
ssh signing: add ssh key format and signing code
ssh signing: add test prereqs
ssh signing: preliminary refactoring and clean-up
Fix a regression in 8c32856133 (blame: document --color-* options,
2021-10-08), which added an extra newline before the "+" syntax.
The "Documentation/doc-diff HEAD~ HEAD" output with this applied is:
[...]
@@ -1815,13 +1815,13 @@ CONFIGURATION FILE
specified colors if the line was introduced before the given
timestamp, overwriting older timestamped colors.
- + Instead of an absolute timestamp relative timestamps work as well,
- e.g. 2.weeks.ago is valid to address anything older than 2 weeks.
+ Instead of an absolute timestamp relative timestamps work as well,
+ e.g. 2.weeks.ago is valid to address anything older than 2 weeks.
- + It defaults to blue,12 month ago,white,1 month ago,red, which colors
- everything older than one year blue, recent changes between one month
- and one year old are kept white, and lines introduced within the last
- month are colored red.
+ It defaults to blue,12 month ago,white,1 month ago,red, which
+ colors everything older than one year blue, recent changes between
+ one month and one year old are kept white, and lines introduced
+ within the last month are colored red.
color.blame.repeatedLines
Use the specified color to colorize line annotations for git blame
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--color-lines" and "--color-by-age" options of "git blame"
have been missing, which are now documented.
* bs/doc-blame-color-lines:
blame: document --color-* options
blame: describe default output format
The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed.
* js/retire-preserve-merges:
sequencer: restrict scope of a formerly public function
rebase: remove a no-longer-used function
rebase: stop mentioning the -p option in comments
rebase: remove obsolete code comment
rebase: drop the internal `rebase--interactive` command
git-svn: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
rebase: drop support for `--preserve-merges`
pull: remove support for `--rebase=preserve`
tests: stop testing `git rebase --preserve-merges`
remote: warn about unhandled branch.<name>.rebase values
t5520: do not use `pull.rebase=preserve`
facca53ac added verification for ssh signatures but incorrectly
described the usage of gpg.minTrustLevel. While the verifications
trustlevel is stil set to fully or undefined depending on if the key is
known or not it has no effect on the verification result. Unknown keys
will always fail verification. This commit updates the docs to match
this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Doc update plus improved error reporting.
* jk/log-warn-on-bogus-encoding:
docs: use "character encoding" to refer to commit-object encoding
logmsg_reencode(): warn when iconv() fails
* fs/ssh-signing:
ssh signing: test that gpg fails for unknown keys
ssh signing: tests for logs, tags & push certs
ssh signing: duplicate t7510 tests for commits
ssh signing: verify signatures using ssh-keygen
ssh signing: provide a textual signing_key_id
ssh signing: retrieve a default key from ssh-agent
ssh signing: add ssh key format and signing code
ssh signing: add test prereqs
ssh signing: preliminary refactoring and clean-up
"git multi-pack-index write --bitmap" learns to propagate the
hashcache from original bitmap to resulting bitmap.
* tb/midx-write-propagate-namehash:
t5326: test propagating hashcache values
p5326: generate pack bitmaps before writing the MIDX bitmap
p5326: don't set core.multiPackIndex unnecessarily
p5326: create missing 'perf-tag' tag
midx.c: respect 'pack.writeBitmapHashcache' when writing bitmaps
pack-bitmap.c: propagate namehash values from existing bitmaps
t/helper/test-bitmap.c: add 'dump-hashes' mode
The "git log" command limits its output to the commits that contain strings
matched by a pattern when the "--grep=<pattern>" option is used, but unlike
output from "git grep -e <pattern>", the matches are not highlighted,
making them harder to spot.
Teach the pretty-printer code to highlight matches from the
"--grep=<pattern>", "--author=<pattern>" and "--committer=<pattern>"
options (to view the last one, you may have to ask for --pretty=fuller).
Also, it must be noted that we are effectively greping the content twice
(because it would be a hassle to rework the existing matching code to do
a /g match and then pass it all down to the coloring code), however it only
slows down "git log --author=^H" on this repository by around 1-2%
(compared to v2.33.0), so it should be a small enough slow down to justify
the addition of the feature.
Signed-off-by: Hamza Mahfooz <someguy@effective-light.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit cdc2d5f11f (builtin/blame: dim uninteresting metadata lines,
2018-04-23) and 25d5f52901 (builtin/blame: highlight recently changed
lines, 2018-04-23) introduce --color-lines and --color-by-age options to
git blame, respectively. While both options are mentioned in usage help,
they aren't documented in git-blame(1). Document them.
Co-authored-by: Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <m.st.pierre@ncp-e.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <m.st.pierre@ncp-e.com>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the previous commit, the bitmap writing code learned to propagate
values from an existing hash-cache extension into the bitmap that it is
writing.
Now that that functionality exists, let's expose it by teaching the 'git
multi-pack-index' builtin to respect the `pack.writeBitmapHashCache`
option so that the hash-cache may be written at all.
Two minor points worth noting here:
- The 'git multi-pack-index write' sub-command didn't previously read
any configuration (instead this is handled in the base command). A
separate handler is added here to respect this write-specific
config option.
- I briefly considered adding a 'bitmap_flags' field to the static
options struct, but decided against it since it would require
plumbing through a new parameter to the write_midx_file() function.
Instead, a new MIDX-specific flag is added, which is translated to
the corresponding bitmap one.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To verify a ssh signature we first call ssh-keygen -Y find-principal to
look up the signing principal by their public key from the
allowedSignersFile. If the key is found then we do a verify. Otherwise
we only validate the signature but can not verify the signers identity.
Verification uses the gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile (see ssh-keygen(1) "ALLOWED
SIGNERS") which contains valid public keys and a principal (usually
user@domain). Depending on the environment this file can be managed by
the individual developer or for example generated by the central
repository server from known ssh keys with push access. This file is usually
stored outside the repository, but if the repository only allows signed
commits/pushes, the user might choose to store it in the repository.
To revoke a key put the public key without the principal prefix into
gpg.ssh.revocationKeyring or generate a KRL (see ssh-keygen(1)
"KEY REVOCATION LISTS"). The same considerations about who to trust for
verification as with the allowedSignersFile apply.
Using SSH CA Keys with these files is also possible. Add
"cert-authority" as key option between the principal and the key to mark
it as a CA and all keys signed by it as valid for this CA.
See "CERTIFICATES" in ssh-keygen(1).
Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If user.signingkey is not set and a ssh signature is requested we call
gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand (typically "ssh-add -L") and use the first key we get
Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Implements the actual sign_buffer_ssh operation and move some shared
cleanup code into a strbuf function
Set gpg.format = ssh and user.signingkey to either a ssh public key
string (like from an authorized_keys file), or a ssh key file.
If the key file or the config value itself contains only a public key
then the private key needs to be available via ssh-agent.
gpg.ssh.program can be set to an alternative location of ssh-keygen.
A somewhat recent openssh version (8.2p1+) of ssh-keygen is needed for
this feature. Since only ssh-keygen is needed it can this way be
installed seperately without upgrading your system openssh packages.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic for auto-correction of misspelt subcommands learned to go
interactive when the help.autocorrect configuration variable is set
to 'prompt'.
* ab/help-autocorrect-prompt:
help.c: help.autocorrect=prompt waits for user action
Doc update plus improved error reporting.
* jk/log-warn-on-bogus-encoding:
docs: use "character encoding" to refer to commit-object encoding
logmsg_reencode(): warn when iconv() fails
"git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch"
forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling
want-ref requests.
* ka/want-ref-in-namespace:
docs: clarify the interaction of transfer.hideRefs and namespaces
upload-pack.c: treat want-ref relative to namespace
t5730: introduce fetch command helper
In preparation for `git-rebase--preserve-merges.sh` entering its after
life, we remove this (deprecated) option that would still rely on it.
To help users transition who still did not receive the memo about the
deprecation, we offer a helpful error message instead of throwing our
hands in the air and saying that we don't know that option, never heard
of it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Expand the section about namespaces in the documentation of
`transfer.hideRefs` to point out the subtle differences between
`upload-pack` and `receive-pack`.
ffcfb68176 (upload-pack.c: treat want-ref relative to namespace,
2021-07-30) taught `upload-pack` to reject `want-ref`s for hidden refs,
which is now mentioned. It is clarified that at no point the name of a
hidden ref is revealed, but the object id it points to may.
Signed-off-by: Kim Altintop <kim@eagain.st>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Silently skipping commits when rebasing with --no-reapply-cherry-picks
(currently the default behavior) can cause user confusion. Issue
warnings when this happens, as well as advice on how to preserve the
skipped commits.
These warnings and advice are displayed only when using the (default)
"merge" rebase backend.
Update the git-rebase docs to mention the warnings and advice.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The word "encoding" can mean a lot of things (e.g., base64 or
quoted-printable encoding in emails, HTML entities, URL encoding, and so
on). The documentation for i18n.commitEncoding and i18n.logOutputEncoding
uses the phrase "character encoding" to make this more clear.
Let's use that phrase in other places to make it clear what kind of
encoding we are talking about. This patch covers the gui.encoding
option, as well as the --encoding option for git-log, etc (in this
latter case, I word-smithed the sentence a little at the same time).
That, coupled with the mention of iconv in the --encoding description,
should make this more clear.
The other spot I looked at is the working-tree-encoding section of
gitattributes(5). But it gives specific examples of encodings that I
think make the meaning pretty clear already.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation on "git diff -l<n>" and diff.renameLimit have been
updated, and the defaults for these limits have been raised.
* en/rename-limits-doc:
rename: bump limit defaults yet again
diffcore-rename: treat a rename_limit of 0 as unlimited
doc: clarify documentation for rename/copy limits
diff: correct warning message when renameLimit exceeded
"git send-email" optimization.
* ab/send-email-optim:
perl: nano-optimize by replacing Cwd::cwd() with Cwd::getcwd()
send-email: move trivial config handling to Perl
perl: lazily load some common Git.pm setup code
send-email: lazily load modules for a big speedup
send-email: get rid of indirect object syntax
send-email: use function syntax instead of barewords
send-email: lazily shell out to "git var"
send-email: lazily load config for a big speedup
send-email: copy "config_regxp" into git-send-email.perl
send-email: refactor sendemail.smtpencryption config parsing
send-email: remove non-working support for "sendemail.smtpssl"
send-email tests: test for boolean variables without a value
send-email tests: support GIT_TEST_PERL_FATAL_WARNINGS=true
The doc for 'submodule.recurse' starts with "Specifies if commands
recurse into submodles by default". This is not exactly true of all
commands that have a '--recurse-submodules' option. For example, 'git
pull --recurse-submodules' does not run 'git pull' in each submodule,
but rather runs 'git submodule update --recursive' so that the submodule
working trees after the pull matches the commits recorded in the
superproject.
Clarify that by just saying that it enables '--recurse-submodules'.
Note that the way this setting interacts with 'fetch.recurseSubmodules'
and 'push.recurseSubmodules', which can have other values than true or
false, is already documented since 4da9e99e6e (doc: be more precise on
(fetch|push).recurseSubmodules, 2020-04-06).
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Code recently added to support common ancestry negotiation during
"git push" did not sanity check its arguments carefully enough.
* ab/fetch-negotiate-segv-fix:
fetch: fix segfault in --negotiate-only without --negotiation-tip=*
fetch: document the --negotiate-only option
send-pack.c: move "no refs in common" abort earlier
These were last bumped in commit 92c57e5c1d (bump rename limit
defaults (again), 2011-02-19), and were bumped both because processors
had gotten faster, and because people were getting ugly merges that
caused problems and reporting it to the mailing list (suggesting that
folks were willing to spend more time waiting).
Since that time:
* Linus has continued recommending kernel folks to set
diff.renameLimit=0 (maps to 32767, currently)
* Folks with repositories with lots of renames were happy to set
merge.renameLimit above 32767, once the code supported that, to
get correct cherry-picks
* Processors have gotten faster
* It has been discovered that the timing methodology used last time
probably used too large example files.
The last point is probably worth explaining a bit more:
* The "average" file size used appears to have been average blob size
in the linux kernel history at the time (probably v2.6.25 or
something close to it).
* Since bigger files are modified more frequently, such a computation
weights towards larger files.
* Larger files may be more likely to be modified over time, but are
not more likely to be renamed -- the mean and median blob size
within a tree are a bit higher than the mean and median of blob
sizes in the history leading up to that version for the linux
kernel.
* The mean blob size in v2.6.25 was half the average blob size in
history leading to that point
* The median blob size in v2.6.25 was about 40% of the mean blob size
in v2.6.25.
* Since the mean blob size is more than double the median blob size,
any file as big as the mean will not be compared to any files of
median size or less (because they'd be more than 50% dissimilar).
* Since it is the number of files compared that provides the O(n^2)
behavior, median-sized files should matter more than mean-sized
ones.
The combined effect of the above is that the file size used in past
calculations was likely about 5x too large. Combine that with a CPU
performance improvement of ~30%, and we can increase the limits by
a factor of sqrt(5/(1-.3)) = 2.67, while keeping the original stated
time limits.
Keeping the same approximate time limit probably makes sense for
diff.renameLimit (there is no progress feedback in e.g. git log -p),
but the experience above suggests merge.renameLimit could be extended
significantly. In fact, it probably would make sense to have an
unlimited default setting for merge.renameLimit, but that would
likely need to be coupled with changes to how progress is displayed.
(See https://lore.kernel.org/git/YOx+Ok%2FEYvLqRMzJ@coredump.intra.peff.net/
for details in that area.) For now, let's just bump the approximate
time limit from 10s to 1m.
(Note: We do not want to use actual time limits, because getting results
that depend on how loaded your system is that day feels bad, and because
we don't discover that we won't get all the renames until after we've
put in a lot of work rather than just upfront telling the user there are
too many files involved.)
Using the original time limit of 2s for diff.renameLimit, and bumping
merge.renameLimit from 10s to 60s, I found the following timings using
the simple script at the end of this commit message (on an AWS c5.xlarge
which reports as "Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00GHz"):
N Timing
1300 1.995s
7100 59.973s
So let's round down to nice even numbers and bump the limits from
400->1000, and from 1000->7000.
Here is the measure_rename_perf script (adapted from
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20080211113516.GB6344@coredump.intra.peff.net/
in particular to avoid triggering the linear handling from
basename-guided rename detection):
#!/bin/bash
n=$1; shift
rm -rf repo
mkdir repo && cd repo
git init -q -b main
mkdata() {
mkdir $1
for i in `seq 1 $2`; do
(sed "s/^/$i /" <../sample
echo tag: $1
) >$1/$i
done
}
mkdata initial $n
git add .
git commit -q -m initial
mkdata new $n
git add .
cd new
for i in *; do git mv $i $i.renamed; done
cd ..
git rm -q -rf initial
git commit -q -m new
time git diff-tree -M -l0 --summary HEAD^ HEAD
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few places in the docs implied that rename/copy detection is always
quadratic or that all (unpaired) files were involved in the quadratic
portion of rename/copy detection. The following two commits each
introduced an exception to this:
9027f53cb5 (Do linear-time/space rename logic for exact renames,
2007-10-25)
bd24aa2f97 (diffcore-rename: guide inexact rename detection based
on basenames, 2021-02-14)
(As a side note, for copy detection, the basename guided inexact rename
detection is turned off and the exact renames will only result in
sources (without the dests) being removed from the set of files used in
quadratic detection. So, for copy detection, the documentation was
closer to correct.)
Avoid implying that all files involved in rename/copy detection are
subject to the full quadratic algorithm. While at it, also note the
default values for all these settings.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was no documentation for the --negotiate-only option added in
9c1e657a8f (fetch: teach independent negotiation (no packfile),
2021-05-04), only documentation for the related push.negotiation
option added in the following commit in 477673d6f3 (send-pack:
support push negotiation, 2021-05-04).
Let's document it, and update the cross-linking I'd added between
--negotiation-tip=* and 'fetch.negotiationAlgorithm' in
526608284a (fetch doc: cross-link two new negotiation options,
2018-08-01).
I think it would be better to say "in common with the remote" here
than "...the server", but the documentation for --negotiation-tip=*
above this talks about "the server", so let's continue doing that in
this related option. See 3390e42adb (fetch-pack: support negotiation
tip whitelist, 2018-07-02) for that documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As can be seen in files "Documentation/blame-options.txt" and
"builtin/blame.c", the name of this configuration option is
"blame.markUnblamableLines".
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option is almost never a good idea, as the resulting repository is
larger and slower (see the new explanations in the docs).
I outlined the potential problems. We could go further and make the
option harder to find (or at least, make the command-line option
descriptions a much more terse "you probably don't want this; see
pack.packsizeLimit for details"). But this seems like a minimal change
that may prevent people from thinking it's more useful than it is.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a01f7f2ba0 (merge: enable defaulttoupstream by default,
2014-04-20) forgot to mention the new default in the configuration
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that the code has been simplified and it's clear what it's
actually doing, update the documentation to reflect that.
Namely; the simple mode only barfs when working on a centralized
workflow, and there's no configured upstream branch with the same name.
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the already dead code to support "sendemail.smtpssl" by finally
removing the dead code supporting the configuration option.
In f6bebd121a (git-send-email: add support for TLS via
Net::SMTP::SSL, 2008-06-25) the --smtp-ssl command-line option was
documented as deprecated, later in 65180c6618 (List send-email config
options in config.txt., 2009-07-22) the "sendemail.smtpssl"
configuration option was also documented as such.
Then in in 3ff15040e2 (send-email: fix regression in
sendemail.identity parsing, 2019-05-17) I unintentionally removed
support for it by introducing a bug in read_config().
As can be seen from the diff context we've already returned unless
$enc i defined, so it's not possible for us to reach the "elsif"
branch here. This code was therefore already dead since Git v2.23.0.
So let's just remove it. We were already 11 years into a stated
deprecation period of this variable when 3ff15040e2 landed, now it's
around 13. Since it hasn't worked anyway for around 2 years it looks
like we can safely remove it.
The --smtp-ssl option is still deprecated, if someone cares they can
follow-up and remove that too, but unlike the config option that one
could still be in use in the wild. I'm just removing this code that's
provably unused already.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
