"git remote -v" now shows the list-objects-filter used during
fetching from the remote, if available.
* ac/remote-v-with-object-list-filters:
builtin/remote.c: teach `-v` to list filters for promisor remotes
"git -c branch.autosetupmerge=simple branch $A $B" will set the $B
as $A's upstream only when $A and $B shares the same name, and "git
-c push.default=simple" on branch $A would push to update the
branch $A at the remote $B came from. Also more places use the
sole remote, if exists, before defaulting to 'origin'.
* tk/simple-autosetupmerge:
push: new config option "push.autoSetupRemote" supports "simple" push
push: default to single remote even when not named origin
branch: new autosetupmerge option 'simple' for matching branches
"git fetch --recurse-submodules" from multiple remotes (either from
a remote group, or "--all") used to make one extra "git fetch" in
the submodules, which has been corrected.
* jc/avoid-redundant-submodule-fetch:
fetch: do not run a redundant fetch from submodule
The way "git fetch" without "--update-head-ok" ensures that HEAD in
no worktree points at any ref being updated was too wasteful, which
has been optimized a bit.
* os/fetch-check-not-current-branch:
fetch: limit shared symref check only for local branches
The "--current" option of "git show-branch" should have been made
incompatible with the "--reflog" mode, but this was not enforced,
which has been corrected.
* jc/show-branch-g-current:
show-branch: -g and --current are incompatible
Introduce and apply coccinelle rule to discourage an explicit
comparison between a pointer and NULL, and applies the clean-up to
the maintenance track.
* ep/maint-equals-null-cocci:
tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
tree-wide: apply equals-null.cocci
contrib/coccinnelle: add equals-null.cocci
"git show :<path>" learned to work better with the sparse-index
feature.
* ds/sparse-colon-path:
rev-parse: integrate with sparse index
object-name: diagnose trees in index properly
object-name: reject trees found in the index
show: integrate with the sparse index
t1092: add compatibility tests for 'git show'
Teach "git stash" to work better with sparse index entries.
* vd/sparse-stash:
unpack-trees: preserve index sparsity
stash: apply stash using 'merge_ort_nonrecursive()'
read-cache: set sparsity when index is new
sparse-index: expose 'is_sparse_index_allowed()'
stash: integrate with sparse index
stash: expand sparse-checkout compatibility testing
"git bisect" was too silent before it is ready to start computing
the actual bisection, which has been corrected.
* cd/bisect-messages-from-pre-flight-states:
bisect: output bisect setup status in bisect log
bisect: output state before we are ready to compute bisection
"git pull" without "--recurse-submodules=<arg>" made
submodule.recurse take precedence over fetch.recurseSubmodules by
mistake, which has been corrected.
* gc/pull-recurse-submodules:
pull: do not let submodule.recurse override fetch.recurseSubmodules
In c7c4bdeccf (run-command API: remove "env" member, always use
"env_array", 2021-11-25), there was a push to replace
cld.env = env->v;
with
strvec_pushv(&cld.env_array, env->v);
The conversion in c7c4bdeccf was mostly plug-and-play, with the snag
that some instances of strvec_pushv() became guarded with a NULL check
to ensure that the second argument was non-NULL.
This conversion was slightly over-eager to add a conditional in
builtin/receive-pack.c::unpack(), since we know at the point that we
add the result of `tmp_objdir_env()` into the child process's
environment, that `tmp_objdir` is non-NULL.
This follows from the conditional just before our strvec_pushv() call
(which returns from the function if `tmp_objdir` was NULL), as well as
the call to tmp_objdir_add_as_alternate() just below, which relies on
its argument (`tmp_objdir`) being non-NULL.
In the meantime, this extra conditional isn't hurting anything. But it
is redundant and thus unnecessarily confusing. So let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 7dce19d3 (fetch/pull: Add the --recurse-submodules option,
2010-11-12) introduced the "--recurse-submodule" option, the
approach taken was to perform fetches in submodules only once, after
all the main fetching (it may usually be a fetch from a single
remote, but it could be fetching from a group of remotes using
fetch_multiple()) succeeded. Later we added "--all" to fetch from
all defined remotes, which complicated things even more.
If your project has a submodule, and you try to run "git fetch
--recurse-submodule --all", you'd see a fetch for the top-level,
which invokes another fetch for the submodule, followed by another
fetch for the same submodule. All but the last fetch for the
submodule come from a "git fetch --recurse-submodules" subprocess
that is spawned via the fetch_multiple() interface for the remotes,
and the last fetch comes from the code at the end.
Because recursive fetching from submodules is done in each fetch for
the top-level in fetch_multiple(), the last fetch in the submodule
is redundant. It only matters when fetch_one() interacts with a
single remote at the top-level.
While we are at it, there is one optimization that exists in dealing
with a group of remote, but is missing when "--all" is used. In the
former, when the group turns out to be a group of one, instead of
spawning "git fetch" as a subprocess via the fetch_multiple()
interface, we use the normal fetch_one() code path. Do the same
when handing "--all", if it turns out that we have only one remote
defined.
Reviewed-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This check was introduced in 8ee5d73137 (Fix fetch/pull when run without
--update-head-ok, 2008-10-13) in order to protect against replacing the ref
of the active branch by mistake, for example by running git fetch origin
master:master.
It was later extended in 8bc1f39f41 (fetch: protect branches checked out
in all worktrees, 2021-12-01) to scan all worktrees.
This operation is very expensive (takes about 30s in my repository) when
there are many tags or branches, and it is executed on every fetch, even if
no local heads are updated at all.
Limit it to protect only refs/heads/* to improve fetch performance.
Signed-off-by: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 4c28e4ada0 (commit: die before asking to edit the log
message, 2010-12-20), we have been "leaking" the "author_ident" when
prepare_to_commit() fails. Instead of returning from right there,
introduce an exit status variable and jump to the clean-up label
at the end.
Instead of explicitly releasing the resource with strbuf_release(),
mark the variable with UNLEAK() at the end, together with two other
variables that are already marked as such. If this were in a
utility function that is called number of times, but these are
different, we should explicitly release resources that grow
proportionally to the size of the problem being solved, but
cmd_commit() is like main() and there is no point in spending extra
cycles to release individual pieces of resource at the end, just
before process exit will clean everything for us for free anyway.
This fixes a leak demonstrated by e.g. "t3505-cherry-pick-empty.sh",
but unfortunately we cannot mark it or other affected tests as passing
now with "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true" as we'll need to fix many
other memory leaks before doing so.
Incidentally there are two tests that always passes the leak checker
with or without this change. Mark them as such.
This is based on an earlier patch by Ævar, but takes a different
approach that is more maintainable.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a bug in "git pull" where `submodule.recurse` is preferred over
`fetch.recurseSubmodules` when performing a fetch
(Documentation/config/fetch.txt says that `fetch.recurseSubmodules`
should be preferred.). Do this by passing the value of the
"--recurse-submodules" CLI option to the underlying fetch, instead of
passing a value that combines the CLI option and config variables.
In other words, this bug occurred because builtin/pull.c is conflating
two similar-sounding, but different concepts:
- Whether "git pull" itself should care about submodules e.g. whether it
should update the submodule worktrees after performing a merge.
- The value of "--recurse-submodules" to pass to the underlying "git
fetch".
Thus, when `submodule.recurse` is set, the underlying "git fetch" gets
invoked with "--recurse-submodules[=value]", overriding the value of
`fetch.recurseSubmodules`.
An alternative (and more obvious) approach to fix the bug would be to
teach "git pull" to understand `fetch.recurseSubmodules`, but the
proposed solution works better because:
- We don't maintain two identical config-parsing implementions in "git
pull" and "git fetch".
- It works better with other commands invoked by "git pull" e.g. "git
merge" won't accidentally respect `fetch.recurseSubmodules`.
Reported-by: Huang Zou <huang.zou@schrodinger.com>
Helped-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase --keep-base <upstream> <branch-to-rebase>" computed the
commit to rebase onto incorrectly, which has been corrected.
* ah/rebase-keep-base-fix:
rebase: use correct base for --keep-base when a branch is given
This allows seeing the current intermediate status without adding a new
good or bad commit:
$ git bisect log | tail -1
# status: waiting for bad commit, 1 good commit known
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 73c6de06af ("bisect: don't use invalid oid as rev when
starting") changes the behaviour of `git bisect` to consider invalid
oids as pathspecs again, as in the old shell implementation.
While that behaviour may be desirable, it can also cause confusion. For
example, while bisecting in a particular repo I encountered this:
$ git bisect start d93ff48803f0 v6.3
$
...which led to me sitting for a few moments, wondering why there's no
printout stating the first rev to check.
It turns out that the tag was actually "6.3", not "v6.3", and thus the
bisect was still silently started with only a bad rev, because
d93ff48803f0 was a valid oid and "v6.3" was silently considered to be a
pathspec.
While this behaviour may be desirable, it can be confusing, especially
with different repo conventions either using or not using "v" before
release names, or when a branch name or tag is simply misspelled on the
command line.
In order to avoid situations like this, make it more clear what we're
waiting for:
$ git bisect start d93ff48803f0 v6.3
status: waiting for good commit(s), bad commit known
We already have good output once the bisect process has begun in
earnest, so we don't need to do anything more there.
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The progress meter of "git blame" was showing incorrect numbers
when processing only parts of the file.
* ea/progress-partial-blame:
blame: report correct number of lines in progress when using ranges
Update 'stash' to use 'merge_ort_nonrecursive()' to apply a stash to the
current working tree. When 'git stash apply' was converted from its shell
script implementation to a builtin in 8a0fc8d19d (stash: convert apply to
builtin, 2019-02-25), 'merge_recursive_generic()' was used to merge a stash
into the working tree as part of 'git stash (apply|pop)'. However, with the
single merge base used in 'do_apply_stash()', the commit wrapping done by
'merge_recursive_generic()' is not only unnecessary, but misleading (the
*real* merge base is labeled "constructed merge base"). Therefore, a
non-recursive merge of the working tree, stashed tree, and stash base tree
is more appropriate.
There are two options for a non-recursive merge-then-update-worktree
function: 'merge_trees()' and 'merge_ort_nonrecursive()'. Use
'merge_ort_nonrecursive()' to align with the default merge strategy used by
'git merge' (6a5fb96672 (Change default merge backend from recursive to ort,
2021-08-04)) and, because merge-ort does not operate in-place on the index,
avoid unnecessary index expansion. Update tests in 't1092' verifying index
expansion for 'git stash' accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Enable sparse index in 'git stash' by disabling
'command_requires_full_index'.
With sparse index enabled, some subcommands of 'stash' work without
expanding the index, e.g., 'git stash', 'git stash list', 'git stash drop',
etc. Others ensure the index is expanded either directly (as in the case of
'git stash [pop|apply]', where the call to 'merge_recursive_generic()' in
'do_apply_stash()' triggers the expansion), or in a command called
internally by stash (e.g., 'git update-index' in 'git stash -u'). So, in
addition to enabling sparse index, add tests to 't1092' demonstrating which
variants of 'git stash' expand the index, and which do not.
Finally, add the option to skip writing 'untracked.txt' in
'ensure_not_expanded', and use that option to successfully apply stashed
untracked files without a conflict in 'untracked.txt'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git remote -v` (`--verbose`) lists down the names of remotes along with
their URLs. It would be beneficial for users to also specify the filter
types for promisor remotes. Something like this -
origin remote-url (fetch) [blob:none]
origin remote-url (push)
Teach `git remote -v` to also specify the filters for promisor remotes.
Closes: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/1211
Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git format-patch <args> -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec when
showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been
corrected.
source: <c36896a1-6247-123b-4fa3-b7eb24af1897@web.de>
* rs/format-patch-pathspec-fix:
2.36 format-patch regression fix
"git fast-export -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec when showing the
second and subsequent commits, which has been corrected.
source: <2c988c7b-0efe-4222-4a43-8124fe1a9da6@web.de>
* rs/fast-export-pathspec-fix:
2.36 fast-export regression fix
"git show <commit1> <commit2>... -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec
when showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been
corrected.
source: <xmqqo80j87g0.fsf_-_@gitster.g>
* jc/show-pathspec-fix:
2.36 show regression fix
Regression fix for 2.36 where "git name-rev" started to sometimes
reference strings after they are freed.
This fixes a regression in 2.36 and is slate to go to 2.36.1
source: <340c8810-d912-7b18-d46e-a9d43f20216a@web.de>
* rs/name-rev-fix-free-after-use:
Revert "name-rev: release unused name strings"
"diff-tree --stdin" has been broken for about a year, but 2.36
release broke it even worse by breaking running the command with
<pathspec>, which in turn broke "gitk" and got noticed. This has
been corrected by aligning its behaviour to that of "log".
This fixes a regression in 2.36 and is slate to go to 2.36.1
source: <xmqq7d7bsu2n.fsf@gitster.g>
* jc/diff-tree-stdin-fix:
2.36 gitk/diff-tree --stdin regression fix
"git submodule update" without pathspec should silently skip an
uninitialized submodule, but it started to become noisy by mistake.
This fixes a regression in 2.36 and is slate to go to 2.36.1
source: <pull.1258.v2.git.git.1650890741430.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
* gc/submodule-update-part2:
submodule--helper: fix initialization of warn_if_uninitialized
The path taken by "git multi-pack-index" command from the end user
was compared with path internally prepared by the tool withut first
normalizing, which lead to duplicated paths not being noticed,
which has been corrected.
* ds/midx-normalize-pathname-before-comparison:
cache: use const char * for get_object_directory()
multi-pack-index: use --object-dir real path
midx: use real paths in lookup_multi_pack_index()
"git clone --origin X" leaked piece of memory that held value read
from the clone.defaultRemoteName configuration variable, which has
been plugged.
* jc/clone-remote-name-leak-fix:
clone: plug a miniscule leak
"git format-patch <args> -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec when
showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been
corrected.
* rs/format-patch-pathspec-fix:
2.36 format-patch regression fix
"git fast-export -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec when showing the
second and subsequent commits, which has been corrected.
* rs/fast-export-pathspec-fix:
2.36 fast-export regression fix
"git show <commit1> <commit2>... -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec
when showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been
corrected.
* jc/show-pathspec-fix:
2.36 show regression fix
The remote_name variable is first assigned a copy of the value of
the "clone.defaultremotename" configuration variable and then by the
value of the "--origin" command line option. The former is prepared
to see multiple instances of the configuration variable by freeing
the current value of the variable before a copy of the newly
discovered value gets assigned to it. The latter however blindly
assigned a copy of the new value to the variable, thereby leaking
the value read from the configuration variable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
e900d494dc (diff: add an API for deferred freeing, 2021-02-11) added a
way to allow reusing diffopts: the no_free bit. 244c27242f (diff.[ch]:
have diff_free() call clear_pathspec(opts.pathspec), 2022-02-16) made
that mechanism mandatory.
git fast-export doesn't set no_free, so path limiting stopped working
after the first commit. Set the flag and add a basic test to make sure
only changes to the specified files are exported.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
e900d494dc (diff: add an API for deferred freeing, 2021-02-11) added a
way to allow reusing diffopts: the no_free bit. 244c27242f (diff.[ch]:
have diff_free() call clear_pathspec(opts.pathspec), 2022-02-16) made
that mechanism mandatory.
git format-patch only sets no_free when --output is given, causing it to
forget pathspecs after the first commit. Set no_free unconditionally
instead.
The existing test was unable to detect this breakage because it checks
stderr for the absence of a certain string, but format-patch writes to
stdout. Also the test was not checking the case of one commit modifying
multiple files and a pathspec limiting the diff. Replace it with a more
thorough one.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This only surfaced as a regression after 2.36 release, but the
breakage was already there with us for at least a year.
e900d494 (diff: add an API for deferred freeing, 2021-02-11)
introduced a mechanism to delay freeing resources held in
diff_options struct that need to be kept as long as the struct will
be reused to compute diff. "git log -p" was taught to utilize the
mechanism but it was done with an incorrect assumption that the
underlying helper function, cmd_log_walk(), is called only once,
and it is OK to do the freeing at the end of it.
Alas, for "git show A B", the function is called once for each
commit given, so it is not OK to free the resources until we finish
calling it for all the commits given from the command line.
During 2.36 release cycle, we started clearing the <pathspec> as
part of this freeing, which made the bug a lot more visible.
Fix this breakage by tweaking how cmd_log_walk() frees the resources
at the end and using a variant of it that does not immediately free
the resources to show each commit object from the command line in
"git show".
Protect the fix with a few new tests.
Reported-by: Daniel Li <dan@danielyli.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some "simple" centralized workflows, users expect remote tracking
branch names to match local branch names. "git push" pushes to the
remote version/instance of the branch, and "git pull" pulls any changes
to the remote branch (changes made by the same user in another place, or
by other users).
This expectation is supported by the push.default default option "simple"
which refuses a default push for a mismatching tracking branch name, and
by the new branch.autosetupmerge option, "simple", which only sets up
remote tracking for same-name remote branches.
When a new branch has been created by the user and has not yet been
pushed (and push.default is not set to "current"), the user is prompted
with a "The current branch %s has no upstream branch" error, and
instructions on how to push and add tracking.
This error is helpful in that following the advice once per branch
"resolves" the issue for that branch forever, but inconvenient in that
for the "simple" centralized workflow, this is always the right thing to
do, so it would be better to just do it.
Support this workflow with a new config setting, push.autoSetupRemote,
which will cause a default push, when there is no remote tracking branch
configured, to push to the same-name on the remote and --set-upstream.
Also add a hint offering this new option when the "The current branch %s
has no upstream branch" error is encountered, and add corresponding tests.
Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the default push.default option, "simple", beginners are
protected from accidentally pushing to the "wrong" branch in
centralized workflows: if the remote tracking branch they would push
to does not have the same name as the local branch, and they try to do
a "default push", they get an error and explanation with options.
There is a particular centralized workflow where this often happens:
a user branches to a new local topic branch from an existing
remote branch, eg with "checkout -b feature1 origin/master". With
the default branch.autosetupmerge configuration (value "true"), git
will automatically add origin/master as the upstream tracking branch.
When the user pushes with a default "git push", with the intention of
pushing their (new) topic branch to the remote, they get an error, and
(amongst other things) a suggestion to run "git push origin HEAD".
If they follow this suggestion the push succeeds, but on subsequent
default pushes they continue to get an error - so eventually they
figure out to add "-u" to change the tracking branch, or they spelunk
the push.default config doc as proposed and set it to "current", or
some GUI tooling does one or the other of these things for them.
When one of their coworkers later works on the same topic branch,
they don't get any of that "weirdness". They just "git checkout
feature1" and everything works exactly as they expect, with the shared
remote branch set up as remote tracking branch, and push and pull
working out of the box.
The "stable state" for this way of working is that local branches have
the same-name remote tracking branch (origin/feature1 in this
example), and multiple people can work on that remote feature branch
at the same time, trusting "git pull" to merge or rebase as required
for them to be able to push their interim changes to that same feature
branch on that same remote.
(merging from the upstream "master" branch, and merging back to it,
are separate more involved processes in this flow).
There is a problem in this flow/way of working, however, which is that
the first user, when they first branched from origin/master, ended up
with the "wrong" remote tracking branch (different from the stable
state). For a while, before they pushed (and maybe longer, if they
don't use -u/--set-upstream), their "git pull" wasn't getting other
users' changes to the feature branch - it was getting any changes from
the remote "master" branch instead (a completely different class of
changes!)
An experienced git user might say "well yeah, that's what it means to
have the remote tracking branch set to origin/master!" - but the
original user above didn't *ask* to have the remote master branch
added as remote tracking branch - that just happened automatically
when they branched their feature branch. They didn't necessarily even
notice or understand the meaning of the "set up to track 'origin/master'"
message when they created the branch - especially if they are using a
GUI.
Looking at how to fix this, you might think "OK, so disable auto setup
of remote tracking - set branch.autosetupmerge to false" - but that
will inconvenience the *second* user in this story - the one who just
wanted to start working on the topic branch. The first and second
users swap roles at different points in time of course - they should
both have a sane configuration that does the right thing in both
situations.
Make this "branches have the same name locally as on the remote"
workflow less painful / more obvious by introducing a new
branch.autosetupmerge option called "simple", to match the same-name
"push.default" option that makes similar assumptions.
This new option automatically sets up tracking in a *subset* of the
current default situations: when the original ref is a remote tracking
branch *and* has the same branch name on the remote (as the new local
branch name).
Update the error displayed when the 'push.default=simple' configuration
rejects a mismatching-upstream-name default push, to offer this new
branch.autosetupmerge option that will prevent this class of error.
With this new configuration, in the example situation above, the first
user does *not* get origin/master set up as the tracking branch for
the new local branch. If they "git pull" in their new local-only
branch, they get an error explaining there is no upstream branch -
which makes sense and is helpful. If they "git push", they get an
error explaining how to push *and* suggesting they specify
--set-upstream - which is exactly the right thing to do for them.
This new option is likely not appropriate for users intentionally
implementing a "triangular workflow" with a shared upstream tracking
branch, that they "git pull" in and a "private" feature branch that
they push/force-push to just for remote safe-keeping until they are
ready to push up to the shared branch explicitly/separately. Such
users are likely to prefer keeping the current default
merge.autosetupmerge=true behavior, and change their push.default to
"current".
Also extend the existing branch tests with three new cases testing
this option - the obvious matching-name and non-matching-name cases,
and also a non-matching-ref-type case. The matching-name case needs to
temporarily create an independent repo to fetch from, as the general
strategy of using the local repo as the remote in these tests
precludes locally branching with the same name as in the "remote".
Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Regression fix for 2.36 where "git name-rev" started to sometimes
reference strings after they are freed.
* rs/name-rev-fix-free-after-use:
Revert "name-rev: release unused name strings"
"diff-tree --stdin" has been broken for about a year, but 2.36
release broke it even worse by breaking running the command with
<pathspec>, which in turn broke "gitk" and got noticed. This has
been corrected by aligning its behaviour to that of "log".
* jc/diff-tree-stdin-fix:
2.36 gitk/diff-tree --stdin regression fix
"git submodule update" without pathspec should silently skip an
uninitialized submodule, but it started to become noisy by mistake.
* gc/submodule-update-part2:
submodule--helper: fix initialization of warn_if_uninitialized
It is not obvious that the 'git rev-parse' builtin would use the sparse
index, but it is possible to parse paths out of the index using the
":<path>" syntax. The 'git rev-parse' output is only the OID of the
object found at that location, but otherwise behaves similarly to 'git
show :<path>'. This includes the failure conditions on directories and
the error messages depending on whether a path is in the worktree or
not.
The only code change required is to change the
command_requires_full_index setting in builtin/rev-parse.c, and we can
re-use many existing 'git show' tests for the rev-parse case.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git show' command can take an input to request the state of an
object in the index. This can lead to parsing the index in order to load
a specific file entry. Without the change presented here, a sparse index
would expand to a full one, taking much longer than usual to access a
simple file.
There is one behavioral change that happens here, though: we now can
find a sparse directory entry within the index! Commands that previously
failed because we could not find an entry in the worktree or index now
succeed because we _do_ find an entry in the index.
There might be more work to do to make other situations succeed when
looking for an indexed tree, perhaps by looking at or updating the
cache-tree extension as needed. These situations include having a full
index or asking for a directory that is within the sparse-checkout cone
(and hence is not a sparse directory entry in the index).
For now, we demonstrate how the sparse index integration is extremely
simple for files outside of the cone as well as directories within the
cone. A later change will resolve this behavior around sparse
directories.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
