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Author SHA1 Message Date
Johannes Sixt
926e89441f test-chmtime: Fix exit code on Windows
MinGW's bash does not recognize an exit code -1 as failure. See also
47e3de0e (MinGW: truncate exit()'s argument to lowest 8 bits) and 2488df84
(builtin run_command: do not exit with -1). Exit code 1 is good enough.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 16:23:35 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
e832f5c096 completion: avoid ls-remote in certain scenarios
It's _very_ slow in many cases, and there's really no point in fetching
*everything* from the remote just for completion. In many cases it might
be faster for the user to type the whole thing.

If the user manually specifies 'refs/*', then the full ls-remote
completion is triggered.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 16:11:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b2edae0ab6 Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 16:02:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ed73fe5642 Merge branch 'tr/line-log'
* tr/line-log:
  git-log(1): remove --full-line-diff description
  line-log: fix documentation formatting
  log -L: improve comments in process_all_files()
  log -L: store the path instead of a diff_filespec
  log -L: test merge of parallel modify/rename
  t4211: pass -M to 'git log -M -L...' test
  log -L: fix overlapping input ranges
  log -L: check range set invariants when we look it up
  Speed up log -L... -M
  log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcname
  Implement line-history search (git log -L)
  Export rewrite_parents() for 'log -L'
  Refactor parse_loc
2013-06-02 16:00:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4de1179afc Merge branch 'mc/describe-first-parent'
* mc/describe-first-parent:
  describe: Add --first-parent option
2013-06-02 15:59:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
103093a0a8 Merge branch 'rs/tar-tests'
* rs/tar-tests:
  t5000: test long filenames
  t5000: simplify tar-tree tests
  t5000: use check_tar for prefix test
  t5000: factor out check_tar
  t5000, t5003: create directories for extracted files lazily
  t5000: integrate export-subst tests into regular tests
2013-06-02 15:59:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9a92cd1ce6 Merge branch 'jc/strbuf-branchname-fix'
"git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22"
incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be
rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead).

* jc/strbuf-branchname-fix:
  strbuf_branchname(): do not double-expand @{-1}~22
2013-06-02 15:58:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
db400949b3 Merge branch 'jk/fetch-always-update-tracking'
"git fetch origin master" unlike "git fetch origin" or "git fetch"
did not update "refs/remotes/origin/master"; this was an early
design decision to keep the update of remote tracking branches
predictable, but in practice it turns out that people find it more
convenient to opportunisticly update them whenever we have a chance,
and we have been updating them when we run "git push" which already
breaks the original "predictability" anyway.

Now such a fetch does update refs/remotes/origin/master.

* jk/fetch-always-update-tracking:
  fetch: don't try to update unfetched tracking refs
  fetch: opportunistically update tracking refs
  refactor "ref->merge" flag
  fetch/pull doc: untangle meaning of bare <ref>
  t5510: start tracking-ref tests from a known state
2013-06-02 15:57:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
67b57a90f4 Merge branch 'tr/coverage'
Update the test coverage support that was left to bitrot for some
time.

* tr/coverage:
  coverage: build coverage-untested-functions by default
  coverage: set DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET to avoid using prove
  coverage: do not delete .gcno files before building
  coverage: split build target into compile and test
2013-06-02 15:57:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
edc7f0abcb Merge branch 'mk/combine-diff-context-horizon-fix'
"git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when
another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends.

* mk/combine-diff-context-horizon-fix:
  combine-diff.c: Fix output when changes are exactly 3 lines apart
2013-06-02 15:56:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
911439a5ab Merge branch 'kb/ancestry-path-threedots'
"git log --ancestry-path A...B" did not work as expected, as it did
not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B
was the bottom of the range being specified.

* kb/ancestry-path-threedots:
  revision.c: treat A...B merge bases as if manually specified
  t6019: demonstrate --ancestry-path A...B breakage
2013-06-02 15:56:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aaec1ad08a Merge branch 'jc/t5551-posix-sed-bre'
POSIX fix for a test script.

* jc/t5551-posix-sed-bre:
  t5551: do not use unportable sed '\+'
2013-06-02 15:56:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
527b1719f5 Merge branch 'da/darwin'
Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with
their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL.

* da/darwin:
  imap-send: eliminate HMAC deprecation warnings on Mac OS X
  cache.h: eliminate SHA-1 deprecation warnings on Mac OS X
  Makefile: add support for Apple CommonCrypto facility
  Makefile: fix default regex settings on Darwin
2013-06-02 15:55:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
29d5350c01 Merge branch 'fc/macos-x-clipped-write'
Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of
bytes.

* fc/macos-x-clipped-write:
  compate/clipped-write.c: large write(2) fails on Mac OS X/XNU
2013-06-02 15:54:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1197c2298b Merge branch 'vv/help-unknown-ref'
Detect "git merge foo" that might have meant "git merge origin/foo"
and give an error message that is more specific than "foo is not
something we can merge".

* vv/help-unknown-ref:
  merge: use help_unknown_ref()
  help: add help_unknown_ref()
2013-06-02 15:54:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
41aaccdcf9 Merge branch 'nd/clone-local-with-colon'
"git clone foo/bar:baz" cannot be a request to clone from a remote
over git-over-ssh specified in the scp style.  Detect this case and
clone from a local repository at "foo/bar:baz".

* nd/clone-local-with-colon:
  clone: allow cloning local paths with colons in them
2013-06-02 15:52:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dbbc93b221 Merge branch 'fc/fast-export-persistent-marks'
Optimization for fast-export by avoiding unnecessarily resolving
arbitrary object name and parsing object when only presence and
type information is necessary, etc.

* fc/fast-export-persistent-marks:
  fast-{import,export}: use get_sha1_hex() to read from marks file
  fast-export: don't parse commits while reading marks file
  fast-export: do not parse non-commit objects while reading marks file
2013-06-02 15:48:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
843fb919fd Merge branch 'rs/empty-archive'
Fixes tests added in 1.8.2 era that are broken on BSDs.

* rs/empty-archive:
  t5004: resurrect original empty tar archive test
  t5004: avoid using tar for checking emptiness of archive
2013-06-02 15:48:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
499eaceb21 Merge branch 'rh/merge-options-doc-fix'
* rh/merge-options-doc-fix:
  Documentation/merge-options.txt: restore `-e` option
2013-06-02 15:48:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7abc6b7151 Merge branch 'an/diff-index-doc'
* an/diff-index-doc:
  Documentation/diff-index: mention two modes of operation
2013-06-02 15:48:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f241c08d40 Merge branch 'fc/completion'
* fc/completion:
  completion: remove __git_index_file_list_filter()
  completion: add space after completed filename
  completion: add hack to enable file mode in bash < 4
  completion: refactor __git_complete_index_file()
  completion: refactor diff_index wrappers
  completion: use __gitcompadd for __gitcomp_file
  completion; remove unuseful comments
  completion: document tilde expansion failure in tests
  completion: add file completion tests
2013-06-02 15:48:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6bf931a54f Merge branch 'fc/zsh-leftover-bits'
* fc/zsh-leftover-bits:
  completion: zsh: improve bash script loading
  completion: synchronize zsh wrapper
  completion: cleanup zsh wrapper
2013-06-02 15:47:33 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
9721ac9010 contrib: remove continuous/ and patches/
They haven't been touched in six years.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:42:44 -07:00
René Scharfe
5d80ef5a6e unpack-trees: free cache_entry array members for merges
The merge functions duplicate entries as needed and they don't free
them.  Release them in unpack_nondirectories, the same function
where they were allocated, after we're done.

As suggested by Felipe, use the same loop style (zero-based for loop)
for freeing as for allocating.

Improved-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:31:15 -07:00
René Scharfe
5828e8352c diff-lib, read-tree, unpack-trees: mark cache_entry array paramters const
Change the type merge_fn_t to accept the array of cache_entry pointers
as const pointers to const pointers.  This documents the fact that the
merge functions don't modify the cache_entry contents or replace any of
the pointers in the array.

Only a single cast is necessary in unpack_nondirectories because adding
two const modifiers at once is not allowed in C.  The cast is safe in
that it doesn't mask any modfication; call_unpack_fn only needs the
array for reading.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:31:14 -07:00
René Scharfe
eb9ae4b505 diff-lib, read-tree, unpack-trees: mark cache_entry pointers const
Add const to struct cache_entry pointers throughout the tree which are
only used for reading.  This allows callers to pass in const pointers.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:31:14 -07:00
René Scharfe
f2fa354205 unpack-trees: create working copy of merge entry in merged_entry
Duplicate the merge entry right away and work with that instead of
modifying the entry we got and duplicating it only at the end of
the function.  Then mark that pointer const to document that we
don't modify the referenced cache_entry.

This change is safe because all existing merge functions call
merged_entry just before returning (or not at all), i.e. they don't
care about changes to the referenced cache_entry after the call.
unpack_nondirectories and unpack_index_entry, which call the merge
functions through call_unpack_fn, aren't interested in such changes
neither.

The change complicates merged_entry a bit because we have to free the
copy if we error out, but allows callers to pass a const pointer.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:31:13 -07:00
René Scharfe
a33bd4d34d unpack-trees: factor out dup_entry
While we're add it, mark the struct cache_entry pointer of add_entry
const because we only read from it and this allows callers to pass in
const pointers.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:31:13 -07:00
René Scharfe
21a6b9fa42 read-cache: mark cache_entry pointers const
ie_match_stat and ie_modified only derefence their struct cache_entry
pointers for reading.  Add const to the parameter declaration here and
do the same for the static helper function used by them, as it's the
same there as well.  This allows callers to pass in const pointers.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:31:12 -07:00
René Scharfe
20d142b48c cache: mark cache_entry pointers const
Add const for pointers that are only dereferenced for reading by the
inline functions copy_cache_entry and ce_mode_from_stat.  This allows
callers to pass in const pointers.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:31:12 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
4f78c24c63 refs: document the lifetime of the args passed to each_ref_fn
The lifetime of the memory pointed to by the refname and sha1
arguments to each_ref_fn was never documented, but some callers used
to assume that it was essentially permanent.  In fact the API does
*not* guarantee that these objects live beyond a single callback
invocation.

In the current code, the lifetimes are bound together with the
lifetimes of the ref_caches.  Since these are usually long, the
callers usually got away with their sloppiness.  But even today, if a
ref_cache is invalidated the memory can be freed.  And planned changes
to reference caching, needed to eliminate race conditions, will
probably need to shorten the lifetimes of these objects.

The commits leading up to this have (hopefully) fixed all of the
callers of the for_each_ref()-like functions.  This commit does the
last step: documents what each_ref_fn callbacks can assume about
object lifetimes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
bf42772e38 register_ref(): make a copy of the bad reference SHA-1
The lifetime of the sha1 parameter passed to an each_ref_fn callback
is not guaranteed, so make a copy for later use.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
66ce036628 exclude_existing(): set existing_refs.strdup_strings
The each_ref_fn add_existing() adds refnames to the existing_refs
list.  But the lifetimes of these refnames is not guaranteed by the
refs API, so configure the string_list to make copies as it adds them.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
8c46bf904f string_list_add_refs_by_glob(): add a comment about memory management
Since string_list_add_one_ref() adds refname to the string list, but
the lifetime of refname is limited, it is important that the
string_list passed to string_list_add_one_ref() has strdup_strings
set.  Document this fact.

All current callers do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
d235e994f8 string_list_add_one_ref(): rename first parameter to "refname"
This is the usual convention.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
3e4ca43fd0 show_head_ref(): rename first parameter to "refname"
This is the usual convention.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
1d811dbd04 show_head_ref(): do not shadow name of argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
f83918edcb add_existing(): do not retain a reference to sha1
Its lifetime is not guaranteed, so make a copy.  Free the memory when
the string_list is cleared.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
5b87d8d3f5 do_fetch(): clean up existing_refs before exiting
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:47 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
6f64a16faf do_fetch(): reduce scope of peer_item
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:46 -07:00
Michael Haggerty
31faeb2088 object_array_entry: fix memory handling of the name field
Previously, the memory management of the object_array_entry::name
field was inconsistent and undocumented.  object_array_entries are
ultimately created by a single function, add_object_array_with_mode(),
which has an argument "const char *name".  This function used to
simply set the name field to reference the string pointed to by the
name parameter, and nobody on the object_array side ever freed the
memory.  Thus, it assumed that the memory for the name field would be
managed by the caller, and that the lifetime of that string would be
at least as long as the lifetime of the object_array_entry.  But
callers were inconsistent:

* Some passed pointers to constant strings or argv entries, which was
  OK.

* Some passed pointers to newly-allocated memory, but didn't arrange
  for the memory ever to be freed.

* Some passed the return value of sha1_to_hex(), which is a pointer to
  a statically-allocated buffer that can be overwritten at any time.

* Some passed pointers to refnames that they received from a
  for_each_ref()-type iteration, but the lifetimes of such refnames is
  not guaranteed by the refs API.

Bring consistency to this mess by changing object_array to make its
own copy for the object_array_entry::name field and free this memory
when an object_array_entry is deleted from the array.

Many callers were passing the empty string as the name parameter, so
as a performance optimization, treat the empty string specially.
Instead of making a copy, store a pointer to a statically-allocated
empty string to object_array_entry::name.  When deleting such an
entry, skip the free().

Change the callers that were already passing copies to
add_object_array_with_mode() to either skip the copy, or (if the
memory needed to be allocated anyway) freeing the memory itself.

A part of this commit effectively reverts

    70d26c6e76 read_revisions_from_stdin: make copies for handle_revision_arg

because the copying introduced by that commit (which is still
necessary) is now done at a deeper level.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 15:28:46 -07:00
Karsten Blees
c3c327deea dir.c: fix ignore processing within not-ignored directories
As of 95c6f271 "dir.c: unify is_excluded and is_path_excluded APIs", the
is_excluded API no longer recurses into directories that match an ignore
pattern, and returns the directory's ignored state for all contained paths.

This is OK for normal ignore patterns, i.e. ignoring a directory affects
the entire contents recursively.

Unfortunately, this also "works" for negated ignore patterns ('!dir'), i.e.
the entire contents is "not-ignored" recursively, regardless of ignore
patterns that match the contents directly.

In prep_exclude, skip recursing into a directory only if it is really
ignored (i.e. the ignore pattern is not negated).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Tested-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 14:54:38 -07:00
Anthony Ramine
b79c0c3755 wildmatch: properly fold case everywhere
Case folding is not done correctly when matching against the [:upper:]
character class and uppercased character ranges (e.g. A-Z).
Specifically, an uppercase letter fails to match against any of them
when case folding is requested because plain characters in the pattern
and the whole string are preemptively lowercased to handle the base case
fast.

That optimization is kept and ISLOWER() is used in the [:upper:] case
when case folding is requested, while matching against a character range
is retried with toupper() if the character was lowercase, as the bounds
of the range itself cannot be modified (in a case-insensitive context,
[A-_] is not equivalent to [a-_]).

Signed-off-by: Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 14:13:05 -07:00
Jeff King
e828908aa9 t0005: test git exit code from signal death
When a sub-process dies with a signal, we convert the exit
code to the shell convention of 128+sig. Callers of git may
be relying on this behavior, so let's make sure it does not
break.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 13:47:54 -07:00
Thomas Rast
f0c73200e8 Test 'commit --only' after 'checkout --orphan'
There are some index handling subtleties in 'commit --only' that are
best tested when we have an existing index, but an unborn or empty
HEAD.  These circumstances are easily produced by 'checkout --orphan',
but we did not previously have a test for it.

The main expected failure mode would be: erroneously loading the
existing index contents when building the temporary index that is used
for --only.  Cf.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/225969

and subsequent discussion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 12:31:17 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
4917e1edab Makefile: promote wildmatch to be the default fnmatch implementation
This makes git use wildmatch by default for all fnmatch() calls. Users
who want to use system fnmatch (or compat fnmatch) need to set
NO_WILDMATCH flag.

wildmatch is a drop-in fnmatch replacement with more features. Using
wildmatch gives us a consistent behavior across platforms. The
tentative plan is make it default with an opt-out for about 2 cycles,
then remove NO_WILDMATCH and compat/fnmatch.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 12:26:35 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
305ebea06d sha1_name: fix error message for @{<N>}, @{<date>}
Currently, when we try to resolve @{<N>} or @{<date>} when the reflog
doesn't go back far enough, we get errors like:

  # on branch master
  $ git show @{10000}
  fatal: Log for '' only has 7 entries.

  $ git show @{10000.days.ago}
  warning: Log for '' only goes back to Tue, 21 May 2013 14:14:45 +0530.
  ...

  # detached HEAD case
  $ git show @{10000}
  fatal: Log for '' only has 2005 entries.

  $ git show master@{10000}
  fatal: Log for 'master' only has 7 entries.

The empty string '' is confusing and does not convey information
about whose logs we are inspecting.  Change this so that we get:

  # on branch master
  $ git show @{10000}
  fatal: Log for 'master' only has 7 entries.

  $ git show @{10000.days.ago}
  warning: Log for 'master' only goes back to Tue, 21 May 2013 14:14:45 +0530.
  ...

  # detached HEAD case
  $ git show @{10000}
  fatal: Log for 'HEAD' only has 2005 entries.

  $ git show master@{10000}
  fatal: Log for 'master' only has 7 entries.

Also one of the message strings given to die() now points into
real_ref that was not used in that fashion, so stop freeing the
underlying storage for it.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Bug-spotted-and-fixed-by: Thomas Rast
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02 12:05:36 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
2f0aaaf9da path: Fix a sparse warning
On MinGW, sparse issues an "'get_st_mode_bits' not declared. Should
it be static?" warning. The MinGW and MSVC builds do not see the
declaration of this function, within git-compat-util.h, due to its
placement within an preprocessor conditional.

In order to suppress the warning, we simply move the declaration to
the top level of the header.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-29 17:03:14 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
0f075b2208 push: make push.default = current use resolved HEAD
With this change, the output of the push (with push.default set to
current) changes subtly from:

  $ git push
  ...
   * [new branch]      HEAD -> push-current-head

to:

  $ git push
  ...
   * [new branch]      push-current-head -> push-current-head

This patch was written with a different motivation. There is a problem
unique to push.default = current:

  # on branch push-current-head
  $ git push
  # on another terminal
  $ git checkout master
  # return to the first terminal
  # the push tried to push master!

This happens because the 'git checkout' on the second terminal races
with the 'git push' on the first terminal.  Although this patch does not
solve the core problem (there is still no guarantee that 'git push' on
the first terminal will resolve HEAD before 'git checkout' changes HEAD
on the second), it works in practice.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-29 15:34:07 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
7b2ecd8108 push: fail early with detached HEAD and current
Setting push.default to current adds the refspec "HEAD" for the
transport layer to handle.  If "HEAD" doesn't resolve to a branch (and
since no refspec rhs is specified), the push fails after some time with
a cryptic error message:

  $ git push
  error: unable to push to unqualified destination: HEAD
  The destination refspec neither matches an existing ref on the remote nor
  begins with refs/, and we are unable to guess a prefix based on the source ref.
  error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:artagnon/git'

Fail early with a nicer error message:

  $ git push
  fatal: You are not currently on a branch.
  To push the history leading to the current (detached HEAD)
  state now, use

    git push ram HEAD:<name-of-remote-branch>

Just like in the upstream and simple cases.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-29 15:34:04 -07:00